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Florida election turnout war off to early start
Florida Democrats celebrate this weekend at Disney World; Republicans might wind up knocking on your door.
The contrast between the two parties — one reveling in repeat election wins and favorable polls at its state conference, the other canvassing neighborhoods door-to-door statewide — illustrates Florida's state of political play over the next election year.
"Florida Democrats are in Orlando this weekend to talk to themselves," said Tim Saler, a top Republican Party of Florida political strategist.
"While their wheels are spinning at their convention," he said, "we will have hundreds of precinct captains knocking on doors and talking to thousands of real voters about the issues that matter to them."
For months, even as Republican Gov. Rick Scott's poll numbers remained poor, RPOF says it has been identifying and then personally contacting thousands of voters — especially the estimated 450,000 Republicans who vote in presidential elections but didn't in 2010.
More than half live in conservative "fortress precincts" targeted by Republicans.
RPOF also recently announced three new Hispanic-outreach coordinators. Democrats had already hired three of their own.
Democrats have a bigger edge with Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the electorate. And they're trying to keep it that way.
Since May, the Florida Democratic Party says it has hosted about six monthly voter-registration efforts outside naturalization ceremonies in Central and South Florida, where they also have held an average of three Hispanic community events a month.
Democrats have tailored some events toward Venezuelans, Colombians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Puerto Ricans in different areas of the state.
"We haven't stopped our efforts since 2012," said the Florida Democratic Party's political director, Christian Ulvert, estimating the party has out-registered Republicans with Hispanics by a ratio of three to one.
"We haven't seen where the Republicans have been doing it in a coordinated way or effective way," he said.
Democrats have eagerly informed Hispanics of Scott's hardline immigration stances. They also note that, between the 2010 and 2012 elections, more Hispanics registered as independents — 538,708 — than as Republicans, 476,488.
About 645,000 Hispanics were registered as Democrats in the last election.
Just as the buzz of President Barack Obama's November 2012 win was wearing off, Democrats scored a second victory this month when Democrat Amanda Murphy won a Pasco County state House seat despite being outspent by the Republicans.
The tarnished GOP brand during the partial government shutdown and Scott's low standing with voters, consultants say, played roles in Murphy's victory two weeks before this weekend's Florida Democratic Party State Conference at a Disney resort.
But if previous elections are any indication, Democrats have an uphill climb next year. Republicans typically over-perform in midterm elections, allowing the GOP to control the governor's office, Cabinet and a majority of the Legislature.
Polls indicate the best Democratic candidate for governor was once a Republican — Gov. Charlie Crist — who will attend the conference.
Former state Sen. Nan Rich, the only major announced Democratic candidate, is expected to speak twice at the conference. Crist won't because he hasn't announced yet.
Though Crist performs best in polls against Scott, the governor plans to spend as much as $100 million to change those numbers. Republicans are zeroing in on Crist's numerous flip-flops and the bad economy he left behind in 2009.
Polls a year out from an election aren't clear predictors of a winner, either.
A Quinnipiac Florida survey released a year before the presidential election — just before a major RPOF presidential forum — showed Obama trailing Republican Mitt Romney by 7 percentage points.
Obama had more negative job approval numbers than Scott a year out from the election — yet the president won the state by one point, or 74,309 votes.
Republicans point out that, though Obama's campaign received a lion's share of the attention for turning out voters, more Republicans proportionately turned out in the election.
Only 70 percent of registered Democrats turned out to cast ballots in 2012, but 76 percent of registered Republicans did so in Florida.
But of the total ballots cast, Democrats edged Republicans by 1.5 percentage points because active registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 535,987, a lead cut to 503,977 by the end of last month.
The major numerical advantage of Democrats, however, has traditionally disappeared in lower turnout gubernatorial-race years, when Republican enthusiasm to cast ballots remains stronger.
Scott's pollster, Tony Fabrizio, told the Miami-Dade Republican women's club recently that, as good as the Romney turnout operation was, "the field plan for 2014 is much more expansive."
But Fabrizio and the RPOF in an April report acknowledged Republicans have work to do, in light of the fact that only 45 percent of registered Republicans voted in 2010 (the Democratic drop-off was even greater).
To get more Republicans to the polls, RPOF identified 1,219 large Republican-majority "fortress precincts" that account for 41 percent of all GOP voters statewide and contain about 252,000 off-year no-shows.
Boosting turnout by a quarter here would give Scott an extra 63,013 votes — 2.3 percent more than his margin over Democrat Alex Sink in 2010, which was a high watermark election year for conservatives.
Scott, according to exit polls, beat Sink among Hispanic voters by two percentage points. Two years later, Florida Hispanic voters backed Obama by 21 percentage points over Republican Mitt Romney. The margin was even bigger nationwide.
The demographics underpinning the last election's results have worried RPOF and Fabrizio.
Women, who outvote men in Florida by nine to 10 percentage points, are leaving the Republican Party in noticeable numbers.
Fabrizio, talking to the Miami-Dade club, also mentioned the need for minority outreach.
"Otherwise we're going to be the party of whites in an electorate, in a shrinking electoral pool, that we can't win," Fabrizio said. "Yeah, so we get 65 percent of the white vote. But if they're only 65 percent of the vote, guess what? You can't win."
Fabrizio, though, said the demographic troubles are more problematic in future elections after the governor's race. And he's confident in Scott's plan.
Democrats, however, say the Republican Party is undergoing an internal nationwide revolt from the tea party, and it's hurting the GOP's chances in the polls and from within.
"They have a split party," said Sen. Bill Nelson, the only statewide elected Democratic officeholder. "You have the tail wagging the dog, which is the tea party extremists."
But Nelson said that doesn't mean Democrats should underestimate RPOF.
"I'd take anybody seriously," Nelson said.


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At 10:11 AM 6/13/2001 , Terje Bless wrote: >However, EARL looks to be a bit immature yet; not to mention utter overkill >for this purpose. Once I grok Notation3 I'll take another look. :-) Well, it's probably overkill for -this- purpose, but when you consider the ability to combine a number of purposes using a common framework, it makes a lot of sense. Now, mind you, I barely grok RDF myself and Notation3 is beyond me. I support EARL in theory, but in practice I suspect I am more lost than you. ;) But the theory is good, and there are brilliant people working on this, so I am all for further development of EARL and I don't feel bad in trying to proselytize for its use! --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <firstname.lastname@example.com> http://kynn.com/ Technical Developer Liaison, Reef http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/ Online Instructor, Accessible Web Design http://kynn.com/+d201Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2001 13:18:40 UTC
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Well my poor little HTC Desire S will be shipped off tomorrow by UPS to HTC repairs. This is to have the USB socket/mainboard repaired as I mentioned in my previous post.
It can take up to 7 working days for the repair to be done so that's more than a week I'll be without my phone 😦
I have a couple of phones I can use in this time of mourning – firstly I still have my Nokia N95. This was a great little phone in its time but now, with the demise of Nokia, Ovi and S60, it might be a bit old-hat.
I also have a new Nokia 6303 Classic phone. This runs a custom S40 6th Edition.
Do I want to just forget about having a decent phone and use the Classic or should I attempt to be able to tweet and update my Google+ on my ancient N95?


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By Chris Schultz
Winsted-Lester Prairie Journal & Howard Lake-Waverly Herald, Minn.
Jan. 12, 2004
Pheasants forever makes big strides
After a year where conditions in Minnesota and across the midwest were excellent for pheasants, and pheasant hunting in general was excellent. the following questions still loom.
What will next year's pheasant population and pheasant hunting be like, and what will the future hold?
One Minnesota pheasant hunter posed those questions to me last week.
The hunter also noted that if pheasant hunting next year in Minnesota, or hunting in the next ten years, would be as good as it was this past season, we would all be happy.
For many Minnesota hunters, the pheasant season of 2003 set the mark and was the best year of Minnesota pheasant hunting they had ever experienced.
With that said, the expectations for upcoming years are now much higher.
Hunters will now expect to see the same number of birds they did in 2003.
More days will be spent in the field by more hunters and, in general, the prospects of good pheasant hunting in Minnesota will be bright.
Much brighter then what most Minnesota hunters had come to expect.
Moving on, and in simpler terms, there is only one answer to the questions posed above, and only one thing that will ensure good pheasant numbers and quality hunting in the future.
That one thing is habitat. Undisturbed grasslands for nesting, heavy winter cover like tree lines, brushy fence lines and cattail sloughs, and of course, lots of it.
Habitat is the key to all of our wildlife populations and, when it comes to pheasants, no group or organization understands that more than Pheasants Forever.
Across Minnesota in 2003, Minnesota's 66 Pheasants Forever chapters completed a total of 908 projects, which now provide more than 5,000 acres of wildlife habitat.
In 2002, Pheasants Forever completed 971 projects in Minnesota and has completed 18,000 during the organizations 21-year history.
Here are a few of the details of the Pheasants Forever projects that were completed in Minnesota in 2003:
· 641 food plot projects covered 1,791 acres
· 87 nesting cover projects added 1,772 acres
· Seven wetland restorations covered 121 acres
· 32 controlled burns accounted for 463 acres
· 132 winter cover projects planted 88,609 trees and shrubs
· Nine land acquisitions totaled 1,013 acres
Over its 21-year history in Minnesota, Pheasants Forever has spent more than $18 million to complete more than 140,000 acres of habitat projects in the state.
Pheasants Forever also spent an additional $2 million on youth conservation education and public awareness programs in Minnesota.
Lands purchased and developed by Pheasants Forever become enrolled into the State Wildlife Management Area System and are open to public hunting.
There are about 120,000 pheasant hunters in Minnesota, approximately 18,000 of them are Pheasants Forever members.
Pheasants Forever and its dedicated volunteers have been creating habitat in Minnesota that benefits pheasants, and other wildlife, and with the help of pheasant hunters, they have plans for much more.
In Minnesota, that good habitat mixed in with a mild winter and a fair spring creates pheasants, and the kind of pheasant hunting we had in 2003.
If Pheasants Forever continues to make strides in habitat development, Minnesota pheasant and wildlife numbers will only get better, and the pheasant hunting season of 2003 will become the norm and not the exception.
Think twice before feeding deer
From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages people who feed, or are considering feeding deer to think twice before starting or continuing the practice.
White tailed deer are highly adaptive animals that are "designed" to survive the most harsh Minnesota winters.
The insulating qualities of their hair and body fat, behavioral changes related to deep snow and cold temperatures, and the metabolic slow down that occurs as winter progresses, all aid in their survival over winter.
During mild winters, such as the ones we have experienced the past few years, deer winter mortality has been extremely low, resulting in some of the highest deer populations in history.
Artificial feeding tends to congregate deer in numbers higher than would occur naturally.
Bringing individual animals into close contact with one another has consequences.
This contact increases the chance for the spread of disease.
In addition, the concentration of deer in relatively small areas resulting from feeding puts increased pressure on the vegetation in the immediate vicinity.
This often times results in over browsing of plants such as white pine, northern white cedar, jack pine, and numerous shrubs.
If feeding is occurring in a residential area, this browsing often times focuses on neighbors' gardens, ornamental trees and shrubs.
Because most of us live on or near well-traveled roads, feeding tends to put deer, and motor vehicle operators, in situations where collisions are much more likely to occur.
Few people consider this very real safety hazard for our neighbors, friends and deer when they start feeding the animals.
If you are already feeding deer or consider starting, the DNR encourages you to consider these ramifications.
Keep in mind the impacts to neighbors, vehicles, gardens and the deer themselves.
Driveway obstacles dangerous to snowmobiles
From the DNR
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) urges landowners to remove obstacles from driveway right-of-ways this snowmobile season.
"Conservation Officers are receiving increased complaints of landowners putting obstacles in road ditches to discourage snowmobilers from operating on lawns and driveways," said Lt. Ken Soring, DNR Enforcement Division district supervisor in Grand Rapids. "It is illegal to block a road right-of-way, and it creates a liability risk for the landowner."
Snowmobilers may ride in the bottom or outside slope of a ditch along a county or state road.
However, it is illegal to operate on the inside slope, shoulder and roadway of state and county roads.
Additionally, municipalities, counties, school districts, and other political subdivisions or state agencies may impose further restrictions on snowmobiling on property not owned by the operator.
Snowmobilers should check local ordinances by contacting the city or municipality where they wish to ride.
But, conservation officers say landowners also have some responsibilities.
"I have received two complaints recently about landowners blocking the road right-of-way at the end of their driveways, which is illegal," said Conservation Officer Dave Olson of Grand Rapids.
"It's only a matter of time before a snowmobiler hits one of these barricades and is seriously injured."
Snowmobilers should contact local law enforcement officials to report road right-of-ways containing obstacles or others obstructions.
DNR question of the week
From the DNR
Q: Minnesota has gone through unusually dry winters, and even drier summers in recent years.
What sort of impact does this apparent climate change have on the state's forests?
A: A shift in climate will alter Minnesota's forests, which, over time, may change their composition and how they are managed.
For instance, a warmer, drier climate will favor tree and plant species that can tolerate heat and drought conditiions, such as those that currently grow in southern and western states.
New species will migrate northward and replace native plant communities.
As a result, a warmer climate will favor the expansion hardwood forests rather than the coniferous forests we're accustomed to seeing.
Along with the new species come their disease and insect problems as well.
Those changes will have adverse impacts on Minnesota's forest industry and wildlife habitat, which could ultimately affect the state's economy.
That's the long-term perspective; in the short term, Minnesota could see a higher frequency in wildfires and increase in insect and disease outbreaks.
Pheasants Forever corn give away
The Wright County Chapter of Pheasants Forever will have a corn giveaway for pheasants and wildlife Saturday, Jan. 17.
The giveaway will be from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Lampi's Auction located at Hwy. 55 and Wright County road 6.
Please bring your own containers.
Quantities may be limited due to demand.
For additional information, please call (320) 274-CORN (2676).
Outdoor notes
This week, Jan. 11 17 is snowmobile safety week in Minnesota.
The cold weather last week gave a big boost to area ice anglers.
Larger houses are now hitting the lakes, anglers are driving out, and activity is picking up.
For information on the Prairie Archers Club winter archery league call (320) 395-2721
In next week's column, look for the scoop on the upcoming Howard Lake Sportsmen's Club annual Fishing Derby.
Crystal-Pierz Marine in Maple Lake is having its open house Friday through Sunday.
For additional details call Gary at (320) 963-3025.
Set your Christmas tree in the back yard next to your bird feeders. The tree provides good winter habitat for song birds.
Make plans now for the 2004 Minnesota fishing opener.
The days are getting longer. Today the sun will rise at 7:49 a.m. and set at 4:54 p.m.
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Finders Keepers
Finders Keepers by Russ Colchamiro is most definitely a fun read.
A pair of cosmic engineers, responsible for constructing The Earth, have misplaced a jar of Cosmic Building Material, essentially, the universe's DNA. And with the inventory due to be taken, they need to get it back quickly or face the ultimate punishment.
Meanwhile on Earth, a pair of young backpackers are travelling across Europe, looking for someone who can tell them about a mysterious jar found in a cave in New Zealand, unaware that others, exiled from Eternity, will stop at nothing to take it from them.
It's a entertaining story, broken into small chunks which can be read as time allows (helpful if you find it difficult to carve out an hour or two at a time). Even the minor characters are fleshed out enough to make them part of the story instead of props. And as the story wraps up with some surprising twists, even the most villainous of the characters begins to show signs of redemption.
Numbers in man page references
I'm always forgetting what they mean and how to use them.
There's a great answer at: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/3587/223606
For me, the important parts are:
MANUAL SECTIONS The standard sections of the manual include: 1 User Commands 2 System Calls 3 C Library Functions 4 Devices and Special Files 5 File Formats and Conventions 6 Games et. al. 7 Miscellanea 8 System Administration tools and Daemons Distributions customize the manual section to their specifics, which often include additional sections.
And the syntax:
$ man 1 printf $ man 3 printf $ man -a printf
Targeting a Project in a Solution Folder in MSBuild
Normally, when you invoke the MSBuild task to build a solution file, you can just add TARGETS="ProjectName", where ProjectName is just the name of the project, and don't include the .csproj extension.
I already knew that if your project name includes a period, you need to replace that with an underscore (so the project "MySite.Web" becomes "MySite_Web").
But the UnitTests project kept coming up as not a known build target name.
Finally, I found my answer in a comment in the answer to "specify project file of a solution using msbuild" on Stack Overflow.
Turns out that when a project appears in a solution folder (as opposed to just being in a directory), you need to include the name of the solution folder, and a backslash. So since the UnitTests project is in the UnitTests solution folder, the MSBuild invocation ends up looking like this:
<MSBuild Projects="$(SourceLocation)\$(SolutionName)" Properties="Configuration=Release; Platform=Any CPU; OutDir=$(OutputFolder)Assemblies\; WarningLevel=0;" Targets="UnitTests\UnitTests" />
Random Memories of Shakespeare
A Random Memory…
In my mid-twenties, I spent six years living at Lake Tahoe. Literally within a half-mile of the beach. Every summer, I would Volunteer at first the Music at Sand Harbor festival, and then a month later, at the Shakespeare at Sand Harbor Festival. A set of events taking place in the dunes at the Sand Harbor Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. (The latter event is still around as The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival).
I would work every night at both festivals as one of the security Volunteers. They called it "Security", but it was really ushering. We were mainly concerned with helping people find a spot for their blanket and then keeping them from going into the environmentally sensitive parts of the dunes. Since I was there every night, and people somehow got the idea I was responsible, after a year or two, I was put in charge of security for both events. Which mainly meant getting there early so I could drag a shovel through the sand to mark where the aisles would go.
People tended to Volunteer for a few nights, so you'd get to know one another. One Volunteer I recall was a young woman named Ashley. She'd arrived early one Saturday and after we'd drawn the aisles, we had some time to kill. I looked at the aisles and commented, "Y'know, those aisles would be a lot easier for folks to see if we marked them with a rope." Ashley agreed that was probably true, so I asked, "Would you go over to the lifeguard station and ask if we could borrow about 200 feet of shore line?"
Ashley came back about 20 minutes later to report that the lifeguard didn't have that much available and had suggested she try the park office.
Sadly, the whole thing fell apart at that point because I couldn't keep a straight face any longer.
(Image by Wikipedia user DimiTalen, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)
They Keep Killing Glenn
The usual rule with a scandal is that when it first breaks, you start off with the angry denials. This goes on for a few weeks, with increasingly intense press coverage, until at last you get to the next stage, the tearful confession. Well, let's skip over all that and go straight to the part where the accused becomes the prosecution's star witness and throws his co-conspirators under the bus in exchange for leniency….
At the 2017 Farpoint convention, I attended the panel for Crazy 8 Press. As nearly as I can remember, most of the Crazy 8 authors were present: Peter David, Robert Greenberger, Michael Jan Friedman, Russ Colchamiro, Aaron Rosenberg and Glenn Hauman. Only Paul Kupperberg was missing (Mary Fan hadn't yet joined the collective). Kathleen David was sitting in the audience.
The panel started off with comments that the group is looking for ways to boost their book sales, with some dark humor thrown in about how Peter's book sales skyrocketed after his stroke several years ago. So naturally the question was raised of who was willing to "take one for the team" and boost book sales by having a stroke.
Somewhere in there, the suggestion came up, "Maybe we need to kill someone" to which Glenn replied, "We're writers. We're always planning to kill people." My recollection is that it was Aaron who responded, "Yes, but it's usually you." Pandemonium ensued as one author after another took turns suggesting ways Glenn might die.
In short order, they decided to publish an anthology of short stories in which Glenn would die. Once Peter announced the title should be, They Keep Killing Glenn, I knew what I had to do. I pulled $20 from my wallet, marched to the front of the room, and offered it as my contribution to the expected Kickstarter campaign.
And that's why Glenn says it's my fault the book was written.
This next part kind of boggles my mind. They Keep Killing Glenn is now available, and this is the list of authors from the book's back cover
I mean, look at that list of names:
David Gerrold – that's the guy who wrote one of the most popular Star Trek episodes ever, The Trouble with Tribbles.
David Mack, Robert Greenberger, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Keith R. A. DeCandido – These are Big Names in the world of Star Trek writers. They've all been on the New York Times best sellers list. Multiple times.
Paul Kupperberg – that's another Big Name. He's the guy who writes the current incarnation of the Archie comics.
As far as I can tell, almost everyone else on that list has been published multiple times and most of them have authored multiple books.
And then there's that name circled in red. Blair Learn. What's that name doing there?
Most of what I write is software documentation, describing how the pieces fit together, explaining processes to other developers. And yet somehow, a story I wrote has been included in an anthology with all those big names.
In February of this year, they announced that yes, they really were going to publish the book. And in addition to gathering submissions from professional authors, they were also going to accept up to three submissions from fans. I've spent a little time chatting with Glenn over the past several years, and having a story published professionally has been an entry on my bucket list for a while… So I submitted a story titled "R is for Roadster."
They Keep Killing Glenn will be debuting next month at the Shore Leave science fiction convention, just outside Baltimore. But you can order it from Amazon right now.
George Romero and Monroeville Mall
I'm not really into the horror genre, but in college, I do remember watching the original Dawn of the Dead and laughing at the various scenes shot in Monroeville Mall. I particularly remember watching the heroes drive cars around the lower level and thinking that must have been fun. And, of course, the scene on the ice rink – I grew up in that area and remember skating on that rink. Seeing it used for "zombie hockey" was an odd experience.
For whatever reason, the Twitters dropped a link on me today: it seems a group of fans is putting up a bronze bust of George Romero at the mall.
There's also a mention of a footbridge from the mall being preserved at the Heinz History Center. I have some vague memories of that bridge. The article includes a link to a story KDKA did in 2015, talking about the bridge's removal, complete with scenes from the movie and people dressed up as zombies helping to load the bridge pieces into a van. According to the news story, there were plans to put it on exhibit sometime this year.
Photo by flickr user daveynin, used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Triumph Bonneville Tail Light Bulb
As much so I can find this again as anything else… A 2014 Triumph Bonneville (doesn't seem to matter which trim package), uses an 1157 bulb for the tail light / brake light. This is single bulb, with two filaments. The similarly-sized 1156 bulb only has one filament and most likely won't work with that socket.
The bulb is easily available at any auto parts store.
Panera Bread and What To Do Next
What Happened?
I'm pretty sure most folks go to Panera Bread from time-to-time. Sadly, they have the dubious honor of being the latest big data breach. Worse, they seem to be a pretty good example of how NOT to handle this sort of thing. As near as I can tell from the reports so far, you're impacted if (A) you have a Panera Bread loyalty card (that includes "I just give them my phone number and they look it up") or (B) you bought any kind of pre-paid card.
The reports so far seem to say the breach includes names, usernames, email addresses, physical addresses, loyalty card numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers for probably 37 million people.
Two sources of information:
- Panerabread.com Leaks Millions of Customer Records by Brian Krebs (Krebs is a security journalist. He's the same guy who broke the story a few years back about Target losing everyone's credit card numbers.)
- No, Panera Bread Doesn't Take Security Seriously – Medium post by Dylan Houlihan who is the security researcher who informed Krebs of the breach.
The place where this gets bad is that Panera was reportedly alerted to the problem with their web site eight months ago and did nothing about it. Houlihan finally got tired of waiting for them to do something and that's when he passed the story to Krebs. (For comparison, at my workplace, we generally have to fix security problems less serious than this one in under a week.)
Krebs broke the story on Monday, April 2, after first letting Panera know what he was about to publish. They took their web site down and two hours later announced to the world that the problem was fixed and had only affected about 10,000 people
Except they didn't actually fix it. It doesn't sound like they even put much of a band aid on it. Following Brian Krebs' twitter stream from that day is illuminating.
So, as I write this, PaneraBread.com is offline.
That's the quick and dirty summary.
What do I do about it?
That's a tough question. I haven't seen anything yet about passwords being part of the breach, but if you had a login on any of Panera's web sites, you should think long and hard about whether you may have used that same password anywhere else. If you think you may have, you should go change the password on that other site just to be sure.
(As a semi-side note, here's my quick password rules.)
One part that's somewhat concerning is that the breach includes the last four digits of credit cards. That's not enough to actually use the credit card, but there are a lot of things online where knowing someone's name and the last four digits of their credit card number is enough information to "prove" you're that person. (There was a somewhat famous case a few years back where a tech journalist had his PC and iPad wiped after someone got hold of that information.) So you may need to think about getting credit cards reissued (the banks lately have been a bit more proactive about that, so you may get one anyhow).
One other thing you might consider is signing up on the web site https://haveibeenpwned.com (yeah, it's a funny name). That's a free online tool (you don't even need to set up a password), where you can find out if your email address has ever appeared in any of these big data breaches. More interestingly, you can also sign up (again, no password), to get an alert if your email address shows up in any future breaches. (I use this feature to monitor the domains my parents, wife and I use, but it also works for individual email addresses.)
Why would you want to know about breaches? Aside from being a way to find out when your information is exposed, a lot of the breaches you hear about in the news (and a lot of the ones you don't hear about) include not just an email address, but also a password. And once the bad guys find out how to login as you one system, they try again on other systems (e.g. banks). And with the huge number of passwords most people need to remember these days, there's an unfortunate tendency to re-use them.
Password rules
Some very basic rules for managing your passwords:
- Don't even think about using "password" as your password. That's the number one most used password in the world.
- Consider using a password manager. No one will ever guess that your password is qwb5Qauz36H9Kleqyotx and with a password manager, you won't have to remember it.
- If you must use a password you can remember, at least use a passphrase. "SixSillySwansSangSonnets" is much more secure than "Tr0ubad0r" (and a darn sight easier to remember the correct spelling).
- Never, ever, ever use the same password on two different sites. In short: if one site has a breach and the bad guys get hold of your username and password, they're going to try using them on other sites as well.
Faithfully following those rules doesn't guarantee that none of your accounts will ever get hacked, too much of that's out of your hands. But they're a solid start and they'll definitely help limit the damage.
A non-technical relative admits to not understanding why people would use a password manager. Couldn't someone just hack your password manager?
Yes. That could potentially happen. The aforementioned password rules also apply when setting the password for your password manager.
And you have to ask yourself, which system is more secure? A well-vetted, "battle tested" password manager (and I'm referring to the likes of LastPass, 1Password, or KeePass), storing passwords which are composed of 20 random letters and numbers? Or just using the site's name with a couple letters and maybe a number?
And which is easier? Keeping track of a single strong password for the password manager? Or trying to remember what password you used for 30, 40, or more different web sites? (Hint: you're gonna remember the Six Silly Swans example for a long time.) The main reason people re-use passwords is that they need to keep track of so doggone many of them!
The idea behind a password manager is that you only have to remember one really good password, and then the password manager remembers the rest of them.
And the good password managers (I personally use LastPass and KeePass) use heavy-duty encryption. If you use a good password, it's extraordinarily unlikely that anyone's going to break into your password manager by brute-force guessing.
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PHOENIX — When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona's new immigration enforcement law, giving police departments broad power to make immigration checks, she sought to allay concerns from Hispanic citizens and legal residents that they would be singled out for scrutiny.
"We have to trust our law enforcement," Ms. Brewer said. "It's simple reality. Police officers are going to be respectful. They understand what their jobs are. They've taken an oath, and racial profiling isn't legal."
Those words ring hollow to many Latinos, including Jesus Ruiz, 25, a college student in Mesa, Ariz., who, like many Latinos here, believes that all too often the police view them suspiciously and single them out for what they consider questionable stops or harassment.
In one stop in 2004, Mr. Ruiz said, an officer pulled him over for speeding 10 miles over the limit and went on to question him on where he was going to school and whether he lived with his parents, and finally asked for his Social Security number.
"I was thinking, is he supposed to be asking me for that and all these questions for a speeding ticket?" said Mr. Ruiz, who spray painted himself white and wrote on his body, "Am I reasonably suspicious?" at a recent protest against the new law, which goes into effect in late July.Continue reading the main story
But it is not just young people.
Judge Jose Padilla of Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, says that twice since he became a judge in 2006, the police have pulled him over, alleging minor traffic infractions. Even though Judge Padilla, 60, did not disclose his occupation, he ended up not receiving a ticket. He said his complaints to the police department led to sensitivity training for the officers.
Judge Padilla believes the stops were based on his Hispanic ancestry and the fact that his 1988 pickup truck has large wheels and resembles a low rider, a customized car popular in Mexican-American culture but also favored by some street gangs.
"This has been lifelong, these stops," he said, "and it is not just me."
Now, Latinos and several police chiefs say they worry that the law, which requires the police, "when practicable" and if they have reasonable suspicion, to check the immigration status of people they stop, detain or arrest for another reason, will widen a chasm of trust that they have struggled to close.
Those concerns have reached the Justice Department, which is considering challenging the law in court, out of a concern, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on ABC's "This Week," that "we could potentially get on a slippery slope where people will be picked on because of how they look as opposed to what they have done."
Though President Obama again criticized the law at a news conference Thursday, a majority of Americans support it, according to a CBS News poll released Tuesday. But recent surveys suggest a split along ethnic lines, with a majority of Latinos opposed to it. An Associated Press-Univision poll released May 13 showed nearly two-thirds of Hispanics opposed the Arizona law, compared with just 20 percent of non-Hispanics (45 percent favored it and 30 percent were neutral).
Antonio Bustamante, a veteran civil rights lawyer here who is helping organize protests against the law, explained by saying, "The majority in the country has not experienced being profiled so they don't perceive it as an issue, just like they don't accept discrimination in the country because they have not been discriminated against."
Roberto Villaseñor, the chief of police in Tucson, said in a recent conference call with reporters that his city "is divided about this issue," and he worries that immigrants will not report crimes or turn in criminals out of fear, justified or not, they will end up deported.
The law, Chief Villaseñor said, will instill "a level of mistrust" particularly in immigrant communities and break down years of efforts to combat the perception that the police collaborate with immigration agents.
Already, he said, there are anecdotal reports that some police departments in the state are asking people for their papers. He said his department had received a picture of a patrol car near a Border Patrol vehicle, as if proximity proved that officers were already collaborating to carry out the law.
Tensions between law enforcement and some Latinos have deep roots but have been aggravated by a spate of recent incidents and lawsuits.
A study conducted as part of the settlement of a racial profiling suit brought against the Arizona State Police found that over a one-year period ending in 2007, blacks and Hispanics were two and a half times more likely than whites to be searched by highway patrol officers even though the rate of seizure of contraband among whites was higher than for Hispanics and about the same as for blacks.
Memories also burn strong here of the so-called Chandler roundup, where the police in that Phoenix suburb worked with immigration agents to arrest more than 400 illegal immigrants — stopping scores of Latino citizens and legal residents to check their papers, in the process. The city settled a subsequent lawsuit for $500,000.
Today, a federal lawsuit and a Justice Department investigation continue against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, who has been criticized for using stops for traffic offenses in a series of "crime suppression operations" to check people's immigration status throughout metropolitan Phoenix.
It remains unclear what criteria the police will use in deciding what is a reasonable suspicion a person they stop is an illegal immigrant.
The new state law says the police cannot use race, color or ethnicity "except to the extent permitted by the United States or Arizona Constitution."
Some civil rights lawyers find that clause worrisome.
They note that federal courts and the Arizona Supreme Court have upheld the right of federal agents enforcing immigration law to consider someone's ethnicity, especially at or near the border, when deciding to question someone suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
A training manual as part of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as 287(g), which deputizes specially trained state and local police as immigration officers, lists a number of factors that can be used to make an immigration query, including "Does the subject have a thick foreign accent or appear not to speak English?" and "Does the subject's appearance look like it is 'out of place' or as though the subject has just traveled?" and "Is the area known for its attraction to illegal aliens?"
Federal officials said the manual was being revised to clarify the criteria and emphasize that several other factors must be considered.
David Salgado, a Phoenix police officer who has filed one of five lawsuits to block the law, said it would be impossible not to take race or ethnicity into account to develop reasonable suspicion, given the proximity to the border and region's large Hispanic population.
Officer Salgado said the fact that officers can check immigration status only after a stop for another reason is essentially meaningless because "you drive two or three blocks down the street I will find something to pull you over for — going over the double line, forgetting to signal for a lane change, it's not hard."
Nina Perales, a lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which also has sued, said non-Hispanic illegal immigrants would get a free pass.
"How does law enforcement form a reasonable suspicion that a white person is an alien absent a flat-out admission they are?" Ms. Perales asked.
Still, many Arizonans who support the law believe racial profiling concerns are overblown or a smokescreen to hide a belief that borders should be wide open.
"The police will do the right thing. The majority of them do," said Sunday Schwein, a retired nurse in Payson, Ariz. "I really doubt they will pick people out just because of their race."
Under an executive order signed by Ms. Brewer, the state's police training board is developing a training course designed to guide officers in developing reasonable suspicion that somebody is an illegal immigrant.
A letter from the board to the governor last week indicated the training, in the form of a DVD with handouts for every officer in the state, would reflect that given to federal immigration officers as well as the state's Department of Public Safety.
While several police chiefs oppose the law, groups representing rank-and-file officers support it and play down the concerns about racial profiling.
The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, a union representing police officers that supports the law, said some factors that might provoke reasonable suspicion include someone not carrying identification or using fake identification or possessing foreign identification without a visa.
But many Latinos remain unconvinced.Continue reading the main story


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How Starbucks became a mobile-first company
While Starbucks coffee is an acquired taste, the way they embrace mobile as a primary driver of growth is not. It's clear they get mobile when it comes to their business. They've become a beacon for mobile commerce and loyalty and are being talked about by the retail, technology and business experts and are now processing 20% of payments from mobile. The question is how? How did this coffee shop that sells the furthest thing from technology learn to use the technology to sell more, reach more people more often and increase basket size and loyalty…all from an app?
The world of coffee got competitive, slowly then quickly. I used to work at a gas station and coffee was what I brewed once in the morning and drank all day. The darker the better. Not any more. Coffee is business and everyone wants a piece of it. I remember seeing my very first McDonalds McCafe in Paris (of all places) in 2006. It's a classic Clayton Christensen moment when coffee disruptors started taking from Starbucks and Starbucks succeeded the lower value customers. Add to this the economic destruction that happened in 2009 and the results for Starbucks were catastrophic. Growth stalled, stopped, and plummeted. Something had to give.
Somewhere in the middle of all of this, right in the heart of the decline, in 2009, Starbucks dove into mobile head first instead of ignoring it. They knew they needed to start pulling people in to their stores and mobile was becoming an effective channel for reaching customers. They started with loyalty, then moved to prepaid cards, then rewards, then payments and now order and pay ahead and soon regularly scheduled deliveries. They went slowly then quickly.
They partnered with Apple for music distribution. They partnered with UBER for coffee pickup prior to being picked up. They partnered with Square for payment processing. They recently partnered with Lyft to gain rewards points for using the Uber competitor's service (Lyft drivers also earn points and can even receive Starbucks Reward points as a tip from the riders). They partnered with Spotify to bring custom playlists that can only be accessed in select stores – something they also did with Rovio by offering new Angry Bird levels to patrons in specific locations. Starbucks also announced a partnership with the New York Times to bring certain articles to Starbucks loyalty members starting in 2016.
It's hard to compare the growth of Starbucks to a company that may not have the same reach but there are lessons here:
- They started with an existing behaviour. They didn't try to introduce a new process or service, they merely moved it. Complemented it. They made loyalty easier on mobile.
- They nailed the experience and only then moved on to the next. Retention was their leak. People weren't coming in and buying. This needed this to stop. They looked to mobile to help.
- They adhered to the times. Starbucks did not introduce mobile payments before their time. They knew that, in order for payments to work for them, they needed to have an established base of ACTIVE app users already. Once they did, adding payments was just another service and people were ready.
- They committed – and continue to commit – to mobile as a growth engine. Starbucks thinks of their app as the gateway to additional products and services.
Whatever you think of their coffee or their prices the reality is that Starbucks has emerged as the leader of mobile payments because they approached it with intent. They didn't dabble in it. They dug in. They also haven't stopped.
Links for more on Starbucks and mobile:
– Starbucks' Massive Mobile App Momentum
– Starbucks Hits a Mobile Milestone: One in Five Payments Are Mobile
– Starbucks Bets the Store on Mobile
– Starbucks' App Accounts for 90 Percent of All Mobile Transactions
UNTETHER.tv posts
Podcast: This Week in Location Based Marketing #243 – Groceries are hot + Ian Dallimore of Lamar (link)
Hey retailers, here's why no one is downloading your mobile app (link)
Chrysler has 1.4 million reasons to embrace the Internet of Things…quickly (link)
TRENDING ON UNTETHER.tv: How does retail stand up to the barrage of mobile – with futurist Doug Stephens (link)
Tactics: Retention Focus
– Simple formula for exponential growth (link)
– Why Retailers Must Optimize Mobile Sites (link)
– Understanding smartphones as an influencing device (link)
– How important is a focus on retention? Well, it cost Homejoy their business: What Really Killed Homejoy? It Couldn't Hold On To Its Customers
– 8 Things SMBs Should Consider Before Adopting Mobile Payments (link) * A great checklist. This is probably the thinking Starbucks went through to determine when they were ready.
Industry News that Matters
Can we all agree that Facebook is a platform? They've clearly hit a stride with services that are addictive and in a very short time have come to dominate mobile. Now they are trying to be everything to all of us – including where we socialize and buy. Can Facebook take on Amazon to become the world's largest retailer? Here's a great article that explores the difference between the two behemoths: Facebook wants to own your life, not imitate Amazon. The thing is, Google is doing the same thing. Can "buy" buttons force us to buy more?
Here's a cool idea – if you like watching advertisements. A company called Tunity is applying their listening technology to the ad world. Tunity allows you to connect to the audio of a television screen that you can't hear or is turned down. Think about being in a bar watching a game and not being able to hear the sportscasters (a BLESSING if you ask me). The app tunes into the audio and you can listen. They are applying this tech to the ad world: Yaniv Davidson Wants to Monetize Your Ears
Have you tried Beme yet? It is another video capture and share service with a twist. I guess it's like Snapchat but with even less thought to interface. The premise of the app is that the screen interferes with the experience of recording so it uses the proximity sensor to initiate recording. Simply launch the app and hold the phone (screen side in) to your chest and it begins to record. You get 4 seconds and no opportunity to edit or delete. Once it records it goes live to everyone. Interested in trying it? Reply to this email as I have a few keys to give away. They seem to be a commodity and have made Beme a Twitter trend. More information about Beme can be found here.
Where do you stack up? Here is a quick list of benchmarks for your app. Beat the Benchmarks to be a Winner
Case Study on retention
If you are struggling with your mobile engagement strategy then this is a must read from a good friend Greg Hickman. It's an incredibly detailed post based on what Ace Hardware did and worth your time to read: Stop Guessing: Here's A Mobile Engagement Strategy That Works
How Men's Wearhouse Used Apple's Passbook And Google Wallet To Increase In-store Redemption By 10X (link)
A question for you
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New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday declared its candidates for bye-elections to one Lok Sabha and one assembly seat in West Bengal polling for which will be held on February 13.
While Subroto Thakur is BJP candidate for Bongaon (SC) Lok Sabha bypoll, its leader Manabendra Roy will be the party nominee for Krishnaganj (SC) assembly constituency.
"The BJP Central Election Committee has decided to name Subroto Thakur for Bangaon (SC) Lok Sabha and Manabendra Roy for the legislative Assembly bypolls," party general secretary J P Nadda said.
The Bongaon LS seat fell vacant after the death of Trinamool Congress member Kapil Krishna Thakur on October 13 last year.
The polling process for the bypolls started yesterday with the issue of notification and the last date of filing nominations is January 27.


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A talented and very promising bop pianist, Lorraine Geller's life was cut short by an unexpected heart ailment (which had no connection to drugs). Early on she played with the all-female big band the Sweethearts of Rhythm (1949-51). After marrying altoist Herb Geller in 1951, she moved to Los Angeles. During the next seven years she played with the who's who of West Coast jazz and bop including Shorty Rogers, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Red Mitchell and even Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Geller also worked as Kay Starr's accompanist in 1957 and appeared at the first Monterey Jazz Festival.
In 1958, just a month before her sudden death. Lorraine Geller, who had a great deal of unfulfilled potential, recorded three albums with her husband for EmArcy, a few titles with him for Imperial, a Red Mitchell record and made a trio set of her own for Dot in 1954.
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1. It's Swell Of You (Gordon-Ravel)
2. Everything I've Got Belongs To You
3. Mad About The Boy (N.Coward)
4. I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze
Recorded in Los Angeles, 1954
5. Clash By Night (L.Geller)
6. Close Your Eyes (B.Petkere)
7. Mystery Theatre (L.Geller)
8. The Blue Room (Rodgers-Hart)
9. Everybody's Blues (L.Geller)
10. Madam X (L.Geller)
11. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
(Don Redman)
12. You And The Night And The Music
13. Poinciana (Simon-Bemier)
14. What A Diference A Day Made (Grever-Adams)
Recorded in Los Angeles, 1954
15. It's All Right With Me (Cole Porter)
16. I Thought Of You (Red Mitchell)
17. Paul's Pal (Sonny Rollins)
Recorded in Los Angeles, 1957
Alto Saxophone – Herb Geller (tracks: 1 to 4)
Bass – John Simmons (tracks: 1 to 4), Leroy Vinnegar (tracks: 5 to 14), Red Mitchell (tracks: 15 to 17)
Drums – Eldridge "Buzz" Freeman* (tracks: 5 to 14), Frank Capp (tracks: 15 to 17), Roy Harte (tracks: 1 to 4)
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – James Clay (tracks: 15 to 17)
Piano – Lorraine Geller
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This EMBO Practical Course aims to train young scientists in the available techniques in the Correlative Light Electron Microscopy field of life science.
Students will be given a theoretical overview of available techniques and importantly the rationale why a particular method is applied to a specific scientific question will be discussed. Following the theoretical part students will get hands on experience of most of the techniques and they will be provided with practical tips and tricks by the experienced teaching staff.
This course aims at having a strong interaction/discussion between the students and the lecturers, where students are encouraged to challenge the techniques, propose alternatives, and discuss how CLEM can be applied to their own specific research questions. To this end a lot of the work will be performed in small groups with a high staff to student ratio (almost 1:1).
In our EMBO Practical Course, we have gathered (most of) the major labs that have developed CLEM techniques over the last decade. The team has organised this "Practical Course on Correlative Light Electron Microscopy" for the last 8 years in Bristol (of which the last 4 were EMBO funded) with very positive feedback from the students.


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Meet the Team
Brad Vancour
founding member & managing Member
Upon graduating from Bishop's University in the mid 1980's with a degree in Economics Vancour decided to first see the World before jumping into the corporate world. Vancour moved to Whistler BC, and quickly became a principle skier for Warren Miller Entertainment Ski Films for 17 film sequences to many remote locations as the Russia, India, China and all over Europe and North America. This included many first descents abroad during the early stages of the Extreme Sports movement. Vancour was also featured on the cover of over 50 Ski Magazines, Movie Posters, Ski Posters, Credit Cards and Bill Boards. Vancour also developed his on ski suit line called Vancour-Tech with Natlacen ski wear during his period. However, even with this success, Vancour realized that earning a good living entirely off of Extreme Skiing was too difficult at the time, so Vancour entered into the world of Commercial Real Estate and combined Skiing professionally and business for over a decade while being primarily based in both Montreal and Toronto.
In 1999 Vancour moved to Seattle and has specializes in land development, resort development, luxury home sales, and award-winning project marketing. In more recent years Brad was the top producing Broker in Suncadia Resort; plus investor and principal in several pending and approved advanced technology Patents. Now as a member of the Sotheby's International Realty network, Brad has expanded his market area throughout the Pacific Northwest and around the globe. Vancour is currently one of the top listing agents in Washington State and has since expanded with the newly formed Team Vancour.
A serial entrepreneur and veteran professional in many fields including: Film, Real Estate and Technology start-ups. Vancour is valued for his creativity, professionalism, privacy, honesty and integrity – characteristics that are sought after by executive groups and his discriminating clientele alike.
Over the past 25 years Vancour has also attended numerous celebrity events as a special guest which has helped generated a vast network within the film and entertainment industry. The basis for Vancour's newly formed company Good Message Films, LLC.
Brett Cullen is a veteran film and television actor who has appeared in a number of feature films including Apollo 13, Something to Talk About, The Replacements, Ghost Rider and the indie drama Puncture. Cullen has been seen in a string of high profile films including the MGM film, Red Dawn, The Guilt Trip, opposite Barbara Streisand and Seth Rogen and currently in Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated sequel The Dark Knight Rises. Other motion picture credits include The Life Before Her Eyes, Skateland, The Runaways, Guillermo Arriaga's, The Burning Plain. He also co-produced his first film as well as acted in, Beneath The Darkness, a new teen thriller starring Dennis Quaid.
On television, the Houston, Texas-native has starred in numerous different series including "Falcon Crest," "Young Riders," "Orleans," "Simple Life," and "Legacy." Most recently, Cullen has had recurring roles on CBS " Person Of Interest," ABC Family's "Make It Or Break It," NBC's "Friday Night Lights," FX's "Damages," NBC's West Wing," and "The Gates" among others. Cullen is also known for his character 'Goodwin' in ABC's "Lost" and roles on "Criminal Minds,"" Revenge," "NCIS," "The Mentalist," "Desperate Housewives," "Private Practice," "Once and Again," and "CSI: Miami," among others. Cullen was seen this year on Lifetime's network in, Marc Cherry's "Devious Maids". Cullen just finished starring in the Indie film "River Guard" opposite Eric Ladin and starred and produced the indie film, " The Last Rescue."
James Sundstad
Marketing Director
James brings over 30 years marketing and branding experience, including serving as Managing Director at FITCH Seattle. Prior, James spent six years based in London as Principal of Werkspace Studios, consulting luxury brands, international exhibitions, along with travel & leisure developments. As a Seattle native, James launched award-winning Werkhaus Creative Communications, where over 14 years he acquired a notable portfolio of clientele and business liaisons while working with some of the world's leading retailers and commercial brands including Nike, Starbucks, Microsoft, Nintendo, K2 Sports and Wells Fargo.
Ben Katon
Director of Finances
Mr. Katon has been involved in various sales and finance related roles throughout his career. Since 2003, Mr. Katon has served as the Vice President of Finance & Acquisitions for privately held real estate company based in Kirkland, WA. In his current role Mr. Katon oversees the finance, acquisition, and disposition activities for a multi-billion dollar/40,000-unit apartment portfolio, spanning ten U.S. cities and four Canadian provinces. Mr. Katon also serves on the board of the parent company. Prior to his current position, Mr. Katon held key finance positions for Conseco Finance and at Porsche and Land Rover/Jaguar dealerships. He is a member of the National Multifamily Housing Association, Mortgage Bankers Association and Seattle United Way Finance Committee.
Tony doupe
actor & Producer
Tony Doupé is a SAG-AFTRA actor with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. An actor for over 32 years, recent credits include a supporting roles in the feature film's, The Last Rescue, Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, Laggies, starring Keira Knightly, Eden, starring Beau Bridges and the role of "Walt" in Ira Finkelstein's Christmas with Elliott Gould and David DeLuise, directed by Sue Corcoran. Tony co-starred as "Lynch" in the feature film The River Sorrow, with Ray Liota and Christian Slater, presented at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He has leading roles in the feature films, Frayed, Kononia and The Off Hours written and directed by Megan Griffiths, seen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and Safety Not Guaranteed starring Kirsten Bell and Aubrey Plaza. He has been a guest star for the TV series Leverage starring Timothy Hutton, Grimm and Z Nation.
Tony had supporting roles on numerous feature films including The Ring, starring Naomi Watts and Life or Something Like It, starring Angelina Jolie. His television career is significant, with roles in Northern Exposure, Unsolved Mysteries, and The Fugitive. A popular featured commercial actor, his many credits include spots in Pizza Hut, Microsoft, Tractor Supply, Lowes Hardware, The Seattle Mariners and Rodda Paint. Tony has been producing, directing, teaching and coaching actors for seventeen years both privately and at the college level.
John Zaring
Founder of Zaring Group
Zaring Group founder John Zaring has 30 years of strategic experience in the entertainment industry. His background involves an integration of celebrity-driven event management and public relations, television & film production and talent representation. In addition to producing two annual events in Mexico, the Cabo Comedy Festival in Los Cabos and Vallarta-Nayarit Classic Rock Festival at the Hard Rock Hotel in Nuevo Vallarta, the firm currently promotes resorts in Cabo, Loreto and Vallarta, Mexico, and also Antigua, Guatemala.
Prior to founding the Zaring Group in 2007, John was President of Zaring/Cioffi Entertainment (ZCE), an event production firm that specialized in celebrity-driven fundraisers. Among ZCE's properties were Richard Karn StarDays (Seattle, 1993-99), Marg Helgenberger & Alan Rosenberg Celebrity Weekend (Omaha, 1997-2006), Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend (Austin, 2003 – 2007) and NAACP Image Awards (LA, 2005 – 2007). ZCE was purchased in September 2007 by SportsQuest Inc., a publicly traded (symbol: SPQS) company based in Orlando.
In 1993, he partnered with casting director Bianca Cioffi to form Zaring/Cioffi Entertainment, eventually adding Casey Sander (Grace Under Fire), Kenneth Kimmins (Coach), Charlie Robinson (Love & War) and Emmy winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue) as clients. With the creation of a celebrity golf event for Karn in 1993, the firm began producing events, which became its core business in 1999.
John has also produced four movies, most recently the indie feature "Pursuit of Happiness", a romantic comedy that starred Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish and Jean Stapleton, which he also wrote. The Martindale Group film was released in theatres in 2002. Other credits include "Picture Perfect" (ABC), "Nervous Ticks" (Columbia) and "Men of Respect" (Columbia). He has also produced multiple sports broadcasts for ESPN and FOX Sports.
John writes a regular political column – entitled 'The Rational Center' – for SCVNews.com. For his political activism, in August 2010, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party presented John with the FRANKLIN D. AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT DEMOCRAT OF THE YEAR award. In March 2003, he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award and admitted to the Alumni Hall of Fame for Wilson High School, in West Lawn, PA.
John is an avid runner and hoops junkie. He has played in the same weekly basketball league since 1988, and is a lifelong fan of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Charles Wadlow
Executive Recruiter
Charles Wadlow has twenty years of executive recruiting experience and is ranked in the top 1% of Executive Recruiters on a national level based on his individual billing production. Charles is one of the first people under the age of thirty to bill One Million in production in one year. What is even more impressive is that his billings have come without the assistance of lead generators, account executives or research assistants. Charles runs the search process from start to finish, which creates a high degree of accountability for his clients. What clients love most about Charles, is his attention to detail and his ferocious work ethic.
Charles Wadlow is also touted by his fellow recruiters as being the nation's leading educational speaker on executive recruiting. Because of his impressive production levels, over six thousand(6,000) recruiters in retained and executive search contingency have attended his training academy. His experience with an international executive recruiting firm is enhanced by his ability to speak Japanese, Spanish and conversational Korean. The majority of Charles' practice is focused on a select few of National Public Accounting firms and their preferred clients. Charles' reputation nationally with these clients have driven his practice to be one of the most respected independent executive recruiting firms. Charles has been consistently chosen by his clients to represent them on their most difficult searches because of his dedication to getting the job done right. Charles is a graduate of Seattle University where he received a BS in International Business.
Gary Glouner Jr.
Born in Hollywood, and now based out of Seattle, Mr. Glouner is a lawyer and currently manages global publisher and ad technology partnerships for Facebook. His film and TV experience started with being a founding investor at Family Room Entertainment, which has evolved into Emmett Furla Oasis Films, the producer of more than 50 major motion pictures, including: Lone Survivor, 2 Guns, Broken City, Alex Cross, End of Watch, Lay The Favorite, Conan The Barbarian, Gun, Righteous Kill, Day of the Dead, Rambo, King of California, The Wicker Man, 16 Blocks, Narc, and Grizzly Mountain.
Mr. Glouner's history in Hollywood started as a child actor on such series as "Charlie's Angels" and "CHiPs" and then evolved into television production at MGM / UA on the "Fame" television series, as well as at Harmony Pictures, as an assistant director and producer. His career evolved into digital content and advertising while working at LaunchPad/TopThreeMobile, Microsoft, Accenture, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, and then Facebook. Mr. Glouner is from a fourth generation Hollywood film / TV family — his father, Gary Glouner, was a cinematographer for Spelling Entertainment; his uncle, Dennis Glouner, is an Academy Award winner / ASC member; his grandfather is an Academy Award winner and was significant in the membership and development of both the American Cinematographic Editors (ACE) association and American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), where the Glouners had the most single family members in the history of the ASC; his cousin, Richard Glouner, is a multiple Emmy Award winner / nominee and former board member at the Academy; his great granduncle, Charles Glouner, founded the cinematographic department at Warner Brothers in the 1920's, was foundational in creating the ASC and ACE, and filmed the first motion picture of an eclipse of the sun in a Standard Oil wooden airplane using a wooden motion picture camera; his grandmother, Annette Marone Krasny Glouner, was a founding principal of Sinatra Enterprises and manager of Frank Sinatra.
Mr. Glouner attended Claremont McKenna College for his BA in Economics, Georgetown University for his MBA, ESADE Barcelona for his PIM degree, and Seattle University School of Law for his JD. He is an active Attorney At Law and a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and is historically Washington state's only Rule 9 lawyer to argue and win a unanimous 9 to 0 victory at the Washington State Supreme Court.


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A thug who broke his partner's arm in a vicious assault in their home has been told to expect to be behind bars by Christmas.
Paul Parkinson, 37, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to his on-off partner of seven years on the day he was due to stand trial.
On December 15, Parkinson returned to the house he shared with his partner in Leyland.
He had been drinking and an argument broke out between the pair.
Parkinson dragged his partner to he floor by her hair and began kicking her in a vicious and sustained attack.
But as the woman put her arms up in front of her face to defend herself, Parkinson - still wearing his outdoor shoes - stamped on her arm causing the bone to break.
Parkinson was charged with causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent but pleaded guilty to simple GBH at a hearing at Preston Crown Court.
It is understood Parkinson has previously been sentenced for domestic violence relating to the same woman at Preston Magistrates Court and has a nu,number of other convictions on his record.
Recorder Robert Crawford told Cross: "It is a prospect - a very considerable prospect - that you will be dealt with by way of a custodial sentence.
"That will be in the forefront of my mind. However, I want to know more about you.
"Be under no illusion that the likelihood is that you will be going to jail."
He adjourned the sentence for reports to be prepared.
Parkinson, of Slaidburn Road, Ribbleton, nodded as the judge ordered him to stay away from his former partner and not to enter Leyland as part of the conditions of his bail.
Preston Crown Court heard the defendant had been undertaking rehabilitation for alcohol abuse and intended to continue with his treatment during the time he spends awaiting sentence on December 22.
A further charge of criminal damage relating to the same incident was left to lie on the file.


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It's been a whirl wind since the engagement. In case you missed it, Ellery's Part 2 of our Engagement Story is here. We've both been busy planning our wedding and despite feeling incredibly rushed to make decisions for an event that is a year away, we're having fun. The hardest part so far was picking the date, and after changing it three times for various reasons, we've settled on August 18th, 2012. I have a ton of DIY projects planned and we've been debating on blogging about wedding stuff because we don't want to spoil surprises. This is partly why I haven't posted in a while... it feels wrong to discuss and show photos of the wedding things I'm working on.
Aside from wedding stuff, I've been knitting more viking hats. I recently shipped one to Paris and one to Norway which was awesome. Halloween planning has also begun and this year I'm not planning anything epic for myself because, to be honest, I have wedding brain. We're doing a trial run of Nugget's costume tonight so I'm hoping that will spark the Halloween bug.


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|Autumn Glory
Quilt of Valor
56 x 69 inches
The kit included all the fabric (including the binding) and the pattern. I cut the fabric and took the pieces to Denver for the Sisters' Sew-in.
Autumn Glory was made using a Villa Rosa Design, called Crimson Glory, and is QOV #92 - a complete list can be seen here


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|One, the sun!
The Quality of Numbers main lesson block is perhaps my most favorite part of teaching Grade One. As for Kitty Bill, I think it's his favorite homeschooling lesson yet.
I know I've shared a bit about my alphabet story in the past, but I don't know that I've ever shared my story for the Quality of Numbers main lesson. I wrote the basic idea out for a friend a few years ago. Like everything else, it changes each time I teach it, but it's nice to have it written down to refer back to for story ideas. And as far as stories go, this one is pretty wild.
For starters, there is an enchanted cave that can only be opened by solving riddles. I borrowed the opening idea and the riddles from Eric Fairman's Pathway to Discovery (Grade One). Inside the cave is a dragon, but luckily it's a friendly dragon who is under an enchantment. He can't fly or leave the cave until someone solves the riddle of the twelve tunnels.
Since it's a continuation of our alphabet story, our three traveling characters are up for any adventure. To help the dragon break the enchantment, our travelers must explore the twelve passages in the cave and bring back "treasure" from each one. Each journey into a particular passage is fraught with interesting discoveries... passages that wind in circles or fork into separate directions. Sometimes they are very dark or smelly or impossibly small. Sometimes only the main character, the one my child identifies with the most, is the only one who can fit in a certain passage. I vary it widely to keep it interesting and entertaining, because above all, I want math to start out as being a grand, entertaining adventure.
As we journey together we discover something at the end of each tunnel. I then enlist my child's help in working out what the treasure is (and what it signifies) based on what the characters find, and they make suggestions as how to "capture" the treasure to bring it back to the dragon. My one caveat was the treasure MUST correspond with the number of the tunnel. Naturally, we converse about what each number signifies and we look to find other representations of each number in the world around us. Sometimes these representations come out within the story itself, and other times I ask the question, "What else can you think of?" It really helps us embody the spirit of each number and its place in the world. When we make a relationship with the numbers they become truths that live inside of us.
With each discovery we draw two pages in the main lesson book. We draw the treasure in each tunnel, and then we draw the number-- with straight lines or sticks (Roman numerals) and then in Arabic numerals. We spend a bit of time practicing to make sure we get the numbers right.
Kitty Bill knows that as we travel down each tunnel that leads away from the dragon, we're looking for something that embodies the number of the tunnel. The beauty of this block is that it grounds the number in whatever is found, and thus gives the number a picture quality that brings it to life.
Here's what our characters found in the tunnels:
1 - The sun reflected in a pool of water (One, the Sun!)
2 - Nothing! .... but ah, upon closer inspection there is a reflection of the two child characters, who began the adventure as extreme opposites and have grown into friends... (Two, Me and You!)
|Two, me and you!
3 - A pile of garbage (which is always good for a laugh!)... an old shoe, a holey mitten, something unrecognizable and gooey.... and eventually a picture of a mother, father, and baby (Three, Family)
|Three, family!
4 - At the end of a very dark tunnel, high above on a ledge... something icy, wet and cold; something soft and sweetly scented; something dry and crumbly; something small, round and juicy OR small and smooth with a bit of grit inside. This one is a bit tricky depending on the child. Kitty Bill wasn't quite sure, so I sent his characters falling through a trapdoor where they landed in the snow and had a snowball fight. When they got too cold, they made their way out of this new tunnel where the temperature kept changing, as did what was under their feet. Eventually he figured it out. (Seasons Four)
|Four Seasons
5 - This tunnel leads out to the night sky, filled with stars - they can't bring a star back, but finally one character realizes he/she has five points like a star.
Kitty Bill can't wait to find out what's in the next tunnel. What about you?
If you would like to hear the rest of the story, be sure to leave me a comment. If enough people are interested I will post the rest of the story as we go along.


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Super Bowl Saturday in Indianapolis
Here's a collection of photos I was able to collect on the Saturday before the Super Bowl in Indianapolis. I made the trip there with my wife and our friend Alessandra. We made a lifelong memory.
We arrived in Super Bowl city around 10:00 AM and it was like instant Heaven. I have seen a lot of scenes in sports, but it was one of those moments when I just couldn't believe that we were able to actually be there in the flesh. This above is one of the first early morning shots of Lucas Oil when we parked and got out of the car in Indianapolis.
Here's a shot of Lucas Oil Stadium after we parked the car. It's beautiful and I can't wait for my first trip inside the palace that will belong to Andrew Luck someday. You needed credentials to get past security, something we absent-mindedly didn't think of when we made the trip to Indy. We thought we were going to be able to walk up to the stadium and get pictures. Not the case.
I've seen this a couple of times when I've been to Indianapolis. I want to know more about it, what it is. It's on the side of a couple of sports bars that appear to be closest to the stadium in Indy.
Here it is, the majestic view of the backside of the stadium from where we parked. This was taken on our morning walk into the city.
The media horde appeared as soon as you got to center city Indy.
More media horde.
All street roads were marked in the 'Super Bowl Village' by team names.
There were cool mural-like paintings of Eli Manning (pictured above) and Tom Brady on each side of Lucas Oil Stadium.
Look closely. This is behind the live filming of Saturday morning's Sportscenter on ESPN. Steve Young, Trent Dilfer, and Steve Levy were at work as we stood behind and watched.
Here's what the television looked like, shot of Indianapolis in the background. There were lots of Colts fans and #18 jerseys that weren't pictured.
Here's the infamous Super Bowl 'Zipline'. We didn't wait in line to do it. It seemed like a long wait for 30 seconds of fun.
This was the artificial surface field outside the NFL Fan Experience. I had never stood on NFL artificial surface until this point. I can see why players say it's just like grass.
This is an ice sculpture we saw downtown on our way to eating lunch at the Colts Grille.
Here's the prices of Super Bowl tickets in the StubHub booth that we walked into. This was around 11:30 AM Saturday. I guess tickets got as low as around $1,200.00 by kickoff.
Here's Antrel Rolle. We went into the Giants team hotel before lunch and saw the entire Giants team load the bus and head to practice.
Just a Hallway the players were all walking by to head to the team bus at the J.W. Marriot. Looks like my camera failed me a little bit.
This was the elevator all the players came down before walking past us at the Marriot. As you can see, we weren't the only fans there who wanted to wish the Giants well on the way to their last walk-through before the big game.
Here's my first time at the NFL Experience. It was very neat, I wish I had more than one day to see everything. My favorite thing at the Experience was the memorabilia show. I would have liked to get my picture taken with the Lombardi Trophy but I wasn't feeling up to waiting in the line.
Probably the best shot of the entire day. There's Kevin Gilbride, Giants Offensive Coordinator and Eli Manning. When I saw Manning walk by and just the emotion he seemed to carry–how laid back he was–I knew the Giants were headed for a win on Sunday and another World Championship.
One of my other favorite Giants, Victor Cruz.
My favorite restaurant in the world. Every time I go to Indy, I'm headed here in some fashion.
Who wouldn't want to stay the night at the Bud Light hotel? Bud Light, the official beer of the NFL.
The Colts Grille just looks cool from the outside.
I still have no clue what "Put the Money in the Bag" means, Reggie Wayne. But you remain one of my favorite Indianapolis Colts of all-time and I hope you're coming back.
This was the hotel that we spent a large portion of the day at. A famous shot that got a lot of television time as the week went on.
There's nothing not to love about the Colts Grille, even the ketchup.
I'm a Buckeye, and I love this man. Thanks for all those Saturdays, Jim.
A legend.
Completely over-rated. The NFL Shop before you left the NFL Experience. Stuff was marked up 200% and the selection just wasn't that great. Glad I kept my wallet in my pocket to be honest. We did get to see Alyssa Milano from a distance.
The pride of Ada, Ohio. The Wilson Football Factory. It was only $160 to make your own personalized football. No wonder my wife said don't even think about it.
Here's Matt Forte signing some autographs at the GMC stand at the NFL Experience. I just missed Cam Newton, much to my dismay.
Now here's a bit of foreshadowing I believe. Why would whoever is in charge allow that #12 Colts jersey to appear? Every team had the #12 jersey representing the mannequin. But it's a little coincidental, no?
Jim Cordle, #63 for the New York Giants. These are die-hard fans. Or family members.
This is Jim Cordle's aunts stuffed into one jersey. And maybe his sister. My co-worker is childhood friends with him. He's also a Buckeye. And now he's got a Super Bowl ring.
Night falls on Indy. Wow, we were really there.
This is where we spent the majority of our evening. This is the Giants team hotel. My wife is from the same home town as the VP of HR for the NFL. When the hotel came around and looked for credentials, she told them we were with her.
We talked about Roger Goodell, NFL Films, Peyton Manning's future in Indy, how things were during the strike, the NFL's feelings on Indianapolis hosting the Super Bowl, and a number of other things.
I saw a lot of the Giants team. I saw Kate and Rooney Mara. I talked with Mrs. Tisch. I saw Archie Manning. I talked to Spencer Paysinger, his uncles and dad. I could go on and on. We hung out with NFL and Giants family members until about 10:30 PM. It was one of the coolest memories I've ever made.
NFL Shop at the NFL Experience.
One of the cooler things to look at during the NFL Experience. Every team had one locker with unique items and equipment in it. Here's Cam Newton's.
The Wilson Football stand, hard at work.
These are fans who waited in line to get their picture taken with the Lombardi Trophy. People really do love this game.
Sam Hurd's autograph picture can be had at a markdown price. I wonder why.
We really came, conquered, and saw.
It's Super Bowl Weekend
What a tough work week it was. Then again, they're all tough.
Today invokes memories of the past for me, starting with the Super Bowl between the Giants and Buffalo Bills in 1990 which was my first Black Sunday I ever remember watching.
Who remembers the 'Bud Bowl'?
That's what Super Bowl commercials are to me. I'm hoping we see a return of the Bud Bowl one of these days. I always rooted for Budweiser by the way, it was probably some evil foreshadowing of what my future would hold.
And how about the Budweiser Weasel?
There's been a lot of great commercials, game day dishes, and memories that surround this weekend for me. We've finally reached the end of the 2011 NFL season and while it's a celebration and culmination of the great season we just witnessed it's also the end and the long off season awaits us all.
I think this is going to be a tremendous Super Bowl on Sunday, and my wife's team hopefully wins their second title in four years over the Patriots. Really there wasn't a lot of rhyme or reason to this post, but I needed an excuse to get those clips in here at some point.
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Morgan Stanley
by Denny Chen
April 26, 2017
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Fla. LEO responding to wreck killed in crash
Police said the cause of the crash remains under investigation
Duty Death: Lance Whitaker - [Jacksonville, Florida]
End of Service: 05/15/2018
By PoliceOne Staff
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office identified the LEO killed in the crash as Officer Lance Whitaker.
Whitaker, 48, was killed while responding to a call about a wreck, according to WJXT-TV. The officer was a 17-year veteran of the agency.
Rest In Peace #JSO Police Officer Lance C. Whitaker #7656. We will miss your kind heart and contagious smile. You are gone but will not be forgotten.— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) May 15, 2018
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida law enforcement officer was killed in crash early Tuesday while responding to a call about a wreck.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office LEO responded to a wreck after a vehicle reportedly ran off the road, WJXT-TV reported. The LEO later crashed his patrol car down an embankment on a highway, according to the Florida Times-Union.
The LEO was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Sheriff Mike Williams said the rainy weather may have been a factor, but the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
On this Police Memorial Day, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office lost one of our own in a police vehicle crash.— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) May 15, 2018
Please keep their family, co-workers, friends, and fellow officers in your prayers.
As more information becomes available, it will be released. pic.twitter.com/xGh3q1xhz7
"It's a tough day for JSO and the city overall," Williams said. "If you are going to get hurt in this job, one of the main ways is a traffic crash of some sort. This just reinforces the point we have been talking about for a little bit more than a year now about traffic safety ... It's another reminder of the risk that the men and women of JSO take on every day."
Williams said they will release the officer's name after the family has been notified.
Several officials are mourning the loss of the LEO. Steve Zona, president of the Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police, said the organization is grieving the loss with the officer's family and will help in any way possible.
Gov. Rick Scott also expressed his condolences and asked "all Floridians to join us in praying for this officer's family and loved ones during this terribly difficult time."
Sheriff- officer looking for a reported crash on 295 crashes and passes away. A single vehicle crash. We saw wet roads, but what happened under investigation. Details on how community can pay their respects are forthcoming. A sad day in Jacksonville. Name of officer not released pic.twitter.com/4LUdmSoVoO— Cole Heath (@ColeANjax) May 15, 2018
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