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CBOE Holdings announced today that long-time Chairman and CEO Bill Brodsky would be stepping down in May with current President and COO Ed Tilly being named the next CEO of CBOE.
Brodsky will remain at CBOE following the May 2013 transition as executive chairman for at least one year. In that role Brodsky said, "My main responsibility will be to lead the Board as it provides oversight, guidance and direction to management and to serve as a resource when needed or directed by Ed [Tilly]."
"Tilly said, "I am thrilled that Bill has agreed to stay on in a new role at CBOE. Bill is a rare combination of industry thought leader, investor advocate, regulatory expert and international advocate for CBOE and [equity] options [in general]."
Brodsky is expected to continue to lead the exchange's outreach with regulators and Congress. "I am happy to stay as involved as Ed and the board want me to be," Brodsky said. "That is part of the plan. To provide good transition and real continuity of relationships and contacts we have nurtured over the years."
Tilly added, "The structure is counting on the expertise that Bill has brought to the industry and CBOE."
Tilly laid our four key strategic initiatives for CBOE as it moves forward. "They are delivering on our line of proprietary products, leveraging or customized trade technology, optimizing revenue in commoditized products and expanding our customer base," Tilly said.
According to Brodsky, who has served as Chairman and CEO of CBOE for 16 years, the move is part of succession plan that was formulated following the completion of the 2010 initial public offering.
In a release, CBOE lead director noted, "The change in leadership at CBOE speaks to the depth of CBOE's management, and is a natural progression in CBOE's evolution. CBOE is fortunate that Bill has carefully laid the groundwork for a smooth succession of executive leadership."
Asked about accomplishments over his tenure, Brodsky highlighted options becoming a mainstream product, the move to electronic trading — which he described as a massive undertaking — creating the VIX as a major asset class, resolving the Chicago Board of Trade exercise right issue and executing the firm's IPO. He noted, "Resolving the exercise right issue was the biggest bear, the IPO was easy compared to exercise rights."
The company also announced that Chief Business Development Officer Edward Provost will succeed Tilly as CBOE President and COO.


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Ajo is a regular at Taiwanese game events, decked in dangerously skimpy garb. She's one of Taiwan's most famous cosplayers. For Ajo, cosplay has been more than a hobby, but a way to strive to drop 18kg and look like the idealised characters she adores.
On her Facebook page (via Rocket News), Ajo recently posted a "before/after" photo and talked about how 10 years ago, she weighed 70-odd kilograms. She decided to try her hand at cosplay, and when she looked at her photos, she was shocked.
"In the pictures, my favourite characters had turned all fat," she wrote. "The look of the character collapsed completely."
Ajo decided that she wanted to start dieting. It wasn't an easy round, and there were times she rebounded. But, she was able to motivate herself using cosplay, trying to lose weight so she could wear the skimpy outfits her favourite characters donned. Over 10 years, she lost 20kg.
Often, video game and cartoon characters aren't exactly depictions of real people. They are either idealised or fantasy. Ajo dropped weight by skipping sugar, carbs and fat, drinking lots of water, and exercising so that she could be that idealised character in real life.
Video game characters don't just exist in digital playgrounds. Cosplay is a realm where fans can bring them to life. To do just that, this Taiwanese cosplayer was motivated to make lifestyle changes — changes that she says have made her happy.
At the end of her Facebook post, Ajo wrote in English, "Trust Me, You Can Make it!" Maybe. And for those dieting, Ajo's story might be inspiring. For those happy with their body image, it might not be. The caveat is whether or not the look of many characters were ever realistic in the first place.
Ajo's costumes and cosplay photos do cover a range of characters. For more, check here.
(不用懷疑照片真的都是我XD) [阿兆のCosplay同人專頁 via ETtoday via ロケットニュース]

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Summary of Jordan Penkower on reading Zekher or Zeikher Amalek
This post originally appeared here. It is a summary of Prof. Jordan Penkower's Minhag u-Mesorah: 'Z-kh-r Amalek' be-hamesh o be-shesh nekudot by his student Yosef Peretz. It appears here with permission, with some additions by the Seforim Blog editor.
It is common practice in most Ashkenazi congregations to read the words z-kh-r Amalek, in Deut. 25:19, twice: once with a tzere under the zayin (zeikher) and once with a segol (zekher). Sephardic congregations, however, who do not distinguish between the pronunciation of these two vowels, read it only once, and they point it with a tzere. What is the origin of this practice, when did it begin, and is this double reading necessary to fulfill the command of reading these verses of Parshat Zakhor, the special reading on the Sabbath before Purim?
These questions are discussed in several articles by R. Mordechai Breuer and Dr. J. Penkower,[1] two of the most eminent among contemporary scholars of the masorah and Biblical text. In their opinion, zeikher with a tzere is beyond a shadow of doubt the original and correct pointing of the text; and that is how the verse should be read in Parshat Zakhor. It must be stressed that the custom itself of a double reading is quite surprising and completely unique in Torah reading, for it was customary to decide in favor of one reading or another whenever there was a conflict between variant readings, pointing of vowels, or assignment of cantillation marks (as in cases of kri and ktiv, where a word is written one way but read another).
R. David Kimhi, in his Sefer ha-Shorashim (in the manuscript versions), was the first to note the discrepancies regarding the pointing of these vowels in Sephardic biblical manuscripts. Under the root z-kh-r he says: "'blot out the memory (zekher) of Amalek' (Deut. 25:19), with six dots (i.e., segol twice), but 'praise [in remembrance of (le-zekher)] His holy name' (Ps. 30:5), with five dots (i.e., a tzere and a segol), and this occurs nowhere else; thus it appears in some books [i.e. manuscripts of the bible containing the Masorah]. But in others, z-kh-r is always pointed with five dots." In other words, Radak noted that in some books he found z-kh-r pointed with segol and in others, with tzere.
In printed editions of Sefer ha-Shorashim, however, beginning with the Venice edition and carrying through the 19th century, Radak's remark concludes with the words "and this occurs nowhere else." In other words, he found zekher in Parshat Zakhor always pointed with double segol.[2]
Here is a typical example in a manuscript (from 1481):
And here is the Venice edition:
Here is the manuscript text restored in Biesenthal and Lebrecht's Berlin 1847 edition:
Various prayer books and Pentateuchs published in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries were redacted according to Radak's remark as it appears in these printed editions; for example, the siddur of R. Shabtai Sofer (in the word zekher in the Ashrei prayer and in the prayers on the eve of the New Year), and Meor Einayim, the Pentateuch published by R. Wolf Heidenheim.*
The Basel 1579 Seder Tefillot Mi-kol Ha-shanah (Ashkenaz):
The manuscript of R. Shabtai's siddur:
In 1832, about fifteen years after publication of Heidenheim's edition, a book by R. Issachar Baer appeared, entitled Ma`aseh Rav, containing a description of the practices of the Vilna Gaon. The author mentions that the Gaon's disciples disagreed over the way their teacher used to read the word zekher in Parshat Zakhor. The author attested as follows: "When he would read Parshat Zakhor, he would say zekher, with a segol under the letter zayin. R. Hayyim of Volozhin, however, whose endorsement is on the book, wrote there, `As for his writing that in Parshat Zakhor one should read [z-kh-r] with six dots, I heard from the saintly person [i.e., the Gaon of Vilna] that he read with five dots (=zeikher).' I do not know whether those hearing him were mistaken, and thought they heard segol twice, or whether he changed his practice in his later years."
Here is the text, with the footnote referring to R. Hayyim of Volozhin's testimony:
Here is R. Hayyim's testimony in his approbation at the beginning of this work:
Approximately eighty years later, R. Israel Meir Ha-Cohen, otherwise known as the Hafetz Hayyim, came out with his Mishnah Berurah on the Shulhan Arukh. Since the special reading of Parshat Zakhor is a command from the Torah, and there was some doubt as to the correct reading, he ruled that the words z-kh-r Amalek should be read twice. In his own words, "Some people say it should be read as zeekher Amalek (Deut. 25:19) with a tzere, and others say that it should be read as zekher Amalek with a segol; therefore the correct practice is to read both ways, to satisfy them both" (Mishnah Berurah 685.18). Later, a variety of customs emerged in this regard. Some readers only repeat the two words, z-kh-r Amalek, while others repeat the entire phrase, timhe et z-kh-r Amalek, and still others repeat the entire verse.[3]
Here is the Mishnah Berurah:
As mentioned above, Rabbi Breuer and Dr. Penkower note that the correct pointing of z-kh-r is with a tzere and the custom of double reading is unfounded. This follows from the arguments they cite from the masorah, from the ancient and highly precise Tiberian manuscripts and teachings of the Masoretes.
R. Jedidiah Solomon Norzi, a seventeenth century masoretic scholar, held to be the final arbiter on the text of the Bible,[4] wrote a work entitled Minhat Shai, in which he remarks on inaccuracies that entered all the books of the Bible in the 1547-1548 Venice edition of Mikraot Gedolot and other editions published around then.[5] He says nothing about zekher ,which is pointed with a tzere followed by segol, from which it follows that he agreed with this pointing and had no doubts about it being correct.[6]
Minhat Shai from the first edition (Mantua 1742-4):
The most conclusive proof is found in ancient manuscripts, dating to the time of the masorah, and held to be very precise in their pointing and cantillation marks: the Leningrad manuscript (known as B19),[7] the Sassoon 1053 manuscript and others. All point z-kh-r with a tzere under the zayin.[8]
Leningrad manuscript:
Today we have in our hands a famous ancient manuscript, the Keter Aram-Tzova,[9] the most ancient and best authorized text of the entire Bible. The pointing and masoretic annotation of this manuscript were done in Israel over one thousand years ago by Aharon Ben-Asher, considered the greatest Masorete of all generations. Due to Ben-Asher's precision and reputation, Maimonides chose to base his Hilkhot Sefer Torah on Ben-Asher's work.[10] In the 15th century, at the latest, the Keter manuscript was transferred to Aleppo, Syria, where it was stored in the Sephardic synagogue until the riots against the Jews of Aleppo (Aram Tzova) that broke out in 1948, during which the manuscript was damaged, most the entire Pentateuch being lost, including Parshat Zakhor.
Because the Keter manuscript was so special, the Jews of Aleppo did not allow others to photograph the manuscript or to examine it. Whoever wished to clarify a question of variants in the text had to write down the query and the person in charge would relay the version found in the Keter. The most famous of those addressing queries was R. Jacob Saphir, who submitted over five hundred questions, seeking to find out what variant appeared in the Keter. Fortunately, one of his questions pertained to the pointing of z-kh-r in Parshat Zakhor. The question and response were as follows: "(Deuteronomy) 25:19 z-kh-r h"n [question]. Yes [response]." In other words, is the word z-kh-r pointed in the Keter with five dots [h"n = hamesh nekudot, five dots,i.e., tzere followed by segol]? The answer provided by the keeper of the manuscript, R. Menashe Sitton, was" yes".[11]
The entry in the published version of this manuscript (Rafael Zer Meorot Natan Le-rabbi Ya'akov Saphir, Leshonenu 50:3,4 Nisan-Tamuz 5746):
Dr. Penkower examined the pointing of z-kh-r in dozens of medieval manuscripts and found that in those manuscripts reputed to be more precise (some of the Sephardic ones) it was pointed with a tzere, and in those reputed to be less precise (some of the Sephardic ones and most of the Ashkenazi ones) it was pointed with a segol. These findings led him to note, "If we were to start taking into account the pointing in manuscripts far removed from the precise Tiberian ones, and were to begin reading doubly all instances of variation between them and the precise manuscripts, the Torah reading each week would last an inordinately long time."[12]
All editions of the Bible today point z-kh-r with tzere followed by segol, leaving no vestige of the double segol variant. One cannot but agree with R. Breuer and Dr. Penkower that there is no need for Ashkenazim to read zekher, for zeikher will suffice.
To sum up:
* R. David Kimhi mentions two methods of pointing which he observed in Sephardic manuscripts: zekher and zeikher.
* The disciples of the Vilna Gaon disagreed about how their Rabbi used to read this word in Parshat Zakhor, whether with a tzere or a segol.
* Because of uncertainty as to which was correct, the Mishnah Berurah ruled that z-kh-r Amalek should be read twice, once with tzere and once with segol.
* The findings presented by R. Breuer and Dr. Penkower prove conclusively that the correct and original pointing of this word is zeikher (with a tzere). Therefore, in their opinion, one should return to the ancient practice, and all Jewish communities ought to read the word only once, as zeikher.
[1] M. Breuer, "Mikraot she-yesh lahem hekhre`a," Megadim 10 (1990), pp. 97-112; J. S. Penkower, "Minhag u-Mesorah: 'Z-kh-r Amalek' be-hamesh o be-shes nekudot" (with appendices, in R. Kasher, M. Tzippor and Y. Tzefati, eds., Iyyunei Mikra u-Farshanut, 4, Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 1997, pp. 71-127.
[2] Penkower (loc. cit., p. 80 ff.) discusses at length the differences between manuscript and printed versions of Sefer ha-Shorashim.
[3] On other practices, see Penkower, loc. sit., p. 71, n. 1.
[4] Y. Yevin, Mavo la-Masorah ha-Tverianit, Jerusalem 1976, p. 101 ff.
[5] J. S. Penkower, Ya`akov Ben Hayyim u-Tzmihat Mahadurat ha-Mikraot ha-Gedolot I-II (Dissertation), Jerusalem 1982.
[6] R. Jedidiah Solomon Norzi was preceded by another important masoretic scholar, R. Menahem de Lonzano, author of Or Torah. In his book, he remarks on the same editions of Mikraot Gedolot on the system of vowel pointing and cantillation marks, but also says nothing about z-kh-r being pointed with a tzere followed by segol.
[7] The printed Bible published for the IDF, prepared by Prof. A. Dothan, is based on this manuscript.
[8]For further detail, see R. Breuer's article (cited in n. 1), p. 110, and Penkower's article (cited in n. 2), p. 101.
[9] This manuscript is also known as the Aleppo Keter, or simply the Keter for short.
[10] Several printed Bibles based on the Keter are available today. The most important of these is undoubtedly the Mikraot Gedolot- ha-Keter, redacted and edited by Prof. Menahem Cohen, Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan 1992 and following years. Thus far five volumes have been published, covering the following six books of the Bible: Joshua-Judges (including a general introduction to the edition), Samuel I and II, Kings I and II, Isaiah, and Genesis vol. 1.
[11] The manuscript containing these questions and responsa is known as Meorot Natan. See here.
[12] At the Project on Bible and Masorah at Bar- Ilan University, headed by Prof. M. Cohen, dozens of medieval manuscripts of the Bible were examined, and the findings of these studies reinforce Penkower's conclusions regarding variant pointings in the manuscripts.
* Seforim Blog editor note: the issue is discussed in the En Hakore commentary included by Heidenheim in Humash Meor Einayim, only in the parashah of Amalek in Exodus 17, not in Deuteronomy. En Hakore is a masoretic commentary by R. Yekutiel (or Zalman) Ha-nakdan who lived in Prague in the 13th century. Here is how it appears in Heidenheim's Humash Meor Einayim.
However, it appears to be a misstatement to say that Heidenheim was among those whose work was "redacted according to Radak's remark," for while there is no example of Zekher from Psalms to compare with in his Humash Meor Einayim, Zekher is also pointed with tzere , rather than segol, in the Ashrei prayer included in Humash Moda Le-vina. This would seem to indicate that he did not follow the Radak. He merely published En Hakore, which dealt with the issue raised by Radak.


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storing pearl cotton
Whether you spell it "pearl" or "perle", this cotton thread is nice to work with when embroidering and crafting. It comes in lots of colors and even different weights, so you have plenty of options. Usually I stick with six-strand floss, but from time to time I go for the pearl. The thing is, I might be more inclined to use this thread if it weren't so tangly. Because here's the deal...it can go from skein to snarl in no time!
When you start a skein of pearl cotton, you untwist it, giving you a large loop. Traditional instructions tell you to snip through the whole thing in one spot of the loop, cutting the entire thing into pieces all at once. This would be fine if that's how you want to use it, but what if you want to keep your length options open?
To store mine, I fold the giant loop in half, then tie a loose knot to hold it. But even knotted, it's only a matter of time before it gets messy. And it seems that when you go to use it, as you pull off some thread, the whole thing knots and twists and you have skeins that look like this. (These are courtesy of my sister who borrowed my supplies!)
But then...a eureka moment! While working on projects for this week, I had my supplies out, and found a new storage solution!
Here's what you need:
Pearl cotton
Jumbo craft sticks (tongue depressor size!)
A binder ring
A Crop-a-Dile (My Crop-A-Dile punch remains one of my most favorite tools. It wasn't cheap, but I've used it so much that I've more than gotten my money's worth.)
Use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a 3/16-inch hole in each end of the craft sticks. If you don't have a Crop-A-Dile, you could get someone with a drill press to drill holes in a big stack of craft sticks, or you can skip this step for an alternate version.
Hold one end of the pearl cotton along the center of the craft stick, then start wrapping.
One downside to wrapping on something flat is that you will get kinks in the thread over time. To help stop that from happening, you could wrap some thin batting on the stick first, then wrap the pearl around it. I'm not overly concerned about it though.
When it's all wrapped evenly, tuck the loose end through one of the holes in the craft stick. If you are making yours without holes, secure the end by tucking it under some wrapped threads or using a small piece of tape (washi, anyone?)
Hang all of your wrapped thread on a binder ring and you've got tangle-free pearl cotton that's organized and even travel-friendly! (Not to mention so pretty and delicious, I could eat it all up!
I'm becoming convinced that a huge reason that I love embroidery as much as I do is that it gives me a good reason to look through gorgeous colors and touch them all and move them around and take pretty pictures as I do so. And I'm entirely okay with that! Especially now that I'm not constantly frustrated by this smooth and saturated supply!
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ingenious solution!ReplyDelete
This is a great idea! My perle cotton comes in balls! I think I use it more than six-strand floss because it doesn't tangle since it's a ball and not a skein. It's funny how the storage method and easy of use determines which supply I turn to first!ReplyDelete
Your rolled up thread looks so neat! I usually do something similar, only less great looking. I take a piece of paper, fold it together to make it more sturdy and wrap my thread around. That's how my grandmum used to do it and my mum after her and she showed me how to store my thread when I was a little girl, so that's how I do it to... :)ReplyDelete
Great idea!!! I am embarrassed by how messy my threads are. Thanks for inspiring me to organize them! ;) xo HeatherReplyDelete
This is a fantastic idea - thanks for the detailed pics. I'm sooo with you on the crop-a-dile. Years ago, I was pounding eyelets the old fashioned way when my husband and I were watching an awards show together. He asked when I was going to be done, and I said, well, there's this tool... And before I could even finish, he said, get it! I love both versions!ReplyDelete
This is a really creative idea. Thanks! I will definitely be sharing this on my studio organizing blog soon.ReplyDelete
I love this.ReplyDelete
Makes great swatches in the meantime.ReplyDelete
I have that Crop-a-dial!
Decorative and practical.ReplyDelete
A very neat way to store your threads!ReplyDelete
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Una muy buena idea, pero donde comprais los palitos?ReplyDelete
Gracias por vuestra ayuda
This is something very creative. I really like it. Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
Lovely and creative. Thanks so much! I pinned it on my organization board. ÜReplyDelete
What a great idea. Do any of you have a type of storage container that works well for pearl cotton balls?ReplyDelete
I don't have any perle cotton balls, so I'm not sure I can help you. What about storing them on a dowel rod, like you sometimes see ribbon spools stored? Or maybe something like this (along with regular floss?): http://makezine.com/craft/how-jenny-hart-from-sublime-stitching-organizes-her-embroidery-floss/Delete


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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today gave a major speech that's drawing plenty of political attention about Bloomberg's 2012 prospects, even though he's said he won't run.
The crux of Bloomberg's speech was about curbing partisanship in politics, acknowlegding that pragmatic solutions don't exist solely on the left or the right, and promoting economic innovation.
Even though parts of the speech criticized President Obama and Democrats -- as well as Republicans -- much of it sounded a lot like Obama's famous speeches.
This means one of two things if -- and it's a big if -- Bloomberg makes a third-party bid in 2012: He either runs on the same ground covered by Obama, or he tries to make the case that the president wasn't able to live up to his promises, but that he can deliver them.
Here's Bloomberg today:
Despite what ideologues on the left believe, government cannot tax and spend its way back to prosperity, especially when that spending is driven by pork barrel politics... At the same time, despite what ideologues on the right believe, government should not stand aside and wait for the business cycle to run its natural course.
Obama's inaugural address:
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end... Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched. But this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control.
Bloomberg today:
Both parties follow the mood of the moment – instead of leading from the front. They incite anger instead of addressing it – for their own partisan interests. They tell the world about every real or imagined problem in America – and not what is right with America. Especially in these tough times, we need our leaders to inspire the whole country – not criticize half of it... This can't go on. We've got to pull together, and focus on what's important for America – and then roll up our sleeves and fix the things that need fixing.
Obama announcing his presidential bid in 2009:
What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems.
Bloomberg today:
Throughout American history, innovations combined with government investment have created fundamental and lasting structural changes to the economy that spurred new private sector investment, new jobs, and new prosperity for the country. For instance, after the financial panic of 1819, it was New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton who built the Erie Canal – ushering in a new era of westward development and growth. In the 1860s, with the Civil War tearing the country in two, Lincoln's transcontinental railroad set the stage for America to fulfill its manifest destiny, by opening new markets and allowing private sector innovations – in industries like steel and oil – to drive a new era of national growth.
Obama's inaugural:
The state of our economy calls for action, bold and swift. And we will act, not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We'll restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.


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Skip to comments.Bush Wins, Again (LA Slimes editorial)
Posted on 12/13/2004 2:01:47 AM PST by RWR8189
And you thought you were done with the 2004 election. Today the electoral college formally meets to reelect George W. Bush as president. Barring any last-minute surprises, the vote should be 286 for Bush, 252 for John Kerry.
This ratification will elicit yawns instead of the outrage it did in 2000, when the electoral college went for the loser of the popular vote. But don't think 2000 was such an anomaly. The country barely dodged a bullet this time around. Had 59,388 Ohioans switched from Bush to Kerry, 2004 would have repeated the acidic result of the electoral college winner the next president being the popular-vote loser. This time the travesty would have been even greater, as Kerry would have been sworn in despite receiving 3.3 million fewer votes than Bush, who received 543,895 votes fewer than Gore in 2000.
We have often been highly critical of the Bush administration, but because of his decisive win in the popular vote, we surely are glad that he is the certified Ohio winner. Even die-hard supporters of Kerry should thank their unlucky stars that he lost Ohio, to spare the country such an undemocratic outcome.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Where did these people get their journalism degrees, from a Cracker Jack box?
If only 2,682,160 Kerry voters switched to Bush in 18 states plus the District of Columbia, Bush would have won the electoral college 538-0. This is only about 2.2% of the votes, and fewer votes than Bush received in Ohio alone.
If 50,000 or fewer Kerry voters switched to Bush in each of wisconsin, delaware, hawaii, vermont, maine, oregon and rhode island, Bush would have won 331-207.
If, in addition to that, if 83,000 or fewer Kerry voters switched to Bush in each of Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Michigan, Bush would have won 376-162.
This would have required a mere 455,449 votes.
Exactly. Which is why in all the hubba bubba about OH, you will never hear Jesse Jackson, the DU tinfoil moonbats and their amen corner in the legacy media mention how much larger Bush's margin of victory could have been. And all the attention now lavished on OH would have been a footnote in the history books.
Living in the FL panhandle, there is never any need to recount votes if you are talking about a Republican. Tallahassee is the only bastion of demorats (FSU), the rest of us are military or just plain conservative. The panhandle from Pensacola to Jacksonville is 2/3 Republican.
Speaking of meaninless footnotes, Bush won a higher percentage of the popular vote than any Democrat since 1840, with the exception of LBJ, FDR, and Samuel Tilden. That's right. Samuel Tilden in 1876 got a higher percentage of the popular vote than Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, John F Kennedy, Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, James Buchanan, or Franklin Pierce.
The burning question is, of course, did Samuel Tilden have a mandate?
Had 5,000 voters in NH kept voting for Bush, we don't even need Ohio...
I'm not too familiar with the geography of the area, to be honest.
I just remember reading several stories about how the radical libs weren't able to reconcile themselves to the fact that Bush generated a lot of support among registered Democrats in the state of Florida.
Once again, someone should remind reporters to read the WHOLE Constitution, not just one line in the First Amendment. This is not a democracy and the President is not elected by a direct popular vote. Does Ross Perot own the LAT?
There would have been no travesty - President Bush would NOT have put the country through what algore did.
He would have returned to Crawford quietly, not whined about it.
Nor would he call for abolishing the EC.
Maybe the DUmmies don't realize there are more decent American citizens than they thought.
Yeah. And if my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather.
Yeah, and had I won the lottery, I would not be working today but instead on a monthlong trip to the Alps. And had I been born rich, I would not be stressing out over pennies. And I had I kicked my neighbors butt instead og him kicking mine when I was eight, I would not have had to contend with his bullying till I was eleven. And finally, had I worn boxers yesterday, I would not have skidmarks on the inside of my good pants.
Just felt I should share some of "woulda coulda shoulda" moments from my life ;-)
The LA Times whining. What else is new?
What does FSU have to do with Tallahassee being the "last bastion" in the panhandle. Yes, University professors, are overwhelmingly liberal, but it is the state workers there that make up the bulk of the demorat voting block. You must be a gayter.
Also, we must all work diligently in the coming months to convince progressives that the Democratic Party has let them down. They must abandon the party. Their only recourse is to join and work for the Green Party moving forward. I may even register as a Green Party member to swell their voter registration rolls. Divide and conquer.
Begin with putting all known progressives in your sphere of influence on the Green Party mail list from their website. Great fun. Start inundating them with information now.
LA Times is trying to save the Party from the lunatics demanding recounts.
If Kerry had won the electoral college and not the popular vote, they would suddenly be praising the E.C. after four years being spent undermining it.
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas!
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Flirting, Dating, Etc... Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Flirting, Dating, Etc... Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message leeroyJoined: 30 Jan 2003Posts: 777Location: London UK Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 10:00 am Post subject: Flirting, Dating, Etc... (ahem - with hindsight, I'm getting rid of this) LeeroyLast edited by leeroy on Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:11 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top wOZfromOZJoined: 01 Feb 2003Posts: 272Location: Shanghai Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 11:42 am Post subject: You're a champion ..........you haven't listened have you!! Mate leeroy baby....... You're a champion...............you haven't listened have you!!! You're a f....ing disgrace! what a 'crock of' your students have got for a teacher! ........enough said! wOZfromOZ Back to top dduckJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 422Location: In the middle Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 1:02 pm Post subject: I'd just like to make the observation that leeroy has managed to write in sentences and paragraphs and, it seems to me, he's making a serious point. The only word I can think of to describe wOZfromOZ's comment is: verbage. Iain Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject: thin ice My point is that there are situations such as mine where no professionalism is being compromised by having a relationship outside the class. Naturally, there are common-sense rules which are obeyed. No blatant petting, or "seeing as you're my girlfriend you can go to Upper-Intermediate". Leeroy, In my opinion, you are incorrect. Your professionalism IS compromised by sheer virtue of dating a student. Just because your dates take place outside of the classroom doesn't make it any better. You run the risk of being seen by her classmates and/or your fellow staff. What will they think when they see you two together? Will the classmates act differently in class? Will they remain in class? Will they inform the management? Consider this, too. If you two have any arguments, the emotions WILL be brought back into the classroom. That will be noticed. No matter how you try to hide your relationship in the classroom, it will show. And, God forbid that the two of you should break up, THAT sourness will also show. I've seen it happen. Just because you say you won't advance her to the next level doesn't mean that you won't unconsciously show favoritism in the classroom. Even subtle things that you aren't aware of in passing comments are likely to be noticed. Thin ice. "I suspect though that most of the other contributors here are more experienced and qualified than I. Perhaps if I had a DELTA, MA and 10 years experience (and a job & salary appropiate to this) then I would feel the need to start behaving a little more "professionally". " It doesn't take an advanced degree to realize how to behave professionally. "I don't think there are many things you can generalise about when it comes to English Teaching - rules on dating students is one of them. " There are PLENTY of things to generalize about when it comes to teaching! And, if you are going to break "rules" such as this one on dating, what other rules in life do you break just for the sake of your own pleasure? You admitted that you and a co-worker (dating a student at the time) said that such behavior was "bad". Besides the hypocritical nature of your co-worker, would you like to explain just what made you change that opinion? Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject: I think, leeroy, it is easy enough to justify any behaviour. The most common justification is "someone else is doing it too" another common justification is " we are all adults" and "no one is getting hurt" Being over 18 or 21 doesn't mean you or the person are acting in mature, adult ways. Do you think it is okay for a doctor or psychiatrist to have a relation with their legally consenting patient. They used the same excuses, and then other peole had to try to mend the broken pieces. People get sick of this happening, and then start making laws to stop predators such as yourself. See Oz's post on the other thread. Yes, you are a predator. I know because I know the predator lurking in myself. Give me a couple classes of 15 or 20 students , and we all could find willing victims. Why can't you find a girlfriend outside of class? Maybe because what the student is reacting to is not you as a person, but you as a teacher. This is a quite common phenomnom. And if you take advantage of it, you're scum, plain and simple. But there is lots of scum in the world, and we are all scummy sometimes. I have done my fair share of scummy things, but I won't be so hypocritical as to try and justify these evil deeds. If for some reason you find a person remarkable, and want to have a relationship, you wait until after you are no longer in a teacher/ student relationship to have anything but a plutonic relationship. I'm not judging you as a person, probably you're a better man than I. I have done many wrong things But I ask you think again. If you really like the girl, have her go to a different class. Why not? Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject: Oh, Leroy, I noticed you were worried about YOUR possible embarrrassment. Very telling. What about your student? Do you think her pattern of life is really healthy? Or are you just taking advantage of her shortcomings (many possibilities) Back to top leeroyJoined: 30 Jan 2003Posts: 777Location: London UK Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject: . (this one too)Last edited by leeroy on Sun Oct 12, 2003 10:12 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top Harry SwindellsJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 39Location: Warsaw,Poland Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject: You can not say that it is always wrong to date your students. If you can keep your private life your private life and you are not in a position of power over the student then it can work. The first example that springs to my mind is from a university I used to work at. While I was there one of the other teachers was dating a student. He was 6 months younger than the student. 5 years later they are still together and she is now also teaching at the university. If he had never started to date his student he almost certainly would have left and the university would have lost an excellent teacher that they can not afford to replace. The dating students issue is never black and white. Harry Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:24 am Post subject: Oh Leroy, of course all of us older guys probably have a little jealousy hidden somewhere in our hearts. I wasn't singling you out as "sick" . Like I said, I have the predator in my heart. We all do. Just look at the words used to describe the situation. It is like we are a wolf and we see a flock of sheep, and think about which lamb is the juiciest. It is natural. Many bad things are natural. Either most or many of the people in your situation do not have a good heart when they go after a student. I believe this because I know me , and I have seen to many results of others, listened to them talk. Oh, i also have a good friend who married someone who was his student...good marriage. I would have told him the same. Wait until she is not in your class. Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 2:38 am Post subject: I Agree Completely with the Wiz..... Anybody like Leeroy who is interested in"contemplating a fine p---- of Polish a--" and then POSTS it...is NOT a professional.I agree with the Wiz...such a guy is a disgrace and a sad commentary on some of the "teachers" in this "profession".You are supposed to be in this profession to teach,not"lust"after your students.You have a professional and moral reponsibility to respect your students.If you don't,you have no right to expect their respect and you have no business teaching. Don't tell me"other people do it" as a form of rationalizing such behavior.That does not make it right.I was simply APPALLED by your post....even though I have been in this field for years and have seen a lot... Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 11:56 pm Post subject: Abelard and Heloise The situation of a teacher "crossing the line" of professional and moral behavior is certainly not a new one. Abelard was a famous scholar and philosopher in the Middle Ages.One of his students was Heloise,brilliant and much younger than Abelard.Abelard resided with Heloise and her uncle.One thing led to another,as they say,and Abelard seduced Heloise,his student.The enraged uncle,who had seen his hospitality abused and his niece seduced by a man whom he had trusted implicitly and who was thought to be above reproach, arranged for some of his(the uncle's)cronies to waylay and emasculate Abelard.They really took things seriously back then.And dealt with things seriously.Of course,I am not advocating emascualtion in this day and age(there might be a few people out there who disagree with me,however).It just goes to show you that this is not a new problem. As for teachers who might be "lusting" after their students(in their hearts or any other way)...I say LEAVE YOUR STUDENTS alone!There are plenty of other women (or men,as the case may be) wherever you are. aTry "dating"the traditional ways.Of course,you might have to learn the local language and customs,but that is all to the good, anyway.LEAVE YOUR STUDENTS ALONE,because: 1.It is basically unprofessional to become involved with your students. 2.You have been put in a position of trust.How would YOU feel if YOU had a daughter in some class and found out that the teacher you had placed your trust in was"hitting on " your daughter? 3.Don't s--- where you live(or work) These "affairs"reflect badly on the reputation of the school,your fellow employees,etc. 4.You can become involved legally.There are laws regarding statutory rape in most countries. 5.What is "acceptable" in one culture is not "acceptable" in another culture....so it is best to just LEAVE YOUR STUDENTS ALONE. 6.I know someone is going to post and tell me some fairytale romance of some student who was swept off her feet by a noble teacher.And then they were married and lived happily ever after.Sure,fairytale romances are great....and they do happen.But they are definitely the exception...and when a guy posts, making comments like"a fine p---- of Polish a--"...I do not think he is interested in a longterm relationship or the feelings and future of the other person involved. 7.ADVICE:BE PROFESSIONAL,LEAVE YOUR STUDENTS ALONE! TAKE YOUR LIBIDOS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM! Back to top avahanianJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 123 Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:24 am Post subject: Re: To date or not to date? that is the question... leeroy wrote: Ouch! I am apparently a sick, sexual predator! My point, though, was not "ha ha I'm shagging a student!", it was to illustrate that due to the massive diversity teacher-student relationships that exist in the world, "Don't Date Students" seems a little over-simplistic. Maybe, "Be Very Careful Dating Students" would be a better one, although plenty on this board seem to disagree. Hopefully I've deflected some of the hate away from myself now! Happy Valentines Day Leeroy. What an interesting thread indeed! And certainly an issue that some teachers can relate to. As this discussion is definitely polarised (on one side you have leeroy and on the other side you have bnix), I believe it is always helpful to "step out" of the situation and look at it as an outsider. Leeroy is not a sexual predator by any means, he is a teacher, like many people reading these message boards, and if you had read his posts more carefully you would have realised that he is being completely honest with himself (whether or not you agree with his views). He had courage to bring up such a delicate issue....at the very least, we should respect his opinions even if we don't agree with them. Similarly, bnix is not some sort of pious, strict, and rigid absolutist. He is a good professor with years of experience speaking about an ethical issue that concerns many teachers. The question is, are we to behave as moral absolutists (it is ALWAYS wrong to date a student and should NEVER happen) or as moral relativists (It's OK to date students if they come to you) ? The answer, I believe, is somewhere in between. Whilst I think that a teacher should try, as much as possible, to refrain from having relations with a student.....there's that damned thing called chemistry (no, not the subject you learn about in school). Of course, that's no excuse to run rampant and shag everything in sight. It merely means that no one is perfect, and in some cases you find someone with whom you have an immediate attraction/connection, which is also SINCERE (don't tell me you've never felt this before?) I believe a teacher should make every attempt to wait until the student is no longer a student (ie the student changes classes). This is not difficult to do in private academies as students change classes all the time. But in some cases, you feel a certain connection with that person....if it's something sincere, then I see nothing wrong with seeing what could happen. I hope you understand the distinction.....I am not saying it is acceptable to have relations with many of your students. But that sometimes, if it's a sincere feeling two people share, then they can both be mature about it and keep it outside of the classroom and school and see how things could develop. How about turning 45 and thinking to yourself, "well what if I had done something about her.....I didn't, and I let her walk away!" which one is worse? Jeopardising your "professionalism" or playing it safe and losing an opportunity with someone really special? That is the question..... Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that teachers should date every student that shows an interest.....what I am saying is that in the rare instance that there is something sincere, why not let it develop? Remember, we only regret the things we don't do ! And, there are consequences for our bad actions....we should think things over before doing them ! best wishes Arin Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:01 am Post subject: Arin wrote: "I am not saying it is acceptable to have relations with many of your students. But that sometimes, if it's a sincere feeling two people share, then they can both be mature about it and keep it outside of the classroom and school and see how things could develop. " If he/she is your student, then it is NOT outside the classroom. Arin also wrote: "My point is that there are situations such as mine where no professionalism is being compromised by having a relationship outside the class." Would you please explain how being unable to control your carnal feelings over that "fine piece of a*** from Poland" doesn't compromise professionalism? Lusting is one thing. Acting on it is another, especially when you've just become a hypocrite with your co-worker over the issue. Please, how is this NOT unprofessional? Arin also wrote: "I suspect though that most of the other contributors here are more experienced and qualified than I. Perhaps if I had a DELTA, MA and 10 years experience (and a job & salary appropiate to this) then I would feel the need to start behaving a little more "professionally"." It doesn't take a master's degree, years of experience, or a large salary to behave professionally. Grow up. Back to top DeborahJoined: 14 Feb 2003Posts: 19 Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject: As a woman, I must say I find the comment about Polish women 100% disgusting. Is this really how male teachers look at a class?! Maybe the poster has forgotten that his female counterparts also take part in this forum. I, too, appreciate his ability to write fairly clearly - but the initial impression is very negative. Simply, I would like to suggest that in many/most cases, why wouldn't it be cleaner and more professional to wait until the student is no longer YOUR student before beginning to date? If you're actually attracted to someone, what's the great hardship in waiting three months, or even six if that's what it takes? I suppose if you were at the beginning of a school year and were going to be in the situation for most of the year, it could be an issue, but in many instances this isn't the case. My personal belief is that a need for instant gratification (in relative terms) does not indicate a mature professional in most cases. Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 11:58 am Post subject: What a topic!!!!!!!!!!! Dear ladies and gents, I cannot speak directly about relationship teacher - student, because I am not right person for it, but still I can speak as human being. Well, allow me to say some words about this topic. Mr. Leeroy, due to the code of conduct, your activities are wrong and I do not agree with you. Why, me as student is not fair to date with my teacher just because I can have connections during exams. See, I had one excellent male teacher, my God each girl was looking at him like he was a mystical code for us, and that is why all of us have been attending his classes. Imagine, young girls like Spirs sung Not girl, not yet a woman. So our hormons were circulating like hell, but still in my country it is forbidden to have intercourse with teacher (i do not say that we did not have and not havingit) legally it is, ohh breaching the code of conduct. Mr. Leeroy is for a sure the one who cross the line just for a inch. Question is do we wish sometimes to break the rules, just because rules were made to be broken. OK, now I can say that we cannot control our hearts, emotions. What is that? Since ancient time we have love songs, Romeo and Juliet, heartbreakers, etc. All this is acctually expression of strong, very strong emotions, which we cannot control, that is why great writers called this stage with one single name LOVE. Maybe, all of you know the story about the priest Valentain from Italy, who was executed because he was marrying soldiers and their darlings. Or I can mention that there was a famous person, VIP, who broke the rule because of woman. Anyway, he did it because he wanted and she wanted as well. He was on the gossip line of all world, so what happened Nothing. I cannot say that Leeroy is doing wrong thing but as well I cannot justify it. Only person who could suffer the consequences is him none else and maybe girl. I can only say that woman is guilty if woman is not dancing in front of man, of course he will not react. Now you can imagine what is the story, I blame girl not teacher, specially handsome one. I am woman and I know that as all of you know it. If he is in relation with her probably he wants to be with her. We do not have right to say anything. I know all of you are looking this small story from a point of professionalisam, like what will happen if all teachers are doing the same. I can give you answer it will be like all students will have a bit strange education. So what, young kids, now know more than we knew when we were young, pretty and good looking. So, Mr. Leeroy I do not agree or disagree with you, do whatever you want to do but remember one thing, the secrets are more sweeter when you are hiding them. But OK this is our little public secret. Take care, and try to avoid to get small human attachments till you are not ready for it. Enjoy your time and have a fun. But for others, relax, I have been drinking with my teachers too, OK remark there were no intercourses, but I can tell you they were not so kind with us during the classes, even I had problems with one teacher. I am just trying to say private life is private life, job is job. That is only good thing and believe me I had the best teachers. Even now I would like to go to school just because of them, just to listen their lectures and way of lecturing. I am talking about school not after the school time. I do respect all of you, maybe there are teachers like my teachers, great, funny and at the same time strict, but still do not judge Mr. Leeroy, he is not guilty because he is a man and plus energetic, if he will suffer let him suffer. With or without your advices he will do it. Trust me that is in our blood to do against all people and regulations specially if are against certain person. Till next contact stay well, have good time, lots of love and happiness. 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Staten Island, NY – The recent case of a Georgia woman who pressured her teenage son's girlfriend into having an abortion illustrates that the procedures are often not chosen, but coerced, say leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world's largest network of individuals harmed by abortion.
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$150M tech investment could pull Detroit cops out of dark ages
At the Detroit Police Department, the city would spend $38 million on tech improvements, including what it calls a "fully integrated public safety IT system"
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DETROIT — The Detroit city government that emergency manager Kevyn Orr envisions over the next decade will be a far more advanced operation, no longer limping along with outdated computers and obsolete technology that undercuts everything from accurate tax collection to real-time analysis of crime trends.
With some tax information still kept on 3-by-5 index cards and police officers still handwriting reports on paper, it won't be cheap to bring the city into today's high-tech world.
The City of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 protection in July, citing debts and long-term obligations of about $18 billion. On Friday, Orr filed a plan of adjustment in bankruptcy court outlining major improvements to city services and how the city plans to chip away at billions of dollars in debt.
Under the city's proposal to emerge from bankruptcy, Detroit would spend nearly $150 million during the next 10 years to make up for decades of a lack of investment in technology.
City restructuring consultant Charles Moore, who took a deep look at the city's information technology troubles, said Detroit's not alone among big cities that neglected technology investments.
"But you'd be hard-pressed to find another municipality of Detroit's size that operates with these sorts of archaic processes and systems," said Moore, a turnaround specialist with the Conway MacKenzie firm in Birmingham.
The city's restructuring plan calls for information technology investments large and small, from digitizing filings at Detroit's 36th District Court and making it a paperless process to using a new electronic case management system for the city's Law Department.
But such investments will be most crucial in perhaps two areas.
Upgrades For Police
At the Detroit Police Department, the city would spend $38 million on tech improvements, including what it calls a "fully integrated public safety IT system" that would wrap in the city's Fire Department and EMS.
Moore said this is crucial for police officers, who spend far too much time manually completing paperwork that should be automated. With more up-to-date equipment, the data from those electronic reports can be used in real-time crime-tracking systems that can be shared among precincts for more accurate, timely responses.
"If you think about the amount of time a police officer has to manually put in information, all of that takes away from the amount of time the officer can spend on fighting crime," Moore said.
In January, the Police Department called for sweeping changes within the department, including rectifying outdated technologies. Its report noted that of 1,150 computers in use, about 300 were less than 3 years old, with the remainder outdated and in need of replacement. Beyond that, the department also called for a case management system that would allow police to provide regular updates on investigations, improved evidence tracking and better records management.
Help For Record-keeping
In the city's Finance Department, Detroit would spend more than $80 million on new computer systems to better track taxes and on other improvements.
The Free Press reported in December 2012 that there were serious questions about the validity of a list of 600 potential tax deadbeats that hadn't paid $17.7 million in city income taxes not withheld from workers' paychecks and an additional $6 million in unpaid city business income taxes in 2000-09.
The newspaper contacted a dozen of the major companies — from DTE Energy to suburban law firms and Detroit-based doctor's offices — and all vigorously disputed owing back taxes in any form. City officials at the time conceded they couldn't vouch for the accuracy of the list because the city lacked resources and manpower to verify it definitively.
Former Mayor Dave Bing acknowledged at the time that the troubles with city record-keeping had been building for years as Detroit failed to invest in computers and software that other cities and states consider basic.
But Moore said it's more than simply a matter of the city running more efficiently. He said the city's plan of adjustment also proposes a payoff for investment in information technology in the form of $477 million in new revenue initiatives over the next decade.
"That's almost $50 million a year in added revenue, and a big enabler in that is these technology investments," Moore said. "This is not coming from people moving into the city or other macroeconomic trends. This is better collection practices, improved pricing for fees, permits and licenses, and all of this is enabled by improved technology."
Earlier this month, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan hired information technology expert Beth Niblock as the city's new chief information officer. She held the same job in Louisville, Ky.
Niblock already has looked at the technology issues facing Detroit, having served on a team that the Obama administration assembled to offer help for Detroit after it filed for bankruptcy last summer. Duggan's office said Friday that the White House team is scheduled to present its findings soon, although it wasn't clear exactly when its report would be released.
"There's a lot of opportunity," Niblock told the Free Press on Friday. "They are behind. And it's been tough because folks are sometimes reluctant to do IT investment when you have other pressing needs. But I think we're in the position now that we'll be able to jump forward a couple of generations of technology."
Niblock, as the city's IT chief, will play a major role in the transformation of Detroit's computers and technology. She said residents ultimately will find a more responsive city government, in which resources are easy to find online, with an open-data policy that promotes financial transparency.
That could include online databases of all city expenditures above a certain level — say, $50,000 — so residents can track how the city is spending tax dollars. It also could include an online database of all city employees and their salaries, information not readily shared now by City Hall.
Niblock said those were the kinds of priorities she helped bring about in Louisville, but with her job in Detroit just starting, she could speak only in generalities about the kinds of benefits residents will see from major reinvestment in Detroit's basic technologies.
Niblock spoke of online systems for tracking performance of city departments, ranging from whether, for example, public works employees are filling potholes in a timely fashion to whether police and firefighters are meeting goals for responding quickly to crises.
The bottom line, Niblock said: "It's your tax dollars at work."
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This special lecture will focus on an extraordinary non-government effort to help women in the troubled North-West Frontier province of Pakistan.
Education plays a pivotal role in developing human capital in any society. Although education has become a universal human right and is recognized as such in the Constitution of Pakistan, serious gender discrepancies exist in that country's education sector. According to the 2011 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program, about twice as many males as females receive a secondary education in Pakistan. UN indexes also show Pakistan among the lowest ranking countries in terms of women's education and empowerment.
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Angelika Weller a native of Germany, is a long-time supporter of womens' education and a patron of the Zareef Khan Foundation. She is supporting creation of a new education and sport complex for women in KP province. Fluent in five languages, Ms. Weller, who has homes in Canada and Italy and close friends in Vermont, will discuss the challenges of helping to educate and empower Pakistani women in a violent area on the border with Afghanistan.
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I'm just going to come out and say it. Tobey Maguire is a creepy little man child. He weirds me out and I haven't slept well since I knew he existed. And now he's been added to the cast of the big screen adaptation of "Z for Zachariah". The film tells the story of a girl who runs the only farm left on the planet with breathable air after the world ends. Well I mean I guess it doesn't end. She's alive. People come and meet her. This doesn't sound so bad after all.
Everyone's favorite.... I don't really know, Lara Jean Chorostecki has been added ot the cast of the upcoming NBC show "Hannibal". She'll play Freddy Lounds in the series I've explained too many times to count so I'm not going to bother doing it again. I've still only seen "Silence Of the Lambs" so I have no clue what all this means.
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Moon's Gem 3.0 is intended as a get you home safely back up rear light or the sort of thing you might take along to the summer race meet. Light, discrete and boasting cutting edge design, but most importantly of all delivering as a reliable and very convenient extra light attached to luggage and clothing. However, impressive as the seven to eight lumens are, the tiny pronounced LEDS don't have the same presence as a bigger light, which can prove crucial negotiating junctions in unlit areas.
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Charge times have proved pretty accurate ranging from three hours fifty minutes and seven hours thirty in high and flashing modes respectively. Powering up, the little diodes are surprisingly bright (you certainly wouldn't gaze straight into their glare) proving most useful in strobe and flash settings, although they had a tendency to become lost in the clutter of neon shop fascias and other light pollution on busy high streets. Friends suggest we registered on their radar from around two hundred metres on a dry, clear night and the 180degree projection is adequate as opposed to astounding.
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Make and model: Moon Gem 3.0 LED rear light
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"With night riding &
racing more popular
than ever, it's important
to have a set of small,
compact and
lightweight lights that
offer high performance
output for year round
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
3 Ultra bright red LED's
7-8 Lumen output
24-26 LUX at 1m (180 degrees)
4 modes:
High Beam
Low Beam
Charge & battery indicator
Auto charge cut off
Optical lens
Side visibility
USB direct recharge
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Moon's Gem 3.0 works very well as a chic, minimalist get-you home light or as a complement to existing lighting when attached to jackets, jerseys or luggage. The light is very bright but not particularly powerful and inclined to become lost in the excitement of the town centre. Similarly,other traffic drew very close along country lanes before acknowledging our presence. The Gem 3.0 will certainly get you home in emergency but wouldn't be my mainstay.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Good output, easy charging.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
LEDs could've been bigger.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Possibly
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Generally, yes
About the tester
Age: 36 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
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Rumored couple Sean Penn and Scarlett Johannson go for a jog on Sunday (April 10) in Malibu, Calif.
The 26-year-old-actress and 50-year-old actor got in a workout with Owen Wilson trailing closely behind.
Back in February, Scarlett and Sean were spotted grabbing a Cuban meal at Versailles after a romantic getaway to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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We know the limitations of passwords: They are difficult to scale, and managing truly secure passwords is a headache for administrators and end users. We also know that although there are alternate technologies for online authentication, passwords probably are here to stay.
"Passwords are not going to disappear overnight, or in the next 10 years or 20 years," said Lujo Bauer, assistant research professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
So how to make the best of what we are stuck with? One tool increasingly common on public- and private-sector websites are strength meters, an alternative to stringent password policies intended to nudge users toward better security by providing feedback when creating passwords. As a user creates a password, it provides feedback, such as whether the password is "weak," "good" or "strong."
But a study of these tools at Carnegie Mellon suggests that you can only push users so far before you hit the point of diminishing returns.
Using the meters resulted in longer, sometimes better, passwords. But, "there seems to be a limit to the stringency that a user will tolerate," researchers found. "Were meters too stringent, users might just give up."
Percentage of passwords broken after 5 trillion guesses
Source: How Does Your Password Measure Up? The Effect of Strength Meters on Password Creation
The findings are significant not because they are unexpected — they're not — but because this apparently is the first large-scale study of a technology that is widely used but not well understood.
Bauer and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon conducted the study with 2,931 subjects who created passwords on sites using one of 14 types of meters with different displays and criteria for determining strength. The only requirement was that the password be at least eight characters long. Strength was evaluated using a simulated password-guessing algorithm and the participants returned to the test site two days later to see how well they remembered their passwords.
All of the strength meters resulted in users creating longer, more complex passwords than those created on sites with no meter. But length does not equal strength. Only users at sites using two very stringent meters produced passwords that were significantly more difficult to break.
However, security reached a plateau on the site with the most stringent meter, which gave users very low scores — grading at a rate of one-third of other meters — and required more complexity to get a strong security rating. Apparently the higher requirements frustrated users who gave up trying to please the meter.
Interestingly, the ability to remember a password two days later did not vary significantly according to its strength.
The lesson: Don't push users too far; take the annoyance factor into account when having users create new passwords.
Bauer, who studies access control systems, had some other practical recommendations for making the most of passwords:
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So, the only way t' protect y'r data - aside from not puttin' it on the net in the first place - still seems t' be t' be so boring that nobody cares about y'r junk anyway. Nothin' difficult about that.
"Where is the study of how deeply these attempts at fortifying security on the backs of legitimate users impedes productivity and efficiency?" Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!
I am a local administrator in a small police department and between all of the software programs that require individual log-ins, I waste a considerable amount of time resetting them for our personnel. As I type this, I am staring at three of four sticky notes on my monitor which have a total of six passwords and sites written on them. The ones that bother me the most are the mandatory changing of passwords within a very short amount of time.
Where is the study of how deeply these attempts at fortifying security on the backs of legitimate users impedes productivity and efficiency?
Despite HSPD-12's requirement for a single card credential to prove identity, when looking at the Federal sites, eOPF, FedTraveler, and Agency-specific ones ALL have different requirements adding to Jeff's point about the growing edifices of sticky notes.
Yay for the xkcd comic! I was going to post that but Chip beat me to it.
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The Next Big Net Debate: Liability Of Service Providers And Anonymous Commenters
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The law is protecting a service provider from being liable for the content that someone else puts on their service -- which makes sense. The service providers are simply providing the platform, not the editorial control. The person who should be liable isn't the service provider, but the person who actually posted the content. Nowhere in the NY Times piece does it note this. There's no indication that the reporter even looked into whether or not those who are upset by these postings even tried to go after those who actually did the posting. Oddly, it appears that one politician in New Jersey may have understood this issue... but then came up with an absolutely ridiculous response. A New Jersey Assemblyman has proposed new legislation that would require any online service provider to record and store identification information for anyone who posts information on their site. In other words, if this became law, sites like Techdirt would be required to get everyone who commented here to provide legal identification information, including name and address -- and (even better!) we'd be legally required to hand it over should any request come in related to a lawsuit (even civil cases). So, in this case, the politician actually seems understands the real issue: it's the people posting the content who should be liable. However, he goes to a ridiculous extreme, showing that as much as he understands the issue, he doesn't seem to understand how the internet actually works or what the impact would be of such legislation. The point of the misguided legislation is to counter the typical response that it's "too difficult" to figure out who the people are who post content online. Unfortunately, it seems like the choices right now seem to be to sue the "easy to identify party" rather than the actually responsible party or to force everyone to give up anonymity to make it easier to track down a few lawbreakers. It sounds like we'll be seeing many more discussions on this issue in the near future.


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