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Half of Auckland may be surprised that Mayor Len Brown looks likely to be re-elected without serious opposition this year. They are the half who are accustomed to local elections being a revolving door. Voters on the isthmus and the North Shore used to be fickle, frequently dumping a mayor after one term. Manukau and Waitakere were the opposite, returning mayors such as Sir Lloyd Elsmore, Sir Barry Curtis and Sir Bob Harvey for periods of 18 to 21 years.
The first mayor of a united Auckland, Len Brown, comes from the Manukau tradition. He challenged Sir Barry Curtis unsuccessfully until the incumbent was ready to retire, just as Sir Barry had to wait until Sir Lloyd went gracefully. Mr Brown could be on the verge of becoming another long-server if he faces no worthy challenge at the election this year.
Christine Fletcher, a former isthmus mayor, used to be the most likely candidate among the non-Labour minority of the Auckland Council but she is now uncertain whether to stand even for the council again. A former North Shore mayor, George Wood, and Manukau's Dick Quax seemed to be positioning themselves at times, but have not stepped forward.
If the younger Cameron Brewer is planning to wait a further three years, he should consider how much more secure Mr Brown might be by then. Incumbency can be a powerful force. Even the isthmus has stopped its door revolving for incumbents as popular as "Robbie" - Sir Dove-Myer Robinson - and Dame Cath Tizard. The longer they stayed, the more entrenched they became in the city's identity and affection.
It is too soon to see Mr Brown acquiring comparable appeal and it might be good for the foundation of the "Super City" that he does. But the united mayoralty matters more than those before. It is more powerful not only for the larger territory it commands but for the executive powers given to the office. The use of those powers ought to be subjected to the scrutiny and criticism of a hotly contested election every three years.
Mr Brown has made cautious use of them, proposing budgets that kept council spending under control and beginning the amalgamation of rates of the former municipalities to no sustained outcry. He has campaigned for commuter rail services and higher-density residential to support them, presenting these as his "vision".
They were not - their planning was well advanced by the former regional council before he came to office. Mr Brown's contribution was to add rail links to the airport and the North Shore to the plan. Both appear to have been quietly dropped for the time being so he can concentrate on an underground rail link to complete an inner-city circle.
That project can make little headway while the Government fears its cost and doubts its benefits, but a route has been designated. Possibly not the best one.
He was sensibly restrained in the most difficult issue he has faced in his first term, the port dispute. His refusal to take sides disappointed his political supporters but it was his duty to back the port board or sack it. He kept his focus firmly on the port's financial performance. But he is unlikely ever to advocate the port's partial privatisation that would expose it to the sharemarket disciplines on its main rival, Tauranga.
Auckland needs alternatives to consider. A Super City mayoral campaign is a costly and difficult undertaking but Auckland needs a good contest. Without a mayoral candidate a rival council ticket cannot be effective and fewer will bother to vote. That is not the endorsement the mayor and the council need.


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Hey guys, since it's been slow lately, I thought i might pick the board's collective knowledge on a subject that's been on my mind for years. As a kid (grew up in the Chattanooga area) I was taken to visit a trout farm that used groundwater emerging from the base of a mountain. They ran water through several different concrete cells, but also had a more natural looking pond that they cycled water through.
I have always wondered how successful one could be if that same water source was used to create a private, natural stream. Obviously the most difficult task would be to find a suitable artesian well or other water source, but I was wondering if that was obtained, could introduced fish reproduce/are there additional hurdles one must overcome with the groundwater aside from introducing oxygen?
If anyone knows of any local cases where this has been done, I would be really curious to hear about it and how it was done.


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Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 preamplifier
You also have to convince a jaundiced pack of reviewers that you and your product are serious, and do so regardless of what UPS may do to your review samples. Further, you have to persevere in defending tube designs even when reviewers receive irresponsible products like the Jadis—a tube amplifier which should never have been marketed in the US because of its apparently failure-prone design, and which seems destined to make life an audio and financial hell for its buyers. No sane reviewer is now going to rush out to praise how well any tube unit works until he or she has seen how long it works.
Well, Ken Stevens seems well on his way to succeeding in spite of all these obstacles. His latest version of the Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 preamp is the most interesting pure-tube design to enter the market since the Audio Research SP-10 Mark II, with good features and excellent overall performance. It is also available at the highly competitive price of $3495 (footnote 1).
Convergent Audio Technology has already made it through the difficult start-up period where manufacturers are most prone to fail, and has done well enough to have a power amp entering production. Ken has had his shipping and review sample problems, but the latest review sample has functioned perfectly after taking hard use and a considerable beating from a defective airline luggage belt during shipping. Talks with several SL-1 owners have revealed that they, too, have had few problems, and that the manufacturer has been very responsive.
Features: More than the Usual Roundup of Suspects
As might be expected in any product competing for top honors, the SL-1 has the kind of special features one demands in a high-quality, high-end product. Perhaps the most striking of these features is the SL-1's incredible signal/noise ratio with moving-coil cartridges. This is not a preamp for the Audionote or Ortofon MC-2000 fancier, but what preamp is? You should be able to get excellent performance with nearly any other moving coil, and no other tube preamp offers this combination of gain and S/N ratio.
The manufacturer's specification says the SL-1 will work with cartridges with only 0.2mV output at 5cm/s (the Ortofon MC-2000 puts out only 0.05mV), and it will. Where the Audio Research SP-10/II tends to dry out the sound and lose some of its dynamics and transient life with cartridges like the Dynavectors, the SL-1 does just fine. In fact, it is roughly equivalent in gain vs. S/N to the Conrad-Johnson Premier Three plus the Conrad-Johnson nuvistor head amp (the Premier Six). If anything, the Convergent Audio Technology is slightly more quiet, and it certainly works better with very low impedance loads.
The other features also go beyond the normal roundup of the usual high-end suspects, matching what you would expect in a luxury product:
• A separate, complex high-voltage power supply, and three fully regulated independent filament power supplies to reduce noise and compression caused by filament crosstalk.
• Slow filament warmup to extend tube life.
• Exceptionally low open-loop distortion, with low feedback ratios used to reduce RFI and allow good performance without precise tube matching.
• A combination of active and passive RIAA equalization to reduce tube aging effects.
• Custom proprietary capacitors (will Peter Moncrieff ever forgive Ken Stevens? Will Bobby Ewing return from the dead?) are used throughout.
• Precision metal resistors used throughout, even—according to the manufacturer—where such quality is not necessary. (We are still working on an A/B testing method to determine the statistical importance of unnecessary quality. Our new editor has volunteered for extended listening tests.)
• OFHC wire used because it is felt to be superior to LC and MC-OFC wire. (Has Martin Colloms tested 100% oxygen-present copper wire recently?)
• Gold-plated and Teflon-insulated phono jacks.
• High quality selector switches and switched balance and volume controls.
• Hand-selected tubes personally tested by Stevens.
• Silver solder. (But can it be used with Vampire interconnects?)
• Front-panel muting switch with automatic muting for 30 seconds after turn-on to eliminate thumps.
In short, a look inside reveals that this is an extremely sophisticated, well-engineered, well-built unit.
The styling is early Bauhaus, with form following function a bit too closely, but certainly in keeping with the price tag. The choice of signal input, tape, and muting is accomplished through varying combinations of long-throw lever switches, and takes a bit of getting used to.
Footnote 1: The reader should be aware that this review is of the SL-1 "Mark II." This is not a formal designation, but it is easy to tell which model is involved. The twin volume controls on the original have been replaced with a volume and a balance control (though the looks from a distance are the same, the labels of the two controls have changed).—Anthony H. Cordesman


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- Date: 07/01/2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
- Location: McNease Convention Center
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The Zoning Board of Adjustment was established to consider variances, special exceptions and appeals to the standards established in the zoning ordinances.
The board generally meets at 1:30 p.m. on the first Monday each month in the South Meeting Room of the McNease Convention Center, 501 Rio Concho Drive. Agendas are posted on this website and at City Hall, 72 W. College Ave.


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I want all Japanese email to be deleted right away, so I made a filter that targets the Content-Type header like this:
Search Content-Type
for charset="iso-2022-jp"
then delete
But when I run the filter, nothing happens.
The filter is the very first one in the list, so it should be recognized before all others, right? I even tried making it go to the Junk Mail instead of delete, but no go.
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Dirty hands are a gateway to infection
Washing your hands after using the bathroom — not to mention after touching any number of public surfaces, from doorknobs to subway handrails to oh-so-disgusting toilet flush levers — is a basic rule of hygiene. Yet we don't always do it properly, if at all, which is particularly ill-advised behavior during flu season, when germy hands are common gateways to infection.
Respondents to a recent survey said they washed their hands an average of 87 percent of the time after using a public restroom, and 62 percent said they have rinsed their hands post-bathroom without using soap. The survey of more than 1,000 people in the U.S. was conducted by Bradley Corp., manufacturer of washroom accessories. Women are significantly better hand washers than men.
Those self-reported findings echo habits observed in an a 2010 study from the American Society for Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute, a trade association for the soap and detergent industry, which sent observers into public restrooms to record people's hand-washing habits. They saw 85 percent of people wash their hands, an improvement from 77 percent in 2007. In a survey that was part of that same study, 77 percent of respondents said they always clean their hands before handling or eating food. Only 39 percent said they always wash their hands after coughing or sneezing.
Considering that people absent-mindedly touch their faces an average of 16 times an hour, according to a 2008 study by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, and risk transferring germs from their dirty hands to their eyes, noses and mouths, lazy hand washers could use a refresher.
"The big mistake people make is that they just rub their palms together and they don't get to the dirtiest parts of the hands — under and around the fingernails," said Elaine Larson, associate dean for research at Columbia University School of Nursing. The key is to cover all surfaces of the hands, including between the fingers and in the crevices around fingernails, with a good amount of friction, Larson said. Using soap is important, not because it kills bacteria, but because it acts as an emulsifier to slip the germs off the hands, she said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says washing your hands should take about 20 seconds, or about two rounds of singing "Happy Birthday." The temperature of the water doesn't matter. It's best to dry your hands with a paper towel so you don't just rub them on your dirty pants, but better to let them air dry than use a shared towel, Larson said.
Hand sanitizers are a convenient alternative to hand-washing. Pick one that is at least 60 percent alcohol, and use enough so that your hands are wet for 10 seconds so it has enough time to kill the bacteria, Larson said. Alcohol sanitizers only work when they're wet.
Hand sanitizers can't kill all germs, however, such as the norovirus, a highly contagious stomach virus. Washing with lots of friction and then applying hand sanitizer can help against such resistant bugs, Larson suggests.
Hand-washing vigilance is especially important in health care settings. Hospital patients in the U.S. get nearly 2 million infections each year, which can be life-threatening and hard to treat, according to the CDC.
After all, the Joint Commission, an independent nonprofit that accredits health care organization in the U.S., has found hand hygiene compliance among hospital staff to be about 50 percent.


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Hope College will host a post-election panel discussion featuring members of the political science and history faculty on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. in the Maas Center conference room.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The panel will discuss the election, answer questions from the audience and comment on questions that were collected from students on campus.
The panelists will be Dr. Jack Holmes, professor of political science; Dr. Jeanne Petit, associate professor of history; Dr. David Ryden, professor of political science; and Dr. Joel Toppen, associate professor of political science. The event is being sponsored by the college's department of political science and chapter of the national Pi Sigma Alpha political science honorary society.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street.


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Phyllostachys aurea
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Trachycarpus fortunei
Fargesia nitida 'Black Pearl'
Ginkgo biloba 'Troll'
Nandina domestica
Phyllostachys bambusoides 'Holochrysa'
Phyllostachys nigra 'Henonis'
Phyllostachys aurea 'Koi'
Nandina domestica 'Woods Dwarf'
Schizophragma hyd. 'Shiro Fuka fukurin fu'
Kalopanax septemlobus syn pictus
Phyllostachys vivax f. aureocaulis 'Huangwenzhu'
Acacia baileyana 'Purpurea'
Paulownia fortunei
Cordyline australis 'Pink Champagne'
Canna 'Stuttgart'
Polystichum setiferum 'Plumosum Densum'
Osmunda regalis
Dryopteris buschiana (crassirhizoma)
Ginkgo biloba
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba is a deciduous tree to 25m, conical when young, becoming more irregular with age. Fan-shaped and often bilobed leaves turn clear yellow in autumn As with all ginkgos, grows in most good fertile soil, not waterlogged, tolerant of poluta...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Anny's Dwarf'
Maidenhair Tree
Anny's Dwarf Ginkgo biloba 'Anny's Dwarf' is as it's name suggest a dwarf variety of ginkgo with a compact branching habit almost naturally forming a bonsai like small tree. The deep lobed green fan-shaped leaves are also smaller than other ginkgos c...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Autumn Gold'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Autumn Gold' is a striking male form introduced from America, with mid green leaves, turning a beautiful golden yellow in the autumn. It grows into an oval shape with a spreading crown having a compact leaf form. Slow growing, after ...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Barabits Nana'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Barabits Nana' is a striking compact dwarf ginkgo cultivar, selected by Dr. Elemer Barabits in Hungary. Ginkgo biloba 'Barabits Nana' naturally grows in a compact bush like habit with larger than typical ginkgos deep green leaves. The...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Beijing Gold'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Beijing Gold' is a unique rare dwarf form of Ginkgo biloba with unusual pale golden spring leaves changing as they age to almost white variegation. They are smaller than the mother Ginkgo biloba and in sunlight are liable to wither alo...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Denise'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Denise' is a relatively new introduction and is an outstanding ginkgo with exceptionally tight, dense upright growth rather similar to an Italian Cypress tree in stature. This narrow upright growth makes Ginkgo biloba 'Denise' a valubl...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Horizontalis'
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Horizontalis' - as the name of this plants suggests, the habit of this Ginkgo is remarkably flat growing, and although it may be trained upright initially, in time this plant will resemble a huge umbrella. It is marvellous in pots wher...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Landliebe'
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Landliebe' Ginkgo biloba 'Landliebe' is and upright, compact and dense branching form. Golden yellow autumn colour. Eventually reaching up to 8m high and 2m wide. slow growing. Matures to a medium to large tree. Can be planted as a spe...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Mariken'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Mariken' is a very recent introduction, discovered in The Netherlands in the mid 1990's, and named after a famous historical statue close by. The growth is very slow and incredibly compact eventually forming a spherical mass of leaves....
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Ginkgo biloba 'Samurai'
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Samurai' Ginkgo biloba 'Samurai' is a male selection of Ginkgo of outstanding pyramidal form, wide fan-shaped green leaves with golden yellow autumn color. Eventually reaching up to 4m high and 2m wide. Matures to a medium to large tre...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Chi Chi'
Maidenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Chi Chi' is a male Ginkgo, which forms a choice, fan shaped, multi-stemmed shrub making it a fabulous container plant or small garden specimen for the connoisseur. The name 'Chi Chi' roughly translates to 'breast' the name given to pro...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Princeton Sentry'
Ginkgo biloba 'Princeton Sentry' This is an upright, dense, fastigate male variety which can eventually reach 10m high. It will make a great specimen tree for the garden and because of its regular narrow habit, they also look good planted along sid...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Saratoga'
Ginkgo biloba 'Saratoga' is another excellent American selection from the famous Saratoga Research Institute. This is a remarkably shrubby plant and the foliage distinctive, half open, is narrow and resembles small, half open fans. It grows densely a...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Tremonia'
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Tremonia' is a female, German selection which is wonderfully columnar but differs from the other fastigate forms due to its heavily textured, blue-green foliage. This tree makes a very narrow specimen, ideal for planting in groups or...
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Ginkgo biloba 'Tubifolia'
Maindenhair Tree
Ginkgo biloba 'Tubifolia' is a fascinating shrubby tree, with thin, twiggy growth. This forms two distinct types of foliage: on mature wood the leaf is fused to resemble a small green trumpet while the younger wood produces a classic Ginkgo leaf but ...
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hen lighted by the morning sun the gorgeous chasm is an immense bowl of lace and filigree work in stone, colored with the white of frost and the pinks of glowing embers. To those who have not forgotten the story books of childhood it suggests a playground for fairies. In another aspect it seems a smoldering inferno where goblins and demons might dwell among flames and embers."¹ This description is one attempt of many to capture in words the awesome beauty of Bryce Canyon, where erosion has shaped colorful limestones, sandstones, and mudstones into a spectacular array of spires, fins, and pinnacles known as "hoodoos." These whimsically arranged hoodoos remind viewers of church steeples, Gothic spires, castle walls, animals, and even people. Formations with names such as the Wall of Windows, the Chessmen, Thor's Hammer, Tower Bridge, and the Poodle, suggest but a few of the likenesses. A legend of the Paiute Indians, who inhabited the area for hundreds of years before the arrival of European Americans, claims the colorful hoodoos are ancient "Legend People" who were turned to stone as punishment for bad deeds. Surrounded by the beauty of southern Utah and panoramic views of three states, these hoodoos cast their spell on all who visit. The area, now protected as Bryce Canyon National Park, has been a popular tourist destination since the 1920s.
¹The Union Pacific System, "Zion National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, The Cedar Breaks, Kaibab National Forest" (Omaha, Neb.: no publisher given, 1929), 33.
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Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
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This lesson is based on Bryce Canyon, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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Insisting that attempts at "100 percent security" will always come with inconveniences, President Barack Obama said "we're going to have to make some choices as a society." NBC's Pete Williams reports.
The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.
At least some of the phone calls and emails were pulled from among the hundreds of millions stored by telecommunications companies as part of an NSA surveillance program. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, Thursday night publicly acknowledged what he called "a sensitive intelligence collection program" after its existence was disclosed by the Guardian newspaper.
Ret. Adm. Dennis Blair, who served as President Obama's DNI in 2009 and 2010, told NBC News that, in one instance in 2009, analysts entered a phone number into agency computers and "put one digit wrong," and mined a large volume of information about Americans with no connection to terror. The matter was reported to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose judges required that all the data be destroyed, he said.
Another former senior official, who asked not to be identified, confirmed Blair's recollection and said the incident created serious problems for the Justice Department, which represents the NSA before the federal judges on the secret court.
The judges "were really upset about this," said the former official. As a result, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to the judges that the intelligence agencies would take steps to correct the problem as a condition of renewing the NSA's surveillance program.
The Justice Department publicly confirmed to the New York Times in April 2009 that Holder had taken "comprehensive steps" to correct a problem in NSA collection after it "detected issues that raised concerns." But department officials declined to discuss details about what was described at the time as the "over-collection" of information.
In another instance that was made public in July 2012, a U.S. intelligence official acknowledged in a letter to Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon that "on at least one occasion" the national security court found that "some collection" by the intellligence community "was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution. The official also wrote that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence believed that the government's collection of information "has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law" and that "on at least one occasion" the national security court had "reached this same conclusion."
Blair declined to say how many times the NSA had had to report the improper collection of information to the court, but indicated it had happened more than once. A spokesman for current DNI Clapper declined comment.
The 2009 incident that Blair described may shed light on an exchange between Clapper and Sen. Ron Wyden, D.-Ore., at a March hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Asked by Wyden, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Clapper replied, "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps collect-but not wittingly."
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Obama: 'Nobody is listening to your telephone calls'
Blair drew a distinction between the "collection" or mining of data on specific U.S. citizens by NSA and the massive trove of phone call information that was turned over to the NSA under a negotiated agreement among intelligence officials, the telecommunications companies and the FISA judges. The purpose of the FISA order was to store information in the event that U.S. intelligence agencies need to access it after getting specific intelligence that somebody in the U.S. might be tied to terrorism. It is only at that point, he explained, that the NSA goes back to the court to get permission to mine or "collect" the data.
But the intelligence community's distinction between "storing" and "collecting" data does not satisfy privacy and civil liberties advocates. "They are playing games," said Cindy Cohn, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing U.S. phone companies over their cooperation with the NSA. Of the improper collection acknowledged by Blair, she said, "Who knows how many times this has happened?"
Meanwhile, a newly empowered federal civil liberties board is asking for a classified briefing "as soon as possible' on U.S. intelligence surveillance programs that have collected hundreds of millions of phone records as well as emails and other content from Internet service providers.
David Medine, chairman of the new Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, asked for the briefing in a letter Friday to Clapper, the director of national intelligence.
"We want to look into this and find out directly from the source what this is all about and then draw our own conclusions," Medine told NBC News.
The five-member board was authorized by Congress in 2007 to monitor privacy and civil liberties throughout the U.S. government. But after lengthy delays by President Obama in nominating members -- and disputes over its membership -- the panel only officially came into existence last week when Medine was sworn in. It has no website, has yet to move into its office in downtown Washington and has a staff of only two members assigned from other agencies, Medine said.
But Medine noted that the board does have subpoena power over the private sector and the authority to direct U.S. government agency chiefs to provide it with the information it wants.
In his letter to Clapper, Medine noted that his security clearance was still "in process" but asked the intelligence director to give him a "provisional clearance .. in order for me to have authorized access to any classified information conveyed during the briefing."
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Audience involvement is the process and act of actively involving your target audience in your communication mix, in order to increase their engagement with your message as well as advocacy to your brand.
This trend in social media marketing is also partially responsible for a new understanding of the power of social, from being an afterthought in the broader communications mix, to a crucial element in prime-time television spots.
There are three different ways in which brands can involve their audiences….
The way in which brands are actively using their audiences differ, but it is all based in the same sound principle.
As Seth Godin says:
When you hand someone a photo album or a yearbook, the first thing they will do is seek out their own picture.
Narcissistic or not, the majority of your audience gets a sudden rush from seeing their input in the big screen or in an online video. Likewise, the prospect of gaining 15 minutes of fame helps in driving user generated content and buzz around your campaign.
1. Second Screen engagement
One of the easiest ways to involve your audience in your broader comms mix is though second screen engagement. According to a survey from Deloitte, nearly a quarter of people aged 16+ use communication tools to discuss what they are watching on TV, with about 50% of 16-24 years-old doing so.
This will only grow with smartphone ownership, since 86% of smartphone owners are reported to use their devices as a second screen, according to a survey of 2,000 respondents by Red Bee Media.
Last week saw Mercedes asking Twitter users to decide the outcome of their television spot launched on Saturday night, during X-Factor ). Definitely not the first time that viewers get to decide the outcome of an ad, but surely the first time that they do it in real-time through prime-time television and via the use of a Twitter hashtag.
Such a level of engagement can make the advertising campaign more interesting than the content that it is supposed to be interrupting, as you can see in the picture below. It is no longer about "crashing the party and bringing champagne with you", as Bob Thacker once famously said, but about throwing a party and inviting the viewers to it.
2. Collaborative storytelling
Even creative geniuses at top agencies can increase the level of engagement with the digiterati (and the shareterati), by simply involving social media followers into their narrative. In doing so, they can also skyrocket their reach.
Great examples of this practice are Old Spice's "the man your man could smell like" and Cravendale's "Thumbcats".
For the former, Isaiah Mustafa responded to questions from the Twitter audience with online videos. Buzz built in such a manner than online and offline celebrities including @biz, @kevinrose, @guykawasacki, Perez Hilton, GQ, Huffington Post, Alyssa Milano and Starbucks participated in the conversation and got videos responses filmed for them.
In what Wieden + Kennedy calls "the fastest-growing and most popular interactive campaign in history", results of the social media campaign are hard to be ignored:
More people watched its videos in 24 hours than those who watched Obama's presidential victory speech.
Total video views reached 40 million in a week.
Campaign impressions: 1.4 billion.
Between the campaign launch and August 2010, Old Spice Bodywash sales increased 27%; in the last three months (May-July 2010) up 55%; and in the last month (July 2010) up 107%.
A similar campaign, also created by Wieden + Kennedy prompted people in social media to challenge Thumbcats, the main character of their ad campaign for Cravendale, to do different tricks and deeds.
Clever, as the internet is made of cats. I can't help but share my favourite online video ever.
3. Famebook Fans
A personal favourite of mine and quite more recent, the idea of a "Famebook Fan" is to use a natural, organic comment on a Facebook page and create a campaign concept from it, usually adding a layer of surreal comedy to it.
Losing control of the conversation has never been so profitable for brands as it is these days. Instead of fearing an offhand comment from a fan, or downright ignoring them (quite a common practice actually, with 70% of Facebook posts from fans on brand pages being ignored, as claimed by Social Bakers), brands can create campaign concepts from the very sentiment of their core communities. This way, they ensure it will resonate.
A Great example of these initiatives is Paddy Power's "Chav", a hugely controversial advertising campaign that was extensively covered in the news and banned from TV due to their extreme nature.
Fortunately, Paddy Power is a brand that can take the risk and reap the benefits from a few raised eyebrows.
At the very core of the campaign is the comment from Dan Collins, a Facebook fan that posted "Hope the chavs don't ruin Cheltenham like they did Ascot". Far from ignoring it, they built their concept around it, unleashing a "Chav Hunter" on the racecourse with a tranquiliser to gun down all the chavs he saw.
A more recent example that has gone from Mashable to Metro in less than 24 hours is Bodyform, a sanitary towels company. After Facebook fan Richard Neil posted a tongue-in-cheek accusation to the company for altering the perception of what going through the period really entails, the brand did the unthinkable.
Bodyform created a hilarious video featuring a fictitious CEO confirming Richard's fear; society has been living a lie since the dawn of civilisation, based on the fact that males simply can't bear to know the truth of what menstruation does to women.
As I write, the online video has earned almost 200,000 views.
The act of elevating some kind of user input (be it a Facebook post like this incident, or a more traditional letter to customer service like the case of Sainsburys Giraffe Bread)has yielded brands loads of benefits, such as:
Portrays the brand in a more human manner, making the brand more approachable and easy to forgive when something slips through the crack.
By adding a layer of comedy and a sprinkle of shock, they generate a lot of sharing, buzz online and earned media. Humour is proven to be one of the most powerful sharing triggers online.
Bridges the gap between creative planners and strategists, and the audience they are trying to target – opening up a bidirectional conversation.
It gives users a reason to be fans and engage with brands.
There are many different ways in which you can use the input of your social media audience at the core of your advertising campaign.
Being OK with losing some control and understanding the motivation of your audience to contribute with content or actions is key. From there on, it is a rather sweet journey to reach, advocacy, and engagement-lands.


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WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- College Football Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden will be featured on March's episode of Sharing Miracles – a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients. Sharing Miracles airs on more than 300 television stations nationwide.
The head coach for Florida State for more than three decades, Bobby Bowden retired in January with a coaching career spanning 50 years. He won two national championships and tallied a remarkable 389 wins – the second most wins in college football history – trailing only his long-time friend and rival, Joe Paterno of Penn State.
However, Coach Bowden's career was nearly sidelined when – in his seventies – he was diagnosed with diabetes while seeing his doctor for a routine physical. He says in this month's Sharing Miracles: "I was surprised when he told me about the diabetes because I had felt so good. He told me I wouldn't need to take insulin, but that he'd put me on medicine to help regulate the disease and told me that I needed to watch my diet and get more exercise. But I felt so good, I didn't feel like I had to do all that!"
He quickly learned a painful lesson. "My doctor set me straight. He told me that it didn't matter if I feel good now. What matters is what could happen down the road. I could go blind, lose a leg, or even have a heart attack. Since then, I behave much better. I cheat some, but I don't cheat like I used to."
Recently retired from football, Bowden is spreading the message to fans to get checked for diabetes, even if they feel healthy. He says, "If we just do what the doctors say to, we may be able to live a long time."
He also urges people with diabetes to accept help from loved ones in making the changes that the doctor recommends: "It's not just my doctor. My wife helps me, my kids have helped me. Even my secretaries – they won't let me eat what I want!"
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes. What's more, if current trends continue, it is estimated that one in three Americans will develop diabetes in their lifetime, potentially losing 10-15 years of their lives. To help in the fight against diabetes, America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies currently have 150 medicines in development to treat the disease.
Also featured in this month's episode are Super Bowl champions Jerome Bettis of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tedy Bruschi of the New England Patriots, who speak about their experiences playing against Bowden's Seminoles when in college. Bowden's son, University of North Alabama football coach Terry Bowden, makes an appearance as well.
In addition, Leave it to Beaver star Jerry Mathers discusses his own experiences living with diabetes, and Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden speaks about the importance of developing new medicines to treat breast cancer.
Future episodes of the program will feature Academy Award-nominated actress Lorraine Bracco, who suffered from depression, and Boston Red Sox general manager Terry Francona, who battles deep vein thrombosis.
Previous episodes of Sharing Miracles have featured Bettis, Mathers, Bruschi and Harden, as well as actor Danny Glover, who suffered from epilepsy; legendary Major League Baseball manager and cancer survivor Joe Torre; Grammy Award-winning country music superstar Naomi Judd, who overcame Hepatitis C; pioneering rapper and actor Ice-T, who speaks about his battle with heart disease; baseball great Darryl Strawberry, who twice beat colon cancer; former Philadelphia Phillies star and ESPN commentator John Kruk, who overcame testicular cancer; Emmy Award-winning actor Joey Pantoliano, who suffers from clinical depression; Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka, who suffers from heart disease; and Aaron Boone, a baseball star who returned to the field after undergoing open-heart surgery.
Other guests on the show have included two-time NCAA tournament-winning University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun, who has overcome cancer three times; NBA Hall-of-Famer Dominique Wilkins, who has diabetes; Boston Red Sox star pitcher Jon Lester, who has battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Emmy-nominated former star of Family Ties Meredith Baxter, who survived breast cancer; Olympic gold medal winners Mark Spitz (high cholesterol), Bruce Jenner (attention deficit disorder), and Greg Louganis (HIV); syndicated television talk show host Montel Williams, who suffers from multiple sclerosis; pop icon and Broadway star Deborah Gibson, who has suffered from devastating anxiety attacks; and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer and Super Bowl Champion Len Dawson, who survived prostate cancer.
Sharing Miracles airs on 325 television stations across the country in the following cities: Anchorage, AK; Decatur, AL; Harrison, AR; Jones, AR; Mountain Home, AR; Tempe, AZ; Bath, ME; Casa Grande, AZ; Chino Valley, AZ; Anaheim, CA; Compton, CA; Coralville, CO; Del Mar, CA; Gilroy, CA; Hayward, CA; Pacifica, CA; Pasadena, CA; Petaluma, CA; San Andreas, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Arvada, CO; Aurora, CO; Fort Collins, CO; Golden, CO; Greeley, CO; Longmont, CO; Northglenn, CO; Thornton, CO; Bridgeport, CT; Canaan, CT; East Haven, CT; Hamden, CT; Hartford, CT; Madison, CT; North Haven, CT; Plainville, CT; Simsbury, CT; Wallingford, CT; Brooksville, FL; Cape Coral, FL; Coral Springs, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Fort Myers, FL; Port Orange, FL; MacDill AFB, FL; Tampa, FL; Palm Coast, FL; Vero Beach, FL; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, GA; Douglasville, GA; Fort Oglethorpe, GA; LaGrange, GA; Lawrenceville, GA; Hilo, HI; Ames, IA; Des Moines, IA; Fairfield, IA; Mount Vernon, IA; Olin, IA; Muscatine, IA; Boise, ID; Coeur d'Alene, ID ; Moscow, ID ; Soda Springs, ID ; Addison, IL; Aurora, IL; Batavia, IL; Darien, IL; Galesburg, IL; Glen Ellyn, IL; Glenview, IL; Joliet, IL; Lake Forest, IL; Naperville, IL; Plainfield, IL; Peoria, IL; Rock Island, IL; Romeoville, IL; Urbana, IL; Wheaton, IL; Austin, IN; Bloomington, IN; Connersville, IN; Fort Wayne, IN; Richmond, IN; Derby, KS; Haysville, KS; Lawrence, KS; Olathe, KS; Ottawa, KS; Covington, KY; Highland Heights, KY; Louisville, KY; Middlesboro, KY; Paducah, KY; Bossier City, LA; Houma, LA; Lafayette, LA; Mandeville, LA; New Orleans, LA; Amherst, MA; Arlington, MA; Boston, MA; Boylston, MA; Brookline, MA; Carver, MA; Chelmsford, MA; Dracut, MA; Easthampton, MA; Foxboro, MA; Framingham, MA; Haverhill, MA; Holden, MA; Hopkinton, MA; Leominster, MA; Longmeadow, MA; Lynn, MA; Marion, MA; Newburyport, MA; Quincy, MA; Reading, MA; Sandwich, MA; Wakefield, MA; Wilbraham, MA; Worcester, MA; Bel Air, MD; Columbia, MD; Easton, MD; Greenbelt, MD; Largo, MD; Rockville, MD; Bath, ME; Boothbay Harbor, ME; Bridgton, ME; Brunswick, ME; Fairfield, ME; Farmington, ME; Madison, ME; Mexico, ME; Ann Arbor, MI; Byron, MI; Cadillac, MI; Farmington Hills, MI; Holland, MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Lake Orion, MI; Manistee, MI; Monroe, MI; Portage, MI; Romeo, MI; Waterford, MI; Wyandotte, MI; Blaine, MN; Bloomington, MN; Champlin, MN; Coon Rapids, MN; Duluth, MN; Fergus Falls, MN; Hibbing, MN; Hutchinson, MN; Inver Grove Heights, MN; Le Seuer, MN; Minneapolis, MN; Rosemont, MN; Spring Park, MN; Stillwater, MN; White Bear Lake, MN; Brentwood, MI; Hudsonville, MI; Blue Springs, MO; Columbia, MO; Independence, MO; Ste. Genevieve, MO; Hillsboro, MS; Jackson, MS; Vicksburg, MS; Great Falls, MT; Helena, MT; Albemarle, NC; Charlotte, NC; Knightdale, NC; New Bern, NC; Wingate, NC; Fargo, ND; Jamestown, ND; Grand Island, NE; Hastings, NE; Lincoln, NE; Omaha, NE; Claremont, NH; Derry, NH; Durham, NH; Keene, NH; Londonderry, NH; Manchester, NH; North Conway, NH; Wolfeboro, NH; Bloomfield, NJ; Jersey City, NJ; Metuchen, NJ; Montclair, NJ; Piscataway, NJ; Pomona, NJ; Princeton, NJ; Statewide, NJ; Summit, NJ; Wayne, NJ; Albuquerque, NM; Los Alamos, NM; Rio Rancho, NM; Santa Fe, NM; Taos, NM; Boulder City, NV; Carson City, NV; Minden, NV; Chappaqua, NY; Fairport, NY; Penfield, NY; Staten Island, NY; Tivoli, NY; Webster, NY; Yonkers, NY; Athens, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Defiance, OH; Fairborn, OH; Hudson; OH; Macedonia, OH; Medina, OH; Middletown, OH; Norwood, OH; Troy, OH; Wadsworth, OH; Perry, OK; Oregon City, OR; Silverton, OR; Ardmore, PA; Berwyn, PA; Bethel Park, PA; Gettysburg, PA; Harrisburg, PA; McMurray, PA; Moon Township, PA; Pottstown, PA; Reading, PA; Wayne, PA; York, PA; Greenville, SC; Rockhill, SC; Union, SC; Clarksville, TN; Franklin, TN; Germantown, TN; Murfreesboro, TN; Alvin, TX; Arlington, TX; College Station, TX; Denton, TX; Houston, TX; Kingsville, TX; Cedar City, UT; Logan, UT; Salt Lake City, UT; Vernal, UT; Blacksburg, VA; Gloucester, VA; Herndon, VA; Norfolk, VA; Roanoke, VA; Suffolk, VA; Barre, VT; Bellow Falls, VT; Burlington, VT; Hyde Park, VT; Manchester Center, VT; Newport, VT; Springfield, VT; Waitsfield, VT; Bainbridge Island, WA; Bremerton, WA; College Park, WA; Ellensburg, WA; Kent, WA; Longview, WA; Port Townsend, WA; Seattle, WA; Toppenish, WA; Dodgeville, WI; Fitchburg, WI; Hartford, WI; Janesville, WI; Lake Mills, WI; Kenosha, WI; Madison, WI; Merrill, WI; Muskego, WI; New London, WI; Reedsburg, WI; River Falls, WI; Sun Prairie, WI; Superior, WI; Waterloo, WI; Wausau, WI; Wenatchee, WI; Whitehall, WI; Wisconsin Rapids, WI; Huntington, WV; and Summersville, WV.
The show's corresponding Web site, www.sharingmiracles.com, is an interactive forum for people to relate their own personal stories of hope and survival. Every patient's battle is unique, but the collective power of shared experiences can offer great help and courage to others who are fighting for their lives.
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) helps uninsured and financially-struggling patients access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free. To find out if they may qualify for help, patients should call toll-free 1-888-4PPA-NOW to speak with a trained specialist or visit www.pparx.org.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
PhRMA Internet Address: http://www.phrma.org
For information on stories of hope and survival, visit: http://sharingmiracles.com/
For information on how innovative medicines save lives, visit: http://www.innovation.org
For information on the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, visit: http://www.pparx.org
For more information on public health emergencies, visit http://www.rxresponse.org
For information on the danger of imported drugs, visit: http://www.buysafedrugs.info
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UPDATE: ABC has announced the official Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Cast. Also, check out my suggested couples for Dancing with the Stars 2009.
UPDATE 2: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.
ABC has announced that Dancing with the Stars will premiere Monday March 9th 2009 at 8pm. Of course, this begs the question "who will be the next stars to show their dance moves?"
The cast probably won't be announced for a couple months. Dancing with the Stars hasn't even decided which professional dancers will be on the show. At least, Julianne Hough is still negotiating whether she should appear in the Spring or wait until next Fall. However, it's fun to create our own list of stars dancing on season 8 of Dancing with the Stars.
Here's my list of stars:
Celine Dion
Ellen Degeneres
Alicia Silverstone
Heather Locklear
Candace Cameron Burre
Steffi Graf
Jimmy Kimmel
Tom Selleck
Jackie Chan
Charles Barkley
Bret Favre
Bill Cosby
Let's see who your list of stars would be. The crazy thing was that as I started this list I thought of literally hundreds of people that would be interesting on the show. Doesn't seem like the show will have a hard time finding stars for a while.


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Awwwwwright!!!!!!!! Finally, the culmination of 2012, the Top 10 of the Big Rock Candy Mountain Best Records of the Year, busting out yr eardrums! The finest rekkids, made to make you fuck, fight and forget! Kick it kids, the righteous religion of rock'n'roll lives and breathes, killing yr speakers and screw that pussy indie or Top 40 shit. Preachin' and prayin', put a cape on us (can we get a witness?!), and rise up to holler more!
Take the mic, Mr. Scratch!
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Best Records of 2012, Part The Final!
10. Barry Brusseau: The Royal Violent Birds LP
Another deep Autumn record by Mr. Brusseau (who we wrote about here), like red and orange leaves falling all about, droned and sad. A monumental record, from a supremely talented, independent and idiosyncratic artist. More on Mr. Brusseau and his fledgling label coming up soon.
Barry Brusseau: Plymouth Fury (car ride) (mp3)
9. Owen Mays and the 80 Proof Boys: Nobody Love You When You're Down
Boozed-up, bad-livin' honky tonk glory, like the good lord intended. Mr. Mays is our next post, so we'll have more say then. Gird yr pansy "alt-country" loins, kids, this is the real deal.
Owen Mays and the 80 Proof Boys: 80 Proof Nights (mp3)
8. Outer Minds: Outer Minds LP/ Behind the Mirror LP
Two mighty psych-scuzz platters from Chicago's finest, space is the place with rockets burning stars into oblivion, droned jangled chanted swirly cream universe, free yr mind and explode a million times the Sun.
Outer Minds: Kings and Thrones (mp3)
Outer Minds: Look Behind the Mirror (mp3)
7. Reverend Frost: Bloody Tomahawks 7"/ Every Goddam Thing To Hell LP
Perennial Mountain fave Reverend Frost gives us a proper album and a hell of a 7". Rickety, creaky, jesus on a bender trash galore, Tom Waits meets the Cramps in a rumble, knives pulled, there's gonna blood on the moon tonight, and the horror movie in yr mind is a living thing, greasy and jumpin' jive. The Devil's on yr tail, the road is winding, with only one headlight and the breaks are out, the darkest canyon below, belching fire, and who's yr savior?
Reverend Frost: Every Goddam Thing to Hell (mp3)
6. catl: Soon All This Will Be Gone
What we said in our review:
A trashy glory of of an album, full of strange back road ramble, bruised, bloody, and anglin' for a fight. Nasty, filthy gutter blues, ready to move yr ass and shoot you busted and broken into the night... This is a band, and a record, that wants you to fuck, drink, and get got-damn lowdown... blown-out tire, voodoo-kissed, burn the white-trash porch down ravers, all organ-drenched, harmonica blistered, geetar-fucked, rhythmic groovers, hollerin' and scuzzed, bleeding sweat and kerosene, white lightning and mad dog cocktail. Main man catl his very own self rakes the unholy coals of hell with his mud-stained voice a prophet.
catl: He'll Make A Way (mp3)
5. Dynamite Pussy Club: Church of Yeah!
Holy fuckin' shit!!!! Revved to the red rawk'n'roll, busted speaker trash gospel sleaze, testifyin' the apocalypse, booze broads and hollerin' sanctified gut bucket tear this motherfuckin' roof down. Nothin' was nastier this year, big fuzz wailing soulpunkgarage destruction. We're out of breath listenin' to this holy mess of rawk scuzz!
Dynamite Pussy Club: Testify! (mp3)
4. Ian Hunter and the Rant Band: When I'm President
This was a year when critics rushed to praise a few oldsters who made less than exciting records. Springsteen showed he was a better keynote speaker than his newest bland record (which Rolling Stone named "best record, showing how out of touch they are) would prove. Dylan officially went off the deep end, and not in an interesting way, despite what folks will tell you, and gave us a tiresome rehash (and possibly theft) of tropes we've heard over and over. Neil Young released an un-listenable 2-disc set of tedious hippie jams, looking backwards. The Rolling Stones just looked stupid and their new single was a by-the-numbers turd. Good lord, can anyone over 60 (other than Tom Waits) make an interesting record?
Well, yes, yes they can.
Ian Hunter (you might know him from Mott the Hoople...you know...the classic "All The Young Dudes") is yr man! Wait, come back!
Still urgent, still full of glam situation, horns and plinking shack-styled piano, Hunter knows what moves the spirit, and boogie-fried southern growl, swing a bar band round the rosy, man just wants to rawk and fuck the introspection, it's all about the big sound and the end of the night where yr dancing with yr guy or gal and yr not gonna get fucked over with irony. The gravel voice, the rock'n'roll, the silent sweeper while you clutch the one you love over the big sound. Nobody else came close.
Ian Hunter and the Rant Band: Comfortable (Flyin' Scotsman)
3. James Hand: Mighty Lonesome Man
Honky Tonk. Country music the way you remembered, stripped of Nashville nonsense. The mightiest man, with pedal steel and fiddles and the loneliest whistle. James Hand, whom we have been in love with for years, solidifies his place in the pantheon of Hank, Merle, Lefty, George, and Waylon. They're of a piece, and James Hand carries the tradition.
No pretenses, no nod to "alt", no compromise.
What James Hand does is transcend the expected, delivering a set of pure country gold, lonesome desert, deep-hearted and purely old-school (not a bad thing).
Put yr boots on the hardwood floor, raving up sawdust and dirt, swing yr partner and dance and cry and drink and dance some more.
James Hand: Now Not Later (mp3)
2. Neneh Cherry and the Thing: The Cherry Thing
The most unexpected of records, a jazz "thing", from the daughter of a legend (that would be "Don"), best known for a 90's hit. But, good gravy, transforming how we think about music, and the stuffy preclusions taken.
Deep Soul, punk cover, layered and defiant, furry and sex groove, a helium balloon voice slinking in and out over transcendental soundsoundsound, oh yes.
Sun Ra backing Billie Holiday, when you dream, deep dream the constellation lighting up the walls around yr lonely bed. Wake and feel the tremor of the earth, the moon shining just for you, and you alone, the sound of all yr hopes laid bare, and be, and be, and be.....
Neneh Cherry and the Thing: Dream Baby Dream (mp3)
1. Daddy Long Legs: Evil Eye On You LP
Rock and Roll was informed by the Blues. With that, we give a tip o'the hat to Nick Tosches and Greil Marcus. And where does that leave us? A crossroads, as it were, between the holy Southern jukejoint and the New York transposing, a posture on both ends, a fight between the sacred and the profane. Where white boys, now, mimic and flagellate on a created altar, the battle of Ghost World's "Blues Hammer" and Fat Possum's crate-digging attempt at revival, complete with hip-hop re-workings of the assumed standard, standing in stark contrast to tradition, whatever that is.
A little over a year ago, we attended Norton Record's big anniversary fest in Brooklyn. It was a great festival. On the last night of the fest, a band came on early, and we missed the first half of the set. What we saw of the remaining set blew our minds, and put that band on our radar....what records could we buy from them, this insane band that was suddenly our favorite band in the world? Well, nothing, really, other than an A-Side on Norton's famous Rolling Stones tribute series (they did "Cocksucker Blues"....a great choice). So, we bided our time, listened to other great records, pushed this band into the recesses of our mind, figgering well...at some point they'll release a record, and it 'll probably be pretty nifty.
We had no idea. No idea at all.
What Daddy Long Legs unleashed upon these cynical ears was nothing short of masterwork. A shot in the dark of the deep trembling heart of rock'n'roll, all desperation and harmonica short-fuse mess-around, blowing yr ears, yr speakers, yr very rhythmic pulse, whoopin' and stompin' from the get-go, going deep down into yr soul and pulling you into frenzy, wailing the chug a chug and chug a lug, spilled beer on the barroom floor while you kick and shimmy the slide on down to Satan's very personal lounge, the sound of the damned and the sound of the "we don't give a fuck", because the shack is open 24-7 and we're gonna grind and fuck the latest morning and the deepest night, blow, baby, blow, the train is haulin' and we're in the caboose, the back end of respected society, hootin' it up to the end of the line.
Yeah, it's 3 white boys from Nooo Yawk. And, yeah, they kick yr ass from every direction. Full throttle, nuthin' you heard this year comes even close!
Best Record Of The Year!
Daddy Long Legs: Shackin' Up (mp3)
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1990s: The seriously ill and dying begin fighting for a legal exemption to the criminal law, demanding the right to obtain medicinal pain relief though marijuana without fear of prosecution.
2000: Litigation continues. Numerous cases are before the courts as patients seek easier access to medical marijuana.
July 2000: Medical marijuana hits the Canadian legal radar after Ontario Court of Appeal issues the first ruling linking the constitutional validity of the criminal law to the existence of a medical exemption protecting patients' rights.
July 2001: Health Canada introduces Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, and Canada became the second country in the world with a government-run cannabis health program. Regulations create an exemption to the criminal law allowing approved patients to possess and grow their own cannabis, as well as gardeners to grow pot for approved patients.
July 2001: Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon given a contract to grow pot to sell to qualified patients.
May 2002-2004: Jean Chretien's Liberal government introduces a bill that would have decriminalized the possession for personal use of small amounts of cannabis. The bill looked likely to pass into law, but it died when Parliament prorogued.
January 2008: In Sfetkopoulos v. Canada, the Federal Court strikes down the regulation prohibiting a producer from growing for more than one person. The government shuffled its feet.
August 2008: Federal Court of Appeal affirms Sfetkopoulos, but tight growing regulations remain, with farms and large-scale production outlawed.
April 2011: Ontario Superior Court Justice Donald Taliano concludes that legitimately sick people are not able to access medical marijuana through appropriate means and must resort to compassion clubs or the street corner, risking arrest and criminal charges. Warns that unless the government addresses the legislative flaws within three months, the criminal law would be struck down. Ottawa appeals the ruling.
June 2011: Government of Canada announces it is considering improvements to the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations program to reduce the risk of abuse and exploitation by criminal elements.


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Osprey is a California based manufacturer of backpacks that has been setting the standard of high quality packs for over 35 years. They are internationally renowned for their innovative and versatile collection of gear carrying equipment and have won numerous awards. Their vast collection includes backpacks for hiking, trekking, climbing, skiing and cycling as well as travel packs, child carriers and luggage.
"Our mission is to create innovative high performance gear that reflects our love of adventure and our devotion to the outdoors. We succeed when we meet the demanding expectation of our most discerning customers and they are proud to use our packs.
You'll find the rest of us, often Osprey founder and head designer Mike Pfotenhauer, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Here, surrounded by heat, endless bustle and vibrant energy, we design and build our packs to the exacting standards expected of Osprey. Living in HCM City provides many benefits, including the ability to ensure fair labor standards and face-to-face relationships with the factories that build our packs, cultural enlightenment, and the design inspiration of a cosmopolitan city.
Every couple years, we take a group of our retailers and media to visit our facilities in Vietnam. The trip gives them a chance to see first hand the unique systems that we have set up there and an opportunity to truly understand the challenges of developing and producing packs. To really understand where we are today, let's rewind about 15 years.
In the late nineties, Osprey found itself in the position of many U.S. backpack brands. Sourcing was becoming more and more difficult with fabric mills in the southeast closing and in some cases going bankrupt. Fabrics and hardware for building backpacks were becoming widely available in Asia at a fraction of the cost. Many major brands had already shifted sourcing and production to Asia but we chose to maintain our facilities in Cortez – we had excellent talent and most importantly, founder and lead designer, Mike Pfotenhauer could directly interact with the production team – something that has given us an edge in our pack designs throughout the history of the company.
An example of this would be when a designer creates a pack design that in modeling looks great but once patterns are cut and the sewing process begins that design can sometimes be very hard to sew or look ill proportioned. However, a simple alteration in the pattern can make the pack easy and quick to sew. A designer can't learn this without direct interaction with the people who are actually building the pack.
Inevitably and far beyond our control, sourcing continued to dry up in the US and by 2001 we had begun work with Korean factories on our larger model packs with the bulk of our production still in Cortez. Our persistence in this, nearly resulted in the demise of the company but it also gave Mike and the rest of our team time to strategize a system that maintained many of the advantages we had worked so hard to establish and in particular, direct interaction with the factories.
As a result, Mike moved his family to Vietnam in 2003 where they lived for four years. The end result was a product development office that now employs nearly 30 people and is home base for Mike's continued and regular visits to Ho Chi Minh City.
The Osprey Vietnam office is located next to the Saigon river in what was formerly a French villa. The team there work on product development and design and ultimately, all that is needed to get the products produced and shipped from the factories we work with.
The team in Vietnam work in three distinct areas; The first (and arguably the most important) is Design and Sampling. Two designers work in tandem with Mike and the team in the US to develop concepts and new products that can then be fed through our in-house sample room to create a prototype to feel, evaluate, test and then improve. Having a dedicated sample room enables us to remake samples in as little as a day and continually improve a design until it is truly ready for the market.
A second part of the team works on then 'industrializing' the product and preparing it for mass production. This involves carefully specifying materials and construction techniques to make product that stands the test of time and maximizes efficiency.
Finally a team of five inspectors quality control the production of Osprey Packs within our factories on a daily basis. They work to check product as it is created, ensuring problems are avoided and that the factories have the best systems in place to monitor and control their standards to the highest levels.
Having a local workforce in the country of origin offers benefits in both rapid communication but also in gaining a unique understanding of the everyday conditions within factories and their workforce that few other brands achieve.
Our group of retailers and media arrived for an interactive day of education at the office. Following a tour each was set to task at three stations – stuffing foam into a harness strap, inserting the cross-bar into an AirSpeed™ suspension frame and sewing the flap onto a FlapJack or FlapJill pack.
Performing these tasks really gave the group a keen sense of the skill involved in building our packs. Foam is stuffed into our harness straps by pulling the outer fabric (which is sewn inside out) over the foam and into place. Our AirSpeed™ suspension design utilizes a double bow cross bar that tensions the whole system. It's a simple and elegant design but requires some directed skill to do. Check out our repair video on how to do it. Finally, everyone loves to operate a sewing machine and the process of actually sewing a pack together produced lots and lots of laughs. Each person received a rating from 1-10 with the highest only netting a 7. Adding insult to injury, every single pack was pulled apart and resewn before being gifted to our guests!
We also take our guest on tours of the factories we work with as well as giving them a taste of Ho Chi Minh city via a cyclo tour. There is always a great adventure too as in our recent bike ride over Hai Van pass. Everyone comes away with a better appreciation for the products we sell as well as personal insight into the people who make them. We are proud of our Vietnam operations and will continue to share what we do there with all our customers."


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Can Mountain Bike Handlebars Be Too Wide? As someone who preaches that a short stem and wide bars will give you much better handling on a mountain bike (both climbing and descending) I get asked that question a lot. The short answer is, of course your mountain bike handlebars can be too wide, but most likely your's aren't wide enough!
The reasons we have been preaching about wide bars since 1999 are that they simply give you more stability, more leverage to fight sudden jerks to the side and more leverage for cornering. A quick baseline to start from is to do a push up and experiment with hand width and find out where you feel most stable and powerful. From this starting point go out a bit wider and start working your way in. What we are looking for is for your forearms to slope outward slightly from your hands to your elbows when you have lowered your chest in a "half push-up" position (see photo below). At the widest your forearms should go straight up to your elbows when in this position.
This width will give you the optimum amount of control. From this position you can absorb shock, keep the wheels on the ground over a small drop, resist twisting/jerking forces and power you way trough a corner by getting enough counter pressure leverage to give you the right lean angle.
Unfortunately as this trend has caught on I have seen a few riders who are too short (or narrow shouldered, short armed) for the widest bars made and they look like this photo below:
I saw a lot of young riders at Whistler last summer with a setup that looked like that. Really hard to control the bike when you are stretched out like that! Those riders need to cut their bars down a bit!
Most riders, especially cross country/endurance oriented riders run bars on the narrow side (perhaps because of tradition?) and they look like this:
This also severely hampers control (really twitchy with no leverage to fight sudden bar jerks, and no leverage for cornering pressure) and collapses the lungs a bit making it hard to breathe! It is more aerodynamic though, which unfortunately doesn't help much at the speeds you travel at on your mountain bike and aerodynamics are not worth sacrificing control over.
The widest bars I have found are the SMAC innovations SW820 Moto Bars ( http://smacinnovations.com/bars.php , 820mm wide) and at 6'3″ I run these uncut on both my xc and dh bikes. BetterRide coach and one the best technical riders I know, Andy Winohradsky is 5'6″ and runs 30.5″ wide bars on both of his bikes. We put on camps all over the country and have not yet found a trail with trees too narrow for these bars. The tightest trees I have found are on the East Coast, in Texas and in the Mid West. In some of these places there were two to four spots an hour where I had to slow down and wiggle through some tight trees. Four, even six times an hour is no reason to compromise your handling though, I would rather you have the most control 99% of your ride and have to slow down a bit a few times an hour than be out of control for 99% of your ride and be able to go faster over about 20 feet every hour! If you honestly live in an area with more than six tree gaps less than 32″ wide in an hour ride, cut your bars!
There is not yet a scientifically proven perfect mountain bike handlebar width as there are so many variables; height, shoulder width, arm length, stem length, top tube length, reach measurement, etc. The easiest way to find out what is right for you is to start at the widest width available to you (or that you feel is appropriate, if you are 5'1″ no need to start at 820mm!) and ride at that width (on a trail without narrow tree gaps at first!) and then keep moving the grips in a bit until your arms look close the "correct" photo above and you feel like you have the most control (not necessarily what feels best as what often feels best is what you are used to which may not be correct).


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Best Buy has had a rather tumultuous year. So it perhaps comes as no surprise to hear, from the Wall Street Journal, that its founder Richard Schulze is planning to try and take the company private.
Schulze currently holds a 20 percent share of Best Buy, and is presumably rather worried that, if he doesn't do something drastic, the value of his holdings will drop through the floor. That's what you get when your CEO sleeps with your employees.
The Journal suggests that Schulze is thinking of buying out the company as a solution. That, however, isn't the easiest thing in the world to acheive. Best Buy's value sits at somewhere around $8 billion, and the Journal suggests that only an offer of around $11 billion would stand a chance of securing Schulze the company. Big. Bucks.
On its current trajectory Best Buy looks set to decline, which can come to no good for consumers. Perhaps a successful buyout by Schulze might make it relevant again. [Wall Street Journal]


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Tuesday, July 30
A statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Today, we mark the 48th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid becoming law, a sacred promise our country made to older Americans and low-income working Americans and families that they will have the medical care they need to live healthier lives.
The historic pledge acknowledges that after contributing a lifetime of hard work to our nation's well-being, our seniors will be able to live their golden years with the security and peace of mind that comes with having affordable health coverage under Medicare.
For low-income children, parents, and people with disabilities, Medicaid created a federal-state partnership to provide a health care safety net to promote stronger families and communities across our country.
The reforms in the Affordable Care Act strengthen the promise of both Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicaid provides health coverage to 57 million people, including more than 4.6 million low income seniors, nearly all of whom are also enrolled in Medicare, and 27.8 million children. The Affordable Care Act authorizes states to extend Medicaid coverage to adult Americans under age 65 with income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level—and provides unprecedented federal funding for that expansion.
Medicaid expansion is a critical piece of the puzzle to ensure more Americans get the care they need. But it would also reduce the burden of uncompensated care. The Affordable Care Act allows all states to expand Medicaid coverage to reach even more people, and to make sure that your zip code doesn't determine your health care.
And because of the Affordable Care Act, more than 16.5 million people with traditional Medicare were able to take advantage of at least one free preventive service, such as a mammogram or cardiovascular disease screening so far this year.
Since the enactment of the health care law three years ago, more than 6.6 million people with Medicare have saved more than $7 billion on prescription drugs when they fell into the "donut hole" gap in coverage. The law will close the donut hole completely by 2020.
With new tools and stronger penalties, the health care law is also protecting the health of our seniors and taxpayer dollars by helping us root out Medicare fraud, waste and abuse, resulting in record high recovery of funds: nearly $15 billion in the last four years.
The Affordable Care Act is also strengthening the Medicare Trust Fund, extending its solvency until at least 2026, nearly a decade longer than projected at the time of the law's passage in 2010.
I call on all of you to join me in renewing the promise our nation made 48 years ago to our parents, aunts, uncles, and neighbors – and to our children – that Medicare and Medicaid will be there to help them live healthier lives, with security and peace of mind.


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1543 – Copernicus dies. He died the same year his major work was published, saving him from the outrage of religious leaders who later condemned his heliocentric view of the universe as heresy. By the 18th Century, the Copernican view of the solar system was almost universally accepted. Heliocentric, I like that.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. We only tolerate the peeps we already tolerate, or something.
1819 - Queen Victoria was born in London. English Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and Empress of India (1876-1901)
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction, and 27 deaths. This magnificent bridge spans the East River, connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in history. At 5,989 feet it was the longest suspension bridge in the world until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. It was dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world."
The two granite foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge were built in watertight chambers, sunk to depths of 44 feet on the Brooklyn side and 78 feet on the New York side. Compressed air pressurized the caissons, allowing underwater construction. Which is cool, but nobody understood the whole "bends" problem. More than a hundred workers suffered from cases of compression sickness. Basically, it is when nitrogen bubbles kick it in the bloodstream. It doesn't sound like much but, it fucking sucks. Several died, and Washington Roebling (chief engineer dude) himself became bedridden from the condition in 1872. Other workers died as a result of more conventional construction accidents, such as collapses and a fire. Which were fatal, but not terribly interesting.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to demonstrate the first telegraph line. over-dramatic. Gawd.
1941 – Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer and songwriter, is born.
1941 – In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing 1,500 crewmen, with the exception of three. None of the three go on to do anything worthwhile with their lives.
1943 – Auschwitz, receives a new doctor! Oh, wait it is Josef Mengele, a man who will earn the nickname "the Angel of Death."
Upon arriving at Auschwitz, he began experimenting on live prisoners. In the guise of medical "treatment," he injected thousands of inmates with everything from petrol to chloroform. He also had a penchant for studying twins, whom he used to dissect or conjoin while still alive. ugh, it is Monday, so onward.
He escaped to South America, and became a citizen of Paraguay in 1959. He later moved to Brazil, and assumed the id of Wolfgang Gerhard, another Nazi turdface. They think he died while swimming in 1979. How lovely.
Remember when Gregory Peck played him in the Boys from Brazil ? Or Laurence Olivier in the Marathon Man? is it safe ? member? member? Two of my faves.


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Id give almost anything to see the original Nightmare on Elm Street again for the first time. Not just for that first glimpse of a very young Johnny Depp, but for the opportunity to squeal like only a scared teenage girl can. These days, seeing Freddy Kruegers tongue popping out of a phone makes me lunge for the Mercurochrome rather than my neighbors arm. Glimpses out of the corner of your eye, déjà vu, coincidence, and fate all tingle my now adult spine with dark possibilities far more than a bloody knife. With my sons football practices lasting well past sunset, Ive been working to rediscover my timid inner self through the undercurrents of a subtle ghost story. Here are a few titles I probably shouldnt have read sitting in the car by myself:
Those Across the RiverChristopher Buehlman
The residents of Whitbrow, Georgia refuse to cross the river. Only a monthly sacrifice of two garlanded pigs sets foot on the other side, never to be seen again. Researching his great-grandfathers local plantation, WWI vet Frank Nichols votes to end this tradition, igniting the unquenchable revenge of those across the river.
Black LightPatrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan
Buck can pull the most evil of spirits out of the air, trapping them deep in his core. The danger of madness is worth the glimpse of the Black Light and the chance to connect with his lost parents. From the creators of the Saw movies, Bucks search for the Something Horrible feels as deadly as it sounds.
The Man in the PictureSusan Hill
Hanging on the wall of a Cambridge professor is a rather dark painting of an 18th century Venetian carnival scene. Looking closely, a visiting student spots a man in the picture dressed in modern clothes being propelled down a dark alley by two captors. Mesmerized by his pleading stare, the student tempts fate to uncover the mans identity.
Property of a LadySarah Rayne
Insanity, disappearances, and death follow the Dead Mans Knock heard by visitors to Shropshires Charect House. The knocking figure with no eyes is looking for Elvira. Who is she and what will happen if her hiding place is found?
Floating StaircaseRonald Malfi
The Glasgows new house in western Maryland comes complete with both a small lake and the ghost of the young boy drowned in its waters. Or is the ghost the brother of homeowner Travis who also tragically drowned many years ago? Plagued by ghosts seen and unseen, Travis sanity begins to float just like the wooden staircase rising from the lake.
What are your favorite reads now that the days are growing shorter?
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Free Printable Letters for Scrapbooks
When scrapbooking playful events, hand-drawn letters can add just the right touch to your page title. Kim Hughes created her playful title on this layout about an outing to the ball park below.
A Day at the Ball Park by Kim Hughes. As seen in Creating Keepsakes magazine's 2012 special issue, Simple Scrapbooks.
If you love the look of Kim's whimsical letters, print the whole alphabet to use on your scrapbook layouts, cards, and more.
For hand-drawn words you can use as scrapbook layout titles designed by another talented Kim, CK Dream Team member Kim Watson, see our Free Hand-Drawn Scrapbook Titles.
You'll also enjoy the free fonts available on Club CK, a free scrapbooking community brought to you by Creating Keepsakes magazine. Each week we offer a new font available as a free download for one week only. Check the Free Font Friday page for the latest free font.
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