text: Digital FTC Won't Delay Implementing Updated Children's Privacy Rules Six months to come into compliance with Coppa is 'adequate'By Katy Bachman |May 6, 2013 Share By Katy Bachman |May 6, 2013 Share Websites and mobile apps directed to kids under 13 won't get any extra wiggle room to come into compliance with new digital privacy regulations. The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to keep the July 1 implementation date for the updated Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the Application Developers Alliance and 18 other organizations last month requested a six-month delay, arguing that there was insufficient time between the FTC's release of its FAQ guidance and the July 1 date to figure how to execute the rules. Of course, just as many privacy groups cried foul and said the date shouldn't be moved. In the six-page letter to the organizations turning down the delay request, the FTC seemed to side with the privacy groups that operators had six months—plenty of time to digest and execute the changes required by the updates. "The commission took into account the costs and burdens of complying with the rule. Indeed, the commission specifically chose July 1 as the effective date in order to allow operators enough time to come into compliance," the FTC wrote, calling six months "adequate." Protecting children's privacy in the face of rapidly changing technology also weighed heavily on the FTC's decision to keep the date. The IAB said the FTC's decision would be more than a disappointment for hundreds of stations impacted by the changed Coppa rules: "Companies now have less than three months from the FTC's release of the FAQs to understand, implement and operationalize the new rule. For many small businesses, this will be too much to bear, and the few quality children's sites and services that exist today will suffer as a result." Share http://adweek.it/17Ik2C1 copy Adweek Adweek


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A north-central Tennessee man is being called a hero for rushing into a burning house to save three neighbors from a weekend fire that instead claimed his life and theirs.
Danny Nash, 55, was killed while trying to evacuate an older couple and a disabled woman from the home.
The fire broke out around 7 p.m. Sunday in a rural part of Macon County near Lafayette (lah-FAY'-et), about 50 miles northeast of Nashville.
The three-bedroom brick house was still smoldering Monday morning and surrounded by police tape. The only part of the structure left standing was a carport with two vehicles inside. The rest of the home had collapsed into the basement. Fire investigators were waiting for the debris to cool down completely before they could determine the cause of the blaze.
Sheila Nash, 54, said she and her husband, Danny, were driving home Sunday evening when they saw smoke rising from the back of their neighbors' home.
"He jumped out of the car and said he was going to save them," she said.
Her husband tried to open the front door, she said, but it was locked. She said he managed to enter the house from a door at the carport and pulled 73-year-old Barbara Solomon and her 80-year-old husband Robert to the front door.
Another neighbor, Tom Dawes, was trying to unlock the front door, but Nash told him to stay away as the house quickly became engulfed in flames.
"He said to me, `Tom, get off the porch, it's fixing to fall,'" Dawes said Nash called to him. Blackened wood and columns were all that remained of the front porch on Monday.
Firefighters later pulled the Solomon couple out, but they did not survive. Sheila Nash said her husband also tried to save Barbara Solomon's sister, 65-year-old Alice Cockrill, who was described by authorities as disabled, but they both were killed.
The Solomons had lived in the ranch style house on the one-lane unpaved Cave Hollow Road for about 30 years and Barbara Solomon had recently retired as a nurse administrator for the Macon County hospital, Sheila Nash said. Robert Solomon had health problems and needed to use an oxygen tank, neighbors said.
"She retired three months ago as a charge nurse at the hospital to take care of her husband," said Lafayette County Fire Chief Keith Scruggs.
Danny Nash grew up on Cave Hollow Road on his family's farm. He and his wife had been getting ready to celebrate their 36th anniversary this month. Sheila Nash said her husband would help Solomons out with small tasks around the house. Danny Nash worked for 10 years at Mueller Refrigeration in Huntsville, Tenn., and was a deacon at the Hilltop Missionary Baptist Church.
The Nashes' daughter, Amy Chandler, 35, said her father's actions were in character for him.
"He didn't think nothing about his own life," she said. "He thought he could save them."
Sheila Nash said she and her husband liked riding motorcycles and horses, and he volunteered to entertain children dressed up as a Shriner clown. Just last week, she said, the couple had gone to a local Head Start program to read to children as a part of national Read Across America activities.
"Danny is the hero," Tom Dawes said. "The good book says there is no greater love than a man who gives his life for a neighbor."

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Seven candidates vying for three open seats on the Henderson County Board of Commissioners squared off at a League of Women Voters forum Wednesday night in the city's Operations Center.
Seven candidates vying for three open seats on the Henderson County Board of Commissioners squared off at a League of Women Voters forum Wednesday night in the city's Operations Center.
Voters in May's primary election will be asked to choose among candidates in three districts. In district one, incumbent Mike Edney is up against newcomers Andrew Riddle and Hogan Corn. In district 3, incumbent Larry Young is running against Bill Lapsley, and in district 4, incumbent Tommy Thompson is vying for re-election against Tim Griffin.
Candidates leaned into microphones to field a total of 25 questions, ranging in topics from animal cruelty and teacher pay to taxes and the county's fiscal health. But debates grew heated when candidates delved into the issues of water rights and Wingate's new venture in Henderson County.
Candidates were given one minute to answer each question.
"Mr. Edney, this is a question directed to you and it's about water," said the forum's emcee, Judy Katz, president of the League. "Please go through the sequence of the negotiations between Henderson and Buncombe counties regarding the water deal when you were a commissioner in the 1990s; and is it true that the land is going back to Buncombe County?"
"The short version is the city of Asheville was running out of water. They had two or three huge water users. Their water lines were leaking left and right and they were in serious trouble," said Edney, an incumbent who is in his 12th year of service with the board of commissioners.
"They went to the voters and asked for Buncombe County to try to put a water intake on the French Broad River. The voters turned that down primarily because of the filth of the water in the French Broad. As I understand it, a lot of things happened. At some point they came to Henderson County looking to put an intake on the Mills River. Actually Mills River does not have enough water to support their long-term needs."
Flagged by a timekeeper, he asked if he should continue.
"It's a very complicated issue," Katz said, turning to Riddle with a follow-up question.
"In two minutes, I'd like to summarize this," Riddle began. "In 1985, Asheville, Buncombe County realized that they were short on water. In 1992, Commissioner Edney here, along with four others, one voted against it, agreed to trade water from Mills River in exchange for 137 acres of prime real estate on the French Broad River that borders I-26. We traded those.
"The agreement was that we would build a waste treatment plant on that 137 acres. We haven't. OK, 22 years later the city of Asheville not only draws water from Mills River but the French Broad. On July 15, Henderson County, you folks, you taxpayers are scheduled to give that 137 acres back to the city of Asheville."
Edney disagreed.
"Now, if you want the truth, I'll be happy to give it to you," he said. "First of all, there was never a trade, OK? The understanding and agreement was that the Bent Creek property would be used to basically negotiate with the MSD (municipal service district) to allow them to put a waste treatment plant over there. They determined they did not need that. The land was never intended to be given to Hendersonville or Henderson County, either one. We didn't have plans really to get any value out of it."
Under the pressure of a stop sign held by the forum's timekeeper, Edney added, "We can't discuss it tonight, but we'll get into it though… It's rather complicated, and half-truths are not going to get us anywhere."
"Does anybody else want to comment on the water issue?" Katz asked.
Riddle added that he could provide a deed "that clarifies the situation in terms that are simple, explainable, and we are giving the city of Asheville 137 acres in less than three months."
Segueing to the next question, Katz said, "we've studied this issue in various ways and it showed there are some bad effects to Henderson County and its…"
Edney interjected that good things have come from the water deal as well. "All of the development on (Highway) 280, $30 million-$40 million worth of investment and a lot of jobs are a result of that water agreement. A lot of good came out of it," he said.
All candidates agreed that they would commit to keeping water rights under local control.
Wingate's win-win
"Do you support or not support Wingate in the initial talks with Pardee Hospital?" Katz asked.
Edney said that initial talks started before he came on the board. "Since I've been on (the) board, I've been a huge supporter of Wingate," he said.
"I mean in its latest move," Katz clarified. Officials from Wingate, Pardee, Blue Ridge Community College and county and city government announced last week that they have found a new home for Wingate University and BRCC to expand their health care education programming in Henderson County.
The city has a contract to buy property near the hospital to house the new campus.
"I think it's one of the greatest things since sliced bread," Edney said.
Griffin, vying for incumbent Tommy Thompson's seat, said that although he is not currently on the board and wasn't there when the deals were made, he thinks it is "going to be great. That part of town, again, there's going to be more development there. Obviously, it's going to be more jobs. You're going to have kids that can come into Blue Ridge Community College and can come out of Wingate with a plethora of degrees. But how can you go wrong with providing in-town education, jobs and partnering with a great college?"
Thompson said he supported the new campus "from one end to the other" serving as one of BRCC's ambassadors, on the board of Pardee Hospital and as a county commissioner. "I think it's an absolutely wonderful venture," he said.
Young, serving his 12th year in office, said that he was the reason Wingate came to Henderson County.
"When Wingate made the offer to come to Henderson County, they had to have the cooperation of the three hospitals in this area, Pardee, Park Ridge and the VA (Veterans Affairs)," Young said. "They got the VA proposal, the letter of cooperation. They got one from Park Ridge. The executive committee of the (Pardee) hospital board voted not to give them that letter of cooperation … and we didn't know nothing about it until after an economic development director come before the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and stated that Wingate was headed to Greensboro.
"I said, 'What are you talking about?' We didn't even know anything about it because the chairman of our Board of Commissioners was on the hospital board and he did not come back and tell us that this had even been put on the table. So I got with the hospital board and got them to change their vote and give that letter of cooperation. I took the letter to Dr. Jerry McGee, president of Wingate, and saved it from going to Greensboro."
He supported it, he said, touting the school's new campus as "the best thing" for Henderson County.
Lapsley, challenging Young for his seat, insinuated that Young used strong-arm tactics to secure the deal.
"I think a little bit of background should be spent here," Lapsley said. "I was the chair of the Pardee Hospital board at the time this came up. In March of 2010, the Pardee board was approached by UNC School of Medicine Pharmacy School to joint venture with them in hosting pharmacy students at UNC medical school at Pardee Hospital. Two months later, Pardee got a letter from Wingate indicating they wanted to have pharmacy students at Pardee. Their letter said they wanted Pardee to be the only provider for pharmacy students. They wanted Pardee to kick out, to boot out the UNC pharmacy school students.
"The Pardee board said 'No, we made a commitment to UNC; we're going to keep it.' The Pardee board discussed it again several months later and Mr. Young came to several members of the Pardee board and threatened our board members and said, 'I'm going to fire all of you. I'm going to kill the joint venture project on the county line.' And worst of all, 'I'm going to see that Pardee Hospital gets sold.' And that's a fact."
"That's a lie," Young interjected. "Let me say this, all you have to do is call Dr. Jerry McGee at Wingate and he'll tell you the full story. And the reason that they didn't want to cooperate with Wingate, guess why? Because they were going to cooperate with UNC over at UNC-A, Asheville. Well what does that do for Henderson County?"
"OK, I think you've answered it. Both of you," Katz said, turning to newcomer Hogan Corn.
Corn, vying for Edney's seat, said he thought it was a "win-win situation."
Riddle said the county should be cautious before celebrating. "I think the property needs to be sold first before we can fully say that it's a happening thing. This board of commissioners has been known in the past to say something was going to happen and then it didn't because a property couldn't sell," he said.
"There's been a lot of things in the past with this board, but I believe transparency might be a good idea. I think you folks might need to know what's happening and be included. After all, it's your money. If it does happen, which I hope it does, it would be great for this community. It would be a solid backbone and it would certainly help Pardee Hospital, which we need to treasure as a community hospital."
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Oh, I never even thought about those stupid warning stickers. Hasbro really had their heads up their collective butts on that one - I'm sure the warning could have been done in a way that wouldn't have obscured the card so much. Now I see the appeal of the Star Cases.
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Partners in the METAe project were:
METAe is/was a consortium of libraries and digitisation companies from across Europe who are working together to create the METAe Engine, a software package specifically designed for organising the work flow of the archiving and conversion of historical materials such as books, journals, magazines and news- papers.
Further Information about METAe: http://meta-e.aib.uni-linz.ac.at/index.html
A sub-type of the gothic letters, the so-called "Fraktur" (black letter) has been widely used from the 18th to the middle of the 20th century in many European countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czech, Estonia or Lithuania. In the case of German language texts Fraktur has been used until 1941 in around 80 % of printed documents.
It is a matter of fact that a big number of readers are nowadays no more able to easily read texts which are set in Fraktur. It has therefore been of high importance to develop an omni-font OCR which is able to read Fraktur without any training. In addition to special classifiers the quality of OCR results is strongly dependent on the dictionaries used in the background. A good dictionary, and not only a list of words, increases the recognition rate significantly.
Five historical dictionaries, reflecting
ABBYY FineReader XIX was developed with the needs of universities and research center in mind. The product was developed through a cooperation with the worldwide METAe Project.
A SDK (software development kit) including the Fraktur classifiers and the historical dictionaries is available as commercial product.
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lrc 1.2.1
About: lrc stands for Linux Resource Compiler. It provides a compiler to collect and a library to access compiled data.
Fossies Dox: lrc-1.2.1.tar.gz ("inofficial" and yet experimental doxygen-generated source code documentation)
Programs may sometimes have more than just application libraries and an executable file. Especially games have graphics and sounds, and most of the time a lot of other stuff. One way to manage these additional items is to install them file by file, but this looks (IMHO) not very professional1. It is often better to pack these files into one big file. Windows has for that purpose the so called resources: a resource compiler reads a .rc file. All listed files in that .rc file are merged together in one big .res file. Unfortunately I haven't found anything like that for Linux, so I decided to write one myself, based on that idea.
lrc consists of two parts: The compiler itself, a command line tool called
lrc and a library to extract the resources from the generated Resource Data file. The library is called
lrc is the command line compiler. In the tradition of Unix programs, a successful compilation will cause no output. Error or warning texts will be displayed in the same manner as gcc does:
<filename>:<line>:<column>: error: <Error cause>
lrc creates a so called .rdf2 file which contains all data, encrypted and/or compressed if desired. That file can be loaded at runtime or directly linked to the executable at link time.
liblrc is the counterpart of the
lrc command line program. It is a C++ library that offers classes to load and de-compile a given .rdf file.
Documentation about the compiler and the library can be found on the Wiki on BitBucket: <https://bitbucket.org/StarFire/lrc/wiki/Home>
Contributions in form of corrections, tanslations, etc. are welcome. You may send them as patches (if possible git format), or - if you use Mercurial -as bundle or I might pull from your repository if it is reachable in the Net.
Do you like
lrc? Do you hate
lrc? Either way, send me a message! Either using the BitBucket message interface or directly an e-mail.
The licence for
lrc and
liblrc is the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 or any later version. You'll find the LGPL here.
The source code is hosted on a public repository at BitBucket. The URL is <https://bitbucket.org/StarFire/lrc>.


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In a few short days 2008 will be gone forever and we will be ringing in 2009.
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What do you want to accomplish in 2009?
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Lincoln Powered Bronco - 5.0-II
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When the words "5.0 High Output" come to mind it is often the thought of an older Bronco that seems to be the perfect home. Not for Jaime Oliver. Being an old hand in the buildup scene, Jaime decided to go for something a little different, a little wacky if you will. Starting with a go-big-or-go-home attitude, Jaime went to work prepping a fullsize Bronco frame to fit a Bronco-II body with a '91 Lincoln 5.0 High Output motor resting between its functified body and frame. Skyjacker 511/42-inch springs were used to elevate the beast enough to fit 35-inch Swampers wrapped on Eaton wheels. An NP435 tranny hooked up to an NP205 transfer case transfers the pony power to a pair of Dana 60s. Just in case Jaime ever gets it stuck, he decided to include a 10,000-pound Warn winch built into the front bumper that he built for himself.
We were quite impressed with the way everything fit so nicely together after 511/42 years of blood, sweat, and time that was put into this Bronco II. We know this might seem like a long time to get what you want, but as Jaime told us, "Be patient, everything is trial and error."
A mostly stock 5.0 from a Lincoln was put in place of the original Bronco's motor. The basic stock form was kept for reliability, but it is aided by a few bolt-ons like a K&N air filter and some Hedman headers. The custom Heim-joint steering that Jaime built himself is running parallel with his trac-bar. If attempting to make a similar suspension, keep in mind that the trac-bar and drag link should be of equal length and parallel to one another.
Dana 60s reside under both the front and rear of this vehicle. You can see the little hoops Jaime used as diff skids to keep from punching through his differential's cover. The 35-inch TSL Swampers on Eaton wheels almost stuff up nicely into the wheelwells. The flex comes from custom-built radius arms.


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Some 100 to 200 people have fallen for a MobileMe phishing scam that began to make the rounds earlier this week, investigators have found. Identity protection group CardCops used automated bots to help human investigators unearth the findings on a server used by scammers to store data.
"We found 20 different files parked on the server, each file with two or three or four, up to 20, profiles," CardCops president Dan Clements told Computerworld. "Cumulatively, there were about 300 profiles collected in that one day. And 100 to 200 were mac.com addresses."
Clements revealed that after calling a number of people who had fallen for the attack, the group was able to piece together what had happened with the whole MobileMe scam. "We realized that it was a phishing attack, of course, but also that these phishers timed it with an Apple event." That Apple "event," of course, was the fact that MobileMe has been nothing but an endless clusterf*ck since its launch a month ago, with recurring problems even up through this week. Naturally, MobileMe customers had grown accustomed to things going wrong on Apple's end, and so they apparently didn't hesitate to click through the phishing e-mail that claimed there was a problem with their MobileMe payments.
The e-mail, which we covered a few days ago, looks fairly official, arriving complete with images from Apple's site and links to a number of Apple pages. The phishing occurs at the bottom, where it reads, "We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?"
Anyone want to go phishing?
This isn't the first phishing scam targeted toward Apple's customers. In May, one that was targeted at iTunes users made the rounds online, asking iTunes customers to re-enter their billing information on a very iTunes-like page online. It seems pretty clear that these are only the beginning—Apple's typical demographic is a pretty desirable one, making more money than most. So if you're a customer of any of Apple's services, you might want to start being a little more careful about which e-mail links you decide to click. If you're ever not sure whether it's real or not, just go to the site directly by typing in the URL. If your information is ever truly out of date, Apple will usually let you know when you log in.


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These Nedbank Properties In Possession are houses repossessed by the bank. The bank will then look to recoup some of the loses its made by placing it on auction or sometimes by selling the property online. Nedbank has one of the largest repo property books currently, with hundreds of properties available throughout South Africa.
Download The Nedbank Offer To Purchase Document - [Printable Format]
Frequently Asked Questions:
How Do I Check If A Property Is Still Available?
To check the availability of a property, contact the Nedbank Contact Centre,
on 0860 911 007.
I'm ready to make an offer on a Nedbank Owned Property. What documents do I need?
Purchasing a Nedbank Owned Property is simple, and there's really just one important document you will need, and that's the Offer to Purchase. Contact Nedbank directly for the relevant offer-to-purchase.
What does it mean that these Nedbank Repossessed Houses are sold 'voetstoots' ?
All Nedbank Owned Properties are sold 'voetstoots', meaning 'as is'. Therefore, any alterations that you'd like to consider after purchase will not be covered by Nedbank and will be for your own account
How to buy Repossessed Properties and Avoid the Common Snags
How to turn a Nedbank Repo into a great investment


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DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) -- Royal Ascot it ain't. But here in Davos, a hat is more than something to put on your head; it is a statement -- as much of preparedness as of status.
A unusual array of headwear can be found on the chilly streets of Davos during the World Economic Forum.
The feathered "fascinator" that looks a million dollars at a grand summer occasion would be franc-ly cents-less in the Swiss Alps. If you want to be on the money up here, something that comes down over the ears is a must.
Not that such practical considerations rule out elegance. Half an hour spent on the pavement outside the World Economic Forum site proves that there is plenty of headgear around that can turn heads as well as warm them. See photos of the best hats in Davos »
Not always for the right reasons. Pascal Lamy, who heads the World Trade Organization, is one of the few who holds to the original casual dress code at Davos, and his stripey wooly hat, though described as "sort of cute" by my editor, did not speak of power dressing. Next time he bangs heads together at some tough trade liberalization summit he had better go for something more macho.
Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, has a more distinctive approach: a strange multicolored flat cap of a type that might well look perfect on a harlequin invited to a spot of grouse hunting in Northern England.
Like many hat wearers, Europe's most powerful central banker clearly wants to make a statement. At least he has a hat. With the temperature nudging well below freezing point, those who go around bare-headed will quickly suffer for it.
But here in Davos everything is available to those willing to pay for it. Tucked into the plush main street, the Promenade, is the bespoke "Hat and Congress-Shop," just the place for those wishing to avoid losing the odd ear-lobe to frostbite.
I decide to check it out, camera in hand. But as I snap off a shot of the row of warmly-clad dummies in the window, out comes the shopkeeper. Not mad as the proverbial hatter, thankfully, but insistent, in an affable sort of way, that his suppliers are not anxious to have their latest designs photographed and copied by their competitors.
This, I realize, is a nation where the deep-rooted fear of industrial espionage extends to woolly hats. Knowing the fate of those who attempt it (prison, albeit a Swiss prison), I withdraw swiftly.
Never mind. Being short of a hair or two and susceptible to the cold, I have a jolly good hat anyway: a fluffy black rabbit number that no doubt fell off the back of a Soviet lorry about twenty years ago as it pulled out of East Germany; I picked it up at a modest price at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie. Stripped of its Red Army badge, it might not disgrace an oligarch, though these days it is getting as moth-eaten as those Russian plutocrats' fortunes.
Disregarding advice received early on in my TV career that one should never wear a hat on screen, I put the thing on my head briefly on Thursday's late edition of "World Business Today". My Hong Kong colleague Andrew Stevens comments that it makes me look as if I've got a wig on.
You see the problem with hats? It's that kind of ridicule that makes me want to brave the bitter cold instead.


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On this special episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim -- with Alice Barr, a technology teacher in Yarmouth, Maine -- welcomed to the show a couple of teachers, a couple of Writing Project Directors, and a researcher of Writing Projects. These folks (along with James Shiroff from the Denver Writing Project) will be presenting and facilitating a 2-hour session at the National Writing Project's 2008 Annual Meeting this week. The name of their featured presenation, "Writing in the Digital Age," identifies some of the issues discussed on this podcast.
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While I completely agree with Daniel Tisch in his PR News Tip Sheet that PR pros need to have effective responses to management (client or in-house) about the demonstrable value of PR, I suggest that only waving the doomsday flag (investing in PR so you'll stand some kind of a chance with your constituencies if everything one day goes down the toilet) isn't what's really needed to convert a benighted CEO to believing in PR and supporting it. That approach is like selling insurance, which may work with some in upper management. I suggest we can do much better than selling fear (I never really liked paying for insurance, personally).
I also agree that measurement is still difficult for a number of reasons. Primarily it is tough because a PR campaign or program may be only one of several communications activities affecting brand perceptions. Separating effects is challenging to say the least. Another reason is that everything isn't online and digital. The on/offline nexus doesn't easily allow measurement. How do you separate effects and results? Integrated communications, while still being a good thing, makes measurement even more difficult. So what to do?
My technique with prospective clients and existing ones that question PR's value is simply pointing out brands (companies) that are doing PR well and the correlations between execution and brand success. An oversimplification perhaps, but trot out brands in nearly any sector and you're likely to see some consistently well-executed work and maybe even great PR being done. The caveat is when you're dealing with a "metrics freak" who's only been doing digital marketing. Give up and run when one of those cats is running the show. There's no way to satisfy their data lust. For some, if you can't chart it, they don't want to know.
Great brands have (or get) great PR. This correlation typically isn't lost on CEOs that have any sense of business history. Can this argument be turned on its head? Was the product/company business plan great in the first place? Perhaps, but not in every case. Quoting my marketing gurus Al Reis and Jack Trout, "It is better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace."
I'll add that a brand doesn't gain mindshare without effective PR. Communications positively affecting brand perceptions is a winning weapon. There's no more cost-effective communications tool than public relations, in all its many permutations. This has been demonstrated and proven for decades. The record of companies doing it well and successful in business is clear. Can organizations truly succeed without effective PR? Not in my (not so) humble opinion.
I've been present for many business successes and failures. I've seen well-executed campaigns make huge differences for companies of all sizes and stages of development. The early leader in high-capacity disk drives, Maxstor, is one example. They acted and invested in PR and advertising like the company they intended to become and they got there. Xilinx, the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) leader, was another tech company that came out of the blocks with a huge promotional bang, as well as products engineers needed.
I've also seen starved, restricted perhaps, even over-measured programs that didn't help the company reach escape velocity. In the tech arena, underfunded marketing and PR programs are an epidemic. Upper management, mostly former engineers, don't truly believe in investing in a campaign. Their love affair with the product has them convinced people will beat a path to their door. Good luck with shoestring marketing. They're giving the game away to another brand with more promotional gas in the tank that will eat their lunch. Great products are important but telling the world about them is too.
PR measurement is essential but PR pros need to measure outcomes, not short-term activities, like how many press releases were issued, whether sales resulted from sending out the announcement or other irrelevancies. Marketing and PR are essential pieces of that, creating an effect that typically occurs over an extended period of time, not days or weeks. Take a longer, strategic view to measuring PR.
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FAQs about Financial Aid
Here are some of the most commonly asked questions about financial aid.
General Questions about Eligibility and Applying
1. I probably don't qualify for aid. Should I apply for aid anyway?
Yes. Many families mistakenly think they don't qualify for aid and prevent themselves from receiving financial aid by failing to apply for it. In addition, there are a few sources of aid such as unsubsidized Stafford and PLUS loans that are available regardless of need. The FAFSA form is free. There is no good excuse for not applying.
No. You can apply for financial aid any time after October 1. To actually receive funds, however, you must be admitted and enrolled at the university.
3. Why can't I submit my financial aid application before October 1?
You cannot submit the form before this deadline because the need analysis process uses your financial information from the prior tax year when calculating eligibility for the upcoming award year.
4. Do I have to reapply for financial aid every year?
Yes. Most financial aid offices require that you apply for financial aid every year. If your financial circumstances change, you may get more or less aid. After your first year you will receive a "Renewal Application" which contains preprinted information from the previous year's FAFSA. Note that your eligibility for financial aid may change significantly, especially if you have a different number of family members in college. Renewal of your financial aid package also depends on your making satisfactory academic progress toward a degree, such as earning a minimum number of credits and achieving a minimum GPA.
5. How do I apply for a Pell Grant and other types of need-based aid?
Submit a FAFSA. To indicate interest in student employment, student loans and parent loans, you should check the appropriate boxes. Checking these boxes does not commit you to accepting these types of aid. You will have the opportunity to accept or decline each part of your aid package later. Leaving these boxes unchecked will not increase the amount of grants you receive.
6. Are my parents responsible for my educational loans?
No. Parents are, however, responsible for the Federal PLUS loans. Parents will only be responsible for your educational loans if they co-sign your loan. In general you and you alone are responsible for repaying your educational loans.
You do not need to get your parents to cosign your federal student loans, even if you are under age 18, as the 'defense of infancy' does not apply to federal student loans. (The defense of infancy presumes that a minor is not able to enter into contracts, and considers any such contract to be void. There is an explicit exemption to this principle in the Higher Education Act with regard to federal student loans.) However, lenders may require a cosigner on private student loans if your credit history is insufficient or if you are underage. In fact, many private student loan programs are not available to students under age 18 because of the defense of infancy.
If your parents (or grandparents) want to help pay off your loan, you can have your billing statements sent to their address. Likewise, if your lender or loan servicer provides an electronic payment service, where the monthly payments are automatically deducted from a bank account, your parents can agree to have the payments deducted from their account. But your parents are under no obligation to repay your loans. If they forget to pay the bill on time or decide to cancel the electronic payment agreement, you will be held responsible for the payments, not them.
7. Why is the family contribution listed on the SAR different from the family contribution expected by the university?
The federal formula for computing the expected family contribution is different from those used by many universities. In particular, the federal formula does not consider home equity as part of the assets.
8. If I take a leave of absence, do I have to start repaying my loans?
Not immediately. The subsidized Stafford loan has a grace period of 6 months and the Perkins loan a grace period of 9 months before the student must begin repaying the loan. When you take a leave of absence you will not have to repay your loan until the grace period is used up. If you use up the grace period, however, when you graduate you will have to begin repaying your loan immediately. It is possible to request an extension to the grace period, but this must be done before the grace period is used up.
If your grace period has run out in the middle of your leave of absence, you will have to start making payments on your student loans.
9. I got an outside scholarship. Should I report it to the financial aid office?
Yes. If you are receiving any kind of financial aid from university or government sources, you must report the scholarship to the financial aid office.
Unfortunately, the university will adjust your financial aid package to compensate. Nevertheless, the outside scholarship will have some beneficial effects. At some universities outside scholarships are used to reduce the self-help level. For example, at MIT the outside scholarship is first applied to reducing the self-help level, and only when the scholarship exceeds self-help does it replace institutional grants. At other universities outside scholarships are used to replace loans instead of grants.
10. What are GATE loans, and why doesn't my university participate?
GATE loans is a nonprofit private loan program (Guaranteed Access to Education) offered through participating schools in conjunction with Bank of America and the National Collegiate Trust (NCT). There is a minimal credit check (no FICO score or cosigner requirement) and schools can recommend whatever loan amount they'd like the student to receive. The interest rates range from LIBOR + 2.35% to LIBOR + 8.85%, with fees of 0% to 9%. The loan term is 13 to 20 years. The GATE loan program has been suspended effective June 15, 2008.
If this program is so wonderful -- no loan limit, no credit check, low interest rate -- why don't more schools participate? There are several reasons why a university might not want to participate in this program:
There is some risk-sharing by the schools. As a result, the program will be most attractive to schools with a low default rate.
There are no federal guidelines or regulations governing this loan program.
Membership is not open to two-year colleges.
Universities that are interested in participating in the GATE loan program should call 1-800-895-GATE (4283).
11. Where can I get information about Federal student financial aid?
Call the Federal Student Aid Information Center (FSAIC) at 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) or 1-800-730-8913 (if hearing impaired) and ask for a free copy of The Student Guide: Financial Aid from the US Department of Education. This toll free hotline is run by the US Department of Education and can answer questions about federal and state student aid programs and applications. You can also write to
Federal Student Aid Information Center
12. Are work-study earnings taxable?
The money you earn from Federal Work-Study is generally subject to federal and state income tax, but exempt from FICA taxes (provided you are enrolled full time and work less than half-time).
Federal Work-Study earnings during the calendar year should be included in the totals for AGI and Worksheet C on the FAFSA. Work-study earnings should only be included in Worksheet C when they represent financial aid to the student, since the answer to this question is used as an exclusion from taxed income. The student should also be careful to report amounts based on the calendar year, not the school year.
13. Is it legal for a 17-year-old student to sign a promissory note for a student loan, even though the student has not yet reached the age of majority?
Normally, a minor cannot be held liable for a contract that they sign. However, in 1992 the Higher Education Act was amended to permit eligible students, defined as per Title IV regulations, to sign promissory notes for their own Federal student loans. As such, student loans represent one of the few exceptions to the so-called "defense of infancy". The specific citation is section 484A(b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 USC 1091a(b)(2)), and applies to Stafford, PLUS and Consolidation Loans. It does not appear to apply to Perkins and Direct Loans, although it was clearly the intent of Congress that it should.
Several states have also passed similar laws that consider minors to be competent to enter into a contract for an education loan. This extends similar protection to private and non-federal loans. All private education loans require a cosigner when the student is under the age of majority, just to be safe.
1. Where can I get a copy of the FAFSA?
You can ask your guidance counselor for a copy. You can also get the FAFSA from the financial aid office at a local college, your local public library, or by calling 1-800-4-FED-AID. The online version of the form is available at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov.
2. Are photocopies of the FAFSA acceptable?
No. Only the original FAFSA form produced by the US Department of Education is acceptable. Photocopies, reproductions, facsimiles and electronic versions are all not acceptable. (See DCL GEN-95-21.)
3. How soon after October 1 should the FAFSA form be sent in? Is it better to wait until the income tax forms have been completed?
Send in the form as soon as possible after October 1. Do not wait until your taxes are done. Although it is better to do your taxes early, it is ok to use estimates of your income, so long as they aren't very far off from the actual values. You will have an opportunity to correct any errors later. If you wait too long, you might miss the deadline for state aid. Most states require the FAFSA to be submitted by March 1, and some even as early as early or mid-February.
4. I sent in my FAFSA over four weeks ago but haven't heard anything. What should I do?
If you haven't received a Student Aid Report (SAR), call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID (toll free) or 1-319-337-5665. You must provide them with your Social Security number and date of birth as verification.
You can also write to
Federal Student Aid Programs
to find out whether your FAFSA has been processed or to request a duplicate copy of your SAR.
5. I was born on January 1, when I will be 24 years old. Can I check Yes in the answer to the FAFSA question "Were you born before January 1, ..." to qualify as an independent student?
The official answer is no. If you check yes, your SAR will be flagged for verification. However, most financial aid administrators would use professional judgment to override the default dependency determination for a student born on January 1 who also demonstrates financial self-sufficiency.
6. What do those acronyms on the Student Aid Report (SAR) mean?
The acronyms on the bottom of the SAR represent intermediate results in the need analysis. To fully understand their meaning, you will need to be familiar with the federal need analysis methodology, such as is used by the EFC Estimator. The meanings of the acronyms are as follows:
If an asterisk appears next to the EFC figure, the student has been selected for verification. The asterisk is followed by a code that explains the reason why the student was selected for verification. The letter explains the reason for selection, and the number indicates the priority, with code 1 the highest priority and code 25 the lowest priority (although there are higher codes).
For additional details about SARs and ISIRs, please see the Guide to 1997-98 SARs and ISIRs.
7. I qualify for the Simplified Needs Test. Should I fill out Section G anyway?
Yes. Some states and most private colleges require the asset information in Section G to compute their own financial aid awards. Including this information will not affect your eligibility for federal financial aid (it is disregarded by the Federal Need Analysis Methodology if you qualify for the Simplified Needs Test). Even if none of the schools require the information, you should include it anyway, just in case.
Home Schooling and Financial Aid
1. Are there any programs that provide student financial assistance to homeschooled children?
Homeschooled students are eligible for federal student aid for college if they have "completed a secondary school education in a home school setting that is treated as a home school or private school under State law" (Section 484(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965). Homeschooled students have not been required to take the GED or take an ability-to-benefit test since the Higher Education Amendments of 1998. High school dropouts must take a GED exam or an ability-to-benefit test, but students who have completed a home schooled secondary education that satisfies the requirements of state law do not. For additional information, see Federal Requirements for Homeschoolers Seeking College Admission and Financial Aid, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), May 2003.
Many private scholarships are open to homeschooled students. Some scholarships, however, require a high school diploma or GED. If a scholarship requires a high school diploma or GED, ask for a clarification or exception before applying. If you encounter resistance, it can help to point out that in 2005 the winner of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology's $100,000 scholarship was a 16-year-old homeschooled student.
There aren't many scholarships specifically targeted at homeschooled students, other than those sponsored by the Home School Foundation.
An entire section of FinAid is devoted to the topic of Divorce and Financial Aid. It discusses which parent is responsible for completing the FAFSA, the obligations of non-custodial parents to pay for college, college support agreements, the obligations of step-parents, and the ability of non-custodial parents to take advantage of the various tax benefits for education.
An entire section of FinAid is devoted to the topic of Bankruptcy and Financial Aid. It discusses both whether student loans can be discharged by bankruptcy, as well as the impact of a bankruptcy on eligibility for student aid.
1. I have heard about a scholarship for left-handed students. Can you tell me more information about it?
This question comes up frequently, because the popular press and scholarship matching services like to use it as an example of unusual scholarships.
The only scholarship for left-handed students is the Frederick and Mary F. Beckley Scholarship of up to $1,000. This scholarship is awarded to left-handed students who will be attending Juniata College. This scholarship is not available to students who aren't enrolled at Juniata College. For more information, write to Office of Student Financial Planning, Juniata College, 1700 Moore Street, Huntington, PA 16652.
To find other scholarships for students with specific interests or abilities, see the profile-based aid section. FinAid also has a page devoted to unusual scholarships.
2. What colleges have cut their tuition rates instead of increasing them?
A handful of schools have instituted one-time tuition rate cuts, temporary tuition freezes, or level tuition rates (same tuition rate all four years). A list of these colleges can be found in the Tuition Freezes, Tuition Cuts and Level Tuition section of FinAid.
3. Which colleges have committed to providing free tuition or no loans in the aid package for low income students?
A handful of schools have instituted policies that ensure that low income students have no loans in their financial aid packages. See No Loans for Low Income Students and Free Tuition for additional information.
4. Is financial aid available for illegal aliens and undocumented students?
See Financial Aid and Scholarships for Undocumented Students.
5. Why doesn't the FAFSA include line 58 of IRS Form 1040 (self employment tax) with taxes paid?
Line 27 of IRS Form 1040 subtracts one-half of self-employment taxes from AGI, corresponding to the employer's share of FICA taxes. The employee share of FICA taxes is calculated automatically by the need analysis formula based on income earned from work. If you include line 58 in the total for taxes paid, contrary to the FAFSA instructions, you are double counting the self-employment taxes.
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The National Zoo's 6-year-old Andean bear Billie Jean gave birth to twins early Thursday -- very early Thursday. The cubs made their grand entrances at 12:01 and 12:02 a.m., respectively.
The news went out to expect twins earlier this month, after zoo vets spotted two amniotic sacs on an ultrasound in November, and fetal development in three subsequent ultrasounds.
Keepers say that Billie Jean demonstrated behavior similar to the last time she gave birth, in January 2010. In particular, her appetite decreased, she built a nest, and started spending more time indoors.
The zoo says Billie Jean will stay inside with her cubs for the time being. If they are healthy, the bears will venture out into their yard in the spring.
Andean bears are one of the world's most endangered bear species. Newborns have a high mortality rate for newborn cubs, and the zoo says the captive population has experienced a lull in the past six years.
These cubs are the only surviving Andean cubs in a North American zoo since Billie Jean's first cubs were born in 2010. Before that, Billie Jean herself was the most recent.
Billie Jean's first cubs were named Bernardo and Chaska via an online poll. Keepers described those cubs as showoffs and said they were extremely playful. They liked to wrestle, even with their mother. Spectators said they had zero wins in that column.
The father of all four of Billie Jean's offspring, Nikki, was euthanized in August after being treated for squamous cell carcinoma, an aggressive type of cancer.
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Sen. John McCain, whose endorsement of President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes against Syria provided the president a key Republican backer, faced vocal opponents of military action during a town hall in Arizona Thursday…
"We didn't send you to make war for us. We sent you to stop the war," one man said to applause…
"This is what I think of Congress," [another man] told McCain. "They are a bunch of marshmallows. That's what they are. That's what they've become. Why are you not listening to the people and staying out of Syria? It's not our fight."
Federal lawmakers who plan to vote in favor of a U.S. military strike against Syria "might as well start cleaning out" their office, U.S. Rep. Justin Amash said Thursday.
Amash, R-Cascade Township, tweeted that the "unprecedented level of public opposition" to military intervention in the country should beg for dissenting votes…
The sophomore lawmaker, whose mother was born in Syria, estimated 95 percent of those who turned out at meetings throughout his district were opposed to intervention.
Paul's friends say the role of leading this bloc is a natural one for the Republican freshman. They also believe that the Syria question gives him an opportunity to dismantle his critics' caricature of his libertarian views. His team is eager to cast Paul as an heir to Ronald Reagan, who, they argue, was frequently reluctant to involve the U.S. military in foreign civil wars. "It's about reclaiming the party from hawks and putting us back in the mode of Reagan," says a Paul source. "As we do that, we want to help him, so we're pushing back really hard against the isolationism chatter. That's not what he's about; he's about non-intervention and the national interest."…
Moving ahead, Paul's aides say the senator will spend more of his time working the inside angle against intervention. In the House, he's working closely with Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Justin Amash of Michigan to lobby Republicans to oppose. In the Senate, he hopes to have Rubio, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah, among others, at his side. On the outside, several tea-party groups and conservative powers, such as Heritage Action, share Paul's position, but Paul believes his time is best spent working the phones and, when appropriate, speaking with the press. "The outside stuff is organic and not being directed by us," says the Paul adviser. "We didn't have to organize it; it's happening on its own."
Paul's staff sees the House vote in July on Amash's amendment to restrict the National Security Agency's surveillance capabilities as a precedent for the kind of coalition Paul is trying to build. On that vote, liberal doves joined with Paul-aligned Republicans to nearly pass the legislation. Paul feels that if he and Amash can get that band back together, they have a shot at beating Boehner in the House and then forcing Obama's hand. Maybe they can even get close to doing something similar in the Senate. It won't be easy, but this is Paul's moment, and he's trying to make the most of it.
"What you have occurring is the first real policy engagement between a resurgent realist foreign policy worldview lead by Sen. Paul, versus the interventionist McCain and Graham wing which has been dominant in the party since 9/11," said one Paul ally familiar with the senator's thinking. "The debate on foreign policy and the appropriate use of U.S. military power was going to be happening at some point, but it is now happening in a case that creates an excellent opportunity for Sen. Paul."…
If the measure fails in the House, Paul is likely to get a big piece of the credit/blame — particularly since House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) have come out in support of the resolution.
"Success for Sen. Paul on this will be demonstrating there are a larger number of Republicans, both elected and policy experts, who agree with his assessment of the situation as it relates to our national interests, the strategic objectives, and the potential consequences," said the Paul source.
Other voices in the party are growing louder in their opposition. Sarah Palin, who defended the war in Iraq as McCain's running mate in 2008, posted a Facebook message on Syria that declared Americans should just let "Allah sort it out."
Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, has questions about the motives of the Syrian opposition fighting against the government there. He said the airstrikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would turn the U.S. military into "al Qaeda's Air Force."…
Nowhere is that tension more obvious than with Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican and another potential 2016 presidential candidate, who seems torn between McCain and Paul on the issue.
Rubio made clear that he did not support any U.S. military action in Syria. "We're not talking about American troops on the ground," he said. "We're not talking about U.S. air power, we're not talking about sending American soldiers or even American trainers into Syria. We're talking about providing ammunition. That's all we're talking about doing."
Rubio's office also pointed to a long list of statements going back to 2011 in which Rubio advocated a variety of measures against Syria — mostly sanctions against the Assad regime — but not any sort of U.S. military action. "I describe Rubio's foreign policy as being somewhere in between Rand Paul and John McCain," said one aide Wednesday. "He's not an isolationist, but he's very cautious about engaging militarily overseas." Rubio's committee vote on Wednesday against the Obama intervention resolution, the aide said, is entirely consistent with Rubio's long-held positions.
On the other hand, let's imagine that things play out differently. Let's imagine the political winds shift, as they often do (think about how bad Hillary's vote for Iraq looked a couple years later). What if Republicans return to a more traditional (at least, in modern terms) position on foreign affairs, and suddenly they crave a strong Commander in Chief who puts dictators in line?
If that happens, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who is already perfectly-cast to play the role of a strong executive who puts other countries back in line — will remind voters that his opponents allowed a dictator to use chemical weapons – and didn't do anything about it…
If the establishment hawks and the neocons circle the wagons around Christie — if he is able to "own" that brand and have it all to himself — one imagines that would translate into a lot of money and support for Christie. It's one way he could emerge as the lone establishment candidate. Christie would love that, inasmuch as we could see a repeat of 2008 and 2012, where conservatives split the vote and allowed an establishment candidate to win the nomination.
"Right now, the easy Republican vote looks like the vote against Obama," said Michael Goldfarb, a neoconservative lobbyist and writer. "Ten days from now, a vote against Obama could look like a vote for Assad, especially if Republicans succeed in blocking U.S. action, and Assad goes on to prevail, having used chemical weapons, with Iran at his side."
Mr. Goldfarb's message to Congressional Republicans is this: "Voting to let an Iranian proxy keep killing his own people with weapons of mass destruction may be as risky as it sounds."…
"Isolationist tendencies don't do well in American politics over the long run," Mr. Senor said.
This was once a great land that asked not what oppressed people could do for themselves; it asked, instead, what we could do for them. Today, every urge to rescue others, to intervene on the side of the murdered underdogs, is met by many in this country with accusations of imperialism. Our loss of righteous strength—strength that was once this country's greatest asset—is now celebrated by many Americans, including those who write for this publication: in tones that are akin to ululation, David Stockman, who once worked for the Reagan White House, celebrates the end of America's "Imperium," of the "American warfare state." As someone who has elected to live in this country by moral choice, I say to Stockman (in echo of Kipling): … what should they know of America who only America know?
How did we come to this state? I refer not only to the Stockmans (who, mercifully, are of no political consequence), but also to Rep. Rand Paul, who will not do the right thing by innocent Syrians because he wishes to cut Barack Obama not an inch of slack. Rand Paul is a hideous isolationist. I happen to be rereading The Bonfire of the Vanities, and early in the book a bond trader called Rawlie Thorpe tells Sherman McCoy, the novel's central character, "If you want to live in New York, you've got to insulate, insulate, insulate"—meaning, insulate yourself from anyone who might cause you discomfort, inconvenience, a moment's moral reckoning. "If you could go breezing down the FDR Drive in a taxi, then why file into the trenches of the urban wars?" Rand Paul, meet Rawlie Thorpe.
Via Mediaite.
Via MFP.


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Some Notes on Ahmadinejad's "Insult to Humanity" Comment
by NIMA SHIRAZI--Wide Asleep in America
Commentary by William O. Beeman: Nima Shirazi has dissected the overwrought critiques of President Ahmadinejad's rhetoric in a particularly sober manner. One should understand that President Ahmadinejad's rhetoric is frequently mistranslated. It also has absolutely no connection to official state policy on foreign affairs, military affairs or the nuclear energy program. When speaking about Zionism or the Israeli situation he is speaking entirely for himself, and usually to his own constituency. His words are frequently at odds with the Iranian state. Still, those who favor attacking Iran take his words to be the policy of Iran, and they frequently say "Iran says . . . " plugging Ahmadinejad's words inaccurately into this statement. For U.S. readers, this is like taking the hateful anti-Islamic words of Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) or Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) as U.S. government policy. That said, Ms. Shirazi points out that the same critics of Ahmadinejad's rhetoric have no objections when his same words are seen in other contexts to condemn states like S. Africa during the apartheid years. This is not to excuse President Ahmadinejad, but rather to put his remarks in Iranian social and political context, and to point out the hypocrisy of those who talk about his unprecedented rhetoric, which is not unprecedented at all in the West.
As tends to happen whenever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech, especially one in commemoration of Al-Quds Day that explicitly rejects the ideology of Zionism and condemns the Israeli government for its inherently discriminatory, exclusivist, and ethnocentric policies and actions, all hell broke lose after the Iranian President addressed a large crowd at Tehran University on Friday.
"The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity," Ahmadinejad said, adding that "confronting the existence of the fabricated Zionist regime is in fact protecting the rights and dignity of all human beings."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred to the remarks as "offensive and inflammatory." The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is leading nuclear negotiations with Iran, also denounced Ahmadinejad's speech as "outrageous and hateful."
Naturally, Ahmadinejad's words also sparked the usual shock and horror from the usual people, the same people who still insist that (1) Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and (2) believe that such a comment constituted a direct threat of military action against the superpower-backed, nuclear-armed state of Israel.
Without delving into the persistent myths and deliberate falsehoods surrounding that particular talking point (one that has been sufficiently debunked countless times though obviously never seems to cut through the hasbara) or seeking to justify anything said by Ahmadinejad, a few things should be noted:
First: While Associated Press described Ahmadinejad's comment as "one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state," which seemed to indicate that this is the first time such language has been used, they failed to point out that Ahmadinejad has used this exact same phrase before.
After Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at a "National and Islamic Solidarity for the Future of Palestine" conference in February 2010, Ha'aretz reported he had said that "the existence of 'the Zionist regime' is an insult to humanity, according to Iranian news agency IRNA."
Later that year, he said the very same thing.
Second (and more important): The "insult to humanity" phrase was not coined by the Iranian President to describe a political power structure defined by demographic engineering, colonialism, racism, and violence.
For example, a December 11, 1979 editorial in California's Lodi News-Sentinel stated clearly, "Apartheid is an insult to humanity" and "must be ended."
But the phrase has far deeper roots - roots with which the UN Secretary-General himself should be well acquainted.
A joint declaration by 20 Asian and African countries issued to the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on October 1, 1963 called upon the agency to reject the membership of South Africa due to its racist and discriminatory regime of Apartheid. It noted "with grave concern that the South African Government continues stubbornly to disregard all United Nations and Security Council resolutions and to maintain its apartheid policies in defiance of the United Nations General Assembly, of the Security, and consequently of the IAEA Statute."
The declaration stated:
1. We condemn categorically the apartheid policies of the Government of South Africa, based on racial superiority, as immoral and inhuman;
2. We deprecate most strongly the South African Government's irresponsible flouting of world opinion by its persistent refusal to put an end to its racial policies;
3. The apartheid policies of the Government of South Africa are a flagrant violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter, as well as being an insult to humanity.
The very first International Conference on Human Rights, held by the UN in (get this) Tehran from April 22 to May 13, 1968, "condemned the brutal and inhuman practice of apartheid," "deplore[d] the Government of South Africa's continuous insult to humanity," and "declare[d] that the policy of apartheid or other similar evils are a crime against humanity."
On February 15, 1995, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights adopted a resolution praising the end of "the era of apartheid in South Africa" which also reaffirmed that "apartheid and apartheid-like practices are an insult to humanity..."
The UN General Assembly has repeatedly reaffirmed "that the conclusion of an internal convention on the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid would be an important contribution to the struggle against apartheid, racism, economic exploitation, colonial domination and foreign occupation" and, more specifically, the UN has affirmed time and again that "the inalienable rights of all peoples, and in particular...the Palestinian people, to freedom, equality and self-determination, and the legitimacy of their struggles to restore those rights."
No one can accuse Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of having any affinity whatsoever for Zionism or the government of Israel. Clearly he believes that Israel practices its own form of Apartheid against the Palestinian people. And he is not alone.
Back in 1961, Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa's notoriously racist Prime Minister said, "The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state."
In April 1976, just two months before the Soweto Uprising, South African Prime Minister (and known former Nazi sympathizer) John Vorster took an official state visit to Israel, where he was hosted by Israeli Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin. A number of friendship pacts and bilateral economic, military and nuclear agreements were signed. At a banquet held in Vorster's honor, Rabin hailed "the ideals shared by Israel and South Africa: the hopes for justice and peaceful coexistence" and praised Vorster as a champion of freedom. Both Israel and South Africa, Rabin said, faced "foreign-inspired instability and recklessness."
Vorster lamented that both South Africa and Israel were victims of the enemies of Western civilization. Only a few months later, an official South African Government's document reinforced this shared predicament: "Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples."
Both Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and as well as many other South Africa anti-Apartheid activists, have consistently called Israel an Apartheid state.
Michael Ben-Yair, Israel's attorney general from 1993 to 1996, has written that following the Six Day War in June 1967,
We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one ‑ progressive, liberal ‑ in Israel; and the other ‑ cruel, injurious ‑ in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture.
That oppressive regime exists to this day.
In 2002, Yigal Bronner, then a professor at Tel Aviv University, wrote in Ha'aretz of the true purpose of the Israeli separation wall: "Ours will be a brutal land of pens stretching between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean that will make South African apartheid pale. The outcome is too terrible to even imagine."
Avraham Burg, Israel's Knesset Speaker from 1999 to 2003 and former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, has long determined that "Israel must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy," insisting the only way to maintain total Jewish control over all of historic Palestine would be to "abandon democracy" and "institute an efficient system of racial separation here, with prison camps and detention villages." He has also called Israel "the last colonial occupier in the Western world."
Yossi Sarid, who served as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 2006, has written of Israel's "segregation policy" that "what acts like apartheid, is run like apartheid and harasses like apartheid, is not a duck – it is apartheid."
Yossi Paritzky, former Knesset and Cabinet minister, writing about the systematic institutionalization and legalization of racial and religious discrimination in Israel, stated that Israel does not act like a democracy in which "all citizens regardless of race, religious, gender or origin are entitled to equality." Rather, by implementing more and more discriminatory laws that treat Palestinians as second-class citizens, "Israel decided to be like apartheid‑era South Africa, and some will say even worse countries that no longer exist."
Shulamit Aloni, another former Knesset and Cabinet member, has written that "the state of Israel practices its own, quite violent, form of Apartheid with the native Palestinian population."
In 2008, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel released its annual human rights report which found that the dynamic between settlers, soldiers and native Palestinians in the occupied West Bank was "reminiscent, in many and increasing ways, of the apartheid regime in South Africa."
Ehud Olmert, when he was Prime Minister, told a Knesset committee meeting, "For sixty years there has been discrimination against Arabs in Israel. This discrimination is deep‑seated and intolerable" and repeatedly warned that if "we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished."
Ehud Barak has admitted that "[a]s long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."
Shlomo Gazit, former member of Palmach, an elite unit of the Haganah, wrote in Ha'aretz that "in the present situation, unfortunately, there is no equal treatment for Jews and Arabs when it comes to law enforcement. The legal system that enforces the law in a discriminatory way on the basis of national identity, is actually maintaining an apartheid regime."
Last summer, Knesset minister Ahmed Tibi told the Jerusalem Post that "keeping the status quo will deepen apartheid in Israel as it did in South Africa," while Gabriela Shalev, former Israeli ambassador to the UN, told The Los Angeles Times last year that, in terms of public opinion of Israel, "I have the feeling that we are seen more like South Africa once was."
Council on Foreign Relations member Stephen Roberts, after returning from a trip to Israel and the West Bank, wrote in The Nation that "Israel has created a system of apartheid on steroids, a horrifying prison with concrete walls as high as twenty-six feet, topped with body-ravaging coils of razor wire."
In April 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu's own nephew, Jonathan Ben Artzi wrote that Israel's "policies of segregation and discrimination that ravaged (and still ravage) my country and the occupied Palestinian territories" undoubtedly fit the definition of Apartheid.
Linguist, cultural anthropologist, and Hebrew University professor David Shulman wrote in May 2012 in The New York Review of Books that there already exists "a single state between the Jordan River and the sea" controlled by Israel and which fits the definition of an "ethnocracy." He continues,
Those who recoil at the term "apartheid" are invited to offer a better one; but note that one of the main architects of this system, Ariel Sharon, himself reportedly adopted South African terminology, referring to the noncontiguous Palestinian enclaves he envisaged for the West Bank as "Bantustans."
These Palestinian Bantustans now exist, and no one should pretend that they're anything remotely like a "solution" to Israel's Palestinian problem. Someday, as happened in South Africa, this system will inevitably break down.
Whether those who get hysterical over Ahmadinejad's rhetoric agree with the above assessments - many of which were made by prominent Israeli and Jewish politicians, officials, and academics - is irrelevant. It's clear that Ahmadinejad himself would agree.
Consequently, his reference to Israel (which he sees as an Apartheid state) as an "insult to humanity" (which repeats the same verbiage used repeatedly by the United Nations itself) appears to be far less inflammatory then the outrage that followed would suggest.


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Below is a list of some of the more interesting or recent freelance and personal projects that I have worked on/am working on that I'm allowed to talk about!
After entering the London Marathon to raise money for The Big Issue Foundation we needed to setup several fund raising options.
With my software and electronics background, and a fairly recent interest in Escape Rooms I designed and created an excape room which I wan from a function room in Hinckley, Leicester (UK).
During its operation it raised over £2500 with over 50 teams playing, and achieved a 59% success rate. During the time of operation I tweaked and improved the experience and had several enthusiast groups play, completing the room in 29 minutes!
The room consisted of several tech based puzzles, full computer controlled atmospherical lighting and sound, and the usual doors popping open, sound effects and group puzzles. Its stil available for hire!
Technially it was a Windows PC runing a special Direct3D application, which also communicated to several pieces of custom hardware via an Arduino interface. The PC output two seperate audio signals, DMX controlled lighting, a display which was visible in the room, and ommunicated with several devices. In total the entire setup had 4 arduino devices running!
As a side I am now starting to build props for others as well as design and code software for other rooms under the name of C&R Escapes. I have also designed and started building another.
The booking website is still up at https://escape.robandchris.co.uk/
Having a strong history with the Amiga I decided to work out a modern way to read and write the floppy disks back under Windows 10.
The solution uses a standard Arduino to read and write the data, which is then passed to Windows for decoding. All the source code is open source and freely available.
I have setup a seperate micro site for this project with full details of how the poject works and how I got it to work.
Full details, source code, arduino sketches etc available at http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/
This game is a short pixel-art horizontal scrolling game whereby you must move santa and his sleigh and drop as many presents down chimneys as possible.
Along the way you can pickup carrots for extra time, mince pies for double points and a glass of wine to slow the game down a little. It all gets way too fast quickly and you must avoid the chimneys and roof tops!
This game also uses the Amiga MOD playing engine that I built for qoob. Amiga MOD files are great for retro style music at a very small footprint. The music in this game is about 4 minutes long in total but the files are less than 100k!
Play now by download it from the iTunes App Store
qoob was a game I originally came up with many years ago and began porting it to iOS. The game is written in Objective C and uses OpenGL for the 3D elements. It successfully passed App Store review on the first attempt!
Race your Ogre through the brussel sprout fields eat as many as possible before the towns folk catch you! - Its kinda a Pacman clone in retro style. It even uses old Amiga MOD files for music!
Play it now on the App Store
For a local fitness group challenge I was involved in I created a game related to the teams. I needed the game to be as accessable as possible, and also built as quickly as possible.
I decided to choose Phonegap for this with the build-once deploy-everywhere concept. I created the game as an HTML5 web page and wrapped it up using PhoneGap build and a few of the stock plugins. I then deployed it for Windows Mobile, Android and iPhone. I was impressed with how east Phonegap build made the process.
The game is a whack-a-mole style game "In just 30 seconds capture as many Pandas, Turtles and Raptors as possible to feed your falcon family"
Download and Play Now on: iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile
The E-Snowball machne was a "Lunch Time Challenge" to create a simple e-snowball system, taking roughly an hour to build. All it does is send an email to the people with a message saying you've been hit by a snowball. The email has been setup to get through most spam filters. Give it a try at snowball.robsmithdev.co.uk...
I created social-wars as a viral marketing experiment. Its a retro Doom-style 3D multiplayer shoot-em-up (fps). It uses 100% HTML5, the 2D canvas element to create a 3D environment (it does not use WebGL) and HTML5 Audio. The game integrates with Facebook and Twitter to create a unique competitive experience. It even works on an iPhone! I have now taken this offline and plan to build a true WebGL 3D version
Touchless Touch is an application for Windows that can turn any flat surface into a multi-touch screen. The software uses one or more Kinect or OpenNI sensors to achieve this. I spent several months working on and perfecting this solution as this method is a lot cheaper when it comes to making large format touch screens. Try it now
I created an app for Leicester Pride to help promote their activities as well as provide a location-based messaging service. The app uses a server to manage over 150,000 members worldwide. The app uses concepts linked to an older project (Mobuds) for which I filed a patent in 2007 but due to costs did continue this process. Find out more
CFE required a new website and provided a challenging brief. This included intelligent Twitter integration, multiple news sections, and article/publication management. The ensure solution runs off my bespoke CMS. The client liked this as it was simple to use.
The website was looking really old as it hadn't been changed in over 10 years. I went for a modern simple approach that loads quickly and provides faster access to the information required. See the new website
The client already had the site setup running on Joomla. The site was sluggish and the client was finding Joomla difficult to understand and manage and wanted to simplify the solution. The website was completely re-coded and converted to my CMS. The website now ran smoother and the client found it much easier and simpler to maintain.
I designed and created and host a website for Metamorphis salon in Leicester. The website was designed to their requirements and can be updated using the SiteInSeconds solution further down.
I host and maintain the Leicester Pride website for the charity. I have maintained this since 2011 for them. The site was 100% generated to their requirements. It has a custom CMS to maintain the content as well as an expenses & purchases monitoring system. View Website
I created and host the Live in Leicester website which displays listings of live music in Leicester. The website is maintained through its custom CMS. The website integrates with Amazon and iTunes to include links to artists albums.
If I am asked to create a fairly simple website but the client wants to be able to maintain it I build it upon my SiteInSeconds framework. This is a build it yourself style solution that I built for rapid website creation. The site integrates with PayPal for automatic billing. View Website
Karaoke software for Windows. This software allows you to create your own Karaoke presentations. I building this in the days of Windows 3.1 and has been maintained to Windows 8. It has a large community of registered users and was once used to create the captioning for the Channel 4 programme Karaoke Fishtank. View Website


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DIGIQ necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
inStash is a buyer's guide and shopping magazine for men.
We cover accessories, gadgets, grub, movies, music, rides, clothes, you name it. Aside from short product reviews, we also publish in-depth guides, informative "how-to" posts, and entertaining "top 10″ lists.
Typically, a reader of inStash would be male, ages 18-40.
We're currently working on a new design and we have a good portion of it already finished (which can be found in the link below). Now we just need the article section on the homepage to be completed. This should include:
- Between 4 and 10 recent articles with excerpts (full article is not shown on homepage).
- Preferably a category section that shows multiple recent articles from each category. (An example website is given below).
- Bonus points if you can manage to fit in an area for a "sponsored review" and/or an adsense unit. (Example websites are given below).
Most importantly, the design should be clean, organized, and fluid.
There are no requirements as to what the articles need to show on the homepage... whatever you feel works best for the design. For example, you might choose to show the author's name, or you might not. Same goes for the "buy" link, post tags, etc.
We use images sized at 620x349 for the article page. We'd prefer that you use the same ratio for most, if not all of the images for the articles on the homepage. However, if you want to change it up here and there, that's fine. In the example website given below, you'll notice that they use square images, rather than rectangular images for the larger featured article in the category section. If you decide to do the same, that would be fine.
You're welcome to change things around to better fit your article design if you'd like. For example, you could do something different with the featured videos or the jquery player that currently exists on the new design.
Article section on the homepage. This section will go in the blank space seen below the featured videos in the new design that we're working on (seen in the link given below).
http://www.i7omedia.com/wp-content/…nStash.jpg - The new design that you'll work with.
http://www.londonthemes.com/themes/londonlive/ - We really like the article layout on this theme. Note that the article layout changes as you scroll down. One of our favorite parts is the categories, with multiple articles and images shown from each category on the homepage.
http://www.i7omedia.com/wp-content/…nsored.png - Shows an example of a sponsored review. Screenshot taken from uncrate.com
http://www.i7omedia.com/wp-content/…dsense.png - Shows an example of an adsense unit. Screenshot taken from joystiq.com