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Eritrea denies reports that president Aferwerki is to step-down
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Sudan Tribune (Addis Ababa) – December 10, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government has dismissed recent reports alleging that the long-time leader of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki, has decided to stand-down in 2013.
Citing sources in Asmara,Ethiopian Review, an online journal, recently reported that Afewerki is planning to step down within a year, along with most of the senior leadership and will transfer power to younger leaders.
However, Eritrea's presidential spokesperson, Yemane Gebremeskel, told the German Deutsche Welle Radio's Amharic program, that the rumours are baseless.
"In a recent post I asserted that there is a pattern to these rumours. They are usually engendered when some within Ethiopia who want to hide or obscure some event inside Ethiopia," he said adding they "are just distractions."
Ethiopian Review claimed that "the Eritrean president wants to be a Mandela or George Washington-like figure to his country by overseeing a smooth transfer of power on his own terms."
Anonymous Eritrean opposition political groups based in Addis Ababa told Sudan Tribune on Monday that it is "totally unlikely" that the "Eritrean dictator" will resign or allow a smooth power transfer.
The opposition officials further stressed that the only way to remove Aferwerki from power is by military means or with an uprising, as seen in other countries during the Arab spring.
An Eritrean political analyst, on a condition of anonymity, said that Aferwerki's alleged decision to resign is "no surprise" because of his deteriorating health and mounting discontent amongst the country's defence forces.
The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO), chairman, Ibrahim Haron, told Sudan Tribune in November that Eritrea is witnessing a growing division among political and military leaders following worsening corruption in the poorly-funded military.
As result of the corruption, the Eritrean army has begun unprecedented protests and there has been public outcry, according to Haron.
With an estimated 200,000-300,000 troops, Eritrea has the largest armies in sub-Saharan Africa, despite its relatively small population.
Afewerki has ruled the country since 1993 when it gained its independence from Ethiopia after more than 30 years of struggle.
Afewerki was seen as a hero by many of the Eritrean people for his role in the fight for freedom, however when he assumed power he shut down independent news outlets, and stifled freedom of speech and religious practise. Eritrea was described by Human Rights Watch in 2012 as "one of the world's most repressive governments."
Tens of thousands of Eritrea's citizens have fled to neighbouring countries to seek refuge. UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson, Andrej Mahecic said during a visit to East Sudan in January, "This is the area hosting one of the most protracted refugee situations in the world. At the moment there are some 70,000 refugees mostly of Eritrean origin and they reside in 12 camps in this part of the country."
According to UNHCR, approximately 1,700 refugees, mainly from Eritrea, arrive in Sudan every month.
Last week 17 players and the doctor of the Eritrean football squad sought asylum in Uganda after taking part at the East and Central Africa Football Associations senior Challenge Cup.
Similarly, 13 players from Eritrea's top football club have disappeared in Tanzania after the team was knocked out of a regional tournament in July 2011.
Eritrea's flag-bearer during the 2012 Olympics sought asylum in the UK in August.
Editor's Note
Awramba Times has re-posted Ethiopian Review's report regarding Isaias Afewerki's plan to step down


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Zombies and Mutants
The flail zombie attacks and does one point of damage to my Last Man Standing. He only has one hit point left now... The peach archer also attacks my LMS, but misses.
Honda-Ziplok Clan
My LMS circles around the edge of the wreckage in the Survivalist buggy, and picks up a flamethrower from a dead Nomad Raider.
He roasts the peach archer from behind. He's dead with no chance of revival.
He decides to stock up on weapons, and grabs a jetpack and heavy machine gun from a dead zombie.
Nomad Raiders
The Nomad Last Man Standing advances into the wreckage and grabs a heavy machine gun from a dead zombie. If that zombie revives, he's going to be really angry... fortunately for him there's another heavy machine gun lying a few inches away (you can see the tip of its barrel on the side of this frame), and its owner is permanently dead.
Overwatch. The flail skeleton is a Last Man Standing now, but his status will change if the HMG zombie revives next turn. Next turn is the last chance for the HMG zombie to revive.
Zombies and Mutants: 0+1 damage point
Honda-Ziplok Clan: 1
Nomad Raiders: 0
Zombies and Mutants: 1
Honda-Ziplok Clan: 0
Nomad Raiders: 0
Awaiting orders for turn the 13th.

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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
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A Small Law Firm that only handles Family Law. We are the closest Family Law firm to the Family Court.
Recently separated people
A Home page and one other as a psd file is required.
We really like this site - http://www.cefamilylawyers.com.au/
Our Colors are royal blue but we are open to new colour selections.
Our Logo is only a typeface - Bodoni - "Chris Woods & Associates"
The navigation will have the following pages
Home, About Us, Where do I stand, Faq's, Links, Contact Us.
We would also like our 1300 345 234 on every page in prominant postion.
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The work on FPP update has finished.
Release will be made on Monday, since I will try to use the weekend for testing. Regardless of the testing I make, the release will be labeled as a BETA, and those who choose to download it, will be encouraged to report back on all possible issues they come across.
A few videos will be posted showing how to manage things in general terms, and a list of fixes and features will also be provided.
I will of course try to be of as much assistance to anyone who needs help as I possibly can.
The last thing that was implemented in the new FPP Editor, was multiple language support, which enables people to make translations of all text in the interface, send the translated material back to us, and that language will be added to the pool. People will be able to change between languages in the interface with a single click.
People interested in translating the interface files are welcome to contact me and request the files. Spanish version is being made right now.
It's been a very long time in development, but I am genuinely happy with the result. I am also sure that many people will be less than impressed, because their wishes were not taken care of in this round. This is however the very foundation for the continued FPP work, and without what has been done in this round, the future development would be a complete mess, impossible to put together into something that non-hand coders could benefit from. There are after all more non-hand-coders than there are people willing and able to deal with code directly, and their interests must be served.
Pardon my brevity right now, but more will be coming your way by Monday.
One more egg in my face.
99 minutes after midnight, I finally got the release from Proggy who had worked all day to get things ready... and I decided to do some basic testing before publishing the file. Ran into problems right away, and that has to be fixed before release, simply to prevent needless frustration. Some of the issues relate to the changes that were made yesterday to auto-resize the windows to fit different languages length of words/phrases, and another issue was already mentioned by Proggy; the html files used with the editor would have to be very specific in structure, and that we can't have... it would be of no use for anyone that way.
Today Proggy will have to get those issues sorted out, and I will have a couple or three people to test before any release takes place, even when it is only to be considered as a beta.
bummer dude...
Good speed to Proggy.
As regrettable as it is, there is no reason to release anything when there exist known bugs and errors. I hope to have learned enough from advice given by good people and the history of FFC, not to go down the same path and let something out of the bag unless it has been proven to be stable and good.
This one was in no way fit for public release.
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Two weekends ago, my friend Mike took me fly-fishing on Lewis Creek in Starksboro.
(Starksboro, looking North)
"I've got an amazing 3 weight Orvis rod that I want to try out," he said, "and I've been tying some new flies." Then he rattled off a list that sounded more like indie band names than flies: Wooly Bugger, Wingless Prince, Pheasant Tail Flash Back.
"You been fishing before?" he asked.
"Oh yeah," I said confidently. This is technically true, as I've been spincasting since I was wee. But I know as much about casting a fly rod as I know about operating a helicopter. We agreed to meet at a dark hour on Saturday morning.
If you've read "A River Runs Through It," by Norman MacLean, you know what fly-fishing is supposed to be like -- a rite of masculinity, a dance with the water, an improvisatory poem. A half-clad man in a wide-brimmed hat casting graceful loops above a shimmering stream. You get the idea.
That is not what I experienced.
Lewis Creek was definitely shimmering, and last Saturday was one of the standout days of the fall. The grass was frosted when we drove up, and some of the quartzite in the riverbed had a frozen sheen. The maples and birches next to the river were starting to change, and the water was so clean it bubbled green. The scene was set for a truly religious fly-fishing experience.
We pulled up to the river near two trucks. Mike scrambled down to the river, and I chatted with a few guys getting ready to go bird hunting over the road.
"I've caught some big brookies up in here," one of them said. I nodded sagely and headed down the trail.
I tied a Wooly Bugger on, dropped it in the water, and watched it float downstream. Then I tried casting, and tangled the line. How can just two casts create a knot with more complexity than the human eye? I sat down to unsnarl it, and by the time I was done my butt was asleep.
I repeated the cast and untangle drill a few times, then walked upstream a bit, scrambling over slick stone shelves to get to a higher pool. After untangling my line again, I hid behind a big rock and dropped my Wooly Bugger into a deep eddy on the other side.
"There's no way the fish can see me here," I thought, "and I don't even have to cast."
This was no more effective at catching fish than the cast/tangle/untangle procedure, but far less frustrating. Within a few minutes, though, the hook snagged on a piece of wood jammed under the big boulder.
I tried pulling on it from a variety of angles and briefly considered cutting the line, but Mike had chosen this Wooly Bugger especially for me. I couldn't lose it.
So, I rolled up my sleeves and shimmied out onto the boulder, hooking my toes over a bump and lowering my body toward the water. Even without a fly rod in one hand, this would be a precarious move. I followed the line under the boulder with my fingers and the sleeves of my shirt got soaked. I switched to the other hand and freed the hook, shimmied back over the boulder and looked up the bank. Two of the hunters were watching me. I gave an embarrassed wave and scurried into the woods.
After three hours of scaring fish and untangling monofilament, it was much warmer out, and my shirt had started to dry. I still hadn't caught a fish, but had mastered the art of appearing to fly-fish while in fact just passively enjoying the morning.
And, surprisingly, it was great. I watched a Sisyphean chipmunk roll an unshucked black walnut up the hill. A school of black-nosed dace (Mike told me what these were) darted around a small pothole, cut off from the main flow. I found a small cave between two imbrocated slabs of quartzite and climbed through it to the very edge of a waterfall. When Mike told me it was time to go, I was peeling back a sheet of moss to watch a long beetle burrow through a fissure in the rock.
(Hillsboro Road)
And Mike didn't catch anything either, so I didn't even feel too incompetent.
So, from an absolute novice, here are my three tips:
1. Don't pretend you know more than you do. Even if you're a state champion in Montana, tell your guide that you could use a few pointers. They know their local streams, flies, and fish better than anyone. Or at least think they do.
2. If you're the local taking someone fishing, be as mysterious as possible. Say things like, "I've fished all over the world but there ain't no trout like these," or without provocation exclaim, "Now you've done it!" and storm off. Occasionally taste the water and make thoughtful faces as you inspect your flies.
3. If you're the fish, go ahead and bite the gosh-durn fly for once.
And, if you still want to go fly-fishing in Addison County, there are LOTS of opportunities. We fished near Great Falls of Lewis Creek off of States Prison Hollow Road, but I've seen people fishing on almost every sizeable stream in this area. The Middlebury Mountaineer and Vermont Field Sports both carry fly-fishing equipment and can help direct you to good stretches of river. There are regional non-profits like the New Haven River Anglers Inc. who help monitor water quality and fish populations in area streams.
Fishing for trout is best in the cold, highly oxygenated rivers like Vermont's mountain streams. Not only is the fishing good up there, but the scenery is incredible. So, get out of the valley, have someone (not me) teach you how to cast, and go catch some trout. Or, barring that, watch some animals and fall foliage with a rod in your hand.


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Finally got around to posting this! It's been a couple of weeks (sorry Aunt Jenn!)
This pattern overall was really great. I liked it, and it was fairly simple to follow. The only thing I wish I would have done differently was to take into account my height. I'm only 5'1 at the most, and the pattern had allotted areas to adjust height. In my excitement, I ignored these. Still, it turned out quite nicely. I found the "Blue China" looking fabric (cotton) at Joann's Fabrics, and I really like the look.
Oh and in some of the pictures the zipper tab is up in the back, sorry. Haha
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Thank you very much! I do like being short, though! haha
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it looks great on you, nicely sewn.. I am 5' 1" too….
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I think my laptop is updating an attacker with my IP?
I am baffled. I have a laptop here next to me acting as a web server. It is connected to the internet using a NAT'ed router. I have a dynamic ip address which I have changed multiple time in order to get this ip here, 188.8.131.52 to leave me alone.
So far the only way I have gotten them to stop scanning my ports is to either edit pf.conf and block everything in all directions or unplug the machine entirely. I can't seem to find anything unusual showing up in pflog
If I open up the ports www, domain, and https on the server and use the router to block all access to it I still end up seeing things like this appear in it's logs several times a day.
[DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 18.104.22.168, port 80 [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 188.8.131.52, port 443
This computer has been compromised before when it had windows on it, but since then it's been wiped and reformatted several times. I believe my computer may still be compromised somehow, but I don't what to do about it. My other machines don't appear to do this, however one is new and the other has had its hard drive replaced.
I'm fairly new at all of this and have no idea what to do next. Does anyone know what's going on?
Welcome to the Internet.
Consider if the Internet were the real world -- your IP address would be your home address. You would want to keep your doors and windows locked, and only let in people you knew, and greeted at the door yourself.
Consider what happens when you set up a service that awaits incoming activity -- you unlock your door. In this case you have a service that will respond to anyone who "knocks" at two doors on your front porch: the two marked TCP port 80 and TCP port 443.
Your experience is typical of anyone who ever opens a service on the Internet, intentionally, or unintentionally. There are script kiddies and other bad actors who set up computers to do nothing other than scan blocks of subnets by the millions -- knocking on every door -- and hoping for positive responses, and then subject those responding systems to further attack.
Your NAT router is not described. If your router is OpenBSD, PF gives you a lot of options to control access to your services, including limiting or eliminating many forms of attack, and adding attacker IP addresses to blocking tables automatically. If your NAT router is a turnkey SOHO device, you are limited to whatever that device may offer, which might be no more than NAT alone as your sole protection from the vagaries of the Internet.
You mention that you have opened "domain" services -- so you are perhaps running or plan to run a DNS server open to the Internet from this platform as well, though that doesn't make much sense to me if your Internet address is dynamic.
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The 85th Academy Awards will include a tribute to the James Bond movie franchise, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year, the telecast's producers announced Friday.
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The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 8:30 a.m. ET in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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Indiana Edge Lynx 87-78 to Win WNBA Title
The Minnesota Lynx lost 87-78 to Indiana and the Fever win the WNBA title 3 games to 1 over the Lynx. Lindsay Whalen led the Lynx with 22 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds and Maya Moore had 16 points for Minnesota. Seimone Augustus struggled by shooting 3-21 from the field and scored just 8 points. Tamika Catchings led Indiana with 25 points.
The Lynx shot 42 percent from the field but had 12 turnovers and were out-rebounded 39-35. This is Indiana's first WNBA title.


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I have this project for my humanities class and would love to have your views and opinion for the following case study .
khadija is a Muslim female living in North America. Her religion is very important to her. She's a single mother of 4 and she also wears the hijab. Her job requests frequent traveling. Because of her name and the hijab, she gets pulled aside by airport security often which sometimes result in her missing her flight and being late for conference meetings. In order to get a promotion at work she needs to get to the meetings on time to prove her dedication. Her boss suggest she change her name and remove the hijab so she'll be stopped less often at the airport.
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text: EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Mark Dantonio saw a lot that he liked in his first spring as Michigan State's head football coach, but is looking for something more important from September through January. "I'd like to see us win as a team," Dantonio said with a smile after Saturday's spring game, a 21-8 surprise for the Green over the White squad. "I haven't seen that yet." No. 1 quarterback Brian Hoyer, whose late touchdown and two-point passes gave the White squad its only points, said a lot has changed since the Spartans dropped eight of their last nine games to finish 4-8 under the fired John L. Smith in 2006. "Coach Dantonio has instilled a whole new attitude, and everyone has embraced it," Hoyer said. "It's all about people doing the right things. We're focusing on all the little things. When mistakes are made, the coaches let you know it. "That was something that was missing last year." The White team made enough mistakes Saturday, including a couple of late personal fouls, to give a new staff coaching points when practice resumes in early August. "We practice with referees every day, and that was probably the most penalties we've had," Dantonio said. "I was disappointed with a couple of personal fouls near the end. I thought we lost our composure." Those late hits helped the Green team boost its advantage to 21-0. Backup quarterback candidate Connor Dixon hit tight end Kellen Davis for a 5-yard score before A.J. Jimmerson and Brett Kahn had TD runs of 2 and 3 yards, respectively. Hoyer hit wide receivers Terry Love for a 13-yard score and impressive walk-on Blair White for the conversion but still had to serve steak to the winners, then settle for hot dogs and beans. "Today was all about attitude," Dixon said after completing 10 of 12 passes for 105 yards and gaining another 40 on the ground. "Everyone kept saying, 'The White team is stacked! The White team is stacked!' I know how pumped up that made us." Safety Otis Wiley agreed that the Green team had more enthusiasm, and not just when top running back Javon Ringer was carrying 10 times for 60 yards. "What did I learn this spring?" Wiley said. "That we have to go hard all the time and that attitude overrules individual talent. I also learned how important it is to trust ourselves and trust each other." Wiley said he didn't mind eating beans and franks, since baked beans are one of his favorite foods, but the idea of waiting on the winners while they crowed about their victory would be tougher to swallow. "I think it was a good day and a good spring," Dantonio said. "Now we need a great summer. We got a good base for what's going on. And the players are committed. We need to add another 25 guys and give them an opportunity to compete." Michigan State's next competition is the Sept. 1 season opener against UAB in Spartan Stadium.


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Interview with William C. Norris, founder of Control Data Corp.
Published October 1, 1991 | October 1991 issue
William C. Norris is founder and chairman emeritus of Control Data Corp., which he started in 1957. He retired as chairman and CEO in 1986. Norris currently serves as chairman of the William C. Norris Institute, a non-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze public/private cooperation to meet societal needs.
Following service in the Navy during World War II, Norris helped found Engineering Research Associates Inc. (ERA), which was the forerunner of the Twin Cities' computer industry. ERA eventually merged into Sperry Rand Corp., and Norris headed the Univac division of Sperry Rand before leaving to form Control Data.
In 1986, Norris was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan and he is also the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Founders Medal, as well as other industry awards and honorary degrees.
In the following interview, Norris reflects on the history of the Twin Cities' computer industry, makes dire predictions about the future of American technology and offers a prescription for future success.
fedgazette: To begin, please describe the economic environment of the Twin Cities during the high-tech genesis of the late 1940s and '50s. What made the Twin Cities special, or were those events largely happenstance?
Norris: It was something of each. At the end of World War II there was a group in the Navy, of which I was a part, that had been involved in code-breaking activities, using what was then the forerunner of the modern electronic digital computer. We could see that this technology had enormous application, for scientific computation, business and data processing; but it needed substantial further development. So we decided to set up a company to exploit the technology.
The Navy wanted us to stay on and continue the work because of the enormous expertise in our department, but many of usnot being career naval officersdidn't want to do that. So we made a counteroffer that we would continue to do the work, continue to advance the technology, but do it as a private company. This was acceptable to the Navy, so we went about setting up a company.
We had a difficult time getting somebody to finance us, and we finally ran into a guy named John Parker, who owned Northwestern Aeronautical in St. Paul, which made troop-carrying gliders, and, needless to say, the peacetime market for troop-carrying gliders was not very large. He was looking for a way to continue doing business in that plant, and we were looking for a home, and so we got together and started Engineering Research Associates (ERA).
ERA got very significant contracts with the Navy and other government agencies, which ultimately led to developments in the computer field. In other words, ERA brought to Minnesota this new leading edge technology that had been developed by the government.
ERA grew very fastand this is where the environment comes into playand I started becoming concerned about being able to hire enough qualified people. But an amazing thing happenedwe started getting applications from engineers who had graduated from the University of Minnesota who had left the state but who wanted to come back. And they came back in large numbers, which provided ERA with an almost inexhaustible supply of highly trained people.
With the demand increasing for our products, and the supply of people, ERA underwent tremendous growth. John Parker eventually decided he wanted to sell the company, so it was sold to Remington Rand, then Remington Rand was sold to Sperry to form Sperry Rand, and suddenly I was in a big company. The flexibility and risk-taking advantages of a small company disappeared. So I left to start Control Data.
By then, another part of the economic environment, which was very valuable at that time, was the dollar stock market. In fact, it was Control Data that really started the dollar stock market in Minnesota. We financed the company that way to get started.
There are many companies that have spun off of Control Data, and with an environment of willing investors, the electronic computer business really exploded in Minnesota.
It's all changed now. The government changed procurement rules for research and development in 1976. Up until then a small company could submit a proposal and get some research funding. After 1976, most of the research went to large companies as a part of system contracts. From then on, small companies had to submit their proposals to a large companyas a part of the large company's package. And that large company usually wanted to do the work in-house. Suddenly, a very important source of technology was wiped out.
Today, that's one of the problems of the deteriorating environment for small businessaccess to technology has decreased.
fedgazette: Before we come back to the current environment, one more question on the past. If Parker's business had been located in another Upper Midwest city, for example, Madison, Duluth, Fargo or Sioux Falls, would the same outcome have occurred?
Norris: It wouldn't have worked as well, because of the supply of engineers from the university and the fact that most of them preferred to live in the Twin Cities.
fedgazette: What if you had decided to take Control Data to another locationhome, for instance?
Norris: Well, I'm from Nebraska, and if I had had my druthers, I would have had the company in Nebraska. In fact, I'd have put it in Massachusetts if John Parker had had his operation there. It was the availability of financing that brought us to Minnesota.
And that was kind of a quirk. If Parker hadn't had the business that needed a product, he wouldn't have been interested. And there wasn't anybody else in MinnesotaI can guarantee youthat would have been interested.
fedgazette: You've written that this country's high-tech industry is on the verge of disaster and you've called for fundamental changes.
Norris: That's right. There are quite a few elements to the problem. The most serious is the lack of public-private cooperation in expanding innovation; that is, the process of developing manufacturing and marketing of new products and/or the improvement of existing ones. Whereas, there is extensive public/private cooperation in Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Finland, for example.
Last year, the Department of Commerce had an allocation of $10 million for developing generic, commercial technology. It should have been more like $2 billion or $3 billion. This year, Congress may increase it, but it won't be nearly large enough to be commensurate with the competitive situation.
This is doubly important because back at the time that Control Data started, a lot of the military technology was applicable in the commercial area. Now it's the other way around. The military is utilizing a lot of commercial technology. So at a time when commercial innovation has become so important, and at a time when the new procurement rules are in place, small companies get very little support from the government in any respecteven for the development of military technology.
A second serious issue is the short time-horizons that are placed on companies. The stockholder expectations are very different here than they are in Japan or Germany, where their interests are not in quarter-to- quarter performance but in long-term appreciation. In Germany, for example, where banks own large percentages of company stock, their only concern about the next quarter is how it fits into a long-term trend. Whereas in this countrya chief executive officer gets bounced if he doesn't keep earnings going up. This makes it very difficult to invest in long-term projects like the Japanese and Germans do.
Another extremely serious situation is the threat from Japan. There is an enormous imbalance between the United States and Japan in high- technology flows between the two countries and in high technology-based products. Our open society shares its markets and technology, whereas Japan's society is largely closed. This has been a major factor in Japan achieving a superpower status in global competition.
The Japanese are a very serious menace to the United States and they're undermining our standard of living. This is not widely understood. Now, in the area of high-tech products, they're accumulating enormous wealth in high value-added products that are shipped herecomputer memory chips, VCRs, integrated circuits, robotic equipment and television sets. Their barriers, however, on the import of U.S. high-value products create an enormous momentum in their favor, and it's building.
And we're fueling that momentum with our technology. Again, our society is open, and they have virtual open access to our university research results and our leading edge technology in small companies; whereas in Japan we don't have that opportunity. Most of the research there is done in large companies, and if they share technology, boy you really pay for it through the nose. Japan doesn't have many small high-tech companies. Their small companies are mostly suppliers to larger ones. So, we don't have the opportunity to get technology from their small companies.
And because of the scarcity of start-up capital for small companies in this country, the Japanese are able to invest in a small start-up, and for bargain-basement prices get access to the technology. That's really hurt us and it continues to hurt us.
fedgazette: But U.S. companies also have access to U.S. research. Is the fact that Japan is taking advantage of American research a result of their ability to capitalize new ventures?
Norris: Yes, early-stage financing is awful hard to come by, it has damn near dried up. And that's why the Japanese find it so easy to get hold of small company technology.
Again, people don't realize the seriousness of this. They don't realize that over half of the important product innovations come from small companies. IBM didn't invent the electronic digital computer; Eastman Kodak didn't invent the instant camera. Start-up companies invented those products.
It was the smaller companies that made this country into a superpower, and we've lost sight of that, particularly in this day and age when big companies don't want to take risksthey're more worried about that next quarter. They don't want to invest for the long term; whereas some wild- eyed entrepreneur will put up the house and savings and go for it.
So here we are in a situation where the environment is damn rough and small companies have a hard time starting up, and that's hurting our overall ability to innovate.
Now, every state, including Minnesota, provides some support services for small business in financing, business assistance and that sort of the thing. But in every state the effort is underfunded. Minnesota is no exception.
Underlying a lot of thisthe lack of support for small businessis the fact that most people don't understand the management of technology and the process of innovation. They just don't have a grasp of it. In fact, most people shy away from the use of the terms technology and innovation; they think you're trying to browbeat them if you use that terminology. They erroneously believe that it requires a technical education to understand then. As a matter of fact, that's not true.
Technology is knowledge, and it's the application of knowledge in the form of products. It's that simple. And furthermore, the process of innovation is the pivotal force in determining the well-being of any society. Money is important, but without the necessary technology money alone isn't going to get improved products and services.
Aggravating this whole thing are economists and government officials who dwell on fiscal and monetary policies. Their models of the economy ignore the force of technology, and as a consequence they don't provide any type of roadmap for economic growth. You won't find two economists who agree on the future, and they do nothing to help the general public gain an understanding of the importance of technology. In fact, not only do they not contribute to it, but they confuse the situation by the constant reference to money and monetary policy.
fedgazette: More precisely, what do you mean by public-private partnershipfunding from government, actual research by government?
Norris: Public-private partnership between the private sector and the government is a situation where there's cooperation developing a new product and the government provides part of the fundingshares in the risk.
For example, in Japan, they pick an area for generic research, the government throws infor example$5 million and they get about 20 companies to add about $200,000 a-piece. And that's been tremendously effective. They knocked us out of the computer memory chip market that way. The only effort that we have in this country that has been encouraging is Sematech, where the government put in $500 million and the private sector matched that over a period of years. I think we ought to be doing a lot of those.
fedgazette: As U.S. high-technology industries lose market share to foreign competitors and, as you say, fall behind in research, what does that mean for the future of the industry?
Norris: Well, it's not just technological industries, as such. High technology permeates everything. For example, you can't name an industry that doesn't use computer chips. There aren't any. So, if you lose the leadership, you don't just lose in that particular field, but you're disadvantaged in other fields.
On the other hand, there is an opportunity for the United States to greatly improve its position in the high-technology race. One, as I've just mentioned, is to improve its support of public-private partnerships, on both the state and federal level.
A second oneextremely importantis to provide funding to expand the high-tech national infrastructure; for example, formation of a national supercomputer network. That would be an enormous national resource. Set up a fiber optic network that reaches into homes. The cost could be shared with the Bell companies and other firms. This could lead to many applications, like a massive digital computer data base library that could be accessed through the fiber optic network from anybody's home or business.
Doing these things would give us an enormous benefit, and in some cases advantage, because we still have a lead in application software, artificial intelligence and computer modeling (simulation), optical character reading and a number of other areas. By having this infrastructure network, we would be able to keep moving very, very rapidly to maintain and enhance our position.
And then, of course, another very important matter is to improve our education system. We talked before about the effects of the university on the high-tech environment, well, we're just not training enough people well enough.
We need a massive education program in schools to teach kids about innovation, the application of technology and economics. Kids can learn about innovationI've got grandkids that understand innovation and technology. We've got to build this understanding from the grassroots up so we can develop a culture where there would be support for public-private cooperation, and there would be an awareness of how to better meet international competition.
fedgazette: One school of thought suggests that if the Japanese are ahead of us in innovation, and if they're beating American producers in price and quality, then the American consumer ultimately benefits, and that's the nature of laissez-faire economics. If the consumer benefits, why should we care?
Norris: Well, the Japanese are the ones getting all the money.
My dad always taught mewe used to raise mulesand he said the way you judge a trade is by who gets the cash. Who is getting the cash here? They are, we aren't. Our money is going over there for all their value- added products. And that's part of the problem, people don't understand the concept of value added, and they look at the trade we do with the Japanese and they say: But we're sending products over there. Sure, but we're sending pork bellies and wood pulp, with extremely small amounts of value added. Even the Japanese automobiles manufactured here have little value added in this country; most of the high-value added components are shipped in from other countries.
An example of value added is the computer chip, which starts out with just sand, silicon. And you go up the scale and you add design effort, you put in a lot of programming effort, that's all contained in the price and when you sell it you have an enormous value-added product that was created with professional labor, for the most part.
fedgazette: Some analysts believe this decade may be America's last chance to muscle back into the technology markets; they say that if the country doesn't move soon, it will be left out of most new technological innovations for years to come. Is there a time-frame ...
Norris: If we can't do some of the things I've been talking about we will continue to go down. Our standard of living is eroding, that's obvious, and it's going to continue.
And we can't seem to be able to solve any major problem. For example, in education, you can find any number of studies telling you about the problems in education, but what have we done about it? Not very much.
We have a rugged individualism culture in this country; people don't think in terms of cooperating. There's a lot of people who think that government shouldn't be involved in innovation. They say that government should just get out of the way and individuals will compete. That's nonsense. As long as we were competing among ourselves that's finego out and knock each other off. But that ballgame's done, it's over. We're competing in a world market now, and the rules have changed.


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Troopers in Oklahoma stumble upon six skeletons in two cars:
Two decades-old cars containing six skeletons were recovered from a lake in a remote, sparsely populated area of southwestern Oklahoma, officials said Tuesday potentially solving a pair of cold cases that have bedeviled local authorities for years.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials stumbled upon the mud-covered cars a blue 1969 Chevrolet Camaro and a 1950s-era car while testing new sonar equipment during a training exercise last week at Foss Lake, near the tiny town of Foss (population: 157) in Custer County, authorities said.
Two cars containing bodies of six people missing for decades were recovered from the bottom of a lake in Oklahoma. KFOR's Courtney Francisco reports.
After initially having reported that five bodies were discovered, Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples told The Elk City Daily News late Tuesday that a sixth set of remains had been found.
Officials at the scene were able to identify one of the three bodies in the Camaro, but no names will be released until family members are notified, the State Bureau of Investigation and the sheriff's office said.
Trooper George Hoyle, who was driving the boat that located the vehicles Sept. 10, told the Daily News that the two cars were side by side in about 12 feet of water.
"On the first pass, we found both cars," Hoyle said but officers weren't aware of the remains, and the cars remained at the bottom of the lake until Tuesday.
State troopers discovered the two cars Tuesday as they were training with new sonar equipment.
The Camaro is believed to be associated with the disappearance of three students at Sayre High School: Jimmy Allen Williams 16, Thomas Michael Rios, 18, and Leah Gail Johnson 18. They were last seen on Nov. 20, 1970, in Jimmy's car a blue 1969 Camaro, which was never found, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, a bureau of the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice.
The federal database notes speculation at the time that the teens, who'd said they were going to a football game in Elk City, may have detoured to go hunting at Foss Lake, instead.
The second vehicle appears to be associated with the disappearance of a couple last seen in Canute, about 10 miles south of the lake, in the early 1960s, Peoples said. He said he had no further information about that case beyond long-ago-told stories. The missing persons database records no open cases earlier than 1969 in Canute or the surrounding county.
"In 1973, I worked for Beckham and Custer County as a state trooper, and I heard rumors that sometime in the early '60s there were two or three people in a car, and they were last seen in Canute," Peoples told the Elk City newspaper. "They were headed for Foss Lake and never seen again."
Peoples asked anyone with information about the case to get in touch as soon as possible at (580) 323-1616.
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Intriguing case(s). It will be interesting to know the details of the outcome of the investigation. We'll probably see it on Dateline or something.
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^It was pretty much new when it went in, too, Princess.
(The people in that car may have detoured to the lake area to hunt, so it sounds like they may have been armed. Will be an interesting story to follow.)
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An Oklahoma sheriff says the families of six people who have been missing for more than 40 years should be able to gain some closure with the discovery of cars and bones believed to be connected to the cases.
What still lingers, though, are questions about how the skeletal remains and two vehicles ended up submerged in Custer County's Foss Lake, said Sheriff Bruce Peoples. He's hopeful the answers will come, helping solve a pair of mysteries that have haunted residents for more than a generation.
"Now the family will know, and that's what we look at as an important part of our job," Peoples said. "It's going to close a very unhappy chapter in their lives, but nothing any worse than having those lingering questions and wondering what happened."
Were the victims in the two separate cold cases murdered and dumped in the lake about 100 miles west of Oklahoma City? Or did they take a wrong turn, drive off the edge of the boat ramp and end up submerged?
"It's way too early to tell at this point," Peoples said. "We'll treat it as a crime until we're able to determine it's a simple car wreck."
Divers conducting a training exercise with sonar equipment found the 1969 Camaro and early 1950s Chevrolet at the bottom of Foss Lake on Tuesday. The vehicles were in about 12 feet of water about 50 feet from the end of a boat ramp. Remains were inside both cars.
Missing persons reports show three teenagers from Sayre in nearby Beckham County Leah Johnson, Michael Rios and Jimmy Williams disappeared in 1970 while heading to a high school football game in Williams' new 1969 Camaro.
Another missing persons report from 1969 indicates two men and a woman also from the area disappeared and were last seen in a 1950s Chevrolet, Peoples said.
"These vehicles match those missing persons reports real close," the sheriff said Wednesday as investigators combed through what remained of the rusty, mud-covered vehicles.
He said it was entirely possible that the victims simply drove into Foss Lake and drowned.
"We know that to happen, even if you know your way around. It can happen that quick," he said.
Still, some locals cling to the theory that the three teens ran across some dangerous people and ended up getting killed.
"Everyone suspected foul play," said Dayva Spitzer, publisher of The Sayre Record and a longtime resident. "They've been talking about it for 43 years.
"I think everybody is hoping there's closure now. But there's still more questions than answers."
The teens' disappearance gripped the town for years.
"I think the kids were frightened by it, and we didn't talk about it much," said Gayla Splinter, a clerk at a Sayre law office who lived in nearby Erick when the teens went missing. "It's always been a mystery."
Peoples said he was confident the Camaro held the remains of the three teens. Authorities were not as clear about what the second vehicle contained.
The state medical examiner's office said it believed the remains of six people were recovered overall.
Tim Porter of Enid said he believed the remains in that vehicle could be those of his grandfather, John Albert Porter, who disappeared along with two other people in 1969.
"Forty-something years of wondering who or why," Porter said. "If it is my grandfather in there, it's a gift."
Porter said he offered up a DNA sample to help authorities determine the identities of the victims, a process Peoples said could take as long as a year.
The bones were being sent to the medical examiner's office to identify the victims and determine how they died.
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For six families, the skeletal remains found in two cars submerged in an Oklahoma lake can solve decades-old mysteries of vanished loved ones.
For at least one family, their loved one was just yards away and 12 feet deep in a lake where they skied, swam and ate for so many years.
Debbie McManamon has been haunted by the disappearance of her grandfather, who vanished 44 years ago when she was just 13 years old.
When she heard about the two cars and six sets of remains recovered from the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma, she said she knew it was her grandfather.
Authorities have not yet processed DNA to make a positive match, but McManamon, 57, of Dill City, Okla., said the "puzzle fits together."
"They pretty well confirmed it," she said. "All the evidence, everything fits as far as the time, the vehicle, the people that were with him."
She heard about the cars from a friend who sent her a news story on Facebook.
"I went, 'Oh my goodness,'" McManamon told ABCNews.com. "I called my husband, he drove home and we drove up to the lake and everything started unfolding."
"I just walked down there and they stopped me and they just looked at me like, 'What do you need?'" she said. "And I said, 'I think that could be my grandfather's car. He's been missing since April 8, 1969.'"
The last time McManamon saw her grandfather John Porter was when she and her parents went to see him for a weekly visit.
"By Friday, he was gone," she said. "He had just disappeared. His house was intact, his utilities were turned on, his money was in the bank. There were no disturbances [at his house]."
The family knew something was not right. McManamon's father and uncle notified local police and the family put Porter's photo in an Amarillo newspaper.
"We didn't feel like he would just take off and leave," she said. "We never thought that he would do that. We thought maybe there could be foul play."
She said authorities helped as much as they could with limited resources, but the case eventually went cold.
"My dad never gave up," she said. "As soon as his job was over, he'd come home, grab something to eat, would get my mom in the car and would drive and drive and drive [looking for Porter]."
She would think of her grandfather every June 6, his birthday, and every time she drove by where he used to live.
She imagined different scenarios of what may have happened and wondered if her grandfather had been robbed and killed by a hitchhiker or living as a John Doe in a nursing home with dementia.
But none of those situations felt right. She and her family had a different theory.
"As the years rolled by -- we're not too far from the lake, maybe 20-some miles -- we'd think, Yeah, I think he's in the lake," she said.
Her kids swam and skied at the lake. She has taken her grandchildren there to feed the fish and the ducks. They have eaten at a little restaurant 200 yards from where the rusty and mud-caked car was pulled up this week.
"It's a terrible thing to know that they were there for 44 years," she said. McManamon's father is now 85 years old and suffers from dementia. She has explained the discovery to him and he has been to the lake, but he's struggling with the news.
It is believed that her grandfather was in the car with two friends who also disappeared, a man and a woman.
That second man in the car is believed to be a man named Clebern Hammack, according to his cousin Cletius Hammack.
Hammack, 67, now lives in Fresno, Calif., and heard about the cars in Oklahoma from his son who was researching diving online and stumbled upon a news article about the find.
He didn't know anything about his father's lost cousin but recognized that the lake was in the town where his father grew up and sent him the article.
"I thought, Oh, my gosh. I looked at the 50s Chevy that was there and I thought, you know, he left in a Chevy. I just kind of put two and two together and that was my first inkling that it was him."
Hammack got in touch with local authorities and said everything he told them matched up to what they knew. A DNA test has yet to be done to confirm that the remains are those of Clebern Hammack.
He was last seen in 1969 when he was leaving a fill-in job at a restaurant where Cletius Hammack's mother also worked. On the day he disappeared, they both left the restaurant at the same time.
"She got in her car. He got in a car with a man and a woman and that was the last anyone ever saw of him," Hammack said of his cousin. "He just vanished. That was it."
The family had no idea what happened. They knew that Clebern had received his paycheck that day and there were rumors that maybe someone hit him over the head and dumped his body. The rumor was that he was in Foss Lake.
"It was extremely hard on his mother and up to the day she died, she was about 100 and she really thought he was coming back and that he was alive," Cletius Hammack said. "She's the one that never got over it."
She died in the 1990s, still thinking that her son was alive.
Both families are now coming to terms with the discoveries and grateful for the closure.
"It's a happy day for all of us," McManamon said of her family. "It's closure. We're going to take his remains and go to Elk City and put him close to his sister."
Hammack said that even though his family had mostly accepted that Clebern was dead, the discovery was "bittersweet."
"We're glad we found him," he said. "Some of my cousins have talked about maybe having his bones cremated and putting him with his mother so that she finally has him."
Authorities are still investigating how the cars may have gotten into the water and whether there may have been foul play involved. A Google satellite map view of the area where the cars were discovered just three feet apart does not show any roads very close to the water. Officials believe the cars might have gone into the water a year-and-a-half apart.
The cars were discovered when Oklahoma Highway Patrol's lake patrol division was testing new sonar equipment last week in Foss Lake in Custer County, Okla., when they detected some unusual echoes that indicated the presence of large metal objects under the water.
Three feet away, they found a second car with more skeletal remains in it. They have since recovered six skulls and matching bones.
Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said the second cars might belong to Jimmy Williams, 16, who was reported missing in 1970. His car was a 1969 blue Chevrolet Camaro, which looked similar to one of the cars that were recovered.
He was last known to be driving around with his friends Thomas Rios, 18, and Leah Johnson, 18, and none of them have been seen since.
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Freaky man. Cool post.
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Quote from: Archer77 on September 23, 2013, 03:45:17 PM
Freaky man. Cool post.
Yeah, bro. There's just 'something' about this story for me, too. Can't quite describe it.
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It's like that lake in this seasons "The Killing". Some dude dropping bodies in that bitch.
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Quote from: Irongrip400 on September 25, 2013, 08:26:56 AM
It's like that lake in this seasons "The Killing". Some dude dropping bodies in that bitch.
Since the cars were found with the remains of the people inside, 50 feet from the boat ramp at the time of discovery, it becomes difficult to imagine how they could have gotten there but to have driven.
The story is definitely open to suggestions, though, if anyone has them.
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So...what would be the alternate idea to that? The people were killed, outside the car before being placed back inside the car; or killed inside the car, presumably by each getting shot, before the car was pushed down the boat ramp.
Determining whether these cars were in gear, would be a top priority. Had someone tried to allow the car to pull itself while in gear, the water would have shorted the electrical and ignition as soon as it filled the engine compartment (of course), and the car would have resisted movement.
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September 26, 2013, 07:22:49 PM »
...so unless the cars are found in neutral, I suppose it'll be rightly determined these were accidents.
Seems a little weird, with three people in each car, that no one would understand they were about to propel themselves into the water. But it does happen. And the kids in the new Camaro were likely candidates to have been speeding out of their minds, too, no doubt about it.
So that's that, I guess. It's been an interesting story.
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