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1. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Neil Enns - Adobe Apr 23, 2012 3:27 PM (in response to al3nai_)
I am so excited CS6 is finally out
There's one big feature that should interest DPS folks: alternate layouts. In InDesign CS6 you can now have one InDesign file that contains layouts for multiple orientations and/or devices.
Here's one easy example of where that's helpful: no more "_H" and "_V" files littering your machine. Just one InDesign document that has both H and V inside. Here's another example: one file that has your iPad and your Kindle Fire layouts in it.
The best part about this is the text is linked between the layouts, so if you have to make a text change somewhere you can do it once, the links panel will indicate the other layouts are out-of-date, and you can update the link to make the change ripple across the other layouts in the file. Typo correction is now far less painful.
You can also use the new page rules feature to define ways for InDesign to automatically create layouts for you. For example, you can start with an iPad layout, apply some page rules, and generate the Kindle Fire layout.
One small feature to look forward to: you can directly paste HTML snippets into your file and automatically get a web overlay with that HTML.
Note that to actually produce folios using the above you'll need the next release of DPS. The current release (v19) does not support CS6.
2. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?fetopher Apr 23, 2012 9:04 PM (in response to Neil Enns - Adobe)
Thanks for the rundown, Neil. I haven't had time to check out all that's new with CS6 yet, but the list you provided has me very excited.
3. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Laubender Apr 23, 2012 10:53 PM (in response to Neil Enns - Adobe)
@Neil – I understand all your excitement.
To make that alternate layout feature perfect one should be able to alter the baseline grid on a per page basis.
Is that possible now?
Or defining margins and gutters on a per percent basis relative to the width and/or height of the page.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I cannot see that there are changes in that field:
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/features._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_featuredisplaytype s_sl_new.html
Maybe I should rethink all that and undertake a paradigm shift, never using the "global" baseline grid and instead working with text frame baseline grids? Will they be taken into account with "alternate" or "liquid" layouts?
4. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Johannes Eckert Apr 23, 2012 11:48 PM (in response to Laubender)
I understand your problem.
Using text frame baseline grids are a good idea.
They can kept in sync / inherited with object styles.
(mobil gesendet)
5. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Laubender Apr 24, 2012 12:11 AM (in response to Johannes Eckert)
@Johannes – a wide field for scripting …
Especially if you have to turn a print based layout that never was intended for tablet usage into a full-fledged app.
6. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?tim.hughes Apr 24, 2012 3:46 AM (in response to al3nai_)
will the introduction of liquid layout reduce overall folio size?
I've found that exporting a Vertical seperately to a Horizontal decreases the folio size dramatically, yet they are not linked so it's a moot point
but presumably with the addition of liquid layout, as both orientations will be in the source doc, the output will be smaller?
7. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Johannes Eckert Apr 24, 2012 3:50 AM (in response to tim.hughes)
currently, the output stays the same, even when everything is in one
indesign document.
8. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Felipe - dualpixel Apr 24, 2012 4:30 AM (in response to al3nai_)
I very excited too.
I would like to read more about the new Folio Builder Panel with CS6 that brings new features like liquid and static layouts.
9. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?BobLevine Apr 24, 2012 6:04 AM (in response to Felipe - dualpixel)
The liquid and alternate layouts have nothing to do with the folio builder panel.
10. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?al3nai_ Apr 24, 2012 6:50 AM (in response to al3nai_)
Indeed very excited with the new workflow features, but.. what about new DPS capabilities? (like new transitions, effects, html, etc...)
11. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Laubender Apr 24, 2012 7:22 AM (in response to al3nai_)
For that you have to wait a few weeks for v.20 of DPS.
12. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?bennene02 Apr 24, 2012 7:38 AM (in response to al3nai_)
Is there anywhere to look up what's to come in future DPS updates? Like what features/fixes are coming up in v20? I'd be more excited about fixes to current problems than the addition of new buggy features.
13. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Bob Bringhurst - Adobe Apr 24, 2012 10:12 AM (in response to bennene02)
We don't post the proposed features for upcoming releases on any site. When the new release comes out, new features are posted here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60-21ba9a4512e5e5e0b8d-8 000.html
Bug fixes are posted here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-publishing-suite/release-note/dps-bug-fix-release-notes.htm l
History of new features are posted here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS67cb9e293e2f1f60-6abcbe621311f4e52df-8 000.html
14. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Graham Davis Apr 24, 2012 12:01 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Bob It would be sooooooo useful if these links were posted as a permanent announcement on this forum otherwise they soon drift off the top and are nowhere to be found!
15. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Neil Enns - Adobe Apr 24, 2012 12:52 PM (in response to Graham Davis)
The links are always available on our Developer Center page, which is a great resource. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishingsuite.html. Look in the What's New list.
16. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Graham Davis Apr 24, 2012 1:04 PM (in response to Neil Enns - Adobe)
Great Neil but why not flag that page up (permanently) on this forum?
17. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Bob Bringhurst - Adobe Apr 24, 2012 1:36 PM (in response to Graham Davis)
Graham - I created a new post and marked it as a featured discussion. Thanks for the suggestion.
18. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?VanGrenade Apr 24, 2012 8:04 PM (in response to Bob Bringhurst - Adobe)
Thanks Bob.
Regarding what Neil said, any limitations using Cloud-based Single Edition with CS6's and the upcoming version of the Builder panel / DPS? I seem to recall reading somewhere here that Renditions (for example) were only available to Pro users. Am I mixing that up with something else?
Basically, Renditions are different versions (orientation or resolution or both) of a single folio file, right? IOW same content, different way to view it? Hoping all of the tools CS6 and DPS offer (via cloud) put no content restrictions on Single Edition users for customizing iPad content.
19. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?BobLevine Apr 25, 2012 6:11 AM (in response to VanGrenade)
Renditions are targeted at devices so you'd have renditions for iPad 1/2, iPad3, XOOM, etc.
The renditions are downloaded by the viewer and that's the reason why single edtion doesn't support them. Single edition is a self contained app, no downloads, no in app purchases.
That's why they can only be used by Pro and Enterprise level customers.
20. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?ncone1 Apr 25, 2012 8:09 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Hi Bob
How would my client get a DPS SE self contained app without going through the app store? I have no experience with the DPS SE.
Is it kind of like sideloading? Thanks.
21. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Graham Davis Apr 25, 2012 8:21 AM (in response to BobLevine)
Good point Bob, I am sure that confuses a lot of people
22. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Casey Jensen Apr 25, 2012 8:37 AM (in response to ncone1)
Yes, you would build the app and distribute it either via sideloading, testflight, or your own mobile device management system. You would need to build it with an enterprise certificate if you didn't want to record devices UDIDs and bake them into the app (how they're allowed to install the app if you don't build with an enterprise cert.)
23. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?ncone1 Apr 25, 2012 8:48 AM (in response to Casey Jensen)
Thanks Casey,
Is there any pdf's with this process laid out? Or could you explain the process/user experience of getting apps on ipads without the enterprise certificate.
24. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?Casey Jensen Apr 25, 2012 9:07 AM (in response to ncone1)
Without an enterprise cert, it's a painful process, initially. You will need to collect the UDIDs for every device the app is going to be loaded onto. (And you're limited to 100/year)
How you load the app is up to you (I would probably recommend testflight if you don't have anything in place.)
As far as building the single-issue app building process and certificate creation, this is outlined in the Publishing Companion Guide. You can download this by logging in with an account to http://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com and clicking on the link at the bottom-right of the dashboard.
25. Re: Adobe CS6 is out! new DPS features?BobLevine Apr 25, 2012 9:05 AM (in response to ncone1)
There's no way short of enterpise level accounts to do that.


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Hans Leenhouts needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Like in the rest of the world many people in the Netherlands visit Quick Service Restaurants like McDonald's, Burgerking, KFC. Apart from these well-known fastfoodrestaurants, we consider also outlets where food and drinks are being served (fast) to consume on the spot or to go/take away, being part of a branche called "Fastservice": a blend of (quick)foodservice, retail and hospitality industry.
This portal started in 2006 and need a complete grafical rebranding with logo. (website contest will start later as the winning logo is chosen). The portal is supporting the branche fastservice / foodservice companies with information on learning, working and entrepreneurship.
With the PORTAL we want also to improve the image of the branche, which is considered to serve unhealthy food. We stand for improving the standard and level of work (by education/workshops) for employees and entrepreneurs by giving good information. We stress on healty food, good service and a good price and by doing so to improve the image so more people like to work in this branche.
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BecW needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 205 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
I'm a professional photographer needing a logo to launch my new look - used to launch a new website, business cards, watermark and letterheads.
I'm looking for simplicity!
clean, crisp, strong, professional, artistic, fluid, elegant, sophisticated, fun, unique design.
A marketable logo that stands out from the rest. Inspire me with your brilliance!
Bec Walton Photographer http://www.becwalton.com.au
The focus is on font, shape, colour, composition and presentation that captures professionalism with a discrete punch. Something to remember!
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Portrait photography
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Ann Lyssenko 8/13/2012 8:49:09 PMThe subtle colors create a mood of quiet and calm for me. Love the green grass in the foreground to anchor the more ethereal quality of the water and light. Very Nice! Ann #1480303
Leslie McLain 8/14/2012 4:13:39 AMBeautiful capture, colors, and clarity, Carol. It was a heavenly night. #10275117
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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, Japan stocks fall on a strengthening yen and Sony\'s projection for another loss in the current fiscal year, but Hong Kong rising toward a sixth straight day of gains.
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- 8:03 pm
- Japan GDP: The feast before the famine?
- by Mike Kitchen
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Judging by the just-released Japanese GDP figures, the first three months of the year was a boom time for the economy. Seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product surges 5.9% higher on an annualized basis, blowing away the 0.1% gain in the last quarter of 2013.
While the market has yet to open, Nikkei Average futures pared their losses in electronic trade in Singapore to a 0.7% loss, down from a 1% deficit ahead of the numbers. The yen, however, held its ground, with the dollar buying ¥101.81.
Helping drive the powerful expansion was private consumption, which surged an annualized 8.5%. However, this was likely more a reflection of Japanese consumers rushing to buy stuff ahead of the April 1 consumption-tax hike, so economists are expecting a weak reading for the current quarter.
- 8:33 pm
- Sony leads the Tokyo sell-off
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Japanese equities are taking a beating in early action, with the Nikkei Average and Topix each down 1.4%.
Specifically, the market is getting no help from better-than-expected GDP numbers, but instead focusing a downbeat outlook from Sony and a rising yen (dollar at ¥101.80 vs. ¥102.24 a day earlier), not to mention losses on Wall Street overnight.
Sony is the standout loser, its shares down 6.6% after the super-conglomerate said that it would post yet another net loss in the current fiscal year that began last month.
Then again, it seems like even relatively solid earnings aren't enough to goose stock prices this morning. Rising profit at the three so-called "Megabanks" is unable to help their shares, with Mitsubishi UFJ down 1.1%, Mizuho Financial down 1%, and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group down a whopping 4%.
The Megabanks' problem may be that a large chunk of those profits came courtesy of a strong stock market, something which could be absent from Tokyo in the near term. A Wall Street Journal report quotes Sumitomo Mitsui President Koichi Miyata as saying: "We took a chance in our trading activities, generating gains from equity holdings, but we can't expect it to be sustainable."
Despite the weak tone to this morning's market, however, some blue chips are enjoying solid gains.
Sharp is up 2.9%, continuing to attract buyers after swinging to a profit last fiscal year and predicting more of the same this year.
And Pioneer is up 4.4% following a Nikkei news report that its in talks to sell its audiovisual-equipment business so it can focus more on car stereos.
- 8:57 pm
- Australia budget still moving some stocks
- by Mike Kitchen
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Aussie shares are just a bit lower in early trade, with the S&P/ASX 200 down 0.2%.
The heavily weighted financials are helping drag down the index, partly a reflection of the weaker U.S. close. ANZ and NAB are down 0.4% apiece, Westpac is off 0.2%, and Macquarie is 0.3% lower.
CBA, however, is eking out a 0.1% gain amid a flurry of ratings adjustments in the wake of the lender's earnings yesterday. Among those making ratings moves are Bell Potter (keeps buy rating), Macquarie (keeps at outperform, raises price target), UBS (hikes to neutral from sell), and J.P. Morgan (keeps at neutral, hikes price target slightly).
Meanwhile, it seems that the budget, released Tuesday night, is still impacting health-care shares. While the budget called for plans to introduce a co-pay for many medical services, Citi (according to Dow Jones Newswires) sees some question over whether the government can get the measure passed in the Senate.
Citi also see the change as less likely to affect firms such as Sonic Healthcare (currently up 0.2%) or Primary Health Care Ltd. (up 0.9%). On the other hand, Ramsay Health Care is adding to its losses with a 0.9% drop, and Sigma Pharmaceuticals is down 0.7%.
Elsewhere on the market, Sydney Airport said April passenger traffic rose 2.3%, but the market is responding with a 0.8% drop for its shares.
And Graincorp is 1% weaker after the nation's largest public agriculture firm said its fiscal-first-half profit was 43% weaker than a year earlier.
- 8:59 pm
- Markets check -- 9:59 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 1.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
- 10:27 pm
- Tencent pushes Hong Kong higher
- by Laura He
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Hong Kong stocks are stalking their sixth straight day of gains, with the Hang Seng Index up 0.7% in early moves.
A 60% surge in first-quarter profit has driven the shares of Tencent Holdings up 6.1%. The stock is trading at 109.30 Hong Kong dollars ($14.05), after a five-for-one share split (with a temporary new Hong Kong ticker of 2988).
On Wednesday, Tencent reported a net income of 6.46 billion yuan ($1.03 billion) in the first three months of this year, compared with 4 billion yuan a year ago. The result smashed a forecast 4.86 billion yuan profit from a Bloomberg survey of analysts. Tencent said that the revenue from value-added services have seen a 35% jump, thanks to fast-growing mobile games on QQ and WeChat.
Other tech stocks are also attracting buyers' interest: Online transaction-service provider China Binary Sale Technology is soaring 9.4%, software provider Kingsoft Corp. is up 4.3%, and smaller rival Kingdee International Software Group is rising 4.1%.
Over on the mainland, however, the Shanghai Composite Index is weaker by 0.1%, dragged down by property stocks.
- 10:55 pm
- Markets check -- 10:55 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.9% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.4%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.3%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.2%
- 12:10 am
- What's up next week in Asia...
- by Mike Kitchen
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Here's a look at some of next week's important events in Asia:
Tuesday: Singapore GDP
Wednesday: Japan April trade data, Bank of Japan policy decision, Lenovo earnings
Thursday: HSBC China flash manufacturing PMI
- 12:12 am
- Markets check -- 1:12 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.8%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.3% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.7% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.2%
- 1:27 am
- China's new scheme to boost 'grim' trade
- by Laura He
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Lackluster trade numbers and a slowing economy have prompted China to act again: The State Council (China's cabinet) on Thursday announced several measures to "boost and stabilize" the country's foreign trade situation.
"In light of the grim and complicated trade situation, arduous efforts are needed to achieve our full-year target," the State Council said in a document on the official website of China's central government.
Among specific actions, it said it would exempt exports of services from customs taxes, allow more two-way flexibility in the yuan's exchange rate, expand the yuan's use in cross-border settlement, increase financial support for trading firms and encourage commercial banks to extend credit to importers and exporters.
The State Council also urged local governments to "optimize export structure, improve the foreign-trade situation, strengthen policy supports, help trade firms increase their international competitiveness, and strengthen the government leadership."
China's exports fell 4.8% year-on-year in the first fourth months of this year, while imports dropped 1.2%, according to customs statistics out last week.
At the same time, China's economy grew an annual 7.4% in the first quarter, down from 7.7% in the previous three months.
- 1:58 am
- India elections: Let's not get ahead of ourselves
- by Mike Kitchen
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It's been a succession of record highs for the Indian stock market lately as investors price in a clear victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after several exit polls earlier this week suggested it would win a clear majority in the general election.
While the BJP and its leader Narendra Modi are seen as relatively pro-business, it's more the idea of a strong government that can tackle India's towering economic challenges that has investors excited.
And yet, there's a not-insignificant chance that the exit polls have it entirely wrong, and that the result from Friday's vote count will shock the markets.
In fact, the polls have been incorrect in all three elections between 1999 and 2009. How wrong? You can read this details in this report.
- 4:05 am
- Markets check -- 4:04 p.m. in Hong Kong
- by Laura He
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.8% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 1.1% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.3% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) flat (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1% (closed)


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With all the excitement around BlackBerry 10 launch, one key request from our developer community is how to bring your existing BlackBerry Java applications to BlackBerry 10. As always, we at RIM developer relations constantly strive to break any barriers for developers.
Starting today, we will be publishing a series of blog posts specifically designed to help port your existing BlackBerry Java application to BlackBerry 10. As you may already be aware, BlackBerry Java is no longer supported on BlackBerry 10. Our goal here is to provide you all the info needed to quickly migrate your app functionality.
The BlackBerry 10 Native SDK enables you to develop applications in C/C++ and provides an open-source friendly environment for porting POSIX compliant code. It comes with the Cascades framework allowing you to build visually rich applications. The key focus of this development guide is specifically on BlackBerry 10 Cascades development. For more information on BlackBerry Native Development, please refer to http://developer.blackberry.com/native/
What is Cascades?
One fundamental importance when looking to develop your BlackBerry Cascades application is deciding when to use QML or C++. You can use both of these languages in your application, but as a general rule of thumb you should use QML for your UI development and C++ for your business logic. Please refer to the below link more information on BlackBerry Cascades development and to download Native SDK and BlackBerry 10 Simulator. https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/
API Feature Parity
One of the main challenges while migrating app functionality from BlackBerry Java to Cascades is finding the correct mapping of APIs. To simplify this process, below is an API Feature Parity table that covers the most common BlackBerry Java APIs and their corresponding equivalent API in Cascades.
As you can see from the above table image, most of the common Java APIs have a direct mapping in Cascades making it easy for you to port your existing BlackBerry Java application to BlackBerry 10.
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What is the Nordic Council and how does parliamentary co-operation work between the Nordic countries? Here you can get a glimpse into the 'engine room' and read more about how the Nordic Council works for joint Nordic solutions across the Nordic countries.


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This nurse's uniform dress was worn by Julia D.S. Snow (1891-1984), a Greenfield, Massachusetts, resident. The U.S. involvement in World War I began when Snow was twenty-six years old. She seemed to have been fascinated by the war: when the men of Greenfield were mustered at a nearby camp, she went to photograph them. When they marched to the train station, several weeks later, she was there to photograph their passage on the street in front of the house she shared with her father and mother. Soon after, Snow, too, joined the war effort as one of the 18,000 - plus women from the United States who served as nurses in the American Red Cross's nursing corps.
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- I wouldn't say I'm normal, but I'm relatively stable. When I think of normalcy I think of mediocrity and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me.
- Gillian Anderson, Allure "Planet Hollywood Harriet Winslow" (December, 1997)
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951
- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren Gamaliel Harding, quoted in Frederick E. Schortemeier, Rededicating America (1920), ch.17
- The note I wanted; that of the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy.
- Henry James, Prefaces (1909), "The Altar of the Dead"
- Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
- Ronald David Laing, The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 28
- The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
- Peter Shaffer, Equus, Act 1, Scene 19
- Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.
- Levine, Judith (2003). "Therapy". Harmful to Minors. Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 48. ISBN 1-56025-516-1.


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Car audio systems have improved dramatically recently but you have to take a look at an iPad 2 that has been installed within the dashboard of an F-150. The clever guys from SoundMan Car Audio go way beyond a simple car mount. They strip out the centre console and rebuild it to fit the iPad 2 perfectly. This was all done on the day the iPad 2 launch which makes the whole thing even more impressive!
The iPad 2 is the perfect car audio and entertainment system, the way these guys have installed it, complete with charging, video out to rear screens and the perfect fit and finish has really got us thinking. Car manufacturers really need to stop doing customised LCD panel audio and sat-nav systems and just adopt the iPad 2. This should be an extra in any good car manufacturer's price list! It makes so much sense and offers so much more.
Take a look at the video after the break, and then let us know what you think in the comments!
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Chief Judge Audrey Collins
"She is the face of the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California
As the chief judge of the nation's largest federal judiciary, Judge Audrey Collins is the first African American to occupy that office. In addition, Judge Collins has made history throughout her career as a legal scholar. She rose from the district attorney's office as a deputy district attorney to become a federal judge, a monumental feat in judicial history and the first in the Central District.
Asking Judge Collins about an incident that happened when she was a child–after her family moved into a new neighborhood in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, as the first Black family–started a conversation which explained how she viewed the Civil Rights struggle that was taking place as she matriculated. "The vision I have of my father was my internal vision," she started, "because I was not at the new home when he went (there), and found that people had stopped up all the faucets and flooded the house; of course later, I saw exactly what that meant."
During the time she was referring to, her experiences were not that unusual in American history; though listening to Judge Collins relate her story indicated what a remarkable person she is and moreover, what a remarkable jurist she has become. She continued, "I remembered it vividly after all these years … it stuck with me because I knew what the basement looked like it was an eastern home and back East, so it had the full basement." Born Audrey Brodie in 1945 in Chester, Pennsylvania, to a father late in his life and also a grandfather (who had been a slave and became a minister), afforded her griot-like, verbal experiences of history.
Judge Collins was brought up in a family that was steeped in professional success–besides her grandfather, her father was a dentist and she is married to a dentist (Collins)–and that shielded her somewhat from racism, and it carried over into her college years. " I was very active in many organizations in college," she said, "I was not a part of any organized sit-ins or even the takeover of the university later, but I have always considered myself an active member of the community. I was certainly involved in various volunteer activities: in (Washington) D.C., I tried to help the community by teaching, I taught when I first came out here (the Los Angeles area) and I worked for a scholarship fund for low-income and minority students for two years at USC; so I definitely tried to give back to the community." That was during the time Judge Collins was also attending law school.
In reminiscing about her career and what led her to become a lawyer, Judge Collins said, "I think my mother, had she grown up a little later would've been a lawyer and her father would've been a lawyer, had his situation been different. He was very brilliant; he went to Norfolk Mission College–where he met my grandmother–and Norfolk Mission College is actually set up by the Presbyterian Church after the Civil War to educate Black children–and it was a good college prep that was very academically oriented–and I think he knew the whole Bible back to back, but he didn't get a chance to fulfill that (becoming a lawyer)."
Still on the reason she pursued a legal career, Judge Collins continued, "Then my mother was brilliant and she became a teacher and I've always admired teaching … and I've taught at various times… and she even thought about going to law school after she retired, but did not for various reasons." She gave a very in-depth and focused reasoning for her career decision. "So when my turn came, I really saw law as a way to give back and frankly, I really intended to be a defense attorney because I saw that as a way to help our community."
Though becoming a (federal) judge is not too far off the path of a defense attorney; how Judge Collins arrived on the federal bench is a remarkable story by itself. She earned her J.D. (law degree) at the UCLA School of Law in 1977. "There's a program out at UCLA which all the law schools now have, for you to take some time off and do a little 'externship' …. sometimes they call it internship," she explained, "so I actually 'externed' for the federal public defender while I was at UCLA Law School and I went down to Terminal Island, and worked with some of the men there and try to help not on their big appeals but on their smaller petitions of grievances at the prison. And I enjoyed that."
Continuing, Judge Collins said, "At the end of my second year, I got a job working in the D.A's office and I actually got that job through one of my professors. He said, 'you've already done something with the defense, now you ought to try both.' I interviewed and I got that position as a summer law clerk, and once I did that, I loved it because I saw that as a real way to contribute (to the community) for me was working with the victims, who were also overwhelmingly from communities of color. And I much more identified with the victims; this is where I want to come when I graduate and be a prosecutor."
After her stint in the D.A's office, Judge Collins changed her career focus and in 1978, she decided, "I think it's really a great opportunity for affecting change and we didn't really have any African American prosecutors who had gone through the ranks and had risen up to be administrators at that time." According to Judge Collins, Johnnie Cochran was assistant D.A. and he was brought in from the outside (private practice), to be in charge of overall units. He was not civil service but several units reported to him including the unit that was investigating any possible wrongdoing by LAPD. "He was very helpful to me," she remembered, "as a new deputy D.A.; that was the first time I had met Johnnie Cochran."
"I worked my way up and became head deputy and assistant director and then assistant D.A. one of the three top assistants." In addition to her career in the D.A.'s office, Judge Collins was also a deputy general counsel, Office of Special Advisor to the LAPD Board of Commissioners in 1992.
Two years later, there were four vacancies for the federal bench, she applied and she was selected by Senator Diane Feinstein to be a U.S. District Court Judge. In January 1994, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton; the U.S. Senate confirmed her in May and three days later, she received her commission and became U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Collins. (It was very usual; she was the first woman in the Central District to be appointed from the DA's office.)
A few years ago, after the Patriot Act became controversial, Judge Collins was in the spotlight when she became the first judge to declare a part of the 9/11-inspired Patriot Act unconstitutional. "What was unusual about it was I think that I was the first judge to find any portion of it unconstitutional. You also think you're not going against the president so much, this is a congressional act; so it's a piece of legislation. And I think any judge thinks very long and hard and seriously about going against legislation that was passed by the Congress and signed by the president; especially one that was as prominent as that one was at the time." It was one of those things that made Judge Collins an extraordinary legal scholar.
And to reinforce her modesty, Judge Collins said, "I think what I did was very modest; by no means did the plaintiffs prevail in everything they had asked for in terms of the relief that I granted." The matter eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court and she commented, "The argument centered on the Ninth Circuit, not mine. I was upheld of all of the specifics… all of the section, I found vague, that was upheld. Now we'll see what happens."
Judge Collins has two Brothers; one is an attorney, Bruce Brodie and according to her, "He sort of followed me out here. He is very high up in the alternate public defender's office. So he's on the other side to the defense table, but we never actually opposed each other." (It may have been interesting if deputy DA Collins had bumped heads in the courtroom with deputy or alternate public defender Brodie). "It took awhile before people to realize that he was my brother," she said, but now everybody knows that we're brother and sister. And in fact, three years ago, Langston (Bar Association) honored us: I was judge of the year and he was lawyer of the year. It was the first time that Langston honored a brother and a sister."
In 2009, she became the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, the first African American to be so named.


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A familiar name in South Florida political circles is preparing to seek the Democratic nomination next year for a Florida House seat that includes a chunk of southeast Broward.
"I'm very seriously considering running for the open seat in District 100 when it comes open," Joe Geller said in a recent phone interview. "I have not made a final decision. But I'm very seriously considering it. I've talked to my family. I've talked to friends and advisers. I'm taking a very hard look at it."
Geller, sounding an awful lot like someone who is about to run, said he'd make and announce a decision in the "near future."
His younger brother, Steve, spent 20 years in the Florida Legislature in a career that culminated in a term as Senate Democratic leader from 2006 through 2008, when he had to leave office because of term limits.
It's an open seat in a district currently represented by state Rep. Joe Gibbons, D-Hallandale Beach, who can't run for re-election because of term limits. Gibbons is hoping to jump to the Broward County Commission seat being vacated by Sue Gunzburger, who also is term limited.
Geller won't be able to waltz into the nomination, though. As an open seat, it's attractive to many candidates.
So far, the only one to formally declare an attention to run is John Paul Alvarez of Hallandale Beach.
In a statement put out by the Florida Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender caucus, which Alvarez serves as communications director, he is described as an educator and union member.
"We have a high unemployment rate, a broken education system, and wonderful Jewish and Hispanic communities that deserve a stronger voice," Alvarez said. "We must invest in our small businesses in order to create jobs, however we must also invest in K-12 and higher education in order to secure the future of the middle class in House District 100."
Also considering running is Hallandale Beach Commissioner Alex Lewy.
And people in the political world have also mentioned former Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London as another possible candidate.
The district is 45.9 percent Democratic, 23.8 percent Republican and 30.3 percent independent/no party affiliation. So wining the Democratic primary is tantamount to winning the election. In 2012, Republicans didn't bother to field a candidate.
About 50.6 percent of the Democratic registered voters live in Broward and 49.4 percent in Miami-Dade County. "It's a little bit more Dade than Broward, but not overwhelmingly. Someone to be successful I think does need a base in both counties."
Geller, 59, has political experience in Miami-Dade County, where he served two terms as mayor of North Bay Village from 2004 to 2008 and twice ran unsuccessfully for state House of Representatives. He was chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party for 12 years including the aftermath of the disputed George W. Bush-Al Gore presidential election in 2000.
He said he's worked in Hallandale Beach, Hollywood and Dania Beach – all part of the 100th District – for most of the 30 year's he's been practicing law. "I know the South Broward area and know the people there."
And he has name recognition from his brother's long-time representation of the area.
Joe Geller said Steve Geller's time in office is a plus. "I think he did a very good job as a legislator," he said. "People think he did a good job when he was there."
Why is Joe Geller considering running?
"My style is to be a consensus builder to build bridges between people. I'm a progressive. And I make no bones about being a progressive. But I have also lived in other parts of the state. I think I can do some good up there. I think I can make a difference. I think I can make this a better state."
His last comment shows his careful political planning. "Progressive" is the term adopted by liberals since that label became politically problematic.


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The following was originally featured on The Salvation Army Western Territory's Blog "Expect Change" and was contributed by Kathy Lovin of The Salvation Army Western Territory.
The Salvation Army is committed to protecting kids from abuse. We're serious about that and have spent the last eleven years developing a robust safety program called Protecting the Mission (PTM) that allows kids to be themselves in a safe setting.
PTM is a holistic effort we use across all of our programs to screen potential employees and volunteers who work with kids. Once they're hired, all personnel get training on how to prevent abuse, and how to properly report suspicious activity to the authorities.
Our goal is to model safe behavior and teach our children how to safeguard themselves and others no matter where they are.
In the last eleven years, hundreds of Salvation Army personnel have received a week-long advanced training that qualifies them to be the local Protecting the Mission Consultant.
One of our recent trainees has a film degree so he put his newfound knowledge and his movie-making skills together to create a ten minute piece on child safety.
My favorite moment of the video starts at about 4 minutes in. The child stars of the video hold up cardboard squares that reach from their shoulders to their thighs and sing: "Stop! Don't touch me there. That is my 'no-no' square."
In the next few weeks, your kids are likely to spend time at the local community center, day camp, vacation Bible school or summer school program. Please make sure they know how to stay safe.
Show them this video or share the following tips with them:
– Don't take a gift from anybody unless they've asked your parents first
– Don't be in anybody's [personal space] "bubble." Don't let anyone be in your "bubble."
– One at a time in the bathroom
– Don't go to anybody's house unless you've called your parents and they know about it
– No lap sitting; no back rubs
– Keep your hands to yourself: 'no tickle, tickle; no touchy, touchy"
– And remember: "Stop! Don't touch me there. That is my "no-no" square."
Most important: be sure to tell them that if something happens, tell a trusted adult or their parents.
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by Len Lear
My four siblings and I grew up in a rowhouse in West Oak Lane where there were no luxuries. My mother spent all her time cooking, cleaning, etc., and my father, who only had an eighth grade education in South Philly, worked virtually 24/7 in a series of small shops so that our basic needs would be met. I clearly recall being the only kid on the neighborhood baseball team without a glove of my own. If I could not borrow one, I played with my bare hands. Those line drives really hurt.
And I was the only kid on our choose-up football team who had to tackle and block opponents without benefit of a helmet or any other equipment. Needless to say, it stopped being fun after my head banged against the ground the first few times.
And since money was so scarce, my mother's dresses looked like Salvation Army rejects. But I do remember one time when we going to attend a wedding of a relative, and she said, "Just this one time, I am going to save up and buy a nice dress, and I'm going to buy it at Rowell's because that is the nicest department store by far in Northwest Philly."
This flashback popped into my mind last week after I found the photo accompanying this article in the basement of my house. It is of Curtis W. Sisco, Sr., who in 1974 purchased Rowell's Department Store, which was opened in 1903 by a man named C.A. Rowell at the southeast corner of Chelten and Germantown Avenues. (It may be impossible for today's young people to believe, but Chelten Avenue emerged as a shopping street to rival Chestnut and Market streets in the late 19th century, after the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads extended lines to the area and built stations where their routes crossed the street.)
By the time Sisco purchased the department store, the neighborhood was already in serious decline, and while he tried valiantly to revive the sickly patient, it passed on to that great shopping center in the sky after just two years. Today the old Rowell building contains a Walgreens drugstore on its street floor; its upper floors have been renovated as office space and are being leased by the Philadelphia Suburban Development Corporation.
I remember meeting Sisco, who was born in 1930, a few months after he purchased Rowell's. I had been assigned to do an article on him for the Philadelphia Tribune. I discovered a handsome, charming, dapper and articulate man who was graying around the temples.
When I told him what my mother had said about Rowell's in the late 1940s, he flashed a big smile. "I've heard that from so many people," he said. "My goal is to bring it back to that kind of reputation, so people in this area will not have to go downtown to Wanamaker's, Strawbridge's and Gimbel's."
African American entrepreneurs were as rare as Phillies' World Series victories at that time. In fact, Sisco was the first black owner of a department store anywhere in the U.S., and as a result, some of his admirers even called Sisco the "Jackie Robinson of retail," which was the ultimate compliment.
Although he loved Philadelphia, Sisco was the youngest of 12 children born to a Virginia sharecropper. He moved to Philly after high school, and after a two-year stint with the Army in Korea, he studied tailoring and clothing design at the Berean Institute of Technology. He earned an associate's degree and eventually opened his own tailor shop and cleaning establishment.
Interestingly, before he was in retail, he was a Philadelphia police motorcycle officer from 1960 to 1969, performing with the precision drill team at the annual Hero Scholarship Thrill Show. That career was ended by a motorcycle accident, but Sisco remained close to former police commissioner and mayor, Frank L. Rizzo, whom he admired greatly. "I have actually gotten into arguments with other blacks whenever I say something positive about Mayor Rizzo," he told me, "but I can't turn my back on the man because I know he is a good man and very loyal."
A man of the church, Sisco also initiated the idea of community-based medical centers on church property, under which churches would rent out "dead" space to house doctors, and the church "could take in $15,000-$25,000 a year for providing the necessary services to their congregations." Sisco was a single parent to his children after his wife died in 1973, and he taught Bible Studies every Tuesday night.
Sisco, who also helped mentor many younger black merchants, opened four men's clothing stores before purchasing Rowell's. In fact, then-President Richard M. Nixon cited him in 1974 as "Minority Businessman of the Year." As an adjunct professor of marketing and merchandising at Drexel, Sisco also taught buying and merchandising and, with Mercia Grassi, Drexel University marketing professor, ran seminars for small businesses at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In his later years, Sisco was a buyer and fashion consultant at Torre Men's Fashions, 1217 S. Broad St. He died at the age of 64 in July of 1994 and was survived by a son, Cecil; a daughter, Bernetta; two sisters, Elsie Young and Helen Thompson; a granddaughter and several nieces and nephews.
Another son, Curtis Jr., raised by his father, became the first black Anglican Episcopalian priest to be ordained in Philadelphia in 36 years. He presided over St. Andrew's Church, 36th and Baring Streets. Curtis Jr. died a year and a half before his father did. I am sure that very few Philadelphians today know anything about Curtis Sisco, which is a shame because he was a pioneer who was an impressive man in both his private and public life. He is well worth remembering.


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thesilly1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 116 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Fun Scavenger Hunts
Fun Scavenger Hunts (funscavengerhunts.net) a fun, funky and helpful website.
Our site will be the premier website in scavenger hunts. The site will feature all kinds of scavenger hunts for kids, teenagers and adults.
A scavenger hunt is a hunt/search using clues,riddles,lists, etc... Usually you are given clues or a list to get to a final destination, prize or to collect a list of items. These are also sometimes referred to as a treasure hunts where you go around trying to find a treasure. Our site is more than just treasure hunts but does include them.
Target audience is generally for parents looking for entertainment for their children.
The target audience of the children doing the scavenger hunts are anywhere from 4 - 17.
The requirements of the project are to complete a great looking and fun logo that can be used on the site. The logo will be prominently featured on the top left of the site. Therefore, it should capture the idea of the site and be brand-able.
It should also look good in small font at the bottom of a signature (or in a footer). Please take this into consideration.
All scavenger hunt / treasure hunt ideas will be welcome... some ideas to consider.
- Lists
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- People Searching
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The logo should look good on both light and dark backgrounds.
We will need all file formats when finished including .PSD.
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A specific sample library for film soundtrack purposes - this is Strictly Cinema. The huge list of content provides exactly this what is on demand to make a great cinematic sound: Orchestral scenes and runs and effects, dramatic droners, effects divided into the categories short and medium size as well as swoosh and repeater effects.
Also the library gives access to a huge collection of ready-to-use scenes up to 30 seconds and longer. They are produced with high-end gear as well as classic vintage equipment. Evolving atmospheres by hitting just one key on the keyboard, and some are also playable like pads. Additional musical accents round up this library section.
Voice effects, vocoders, cartoon sounds plus a large noise section and finally a long list of typical movie sound acoustic percussions and electronic percussions already programmed with great hall and ambience effects.
Plus: A special environmental sections with looped and one-shot samples of machines like air compressor, generator, chip and drill machine, motors and steelworks, gas station noises, trains and car wash sounds deliver the off the field atmospheres and can also nicely mixed with real instrument samples for unusual sound stacks.
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July 11, 2013
These days few jobs require a candidate to put a photo on their resume for reasons which include discrimination, technology glitches, and misjudgments. Ultimately the aim is to power a career through professional expertise, achievements, qualifications, and role suitability.
Yet in the age of global business social media platforms, such as LinkedIn, it's an unspoken given that a good profile will feature a quality professional photo. With Google now also highlighting photos in billions of daily searches the move towards creating a powerful online personal 'brand identity' to communicate credibility and influence is fast becoming the norm.
Here are three reasons to get a quality online photo created pronto, and imprint a unique career into long-term professional gold:
1. Control: you'll show your best angle in the best light
Apparently it takes between just two and 20 seconds for a prospective employer to develop a first impression of who you are and what you are capable of. First impressions count. Every time a person attends an interview they are attempting to project a sense of their professional power and the reasons to fit well within a team. The image online can help to amplify what this person is trying to achieve in the interview room. It also means that people searching can make a strong visual connection. Historically every well-known musician, artist, actress or business guru has made it their business to create a fitting business-branded image of themselves for marketing, publicity and promotional materials. Using this same tried-and-tested concept it's wise to develop a quality professional photo with a digital camera taken in clear light, in colour, and made up in 300 dpi. It can be used repeatedly for email communications and uploaded to the internet.
2. Communication: you'll show your attitudes and values
An online photo needs to represent you— the candidate and expert—in the best possible light to stand a chance of getting the job you want, in the company you want, with the type of people you want to associate with, and with the right salary. A musical artist will convey their creative attitudes and values through powerful expressive formats. A money-focused salesman will project an air of market and business value through a slick business card and e-business signature and photo.
If a corporate firm wishes to hire a candidate who should be suited and booted then the online professional head shot needs to be in black and white, or grey scale, and with a hint of quality suit and tie. A creative agency will naturally seek a professional who is more about colour, expression, brand-ability, culture and uniqueness. An educational institution will look for a community-minded representative who can be trusted to develop the minds and bodies of younger students and who projects an air of respect and grace. Getting the photo to precisely match both yours and the employer's values, together with previous experience and qualifications, means that you—the good candidate—is more than half-way to getting the job and career they aspire to.
3. Presence: you'll "pop" on social media sites and Google+
In the age of powerful search engines, Google and Bing, when people search for items and people the search listing on the critical first page will show all available public photos of a person alongside a short description. These days online public photos will usually be automatically linked to a person's social media such as Google+, iChat, Skype, Twitter and LinkedIn. Choosing a good photo wisely now will help a candidate to proactively shape a view of rounded professional persona and signal the type and strength of connections they have with friends, influencers, connections, industry peers and acquaintances.
There might just be somebody who, while searching, sees your description and photo on the other side of the country or world and is looking to employ someone with exactly your type of skills and experience. Just be sure to keep any Facebook or other personal social media photos on lock-down on the strongest of privacy settings so as not to mix messages.
Laura Abrar writes about technology, business, marketing, trends and careers. She developed her career in public relations and communications management for global leading and challenger technology brands, as well as in digital marketing for SMEs in the United Kingdom. @LauraAbrar
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Libyan Militant Claims Waterboarding, CIA Abuses: Report
(WASHINGTON) -- A new report from Human Rights Watch alleges that in the years before Libya's popular revolution, the U.S. served up several captured anti-Gadhafi militants to the Libyan dictator -- but not before the Americans "tortured" some of the militants directly, including at least one alleged instance of waterboarding that has gone previously unreported.
Human Rights Watch says the 215-page report, compiled through interviews with 14 former detainees and documents uncovered after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's regime, gives detailed accounts of the alleged abuse of at least five of the detainees suffered while in CIA-run prisons in Afghanistan, including being chained to walls, being forced to stay in so-called "stress positions" and the one case of waterboarding.
In other cases, some of the detainees were allegedly "ill-treated" by officials from other countries, but it was the Americans who interrogated them about possible plots against the U.S. or information on al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In each case, the detainees were eventually turned over to Libyan authorities, despite their protests, where many were further abused, the report said.
The report from the non-profit group comes just days after the Department of Justice announced it had completed a lengthy probe into harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA on detainees, including possible links to the deaths of two terror suspects, and had determined no criminal charges would be filed.
"The stories of the Libyans held by the U.S. and then sent to Libya make clear that detainee abuse, including mistreatment not necessarily specifically authorized by Bush administration officials, was far-reaching," the Human Rights Watch report's author, Laura Pitter, said. "The closure of the [Department of Justice] investigation, without any charges, sends a message that abuse like that suffered by the Libyan detainees will continue to be tolerated."
In a statement, the CIA declined to comment on the specific allegations made in the report, but said the agency has "been on the record that there are three substantiated cases in which detainees were subjected to the waterboarding technique under the program." The agency's statement apparently refers to three instances of waterboarding publicly acknowledged in 2008 by former CIA director Michael Hayden and does not recognize the new allegation included in the Human Rights Watch report.
The CIA also noted that the agency had been cleared by the Justice Department's probe when it came to allegations of other abuses, but officials at the agency declined to comment on the Human Rights Watch report and would not say if the cases described in the report were included in their investigation. Thursday, the U.S. State Department also referred all questions on the report to the Justice Department.
In response to Human Rights Watch's criticism of the apparent close ties between the CIA and the Libyan regime's intelligence arm, the CIA said, "It can't come as a surprise that the Central Intelligence Agency works with foreign governments to help protect our country from terrorism and other deadly threats. That is exactly what we are expected to do."
In the report, Human Rights Watch acknowledges that most of the detainees they interviewed were self-identified former members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group -- a group that has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department since December 2004.
The LIFG carried out operations against the Libyan government, including at least four suspected assassination attempts against Gadhafi in the 1990s, and was also believed to be connected to a series of suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, in 2003, the U.S. State Department reported. As relations between the U.S. and Gadhafi improved in the mid-2000s after Gadhafi agreed to dismantle the country's nuclear program and renounce terrorism, some LIFG leaders allegedly cultivated relationships with top al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden, and were suspected of funneling fighters to Iraq to carry out operations against U.S. soldiers.
The designation of the LIFG as a terror organization in 2004 was meant as a "gesture of solidarity" with the Libyan government to fight terrorism, according to a March 2011 congressional report. Last August, Libyan ambassador to the U.S. Ali Aujali told ABC News the LIFG was never connected to al Qaeda and did not carry out terrorist operations.
"They were only opposed to Gadhafi during his rule and paid the price for that by being oppressed by the regime," he said then.
The Human Rights Watch report claims the case of waterboarding took place around April 2004, months before the LIFG was declared a terrorist organization, but months after then-CIA director George Tenet told a congressional committee the extremist group had links to al Qaeda and was considered "an immediate threat" to the U.S.
The man who leveled the waterboarding accusation, Mohammed al-Shoroeiya, said he was subjected to it multiple times.
"While he was strapped to the board with his head lower than his feet, they would pour buckets of extremely cold water over his nose and mouth to the point that he felt he was going to suffocate," the report says. "When asked how many times this was done to him, [al-Shoroeiya] said 'a lot … a lot … it happened many times ... They wouldn't stop until they got some kind of answer out of me.'"
Khalid al-Sharif, who was detained along with Al-Shoroeiya at the time in Afghanistan and described a similar experience but without the board, told Human Rights Watch it was "clear" they were in American custody and when he arrived at the facility, he was approached by a tall man "in uniform" who said he was American. The man said that they could kill al-Sharif there, "no one will know," the report says.
A spokesperson for the Department of Defense told ABC News the description of the uniform provided by al-Sharif, which included a red beret, is "not consistent with any American military uniforms that I'm aware of." The spokesperson declined to comment further.
The controversial use of waterboarding and other so-called "harsh interrogation techniques" had been authorized under George W. Bush's administration but the methods were rejected by executive order by President Obama shortly after taking office in January 2009.
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NEURONS IN SIGHT: Stanford's new micro-endoscope lets a doctor not just look inside your body without cutting you open, but see with astonishing resolution. The new endoscope is as thin as a human hair with a resolution four times better than previous devices of similar design. The prototype can resolve objects about 2.5 microns in size. With further development this single-fibre endoscope could let doctors analyse neuronal cellular biology in brain tissue or perhaps detect various forms of cancer. Handling the device must be a challenge.
HUB HOPES: Construction should start soon on Hope City, an ICT hub just outside Accra in Ghana. The aim of the new city is to bring together and promote technology and innovation in Africa. The plans include a university and hospital, as well as housing, recreation and everything a city needs. The technology park will also include a 75 story 270 metre high building expected to be the highest in Africa. Other African countries have already developed their own IT hubs, so this one is part of a growing trend. Meanwhile, back on the farm...
FAST ONE: The Colibri electric car recharges in 2 hours from a domestic power point, but 20 minutes at a public charging station will bring the battery up to 80%. The car's range is 100 Km, while its top speed is 120 Kph. The 3 door electric vehicle is a single-seater, with room in the boot for a bag and a couple of crates. Gull-wing doors on the sides help protect you from the rain as you get in and out. This is the kind of vehicle that would be perfect for city-wide car-sharing schemes.
UP AND AWAY: The Swiss have plans for getting into space. Swiss Space Systems plan to launch small satellites into orbit from the back of an A300 aircraft. A test flight should run in 2017, departing from the airport in Payerne, Switzerland. The plane will carry a small shuttle to around 10 Km, after which the shuttle will use its own rockets to climb to 80 Km. Finally a small upper-stage rocket will then boost the 250 Kg payload to 700 Km where it will orbit. Both the A300 and the shuttle will then land back at base. Perhaps all those Swiss mountains give them a bit of a head start too.
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I wanted to get my son's thoughts on this game for nearly 2 weeks now but he's been so busy playing it, I haven't been able to get a good overview from him until now. I shouldn't be surprised. It combines his favorite thing in the world, dinosaurs, with something he does every day with his sister… fighting.
Fossil Fighters is a new game for the DS where you can pretty much guess what it entails from the title. You play a boy (what? no girls?) who comes to an island to hunt for fossils which will turn into battle-ready dinosaurs, ready to tear your opponents dinos apart. Well, its not quite that exciting, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
The gameplay consists of 4 main elements: the story, hunting for fossils, cleaning the fossils, and fighting. The story helps move things along and does a good job of introducing the other parts of the game as you come to them. New areas of the game open up as you progress allow you to explore and find new fossils. The fossil finding is dead simple. You have a radar that tells you where they are around you and you dig them up. The excitement is in finding new fossils that give you a new dinosaur makes existing ones more powerful.
My favorite part of the game is the cleaning. If you have kids who have always wanted to be paleontologists or archeologists, they'd love this. You have to chip away at the rock using a hammer and drill to uncover the bone within. The challenge is you must do this without damaging the fossil as well as complete the task within a set time limit. The less damage you do to the fossil, the more powerful your resulting dinosaur will be. This can be both rewarding and frustrating. Some rocks already have parts of the fossil showing, so you must be more careful in those areas. Some rocks resemble swiss cheese making the cleaning process feel like surgery. The DS is perfect for this task with the touchscreen. To top it off, your drill creates dust making it difficult to see what you're doing so you blow on your DS to remove the dust making it great fun.
That brings us to the fighting. Battles crop up in many different ways, but most are when you dig something up and another fighter pops out of nowhere claiming it to be theirs. You break out your pack of dinos and take turns unleashing a variety of moves. There is actually a good amount of strategy involved as different types of dinos are strong or weak against other types. This affects which ones you bring with you to battle (you can only choose 3). Also, one of these does the main fighting at a time while the others serve supporting roles. If you win, your dinos get a little stronger. If you lose, you don't lose your fossils or any similar dire consequences with lowers the frustration factor for kids. You simple end up back in town and you try the same thing again.
The downside of this game is that for being named after fighting, the fighting doesn't seem to be the best part. The fights are repetitive and very easy for most of the game. It's fun to try out new dinosaurs when you get them, but it's the same routine over and over. Many times, the fighting gets in the way of the fun, which is a shame. The good thing is that the rest of the game is quite satisfying and its certainly not a game they will finish in a few days. There's plenty of entertainment for the kids in this one.
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JEFFERSON – Charles Finch, 80, died Tuesday, January 1, 2013.
He was the son of the late Thomas A. and Lena Jacks Finch. Mr. Finch was preceded in death by a sister, Sue Hunter. He proudly served in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict as a radar man. He later became employed by Norfolk Southern Railroad Company and, after 34 years of faithful service, retired as a yardmaster. He was a member of Union Baptist Church in Winder.
He enjoyed gardening various types of produce, but he is best remembered as a loving father, grandfather, brother and friend, who faithfully attended his grandchildren's various activities.
Survivors include a daughter, Susie Roberts, Jefferson; son, Ronald Finch, Danielsville; grandchildren, Alex Simmons and Haley Roberts; brother, Bill Finch, Jefferson; sister, Linda Bass, Smithville, Tenn.; and former wife and caregiver, Billie Ann Finch, Statham.
Funeral services will be held Friday, January 4, at 11 a.m., in the Memory Chapel of Smith Funeral Home with the Rev. Tony Powers officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday, January 3, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Flowers are accepted.
Smith Funeral Home, Winder, is in charge of arrangements.
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University of Nebraska Head Coach Tim Miles announced Tuesday the hiring of Teddy Owens as administrative coordinator for the Husker basketball program. In his role, he will assist in daily operations, on-campus recruiting and other assigned duties, including student-athlete outreach on campus.
For Miles, Owens' combination of experience and basketball acumen made him an ideal fit for the Husker staff.
"Teddy has a great basketball background with his family and has been involved in the game throughout his life. He was a successful high school coach so he knows how to make decisions, and he spent the last two years working for Lon Kruger, a coach I admire and have a lot of respect for, at Oklahoma. As I got to know Teddy, I thought he was a strong fit for our program and is what we need to make our program better every day."
Owens comes to Nebraska after spending the last two seasons working as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma under Lon Kruger. While at Oklahoma, he was in charge of on-campus recruiting tours for recruits and family members, created recruiting pieces, assisted in individual workouts and practices and helped coordinate Oklahoma's summer basketball camps. The Sooners went 20-12 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2012-13.
In addition to his work at Oklahoma, Owens spent three seasons as the basketball coach at Lincoln Christian in Tulsa, Okla., compiling a 48-27 record leading the school to a pair of Class 2A state tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010. He also was an assistant coach at Holland Hall Preparatory and Tulsa Edison High Schools. He served as a student manager at Oklahoma State during the 2003-04 season, when the Cowboys went 31-4, won the Big 12 title and reached the Final Four.
Owens received his bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Oklahoma State and his master's degree in human relations from Oklahoma in May of 2013.
He is the son of former Kansas basketball coach Ted Owens, who went 348-182 in 19 seasons at Kansas from 1965 to 1983. The elder Owens won six Big Eight titles and reached the Final Four with the Jayhawks in 1971 and 1974.


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One thing that you don't hear about much anymore is the use of solar cells to power vehicles. Which is somewhat odd, given that the sun burns hydrogen, and hydrogen is the so-called "end-game" for automotive fuels. . . .
Certainly, photovoltaics have their limitations, especially when the sun goes behind a cloud or for several months running in places ranging from Alaska to Detroit (in winter).
But that said, there are also plenty of places where there is a considerable amount of sun for a considerable amount of time. Like Arizona, for instance.
Solar-powered cars came to mind because the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) announced that it set the Swedish fuel efficiency record during the Shell Eco Marathon with a solar-powered car, the Elba.
The Elba didn't finish first but fifth.
Still, according to the KTH, the car set a record of 181.5 km/kWh. Translating that to MPGe, that's 3,801.
Which is a heck of a distance by any measure.
The solar cells for the Elba were produced by a Swedish company, Midsummer (presumably that has something to do with the long summer days in Sweden), which produces production lines for making thin-film solar cells.
Speaking of the CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) cells, Alex Witt, Production Manager at Midsummer, said "The only possible solar solution that would integrate in Elba's aerodynamic shape was Midsummer's flexible thin film solar cells on stainless steel, which could easily follow the curved body of the vehicle without cracking. This solution would have been impossible with silicon solar cells as they crack easily."
Chances are better than good that outside of things like Eco Challenge races we're not going to see a whole lot of photovoltaic-powered cars, but it is a compelling thought.


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At the ArkGeo annual meeting event at Lake Ouachita State Park, the Board was asked if a member could continue their membership if they moved out of Arkansas. The answer presented at that time was that the membership could continue only if the new home of the member was in a state bordering Arkansas.
This question was discussed at length during the Board meeting held last Friday, July 10th. After much discussion and a review of the Bylaws, it was concluded that the response provided at the annual meeting was incorrect.
According to the ArkGeo Bylaws (Article II, Section 2), an applicant for membership must be a resident of Arkansas or a bordering state. However, the Board determined that this applied only to applicants, and once an applicant became a member of ArkGeo, they would continue as an ArkGeo member even if they moved to another state that was not bordering Arkansas, or even to another country, if they chose to remain as a member.
The Board apologizes for providing an incorrect answer to the question. We will need to pull out a copy of the Bylaws at the next annual meeting when we get a question like that! Or at least make a note of the question and say, Well get back to you on that!


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