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Proxima Vara (1 font)
From Mark Simonson
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Detroit Metro - Detroit Metro® is a 1930's urban classic revival of 12 fonts from Metro light to rough together with the classic Regular styles and weights offering designers a wider range of options.
Madromit family consists of 5 styles for stacking colors and is, so to speak, the revival of the primitive digital type from the 80's and 90's.
About This Font
Proxima Vara contains all of the characters and features in Proxima Nova such as alternate characters, true small caps, old style figures, arbitrary fractions, and support for most Latin-based languages, Greek, and Cyrillic.
Variable fonts work in modern web browsers, which is great because it allows you to use many more styles of Proxima Vara on a web page than you can with Proxima Nova. The complete family is contained in a single font file, so loads as quickly as about four styles of Proxima Nova. And, of course, you can use subsetting for even faster page loads.
For print applications, Proxima Vara gives you unlimited flexibility to tune weight, width, and slant to fit your exact needs.
Important: Variable font technology is fairly new. While it works great in all the major web browsers, it is not fully supported in many desktop apps yet. Support in desktop apps include Sketch, Corel Draw, and Adobe Creative Cloud apps such as InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. It has partial support in Apple iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers). Unfortunately, Microsoft Office doesn't support variable fonts at all yet, although support is promised. Support for variable fonts will increase over time, but please check whether the apps you want to use offer support before buying. For a current list of apps that support variable fonts, see www.v-fonts.com/support.
Supported Languages:
Western Europe, Vietnamese, Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek
(Mini-site with live demo samples)
https://proxima-vara.marksimonson.com (Mini-site with live demo samples)
(Product page with font info)
https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/proxima-nova (Product page with font info)
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About Mark Simonson
I started out as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976. During the early part of my career I worked as an art director on a number of magazines and other publications including Metropolis (a Minneapolis weekly, 1977), Machete (a Minneapolis broadsheet, 1978-80), TWA Ambassador (an inflight magazine, 1979-81), Minnesota Monthly (Minnesota Public Radio's regional magazine, 1979-85), and the Utne Reader (1984-88).
I was head designer and art director for Minnesota Public Radio (1981-85) and an art director for its sister company, Rivertown Trading Company (1992-2000). During that time, I designed over 200 audio packages, including most of Garrison Keillor's, along with several hundred products (t-shirts, mugs, rugs, watches, etc.) for the Wireless, Signals, and other mail order catalogs.
I frequently did lettering as part of design projects I worked on. This was always my favorite part, so in 2000 I opened my own shop specializing in lettering and typography.
I've also been interested in typeface design since my college days. I started licensing fonts to FontHaus in 1992, and since starting my new business, stepped up my efforts in developing original typefaces. I now have more than 100 fonts on the market with many more to come.
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This end user License Agreement (hereinafter 'Agreement') is a legal agreement between you, or, if you represent a legal entity, that legal entity (hereinafter 'You') and Mark Simonson Studio (hereinafter 'Mark Simonson Studio'), and is applicable to the Font Software that is accompanied by this Agreement or that You have ordered online.
By downloading the Font Software or, if You purchased it not online, by installing the Font Software or by opening the package, You agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If You do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, do not download, install, or use the Font Software. If You have purchased Font Software in a sealed retail package and do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, return it unopened to the place of purchase.
- Definitions
'Font Software' means coded software that is accompanied by this Agreement or that You have ordered online and that generates typeface designs when used with the appropriate hard- and software, plus any and all other data including documentation provided with such software.
'Licensed Unit' means installations of the Font Software that allow the design of Your Websites which have - based on any six consecutive calendar months - not more than the overall monthly average of Pageviews stated on Your invoice for the purchase of the Font Software. If no number of Pageviews is given on your invoice, the licensed number of Pageviews is 500,000 per month. If Your Websites averages (based on a period of six consecutive calendar months) at any given time in the future more than the licensed number of Pageviews per month, You must purchase an extended license from Mark Simonson Studio or its authorized distributors.
'Use' means to design Your own personal or business Website with the typeface embodied in the Font Software and to make accessible the Font Software together with Your Website on a web server in order to enable a web browser to render the content of such a Website using the respective Font Software. Use does not include the behavior set forth in Clause 2.2. below.
'Website' as used here is a connected group of related web pages which form an entity whose content is managed by You, and which are organized under a particular domain name, including sub-domains. The Website can be viewed either over Your local area network or over the Internet. For the avoidance of doubt, web pages on sub-domains whose content is managed by other persons are deemed to be not part of Your Website.
'Pageview' is each request to load a single page of each of Your Websites. Pageviews - also referred to as page impressions or page requests - must be recorded by a commonly accepted or recognized performance tracking system. Mark Simonson Studio reserves the right to request written copies of your average Pageview reporting statistics.
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2.1. Grant of License. Mark Simonson Studio grants You a non-exclusive license to Use the Font Software in a Licensed Unit for Your own personal or business purposes according to the terms of this Agreement. If the average number of Pageviews under which the Font Software is Used exceeds the amount set forth in the Licensed Unit, then You must request from Mark Simonson Studio or its authorized distributors an appropriate license extension covering all Pageviews; an additional fee will be charged for this license extension.
2.2. Restriction of Use. You are not allowed to copy, distribute or make the Font Software available to third parties so that they can use it for their purposes or for purposes other than the display of Your Websites. In particular (but not limited to), You are not allowed (i) to disseminate or make available the Font Software or parts of it through any online service or a file sharing platform or (ii) to sublicense the Font Software to third parties so that they can use it for their websites (even though such websites are hosted under Your domain name), e. g. for websites in social networks, for individual online shops under a common domain name, in blogging communities, by online editors, as a design tool, etc. If You wish to use the Font Software for such purposes, You must obtain a special license from Mark Simonson Studio or its authorized distributors.
2.3. No Embedding. You may not embed the Font Software in any documents (e. g. pdf documents), applications or devices other than your Websites. You may not use the Font Software for other services that are rendering the fonts, e.g. pre-press, plotting, exposing, etc. If You wish to use the Font Software for such purposes, You must obtain a separate pre-press font license from Mark Simonson Studio or its authorized distributors.
2.4. Backup. You may make backup copies of the Font Software for archival purposes only, provided that You retain exclusive custody and control over such copies. Any backup copy of the Font Software must contain the same copyright, trademark, and other proprietary information as the original.
2.5. Modifications. You may not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, alter, or attempt to discover the source code of the Font Software except as expressly provided for in this Clause 2 and the Definition of Use. If You want to make modifications to the Font Software, You must obtain the prior written consent of Mark Simonson Studio.
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- Transfer of License
Except as expressly provided herein, You may not give, rent or lease or make available the Font Software or parts of it to third parties. You may completely transfer Your license right to Use the Font Software to another person or legal entity provided that (i) You stop Using the Font Software Yourself, (ii) the transferee accepts and agrees in writing (with copy to Mark Simonson Studio) to be bound by all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and (iii) You destroy all of Your copies of the Font Software, including all copies stored in the memory of a hardware device.
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If the Font Software does not perform substantially in accordance with the pertaining documentation, the entire and exclusive liability of Mark Simonson Studio shall be limited to either, at Mark Simonson Studio's option, the replacement of the Font Software or the refund of the license fee You paid for the Font Software. Mark Simonson Studio and its suppliers do not warrant the performance or results You may obtain by using the Font Software. Mark Simonson Studio and its suppliers make no warranties express or implied, as to non-infringement of third party rights, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose. In no event will Mark Simonson Studio or its suppliers be liable to You for any consequential, incidental or special damages, including any lost profits or lost savings, even if a Mark Simonson Studio representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any third party. This warranty does not affect any claims You might have against Your retailer.
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Fabricated tale of gang life reaffirms the need to question "memoirs" that don't make sense
For more than a year, this site has been raising questions about Ishmael Beah's purported memoir of two years as a child solider, A Long Way Gone, that have received unsatisfactory responses from the author and his publisher. Why do critics, journalists and you, the reader, need to keep challenging aspects of personal accounts that don't make sense?
One answer is implicit in a story in today's New York Times about a young writer's confession that she made up Love and Consequences, a widely praised book billed as a "memoir" of her life as a drug-runner for the Bloods: Publishers are doing too little to verify the authenticity of their books www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/books/04fake.html. Book publishers have never done – nor can they be expected to do – the exhaustive fact-checking that occurs at The New Yorker. But the Times's story shows that they sometimes don't take the much more basic steps that would be reasonable.
Love and Consequences was reportedly exposed as a fraud by a call to the publisher, Riverhead Books, from a sister of the author, Margaret Seltzer, who used the pen name of Margaret B. Jones. Riverhead is a unit of the Penguin Group USA, one of the world's largest publishers. It seems that all an editor would have to do to uncover problems with this book would have been to require the writer to provide the telephone numbers of a few immediate-family members, then call those people.
[The Penguin Group has recalled all copies of Love and Consequences, and One-Minute Book Reviews will comment on the recall in a post later today.]

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The "sex crimes" against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that led to an international manhunt, and, now, his arrest, have always seemed, if not false, lame.
Basically, it seemed as though two Swedish fans that Assange charmed into the sack were mortified to discover that he actually wasn't that into them.
But then Interpol launched its manhunt, rendering Assange a cross-border fugitive. So it seemed the "sex crimes" might be more serious than initially thought.
But what are they?
They're not "rape," everyone agrees (at least as of a few days ago)--because the sex was consensual. They also aren't unspecified "molestation."
What they appear to be is a violation of a Swedish law against "having sex without a condom."
Interestingly, even that charge doesn't appear to precisely apply in this case.
A condom was apparently used--initially. But it broke. So the dispute is about whether it broke "accidentally" (he said) or it broke "on purpose" (she said).
That DEFINITELY sounds like a job for Interpol.
See Also: Check Out The Amazing Bombshelter Fortress Where Wikileaks's Servers Are Now Stored


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One-Minute Book Reviews will begin to announce the finalists for the Fourth Annual Delete Key Awards for bad writing in books in about 15 minutes.
These literary booby prizes do not recognize the year's "worst books" but give examples of many kinds of bad writing found in books published in hardcover or paperback in 2009: clichés, bad grammar, pomposity, dumbing-down, purple prose and more.
The 10 Delete Key Awards finalists will be announced in random order today, beginning with No. 10, but numbered for convenience. The winner and runners-up will be announced on March 15 because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, and the winners assassinate the English language.


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Cold, cough and flu season is far from over
(BPT) – People who have gotten sick report their cold and flu symptoms lasted up to six days, according to the Vicks Second Annual Global Cough and Cold Survey. While health experts advise sick workers to stay home to avoid spreading germs, few of us can afford to take that many sick days off from work or home life.
Fortunately, you can get by fighting cold and flu symptoms if you're not able to take sick days. Here are some tips:
1. Take a multi-symptom medication. An estimated 80 percent of cold and flu sufferers experience more than one cold symptom, according to the survey. That's why it is important to take a medication that can treat more than one symptom if you are experiencing multi-symptom discomfort. When you are sick with a cold, a multi-symptom medication can relieve your cold symptoms so you can power through your busy and hectic schedule during the day, and a nighttime cold and flu medication will relieve your cold symptoms so you can get rest.
2. Drink lots of fluids. Keep a bottle of water with you everywhere you go and keep drinking throughout the day. The extra hydration not only helps keep your nose moist and might help you breathe and rest easier; it also helps flush toxins from your body.
3. Look for other ways to stay hydrated. Drinking fluids isn't the only way to keep hydrated. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends using cool-moisture humidifiers to help provide relief from coughs and congestion.
4. Eat … spicy, green and more. Bring on the heat! Eating spicy foods can give you a runny nose, which can be helpful because it helps break up congestion and remove irritations. Also, eating an assortment of colorful fruits and vegetables, particularly those with a high level of vitamin C, is an effective way to support your immune system. When your body is fighting off a cold or flu, it needs food to fuel your immune system. If you have a fever, try to eat a little more to keep on the road to recovery.
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Rick Holmes: Clinton vs. Obama, again
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's differences over Iraq go back a long way, and now that America has been drawn back into battle in Iraq, the present and maybe future president are again singing different tunes.
In 2003, the question was whether or not to give President George W. Bush authority to invade. From his perch in the Illinois state Legislature, Obama said no, calling it a "dumb war." From her seat in the U.S. Senate, Clinton said yes.
In 2008, the question was whether and how to end that war. Clinton reluctantly admitted her Senate vote was a mistake. Obama promised to be "as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in."
Obama defeated Clinton that year, and a few months later he defeated Sen. John McCain, who had been enthusiastic about going into Iraq and seemed uninterested in ever getting out. McCain never saw an international crisis he didn't think would be improved by dropping billions in American weapons or thousands of American troops into the middle of.
Clinton's specific complaint is that Obama refused to intervene strongly enough in Syria's civil war. She and several other administration hawks – including David Petraeus and Leon Panetta – wanted to give heavy arms to allegedly "moderate" rebels caught between the brutal Assad regime and the just-as-brutal Islamist rebels who now call themselves the Islamic State.
Obama calls that scenario a "fantasy." As he told the New York Times' Tom Friedman, "this idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth, and that they were going to be able to battle not only a well-armed state but also a well-armed state backed by Russia, backed by Iran, a battle-hardened Hezbollah, that was never in the cards."
Even Clinton admits arming the moderates might not have changed the result in Syria. But to distance herself from Obama's unpopular foreign policy, she has now expressed a preference for futile military gestures likely to do more harm than good.
Yes, things have gone from bad to worse in Syria, and now Iraq is falling apart. But the current mess isn't a result of a failure to intervene in Syria; it's the result of a failed intervention in Iraq.
Think about it: Billions of dollars in arms we gave to moderate Iraqis are now in the hands of the Islamic State. They were left behind when the Iraqi army we spent a decade training ran away from its first battle. The Baghdad government we installed has failed to unite the country, driving Sunni leaders into an alliance with the Islamists.
The Iraq war is anything but an advertisement for U.S. military intervention. Does Clinton believe that engineering a successful regime change in Syria would be easier than it was in Iraq? There's a word for throwing lives and treasure into quagmires with little chance of success: stupid.
Which brings us to Clinton's larger critique. "Great nations need organizing principles — and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle," she told The Nation.
True enough, but what organizing principle does Clinton propose? A new Cold War with Russia? A return to Bush's Global War on Terror? A crusade against radical Islam?
Some in Washington would like nothing better than to organize a new grand global American adventure. But as we mark the centennial of the beginning of World War I, we should remember how entangling alliances and "red lines" can launch dumb wars. As we contemplate a new cold war, we should recall that, for all the lives and money spent on proxy wars and arms races, communism collapsed from its own failures as an economic and political system. And if there's anything more fraught than sending armies to fight an ideology, it's declaring war on a religion.
It's easy to see political calculation in almost everything Clinton says or does. Her liberal supporters have learned to cut her some slack when she seems to be cozying up to conservatives.
But this isn't just about politics, it's about the decisions that will be made by the next commander in chief. Clinton reportedly bonded with McCain when she invited him to a vodka-drinking drinking contest on a Senate junket to the Baltics. If she shares McCain's fondness for military intervention, Democrats should think long and hard before giving her a free pass to their party's 2016 nomination.
Rick Holmes, opinion editor for the MetroWest (Mass.) Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. (http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco). He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The latest in a series of posts on authors who praise each other's books in blurbs, reviews or elsewhere:
Lev Grossman on George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, which he ranked No. 1 on his list of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2011 for Time magazine:
"The artistry and savagery of Martin's storytelling are at their finest: he has seized hold of epic fantasy and is radically refashioning it for our complex and jaded era, and the results are magnificent. … in the realm of epic fantasy, there is only one true king, and it's Martin."
George R.R. Martin in a blurb he provided for Lev Grossman's The Magicians before Grossman named him to the Time 10 Top Fiction Books list:
"These days any novel about young sorcerers at wizard school inevitably invites comparison to Harry Potter. Lev Grossman meets the challenge head on … and very successfully. The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea.
Via Ed Champion (@drmabuse) on Twitter.
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2 Responses to "The (Unconscious) Situation of our Consciousness – Part III"
November 29, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Libet's findings on Readiness Potential aside, the most shocking results referred to here are the misconceptions that the average person has about the conscious mind. There is nothing so obvious as the fact the environment effects us subconsciously or that the conscious mind is a very small island in a very large sea.
While you properly note that no one can resist the effects of environment, one can, however, be aware of them and can choose to modify a limited number of specific effects. Otherwise, we would always buy the store out as it were (store being designed
to mightily encourage the browser to spend). Voila! A function of the conscious mind! Suppression of subconscious drives, and, if necessary, retraining to modify behavior into the future.
Our best guess ala Libet is that consciousness is a President ruling over a vast machinery of government. By far the greater part of what (s)he "rules" over is beyond his ken. Most of his/her orders are deeply conditioned by that government itself each part of which is far more capable in its purview than (s)he should ever be. (Just as trying to micro-manage all of our subconscious functions would leave us unable to walk or drive a car, Presidential micro-management is hugely counterproductive.) It's a strong system which is why our brains and our governments use it. One simply has to realize that one of the effects is that, no matter how impressive and necessary the President, (s)he only makes a small part of his/her own decisions.
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Sports update: NBA rumors swirl around Kentucky coach John Calipari
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky's talented freshmen shed a shaky regular season and then showed why the Wildcats were picked No. 1 in the preseason with an impressive run to the NCAA championship game.
After falling short in a 60-54 loss to Connecticut, the annual question is which Kentucky player(s) will leave for the NBA, including John Calipari.
The fifth-year Kentucky coach is used to inquiries, but former Kentucky player Rex Chapman turned up the heat Monday by tweeting that Calipari coaching the Los Angeles Lakers was a "done deal." While Calipari said later that he was happy with the Wildcats and planned to be back at Kentucky, he didn't completely dismiss the scenario.
But the tweet by Chapman, a former Wildcat, shifted some of the scrutiny toward Calipari, whose name frequently pops up about NBA jobs. He has laughed off many of them, but the newest seemed to strike a nerve.
Calipari didn't address the NBA issue during Tuesday's brief celebration before 3,500 at Rupp Arena in which the runner-up banner hung from the rafters. But he responded to Chapman's initial comment after the game by saying, "The Lakers have a basketball coach. Kentucky has a basketball coach. I got the best job in the country. I'm not even going to dignify that stuff."
Chapman's tweet came just before the Wildcats faced the Huskies in pursuit of their ninth national title, and some Kentucky fans blamed him Tuesday on radio talk shows for creating a distraction. Chapman backtracked on his comment Tuesday, saying in a radio interview that he believed Calipari would stay at Kentucky.
As for the players, the question is which of Kentucky's six high-school All-American recruits will pursue their pro dreams after raising their stock in the tournament.
Randle appears to be the biggest NBA lock after arriving with projections of being a lottery pick. He boosted his profile by averaging 15 points and 10.4 rebounds, and posting 24 double-doubles despite being double- and triple-teamed.
Kentucky's starting backcourt might also enter the draft pool following their performances in the NCAA tournament.
Twins Aaron Harrison — whose back-to-back, game-winning 3-pointers helped put the Wildcats into the final — and Andrew have been listed on some draft boards as first- or second-round picks. James Young is another possibility because of his outside shooting; he led Kentucky with 20 points against UConn.
Sophomore seven-footer Willie Cauley-Stein — who was sidelined for the final three games by an ankle injury — and forward Alex Poythress are also considered prospects. Freshmen post players Dakari Johnson and Marcus Lee are expected back.
With all of his players, Calipari said he will discuss their futures soon enough.
"Now that the season's over, it is about the players," the coach said. "They sacrificed. They surrendered to each other now, for our team and our program and our school.
"We'll sit down with each of them and they will make decisions for themselves."
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Disney officials said they're planning a red, white and blue extravaganza to honor America's birthday, and it will run for a full week for the first time.
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The top U.S. derivatives regulator may dwindle to just two voting commissioners and struggle to approve new rules unless the White House and Senate can overcome political hurdles to fill the vacancies by the end of the year.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is designed to have five members regulate trading by banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., could instead have only one Democrat and one Republican early next year. The split would probably delay votes on contentious Dodd-Frank Act regulations.
The possible gridlock comes as the agency tries to flex its powers under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which gave the commission oversight of the $633 trillion swaps market after largely unregulated trades helped fuel the credit crisis.
A two-member commission "creates some hurdles in terms of bringing new significant rule changes or significant reviews," said Sharon Brown-Hruska, who served at the CFTC from 2002 to 2006 and was present when the agency had only two members. More routine daily business could still proceed, said Brown-Hruska, a visiting professor at Tulane University in New Orleans.
President Barack Obama's administration has for more than a year been considering nominees to succeed Chairman Gary Gensler, whose term expires at the end of the year, and now has a slate of nominees in mind, according to people briefed on the deliberations. Still, even if the White House officially nominates replacements soon, it could take months for Senate confirmation.
Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman, declined to comment on the CFTC openings.
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Gensler is expected to leave by the beginning of next year, while Bart Chilton, a Democratic commissioner, said this week that he will also leave this year. A third spot has been vacant since July when Jill E. Sommers, a Republican, stepped down from the agency.
Chilton, who sought limits on speculation in oil, natural gas and other commodities and curbs on high-frequency trading, said he probably wouldn't be present for another meeting on Dodd-Frank rules. The agency is planning a Dec. 12 meeting on rules including limits on proprietary trading at Wall Street banks, according to two people with knowledge of the schedule.
"I anticipate being gone by the end of the year if not sooner," Chilton said in a telephone interview yesterday. Gensler said on Nov. 6 that he was trying to persuade Chilton to stay at the agency longer.
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Timothy Massad, a Treasury Department official responsible for overseeing the rescue of banks and automakers, is under consideration to succeed Gensler, a person familiar with the matter said in October.
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Their possible nominations and the pending nomination of J. Christopher Giancarlo, an executive at New York-based inter- dealer broker GFI Group Inc. to replace Sommers, could face hurdles in the Senate which has split along party lines. A three-month bipartisan truce over nominees broke down on Oct. 31 when Republicans opposed two of Obama's candidates, including Representative Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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Action on any possible nominee could also slip into next year because the Senate is planning to be out of session from Nov. 22 to Dec. 9, and committees typically take several weeks to review nominees' paperwork and to schedule confirmation hearings and votes. A single senator can also hold up a vote on a confirmation.
"I believe the president should quickly nominate experienced, independent candidates who have the knowledge necessary to overseederivatives markets, even as they continue to evolve," Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said yesterday. She said she was disappointed that neither Chilton nor Gensler was reappointed.
A split along party lines at the commission could slow final votes on rules including limits on speculation. The CFTC this week released a second proposal for limits on traders' positions in commodity markets after a federal judge last year said the agency's first attempt failed to demonstrate why they were necessary.
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The two CFTC members who would stay after the end of the year split on the proposal, with Democrat Mark Wetjen supporting its publication and Republican Scott O'Malia opposing it.
"As a matter of pragmatism, it just seems like the amount of policy making you can do with a two-person commission as opposed to a fuller one is going to be diminished," Wetjen said in an interview.
Work on other Dodd-Frank regulations may also slow, even as the agency has completed most rules to have swaps reported to regulators, guaranteed at clearinghouses and executed on new trading systems.
Adding to the to the agency's woes is a looming funding crisis; the agency is planning furloughs for workers and Congress has shown no sign of increase its annual budget.
The CFTC is drafting new regulations for collateral requirements for swaps that aren't guaranteed at the clearinghouses. Also under consideration are decisions on which types of swaps must be traded on new exchanges and if additional swaps must be guaranteed at the clearinghouses owned by CME Group Inc., LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd. and Intercontinental Exchange Inc.


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Zotero has become my favorite tech tool for three
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collaborating with my peers in coursework, and building group a group
library for my field. I use Zotero as a giant net to catch all of the
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Like Andrea, I also have a long list of tech tools that
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Dear friends,
The way I see it, there are a few different ways I could write this. I could be super sappy, writing about how much this blog has meant to me, what a joy its been to work with such amazing peers/colleagues, how proud I am to see Hack Library School grow into the productive and active resource that I wished I'd had in school. Or, I could write a nice technical overview of all we've accomplished; averaging 750 hits a day, almost 20,000 hits in August, a revolving team of writers mentoring one another as thinkers and professionals, 70,000 retweets since day one, one award, numerous thanks, and steadily rising subscriptions and regular readers. I could throw in some nice pseudo-snarky, blog-voice and offer some witty asides with a 🙂 and a cultural reference or two. I could brag and congratulate and wish well, and all of that would be true and worthwhile.
I haven't been writing much lately. As I moved into a full time job I sort of lost the drive to spend more time at night reading, writing and engaging. I have been "always on(line)" since I started my MLIS, and I'll say its really nice to not have to be anymore. I've stepped into the background and in doing so have seen that this hack library school idea, which I never claimed or wanted to own, belongs to the community of readers; librarians, students, para-professionals, archivists. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to have a voice that was heard, and I hope to regain that voice in my professional life. Looking back, as one is wont to do in these moments, I learned much more than I shared. I developed ideas, opinions and, dare I say, beliefs about what information means to the (post?)modern world and what my role is therein. And through this medium, the ubiquitous weblog, I wish the same for you all.
I'm not sure how this started, but when I was writing emails to the HLS Editors and Writers, especially when our spirits were particularly down or enviously high, I would conclude my note with the phrase "Go Forth," stolen unabashedly from Levi's marketing campaign that makes me want to live another life as a teenager in the midwest. It was a funny sentiment, as if I wasn't so much leading the charge but commissioning disciples. But it stuck, and I still think it fits. Through this one measly year we have taken on topics from our digital future, to transparency in our educational institutions, to group work, and numerous 'hacks' – technological, ideological, practical, professional, and everything in between. We have engaged, provoked, challenged and argued. My only hope is that will continue to be the goal of this blog – to push boundaries and hold each other and especially our administrators, professors, and professional organizations to high standards of work and professionalization. Who knows what will happen to the library? Who knows what will happen to the book? Who knows when and where 'information' will overtake humankind? All we know is that these things are important, and that we care to do something about it. So… go forth.
I had the pleasure of having lunch with John Jackson, a budding leader in our profession and a man I respect very much, at ALA Midwinter last month. We talked about our work in academic libraries, life, food, etc. But the thing that stuck with me, and one that I continue to turn over in my mind, was our brief agreement that the 'Big Tent' ideal looks very different from the professional side than it did from the student side. I am an optimistic person, and have not a skeptical bone in my body, but I worry about my portraying the unity of all librarians as something we can just speak into existence. I want, very much, to maintain productive working relationships with information professionals of every stripe, and I know that it won't be an easy thing. Last year, on this day, to kick off what Hack Library School would become, Britt Foster wrote an excellent post extolling students to fight for the big tent while in school, and despite my current difficulty in seeing it, I think it still rings true. I hope you'll reread it and pull your own conclusions from it.
Now I've gone and rambled my way into a philosophical hole. (There's the spunky wit we were all waiting for, right?). I'll close simply:
Hack Library School was nothing more than a good idea at the right time and fortunately for all of us the right group of people believed in it enough to dedicate some long nights and many unpaid words to it. My eternal thanks goes out to Kim Leeder for encouraging the idea from a seedling, to Julia, Nicole, Heidi, Britt and Lauren for nuturing it from a Google Doc, to a wiki, to a blog (The OG Hackers should already know that we are destined to be dear friends for life), to Annie for being relentless, excited and so damn interested in everything (Annie hounded me to join the blog when we were barely a week old), to Zack for being bold, brave and willing to disagree, to Turner for his wisdom and deep thinking, to Rebecca for her spunk and willingness to write with great depth, to Rose for reconsidering my offer to join the blog and strongly advocating for the 'hacker' mentality, to Teresa, Ashley and Laura for graciously becoming the fresh voices that put us on the library blogosphere's radar this past Fall, and lastly to Amy, Chris, Celia, Topher, Paul, Joanna, Bri and Kevin for beginning to build on the foundation that was laid.
I'm proud to say, as I step away from the blog, that it will continue under a new editorial team. Julia, the sole remaining original hacker and resident LIS PhD student, will be the Editor in Chief. Annie and Rose will serve as co-managing editors running the daily ins and outs, and becoming the public face of HackLibrarySchool (read: send emails to them now, instead of me ;)). I wish many more years of hackery, many more complicated topics, many more challenging comments, and many more writers to belong to this idea.
Without wax,
Micah V.
PS. I'm also pleased and honored to let you all know I'll be joining the team of bloggers at In The Library With the Lead Pipe! A dream come true for my future as a professional writer in online spaces.
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2012 Santander German Grand Prix
Hockenheim, Sunday July 22
"A podium, a puncture and a new world record"
Started 6th
Finished 2nd
Fastest lap 1m19.719s (+0.994s, 13th)
Pitstops Two: laps 19 (3.26s) and 40 (2.31s) [Opt-Pri-Pri]
Points 68 (7h)
"I had a really good race and really enjoyed myself out there. I made a good start, pulled off some good moves on both Nico [Hukenberg] and Michael [Schumacher] and had strong pace all afternoon.
"Sebastian [Vettel]'s pass was a pretty straightforward matter: the rules state that you can't go off the track to gain an advantage. The thing is, there would have been more opportunities for him before the end of the race as my rear tyres were damaged. That's because I had to push hard to try and catch Fernando [Alonso], which meant I had nothing left for the end of the race. We pretty much ran out of rubber two laps before the chequer.
"There are two strong positives to take away from today: firstly, although it proved very difficult to overtake, we're right up there with Ferrari and Red Bull in terms of speed. Our upgrade package is working well: if we can sort out qualifying, we're in the mix, and we'll have a really good chance of winning races this season.
"Secondly, although there's previously been some negative talk about our pitstops, the boys did an unbelievable job today. My fastest stop was a 2.31s – the blink of an eye, and, I'm told, the fastest pitstop in history. They were phenomenal and gave it absolutely everything today – all our effort is really paying off now.
"I'm already looking forward to Hungary – it's a special place for me, and I feel really encouraged that we can have another great race next weekend."
Started: 7th
Finished Ret – lap 56 (accident damage)
Fastest lap 1m20.091s (+1.366s, 19th)
Pitstops Three: laps 3 (5.60s) 31 (2.85s)and 47 (3.83s) [Opt-Pri-Pri-Opt]
Points 92 (5th)
"My second-lap puncture was incredibly unfortunate: there was debris scattered across the full width of the track and I didn't have any option other than to drive straight through it. What's more frustrating is that, at the time, I was the eighth car through – so to be the one to get the puncture is just cruel luck.
"It was immediately clear that my car didn't feel the same after the puncture. However, after a few laps, I was able to adapt my driving style, and the car had good pace during the middle stint. However, with the damage to the rear, I think we were lucky to get that far, to be honest.
"At least I was able to have some fun out on track – my pace was good enough to be able to match the leaders during the middle stint. And that's encouraging for me, because we know our car's been genuinely quick this weekend. A big thank-you to everyone back at the factory for all their efforts to get a lot of new parts onto the car this weekend – every little bit helps, and we know there's even more in the pipeline.
"We'll put that pace in our pockets and take it to Hungary next weekend. I'm back in the car in five days' time – and that's the best possible news for me after a day like today."
Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
"A great drive from Jenson today – a little frustrating to have started sixth, which meant he lost time at the start of the race [behind Hulkenberg and Schumacher], but he drove brilliantly to catch and battle the leaders.
"He wasn't quite able to bridge the gap to Fernando because, frankly, we were saving fuel at that stage, his rear tyres had gone off a little bit because he'd been behind the Ferrari for some time, and also because Fernando's never an easy driver to overtake. Indeed, Ferrari are doing a great job at the moment – but we know they're beatable.
"I think it's important to place some of the credit for Jenson's second place with our pitcrew: their second stop for Jenson was the fastest Formula 1 pitstop of all time, with a stationary time of just 2.31s. That's quite unbelievable and not only a testament to our belief in the processes and equipment we put in place to improve our performance, but also to the commitment and determination of the guys on the ground to improve and refine their technique. Well done to everyone for a quite phenomenal achievement!
"Lewis was incredibly unfortunate to be a victim of the Turn One debris – there wasn't anything he could have done to avoid it. Unfortunately, the puncture damaged the rear of his car, prompting us to monitor the data carefully to track all the vital signs. He had a good push in the middle of the race, but the car got worse and worse so it wasn't safe or sensible to keep him out there. It's a terribly disappointing conclusion to his 100th grand prix.
"Looking ahead to Hungary next weekend, we know we've got a good car and a good recent track record there – we won in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. Winning just before the shutdown is always positive because it provides you with great momentum across the summer break. The underlying news is that we were very competitive this afternoon in the Santander German Grand Prix. There's a lot of races ahead and I think we can have some great results."


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9/13/2007 | 0 comments
God damn it. Firefox just terminated just before submitting my last post. No dramas, he we go again.
It's been a cool past week. Lots of really bad ass work has been coming in lately, lots of high-gauge stuff and plenty of anchors to keep me highly entertained. I'm going to have to do another big portfolio update soon.
Ranga's birthday was cool, we just hung out (and got drunk) all day and had some mashed-tatos for dinner! w00! I gave her the Micky Sharpz engraved (with an old school 'R') tattoo machine, which she loved and joy was had.
I got my shiny new bike (pic attached, mines the cruiser). Gotta take some more pics soon after I do some small cosmetic modifications and give her a clean. The GS500 is nearly restored, she got a new chain, new indicators and a really good clean the other day with the help of Matt and Bofflechopter.
I have been designing lots of shirts lately. It's been very therapeutic to release some pent-up studio-related-stress. I even did a couple designs to sell in the shop, which *should* make the boss happy.
Tomorrows my birthday, doesn't feel like it - but I'm turning 23. I guess I'm pretty young being in the industry at the position that I am, however I look back at all the waisted time of my youth and wonder.
Got the lobes back up there the other night, they are both at a pretty loose 38mm. My left one is perfect as, my right one has always had a lot of downwards pressure from my large anti-tragus. I'm going to have to get some of the tissue trimmed in the next few weeks just to even it all up (we suspected as much after the last scalpeling). Looking forward to wearing some of my sexy solid glass pieces, but until my anti-tragus settles the fuck down, I'll be sticking to my lighter glass DF tunnels.
The plan is to clean up the place here while playing some new Twiztid, do some web-design work and then head to Renee's for pre-birthday dinner. Might have a couple drinks tonight, relax a bit and take a bunch of pictures of my latest mods. Really wanna take some pics of my inner-conches and tummy piece. I tried to take some silly pics (attached) earlier, but I really need to shave first and it's hard taking pics in the mirror without them looking all silly.
I will leave you all now with a bunch of shirt designs that I did in the past few weeks. 3 of which are already printed, the rest should be done by the end of next week (if all goes to plan). We are doing 20 of each design on plain black cotton shirts and the popular ones will come out on hoodies/wife beaters too!
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8/31/2007 | 8 comments
Just finished uploading about 120 pictures into my portfolio/personal mod trackers. I have now finished going through *most* of my pics from the past few months.
Some notable achievements in the past few.
- I got promoted to head piercer
- I'm getting a new bike
- I'm planning on moving in with the one
- I got my tummy rocker tattoo finished
- I'm booked in for two brand new awesome tattoo designs with two grea t artists
- I chipped ma wii
- I'm turning 23 in two weeks (tomorrow actually)
- I have been horribly busy in the studio, to the point of nearly going insane (nearly)
- I got a LOT of new mods... Scapeled lobes, inner-conch removals, new facial implants, tongue re-splitty and the list goes on
- I got in a fight with a coke dealer at the back of the shop and had the glass in my lobes shattered
- I had to downsize back to 1"
- Some of my work was featured on modblog
Long story short, sorry to all that still thought I was in japan... or dead due to lack of updating. I promise to try and get off my ass more regularly and not let it all pile up again.
It's Ranga's birthday tomorrow, all wish her happiness. I hope her prezzie came in the mail today, delivered to the studio. She will heart it muchly.
I now leave you with some VERY outdated pics from my previous Japan tour. Move to come.
6/11/2007 | 17 comments
Last night was the craziest shit EVERRRRRRRR. Me and BOFH got on our delayed flight from Sydner international airport to Osaka Japan around mid-day and finally dropped at like 10pm. The flight was too damn long.
We walked around for 3 hrs trying to locate a decent hotel that didn't have an hourly rate. We were given bodgey directions everyhwere and were looing for a hotel that doesn't exist anymore. Needless to say, by the time we checked in we were feeling pretty exhausted.
Fun times were had eating crazy food saishokushugisha bejitarian food and buying porno at 3am.
Heres a couple photos to tide you all over until I get onto a notebook and pull the rest off.
I am about 2 go check out a huge ass ferris wheel overlooking Osaka and then hopefully some shopping! woo! Take care all and look after Sydney while I'm gone.
Arigatou gozai mashita!!! ^-^
Oh yeah and FUCK these crazy ass keyboards.
5/13/2007 | 9 comments
Finally, I have gotten the fuck off my ass and updated some of my favorite work from after my Melbourne tour. I've had a fucking rockkkinnn month.
Met some cool new iammers, even pierced some of em, welcomed some old ones back (welcome again Steve).
My new diet (Tony Ferguson Weightloss Program) has been going good. I have only had a couple days where I slipped (a little... god damn I miss bread too much!). I lost 3.5kilos through the first week - I haven't gotten a chance to weigh my self in this week, but I think I would have lost a couple more. I have updated my iam list to show my current height and weight too (not that anybody cares).
Speaking of updates, I have SERIOUSLY updated my trackers. I wonder if there is a limit to the number IAM allows.... hmnn... I might find out soon. ;). I have updated 6 portfolio trackers, added two, updated a couple personal ones ad added 2 new personal trackers too. See if you can guess what they are.
I finally got my Straight Eight low rider after I got back from Melb, after 4 months of waiting - It officially fucking ROX the SOX! Been having a mad time riding around with Nick and Ranga around the place. I have already had customers come in that had seen us cruising around the city. Come up and say hi if you see us. :)
After being such a good boy the past month (at least health wise), I have gone on a bit of a mod-bender. Stretched the PA up to 7mm (you may notice me walking a lil funny), Rob hooked me up with some brand-spanking new lowbrets, RIPed my beloved vertical labrets (for the 4th? time), did a new DIY anchor and got a couple hours of touch-ups on my white sleeve. Hot damn. Feel free to send me your healing vibes! I love my new anchor, it's not quite a bride (I wanted it above my glasses), it's not quite a 3rd eye... I have officially dubbed it my bling-brow (bling-bling monobrow).
Sexy new Hiptop 3 (or Sidekick 3 for you yanks) finally came the other day. VERY little production run in Aust and they didn't do ANY advertising (fucking shame), but its a god damn sweet phone. Hit my ass up [email protected].
Just wanna draw some attention to my dermal anchor section, there are some fucking RAD new ones in there - I'm really happy with Mitch's wrist project. Some regulars to my page may notice that I have also added a scarification section, I'm not offering it to the public yet (so relax) - just did some scratchin on Ant. Much love for that again bro, I think we both got a real kick out of it. I can't wait to practice more and prepare for my next piece.
Well, I'mma get back to watching Fat Pizza and get ready to go noozie-towns. Tomorrow should be pretty dope, I have got a cool navel anchor project coming in and some regs visiting me too. Woop Woop!
4/1/2007 | 14 comments
It started eating some Puffffy-custard-deelies (pictured). They make me cry happiness from inside my pants. Watched Mr Bean's new movie - I thought it was fucking mad, but I'm a sucker for stuff like that. ^_^
Geek shopping is always fun with Ranga, we have a ball in the craziest shops ever! Scored some really rare ass figurines (for us both) and spent WAY too much money. :). Ranga got some sweet Munster & Willy Wonker ones and I got a bunch of rare ICP stuff and some cool Ren & Stimpy stuff too!
Friday I suspended again with the always lovely Chelfy-poo and Pony-poop. They were fucking fantastic and I think it was by far my favourite suspension, the atmosphere was just amazing and I was able to realllly get into it. Good shit gals. I'm really looking forward to helping out next Friday for the Good Friday suspensions.
I have uploaded a bunch of pics to my Suspension tracker from Friday, there was some sweet shots. :) Scored some nice ones of Lucky going up too, she was fucking amazing.
Yesterday we spent the (slept in) afternoon chilling around St. Kilda and found the BEST music shop ever! It was fucking unreal. I got some HUGE (I mean HUGEEEEE - 10ft x 6ft) ICP street posters and a awesome shirt. I might wear it today in fact. Renee got some cool (but sore to break in) shoes too and a rare 'Tenacious D' picture-vinyl.
After our awesome music store shopping, we were greatly disappointed by the visually misleading sweets. They looked fucking unreal, but tasted like a fly's ass. Oh well, can't win em all!
Last night we FINALLY got to go to Luna Park. I had mad fun, so did Rentron. We went on all the silly rides and bumped the FUCK out of each other on the dodge-em cars. Fun times were had, scary times were had, dizzy times all round. Got a REALLY cute pic of Ren on da horseys! The 'Prison Break Live' ride was pretty cool, Ren got shit scared (I still can feel her claws digging into my hips!). There was a VERY cute boy in goul make-up on the exit door tho. We wanted to go a second time just to catch a perv. ;)
Well, I think that's it for now. Renee wants the puta and I need to upload the new beta for LunaCobra.net (which is currently waiting on a domain redeligation). Check out the beta (static) site HERE too. All comments GREATLY welcomed.
Catch ya'll lata!
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