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Saturday, October 31, 2009
You Never HEARD of THIS?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Luscious Pink Grapefruit
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Love this Adorable Item from Critters and Crafts
This reversible snuggle bag for small dogs that measures 25" x 23" and has a soft fleece with a cute puppy pattern on it on one side and a soft denim on the reverse side. It can also be used to pad a crate or use as a cushion on furniture or floor.
Great for the burrowing dogs like the doxies, or chihuahuas (My chis would LOVE this!) The fleece is cuffed over the denim and sewn. All seams are double stitched. The corners are tacked down so the layers will stay together.
This adorable item can be found on Critters and Crafts etsy site at:
Check this and many of her other adorable items!
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
What to do When There Just Isn't Quite Enough!
A few weeks a go I was on a soap making binge! I made about eight different batches of soap in less than a week and still had ideas cooking in my head.
Problem was, I ran out of ingredients! Most of the time I can make a substitution or two and not sacrifice soap quality, but this time it was different. I ran out of sodium hydroxide (Lye), which is the ingredient that makes soap what it is...SOAP! Without it, there is no chemical reaction of the oils mixed with it that hardens it into a viable bar of soap and has great cleansing action.
This is not an ingredient you can just hop over to the store and buy. They don't sell it craft stores. It is definitely a specialty item that requires special care in handling.
So, here was my problem. I was busy making my next, and last batch of soap, although I didn't know it at the time. I had my oils ready, I had my colors ready, my fragrance oil ready, had my liquid ready (in this case, it was wine). I had donned my apron, my gloves and my mask and my tools were out and ready to go. I carefully measured my sodium hydroxide out....and there was only half as much as what I needed!
This stuff has to be measured out according to the content of the oils and I didn't have near enough!
Not to be thwarted by a small (?) planning glitch, I quickly re-evaluated how much soap I COULD make with that amount of sodium hydroxide. A few more minutes and I was on my way again, only making less than half of a batch. I had to revamp my soap mold to create a smaller version too! I typically used an antique countertop drawer lined with wax paper. It has wooden dividers in it to make smaller molds. I was already using a smaller mold and the only way I could make it even tinier was to create another temporary divider. I quickly grabbed a thick piece of cardboard, cut it to fit the loaf mold, placed it inside the mold and relined it with wax paper. I used the leftover bottle of wine to hold the cardboard more securely in place by placing it inside the mold just behind the cardboard.
Voila! It was a REALLY tiny loaf mold! I made the soap, poured it in the mold, realizing that it was going to be pretty small in height, even with the cardboard adjustment. I'd worry about that later.
When it came time to unmold the soap and cut it, I knew I had to do something to compensate for the smallness of the soap. I ended up cutting the loaf into small guest sized (1 to 1.5 oz each) bars, and wrapped them in cute organza bags.
There you have it! The creation of my guest sized BERRY WINE soaps!
Fun little soaps wrapped in organza with the decadent fragrance of berry wine!
This soap is made using real wine to provide your skin with all the ingredients that wine contains. (Yes, there are ingredients in wine that your skin LOVES!)
This is a hot process method soap which means that the fragrance usually doesn't change as the soap cures. This scent smells just like a heavenly Merlot sweetened by Raspberry, Blueberry and just a hint of Blackberry. This fragrance is a great scent in the fall, when the leaves turn their gorgeous shades of red, orange and yellow.
I put a lot of innovative ad-libness to this batch!
Hope you enjoy!
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Commercial "Natural" Soaps
The bigger companies are noticing that "natural" soap is an increasing popular item and are capitalizing on it and producing their own versions.
I actually was unaware of that since I make my own soap and really don't pay much attention to what the commercial guys are up to.
That was a mistake. I should've been paying more attention.
Strolling through my local grocery store today, I happened to find myself in the "soap" section. I was totally amazed at the amount of "natural" and "designer" soaps that the BIG companies are producing now. Less than a year ago, I happened down that same section and took a look and there was barely a bar of soap to be found! Everything was liquid body washes and such. There were only a few of the very basic soaps that most are familiar with...and that was all there was.
Now, there are all these claims to "glycerine" soaps, "natural" soaps, special fragrances in the soaps and all kinds of designer scents. I was completely floored!
Curious, I picked up one of the "natural" soaps and read the ingredients. Floored again, I couldn't believe was I was seeing for their "natural" ingredients. Very vague wording, it all sounded good to the lay person who doesn't know about soap ingredients, but I wasn't fooled a bit! Some of the soap ingredients didn't even label the botanical names of anything, which I thought was a labeling requirement! I label all my ingredients on my soaps in both common and botanical names, why do they get away without doing that?
Maybe because it wasn't "natural" after all.
Most of the "designer" soaps were nothing more than a waxy cube of detergent with a couple of natural additives and fragrance!
Well, the price was good anyway! They were charging at least 1/3 of what I can charge for a bar of soap. If I could charge that much and make a living at it, I most certainly would! But, because I really do make soap the way it was intended to be made, I can't do that.
Don't be fooled by the bargain price. It isn't such a bargain, and you aren't getting what you probably think you're getting. It's all in the wording and clever advertising.
Clever advertising...I guess I need to work on that! Clever, yes, but not misleading...where does one draw the line? Nope, I don't do well at misleading! I want my customers to be totally in the know about what they are purchasing.
Maybe that's why I won't make millions at this, but at least I've maintained my integrity.
And that's OK.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
It's Sunday Morning...and Everything to Do!!!
It was so nice for me to get away for a few weeks a few months ago...first time in years, yes, years! Now, I'm back into "the routine" again and slowly the "must dos" and "ought to dos" are building back up again.
The Lord designated a day of rest, probably realizing that life's little battles overcome the best of us sometimes and we need a break. It's up to us whether we decide to take heed to God's suggestion (used to be a commandment to the Israelites) that's how important it was.
Now, I work full time at very stressful job, so that takes lots of hours out of my time where I could be doing other things, like making soap, cleaning my house, fixing meals, and spending quality time with my family.
I've broken it down into hours designated to what I do, more or less:
1 week =7 days, which there are 24 hours in a day
7X24= 168 hours in a week! Whoo hoo! That sounds like a lot, doesn't it?
I work 36 hours of it, plus lunch break (.5 hrs) plus the hour commute both ways
168-37.5= 130.5 hours left in my week! Not bad, or so it seems.
My time at home, let's say just doing the bare minimum basics of "domestic management" such as housecleaning, preparing meals, washing clothes and outside chores...and I'm talking BARE minimum per week, are around 12 hours per week.
130.5-12= 118.5 hours left. Well, OK, still doesn't sound too bad, does it?
Oh, now I have to talk about spending time with my family. I've got a hubby and 2 teenagers still living at home. I honestly think teens take more time than toddlers! Just in different ways! (Guitar lessons, voice lessons, shopping for "just the right" clothes that mom will approve of), shuttling to friends and back, school games, dances, get-togethers, parties, competitions, school shopping, Dr. and dentist appointments, take daughter to driving lessons, help her find a job. The list goes on and on and on. My hubby work opposite shifts, so we try very hard to spend at least a few hours during our work week with each other, and have at least ONE day off together every other week. Try to break this down into hours per week, I'd have to average about another 10 hours per week...and that is probably a bit short.
118.5-10= 108.5 OK, I'm still over 100 hours per week. Still sounds good, right?
Wait a minute! I have SLEEP sometime during all this! I SHOULD give myself 8 hours of sleep every night, although I seldom actually sleep 8 hours! Well, just to be healthy, I'm giving myself that time anyway, in case I do!
8 hours of sleep every night is 56 hours per week.
108.5-56= 52.5 hours Uh-oh, this is starting to sound like a time crunch!
One recent thing that I've begun for my own health and sanity is to workout in a gym at least 3 times a week. That usually takes 2-3 hours each time, given the getting dressed,driving, warming up, working out, cooling down, showering, getting dressed and coming back home again. I'm giving myself 9 hours a week for this.
52.5-9=43.5 hours Hmmm...
I'm a devout Christian and spend time reading and studying the Bible, going to church etc. I'd like to spend more time, but given my circumstances, it doesn't seem to be happening. I will average probably about 6 hours per week in these endeavors.
43.5-6=37.5 hours It is really starting to dwindle.
Oh, that's right! I run a business too! Making soap if you haven't already figured that out. I generally spend one entire day every week devoted to my business, about a 10 hour day, plus little snippets during the rest of the week that probably amount to another 10 hours, just making soap, wrapping soap, cutting soap, unpacking soap supplies, re-stocking, printing labels, making supply lists, preparing for craft fairs etc, preparing soap for shipment, and shipping them, taking pictures. That equals about 20 hours per week.
37.5-20=17.5 hours YIKES!
What I mentioned about the soap DOESN'T include my time promoting online or many of my other online things I do that are related to my soap, such as listing my soaps online, coming up with the perfect description of my soap, editing pictures, twittering, facebooking, and all the other online, soap-related things I do. I typically spend 2 hours per day doing those things, which is a pretty conservative number, if you ask my kids and hubby.
That's 14 hours per week...
17.5-14=3.5 hours!
OK, I now have 3.5 hours per week left over to do whatever I feel like! Almost like heaven!
Uh-oh, the dog just threw up on my carpet. I forgot that I have a dentist appointment this week! The dishwasher just broke. My computer is acting goofy and won't upload my pictures. I ran out of milk and need to make another trip to the store for groceries that I didn't intend to do. I THOUGHT I had enough material for soap packaging, but apparently didn't, so now have to make an emergency trip to JoAnnes for a small supply until my order comes in....
There goes my 3.5 hours!!!!!
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Apple Harvest Soap
This soap smells like a fresh apple after biting into it. Delightful! Leaves your skin feeling soft and supple after using. All the glycerin has been retained to give your skin extra love.
I used coconut oil for suds, palm oil for hardness of the bar, castor oil because it gives great lather quality to the bar, shea butter and avocado oils for extra love for your skin.
Each bar is hand-cut, approximately 3-4 oz each. No two are exactly alike. Although it is somewhat round on purpose, I decided NOT to add a little worm coming out the side. A soapy stem on top might've been fun though.
"Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings" Psalms 17:8
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Sheriff Determined To Find Some Reason To Arrest Parents Of Girls Who Are Accused Of Bullying Girl Into Suicide
from the that's-not-the-way-'justice'-works dept
We recently covered the arrest of two students for their connection to a bullied girl's suicide. I noted at the time that, while certainly not perfect, at least the two were charged with violating laws already on the books, rather than a newly-crafted (and, most likely, badly written) cyberbullying law.
Whatever sense of relief I may have had then has been completely wiped away by Sheriff Grady Judd's continuing comments. If there's going to be a rational resolution to this, Grady can't be involved. He's swiftly turning this into a crusade, which is exactly the wrong thing to do.
The Florida sheriff investigating a girl's suicide allegedly prompted by online bullying said he's considering charging the parents of one of the two girls arrested in the case because they're in "total denial."It's not enough for Judd to have arrested two students. Now, he's seeking to extract some sort of vengeance for a perceived "lack of remorse" on the part of Guadalupe Shaw, the 14-year-old arrestee, even if it means stretching the law so he can go after her parents. In Judd's mind, they're "in denial."
Polk Country Sheriff Grady Judd told Fox News Thursday that if evidence indicates the parents of one of the two girls knowingly allowed the girl to post the bullying comments online, they could be charged with contributing to the dependency or delinquency of a child.
Shaw's parents have maintained their daughter's account was hacked and that she never made the posts that got her arrested. They also claim to check in on Shaw's account "daily." Whether or not any of those claims are true (or at least should be subject to an investigation before making very public claims) apparently doesn't matter to Judd, who has his own opinion on how Shaw's parents should have handled things after being informed of their daughter's posts.
"You tell me that there's not parents, who instead of taking that device and smashing it into a 1,000 pieces in front of her child, says, 'Oh, her account was hacked?' We see where the problem is."Judd says "we," but he's likely on his own. This is no longer a case he should be in charge of. He's made it personal and is drifting dangerously close to turning this into a vendetta. And, again, he's doing this solely because in his opinion, Guadalupe Shaw isn't showing enough remorse for her actions.
"We knew that there was total disregard for life, and if she would say those things after she bullied Rebecca and after the parents knew that, we had to act more quickly," Sheriff Grady Judd, from Polk County, Fla., told "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning.Judd is pursuing vigilante justice under the color of law. Further comments made elsewhere show he's grasping at straws to make someone pay.
"They don't think there is a problem here, and that is the problem," he said. Judd added that the girl's parents gave her back her Facebook access even after learning about her alleged bullying of Rebecca. "That's terrible," he said. "That's why we moved fast to lock their daughter up."The investigators working for him can't be happy with Judd's crusade. They haven't found anything they can charge the parents with, but it's pretty clear Judd won't be taking no for an answer.
"I'm aggravated that the parents aren't doing what parents should do," Judd told reporters. "Responsible parents take disciplinary action."
Judd told NBC's Today on Wednesday that investigators so far have found no criminal charges that could be filed against the parents, "but if we can find contributing to the delinquency of a child, we would certainly bring that charge."Bringing charges against someone for "contributing" to another person's suicide is problematic and it's an area someone like Judd shouldn't be so willing to wander into using only his perceptions of other's attitudes and thoughts to guide him. Grasping about for charges to file against Shaw's parents, who are even further removed from Sedwick's suicide than their daughter, is a dangerously desperate act.
If he manages to follow through and successfully have both Shaw and her parents prosecuted, he won't set any legal precedents, but he will set a low bar for future arrests. With Judd around, no one in his county will need a new cyberbullying law to abuse because the sheriff is perfectly capable of abusing the laws he already has.
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Chairman Petri and members of the Committee, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is pleased to have this opportunity to testify about driver's license security issues.
The state driver's license has become much more than a license to drive. It is now used as a primary means of authenticating identity in a wide range of commercial and governmental transactions having nothing to do with operating a motor vehicle. In the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11, some have suggested that we should standardize the design of the state driver's license, add more features to the card and create data systems linked to the card. The new functionality of the card would create yet further reliance on it, including for access control and security screening purposes. Yet, the policy structure for issuance and use of driver's licenses has not kept pace with the increased weight already being placed upon the cards and is totally inadequate for the expansions proposed in the name of fighting terrorism.
One year after the September 11 attacks, there is no evidence that flaws in the design and security of drivers' licenses themselves facilitated the hijackers in carrying out their plans. From what we know, most of the hijackers were not using stolen, counterfeit or altered ID cards or ID cards from a foreign country. Rather, they were using legitimate state driver's licenses or non-driver ID cards obtained from DMV offices. The hijackers appear to have obtained these cards from several different states using methods that highlight basic problems in the process of issuing ID cards ranging from weak laws and procedures to the bribery of DMV employees. These problems are not ones that could be cured by introducing more biometrics in the cards themselves or by creating databases that link together state or commercial databases.
Better procedures for issuing driver's licenses are clearly needed. However, putting more features in the card and encouraging the its frequent use as an authentication device may have the undesirable effect of increasing the value of fraudulently obtained cards. To ensure that the card is not abused by private or public entities, we would still need to develop a national policy on use of the card for non-driving related purposes. At the very least, we should not increase the amount of data on the card or encourage an increased reliance on driver's licenses and state-issued ID cards without first addressing the major problems of fraud in the issuance of the cards.
We could benefit from the experience of other countries. The most recent example, the Juki Net system in Japan, illustrates the flaws in an ID card program that involves linked databases and broad, undefined uses without adequate attention to privacy and security concerns. In developing Juki Net, the Japanese government failed to address the issues of identity theft, computer security and commercial privacy. The program is so fraught with risk that municipalities have backed out of the system despite a federal mandate.
To best protect security and eliminate fraud, we must encourage the Motor Vehicles Administrators to focus their efforts on improving the foundations of the current system -- especially the process for issuing cards -- before building new and unproven capabilities.
CDT is a non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to developing and implementing public policies to protect and advance civil liberties and democratic values in digital technologies. One of our core goals is to enhance privacy protections for individuals in the development and use of new technology.
The current process for obtaining a driver's license is rife with fraud and corruption. While the DMVs have spent time and effort on technologies such as laminates to make counterfeiting more difficult, other forms of fraud have arisen that are of equal or greater consequence. In particular, the fraudulent obtaining of legitimate driver's licenses calls into question the utility of many of the newly suggested security features.
To date, many documented cases of fraud involve identity theft. For example, recent GAO reports on identity theft point to the growing concern of fraud within the driver's license system. While much of this concern comes from counterfeit licenses, there are a significant and growing number of cases of real licenses falsely obtained. GAO documents the increase in the fraudulent use of credit cards, social security numbers and driver's licenses. The reports point to the ease at which driver's license can be obtained with fraudulent source or
breeder documents such as forged birth certificates.[1]
The most alarming case of illegally obtained driver's license involves the September 11 hijackings. It has been reported that at least 13 of the 19 hijackers obtained valid licenses or non-driver ID cards from Florida, New Jersey or Virginia.[2]
While the Virginia cases -- involving weak Virginia residency requirements -- have been well documented and involved laws that were immediately changed by the Virginia legislature, many other problems in the issuance process remain across the country. In particular, multiple recent cases involve the bribing of DMV personnel point to a disturbing trend. For example, two recent cases have included elaborate schemes creating hundreds of fraudulently issued but otherwise legitimate licenses:
Other reports point to small-scale schemes:
Even in the area of commercial licensing -- where states do have a single database and follow uniform federal standards as required and the under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA) -- bribery is common. For example:
Another, more disturbing case indicates that there is already a known market for personal information held by the DMV:
The bribery cases are one more piece of evidence that the current driver's license and driver's license information are not being adequately protected. Adding new features to the card, such as a smart chip, a biometric identifier and/or a uniform ID number, clearly increases the value of the card to society and in the marketplace and will increase its use. If the states do not fundamentally, if not completely, address the known problems with the system to issue cards before we add any new features, then fraud will increase even as the use of the card increases.
Last month, Japanese citizens took to the streets to protest a new government identification system, called Juki Net. In a society that Westerners sometimes assume does not care about privacy, the project touched a nerve, even prompting several local officials to declare their intent not to cooperate with the national plan. The system's promises of convenience and enhanced security were apparently insufficient to overcome worries about centralization of personal data.
This committee should examine the concerns raised about Juki Net in detail before moving forward with the current proposals for linking driver's license data.[10]
Juki Net is based on a national database in Tokyo, intended to link a set of personal information--the 11-digit ID number already assigned to all Japanese citizens, plus name, date of birth, sex and address. The goal of the network, in the short term, is to make it easier for individuals to apply for residency cards from anywhere in the country.
But identity theft is a fast-growing crime in Japan. Opponents of Juki Net warned that creating a network that concentrates sensitive information in a single network or location creates a juicy target for identity thieves.
Furthermore, Japan, like the U.S., has no comprehensive privacy law for the commercial sector. This means that as essential information, such as the ID number, becomes more centralized and more commonly used, it can be collected, stored, sold and combined with other information with no notice, consent or access and correction rights afforded the individual.
Sharing in a growing uneasiness about the Information Age's impact on personal autonomy, Japanese protesters wore face paint in the lines of bar codes. Polls indicate that three in four Japanese citizens now oppose Juki Net despite the fact that the program was popular when first announced.
Remarkably, several major cities have backed away from involvement in the project. Yokahama, a city of 3.4 million people, has decided to let each resident choose whether to include personal information in the database. The mayor of Kokubnji held an official "disconnecting" ceremony to show the residents of his city that they would not be included in the database at all.
The state of privacy in Japan and the U.S. is strikingly similar. Identity theft has been considered by some officials to be the fastest growing crime in the U.S., and the potential threat of misuse of large amounts of information required in the creation of driver's systems is enormous. Increasing the amount of information collected and linking it together only serves to increase its attractiveness to thieves. GAO reports continue to warn that
weaknesses in federal systems remain pervasive[11] including at the Department of Transportation, which would necessarily oversee any such project on driver's licenses.[12] The December 2001 bribery of a New York DMV employee who sold the personal information of individuals in the DMV database, described above, suggests that thieves are already finding ways to exploit the information held at the state level.
Like Japan, the U.S. has no comprehensive private-sector law to protect individual privacy rights in the commercial sector. Marketers have increasingly relied on government issued identifiers to sell and market goods. Many companies use government identifier responsibly. However, without baseline requirements of consumer controls for their own information, some companies have recklessly used personal information including government identifiers risking the viability of social security numbers and driver's licenses as a security tool and invading the privacy of individuals.
Identity theft, computer security and consumer privacy protections are difficult issues that remain unsolved in the U.S. But policymakers must address these fundamental concerns before proceeding to link state databases together. Privacy cannot be an afterthought in the design of information systems. If privacy concerns are not addressed adequately, American projects similar to Juki Net will face the reaction from a society with a proud history of individualism and public protest.
Even if Americans do not take to the streets against a new system that is seen as overly troublesome, as have the Japanese, the marginal added convenience and untested security benefits of most of the features of the proposed distributed identity system are not worth the potential risks. Instead of building new controls, we should focus on strengthening the physical and policy infrastructure of the current driver's license system.
Building a linked database of information and adding new functionality to the cards is a risky proposition for all of the reasons listed above. Instead Congress should work to address the known problems with the current driver's license system:
Fixing the issuing process of driver's licenses is a complex and difficult undertaking, but must be the top priority. In particular: fraud and bribery are rampant in the DMVs; the basic documents used to make decisions about individuals applying for licenses and ID cards are rife with inconsistencies and fraud; and the laws in each state are not harmonized, leading to
weak states that have been targets of fraud. Work has begun in this area. The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators has several task groups to address various aspects of these concerns. However, Congress should study the policy implications of reforms in each area; act quickly based on the new information; and then, continue oversight to ensure that the enacted reforms are successful.
Use and storage of personal information in networked government computer systems remains a major concern while computer security continues to lag. As the use of information technology to identify individuals increases, the federal and state governments must ensure that this valuable information can be protected.
The use of the driver's license and other identifiers will only continue to increase in the commercial sector. Without privacy legislation on the use of personally identifiable information in the commercial arena, Americans cannot be assured that adequate protections exist to prohibit the misuse of important government identifiers. By privacy, we mean rules addressing when the card can be demanded, what information can be taken from it, how individuals denied access or service can resolve doubts about themselves, how the policy will treat people without cards, etc.
Before this work is done, Congress should not allow new functionality in a system that we already know is broken. Placing more reliance on the driver's license � such as using it as the centerpiece of an airport security
fast lane � serves to increase the value of illegally obtained documents at a time when there is a known marketplace for such items. Once reforms of the issuance process, security and privacy protections have been enacted, Congress should cautiously and skeptically study how a driver's license system that is not rife with fraud and misuse can function under the increased weight of any new proposals.
We thank the Chairman for the opportunity to participate in this hearing and look forward to working with the Committee to develop policies supporting democratic values and the vibrant use of new communications media.
1 Identity Theft: Prevalence and Cost Appear to be Growing GAO-02-363, March 2000 and Identity Theft: Greater Awareness and Use of Existing Data Are Needed, GAO-02-766, June 2002.
2 Associated Press,
Hijackers' bogus identification cards prompt scrutiny of state licensing rules Jefferson City News Tribune, October 9, 2001,
3 Office of the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey,
Criminal Indictments Charge 36 Persons with Trafficking in Fraudulent New Jersey Driver's Licenses and Identification Documents: Multi-Agency Investigation Targeted "Brokers" & Corrupt DMV Employees, Press Release, June 24, 2002, http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcj/releases/2002/dmv0624.htm
4 Joe Torres,
Elaborate Fake ID Scheme Nets Nine Arrests, Leads To Changes At DMV Offices, February 26, 2002. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_022602_dmvscheme.html
5 Associated Press,
BMV employee accused of bribe, Cincinnati Enquirer, March 4, 2001. http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/03/04/loc_bmv_employee_accused.html
Illinois alerts states to bogus truck driver's licenses: Gov. Ryan denies role in bribery scandal, March 16, 2000. http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/03/16/truck.licenses/
Today's Trucking News: North Carolina governor plans reorganization of DMV, Land Line Magazine, June 27,2002, http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/June02/062702.htm
8 Quintin Ellison,
Trucker licensing fraud case set for trial, Asheville Citizen Times, http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/16421
9 Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York,
Three Charged in DMV Bribery Scheme Former DMV Employee and Local Private Investigator Charged in 20-Count Indictment, Press Release, December 7, 2001. http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2001/dec/dec07d_01.html
10 Several stories about Juki Net have been published in the western press, yet the most interesting analysis has come from the Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbum, which publishes an online edition in English. The paper's August 30, 2002 editorial on Juki Net
Keeping Privacy Private can be found at http://www.asahi.com/english/op-ed/k2002083100216.html.
11 Critical Infrastructure Protection: Significant Challenges in Safeguarding Government and Privately Controlled Systems from Computer-Based Attacks. GAO-01-1168T September 26, 2001
12 The titles are too numerous to mention but include ongoing warnings such as: Computer Security: Weaknesses Continue to Place Critical Federal Operations and Assets at Risk. GAO-01-600T April 5, 2001 and FAA Computer Security: Recommendations to Address Continuing Weaknesses. GAO-01-171 December 6, 2000


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With the November election less than two months away, congressional candidates are raising a lot of money. Much of it is spent on advertising, staff and lawn signs.
But there's another area where some candidates spend a lot of cash -- they spend to raise more. Among the biggest spenders are three members of the Minnesota delegation: U.S. Reps. Michele Bachmann, Keith Ellison and Erik Paulsen.
Bachmann, a Republican, spends the most by far of any of Minnesota's members of Congress on fundraising. In part, that's because she also raises the most money.
Since ending her presidential campaign in January, Bachmann has spent nearly $1.3 million on fundraising alone. That's 16 cents on every dollar she's raised this year.
Some of those expenses are driven by the kinds of donors that give to Bachmann, said Chase Kroll, her campaign manager.
"We're not getting big checks from big PACs or from big, rich families," Kroll said. "We're getting 20 bucks here, 10 bucks, 50 bucks from across the state and across the country that Mrs. Bachmann's message resonates with."
Candidates spend big money to hire professional fundraisers, buy mailing lists of likely donors and pay telemarketers to dial up donors and ask for cash.
But campaigns can't get too carried away, Republican fundraiser Nancy Bocskor said.
"You're always trying to keep your fundraising costs as low as possible," said Bocskor, a professor at George Washington University's School of Political Management.
Rep. Bachmann relies on an enormous list of donors that she taps repeatedly for money through direct mail.
Once a campaign has a big enough list, Bocskor said, the money just keeps rolling in because the donors are giving in small amounts, well under the $2,500 individual contribution limit.
"Once you have someone who's given you money, we know that person will give again and again and again," she said.
But that mailing list comes with some enormous costs of its own, like credit card fees for processing all of those small transactions. This year, Bachmann's campaign has spent more than $300,000 just on credit card fees.
Bocskor said that because direct mail pitches make highly emotional appeals to donors, it's a medium that benefits the loudest candidates.
"For direct mail to work, you have to create polarization," she said. "So if you're a moderate, you're not going to raise a lot of direct mail."
Another big user of direct mail in Minnesota is Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, who represents the 5th District which includes the city of Minneapolis. He has spent about $425,000 on fundraising this election cycle, far less than Bachmann.
Still, that's about 30 cents of every dollar Ellison has raised.
Ellison said he's spending all that money to build up a grassroots fundraising network because of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that's allowed mega-donors to put millions of dollars into elections.
"I see Citizens United as a tsunami coming across the political horizon for Democrats, in particular," he said. "There's only one antidote: reaching out to people."
Almost every political handicapper believes Ellison's seat is safe for Democrats. But he said he needs the money to influence statewide races this year, including ballot measures that would require voters to present an ID at the polls or make marriage only between a man and a woman.
"The biggest concentration of Democrats in the state of Minnesota is in the 5th Congressional District," Ellison said. "I have got to get these people out. I have got to turn out the vote in order to beat these amendments."
The other big spender on fundraising from Minnesota's congressional delegation is Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen of the satte's 3rd District, which includes the western Twin Cities suburbs. Paulsen's campaign didn't respond to multiple interview requests.
In his second term, he has become a strong fundraiser, bringing in more than $2.2 million since 2011. Paulsen has also spent heavily to raise all that cash -- more than $500,000, or 23 cents out of every dollar.
All of this focus on political fundraising concerns David Schultz, an election law expert at Hamline University.
Schultz said the amounts spent on fundraising suggest that politicians are being distracted from their day jobs.
"If you're spending all this time talking to donors, raising money, it means it's taking away time from doing something else," he said.
Ellison disagrees. He said his expensive approach to raising money is simply an extension of his personalized, grassroots approach to politics.
"We're going to help these people be active citizens and that means reaching out to them and having the wherewithal to reach out to them," Ellison said.
In the middle of a fiercely contested election such as this one, no politician is likely to say they need fewer resources to win re-election.


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ARENAC COUNTY — Three sisters from Arenac County are combining their talents and finding success with their website Michigan-Made.com.
Deborah Robinson, Kathleen Clark and Rejeana Heinrich began Michigan-Made.com in 2008, specializing in selling products made in Michigan, and according to Heinrich, the website has continued to grow.
"Between 2009 and 2010, our site grew eight-fold," she said. "We have 30 suppliers and around 20 more on the way."
Heinrich said that Michigan-Made.com was Robinson's idea.
"We started this site in 2008 when Michigan was in the midst of the economic crash," she said. "This state was surrounded by doom-and-gloom, and we just thought, Michigan has so much going for it, we need to get these products out there."
The sisters, who grew up between Twining and AuGres, began going to trade shows and talking to vendors about their website. Heinrich said people loved the idea of Michiganders buying products from other Michiganders.
"Why go and buy something from Texas or other places when you can get something made right here?" she said. "I think people want to support other people from Michigan."
Heinrich said that Michigan-Made.com is in a "growth mode." Adding that the site features around 200 products, all made in Michigan.
"We operate just like any brick and mortar store, except that we are online," she said. "We have been receiving fantastic feedback from our customers and our vendors."
Items featured on Michigan-Made.com range from books and candles, to food items. Heinrich said there are only a few guidelines vendors have to follow to sell their items on the site.
"The items have to be made in Michigan, be high in quality, and buy into our philosophy of customer service," she said.
Heinrich believes that Michigan-Made.com can provide a door of opportunity for those who want their product to receive exposure.
"Some customers may come to our site looking to buy a candle, when they stumble upon another product they might like," she said.
As for the sisters themselves, Heinrich said running the website has brought them closer together.
"We have always been a close-knit family," she said. "We have had our disagreements, but never an argument."
Heinrich said she also has a job working at Saginaw Valley State University in the center for family business. She added that all three sisters bring different skills to the website.
"Right now, I guess I am practicing what I preach," she said. "Kathy is the Web expert and Debi is the expert on the business end, and I handle the communication end."
All three women still reside in Arenac and Bay counties.
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Remembering Our Mother
It's fitting that I should be writing about my mother's life and death in a week when the Bay Area and the nation is celebrating the Supreme Court's extension of marriage rights to everyone regardless of sexual orientation. My mother, known for most of her 98 plus years as Bette Peters, was an indefatigable matchmaker. She herself had "married well" in the best tradition of the Jane Austen novels which she thoroughly enjoyed, and she recommended the same course for everyone around her.
When the culture shifted during her long life to openly acknowledge gay relationships, she took up promoting unions for gay family members and friends with the same enthusiasm which she'd always expressed for straight matches. She died on Thursday of last week, just a little too soon for her to urge gay couples she knew to finally tie the knot.
My daughter Eliza described her grandmother's last years well in an email to friends: "She remained sharp as a tack, independent and deeply involved in the lives of those around her up until the day she entered the hospital. " She still lived alone in her own house at the end, still queen of her domestic empire, still keeping her eagle eye on what everyone else was up to.
In many ways she was the exemplar of what was to become the modern woman. She was born in the first years of the 20th century, but lived more than a decade into the 21st, always with one foot in the past and another in the future.
Born in 1914, she was raised to be a conventional ornament of St. Louis's version of high society. The oldest of five children in a family with a devout Catholic mother, she got a good education through high school in the humanities, including Latin and French, at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, which prepared her for a lifetime of continued self- education through voracious reading. It was not expected that girls like her would need any more formal schooling.
On October 19 of 1929 she turned fifteen, and ten days later the world she was prepared for collapsed. Her father's position in the financial world evaporated, leaving his large family dependent on the charity of relatives who had not been hit so badly by what they called The Crash. He never again got a steady job.
My mother quickly finished school and won a scholarship to Washington University's art school. But after only a year there, she needed to leave and take a job as a "salesgirl" in a department store to support her family. In a story I heard in recent years (which she alternately admitted and denied) she said that when she voted for Roosevelt for President her staunchly Republican father threw her out of the house, only to invite her back three weeks later when he realized she was the only family member earning any money.
The lavish debutante parties of the Roaring 20s for which she'd been prepared disappeared. Mom "came out" (in those days it meant something different) at a modest tea at the home of an aunt. During the day she was a working woman, attending occasional evening parties for better-fixed friends in borrowed dresses when her job permitted. Selling on commission only, she was frequently required to take uncompensated leave from the sales floor to serve as a model, which she deeply resented.
When Anita Hill testified about her experience with sexual harassment in the workplace during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991, my mother was very sympathetic. She told us for the first time of being subjected to similar indignities by male bosses during her working days.
But like Cinderella she finally met her prince, a Princeton graduate new to St. Louis, my father, Warren Peters, known to all as Pete. They married in 1939, she retired from her job, and he took over supporting her family.
I was born 11 months later, and less than two years after that Pearl Harbor was attacked. My father signed up for the Navy without consulting Mom. She and I moved back into my grandparents' big old house with her family of origin to wait out the war.
Much is made of the men of what's now trendily denominated as "the greatest generation," but the women of the first half of the 20th century also faced many challenges with grace. The household where my mother spent the war years included not only my unemployed but still demanding grandfather and my long-suffering grandmother, but also my beyond-eccentric great-grandmother and three of my mother's siblings plus my aunts' husbands or fiancés when they were home on leave and sometimes a great-uncle. And they all had to get along.
From time to time my mother was able to join my father when he was in U.S. ports, and in due time she was pregnant again. Tragically, just a few days before my sister was born in 1943, Mom's closest sibling, her brother Edwin, was killed in the crash of the plane he was piloting in Air Force flight school in California. A clipping she preserved documented an expose of poor management in the program, with the implication that a series of training deaths at the facility should never have happened, which made the family very bitter. My sister Edwina was named after the uncle who died.
When the war ended my mother resumed with enthusiasm the role of wife and mother, a comfortable and fulfilling position for some women like her in the late 40s and 50s. She expended a lot of energy and considerable intelligence on her daughters' education, picking out the best books to read to us and teaching us to read on our own—I could read before I got to first grade, thanks to my mother's tutelage.
She put her artistic talent to work rehabilitating and redecorating a succession of old houses in which we lived that were eventually sold for tidy profits. When I was a child in St. Louis she and her best buddy Helen Wilson frequented Father Dempsey's, a charity emporium where they found antiques which they refinished for their houses as well as fascinating used books.
What a reader our mother was! A prime perk of her mid-century domesticity was first dibs on the New Yorker when it came in the mail every week. I can see her now, sitting down in peace and quiet at the kitchen table for lunch with the latest New Yorker and a bowl of Campbell's chicken noodle soup. And she read her way through all of those classics she bought at Father Dempsey's, ending up better educated than most of her peers or mine who had fancy college degrees. She was naturally one smart woman, and she made the most of it.
She loved good writing wherever she found it, encouraging her daughters to learn to write by giving us good things to read and critiquing our own early attempts.
She loved her family too, and there were lots of us to love. She regretted only being able to have two children, but her two sisters and her brother in St. Louis produced many more that she doted on as much as on her own.
My father, in the 50s mode, was an organization man, and in 1954 his corporate employers transferred him to Los Angeles. Our loyal mother hated leaving her St. Louis family, but she made the most of her new Pasadena home, not, however, without a few complaints. Fulfilling what she saw as her primary duty, she made sure that my sister and I both went to good colleges and were "married well" at an early age to Caltech graduates with "good prospects."
As her nest emptied, with more time on her hands, she became an enthusiastic Democrat. Her parents and my father were old-style moderate Republicans, but she was a militant liberal, an early member of her local California Democratic Club. John Kennedy's 1960 candidacy galvanized her.
Another corporate transfer took them to New Jersey, which she really hated. Some fancy footwork on my father's part landed them in Santa Cruz, where he became an administrator at the new University of California. There she designed and built a charming house in the country without the aid of an architect, where my parents hosted a generation of grandchildren and their friends plus assorted nieces and nephews who called her "Tante" and a variety of waifs and strays of all descriptions.
She was a superb grandmother. She had the gift of focusing her full attention on the person she was talking to, making each and every one feel for a moment like the most important person in the world. Every child in her sphere was an only child.
When they got too old to live alone in the country, my parents moved to town, eventually coming to the East Bay to be near my family. They were very lucky to end up in a cozy house a few blocks from ours on a quiet street with a full complement of wonderful neighbors who look after each other. In her eighties and nineties my mother was at home a lot of the time, taking devoted care of my father in the three years he was bedridden until his death at 96. Her neighbors generously kept an eye on both of them, right up until the week she died.
Her lifelong energy, which allowed her to keep up with a succession of lively kids and unruly dogs, perhaps could be attributed to her unique lifestyle. She smoked until she was 75, and her diet featured alcohol, sugar and lots of butter, chocolate and ice cream. She detested organized exercise, but made up for it by jittering a lot and keeping her house very clean.
She always looked stylish in a modern way, nothing of the old lady about her even in her nineties. She fancied jeans or tight pants, enthusiastically donning the leopard-print velvet leggings she got last Christmas when she'd just turned 98. When she went to hospital for the last time, her fingernails and toenails were painted blue, in solidarity with Michelle Obama and the Democrats.
Other enthusiasms? She always supported classical music, including serving a stint on the early board of Santa Cruz's Cabrillo Music Festival. In the last years after my father died she particularly enjoyed Michael Morgan and the populist flavor of the Oakland Symphony, as well as any performance that featured her descendants.
And she was passionate about politics. She watched the Senate and House on C-Span as eagerly as sports fans watch ESPN. Her boon companions in recent years, heard at top volume because her hearing went and she refused hearing aids, were Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart.
Meeting Elizabeth Warren during the campaign in the fall was a big thrill. She fervently hoped that a Democratic congressional majority would be able do something tangible to help the destitute people that she met around Berkeley. She was on a first name basis with the regulars who solicit funds outside stores where she shopped—when my father died she gave many of his clothes to a favorite stationed outside of La Farine on College.
A friend has asked if any memorial contributions are in order. Well, there's always Elizabeth Warren's campaign committee. The Oakland Symphony is another good cause she'd support.
Mom had a particular devotion to St. Anthony, patron saint of lost objects, and contributed to the San Francisco dining room named after him when she believed he'd helped her find something. Her eleven-year-old great-granddaughter Nora suggested that you could cover a couple of bases by donating a lot of ice cream for the homeless diners at St. Anthony's.
My mother had the great good fortune to live long enough to be a real presence in the lives of all nine of her great-grandchildren, the oldest of whom graduated from high school this spring and the youngest who's just turned three. A matchmaker 'til the end, she was scheming in the week before she went to the hospital for the last time about how to fix up her beautiful great-granddaughter with one of the attractive twin boys who lived across the street from her.
Perhaps another good way to honor her memory would be to marry the one you love if you haven't already done so, now that the Supreme Court, even including one of the Republicans, has finally decided that all of us have that right. These days family is where you find it, and Mom believed firmly in family.


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Sacramento, CA – Lyon Real Estate won ___ awards at the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® annual Symposium this month. Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) is a global community of more than 565 high quality independent real estate firms.
Lyon Real Estate was nominated for a number of awards this year, and won for highest achievement in three key categories: The Crown of Excellence and the Award of Excellence for the highest achievement in referral performance, and the Pinnacle for the highest outgoing broker-to-broker closed referrals throughout the network. Here is a list of the awards:
Lyon RE won the Sapphire Award, which was presented for the first time this year. One of the most prestigious awards presented, the Sapphire Award recognizes the top member firm in each category, based on company size, in recognition of outstanding contributions a broad range of LeadingRE programs.
LyonRE won the Crown of Excellence based on superior results in sending and servicing clients referred through the network. This prestigious award is presented to the member firm with the highest achievement in various referral performance metrics within their company-size category.
Lyon RE won the Award of Excellence for Equivalent Closing Sales Production. This award recognizes the companies with the highest per agent average of outgoing equivalent closings within their company-size category, based on sales value exceeding the network's average sales price.
LyonRE won the Pinnacle Award in recognition of being one of the top companies in the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® network in 2018 for the highest outgoing broker-to-broker closed referrals throughout the network.
LyonRE won the Global Alliance - Most Outgoing Closings Award, which recognizes the member with the most outgoing closed referrals resulting from client introductions made across country borders.
LyonREwon the Million Dollar Club - Most Outgoing Closings Award, which is presented to the affiliate with the most outgoing closed referrals with an actual sales price of $1 million or greater.
2018 Mentor Program Janet Hubbard - Smart start is a year-long experience designed to train the relocation staff at companies that are new to the LeadingRE network and involve a series of phone training and coaching sessions. (I wasn't recognized at the ceremony, and received an apology this morning)
"We are thrilled to be acknowledged not only for top sales and referrals, but for the excellent service our sales associates are providing to their clients," said Pat Shea, president, Lyon Real Estate. "To earn distinction among the top global firms in the world is a true honor."
Lyon Real Estate is the Sacramento representative of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (www.LeadingRE.com), the largest network of premier locally-branded firms in more than 50 countries producing over one million annual home sale transactions. As a member of LeadingRE, Lyon provides a quality real estate experience, global marketing reach and access to top real estate professionals in any market.
Sacramento -- Lyon Real Estate, the largest independent real estate company in Greater Sacramento won eight awards at the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® Annual Symposium this month. Most notably, the brokerage won the organization's awards for Best Visual Design of a website and Best Overall Website, with 565 independent brokerages around the world having the opportunity to submit their sites for the award.
Additionally, the brokerage took home two first place awards, one in Luxury Marketing for its newly designed luxury seller guide, yard signs, and agent print ads, and one in the Company Brand and Property Advertising category for it's "We Get You" consumer ad campaign.
About Lyon Real Estate
Ranked the number one brokerage in annual home sales in the greater Sacramento region by the Sacramento Business Journal, Lyon Real Estate has served the area for over 70 years. In 2017, the company closed 7,333 transactions worth a total of $3 billion in sales volume. Lyon Real Estate has 950 agents in 17 offices located throughout the region. The company is a member of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the largest network of premier locally-branded firms, as well as LeadingRE's Luxury Portfolio International® program. In addition to its real estate services, Lyon Real Estate offers RELO Direct, a global relocation program. For more information about Lyon Real Estate, click to GoLyon.com and follow us on Facebook.com/LyonRealEstate.


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Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey filed a probable cause affidavit today in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman, the community watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin as he was walking home from a local convenience store.
Most of the information in the four-page affidavit is already widely known, but the document does shed some light on some of the gray areas in the Martin case.
According to the affidavit, Martin tried to "run home" but Zimmerman followed him, disregarding the police dispatcher's instructions not to pursue Martin. The affidavit states that Zimmerman then "confronted Martin and a struggle ensued."
Zimmerman has claimed that it was Martin who first approached him.
Here are some of the other interesting details from the affidavit:
- According to the affidavit, Zimmerman "assumed Martin was a criminal" and "felt Martin did not belong in the gated community" where both Zimmerman and Martin lived.
- On his call with the police dispatcher, Zimmerman referred to Martin and other people he perceived to be criminals as "these fucking punks," and said "these assholes, they always get away." Contrary to reports, he did not use a racial epithet.
- The affidavit refers to a "witness," likely Martin's girlfriend, who was on the phone with Martin during the pursuit, and said he was "scared because he was being followed" by a strange man and "didn't know why."
- According to the affidavit, "witnesses" heard "what sounded like a struggle" and "numerous calls for help," some of which were recorded on the 9-1-1 call. The affidavit states that Martin's mother has reviewed the calls and identified that it is her son's voice calling for help.
- When police arrived, Zimmerman admitted that he shot Martin.
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As we head toward another summer's end, Estranged Stories continues to have expenses. I know people are stretched, but I haven't been able to switch to the new platform as I ran out of development dollars. If you have any room in your budget this year -- please think of Estranged Stories!
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How Many Ways Can We Collaborate Around A Single Film?/
We will work together to build it better. We will use the tools we have, but not let them restrain us. Let's turn our limitations -- financial & otherwise -- into assets (may our chains set us free). We will not let ego drive us away from an ambitious and interesting cinema. Let's acknowledge that defining a true author in cinema is hard, and the act of creation is rarely original. Everything is a remix.In an era of Grand Abundance, it is best practice to be even more generative, but less authorial. And if all that is where we are, where does it leave us?
I am always looking for new methods of collaboration and new ideas of how someone else might riff off of one artist's work. Multiple authors have multiple arms and louder voices; their success is everyone's & their failure no one's. If we encourage others to use our work for their own work, everyone wins. Our work will get more traction and enter the cultural dialogue more fully, and the artist behind the secondary work is remaining productive, inspired and given new room to experiment with a tad less judgement swarming around it.
I love collaborative works like Star Wars Uncut. I love cover songs for the same reason (but unfortunately the laws in this land are more restrictive for cinema artists than musicians). I got inspired by Electric Literature's Single Sentence Animations for the same reason; the author picks a favorite sentence from a work, and then the animator and composer go to town.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. A leaping off point. I want to see work travel and evolve in other people's hands. How many ways can we collaborate? Do we know our tools? Our potential?
Hal Hartley had mentioned to me recently that he was doing a series of shorts by the greatest American playwrights. I was thrilled to then read about in the NY Times last week.
To celebrate its 50th season, Baltimore's Center Stage has commissioned a series of 50 short films, written by 50 established and emerging playwrights, starring well-known stage and screen actors directed by the indie filmmaker Hal Hartley ("Henry Fool").
Mr. Hartley shot the films in New York and Los Angeles over the course of about three weeks. Mr. Kwei-Armah said all the participants were paid "a token couple of dollars," and several people donated their money back to the theater. The entire project cost about $50,000, which came from donations made by the theater's subscribers and patrons.
Read the whole article here. Watch the first video here, written by Anna Deavere-Smith. I think it is great, harrowing, thrilling. You'd be a fool not to stop reading this now and go watch it (just wish I could have embedded it).
As I said these are all just the tip of a magnificent iceberg. The YouTube Symphony was just the beginning. We are sure to have many more such experiments in the years ahead. Some will be full on narrative features. Some experimental tone poems. Others scandalous hilarious sketch pieces. The gates have been stormed.
The tools are being built. On a similar note, Clay Shirky recently expressed the hopes that the Internet can now transform government and truly advance democracy (hat tip: Chris Dorr).
"T.S. Eliot once said, "One of the most momentous things that can happen to a culture is that they acquire a new form of prose." I think that's wrong, but -- (Laughter) I think it's right for argumentation. Right? A momentous thing that can happen to a culture is they can acquire a new style of arguing: trial by jury, voting, peer review, now this. Right?
A new form of arguing has been invented in our lifetimes, in the last decade, in fact. It's large, it's distributed, it's low-cost, and it's compatible with the ideals of democracy. The question for us now is, are we going to let the programmers keep it to themselves? Or are we going to try and take it and press it into service for society at large?"
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text: The win in Arizona marked the first World Golf Championship title for the American [AFP]A seven-year victory drought on the PGA Tour helped American Matt Kuchar appreciate the difficulty of winning, and made his triumph at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Sunday taste even sweeter. Kuchar was a gifted collegiate golfer who, as an amateur in 1998, tied for 21st at the Masters and 14th at the US Open but he learned the hard way how inaccessible the winner's circle can be after turning professional in 2000. "Winning on the PGA Tour is really difficult, you don't win that often," Kuchar told reporters after clinching his fifth title on the circuit with a 2&1 victory over fellow American Hunter Mahan in the Match Play Championship final. "So to win at all is a real thrill. To have battled the battles, to have gone down to the Nationwide Tour makes you appreciate things all that much more. "I went seven years between wins. I won in 2002 real early in my PGA Tour career, then went seven years before I won again in 2009." Dip in form After landing his maiden title on the US circuit at the 2002 Honda Classic, Kuchar endured some tough times and, as his form deteriorated, he ended up having to return to the satellite Nationwide Tour for most of the 2006 season. However, that downward move proved hugely beneficial as the American with the relaxed smile linked up with swing coach Chris O'Connell, earned his first Nationwide Tour title at the Henrico County Open and regained his PGA Tour card for 2007. "I've really got to say the credit would be in finding an instructor, Chris O'Connell," Kuchar said of the single most significant factor that helped him resurrect his golfing career. "He really helped rebuild my game. "We started working and he's turned me into the golfer I am today. I've become so much more consistent of a player. I was good in my younger days but streaky. I could be really good for a while and then struggle. "And now I feel like I'm a golfer that can hit quality shots week-in and week-out, day-in and day-out. So I owe a lot of credit to Chris O'Connell." ImprovementAfter returning to the PGA Tour, Kuchar recorded two top-10 finishes during the 2007 season, including a tie for third at the AT&T Classic, and he improved on that the following year with a further five top-10s and total earnings of $1,447,638. In 2009, he clinched his second PGA Tour title in a playoff with Vaughn Taylor for the Turning Stone Resort Championship and he has not looked back since. "Having gone seven years between wins, I understand and appreciate the effort that goes into it and the challenge and climb you have to make to get back to that winner's circle," the soft-spoken Kuchar said. "So I absolutely think the wins are more special because of the hard times." Kuchar has since gone on to win the lucrative Barclays tournament in 2010 and the Players Championship, widely regarded as the unofficial "fifth" major, last year. He underscored his consistency at the highest level of the game by setting a PGA Tour record in 2011 with earnings of $4,233,920 for the season without winning a tournament and has twice represented his country against Europe at the Ryder Cup. On Sunday at Dove Mountain, Kuchar emerged triumphant at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship to claim his first World Golf Championships (WGC) crown. "To come out on top after six matches of playing guys, the top 64 guys in the world, it's an incredible feeling," the 34-year-old smiled. "I'm not sure I can explain how excited I am to have won this tournament." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Golf US & Canada United States


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In honor of International Day of the Elderly, weíre featuring Federico Antonio, a sponsored 103-year-old in El Salvador. He lives in a Catholic home for the aged. His sponsorship benefits are given to the home, and the sisters provide him with food and other supplies. Read on to learn why heís lived so long!
Federico Antonio, a sponsored 103-year-old in El Salvador.
What is your name? Federico Antonio.
How was your childhood? My childhood was humble. I did not have much upbringing, no education. I didn't study. I had lots of difficulties. I was poor, and that is what I most regret.
Were you raised by your mother and father? Only by my mother. My father died when I was an infant.
Were you the oldest? No. I was the youngest. I am 103. My mother died at 105.
What year were you born? 1907.
Did you marry? No, I did not marry at all.
Do you have children? No, I don't have children.
Why didn't you marry? I didn't have the means. Before, you paid 30 colones (6 U.S. cents) to get married. Imagine. And after that, you still had to eat, get a house and all the other things. Others can suffer, but me, no. If I am poor, I will suffer alone. But I had a girlfriend who told me, "Let's get married." But I always told her, no. Her name was Emilia and she was very pretty. But I didn't want to marry, even though I intended to earn something to take care of her, but I wasn't able to. I planted corn fields, but I couldn't earn anything because the soil wasn't good for corn. So, I learned to make bread and intended to get married at age 28, but I couldn't.
In your youth, what work did you do? I was a day laborer. I cleared fields with a machete. I cleared coffee fields with a machete. The military accepted me. I learned to cut poles.
Did you live alone or with your siblings and mother? We lived together, with my mother, until she died.
Did your siblings play with you? Yes, we played and they beat me up and wrestled with me. I had to climb a tree to get away from them.
And how do you feel now? I feel calm, at peace. I feel happy. All the sisters are good to me. They give me two blankets to sleep with. It is because of the grace of God that I am so good here with the sisters. When I celebrate a birthday, they treat me like a king and I like to break the piñata.
What do you like most about your birthday celebration? Taking my picture. I like to pose.
What did you do in your youth? I always worked and took care of myself, and I couldn't even be a military corporal. I was very discouraged but I continued moving onward. Since I was young, I didn't receive advice from anyone. I grew up in poverty. I didn't learn to read. Didn't receive culture. Before, you paid for school and my mother was very poor. She fed us "guineos majoncho," or large bananas cooked different ways, stewed and plain. Since we were five siblings, she raised us herself. She worked all day for 6 cents ironing. My mother was beaten down by this work and I know she saved for her children.
Federico Antonio reads his ID card. In spite of his advanced age, he can still read small letters without the use of glasses.
How was life then and now? Before, it was very bad, because they paid my mother 6 cents a day. When we ate bananas and yuca, we were very content.
What do you do to stay so strong? I laugh. How do you do it? The will of God, nothing more. I pray Psalm 128 every night. Perhaps this is why I am still here.
Did you go to war? Yes. I went to war and only got two bullet wounds. I was in the military hospital nearly five years because my spinal column was hit and my body is useless.
But you are always happy! Yes. By God's grace, I am not the sad and melancholy type. I see old people who are sad and lamenting their situation. This is how you die quickly. I am not afraid of death. I have looked at death three times. She is very tall and thin. I asked her, "Who are you?" She told me she was death. She showed me a hook in a very pointed walking stick. If I carry a hook as a scepter, it's the scepter of death, and she missed me a lot, she said. In the farm where I worked before, a laurel tree fell on me and knocked me unconscious for nearly one day. It left me half dead. That's when death visited me another time.
What advice do you give to young people to have a long life? Know how to live, and don't hang with a bad crowd. Respect the elderly and listen to advice from your elders. Also, you should marry just one woman because she will be your partner for your whole life, but take care who you marry. You marry for life and it's better to marry and not get burned. The beauty in a person is the friendliness and honor they show. Being poor doesn't have to discourage us. It should motivate us to improve and better ourselves.
Thanks to Daniel Hernandez and Naresly Calitto, interns at CFCA's El Salvador communications center, for conducting the interview and taking photos.


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Among its many cool features there is the possibility to monitor your swing with the SwingTempo, SwingStrength and TempoTraining features. The list continues with the CourseView button for manual positioning of the pin, the PinPointer app that shows you the pin when you can't see it, smartphone notifications (Bluetooth connection to your Apple device), extra-long battery life, glove-friendly touchscreen, and a really nice and slim design.
Obviously, the high-resolution color touchscreen can also display the time, just like any regular watch would do. So wear it every day as a reliable time teller with odometer (which tells you how far you walk), and then take it with you on the course for an indispensable golf companion. All for $400.


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We celebrated by son's birthday yesterday and I was feeling some twinges of guilt because of the lack of effort dedicated to this big day. Here is what I was able to pull together.
The Chasing Fireflies catalog has great number shirts but not having $30 to spend on a t-shirt I opted to make my own out of a $3.50 shirt, freezer paper and some fabric paint. I really like this method and I love how it turned out!
To make your own cut your design out of some freezer paper. Place the waxy side on the fabric and use your iron on a medium setting to attach, then go crazy with the fabric paint. I put a towel in between the two layers of the shirt in case I went too crazy with the paint. Let the paint dry and then set the paint with the iron.
For M's gift I wanted to make him a tent that he saw at my friend's house. I am going to try and post a tutorial on this once I recover for the holidays. I used nylon and in hindsight I think it would have been better with canvas. It is a bit bigger than originally intended, but M loves it and three kids can easily fit inside.
|Testing out the new tent.
I wanted to make M a train cake and had big plans to carve a train but after realizing that it took a sheet cake to create and we weren't going to have a big party I scaled down the design. I made marshmallow fondant and it was great! I was a little rushed cutting out the train but it is identifiable.
Here is a close up of the smoking. Next time I will make sure to add enough dry ice to make it more dramatic but I was too chicken this time.
Having a December birthday is tough, especially so close to Christmas. We have already started to debate having a summer half birthday. Any people out there with December birthdays that care to weight in?


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