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Looney Family Photograph Albums
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Finding Aid for the Looney Family Photograph Albums, circa 1930-2011
Profile Description
|2012 December 7. Encoded in Exchanger XML Editor by Tyrrell Historical Library staff.
Descriptive Summary
|Tyrrell Historical Library, Beaumont Public Libraries, 695 Pearl St, Beaumont, TX 77701
|Looney, Wilber Carroll, 1891-1978Looney, Thyrza Head, 1898-1992Burkman, Don
|Looney Family Photograph Albums
|2 boxes, approximately 2 cubic feet.
|Creator Abstract:
|Wilber C. Looney was a prominent Beaumont, Texas, businessman and was a retired Southeast Texas manager from Westinghouse Electric Corp. He and his wife, Thyrza, a renowned local interior designer, resided at a now-historical home on North Eleventh and Toccoa Streets. Known then as the Vaughn House, the couple restored the Victorian cottage into a plantation-style mansion in 1948.
|Content Abstract:
|The collection primarily contains photographs from the Looneys' personal photo albums, featuring photos of family and friends, and vacation photos. It also includes a few personal keepsakes and newspaper clippings, as well as obituaries for the couple and their children.
|Materials are in English.
Organization of CollectionThis collection is organized into two scrapbooks in two boxes.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains photographs from W.C. and Thyrza Head Looneys' personal photograph albums. These pictures depict their family and friends in various locations, including on cruise vacations, on the shores of Lake Superior, in New York City, and at home in Beaumont. The collection also includes personal keepsakes, such as travel circulars from New York City restaurants and hotels, a French casino in Quebec, Canada, and an old postcard from Austria. The collection also contains newspaper clippings from The Beaumont Enterprise, including articles on the remodeling of the Looneys' historic home, Thyrza Looney's involvement with the Junior Red Cross, and obituaries for Wilber C. Looney and Thyrza Head Looney, and their two children.
Biographical Note
Wilber Carroll Looney was born in Branchville, Texas, on November 4, 1891, to W.C. and Mary H. Looney. He had one younger brother, Ralph. He and his parents later moved to Milam, Texas, and he lived there until age 19. By age 20, he was attending the University of Texas at Austin, and was described in a 1912 yearbook, called The Cactus, as "an expert electrician – or will be some day if he ever comes out of that Rip Van Winkle attitude." He later moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and worked as an electrical engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corp. He served in the United States Navy until 1921. He then moved to Beaumont, Texas in the late 1920s, where he met Thyrza Head. They were wed in Dallas, on October 18, 1930.
Thyrza Head Looney (1898-1992), who was widely known and highly respected as an interior designer, was the daughter of Margaret and Charles E. Head and was one of five children. She was born in Bowie, Texas, on January 28, 1898. At an early age, she moved with her family to McAlister, Oklahoma, where she received her early education. Thyrza graduated from the University of Oklahoma and continued her formal education at Columbia University and The Fashion Academy of New York City. In her long and distinguished interior design career, she was recognized as a leader in her field, first starting out in Dallas, in 1920, as the head decorator for Halaby Galleries, and later associated with the decorating department of the Neiman Marcus Stores in Dallas. This company specialized in fine antiques and interior decoration and Thyrza decorated houses on Bel Clair, Beverly Drive and DeLoach, possibly even for the famous oil tycoon, DeGoya. She was a frequent traveler, using her trips to find unique artwork for clients and friends.
In 1930, Wilber C. Looney proposed to her at the Dallas Country Club, and they were married. Looney, a lifetime Westinghouse employee in management, moved with her to Beaumont that same year. In 1931, she opened her interior design studio in the city. She was soon called upon by the McFaddin-Ward House to design upholstery and draperies.
The Looneys had two children, William "Billy" Charles Looney (1932-2011) and Thyrza Lee Looney Tyrrell (1936-1998), who followed in her mother's footsteps and also became one of the area's leading interior designers. In the 1970s, she was briefly married to Harry Tyrrell, and kept this last name when they divorced. Billy was also briefly married and then divorced, and was an expert in stereo and hi-fi audio equipment, often operating the sound system at the Julie Rogers Theater.
Circa 1949, Thyrza purchased an old Victorian property that was set to be demolished, winning her bid with an extra 25 cents she tacked on, and began to renovate it. The Looneys moved the house two miles down Eleventh Street to where it now sits, at 2700 Toccoa Road. "Workmen jacked it up and they built the same house under it, added huge columns on two sides, and you had a 'Louisiana Plantation House' and a new address," Don Burkman wrote in a July 2006 letter donated to the Tyrrell Historical Library. "The street to the south was added and Thyrza got to choose its name. Toccoa comes from the name of the Looney's collie dog, whose name was Tock."
A newspaper article in the Beaumont Journal, in the late fall of 1948, noted the drastic remodeling that evolved from what once was an old Victorian cottage into a Louisiana plantation-style mansion, replete with interior decorating touches by Mrs. W.C. Looney herself. Built in 1881, the Looneys purchased the old Vaughn house property from the American Legion (which bought it in 1945) and converted it into the headquarters for Mrs. Looney's interior design business and living quarters for the family. Downstairs quarters included nine rooms and two halls. The upstairs quarters contained eight rooms, a screened porch and two baths. "Mrs. W.C. Looney said she later met a number of people who used to drive to the spot on Sunday afternoons and spend a few hours watching the raising of the cottage 10 feet off the ground, the construction of a solid brick house underneath and the placing of eight white columns across the front of the structure," the Journal reported. The home was the site for many social functions in the Looneys' heyday, up to and including Thyrza's 90th birthday party, in January 1988.
Among Thyrza Head Looney's major interior decorating projects in the area were: The Town Club, American National Bank (1963); Beaumont Savings & Loan (1965); Beaumont Country Club (1981); the Carol Tyrrell Kyle Green Room at the Julie Rogers Theater (1984); restoration designer, McFaddin-Ward Museum (1984-1985); and numerous homes in Beaumont, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. She held professional memberships in The American Society of Interior Designers and was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Symphony League of Beaumont, the First United Methodist Church of Beaumont, the Beaumont Country Club, the Beaumont Music Commission, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Society, and many other community and civic organizations. She was widely recognized by her peers, and received a number of awards for her work, including being named one of seven Outstanding Interior Designers in the Southwest by Interior Designers Magazine, in 1953. During her 62-year career, she was also listed in "Who's Who of American Women", 1958-1959; "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry", 1961; and "Who's Who of Interior Designers", 1988-1989.
Wilber C. Looney preceded Thyrza Head Looney in death, at age 86, in July 1978, at MD Anderson in Houston, after a long illness. Thyrza died at Hamilton Nursing Home, at age 94, in February 1992. Their children, Thyrza and Billy, died in 1998 and 2011, respectively. All of the Looney family is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont.
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Some restrictions may apply.
The Tyrrell Historical Library does not hold copyright for most of its collections. The researcher must secure permission to publish. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Tyrrell Historical Library. The researcher assumes full responsibility for complying with copyright, literary property rights, and libel laws.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wilber C. and Thyrza Head Looney Collection, circa 1930-1992, AC-603, Tyrrell Historical Library, Beaumont, Texas.
Acquisition Information
The original collection was donated by Thomas J. Sibley in 2011. The photo album of Thyrza's ninetieth birthday party was donated by Judith Linsley and the McFaddin-Ward House in 2012 June.
Processing Information
Processed by Tyrrell Historical Library staff.
Finding aid revised and encoded by Tyrrell Historical Library staff, 2012 December.

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This is harder than I thought. I named her. It was the only lasting contribution to the community I ever pulled off, and it was a complete throwaway. She Who Must Not Be Hired, I said, and it not only caught on here, it spread to other boards. By that she became known, and her real name her real name just isnt said. But She Who Must Not Be Hired is too much to use for an entire summary and that means I have to use her actual name now, and all the way through the show.
I have to.
(ginger beer and lots of it)
O Om Omaro Voldemort!
You have no idea how hard that was.
Voldemort, who seems to have lost a lot of weight since her Apprentice days feeding on the life force of others is a high-energy activity feels being on Fear Factor is more intimidating than being fired in front of America. (The second may still wind up being more satisfying than the first.) She also thinks Donald Trump and Joe Rogan have a lot in common in terms of ego (huh?), although Donald has a lot more hair. (This last part is true. Joe is balding from the front and doing it honestly: no hair tricks for the camera, just a receding hairline that he wears with pride. Donald is we dont know what Donalds doing.) And she believes that after shes done here today, Fear Factor will have a new host, and itll be known as The Voldemort Show.
Wrong. Joe is actually one of the best hosts in reality television, and heres why: hes a slightly snarky cheerleader. And a cheerleader is exactly what Fear Factor needs. Someone who can push you to your limits, encourage you to reach for what you never thought was possible, swallow what you never thought was edible. Someone who supports you, gives you drive, and never, never looks like hes really enjoying the pain hes putting you through but he is, he is
with just enough snark to get on you when he knows youre not giving your all. Voldemort would do very well at the making people suffer part previous and current experience: weve all seen it and were going to be seeing it for as much as two hours but people would quit stunts rather than feed her with their pain. No ones ever given up just because it was Joe asking them to do something. With Voldemort, a request to continue breathing would send people in the opposite direction. Joe is the host, now and forever, until the series goes off the air. And Voldemort cant possess him under the rules of the legal boilerplate, so hes safe for now.


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What is Online Reputation Management?
It is rare that a successful long standing company does not at some stage have some kind of negative feedback from a competitor who is jealous, a dissatisfied client, a prima-donna who wants to look special or just someone who simply wants to rock the boat. Of course the vast majority of website owners do not have a problem with their reputation.
However, with more and more user- generated content media and social media opportunities, there is the danger that negative comments/posts can find themselves in the top 10 of Google, or even worse, above-the-fold on a search for your company name, individual name, brand/product name or main keywords.
I am a great believer in free speech. However, free speech has its drawbacks. Sometimes negative feedback can get written with little justification or evidence provided. This can be disastrous PR wise, especially for strong brands.
Sometimes, however, negative comments are justified. In this case, a marketing manager will still want the "negative" page on the second page of Google results. It is a bit of a problem for SEO companies to offer this service, as they could be seen as manipulating Google to the detriment of users if there is a real basis for negative comments, and could themselves face a problem with their reputation. "ABAKUS helping the XYZ cowboys to gain reputation!". This article, however, assumes that the reputation management is justified.
{mospagebreak title=Online Reputation Management Checklist}
Identification of Keywords/Keyword phrases
Often a company will check just their company name, brand name, product name and individual names. These are of course important, as they refer specifically to a company. However, you should also check other potential relevant keywords. It may not be just your company name that reveals a top 10 negative listing but also one of your main keyword phrases.
Tip: Having checked the main reputation keywords such as company name, brand etc., look at the title tag of the negative page(s) to see if they contain other search terms that are relevant for your site and check if they are also found in the top 10 of Google. Don't think automatically that it's just your company/brand/product/individual keywords that are affected.
First Contact with Domain Owner
It seems obvious, but in the heat of a panic you may well forget to simply ask the owner of the site with the negative comment (particularly if it's a blog/forum comment) to remove it. That does not mean in the first instance you should start with threatening language such as cease and desist letters etc. Website owners often don't even know that user-generated content on their website includes any negative comments.
Use a bit of psychology; tell them that you are impressed with their site, tell them how surprised you were that such unfounded false and unjustified comments were allowed on the site. Ask them if they would kindly remove the post/comment as it is not based on truth or fact and is damaging to your good reputation… if you have evidence, be sure to provide it.
Do not go in all gung-ho with threats of any kind. Be nice!
Second contact with Domain Owner
If the owner does not respond or refuses to remove the negative comment/post, then express your disappointment and mention that due to the PR damage the post is causing, you will be contacting your lawyer for advice, as you feel it is defamation/libel and request again to have it removed within a time scale of, say, five days. Still do not use aggressive or threatening language at this stage.
Third Contact with Domain Owner
If you still get no response, seek legal advice. It may well be against the law (defamation/slander) and not just a case of free speech, especially if the owner of the site is in any way a competitor or in your field. Sometimes a letter or phone call from a lawyer will sort things out quickly. Many are reluctant to do this, as they fear the costs and time involved of bringing in a lawyer. However, the costs of pushing a negative comment/post on to a second page of Google are usually very much higher than the hiring of a good Internet lawyer.
Do not (as two competitors have disastrously done in the past) make your first step a letter or call from a lawyer, or in one case, send without any prior warning or contact, a legal cease-and-desist letter. This can backfire disastrously should it be known in the community that legal pressure is being applied to "stifle free speech" and end up blogged and posted everywhere.
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Removal of page with comment/post not an option
In some cases there is simply no possible way to persuade a website owner to remove a negative comment/post. In this case you need to push the page with the negative comments on to the second results page of Google. How do you do this? Well, there are many ways to do it. These can be basically categorized into five areas…
Bump up existing pages that have positive or neutral comments.
Create new content for syndication through articles, a new blog etc.
Add new sub-domains, new sister domains, other tlds (preferably other IP c-blocks) (.at, .ch) .
Add content to external strong authority/trusted domains and use social media avenues.
Reducing authority/trust on offending pages.
Let's take a look at them in detail, starting with bumping up existing pages with positive or neutral comments.
Bump up existing pages with positive or neutral comments
Not all the results in the top 20 will be negative. If, for example, the negative comment for, say, your company name is currently ranking fourth on Google, you need basically 7 pages of positive or neutral content ranking above it to push it onto the second page.
Take a look at the Google results immediately below the negative page to start with, and then work your way down. You will most likely have no direct influence on these pages, but what you can do is push them up indirectly through link building and promoting them through social media bookmarking. You may be able to help the relevance/ranking by adding a further comment if possible on the positive/neutral page with, say, a link to other positive reviews or your home page to increase relevancy. Mostly, however you need to look at pushing these pages through links.
Why not from your own page? eg. "what others have said about us…", "Other feedback on xyz gmbh."
Persuade anyone you know (happy clients, business partners, resellers, friends pages etc.,) particularly those with a strong authority/trusted domain, to link to the positive/neutral page(s) with the targeted keyword. Of course not all will, but there is no harm in asking. Do not just go for one or just two types of pages to push. Basically Google likes diversity of content by search terms, so do not just push press releases or just forums. Mix it up so you have blogs/forums/press releases/existing sub-domains etc.
Create new content through articles, new blog etc.
First of all, check your "about us" / "contact" / "our team" pages. Make sure you optimize them by adding — say if the company name is a problem – the company name at the front of the title tag. This could mean you don't get just the one entry but two entries in Google for your company name. This in itself pushes the offending page down one place.
You could also add new features, such as your own forum/blog, ensuring the keywords are in the title tag. Write articles that could be seen as controversial or are in some way oriented towards linkbaiting (fun, controversial, very useful). This has the effect of not only boosting your own authority through external links if that is a problem, but it may well be syndicated on large websites (promote it as such) and therefore could result in a strong website taking up the article.
Tip: If you already have two results in Google, then do not let this article page be indexed by Google; otherwise, there may be a duplicate content issue if a large website takes up the article. Obviously, in the articles you use a title/headline that includes the offending keywords.
Add new sub-domains, new sister domains (.co.uk, .info)
Very effective is the use of sub-domains. Google sees them as separate sites, but they do still carry the authority and trust of the root domain. Eg. "ABAKUS Internet Marketing" in Google.de lists, in the first place, my forum (because it's the page most linked to); in the second place my actual home page; but in the third and forth places are my sub-domain semseo.abakus-internet-marketing.de for my SEMSEO conference.
You do have to be sure when you create a sub-domain that you do not just copy content from your main domain, and that it does have useful, unique content. It doesn't need 100 pages in it. Ten or so pages per sub-domain is also fine. Do not overdo it. Maybe create two to three sub-domains.
Sub-domains aren't the only answer. Maybe you already have other existing domains. Be sure the existing "sister" domains are well-optimized and well-linked externally. If you don't have any other domains, then you can create new domains, ensuring the keyword you want to cover is in the domain name.
One company well known to those in my field (for the wrong reasons) has, in a vain attempt to keep negative comments out of the top 10, created so many different domains that I can't count them all. Many are n the format of xxxxxx-<city>.de etc. — with some success, I might add. Five of the separate "sister" domains are in the top 10 (unfortunately for them, most are below the negative feedback).
If you are going to create new domains, do not expect instant success. These domains will need their own link juice and will tend to take a few months to even show up in the top 15. You will also need content for these pages, which should be different from what you already have (duplicate issues).
You may even consider going multi-lingual or at least covering .co.uk and .info. These will be viewed as separate domains, and although the tld isn't .com, they can also rank well in a google.com search.
Don't forget for sub-domains and for new domains you will need to make sure they are well linked to — and not just from your own existing websites.
Add content to external strong authority domains and use social media avenues.
A really effective way of pushing negative pages down is to identify strong authority/trusted domains that allow user-generated content or entries through payment.
For example, a search for my full name, "Alan Webb," lists in the top 10 one result from my Xing profile and two results from Twitter (twitter.com); there is also a sevenload result (someone recorded me at my pub conference doing karaoke).
Another example of the effectiveness of using other strong domains can be seen through the results when typing in my company name, "Abakus Internet Marketing." The first page includes results from interworld.de, marketing-boerse.de, openpr.de and interestingly a mister-wong bookmark page. All of those domains are fairly strong authorities and are trusted.
If you do not have a Twitter account, get one, and use the keyword in the user name. Twitter, by the way is very effective indirectly for SEO, but not in the sense of direct linkage; that article is perhaps for another day.
Consider MySpace and Facebook or other social bookmarking network entries. And of course, create interesting press releases, ensuring your keywords are in the heading, and make sure you get a professional PR company to distribute the press release to as many press portals as possible. Last but not least, don't forget to also link to these "piggy back" pages from your own and external websites.
Reducing authority on negative pages.
This is a tricky one. Often the reason a page ranks well has a lot to do with how and from whom it is linked. Therefore, check to see who is linking to the negative comment/post page. A good way to do this is through Yahoo! Type in the search mask for Yahoo the following…
link:http://www.negativedomain.de/negativepage.htm -site:negativedomain.de
This will provide you a list of all pages that link to the negative page externally. Obviously, change the domain name and page name to the one relevant for you.
Once you have identified who links to this page (sometimes there are no links, so you can skip this bit), see if there is anyone listed who you know, or who would be sympathetic with you, and request they remove the link, or at least change the link text if it includes your keyword. Again, be polite and do not threaten.
There may well be a legal way to force them to remove your company name from the link. I am not sure, but I believe you can enforce improper use of your brand/copyright name. There are other ways to reduce the trust and authority of a domain, but these involve so-called "black hat" techniques which, if found out, could backfire in a horrendous way. If the domain is established and an authority, many black hat techniques wouldn't work anyway.
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A company's PR department/marketing department or agency should be monitoring company/brand/product/individual keys at all times. If not, consider setting up a "Google Alert" for your keywords (it's free). There are probably thousands of major companies out there who don't even realize they have a problem, as they simply don't bother to Google themselves.
Even when you have succeeded in pushing a negative comment to page two, you should be very vigilant. For example, the poster of the negative comment gets annoyed that his/her comment is now on page two, so tries to find a page that is now top 10 where he/she can add a new negative comment. That's why it can be dangerous to push content up that is still open for comments. Also, be vigilant when you send out press releases that enable comment features.
Rebuttal Comments
You can of course decide to post a rebuttal to negative comments. Often, however, this can involve a long flaming discussion, particularly in forums, which can often end up making things worse.
The general advice is not to offer a rebuttal comment unless you can provide hard evidence, directly in your comment, that what is said is not true or unfair. Also ask the website owner if he will allow outbound links (no rel=nofollow) to positive comments on other pages (that you have yourself pushed as above) in order to achieve a fair balance in the comments.
As you can see, it isn't all that straightforward and simple. It takes time, resources and money. Consider if it is really worth the time money and effort.
You should at least take the first contact steps listed above. For some companies, especially strong, well-known brands, good rankings for negative comments highly visible in the Google results page can be disastrous.
Corporate communication and PR managers have neglected online reputation management for years. Usually, the thinking is that there is nothing that can be done, and the approach is to just hope they will go away. There is a lot you can do, but as with most things in life, it takes work and money.


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Captain's Report
By Christopher Hughes
The FX SHO Series has been redesigned with several changes that effected our test results. The first change is the overall length which now measures 140.2'' (3.56 m). The second change is the new reverse gate operation which now has a true mechanical neutral. With the same tried and tested 1812cc 210-hp 4-stroke, four-cylinder, supercharged marine engine, this PWC seems to have reached its highest evolution of performance. Our test revealed almost only positive results.
These two Yamaha PWCs have an edgy bow design. Not known for leading in the styling area, the team at Yamaha seems to have stepped it up a bit with an all new look. While the familiar bow bumpers are still standard, there is a new, lower profile, and a much more angular look to the front area leading up to the handlebars. I really welcome this change as for me, many of the PWCs had become homogenous over the last few years.
There is still lots of usable storage with over 33 gallons (125 L) total and the majority of it located in the forward compartment. Also located in the forward compartment is the fire extinguisher. I prefer it located under the aft seat as it was on the older models, because it is easier to get to.
Handlebar Configuration
The handlebars are adjustable and during the test I found that I was able to raise them high enough for safe and comfortable stand up riding. The hand grips' design gets a big thumbs up from me with regard to comfort. I also noticed that the handlebars seemed to be a little wider which made them more comfortable than before.
On the starboard handle is still the throttle lever. The operator will also find cruise assist, which consists of three buttons. The lower button turns cruise assist on, when on, one can pull the throttle all the way back and have a comfortable firm grip on the handlebar. Use the up and down arrow buttons to regulate the speed.
On the port side of the handlebar is the trim adjuster. To operate, simply depress the lever and twist up or down. This will move the angle of the jet pump nozzle. When the nozzle is aiming up, this raises the angle of the bow when riding, and when aiming down, brings the bow down. I drove in neutral for almost my entire test.
Multi-Function Display
The multi-function display is a point of difference between the FX SHO and the FX Cruiser SHO. The FX Cruiser SHO has a screen on either side of the analog display and these provide you with water temperature, speed, fuel flow and several other data points. The control button is located under the handle bar directly in front of the drive. There are four mode buttons for the Cruiser SHO and two for the FX SHO.
Helm Storage
On a PWC it is important to have dry storage easy at hand when underway. There is a dry storage area on top of the console and I had my phone, keys and wallet there. It closed securely and did not leak.Another storage area is just abaft the handle bars. What I liked about this was that Yamaha made it deeper and provided a removable insert that acts like a cup holder. On test day it was in the 90s, so having two bottles of water handy was great.
The Seats Are Different
The seating is another area of difference between the FX Cruiser SHO and the FX SHO. The Cruiser has a scalloped back for the driver and each rider, and they are arranged in a tier design. This is to get the passengers up a little higher to give them a better view during the ride. The FX SHO has a sporty seat design that is smoother and does not have the back rest support.The seats are designed as two parts and under the aft seat is another dry storage area. This has a pull out container that is also waterproof. Under the container is access to the battery, which is easy to get to should one need to change it or charge it.
Important Feature
On the starboard side of the console is the reversing lever. The lever is locked into position with a safety latch. To move the lever into the reverse position, depress the latch, then pull aft. Through mechanical linkage, this will move the reserve bucket to the deployed or down position and divert the thrust. The PWC is now in reverse. There are two ports on either side of the reverse bucket and these gives the rider good agility in this mode.
Now, pushing the latch forward, it will lock in the neutral position, and this is indicated by a green "N" that appears in the site window on the reverse lever. You are now in a true mechanical neutral. I tested this by sitting for over five minutes to see if there was any stray thrust that would slowly push the craft in one direction or the other. I found that this system worked as advertised.Depressing the latch and pushing the reverse lever full forward puts one back in regular forward operating mode.
The Engine Room
Removing the forward seat section provides access to the heart of the machine, the 1812cc 210-hp powerplant. There is a surprising amount of room inside the engine compartment and the operator can easily change the oil filter and the air filter. Likewise, changing the spark plugs and doing just about any maintenance or after-market upgrades should be easy.
Looking Aft
Under the aft seat is the tow point. Conveniently, Yamaha has designed a new storage hatch so one can secure the tow line and still leave it attached to the tow point. There is a cut out at the top for the line to fit through.The aft deck is large and measures 13'' from front to back. On the stern is another new design feature I really like: The re-boarding step is much bigger than before and when deployed, it goes down deeper into the water than any step I have seen yet. This, combined with the handholds on the back, makeS re-boarding relatively easy.
Below the Waterline
The business end is under the aft platform. Here you will find a 155mm jet pump assembly made entirely from aluminum alloy. This means that issues with corrosion should be minimal and in our experience, much less than with other drive systems we have tested.The sponsons have been redesigned and have more of an angular outer rail edge. Our tests showed that the turning was smooth, predictable and very tight when needed. There was no slipping and this is probably due to the new sponsons.The hull is made from NanoXcel which is a light weight composite material. Yamaha uses this because it allows them to decrease the weight of the hull as well as giving the company an ability to make these hulls with the close mold process. The NanoXcel material is placed in a mold that is then closed, and put under pressure and a vacuum. The hull is formed, creating a perfectly detailed and shaped hull each time.
Basic Specs
The model is 140.2'' (3.56 m) in length and weighs 858 lbs. (389 kg) dry. The beam is 48.4'' (1.23 m) and the overall height 48.4'' (1.23 m). The fuel capacity is 18.5 US gallons (70 L) and the engine is specifically tuned to run perfectly on regular 87 octane gas.
How Important is Horsepower?
There is a lot of marketing promotion in the PWC world about horsepower. BoatTEST.com tries to stay out of these debates and to present the facts. Speed and performance are not solely based on horsepower. In fact, performance relies more on a balance of many factors including hull shape and design, the jet-pump, weight balance of a machine and the impeller.
Our tests show that the rider will not want for more power, this machine has more than enough to propel the craft at WOT in the 65 mph range that all production PWCs target. In fact, Yamaha even goes so far as to de-tune its engines below capability. Yamaha says that this is one of the reasons they achieve such a high reliability.
Performance Numbers
Taking a look at our numbers, the tests recorded an average top speed of 66.7 mph at 7500 rpm burning 19.2 gph for a range of 58 miles. Because this is a watercraft and not driven like a boat, there really isn't a best cruise speed. But, I found myself averaging about 30 mph at approximately 5000 rpm burning 5.1 gph.Our 0-30 time averaged 1.7 seconds and the overall handling of this longer hull I would rate as excellent. Click on "Test Results" at the top of this page for all of the test data. If one is more of a big-water rider and like to be out for long periods of time, this machine should do very well for them.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Yamaha FX SHO (2014-) is 66.7 mph (107.3 kph), burning 19.2 gallons per hour (gph) or 72.67 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Yamaha FX SHO (2014-) is 30.1 mph (48.4 kph), and the boat gets 5.96 miles per gallon (mpg) or 2.53 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 99 miles (159.33 kilometers).
- Tested power is 1 x 1812cc four-stroke four-cylinder supercharged.
- Time from 0 to 30 of the Yamaha FX SHO (2014-) is 1.7 sec. seconds.
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text: Ron It sounds like you are not in a position to run - so don't! Go to your manager and say that QCing is required. Give reasons, suggestions (firmly but politely), see what response is. If not favourable or nothing happens SOON, go to next up the chain of command and Risk Management. If nothing happens there then LEAVE it's not the sort of place that a professional should be working in! Who knows maybe if you're real luckly you could end up as the manager:>) Also involve your pathologists - it's their backside in court potentially. Good luck, be brave John John Auld MSc CSci FIBMS BMS 4 Dept of Histopathology and Clinical Cytology Arrowe Park Hospital Arrowe Park Road Upton Wirral Internal extn 2560 External Tel 0151 604 7025 Subject: [Histonet] a question on ethics Fellow techs, I am in a difficult situation and need some serious advice. I recently (4 months ago) accepted a technical supervisor position in a dermatology lab. I went from a bench tech at my old job to this position. I also walked away from a raise at my old position so I could step into a supervision position. I took the new position because I was told by my manager that she would teach me some supervision, management and financial skills that I currently do not have as well as the growth potential of the company.This position is not what I was told it would be. Part of my "duties" include emptying the trash, clean the bathroom (not happening) and taking her personal and professional calls. The question on ethics is the high volume of mistakes made by our technician, our offices and also by my manager herself. I caught a mistake made by our tech a few weeks ago.She put the wrong tissue on the wrong slides as she inverted the two cases. I caught her mistake before it went out. One time she assigned the same number to two different cases. She then sent the correct case out for a consult (which wasn't needed) and put the wrong patient name on the slide. Every other day there is something different.My manager will not terminate her as she knows I am seeking employment elsewhere and she cannot afford to lose a tech. One day my manager gave three cases the same accession number.She caught her mistake on one of the cases but I still ended up with two cases with the same number. When I first started there my manager had a case in which there " was no tissue in the container". She said that she notified the office about the situation however up to six weeks later the office was still calling looking for results.At that point she wrote up an incident report and dated it six weeks prior to coincide with the surgery date. Our offices are not any better. One case came in with the wrong patient information. It took about 7 weeks for the office to realize that they sent the wrong patient information with the biopsy as the names were close in spelling. The offices continually send mistakes with incorrect spelling of patients names and incorrect anatomical locations. I have tired to document everything but there are too many mistakes and I don't have enough time or energy to keep up with them.My manager wants us to do our own "internal quality control". My interpretation of this is that she doesn't want our physician and risk manager to know of these mistakes. Are these becoming common problems or is it just my situation? I want to emphasize that I hope I am not being unethical myself for revealing this information but I really need some advice and support.I have very high standards and they are not being met in this current situation. I am currently seeking a new position but I need employment and cannot resign until another position becomes available. I would like to stay in Florida and if anyone knows of any positions please inform me as I am at my wits end. Thanks in advance. Ron


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Scheri Force - Office Manager
Scheri graduated from Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky where she was born and raised. Scheri and her husband Al moved to South Carolina from Columbus, Ohio. They joined FBC in the fall of 2009 and have been active ever since. Scheri oversees and leads the Contact Ministry, UPLIFT Encouragement Group and is involved in many other areas of the Church. Al plays guitar on the Celebrate Recovery praise team. Scheri is the Office Manager of First Baptist and is the friendly voice you will hear when you call First Baptist.
Contact Scheri
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As the sophistication and threats caused by malicious attacks continue to increase, Mandiant has raised the bar of effective detection, response, and remediation by introducing their Incident Response (IR) class. This two-day Special Edition class has been specifically designed for information security professionals and analysts who respond to computer security incidents. It is designed as an operational course, using case studies and hands-on lab exercises to ensure attendees are gaining experience in each topic area. Hands on exercises and labs in Windows Intrusion as well as the following topics are covered:
Students must bring their own Laptop with a version of Microsoft Windows installed and possess Administrator rights. Be prepared to install software, analyze drive images, and handle malicious code. Laptops should have the following software installed.
Students who cannot meet the laptop requirements because of onsite registration or other reasons, please contact MANDIANT at firstname.lastname@example.com to see if a laptop can be provided for you.
Anyone involved in the information technology and information security fields responsible for responding to computer intrusions or securing corporate networks. The class covers the basics of the incident response process and proper handling of incidents as well as advanced investigative techniques used to respond to computer intrusions.
Students must be familiar with executing command line utilities as an Administrator and navigating the Windows file system using the command line.
Basic knowledge of the following concepts is required:
Chris Nutt is a Manager within the Professional Services Division of MANDIANT. Mr. Nutt has seven years of experience in enterprise level incident response working with the federal government, defense industrial base, and fortune 100 companies. He has extensive experience in incident response, computer forensics, remediation strategies, and project management.
Mr. Nutt has extensive experience leading and conducting incident response and forensic analysis engagements for government entities and the Fortune 100. He has led high visibility investigations into government sponsored intelligence gathering operations as well as the theft of payment card industry information. He regularly assists organizations in developing remediation strategies designed to remove sophisticated attackers from client networks.
Mr. Nutt teaches computer incident response to the fortune 100, FBI, and other government agencies. He is responsible for delivery and technical content of incident response training courses during which Mr. Nutt teaches students how to manage investigations and collect and analyze data.
Prior to joining MANDIANT, Mr. Nutt was a member of the Marine Computer Emergency Response Team (MARCERT). During his time there, Mr. Nutt advanced the Marine Corps incident response capability by developing processes and tools utilized during intrusion investigations across the worldwide deployment of Marine networks and communities of interest. In this capacity, Mr. Nutt was the incident response duty expert and responsible for coordinating efforts with Joint Task Force Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO), service level CERT's, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). He has experience supervising and leading forensic analysts and incident responders, as well as software development teams.
Ryan Kazanciyan is a Principal Consultant with Mandiant and has eight years of experience specializing in incident response, forensic analysis, penetration testing, and web application security. He has most recently conducted intrusion investigations and remediation efforts for organizations in the technology, financial services, and defense industrial base sectors. Mr. Kazanciyan has experience with analysis of host and network-based indicators of compromise, disk and memory forensics, and malware identification and triage. He also helped victim organizations develop and implement remediation steps to address existing vulnerabilities and enhance security controls.
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Q: My mother died three months ago at age 93. She had a good and full life. I made all of the funeral arrangements and was fine at the time. Now I am feeling quite sad and blue, which is a shock to me since I am a positive and emotionally stable person. I cannot sleep, am losing weight and just feel down in the dumps. It's difficult for me to focus on my work. As a 72-year-old woman, is this considered normal? Am I suffering from depression?
A: I am sorry to learn of your loss. It's hard to anticipate one's reaction to the death of a loved one. And yes, often the feelings are a surprise.
Depression is not part of the normal aging process, although more than half of older Americans think it is. That's one reason it is often ignored. It is more than just feeling down in the dumps or blue for a few days. It is feeling low and hopeless for weeks, months and sometimes years.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, depression among older adults living in the community ranges from less than 1 percent to about 5 percent and increases to 13.5 percent for those requiring home health care. Other data indicate depression in later life affects 6 million Americans, mostly women.
Normal grieving and clinical depression are different. The National Alliance on Mental Illness states that symptoms of clinical depression interfere with the ability to function normally over a period of time. Normal grieving is more time-limited and interferes less.
The organization also indicates that symptoms for older adults are different from younger persons. Here are some of the symptoms they identify as more typical of older persons: memory problems, confusion, social withdrawal, loss of appetite, weight loss, vague complaints of pain, inability to sleep, irritability, delusions and even hallucinations.
To get a sense of how you are doing, you might complete a short scale on moods developed by Stanford University. Choose the best answer for how you have felt over the past week. The scale is reproduced verbatim:
1. Are you basically satisfied with your life? YES / NO
2. Have you dropped many of your activities and interests? YES / NO
3. Do you feel that your life is empty? YES / NO
4. Do you often get bored? YES / NO
5. Are you in good spirits most of the time? YES / NO
6. Are you afraid that something bad is going to happen to you? YES / NO
7. Do you feel happy most of the time? YES / NO
8. Do you often feel helpless? YES / NO
9. Do you prefer to stay at home, rather than going out and doing new things? YES / NO
10. Do you feel you have more problems with memory than most? YES / NO
11. Do you think it is wonderful to be alive now? YES / NO
12. Do you feel pretty worthless the way you are now? YES / NO
13. Do you feel full of energy? YES / NO
14. Do you feel that your situation is hopeless? YES / NO
15. Do you think that most people are better off than you are? YES / NO
According to the Stanford interpretation, answers in italics are indicators of depression. A score of more than five suggests depression and should warrant a follow-up interview with a mental health professional. A score of more than 10 is almost always a sign of depression.
Don't just rely on this short questionnaire. It just gives you a clue. To make such a diagnosis requires the clinical skills of a professional such as a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker.
E.R., do consider seeing a mental health professional for an evaluation. You also might join a support group. In the South Bay, contact The Gathering Place at 310-546-6407 and Torrance Memorial Medical Center at 310-784-3751. The Our House Grief Support Center has groups specifically for adults who have lost a parent that are held in two locations: West Los Angeles, 310-473-1511, and Woodland Hills, 818-222-3344. If you live in another area, call your local hospital.
Know that if you are suffering from depression, it can be treated. If you are going through a normal grieving process, support groups are available. Many thanks for your question and best wishes for getting back to feeling like yourself.
Send email to Helen Dennis at email@example.com, or go to www.facebook.com/SuccessfulAgingCommunity.


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Tori1 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
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The Magellan Exchange
We are a non-profit consortium of universities worldwide. We facilitate study abroad programs for students around the world, in addition to short-term faculty exchanges.
We offer affordable opportunities for complete immersion in another culture...opportunities that foster personal, academic and professional growth.
Our goal is to entice students from our member schools to spend a semester (or summer or academic year) abroad, taking classes, learning about another culture, and making new friends from around the world.
University students (approximately 19-23 years old) from around the world are our primary target, but we also need a design that will appeal to university faculty and staff, too.
We have a new logo and need a new website design to match!
We do not want a "cookie cutter" website and are open to your creativity. We prefer something a little more interesting than the standard square menu style along the side and/or top, for example.
The goal with our new logo was simple/abstract expressionism. We have attached the new logo in several different file formats. Please note we have two versions of the logo (disregard the background color...the square is not part of the design!)....feel free to use either version of the logo depending on your overall design.
We have also attached our site map.
Key words: international audience, global understanding, public diplomacy, exploration
Mission Statement: Providing opportunities for students and faculty to have an affordable, educational and cultural immersion experience.
--Main Menu: Students, Coordinators, Faculty, Institutions
--Secondary Menu: Login, Contact, Directory, Mission, About
--Incorporate Facebook/Twitter icons
--Optional - If you choose to incorporate the actual mission statement in your home page design, you can eliminate "Mission" from the secondary menu.
--Show the main menu and secondary menu (as listed above for the home page)
--Each button in the main menu has a sub-menu (see attached site map). We would like the sub-menu to appear if someone hovers over the menu button. (For example, if they hover over "Students," the sub-menu of Explore, Apply, Pre-Departure, etc. will appear.)
--Each interior page will include the menus and text. Some pages may include a photo(s) with the text.
--Note - Please show us what your design looks like with and without the submenu showing.
Optional - If you want to incorporate space (on the home page, for example) for a student testimonial in your design, here is a sample you can use:
"I think my exchange can be summed up in just one word: awesome! - Anke, The Netherlands"


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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
New crochet hooks
Here are a few more crochet hooks that I made yesterday. Didn't do much else except laundry.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Bathroom trim
I started this project yesterday in my bathroom. I'm still sitting on the fence on whether I like it or not. What do you think?
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Here are some pictures of the crochet hooks that I make. :)
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Hey everyone - this is Debi Y. and I've just created this blog to show-off my creative handmade crochet hooks and all the other things I do.
Of course, this will be under construction until I can get everything set up the way I like it. Please bear with me - I'm not really computer literate. I'm having my 17 yr. old son, Bobby help me.
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I watch the San Antonio Spurs, and my basketball heart swells with pride. And hope.
The Spurs play a beautiful game of passing and movement, a work of art worthy of inclusion in The Louvre. It's FC Barcelona, circa 2012. It's jazz.
Basketball, as the Spurs have put on display in a demolition job of the defending champion Miami Heat thus far, should look just like that.
And yet their brand of basketball, a free-flowing, constantly moving ballet is the exception to the rule the NBA is transforming into. The game is pushing more toward pop than jazz, steering itself into a formulaic game. Shots should be taken from here, here and here, not there or there. Players should be played in these combinations, not those.
No exceptions. No improvisation. No jazz.
Just pop.
Still, the NBA is a copycat league. The question is: Will the Spurs be copied? Maybe the better question is: Can they be?
The Spurs didn't exactly exist in this form until last season at the earliest. They are a collage of many different schemes, philosophies and formulas.
What we see now has been years in the making, through trial and error, addition and subtraction … and addition and addition and addition. Through continuity in key personnel and compromise between players and their coach, Gregg Popovich; through wrinkles added and ever-better fitting pieces placed on the roster. This cannot be crafted in a season or two. This has been building from the moment the last of San Antonio's Big Three was drafted (Tony Parker in 2001).
And above all else, it takes selfless players.
Of all the things San Antonio's offense is, it most certainly is not isolation. It only turns down shots for more open ones, regardless of what area they come from on the floor.
This is not paint by numbers.
But it is a thinking player's system. A player once told me he learned more basketball in one year in San Antonio than in all of the other years in his NBA career combined. Heady stuff. But then, it's a heady offense run by high IQ and highly-versatile basketball players. No matter what situation the Spurs are faced with — and they have been faced with a lot of changing defensive looks from the Heat — they have a solution, because they read and react then read and react again.
But they never, ever, stop moving. And never stop passing.
Watching the Heat chase the ball for 48 minutes with no success in the last two games is at least half as exhausting as it must be to actually be going through it. Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass … made shot. It's demoralizing, and the body language of Miami's players is very clear as to just how frustrating it all is. They hate it.
The rest of us? We love it.
And want more of it.
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Spurs lead series 3-1
Best of seven; x-if necessary; TV: KMGH-7
San Antonio 110, Miami 95
Miami 98, San Antonio 96
San Antonio 111, Miami 92
San Antonio 107, Miami 86
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Mario Balotelli saw red in the 72nd minute playing for Italy against the Czech Republic last night, and it's safe to say he didn't take it well.
After picking up his second booking of the match within three minutes for a pretty tame foul in the second half, the former-Manchester City striker was given his marching orders.
Proceeding up the tunnel, Italy's number nine took out his frustration on the nearest inanimate object – in this case, the tunnel wall.
A couple of quick jabs were thrown, all pretty mild stuff and Balotelli was shepherded down to the dressing room. Cesare Prandelli, the Italy coach, attempted to calm him down, but the AC Milan man was furious with the two yellows in quick succession.
The sending off didn't prove costly though, as Italy held on for a 0-0 draw against the Czechs, widening their lead in FIFA World Cup qualifying Group B to four points.
Check out the video of Balotelli's reaction to the sending off below...

Reacion de Balotelli Luego de ser Expulsado Vs... by GianPallottini


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CSR's primary role is to handle the receipt and review of ~ 70% of the grant applications that NIH receives. NIH separates the review process from funding decisions.
Applications are reviewed in study sections (Scientific Review Group, SRG). Integrated Review Groups (IRGs) are clusters of study sections based on scientific discipline.
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Donald Trump was vigorously tweeting the morning after Democrats finished their presidential nominating convention.
His targets? A few choice people who criticized him from the stage at the Democratic National Convention.
The Republican presidential nominee on Friday referred to former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, also a billionaire, as "Little Michael Bloomberg," who "never had the guts to run for president" and whose final term as mayor was "a disaster."
That's a reversal from 2012, when Trump praised Bloomberg for reducing crime in New York City, declaring, "That's leadership."
Trump also attacked retired General John Allen, saying he "failed badly in his fight against ISIS." The former deputy commander of the wars in the Middle East had called Hillary Clinton the kind of "commander in chief America needs."
As for Clinton's claim that Trump can't handle a political campaign, he noted that he defeated a field of Republican hopefuls to win the GOP nomination.
Trump's campaign on Friday called Clinton's acceptance speech "an insulting collection of cliches and recycled rhetoric."
The statement issued Friday on Trump's campaign Facebook page says Clinton's stance on immigration "will take jobs, resources and benefits from the most vulnerable citizens of the United States and give them to the citizens of other countries."
Trump tweeted a link to the statement. It slammed Clinton for not mentioning the words, "radical Islam," ''her disaster in Libya" or the investigation of Clinton's private email server.
The statement said Clinton's remarks were "delivered from a fantasy universe, not the reality we live in today."
Clinton said Trump is offering America "empty promises" and what she called "bigotry and bombast."


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Churchill used to say somewhere that only someone with a sense of humor could understand the most serious things in life. That's one reason I've always told people that they should take the political humorist P.J. O'Rourke more seriously—deep down inside, his political humor is anchored in a grasp of some fundamental political truths. Like Will Rogers, or Mark Twain, his work conveys a serious teaching, and, like Jon Stewart and comics on the left, he can reach younger voters in ways that straight up commentary from old fogies likes me can't.
This is preface to bringing your attention to a bracing article O'Rourke wrote at the Weekly Standard right after the 2008 election and which recently surfaced again on several blogs. It is even more salient today than it was in 2008: "We Blew It." It is a thoroughgoing self-criticism of the complacency and mistakes of the conservative movement going back to the Reagan years. We had the left cornered in a box canyon, he says, and let them escape. And in recent years we've failed to perceive how the political landscape was shifting beneath our feet. There's some of the usual O'Rourkian wit here and there, but on the whole this is a deeply serious article. It is very much worth reading the whole thing, but herewith samples from the beginning and the end of the piece:
An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble. The progeny of the Reagan Revolution will live instead in the universe that revolves around Hyde Park. . .
We, the conservatives, who do understand the free market, had the responsibility to–as it were–foreclose upon this mess. The market is a measurement, but that measuring does not work to the advantage of a nation or its citizens unless the assessments of volume, circumference, and weight are conducted with transparency and under the rule of law. We've had the rule of law largely in our hands since 1980. Where is the transparency? It's one more job we botched.
Although I must say we're doing good work on our final task–attaching the garden hose to our car's exhaust pipe and running it in through a vent window. Barack and Michelle will be by in a moment with some subsidized ethanol to top up our gas tank. And then we can turn the key.
I don't agree with every particular of P.J.'s piece, but I agree with its self-critical spirit. (And in fact the chapter on the 1984 election in my Age of Reagan book makes the point that the Reagan campaign made a huge strategic blunder by not seeking to finish off liberalism and the Democratic Party in that election—that "morning in America" was a bad strategy for the long-run.) Here's part of how I put the matter in a memo I wrote and circulated to some conservative leaders a couple of years ago (before, needless to say, the re-election of Obama):
How did the Left get the drop on us? In the early- to mid-1990s we thought we had won on the major premises of politics and policy—Francis Fukuyama told us so!—such that what was needed from the likes of us was the technical work of unraveling piece-by-piece the architecture of the administrative-welfare state. The reasons for thinking this way were all around us, from the spectacular fall of the Berlin Wall to the market liberalizations proceeding apace in nearly every corner of the world to the spectacular rout of Hillarycare and the noticeable acceptance of market logic within Clintonite & Blairist liberalism. These encouraging signs were profoundly misleading. The problem with thinking you are riding a "wave of history" is that the wave might leave you stranded on a sandbar far from shore. Just ask Newt.
I have a field theory for this that is simple but hopefully not simplistic. We should not repair behind exogenous excuses about the surprise of the housing bubble/financial collapse and the extraordinary phenomenon of Obamamania. The seeds of decay and regress should have been evident long before these events. We should be honest: we—our cause, our movement—became complacent. We became too narrowly focused on policy studies to the exclusion of the sustained public argument about the principles and practices of a free society that were the predicate of policy reforms. We forgot the "public" part of "public policy" studies. . .
I don't think we ever fully appreciated, as Hayek did as far back as the 1960s, that the nature of the challenge from the Left would change profoundly going forward from that point, and become much more difficult. Instead I think the conservative intellectual movement, and its institutions, became entirely too self-congratulatory (which was one of the mistakes the Left made starting in the 1960s).
In some ways we have become a mirror image of the very problem we are set against: we are bogged down in petty details instead of broad principles.
Now, one obvious consequence of the loss of the conservative intellectual movement's focus on the broader public argument part of "public policy studies" is that we have a crop of presidential candidates who speak almost entirely in technocratic tones. And so we get a crop of candidates who promulgate 59-point jobs plans. Why not? That tends to be what they see from us [think tankers] most of the time. Conservatives who talk incessantly of finding "the next Reagan" are missing the point in looking for that particular skill set and style (though those are not unimportant things); a large part of what made Reagan effective was that he represented the culmination of a generation of patient public argument to change public opinion on general principles. For a variety of reasons I do not put much stock in the public opinion poll data that shows the public is "with us" on a variety of discrete questions.
Well, it was a long memo, and this is enough. But it does explain part of why I decided to leave Washington last year, and try something else. P.J.—let's party!


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One Tennessee county put iPads instead of rugged laptops in police cars; another county gave them to detectives.
Law enforcement departments in two Tennessee counties now have a new crime-fighting tool: iPads.
The Jefferson County Police Department recently purchased 19 Apple iPads, one for each officer, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The tablets are the first computers the department has had in its cars, said Jefferson County Detective Sgt. Darrell Turley.
Turley was sold on the idea to get iPads rather than rugged laptops, he said, when he learned the officers would be able to use the iPad's touchscreen to draw sketches and record testimony on crime scenes, send police reports within seconds and investigate background information without calling dispatch.
"Officers have the ability to do reports out in the field now that there's not as much of a necessity to come back to the office," he said, which saves the department time and money.
And it turns out the iPad is tough enough, Turley said. For proof, the IT professional who introduced the idea to Turley "took [the iPad] and threw it down the hall, and he didn't have a problem with it," said Turley. Turley figured it would be adequately durable for his officers.
Apps for sketching a crime scene and recording a victim's statement have made the officers more efficient than when they were using paper notepads, he said. The devices also reduce paper use and costs since sketches and notes can be shared with co-workers with a quick e-mail rather than multiple photocopies.
Forty-five miles away, the Knox County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes and Family Crisis units began using the tablet computers three months ago, and detectives have enjoyed the mobility the iPads give them.
"The iPad is all about convenience," said Detective Aaron Yarnell in an interview with Knoxnews.com. Yarnell suggested the idea to the office after he bought a personal tablet and found it useful on the job.
The sheriff office's IT unit approved the purchase of 16 iPads, costing $600 each, and replaced the old $850 laptop computers in the detectives' cars. The iPads were paid for by federal funding through the Justice Assistance Grant, administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The laptops were given to the patrol division.
The iPads will provide monthly savings, according the article. Laptop computers required a $40 monthly air card to provide Internet access, while the iPads offer the same connectivity for $25 a month.
Yarnell told Knoxnews.com that he uses the device to get more accurate details from witnesses. For example, if someone describes a car used in a robbery, Yarnell can pull up photos of cars to accurately match the description.
The iPad also has a GPS that allows detectives to pinpoint locations and gives them access to the in-house crime map that shows reported crimes and the location of sex offenders.
Yarnell is currently developing other applications, including a blood splatter program to help officers better understand blood drop patterns.


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JulieDiazAsper needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Mobile Test Kitchen
Mobile Test Kitchen was founded to bring more flavor, sabor to the app world. We are going to focus on cooking up apps for niche and under-served populations.
We will be focusing on families, moms and multicultural populations. Apps will be distributed via iPhone, Android, Blackberry and etc mobile stores. Social networks will be used to reach targets and build awareness.
I am looking for an original and clearly identifiable icon to standing out from other mobile developers. I'm looking for modern (clean, fresh) but not too technical (digital, cold) look. I'd rather not go too literal (kitchen pot with a cellphone in it). I am looking for original art work versus stock icons. I am pretty open otherwise and look forward to seeing your design. Thanks and looking forward to seeing some design magic to help get my company off the ground! Thanks...
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