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Having recently spent time working on the IBM Worklight platform, I thought it would only be fair if I documented some of my findings. No disrespect to the IBM'ers, but its reasonably fair to say that documentation is a little sparse in places, so lets give a little back to the community by discussing some of the hurdles. Lets not dwell on what Worklight is, Andy has already covered this well in a previous post; but lets just dive right into some of the technical aspects.
General Thoughts
Development on the whole is a relatively straightforward process, even for someone like myself that often steers well clear of anything that involves web presentation technologies (it reminds me of dark nights at the university labs spending hours trying to get a button to align correctly, the night before coursework submission *shudder*).
The Worklight eclipse plugin provides a good drag & drop GUI builder, but with support only for dojo. I opted to drop dojo and go for jQuery. jQuery is very well documented, and is easy to get help should you require it. One of the main things I like about jQuery is its showcase and examples, they are documented very well and the learning curve is generally quite small, but also the themeroller, it becomes incredibly easy to customise the default colour scheme and drop the generated CSS into your app. It always amazes me how excited the marketing guys will get if you can add in the corporate colour scheme to your app (thanks Joseph!).
Continuous Integration
We're big fans of CI here, so I was quite keen to understand how easy it would be to have our Worklight apps built from the command line, and ultimately on a Jenkins CI box. The chaps over at IBM have done a fantastic job of exposing an array of Ant tasks that help with building and deploying apps, you'll almost certainly want to read through module 42 on the getting started page that covers these tasks:
- adapter-builder – Use this task to build your adapter and create the .adapter file
- adapter-deployer – Use this to deploy a .adapter file to a Worklight server (very useful for deploying to a remote AWS instance)
- war-builder – Use this to build the server .war file that you will deploy to the application server (some manual tweaks are required)
- app-builder – Use this to build the .wlapp files that you will deploy into your Worklight container
- app-deployer – Use this to deploy your .wlapp files onto a Worklight server (useful again for remote deployments)
Lets have a closer look at each of those targets, and how we're using them here at Smart421:
Getting the party started, with init
Firstly, grab the worklight ant jar (you'll need to have purchased the WL Enterprise edition for this) and add it into your ant context like so :
<target name="init"> <echo message="Loading ANT Tool"/> <taskdef resource="com/worklight/ant/defaults.properties"> <classpath> <pathelement location="./build-config/worklight-ant.jar"/> </classpath> </taskdef> <property environment="env"/> </target>
Now you're free to use the ant tasks anywhere in your build script.
Building & Deploying WL Adapters
You need to build each adapter individually, and then deploy each one. You can create the following ant targets to do that for you:
<target name="buildAdapters" depends="init"> <echo message="Building all adapters"/> <adapter-builder folder="./adapters/TwitterAdapter" destinationfolder="./bin"/> <!-- Build your other adapters here, same as above--> </target> <target name="deployAdapters" depends="init"> <property name="WLSERVERHOST" value="http://my_aws_ip_here:8080/SmartConf"/> <echo message="Deploying all adapters"/> <adapter-deployer worklightServerHost="${WLSERVERHOST}" deployable="./bin/TwitterAdapter.adapter"/> <!-- Deploy your other adapters here, same as above--> </target>
Building the Server WAR
You can build the server war file using the war-builder task, as shown below. It is important to note however, that I needed to do some tweaking to the war file to avoid any post-installation configuration tasks. According to the Worklight forums, there doesn't appear to be a way to include files in the WEB-INF when the war is created, which means that once you've expanded the war on the application server you'd need to manually replace the default web.xml and context.xml files (to set your datasources), this can be quite frustrating, so in true Blue Peter fashion, I'm updating the war file with files I created earlier.
<target name="warBuilder" depends="init"> <echo message="Building the war file"/> <war-builder projectfolder="./" destinationfolder="./bin" warfile="./bin/SmartConf.war" classesFolder="./bin/classes"/> </target> <target name="updateWar"> <echo message="Updating the war file"/> <war destfile="./bin/SmartConf.war" update="true" webxml="./build-config/web.xml"> <metainf dir="./build-config" includes="context.xml"/> </war> </target>
Building & Deploying the WL Apps
You'll also want to automate the building and deploying of the wlapp files, you can do this with the following :
<target name="buildApps"> <echo message="Building all WL Apps"/> <app-builder applicationFolder="./apps/Smartconf" nativeProjectPrefix="SmartConf" outputfolder="./bin"/> </target> <target name="deployApps"> <property name="WLSERVERHOST" value="http://my_aws_ip_here:8080/SmartConf"/> <echo message="Deploying all WL Apps"/> <app-deployer worklightServerHost="${WLSERVERHOST}" deployable="./bin/SmartConf-all.wlapp"/> </target>
Building the Native Application Distributable Binaries You've survived this far, and I'm thankful to you for that, however we're not quite finished yet. Worklight will generate the native projects for you, but its your own responsibility to take those project directories and build the Android APK, or the iOS IPA etc. IBM will draw the line at this point, so you need to build them yourself, you can do this for all of the environments quite easily using additional ant tasks, android is the easiest :
<target name="client-android" depends="buildAndroid"> <!-- Run the android native build, in its own directory --> <ant antfile="./apps/SmartConf/android/native/build.xml" target="release" useNativeBasedir="true"/> <!-- Copy up the apk into the bin area, for consistency --> <copy file="./apps/SmartConf/android/native/bin/SmartConf-release-unsigned.apk" tofile="./bin/SmartConfSmartConfAndroid.apk" overwrite="true"/> </target>
Building Blackberry and iOS apps from the command line is slightly more involved, and I feel they warrant their own blog post on that, alternatively, get in touch and we'd be glad to offer some assistance. Bear in mind you will need an Apple MAC to build iOS, for which we've installed a shared box in our build environment.
Other Gotchas
As with taking on board any emerging technology, there will always be plenty of head-scratching moments where the documentation is thin, and Uncle Google doesn't provide much help, fortunately for you, we're a nice bunch of guys here at Smart421 so we'll share some of the things that had us pondering over a coffee:
- The trailing "/" in the Worklight server host URL is required, don't ask why, it just is.
- The versioning conventions for Worklight are a little strange, 184.108.40.2060 = v5.0 GA, but the developer edition is 184.108.40.2067-developer-edition = 126.96.36.199.
- If you have an existing 220.127.116.11 WL server installation, don't upgrade it to 126.96.36.199, it fails to upgrade all components and leaves you with some obscure error messages that are hard to trace. The best plan of action is to uninstall, install again, but make sure you check for updates at time of installing, via the wizard
- App crashes with Unreachable host? When you build and deploy the app to your device, it has the WL server IP hardcoded into it. The next day when you arrive at the office and hop onto the Wifi, DHCP gives you a different IP address…It's a classic schoolboy error, but catches us out from time to time. A simple solution if you don't have a spare box lying around is to install the Worklight server on AWS and deploy to the cloud, bearing in mind that it needs to be open to your mobile devices over the Internet in a real-life installation anyway.
- Results is undefined on adapter call. A subtle difference here, HTTP adapters use invocationResult.results, whereas SQL adapters use invocationResults.result. That last character makes all the difference.
- Response cannot be parsed, please contact support; this is an annoying error that you often see in the developer preview, just make sure you set the body onload to WL.Client.init() as mentioned here.
- Unable to use geolocation services on android? You're probably seeing Caught security exception registering for location updates from the system, this should only happen in DumpRenderTree. Make sure you have the geolocations permission in your android manifest as detailed here.
On the whole, I was very impressed with Worklight, they are offering a lot of functionality over and above the standard Cordova project. Some of the errors I've encountered have been a little frustrating, as often my only source of help was the forums, but I can accept that it is a product in its early stages of adoption, and will probably go very far. I'm looking forward to working with it in the future.
If you'd like to have a look at some of the apps we're creating, or generally just want a chat about Worklight and some of its capabilities, or Mobility in general, we'd love to hear from you.


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Hamilton Co. blitzes Knox on building permits
Local data firm The Market Edge issued some fascinating data snippets this week.
The firm reports that 152 residential building permits were issued in Knox County during the first quarter of 2009, while 174 were issued in Hamilton County. That marks the first time Hamilton County has outpaced Knox County since the firm began gathering the data in 1993.
Also interesting is the fact that Hamilton County permits were up nearly 30 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. In Knox County, permits were down more than 17 percent from 4Q08 to 1Q09.

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This story was last updated at 2:22 p.m. on Jan. 10.
A wife and her husband were found dead Thursday morning inside their North Lynbrook home.
Nassau County Police were called to 22A Catherine St. around 9:30 a.m. for a possible murder and suicide, however, preliminary reports from the medical examiner Thursday afternoon suggested there was no foul play.
"At this time it appears to be that we have a 73-year-old female who died of natural causes and her 70-year-old husband suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound," Nassau County Police Det. Vincent Garcia told reporters at the scene.
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The couple had been married for more than 20 years. No names have been released, but family members of the deceased have been notified.
The bodies were discovered after a home health care aid went to the home Thursday morning and found the door was locked, cops said.
Police say the aid contacted the female victim's daughter who then called someone who had a key to the home. That person arrived, entered the home and police were then contacted, according to detectives.
The woman was found in her bed, and her husband's body was on the floor nearby, according to police. Detectives said the woman had been ill but her exact condition was not released. The small one-story home had a wheelchair ramp attached in the front.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice was also at the scene. The DA's spokesman, Chris Munzing, told Patch "the victim in the case is related to an employee in our office."
Catherine Street was still closed off around 2 p.m. Thursday as Nassau County detectives and the medical examiner continued to investigate the scene.
This is a developing story, which Patch will update as new information becomes available.


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Events for Friday, Sep 28, 2012
Federal Resume Writing Workshop
- 8:30 - 4:00
- Academic Center at Largo
Interested in a federal career but need help navigating the hiring process? Learn strategies from a former hiring manager from the federal Office of Personnel Management. Corliss Jackson, MPA, will provide an insider's perspective and personalized tips to help students and alumni craft a federal resume that gets results.
Registration is required. The fee for this one-day resume writing workshop is $129 if registered before September 25 and $159 after.


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Availability: Best Western Gregory Hotel
Double Room, 2 Double BedsMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Standard Room, 1 Queen BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Brooklyn hotel with a bar/lounge
Situated in Brooklyn, this hotel is close to Fort Hamilton Triangle, Fort Hamilton, and Alice Austen House Museum. Local attractions also include Fort Wadsworth and Bensonhurst Park.
Hotel Features
A complimentary full breakfast is available. Best Western Gregory Hotel also features a bar/lounge, complimentary wireless Internet access, and a 24-hour business center.
Room Amenities
Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Best Western Gregory Hotel Amenities
- General
A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities consist of a 24-hour business center and small meeting rooms. 3 meeting rooms are available.
Best Western Gregory Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 70
- Bar/lounge
- Free breakfast
- Free Wi-Fi
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Smoke-free property
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Iron/ironing board
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Dining
Guests are offered a complimentary full breakfast each morning.
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- In-room accessibility
Best Western Gregory Hotel Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: Discover, MasterCard, Visa, American Express
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10 per night
- In-room microwave fee: USD 10 per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night


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Availability: Seaport Boston Hotel
Boston hotel next to Seaport World Trade Center
With a stay at Seaport Boston Hotel in Boston (South Boston Waterfront), you'll be minutes from World Trade Center and Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
This 4-star hotel is close to Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Boston Common.
Make yourself at home in one of the 428 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Relax and unwind with body treatments and facials. If you're looking for recreational opportunities, you'll find a health club, an indoor pool, and a steam room. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, gift shops/newsstands, and tour/ticket assistance.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and a computer station. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center, conference/meeting rooms, and small meeting rooms. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Seaport Boston Hotel Amenities
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The Seaport Boston Hotel complex provides a total of 200,000 square feet of flexible conference and exhibition space, with panoramic views of Boston Harbor and the city and caters to both families/leisure travelers and business travelers. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the hotel's public areas, including the 24-hour business center, and guestrooms. Aura Restaurant serves regional cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, while TAMO bar faces the harbor. A lobby computer provides complimentary high-speed Internet access.
- Indoor pool
- Steam room
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Health club
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Bar/lounge
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Total number of rooms - 428
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 18
- Computer station
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Luggage storage
- Room service
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference center
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- 24-hour business center
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
- Parking
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Daily housekeeping
- Pillowtop mattress
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- In-room safe
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Pillow menu
- Dining
Aura Restaurant - Offers the rich flavors of the regional cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Children's menu also available.
TAMO Restaurant - Features complete bar menu and specialty martinis in a casual atmosphere.
Seaport Cafe - Take-out stop, with a few tables for on-the-spot dining, serving sandwiches, baked goods, and coffee, tea, and cold drinks.
In-room dining - Available during specified hours.
- Recreation
Guests enjoy complimentary use of the on-site Wave Health & Fitness club, featuring a 50-foot heated, indoor pool with underwater music, a juice bar, and locker rooms with steam rooms and swimsuit dryers. The fitness area contains a 17-station strength-training circuit, free weights, benches, a stretching area, and cardio equipment including treadmills, rowing machines, stair-steppers, and elliptical machines. Personal training and spa treatments are available for a surcharge.
The recreational activities listed below are available on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Pilates classes on site
- Spa
- Hot stone massage
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Seaport Boston Hotel Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: Discover, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club
- Pets
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Pet maximum weight in lb is 25
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
Parking height restrictions apply
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Self parking fee: USD 34 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 44 per day (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 100 per room, per stay
- Additional Details
Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- Details
- A Green / Sustainable Property - Third Party CertifiedThis property participates in Green Key Eco-Rating Program, a third-party certification program that has been independently certified. Third-party certification measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. An objective assessment of a company's sustainable tourism practices has been performed at this property by an auditor who is independent of the third-party certification program.
- The property is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts.


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Mirror test
The mirror test is an experiment developed in 1970 by psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. to determine whether an animal possesses the ability to recognize itself in a mirror.[1] It is used as an indicator of self-awareness in non-human animals, marking entrance to the mirror stage by human children in developmental psychology.
- 1 Overview
- 2 History
- 3 Rouge test
- 4 Species reported to pass the test
- 5 Reactions of other animals to mirrors
- 6 Criticisms
- 7 See also
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The classic mirror test is performed by surreptitiously marking the animal with two scentless dye spots. The "test" spot is put on a part of the animal that would only be visible to it through use of a mirror; the "control" spot is on an accessible but completely visually hidden part of the animal's body. If the animal reacts in a manner consistent with awareness that the test dye is located on its own body, yet ignores the control dye, it can be arguably concluded that the animal recognizes the mirror as an image of itself. Such behavior includes turning and adjusting of the body in order to better view the marking in the mirror, or tactile examination of the marking with a limb while viewing the mirror.[1]
Several species of animals have been documented to pass the mirror test. Children gain the ability to pass the mirror test around 18 months of age. A specific version of the mirror test called the rouge test involves the use of rouge makeup as a test spot and assess the degree of self-awareness based on the child's response to his or her mirror image.[2] It has also been noted that some animals,[3] young children,[4] and people who have their sight restored after being blind from birth,[2] often (at least initially) react to their reflection in the mirror as though it were another individual.
Charles Darwin[edit]
The inspiration for the mirror test comes from an anecdote about Charles Darwin and a captive orangutan. While visiting the London Zoo in 1838, Darwin had occasion to observe an orangutan named Jenny throwing a tantrum after being teased with an apple by her keeper. This started him thinking about what the subjective experience of an orangutan is like.[5] Among other observations about how intelligent and human-like Jenny was, he also watched the ape gaze into a mirror and noted the possibility that the animal recognized itself in the reflection.[6]
Gordon Gallup Jr.[edit]
In 1970, Gordon Gallup Jr. experimentally investigated Darwin's initial observations with two male and two female wild pre-adolescent chimpanzees, none of which had presumably seen a mirror previously. Each chimpanzee was put into a room by itself for two days. Next, a full-length mirror was placed in the room for a total of 80 hours at periodically decreasing distances. A multitude of behaviors were recorded upon introducing the mirrors to these wild chimpanzees.[3]
Initially, the chimpanzees made threatening gestures at their own images, ostensibly seeing their own reflections as threatening. Eventually, the chimps used their own reflections for self-directed responding behaviors, such as grooming parts of their body previously not observed without a mirror, picking their noses, making faces, and blowing bubbles at their own reflections. Gallup expanded the experiment by manipulating the chimpanzees' appearance and observing their reaction to the mirror.[3]
Gallup built on these observations to devise what is now commonly known as the mirror test, a method to gauge the self-awareness of an animal by determining whether it recognizes its own reflection in a mirror.
Rouge test[edit]
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The rouge test is a specific version of the mirror test used with children.[7] Using rouge makeup, an experimenter surreptitiously places a dot on the nose and/or face of the child. The child is then placed in front of a mirror and their reactions are monitored; depending on the child's development, distinct categories of responses are demonstrated. This test is widely cited as the primary measure for mirror self-recognition in human children.[8][9][10]
Developmental reactions[edit]
From the age of 6 to 12 months, the child typically sees a "sociable playmate" in the mirror's reflection. Self-admiring and embarrassment usually begin at 12 months, and at 14 to 20 months most children demonstrate avoidance behaviors.[7] Finally, at 18 months half of children recognize the reflection in the mirror as their own[8] and by 20 to 24 months self-recognition climbs to 65%. Children do so by evincing mark-directed behavior; they touch their own nose and/or try to wipe the mark off.[7]
It appears that self-recognition in mirrors is independent of familiarity with reflecting surfaces.[9] The rouge test in some cases has been shown to have differing results depending on sociocultural orientation. For example, a Cameroonian Nso sample of infants 18 to 20 months of age had an extremely low amount of self-recognition outcomes at 3.2%. The study also found two strong predictors of self-recognition: object stimulation (maternal effort of attracting the attention of the infant to an object either person touched) and mutual eye contact.[11] A strong correlation between self-concept and object permanence have also been demonstrated using the rouge test. [12]
The rouge test is a measure of self-concept; the child who touches the rouge on their own nose upon looking into a mirror demonstrates basic ability of understanding global awareness. Current views of the self in psychology position the self as playing an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity.[10] Other theorists have expounded on this significance of this time period in a child's life, such as psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's use of a similar test in marking the mirror stage when growing up.[1][13]
Species reported to pass the test[edit]
Animals that have been reported to pass the mirror test include:
- Great apes
- Bonobos[14][15]
- Chimpanzees[1][14][16][15]
- Orangutans[15]
- Gorillas – it was initially thought that gorillas were unable to pass the test, but there are now several well-documented reports of gorillas (such as Koko[17]) passing the test.[15]
- Humans – Humans tend to fail the mirror test until they are about 18 months old, or in what psychoanalysts call the "mirror stage".[2][3][4]
- Bottlenose dolphins[18]
- Killer whales[19]
- Elephants[20]
- European magpies[21] – the only non-mammal to pass the test.
Reactions of other animals to mirrors[edit]
While the mirror test remains the "gold-standard" indication of self-awareness, only a very small number of species have been recorded to pass it. However, varying levels of self-awareness in other animals have been postulated from experiments which are similar to the mirror test.
Lesser primates[edit]
Primates, other than the great apes, have so far universally failed the mirror test. However, mirror tests with three species of Gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus, H.gabriellae, H. leucogenys) have shown convincing evidence of self-recognition despite the fact that the animals failed the standard version of the mirror test. [22]
Rhesus macaques[edit]
Rhesus macaques have demonstrated a behavior indicative of at least a partial self-awareness.[23]
Capuchin monkeys[edit]
Capuchin monkeys react to their reflection either with hostility or affection, and mark test experiments have shown that they are incapable of spontaneous mirror self-recognition.[24] Similar tests performed using video technology support these findings, but suggest that the monkeys do at least possess the raw input systems required for explicit self-recognition.[25]
Pigs are able to utilize visual information seen in a mirror to find food, and show evidence of self-recognition when presented with their reflection. In an experiment, 7 of the 8 pigs tested were able to find a bowl of food hidden behind a wall and revealed using a mirror. The eighth pig looked behind the mirror for the food.[26]
It is speculated that, in addition to the European magpie, some other Corvids have at least some degree of self-awareness, evidenced by behaviors like re-caching food when initially watched by another bird.
In 1981, Epstein, Lanza and Skinner published an article in the journal Science, in which they argued that the pigeon is also capable of passing the mirror test, but only after extensive behavioral conditioning.[27][28]
In the experiment, a pigeon was trained to look in a mirror to find a response key behind it, which the pigeon then turned to peck—food was the consequence of a correct choice (i.e., the pigeon learned to use a mirror to find critical elements of its environment). Next, the pigeon was trained to peck at dots placed on its feathers; food was, again, the consequence of touching the dot. The latter training was accomplished in the absence of the mirror. The final test was placing a small bib on the pigeon—enough to cover a dot placed on its lower belly. A control period without the mirror present yielded no pecking at the dot. When the mirror was revealed, the pigeon became active, looked in the mirror and then tried to peck on the dot under the bib.
It should be noted however, that untrained pigeons have never been able to pass the mirror test. [29]
Animals with a non-visual primary sense[edit]
While the mirror test has been extensively conducted on primates, it is of limited value when applied to animals who rely primarily on senses other than vision.[3][verification needed] The test has been accused of being overly anthropocentric, or at least unsuitable for many animals, due to its reliance on the visual sensory apparatus. Many animals rely on other senses in much greater amounts than humans do. For example, dogs' main senses are the olfactory sense and hearing, and vision comes only third. In fact, dogs mostly recognize individuals, both human and canine, by their smell and voice. It is speculated this is the reason dogs fail the mirror test. In light of this, the mirror test has been adapted to function through other sensory modalities, such as scent. Biologist Marc Bekoff developed a scent-based paradigm using dog urine in testing self-awareness in canines.[2][3] He tested his own dog, but his results were inconclusive.[30]
Methodology flaws[edit]
There is some debate as to the interpretation of the results of the mirror test,[3] and researchers in one study have identified some potential problems with the test as means of gauging self-awareness in young children.[31]
Proposing that a self-recognizing child may not demonstrate mark-directed behavior because they are not motivated to clean up their faces, thus providing incorrect results, the study compared results of the standard rouge test methodology against a modified version of the test.[31]
In the classic test, the experimenter first played with the children, making sure that they looked in the mirror at least three times. Then, the rouge test was performed using a dot of rouge below the child's right eye. For their modified testing, the experimenter introduced a doll with a rouge spot under its eye and asked the child to help clean the doll. The experimenter would ask up to three times before cleaning the doll themselves. The doll was then put away, and the mirror test performed using a rouge dot on the child's face. These modifications were shown to increase the number of self-recognizers.[31]
The results uncovered by this study at least suggest some issues with the classic mirror test; primarily, that it assumes that children will recognize the dot of rouge as abnormal and attempt to examine or remove it. The classic test may have produced false negatives, because the child's recognition of the dot did not lead to them cleaning it. In their modified test, in which the doll was cleaned first, they found a stronger relationship between cleaning the doll's face and the child cleaning its own face. The demonstration with the doll, postulated to demonstrate to the children what to do, may lead to more reliable confirmation of self-recognition.[31]
Similar criticisms may apply to non-human animals; they may not recognize the dot as abnormal, are not vision-oriented enough to notice it, or are not motivated to react to it, although this does not mean that they are not self-aware. For example, in a mirror test conducted on three elephants by Diana Reiss and Joshua Plotnik in 2006, only one elephant passed, but the two elephants that failed still demonstrated self-aware behavior, including movements that showed they connected the mirror image to themselves. Reiss and Plotnik say that the elephants might not have gone after the mark because it was not important enough to them.[32]
Self-recognition vs. self-awareness[edit]
On a more general level, it remains debatable whether recognition of one's mirror image implies self-awareness.[31]
See also[edit]
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- ^ a b c d Archer, John (1992). Ethology and Human Development. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-389-20996-1.
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- ^ a b "Consciousness and the Symbolic Universe"
- ^ Jonathan Weiner. Darwin at the Zoo. available at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=darwin-at-the-zoo.
- ^ Carl Zimmer. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition. excerpt available at http://carlzimmer.com/books/descentofman/excerpt.html.
- ^ a b c Beulah Amsterdam (1972). "Mirror self-image reactions before age two". Developmental Psychobiology 5 (4): 297–305. doi:10.1002/dev.420050403. PMID 4679817.
- ^ a b Lewis, M.; Brooks-Gunn, J. (1979). Social cognition and the acquisition of self. New York: Plenum Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-306-40232-6.
- ^ a b Priel, Beatrice; de Schonen, Scania (1986). "Self-Recognition: A Study of a Population without Mirrors". Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 41 (2): 237–250. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(86)90038-X. PMID 3701250.
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- ^ Heidi Keller; Relindis Yovsi, Joern Borke, Joscha Kärtner, Henning Jensen, and Zaira Papaligoura (2004). "Developmental Consequences of Early Parenting Experiences: Self-Recognition and Self-Regulation in Three Cultural Communities". Child Development 45: 1745–1760.
- ^ BENNETT I. BERTENTHAL; KURT W. FISCHER (1978). "Development of Self-Recognition in the Infant". Developmental Psychology 4: 44–50.
- ^ Lacan, J., Some reflections on the Ego in Écrits, org. published 1949.
- ^ a b Miller, Jason (2009). "Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism". American Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ^ a b c d "National Geographic documentary "Human Ape"". Retrieved 2010-06-11.
- ^ Povinelli, Daniel; de Veer, Monique; Gallup Jr., Gordon; Theall, Laura; van den Bos, Ruud (2003). "An 8-year longitudinal study of mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)". Neuropsychologia 41 (2): 229–334. doi:10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00153-7. ISSN 0028-3932.
- ^ Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon The Case for Personhood of Gorillas. In The Great Ape Project, ed. Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, St. Martin's Griffin, 1993, pp. 58–77.
- ^ Marten, K. & Psarakos, S. (1995). "Evidence of self-awareness in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)". In Parker, S.T., Mitchell, R. & Boccia, M. Self-awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. pp. 361–379. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
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- ^ Prior, Helmut; Schwarz, Ariane; Güntürkün, Onur; De Waal, Frans (2008). "Mirror-induced behavior in the magpie (Pica pica): Evidence of self-recognition". In De Waal, Frans. PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science) 6 (8): e202. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060202. PMC 2517622. PMID 18715117. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
- ^ http://www.uni-graz.at/zoowww/staff/Heschl/pdfs/Siamangs%20recognize%20their%20mirror%20image.pdf
- ^ Keim, Brandon (29 September 2010). "Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Questions". Wired. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
- ^ Roma, Peter; Silberberg, Alan; Huntsberry, Mary; Christensen, Chesley; Ruggiero, Angela; Suomi, Stephen (25 January 2007). "Mark tests for mirror self-recognition in Capuchin monkeys (Cebus Apella) trained to touch marks". American Journal of Primatology 69 (9): 989–1000. doi:10.1002/ajp.20404. ISSN 0275-2565. PMID 17253635. "The results are consistent with the finding that no monkey species is capable of spontaneous mirror self-recognition."
- ^ Anderson, James; Kuroshima, Hika; Paukner, Annika; Fujita, Kazuo (24 June 2008). "Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) respond to video images of themselves". Animal Cognition 12 (1): 55–62. doi:10.1007/s10071-008-0170-3. ISSN 1435-9448. PMID 18574604. "Although they showed no signs of explicit self-recognition, the monkeys' behavior strongly suggests recognition of the correspondence between kinaesthetic information and external visual effects."
- ^ Broom, D. M.; Sena, H.; Moynihan, K. L. (2009). "Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information". Animal Behaviour 78 (5): 1037. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.027.
- ^ Epstein, Lanza; Skinner, RP; Skinner, BF (1981). ""Self-awareness" in the pigeon". Science 212 (4495): 695–696. doi:10.1126/science.212.4495.695. PMID 17739404.
- ^ This is video of one such test
- ^ Frans B.M. de Waal. "The Thief in the Mirror". PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060201. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201107/does-my-dog-recognize-himself-in-mirror
- ^ a b c d e Jens B. Asendorpf; Veronique Warkentin and Pierre-Marie Baudonniere (1996). "Self-Awareness and Other-Awareness II: Mirror Self-Recognition, Social Contingency Awareness, and Synchronic Imitation". Developmental Psychology 32 (2): 313–321. doi:10.1037/0012-16126.96.36.1993.
- ^ "Kids (and Animals) Who Fail Classic Mirror Tests May Still Have Sense of Self". 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
External links[edit]
- The World First Self-Aware Robot and the Success of Mirror Image Cognition (Lecture at the Karlsruhe University and the Munich University, Germany), 8 November 2006.
- Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness (The Guardian)
- Elephants' jumbo mirror ability (BBC News)
- Elephant study published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA
- Elephants see themselves in the mirror (Newscientist.com with video)
- Can a Robot pass the Mirror Test? (www.Conscious-Robots.com)


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So who else is doing the community thing? Movingoffcampus.com (MOC), for one: It's a product of University City and the ever-relevant issue of where to live. (Not for nothing: I met the person who told me about MOC through someone I first "met" on Twitter).
Mark Sawyier founded MOC after he graduated from Washington University in 2007. At first blush, MOC may appear to be simply an apartment search site, one targeted at college students, a potentially profitable group of consumers. But there's more.
Sawyier and his team blog about issues related to housing and quality of life among the college crowd. And, he has a vision for keeping the conversation going, as I learned in this electronic interview.
Patch: When you started MovingOffCampus.com, to what degree were you thinking about fostering a community? Or were you simply envisioning a site that would provide a service; i.e. leads for apartment seekers and landlords?
Mark Sawyier: At the outset, my top priority was to create the best apartment resource for college students. This is inexorably linked to "community" because without local community insights, MOC becomes less helpful.
Patch: Can you describe the philosophy that guides MOC as a community resource?
Sawyier: There are three core elements that guide our philosophy in this respect:
- Help our users solve problems—for students looking for an apartment or property owners looking to rent, our core objective is to create real value for our users.
- Remove barriers to participate—if you're a property owner or student, you can use our website for free.
- Solicit feedback from everyone—we have lots of ideas about how to make MOC better but, ultimately, our users are the best sounding board.
Patch: Why do you think more companies and organizations are looking to engage audiences and consumers beyond traditional means (like advertising, marketing)?
Sawyier: In my opinion, it's because traditional advertising and marketing falls far short of building arelationship with any audience. It's not about getting consumers to support your brand, it's about understanding how your brand can support your potential customers. You can't answer that with radio spots, TV ads etc. (But you can support and broadcast your answer).
Patch: Now that you've been up and running for a few years, how do you see MOC as going beyond just another property rental referral site?
Sawyier: Two ways:
- Over the next several months we are planning to expand the number of problems MOC solves for college students—from moving and storage to signing up for cable and Internet.
- Our national ambassador network allows us to maintain a greater degree of relevancy at the local campus level (and therefore create greater value) across the country.
Patch: Can you provide some examples of how MOC has fostered community or built up a following of people who engage with each through MOC or your social media presence?
Sawyier: We know that moving off campus is something that college students do infrequently. That's why for social media we place far less emphasis on building up a Facebook fan base or Twitter following than on ambassadors engaging with their peers in value-centric ways. We're creating content from apartment move-in checklists to tips on apartment hunting created by students for other students.
Patch: How did you come up with the idea of the ambassadors? What do they do exactly and how does that feed into fostering a community?
Sawyier: When we started MOC, we realized very early on that every campus was different. The people best equipped to help us understand which property listings we needed on MOC and how to drive traffic from students at a particular campus were students that studied there. Over time, this idea evolved into the ambassador programs we run today. Ambassadors are responsible for not only implementing, but also developing campaigns specific to their school. From the value propositions to the specific tactics they implement, it's all built from the bottom up.
Connection and Commitment
A fascinating document called Connected Citizens puts the very notion of the Internet's ability to connect people up for debate.
It quotes Clay Shirky, a leading expert on the Internet and social life. He notes that it's not enough to be connected online, to be truly engaged in a community, human beings still must commit in a real world way.
"The Web is the best medium in history for bringing people together around shared interests," Shirky said. "The problem is that it brings people around a shared interest at a very low cost so that the commitment can also be minimal. In almost every other sphere of our lives the low cost of communications is fabulous, but for generating community, the low cost of communication can turn out to be damaging rather than elevating."
So, true human interaction remains is at the heart of being connected. And as in any relationship, commitment is key. We're all apparently still working on that.
What Else?
Connected Citizens also put me on to websites that are doing interesting and innovative things to bring people together. Here are my three favorites:
- CouchSurfing.org: "a volunteer-based worldwide network connecting travelers with members of local communities, who offer free accommodation and/or advice."
- GiveAMinute.info: "a new kind of public dialogue. It only takes a minute to think about improving your city, but your ideas can make a world of difference."
- Localocracy.com: "an online town common where registered voters using real names can weigh in on local issues."


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Woodward, Okla. —
End of the school year activities continue at a quick pace in Woodward.
Awards assemblies take center-stage the next couple of days at Woodward High School.
Today, the school will hold its underclassmen awards presentations with community and class awards. It starts at 1:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
On Thursday evening, it will be the seniors time to receive awards and recognition.
The senior awards reception starts at 6 p.m. in the high school commons and will include a number of scholarship awards and special recognitions as well as the class awards.
Also on Thursday, a special event is planned at Horace Mann with the retirement party for veteran teachers Cheryl Lucas and Cindy Brown. That starts at 3:45 p.m.
Friday's schedule is an especially busy one with the senior breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at the high school.
In the afternoon, junior and senior powder puff football teams will be in action at Boomer Stadium. Kickoff is 4 p.m.
Then on Friday night, the always-popular Mr. Irresistible contest is set in the high school auditorium.
But the big day for the Senior Class of 2013 is Sunday afternoon.
Graduation ceremonies are set to start at 3 p.m. in Boomer Fieldhouse as the Boomer seniors will become WHS alumni in a matter of a couple of hours.
Next Monday, the seniors will have one more event, a pizza party at Crystal Beach Park.
There are some other school events coming up next week as well.
On Monday, the Woodward 7th and 8th grade awards assembly is scheduled at Woodward High School.
The festivities are set for 6 p.m. in the high school auditorium. This is the first time in a while the awards assembly for the 7th and 8th graders has been held in the evening.
On Tuesday, Horace Mann will be the site of principal Debbie Harrington's retirement party at 3:45 p.m.
Also next week, the elementary schools will be holding various programs and awards assemblies.
A number of area schools are holding graduation ceremonies on Friday and Saturday. Here is a list:
Arnett, 8 p.m.
Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Fargo, 8 p.m.
Fort Supply, 7 p.m.
Freedom, 8 p.m.
Leedey, 8 p.m.
Waynoka, 8 p.m.
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MILLEDGEVILLE — The 'Crimes & Mr. Meanors' feature family adventure film returned to the Milledgeville City Hall steps Tuesday afternoon.
Around 20 local extras descended on the set for a press conference scene. Creekside Films in conjunction with Glass Door Entertainment are using downtown Milledgeville locations.
The crew will also utilize the basement of the Community Visitors Bureau and two Central State Hospital buildings later this week. Capital City continues serving as base camp for actors and crew.
The kid-friendly plot teaches lessons about America and the conservative, godly principles the country was founded upon.
Washington, D.C., was used for the movie as well.
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President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan.
NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you."
The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney's business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama's handling of the economy.
The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges from both candidates. After a weak performance after the Republican Convention, Romney surged following Obama's listless performance after the first presidential debate. Nevertheless, the president cemented a lead in battleground states heading into Tuesday's election.
Neither candidate devoted much time to campaigning in Missouri, which has leaned heavily to the right in the past several presidential cycles. Romney campaigned in Kirkwood several months ago, and he was heavily favored to take Missouri's 10 electoral votes—which he did.
The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state as well as jobs and Obama's push for universal health care. The campaign, while not close in Missouri, was seen as close by some voters nationally.
"I'm here to hopefully have a change in the country. The economy. No jobs. Tax increases on things that aren't necessary. Just the whole mood of the economy," Jack Cusamano of Town and Country said. "I just want to see a leader do what they say they're going to do and help the small people succeed."
Will Edgar, 18, was undecided until this morning when he decided jobs might tilt him toward Romney. The issue that tilted him toward Mitt Romney concerns Edgar's choice of future career: underwater welding.
"I'm going to school to be an underwater welder and Mitt's all for starting all sorts of drilling, particularly off the East Coast," he said, adding that Obama has sought to restrict it. So, when did he decide? "When I woke up this morning."
Rick Luebcke of Chesterfield, a lifelong Republican, voted for Obama.
"While I spent my career with a major automobile company and have supported the Republican Party, I just don't think that their opinion of how the country should be run helps the people of the country in which they live," he said.
Cole West, of Arnold, told Patch he was pro-Obama because of the president's stance on health care.
"My 4-year-old has a heart condition, and Obama's plan would eliminate the pre-existing condition clause so my daughter Ava could get health insurance," West said.


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We discover a small boy with the fear of everything
this is an old one i made in college.
Rated 3 / 5 stars September 6, 2011
Well animated with a funny story
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Okay, so I registered for a sprint triathlon (400m swim, 11 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) in August. Maybe that will turn out to be a really stupid idea, but I'm going to see if I can at least finish.
So I need some good workout music, because my current tunes are getting tired. What songs get you pumped up when you're exercising? Here's some tunes that work for me:
- Blink 182
- music from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack (hey, don't mock it until you try it!)
- "Ready Steady Go" by The Meices
- The Mountain Goats
- Foo Fighters
- The Killers
- sometimes the Pixies or the Ramones
How about you? What workout music goes into your playlist mix and gets you ready to exercise?


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UCLA junior posts seven-under par 63 in second round.
The Bruin football team was picked to win the Pac-12 South Division in Wednesday's media poll.
The Bruins send four to Eugene for the World Junior Championships
She rallies to win on the 19th hole against Lori Beth Adams.
Junior outfielder to compete in prestigious summer league All-Star Game.
Three UCLA graduates have been awarded Donald R Shepherd Postgraduate Scholarships.
The award is the nation's fourth oldest individual accolade in college football
UCLA Senior Associate Athletic Directors Iacoi, Rebholz named to national leadership positions.
Goalkeeper Katelyn Rowland will lead the U.S. at the 2014 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in August.
Connecticut, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Texas and Nebraska highlight UCLA's non-conference slate.
Last year's Dribble for the Cure' set an annual donation record for the third consecutive year.
Last year's Dribble for the Cure' set an annual donation record for the third consecutive year.


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CARGILL, Lucille: 94, died April 18 in Cushing. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Oak Grove Baptist Church. Internment: Fairlawn Cemetery, Cushing. Arrangements: Palmer Marler Funeral Home, Cushing.
WOLNICK, Bernice: 92, died April 19, 2013, in Stillwater. Services: Pending. Arrangements: Palmer Marler Funeral Home.
HEATH, Sharon Kay: 67, died April 17 at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at the Assembly of God in Perry. Interment: Grace Hill Cemetery, Perry. Arrangements: Brown-Dugger Funeral Home, Perry.
HAMILTON, Edward Floyd: 82, of Stillwater died April 17 in Claremore. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Palmer Marler Funeral Home Chapel. Internment: Burial following ceremony in Keota. Arrangements: Palmer Marler Funeral Home.


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Answering questions submitted by reporters on Monday, Wright praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century," and said it's possible that the US government created the AIDS virus and introduced it into the black community...
While these remarks actually were reported in the Globe yesterday, the reports were buried deep in background material. Today's act of journalistic backtracking was accurately predicted yesterday by blog reader flymorgue:
Prepare yourself for the 'inverted article' tomorrow where the Globe writers are tasked with describing Obama's disavowal of an incident of which Globe readers are ignorant. It is such a classic Globe style, perfected in the Swiftboat days, of explaining a response first, and then the 'response to' in the second paragraph.
Actually it was the 7th paragraph, but that's an improvement. Peter Canellos, the Chief of the Globe's now 1-man Washington bureau also writes on the Wright story, also one day late:
Now, after Obama's uncategorical repudiation yesterday of the man who presided at his wedding and the baptism of his daughters, voters and other political observers will inevitably wonder what took so long - and how Obama could have misjudged someone to whom he was very close.
Globe readers (or C-Span watchers at least) were wondering about this yesterday, too.
Unlike Canellos, Globe political columnist Scott Lehigh applies a low quality smokescreen:
What's really relevant here is not what Jeremiah Wright says but what Barack Obama believes.
The issue voters are weighing does not concern Mr. Obama's beliefs, but rather his judgment, as Canellos correctly observes.
The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal site today carries a column by Heather McDonald of City Journal that reports what still remains unmentionable in the Globe at least, that is the content of Wright's remarks before the NAACP Sunday night in Detroit:
At the NAACP meeting, Mr. Wright proudly propounded the racist contention that blacks have inherently different "learning styles,"… Pursuing a Ph.D. by logging long hours in the dusty stacks of a library, Mr. Wright announced, is "white." Blacks, by contrast, cannot sit still in class or learn from quiet study, and they have difficulty learning from "objects" — books, for example — but instead learn from "subjects," such as rap lyrics on the radio. These differences are neurological…Whites use what Mr. Wright referred to as the "left-wing, logical and analytical" side of their brains, whereas blacks use their "right brain," which is "creative and intuitive."
It seems that many of the very people in politics and media who so often claim to be longing for "a national dialog on race" are at this very moment too squeamish to even mention these propositions of Rev. Wright, let alone say to anything even slightly critical of them. The Globe has been completely silent.
Some dialogue.
And this squeamishness remains despite the fact that Wright's NAACP speech was televised live on CNN (and remains on YouTube with segments here and here). Heather McDonald concludes that:
Mr. Wright's speeches have shown how quickly academic insanity becomes incorporated into practice.
Indeed. Just ask Lawrence Summers.


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Three weeks in October 2002.
Ten victims gunned down, three more seriously injured, and millions across the Washington, DC, region—from central Virginia to Montgomery and Prince George's counties—gripped with fear while a disgruntled veteran and his teenage accomplice prowled for unwitting targets in a blue Chevrolet Caprice, its trunk jerry-rigged so they could covertly fire their high-powered rifle.
Oct. 2 marked the 10th anniversary of the first DC sniper shooting, which was followed by five more on Oct. 3 and seven more through Oct. 22—a 23-day span that left a community haunted and helpless as it watched the harrowing saga unfold.
"This was a ghost with a gun," Montgomery County Police spokesman Capt. John M. Fitzgerald told The Gazette on the first anniversary of the shootings. "No one felt safe. There was unusual fear, extraordinarily frightening, random and invisible."
Those memories and emotions will come to bear Thursday night in Gaithersburg at a prayer vigil to honor the sniper victims. The vigil is being hosted by Montgomery County police, the Victim Rights Foundation and the Montgomery Village Chiefs Football and Cheer Program. It is set for 6:30 p.m. at Goshen United Methodist Church, at 19615 Goshen Rd. The public is welcome.
The Victims
The first shot rang out at 5:20 p.m. on Oct. 2. The bullet went through a window of a Michaels craft store in Aspen Hill. No one was injured.
At 6:30 p.m., James Martin, a 55-year-old program analyst at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, was shot dead in the parking lot of a Shoppers Food Warehouse on Randolph Road in Wheaton.
Oct. 3 brought the spree's most gruesome tally: five gunned down in a 14-hour span, four of them in Montgomery County.
7:41 a.m.
- James L. "Sonny" Buchanan, a 39-year-old landscaper from Abingdon, VA, was killed while mowing the grass at Fitzgerald Auto Mall on Rockville Pike.
8:12 a.m.
- Premkumar Walekar, a 54-year-old cab driver from Olney, was fatally shot at a gas station on Aspen Hill Road and Connecticut Avenue in Aspen Hill.
8:37 a.m.
- Sarah Ramos, a 34-year-old housekeeper from Silver Spring was killed while reading on a bench in the Leisure World Shopping Center in Norbeck.
9:58 a.m.
- Lori Ann Lewis Rivera, a 25-year-old nanny was shot in the back while vacuuming her boss's minivan at a gas station at Connecticut and Knowles avenues in Kensington.
9:15 p.m.
- Pascal Charlot, a 72-year-old retired carpenter, was killed while walking on Georgia Avenue at Kalmia Road, in Washington, DC, just across the Maryland line.
Oct. 4, 2:30 p.m.
- Caroline Seawell, 43, survived being shot in the parking lot of Spotsylvania Mall, near Fredericksburg, VA.
Oct. 7, at 8:09 a.m.
- Iran Brown, a 13-year-old student at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School was shot as he arrived at the Bowie school. He survived the shooting, and later testified against his shooters.
Oct. 9, 8:18 p.m.
- Gaithersburg resident Dean Harold Meyers, 53, was killed at a gas station on Sudley Road outside Manassas, VA.
Oct. 11, 9:30 a.m.
- Kenneth Bridges, 53, a father of six from Philadelphia, was killed at a gas station off Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, VA.
Oct. 14, 9:15 p.m.
- Linda G. Franklin, 47, an FBI analyst from Arlington, was shot after shopping with her husband at a Home Depot in Falls Church, VA.
Oct. 19, 8:00 p.m.
- Jeffrey Hopper, 37, of Florida was shot in a parking lot near the Ponderosa steakhouse off Interstate 95 in Ashland, VA, about 90 miles south of DC. He survived.
Oct. 22, 5:56 a.m.
- Conrad Johnson, a bus driver from Oxon Hill, was shot while standing on the steps of his bus on Grand Pre Road in Aspen Hill.
Finally, on Oct. 24, police found John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo asleep in their car at an Interstate 70 rest stop near Myersville, MD. Muhammad, the mastermind, was put to death in November 2009, while Malvo will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The 10-year milestone has prompted an outpouring of reflection on those panicked, angst-ridden three weeks.
The Washington Post published an extensive multi-media package, with the video "23 Days of Terror" as its centerpiece.
See The Washington Post's coverage here.
The Post's coverage also includes a timeline of the shootings, brief bios of the victims, photo galleries from 2002 and Malvo's first-ever media interview, in which he remorsefully tells The Post that the memory of the victims' faces makes him feel like "the worst piece of scum on the planet."
WTOP has this interview with Paul LaRuffa, the Prince George's County man whom Muhammad and Malvo shot and robbed in September 2002 as a springboard for their spree.
And CBS DC radio has this piece centering on Charles Moose, Montgomery County's police chief during the ordeal.
The topic has struck a chord with Patch readers. Follow this link to share your thoughts.
Trekker954 said:
"Living in the Northern Virginia suburbs at the time, I remember counseling my teens what gas station they should go to and to sit inside the car while pumping gas. I remember parking at walmart and other stores and running full speed to get inside the doors. I remember waking up each morning and turning on the news and hearing yet another person was shot. I was a young brown hair woman living in Queens hitting the clubs during the 70s son of sam era. I remember it felt the same. Very frightening. I'm glad they caught them all."
And Jim Rose—author of a recent article in The Atlantic magazine detailing the time Muhammad and Malvo spent at the Silver Spring YMCA—commented on Patch:
"As I said in The Atlantic article, I insisted on not altering my behavior or my outlook. Despite my wife's warnings, I kept going to the Y, where I felt safe, even though it turned out the snipers were there for four weeks too. But I did change my behavior in one respect. Pre-sniper, my daily walks had included a stretch on Randolph Road. I changed my route to avoid the exposure of being on Randolph. That was the only thing I changed. Now, my solo walks often are only on Randolph. As I said in The Atlantic article, I still think about this, and was talking today at the Y with one of the attendants who had regular interactions with John Muhammad."