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Tracy Wong of Wong Doody Crandall Weiner spoke to our Creative Strategist class this week about the creative process and the democracy of a good idea.
He spoke about the failures that can occur if:
- Creatives are assholes
- The agency thinks the clients are assholes
- No one listens to eachother because of aforementioned factors interfere with strategy
People in the agency must not have open minds but empty minds to truly let external ideas seep in and be accepted. It's the idea that matters – not the author. If everyone can leave their ego at the door and truly come ready to work collaboratively with the client, greatness like the "Dear Me" campaign can occur. I was particularly interested by his description of the revelation that can happen if both sides can make sacrifices. The client wanted testimonials and the agency cringed at the staleness of the idea. Yet, everyone worked together to come up with a truly effective campaign.
Tracy's talk was engaging in its frankness on how the industry works. It is an industry where teamwork is paramount to the success of just about anything and I'm excited to someday be a part of it.

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It's official, folks: not only has this summer been a scorcher of epic, sweaty armpitted proportions, but this July was the hottest month on record in the continental U.S. There are numerous methods for staying cool at home and avoiding horrifying electric bills brought on by nonstop AC usage including, and certainly not limited to, powering down heat-generating appliances, investing in portable fans, staying hydrated, and dressing properly. And by dressing properly, I mean shedding a few layers. (Given that I work from home, I've really taken this one to heart.)
And on the topic of shedding a few layers, it's not entirely surprising that this summer's unbearable heat has resulted in an uptick in memberships for at least one of our country's finest family friendly, swimsuit-optional resort destinations. (It seems that this New York Times article on the apparent eco-friendliness of "nakations" came three years too early.) The steamy weather has also prompted the folks at real estate website Movoto to contemplate the finer points of selling houses to naked people.
For the article (totally safe for work by the way, except for some gratuitous realtor cleavage), writer David Cross called up Jackie Youngblood, a grandmother of eight and the Tampa Bay area's preeminent real estate agent for homebuyers who don't frequently buy clothing. Youngblood also happens to be a practicing nudist, which I suppose really helps in her line of work. As the consummate professional, however, she only conducts business while fully dressed. "If they [the clients] want to come in nude they can. Me, I dress professionally. I don't go around nude showing property," says the former real estate investor.
While it's unclear if Youngblood has seen a surge in sales this summer — I've had it with this damn heat! Let's put our clothes in storage and move to west central Florida! — she seems to have found herself a nice little niche within the Tampa real estate market, selling about 30 homes per year within nudist and clothing-optional communities such as Paradise Lakes Resort and Caliente Club & Resort. Most of the homes are located in Pasco County, just north of Tampa proper. She also works with clients outside of clothing-optional communities as well.
If you're wondering what a home located within a clothing-optional or nudist community in Florida looks like, here you go: First, there's this 3,600-square-foot two-bedroom abode in Land O Lakes that's currently on the market for $525,000. Features include bamboo flooring, granite countertops, and a three-car garage. Not surprisingly, there's no mention of ample closet space in the listing. The same goes for this "professionally decorated and upgraded" pink townhouse ($189,000) located in a community offering shuffleboard and tennis of the naked variety. Ditto for this villa-style three-bedroom residence ($325,000) featuring a lanai with retractable awning, water treatment system, crazy hydro massage tub, and bidet (also, please observe the wall art above the staircase). However, this nearby four-bedroom property built in 1983 and boasting a conversation pit and quite the hot tub set-up does in fact list a "huge" walk-in closet in the master bedroom as one of its selling points.
But back to Youngblood. She tells Movoto that buying a home in a nudist or clothing-optional community, whether it be a condo, townhouse, or single-family affair, isn't too dissimilar from purchasing property in an area where local laws frown upon those who decide to walk the dog around the block in the buff or prune the rose bushes without pants on. "It's very strict. The nudist and clothing-optional clientele are extremely respectful of each other. You are put out of a community and resort if you are anything other than respectful," says Youngblood. She goes on to detail one community that was designed to make clothing-wearing visitors feel at ease ... or deceive them, at least: "It was built with the concept that your family and friends could come visit you and they would never know you were at a nudist resort. Each home has a fence behind it so that you can walk nude."
Youngblood also points out that many of these properties are second homes. "They [her clients] love to buy second homes in these resorts, which their families may not know about. Homeowners have passed away and left their property to children and their children never had any idea that their parents owned a property in one of the resorts. Most heirs laughed about it all the way to the closing table."
I'm sorry, but if I found out that my parents owned a top-secret townhouse somewhere outside of Tampa in a community called Caliente Club & Resort, I wouldn't be laughing. Okay, maybe I would.
Of course, what I really want to know is what the household energy and water consumption of homes in clothing-optional communities look like. Is it significantly less than in clothing-dependent households, particularly in the summer? While Youngblood doesn't discuss utilities, the aforementioned NY Times article lifts a quote from Kathy Blanchard of the Naturist Society that makes it appear that way: "Living more hours naked each day results in a dramatic drop in my laundry, which in turn reduces my water and energy use (along with my related bills)." Fair enough, but we should perhaps take into consideration what seems to be a staple in nudist-owned homes: the hot tub.
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We were all surprised to discover early this morning a smiling Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard president, apparently landing his first acting gig opposite Brad Pitt in upcoming sports drama Moneyball.
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funny, i've just recently been getting into the root cellar idea. i have a basementy sort of room under the kitchen, but it actually stays relatively warm because the furnace is down there, so instead i cleared a cabinet in my unheated detached laundry room and filled it with winter squash. i'll be curious to see how that plays out. i also have some apples in a crate and a paper bag of sweet potatoes. so far so good. it's nice to walk out there and see a small bounty of eatables.
Going Back to the Root Cellar
My grandmother once told me about her parents' root cellar: it was just a story of something so different from modern day that she thought I would get a kick out of it. But root cellars seem to be experiencing a revival.
Storing food for the winter used to be a big deal. Without a well-stocked root cellar (or a grocery store around the corner), it was impossible to eat well all year around. But with the advent of supermarkets shipping in produce from all over, the root cellar became a historical oddity. Its revival isn't a matter of a lack of produce. Instead, people are turning to root cellars as away to cut costs on produce. Root cellars also offer an opportunity to eat locally-grown produce year round.
What can you store in a root cellar?
Root cellars are officially for roots: potatoes, turnips, beets and carrots are the easiest to store. At the low temperature provided by most root cellars, these foods are unlikely to rot. Squash, onions and garlic can do equally well. Some fruits can also be stored, such as apples, but most must be preserved in some manner. My grandmother's parents kept their preserves and jams in their root cellar, as well as salt meat and fish.
In the summertime — at least before electricity offered other options — many families kept items in need of refrigeration in their root cellars. Milk, butter, fresh meat and more were kept cool by the even temperatures of a root cellar.
What does a root cellar look like?
Creating a root cellar is surprisingly simple. Dig a hole, add some shelves and you effectively have a working root cellar. Most root cellars are underground rooms with minimal insulation and dirt floors. They use the cold of their surroundings to keep food chilled and are ideally constructed below the frost line (four feet in many areas). There are above ground options as well: if you have some sort of shed at ground level, you can pile rock or dirt around it or cover it with sod to help keep temperatures down. Survivalist Ted Wright has published plans for a root cellar that's as simple as digging a whole and swiping a few pallets from a local warehouse.
Don't have an area around your home where you can start digging? The New York Times interviewed a couple last week who turned their basement into a root cellar. In their brownstone, Cynthia and Haja Worley have an unfinished basement lined with shelves. The temperature remains constantly cool, allowing the Worleys to store all sorts of produce.
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well i'm in colorado, so i guess i'll find out! here we do have the advantage of really cool nights, so even when we're having a streak of warm days, the temps really come down after dark, so despite a mild autumn, my little stash of veggies are still in good shape out there. i would think that, underground, temps remain stable wherever you are, really.
I'm not certain I'd consider Colorado part of the sort of southwest I was thinking of! *grin*. (Maybe the southern part?) I was thinking ore like, NM, AZ, southern California, where a frost line is not even dreamed of...
For three years now I have been canning, blanching and storing locally grown food (that I have grown myself or bought locally), and not only have I spent less money doing this, but we eat better/healthier. And let's not forget the great sense of satisfaction you get, too!
Root cellar sounds dreadfully plebian and old world :)
Rebrand it as a wine cellar! It's the same thing - a room with a constant environment. And a hell of a lot cheaper than those climate controlled cabinets that are sold for storing wine.
A friend converted his basement into a wine cellar and always bought "1 to drink and 1 to cellar", it didn't take long to build up an interesting collection. His wife meantime used it to store her preserves and herbs etc.
Ahhhh a frost line. I remember that...as well as the little closet in the closet under the stairs in the basement of my grandparents' house which was always called the root cellar. They stored canned fruits and vegetables (both those they canned themselves as well as extras bought at the grocery store) there. When I was little, I thought it was a little odd, but their kitchen was tiny so it worked for them.
Now I live in north Texas. Most houses don't even have basements, let alone anything that might be usable as a root cellar for most of the year. It's a great idea, but not terribly practical where I am.
It seems like for people living in more temperate climates year round, a root cellar doesn't really make sense anyway, since storing food for the winter was one of the main reasons to have a root cellar. Theoretically, if you're living somewhere that the ground never gets cold enough, then you should have more/better access to fresh produce year round, right?
I'm posing this as a question because I live in Michigan...not exactly known for its mild winters.
It is true in Texas there is fresh produce from mexico and South America coming in, but if you are growing your own food and want to store it. Our 105 degree days will make it go bad in a hurry. Potatos are grown early in the season so they have to make it through the summer.
Hi, we do live in Texas, just south of Dallas. You are parcially right I can grow some geens all through the winter but items like winter squash, potatoes, carrots, beets and others can not be grown in 40 - 60 degree weather. I am preparing an area right now to place a prefbricated cellar into. It is hards to store anything for any lenght of time when its 100 outside. And as you know things don't last long in the frige either. I am looking frorward to getting our root seller in.
I could have a root cellar. I live in the San Fran Bay Area and while I have a crawl space under the house, I wouldn't really use it for storing veg and such. Who knows what lives down there? Plus we can't really put jars on shelves what with the earth shaking sometimes.
Id love to have a root cellar. We used to keep potatoes under the house but I havent done that in years. I do raise a big garden and can and freeze the food. In fact I just wrote about preparing for emergencies today on my own blog.
The idea of a root cellar intrigues me. Wonder if I could talk my husband into it!
I don't think this would be possible with apartment dwellers in the city. Any alternatives for storage other than root cellars?
Fill a big bucket with sand, layering your veggies within it. You know how no matter how hot the day at the beach - you can dig 6" down into the sand and it's still cool - it's a great way to keep veggies cool and fresh, even when out of season.
Also, a note...Root cellaring was traditionally used to keep whole veggies of all kinds fresh through the winter. Not so much for canned foods, as they are already preserved. Cellaring is a low-tech, low-energy alternative to canning and freezing.


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Alessandro Marchelli-Casa Dova Residential House
At Design Interviews
Interview with Alessandro Marchelli : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Alessandro Marchelli : Excite astonishment, elegance and concrete gestures .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Alessandro Marchelli : Finding the skill of the Masters of Architecture restoration of the environment in a modern vision .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Alessandro Marchelli : Approval of the study team and the customer .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Alessandro Marchelli : The idea of the project and the design were developed in about 40 days .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Alessandro Marchelli : To impress and create something unique that can remain over time .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Alessandro Marchelli : The creation of unique pieces of design .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Alessandro Marchelli : It 'was an idea developed by carefully studying the characteristics of the property. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Alessandro Marchelli : Private client .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Alessandro Marchelli : The name of the historical building .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Alessandro Marchelli : Sketches, working drawings, freehand drawings, models, modeling and CAD programs to render and executive .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Alessandro Marchelli : The amazement of the people .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Alessandro Marchelli : Study Team: engineers, architects, surveyors, lighting designer .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Alessandro Marchelli : Historical research on the types of materials .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Alessandro Marchelli : The maintenance of the historic building and transform it into an innovative concept and the complexity of the regulations in force .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Alessandro Marchelli : Seeing the enthusiasm and curiosity that had created this restructuring .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Alessandro Marchelli : Different methods of construction and a lot of effort and creativity .
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Meeting Notes 2010 09 28
The 129th Meeting of Noisebridge
Get someone to grab the membership binder now. Get someone to take notes.
- Moderator: Steve "Mr Domino" Dee
- Note-Taker: Ronald Miloh Alexander
Introduction and Names[edit]
- What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you!
open source project visitiations
Hbase --- ryan
NetFPGA -- adam
Noisebridge birthday party will happen this weekend on saturday Doors open early, and at 928 a decision will me made to direct the party funds. Funds: $10 pitch in requested. All ideas considered. Nosiebridge: To Your Wishes, an Evening of Guarenteed Chance
24 Hour Comic Festival starting at 11AM-11AM (the next on Saturday October see Link (ther's room for 3 more artists):
Tastebridge drinks are available and a Tastebridge donation bin is in the front.
Help is requested working on restoring the Kitchen to its grandeur on this hot night.
"Who's a HAM?" Whos an ameteur radio operator. Hinternet projects are proceding to provide data over radio BUILD A NATL wireless NETWORK w/o TRYING (sorry for the paraphrase) Discussion of Legality.. Next MEETING: Next Meeting: Saturday October 2nd at Noisebridge, also there will be a convention in San Ramon in Mid October, please contact Dr_JEsus or the Noisebridge-CQ mailing list if you can help out
Financial Report[edit]
Funds in bank: There is no Financial report prepared at this time.
Membership Binder[edit]
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
- Anyone up to join this week should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts for the rest of the group.
Noisebridge members present consent that Elizabeth B. shall be added as a member of Noisebridge
What's Going On at Noisebridge[edit]
One short sentence about each of the following:
For locations at Noisebridge, see a map of the 2169 location of Noisebridge.
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (Monday, 7PM, E Lab)
- Iphone Dev Meetup -- (Monday, 6PM, A. Church)
- Pyclass - Mondays (Monday, 7PM, A. Turing)
- GameDevelopment - (Wednesday, 7PM, E Lab/Main Hall]]
- SCoW craft group - (Wednesday, 7PM, SCoW area)
- Machine_Learning - (Wednesday, 7:30PM, A. Church)
- Linux System administration certification study group - (Wednesday, 6PM, A. Turing)
- Spacebridge - (Sundays, Main Hall)
- Knots, Go, and Locks! - (Sunday afternoon, Main Hall)
Project Updates[edit]
Consensus items[edit]
Shannon: Kelly for treasurer[edit]
Treasurer's term is up. We need a new treasurer. Kelly has volunteered to step up. We are officially consensing on letting Kelly manage our money. (Other people can totally step up.) In the absence of anyone else, we're going to force Kelly to do it.
Discussion includes whether Kelly will complete the tem of service (1 year) and be able to maintain the work load of treasurer for the year starting from this date.
Noisebridge consents on making Kelly the treasurer.
Discussion Items[edit]
Aside from above announcements, there are no dicussion items.
End of Meeting[edit]
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Effects of Damage Edit
In the GnG combat system, the effects of damage tend towards greater severity than the core rules.
Trauma Edit
If you lose one-half or more of your current Hit Points from a single attack, you suffer trauma and may only perform a standard action on your next turn. (Nonlethal damage does not cause trauma.)
Injury Edit
As you lose HP, you suffer injury.
Your current HP total determines your state of injury. When your current HP dips below a certain level, you suffer a negative modifier to many of your rolls.
Three grades of injury exist: Light, Moderate, and Severe.
- Light Injury: When your current HP is equal to or less than 75% of your maximum HP, you suffer a Light Injury. A Light Injury imposes a -1 injury penalty on all attack rolls, defense rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and saving throws.
- Moderate Injury: When your current HP is equal to or less than 50% of your maximum HP, you suffer a Moderate Injury. A Moderate Injury imposes a -2 injury penalty on all attack rolls, defense rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and saving throws.
- Severe Injury: When your current HP is equal to or less than 25% of your maximum HP, you suffer a Severe Injury. A Severe Injury imposes a -3 injury penalty on all attack rolls, defense rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and saving throws.
Do not stack the penalties for degrees of injury.
- Creatures Immune to Injuries
Creatures that are immune to critical hits in the core rules or that have no discernible anatomy (such as undead, oozes, constructs, and the like) do not suffer injuries.
Disabled, Dying, and Dead Edit
The rules for disabled, dying and dead conditions remain the same as the core rules, with the following exceptions:
- The instant death from massive damage rule is not used.
- The amount of negative Hit Points to which a character can drop before dying equals –10 for small or larger creatures, –8 for tiny, –4 for diminutive, and –2 for fine.
- The chance a creature will stabilize while dying equals its Constitution score, rather than a flat 10%.
Healing Edit
The physical healing rules for the GnG rules diverge from the core rules in the following manner.
- Hit Points
Natural Healing: Every week, you recover lost HP at the following rate: (1 + your Constitution Modifier) x your HP Size Multiplier. (Minimum of 1 HP per week.)
If you undergo complete bed rest for a week, you double your recovery rate during that week.
- Ability Damage
In most cases, ability damage is temporary, and you can recover lost points.
Natural Healing: With a full night's rest, you recover 1 lost ability point (per ability) per day. Any significant interruption during your rest prevents you from healing that night. Any ability point loss during a day prevents recovery.
If you undergo complete bed rest for an entire day, you recover 2 lost ability points (per ability) during that day.
Other means: Various abilities, items, and powers can restore lost ability points.
Temporary Hit Points Edit
Temporary HP function as they do in the core rules, with the following additions:
- Do not apply your size multiplier to your temporary HP.
- Do not add temporary HP to your base HP total.
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The Blind Dating the Blind
There are two things that control my life right now: being a comedian struggling to get noticed and being a single guy struggling not to be single. So it made perfect sense to go on Blind Date.
If you are unfamiliar with the show, Blind Date puts couples that have either a lot or absolutely nothing in common in an SUV for seven hours and sees what happens. There's a little more to it than that, but I'm summarizing.
A friend was chosen for the show, and that convinced me to give it a shot. Why not? They would pay $100, give me a free dinner, and allow me the chance to embarrass myself in front of a much larger audience than usual. Oh, yeah, and the getting a date thing.
The first step in the process was to apply online. I sent in an e-mail with my headshot and answers to a few basic questions. My favorite was "why do you want to appear on Blind Date?" I answered, "Normally, I take dates on a seven hour drive in an SUV, but this way we could have cartoon thought bubbles." I passed the first step.
I was happy to get that far, because that means I was not average; there was something about me that they thought would make good TV. I figure the producers pick people who are either all-stars or train wrecks, but I'd rather be a train wreck than forgettable. I was called in for an interview earlier this week.
When I got to the offices, there were several other guys there. I quickly understood I was right about them wanting some train wrecks. I didn't know if that's why I was there, but it was definitely why the other guys were.
The office process was not easy. First, I had to fill out a multi-volume application, detailing my personality with the same three questions phrased differently eight times each.
I had some trouble filling out unique answers to all the questions, which included three words I'd use to describe myself, three qualities I had, and three of my strong points. I listed "ability to make detailed lists without repeating anything" as my third strength.
While I filled out my application, I was distracted by three episodes of Blind Date they were airing in the room, and three train wrecks hoping to be on future shows.
Guy One was okay. Nice guy, all smiles, but certainly not Generic Reality Dating Show material. He was a bald school teacher in his late thirties, and he seemed shocked at everything on TV, even when they started airing the episodes a second time.
"Can you believe she just did that?!" he asked with astonishment.
"Yes I can," I said. "But the first time they showed it, I was totally caught off guard."
I said that all in my head. I don't need them typecasting me as smarmy.
Guy Two was more the reality show type - smooth talker, glass jaw, and cut arms (I know because his mesh shirt didn't have sleeves). And he called a friend to help him fill out the application. The entire application. The entire seven page application.
"Hey, Jim? What do I look for in a girl? And give me three words for how much I like sex."
Guy Three seemed harmless, until he spoke. Because when he spoke, he asked me to spell "Ralph."
"What, like the grocery store?" I asked, assuming he worked there, while also fearing it could be his first name.
"No, like Macchio," which he then also asked me to spell.
Guy Three was writing that he looked like Ralph Macchio. Odd, since I didn't know Ralph Macchio was a 200-pound Hispanic guy with a shaved head and a goatee.
After two hours, I finally interviewed. They wanted me to talk about sex a lot more than I wanted to, and they made me stand in a very unnatural position (they said it looked better on camera). Overall, I think I came across well, looking for an intelligent conversationalist with an accurate self-opinion and a body like Jessica Rabbit. Hey, they asked.
I haven't heard back if I made the show, so whether I'm an all-star or a train wreck remains to be seen. But I can take solace in what I learned from applying: The competition at the comedy clubs may be fierce, but I'm not as scared as I used to be by my competition in the dating pool.
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Q. My husband is a high-functioning alcoholic. Although he has an excellent job, he is unpleasant to me and my teen sons when he has been drinking. What can I do to convince him that he has a problem?
Q. My husband is a high-functioning alcoholic. Although he has an excellent job, he is unpleasant to me and my teen sons when he has been drinking. What can I do to convince him that he has a problem?
A. According to Sarah Allen Benton, a licensed mental health counselor and author of "Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic," most alcoholics who continue to provide for their families and fulfill their social obligations are in denial about their drinking problem. They do not consider the emotional impact it has on their families.
Most partners of high-functioning alcoholics report that they have difficulty connecting with their spouse after he or she has been drinking. The alcoholic is not able to provide the romantic or emotional support for his or her partner or effective parenting for his or her children. Over time this can destroy the family.
Approach your husband about your concern at a time when he is sober. Tell him calmly that his drinking is distancing him from you and your children. Don't become defensive or judgmental. Suggest that he visit the website "Rethinking Drinking," sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The site will assist him in understanding acceptable levels of drinking. Ask that he adhere to "low-levels" of alcohol consumption for two weeks. If he cannot do that, he may be more willing to admit he has a problem.
High-functioning alcoholics often do not realize that despite their financial success, they have given limited emotional support to their families. A few years ago, I had some college friends in for a visit. More than 40 years after our graduation, the talk turned to the problems caused by alcoholic parents. Adults, now in their 50's and 60's, still remembered the times that Dad was too drunk to attend a ballgame or concert or embarrassed them in front of a date. It left scars that have yet to heal.
I suggest that you and your sons attend local meetings of Al-Anon (www.al-alnon.alateen.org/). Additionally, check out the book by Sarah Allen Benton mentioned above and share this column with him.
Q. I am basically supporting my 33-year-old daughter. She has a part-time job, no children and no reason not to work full-time. I'm ready to retire, and I see my money dwindling away. How do I finally learn to say "no?"
A. According to a study conducted by Amerprise, a retirement guidance company, 69 percent of those who are anticipating retirement did not include money for adult children in their plan. Yet almost 25 percent of those who are ready to retire cannot afford to do so because they are still supporting their children or grandchildren.
You certainly should not delay your retirement because your daughter does not want to work. According to Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein writing for "Psychology Today," there are several steps you can take to make adult children more responsible.
• Don't give money indiscriminately. You should only provide money as a way for your daughter to achieve independence. You may wish to help her return to college, but also insist that she get student loans.
• Encourage her to problem solve. What are her ideas on how to become financially independent?
• Create a workable plan and follow through. If necessary, meet with a mental health professional to discuss your plan and ways to counter objections.
• Be prepared for your daughter to be angry at first. Remember this is not a popularity contest.
• If she has a substance abuse or mental health problem, only give her money if she is in treatment and consistently committed to it.
Cutting financial ties will not be easy. However, it will force your daughter to take on adult responsibility, and it will allow you to feel more secure about your upcoming retirement.


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According to the Presidents 2011 National Counterterrorism Strategy, aviation security and screening is an essential tool in the countrys ability to detect, disrupt, and defeat plots to attack the homeland.[1] Civil aviation security includes, among other things, screening passengers and their carry-on and checked baggage for explosives, weapons, and other prohibited items. To help offset the costs associated with providing this security, the Aviation and Transportation Security Act authorized the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to impose two security-related fees: a passenger security fee and an air carrier security fee (Aviation Security Infrastructure Fee).[2]
TSA imposed the passenger security feea uniform fee on passengers of U.S. and foreign air carriers originating at airports in the United Statesin February 2002 at $2.50 per enplanement, capped at $5.00 per one-way trip, which are the maximum amounts allowed under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. In addition, in February 2002, TSA imposed the air carrier security feea fee imposed on air carriers to further offset the costs of civil aviation security and capped at the amount paid by air carriers for screening passengers and property in calendar year 2000.[3]
The fees collected offset amounts appropriated to TSA for aviation security. In his fiscal year 2012 budget request, the President requested that Congress increase the passenger security fee but did not request an increase in the air carrier fee. In light of the administrations focus on the passenger security fee and the possibility that the basis for calculating the cost to air carriers for screening passengers and property in 2000 could remain in dispute, for the purposes of this summary, GAO will focus on options for offsetting aviation security costs related to the passenger fee.[4]
In the 10 years since TSA imposed the passenger security fee, TSA has developed additional measures to help mitigate potential risks to the nations civil aviation security system, such as enhanced passenger screening technologies, among other programs, which have contributed to increases in the costs of aviation security to the federal government.
[1]National Strategy for Counterterrorism (Washington, D.C.: June 28, 2011).
[2]See Pub. L. No. 107-71, § 118(a) (2001) (codified as amended at 49 U.S.C. § 44940).In general, the fees collected offset the account that finances the activities and services for which the fee is imposed. Specifically, the fees collected offset amounts appropriated to TSAs aviation security account. See, e.g., Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-83 (2009). See also 49 U.S.C. § 44940(f)(1).
[3]See 49 U.S.C. § 44940(a)(2) (authorizing the collection of the air carrier fees if passenger security fee collections were insufficient to pay for the costs of providing civil aviation security services). TSA collected approximately $280 million in air carrier fees in fiscal year 2010 and expects to have collected an estimated $420 million in fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[4]See, e.g., Southwest Airlines, Co. v. Transp. Sec. Admin., 650 F.3d 752 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (denying airlines petition for review of TSAs determination to use $420 million as the basis for its calculation of the cost to air carriers for screening passengers and property in calendar year 2000). As of this most recent ruling by the Court of Appeals, it remains unclear if air carriers will continue to dispute the amount of the fee imposed by TSA.
Several options exist for revising passenger security fees to help further offset civil aviation security costs. From fiscal years 2002 through 2011, TSA collected about $18 billion in passenger and air carrier security fees, compared to the approximately $63 billion appropriated for aviation security activities over the same time frame; thus, security fees offset about 29 percent of amounts appropriated for aviation security-related activities during this time frame. The figure below shows the difference between the funds appropriated for aviation security and the aviation security fees collected since fiscal year 2002.
Difference between TSAs Annual Appropriations and Aviation Security Fees Collected, from Fiscal Years 2002 through 2011
Notes: For the purposes of GAOs analysis, TSA identified the total amounts appropriated to TSA for aviation security-related programs and activities, including Federal Air Marshals, threat assessments, and some support costs. Due to statutory and other limitations, TSA did not collect a full years worth of fees in fiscal years 2002 through 2004. In addition, beginning in fiscal year 2005, and each fiscal year thereafter, the first $250 million in passenger security fees collected have been designated to the Aviation Security Capital Fund, except for fiscal year 2008, when an additional $250 million in fee collections were designated to the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund. See 49 U.S.C. §§ 44923(h), 44940(i). The figure above excludes amounts designated for the Aviation Security Capital Fund or the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund from passenger security fees collected and does not include these amounts in amounts appropriated to TSA. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.
The importance of closely aligning fees to the cost of the service provided has been widely documented. As GAO previously reported in May 2008 about user fee design, agencies should review their fees on a regular basis to ensure that they, Congress, and stakeholders have complete information on the costs of federal programs, and that fees are appropriately aligned to program costs and activities, among other things.[1] Further, GAOs report stated that user fees can be designed to reduce the burden on taxpayers to finance the portions of activities that provide benefits to identifiable users above and beyond what is normally provided to the public. The International Civil Aviation Organization also issued guidance regarding cost recovery for airport charges.[2] This guidance provides information to consider when setting fees, including fees related to aviation security, and determining the extent to which fees should offset security costs. According to International Civil Aviation Organization officials, costs should be a key consideration in setting fees and governments or airports, with input from relevant stakeholders, may consider increasing security fees when costs increase. For example, following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the government of Canada imposed an Air Travelers Security Charge of $12.00 per one-way trip to cover the costs of aviation security services.[3] This fee was reviewed and reduced each year from 2003 through 2006 to reflect increases in passenger enplanements, revenue, and tax reductions, while it was increased in 2010 to $7.48 to reflect increased expenditures for deploying upgraded checked baggage screening systems, among other things.[4]
In recent years, several options have been considered for increasing the passenger aviation security fee. However, the fee has not been increased since it was imposed in February 2002. The table below provides a description of the proposed options presented from various sources for increasing the passenger security fee.
Options to Increase the Passenger Aviation Security Fee
Description of option
Potential for addressing the difference between amounts appropriated and fees collected
Presidents Deficit Reduction Plan (September 2011)
The administration proposed increasing the passenger fee to $7.50 per one-way trip by 2017 through incremental $0.50 increases.
The plan estimates that this option would collect an additional $8.8 billion over 5 years and $24.9 billion over 10 years. According to the plan, over 10 years, $15 billion of these collections would be directed for debt reduction and the remaining collections would be used to offset TSA appropriations.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (March 2011), Presidents Debt Commission (November 2010), and House Budget Committee (April 2011)
In late 2010 and 2011, CBO and the Presidents Debt Commission advanced similar options in which the passenger fee would be increased to a flat rate of $5.00 per one-way trip. The House Budget Committee also included this option in its concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2012.
CBO estimates that this option would increase annual fee collections by about $2 billion, on average, or about $10 billion over 5 years. TSA officials stated that TSA is supportive of the CBO and Presidents Debt Commission option because it would enable them to more closely meet their goal of offsetting 80 percent of the federal governments aviation security costs through fee collections.
TSA Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request (February 2011)
In its fiscal year 2012 budget request, TSA proposed incrementally increasing the passenger security fee to $5.50 per enplanement by 2014, with an $11 per one-way trip maximum.
The fiscal year 2012 budget request for TSA includes an option to increase the current $2.50 fee by $1.50, offsetting appropriations by $590 million in 2012. In addition, the option assumes $0.50 and $1.00 increases in 2013 and 2014, respectively. When fully implemented in 2014, TSA anticipates that this option will increase annual passenger fee collections by $2.3 billion.
TSAs goal for security fee collections (February 2009)
TSA officials stated that their goal is ultimately to offset 80 percent of amounts appropriated to TSA for aviation security-related programs and activities through fee collections. To achieve this goal, TSA would need to increase the passenger security fee to about $7.00 per enplanement, capped at $14 per one-way trip, according to GAOs analysis.
Increasing the fee to offset 80 percent of the amounts appropriated to TSA for aviation security-related programs and activities would represent an average annual increase of about $4 billion in passenger fee collections, depending on appropriations.
Source: GAO analysis of TSA, CBO, OMB, and Presidents Debt Commission data.
Note: Estimates for future years are based on available enplanement data and are subject to change.
In addition to the options noted above, the passenger security fee could also be adjusted for inflation. OMB Circular A-25 provides that biennial reviews assure that existing charges are adjusted to reflect unanticipated changes in costs or market values. GAO also reported on issues to consider when setting user fees such as whether fee collections are projected to change with inflation. According to GAOs analysis, an inflation adjustment to the existing passenger security fee would result in an increase of approximately $0.50,[5] increasing the fee from $2.50 to about $3.00 per enplanement, capped at $6 per one-way trip. Adjusting the fee for inflation would represent an average annual increase of about $410 million in passenger fee collections.
Industry association officials representing key aviation stakeholdersincluding airport executives, airlines, and passengersfrom four of the five associations GAO interviewed have expressed general opposition to a passenger security fee increase for various reasons, such as the argument that aviation security is a federal responsibility and therefore associated costs should be borne by the government. One association noted that the burden of subsidizing these costs should not fall solely on passengers. Officials with three of the five aviation industry associations GAO interviewed also stated that the demand for air travel could be impacted if aviation security fees were increased. However, TSA officials stated that TSA does not expect its fiscal year 2012 proposal to increase the passenger security fee to $5.50 per enplanement (capped at $11.00 per one-way trip) to have a significant impact on travelers demand to fly since the proposal suggests modest, incremental increases to the fee.
In addition, GAOs review of the economic literature and related analysis suggests that the demand for air travel is somewhat elastic to price changes,[6] though TSAs proposed fee increase to $5.50 per enplanement by 2014 constitutes a small proportion of the average price of a one-way trip,[7] which is about $210 as of calendar year 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.[8] Moreover, the responsiveness of travelers to changes in air travel prices depends on several factors such as distance traveled, nature of the trip (nonbusiness versus business), and the availability of alternative travel modes (for example, rail, road, etc.). GAOs analysis of TSAs fiscal year 2012 budget proposal to incrementally increase the passenger security fee to $5.50 per enplanement by 2014 shows that when demand effects are taken into account, total enplanements from fiscal years 2012 through 2014 could be reduced by 1 percent or about 26 million passengers over this 3-year period.[9] This would reduce expected fee collections by about $120 million, or 3 percent of the $4.4 billion in additional fees collected over this period.[10]
[1]In addition, pursuant to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, agencies must review fees and other charges for services and things of value biennially, and based on these reviews make recommendations, as appropriate, on revising the fees to reflect costs incurred. See 31 U.S.C. 902(a)(8). Similarly, OMB Circular A-25 provides that each agency will review user charges biennially. These reviews include (1) assuring that existing charges are adjusted to reflect unanticipated changes in costs or market values, and (2) reviewing of all other agency programs to determine whether fees should be assessed for government services or the user of government goods or services. In accordance with OMB guidance, TSA reviews the passenger security fee, which is a user fee, biennially, but TSA does not have authority to adjust the fee beyond the maximum amount established in statute, if warranted.
[2]International Civil Aviation Organization, Policies on Charges for Airports and Air Navigation Services (Doc 9082), Eighth Edition, 2009. The International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that sets standards and regulations related to aviation safety, security, and aviation environmental protection, among other things.
[3]The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, created after September 11, 2001, is a governmental entity responsible for providing core civil aviation security functions, such as screening passengers and baggage at Canadian airports. The Air Travelers Security Charge is imposed on flights departing from any of the 89 airports regulated by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority. GAO did not compare the costs of civil aviation security in Canada to those in the United States.
[4]The amount of Air Travelers Security Charges imposed on travelers varies depending on flight segment, such as domestic (one-way), domestic (round-trip), transborder (to the United States), and other international flights. The fee is charged to passengers who use airports in which the Security Authority performs security-related services. Dollar amounts shown above are in Canadian dollars. When converted to U.S. dollars, the Air Travelers Security Charge would have been $7.56 in 2002 and $7.36 in 2010.
[5]GAOs inflation adjustment factor is derived from the Consumer Price Index (for urban consumers) compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using 2002 as the base year. GAO divided the annual Consumer Price Index for 2010 by that of 2002 to get the adjustment factor for 2010.
[6]See D.W. Gillen, W.G. Morrison, and C. Stewart, Air Travel Demand Elasticities: Concepts, Issues, and Management, Department of Finance, Government of Canada (January 2003).
[7]Note that this is the fare for a whole trip; since a trip may entail more than one enplanement, the fee increase as a percentage of enplanement fare would be slightly higher but still very small.
[8]The average ticket price reflects a weighted average price of domestic and international flights.
[9]In this context, demand elasticity refers to the degree to which the demand for air travel changes with price. Our analysis assumes a demand elasticity of -1.122. This is the median of 254 estimates from 21 studies analyzed in a 2003 study conducted by the Department of Finance, Government of Canada. See D.W. Gillen, W.G. Morrison, and C. Stewart. In addition, a 2007 study claims that this demand is less elastic (less responsive to price changes especially when those price changes apply to all national routes). The 2007 study estimates this national level elasticity to be -0.8. In this case, the reduction in total enplanements could be even lower. See Intervistas Consulting Group, Estimating Air Travel Demand Elasticities, Final Report (December 2007).
[10]Note that the reduction in enplanements by 26 million could also result in some lost revenues from excise and segment taxes levied on air travel. GAO estimated this to be about $295 million.
Increasing the passenger security fee could help further offset billions of dollars in the federal budget for aviation security programs and activities in outlying fiscal years. Therefore, Congress, working with the Administrator of TSA, may wish to consider
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from products listed in the related GAO products section and additional work GAO conducted. To address the issues discussed here, GAO analyzed (1) available documentation and guidance on TSAs aviation security fees and programs, (2) TSAs historical revenue data for aviation security fees from fiscal years 2002 through 2011, and (3) TSA estimates of applicable enplanement data for fiscal years 2012 through 2014. GAO compared this data with other supporting documents, when available, to determine data consistency and reasonableness. On the basis of these efforts, GAO concluded that the data are sufficiently reliable for the purposes of this summary. GAO also analyzed various options to raise the passenger security fee, including the Obama administrations February 2009 budget request for fiscal year 2010, CBOs August 2009 option, and the Presidents Debt Commission report.
To develop the option to adjust the fee for inflation, GAO analyzed OMB Circular A-25 and GAOs May 2008 report, which includes issues to consider when setting user fees such as whether fee collections are projected to change with inflation. GAO also reviewed OMB Circular A-25 and relevant provisions of the Chief Financial Officers Act related to the setting and periodic review of user fees. GAO further interviewed officials with the International Civil Aviation Organization and analyzed policy guidance regarding international policies and best practices for the development and periodic review of aviation-related fees. To provide information on comparable fee structures and approaches in which fees are periodically adjusted, GAO analyzed documentation and analysis regarding Canadas Air Travelers Security Charge, including documentation of fee adjustments and associated demand elasticity analysis. GAO also discussed the current aviation security fee structure and options for modifying these fees with TSA officials; officials from five industry associations representing passengers, airports, and international groups; and officials from three organizations with subject matter expertise in aviation issues. GAO selected these associations because they represent key stakeholderspassengers, airports, and airlinesthat could be affected by a fee increase.
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Earth Day founded by Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. A massive 1969 oil spill off Santa Barbara's coast moved Nelson, who visited the region shortly afterwards. Following the template of the student anti-war movement, he sought to raise public consciousness about environmental pollution.
Along with the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Earth Day was an important catalyst for the environmental movement.
Despite being conceived in the pre-viral era before the Internet, 20 million Americans across the country took part in the first Earth Day.
Earth Day Network (EDN) was founded by, among others, some organizers of 1970′s Earth Day. EDN works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to "broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement."
More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
While most folks observe Earth Day on April 22, the United Nations celebrates each year on the March equinox.
The US government's official position: "Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress. Earth Day is a time to unite around new actions. Earth Day and every day is a time to act to protect our planet."
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Music's Biggest Night® Becomes Television's Biggest Social Event of the 2013 – 2014 Season
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (January 30, 2014) — With statistics compiled by Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter, The Recording Academy® announced today that combined social media interactions surrounding the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards® reached a record-breaking 34 million, making Music's Biggest Night®, which aired Sunday, Jan. 26, on the CBS Television Network, television's biggest social event of the 2013 – 2014 season.*
According to data compiled by Twitter and 87AM, the GRAMMY®s garnered 15.7 million mentions on Twitter during the broadcast, the peak moment of which was during the Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons performance with 171,593 tweets per minute. According to Facebook data, 6.3 million people had more than 13.5 million Facebook interactions related to the 56th GRAMMYs, making it the No. 1 trending topic. Stats compiled by Union Metrics reveal that there were more than 100,000 GRAMMY-related posts created on Tumblr with more than 5.1 million reblogs and likes. Stats compiled by 87AM reveal that the top three most-talked about performances were, in order: Daft Punk, Beyoncé and Jay Z, and Lamar joined by Imagine Dragons. The most-talked about artists were: Lorde, Taylor Swift and Macklemore.
GRAMMY.com, the official GRAMMY website, saw visits on GRAMMY Sunday and the following day rise 15 percent from last year, with 4.6 million total unique users and 18.5 million page views for the site.** In partnership with CBS, The Recording Academy produced, for the fifth year, GRAMMY Live®, an official second-screen companion program featuring coverage from the GRAMMY red carpet, Pre-Telecast Ceremony and backstage. GRAMMY Live's livestream and on-demand viewing was up 100 percent over last year, generating nearly 5.5 million total streams.*** The official 56th GRAMMY live-blog, syndicated globally to 38 outlets, saw a 320 percent increase in user engagement minutes and a 659 percent increase in unique visitors compared to last year.****
On YouTube, the official GRAMMY channel saw a significant increase in views starting the week of Jan. 12 with more than 5.7 million views of GRAMMY original content leading up to Music's Biggest Night.** Views of content published immediately following the broadcast received 375,000 views in the first 12 hours alone.
"GRAMMY engagement continues to explode year over year as fans seek ever deeper ways to connect with Music's Biggest Night," said Evan Greene, Chief Marketing Officer for The Recording Academy. "These consistently increasing statistics underscore the overwhelming excitement and passion for the GRAMMYs, and music, across today's most meaningful social platforms."
*Stats compiled by SocialGuide
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***Stats compiled by AEGDM Tremolo
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Fittingly, the chapter of Dating God that we both found most resonant was chapter three, "The Long-Distance Relationship: Loneliness." Here, Horan notes that in long-distance relationships we become "much more reliant on the spoken and written word to communicate" precisely because we can't be physically present to one another (44). Even when Paige and I can see each other via Skype, the screen flattens our face and the difference between camera and screen means we never really make eye contact.
It can be useful to see our relationship with God as a long distance relationship, says Horan, particularly in those times when we feel distant from or even abandoned by God. He notes the power of the psalms of lament, particularly Psalm 22 with its "O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest" (48). The Psalmist experiences the pain of separation, surely, but particularly the pain of being abandoned. These periods might seem like the best time to "bail," to "get while the gettin's good."Yet despite this pain, the Psalmist continues to cry, continues to pray, continues to communicate with God, precisely in the expectation that there will be an answer and that there is still a meaningful relationship there. For Horan, the relationship with God, like my long-distance relationship with Paige, takes a tremendous amount of work and, frankly, hope on our part. Despite the separation, we believe that this separation will come to an end, that we will be together in the future: with Paige, when she returns from Ireland; with God, in the Beatific vision. But this hope rests in large part on our continued intentional participation in that relationship.
I have focused here on the long distance relationship chapter because, as is clear, its theme resonates with me – in my relationship with Paige and my relationship with God. Long distance isn't a perfect metaphor (I get much more explicit responses when I communicate with Paige than with God, so far as I can tell), it does strike at my experience of feeling apart from the one I love. I suspect that the success or failure of any work of contemporary spirituality depends on how a given reader receives that work in his or her context. In the case of Dating God, the relevant question would be the reader's experience of dating. Horan describes the experience he is getting at as:
"Replete with emotional ups and downs, euphoric highs and depressing lows, energy, affection, and fear, our everyday experiences of getting to know another in an increasingly intimate manner might help us to envision our relationship with God in a new and ever deepening way." (5)
And for those readers who hear their dating experiences in this description, I think this book would be a worthwhile read. But for those whose experience of dating has been transient, shallow, manipulative, abusive, or any of a variety of other descriptors, this book's metaphor may not be the one for them. As an example, I think of one of my students this past year who, several times in class, cited the "hook up culture" at BC as morally problematic in terms of how it trains young adults to consider the sexual utility of others without interest in emotional intimacy. I would probably be less likely to recommend Horan's text in those sorts of situations precisely because there the dating metaphor might bring more darkness than light.
Then again, it's possible it could serve to interrupt those more negative views of dating, but I'm not wholly convinced of that.
So on the whole, I enjoyed reading Dating God, I enjoyed reading it with Paige, and I suspect it will be a useful spirituality text for many trying to figure out their relationships, both romantic and spiritual.


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Agency drops all references to "insider threats"
Steve Watson
Nov 21, 2012
The TSA has reissued a purchase order for a contractor to develop spyware that will enable the agency to actively spy on its own employees without them knowing or consenting.
The agency has reworded the order, however, seemingly in a response to the fact that vendors were unhappy with the "insider threat" term used in the original. The move also serves as a way of circumventing a congressional demand that the TSA immediately cease all attempts to acquire such technology.
When the order was originally issued back in June, many believed that it represented a push by the TSA to crack down on leaks from potential whistle-blowers on the inside of the agency.
It asked a contractor to develop software that was capable of monitoring the emails, the web browser history, and even the keystrokes of TSA employees. It also required the ability to track the movement of documents and feed all the information through a central command center.
Nextgov.com reports:
"…the feedback from vendors suggested that the language in the request was too narrow in scope, an agency official told Nextgov. The official acknowledged that TSA is re-soliciting industry with no changes to the technical requirements."
The new write-up reads: "The scope of this procurement is an enterprise solution to host-based monitoring and the collection of digital forensics information. The information assurance and cybersecurity division /focused operations branch supports areas of cyber threats and digital forensics. FO is seeking an enterprise technology that will automate enterprisewide host-based monitoring."
The old scope read: "Focused operations is in need of a tool to help detect an insider threat. The focus is to monitor at the host level. FO has determined that the best method to monitor and detect insider threats is at the user host level. The scope of this procurement is an enterprise insider threat software package. In order to detect an insider threat, technology is required to monitor and obtain visibility into users' actions."
Both the original and the new order state that "The end user must not have the ability to detect this technology," and should not be able "to kill the process."
In other words, the agency does not want its employees to know they are being watched. The clear goal is to prevent leaks by whistle-blowers to anti-secrecy organizations such as wikileaks.
The TSA's move to reissue the order comes in the wake of a DHS inspector general report, released in September, that concluded that the although the TSA has created an Insider Threat Working Group, and an Insider Threat Section, the agency does not have adequate countermeasures in place against potential information leaks.
The report recommended that the TSA should actively train all of it's staff on data protection and "implement insider threat policies".
The report also recommended that the TSA should centrally monitor all of its systems to ensure insiders do not tamper with, transmit or remove any information beyond the agency's network.
In October, the ranking members of the Homeland Security Committee and the Transportation Security Subcommittee wrote to TSA head John Pistole, asking for clarification on what the TSA was doing regarding the matter.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) have been pressing the TSA on the issue of insider threat programs for many months now with little or no response.
In July the two sent a letter to the TSA outlining concerns that insider threat countermeasures planned for implementation at the TSA seem to be geared towards monitoring employees and interfering with legitimate attempts by employees to act as whistle-blowers.
In their letter, Thompson and Lee asked that "TSA immediately withdraw this solicitation and refrain from attempting to acquire technology with similar capabilities."
"While the law governing TSA employees does not afford specific protections to ensure employee whistle-blower protections, the agency is not completely insulated from the affects of the Constitution," they wrote. "It would seem that installation of the type of technology sought in the solicitation would enable TSA to monitor employee communications with the OSC, the department's Office of Inspector General and the Congress of the United States." the representatives concluded.
The TSA's reissuing of the exact same purchase order for spyware to do the same job, albeit slightly reworded, represents a clear attempt to ignore the concerns of the representatives, and the limits impressed upon the agency by the US constitution. Instead, the TSA is attempting to press ahead with the program to actively spy on its own employees, and prevent workers such as Nilda C. Marugame and others from speaking out.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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By Matt Pearce
Los Angeles Times
Same-sex marriage is picking up steam in the courts. A federal judge ordered Ohio on Monday to recognize gay marriages on death certificates, but used broad language that could be cited to mount a broader challenge to the law barring such unions.
It was the third judicial decision in the last week favoring same-sex marriage rights. In Utah, a federal judge struck down a gay marriage ban Friday and refused to suspend his decision Monday. A federal appellate court also rejected Utah's plea to put his ruling on hold.
And on Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court formally recognized same-sex marriage, which is now legal in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
The scenarios must have sounded all too familiar to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In June, when the court issued a landmark decision ordering the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where they were legal, Scalia warned of what could come next.
"How easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status," Scalia wrote in a scathing dissent in United States vs. Windsor, which struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act but left state laws intact. "No one should be fooled; it is just a matter of listening and waiting for the other shoe" to drop.
Now, for opponents of same-sex marriage, the other shoe is dropping.
"We're on a roll!" said Jon Davidson, legal director of Lambda Legal, an advocacy group that has been handling cases against same-sex marriage bans across the country. "Three work days in a row, we've had victories," and all of them cite the Supreme Court's Defense of Marriage Act ruling.
In the most recent decision, U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Black ruled in Cincinnati that Ohio had to recognize a gay couple as spouses on one of the men's death certificate. Ohio bans same-sex marriage, so the pair had flown to Maryland while one of the men was terminally ill and wed on an airport tarmac.
Although Black's decision applied only to death certificates for couples married out of state, his ruling criticized Ohio's same-sex marriage ban and opened a door for other couples to challenge the law more broadly.
Alphonse Gerhardstein, a civil rights lawyer in Cincinnati who handled the case, said the Defense of Marriage Act ruling was central to his attack on Ohio's ban.
"I just took that same argument and went to Ohio and said, 'How can you now refuse to recognize marriages from other states if the federal government can't do it?'" Gerhardstein said. The Defense of Marriage Act ruling "is a huge engine behind this."
At least two federal judges, in their rulings on state bans, have cited Scalia's warning that the Supreme Court's ruling would ripple through the U.S.
"Now it is just as Justice Scalia predicted," Black wrote in his Ohio ruling. "The lower courts are applying the Supreme Court's decision, as they must, and the question is presented whether a state can do what the federal government cannot — i.e., discriminate against same-sex couples. … Under the Constitution of the United States, the answer is no."
A similar decision Friday in Utah resulted in the state's ban on same-sex marriage being thrown out. Gay and lesbian couples flocked to wed as Utah officials scrambled to challenge U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby's ruling, which quoted and embraced Scalia's warning.
"The court agrees with Justice Scalia's interpretation," Shelby, a President Obama appointee, wrote, perhaps ironically, given that Scalia had criticized the Supreme Court's ruling as an overreach. Shelby said worries about overriding Utah's constitution and Legislature were "insufficient to save a state-law prohibition that denies the plaintiffs their rights to due process under the law."
The New Mexico Supreme Court did not cite the Defense of Marriage Act ruling so heavily. But it did follow a similar argument, ruling that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated the state's equal-protection laws.
And in September, a New Jersey Superior Court judge said the ruling gave the state's same-sex civil unions "new significance" now that federal agencies were granting benefits only to couples who were formally married. The judge struck down the state's ban on gay marriage, and Republican Gov. Chris Christie withdrew his appeal of the ruling to the state's Supreme Court.
David Cruz, professor of law at the USC Gould School of Law, said judges now seemed more likely to expand upon the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.
"Part of what we're seeing is that, culturally, the judiciary — both federal and state judges — are more receptive to the logical, principle-based arguments that same-sex couples have been seeking for the right to marry since the very beginning of the 1970s," Cruz said.
In doing so, judges have overridden legislators and voters who had approved the bans before national popular opinion began to tilt in favor of same-sex marriage.
"It is patently wrong and unjust that the people of Utah should lose their right to define marriage because of the ruling of a single Obama appointee to the federal bench," said Brian S. Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage.
"It roils the body politic and does great damage to the people's confidence in the judicial system itself as a lone federal judge attempts to usurp the sovereignty of the state," Brown added in a statement, calling for the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt same-sex marriages in Utah while the state appeals. The 10th Circuit has twice denied the state's emergency requests.
But the idea that a judge should not settle such a controversial question resonated with Gerhardstein, the Ohio lawyer.
"In the end, social change is best generated with public support," he said, which is why the Ohio lawsuit addressed only death certificates rather than the right to same-sex marriage.
"That would be wonderful if Ohio would take that opportunity to go ahead and repeal [the ban], because then you would have a stronger and more robust protection for the minority," he said.


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They billed the evening as an "informative and entertaining lesson on The Young Black Male," but the men of the Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies could have called it "Event Organizing 101." Rarely has a program drawn so well on the gifts of its members to inform and inspire—through poetry, gospel music, humor, and informative, challenging, inspiring, and honest talks—as this session devised by Tyler Griffin '13 and emceed by "Professor" Rashaan Stephens '13.
"I'm proud of you guys right now," Assistant Professor of History Tracey Salisbury said to the organizers in her concluding remarks.
(Click here for a photo album from the event.)
In character and tongue-in-cheek as an English professor with a mythical Ph.D. from Harvard, Stephens introduced the first of four speakers, Assistant Director of Admissions Kim King '99.
King suggested ways students could embrace work, culture, and liberty and more fully invest in their lives as students at Wabash.
"Work, for the black student, means developing the disposition of motivating yourself," he said. "You need to develop the disposition of motivating yourself even when you're not motivated. When a guest lecturer is on campus in whom you're not much interested in, challenge yourself to attend. This will create the disposition of getting involved, which in turn helps orient you and the culture of the campus around one another more robustly. Culture means embracing your status as thinkers, as part of an elite class of people who have the opportunity in College. Liberty dares the black student to dream, to dream in full belief in his human potential and creativity.
"The black Wabash man, simply by being here, has already chosen the path less taken. Now the challenge is to dream just a bit more—to continue to dream uncommonly."
"Dr." Reginald Steele '12 led the audience in singing the gospel tune "This Little Light of Mine" before Brandon McKinney '10 read from his poem ("Pay homage to those who walk this broken path before me/their struggle was not in vain, and their accomplishments are many… Black history is our history/it is America's history, and we must fight to preserve it…As we embark on our daily journeys/we are blessed with the strength of ancestors.")
Head Track Coach Clyde Morgan began his talk on "the young black athlete," calling on the audience to move to the front of Korb classroom. It was conversation worth getting close to, as Morgan spoke about "the struggles of the young black athlete.
"And I was that athlete," Morgan said, describing his childhood in the tough neighborhoods of Youngstown, Ohio, which had one of the highest murder rate in the country.
"Going on to get my [college] degree was like winning a million bucks, 'cause that does not happen in my neighborhood," Morgan said. "I learned real young how to deal with adversity. I was seven when I saw my second body. The second body made my mother move us. Then athletics started getting into my spirit."
Inspired by his brother, who ran hurdles in high school, the young Morgan would set up picnic benches in his yard to practice.
"Athletics saved my life," he said. "You hear these stories all the time from the guys who make it to the pros. But you never hear about the people like me—who have their degree, who are working and enjoying life. That's my million dollars. When I go back to my neighborhood, I feel like Lebron and Kobe, 'cause what I've got is unreachable, still unreachable, in my neighborhood."
Encouraging the students to "reach out more," Morgan said the hardships he had faced "set me up for the man I am now.
"You see our track guys walking around wearing that [motto] MOW—NBU (Men of Wabash—Nothing Breaks Us)? I believe that in my heart. Nothing breaks us. I've been through it. You're going through it. But you don't let it break you.
"Keep working. It's worth it. Get that degree. It's worth it. My million dollars, my NFL contract—that's working with people like you."
Following Greg Huey's poem "Why Did You Make Me Black," ("I didn't make you in the image of darkness/I made you in the likeness of me"), Professor Tim Lake spoke about the accomplishments and humanitarian efforts of Haitian-American Wyclef Jean before Brandon McKinney stepped up once again, reading a poem he had written in 2006 with the late Shayne Dube '09.
"I've been blessed since I came here three years ago to have the support and love of the black men of the institute (MXIBS)," Professor Salisbury said in her concluding remarks. "The young men here, particularly the young men of MXI, have been my family. It's a wonderful situation to be around young men who are funny, smart, generous, gentle, thoughtful, passionate, and I enjoying being a part of that, to give you a little help.
"But I don't need to say positive things about the young black men here, because you show me everyday," Salisbury told the students from the MXIBS. "I need to see you reach and stretch for the stars that are out there in front of you."
She pointed out Austin Rovenstine '10, a conservative journalist in the audience who has taken four classes with the more liberal Salisbury.
"I'm not trying to change his mind about anything, but when I see him in my class, I know the gateway between us is open. And he's taught me quite a few things. That's what's cool about being a teacher—when a student makes you stop and think.
"I would like to see more of us open up gateways of things we're going to do."
She urged black students to take full advantage of the opportunities available to them. "If you want to go an immersion trip, go. If you want to study abroad, go. Find a place and start connecting."
She urged them to find mentors, regardless of race.
"One of my advisors was a tall balding white man who looked like Ichabod Crane, and who loved me to pieces. My faculty mentor was a little white lady from Maine who grew up in a town that didn't have any black people. She loves me to this day."
"Make your place," Salisbury said. "Let's decide that tomorrow is a new day, no matter what happened yesterday. We have a future, and it is bright."
In photos: "Professor" Rashaan Stephens '13; Charles Goodman '10, Brandon McKinney '10, and Professor TIm Lake.


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When someone wants to make a change there are certain things that person has to have for that change to happen.
It is because of a lack of the following qualities many people fail to achieve their dreams. This is where the value of a life coach or mentor becomes critical. Knowing what a human needs before they can become successful is critical to anyone success.
The desire to change…
To start with the person has to want to change. The process of change is not always a smooth one because what you believe today will have to be challenged. This is because whatever you believe and have persistently practised so far has resulted in where you are today.
Belief in yourself
If you want to change you have to believe that the change is possible and that you are worthy of receiving the great things those changes will get you. Failure to have these beliefs will ensure that your goals are never met.
Motivation and action
Understand the motivation behind your goals is what will keep you going. You could be motivated by pain of a situation or you couple just want more. Understanding the motivation will help you stay focused on your goals. Without the necessary motivation you will never take the actions needed to get what you really want.
Persistence and self discipline
The biggest and most important quality is a persistence to even when things get tough to follow through with your plan. When people don't see instant results they tend to give up. People who are successful did not become this way over night.
Take stock of your life now!
What do you have that you don't want? What did you consistantly do to achieve this. The reason I ask this is to prove that persistance works it just needs channeling in a positive way.
Would love to hear your stories of your life changes and how you became successful.
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I was a semi finalist for TAR 10. I didn't quite make the cut for the LA Finals. However, I knew that the race was set to begin this past week. My kids kept telling me "Hey Dad, you were going to be leaving on The Amazing Race this week". I was wondering where would I start...where was my first city going to be...what my first detour and roadblocks would be.Well...I have the first answer...My other team member is a pilot. He was flying through the Seattle airport earlier this week, and saw all of the teams at the Seattle Tacoma airport. He didn't see where they were going, and didn't recognize any of the teams from the Green Room at the Chicago semi's.
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