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AUSTRALIA: VIC: BLACK Hawk helicopters and fighter jets will patrol Melbourne's skies during the Commonwealth Games next March, as part of counter-terror measures outlined today.
"We are planning to deploy to Melbourne, for the period of the Games, a number of resources. There will be an ADF tactical assault group with appropriate support including Black Hawk helicopters," Mr Ruddock said.
"There will be a range of chemical, biological and radiological response assets.
"There'll be a task force of about 1200 personnel, service personnel, to assist Victoria Police with searching venues, operating vehicle checkpoints, responding to bomb threats, if any, and clearing any underwater aspects of venues and events.
"Helicopters, fast jets and ships will be available to counter specific threats, should they arise, including the capability to divert aircraft and intercept vessels at sea."
The Victorian government is set to introduce new counter-liberty laws to give police more powers.
Under the laws police will be able to demand identification, seize goods and obtain closed-circuit TV footage without a warrant.
They will also be given the power to stop and search people and vehicles.
Police Minister Tim Holding says the new powers are needed.
"They are limited in both time and geographic area and they do require the authority of the Premier before they can be used," he said.
He says the powers will only be used for specific events, such as the Commonwealth Games, and for a limited amount of time.
Premier Steve Bracks says the powers are for use in limited circumstances only and strike a balance between civil rights and law enforcement.
He says the increased power for police to "covertly" search properties will require a court order.
"This requires a warrant which I think is a good balance, an acceptable balance, and has a proper check against excessive use of powers and that warrant is not hard to get if the evidence is there that it should occur and I think that is a sensible and reasonable balance," he said.
Liberty Victoria says there is no reason for the Bracks Government to increase police powers to fight terrorism. [ More likke fear-mongering, propaganda.]
The president of Liberty Victoria, Brian Walters SC, says he does not understand why there is a need to rush through the new laws.
"The terrorism level according to the Federal Government's own security assessment remains at the second lowest level and it's been there since September 2001 - what's the sudden urgency?" he said.
The laws are expected to be introduced into Parliament after they are discussed at a summit of state premiers and the Prime Minister in September.
By Injustice 21 September 05
John H.o.W.A.R.d line roars at Fascism Week
AUSTRALIA: Parody: (Rooters) - While Attorney General Phillip Duddock helped wrap up a US protester for Prime Meanster, John HoWARd during Australia's Fascism Week after a 5 day detention debut and the removal of Mr Scott Parkin a peace activist who was deported back to Houston, Texas. The h.o.W.A.R.d fascism line, adding a dash of despotism to a week of largely draconian styles.
Parkin charged $11,700 for detention and removal
Los Angeles Friday, 16 September, 2005 : American peace activist Scott Parkin arrived back in the US today, escorted by 2 Australian immigration officials. He is expected to arrive in Houson, Texas on a Continental Airlines flight at around 3pm AEST.
Government out of control on security: Wilkie
Australia: Canberra Thursday, 15 September, 2005 : Former intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie today staunchly defended US peace activist and teacher, Scott Parkin, saying that the government's national security agenda is out of control.
Australia, USA, Iraq: Scott Parkin
The rapid and widespread response to the detention of US peace and global justice activist, Scott Parkin, has been heartening and effective on many levels. Actions have taken place in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns and outside several Australian Consulates in the United States.
Peace Activist Agrees to be removed but challenges security review
Australia's fascist ideal: Proof
Philip Ruddock, Federal Attorney General to Australian, hopes to eclipse the neo-cons of the US in the race toward the fascist ideal of social uniformity and control (oppression).
Anti-War Extremists Loyal to Scott
What can I say to someone like Scott Parkin? Sorry mate, to get a PEACE prize in this country you need to be drop dead sexy, go-tees are out - you gotta go. Peace Prize.
US Peace Activist to be Deported
Scott Parkin, a Texas based peace activist was detained by Federal police at approximately midday Saturday. He was en route to give a workshop about the progress and success of the peace movement in the US and companies profiting from the Iraq war.
Howard government threatens academic freedom
As Peter McGregor noted in GLW #639, I recently resigned in protest from a committee of the federal government's National Health and Medical Research Committee (NHMRC) and called for a boycott by academics of government committees generally.
'Different times' call for bill of rights, says QC'
To ensure no future government can erode basic human rights. Lex Lasry, QC, gave last night's key note address at the University of Western Australia's annual Day of Ideas.
Australia: a little dab will do ya .....
Reflections on the phoney, hypocritical "values" debate being promoted by the federal government, as part of its proscriptive program to emasculate our democracy.
Government warned Terror Laws "inherently dangerous, draconian and open to misuse" John North, Law Council of Australia: "In times of fear, it is easy for governments to impose ever (more) draconian laws."
Fishing expedition pays off
A man whose home was targeted by ASIO in fishing raids this year is facing fraud charges along with a co-accused who is linked to firearms offences.
The Terrorism of ASIO Laws
Wanda Fish asks Australian Senators to reject Howard's proposal to strengthen laws that already erode our basic legal rights. This legislation has the potential to turn ASIO agents into terrorists who can kidnap and detain innocent Australians simply because they "might know something".
Terrorgraph not quiet on 'Aussie militant' probe
AFP refuses to comment on investigation into militant video: hoWARd's abc.
Phillip Duddock's 'accent' heard in militant broadcast
Australian/Arab television has broadcast a video showing a masked militant with an apparent Australian accent criticising British Prime Minister tony bliar over Iraq.
HICKS: Not a Happy Birthday!
AUSTRALIA/CUBA/US :David Hicks, the Australian imprisoned at the US Base of Guantanamo Bay, will be 30 years old this coming Monday August 7, 2005.
GetUp! Stand Up! Stand Up For Your Rights!
Because of you, something exciting happened in our democracy last week. From every corner of the country, more than 20,000 emails were sent to the Coalition Senators. Our message was simple: now you have control of the Senate, we will be holding you to account. Thousands of you added personal messages to your representatives about the issues you care about.
Australia: We're Living In A War Zone
Prime Minister john hoWARd and his cronies have now placed us in a war-zone moving defence capabilities to Australia's south-east coast.
All the alleged terrorists are Muslims
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner mick keelty, a well know propagandist and liar, now claims that 60 Islamic extremists are operating in Australia and they are not news to the police and intelligence agencies.
All the wicked witches in Pakistan?
Pakistani authorities say 800 suspected militants [scapegoates and patsies] have been arrested in raids following the deadly London [false flag operation] bombings, as Islamic groups protest a move to expel 1,400 foreign students.
It's just not cricket: Khan
The perception in the West remained that somehow Islam was connected to militarism and terrorism, that all Muslims believe that all suicide bombers go straight to heaven. No one mentioned that before [false flag operations of] 9/11 70 per cent of suicide bombings in the world were committed by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, who were Hindus.
Lawyer dismisses ASIO fishing raids as PR stunt
Fascist federal Police (AFP) and ASIO officers conducted more raids in Melbourne and Sydney yesterday but the publicity surrounding the raids has been dismissed as a public relations exercise by the Melbourne lawyer for an accused terrorist.
Howard off to US, UK - part 5
PART-5- PRIME minister john hoWARd will meet US president george w buSHIT, British prime minister tony blair and queen 'imperialism' herself during a 10-day visit to the United States and the UK next month.
hoWARd, ruddock, ellison, keelty and news ltd plotted chaos
AUSTRALIA/CUBA: Government and corporate propaganda agencies 'believe' they have foiled an attack on the Melbourne Stock Exchange by a radical Islamic network linked to a covert group, which has carried out surveillance on key Sydney sites.
Houses raided over 'possible' political attack plans?
ASIO have raided a number of properties in Melbourne on a 'fishing expedition' in relation to a 'possible' political scare campaign by the hoWARd government, playing on the fears of all Australians... again!
Is this our most dangerous Newspaper?
The Daily Terrorist should be managed with manacles and flown into Siberia via a jumbo jet tomorrow amid fears government fascists may attempt to use them again on someone else.
This forum will bring together legal representatives and victims of counter-terror, along with justice campaigners and organisations in order to share strategies for achieving justice for these men and the many other like them.
The Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group & the Justice for Hicks & Habib Campaign welcome the statement by Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan, condemning the US Administration for condoning torture and the suppression of 'human rights' in their 'war on terror'.
Murdoch's war on truth in war reporting
People who remain to be convinced that cross-media laws are important to maintaining the fabric of our democracy need look no further than today's page one of The Daily Telegraph.
Chomsky signs on for justice
Noam Chomsky has signed the Justice for Jack campaign petition which calls on the Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock and Director of Public Prosecutions to "drop any charges reliant on records of interviews conducted under duress without the presence of a lawyer."
If he'd been given his passport he'd be a free man
A Sydney man [scapegoat in the Coalition of the Killings resource wars in the Middle East] has been found not guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack on a Commonwealth building [ruling class propaganda.]
Trial by unrelated video clips
Should alleged terrorist suspects [scapegoats for the resource wars in the Middle East] be shown on television side-by side-'terrorist training camp film clips' gathered by the government and media archives to give the wrong impression of accused people facing trial?
Accused Australian Citizen 'denied passport in 2002'?
AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN who was refused a passport by DFAT in mid-2002 became frustrated at the government for treating him differently.
Court should be told Gov't using 'Jack'!
A Melbourne court should have been told a man accused of working for Al Qaeda is being used by the fascist Australian Government as a pawn in their leverage to win support for their illegal and degrading activities.
Noble Cause Torture?
AUSTRALIA: The Labor Party has decided not to support a Senate inquiry into new allegations made by Mamdouh Habib that the Australian Government cooperated with Egyptian intelligence authorities who he insists tortured him.
New account adds weight to interrogation claims
Australia/Cuba/Iraq: The fascist Federal Government is under further pressure today because Australians were involved in the interrogation of tortured Iraqi prisoners.
Australian senate accused govt of war crimes
Did you hear the one about David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib having a Barbeque in Afghanistan with Bin Laden? Yeah it was reported on Channel Seven's Sunrise this morning! But they don't know if it was a sheep or a goat, but sources say it was most likely a goat.
DPP to appeal innocent man's bail
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will seek to have an innocent Melbourne man Joseph 'Jack' Thomas, returned to isolation in custody?
Fascist Australian Govt torture exposed
The fascist Federal Government has been exposed for the torture of Australian Mamdouh Habib and the US Government's allegations against him (if they were true) would have been made under duress.
Innocent witch verballed by federal fascists!
Shame on the federal fascists. The wicked old witch is dead! A Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard that a 31-year-old innocent Victorian man was facing terrorism charges?
Lawyer blames police for Habib break-in
John HoWARd, Alexander Downer, Phillip Ruddock, Robert Hill, to name just a few....HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
No reason for Habib to sell story: Beazley?
Federal Agreement Leader Kim Beazley is a well-paid loser. A loser who supposed to be defending our democratic rights by standing up to the HoWARd Government's fascism.
Australia: a presumption of guilt......
KAREN PERCY: Two of Australia's leading barristers have seized on the return of Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib, to launch an unprecedented attack on the Federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock.
Aust Community criticises Govt for 'crimes'!
Australia: The Law Council of Australia is warning that the Federal Government must learn from its mistakes over Guantanamo Bay? Now that's a mistake!
Australian Govt Guilty of Crimes: Community
Australia: The community says federal fascists who allowed the torture of its citizenry including Mamdouh Habib may be arrested when the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal address the War Crimes Indictment set out by the community.
What they did to Habib
Mamdouh Habib was the victim of atrocities fit for a concentration camp, including being tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him, his lawyer said yesterday.
Australian Federal Government complicity in war crimes
Complaint to Australian law officers about Australian Federal Government complicity in war crimes.
There is no justification for torture
In the weeks since the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison were revealed, evidence continues to seep out of similar mistreatment of prisoners in other US military detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
Howard rejects spy agency overhaul
Prime Minister John Howard has played down the need for a major overhaul of Australia's spy agencies as a result of an inquiry by former intelligence officer Phillip Flood.
Fascist Australian Govt torture exposed
The fascist Federal Government has been exposed for the torture of Australian Mamdouh Habib and the US Government's allegations against him (if they were true) would have been made under duress.
Innocent witch verballed by federal fascists!
Shame on the federal fascists. The wicked old witch is dead! A Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard that a 31-year-old innocent Victorian man was facing terrorism charges?
Innocent Victorian man held in custody for Xmas?!
Lawyers have argued the case against Mr Thomas was weak and based on a statement he made in Pakistan without a lawyer present and therefore unlawful.
Innocent Melbourne man makes second bail bid
Rubish, just plain propaganda, fear-mongering, draconian nonsence from the HoWARd goverment's war agenda stink tank.
MPs to review spy agency powers
Australian spy agency ASIO'S controversial powers to detain and question suspected terrorists [scapegoats for HoWARd's resource wars] will be re-examined by a parliamentary committee. Parliament passed the new counter-terrorism powers in July last year.
Goulburn Jail breaches UN standards
NSW: Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on Justice Minister John Hatzistergos to bring Goulburn Jail's Maximum Security Wing into line with United Nations standards, after a prison inmate's covert survey of his fellow inmates revealed problems with rehabilitation programs and basic amenities.
Lodhi toilet paper: crap!
He is facing nine charges and is accused of planning a major terrorist attack on Sydney defence sites and the electricity grid using downloads off the internet and having 100 rolls of toilet paper to wipe his arse after low level bombs and farts.
Brain injury for suspicion 'inhumane'
Faheem Khalid Lodhi refused bail by a Sydney court and remanded until June in hell at the (HARM-U) High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn. While he is in there he will receive a brain injury and is likely to self-harm due to the gross violation of living standards.
Ul-Haque 'the man who wants to become a doctor'
The taskforce is investigating French man Willie Brigitte, who was tipped back home for a visa breach. Allegedly the Un-Australian Newspaper claimed he also attended training camps before his six-month stay in Sydney. Police have not alleged Mr Ul-Haque knew Brigitte. The Un-Australian just mentioned it because they are 'you guessed it' up John Howard's butt and they like the USA want 'you guessed it' our Federal Government. Well Yankee go home!
Daily Terror rolled-over for Howard's war games
The DAILY TERROR is suspected of being the source of the news this morning that Willie Brigitte is a terrorist and that Sydney faces a bomb attack.
Ruddock foreshadows new terrorism laws
The new laws will allow police to access emails and mobile phone SMS messages, enable wider use of surveillance devices, and protect sensitive national security information during terrorism trials.
Community seeks more power to interrogate ASIO suspects
Greens Senator Bob Brown does not think increased police powers are necessary. "We have enormous powers for surveillance, apprehension or punishment of people who are engaged in or intending to engage in or thinking about being engaged in terrorist acts in this country," he said.
Greens warn of 'politicised' terror trials
AUSTRALIA/CUBA?: The Australian Greens say they are concerned that new anti-terrorism laws being debated in the Senate allow for the "political black-banning" of defence lawyers at terrorism trials.
Lawyer claims Al Qaeda suspect's evidence tainted!
Before returning to Australia last year, Thomas was arrested and held in custody for five months by Pakistani authorities before being released without charge.
Man terrorised by ASIO remanded in 'AA' isolation!
A Victorian man has been remanded in custody after being charged with terrorism offences, including having links to Al Qaeda?
Melbourne man charged over ASIO links
ASIO a know Australian terrorist organization is verballing the community again...about allegations that a man, while living overseas, received funds from Al Qaeda and had close association with the members of the terrorist group.
A court has been told Joseph Thomas is a sleeper? ZZZ! Melbourne Australia: A court has been told that Osama bin Laden asked a Melbourne man to become a "sleeper" in Australia before undertaking activities for the Al Qaeda network? Munchkins: "Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead."
AFP: The unlikely CRIMINAL
It was born of a bombing and it made its name after a far more devastating act of terrorism. But for most of the 25 years in between, little was known about the Australian Federal Police force or the work it did.
Mamdouh Habib: Taunted and Tortured!
Four Corners [Walls]: Terrorist - or Taunted by the Australian Defence Force who sacked him as a cleaning contractor? Who is Mamdouh Habib? And why was he harassed by the Australian Federal Police? Then tagged and labelled as a spy? Why was he vilified by the community? When he fled to Pakistan how did he end up being tortured in Egypt? And how did he end up at Guantanamo prison camp reserved for the men America calls "the worst of the worst.
He was an undercover agent for the blues
He was my journalist, he was working undercover. The fellow knew all of the moves.... He really had me romping, bare footing stomping. He just kept igniting my fuse....
Up there Khasali: Innocent man new bail laws
The New South Wales Supreme Court has asked innocent man Bilal Khazal to increase to amount of surety offered, before the bail is formally continued.
Young men terrorised, tortured, and threatened with charges for no crime by Australia mate the lucky country. Lucky if you're not used for Howard's FEDERAL ELECTION and George Dubya's WAR ON LIBERTY! Who shot liberty? IGNORANCE!
Keelty foresees more terrorism
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty says terrorist groups will continue to find new ways to threaten countries.
Islamic movement denies links to Al Qaeda
The Islamic Youth Movement has denied having any links to Al Qaeda and says it is considering legal action against the Four Corners program. In a statement released early this morning, the group rejects allegations it is helping coordinate any kind of terrorist network inside Australia and says it is being unfairly targeted.
2nd Renaissance -10 The War on Witches [150]
In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a Papal Bull that became the rationale for establishing the Inquisition in Germany. The following excerpt from the Bull sets out the official view of the danger of witches to the community. The Bull and this this passage provided the sole excuse for the torture and cruel executions that were, ultimately, to be the fate of up to fifty percent of the population of some villages.
Govt, police 'let off the hook' Haneef inquiry
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Don't Hide. Declare You Are Here & Plan To F*ck Sh*t Up/
And I mean that with all the love I have for the world.
Let's be frank:
- You want to get your movie made.
- You want to live a creative life.
- You want to give voice to the unspoken and the underheard.
- You know you can do it -- if only you get a chance.
What are you waiting for? Don't ask for permission. Don't wait to be discovered. And don't expect to get any help. Who needs it?
John Singleton at Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum recently stated:
" For someone that's been in the business for over 20 years, it's never easy — getting into it the business or sustaining yourself in it. You can't be shy, you can't be a shrinking violet — that's not something that you should be projecting to the world when you're an indie artist. You have to tell yourself you're going to have to have the resolve and have to endure no matter how many doors close on you."
Yup. Speak up. Louder. Often.
No one is going to help you (generally speaking). And if you don't expect to find any help from anyone anywhere, those few times that you do, you will recognize them for the tremendous gifts that they are, and you will hold on to them, respect them, nourish them, and learn to lead from them.
Some people will take more than they give. Some people will break more than they build. That's what to expect and by doing so, you will be able to spot it, stop it, and drop it. And you don't have to participate, just because that's how they play their game. Those are some people you just don't need.
Don't waste time with the haters, those folks that block you from making, or refuse to see the beauty or the glory in that rough nasty bit of business you think is your art. Noble failures are gems looking for some polish. You know it and maybe one or two others. That's all you need. And the stamina to climb up on that horse every time you get knocked off, hopefully learning from that flaw and capitalizing on that opportunity.
So what are you waiting for? You know you can do it better. It's their eyes that can't see the truth. Their vision has been blurred by their experience. You have a thousand words for snow (or is that love). Respect the gray, and all it's shades. Often those who stand too close can't even see where they are. And you know what? At Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum, John Singleton went on to say:
"I think it's easier to make a film now than ever before, you can shoot with a 5D, iphone, ipad. Movies are experimenting with different platforms and this business is evolving and changing, distributors are popping up like weed dispensaries. There is a lot of opportunity for independent filmmakers. You just have to be persistent in your vision and your goals to pursue that decision."
So little is free. Many gift givers seek something in return. We are all in this together so lending a hand is not a favor. It does take a village, but together we can build it better. Enough with the slogans, time is a wasting. Survival is hard but self expression is a wonderful reward that truly unites us. Maybe one day all will recognize the value. And that will be quite swell. Being true to your heart and ideas is a revolutionary act. I think the world is ready for you to get it done.


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Looking back at her childhood, Clara Barton remembered "nothing but fear." She saw herself as an introspective, insecure child, too timid to express her thoughts to others. Yet this girl who felt terror in all new situations possessed qualities that enabled her to overcome that fear, indeed to become a woman universally acclaimed as courageous.
Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, and named Clarissa Harlowe Barton. Her parents had four other children, all at least 10 years of age when she was born. Thus Clara--as she was always called--was born into a world of adults and, as she later recalled, "had no playmates, but in effect six fathers and mothers."1
Clara Barton's mother, Sarah Barton, spent little time with her daughter. She was an erratic, nervous woman, with a reputation for profanity and a violent temper, who spent most of her time in compulsive housework. When Barton was six, her sister Dolly became mentally ill and the family had to lock her in a room with barred windows. Dolly's illness combined with her mother's bad temper must have added to Barton's timidity, but it never affected her loyalty to her family.
As an adult, Barton taught school for 10 years and then felt compelled to "find a school...to teach me something."2 She settled upon Clinton Liberal Institute in New York, where she was exposed to many aspects of social reform--abolitionism, women's rights, and education. Of women's rights Barton wrote, "I must have been born believing in the full right of women to all the privileges and positions which nature and justice accord her in common with other human beings. Perfectly equal rights--human rights. There was never any question in my mind in regard to this."3
After another stint teaching school, Barton left for Washington, D.C., in 1855, where she found a job as a patent clerk. At that time she was the only female permanently employed by the federal government. When the Civil War broke out, she was alarmed to hear that regiments were lacking such basic necessities as towels, handkerchiefs, serving utensils, etc. She called upon New Englanders to provide her with such items so that she might see that each regiment was properly fitted out. Such garnering of supplies against unforeseen disaster eventually became a central characteristic of her later relief work. For a year Barton contented herself with soliciting supplies. Then, as the horrible effects of battle were reported in Washington, she began to think of aiding soldiers directly on the battlefield. Nurses were urgently needed at the battlefield, but she wondered if it was seemly for a woman to place herself directly in the lines of battle: "I struggled...with my sense of propriety, with the appalling fact that I was only a woman whispering in one ear, and thundering in the other [were] the groans of the suffering men dying like dogs."4
Late in the summer of 1862, at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, she "broke the shackles and went to the field."5 At Cedar Mountain and the subsequent battle of Bull Run (Manassas), she began a remarkable service which continued to the end of the war. At Bull Run, she found 3,000 wounded men lying in a sparsely wooded field on straw, for there was no other bedding. Most had not eaten all day; many faced amputations or other operations. She was unprepared for such carnage, but she distributed coffee, crackers, and the few other supplies she had brought. Scanty as her supplies were, Barton's aid was timely and competent. Army surgeon Dr. James I. Dunn wrote to his wife, "At a time when we were entirely out of dressings of every kind, she supplied us with everything, and while the shells were bursting in every direction...she staid dealing out shirts...and preparing soup....I thought that night that if heaven ever sent out a homely angel, she must be one."6
From that time on, Barton went from battle to battle, always bringing in needed supplies and nursing the wounded soldiers of both sides. She several times barely escaped injury or death from shells landing on the battlefields or the hospitals, but she never stopped her work.
Barton worked primarily alone--and she liked it that way. She did not seek glory, but she needed praise and did not wish to have it bestowed on the name of an entire group such as the Sanitary Commission, which was doing similar work. She liked being revered as an "Angel of the Battlefield." And, this woman who remembered always being afraid, deserved accolades. While serving others, she found she forgot herself. "When you stand day and night in the presence of hardship and physical suffering, you do not stop to think about the interest [of your work]. There is not time for that. Ease pain, soothe sorrow, lessen suffering--that is your only thought day and night."7
After the war, Barton worked to help ease the problems of newly-freed African Americans and for universal suffrage, writing reports and speaking at rallies. She also served as a vice president and featured speaker at the First International Woman's Suffrage Conference in Washington, D.C. She spent more than four years trying to identify more than 22,000 men missing in action and brought about the designation of Andersonville prison camp as a national cemetery. In 1868 while delivering a lecture in Boston, she suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent by her doctor to Europe for a rest.
1) In what ways was Barton's childhood unusual?
2) How did Barton feel about the rights of all people?
3 Why do you think Barton had difficulty deciding to go to the battlefields?
4) At one time, "homely" meant "domestic" or suited to the home, rather than unattractive. Yet when the press reprinted Dr. Dunn's description of Bartonĺs work at Bull Run, she crossed out the word "homely" and entered the word "holy." How does that incident help to explain Barton's perception of herself?
Reading 1 was adapted from Clara Barton, Clara Barton National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.: Division of Publications, National Park Service, 1981).
1Elizabeth Brown Pryor, "The Professional Angel," part 2 in Clara Barton, Clara Barton National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.: Division of Publications, National Park Service, 1981), 16.


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Alone Aboard The Ark is the third album from double Ivor Novello award nominees The Leisure Society. Building on the lightweight pop-folk style that makes their records and live performances a breath of fresh air, this is a surprisingly mixed bag of an album.
Of the many faces of Alone Aboard The Ark, the predominant one is that which the band has cultivated over the years. Up-beat yet pensive melodies, well considered instrumentation and a light-handed sprinkle of folk flair litter tracks such as 'Another Sunday Psalm' and 'The Sober Scent of Paper'. However, despite clever attention to detail and pretty string and wind interludes, these songs lack the dynamic excitement that would elevate them to the realm of really great songwriting. Where the likes of Belle and Sebastian laid a path, The Leisure Society have followed without many new tricks up their sleeve.
But that's by no means the end of the line for this album, for it is peppered also with an appealing nostalgic warmth. This is apparent not only through obviously retro tracks such as 'All I Have Seen', which would sit comfortably on a record produced 40 years ago, but throughout. The sonorous voices of the vintage instruments used courtesy of Ray Davies' Konk recording studio come into their own, as does the retrospective nature of the song writing. The whole affair is lightly brushed with a longing for days gone by.
However, that's not to say exactly which days gone by we're dealing with. There are notes of everything from cabaret to big band jazz, and emerging on the other side of this musical journey, 'Tearing Down the Arches' jumps straight on up to the early Britpop days of Pulp and Blur. This style is much more contagious than the more sedate tracks, with the electric guitars shouting out to be noticed and the dominant vocals proving more lyrically interesting. 'One Man And His Fug' is a great success, if not the best track on the album.
In fact, Alone Aboard The Ark's more boisterous tracks are where the music really comes into its own. 'Fight For Everyone' and 'Everyone Understands' are shoulder-wiggling pop, sure to be favourites of their live performances in this year's tour. They include brilliant little touches, and the melding of synths with more traditional sounds gives a funky twang.
The album winds down into a warm Sunday afternoon fug before its abrupt ending with 'The Last In A Long Line', where the listener is deposited without ceremony back into the real world. The Leisure Society have certainly woven a kind of magic here, but with all their era-hopping it falls a little short of the climaxes of their live performances.
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Espinoza Paz
Espinoza Paz Radio
He's norteno's first official singer-songwriter, a talent who has absorbed the music of his native Sinaloa while putting his own stamp on everything he does. Paz reportedly penned his first song at age 11 to impress a crush. (Even then he must have known talent gets a girl's attention.) His father sent money from the States for a guitar, and Paz went on to teach himself to play. As a young adult he began writing songs as Isidro Chavez Espinoza, but his creative trajectory was interrupted when he immigrated to California in 1996 to work in the fields. After his mother died, Paz returned to Sinaloa and continued writing songs. Following one more agricultural stint in Oregon, Paz finally devoted himself to songwriting in Mexico, and his songs eventually ended up in the hands of major stars such as El Coyote, Sergio Vega, Banda el Limon, Banda Cuisillos (he penned their hit "Mil Heridas"), Duelo, Autentica de Jerez, Jenni Rivera and others. He won Composer of the Year at the 2009 Billboard Awards and brought home his second ASCAP-BMI award for Latin Songwriter of the Year, while also beginning to see success for his own singing.


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The Dressed milk boiler, designed by Marcel Wanders, is embellished with original decorative motifs that the creator posed on the back of the handle and on the bottom. The slight splaying at the top of the milk pan facilitates food dispensing operations. The magnetic steel bottom allows it to be used on all cooking surfaces, including induction hobs.
Dressed, designed for Alessi by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, is a series of pots embellished with original decorative motifs. The classical rule requires that the decoration should be in the most important and most eye-catching parts, but Wanders applied it in mimetic spaces, somewhat hidden, sometimes unseen to a first glance. The same name of the series, Dressed, indicates a decoration conceived as a beautiful dress, which serves to highlight the contents without having the upper hand.VIEW THE COMPLETE RANGE
Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988. Marcel Wanders' fame started with his iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996. He is now ubiquitous, designing for the biggest European contemporary design manufacturers like B&B Italia, Bisazza, Poliform, Moroso, Flos, Boffi, Cappellini, Droog Design and Moooi of which he is also art director and co-owner. Founded in 2000, Moooi has grown into an internationally renowned design label. Additionally, Marcel Wanders works on architectural and interior design projects and recently turned his attention to consumer home appliances. Marcel was the editor of the International Design Yearbook 2005. In the same year, together with Chef Peter Lute, he established the extraordinary LUTE SUITES hospitality-concept, the first "all over city suites" hotel in the world. He also designed the interior of Blits, a new restaurant in Rotterdam and the interior of the restaurant 'Thor' at the Hotel on Rivington in New York including bar, lounge and private club. Marcel is the first and among the most important designers of Droog design. He was a juror for various prizes like the Rotterdam Design Prize (for which his own products were nominated several times) and the Kho Liang Ie prize. He lectured at SFMoMA, Limn, the Design Academy, Nike, IDFA, FutureDesignDays and has taught at various design academies in the Netherlands and abroad. Various designs of Marcel Wanders have been selected for the most important design collections and exhibitions in the world, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, the V&A Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Central Museum in Utrecht, Museum of Decorative Arts Copenhagen and various Droog Design exhibitions. Coverage on Marcel has been published in all leading design magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Interni, Blueprint, Design Report, Frame, I.D. magazine, Abitare, Wallpaper, Nylon, Elle decoration, Icon, Esquire, the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New York Times and Business Week.


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1. I am a very old man who knows nothing about the TOEIC test. But it does sound very authoritative. So I guess we have to be very careful before saying that such a prestigious test has made a mistake.
2. Would you please study these two sentences:
a. "Epeiros [a country that once occupied part of present-day Greece], as is well known, was anciently occupied ...."
b. "She did her job well, as can be proved by the record.
3. Do you think that those sentences are correct or incorrect?
4. According to the experts responsible for those sentences, they are 100% correct!
5. Let me try to explain.
a. Maybe in formal English, it is not a good idea to write such sentences, but -- nevertheless -- you will often find this kind of construction (kind of sentence) when you read English.
b. In such a sentence, "as" is being used as a relative pronoun. It refers to the idea contained in the whole main sentence.
i. In other words, it means "a fact that."
c. Now let's return to those two sentences:
i. Epeiros, as [a fact that] is well known, was ...."
ii. She did her job well, as [a fact that] can be proved by the record.
iii. As you can see, the relative pronoun "as" is the subject.
6, Now let's return to your sentence. For easier analysis, let me simplify it and change the order:
"The plane cannot leave the gate unless all passengers are seated, as was mentioned in our earlier announcement."
a. In my opinion (only), I believe that it is similar to those two sentences above:
"The plane cannot leave the gate unless all passengers are seated, as [a fact that] was mentioned in our earlier announcement."
H.W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (second edition, 1965), page 38.
Random-House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2001), page 120.
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Facebook didn't acquire Pieceable, but it did hire the people who worked there.
Now, Pieceable will shut down its Web service that let's people preview iOS apps in a Web browser. It was a popular way for Apple developers to try and show off their iPhone and iPad apps. The Pieceable folks say their tech served up some 800,000 app demos.
Looks like Pieceable's VC, I/O Ventures, is getting hosed in this move. So that it doesn't completely hose its customers, too, Piecable says it will be releasing its software as an open source tool.
To be clear, this isn't a Facebook buyout. "Facebook is not acquiring the company, technology, or customer data," explains the founders on a blog post today.
It's not clear what the Pieceable staff will be doing at Facebook, but given their experience we can make a few good guesses: Helping Facebook build a Web app viewer for its own up-and-coming mobile apps. Or helping Facebook integrate better with iOS. Or just helping Facebook figure out mobile—which it really, really needs to do.


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But that whole scene in the cave, the idea of "let the quest end here" and "happy endings can't come in the middle of the story" and the idea of "there are no happy endings because nothing ever ends" continues to stick with me to this day. Even the ending itself, yeah it seemed like a happy ending on the surface, but my little-kid brain started to think more and more about it. Was it really a happy ending? I think that was the moment I started to think deeper about endings in stories, especially the "happily ever after" cop out, because this was a fairy tale that didn't end that way.
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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
Having been involved in the sales of digital goods in some form or fashion for the better part of two decades, it's easy to see technology-enabled shifts are culminating in fundamental changes in how marketers engage and increasingly drive sales. Cloud-based delivery, Web- and mobile-based interaction, marketing automation (starting to live up to the promise of what we used to call one-to-one marketing back in the 90s), and the broad adoption of subscription and other fractional ownership models are definitely the most documented of these shifts.
Funny enough, though, these changes are bringing business full circle, with technology enabling business to actually go back to the "old mantra" of selling to individual people (B-to-I), not a consumer or business.
While the concept of one-to-one sales is not new, the change in buyer behavior to expect self-service discovery, engagement and buying combined with the power of automation and data analysis is. Vendors can now take advantage of that technology to deliver on the promise of personalization on a mass scale. So what's a marketer to do in this old, new world of B2I?
Be human: sense & respond
As most marketers are already discovering, buyers no longer respond to guided paths designed for the masses. To them, this methodology is a blanket one that does not have their specific interests at heart. Clearly, the ability to measure customer behavior and combine that with increasingly available customer data has its place for smart segmentation, event triggers and guided selling. At the same time, it is equally important to be able to be at the customer moments of need.
On a mass scale, this means being context aware – knowing if the customer is going down the aisle of a brick and mortar, online looking for how to better balance their house finances on your blog or browsing your website reviewing the best practices on using your product.
In whatever context, you not only need to have the content and the tools to be a resource to your customers, you have to be ready to start a dialog when the customer needs you to be there, understand where they are coming from and where their head is at, and most importantly, service that customer frictionlessly from any touchpoint. This could mean buying online from within the community forum after reading about new capabilities used by a peer, signing up for a free add-on trial from your partner, or even offering one click downgrade to the right tier of service from within a service chat. This allows you to go beyond just engaging and directly into exchanging value.
Exchange value however it comes
Especially true in the rapidly expanding digital goods market, products quickly become commoditized and marginally differentiated. This is not a bad thing, but it is one of the biggest challenges in the digital economy, and one that we as individuals are aware of. Think about it: in the early days of technology, it was all about products and features, but when was the last time you thought about the processor speed on a laptop or the actual pixel resolution on a smartphone outside of marketing terms like "retina display?" Probably not since the iPhone 4S was announced. The reality is, competing technologies hit parity very quickly, and today's buyer need more than a feature set to make a purchase decision.
This means business model flexibility is becoming the new hot button differentiator, even as markets around the world are being remade digitally (as seen in McKinsey's article on the 4 Lessons From The Software Industry). Rather than just offering the one-size-fits-all of freemium, subscription-based, one-time licensing, etc., you need to be able to deliver as modularly as the customer wants. This doesn't always necessitate the exchange of money either. Supporting freemium for some, a recurring model for another, and a trial plan for a few more coupled with the ability to quickly launch and test these new models across the right channels and touch points increases value to each individual customer.
Deliver what they want, not just what you have
This is where we really go back to basics and start serving our customers as individuals again. Going back to the small-town shopkeeper analogy, today's online shopper wants and has the power to demand that everything be tailored to them. Whereas the shopkeeper made mental notes about what brands you liked and what could complement them, you now have technologies that enable this record keeping at scale to make everyone feel well known. Not only that, the online shopkeeper also now has technologies that enable him to offer products complemented by curated ancillary products.
Instead of looking at how 50-percent of your shoppers seem to like Brand X and showing them a single offering of something tangentially related, you can now offer up a precise match to their existing purchases and build it into their existing buying behavior in a way that is comfortable for them and profitable to you. It's an interesting world of mass customized products. A world where the ability to buy only a portion of a product, rent it, or couple it into a another solution has made how you do commerce an actual part of the product value you are offering.
By now, you probably have noticed that the operation of selling to the individual is not at all a foreign concept, even for an online vendor. The reality is, this is a basic practice and behavior that we have honed for hundreds of years. It is just that the process has been reinvigorated and given a new lease on life thanks to technology hitting a parity point that allows and demands us to focus in again on relationships over the shotgun methodology of sales.
Michael Ni is Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products at Avangate, an e-commerce solutions provider.


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The wedding was not particularly different from any other weddings I had attended in the past few years.The only real difference was the number of guests, and the dishes* (meals?) served on the tables appeared to indicate the different status of the families of the bridegroom and his bride. But this can only convey a very limited amount of information in regard to the wealth of the families involved. This is because these kind of local (could say 'parochial') weddings are so standardized and would only cost about tens of thousands Yuan, even a relatively poor family can afford them. Also the money received from the guests may more or less cover the expenses - and occasionally even exceed them. Moreover, it is a matter of 'saving face'. Even a family stricken for years by the harshness of frugal economy will try all out to hold a decent looking wedding.
* When you say "dishes on the table" do you mean the actual physical plates on the meals on the plates?
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Nike released its newest Hyper Elite Platinum college basketball today.
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Nine teams were chosen for the new, grey, uniforms, including Syracuse, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, UConn (men's and women's), Florida, Arizona, and Baylor (women's). These nine teams have all won national championships wearing Nike gear, according to a press release.
From the Nike press release:
Nike created the uniforms specifically for superior performance and lower environmental impact. The fabric of the Nike Hyper Elite Platinum shorts are made from 100 percent recycled polyester while the jersey fabric is made from at least 96% recycled polyester. Both short and jersey are tailored for the optimal efficiency of movement and are five percent lighter than the previous Nike Hyper Elite uniform.
Schools will start wearing the uniforms as early as this weekend. There is a mixed reaction from fans, some love their school's new look, while others complain it doesn't accent their school's colors enough. We think they are hideous.


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--Dr. Seuss
Inspired by the 75th anniversary of The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Random House Children's Books announces Hats Off to Dr. Seuss! in 2013. This yearlong celebration salutes the breadth of Dr. Seuss's work, not only the remarkable library of children's books he created, but also the span of his incredible career and legacy as a man of many hats: an ad man, a political cartoonist, and a fine artist. In 2013, Dr. Seuss will be honored as a person who cared (and has inspired others to care) about many important and timeless issues: environmentalism, social injustice, prejudice, and peace, to name a few.
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Gina Frangello is a dangerous writer. In Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press) she shares a collection of short stories that at first glance are light, humorous, and naughty. But upon deeper study she is the kind of storyteller that sidles up to you all white teeth and crimson lipstick, musky perfume and sparkling eyes, while she slips the blade of her knife between your ribs. This is a haunting compilation of work, gut wrenching, and yet funny, pulling you in with its laughter and sex appeal, and when you're hunched over in the fetal position trying not to wet your pants as tears run down your face, the realization of what really happened washes over you, and it breaks your heart, shatters it, and stomps the pieces into dust. But with a title like Slut Lullabies could you expect anything less?
One of the things that Gina Frangello does really well is grab you from the first sentence. Narrative hooks, they never go out of style. Here are three examples of how she pulls you in, from 'Slut Lullabies', 'Waves' and 'Saving Crystal', respectively:
"I found out my mother was a slut from my best friend, at a bar with my secret Greek boyfriend who was possibly a homosexual and his uptight brother who pretended to know nothing of our affair."
"Van tells me one of his students has written a story about a girl with a tracheotomy, whose English teacher breaks into her bedroom at night and makes love to the hole in her neck."
"The last time I saw my dad beating Crystal she was two months pregnant."
BAM. In the first example, the impulse is to laugh. Who calls their own mother a slut? It's funny—dysfunctional, but funny, raw and honest as well. But over time, it takes on another meaning, the daughter realizing that she'd rather have a mother that got out there and had a good time than the dead-eyed one she has now, struggling to fight the sickness that drains her body of life. The second is a shocking visual, ridiculous in its imagery, funny if it wasn't so violent and perverse. And maybe funny anyway. The third is straight into the darkness, an abusive father, witnessed by his child, beating on a pregnant woman, no forgiveness allowed of such low behavior. She runs the gamut with these opening sentences, a wide range of emotions, but always honest, never turning the camera away, forcing us to bear witness to it all.
But Frangello is smart. She breaks up the serious moments and heavy endings with a lot of humor. Sometimes the jokes are at the expense of her protagonists, and sometimes we laugh with her characters, aware of their own shortcomings, willing to embrace those humorous weaknesses and idiosyncrasies. Take for example these two passages from the story 'What You See' where none of the characters have traditional names, but instead are referred to as an Intelligent Woman or Macho Man, for example:
"The Aggressive Woman may also be referred to as: the Smoking Woman, the Skinny Woman, the Foul-Mouthed Skank, the Special-Education Teacher, the Adopted Daughter, the World Traveler, and the Survivor of Childhood Hodgkin's Disease."
And later:
"The Heavyset Man may also be referred to as: the Theater Major, Grisly Adams, Nature Boy, the Heavy Drinker, the Red-Faced Man, Sensitive Man, and Man-Suffering-from-Impotence-in-Times-of-Stress."
Even in these funny moments, there is an underlying layer of failure, a sting to her wit.
Running us through the emotional wringer, Frangello opens her stories with intrigue, teaches us many things, makes us laugh, and then breaks our heart. As any good story should. From 'Slut Lullabies', speaking about her dying mother:
"With an intensity so rough it doubled me over, I missed the long-past squeaking of my mother's bed, the muffled, complicit adult laughter that excluded me, that rhythmic pounding on the wall our bedrooms shared—the lullaby of my youth."
And in 'Waves' in response to her boyfriend getting ready to shoot her up with heroin:
"I don't know how to explain that isn't what I want, so I stop talking; watch him finish, showing me how. I imagine how gently he will slide the needle into my arm someday, like a father. I can trust him not to give up or give in to his conscience—he is the type to keep trying to scrape his way inside, until I can be certain there will be nothing left of me."
And finally, from 'Stalking God' speaking about her long gone suicidal father:
"The incense here still lingers from Mass this afternoon. But Jayne prefers the Nag Champa she burns in her own apartment, the kind Blaine introduced her to—a smell so different from his smell, one that belongs to her even though he has gone away. She will not stay here long. But once, her father sat in this church, perhaps in this very pew with his teenage bride, both young and shiny and full of stupid, beautiful hope. She will remain just a little while, try to believe that she can feel him."
In this collection of short stories, Gina Frangello holds nothing back. When you spend time with her and listen to these misadventures from her fictional youth, or broken adulthood, it is as if you are sitting with a close friend, at times horrified, backing away from her, and at other times, leaning in closer, to hold her hand, and tell her everything will be okay. Even when you know, deep inside, that what you say is not the truth. The intimacy that is created in these fearless stories is unique, an unexpected warmth, being allowed to know these secret lives, these failures buried under layers of shame, these dreams that lie fallow, no harvest in sight. But there is hope in here too, wisdom learned from falling, making ourselves stronger, and laughter at having gone through similar things, an understanding of how these things happen, how we all destroy our love at times, jump into bed with sultry strangers, and vow not to turn into our parents. Slut Lullabies is a powerful collection of fiction, a microcosm in the palm of your hands, the Alpha and the Omega.


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The microblogging site with the funny name is one of the hottest web services around.
Twitter is one of those websites with very little room for functional nuance. Its limit of 140 characters per post forces users to be succinct, something that makes many people feel over-constrained and leads them to view the service as too simple to actually be useful. Others see unbridled freedom inside such a unique limitation and embrace it like a poetic device. The lesson: You either get Twitter or you don't.
Regardless of how you feel about it, if you're looking to try out an API for the first time, Twitter is a great place to start.
Like the service itself, the Twitter API is simple and easy to use. The only thing to keep in mind is that Twitter limits you to 70 requests per 60 sixty minute interval, so remember to cache or otherwise store your results. Otherwise, you may find yourself banned.
If you end up building something that needs to make requests more frequently, you can always e-mail Twitter and ask for permission.
Getting Started
Twitter's API is REST-based and will return results as either XML or JSON, as well as both RSS and ATOM feed formats.
For a very simple look at a typical data response fire up a terminal window and type:
curl http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss
That line will give you the latest 20 tweets from the public timeline in the form of an RSS feed. To get the same results in JSON just change the extension to ".json".
Public timelines can be accessed by any client, but all other Twitter methods require authentication.
Authenticating with Twitter
To authenticate yourself to Twitter you need to send a username and password. The basic format is:
curl -u email:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml
Most client libraries offer easy ways to pass in a username/password pair, making it very simple to authenticate with Twitter.
Client Libraries
There are already some pretty good libraries out there for accessing Twitter, and there's no need to re-invent the wheel. Whatever you're looking for, Twitter's got it: ActionScript, Python, Ruby, PHP and many more.
Using Python with Twitter
For the sake of example, we'll use the Python library. Download and install the library and fire up a terminal window.
Let's grab your last twenty tweets. Fire up Python and type the following line, replacing "youusername" with your username:
>>> import twitter >>> client = twitter.Api() >>> latest_posts = client.GetUserTimeline("yourusername") >>> print [s.text for s in latest_posts]
The last line prints out just the text of your posts. To get at things like date pasted and other useful methods, have a read through the Python library documentation.
To go the other direction (posting something to Twitter) we'll need to authenticate. Recreate our Twitter client, but this time pass in your username and password:
>>> client = twitter.Api(username='yourusername', password='yourpassword') >>> update = client.PostUpdate('The Twitter API is easy')
Head over to your Twitter page and you should see the update.
Mashups, Apps and More
To get some idea of what you can do with the Twitter API, visit the fan wiki and check out some of the applications and mashups created by Twitterheads.
One area of particular usefulness is the hashtags concept. Hashtags involve inserting a # sign to denote keywords or other data like location. Although not everyone is a fan of hashtags (they tend to make your tweets less readable) parsing Twitter streams for hashtags can yield a wealth of useful data.
Some of the client libraries include functions to parse hashtags, but in many case you may have to write your own functions.
Full API documentation
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FORMER Labour chancellor Alistair Darling today backs a significant increase in the powers of the Scottish Parliament, saying it is time for MSPs to be given the responsibility for raising the money they are in charge of spending.
In a major intervention in the pre-independence referendum debate, Darling says it "isn't satisfactory" for any parliament to spend cash when it doesn't have "the pain" of also raising it.
He signals that income tax would be an obvious contender for transfer to Holyrood, saying that further devolution of the levy would be "relatively easy to implement".
But, echoing Prime Minister David Cameron, he says such plans can be considered in detail only in the wake of a "no" vote on independence. Challenging First Minister Alex Salmond, who wants to hold off the referendum until autumn 2014, he says: "If you want to get onto further devolution more quickly, then why don't we have the referendum more quickly?"
Darling's comments, in an interview with Scotland on Sunday, come with a new pro-union campaign expected to be unveiled soon, with Gordon Brown's former Chancellor being lined up to take a leading role alongside key figures from the Tories and LibDems.
Last week, , Cameron said he backed a fresh look at what further powers could be devolved north of the border. With Darling's intervention, it suggests all three pro-Union parties now appear ready to examine a refreshed devolution settlement as the unionist alternative to independence.
But they are facing growing pressure from Salmond who, following Cameron's visit, said that the Prime Minister had a "democratic obligation" to lay out his proposals in detail well before Scots voted.
In the interview, Darling says he expects to "play a major part" in the campaign ahead.
On the current devolved settlement, he says: "Most people think the present settlement does need to change and my view is that any parliament that can spend money but doesn't have the pain of raising it isn't satisfactory."
Pressed on what extra powers the parliament could take on, he said: "The short answer is that obviously income tax is easier because it is easy to identify and the Revenue knows who Scottish taxpayers are. It would be relatively easy to implement."
The parliament already has the power, never used, to vary income tax by 3p. Under the Scotland Bill, income tax setting will soon be shared by Westminster and Holyrood, with MSPs given the power to set a new "top-up" rate of Scottish income tax.
But Darling said that the detail of further tax concessions would have to wait until after a referendum on independence. "The first question you ask is whether you are staying or are you going. If you are staying then you look at that (more powers). If you're going, then this is all academic anyway. If Scotland votes to leave the UK then there is no point in discussing how to improve devolution. The first question is about staying in the United Kingdom."
In the wide-ranging interview, Darling also slammed European policy towards Greece, describing the austerity demands imposed by Germany and other Eurozone nations as "ludicrous" and "sheer lunacy". He says Greece is "bust" and now has to be allowed to default.


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Well-Educated Exec Most Likely To Be Fired?
By Alan Scher Zaiger
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president.
Sure, the pay is pretty good, and the perks sizable, from free housing and a company car to travel budgets. But when it comes to running the 21st century American university, the men and women in the president's office are increasingly on high alert that their stays at the top could prove short.Look no further than the University of Virginia, where the sudden ouster and subsequent rehiring of President Teresa Sullivan has made national headlines. Or to state flagship universities in Illinois, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin, where presidents resigned or were forced out in the past year after relatively brief stints in charge.
"It's harder now than ever before," said Stephen Trachtenberg, who works for a Washington-based higher education executive search firm after spending a total of 30 years as president at George Washington University and the University of Hartford. "You're trying to fill as many mouths now with short rations."
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A recent survey of more than 1,600 college and university presidents by the American Council on Education found that campus leaders keep their jobs an average of seven years. In 2006, when the previous poll was taken, the average presidential tenure was 8 1/2 years.
The survey found that more college presidents come to the job from outside academia - 1 in 5 in 2011, compared with just 13 percent five years earlier. And nearly one-third of campus presidents and chancellors never were faculty members, coming instead from backgrounds in private business and politics.
At the same time, fewer provosts and chief academic officers - long considered training grounds for future campus bosses - are interested in promotions to the presidency. A 2009 ACE survey, the first of its kind, found that just 30 percent of the 1,700-plus respondents were interested in the executive suite. Interest among women in that survey was 5 percent lower.
The Council of Independent Colleges, a national association of 640 small and mid-sized schools, found similar hesitations among chief academic officers in its own survey one year later. And in a new membership study to be released this month, the group reports that sitting presidents are increasingly reluctant to make a career out of their jobs - nearly half of those interviewed plan to leave within the next five years, with fewer than 1 in 4 planning to seek another presidency.
"There's no question the job is getting more difficult," said Richard Ekman, the group's president and a former vice president at Hiram College in Kentucky. "There's increased government regulation, there's a need to raise more money, and the college-going population is changing."
At Virginia, the school's Board of Visitors fired Sullivan in mid-June after she was on the job less than two years in a dispute over how to handle challenges ranging from state budget cuts to the ascendency of online learning. An outcry by students, faculty, alumni and even the state's governor led the board to bring back Sullivan just two weeks later.
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Former University of Illinois President Michael Hogan, forced out in March after less than two years on the job, wasn't so lucky. In his case, faculty opposition doomed his brief presidency, which came after a 2009 admissions scandal drove out Hogan's predecessor.
At Oregon, Richard Lariviere was fired in December 2011 after defying his bosses' orders not to increase employee pay. His time on campus? Twenty-nine months.
The first female president at Texas A&M, Elsa Moreno, abruptly resigned in 2009 after just 17 months in office. Mike McKinney, the chancellor of the larger Texas A&M system, who some thought helped drive away Moreno, resigned in May 2011, five years after the former chief of staff for Gov. Rick Perry took over under a business-driven reform movement.
And in Madison, University of Wisconsin Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin left in June 2011 after clashing with Gov. Scott Walker. Martin, who spent three years at Wisconsin, stepped down to take the presidency at Amherst College.
The trend isn't a new one. In 2006, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers resigned after a five-year stint following a faculty no-confidence vote and a series of public missteps, including comments about the intellectual aptitude of female scientists that some viewed as sexist.
Molly Corbett Broad, a former University of North Carolina system president who now leads the American Council on Education, said university governing boards "have become much more politicized." She said they're wrapped up in power struggles with campus presidents who can't - or won't - always mollify the competing interests of board members while also remaining attentive to students, parents, donors, professors and politicians forced to cut public spending on higher education as many states struggle to emerge from the recession.
"A president really cannot succeed in leading unless she has a working majority of those constituencies," she said. "And their interests are not typically aligned."
"Each of these constituencies play different roles in the life of the university, and it's the president's job to keep them reasonably together," she added.
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Trachtenberg, now a higher education consultant with Korn/Ferry International, said the job of university leader remains an attractive one, despite the higher stakes and declining job security. The average public university president earned $421,395 in salary and other compensation in 2010-11, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. And some, such as Ohio State University's Gordon Gee, who brought home $1.992 million in total compensation last year, earn significantly more.
But the quality of applicants, on the whole, is not as good these days as even a few years ago, Trachtenberg said.
"Is it harder to find people who want the jobs? No," Trachtenberg said. "Is it harder to find people who deserve to get the jobs? Yes."
Trachtenberg, whose forthcoming book examines failed university presidencies, compares the job of running a campus to the work of hapless Russian sleigh drivers trying to keep the wolves at bay while crossing Siberia.
"The job of a university president is like driving a troika across a snowy field being chased by wolves, and you have to keep a hamper of lamb chops," he said. "You threw lamb chops off behind you, and the wolves stopped to eat and you got ahead. When they started pursuing again, you threw more lamb chops.
"When your hamper is out of lamb chops, when the resources are diminished, you have less ability to slow down all the stakeholders, all the constituents - all the wolves - that are running after you."
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As the current president of Consent, Assault Awareness and Relationship Educators, and someone directly involved in teaching a sexual assault workshop to incoming freshmen, Demetrio D. Anaya '15 is well-acquainted with what he believes are deep-rooted misconceptions about sexual violence held by his peers.
"When you get started, you think you're going to walk into a room and teach them about sexual assault, and you're going to change everyone either from indifferent on the issue or neutral on the issue to being huge supporters of sexual assault [prevention], and you quickly realize that to make that kind of change in an hour workshop is almost impossible," he said.
This difficulty is indicative of a larger problem. Even as Harvard appears to stand on the cusp of changes to its sexual assault policies—University President Drew G. Faust said in April that the University has submitted a revised policy to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights—activists and administrators alike say that the next hurdle, which is related but perhaps more daunting, is changing a culture that propagates the normalcy of sexual violence and mistreatment of its victims.
In early May, the U.S. Department of Education released the names of 55 colleges and universities across the country, including Harvard, facing federal investigation for failure to comply with Title IX regulations. The announcement came weeks after students at the College submitted a complaint regarding Title IX compliance to the OCR at the Department of Education and four years after federal officials began investigating Harvard Law School for another complaint, a process that is still ongoing.
"[Legal] obligations should not alone define Harvard's commitment to providing an educational environment in which all students have the opportunity to thrive," University President Drew G. Faust said.
Across the University, student activists, such as those involved in Our Harvard Can Do Better, a survivor-centric organization that aims to dismantle rape culture on campus, have pointed to the inclusion of affirmative consent, the standard of evidence used in sexual assault cases, and the standardization of procedure across schools as policy changes the University could enact to comply with Title IX while improving sexual assault response and prevention.
A similar conversation has attracted attention on a national scale, culminating in the formation of the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault and public condemnation of its prevalence on campuses from President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other high-profile politicians and celebrities. In late April, the OCR released a 53-page document on handling Title IX complaints.
That document suggested, among other changes to its policy, that Harvard should replace its current "sufficient persuasion" burden of proof in Administrative Board cases to a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, believed by some to be a lower burden of proof than the standard Harvard current uses.
That discrepancy between Harvard's policy and what activists see as obvious improvements has provoked outrage, mirrored on other campuses, in a number of forms. Just this year, Our Harvard Can Do Better representatives protested and held signs, including one which read "My friend's rapist goes to class with me," as prospective students walked by during Visitas, the College's admitted students preview weekend.
When University President Drew G. Faust announced the creation of a task force in many ways designed to galvanize a cultural awareness shift, she made clear abiding by governmental regulations is not the only thing at stake.
The recommendations of the task force, which Faust accepted in mid-May, suggested more prevention training during freshmen orientations, increased funding for the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, and funds for a campus climate survey.
"[Legal] obligations should not alone define Harvard's commitment to providing an educational environment in which all students have the opportunity to thrive," Faust wrote at the time of the task force's creation.
While policy considerations have largely driven the national conversation, and, it appears, the administration has taken—or is prepared to take—concrete steps related to sexual assault, many point to Harvard's culture as a more fundamental source of problems related to sexual assault.


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"[Guthrie is] a parish, in the county of Forfar, 8 miles (N. W.) from Arbroath. This place confers its name upon the very ancient and distinguished family of the Guthries, one of whom, on the resignation of the guardianship of Scotland by Sir William Wallace, in 1299, and his retirement into France, was sent by the Scottish nobles to solicit the return of that hero, in order to assist his countrymen to expel the English invaders. His descendant, Sir David Guthrie, who was lord high treasurer of Scotland in the reign of James III., purchased from the monks of Arbroath, the church of Guthrie, which had for many years been attached to that abbey, and founded here a collegiate church for a provost and three prebendaries. Sir David Guthrie also erected a spacious and strongly-fortified baronial castle here, which is still entire; and on his decease, the manor passed to his son, Sir Alexander, who, with one of his sons and three of his brothers-in-law, fell in the battle of Flodden Field. " [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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K1 is a great phone
It is a terrific phone. Great sound. Works perfectly with Cingular's Edge network. Bluetooth is loud and clear.
Great Little Phone
I got this phone 2 months ago and I gotta say it's one of the best I've owned so far. Sleek and stylish, it delivers the goods inside and out.
Fantastic Reception, Quality built, Large Viewable interior screen, Easy to navigate (read the manual) Great little camera, expandable, Easy access to PC via Bluetooth.
Ringtones could be a bit louder
The fact that is is a fingerprint magnet is far outweighed by it's overall appearance.
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the krzr,rzr,&rkr are the 3D fones from motorola.I've had all 3 of them and the 3 of them came out DEFECTIVE.but the worst one was the Krzr.(I had mine with Pocket)
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-assing mp3 songs as msg alerts
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-ringer volume really loud
-it started messing up after 1 month
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-screen turns black(most of the time like EVERYDAY)
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Great Phone
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-Loud speakerphone/Ringtones.
-Improved reception over V3.
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-No 3G.
-Speaker phone doesn't work when closed.
Hard to think of bad thing to say about this phone. I have used it on and off for the last year or so and have had no problems at all. In my opinion one of the best phones that has ever been made.
Not too happy
I have had this phone since right after they came out. I purchased mine through AT&T. I loved this phone at the start but I quickly realized that I was not a big fan of this phone. My center button fell out, I couldn't keep signal (I live in the Atlanta, GA) area, and it would lock up on me. I would be on the phone and try to hang up but the phone would freeze and I could not do anything but shut it down. It has continued and gotten worse...I now I have to shut it down at least 6 times a day. I was very disappointed in this phone.
-the sleek look
-the weight/width
-the screen
-the camera
-continually needing rebooting
-button fell off
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Solid Phone
This was my third cell phone. It has given me nearly 2 years of faithful service. I had the Sony Z500a before this one. I like them both but I like the Z500a better in the end (despite it being as large as a house).
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-Decent reception
-Quality of sound is decent
-Micro SD easy to access and easy to transfer content. I purchased the 1GB Micro and a USB transfer adapter from Best Buy for $30 when the (then) Cingular store wanted $50 for a comparable Micro SD by itself.
-Small and stylish with a solid flip action.
-Front does smudge, but nothing a shirt can't buff away
-Music player hard to access
-I found it to be a bit laggy going from menu to menu and response time to some button presses was slow.
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-Battery life fluctuated with no change in amount of use. Sometimes it would be fine for a few days and sometimes I have to charge it every night.
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All in all it is a solid phone but it's time for something new. I was most impressed with the camera. It is phenomenal for a phone.
ok had better
~had to replace the battery 3 times. all of them started to bubble. still had like 10 min of talk time before phone would die with our warning. (yes i used all the batteries correctly and only used verizon/moto chargers)
~text stopped working no software update could fix it. verizon had no idea why and i had to buy a new phone at my cost. (was not happy at all about that)
~picture quality was awful.
~sound quality was not comparable to others phones i have had.
~reset it self when ever it felt like it (turned off then right back on) didnt matter if i was talking on it or not.
~froze all the time which made it reset as well... no update or soft ware would help that. (i found that to be true with all moto phones though)
~likes the music option (although i never used it because i had no battery lol)
this was my 2 Motorola brand phones and i will never buy another one. i think i will stick with the LG for now own.(verizon)
and if you are a ATT i LOVE LOVE LOVE sony erricson phones... the features are lovely and the battery life is amazing. AMAZING
wish verizon would come out with sony phones.
i am on the verge of switching back to ATT just so i can have my sony back
Very dependable phone!
I have had this phone for a couple of years, the reviews on it seem to be right on the mark. It is a great phone, gets great service, looks cool and has pretty much all of the features that you need! (Mp3, internet, microSD, good camera, etc.) Yes it does fingerprint up, but from what I can tell, most cool looking phones have that issue anymore, I got the clear case for mine, which allows the blue color to show through and gives it some protection. I have 2 kids who have used my phone, my hubby also when his Blackberry can't get service, I have dropped it numerous times, it goes into the depths a purse and I can still hear it ringing while driving down the road with the radio on, so I give this phone a great rating because it is all that I expect it to be.
It's pretty good
Well.. I have had this phone for about 4 months.. and it is okay.. i haven't had any problems yet... The screen gets scratched VERY easy. And.. It freezes up really bad
Pro's=Good Memory.. The battery is okay..
Con's=screen gets scratched easy.. and freezes up alot
KRZR K1 T-Mobile
So, there's a "known issue" with these phones, according to T-Mobile. Something about it depending on the software version you have, but either way...
the buttons delay. Looks like the phone is freezing at first, but after at least 20 seconds, it "catches up." I've made 3 exchanges for this problem. Now they're replacing it with a new make/model, but I WANTED this phone to work. : (


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Classics Professor Leslie Day Awarded Professorship in Athensby Howard W. Hewitt • May 17, 2005 Share:
A year in Athens, Greece, will provide Classics Professor Leslie Day with an opportunity to close nearly three decades of research.
Day, chairman of the Wabash Classics Department, has been awarded one of two Visiting Whitehead Professorships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the 2005-06 school year.
The grant will be used primarily for research; and for Day, an opportunity to finish off a project she began in 1978.
"I will be finishing off the publication of my excavations at Kavousi on Crete in seven volumes," she explained. "I will also give a graduate seminar in the winter.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for me to teach at the graduate level and to have the best and brightest of young people interested in my field. It will be a novel experience. I am going to have the students helping me by doing some of the research on burial practices on Crete."
Day was one of the first American archeologists to gain permission to excavate at Kavousi. Day was among pioneers who dug at Kavousi and discovered artifacts from the Greek "Dark Ages," a period between 1200 B.C. and 700 B.C. which saw the devolution of the complex Greek civilization into a number of city-states.
"I am really looking forward to spending the year in Greece and to finishing off this long-term project," Day said. "I began at Kavousi in 1978, which makes the project much older than any of my students. The digging was great fun, but the studies and writing are less so, although I keep finding new things to get excited about."
And Day will not get totally away from Wabash while in Greece. She reports Jeremy Ott '02 will be at the school during the year. Susanne Hofstra, who taught for a year at Wabash during Day's last leave, will be in Athens filling a two-year teaching position.
Leslie's husband, Joe Day, also a Professor of Classics, will be a Senior Associate Member of the American School.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens provides graduate students and scholars from some 168 affiliated North American colleges and universities a base for research and study in the history and monuments of Hellenic civilization.
Since its earliest years, the school has sponsored archaeological exploration. In 1896, it began digging at ancient Corinth, and today, over 100 years late, the excavation continues, providing a training ground for new generations of North American archaeologists and a constant flow of information about Greece's past.
"The school is a research institute with an absolutely fabulous Classics library," Day explained. "It also runs a program to introduce Classics graduate students from institutions in North America to Greece in all its variety."


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