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Defense of Freedom Medal
Defense of Freedom Medal for Civilian Contractors
1. Purpose: The Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom (DFM) is established to acknowledge civilian employees of the Department of Defense (DoD) who are killed or wounded in the line of duty. The medal symbolizes the extraordinary fidelity and essential service of the Department's civilian workforce who are an integral part of DoD and who contribute to the preservation of national security.
2. Description: The Army's Institute of Heraldry developed the medal.
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- The eagle and shield exemplify the principles of freedom and the defense of these freedoms on which our country is founded. The laurel is emblematic of honor and high achievement.
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- Red, white, and blue are our National colors. The red stripes commemorate valor and sacrifice. The wide blue stripe represents strength. The white stripes symbolize liberty as represented in our national flag. The number of red stripes represents the four terrorist attacks using hijacked airplanes, and the single blue stripe represents the terrorist attack on the pentagon on September 11, 2001. This day, more than ever, united this country and brought to the forefront our heroic civilians.
3. Certificate: A DA Form 7499 will accompany the medal.
4. Eligibility: The medal shall be awarded to any DoD civilian employee meeting the definition of "employee" under title 5 United States Code, Section 2105, and who is eligible for an award under DoD 1400.25-M, Subchapter 451, "Awards," including employees of non-appropriated fund activities, when killed or wounded by hostile action while serving under any competent authority of the Department under conditions for which a military member would be eligible for receipt of the Purple Heart. Additionally, the Secretary of Defense has discretionary authority to award this medal to non-Defense personnel who are otherwise qualified to be awarded the medal based on their involvement in DoD activities.
5. Criteria: Eligibility criteria for the medal are aligned as closely as possible to those for the Purple Heart for members of the Armed Forces; this medal differs from other medals in that it is not "recommended." The employee is "entitled" to the medal if the employee is eligible under Section 4 and if the conditions or criteria in this paragraph are present. Hostile action may involve, but is not limited to, the use of conventional or nuclear weapons, chemical or biological agents, explosives, or missiles. The medal shall be awarded to employees who are killed or who sustain injury due to hostile action against the United States of America, or killed or wounded while rescuing or attempting to rescue any other employee or individual subjected to injuries sustained under such conditions. The wound for which the award is made must have required treatment by a medical officer, and records of medical treatment for wounds or injuries received in action must have been made a matter of official record.
6. Limitations on Awarding Medal: The medal is authorized for the incident of death or the first wound suffered under the conditions indicated above. The medal itself may be awarded only once; however, for subsequent events that would require the award of the medal, a device will be awarded to attach to the ribbon of the medal.
7. Posthumous Awards: The medal may be awarded posthumously and, when so awarded, may be presented to a representative of the deceased member's family.
8. Responsibility and Approval: The approval authority for the DFM is delegated as specified in the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) memorandum dated March 24, 2009, subject: Delegation of Authority – Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom.
9. Nomination Format: Forward a memorandum, along with a DA Form 1256, containing the following:
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General personal information:
- For government employees: provide name, SSN, title, series, grade, organization and location.
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Specific information regarding injury/death:
- Description of the situation causing the injury/death in detail to include the date, time, place, and scene of the incident, and official medical documentation of the employee's injuries and treatment. The description must be well documented, including the names of witnesses and point of contact (POC) for additional medical information, if needed.
10. Army Contractor Nominations: The Secretary of Defense will consider nominations of contractor employees for this medal. Nominations for contractor employees will consist of the attached form, completed and submitted to the Executive Secretary, Army Incentive Awards Board, along with a report from a medical treatment facility or professional and a signed release to permit discussion of medical information by those who review the award nomination. Submit one copy of the memorandum and supporting justification to: email@example.com.
Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom
Consideration of Eligibility
for Contractor Personnel
1. Name of individual (first, middle initial, last.) Mr. John Doe
2. Position title. Senior Project Engineer
3. Name of contractor company and name/phone number of POC. ABC, 1234 Main Street, Anytown, Virginia 22222. Mr. Harold Barnes (888) 555-4748.
4. Title of Component office for which contractor worked and name/phone number of Component POC or project manager. Headquarters, Department of the Army, IMCEN. Mr. Sam Jones (877) 555-4410.
5. Date and location of the event, which caused the death or injury. September 11, 2001; Pentagon. Mr. Joe Smith, Acting Director, Information Management Center, certifies that this employee was in a duty status on September 11, 2001.
6. Describe the circumstances of the individual's death or injury, e.g., the event that caused the death or injury and how it occurred. Mr. Doe was working in the Pentagon, Room 1C543, when terrorists crashed a commercial aircraft into the Pentagon. He was hit on the head by falling debris from the ceiling and walls of his office.
7. For injuries only – (1) describe the nature of the injury and the treatment protocol (treated and released, number of days hospitalized); (2) identify where treatment occurred (treated at medical facility or by private doctor and provide name of facility/ physician and phone number if available); (3) describe extent of immediate care, (treated with aspirin, x-rays taken, etc.), and (4) describe extent of continued care if considered necessary (outpatient care, physical therapy, etc.) Mr. Doe sustained blunt force trauma to his head and was admitted to Polaris Hospital Emergency Room where he was taken to the operating room and received fourteen stitches to close the wound in his head. He received medical treatment at the hospital until September 18, 2001. He had physical therapy appointments once a week for several months.
8. CERTIFICATION STATEMENT: MG Thomas Smith, Commanding General, U.S. Army XXXXXX, signed memorandum recommending approval.
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Can any one tell me do I qualify for this honour. I lost a big part of my hearing in KAF. And it is documented and have recieved compensation from the defence base act.
What do you think shoukd I apply. I am a Canadian Civilian contractor back home
Comment by Dana Bernier | April 13, 2011 |
sorry but you are canadian…not a US citizen….thats like giving a purple heart to an canadian sodlier..
Comment by mike | July 24, 2012 |


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A large US federal government agency required an advanced decision-support system. Because this agency has arguably the most complex network infrastructure in the world, its IT team had to deal with (and enforce) security, bandwidth consumption, and connectivity every day. But the existing system took too long to give users a clear picture of how and where money was being spent. The government agency needed to empower its workforce to make more intelligent business decisions, but to make these decisions, the workers needed more-current information.
The government needed a robust decision-support system that was capable of giving excellent performance to more than 10,000 federal government personnel worldwide. This system would have to receive, evaluate, translate, and publish information in near realtime from 19 different systems and more than 450 locations worldwide. It needed to be flexible, scalable, and capable of publishing gigabytes of data throughout the day while making terabytes of data available to its users. And, the solution needed to return results of ad hoc queries, regardless of user location, in only seconds.
To meet all the requirements, the Teksouth team engineered and built a suite of tightly coupled software components to deliver a robust, scalable, and completely metadata-driven end-to-end data-warehouse solution. The components handle all aspects of any data-warehouse implementation:
- A data dictionary that defines everything from the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) and business rules to the end user's data representation
- An ETL engine that provides parallel publishing capability
- An automated data-mart publishing and maintenance engine
- Middle-tier software that handles authentication, authorization (role-based security), and load balancing
- An end-user business intelligence (BI) tool
- Web reporting capabilities ranging from executive summary to transaction-level detail
We built these components to allow for flexibility and capitalize on the scale-out architecture that SQL Server 2000 provides. The data warehouse comprises 12 SQL Servers with multiple databases, including both data marts and star schemas. The tables contain from 3 million to 300 million rows. The complete solution receives, evaluates, transforms, and publishes 5GB to 15GB of data to multiple databases within the system throughout the day.
Teksouth's proprietary Intelligent Mid-Tier and Role Server software components evaluate each query request. Role-level security ensures that users see only the specific data elements and rows that they need. Users are allowed to view or access data on a need-to-know basis depending on their job requirements, but no user has direct access to the warehouse. The Role Server works with the Intelligent Mid-Tier software to apply the appropriate constraints to the user's query. The Intelligent Mid-Tier then considers which resources (servers, databases, and tables) are available, builds the appropriate SQL statement, and directs the query to the resource that can provide the fastest answer.
The integrated security roles for handling both the BI tool queries and user-defined custom Web report queries, coupled with detailed audit trails, ensure that this solution's security model meets or exceeds this government agency's security requirements. The Intelligent Mid-Tier returns all results to the Teksouth BI tool and custom Web reports via secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption in compressed format.
After decades of using 30- to 45-day-old data to make decisions, this government agency now has global visibility into financial data that's less than 24 hours old. Visibility into data at both executive and detail levels is available 24x7. The system has scaled up to handle 65 percent more users and 150 percent more queries while returning responses 28 percent faster during each of the past 2 years. Now, more than 10,000 users, querying more than 1TB of data, run an average of 300,000 queries per month, nearly all of which are ad hoc queries. Some 66 percent of all queries return results in 3 seconds or less, and 85 percent return results in 10 seconds or less. During peak usage in September 2004 (at up to 3700 transactions per hour), the system handled more than 600,000 ad hoc queries with an average response time of 19 seconds.

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Ted Haggard Joins Reality Show 'Celebrity Wife Swap'
Ted Haggard, an evangelical pastor who came out of a drug and sex scandal just a few years ago, is reportedly scheduled to appear on ABC's "Celebrity Wife Swap."
Producers of the show confirmed Haggard's participation to People magazine Wednesday.
Haggard has not been one to shy from the media since the 2006 scandal that forced him to resign from leadership posts at New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the National Association of Evangelicals.
He appeared on the TV show "Divorce Court" in 2009 with his wife, Gayle, and was the subject of a documentary, "Ted Haggard: Scandalous" in 2011. He also makes a cameo appearance in the upcoming Christian comedy "The Waiting Game."
Haggard has also given numerous interviews, detailing his fall from grace and his new life as now pastor of St. James Church which he started in his home in 2010.
The prominent pastor was accused by a male escort, Mike Jones, in 2006 of buying drugs and paying for sex over a period of three years.
Haggard confessed to sexual immorality but denied having sex with Jones. He also admitted to buying methamphetamine and while he initially denied using it, he admitted to GQ magazine earlier this year that he did use the drug.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, Haggard will be appearing on ABC reality show with his wife and swapping partners with actor Gary Busey. The Gazette reported that no sexual relations will be involved in the swap.
Haggard, 55, did not immediately return a call to The Christian Post for comment.
The longtime pastor has been married to Gayle for more than 30 years. Gayle said she never considered divorcing her husband over the scandal and instead chose to love him and fight through it together.


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A Whimsical Crafty Wedding at White Barn in Prospect, Pennsylvania
Since we met in middle school we wanted to go with a crafty paper homemade wedding, to symbolize simplicity and our childhood together! Hayley says. School day themes and paper crafts gave their wedding a very nostalgic, summer camp feel.


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Two South Dakotans Make Biggest Donations List
Published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the 14th annual Philanthropy 50 list showcases the top 50 charitable donators in America. The list is based on pledges and gifts of cash and stock to nonprofit organizations.
The title of the most generous philanthropists for 2013 was awarded to the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Zuckerberg and his wife gave a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock to a nonprofit in Silicon Valley. The 18 million shares of Facebook stock were valued at $970 million dollars.
But there are two South Dakotans in the Philanthropy 50 list. T. Denny Sanford is at the number 20 spot with donations totaling $130.5 million dollars, and in the number 50 spot is the late Millicent Atkins of Ipswich, South Dakota, with donations totaling $37.5 million dollars.
T. Denny Sanford's main beneficiary is the University of California at San Diego, but has also given gifts to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation and South Dakota State University. Find out more about T. Denny Sanford's donations.
Millicent Atkins left an estimated $37.5 million dollars to be divided equally (each receiving $12.5 million dollars) between Columbia Congregational Church UCC, Northern State University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Read Atkins' profile and find out why she chose to donate to these three different agencies.
Overall, America's big donors gave $7.7 billion dollars to non-profit agencies in 2013, with higher education and family foundations receiving the most money.
Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife were the biggest contributors, and T. Denny Sanford and Millicent Atkins are at number 20 and 50 respectively, but read the Philanthropy 50 list to find out who else donated their share of the $7.7 billion dollars to non-profits.


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Our team provide solutions that help people and brands around the world understand one another. We're language aficionados and tech enthusiasts, who revel in the details of content creation, translation, management and delivery.
Our employees collaborate across languages and borders, learning from one another's expertise. Understanding is at the heart of all we do. That's why, at SDL, we carve out meaningful career paths so our employees can reach their full potential.


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death, cessation of all life (metabolic) processes. Death may involve the organism as a whole (somatic death) or may be confined to cells and tissues within the organism. Causes of death in human beings include injury, acute or chronic disease, and neoplasia (cancer). The physiological death of cells that are normally replaced throughout life is called necrobiosis; the death of cells caused by external changes, such as an abnormal lack of blood supply, is called necrosis.
Somatic death is characterized by the discontinuance of cardiac activity and respiration, and eventually leads to the death of all body cells from lack of oxygen, although for approximately six minutes after somatic death—a period referred to as clinical death—a person whose vital organs have not been damaged may be revived. However, achievements of modern biomedical technology have enabled the physician to artificially maintain critical functions for indefinite periods.
Somatic death is followed by a number of irreversible changes that are of legal importance, especially in estimating the time of death. These include rigor mortis, livor mortis (discoloration of the body due to settling of blood), algor mortis (cooling of the body), autolysis (breakdown of tissue by enzymes liberated by that tissue after death), and putrefaction (invasion of the body by organisms from the gastrointestinal tract).
Brain death, which is now a legal condition in most states for declared death, requires that the following be absent for at least 12 hours: behavioral or reflex motor functions above the neck, including pupillary reflexes to testing jaw reflex, gag reflex, response to noxious stimuli, and any spontaneous respiratory movement. Purely spinal reflexes can remain. If the patient has agreed to be an organ donor, the observation period can be shortened to 6 hours.
As a result of recent refinements in organ transplantation (see transplantation, medical) techniques, the need has arisen to more precisely define medical death. The current definition is that of a 1981 U.S. presidential commission, which recommended that death be defined as "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem," the brain stem being that part of the brain that controls breathing and other basic body functions. Some feel, however, that people in persistent vegetative states, i.e., people who have brain-stem function but have lost higher brain functions (vision, abstract thought, personality), should be considered dead and allowed, through living wills or relatives, to donate organs.
See euthanasia; funeral customs; vital statistics.
See E. Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying (1969); S. B. Nuland, How We Die (1994).


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Vaginal Birth After C-Section (VBAC)
The old phrase "once a C-section always" is no longer true. In the past, the belief was that if a woman had delivered one baby by C-section, all other children had to be delivered the same way. Today many women can have vaginal deliveries after a previous C-section delivery. This is referred to as a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). Attempting to have a vaginal birth after a previous cesarean section is called a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC).
Candidates For VBAC
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the following women are candidates for TOLAC:
- The woman has had no more than one prior low-transverse C-section delivery. This refers to the cut on your uterus, not the one on your belly. If you've had a prior c-section, your health care provider may ask you to get a copy of the report from your first surgery to check what type of incision you had on the uterus.
- The woman has had no other uterine scars or ruptures, whether from previous C-sections or other surgeries.
- The woman has a pelvis large enough to allow a vaginal delivery.
- Delivery will be at an institution with a physician immediately available throughout active labor who can monitor the fetus and perform an emergent C-section if needed.
- Delivery at an institution where anesthesia and staff is also immediately available if an emergent C-section needs to be performed.
ACOG has specifically stated that whenever a woman is planning a TOLAC delivery, there should be an appropriate medical team available, including an anesthesiologist, throughout the active labor so that an emergency C-section may be done if necessary. Smaller hospitals may not have the resources to monitor a VBAC delivery or to provide an emergency c-section for TOLAC situations, and VBAC delivery may not be possible.
Women Who Should NOT Have VBAC
One of the main concerns with having a vaginal delivery after a C-section is the potential rupture of the uterus, which could be harmful to you and the baby. Therefore, ACOG has made recommendations for women who should not try a VBAC delivery. These women include:
- Women with a high vertical (or classical, T-shaped) incision on the uterus
- Women with a history of extensive uterine surgery
- Women with a small pelvis or delivering a large baby - it may not be safe for the baby to pass through the pelvis
- Those with a medical problem or obstetric condition, such as placenta previa or abruptio placenta
- Women delivering in a hospital without an available medical team for VBAC monitoring and emergency C-section
- Prior uterine rupture
- Women with more than two prior C-sections and no previous vaginal deliveries
The Benefits of VBAC
Statistically, about 60-80% of women who try TOLAC are able to deliver vaginally. If you are considered a candidate for VBAC, there are some advantages to having a vaginal delivery over a C-section. Some of these include:
- Shorter hospitalization
- No abdominal surgery
- Lower risk for blood transfusion and infection
- Overall faster recovery
- May avoid multiple future c-sections if you are considering a large family (with three or more children)
Notably, however, some women who try to have a vaginal delivery end up with a c-section. They don't get to experience these benefits.
The most serious risk with TOLAC is rupture of the uterus. The risk of rupture of the uterus after a prior low transverse c-section is about 1 percent, whereas the risk of rupture of the uterus in previous classical C-section is 8 to 10 percent. In a recent large study, about 1 in 2,000 women who tried to TOLAC had a uterine rupture that caused permanent brain damage for the baby. Women in the group that tried to have a vaginal delivery were also more likely to need a blood transfusion and more likely to have an infection in their uterus that required antibiotics. On the other hand, about three quarters of the women who tried to have a vaginal delivery succeeded. These women avoided surgery and had a quicker recovery compared with the women who chose to have a scheduled repeat c-section.
The Final Decision Is Yours
The key to making a decision about TOLAC is to discuss with your health care provider the risks and benefits for both you and your baby. The circumstances are different for everyone, and it is important to seek guidance from your health care provider to discuss your risks.
Ultimately, the decision is yours. The more information and understanding you have about TOLAC, the easier it will be to make a decision.
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Reviewed By: Irina Burd, MD, PhD, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.


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Virginia Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted August 23, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
*Please note that we split the survey to rotate the order of the candidates, so while half will hear the Republican first, the other half hears the Democrat mentioned first.
1* If the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate were held today, would you vote for Republican George Allen or Democrat Tim Kaine?
2* I'm going to read you a short list of people in the news. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.
3* Generally speaking, how would you rate the U.S. economy these days? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?
4* Are economic conditions in the country getting better or worse?
5* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of Medicare?
6* When it comes to the future of Medicare, which scares you more…President Obama's health care law or Paul Ryan's proposal?
7* How would you rate the job Bob McDonnell has been doing as governor…do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he's been doing?
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Demons Never Die
Director: Arjun Rose
Actors: Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Tulisa Contostavlos, Jason Maza, Reggie Yates, Jennie Jacques, Femi Oyeniran, Emma Rigby
Genres: Horror
Country: UK
Release Year: 2011
Duration: 93 min
Storyline: When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die one by one, Archie realizes that they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves. But who's the killer?
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As the Fourth of July approached I began to think again about myth versus fiction and how we, as educators, perpetuate the myths. Don't get me wrong….I don't think we intentionally do this. One reason the dividing line between myth and fiction becomes muddled is new primary sources are constantly being found which counter what we previously taught. Another reason is the structure and content of classroom resources over the last two hundred years didn't always set things straight.
The other night as we were preparing for bed I shared some ideas I had about my writing with Hubby. As we were talking I told him that I don't think most Americans really know what they celebrate on July 4th. He off-handedly said, "What do you mean?" This launched me into a mini-history lesson which thrilled Hubby to no end….at least he's used to it. When I was done with my recitation of trivia and facts Hubby said, "So, is July 4th just an imagi-holiday?" I liked his term so much I got up, turned the light back on, and wrote the word down so I wouldn't forget it.
Hubby and I discussed how many of our American holidays are actually imagi-holidays or celebrations centered on what we perceive to be fact, but are really an amalgamation of myth and/or convenience. President's Day comes to mind. Originally we celebrated Lincoln's Birthday as well as Washington's Birthday separately during February. Today we have combined the two dates into one as President's Day so that we can arrange to have it on a Monday thereby giving us a three day weekend and extra time to visit all those sales at the mall. Valentine's Day is an imagi-holiday since there are several origin stories concerning it that are trotted out every year. Halloween also has many origin stories which have resulted in folks picking and choosing which reason why they celebrate the holiday or reasons why they don't participate. Biblical scholars agree that December 25 is an arbitrary date set for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ which results in a mixture of fact and lore with huge amounts of faith thrown in. Due to all the non-religious aspects of the holiday it could be classified as an imagi-holiday as well.
Do we really know what we are celebrating during our independence imagi-holiday?
The records of the Continental Congress for July 4, 1776, indicate that the Committee of Five including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingstone presented a report to the delegates. Their report was the written document we now refer to as the Declaration of Independence. The delegates approved of the document and referred it to the printer. That's it. That's what happened on July 4th. We celebrate that the document was approved and sent to the printer.
The myth that has risen up over decade after decade is that the document was presented, approved, and signed by every member of the Continental Congress on July 4th. Details have been added over the years concerning the fact that by signing the document the delegates were committing treason against the king and if caught could have died a horrible tortured death. That is fact. The myth is that all of the delegates signed the document on July 4th. The document was simply sent to the printer and signed later.
John Adams and many of the delegates felt that July 2nd would be the holiday that Americans would celebrate forever more. Why? July 2nd is the day that delegates approved the resolution for independence uttered in session by Richard Henry Lee who said:
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connections between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Here's the crux of the whole matter. Richard Henry Lee's resolution was entered in the minutes of the Continental Congress on June 7, 1776. This resolution prompted the Congress to form the Committee of Five on June 11th and have them write the Declaration of Independence which was presented on July 4th. Poor Mr. Lee! Does the average American think of him when they are setting of fireworks, eating their hot dog, or making their homemade ice cream?
In a letter to his wife, Abigal, John Adams tells her that July 2nd would be remembered as the most memorable "epoch" in the history of America.So, where did things get murky? How did Mr. Lee move to the shadows while Thomas Jefferson got all the credit with average citizens for writing the Declaration of Independence? Sounds like a very interesting journey for students to take, doesn't it?
Is elementaryhistoryteacher calling for a change in the date for our independence celebrations? No, I'm not. What I am calling for is greater effort on the part of those who teach social studies to know their content concerning myth versus fact and share that information with students. Throw out some teasers to students, provide them with the materials, and let them discover how we decided the 4th instead of the 2nd would be our "Epoch" or Independence Day.
I think Americans can reconcile our historical facts with our historical myths and appreciate both. I believe these two forms of history are necessary for groups of people who form a nation, but if educators simply teach the front story and don't teach the back story then we are doing a disservice to our students and to our nation.
The staff at History News Network has put together a great set of essays that provide a wealth of information about Independence Day----there are thirteen essays, one for each original colony. I wonder if that was planned. You can see their efforts here.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
July 4, 1776, An Imagi-Holiday
Posted by EHT at Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Labels: American Revolution, Fourth of July, History Myths
5 comments:
- Chance said...
Very interesting! I love learning the real stories behind the generally accepted "truths" which turn out to be myths. Keep it up!
- EHT said...
I'm glad. Stay tuned during after school starts because I will be posting more heavily in that particular area.
- somercet said...
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- James Stripes said...
Just a note that I've linked to this post at Lee Resolution at Patriots and Peoples. I like your term Imagi-Holiday.
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- Ensure Macbook Pro is plugged into Ethernet.
- Open System Preferences
- Internet & Wireless | Sharing (in Snow Leopard).
- Click Internet Sharing.
- From Ethernet
- On Airport
- Close System Preferences
- Click Airport
- Select Create Network...
- On the phone, open the WiFi controls and connect to the network that you've just created.
- Run Wireshark.
- Start capturing traffic on the wireless card.
- Check stuff is using SSL that should be, etc.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Capturing Mobile Network Traffic On OS X
Recently had to audit an app to ensure that it wasn't leaking any unwanted details over the network. This was an iPhone app, but the same process can be used for Android, etc.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine broke out his harmonica after a rally in North Carolina Monday night and serenaded a packed crowd at a local bar.
He joined a local band on stage at Asheville's Catawba Brewing Company for a rendition of the Bob Dylan and Old Crow Medicine Show tune, "Wagon Wheel," while bar patrons sang along.
Kaine and the band then broke out into "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains," and the senator sang along to a few verses. That's when his wife, former Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton, started doing her famous clog dancing — minus the clogs. Holton initially demurred, saying the the beat was a little too slow. But a local woman eventually urged her on.


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Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs ... the launch pad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further imagesI use the weekly image prompts provided by Alan Bennett and his occasional helpers as an inspiration for writing about photohistory, mostly centred around images from my own collection, but also in response to correspondence with like-minded folk from around the world who've been in touch via this blog or my Derbyshire Photographers web site. The regular deadline suits me as I have to focus on a specific image or topic and get down to it, rather than researching until the cows come home and never actually writing anything.
Another important aspect is the regular feedback received from fellow Sepians, for which I'm very grateful. As I stated in my first ever posting on Photo-Sleuth almost six years ago:
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Unidentified boy with flag on bicycle, undated
Cabinet card by Norman McAuslan, of New Road, Belper, Derbyshire
Image © & courtesy of Diane Alton-Kaighin
This week's image reminded me of a couple of curious photographs by Derbyshire studios of decorated bicycles. The first is a cabinet card by the Belper photographer Norman McAuslan, in which a boy on a bicycle brandishes a large flag or banner, the pole of which carries a pointed finial. After some research, I believe I've identified the banner as an early version of the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom in use prior to 1907.
N.J. McAuslan's studio in Belper, undated
Paper print by unidentified photographer
Image © & courtesy of Robert Silverwood
According to his great-grandson Robert Silverwood, McAuslan worked as a photographer from the mid-1880s until ill health forced him to quit in April 1902. This unusual studio portrait was probably taken towards the end of this period, and I believe it may have been taken to mark the death of Queen Victoria and accession of King Edward VII in January 1901.
Man dressed as a clown with decorated bicycle, undated
Glass plate negative by W.W. Winter of Midland Road, Derby
Image © and courtesy of WW Winter Ltd
This image produced from one of W.W. Winter's glass plate negatives is presumed - from the caption in Angela Leeson's "The Winter's Collection of Derby" - to depict a participant in a Hospital Day parade, and it is my guess from the photographic style that it was taken in the 1910s. This time the decoration is far more elaborate, including masses of flowers, paper Chinese lanterns and an umbrella. The man standing next to the bicycle is dressed as a clown, complete with battered topper and bulbous nose.
Group with decorated bicycles, Alcester, c.1890s
Image © and courtesy of Windows on Warwickshire
From what I can tell, the tradition of decorating bicycles first developed during the 1890s' Golden Age of Bicycles, resulting from the introduction of the first practical pneumatic tyres which undoubtedly made cycling a far more pleasant and comfortable pastime. Like cycling, it quickly became a craze which spread rapidly around the world, so that by the late 1890s they were even indulging in the Antipodes.
Decorated bicycles, probably c.1918
Postcard by unidentified photographer
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
The following account of a spring carnival which took place in Dunedin, New Zealand in September 1897 describes a variety of decorated people and contraptions:
At the conclusion of the mayor's remarks a dozen ladies mounted on bicycles went through a number of evolutions to the strains of music supplied by a band of four musicians ... The ladies were all dressed in white, and wore straw hats trimmed with yellow flowers. Their bicycles were also nicely decorated with flowers, daffodils being largely brought into requisition for decorative purposes ...
Decorated bicycles, tricycles, scooters, wheelbrarrows & prams
Postcard by unidentified photographer, May Day 1921
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
At the conclusion of the bicycle ride there was a procession of children with exhibits, consisting of bicycles, tricycles, go-carts, perambulators, &c, all of which were decorated with spring flowers and evergreens. The procession was headed by four children dressed in white, drawing a go-cart nicely decorated with flowers. Then came various kinds of vehicles, some of which looked very pretty with their floral decorations ...
Decorated bicycles in Lions Club Parade, Whitby, Ontario, 1937
Black and white negative by Marjorie Ruddy
Image courtesy of Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection, Whitby Archives & Whitby Public Library, Ref. 30-023-032.
Conspicuous in the procession was a pug poodle drawing a small cart ... Several children, dressed so as to represent different kinds of flowers, and carrying parasols florally decorated, brought up the rear of the procession ...
Commercial High School Fiesta Floral Parade with maypole/bicycle float
Photograph by unidentified photographer, Los Angeles, 1902
Image © and courtesy of Copenhagenize.com
The whole display was very effective, and greatly enjoyed by the spectators, who showed their appreciation of it by loud applause. After the procession about 20 little girls, dressed in white and decked with flowers, danced a maypole dance very gracefully.
Decorated bicycle, Battle of the Flowers, Ramsgate, undated
Postcard by unidentified photographer
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
The cycle carnival became a popular fundraiser, always guaranteed to produce a wide variety of interpretations on the theme as well as draw a good crowd.
In 1907 the Molesey Wheelers Cycle Club introduced a cycle carnival to boost the hospital funds. The spectacle of a cavalcade of gaily decorated bicycles and tricycles parading through the streets was something Molesey villagers had never before beheld. The ingenuity displayed by the riders in embellishing their machines was said to have been "much admired by the spectators", and demands were made to repeat the exhibition the following year. Which indeed it was, and for several following years. (Baker, 1981)
Floral decorated bicycle with dog platform, undated
Hand-coloured postcard by unidentified photographer
Image © lovedaylemon and courtesy of Flickr
The Northamptonshire Film Archive Trust has film archive footage of the Wellingborough Hospital Day "carnival (in 1925 which) shows a lady pushing her highly decorated bicycle which also carried her little dog," possibly much as shown in the postcard above.
Decorated bicycles in Shrewsbury Carnival, 1938
Still image from silent film compilation
Image © and courtesy of MACE Media Archive for Central England
The final image in this series is a still taken from a silent film of floats in the Shrewsbury Carnival of 1938, illustrating the continuing popularity of decorated bicycles, some embellished with the same old Japanese lanterns.
I'm very grateful to Gail Durbin, whose Flickr photostream (lovedaylemon) includes a superlative collection of old photographs on various topics, providing several images for this week's topic. If you fancy being entertained in good "sepian" fashion for a couple of hours, I'd thoroughly recommend a wander over there - you won't be disappointed.
Bicycle, from Wikipedia.
History of Carnival, The Official Wellingborough Carnival web site.
Anon (1897) Floral Fete and Bicycle Gymkhana, Otago Witness, Issue 2274, 30 September 1897, p30, Courtesy of Papers Past.
Baker, Rowland G.M. (1981) The Story of Molesey Hospital.
Leeson, Angela (1992) The Winter's Collection of Derby, Breeedon Books, p123.


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Kirk, I have to tell you something...
I got back inside and told Kirk, "I mentally abused your boy Todd Friel outside, and I wanted you to know that I still like you."
Here is the clip:
Rofl. Is that why he's
Rofl. Is that why he's looking at you so strangely in the other pic?
Sapient, where are your
Sapient, where are your glasses?
Friel has had that coming
Friel has had that coming for a long time. The guy pretends to be nice but lies, twists, and otherwise knifes his guests in the back as soon as they get off Mike.
Yes, Friel is a fraud. He is also a jackass.
You guys are having too much
You guys are having too much fun. ;p
Thought bubble above Kirk's
Thought bubble above Kirk's head:
"He's so smart, I hope he kisses me...."
It was a fun moment indeed.
It was a fun moment indeed.
You know they say a picture
You know they say a picture is worth a thousand words - this one is priceless!! Kirk looks shellshocked - LOL
So who's next? Chuck
So who's next? Chuck Norris?
I think a series of debates with theist celebrities might be pretty entertaining.
Quote bubble above Brian's
Quote bubble above Brian's head:
"Dude, maybe you should go back to TV, this christian apologetics thing really isn't working for ya..."
This came up in this
This came up in this thread:
Susan wrote: So who's
So who's next? Chuck Norris?
I think a series of debates with theist celebrities might be pretty entertaining.
The only problem is Norris could kick Sapient's ass afterward.
Question: If an intelligent/knowledgeable theist (perhaps a scientist) wants to debate, would that require others from RRS to step up to the plate? If a biblical scholar wants to debate, Rook probably should be the man. If a philosopher, then todangst, etc.
It takes an extraordinary amount of courage to get up in front of others (on national TV, even!!!) and say something extremely unpopular.


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|Prefix URLs in CSS Templates Specification
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|29 January 2014 18:27
The goal of this development is to introduce the possibility to add images, and media in general, inside CSS Templates without knowing where static files will be finally deployed. In other words, giving the possibility to the users to easily add media without useless worries about paths.This option should call an external class in charge of doing the url mapping for images and replace the image urls inside the CSS templates with the result of the mapping.
Use cases
A user responsible for the customization of an Aria Templates application needs to customize the application adding images through the CSS property background. He is not responsible of the deploy of the application, so he doesn't know anything about where the static files will be finally deployed. Instead of writing wrong urls, he just defines a short path and leaves the task of adding the final path to the guy responsible of deploying the application.
The customizer will write something like this:
.myimage {
and the final result will be something like this:
.myimage {
Technical Solution
The solution proposes to add a configuration property to the app environment, where the user can specify the method to call in order to do the url mapping for the images.
The property will be imgUrlMapping. So inside aria/templates/environment will be added a bean to describe this property:
$type: "json:FunctionRef"
Inside aria/templates/CSSCtxt.js, inside _getOutput method, will be added a method that searches the urls inside the CSS template, calls the method of the external class and updates the urls. So the idea to parse the CSS templates is to use a regexp in order to match the pattern url() and url(" ") and return the content of the brackets. Then the method calls the external class method, passing the result of the parsing action and the CSS template classpath and wait for the whole path to put inside the CSS rule. The internal method will look only for urls inside background properties, it won't identify any urls related to inline style or image elements.
31/01/2014 Update of the technical solution - F. Bernardo
29/01/2014 Creation of the specification - F. Bernardo
(This post was last modified: 6 February 2014 09:57 by fbernardo.)
Marc Laval
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 10:11
Looks fine to me!
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 11:17
I think this might be more complex than it looks at the first glance (though I might be wrong).
I don't like overengineering simple things, but there are a number of edge cases here, we should either investigate it and support them, or tell explicitly we don't support them.
A) There are many properties that can accept URL as a value:
background-image (hence also background), some exotic ones like cursor, list-style-image (hence list-style too) and probably more
So IMO we should just look for url() and maybe preceding : and not necessarily for hardcoded property list
B) remember about special case for data URIs which naturally shouldn't be prefixed
We've already had some issues with data URIs in the past:
C) value inside URL can be quoted with " or ' but does not have to be
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21688...tes-needed
D) the URLs can contain parentheses () [2], semicolons ; [3] and what not.
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11780...85#1178285
[3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
Quote: Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
Especially, the URL can contain a parenthesis and a semicolon after it
I guess we can ignore colon : even though it's valid in URLs because no one sane would use it (especially since filenames in Windows can't contain it)
Hence I guess this should be valid CSS (haven't tested)
To be investigated, if those kinds of things work cross-browser, the implementation should be aware of it.
If we assume : can't be in the URL, we can probably search for:
and just push the prefix after the match, unless what follows is data:
Quote:Some characters appearing in an unquoted URI, such as parentheses, white space characters, single quotes (') and double quotes ("), must be escaped with a backslash so that the resulting URI value is a URI token: '\(', '\)'.
So this is invalid due to unescaped parentheses
(This post was last modified: 30 January 2014 11:29 by jakub-g.)
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 13:42
I would prefer not to add a new feature which relies on classpaths, especially as we are in the process of getting rid of them.
And if we have a classpath in the environment, we need to load the corresponding class, and the correct time to do it is not so obvious. Doing it in the CSSClassLoader, as you suggest, may seem to be a nice idea because this is when there is an asynchronous operation related to CSS templates. However, we should also be able to change the mapping class in the environment after all the CSS template classes have been loaded... so, do we need to load the class at several places? This is adding extra complexity.
I know we already accept classpaths for other things in the app environment (URL service, request handler...). But then for each new classpath configuration parameter added to the environment, we are adding some new code in a different place to load the corresponding class. There should perhaps be a unified and clear way to load all those classes defined in the environment.
I would prefer having in the environment a direct reference to the class instance, or to just have a reference to the function which does the mapping (we already accept functions in the environment for some parameters like for date and type formats).
@all: What do you think?
Another remark: I think it would be good to clarify in the spec what happens with the CSS templates of the skin (for AriaLib widgets). There is a parameter in the skin allowing to specify the root of images (general.imagesRoot). I suppose it is then the role of the mapping class to just ignore CSS templates of the AriaLib.
Note that in the CSS templates of the skin, the url does not immediately follow the colon, we use something like this (cf aria.widgets.AriaSkinInterface.backgroundMacro):
var rule = ["background: ", color, " ", fullUrl, otherparams, ";"];
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 13:47
As I said the goal is
Quote: to give the possibility to the users to easily add media without useless worries about paths.
Who, in the world, is using an URL like this:
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 14:04
1) I guess we don't actually care about the css property, we will just look for "url(...)", wherever it is, and pass whatever we find inside the parentheses to the correct method.
2) skin interaction: It is up to the function that maps urls to distinguish between skin images or other images. It is possible to access the imagesRoot property of the skin, so it's easy to perform a check.
3) I agree with David about the easiness of just receiving the function that does the mapping. My only concern is that functions are not serializable, whereas strings are... I like the idea of having serializable app environment configuration.
4) What if that environment variable changes? We don't care. It is not in the requirements to update all CSS Templates. What we could do, is to raise a warning to inform the user that a change of that variable won't trigger the refresh of the css templates that have already been processed.
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 14:18
(30 January 2014 13:47)fbernardo Wrote: As I said the goal isQuote: to give the possibility to the users to easily add media without useless worries about paths.
You never who the customizers are
BTW who the hell uses unquoted data URIs? Seems that @melthuamy does https://github.com/ariatemplates/ariatem...issues/721 and probably a number of users.
I'm just pointing out a potential issue to be taken care of, not to have PTRs in the future.
(30 January 2014 14:04)flongo Wrote: 1) I guess we don't actually care about the css property, we will just look for "url(...)", wherever it is, and pass whatever we find inside the parentheses to the correct method.
Yep, but as I mentioned, there could be parentheses inside the URL so some care is needed
(30 January 2014 14:04)flongo Wrote: 3) I agree with David about the easiness of just receiving the function that does the mapping. My only concern is that functions are not serializable, whereas strings are... I like the idea of having serializable app environment configuration.
Direct function as suggested by David is a very good and easy solution, @Francesco, is there some special usage why you prefer serializable environment?
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 14:18
Quote:I would prefer having in the environment a direct reference to the class instance, or to just have a reference to the function which does the mapping (we already accept functions in the environment for some parameters like for date and type formats).
I like the idea to accept a method as input, it will simplify and reduce the impact on framework side.
About the URL, I'd prefer to reduce the possibility and only search for something like:
and that's it. If your css rule doesn't match, you should change your css rule.
(This post was last modified: 30 January 2014 14:33 by fbernardo.)
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 14:36
@jakub. Yes, there is a usecase: you might want to save the environment configuration somewhere to reuse it.
But since we already allow other functions, I guess we just don't care.
As far as the url content is concerned, if there is a parenthesis inside there could be issues. We should see how browsers interprest them and define the proper regular expression.
AT core team member
|30 January 2014 14:42
I might be stupid, but I ask myself a small question.
In the scope of customization, if the guy need to add a new image as a css background, it means to me a few basic things:
1/ He is going to use an already existing image (in the scope of the application he is customizing) so he should basically already know the full url of the resource.
2/ It is an external image, same conclusion, he should know the full url of the image.
3/ It is a complete new image, that goes along with its customization, so the image should be part of the customized component (in APP a component is a kind of folder where all you static files (tpls, controllers, csstpls) are located). Which means that the image should be available with a dynamic replacement at APP level (see an attempt of explanations just below...)
So for me there is nothing to do !!
Explanations, today in APP, they don't specify any classpaths in there templates (I would neither in their css templates). They are automagically handled by APP layers.
So we might just need an API to specify to APP that this resource define inside the css is part of the component itself, and so it should be processed by an APP Layer before the template content is being sent back to the client...
EDIT So they have real classpaths ! So i don't even see what we should have to do.. They could use this.$package.replace(".", "/") combined with rootFolderPath to have a path back to the folder where is the tplcss
(This post was last modified: 30 January 2014 16:38 by benoit.charbonnier.)


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No I am not talking about the Gorilla. When Jackson was younger he used to call my brother Colin, Coco, we don't know why but we continue to call him this. Yesterday was Colin's birthday but my internet was down so this birthday wish is a day late, so I will make it extra good. Colin is 2 years younger than me, but 3 in school so we didn't have the opportunity to go to school together past elementary. I really wish I had since my brother is such a stud, he has always been a ladies man even when he was little he had his first girlfriend about 10 yrs. before I had my first boyfriend (pathetic I know). Colin is a real competitor who hates to loose and loves to argue, which since I love to argue too we are constantly arguing, in a happy way. Colin is super handsome, and often gets mistaken for being chinese/mexican. He loves GI Joes and is still seen playing with them. Colin is such a great uncle, since he got back from his mission when Jackson was 1 year old, Colin has been the best. Always playing with the boys and taking Jackson places. Colin is such a great brother. There have been so many times in my life where he was really there for me, no matter what. Love you Coco hope you had a great B-day.
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For the "Wrecking Ball" tour, cynical critics have seemed offended by the reverence of Springsteen's fans. They have criticized his use of a teleprompter although President Obama, Frank Sinatra, and Bon Jovi also use them, membership in the 1% while writing about the 99%, the nepotism of his band as if there is something heretical about a rock and roller practicing family values, and too much saxophone by rock and roll standards.
Frankly, they are clueless about his appeal, which is his unparalleled storytelling. I have always worshipped the "Boss" because of his uncanny ability to encapsulate exactly what I am thinking about the current state of national politics. (This has made me question if Springsteen's number one fan in New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie has ever paid attention to the lyrics.) While some of the music on his new album, "Wrecking Ball" stray far from the my preference for guitar and drum based rock and roll; its political zeitgeist was pitch perfect.
At his first concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the crowd went crazy for the opening one two punch of "We Take Care of Our Own" and "Wrecking Ball". The entire stadium sang anthem like, with fists pumping, the chorus of both songs. Travyon Martin, the recently murdered black teenager in Florida, was memorialized with the timeless "American Skin (41 Shots)," which was originally written for Amadou Diallo shot to death by New York cops a decade ago.
In introducing his new song "Jack of All Trades," the greatest political troubadour of our time, said, "People are losing their homes, money, and retirement accounts. The way that they are being preyed upon now is un-American."
For the first time, Springsteen introduced rap to his fans with the gospel inspired "Rocky Ground" that features a brief rap by Michelle Moore. While I am not a rap aficionado, I had goose bumps at the end of this song. He recalled imitating Smokey Robinson's voice to get the girls before singing "The Way You Do The Things You Do".
Clarence Clemons was remembered with a poignant question- "Are we missing anyone? I can guarantee that if we're here, you're here, they're here." All that was missing was a montage of the Big Man's pictures, which was added to the New Jersey shows.
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How often do we hear the refrain "why doesn't the UK produce the $bn companies that are churned out in Silicon Valley?"
Reams have been written about this issue and many hours have been spent in think-tanks – in and out of Government – figuring out how we can get the universities to commercialise their innovations, how we can pump more money into start-ups, how we should be training more engineers, more entrepreneurs, or how we can create effective clusters etc.
Successive governments have created enterprise schemes including NESTA, The Technology Strategy Board and, more recently, Tech City. Countless millions have been spent too – some of it to good effect, but much of it wasted. This Government has adopted a supportive and pro-active approach and some of the initiatives are having a very positive effect [see my post: http://the-accelerator.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/i-think-uk-government-is-listening-to.html ].
It is widely acknowledged that one the major factors encouraging innovation and entrepreneurial activity is the celebration of success and the making of 'celebrity' entrepreneurs. We need the Zuckerbergs, the Bezos', the Elon Musks. And we do have Richard Branson, James Dyson and Stelios – all great business innovators – but where are the new tech heroes (who have not sold their businesses) whom young entrepreneurs can aspire to emulate?
Based here in London, Wonga is one of the fastest growing companies Europe has yet seen. It may well rank in the top five growth businesses of all time by these measures. After less than five years, it is employing more than 300 people and is still growing at an enormous pace. What's more, it is continuing to innovate and develop new products spending millions a year on its NPD (new product development) and R&D activities.
Its results for the year ended 31st December 2011, just announced ... just serve to emphasise how strongly the company is growing and just how many customers it is now serving.
- Revenue growth, up 225% to £184.7m
- Net income up 225% to £45.8m
- Number of loans provided up 296% to 2.46m
It employs engineers, mathematicians and statisticians (more than 20 in its risk team alone, including several PhDs). It is a truly international business employing people from more than 40 nationalities. And in its founder and CEO, Errol Damelin, there is a charismatic, thoughtful and hard-working leader and entrepreneur - in many ways just the role model the UK Government should want to embrace and promote - or at the very least endorse.
In addition, Wonga is exactly the type of company that we love to hail – disruptive of a failing, oligopolistic industry and doing so using really smart technology to make its processes super-efficient and its service designed around its many customers. Independent research shows they generally love using it as a result and its Net Promoter Score consistently exceeds 70. UK Banking average is Zero.
It is either helping to solve a problem which has existed and been ignored for many years – or is facilitating and empowering hundreds of thousands of consumers. Probably both.
Yet there is a problem. Regulation of the financial services industry is complex and difficult, lags behind product innovation and is highly political. It was not designed for entirely new products such as very short term loans offered on the web in 'real-time' and with interest applied daily. The entirely inappropriate Representative APR measure, which is required to be prominently displayed, despite the average duration of these loans being little more than a couple of weeks (16 days), has been more of a focus than the innovation or customer feedback.
It is difficult to think of a more certain way to potentially mislead or confuse consumers, than to show them a calculation based on an annual loan and a daily compounding of interest. The real test is customers being told in clear terms – and up front - how much the loan will cost including all interest and charges in a transparent way .Would that all financial services companies provided that information.
Wonga's APR has been a lightning rod for virulent and often completely unjustified criticism from sections of the media and some politicians. Many assumptions based on a nonsense number or instances of the company making mistakes has made it a 'controversial' company.
But rather than be blinded by hype and headlines, this Government should be looking at the real facts, reading the customer research and hailing Wonga as a triumph of British technology innovation and entrepreneurial brilliance. They should accept the advice of the recent BIS Select Committee that included the strong suggestion that "APR should no longer be used to measure and compare the cost..." Rather than relying on APR, they should enforce clear and upfront indication of the total amount to be repaid as the minimum requirement for all providers and [implicitly] endorse the important role that Wonga is playing in the modern economy.
Wonga has developed an important service, which has enabled many hundreds of thousands of users to manage tricky cash flow situations and not be left in long-term debt or paying a price they weren't expecting. It's a difficult subject, but this company really ought to get the credit it deserves. Instead, I have read many column inches on Wonga, most of it regurgitated from snippets of factually incorrect or grossly misleading reports.
Wonga recently opened a new site: www.openwonga.com on which they have published a raft of statistics relating to its business - these provide real insight into the scale of the business, the profile of its customers and details of the loans its makes.
Wonga recently opened a new site: www.openwonga.com on which they have published a raft of statistics relating to its business - these provide real insight into the scale of the business, the profile of its customers and details of the loans its makes.
I do understand the government's dilemma. Speaking at the Times CEO summit earlier this year, George Osborne ticked off the CEOs and chairmen present for not making the case for free markets and wealth creation to a 'public that badly needs to hear it'. The current climate, he argued, makes it difficult for the Chancellor to cut corporation tax and offer other inducements to business.
Wonga is not asking for either. Just for some recognition for the outstanding achievement of building a world-leading technology company here in Britain … and the modernisation of the regulation of financial services to create a level playing field (*) and recognition of new financial products unlike any previously offered.
(*) Banks providing unauthorised overdrafts have a 'carve out' in the regulations which does not require them to publish the effective APR of these 'loans' which would run into many thousands in most cases.


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3DS provides design and manufacturing support in 3D printing VRTX I headset, tailor-made for the LG G3 Quad HD smartphone Selective Laser Sintering used to make headset ultra lightweight, highly functional and durable Entire design-to-manufacturing completed in less than 30 days, demonstrating time-to-value advantages of 3D printing
3DS provides design and manufacturing support in 3D printing VRTX I headset, tailor-made for the LG G3 Quad HD smartphone Selective Laser Sintering used to make headset ultra lightweight, highly functional and durable Entire design-to-manufacturing completed in less than 30 days, demonstrating time-to-value advantages of 3D printing
ROCK HILL, South Carolina, September 2, 2014 – 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) announced today that it has partnered with Vortex VR, Inc., an emergent leader in virtual reality technology, and GameFace Labs, to develop the VRTX I, Vortex VR's new virtual reality mobile phone case and head mounted display (HMD) device. The VRTX I provides stunning, high-definition VR immersion without wires and is tailor-made for the new LG G3 Quad HD smartphone.
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"With our technology partners, GameFace Labs and 3D Systems, we have been able to rapidly bring to market a mobile case and device with technology that has been developed to best leverage the Android OS, along with the powerhouse of hardware within the G3," said David Haines, Chairman and Interim CEO, Vortex, VR, Inc. "This is the mobile VR experience everyone has been waiting for."
The VRTX I is Vortex VR, Inc.'s inaugural product. The company plans to launch additional products and services that will cover the entire VR ecosystem and value chain in the coming months.
Find out more about 3DS' commitment to manufacturing the future at www.3dsystems.com.
About 3D Systems
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Leadership Through Innovation and Technology
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Today its comprehensive range of 3D printers is the industry's benchmark for production-grade manufacturing in aerospace, automotive, patient specific medical device and a variety of consumer, electronic and fashion accessories.
More information on the company is available at www.3DSystems.com.
About Vortex VR, Inc.
Vortex VR is an emerging virtual reality technology company. The company has developed a revolutionary virtual reality (VR) smartphone device, the VRTX I, and is developing and bundling studio quality games and cinematic content for the Android marketplace. Vortex HMD products feature perfectly configured optics, ergonomic designs, and integrated controllers. Consumers can now use their smartphone as a virtual cinema, talk to other VRTX users in a virtual chat room, and get immersed into the virtual gaming world.


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Atlas of Baker Island
|Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World
The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons.
Discussion • Update the atlas • Index of the Atlas • Atlas in categories • Other atlases on line
General maps
|Map of Baker Island
|Map of Baker Island
|Map of Baker Island
|Map of Baker Island
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Baker Island, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Baker Island. Baker Island is a possesion of the United States since 1857. It has no self-government. No maps are available.
Satellite maps
|US Fish & Wildlife Service Aerial View of Baker Island
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