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The latest strong season of "Mad Men" began nearly three months ago with a simple question, asked by a reporter: "Who is Don Draper?"
With the show's fourth season coming to an end Sunday, we're still only inching toward the very complicated answer. But the journey into the meaning of identity has proved, at times, riveting.
This will go down in "Mad Men" annals as the year we saw Draper, the buttoned up 1960s ad man with a hidden past, finally lose control and weep at the loss of the only woman who understood him – and the only one, seemingly, he never tried to bed.
While it feels as if the last dozen episodes have flown by, the pace of the story has slowed – which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Season 3, still probably the best yet, was driven largely by external forces, with the Kennedy assassination upending the characters' unexamined lives. The latest crop of shows has been more about internal struggles and searches for a sense of self.
We've seen the image-obsessed Draper make stabs at introspection, cutting down a tad on his prodigious drinking and starting a (somewhat lame) diary. It's notable that after his emotional breakdown he sought comfort in the arms of the comely shrink he initially scorned for her research into consumer psychology.
Perhaps the season's most compelling storyline – and best performance – has centered around Don's grade-school daughter Sally, a little girl lost between her absent father and a cold mother more childlike than her in some respects.
Sally, who has run away from home and trafficked in other mischief amid her parents' divorce, seems to have traveled the furthest of any character toward maturity, thanks largely to sessions with a child psychologist. But her emotional wellbeing remains precarious.
Gravity-defying office manager Joan Holloway appears to have finally started to assuming control of her shallow life, perhaps taking the face-flop office death of crotchety lifetime secretary Miss Blankenship as a wake-up call – even if viewers saw it as a hilarious, dark comic moment. Boozy, screw-up ad firm partner Roger Sterling dictated his gussied-up memoirs into a tape recorder, edging him to the sad middle-aged realization that his treating life as a joke has turned him into one.
Meanwhile, Peggy Olson, the ambitious copywriter with a secret of her own, is showing signs of becoming much more than Draper's shadow and his disciple in denial, as she's drawn to a bohemian crowd and starts to question her career.
It's no simple task to take characters' interior conflicts and turn them into gripping viewing. But show creator Matthew Weiner learned well from his time on "The Sopranos." While Tony Soprano often was smack in the middle of blood-soaked action, the sad and violent heart of the story played out primarily in Dr. Melfi's psychiatric office – and, sometimes, in actor James Gandolfini's eyes.
There's plenty of turmoil surrounding Draper – most significantly the uncertain future of his ad firm. The title of Sunday's finale, "Tomorrowland" – an apparent nod to the Disneyesque from a show that's anything but – suggests that more big changes are coming.
But it's been the characters' inner stories, conveyed through fine writing and performances, that's propelled another fine season.
"The Sopranos" sputtered a bit in its last couple of years, and wheezed to an end. But we're expecting a lot more from "Mad Men" and Weiner, whose latest effort will keep us coming back for new pieces of the Don Draper puzzle.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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There was an interesting juxtaposition of activities this week--on the one hand, the spring Parents' Evening at Will's Montessori preschool, and on the other hand, a forum for parents of prospective kindergarteners at our local public elementary school.
I'll do Montessori first, because I think there are going to be some friends who are going to be unhappy with what I say about the public school, so I'll let you get your happy vibes on before that.
So you probably know by now that Montessori classrooms do not welcome parents in on a drop-in basis--the classroom is the child's space, with important work for the child to do, and parents basically just get in the way of all the happy little elf-work. But one night a semester, Will's school has a shortened session to which parents are invited.
This is the animal stamping work. You use the animal stamps to stamp the appropriate number of times under each number--this is one of the first works that the three-year-olds are taught, which is why there are boxes to show you how many goes where. Children are always welcome, however, to do any work that they've been taught whenever they want, and repetition of easier works is something that kids find comforting, and that gives them a sense of how far they've progressed, and helps them internalize certain concepts, sort of like muscle memory for the mind. Will still does this animal stamping work about once a week.
This is a work in which you scoop different objects out of the fishbowl, sort them into separate porcelain bowls, then dump them back in the bowl and sponge up the water. It's a sorting work and a motor skills work to practice the spoon grip.
One of the things that I've found really interesting this year is that in the fall semester Parents' Night, Willow was almost entirely interested in the works that practiced pretty abstract and sometimes complicated mental skills--arithmetic, literacy, a lot of handwriting practice, some geography, calendars, stuff like that. But lately she's been almost entirely interested in the motor skills works--dipping, gripping, squeezing stuff. I've actually noticed this at home, too, in that she's far less interested in thing like mazes and math worksheets and dinosaur identification and the art that she usually loves, and she's been happiest just running around and jumping and digging and messing stuff up and helping me do housework. It's a different stage of development that she's in at the moment, I guess, and I'm very pleased that her school also supports this type of development and allows her to practice satisfying works that challenge her motor skills as well as her academic skills.
In this work you use the tool to move the little balls from the bowl to the platter and then back again. It's terrific for the scissors grip, which lefties often find a lot more challenging to learn, only I've just noticed that my own little lefty is using her right hand here. Sigh.
One of my other many favorite things about the classroom environment is that there are no pictures of kittens hanging from tree limbs or motivational posters (have you seen the site where you can make your own de-motivational posters? Rawk), but there are, instead, hanging quilts on the walls and African drums and these really lovely Japanese prints:This one is a partner work. One child wears the blindfold, and the other child hands her two swatches of cloth--velvet, burlap, cotton, etc. The blindfolded child says if they're the same or different. I think that older children might do an ordering work with this, as well--Montessori young child work is very big on teaching them to order gradations of things, like sounds from highest pitch to lowest, textures from roughest to smoothest, colors from darkest tone to lightest tone. I don't remember the exact philosophy, but it's something about heightened sensory development and deep concentration, or something: This is another sorting work, and I think might be another three-year-old work, as well. It also involves categorization, since you put the insects together, and the plants together, and animals together. Everything you need for a particular work is all together on a little child-sized tray, remember, and you can get it off the shelf and put it back as you like. There are purposefully not enough tables in the room for every single child to do a table work, however, and purposefully not enough floor space for every child to do a floor work, either, because living in a community involves recognizing that the rights of other people are as important as yours and that prior involvement takes precedence. The new thing in the middle group is that you get your first work plan. It helps give the child a well-rounded experience by asking them to, at first, complete a small number of activities in various curriculum categories chosen by themselves and by the teacher. It lets a teacher unobtrusively set a child extra time with a skill with which they might be struggling, and lets children learn goal-setting and the feeling of accomplishment. Older children get increasingly more detailed work plans and are increasingly more in charge of creating and fulfilling them, until in just a couple of years a child's work plan becomes not just a goal chart, but a daily, often hourly, sometimes more frequently-updated record of exactly what that child is doing and what they are learning and have learned at any given time--this, by the way, is a far more complete and accurate record than standardized testing, although our Montessori still participates in some standardized testing, mostly so that the children are comfortable with it after they've left the program.Practical life is also big fun. The girls both have their own brooms and dustpans and spray bottles at home, but sweeping the classroom is still awesome, apparently. Although after Will swept some dirt into the dustpan, she forgot a step and just hung the dustpan up without emptying it, spilling all the dirt right back onto the floor. Oh, well--it's one way to ensure that 30 kids all have some dust to sweep up.You can pet the class gerbils whenever you want and feed them, too, if you see that they need it, but you must ask a teacher to supervise you.For the spring Parents' Night, the children do Speaker's Rug, which is something they do weekly. A small square of carpet is passed around the circle, and when it comes to you, you may stand on the carpet and say something, or you may pass it. Will is the only kid who ALWAYS passes, because she's very uncomfortable with situations in which she isn't sure exactly what the social script is, but she sits respectfully and listens to the other children speak, and she sees that all the other kids do, too, and Speaker's Rug happens every single week like clockwork so it's something that's inevitably going to become familiar and comfortable enough that one day she WILL feel the confidence to get up and speak to her schoolmates.
I love Willow's school. And I hope that will help you see why, exactly, I hated hated HATED the forum at our local elementary school. Mind you, it's supposed to be a good school, and I've thought about that forum, and I'm thinking that (hoping that) perhaps it was just the presentation that went really wrong. Perhaps the teachers and principal COULD have said some things that I would have really liked.
Only they didn't.
What they did do...they went on and on and on about the bus schedule, randomly, in my opinion, since I'm only a PROSPECTIVE parent, and I don't yet give a flip about the bus except to know that there is one and they haven't lost a kid yet. They briefly went over the daily schedule, but it was like "We walk the circle at 8:45, then at 9:00 we have open choice, then we meet in the circle, then we go to an activity, then recess, then lunch, then nap, then reading, then science, then home." Okay...
My friend Noel asked if the kindergarteners ever interacted with the older children (hoping that they DID, you know), and all the kindergarten teachers fell all over each other reassuring all the parents that they watched their kids so closely and they only had recess and lunch with older children but there were assigned seats at lunch and five teachers at recess, etc. etc.
I asked what the teaching philosophy was regarding media exposure, particularly computer and videos, and how did that translate into classroom practice, and one (older) teacher apologized before she said that she didn't approve of five-year-olds using the computer, and then when I assured her that I perfectly agreed, some other teacher jumped in to say that every teacher's classroom was different and that SHE taught her children to properly utilize the computer right from the beginning.
One teacher made a joke that a five-year-old's attention span is about five minutes long.
Another teacher made a joke that when a parent complained to her about all-day kindergarten, she said to that parent, "Well, you can see your kid at night."
You see what I'm getting at here? A lot of this stuff is just normal for teachers to think--hell, the things I think about my students quite often is not printable in a family blog--but very little of this is what, as a prospective parent, I needed to here about the program. I needed to hear what their teaching philosophies are, what their views are on student learning styles and ranges of development, how they handle discipline and teach the kids to handle conflict, how the children are encouraged to socialize and form a community, etc.
Except that then they cut off the presentation portion so that people could fill out forms. I did manage to commandeer one last teacher to ask one last question (No, there's no foreign language curriculum, but sometimes they have a club), but then I admit that I ditched before the school tour. I used to go there a lot for a preschool playgroup, so I've seen the place.
But seriously, it could have just been a bad presentation for a good school. For instance, one of the teachers talked about how at first, the kindergarteners would spend most of their time learning that they had to wait their turn and let 20 kids go ahead of them and that they had to sit quietly and not touch each other. I was telling Matt that this pissed me off, that I did NOT think it necessary that a five-year-old have to learn these particular lessons, but Matt was all, "Of course you do. They do that same stuff at Montessori, only they tell you that it teaches community-building and respect for all people and manners. It just sounds like junk here because they're doing that stuff just to keep order, but it's still the same stuff."
And there was also this really long speech in which this one teacher talked on and on and ON about how we were all going to be so mad at her for the first couple of weeks because she would not let "her kids" leave her from the front of the school at the end of the day until they'd given her a high five and she'd made eye contact with us, because they were "her kids" and she needed to say goodbye to them and we'd just have to wait. I actually replayed this speech in my head for her, something like, "I take my role in loco parentis very seriously. My students must learn that they cannot leave my side without my permission, even to go to another trusted adult. I teach them that they must high-five me before they go to you because this keeps them from running off without supervision and because it gives me time to see you and know that they are going to an appropriate caregiver." See? That sounds way better. And if you could refer to her as your "student" and not your "kid," I'd like that, too, thanks.
I wasn't disappointed in the school, though, really, because I clearly remember the time I've spent in public schools as a student and as a teacher, and so it was never my intent to enroll my girls--when we can no longer afford Montessori, I will joyfully transition the girls to homeschooling--but I was happy that Matt, who's more ambivalent about homeschooling and who has pleasant memories of public school, got to go to this meeting. It's not quite what he remembers, I think, and he knows that we can do better without it.
I'm lying, though, because really I am disappointed. Most people can't afford the money for a fancy-pants private school or the time for full-on homeschooling, and I don't like to think about how it would have felt to have gone to that meeting and come away thinking as negatively about it as I do now, but know that my kids were going to go there, anyway.


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Carolina 5 - Washington 0...
There is nothing to take away from this game, and that being the case, The Peerless really doesn't have much to say about it, other than from the drop of the puck, the Caps looked as clueless about what was going on around them as any Caps team we've seen, well, maybe ever.
And you know what?...I don't think that one's on the players.
There really isn't anything in the numbers worth pondering, the competitive portion of the game being so short (8:32 – the time it took for Cory Stillman to score a hat trick, on the only three shots of the game that he took). Everything that followed was window dressing.
Here is your stat to take to bed with you in anticipation of tomorrow's game in
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Man's death shines unwelcome light on embattled neighborhood
No arrests so far
A man was shot to death outside a Lincoln Avenue market late Tuesday.
Police said they found Demarco Reed, 38, outside the N&I Market just after 11 p.m. Witnesses said he was shot further down the street and stumbled to the market, where he collapsed.
Reed was taken to University Hospital, where he died of his wounds.
Neighbors reported hearing anywhere from four to a dozen gunshots.
Former city councilman Sam Malone lives across the street from where Reed died.
"I just kinda tried to get out of the way of the window, go upstairs, and get somewhere safe," he said.
Malone said there is a battle between the people who believe in the Walnut Woods neighborhood and its safety and those who are causing the problems.
"We've had a history of gang violence, drug violence, just violence in general, a lot of shootings, a lot of killings," he said, pointing out a spot on the street only feet from where Reed was shot. William Eaton Jr. died on that spot last year.
"The street is not well lit, and when you have as many shootings on one street, in one neighborhood as we have seen in the past couple of years..." he said.
No arrests have been made so far. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 513-352-3040.


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Tomorrow is my grandfather's 80th birthday. In celebration of that event and next week's Father's Day holiday, the entire family decided to surprise him with a trip to today's Bisons game, including a suite experience and throwing out the first pitch. Let's just say that D-Day had less planning than this birthday extravaganza. But despite all the hard work, emails and other subterfuge that had to happen (aka lots of phone calls in code), my grandfather was truly surprised and a good time was had by all.
– No way in heck were there over 6,800 people at Coca Cola Field for today's game. I realize that may have been the "tickets sold" number and not the "tickets redeemed" number, but my guesstimate on attendance was probably 4,500 at best. There were lots of people disguised as red seats, lets put it that way.
– When we entered the stadium, we were given Thunderstix. I think I'm now deaf in my left ear after having cousin #1 bang on them for the better part of a game.
Cousin #2 exercised his creative juices and made the below from his Thunderstix.
It's a dog, in case you were wondering. Said creative cousin is also available for birthdays, weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs.
– I took a breather from the fam and headed down to the main concourse to check out the gift shop and what was going on on the main level. The Bisons gift shop is pitiful compared to the Sabres Store. And I knowsthat I'm spoiled by the Sabres Store, but seriously, the Bisons gift shop is ridiculously small and doesn't seem to have a very large product mix. There was a hoodie on the website that I liked but the store didn't have, and the team was selling Buster plushies from last season at full price. Is it because the Mets don't seem to want to have the Bisons sell a lot of merch? Who knows.
– When we were leaving the stadium, we were all handed bags of new Wise Honey BBQ Cheese Puffs. I can't help but wonder why someone would want to combine barbecue flavor with cheese poofs, but they did. It's like someone got baked, combined cheesy poofs and Honeycomb in their munchie stupor and thought this would make a great snack. They're not bad if one is hungry enough, but I'm not going to run out and buy a bag.
– The kids running the bases after the game were ridiculously adorable. There was a father out there with his son, who was probably not more than a year old. They ran the distance from first to second before the father picked him up and ran around the rest of the bases carrying him, before depositing him about ten feet away from home and allowing him to toddle the rest of the way on his two little legs. The kid was precious and completely in awe of both Buster and Chip. Belle just confused – and probably frightened – him.
– I really felt bad for those in the Bisons bullpen during the game. They were constantly being divebombed by seagulls and even had a close encounter with a foul ball that scattered them pretty quickly. While the seagulls were nowhere near as insane as what is going on in Cleveland (at least ours don't land on the field), I can't help but wonder how long it will be until a fan is attacked by a bird, or a bird affects the on-field action.


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Predicting our downfall is not anything that I ever wanted to write. Indeed, just a few years back, I still hadn't imagined that we would ever really allow the things we have without a fight. But we have.
There is a strong likelihood that our next president will be the incumbent, Barry Soetoro, or – short of overhauling the 22nd amendment – whatever other liberal candidate the Democrats may produce. We conservatives have pretty much sealed our fate and, if we continue as we have, don't have a snowball's chance in perdition of ever again occupying the nation's chief office. My prediction is just as unpleasant to me as it may be to any of my readers. Nevertheless, those are my sentiments, and I would almost be willing to take bets on the accuracy of my words.
Here is why it will happen …
First off, conservatives have allowed themselves to completely fall asleep at the switch. In our resting on the fantasy that everyone else basically thinks as we do, we went and forgot that the price of freedom really is constant vigilance. All this time, while we were driving back and forth to work, paying bills, and saving what we could for a rainy day, we lost sight of the fact that there is a growing crowd of people out there who genuinely want only to work the system and collect a paycheck for doing nothing. We've allowed our history lessons to fade off into uselessness as we've ignored the truth that 'liberalism' is just the soft-boiled precursor to socialism and slavery. We let slide Lincoln's dire warning about the recurrent reality of lazy tyrants consuming the fruits of the working diligent. And now we are walking right into that reality with our own government freshly wired to give muscle to the lazy tyrants.
Professional, power-hungry politicians and their constituency comprise the lazy tyrants. Both are seeking after their own bottomless ATM cards, which they fully intend to supply from the labors of the working diligent.
Forever, the liberals have ridden the system in order to try to maintain themselves in a manner in which they would like to become accustomed. They artfully use narcotic, PC words like 'fairness,' 'balance,' 'tolerance,' and 'equality' as pry tools for taking stuff that doesn't belong to them. From day one, the liberal presents himself as a humanitarian and champion of the underdog, while in fact, he's fighting to establish a utopian set of 'rights' that simply can't exist in the real world.
Our current president and his entire administrative staff/enablers are the living example of how this racket works: Use the taxpayers' money to buy votes from the burgeoning swarm who are convinced their votes will ensure their leader's promised panacea. This old formula is job security for the leftist politician – since, after all, what parasite in his right mind would shoot himself in the foot by voting against his own free ride? It's a circular plan that must eventually crash because nobody – none of the working diligent, anyway – is stupid enough to keep on laboring in order to underwrite someone else's dreams.
Eventually, the cobweb of liberalism's pitched fantasy is bound to collapse when the bank finally calls and reports that all available resources are depleted. When that happens, history shows, the fattened politicians simply pack up shop and head for cover – and the lightheaded mob that voted them into office is once again left destitute and holding the bag (an empty bag).
Tragically, in the process of chasing a mirage, our rights and freedoms will have been lost in that fool's bargain.
As all this drama unfolds, the bigger picture of social collapse and revolution will naturally take on a life of its own. A new, desperately clamoring throng emerges looking for someone to save the day. And, because our determined and methodical president has prepared himself for just such a day, we'll then painfully discover that he holds all the cards.
If Marx and the big names of socialism could be assembled to review the moves reformer obama has made up to this point, they would joyously stand and give him a teary-eyed ovation for having installed – in just five fast years – every cog of the sinister machine that had been designed to demolish our free capitalist West. And he did all that without so much as even a genuinely threatening investigation from our generally spineless Congress.
Predicting our downfall is not anything that I ever wanted to write. Indeed, just a few years back, I still hadn't imagined that we would ever really allow the things we have without a fight. But we have.
Years ago, whoever coined the term 'silent majority' should have been taken out in the street and horsewhipped. That senseless title gave an air of virtuous credential to the indolent conservative who enjoyed suddenly feeling justified in his laziness. Rather than periodically leaving the comfort of his Barcalounger, beer, and remote – and even minimally participating in our dying democracy – he was handed a lofty-sounding indulgence that seemed to accommodate his selfish, personal peace.
Now we're ambling along under the misconception that the right conservative candidate will somehow unwind the effects of our sloth and turn everything around for the better. But, even if we found such a man, that won't work – given that most of us can't seem to be bothered with even making it to the polls now and then.
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After facing backlash surrounding the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominee pool, producers of the Academy Awards ceremony have announced the first batch of presenters slated to hand out golden statues on Feb. 28. – and the group is as diverse as it is talented.
The handpicked group of stars ranges in age, ethnicity, race and gender – a seemingly subtle response to the outrage of the industry's loudest critics. The third Puerto Rican winner in Oscar history, Benicio Del Toro, is scheduled to take the stage as well as 9-year-old "Room" breakout star Jacob Tremblay and first-time Oscar nominee Lady Gaga.
Comedians Tina Fey and Kevin Hart will also pop up in the ceremony while Sam Smith, Pharrell Williams and The Weeknd will represent their musical contemporaries.
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Rounding out the list, Oscar winner Charlize Theron, Ryan Gosling and Hollywood veteran Whoopi Goldberg are all set to appear at the microphone.
"Each of these artists brings a wonderfully distinctive element to the Oscars stage," producers David Hill and Reginald Huldin said in a statement. "Together they represent the many thrilling ways stories can be shared about the human experience, and we're honored they will be part of the celebration."
The announcement comes just a day after President Barack Obama weighed in on the controversy, urging the importance of diversity for the sake of a better craft and country.
"I think when everybody's story is told, then that makes for better art," Obama told reporters on Wednesday. "That makes for better entertainment. It makes everybody feel part of one American family. So I think, as a whole, the industry should do what every other industry should do, which is to look for talent, provide opportunity to everybody."
In addition to this fresh batch of presenters, the Academy also announced a list of new changes, additions and limitations within the organization to diversify the group of voters for years to come as a result of the uproar.
PHOTOS: Celebrities Discuss Diversity in Hollywood
READ: Whoopi Goldberg Explains on The View Why BET and Black History Month Matter: We're Not All Treated Like Americans


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Course No. FND 107 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Jerry Birchfield Jr | Jessica Pinsky | Jimmy Kuehnle | Kevin Kautenburger | Lane Cooper | Petra Soesemann | Scott Goss | William Lorton
In this fundamental visual composition course, students learn the primary elements and principles of visual language, and are introduced to a range of formal and conceptual problems which become increasingly complex as the course progresses. Students are challenged to explore core design principles of visual organization in unique and challenging ways, and to gain the ability to problem-solve through ideation processes, group dialogue, perceptual refinement and skill management. Developing analytical skills and the ability to effectively engage in an on-going process of critique are also core components of the course. Design1 involves the planning and organization of the parts within a whole, through a sense of experimentation, risk taking and discovery. This course focuses primarily on two-dimensional forms but also gradually introduces three-dimensional forms. Material exploration and the development of strong manual skills in regard to visual acuity and craft sensitivity are a key aspect of every assignment. Knowledge and skills gained in concurrent Foundation program areas such as color, drawing and digital skills are fundamental for communicating ideas and are reinforced in Design 1. Offered fall.
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Leigh is an artist and educator working in a variety of media. Navigating the complex line between voyeurism and empathy, her work is both deeply personal and anthropologically rich, often stemming from an all-consuming curiosity about a specific person, community, or place. The subjects of past work span all corners of the human experience, from the devoted brothers of a dying religious order, to the residents of a Brooklyn YWCA, to the inhabitants of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Washington, DC.
She has received funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council, The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and The Santa Fe Art Institute. Her photographs have been published in various publications including, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and the Washington Post. Davis teaches photography, media, and community engagement practices in NYC.
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For over 2,000 years, the VIA REGIA has been the oldest and longest road link between Eastern and Western Europe. At around 4500 km and starting in Kiev, it passes through eight countries on its way to Santiago de Compostela. The German section of the route runs for approximately 600 km from the Rhine river through Frankfurt , Fulda, Eisenach, Naumburg, Leipzig and Bautzen to Görlitz.
Kings were not the only ones attracted to this medieval trade route: traders carried their wares along it, the military used it and in the medieval period, pilgrims followed it across the Western World to the Spanish pilgrimage site of Santiago de Compostela.
The trade route
The route was of great economic significance to cross-regional trade and the exchange of goods. Flanders cloth was transported from the West and wood, furs, wax and honey from the East, whilst the central regions transported dyer's woad (a plant used for dye) from the Thuringian Basin and mining products from Upper Saxony. The route also linked the two great trade fair cities of Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig in Saxony.
A military route
The route was also used by armies, and so large battles also took place around it, for example two decisive battles during the Thirty Years' War in 1631 and 1642 at Breitenfeld near Leipzig. The death march from Adlerwerke concentration camp in Frankfurt to Buchenwald concentration camp also travelled along the VIA REGIA in March 1945.
Movement, meetings and meditation
Numerous pilgrims taking part in the Aachen Pilgrimage also used the highway as a pilgrimage route. The VIA REGIA, an exquisite and fascinating treasure trove of European cultural history, remains a route of cultural dialogue and communication to this day. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the autumn of 1989, the German part of the route has amounted to about 600 km and now as then, the cities located either side of it have blossomed into a breathtaking tourist belt that serves as a treasure trove of Europe's past.
Length: approximately 4500 km
Theme: culture and encounters
Bautzen: castle, ecclesiastical buildings
Eisenach: Luther city, Wartburg Castle
Erfurt: Augustinian abbey, Merchant's Bridge (Krämerbrücke)
Frankfurt: Römer town hall, skyline, Main river
Fulda: cathedral, palace, abbey
Görlitz: Europe city
Leipzig: trade fair city, Battle of Leipzig memorial
Naumburg: cathedral, museums
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dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by
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Upd: See also how to backtest the strategy and optimize the strategy parameters using Indicore SDK 2.0 on FXCodebase Wiki:
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How to Use Backtesting?
Notice: Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not been executed, the results may have under-or-overcompensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profit or losses similar to those shown.
Notice: We strongly recommend to use 1.09.101210 or later version of the Trading Station for strategies and backtests.
Backtesting is an execution of a strategy or signal on historical data. So, you are "pretending" that historical prices are happening "right now" and looking at how the strategy would work if the market would be as it had already been. So, to backtest you have to choose the strategy you want to look at and the historical range you want to test your strategy on. Usually it's interesting to backtest a strategy over a long period of time, such as months and sometimes years.


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Does it feel like someone is pressing down hard on your forehead? Do you feel intense pain and pressure behind your eyes? You could have sinusitis, swollen, inflamed sinuses caused by an infection. Let's talk about sinusitis.
These are your sinuses, the passageways that lie behind your forehead, eyes, and cheeks. They're lined with mucus membranes, which produce the mucus, or snot, that flows freely from your nose when you're sick.
So, what causes sinusitis?
Normally, air moves through your sinuses like this. But if you have a cold, allergies, or a condition that prevents the little hairs in your sinuses from sweeping out mucus, you could end up with too much of the sticky stuff. That extra mucus can block your sinuses, like this. Then, bacteria and other germs can start to grow inside your sinuses, leading to that pain and pressure you feel.
If your symptoms go away within a month, you've got acute, or short-term sinusitis. But if they last three months or longer, you've got chronic sinusitis. That means your pain and pressure will stick with you, unless you get treated.
What are the signs of having sinusitis?
If you've just gotten over a cold or other illness and your forehead and eyes are throbbing with a pressure-like pain, you could have sinusitis. Other signs are tenderness in your face or teeth, fever, tiredness, cough, and a stuffed nose.
Your doctor can often tell whether you have sinusitis by looking in your nose, shining a light against your sinuses, or tapping over the area to look for signs of swelling and infection. If your doctor thinks you may need surgery for your sinusitis, or the diagnosis isn't clear, you could also have an x-ray, CT, or MRI scan.
There's a good chance your infection will go away on its own if you have acute sinusitis. But if it lingers and you're running a high fever or you're in a lot of pain, your doctor may prescribe antibiotics.
You can manage your sinusitis at home with a few easy tips: Hold a warm, moist washcloth to your face a few times a day; Drink extra water and other fluids to thin out your mucus; Breathe in the steam from a hot shower AND Use a Neti pot or saline nose spray.
After three months if you're still dealing with sinusitis symptoms, your doctor may recommend seeing an ear-nose-and-throat doctor. You might need surgery to drain your clogged sinuses.
Most of the time, sinusitis goes away on its own without any treatment. To prevent your sinuses from getting clogged in the first place, avoid getting colds and other infections. Avoid exposure to allergens or irritants, such as tobacco smoke. Eat a healthy diet filled with antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables. Get your annual flu shot and wash your hands throughout the day to avoid germs. When you do get sick, consider decongestant sprays to shrink the linings in your nose and sinuses, and drink plenty of fluids to keep mucus moving along.
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Ginger Peach Melba
This delicious dish is the ultimate summer dessert. The bright colors and flavors of fresh peaches and raspberries, accented with ginger, are certain to delight the senses.
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Grill: 10 min.
Makes4 servings
- 2 cups fresh raspberries
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 1 teaspoon McCormick® Ground Ginger
- 4 medium peaches, peeled, halved and pitted
- In a small bowl, combine raspberries, sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla; set aside. In a large bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, orange juice, ginger and remaining vanilla. Add peach halves; toss gently to coat well.
- Fold the edges of a sheet of heavy-duty foil to form a shallow pan; place on grill over medium heat. Arrange peaches, cut-side down, on foil. Cover with a second sheet of foil. Grill peaches about 6-8 minutes or until browned and caramelized around the edges, turning once.
- To serve, place 2 peach halves on each dessert plate. Top each with 1/3 cup. Serve immediately.


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Apple hired Levi Strauss & Co.'s retail and store operations chief to help helm its own retail operation which has been lacking leadership for the last year.
Enrique Atienza, who was Levi's senior vice president of the retail Americas and global store operations, will be the second-in-command of retail until a new senior vice president of retail is found, according to 9to5 Apple. The last retail chief, John Browett, left the company last October. So far his position hasn't been filled, but has been handled by Steve Cano who directly reports to Apple chief executive Tim Cook. Atienza is expected to start in October and report to Cano.
Apple is actively seeking outside candidates for the retail chief role, but hasn't settled on any one candidate yet.
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Atienza's hiring before the busy holiday season makes sense for Apple. We don't think the tech titan wanted to miss another Christmas shopping extravaganza without more people overseeing its retail stores.


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Continuing with the mysterious contents of Ann "Nancy" Stafford Buck's photo album, I thought it might be helpful to state some facts about her.
These are the only two photos I have of her. According to the 1900, 1910, and 1920 census she immigrated in 1899, but I have not been able to find a passenger list yet. I am going to go google for a minute. Be right back.
Will wonders never cease! I just found her passenger list on Ancestry.com! No wonder I had a hard time finding it. She sailed out of Glasgow, Scotland! Did not see that coming at all.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
The photo I want to share today is actually one that was taken in the U.S, probably Utah.
This photo was developed in Ogden, Utah. On the backside is an ink stamp that is only half legible. It says "GENIE XXXXLEOX PRINT" new line "xxxxxxDRUG Co. Ogden, Utah" Where the xxx represents printing that cannot be deciphered.
I think it is very possible that this is a family gathering of some of grandma Nancy's descendants, but which ones?
There were quite a few Buck family members living in Weber County, Utah. These include William Henry and Flora Buck (they were 2nd cousins) family, Luther and Sarah Powell Buck family, and William and Sybil Agnes Buck March may have been in Utah the time of the photo.
So I'm calling all Buck family members for help in identifying these folks.
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- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 1/4 cups turbinado sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 1/2 cups fresh blackberries, washed and pureed
- Heat milk in a medium saucepan over medium heat until bubbles form around the edge. Remove from heat. Stir in salt and sugar until dissolved. Then stir in half-and-half, vanilla bean paste, heavy cream and pureed blackberries. Stir well.
- Cover and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour—but overnight works too.
- Churn in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's directions. Serve "soft" or freeze until serving time. Makes approximately 2 quarts.
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- 5 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionVail Das Schone 1
Listing Date02/04/19
Year Built1971
AreaWest Vail North
Lot Size0.30 Acres (13,068 SqFt)
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Enjoy beautiful south-facing mountain views from this European chalet single-family home located in West Vail. A spacious master suite with adjoining office combines with 3 other bedrooms and a two-car garage in the main home. A separate, fully equipped lock-off is perfect for a caretaker or a rental. Numerous interior upgrades include, remodeled kitchen, flooring, gas-fireplace and a completely remodeled lower level. Expansive outdoor living areas and walk to the bus. http://mls.2578arosa.com/
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Occupying a wider swath of the Valley than the Villages and East Vail, West Vail offers distinctly different environments on its northern and southern hillsides. The south side features lush wooded alpine terrain interspersed with meadows while the more exposed north side offers dramatic views and an abundance of sunshine year round. Divided into several neighborhoods, the area has a commercial center with groceries, shops, and restaurants and a close knit mix of locals and second home owners. Properties in West Vail range from simple condominiums to elegant single-family homes, all of which are a quick 5-10 minute Town shuttle away from the heart of the Village.
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Top down fixing stuff hardly ever works. Organic systems just don't work like models– "close enough" works when the wiggle room is, say, the wear of calibrated parts that are changed every 1000 working hours, but people vary from day to day, let alone different people.
Even if folks really, really give their all to trying to fix a system, there's something off– I think it's best explained as they focus on the theory. Folks trying to make a living in the system will focus on their bottom line; folks trying to use the service provided by the system will focus on getting the best for the buck. This is over simplified, and there's levels to it– for example, the folks managing the providers will use strategies to bring in more users, sometimes the users look at intangibles rather than raw services….
A major consideration for the HSA patient is the fact that medical fees are grossly inflated by Medicare and insurance companies that draw up contracts with physicians including "discounts" from imaginary retail prices. When I retired from private practice, I had 176 contracts with various insurance companies and HMOs. Medicare will punish a physican who provides a cash discount to a patient. Balance billing is also prohibited.
The result has been reluctance on the part of physicians to see Medicare patents or HMO patients, both of which have poor reimbursement schedules.
Solution: go to cash services, bypassing the various legal and paper complications involved accepting Medicare, or insurance that's too much paperwork.
I think this is a good start.


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One piece is shaped entirely by hand using copper pipe.
The lighting is designed on the principal of staying balanced when hung, 60W incandescent bulb is sent with the product which can be obtained from almost any light store.
One piece is shaped entirely by hand using copper pipe.
For each of our products, in the interest of their formable structures given life by hand that relax and injects comfort, sense to our environment that brings out the immaculate design of Cu'K, we here by declare our pleasure wIth this regard. Our adventure began with copper lightings inspired by the light based on warm effects on people. For Cu'K, light reveals different feelings for our surroundings of which we respirate the same air and share with our beloved ones..


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Around 1900, Finnish National Romanticism was in full swing and looking for ways to reaffirm a national identity. The work of this cultural movement was reflected in urban landscapes through the construction of many buildings inspired by a style known as Art Nouveau in France and Jugendstil in Germany (a term which was also adopted by the Finns). This was a new approach to visual arts, design and architecture with an emphasis in curves, decorative arts and creative use of urban lighting.
Along with other modern styles, Helsinki is a true open air museum for Jugendstil, with several buildings dating from the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. These works share some common features: the buildings' and decorations' large scales, the use of granite stones and related materials, and the appropriation of Finnish folklore for what was then the "new architecture". In many of these buildings there are clear references to the Kalevala, an old epic poem that is the basis of Finnish literature and folklore.
Gargoyles, bears and gnomes
Architecture aficionados will have to start their journey, preferably on foot, and begin in the city's north where we find the Kallio Church. This grandiose work was built in 1912 and designed by architect Lars Sonck. It features a huge tower, richly decorated interiors and a peculiar granite aesthetic. The church also has very nice acoustics and has a regular program of organ and religious music recitals.
Also north of the city centre is the Pohjola building, belonging to an old local insurance company. Built in 1901 and designed by Eliel Saarinen, this rustic building is fully aligned with the main principles of Jugendstil: the facades covered with gargoyles, grotesque figures and bas-reliefs depicting animals and forests, while the interior's stairways, glass windows and ornamented rooms evoke Finnish folk traditions.
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A Guide to the Peterson-Townsend Family Papers, 1915-1992 (bulk 1938-1944)
Biographical Note
Born in Hinsdale, Montana, and raised in Alexandria, Minnesota, Everett Vinson Peterson (1915-1944) graduated from high school in 1933 and joined the Minnesota National Guard. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1939 with a degree in Business Administration. In 1940, Peterson volunteered for active duty and was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. Two years later he married Austin native Frances "Bunnie" Rice (1922-1946) who had lived in Dallas for most of her life before attending college at the Texas School of Mines in El Paso and the University of Texas at Austin. In January 1944, Peterson was sent overseas with the Battery B 197th Antiaircraft Battalion and died on D-Day, June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach. His body was repatriated from St. Laurent, France, in Sept. 1947 and buried at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
The year of her father's death, Carolyn Clifton Peterson (b. 1944) was born in Austin. After her mother died in 1946, she lived with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Braselton Jr., in Fort Worth. Carolyn attended the University of Texas, graduating in 1966 as a Phi Beta Pi sister, and married Peyton Lambeth Townsend, Jr. of Dallas in 1969.
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Consisting of correspondence, certificates, financial documents, printed materials, photographic materials, diaries, and scrapbooks, the Peterson-Townsend Family Papers, 1915-1992 (bulk 1938-1944), concern the lives of Everett Vinson Peterson, particularly his military career during World War II; his wife Frances "Bunnie" Rice Peterson; and their daughter Carolyn Clifton Peterson Braselton Townsend. Correspondence, certificates, printed material, a college expense book, photographs, and scrapbooks illuminate Everett's experience at the University of Minnesota, military service in Europe from 1941 to 1944, and death at Omaha Beach. Frances' papers, dating primarily from 1938-1946 and chronicling her college years and married life, consist of correspondence, diaries, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and other documents. Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers concern Carolyn's college years at the University of Texas and her personal life before marriage. The collection also includes material relating to Everett's parents, his siblings, and Peterson family friends.
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Access Restrictions
Use of photographic negatives by appointment only; please contact photo archivist for more information.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Peterson-Townsend Family Papers, 1915-1992 (bulk 1938-1944), Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center's History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.
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Battered Men - The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC responds to concerns about National Intimate Partner and Sexual Viiolence Survey. Response to a letter of concern from MenWeb Online Journal.
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) More men than women were victims of intimate partner physical violence, psychological aggression, over 40% of severe physical violence was directed at men.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Well, we final got settled in to Indianapolis after switching motels at the last minute. One stop at the photo booth and then the media pass later and we are now in Lucas Oil Arena, the home of the Indianapolis Colts.
Coming in the area surrounding the stadium is packed and parking lots are full everywhere. Once inside the arena, the Butler Bulldogs are practicing to a packed house. The Blue Devils take to the floor at 3:10 and the interviews with the team start at 2:30 just before they take to the hardwood.
Of course, BDN will be on the scene all weekend long and it's sure to be a grand time around here, especially if Duke advances. We'll have some pics, interviews, reports and of course we will tweet live during the game provided the option is available.
The Butler Bulldog, a live canine mascot just made its way through the media room and the usual suspects of members who cover Duke are in the house as is my pal Bob Harris. As for the facility itself, it's wonderful and made for a Final Four.
The locals are friendly and team colors abound pretty much everywhere within 30 miles of the arena. The NABC All Star game will take place later this afternoon but with no ACC players in the game, we'll use the time to work.
Coming through West Virginia, we stopped at a local eatery and needless to say we kept it to ourselves that we were Duke beat writers. That is, until one of our entourage felt the need to blurt it out [TMI] just before we ordered and you could see the change in attitudes if you know what I mean.
Interestingly, the morning edition of the Indianapolis Star has a huge headline saying, "Boo Devils," which is yet another article on Duke hatred. However, if one looks beneath the surface or does their research you will find that Duke is quite popular.
We also found out that India Pacer Josh McRoberts is putting up a lot of Dukies at his house this weekend. McRoberts said he stayed in touch with Jordan Davidson and that NBA scheduling conflicts prevented him from getting back to Cameron but the day is coming when he will return.
And fellow Pacer Mike Dunleavy said, "It's cool that the tournament is here in Indy and that Duke is a part of it." Dahntay Jones is also a Pacer and all three will make an effort to make an appearance.
There has already been a Jerry West spotting. The Los Angeles Lakers great was, of course, a star while he was at West Virginia as well. As for other celebs, well, they all turn out for the Final Four.
Finally, if anyone out there thinks Duke doesn't remember their loss to the Mountaineers, think again. You will not see it in their comments, but the memories loom large in many ways which we may share if Duke advances but not until then.
Tom Izzo is on the podium in the background now as West Virginia is having their open practice for fans. Duke Assistant Coach Steve Wojciechowski [Wojo] is taking in the practice for some last minute scouting. The entire lower level has been opened to fans for free and it is packed.
During practices, the schools bands and cheerleaders look on as two huge screens in the corners of Lucas Oil Stadium carry the action.
Duke is about fifteen minutes from holding their open media, so we'll wrap it up for now, but be sure to check in often with BDN all weekend long.


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"SHAME" My rating: B (Opening Jan 20)
101 minutes | MPAA rating: NC-17
The words "sex addict" are never uttered in Steve McQueen's "Shame."
This isn't one of those social-problem films where a shrink swoops in to explain our hero's condition and tell us how with therapy and the support of loved ones a sufferer's life can be turned around.
We're not even all that sure that Brandon Sullivan, the film's protagonist, wants to turn his life around.
When we first meet Brandon (Brit actor Michael Fassbender) he's lying in his bed after a sexual encounter. We hardly get a glimpse of his partner, who is dressing to leave. In fact, she doesn't matter. Certainly not to Brandon.
As he gets up to walk to the bathroom we take him all in — stark naked from head to toe. It's blatantly in-your-face, with Fassbender's pendulous manhood advancing directly toward us.


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NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- Some 8.3 million viewers tuned in for two U.S. telecasts of Sunday's series premiere of "Vikings," the History channel announced Monday.
About 6.2 million total viewers watched the program in its 10 p.m. premiere time slot and 2.1 million more caught an encore showing.
Created and written by Michael Hirst, the series stars Travis Fimmel, Gabriel Byrne, Clive Standen, Katheryn Winnick, Jessalyn Gilsig and George Blagden.
"'Vikings' is an incredible win for History -- our first scripted series. We began this journey over six years ago, when we set sail to broaden the genre of History and now we are the only cable network to have achieved this amazing level of success in both non-fiction and scripted genres," Nancy Dubuc, president of entertainment and media for A+E Networks, said in a statement Monday.
"People think they know the Vikings -- but the reality is more complex. We knew our audience had an appetite for this unexpected storytelling and it was a big bet that paid off."


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A Tipping Point in the Privacy vs. Security Battle
Amid concerns that the NSA overstepped its bounds, Congress eyes surveillance limits.
The events surrounding 9/11 cleared the way for the government to play down personal freedoms and led to Uncle Sam's secretive and massive effort to collect, review and store previously private data. Americans, and some allies abroad, say it's gone too far and they've have had enough of the National Security Agency's clandestine activities.
"The American people rely on the intelligence community to provide forthright and complete information so that Congress and the courts can properly conduct oversight. I remain concerned that we are still not getting straightforward answers from the NSA," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
Pressure from two areas will drive the shift toward restoring Americans' privacy: First, a political outcry from Europe and elsewhere over the extent of the U.S.'s data sweeping activities, revealed by leaks from ex-government contractor Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower who now hides from U.S. authorities in Russia.
Second, a dramatic reversal of public opinion in America over just a few months.
Snowden's most recent revelation, made public in the Washington Post, proved that the NSA overstepped its authority thousands of times since President Obama took over the White House. Obama's campaign pledge in 2007 to protect the privacy of Americans was trampled on as the NSA even defied court orders and delved into the personal lives of innocent Americans, though the White House claimed the missteps were "unintentional."
After many years of the feds having carte blanche on security issues, the growing pushback will force Congress to act, and sooner, not later. Expect some changes within the next year. The rest will come by mid-2015, when key provisions of the Patriot Act face renewal.
Look for Leahy to convene more hearings this fall. The liberal lawmaker's allies in this fight include Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a libertarian who has drafted a far-reaching bill to curb domestic data gathering and to protect privacy.
It will be a gradual effort. First up, expect to see added transparency on snooping from the NSA and other agencies. Uncle Sam will reveal more about what is collected in an effort to get Americans to take caution and act judiciously to protect their privacy. Look for new guidelines for storing the data, too. Most records will be erased quickly — in somewhere around three months, maybe even sooner — instead of being archived for six months or more, as they are now.
In addition, companies will have new freedom to disclose that they gave citizens' private information to the government under subpoena. There will eventually be limits on using data and rules for challenging its use in court. A privacy advocate will be charged with challenging unsavory cases that target Americans without probable case. The jurisdiction will fall to the secret U. S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but that's better than no avenue for appeal.
Obama says publicly that the federal government is taking all necessary steps to ensure that no illicit spying is done on Americans, but privately he knows he cannot make that guarantee anymore.
Even some lawmakers who are big on security started feeling misled by the scope of the snooping after it became clear that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to Congress in April when asked if the government collects data on average Americans. With lawmakers getting an earful about the NSA's antics from voters back home this month, many will be quick to hop on the privacy bandwagon as congressional elections approach next year.
But the pushback against the government isn't all about freedom. There are economic reasons for Washington to take some speedy steps, too. More foreign firms will stop using cloud-based storage hosted in the U.S. if they think company secrets and data are being vacuumed up by Washington. Some companies, wary of what Uncle Sam can pull from the cloud, are already out. In the next three years, U.S. firms could lose $35 billion of digital storage business, about 20% of foreign virtual storage expenditures. The losses will mushroom if there are concerns that Congress and the White House aren't moving fast enough.
And more countries, even allies, will restrict operations of U.S. companies, including such digital powerhouses as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. Some will also threaten to wall off parts of the Internet through government control, creating what some call the "balkanization" of cyberspace.
Security concerns won't go away, nor will government surveillance efforts. But Americans, and the world at large, will have a better handle on them when privacy is no longer an afterthought.
John Miley contributed to this report.


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(Reuters) - Family Dollar Stores Inc FDO.N rejected a $9 billion buyout offer from Dollar General Corp (DG.N) that it said could run foul of competition law, opting instead for a smaller bid from Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR.O) that guarantees a job for its CEO.
Family Dollar, the second-largest dollar store in the United States, said it believed a deal with its larger rival would be unlikely to win antitrust approval, despite a promise by Dollar General to close some stores.
"We will not jeopardize the Dollar Tree deal for a transaction with Dollar General that has a high likelihood of not closing due to antitrust considerations," said Ed Garden, an independent director on Family Dollar's board and co-founder of Trian Fund Management LP, a large shareholder.
Trian Fund Management, led by activist investor Nelson Peltz, owned 7.3 percent stake in Family Dollar as of July 27.
Dollar stores, a popular choice for penny-pinching customers in a weak U.S. economy, have come under pressure to merge as competition intensifies, particularly with Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) opening more small-format stores.
The formal rejection came a day after Dollar General Chief Executive Rick Dreiling questioned whether his counterpart at Family Dollar, Howard Levine, was serving his own interests in supporting Dollar Tree's $8.5 billion offer.
As friction escalated, Levine responded on Thursday by saying that Dreiling's letter "contained blatant mischaracterizations and did nothing to address the antitrust issues in Dollar General's proposal."
Dreiling said in a rebuttal that Dollar General had "done extensive antitrust analysis using experienced advisers, the results of which confirm that the transaction as proposed is capable of being completed."
The U.S. market for dollar stores grew 46 percent to $48.2 billion between 2008 and 2013 and is expected to grow 18 percent in the next five years, according to Euromonitor International.
A combined Dollar General-Family Dollar would have nearly 20,000 stores across 46 U.S. states and annual sales in excess of $28 billion.
Dollar Tree and Family Dollar combined would have 13,000 stores across the United States and Canada and $18 billion in annual sales - enough to vault it ahead of Dollar General as the biggest discount retailer in North America.
Diana Moss, vice president of the pro-competition American Antitrust Institute, said a union between Dollar General and Family Dollar would create a company that controls the market.
"That's going to raise some eyebrows," she said. "I can see this will get some heavy scrutiny."
Rahul Sharma, managing director of investment advisory Neev Capital, said antitrust issues were not insurmountable given the much bigger size of retailers such as Wal-Mart and Kroger Co (KR.N), which also cater to low- and middle-income consumers.
Combined, the three dollar chains' annual sales total about $35 billion – less than a tenth of Wal-Mart's $473 billion.
"It is not clear to us why the antitrust concerns could not be resolved via methods such as store divestitures," said S&P Capital IQ analyst Efraim Levy. "It might be that antitrust was not the full reason."
Certainly, the Dollar Tree cash-and-stock bid is friendlier to Family Dollar's management. Levine, son of Family Dollar's founder, would remain CEO of the Matthews, North Carolina-based company were it to be bought by Dollar Tree.
Were Dollar General to buy Family Dollar, Levine is expected to lose his job, although this has not been confirmed.
"The Dollar General offer, while it clearly makes sense in the form of synergies, was unfriendly to Family Dollar," said Joan Storms, retail analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc.
Activist investor Carl Icahn, who has whittled down his stake in Family Dollar to 3.6 percent as of July 30 after buying 9.4 percent, has also questioned whether Levine's future could have swung the decision to favor Dollar Tree.
There are reasons to argue that Dollar General and Family Dollar might be an easier fit. Both offer goods at multiple price points, while Dollar Tree sticks to a $1 or less format.
Family Dollar's presence is biggest in Texas and the eastern United States. Texas is also home to more Dollar General stores than any other state - more than 1,000 stores, or about a tenth of the total.
But divesting 700 stores, as Dollar General has promised, might not be simple, a former antitrust lawyer in the federal government, who declined to be identified, told Reuters.
"The wild card," he said, would be finding "a purchaser who is a viable competitor."
Most analysts said they expected a renewed offer from Dollar General.
"This may be a negotiating tactic for (Family Dollar) to get a better price," said Claudia Higgins, antitrust partner at Kaye Scholer LLP. "Antitrust is very often a part of the negotiating picture."
Shares of Dollar General were down 0.3 percent at $63.57 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while Family Dollar's shares were down 0.2 percent at $79.63.
Shares of Dollar Tree, which also reported a 2.6 percent fall in quarterly profit as its costs rose, were down 1.3 percent at $54.30 on the Nasdaq.
Writing by Robin Paxton; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Kirti Pandey


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