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Let Bible lead your actions on gay issues
Please read the Bible, The King James version, the new testament, the Book of Leviticus chapter 18 verse 27. It clearly states in God's own words as follows: "Thou shall not lie with mankind, and womankind it is abomination."
Gay, homosexual or any other word or words you describe yourselves, it is wrong in the eyes of God, and it is not natural in nature or humankind. I love you no matter what your lifestyle is. I will pray for the redemption of your soul and mindset.
I'm far from perfect myself. Just a little over 10 months ago, I was living in the world as a sinner myself. It was through the love of my little country church, and my final belief in God, that turned my life around and back to Christ and Christianity. I'm straight, always have been and always will be, so I may not truly understand a gay mindset or point of view. But trust in the words of someone who is perfect, and that person is our Lord Christ Jesus, the Son of God.
I do not judge your lifestyle, but God will, so I implore you to reconsider your choice in mates of love companion, as God will judge us all some day for our sins, according to His words.
So in closing, I beg you to find a good Bible-based church and get God to help you, for hell is an awful place to spend eternity. God bless you, and I will pray for you and myself.
— Bill Bruce
Paris, Ill.
In education, left
tilt more severe
This newspaper's preoccupation with Mitch Daniels' attempt to bring some ideological balance to public education is a classic case of being unable to see the forest for the trees. The left-wing politicization of U.S. education has a long history, but I don't recall this newspaper ever bringing (that) fact to its readers' attention.
In "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," Robert Pirsig observes: "Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you, get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything … from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it."
Pirsig's observation was made 40 years ago, but there was nothing original about it even then. His point was that most professors don't teach; they indoctrinate. One receives his grade of "A" by parroting back the professor's point of view. And the political views of today's professors are overwhelmingly left-of-center.
But this ideological indoctrination does not bestow a true liberal education upon the pupil; instead, the student leaves school with his professors' narrow perspectives — never having been exposed to competing ideas. And so the student becomes another hapless victim of groupthink without even realizing it.
Originally, the goal of the university was to expose impressionable young minds to a marketplace of competing ideas. Diversity of opinion was openly encouraged. But today's educators view diversity as a one-way street. The vast majority of U.S. colleges impose a narrow, rigid indoctrination upon students with a missionary zeal rivaling that of fundamentalist preachers.
A recent report demonstrates that not only is this left-wing indoctrination prevalent throughout the university system, but that the overwhelmingly left-leaning faculty at California's colleges "openly declare the inculcation of partisan political ideas their pedagogical priority," writes Stanford University's Peter Berkowitz. Moreover, USC's provost has publicly defended this blatant brainwashing as "academic freedom."
"A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California," a report by the California Association of Scholars, documents the plague of politicized classrooms.
Assessing the report, Berkowitz notes that the problem is national in scope: "The politicization of higher education by activist professors and compliant university administrators deprives students of the opportunity to acquire knowledge and refine their minds. It also erodes the nation's civic cohesion and its ability to preserve the institutions that undergird democracy in America.
"The analysis begins from a nonpolitical fact: Numerous studies of both the UC system and of higher education nationwide demonstrate that students who graduate from college are increasingly ignorant of history and literature. They are unfamiliar with the principles of American constitutional government. And they are bereft of the skills necessary to comprehend serious books and effectively marshal evidence and argument in written work.
"This decline in the quality of education coincides with a profound transformation of the college curriculum. None of the nine general campuses in the UC system requires students to study the history and institutions of the United States. None requires students to study Western civilization, and on seven of the nine UC campuses, including Berkeley, a survey course in Western civilization is not even offered. In several English departments one can graduate without taking a course in Shakespeare. In many political science departments majors need not take a course in American politics."
Moreover, the report documents that the shredding of the curriculum stems from too many professors' preference for promoting a partisan political agenda. National studies by Stanley Rothman in 1999, and by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons in 2007, support this view and demonstrate that this leftward tilt has become severe.
Great educators such as the late Allan Bloom would argue Rousseau's position as persuasively as Locke's, letting the chips fall where they may. In his seminal work, "The Closing of the American Mind," Bloom chronicles "How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students."
Such is the legacy of "progressive" education.
— Reggie McConnell
Terre Haute
Zinn book merits
widespread use
I am responding to an article in the July 20 Tribune-Star ("Daniels: Goal was to keep kids from reading Zinn") concerning Mitch Daniels' desire to keep Professor Howard Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present," out of schools' curricula.
I have personally read this book numerous times, and as an avid reader of history and a university graduate student, I have personally found it to be one of the best history books depicting the United States. Contrary to Mitch Daniels' remark he made to the trustees' meeting "… 99 if not 100 out of 100 would want some other book used."
I would definitely support this book being used to teach teenagers part of United States history. Ex-Gov. Daniels' remark reminds me of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's message to America when he held a phone bill in his hand and waved it around yelling, "I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."
As we now know, McCarthy's list was a phone bill and he purely fabricated this number, just as I am certain Mitch Daniels' statement to the trustees was a delusion. If Mitch Daniels is this sure of himself, then why not pass out 200 or more free copies of Zinn's book to a wide variety (emphasis on wide variety) of Indiana parents and let them decide? Perhaps Mr. Daniels does not realize that the late professor Zinn's book, according to the New York Times Book Review, sells more than 100,000 copies a year. Are there any other 30-year-old history books that sell at this pace?
Of course, Zinn's book does not detail U.S. history as a normal high school history book. As the title states, it is "A People's History." Whereas, most schoolroom textbooks provide the student with a state viewpoint of history, Mr. Zinn's book is wholeheartedly about how the state has dealt with its people and how the people have responded. Why not use professor Zinn's book, along with another book, to teach U.S history in our Indiana high schools? Indiana citizens should be informed that many junior and senior high schools, along with colleges across the United States, use Howard Zinn's book to teach history to students.
Zinn discloses the truth. No facts is his book are false and when juxtaposed with other, more conservative viewpoints, together they paint an entire picture of U.S. history.
In the Tribune's article, it quotes Mitch Daniels, "disqualify the propaganda," in reference to Professor Zinn's depiction of U.S. history from a people's perspective. Any layperson, as well as historians, knows the U.S. government, like any other government, uses propaganda. Is this why Mr. Daniels so adamantly abhors Zinn's book, because he wants students to learn only one side of history? Sounds like Nazi philosophy to me.
Supporters of ex-Gov. Daniels bring politics into making decisions on what textbook to use in our schools. How wrong is this? This seems more of how a totalitarian style regime would react than a democratic government.
Professor Zinn has taught at one of the leading universities in our nation (Boston), and for Mitch Daniels and his "yes" men or women to try and debunk him as a propagandist is an outright tragedy to any student wanting to learn the truth concerning our United States history.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." Never before has the silence of good people been told in a history book until Professor Zinn wrote "A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present."
— Rex Hammond
Terre Haute
In praise of letter
on gay marriage
As a proud, fully paid up silver life member of an organization, namely NAACP, whose national headquarters, speaking for all local NAACP branches, has recently placed itself on record as full supporters of full civil rights, including same-sex marriage, for all members of the LGBT community, I was particularly pleased to read Mr. Neil Ward's well-written, well-reasoned and, yes, eloquently stated letter equating support for same-sex marriage as a simple matter of extending full civil rights to yet another segment of our American community.
Currently, over 30 percent of Americans live in communities in which same-sex marriage is offered. This number is growing daily, and at some future point, it is probably inevitable the "full faith and credit" clause (Article IV, Section 1) of our American Constitution will kick in, which will mean that recognition of same-sex marriage recognized and conducted in one state will become, couple by couple, obligatorily recognized in all states, including those states which have local constitutions not permitting the enactment of same-sex marriages within their borders.
As Mr. Ward says, far better to be on the right side of history than the wrong side of history; yes, far better to possess a record of civil rights expansion rather than restrictions. And, as I stated at the beginning of this letter, I am so proud to be a life member of a group which, since 1909, has been at the forefront of the expansion of civil liberties for all, and continues the same fight for many more groups, including, but not limited to, the LGBT community.
— Earle L. Harvey
Terre Haute


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Without enough fiber, everything gets backed up.
Some Treasure Valley homes and businesses still rely on digital subscriber lines, cable, satellite and even dial-up to shuttle data across cyberspace. Valley data centers, hospitals, tech firms and other industries that need big bandwidth are already piped with fiber optics provided by TW Telecom, Cable One, Integra Telecom Inc. or the largest carrier in the area, CenturyLink.
Jim Schmit, Idaho CenturyLink's vice president and general manager, says his company's system is comprehensive enough to connect businesses needing the carrier's highest bandwidth offering 1 gigabit per second even if that means extending a fiber line.
"We're getting to the point where, for businesses in most places, we're within last-mile connections for most locations," Schmit says.
The Valley will need to expand its fiber infrastructure to keep up with the exponential increase of bandwidth that businesses and residences are demanding, says Jay Larsen, president of the Idaho Technology Council.
"We're OK with fiber in the Treasure Valley right now," Larsen says. "We're still at the front end of this major-analytics, big-data thing. I'm not exactly sure what things will look like in three to five years, but the more we explode into that area, the more the next phase of infrastructure will have to go that way."
Other local tech-sector leaders are less sanguine.
Ryan Woodings, CEO and founder of wireless-network software developer MetaGeek, says tech companies will need more bandwidth soon. Woodings says he was disappointed when MetaGeek's move in 2011 to the Jefferson Building in Downtown Boise was delayed by two months for fiber installation.
"This is a five-story office building Downtown, and there was no fiber until we moved in," Woodings says. "I think that's more common than not, which is kind of sorry. Even in Downtown, Boise fiber buildout is not where it needs to be, and I haven't heard any rumblings of that getting better."
Fiber is not only faster than cable, phone lines and over-the-air transmission, it's also more reliable, making fiber mandatory for data centers and other industries depending on constant bandwidth.
Boise's fiber network was good enough to attract DataSite, which will be the largest of three data centers in town when it opens in April.
Rob Wilson, vice president of sales and marketing, says DataSite chose the former Hewlett-Packard building on Bethel Court near West Franklin Road because fiber was immediately accessible. DataSite passed on several other sites it scouted around the country because they lacked fiber connections, he says.
But Wilson says the network is not good enough for the future. "The Treasure Valley's fiber network is adequate for the immediate needs of the area today, but more providers and additional miles of fiber will be needed to keep pace with the rest of the nation," he says.
Patrick Lawless, founder and CEO of Boise voice recognition software developer Voxbright Technologies Inc., sees opportunity in the Valley's fiber appetite. He thinks he sees in Boise what Google is seeing elsewhere.
Google has positioned itself to monopolize fiber bandwidth delivery in a growing number of U.S. cities.
Its "fiberhoods" plan started in Kansas City, where Google committed to spending $100 million to build fiber rings in neighborhoods that will deliver 1 gigabit per second upload and download speeds to every home and business. Google says that's 100 times faster than the average U.S. residential broadband connection, and that speed can download feature-length movies in minutes or seconds.
Kansas City residents can subscribe to the service for $70 a month or pay $120 for a bundle of high-speed Internet, phone and cable TV. They can also tap into 5-megabit-per-second Internet access for free after a one-time $300 connection and equipment fee.
Google made similar agreements with Austin, Texas, and will likely buy the rights to a fiber loop already under construction and operated by Provo, Utah. Google is negotiating with nine additional cities, including Salt Lake City, and has targeted 34 cities as potential fiberhoods.
Burying and hanging fiber is expensive. Provo spent $39 million on its fiber ring before balking at the rising cost. That opened the door for Google to bid to finish the project, which will cost another $18 million, or about $700 per home for the 26,000 homes not yet connected, according to Forbes.
Lawless has carefully followed Google's expensive fiber grabs. Lawless says Google expects to lose millions for several years as it builds its customer base, undercutting competing carriers by about $30 a month on its Internet-phone-TV bundle while providing faster Internet service. After several years, he says, Google will monopolize digital services in its fiberhoods and rake in profits.
"Google can take losses for a long time," Lawless says. "Google has plenty of money."
He wants to beat Google and other carriers to the Boise punch. He hopes to build his own 2.6-mile fiber-optic loop and package digital services to apartment and office buildings in a manner similar to Google's.
The plan starts with the Owyhee Plaza building, the former Owyhee Hotel. The Owyhee is under renovation and set to open this summer with 32 apartments and however many businesses rent the 45,000 square feet of commercial space that will soon be available. Lawless is overseeing its fiber-optic installation.
The fiber will enable him to package 100 megabit-per-second Internet, cable TV and phone services to each customer. He says he'll charge customers around $99, the residential rate Cable One charges to bundle the same services with slower Internet speeds. Unlike many carriers, Lawless says his rates will not rise after three- or six-month introductory periods. Businesses at the Owyhee can also access state-of-the-art phone systems.
Lawless wants to build a fiber loop in an area bordered by Front, 12th, Bannock and 5th streets and sell the service bundles to businesses and new residential buildings.
"We're looking at the very heart of Downtown," he says. "Our initial focus will be on new, multitenant residential developments."
Lawless is optimistic the project is viable, though he hasn't yet figured out how much it will cost.
"This is something Voxbright is actively pursuing," he says.
Larsen, of the Idaho Technology Council, says the Treasure Valley will need similar investments, whether by Google, CenturyLink, Voxbright or other companies.
"Businesses that understand that and build the type of infrastructure necessary to support that will be the ones that survive," he says.
Schmit says CenturyLink will continue investing in its fiber network. He says he's not too worried about Google drowning out CenturyLink and the rest of the crowded field of Internet carriers in the Valley.
A gigabit-per-second connection is overkill for homes and most businesses, he claims.
"It's like having a fancy sports car," Schmit says. "It might go 200 miles per hour, but what good does that do if the speed limit is 60?"
Zach Kyle: 377-6464, Twitter: @IDS_zachkyle


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In addition to the tremendous emergency response from Hurricane Sandy, 2012 saw a year's worth of major crime and fire. Police, fire and other emergency responders saw multi-home blazes as well as water responses.
But the year also featured the emergency responders of the Manasquan-Belmar area engaged in many civic projects, too, and we dug out some of the top images from this year for a special photo gallery.
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---When UB's offensive line lost its right tackle and a backup earlier this season, the result was predictable: It became a unit in transition.
---Raise your hand if you thought Syracuse was going to be 6-2 eight games into the season?
---It took only nine weekends of one season for Notre Dame's Brian Kelly to arrive at a crisis, a startling spiral that seemed impossible a month ago but one that threatens to destabilize his tenure before it even really got started. The growing pains that have defined Kelly's first season have started to bleed into recruiting.
---Alabama has four regular-season games left and must climb just as many spots in the BCS rankings to make it back to the national-title game. Must be November.
---Auburn's 20-point win at Ole Miss somehow compromised the team's BCS rep. The Tigers dropped into the No. 2 position behind Oregon, which earned a 21-point weekend win at USC.
---Michigan State was the underdog entering Kinnick Stadium, and a loss to Iowa -- while disappointing for Spartans fans -- shouldn't have been that surprising.
---Rodney McKissic
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WENHAM, MA – The world's longest-running musical is coming to Lowell, MA for two nights only on April 25 & 26, 2014. Cameron Mackintosh's legendary production of Boublil and Schönberg's classic sweeps its audience through an epic tale of passion and destruction in 19th century France.
Regional auditions were held in December of 2013 for hundreds of individuals looking to become part of the history, nostalgia and timeless performance of the Les Mis family. We are pleased to announce that Bobby Kerrigan of Wenham, MA has been cast in the production as Javert. Bobby is currently the Postmaster for Rockport, MA and received his BS in Business Management at Northeastern University.
"Working on a renowned project such as Les Miserables evokes strong emotions from both our cast and our audience," said Corinne Hickey, Director of Les Mis. "We are fortunate to have amassed superb talent to bring this rich tale to the heart of Lowell."
Les Miserables is being presented by ACTORS, inc. The mission of ACTORS, inc is to provide high quality theatrical productions to the region while benefiting a non-profit partner committed to the betterment of our community at-large. For this production, Destination Imagination Regions 4 & 5 will be the benefactor of a majority of the proceeds.
The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts and service learning. Their participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at a tournament where everyone is brought together to compete and collaborate.
Tickets are available at www.actorsincorporated.com or by calling 978-984-3151.


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MIDLAND — A day after beating the No. 8 team in the nation, the Lamar State College-Port Arthur was dealt its first loss of the season in a 81-68 loss to South Plains College at the Midland College Classic on Saturday.
The Seahawks, now 4-1 for the season, fell behind early by as many as 10 points but recovered to tie the game with 2:25 left in the first half. It appeared the giant killers from Port Arthur would take down another nationally-ranked team during their trip to Midland.
The Cowboys, ranked No. 18 and now 4-0 for the year, picked up the pace again, retaking the lead before the end of the first half, heading into the break with a five-point advantage.
That lead continued to build as the second half started with LSC-PA falling behind by as many as 19 during a 15-1 run in the first seven minutes of the half.
The Seahawks battled but could only close the gap to within seven points.
Shondel Stewart led the Seahawks with 21 points, six rebounds and two steals while Brandon Peters scored 12 with four boards. Derrick Dawkins hit for 10 points and Elridge Moore had nine.
Marshall Henderson paced the Cowboys with 34 points.
The Seahawks return to Port Arthur for a set of games during Homecoming Week at the college, taking on Lone Star College-Tomball on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Parker Center.
Friday, the Seahawks Invitational begins with LSC-PA playing Baton Rouge Community College at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, the Seahawks take on Texas Southern JV at 2 p.m. with homecoming festivities taking place inside the Parker Center starting at 12:30 p.m.
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MIDLAND — A day after beating the No. 8 team in the nation, the Lamar State College-Port Arthur was dealt its first loss of the season in a 81-68 loss to South Plains College at the Midland College Classic on Saturday.
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Begun as a small, parish pre-school in 1959, Holy Innocents' Episcopal School has grown into one of the largest independent schools in Metro Atlanta, as well as one of the largest Episcopal schools in the United States. A fully accredited, college-preparatory day school for 3-year-old through 12th-grade boys and girls, HIES occupies 49 acres, with separate Primary, Lower, Middle, and Upper School facilities, a fine arts building, two modern gymnasiums, and sprawling athletic fields and facilities.
At every level, HIES offers an enriching program based on the Episcopal education tradition of inclusion, scholarly exploration, and respect for self and others. Academic expectations are rigorous. The arts, physical education and community service are also emphasized as important aspects of each student's development.
HIES prepares students not only for the next step in their academic careers, but also for success and satisfaction in all areas of their lives. Students develop strong foundations to address life's challenges while pursuing personal goals and gaining valuable experience in the areas that most interest them.
The goal of HIES is to provide an atmosphere that encourages students to reach their full potential and become involved and responsible citizens.
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Holy Innocents' Episcopal School offers an educational program encompassing academics, arts, athletics, and spiritual formation. Through opportunities to grow intellectually, spiritually, physically, and emotionally, students develop their individual worth and dignity. The challenging academic program prepares students for higher education and emphasizes learning as a pathway toward ethical leadership and a commitment to the common good.
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James DiMaggio fired one and possibly two rifle shots as FBI agents closed in on his campsite in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness before an FBI agent shot him dead Saturday evening, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said Monday.
Hannah Anderson, 16, was nearby when DiMaggio was shot, Gore said.
Gore also revealed that last week was not the first time DiMaggio had spent time in Idaho.
He was familiar with the country in Idaho and had been there before, Gore said at a news conference in Southern California.
He did not provide any details of DiMaggios earlier travels to the state. Idaho officials last week said they had no information on whether he had visited the state previously. There are no records of DiMaggio being arrested for any crimes or cited for traffic violations in Idaho, according to the state criminal repository.
DiMaggio is suspected of killing Hannahs mother, Christina, and her 8-year-old brother, Ethan, at DiMaggios east San Diego County home. Their bodies were found Aug. 4.
Gore said that Hannah did not learn about their deaths until an FBI agent who interviewed her in Idaho after the shootout informed her.
The sheriff rebutted suggestions that Hannah had gone willingly with DiMaggio, an old family friend. He would not say, however, whether she had been mistreated or sexually assaulted, declining to offer any details about the time they spent together.
I cant make it any clearer: She was a victim in this case. She was not a willing participant, Gore said.
Gore said Hannah is doing as well as she can considering the ordeal shes gone through.
Hannahs father, Brett Anderson, thanked by name the four Sweet residents Mike and Mary Young and Mark and Christa John whose tip about seeing DiMaggio and Hannah near Morehead Lake led to the discovery of DiMaggios car at a trailhead on Friday. Their tip helped officers quickly find the pair the next day on the edge of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
For without you, who knows how long this would have gone on, Anderson, who wore a T-shirt with an image of his daughter, said at the San Diego news conference. My family and I are eternally grateful.
Gore called the information from the four horsemen the key event in the search.
Anderson called on the public to be more accepting of Amber Alerts, which helped bring attention to his missing daughter. The alerts helped the Johns and Youngs to realize after they returned from their wilderness trip that the man and teenage girl theyd seen in the wilderness were subjects of a manhunt.
While some of you may find the Amber Alerts annoying, please pay attention. Keep your eyes open. Lets bring those children home, Brett Anderson said. No one should have to go through this.
Anderson was reunited with his daughter Sunday in Boise. They arrived back in San Diego on Monday. Brett Anderson asked the public and media to respect his familys desire for privacy.
As for my daughter, the healing process will be slow, he said. She has been through a tremendous, horrific ordeal. I am very proud of her, and I love her very much.
Details about the fatal shooting of DiMaggio remain scant. The FBI has refused to say how many times the agents fired at the campsite at Morehead Lake.
The FBI has not said how long it expects the investigation into the shooting to take.
It could be months before the results of that investigation are revealed. In the case of Ibragim Todashev, for example, who was shot to death May 27 during questioning by FBI agents in Florida, the FBI has not released details. The native Russian was being interrogated about his friendship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev of the Boston Marathon bombing. There were questions about whether he attacked an agent with a knife, was unarmed or held a metal pole. The agency has not provided any answers, and Florida officials have not investigated, deferring to the FBI.
A New York Times report in June found that from 1993 to early 2011, FBI agents fatally shot about 70 subjects and injured about 80 others. In every case, agents actions were found to be justified. Since 2011, an FBI spokesman told the newspaper, no agents have been found to have acted improperly during shootings.
The Times found that five agents out of 289 involved in shootings were disciplined for not following bureau policy. In all five cases, no one was struck by a shot. The typical punishment was placing a letter of censure in the agents personnel files.
Likewise, the agency has been silent on whether DiMaggio fired first or at all. Sheriff Gores account about DiMaggio shooting first with a rifle and firing at least once came from an FBI interview with Hannah, but wasnt released by the agency.
John Sowell: 377-6423, Twitter: @IDS_Sowell


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Medical and pharmaceutical researchers wrestle with finding meaning in big data variety and find that technology alone is still not up the task.
Is your IT service provider management strategy sufficient to tackle the cloud, SaaS and other vendor-dependent technologies? Review our recent CIO coverage and take our quiz to find out.
Uber is shaking up the taxi business, but it isn't the only mobile disruptor out there. We haven't begun to fathom the changes mobile will bring, say some Boston gurus. Plus, Dropbox lures workers and Facebook imitates Vegas in Searchlight.
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SN blogs: This week, analysts discuss how to prepare your network infrastructure to handle big data, the cost benefits of 3-D printing and what it means to have a hyper-converged network.
There are lots of technical approaches to sifting applications out of the sand pile of network traffic, but when you get down to the details, the best solutions all do it the same way: with deep packet inspection, writes Patrick Hubbard.
Expert Nick Lewis explains how to keep call center employees from getting duped by social engineering scams and pretexting.
News roundup: The revelation of potential iOS backdoors -- and Apple's perceived acknowledgement of them -- has sparked debate over the definition of a backdoor and raised concerns over iOS security.
Learn about the tools and services available that enterprises can use to determine the security of their third-party applications.
You can't measure user experience with a ruler, so measuring user experience objectively is generally a matter of aggregating subjective opinions.
Tracking defects can benefit the development team if done for the right reasons. Explore the reasons to track defects in this expert response.
Successful continuous integration requires testable acceptance criteria that help to guide developers.
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Lyon are currently 11 points clear at the top of the ProD2 and with their attention slowly turning towards next season, Smith is expected to the first of many signings for the ambitious club.
Smith played in Super Rugby last year with the Brumbies and featured against the British and Irish Lions.
The 33-year-old has been playing in Japan but previously featured in France for Toulon.
"We are delighted to welcome a player of the calibre of George Smith," said Lyon president Yann Roubert.
"We are counting on his talent, his experience and his leadership to help the team in its progression and to meet the ambitions of the club."
Lyon have also been linked with Toulon duo Pierrick Gunther and Fr�d�ric Michalak, while former France captain Lionel Nallet plus Argentina duo Juan Manuel Leguizam�n and Nicol�s Vergallo are currently on their books.


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Almost three months after announcing the Pharos GPS phone, the handset has officially been released for sale as of this week. Two versions will be available now (as expected) with the 600 model selling for $699.95 and the 600E going for $599.95. The 600E lacks the complete maps of North America and the Ostia navigation package from Pharos itself for $100 less. Both handsets, of course, come with the SiRFstar III GPS chip and WM5, WiFi and all other normally brandished smartphone goodies like Bluetooth and a 2 megapixel cam. Now that this beast is upon us at the $700 and $600 price tags, will you bite? That's quite a bit steep for a phone without 3G support, but if you're, umm, really chomping at the bit for a $700 GPS phone by a new manufacturer, here's your next phone.
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James Joo
Assistant Professor and Joint Appointee, UDRI
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School of Engineering: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Location: Building 146 Room 219
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Selected Publications
- Joo, J.J., and B. Sanders. Forthcoming. Optimal location of distributed actuators within an in-plane multi-cell morphing mechanism. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
- Inoyama, D., B. Sanders, and J.J. Joo. 2008. Topology optimization approach for the determination of multiple-configuration morphing wing structures. Journal of Aircraft 45, no. 6: 1853-1863.
- Joo, J. J., B. Sanders, and G. Washington. 2006. Energy based efficiency of adaptive structure systems. Smart Materials and Structures 15: 171-181.
Courses Taught
- Theory of Machines
- Kinematic Principles in Design
- Design Optimization
- Compliant Mechanisms and Structures
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1997
- B.S., Mechanical Design and Production Engineering, Han Yang University, Seoul, Korea, 1994
Professional Activities
- American Society of Mechanical Engineering: Member
- Adaptive Structures and Materials Technical Committee Member in Aerospace Division
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Senior Member
- Adaptive Structures Technical Committee Member
Research Interests
- Compliant mechanism design (for micro, meso and macro scale application)
- Adaptive/smart structure design
- Kinematics
- Topology optimization
- Morphing aircraft structure design
- Multi-functional material design


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Point/Counterpoint - Mutt vs. Thunderbird
In our argument...I mean, in our last column, we discussed the pros and cons of owning a large laptop versus a small one. This month, we delve into something a little more personal: choice of mail client software and why one would want to use a text-based mail client over one that's graphical.
Bill: I'm a Thunderbird user, and Kyle prefers the retro-exoticism of Mutt. I'll let Kyle kick off the conversation, as I'm sure he'll have something pithy to say about what an amazing and cool mail program Mutt is.
Kyle: For starters, let's talk about startup times. Because Mutt is so lightweight, I don't even notice the startup times. For instance, I just timed how long it took me to start Mutt and have it open the INBOX and then exit as fast as I could:
greenfly@minimus:~$ time mutt Mailbox is unchanged. real 0m0.782s user 0m0.096s sys 0m0.036s
That's right, 0.8 seconds. I could have been even faster, but my reflexes are slowing in my old age. In fact, Mutt starts up so fast, that unlike other programs on my desktop—cough, Firefox cough—I don't have to leave it open. I just press a hotkey and launch it when I have new e-mail.
Bill: I just timed Thunderbird, and it took about ten seconds to start up and be done checking mail. Thunderbird may take ten seconds to launch and check mail in all my folders, but it's not like ten seconds is a large amount of time. Once it's open, I leave it open until I'm done with the computer, so it's a ten-second hit, once. There's more to life than raw speed. Good luck with LDAP lookups for corporate address books using Mutt.
Kyle: Oh yes, ten seconds sure sounds a lot like 0.8 seconds. And yes, LDAP lookups. I guess that would be a problem if Mutt weren't so extensible. Because you can make its query command anything you want, you can point to any script. The Internet was kind enough to provide an LDAP query script for me, and other people have queried Gmail and other contact databases.
Bill: Whatever. You need Postfix or some other MTA to send e-mail. What kind of ridiculousness is that? Yeah, another server process on my laptop to maintain and troubleshoot. That sounds like a great idea. Thunderbird can talk SMTP (and even SMTP over TLS, shocking though it may seem!) natively. Even Eudora has enough brains to talk to an SMTP server natively, and that was back in 1994. Oh, wait. You use Mutt. Hey, Kyle, 1989 called; they want their VT-100 back.
Kyle: Who needs to talk to an MTA directly when every Linux system has its own mail server? A local mail server will handle delivering my mail much better and stabler than any client could. What ever happened to "Do one thing and do it well"?
Bill: That's arguable, but beyond the scope of this column. Besides, Mutt has other things that drive me batty...like the user interface. It drives me insane. It's hyper-pedantic. Gotta mark all messages as read? Ctrl-Alt-D+*+infinity sign or something. It's so much easier to right-click on the Inbox and say "Mark all as read" in Thunderbird.
Kyle: Yeah, easier up front and slower for the rest of time. Sure Mutt uses keybindings (familiar ones if you have ever used vim), but the learning curve pays off big-time as you blow through your mail. I can launch Mutt, read through all my new mail, and close it, before Bill's Thunderbird process finishes loading.
Bill: But, then I lose a valuable caffeine break. I click on Thunderbird, have a sip of Coke Zero, and take a quick peek at the latest LOLcats while it loads—no bother at all. What about mail delivery to Mutt? It doesn't support IMAP IDLE, does it? If you're all about speed, you'd want that feature. I seem to remember being more "on top" of e-mail than you were, back when we sat across from each other.
Kyle: The only systems I've ever noticed any IMAP issues on, were ones back-ended on Exchange. Mutt always has gotten fast notifications from my Linux-based IMAP servers.
Bill: And, Exchange is perhaps the most popular mail server in corporate environments.
Kyle: What about the RAM footprint? I wanted to get some metrics for this column from top, but when I launched it and sorted by RAM, Mutt didn't even show up on the console. I had to stretch my terminal until it filled the entire screen before I could find the Mutt process.
Bill: My Thunderbird process shows it eating, I mean, using 128MB of RAM. I don't mind, I have 4 gigs in this thing. What about calendar integration? Thunderbird offers a plugin called Lightning to integrate my Google Calendar in one interface. Try that with Mutt.
Kyle: Oh, that's right—you have a Sport Utility Laptop with 4GB of RAM. In any case, I never understood checking your calendar with your e-mail program. It always seemed like two unrelated things—unless I guess you were born and raised on Outlook.
Bill: Here's a clue: most of the world was born and raised on Outlook.
Kyle: My magic eight ball says "Outlook not so good." Anyway, another great thing about Mutt is that I can check my e-mail from any system in the world, provided I can get access to putty (if it's Windows) or a Linux terminal to ssh into my server. Bill has to download and install Thunderbird, configure it, and then pay for another hour at the Internet café.
Bill: No, that's when I use my BlackBerry. If that's your "speed" use case, I'll put my quickdraw BlackBerry up against your mini laptop anytime, Black Bart.
Kyle: Certainly sounds like Thunderbird is great, since you have to supplement it with one or two other mail clients.
Bill: Man, my grandmother "gets" Thunderbird. I put Mutt in front of her, and I may as well have asked her to prove Ohm's Law using calculus.
Kyle: Ohm's Law, eh? Well not everyone shows such resistance (pun intended) to Mutt. Another thing Mutt got right is configurability. Just about anything you would want to configure, you can configure in Mutt. At first, I spent some time getting things just right, but ultimately, Mutt is like a finely tailored suit—you do a few tweaks here and there, and then it fits you perfectly. These days, I almost never change any settings.
Bill: Thunderbird has tons of configurabilty. It's a Mozilla-spawned app, not a GNOME-spawned app. And, who spends a lot of time configuring a mail client? Set it up, point it at your mailbox, and you're done. Fire and forget. I guess pedantic people would tweak their mail settings periodically, so they'd want a pedantic client.
Kyle: I know I mentioned vi keybindings, but that bears repeating—there's nothing quite like being able to manage the entire e-mail program strictly from the keyboard and even have it do all the really heavy lifting for me. There are configurable hooks for everything. So, if I want a particular signature for my LUG e-mails and a different one for my friends, Mutt takes care of it for me.
Bill: Vi keybindings, yeah yeah. I just showed my wife, Kelly, what Mutt looks like. She said, "Mutt looks like something I'd use on the Commodore 64. Kyle uses that? What's that about?"
Kyle: That's because it probably could run on a Commodore 64. Thunderbird's RAM footprint couldn't even be stored on one.
Bill: I come back to your speed argument again. I just timed Thunderbird starting up, checking mail in all folders and shutting down, and it took six seconds this time. That's not "get up and go to the bathroom" time, that's barely a couple blinks.
Kyle: No, that happens if you ever want to do something like use Thunderbird with local maildirs. The entire thing goes down the crapper.
Bill: And why would you want to do that? Store it all on the server. IMAP for the win.
Kyle: Hey, if your laptop is always on-line, why not use Gmail? For me, I like to be able to reference archived e-mail no matter what connection I have. Mutt can handle just about any e-mail source you can throw at it.
Bill: If that's an issue, just set Thunderbird to cache e-mail locally, then. Configurability.
Kyle: Then there's the mailing-list support. It's hard to beat Mutt for managing multiple folders of mailing lists. It makes it easy to sort through threads without thinking every IMAP folder is for a mailing list.
Bill: Thunderbird has a threaded reader mode.
Kyle: Must be fun to set that every time.
Bill: It's a couple clicks. What do you have against a mouse?
Kyle: I can type at almost 100 words per minute. I don't even know how to manage mouse speed, but I know it's slower. Back to configurability, managing PGP is a breeze with Mutt. You even can have it sign and encrypt replies to encrypted messages automatically, or have it always encrypt messages to particular people.
Bill: Managing PGP is easy with Thunderbird too—simply add the Enigmail plugin and configure it. It has all those features you mention.
Kyle: All of this support is built in. I didn't have to grab any plugins, and it still doesn't take up much RAM.
Bill: And, it still looks like a Commodore 64 application and is deliberately obtuse.
Kyle: Turn in your geek card now. All the geeks I know think looking like a Commodore 64 application is a bonus—especially on my green-on-black terminal.
Bill: Having a geek card is for geeks, man. You'll learn this when you surpass "system architect" and become an "IT Manager". And I told you, 1989 called; they want their VT-100 back.
Kyle: Ahhh, I see what happened. One step into management, and Bill started pointing and clicking at everything. Next thing you know, he'll be complaining because he can't embed his PowerPoint presentation into the body of his Thunderbird e-mail.
Bill: Hey, even you dug the data-center calculator spreadsheet I came up with. Fear my OpenOffice.org mojo. I seem to remember you wanting to learn the formula-fu for that one.
Kyle: Heh, I don't remember that part. I'd be too scared I'd wake up the next morning with pointy hair.
Bill: You have to have hair long enough to be pointy.
Kyle: Back on topic, man. Another great thing about Mutt is that it makes it easy to check local mail on any server in your environment. It's much better than installing X libs, or firing up less on /var/spool/mail/.
Bill: Now that is a point I will concede, which is why I do maintain a Mutt instance on my colo'd server to access via ssh. But, I use it only about once a year. And, every time I do, I feel the pain of the interface. Reminds me of the first time I tried to use Debian's dselect program.
Kyle: Do you remember when you had too many messages in your INBOX to delete, and Thunderbird choked? I remember you asking me about my mutt-fu then too.
Bill: No, that was Exchange's IMAP support choking, not Thunderbird. I have more messages in my Zimbra mail, and it handles mass deletes just fine.
Kyle: Ahh, yet another mail program, eh? Right. All I know is how quickly Mutt churned through all of those e-mail messages.
Bill: Back to speed again. For a guy who drives a Honda, you're sure obsessed with speed.
Kyle: I'm more obsessed with efficiency than speed in both my car and my mail client. What it ultimately comes down to is efficiency in the user interface and RAM footprint, along with the fact that I can tweak just about any setting I don't like. E-mail is just one of the many things I deal with in a day, so I like to get in, get out and get on with my work. The fact that I can access the same mail client on any computer and even use it on each of my servers is a bonus. In conclusion, it has vi keybindings. Enough said.
Kyle Rankin is a Senior Systems Administrator in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of a number of books, including Knoppix Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks for O'Reilly Media. He is currently the president of the North Bay Linux Users' Group.
Bill Childers is an IT Manager in Silicon Valley, where he lives with his wife and two children. He enjoys Linux far too much, and he probably should get more sun from time to time. In his spare time, he does work with the Gilroy Garlic Festival, but he does not smell like garlic.
Kyle Rankin is a director of engineering operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, the author of a number of books including DevOps Troubleshooting and The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and is a columnist for Linux Journal.
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Loved this article. I just switched from Apple Mail to Mutt. The only troublesome thing is dealing with HTML email, but it just makes me want to unsubscribe from those and to start using a feed reader properly.
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It's a really fun way to point strenght/weakness on both clients.
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When confronted, a man who was puncturing tires in a city park parking lot responded by allegedly slashing and stabbing one person and stabbing another, said Manhattan Beach Police Detective Mike Rosenberger.
The incident took place between 10:55 and 11 p.m. on Dec. 26 in the parking lot of Marine Avenue Park, 1625 Marine Avenue. The two stabbing victims declined medical treatment, said Rosenberger.
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Eastern Kentucky University has announced the selection of Dr. Thomas Erekson as the new dean of its College of Business and Technology.
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This month marks the anniversary of the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, the legislative centerpiece of President Lyndon Baine Johnson's War on Poverty.
President Johnson declared the War on Poverty in his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964:
This administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join me in that effort...
Poverty is a national problem, requiring improved national organization and support. But this attack, to be effective, must also be organized at the State and local level.
For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington. It must be won in the field, in every private home, in every public office, from the courthouse to the White House.
Very often, a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom.
Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but to cure it–and above all, to prevent it.
No single piece of legislation, however, is going to suffice.
Johnson made the War on Poverty the central concern of the nation, but as he noted in his SOTU address, it also required several bills and acts to create programs meant to alleviate poverty and improve the living standard for the poor. It also required presidential leadership and partisan compromise.
A half a century later, poverty has fallen off the national agenda. Furthermore, according to a recent Associated Press survey of economists, think tanks and academics finds that the poverty rate is set to rise to 15.7 percent this year, the highest levels since the EOA was adopted. What's more, the presidential candidates aren't addressing the poor in this election. Instead, both the Obama and Romney campaigns are battling for the middle class.
In 2008, President Obama cast himself as a "lifelong advocate for the poor," and presented an agenda for how he would fight poverty. But in this election, he seems reluctant to do so, perhaps because it could be used as another sign of economic decline during his tenure. To be fair, the White House does claim that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act "included broad investments to alleviate the poverty made worse by economic crisis," but that is the only accomplishment on poverty touted on the White House website.
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has made clear that he is more concerned about the middle class because the poor have a safety net. In an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien earlier this year, Romney said:
By the way, I'm in this race because I care about Americans. I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling. I'll continue to take that message across the nation.
(Note: He reiterated his position in a follow-up question from O'Brien.)
Given the new information regarding the rise in poverty rates, should the candidates debate how to address poverty and the safety net?
In contrast to the candidates in the 2012 election, conversations from the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program reveal just how passionate President Johnson was about the fight against poverty. Below are some highlights from our archives.
- A July 25, 1964 call with Chicago Mayor Daley demonstrates the President's focus on the Job Corps as the core of the War on Poverty, and it reflects an assumption by both men that the program will be controlled at the local level by the mayor's office.
- A July 29, 1964 call with Texas Congressman George Mahon offers an example of how Johnson targeted conservatives by selling the War on Poverty in terms of improving the work habits of the poor and providing them with job and training opportunities
- A July 30, 1964 call with Francis Smith demonstrates how President Johnson viewed the War on Poverty as a direct solution to racial tensions. The President also urged Smith to lobby Republicans to support the War on Poverty legislation that would soon be voted on in the House of Representatives.
- Following his victory in the 1964 election, President Johnson compares his poverty program to the abolition of slavery.
- With a vote imminent on EOA in the House of Representatives, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs (and Johnson's 1964 campaign director) Larry O'Brien tells the President in this August 7, 1964 call "if we can just keep the boys that should be sober, sober, and the ones that should be drinking, drinking, that's our job for the afternoon." In a call with Special Assistant Bill Moyers on the same day, Johnson expressed concern with the anti-poverty legislation as written by his aides and tells Moyers: "I'm going to re-write your poverty program."
Check out the Miller Center's full archive of presidential recordings on the War on Poverty here. Also worth checking out are presentations from the Miller Center's 2007 conference, which re-evaluated the War on Poverty from the perspectives of grassroots activists who sought to harness the Johnson administration's federal antipoverty initiatives to advance their local campaigns for racial and economic justice.


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WWJR: What would Jesus run?
You would think that during the 13 years of Catholic school I proudly survived (one, interestingly, in which Bill O'Reilly was my 10th grade American History teacher at Monsignor Edward Pace High School in suburban Miami), I would have remembered the part about Christianity and capitalism being one and the same thing.
Yet, over the last couple of days, I've had interactions — I wouldn't necessarily call them "conversations" — with a Christian blogger who posted comments on my last two blogs, and who seems to think that those of us who are advocating FOSS are a bunch of pot-smoking, porn-surfing "librals"(his word, not mine) who are part of a communist plot to overrun the U.S. Not only this, it appears his beliefs run along the lines that Christianity and capitalism are synonymous, inseparably joined at the hip.
[As an aside, there is a great song by Todd Snider, "Conservative Christian Right-Wing Republican Straight White American Males" and the YouTube watch is well worth it.]
Nevertheless, the false theory that capitalism and Christianity are one and the same — the CEO Jesus Version 1.0 that this blogger seems to deify — started me thinking about a couple of things, namely:
- He's wrong about Jesus being a hardline capitalist, and I'll just point to Matthew 21:12 for starters (other examples abound in the Bible), where " . . . Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves . . . ." Of course, that would give Jesus something in common with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the furniture tossing department, but I digress; and
- If Jesus were a computer user, he'd definitely use GNU/Linux and not BSD, for clearly symbolic reasons. But what distro would he run?
Someone already beat me to the second part of that thought, actually. In the blog openjesus.org, Jesus "wrote" last May the following item:
"In my office I have a few machines, none more important than my Ubuntu box called king. I recently upgraded it to Feisty Fawn, so like some of you I'm going through a bit of an adjustment with some little things. Beryl quit working right, for instance. I could throw a miracle at it or fire up the old omniscience to just know how to fix it, but sometimes even Jesus likes to work things out. I'm a pretty good troubleshooter in my own right, I'll have you know, and as a recent convert from Gentoo I sort of need something to be broken a little bit to really feel like my Linux desktop is dialed in. I'm sure some of you understand."
As I wait for the laughter to die down, I have to say that this site could very well be the best satirical site ever (and the line about Gentoo — very true!). No, I'm not just saying that to curry favor with the author.
But it may answer the question what Jesus would run on his desktop. I would have voted for Ubuntu Christian Edition, but never mind. Now His laptop . . . I would be willing to bet Debian is somewhere in the mix, whether it's Etch or a distro in the Debian family.
(Larry Cafiero is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
Felton Diary: Chopping wood, carrying water
March 25-26, 2008 — Felton, California
During my Zen training in the early to mid-1990s at the San Francisco Zen Center, there was an expression that still revolves around these Buddhist circles that one has to take the responsibility of chopping wood and carrying water. The meaning here — in case you ever find yourself facing a wall in meditation or, gasp, facing a Zen roshi, or master — is that life is filled with mundane tasks that need to be done.
Lindependence 2008 lately is filled with chopping wood and carrying water, although sometimes the work seems like chopping water and carrying wood. But I digress . . . .
In the last diary installment, I mentioned that I was a little taken aback by the response — or lack thereof, mostly — of distros and FOSS programs to come running to participate in this project. To me, this project is a natural — bringing their distros and programs to a community and having both the community, and their software, flourish.
However, I discounted the human factor where human contact plays a significant role. So out with solely using the ether of the Internet, and in with making my contact with potential participants a little more personal.
Discussions with OpenOffice.org and PCLinuxOS point to probable support going forward, and that's heartening. So, in sending out a second wave of e-mails, I may start to make calls as well asking for support — just to remind you that there is a human behind the words that grace the screen in front of you.
Incidentally, if you haven't heard from me and want to participate in Lindependence 2008 — or if you want your favorite distro or FOSS program to participate — e-mail me immediately at lcafiero-at-fixedbylinux-dot-com and I'll get the process started.
There's only a little over three months left, which may seem like a lot of time, but looking at the amount of work ahead of the team, it's not a lot. The earlier people get on board, the faster the bandwagon goes.
Clear and cool, as late March tends to be, a mile down the road from the Bigfoot Museum in the HeliOS Solutions West office in Felton.
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
It's official: Microsoft's concerned about GNU/Linux
Without fanfare (as expected), Microsoft filed its 10-K form to the Security and Exchange Commission.
In it, however, we find that Microsoft bemoans the fact that their "business model," well, might tend to suck in comparison to the open source business model. Not only that — and maybe you should sit down for this — all that, ahem, innovation stemming from Redmond might suffer because they would have to lower their prices to keep competitive.
Let's take a look, shall we? Some of the more tasty, entertaining morsels are:
"Our business model has been based upon customers paying a fee to license software that we developed and distributed . . . . In recent years, certain "open source" software business models have evolved into a growing challenge to our license-based software model.
[And for this we are truly thankful.]
"Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is subject to a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other software and redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the license . . . . A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system."
[Wait for it . . ]
"Although we believe our products provide customers with significant advantages in security, productivity and total cost of ownership (emphasis added to highlight both the audacity and humor of this clause), the popularization of the open source software model continues to pose a significant challenge to our business model . . .
[When you stop laughing, I'll continue.]
" . . .including continuing efforts by proponents of open source software to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of open source software in their purchase and deployment of software products.
[For this we are truly thankful.]
"To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline."
[One can only hope.]
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)


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Tobacco Island Wildlife Management Area has reopened to public access, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
Tobacco Island, in Cass County south of Plattsmouth, and Hamburg Bend in Otoe County had been closed so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could repair levies and river chutes on these areas.
The Cassgram reports the work is completed and the areas are open to hunting, fishing and other allowable uses.


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Seahawks fans were caught gawking and posing for photos around one of the more artistic team tributes seen in Seattle this weekend.
Bonney Lake chain saw artist Jacob Lucas placed his latest creation in the back of his pick-up truck and took it on a tour of Seattle.
"12th man pride, that's what it's saying," said Lucas of the Native American influenced carving that he etched out during the last three weeks.
The six-foot tall sculpture is made from two cedar logs. It features a Seahawk head and ornate carvings of feathers and moccasins etched with a "12" and the space needle on the belt buckle.
"I like it because it reflects back to our Native American heritage around here. It's something we're really proud of in this city," said Rebecka Shea, as she saw the sculpture cruise by her Pioneer Square office building.
Lucas said he carved the Seahawk to combine his love the Hawks with his Native American heritage.
"I would personally love to see it back in the city – in the stadium – for everyone to enjoy," said Lucas.
Related links:
Jacob Lucas' website ChainsawArt.org


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Fuel program for Afghan army jeopardized by missing records
- By Charles S. Clark
- September 10, 2012
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A $1.1 billion program to supply fuel to the Afghan army as it struggles to take over from U.S. troops fighting the Taliban is lacking proper records detailing available funds and inventory, in part because many documents have been improperly shredded, auditors reported Monday.
The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction sent letters to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and regional commanders requesting immediate action to repair the petroleum, oil and lubricants program that the U.S. Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan has been providing to the Afghan National Army.
"During the conduct of this audit," the letter said, the U.S. training command working on the transition of authority to Afghan commanders "informed us that its officials shredded all ANA POL financial records related to payments totaling nearly $475 million from October 2006 to February 2011." Because shredding these documents is a violation of Defense Department and U.S. Army policies, "SIGAR would like to reiterate the importance of retaining all financial records given the importance of accountability, transparency, and oversight." The IG asked Panetta to look into the causes and circumstances of the document destruction.
A second document, an interim report released by Special Inspector General John Sopko, concluded that the U.S. command in Afghanistan "does not have accurate or supportable information on how much in U.S. funds are needed for ANA fuel, where and how the fuel is used, or how much fuel has been lost or stolen." It offers corrective actions to be taken before the deadline of Jan. 1, 2013, when much of the fuel program will be taken over by the Afghanistan government using direct U.S. payments.
The auditors recommended a reduction in funds for the fuel program and creation of an action plan to improve record-keeping. Commenting on a draft report, the training command disagreed with the proposal to cut funds.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday announced that its National Security Subcommittee will examine the SIGAR report "sounding the alarm about potential waste in the U.S. taxpayer funded" program.
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A revolution in the making? Massive open online courses aim to change the face of online education
If you're like most high school students, you may have heard about the importance of going to college, and how you need to prepare in order to succeed when you get there. But what are college classes really like?
Now you can find out, by taking classes from some of the most prestigious schools in the country — for free! How is this possible? Through a development in distance education known as massive online open courses, or MOOCs. This approach to online education has recently been building momentum.
Distance education, of course, has been around for a long time, and including online courses as part of a college curriculum is nothing new. In fact, online courses are more popular than ever: a recent study found that more than 6 million college students took at least one college course online in the fall 2010 term, representing 31% of all college students nationwide.
These courses, however, are for the most part offered by traditional universities as part of a blended approach to college education, or by an increasing number of online only institutions; in both cases, students are charged tuition and the class sizes are limited.
As the name suggests, MOOCs operate according to a very different educational model: students pay no fee to enroll, and class size is theoretically unlimited. As a result, many MOOCs have enrollments in the tens of thousands.
The MOOC trend takes off
Remarkably, universities and private companies are racing to get into the MOOC arena at the ground floor. The first MOOC to garner widespread attention was offered by a Stanford University professor in the fall of 2011; that professor has gone on to found Udacity, a private company that offers more than a dozen courses in science, math, and computer programming. Since then, Stanford has partnered with a number of prestigious schools (including Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Rice University, the Berklee College of Music, and the University of London) to offer MOOCs in a wide range of fields through a company called Coursera. Harvard University, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley have since partnered to offer their own MOOC platform, called edX.
Those are some heavy hitters, but what does this mean to you? For now, it means you can sign up to get a taste of what the best schools in the country have to offer. While completing the course means you'll learn a lot, for the most part, you won't get college credit. But that may be changing: students enrolled in courses offered by edX or Udacity have the option to take proctored exams for credit (albeit for an $89 fee), and at least one university has announced that it will grant students transfer credit for one of these courses.
It's a small inroad into the traditional college system, but the world of MOOCs is off to a gallop. Who knows? By the time you get to college, you may be able to save a little tuition money by taking a class through a MOOC — all while learning from instructors at world-class universities.


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Water Parks
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- Golf
Miniature Golf
- --Fantasia Gardens
- --Winter Summerland
- Parasailing
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IllumiNations Cruises
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see Epcot's IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth spectacular
in style? Consider renting a Pontoon Boat from the Yacht and
Beach Club Marina or the Boardwalk Marina!
Pontoon Boats -- One option for an IllumiNations cruise is to rent a pontoon boat. The boat will accommodate a maximum of 10 guests. The pontoon has a canopy, and has some drink holders. When you rent a pontoon it belongs to your party for the show; meaning the only people there will be the ones you've invited! The price for a pontoon IllumiNations Cruise starts at $346.13, for a maximum of 10 people. Cost includes a driver. Food and beverage items are available through Yacht Club Private Dining at 407-934-3160. You may not bring your own food or beverages on board.
RESERVATIONS for all cruises are made by calling 407-WDW-PLAY, between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., up to 180 days in advance. You must provide a credit card to hold the reservation. You must cancel at least 24 hours in advance or your card will be charged.
NOTE: Be sure to call ahead for the reservation.
Deb's Mini-Review: Boats sit under the International Gateway bridge for viewing IllumiNations, but not right next to each other, so you feel like you're having a private viewing. You have a wonderful view of the water fountains, laser ball, and fireworks. From what I can remember, there is a partial view of France (behind you on the right) and the UK (on your left). There are also partial views of Mexico, Germany, Italy, China and the US. Canada and Japan are not visible.
A Birthday or Celebration Fireworks Cruise is also available, which includes a pontoon fully decorated along with the amenities listed above.
for 1.5 hours on the lake and enjoy VIP fireworks viewing.
Price: $346.13 for the 25' Pontoon (with Audio) (price admits up to 10) PLUS $25.00 for birthday decorations.
Hours: Departs 30 minutes prior to IllumiNations at Epcot or 30 minutes prior to Wishes at the Magic Kingdom.
Read About or Rate IllumiNations Cruises HERE.
Read About or Rate Wishes Cruises HERE.
NOTE 2/10: The Breathless II will be unavailable until further notice due to unforeseen maintenance issues.
Breathless is the motor boat named after the Dick Tracy character. It is a 24-foot ChrisCraft reproduction of a 1930 runabout powered by MerCruiser 350 cubic inch engine, reaching speeds of 50 mph! It has bench seats and can accommodate 6 guests maximum. The boat is not covered.
Cost for Breathless for IllumiNations starts at $275 (plus tax) for up to 6 guests and includes a driver.
NOTE: You can also ride on the Breathless during the day. Excursions depart from the marina daily 2:30 - 5:50 p.m. The price is $95 per 30 minutes.


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The mission of the South Dakota Board of Massage Therapy is to protect the health and safety of the public by mandatory licensure of qualified persons and enforcement of the statutes, rules, and regulations governing the practice of Massage Therapy, including processing and investigating properly filed complaints and holding hearings as warranted.
To file a complaint with the Board, please complete a complaint form and submit it to the Board of Massage Therapy at email@example.com.
The Board reviews and investigates complaints against massage therapists or people practicing massage therapy without a license. These complaints are resolved both formally and informally. Formal actions by the Board are noted below.
Board Actions
2013 – No disciplinary actions reported as of October 1, 2013
2012 – Jerry L. Boes, License #71 - License Revoked - August 2012
– Megan S. Thurman, License #975 - Public Reprimand - April 2012
2011 – There were no disciplinary actions.
2010 – There were no disciplinary actions.
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2008 – There were no disciplinary actions.
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HAUNTING USC: An Installation by Doug Jarvis
Haunting USC is an investigation of human perception in an increasingly virtualized and mediated world. Artist Doug Jarvis will inhabit a physical and psychic site within the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
Description:Doug Jarvis explores the phenomenon of "persistence of personality" as a way of engaging with the potential of the human imaginary. Drawing on his individual and collective projects he will construct an action-based, media collage as a temporary installation within the gallery, culminating in a public discussion on Thursday, March 7 at 3:00 p.m.
Jarvis, a founding member of the avatar performance art group Second Front, and the art collective Noxious Sector, presents an exploration of the potential of existing in the world in a variety of dimensions and forms.
For more information visit: crcc.usc.edu
Presented by the Interdisciplinary Research Group CRCC, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, and USC Archaeology.