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White House Cheat Sheet: An Economic (Re)Focus?
President Obama will address the state of the economy in a major speech today at Georgetown University even as some Republicans are increasingly skeptical that his message is reaching the American people.
"The president wants the opportunity to update the American people on where we are, what we have to do going forward, and lay out the steps that are being taken to help our economy recover," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs at Monday's daily briefing when asked about the goal of the speech.
Obama also wants to reaffirm -- in a highly visible way that is sure to lead every newspaper and evening news broadcast in the country -- that he is deeply engaged in bringing the economy out of its doldrums despite having spent much of the past two weeks either traveling internationally or dealing with the pirate crisis.
Carter Eskew, a senior Democratic strategist, explained that "the economy is [Obama's] leverage for his entire agenda ... so he should lean into it."
Republicans retort that today's speech is an attempt by Obama to convince a skeptical public that the economy is his first priority.
"The president is finding it's tougher to drive a message in the White House than advertised," wrote Alex Conant, a former communications operative at the Republican National Committee, in a blog post titled "Obama's MIA Economic Message."
Chris Wilson, a Republican pollster, added that the content of Obama's speech today and how he frames the crisis are critical in determining how the message is received by the public.
"If he gives another speech like those he has given so far, the actual message America perceives will quickly change from 'it's the other guy's fault' to 'I don't know how to fix this,'" predicted Wilson. "When that happens, not only does Obama 'own' the problem, he starts to drown in it."
What's clear -- no matter where you come down on whether Obama has been focused too little, just enough or too much on the economy -- is that the American public cares about almost nothing else at this juncture.
In a Gallup survey conducted at the beginning of March, 80(!) percent of the sample said economic problems were the most pressing issue facing the country. Those numbers echoed the Washington Post/ABC polling done in January that showed more than one-third of Americans said the economic situation was causing them "serious stress."
Those kind of numbers suggest that no matter what else happens between now and November 2010 (unless it is an event of historic catastrophe) the economy and how the Obama administration handled it will be the critical issue on voters minds in the midterm elections.
Given the stakes, expect the president and his staff, as well as Republicans on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, to search for the high political ground on the economy every day between now and next November.
What To Watch For:
Tuesday's Fix Picks: The transition ends Friday. Not to digital television (that's June 12), but to finding the Fix Picks in this space. The top left of the Fix homepage is where they will be starting Monday.
1. President Obama eases travel restrictions with Cuba.
2. Is the Democratic stranglehold over Congress and the White House permanent?
3. California Democrats hope to channel Obama in 2010.
4. Is Chuck Todd getting a weekend show? We hope so.
5. Phil "Wall of Sound" Spector: Guilty.
New Enviro Ads: The Environmental Defense Action Fund and the United Steelworkers are combining forces for a multi-million dollar ad campaign in eight states (Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) urging members of Congress to support President Obama's plan to cap carbon emissions -- one of the most controversial elements of his broader budget plan. The ads, on which the to groups will spend $2 million over the next month, feature the mayor of Braddock, Pa. -- a goateed and tattooed John Fetterman making the case that the bill will help create rather than eliminate jobs in the Rust Belt. "We're doing it now because the debate on a cap is reaching a critical moment," said Keith Gaby, communications director for the Environmental Defense Fund. "Along with health care it's at the top of the president's agenda ... and the opposition seems to be ramping up." The bill, which is being carried by Reps. Henry Waxman (Calif.) and Ed Markey (Mass.), will be taken up by Congress next week when it returns from its Easter recess.
Chocola to Club: The Club for Growth formally named former Indiana congressman Chris Chocola as its new head on Monday -- roughly a week after Roll Call reported the move. Chocola, who held the 2nd district from 2002 to 2006, told the Fix that he took the gig out of because "what's going on in the country gives me great concern." He chalked up the GOP losses in 2006 (of which he was one) and 2008 to an insufficient commitment to Republican core principles. "In large part we are where we are because Republicans strayed," said Chocola, adding that if the Republican majority in Congress had moved on entitlement reform, tax reform and tort reform "we would have picked seats up." Chocola added that during his time in Congress "the enemy was not Democrats, it was Republicans" who would not support the GOP agenda. Given the Club's willingness to challenge sitting Republican incumbents (see Specter, Arlen), Chocola should fit right in.
Click It!: The best photo from yesterday's Easter egg-travaganza at the White House.
Guinta (Likely) to Run for House: Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta (R) is leaning heavily toward challenging Rep. Carol Shea Porter (D) in 2010, according to sources familiar with his thinking. Guinta has told local news organizations that he will not seek a third term and instead will run for higher office but has not yet publicly revealed what office that will be. The state's governor -- John Lynch (D) -- remains extremely popular and would be a tough target and those who know Guinta suggest he might struggle to raise the sort of money required to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg (R). House Republicans have put on a major recruitment pitch for Guinta to challenge Shea Porter and all indications are that he is headed in that direction. Shea Porter won her 1st district in an upset over then Rep. Jeb Bradley (R) in 2006 and then beat Bradley far more convincingly in 2008. Shea Porter runs, um, unconventional campaigns and ended 2008 with just $35,000 in the bank. Republican recruiters are touting Guinta as a rising star. We shall see.
Feeney to Heritage: After losing his reelection bid by a whopping 16 points in 2008, former Republican Rep. Tom Feeney is joining the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow. At Heritage Feeney will "participate in selected government, media and community relations projects," according to a release announcing the news. Feeney is also a partner in his former law firm in Orlando. Did we mention that Feeney remains under investigation for his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff?
San Francisco -- Political Doormat No More: New polling conducted by Research 2000 for the liberal Daily Kos blog shows that the often-derided locales of San Francisco (as is "San Francisco Liberal") and France (as in "freedom fries") are actually quiet popular. Two-thirds of those polled nationally had a favorable opinion of San Francisco while just 24 percent had an unfavorable opinion of the City by the Bay. The same trend held when asked about their views on France; 66 percent felt favorably toward the country while 26 percent felt unfavorably. One fascinating sidepoint in the data: the South had widely less favorable opinions of San Francisco and France than did the other regions of the country. The South's view of San Francisco (48 fav/42 unfav) and France (46/44) were some twenty points lower than in the Northeast, Midwest and West.
Miller Heads to Clean Coal: Lisa Camooso Miller, who cut her political teeth at the sides of New Jersey Govs. Christine Todd Whitman and Donnie DiFrancesco as well as then House Speaker Dennis Hastert, is joining the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity as its communications director at the end of the month.
Say What?: "They might have bitten off a lot more than they could chew." -- White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on the Somali pirates.
Chris Cillizza
April 14, 2009; 5:55 AM ET
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"I am old, but not THAT old - I have no personal recollection of the fireside chats."
I zipped over to wikipedia to see what they said about the chats. Apparently President Roosevelt began the practice prior to his presidency - as Governor of New York. His first national 'chat' was only 8 days after his swearing in; he held several more throughout his first year in office, approximately monthly. The interesting parallel to modern times is that a President used a new medium to communicate more directly & effectively with voters in order to build support for his policies, rather than using traditional vehicles. Prior presidents had to literally use the 'bully pulpit' and stand in front of a crowd in order to directly reach the people - then hope the newspapers reprinted the message he intended for the wider audience.
Posted by: bsimon1 | April 14, 2009 1:25 PM | Report abuse
hey mark in austin:
you think that was bad at 2.
i had to sit through both weddings of the Nixon girls at the white house.
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 14, 2009 12:42 PM | Report abuse
(((shades of Peter Finch in Network)
yes, i want everyone to STAND UP and GO TO WINDOWS ---now
and throw your microwave ovens out....
news just in---
Bo, the dog, did NOT find a power cord yesterday that caused the blackout -
it was a Square D Circuit Breaker !!!!!!
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 14, 2009 12:41 PM | Report abuse
bsimon, I am old, but not THAT old - I have no personal recollection of the fireside chats.
I was forced to sit through FDR's funeral broadcast on the radio as a 2 year old and I remember the unpleasantness of being with my grandparents, uncles and aunts, and parents, for some interminable time in my grandfather's farmhouse in the pine paneled den he built with everybody sad and making me be quiet and still - but not the actual broadcast.
So I amend my post to the period from HST onward.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | April 14, 2009 12:40 PM | Report abuse
QUOTE: mark_in_austin to scrivener
"I have suggested he document as well as he can the evidence to support his contentions and take them to the proper authorities."
Mark, I can assure you:
The "proper authorities" ALREADY KNOW all about the human and civil rights abuses of what I have termed the "extrajudicial punishment network."
There is NOTHING to investigate.
What is needed is for disbelieving, naive politicians and a compliant media to force the new administration to act upon what it KNOWS to be true:
...end the human rights abuses arising from "directed energy weapon" proliferation...
...and end military/intel/security agency misuse of volunteer community policing and anti-"terrorism" programs to create an American Gestapo...
...a federally-trained and equipped community "gang stalker" army that has targeted individuals for financial and physical ruin.
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 14, 2009 12:37 PM | Report abuse
good point bsimon:
i agree....anyTHING that comes up (even with his campaign) - the President comes out immediately with good damage control or just states the facts and squashes any controversy that may come up....(as in, if he let it go for a week, etc).
so did i miss the speech?
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 14, 2009 12:19 PM | Report abuse
Am I imagining that I heard SecDef suggest slashing the "death ray" funding and Lieberman criticize Gates for it? Is the "death ray" manufactured in CT? Did KOZ threaten Scrivenr so that Scrivener will have to report KOZ to the ACLU?
Stay tuned.
As I have suggested before, I think Scrivener's fears are misplaced, but I have come to accept that they are indeed his fears.
Thus I have suggested he document as well as he can the evidence to support his contentions and take them to the proper authorities. That he is airing unsubstantiated fears here, again and again, is some evidence that he does not know this is not the appropriate vehicle for resolving his angst.
Vic, I often receive the "Held" message. In my case, it is usually because the post iss too long. Sometimes it is because the WaPo filters a word I used - and the WaPo invariably gets unusual words wrong. Sometimes it is because I posted immediately previously to the same thread.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | April 14, 2009 12:04 PM | Report abuse
EYES ONLY to king_of_zouk and his merry band of trolling disinfo agents:
You misstate the protocol.
Untold thousands of Americans may be getting the microwave radiation "directed energy weapon" rays already.
Who knows? Maybe even some of the nation's political leaders have been targeted.
This is a silent, "slow kill" weapons system. Physical degradation occurs over time. Those skin blemishes, discolorations, premature graying, may be symptoms of deeper damage -- physiological, neurological.
But mainstream media and the politicians refuse to believe that saboteurs and Dr. Strangeloves lurking in the dark recesses of government could ever commit such a social (and physical) genocide.
It's the silent, stealth nature of directed energy weapons -- deployed nationwide under various government programs -- that makes this possible.
When will Team Obama wake up? Only David Axelrod seems to "get it."
Educate yourself here:
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 14, 2009 12:01 PM | Report abuse
criminey sakes...
i'm surprised the repulsives didn't come out on Easter and slam our President for going to the Easter Egg Roll instead of
"concentrating every waking hour on the stimulus package".
my gosh, what happens if they catch him sneaking out for a smoke---
oh, wait....the dog. YES !
The country is going down the tubes because the dog cut the power !
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 14, 2009 11:54 AM | Report abuse
We ignore zouk and scrivener around here. They post in every comment section and they never make any sense. Mental patients both of them
Posted by: chrisfox8 | April 14, 2009 11:52 AM | Report abuse
Dear Scrivener,
This is the "company". Stop releasing secrets or you will get the death ray.
Spooks out.
Posted by: king_of_zouk | April 14, 2009 11:27 AM | Report abuse
Once again today, my attempts to post comments to this board have elicited the "held for blog owner" message -- although The Washington Post does not "hold" posts unless its software detects foul language.
Invariably, the content of my comments seems to be the determining factor. Today, I wrote a comment voicing the opinion that the economic crisis cannot be solved until Team Obama dismantles the "extrajudicial punishment network"...
...a series of secret federal "programs of personal destruction" coupled with a nationwide network of local "community gang stalkers" who violate the civil and human rights of so-called "targeted individuals."
These "targets" may number in the millions. They have been charged with no crime. But they remain under seemingly endless investigation, and claim to be subject to harassment and even physical abuse.
I am posting my apparently censored comments to the folowing link at ACLU's "Blog of Rights," where I have memorialized a litany of apparent infringements:
This censorship appears to be emanating from the Department of Homeland Security- administered "fusion center" near my home:
If my rights to freedom of apeech and unreasonable search and seizure of my telecommunications can be violated on a daily basis, so can YOURS.
I believe my experiences indicate that freedom of speech, especially political speech, is dying in America -- and that we are being transformed, slowly and insidiously, into a fascist police state.
As someone who has worked in the mainstream media for more than three decades, I must say that our journalistic gatekeepers are asleep at the switch. I will continue to raise a warning in this space -- that is, unless the authoritarians who apparently are censoring political speech in America shut me down.
Team Obama, please wake up. This state of affairs is an much a threat to your agenda as it is to any single individual's constitutional rights.
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 14, 2009 11:22 AM | Report abuse
These "major" economic speeches are more for the antsy media than the American people as a whole. They have already invested their full confidence in Obama's policies for recovery.
Posted by: parkerfl1 | April 14, 2009 10:41 AM | Report abuse
djo4 writes
"Perhaps Obama will talk about how March retail sales plummeted, how February's were revised further downward and how layoffs are sweeping the nation and forcing people into foreclosure. Does he think we don't know what a disaster his economic policies are?"
Perhaps you should elaborate on how the President's economic plans have impacted Feb & March retail sales, layoffs and foreclosures. Which specific policies have contributed to which specific problems? What should he have done differently - and what effect would those actions have had?
Posted by: bsimon1 | April 14, 2009 10:31 AM | Report abuse
Perhaps Obama will talk about how March retail sales plummeted, how February's were revised further downward and how layoffs are sweeping the nation and forcing people into foreclosure. Does he think we don't know what a disaster his economic policies are? I can't wait to hear an update from Obama about the state of our economy and what he will do going forward. So far all he has done is continue the policies of George W. Bush by throwing tax payer money at corrupt, failed banks and other financial institutions. All he does is talk. I am getting sick of hearing his empty, shallow words.
Posted by: djo4 | April 14, 2009 10:23 AM | Report abuse
"Am I correct in thinking no prez has ever made as many public appearances and policy statements as quickly?"
Where would you put FDR's 'fireside chats'?
Posted by: bsimon1 | April 14, 2009 10:06 AM | Report abuse
Another long windy speech? Doesn't this guy ever take a breather. He does tend to go on ............and on.
When all you have is a hammer.
I should say when all you have is a TelePrompTer, the worlds problems look like they can be solved with a good rousing speech.
Posted by: king_of_zouk | April 14, 2009 9:37 AM | Report abuse
now that we have completely eliminated the privacy scourge in Somalia, can we get on to the severe consequences that were promised for N Korea?
Posted by: king_of_zouk | April 14, 2009 9:32 AM | Report abuse
Should say: "...but NOT public appearances."
Posted by: mark_in_austin | April 14, 2009 7:57 AM | Report abuse
Am I correct in thinking no prez has ever made as many public appearances and policy statements as quickly? LBJ may have rivaled on policy statements, I suppose, but public appearances.
I cannot imagine anyone except those who are committed against the Prez falling into the category of Americans described by Chris Wilson. At the same time, while "progress reports" are welcome, I actually suspect that they are not required every fortnight.
The danger to the Prez may be that he will begin to appear to be micromanaging; it is not likely that he will appear to be clueless.
Posted by: mark_in_austin | April 14, 2009 7:55 AM | Report abuse
James Carville may never be proven wrong. I only wonder if taxation can trump economic distress in 2012 (believing the 2010 is too soon).
Posted by: newbeeboy | April 14, 2009 7:37 AM | Report abuse
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Since we're now officially deep into winter, I'd like to re-share a recipe for Japanese pork belly, or buta no kakuni. Really, there are few things that are better on a cold day than a bubbling pot of braised pork belly and its aroma of of ginger, scallions, star anise, and sweetened soy sauce altogether. And because we're still in the midst of the holiday season, you have an excuse to indulge. Here is a revised version of the recipe, first published in April 2010.
At a dinner party earlier this week, a nutritionist from China told me point-blank the main problem with American diets is the overwhelming meat consumption. Meat was a bigger culprit than carbs or complex sugars, he said. Americans think nothing of eating a 22 oz. steak or a bucket of fried chicken in a single meal, with potato as a "vegetable" side. There's not moderation in this country, and that's why obesity is such a huge problem. I nodded and agreed, mentioning, among other things, the now notorious Double Down.
The next night, without thinking, I made a pound of pork belly for dinner.
To be fair, it was one of those cold and windy April days, and braised pork just seemed like a good idea. Frequent readers of this blog may remember that I have numerous other pork recipes. I mean, it's kind of a sin for someone of Asian descent to not be obsessed with fatty pork.
I decided to try a Japanese version of braised pork belly (buta no kakuni) and see how it tastes compared to the Chinese counterpart, red-cooked pork. The two cooking methods seem pretty similar side-by-side. There are some minor differences: fewer spices used, and lack of par-boiling the meat prior to browning it. Also, I was curious how pork braised in soy sauce, sake, and star anise would taste with mustard.
So, save this for a day when you have just run 10 miles, did an intense Bikram session, or maybe just had salad for lunch. I think the hard boiled egg is a nice addition for a side, although the Japanese also eat it with daikon. Either white rice or ramen is great for soaking up the sauce.
And I should just avoid talking to nutritionists at dinner parties from now on, to avoid becoming a hypocrite.
Japanese Braised Pork Belly (Buta no kakuni)
Serves 4
- 1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
- 1 pound pork belly, cubed
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 1/4 cup sliced scallions, white and greens separated
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup sake
- 1 to 2 pieces star anise
- 4 eggs
- Mustard on the side (optional)
- In a Dutch oven or pot, add the oil and sauté the pork belly on all sides until it starts to turn golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle in the ginger and scallions and sauté very briefly, about 20 seconds.
- Add the sugar over the pork and stir. The sugar should sink down to the bottom of the pot and begin to caramelize. Toss the pork so that it gets coated by the caramelizing sugar, being careful to not let the sugar burn.
- Add enough water to the pot to fully cover the pork. Add the soy sauce, sake, and star anise. Once the liquid comes to a boil, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer, cover, and allow your pork to cook for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Go read, do laundry, catch up on Facebook. Your house will start to smell nice.
- When the pork is close to done, hard boil your eggs. Once your eggs are cooked, rinse them under cool water, and remove the shells. Slice the eggs in half. Add your eggs to the pot for about 5 to 10 minutes so the outside absorbs some of the braising liquid.
- When you think the pork is melty enough for your liking, remove the pork, eggs, and sauce from heat and transfer to a serving dish. (The pork and eggs in Japan are sometimes dabbed with mustard; add a small dish of it to the side if you'd like). Serve with rice or ramen.


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If you find any errors in FR24 aircraft database you can post the errors and correct data here. It could be wrong registration, wrong plane type, wrong airline or any other aircraft data error.
Preferred format
ModeS/Hex-code - always needed
ICAO Type code - sets the icon
Airline / Owner - no individuals, trustees or leasing companies
Paint code (ICAO) - should reflect the livery of the aircraft - ICAO code only, not IATA code or name
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Please don't report TEMPORARY wet-lease operators. We don't have the resources to update a new operator twice per week. Only permanent changes.
We can't just set or update an ICON. Correct icon is set based on the ICAO Type code. When correct ICAO Type code has been provided, the icon will be correct.
For PRIVACY reasons please don't report individuals, trustees or leasing companies as airline/owner. "Private owner" is preffered for non-airline aircraft.
Please don't report data where hex-code and registration is not matching (same country). This happens often when an aircraft is transfered to a new country and the new owner doesn't update the transponder data.
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This means that an aircraft with hex-code between A00000 and AFFFFF can only have an US N-registration and not Brazil PR-registration or German D-registration or Chinese B-registration.
This will hopefully make aircraft owners more aware of that they are using an incorrect hex-code and also decrease of numbers of errors when hex-code is re-used in country of orgin.
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i'm working on a multifunction Alarm system
that needs a loot of I/O
2x keypad.LCD,Speaker,key,RFID type "door units"
Separate micro "Serial protocol"
1x www, email, IM, text message
alarm indication and remote control interface "Serial protocol"
Embedded linux, "dd-wrt, NSLU2"
16x window sensors
4x glass break sensors (analog piezos)
4x PIR motion sensors (on/off)
4x Smoke/Fire alarm inputs (on/off)
1x powerfailure sense (Tamper, Fridge, freezer )
(on/off maby analog Temp)
2x "Guest" "door bell" zones (mailbox and driveway visitor sensors)
2x outdoor siren, Beacon light (on/off)
2x indoor alarm siren (on/off)
4x indoor lights interface (on/off)
2x outdoor floodlight (on/off)
1x SD-Card for Storage of "event log"
All of the units need a "TAMPER" sensor, but this can be as simple as just one wire through them all in serial (if broken)
interface to camera server (unknown. Rs232?)
so yea.. looks like i need Some additional I/O's for the Arduino.
or maby just something bigger
Re: Centipede Shield - also a contest!
Nov 09, 2009, 03:36 am
im working on a project for a friend. what i call a "magic" hallway. using a sonar sensor, many pir sensors and a ton of led lights. as one walks through the hallway, the light follows them. get brighter as they get closer and the gradually dimishes as the move away from the light. funny, i was looking into i2c protocol for this project, and then you come out with a shield that would be perfect
Re: Centipede Shield - also a contest!
Nov 09, 2009, 04:03 am
I'm working on building a custom control interface for a model train set my dad is building. He's gotten pretty ambitious with the track layout, and I know I'm going to need more than 20 i/o pins on the arduino for all the electrical elements I'm going to have to control.
Essentially, we're going to be using multiple arduinos (or maybe just one with a centipede shield) communicating with a touchscreen UI running on some sort of embedded device to control all of the track elements (turnouts, forward/reverse, engine speed, turntables, sound effects), lighting effects (buildings and such), and some safety systems (the layout includes a couple turnaround loops and it's conceivable we'd have two trains on the same loop at the same time - the arduino could shut down an entire loop automatically if it detects a problem).
I originally submitted this for the Nokia n900 push project. Sadly, it was rejected. We're moving forward with the build, though. I'm probably going to re-purpose a TI Beagleboard for the user interface, since it's silent and the serial USB connection with the arduino should be trivial to set up. Either that or a Nokia N810 or a Pandora handheld -- haven't decided which one I think I can spare yet.
Some of the technical considerations for this project can be reviewed at rootaction.net/~boltonc/train.pdf Ignore the prototype track; we're skipping that step and working directly with the final track layout.
We're also looking into what kind of stepper motor we would need to build our own custom turn-table, and whether it would be more cost-effective than purchasing one at retail.
The project is long-term, but is already under way. We finished building the table top this afternoon. It's sectional in 6 pieces since the overall layout is 10x12 feet. We'll be getting together in another week or two to finish the structural build (assemble legs and casters on each section and bolt them together), after which we'll be working independently; he'll lay the track while I start prototyping circuits. It'll take us a month or two before we're ready to put it all together. I'm not sure if that meets your requirement for 'something
plan to build immediately' or not, but I do know the centipede shield will save me some coding and cash.
Even if you don't decide to throw a freebie my way, I'm interested in purchasing one when you're ready to start selling them. Do you know yet when that might be and/or where you'll make them available?
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Nov 09, 2009, 04:32 am
I would like to interface with a relay board - probably dead-bug style - to switch line current to many several channels of animated christmas lights.
I foresee needing near 50 channels to have a truly explosive experience. So far my plan involves using shift registers - which I'm quite comfortable with working on, but this board would simplify things greatly...That, or I pick up an arduino mega.
Then it's just a matter of writing sync software.
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Nov 09, 2009, 05:58 am
ok macegr,
heres my idea. I want to make a cheap and fast motor control system for robotics. something like the sony aibo used to use...1 brain with tons of sensor in and coordinated servo control with balance...something that stabilizes my robotics platforms as a standard. then others can implement my code base and control system for their robots. If every one of us makin robots has to teach them all how to balance and self correct, this will take forever. If i make a fast atmega328 program and a custom app for motor control, i can create a standard kit for robotics platforms that is cheap and EASY....so hook me up bro... i need that shield for some serious I/O. awaiting that PM. Legion.
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Nov 09, 2009, 02:31 pm
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great! this will make it easy for me to build a (hardly original nowadays) stepsequencer for drums. sort of like monome but 4 rows with 16 steps (using something like the sparkfun 4x4 button pads (not allowed to post that here)). there will be 16 rotary encoders, how to use them is something i'll still have to figure out for myself, but i guess it should even be possible using two of these shields!
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Re: Centipede Shield - also a contest!
Nov 09, 2009, 03:05 pm
This shield could be ideal for a fancy wall mounted analog clock: 60 outputs which drive 60 leds (for example, high brightness, white leds). One led for each minute (6 degrees), closing the circle. Leds are soldered in order to project each light beam almost parallel to the wall surface (it's preferable to use very narrow beam leds).
The project is very, very simple, since the software must basically drive in a very clever manner 60 different outputs (2 pushbutton inputs for time setting and/or IR input to do the same job).
The hardware part is also quite simple: if we don't want to rely on Arduino clock settings, we only need to add an RTC to the Arduino in order to keep the time as stable as possible. For the code, it's up to our fantasy to find a way to display the time. Some ideas:
1. All leds are powered off except led (or group of 2, 3, 4 or more) to show the hour; slow blinking led (or group) to show the minutes and optionally fast blinking led (leds) to show seconds;
2. All leds are powered on (pay attention to maximum sink/source current from IC) and 2 different blinking rates to show hours and minutes: this way the clock could be used also as a very original wall mounted lamp/clock!
3. More ideas, please! (consider that you can find other purposes for this gadget, not only a clock, but: countdown timer, analog thermometer, vu-meter, whichever-physic-environmental-variable-meter...)
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Nov 09, 2009, 07:30 pm
I find this perfect for application in driving all the indicators and switches on the overhead panel of a home-built flight simulator for a B373-700 airplane.
Usually you need to run a rats nest (hundreds) of cables to the IO board located elsewhere in the electronics bay.
Using this, with a local power supply, a simple two or three wire cable is all that is needed
All the best
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Nov 09, 2009, 08:55 pm
I have an old electric-air-blower-powered organ, with several octaves and a chord section, which works by opening/closing holes in a large box (picture a saxophone's key mechanisms).
I'd like to retrofit it with lots of solenoids for pushing the buttons, and interface it to MIDI via an Arduino.
Your Centipede Shield should provide enough outputs to do it right, with a few pins left over for control buttons and an LCD display!
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I am going to be building a custom EEG/EMG monitor. I need multiple channels so I can monitor the electrical activity of various areas of the brain and muscles I'm studying.
This many I/O inputs would allow me to increase my ability to monitor and interpret the electrical impulses from a variety of sources at the same time.
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Nov 10, 2009, 04:11 pm
I had an idea for a "distributed production" alphanumeric electronic demonstration sign. the idea is demonstrators get a kit in the mail containing precut led strips and wire, and construct a 2X4 foot 14-segment alphanumeric 1-character sign. the wires all go out to a plug at the bottom. Now - one guy comes out with the same sign, but he also has the control board - arduino+centipede, to control all 5 signs (incl. power supply and switching with uln2003) , and end up with a 5-letter, 10X4 foot electronic sign! I know this does not make use of the input and only uses the centipede as an output expansion, and I know that for the same price I can almost get an arduino mega (which is good for 4 1-letter signs) , but I still want it!
I also discussed this with some guys from graffiti research lab (google it) and they were cautiously interested.
diagram will be up soon. thanks for reading!
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Nov 10, 2009, 05:09 pm
Tomas: This won't help you in the contest, but you may want to suggest it to the GRL gang....
Instead of LED signs and lots of wires, put the 14-segment displays on the backs of jackets, using EL wire, powered by batteries, uniquely labeled with a QR code patch on the front (where it's harder to see mid-demo), and control it though an iPhone app. Once enough of these are floating around, you could do impromptu flash-mob signage.
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Re: Centipede Shield - also a contest!
Nov 11, 2009, 05:15 am
Lots of good ideas so far, glad so many of you think this might work for your projects.
Based on the entries so far, I want to clarify a few things.
PWM may be possible, but probably not too accurate over I2C. I would say that if you're controlling LEDs, you should plan to just have them either on or off. The same goes for LED matrix driving...it could work, but there are probably better and more reliable ways.
Since these are general purpose I/O, I'd like to see at least some mixing of functions. Input-only and output-only are valid uses for this board, but don't exploit any advantages this would have over some shift registers.
I am also paying a lot of attention to how the entries are written, and really appreciate the ones with full details and examples of what you've already done to work on the project. From these posts, it's pretty easy to tell when someone knows what they're doing, and has the ability and motivation to follow through. I would really like to get feedback on these and not have them sit on a shelf until the Arduino is obsolete. If any of you want to expand on your project a little more, that's fine. Feel free to post more details, as long as you get them in by Friday the 13th they'll be included in the overall decision.
Thanks to everyone so far....
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Nov 11, 2009, 06:54 am
Consider mine withdrawn.
I needed more I/O which the Centipede could give me
But i also need more room for my program so i am upgrading to the Maple (
and that will give me the I/O needed also. But if i need more i can add your board on later.
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Nov 11, 2009, 09:19 pm
i'm intending to make a hologram generator using the pesistence of vision concept.
its going to consist of two 256x256 RGB matrices (think big, might get at least a small part of it right
) mounted on a axel (1800rpm+) as shown in a rough top down sketch.....(gimp is not a friendly alternative to MSpaint, but i not complaining :-/ )
i intend it to show 3D renders at 30fps min when complete.... so i guess the shift register nature of the centipede wil be useful...
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The Harvard men's volleyball team wraps up the regular season, hosting Hay division opponent NJIT. A ceremony honoring senior Shaun Mansour will preceed the match at the Malkin Athletic Center.
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The lone senior on the 2011 Crimson team, Mansour is a native of Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif., concentrating in human evolutionary biology.
Mansour participated in 27 matches and 77 sets for the Crimson in his four years in Cambridge. He received all EIVA All-Academic honors as a sophomore, but missed his junior season due to a knee injury.
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The Crimson has struggled in the second portion of the season, falling in each of its seven division matches. Harvard is 8-13, 0-7 Hay entering the last match of the season.
Despite the struggles, Matt Jones has remained a consistent offensive factor for the Crimson. Jones ranks fourth in the EIVA in kills per set, averaging 3.85, and is seventh with a 0.35 service ace per set average.
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The Highlanders snapped a three-match losing streak with a 3-1 win over the Crimson April 9.
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Very much a young person's scene. Looking at keeping the Saturday night crowd and developing the Friday night for functions, parties and open to public nights.
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In the debate about nuclear power, some people argue that the number of fatalities that can be attributed to the coal or gas industry is much higher than fatalities caused by nuclear power – and conclude that this argument successfully makes the case for the continued use of nuclear reactors.
I find the discussion about which of the dirty technologies (as we actually can and need to get rid of both fossil and nuclear) is largest killer quite indecent and do not want to fuel it by throwing in more abstract figures that never respect the human lives behind them. But for the purpose of getting some clarity around this argument, let's look closer at those claims.
The perhaps most authoritative comparison of fatalities appeared in a number of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) papers during last decade: "Environmental and Health Impacts of Electricity Generation" published by International Energy Agency in 2002, "Risks and Benefits of Nuclear Energy" published by Nuclear Energy Agency in 2007, "Comparing Nuclear Accident Risks with Those from Other Energy Sources", also published by Nuclear Energy Agency 2010, and "Energy Technology Perspectives 2008" by International Energy Agency. The arguments on fatalities from those papers have been frequently quoted elsewhere.
The first major problem with the fatalities argument that if one takes the effort to look closely, all the relevant figures and graphs in the OECD publications actually refer down to one single collective of authors, which is the Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland. In references you will find Paul Scherer himself, or his colleagues R. Dones, U. Gantner or S. Hirschberg. Now, having such an important argument based on one single source is not exactly scientific, is it?
Let's look further. Here one fancy version of their graphs, the one that has been reproduced in most influential International Energy Agency (IEA) paper, "Energy Technology Perspectives 2008":
This chart plots frequency of accidents and their fatalities. Therefore, the closer to the left bottom corner the technology appears, the safer it is – and vice versa, the more towards top right corner, the more risky.
You need to note two things that are apparently wrong with this chart. First, it talks about the OECD – which allows authors to entirely exclude the worst nuclear accident - Chernobyl in 1986 - from the picture. If we were to plot Chernobyl, it would appear at the frequency of once in 8,000 GWy (accumulated nuclear generation history by now), and fatalities in the range between 9,000 (according to World Health Report (WHO) report in 2006, future victims in Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine) and 33,000 (modest estimate of overall potential death toll based on collective dose, see for example TORCH report from 2006). The graph would then actually look like this, with the red bar showing more realistic range for nuclear power's record, making it clearly the most hazardous technology:
The second thing that is terribly wrong with the original chart, is that while it pretends to include nuclear power, it is using double standards to plot it. Contrary to other technologies, where the risks are taken from real world experience, nuclear risks are based on PSA. This is so-called Probabilistic Safety Analysis and is nothing more than a theoretical modeling of reactor risks.
It is acknowledged as a method to identify weak points in the technology, but even the nuclear industry says it is not good tool for coming up with reliable figure of the overall chance of heavy reactor accident. We have seen this method going totally wrong in the case of the US Space Shuttle program, where the engineers estimated a chance of accident as 1 in 100,000 but in fact two of the four Shuttles in the fleet ended up meeting disaster (a great insight by Richard Feynmann can be found here).
We can also see how wrong this method went for the nuclear power sector globally: while the industry is assuring us that the chance of a heavy accident involving reactor damage is in the order of 1 in 100,000 years, in fact we have seen at least five such accidents (one reactor at Three Mile Island in 1979, one reactor at Chernobyl in 1986, and three reactors at Fukushima in 2011) during an accumulated 14,000 reactor-years of experience – this brings the empirical figure of more than 1 in 3,000 chance. Nevertheless, OECD publications use this theoretical calculation, done for a single Swiss reactor (sic!), to make generic conclusions on hazards. This is already a third major methodological mistake that makes the original IEA charts figures heavily biased and unreliable.
So the recipe for cooking up false conclusions about nuclear safety is as easy as this:
1) Take your data from one single institute in all publications (there is a lot of referring in circles but finally it all ends up with the Paul Scherer Institute);
2) Ensure sure you find a methodology that allows you to exclude the worst nuclear disaster in the history from your statistics (such as talking about OECD only); and
3) Use double standards in comparing technologies (theoretical modeling for nuclear versus historical record for other technologies).
While if plotted properly, you will find out that nuclear energy probably still presents the largest risk to lives of the known energy technologies. But there is also an important qualitative difference here. If we talk about accidents in the coal or oil industries, those risking their lives are mostly workers directly involved in the operation. In that sense, it is certainly their choice by choosing the job and they also have the means to mitigate and control the risks they are taking. In the case of nuclear power, most of the risk is imposed on a population that has no information, no expertise, no training, and most importantly no choice as they are denied from having the power to decide if they want a nuclear reactor in their vicinity.
Apart from the International Energy Agency, more graphs and figures have been appearing widely, such as this one
This is coming from yet another angle, which is not only looking at fatalities from accidents but also the health impacts of routine air pollution etc. That this approach gives even much more space for voluntary speculation, it can be illustrated by how much the figures differ if they come from different sources.
Take for example the above mentioned blog and source data for those impressive boxes: they attribute 161 fatalities per one TWh (billion kilowatt hours) of electricity to coal, 36 fatalities per 1 TWh to oil, 4 fatalities per TWh for natural gas, and 0.04 fatalities per TWh to nuclear. That would indicate that nuclear is at least by three magnitudes (1,000 times) safer than fossil fuels.
Contrary to that, New Scientist comes up with figures that still suggest fossil fuels are bigger killers, but the contrast with nuclear is by far less impressive. It concludes that per 1 TWh of generated electricity, there is between 0.02 to 0.12 fatalities attributable to nuclear, 0.03 to 0.16 to gas, and 0.28 to 3.3 to coal. That is roughly a difference of just one magnitude (10-30 times) between nuclear and coal, and nuclear is just comparable to gas.
The nuclear figures seem to be in line with what the International Energy Agency reported in 2002, that is, routine nuclear power related fatalities to be in the range of 0.03 and 0.16 fatalities per TWh only due to health impacts related to uranium mining – even if we simply forget about reactor accidents including Chernobyl.
So the more proper illustration comparing health and death impacts of energy sources – that is if we skip accidents such as Chernobyl and only talk about standard operation – would rather look like this (grey and black squares representing the range):
And yes, there is no doubt that for various reasons – including the related fatalities but much beyond – we need to get rid of dirty and risky energy sources, be it coal, oil, nuclear, or even gas. The future is with renewable energy technologies which have economic, safety, security of supply, as well as sustainability advantages over fossil and nuclear energy. The fatalities ratio is no differently in clear favour of renewables.
The wind power fatalities per unit of energy was reported to be twice as that of nuclear in Germany in 2000 (IEA 2002). In this chart above, we use the figure of 0.15 per TWh copied from the Next Big Future blog. It is probably safe to assume that in past decade, due to significant upscaling of energy output per one wind turbine, as well as maturing of the technology, the fatality ratio has substantially further decreased.
Jan Beránek is Head of Greenpeace International's Nuclear Campaign.
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For a good reason, the insurance companies don`t give insurance to atomic power plants. It´s too high risk for them. It would be interesting to see there risk graphics.
15 April, 2011 at 15:19
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looks like those cherry pickers are good at picking all the nice cherries to make a delicious cherry jam without thinking of what kind of taste it is ...
looks like those cherry pickers are good at picking all the nice cherries to make a delicious cherry jam without thinking of what kind of taste it is going to give to the people.
15 April, 2011 at 16:20
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Can the same not be said for nuclear power:
"due to significant upscaling of energy output per one wind turbine, as well as maturing of the...
Can the same not be said for nuclear power:
"due to significant upscaling of energy output per one wind turbine, as well as maturing of the technology, the fatality ratio has substantially further decreased."
What about the people inhaling pollution around coal and oil plants?!. Also how many non workers have had health effects or high doses from Fukushima.
"in the coal or oil industries, those risking their lives are mostly workers directly involved"
Below is a very bad and un-scientific assumption. The technology is far more matured (apparently that counts for wind but not nuclear). Even at the time of Chernobyl the west did not and would not make reactors like that. And your quote below assumes a Chernobyl will happen again in the same time scale of nuclear power. Which it won't. More safety, more containment, no graphite to catch fire!. Fukushima is as bad as anything could get in this day and age and it killed ZERO.
"If we were to plot Chernobyl, it would appear at the frequency of once in 8,000 GWy "
The nuclear statistics may be screwy, but not massively and not at the same level that this article scyews incidents to make nuclear energy look scarier.
Nothing here would ever be scientifically or professionally recognised. Not by independent experts, governments, statisticians, or people who write safety cases (for any industry). Please speak with professionals that do this sorts of analysis'. Deffinately not nuclear industry, that would be bias, but any other industry or independent body that deals with work related deaths through hazardous materials and you will see that your argument is flawed.
15 April, 2011 at 18:09
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In the last paragraph you give wind the concession that its got safer due to upscaling and maturing of technology. Why not give the same concession to...
In the last paragraph you give wind the concession that its got safer due to upscaling and maturing of technology. Why not give the same concession to nuclear.
Chernobyl was a bad design (graphite moderated water cooled) from the 1950s where the criticality increases if there is over heating of coolant. judging nuclear safety based on chernobyl is like judging car safety on accident with a car that had no breaks.
Also if you include non OECD deaths, then in china coal kills 5000-20000 miners per year.
15 April, 2011 at 18:31
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As always you guys are involved in fundamentally dishonest "research."
In this case, it's the asinine assumption that all nuclear powe...
As always you guys are involved in fundamentally dishonest "research."
In this case, it's the asinine assumption that all nuclear power should be lumped into the same bucket, when we know that plants like Chernobyl were so unsafe that they would *never* have been allowed to run in any free society. There are dramatic safety differences in different generations and types of reactors, but in order to grind your axe, they're all lumped in with Cheronbyl?
Give me a break. This is religion, not science.
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It is certainly unfair to use Chernobyl as a data point since no reactor uses that design. All of the Generation IV designs use negative void coeffic...
It is certainly unfair to use Chernobyl as a data point since no reactor uses that design. All of the Generation IV designs use negative void coefficients, and they have passive cooling requirements which would have prevented a Fukushima accident (a Generation II design which is 50 years old). Didn't fukushima have a 1 in 20,000 year mean time to major accident anyway, not 1 in 100,000 like this article assumes?
Using 33,000 deaths as a measurement for Chernobyl is irresponsible. There may have been 33,000 incidences of thyroid cancer, but only 11 of these are attributed to deaths. Greenpeace also espouses the "no safe amount" theory, which has been thoroughly debunked.
Windmills and solar power require much larger amounts of mining and manufacturing in order to produce the same amount of electricity as a Nuclear. If you look solely at the mining deaths, I think Nuclear will have these "clean" sources beat.
Furthermore, windmills and solar can not be used for base load unless you add massive amounts of energy storage capacity to the grid, which includes even more mining for the materials used in these storage systems and the extra electrical wires needed to deal with the additional power distribution issues.
17 April, 2011 at 18:29
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(Unregistered) Chewie
This is blatant cherry picking.
Why don't the graphs show the equivalent deaths-per-watt figures for solar power?
18 April, 2011 at 11:14
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Eh.. the obvious conclusion to draw from the real world figures and measured releases from various power sources is to stop coal now. What it gets rep...
Eh.. the obvious conclusion to draw from the real world figures and measured releases from various power sources is to stop coal now. What it gets replaced with is not important, because it is so very much worse than everything else.
Specifically, replacing nuclear reactors with coal fired powerplants - as the germans are currently doing - is homocidal madness.
As long as you still have operating coal fired powerplants, abandoning any other form of power generation is a crime against the planet.
18 April, 2011 at 12:43
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Great summary! I have been waiting for these numbers. I am a regular reader of the Nextbigfuture blog you quote, it was great seeing his numbers in a ...
Great summary! I have been waiting for these numbers. I am a regular reader of the Nextbigfuture blog you quote, it was great seeing his numbers in a context – not sure how much you can trust that guy (he calculates solar power death risk based on rooftop solar installation).
Is it possible that Greenpeace could work this analysis a bit further? What you have written now is kind of an overview wetting the appetite for this perpective. Would you want to weigh in and work out some numbers of your own and put your name under those numbers?
18 April, 2011 at 15:44
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This article at best puts nuclear in line with gas, which is pretty much what wind and solar farms depend on for base load gen. The fact is, this arti...
This article at best puts nuclear in line with gas, which is pretty much what wind and solar farms depend on for base load gen. The fact is, this article isn't even close to factual. It simply strings together a number of assumptions and continues to align nuclear power gen as "risky" which is a cheap over played tactic used to scare people into supporting GP's perspectives since the organization started. It's the most rudimentary fall back when people lack any foundation to their claims. It's simple word smithing and propaganda. I like the solid facts (regardless on how slanted GP believes them to be). The fact is, they are solid NUMBERS...all GP's doing is word smithing the hard work done by statistics and research. The anti-nuclear argument is so 60's, we've evolved and are entering a new era of nuclear support! CYA GP!
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The World Health Organization found that 56 deaths were directly attributable to the Chernobyl accident, 34 during the accident and the balance from t...
The World Health Organization found that 56 deaths were directly attributable to the Chernobyl accident, 34 during the accident and the balance from thyroid cancer and other radiation-induced cancers. There is no evidence, after 25 years, that the people exposed to radiation have any increase in cancer over the general population. So even if Chernobyl is included nuclear is by far the safest baseload energy technology, much safer even than hydroelectric.
Greenpeace forst adopts a "zero-tolerance" policy for nuclear and then twists and spins the facts to fit their policy.
At this point not one radian-related fatality has occurred at Fukushima, and none are expected according to the Hiroshima-based Radiation Effects Research Foundation. They have followed the health history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors and have found very little impact despite far hogher exposure than Chernobyl or Fukushima.
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Well stated, sure makes GP look stupid when they allow for biased articles like this to be published. The author sure put time into skewing the initia...
Well stated, sure makes GP look stupid when they allow for biased articles like this to be published. The author sure put time into skewing the initial research done by Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland which they open with as saying the mortality by energy source argument is founded on one and only one bit of reasearch which the author also tries to leverage for a counter argument rather then doing their own research...shame on you Greenpeace
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Meier, et al v. Wyeth Pharmaceutical, et al
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ORDER finding this case is designated to proceed with case-specific discovery under PPO 9, and directing Plaintiff to provide Defendants with an updated medical authorization within 3 weeks of the date of this Order. Signed by Judge William R. Wilson, Jr on 11/5/2010. (jct)
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Maine Woman Receives 80-Year Sentence For $4.7 Million Ponzi Scheme
In what is likely the stiffest sentence for a female Ponzi schemer, a Maine woman was sentenced to serve eighty years in prison for her role in a $4.7 million Ponzi scheme. Karen Bowie, 61, received the sentence after being convicted at a week-long trial in Austin, Texas of property theft. While Bowie was not charged with masterminding the scheme, authorities accused her of playing a focal role in promoting the scheme, in which she received over $2 million that was diverted from investors. While Bowie would be eligible for parole due to her conviction on state crimes, the sentence will likely be a life sentence.
Bowie was part of Titan Wealth Management, LLC ("Titan"), which was in the business of recommending European mid-term notes ("MTN's") to clients. Potential investors were told that the notes were low risk and offered outstanding short-term returns ranging from 10% to 50%. Additionally, Titan's owner, Thomas Lester Irby, told investors that Titan would receive no fees or compensation from selling the notes, and in the event of emergency, Irby could easily liquidate a $10 million MTN that he personally owned. Irby and Titan would eventually raise over $3 million from more than 30 investors.
However, investor funds were not pooled to purchase MTN's or even any interest in MTN's. Instead, millions of dollars in investor funds were used to pay putative MTN 'profits', as well as diverted for Irby's personal benefit. Bowie, who did not deal directly with investors but instead directed Irby to make false representations, also received nearly $2 million without providing any apparent consideration. Irby was sentenced in 2010 to 24 years in prison after being charged with money laundering.
Bowie's 80-year sentence should serve as a stark reminder of the perils of proceeding to trial rather than accepting a guilty plea. The severity of Bowie's sentence is not only grossly disproportional to the relatively meager amount of funds involved, but is also easily one of the highest handed down to a Ponzi schemer - man or woman. (While women have been convicted of operating Ponzi schemes, they are handily outnumbered by men.) Indeed, the 30-year sentence handed down to a Florida woman for orchestrating a $100 million Ponzi scheme pales in comparison to Bowie's sentence. Other examples of women being sentenced for Ponzi schemes are here, here, here, here, and here.


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(WASHINGTON) -- The secretary of the Army and the Army chief of staff have told senators that sequestration could hurt efforts to deal with sexual assaults within their branch of the military.
In a written statement submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 23, Army Secretary John McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said the across-the-board budget cuts mandated as part of the sequester could hurt their Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program "from slowing hiring actions, to delaying lab results which hinders our ability to provide resolution for victims."
A Defense Department study released Tuesday showed there were 3,374 reports of sexual assault made in 2012, and DOD estimated a total of 26,000 instances of unwanted sexual contact occurred.
The Army has had the highest rate of victims reporting sexual assault compared to active duty military service among the five branches, at least since 2007.
In their oral testimony in April, the Army leaders stressed the importance of working with soldiers from their first days in the service through the rest of their military careers to ensure they see sexual harassment and assault as serious problems.
"It is just about constantly talking about this problem and constantly ensuring that people understand we are going to take this seriously. And it's as frustrating to all of us, I know, as it is to you, senator," Gen. Odierno told Senator Kay Hagan. "I wish I had a better answer for you frankly."
The statement from April said the Army planned to add 829 full-time military and civilian sexual assault response coordinators and victim advocates to combat the problem within the branch.
Wednesday the Army Secretary told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Army faces $7.6 billion in sequestration cuts between April and September. Gen. Odierno said that in part has left them with a $13-billion budget shortfall and requested Congress delay the cuts for the Army for "later years."
"We are sacrificing readiness to achieve reductions inside the short period of the fiscal year. And unfortunately, readiness can't ever be bought back, because there's a time component of readiness," he said. "It's just not the size of the cuts but it's the steepness of the cuts required by sequestration, especially close in, which make it impossible to downsize the force in a deliberate, logical manner that allow us to sustain the appropriate balance between readiness, modernization and end strength."
Army Public Affairs Officer Lt. Col. S. Justin Platt told ABC News Thursday that despite sequestration, "the Army will continue provide care, support and treatment for" victims of sexual assault.
Lawmakers met with members of the Obama administration at the White House Thursday afternoon to discuss how to combat sexual assault in the military going forward.
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Porsche is remembered for its legendary sports racers from through the decades: the 917, the 935, the 956/962, and the GT1. There are lesser known programs like the 906 and 953, and then there's the really forgotten stuff.
Did you realize that Porsche has had multiple efforts in F1, not only as an engine supplier but also as a constructor? Did you know that Porsche once won Le Mans with an old Jaguar? Did you know that Porsche worked on not one but two successful Lada desert racing programs?
You can find all of these below, and please add every Porsche motorsports program you can think of that seems to be forgotten by the company's official histories.
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Twitter trend: Fakes
Politicians hustling to stay relevant on the social media battlefield should take notice before boasting about large numbers of Twitter followers: Their stats are almost certainly juiced.
A black market for fake followers — commonly known as "bots" — has infiltrated nearly every politically linked account from the White House to Congress to the 2016 campaign trail, undermining the reliability for one of the most commonly cited metrics of success in the Twittersphere.
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According to a POLITICO-driven analysis, heavy hitters with Twitter handles attracting the highest rates of fake followers include the president's political account @BarackObama (46.8 percent), Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's @DWStweets (35.1 percent), the official handle @SenJohnMcCain (23.6 percent) and likely White House aspirants @HillaryClinton (21.9 percent) and @ChrisChristie (18.9 percent).
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More rank-and-file members also have been hit by the bot boom, from South Dakota Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson (18.8 percent) to Rep. John Fleming (28.3 percent), a Louisiana Republican who won back-to-back House GOP social media contests in 2010 and 2011.
Assigning blame is nearly impossible for the fake follower phenomenon, which violates Twitter's rules but has nonetheless earned its place in Internet lore alongside the ranks of the Nigerian prince and his incessant money transfer requests, to phony Amazon reviews and websites that sell Facebook-likes by the bundle. Many of the politicians attracting bogus bots very well may have no idea and it's virtually pointless to try to pinpoint the blame.
Operatives working at the crossroads of politics and technology say the culprits behind fake followers are sometimes overzealous campaign workers or friends of a candidate looking for quick Twitter fame. "It's for their bosses, because they're obsessed with it," said a GOP consultant aware of colleagues who have bought bots. "It's just stupid."
And bot buyers may not be just thinking about improving their own totals. It could be someone spending a couple of dollars — $20 on one site offers 1,000 fake followers added in two to three days — to load up an opponent's Twitter account in the hope it sprouts as a negative news story. Aides to Mitt Romney argued as much when the 2012 GOP presidential nominee faced questions and media reports of abnormal Twitter follower activity.
( Also on POLITICO: Full technology policy coverage)
"I think there are times that the other side does it to get you caught," said Zac Moffatt, who ran Romney's digital campaign and recalled reaching out to Twitter for help after his boss's Twitter followers jumped by more than 115,000 in a single day in July 2012. "There's no way that this is just happening randomly."
Bots have become a Twitter fact of life. Twitter experts note that the bots' human creators — often working from Eastern Europe and Asia — have been programming accounts to follow public figures like politicians and celebrities (this means you @justinbieber) in an attempt to look more real and evade the Twitter police trying to shut down the accounts.
The fake follower craze has sent some politicians scrambling for new ways to measure their social media influence (it's not the size of your Twitter following, they say, but what you do with your tweets), while also raising questions of whether putting so much time, money and effort into such a new element of campaigning and messaging is even worth it.
"It's something that we're going to have to deal with in the digital space," said Guy Harrison, a GOP consultant and former executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee who said he's seen bots deployed in primaries "when you're playing the vanity network game."
( Also on POLITICO: Big tech walking fine line on data)
It's also a trouble spot for Twitter, a Silicon Valley heavyweight that started selling stock to investors last fall with an overarching goal to drive up its own user numbers.
JD Chang, founder of TrendPo, a political analytics company that sells data on Twitter and Facebook metrics to campaign and member offices, including the House Republican Conference, said getting stuck with fake followers "definitely" worries lawmakers and their aides who are otherwise eager to experiment on social media but fret over its many potential pitfalls. The future of social media analysis, he added, should center on metrics like Facebook posts and Twitter retweets and replies.
"When you have fake followers and fake fans, what that could do is damage the reputation of the platform," Chang said. "I don't think it's a gigantic problem that's going to take down Facebook and Twitter, but it's a problem that they have to combat and figure out."
For Twitter users, follower size has been one of the earliest and easiest ways to measure and define success. The White House boasted in an August 2012 email that it had "reached 3,000,000 followers!" and also sent out a note in December celebrating the addition of nearly 1 million more new followers over the past year. House Democrats and Republicans this summer will stage their annual social media contests, which measure things like new Facebook likes and Twitter followers. The GOP has since shifted to a scoring system that goes beyond just the overall follower figures to consider measurements like how many people share a post, while the Democrats say they won't be making similar changes this year because it would favor people with already large followings.
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Reporters also routinely rely on followers when comparing lawmakers and their party's online prowess.
POLITICO's analysis of fake Twitter followers was conducted by Barracuda Networks, a Silicon Valley-based IT security company. It examined the largest accounts for nearly all 535 members of Congress (many lawmakers have multiple handles — one or two for their official duties and another that mixes their personal and political efforts, while a handful remain totally absent from the platform), as well as the leading 2016 White House hopefuls and Obama's official and political accounts.
In studying the data, Barracuda considered 28 different metrics — full details are the company's proprietary business information — that include the platform used to post tweets and several pieces of information requested by Twitter upon opening an account. It's no exact science, and some followers end up in a gray area and at best can be labeled "uncertain" instead of either real or fake. Twitter also restricts access to some account data. Still, the company's efforts are considered among the best in the social media analytics industry at gauging what's what.
The @BarackObama account, now managed by Organizing for Action, leads the political pack in fake followers, according to Barracuda's analysis. In fact, of the more than 43 million followers when the data were studied last month, just 36.6 percent were deemed "good" under its metrics, while 46.8 percent count as "fake." An additional 16.6 percent of the @BarackObama followers are labeled "uncertain."
For @WhiteHouse, the official Twitter handle that boasts more than 4.8 million followers, 51.8 percent notched a good score. But 31 percent qualified as fake and 16.8 percent were uncertain.
The 2016 presidential hopefuls fared a little better. While @HillaryClinton hasn't sent many tweets (70 at the time of the analysis) since she launched her account last June, nearly 21.9 percent of her 1.4 million-plus followers are fake, while 12.1 percent were uncertain and 65.3 percent were considered good. Christie had roughly the same number of good followers on his two Twitter accounts — the official @GovChristie (73.4 percent) and his political account @ChrisChristie (71.4 percent), which could serve as his home platform for a presidential campaign. But the two accounts also had higher than normal fake follower counts too: 18.9 percent for @ChrisChristie and 12.6 percent for @GovChristie.


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By ROB GLIDDEN
Southington Community Cultural Arts (SCCA) has been given approval by the Town Council to begin the early stages of their plans for an arts center at the Gura Building.
After months of deliberation at the Council level that was often heated, a small committee of councilors and SCCA members was convened to work out a compromise. The final plan passed 8-1.
"It's wonderful," said Mary DeCroce, the group's chairperson. "I think the negotiations really helped. All it took was people sitting around a table and working this out."
According to a memorandum of understanding read aloud at the meeting, the SCCA will be required to perform a feasibility study at their expense within 90 days. Then it will have 18 months to raise 80 percent of the estimated costs of renovating the Gura Building based on the results of the feasibility study.
If the fundraising does not reach this goal within that time, the agreement will be null and void.
Before being issued a certificate of occupancy for the building, the SCCA will have to document that they have at least $100,000 available to put towards operating costs of the arts center. Then the town will lease the building to the group for 20 years for one dollar each year.
"It is clearly understood by the SCCA that the Town shall have no financial obligation during the fundraising period and the term of the lease," said Chairman John Dobbins, reading from the memorandum.
In contrast to previous meetings, the vote was taken with very little discussion, with Councilor Stephanie Urillo as the dissenting vote. In previous meetings, Urillo had expressed concerns about traffic and parking issues associated with the plan.
"I'm all for an arts center, but I don't think this is the right location," she said.
Councilor Dawn Miceli, who chaired the Gura Building Use committee that recommended the arts center option, said she was pleased with the results of the negotiations.
"The team worked quickly and very cooperatively," Miceli said. "We only had to meet once. It was civil and clearly very productive. All this group wanted was a chance to try and raise private donations."
Thanks to a $20,000 from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, the SCCA plans to move quickly with the feasibility study. DeCroce said the group was in the process of choosing a company to perform the work.
Council backs arts building; SCCA has 18 months to raise money
By ROB GLIDDEN