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Fire destroys truck, damages shop in Lanesborough
LANESBOROUGH -- An accidental truck fire at Village Truck Sales in Lanesborough totaled a vehicle and severely damaged a historic building on the property.
Chief Charlie Durfee of the Lanesborough Volunteer Fire Department said the fire was reported around 6:20 a.m. on Thursday morning.
Firefighters arrived at the auto body repair shop on the property where they found a 1991 Peterbilt tractor trailer truck unit engulfed in flames.
"We knocked it out fairly quickly and dragged the truck outside with a fork truck to ensure it was all out," Durfee said.
The department received mutual aid support from the Cheshire, Savoy and Hancock fire departments.
There is no sprinkler system in the repair shop as the business is on a well system. The fire was put out using a foam spray.
Though he consulted with the state arson investigation unit, Chief Durfee ruled the fire accidental due to an apparent electrical shortage in the truck.
The chief said the truck was a total loss and the building, though structurally sound, sustained heavy heat damage to its interior. In total, Durfee estimated the incident caused a minimum $175,000 in damages.
Robert Szczepaniak, vice president and son of owner Joe Szczepaniak, said the truck was brought in Wednesday for maintenance and repairs.
The building, one of three on the property, is insured but Szczepaniak said the damage is devastating.
Village Truck Sales is a third generation family-owned business that has been in operation for 70 years, according to its website.
"The building that caught fire was our grandfather's original gas station. It's kind of a tearjerker this morning. Even though we're covered insurance wise, there will never be enough money to cover the loss," he said.
Szczepaniak said despite the incident business opened as usual on Thursday.
"The support from the local community and the public has been incredible. Our phones have been ringing off the hook all morningWe're going to keep on going on here," he said.
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Public procurement has largely been a public sector activity in Africa.
From a back room administrative function, it is however now being recognized
as a major multi stakeholder public function, with huge ramifications
on public service delivery and therefore on economic and social development.
The concept of having statute based citizens oversight of the procurement process
is very new in Africa. Perhaps Nigeria's public procurement
law is the first, if not the only one of
This Spanish runner proved to the world how winning is not the
ultimate goal of being a true person when he decided to lose his
race to Kenya athelete Abel Mutai. Read more from USA Today
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US President Barack Obama meets Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Oval Office. Photo: Prime Minister's Office, dated April 3, 2013.
Images: (left) The imaginary Kirin retrieved from Monster Hunter Wiki's Kirin page.
The "unicorns" as described by North Korea (middle and right) retrieved from the io9.com article, "No, the North Korean government did not claim it found evidence of unicorns" dated December 1, 2012.
Screenshot of People's Daily Online: "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012."
Retrieved from the Bloomberg's article: "Why China's People's Daily found Kim Jong-Un so sexy."
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was removed on November 28, 2012, one day after it was published.
Retrieved from Banatzayed.com, "Caution: The mask of 'revolutionary government' on sell for national day" (translation) dated November 10, 2012.
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Deciding on whom to vote for can be a real headache but definitely
not as disappointing as when you have to regret for choosing the wrong guy
over the next four years. People are keep telling you (and the media ads are bombarding you too)
as to whom you should vote for but no matter what and how compelling the reason(s) they may give,
they seem to care less about what is really going to happen after the election.
For me, I would like to know what people have really said several years
*after* they casted their votes in previous elections. There is just always too much information
*before* every election and too few when people eventually find themselves unhappy with their previous decisions.
So do people often regret picking the wrong guy? If so, what kind of people regretted and for what and why would they regret? Let's find out.
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I stumbled upon this old Buttonwood article the other day and,
as a language and cultural briefing consultant, I just can't help
not sharing in here what I got after reading it. But before I start,
I need to make it very clear that I am not in anyway against anyone's
freedom of speech, freedom of press, or anything similar. What I
intend to do here is to share with you how the use of grammar in
the Buttonwood text had possibly helped or hindered the realization
and communication of meanings.
So let's start from the tiny little building blocks – the words.
Click here to read the full story on this Buttonwood article from the Economist
No one is sure when and where corruption first started in Nigeria. But Nigerian scholars
like B. C. Osisioma, Ejiofor, Chinu Achebe, and Wole Soyinka amongst host of others
had a consensus view that, the cradle of corruption in Nigeria was colonialism.....
To buttress this view, they argued that, in 1914 the British colonial
powers amalgamated vast territories of separate and distinct ethnic
Over the years, Hong Kong has built up a clean culture and is recognized as one of the role
models for fighting corruption. Syndicated and petty corruption in the public sector has become a
thing of the past and irregularities in the private sector have been reduced substantially.
I shall review from a new strategic viewpoint the "passive commitments" of
the Hong Kong colonial government in terms of (a) the local economic and social statistics for a 25-year period spanning 1967 thru 1992 and
(b) the behavioral patterns and theories of people. Click here to read the full story on how Hong Kong fought its war against corruption
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This new section is not about computers, electronics or
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over 20 years since 1992, I am always fascinated by
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Barium enema
A barium enema is performed to examine the walls of the colon. During the procedure, a well lubricated enema tube is inserted gently into the rectum. The barium, a radiopaque (shows up on X-ray) contrast medium, is then allowed to flow into the colon. The flow of the barium is monitored by the health care provider on an X-ray fluoroscope screen (like a TV monitor). The test is used to detect colon cancer. The barium enema may also be used to diagnose and evaluate the extent of inflammatory bowel diseases.


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Celebrating Mother's/Father's Day
If family fitness has been identified by both IHRSA and ACE as one of the top trends in fitness for the year 2001, then it's only natural to apply special programming attention to Mother's Day and Father's Day. It seems that almost everyone is looking for something unique, fun and healthy to do on or around these revered holidays. So why not take advantage of the perfect marriage between families and fitness by designing some activities which will either generate revenue, retain current members or attract new ones?
Ongoing Parent/Child Programs
These include the traditional "Mommy and Me" classes in the swimming pool or in the youth fitness department, and group exercise programs for parents and children (such as Step or group cycling). If you already have these programs in place, you should promote them more visibly at this time with special invitations to family members, newspapers ads or flyers throughout the club. If you're beginning these programs, now is the optimum time to do it by capitalizing on Mother's Day and Father's Day.
One-Time Specialty Programs
Develop a fitness challenge where the prize and the name of the challenge will be "Mums for Mums." Begin this program just after April 15, when the taxes are paid and people are ready to begin getting into shape for the summer months.
Culminate the challenge on the Saturday before Mother's Day and everyone who completes it will receive two large potted mums for their "Mums and Mums-in-law."
If you want to offset the cost of the mums, then charge a $5 or $10 fee to participate in the challenge. If you can purchase the mums in conjunction with a charity, this will help to get the attention of the media.
Invite moms and dads to participate in any program that pertains to their kids. For example, at the Newtown Athletic Club, we have the Girl's Club, which meets twice a week for eight weeks and teaches girls about exercise, nutrition and motivational aspects of health and fitness. Offer a similar program and invite the moms in for a day and then the dads, so that they can participate and observe their daughters' progress and fitness activities.
Father-Daughter Sports Night or a Mother-Son Sports Night. Challenge families with scooter races, Spin and runs, soccer games, bowling tournaments, relay races and more. The object is for families to have fun and exercise at the same time.
Plan a Spring Family Challenge, scheduled midway between Mother's and Father's Day to include both parents. This event can be done on your own property or partner with your local Parks and Recreation Department. This day could include relay races, tug of wars, and fabulous inflatable rides that challenge both the young and young at heart.
Mother-Daughter Brownie and Girl Scout Sleepovers. Why not promote this event for Mother's Day? This popular event will be a big hit with the "girls."
Mother-Daughter Teas and Father-Son Golf Outings. They can be planned for these holidays and be promoted not only to your current members, but also to their guests or the general public. At the event be sure to include promotional materials and invitations to return with trial passes, etc.
Mother's and Father's Guest Week/Month. Send out invitations to members to bring in their parents to participate in your "Senior Programming" activities. Give the parents a "couples" trial membership for a week or a month and plan an orientation activity for them with their children. All participants must attend this orientation together to receive their complimentary memberships. In this way, you may properly introduce yourself and your club's programs to a larger group of people.
These ideas are only the beginning of what you can do to create excitement around Mother's Day and Father's Day. The fitness industry is closely aligned to the theme park industry in that all activities need to be entertaining to hold the interest of the participant. By capitalizing on other themes to revitalize old ideas we can hold our participants' interest for a little longer and peak the interest of a new "user."
Remember: The roller coaster is not always wooden; it can be metal, have loops, hang from the top or even require the rider to stand. The most important aspect is that it's safe and does what it says it will — provide a great ride!
— Linda Mitchell is a 20-year veteran of the fitness industry and the director of marketing and public relations for Newtown Athletic Club and Middletown Country Club. She is also the executive director for the Delaware Valley Alliance of Health & Sportclubs.
We Are Family
Identify your target: mothers and fathers.
Decide what message they will respond to (e.g., participating with their children).
Send the desired message so that they will hear it. Usually parents will respond to the invitation if it comes through their children, or vice versa.
Make the invitation specific and attractive. Create an event that is perceived to be non-threatening and fun.
Follow up with personal phone calls to ensure response.
Offer gifts or incentives to get people to participate.
After the event, send a "thank you" for participation.


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Dear Bean,
Today you are three! Wow, how did that happen so quickly? I am guessing it is because you are a ball of energy and movement that barely stops to sleep! You are slow to warm up but once that fire is lit watch out!
You are the most expressive child I have ever met, making at least 50 different faces while eating your supper. Taking pictures of you is always an adventure and requires a fast shutter speed!
Your heart is sensitive, often asking me "Are you happy now?" after you know that you did something that upset me. When you see me upset you are the first to offer a comforting hug and a pat on the back even when you are unsure what has caused the sadness.
Your beauty is in the wildness of your curly hair, the callus on the thumb you suck, your eyes that are neither grey, brown or green but all of those at the same time. You prefer not to wear dresses unless you also have pants on. You love your super girl shirt.
Your brother started school this fall and the emptiness in the house is felt most acutely by you. You are still working on figuring out who you can be and what you can do without him around.
This summer you decided you wanted to get your ears pierced but ONLY if it was with Hello Kitty earrings. The first store we went to didn't have them so you said no. The second store did the ones you wanted and you sat braver and stiller than me while they pierced one ear at a time.
You saw the ocean for the first time this year and love it and I loved watching you experience it.
You love Hello Kitty, horses, Caillou, making dinner, filling a page with small intricate circle designs, painting your finger nails, holding babies (real ones please), and owning but not wearing hair pretties.
When you were born I was afraid to have a daughter but now I can't image my life without you! Happy third birthday little girl.


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Darkroom/C-41RA Film Development
C-41RA is a rapid, three-bath process for developing ordinary C-41 colour negative film. It comes as a kit; popular brands are Tetenal and Arista, and they're often called press kits because newspaper photographers used to use them. C-41RA chemistry is a lot like B&W in use, except that it doesn't last as long, hates oxygen, and needs accurate temperature control to work well. The chemistry only lasts about three weeks once mixed, and I get about forty 135-36 filmsworth out of a one litre Tetenal press kit, as long as I *religiously* purge the bottles with Dust-Off after I use the chemistry.
All C-41 film needs the same development, so there's no complicated film-specific developer time matrix of doom.
Important Safety Tips[edit]
C-41RA blix is toxic and nasty; don't get it on your hands, clothes, or in your eyes or mouth. The developer's pretty unpleasant too, but the blix is a special kind of assholish chemical. All three of the major components are probably carcinogenic, so yeah, you might want to wear gloves when handling them. You'd be a special kind of jerk to leave it, or things that have touched it, where people might be handling food. Keep chemistry away from food, animals and children.
When your chemistry's spent, dispose of it carefully; the developer is okay to pour down the drain with plenty of water, but the blix has silver compounds in it so needs to be de-silvered before disposal. The stabilizer has hydrazine and (when used) formaldehyde in it. Dispose carefully. Both the blix and the stabilizer will gradually off-gas in the bottle, so don't leave them on the shelf too long unless you want to see the bottle blow its top.
If you get any of these chemicals in your eyes, get someone to force your eye open and flush under running water for several minutes, and then get them to take you directly to the eye hospital. I am not even kidding.
Everything you use in this process needs to be totally free of grease, soap, and other impurities. Colour film is a complicated chemical system that revolves around selectively monkeying with dye molecules, and a couple dabs of soap on your processing drum will totally ruin the developer.
Before You Start[edit]
- Make up your chemistry according to the instructions. You'll need three bottles to put it in.
- Mark your bottles: Developer, Blix and Stabilizer. Don't mix them up.
- Make up a tempering bath and heat it to 100.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Or 38 degrees Celsius. It doesn't have to be closer than half a degree or so.
- Put your chemistry bottles in the tempering bath and wait for them to get to temperature.
- Make sure your tank, spiral, and bottles are compatible with colour chemistry, because some plastics aren't. The Paterson tanks are. Glass bottles aren't. No, really.
Basic Instructions[edit]
- In complete darkness, roll your film into a tank.
- Turn on safelight or house lights, as your paranoia permits.
- Fill your tank with water at the process temperature, and let it sit for a minute or two. Agitate it a bit. This, and all following steps save the wash stage, should be done with the tank sitting in the tempering bath.
- Empty the water out; marvel at the funny colour it went.
- Add developer to tank. Knock it on the table, then stand it in the tempering bath. Agitate for the first thirty seconds, then do four inversions every thirty seconds. You'll soup your film for a total of three minutes and thirty seconds.
- Pour developer back into your stock bottle.
- Add blix to tank. Agitate it the same way as the developer, but this time for six and a half minutes.
- As your film is blixing, it will produce a little sulfur dioxide. You will have to burp your tank a couple times.
- Pour the blix back into the bottle. It stinks of ammonia and sulfur dioxide: don't breathe this.
- Immediately rinse with running water at process temperature, for three minutes. (at this point you can take your time and expose the film to light if you need to. or want to.)
- Empty out the wash water, and add stabilizer. Agitate continuously for thirty seconds to a minute.
- Return stabilizer to the bottle.
- You might want to do a very, very quick dunk in photo-flo, to make the film dry more evenly, but it's against the instructions; I always do it anyway.
- Drying and praying against the anti-dust gods. You may also want to use the film dryer.
- Before you put your chemistry away, squirt some Dust-Off into each bottle to displace the oxygen that will destroy the chemistry while you sleep.


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Reservation Official Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges
RAPID CITY - A former economic development official on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has pleaded guilty to drug charges.
Jerome Labeaux was charged Monday and pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and driving under the influence of a controlled substance.
The 35-year-old Labeaux had served as cultural coordinator for Thunder Valley Community Development Corp.
The possession charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Sentencing is set for March 18.
The Rapid City Journal reports that Labeaux is being held without bond in the Pennington County Jail.
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A: There comes a time when parents nearing retirement should have a conversation with their adult children about their financial situation. In many cases the conversation can feel overwhelming and a bit uncomfortable. Also, busy schedules and limited time may make financial conversations easy to put off, but sharing information can help you feel more confident and prepared in the long run. Consider these four tips to get the conversation started:
1. Communicate your own financial plans. It's important to make your children aware of your short- and long-term plans, especially if you're nearing retirement or have recently retired. Share any major financial and lifestyle decisions, including if you're planning to travel or relocate during retirement, what arrangements you've made for future health care needs and any legacy plans you have in place. If you're currently providing financial support to your adult children or grandchildren (or plan to in the future), speak honestly and set realistic expectations. Be clear about your ability to contribute funds for their specific financial goals (such as educational expenses) or to provide support if your child has a financial emergency like an unexpected job loss.


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[Editor's note: Fun take on what the world would look like if all the land masses were jammed together and justified like text in a paragraph: left, center, and right. Thanks Noel!]
Republished from Strange Maps.
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain are a pair of young Brazilian artists, working in their home country and in France. Some of their work explores fonts and maps. Typography meets cartography in this little work, entitled 'The World, Justified'.
It shows the world we live in as only one of four possibilities, the others being a left-aligned, centred and right-aligned world. Our world is a justified one, i.e. aligned with both left and right margins.
One could make all sorts of geophilosophical comments about these alternate possibilities. Or about the fact that the world we live in is neither left, right nor centre, but 'justified'. Could it really be that, as Voltaire's Candide asserted, tout va pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles ('Everything is for the best in the best of possible worlds')?
Many thanks to Eric Angelini for sending in this map, found in its original context at the aforementioned artists' website, detanicolain.com (click on the red line).
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First, here is a picture of the facilities. ModBargains has a very nice and spacious building with considerable office and storage space. The storage space being why they are able to keep so much inventory in stock and why they are able to offer such competitive pricing. The "Bargain" is not the in the quality of parts but due to the volume they order. VMR wheels in particular were everywhere, it seems like ModBargains literally has every VMR wheel in stock (my apologies on the one blurry photo):
In addition to having a very large inventory mostly catering to BMW's they are able to do installs. I specifically asked if it was just cosmetic items and was politely rebuked with the information that they are capable of installing basically anything. They have a lift, mechanics, and are able to accommodate whatever a customer needs:
We started discussing shipping and ModBargains ships out a large amount of parts but what struck was the care they took in the packaging. As you can see, very well packaged, wrapped, and insulated so the parts arrive perfectly:
And here is something I found important and offering insight as to the power forums have. This rim is destroyed as you can see. The customer "claimed" it essentially bent on its own due to a defect. It appears to BimmerBoost someone hit a significant dip at pretty high speed damaging the rim severely. The customer essentially said replace it or I'll give you a bad review on the forums. ModBargains whom BimmerPost chastised for customer service and specifically deleted all good review but left negative ones replaced the rim even though we all know what really happened here. Yes, people really make these kinds of demands and use the forums as weapons to save money on their own mistakes. A shame:
BimmerBoost was happy to learn ModBargains is expanding and what you see here is a sneak peak at MBR Tuning which will be a new tuning brand located directly next door. ModBargains purchased the warehouse next to them and as you can see, it's huge. They will have considerable space and right now it is being used to store excess inventory. Expect more on this to come soon, but just a sneak peak:
After I took my tour Mike and I went to lunch (excellent Mexican food place by the way). Mike was nice enough to pay for lunch as I, and I'm not joking, did not have my cards as the bank was sending me replacements due to a fraud claim. So I showed up without any cash for lunch and Mike behaved liked a complete class act. Next Lunch on is on BimmerBoost.
The reason for this article is so that people understand there is more to companies than they read on forums. What someone might say is a review designed to get them something or free parts. The people working at ModBargains are just normal car guys who love what they do. And as you can see, they do it quite well and have considerable business. It is important to keep in mind there is a real person on the other side of the monitor and in many cases the person there is doing their job well and just trying to make a living. So when a forum uses its power to attempt to crush a business, it hurts, and has real ramifications.
It is best to simply go down to any of these vendors and tuners to see for oneself. For those who can't, BimmerBoost made the trip and the impressions are posted as you see. Mike and I had a nice long discussion and I was very happy to see he is just as passionate about cars as I am. We discussed a mutually beneficial relationship and my goal is simply to work my ass my off to increase this Network's volume to help make up for the lost revenue of BimmerPost specifically targeting ModBargains likely over SoCal vendor politics and backdoor vendor deals.
I was very happy to see Mike fully understood what BimmerBoost is doing and supports it. With positive relationships like this working toward each other's mutual benefit everyone wins. No choosing one vendor over another, no shakedowns for more vendor money to delete/ban the competition, just honest hard work from guys who love what they do. And that my friends is exactly how it should be.


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RENO, Nev. -- Former Wolf Pack quarterback Colin Kaepernick scored San Francisco's first touchdown against the Jets in New York Sunday. The 'Niners backup quarterback took the direct snap in a wildcat-style option and ran seven yards around the left end for the TD. David Akers' point after was good.
Those first seven points came early in the second quarter and it was a blowout from there with the 49ers running for more than 200 yards in the 34-0 rout.
The 49ers' Carlos Rogers returned a fumble 51 yards for a touchdown, and Frank Gore and Kendall Hunter also ran for scores.
Meanwhile, the Jets (2-2) couldn't get anything going on offense and lost top wide receiver Santonio Holmes to what it appeared to be a serious foot injury. It was the first time New York was shut out since losing 9-0 to Green Bay in 2010, and the Jets' biggest shutout at home since falling 37-0 to Buffalo in 1989.
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Notice of Meeting - November 3, 2005
A regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Library Commission will be held as follows: DATE: Thursday, November 3, 2005
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PLACE: Koret Auditorium, Main Library, lower level The meeting will be called to order. 1. PUBLIC COMMENT (This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Commission's purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Library Commission's consideration.) 2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES - ACTION Presentation of, discussion of, and possible action to approve the Minutes of the regular Library Commission meeting of October 6, 2005. Explanatory document:
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Bruce Schneier On The Feudal Internet And How To Fight It
from the what-went-wrong? dept
There aren't many upsides to Snowden's revelations that NSA is essentially spying on the entire Internet, all the time, but if one good thing has already come out of that sorry state of affairs it's the emergence of security expert Bruce Schneier as a mainstream commentator on the digital world. That's largely because his core expertise has been shoved into the very center of our concerns, making his thoughts on what's going on particularly valuable.
One fruitful theme that he has been developing recently is the idea of feudal computing (I imagine it could well turn out to be the subject of his next book.) Schneier first wrote about this even before the NSA story broke, back in November last year. He then revisited the idea shortly after the first Snowden story appeared, and has now returned to the theme again, in what is perhaps his best essay on the subject so far. It's called "Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet," and explores some of the implications of our new digital dystopia -- and what we can do about it. It begins by describing how things were supposed to be:
In its early days, there was a lot of talk about the "natural laws of the Internet" and how it would empower the masses, upend traditional power blocks, and spread freedom throughout the world. The international nature of the Internet made a mockery of national laws. Anonymity was easy. Censorship was impossible. Police were clueless about cybercrime. And bigger changes were inevitable. Digital cash would undermine national sovereignty. Citizen journalism would undermine the media, corporate PR, and political parties. Easy copying would destroy the traditional movie and music industries. Web marketing would allow even the smallest companies to compete against corporate giants. It really would be a new world order.
Unfortunately, as we know, that's not how it worked out. Instead, we have seen the rise of the feudal Internet:
Feudal security consolidates power in the hands of the few. These companies [like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc.] act in their own self-interest. They use their relationship with us to increase their profits, sometimes at our expense. They act arbitrarily. They make mistakes. They're deliberately changing social norms. Medieval feudalism gave the lords vast powers over the landless peasants; we're seeing the same thing on the Internet.
More recently, we have witnessed the dangerous alignment of private and governmental interests and power:
Both corporations and governments want ubiquitous surveillance, and the NSA is using Google, Facebook, Verizon, and others to get access to data it couldn't otherwise. The entertainment industry is looking to governments to enforce their antiquated business models.
A key question is: how did this happen? How did things go so wrong when they seemed to start off so well? Schneier has a good answer:
The truth is that technology magnifies power in general, but the rates of adoption are different. The unorganized, the distributed, the marginal, the dissidents, the powerless, the criminal: they can make use of new technologies faster. And when those groups discovered the Internet, suddenly they had power. But when the already powerful big institutions finally figured out how to harness the Internet for their needs, they had more power to magnify. That's the difference: the distributed were more nimble and were quicker to make use of their new power, while the institutional were slower but were able to use their power more effectively.
And that's where we are today, at a point where the big institutions -- governments above all -- have finally overcome their initial cluelessness, and worked out that as well as being a threat to their power, the Internet could also be a means for them to consolidate it. Fortunately, Schneier has some practical suggestions about what we need to do now in order to tip the balance back towards the people:
In the short term, we need more transparency and oversight. The more we know of what institutional powers are doing, the more we can trust that they are not abusing their authority. We have long known this to be true in government, but we have increasingly ignored it in our fear of terrorism and other modern threats. This is also true for corporate power. Unfortunately, market dynamics will not necessarily force corporations to be transparent; we need laws to do that. The same is true for decentralized power; transparency is how we will differentiate political dissidents from criminal organizations.
There's much more in Schneier's essay, including thoughts on the "security gap", and why the longer-term solution is to reduce power differences by opening up data. It's a really important piece that pulls together many of the big issues that Snowden's leaks have raised. Unusually, it not only offers a compelling analysis of what's wrong, but also some sensible, if broad-brush, thoughts on how to put it right.
Oversight is also critically important, and is another long-understood mechanism for checking power. This can be a combination of things: courts that act as third-party advocates for the rule of law rather than rubber-stamp organizations, legislatures that understand the technologies and how they affect power balances, and vibrant public-sector press and watchdog groups that analyze and debate the actions of those wielding power.
Transparency and oversight give us the confidence to trust institutional powers to fight the bad side of distributed power, while still allowing the good side to flourish. For if we are going to entrust our security to institutional powers, we need to know they will act in our interests and not abuse that power. Otherwise, democracy fails.
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8: Engaging With Communities
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Design tasks for students to complete as part of an email exchange with a classroom in a target country.
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Justine Tyerman writes of cruising Croatia.
Sailing the coast and islands of Croatia is a blissful way to spend a week in winter. After the rigours of driving a rental car across Italy, life on board a boat is stress-free, congenial and relaxing.
There are no parking, navigational or accommodation hassles as your hotel "parks" itself in the prime spot in town every evening. The biggest decisions of the day revolve around whether to swim, read, snooze, chat or just gaze dreamily at the breathtaking landscape as it slips by.
The white limestone of the coast contrasts sharply with the impossibly blue-green waters of the Adriatic Sea. The villages and cities are built of the same startlingly white stone with terracotta-tiled rooves, adding to the natural beauty of the coastline.
We marvelled at the astonishing clarity of the water which is largely due to the barren, rocky terrain and almost total absence of erosion. With hundreds of boats and ships as large as Voyager of the Seas (3840 passengers) plying the Adriatic, one hopes they can maintain such pristine water.
Our vessel, the 34-metre Afrodita could carry 30 passengers. We had only 24 on board - eight of us good friends - so there was ample space to spread out, fore and aft on the two passenger decks.
The weather was gorgeous every day, the sea was mirror-calm and the water temperature delightfully refreshing.
Croatia is blessed with over 1000 off-shore islands, of which we visited six or seven, each vying for top-spot as the most dazzling.
Mljet has a national park with an exquisite 12th century abbey on a tiny island in the middle of a saltwater lake; Hvar, known for its fields of lavender and the oil thereof, gained glory during the Middle Ages as an important Venetian port; Korcula (the birthplace of Marco Polo, locals say) is rich in medieval squares, churches, palaces and the famous Moreska sword dance, the re-enactment of an ancient battle over a beautiful woman; Pucisca boasts a century-old traditional stonemasonry school and the nearby quarry was the source of the pure white limestone used to build the columns of the White House in Washington DC.
Ston, on the mainland, is known for its defensive walls, a remarkable feat of medieval architecture, built to protect its precious saltworks which still operate today. The 1700-year-old city of Split, is famed for the magnificent palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, finished in AD 305, the swanky Riva promenade and many other attractions.
As immersed as we were in the ancient history of Croatia, images of the Srebrenica massacre and the Sarajevo siege were still fresh in our memories and there were many among us who sought to understand the atrocities of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia.
We often sat on the deck with our lovely hostess Nevena (an MA history student from Split) struggling to reconcile the shocking events with the beautiful country we were experiencing. Nevena attempted to explain the conflict by putting it into the context of centuries-old and recent grievances.
The history is incredibly complex but the anger of the Croatians is still fresh and raw today, especially for the people of Dubrovnik. Many maps in the UNESCO-protected Old Town display "damage caused by the aggression on Dubrovnik by the Yugoslav Army, Serbs, Montenegrins, 1991-1992". Pockmarked walls, shell holes and reconstructed buildings were plain to see as we walked around the ancient city wall.
Originally constructed in the 10th century, and fortified in 1453, the wall is three metres thick along the sea front, and six metres thick inland with fortresses at its four corners.
We peered over the high stone wall and glimpsed a strangely incongruous sight - perched on a cliff-face ledge, high above the azure Adriatic, was a tiny cafe/bar. It was like a magnet for us after a hot afternoon of serious sight-seeing. We found our way along the backstreets to the St Stjepan door, walked through the "buza" or hole in the wall and joined 30 or so tourists and locals sipping cocktails, swimming off the rocks, enjoying the cool of the early evening shadow and gazing at the exquisite view of the wooded Locrum Island and far beyond.
Another day, we rode Dubrovnik's brand new cable car to the top of Mt Sdr to take in the spectacular views of the Old Town and coastline, and visit the recently-opened Museum of the Croatian War of Independence which shows how Dubrovnik defended itself during the 1991-95 war. The original cable car - built in 1969 - used to be one of Dubrovnik's greatest attractions but it was completely destroyed during the war and has just been rebuilt, along with the beautiful plain white cross on the crest of Mt Sdr.
We had seven days on the boat and three days in a villa in Dubrovnik but you could happily lose yourself exploring the outer islands for at least a couple of weeks - or more.
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When it comes to grilling, my husband, Ellis, has it down pat. When we first started dating, he wooed me with his impressive stir-frying techniques. He showed off his baking skills with fancy tuna and cheese melts on English muffins, and he taught me how to shuck and eat fresh oysters in their juices, topped with an incredible cocktail sauce he personally makes.
When it comes to grilling, my husband, Ellis, has it down pat. When we first started dating, he wooed me with his impressive stir-frying techniques. He showed off his baking skills with fancy tuna and cheese melts on English muffins, and he taught me how to shuck and eat fresh oysters in their juices, topped with an incredible cocktail sauce he personally makes.
Once we were married and he discovered I had a real passion for cooking, it all stopped except for the grilling. I�m glad he likes to fire up the grill because, frankly, huge flames and I do not mix.
Ellis is a big fan of the Cook�s Illustrated cookbook, �The Best Recipe Grilling & Barbecue.� He has used the book so much it is falling apart and stained with more barbecue sauces than I count on my fingers and toes.
One of my husband�s favorite shows is Steven Raichlen�s PBS show, �Primal Grill.� After he saw the host make Singapore Beef Sates, Ellis decided he�d make them for our Memorial Day cookout. He sure didn�t need to twist my arm on that one.
I found the recipe online and also a recipe for Singapore Cucumber Relish. If you don�t have some of the ingredients in your kitchen, they can be found easily in just about all grocery stores. The recipe does call for rib-eye steaks, but a skirt or flank steak would work as well. As for the cucumber relish, it was such a hit. I used it a couple days later as a stuffing for avocado halves. Both recipes are now in the keeper box and will be made again and again during the grilling season. Try both recipes. All you need is a side dish of rice.
Happy grilling!
1� pounds rib-eye steaks, cut �-inch thick
For the marinade
3 Tbs. light brown sugar
2 Tbs. ground coriander
1 Tbs. ground turmeric
1� tsp. ground cumin
1� tsp. freshly ground black pepper
3 Tbs. Asian fish sauce or soy sauce
3 Tbs. vegetable oil
Items needed: 8-inch bamboo skewers, soaked in water at least 30 minutes before using, and a grill shield or aluminum foil (a 12 by 18-inch sheet folded in thirds like a business letter with shiny side out).
Cut each steak, including fat, into 1-inch strips (each �-inch thick) and place in a nonreactive mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar, coriander, turmeric, cumin, black pepper, fish sauce and vegetable oil. Marinate the beef, covered, in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours and as long as overnight.
Thread the beef strips onto the bamboo skewers, leaving the bottom half of each skewer exposed as a handle and the top �-inch of the skewer exposed as a point. The recipe can be prepared several hours ahead to this stage.
Set up your grill for direct grilling and preheat to high. Brush and oil the grill grate.
Arrange the sates on the grate, sliding the grill shield or folded foil under the exposed part of the skewers to keep them from burning. Grill until cooked to taste, about 30 seconds to 1 minute per side for medium rare, a little longer for medium. This recipe will serve 6 as an appetizer, or 4 as a light main course.
3 small Kirby cucumbers or 1 large regular cucumber cut in half lengthwise and seeded
1 small shallot, or green onion, minced (about 2 tablespoons)
1 small hot red chile, or serano pepper, seeded and minced
2 Tbs. rice vinegar
1 Tbs. sugar
Coarse salt (kosher or sea) and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Cut cucumbers in �-inch dice. Place the cucumbers, shallot, chile, vinegar and sugar in a mixing bowl and gently toss to mix. Add in the salt and pepper to taste. Can be made in advance and refrigerated. Mix again before serving.


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The man in line to be New York's next governor is, in many ways, the accidental governor.
And as David Paterson has done all his life, the legally blind African-American is counting on people to underestimate him.
He will be sworn in Monday, catapulted into the governor's chair after a sex scandal forced Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce on Wednesday that he will resign.
Governor Spitzer rose to national prominence as the scourge of corrupt corporations but was forced from office amid allegations that he had been a longtime client of an international prostitution ring. In announcing his resignation, Spitzer again apologized to his family and the public.
"I'm deeply sorry I did not live up to what was expected of me," Spitzer said in a brief statement Wednesday morning. "To every New Yorker and to all of those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize."
Spitzer's resignation will become effective on Monday. He told reporters that Lieutenant Governor Paterson had asked for that additional time to allow for an orderly transition. As Spitzer ended his political life, he also made it clear he did not intend to disappear from public life.
"As human beings, our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall," he said. "As I leave public life I will do first and foremost what is needed to heal myself and my family and then I will try once again, outside of politics, to serve the common good."
Paterson is the scion of a powerful Harlem family. But his rise to power through New York's sometimes arcane political system is due to his intellect, determination, personable character, and political skills, according to people who have worked with him over the years.
And they're counting on those attributes and skills to bring healing to the state, which has been shocked by the sudden fall from grace of Spitzer. Spitzer had come to Albany just over a year ago priding himself as a "steamroller" determined to reform the moribund state capital. Instead, he alienated lawmakers in both parties and found himself with few if any allies in his current troubles. Paterson, on the other hand, has 20 years of legislative experience and is known and well-liked on both sides of the aisle for his humor and candidness.
"You can see he's a fighter, people have underestimated this guy in the past, but I think he'll prove to be every bit up to the challenge," says state Sen. Martin Golden, a leading Republican. "He knows how this process works, he comes from the city of New York, he grew up hard – his blindness has forced him to overcome lots of obstacles."
Paterson lost most of his sight while only three months old, but he refused to learn Braille, carry a white stick, or use a guide dog. Instead, the young man became the first disabled student at his public school. Using his limited ability to see shapes, he did his best to appear as normal as any other student, according to biographies of him. Depending on recorded books and people to read to him, Paterson graduated with good enough grades to go to Columbia University and then Hofstra University School of Law. While a student there, Paterson could be seen regularly jogging down the Hempstead Turnpike, a six-lane highway with no sidewalks.
"He used to jog five miles on that road every couple of days – and remember he's blind," says Eric Lane, a professor of law at Hofstra, who was one of Paterson's teachers and later worked with him in the legislature. "This is a guy with fabulous fortitude; he's impressive. When he wanted to overcome his disability, he really pushed hard."
After law school, Paterson worked in the Queens, N.Y., district attorney's office, then signed on with former Mayor David Dinkins's campaign. Mayor Dinkins was a close friend of Paterson's father, Basil, a leading African-American politician, former state senator, and New York secretary of State. In 1985, when the seat that his father had held became vacant, Paterson easily won it. In 2002, he became the Senate minority leader.
"In the Senate, where he rose from a freshman senator to minority leader he showed great political skills," says Professor Lane. "He's got a good sense of humor. He knows how to talk to people; he understood what they needed, what they wanted. He's got that combination of good political skills and very impressive fortitude."
But some political analysts wonder whether Paterson will be tough enough to wrestle New York's two major political machines into line. New York political analyst Douglas Muzzio points out that he hasn't yet been in a real position of authority. In New York, that's traditionally been the governor, Senate majority leader, and Assembly speaker.
"As minority leader, he wasn't one of the three men in the room [who dictate Albany's politics] – in fact minority leader is a fairly powerless position," says Mr. Muzzio, who teaches political science at Baruch College. "The question for Paterson now is does he have the focus, the drive, and a focused agenda. And right now, we don't know."
But Paterson's history indicates that he made a study of proving such skeptics wrong. He told The New York Times that when he first became minority leader, he took a lesson from Mario Puzo's book "The Godfather."
"You should have your friends underestimating your strengths and have your adversaries overestimating your weaknesses," he said.
Soon after Spitzer announced that he would resign, Paterson released a statement saying that he was "saddened" by what he'd learned over the past few days. He also asked for all New Yorkers to pray for the Spitzer family. He then made it clear it was time to move on.
"It is now time for Albany to get back to work – as the people of this state expect from us," he said.


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The latest initial weekly jobless claims report is out, and it's a beat.
Claims fell to 346k from from last week's reading of 388k (revised from 385k).
Economists were expecting a reading of 360k.
This was quite a relief as it comes in the wake of last weeks disappointing nonfarm payrolls and jobless claims reports.
It appears that the jump in last week's jobless claims was indeed due to some seasonal factors, and at least some of that increase is being recouped now.
The four-week moving average is sitting at 358k, up slightly from 355k last week.


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by Mark Garcia December 13, 2013
There's a question I'm commonly asked. "Can I just replace the light fixture, and use the old cord?" No, not possible to do, as the cord is not removable from a pool light. I was even asked recently if the epoxy in the bottom of the light could be dug out, the socket replaced, and new epoxy poured back in? Also not possible, or at least not recommended.
So, you need a new pool light? You may be replacing the entire pool light if you have corrosion eating a hole through the lamp fixture body, more common in the very old copper lights, or when the socket or internal cord has shorted out, and the power delivered to the socket is less than it needs to be to light the bulb. Or, you may be changing the complete pool light when you want to upgrade to LED color pool lighting. This is more commonly the reason for replacing the entire underwater lamp.
There are three things to keep in mind - very specific things, so that you buy the correct pool light.
Voltage: Number one is voltage. Most swimming pools in the U.S. are using 120 volt lights (110, 120, 130 - same thing). There are a few places, such as Montgomery county, in Maryland, that are required to use 12V pool lighting. The light fixtures look identical, but you should notice it labeled as a 12V pool light. 12V pool lights also make use of a transformer, in between the breaker box and the junction box. This is a transformer by Intermatic, shown here, which is usually mounted on a wall, near the breaker panel for the pool equipment. The transformer sits in between the breakers and the junction box, for 12V pool light system. Again, most pool lights are systems are 120 volts, but check to be sure.
Cord Length: The second thing to be careful of, is to make sure that you buy a pool light with a cord that is long enough to reach the junction box, plus 3 or 4 feet of cord coiled up inside the niche. The extra cord is important so that you can have enough slack to pull the light up on deck for bulb replacement or other maintenance tasks. Pool lights are commonly available in 15 ft., 30 ft., 50 ft., and 100 ft. cord lengths. Buy the one with a cord length that is longer than you need. The extra pool light cord that you cut off makes a nice extension cord, with a couple of plug ends.
Niche Size: The pool light niche is the bucket turned sideways that the pool light fits into. There is no standard size, and they all vary by an inch or so. Hayward, Pentair, Sta-Rite - they all have different diameter light niches, which fit different sized pool lights. It is possible to get a different sized light to screw into the retaining hole, at 12 o'clock, but if you want a proper fitting pool light, make sure you are replacing the pool light with the same exact pool light. For LED pool lights, Jandy, Pentair and Hayward all make their own LED pool lights, designed to fit their light niches.
CAUTION: this procedure should be performed by a qualified person, working with electrical wiring can be hazardous. You will need to use an electrical test meter to verify that the power is off before opening the junction box. Read all instructions and read all of the precautions that come with your new pool light before attempting to install a pool light.
Step 1: Read the owner's manual for your pool light for specific instructions and precautions. After that, start by turning off the power at the breaker panel for the pool equipment. The pool light breaker is usually a 15 amp GFI, with a test button, but to be sure, shut all of the breakers off. This is a good time to test the GFI test button on the breaker, to be sure that it pops when you push it. If you have to leave the job for a few minutes or a few days, always recheck the breakers before starting work again.
Step 2: With the power off, locate the light junction box - usually directly behind the pool light, off the pool deck, raised about 12 inches above the water level. In cases (like outs) where there is more than one junction box,, and they are both mounted back by the equipment or next to each, you may have to guess at which j-box is the j-box for which pool light. Choose the one that is on the opposite side as the pool lights. That is, when facing the pool, the pool light that is one the right, will run to the j-box on your left, as you turn around to face both junction boxes. But not always :-). A better way to find out is to wiggle and pull the pool light a little, with a helper looking, or feeling for movement made on the other end.
Older pools with underwater lights may have the junction box located beneath the rear of the diving board, and on very old pools, it may be located in the pool deck, beneath a steel plate. If it is located in the pool deck, you may be required to bring to pool lighting up to code, and relocate the junction box to a new and higher location. Remove the junction box lid and unscrew the wire nuts joining the wires from the breaker to the wires from the pool light. Take note that there are two black wires, two white wires and two. If the wires coming from the breaker box are any other color schema than this, be sure to label the ground, the neutral and power lines. Use a test meter to confirm that the power is off before proceeding.
Step 3: Remove the pool light from the light niche and cut the cord just behind the pool light, so that the old lamp is disconnected from the cord. If the pool is drained, inspect visually and close-up where the cord leaves the light niche. If there is a mound of pool putty, or even worse, silicone, you need to remove this first with a flathead screwdriver or other tools. If your pool is not drained, you'll have to inspect for silicone or pool putty by hand or underwater with a mask. If you reach down deep into the niche, you can feel the edge of the conduit connector. You want to feel some movement or play in the cord, inside of the conduit. If you can't move the cord at all side to side or in and out, then you may need to lower the water and remove anything that would prevent you from easily pulling the new cord through out of the niche and into the conduit.
Take the new light and stretch it out, to the other end of the pool, working out the coils, so the cord is relatively straight. Use wire snips to cut off the stripped wires from the end of the new cord. Use a cleaning solution to clean the end of the old cord if necessary, to remove any slimy gunk and dirt. With 3 pieces of 6 inch lengths of duct tape, join the end of the old cord to the end of the new cord, overlapping each piece in the opposite direction of the piece beneath. It's very important to tape the ends together solidly so they won't come apart. You also want the tape joint to be thin, if it's too bulky you may have trouble pulling the cord through the conduit. If your tape connection fails, and you pull out only the old cord, you will need to use a fish tape, pushed from the junction box towards the pool light. Connect the fish tape to the new light, and pull the new cord through. Or you can use this method from the start, if you like.
Step 4: Return to the junction box and remove the saddle clamp that is holding the pool light cord in place. Grab the light cord firmly at the junction box, and pull it straight up. You may need a helper at this point, leaning over the pool, helping to push the new light cord into the conduit, and helping to keep the cord from coiling up again and getting stuck at the point where the conduit connects to the upper rear of the light niche. Keep pulling the cord out of the conduit, and eventually you will pull up the tape joint. Keep pulling until the new cord is all the way pulled through, leaving 3-4 feet of cord, or enough cord in the pool to pull the light up onto the pool deck for future service.
Step 5: Replace the saddle clamp that holds the pool light cord in place at the junction box, and strip the light cord casing down to just above this point with a razor knife. Cut vertically through the sheath, and then around the diameter of the cord, being careful not to cut into the 3 wires. You can gather up and cut off the white insulation material. Using wire strippers, cut the 3 wires to an appropriate length, about 4-6 inches, and then strip off the last half inch or so of insulation. Connect the green wire to the green ground screw, or into the green jumper wire attached to the ground screw, and then wire nut the two other wires, black to black, and white to white. Now you are ready to test your new pool light. Only test it with the lamp submerged in water, it needs the water to cool, or the lens will burst within 1 minutes time. Turn on the breakers and flip the switch.
Make certain that the wire nuts are tightly twisting both bare copper wires of about 1/2" together, and use electrical tape around the open bottom of the wire nut, for extra sealing protection. Twist the wire groups together loosely, and firmly coil them around in a large oval shape and then work the top of the junction box back on.
With the gasket in place, push the lid down firmly so you can get the too tiny screws into the too tiny holes. Use all 4 screws to secure it tightly.
Step 6: Coil up the excess cord around the new pool lamp and insert the lamp into the niche, by first attaching the tab at 6 o'clock, and then tightening the screw at 12 o'clock.
If the pool light does not come on when you test it, open the junction box and check with the test meter probes, one on each the white and one on the black wire. You don't need to remove the wire caps, if you push the leads up into the bottom of the wire nut firmly. If there is power, it may mean that the bulb inside is loose or broken. If your pool starts leaking after you replaced the pool light, you can take a guess that the leak is coming from the conduit, especially if there was a mound of pool putty, or a light cord stopper being used on the old cord.
You don't need to drain the pool water down to replace a pool light, but it can be helpful, otherwise your helper will be getting very wet, helping to push the cable through. Pushing is sometimes as important as pulling to get the new cord through the conduit.
CAUTION: this procedure should be performed by a qualified person, one familiar with working with electricity. You will need to use an electrical test meter to verify that the power is off before opening the junction box. Power must stay off the entire time. Read all instructions and read all of the precautions that come with your new pool light before attempting to replace a pool light.
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The Padres May Never Compete With the Dodgers Financially, But They Are Making Strides
Tuesday November 27th, 2012
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The Padres seem poised to eventually become mild-spenders. For an organization that's highest payroll since 2002 has been roughly $73 million (in 2008), moving up in the spending chain would certainly be good for a change. This transformation could come as soon as 2013 or maybe a few years down the road.
But let's be sure of something—the Padres have a steep hill to climb before they can compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers in terms of financial freedom. This doesn't necessarily mean that they won't be able to compete with the newly labeled 'Yankees' of the West coast, but it surely prevents them from signing talented free agents. The A's and Orioles are a pair of most recent teams to win on a cheaper payroll, while the Rays have been the very definition of that over the past few years.
Padres' new ownership group that features the O'Malley's family and Phil Mickelson, displayed a glimpse of this newly found money when they extended Carlos Quentin and Huston Street to long-term deals. At that point in time, the baseball world was curious why the Padres were actually spending money. It was close to a shock.
Anyway, Quentin's deal spans three years on $27 million, and he will become the Padres' highest paid player. So, nine million per year for a player who would've been highly coveted on this year's free agent market. I'd say that's a wise move. Of course the fact that Quentin wanted to stay in San Diego and his injury issues both played a role in the bargain price. As for Street, the Padres extended him for two more years with an annual salary of $7 million.
Quentin and Street's respective deals are two perfect examples of what the Padres should strive for—smart signings, but avoiding the "cheap" reputation which has hovered over them for the good part of the past decade. Part of these unwise signings that have ravaged their payroll, include Orlando Hudson's two-year, $11.5 million deal that San Diego dished out to him in the winter of 2010. Hudson, who was released in late May, triple slashed for a mere .238/.313/.344 in his two-year stint with the Padres.
Another example of an unwise spending is Jason Bartlett. The Padres signed him to a two-year, $11 million contract in December of 2010. And at that point in time, all signs pointed towards a great acquisition when San Diego acquired him from the Rays, where he hit close to .300 in three years. But he limboed under expectations with the Padres, triple-slashing for .231/.299/.292 with an OPS south of .600. The final touch was the hook, as they released him in late August.
Simply put, those two deals alone set the Padres back significantly. Luckily for them, they weren't too extensive in terms of the amount of years. The difference with the Dodgers in this regard, though, is the fact that they can make these types of mistakes and get away with them because they have breathing room financially. That's one of the benefits of having a $220-plus million payroll that may even reach 250 Million.
And the Padres will soon face more of these payroll changing decisions with Chase Headley, who is coming off of a breakout season.
With Headley, there is a little less of a risk to go long-term. He just presumably entered the prime of his career, and still has plenty of gas left in the tank. However, his National League leading 115 RBIs and 31 home runs in 2012 can attest to what the Padres will owe him this offseason, as he's arbitration eligible for the second time in his career. For reference, last year he made nearly $3.5 million. Next year he should make about eight million. If he repeats his 2012 campaign in 2013, then he should be in line for a massive payday down the road, which might see the Padres formerly trading him if his demands prove to be too steep. With the new owners, they must be willing to keep the best players on the franchise if they wish to compete with the Dodgers and the Pitching heavy Giants.
The Padres still reportedly have some money to spend this offseason, however. Specifically, $20 to $30 million to boot. According to Cot's Contract, their projected 2013 payroll is roughly $93 million. Yes, you read that right—$93 million for the once cheap Padres. Don't expect ownership to pocket that money either.
Dan Haren, Shaun Marcum, and potentially Kelly Johnson all seem like possibilities to land in San Diego this offseason. Out of that trio, though, Haren seems most likely to be wearing a Padres' uniform next season, as both sides seem to be progressing toward a contract. Sure, these three aren't the biggest names in free agency, but it's a step in the right direction.
It could be years before the Padres catch up to the realm of the Dodgers financially. In fact, it may never happen. However, San Diego can't be the cheap Padres anymore in a competitive division. They don't have to be the biggest spenders, but the days of relying on inexperienced players seem and should be over.
(*The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of mlbreports.com*)
Jake Dal Porto is a Baseball Writer with MLB reports and a student from the Bay Area. Jake's favorite sports moment was when the Giants won the World Series back in 2010. He loves to use sabermetrics in his work. He thinks they are the best way to show a player's real success compared to the basic stats such as ERA, RBIs, and Wins. Jake also enjoys interacting and debating with his readers. Follow him on Twitter: Follow @TheJakeMan24
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I sincerely hope that awful letter was not written by a female lawyer. That is all.
Are... you kidding? Those people all fly on chartered planes (not least of which is Air Force One) with private security all at our tax expense. Do you think they EVER have to deal with the TSA? That's only for us low-lifes.
I've seriously done the exact same thing. When I had Facebook, I always preferred to delete my birthday about two weeks prior to make sure that particular "bell" didn't ring. I rarely got any birthday messages at all. (Usually whomever I was dating would say something and I'd get a few follow-ups after that post from confused people saying, "Oh, it's your birthday? I'm so sorry! Why wasn't I notified?")
I'd never done anything quite to this level (repeated "birthdays"), but I have set my birthday to a fake date once and laughed at all the people who posted.
In fact, they may now be pushed to go to much more questionable pharmacy operations since Google will no longer point them to those who had been certified.
US Government Invents New Kind of Legal Trolling: More Shakedowns Expected in Near Future
Of course, as usual, this comports with our Sacred Values -- presumption of guilt (guilty until proven innocent), due process (if you're making a lot of money, you're due to be processed through some expensive trial), the First Amendment freedom of expressing views the government likes, and all that.
This is interesting (at least for the time being, until other commenters are proven correct and the fake-review cottage industry learns how to "beat" this) for humans as well, because it provides some interesting human-applicable strategies for bumping up that 50% (i.e., look for first-person, weight spatial descriptions more heavily, etc.).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this be post-modern art? If I understand my artist g/f correctly, a modernist wouldn't consider this art at all. :)
One more quick thing*:
I've thought a lot about direct democracy, and I do not think it is possible right now. "[I]f you needed to poll the country about making your moves," that would simply increase the value (exponentially) of political advertising and obviously biased "news" networks like Fox for "controlling the message", to use Cheney's sickening term. People are too undereducated and too unskilled at critical thinking right now to handle direct democracy. The masses, as it were, are too easily controlled.
*Supposing I'm capable of such a feat
I also do not think rules will help. Something that's often forgotten in these debates is that these are just real people acting on (what they generally believe to be) someone's best interests, likely their own. Many politicians claim that lobbyists of various stripes are chosen simply because they are the best candidates for the jobs, since they have the most experience. Similarly, the private sector snatches up ex-government officials precisely because they know how the government works relative to their sector.
That may be an excuse, or it may not be. But it's perfectly plausible to believe that, at the very worst, this is how a lot of corrupt people (whether they know they are or not) are justifying the revolving door to themselves. If we made rules against this sort of thing, that is, if we made it illegal to appoint lobbyists to government positions they've lobbied and vice versa, we would do exactly nothing to address the underlying phenomenon. You'd still have Washington flooded with people (lobbyists) who are obviously really knowledgeable on certain issues, experts on them (they have to be), right in front of the government at all times. So when they start looking for experts, who are they most likely to think of? The people they see every day, of course. People who have cozied up to them. People they've worked with and have a rapport with. Same with the private sector: Do you actually think regulations like this will decrease the value of ex-government officials?
One wonders if she avoids working by electric light and shits out the window, too.
Accept it and start buying into the system already, would you?
/at least that's how I read it... :-)
I don't see why an individual or even a company couldn't admit that the patent system is entirely broken -- basically concede every negative claim ever made about it on Techdirt -- and still [buy patents defensively]
It's unfortunate that they can expect most readers to be so uncritical that they would accept a statement like that at face value, without any citation or additional proof.
It's becoming something of a fallacy in its own right, this trope. Perhaps we should name it. The Argument from I Left My Evidence in My Other Coat's Pocket?
TSA Agent 1: "Hmm... whaddya make of that guy?"
TSA Agent 2: "Yeah, he's actin' pretty Muslim. Let's frisk him."
This write-up conflates, perhaps wrongly, the strategic value of a patent for defense and counterattack. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see why an individual or even a company couldn't admit that the patent system is entirely broken -- basically concede every negative claim ever made about it on Techdirt -- and still go after a bunch of other patents just so other people don't buy them and misuse them.
Naturally, this behavior doesn't preclude the possibility that the patents may later change hands and be used against them or someone else. That's just the nature of the broken system, and it's by definition out of their control. (If their strategy is to hang onto the patents to prevent their misuse, then something has almost certainly changed if they relinquish them in this way, whether that's economic incentives, the company dissolving, a court order, whatever.)
By contrast, the incentives to go after particularly bad patents just because they're vague would be deplorable if the idea was to countersue (counterattack) any company that sued you on similar grounds. I think it's important, though, to remember that there are potentially honorable motives at work here. Just because someone buys a defensive patent (which is, yes, by definition, one that should not have been granted) doesn't mean they're supporting the broken system. Quite the opposite could be true.
Why blame companies for damage control when they had no say over the patent being issued and the legal reality of getting it overturned is so bleak? (And, as Techdirt has noted many, many times, it's sometimes easier to settle than to sue.)
Because when my office computer crashes, I can just reboot. When the computer running my car crashes, it just might crash the car too.
No officer, I wasn't texting, I was trying to reboot the self drive CPU!
I was just reading an excellent article last night that, while on a totally different subject, may shine light on the problem and why your solution isn't accepted by most people here. The article is called "Forcing Functions and Mouse Pads", and it explores an issue created by technological enforcement of strong passwords. This creates what experts call a "rearrangement" problem, where users whose memories can't cope with the requirement simply rearrange the problem and write the password down, which is in practice much less safe than even using a very weak password (as their data shows).
In the case of the traffic light cameras, I think a similar pattern emerges, which you may have even hinted at in your scenario. Traffic light cameras are presumably intended to reduce (to use another commenter's phrase) "T-bone" style accidents by disincentivizing drivers attempting to "beat the yellow" and speed through the light. However, this may cause them to overreact to yellow lights (as other commenters, and moreover the above-mentioned studies) have pointed out, in effect rearranging the problem and causing another kind of accident.
The increase in accidents may simply be due to the fact that, as we all are used to this sort of "stupidity" while driving, we anticipate it, thus partially reducing the incidence of the first kind of accident. However, most of us do NOT follow safe prescriptions for following distance, making the latter type of accident more likely, particularly as unexpected behaviors in response to new incentives arise.
We can all agree that there is a lot of bad behavior from drivers, but forcing another kind of bad behavior doesn't make these problems go away.
Law.com defines a felony as, in one sense, "a crime sufficiently serious to be punishable by death."
An interesting reading, indeed...
It's not about Michael Jackson's rights. It's about the rights of his descendants to continue to make money off his success without contributing anything to society.
Reaganomics 101: the "trickle-down" effect. Michael Jackson made lots of money by successfully making lots of things people wanted to consume, and if we leave that money alone, it will trickle down and benefit everyone from his children to his grandchildren to maybe even his great-great-grand-nieces-and-nephews!


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There is an ongoing need to test and ensure effectiveness of personal protective equipment that soldiers use to protect themselves against chemical warfare agents. However, testing using human subjects presents major challenges and current human-size thermal mannequins have limited testing capabilities. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) along with their counterparts from other countries are seeking to develop more human like mannequins, which would include features like human motion, in order to carry out more advanced chemical testing. At the request of DOD Product Director, Test Equipment, Strategy and Support, the National Research Council formed an ad hoc committee to evaluate the feasibility of developing an advanced humanoid robot, or Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (PETMAN) system that meets the DOD requirements. The report concludes that although most of the individual requirements can technically be met, fulfilling all of the requirements is currently not possible. Based on this conclusion the committee recommends that DOD considers three issues, prioritization of current system requirements, use qualified contractor for particular technical aspects, incorporate complementary testing approaches to the PETMAN system.


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Paul Revere is best known as a patriot, and as a gold and silver smith, but he turned his talents to many enterprises including copper plate engraving. His most famous engraving, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street in Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment, is a masterpiece of Revolutionary propaganda, but Revere also engraved bookplates, trade cards, book illustrations, and certificates including this one, which is signed with his entwined initials at the lower right hand corner within the decorative border. The bust at the top of the certificate is of Galen, the second-century Greek physician who had emphasized the importance of human dissection in the study of medicine. The man on the examining table has a halter around his neck indicating that he was an executed criminal and a fit subject for dissection. As the other surviving copy in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society shows, this certificate remained in use after the founding of Harvard Medical School, with the text altered in manuscript to reflect Warren's new status as Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the "University at Cambridge."
Medical education in early America
Prior to the Revolution and the founding of Harvard Medical School in 1783, only two medical schools existed in the American colonies--the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) and King's College (now Columbia University). Although a small number of American physicians studied in London and Edinburgh during the colonial and early national period, most were trained as apprentices to practicing physicians. In addition to the lack of formal academic training for doctors, autopsies and dissections were rare and subject to violent public criticism. It is perhaps because of this public prejudice that few traces of Warren's anatomical lectures exist except for this certificate.
Dr. John Warren and the founding of Harvard Medical School
John Warren was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1753. He graduated from Harvard College in 1771, supported in part by his older brother, Gen. Joseph Warren, a patriot leader who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Dr. John Warren was a member, if not the founder of the "Spunke Club"-a semi-secret organization of Harvard students and graduates who collected animals and, perhaps, cadavers, for anatomical study and dissection. He served as a Continental Army surgeon during the Revolution and was the director of the military hospital at Boston (the American Hospital) when he began his anatomical lectures there in 1780. In addition to helping to found Harvard Medical School, Warren was also a founding member of the Boston Medical Society and the Massachusetts Medical Society.
About Israel Keith
Israel Keith was born in Easton, Massachusetts, in 1751. He also graduated from Harvard College in 1771, and studied law before the Revolution. In 1775, Keith joined the Army, serving as a volunteer aide de camp to George Washington and deputy adjutant general in Boston. After the War, Keith resumed his study of law and was admitted to practice in 1780. During Shays' Rebellion, he was adjutant general of the Massachusetts state forces with the rank of brigadier general. In the 1790s he moved to Pittsford, Vermont, where he developed iron furnaces and continued to practice law until his death in 1819.
Suggestions for further reading
Brigham, Clarence S. Paul Revere's Engravings. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1954.
The John Collins Warren Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society include the manuscripts of four generations of Warren family physicians: Joseph Warren (1741-1775), his brother, John Warren (1753-1815); John's son, John Collins Warren (1778-1856); John Collins's son, Jonathan Mason Warren (1811-1867); and Jonathan Mason's son, John Collins Warren (1842-1927).
Lawson, Brenda. M. "Manuscripts on the History of Medicine at the Massachusetts Historical Society," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Vol. 103). Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1991, 157-190.
Matthews, Albert. "Notes on Early Autopsies and Anatomical Lectures," Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Vol. 19: Transactions, 1916-1917). Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1918, 273-290.
Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts: 1620-1820 (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 57). Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980.
Shipton, Clifford K. Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1768-1771(Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Vol. 17). Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1975, 549-553 (Israel Keith) and 655-669 (John Warren).
Truax, Rhoda. The Doctors Warren of Boston: First Family of Surgery. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.


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