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Inspector Gadget: Talking justice with Hague
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean no one's watching you. That silly adage seems strangely apt along the bumpy gravel road that leads to the heavily wooded camp-like headquarters of Old Dominion Investigations, a private investigations firm located off Old Lynchburg Road extended. Cameras of various shapes and sizes peer down from several buildings and trees, and it seems likely there are more that can't be seen.
This watchfulness is par for the course for Old Dominion's founder, 58-year-old Harvey Hague. Hague spent years as an investor and owner of the now-defunct Sound Machine electronics store on Barracks Road before turning to his true passion, high tech investigation, in the early 1990s.
The switch made financial sense, Hague says.
"In business, you have a good or bad year– it's feast or famine," he says, "but crime flourishes no matter the state of the economy."
After taking several police science courses, "I found I was a natural for investigations," explains Hague, who now holds the required P.I. state license and guest lectures in P.I. courses at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
"He has a background in banking, finance, business, and he's very detailed and thorough. That makes him an excellent investigator," says Gene Rhodenizer, a retired Charlottesville police captain who taught private investigations at PVCC for 22 years and was Hague's instructor.
Rhodenizer remains proud of his star pupil.
"He probably has the best P.I. organization I've ever seen," he says, "and I've seen a lot of them."
Hague says his own educational background he was a psychology major in college comes in handy for his P.I. work, as does his experience with high-tech devices. And Hague has plenty of those.
A large building across the driveway from his one-story office holds an array of satellites, tiny cameras, GPS devices, and computer monitors. From this remote monitoring center, Hague and his team of 16 investigators and two techies download computer files, listen to phone calls, and even take live streaming video of their targets.
While the high-tech room is impressive, it's nothing compared to the Gray Ghost, Hague's new 25-foot mobile camper with expandable sides. Once parked, the Gray Ghost can open to the size of a small apartment– with a full bath, a queen-sized bed, and a living room that, like his home base, is equipped with a MacGyver-esque array of technology.
Hague says information gathering can be tricky in order to tap a phone or computer, he says, he must have permission from someone with legal access to the home, building, or computer he'll be monitoring.
Though he prefers to investigate white-collar crime, he admits the majority of his cases are "domestic," and involve a cheating spouse.
"It's not always fun and games," he says. "I don't like sitting in bushes, waiting for someone to come out of a room."
But while philanderers may provide Hague's bread and butter, he says he has a dream assignment: uncovering elder abuse.
"I'd love to get into a nursing home," he says. "I love bringing bad guys down."
Hague's mobile unit, dubbed the Gray Ghost, allows him to conduct investigations across the state.


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Lecker: Tax dollars spent to mislead parents about Common Core
Who can forget Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's repugnant words, "I'll settle for teaching to the test if it means raising test scores?"
When it comes to their children, parents do not want to settle. They know that teaching to the test means a narrowed curriculum and mind-numbing test prep. Unlike the governor, parents and teachers understand that children need and deserve a well-rounded and engaging education.
A recent study out of MIT renders Malloy's statement even more odious. Researchers found that an increase in standardized test scores does not increase a child's cognitive skills: specifically her ability to analyze abstract problems and think logically. This study confirms earlier research showing that standardized tests essentially measure merely how good a test-taker a student is.
Governor Malloy's statement and resulting policies undermine the goal of developing citizens capable of flourishing our complex world.
The MIT findings also shed important light on the dangers associated with our state's rush to implement the controversial Common Core State Standards. Proponents of the Common Core swear that this new regime will teach our children to think deeply and critically. In fact, it was just revealed that Malloy's Education Commissioner plans to spend up to 1 million taxpayer dollars on a public relations firm to sell this idea to the public. The plan is to create a multi-media campaign to try to convince the public that the Common Core is worthwhile.
However, the focus of the Common Core is new and even more onerous standardized testing. The tests are longer, contain more multiple choice questions and have computer-scored essays that cannot assess anything but rudimentary writing skills. MIT's study proves that a regime, such as the Common Core, whose goal is increased scores on standardized tests, will not develop critical thinking, no matter what its high-priced salesmen claim.
It is no wonder, then, that parents across the country are rising up to resist the rollout of the Common Core tests. There has been an explosion in the opt-out movement, from New York, to Oklahoma to Chicago to Oregon. Protesting parents are meeting with some impressive success. For example, after 80 percent of parents at one elementary school in Washington Heights in New York City, boycotted new state testing of young elementary school students, the school canceled the tests altogether.
Now that Common Core testing has come to Connecticut, officials around the state are reporting that parents here are seeking to opt out of state tests. They are preparing for the possible tidal wave of parents who will refuse to subject their children to invalid, overly long and meaningless tests.
State and local officials also know that while Connecticut law provides that students "shall" take state tests, there is no sanction for parents who refuse to have their children take the tests. Rather than honestly inform parents of this fact, the State Department of Education has a detailed plan of action for how to frighten those parents who might want to opt their children out of testing into submission.
If a parent seeks to opt his child out, SDE suggests that administrators inform him that the district has no freedom in the matter. State officials are instructed to tell parents who contact them that there is no opt-out language in the law. If a parent persists, the district is advised to present him with an intimidating legal-looking, but meaningless, "letter of intent" to sign.
Should a parent make it past the bullying gauntlet outlined above, he will find out what SDE knew all along. SDE's instruction provides that if, after all these steps, a parent still refuses, then "the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as `absent' (for purposes of testing), which negatively impacts the participation rate for the district."
In other words, there are no negative consequences to a parent or child who opts out of state tests.
When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.
Governor Malloy, Commissioner Stefan Pryor and Connecticut's legislators need to understand that Connecticut's parents, like those in New York and elsewhere, will not stand for this unprecedented assault on our local schools and the children they are dedicated to serve.
Wendy Lecker is a columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group and is senior attorney for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity project at the Education Law Center.

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Exclusive: Mozilla CEO John Lilly to Step Down and Head to Greylock (Plus Departure Email!)
John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up.
[UPDATE: Lilly confirmed the move in an email to Mozilla employees, which you can read below in its entirety.]
Lilly (pictured here) is moving to Greylock Partners as a venture partner, sources added, although the affable entrepreneur could eventually end up doing a start-up.
In a post on his personal blog about the change, Lilly said:
"Venture investing is what I've wanted to do for quite a long time–I've been involved in many startups, even building an incubator a decade ago, and have interests that span enterprise, open source, and the broader web, among others. I'm incredibly excited to join an amazing team there, and the firm that I've noted to be incredibly strongly oriented towards entrepreneurs–it really matches my sensibilities as an operator quite well."
Lilly became CEO of Mozilla in early 2008, after serving as its COO. He took over from Mitchell Baker, who remained the company's chairman.
A search is on to find Lilly's replacement in what will be gradual transition that will last many months. Lilly will stay involved at Mozilla and continue to serve on its board of directors.
While Mozilla makes a number of products, it is best known for its Firefox browser, whose share has steadily increased since it debuted in late 2004.
According to a recent survey, Firefox had a 24.6 percent share, well up from its 11 percent share in 2006.
Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer still holds the lead place in software to navigate the Web with a share that just dipped below 60 percent. The Chrome browser from Google (GOOG) is in a distant third place.
Mozilla just announced that it will ship a beta of Firefox 4 next month, with a finished version coming out in November. The new version is slated to have a slicker interface and speed improvements.
By dislodging Internet Explorer from its dominant market position, Firefox has proved not only that open-source projects can provide better software but that it's possible for a particularly well done one to become an everyday consumer application.
Despite its success, Mozilla still has to keep up its innovation and technical prowess. But given its unusual status as both a profit and nonprofit, it is hindered in that it is not likely to go public and shower its Silicon Valley employees with giant gobs of overhyped stock.
Here's Lilly's email to Mozilla staff (he also has a post on his own Web site):
As my five year anniversary at Mozilla approaches, I've decided that it's time for me to move on to my next role sometime later this year. This won't happen today or tomorrow–I expect to be here and working for several months yet, and I'm planning to stay on the Board of Directors.
This is a tough note for me to write–I feel so incredibly lucky and humbled to have worked on such an amazing project, with such spectacular people, for the last few years.
But I've always been a startup guy at heart–Mozilla was originally going to be a quick volunteer effort for me, but quickly turned into a full time job, and at the beginning of 2008 turned into the CEO job that I have now. I've really been missing working with startups, and want to learn how to invest in and build great new startups, so am planning to join Greylock Partners as a Venture Partner once we transition here.
I'm in no rush, and the most important thing to me is to build the strongest Mozilla we can, with the best leadership possible. So my plan is to stay through that transition–we're starting a CEO search now, and plan to do it in as transparent a way as possible–which means I'll continue in my CEO role as normal for several more months, at least.
I'll have more to say on the transition as we figure things out more clearly, but for now, business as usual. We've got Firefox 4 to ship, and Firefox on multiple mobile platforms. We've got our web services like Weave to stand up and make available to millions of users.
For now, though, I really want to communicate a deep gratitude to each of you–over the past few years we've done an amazing amount together, and changed the world in so many meaningful ways. 400 million users are directly touched every day by the work we've done so far, and many, many more are using better browsers because of our work. There are many more contributions and victories to come.
Lilly appeared onstage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference last year, with Baker.
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Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly attacks Jenny McCarthy
Autism activist and vaccine opponent, Jenny McCarthy, is doing a 180 on her views on vaccines.
McCarthy claims she's pro-vaccine, but she's cited them, specifically the toxins that some of them contain, as the cause of her son's own autism.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly and contributor Dana Loesch were shocked by McCarthy's sudden change and spoke passionately about the effect her original preachings as well as her stance reversal is having.
'If you're not against vaccinations you don't say things like, well, if we're going to stay in line for autism or measles we'll stay in line for measles because you're presupposing that all vaccinations are triggering autism which - you know, you're entitled to our own opinion but not your own set of facts! Science is disputing this. So this is a really serious issue and, Megyn, I know you have little ones. I have kids as well I don't want to be looked as a bad mother if there's junk science that comes out one day to the next about vaccinations. All I know, is that when I have a question about vaccination schedules I'll go to my pediatrician who has studied this!"
Kelly also noted that most of McCarthy's opposition is to the toxins in vaccines, but pointed out that McCarthy doesn't have a problem with some other toxins, like Botox and e-cigarettes.
'This is the same woman promoting e-cigarettes. You're inhaling nicotine into your body, if you want to talk about toxins! She's a big supporter of getting botox. Those are one of the most deadliest things you can inject in your body. She's for those toxins so I'm not sure where she draws the line on that. You're right. she has a position of influence and it is wrong,' Loesch says.
Kelly says McCarthy is only making pediatricians' jobs harder. 'She has such a high-profile,' Kelly said. 'She raised a lot of people's fears about this!'


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The plans for Grand Texas appear to be taking shape, with new renderings showing an elaborate and Texas history-themed amusement and water park on the more than 600 acres of piney woods in East Montgomery County.
The project's leaders, who closed on the land this summer, have previously said the new park could fill the void that AstroWorld left behind.
The first phase of construction, which includes building infrastructure and clearing land, will start early next year. The original plans for this project included the Grand Texas theme park and Big Rivers Water Park.
At a press conference Wednesday, the project leaders announced that the newly named "Grand Texas Sports and Entertainment District" will include an amphitheater, a "Downtown Texas" area with space for hotels and retail, an RV park, baseball fields and sports complex. These ventures will be financed by developers independent of the theme park's investment group.
Developers declined to disclose the price of the venture, but said they received no upfront money from the East Montgomery County Improvement District.
Big Rivers Water Park is slated to open in April 2015 and the Grand Texas Theme Park should be ready by December 2015.


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Palm announced in their quarterly call that it had found an unnamed carrier to sell their new Treo Pro, but declined to mention who, specifically, would peddle the $US550 phone (at a potentially subsidised cost). WM Experts seem to think the carrier will be AT&T, which makes enough sense, since AT&T tends to get the big Palm GSM phones first in the US.
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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, NASCAR, the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
It couldn't have been a better summer in 2001. At least it was for a local sports editor seeking sports news for a reading public that rejoiced over such information.
Heather Aldama was playing pro soccer for the Boston Breakers.
Landon Donovan was up in San Jose, playing for the Earthquakes.
Donovan, for his part, would eventually become arguably Team USA's greatest player.
Aldama had been a stud scorer at Redlands High just as Landon was arriving at Redlands High in 1995-1996. The Lady Terriers, built around Aldama's goal-scoring and goal-producing passes, won four league championships.
In one season alone, she racked up a phenomenal 38 goals and 22 assists.
Over four seasons at Redlands, Aldama was All-CIF Southern Section each year. Her Lady Terrier teams reached the CIF quarterfinals twice and the semifinals once. The play was usually in the top tier of Division 1.
She was surrounded by terrific talent, plus coach Rolando Uribe who had been a scoring phenom for RHS' boys side a few years earlier.
Part of a Southern California Blues side that won a state Under-19 title is, most likely, what landed Aldama in the collegiate spotlight; and, evetually, the pros.
That summer of 2001 was great for a small-town daily sports editor.
The way it works on a small daily is simple. You're obligated to produce as much local copy as possible.
That routine wasn't necessarily so simple.
Due to shrinking budgets, the Associated Press wire services were all but unavailable to produce a sports section. Local copy was becoming even more mandatory.
During summer months at a small local daily newspaper, it's tough to crank out local copy, particularly because schools are shut down between June and September.
You'd have to make up for it with all-star baseball, country club golf results, bowling scores from the local House, maybe some Junior Olympic swimming results courtesy of Redlands Swim Team, while we followed the exploits of that year's Redlands Bicycle Classic entries throughout their summer seasons.
But when that pair of soccer-playing, midfield scorers put on their professional uniforms, they attracted plenty of attention.
That summer, though, was great. For me. For readers. You rarely read much in the county or regional newspapers about either player. Each time Aldama, or even Donovan, took the field for their respective sides, it was an opportunity for local coverage.
It almost defied the odds when AP would staff many of those matches with a photographer. A handful of photos from their matches would come across the wire on game nights. Both players, Aldama and Donovan, showed up in photos on local sports pages in their hometowns.
In a way, it almost defied the odds. At any point on a soccer pitch, there are 22 players. One photographer. It seemed like every match included a shot of the Redlanders. It's not hard to really imagine. Aldama and Donovan were playmakers. Photographers like action. Their lenses are usually aimed toward those making plays.
Photos filled at least one-third of the page.
It's one way to fill a local sports section.
Unlike Donovan, who skipped college to play the European pro leagues at age 16, Aldama chose NCAA powerhouse Santa Clara University as her collegiate stop. Four seasons of Varsity play as a Lady Terrier attacker, plus her club-playing roots, had left her as a prime target for most of the top colleges.
There were some highlights for the Lady Bronco.
As a freshman in 1997, Aldama nailed a game-winning goal against West Coast Conference rival Loyola-Marymount.
She played against No. 3 Florida in the 1998 NCAA semifinals, against No. 19 Brigham Young University, playing in virtually every big Santa Clara match during her 1997-2000 collegiate career.
Aldama netted a 16-yarder against third-ranked Nebraska in a 2-1 win over the Lady Huskers on Sept. 19, 1999.
In an NCAA playoff match against UCLA that same season, she scored in the 23rd minute, assisting on another goal in a crucial win.
Against Connecticut in the NCAA quarterfinals one match later, Aldama assisted on a pair of Aly Wagner goals, helping produce a 3-0 triumph.
In other words, Aldama always seemed to find herself in the mix – scoring, setting up goals and other plays, streaking downfield to work her way open.
Once college was over, though, what next?
Aldama was part of a replacement Team USA side at a Jan. 13, 2000 match in Adelaide, Australia. In an event called the Australia Cup, Aldama surfaced as a substitute in the championship match, 3-1, over the Matildas.
Team USA's main side had boycotted the match.
Sherrill Kester, Danielle Slaton and Wagner, Aldama's college teammate, scored in front of 3,500 at Hindmarsch Stadium.
Playing against a more experienced Matildas' squad, the U.S. held a 20-6 shots advantage, plus a 10-5 edge in corner kicks. It was in the 82nd minute that Aldama fed Wagner for Team USA's final goal.
Mandy Clemens was part of the team, plus Jenn Mascaro (Streiffer), Michelle French and Veronica Zepeda with Lakeyshia Beene in goal.
Team USA, 2-0-1 in the four-nation tournament, had the same record as Sweden (playing to a 0-0 draw), winning on goal differential, holding a plus-nine to Sweden's plus-four. The Czech Republic and host Australia made up the remaining tournament qualifiers.
It was that 8-1 win over the Czech Republic that did it for Team USA.
Considering that Sydney, Australia would be the host of that year's 2000 Olympics, it had to occur that Aldama could see action when the Summer Games started.
Team USA's co-coach Lauren Gregg noted the team's approach.
She told Associated Press that Team USA achieved its objectives.
"First, we won by playing some exciting, attacking soccer.
"Second, these players invested in their development every minute they were on the field and took every advantage of this opportunity.
"Finally," she said, "these games gave us a chance to evaluate our young personalities against much more experienced players, which gives us extremely valuable information as we go forward toward the Olympics."
Team USA, Olympic gold medalists in 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012, took silver in the 2000 Sydney Games. That team was largely built around the same group of historic women that won World Cup in Pasadena a couple years earlier.
China and Team USA played to a 1-1 draw, but the American women made it to the championship match, won by Sweden, 3-1.
Aldama was not part of the side.
While USA's women were forming a global powerhouse at the international stage, Aldama was on the bubble to crack onto a formidable national team that included the likes of Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers, Carla Overbeck, Kristine Lilly, Brandi Chastain, Cindy Parlow, Tiffeny Milbrett, Clemens, Tisha Venturini, Joy Fawcett, Shannon MacMillan, Julie Foudy and goalkeeper Brianna Scurry, among other well-known American players.
In its most famous triumph in 1999 came in a 5-4 shootout win over China after a 0-0 draw through extended time. Chastain's famous goal-winning shot was celebrated, dropping to her knees, whipping off her jersey and photographed in her sports bra.
That match was played at the Rose Bowl in front of nearly a packed house while shown on live international TV.
It had to affect an up-and-coming player like Aldama, who was still playing at Santa Clara – Chastain's collegiate stop, incidentally.
The U.S., who knocked off North Korea, Nigeria and Denmark in pool play, had beaten Germany, Brazil and China, all world soccer powers. By contrast, Team USA's men had never been able to produce a winning equation during international play.
Aldama had a few national team appearances. The timing of her departure from Santa Clara, however, was met with the formation of a new pro women's soccer league.
In 2001, the Women's United Soccer Association, or WUSA, was created. One of the founding eight teams was the Boston Breakers. The league lasted three seasons.
Aldama was part of a side that included Lilly, plus Kate Sobrero and Tracy Ducar. International players came over from Germany, Maren Meinhart and Bettina Wiegmann, plus Norway's Dagny Mellgren and Ragnhild Gulbrandsen.
Aldama showed up in Boston, courtesy of being the 28th player selected in the 2001 draft, a fourth-round pick by the Breakers. They played her on defense.
It was tough beginnings for Boston, which played to an 8-10-3 mark in its inaugural season, following that up with a 6-8-7 mark in 2002 – but no playoffs.
Matches were played at Nickerson Field in Boston. The team was owned by Amos Hostetter, Jr., who had served as chairman of C-SPAN.
That third and final season, though, under coach Pia Sundhage, former Norwegian scoring playmaker, was a little different. Boston finished 10-4-7 and reached the semifinals before a shootout against the Washington Freedom ended the Breakers' season.
Aldama, wearing jersey No. 12, missed a shot in the penalty kick phase.
Eventually, when WUSA suspended operations, that was about it for the 25-year-old Aldama.
The Breakers reappeared, however – twice.
In 2007, they showed up as part of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), folding in 2012. After that, the Breakers became part of the Women's Pro Soccer League Elite.
Who was Aldama playing against in WUSA?
It was that same core group of 1999 World Cup players.
Instead of watching them or dreaming of being their place, Aldama was attacking the likes of Scurry, plus defending against the all-star talents of Fawcett, MacMillan, Akers, Parlow, Milbrett, Venturini, Foudy, Hamm, Chastain and Clemens, among others – America's best players.
In a July 3, 2003 match between Aldama's Breakers and the Washington Freedom, Aldama notched her first professional goal in the 66th minute. There were 8,105 fans at Boston's Nickerson Field to witness the two sides play to a 1-1 draw.
The shot was a curving, 25-yarder into the upper right hand corner of the net.
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I am building a visualization which is intending to show current stats for a particular metric (lets say dollars in sales) for particular groupings (lets say sales territories). We want to be able to compare this week to the previous week (or possibly toggle to month, quarter, year but lets focus on week for this question).
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There are a few ways we could determine "the week" under consideration.
- The current week starting Monday and ending next Sunday
- The last previous full week period of Monday through Sunday
- Today plus the last six days
We want to show the most recent stats possible so that rules out #2. We want to show a full week so that they can compare it to previous weeks. To me this mean that we want to use #3. Nobody really argues this, but it is hard to describe this term. If we say "this week" people seem to assume #1. If we say "the last 7 days" that is wordy and people think "why not just say "the last week?". If we say "the last week" that means #2 but then we aren't seeing recent stats.
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Because the news is basically just a Family Guy cut-away waiting to happen, certain Michigan waterfront bars—where men make up 80% of drivers in fatal alcohol-induced crashes— are employing a new tactic in DUI prevention for July 4th. Maryland-based manufacturing company Wismark's "interactive urinal communicator" has been distributed to 200 drink-serving establishments in Michigan's Bay, Ottawa, Wayne, and Delta counties. It's not the first time the company's dabbled in gabby urinals, having previously (and ironically) released one as a promo for Molson's beer.
The contents of the urinal cakes' message is: "Hey listen up. That's right, I'm talking to you. Had a few drinks? Maybe a few too many? Well, do yourself and everyone else a favor and call a sober friend or a cab." If you were interested, she is flirty, female, and kind of sounds like Roz from Frasier. And wouldn't you listen to Roz?
'Michigan deploys talking urinal cakes to fight drunk driving' [Washington Post]
'Michigan to use talking urinal cakes to help curb drunk driving' [CBS News]
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Among the mewling, puking horde of bottle-babies that is The Onion's reader-ship, there have always been those who seek to tell me how to run my business. Indeed, hardly a week goes by in which this strident minority of harpies are not complaining about my use of lead-based inks, the occasional tooth which has been pressed into the financial section, or The Onion's continued silence on the prison-reform issue.
Lately, there has been a new undercurrent to the river of candied sewage these goody-goodies wish to pour down my throat. This Republic has once again succumbed to the notion, common in prosperous times, that children are precious porcelain cherubs who should be kept in velvet-lined gilt boxes and protected from the harsh realities of life. They say I should not be publishing the swear-words in my news-paper, nor the teats above the front-page fold, where children may see them.
God-damn it! Is it my fault you leave my news-paper lying around where your piss-pantsed off-spring can leave their eye-tracks all over it? Is it my fault that the harsher Anglo-Saxon monosyllables are sometimes the only way to adequately communicate the difference between mush-mouthed Presidential candidates? And is it my fault that Fatty Arbuckle recently decided to plant a broken soda-water bottle up some drunken trollop's ulcerated spout? Yes, I paid Mr. Arbuckle handsomely for his story, but the charge I paid him to molest the girl has never been proven! It was news-worthy, and the people who buy advertisement-space have a right to see it on The Onion's front page!
Please, gentle readers, do not fool yourselves into thinking that your children are anything but blood-thirsty little savages. Have you forgotten what you were like at that age? I have not! I was no more than 11 when, on a yachting-trip with the other boys of Cadwalader Preparatory Academy, I dashed out the brains of my class-mate Piggles with a flat stone. And now that I have a son of my own, I can tell you first-hand that children have not advanced. Why, just Sunday, I was forced to rebuke young N. Aeschylus after he attempted to fry the scullery-maid in her own fat! He is a bit precocious for his age, but I intend for him to helm this paper if and when I pass on. If he keeps up like this, I can see he will do a fine job of it and not kow-tow to the limp-wristed likes of the censor-ship crowd.
T. Herman Zweibel, the great grandson of Onion founder Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, was born in 1868, became editor of The Onion at age 20, and persisted in various editorial posts until his launching into space in 2001. Zweibel's name became synonymous with American business success in the 20th century. Many consider him the "Father Of American Journalism," also the title of his well-known 1943 biography, written by Norman Rombauer.


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I don't know of any modern musician who was more naturally tuned in to the musical cosmos than was Duane Allman. Unless it was Jimi Hendrix. Ultimately, I think Duane comes out ahead.
Uneducated in music, unschooled in the very notion of being a musician, lacking in social skills, Duane followed his inner guide: follow the groove, hit the note and find the chicks. Or, as he said, appreciate the "peaches." There are not many artists who were completely devoted to wine, women and song, but Duane was one of them.
Musically, Allman had much more in common with such jazz contemporaries as Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins in following the groove and improvising than he did with fellow Southern rock guitarists. He and such aerialists and high-wire walkers as Miles followed their muse wherever it took them. The Allman Brothers Band 's instrumental jams went on long, unpredictable and fascinating journeys, but they always found a pathway to a satisfying conclusion.
I thought it was interesting that when my friend and colleague Grover Lewis was following the Allmans for a story for Rolling Stone, he and Duane had a profound and bitter misunderstanding. Grover, who liked to sport black velvet blazers, pressed Levis and highly-shined black cowboy boots and quote famous writers while on assignment, pressed the wrong Duane button and experienced a blowup.
As his brother Gregg spelled out in his memoir, My Cross to Bear, Duane could be explosive. His last words with Gregg were a bitter argument over cocaine. Yet they always loved each other.
His friends said he had only two switches on his Triumph motorcycle: FAST and OFF. It was the same in his life.
His work is finally collected on the seven-CD boxed set Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, coming March 5. Even without talking to the record label or the producers, I know why it has taken so many years to put this together. Considering the number of the artists on here, the number of record labels these cuts are pulled from, the number of songwriters and song publishers involved, the amounts of rights and clearances needed to release a work of this magnitude is nightmarish to contemplate.
The 129 songs on Skydog begin with his work in the early groups the Escorts, the Allman Joys, Hour Glass, 31st of February and the Bleus. It progresses through his extraordinary work as a session player with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Clarence Carter and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. There's the amazing picking on the 13-minute "Loan Me a Dime" from Boz Scaggs' debut album, not to mention the phenomenal playing with Eric Clapton on Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" and more. Of course, there are numerous tracks from the Allman Brothers Band's catalog.
In all of this collection's cuts from throughout his short career, you hear the connecting thread of Duane's fluid, kinetic lead guitar lines goosing the songs along, pushing them, bringing them to life. No two guitar lines were ever alike, and there was never any aimless guitar noodling. There was just pure melodic spark and energy.
Contemplating all of his recorded work, it is truly mind-boggling to realize that he died at age 24. Had he lived, who knows what might have flowed from his vivid imagination and boundless enthusiasm for the new.
The package ends with "Little Martha," the song that is inscribed on Duane's tombstone. It was the only Allmans' song written solely by Duane.


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S8int.com (saint.com) is a unique and personal collection of articles, artifacts, commentary, photographs and creationist oriented research curated from a literal, bible believing, Christian perspective.
We take a biblical perspective on science, without apology!
The Bible tells us that God: spoke the universe into existence from nothing; that he set the stars and planets in their places and in their motions; that He created the earth and every living creature living upon it, including man and that it was He that breathed life into every living creature (including dinosaurs); that man was created in an advanced state; building cities and able to create complex metalwork from the earliest times; that there were giants in those days; that man sinned and grieved God such that he brought a great flood over all the earth and destroyed the creation excepting Noah and those of his family and those creatures with him on the ark and that He set a plan in motion to redeem mankind that culminated in His son dying on the cross for all men. Amen.
Men have always rebelled against God and the truth of scripture but Charles Darwin in his "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" originally published in 1859 gave some an intellectual platform-no matter how patently absurd many of its constructs were for-for disbelieving in God. Many of the great scientists of the pre-modern era were bible believing Christians but today science is dominated by materialists who believe that the universe was self creating and is self existing.
While many believe that science is a dispassionate search for the truth by objective actors in far flung laboratories and universities it has in many ways become dominated by the materialist religion which views all scientific data au priori anti God, anti biblical and anti Christian. Although many individual scientists may have reservations about evolution and its attendant scientism the ruling scientific paradigm is materialism.
Naturally these two world views; Christianity and Materialism clash. In large part media and our centers of education, grade school and then university take the side of the Materialists even though polls continue to show that the majority of Americans continue to believe in God and that acceptance of evolution especially without God is low.
The internet can be a great equalizer in this battle for truth. A dedicated researcher will find that "true science", that unencumbered by someone else's interpretation; artifacts, some unexplained or out of place artifacts (ooparts) if one were to believe what we are taught in school, old journals, ancient archaeology just to name a few areas support the biblical view.
A few areas of interest explored on this site include:
- The Great Flood: Three quarters of the surface of the earth is covered with water and the vast majority of earths continents are covered by sedimentary rock which is deposited by water. Science tells us that there are vast oceans of water under the earth's surface both free and encased in rock. There are vast fossil graveyards all over the planet and much of the earth's topography is recognized to have been laid down under catastrophic circumstances. Nearly every ancient culture had "flood legends" which involved a worldwide deluge and few survivors.
- Ancient Man: "Cave men" were a figment of the imagination of science illustrator's and science who needed to bolster biblical alternative theories for the creation of man. Today science recognizes that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men were just men and DNA studies have shown that Neanderthal (for instance) DNA matches that of "modern man".
- Civilizations: Genesis 4 tells us that Cain began to build a City. The evidence from archaeology tells us that ancient cities and civilizations all appeared suddenly, without precursors rather than as evolution might lead us to believe-primitive mud huts, unsophisticated structures to the great ancient cities we now know over thousands of years. The language and culture of those ancient civilizations including language and writing systems emerged somehow fully realized.
- Dinosaurs: Nearly every ancient culture mentioned dragons in their history and depicted dragons in their art. These images of dragons were remarkably consistent from culture to culture featuring giant, dangerous, reptilian "monsters"-which of course also fits our modern knowledge of dinosaurs. The bible refers to dinosaurs as dragons which is what scientists called the first modern dinosaur discoveries in the 1800's. The word dinosaur was not coined until the mid-1800's. No animal is more thoroughly described in the entire bible than the dinosaur and possible sea-monsters of Job 40 and 41.
- DNA: Every living cell contains DNA which is a language encoded into the cell providing specific instructions for the life, the functioning and reproduction of every creature. "If all the DNA in your body were placed end-to-end, it would stretch from here to the Moon more than 500,000 times! In book form, that information would completely fill the Grand Canyon more than 75 times! Yet, if one set of DNA (one cell's worth) from every person who ever lived were placed in a pile, the final pile would weigh less than an aspirin!.....Center for Scientific Creation. The instructions for life in our DNA had to have come from the mind of an impossible genius. (God) No one with an objective mindset could believe that all those critically important instructions arose by chance.
Two of the most important Materialists paradigms are the Big Bang cosmologies and the theory of evolution. On these pages we try to examine the flaws and scientific absurdities of these two base "science" theories often using material provided in articles supportive of the theories. The material collected at s8int.com comes from a wide variety of sources of varying credibility. We would ask you to of course utilize your own judgment when evaluating everything you see here.
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Chris Parker is a member of the church of Christ in California and is married with children. He teaches an occasional adult bible class, has a terrific forehand and spends too much time on the computer. He works for a living and plans to work as a Wal-Mart greeter in what would have been his retirement years. The website is a personal one and is not endorsed by or influenced by any outside organization or group.
The site was initially simply a personal "vanity" site where he posted articles and photographs of interest. As people who came across the site asked for more "ooparts" and articles the site began to grow. The collected articles may tend to show a lack of an editorial eye at the beginning (2000) which has hopefully improved over time. Chris originally learned just enough html to code the initial site but this new and improved website was built by his friend Ken Griffith and his team at Cottage Networks LLC.


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Seriously Meatless: Tahina Recipe
Vegetarian recipes from Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog, Herbivoracious.
Note: Michael Natkin of the vegetarian blog Herbivoracious drops by every Wednesday to share a delicious recipe to expand our vegetarian repertoire.
If you just looked at the picture and didn't read the title, you probably just thought this was hummus, right? Wrong! While they look superficially similar, hummus is made primarily of chickpeas, while tahina is a puree of sesame seeds seasoned with lemon juice and garlic.
Hummus is well-known in the west, inspiring frightful variations with textures comparable to drywall cement, while tahina's praises go unsung. Which is a shame, because it is easy to throw together, delicious, and very nutritious.
To make matters more confusing, tahina can also be spelled tehineh or tehina, and its main ingredient is tahini. All you have to keep in mind is that tahini is just the pureed raw sesame seeds, while tahina is the prepared sauce.
Once you've made it, which takes all of five minutes, serve your tahina as a simple appetizer with toasted pita and olives, as a sauce with mujadara or falafel, or as one component of a larger meze.
- 1 cup raw sesame tahini
- 2 cloves garlic, completely crushed into a paste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- Juice of 3 lemons (or more as needed)
- Optional garnishes (pick any or all): extra virgin olive oil, sumac, paprika, toasted pine nuts, parsley, olives
If the oil has separated in your tahini, stir it back together, then measure 1 cup into a good sized bowl.
Mix the garlic, salt, cumin and lemon juice into the tahini.
Start vigorously beating in cold water, 1/4 cup or so at a time, until the mixture becomes smooth and creamy. You'll see it start to emulsify, lighten in color and become easier to stir. It will probably take about 3/4 cup of water total.
Taste and adjust the seasoning with more salt, lemon juice, or cumin as needed.
The traditional way to serve tahina is in a large, flat bowl. Form a swirl with the back of a spoon, and then apply any of the garnishes listed above.
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Dinner Tonight: Apple, Arugula, and Pancetta Salad with Quail Eggs Recipe
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I'm a sucker for quail eggs. Doesn't matter where I am, or what I have planned for dinner, for some reason whenever I run into the cute little eggs I have to buy them. Perhaps it's because they're so cute. Thing is, I really only have one recipe for them, which usually means I am left with a half-filled carton of quail eggs sitting in my fridge (at all times).
Hopefully not anymore, because they turn out to be perfect for salads. While some people like the poached egg on a salad trick (ahem, Blake), I've always preferred hard-boiled eggs—I think they mingle better with the rest of the ingredients. I based this salad on a pear and arugula salad recipe on Epicurious, except that I swapped in apples, took out the pears, and added the quail eggs. It worked beautifully.
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- 4 quail eggs
- 1 tablespoon Champagne vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 ounces pancetta, thinly sliced
- 2 firm-ripe apples, cored and thinly sliced
- 4 cups baby arugula
Add the quail eggs to a medium sized pot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for three minutes. Drain the eggs, and then toss in a ice water bath. Let them hang out for five minutes, and then peel, and thinly sliced.
Combine the vinegar, honey, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a bowl. While whisking everything together, slowly drizzle in 3 tablespoons of the oil.
Add the pancetta to a non-stick skillet set over medium heat. Cook until just crisp, about 5 minutes. Drain on some paper towels.
In a large bowl, combine the apples, arugula, pancetta, quail eggs, and the dressing. Toss well, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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Fremont, CA—Dr. Gari Browning delivered her annual State of the College address on Friday, August 24, 2012 to a packed house of faculty, students, and trustees including a webcast to the Newark campus. An important focus of the speech was on the statewide cuts to community college budgets and how those cuts have affected Ohlone's ability to offer classes to students. Browning emphasized that community colleges do not control their student enrollment, the fees they charge or their operating budget.
CSU and UC set their own student fees and can raise these fees to make up for [budget] shortages. For community colleges, the number of students served and the amount of fees charged to students are established by the State," said Browning.
As the state's budget woes have increased over the past four years, the state has reduced funding to the community college system statewide. Each community college, including Ohlone, has received less funding year to year and has been told to reduce the number of classes offered and serve fewer students.
These budget cuts have forced Ohlone to reduce enrollment from 19,532 students in the 2008-2009 school year to 14,833 by the 2011-2012 school year, approximately a 24% reduction in its student population. Ohlone has managed to maintain a balanced budget without dipping into reserves until this past year, but is now cutting into reserve funds to balance the budget.
A proposition on the November 2012 ballot, Proposition 30 will provide some funding assistance to California Community Colleges. If passed, Prop 30 will restore a small amount of enrollment, allowing 20 more class sections to be added at Ohlone. This does not come close to restoring the college to former enrollment numbers.
The most significant advantage of Prop 30 is that it will stop further funding cuts to Ohlone's budget and to the budgets of all community colleges statewide. If Prop 30 fails, in January another budget cut will come down from the state resulting in a large drop in the number of students served at Ohlone, from 14,833 down to 13,333, and a 7.3% cut to our budget.
A competing proposition, Prop 38 is an income tax that will direct funding only to the K-12 system but will not include community colleges in the additional funding, whereas Proposition 30 is comprehensive—the funding will include K-12 and public safety services such as police and fire. If Prop 38 passes it can cause Prop 30 to fail, even if Prop 30 gets more than 51% of the vote. If Prop 38 receives more votes than Prop 30 community college budgets will be cut, resulting in more students losing seats in community college classrooms.
Despite budget woes, Ohlone has a number of ventures that are self-sustaining and revenue generating. In addition, the college is saving money through solar power energy production. And Ohlone is once again exploring the option of developing its frontage property along Mission Boulevard as a means of long-term revenue creation. These and other cost-saving ideas are being applied to help the college through difficult fiscal times. However, if Proposition 30 fails to be approved by voters, the college will need to consider more drastic budget reduction options. The college continues to work at becoming less dependent on the fluctuations of state funding to serve students in our community.
To read the full transcript of the President's speech or to view the video archive, please visit www.ohlone.edu/president.
Implications of Prop 30 (PDF).
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Midland, MI and Michigan City, IN (June 30, 2017) – In response to the historic flooding in the Great Lakes Bay Region, Wolverine Bank and Horizon Bank are supporting flood relief efforts with a donation in the amount of $100,000.
United Way of Midland County and the The Midland Area Community Foundation have jointly established a Disaster Relief Fund. $50,000 of this pledge will go into this fund. All of the donations to the Disaster Relief Fund will go toward those impacted, under the direction of the Midland County Office for Emergency Management. To qualify, residents must first report flood damage through the Midland 911 website, found here: http://bit.ly/2sUacOC, or by calling 989-837-3500. Community members can also donate to the fund at www.midlandfoundation.org.
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Tens of thousands of gay rights activists demanding rights for same-sex couples marched through the streets of Rome on Saturday in a gay pride parade.
Smaller marches wound through the capitals of heavily Catholic Poland and in Croatia, where counterdemonstrators shouted anti-gay and nationalist slogans.
In Rome, costumed demonstrators carrying rainbow flags and signs reading "freedom for all" attacked the conservative government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
They demanded rights for same-sex couples and the recognition of gay marriage.
Activists dressed as fake clergy with colorful hats and signs reading "No Vatican" protested what they say is the church's excessive influence on Italy's policies.
Organizers said Saturday was not a special day for gay pride but that most such parades are organized around June 28, marking the 1969 landmark Stonewall riots in New York, considered the birth of the gay rights movement.
In Warsaw, hundreds of gay and lesbian activists marched, also calling for legal unions between same-sex couples.
About 1,500 demonstrators marched along Warsaw's main Marszalkowska Street under escort, police said. Several dozen right-wing youths shouting anti-gay invective confronted the parade near the Parliament building, but there were no confrontations, police said.
Some previous gay demonstrations have been marked by violence.
Homosexuals were a taboo subject in Poland under communism. Since the 1990 democratic changes, gays have been campaigning for equal rights, but marriage in Poland is only legal between a man and a woman.
In Croatia, another mostly Roman Catholic country, about 500 gay activists marched through Zagreb.
No violence was reported, but about 50 people held a counterdemonstration and shouted anti-gay slogans. One was led away by police after trying to break through a cordon that authorities had created around the Gay Pride parade to protect it.


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A 3-11 alarm blaze in a five-story condominium building in the Morgan Park neighborhood this afternoon caused the upper floors of the building to collapse and left more than 60 people homeless tonight.
The fire began in the four-plus-one style building at 2030 W. 111th St. about 2:20 p.m. It was raised to a 2-11 alarm at 2:42 p.m. and to a 3-11 alarm about 3 p.m. About 64 people were displaced by the fire, officials said.
An EMS Plan 1, which sends six ambulances to the scene, also was called for the fire. Four people at the building were treated on the scene, but did not need to be taken to the hospital, according to the Chicago Fire Department's media office.
The fire was declared under control at 5:21 p.m., and the EMS Plan 1 secured was secured by about 5:45 p.m.
Firefighters were unable to do a unit-to-unit search of the building because parts of the building's fifth and fourth floor were collapsed into the third floor, said Chicago Deputy Fire Cmsr. of Operation John McNicholas
"What we're looking at right now is a shell of a building," McNicholas said about 4:30 p.m. "It's too dangerous for the firefighters to enter."
Fire officials were working with building management to try to get a head count for the number of residents for the 34-unit building, which had 32 units occupied, officials said. Firefighters had not been told by anyone that someone was missing, McNichals said.
When the first fire company arrived, flames were shooting from a third-floor window on the east side of the building, but firefighters also found fire in the walls on the first and second floors, said Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman Meg Ahlheim. In total, about 120 fire personnel and 40 pieces of fire equipment were dispatched to the fire, she said.
Fire officials called a Mayday alert for a lost firefighter about the time the 2-11 alarm was called, but the alert was quickly cancelled when the firefighter was located unharmed, Ahleim said. Other members of his company apparently had lost track of the firefighter, but he was not trapped, she said.
Dazed residents forced out of the building huddled outside in near-freezing temperatures, and later took refuge inside a public library next door to commiserate and keep warm.
Ted Wyatt said he was inside his second-floor apartment when the fire started, but he noticed nothing amiss until he heard someone calling out.
"People were going through the hallways, yelling, 'Fire!'" said Wyatt, 58.
Once he got into the hallways, Wyatt said he could smell the smoke. Wyatt added that his unit does have a working smoke alarm but it did not go off.
"It's something you just don't expect but it's something we all have to accept and deal with," said Otis Wilder, 62, who lives on the third floor.
Several residents said that each unit and the hallways are equipped with working smoke detectors. Wilder said that he was inside his apartment when he heard smoke alarms going off.
"I figured that someone had burned something," said Wilder, 62. "I didn't know it was that serious."
Soon after, Wilder said he heard people running from the building, yelling that there was a fire. He, too, got out unharmed.
"Smoke was everywhere, especially when I got to the first floor," Wilder said.
Roddric Sims, who also lives on the third floor, said that he smelled smoke and heard alarms going off. He then went into his 7-year-old son's bedroom to look the window, and saw black smoke coming out of a vent.
Sims said he tried to stay calm as he directed his son to get dressed. The pair went down a smoke-filled hallway and got out of the building unharmed.
Later in the evening, Sims returned to the building and gazed up at the charred, blown-out windows visible from the street.
"There's nothing like standing outside, seeing flames come out of your own unit," said Sims, 41. "That's when I knew it was going to be a total loss."
One woman, who declined to give her name, said that she was asleep in her fourth-floor apartment and thought that she was dreaming when she heard someone knocking on her door to say that there was a fire. The smell later woke her, she said, and she soon saw smoke oozing under her door. She got out via one of the emergency stairwell.
"It's still very surreal," the woman said, shaking from the cold. "Watching them put water through the windows, you feel so helpless."
By about 3:45 p.m., the five-story brick Terrace Place West Condominiums had smoke billowing from the top two floors, where firefighters were concentrating the efforts of several hoses, including two directed from tower ladder trucks. At that time, white smoke was billowing from the roof.
At 4:15 p.m., the fire was largely under control, but large parts of the fourth and fifth floor visible from the street appeared heavily damaged by smoke and fire. About 4:30 p.m., firefighters were concentrating on hotspots on the fifth floor of the building.
By about 5 p.m., firefighters were trying to get into the parts of the building that had not collapsed, but were going to wait to try to get into the collapsed parts of the building until the city Buildings Department has a chance to check the building, McNicholas said.
During the fire, the smoke could be seen from at least a mile away.
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A 3-11 alarm blaze in a five-story condominium building in the Morgan Park neighborhood this afternoon caused the upper floors of the building to collapse and left more than 60 people homeless tonight.


text: Analog Devices Inc., a global leader in high-performance signal processing technology, introduced the addition of a 4-channel high-speed A/D converter to its market-leading data converter product portfolio. The AD9653 A/D converter is designed for medical imaging and communications applications where the combination of high channel density, low power and small size provide systems engineers with greater design flexibility and lower per-channel cost for data conversion. The AD9653 16-bit A/D converter joins previously-released 12-bit and 14-bit versions to form a pin-compatible, power- and size-optimized series of high-speed converter products.


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Visions of the future
Does vision still hold undiscovered dimensions?
Yes! And STEMMER IMAGING is a driving force in expanding the boundaries.
Ready to conquer all areas of life
Driven by innovative thinking, imaging will not only revolutionise industry, but also everyday applications. It can deliver answers to sociocultural trends and revolutionise sports and electronic entertainment. It can open up new possibilities in market research and improve levels of safety and security.
An eye for the environment
Automation with machine vision will bring dramatic changes for the better. Potential optimisation gains are enormous, allowing drastic reductions in manufacturing waste - for example in the production of solar panels. And in growth markets like recycling, imaging will improve the detection and recovery of reusable materials to a whole new level.
Always in the picture - even at home
Imaging can help perform many valuable household services. For instance, it can support care for the elderly or the handicapped - a strong and demographically growing market. Equipped with digital highly sensitive optical organs, robots can function as reliable personal assistants. In other applications they allow the user a clear view of places the human eye cannot readily access.
The eye replaces the mouse
What software could compete with the speed and intuitive ease of the human eye? Advanced imaging provides the technological basis for this application. Instead of using a mouse, man and machine communicate with each other via a mere glance at the screen.


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New policy could serve as springboard for fresh legal challenge against federal agency
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The FBI's new definition of what constitutes rape, set to be implemented next year, could ensnare TSA agents and outlaw pat downs because it defines penetration, "no matter how slight," using any part of the body as a rape offense.
"The FBI's definition of "rape" is about to get a long-awaited update, for the first time since 1929," reports the New York Daily News.
The new definition, approved by the the FBI's UCR subcommittee Advisory Policy Board back in October and set to be officially adopted by the FBI in 2012, states rape is, "penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."
Crucially, the new definition removes the word "forcible" from the language.
Could the new definition of rape, which brings the FBI into line with guidelines already being used by law enforcement across the country, serve as a springboard for a new legal challenge to TSA pat downs, which in some cases have amounted to sexual molestation?
There have been numerous documented cases wherein TSA agents have physically penetrated the vagina or anus of a traveler during the course of a pat down. As we reported last year, TSA screeners are now being trained to physically put their hands down fliers' pants as part of the pat down procedure.
The last major challenge to TSA authority came when the Texas legislature attempted to institute an invasive groping ban. The TSA responded by threatening to enforce a de facto no fly zone over Texas and the bill was ultimately shot down.
Earlier this year, journalist Amy Alkon wrote on her blog of how a TSA worker physically penetrated her vagina over and over again during a search.
"I sobbed even louder as the woman, FOUR TIMES, stuck the side of her gloved hand INTO my vagina, through my pants. Between my labia. She really got up there. Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked — utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault," wrote Alkon.
Alkon screamed "you raped me" to the TSA agent following the molestation, but when she went public with the ordeal the TSA threatened her with defamation charges and a $500,000 settlement demand, ordering her to remove the blog post.
An Ohio woman, blogger Erin Chase, also told Fox News last year of how a TSA agent touched her labia during a pat down at Dayton International Airport.
Former Miss USA Susie Castillo also revealed how a TSA worker touched her vagina during a pat down at Dallas-Fort Worth airport back in April after she refused to go through a body scanner.
The pat down controversy has erupted once again in recent days after three elderly women with medical problems claimed they were forced to undergo a strip-search at New York's JFK International Airport.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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of American Music
The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings
The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis.
Shedd Classical
The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c.
Shedd Theatricals
Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s.
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah!
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know!
Now Hear This
The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more.
Shedd Presents
Shedd Presents offers a fascinating mix of special projects by top local artists. It regularly premieres projects that subsequently become permanent ongoing features in the Shedd mix.
Shedd Welcomes
Each year The Shedd Institute welcomes a wide range of concerts and special events presented by other community cultural, educational and social institutions.
Music School
Shedd Music School Home
The Shedd Community Music School's home page is the place to start for newcomers to get oriented on what we have to offer currently and throughout the year.
Private Lessons at The Shedd
Interested in private lessons? Over 40 Shedd faculty members offer private lessons in a variety of musical instruments, voice and dance and in different styles. All ages are welcome and lessons can begin any time.
Current Classes & Camps
Music and dance classes are offered on a term-by-term basis and most can be joined in-progress. Also don't miss our summer camps. Follow this link for a list of current and future terms.
Music School Faculty
The Shedd Community Music School's 40+ faculty members offer private lessons, workshops, and classes in a wide variety of musical genres and related genres. Follow this link to a listing of this term's active faculty.
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Private Lessons
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What she teaches
Background, professional training and performance history
Clarinetist Sara Truelove has performed all around Oregon, most notable her work with the American Metropole Orchestra working with artists such as the Mel Brown Trio and Allen Toussaint. She has also been a member of numerous chamber ensembles and community bands in the Willamette Valley such as the Eugene Symphonic Band while being prolific pit orchestra performer with theaters around the Willamette Valley in productions such as Beauty and the Beast, The Sound of Music and West Side Story. As a soloist, Sara has been featured as a Western Oregon University Concerto Competition winner twice and an Honors Recital winner three times. In 2010 she was featured as a Guest Solo Artist with the Western Oregon University Symphony performing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. In addition to her solo work she has been recorded on three albums and was the session producer for a classical flute recording with colleague Erica Hall.
Sara served as a teaching assistant at Western Oregon University, tutoring in beginning theory and being a substitute lecturer for the Music History sequence. In addition to her work at the university she began volunteering in the Albany school district starting middle school students on clarinet and saxophone. From there she started her own private lessons studio and has been invited to be an instructor at the Lewis and Clark Clarinet Day on numerous occasions. Sara graduated summa cum laude from Western Oregon University in 2009 with a Bachelors of Music and also in 2011 with a Masters of Music in Clarinet Performance. Currently, Sara is continuing her work volunteering in Eugene/Springfield area middle schools as well as her ethnomusicological research in Klezmer and Middle Eastern Music.
Artist statement and teaching philosophy
My goal is to instill a love of making music into my students while providing them with a strong fundamental foundation. While learning the fundamentals I encourage students to bring in music that they want to play, whether it be classical standards or Disney songs. It is important to keep the curiosity for music alive especially when learning new techniques. I try to provide a creative atmosphere in lessons by encouraging the student to examine his or her own playing to hone critical listening skills. Learning music needs to be about expanding the mind and honing a love for music and music making.
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Sara teaches Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Saxophone and music theory.
Sara Truelove teaches these Fall Term 2019 courses:
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Moombah: The Rain Show!
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MTTA Fall 2019: The Vaudeville Hour
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Music Box - flute
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Mokopedia makes wikipedia accessible on your openmoko phone even without being online because all articles will reside in a compressed filesystem (squashFS) on your SD Card.
You will have to install lighttpd to access a local python script with the web browser of your choice. This script will offer you a text box to easily search your stored articles.
Feature Ideas
Please feel free to add anything that comes to your mind.
- it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
- tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but this may be too big for the phone
- all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 1GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german)) - compressability tests with en-wiki in progress
- support for stripped down wikipedia versions (100MB, 500MB)
Development Status
- I finished writing the perl and bash scripts for optimizing your wikipedia html dump. To obtain the dumps goto http://static.wikipedia.org. The scripts are in svn on the mokopedia project site http://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=mokopedia
- lighttpd is working on openmoko as a light webserver without too much overhead
- python script for accessing the articles is nearly finished
On the target (NEO)
- lighttpd
- changes in /etc/lighttpd.conf
enable server-module "mod_cgi"
#### CGI module cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", ".py" => "/usr/bin/python", ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )
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- kernel-module-squashfs
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On the host
To build the squashFS image on your PC instead of downloading ready-to-use-images you additionally need mksquashfs-tools
A big thank to the following people:
- kahuna for bringing me back to the idea of mokopedia as served html to a browser of your choice
- fgau for trying out everything I wrote on his neo
- thomasg for suggesting the use of a compressed file system
- Marcel_M for his great repository with squashfs and loop kernel modules http://celtune.morb-design.com/ipk/fic-gta01/
- everyone on #neo1973-germany
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In a laptop universe filled with $300 Netbooks and $600 dual-core midsize systems, an actual high-end product is rare indeed. Apple's MacBook Pro and HP's Envy laptops are considered high-end, but generally run between $1,000 and $1,500. In an entirely different category altogether (a different universe, even) is Sony's Vaio Z128GX, which runs a whopping $3,339. Of course, that's for our tricked-out review unit, which includes a very expensive 512GB solid-state hard drive, which could easily fetch $1,500 or more on its own.
Other high-end features include a Verizon 3G connection (with a handy app for easily using it to create a Wi-Fi hot spot for your other gadgets), an Nvidia GeForce 300 GPU, and a higher-than-normal 1,600x900-pixel resolution for the 13-inch display.
Although this is Sony's premium 13-inch laptop, there are versions of the Vaio Z that don't cost quite as much. For a still-pricey $1,919, you can get a configuration with a smaller 128GB SSD, or you can add even more-expensive options, including a 1,920x1,080-pixel display or a Blu-ray player, driving the price as far up as $4,700.
Though this is an ultrapremium laptop with excellent design and construction, we're annoyed by Sony's non-Optimus graphics switching, which uses a manual switch, and is not as seamless as you'd expect for the price.
|Price as reviewed / Starting price
|$3,299 / $1,919
|2.4GHz Intel Core i5 M520
|8GB, 1066MHz DDR3
|Hard drive
|250GB 5,400rpm
|Intel HM55
|Nvidia GeForce GT 330M (switchable)
|Operating system
|Windows 7 Professional
|Dimensions (WD)
|12.4 x 8.3 inches
|1-1.3 inches
|Screen size (diagonal)
|13.1 inches
|System weight / Weight with AC adapter
|3.1/4 pounds
The slim chassis is a mix of brushed metal and magnesium, making for an end product that feels light but sturdy at the same time. Just as importantly, it feels like a plastic-free high-end product (although for these prices, we'd certainly hope so). The last Vaio Z we looked at had black keys against a silver finish, which didn't look nearly as slick as this all-dark model.
Sony's typical raised-island-style keyboard is excellent, although the actual key faces are on the small side. Important keys such as Shift and Tab are nice and big, and we found no major problems with the keyboard layout. The backlit keys are a helpful feature, but we've come to expect it as standard in laptops more than $1,000. The Vaio Z's touch pad is likewise excellent, offering plenty of space and small, but effective, left and right mouse buttons separated by a fingerprint reader.
Above the keyboard on the left side is a three-way switch that turns the Nvidia GeForce 330 graphics on or off. Unfortunately, in the half-year since we saw our last Sony Vaio Z (which had a similar switch), Nvidia's Optimus technology has taken over, even in budget systems. Optimus works behind the scenes to automatically turn the discrete GPU off and on as needed, completely invisible to the end user. It generally works great, and it's a major knock that this Vaio doesn't include it.
The settings on the physical switch itself are labeled "speed" and "stamina," and it can be confusing as to what the switch actually does if you're not familiar with the concept of switchable graphics. There's also a third position, "auto," that turns the GPU off when you unplug the laptop. Using the switch can force you to quit programs, and makes the screen flick off, which are all problems Nvidia's Optimus avoids.
Three quick-launch buttons sit above the keyboard to the right. One launches a built-in suite of Sony support resources and troubleshooting apps and easy access to tech support contact info. The second is user assignable, and the third launches Sony's Media Gallery software, a collection of media organizing and playback tools.
The 13.3-inch wide-screen LED display has a 1,600x900-pixel native resolution. Most 13-inch systems have 1,366x768-pixel displays, but you can configure the Vaio Z with an even higher 1,920x1080-pixel screen, although at that level, text might be hard to read on the 13-inch display.
|Sony Vaio VPCZ128GX
|Average for category [Netbook]
|VGA-out, HDMI
|VGA plus HDMI or DisplayPort
|Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
|Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
|3 USB 2.0, SD card reader, Memory Stick reader
|3 USB 2.0, SD card reader
|Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile broadband
|Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional mobile broadband
|Optical drive
|DVD burner
|DVD burner
The Vaio Z has the standard set of ports and connections for a 13-inch laptop, although for $3,000, we'd expect a Blu-ray drive (it's an available add-on, however). We're more excited about the built-in Verizon mobile broadband. It's a common enough feature, but Sony's SmartWi Connection Utility includes a very handy button for taking that 3G signal and sharing it as a mobile hot spot, similar to how a MiFi device works. You can actually do this with pretty much any laptop, but it requires some under-the-hood setup, and it doesn't always work properly.
The 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 M520 CPU in this system is typical of the high-end of mainstream components, and it performed on par with other Intel Core i5 laptops, which is to say it's more than powerful enough for all but the most demanding applications. We ran into no slowdown or stuttering, even when working on multiple projects at once, which is in part because of the included 8GB of RAM.
With the Nvidia GeForce 330 GPU engaged, we got 57.3 frames per second in Unreal Tournament 3 running at 1,440x900 pixels. This is a respectable midrange gaming laptop, but not for hard-core PC gamers. Still, it should be able to handle all current games, even if you have to turn the detail or resolution down a bit.