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Kindle Paperwhite For Dummies, 2nd Edition
By: Leslie H. Nicoll
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 28-JAN-2014
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Overview: Kindle Paperwhite For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Get the inside story on the all-new Kindle Paperwhite with help from For Dummies It reads like a book, but it's so much more. The Kindle Paperwhite is the ultimate e-reader, and this updated edition of Kindle Paperwhite For Dummies is your ultimate guide to getting more from this one-of-a-kind device. You'll learn to set up your Paperwhite, adjust the font to your liking, find your favorite books, magazines, and newspapers, and sync your Kindle content across devices before moving on to new Paperwhite features like Kindle FreeTime, Goodreads integration, Vocabulary Builder, In-line...
By: Nancy C. Muir
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 10-DEC-2013
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Overview: Kindle Fire HDX For Dummies
Spark your interest in Kindle Fire HDX and start burning through books, movies, music, and more with this bestselling guide! The Kindle Fire HDX is Amazon's premiere tablet. With its new, more powerful Android operating system, this latest version has some exciting bells and whistles along with the features that have made the Fire a tablet fan favorite: access to the amazing Amazon Appstore, online music storage, a large music and video store, a huge e-book library, and easy one-step ordering from Amazon. This full-color, For Dummies guide shows you how to take advantage of all the...
By: Jennifer Ackerman Kettell
Publisher: Que
Publication Date: 06-FEB-2014
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Overview: My Kindle Fire HDX
Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Kindle Fire HDX photos that show you exactly what to do Help when you run into Kindle Fire HDX problems or limitations Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Kindle Fire HDX Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Kindle Fire HDX working just the way you want. Learn how to: Quickly set up your Kindle Fire HDX or HD Connect to practically any network, including unlisted WiFi networks Smoothly transfer content between cloud, computer, and tablet Find your favorite books,...
By: Bernard Jolivalt
Publisher: Pearson France
Publication Date: 05-APR-2013
Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013
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Overview: Kindle Fire
Découvrez les fonctionnalités de votre tablette Kindle Fire. Facile à consulter, cet ouvrage est un concentré d'astuces et de conseils qui vous permettront d'utiliser efficacement et agréablement votre tablette Kindle Fire. À chaque page, vous découvrirez, exposé sans aucun jargon technique, un nouveau réglage ou une nouvelle manipulation pour maîtriser les fonctionnalités les plus simples comme les plus complexes de votre tablette. Vous apprendrez comment télécharger des livres et les lire, écouter de la musique, créer des listes de lecture et regarder de la vidéo ou des photos. Ce...
Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
By: Peter Meyers
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 28-JAN-2013
Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013
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Overview: Kindle Fire HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
Amazon's Kindle Fire HD combines the most popular e-reader and tablet features in one sleek package, and with this entertaining guide, you'll master everything the Fire has to offer. With loads of illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and savvy tips, you'll learn how to manage your media library in the cloud, find the coolest apps, and make the most of your Kindle Fire experience—no matter which model you choose....
Kindle Fire: Visual QuickStart Guide
By: Scott McNulty
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication Date: 12-DEC-2012
Insert Date: 06-JAN-2013
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Overview: Kindle Fire: Visual QuickStart Guide
This task-based tutorial and reference guide is packed with practical guidance for people who want to jump in and start using the Kindle Fire. Written by Scott McNulty--known for his in-depth knowledge of and enthusiasm for the Kindle platform--this essential companion features eye-catching graphics and screen-shots and a clean design to help readers get the most out of Amazon's touchscreen tablet. Scott guides Kindle Fire users through Amazon's rich content ecosystem, showing readers how to: Purchase or rent movies and TV shows Find and download popular apps and games Buy and...
By: Jim Cheshire; Jennifer Kettell
Publisher: Que
Publication Date: 03-DEC-2012
Insert Date: 05-DEC-2012
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Overview: My Kindle Fire HD
My Kindle Fire HD Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Amazon Kindle Fire HD photos that show you exactly what to do Help when you run in to Amazon Kindle Fire problems or limitations Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Amazon Kindle Fire Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping Your Amazon Kindle Fire working just the way you want. Learn how to • Quickly master all the basics: reading, playing, watching, browsing, and more • Read an eBook and listen to the audiobook at the same time • Read...
Learning Android™ Application Programming for the Kindle Fire™: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First Android Application
By: Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 13-JUL-2012
Insert Date: 17-JUN-2012
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Overview: Learning Android™ Application Programming for the Kindle Fire™: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First Android Application
Master Android™ App Development for Amazon's Bestselling Kindle Fire™—Hands-On, Step-by-Step! In this book, bestselling Android programming authors Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder teach you every skill and technique you need to write production-quality apps for Amazon Kindle Fire, the world's hottest Android tablet. You'll learn the very best way: by building a complete app from start to finish. Every chapter builds on what you've already learned, helping you construct, expand, and extend your working app as you move through the entire development lifecycle. Packed with fully tested,...
Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max
By: Mark Rollins
Publisher: Apress
Publication Date: 24-MAR-2012
Insert Date: 10-MAY-2012
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Overview: Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max
You've just purchased a Kindle Fire. How do you set it up? How do you secure it? What can you do with it? In Taking Your Kindle Fire to the Max, you'll learn how to set up email, social networking, videos, music, eBooks, contacts, calendar, and navigation. Once you've discovered how to set up your accounts, check your email, and connect to the internet, you learn advanced moves that will make your Kindle Fire use similar to your laptop or desktop computing, granting you an unlimited mobile life. What you'll learn Enjoy watching videos, reading eBooks, and listening to movies with...
Introduction to Android™ App Development for the Kindle Fire™
By: Lauren Darcey; Shane Conder
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 13-APR-2012
Insert Date: 23-APR-2012
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Overview: Introduction to Android™ App Development for the Kindle Fire™
Get Started Fast with Android App Development for Amazon's Best-Selling Kindle Fire! Practically overnight, the Amazon Kindle Fire has become the world's top-selling Android-based tablet. Now, in this electronic-only mini-book, expert Android developers provide an introduction to the basics of Kindle Fire development. Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder first introduce you to Android and walk you through installing its latest development tools. Next, you'll learn the essential design principles you need to write Android Kindle Fire apps, discover how Android applications are structured and...
Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual
By: Peter Meyers
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 21-FEB-2012
Insert Date: 11-FEB-2012
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Overview: Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual
Enter a bright new world of entertainment with Amazon's red hot tablet. This guide lights the way with lots of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for browsing the Web, emailing, playing games, downloading apps, and viewing books, movies, and magazines in blazing color. Learn how to manage your media library on the Fire and in the cloud. (First edition covers only the original Kindle Fire sold between November, 2011 and September, 2012. For later models, please see Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual, 2nd edition.)...
By: Jim Cheshire
Publisher: Que
Publication Date: 11-JAN-2012
Insert Date: 25-JAN-2012
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Overview: My Kindle Fire
My Kindle Fire is the most comprehensive one-stop guide to the all-new Kindle Fire tablet device. With this book you will learn how to tap into every Kindle Fire feature, including many of the hidden ones not discussed in other books. From setting up your Kindle Page, managing your music, watching movies, and downloading content - this book covers everything. The task based full-color format allows you to quickly and easily find the exact task you want to accomplish and walks you through it in a delightfully concise and visual manner. My Kindle Fire makes it easy for you to: • ...
By: Scott McNulty
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication Date: 06-JAN-2012
Insert Date: 04-JAN-2012
Slots: 1.0
Overview: The Kindle Fire Pocket Guide
This affordable and engaging guide is packed with practical information to you help you get the most from your Kindle Fire. Amazon Kindle expert Scott McNulty offers plenty of tips and pointers for using Amazon's trim tablet, including how to download apps, read books, take advantage of the Amazon cloud, and browse the web with Silk. With this essential companion, you'll learn how to make your way through Amazon's rich content ecosystem. Scott shows you how to Purchase or rent movies and TV shows Find and download popular apps and games Buy and read books found in the...
By: Scott McNulty
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication Date: 28-NOV-2011
Insert Date: 01-DEC-2011
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Overview: Meet the Kindle Fire
Packed with information, this inexpensive guide will quickly get you going with your the Kindle Fire. You'll learn how to set up and find your way around your Fire, use multitouch gestures, access the cloud, browse the web with Silk, and manage your device. Table of Contents Introduction A Tablet by Any Other Name Touching Fire Your First Kindle Fire Moments Accessing the Cloud Browsing with Silk and the Cloud Managing Your Kindle Fire...
By: Brian Sawyer
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 18-NOV-2011
Insert Date: 22-NOV-2011
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Overview: Kindle Fire: Out of the Box
When you open the box for your brand-new Kindle Fire, you'll find the hottest 7-inch tablet to hit the market, a power adapter, and a "Quick Start Guide" that tells you how to turn it on. But to really take advantage of all the content and features the device has to offer, you'll need a little more. Kindle Fire: Out of the Box gets you up and running beyond the first "Slide to unlock" screen to unlock all of your media from the cloud in the palm of your hand. Whether your media library lives in Amazon Cloud Drive or on your device, the Fire gives you immediate access to all of it, wherever...
Using Kindle™: Your Guide to All Things Kindle and Kindle DX, Fourth Edition
By: Jim Cheshire
Publisher: Que
Publication Date: 24-JAN-2011
Insert Date: 25-JAN-2011
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Overview: Using Kindle™: Your Guide to All Things Kindle and Kindle DX, Fourth Edition
Make the most of your new Amazon KindleTM eBook reader! Read books, play media, get free content, uncover powerful, little-known Kindle features you'll love! Learn to do all this and much more… Connect to Amazon's Kindle Store and buy content Download a world of free books and other content Manage your content and quickly find what you're looking for Read books on Kindle and customize a better reading experience Quickly sync content across multiple Kindles and other devices Make the most of Kindle's menus, keyboard shortcuts, and search Read Adobe PDFs without...
Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual
By: Aaron Miller
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 04-AUG-2010
Insert Date: 17-AUG-2010
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Overview: Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual
So, you have your Kindle and are ready to start reading. Great! But did you know that you can play music on the Kindle while you are reading that new bestselling novel? How about sharing your thoughts about the book with friends via Facebook and Twitter? More than just an e-reader, Amazon's popular device lets you do those things and much more. You can create a custom calendar to help plan your day or remember your mom's birthday, calculate the tip at your favorite restaurant, and waste a little time and have fun playing games or surfing the web. Check out Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual to...
Using Kindle: A Complete Guide to Amazon's Revolutionary Wireless Reading Devices (Kindle DX, Kindle 2)
By: Jim Cheshire
Publisher: Que
Publication Date: 28-MAY-2009
Insert Date: 26-MAY-2009
Slots: 1.0
Overview: Using Kindle: A Complete Guide to Amazon's Revolutionary Wireless Reading Devices (Kindle DX, Kindle 2)
Introducing Using Kindle. Meticulously researched and painstakingly written to be the one Kindle resource you can't live without, Using Kindle is a thorough guide covering all aspects of the Kindle, including the new Kindle 2 and DX models, and is designed to teach you everything you need to know. Using Kindle was written for all Kindle users, even those who have absolutely no technical expertise and are inexperienced in using a computer. Here are just a few of the many things you'll learn in this book: -- Tips and tricks to help make your basic Kindle reading experience more...
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Posted by Anne GavinDirector, U.S. State Government Affairs, Microsoft
Microsoft and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) held a Technology Town Hall Forum featuring Virginia Senate Candidates George Allen and Tim Kaine at our Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, Va., on Thursday.
Co-sponsored by the Virginia Public Access Project, the Loudon County Chamber of Commerce and the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce, the town hall provided an opportunity for the candidates to lay out their views related to technology and business policy to more than 130 attendees.
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Posted by Dan BrossSenior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft
One of the great things about working at Microsoft is having access to an incredible array of technologies that help us get work done. One of my favorite applications is the Local Impact Map, an online storytelling tool that we're making available to commercial organizations who want a compelling way to share the impact of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs online.
Microsoft has Citizenship programs underway in more than one hundred countries around the world. One of the problems we face is this: how do we bring the scale, reach and impact of our programs to life? Well that's exactly why we developed the Local Impact Map. It's a beautiful, easy-to-use tool that provides the perfect platform for showcasing community programs.
Posted by Jacqueline BeauchereDirector, Trustworthy Computing Communications, Microsoft
We've all heard the horrific tales: teasing, meanness or bullying that starts on the playground or at school follows kids home only to continue on mobile and gaming devices and on social networks. Severe cases, though few in number, drive some to extremes, and it's these instances that make headlines. No wonder kids around the world are worried they'll be bullied online.
To better understand the issue globally, Microsoft commissioned and today releases survey results of a range of online behaviors among youth – from "meanness" (least severe) to online bullying or cruelty (most severe), and everything in between. Data show 54 percent of children age eight to 17 in 25 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Spain, Singapore, Turkey, UAE, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) express concern that they will be bullied online; four in 10 say someone was mean to them online, and nearly one-quarter (24 percent) admit to having bullied someone else online at one time or another.
Posted by Frank McCoskerGeneral Manager, Microsoft Global Strategic Accounts
Since 2004, I've been working closely with more than 40 international organizations, including UN organizations, regional development banks and bilateral aid agencies – cultivating long-term and rewarding public-private partnerships. At Microsoft, we have worked hard to prioritize these relationships to see how technology can help achieve shared sustainable development goals and achieve real impact amongst underserved communities.
This week I'm in Rio de Janeiro with several colleagues for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20. We believe technology has an important part to play in the discussions at the highest level at Rio+20, and that technology is a crucial component of supporting sustainable development.We're also here presenting one of the most exciting and game changing technologies in recent memory: Super Wi-Fi. For several years now, Microsoft Research, in collaboration with industry and government partners, has been working on a technology that is commonly referred to as Super Wi-Fi. The technology uses unused, or inefficiently used, TV spectrum, and it does so without disrupting existing TV broadcasts, with far reaching applications for sustainable development. Super Wi-Fi has a few advantages over existing Wi-Fi technologies – it can cover between three and 10 times more distance and has the ability to transmit through walls and other barriers that normally stop Wi-Fi. This technology has the potential to help deliver on the goal many development experts and policy makers have of providing broadband access for all.
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Mr. Alexander Aleinikoff, the Deputy High Commissioner for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Every year on June 20th, the United Nations, along with countries and communities worldwide, mark World Refugee Day to raise awareness and support for the world's 34 million forcibly displaced and stateless people. In support, MSN is running a special 'Causes' campaign on the plight of refugees.
This year, World Refugee Day takes place during Rio+20, the major UN summit in Brazil that brings together world leaders from a wide range of international organizations, governments, NGOs and the private sector to further debate on reducing global poverty, advancing social equity and ensuring environmental protection and sustainable development. UNHCR, led by High Commissioner António Guterres, is in Rio to advocate for the rights and interests of the world's refugees and other displaced persons in the summit's deliberations and outcomes.
Posted by Rob BernardChief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft
Over the weekend, we participated in the UN Global Compact Corporate Sustainability Forum, the main private sector convening forum at Rio+20. The forum kicked off on Friday with a video message and welcome from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as he declared that "corporate sustainability is an idea whose time has come."
We certainly agree with that statement, which is why Microsoft announced as part of the UN's Sustainable Energy For All initiative that we are committing to increase our purchase of renewable energy and set specific energy efficiency targets by June 2013, when our fiscal year 2013 comes to an end. Microsoft's new internal carbon fee will help accelerate our investments in renewable energy, which will include signing long-term renewable power purchase agreements, investing in new renewable energy projects and connecting data centers directly to innovative energy sources, such as methane-powered fuel cells for data centers and other energy-intensive infrastructure.
Posted by Karen JonesVice President & Deputy General Counsel, HR Legal, Microsoft
Yesterday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it had reached the statutory cap for H-1B specialty occupation petitions for fiscal year 2013, giving us a stark reminder of the continuing obstacles created by our country's current framework for high skilled immigration.
This comes at a time when the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the unemployment rate for computer and math occupations at just 3.5 percent – reflecting the growing shortage of U.S. workers with these skills. Reaching the annual allotment of H-1B visas only 10 weeks after the application filing period opened disrupts U.S. business and stifles growth at a critical time in our nation's economic recovery by shutting down the hiring of global talent for the next 10 months.
Posted by Samantha DoerrPublic Affairs Manager, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit
In order to effectively solve difficult societal problems, we must first understand them. With the belief that research can open the door to effective interventions in the fight against modern day slavery, in December the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and Microsoft Research partnered to release a request for proposals from the academic community to better understand the intersection of technology and child sex trafficking.
Posted by Josh HenretigDirector, Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, otherwise known as Rio+20, will kick off this week from June 12 to June 22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The objective of Rio+20 is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development from political and business leaders across the globe. More than 100 heads of state and over 60,000 delegates are expected to attend the summit, which would make it the largest ever UN conference. The two major themes at Rio+20 are creating a green economy that allows for sustainable development and the eradication of poverty and creating an institutional framework for sustainable development.
Delegates at Rio+20 will be looking for solutions that can help poor to rich countries to be able to move to a low carbon economy and adapt to the changing environment. Technology has an important role to play in supporting the shift toward a more sustainable economy, from helping cities achieve better energy efficiency to using cloud computing to scale access to environmental data with the Eye on Earth network. We believe that IT is a critical tool to addressing energy and climate challenges and that close collaboration between IT companies and political leaders is an important aspect of addressing climate change.
Posted by Brendon LynchChief Privacy Officer, Microsoft
As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen privacy for consumers, Microsoft recently announced that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE 10) will include the Do-Not-Track (DNT) feature turned "on" by default.
There has been a lot of public debate about tracking users' activities on the Internet, including for the purposes of targeted advertising. Although there definitely are important benefits from targeted ads, many people are not comfortable receiving them. For example, results of a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project show 68 percent of respondents were "Not OK" with targeted advertising because they don't like having their online behavior tracked and analyzed.
Posted by David HowardCorporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft
Today's FTC statement filed in the International Trade Commission adds to the growing chorus of regulators and other government officials around the world who agree that injunctions and exclusion orders based on standard essential patents jeopardize competition and the availability and price of consumer technology.
From China's Ministry of Commerce, to the EU's Directorate-General for Competition, to the U.S. Department of Justice, and now the FTC, the world's regulators are speaking clearly and consistently: companies should not misuse standard essential patents.
Posted by Jeff MeisnerEditor, Microsoft on the Issues
Intellectual Asset Management Magazine recently published a feature story entitled "A revolution launched on the back of IP" which highlights the role intellectual property played in helping to bring Kinect for Xbox 360 to market. Reporter Jack Ellis spoke to members of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business and Intellectual Property Group to understand how the two groups partnered together early on in the development process to protect innovations. The article profiles some of the big moments in time for patents, copyright and trademark around Kinect for Xbox 360.
We invited Jack to join us for a brief question and answer session to talk a little about why he was interested in reporting on this story, how he thinks IP professionals should view the current IP landscape and what some of the big priorities for IP leaders are in the year ahead.
Posted by Jeff JonesDirector, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft
Computing is now an essential part of our everyday lives. The Internet today reaches a global population of more than two billion people – providing a range of critical services to more citizens around the world than ever before. We are using a greater variety of devices and managing data in unique ways to communicate and share information with others and conduct business online. However, a range of players are focusing their energies on misusing and attacking an increasingly networked environment through a variety of complex cyber threats that raise new challenges for citizens on the Internet.
Commonly available cyber defenses such as firewalls, antivirus software and automatic updates for security patches help reduce the risk from threats, but they are not enough. Industry and governments have begun efforts to help protect consumers against online threats. This collective work to build safer computing experiences online is very important and should continue. We must try to prevent computer infections before they happen, before data can be lost and identities stolen. This effort requires a collaborative approach among key members across the IT ecosystem. We are better together.
Posted by Hernan RinconPresident, Microsoft Latin America
Governments all over the world are struggling with how to lower unemployment rates and improve the economy. In many countries, young people make up a significant portion of the unemployed, which not only impacts current economic recovery, but casts a shadow on the future. For example, according to "Opportunity for Action," a report recently released by the International Youth Foundation (IYF), in Latin America, youth unemployment is nearly three times that of adults. These young people, aged 15 to 29, are the foundation for our future, and we must do all that we can to stabilize and fortify this foundation.
This week at Microsoft's annual Government Leaders Forum Americas, the company is drawing attention to the growing challenge of unemployment for youth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Thursday's keynote, delivered by my colleague Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice president of Legal and Corporate Affairs, spoke to the issue and detailed Microsoft's commitment to creating opportunities for youth in the region through various initiatives, programs and partnerships.
Posted by Laura IpsenCorporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft
Over the past week I have had the honor to represent Microsoft at two events on opposite sides of the globe, specifically focused on empowering women and girls, an issue that is critical for both countries and global companies like Microsoft.
On May 25, I participated in a panel discussion led by Irina Bokova, Director-General UNESCO, to mark the first anniversary of the launch of "Better Life, Better Future", UNESCO's Global Partnership for Girls' and Women's Education at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.


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Thread: Oregon sheriff says he won't federal gun regulations "offending the constitutional rights" of his citizens, or permit federal officers to go to his county to enforce them
Oregon sheriff says he won't federal gun regulations "offending the constitutional rights" of his citizens, or permit federal officers to go to his county to enforce themAn Oregon sheriff says he will not enforce any federal regulation that President Barack Obama lays outin his package of gun control proposals Wednesday.
Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller joins several other public officials across the nation who have decided to square off with the White House even before it outlines what its plans are for expanded measures.Mueller sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden this week saying he won't enforce any federal regulation "offending the constitutional rights of my citizens." He won't permit federal officers to come to his county to enforce such laws either, he said.
Mueller's defiant stand exploded into a groundswell of support. His letter -- posted on the department's Facebook page -- earned more than 59,000 likes and shares -- and was growing by the minute.
Good. Every single law enforcement officer and military member needs to remember their oaths and what constitutes an illegal order. Obama is opening trying to violate the constitution and needs to be impeached'Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a
delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly
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A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. Sigmund Freud
I commend him and others for this type of mentality. Wyoming and Mississippi have legislation ready to put in place against enforcing new federal gun law. If the legislation is passed and remains without successful federal challenge the legislation will only last until an Obama/Federal sympathizer is elected and will enforce the federal law. Money talks in elections as we have just observed. Sad times.
Ultimately this will fall directly on the shoulders of the individual citizen and individual officer to decide their own course of action. When the penality for not enforcing the law as the feds mandate it becomes apparent I fear some officers both local and federal will begin to enforce the new laws and executive orders. As federal sympathizers are elected they will make enforcement mandatory and if a person decides not to enforce they will simply be out of a job. They will then be replaced with people who will. This will take time of course but it will happen. None of this is designed to happen over night. It will happen a little at a time. We have gone from a nation whose freedom was won with firearms to a nation making a rather successful try to get rid of them and that has taken over 200 years. It is amazing how our government was created for one thing and has evolved into what wasn't supposed to be. It was meant to happen. History does indeed repeat itself. People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. Unfortunatley that is not the case.Do not war for peace. If you must war, war for justice. For without justice there is no peace. -me
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It is the biggest trend this season, but to TONS of everyday fashionistas some who were here when the looks were born and some who have been around for each iteration thereafter it never went away. Im talking about the punk, rocker, neo-grunge trends that populated the fall 2013 runways (and which even showed up on some spring 2014 runways, too).
I have been wearing the basic elements of this look biker/moto jacket, lace-up combat-style boots, boyish flats (I am not a ballet flat kind of girl), black, plaid, graphic shirts, leopard and leather for most of my life (which is a lot longer than Id like to admit) and nothing gives me more pleasure than to pull out well-worn pieces to mix with newer on-trend items.
Its like the fashion gods said, Lets make Julie happy and declare punk the hot look this year.
It might also have something to do with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Chaos to Couture show this summer, but I live in a Julie-centric world, so Im pretty sure this about me.
What I do know is that I have had a great time finding new ways to wear my various Doc Martens, leather jackets and studded et ceteras.
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It was only his second day on the Arizona National Trail. The two gallons of water Steve Voelker had been carrying in his 50-pound camping pack was completely gone.
Although he had only been out of water for a little over an hour, this was the Arizona wilderness where one can dehydrate in a short amount of time. His last urine was already a rusty brown/red color. He told me when hiking such conditions, "Water is always an issue."
In a stroke of good fortune, he had found a water cache which also included two ginger ales and a Shasta lemon-lime drink. The can had a small hole and he began to drink from that hole for an immediate thirst quencher. He then popped the top and saw them running out.
"Hell, I had been drinking ants!"
Voelker was making a sojourn that few people will ever undertake. He was hiking alone in what can certainly prove to be some very unforgiving terrain. Most would believe it to be even more of a calculated risk for a man who is 68 years old.
"Just had a big scare, deputy sheriff outside my tent named Bundy. My In Reach that had not been tracking properly emergency beacon had gone off. He hiked 3 miles to find me."
To train he had walked 10 miles per day on a treadmill and hiked in local park trails carrying his pack; 50 pounds of food and supplies that did not include the two gallons of water. One day on the Arizona trail, he hiked 23 miles.
Kim, Cameron and I have hiked some of the national park trails — always on a day trip. Carrying snacks and adequate water are not luxuries. Our hikes had always been for a few hours.
Voelker often spent days alone and slept by himself in a lean-to set up overnight in a land full of bears and mountain lions among the unwelcoming nocturnal wildlife. He spent one evening watching bats catch insects at eye-level responding to the night light attached to his head. On another evening, he was sure he heard a bear's grunting close to his camp. After some anxious moments, the growls and whatever was making them disappeared into the night.
"being stupid I sat and broke my glasses, will look for readers; have to get mine fixed in Flag."
Steve recalls it was often a long time between any forms of bathing. As he describes when he happened upon someone at a camping area or in a small community, he could be quite a sight. Such was the case when he emerged one day upon some ladies enjoying a picnic, looking a bit haggard and smelling a bit "randy." He simply walked up to and inquired in the most polite tone, "Hey ladies, can you drive me to the visitor's center?"
One can imagine just such a scene in a cheap slasher movie.
He had slept overnight on a "ranch" house off the trail. As he learned in Vietnam, when sleeping around people you don't know it's a good idea to keep your wallet in your pillowcase beneath your head all night. When he arrived at the Grand Canyon lodge the next morning to check in, he discovered he had no wallet. Contrary to what the commercials lead one to believe, Fed Ex and UPS don't deliver totally worldwide. His missing wallet arrived the old fashioned way — by overnight mule express.
"Rained last night, raining this morning. Set up my hooch, so I stayed dry, hopes this is just a morning, shower need water supply. Cyclist told me I would find a cow trough."
When water is necessary for survival, one will drink what one normally wouldn't. Steve found water sometimes in rain puddles, livestock troughs or in muddy footprints on a trail. Among ways to make such drinking water safe are to use iodine pills or use a steri-pen, which utilizes infrared light. As a precaution, he used both on any water that was suspect.
After one particularly long and grueling day, he had some welcome company.
"A truck came by with two Navajos who had some beer. In my 10 years of being sober, I came as close to drinking beer as I have at any time since."
"Slept well; all thunder, no rain. Trail very rutted by horses and cows, some holes six inches deep, slow going. Saw an antelope; saw three more. Trail very confusing at Horse Lake, kept taking me in a circle. Hole in top of shoe ..."
Steve had originally intended this to be a journey of a little over 800 miles. He had to call it off somewhere between 260 and 270 miles in 21 days due to severe pains in his thighs. He is still dealing with the residual pain. He has plans of going back and hiking other parts of the trail in the future.
His solitude in the evenings was spent with David Halberstam's book "The Fifties," which he enjoyed on his Kindle and highly recommends.
"That was good for 200 miles."
It was also am spiritual journey.
"When I walked, I prayed. I did my third step."
Steve is a recovering alcoholic who still regularly attends AA meetings. He attended them when he could find one just off the trail.
He told me that after his Vietnam days — during which he was highly decorated and twice seriously wounded — he had kind of made a promise to never travel and sleep in such conditions again. Steve learned many years after the war that he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. It was all therapeutic for him on the trail.
On Sept. 7 at the end of his journal notes, he wrote down some random thoughts and reflections calling them "Things I have learned."
"I love Carolyn and live my life differently when she is around. I have physical limits. Weather is unpredictable. I am okay with just being by myself but I enjoy talking to people. My God is always with me."
His body is still recovering from the wear and tear and routine bodily functions are slowly returning to a normal schedule. There is only one lingering psychological effect.
"I didn't want to come back. That's been the problem."
It is determined that each of us shall die. It's up to each one of each of us to determine for ourselves how we shall live. Steve Voelker completely left civilization to enjoy the beauty of the wild and challenge all the elements of Mother Nature. He is one of the few that actually will ever know whether the romanticism outweighs the harsh reality.
He went the way of John Muir and Henry David Thoreau. I wonder what books they had on their Kindles.
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Is EFI Live worth it?
I am looking at a Dmax soon and all I hear about is how EFI Live is the way to go.... so I do some research....
- The only way to contact them is email (They don't want to talk to you)
- You can't get a hand held tuner alone, you have to go to an authorized reseller and have then tune the truck first, if they do a horrible job your engine can blow up or run crappy, if they do a good job, life is great.... (They do not have quality control over their authorized dealers and tuners)
- Their authorized dealers are spotty..... there isn't even one in each state, but some states have 4 authorized dealers.
- Should I just use the Diablo Sport Intune I have for my gasser and keep the tuning on the "safe" side.... when I go diesel.
- I called 15 authorized dealers over 12 states and every single one required me to leave a voice mail, some of them sounded like they work out of their basement... (really reassuring) ....Am I going to trust you with my truck, probably not.
Right now I am really turned off by the amount of information and quality control by EFI Live.
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ive heard that the dieselguys love efi live. ive also heard that they love bullydog. couldnt tell you which way to go. maybe stick with the diablo for a while and do more research, or, pony the cash for a full dyno tune....
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Last night, right after airing the fictional "Mad Men" show, AMC previewed "The Pitch", its new reality show featuring two agencies competing for a new client. For somebody who understands pitching first hand, "The Pitch" came across as Hollywood's version of reality. In a word, it too is fiction.
I was the New Business Director for three global agencies, Saatchi & Saatchi, Berlin Cameron United, and Euro RSCG, and pitched literally hundreds of clients. There is really very little in this show that resembles how a pitch is done in practice.
The new business pitch is the way agencies win most of their business and grow. The end prize for the winning agency is to get a contract and get paid for the work done, since very few clients compensate agencies for work done during the pitch. Agencies incur significant expenses pitching for new business. It is not unheard of to spend in the six figures, even seven figures, trying to win a plum assignment. The losers have to eat the expense, but it can be discouraging even for the winners just as well, ultimately impairing their ability to make a profit on the business.
The worse thing about pitching is that agencies give away for free their highest value product – their strategic thinking. Attempting to make up for the financial gamble that participating in a pitch entails, agencies try to make a profit off implementation work. The problem is that the implementation is often a commodity. It reduces the client-agency relationship to a more transactional level, of buyer and vendor. And as time marches on and agency margins drop, the cost of doing business for the agency goes up, putting further strain on the relationship. That can be directly traced to the willingness of agencies, unique among service providers, to give their product away for free.
In the past the winning agency could amortize its investment in the pitch over a 10 or 20 year period, or even longer. But today, relationships are shorter as the average CMO tenure is below 2 years, and when a new CMO comes in you often have a change of agencies; 2 or 3 years of working with a client after winning a pitch are often not enough for an agency to recoup its pitch investment in today's revolving door environment.
Surely McKinney doesn't come up with campaign ideas the way "The Pitch" showed it. The execs appeared to contribute nothing to the brainstorming or fleshing out of concepts, stumbled through the presentation (don't recall the woman uttering a single word), and never demonstrated any internal leadership. Rather than pushing the idea of pitch-as-cockfight (the fretting and tough talk sounded instead like doubt and desperation), AMC should show more of what really goes on behind the scenes during a major pitch. I've seen more realistic depictions on episodes of The Apprentice.
First of all, I'm pretty sure I mentioned this concept to AMC when working with them on some stuff for Mad Men. I'm glad they liked the idea.
Second, I couldn't agree more that the client/agency relationship is flawed from the beginning because the creative concept is not billed. It's foolish. Anyone can execute a website or TV commercial, that's a skill, not a talent. What is unique is Big Idea thinking. The Big Idea is the platform from which all campaigns are launched. Without the Big Idea you're just throwing tactics against the wall to see what sticks, which is exactly what the agencies on The Pitch did. Both just pitched ideas for a TV spot, none of which was born from a Big Idea. How now do you launch a social media campaign? A digital campaign? A direct response campaign? How do you keep the message moving through multiple TV spots for multiple audiences. Verizon's "Can You Hear Me Now" was a Big Idea that lasted for years across multiple channels. I highly doubt the overweight middle aged rapper or zAMbies are capable of that.
I got so frustrated that I was hollering at the TV when I finally watched The Pitch last night. I even launched a new blog this morning called Beat The Pitch where I came up with my own pitch for Subway (http://beatthepitch.tumblr.com/). I believe my pitch is better but objectively it can't be worse than what I saw last night, and I'm 1 guy.
I agree to a point with Terry's comments. The staff at these agencies saying they were putting it all on the line sounded amateur. It is certainly very important to their company and their career to have a good pitch. I'll give them a break because most of those that carried this sentiment didn't seem far out f college. But what felt a little odd was the senior folks from McKinney talking about how important the pitch was to them, yet neither senior staffer had any ideas of their own, rather, they let a few green junior "creatives" (probably account executives) come up with the creative. In my tenior as creative director I NEVER relied on junior staff to come up with the big idea. That's how you get a white rapper.
I agree with Tracy and Avi that the pitch process is insidious and damaging. But, I don't think it would be hard to change that. Companies have become big fans of throwing out their RFPs to anyone because there is no risk on their part. If I went to 2 dentists for consultations in order to pick one, they'd both charge a nominal fee. If I went to both to get actual work done, I'd get charged for the work. It's not hard for an agency to charge for billable execution, but it's also not hard for an agency to charge for the Big Idea. I don't think it'd be difficult for all advertisers to agree to an industry standard that outlines the percentage of the total budget for the Big Idea. If it's a million dollar campaign, the Big Idea is worth $100,000. The agency that wins gets that check. It's still a gamble for the agency that doesn't win, because they foot the bill, but that's the risk of being a business. But, it holds the client accountable for thinking very hard about the Big Idea since ultimately they are going to pay for it up front. This will actually elevate the value of the Big Idea.
What I'd really love to see is for agencies to swallow all costs associated with a campaign, and only get paid a percentage of profits. While it's sure to be an absolute nightmare for accounting, it'd be a win-win for good agencies and companies.
BTW Tracy, I agree with the other folks on this comment thread that your company showed the most initiative, better brainstorming, better creative leadership than McKinney. I'd be honored to take over the Director of Digital Engagement position. Do you offer relocation?
Having run a couple of ad agencies, created work for many a pitch, consulted on agency reviews, and written some articles about pitching for Adweek, I feel pretty comfortable to offer a few comments about "The Pitch."
First of all, I reluctantly agree with Terry Graves' comment. I was watching the show and felt like saying, "Get a life." But that criticism is due to the entire production of the show itself, not necessarily to the players in it.
The whole tone and manner of the show is intense and deadly serious. From the intro to the lighting, the show is designed to drain all of the fun out of the process. It focuses so much more on the cut-throat competition than on the creative work. What should have been light-hearted is made leaden. Instead of a style like "Selling New York" on HGTV, this feels like "The Meth Epidemic" on PBS' Frontline.
If the show was accurate, why would anyone want to be in this business? My attitude towards creating ads is one of fun and the excitement of coming up with some cool ideas. To me, it's more like building sand castles than planning military maneuvers. There is an adrenaline rush to thinking of something clever and innovative; that's what makes advertising worth doing.
One needs the ability to have some perspective about the ad business. In fact, while at Ogilvy, my creative group was led by the very wise Tom Rost. The motto on our team
t-shirts: "It's only advertising." Remember, after months of hard work creating an ad campaign, when it runs on the air, most people will get up and go to the bathroom.
Having met Tracy Wong a few times over the years, I am sure that he feels this way. I would bet that the folks at McKinney do, as well. It's probably not their fault that the tone of the show became so serious. That fault lies with the producers and AMC. Why they decided that this tone would be an appropriate partner with "Mad Men" is beyond me. It would be like having "The Office" preceded by a dry documentary on the pulp paper industry.
If this is how the reality of the advertising business is going to be presented, I'd rather that TV producers stick to the fictitious world of Don Draper of "Mad Men" and Darren Stephens of "Bewitched." At least, those guys get to have some fun.
By the way, here is one of the Adweek articles that I wrote about the pitch process: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising/pitch-tips-clients-76306
Jeff Atlas
The biggest positive for both/all the agencies involved in "The Pitch" is the publicity. Good or bad, the show allows them to capitalize in a whole new way on ideas and actions that would otherwise die, and go unnoticed by anyone beyond the empty suits/clients from whom they are begging work…
So, it could be said, The Pitch, allows a few of these "Upside Down" Industry Titans to strut their stuff, increase their return on investment a bit beyond the conventional, and to be recognized for the quality of work by a greater audience that will hopefully pay dividends beyond the focus of this single Pitch.
Accurate depiction or not, it's reality TV… no one with half a clue expects complete true-to-life accounts or depictions, but the audience, for the most part, is capable of pulling some level of what is real from the 1-hour production-heavy circus that is reality tv, and with that there is hope of the great idea, hard work, and damn good creative surviving the fire of subjectivity that is the pitch process.
The most telling and accurate incident within the whole Preview Show was the client's (Subway) request for something new, different and attractive to 18-25s, during the brief, and after McKinney's pitch, it seemed their deepest concern was for strong and clean food images (same-old, same-old). Seriously? You called us in for something "new", give us a week to make something from nothing, and can't get beyond the idea that, yes, we will most certainly make your food look good in the future marketing we are to provide you, once you deem us "worthy"… So much for originality. Fact is, you wanted more of what you already have, and that's just what you'll get once you sign this contract at $200/hr.
Let's celebrate!!! We get to be Subway's wrist for the best part of the year!
Hey Avi,
The only thing I take issue with is the notion that our highest value product is our strategic thinking. As much as we value strategy, it's just a path to great work!
Short of dramatic changes to the anti-trust laws, there's no way our industry can come together to battle the issues you outlined.
So your solution is the only viable choice: do as much as you can to qualify whether the prospect is worth pursuing, say no to those who aren't and commit to win the ones you go after. It's a formula that has worked well for us.
Brad Brinegar
Chairman & CEO
Brad, Avi,
I think the above comments say it all. The laws of supply and demand have placed all the power in the hands of the client. However, it is now up to the agencies to try and shift the balance of power by boxing clever.
It seems free pitching is often used because of the clients lack of confidence in the agencies ability to come up with 'the idea'. Therefore, if agencies can improve a clients level of confidence in them prior to an approach for 'ideas', they will reduce the amount of ideas/work they need to give away for free, if indeed they need to give any away for free at all.
Here's a good post on the subject: http://goo.gl/aOm5l
As possibly the only non-American commenting here I have found the dialog very illuminating. Tripp Westbrook is the man who seems to be most aligned with what the Agency of the Future will be like.
This TV show is showing what the old-style 1990s agency has been doing for years. But the agency model is changing in many ways – not pitching free is one of the more obvious – but Tripp is also right about compensation and charging as well.
In time, fewer brands will be able to afford to hire agencies whose business is predicated on the 15% media spend Avi mentions. As these whittle away and more brands migrate towards online and integrated spend where this model does not pay, we'll find more mid-sized agencies like ours and Tripp's winning and delivering work in a way that is aligned with deliverables that include sales and not just 'gorgeous creative' and downstream media space purchasing.
I'm writing a blog post series on the Agency of the Future #FutureAgency and would love to interview any of you who can spare me 15 minutes on the phone.
Avi, first let me thank you for addressing the problems of agencies pitching for new business. The process is long overdo for an overhaul.
It is no surprise that a considerable number of agencies are venting their repressed anger following the airing of the Sneak Peak of The Pitch. The show vividly displays the inequities of the free pitch process and how it devalues our thinking.
For the small to mid-size agencies a pitching for new business strategy is certainly is not in their best interest.
So glad you clarified this for the public, I too have been in pitch mode for most of my life and what I saw on TV was such a bastardization of the actual process. However the one thing I had wish that you had touched upon was how flawed the entire pitch process really is.
I have won many a pitch and probably lost more but one thing that I always walked away with was a sense of how much passion and effort goes into the work that is used to entice the client to choose you and then how badly the level of that passion drops when the client is onboard.
Pitching is an art, it is like a playoff game, win or go home, great teams play with that mentality as a constant, mediocre teams only play like that when it counts and bad teams dont even make it to the big show.
The pitch is where people thrive, you get to see what they are really made of and you must ideate and create under the most adverse conditions.
To me the Pitch process is what it should be like day in and day out.
The sense of entitlement and lack of accountability on day to day work once an account is won compared to the passion put into a pitch is way to polar.
If i were a CMO I would employ two agencies for every discipline and make them pitch every project over the year.


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I'm having some electrical system issues with my 2004 Yukon XL Denali. I purchased it 2 months ago, and the previous owner had aftermarket halo headlights installed. In order to avoid putting a switch somewhere inside the vehicle, he just had them wired to the daytime running lights. The driver side daytime running light was burned out when I purchased the truck, and that had to be replaced to pass inspection. That same light just burned out again...in two months. I'm also having quirky problems with the memory seat settings. Sometimes when I put the "Driver 1" key in, it says "Driver 2" on the console, and sets the seat and mirrors to "Driver 2". And the same "wrong driver" situation occurs with the "Driver 2" key every now and then. Sometimes it will display the correct driver for the key, but give me a seat and mirror config that is slightly different from what I use. Also, the seat heaters come on sometimes when I start the truck. And, when I put it in reverse, sometimes the "curb feature" works and sometimes it doesn't, but whenever it does work, only the passenger side mirror points down...the driver side mirror will point upward. The driver side mirror works fine with the controls on the interior of the truck...so the wiring can't be wrong on the motor/switch.
Oh, and I almost forgot...I had to have the water pump replaced last week (I'm having great luck...aren't I?). The "Engine Coolant Hot" warning popped up on the console, but I never got a "Low Coolant" warning, even though it was about half a gallon low.
Has anybody else had problems like this? Do I need a new control module? I'm going to start with disconnecting that "halo" feature from the headlights to see if that makes a difference.
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North Laurel has shown their region in both the 12th region and 13th regions since the inception of softball back in 1995. During that stretch the Lady Jaguars have won 11 region titles. North Laurel finished runner-ups in the state twice, back in 2000 and then again in 2008.
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The rise of environmental justice can be traced through people like Richard Moore. Of Puerto Rican descent, he grew up in a low-income housing project in Pennsylvania. His parents picked fruit for Del Monte, and he did some picking in his spare time during high school. Moore came to Albuquerque in the 1960s, looking for a place to do meaningful work. He joined the Black Berets, a Chicano "social justice" group that worked with other low-income neighborhoods, establishing a free medical clinic, childcare centers and school breakfast programs and shutting down an unregulated sewer plant. Moore moved to Mountain View in 1979. Just a few months after his arrival, the connection between pollution and poor health was dramatically proven: A local baby turned blue and nearly died from drinking groundwater with 20 times the legal limit of nitrate. "That's when the shit hit the fan," says Moore, whose personality mixes idealism and a quick temper.
At the time, there really weren't any activist groups focused on environmental justice. So Moore and a fiery woman, Jeanne Gauna -- who said, "The environment, for us, is where we live" -- formed a new group called the SouthWest Organizing Project, or SWOP for short.
The small band of SWOP activists went door-to-door in Mountain View in the 1980s, alerting residents about the poisonous water in their wells and helping them organize the effort to hook up to city water. They worked to prevent the construction of garbage transfer stations and a private prison in Mountain View and organized in another neighborhood to shut down a poisonous medical waste incinerator. "We've never been about advocating on behalf of other people," Moore says. "We've been about people advocating on their own issues."
By 1990, Moore and other local organizers were networking with colleagues across the country -- particularly on Indian reservations and in Southern communities where poor black people live next to monstrous chemical plants -- under the new banner of environmental justice. The national environmental groups were booming; the Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society had increased their memberships tenfold since the 1960s, for instance, with attendant increases in budgets and staff. Landmark environmental victories had been achieved in Congress. But the fledgling environmental justice groups were barely surviving.
So that year, Moore and Gauna composed a letter of accusation that became famous within the movement. They recruited environmental justice activists from California to New York to sign the letter, and then dropped it like a bomb on the leaders of 10 of the largest environmental groups. They charged that the Big 10 were merely nature-lovers who worked against the interests of people of color -- activities such as livestock grazing and firewood gathering. They cited "the lack of people of color in decision-making positions in your organizations" and said "racism is the root cause of your inaction around addressing environmental problems in our communities." The letter rocked the Big 10 and caused them to make some changes.
Shortly after that blast, Moore left SWOP and formed the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, a coalition of small groups in the Southwest U.S. and Northern Mexico. SWOP and SNEEJ, both headquartered in Albuquerque, kept up the heat. They were instrumental in pressuring Democratic President Bill Clinton to issue a 1994 executive order that elevated environmental justice, at least in theory; it ordered federal agencies to study how their decisions impact environmental health in disadvantaged communities.
Moore, who also served as top environmental justice adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency, lived in Mountain View and ran SNEEJ until last year; his stepdaughter, Bianca Encinias, is currently a top SNEEJ leader.
Eight years of Republican President George W. Bush did little to advance the cause at the federal level, activists say, but environmental justice gained some ground through the proliferation of hyper-local groups such as the LA Bus Riders Union, which has pressured Los Angeles to convert its buses to cleaner fuels to reduce air pollution in poor Hispanic and black neighborhoods.
New Mexico has characteristics that generated many environmental justice campaigns. It has the highest Hispanic population of any state (nearly 50 percent in 2008) and is second in Native Americans (nearly 10 percent). The state is also among the lowest in average household income, and many of its poorest neighborhoods are impacted by industry.
Robby Rodriguez, whose mother was a migrant picker of cotton, lettuce and onions, earned a bachelor's degree in sociology at Cornell and went to work for SWOP 13 years ago; he's run the organization since 2005. During his tenure, the annual budget grew from $300,000 to $1 million, and staff increased from five to 13 full-timers, plus four part-timers. SWOP has received grants from some major foundations recently and now has about 600 members statewide; SNEEJ is about a fourth that size.
Often working with even smaller groups, SWOP and SNEEJ have achieved landmark victories -- and suffered losses -- in New Mexico. They couldn't stop the city from punching a commuter highway through Petroglyph National Monument, but they've led successful voter registration drives, mentored young people to be future leaders, and gotten a few of their members elected to local and even state offices. "That work is beginning to change the face of New Mexico politics," Rodriguez says.
With the New Mexico Environment Department, they conducted environmental justice "listening sessions" around the state in 2004, and then advised the department on addressing the concerns. They staged an annual "Environmental Justice Awareness Day" at the state Capitol, where their members mingled with legislators and bureaucrats. They also lobbied successfully for a 2007 House resolution that instructed the department to "study how to effectively address the cumulative and social impacts of its decisions and … the quality of life of residents." The Environment Department now has a couple of staffers working on environmental justice.
Feeling the heat, Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, who grew up in Mexico City with a Mexican mother, issued a 2006 general executive order telling state agencies to consider "environmental quality and public health" when allowing industries into low-income communities and communities of color. But that proclamation and the state's other political actions have so far involved more sentiment than substance.
The most tangible result at the state level has been a court ruling that applies only to garbage dumps. In 2002, the Environment Department granted a permit to let Rhino Environmental Services Inc. open a dump in a southern New Mexico shantytown, or colonia, that already had three dumps. A coalition of activists and residents of colonias sued the company. In July 2005, in what became known as the Rhino decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the Environment Department must consider the "impact on a community's quality of life" when issuing permits for landfills, including whether the landfill would be a "public nuisance or hazard to public health, welfare, or the environment."
In response, the state revised its landfill siting regulations in 2007 to require evaluation of "cumulative impacts" in "vulnerable" communities (disadvantaged communities that already have polluting industries). Landfill operators "must complete training programs on environmental justice every three years."
Though most of the Legislature's top leaders are Chicano, the Legislature as a whole remains sympathetic to industries' concerns about tougher regulations. Repeated attempts to pass a broad environmental justice law -- imposing new requirements on many industries, not just dumps -- have failed.


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Representatives from Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's office are spending Thursday and Friday at the Barren County government building meeting with farmers affected by the Nov. 2, 2010 Eastern Livestock sales at the Edmonton livestock market.
George Wilding, investigative manager for the department of criminal investigation within the attorney general's office, has reserved the fiscal court chambers until 6 p.m. Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday. His goal is to learn all he can about local farmers' losses in the Eastern Livestock case.
"We're just interviewing the individuals who sold their cattle (on Nov. 2) and a stop payment was placed on their checks so they have not received payment for the cattle they sold that day," Wilding said.
The attorney general's office contacted local farmers they knew suffered losses at the Edmonton livestock market in November and scheduled individual appointments, but not many people had visited Wilding as of Thursday afternoon. Wilding is hoping that as many local farmers affected as possible will be able to stop by the county government building on Thursday or Friday, so that the attorney general's office can have a complete picture of the situation as they proceed with their investigation into Eastern Livestock. The floor is open to anyone who wants to talk, Wilding said.
Wilding and others from Conway's office are in Glasgow "just to confirm farmers' losses," Wilding said, but confirming those losses is essential to the investigation. So far, it is still very early in the attorney general's investigation, even though the bad sale occurred in early November, so no new information is available for farmers who received bad checks from Eastern Livestock.
"There's been a lot of work done, but it's so involved," Wilding said.
Wilding cannot answer a lot of questions farmers may have, but he can reassure them that the attorney general's office and the FBI are conducting a thorough investigation into Eastern Livestock in order to see how much money was lost and what can be done to reimburse those whose cattle was sold at the auction.
On Nov. 2, 2010, local farmers lost approximately $900,000 at the Edmonton livestock market when they sold their cattle to Eastern Livestock and received bad checks. An investigation began within days of the Edmonton market sale, but it was too late for local cattlemen. In January, the owner of Eastern Livestock filed for bankruptcy and the investigation and court proceedings are ongoing, for both a bankruptcy case and a criminal case.
Farmers who received bad checks for their cattle from Eastern Livestock can stop by the fiscal court chambers on the third floor of the Barren County government building on public square in Glasgow Thursday and Friday. If a farmer is not able to stop by, he or she can call the Kentucky attorney general's office at (866) 524-3672.


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I would also like to recognize Re Mark It on Broadway Street in Frostburg for participating in Light It Up Blue by using a blue display in their front window and participating in the puzzle piece campaign for the month of April, which is raising additional funds.
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Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born on June 25, 1954, in The Bronx, New York. On August 6, 2009, Sotomayor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 111th Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Replacing retired Justice David Souter, Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and third female justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Legal Experience
Immediately prior to her nomination to the Supreme Court, Sotomayor was serving as a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, having appellate jurisdiction over district courts in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. From 1991 to 1997, she served as a justice of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Sotomayor was nominated to the Court of Appeals in 1997 by President Bill Clinton and to the New York District Court in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. Sotomayor also maintained a small private law practice from 1983 to 1986.
Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976, earning a B.A. in history. In 1979, Sotomayor earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She has also been awarded honorary law degrees from Lehman College, Princeton University, Brooklyn Law School, Pace University School of Law, Hofstra University and Northeastern University School of Law. Sotomayor has taught at New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School.
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