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on June 19, 2013 - 10:41 AM
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After unsuccessfully trying to persuade a judge to set aside his second-degree murder conviction, Joshua J. Mitchell was sentenced today to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting popular Metro Bus driver Brian G. Chapman Jr.
Chapman, 37, was on his porch last year waiting for a ride to work before sunrise when he was killed.
Mitchell, 26, expressed no remorse, claiming he was innocent and also the victim of "ineffective" legal representation in the trial against him for the Guilford Street shooting of Feb. 1, 2012.
Mitchell told authorities he was in the neighborhood looking to buy marijuana.
A Buffalo police officer was on patrol in an unmarked patrol car on Guilford Street at the time of the shooting and heard the gunshots. The officer pursued and stopped the car carrying Mitchell and arrested him.
Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk denied Mitchell's request for a new trial, telling Mitchell he could take up his concerns with the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court.
"He was well loved and making a life for himself. All he was doing was standing on the porch waiting to go to work. You, on the other hand, were trolling the streets before dawn," Franczyk said.
"Since 2003, you have been arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance, disorderly conduct, false impersonation, attempted assault and criminal possession of stolen property. In 10th grade you dropped out of high school and here we are," Franczyk said.
The judge also sentenced Mitchell to 15 years for criminal possession of a .38 caliber handgun and five years of supervised release. The sentences will run concurrently.
Vicki Chapman, the bus driver's mother, told Mitchell during her statement to the court that he senselessly took a life and that he should reflect on his actions.
Mitchell's relatives angrily left the courtroom, saying there were others in the vehicle police stopped when arresting Mitchell and that he was innocent.
An Erie County jury delilberated for about three hours before returning a guilty verdict on March 14.
During the trial, prosecutor Gary W. Hackbush, who prosecuted Mitchell along with Assistant Erie County District Attorney John P. Gerken Jr., told jurors Mitchell was the only one to get out of the car and scoffed at Mitchell's "phantom gunman" theory.


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Volunteering goes for a song in Jakarta
26 February 2011
The 30-year-old star of the popular Disney franchise visited Indonesia on 21-22 February as part of a world tour to promote the International Year of Youth.
As a UN Youth Champion, Ms. Coleman was raising awareness on youth issues, encouraging young people to foster progress in their communities, and urging the international community to take responsibility on youth issues.
To encourage youth engagement in volunteer and community service activities, Ms. Coleman volunteered as a music and acting teacher for disadvantaged children. Sponsored by the Symphony Orchestra of Venice, Jakarta's Pondok Taruna orphanage holds weekly music therapy classes to contribute to youth emotional development.
"This is one of the most inspiring experiences," said Monique Coleman. "Being able to volunteer by sharing my passion for music is a pleasure combined with strong sense of being of service."
Ms. Coleman also visited one of Jakarta's schools to speak to more than 500 students about the role of volunteering in service to others. Asked about her motivation to volunteer, she said: "Volunteering is the single most rewarding thing one can do. This year we mark the International Year of Youth and the International Year of Volunteers +10, and this is a unique chance for us to recognize the work of young volunteers and to get involved."
Throughout the year, Ms. Coleman is traveling the globe to shine a light on the most pressing issues facing today's youth. Using her online talk show Gimme Mo' as a platform, she is connecting youth worldwide to urge bridge-building across cultures, religions and generations.
The International Year of Youth was launched on 12 August 2010 and runs through 11 August 2011. Youth, defined by the United Nations as people between the ages of 15 to 24, represent 18 per cent of the world's population, or 1.2 billion people.
See also this article in the Jakarta Globe (click here).

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Egypt Rebukes Foreign Press for 'Biased' Coverage
State Information Service Says Reports Have Favored Morsi Supporters
CAIRO--As Egyptian security forces moved to end a bloody standoff with supporters of Egypt's ousted president on Saturday, government officials were assailing a different foe: the Western media and critical foreign governments.
In a statement emailed in English to foreign correspondents Saturday, the Egyptian State Information Service rebuked reporters for what it called "biased coverage" that it said privileged supporters of Mohammed Morsi over the security services who have been fighting them.
The SIS also castigated the foreign press for not paying enough attention to attacks on Christians and Islamists' "intimidation" of ordinary Egyptian citizens.
"Egypt is feeling severe bitterness towards some Western media coverage that is biased to the Muslim Brotherhood and ignores shedding light on violent and terror acts that are perpetrated by this group in the form of intimidation operations and terrorizing citizens," said the unsigned statement.
The statement came hours after an English-language televised address by Mostafa Hegazi, a presidential advisor, who told foreign journalists that "we as Egyptians feel deep bitterness towards coverage of the events in Egypt."
Mr. Hegazi also praised the Egyptian military and police's handling of two bloody incidents in the past week -- breaking up two Cairo protest camps on Wednesday and ending a standoff at a mosque on Saturday. At least 600 people died as the camps were dispersed, and 173 died in clashes on Friday and Saturday.
The two official statements overlay a steady drumbeat of antagonism against foreigners and the foreign press -- a tactic that autocratic Arab leaders have regularly employed to deflect blame for internal unrest and human rights abuses.
But the rhetoric against foreigners and the foreign press has risen to unprecedented levels over the past week and turned Egypt into a highly hostile environment for foreign reporters.
Several foreign journalists reported facing harassment and attacks on Saturday. A reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Alastair Beach, a journalist for Britain's The Independent, were both grabbed and lightly beaten by mobs of anti-Morsi demonstrators outside the beseiged mosque on Saturday.
Mr. Beach said he was bludgeoned over the head with a stick, but suffered no serious injuries.
The mob turned the two reporters over to nearby soldiers, who kept them in protective custody before releasing them away from the scene about an hour later.
Patrick Kingsley, a correspondent for The Guardian, also reported over Twitter that he was "citizen arrested" by a group of angry youth who stole his laptop and mobile phone before turning him over to police.
He was also eventually released without any serious injuries.
Anger against the foreign press is of a piece with the growing preoccupation among Egyptians over foreign governments' recent criticism of security forces' deadly crackdowns on Islamists.
President Barack Obama's decision on Thursday to cancel bi-annual military exercises with Egypt after the crackdown on the pro-Morsi encampments was met with widespread hostility here.
When authorities ousted Mr. Morsi on July 3, they moved immediately to shut down the Islamist channels that had often adopted pro-Morsi editorial lines.
The Egyptian public has since been treated to vitriolic anti-Islamist messages from both the public and private media. Television stations regualry refer to the Brotherhood as "terrorists" while accusing them of using heavy weapons against security forces and of associating with international terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda.
Such media outlets -- particularly the private channels owned by prominent businessmen with connections to the former regime of Hosni Mubarak -- have also helped fan anti-foreigner sentiment.
Guests on the privately owned satellite channels have reguarly accused foreign journalists of deliberately waging a disinformation campaign to aid Mr. Morsi's Islamist backers.
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on May 18, 2013 - 6:49 PM
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Thomas J. Reigstad, author of "Scribblin' for a Livin': Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo," will talk about his book and Twain from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday in the latest event of the Larkin Square Author Series.
Leslie Zemsky, who describes herself as "director of fun" at Larkin Square, calls the event "a fun twist on the typical book talk."
The talk is set for the Filling Station, 745 Seneca St., but during previous talks in fine weather, audiences have spilled out into the open areas, settling in comfortable chairs outside, including seating areas in the adjoining boardwalk. The event is free and open to all, with light food and drinks sold inside the Filling Station.
The series, held in partnership with Talking Leaves Books, spotlights local authors and those who have written works of interest to local people. A May 6 talk by Lauren Belfer, author of "City of Light," drew more than 300 people, dozens of whom lined up afterward to have her sign their books.
In "Scribblin' for a Livin'," Reigstad uses a variety of primary sources to prove that the 18 months Twain spent in Buffalo in 1869 and 1870, while fraught with personal difficulties at the end, was not the grim, unproductive period other biographers have described.
The book, published by Prometheus Books, will be sold at the event.
"The life of Mark Twain in Buffalo is such a fascinating part of our city's history, and Thomas approaches it with great passion and research," said Zemsky. "We're excited to welcome Thomas to Larkin Square for what will surely be a fun and colorful discussion."
The Larkin Square Author Series will continue on June 11 with Ania Szado, author of "Studio Saint-Ex" and "Beginning of Was."
For more information about Larkin Square and the series, go to www.larkinsquare.com.
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"I speak two languages–English and Southern, and I only speak one of them fluently," said keynote speaker Dale Smith Thomas at Longview Regional Medical Center's recent Healthy Woman anniversary event. The event is used to educate East Texas women on how to maintain healthy lifestyles for themselves and their loved ones. This was one of …
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quote: Such self-healing paints/plastics have been rumored to be coming to the smartphone space for several months now, but this is perhaps the first phone to be spotted in the wild sporting the robust coat.
quote: The linked article is informative (covers the Ford Tech Shop) but I was unable to find anything relating to self healing paint or cell phones.
quote: Do you have the same problem with WiFi connections (downloading several apps crashes the WiFi too)?If the phone's connection is bugged, does WiFi still work?


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Myanmar Generates Real-Estate Interest
Developers Unveil Ambitious Plans for One of Asia's Most-Undersupplied Property Markets; 'First-Mover Advantage'
THANLYIN TOWNSHIP, Myanmar—A possible scene from the future of Myanmar, one of the world's poorest countries, is taking shape on a bluff here overlooking a muddy stretch of the Bago River.
When finished, the Star City development will have an 18-hole golf course, at least 20 residential towers—some as high as 16 stories tall—24-hour security and waterfront restaurants. The million-dollar sales center has model condominium units with amenities rare in impoverished Myanmar, like walk-in closets and flat-screen TVs. More than 80% of the first 850 units under construction are sold.
"We're inventing the market" in Myanmar, says Soe Thiha Hlaing, director of sales at Star City, a project of local developer Serge Pun & Associates and its Singapore-based affiliate company, Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. Z59 -1.67 %
As Myanmar escapes from years of sanctions that largely locked it out of the global economy, the country's real-estate market is among the first sectors to attract serious investor attention. Global hotel chains including Marriott International Inc. MAR 0.34 % and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. have expressed interest, while Hong Kong-based luxury chain Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is working on a pair of 21-story residential towers for serviced apartments set to open in mid-2013.
Yoma Strategic Holdings, whose backers include U.S.-based investment management firm Capital Group, said Monday it was planning a two-million square-foot, mixed-use development in downtown Yangon with two grade-A office towers, a five-star hotel and condominium, a mall, and other properties. The project, with an estimated cost of $330 million to $350 million, is designed to incorporate a Victorian-era red-brick railway headquarters built in 1877 but now disintegrating after years of neglect.
Local and foreign developers have proposed at least three other towers in Yangon, including a $60 million, 34-story apartment building and a $100 million 38-story office building. The president of one of Myanmar's largest local banks recently unveiled plans for a mixed-use satellite city outside of Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, that could cost as much as $2 billion if completed, according to local media reports. Private-equity funds are kicking in millions of dollars to finish real-estate investments that started but never finished during a short-lived economic opening in the 1990s.
The developers are lured by one of the most undersupplied property markets in Asia, if not the world, which is now seeing its first surge in demand in years. Yangon has only about 1,850 high-end hotel rooms, according to Colliers International, and 740 serviced apartments, even as the country is on track to attract around a million visitors this year. There are only about 680,000 square feet of office space—less than some single office towers in New York. Most of Yangon is made up of crumbling colonial buildings and mildewing shop houses with little of note built since the late 1990s, when Western governments slapped sanctions on the then-military regime.
A new, nominally civilian government took over last year and began freeing political prisoners and loosening constraints on the media, among other steps, which in turn has fueled renewed interest in the country of 60 million people from multinationals such as General Electric Co. GE 0.30 % and PepsiCo Inc. Myanmar leaders are considering passing a law to allow foreigners to purchase condominiums as early as early next year, which could further juice the market.
The average residential property price in Yangon shot up 39% in the first nine months of the year, according to Silk Road Management, a local investment management firm, while hotel room rates increased 65%—among the fastest increases in the world. Office rates have more than doubled since 2011 to as much as $75 a square meter (11 square feet) and will likely rise beyond $110 a square meter in the next two years, Colliers International says. In central Tokyo, office rents average between $60 and $65.
Several big issues stand in the way of a full-fledged real-estate boom. Myanmar's antiquated financial sector and primitive networks for moving money in and out will make it hard for international firms to manage development deals. Meanwhile, land prices are climbing so quickly that it could make many potential deals uneconomical.
Yangon real-estate investors are attracted to a market that has seen relatively little new property development since the 1990s. A look at Yangon's underbuilt market:
- Office: 680,000 square feet of space
- Serviced apartments: about 740 units
- Retail: more than 1.6 million square feet, but only a few modern malls
- Industrial: no new industrial estates added from 2004 to 2012
- Residential: average property prices have shot up 39% in the first nine months
- Hotels: only about 1,850 rooms
Source: Colliers International, Silk Road Management
"There are a lot of barriers to entry that are going to slow things down," says Matthew Fry, senior vice president of acquisitions and development in Asia-Pacific for Starwood. Even so, "there's definitely a first-mover advantage" for international firms that can overcome the hurdles most quickly, he says, just as there was for some companies like Starwood that launched hotels in Vietnam soon after its opening to foreign investors in the 1990s. Starwood has fielded about 20 inquiries from developers who want to launch Starwood-branded properties in Myanmar, Mr. Fry says, though it hasn't yet made a decision on how to proceed.
Land costs may present the biggest hurdle. Private-equity investors say they are seeing deals with land priced at $5,000 to $7,000 a square meter. At such high prices, many projects such as new industrial developments are unfeasible, says Serge Pun, whose Star City project is being built on land his company acquired many years ago at a time prices weren't as high.
Myanmar's government has responded by raising taxes on property transactions and calling on hotel owners to temporarily cap rates. It also is working on plans to build more low-cost housing and is considering creating a committee to craft further policies to control prices.
Meanwhile, first-mover projects are pressing forward, including Star City. The project, which was launched last December and whose total cost hasn't yet been finalized, is targeted at Myanmar's upper-middle class, which the developers believe will keep growing as Myanmar's economy opens. Spread across 420 acres about 20 minutes outside of Yangon, it is the kind of suburban enclave that is still uncommon in Myanmar, with plans for 9,000 housing units and a population of 25,000 people, as well as a water park, shops and restaurants. Because credit is hard to obtain in Myanmar, the development has counting rooms where buyers can hand over giant stacks of Myanmar kyat currency.
Buyers have included a few local pop stars as well as Myanmar residents living overseas who are becoming more optimistic about their home country. One of them is Htay Htay Yi, a 57-year-old single woman who works in a Singapore hospital performing ultrasound procedures, and wants to retire in Myanmar someday. She bought two units—a one-bedroom unit for about $47,000 and a two-bedroom one for $70,000—which she intends to rent out as investment properties for now.
"There are a lot of people who can afford this," she says.
—Celine Fernandez and Sam Holmes contributed to this article.
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It seems the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have thrown caution to the wind and invited a photographer to capture their most intimate moments with Prince George – from bath time to nappy changing.
And is that Queen Elizabeth snapping a pic of baby George in a king's crown … with her smartphone?!
If it all seems too good to be true, well, that's because it is. Look closer, and you'll see that the photos are only an elaborate, brilliantly executed spoof.
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LEWISTOWN - A 26-year-old Lewistown man was arrested Monday after leading police on a chase in a stolen pickup down a gravel trail near West Charles Street in Lewistown, Lewistown Police Department reports.
Police said Thomas Clinger-Keiser was seen by an officer on patrol at around 10:30 a.m. Monday and the vehicle being driven matched the description of a truck from a theft reported earlier in the day by a local automobile dealer.
The patroling officer then began to follow the pickup when it suddenly accelerated at a high speed and drove to the end of West Charles Street where it left the road and went down a gravel trail, police said.
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The truck went down to the end of the trail and into some grass and weeds before becoming stuck in the mud at the location just to the north of U.S. 22, police said.
Clinger-Keiser then fled down a trail into a section of woods where, after Lewistown Police were joined in the search by Granville Township Police and Pennsylvania State Police, he remained until he surrendered about 45 minutes later, police said. During the search, U.S. 22 was temporarily closed, police said.
Drug paraphernalia was also recovered during Clinger-Keiser's arrest, police said.
Clinger-Keiser was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, flight to avoid prosecution, receiving stolen property and possession of drug paraphernalia through the office of Magisterial District Judge Jack E. Miller.
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Penn State Laureate Staley to Visit Shenango Campus--Community Welcome
Sharon, Pa.—Ceramicist Chris Staley, the 2012-2013 Penn State Laureate and distinguished professor of art at the University, will be at the Penn State Shenango campus on Wednesday, March 13, to demonstrate his work and technique from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the campus' Ceramics Lab located on the first floor of Lecture Hall. Following his morning presentation, Staley will speak on Art and Life: Where They Intersect at 1 p.m. in room 105 of Sharon Hall. Both programs are free and open to the public.
After being rejected by several MFA programs, Staley attended the Kansas City Art Institute for a year as a special student and then went on to earn his MFA from Alfred University.
Staley has traveled extensively as a visiting artist from Bezalel Academy in Israel to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Main. He has received two National Endowment of the Arts grants and two Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grants.
Staley's art is in many collections including the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and was previously on the board of directors at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.
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on December 5, 2012 - 9:16 PM
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A week after he donated television sets for 350 rooms in a medical center, restaurateur Russell J. Salvatore is playing Santa again.
Salvatore, known for the flashy Transit Road eating places and hotels he has built, is laying down a sizable chunk of money to buy up the tickets left unsold for Sunday's Buffalo Bills game.
That means the game against the St. Louis Rams in Ralph Wilson Stadium will be broadcast on television locally, averting a second consecutive blackout. Last Sunday's 34-18 victory over Jacksonville was the first Bills' game of the season to be blacked out.
The Bills wouldn't say exactly how many tickets Salvatore would be buying.
Salvatore himself estimated it would be the same amount or more than the 7,000 to 10,000 tickets he purchased to avoid a blackout two years ago. He acknowledged late Wednesday that he has no idea what the final bill will be. Bills Chief Executive Officer Russ Brandon, Salvatore said, is to get back to him on that.
"Whatever it is, it is," Salvatore said. "I didn't ask about the price. It hasn't hurt me from when I did it two years ago ... It can't cost me too many steaks."
Salvatore was able to help the Buffalo Bills purchase the tickets under a policy in which NFL teams can buy their own unsold tickets for 34 cents on the dollar. The purchases can be made to lift a local TV blackout.
Salvatore, who currently owns Russell's Steaks, Chops & More in Lancaster, said he was in a holiday mood – and also a grateful one – when he decided to write a check to cover the remaining game tickets.
The last time he did so, in 2010, was also in the holiday season.
"It's such a winner for me," said Salvatore. "I do it because I enjoy doing it. It's thanking the people of Buffalo – without them, where would I be?"
"It's amazing how the Buffalo Bills hit people's hearts," he said.
The Bills organization approached Salvatore Monday, both sides said, when it became clear that thousands of tickets would remain unsold.
Salvatore said his answer was an immediate yes.
"I make a lot of money, and I'm not going to put it in my coffin when I go," he said. "I'm not taking a penny with me when I go."
At the Bills organization, officials expressed gratitude to the businessman for his generosity.
"The Buffalo Bills and Bills fans everywhere are greatly appreciative of Russ Salvatore and his continued commitment to the franchise," said Brandon. "He's been a loyal supporter for many years."
Ticket sales for Sunday's game, Brandon explained, were "moving pretty well" heading into November.
"I have to give the credit to our fans. But our ticket sales staff did a tremendous job," Brandon said. "We had a lot of community-ticket programs invested in this game. We're honoring high school football this week. That's been in the hopper for months. We had some group-sales community programs tied in with that."
But it wasn't enough to fill the gap, and that was where Salvatore came in.
The restaurant owner said he has season tickets of his own in a nice part of the stadium, but said that he only actually attends a couple of games a year.
"I do go to a few games when the sun is shining," Salvatore said. "Then I have a couple of big TVs in my [restaurant] lounge – 103-inch, the biggest TVs you can find. I have four of them in my lounge."
Salvatore said he's getting 1,000 of the tickets to Sunday's game, which he says he'll hand out at the restaurant and around the community to "anyone who wants them, first-come, first-serve."
He will give a few hundred more to the Erie County Sheriff's Department, which expects to pass them on to children's charities. The balance of several thousand more, Salvatore said, he left with the Bills' front office, which is expected to distribute them to area charities and veterans groups.
As for himself, Salvatore said he will spend Sunday's game in his restaurant, as usual, catching the game on those giant TVs.
"Let young people go out there and freeze," he said, laughing.
Late last month, Salvatore donated $195,000 to Erie County Medical Center for the purchase of new flat-screen television sets for some 350 patient rooms.
Due to the gift, ECMC announced it would stop charging patients for the use of in-room TVs.
Salvatore said at the time that he had been treated at the medical center for an injured ankle and wanted to show his appreciation.
Salvatore said Wednesday that he was hearing lots of gratitude from people in Western New York, about the Bills ticket purchase.
"I just came out of a Christmas store, and people were coming up to me saying., 'Thank you, thank you, Mr. Salvatore,' " he said.
"I honestly am a firm believer in that things come back. I have been this way my whole life. I am not a very religious person, but I honestly feel, if you treat people right, the Big Guy in the sky is going to pay attention, and it will come back to you."
"It's amazing how it makes you feel inside."
News Staff Reporters Mark Gaughan and T.J. Pignataro contributed to this story.
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In this episode, Donovan talks with John Corley, CTO of Spanish Point Technologies. Spanish Point is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner independent software vendor (ISV) and builds their products on SharePoint, Office, and other Microsoft technologies. In this interview, John discusses their decision to use the Research Pane that is available and extensible in the Office clients. Spanish Point uses the Research Pane to surface line-of-business (LOB) data inside Office. John also demonstrates the LookupPoint 2010 product and discusses the end-user productivity gains attained by bringing LOB information into Office.
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Occupy Wall Street is an ever-growing movement of protests against corporate America. What originally began as the Twitter hashtag #OccupyWallStreet has now grown into an international phenomenon, with protests now occurring in American cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as in Canadian cities like Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.
But what exactly is Occupy Wall Street? How did it come about? And why has it become more than just a simple protest? We attempt to answer these questions, as well as provide further resources for your own investigations.
What is "Occupy Wall Street"?
Occupy Wall Street is a "people-powered movement for democracy" that began in New York City on September 17 with an encampment in the city's financial district.
The movement is centred upon this statement: "the one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%", a sentiment that's been echoed in a powerful blog where regular people have photographed themselves with written statements demonstrating why they are the "99%".
Their demands are varied, but include some of the following:
An entry from the We are the 99 percent Tumblr.
A screengrab from the popular YouTube clip of Wall Street bankers mocking the protestors by drinking champagne.
An entry from the We are the 99 percent Tumblr.
How did "Occupy Wall Street" happen?
The Vancouver-based Adbusters Media Foundation, an anti-consumerist group best known for its award-winning, advertisement-free magazine Adbusters, has been credited for spurning this citizen uprising. The group was growing frustrated by the increasing disparity in wealth and the absence of any legal action against the bankers responsible for our global financial crisis. As a result, they appealed to their readers to take to the street and demand change.
"We basically floated the idea in mid July into our [email list] and it was spontaneously taken up by all the people of the world," said Adbusters senior editor Micah White to the Vancouver Courier. "It just kind of snowballed from there."
Via Guardian.co.uk
Why is "Occupy Wall Street" more than just a protest?
Because the protest is leaderless and no specific platform has been pushed, there was initial discrediting of the movement by the media.
Media coverage was initially minimal, and what coverage did exist was largely derisive. Mother Jones ran an article entitled "why #occupywallstreet isn't working," and Grist's Dave Roberts said the occupation was "designed to discredit leftie protest."
But images — such as the stories shared on the 99% Tumblr, the video of Wall Street folks drinking champagne having their Marie Antoinette moment, and this weekend's arrest of 700 protestors on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge — has spurned a movement.
The movement has been applauded because it seems to be a legitimate "solidarity" progressive response to the Tea Party movement. "I think that even just organizing and maintaining these protests in worthy of praise," writes Forbes' E.D. Kain. "The manifestation of #OccupyWallStreet as more than just a hashtag is a real achievement. From coherence comes relevancy, however messy or disorganized that process may be."
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What do you think? Do you think the lack of a platform will hinder the movement? And does it make sense for these protests to occur in Canada?
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The folks with the champagne may not be as secure as they look,ironically,they may be the next to belong to this demographic of the unemployed,and may join with the protestors whom they despise. Wall Street empoloyees are swimming with the sharks and when they are not needed they too will get a pink slip.
The folks with the champagne may not be as secure as they look,ironically,they may be the next to belong to this demographic of the unemployed,and may join with the protestors whom they despise. Wall Street empoloyees are swimming with the sharks and when they are not needed they too will get a pink slip.
Why is it that you people from socialist countries always think that "wealth should be shared"? Socialism works until you run out of other people's money.
People who earn the money are entitled to keep it. Why on earth should they just give it to others who haven't worked to earn it? This I will never understand.
It's just such a shame that you have been brainwashed into the entitlement mentality.
Because the wealth wealthy people have earned has not been all by themselves. It takes a community to make wealth possible. Maybe the wealthy person had the idea, and the entrepreneurial drive, but all along his or her life he has had help. He had teachers who educated him, professors that supported him, lawmakers who were sensitive to his needs and enabled him to achieve, people who believed in him and invested in him, gave him moral and emotional support, and employees who built the products and business that made the wealth. No one has achieved any pinnacle in life all on his own.
No one is saying rich people shouldn't be rich. They are saying that the rich should not be filthy, stinking rich while most of the rest are suffering in poverty and deprivation without the basic needs of survival. The CEO of Costco capped his salary at $350,000 a year. He figures that is more than enough to have everything he could want, and it leaves enough room for his employees and shareholders and customers to have a financial break so that their lives can be lived in dignity too.
Paying taxes is like paying membership in a club. Everyone who belongs to the club contributes to it. The dues pay the upkeep of the club, the salaries of the employees, the care of the grounds and whatever services the club provides. If only the lowest dues paying members kept having their dues raised and the highest dues-paying membership got the most breaks, on the hope that they spend some money on the club, the club would start to go downhill fast.
If you want to know what countries have the most breaks for the wealthiest, while the poor carry the greatest share of the tax load look at Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and a lot of South American and African countries. The country itself looks like a ravaged basketcase, while the rich live on top, oblivious to the hellhole their countrypeople live in. If you get the kind of country you want you better start investing that saved money in high fences around your estate, and an army of bodyguards because that's how the rich live with the poor in the countries I mentioned.
Why would you possibly think that just because you have all the money in your bank account, you don't owe something to the country and people who helped you make it? Or why you think having a country full of suffering, sick poor people would be a pleasant place to live in?
Doreen said:
Why is it that you people from socialist countries always think that "wealth should be shared"? Socialism works until you run out of other people's money.
People who earn the money are entitled to keep it. Why on earth should they just give it to others who haven't worked to earn it? This I will never understand.
It's just such a shame that you have been brainwashed into the entitlement mentality.
Don't forget Doreen, it was the Wall Street banks, the automakers and the mortgage, loan and insurance companies that broke the rules of capitalism. The rules say that if you lose money, you die. They weren't willing to accept destruction like the market is supposed to function, they became socialist all of a sudden and ran crying to the government to bail them out. They took money from average taxpayers to pay for their mistakes, and cover their asses.
In the same way that there are no atheists in foxholes, there are socialists on Wall Street when threatened with bankruptcy and if the same thing happened again, a lot of socialists would start popping out of the capitalist ranks very quickly again.
Don't forget Doreen, it was the Wall Street banks, the automakers and the mortgage, loan and insurance companies that broke the rules of capitalism. The rules say that if you lose money, you die. They weren't willing to accept destruction like the market is supposed to function, they became socialist all of a sudden and ran crying to the government to bail them out. They took money from average taxpayers to pay for their mistakes, and cover their asses.
In the same way that there are no atheists in foxholes, there are socialists on Wall Street when threatened with bankruptcy and if the same thing happened again, a lot of socialists would start popping out of the capitalist ranks very quickly again.
Those little wet diaper, snot nosed babies don't have a clue as to what they are talking about They bash capitalism, but don't even know how to spell the word.
Justine: "I was under the understanding that there is an anti capotalist [sic] --" by the way, capitalist is spelled c-a-p-o-t every time it's written here, capotalist [sic]. "I was under the understanding that there is an anti capotalist [sic] part of this movement and consumptions when we feel emergency need is how we deal with issues in capoticalsm. [sic] Should we address issues the same way."
"That point's been brought up before. On the point of consumption, it will be next to impossible for us to operate without buying some of the stuff we need. We try to balance our principles with our need without making it too difficult. I've been visiting Salvation Army stores and buying as many sleeping bags as I can so I believe it's possible for us to get our supplies from charity stores and the like."
General Assembly minutes, October 3rd, 7:30 p.m. "Wanted to make sure that we the people are okay with the people up front running it. The people up front are facilitators. Anyone can facilitate if they get in touch with the working group. Bri: Is a co-facilitator. She wants consent on weather [sic] of [sic] not we agree for them to be facilitators. ... Let's move the agenda first. Passed with no blocks."
"The first point, comfort budget." Okay, here's Jeff, he's one of the guys, one of the leaders of the group, they got a budget for comfort. He says, "I work with comfort. We have some major concerned [sic] about people sleeping here. Mainly we need sleeping bags. Sleeping bags cost money and no one is donating sleeping bags. With that in mind we have a proposal to use some of the donated money to buy sleeping bags. We would like to request about 2000 dollars from the fund for sleeping bags. We think if we buy 100 $20 sleeping bags, that would be enough for the time being."
"HOW THIS WILL WORK, we will ask for questions then concernes [sic] then blocks, then we will vote. CHRIS is stack taker: So I just want to know how many people are sleeping here already and if it's projected that number will increase. Someone on medical counted around 400 the other night and it HAS been increasing. Roney: My question is does the budget requested account for taxes on the sleeping bags?"
This wall street mess goes way back to the Carter administration and Barney Frank's finger prints are all over it.
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The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
The pressure to make more loans to minorities (read: to borrowers with weak credit histories) became relentless. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, empowering regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority, and distressed neighborhoods." Lenders responded by loosening their underwriting standards and making increasingly shoddy loans. The two government-chartered mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, encouraged this "subprime" lending by authorizing ever more "flexible" criteria by which high-risk borrowers could be qualified for home loans, and then buying up the questionable mortgages that ensued.
All this was justified as a means of increasing homeownership among minorities and the poor. Affirmative-action policies trumped sound business practices. A manual issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston advised mortgage lenders to disregard financial common sense. "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor," the Fed's guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as "valid income sources" to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit.
As long as housing prices kept rising, the illusion that all this was good public policy could be sustained. But it didn't take a financial whiz to recognize that a day of reckoning would come. "What does it mean when Boston banks start making many more loans to minorities?" I asked in this space in 1995. "Most likely, that they are knowingly approving risky loans in order to get the feds and the activists off their backs . . . When the coming wave of foreclosures rolls through the inner city, which of today's self-congratulating bankers, politicians, and regulators plans to take the credit?"
Frank doesn't. But his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again, Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that "these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis."
Doreen you seem to see things only in the left and right arguments that have become so firmly entrenched in American society. I hardly see these people as only the students or young people as you seem to imply they are. Have you no consideration for your fellow Americans? Where and when did you lose all sense of compassion? Are you so caught up in your right wing rhetoric that you cannot see these people as people who have lost their jobs as a result of the lawbreaking of the Wall St. fraudsters. Wall Street scammed the system, aided and abetted by the US lawmakers who have sold out to Wall St.
The Walll St. bankers did not "earn" the money that they have now. They broke laws, committed fraud by misrepresenting the products that they were selling. They have caused the crash in the economy and are the major reason that so many are out of jobs, unable to pay their inflated mortgages and their health insurance. To make matters worse, Wall St. took taxpayer money and showered themselves with bonuses even though they were the central cause of the crash through their illegal and immoral behaviour.
You only seem to be dead against socialism when it comes to spending tax dollars on the peopel who have truly earned the money, i.e. those that work and produce products that we all can use. Wall St. produces nothing but gambling debts that when things go wrong they go running to the government for handouts. That is corporate socialism. In truly free market capitalism these same banks and Wall St. fraudsters would be out of business, not lining up at the government trough for bailout packages.
I suggest you take a look at something other than right wing blogs, written by people who are trying to perpetuate a system that is failing and failing badly. The greed that has been shown by Wall St. and their ilk will bring down the system that allowed them to commit fraud on such a wide scale, but in the process many middle and working class Americans will be hurt. When people are backed into a corner they are not going to stand by idly and allow the greedy to continue stealing from them. What will ensue won't be pretty and the whole of American society will suffer.
Are they in the business of generating profits? If they do generate profits they should pay. But I think they are tax exempt because they are non-profit organizations. Incidentally, I think if the various Republican administrations would have been able to tax unions, they would be taxed. It takes more than executive titles to be a corporation, every organization needs management. The difference between who pays taxes and who does not depends on how much profit they generate.
The only way a for-profit corporation can avoid being taxed is to be registered in an offshore tax haven. And many are.
Corporations are considered to be persons under the Constitution, but unlike real persons they do not have to have a moral conscience. That's the definition of a psychopath. No conscience, no empathy, no restraint. Incidentally, only psychopaths would have interpreted Jimmy Carter's desire to level the playing field for black people as the right to fleece them.
Oh we can see what's really happening. We can see that you and your corporate friends want to be free to take everything away from the rest of us and remove everything we have to hold you accountable for it.
Doreen said:
There is absolutely no use trying to talk to you left wingers. None what so ever. You just can't see what is really happening and don't want to.
You can't see that Unions are nothing but tax exempt Corporations. They have a president, vice president and board of directors and are NOT PAYING Their "fair share" of taxes. Good greif!! What do you people say to that?
I was a protestor in the 1960's and 70's but finally grew up and saw the light, and no I don't want to take anything away from you. I just expect you to earn it like most hard working people do. The government has no business giving us anything put secure borders.
What do you say about this?? Humm??
Unions Give More Campaign $$ To Dems Than Corporations To GOP
(Warner Todd Huston/The Union Label) – The left's meme about campaign contributions since the Supreme Court beat down some of the McCain/Feingold Act has been that the Republicans are awash in illicit political donations from those eeevil corporations — and unfair donations at that — and this puts the poor Democrats at a disadvantage. Why all those evil rich corporate raiders are burying the Democrats, dontcha know?
The truth is a far different animal, however, as Democrats haven't lost a step in fund raising due to the millions upon millions that their favorite special interest have given them. The fact is unions have donated far, far more to Democrat politicians than corporations have mustered for Republicans.
The Union Corporations give MILLIONS of dollars to the left wing Democratic party .
Enormous contributions, yes -- to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
So, just as the president complained in his 2010 State of the Union address about a Supreme Court decision that he feared would increase the flow of money to Republicans, he also found time to complain about a proposed state law that could reduce the flow of money to Democrats.
And, according to the Washington Post, to get the Democratic National Committee to organize protests against the proposed Wisconsin law. Protests that showed contempt for the law, with teachers abandoning classrooms, doctors writing phony medical excuses, Democratic legislators fleeing the state and holing up in a motel. The lawmakers played hooky without losing any salary, which is protected by the state constitution.
I think Ann has a good point here:
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Hi experts,
I am using Sql server 2005 with win 2k3 64 bit. From last few weeks my daily scheduled full back up is getting failed repeatedly.
here is some logs related to the problem.
Nov 2 2011 2:00AM Backup Tape 'RD02S' (family ID 1, sequence 1, media_set_guid {17DC9977-486D-44F6-AEE3-B50B491DD86B}) is mounted on tape drive 'R3DUMP0(
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Nov 2 2011 2:40AM Backup Tape 'RD02S' was dismounted from drive 'R3DUMP0(
.\Tape2147483645)'. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
Nov 2 2011 2:42AM spid126 Error: 18210, Severity: 16, State: 1.
Nov 2 2011 2:42AM spid126 BackupTapeFile::UnloadTape: PrepareTape(UNLOCK) failure on backup device '
.\Tape2147483645'. Operating system error 21(The device is not ready.).
Nov 2 2011 2:42AM Backup Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1.
Nov 2 2011 2:42AM Backup BACKUP failed to complete the command BACKUP DATABASE PRD. Check the backup application log for detailed messages.
Kindly help me out of this.
Akshit Sharma
Can you check whether tape lock have been remove from the tape. Probably tape is in read only mode.
Deepak Kori
Seems like ther is a problem with the tape drive or the tape itself.
You should check the tape drive and/or have a look a the tape as it seems that the requested tape for the backup isn't in.
Please use a cleaning cartridge. Then restart the tape drive (on and off for 2 minutes) then restart
windows. Try inserting other tapes. Lets try to isolate the problem if it fall to hardware failure.
thanks for the reply,
Actually we are using 30 different tapes for the scheduled backup. so, i think tape lock is not a issue.
also, we have recently changed the tape drive.
I also have tried to take a log backup manually on the same tape drive and it was successful.
do i have to initialize the new tape drive in SAP or any other configurations changes in scheduled backup i need to make???
Akshit sharma
Upon changing the new tape drive did it back-up successfully for the first time usage?
have tried using tape cartridge cleaner?
Did you restarted the Operating System together with the tape drive?
Hi Clint,
thanks for the quick reply.
After changing the tape drive the manual log backup is become successful but scheduled Full backup is failed again .
yes, i cleaned the tape cartridge.
Mohit Joshi
What is your scheduled backup? By script to sql built scheduler.
Try manual backup if still successful and check harddrive space.
You can try getting the database and restore in a test sql then do a manual or schedule
backup if error occurs.
thanks for the reply.
i found that my SQLAgent service is stopped, i started it again. till yesterday i was able to take a backup through ntbackup and Sqlserver, but on SAP again it is showing error.
now, i am getting a different error , this is the error which i am facing now.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Cannot open backup device 'R3DUMP0(
.\tape0)'. Operating system error 2
check if you have any solution to this.
Akshit sharma
By the way what is your scheduled backup through SQL Server or SAP backup Scheduler?
Problem is resolved. the problem is related to Tape Drive.
Akshit Sharma
good day,
please see if this might help you
kind regards
try for
scheduling job from DB13 and select the option initialize, and format media
Also check any other job is start/running on same time which write backup
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GREENFORD - Lisbon's Pam Pierce had a third quarter to remember in the Blue Devils' 42-36 victory over Wellsville on Saturday in a Division IV sectional final at South Range High School.
The junior scored 13 of her game-high 20 points in the third quarter, helping key an 11-0 run, which helped the Devils stay clear of defeat.
"I felt like I had to step up," Pierce said. "Whenever I had a shot, I took it."
Pierce, who also had 11 rebounds, five steals and three assists, came into the season having had knee surgery in the summer. She said both of her surgically repaired knees have been bothering her as of late, but she gutted it out on Saturday thanks to treatment and stretching.
"I have a really great physical therapist at Circle Rehab in Lisbon," Pierce said. "She really helped me get back to where I needed to be."
Wellsville (11-10) played very well in small spurts, but did not establish a consistent flow. The Tigers trailed by two with 2:37 to go in the game and were within three with 1:14 to go, but could not make the final move to get into position to win.
"That's kind of been the tale of the season," Wellsville coach Ed Swogger said. "We play well for three or four minutes and then take a couple off. You have to put together a full game together especially at this time of the season. We did not do that."
Lisbon went into the fourth quarter with a nine-point lead, but an 8-1 run had the Tigers poised to steal a victory late. That's when Julie Gauntt hit a big shot and bonus free throw with 2:10 left to push the Devils lead back out to 39-34.
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The Devils (13-8) advance to meet top-seeded Lowellville at 6 p.m. on Thursday in the district semifinal.
"They're a different kind of monster," Pierce said. "We're going to have to prepare really hard for them. We'll give them our best shot. I played against a lot of those Lowellville players in AAU. They're really good."
Pierce said she did not remember beating a team with Lowellville players on it in AAU basketball.
Mikyla Tipton, Wellsville's all-time leading scorer, ended her career with 12 points, four rebounds and three steals. Shartece Taylor added nine points - all scored in the first half.
Swogger said he thinks Lisbon will have a tough time with Lowellville on Wednesday.
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LISBON SCORING: Adri Sanchez 1-0-2, Cami Jackson 2-0-5, Katy Crismon 0-4-4, Julie Gauntt 1-3-5, Tiffany Ketchum 1-0-2, Lindsey Hayko 2-0-4, Pam Pierce 7-5-20. TEAM TOTALS: 14-36, 12-18, 42.
WELLSVILLE SCORING: Irene Kiser 2-0-5, Shartece Taylor 3-2-9, Rilee Livolsi 1-0-2, Mikyla Tipton 5-2-12, Courtney Cook 0-2-2, Amanda Coles 2-2-6. TEAM TOTALS: 13-39, 8-16, 36.
Three-point goals: Lisbon 2 (Jackson, Pierce), Wellsville 2 (Taylor, Kiser).


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NTTA to explore possibility of TollTags being used beyond Texas
The North Texas Tollway Authority is looking into the possibility of partnering with out-of-state tolling agencies to make the TollTag operable even when motorists leave the Lone Star State.
NTTA's board will consider a resolution Wednesday to encourage executive director Gerry Carrigan to pursue negotiations with the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority — and possibly other agencies in Oklahoma and Louisiana — to join forces on toll collection.
Such an agreement would be similar to ones NTTA already has with other Texas toll agencies, such as the Harris County Toll Road Authority.
It would allow TollTags to work on select out-of-state toll systems, and vice versa for out-of-state versions of the TollTag on NTTA's roadways. Drivers would pay the local toll rates, but they wouldn't have to stop and fumble for change.
NTTA spokesman Michael Rey said that even if the resolution passes at Wednesday's board meeting, implementation of such a policy would still be a ways off. But sharing tolling operations could have a big impact: 60 percent of out-of-state license plates on NTTA's system are from Oklahoma, Rey said.
And given that the sharing infrastructure is already in place — thanks to those agreements between NTTA and several Texas tolling agencies — Rey said there's a keen interest in seeing what might be possible.
"Now we'd like to explore … partnering with other states," Rey said. "We think it'd be efficient."


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The 5 Most Ingenious Worlds Ever Invented by Science Fiction
In no other genre is setting as important as it is in science fiction: No matter how intricate the book's plot, or how chisel-jawed that Hollywood manpile on the movie's poster might be, the universe is always going to be the real star. If you strip out the setting from an action film, you'll still have bankable hunks kicking ethnic people in the throat. If you strip out the setting from a literary drama, you'll still have quirky protagonists exchanging meaningful looks while sharing a tragedy together. But if you strip out the setting in even the most classic and well-constructed science fiction properties, you'll wind up with a whole lot of nothing. And if you guessed that this column was going to be just lousy -- absolutely filthy -- with thinly veiled plugs for my own sci-fi serial novel, Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity, the second episode of which just came out this week, you get a gold star!*
*Gold star only available with purchase of Rx - Episode 2: The Reservoir.
#5. Blade Runner
Let's make sure we get the tone right from the start: Nobody's knocking any of these movies or books. I legitimately believe that a properly built world can function as a lead character in a story, and for evidence of that, I point to Blade Runner.
Blade Runner was an amazing movie, and if anybody disagrees with that, it's probably because they first saw the original version with Harrison Ford's terrible, atmosphere-breaking forced monologue slapped on top. If you were lucky, like me, the first you saw of Blade Runner was the 1992 director's cut, with narration removed, bullshit sappy ending changed to brutal existential metaphor, and the whole thing just riddled with sweet-ass unicorns.
Just look at the sweet ass on that unicorn.
See, the official 1982 version was never Ridley Scott's intended film, nor was the hasty, stilted narration ever Ford's fault -- the studios forced every one of those changes on the movie just before release. They're the ones who inserted the dreary, awkward first-person narrative, because they were worried that viewers wouldn't be able to follow the objectively simple (if occasionally muddy) noir plot. They're the ones who inserted that bullshit ending shot of Deckard and Rachael driving happily through pastoral landscapes like German tourists on vacation, and they're the ones who cut the galloping unicorn, because they hate magic and the laughter of children.
In the director's cut, however, there are fewer distractions from what was actually set down on film, and so the dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 really gets a chance to shine. Although to be fair, both versions opened with this shot:
Which told you everything you needed to know about this world. That one setpiece was worth an entire screenplay: The huge, looming mega-scrapers, the obtrusive, unregulated, gargantuan billboards, huge factories belching fire into the sky -- this was a logical extension of our reality, except for the obvious fact that nobody was taking human needs like space, or privacy, or even clean air into account. In short, this was a world without empathy.
That's not a throwaway message in there just to make the dystopia even dystopier -- Philip K. Dick's original story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? revolved entirely around empathetically caring for animals and a virtual religion that allowed people to jack into a Christlike figure's torment. Empathy was an extremely important element to the story that was exclusively relayed through the setting of Blade Runner. The plot doesn't do it -- at its heart, it's just a basic bounty hunting/detective tale. The characters don't do it -- Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer are badass and all, but there's just not enough screen time for either to get across any grandiose, abstract moral lessons in between bangin' future-broads and poundin' future-whiskey.
Philip K. Dick wrote that story because he wanted to talk about empathy; Scott had to settle for showing you what a world without it looked like. Well, that, and what titties look like covered in Saran Wrap.
"You want me to wear what? Isn't this movie about determinism?" "Oh yeah, baby. Totally. Now, let's wrap them titties!"
The man was an artist, but he was still a man, after all.
#4. Avatar
Avatar is the highest-grossing film in history. Why is that? For characters, it had Generic Damaged White Boy and Sassy Ethnic Girl versus Evil Authority Figure. For plot, it had 'Fern Gully fights some battle mechs.' For setting, it had Pandora:
And we, as a collective audience, said, "Fuck yes; should I throw this money at your face, or would you rather I pack it into a wad and shove it directly down your throat?"
Say what you will about Avatar (for example, the story is exactly as complex as a childhood game of cowboys and Indians, if the kids playing forgot to take off their Halloween costumes first), but James Cameron painstakingly built every inch of that world. Pandora had not only a unique look, but a functioning ecosystem, an indigenous culture and a complete back story. It shouldn't be surprising: Cameron first started working on Avatar in 1994, and the movie wasn't released until 2009 -- 15 years later. So what was he doing for that decade and a half? He sure as hell wasn't creating complex and likeable characters or filling up his plot-bucket from the Well of Intrigue. It took him 10 years to build that amazing setting, a drunken weekend to sketch the characters, and the run time of Pocahontas to come up with the plot.
"God, I am going to blue that guy so hard." -- James Cameron
Think I'm exaggerating? Consider this: Cameron was far enough along with Pandora that, in 2005, he started consulting with a linguistic professor to develop a useable language for the Na'vi, his giant race of Smurfy hair-rapists.
He didn't start on the screenplay until 2006.
#3. Minority Report
Minority Report was all about the setting. The plot and characters were both background noise.
Wait, what?
If Minority Report is famous for one reason, it's for the Dickish (hey, Dickensian was already taken; what else are we going to call something Philip K. Dick-like -- Philipino?) plot structure full of mind-bending twists and bizarre philosophical concepts.
It sure was. But do me a favor and go Google Image search Minority Report right now. What do you see? Ah, who am I kidding, this is the Internet -- you were all too lazy to do it. This is what you see:
Tom Cruise. Miming.
Minority Report tried to tell a story about awareness and destiny, free will and inevitability through a complex framework of predictions, faux-predictions and anti-predictions, and what did we all take away from it?
That we really fuckin' wanted Tom Cruise's operating system.
But the Finger Kinect wasn't the only oddly memorable part of this universe -- the retinal scanning billboards, the bizarre, vomit-based Tasers, the self-driving cars -- the universe of Minority Report was strange and alien, but just accessible enough to be compelling. That's because Spielberg was doing the same thing I did for Rx: He started researching actual fringe science and cutting edge technology to extrapolate the most believable version of this weird future possible. But where I got hung up on cliches like recreational nano-tech and pharmaceutical time travel, Spielberg focused on the burgeoning virtual-window-resizing and puke-based weapons industries.
What can I say? I can't compete with that; the bastard's psychic or something.


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I have implemented Note 1443469 - Consolidated Note:Client Groupware Integration:8.018 version.
After push button u201CSynchronizeu201D display error message u201CA required folder could not be fetched from Lotus Notes. Please check folder settings, close all items in Lotus Notes and try againu201D.
Please advice what need to be made settings? What is u201Crequired folder from Lotus Notesu201D
Can you please check the log files on your Groupware machine.
[Installation path]SAP Groupware Connector 2.1\Lotus\Connector\Logs
What do you find there?
Check the second tab in the "Edit Synchronization Setting", named "Sync Properties". In the area "Synchronize" You can see the "view/folder" setting for each object (appointment, task and contact). The value should be "Default view" or any existing folder in Lotus Notes. Do not use the "Not defined" value.
HI, Pavel.
Thank you for your answer. I checked the settings. In the area "Synchronize" the values set "Default view".
I'm closing this thread because we asked oss. Currently we are waiting for our security administrators will open access to our internal network for oss.
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New library
patrons: 22,979
Items in our collection: 713,448
Items checked out: 8,303,267
Library visits: 2,130,421
Reference questions answered: 742,424
Attendance at programs & events: 225,876
Audio books and music downloaded: 81,806
Children who
attended storytime: 145,000
Website visits: 2,133,026
Online database searches: 241,516
Volunteer hours: 28,751
In celebration of its 10th anniversary in its present location, Highlands Ranch Library remodels and updates the main floor and the children's area, including adding new children's computers.
Philip S. Miller Library creates a new periodicals room in conjunction with an expansion of its children's area. The project requires no outside movers and no library closures, and is made possible in part by a $50,000 donation by Dr. and Mrs. Sullivan.
Parker Library is remodeled and skylights and day lighting controls are installed at Philip S. Miller Library and Parker Library to reduce power consumption. An automatic sorter is installed at Castle Pines Library.
BizInfo librarians answer questions for 98 small businesses, an increase of 26 percent over 2009, and 816 entrepreneurs and small business owners attend BizInfo workshops.
Adventure Pass is born in May. More than 3,000 patrons visit Dinosaur Ridge and the Wildlife Experience for free.
The number of audiobooks, e-books, and music files downloaded by patrons nearly triples, from 27,490 in 2009 to 81,806 in 2010. This is due in part to the library's introduction of Freegal, offering Douglas County residents free and legal music files from Sony Music Entertainment.
Our new Storytime website debuts in October, allowing patrons to search for storytimes by library location or child's age. It also provides parents with vital early literacy information and resources.
Contact Center staff begins tweeting in April, creates more than 700 tweets, and earns 1,098 followers by year end.
Texting services debut in November. Services include answering short questions sent to the library, and sending messages to patrons about their library accounts.
Live chat also debuts in November as a convenient and popular way for patrons to ask quick questions. Chat complements an improved FAQ web page that addresses about 40% of patron questions.
Contact Center staff support the community by answering more than 3,700 election questions during primaries and the general election.
Douglas County Libraries welcomes 61 new literacy volunteers and a record number of patrons take GED exams, with 145 graduating.
Monique Sendze, DCL's Associate Director of Information Technology, is selected as an Emerging Leader by Library Journal.
The School Liaison program continues to grow and serve area schools. In addition to the services and resources library staff provide for all schools, staff deliver dictionaries to Cherry Valley Elementary School, the smallest and most remote school in the district.
The number of Douglas County schools participating in Battle of the Books competition increases from seven to twenty. Reading Buddies engages students from elementary to high school in a multiage exploration of the joy of reading.
Nearly 23,000 readers participate in summer reading programs, a 62% increase over 2009. Of the total number of registrants, 17,568 are children and teens. Summer reading is widely considered by educators to be the single most effective activity for combating summer learning loss in students.
Good management and prudent spending allow circulation to increase by nearly 400,000 items, with no increase in staffing.
In July, historical aerial photographs of Douglas County are made available to the public on Google Earth, courtesy of archivists at the Douglas County History Research Center.
The Douglas County History Research Center adds 1923-1941 issues of the Record-Journal of Douglas County to its Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection, expanding the web-based research capabilities of patrons and staff, while requiring no additional storage space or staff time.
Douglas County Libraries welcomes many local authors in celebration of reading and literacy. Authors include Denver Deputy Mayor Bill Vidal (Boxing for Cuba), Mark Obmascik (Halfway to Heaven: Quest for the Rocky Mountain High), John Newkirk (The Old Man and the Harley), and Sandra Dallas (Whiter than Snow).
On October 13, Douglas County Libraries welcomes Chef Rick Bayless for a day's worth of events with a dual purpose: to provide Douglas County residents with the opportunity to get to know a remarkable celebrity author, and to raise money to support library literacy activities. Half of the Rick Bayless events sell out.


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Fishing the Upper Connecticut River
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When it comes to trout fishing, the upper Connecticut River is a cut above. As it winds its way south between the rugged mountains of northern New Hampshire and northeastern Vermont, New England's longest river offers miles of lightly fished water home to brook, brown and rainbow trout. And the scenic beauty is almost as good as the fishing. The best way to experience this water is to float the river, as we discovered when we hooked up with the oldest drift boat guide services in the North Country for a wonderful afternoon of trout fishing on the upper Connecticut River.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Incline Village Community Hospital, a service of Tahoe Forest Health System since 1996, recently held a community mixer to celebrate and showcase the completion of construction at the east end of the hospital.
Many North Lake Tahoe businesses and individuals attended to tour and learn about the improvements. The event was held on Thursday, Sept. 20.
The remodel and modernization project began in May 2012, and is slated for completion at the end of this year.
The remodel project included installation of a new 16-slice CT scanner, an upgraded diagnostic imaging suite, new entry doors, and an enlarged Auxiliary gift shop. The hospital also completed other upgrades improvements on the first floor in the public areas to match the 24-hour Emergency Department remodel that was completed in 2008.
Judy Newland, administrator of Incline Village Community Hospital, thanked the community for their valued financial support of the "Be A Hero" campaign that made the renovation and improvement projects possible.
"Because of the support of this community, our hospital Foundation Board of Directors, and Tahoe Forest Health System, our hospital is better able to offer life-saving services for our community needs," she said. "We are proud of the strong local support for these vital improvements, and look forward to our final completion by year-end."
Incline Village Community Hospital is offering tours to the community to see the improvements and learn about the "Be A Hero" program, which has nearly raised the $1 million to reach the project goal, with $165,000 still needed to support the final work. To make a contribution or arrange a tour, please call 775-888-4204.
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Bouchoc sparks Patriots past Eagles
September 12, 2012
HEDGESVILLE — Daniel Bouchoc made a move in the box, looked down, and it must have looked like a beach ball was sitting there. His eyes got wide, he turned and fired and got Washington on the board....
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I have to say, my heart has changed so much for Ashley. The way she moves, glides, and sells her performances on the ice is captivating. I just wish she had the technical merit to back her up, because she is superb everywhere else. She will have to make some good decisions if she ever wants to stand a fighting chance.
I'm usually not a big fan of seeing skaters recycle programs, but I think it would serve her well to keep the Pink Floyd short for next year. She seems to love it, and it would give her more time to focus on her elements rather than laying out 2 brand new programs. Maybe bring out a new costume for it, like a sparkly unitard.
Obviously, for the long, she just need to start fresh.
She could keep the Pink Floyd program or not. I loved it, but I think it might feel a bit tired the second time around. She does need something modern. Something like Carolina Kostner's short program in '08 would suit Ashley well, IMO.