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While former president of Penn State University, Graham Spanier, left the university during the worst scandal it has seen during his 16 year tenure, he was well compensated as the highest-paid public university president last year.
Spanier received total compensation of $2.9 million in the 2011-12 school year, including $1.2 million in severance pay and $1.2 million in deferred compensation paid during that year. Spanier was fired as president in November 2011 for his handling of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
"Mr. Spanier still enjoys some real pockets of support on the faculty, who argue that his leadership of the university warrants high pay," said Jack Stripling, senior reporter with The Chronicle of Higher Education. "But for those who believe the charge that Mr. Spanier covered up allegations of sexual abuse on the part of Jerry Sandusky, the Nittany Lions former defensive coordinator, Mr. Spanier's hefty compensation surely can't sit well."
Last year, E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, was the highest-paid public university president, with more than $2 million in compensation. In this year's list, he was the public president with the highest base salary at $830,439 in 2011-12, up from $814,157 the previous year.
Gee was the first public-college president to surpass the million-dollar threshold in The Chronicle's list for the 2007-08 list.
The average public university president earned $441,392 in the last fiscal year, but there were four who earned more than $1 million despite state and local budget cuts and financially struggling public school systems.
Median total compensation increased 4.7 percent for the 2011-2012 year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the weekly newspaper that collects this data annually.
The newspaper released 2010 data about private university president salaries in December. The highest-paid president on that list was Bob Kerrey of the New School in New York City, which he left in 2010. He received $3,047,703 in total compensation that year.
Stripling said a number of factors inform presidential pay, but peer group is a large one.
"College trustees tend to look at what the presidents of other comparable institutions are making when they set compensation levels for their own leaders," Stripling said.
Because the University of Michigan considers Ivy League universities among its peer group, it's no surprise that Mary Sue Coleman, the president at Michigan, is paid on par with the leaders of some of the nation's elite private colleges, he said.
Coleman, who became president in September 2002, made $918,783 during the 2011-12 year and was the sixth highest-paid president in the Chronicle's list.
"By the same token, a place like East Tennessee State University, where the president makes less than the typical college leader, compares itself to a set of other regional institutions where pay is lower," he said. Brian Noland, president of East Tennessee State University since January 2012, made $308,586 and was 181st in the list.
Read more: Top 15 Universities With Wealthiest Alumni
Here are the 11 highest-paid presidents of public universities, as compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education for the 2012 fiscal year:
|Graham B. Spanier
Total compensation: $2,906,721. Assumed office September 1995 and left November 2011.
|Jay Gogue
Total compensation: $2,542,865. Assumed office July 2007.
|E. Gordon Gee
Total compensation: $1,899,420. Assumed office October 2007.
|Alan G. Merten
Total compensation: $1,869,369. Assumed office July 1996.
|Jo Ann M. Gora
Total compensation: $984,647. Assumed office August 2004.
|Mary Sue Coleman
Total compensation: $918,783. Assumed office September 2002.
|Charles W. Steger
Total compensation: $857,749. Assumed office January 2000.
|Mark G. Yudof
Total compensation: $847,149. Assumed office June 2008.
|Bernard J. Machen
Total compensation: $834,562. Assumed office December 2003.
|University of Texas system
Total compensation: $815,833. Assumed office Dec. February 2009.
|James Ammons
Total compensation: $781,024. Assumed office July 2007.


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Not too long ago, I was preaching at a funeral service, and one friendly person came up to me after the service and said with what seemed to me, a little bit of tongue in cheek, "I'm almost a Christian." Perhaps his comment resulted from my attempts to persuade those in the audience who were still alive, to turn, and accept Jesus Christ as the only true hope for eternal salvation.
There are a lot of tough choices to make in the next two months or so, something will have to give.
There is a technology available that has revolutionized E-mail. Instead of writing E-mail by typing, you can now talk it. And, not only can you talk it, you can also record it live, via video. Thanks to a software program by Aimslab, you can take ordinary AVI files and condense them into extended movies and attach them to your E-mail, or even put them on your web site for viewing online, or for download.
Preachers always notice the listeners who are paying careful attention. Our eyes tend to go to the people who are busy looking up passages of scripture whenever a reference is given. Another strong indication of a good listener is when someone in the audience is taking notes. This is different from drawing pictures. The preacher can also notice the eyes that appear to be open, but that bland stare can also indicate that the rhythm and tone of the speaker's voice and the holy atmosphere is putting the person to sleep.
Last chance at scallops! Scallop season ends Sept. 10. Most people don't realize that September scallops are more plentiful, have bigger meat and some feel the cooler water of September makes them sweeter. Last chance, the next opportunity for fresh scallops will be July 1, 2009. Better go get'em.
Inshore fishing has literally had the chalkboard erased. After Tropical Storm Fay with torrential rain and 40-plus-knot winds, from three directions I might add, the trout are likely to re-emerge just about anywhere.
One of the most spectacular events I've seen in a while has been the opening and closing of the Olympics in Beijing. The two performances were nothing short of a spectacular Cirque du Soleil.
Literally, thousands of people dressed up in lights and exotic costumes, and performed on the floor, on platforms, and in the air suspended from cables. The extravaganza transformed into colorful images to the likes few have ever seen.
This piece is about ego and about pain, two human afflictions. Ego is often thought of as I, or id.
It is most often used by people to measure their self-worth. It is more than just internal. It is a show of possessions, of things, of happenings.
Many of these showings are expected by society, are a measure of success, usually expressed by physical possessions, costs, appearances, apparent well being. Things to be strived for.
"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." (Hebrews 13:4 NIV)
Well, it appears that this time we've dodged the bullet. Tropical Storm Fay at the time of this writing has turned to the northeast. We'll get some rain and some breezes, but it doesn't look as if we'll get much more. We had some storms last week and the week before and a lot more wind than it's thought we'll have this week. Some people somewhere will be getting the brunt of the winds, rains and along the coast, significant storm surges. That is unfortunate. I pray that not many, if any, are hurt by the storm.
As promised, here is an update on our attempts to adopt another hairy child: My wife is having second thoughts, even after we passed the home visit by the adoption agency. Max, our male sheltie, keeps telling us he is the only dog we will ever need. "But the other dog we have, Molly," he said, "really needs to go. Put her up for adoption. She'd make a good rescue sheltie."
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Clive Pearce was born in Penarth in 1967. He moved to Pontypridd in 1987 and it was here he took an interest in poetry. He built up a collection of poetry prior to writing Welsh Love Story in 2006. He moved to Llanmadoc in 2009, and it was here he wrote Athena and the Dream Catcher, the first of a series of books for children. Other short stories include Hairy Hero Smooth Jason, the first in a series of illustrated books that are being animated for children over 11 yrs. The Infamous Adventures of Wally the Worm is due for release in July 2012. He continues to write poetry and Tin Hut Tales book of Poetry and Rambles will be released in June 2012.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a new breed of walking wounded—soldiers who sustain "invisible wounds" to their neurological systems after surviving injuries from improvised explosive devices or mortal shells. It is estimated that nearly one in five soldiers injured in battle suffers from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related traumatic conditions.
Now, thanks to the opening of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, at the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., there is hope for these soldiers to receive the kind of medical treatment they need and deserve.
The 72,000-sf, LEED Silver-rated facility is yet another stirring success for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a nonprofit foundation that is responsible for building so-called "Fisher Houses" for families to stay in while their service members are being treated in military hospitals.
As is its practice, the IFHF raised $65 million for the outpatient facility, put together the Building Team to design and construct it, and donated the completely equipped facility to the Defense Department—but not before making sure that it would be a global center of excellence for TBI research and treatment.
To attain that standard of excellence, the Building Team—led by SmithGroup (which also designed an IFHF-funded amputee rehabilitation center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.), Turner Construction (GC), and Plaza Construction (owner's rep)—formed an advisory team of mental health specialists, neurologists, and researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.
They also engaged a team of patient advocates—active soldiers who suffer from TBI and their family members—who, through focus groups and observation, reviewed and tested every detail of the project, from space planning to materials selection and lighting choices. The goal: treat the whole patient, not just the disease.
For example, the team learned that direct light is harmful and disorienting to TBI patients, so the design provides even levels of natural and indirect light in patient and public areas, with special attention to glare control. TBI patients have a heightened demand for privacy, yet they do not want to feel confined, which led to the use of transom and clerestory windows to open up interior spaces.
Patient advocates also advised that TBI patients and those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be disturbed by loud, abrupt sounds, so the Building Team installed a white noise system to dampen such noise, as well as wall assemblies rated STC 50 or higher to provide optimal soundproofing.
The advocates helped with the color palette, too, advising the Building Team to avoid tan (because it reminds soldiers of the sands of Iraq) and metallic gray (reminiscent of weapons).
When the economic downturn cut into the IFHF's fundraising efforts, the Building Team sliced $25 million in costs by cutting the length of the building 30 feet and lowering its height 2½ feet, without compromising the mission. Building Team firms also donated 12% of their fees to the project and returned $1 million to the owner.


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Apple to DoJ: I Know You Are, but What Am I?
May 24, 2012 3:32 PM PT
Apple on Thursday struck back against the United States Department of Justice's charges that it joined several major publishers in an effort to fix the prices of e-books.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Apple contended that the government's complaint against Apple is fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and law.
"That's just a tactic," Yasha Heidari, managing partner of the Heidari Power Law Group, told MacNewsWorld. "It's just a way of trying to get away from the underlying merit of the case."
The Gist of Apple's Counterclaim
Apple insists that it did not conspire with anyone, was not aware of any alleged conspiracy by others, and never fixed prices. Instead, it individually negotiated bilateral agreements with book publishers that let it enter a new market segment, e-books, and compete there.
The company set a maximum price for e-books and required publishers with books in its iBookstore to match lower prices set on new releases elsewhere, but it did not reduce competition or fix prices because it acted as an agent, it said. Further, the price-matching requirement allowed exceptions for promotions, was not rigidly self-executing, and encouraged competition because publishers' titles could compete directly against each other at the retail level.
"The whole thing about antitrust law is, it's very complex, and once you get very big and powerful, you'll try to get around it," Heidari said. "The question is whether or not Apple is trying to get around it."
Room for One More
Apple further charged that the government is siding with monopoly rather than competition in bringing this case because it began with the false premise that an e-books market was characterized by robust price competition prior to its entry. Before 2010, there was no real competition, Cupertino insisted. Amazon dominated the market, Apple said, selling nearly nine out of every 10 ebooks and having nearly absolute power over price and product selection.
The entry of Apple spurred a growth in the number, range and variety of e-book titles and improved the quality of the e-book reading experience, according to the company. All these are evidence of a dynamic, competitive market, it claimed, stating that the U.S. government is only focusing on the increase in prices for a handful of titles.
Apple dismissed as absurd DoJ allegations that it conspired to eliminate retail price competition.
Three out of the five publishers -- Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster -- settled with the DoJ on April 11, the day the department filed suit.
Apple, Penguin and Macmillan continue to fight on.
Does Cupertino Have a Chance?
It's not clear whether Apple's argument will prevail.
"Once you get into the nitty-gritty, there will be some very interesting nuances," Heidari said. "It's a very nebulous area, so it's going to be very complex."
Further, the case has ventured into uncharted territory, attorney Craig Delsack told MacNewsWorld.
"We're talking now about licensing, not about products," Delsack explained. "It's one thing if you have a physical book and say you can't sell it for, oh, less than $20. But here we're talking about an agency model with respect to licensing fees."
Separately, Sharis A. Pozen, the acting assistant attorney general of the DoJ's antitrust division, who spearheaded the laying of charges against Apple, among other things, left her post the week of April 23. In a speech at the Brookings Institute April 23, she referred repeatedly to the case against Apple and the other defendants.
DoJ spokesperson Gina Talamona would not say if Pozen's departure was linked to the e-book price fixing case, nor would she comment on Apple's countercharges. "Please use anything from the press release, complaint or competitive impact statement in response to your questions," she told MacNewsWorld.
Apple did not respond to our request for further details.


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The Newport Beach City Council voted to outsource its printing services and to inch forward in what could eventually be the privatization of its refuse collection services.
The shutting down of the city's in-house print shop in favor of a contract with Office Depot will result in one layoff and is expected to save the city about $70,000 per year, a staff report said. Another print shop employee plans to retire.
Newport's new Civic Center, which is set to host its first council meeting Dec. 11, will not have space for its own print shop. Furthermore, staff reports said, the increasing digitization of city operations has resulted in a steep drop in the number of hard copies produced by the shop, from 5.1 million to 1.8 million per year over the last decade.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the Civic Center is in Corona del Mar. It is in Newport Beach.
While the outsourcing of printing services passed unanimously as an item on the consent calendar, a report on the possibility of outsourcing the city's trash collection services generated considerably more debate.
Newport's Municipal Operations Director Mark Harmon laid out some of the findings of a study conducted by the firm HF&H; Consultants, which the city had commissioned to analyze whether it could save money by contracting with a private firm for its trash services.
The study found that outsourcing trash services may result in some savings to the city, but officials pointed out that certain factors specific to Newport, like narrow alleys and residents who enjoy unlimited trash collection, might complicate those savings.
An estimated $1.67 million could be saved per year if the city switched to a private hauler in areas served by the city's in-house trash haulers, the report concluded. Some areas, like Newport Coast, already have private trash collection.
The city, if it keeps its own trash collection service, will also have to buy new trucks to comply with a state air quality rule, which will cost about $2.6 million over three years.
But, Councilman Rush Hill pointed out, the study compared Newport's per-unit costs with those of other SoCal cities that all have automated pick-up, which requires standardized trashbins.
They also require residents to separate out trash, clean recycling and green waste into three different bins.
Newport's current system allows residents to mix all three in any type of trash bin they choose, then recycling is professionally sorted out.
"The determination of savings is that in everything we've looked to privatize, we've said [we'll consider outsourcing] if we can provide the same level of service and save money," he said. "You've not moved me to the point yet of saying that [we'll get] the same level of service."
Councilman Mike Henn said outsourcing discussions are always a balancing act.
"The real proof in the pudding is in the tasting — to get bids," he said. "It's possible [Hill] may be right. There may not be a strong saving. And the only way to figure that out is to go forward here, and to go forward in a very thoughtful way."
As about a dozen of the city's refuse haulers looked on, council members all lauded the department's high level of service, but the group ultimately voted 5 to 1 to work with HF&H; to develop a request for proposals, meaning that the city will solicit plans from private companies to see whether they could provide a similar level of service at a lower cost.
At the same time, the council voted to have staffers evaluate ways of making the existing city department more efficient.
Hill voted against the motion to develop an RFP.
Jamie Newton of the Orange County Employees Assn., who spoke on behalf of the city's haulers said, "It's still early" in any outsourcing process, and that an important element missing from the equation is resident feedback.
Newport's haulers have on average 15 years with the city under their belts, she said, which makes "the service they provide as unique as the citizens of Newport Beach."
The council will likely will revisit the topic in the future in a special meeting or workshop.
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In other business, the city voted to accept two reports pertaining to Newport Harbor — the Harbor Commission's objectives for the 2012-13 fiscal year, and a five-year tidelands capital plan.
One of the projects listed in that capital plan is the eventual replacement of aging Balboa Island seawalls. The council voted to contract with URS Corp. to begin developing plans to remedy that situation.
The council also voted to require that written correspondence for council meetings be submitted by 5 p.m. the Monday before the meeting (unless otherwise permitted by law). This allows the council enough time to read and review those letters.
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Most cities in Orange County appear to be backing away from the fiscal cliff that flung a few California burgs into the bankruptcy abyss last year. But the financial picture is still a bit tender for some, often thanks to wounds left by redevelopment's demise, an analysis by The Orange County Register has found.
The Register examined the latest audited statements for the county's 34 cities to get a snapshot of their overall fiscal health – specifically, how much quick cash they could put their hands on in an emergency.
•One city remained in negative territory, with essentially no cash cushion at all: Placentia.
• One city, Anaheim, fell below the 5 percent threshold considered a bare-bones cushion. Santa Ana came in just above at 6 percent.
• Four cities were over 10 percent, but below the 15 percent padding that agencies prefer to rest on: La Habra, Newport Beach, Fullerton and Garden Grove.
• And at the far opposite end of the spectrum, a dozen cities had thick cash cushions, exceeding 60 percent of total government spending. They were Dana Point, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Fountain Valley, Yorba Linda, Lake Forest, Cypress, Laguna Niguel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Woods and La Palma.
Now, there are many ways to try to assess the fiscal health of a city, and none are perfect. But by comparing each city's assigned and unassigned fund balances (their "mad money," if you will) to total government spending, we get a snapshot of its ability to pay bills in the short term.
(Remember, going bankrupt doesn't mean you're not worth a lot of money; it means that you don't have enough cold, hard cash on hand to meet your immediate obligations, and your credit situation is in the toilet, so no one will lend you money to get over the hump.)
So while looking for cash across many cities' balance sheets is a lot like searching Grandma's closet for the bills stuffed inside socks and hat boxes (cities stick money in different places, which aren't always visible to the outsider's eye) we can conclude that if a city is looking good by this measure, it's looking pretty good overall.
Placentia's numbers show the obvious: the city is no money-maker. Without a large sales tax base, the city relies mostly on its residential property taxes.
"We're not like a Fullerton. We don't have a Costco," said finance director Karen Ogawa. "Realistically, in today's market, I can't tell you I can implement a revenue enhancement program."
But the city can keep an eye on what it spends, Ogawa said.
She added that Placentia's apparent lack of liquidity was because Placentia had not yet been reimbursed by various agencies for capital projects that had been built.
"When you look at our general fund, it's actually quite solid," Ogawa said.
The city's $24.6 million spending plan was $330,664 less than the revenues generated.
Anaheim, second on our cash-crunch list with only a 2 percent cash cushion, said at the time of its most recent audit the city was waiting on the receipt of $34 million in grant money, including deferred revenues from grants for projects such as ARTIC (Anaheim Regional Transportation Center), UASI (Urban Area Security Initiative) and the Gene Autry Way road project.
"Anaheim maintains a goal of maintaining a minimum of 7% of the General Fund in reserves, as directed by the Anaheim City Council. In FY 2012/13 the City adopted a balanced budget without the use of reserves. The General Fund spendable, unassigned fund balance is $22,636,000," public information officer Ruth Ruiz told us by email late Friday.
In Santa Ana, finance director Francisco Gutierrez disagreed with the Watchdog's formula for gauging liquidity.
"You're mixing apples and oranges," Gutierrez said.
He said the city's financial health was better than indicated by the formula. Gutierrez said the city gets a lot of grants that are restricted, but still provide service to the community. Those grants don't show up in the Watchdog's formula.
The city had recently flirted with bankruptcy but shed major expenses – such as the fire department – to shore up its finances.
"The city's financial position has improved and it's better reflected in the general fund reserves of $19.3 million," Gutierrez said.
As we mentioned, cities have many pockets where they can stash spare change. So some have more padding than our sober measure shows.
Take Newport Beach, for example. In addition to the $28.7 million in assigned and unassigned fund balances which we measured, it has $21.6 million in a contingency reserve, and a $5 million retirement fund reserve, and a $5 million surplus for facilities financing plan, and more.
"The above funds total over $55 million – available to us immediately if needed," City Manager Dave Kiff told us by email. "The City has developed additional flexibility through strategic savings in its Facilities Financing Reserve Fund of another $33.1 million not to mention significant long-term savings plans in its Internal Service Funds."
Those extra pockets put Newport's cash cushion at about 35 percent of expenditures, nearly triple the 12 percent we calculated.
Ditto for Irvine. The master-planned city has contingency reserves totaling $20.1 million, which puts its cash cushion at more than $100 million, or some 40 percent of spending, up from the 33 percent we calculated.
Cypress has about $13.3 million in contingency reserves for stabilizing the city's budget in case of unforeseen situations including disasters and sudden loss of revenue streams. The money, which the city has resolved to spend only in specific circumstances and only with City Council approval, puts the city's cash cushion at about 126 percent of spending — up from the 94 percent we calculated.
Each of the 25 cities in O.C. that had a redevelopment agency has a tale of woe.
Irvine wrote off $34.8 million of debt owed to the city by its redevelopment agency for the Great Park – a bill which the state disallowed. The city is fighting that in court, though, said Gary Burton, administrative services director, and the outcome remains to be seen.
In a similar vein, Tustin's general fund suffered an "extraordinary loss" after the state declared that $7.9 million owed by its redevelopment agency to the city wasn't valid, said finance director Pamela Arends-King.
And in Mission Viejo, the state nixed $4.8 million that the city had transferred to a developer as part of an affordable housing agreement. The developer didn't want to pursue legal action to keep the funds, so the city handed the $4.8 million over, said Cheryl Dyas.
And so it goes.
Perusing the list of cities from cash-poor to cash-rich reveals an interesting pattern: Those with the slimmest margins are generally older cities (Placentia, Anaheim, Santa Ana, La Habra), while the newer cities cluster toward the middle and bottom of the list, with comfy cushions (Laguna Niguel, Rancho Santa Margarita, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Woods).
Except for one very interesting anomaly: La Palma.
La Palma incorporated in 1955 as "Dairyland." Like the older, cash-poorer cities, it has its own police department (newer cities contract with the Sheriff's department, which is cheaper). Yet little La Palma has more than 120 percent of what it spends in a year tucked safely away, making it the most cash-cushioned metropolis in Orange County by our measure.
La Palma has had the rather extraordinary policy of keeping its general fund cushion at 100 percent of expenses for about the last decade – a rarity, as the Government Finance Officers Association recommends 15 percent, said Michael Solorza, finance director.
But in March, it kicked things up a notch. "My prior experience has shown that more fleshed out, comprehensive and sophisticated policies allow for better fiscal decisions," Solorza told us by email. "To that end, I reviewed what other agencies have done, looked at 'best practice' references from various governmental financial organizations, and drafted a new policy that not only covers General Fund reserves, but the five Internal Service Funds we have (e.g., Insurance, Fleet, Technology, Benefits and Facilities)."
Key changes for the general fund were the creation of an economic uncertainties reserve that is 60 percent of expenditures; an unfunded capital projects reserve that is 40 percent of expenditures; and specifying precisely when those reserves could be tapped, among other things, he said.
And for the city's other internal funds, reserve levels are now set by policy for the first time. A different metric is used to figure the proper level for each fund, he said; the fleet fund, for example, has a reserve equal to one-third of the fleet's replacement value.
"These fund-specific reserve policies will help us better manage the allocations to those funds as well as the overall reserve balances," Solorza said.
He noted, when we discussed this last year, that La Palma was able to maintain its financial footing through the worst recession in 70 years. Not all of his neighbors could say the same.
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Tobias Schlitt has responded to our own post talking about the PHP5 "certification" that Brainbench is offering.
As Markus did, I took the so-called "Brainbench PHP 5 certification" yesterday night after some beers. ;) Nevertheless, the result was, that was I still "scored higher than 90% of previous examinees".
I have pretty much the same feeling about this exam that Markus has. I don't really see a point in testing how familiar people are with the docs, but that seems to be the main purpose of the exam.
He also notes that even the examples with code weren't written well, being either too long or using deprecated functions to accomplish the taks.


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A handful of weeks ago Hidden Pineapple teased about an upcoming update for Rowi. This morning the update is slowly propagated through the Windows Phone Store and should be available for everyone. Let's check out what we get with the latest and greatest edition of Rowi.
The first thing you'll notice is the ability to instantly receive push notifications with new notification types and lock screen support. You also get:
- Bug fixes
- Twitter 1.1 API support
- Expanded URLs shown in lists of tweets
- Receive tweets instantly inside of Rowi
- Receive push notifications instantly on multiple devices with multiple accounts with new notification types and lock screen support
- Higher resolution user images
- User profile banner images
- Favstar.fm integration
The Windows Phone Store seems really slow this morning, the update shows in the web browser as version 3.4, but your will show 3.3 on the device. As usual, patience as the Store slowly updates itself and you'll get the update soon enough.
What's your favorite feature in the latest version? Live stream of your Twitter feed? Instant notifications? The use of banner images? Sound off below.
The app is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x users. The app also comes in a free and paid (
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ny body who has experience with FIT LED 2400 ?
As a focus and video light ?
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Posted 02 July 2013 - 08:54 AM
ny body who has experience with FIT LED 2400 ?
As a focus and video light ?
Posted 02 July 2013 - 12:18 PM
There was a review of it in uwpmag...
Posted 04 July 2013 - 04:11 AM
I've just picked one up and will be using it in anger in the next few days. I'll post back about how I get on with it.
As a product it certainly looks very well made, robust & simple to operate.
Edited by DanBolt, 04 July 2013 - 04:11 AM.
Posted 07 July 2013 - 02:13 PM
Above and beyond the build quality is the quality of the light. In a word; "stunning". Ok, so I may be a bit biased because this image won me a category prize on the British Underwater Photography Championship, but truly the output of this diminutive torch is nothing short of Bloody Brilliant. Apologies for the British overtones there
Posted 08 July 2013 - 05:54 AM
And what do you like about them ?
I would like to use the lights as a focus/video and a main diving light to.
Is it useable as a main diving light ?
the last diving light i had was a hid200 from metalsub.
Thats a canon of light, but if there is a lot of dust and bad sight, you cant see anything by the amount of light it put out.
Is the FIT better ?
Posted 09 July 2013 - 12:26 AM
It will certainly do all three things for you:
- video light for sure as it's 120 degree beam has no hot-spots and 2400 lumens really is very bright
- focus light, you'll probably want to use it on its lowest power setting otherwise you'll scare things away (it also had red light too)
- main dive torch, yes this it covered too, the 15 degree spot beam is very bright at 1000 lumens
It is very well made, the switches are useable (and have a nice positive feel to them) even with 5mm gloves on, and it's small. A light, hand-held torch with this much power is a great tool to have.
You may want to get a 2nd battery as it took over 3 hours to recharge mine from flat
Posted 16 July 2013 - 03:37 AM
Dan, can you tell where did you buy it? It's not easy to find.
Posted 16 July 2013 - 03:43 AM
Dear Michel,
Sorry for jumping in. I have one as well and I bought mine at http://www.unterwasserkamera.at.
I really love it, just as a focus light it is almost to strong, even on lowest power.
Posted 16 July 2013 - 01:23 PM
Dan got his from us.
Posted 17 July 2013 - 03:47 AM
Alex T is right, I got mine from www.uwvisions.com
I've just posted a short collection of clips on youtube that (subtly) shows the power of the light:
It may not look like it's doing much, but in clear water in full sun and only 6m down the FIT is giving all the colour to the scene. Turn it off and everything goes green!
Shot (while snorkelling) on Olympus E-PL5 with Oly 9-18mm lens
Posted 30 July 2013 - 12:16 PM
Posted 09 August 2013 - 05:18 AM
I don't want to hijack this thread, but I wrote a quick review of my impressions of the lights here:
Posted 03 October 2013 - 08:56 AM
Hi all - first post, hope you can point me in the right direction.
I'm still quite new to UW photography, and as such don't have a massive set-up. Just a compact camera (Fuji F660EXR in a Fuji Housing) and a single external strobe (Sea & Sea YS-D1). With this, I get what I deem are decent still image results for a beginner.
Anyway - the camera can also do video, so I've been shooting movies as well as taking photos during dives... and getting OK but obviously very blue results. This was reinforced when I tried to video mine and my wife's recent dives on the Thistlegorm - murky video, not helped by me trying to use a small dive torch to illuminate the view which ended up looking like a laser beam on the footage.
So - I guess I need a video light.
After a lot of googling (and getting more & more confused over lumens and burn times and beam angles) I've stumbled across this site and forum thread. All that prior research had me thinking about an i-Torch Pro 6 as an all in one solution (mainly due to the replaceable batteries and the price compared to other brands), but having read this thread, I'm now leaning toward the FIT 2400.
What I need to know is wether it's a good match for my current equipment - and can I get away with one of them? I guess I'm asking that question to the two owners that have posted here (Dan & Andy)
The camera is 24mm (35mm camera equiv) at the wide end.
Sorry for the rambling!
Thanks in advance,
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Posted 04 October 2013 - 12:34 AM
Hello Jason,
(I didn't get a notification that you'd posted, so apologies for the delayed reply!)
You will certainly 'get away with one' of these because at 24mm your angle of coverage is about 85degrees, and this FIT outputs a beam of 120degrees. So in terms of an even coverage of your frame you won't have any problems there. This is why your dive torch looked like a laser beam, a very narrow beam
At 2400lumens it really is very, very bright, but as I rarely dive outside the UK I can't say if it's bright enough for daytime use in, for example, the Red Sea. At night, no problem at all, it's awesome. I also use this as my primary dive-torch on night-dives; as the 1000lumen spot setting is narrow, it is a very intense beam indeed.
Don't forget that there are three light settings for each mode (wide/spot) which give 100%/50%/25% outputs and subsequent increases in battery life. Quoted burn times at 100% are 1hr for flood (2400lumen) and 2.5hr for spot (1000lumen) which are pretty accurate. In the UK I rarely use this torch at 100% because it's like turning your headlights on in fog!
I hope this helps - you certainly won't regret getting this light, but I can't comment on it against the I-Torch as I've never used one. I would recommend you get a spare battery too.
Posted 04 October 2013 - 01:18 AM
Thanks for the reply, Dan - much appreciated.
I wonder if they'll have them on offer at the Dive show in Brum at the end of the month...
Edited by Greatoldone, 04 October 2013 - 01:21 AM.
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Posted 03 July 2015 - 09:20 AM
Hi guys, I know this topic is a bit old, but I am wondering how good the FIT LED2400WSR works for Macro pictures.
It seems that most of the people use it for video or wider angle.
The specs say that there is a "4500 Kelvin Macro mode". Or is it just the dimmed white output + red light?
I think it is a good lamp since it can be used with various angles, which makes it also interesting for the usage with my fisheye, but I am curious whether it is too strong as focus light for macro pictures (which would be my primary usage).
Thank you for your advise.
Edited by world.explorer, 03 July 2015 - 09:29 AM.
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Posted 04 July 2015 - 12:20 AM
Edited by hellhole, 04 July 2015 - 05:05 AM.
Posted 07 July 2015 - 02:09 AM
I have the Flare version and it is a great light - also got it from Alex.
You do need a spare battery though if you are multiple diving.


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Let's face it, ask most designers what their dream project would be and I bet none would mention designing and coding HTML Email. Designing email has a special place in my heart and I am excited to communicate with people through this challenging medium. So here's 5½ improvements you might consider making when you revamp or greenfield your next template.
Note: This article is a guest post by Josh Rubinstein.
Why should you care?
From the time we rise until the wee hours of the night our smart phones are never far from our opposable thumbs. Despite the proliferation of "umpteen" social networks, email still tops out as one of the most common tasks we perform while on the go or at our desks.
The Concept of "The One Web" represents a shift in thought towards "democratically" publishing online content to a range of devices. At Estately, whenever we talk to our customers, we hear that they read our Saved Search alert emails in the "fleeting moments" when a meeting hasn't quite started or while scarfing down some fruity pebbles cereal in the morning. One of our users told us that in the morning the alarm goes off and, before he's out of bed, he looks through new emails on his iPhone.
The statistics back this up: no matter what service your company provides, your HTML email needs to be optimized for mobile today – according to Campaign Monitor, the iPhone now accounts for almost 15% of their email subscribers. Heck world-wide Smart Phone activation is outpacing births by 3X!
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Part of the goal for the HTML Email template design was to only require the use of one template for both mobile, desktop and anything else the industry creates in the next 6 months for that matter! Approaching design and UX challenges with wearing the lens of Progressive Enhancement in mind makes the world a nicer place!
I didn't want to depend on CSS3 media queries for content scaling. I wanted to provide as much support to various devices by using percentage widths and max-widths.
Like-wise when CSS3 is supported I figured the device would be responsive enough for advanced stying and design, as you will discover below with my work-in-progress for Retina display support in HTML email.
We all know that Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2007 are crap for rendering HTML. WORD!
Exhibit A, Exhibit B There's also a few other doosies out there too, checkout Campaign Monitor's Guide to CSS Support in HTML Email Notice there's a lot of those red "X's".
Tip #1: Design all "clicks" to be touch friendly!
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Tip #2: Stunning images on iPhone Retina Display
First impressions are worth taking seriously even if they are a bit more on the subtle side. Will your subscribers stop receiving your emails if your logo is a bit choppy? Don't compromise if the solution is within reach. I like this approach for supporting the higher resolution displays because all subscribers will see the same content. I aspire to the mantra of Progressive Enhancement. All users will see the ALT text and with images on a logo. If they happen to be using a high resolution display such as the iPhone Retina display they will see a super crisp version of the logo.

Note, you will have to update the image paths and dimensions to work with your content and design.
// Yahoo! Mail ignores any styles that use attribute selectors
// this helps override it loading @media queries which it give
// extreme precedence
@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5),
only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5) {
a[class = logo-link] b {
background: url("http://logo.png") no-repeat 0 0;
width: 200px;
height: 41px;
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height: 41px;
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Tip #3: Providing ALT text for background images
Simply add the CSS below to the media query outlined in Tip# 2. Here we are taking advantage of the CSS Pseudo Class :after and the CSS2 content property to add the ALT text for the high resolution imagery.
// Yahoo! Mail ignores any styles that use attribute selectors
// this helps override it loading @media queries which it give
// extreme precedence
@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5),
only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5) {
a.logo-link:after {
content: "Alt text for Logo";
position: absolute;
top: 0;
text-align: left;
width: 200px;
height: 41px;
display: block;
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Mobile Safari has a default text size that's greater than 100%, which can puff up your layout in ways you did not intend. There's lots of advice out there that suggests by setting -webkit-text-size-adjust to none the problem is solved. There has been some good discussion around this topic and it's worth reviewing so you don't blindly implement the following suggestion. If you were to set the property to none desktop WebKit users would loose the capability to "zoom."
// Corrects font-size on mobile/handheld devices w/o preventing zooming
// in WebKit browsers
@media only screen and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device-width : 480px) {
body {
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 768px) and (max-device-width: 1024px) {
body {
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body {
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Tip #5: Scaling Images, Responsive Design Approach
Email clients vary in their design and implementation so much. Some are based on antiquated rendering engines and others have umpteen layout options and overloaded "tool belts." It's anyones best guess just how much screen area your actual message will be given. I have choosen to use a combination of percentage widths with max-width settings to achieve a layout where images can scale up to 600 pixels wide and down to 350 pixels. It's not perfect in all clients such as Outlook 2007 and 2010 but the content and utility of the layout are not compromised, while providing a optimal experience for the majority of email clients.

Tip #5.5: Make Internet Explorer Smooth
Internet Explorer's default image scaling made your Pentium 266 work, but it today it just makes any scaled image look horrible. Make IE smoother and more sensual by setting image scaling for Internet Explorer to smooth: -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
See CSS Tricks for image examples and further reading.
// If you use width or height tags to resize images in your markup,
// IE will ensure they look incredibly awful unless you use this.
-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
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Hope the improvements and the code samples got you enthusiastic again about HTML Email. My goal is to help you communicate more effectively and provide the best experience possible for your design and subscribers. I certainly developed solutions for my design needs. You may find it necessary to adapt and explore tweaks and new solutions all together. If you come across any improvements or new solutions please let us know!
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Personal: Majoring in Chemical Engineering ... Club Team: Cal Juniors ... Past Volleyball Experience: High School Varsity (three years), Cal Juniors Volleyball Club (one year), TCA Volleyball Club (one year), Seal Beach Volleyball Club (four years) ... Favorite Volume: Significantly lower than Bri's


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I saw this sign and thought it was amusing so I snapped a picture of it. Any guesses as to what happened about thirty seconds afterwards?
I think I actually cartwheeled. I didn't slide much, but it took me a while to find my left ski, which was about 50 feet downhill, standing straight up in the snow. And yes, there was an audience on the chairlift to bear witness of my humiliation.
Skiing karma.
Oh well. At least it was my only fall of the day. There's some consolation.
21 December 2007
So, just don't fall
I saw this sign and thought it was amusing so I snapped a picture of it. Any guesses as to what happened about thirty seconds afterwards?
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Snow...I love snow...ReplyDelete
It's like 70 here...I'm jealous.
- Anonymous12/22/2007 6:17 AM
I was skiing the Silver Fir chair area of Summit West last year and some guy fell at the top of the run right under the chair... slid all the way to the bottom of the run, losing everything along the way. Fortunately, some kind soul skied down after him to round up his gear.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/22/2007 6:18 AM
er, Summit East - sorryReplyDelete
beautiful place though...ReplyDelete
Falls can be so humiliating. Probably brought some smiles to their faces and good thing you were alright. Looks like beautiful country there and beautiful snow! :)ReplyDelete
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|Reply to Andre
|Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:10
Andre, I don't think my comment is that far-fetched. He is a top-quality defender and the facts back my statement. Aside from my objective reference from "whoscored.com", which is a very credible stats resource, how does this read?
UEFA Europa League: 2010–11
Portuguese League: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13
Portuguese Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11
Portuguese Supercup: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
UEFA Super Cup: Runner-up 2011
Portuguese League Cup: Runner-up 2009–10, 2012–13
And he's only 25. He was a starter every year except last, when he was out for most of the year with a major injury. Do those seem like a mediocre 25 year old's accomplishments? As for Garay and Mangala, those guys are top quality, no question. But, you are not using context as part of your argument.
Mangala was highly sought because he managed to break into the French national team and because he is a very physical player. Garay for his part, broke into the Argentine national team starting lineup. Think that's not a big deal? What did we all think of Rojo before this summer? Mediocre, right? Now he's a Man U player valued at $20 million.
Also, and perhaps MOST important, Mangala and Garay have the same management team. Would you like to know who else is a client of this team? Ok:
Ronaldo, James, Falcao, Di Maria, Diego Costa, Pepe, Nani, Ricardo Carvalho, and Deco, to name but a few. Maicon's management? They also handle Fernando, Rafa Silva and a few bartenders. So, is this any coincidence? One team has ALL the highest transfer valued players of the last 5 years. The other has some good players.
Also, Garay, despite your "props" went for a measley $6 million. So, there's that. Which doesn't exactly boost your argument. What's my point? There are more factors that decide how much a player is sought after or valued, other than just how good they are.
Maicon is excellent, and has been for a long time. I will be sad on the day Porto sell him, but I will take solace in the fact that if they sell him for $6,000,000.01, he will have been sold for more money than Garay, and therefore (by your own flawless logic), a better player than him.
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NEW, and still more to come: A thoroughly tested BASH script is available which automates the entire manual compiling process listed below and encourages the "bleeding edge" philosophy when it comes to the latest Linux Kernel. This script allows a safe, easy, and alternative method to using makepkg. It includes an easy-to-use option for patching a MAINLINE(RC) Kernel release. Recent testing of the mainline kernel with patch linux-3.1-rc3-git1 (August 24, 2011) resulted in successful compiling, and installing. (
uname -a: Linux Galicja 3.1.0-rc3-git1-ARCHMOD #1 PREEMPT Wed Aug 24 03:08:37 CEST 2011 x86_64 Genuine Intel(R) CPU 575 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux).
- Download the script (See link below procedures).
- Prior to initially opening or running the file
linux_kernel.sh, go into root (#) and use chmod to give it appropriate execution permissions (755):
# chmod 755 linux_kernel.sh
- Download the kernel source for stable, mainline (rc), and snapshot (git/patch) from the Linux Kernel website placing the files into the appropriate directory (
- Open up
linux_kernel.shand carefully enter values for only 5 variables which are required for the script to run, then save the file (See sample input area below procedures).
- Once values have been entered and source files downloaded, run the script in root (#):
# ./linux_kernel.sh
- While running, one or two pauses which require brief user intervention are necessary, and this occurs at the very beginning (first minute). The current kernel
.configfile will be extracted and copied from
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.configwill be obtained and utilized. Keep in mind, this script will never override or delete any original files (soft-link only) without a warning first, or automatic termination. There are numerous checks and controls built into it to ensure safe execution. The script works VERY well, so enjoy it!
Note: NVIDIA users, please make additional NECESSARY adjustments after script is completed, PRIOR to rebooting. Feel free to contact the author for any assistance and/or suggestions.
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Sample linux_kernel.sh BASH script Input Area for 5 required variables:
#========================================================================== # Enter 5 Kernel Variable Values Here (You MUST fill in ALL values after "="): # Directory Name holding "mainline", "stable" and/or "snapshot"(patch) source files from kernel.org # Must end with "/" kern_src_dir=/usr/src/ # File Name of "mainline" or "stable" Linux Kernel (Must be downloaded and reside in the "kern_src_dir" (/usr/src/) kern_file_name=linux-3.1-rc3.tar.bz2 # Is a Patch file involved? YES or NO (Must be CAPITALIZED Letters) patch=YES # If patch=YES, File Name of "snapshot" patch (Ex. patch-2.6.37-rc1-git12.bz2) residing in "kern_src_dir" (/usr/src/) # If patch=NO, then this value does NOT matter. If you wish, enter NONE (patch=NONE) patch_file_name=patch-3.1-rc3-git1.bz2 # To build the kernel in a multithreaded (faster) way, the -j option is used with the 'make' program # It is BEST to give a number to the -j option that corresponds to TWICE the number of processors in the system # ( Ex. Machine with 1 processor: jval=2, Machine with 2 processors: jval=4, etc.) # To disable this option, enter the value zero ("0"): ( Ex. jval=0 ) jval=0 #==========================================================================
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*Summary of Changes - File(s) Created and/or Deleted* 8 File(s) Created: /usr/src/linux-3.1-rc3-git1-KNL/ /boot/vmlinuz-3.1-rc3-git1-ARCHMOD /boot/kernel30-3.1-rc3-git1-ARCHMOD.img /lib/modules/3.1.0-rc3-git1-ARCHMOD/ /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux-3.0 /boot/System.map-3.1-rc3-git1 /boot/System.map 3 File(s) Deleted: /boot/System.map /usr/src/linux /usr/src/linux-3.0 *SUCCESS - Main Processes COMPLETE* *NVIDIA users, please make additional NECESSARY adjustments* *Please Configure /boot/grub/menu.lst accordingly and you are done. Then REBOOT & TEST!*


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Chemical weapons expert Amy Smithson's phone started ringing on the morning of August 21, 2013, right after rockets containing nerve gas rained down on a suburb of Damascus killing hundreds of civilians. Her telephone hasn't stopped ringing, or as she told a gathering at Middlebury College on November 6 in the Robert A. Jones '59 House: "Since August the 21st my life has been Syria, Syria, Syria."
Over the past few weeks the senior fellow in the Washington office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) has been on National Public Radio and Fox News, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Slate, Yahoo! News, Time Magazine, and other print, Web, television, and radio outlets.
That's because Smithson's primary area of research is chemical and biological weapons proliferation and threat-reduction mechanisms, and she has more than 20 years' experience in the field. Prior to her appointment in 2007 to the CNS, which is a division of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Smithson was an analyst for two public-policy institutes: the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Henry L. Stimson Center.
A political scientist with a Ph.D. from George Washington University, Smithson gave her audience of about 75 college students, faculty, staff, and townspeople a class in how chemical weapons are produced, which countries helped Syria obtain them, where they are stored, how they are deployed, and how inspectors are doing in locating the weapons and, ultimately, in destroying them.
Smithson spoke for 50 minutes, took questions for nearly half an hour, and met with students later over dinner. During her talk she cautioned that the disarmament of Syria's chemical weapons program "is an adventure that's just beginning," and she pulled no punches in her indictment of Bashir al-Assad in the attack of August 21.
The video footage released hours after the attack (which indicated to Smithson the gas was most likely an organophosphate, or nerve gas), the timing of the attack (early morning, when most people were at home), and the weather conditions at that hour (cool temperatures and little wind, which are optimal for poison-gas saturation) pointed toward a well-planned event and debunked Assad's claim that it was the rebels who had deployed the poison gas.
"The quantity of agent involved and the delivery systems used confirmed my initial suspicions," she added, and then when the United Nations secretary general's report of September 16 was released "it was the equivalent of the gun, the fingerprint, and the bullet that pointed completely at the Assad government."
"At that time the rebels didn't have much rocket capability — maybe some do-it-yourself bombs — or this quantity of chemicals, and they certainly weren't coordinated enough to pull off an orchestrated attack like this at so many different locations. [So] the idea that the rebels would attack their own people home in bed doesn't make a lot of sense."
Other facts contained in the secretary general's report — including the results of blood tests from the victims and the likely point of origin of the rockets — put the responsibility for the attack squarely in the lap of the Assad government, Smithson said. The report "also gave us a smoking gun leading back to Moscow," as she displayed a photograph showing remnants of one of the rockets used in the August 21 attack. "That's Cyrillic writing on one of the delivery systems, and I think we are going to see more of this in the days ahead." (Earlier in the lecture the CNS senior fellow said the Syrian government in the 1970s and 1980s obtained poison gas from the Soviet Union and other countries.)
Finding Cyrillic on the rockets used in the attack "was one of the hallmark events in this series of very rapidly moving developments," Smithson said, and she commended the chemical-weapons inspectors for moving so quickly. "I have been working on the prevention of chemical weapons since the early 1990s, and I have never seen anything move this fast. The Chemical Weapons Convention [of the OPCW, or Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] took 24 years to negotiate. This is a world where things move slowly, but not in this particular set of circumstances."
The guest speaker gave her rapt audience a brief analysis of Syria's chemical sites and facilities, including eight mobile mixing and filling units which, to Smithson, are a clear demonstration of Assad's "seriousness to wage war." She discussed the quantity of chemicals found, the number of production facilities that have been destroyed to date, the difficulty of neutralizing the chemicals, and the likelihood that Syria has declared only those sites and facilities that the West thinks it has — all of which served to buttress the title of her talk: "Chemical Weapons In Syria: The Bumpy Road to Elimination."
The conventional wisdom is that Assad may end up as a defendant at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for waging chemical warfare on his own people, Smithson added. He is following the "bad-guy playbook" of Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gaddafi, and Hafez al-Assad, his father.
She concluded with a rationale for Vladimir Putin's active role in coaxing Syria to give up its arsenal of chemical weapons. "Moscow has something pretty serious to be embarrassed about," she said, for having handed over to Syria the means of producing and delivering chemical weapons in the first place. "Moscow's hands are dirty here and I think that's part of Russia's motivation to push Syria" to destroy its chemical weapons.
Smithson's lecture at Middlebury was sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, the Center for Careers and Internships, the M-Squared program committee, the political science department, and the Middle East studies program.


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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State-controlled media say a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian citizen to death for possessing more than 4 kilograms (8.8 pounds) of heroin.
Pham Trung Dung, an Australian of Vietnamese origin, was arrested in May last year when customs officials reportedly found the heroin in his luggage as he was boarding a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Australia.
The online newspaper VnExpress quoted Dung as telling the court in the one-day trial Friday that he was hired by an unidentified man to transport the heroin for 40,000 Australian dollars.
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Object #1006368 from MS-Papers-0032-0606
3 pages written 24 May 1864 by Joseph Torr to Sir Donald McLean
From: Inward letters - Surnames, Tol - Tox, Reference Number MS-Papers-0032-0606 (25 digitised items). Correspondents:W A Tolmie, Dunedin, 1867 (1 letter); Joseph Torr, Petane, 1864 (1 letter); Towgood & Campbell, Napier Police Station, 1859 (1 letter); Edward Towgood, Turanganui, Tangoio & Ngatapa, 1864-1869 & undated (7 letters); F H Townsend, Ireland, 1858 (1 letter; same as one written by John Townsend); John H Townsend, Auckland, Adelaide & Ireland, 1844-1864 & undated [1861] (11 letters); W H Townsend-Stewart, Wellington, 1873 (1 letter); C J Toxward, Wellington, 1876 (2 letters)
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DeDina won the 200-yard individual medley (2:03.27) and the 100 breaststroke (1:02.90), and Reinbrecht took the 200 freestyle (1:50.40) and the 500 freestyle (4:51.49).
Woodstock's Henry Gantner won the 50 freestyle (22.39) and the 100 freestyle (50.67).
Huntley 59, Dundee-Crown 33: At Carpentersville, Sam Andrews made nine baskets, including three 3-pointers, en route to a game-high 25 points, and Ali Andrews added 13 in the FVC Valley Division win for the Red Raiders (21-4, 10-1).
Lauren Lococo scored nine points to lead D-C (2-20, 0-10).
Cary-Grove 61, Jacobs 19: At Algonquin, Olivia Jakubicek paced the Trojans (18-6, 9-1) with 17 points and eight rebounds, and Joslyn Nicholson added 11 points in their FVC Valley Division win.
Payton Berg scored seven to lead the Golden Eagles (2-20, 2-8).
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Jen Dumoulin (18 points) and Emma Benoit (15) led the Whip-Purrs (9-13, 4-6).
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Sami Ludwig (10) paced the Blue Streaks (8-16, 2-9).
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Shannon Ellman and Paige Dowell each scored eight points to pace the Tigers (11-13).
Grant 2,658, Woodstock co-op 2,433: At Woodstock, Paige Busch rolled the high game (246) and the high series (606), but Woodstock co-op (2-7) took a nonconference loss.
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Your not with the forum mentality. Most likely, your offence was within the Debate & Discussions board in which you most likely argued and insulted somebody rather than debated. This isn't your average toxic community of YouTube comments, so offensive words or phrases are not appropriate here. Also, if you read the rules, you would have known not to publically call out the staff members. They have been incredibly busy recently, as most of them are either working, or are in their final years of highschool. You may not realise it, but the staff members here do more than enough to help with the site and are far from, "a joke". I'm sure a guy of your intelligence can figure out what you did wrong on your own without a staff member holding your hand. So an example isn't necessary, especially if they are just trying to tell you to be more considerate of others in general.
1. Staff are most likely AFK2. What you said was obviously offensive, you were the one who got the warning here3. I'm pretty sure your attitude isn't appreciated either.
Well this isn't the "big bad world" this is a furry forum site for teens, and you did call out staff and insult them by calling them a joke. Good luck trying to get out of that one. Here are the rules http://www.furryteens.org/forum/index.php?topic=3166.0And remember staff members have lives of their own too and there's probably other issues they have to deal with If you can't wait for a response then message them somewhere else
The title was to grab attention and the top line furthered that so I could get people to actually see the issue. That's how advertising works irl because it grabs attention to the article being soldI am grasping the site's mentality. Hugbox. Which for some reason you have a debate board.Alright here's a question:Why is this a pampered hugbox but offers a debate board in which when you disagree with someone, people piss themselves and report you (assuming thats where my warning came from, which I really disagree with) for arguing.
Quote from: Zigatron on April 02, 2016, 05:09:01 pm--No. You see, you really aren't grasping the mentality. It has been twice now that you've compared this site to the real world. Surprisingly, it's nothing like the real world. Yes, there is a debate board in this website, not a conflict board. If you've been reported, instead of blaming others, maybe it's you who is the problem here and you should be thinking accordingly.
Yes, there is a debate board in this website, not a conflict board.
Please also be aware that a users online status shows for 15 minutes after their last action so it's possible that the first staff member in question was already AFK when you messaged them. Staff are usually dealing with multiple problems at a time and most of us can't be on here 24/7 so have to prioritize the issues when we are on. The staff member you will redirected to will pm you back as soon as they get a chance
Well, how am I supposed to know there was a delay to the updating to the online list?If it could be possible, maybe fix the update time, as it has potential to cause issues as we can see here.Thanks for letting me know though, appreciated.
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AES San Francisco 2010
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TT12 - Studio D Recording and Loudville
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The 5.1 surround sound enabled Pro Tools HD|3 Accel system and collection of classic preamps, compressors and eq's makes Studio D (studiodrecording.com) a perfect balance of cutting edge and vintage, attracting artists like Carlos Santana, Train and Kenny Wayne Shephard. During the tour, studio owner and head engineer Joel Jaffe will conduct an on-site demonstration of surround mixing and different ways to mix a track, examining placement, mics used and overall mix results.
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Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) was a well-known evangelical preacher in the Social Gospel movement, a Christian, mostly Protestant crusade to save society and souls. Moody believed that providing educational opportunities to talented boys and girls, regardless of background or economic conditions, would help to make them better Christian citizens. Moody founded the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879 in Northfield, Massachusetts, and the Mount Hermon school for boys in 1881. (The schools merged in 1971 to become Northfield-Mount Hermon.) Moody began hosting annual ten-day Bible study conferences on the Northfield campus in 1880. Those attending could pay $15 to board in one of the schools' dormitories. For $7.50, they could stay in a tent provided by the school. About 350 people attended the first conference. By the 1920s, more than 12,000 people attended the Northfield conferences. Attendance began to decline in the 1930s, and the campus eventually stopped hosting the conferences. This postcard of "Camp Northfield" was made during the 1904 conference.
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