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The worst of the storm should hit the Northeast over night, reports AccuWeather.
AccuWeather Global Weather Center — 2 January 2014 — AccuWeather.com reports a major snowstorm is sweeping across the Midwest and Northeast Thursday, creating treacherous travel conditions for millions in Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland.
The worst of the storm will arrive overnight for the Northeast, bringing blizzard conditions from Boston to New York with wind gusts as high as 50 mph.
In some locations, snow will fall at a rate of 2 inches per hour.
Drivers can expect slowed travel as blowing and drifting of snow occurs across major roadways, such as I-90 and I-95 and visibility lowers.
The storm also has the potential to cause flight delays in major travel hubs including Boston-Logan International, La Guardia International and JFK International airports.
All times reported in EST
2:05 p.m. EST Thursday: 15 inches of snow reported in Palatine, Ill., according to a National Weather Service employee.
2:01 p.m. EST Thursday: Detroit Metro Airport is now reporting delays due to snow and ice.
1:40 p.m. EST Thursday: Northwestern Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York will experience the worst of the storm over the next 2 to 3 hours, according to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said. "Snow is becoming heavier in this area and temperatures are hovering in the teens. Looks like a slow, slippery drive on I-80, I-79, and the Southern Tier Expressway of N.Y."
1:05 p.m. EST Thursday: Chicago Midway and O'Hare International Airports now reporting excessive delays due to winter conditions.
12:31 p.m. EST Thursday: As many as 6 inches of snow have fallen across parts of Indiana. Photo below from Indianapolis:
12:10 p.m. EST Thursday: Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has declared a snow emergency and parking ban for the city as of 12:00 p.m. EST. All Boston public schools will be closed Friday, Jan. 3.
11:50 a.m. EST Thursday: The New York Department of Transportation reports Interstates 81, 86, 88, 90, 390 and 481 to be snow- and ice-covered. Conditions are not considered severe at this time.
11:25 a.m. EST Thursday: A trained spotter reports that 7.5 inches of snow have fallen across Barry County, Mich. Though the snow has tapered to flurries, significant drifting is occurring.
11:01 a.m. EST Thursday: Snow has buried major routes across Chicago, including I-80, as seen below:
10:50 a.m. EST Thursday: Delayed reported of a car accident with one injury and one fatality on Highway 11 in Knox County, Ky. Law enforcement reports the accident was a result of slick roadways due to freezing rain.
10:40 a.m. EST Thursday: A National Weather Service employee reports 5 inches of snow in Fayette County, Ind.
9:41 a.m. EST Thursday: Delays due to snow, ice and low visibility being reported at Chicago O'Hare International and Chicago Midway airports.
9:09 a.m. EST Thursday: 13 inches of snow recorded in Cook County, Ill., according to the National Weather Service.
8:01 a.m. EST Thursday: Interstate highways in Collinsville, Effingham and Champaign, Ill., are 100 percent snow- and ice-covered, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. Interstate highways in Lincoln, Quincy and Springfield are at least 75 percent snow- and ice-covered.
7:20 a.m. EST Thursday: So far, 4.8 inches of snow recorded at Indianapolis International Airport, the National Weather Service reports.
By Jillian MacMath, meteorologist for AccuWeather.com


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There's so many different products released every year that we have a hard time keeping up with everything. From toys, food, and novelty products. Wanting to cover everything we enjoy, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can take time. Which has got me deciding to do some shorter reviews, just doing fast coverage of the product itself. These are our Cowabunga Corner Snap Reviews. Each review covering a different product, depending on whatever it is we have to share. This episode covers Loyal Subjects TMNT Blind Box from Hot Topic. This is one of eight episodes with special guest co-host Tokka!
These were filmed before we started the BBO (Blind Box Opening) videos, so the normal way that I now do these videos did not apply back when we filmed these. You never know how many boxes we will open per a video!
Loyal Subjects has been making these fun vinyl figures for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a few years now. The series are very well detailed, though the price point is high for toys in which you can't see till you open the package. I was lucky to find a deal at a Hot Topic that allowed me to buy a bunch of these blind boxes. This November I got to sit down and open these Blind Boxes with Tokka from www.terrible2z.com and go through the boxes.
Curious if we opened the entire set? We made 8 videos based on these blind boxes. Check out the video to see if we managed to find any of the rare ones. The sets contain the four Turtles, April O'Neil, Shredder, Casey Jones and Splinter. Splinter is the rarest one, followed by April O'Neil.
A big Thank you to Tokka for taking part in helping with these reviews. His knowledge of Loyal Subjects and the artist behind these TMNT Blind Box toys was very informative and interesting to learn. Tokka is a fellow passionate fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he's had his art published and has done a lot online for the TMNT fandom.
Have you got your hands on any of the Loyal Subjects TMNT blind boxes? Was it from this set? One of the other sets? Let us know your thoughts on the Loyal Subjects TMNT vinyl figures. Please share reviews, comments and questions below!
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from The Ultimate Prescription: What the Medical Profession Isn't Telling You by James L. Marcum (Tyndale).
A Victim of Deception
It was 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday when my pager went off. Tuesday is a "call night" for me, which means I'm available all night for any and all situations that need my attention at the hospital. I should have known better than to think I'd enjoy a full night's sleep.
The familiar number illuminated on my pager identified the source. I dialed it quickly, and the emergency room doctor picked up on the first ring. "We've got a male, thirty-eight years old, experiencing severe chest pains and heart arrhythmia. I'm thinking MI."
My colleague was right. The symptoms were common for myocardial infarctions. I knew the man in the emergency room was quickly running out of time and, if something wasn't done soon, he could die.
When I arrived in the exam room, "the patient" became David. He was now very real to me—a man with pale skin and terrified eyes. His blood pressure was dangerously low, he had already received a dose of aspirin to thin his blood, and he was hooked up to a beeping electrocardiogram (EKG) machine.
I introduced myself and quickly scanned his chart. This was serious. Very serious. After breathing a quick prayer on my patient's behalf, I began to explain to him that he needed a procedure to open up the artery supplying the front of his heart with blood and I was going to assemble a team to fly him by helicopter to a facility where this operation could take place.
What happened next took only a few moments, but it seemed to last forever. David slumped down onto the examination table as his heart rhythm became completely random and unstable. The condition caused the blood to stop circulating in his body—a condition called ventricular tachycardia. Within seconds, he had passed out completely.
A team of highly skilled caregivers rushed into the room. The skin on David's chest was uncovered, and two electrode pads were attached to a device called a defibrillator by wires. These pads were placed over his heart. A shock of electricity jolted his body, causing it to convulse slightly as all eyes turned to the EKG. Sure enough, the waves of lines indicating the patient's heartbeats ceased their wild and random dance and settled once again into a steady ba-beat, ba-beat, ba-beat. David's eyes fluttered open, and he stared up at me for a moment, unsure of what was going on.
"How do you feel?" I asked.
"I'm okay," he responded weakly, glancing about at the other faces in the room, wondering where all those people had come from.
When I asked him about his pain, he said it was gone. I noticed that his blood pressure and heart rhythm had normalized, and for the moment, at least, my patient was out of danger. David had been dying and had been pulled back into life using a now-common technology. I whispered a prayer of thanks to the God who taught medical professionals how to perform "miracles" using the simple tools found in most modern hospitals.
As preparations for David's flight to the operating facility continued, I walked into the waiting room to talk with David's wife and two daughters. They had heard the alarms. They'd seen the technicians running down the hallway. They knew that something was very wrong with their husband and daddy. And they were terrified. Panic showed in their eyes as they desperately clung to one another, trying to maintain a grip on sanity.
"How could this happen?" David's wife wanted to know after I had explained the situation. "He's never been sick a day in his life!"
How Could This Happen?
How could this happen? I hear that question often. The answer isn't easy, and I told David's wife, Debbie, that I would explain everything as best I could later. But for now, we had to make sure that her husband was getting the acute care he needed.
David's left anterior descending coronary artery showed a 98 percent blockage. His heart simply was not receiving enough blood to function normally. The situation would be similar to having your air supply 98 percent blocked when you're trying to climb a mountain. That would affect not only your ability to breathe but also the ability of every organ in your body—including your heart—to function. Blood—pumped by the heart—carries oxygen up to the top of your head and down to the tips of your toes. In essence, when your heart stops functioning correctly, your entire body begins to suffocate.
Within minutes, a stent—a device to keep an artery open—was placed in David's coronary artery so blood could flow freely again. My patient was fortunate that no permanent damage to his heart or other organs had taken place during his sudden heart attack and dangerous rhythm on the examination table. I guess the best place to have a cardiac event is in a hospital while carrying on a conversation with a cardiologist!
This is where some well-meaning people miss an important point. We hear a lot about alternative medicines, potent herbal cures, or the importance of diet and exercise. And I will be the first to champion anything that has been proven to work. But there is, and always will be, a place for modern medicine, especially in emergency situations. If I have a heart attack, I want a stent. If my heart is going too slowly, give me a pacemaker. If I am bleeding to death, stop my bleeding and start a transfusion. If I have a bacterial infection, bring me some antibiotics. Without modern medicine, a whole lot of people would not be around to explore alternative medicines, examine herbal cures, or learn the importance of diet and exercise.
David was suffering an acute event brought on by a chronic condition. As I later dug into his history, I began to understand why he ended up on my examination table. His heart disease was caused by elements in his life bringing stress on his body. He smoked. He held a high-pressure job. He ate food practically devoid of nutrition. But did he, his wife, or his two precious daughters recognize those stressors as the cause of his heart disease? No. Because they, like many of us, were operating under some serious misconceptions, and no one was making the lifestyle connection for them.
As important as modern medicine and its technologies are, people fall victim to a number of misconceptions regarding what modern medicine can and can't do. We'll discuss these later in the book, but the first misconception is huge, so let's take a look at that one before we go any further.
The First Misconception
What is a misconception anyway? Doesn't it depend on a person's point of view or perception? Not really. It's a falsehood, a lie, a trick, or an untruth. These are all around us and have been almost since the beginning of time. Sometimes they are so elaborate that even the most astute people don't recognize the untruth. But 99 percent truth is still a lie. Good and intelligent people are being deceived or have become clueless concerning many of the facts of life. Why? Amazingly, the reason usually comes down to money.
More specifically, I want to suggest that the misconception exists because of selfishness. We—and the society in which we live—tend to put ourselves above the interests of others, often because of a desire for money, power, or control.
One current misconception is the idea that modern medicine can fix anything. But to be brutally honest, modern medicine can't fix a thing. What it can do is a pretty good job of dealing with the symptoms of a lot of things.
"But, Dr. Marcum," I can hear you say, "how about a broken leg? Doesn't a doctor fix that?"
It's true that the doctor can set the leg. He or she can make it so you don't have to limp for the rest of your life. But as for the healing of that broken bone, the doctor can only watch and be amazed.
"How about cancer?" you ask. "Don't we praise God for cancer survivors?"
Absolutely! But many others who receive the same treatment, experience the same therapy, go through the same procedures die of their disease. Regardless of the survival rate, nothing was fixed. At best we'd have to say that a rampaging cancer was slowed—which is a good thing indeed. Life was extended through the application of modern medicine. Unfortunately, that extension often comes at a terrible price, including mutilation and collateral damage to other organs.
And here's the scary part: people who have heart disease, who suffer from cancer, who fight debilitating pain, who stand in lines at drugstores waiting to fill their endless prescriptions, who sit and watch television commercials extolling the power of the latest and greatest pharmaceutical firmly believe that their doctors or the pills are providing a cure to their ills. They think they're getting "fixed." But the truth is, they're wrong.
So what do we do when we're facing a health crisis? The short answer is "It depends on the crisis." The long answer is "It depends on the cure."
I divide illness into two categories: acute illness and chronic illness. Acute means that something needs to be done right now, this second, or a patient could die. That certainly describes David as his heart malfunctioned on the examination table. He needed action, and he needed it now.
Chronic describes a condition of ongoing, frequent duration, one that is always present. Although David's heart attack was sudden and acute, it was the result of something that had been going on for a very long time. Arteries do not fill up with plaque overnight. That is why, when his wife asked, "How could this happen?" I knew I needed more information about my patient before I could answer her fully. David's heart attack wasn't the problem. It was the result of the problem.
Modern medical technology can be breathtaking in its effectiveness in treating acute illnesses. For instance, an article in the August 2011 issue of the medical journal Circulation reported that the average period from the time a patient arrives in the emergency room with a heart attack to the treatment to open the artery is down to sixty-four minutes. This is an amazing use of modern medicine to save lives every day. Most people are completely unaware of what goes on behind the closed doors of science laboratories and medical institutions. Our ability to learn and understand the universe and the human body is expanding faster than at any time in history. Force fields are no longer science fiction. Machines can now render objects invisible. Using atom smashers, scientists are hoping to discover more about the universe and the relationships between energy and matter. With enough energy, they are hoping to actually create matter. Teleportation of matter (the act of moving something simply by thought) is more than a theory at this point. Some discoveries are even being kept secret because of their military significance.
There are now computers performing unbelievable computations. Our DNA has been sequenced, providing a glimpse not only into what is but also into what may be. I've been reading about something called nanotechnology, in which scientists are making very, very small particles capable of going into cells, diagnosing a problem, and delivering specialized medicines to address that problem.
Yes, there is a place for technology. But this same body of knowledge is accomplishing something unexpected. Using these new devices and techniques, we are now discovering how activities such as worship can change chemical reactions in our bodies—reactions that affect every cell, muscle, and organ. We can identify how rest, nutrition, and even laughter help cure our ills and strengthen our immune systems. These "treatments" enable disease to be fought at the cellular level. This information has not been readily made available. And there's a reason, which we'll identify later.
But there's a downside to advancing technology. As it expands, we tend to look more and more at what we can do as human beings. We start worshiping at the altar of science instead of at the feet of the One who made us. As we start to see our symptoms diminish, we think we've found a cure. So who needs God? And the deception deepens.
The most important question we need to be asking ourselves is not, How can we get well? but rather, Why are we sick? That is the only question that can lead to finding the "ultimate fix."
Number One Killer
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in America, and its worldwide prevalence continues to rise. Some sources will contend that doctors, hospitals, medications, overdosages, and medical errors are surpassing cardiovascular disease as the number one source of death, and this may be true. But both statistics support the same conclusion. Neither patients nor doctors are clear about what exactly causes heart disease and how best to combat it. There are many theories regarding the causes.
One common theory blames inflammation and damage to the inner layer of blood vessels, the endothelium. Another theory is that the real cause of the condition is genetic. But genetic alterations take many, many generations to develop. Heart disease was practically unheard of a hundred years ago, and there are still places on earth where very few suffer from this condition. For instance, in Africa, rural China, and other parts of the world where the diet is less Western (in other words, more plant based), the prevalence of cardiovascular disease is much lower.
In about half the cases of cardiovascular disease, the first manifestation is a heart attack. In other words, patients don't know the attacks are coming, and their doctors are not entirely clear about what triggers the attacks. That is why education is crucial.
Over the next twenty-four hours, around three thousand American hearts will malfunction. This is nearly the same number of persons who died in the tragedy of September 11, 2001. This comes to 1.1 million heart attacks a year. One out of three people will die at the time of the initial event or within the first twelve months after it.
Forty percent of Americans have cardiovascular disease of some sort, and in women the death rate from this condition is eight times higher than the death rate from cancer. In fact, in women, cardiovascular disease poses a greater risk than breast cancer and all other diseases combined. Those numbers continue to climb.
I need to say something that may startle and even anger you. But I'm just the messenger, so please don't shoot. It has been estimated that 80 to 90 percent of cardiovascular disease is acquired. That's right. The painful truth is that we give the disease to ourselves by the choices we make over a lifetime. We create the chronic condition that brings about the acute event by placing endless stressors on our systems—stressors that eventually do us in.
David did not even know he had a problem until that early Wednesday morning when he felt as if an elephant had sat down on his chest to rest. I thank God that after the event, David began his search for the ultimate prescription. When he was faced with death, he started to evaluate the reasons he had a heart attack.
The Ultimate Prescription: What the Medical Profession Isn't Telling You
Copyright © 2010 by Dr. James L. Marcum. All rights reserved.
Previously published as The Heart of Health by the author under ISBN 978-0-578-05968-6.
The Ultimate Prescription first published in 2011 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Visit Tyndale online at www.tyndale.com.
Visit Dr. Marcum's website at www.heartwiseministries.org.
James L. Marcum, board-certified cardiologist practicing with Chattanooga Heart Institute, has been named by USA Todayas one of the most influential physicians in his field. He is an in-demand speaker as director of Heartwise Ministries. Currently, his radio program, Heartwise, airs on more than 500 radio stations across the nation. Dr. Marcum, speaker/director of HeartWise Ministries, hosts the health programs "Heart of Health" and "BibleRX" which can be seen on secular and Christian television. He is married to Sonya and has two children, Kelli and Jake. He enjoys music and outdoor activities.


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Why is the iPad so fast?
There are two possible reasons for the iPad's blazing speed in the browser-based benchmarks listed above: 1) software, and 2) hardware. There has been a lot of interest in the hardware side of the equation, because of the fact that the iPad's A4 is Apple's first attempt at a custom CPU. Inquiring minds want to know: just how much did the A4 benefit from Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi, or even ARM design shop Intrinsity (if the rumor proves true).
As we've discussed above, it's very difficult to isolate the performance of the A4 itself by benchmarking it against other mobile chips, because it's impossible to find a truly fair comparison. The most apples-to-apples comparison for the iPad is the iPhone 3GS. The other popular baseline for comparing the iPad is the Google/HTC Nexus One, which is based around Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoC; but the Nexus One is more like apples-to-pears, for reasons we'll talk about in a moment.
iPad vs. iPhone 3GS
The 3GS is a decent baseline for the A4 because it uses a third-party SoC based on the same core as the A4, ARM's Cortex A8. But there's a very important difference between the 3GS's A8 and that of the iPad: the 3GS CPU runs at 600MHz, while the iPad's A4 runs at 1GHz.
Because the A8 has a relatively simple dual-issue, 13-stage, in-order pipeline, performance on most CPU-bound workloads can be expected to increase fairly linearly with clockspeed. So with a clockspeed 1.66 times that of the 3GS, the A4 should generally be about 1.66 times as fast at CPU-bound tasks. In areas where the A4's advantage is less than 1.66, we can look for bottlenecks like memory bandwidth or networking, but in areas where it's faster than we expect we can attribute the advantage either to the iPad's software or to some bottleneck in the 3GS.
As for potential 3GS bottlenecks that make the iPad look good by comparison, two come immediately to mind. The first possible problem is the iPhone OS, which is at an earlier version right now than the iPad. So some of these benchmarks may change with the next iPhone OS update—and, given the level of internal and external secrecy that Apple has held the iPad and the A4 under during the months when the iPad was being finished, some of the wider performance gaps may narrow drastically once the 3GS can benefit from the secret optimization work that was done on the iPad.
The other possibility is that there are some instances where the iPhone 3GS is being deliberately throttled to conserve battery life, while the bigger iPad can just run full-bore. It's hard to imagine how this would affect the 3GS (maybe the 3GS's network interface is being put to sleep and woken back up a lot, and this slows down loads?), but it seems plausible enough.
In general, though, places where the iPad is about 50 percent faster are easily explainable by the bigger device's clockspeed advantage. So while the average speedup we're seeing is significant, it's perfectly in line with what we'd expect from a higher-clocked version of the same in-order processor.
iPad vs. Nexus One
The next closest comparison to the iPad is the Nexus One—Anandtech was the first to benchmark the two mobiles against each other, and our results align with his.
The main reason that the Nexus One presents itself as comparable to the iPad is that both the Nexus One and the iPad use a 1GHz ARM-based SoC. But there's more to the fact that Apple's 1GHz A4 beat the pants off the Nexus One's 1GHz Snapdragon than you might think from just looking at so-called "speeds and feeds."
The Nexus One's Snapdragon, codenamed Scorpion and designed from the ground up by Qualcomm, is often compared to a Cortex A8, but the two are actually different in a key respect. Both parts are dual-issue, in-order designs, but Scorpion allegedly has a longer pipeline than the Cortex A8, because it's designed to do 1GHz at 45nm and still fit within a mobile phone's power envelope. If Scorpion's pipeline is indeed longer, then it uses less power at 1GHz on the same process than A4, and it also offers less performance. Ultimately, I think that the Snapdragon's longer pipeline accounts for a large part of the performance delta between the iPad and Nexus One.
The other part is software—Google's software is just slower, and Google gets to be a little bit embarrassed by that (or, at least, they should be). In Google's defense, Android has to run on a wider variety of hardware, so it may be tougher to optimize. But the delta really seems wider than it should be, and it's hard to escape the conclusion that Apple just out-coded the search giant here.
Miscellaneous observations/questions from readers
by Ars Staff
We have received a number of questions from our readers about the iPad, and we have made a number of observations that don't seem to belong in their own sections in this review. So, we decided to just make a list of one-liners that address some of those issues.
- The iPad doesn't always charge when plugged into my Mac Pro (via the USB port on an Apple Cinema Display). I plugged it in this morning at 49%. When I checked 2 hours later, the battery was at 63%, but the status said "Not Charging."
- Icons on the iPad's home screen rearrange themselves when you switch between portrait and landscape mode. This makes sense since more icons can fit across the screen in landscape, but it's annoying to those of us who are control freaks and like to keep the same icons in the same places at all times.
- Some readers asked whether it was possible to connect an iPhone to an iPad, either to charge the iPhone or to tether the iPad to the iPhone in order to use the iPhone's wireless connection. The answer is no and no, unless some third party comes up with a 30-pin to 30-pin connector without Apple's blessing, succeeds in bringing it to market, and writes software to make the two devices transfer data over the cable.
- During our testing, we used the iPad extensively for long hours at a time and did not notice a heat problem. We did notice it getting slightly "warm," but nothing even close to hot. This was all indoors, however—we have seen people online observe that the iPad gets very hot when sitting out in direct sunlight.
- The WiFi version of the iPad does not have real GPS like the 3G version does, but it does have a built-in compass (a la the iPhone 3GS). It also has the same "fake" GPS based on Skyhook Wireless that the original iPhone uses.
- Street View in Google Maps is far cooler to use on the iPad than on the iPhone.
- The iPad does not currently allow multiple user accounts—couples or families sharing one iPad will have to find some way to play nice together.
- The back of the iPad can get scratchy fairly easily if you're not using a case with it. Think: the top of a MacBook Pro, or the back of an original iPhone. The front of the iPad is a pretty resilient glass that is not easily scratchable (though people have been known to do it on their iPhones). We recommend at least using a basic fabric sleeve when you throw the iPad into a bag, if not a more full-fledged case.
- The iPod app is very different than that on the iPhone, and we're not entirely sure how we feel about it. There's no Cover Flow view, which is suspicious considering the large and beautiful screen. We didn't end up using the iPod app very much in our testing, though, except when hooked up to some external speakers and for displaying cover art.
- Calendaring on the iPad is everything the iPhone version wishes it could be, but can't. We really like the many ways in which information can be displayed thanks to the larger screen—list form is particularly useful to see what events are coming up.
- You can change both your standard background wallpaper as well as the lock screen wallpaper, and not just to Apple's selection of wallpapers either. You can choose your own photo to go behind your application icons, which you can't do on other iPhone OS devices.
- Besides a Bluetooth keyboard, you can also pair a Bluetooth stereo headset with the iPad. Sorry, no Bluetooth mice.
- Many of us observed that the built-in speakers on the iPad were not half bad for most casual usage (certainly better than expected). Audiophiles will still want to use headphones, though.
- Some users have reported issues with their iPads dropping WiFi connections. Apple has a support doc up that acknowledges the issue, though the solutions are somewhat limited.
The iPad is many different things to many different people, and writing a conclusion that sums it up for everyone is impossible (in fact, it's pretty difficult to write one just summing up the Ars staff's feelings alone, and we're a pretty tight-knit group). Though we only highlighted a small handful of apps in this review, it's important to note that most of us think that the software makes the iPad. This first round of applications is quite good overall, but what comes in the future from Apple and third-parties alike will likely take the iPad to much greater heights.
Truthfully, this device is one that can only really be understood by playing with it firsthand (we know, it took us more than 18,000 words to tell you that). No matter how many words get spilled on the iPad, there's still no simple way to describe how it feels and how it's different from a typical computing or smartphone experience. Those of us on staff who were highly skeptical about the iPad before having touched it had a very different understanding of it after spending some serious time with the device. This is likely to be the case with most users.
The iPad has numerous flaws—most of which can be fixed with software updates, and we hope that they will be—but it's still a device that will undoubtedly kick off a shift in how the general population interacts with software and content. As pointed out by Omni Group CEO Ken Case at the Macworld Expo, even if the first iPad doesn't end up being a hit, multitouch devices where users interact directly with what's on the screen is the future. "In five to ten years, there will be really big multitouch screens, like on an iMac or something, and we'll be touching and moving things around instead of clicking and dragging. This effort is an investment in the future. It's forcing us to look at our applications—for the iPad and the Mac—in a completely different way and improve upon it as user interaction changes," he said. We agree.
But for today: can the iPad replace a netbook or a laptop? For some of you hardcore users, probably not. For those who use netbooks as a lightweight way to browse the Web, chat a bit, and do some light work: yes, it can. Does the iPad make a good weekending/vacationing computer? Sure. The way the iPad is designed, you are less likely to get sucked into doing work or accidentally wasting away hours of your life online than you would on a "normal" computer, but it's mostly capable enough so that you can do some work when necessary. Is the iPad easy and foolproof enough for your technologically challenged family member? Yes, if that person has at least $500 to burn. Does it make a good e-book reader? Depends on your definition of "good." Readers that use e-ink (such as the Kindle) may still be better in some situations, but for gadget consolidation's sake, the iPad as an e-reader is decent enough, even for those of us with sensitive eyes.
Five hundred dollars (or more) is a lot of money to spend on a device that some people still can't figure out how to fit into their lives. So at this point, it's hard to say whether anyone should get an iPad, but for those of us on staff, even the most skeptical of us don't regret it.
The best way for us to sum up our collective and unanimous conclusion on the iPad, is to say that it's the first device to substantially deliver on the promise made by the iPhone and, in some respects, the Newton. Both of these earlier Apple products gave us glimpses at what a real, usable, purpose-built tablet computer might one day look like, and the iPad at long last gives us the complete picture. So in a sense, the iPad is both the end of a long journey and the start of a new one. We can't wait to see where it takes us next.


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Simply reporting on what I see here - neither condoning nor condemning. I'll give her one thing, she understands what's happened to her. Even if she gets the names wrong, she is targeting the right SOBs. Yes, she will face consequences for her actions, but when enough people have had enough, then the banks will finally face consequences for their actions too, and that is truly long overdue.
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Dear CODEPINK Activist,
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A middleweight bout between Brazilian UFC vets Rousimar Palhares (12-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Alexandre Ferreira (18-7 MMA, 0-1 UFC) has been targeted for UFC 134.
Sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that verbal agreements are in place for the bout, though contracts have yet to be signed. Brazilian website Portal do Vale Tudo first reported the matchup.
UFC 134, first announced as "UFC: Rio," takes place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio De Janeiro and is expected to feature a middleweight title fight between reigning champ Anderson Silva and challenger Yushin Okami.
Palhares and Ferreira were originally scheduled to fight at UFC on Versus 3 before Ferreira was forced to withdraw in the wake of the devastating flooding in Brazil some four months ago. In fact, Ferreira's future in the sport was cast into doubt. At the time of his withdrawal, a report from Sherdog.com indicated that the fighter had been dismissed from his training base at Chute Boxe Academy.
It appears, though, that Ferreira is moving on, and he's aiming to get back in the win column after his UFC debut went south. The Brazilian took on Vladimir Matyushenko at UFC 122 in the light heavyweight class and was blown out of the water in the first round. The setback snapped a seven-fight win streak.
Palhares, meanwhile, is building momentum after a pivotal setback against Nate Marquardt at UFC Fight Night 22. The submission specialist took on Dave Branch at UFC on Versus 3 and tapped him out in the second round with a kneebar.
In a seven-fight UFC career, the Brazilian Top Team fighter has only been stopped by top-tier competitors Marquardt and Dan Henderson.
It's unknown whether Palhares vs. Ferreira will grace the main card of "UFC: Rio."
For the latest on the UFC 134 card, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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DALLAS -- It took a furious fourth quarter rally and a gutsy two-point conversion decision, but North Gaston produced the biggest win in coach Mike Patton�s three-year stint Friday night at Trudak Stadium.
The Wildcats overcame a 14-point deficit and scored the go-ahead conversion with 50 seconds left on a two-point quarterback keeper by Nick Haskin, lifting North Gaston to a dramatic 43-42 win.
Depsite scoring on six of their nine possessions, including TD plays covering 51, 80 and 56 yards, the Cavaliers (0-2) suffered through a late-game meltdown.
And the frantic finish produced arguably the biggest win for North Gaston since the glory days of A.J. Blue five years ago, leaving the Wildcats with a 2-0 record.
�It was crazy being down two touchdowns with just a few minutes to play,� said Haskin, who scored three times on the night, rushed for 100 yards even, and engineered the game-winning march.
�The hard work is finally paying off after all these years we put in and we put in. I am glad this is how it finally shows on the field.�
Superb execution down the stretch paid off handsomely. After Haskin scored on a 1-yard run with 1:18 left to pull North Gaston to 42-35, the Wildcats recovered an onside kick at the East Rutherford 44.
Twenty-eight seconds later, Brandon Stowe scored on a 5-yard run to cut the deficit to a single point.
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�I did not have to think about that much,� Patton said. �I have a lot of confidence in these guys, and I thought we had some momentum. As hard as we were playing, I thought we could score.�
Fullback Josh Kahlig was the workhorse back for North Gaston, rushing 25 times for 127 yards and two touchdowns.
�This is a testament to the will of our boys,� Patton said. �In the past at North Gaston, big plays were hard to overcome. But they went after it and won the game. They have bought in to what we are doing.�
The game started in shootout mode, with both teams hitting big plays on their first possessions.
After North Gaston�s Quadray Watson intercepted an East Rutherford pass at the Cavaliers� 48-yard line, Wildcats quarterback Nick Haskin went 48 yards on a read option just 55 seconds into the contest.
However, East Rutherford answered the North Gaston quick strike with a 51-yard touchdown pass from Austin Hollifield to Griffin Stamey at the 8:14 mark of the first quarter.
Hollifield then capped a 75-yard East Rutherford drive with a 1-yard sneak, making the score 14-7.
The first of several ill-timed first half penalties hurt North Gaston later in the opening period. After the Wildcat defense forced a punt attempt, a roughing the kicker penalty kept the East Rutherford possession alive, and the Cavaliers drove 72 yards to push their lead to 21-7.
The big play trend continued in the second quarter when North Gaston�s Raquan Brown returned a kickoff 58 yards to the East Rutherford 32. Fullback Josh Kahlig scored from 1 yard out to pull the Wildcats to 21-14 with 1:38 left in the half.
Again, East Rutherford had the answer for North Gaston�s surge in momentum. Kameron Garrison took a handoff at his own 20, bounced to the outside, busted through three would-be tackles and ran down the sideline for a touchdown. The big play came only 24 seconds after the Wildcats trimmed the deficit to seven points.
Trailing by 14, North Gaston appeared to reach the end zone on its last possession of the first half when Brown made a 34-yard over-the-shoulder catch from Haskin. However, the touchdown was negated by an illegal procedure penalty, and North Gaston couldn't finish off the drive.


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In an interview with Salon, veganism advocate Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson explains why meat eaters mock vegans, why Michael Pollan is wrong, and why he thinks things are getting better for animals.
Masson says omnivores make fun of vegans "because of a bad conscience. I think to some extent people think: 'You know, they're probably right, but, boy, would it be inconvenient for me.'" And according to Masson, omnivores should have a bad conscience. Of milk, he says:
I feel that it's not ours to take. The milk is there for a calf, not for a human. We're the only species that drinks the milk of another species.
Think about it: You couldn't get within 100 yards of a wild cow to take milk. The bull would gore you to death. The cow herself would run away. They don't want to be milked. It's really a false conceit to say, "Well, they don't really mind." Of course they mind. It's just that we breed them to be docile, and we put them in stalls, and we make them artificially pregnant. It's totally unnatural.
When Salon's Katharine Mieszkowski asks "wouldn't you do more to reduce animal suffering by advocating ending the worst factory farms than arguing that we should all go vegan," Masson replies: "Reform has never been my strong point. I really like to think along the edges — a more radical approach." He goes on to critique the idea — espoused by Michael Pollan and others — that farm animals can have good lives.
Near the end of the interview, Masson says things are changing for the better. Part of his evidence: "I just heard a fantastic statistic that at Stanford University, a quarter of the undergraduate student body is vegetarian." I was a vegetarian undergraduate at Stanford, and while the percentage of vegetarians may have changed dramatically in the four years since I graduated, I remember the figure being about 11%. And we did get made fun of. Partly, I'm sure, because of meat-eaters' "bad conscience," but partly because we were perceived as self-righteous. And sometimes we were.
Masson says "you could never pass a law that you can't eat cheese. Never, ever. That will never happen. [...] It feels like, I think falsely so, but it feels like it's my God-given privilege to eat whatever I goddamn please." This makes cheese-eaters sound like entitled assholes, but really food is a central part of almost all human cultures (except, say, breatharians), and to ask people to give up something their mothers, their grandmothers, and their great-grandmothers not only ate but also, as Masson acknowledges, developed rituals around, is actually a very big deal. We may be the only animals who drink the milk of another animal, but we're also the only animals who refrain from eating certain things for moral reasons, and to say that being vegan or vegetarian is more "natural" than being omnivorous is a total crock.
When I was at Stanford, a lot of vegans and vegetarians used our commitment to the cause to disparage American food culture, deriding bread and milk as disgusting. I remember one girl turning up her nose at some cheese, labeling it "bacteria food" — we had to point out that the tempeh she was eating was also fermented. The way Americans eat has lots of problems, to be sure, but telling people that the historical basics of their diet are gross and unnatural isn't the best way to get people to change. Maybe if Masson were more interested in reform, he'd recognize that, as much as animal life deserves respect, so does human culture. It's reasonable to ask people to eat less meat and dairy — it's even reasonable to ask them to go completely vegan. But we have to understand that this represents an enormous shift for people, a break not only with habit but with history. Sometimes it's good to break with history, but it's always hard, and animal rights advocates need to recognize that.
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Chairman of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti called for an immediate cessation of all forms of security coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Since Israel began its mass search efforts for the missing teens over a week ago, its army has killed five unarmed Palestinians, including one 14-year-old, and has raided approximately 1,500 homes.
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MOST parents have probably plonked their child in front of the TV as a ready-made babysitter.
But a recent Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study has revealed children could be better off playing video games instead.
QUT's Games Research and Interactive Design (GRID) lab co-research leader Dr Penny Sweetser said they found the majority of children aged two to five exceeded the Australian government recommendations of a maximum of one hour of "screen time" per day.
"We found that most of the screen time is spent on watching TV and not on computers or video games," she said.
Bargara mother of one, Sara Booth said she allowed her son Caleb to play video games but only after he had done his home work.
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After nearly 30 years ASEHA has had to close it's doors. Dorothy Bowes has run this organisation since 1984, and now Dorothy's health and eyesight are failing and she is no longer able to continue. Sadly there is no one able to keep the organisation going, no one could fill Dorothy's shoes!
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
If I get any sexier I'm going to have to end this blog
In a few words, underpasses suck.
I didn't need my husband's athletic cup during the show, but I could have used a sweat guard. We were in the third row and I could practically see the sweat flying off Mr. Gray's body. Unlike Hunk-o-mania, I jumped up in the air to lap it up.
Yes, I am that much in love.
But like everything else, once something good crosses the border into Mulletville, it turns to shit. So now instead of basking in the warm glow of my newfound amour, I am hobbling along with my head down.
Why? My knee is busted.
I get sharp shooting pains when I walk, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's from carrying a 40-pound toddler? Perhaps it's from running through the halls of work and trying to compensate for my still-healing sprained ankle by hopping on one leg?
Or maybe—and I think this is the most logical—my body dislikes Mulletville so much it's decided to simply fall apart.
I'm being serious, here. I need a change. I'm in a big, fat funk and I don't know how to get out of it. All I know is that the present situation isn't working. My work environment is toxic. It's a matriarchal system gone horribly, horribly wrong. My hometown depresses the hell out of me. It gets dark after lunch (slight exaggeration, I guess). I miss my son. I now limp on both sides of my body. And every Monday I sit next to a guy in a meeting whose Thoreau coffee mug always seems to be pointing at me. It reads:
Which makes me think of Oprah's saying:
"If you do not listen to the whisper, you will then get a message, and if you don't pay attention to the message, you will get a crisis, and eventually if you ignore that you will get a disaster. The first hint of fear, the first whisper that something is out of order, pay attention!"
Blah, blah, blaoprah. Let's rewind and read that Mullet-style:
"If you do not listen to the smushed finger and smashed car door, you will then get a smushed toe, and if you don't pay attention to the smushed toe, you will get a sprained ankle, and eventually if you ignore that you will get a busted knee and pitiful case of woe-is-me. The first hint of a mullet, the first hairdo that is business-in-the-front, party-in-the-back, pay attention!"
Now look, I'd much rather lend my ear to Thoreau than Oprah, but the woman's got a point. I think the Universe has been shouting at me (and my finger, toe, ankle and knee) for a while. I'm not sure what we're going to do but holy shit, if I'm still blogging about my same woes in six months (or if I'm typing with a salad tong taped to my shoulder because I've lost my arm), I will end this blog.
(Hah! I'm so clever!)
23 comments:
- mo.stoneskin said...
David Gray's weird and freaky neck thing doesn't bother you?
You know, you could make A BLOODY MINT writing captions for mugs. Do it!
- October 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM
- Liz Wilkey (a.k.a. A Mom on Spin) said...
Here and now I make this vow!
If we ever see that you're reduced to wearing your husband's athletic cup in Mulletville, we'll come and kidnap you. . .
- October 27, 2009 at 6:40 PM
- Lindy said...
Seriously? Do you realize that I am in the area of the corporation Zimmer -the brace you are wearing.
Do you realize that I am invading your blog - one picture at a time.
You should just come live by me - you'll get a "within an hour radius of Zimmer" discount.
And I won't attack your crotch...
- October 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM
You have become quite the broken-down-gimp! I think the whisper was telling you to wear pads and other safety gear. Grab a helmet, girl...there's no telling what's next. And with a helmet on, there's no way you're getting a mullet cut.
Get better soon! Or drink lots of wine until it just feels better.
- October 27, 2009 at 6:51 PM
- Revel said...
You limp on both sides? hmm... Have you attempted levitation as an alternative form of transport? You could get a high tech hover chair like Xavier from X-Men.
You could also kidnap Dr. Scholls and have him make you a full body insole.
*laughs hard enough to almost hurt himself, but doesn't*
- October 27, 2009 at 7:01 PM
- Anne said...
Glad you enjoyed the concert but very sorry that you are falling apart piece by piece. It definitely sounds like you need a change.
- October 27, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Maggie said...
The question remains...which is better? A punch in the crotch or a busted knee?
And how does David Gray's sweat taste??
- October 27, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Frogs in my formula said...
I hate you all for making me laugh. I'm trying to be miserable, thank you!
- October 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- Stacy Uncorked said...
Glad to know I'm not the only klutz in the universe. Well, OK, I used to be, but not as much anymore. You seem to have taken that title fair and square. I'm sorry. :)
At least you got to enjoy a concert - did you think to bottle any of that sweat flying around to sell on eBay to pay for your medical expenses? ;)
- October 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Dto3 said...
Ah FIMF, I am really sorry for your misfortune (you klutz). We are all rooting for you (especially that salad tong trick - that'd be neat)!
- October 27, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Mrsbear said...
I'm sorry Mulletville hates you and is taking it out on your joints and appendages. Does the Universe ever send you winning lottery numbers in addition to your various injuries? Cause that could be your ticket out of there.
I have no idea who David Gray is.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:30 PM
- brokenteepee said...
Oh, I am so sorry about your knee.
You could come out here and be a goat farmer with me.
Oh, crap. Abby butts at knee level.....
- October 27, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Julia said...
I can not believe you have sustained ANOTHER injury.
I think if you stay in Mulletville you are going to have to invest in bubble wrap. A bubble wrap suit that is...
- October 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM
- Brandy@YDK said...
I still don't know who david gray is.
I can't wait to find out what you happens in the next 6 months.
- October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- The Mother said...
I do believe someone is trying to tell you something.
- October 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Unknown said...
awe, {hugs}
I'm going to check out David Gray's and his "freaky neck" as Mo says.
- October 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Trac~ said...
Ohhh... you poor thing! I swear girl, if it's not one thing it's another - I'm so sorry that your all beat up - and I hope that you heal real soon and can get back to your zexy self! :o)
- October 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM
- blognut said...
If I catch you typing with a salad tong, I will end your blog for you.
However, you might then become the subject of mine.
- October 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- Grand Pooba said...
It's Blog's way (I mean God's) of punishing you for ever listening to Oprah.
- October 28, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Momma Chae said...
AWESOME! I think you are my soulmate. :) I currently have a broken wrist that won't heal, a bone fragment in my foot that may or may not start floating again and put me back in crutches, and now an "impingement" in my "good" shoulder that I have to have checked out today. Good grief. I didn't want to tell anyone that I also totally crashed and burned while jogging with the dog this weekend... nice bruises on the knees with that one. (jerky big scary dog that lunged at us, slammed against a fence, and sent my dog and I into a startled slow-motion fall onto gravel...) HA
We must be hard core babes, right??
- October 28, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Keely said...
Hm. Yes, I do believe you may be on to something, there. Though I wouldn't give Oprah credit for anything, if I were you. That's how she owns your SOUL.
- October 28, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- kyooty said...
get out your resume! what kind of work do you like to do and uh what are you trained to do?
- October 28, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- FoN said...
Ruts suck - I hear ya. Come to Canada! It gets dark here just after coffee break 'tho.
- October 28, 2009 at 8:28 PM
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The lackluster battery life of 4G-capable phones is dragging them down in consumer ratings, according to data collected by J.D. Power and Associates. The company noted dissatisfaction with battery life "greatly impacted" customers' satisfaction with their smartphones. Because of that, owners of first-generation 4G smartphones are some of the least happy customers out there.
The actual (self-reported) stats show the difference in customer happiness between 3G and 4G smartphones is not great: 4G smartphone owners rated the battery life of their devices an average of 6.1 out of 10, compared to 6.7 for 3G smartphones. Still, customers answered that even small satisfaction differences affected whether they were considering remaining loyal to a brand.
J.D. Power noted 25 percent of smartphone owners who reported a 10 out of 10 in satisfaction with their 4G smartphone's battery would buy from the same manufacturer again. Of customers who rated their batteries better than average (7-9 points), only 13 percent would re-buy the brand next time.
It's no secret that 4G networks are a big draw on battery life, especially when the phone is searching in vain for a 4G signal to connect to. But the survey showed owners of 4G smartphones also use their devices more frequently, compounding the short battery life problem. Companies may be increasingly aware of this issue, as evidenced by the recent release of the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, a version of the Droid Razr with a 21-hour battery life. Others, though, continue to skirt the limit of battery life adequacy, even as phones become unnecessarily slight in body.
In more general findings, Apple returned the highest smartphone customer satisfaction ratings with its iPhone at 839 out 1000 points, followed by HTC at 798. J.D. Power also noted that the average cost of smartphones declined to $66 (subsidized) in the period between July and December 2011, which is helping an increasingly large chunk of the US population get their hands on the devices.


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After working three years to compile the third cookbook from Lapacek's Orchard…it's finally here! We've been gathering recipes from friends, families and customer's ever since the previous cookbook, Apple-tizing recipes first arrive and then typing them onto our cookbook provider's site. Diane spent many, many, many nights combing through the recipes to find my typo's or other things that just didn't seem to make any sense. We had to decide on a cover art, cookbook style, even the binding to come up with this fabulous book. When that was all said and done, we sent it in and waited…
They FINALLY arrived on the UPS truck late this morning and I couldn't help but jump up and down a bit (Diane and Tom can attest to this…). It was like Christmas…Diane and I quickly ripped open the boxes while Tom (our tour guide this year) anxiously watched to see what it was that we were so excited about. I think he was slightly disappointed to see it was just a cookbook…but Diane and I definitely were not disappointed at all. We just love how it turned out and we hope you do too!
The cover art was done by Sharon Christensen, an artist from south central Wisconsin, whose favorite subject to paint is the rolling agricultural landscape of the state. The scene she painted was inspired by a photo we took of the barn at Lapacek's Orchard, W7729 Bohling Road, Poynette, WI.
37 people contributed to this cookbook which is broken down in the Index of Contributors on page 123. The recipes are well organized to help finding what you want to make easier in the 'Index of Recipes.' on pgs 125 through 127.
The Table of Content's of Farm Fresh Recipe's includes Appetizers & Beverages, Soups & Salads, Vegetables and Side Dishes, Main Dishes, Breads & Rolls, Desserts, Cookies & Candy, and finally, This & That. All the recipes include at least one ingredient from something we grow or make at the orchard: apples, applesauce, cider, peaches, plums, pears, blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins, squash, and zucchini.
What else can you find in the cookbook?
The answer to the best apple for baking, a helpful guide to determining how many apples one may need for making sauce, pies, dried apples, etc, and a fun section filled with pantry basics, cooking tips, herbs & spices, rules for baking breads and desserts, tips on fruits and vegetables, napkin folding how-to guide, measurement and substitution table, equivalency chart, food quantities for large servings, quick fixes, a calorie counter, and cooking terms dictionary.
This cookbook is dedicated to Mercedi Rose and Capri Grace Lapacek. They are the third generation at Lapacek's Orchard and they are the very best reason for everything we do. I took the photo on the back cover of the cookbook of my daughters, Mercedi and Capri, in the blossoms this past spring in Lapacek's Orchard at N1959 Kroncke Road, Poynette, WI, with our dog, Tank.
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- Unknown said...
> and substitution table,
> equivalency chart, food quantities > for large servings, quick fixes, a > calorie counter, and cooking terms > dictionary.
A good Food Diary software, is the Food And Exercise Diary (WeightLossSoftware.Com). You might want to take a look at it.
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The Department of Justice won't prosecute Imran Awan, a former IT administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and dozens of other Democrats, for allegations of cybersecurity breaches, theft and potential espionage, as part of a plea agreement one one count of unrelated bank fraud.
After the entry of your client's plea of guilty to the offense identified in paragraph 1 above, your client will not be charged with any non-violent criminal offense in violation of Federal or District of Columbia law which was committed within the District of Columbia by your client prior to the execution of this Agreement -Awan Plea Agreement
Awan withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars after lying on a mortgage application and pretending to have a medical emergency that allowed him to drain his wife's retirement account. He then wired large sums of money to Pakistan in January, 2017.
Break: Ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan pleads guilty to loan application fraud in federal court, as part of plea agreement. Prosecutors drop charges against his wife. Prosecutors say they investigated allegations of improper behavior in Awan's Congress role, but will bring no charges.— Alex Pappas (@AlexPappas) July 3, 2018
BREAKING: I'm at the federal courthouse, and it seems that Imran Awan's Plea deal says that he cannot be charged with any previous non-violent crime.— Lee Stranahan (@stranahan) July 3, 2018
When word of a plea agreement emerged last week, President Trump was none too pleased:
Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a "plea deal" to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2018
#WitchHunt- @lukerosiak: What the Dems did here is treason. They allowed the U.S. to be continuously hacked by these bad guys so they could spin the phony @realDonaldTrump-Russia narrative. #MAGA #TrumpTrain #DTS #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/a9QiqoX77J— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) June 6, 2018
Despite IG's allegation that Awan made unauthorized access to House data, DWS protects him. After IG made his claims, server that contained evidence was physically stolen, yet DWS kept paying Awan as her IT aide even though he was banned from the network. https://t.co/bLd5qfSy5Q https://t.co/fTJdaPu4kZ— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) June 7, 2018
Awan and several family members worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz along with 20% of House Democrats as IT staffers who held - as the House Inspector General called it - the "keys to the kingdom," when it came to accessing confidential information on Congressional computer systems.
And while ample evidence of potential crimes were found by the House Inspector General, the DOJ says they found no evidence of wrongdoing.
The Department of Justice said it "found no evidence that [Imran] illegally removed House data from the House network or from House Members' offices, stole the House Democratic Caucus Server, stole or destroyed House information technology equipment, or improperly accessed or transferred government information."
That statement appears to take issue — without explaining how — with the findings of the House's Nancy Pelosi-appointed inspector general, its top law enforcement official, the sergeant-at-arms, and the statements of multiple Democratic aides.
In September 2016, the House Office of Inspector General gave House leaders a presentation that alleged that Alvi, Imran, brothers Abid Awan and Jamal Awan, and a friend were logging into the servers of members who had previously fired him and funneling data off the network. It said evidence "suggests steps are being taken to conceal their activity" and that their behavior mirrored a "classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization."
Server logs show, it said, that Awan family members made "unauthorized access" to congressional servers in violation of House rules by logging into the servers of members who they didn't work for. -Daily Caller
We're supposed to believe that Awan wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pakistan, tried to flee the country, was kept on DWS's payroll...— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) July 3, 2018
All for the no-jail offense of lying on a home equity application? pic.twitter.com/Ta7boWELut
Awan was arrested at Dulles airport while attempting to flee the country - one day after reports emerged that the FBI had seized a number of "smashed hard drives" and other computer equipment from his residence. While only charged with bank fraud, there is ample evidence that the Awans were spying on members of Congress through their access to highly-sensitive information on computers, servers and other electronic devices belonging to members of Congress.
Repeat - there has been NO investigation of the serious allegations about Imran Awan.— Lee Stranahan (@stranahan) July 3, 2018
No proof at all AND we know a number of key people have never even been spoken to investigators.
Ask @lukerosiak
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller has compiled the most comprehensive coverage of the Awan situation from start to finish - and outlines exactly why the Awans' conduct warranted serious inquiry.
On Feb. 3, 2017, Paul Irving, the House's top law enforcement officer, wrote in a letter to the Committee on House Administration that soon after it became evidence, the server went "missing."
The letter continued: "Based upon the evidence gathered to this point, we have concluded the employees are an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives, possibly threatening the integrity of our information systems."
Imran, Abid, Jamal, Alvi and a friend were banned from the House network the same day Kiko sent the letter.
The alleged wrongdoing consisted of two separate issues.
The first was the cybersecurity issues. In an April 2018 hearing spurred by the Awan case, Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko testified: "The bookend to the outside threat is the insider threat. Tremendous efforts are dedicated to protecting the House against these outside threats, however these efforts are undermined when these employees do not adhere to and thumb their nose at our information security policy, and that's a risk in my opinion we cannot afford."
The second was a suspected theft scheme. Wendy Anderson, a former chief of staff for Rep. Yvette Clarke, told House investigators she believed Abid was working with ex-Clarke aide Shelley Davis to steal equipment, and described coming in on a Saturday to find so many pieces of equipment, including iPods and Apple TVs, that it "looked like Christmas."
Meanwhile, as we noted in June, the judge in the Awan case, Tanya Chutkan, was appointed to the D.C. US District Court by President Obama on June 5, 2014, after Chutkan had contributed to him for years.
Prior to her appointment to the District Court, she was a partner at law firm Boies Schiller & Flexner (BSF) where she represented scandal-plagued biotechnology company Theranos - which hired Fusion GPS to threaten the news media. Because of this, Chutkan had to recuse herself from two cases involving Fusion GPS.
Meanwhile, BSF attorney and crisis management expert Karen Dunn - who prepped Hillary Clinton for debates and served as Associate White House Counsel to Obama - represents Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Another BSF attorney, Dawn Smalls, was John Podesta's assistant while he was Obama's Chief of Staff. And if you still had doubts over their politics, BSF also republished an article critical of Donald Trump in their "News & Events" section.
In short, the Judge in the Awan case - appointed by Obama after years of contributing to him, was a partner at a very Clinton-friendly law firm. It should also be noted that Obama appointed Chutkan's husband, Peter Krauthammer, to the D.C. Superior Court in 2011.
The left has, of course, seized upon the plea deal to suggest that there was no wrongdoing.
Imagine being so dumb that you think a plea deal implies the defendant wasn't really guilty of the other charges https://t.co/3IECc8zfRq— William Craddick (@williamcraddick) July 3, 2018