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Professor Thom is Co-PI on a cooperative reserach agreement through the US Air Force Reserach Labs for the development of a National Test Facilty for fuels and propulsion. This center involves develoment research regarding alernative and future aviation fuels. He is a guiding member of the Facility, which has a Materials Laboratroy for fuels and polymers, exhaust emissions measurment for turbine and reciprocating engines, warm fuel test rigs, and cross collaborative project managment teams.
Professor Thom has collaborated on work regarding the technical skills required for aerospace engineers in the 21st century and has worked on methods for re-integrating hands-on skills into engineering and engineering technology education. He has done research on applied skills in engineering, and he currently serves on the Department' s ABET accreditation working group,
- Thom, J.M., Hagovsky, T.C., Stanley, D.L., Hendricks, R. M., Johnson, M.E., and Dubkovsky, M. I. (In press). Is ABET for You? History and Rationale of Pursuing ABET. Inc. Accreditation. Aviation Technical Education Council Journal. 19-2., 45-54.
- Thom, J.M., S.I. Dubikovsky, T.C. Hagovsky, D.L. Stanley, R.M. Hendricks (In Press). A Historical Perspective for Incorporating the Airframe and Powerplant Certificate as a Relevant Engineering Technology Skill. JAAER. 19-2., 45-54.
- Thom, J.M. and Gerbracht, T. L. (2008). Study of an Aviation Design Supportability Course for Engineering and Technology. JAAER. 17-2., 33-49.
- Thom, J.M. and Thom, M.A. (2006). Back to the Future: A survey of Engineering and Technology Education over the Last Century. Aviation Technical Education Council Journal. 28-1., 24-30.
- Thom, J.M. and Brzezenski, J. (2006). Turbine Powerplants: Using the A&P Course to Fulfill Engineering Needs. Aviation Technical Education Council Journal. 28-1.,9-13.
- Hagovsky, T.C., Thom, J.M., Young, J.P. (2004). WebCT ™ In the Technical Classroom: Strengths and Weakness' of Using the Delivery Method. Aviation Technical Education Council Journal. 26-1., 4-6.
- K. McNamara,* Thom,* J.M., & R. E. Thompson (2005). Improving Safety in a High Reliability/Low Commitment Work Environment, Collegiate Aviation Review, 22-1., 9-15.
- Thom,* J.M., & D. R. Clarrett,*. (2005). A Structured Methodology for Adjusting Perceived Risk, Collegiate Aviation Review, 22-1.,97-121.
- Thom,* J.M. & T.C. Hagovsky (2004). Aircraft Wire Rope: Beyond the AC 43.13), Aviation Technical Education Council Journal. 25-2., 4-12.
- Thom*, J.M., & Pickering, M. (2002). A New Look at Motivators for Women to Enter Aviation Maintenance, Aviation Technical Education Council Journal, 23-2,4-8.
- Thom, J.M. (2001). Diagnostic Data for Repair and Overhaul, Aviation Technical Education Council Journal, 22-2.,4-7.
- Thom*, J.M. (1997). Industry Inputs for Better Communication Training for Aviation Maintenance Students. Aviation Technical Education Journal, 19 (1), 8-10.
- Kimble*,M.A. and Thom*, J.M. (1997). The Elimination of Halon: Nothing Else Works Like It. Aviation Technical Education Journal, 18 (2), 8-10.
- Kimble*,M.A. and Thom*, J.M. (1996). A Background on the Elimination of Freon. Aviation Technical Education Journal, 18 (1), 8-10.
- Thom,* J.M. (1996). ASTM, CRC and the Replacement Fuels for Leaded Aviation Gasoline. Aviation Technical Education Journal, 17 (2), 7-9.
- Thom,* J.M. (1994). Who Dreamed Up This Design?. Aviation Technical Education Journal, 16 (2), 4-8.
- Kimble*, M.A. and Thom*, J.M. (1994). Skydrol, Why the Bad Rap? Aviation Technical Education Journal, 16 (1), 5-7.
- Thom*, J.M. (1993) A Background Study of the Ozone Depletion Issue. Journal of Avionics Education, 2 (1), 17-36
- Kimble*, M.A. and Thom*, J.M. (1993). Freon and Halon Replacement; Possibilities and Problems. Journal of Avionics Education, 3 (1), 11-17.


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Streaming music services are dying.
I know, I know: By almost any metric you use, the streaming music business is actually booming. Let's just look at the two biggest examples. Over 150 million people have signed up to hear tunes through Pandora, while another 33 million folks sing in the shower with the help of Spotify. Spotify alone sucked down over a quarter of a billion dollars — that's billion with a "B — in revenue in 2011. Pandora's revenues topped $100 million last quarter alone.
That's a ton of ears and even more moolah, and those numbers should only increase as more and more people move to using mobile devices with limited storage space and free-roaming Internet abilities.
Even still, the streaming music services are dying. That's because the one metric that matters most just so happens to be the one metric that both companies fail miserably at: actually making money. Despite those millions of customers and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues, you see, neither Pandora nor Spotify have yet to make a single dollar's worth of profit. And it's not their fault.
The streaming music services are dying, choked slowly into oblivion by the overwhelming greed of the music industry.
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By almost any metric you use, the RIAA and the rest of the American music industry should be swooning over the meteoric rise in streaming music popularity. The streaming music revenue model monetizes listeners who used to download albums off of BitTorrent and LimeWire, converting their once-illegal habits into actual income through the royalties paid by the services themselves. In a nutshell, streaming music services turn nothing into something for the RIAA and co.
Study after study has shown that having free or low-cost legal music options stamps out piracy much more efficiently than dragging illicit downloaders into court ever did. Spotify found raging success in the Scandinavian countries, for example, and those countries have seen music piracy rates drop between 25 and 50 percent since the service launched. The number of pirates continues to dwindle as time goes on.
Given that the U.S. boasts more music pirates than any other country in the world, you'd think the music industry would want to nurture the blossoming streaming music industry into maturity. And it does: In a 2012 industry report (PDF), the IFPI — International Recording Industry Association — calls streaming music "a fast-expanding business model" and notes one big potential upside. "In the à-la-carte environment, an album or track is downloaded once and paid for. In the streaming environment, a track or album may be listened to hundreds of times, each triggering a payment to rights holders."
Streaming music is a cow that will never run out of milk. Unless, of course, the cow itself winds up dead. The music industry's greed could very well end up doing that.
Why aren't streaming music services making money?
It's simple: they pay too much money out in royalties.
Pandora differs from most streaming music services in that it's more accurately called an Internet radio station: It plays whatever music it wants, then gives the artist a royalty payment in line with what's mandated by a government statutory license, which also imposes limits on on-demand listening and the number of times a song can be played in a set time period. The license fee works out to the greater of $0.02 per listener per hour or 25 percent of the company's revenues.
It's that "whichever's greater" part that's killing Pandora. That line forces Pandora to pay out over half its revenue in royalties, a completely unsustainable long-term business model.
Because of that, the company is lobbying hard for Congress to pass the Internet Radio Fairness Act, a bill that would allow Internet radio royalty rates to be set by a panel of judges who adjust royalties based on their commercial value, similar to what's done for traditional cable and satellite radio. The move could drop Pandora's royalties down to 8 to 16 percent of total revenues, a much more sustainable amount. Our Geoff Duncan already tackled the complex subject in-depth.
Conversely, the music industry backs a competing bill called the Interim FIRST ACT (PDF) that would force traditional broadcasters to pay the same high royalty rate as Internet radio stations.
Spotify and the other on-demand music streaming services handle things a bit differently. They've negotiated individual licensing deals with the music labels that have the services paying agreed-upon rates for streaming music. The exact amounts haven't been disclosed, but they're definitely steep: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has said that 70 percent of revenues go "back into the industry," but a recent leak of the company's 2011 financials suggest royalty-related costs could consume a whopping 97 percent of the company's revenue.
Streaming music: Shining brightly, but destined to fade?
No company can survive those kinds of content costs. Even more incredulously, several artists have complained that services like Spotify still don't pay them enough, although TechDirt's Mike Masnick — a noted intellectual property journalist — says that when a royalty collection agency studied the numbers, it found that Spotify pays a much higher royalty rate per-listen than iTunes or traditional radio.
Some analysts have suggested that running more ads would reduce the royalty burden and increase revenues for streaming music services, but as anyone who's ever listened to the free version of Spotify can tell you, the service runs an abundance of ads — and it's still losing money hand over fist.
It's a complicated subject, to be sure, and it's similar to the struggles other content providers are facing in an Internet-connected world where most digital content inevitably moves towards no cost for the end user. But here's the rub: The music industry has already been there. Piracy ran rampant in the previous decade in the form of file-sharing, and that specter still looms large over the U.S. music scene.
Low-cost streaming music services offer artists salvation, having already proven that they can turn today's bleak piracy-filled landscape into a profitable revenue stream for the future. But if the music industry can't check its greed and hash out a royalty scheme that works for artists and streaming services alike, it could very well snuff out the golden egg-laying goose for good. If the two brightest streaming music stars can't sustain, none of the services can.
But hey, look on the bright side! If Spotify and Pandora go down, there's always BitTorrent.
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On any Sunday...
... is a 1971 American documentary feature about motorcycle sport, directed by Bruce Brown.This documentary follows the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts. Brown tried to show the unique talents needed for the different forms of racing. For instance, the motocross riders were typically free-spirited types, while desert racers were, as Brown says "the great variety of people from all walks of life" and "good people". In Grand National racing, Brown showed the differing personalities, such as the business-like approach to racing displayed by Mert Lawwill versus the carefree approach that wild young rookie David Aldana became known for.
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Q: I'm interested in the factors that affect people's job satisfaction. What does research say?
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A: An individual's attitude, plus external factors such as working conditions, pay, treatment by supervisors and the ability to find meaning in one's duties have long been seen as the primary factors in job satisfaction.
A growing number of employers provide training aimed at improving workers' attitudes, hiring coaches who draw on psychological research, ancient traditions such as meditation or yoga, or both to inspire a more positive state of mind.
Genetics also play a role, however. A tendency to hate your job runs in families, according to a 2011 study in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
People with a certain type of dopamine receptor gene, which has been tied to risk-taking, weak impulse control and attention deficit disorder, tend to be less satisfied with their jobs, says the study by researchers at the National University of Singapore.
People with a certain variation of the serotonin transporter gene, which has been linked to lower rates of depression and higher self-esteem, tend to be happier with their work, according to the research. Past studies of twins suggest that inherited traits may be responsible for about 27% of the variance in people's job satisfaction.
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You can omit the eggs in this recipe if you simply add a tablespoon of flour to the soymilk mixture. Also, add a little more cinnamon or nutmeg to the powdered sugar if you would like a stronger flavor.
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DCoop Sourcebook - Arteriors Ziggy Pendants
Is it me or when you hear the name Ziggy do you also think of the really short comic book character with the big nose and the very lanky cat?
I thought so.
I was hoping I wasn't the only mentally unstable one on the internet.
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So lighting. You know that lighting is one of my loves. A passion perhaps. Not much of a fetish but I have felt bad about making googly eyes at pendants with seductive lines. Like the hammered iron Ziggy Pendant Arteriors has decided to wave in front of me. I think they knew and were taunting me with it's fabric cord (hello! A Fabric Cord. I. Die.) and dimply gloss white powder coat finish. And then there was that peep show of hammered brass under it's otherwise demure exterior.
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Automated Highway System (AHS): A more futuristic effort my students and I are involved in is the Automated Highway System (AHS). The ambitious goal of this project is to improve safety and reduce congestion on our nations highways by fully automating the driving task. A key research issue in this domain is reliable perception of the road, other vehicles and obstacles. We are investigating solutions to this problem using various image processing techniques, as well as alternative sensing modalities like infrared lasers and millimeter wave radar. Another important area we are addressing is the planning and coordination of vehicle maneuvers such as lane changes and obstacle avoidance. Finally, we are developing control techniques that allow the vehicle to actually execute these maneuvers.
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The video for this session examines comprehension and response to literature in grades K-2. In her lecture, Dr. Jeanne R. Paratore reviews the essential comprehension strategies of proficient readers, and the explicit and strategic instruction that promotes these strategies. The workshop participants then watch and discuss a set of classroom excerpts that illustrate these concepts. Following their discussion, they work in grade-level groups to develop a comprehension strategy lesson plan.
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Men still make up a small portion of salon customers in the United States, but their numbers are growing, especially in the 18-34 age group, a global market research group said.
In a report aimed at the salon industry, Mintel said Tuesday that 52 percent of the men it surveyed had gone to salons, which it broadly defined as anything from a luxury spa to a corner barber shop.
Fifty-eight percent said they'd gone for a mere haircut. But among males aged 18-34, 25 percent said they had gone for a manicure or pedicure, and 20 percent had treated themselves to a facial.
"The men's market is growing, although it's (still) a small portion" of the overall market for beauty health and services, said Amy Ziegler, global personal care analyst at Mintel in Chicago.
She attributed the trend in part to a growing number of male-specific salons -- often promoted through social media -- "that are not so scary, and less intimidating" than traditional, female-oriented establishments.
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"The men who are engaged (with going to salons) are very engaged. You can call them your 'metrosexual' men who are very concerned with their appearance," Ziegler added.
"But I think there's still that portion of men who may not have been interested, but who are hearing about them, and who are willing to try... and then think, 'This isn't so bad' -- and they're going back."
Mintel, which interviewed about 2,000 men and women for its report, also found the market for grooming and beauty services growing at a higher rate among Hispanics, blacks and Asians of both genders.
Blacks are especially keen on nail care, while Hispanics and, to a lesser extent, Asians are more interested in facials and massages, Ziegler said.
Coming out of the recession, Ziegler said, there is a "shift away from DIY," with American consumers returning to salons for such treatments as hair coloring that they had opted to do at home to save money.


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All-American Honorable Mention
First Team All-West Region
All-Big West First Team
Stacey was named an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American and was an AVCA All-West Region First Team selection ... She led the team with 405 points on the season and finished second on the team with 333 kills ... She averaged 3.00 kills per set and appeared in all of UCSB's 111 sets ... Led the team with a .324 hitting percentage which ranked fifth in the Big West ... In conference games she hit .307 and averaged a team-high 3.11 kills per set ... Also led the squad with 0.81 blocks per set in Big West play ... Had 17 matches with double-digit kills ... Stacey's career-high 23 kills carried the Gauchos to a 3-2 win over Cal St. Northridge on Sept. 24 ... Recorded a double-double on Oct. 1 with 14 kills and 10 block assists in a five-set win over Long Beach State ... She also had 18 kills against UC Davis on Oct 16 ... Stacey led the team with 90 blocks averaging 0.81 blocks per set ... Totaled a team-best 90 blocks (12 solo) ... She also finished the season with 21 aces putting her second on the team ... Tallied 83 digs or 0.75 per set ... Was an Big West All-Academic Team selection ... Was UCSB's Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year.
All-Big West First Team
Finished second on the team with 279 total kills, an average of 2.34 per set ... Hit a team-best .330, which was also third-best in the Big West ... That mark also placed her 86th in the nation ... Tied for second on the team with 80 total blocks ... Had 11 solo blocks, second-best on squad, and averaged 0.67 blocks per set ... She also tallied 69 digs, for a 0.58 per set average ... In conference games, Stacey hit .278 and averaged 2.34 kills per set ... Had 16 matches with double-digit kills ... Had season-best 15 kills (one off her career-high) on Oct. 10 vs. Cal Poly ... Hit .300 or better in 21 of 30 matches ... Her .714 hitting percentage on Sept. 4 at San Diego (10k, 0e, 14a) ranks as 11th-best all-time in UCSB rally-scoring history ... Tallied at least one block in all but one match ... Had season-best eight digs on Oct. 30 vs. Cal State Fullerton ... Posted 14 kills on Oct. 16 vs. Pacific ... Opened the season with consecutive 10-kill performances vs. Portland State and Delaware ... In fact, she had double-digit kills in 10 of the season's first 14 matches ... Had 16 service aces on the season, including a career-high three on Oct. 31 vs. Long Beach State.
Received a medical redshirt as she recovered from knee surgery.
Played in 23 matches a freshman...Posted double-digit kills on four occasions, the first time at Santa Clara (Sept. 15) when she tallied 15 and also collected a season-best six digs...The following match, she had 13 kills in a five-game loss to Cal State Northridge (Sept. 21)...Had a strong showing at the season-ending Baden Thanksgiving Classic, posting a .303 (14k, 4e, 33a) clip in the win over Temple (Nov. 23) along with a season-high three block assists...The next day, she notched a season-high 16 kills in a win over Yale...Was third amongst Gaucho freshmen and sixth overall with 108 kills on the year.
High School
Played at Marina High School where she was team captain, team kills leader, and Most Valuable Player in 2005 and 2006 under head coach Brad Simons...A three-year varsity letterwinner, she helped the Vikings to a CIF Division IA appearance in 2006...Named First Team All-Sunset League during both her junior and senior years...Was a Scholar-Athlete for all four years of her prep career and was tops amongst four-year letterwinners with a 4.1 GPA...Earned Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition Player of the Week honors after posting 29 kills against cross-town rival Edison...Was voted Most Athletic Female of her senior class at Marina HS...Graduated with honors.
Played club ball with TCA for four years under coach Neil Mason...On the TCA 18-1 team, she earned a gold medal at the 2006 National Girls Junior Olympics Open Championship in Atlanta, Ga....In 2007 her team took third in the 18-open championship...The same year, her team won three qualifiers and placed second in Las Vegas...In 2005 she earned all-tournament honors as her 16-1 team took gold at the Junior Olympics Invitational in Louisville, Ky.
Stacey Brianne Schmidt was born on March 5, 1989 in Anaheim, Calif. to Debbie and Craig Schmidt...Has a younger brother named Jacob...Enjoys playing beach volleyball...Majoring in business economics at UCSB with a minor in sports management...A member of the Dean's List at UCSB...Enjoys swimming when she's not playing volleyball...Her favorite movie is "Forrest Gump"...Most memorable athletic achievement was winning Junior Olympics in 2006.


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Michael (Khoroshy) of Toronto
His Beatitude Metropolitan Michael (Khoroshy), (secular name Theodot Nykyforovych Khoroshy) was born in Fedorivka, near Chyhyryn, Ukraine, on July 10, 1885. He reposed in the Lord in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 5, 1977 and is buried in the Prospect Cemetery in Toronto. He was a bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada from 1951-1977, and the Church's Metropolitan from 1973 until his resignation in 1975.
Theodot Khoroshy began his early education in his village. Later he moved on to the pedagogical seminary in the town of Shamivka in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Following that, he studied at the Theological Seminary and the Faculty of History-Philology of St. Vladimir's Seminary in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. In December 1912, Bishop Nicodemus ordained young Theodot a deacon. During the next few years, he translated the Liturgical Psalter into Ukrainian. On April 24, 1920, Bishop Dimitrius (Verbytsky) ordained him a priest, and in the following months he was appointed Dean of a church in Ternivka, in the Cherkasy region.
At this time the Bolshevik occupation bringing terrible destruction to ecclesiastical life. Despite the pressure on clergy to deny their vocation, Fr. Theodot was a great soldier of Christ, and was unshaken. Due to his outstanding clerical work, in 1923 Fr. Theodot was appointed the Dean of the Cathedral of Cherkasy.
With the final attack of the Bolsheviks on the Church, the communist authorities arrested Fr. Theodot in September 1929, after which he was condemned to eight years in concentration camps in the far north: first on the Kola peninsula on the White Sea, then the "Island of Death": Kond, and a year later to Solovky. In the fall of 1932 he was transfered to the camps of Ukhta-Pechersk for further punishment. Following his release in 1937, Fr. Theodot returned to the Donbas area in Ukraine and established himself in Kirovohrad.
With the arrival of the Germans in Ukraine in 1941, religious freedom was established in the formerly atheistic state. In Kirovohrad, Fr. Theodot organized a Higher Church Government, and in March 1942 he was elected a candidate for the Episcopate. With the blessing of the Administrator of the Warsaw Metropolia in the freed Ukrainian lands, headed by Archbishop Polikarp (Sikorsky), Bishops Nikanor and Ihor, tonsured Fr. Theodot a monk on May 12, 1942. He was given the name Michael and immediately thereafter ordained into the episcopate as the Bishop of Kirovohrad at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev.
Even with the German occupation, the Church was still under threat, and priests and bishops often had to suffer. Nevertheless, under the attentive care of Bishop Michael, the Kirovohrad Diocese developed and grew very quickly; thus in November 1942 Bishop Michael was elevated to archbishop. When the German authorities intruded into Church matters, Archbishop Michael was transfered to the Mykolayiv Diocese. By the conclusion of the war in 1945, Arcbishop Michael had already travelled widely across Europe: to Odessa, Akerman, Galac, Vienna, Warsaw, and throughout Germany and Slovakia. He was allowed to continue his pastoral work for the Ukrainian Orthodox, particularly amongst captives, expatriated workers, and refugees. With the blessing of Metropolitan Polikarp, Archbishop Michael was given the responsibility to look after the Ukrainian Orthodox flock in Bavaria, with its headquarters in Munich. Archbishop Michael was very successful in his new diocese.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
Within a few years, with Metropolitan Polikarp's blessing, the Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada invited Archbishop Michael to become her ruling bishop. On May 14, 1951, Archbishop Michael came to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (the Church's Headquarters). However, with the arrival of His Beatitude Metropolitan Ilarion (Ohienko) also in 1951, the UOCC decided to use the higher ranking bishop (Ilarion) as "Metropolitan of Winnipeg and the Central Diocese, Metropolitan of All Canada, and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada." Archbishop Michael was now assigned as "Archbishop of Toronto and the Eastern Diocese." Archbishop Michael was the first Bishop of Toronto, and he quickly set about organizing and regulating the life of the new Diocese, through which he traveled frequently. Under his guidance, nineteen new churches which were noted for their beauty were constructed.
In 1970, Metropolitan Ilarion had become ill, and Archbishop Michael became "Acting Primate" of the UOCC. When Metropolitan Ilarion reposed in March 1972, Archbishop Michael was elected Primate of the Church and installed as her Metropolitan in 1973. However, during the XV Sobor in 1975, Michael resigned as Metropolitan, stating that he wished to remain as the head of the Eastern Diocese until his repose. All this time Metropolitan Michael held the title "His Beatitude."
His Beatitude Metropolitan Michael passed away on May 5, 1977 in Toronto, at the age of 91.
Metropolitan Michael always had a keen concern for the spiritual education of his faithful and especially of the children. He wrote theological works, translated the Psalter, the Horologion (the Book of Hours), and a number of other works into Ukrainian. He also composed music for the services of vespers, matins, and the Divine Liturgy. He was a confessor of the Orthodox Faith and a zealous archpastor. He was known for his humility and zeal for the development of Church life. However, he was known most of all for his prayer life, and many people who remember the spiritually uplifting experience of services presided by Metropolitan Michael echo the words that Metropolitan Andrew said at his graveside: "He was a great intercessor before our Lord God, and for his people and his Church."
Michael (Khoroshy) of Toronto
|Preceded by:
First Bishop of Toronto
|Bishop of Toronto (UOCC)
1951-1972; 1975-1977
|Succeeded by:
Nicholas (Debryn) of Toronto
|Preceded by:
Ilarion (Ohienko) of Winnipeg
|Metropolitan of Winnipeg and the Central Diocese, Metropolitan and Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada (UGOC)
|Succeeded by:
Andrew (Metiuk) of Winnipeg
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4 Things Not to Say to Your Boss
By Angela Rose, Hcareers.com
A survey by The American Psychological Association (APA) revealed that work significantly impacts the stress levels of 62 percent of Americans. Fifty-two percent of workers consider their work environment to be more stressful than their home environment. And workplace stress can have a negative effect on an employee's job performance as well as physical and mental health. In fact, a study conducted by the Families and Work Institute found that twenty-six percent of workers experience burnout due to stress.
These figures are not surprising. More companies are trying to keep up with customer demand using fewer employees. Many of those employees are scrambling to cover the duties that used to fall to multiple coworkers. This may mean longer hours and fewer days for vacations and it always means more stress. According to the APA survey, 61 percent of workers say their heavy workloads significantly impact their stress levels at work.
Higher stress levels may cause you to react to situations emotionally, or to behave in an otherwise less than professional manner. You may say things you later regret, even at the office. Unfortunately, there are certain statements which, when made to your boss, are almost always guaranteed to damage your career. Avoid saying the following things at all costs.
1. "I'm taking a vacation next week." – If you've already cleared this time with your boss, and you're just reminding him, great. However, if this is the first mention you've made of a vacation, you're going to come across as unprofessional and inconsiderate. In almost all workplaces, you need to request vacation time and other time off through the proper channels –starting with your boss or supervisor.
2. "Oops." – If you spill your coffee, saying "oops" is okay. If you lose a major account, double book an appointment or make another mistake that could impact the company's bottom line, "oops" is not an appropriate response. Acknowledge your mistakes and apologize for them. Follow up with a proposed solution. And, whatever you do, don't make the same mistake again.
3. "It's not part of my job." – Job descriptions are never comprehensive, and professionals who want to advance their careers never say no to the opportunity to learn something new. Refusing to take on a new duty makes you appear petty, unprofessional, disinterested in your career, and definitely not a "team" player. Make yourself more valuable to your employer, not less, by enthusiastically accepting whatever task your boss throws at you.
4. "Give me X or I'm going to quit." – Threats stopped working about the time you left the elementary school playground, so put them back in the sandbox and walk away. No one (no one who is a professional anyway) wants to come across as an angry, petulant child at the office. Whether you're requesting vacation time, a new desk chair or a raise, do so politely. Meet resistance with reason, not a temper tantrum, or the consequences could be worse than going to your room.
Most bosses understand the demands they are placing on their employees - or at least they want to. Keep this in mind and communicate diplomatically and politely about any issue that impacts your job performance. You'll likely receive a diplomatic and polite response in return.
About the Author
Angela Rose researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for Hcareers.com.
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Tooling Update
Cushions Star in New Press Solutions Brochure
Hyson Products, Brecksville, OH, has published a new 12-page brochure cataloging its expertise in supplying ram cushions, bolster cushions, hydraulic controllable cushions and custom force-generating systems for metal stampers. Described are cushion options for new press builds as well as for press upgrades and retrofits—four-post, stud-mount, ram, spring-box and bolster cushions. The brochure also features case studies and an application sheet that reviews the information needed to start the process of system selection and design.Hyson Products: 440/526-5900; www.hysonproducts.com
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Perhaps the United States once really was "the land of the free" – but I see no historical evidence that it deserves this label (unless it refers simply to the freedom of white people to grab land, in the early, pioneer days). An illustration of the power of US corporate propaganda is the way in which Ronald Reagan, a global terrorist and domestic criminal, who redistributed large chunks of the US economy to the super-rich, is today seen by many Americans as a hero; or at least, a nice old man. He even has a provincial airport named after him. This Stalinist-style rewrite of history is an American speciality. The truth is dead – long live the propaganda.
Reagan's loyal sidekick, Margaret Thatcher, died last week, and the right immediately tried to begin another rewrite of history; the media has pushed a largely establishment view, and the old lady has been given a state-funded funeral, with military escort, to take place this Wednesday. The British establishment is trying to airbrush one unfortunate fact out of history: Thatcher is widely loathed by much of the British public – probably by more people than ever supported her. Unfortunately for the Conservative party, right-wing media and wider establishment, the British people have less of a tendency towards amnesia than our American cousins, and, it appears, less of a tendency to lie down and let the state roll over us.
Thatcher, I commented on Twitter, was the most hated Briton of the 20th Century. I only received one dissenting reply, which suggested Ian Huntley (the murderer of two young girls) as an alternative. Perhaps he was right – but reaching for a child killer underlines my point rather than destroying it.
The point of most of the protests, blogging and anger is deadly serious: to prevent Thatcher from getting the Reagan treatment. It's important that the long series of tragedies that marked the Thatcher era is kept in the public memory. Even the combined might of the right-wing media has failed to hide that Thatcher is hated by millions of people.
Some clever person thought up a way to reveal the extent of Thatcher-hate: by suggesting that people buy the Wizard of Oz song, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. The single rocketed up the iTunes chart to number one (before mysteriously settling back to second place in the hour before the count closed on Saturday night); the right, still failing to comprehend the truly mass nature of the anti-Thatcher feeling, tried to replace it with a pro-Thatcher song, "I Love Margaret Thatcher" (which was actually satirical – there are no known pro-Thatcher songs). This effort was promoted by the right-wing media – and still flopped dismally, reaching a pathetic 35th position. Despite what the media was telling us, there was no groundswell of pro-Thatcher feeling to rival the anti-Thatcher feeling.
The BBC and Capital Radio both decided to censor the charts. You see, it's fine for the mass media to tell people what tunes to buy, but when the public choose the top single for themselves, to make a statement? That's dangerous sedition. We now have an established precedent: when a fact (in this case, the extent of hatred for Margaret Thatcher) is inconvenient to the British establishment, the media can and will impose censorship.
Anti-Thatcher banners were displayed at football matches. Plans for a minute's silence at stadiums were shelved, because football fans would have refused to stay silent. Every attempt to paint a picture of a nation in mourning failed.
The right resorted to snivelling: "An old lady has died… Think of her family." But then why is such a hated woman awarded a state-funded funeral that is bound to generate anger and protest? Why is there a military presence, and why are the chimes of Big Ben to be silenced? Because then future generations can be taught that she was a national heroine; that her vindictive and deliberate destruction of Britain's social fabric was actually done in the national interest. The fact of the funeral itself can be used to write history – how different is this from the state-sanctioned worship of North Korean leaders? These tyrants can prove how "loved" they are by showing videos of cheering, flag-waving crowds. Tomorrow's event is made-for-TV. The pictures will show the burial of a loved woman, not a hated one. Millions can express their hatred for Thatcher on the streets, online, at football matches, by buying singles; but the final story that the establishment wants to tell is a different one altogether.
This is why the protests this week have been important. This is a battle for memes: a struggle to control which version of history goes into the history books. Because for all the praise over Thatcher's legacy, the British people have not forgotten:
- Thatcher's "economic miracle" never happened: British GDP has grown in line with Germany and France – and this happened at the time of a North Sea oil boom in the UK.
- Thatcher therefore didn't create wealth with her policies – she merely redistributed it, from poor to rich, as shown by the Gini coefficient.
- And the long-term economic legacy? According to Thatcher fans, we now have a country of opportunity for hard workers. Yet Thatcher actually made it harder to succeed – social mobility fell, and is among the worst in Europe, with only Portugal lagging behind us. This fact, more than any other, destroys the central myth of Thatcherism.
- Thatcher's one true economic achievement was to turn London into a global financial centre; but this happened at the cost of losing Britain's position as a manufacturer, leaving Germany to soar ahead; and the 2008 crash showed that the City boom was far less valuable to the nation than had been previously assumed. It had been built on sand.
- Some "libertarians" have declared Thatcher a fighter for individual liberty – these people clearly don't remember the most authoritarian regime of the post-war era, probably even beating New Labour's control-freakery after 9/11. The police were given a blank cheque by the Thatcherites: as a result, police corruption and violence soared. Deaths in custody were ignored. When young people turned away from politics and embraced rave culture, the police were even there to stop them dancing in fields. Thatcherism did not approve of dancing. "Free" people must consume, not dance.
- Despite the rise in brutal policing (or more likely, because of it) violent crime rose throughout the 1980s, peaking in the mid-90s before starting to fall again (see "Trends in Crime" graph in this BBC article).
- Thatcherites spread the myth that privilege is now about hard work, not birthright; yet when Thatcher's moron son Mark attempted to engineer a coup in Equatorial Guinea and was arrested, strings were pulled on his behalf, and he was fined and released.
So Thatcher's death is being used by conservatives to reinvent her life. Don't these people have any respect for a frail old lady who has died, or for her family? Despite a torrent of media lies and censorship; despite the police acting to prevent peaceful protest; despite the tabloid wailing about "leftie extremists", the British people have acted to stop history from being rewritten. The British love of free speech wasn't given to us from above; it's deep in our culture, and it's the people who claim to defend it who most want to take it away.


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Calendar features high-profile dads
Premature birth is more than just an important issue to KABB's "Fox News First" anchor Ernie Zuniga. It's a fact of life.
Zuniga was born prematurely, as were two of his three children.
When the local branch of March of Dimes, whose mission is fighting premature births and preventing birth defects, asked him to participate in their "Men Have Babies Too" 2013 calendar, he didn't hesitate.
"It was a natural thing," Zuniga said. "A couple of years ago I emceed a couple of their events. Two Octobers ago we were selected as an ambassador family. I've done a little community work for them. It's an ongoing thing."
The calendar features high-profile San Antonio dads with their kids. January's photo shows Zuniga and his three children, 7-year-old Ava and 2-year-old twins Luke and Madeline, in the KABB studio.
"Trying to do stuff with three little kids can be an adventure," he said. "My wife and I were trying to herd them together, trying to get them to look up in the same frame. ... We had to do a little bribing. I'm not ashamed to admit we had bags of M&M's on standby."
Fire Chief Charles Hood, former Dallas Cowboy Wane McGarity, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Mayor Julián Castro, Police Chief William McManus, SA2020 CEO Darryl Byrd and Express-News food writer Edmund Tijerina are among the other men featured.
Noah Almanza, CEO of the San Antonio division of March of Dimes, said the wish list for participants was "about a mile long."
"We want to bring awareness that improves the health of babies, and one thing is to encourage dads to get involved and highlight men who are involved," Almanza said.
"Men are part of the equation, and we are taking notice." email@example.com


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The short Mortal Kombat film that set the internet on fire last year bears fruit on April 12, when the first episode of Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Legacy debuts on Machinima.com. Check out a clip from the series here.
Fame director Kevin Tancharoen created a live-action Mortal Kombat film short last year featuring actor friends like Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan and Spawn's Michael Jai White to get the attention of Warner Bros., a gamble that's paid off handsomely for both Tancharoen and Mortal Kombat fans.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy is a series of nine live-action shorts that explore the motivations behind characters participating in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Jeri Ryan is back as Sonya Blade, 300's Darren Shahlavi does his best Kano, and Michael Jai White kicks total ass as Sonya's partner Jax.
The series debuts on April 12, seven days ahead of the new game's April 19 release. Machinima.com will also be hosting a live event with the actors and directors of the series, so keep an eye on the website for details.


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Ubuntu business product marketing job
Canonical is looking for a business product marketing manager to lead the marketing of our portfolio of enterprise products and technologies. The objective is to increase the profile, market penetration and user-base of Ubuntu's business products such as Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure.
All technology companies face the problem that they think in terms of tech, but users think in terms of how a product benefits them in their specific situation. This often leads to a sales and marketing gap. In Canonical's case Ubuntu is an operating system platform that's used by a variety of consumer and enterprise audiences. Although our server and Cloud products are generally for enterprise users, there's over-lap in the desktop area which is used by both. So the product marketing manager role will market Ubuntu products to businesses and organisations – whether global enterprises, academia or government.
Technology companies tend to subtly vary the way product marketing is defined, and particularly the line between product management and product marketing. As an aside there's a nice article at Silicon Valley Product Group about this. In Canonical product managers are responsible for defining the strategic direction for a product and work closely with the engineers who are developing and delivering the technology. The product marketing managers are part of our marketing and communications department with the responsibility for defining and leading the marketing activities. By definition the two roles are closely related, but product marketing is inherently focused outwards communicating the benefits of the products to prospective users.
In order for Ubuntu to succeed in an enterprise the benefits must be clear to both the technologists (e.g. Sysadmin) who will implement it, and the management decision maker (e.g. CIO) who will sign-off its use. Consequently, our marketing activities speak to both audiences, though with more focus on technologists. On a day-to-day basis we're a pragmatic organisation where everyone rolls their sleeves up and gets on with it. So you'll need to use quantitative and qualitative approaches to identify addressable segments for marketing programmes. You'll work with product management to create and polish propositions and with other members of the Comms team to form messaging. You'll then put together marketing programmes that achieve the best ROI, iterating and improving how we reach the segment as necessary. In many instances you'll want to take advantage of ways we can team-up with our passionate advocates to get the message out.
Canonical is a deep technology company so to be successful in this role you need to be excited about the technologies we're developed and capable of understanding and communicating their advantages. You'll understand how the Cloud is revolutionising enterprise IT and be able to clearly communicate where, why and how it's impacting DevOps. Ubuntu is a key part of that equation so you'll understand how our technologies, such as Juju, are part of that revolution. Importantly, you'll act as a bridge to enterprise users, explaining the features and benefits of these products in the context of the challenges they face. You'll need the capability to clearly explaining technologies, understanding the business problems they can solve for customers and undertaking marketing activities to communicate this.
The next year is full of challenges and opportunity. In April we'll be launching 12.04 LTS which is a major enterprise release and the spring-board for our activities in the business segment over the next two years. We're focused on expanding Ubuntu's use in the public cloud where we are the most popular OS on platforms like Rackspace Cloud and Amazon Web Services. We believe that private and hybrid clouds will be an important part of the future for enterprises and we're working with partners such as HP and VMWare to help them get the most from Ubuntu Cloud in their data centres. In other words it's an important moment and we're full steam ahead!
As an open source company our first challenge is to make sure our products are widely known and used in a playing field where proprietary vendors can outgun us in marketing spend. So the measure of success in this role is whether Ubuntu is increasing market penetration compared to the large proprietary cloud vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle. Having built-up an extensive user-base the product marketing manager also works with field marketing to convert users into customers for commercial services such as Ubuntu Advantage.
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The lecture will explore four "deep stories" that can act as magnets for drawing us into a future of sustainable prosperity. The all-day workshop will explore the vital underpinnings of physical sustainability in the social psychology and interpersonal neurobiology of sustainability—as individuals, families, neighborhoods, metropolitan areas, nations, and as a species.
Duane Elgin's visit is sponsored by PSU's Social Sustainability Network and Colloquium and the Center for Professional Integrity and Accountability.
WHEN: Evening lecture, Friday, May 14, 6–7:30 p.m.; all-day workshop, Saturday, May 15, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social Work, Academic and Student Recreation Center, Room 620–630, Portland State University, 1800 S.W. Sixth Ave., Portland, OR
COST: The evening lecture is free and open to the public. The all-day workshop is $75; college credit is available for an additional fee. For additional information on the lecture and workshop, visit www.pdx.edu/social-sustainability.
CONTACT: Marion Sharp, 503-725-4876, firstname.lastname@example.com
ABOUT DUANE ELGIN: Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker and author of Voluntary Simplicity, The Living Universe, Promise Ahead and Awakening Earth.
In 2005, Elgin received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a global "vision, consciousness, and lifestyle" that fosters a "more sustainable and spiritual culture." For more information on Elgin's lectures and books, visit www.awakeningearth.org.
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By: David Santen (503-725-8765), PSU Office of University Communications
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Rachel Canning says she moved out of her parents' home Oct. 29 after she turned 18, and went to live with her friend; the friend's father, former Morris County Freeholder John Inglesino, is funding the lawsuit.
A cheerleader and lacrosse player who hopes to become a biomedical engineer, Canning had sought immediate financial support and wants to force her parents to pay for her college education. She also wants a judge to declare she's non-emancipated and dependent as a student on her parents for support, and to order them to pay her therapy bills and child support to the family she's been living with.
Canning outlines a litany of alleged abuse that involved demeaning comments about her weight, as well as inappropriate encounters with her father. She says her mother called her "fat" and "porky" as she was growing up, and she developed an eating disorder her sophomore year of high school. By her junior year, she says she weighed 92 pounds and was no longer healthy enough to play basketball, which she says angered her father.
Canning alleges her father was "inappropriately affectionate" toward her for much of her life, and claims he fed her so much alcohol that she blacked out on occasion. Once, she alleges, he woke her up in the middle of the night to drink and play beer pong. Frequently, she says, he told her that he didn't view her as a daughter, but as "more than that."
Shortly before she moved out of her parents' house, Canning says she was wrongly accused of being drunk at a homecoming dance and had to call her parents. She says her mother and father, who were in Las Vegas at the time, "began screaming obscenities" and the teacher in the room with her heard the curses. When Canning complained to the school about the alleged longtime abuse she had endured, the school called child services and her parents, in retaliation, then cut her off and directed her college funds elsewhere.
Rachel Canning says she doesn't think returning home is a viable option, nor does her therapist.
"I am not willingly and voluntarily leaving a reasonable situation at home to make my own decisions," Canning wrote in a statement to the court. "I had to leave to end the abuse. My parents simply will not help me any longer. They want nothing to do with me and refuse to even help me financially outside the home although they certainly have the ability to do so."
The court brief filed by attorney Lauris Rush-Masuret on behalf of Canning's parents says she should move back home if she believes herself "non-emancipated," but her behavior -- cutting school, drinking under age, ignoring curfew -- makes that challenging.
The brief also claims Canning has no contact with her parents, nor does she consult with them about the college applications she's submitted, her academic progress or her athletics. It says her parents provided a "stable, loving and nurturing environment" and that she wasn't deprived of anything.
It outright dismisses allegations of inappropriate sexual interactions between her and her father, and says that while their daughter's eating disorders were extremely difficult and sad to cope with, both parents tried to help her as best they could -- through therapy, medical treatment and emotional support.
To force them to financially support her would not only be unfair, it would set poor precedent, according to Rush-Masuret.
According to court documents filed by the defense, children's services authorities investigated Rachel Canning's claims of abuse after she complained to her high school and found no evidence of abuse.


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Trooper Shawn D'Amato was suspended Tuesday following a duty status hearing.
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The government's excuse for both outrages is the usual one: preventing terrorism. "…[A]ny potential threat to New York City is the NYPD's business, regardless of where it occurs," "officials" sniffed.
Indeed. "The NYPD…produced an analytical report on every mosque within 100 miles, officials said." One hundred miles from the City puts us in the wilds of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and upstate New York; it encompasses such large cities as Philadelphia and Newark; it includes tens of millions of people.
Nor do the rules that bar cops from investigating suspects until they've received "'specific information' of criminal activity" restrict the NYPD-CIA's Godzilla: a federal judge loosed those chains in 2002. Now Godzilla spies pretty much as it pleases — without accountability but with plenty of our taxes: "Neither [New York's] city council, which finances the department, nor the federal government, which has given NYPD more than $1.6 billion since 9/11, is told exactly what's going on." No matter: Godzilla's budget last year was $62 million.
Godzilla hatched after 9/11, when the NYPD hired a "retired 35-year veteran of the CIA" as its"first civilian intelligence chief"; his ambition was that "New York … have its own version of the CIA." Most would say he's achieved that goal. The NYPD and CIA share personnel; the CIA has educated at least one of the NYPD's detectives at its "spy school in Virginia"; it "sent a senior officer to work as a clandestine operative inside [NYPD] headquarters."
The collusion has turned the NYPD into "one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies … The department has dispatched undercover officers ... into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program... They've monitored daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs. Police have also used informants, known as 'mosque crawlers,' to monitor sermons, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing. … Many of these operations were built with help from the CIA, which is prohibited from spying on Americans..."
Sure, the CIA is legendary for its ruthlessness, cruelty, and insouciance towards laws of any kind — domestic, foreign, or even those of ordinary decency. The agency experimented on unwitting subjects with LSD and other substances in the 1950s and 60s. It has several assassinations — sorry, "targeted killings" to its credit and has encouraged others. It tortures "detainees" in "black sites." Americans with the bare minimum of humanity might argue that we ought not sic these sociopaths on anyone, even folks overseas.
But Americans without that minimum might argue the same: they'll no doubt insist we need a bureaucracy this brutal and bloody here at home to save us from the FBI's "terrorists."
Yep, incredibly enough, our taxes pay undercover agents to befriend Americans, usually young Muslim men without much on the ball (a lawyer representing one of them acknowledged that his client was "not the brightest bulb in the chandelier"), and cajole them into participating in a "plot" the FBI has concocted. This requires enormous patience and persistence: the provocateurs sometimes plead and manipulate for months before their prey finally succumbs — despite offers to supply the budding "terrorist" with weapons and explosives.
Once the victim agrees, the FBI continues entrapping him until it has enough "evidence." Then it pounces while headlines blare that the government has foiled yet another atrocity against the United States.
You probably recall many examples. "Remember the Washington Metro bombing plot?" asks Mother Jones, which reported the FBI's skullduggery after a year of research and investigation. "The New York subway plot? The guys who planned to blow up the Sears Tower? The teenager seeking to bomb a Portland Christmas tree lighting? Each of those plots, and dozens more across the nation, was led by an FBI asset."
Some might dismiss Mother Jones' findings. Not only is the journal notoriously left-wing, so was its partner in this project: the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley. But the duo documents the facts and their methodology in detail so we can draw our own conclusions: MoJo says they "examined prosecutions of 508 defendants in terrorism-related cases, as defined by the Department of Justice." A Democratic DOJ, no less, and one that has persecuted-ah, prosecuted many of those defendants.
Still, you needn't take MoJo's word for it. The DOJ itself brags about the government's suborning: for example, its press release on a conviction in the "New York subway plot" noted "the outstanding work of the New York City Police Department, and in particular, the courageous work of the Intelligence Division's undercover detective ... [The US Attorney on the case] also thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Joint Terrorist Task Force for their efforts in this matter. … The jury heard hours of secretly recorded conversations between SIRAJ [the defendant] and Osama Eldawoody, an Egyptian nuclear engineer who became a paid informant for the New York City Police Department's Intelligence Division…"
And so, while the FBI gins up terrorists, the NYPD-CIA Godzilla protects us from them.
Unfortunately, Godzilla's tactics are worthier of the Nazis or Soviets than an allegedly free country. Officers of the appropriate ethnicity not only infiltrate our neighborhoods, pretending to patronize businesses and mosques while spying, they also cultivate snitches among residents. At one point, Godzilla even ordered the bureaucracy that controls New York's taxis to supply it with a list of Pakistani cabbies: it hoped to "pressure" those with "fraudulent licenses" into finking on their friends.
"In 2007, the Los Angeles Police Department … consider[ed] a similar program … to map Islamic neighborhoods ... Criticism was swift, and chief William Bratton scrapped the plan. 'A lot of these people came from countries where the police were the terrorists,' Bratton said," apparently without irony. "'We don't do that here. We do not want to spread fear.'"
OK, I hear you laughing hysterically out there. Stop it: the goon's serious.
"In New York, current and former officials said, the lesson of [Los Angeles'] controversy was that such programs should be kept secret." Way to go, Godzilla.
For a decade now, the Warriors on Terror have demanded we sacrifice one freedom after another. So it's no surprise that we languish under a police-state, with constant surveillance and suspicion, a government that pits citizens against one another, and informants.
Wouldn't it be simpler, and safer, if the FBI quit manufacturing monsters for the NYPD and CIA to mash?


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Other Sources of Info:
Mailing Lists
- The Linux-Media Mailing List. Subscription to the mailing list is recommended, though it is not required.
Older mailing list archives: Make sure you check both the V4L and DVB mailing lists, as topical misplacement/mis-posting often occurs (as many users are unaware of the distinction between the two different, but in many ways intertwined, subsystems).
- MARC provides a comprehensive searchable V4L archive ... the actual m/l is archived here but requires authentication to access, nor is it as easily searched through
- MARC also provides a searchable DVB archive, but its records are not comprehensive (and, as well as, contain a large gap). Therefore, for inquiries relevant to older equipment you will have to sift through either the new DVB mailing list (which began Feb 2005) or use the likes of either a google site search or spinics to find even older (as well as present) DVB m/l postings...some further resources are also mentioned here.
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