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Ford CEO Alan Mulally said that the first thing he did after agreeing to be a keynote speaker at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show was pick up the phone. He joked that he "called to apologize to Bill Gates" for taking a spot usually reserved for him.
The Microsoft chairman delivered a keynote speech at the world's largest consumer technology trade show between 2006 and 2008 before Mulally's own three-peat performance at CES from 2009-2011.
Gates and Mulally became friendly when the Ford boss was head of airplane maker Boeing, which, like Microsoft, is based in Seattle, Washington.
Mulally, who spoke at the Automobilwoche Congress in Berlin Wednesday, shared the fun anecdote while talking about the importance Ford has placed on its push to be a leader in in-car communications with systems such as Sync and MyFord Touch. Ford sees wider profits and a chance to attract 18- to 24-year-old consumers by offering more in-vehicle technology.
"Consumers will not accept it if they can't be connected while in the car," Mulally said during a question-and-answer session.
But Mulally and Ford are finding out something Gates already knows: being a technology pioneer can be tricky. Troubles with MyFord Touch contributed to Ford finishing 27th out of 28 brands in a recent reliability ranking from influential U.S. magazine Consumer Reports.
Mulally told the congress that MyFord Touch "gave customers too much choice so now we're simplifying it."
Since Gates has experience rebounding from bumpy product debuts, such as Windows Vista, and since Microsoft plays a key part in MyFord Touch, it might be time for Mulally to pick up the phone again.


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Please cross post everywhere you can think of...especially on Facebook sites.
This message came through the IGCA Rescue Rep list this morning, Saturday September 2ond:
Thank you all so very much for all the offers of help that have come in. If we have missed a personally sent email, text, or FB message, we apologize and want all to know that every single outreach for assistance is so greatly appreciated.
As of right now, we have our urgent foster re-homes taken care of. We may need foster help in the coming weeks as we suspect we may start to get surrender requests as people come to realize the magnitude of their situations. What has happened here is just indescribable.
All of our foster iggies are safe and accounted for. Our focus at this time, is bringing our huge village together to help our IG volunteer family members who have done so much for the iggies in Rescue. We have one confirmed family with total loss, one that will be close to total loss, a few with major damage, and some with minor damage. Some with no flood insurance.
Megan Broom put a WishList together for the impacted families. She will be gathering the items to send over with the pilot who will be transporting some of our fosters back to the Gulf Coast states. Please share it, so we can get these families on the road to recovery as soon as possible =)
Kindest Regards,
Tammy Gallagher
IGCA Rescue Rep-Central and Northern Texas
Italian Greyhound Rescue Foundation, Inc.
As you all know ....parts of Texas have been devastated by the recent hurricane. Houston is one of the major hubs of our IGCA Rescue program. Your help would be so deeply appreciated!!!!!!
Judy Longhouse
Italian Greyhound Rescue

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Isla Fisher spent three weeks immersed in New York's jazz culture to prepare for her role in the upcoming Hollywood adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."
The Australian star threw herself into researching the Roaring Twenties, when jazz music blossomed, after she was cast as Myrtle Wilson in director Baz Luhrmann's telling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic.
Fisher traveled to the Big Apple to study with Luhrmann and his star-studded cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, and Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
She tells Canada's Fashion magazine, "Research-wise, this is the most thorough movie I've been on. We had a three-week rehearsal period in New York, when we got really immersed in the '20s, studied flapper girls and read Fitzgerald's letters to (his wife) Zelda.
"We had access to so much more information than (on) a regular film because Baz is such a wonderful director. We had all the music for that period playing, and we were introduced to loads of visuals. It was like a Jazz Age boot camp!"
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This is my totally biased list of the top military science fiction series of our time. These are the ones I found entertaining to read and reread. My focus is as always the characters and the wow moments. Thats why there is lots of space opera here. I have followed some of the authors here for decades others for just a few years. They are all good, the focus in there books lies on different things though.
I like binary counting it seems. Counting down from 10001 in seventeen steps.
Edit: I added RCN, which I love but forgot.
10010. RCN is about Captain Daniel Leary and his friend the formidable Adele Mundy and their military adventures aboard the Heavy Cruiser RCS Milton. David Drake rewrite historical battles and wars and make beautiful military science fiction out of it.The next Royal Cinnabar Navy book to come out is What Distant Deeps that will be out in September 2010. I read RCN 7: In the Stormy Red Sky about a year ago before I started doing reviews.
10001. Starfire Series – is built on a board strategy wargame about interstellar conquest. A survey fleet travels trough a previously uncharted wormhole and run into a hive-like speice called the Bugs, all communications attempts fail and the Bugs ambush the fleet and launch an invasion against the Terran federation and nearby powers. In the center of the series is the arms race with the bugs. Later in the series there are other opponents. Solid political and military technology world building if somewhat weaker in character building by David Weber and Steve White. The fifth book Exodus is written by Steve White and Shirley Meier.
10000. Confederation of Valor – is about the futuristic career of a non commissioned officer fighting aliens for the elder races in the alliance. There is a secret behind the scenes that are gradually revealed. The Protagonist Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr keep her space marines and and superiors alive. Tanya Huff writes good characters and the dialog is to die for. My reviews of the first four books, there is a fifth book The Truth of Valor coming out in september 2010.
01111. Jenny Casey – used to be a former retired Canadian special forces living in the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut. Earth is in shambles from environmental disasters. Jenny becomes a pawn in game of world dominance between Canada and China over being the first to reach the stars. In Hammered Jenny tries to survive, in Scardown she has to fly and in Worldwired she has to teach the aliens to talk with each other. The world is a bit noir and gritty as Elizabeth Bear likes to write.
01110. Major Ariadne Kedros – is a woman with a dark military past working as a surveyor. Her past catches up with her, both from old enemies and old friends. The world is built on Greek culture with the dominating race being the Minoans called so because they share symbols with the Greek. Temporal buoy's play a significant part in the story as well as their weaponization. Laura E. Reeve is the creator of this resourceful and guilt ridden heroine. The third book Pathfinder is out this summer.
01101. Aldenata universe – Posleen War | Cally's War | Hedren War – takes place in a world where an ancient race, the Aldenata uplifted a number of races, screwing them up at the same time. The only race not uplifted is the humans. When the galactic society is attacked by the ferocious Posleen there is a need for someone that can fight so they turn to the humans, who they fear almost as much as the Posleen. The O'Neal clan unite the different series. The redheaded feisty warrior princess Cally stands out together with her war hero father Mike. It's John Ringo's universe and he cooperate with Tom Kratman, Mikael Z. Wiliamson and Julie Cochrane there. This is also another example of a series where other races taking advantage of the human race's ability to fight.
01100. Stellar Marines Universe – Heritage Trilogy | Legacy Trilogy | Inheritage Trilogy – is Ian Douglas Stellar Marines family saga. The Garroways fight in the sands of Mars to the Magellanic Cloud. Humanity is on the brink of extinction time after time as they fight the Xul, a galaxy spanning race of xenophobics. Built on 'Hard science'. Ian Douglas is really a pseudonym for William H.Keith.
01011. Tour of the Merrimack – is about the finest battleship in Earth's fleet and its crew.The series' arc about how to deal with the ravenous Hive, a race of space traveling insects that devour all life they come across. In The Myriad the Mack was out looking for the Hive's Home world when they stumbled on the time traveling aliens who eventually caused the universe to throw them into an alternative reality to avoid paradox. In Wolf Star the war between Earth and the New Roman Empire is going at full blast and Merrimack is in a deep strike mission behind enemy lines when they meet the Hive again and the Romans have to bow down and admit they need help. In the Sagittarius Command they go after the cause. I love Rebeca M. Meluch's characters.
01010. Dahak Series – Earths Moon is in reality a gigantic camouflaged battleship who's crew become the human race. This is discovered by a lone human astronaut that has to face the ancient ship's computer Dahak. It's not enough that he has to deal with mutineers that survived in Antarctica, he also has to do with an onslaught of hordes of genocidal aliens and traitors. David Weber is at his best in this awesome space opera
01001. Empire of Man – Prince Roger is a failure and a brat when his starship is sabotaged and he and his company of marine bodyguards has to land on the other side of an hostile planet and walk all the way to the star port on the other side. Wonderful four armed aliens, an epic journey and a prince that becomes a man and the soldiers that fights with him. Nice technological progression from stone age to space age. Written by John Ringo and David Weber.
01000. Lost Fleet – The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century – and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he had been heroically idealized beyond belief . Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic 'Black Jack' legend. Victorious the final book in the series is out now in April. Written by Jack Campbell
00111. Seafort Saga – is built on C. S. Forester's novels about Horatio Hornblower and written by David Feintush. The books are set in a future human society that is largely dominated by unified Christianity. The main protagonist is a naval officer who strives always to do his duty, both to the navy and to his God, at great personal cost. Beside the personal story there is an interesting race of fish like aliens central to the story.
00110. Kris Longknife – is about a formidable woman with a knack for getting in trouble and getting out. She is one of them Longknifes and if life wasn't enough complicated being an officer in the navy, the society of humanity dissolve and her grandpa is named King making her a reluctant princess. The Peterwald family with their long standing grudge with the Longknife set up their own little pocket empire and starts to make life for Kris and her family difficult. Lots of humor, fantastic characters by Mike Shepherd. The next book Redoubtable will be out in November this year.
00101. The Vorkosigan Saga – is about Miles and his mother Cordelia Naismith. It begins with Cordelia's military career and the unlikely love story between her and Miles father. Miles is crippled in vitro by an assassination attempt but grows up to a crippled formidable interstellar spy and mercenary admiral. Lois has modeled the series after Hortio Hornblower with a taste of Lord Peter Wimsey. The novels stand alone pretty well but benefit from each other. Another Miles novel, CryoBurn is coming later this year. Written by Lois McMaster Bujold.
00100. Safehold – is the world where humanity hides from extermination from the Gbaba, something went wrong thou, the leaders of the colony reprogrammed the colonists in cold sleep creating a medieval world ruled by the church and themselves as Angles. When a fraction tries to revive advanced technology they are ruthlessly exterminated by orbital strikes. 800 years later their second line of defense wakes up. Nimue Alban is an android with the mind and memories of a long dead starship captain. Her mission is to restore civilization and prepare Man for the inevitable re-encounter with the Gbaba. David Weber's knowledge in history comes to life in this beautiful military saga. The latest novel A Mighty Fortress is out this April (it arrived April 20 for me).
00011. Family's Regnant universe – Heris Serrano Trilogy | Esmay Suiza continuation | Suiza and Serrano – is about two formidable females Heris Serrano of an old navy family and Esmay Suiza of an old army family. Characters easy to love and formidable old ladies. Much of the driving force for conflict in this universe comes from longevity treatments. Those who get it and will live long life, those who fear the consequences or those who wont wait their turn. Elizabeth Moon is an amazing crafter of characters and worlds.
00010. Honor Harrington is about a competent man kind of military woman with an empath treecat called Nimitz that becomes the foremost military commander of her time battling expansionist empires and human slavers. She is called the Salamander because she thrives in the heat of battle. There are so far eleven books in the series that starts with On Basilisk Station and the next book Mission of Honor will be out this summer. The series is written by David Weber and the success so far have lead to two sub series Saganami and Wages of Sin. The first written together with Eric Flint.
00001. Old Man's War start with protagonist John Perry joining the army on his seventy-fifth birthday and goes off to fight in The Colonial Defence Force where he meets the love of his life, fight aliens, become leader of a colony and in general make himself useful. I am afraid to tell you much about this series because I so enjoyed the surprise I got as piece after piece fell in place. John Scalzi is one of my favorite authors, I love his characters and his humor.
And before you say how could he miss Hammer Slammers, I didn't. I tried to read them a couple of times but never really fell for it. Bolo is another 'series' that I considered but I feel its less a series and more of a loose concept even if i love them. I have probably missed some, because I haven't read them, so as usual give me a comment, I love to get to know more military science fiction series.


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(CNN) - Business mogul Donald Trump will be recognized as the 2012 Statesman of the Year by the Sarasota, Florida, Republican Party the day before the Republican National Convention opens in Tampa next month.
Tickets for the August 26 dinner go as high as $1,000 per person, which include a private meet-and-greet with Trump, according to an invitation flyer for the event.
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Trump has endorsed the presidential run of presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, though Trump's repeated questioning of President Barack Obama's birthplace and birth certificate have overshadowed events where they have appeared together.
Trump initially flirted with his own run for the presidency, but dropped out of the field in the spring.
He has appeared this year at state-level Republican Party events, such as a fundraiser for the North Carolina GOP last month, where he stood by his so-called "birther" comments and said waging war with Iran may be "good politics" for the incumbent.
Rep. Vern Buchanan, who is the subject of four federal and Congressional investigations into his business practices, has donated at least $15,000 in conjunction with the event, according to the August invitation. Buchanan is the head of fundraising for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect Republicans to Congress.
– CNN's Steve Brusk and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report
Last chance for America and Freedom........DUH................TRUMP!!!
Has the GOP crossed over into La-La Land totally? I miss the old days when they were just stupid every so often!!!
What a joke...nothing more needs to be said.
Yeah, Trump earned his money after filing bankruptcy several times and the banks bailed him out at taxpayers expense. Incidentally, did you get any of it back and if so please tell me how and where to file to get mine back. Remember taxpayers are always suppose to get returns on "bailout money". This guy is in the 1% so he pays almost nothing in taxes.
Statesmen of the year?! Who is giving out this award? Trump himself? The man is a racist birther and an embarrassment.
Good, we need a straight shooter like Trump. he dosnt need your piddling millions in re-election funds, he cant be bought (like the kennedys refusal to take funds from questionable sources). hate his hair, but love his directness. you wont find anyone else with more balls and Mitt would do well to make him Vice President. At the very least, he can afford his own jet air travel to engagements.
Hey Trump, how's your birther movement coming along now-a-days? President Obama has shown his birth certificate, yet you are still raising questions about the President's birthplace! Well, I have a suggestion...Can you please show us your videotape of President Obama's mother giving birth to him in Kenya? Perhaps your videotape of this live birth will clarify things once and for all! Sucker!
Let's all relax. I can call Hitler a humanitarian. The GOP in Sarasota can call Trump a statesman. Even republicans don't like Trump.
Statesman of the year?!! LOL you guys are whacked!!
In additional to being a racist – clearly shown when he tried to prove that our first black president wasn't a citizen, Donald Trump is an incompetent pig. He has bankrupted four companies, his sons hunt, with his permission, endangered species, and he is a disgusting example of what it means to be a human being.
We must get the Trump name out of New York City. We have a great city and the Trump is a blight on our skyline.
Somebody tapped into an Onion headline and thought it was real.
zisee.......you are truly an 'interesting' person......
And don't take that as a compliment.
GOP laundering money back to the top 1% again with awards.
And the "Dumbness Award of the Year" goes to....M Bachmann, ah no....S Palin, ah no again....H Cain, no still not quite there yet... Got it! "Blowfish" Trump... Well, almost..it really goes to the Repugnicant party for this ridiculous distinction. "Statesman of the Year"? Are you really THAT insane? How can anybody with half a brain consider this preposterous claim? Does the Republican party even know what a "Statesmen" is? Huntsman is a statesman, and he got 1% of the Repug primary vote. The Donald is a blowfish.
sorry zisee Trump inherited his money, yes he made money, he also declared some bankruptcies. Just what has he ever done has a statesman, unless you count being the leader of that extreme false the birther movement.
I nominate Donald Trump for Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Statesman of the Year seems to be a stretch, unless you figure that of all the Republicans, Trump has done the most. Ah, now that makes sense!
I don't understand how this man goes bankrupt four times and gets credit for being a genius and to think some idiots wanted him to Run for President. He's the poster child for the double standard the wealthy have in this country, His companies took on more than they could chew four times, four times and they ended up renegotiating or screwing over thier debtors. If you owned stock in his casino Company you lost 99% of what you owned. Yet this clown can do this again and again. Millions of Americans same situation with their mortgages some took on more than they can chew, some lost equity, you name it but there is no renegotiating for them. Don't celebrate this guy, as americans we have very short attention spans we forget and forgive to easily but this guy should not be celebrated in any way
There is new proof that Donald Trump is not a citizen of the United States.
Mayor Bloomberg please force Trump to remove his name from his buildings.
He is an embarrassment to the great city of New York.


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Justin Bieber Posts Cartoon of Himself in Bed With a Topless Belieber [PHOTO]
Justin Bieber continued his 2013 Questionable Behavior Tour yesterday, April 16, when he posted a cartoon of himself in bed with a shirtless fan.
The Biebs posted the photo on Instagram with no comment, so it's not immediately clear if this is an artist's rendering of him with Anne Frank or what.
Maybe the girl is a metaphor for his monkey. (We may be reading too much into this.)
But considering the average Belieber is around 12 or so, the drawing has certainly raised some eyebrows.
It is in line with the rest of his Instagram offerings, though. On April 15 he posted not one, but two unnecessary shirtless photos on the site.
Here's hoping this doesn't lead to some type of erotic Justin Bieber animated series.


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Susan E. Gambrel, 2175 Oak St., McPherson; failed to appear at arraignment Sept. 16, bench warrant issued at no bond on six charges of giving a worthless check.
Austin Reissig, 521 S. Maple St., McPherson; pleaded no contest July 17 to possession or consumption of an alcoholic beverage by a minor, ordered to pay $356, driving privileges suspended 30 days.
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who here is fond of the man Eric Copeland ? personally, I think the fellow is quite the innovator
I don't really know much about the guy, but I'm a fan of Black Dice and The Terrestrial Tones. I really like the Black Dice remix of Peacebone... I'm not exactly sure why though...
I'm so pumped for Mr. Impossible, Pigs is awesome!
He has solo stuff, a few albums..when I saw him open for Avey last year I had no idea who he was but I loved what he did and looked him up, then came across Terrestrial Tones- which is great as well. Black Dice I'm crazy for. I'm so stoked for the new album, as well as the tour they're going to do. I really hope they'll be somewhere near me
Ooo, tour. I love their live videos, have you seen the one they did on Pitchfork?
Ive watched it once or twice before but Im gonna watch it again now that you mentioned that since its been a while.
I really liked the little 7" that he put out last year...I can't remember what the songs were called but they were kind of groovy. I really want to like Black Dice and Eric Copeland a lot because Eric is from a town not too far away from me in Maine and no one is every from here (besides Stephen King) but I can never really get into his music.
I started with Broken Ear Record, it's groozy stuff. Smiling Off is a great song.
werent there 3 songs on that 7" ? if I remember correctly it was titled Whorehouse Blues or something along those lines but thats crazy cool youre from the same general area as him and Stephen King (reading one of his books right now actually) I just have to be in the right mood for any of their stuff, cant just listen to it in any setting. but thats just me
Have not listened to much Black Dice or EC, but I think he has some pretty decent songs.
Aw man... critics are hating on Black Dice's new record. Even Tiny Mix Tapes who have been big fans since the start... well this is where the listeners divide from the critics I hope. I haven't listened to the album but I really like the lead single.
I just listened to black dice for the first time not too long ago and it made sense why AC's first tour was with them. How does the new track compare to old ones if anything is different? 2 up - I love stephen king!
That is not good news to wake up to. I must download it today and hear this for myself.
I too love the King. I didn't even know Black Dice had a new album. Wtf. Getting it.
Does anyone know where i can listen to the new album? I've only heard pigs and pinball wizard and I'm trying to listen to it asap. And Eric Copeland is pretty cool! His tunes have a nice mellow sound.
The reverend speaks! You can stream the album from here: http://www.playgroundmag.net/music/music-news/music-streaming/black-dice-streaming
I'm liking Mr. Impossible ok. I wish they could produce another beaches and canyons, that album was a feat.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU claudeavecvin Ahhhh i was looking everywhere for that.
Haha, all I did is search Mr. Impossible stream in google, but no problem man.
Wow really? I only looked for it on like fileshare and media fire and stuff and when i couldn't find it i gave up. The last song on the album is pretty great.
mediafire and google don't get along anymore
What do you use to get your free music?
That sort of talk is probably better for the hidden stash my friend, so no one can go snooping.
yes, Hidden Stash is where we are not googleable or indexed.
If I can find a copy from Australia I totally am as well! Thanks for sharing its existence.
Whoa yeah.
He's a very nice young man, too. Good manners.
cept for that time he puked all over me! oh GOD!
not AGAIN!
Oh, and like i haven't??
Peacefish: (oh god?)
shitizen copey glandy! GLAN DEAD!


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This is the name given to a granitic outcrop near the village of A Igrexa (Portomouro de Arriba), which now features three anthropomorphic sarcophaguses carved in the rock. These are the remains of an old cemetery used for Christian burials, with the corpse's head pointing towards the west and the feet towards the east (the same orientation that used to be followed by churches).
The three sarcophaguses are of the same type, with a space prepared for the head and a trapezoidal space for the rest of the body, being narrowest at the feet. They were covered with a lid also made of stone. We do not know the exact age of the necropolis, but this type of tomb is very characteristic of the beginning of the Middle Ages, especially between the 8th and 11th centuries.
This type of necropolis was always associated with a church or hermitage. Therefore, there probably existed in the past some kind of building nearby or even on the rock itself; now all that remains is some lowered ground, which may be the foundations.
Local residents called the ensemble A Pedro dos Mouros, reflecting the link in people's imagination with these mysterious beings and the existence of treasures in the surroundings. According to oral testimonies, the stone's original height was a lot higher, almost 5 m, and there were more than a dozen sarcophaguses in it. It also featured a stairway and a platform overlooking the River Tambre. However, in the 1950s, part of the stone was blown up by a treasure hunter, thereby destroying some of the original sarcophaguses and causing irreparable damage to the ensemble.


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Week In Review 2011W04
This week the people of Egypt got fed up. Interesting facts, Obama's VP Biden says Mubarak isn't a ditactor, the same person which said Assange is a dangerous cyber terrorist. This is also about the same Mubarak which ruled Egypt for over 20 years in a state of siege, torturing people, and at first sign of trouble shut off the country from the world. Coincidently, Lieberman wants an Internet kill in the USA, probably just in case civil unrest rises up in the homeland. This is also the same week OpenLeaks goes live.
After last week's horseplay with people's phone numbers and addresses, Zuck decided only Facebook Credits are allowed on Facebook which is bound to annoy people like Zinga and people's faces can be used as endorsements in ads which is bound to annoy everyone. So splendid news!
Nokia is still going down. No news there. LG hasn't made a profitable jump to Android yet. And while MS cashcow Windows is going down Xbox is going up probably boosted by Kinect.
Obama is getting some RIAA boys spots in high places. And Warner Music finds that's not a lot of music pirates. And while we're on the subject Google finds the problem with censoring innocent stuff like "bittorrent" or "how to tor" is people actually expect them to censor stuff like "how to kidnap a child" or "how to build a bomb". And funny, while Sony gets a restraining order against GeoHot Norway says Sony removing functionality is not nice.


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Cinema and photography alumnus Alex Morrison '02 looks beyond the camera lens. By Melanie Breault '11
As social networking continues to change the future of communication, Alex Morrison '02 plans to be right there with his camera.
While Morrison was working on his graduate thesis film at American University — documenting the creation of social networking for independent rock bands — he came across an ad inviting people to participate in a social media campaign for the new 2011 Ford Fiesta. Only 100 "agents," as Ford called them, would be chosen, and Morrison knew he had to be one. He posted a clip from his film on YouTube, and based on its storytelling strengths and his online presence, he was selected out of 4,100 applicants.
Ford's Fiesta Movement is a marketing campaign for their new, fuel-efficient Fiestas, but with a social networking twist. Morrison and the 99 other agents drove their Fiestas for six months and shared their experiences through videos they posted on the company's website and other social networking sites.
To differentiate it from other marketing campaigns, the Fiesta Movement assigned their agents six missions to complete, one every month. Themes for the missions changed each month, and agents were required to incorporate the car into a relevant activity.
During his social activism mission, Morrison spent a day at the Youth Service Opportunities Project in Washington, D.C., where he filmed a dinner for the homeless community, hosted by student volunteers.
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Being a Fiesta agent wasn't easy, especially as a full-time graduate student with several odd jobs. But with the help of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and of course Ford, Morrison was able to hone his skills and do what he loves: make films that mean something.
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Several cable and network news reports on President Bush's December 9 Oval Office meeting with Social Security trustees gave implicit support to the administration's plans to overhaul Social Security (which entails partial privatization) by repeating the crisis rhetoric of privatization proponents, suggesting that the Bush administration's plan offers a solution to the purported crisis, and bolstering the administration's plan through one-sided interviews with conservative guests. Some in the media have also mischaracterized the Democratic response to the administration's push for reform.
In a December 9 segment on CNN's Inside Politics, national correspondent Bruce Morton asserted, "Social Security is in trouble," and played a video clip of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaking in support of the Bush administration's proposal to overhaul the program. And on CNN's December 9 edition of Live From..., anchor Kyra Phillips teased a segment on Social Security by stating falsely that "[i]t's trillions of dollars in the red," asking: "What else can be done to save Social Security? President Bush talks about it."
But Social Security is not currently "in the red," and the view that the program needs an immediate, drastic fix is not universally held. The 2004 Report of the Board of Trustees of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds (OASDI), which was prepared by several Bush appointees (including three cabinet secretaries), noted that while "the financial difficulties facing Social Security" should be addressed "in a timely manner," the program is "considered financially adequate throughout the short range ... through the year 2013." The report estimated that Social Security "assets are projected to be exhausted in 2042," at which point, if left unchanged, "tax income would cover 73 percent of costs," and that the system could still pay out 68 percent by 2078. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected in June 2004 that Social Security "outlays are projected to begin exceeding revenues in 2019" but that "The expected trust fund exhaustion date -- the year in which the trust fund balance (and thus the trust fund ratio) falls to zero -- is 2052 in CBO's projection."
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman noted in his December 7 column that "extending the life of the trust fund into the 22nd century, with no change in benefits, would require additional revenues equal to only 0.54 percent of G.D.P. [gross domestic product]. That's less than 3 percent of federal spending -- less than we're currently spending in Iraq. And it's only about one-quarter of the revenue lost each year because of President Bush's tax cuts." And on the December 9 edition of CNN's Inside Politics, guest and CNN host Lou Dobbs commented on the realities of Social Security, perhaps in response to his colleagues' overheated treatment of the issue:
DOBBS: Well, there are a number of options. I think the first thing though that everyone needs to do in my opinion is step back and say is any change in this system necessary right now? Most of the experts with whom I have talked, most of the analysis that I've gone through shows a problem that is 30 years to 40 years distant. The fact is that there are only two things that can really happen here, that is change some of the assumptions within the internal mechanics of the program or raise taxes or lower benefits and eligibility ages. All of those will have to be considered and will be considered, frankly. But this is something that should not be thrown into a national agenda and dealt with in one session of Congress. It's going to require a lot of thought, it will take several years, and it will have to be carefully done if we are to have responsible government policy on this.
In discussing the Bush administration's proposal to privatize Social Security on the December 9 Inside Politics, in addition to airing clips of Bush and Graham, CNN gave airtime to two proponents of privatization, with no opposing point of view presented. The program featured Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, and Michael Tanner, director of the Project on Social Security Choice at the conservative Cato Institute. Bixby testified before the Senate on October 3, 2002, in favor of Social Security privatization; Tanner authored a study, "The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security," which prescribes Social Security privatization.
The December 9 edition of CBS's Evening News featured an interview with Tad DeHaven, an economic policy analyst for the conservative National Taxpayers Union whom CBS said "could be the poster child for Social Security reform." DeHaven, who predicted in the interview that Social Security will not "be there" when he retires, expressed support for Social Security privatization. CBS News chief White House correspondent John Roberts stated that "Tad is fully on board the plan to establish private accounts for Social Security." But, as Washington Monthly blogger Kevin Drum noted on December 10, CBS failed to disclose that DeHaven's employer advocates Social Security privatization, or that he has previously worked for the Cato Institute and interned with the Heritage Foundation, also ardent supporters of Social Security privatization. Instead, the CBS report gave the misleading impression that DeHaven offered the perspective of an average American worker.
In an interview with host Katie Couric on the December 10 edition of NBC's Today, MSNBC host Chris Matthews mischaracterized the Democratic response to the Bush administration's push to reform Social Security. Matthews inaccurately described statements that incoming Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made on the issue on the December 5 edtion of NBC's Meet the Press:
MATTHEWS: I have to say that Harry Reid's position there is, "leave it alone, it'll fix itself." That will not sell. ... He's saying, "I'm not gonna do nothing." The Democrats are going to be against this, they're going to use scare tactics, they're going to tell you it's all about the rich or the stock market -- I think that's a bad position.
But contrary to Matthews' claim, Reid made a point of saying in his Meet the Press appearance that the Democratic Party supports reasonable Social Security reform efforts, though it does oppose the Bush administration's proposed private accounts:
REID: Tim, all experts say that Social Security beneficiaries will receive every penny of their benefits that they're entitled to -- 100 percent of them -- until the year 2055. After that, if we still do nothing, they'll draw 80 percent of their benefits. I want those beneficiaries after year 2055 to draw 100 percent of their benefits. But this does not require dismantling the program. For heaven's sakes, they're crying wolf a little too regularly here. There is not an emergency on Social Security. We can do this. The president should not try to jam this private accounts [sic] in an effort to destroy Social Security.
RUSSERT: Would you look at increasing or raising the age of eligibility? Would you look at means testing? Would you look at any reform?
REID: Of course. There are reforms that probably can happen in Social Security, and we're not, you know, saying don't even touch it. Let's take a look at it. I said I want people after the year 2055 to be able to draw all of their benefits. And, sure, we'll take a look at it, but don't give the ball to Wall Street.
RUSSERT: No private accounts of any kind?
REID: Not as far as I'm concerned.
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Currently, I'm drawing up plans to build my own website backend written in Python, and I'm in the process of considering several different frameworks and libraries to utilize (I'm aware that I could just use something like django, but I'm clamoring for a project). There are two major challenges I've identified in my quest to make this happen, and I wanted to see what some other (more experienced) developers might have to say on the matter
The first challenge is picking a database abstraction layer. I have limited experience with the SQL programming language (I grasp database concepts, just haven't learned the statement language all the way through) and also like the idea of writing one piece of code that can write to or query from any database type supported by the library.
From what I've looked up so far, going with an ORM seems like the perfect solution. I'm heavily considering SQLAlchemy (although it may be quite a bit more feature rich than I need), the Django ORM, and pewee. I want, above all, the ORM which will have either high performance in terms of write/query speed or low memory footprint.
Which ORM would you recommend, and for what reason?
The second major challenge I'm facing is writing the authentication framework. I found an introduction to session management in Python (http://webpython.codepoint.net/cgi_session), but it isn't a particularly great one... if anyone else knows of any good resources that might be able to help me out with this one, I would be very grateful!
Thanks in advance for any tips or thoughts!
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Use Django, or at least flask with all sorts of extensions. Even on top of such a framework making a good website is enough work for starters.
Do not try and build everything on your own. Even if you use libraries which are in and by themselves powerful (like SQLAlchemy) wiring these together in a nice, readable and maintainable way is an awful lot of boring work and allows for failures at critical places like authentication or authorization, the more since you obviously lack a lot of knowledge and experience. Checking whether a user is authorized or expiring authentication after a given period of time is trivial, and simply involves checking attributes of the user's authentication or authorization information in each view that accesses a protected resource.
You shouldn't need to ask these questions if you want to build a web application all on your own, and not even differentiating between authentication and authorization, or rather considering only the former, while not even mentioning the latter, is the first indication of an upcoming big failure.
No offense meant Frameworks like Django exist for a reason: It is hard and cumbersome to get web programming right, since HTTP is a complex protocol and there are a lot of side effects and side channels to consider, some of which you don't even know of at the time of writing.
I appreciate that you want to try, but ask yourself whether you really want to practice with a website that is publicly accessible.
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I may need to concede and incorporate a pre-written authentication module, but other than that, I'm quite prepared to write my own backend given the sheer simplicity of the website I'm putting together. From there, it's just a matter of setting up functions to store and recall site content from a database, and with an abstraction layer, that would be well within my reach.
How difficult is it to use only parts of the django framework, such as the authentication module or the ORM module?
I've just started using SQLAlchemy with Sqlite as the database. I think that's the best solution for experimentation and prototyping and you can move to something else for "production". I haven't used Django, but I have friends who have and they mostly like it.
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Ignore everything in that url. Don't read 6 year out of date guides that uses the cgi module and python 2.4
Ayway, writing a web framework is really hard to get right, and you are better off using something existing. I would suggest pyramid or flask. But if you really want to reinvent the wheel, read the wsgi docs.
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+1 for CherryPy. I've only used it a bit so maybe I'm talking too soon, but I like its simplicity. django left a feeling in me that it was trying to do too much, and possibly do so in a sub-optimal way. Also AFAIK it does not yet support Python 3. Boo. I cringe at the thought of using Python 2 for new projects.
I'm also a non-fan of ORMs and DB abstraction layers. They may be OK for simple things but if you ever want to run complex queries, you're far better off writing SQL by hand. ORMs can produce some bad code.
@yodermk Become a fan then. You are much more likely to create much worse queries than SQLAlchemy than to actually create significantly better ones. SQLAlchemy has accumulated lots of thought, knowledge, experience and design in its ORM layer.
Even if you dislike ORMs – a valid point – use the database abstraction SQLAlchemy offers, if only for connection pooling and SQL abstraction. The former is hard to get right, the latter results in cleaner and more readable code, because queries can be written and manipulated in terms of Python expressions instead of mucking around with strings.
As others here have, I'd very much advise choosing an existing lightweight framework and building on top of it. If you want a specific recommendation, I've found Pyramid to be pretty awesome in past projects. Plus, it's focused on providing a fairly small set of core functionality, which is probably what you want seeing as your post implies you're looking to build things up from a fairly low level.
I'd also like to throw my support in for SQLAlchemy; it is very nice, especially in that it not only has multiple levels of operation (ORM & sql abstraction) but that both will play well together in the same project.
+INFINITE for taking an exisiting framework. You say that your goal is to build your web site. It is a too tedious task to start from scratch: implementing HTTP protocol properly (it is trickier than it seems), handling charsets properly on documents and filenames, handling forms, handling file uploads, handling templates, handling cookies, handling sessions, handling security, ... you'll take at least many weeks to be production ready even if you are a very experienced web developer, and in the end you are just building a web site. To me it feels a bit like wanting to create your own operating system just for writing a python program. Oooops... I hope I didn't give you another crazy idea
If your still playing around with this web backend you might give bottle.py a look. It's a web framework in a single python file, designed for small applications, but might also be a good tool to learn from.
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Education Nation: Policy Summit or Puppet Show?
I'd like you to imagine the following. Suppose we are going to have a national summit on health care. Do you not suppose that a substantial number of the voices included would be from professionals in health care, including doctors and nurses? Would you have 3 people with just the head of the AMA to represent doctors?
Or how about legal reform – would not lawyers scream if such a conference were organized without a substantial portion of the main participants being members of the profession representing the range of opinions within the legal field?
Why then is it when it comes to education that people think it is appropriate to have major discussions about education without fair inclusion of the voices of those who bear the greatest burden for the education of our children, the parents and the teachers? --Kenneth Bernstein, Cooperative Catalyst
So I tied off my upper arm and mainlined anti-nausea drugs Sunday and Monday in order to stomach hours of biased, dishonest, irresponsible NBC hate propaganda paid for by, you guessed it, for-profit higher ed vendors and foundations devoted to privatizing public schools.
Just as Obama's pursued the Republican party line on education, NBC has taken a page from Fox News and Oprah. Their lineup on a two-day policy summit with a dozen conference panels --you know, the kind of panels usually filled with folks with credible expertise in the topic--features politicians, astronauts, tv anchors, musicians, corporate executives, and charter school entrepreneurs.
NBC did include one or two figures associated with parent organizations. Just not those representing the the real views of most actual parents--you know, the real parents who on balance are unhappy with Obama's education policy, who fired a mayor to get rid of Michelle Rhee, and who--when given the chance to vote--overwhelmingly support teacher-run schools over charter-school operators.
But somehow they completely failed to include practicing teachers, scholars of learning, or even recognized analysts of education policy. All day Monday and Tuesday, the only figure in the summit remotely acquainted with the scholarship of learning wasRandi Weingarten, AFT president. She had to do double and triple duty, since she was simultaneously the only voice for practicing teachers, or for any policy recommendation other than those endorsed by Duncan's Race to the Top.
Burn the Witch!
Incredibly, Weingarten played the same role all day Sunday. On Meet the Press and other programs, she was consistently positioned as a solitary voice against a solid bloc of panelists and journalists pounding away at the Duncan-Rhee party line. NBC positioned her on the extreme edge of the outdoor panel, literally in the wind, with her hair flying sidewise like the Wicked Witch piloting a broomstick.
Later, she faced an even larger panel completely united against her, this time featuring the propagandists who scored her appearances in Waiting with Superman with ominous chords redolent of Darth Vader.
They can feature both the director and composer of the film who painted her as the captain of the Death Star but not one credible authority on the positions being pushed by the film?
Interestingly, despite the outrageous set-up, on both programs Weingarten spoke more than any other participant--nearly as much all of the other participants combined.
Seems the shows' hosts had to ask her to talk to nearly every point precisely because she was the only person who could provide any other perspective.
Perhaps also because she was the only person who actually had anything to say?
A Failed Hit Job
The one place where NBC allowed teachers--not scholars of learning or credible policy analysts--to have a few words was in a carefully scripted "town hall" program, segregated from all of the marquee shows and policy conference.
They stacked the audience with school administrators and charter-school teachers, all primed to spout their propaganda: "Teachers are under attack and we should be!" shouted one, on cue. "We young teachers don't need tenure to do our jobs," said another.
Even in the complete absence of journalistic scrutiny, the stories of these plants didn't stand up to their own telling.
One charter-school hero stood up to mouth the no-excuses "challenge education" mantra that anybody can overcome any learning obstacle if they are confronted with sufficiently absurd expectations.
As an example, he cited his willingness to offer free day care to one of his students' siblings in his classroom from 7am to 7pm, freeing the student from family-care responsibilities and allowing her to do her homework.
While laudable, his willingness to address the poverty of the student's family in this way is however not, as they say, a scalable solution to the problem. Um, duh, most teachers have families of their own that they can't and shouldn't neglect to offer twelve hours of day care to others.
Right on the surface of this vignette is the cruel hypocritical absurdity--that those who are already sacrificing (the half of teachers who don't quit in despair in the first five years) are not just asked but are really being forced to sacrifice more.
For instance, we could solve a lot of poverty-related issues if physicians or tv journalists or Wall Street banks turned their facililties into day-care centers and staffed them after hours.
Hey, let's just say that everyone should work twelve hours a day for a teacher's wage!
Any takers? I didn't think so.
Nose Ring vs Soul Patch
NBC made the mistake of letting a few actual veteran teachers in the room (actually a tent on Rockefeller plaza). And the atmosphere was apparently charged: anchor Brian Williams called the room "a beehive, a cauldron of activity and emotion," and joked about being in "physical danger." (He also called one reporter "honey," and flirted with one of the teachers on stage. Patronizing and chauvinist much? Guess we really are heading back to the Eisenhower era.)
Because NBC failed to make sure everyone in the room was an administrator or a twentysomething working-slash-volunteering before law school at a charter, we saw a couple of flashes of honest teacher feeling and insight.
These included thoughtful defenses of tenure as due process and analyses of the real issues (funding, poverty, support for professional development, workload, retention).
You could have heard a pin drop on Fifth Avenue when one California principal described her guilt at hiring a new teacher on the salary she was allowed to offer: "I basically condemned her to never owning her own home," she said.
Astonishingly, one teacher that made it onto the show because she was acquainted with the anchor actually compared Davis Guggenheim to Hitler's most brilliant propagandist, calling him "the Leni Riefenstahl of 2010."
Personally I think that kind of comparison isn't worth the backlash, but I think it could prove the most telling moment of the week.
In my experience, persons reaching for the Nazi comparison are intellectually or emotionally stunted, or else desperate. Since this apparently kind and thoughtful, intellectual person was evidently not the former, I think she was struggling to communicate--in the few seconds she was permitted -the stifled frustration and outrage of the tens of millions of parents, teachers, scholars and students who are being hurtled toward yet more schoolroom misery by this tsunami of pro-Duncan propaganda.
If you want to capture the essence of the tension that kept erupting through this scripted event, just fast forward to the middle of program, the second featured panel.
Comprising a charter-school reading teacher in blond dreadlocks and nose ring, and a public-school science teacher of the year sporting a soul patch, the panel was intended to talk about teaching technique.
Asked to describe how she succeeded as a teacher, Nose Ring was unable to manage a syllable describing or defending her teaching practice. She floundered helplessly ("well, you just show them how far behind they are in the world") until the moderator let her off the hook, summarizing her philosophy: "Just teach 'em hard, huh?"
Invited to share his own teaching tips, Soul Patch, a public school teacher of the year, gently rebutted much of the propaganda previously circulated. American top students, he pointed out, perform at the same level as the top students anywhere in the world. The problem is inequality and unfairness, he observed.
Asked to celebrate the Duncan-Obama grim focus on STEM fields, science teacher of the year Soul Patch demurred, pointing out that his own practice and education research showed the importance of "right brain" creativity, of "movement and music right in the science classroom."
Anti-social media
Up until a firestorm of complaint forced them to open the forum, NBC aggressively censored the one place where teachers and parents were mainly allowed to participate--on a Facebook page promoting the event. Even established columnists for national mainstream education journals like Education Week were repeatedly "unfriended" or had their comments removed.
Obama's Today Show interview
This was only about twenty minutes on education before Lauer moved on, but kudos to Lauer for acting more like a journalist than anyone else NBC has put forward.
To his credit, Lauer only gave the administration props for the one initiative (pre-K schooling) actually supported by research, and showed that research in the video package. He challenged the president on the unfair demonizing of teachers and teacher unions in Waiting for Superman. He pointed out that most charter schools underperform union schools.
Above all, he kept the focus on funding and support, quoting Clinton: "It's not just a money thing, but it _is_ a money thing." Obama tried to counter with the Republican bromide that it "isn't a problem we can spend our way out of," and began mouthing accountability and competition cliches.
But Lauer kept at it finally getting the President to concede that there is no problem recruiting teachers into the profession--just a massive problem retaining them.
Most young teachers find they "can't afford to stay" in the profession, Obama confessed, "especially when it comes to having families of their own."
xposted: howtheuniversityworks.com
Although I write, teaching is my day job, and one thing that has saved my sanity this week was Lawrence O'Donnell of The Last Word responding to some anti-teacher panel of "experts" by asking them: "Have you seen Jersey Shore? Tell me what teacher could teach one of those people a single thing."


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We last explored the AIDS epidemic in a series of six articles beginning in September, 1993. Now, four years later, there is more evidence and new theories about this controversial and highly politicized disease. On December 1, "World Aids Day," the news media tried to outdo each other with reports which, as usual, tended to increase our fear, but not our knowledge, of the dreaded disease. We heard that there are more cases than we should have expected, that the people are sicker than before, that there may be some minor help from the "cocktail" multi-drug medication and that the incubation period for the disease is again lengthened, now to ten to eleven years.
But there are serious problems with this scenario. As we mentioned in February, 1994, a minority of doctors at that time were unconvinced that HIV (human immunovirus) caused AIDS, because there was no acceptable scientific proof. There still isn't. Robert Koch, a famous German bacteriologist, formulated a system of four postulates for establishing causation of disease. These postulates have not been met in the case of AIDS. There remains only a theory that HIV, along with other risk factors, is the cause of AIDS. But there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS, nor in fact, that it causes any disease. However, the prevailing opinion in medical circles and the government remains that HIV is a contagious agent that always results in AIDS.
The compelling logic presented by these skeptics is that if HIV caused AIDS, or even if HIV were just a necessary part of the cause, every case of AIDS would have to test positive for HIV. But this is not the case. The so-called AIDS epidemic in Africa has over 70% of the patients with HIV negative blood (see Lancet, October, 1992, for a related study). The cause of their epidemics can be more plausibly pinpointed as starvation and other compromises to their immune systems.
AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--is not the name of a specific disease. It is really a construct of clinical conditions. If these conditions occur in a patient who tests positive for HIV, he is said to have AIDS. If he tests negative, the disease is given a different name, more clinical. The US Center for Disease Control claims that AIDS patients always have HIV positive blood. Other Health Organizations claim that the clinical picture is all that is necessary, HIV blood not withstanding. Wasting of the body is one of these symptoms, which is also associated with chronic infections, unsanitary conditions and malnutrition.
When the press says millions in a country are dying of AIDS, this is only an estimate of the number of people that are HIV positive. There is ample evidence that people with HIV positive blood can lead long and productive lives as long as they eat well, exercise regularly, do not take drugs, excess alcohol or tobacco products.
Skeptics about the HIV-AIDS connections implicate the roll of AZT, an extremely toxic drug originally given indiscriminately to all "AIDS" patients. Its documented side effects are exactly the same as the symptoms of full-blown AIDS. The simple reason behind the success of newer therapies may be the reduction or elimination of this toxic drug in the treatment.
To be continued...
Dr. Tandavan, 77, retired nuclear physician and hospital staff president, lives in Chicago, where he specializes in alternative healing arts. Visit his home page at the Hinduism Today Website.
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Miscellaneous Chess Books
The most important endgames to study and learn are King and Pawn Endgames and Rook and Pawn Endgames. Knowing rook and pawn endgames is like having money in a savings account, as they come up all the time. Be sure to take time and learn all the rook and pawn against rook endgames.
Basic Chess Endings
With an appendix on Go, the oriental strategic game
Modern Chess Strategy is a book about the strategies in modern chess by author Edward Lasker with introductions by Richard Bozukich and Sam Sloan. It also includes a special appendix on the game of Go. A Japanese variation of chess which will keep you as addicted to it as the game of chess.
Modern Chess Strategy
The aim of this book is to give Antichess players a high-quality opening analysis. It is designed as an opening encyclopedia, or at least as my playing repertoire.
The Ultimate Guide to Antichess
Transforming Lives One Move At A Time
In this moving tale based on true stories, you will learn how the game of chess can develop a strategic mind-set and produces the rare ability to graciously handle set-backs.
A Pawn's Journey - Signed by Author Elliott Neff
Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474
Published in 1474, this is the first book on chess ever published and one of the first books ever published anywhere in Europe on any subject.
Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474
The Thinkers is a visual tribute to the game of chess, showcasing the emotions, exertions and desires of the players, and conveying the mental intensity only chess can command. Included are some of the most iconic portraits of today's stars, as well as emotive shots of ordinary players from all over the world, with photos taken over the last five years in venues such as Mombasa, London, Chennai, Las Vegas, Baku and Sao Paulo.
The Thinkers
Apollo Meets Caissa
The thesis of this extraordinarily researched book is that chess is art in itself. It can create art and is strongly related to mathematics and music. As becomes clear, this relationship has already been introduced by some legendary players such as Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Kramnik.
Music and Chess
Chess Behind Bars offers a guide to chess in prisons that will instruct and entertain regardless of your situation. It covers almost every aspect of chess imaginable – from the rules to chess history, from puzzles to famous games, and even some tips for improvement. It is a smorgasbord of chess, seen from an unusual angle.
Chess Behind Bars
Imagine that, no matter how good your coach is, he may have never dragged your attention to explaining some simple cases that could arise in a tournament game. Or worse, say you are a chess professional, but failed to study the latest changes on the laws of chess and namely this brought you to a situation where you simply lost your prize money due to the mentioned fact. So, a natural question would be: Who this book is intended for? First and foremost - the chess arbiters, as it is stated on the book cover. Bojovic and Suhartovic, experienced International Arbiters and FIDE lecturers, have tried to handle the matter in such a way that even the beginners may master it, and that at the same time it would be useful to any chess arbiter as well. Since the jobs of arbiters and organizers are inextricably linked, it is considered that also the organizers shall find useful information in it. In addition, it will be useful to all chess players, primarily to professionals.
Chess Handbook - Book for Arbiters
There has never been a top ranked woman chess player. But suppose if an American girl were born with abilities in chess that matched the greatest players. What would happen to her in a highly competitive field dominated by men? Starting from this premise, the author Walter Tevis, who some years ago interested a generation of Americans in straight pool with the book "The Hustler", has produced a riveting novel that makes chess more exciting than one could have imagined.
The Queen's Gambit - a Chess Novel
From December 1966 until January 1970, Bobby Fischer wrote a chess column for Boys' Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. Now, for the first time, all of these columns have been collected in one volume. It is an eclectic mix, a fascinating look at Fischer's writing and thinking as he reached his prime, maturing into the strongest player in the world.
Checkmate - Bobby Fischer's Boys' Life Columns
From December 1966 until January 1970, Bobby Fischer wrote a chess column for Boys' Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. Now, for the first time, all of these columns have been collected in one volume. It is an eclectic mix, a fascinating look at Fischer's writing and thinking as he reached his prime, maturing into the strongest player in the world.
SHOPWORN - Checkmate - Bobby Fischer's Boys' Life Columns
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Common-sense answers to frequently asked questions on chess rules, regulations, and policy from players, tournament directors, and organizers
Get the Just Law scoop on the most popular chess tournament questions from players, tournament directors and organizers. In the book's Q&A format, Tim Just guides you through a wide range of tournament topics, including details about notation, draws, byes, clocks, prizes, prize funds, ratings, making claims, playing sites, time controls, pairings, tournament management, tournament creation, scholastic chess mysteries, and even more.
Just Law
A Fun Guide to Blitz Chess
One of the strongest blitz players in the world, Genrikh articulated his philosophy on chess with one clever phrase: 'there's no need for you to play - well just make sure your opponent plays poorly!' His book will teach you how to act when your clock is ticking, catch your opponents off guard, put them in serious time trouble, and make them blunder.
Winning at Blitz
What does a chessmaster think when he prepares his next move? How are his thoughts organized? Which methods and strategies does he use by solving his problem of choice? To answer these questions, the author did an experimental study in 1938, to which famous chessmasters participated (Alekhine, Max Euwe and Flohr). This book is still useful for everybody who studies cognition and artificial intelligence.
Thought and Choice in Chess
Insanity, Passion & Addiction
In this at times hilarious and tragic account, Gormally shares the inner workings of the chess world — a world riven with insecurities, strange social customs and petty rivalries, while casting his analytical eye even on topics as disparate as eccentric waiters, strange Amsterdam zoos and inspiring mountain passes. It's a story you won't want to miss.
A Year Inside the Chess World
In this book the author addresses 366 (one for each day of the year) intriguing chess topics which could be of interest to any chess fan, regardless of the playing level. For example:
IQ and chess skills Talent vs. hard work How many games to play per year? Are women underrated or overrated as compared to men? Rating inflation in chess What does your chess tell about your personality? Playing computers: dos and don'ts Developing your chess memory and visualization How does one prepare for an upcoming tournament? Is 1.e4 really "best by test"?
Yearbook of Chess Wisdom
The Best of CHESSDON and Much More
Memoirs of Chess Official, organizer and members of the FIDE Executive Board who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov for the World Chess Championships. The insider story of these important chess events.
Fischer, Kasparov and the Others
Memoirs of a Chess Official, organizer and member of the FIDE Executive Board of the World Chess Federation who participated in many controversial chess events including the matches by Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov for the World Chess Championships. The insider story of these important chess events.
Tall Tales, Legends, Gossip, and Rumors From the World of Tournament Chess
Bobby Fischer is not alone in creating antics away from the chess board. His understudies, the royal game's masters, players, fans, coaches, parents, tournament officials, and hangers-on, have created their own "tales from the wild side" escapades. This book chronicles those tales. Over the board chess experience takes a back seat to these anecdotes of human interest, human follies and quirky behavior. Lean back and enjoy this peek at human conduct on the sidelines of the chess universe
My Opponent is Eating a Doughnut
A Classic Collection, Finally Available Again
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam's gripping encounter with the legendary American recluse, a journalist's dream come true, is the worthy apotheosis of this unique collection of interviews which were first published in New In Chess between 1986 and 1992.
CLEARANCE - Finding Bobby Fischer
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A Classic Collection, Finally Available Again
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam's gripping encounter with the legendary American recluse, a journalist's dream come true, is the worthy apotheosis of this unique collection of interviews which were first published in New In Chess between 1986 and 1992.
SHOPWORN - Finding Bobby Fischer
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Whenever any grandmaster of chess is asked the question "Which chess book helped you the most" or "To what book do you most attribute your success", the answer is almost always the same. All or almost all grandmasters say there is one book that stands above all others in leading to success over the board. The name of that book is: International Grandmasters Chess Tournament Zurich 1953 by David Bronstein, which is reprinted here under the more commonly used title of World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament Zurich 1953.
World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament Zurich 1953
Inside the Spirit and Body of the World's Greatest Game
Once the game of kings, chess now intrigues, fascinates, and experates millions of enthusiasts from all walks of life. What is it in the nature of this unique game that has appealed to so many people for so many centuries? What does this game mean for those who play in, and why does it interest even those who do not? Here are the answers in brilliant book that explains chess as a social, psychological, historical and dramatic phenomenon. Filled with unexpected humor and written in a language anyone can understand, The Personality of chess offers a vast amount of little known facts about the game, some in refutation of popular misconceptions, others boldly treading unexplored areas.
The Personality of Chess
Mikhail Botvinnik´s Analiticheskie i kriticheskije raboty were originally published in four volumes between 1984 and 1987. The first three volumes covered his best games, and an English translation of these has already been published by Moravian Chess (Botvinnik´s Best Games Volumes 1, 2, and 3). The fourth volume contained the author´s collected writings, and for the present English publication this material has been divided among three books, of which this is the Third. These books also include all Botvinnik´s known games (apart from the 381 already published in the Botvinnik´s Best Games series), with annotations by Botvinnik where available. The resulting six-volume series therefore present a complete collection of Botvinnik´s own game annotations and the best of his chess writings. This volume contains 257 Botvinnik´s games, many of them annotated and published only in Russian chess sources.
Botvinnik's Complete Games and Selected Writings Part 3 - 1957 - 1970
This comprehensive rulebook is the only guide sanctioned and compiled by the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF), the governing body for chess in the United States. It is designed to be a useful reference for all chess players, especially tournament directors and chess club teachers.
SHOPWORN - US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - SIXTH EDITION
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This comprehensive rulebook is the only guide sanctioned and compiled by the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF), the governing body for chess in the United States. It is designed to be a useful reference for all chess players, especially tournament directors and chess club teachers.
CLEARANCE - US Chess Federation's Official Rules of Chess - SIXTH EDITION
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Chess in the Digital Age
There's a general recognition among chess players at all levels that the ChessBase software application is critical for serious chess improvement, but many chess players are intimidated by the software. Now, for the first time, former U.S. correspondence champion Jon Edwards has created real-life scenarios that focus upon why the software is so important for chess players of every class, along with clear explanations of how to use ChessBase.
SHOPWORN - Chessbase Complete
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Special Price $17.48
Au menu: des analyses de parties, des exercices, des questions/réponses pour découvrir le quotidien de nos GMs, vous saurez tout ou presque sur MVL, Bacrot, Fressinet, Edouard, Bauer, Millet, Guichard et bien d'autres.
Les Professionnels - FRENCH EDITION
The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings is based on the same 500 fundamental codes and system of elimination but it's a fifth the length. Instead of five books just one! The best and most up to date information. The creative output of generations of chess masters filtered for the reader's convenience.
Small Encyclopedia of Chess Opening
The chess pieces knew how they moved. They knew what they wanted too. It wasn't like school, where kids pretended they were masters of the teachers' game. The adults didn't know anything anyway. The real world was a big push to nothing. But Lisa escaped from all that. She found Igor Ivanov. He taught her how to play.
Lisa - A Chess Novel
The Bright Side of Chess is a collection of curious stories, fantastic games, unusual positions, surprising combinations, all under one cover. Irving Chernev was not the strongest player, but he was the most entertaining writer in the history of chess.
The Bright Side of Chess
A Knowledge Based Approach
Through a revolutionary testing system, Dr. Kopec is able to quantify their overall chess strength, specific deficiencies and definite abilities, allowing him to pinpoint which aspects need the most work. This book, developed with the US Chess Federation, represents the sum of Dr. Kopec's knowledge and efforts to help chess players understand and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve chess mastery.
Test Evaluate and Improve Your Chess - 3RD EDITION
A Collection of 206 Amazing, Amusing, Interesting, and Fantastic Facts about the Game of Chess, its moves and its players
Curious Chess Facts is Irving Chernev's first book. Published in 1937, it is his famous collection of chess anecdotes. The facts in this book are so famous that they have become part of chess lore, repeated thousands of times, published in countless books and magazine articles by many different authors, such that it is almost forgotten that this book is the original published source.
Curious Chess Facts
Curious, But True Chess Stories & The Lessons We Learn From Them
Coach Jay Stallings takes coaches and players alike through some of the strangest and weirdest (yet true!) stories in Chess. From how Ossip Bernstein had to save his own life with a game of chess to Bobby Fischer's amazing winning streak to Harry Nelson Pillsbury's ability to play Chess, Checkers and cards at the same time, there is something in here for everyone, complete with Coach Stalling's insights on what you can learn from these stories to improve your own game!
Fried Liver & Burning Pants
September 1953 - June 1955
This volume includes reprints "The Chess Players", originally from the October 1953 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story of Zeno the Rat by Charles Harness faithfully recreates the small chess club atmosphere of 60 years ago.
The California Chess Reporter - VOLUME 2


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SNOW HILL – Aspiring travel journalists can sign up as candidates for the second year of Host Our Coast, a tourism initiative using a dedicated blogger to showcase Worcester County and nearby attractions, beginning in February
The tourism initiative, which recently won the state "Visit Maryland" award, will return with a few changes, although the basic concept will remain the same, with the host traveling around Worcester County and areas nearby, then blogging about attractions, activities and other tourist worthy items.
One planned major change is the time period, which will cover the entire summer by beginning at the end of May.
"We'd love to have our host working Memorial Day through Labor Day, the full summer," said Jim Rapp, director of Delmarva Low Impact Tourism Experience (DLITE).
The 2010 initiative will also include more interactivity. "We do love to get ideas from local people and folks who visit and hear what kind of stories would you like to see," Rapp said.
While previous hosts Paul Cox and Melanie McLean did a great job using online networking tools like Facebook and Twitter, Rapp said he would like to elevate the interactive nature of those connections even more.
Plans call for a dedicated portal on the Host Our Coast website (hostourcoast.com) allowing viewers to submit story ideas.
There were a lot of stories program organizers wanted to see which just could not be fit into the schedule in summer 2009, such as a day out with one of the commercial fishermen operating from the West Ocean City harbor.
Rapp said he would like to see segments on the local people who make the local tourism industry work, like the people who clean the beaches every day or the people who work at Thrasher's French fries.
"These are the people that make you want to come down there," said Rapp.
Organizers are also considering offering the 2010 host an equipment stipend to purchase what would enhance the experience.
Rapp said organizers do not want any kind of camera crew, just handheld equipment that can capture an authentic experience.
The host will receive free housing and $15,000.
Host Our Coast will debut an improved website in the first half of December. The official hosting contest will begin Feb. 1. Voting will begin this winter on the website to choose the 2010 hosts.
The most important requirement for applicants is a 60-second video stating why he or she wants to he next host. The contest also requires a sample blog post about a travel experience, whether to the local diner or to Mt. Everest.
"It can be whatever you want it to be," Rapp said.
The application materials can be viewed by everyone who visits the site, who then can vote.
This year, however, judges might take a different approach, with an initial round of judging followed by a semi-final round. Some or all of the semi-final group would then be interviewed by the judges.
The vote will only be one element of the 2010 host selection process. Judges will take the vote into consideration, but will make the decision based on their own judgment of all the factors. The final decision will be made in late May.
Hosts both follow their own journalistic instincts in creating stories and cover topics assigned by DLITE. Last year, roughly 75 percent of Cox and McLean's stories were assigned, with 25 percent coming from the hosts. According to Rapp, the hosts were never told how to cover a topic.
"We let them find their own story. Everything was fair game," Rapp said.
Stories focused on local topics of interest, from businesses to natural resources, and only covered things unique to the area.
Rapp attributed the original idea to Worcester County Tourism Director Lisa Challenger, who was inspired last winter by an Australian tourism campaign.
Challenger said she and other supporters threw the 2009 effort together in less than a month.
The 2009 Host Our Coast contest attracted 74 applicants. Website visitors voted for their choice of hosts, and McLean and Cox won the slot.
"They were covering things that are authentically real and good in Worcester County and southern Delaware: the parks, the food, museums, people," said Rapp.
The Host Our Coast initiative is probably the most effective use of new media for tourism promotion he has seen, Rapp said.
The 2008 campaign used video blogging, Facebook posting and Twitter messages to promote Delmarva Tourism, which allowed hosts to communicate with visitors and potential visitors every day.
Approximately 3,000 people followed the team's efforts every day, according to Challenger, with the Host Our Coast website enjoying "tens of thousands of hits" over the summer months.
The project even inspired busy commenting back and forth on Facebook and Twitter, Challenger said. She estimates that the campaign caused $50,000 worth of magazine coverage, on a budget of $37,000.


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August 22, 2012
January 02, 2013
Spalding House
Exhibition Overview
Spalding House's new education-driven exhibition concept looks at the museum's collection and art in general from different perspectives and illustrate how art can be used as an unexpected tool in learning about disciplines such as literature, math, music, social studies, and physical education. The exhibitions are curated with schools and teachers in mind, but are also designed to engage and captivate "regular museum goers." These shows really do have something for everyone.
A Thousand Words and Counting is made up of five engaging small-scale shows that illustrate aspects of literature. The literary connection to some works in these exhibitions are obvious, such as an Indonesian pidan depicting an episode from the classical Indian canon Jataka Tales. Other works, like prints from Goya's Proverbios series and Ed Ruscha's contemporary work News, will challenge the viewer to make connections expand their definitions of literary concepts. Letters to Lili'uokalani, showcasing original letters handwritten by Hawai'i's last queen, invites visitors to do some writing of their own.
The Divine Journey: Narratives in Religious Art: Central figures of the world's religions have something in common—from Buddha to Job, they all embark on a journey that leads them to epiphany and enlightenment. Images of divine journeys are as intrinsic to many religions as the sacred texts they depict. The works on view range from William Blake's prints illustrating The Book of Job, to a 13th-century bronze sculpture. Closed Nov 21.
Code/Character: The 47 Ronin: Woodblock prints depicting The 47 Ronin, a classic Japanese tale of honor and revenge among masterless samurai, are excellent examples of character development in literature. Through Dec 26.
Francisco Goya: Los Proverbios: The 18th-century Spanish master's print series of eerie, surreal scenes are visual metaphors, and invite you to dream up your own proverbs. Through Dec 26.
Word: Used singly, or arranged in groups, words have the ability to inform and incite. Works by such contemporary artists as Ed Ruscha and Kate Rosen, featuring deceptively simple words or phrases, explore language and its most elemental component. Through Dec 14.
Letters to Queen Lili'uokalani: Twenty-one letters written by Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawai'i's last queen, reveal a monarch deeply worried over issues regarding Crown Lands and other matters. Compare these long, thoughtful works to Hawaiian poet No'u Revilla's 21st-century visual poem distilled from the Queen's letters—and you decide how personal communication has changed over the years. Through Jan 2.