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2003.08.28a – WGBH releases 12,000-word guidelines on making DVD and set-top-box menus accessible. I need 7,700 words to correct it (with extensive quotations from the original).
2003.08.29 – Update: A 19-year-old puts Nottke in his place. Lovingly.
2003.08.28b – King of the oldschool A-list explains how the sky is blue and not, as people had apparently deluded themselves, green. Jason, we know that semantically-correct markup can be valid code, and the converse is also true, but neither description requires or implies the other.
I'd be willing to overlook his stating the obvious – when Jason states the obvious, so many of those oblivious to the obvious promiscuously link to it – if
kottke.org had anything resembling valid or semantic code. Here's a doozy:
<!-- yes, i'm still using transparent gif spacers. why? because it's quick and easy and fun! -->
<!-- this layout is getting old. so, so old. -->
<!-- begin content table -->
<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%>
A lot of my old pages are much worse than that. Yesterday I updated a page from HTML 2.0! But I hope I have ridden every page relating to Web development or standards compliance of validation errors. I've been using semantic markup for a good two years, and told everyone to do the same in my book.
One could, however, nitpick over Jason's extended malapropism of "
<table> tag" and the like, but my opponents will already have been persuaded that any criticism of the Jason–Meg Experience represents blog-deconstructing sour grapes, so why worsen things?
Meanwhile, his spousal equivalent's site is one tiny error away from validating. I know who wears the pants there. ¶
2003.08.25a – Let's run the Homosexualist Agenda through the gayest "men's" magazine there is, Details. ("Now leave me alone, I'm in the middle of a waxing"; "What is Maer getting his panties in a twist about?"; "It's for guys who like staring at pictures of naked men but haven't quite figured out why.")
September 2003 issue:
Details ("for men") blew the very-most-obvious homosexualist tie-in: Cover mannequin A_shton Kuch_er is the reigning public obsession of snaggletoothed "advice" columnist Dan Savage (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, inter alia). Brad Pitt, come on down!
Must be open to the waist to be enumerated.
Hed (Tom Samiljan, "Does Bisexuality Really Exist?") telegraphs intent to reinvent long-since-passé inquiry into bisexualism:
"Nocturnal Admissions" by Augusten ("I ♥ Trannies") Burroughs, with note-perfect photo illustration of melting Creamsicle® by Bela Borsodi ("Is Dead"), on wet dreams:
"The End of Men?" by Jerry Stahl (still undead), on declining sperm counts, estrogenic poisoning, and Y-chromosome defects:
"Is There Such a Thing as Too Gay?" by Tony Hendra (still undead) states that Steven Cojocaru, whom I'd thankfully never heard of, embodies every "stereotype of 'pansy,' 'fairy,' 'sissy,' and all those other hilarious epithets we throw around in private." (Careful with that "we.") "He's just what red-meat Republicans expect a gay man to be: Flirty, lisping, campy, dolled up in ridiculous clothes... [i]n a word, abnormal. His antics make conservatives totally comfortable in their ingrained biases: See, we were right all along."
I would vouchsafe that this character is just that, a character. We reinvent ourselves for show business. But not by very much. Behind every pansy, fairy, or sissy is a pansy, fairy, or sissy. Some of us just are like that. It is normal for us.
Piece by cute but nerdy but also now influential and well-off Clive Thompson ("Why We Spend What Daddy Didn't") on the current generation of conspicuous consumers – demonstrably differentiable from previous generations of conspicuous consumers.
Speak for yourselves, Details. ¶
2003.08.25b – I'm liking the oldschool trend of publishing screenshots of compliant sites in PDAs and hideously outdated browsers. For example, Webstandards.org in Palm, PocketPC, Newton.
So I had Grant and his posse shoot this Weblog in a Newton. (The Newton my esteemed colleague gave me later died. I loved it, though. You can have it if you want it. And you realize Grant runs a Newton Web server?) Got a problem with them character entities.
Running 2003-era XML Web sites on 1992-era handheld computers is, I suppose, akin to watching 2003-era movies on 1997-era Betamaxen.
Now, what kind of a person would do a thing like that? ¶
2003.08.20 – After hours and hours of work, I have now retyped the very first article I got paid for, "Typography and TV Captioning," Print, January/February 1989.
And I retypeset the copy in InDesign and added it to the scan of the original article's pages I've been sitting on forever. The result is one of the few tagged accessible PDFs in existence.
And I gave my articles for Print their own page. You'll find everything there.
We thus have the complete Caption Typography Ring Cycle available online. I'll have more to say about this as I get closer to my ATypI presentation on the typography of online captioning.
2003.08.18 – The iBot got approved by the FDA. I'm as interested in tooling around town in one of these as in a Segway. The iBot is less likely to get stolen by some hoodlum outside the Suction Cup, for example. The demo videos of a volunteer tossing a ball back and forth with the machine hiked up on two wheels are literally incredible.
I think an acid test would involve riding the subway in one of these things – transverse to the direction of motion, parallel to it, or at an angle, on four wheels or two. Think of the acceleration–deceleration profiles and all-axis motion.
Both machines are all about balance. Perfect for the crips, right? Balance is a big problem. (So is standing tolerance for the elderly, but you can't win 'em all.) In theory, you the person with CP or the amputee (leg amputee, at least) could tool around joyfully on a Segway. Tremors? What tremors? This thing recalculates its position, and yours, a thousand times a second.
I had previously rung up the Segway publicist and asked if the Segway had actually been tested with people with disabilities. My notes say:
Carla Vallone – No, no testing has been done because it's not a medical device. I asked for someone to call me eventually to discuss how much this has been talked about so far and what the plans are in the future. Purely usability or human-factors testing . (2003.02.05 16:47)
To recap:
Someone with a milder mobility impairment than Christopher Reeve's is expected to sit down and pay 29 grand rather than stand up and pay five? ¶
I would also note that "iBot" is a shabby, patently juvenile, cutesy, and ill-suited name for a vehicle half the size of a new Toyota Echo. If I plug it into my PowerBook, will it sync right up with iTunes? ¶
2003.07.16a – The slogan for summer '03!
2003.08.16b – Synthesized voice is complete shite and has been for the 20 years I've been listening to it. And I'm not even blind! I'm not stuck there all day listening to the damned thing yammer. The sole advantage of auditory delivery is speed: A trained listener can run the thing at 300 or more words a minute (wam – an actual acronym used in stenotypy [an actual word]).
This is not theory on my part. Every blind person I've asked has confirmed the fatigue. They'd prefer to call you, frankly.
Even Mac OS X speech isn't so hot, you know.
There are, however, two experimental systems that could be used in actual products:
The trick is to find difficult sample text to articulate. Physics papers are too obvious. I think these two extracts work well:
The hot new rim technology is to have rims that also have rims. There are rims on the inside, and rims on the outside, and the ones on the inside spin when the wheels spin and the rims on the outside sort of spin occasionally. You're going to love this exciting new mode of personal expression as it winds its way through society until your grade-school principal is all meta-rimmed out on his '92 Saab.
Bubbleland's identity system features richly-coloured signage in sculpted Plexiglas, a feisty mascot, and a custom typeface created specifically for dimensional usage.
You said a mouthful! ¶
2003.08.15 00:02 – It's the blackout. I dialed into CompuServe in New York.
This is it. Not enough juice to log again, probably. And yes, I manually created this posting, with every accoutrement. I kept my head when all about me were losing theirs. Tomorrow, I rediscover literature. ¶
Addendum (16th): I forgot to mention that on the second of my walkabouts, having learned that other pedestrians are dumb as a sack of hammers and will threaten to walk right into you until you beam your flashing LED in their eyes, I zip-tied a second bike light (blinking red LED) to my cargo-pantalon pocket and managed to avoid collisions. Still, I liked the candy ravers' glowsticks better, even though unclutched by a severed hand. ¶
2003.08.13 – I don't do golf and I certainly don't do tall, narrow-waisted golfers, but I still enjoyed the squibette in the June '03 GQ on Charles (Not Thurston) Howell III and his endorsement deal with J. Lindeberg, the hardest Swedish name in the world for me to remember. (J. Lundberg? What?)
Adam "I Am in Fact" Rapoport:
- How is it that a kid from Augusta, Georgia, with a Roman numeral after his name, has the fashion sense you have?
- By accident.... Walking down the second fairway, asked me if I'd be interested in
accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal saviourwearing J. Lindeberg, his designer. I said, "No way at all." But by the eighteenth fairway, I was writing down phone numbers to call Johan Lindeberg.
- What changed your mind?
- You know, we talked a while about my age [23], whether I just wanted to be a golfer or a golfer and more.... By wearing the clothing I do, a lot of people know me: "Oh, Charles Howell, he wears those goofy clothes." [...]
- You wore those white pants with green piping at the 2002 Masters. What kind of reaction did you get at Augusta?
- I think they were shocked.... I was shocked myself that I actually wore them....
Hit the Hindenburg site and eventually you find this oddball type treatment – dark grey blackletter on charcoal black, seemingly stretched convexly around a large-radius sphere.
I suppose it's intended to invoke Black Sabbath or other heavy-metal uses of "Gothic" type, but if you give me blackletter and put it on a fashionable young man, I wonder what the next step is gonna be.
"Tiger looked at me one day and just said, 'You've got to be kidding me.' " You ain't seen nothin' yet. ¶
2003.08.10 – You know how people say the exact opposite of what they actually know to be true? Not through old-fashioned lying, but because it seems uncomfortable to say anything else? Or it is so shockingly and purely true you can't face it? For example, Roger Ebert's declaration that you could always figure out where you were in the battle scenes of Black Hawk Down, or Christopher Hume's claiming the overpoliced denuded patch of concrete known as Dundas Square is a thriving city landmark.
Here is what I wrote on the bedroom computer (a PowerBook 100 I got for $60 from an Irishman heading back home) many weeks ago:
The microholiday (isn't that a Couplandism?) is a cornerstone of the creative person's coping strategy. It's multitasking in drag: You're hard at work all day, whether in an office or not, but you take time out for tiny interruptions – instant messaging, surfing, possibly snatchmail checking.
I used to be able to sit and write for extended periods. This was circa 1993, when snatchmail meant a phone call with a modem.... The microholidays at the time were limited by technology. Since they lasted minutes and were preceded by other minutes of setup time, they were miniholidays, really.
Today, you can be interrupted any number of ways. These microholidays – sometimes opted into, sometimes foisted on you – are the way the Internet works. It's dysfunctional in some ways and a simple reflection of reality in others. [...]
I think I get less work done now than circa 1993. But I need to get less done because I'm earning more, and in fact I am working much longer hours. It really is true that I never actually book off. I have answered accessibility-related snatchmail at 1:00 in the morning, and I review standards documents when I go out for espresso. A common delaying tactic that keeps me from the gym is my to-do list.
So "getting less work done" may be a misnomer here. What I get less of is uninterrupted hours of writing. But what I write now does not require uninterrupted hours. Back in the day, I would experience the typical writer scenario of starting to write an article and awakening some time later with the thing done. I could remember much of what I had to do to write the piece (particularly copying and pasting from notes – all my reporting has been computer-assisted), but I could not remember acts of volition during that period. Something else took over, which I adjudge to be the SOURCE. (There is but one source of creativity.)
In no way was this fugue state a sure thing, but it happened so often – in fact, much of the time, and nearly all the time when writing self-directed columns for newspapers – that I still respect the phenomenon. I can't explain it, but it happens and it's powerful.
Richard Florida, in The Rise of the Creative Class, keeps annoying me by mentioning that creative people will "recharge" themselves during the day by, say, going for a lunchtime bike ride. Even that seems like warmed-over linear-schedule thinking to me. Anything you have to book into your calendar, or exempt from your timesheet, is old thinking.
In fact, we recharge ourseves by time-slicing our tasks through microholidays: Four minites of writing, 15 seconds to check snatchmail (x in Pine, then arrow keys to clear status line), ten seconds to check who just logged onto messaging, ten more minutes of writing, five minutes of Weblog-checking, trip to the can, then another mixture of all the same inputs.
We get our work done, our kind. If we have to, we can "buckle down." We can singletask. It just isn't a problem that we multitask. While writing the book, I was able to singletask by tuning into a drum & bass streaming radio station. Little did I know that iTunes can stream it perfectly, with no dropouts; I had put up with RealPlayer. The formless, hookless music induced a diluted form of the 1993-era fugue state. (Read about it in the book's colophon.)
I trust that seasoned readers will not be snowed by the claims above that none of this is a problem. Of course it is. Now you can see why I sat on the piece excerpted above for so long. Apart from its untruthfulness, the Woman's Intuition told me not to publish.
Rebecca Blood:
We are moving into a post-literate society, where pattern-recognition will replace the linear thinking of the current period. This doesn't require a rejection of reading as a mode of understanding – pre-literate Greece, after all, gave us the basis for our current mode of thought.
At high dosages, "always on" may become counterproductive, but at least it's easy to correct. The Web and E-mail combine to create the biggest distraction machine ever invented....
I may tell myself that I'm checking my E-mail while an idea "percolates," but what I'm really doing, 100% of the time, is just putting off the hard work of focusing on a problem. When I really need to work, I unplug myself from the network, but that doesn't address the underlying problem: Continuous partial attention.
...I have noticed my attention span diminishing, or rather becoming quite unreliable, and it is a problem. Sometimes I can work on a project for hours, but other times I sit down to read and, after a few paragraphs, find myself getting up to do something else before continuing to another page. I'm continually starting something and then wandering off to do something else without realizing it. I often come back into a room to discover a half-completed task. This isn't productive multi-tasking, it's the equivalent of walking around in a daze, and it's no good.
I blame the Internet – with a million things just a screen away, I've trained my monkey brain always to be thinking of two things at once. That's useful in certain situations, but it's not ideal most of the time. It's not a matter of preferring one "mode" to another. I would rather add a tool to my bag of tricks than replace a very useful one for one that is useful in a different way.
I'm not kidding myself anymore. I have a problem. What I don't have is a solution.
It only really matters in the context of large projects, such as:
And those are only the projects I'm willing to mention in an infinitely-replicatable and well-archived public medium.
I see what Rands of JerkCity fame is talking about here when he makes light of the issue, and indeed tries to show it in a favourable light:
Stop reading right now and take a look at your desktop. How many things are you doing right now in addition to reading this column? Me, I've got a terminal session open to a chatroom, I'm listening to music, I've got Safari open with three tabs open where I'm watching Blogshares, tinkering with a Web site, and looking at weekend movie returns.... I'm writing this column as well.
Folks, this isn't multitasking. This is advanced case of Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder. I am unable to function at my desktop unless I've got, at least, five things going on at the same time. If your count came close, you're probably afflicted as well. Most excellent.
My mother first diagnosed me with NADD. It was the late '80s and she was bringing me dinner in my bedroom (nerd). I was merrily typing away to friends in some primitive chatroom on my IBM XT (supernerd)... and watching Back to the Future with the sound off
(nerd). She commented, "How can you focus on anything with all this stuff going on?" I responded, "Mom, I can't focus without all this noise."
I just recently wrote thousands of words defending my own workflow, which is a testimony to NADD. I even included screenshots of my work desktops. And then, a short time later, Jerkcity did the very same thing. In fact, Rands ran a competition for the most NADD-like desktop. Had I known about it, I would have cleaned up.
I thought – for a while – that the competition was cute. (Other people's desktops do fascinate me.) But then I got real. We are merely attesting to our own deficiency. We are, moreover, using the cause and enabler of our deficiency to attest to it.
My issues here are:
I've gone through a number of crises and self-flagellating episodes in which I have promised myself to shape up. I haven't yet.
I have a problem. ¶
Note: While writing this, Jerkcity.com went down, and I procrastinated finishing it over a period of two days, and even in the previous paragraph I started a SCIM session with one of my online pals. ¶
Note further: Jerkcity was an early interesting online comic series because it is created entirely in Comic Chat, for which Comic Sans was invented. If it comes back online later, I'll link to some faves. I am, after all, primed and ready for gayness! ¶
2003.08.09 – Or rather, Paglia's homosexualist domestic partner Allison Maddex has. Camille Paglia on C-SPAN, August 3:
PAGLIA: And may I take this opportunity –
HOSTESS: Sure.
– Just to say that: A scoop for C-Span. Our family expanded last year. Allison gave birth to a son, Lucien. I have kept this completely out of the media – very successfully. He'll be a year old this fall. And, um... scoop for C-Span.
– What has that done to you?
– Well, it's been great. It's been incredible. It's been quite – quite amazing.
– How do you intend on bringing him up?
– Well, as a free thinker. Allison is a free thinker, as I am.
Check the 37:50 mark in the uncaptioned RealPlayer Webcast. ¶
2003.08.08 – Walk your walk. Dogpoet, coming off all aggrieved while otherwise agreeing with my assessment ("Good writer not conventionally publishable"), writes:
And if I can be snarky for just one second, I believe that there is a saying that would apply well to this critique: "Consider the source."
This source has been published almost 400 times in periodicals, wrote a published book, and has edited other people's work. Worth considering.
Addendum: As I was mentioning to Dogpoet and one of his ardent defenders over a 37-minute SCIM converation, a model he could follow is Lynn Crosbie, writer of shockingly innovative creative nonfiction. Read Paul's Case and Missing Children. Fictionalized nonfiction is viable and fascinating genre, dating all the way back to In Cold Blood. It's a very gay genre, in fact. ¶
2003.08.05 – 6,912 words later, this month's recapitulation of a dead magazine is more current than ever, what with a plethora of recently-published comparisons between Spy and Radar.
The July–August 1988 issue, moreover, contains the seminal analysis of Newport cigarette advertising, an article by the Little Bugger that could be reasonably applied to his own persona of the current era, and superb graphic design if one discounts the excess of teal–red combinations.
Next week: Letters to Ten Years Ago in Spy. Because I'm actually getting some.
But what I need more of are back issues. It turns out I'm missing entire years. I can't handle this alone, people. ¶
2003.08.03c – On the residential sidestreet, a big dog sitting with his crotchety old master starts emitting warning barks. "OK, OK," I say, backtracking around a car. We've also got a tiny black dog crossing the street followed by three cats.
I'm wary of that dog but I walk toward the cats. There are actually five, three of them obviously related because of their intricate and beautiful fawny coats. They seem to be sniffing each other's rumps, rather like dogs. And following the dog. The dog is the star of the show. They adore the poochy.
All the creatures eventually make it across the street like a herd of camels. I pat a few of them. The dog comes over and obviously likes me. I pat him, after considerable wariness and having avoided him a bit. He walks away, taking three cats with him.
All the while I'm muttering about the menagerie we've got here and how I just can't believe it. I assume the codger can hear me, as can the three guys down the road, two of them shirtless and all of them wearing working-class haircuts of the sort found among high-school dropouts ("Hey! I got my Grade 12!") of any decade from the 1960s to present.
The herd of camels re-crosses the street. I push my luck and follow, and the dog starts yapping. Obviously its own turf. A fat battleaxe busts through a door and screeches "Get away from there! Paula! Get away from there or 'll kill you!" (Who's she talking to?) She then stage-whispered something that included the word "fuckin' " and closed the door.
What's someone like that doing with a house?
Four doors down the street is an old white cat mottled with black patches. She wanders right over and I give her a nice pat. "Dingleballs! Git!" hollers one of the shirtless yahoos on the other sidewalk. "Get away there!"
But kitty is much too happy with me. I start walking away and there's another cat behind me – a giant Persian I'd seen before. I tap the dense fur a few times.
"Blue! Blue!" the vulgarian starts yelling. I'm already walking off. "Blue! Blue!" he screeches.
The cat ignores him. Why not? She's prettier. ¶
2003.08.02b – NoelDJ isn't giving us all the details. I did, in fact, ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and tried to steer him from making the kind of mistake I did – ending up in some kind of technical program because nobody could think of anything better. (The comparison is not perfect: I was too immature to do anything else 20 years ago, but Noel isn't.)
We then began a discussion of the concept of "already publishable."
– But honestly, where do you go to get a degree in Web design... I know there isn't such a thing, but where do they teach that?
– No. You don't need a degree in it. You're like David Leavitt. You are "already publishable."
– What do you mean "publishable"? I may sound just dumb saying that, but explain.
– I was drawing a parallel with novelist David Leavitt, whom I've met. He's nebbishy. Anyway, he, like, IIRC, Bret Easton Ellis, took a university writing course, and the prof told him to knock it off because he was already publishable. They later went on to publish first novels to great acclaim. I am using it metaphorically.
It's actually a great strength of the Web: You can see for yourself, right then and there, that writers are "already publishable." I'm not going to pretend that being published in print does not confer more prestige and imprimatur than (self-)publishing online, because it does. That's one reason I still write for "the press." There's nothing wrong with online publishing and a great deal right with it. Publishing in print is, however, more important in definable ways, and more long-lasting. As I keep telling people, I wrote a book on Web development, and acted like it was an actual book that would be around for decades (complete with colophon and elaborate typography), because it probably will be around for decades.
When you're "already publishable," you don't need formalized schooling in that field, whatever it may be.
The Web, it seems, enables our hidden talent-scout impulses. (And of course my own yenta impulses. In fact, I grow impatient that some of the names listed here have yet to put together book proposals.) ¶
NU-PDF: In other news, I'm thinking of trying a hybrid print–online republication of the NUblog. If authored correctly – in InDesign, as an ultimate tagged accessible PDF – one can achieve morally-correct print typography, status as a printed volume, and Web features like hyperlinks. In fact, the files being referred to could, in theory, be included, and that would be an interesting test case right there. It's being idly considered. ¶
2003.08.02a – A woman answers.
– Emergency. Do you need police, fire, or ambulance?
– Police.
– For what address or location?
– On Church St., on the west side, south of Wellesley. A man is walking down the street with a ten-foot-long python around his neck.
– With a what around his—
– A ten-foot-long python around his neck. A python is a large snake.
– I know that. I didn't hear you before.
– He's a white male, 5′8″, shaved head, wearing a black T-shirt, walking with another white male –
– Sir, I can only type so fast. Shaved head, black T-shi—
– I wasn't trying to talk faster than you can type. A white male. With a shaved head. He's about 5′8″, wearing a black T-shirt. Walking with another white male; I don't have a description.
– OK. We'll send someone to look at it.
– Thank you.
– Thank you. [immediate click] ¶
2003.08.01a – I scour the city for newsstands that carry Private Eye, the satirical, pulpy, but well-produced British fortnightly that includes reams of original journalism. I don't pretend to understand the myriad political and other references, but I read it.
And most importantly, it's the source of one of my fondest British affectations, shurely?!
Further, the term shurely (usually written with a trailing ?!) is not a misspelling. It's an adaptation of the usage of Private Eye and Frank, the British and Canadian satirical newspapers. The original Private Eye–ism, attributed to the speech impediment of Lord Bill Deedes of the Daily Telegraph, is "shurely shome mishtake?!"
(I enjoy the occasional British affectation, but that hardly puts me in line to marry Guy Ritchie or anything.)
The magazine's site is a bit of a joke. It's virtually content-free, and won't even work if you drop the www. hostname. It's the sort of site that a cantankerous old fart who's worked all his life in the shadow of Fleet St. would begrudgingly put together, with a strong undercurrent of distaste, antediluvianism, and an evident fear of cannibalization of print-magazine sales should the site deign to give anyone a real reason to read it.
Will that all be changing? Horus Web Engineering:
Lord Gnome's mighty organ
We are delighted to say that we have been appointed to write a content-management system for that great British institution, Private Eye, together with a complete site redesign. The new site will be launched during summer 2003.
Horus supposedly does nothing but compliant sites, and Lord Gnome wouldn't have ordered an entire CMS if there weren't Content about to be Managed, so it looks like I will finally be able to justify bookmarking the Web site of a publication I read religiously. ¶
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Catawba County's week ahead
From beginning to end, this promises to be a busy week in Catawba County.
The week begins with an expected superintendent announcement Monday and continues with primary election voting Tuesday.
Among other events, the week ends Saturday with Newton's annual MayFEST celebration.
Read on for more on these and other events this week throughout the county. For updated events information daily, pick up a copy of the print edition of The Observer News Enterprise at newsstands throughout Catawba County.
For breaking news, visit observernewsonline.com or follow @TheONEnews on Twitter. For news updates and photo albums from Catawba County events and news stories, visit The O-N-E page on Facebook.
Catawba County Schools is expected to announce its next superintendent at a school board meeting at 5:30 p.m.
The meeting is at the CCS office on Anderson Avenue in Newton.
Catawba County voting precincts open at 6:30 a.m. for the 2012 primary election. Polls remain open until 7:30 p.m.
No one may register and vote at any precinct Tuesday. The deadline passed for registered to vote in this primary.
Following the election, results will display in the second floor meeting room in the Catawba County Government Center in Newton.
For more information, visit catawbacountync.gov/elections.
The Capt. Charles F. Connor Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 840 will commemorate Confederate Memorial Day with a service at 7 p.m. at the Confederate Memorial outside the 1924 Courthouse in Newton.
The program includes a wreath-laying ceremony and a featured speaker.
The community is invited to attend.
Bunker Hill High School's Masquerader group will perform "Grease" at the Newton-Conover Auditorium at 7 p.m. both nights.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students, and they may be purchased by calling 828-241-3355.
A memorial service will honor fallen law enforcement officers at 1 p.m. at Catawba Memorial Park on U.S. 70 in Hickory.
The 2012 Parade of Homes is scheduled for the Greater Hickory Metro. Visit www.hickoryhbaparade.com or call the Home Builders Association at 828-322-6482.
Montessori at Sandy Ford hosts an open house from 3-6 p.m. at the school on Sandy Ford Road. For more information, visit montessoriatsandyford.org or call 828-294-7478.
The 2012 Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet Newton MayFEST is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in downtown Newton.
Catawba Women's Center will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a party for the public from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The free event will feature food, games, prizes, Mother's Day gifts, chair massages, kids' inflatable activities and the Little Bloo Chew train. The event will be at 1501 Tate Blvd. in Hickory.
Coulters Grove AME Zion Church will host a car wash and cookout from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its Startown Road location. Cost is a minimum $5 donation.

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What surprised me most about Baltimore The reality goes farther than the perception. Baltimore, specifically North Avenue where Coppin is located, is perceived as nothing great. Now in my junior year at Coppin, I believe it's the complete opposite. Just from adding the Health and Human Services building and the upcoming ground breaking of the Science and Technology Center, North Avenue is changing for the better. Best school events All of the students at Coppin get pumped for the upcoming basketball season during Midnight Mayhem. It's also a way for students to make new friends. It's one of the only days (besides homecoming) that the PEC arena is packed. And around Valentine's Day, they hold a speed dating, which is a great way to meet new students and other folks who don't go to Coppin. Best non-school event The recent Ball Up Basketball Tour (pictured) not only caught the attention of Coppin students but also a large portion of the community. Best public transportation When traveling locally, the MTA bus and Metro are both affordable. If you're heading to other counties, the MARC train is excellent. What I wish someone had told me when I was a freshman The importance of staying on top of Financial Aid. Of course, high school counselors always said to apply for as many scholarships as possible. But you need to stay on top of your school bills all the way, or they might get away from you -- even if you have decent grades. -- By Bernard Reeves, junior, applied psychology major
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Federal agencies don't have the best track record when it comes to controlling the level of access employees have to sensitive databases and systems.
Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning — formerly Bradley Manning — proved that. But it doesn't take a gifted system administrator or intelligence analyst to create problems or full-blown havoc at an agency.
Think about it: All employees have varying degrees of access, not only to internal technology systems but also to agency facilities. Those privileges should be cut off immmediately after an employee has severed ties with an agency, but that doesn't always happen. Further, when employees change positions, such as through a promotion or transfer, their authorized access levels also change, leaving human resources, information technology staff and direct managers with the task of coordinating to ensure that access is either cut off or modified.
"There isn't a standard way, and there ought to be," said Paul Christman, vice president of the public sector for Dell Software. Christman said there are variations in agency processes for on-boarding and off boarding employees.
A 2013 survey by Dell Software and Market Connections found that 54 percent of agencies take longer than a day to de-provision users, or shut off their access to agency facilities, files, folders, applications, databases and other physical and logical access points. The survey included responses from 200 federal IT decision-makers.
Considering that thousands of employees enter and exit the government each month, any de-provisioning longer than a few hours represents a gaping security hole, the report notes.
A terminated employee can use an active badge to access the facility after hours to remove confidential information, or leak documents through malicious or inadvertent exposure.
"Most organizations, not just government, are terrible at that," Paul Donfried, chief technology officer at LaserLock Technologies," said of rapidly de-provisioning users. Generally, it's because HR and IT are separate functions. And enabling capabilities for new or existing employees becomes the priority.
De-provisioning users is an area where agencies can mitigate the security threat through automated systems and dramatically speed the process, Dell Software notes in its report. "Manual de-provisioning is time-consuming — staff must track down not only the user's identities, but all instances of systems or applications in which that identity is given access."
Another option: moving identity and access management services to the cloud as a way of consolidating and automating services. Some agencies are still skittish about turning the reins over to a cloud provider because of security concerns, but others are exploring the benefits. The report notes that automated services enable organizations to consistently enforce policies and regulations, while improving security.


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Recently, someone on irc had an interesting suggestion: what if we let the team tryouts be canon?
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Hat Tip to Mary (You know who you are.)
First of all, to my children and grandchildren and generations of my progeny not yet born…I sincerely apologize. I'm politically poor from all the donations I made to conservative organizations and candidates. All my efforts fell short. I'm sorry I couldn't do more.
Next…too all who voted for Barack Hussein Obama. It's often said there are two great disappointments in life…(1) Not getting what you want and (2) Getting what you THOUGHT you wanted.
YOU have successfully destroyed this nation. It should now be renamed the USSA…"United Socialist States of America ". This is NOT an exaggeration. Let me explain.
During the first four years of his administration "BO" nationalized the housing industry, the automobile industry, and the medical industry…all "socialized". Expect in the second term, nationalism of the airline industry, the oil and gas industry, and the power industry (electrical power from fossil and nuclear fuel sources). Expect much more borrowed and tax money to be given to unproductive and unsuccessful "green" industries.
Many women selfishly voted for "BO"…their votes driven exclusively by their reproductive ability…government-funded abortion on demand…early term…late term…it will make no difference. Contraception will be government provided but, sadly, rarely used. Now the women are guaranteed two "freedoms of choice"…the freedom to avoid pregnancy and secondly, the freedom to terminate it once they ignore the first choice.
Some form of amnesty will not only grant legitimacy to illegal aliens, it will also assure huge payments for housing, subsistence, medical care, and free secondary education at the public expense. That's the only way the illegals can be enslaved to vote for liberalism…which they will be allowed to do.
Expect significantly more relaxed drug laws and far less severe punishments for drug use. Then, expect a huge expenditure on government drug treatment centers and increasing costs to feed and house the rapidly growing numbers of non-productive users.
Expect the progressive elimination of G-D from visibility. The concept of separation of church and state will be taken by legislation to unlawful levels so the public will eventually (perhaps not in this administration but in future ones) be unable to have any public display of religion on their lawns during the "winter holiday" (can't call it Christmas anymore…someone might be offended).
Expect more and more accommodation of Islam with disregard to Christianity. It was very evident in the last four years…it will become more so in the next four years. Remember…we don't want to offend anyone.
It's possible for three Supreme Court justices to be replaced in the next four years. Expect a very liberal Supreme Court which powerfully legislates from the bench. The same will hold true for dozens (hundreds?) of lower court judges. They WILL vote in favor of the liberal ideal. Morality is not an issue.
The second amendment to the Constitution will, in some way, be significantly diluted. Perhaps with exorbitant taxes on ammunition? As a matter of fact, any time the Constitution is a barrier to liberal idealism, it will either be ignored or diluted by some form of legislation, executive degree, or liberal judicial interpretation…somehow by-passed.
Be prepared for YOUR GOVERNMENT to allow, if not encourage, outside influence into your lives. The U.N. will begin to dictate to us and we will comply. You will be forced to fall in line with Europe . We will become "Europeanized". It thrills other nationalities that we will be brought down to their standards. They're giddy with excitement over "BO's" re-election…as are Putin, Castro, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…all of whom endorsed "BO"
When (it's already happened as evidenced by the election) a high enough percentage of the population Is "ENSLAVED" to and by the government, they (all of us!) will have to vote to keep them (the "masters") in power so they (the public) can continue to be cared for.
We are now enslaved by socialism. There is no turning back. It's impossible to get a sufficient number of votes to displace the "masters". Conversely, the "masters" cannot take back what they've already given without risk to their power.
These issues are only the superficial tip of the iceberg. Other issues are also contributors.
Since we are now about SIXTEEN TRILLION in debt (FIVE trillion added in the last four years!), expect the total collapse of the economy of the U.S.S.A. Not just increasing the tax on the wealthy…but taking 100% of their total wealth would not begin to reduce the national debt. With the vast increase in government spending and nationalization of more business and industry, expenditures to keep the SLAVES (us!) in line will destroy us.
The question is no more fundamental than how long it will take for the total collapse of the American economy.
Obama voters…remember this missive. You got what you thought you wanted
And again, to my kids and their kids…I'm so sorry. You have been dealt a losing hand by those who are selfish and willing to sacrifice this nation for their own immediate and personal interests.
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All grocery stores are not created equal.
In our area, you'll find food co-ops that specialize in fresh groceries and items with quality ingredients, but the prices are high. You'll find chains that try to appeal to all shoppers, like Hy-Vee.
You'll also find discount grocers. For me, the two store chains that fall firmly into that group in my area are Aldi and Fareway.
When I'm grocery shopping, I do the majority of my shopping at Fareway.
For me, it always comes down to what is really on offer at a grocery store. Is it clean? Are the items there easy to find? Are the prices reasonable? Do they have the items I actually need? Do they have items that I desire? Do they have a large, varied selection?
My experience has been that each store has its own balance between these features. In order to get some of the features listed above, you're going to have to give up on other features.
For example, the local food co-op tends to excel with cleanliness, interesting items, and a varied selection, but it's mediocre in terms of easy-to-find things and having everything I need, and it's terrible in terms of price. The local all-in-one grocery store tends to excel with having everything I need and is average in about every other category. On the other hand, the local discount store excels on price and is mediocre at the other factors.
For me, the solution is obvious: I use all three of them. I buy most of the needed items at the local Fareway, where the prices are low and all of the items I need can easily be found. This takes care of most of my weekly grocery stops.
If I have more esoteric needs, I'll go to the other stores, but it's on a less frequent basis and it tends to be only for the specific things I need. I'll go into the food co-op looking only for three or four specific items, and I'll go maybe once a month.
Because of these choices, my weekly grocery bill tends to be a lot lower than it otherwise would be. However, saving that money takes a bit of extra planning. Most of the time, my meal plans tend to avoid unusual ingredients that can't be stored for a long time (like fresh fruits or vegetables that aren't commonly found). This way, I can avoid the more expensive food co-op or all-in-one store most of the time. I don't avoid such meals, I just tend to set them aside for a later date.
The end result is a lower monthly food budget. The backbone of our diet comes from food purchased at a discount store, with some supplementation from other places (like the farmers' market, the food co-op, the all-in-one grocery store, the warehouse club, and our garden).
Try out your local discount grocer. You might just find that it perfectly takes care of your weekly grocery list without emptying the cash from your pockets.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


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Re: Evolutions Fett Legacy Action Figures
I know that this is an old topic but my Toy's r us finally got them in. The question that I have to ask is that Boba has no chest emblem, is this a mistake or are all the figures world wide the same? Mine is a Japanese release.
Yeah, all of them that are out right now have no chest emblem on the Boba Fett figs. There's three variant boxes, but all three have Boba's without the chest emblem. Eveyone's hoping they'll release another version that has that corrected on it.
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ITHACA, NY — For the fifth straight Olympics, students from Ithaca College will be serving essential behind-the-scenes roles at the world's biggest athletic event. NBC has selected 34 interns from the college's Roy H. Park School of Communications to support the network's coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games, being held Feb. 6–23 in Sochi, Russia.
Ithaca joins Syracuse University and Bradley University as the only institutions nationwide with which NBC Sports partners to recruit interns for its Olympics coverage.
"The fact that NBC has recruited our students for every Olympics since 2006 is yet another affirmation of the quality of their educational experience and how well it prepares them for the professional world," said Diane Gayeski, dean of the Park School. "In fact, this has been a banner year for us — from being ranked among the nation's top 25 film schools by the 'Hollywood Reporter' and top 20 journalism programs by 'NewsPro' magazine, to WICB-FM being named the best college radio station by Princeton Review and 'The Ithacan' earning the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's top award for integrated print and online publications. We take pride in having these 34 students put their knowledge into action working side-by-side with the top sports journalists, producers and technicians in the world."
25 of the students will serve their intern assignments in or around Sochi, a resort city located on the Black Sea. The remaining nine will be based at the NBC Sports broadcast and production facility in Stamford, Connecticut. Intern duties will range from handling specific events — including ice hockey, figure skating and freestyle skiing — to working in the International Broadcast Center or what's known as the Highlights Factory, which the network developed to package and distribute coverage through multiple media platforms.
"I'm excited to work with and learn from the NBC professionals," said Travis Collins, a junior television-radio major from Groton, New York. "It's going to be a great experience to see one of the biggest sporting events in the world and how everyone comes together to compete for the gold."
Michael Powers, a junior television-radio major from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, says that he will treasure the experience. "When I was in broadcasting class in high school, I never dreamed I would have this opportunity. Being involved in any facet of the Olympics broadcast is something I will cherish and remember forever."
"When I was first applying to Ithaca, I learned about the opportunities available with NBC when I saw the group of Vancouver Olympics interns on the cover of a school magazine," said Courtney Caprara, a junior integrated marketing communications major from Monroeville, Pennsylvania. "Since then, it has been my dream to intern with NBC, and it is amazing to have that dream become a reality."
Ithaca College students have previously interned at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
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Cleveland.com is reporting that fewer than 200 people showed up for a unique get-out-the-vote rally for President Obama featuring legendary musician Stevie Wonder.
Located at Cleveland State University, Brandon Blackwell of The Plain Dealer writes that the event was primarily to encourage early voting, but that perhaps Obama supporters weren't given enough warning to clear their schedules for the mini-concert.
Blackwell relates:
Obama for America Ohio, which hosted the rally, informed its nearly 34,000 followers on Twitter about the event around 10 a.m.
"Perhaps it wasn't advertised properly, but the people who are here are fired up," said Bill Milhoan, of Mentor.
Milhoan, who said he supports Obama, was one of the few people in the crowd who have not already voted.
"It would be disingenuous to say I am here because of Obama," he said. "How do you pass up a chance to see Stevie Wonder?"
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Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reprise their roles as Holmes and Watson in the supersleuth sequel to the mystery megahit that minted over a half billion dollars worldwide.
While vying with Watson's soon-to-be wife for The Doctor's time and attention, the detective extraordinaire matches wits with his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty (Mad Men's Jared Harris), a criminal genius who's conspiring to make a fortune by manufacturing the next generation of wartime weaponry that the world's great powers will be forced to use against one another...once Moriarty succeeds in provoking World War I, of course.
Joining the dynamic duo on their adventure is a feisty gypsy (Noomi Rapace, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Sherlock's craftier but crazier older brother Mycroft (Stephen Fry).
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As Gov. Douglas contemplates vetoes of last-minute bills passed by the Legislature, many of his supporters over the past eight years are appealing for his support of H.485, a bill that reforms the Current Use law. Douglas is considering a veto presumably because it restricts a landowner's ability to enroll the land in Current Use for a short time to avoid higher taxes, then take the land out of the program to sell it at a premium. It is, in short, a loophole in the 30-year-old law that was created in the 1990s when a "development penalty" was weakened.
Note to voters: Vermont State Auditor Tom Salmon has a hot temper, is crude, doesn't think doing things that are illegal is any big deal, and is not very smart.
But don't take my word for it.
You be the judge.
The Middlebury selectboard's decision Tuesday night to create an ad hoc committee to study ways to boost the local economy is a welcome move that offers much potential, first by pushing more aggressively for economic development, and secondly, by doing more to help promote the town's events and activities that helps keep Middlebury's businesses vital and greatly enhances the town's quality of life.
Nor is it a moment too soon.
As seniors in high schools across the country approach graduation and fateful decisions about their future, it's interesting to note that more students than ever are continuing their educations in college. It's not surprising, as the world economy is becoming more knowledge driven and the prospects for labor-intensive jobs diminish, though the difference in wage opportunities are worth careful study by all prospective graduates.
Trust in government is at a recent low. The Pew Research Center made national news recently with its annual survey revealing that four in five Americans said they had little faith that government could solve the nation's problems and that they had little trust that government would do the right thing on any major issue. The impact of those findings, the report said, could have implications in mid-term elections this fall.
Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger nailed public sentiment recently when he captured the outrage Uncle Sam, and the nation's taxpayers, feel after bailing out the largest national banks and financial firms only to now see them wallowing in obscene profits. The cartoon shows a fat-cat banker sporting a sinister grin with his arm around Uncle Sam's shoulder and a coin poised on thumb and forefingers ready to flip the coin. The caption says: "C'mon… You're a sophisticated investor. Heads I win, tails you lose…"
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According to IDC, mobile workers will account for 72.3 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020. And with enterprise mobility in high demand, Microsoft is going all-in to penetrate the market with its Windows 10 mobile operating system to better serve developers and IT departments.
While Microsoft has certainly lost some of its dominance, users are starting to realize that alternative operative systems are great for consuming content but not necessarily for content creation and management. Windows 10, on the other hand, looks more attractive in the management sense since it's focused on cross-device interoperability, which caters well toward mobile workers.
For enterprises that already have experience with Microsoft, it may be a relatively easy choice to upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile; for companies that are new to it, Windows 10 would serve as a worthwhile investment. Retriever Communications has identified five benefits of using Windows 10 to boost enterprise mobility.
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Day off turned standoff: Fla. officer stops gunman after shooting
Dual-certified corrections and law enforcement officer was relaxing in her living room when she heard gunfire
By P1 Staff
Officer Kristin Shiner had barely unpacked from her recent move to Cape Coral when a chilling "welcome" to the neighborhood caused her to draw her weapon for the first time in her career.
And it happened on her day off.
On July 25, gunshots cut through the still of what had been a calm afternoon for Shiner of the Collier County Sheriff's office, who had settled in the area about three weeks prior. She sprang up from her comfortable spot in the living room and outside saw a man, who was clearly distraught, approaching fast from not far down the residential street.
"He was yelling for someone to call 911," Shiner, 44, told PoliceOne. "Someone had shot his friend."
Shiner grabbed her duty weapon and badge and headed outside to find the victim lying on his stomach in a nearby driveway. She recognized him as a door-to-door salesman who rang her bell earlier that day, and she could see blood pouring from his right shoulder.
"I touched his face and he was barely breathing," Shiner said. "I knew he needed medical treatment."
As she kneeled down to render aid, her attention was turned to the residence's open garage, where she heard a gun reloading. Suddenly, the shooting victim's life wasn't the only one at stake as the suspect, Kenneth Roop, loomed from the shadow of a pickup truck and pointed a gun at her.
"He looked ready to fire," Shiner said.
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According to a later account from a neighbor, Roop was yelling threats that Shiner was only vaguely aware of as she concentrated on the situation at hand. Witnesses say he was threatening to shoot anyone on his property.
"I didn't really hear his shouting," Shiner said. "I just identified myself and started giving orders."
Shiner steadied her gun and demanded Roop drop his weapon. The threat was likely great enough to justify a shooting, but she continued to use only her verbal commands.
"I will shoot," Shiner told him firmly.
A dual certified corrections officer and law enforcement officer, Shiner is well-versed in utilizing her strong command presence since — as the officers who work alongside her in the Naples Jail Center can grudgingly attest — the only available force options are a TASER or OC spray.
Roop wasn't moving, but unwaveringly, she repeated her command. By the third time, he gave in.
"I know you will," he told her, and set the gun down.
Once Roop was disarmed, Shiner ordered him to a prone position on the driveway and held him there until Cape Coral police arrived to make the arrest.
"If not for her quick response and actions, I may not be here," neighbor Gene Snyder said in a letter that recommended Shiner for a medal of valor.
No Emotion
Easily convinced, Collier Sheriff Kevin Rambosk gave Shiner the medal during an August ceremony attended by friends, colleagues and family, including Shiner's oldest daughter. Devin Cox, 20, said her mother's heroic deed has inspired her to pursue a career in law enforcement.
"At the time your training is just taking over," Shiner said. "I can't say how I felt because there's no emotion to it, it's just go."
The medal and a plaque from the police department now sit near an American flag that belonged to Shiner's late father, reminding her of the day's adrenaline rush and resulting flurry of attention.
Roop, 52, was later charged with second-degree murder in the death of Nick Rainey, 30, a salesman for Blue Ribbon Steak and Seafood. He is being held without bond at the Lee County Jail.
According to an article in New Press, he sought to protect his property against one perceived threat after another — from petty thieves and bike-riding tots to meter readers and a massive housing development seeking to swallow his land.


text: Jennifer Lawrence was awarded Best Actress at the 2013 Oscars.The 22-year-old 'Silver Linings Playbook' actress - who was previously nominated in the same category two years ago for her role in 'Winter's Bone' - received a standing ovation after she stumbled on the stairs leading up to the stage at the 85th annual ceremony on her way to collect her statue on Sunday.Dressed in a stunning Dior Haute Couture gown, she said: "Thank you so much. This is nuts."You guys are only standing up because I fell and you feel bad."The blonde beauty, who was accompanied at the ceremony by her parents, also thanked her co-stars, crew and team for their support before wishing her fellow nominee, 'Amour' star Emmanuelle Riva a happy 86th birthday.Before the prestigious ceremony at Hollywood's Dolby Theater, Jennifer revealed she had a very stressful day and admitted she couldn't wait to get to an after party so she could eat.She said: "Today was so stressful. There was everybody in, my family got ready at my house. I felt like Steve Martin in 'Father of the Bride' with all the furniture being moved around my house.I had no time to eat. I'm starving."Jennifer also beat off stiff competition from Jessica Chastain in 'Zero Dark Thirty', Quvenzhane Wallis in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild, Naomi Watts in 'The Impossible' and Emmanuelle.


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Editor's note: This is the last in a series of reports from a recent roundtable with AGCO executives about the company and where agriculture is headed.
In April, farm machinery manufacturer AGCO hired Jason Marx as vice president of marketing for North America. Last month I got the chance to interview him one-on-one on everything from market share and distribution to the rumored CNH buyout.
Q. AGCO has gone through various phases of growth during its 21 years of existence. How would you describe those?
A. We went through the acquisition phase for the first 14 years, from 1990 to 2004. We've made some small acquisitions since then, but we were doing one to one-and-a-half per year. Robert Ratliff (former CEO) took us through that period of acquisitions, and now CEO Martin Richenhagen is constructing the house from the foundation that Bob put in place. When Martin came on, he put all of the companies together and launched us into the second phase where we are taking those companies and organically growing them. We've been doing that pretty aggressively for the last five to six years, making record investments in R&D and capital infrastructure.
What's the next phase of growth for AGCO?
We will continue to grow those brands, and you will probably continue to see some acquisitions. Even our CEO has not been shy to say he is interested in all sorts of acquisition opportunities. But in addition we will be working on expanding our global footprint. We are very much a global company today, and you will see us emphasize that as we move into Asia, Africa, and India. Each of those markets may be at different stages in the equipment lifecycle and may require different approaches as far as how advanced the equipment needs to be, how large it is, and how much horsepower is required.
In North America, how has consumer perception changed in the last five to 10 years?
You should ask them that question. But I hope the perception is that AGCO is a serious competitor in the ag industry. We are one of the world's leading, technologically advanced equipment manufacturers, and we manufacture a lot of equipment globally. I always go back to the Massey Ferguson brand as an example. Globally, Massey Ferguson has sold more tractors than any other brand for the last four decades. The market here in North America hasn't reflected that in the last 10 years, so we are investing in reinvigorating that brand.
How does the Challenger brand fit in?
The Challenger brand, which is mostly distributed through our Caterpillar dealers as well as some non-Caterpillar dealers, is centered on tracked and articulated machinery but has now extended into haying equipment, high-horsepower wheeled tractors and large-frame tractors. Challenger is a professional producers' brand of equipment that can help them achieve their goals and provide them with the technologies they need to feed the world.
What's AGCO's biggest challenge right now?
Anytime you acquire a lot of equipment lines, you end up with a varied footprint in your dealer and distribution network. Many of our dealers are second to none, but there are still some holes in our distribution map where we might not have dealer representation.
AGCO ranks third in tractor market share, behind John Deere and CNH. While there are many product lines in which AGCO ranks number one or number two, what is keeping you from moving up a place in tractors?
Honestly I think the challenge we face is getting the opportunity at the table. I'm confident that when people try our equipment and give us a real shot, they will realize the value we can offer them. People can get in a brand tradition, and it usually takes something to get them to say, "Hey, from a branding standpoint, I should give someone else a try."
It has been rumored that AGCO is looking to acquire CNH. Any truth to that?
I don't know what happens at Martin's level, and you never know the discussions that take place. But what Martin was probably communicating is that he would be interested in CNH if it ever became available. I'll leave it at that.
You indicated we can expect to see more acquisitions. Which companies are you considering?
I probably can't share that with you in specifics but we are continually interested in and pursuing opportunities.


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Champagne Friday: French 75
By: Gary Westby | K&L Champagne Buyer
Friday, September 12, 2012
French 75
With summer drawing to a close, the citrus zip and aged cognac depth of the French 75 cocktail has a lot of appeal. This drink, which legend says was named after a French canon that shot 75 millimeter shells, is a powerful one, and should be treated with respect.
My wife Cinnamon is the real family mixoligist, and she prepared everything in the short demonstration video above. Unfortunately, I could not convince her to get in front of the camera and make the drink! We discovered this cocktail together at Coco 500 in San Francisco, where they make it with Louis Roederer "Brut Premier" Champagne. This cocktail is a great one to riff off of, and we have made many tasty variations on the theme at home. For a long time I was a partisan to making it with gin, while Cinnamon preferred Cognac.
One thing that has remained constant is the Champagne- we always use the tail end of a bottle that has been sitting in the fridge door with a stopper in it. I find that Blanc de Blancs tend to balance the Cognac's aged savor, and the Pinot Noir styles add depth to the gin variation. For the video piece, we used the Franck Bonville "Prestige" Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne which worked perfectly with the new Ferrand 1840 Formula 90 proof Cognac. This Ferrand is a great ingredient, and works far better than much more expensive (and far more subtle) Cognacs. The 1840 Formula is made in the three star style from the 19th century, and is a full 5% higher in alcohol than standard Cognac. It is also oilier and weightier with lots of flavor- it won't get lost in a mixed drink.
I hope you'll try this out the next time you would like a stiff cocktail. It is a great one!
2 parts Ferrand 1840 Formula 90 proof Cognac
1 Part Fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 Part simple syrup
2 parts Champagne (Blanc de Blancs if you have one open)
Lots of fresh ice
Lemon rind for garnish
We use an ounce per part for ours- and that makes a pretty big aperitif.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add the cognac, lemon juice and simple syrup. Shake thoroughly and pour into a rocks glass filled with more fresh ice. Top with Champagne, and stir if you like (I do!) finally garnishing with lemon rind.
A toast to you!
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William E. Armington, 84, Fort Wayne, passed away on Friday, Sept. 20, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born July 16, 1929, in Warsaw, the son of the late John and Treva Armington, and was raised by his grandparents, Ernest and Blanche Sellers.
He was a member of Waynedale United Methodist Church. He proudly served his country in the US Air Force, was a member of the American Legion and also was a member of the I.O.O.F Harmony Lodge #19, for over 50 years, He was a past Noble Grand, and retired in 1987 from Navistar, after 32 years of service.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Edith E. Armington; daughters, Debi (Dave) Moore, Cindy (Paul) Burrey, Karen (Eric) Alspaugh, Brenda (Gary) Hess and Jennifer (Andy) Alspaugh; as well as 13 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Sept. 23, at Klaehn, Fahl & Melton Funeral Homes. Burial will be in Covington Memorial Gardens, Fort Wayne.
Memorial donations may be given to Waynedale United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne, Parkview Home Health and Hospice, or the VA Medical Center, Fort Wayne.
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Romney surging nationally after biggest debate win in recorded history, polls show
National polling released Monday continues to demonstrate an apparent Mitt Romney surge, with the Republican nominee at least pulling even with President Obama -- and in one poll shooting past him -- on the heels of what Gallup deemed the biggest debate victory in recorded history.
New Gallup numbers show registered voters overwhelmingly considered Romney the winner of the debate in Denver. Seventy-two percent gave Romney the win, while 20 percent said Obama did the better job. Gallup reported the 52-point victory is the biggest the polling firm has ever measured -- the closest was Bill Clinton's 42-point win over George H.W. Bush in a 1992 debate.
The sentiment appeared to have big implications for Romney's national standing.
A separate Pew Research Center poll showed Romney surging from an 8-point deficit to a 4-point lead among likely voters. The Oct. 4-7 survey of 1,112 likely voters showed Romney leading 49-45 percent. Among registered voters, the two candidates were tied.
Gallup polling among registered voters in the three days after the debate also showed the candidates tied at 47 percent each. In the three days prior, Obama was leading by 5 points.
The Gallup numbers follow a national Rasmussen survey which showed Romney leading 49-47 percent. Rasmussen also released several swing-state polls on Friday showing Romney pulling roughly even with Obama in the wake of the debate.
Gallup typically reports polling based on seven-day rolling averages -- in the latest, Obama is leading 49-46 percent. Gallup reported that the gap "would narrow further" if Romney's momentum continues.
Romney is trying to build on his surge with a foreign policy speech in Virginia on Monday.
Obama's team, though, is aggressively hammering Romney as a manipulator of the facts, suggesting the president will challenge him more firmly on the debate stage next week.
A vice presidential debate is set for this Thursday, with two more presidential debates scheduled after that.
The post-debate Gallup poll of 1,387 registered voters was conducted Oct. 4-6. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.