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Contact name: Colin Wing
Contact number: 020 7828 1500
Online: Email, Website, Facebook, Twitter: @Westminster_LCC
Meeting times: Please click 'Meetings and events' link below
Westminster Cycling Campaign is the local group of the London Cycling Campaign. Our group is open to any London Cycling Campaign member who lives, works, studies or cycles in the City of Westminster. We aim to encourage people to cycle, improve conditions for cycling and raise the profile of cycling in Westminster. The majority of our 250 members are Westminster residents. When we write to our local councillors, we are writing to Westminster's councillors. All members are welcome to contribute as much or as little time as they wish. You're welcome to just come to our meetings to listen to what's happening.
We have six meetings each year. We learn more by discussing opinions and proposals together, so please join us to have your say on the issues that affect you. We organise events such as led cycle rides and Dr Bike events with cycle mechanics, maps and leaflets. Please see the LCC website's events list, which we use to record and advertise our events.
Our group is led by a Management Committee, elected at our Annual Meeting. In addition to recording decisions made on events and consultation responses, we record the minutes of our Annual Meeting:
- 2012 Annual Meeting minutes
- 2013 Annual Meeting minutes
- 2014 Annual Meeting minutes
- 2015 Annual meeting minutes
- 2016 Annual meeting minutes
- 2017 Annual meeting minutes
- 2018 Annual meeting minutes
We work with authorities including Westminster City Council, Transport for London, the Royal Parks and the Canal & River Trust. Please see Cyclescape, which we use to invite comments, debate opinions and record our consultation responses.
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Microsoft's Windows operating system is literally malware (malicious software) and has been so for quite some time at least 'officially' since Vista, even though malicious code was injected into the operating system even earlier than Windows 2000.
For those who 'just' surf the Internet and use their personal computer for basic word processing spread sheet, presentation or multimedia purposes, there is no legitimate reason to have this operating system on a personal computer, where there are many other (mature, stable and less intrusive) options available to the general public.
See article from gnu.org of the headline:
Microsoft's Software is Malware
Other examples of proprietary malware
Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.) This page explains how Microsoft software is malware.
Malware and nonfree software are two different issues. The difference between free software and nonfree software is in whether the users have control of the program or vice versa. It's not directly a question of what the program does when it runs. However, in practice nonfree software is often malware, because the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix any malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.
Type of malware
- Back doors
- Insecurity
- Sabotage
- Interference
- Surveillance
- Digital restrictions management or "DRM" means functionalities designed to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.
- Jails—systems that impose censorship on application programs.
- Tyrants—systems that reject any operating system not "authorized" by the manufacturer.
- Subscriptions
Microsoft Back Doors
- Microsoft has already backdoored its disk encryption.
- Microsoft Windows has a universal back door through which
any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users.
More information on when this was used.
In Windows 10, the universal back door is no longer hidden; all "upgrades" will be forcibly and immediately imposed.
Windows 8 also has a back door for remotely deleting apps.
You might well decide to let a security service that you trust remotely deactivate programs that it considers malicious. But there is no excuse for deleting the programs, and you should have the right to decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.
- German government veers
away from Windows 8 computers with TPM 2.0 due to potential back
door capabilities of the TPM 2.0 chip.
- Users reported that
Microsoft was forcing them to replace Windows 7 and 8 with all-spying
Windows 10.
Microsoft was in fact attacking computers that run Windows 7 and 8, switching on a flag that said whether to "upgrade" to Windows 10 when users had turned it off.
Later on, Microsoft published instructions on how to permanently reject the downgrade to Windows 10.
This seems to involve use of a back door in Windows 7 and 8.
Microsoft InsecurityThese bugs are/were not intentional, so unlike the rest of the file they do not count as malware. We mention them to refute the supposition that prestigious proprietary software doesn't have grave bugs.
Exploits of bugs in Windows, which were developed by the NSA
and then leaked by the Shadowbrokers group, are now being used to
attack a great number
of Windows computers with ransomware.
- A flaw in Internet Explorer and Edge
allows an attacker to retrieve Microsoft account credentials, if
the user is tricked into visiting a malicious link.
Point-of-sale terminals running Windows were taken over and turned
into a botnet for the purpose of collecting customers' credit card
Microsoft SabotageThe wrongs in this section are not precisely malware, since they do not involve making the program that runs in a way that hurts the user. But they are a lot like malware, since they are technical Microsoft actions that harm to the users of specific Microsoft software.
- Microsoft
has dropped support for Windows 7 and 8 on recent processors
in a big hurry.
It makes no difference what legitimate reasons Microsoft might have for not doing work to support them. If it doesn't want to do this work, it should let users do the work.
Microsoft has made Windows 7 and 8 cease to function on certain
new computers,
forcing their owners to switch to Windows 10.
- Once Microsoft has tricked a user into accepting installation
of Windows
10, they
find that they are denied the option to cancel or even postpone the
imposed date of installation.
This demonstrates what we've said for years: using proprietary software means letting someone have power over you, and you're going to get screwed sooner or later.
- Microsoft
has desupported
all future Intel CPUs for Windows 7 and 8. Those machines will
be stuck with the nastier Windows 10.
AMD and Qualcomm CPUs, too.
Of course, Windows 7 and 8 are unethical too, because they are proprietary software. But this example of Microsoft's wielding its power demonstrates the power it holds.
Free software developers also stop maintaining old versions of their programs, but this is not unfair to users because the users of free software have control over it. If it is important enough to you, you and other users can hire someone to support the old version on your future platforms.
- Microsoft is forcibly pushing Windows update to its version 10, ignoring the flag on Windows 7 or 8 that you could set to not upgrade. This reaffirms the presence of a universal back door in Windows 7 and 8.
- Windows 10 "upgrades" delete applications without asking permission.
- Microsoft is repeatedly nagging many users to install Windows 10.
- Microsoft was for months tricking users into "upgrading" to Windows 10, if they failed to notice and say no.
- Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.
Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users
that pay exorbitantly.
Microsoft is going to cut off support for some Internet Explorer versions in the same way.
A person or company has the right to cease to work on a particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having made the users dependent on Microsoft, because they are not free to ask anyone else to work on the program for them.
Microsoft InterferenceVarious proprietary programs often mess up the user's system. They are like sabotage, but they are not grave enough to qualify for the word "sabotage". Nonetheless, they are nasty and wrong. This section describes examples of Microsoft committing interference.
- Microsoft is planning to make Windows
impose use of its browser, Edge, in certain circumstances.
The reason Microsoft can force things on users is that Windows is nonfree.
- Windows displays
intrusive ads for Microsoft products and its
partners' products.
The article's author starts from the premise that Microsoft has a right to control what Windows does to users, as long as it doesn't go "too far". We disagree.
- Microsoft inserts annoying advertisements inside of the File Explorer to nag users to buy subscriptions for the OneDrive service.
- In order to increase Windows 10's install base, Microsoft blatantly disregards user choice and privacy.
- Microsoft has started nagging users obnoxiously and repeatedly to install Windows 10.
- Microsoft is tricking users into replacing Windows 7 with Windows 10.
- Microsoft has made companies' Windows machines managed by the company's sysadmins harangue users to complain to the sysadmins about not "upgrading" to Windows 10.
Microsoft Surveillance
- Windows 10 telemetry program sends information to Microsoft about the
user's computer and their use of the computer.
Furthermore, for users who installed the fourth stable build of Windows 10, called the "Creators Update," Windows maximized the surveillance by force setting the telemetry mode to "Full".
The "Full" telemetry mode allows Microsoft Windows engineers to access, among other things, registry keys which can contain sensitive information like administrator's login password.
- Windows DRM files can be used to identify people browsing through Tor. The vulnerability exists only if you use Windows.
- By default, Windows 10 sends debugging information to Microsoft, including core dumps. Microsoft now distributes them to another company.
- It appears Windows 10 sends data to Microsoft about what applications are running.
- A downgrade to Windows 10 deleted surveillance-detection
applications. Then another downgrade inserted a general spying
program. Users noticed this and complained, so Microsoft
renamed it
to give users the impression it was gone.
To use proprietary software is to invite such treatment.
- Windows 10 comes with 13 screens of snooping options, all enabled by default, and turning them off would be daunting to most users.
Windows 10
ships with default settings that show no regard for the
privacy of its users, giving Microsoft the "right"
to snoop on the users' files, text input, voice input,
location info, contacts, calendar records and web browsing
history, as well as automatically connecting the machines to open
hotspots and showing targeted ads.
We can suppose Microsoft look at users' files for the US government on demand, though the "privacy policy" does not explicit say so. Will it look at users' files for the Chinese government on demand?
- Windows 10 sends identifiable information to Microsoft, even if a user turns off its Bing search and Cortana features, and activates the privacy-protection settings.
- The unique "advertising ID" for each user enables other companies to track the browsing of each specific user.
- Spyware in Windows 8: Windows Update snoops on the user. Windows 8.1 snoops on local searches. And there's a secret NSA key in Windows, whose functions we don't know.
Microsoft SkyDrive allows the NSA to directly examine users' data.
- Spyware in Skype:
Microsoft changed Skype
specifically for spying.
Microsoft uses Windows 10's "privacy policy" to overtly impose a
"right" to look at users' files at any time. Windows 10 full disk
gives Microsoft a key.
Thus, Windows is overt malware in regard to surveillance, as in other issues.
We can suppose Microsoft look at users' files for the US government on demand, though the "privacy policy" does not explicit say so. Will it look at users' files for the Chinese government on demand?
The unique "advertising ID" for each user enables other companies to track the browsing of each specific user.
It's as if Microsoft has deliberately chosen to make Windows 10 maximally evil on every dimension; to make a grab for total power over anyone that doesn't drop Windows now.
Microsoft DRM
- DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in Windows, introduced to cater to Bluray disks. (The article also talks about how the same malware would later be introduced in MacOS.)
Microsoft Jails
Windows 10 S ought to be called Windows 10 J, for "Jail":
only programs from the Windows Store can be
downloaded and executed.
If the history of iOS as a jail is any indication, Windows 10 J will be no better.
- Windows 8 on "mobile devices" is a jail: it censors the user's choice of application programs.
Microsoft Tyrants
Microsoft accidentally left a way for users to install GNU/Linux
on Windows RT tablets, but now it has
"fixed" the "error". They have the
gall to call this "protecting" the users. The article
talks of installing "Linux", but the context shows it is
really GNU/Linux that users
- Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants: they block users from installing other or modified operating systems.
Microsoft Subscriptions
- Microsoft Office forces
users to
subscribe to Office 360 to be able to create/edit

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Colbourn Hall, formerly known as the Humanities and Fine Arts building, first began construction in 1972. In addition to the departments of English, History, Modern Languages & Literatures, and Writing and Rhetoric, Colbourn Hall includes programs for Women's Studies, Judaic Studies, Africana Studies, and Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. It also houses the University Writing Center and Graduate Student Center. Named after former UCF President Trevor Colbourn, the building has remained a focal point of academic life since the university's early years.
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When I started the genealogy blog, started going to genealogy meetings, and became more involved with genealogy social networks, I think what I was truly looking for was discussion. I wanted to connect with people researching similar problems and get advice, and perhaps offer it sometimes. I was recently inspired by Randy Seaver's crowd-sourcing of a family history problem he's been tracing for years. So I'm crowd sourcing some ideas and info on Anna Jean (Bennett) Douglas.
I don't have one percent of Randy's readership, but I am hoping that a reader might know something about Montreal records, Boston records, Bennetts, or have some magic pixie dust to sprinkle on this.
Here is what I know about my grandfather's "Aunt Jennie":
The early years of Aunt Jennie's life are a mystery, up until her marriage to William W. Douglas in 1884. I have very little to go on. The details of her early life are interesting to me because Aunt Jennie's mother is my gg-grandmother Catherine Yonge (Bennett) (Baldwin) Ross from Surrey, England. Knowing more about Jennie's early life is bound to reveal more about Catherine's.
The mystery period is 1853-1884:
- She usually reported her birth date as 16 July 1853 or 1854 in either Belmont, NY or Rochester, NY. No contemporary record found.
- 1860 Federal Census, Amity (now Belmont), Allegany County, New York, she is living with mother Catherine and stepfather Edward Baldwin ("Ed Baldin", "Cate"), plus young sister Hattie.
- 1873 Marriage #1 to Harrison Gilley, Sterling, Mass. Jennie's mother lived in Sterling with new husband #3, Hiram Ross. Harrison Gilley was a Boston druggist and Civil War vet. Record on FamilySearch.org.
- 1884 Marriage #2 to William Wilberforce Douglas, a Providence attorney, in Newton, Mass, where Jennie's mother and stepfather Catherine and Hiram Ross were now living. Second marriage for her, first for him. Record on FamilySearch.org. She is listed as "Ann Jean Bennett", not Gilley.
- An early undated picture of Aunt Jennie has a "Montreal" mark. Why would she be in Montreal? Were her father and brother (both named William Bennett) there? Or could it be a picture taken while traveling?
AFTER 1884, no more mystery; we know a lot about the rest of her life, because my mom knew her. Aunt Jennie was a loyal friend to all her nieces and nephews and their families. She and her husband traveled extensively. I believe my grandfather was a favorite; mom has many mementos of Aunt Jennie's life and travels.
- 1900 Federal Census, Providence, R.I. Living with husband W.W. Douglas; they never had any children.
- 1910 Federal Census, Providence, R.I. Living with husband W.W. Douglas
- 1920 Federal Census, Providence, R.I. Living with husband W.W. Douglas
- 1930 Federal Census, Washington, DC. A widow in an apartment in DC. She later returned to Providence.
- 19 Aug 1939. Death in Providence. My mom remembers how sad it was to pay the last visit to her apartment, shortly before Aunt Jennie's death. Buried at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence.
- I have her Probate records from the Providence City Hall.
Here are my questions:
Where was Anna Jean in 1865? not in the NY state census for Amity. In 1870? She was not living in Sterling, Mass. with her mother, the newly remarried Catherine Ross (wife of Hiram). In 1880? Since I also have very little trace of her brother, artist William Blackstone Bennett during these years, she may have been with him and her father.
Her father is named either Thomas or William T. Bennett. Who is he? I have found him only once – Aunt Jennie's brother William married in 1890 in Digby, Nova Scotia and gave his father's info as William Bennett, builder and stated his own place of birth was Rochester, NY. The 1890 Rochester City Directory does list a William Bennett, Carpenter, b. r. 448 North av. But no other Rochester City Directory has a William Bennett that seems to be a builder or carpenter. He may have been in a different location entirely by then. But something about that Nova Scotia record (plus the fact that Anna Jean and her brother were not always with their mom) suggests to me that William Bennett Sr was still living in 1890.
How did she meet and marry Harry Gilley from Boston in 1873? How long did they stay married? where and when did they divorce?
How did she meet her second husband William W. Douglas, who spent his life in Providence? I know quite a bit about his family and professional history, but it doesn't give me any clues.
The pictures tell the story
The quality of the last two snapshots is not good; I suspect Uncle Will bought a camera for home use when they were first available – could that have been in the late 1880's? My mother remembers Aunt Jennie when she was quite old, and the thing she is most sure about is that her father cared very much about Aunt Jennie. Just based on the pictures here, she looks like someone you would want to meet. I love how proud she was of my beautiful mom and her sister. I love how her husband was willing to snap photos of the dancing dog – probably quite expensive in those days!
About the only two solid ideas that I have are:
- explore Boston City Directories for first husband Harrison Gilley's whereabouts each year. He was in the 1870 U.S. Census in Boston, living with his family. His 1891 Civil War pension application indicates he is divorced. He died ("Harry Gilley") at the Consumptive Hospital in Boston 25 Jun 1892. The city directories may indicate how long the marriage lasted.
- The other idea is to seek the divorce record of Anna Jean and Harrison Gilley. "New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians" by Diane Rapaport (Burlington, Mass., Quill Pen Press: 2006) suggests that divorce records from this time period will be in the archives of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston. She suggests contacting them for information on locating a specific record. I sent an email tonight, I hope they can help me.
If anyone has any better ideas, or can find anything, let me know!
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A plug for the Lucidicus Project
A few months ago I came in contact with the Lucidicus Project, a group that aims to provide philosophical training to medical students in capitalism and individual rights. Its director, Jared Rhoads, writes regular editorials aimed toward political issues facing physicians. In addition, it freely gives away The Medical Intellectual's Self-Defense Kit, a collection of books and articles by Ayn Rand and others, to anyone who asks for it.
I got around to reading Atlas Shrugged over the course of my surgical sub-internship last year and now I can see why some of my readers have compared me to her. The book is set in a period of worsening economic conditions and missteps that the government takes in currently the problems. I caution you that reading Atlas Shrugged is not for the faint of heart. At more than 500,000 words in length, you're going to have to be dedicated to finishing it. But for anyone looking for a new novel to work through this year, I highly recommend it.
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Ben said,
People interested in Ayn Rand, objectivism, and libertarianism, probably should not become doctors. I'm all for doctors learning about economics and learning to live below their means, rather than constantly feeling they need to make more and more money to support their consumption lifestyle. But this is a field for the "practice of medicine", not the "business of medicine". People interested in entrepreneurship and business should never, ever go to medical school but rather look into an MBA or starting their own business (and no, a medical practice should not be mistaken for a "small business").
Half M.D.: You'll change your tune once you get through med school (if you are considering a career in medicine). I've seen the biggest socialists in my class talk about how much they're going to make after residency. You don't work this hard to "live below your means." If you don't think that medical practices aren't small businesses, then what are they? And who are the people that work there?
fizzlemed said,
All of healthcare is a business. Ben, you're a little silly if you think otherwise. I actually think ALL doctors should take business classes. Managing your staff to make the best use of your time and resources, minimizing cost, maximizing care, etc. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we didn't have a for-profit insurance system in existence, though.
More on-topic… I recently started reading Atlas Shrugged at the urging of a friend (with an undergrad philosophy degree). It is intensely long, and I'm a little intimidated. Hopefully I can knock it out over spring break….hmmm…


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Alan Christman
Based on CIMdata estimates, the worldwide CAM software and services market declined by 6.1 percent in 2001, but it is expected to increase by 7.4 percent in 2002. End user payments for CAM software and services are estimated to have fallen from $1.27 billion in 2000 to $1.19 billion in 2001. A rebound to $1.28 billion to recapture the lost ground is forecast for 2002. This information is contained in the CIMdata NC Software and Services Market Assessment Report recently released by CIMdata.
The downturn in worldwide manufacturing activity was the primary cause of the downturn. Manufacturers generally scaled back on capital expenditures and spending for new technology implementations, including CAM software. The drop-off in manufacturing activity was the most acute in the United States, and this led to a significant fall in CAM software purchases. On a worldwide basis, Japanese expenditures were flat and European purchases were less than expected, but some countries, such as China, continued their aggressive expansion.
The U.S. CAM software market was impacted by two major events: a major reduction in machine tool purchases and a continued slowdown in the mold, tool and die industry segment. As reported in Modern Machine Shop in April, the purchase value of new machine tools in the United States fell by 21 percent in 2001 as compared to 2000. This continues a trend in declining machine tool sales that began in 1997. Since CAM software is primarily employed to program machine tools, the decline in machine tool purchases has a direct effect on the purchase of NC programming software.
Further, the mold, tool and die industry segment is critical to the sale of NC programming software; approximately half of the purchase value of CAM software comes from this industry. In 2001, manufacturers reduced purchasing activity, and more work was moved to offshore locations. The NTMA estimates that U.S. mold manufacturers suffered a 20 percent decline in 2001 sales from 2000 levels, and tool, die and fixtures firms experienced a 15 percent drop in their revenues during 2001. This industry has not been healthy for a number of years, and the trend is likely to continue. As U.S. mold, tool and die manufacturers continue to struggle, they tend to purchase less CAM software.
However, CIMdata has forecast that the worldwide CAM market will increase by 7.4 percent in 2002 to effectively return to the level experienced in 2000. This is predicated upon an improvement in worldwide manufacturing activity that results in increased spending for capital equipment, technology implementation and CAM software. As one key component, the NTMA forecasts that the mold business and the tool, die and fixtures segment will grow by 7 percent to regain some of the loss suffered in 2001. If a turnaround does occur, this will be welcome news for CAM software producers and vendors.
For 2001, CIMdata estimates that EDS PLM Solutions was the largest CAM software vendor based on vendor revenues, as its sales exceeded $100 million for the first time. This is partly due to the acquisition of SDRC. CIMdata believes that the next largest vendors in 2001 were IBM/Dassault, PTC, Hitachi Zosen and Delcam, which rounded out the top five suppliers in this market.
CIMdata further estimates that Missler Technology, a French firm, was the most rapidly growing vendor in the CAM software market in 2001, with 17 percent growth during 2000. This, again, is partly the result of an acquisition; Missler acquired CNN Industries, another French NC software supplier. The next most rapidly growing vendors were Vero International, EDS PLM Solutions, DP Technology and Delcam. It can be noted that EDS PLM Solutions and Delcam were the only two companies listed among both the five largest vendors and the most rapidly growing vendors.


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Griffin's not just a physical Übermensch, but he's a plain old mensch as well. From reader Andrew: "My buddy helped Blake Griffin push some dude's car out of an intersection on his lunch break [yesterday] in El Segundo. Hard to tell its Griffin but he is wearing a royal blue Nike shirt and white shorts."
Yeah, looks like him. Hope this doesn't get him in trouble with Kia.


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How does one calculate the probability distribution for the odds a character will appear in a word?
I'm trying to create a new tp word generator. An even distribution creates words that 50% of the time end with n, which is not what we see in the dictionary, nor in a typical text.
Say it had three words, a, ab, and bb. Then There is a 2/5 chance of an a.
But what if "a" was 40% of typical texts, "ab" 59% of typical texts and "bb" was rare, 1% of typical texts.
Also, we have tons of particles. If I leave particles in a text to calculate the odds of a letter appearing in a new word, then the letters of li/pi/mi/e are going to be way over represented.
Maybe I'll just wing it for now, but I was curious if there was a real answer for this.


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Is Your Social Media Strategy Generation Facebook-Friendly?
By: Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (Wiley, 2012)
Editor's Note: In this excerpt from his book, author Gary Hamel shares his insights on a social media strategy that resonates with Gen Y workers and Generation Facebook (Gen F.)
The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of Generation Facebook.
At a minimum, they'll expect the social environment of their worklife to reflect the social context of the Web, rather than a mid-twentieth-century bureaucracy.
With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of the social Web — those that are most at odds with the legacy management practices that characterize most companies.
1. All ideas compete on an equal footing.
On the Web, every idea has the chance to gain a following, or not. No one has the power to kill off a subversive idea or squelch an embarrassing debate. Ideas gain traction based on their perceived merits, rather than on the political power of their proponents.
2. Contribution counts for more than credentials.
When you post a video to YouTube, no one asks you if you went to film school. When you write a blog, no one cares whether or not you have a journalism degree. Position, title, and academic degrees — none of the usual status differentiators carry much weight online.
3. Hierarchies are built bottom-up.
In any Web forum there are some individuals who command more respect and attention than others, and have more influence as a consequence. Critically, though, these individuals haven't been appointed by some higher authority. Instead, their clout reflects the freely given approbation of their peers. On the Web, authority trickles up, not down.
4. Leaders serve rather than preside.
On the Web, every leader is a servant leader; no one has the power to command or sanction. Credible arguments, demonstrated expertise, and selfless behavior are the only levers for getting things done. Forget this online, and your followers will soon desert you.
5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned.
The Web is an opt-in economy. Whether contributing to a blog, working on an open source project, or sharing advice in a forum, people choose to work on the things that interest them. Everyone is an independent contractor and everyone scratches their own itch.
6. Groups are self-defining and self-organizing.
On the Web, you get to choose your compatriots. In any online community, you have the freedom to link up with some individuals and ignore the rest, to share deeply with some folks and not at all with others.
7. Resources get attracted, not allocated.
In large organizations, resources get allocated top-down, in a politicized, budget wrangle. On the Web, human effort flows toward ideas and projects that are attractive (and fun) and away from those that aren't.
In this sense, the Web is a market economy where millions of individuals get to decide, moment by moment, how to spend the precious currency of their time and attention.
8. Power comes from sharing, not hoarding.
The Web is also a gift economy. To gain influence and status, you have to give away your expertise and content. And you must do it quickly; if you don't, someone else will beat you to the punch and garner the credit that might have been yours. Online, there are lots of incentives to share and few to hoard.
9. Mediocrity gets exposed.
Online rating systems have become ubiquitous — for hotels, books, local businesses, and products of every sort. Though not every review is useful, in the aggregate they provide a good guide to what's remarkable and what's rubbish.
In traditional organizations, employees don't get to rate much of anything. There are no such cabals on the Web. If you're inadequate you'll be found out.
10. Dissidents can join forces.
In a hierarchical organization (or political system), it takes a lot of courage to speak up. When communication channels run vertically rather than laterally, it can be difficult to know whether anyone around you is possessed of a similarly rebellious mind. Individuals who feel isolated and vulnerable are unlikely to protest.
The Web, by contrast, makes it easy to find and connect with individuals who share one's own dissenting point of view.
11. Users can veto most policy decisions.
As many Internet moguls have learned to their sorrow, online users are opinionated and vociferous, and they'll quickly attack any decision or policy change that seems contrary to the community's interests.
Only by giving users a substantial say in key decisions can you keep them loyal.
12. Intrinsic rewards matter most.
The Web is a testament to the power of intrinsic rewards. Think of all the articles contributed to Wikipedia, all the open source software created, all the advice freely given, all the photos submitted to Flickr. Add up the hours of volunteer time and it's obvious that human beings will give generously of themselves when they're given the chance to contribute to something they actually care about.
These 12 features of web-based life are written into the social DNA of Generation Facebook, and are mostly missing from the managerial DNA of the average Fortune 500 company.
If your organization hopes to attract the most creative and energetic members of Gen F, it will need to understand these Internet-derived expectations and reinvent its management practices accordingly.
Sure, it's a buyer's market for talent right now, but that won't always be the case.
In the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will find itself stuck in the mud.
Excerpted with permission of the publisher Jossey-Bass from What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel. Copyright (c) 2012 by Gary Hamel. This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers.
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Gary Hamel has been called the world's "most influential business thinker" (Wall Street Journal) and "the leading expert on business strategy" (Fortune). His landmark books have appeared on every management bestseller list. He is on the faculty of the London Business School. He is director of the Management Lab and is leading a pioneering effort to "crowdsource" the future of management. Follow him on Twitter.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
My dog was just diagnosed with myxosarcoma. Could you offer any information on treatment, etc.?
Thank you.
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Myxosarcomas are a type of generally "low grade" soft tissue sarcomas that arise from the connective tissues of the body. Low grade tumors are locally very invasive and aggressive, but are unlikely to metastasize (spread to other body parts). The "grade" of the tumor is determined by both the appearance of the tumor cells under the microscope and how rapidly and invasively the tumor is growing.
If there is no evidence of tumor spread (i.e. to lymph nodes and lungs) then the treatment of choice is complete surgical removal, or a combination of surgery and radiation therapy. It can be very difficult to adequately remove a large tumor on a limb with surgery by itself short of an amputation. Chemotherapy is not considered a primary mode of treatment for low-grade tumors (although it might be recommended for the much less common high-grade versions of these tumors).
If you or your veterinarian have not already done so, please consult a qualified veterinary oncologist.


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"The World At Our Feet" crowed the front page headline in the Times of India, above a picture of the team celebrating with the trophy after seeing off Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
"The wait has ended and a new legend has been born," the Times said, putting Dhoni's squad on the same pedestal as the last Indian team to win the World Cup back in 1983.
The Hindustan Times did not even bother with a headline, covering its front page with a picture of the joyous Indian players behind a huge hoarding in the Wankhede Stadium bearing the slogan "Champions".
India became the first team to win the World Cup on home soil, after successfully chasing down the largest run-target ever set in a final.
"Men who make history defy all the odds," the Hindustan Times said, labelling the win "a resounding announcement of India's official coronation as the world's best team" which will herald a cricketing "golden age" for India.
"Windia!" was the banner headline in the Indian Express, while the Mail Today ran "Cup of Joy" over a picture of champagne bursting over the players' heads as they held up the trophy.
Like many newspapers, the Mail singled out the role of skipper Dhoni, who hit the winning runs in style with an imperious six into the packed stands.
"Hail Mahendra Singh Dhoni," the newspaper said. "On a night when the heat inside the Wankhede Stadium could have left you breathless, the inspirational leader showed what it is to lead from the front."
There was special praise too for the "instrumental" efforts of India's coach, former South African Test player Gary Kirsten, who has been credited with reviving the team's fortunes after a turbulent era under Australian coach Greg Chappell.
Tributes for the little master
Most newspapers ran special articles to honour star batsman Sachin Tendulkar who, at 37, was almost certainly appearing in his last World Cup tournament.
Tendulkar, playing in front of his home crowd, failed with the bat, scoring just 18 runs, but still ended up shedding tears of joy once victory was assured.
"For very long, cricket has been synonymous with Tendulkar all over India," said the Indian Express.
"But home is where the heart lies, and no other ground in India, or the world, could have provided a more emotional platform for the batting maestro."
Friends in high places
Praise and congratulations poured in from all quarters, including Indian President Pratibha Patil.
"All of you truly deserve the thanks of a billion plus Indians today," she said in a message to the team, while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thanked the players for having "made India proud."
Congress president Sonia Gandhi greeted the jubilant crowds in Delhi, saying the victory "will be etched in gold for generations to come."
Meanwhile, in Colombo
The tone was very different in Sri Lanka, where the state-run media blasted everything from the preparation of the national team to the squad selection.
The Sunday Observer particularly questioned the wisdom of playing a half-fit Muttiah Muralitharan, the ace spinner and world record wicket-taker, who was retiring after Saturday's game.
"Was it advisable playing a half-fit Muralitharan?" the paper said. "Winning the mega final is much more important than giving a farewell tribute to even a great cricketer of Muralitharan's magnitude."


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The entrance to the museum is spectacular, since it is adorned by the gate of an 8th-century Umayyad desert palace of Qasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi (moved here from excavation 1936-1939), set between a pair of modern semi-cylindrical towers with a geometric and flora decoration. The top uses ornamentation borrowed from Hellenistic, Roman and Persian Sassanid designs. The palace was built 724-727.
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Yesterday, I wrote about How Would You Like to Be Remembered?
I would like to confess that when I leave my office for an appointment, my wife and/or my paralegal ask me three questions:
- Is your zipper up?
- Do you have your cell phone?
- Do you have any aluminum foil on your shirt buttons?
When Shoshin Nagamine came to Hawaii in 1996, he gave a very special speech at the Kahala Hilton entitled Karate and World Peace. I was fortunate to attend the speech and the formal dinner that followed, and had to purchase a new suit for the occasion. Halfway through the dinner, I realized that I had not removed the tag from the left sleeve of the suit jacket!
So it is important to do good things so that you will create a legacy and be remembered. But as we age, it is also important to just remember!
I am convinced that Karate training stimulates our brains and helps us to think quickly and to remember things... but maybe not about foil covered buttons.
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You'll have to pardon Bills general manager Buddy Nix if he's not quite sure whether he wants to draft a quarterback or not.
After saying he needed to draft a franchise quarterback, and then circling back and saying he might not, he threw another log on the fire Friday morning, a bigger one at that.
Not only do the Bills need to draft one, he said during his weekly radio show, they might have to trade up to do so.
"Let me say this: I think there's a time that in the era that you're in and the development of your team, there's a time when you can move up a round to take a quarterback," Nix said on WGR, unsolicited (via Tim Graham of the Buffalo News). "And I think the time's now for us.
"I mean, if a guy's there — I keep saying that, and there'll be one out there — if the guy's there, then I think we'll target — as I've said before — drafting a good quarterback. We need a good, young quarterback, and we're going to do our best to get him."
Nix either has something in mind and is trying to get his fans accustomed to the idea of making a big move, or he's been swayed by the marketing department to keep the 5-8 Bills pertinent by talking about a bold plan.
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I'm not a diver myself, so I had to do some research to answer your question. The concern with flying soon after diving (or rising too quickly to the surface of the water after a deep dive) is something called decompression sickness. It's also known as "the bends."
When you scuba dive, you breathe compressed air from a tank. That air contains high amounts of two gases, oxygen and nitrogen — higher than are normally in the air around us.
The deeper you dive, the more pressure you're under. That causes the nitrogen to dissolve into your blood, where it remains during your dive. Your body slowly eliminates the nitrogen, primarily in your urine.
As you swim back toward the surface after a deep dive, the water pressure around you decreases. If this transition occurs too quickly, the liquid nitrogen forms bubbles in your tissues or blood that can damage the walls of blood vessels. These bubbles also can block normal blood flow in the same way that little blood clots can.
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- Avoid hot tubs, saunas or hot baths after diving.
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Through interaction with horses, our young women build new skills in relationship development in a way that no other therapy approach can offer.
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At Falcon Ridge Ranch therapy is integrated into the entire experience and the environment. It's not something that just happens only at specific times and places, it happens throughout the entire day for her entire stay. Therapists, teachers and residential staff all work together to tailor the program for each young woman – day by day, hour by hour, for the length of the program.
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Very first I ever did (made out of jeans), maybe 20 years ago or so. This is when I found that quilting was the best psychotherapy EVER.
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HUNTSVILLE - A South Texas man was put to death Thursday for a slaying 14 years ago in which the victim was bound with shoelaces and strips of bedding, stabbed 94 times and robbed of $50.
The execution of Arturo Diaz, 37, was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-ditch appeal to block his lethal injection. It was the 13th execution this year in Texas, the nation's most active capital punishment state.
Diaz smiled and blew a kiss to several witnesses watching through a window, including his mother and grandmother.
He then turned to the father of his victim, watching through an adjacent window to the death chamber. "I hope this can bring some relief for you and your family," he told him.
He was pronounced dead 17 minutes later, at 6:30 p.m. CDT.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials have used pentobarbital as the single execution drug for more than a year, but Diaz became the first in the state given the sedative procured from a vendor or manufacturer the prison agency has declined to identify.
The expiration date of the department's existing inventory passed this month, possibly diluting its potency. Like other death penalty states, Texas officials needed to go to nontraditional sources because the usual suppliers bowed to pressure from capital punishment opponents and refused to make their product available.
In his appeal to the Supreme Court, rejected by lower state and federal courts, Diaz's attorney, James Terry Jr., argued recent high court rulings allowed another look at previously unsuccessful appeals where inmates had shoddy legal help. Diaz had deficient counsel at his 2000 trial in Hidalgo County and early in the appeals process, his attorney said.
Terry specifically questioned whether Diaz properly was advised of a plea offer from prosecutors before his capital murder trial, although court records show his trial judge questioned Diaz, who insisted on going to trial even with the possibility he'd get the death penalty. Terry also argued attorneys never reached out to Diaz's relatives to testify about how his unstable childhood contributed to his behavior, but records show Diaz's relatives wouldn't testify and Diaz didn't want them to testify.
In addition, Terry contended Diaz's initial appeals attorney was equally deficient for not addressing the trial lawyers' inadequacies.
Diaz, from Las Milpas, a small town between McAllen and the Mexican border, was convicted of the April 1999 slaying of Michael Nichols, 25, at Nichols' apartment in McAllen. Diaz also was given two life terms for attempted capital murder and aggravated robbery of another man who survived.
Cregg Thompson, the lead prosecutor at Diaz's murder trial, said evidence showed Diaz tried to steal Nichols' pickup truck but couldn't open a locked gate at the apartment complex. His shoe print was found on the keypad box at the gate, and his DNA was found on a beer bottle at Nichols' apartment.
Diaz said he was high on drugs and alcohol during the attack on Nichols. He also confessed to a slaying that took place a month earlier. In that case, the victim's head was stomped and face beaten with a hammer. Diaz also received a 94-year prison term for aggravated sexual assault for raping a jail inmate.
"You know it's going to take some time for all the appeals and everything to go through," Thompson said this week of Diaz's execution. "But when you say 14 years, that sounds like an awful long time."


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There's no politician more fun to write about than Rudy Giuliani. He's your political show of shows—driven to ever greater public outlandishness by a do-anything compulsion always to be at the center of attention. At some point, when he was New York's mayor, it seemed to stop mattering to him that this attention was, for his political career, the bad kind of attention. Politics appeared no longer to be his interest; to prove, over and over again, that it's his right—his art, even—to be at the center of attention was. Even this does not really explain the implausibility, and entertainment, of Rudy as a politician.
The explanation for what makes Rudy so compelling among people who know him best—including New York reporters who've covered him for a generation, and political pros who've worked for him—is simpler: he is nuts, actually mad.
Now, this line should be delivered with the proper timing (smack your head in astonishment when you deliver it). And it implies some admiration and affection: he's an original. But it is, too, a considered political diagnosis: every student of Rudy Giuliani—indeed, every New Yorker—has witnessed, and in many cases suffered, his periods of mania, political behavior that, in the end, can't have much of a rational explanation.
So, if you are not from New York, if you haven't had the pleasure of what Jack Newfield, that querulous old-school New York City columnist and reporter, called "the Full Rudy"—also the title of his 2002 book about the former mayor—you perhaps cannot appreciate our sense of emperor's-new-clothes incredulity. Despite what's in front of everybody's face—behavior that's not only in the public record but recapped on the front pages every day—becoming president could really happen for Rudy.
No, that is wrong: virtually every Full Rudy veteran expects the implosion to happen any second. It's in some bizarro parallel reality that the Rudy campaign achieves verisimilitude and even—strange, too, when you consider the cronies and hacks who surround him—appears, at times, adept.
It's a Catch-22 kind of nuttiness. What with all his personal issues—the children; the women; the former wives; Kerik and the Mob; his history of interminable, bitter, asinine hissy fits; the look in his eye; and, now, Judi!, his current, prospective, not-ready-for-prime-time First Lady—he'd have to be nuts to think he could successfully run for president. But nutty people don't run for president—certainly they don't get far if they do.
Newfield, who died in 2004, desperately, and to little avail, tried in his short, apoplectic book to demonstrate the existence of a real Rudy as opposed to the post-9/11 heroic Rudy. "Are you crazy? He's just insane," Newfield kept yelling at me over lunch one day, when I was trying to come up with a strategic explanation for Rudy's wild swings of temperament, judgment, and sense of proportion. (Similarly, Newfield quotes the New York politician Basil Paterson as saying Giuliani has "a devil in him," and Giuliani's former school chancellor Rudy Crew as diagnosing a "very, very powerful pathology," and former New York congressman Rev. Floyd Flake as seeing in Rudy, simply, a deep "mean streak.")
I argued, having voted for Rudy once, that, in certain contexts, nuttiness—for instance, his need for virtually round-the-clock media attention and affirmation—can be a positive governing approach, as well as an effective public-relations strategy. Rudy's manic domination of the city's airwaves and consciousness during New York's most disturbing crime years, when many people felt the city was beyond anybody's control, was palliative (David Dinkins, his more modest predecessor, always seemed overwhelmed). And, of course, his hysteric nature was part of what enabled him to appear so reassuring on 9/11: When everyone is crazy, he, being actually crazy, is calm. When everyone is stunned, he's expressive. (He may be the best off-the-cuff speaker in politics—conversational, witty, personal.)
Here Newfield went on, during lunch, to harangue me about the willful blindness, the consensus cowardice of the media. We (that is, we in the media) quite refuse to acknowledge the possibility that an entirely inappropriate character (a "nutso" was, I believe, Newfield's term) might be able to navigate all the hurdles and scrutiny of a campaign and actually become president. (The instances—e.g., Howard Dean, Wesley Clark—when oddball candidates do get dinged reinforces the belief that, if you make it, you deserve to make it.) The better your poll numbers are, and the closer you get to being president, the more that certifies you as being sane enough to be president (the Bush and Cheney example notwithstanding).
New York magazine, for instance, has been covering Rudy's antics for a generation. The magazine was, itself, subject to a famous blitz of Rudy loopiness: he banned from city buses an ad for the magazine with a tagline saying it was "possibly the only good thing in New York Rudy hasn't taken credit for." But its recent cover story on the Rudy presidential phenomenon was written by a neophyte political journalist rather than one of the legions of New York reporters who've been gobsmacked over the years by Rudy (there's a whole new generation of reporters who don't know the real Rudy). So instead of being a story about the sheer preposterousness, the zaniness and lunacy, of the notion of Rudy as president—the exceptionalness of the whole enterprise—it was about, in essence, the logic of perception. Rudy is, necessarily, what others see him as—that was the magazine's eminently politic point. Similarly, Newsweek, in its Rudy cover story, made the case for transformation by polls—you are what an unexpected number of people are willing to believe you are, no matter how outside the realm of credibility and reason that might be. In both critiques, Rudy is far along in the process of making himself into a realistic presidential being, a legitimate, if curious, front-runner, a man for all seasons, a plausible model—this character famous for his dramatic mood swings—of steadfastness and determination. If he doesn't implode, then, in fact, he's sound.
Neither reporter—both of whom accompanied Rudy on his campaign trips—appeared to have asked the obvious question (it's a reasonable question for all politicians, but it's professional negligence not to ask it of Rudy): whether he's on antidepressants or any other pharmacological mood stabilizers.
The developing view among tolerant Republicans and receptive independents seems to be that what happened in New York concerning Rudy ought to stay in New York (except for 9/11, which is an officially nationalized experience, and the Disneyfication of Times Square, which plays in the heartland as well). Even that the city, because it was crazy (and nasty), full of not only criminals but the liberal elite, deserved Rudy. It was beast against beast.
His reign in New York—cutting his opponents dead while micro-managing or attacking the media as he sped off to cop shootings, fires, and water-main breaks—was all about his passions and personality. It was all dramatic persona, a governing style much closer to that of a banana-republic potentate than to your average city administrator's. (This has a structural explanation: The mayors in most municipalities are constrained by county authorities. The anomalous condition in New York is that the city subsumes five counties, making it a kind of duchy, and giving its chief executive wide discretion and, if he is so inclined, the freedom to act out grandly.)
This translates into a certain kick-assness (of the criminals as well as the liberals). What's lost in the translation is the neurosis and eccentricity and ludicrousness and hubris of Rudy as supreme ruler. That's in the finer details.
It's always worth recapping Giuliani's famous riposte to a ferret owner who called in to the mayor's weekly radio show to protest the city's ban on them as pets: "There is something deranged about you.… The excessive concern you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist.… There is something really, really very sad about you.… This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness.… You should go consult a psychologist.… Your compulsion about—your excessive concern with it is a sign that there is something wrong in your personality.… You have a sickness, and I know it's hard for you to accept that.… You need help."
There were, memorably, his bitter fights with anybody in his administration who got more publicity than he did (especially his police commissioner William Bratton, whom he fired because Bratton got credit for the drop in crime); his refusal (more childish and foot-stamping than strictly racist) to meet with virtually any elected black official during his tenure (justified with a series of odd ruminations: "If you engage in dialogue with political leaders that pander … then you end up watering down your change so much that nothing changes"); his jihadish campaign against the Brooklyn Museum of Art over a painting that mocked the Virgin Mary; and his authoritarian campaign against jaywalkers (resulting in formidable street barricades).
His own children end up, too, as forlorn figures in his imperial city. Given their parents' marital discord and the mayor's nonstop parenting of the city, they were often left in the care of the police (at 37,000 strong, the N.Y.P.D., commanded by the mayor, is the largest force in the U.S.). A subject of both humor and concern among Rudy's closest aides, the children—Caroline, 18, and Andrew, 21—were on a police diet, too. To keep them happy and quiet, the police stuffed them full of food. Father and children are now estranged—his son pointedly says he won't campaign for his father, because of his demanding golf-training schedule (he learned the game from a member of his police detail); his daughter seems disinclined to speak of her father at all. (On the other hand, there are, perhaps, so many bad fathers in American politics that it might not damage you even if you turn out to be the worst. Even when the children themselves—and I believe this is the first time this has ever happened in a modern presidential campaign—disavow you.)
And Bernie Kerik. There is no circumstance under which a politician with any sense of vulnerability or accountability or merely the need to maintain a sense of appearances hires Bernie Kerik (no less as the police commissioner). Kerik is from Paterson, New Jersey, where I'm from. He came to live in a house in the suburb just down the road from where my parents lived. I knew or had heard the same stories everyone else—my parents and my parents' friends—had heard. Which it seems impossible Rudy would not have heard, too. And if, somehow, he hadn't heard them, we know now from Rudy's own grand-jury testimony that he was, in fact, officially told—though, he says, it didn't quite register. In other words, one of the most experienced prosecutors of organized-crime figures has spelled out for him what is widely rumored—that his corrections chief and prospective police commissioner might be Mobbed up—and he doesn't get it. Yup. And then goes on to become business partners with the guy. And then becomes his sponsor for high federal office.
Let's not even get into the nature of Rudy's tolerance for whatever Kerik was into, and just focus on Rudy's sense of impunity—he's got no sense of caution. (A likely implosion point for the Rudy campaign is Kerik's anticipated trial for tax fraud and providing false information to federal authorities when he was vetted for the job of homeland-security chief, which Rudy sponsored him for.) It's about getting away with it. It's waving the red flag. It's his assumption that everybody is a pantywaist, except him.
And, speaking of banana republics, there was Rudy's extra-legal plan to set aside the 2001 mayoral election (after his term limit had been reached, so he couldn't run again) and, by legislative acclamation (thwarted only at the last minute), extend his term.
Still, say what you want, Rudy's fearlessness or kookiness does break through the political clutter and leave a powerful impression—that may be the biggest part of the political job.
The wives: if Rudy's marital history isn't crazy, it's surely way over the line of middle-class domestic political norms. You can't marry your second cousin (Regina Peruggi, now president of Kingsborough Community College) and, on top of that, annul the deal, as though this were the 18th century. You can't, in a public snit, break up with your wife in a news conference (provoking that wife, Donna Hanover, to call a counter–news conference where she suggested he was a public liar and adulterer). You can't carry on, as we used to say, in front of everybody, not without some major contrition—not if you want a political future.
Or can you?
Bill Clinton's sexual life (which now helps make Rudy's politically viable) is about shame and need, whereas Rudy's seems to be about an entirely different conception of marriage and family. It's a resistance to modern marriage—to the man-woman parity thing. He's unreconstructed, and proudly so. He's shameless. There's no apology about Rudy doing what Rudy wants to do. He appears to have had two public relationships as mayor. One was, according to his wife, with Cristyne Lategano, his former communications director, which he made few efforts to hide, and which, even after his wife made the accusation public, Cristyne and he blithely denied. Doubly defying standards of convention, he continued to keep Lategano on a city-related payroll. And then there's Judi, the current wife. There's a small effort on Rudy's part to suggest that one wife leaving and another simultaneously arriving has some wiggle room in the timing—but it's perfunctory. (In their recent Barbara Walters interview, the couple refused to say how and where they'd met.) He doesn't care.
This is the "goomah" issue. Rudy has expressed his belief to at least one prospective groom of my acquaintance that marriage is improved by a goomah (as rendered in The Sopranos)—the Italian-American dialect word for a significant other woman. His grandfather had had a goomah, Rudy said, with some sensitivity and depth of feeling, and his father had one, and what worked worked.
Rudy, arguably, is the most anti-family-values candidate in the race (this or any other). And yet, in some sense—which could be playing well with the right wing—what he may be doing is going to the deeper meaning of family values, which is about male prerogative, an older, stubborn, my-way-or-the-highway, when-men-were-men, don't-tread-on-me kind of thing.
And then there are Rudy's people. Rudy has always been surrounded by concentric and sometimes intersecting circles of reasonable and professional people and greater and lesser inappropriate types. It is, however, in a way that has limited many local politicians trying to go national, the inappropriate ones that dominate his mind share, staffers who have tended him so long and enabled him so well—"Rudy doesn't really get along with outsiders" is how it's gently put—that they are, in their fashion, crazy, too.
"I know," says an aide in one of the outside circles, "how meshugge they are or worse. Meshugge is a friendly, loving word—some of them are way beyond meshugge."
There's a game that's played by staffers from the more or less reasonable and professional circles, about who might or might not get White House jobs. The game breaks everybody up.
Rudy's closest adviser, Peter Powers, whom handicappers mark as White House chief of staff, is a grade-school friend. Then there's Denny Young, often called the consigliere in the Rudy camp in a partly ironic and partly proud identification with Mafia lore. (Powers's and Young's marriages both broke up shortly after Rudy ended his.) Next in line is Tony Carbonetti, the son of one of Rudy's schoolhood chums, who has spent his entire career with Rudy, as aide and operative. "He'll be Karl Rove, which he isn't, but that's how Rudy will treat him," says a longtime Rudy adviser.
Then Sunny Mindel, his famously intemperate spokeswoman: she's been relieved of that job in his campaign—she still holds it for the Giuliani business—but is expected to get it back in the White House. No one in any circle has ever quite been able to explain Sunny—except to say that her hysteria matches Rudy's own, that together they do the things that make for rare, and peculiar, political media, which is Rudy's sweet spot. (She's credited with getting Rudy to go to war with the Brooklyn Museum of Art.)
The punch line (this is where everybody breaks up) to the Giuliani White House organization chart is that the intern will be Cristyne Lategano.
Except that now there is an even better East Wing joke. Rudy people tend, when they speak of the prospective First Lady, to use an exclamation point: Judi! (as they often use the exclamation point for Rudy!). Other than to hope that her unlikeliness somehow reinforces the idea of Rudy's Everyman authenticity, there is no real way that anybody can seem to rationalize Judi, the nurse whom he may or may not have met in a cigar bar (they did often, as the New York Post says, "rendezvous" at Cigars & Bar on West 58th Street in Manhattan). Even among Rudy's staunchest people, she's seen as the most likely implosion point. It is not just her hidden first marriage ("Rudy and Judi's wedding wasn't a small wedding," one aide notes. "This was, in New York terms, a royal wedding. There were thousands of stories written about it—and she didn't think she ought to correct her marital statistics?"), the dead dogs (in the late 1970s she worked for a surgical company that demonstrated its medical staplers on live dogs, which were cut open and stapled shut, pretty much killing them), her voluble discussion of how much money she's spending on her clothes and on the redecoration of their new house ("She's spending him dry," says an aide), the open war with his children (she is said to control access to Rudy), and now her hope to join in on Cabinet discussions (and his apparent hope to have her), but, most problematically, the fact that her interest in publicity is as great as his. "Definitely she'd be up there with Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton as a First Lady who redefined the job—major redefinition" is the punch line.
And yet, so far, the gang that you wouldn't think could shoot straight has done remarkably well. They're even playing the crazy card—the card that, counter-intuitively, they seem to most like to play—deftly.
Partly, this is luck. The Republicans, so far, are struck pretty much dumb. Bush and Cheney have created a sense of something like guilt, or embarrassment, or, even, disgrace, among the faithful. Potential candidates on the traditional right seem to be hiding under a rock—they don't want the Bush-Cheney taint. So to find yourself a nationally admired figure (a kind of apple pie), in a field where something like 70 percent of likely voters (many your natural ideological enemies) still haven't expressed any opinion about the race, and where the opposition includes the 70-year-old John McCain, who both hates and sucks up to Bush (therefore getting neither advantage), and Mitt Romney, a Mormon from Massachusetts, that's luck. What's more, choosing a relative social liberal—just at the moment when the religious right seems to have lost its way—with supersonic national-security cred might be a way to combine independents with Reagan Democrats, along with the South (which you get anyway), and for the Republicans to actually, miraculously, win.
The other thing is that there is no one, including Hillary, who has as much direct experience dealing with the media as Rudy and his people do—they've played in New York.
Indeed, Rudy is long over the biggest media hurdle. He's famous in a way few politicians are. He sells papers. He moves the news. It's a different media algebra when you are already famous and you seem to screw up—that may make you even more famous. Your flaws are not so much flaws as a kind of cream on top. We're privileged to know more about you.
A famous person's nuttiness is of an entirely different order than an unfamous person's. The big issue with nuttiness is that it's secret or shameful. But, in a sense, publicity cleanses or absolves nuttiness. That is, it makes it normal. We're used to it. What's more, with Rudy, there's so much of it that sheer volume cancels the details out.
And, in some significant way, the nuttiness is the point. Rudy is reversing the basic political math, where likability = electability. Rather, it's Rudy's extremism, his vividness, the joie de guerre of his obsessions and fixations, his beastliness, that give him his chance. He ought to flee from his wife's advice and stay away from those necessarily mealymouthed Barbara and Oprah interviews—that's no place for a son of a bitch. These days the biggest Republican sin, bigger even than supporting abortion or gun control, may be the sin of the flip-flop. And that's the marvelous advantage Rudy has to offer his party. You can better trust a crazy man, lacking normal artifice and equivocations, not to shit you.
Michael Wolff is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.


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A positive integer is $B$-smooth if and only if all of its prime divisors are less than or equal to a positive real $B$. For example, the $3$-smooth integers are of the form $2^{a} 3^{b}$ with non-negative exponents $a$ and $b$, and those integers less than or equal to $20$ are $\{1,2,3,4,6,8,9,12,16,18\}$.
In Ramanujan's first letter to G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan emphatically quotes (without proof) his result on the number of $3$-smooth integers less than or equal to $N > 1$, \begin{eqnarray} \frac{\log 2 N \ \log 3N}{2 \log 2 \ \log 3}. \end{eqnarray} This is an amazingly accurate approximation, as it differs from the exact value by less than 3 for the first $2^{1000} \approx 1.07 \times 10^{301}$ integers, as shown by Pillai.
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Fox News has responded to President Obama's appearance [1] on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by suggesting that Obama is somehow denigrating the office of the presidency. For instance, today on Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson said [2] that it's "nutso" for Obama to go on "these comedy shows" because it "lowers the status of the office."
On the April 23 edition of the show, Fox News host Dana Perino -- a press secretary for President George W. Bush -- said that Bush had "a very different outlook on these comedy shows. He liked them, he respected them, but he never went on during his presidency":
Carlson said that it's "hard to believe that in 2012, we have presidents and candidates considering to go on these comedy shows, and even host, like, Saturday Night Live."
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