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Against my expectations, there is a perceptive interview in The Guardian today, by Emma Brockes, not a writer I'd previously credited with much independence of thought, with Noam Chomsky. The stated reason for the interview is the Prospect/FP poll in which Chomsky was voted the world's top public intellectual. I have given my views on this result here and in Prospect magazine. In her interview, Ms Brockes never states explicitly the reasons for scepticism, but does give some encouraging hints:
[Chomsky's] conclusions remain controversial: that practically [sic - the 'practically' is not necessary - OK] every US president since the second world war has been guilty of war crimes; that in the overall context of Cambodian history, the Khmer Rouge weren't as bad as everyone makes out; that during the Bosnian war the "massacre" at Srebrenica was probably overstated. (Chomsky uses quotations marks to undermine things he disagrees with and, in print at least, it can come across less as academic than as witheringly teenage; like, Srebrenica was so not a massacre.)
She also notes that Chomsky is accused of 'miring a debate in intellectual spam, what the writer Paul Berman calls his "customary blizzard of obscure sources"' - which is a rather polite way of characterising Chomsky's handling of source material. But most revealing is an extraordinary passage that, despite the carefully hedged terms that Ms Brockes couches it in, merits reproducing at length and ought to be widely publicised:
As some see it, one ill-judged choice of cause was the accusation made by Living Marxism magazine that during the Bosnian war, shots used by ITN of a Serb-run detention camp were faked. The magazine folded after ITN sued, but the controversy flared up again in 2003 when a journalist called Diane Johnstone made similar allegations in a Swedish magazine, Ordfront, taking issue with the official number of victims of the Srebrenica massacre. (She said they were exaggerated.) In the ensuing outcry, Chomsky lent his name to a letter praising Johnstone's "outstanding work". Does he regret signing it?
"No," he says indignantly. "It is outstanding. My only regret is that I didn't do it strongly enough. It may be wrong; but it is very careful and outstanding work."
How, I wonder, can journalism be wrong and still outstanding?
"Look," says Chomsky, "there was a hysterical fanaticism about Bosnia in western culture which was very much like a passionate religious conviction. It was like old-fashioned Stalinism: if you depart a couple of millimetres from the party line, you're a traitor, you're destroyed. It's totally irrational. And Diane Johnstone, whether you like it or not, has done serious, honest work. And in the case of Living Marxism, for a big corporation to put a small newspaper out of business because they think something they reported was false, is outrageous."
They didn't "think" it was false; it was proven to be so in a court of law.
But Chomsky insists that "LM was probably correct" and that, in any case, it is irrelevant. "It had nothing to do with whether LM or Diane Johnstone were right or wrong." It is a question, he says, of freedom of speech. "And if they were wrong, sure; but don't just scream well, if you say you're in favour of that you're in favour of putting Jews in gas chambers."
Eh? Not everyone who disagrees with him is a "fanatic", I say. These are serious, trustworthy people.
"Like who?"
"Like my colleague, Ed Vulliamy."
Vulliamy's reporting for the Guardian from the war in Bosnia won him the international reporter of the year award in 1993 and 1994. He was present when the ITN footage of the Bosnian Serb concentration camp was filmed and supported their case against LM magazine.
"Ed Vulliamy is a very good journalist, but he happened to be caught up in a story which is probably not true."
But Karadic's number two herself [Biljana Plavsic] pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity.
"Well, she certainly did. But if you want critical work on the party line, General Lewis MacKenzie who was the Canadian general in charge [of Unprofor, and later, as discovered by Roy Gutman of Newsday, undertook a speaking tour financed by a pro-Serb lobby group, whose support he did not disclose - OK] has written that most of the stories were complete nonsense."
And so it goes on, Chomsky fairly vibrating with anger at Vulliamy and co's "tantrums" over his questioning of their account of the war. I suggest that if they are having tantrums it's because they have contact with the survivors of Srebrenica and witness the impact of the downplaying of their experiences. He fairly explodes. "That's such a western European position. We are used to having our jackboot on people's necks, so we don't see our victims. I've seen them: go to Laos, go to Haiti, go to El Salvador. You'll see people who are really suffering brutally. This does not give us the right to lie about that suffering." Which is, I imagine, why ITN went to court in the first place.
I'm not usually lost for words on the subject of Chomsky's political opinions, but I have no idea where to begin in commenting on this denigration of the work of honest reporters, whose accounts have been verified even by the war criminals they helped bring to book. I spoke to Ed Vulliamy at some length while the libel case against LM magazine was going on; he was most anxious to convince me (and he did) that the scurrilous accusations and harassment conducted by the magazine fully justified ITN's legal action. This was about the time, incidentally, that LM magazine endorsed the discredited former minister Neil Hamilton in his Tatton constituency in the 1997 general election, and I recall thinking it was a shame that Mr Hamilton had allowed his name and reputation to be exploited in this way.
I don't usually link to essays without comment, but on the general subject of the 'Left revisionists' and their attitude to Serb aggression, this article by Cambridge historian Marko Atiila Hoare is definitive and damning.


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Barely a week goes by in New Zealand without us having to relive the nightmare inflicted on one or other New Zealand toddler by those charged with looking after them.
This is a horrible reality for too many local children, as we all know, and I personally give Paula Bennett credit for at least having the guts to propose something different to what has come before. She has made bold steps in the right direction, and deserves credit for taking on the poisoned chalice of her portfolio, because that's what it is. No-one who is trying to help clean up the mess made in families by sadistic, wrecked human beings can ever get it completely right.
But for most people, including most parents - far from perfect, but striving to make our childrens' lives better - stories of of a toddler's liver and pancreas being split in two by a violent beating are simply the stuff of nightmares. Literal nightmares. I know these things exist and cry when I read about them, but feel utterly powerless to do anything about them. It soon becomes completely another world. I soon start turning the page when I come across these stories, because I can not process the information properly any more. It can not be reasoned away: there is no reason on this earth that any child should have to go through the violence that these kids do. No reason.
Unfortunately there are awful stories about children that creep through this self-imposed filter. They are equally as unjust as anything the beaten children endure but they are the types of things that could happen to anyone's children, whether they are loved and cared for properly or not. They show how capricious life can be and confirm all the cold sweats we put ourselves through as parents when we fret about keeping our children safe.
The first is the awful story out of New York about the nanny who stabbed her two young charges to death before turning the knife on herself. Children from a loving home who, by all accounts, had been well cared for by that nanny for years, with little indication to the family at least that anything was amiss until this horrific, and completely irredeemable tragedy. There is nothing to take from this case in particular, as anyone can have the misfortune of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, when someone flips out. But it really is a scenario that will do little to quell the dormant - or not so dormant - anxieties of parents everywhere who leave their children with outside help for part of the day.
The other back in the headlines this week is the heart-wrenching story about the fire in a Doha mall that claimed the lives of New Zealand triplets Lillie, Jackson and Willsher Weekes. Here, a loving family entrusted their three beautiful children to the care of a daycare centre in a large, suburban mall, thinking like most of us do each day that such an activity is entirely safe. The children perished along with other kids and staff members as a result of mistakes in evacuating them during a fire.
Of course nothing will ever quell the complete and utter devastation these parents must feel at the loss of their children, but there is one thing we can do - as a nation - to try and get the parents a small amount of closure in the matter. The triplets' father Martin Weekes has asked the New Zealand Government, and John Key in particular, to pick up the phone and call country's head of state, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, and ask him to release information the government there has on the tragedy.
I think this is something that all of us can get behind, if only because as parents we would want exactly the same as the Weekes family if the unthinkable was ever to happen to our own children. Set against the vast injustice that the Weekes' have been subjected to, it is a small thing for our Prime Minister to do - and I hope he will.
Barely a week goes by in New Zealand without us having to relive the nightmare inflicted on one or other New Zealand toddler by those charged with looking after them.
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For more than 60 years, 88-year-old Tim Nugent of Champaign, Ill. has been by far the nation's most effective advocate in terms of creating educational and vocational opportunities for people with disabilities. After reading my column the next two weeks, perhaps you will agree
"They had no opportunities for higher education, no sports, no accessibility," began Nugent in a telephone interview while referring to civilians and veterans with physical disabilities after World War II. "And yet these people with disabilities had the same aspirations, interests, talents and skills you and I have. They just had to learn how to do them in a different way. Our task (at the University of Illinois) was to create an environment for them to be able to do things. Today, UI has graduates that are medical doctors, lawyers, senators, professors – every position imaginable."
Beginning in 1948 at UI, Nugent helped establish a number of "firsts" nationally for students with physical disabilities: a competitive college-level adapted sports program (1948); a disability service fraternity (1948); the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (1949); curb cuts for students using wheelchairs (1950); wheelchair accessible buses (1952); national architectural accessibility standards (1961); student study-abroad program (1965); and varsity letters to student-athletes with disabilities (1977).
I could go on, including the recent opening of Nugent Hall, a state-of-the-art accessible IU dorm for students with complex physical disabilities.
But those "firsts" took work. "It's easy to change a doorway, for example, but not so to change people's perceptions and attitudes," said Nugent. "The concept of people with disabilities going into a regular college was very foreign to people in 1948. Some thought people with disabilities shouldn't be out in the public eye."
Besides people using wheelchairs, Nugent and his program embraced all people with disabilities, including those blind and deaf.
He said, "For years, 80 percent of those disabled early in life and applying to UI had never been to regular elementary or secondary school. They were applying in their 30s or 40s and this occurred into the 1970s. You'd be surprised the number of people with disabled children who were ashamed of their child and kept them hidden (and out of school). The attitudes of the schools and parents then was a big negative."
Perhaps Nugent's greatest legacy has been the more than 3,000 Illinois alumni with disabilities working throughout the world.
Nugent has been the nation's premier advocate over the years helping expand opportunities for all Americans with disabilities.
Beginning in 1948, he accomplished a number of national "firsts" at the University of Illinois, including in the '50s of having wheelchair accessible buses and curb cuts and starting a wheelchair basketball association tournament. He helped develop national architectural accessibility standards and the nation's first comprehensive higher education program for people with permanent disabilities.
More than 3,000 UI alumni with disabilities are his greatest legacy. He retired in 1985.
"We had one lady born without legs below the hips," Nugent said of an UI student. "One arm ended at the shoulder; the other at the elbow. So she didn't have hands or fingers. She went through the University, learned to drive her own car, and is teaching today. We also had one boy who was blind with both arms amputated, which meant he couldn't read Braille. He ended up working for the State of Illinois."
He added, "We had one woman, a quadriplegic, who came to UI nonfunctional. I evaluated her. She had fractured her neck in an car accident. Early in college, she had to take three hours each day to get ready for school. Later, she completed her degree, became a Paralympic Games medalist, and drove a convertible. She married, and could make breakfast for her family and get to work by 8:00 a.m."
UI has had other successful alumni with disabilities, including 8-time Boston Marathon winner Jean Driscoll, an executive vice president of the nation's largest agricultural commodities firm, and countless physicians, lawyers, and state and federal office holders.
Though still not ideal, he suggested societal attitudes about people with disabilities have improved dramatically since 1948. "In our early years," he cited as one example, "a father wrote to the president of UI to say his able-bodied daughter was dating one of my wheelchair students. In the letter, the father said, 'I suppose the University is trying to do something for these poor unfortunates, but isn't there something you can do to protect our sons and daughter from these freaks?' The president sent me the letter. It was ridiculous. Some of the most successful marriages are among able-bodied and wheelchair-using people. That (disabled) gentleman ended up being a brilliant student and is a lawyer today."
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Gay pair's shock at Griffin tweets
A gay couple who were allegedly targeted on Twitter by BNP leader Nick Griffin after winning a landmark equality ruling have said they were shocked by his comments.
Police are now watching the home of Michael Black and John Morgan in Brampton, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, after the MEP allegedly published their address on the social networking site and called for a demonstration to be held outside.
The alleged tweets, under the username @nickgriffinmep, followed Mr Black and his 59-year-old partner's win against the owner of bed and breakfast accommodation who refused to let them stay in a double room because of her religious views.
One of the complained tweets read: "So Messrs Black & Morgan, at (their address). A British Justice team will come up to Huntington & give you a..." "...bit of drama by way of reminding you that an English couple's home is their castle. Say No to heterophobia!"
Twitter users trying to access Mr Griffin's account were subsequently told it had been suspended. The couple have hit back with Mr Black, 64, an exams consultant and writer, calling the politician an "idiot".
He told BBC Breakfast: "I think Nick Griffin has got very little support in the country. Certainly the public response to the incident, when it happened two and a half years ago, and again in the last 24 hours, has been overwhelmingly in support of our stand against discrimination so hopefully that will mean the vast majority of the people in the country will just see what an idiot Nick Griffin is and reject his views."
The couple sought damages from Susanne Wilkinson after she refused them the room at the Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Cookham, Berkshire, in March 2010 despite them having made a reservation and paid a deposit. A court found Mr Black and Mr Morgan, a computer consultant, were discriminated against and awarded them each £1,800 which the men said would be donated to charity.
Mr Black spoke of his reaction to the tweets, saying: "We were shocked to hear about it and the more we read about it the more incoherent they seemed. So we don't really know what Nick Griffin is getting at."
Reacting to the alleged encouragement of people to protest outside their home, Mr Morgan said they had not been there "but the local police are keeping their eye on the property".
Mrs Wilkinson, a married mother of four, considered that providing a double bed to the couple, who are not in a civil partnership, would involve her in promoting what she believed to be a sin, namely sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage, the court heard.


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Last week's geomagnetic storm produced some wild photos of aurora borealis, otherwise known as the Northern Lights. Thankfully Flickr users were on hand to shoot the effects of the sun's expelled plasma, like this one seen here.
This particular photo, shot by Shawn Malone from LakeSuperiorPhoto.com, shows the aurora borealis over the Lake Superior in Marquette, Michigan. My absolute favorite though is Ian Diamond's, who was out shooting in Quebec, Canada.
The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Ahead telescope at NASA shot an impressive HD video of the sun's ejection of plasma, which chucks 10 billion tons of the charged gas into the atmosphere. Over the course of three and a half days, the gas soared the 93 million miles from the sun to the Earth, resulting in some amazing affects only seen by those living in the Northern parts of the world. [National Geographic via Boing Boing]
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Yesterday we brought you the news of a new Body Glove case for the upcoming Sprint ATIV S Neo from Samsung that was appearing in Sprint stores. While in and of itself that news is not exciting, it did hint that an official release of the phone was close.
Today, things are moving even more as Samsung has listed the phone on their official site with the full specifications. As far as we know (and we could be wrong), this device page is new and it does confirm a few lingering questions. For one, the ATIV S Neo does have 16GB of internal storage and not 8GB as reported earlier. Combined with the up-to 64GB of expandable storage, the Neo should satisfy most users.
However, a small potential area for a letdown is in the display. According to Samsung's specs, the ATIV S Neo will only use TFT (thin-film-transistor) LCD screen technology instead of HD Super AMOLED, which is found on the ATIV S proper. That's not necessarily a terrible thing but TFT doesn't have nearly as good outdoor performance as HD Super AMOLED. (Interestingly, even a Samsung video demonstration points out the superiority of AMOLED over TFT).
Other than that, the specifications for the ATIV S Neo look to be what we've expected: 1.4GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, 4.8-inch 1280x720 display with a replaceable 2000 mAh battery (rated for 15 hours talk time).
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Google found themselves in the center of another PR quagmire this week, when the WSJ reported they'd been caught circumventing user settings in both the OS X and iOS versions of the Safari browser. The search giant used a bit of code to "trick" Safari into thinking users had interacted with Google by submitting a form, which allowed Google to set a tracking cookie.
Google responded to the WSJ's article by saying it "mischaracterizes what happened and why." In a sense, that's true. Google doesn't get off the hook for using an invisible web form to trick Safari. However, there's a lot more to the issue of user privacy settings workarounds and cookies. The bigger picture is one that users and marketers alike should be aware of and keeping an eye on.
The "quirk" that contributed to the perhaps unexpectedly larger scope of the Google tracking cookie in Safari problem is the result of a Safari bug fix back in March 2010. At that time, there was no Facebook Open Graph; no Google Plus network. No one knew Google would one day amalgamate data across all their services by merging them all under one privacy policy.
On the open web, he who owns the data rules the advertising world.
How Google's Tracking Cookie Went Rogue within Safari
In much the same way as those cute, furry Tribbles who took over the Enterprise, advertisers seem relatively harmless. People just don't seem to realize how deeply they are infiltrating our personal lives until it seems like they're everywhere.
While you could argue that ads are annoying and bothersome – and some do, hence the need for ad blockers – targeting also helps improve the user experience by bringing more relevant information to users. People interact with brands on Facebook and Google+ because they choose to. Many expect a certain level of interaction and personalization; this requires tracking.
Like it or not, advertising isn't going away. As search marketers, we're constantly trying to find the right balance, to say, "Here we are!" without pushing it too far and driving people away. The same people who complain about ads and then buy from the stores they've become familiar with through advertising are the ones who would complain about celebrities being hounded by photogs, then buy a tabloid magazine. You just can't have it both ways.
According to their published statements, Google's intent was to determine whether Safari users were signed in to Google. Safari, unlike most other browsers, blocks third-party cookies by default. As an aside, IE does the same, but using a different mechanism: in Internet Explorer, getting around user settings is even easier, from a technical standpoint. Microsoft discovered Google and Facebook have also been circumventing their browser settings, though due to the ineffectiveness of a system called P3P. You can learn more about that here.
Google wanted to determine whether Safari users were signed in to Google because signed in users may have opted for personalized search, which requires tracking to ascertain their interests. The workaround Google used to do this isn't new; in fact, it was first blogged about by developer Anant Garg in 2010. The other companies "caught" in the WSJ article were also using variations of this technique.
The third party cookie set by Google had a life span, as cookies do; after 12 to 24 hours, it was to die off and stop tracking. According to the WSJ, "…it could sometimes result in extensive tracking of Safari users. This is because of a technical quirk in Safari that allows companies to easily add more cookies to a user's computer once the company has installed at least one cookie."
And so began the trouble with Tribbles.
Safari's "Technical Quirk" a Systemic and Pervasive Balancing Act for Browsers
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In March 2010, Apple was working on a Safari fix. In the bug's documentation, Apple software engineer Brady Eidson described the purpose of the fix: "Currently the default WebKit + CFNetwork 3rd party cookie policy prevents any changes to non-1st party cookies. This is to prevent undesirable user tracking from 3rd parties. We should relax this policy a tad to allow setting 3rd party cookies when the 3rd party in question already has a cookie set. This shouldn't actually open up any new tracking vectors but will fix certain real world compatibility issues."
Further on in the documentation, Apple engineers and others discuss the potential side effects of changing the third-party cookie policy. The problem was that users were experiencing reduced functionality, specifically in relation to Facebook and Windows Live, because Safari wouldn't accept their third-party cookies. This meant the browser wouldn't remember events like the user signing in, so they were logged out on each subsequent visit; there was some loss of ease of usability.
Essentially, Apple engineers were trying to make Safari work as seamlessly as IE, Firefox, and Opera in this regard. Safari wouldn't recognize that a user had interacted with Facebook by signing in because it blocked the third-party cookie by default, so when the user then visited a Facebook-connected site, Safari didn't know they'd interacted already with Facebook. Because of how the other browsers work, users expected Safari to work in the same way.
However, browsers can't selectively choose or cherrypick to which websites or companies this functionality would apply. If your browser interprets one interaction as a signal that all cookies from that entity be accepted, that applies for all entities. As long as the user accepts that first cookie, regardless of how it got thereor even whether they understand they accepted it, the others are allowed by default.
This issue isn't unique to Apple. Browsers must constantly balance usability and functionality with privacy and security. The issues are conflicting; you could lock the browser down tightly, but it could "break" features and make the user experience miserable.
The browser market is also competitive. No one player owns the space. As of January 2012, five browsers split the majority of the market: Mozilla's Firefox 37.1 percent Google Chrome 35.3 percent Internet Explorer 20.1 percent Safari 4.3 percent Opera 2.4 percent
Apple made the decision in 2010 to change the way Safari accepted third-party cookies to improve usability by allowing all cookies from a website after the user had accepted one. This improved functionality sacrificed some privacy; there was really no clear way for the average user to know that when they clicked the Like button, for example, they were actually making Facebook a first party as far as cookies go. This meant they had chosen to allow cookies that would track them around the web, across any Facebook or Facebook-connected property. With that came the increased compatibility and usability, which Apple engineers decided users would prefer (and I don't fault them for making that decision).
We asked Apple which departments were consulted in this decision making process, but hadn't heard back by press time. We will update you if we do.
Instead of just telling Google whether the Safari user was signed in to Google, Safari's quirk meant the user had inadvertently opened the door to cookies sending information on every Google property they visited.
In 2010, though, there was no Google+. There was no +1 button. This is an incredibly important distinction, especially in light of Google's plan to amalgamate their privacy policies and pool data across all services.
What Is Really at Stake? Just a Few Tens of Billions of Dollars
A second Apple software engineer points to an important concern: "By the way, it may be that the weakened third-party cookie blocking is too weak to have at all. I do think it would typically stop, say, doubleclick.net from tracking you (assuming we fix the Flash loophole), but not sites that most users also interact with as a first party, such as google.com of [sic] facebook.com. That's more or less the same as the current default policy, though."
At that time, though, who could have predicted that Facebook's Open Graph might mean a user's interaction with one site implies permission for cookies and therefore tracking across hundreds?
Who could have predicted that Google would start a social network with a +1 social plugin of their own, meaning interaction with that element could imply permission for cookies and tracking across millions of sites within the Google ad network? Could activating a +1 button on your website to help increase social presence result in site visitors unwittingly giving permission to be tracked across millions of sites using the plugin? Does searching for information on Google imply permission for them to set cookies on all Google network sites you visit in the next 24 hours?
U.S. online advertising spend is expected to top $39.5 billion this year, according to eMarketer. Some of the same companies operating the web browsers constantly trying to balance compatibility, usability, privacy and security also stand to gain a bigger piece of that pie through their advertising businesses if they master data tracking.
Right now, browsers have their work cut our for them in shaping the user experience while trying to accommodate privacy expectations. Advertising companies are largely unpoliced and working on a sort of honour system. Tools designed to assist users in protecting their privacy just aren't working.
The trouble with Tribbles is that they appear relatively harmless, but no one had any idea how fast they would reproduce. They entered the Enterprise's systems, interfering with essential functions and eating up everything in sight. Their appetites were insatiable, much the same as advertisers' appetites for data.
No one saw the threat Tribbles posed until they had taken over. They see privacy watchdogs as Klingons, threatening the way of life of the seemingly harmless Tribbles. However, all of these groups are going to have to work together to find a better balance between privacy and the data collection required to offer the user experience people have come to expect.
This also means the big players in the browser world are going to have to stop pretending the other guys are the problemand come to grips with the fact that there is an industry-wide problem. Everyone is working within the same limitations.
My next article will look at initiatives and debates happening now that will define first and third parties as far as user tracking goes. New privacy standards will shape not only the privacy landscape, but the online advertising space as a result.
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Earning the Eagle Scout Award is something to write home about — literally.
Politicians, astronauts, celebrities, and other recognizable figures have been sending hand-signed letters to new Eagle Scouts for, well, 100-plus years.
The very first congratulatory letter was sent in 1912 when the first Eagle Scout, Arthur R. Eldred, received a note from James E. West, the first Chief Scout Executive.
Today, parents and Scout leaders can request these scrapbook-worthy keepsakes from pretty much anyone with a mailbox.
But who is known to respond, and how do you contact them? And when do you send off these requests anyway?
To help, I searched the Internet and consulted a source closer to home — my dad, who sent away for letters when I received my Eagle.
When to request Eagle Scout letters
The basic rule is ASAP, my dad says.
After a boy completes his board of review, he's officially an Eagle Scout. But most boys don't have their Eagle court of honor until weeks or months later, so that's your window for requesting and receiving letters.
My board of review was in March, but my court of honor wasn't until late April, so my parents had time to collect letters to include in the scrapbook displayed at my ceremony.
Of course, any letters you don't get by the ceremony date can still be added to the boy's Eagle Scout scrapbook later.
Whom to ask for letters
- City and county officials: Your mayor, city council officials, school board president, superintendent, parks and recreation director
- Religious leaders
- State officials: The governor, your area's state legislators
- Business leaders: CEOs and executives at major corporations based in your city
- U.S. officials: The president, cabinet members, senators, representatives, military leaders, department heads
- Past presidents or elected officials no longer in office
- Prominent national people: astronauts, athletes, filmmakers, actors, and famous Eagle Scouts like Mike Rowe or Steven Spielberg
- Anyone who means something to your Eagle Scout: Get creative! Does he have a favorite author, athlete, musician, or actor? Try to track down that person's contact information. The letter may go unanswered, but it only costs you 49 cents to try.
Where to find addresses
Rather than reinventing the wheel and posting addresses here, I'll just link to this excellent resource from the U.S. Scouting Service Project.
For addresses not listed there, find the appropriate Web site and look for the "Contact Us" link — usually at the top of the page or at the very bottom.
Some entities, such as NASA or the U.S. Army, allow you to submit request online. Many of those links are at the U.S. Scouting Service Project, as well.
Try local first
NEW: In mid-February 2013, I received this note from Todd Reid, state director for the office of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Reid saw my blog and had this to say:
Just a note on how it works best for our office, which may be representative of most members of Congress.
Requests are best sent to local in-state offices, not the Washington office. Mail sent to the US Capitol undergoes a lengthy security screening that can take up to three weeks from the time the letter arrives in DC until it is delivered to our office. Letters sent directly to our in-state offices go thru their own security screening process, but because the volume of mail is much less, the process moves much faster.
Senator Rubio is always glad to acknowledge the Scout's achievement, and we are honored that their friends, leaders and loved ones invite us to participate in a small way in the Scout's Eagle Court of Honor.
Thanks for the insight, Mr. Reid.
What to include
The U.S. Scouting Service Project recommends including the Scout's full name, troop number, council, and a short description of his Eagle Scout service project. For best results, address it to a specific person, not an organization.
Including a self-addressed stamped envelope makes it that much easier to get a response.
Final thoughts
Go for quality over quantity. Think about it: Would your Eagle Scout prefer four or five letters from people that are important to him or three dozen mainly from people he's never heard of?
Plus, as the U.S. Scouting Service Project notes, keeping the total number of requests from new Eagles to a manageable size may prevent someone from refusing to accept requests altogether.
What do you think?
Who have you successfully heard back from that isn't listed here? Post their addresses below.
What are your tips for getting congratulatory letters? Help others by sharing your thoughts below.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--The Birmingham-Southern softball team lost two games at home to Berry, Tuesday evening at BSC Softball Park in the Panthers' last home games of the season. With the 4-3 and 3-0 wins, the Vikings win the series, 3-1.
BSC falls to 23-13 overall and 14-6 in the Southern Athletic Association, dropping to third place in the standings, while the Vikings solidify their conference lead with an overall 25-9 record and a 17-5 mark in league play.
Today's games were originally scheduled for Sunday, but were rescheduled due to rain. It was Senior Day for BSC, with Brittany Berkopec, Chelsea Fernandez, and Danielle Rucker being honored in pregame festivities.
Berry scored its first run of the first game in the top of the fourth inning on an RBI single from Abbey Daniels, and the Panthers tied it up in the bottom of the frame, scoring on an error by the Vikings on a play at home plate. Berry took back the lead in the top of the sixth on another Daniels RBI, and then scored twice in the top of the seventh on a two-run triple by Sara Vigue to go up 4-1.
In the bottom of the seventh, with one out, the Panthers scored on an RBI from senior Brittany Berkopec. The Vikings intentionally walked sophomore Taylor Bassett, who is ranked second in the nation with 14 home runs, to load the bases, and sophomore Alyssa Statham hit an infield RBI single to cut the lead to 4-3. BSC wasn't able to score again, however, and the Vikings came away with the one-run victory.
BSC had five hits, led by sophomore Joanna Jernigan who was 2-3. Sophomore Bethany Fronk threw the complete game, falling to 18-10 on the season after giving up 10 hits and four earned runs with two strikeouts.
Berry pitcher Allison Coronado also went the whole game, allowing five hits and two earned runs with four strikeouts. Three different Vikings all went 2-4 at the plate.
In game two, Berry got off to a quick start, scoring in the top of the first after a Panther error. The bats went silent after that, though, until the top of the sixth when Daniels singled to bring in yet another RBI and a pinch-hit sac-fly by Natalie Boyd put Berry up 3-0. The Panthers were unable to score in the final two innings, with Berry lessening their chances by turning a double play in the bottom of the seventh for the first two outs, and the Vikings got the shutout win.
Berry hurler Caillee Shamoun threw all seven innings and gave up only two hits (recorded by Fronk and sophomore Elizabeth Ballew). Kristen Stoll and Lacey Herring were 2-4 at the plate for the Vikings.
Freshman Deanna Creps pitched the complete game for BSC, falling to 5-3 on the year. She allowed eight hits and two earned runs with two strikeouts.
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Power packed enhancements for Adobe Presenter Video Creator!
Today we released a new update for Adobe Presenter. Along with some bug fixes we have packed it with some exciting new enhancements and features for Video Creator.
Here are the new enhancements for Video Creator in Adobe Presenter 8.0.1:
- Audio waveform on the timeline: Now the Presenter Video Creator displays the audio waveform on the timeline. This will allow you to easily identify extra silence in the video and trim unwanted video portion.
- Direct upload to Vimeo: Now along with the upload option to YouTube and Connect, you have a direct publish and upload option to Vimeo.
- Delete button for Pan/Zoom: In the previous version, if you had to delete a Pan or Zoom area, you could do it by pressing the Delete key on the keyboard. But it was not intuitive for the new users, so to make it discoverable and convenient for the new users, we've added a Delete button for Pan & Zoom.
- Single step undo: Now you can easily undo the last step by pressing Ctrl+Z keys. It is a toggle action which allows you to undo and redo the last step.
- Pause during recording: Now you can pause recording the video and then resume it whenever you are ready to record additional video. This is very useful when you have a longer video to record and need to take a break in between recording the video, or there's an interruption during recording and you don't want to redo the portion you have already recorded.
Want to learn more about these enhancements? Here's a short video on how to install Adobe Presenter 8.0.1 update and how to use these features while recording, editing, and publishing videos.


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Symphysis pubic pain during pregnancy commonly makes sleeping, going up and down the stairs, and getting into and out of the car very difficult and painful. Many women suffer with this discomfort during their pregnancies especially as they approach the later months and the baby puts more pressure on this area. Typically, the symphysis pubis joint, located in the front central region of the pelvis, is very stable. However, pregnancy causes changes in hormones that make this joint more flexible in preparation for the growing baby and labor and delivery. Because pregnant women typically avoid taking medication during pregnancy, they may not know about natural ways to get rid of this pain.
Sciatica leg pain is a common complaint in pregnant women. Sciatica commonly interferes with the ability to walk and sleep. But it doesn't have to be something that a pregnant woman has to deal with throughout pregnancy. There is a natural way to get pain relief. This painful problem can often times be relieved by a chiropractor who uses the Webster Technique.
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'Berg Featured in the Princeton Review Book, "The Best 378 Colleges" - 2014 EditionMuhlenberg College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 01:55 PM
Muhlenberg College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review – and the department of theatre and dance continues to be a nationally top-ranked leader in the discipline, ranking eleventh in the country.
The education services company features the school in the new 2014 edition of its annual college guide, "The Best 378 Colleges" (Random House / Princeton Review, $23.99, August 6, 2013).
Only about 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and only four colleges outside the U.S.A. are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in the book in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of 126,000 students attending the colleges.
In its profile on Muhlenberg, The Princeton Review praises it for its "friendly, tight-knit community" and quotes extensively from students the Company surveyed for the book. Among their comments: "students fit in very well with all types of groups since our school is so accepting;" the College "definitely offers a rich amount of courses that will prepare you for your future and open your mind to possibilities;" and it has "many resources to help you with a variety of situations that may arise." Professors are regarded as approachable which "provides for an engaging classroom environment that lets students push past the direct facts of the material and learn more about what the material means for the world."
The Princeton Review's school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 378 Colleges" are posted at PrincetonReview.com.
"The Best 378 Colleges" is the 22nd edition of The Princeton Review's annual "Best Colleges" book. It is one of 150 Princeton Review books published by Random House in a line that also includes test-prep guides for the ACT, SAT, SAT Subject Tests, and AP exams, plus "The Complete Book of Colleges," and "Paying for College Without Going Broke."
The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is an education services company known for its test-prep courses, tutoring, books, and other student resources. Headquartered in Framingham, Mass., the Company is not affiliated with Princeton University.
Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is a private, highly selective, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.


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New Anno? Can't wait!
I saw via RPS yesterday, there's a new Anno game on the way and it's set in the future of 2070 instead of the past. There's not too much detail yet. Going to the Anno page and clicking on the game's link gives a page cannot be found error which is disappointing but the kind of sloppiness I've come to expect from Ubisoft. Publisher concerns aside, I love this series of city building games and I'm looking forward to a modern/future setting.


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Last night these are what I delivered
They don't look like much now because I just planted them last night, but they are lily of the valley plants. My friends Kamiko and Jill both love lily of the valley so when I saw lily of the valley starts at the store the other day I had to buy them and last night while Larry was working was the perfect opportunity to deliver them. Here's a picture of Kamiko with hers.


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How a Cartel Dominated a Mexican Town
(TEPALCATEPEC, Mexico) -- A video published recently on YouTube provides a chilling account of how organized crime has evolved in Mexico. And it's getting a lot of play in the media, given the recent surge of violence in the western state of Michoacan.
In the video, a local doctor narrates the recent history of Tepalcatepec, a town in the Michoacan lowlands that has been hounded by drug cartels for the past 12 years.
The doctor, Jose Manuel Mireles, is now a member of a self-defense squad that has taken up arms to defend the town. He says that, initially, cartels in the region just fought each other over drug smuggling routes, and left civilians to their own devices.
That changed about four years ago, when a cartel called the Knights Templar won the local drug war, and forced smaller drug dealers to flee from the area.
The Knights Templar achieved territorial control, but found that with local drug dealers gone, it was difficult to run the drug business on their own. So they turned to taxing local businesses.
"Cattle ranchers had to pay 1,000 pesos [$80] for every cow they sold. And butchers had to pay 15 pesos [$1] for every kilo of beef they sold," Mireles recalls in the video.
"There were families that had to pay between ten to 20 thousand pesos per month, and we were also told to pay 500 pesos for every car we owned. Even children, from kindergarten to high school, had to pay 20 pesos every Monday."
Mireles said that local law enforcement officers didn't do anything to stop such abuses, because they were possibly allied with the cartel. But he said that the local population still found ways to endure the cartel's squeeze on the local economy.
"The cattle rancher and the butcher would simply raise the prices of their goods; they never lost out," Mireles said.
According to this doctor, armed rebellion against the Knights Templar cartel only began when this group started to rape local children, and abduct peoples' wives.
"The problem exploded when they began to come to our home, and tell us things like, 'I like your wife, I'll bring her back in a while...and while I'm gone, give your daughter a shower because she'll have to spend a few days with me, too."
Mireles said the reign of terror drove residents to action. The cartels would target the wealthy as well as the poor.
"That was what sparked the problems in Tepalcatepec. Because just as they'd approach a poor family, they'd also do the same to the richest cattle ranchers," Mireles says in the video.
Michoacan has been in the media spotlight since February, when several towns in the state took up arms and formed vigilante groups to defend themselves against cartels.
Local media was all over the story, calling on the Mexican government to do something to stop "anarchy" in this part of the country.
The government of Mexico responded by sending some 2,500 soldiers into the state. They've occupied Tepalcatepec and some surrounding towns, and gotten self-defense groups to agree to put their weapons away while the army is around.
But Mireles claims that this military surge has not been ambitious enough, with soldiers only occupying towns where the self-defense groups have already expelled cartels.
In his YouTube video, Mireles claims that Mexican soldiers are doing nothing to root out criminals that still dominate nearby towns.
"We've told the soldiers thousands of times, 'Look, the Knights Templar are in Apatzingan and Aguililla, why don't you go get them?" Mireles said. "And they tell us that their mission is only to protect our town."
"I think that they sent the soldiers here to take our weapons away," Mireles opined. "But not to defend us from those who've been attacking this area for the past 12 years."
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Residual Data on Used Equipment
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Used hard drives are frequently a good source of images for testing forensic tools. That's because many individuals, companies and organizations neglect to properly sanitize their hard drives before they are sold on the secondary market.
You can find used hard drives on eBay, at swap meets, yard sales, and even on the street.
Newsworthy Used Hard Drive Stories
There have been several incidents in which individual have purchased a large number of hard drives and written about what they have found. This web page is an attempt to catalog all of those stories in chronological order.
- 2003-01: Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat at MIT publish a study in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine which documents large amount of personal and business-sensitive information found on 150 drives purchased on the secondary market.
- 2006-06: A man buys a family's hard drive at a fleamarket in Chicago after the family's hard drive is upgraded by Best Buy. Apparently somebody at Best Buy violated company policy and instead of destroying the hard drive, they sold it. Target 5 Investigation
- 2006-08-10: The University of Glamorgan in Wales purchased 317 used hard drives from the UK, Australia, Germany, and the US. 25% of the 200 drives purchased from the UK market had been completely wiped. 40% of the purchased drives didn't work. 40% came from businesses, of which 23% contained enough information to identify the company. 5% had business sensitive information. 25% came from individuals, of which many had pornography, and 2 had to be referred to the police for suspected child pornography.
- 2006-08-14: BBC News reports on bank account information recovered from used PC hard drives and being sold in Nigeria for £20 each. The PCs had apparently come from recycling points run by UK town councils that are then "recycled" by being sent to Africa.
- 2006-08-15: Simson Garfinkel presents results of a study of 1000 hard drives (750 working) at the 2006 Workshop on Digital Forensics. Results of the study show that information can be correlated across hard drives using Garfinkel's Cross Drive Analysis approach.
- 2007-02-06: Fulcrum Inquiry, a Los Angeles litigation support firm, purchased 70 used hard drives from 14 firms and discovered confidential information on 2/3rds of the drives.
- 2007-08-30: Bill Ries-Kinght, an IT consultant, purchases a 120GB Seagate hard drive on eBay for $69. Although the drive was advertised as being new, it apparently was previously used by the campaign of Mike Beebe, who won the Arkansas state governorship in November 2006. "Among the files were documents listing the private cell phone numbers of political allies, including US Senators Blanch Lincoln and Mark Pryor and US Representatives Marion Berry, Mike Ross and Vic Snyder. It also included talking points to guide the candidate as he called influential people whose support he sought," states an article published in The Register.


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Human-trafficking cases filed in San Diego federal court have jumped more than 600 percent in the past five years as the victimization of children and adults for sex or labor has gained a bigger spotlight, law-enforcement officials said Friday at a regional conference on the topic.
One of those cases began when a San Diego teenager found a job as a bookkeeper for a small, home-based business. The position quickly turned into a nine-month nightmare of beatings and sexual slavery. Within weeks, the employer revealed himself as a pimp, beat the teen and set a $1,200 daily quota for her prostitution. The victim was 17 at the time.
On Friday, she shared her story at the American Bar Association's daylong conference at the University of San Diego. The pimp was arrested as part of a law-enforcement investigation, and he is serving 30 years in prison.
The survivor, now 20, asked not to be named for this story. But she decided to speak at the event because "how else are people going to know what is happening here in our community?" More than 175 attorneys, advocates, educators and doctors attended her session and others.
U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said the huge increase in federal prosecutions — from a couple five years ago to dozens now — is expected to rise further as special units in her office, local and federal law-enforcement agencies, nongovernmental groups and educators focus on trafficking.
Nationally, the Department of Justice has seen its number of trafficking cases increase 30 percent in the past three years, she said.
Paralleling the growth in enforcement has been the rising amount of money spent on creating public awareness of the crime and helping victims. The combined efforts are aimed at curtailing what has become the second-most lucrative criminal endeavor in the world.
Friday's conference, the first of its kind in San Diego County, is evidence of the greater attention paid to the issue in the past year. Grassroots campaigns against human trafficking received a significant boost with President Barack Obama's speech in September and his executive order requiring stricter hiring guidelines, increased training and other efforts.
Experts said there is actually more labor trafficking in the United States than sex trafficking, but that it is harder to prosecute because victims are mostly migrant men who are reluctant to report the abuse. Sex-trafficking victims, usually thought to be foreign, are predominantly U.S. girls.
"Human trafficking is not isolated to third world countries. It's prevalent all across the globe, it's prevalent in our own borders," Duffy said. "All ages and all ethnicities are being victimized."
Americans make up 72 percent of human-trafficking victims, according to a report released last year by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Duffy said the victims have gotten younger in recent years; the typical age of a new victim is now 12 to 14.
The affected children are not all runaways or kids from broken homes. Gangs have moved into the trafficking business because they see the selling of girls as a recyclable, highly lucrative and low-risk product.
Teenagers — mostly girls — are recruited by classmates, pimps and boyfriends who may be gang members with promises of love, glamour and money. Once in the grip of a gang, the victims are often branded, beaten and humiliated to maintain control over them, as prosecutors revealed last year in the take-down of an Oceanside gang prostitution ring that landed dozens of men in jail.
Human trafficking also has changed with the use of technology to recruit and advertise, said Travis Le Blanc, special assistant attorney general of California.
Traffickers seek vulnerable girls and boys by trolling the Internet, especially Facebook, looking for kids who appear bored, sad, lonely or neglected. They cruise malls during school hours to chat up youngsters who did not go to class and lurk around homes for foster children, centers for at-risk children and classrooms with special-needs students.
"It's all lifestyles, we've seen it in all facets," said George Crysler, a deputy sheriff who is part of the North County Human Trafficking Task Force.
Foster children are most at risk but it can happen to anyone, said Sharon Cooper, an adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School.
"Traffickers are very, very wily in the way they locate victims," said Cooper, who was a speaker at the conference.
Parents and other guardians often do not know what is going on until it is too late. Their teen has become isolated and angry, has skipped school, has been staying away all night and has possibly threatened to run away, Cooper said. She encouraged parents to call the National Missing and Exploited Children's hotline if their child runs away.
Because sex trafficking often involves minors, educators are critical partners for law enforcement, social-service organizations and nonprofit groups working on trafficking issues, said Jeneé Littrell, vice principal at Chaparral High School in the Grossmont Union High School District. In the education field, she is a pioneer in addressing commercial sex exploitation of children and is developing a guide for the U.S. Department of Education that can be rolled out to school districts nationwide.
"I can't think of a school district in San Diego that has not been touched by this, including some of the private and elite schools," she said. "Schools have to be ahead of the curve."
Littrell said Grossmont Union has been proactive on the issue and has tracked numerous student victims — who have experienced anything from one coerced sexual interaction to ongoing trafficking — and worked to "wrap them" in support services. The district has created an infrastructure that includes a partnership with local law enforcement, social-service agencies and nongovernmental groups.
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Guinane has extensive experience at the corporate vice president and vice president levels at health care systems in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Colorado. From steering system-wide quality improvement initiatives and introducing/expanding orthopedic service lines, to leading the charge on opening a multi-million dollar ambulatory surgery center, Guinane has extensive experience with demonstrated successes. She served as vice president at one of six hospitals in the country to adopt quality improvement strategies as implemented in manufacturing and industry, and the hospital was featured in the book Striving Toward Improvement: Six Hospitals in Search of Quality published by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colo.
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University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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University of Phoenix, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colo.
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American College of Surgeons, Colorado Springs/Denver, Colo.
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Executive Leadership Institute, Novant Health, Inc.
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The Bundled Payment Guide for Physicians. Served as a contributor. Compiled by Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P. Sponsoring organization: Toward Accountable Care Consortium with the NC Medical Society and a grant from The Physicians Foundation. 2014.
50 Policies and Plans for the Outpatient Setting. Co-authored with Joseph Venturelli. CRC Press. December, 2011.
Improving Quality in the Outpatient Setting. Co-authored with Noreen Davis. Forward by Kevin Fickenscher, MD, CRC Press. June 2011.
Interview with a Quality Leader: Regina E. Herzlinger on Consumer Driven Healthcare. The Journal for HealthCare Quality. July 2008.
Interview with a Quality Leader: Mikel Harry on Six Sigma in Healthcare. The Journal for Healthcare Quality. July 2006.
What Makes Our Hospitals Different: The Nursing Role in a Specialty Hospital. Co-authored with Joan McCanless and Donna Giles. The Heart Hospital Journal. LeJacq Communications. December 2005.
The Science of Six Sigma in Hospitals. Co-authored with Noreen Davis. The Heart Hospital Journal. LeJacq Communications. Winter 2004.
Analyzing Clinical Care Pathways: 3-Dimensional Tools for Quality Outcomes, Measurement and Improvement. Co-authored with M. Daniel Sloan. McGraw-Hill. 1999.
Esprit de Corp: Is Work Something You Really Believe In? The Journal for HealthCare Quality. May/June, 1999.
Interview with a Quality Leader: M. Daniel Sloan on Universal Standards of Measurement and Performance Improvement. The Journal for Healthcare Quality. May 1999.
Clinical Care Pathways: Tools and Methods for Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Efficient Care Practices. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 1997.
Thought Packages that Product Results: Just-In-Time Training Modules. Co-authored with M.K. Key and Mark Smith. Quorum Health Resources Inc., 1997.
Editor for the following book at the request of McGraw-Hill: The Manual for Designing Change in Healthcare Organizations. Copyright by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 1997.
Using the PDCA Cycle to Standardize a Quality Assurance Program in a Quality Improvement-Driven Environment. Journal on Quality Improvement (JCAHO). Co-authored with Judy Sikes and Keith Wilson, M.D. December 1994.


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'Teen Mom 2' Leah Messer Shows Off Her Bikini Body! Does She Have The Best 'Teen Mom' Bikini Figure?
By the looks of it, her divorce with Corey Simms is the last thing on Leah's mind!
Teen Mom 2 star Leah Messer had an amazing time on the beach with her adorable 1½-year-old twins Aliannah and Aleeah while on a family vacation in Florida on May 20. Looks like estranged hubby Corey Simms' dating life isn't affecting her one bit!
"A new beginning is always a fine place to start, and that's what I'm gonna have to do(:" Leah, 18, tweeted on May 17, while on her Florida holiday.
She has been dealing with a heartbreaking divorce from baby daddy Corey, 20, who has reportedly moved on with another girl, 21-year-old single mom, Amber Scaggs.
But by the look on Leah's face, a vacation is just what she and the girls needed.
And have to add — she looks awesome in a bikini! She had her twins just over a year ago!
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Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's Comedies et Proverbes movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's star in all of the Comedies et Proverbes) accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty apartment in Biarritz.
Swedish tourist Carita tries to snap Riviere out of her bad mood, but the two ladies are polar opposites in terms of relating to the opposite sex.
Carita will take it any way she can, while Riviere holds out for true romance. A mystical assignation tied in with the old Jules Verne novel Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray) brings Riviere in contact with the man of her dreams (Vincent Gauthier).
An international award winner, Summer was surprisingly overlooked in France, where director Rohmer was (in the 1980s at least) somewhat taken for granted.
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I have found my new breakfast obsession, and sadly, it exists only in Vietnam. Attempts to replicate it in home kitchens would fail miserably. Recently in Hoi An, Vietnam, I met up with a former culinary school instructor from New York who was working at a non-profit restaurant. Each morning we stepped out of the air-conditioned bliss of the hotel into a wave of heat, traffic noise, and repeated solicitations for "Taxi? Taxi? Motorcycle?" But the possibility of a great street food find was too enticing to pass up.
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My stay in Hoi An was short, but we had to return one more time for that sizzling plate of eggs. I knew I would miss them. Even if I were to buy some good metal plates for my kitchen, they wouldn't have the same aura of the paper-thin metal that had cradled thousands of servings of Op La with barely a wiping in between.
We wouldn't be washing down our eggs with cold, dense cafe sua da, expertly mixed by the girls in the next stall. We wouldn't be mesmerized by the master himself cranking out so many plates without breaking a sweat. And we wouldn't be crouching on the tiniest of plastic stools, surrounded by indecipherable Vietnamese joie de vivre at this particular breakfast stall.
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"These are the times that try men's souls." Said our founding father Thomas Paine. Word is, that he was stuck in traffic on his way to Fort Myers Beach during spring break.
There simply cannot be a bigger traffic jam anywhere in the county than happens there. Two lanes of incoming traffic become stopped cold, from the Times Square pedestrian crosswalk back up San Carlos Boulevard for three miles or more. It even clogs the intersection under the Summerlin overpass. Outgoing traffic backs up from that same pedestrian crosswalk to the Church of the Ascension. Once past the crosswalk, going either way, the congestion eases considerably, especially for outgoing traffic.
The bottleneck is known. It is that crosswalk. It has been known for years. The solutions have been known for years. The problem is like the weather; everybody talks about it, nobody does anything about it. Well that's not entirely true. Someone thought up the traffic light scheme on San Carlos Island, that lets only one lane through at a time to the sky bridge. Although it baffles our tourists and really riles residents of San Carlos Island, it does eliminate the road rage brawls that happened at the foot of the bridge.
And the Sherriff provides a traffic cop at the crosswalk, which holds the pedestrians back for a little bit, then lets a large gaggle surge through. That helps move the cars. It was almost worth the wait when they had the entertainer cop doing dances and pantomime as he directed traffic. They replaced him, darn it. No sense of humor.
Here are some solutions, and why we can't do them:
- Raise the crosswalk. You would have to put in elevators to accommodate the handicapped. You would have to screen it in to stop kids from dropping water balloons on cars. It would be a nice place for a welcome sign.
- Raise the road over the crosswalk. Expensive construction, and requires the taking of private land to make room, although most of the necessary land is available. Times Square merchants would be bypassed. They have clout.
- Build another bridge to the island. When we could have got the permits, we didn't have the money. Now the permits to build a causeway across Estero Bay would be impossible. Environmental activists would claim that it would destroy the bay. Too bad we didn't do it in the 1960s when the other bridges were built to Sanibel, Cape Coral, North Fort Myers and Bonita Beach. All of those destroyed places.
- Reduce the volume of traffic. Be like Sanibel, slap a fat toll on the bridge to discourage tourists. Have a fleet of tow trucks to snatch illegally parked cars and to charge exorbitant fees. Be rude and nasty to visitors, hoping they won't come back. Wait. We've tried all of that except for the toll booth, and it didn't work. People still come. The bridge belongs to the state, so they would get the toll money. I guess it's hopeless. We'll just continue to talk it to death.
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A pair of grocery chains have stepped in to help prevent two NFL playoff games from dreaded blackouts this weekend.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tweeted Friday that Meijer has purchased 1,200 tickets for Saturday's playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs and will hand them out to a deserving party:
Meijer's a superstar in our community. Bought 1200 tix and giving to local military families. Game on WTHR. BLUE OUT, not black out.â Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay)
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In Cincinnati, the Bengals were able to sell out Sunday's wild-card showdown with the San Diego Chargers. The Bengals distributed a Friday press release announcing that Kroger has purchased a "large quantity" of tickets that also will be gifted to military families.
The Green Bay Packers, meanwhile, still need to sell off 1,000 tickets to avoid their first blackout since 2001, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Plenty of factors -- including 40-inch television sets -- contribute to the ticket issue, but it's disappointing to see these teams struggle to sell out their most important game of the season. How quickly would playoff action pack the house in Buffalo or Cleveland? Eight seconds? Maybe nine?
UPDATE: The Packers' official website announced all tickets have been sold for Sunday's game.
We previewed all four Wild Card games in the latest "Around The League Podcast."