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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced on Thursday that he is ordering a review of the ethical training for senior officers in the wake of the investigation that led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Patraeus and is threatening the career of Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials said that the review had been planned before Petraeus's extramarital affair was uncovered, prompting his resignation. In the last year, several other high-ranking officers, including two generals and an admiral, have faced accusations of sexual misconduct and other ethical lapses.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also sent a letter to all four-star admirals and generals outlining concerns about recent ethical breaches. "We, as the senior leaders of the military, should fundamentally take charge of our own profession and overcome the challenges that have been posed to us," he told The New York Times.
Patraeus resigned on Friday after an FBI investigation into threatening emails sent to a Tampa, Florida, woman uncovered an extramarital affair between him and his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Allen is under investigation for exchanging "potentially inappropriate" emails with the Tampa woman, Jill Kelley.
The White House has expressed support for Allen as he undergoes the probe.
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Google announced the new Google+ Hangouts app at Google I/O today. The new app combines Google's chat, voice and video services into one product.
The stand-alone version of Hangouts allows users to combine images, video conferencing and text chats (now complete with emoji) in one experience.
Video calls can include up to 10 people. As the new tagline — "Conversations that last, with people that you love" — suggests, Hangouts can now be archived (though you can turn off history if you don't want to relive your chats and calls).
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KS-Sen: Dem Rep. Dennis Moore Won't Run for Reelection
by Jonathan Singer, Mon Dec 01, 2008 at 12:36:27 PM EST
The Hotline has the details:
Sources close to Rep. Dennis Moore (KS-03) say that the congressman will not run for re-election in 2010. It's unclear if he will launch a Senate bid instead; Sen. Sam Brownback is stepping down that year and is expected to run for governor.
Via a spokeswoman, Moore said today: "I am honored to be serving the people of the Third District and have every intention of continuing my work in Congress on their behalf."
Moore, a former Johnson Cnty. Dist. Atty and Army reservist, was re-elected in November to his sixth term.
We have been watching this race for quite some time, and suffice it to say that although the Democrats have quite a dry spell going in Kansas Senate races dating back to the 1930s the race in 2010 to succeed Sam Brownback has a real potential of being competitive.
For some time it looked like Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius would be the Democrats' best choice in 2010, though if Barack Obama taps his long time supporter for the Cabinet a Senate run would almost undoubtedly be out of the question. Yet Dennis Moore, who has consistently been able to win in a Republican-leaning district (it has a Cook PVI of R+4, meaning it tends to lean about 4 percentage points more Republican than the nation as a whole in presidential elections), could be a formidable candidate in his own right.
Moore certainly is not the most progressive Democrat in the House. In fact, his progressive punch score of 80.65 puts him in the most moderate quintile of the caucus. That said, considering that Todd Tiarht, who very well might be the Republican Senate nominee in 2010, scores just 4.83 out of 100 according to Progressive Punch, Moore would certainly be a more palatable choice.
Tiarht does have a lot more money in the bank right now than does Moore -- $1,182,697 to $354,441 -- and, as noted above, Democrats have been shut out in Senate elections in Kansas for the last 70+ years. That said, Moore could make this open seat race competitive, so these early inklings are a positive development in the Democrats' hopes of winning this Senate seat (even if it makes it less likely that Democrats will hold on to Moore's congressional seat).


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There are two things one might know about David Darling. The first, of course, is that the urge to make puns about his name in the titles should be resisted, no matter how siren its call. Whatever one were to come up with, it wouldn't be original.
The second is that he is a legend of game development – as the founder of CodeMasters with his brother Richard, and by extension as the source of Dizzy, Prince of the Yolk Folk. A UK National Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000, and later made a Commander of the British Empire* for services to video games, Darling cashed out of CodeMasters in 2007, after twenty years at a company he started as a 20-year old with four years of game development already under his belt, and now runs the mobile game developer Kwalee.
Darling shared his thoughts by email on the upcoming iPhone 5 before it was launched today. First up, for the EAs of this world, the possibilities of the top end of the upgraded A6 chip might be important, but for smaller studios do these processor bumps make much difference? Kwalee's titles are graphically simple puzzle games…
Better chipsets and processors are important, especially for 3D. Better Facebook integration is also a bonus – it much improves multiplayer with friends.
The mention of Facebook integration is telling, in fact – screen and processor aside (and, of course, a new connector, which is a strangely big deal), there is a limit to how much more whizzy technology in this phone format can get without a tradeoff – primarily, in battery life. So, software becomes important, such as the tighter integration of iOS 6 with Facebook. Darling did have a couple of more left-field suggestions on the software front:
Of course, opening Siri to devs and enabling voice integration for games would be amazing. A new-look App Store, which could mean a standardized look across to Apple TV; that would help us develop these games for the home as well as the mobile space.
Third party apps using Siri's voice recognition are probably some way out, but the idea of standardized look and feel across the iPhone and Apple TV is interesting. Steam's Big Picture has caused more excitement over font size than anything since Dead Rising (and before that the Guttenberg press), so the thought of the TV as gaming hub is very much at the front of minds.
Darling was really anticipating the "one more thing" that characterizes the Apple presentation:
What I do really look forward to is the surprise. Apple always spring a surprise; they're always innovative and striving to be different.
Although this cycle seemed to be leakier than most – there seemed to be a clearish picture of what the new phone would look like – Apple is known for keeping something at least partially hidden up its sleeves.
The big surprise of the event, arguably, was the lack of surprises – unless you count the Foo Fighters as a surprise. No iPad Mini, no quad-core processor (obviously), no NFC, even. However, there was a steady advance on many fronts – processor speed, pixel count, screen size.
*This is a lot less cool than it sounds – the British Empire doesn't really exist any more, and you can't command it to do anything. Still, it sounds very cool.
One interesting item the most tech news (except Cringely.com) missed regarding the new iPhone 5 is the nature of the new Lightning cable/connector. It's not USB and may be Thunderbolt. No one is quite sure yet. If it's using the Thunderbolt protocol, it could be possible to attach a full size monitor directly to the iPhone 5.
Is this the beginning of the confluence between iPhone and laptop? With a Thunderbolt cable connecting your iPhone to a full size monitor, and then using an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, couldn't most people use their phone for their computer?
I see an awful lot of people discarding their $299 laptops and consolidating around their beloved iPhone.
The Thunderbolt is a natural for the new iPads ( and mini) as well! Think about that one! Cheap PC and cheap laptop manufacturers could be in big trouble!
This is simply a "long shot" guess in response to Robert Cringely's (cringely.com) challenge in his column regarding the purpose of the new connector and reasons for the switch.
Sure the new connector is smaller and therefor easier for a thinner iPhone to accommodate, but the old connector would have fit just fine. And switching standards is always painful for company, venders, and customers. Why?
I'm a power computer user (graphic artist and video producer) and I'm assuming you are to. But it astounds me how parochial the needs of most of of my coworkers really are. The processing power of the new iPhone would be fine for showing presentations, writing basic work processing docs, web surfing, email, and basic spreadsheets. In our office, most everyone uses cheap Dell laptops attached to external monitors and keyboards.
My wife ask me is the iPhone had enough internal storage to make a viable personal computer (64 GB max.). With Apple's iCloud storage paradigm, I don't believe storage would be a problem either.
Ironically, using the phone in the iPhone may be the major obstacle regarding using the iPhone as a laptop substitute. I can imagine raising the phone to your ear will be hard if it's feathered to a monitor. Maybe a Bluetooth headset may be in order. Another small challenge for Apple would to have the iPhone dynamically switch to OS X for Mac then back to iOS when the iPhone was detached front he cable. The kernel of the OS is the basically the same, only the interface would have to change. But attaching an iPhone to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse would necessitate using OS X.


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It has been a looong time since I last looked at Lazarus. So long in fact that I don't remember exactly when it was. Whenever it was I don't think I ever actually managed to even get it up and running at that point. Certainly I don't remember much about it if I ever did. But with the timely Lazarus 1.0 announcement last week, I have gone back to have another look.
And this is what I found.
First up, installation was not only smooth and painless but also extremely swift. I didn't put a clock on it but it was certainly only a few moments. Installation on OS X was slightly more involved as it required first installing FPC and FPC sources before Lazarus could actually start up, but the Win64 build seemed entirely self contained.
Once installed I fired it up:
First of all, it was a bit of a culture shock finding myself back in a Delphi 7 era undocked IDE especially as, although still quite familiar, the Lazarus IDE has adopted some of the more modern IDE changes, such as in the Options dialog.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that – back in the day – I was a big fan of the undocked layout, primarily as I found it far more productive in a multi-monitor configuration. These days though, I now have such a huge primary display (27″ iMac) that at home I have gratefully reclaimed the desk space previously occupied by the second monitor. In the office – with a much larger desk – I still have a second monitor alongside my iMac there, but these days it is used for little else other than as a Spotify and Skype console.
I should mention at this point that there is a project to create support for the "Docked IDE" configuration, but it is not included as part of Lazarus 1.0 but is a separate download, currently still in beta. This installs as a "package", but packages in Lazarus appear to be a slightly different animal that that which we're used to in Delphi as installation requires a rebuild of the Lazarus IDE to incorporate it.
So I tentatively went through this process, but was pleased to find it was a simple matter of click-click-done: I opened the Lazarus package project file and when I then tried to install it was informed that the IDE needed to be recompiled and did I want to go ahead ?
I confirmed that I did, and a few seconds later it was finished and Lazarus automatically restarted. After the rebuild, I had a new KZDesktop -> Start option in the Tools menu. Selecting this cautioned me that the package was a beta – I had been warned! – and that the docked mode was now enabled and I just had to restart Lazarus for it to take effect.
There is a Restart option on the Lazarus File menu, so I guess restarting Lazarus is something that crops up quite often. But no worries, restarting takes barely a moment (literally a couple of seconds). And on this occasion I then found myself presented with the "Docked IDE".
Sort of.
As you can see, the Form Designer for some reason failed to embed even though the scaffolding for it is clearly present. This may be something to do with the fact that I am using the OS X build of Lazarus (for this exercise at least – I have also looked even more briefly at the Win64 build and it is basically identical as far as I can tell… and all without a SmokingChimp in sight). I believe – from little I have gathered about Lazarus etc so far – that there is some issue with re-parenting windows in the LCL.
There is also only very limited flexibility in terms of which IDE windows can be placed where (there is no drag/drop docking that I could find, for example, only a couple of settings in an options dialog).
Hey ho – this is flagged as a "beta" and isn't part of the Lazarus "core", at least not yet. And frankly, the "Classic IDE" won't take much to get used to again, I'm sure. So, for now I simply removed the KZ Desktop package to get back to "vanilla" Lazarus.
At this point I did have something of a problem.
After restoring the "Classic" IDE, most of the Lazarus windows were positioned so far to the left and top of my display that I couldn't get to the caption bars – without that there is no way (that I know of) to drag them back into view, and keyboard controls for this seemingly aren't part of OS X. Consequently, this exercise has also taught me something about OS X and led me to Mercury Mover. And actually it's such a neat bit of kit that I'm quite grateful.
But I digress – back to Lazarus.
Obviously in the brief time spent with Lazarus so far I have only barely scratched the surface of it, but already I am finding things that have bugged me as not having been addressed in the Delphi IDE for a long, long time.
Display Options
- The background colour for ALL elements can be set in one place. No need to change the background colour for each and every separate syntax element which you wish to have a common – the default – background colour
- I haven't done an exhaustive comparison, but there seem to be far more syntax elements over which individual control can be exercised, not just text elements but almost every aspect of the code editor.
- As well as font selection, you also get some additional fine control over line and character spacing.
Display Options may appear superficial and cosmetic, but when you spend 8hrs+ of a working day in an environment, making it comfortable – and personal – can be important. It is to me.
Your mileage may vary.
Code Tools
Overall Lazarus appears to have an embarrassment of riches in this area compared to the Delphi IDE.
Frankly, the scope of the controls seemingly available is a little bewildering, but there was one which immediately leaped out at me as of incredible utility (to me) in the area of Class Completion.
Yes, Lazarus allows you to choose the prefixes for read/write property accessor methods, for field names, for the "stored" function and even the name of the parameter in generated property write accessors!
Other things help you while moving around in and editing your code too, like matched begin/end highlighting as well as parenthesis matching.
This sort of attention to detail also shows up in the messages When you compile your project. Warnings are visually more distinct (to my eye) than in Delphi and only a single-click is required to take you to the relevant and highlighted line of code.
Speaking of the message view, here's something else that this innocuous little window revealed:
What needs to be mentioned here is that I didn't have to explicitly perform a full build. I just hit "Run" after making a change in the project options: the IDE recognised the impact this might have on my project and made sure that a full build was performed rather than the usual compilation.
Barely Scratching The Surface and Looking Forward
I quickly came to the conclusion that I couldn't do Lazarus justice in a single article, so I have deliberately limited this to my First Impressions – the things I noticed straight away without digging too deeply.
But I can already see that there is a lot more to Lazarus. A very great deal more.
Enough that I am determined now to make porting my existing Delphi Pascal libraries to FPC and Lazarus just as soon as possible. That means knocking them into shape for availability in Delphi first.
But just as soon as that is done, I am actively looking forward to getting to grips with Lazarus in earnest.
Quite apart from anything else, despite 1.0 only having just been released, I already have a good idea of what to expect in future deliveries.
There is a school of thought that says that such open and transparent communication with a user community is only possible if you have a hugely profitable operating system and applications division to bankroll the effort.
Given that Lazarus benefits from no such financial buttressing, seemingly what I have always believed appears to be true: that all you really need is to care.
And the team behind Lazarus seems to care. A lot.
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I can also recommend a really great Cross Lazarus RAD Tool:
Here you can build all possible targets (Win32/Win64,Mac,Android,…) on Windows host without having the need for a virtual machine.
Code Typhon on the Mac?
Amazing that Lazarus already already works this satisfactory on the Mac.
One thing I discovered recently in Lazarus. You can write such code:
function str2num(const s: string): integer; begin case LowerCase(s) of 'one': Result := 1; 'two': Result := 2; else Result := -1; end; end;
wow, I had no idea I could use case with strings in Lazarus, thanks for the tip.
Another reason to no use Delphi ha ha ha
One more thing I found useful:
bitpacked records:
i.e. no need to write tons of getters/setters for bit manipulations.
Also there are bitpacked arrays.
You can simulate cased strings with this small function here:
…and we would never get that. EMB has fired a lot of trained compiler engineers.
i find cnWizards style code highlighting (when they use defferent colours for begin/end nesting) is more use to me, than having many syntax element differently highlighted
I would seriously consider Lazarus if DevExpress would support it. Unfortunately, they don't and have no interest in doing so, yet….
We need to voice our opinion about Lazarus to DevExpress, if no one says anything to to them they won't support it.
Personally though I am trying to move away from Devexpress because it's simply getting too expensive to renew the subscription each year.
For a lot of grid stuff I have been using the Virtual Treeview in unbound grid mode and it works pretty good. Virtual Treeview also works in Lazarus by the way.
"the IDE recognised the impact this might have on my project and made sure that a full build was performed"
Is it a feature ? To me it looks workaround for FPC bug instead.
The whole coding part is excellent. I gave 1.0 a try this moment. Works good.
The case statement listed has been lacking in Delphi since the beginning. Hard to believe COBOL has it (evaluate) and Delphi never got it. One of the more useful syntax elements in a language as it simplifies the if/else/if/else structure.
I always thought the concept of "begin" was tired and dated even when Delphi was first released. Why can't an else, end, etc be the conditional terminator?
The single-click on the message panel was one of the first things I turned off. It makes it much harder to scroll the message log than it needs to be, which is especially bothersome given the copious compiler hints that FreePascal generates.
I also don't know if it's related to our environment, but automatically rebuilding when you click Run is something that Lazarus does every time I launch something, even if I've done a Build immediately beforehand. Unlike Delphi, I frequently run our Lazarus build without the debugger just to avoid that extra startup time.
We've been really impressed with Lazarus and FreePascal too. It's definitely made solid progress over the years. I haven't tried Delphi's Objective C interface yet, but FreePascal's Objective Pascal mode is really pleasant to work with.
The only serious caveat I have is that the OS X builds use the Carbon widgetset rather than Cocoa. The Cocoa support isn't anywhere near complete, so if you want to target it you need to use the Qt interface instead. We've been building using the Carbon interface and it's worked very well, but the threat of Apple deciding to do more than deprecate it does hang over our work.
I will also say that getting what I consider a a professional level of look and feel has been quite a bit of work. Making dialogs work as sheets stably is something we're still struggling with, and using the NSToolbar/HIToolbar controls (which we've had to pass on) requires dropping down to the API level. True to its VCL roots, the color and font dialogs are modal, and making them non-modal required dropping down to the API level too.
It's definitely been one of those experiences where the first 90% went quickly at the last 10% has been taking ages.
One of the things that has always 'bugged' me about Lazarus is generally something never works!
In the 1.0 release they are supposed to have a MS SQL component. It is not installed and if you try the MSSQL example program, it says it needs FPC 2.6.1. Lazarus 1.0 ships with FPC 2.6.0.
So you upgrade to a beta 1.1 build with FPC 2.6.1 and try the same example program again and now a dblib.dll is missing. But you now have the MSSQLCOnneciton.
It is stuff like this that has always discouraged me and led me to believe that Lazarus in any flavor just has never been ready for prime time.
I guess I am not willing to spend the time to fix the bugs for things I want and or need.
Well, if you judge only from one component (and AFAIK not really widely used) of course it would look so buggy. I use MySQL(50,51,55), SQLite3, FireBird, PostgreSQL through SQLdb and they work just fine. Of course, you'll need the client libraries which is a good idea not to be bundled with Lazarus.
Lazarus is not designed only for / primarily for database centric application. It's a general programming platform that can build anything. Take a look at the application gallery and projects that are using it, how many of them are database centric? Likewise, how many of them are NOT yet still damn useful and cool?
>One of the things that has always 'bugged' me about Lazarus is generally something never works!
ACK that's just awful.
I have been using the svn-version of Lazarus for years, and feel like I have spent more time writing Lazarus bug reports than doing actual programming!
But there is just no alternative to maintain the Pascal programs you have
i dont care..
Nice. If you look for a quick way to find more of the features, look at those 2 pages:
Also to mention:
- Delphi converter
- heaptrc – build in support for finding memory leaks
I guess that makes Delphi about the only language that does not let you write case statements with strings. Unique!
Nope, Objective-C doesn't do it either.
[in reply to Craig Peterson's comment]
Regarding the recompiles: there is an option in the project settings which reads "always do a clean build". This option was on by default in older versions, because the change detection didn't work as good as today (or at all).
Regarding Cocoa: You can take a look at the new CustomDrawn widgetset which contains support (in different stages) for Cocoa, Win32, pure X11 and Android. You can find more info about it here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface
This should have been an answer to Craig Peterson's post… Stupid reloads in Android browser -.-
Some of the other stuff I think is an improvement
- the ability to setup a copy of lazarus, installed components inclusive that is located in one directory, and nearly entirely location (installed path) independent. I was talking to lazarus devels, and we hope to have an out of the box installation option for that in the next release (but it is already possible now)
- projects have dependencies on packages. Paths from packages you have a dependency are automatically added. This makes exchanging programs much easier. (since not everybody installs his packages in the same place)
Thank you for your review of Lazarus. I'm looking forward for any to come, even if they may be more critical ^^
Regarding some of the points you mentioned:
There are two packages distributed with Lazarus since 0.9.28 that allow you to enable docking: anchordockingdsgn and easydockmgrdsgn. You should only install one of them (I personally prefer Anchor Docking) and let the IDE restart. You will be greeted with a misconfigured IDE layout that you need to correct a bit using the splitters. You can then use Drag and Dock to reconfigure the IDE and save the layout using "Tools -> Save layout as default".
The docking of the designer forms is disabled, because that does still more harm than good. But the form will be moved to the front if you click a component in the component palette
Take your time when getting in touch with Lazarus and Free Pascal as there are many gems to be discovered (even for me as a compiler dev) (defintely take a look at the links mentioned by Martin and the wiki in general)
Before I forget it: more information about docking is available here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Docking
Excellent article, and a most informative set of discussions on Lazarus I have seen to date. I have been impressed with the quality of recent releases of Lazarus. A big, big thank you to the development team who had done such a wonderful job. I am using the Code Typhon edition, which is also put together extremely well by the team at Pilot Logic. Look forward to native development for Android out of the box, is this on the road map?
It works already more or less. See here.
Alternatively you can use the new JVM/Dalvik port of Free Pascal for which you can find informations here and here. Be warned though: Using the JVM port is currently not as fluent as normal Pascal development, but at least the Lazarus IDE helps you
Delphi 7 IDE Woohoo! – I can make big forms again!
If I make the Properties window wider, the vertical divider does not creep along and need resizing, as in XE2.
If I click on a property, I really get that property. In XE2, if you scroll down it selects the property that was at that position before.
Seems a bit slow opening and closing. But is OK.
I have been using the latest builds of Lazarus for the last 6 months and have to say it's excellent. I have been doing a lot of new projects with Lazarus and only using delphi if a 3rd party control I need like Trichview edit is not available.
Devart.com is a good supporter of Lazarus and their PGdac (postgresql) and others work on Lazarus.
Also there is docking built in but it does not embed the designer which is OK with me for now.
Spread the word on Lazarus and let try and influence 3rd party developers to support it.
I would have no problem ditching Delphi and using Lazarus exclusively if the 3rd party comes around and sees the light.
Have you try Code Typhon package? There are mile more components than I was using in my D6 days.
yes, I use Code Typhon to cross compile a server app for linux, works
oh, one really nice thing about the code Typhon distro is it allows for easy setup of cross compiling Linux executables on windows.
You have to copy the needed linux libs to your windows 7 box but other than that it works great, I compile a chat server I made with Synapse as a Linux Daemon right on my windows PC. One word sweet action, shame on Embarcadero for being out done by a open source project…..
If embarcadero was smart they would switch to the Free Pascal Compiler and make the basic IDE free and sell extra abilities to the IDE such as refactoring etc.
Personally, I am still annoyed with Embarcadero(?) killing off Kylix 3, and refused to release the source to open community, which left many K3 user stranded for quite a long time. With open source, we should not suffer from the same commercial brutality again.
I bought Kylix out of my own pocket money.
I was none pleased.
Ya, I did as well, when it was like 1500 bucks for the the pro version.
I immediately sent it back when I discovered it was not really ready for prime time. I later bought it when they reduced the price to 129 or something like that for the Pro version.
My revenge is to now try and use Lazarus for everything instead of Delphi, third party component developers take note!!!!!
Before I forget it: one important and very positive difference from Delphi is the fact that all the CodeTools (class completion, jump to something, etc.) are fully working when you debug your application! [of course you need to recompile if you changed something ] So Lazarus does not become a "fancy text editor" when debugging like Delphi does.
This is very nice review, especially because it is written from the perspective of Mac OS X user. I don't have much experience with Mac OS X/Apple – therefore I found your thoughts very interesting.
For me, the release of Lazarus IDE 1.0 means a lot – I was waiting for this moment and I believe that right now Lazarus will gain some more commercial/enterprise recognition. I also wrote a short review on my website on this occasion – you can check it here:
Not to mention, that I recommended your review, too:
I think that we should spread "the good word" about Lazarus 1.0/FPC as much as we can. This can help a lot in the overall success of this project (which – in my opinion – is great).
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One annoyance I noticed is if I click a forms title bar at design time does
not select it. Say for example say you have a pagecontrol aligned to client and you need to get to the forms events etc in the object inspector, click on the forms title does nothing and you have to scroll up in the component view window to select it. It's minor buy kind of annoying.
Overall I am very pleased with Lazarus so far and they have my full support in pitching it's use to others
I have set-up a "Lazarus – Free Pascal Developer Group. Write Once, compile anywhere" Link-in group in order to help to focus experience and promote Lazarus, you are all invited!
In my opinion Lazarus 1.0 is the BIG piece of news in this last period from a developer point of view.
I'm using this great IDE on Windows XP 32, Windows 7 64 and Ubuntu. I ported a really big application from Delphi to Lazarus and now I can compile this app on Linux too. The range of applications you can write is wider enough to consider to use this tool for all desktop apps.
For DB access ZeosDB components are great. Actually I'm using CodeTyphon 2.80 distro.
Fast report works very well.
So Long life to Lazarus.
Totally agree with Luca. Lazarus is one of the best RAD tool on Linux. I use Code Typhon with Ubuntu 12.04, docking comes as standard. However, same version on Windows XP do not, may be the Linux version is more developed?
What we should do is donate some cash to lazarus/fpc instead
Of paying Embarcadero for bug fixes….
I am currently in the process of rewriting
My postgresql app and so far totally love
Lazarus, it's not all fat and bloated like
Newer Delphi versions are. 3rd party design
Need to take notice as I won't be purchasing
Components that don't support lazarus
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I would be intrigued to read a comparative review from someone who hated the earlier, bug-ridden version of Lazarus on Linux. Perhaps this new version has caught all the bugs that drove me mad, or perhaps it hasn't and they just didn't happen to show up in this reviewer's testing. I'm reluctant to go through the considerable hassle of installing it on my production Ubuntu box unless someone can say "yes, I had the same trouble as you, and yes, this version fixes all that". Because I do in fact have a copy of Delphi running on my dual-booting desktop, so I'm a bit of a rare case.
You may be interested in this review… he didn't recommend it before but now he does.
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By CLINE CALHOUN CJ Columnist
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Dear Editor:
I've come to you today to address some views and opinions in which I believe could be of interest to you and others as a whole, on America, where it used to be, and where it's on it's way to now. I often find myself repeating the same few questions in my own mind. What has happened to the "American Dream" everyone used to strive to live for everyday of their lives? Where has the American spirit gone to in the past decade?
We being America, the United Nation we're supposed to be, seems to be fading away. How are we to let such a terrible thing happen? Without being the united nation we're supposed to be there is no "American Dream." Young men and women obtaining education above a high school level without being $100,000 in debt or more was wonderful and believe it or not used to be highly possible. What has happened to that? Education is a very important tool to better America as a whole for our future. If we must pay these outrageous prices for something as simple as an education, will Americans continue to experience finding education above the high school level?
Growing up in this very fast pace society it's sometimes hard to realize things we may have gained or things we may be losing as a nation. It seems that if you are not born into an upper-middle class or at least a middle-class family the economy and the shape it's in today will really show a negative effect on you and your family. I believe we as Americans should be trying our hardest to live up to our name land of the free and home of the brave. We should be helping each other to thrive and prosper. We don't want to keep this downhill slope going as we have for the past decade or even longer.
As gas prices rise so do the prices on everything else including food for you and your family. The price to visit with your family or just to travel back and fourth from work. It all rises, while checks stay the same and taxes climb even higher. Will it get to the point we are here to survive instead of live? I just hope that the next generation after mine will be able to live the "American Dream" and we will not forget what America was and should be.
I'm a high school student in my senior year of school and am exploring possible higher education plans after high school to better myself along with my future plans. I really found myself interested in American History and America itself. I really wanted to reach the public on these fascinating facts of America in hope that America well be remembered, not forgotten.
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Election 2012
- Election 2012
Charles Woodroof sworn in as new probate judge
Woodroof ran unopposed in the Nov. 6 general election after defeating City Municipal Judge Don Mansell in the Republican primary in March.
Brad Curnutt replaces Page as Circuit Court clerk
A standing-room only crowd filled the cramped third-floor courtroom of the Limestone County Courthouse as Curnutt took the oath of office Sunday afternoon.
VIDEO: Obama HQ goes wild during Iowa returns
Supporters of Barack Obama gathered in Chicago react to the news that the president won the state of Iowa.
Obama: 'The best is yet to come'
Obama spoke to thousands of cheering supporters in his hometown of Chicago, praising Romney and declaring his optimism for the next four years.
Alabama's last Democrat in statewide office leaves
74-year-old Lucy Baxley told fellow Democrats Tuesday night that this was her last race.
Roy Moore wins old job as Alabama chief justice
With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Moore had 52 percent of the vote compared with Vance's 48 percent.
Romney concedes defeat
The Republican nominee told supporters he would pray for Barack Obama's success in leading the nation.
UPDATED: Congressman Mo Brooks wins re-election
Congressman Brooks joined Madison County Republican candidates and a crowd of enthusiastic supporters at their victory party at the Space and Rocket Center.
Limestone County goes overwhelmingly for Romney
Limestone County came out in a big way for Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, following the statewide trend with Alabama expected to be strongly in the GOP camp.
Brooks beats Holley by wide vote margin
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The Mumbaicha Raja, in Ganesh Galli (Lane), is located only a couple of lanes away from the Lalbaugcha Raja and is also very popular. It lost its shine to the Lalbaugcha Raja in the late 1990s but still pulls in the crowds.
The mandal is well known for its lavish new themes every year, often a replica of a famous place in India. It was formed for the benefit of the mill workers in 1928, making it the oldest one in the area.
- Location: Ganesh Galli (Lane), Lalbaug (central Mumbai).
- Nearest Railway Station: Chinchpokli, Curry Road, and Lower Parel railway stations are close by.
- Waiting Time: Can be as little as 20 minutes, or a few hours.
- When to Visit: It's always busy. Peak hours are in the afternoon and night from 3 p.m until 2 a.m.
The procession for the immersion (visarjan) on the last day of the festival starts out from 9.30 a.m. and takes the following route: Dr. S.S Rao Road, Ganesh Cinema, Chinchpokli Bridge, Arthur Road Corner, Saat Rasta, Sane Guruji Marg, Agreepada, Dr. Bhadkamkar Marg, Opera House, Willson Collage, Girgaon Chowpatty.
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New Character S5_E1: Cat Ingersley
In the first episode of Season 5, you will be introduced to new character Cat Ingersley.
The writer of the episode, Brian Buckner, took the name from some lovely ladies in our art department: Art Director Cat Smith and Production Designer Suzuki Ingerslev. This isn't the first time a writer has taken liberties like this. Can you find any other names in our credits from previous seasons that may have inspired characters?
mmm who the hell will this be….?
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True Blood Casting Call S5_E1 *You've been warned
TRUE BLOOD, Episode #501, "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Director: Daniel Minahan
Writer: Brian Buckner
Start Date: November 28
Location: L.A.
[RIKKI] In her mid 20s, a dirty-beautiful werewolf, she demands to know what's become of the pack leader. Recurring.
[J.D.] 50s, a particularly large Marine-type werewolf, he refuses to bow down before the new pack leader. 1 scene. Recurring.
[ANNIE] In her late 40s, maybe 50, she's a powerful, respected werewolf within the pack due to her late son's position. She's determined to perform a particular ritual. Recurring.
[JUDGE CLEMENTS] 50ish, corrupt, a former athlete whose body has been neglected, this judge radiates power and uses his position to get a speeding ticket for his son fixed. 3 speeches & 2 lines, 1 scene. Possible recurring.
[ROCKY] 16, Caucasian, a hunter, he is Holly's eldest son who doesn't think very highly of Holly. 7 lines, 1 scene. Possible recurring.
[WADE] 14, Caucasian, a hunter, he is Holly's (Lauren Bowles) youngest son who is still willing to give Holly the benefit of the doubt…5 lines, 1 scene POSSIBLE RECURRING (22)
[DANIELLE] This female werewolf wonders how much longer a prisoner is going to last under interrogation. 1 line, 1 scene. Possible recurring.
[KENNETH] This male werewolf thinks a prisoner is stubborn and may not crack soon. 1 line, 1 scene. Possible recurring.
[ CAT] 40, a vampire with no sense of humor, she's part of an underground railroad for vampires. 2 lines, 1 scene. Possible recurring.
[CAMMY] This sorority girl with an especially hot body takes a liking to Jason at a party and assumes they'll be having sex. Guest star.
[ZANDER] A particularly handsome frat boy, he feels an instant attraction to Jessica at a party. They enjoy playing Rock Band 3 and singing a Jimi Hendrix song together.
[FRAT BOY #1] This frat boy enjoys playing drinking games at a party. 3 lines, 2 scenes.
[SORORITY GIRL #1] She attends a house party and declares Jessica the coolest vampire she's ever met. 3 lines, 2 scenes.
[HAYES] A large vampire of Eastern European descent, he is dispatched by the Authority to give the True Death to some other vampires. 3 lines, 2 scenes.
[BUDDY] In his early 20s, a road crew member and a friend of Hoyt's, he mocks Jason with the other guys. 2 lines, 1 scene.
[TEAM CAPTAIN #2 / DONNIE] Seen in flashback, this 6th grade boy bullies Sookie and is very angry and disturbed when she reveals something private about his life. 3 lines, 1 scene.
[TEAM CAPTAIN #1] Seen in flashback, this 12-year-old boy is a bully who doesn't pick Sookie for his kick ball team. 1 line, 1 scene.
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Our media library includes a library and a sound media archive. It is intended to provide users with answers on all important questions concerning electro-acoustic music. At the same time our media centre seeks to contribute to artistic and scientific discussion covering the field's early period (1930) up to contemporary digital music and media arts.
The ICST media library consists of an outstanding sound archive, as well as books and journals covering the following fields: computer music, history of media and related subjects. Furthermore, the library is complemented by a book inventory in the field of sound technology.
Books, journals and DVDs are included in the NEBIS catalogue and marked as "ZHDK-MIZ-MUSIK (Zürich) - Standort ICST".
Sound recordings are listed in the catalogue shared by ICST and the library on Florhofgasse and can be listened to locally.
The ICST media library is a reference library.
Books, journals and other media are to be used in the library. There are two workstations available for catalogue and database research, as well as audio and video playback equipment.
ICST Media Library
Sabine Egli
Phone number: +41 (0)43 446 55 00
E-mail: sabine.egli[AT]zhdk.ch
Visits to the library by appointment
The media archive is divided into three parts:
The ICST Archives include sound documents of electroacoustic music, live-electronics, sound art, as well as contemporary digital music in the neighborhood of Techno, Industrial, Improvisation, New Music and Media Arts. Contact: Sabine Egli
In the year 2000 the HMT Zurich acquired the IDEAMA collection. The international digital music archive IDEAMA was initiated in 1988 by Max Matthews, Johannes Goebel und Patte Wood and build by the two institutions ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe) and CCRMA (Stanford University-Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). Their aim was to prevent the loss of the most important early reports of electro-acoustic music worldwide and to catalogue and make them publically available by transferring them to a digital medium. The collection consists of over 950 works covering the period from 1930 to 1970.
During the roughly thirty years of its existence, the IMEB (Institute de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges) had formed an extensive archive, which contains (along with illustrations and text material) sound recordings of more than 12000 electro-acoustic compositions. Since 2005 selected parts of this collection were archived and digitalized by the BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). From 2007 onwards, the ICST participated in this project and was responsible for a substantial part of the digitalization and cataloguing process. The accumulated inventories are made publically available by the BNF in Paris and the ZHdK in Zurich.
Contact IDEAMA-/IMEB-Collections:
Lucas Bennett, Phone number: +41(0)43 446 55 00 E-mail: lucas.bennett[AT]zhdk.ch
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Music Perception
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Schweizer Musikzeitung
Wire *
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AES Journal (Audio Engineering Society)
Production Partner
Professional Audio Magazin
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The rumors of Blake Lively's W cover are true.
The blondest of the Gossip Girl clan, Blake dishes on her early decision to go into acting, her fathers recent car crash, and her plans to play a bulemic Texan in an upcoming indie.
All in the all, it's one of the most boring interviews I've wasted time on reading, so skip it and just check out the photos below.
Thanks to W for giving us less than impressive shots of a starlet we're dying to see doing more than pushing out her nearly non existent cleavage.


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No matter how much I (guess this refers to all of you) try not to leave the Connected property to true before building for the last time - in most cases I simply forget to close the connection before saving and closing the project.
Data Browsing and Navigation in Delphi Database Applications
How to create a Delphi form which can be used to browse through the records of a database table. Learn about TDataset, DBGrid, fields, DBNavigator ...
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Free online database programming course for beginner Delphi developers. Focus on ADO techniques.
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The ADPDBExplorer (About Delphi Programming Database Explorer) application allows you to connect to a Microsoft Access (MDB) database and/or SQL Server / MSDE database to explore a database structure, insert, edit or delete data.
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One of data connectivity options in Delphi is dbExpress. This articles provides an overview of dbExpress along with a collection of tutorials and articles on building database applications using this light-weight, cross-platform data access technology.
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Don't miss this! Even though Delphi database components are great, you can always tweak them a little and create even more powerful database applications
Accessing and managing MS Excel sheets with Delphi
How to retrieve, display and edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with ADO (dbGO) and Delphi. This step-by-step article describes how to connect to Excel, retrieve sheet data, and enable editing of data (using the DBGrid). You'll also find a list of most common errors (and how to deal with them) that might pop up in the process.
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Man Crush of the Week: Phil Coke
I was at the first two games of the ALCS at Yankee Stadium this week and got to witness first-hand the absolute disaster of a person who throws things for a living that is Jose Valverde. This is nothing new if you had ever watched one of his games before, but now it actually mattered.
In Game 2, after the Tigers went up again behind dominance from Anibal Sanchez, they turned to Phil Coke in the 8th. And he threw so well they kept him in for the 9th as well and shut down the Yankees.
For those not familiar with Coke, as I imagine most people would really have no reason to be unless you follow the best parody account in sports, he is that one lefty reliever in baseball that seems to emerge every year who is not only hilarious in his own wacky way, but he is all the sudden really good too. Despite righties nearly hitting .400 against him in the regular season, he's now the closest thing the Tigers have to a closer.
Come Game 3 when the Tigers were clinging to a one-run lead and last week's Man Crush/postseason legend Raul Ibanez up, he threw a beautiful 3-2 slider to strike him out.
And it only gets better when you watch this press conference. When he's asked what he was thinking about when he threw the pitch, his response was, "Don't hit it, don't hit it, don't hit it." Classic.
When he's asked what he was thinking about when he threw the pitch, his response was, "Don't hit it, don't hit it, don't hit it."
The Tigers aren't the most likable team in the world. After all they do employ Delmon Young and sadly he's one of their best players. But they have become very fun to watch lately.
The world needs Phil Coke. And by the looks of it, there's going to be a like more Phil Coke in our future.
Douchebag of the Week: Alex Rodriguez
I touched a little bit on A-Rod last week when talking about Raul Ibanez. And I like A-Rod. I respect greatness and for the majority of my life, he was the greatest player in baseball. Plus when I was a kid he signed an autograph for me. Seemed like a good guy.
Turns out A-Rod has always been a douche. We can talk about the Madonna stuff, the centaur again (I will mention this in every article I can), the steroids, whatever you want. But A-Rod has always seemed to genuinely care about winning and being the best player he could be, to the point where he puts too much pressure on himself and struggles, namely in the postseason.
There's another thing that happens when a guy has been the best player for the majority of my life. He starts to get old. At 37, A-Rod is not a great player. He's been terrible for the Yankees and to the point where he has not only been benched twice in the ALCS, but also not called on to pinch hit when a guy pitching let righties hit nearly .400 against him in the season (see above).
But the real downfall for A-Rod happened when he was pulled from the game he started flirting with some fine women at Yankee Stadium and it reached the point where, during the game, he sent them a baseball with a message on it to get their number. I call this move the 'Juan Uribe' after seeing Juan pull this off at a game years ago. But A-Rod is not Juan Uribe. A-Rod is the highest paid player in this history of professional sports and had a microscope on him at all time. Naturally a Yankee official caught A-Rod doing this and they aren't super pumped about it.
The next thing you know trade rumors of A-Rod being sent to the Marlins are everywhere, which is the baseball equivalent to being traded to Hell. The season isn't even over year. Only A-Rod could do something so A-Roddy as to get him, one of the best players ever, on the next flight to the lovely empty seats of Marlins Park.
Although I can tell you after going to the games this week, A-Rod should be pretty used to empty seats by now.
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Registrar of Vital Statistics, Dog Licensing, Hunting & Fishing Licensing Agent
Hours: Monday Friday ~ 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
Third Sat. of Month ~ 8:00 A.M. 12:00 P.M.
Town Fees:
|Marriage License $40.00
|Land Separation $10.00
|Certified Copies $10.00
|Paper Copy of Zoning Law $10.00
|Genealogical Copies $6.00
|Community Center Fees / Application
|Public Hearing $50.00
|Cemetery Fee Schedule
Dog License $5.00 spayed/neutered & $13.00 unspayed/unneutered
Proof of rabies vaccination & spay/neuter required
Please check out all that is offered at NYS DEC Website – http://www.dec.ny.gov/63.html
Conservation Licenses – Hunting and Fishing License fees set by state. Anyone wishing to purchase a hunting or fishing license over the internet can now do so. You do not need to be an existing customer.
Mandatory Hunter Education: A hunter education course is required for persons who cannot show proof that they have ever possessed a hunting license. The general course is a minimum 10 hours in length. DEC honors hunter education certificates and sporting licenses from all other states and countries.
• National Field Archery Association or National Bowhunter Education Foundation or International Bowhunter Education Program issued in 1974 or later in any state or country,
To access current fishing and Hunting/Trapping guidelines
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses are issued by the Town Clerk and must be obtained at least twenty four (24) hours prior to the ceremony and are valid for up to sixty (60) days. There is a $40 licensing fee for marriage licenses. Identification such as a driver's license and a birth certificate are required. Both parties must be present together in order to apply for a marriage license. If either party was previously married, a death certificate or divorce decree must be provided to the Town Clerk as evidence that the marriage has been legally dissolved. After the marriage ceremony is performed the completed license is returned to the Town Clerk by the official who performed the marriage. The Town Clerk will mail the Marriage Certificate directly to the couple.
Genealogy Requests
Birth, Death and Marriage records are available as far back as 1882. The fee for Genealogical copies is $6.00. The Town Historical Society may have additional historical information and can be reached by phone at 585-599-4892 ext. 30 or writing to:
Pembroke Historical Association
NYS Rules for Genealogy Request
Dog Licenses
All dogs in New York State must be licensed by the age of four (4) months. Proof of a current rabies vaccination is required. Spayed and neutered dogs are licensed at a reduced fee upon presentation of a veterinarian's certification. The license fees are $5.00 spayed/neutered & $13.00 unspayed/unneutered. The license is renewable annually.
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All deaths which occur in the Town of Pembroke are filed with the Town Clerk. Death records date back to 1882. Certified copies are available to immediate family members for a fee of $10 per copy.
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Paula Abdul And Nicole Scherzinger Give X Factor Fans What They Want
Nov 18, 2011 10:15 AM
Paula Abdul and fellow X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger hit up The Grove in LA to tape a segment for Extra, and the lovely ladies were happy to greet their fans.
While Nicole kept it simple in a black leather dress, Paula got a bit racy with a gown that had a slit way up her thigh. You go, girl!
Also on hand ... judges Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid. But when you show up with two sexy women, the guys obviously take a backseat. Sorry, Simon.
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Saint Joseph Grade School
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March 2014
As we look forward to a new school year I do want to remind parents that we do not accept requests for certain teachers for the following year. I find that the teachers, as partners, do an excellent job placing the children into classes for the next year and also are very intuitive about the needs of the children they taught this past year. They work hard to place each student with the teacher they feel is just right for each child.
Drop off and pick up
The long winter has caused many problems with pick and drop off. I would just like to take time to remind families to not get out of their cars when dropping off or picking up. It is also important that you not park on St. Louis near the gates as many parents are getting behind these cars thinking it is the waiting line but in actuality they are dropping off and/or picking up children. Double parking in the morning next to the drop off line also causes confusion, so if you need to get out of the car see if you can find a parking spot. This would help a great deal and help the lines to move more swiftly.
Hope to See Better Days/Weather
Is it possible that we may begin seeing the sun on a regular basis? While it has been cold it has been great to see the sun and get the children outside more frequently. It has been a long winter with the children doing their best to remain attentive in the classroom, but if you have ever needed proof to the theory that children need to be outside and have the opportunity to run and play and yell, talk to any of the teachers or myself. I think without asking we would all say "Get them outside!" Perhaps this has also been your experience at home especially after a long day here and then doing the same when they get home.
God bless,
Mrs. Wiwi


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Shaquon Alexander, of Hales, makes a move against St. Rita at Hales Franciscan, Friday, December 23rd, 2011 in Chicago, IL. l Gary Middendorf~For Sun-Times Media
Shaquon Alexander is both mystery man and a basketball player on the make.
First, the bad news. The Hales' roster has erroneously listed him as a sophomore. In fact, he's a senior on the verge of ending his too brief career for the Spartans.
Alexander had to wait to showcase his game after he had to sit out his sophomore season during Hales' Class 2A state championship team two years ago after he transferred from Ag. Science.
"Sitting out a whole year definitely set him back," Hales coach Gary London said.
Alexander has made up for the lost time. After Hales stuggled to maintain its lofty status as a state power last year, Alexander has engineered a comeback.
On Friday in the host Spartans 2A Regional final, Alexander made a stunning double-clutch three-pointer in the closing seconds that forced overtime as Hales defeated TEAM Englewood 69-65.
Alexander scored 27 points in the victory. He also recorded a near triple-double by scoring 10 points and adding 18 rebounds and nine assists in a regional semifinal victory over Dyett on Feb. 20. For his accomplishments, Alexander is the Chicago Sun-Times Athlete of the Week.
"I didn't think the shot was going in," Alexander said of his late three-pointer. "The defender kind of grabbed my arm, that's why I had to double-clutch the shot, but I followed through and it went in. It was probably the biggest shot of my career."
Alexander leads the Spartans (17-12) into the Illiana Christian sectional semifinals against Catholic League rival Seton on Wednesday.
"I try to have the same attitude every game, and that's approach every game as if it's my last," he said. "I try not to take any plays off, knowing this ciould be your last game on the court. Just believe in myself, keep the trust going and don't get selfish."
Alexander has come of age and assumed the spotlight by avering 20 points and seven rebounds for the Spartans. He fits into a dominant pattern the Spartans have enjoyed of turningo out top-notch guards.
"It's an honor to be in the Hales program, to be in the caliber of players who've played here," he said.
"This is not to bad mouth other programs, but Hales really develops players," he said. "I watched Patrick Miller, and the Armstead brothers and I also looked at video of Jerome Randle, and I've tried to take something from all of their games and combine it into the best."
The 6-2 combo guard has the size and physical qualities to overpower smaller guards and has the quickness and athleticism to blow past bigger guards and small forwards.
"When he came into the program, we envisioned him being that combo guard and he's shown the ability to playing both of those positions," London said.
"He definitely has the work ethic, a good understanding of the game. He has a really good basketball IQ who understands the nuances of the game. He's smart on and off the court, and it carries over to basketball."
Alexander's developing maturity and growing confidence have paid huge dividends, especially in the second half as Hales has developed a deepening confidence. Alexander is just one of two seniors in the team's rotation.
"I think I've had a good season just by staying positive, on and off the court," he said. "The other difference is, as a team, we started to trust each other. It's weird to explain but we had adversity early in the season and we got our chemistry down, we formed a bond and we look at each other like brothers."
His heroics meant the Spartans were alive for another round of the state tournament. "That was a great feeling hitting the shot, but I don't feel satisfied because I know we can do so much more," Alexander said.


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George Miller
- 1 Background
- 2 Environment law
- 3 Education
- 4 IPS connections
- 4.1 IPS 20th Anniversary Committee
- 4.2 IPS staffer
- 4.3 The Washington School
- 4.4 NEXT AGENDA Conference
- 4.5 Take Back America Conferences
- 4.6 The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
- 4.7 Saul Landau Friendship
- 4.8 On Landau, Chile
- 4.9 On Landau, Cuba
- 4.10 Tribute in Congressional Record
- 4.11 Lifting travel ban on Cuba
- 5 DSA endorsement
- 6 Martinez Jobs Bill
- 7 Congressional Progressive Caucus
- 8 Supported by Council for a Livable World
- 9 Staffer's 2000 trip to Cuba
- 10 Health Care Access resolution
- 11 Introduced EFCA
- 12 Donations
- 13 J Sreet endorsement
- 14 Supported Lifting the Gaza Blockade
- 15 Obama"truth squad"
- 16 The Obama Agenda
- 17 Phillip Burton Awards Committee
- 18 Fred Ross award campaign
- 19 Congressional Letter for Neutrality, 2014 Salvadoran Elections
- 20 Housemates
- 21 Staff
- 22 External links
- 23 References
George Miller is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 7th district of California.
Congressman Miller is the Senior Democrat of the House Education and Workforce Committee and chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, a leadership position. He is a leading advocate in Congress on education, labor, the economy, and the environment.
Miller has represented the 7th District of California in the East Bay of San Francisco since 1975. His district includes portions of Contra Costa and Solano counties, including Richmond, Concord, Martinez, Pittsburg, Benicia, Vallejo and Vacaville. He is a life-long Democrat and Californian.
George Miller is a member of the Democratic Leadership, serving at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's direction as chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee. In that role he helps Democrats develop and articulate a wide range of policies to benefit all Americans. His priorities in the 112th Congress are to continue to create jobs and grow the economy, reauthorize the federal k-12 education law, and ensure that the historic health care reform law that he co-wrote is fully implemented.
He has served on the Education and Workforce Committee since first coming to Congress and was its chairman from 2007 through 2010. From 1991 to 1994 George chaired the House Natural Resources Committee, one of the primary committees overseeing the environment, energy and public lands, and served as the committee's Senior Democrat until 2000.[1]
George Miller was born in Richmond, CA, on May 17, 1945 and lives in Martinez. He graduated from Diablo Valley Community College, San Francisco State University, and earned his law degree from the University of California, Davis, Law School. He served on the staff of then-State Senate Majority Leader George Moscone in Sacramento. He is married to Cynthia Caccavo Miller, a life-long resident of Contra Costa County. They have two sons, George and Stephen.[2]
Environment law
George Miller is an expert and leader in Congress on California water issues and national environmental policy. In 1992, he passed and enacted into law under Republican President George H. W. Bush, the California water reform law known as the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. He also co-authored with Senator Dianne Feinstein the 1994 California Desert Protection Act. [3]
BA California State University - San Francisco, 1968; JD University of California - Davis, 1972
IPS connections
IPS 20th Anniversary Committee
According to Information Digest[4]the Institute for Policy Studies celebrated its 20th anniversary with an April 5, 1983, reception at the National Building Museum attended by approximately 1,000 IPS staffers and former staff.
The Congressional IPS comittee members included Les Aspin {D. WI}, George Brown, Jr. (D.CA), Philip Burton (D.CA), George Crockett (D-MI}, Ron Dellums (D.CA}, former Texas Congressman Robert Eckhardt, Don Edwards {D.CA}, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Tom Harkin {D-IA}, Robert Kastenmeier (D. WI}, Chairman of the Subcomittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice, George Miller (D-CA}, Richard Ottinger {D-NY}, Leon Panetta (D-CA}, Henry Reuss (D.WI}, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Patricia Schroeder {D.CO}, John Seiberling (D.OH} and Ted Weiss {D.NY}.
IPS staffer
Congressman Miller, for many years had an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, Cynthia Arnson, as his legislative aide doing most of the leg-work and research on Latin American policy[5]
The Washington School
The Washington School, founded by the Institute for Policy Studies, in 1978, was an important means of influencing Congress and the Democratic Party. Courses on defense, foreign affairs, and domestic policies are taught there by IPS officers and staffers, and other American or foreign radical "experts." A large number of members of Congress and staffers have attended these schools. Several legislators have also taught there, including the following:[6]
- Tom Harkin
- Paul Tsongas
- Mark Hatfield
- John Conyers
- Ron Dellums
- James Abourezk
- George Miller
- J. William Fulbright
- Henry Reuss
NEXT AGENDA Conference
NEXT AGENDA was held at the National Press Club, Main Ballroom, Feb. 28,2001.
- At Feb. 28 Conference on NEXT AGENDA, progressive activists, Congressional leaders will unite to forge strategy for "working families" agenda -- the day after President Bush delivers his plans to joint session of Congress.
- -- Calling themselves the real "democratic majority," organizers and thinkers, led by the Campaign for America's Future, to release new book outlining an agenda for changes they insist most voters endorsed in 2000 elections.
- On Feb. 28, a national conference on the NEXT AGENDA, will bring together progressive activists, intellectuals and allies in the Congress for the first time since the disputed election and battles over President Bush's cabinet nominees. It will frame the next two year's debate.
- Sponsored by the progressive advocacy group, the Campaign for America's Future and its sister research organization, the Institute for America's Future, the Conference on the Next Progressive Agenda has been endorsed by a who's who of prominent leaders from the labor unions, women's organizations, civil rights groups, environmentalists and individual members of the House and Senate. Their goal: to forge a progressive movement to fight for the "working family" agenda they insist was endorsed by a majority of the voters in the 2000 election.
Organizers of the conference would release a new book, THE NEXT AGENDA: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement, edited by Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey and published by Westview Press.
3:45 - 5:00 Bold Initiatives
Chair: Roger Hickey
- Cong. George Miller: Get Real on Education
- Bob Chase, President, NEA
- Cong. Luis Gutierrez: Living Wage/Minimum Wage
- Katie Fitzgerald, ACORN
- Cong. Rosa DeLauro: Pay Equity
- Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO Working Women's Department [7]
Take Back America Conferences
George Miller was on the list of 153 speakers at the 2006 Take Back America conference, which was organized by the Institute for Policy Studies, and Democratic Socialists of America dominated Campaign for America's Future.[8]
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
George Miller is on the list of Congressional Representatives who have participated in hearings/briefings since 1998, with the very radical Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, founded by Frances Moore Lappe (Democratic Socialists of America, Institute for Policy Studies) and Joseph Collins (Institute for Policy Studies), authors of the book "Food First".[9]
Saul Landau Friendship
George Miller was a long time personal friend of the late pro-Cuban Institute for Policy Studies activist Saul Landau.[10]
According to Edith Bell of Pittsburgh;
- My fond memories are of a very young Saul, an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, long before he became a well-known author and filmmaker. End of summer 1955 my husband Sid Bell and I were standing on University Ave. in Madison, Wis., map and "for rent" classified section of the Capitol Times in hand. A young man approached us "looking for an apartment?", he said. He gave us an address, and after looking at several advertised places, we encountered him again. "Been to my place yet?" So we had a look at Saul's place, where his wife Nina was taking care of baby Greg, just a few weeks old. They explained to us that they were moving back to New York City. We liked the place and rented it. A year later Saul and Nina came back and moved into the apartment below us.
- After Saul got his MA , he soon went with C.Wright Mills to Cuba which appears to have gotten him hooked.
- We kept in touch on and off through the years. He visited us, when we lived in West Virginia, bringing newly elected Congressman George Miller with him. [11]
On Landau, Chile
Mr. Landau helped investigate human rights abuses in Chile for Rep. Miller in the 1970s.
"In a show of his persistence and tenacity," Miller said in a statement, "he helped bring Augusto Pinochet to justice more than 30 years later."[12]
Because Landau had deep ties in Chile, in 1975 he arranged a trip to the country for U.S. congressmen Tom Harkin, Toby Moffett and George Miller, who were looking into human rights violations under the Pinochet regime. Landau and Miller would become close friends.
"He was a wonderful friend and wonderful adviser and a great person to bounce some things off," said Miller (D-Martinez).
Miller visited with Landau days before his death, and found the filmmaker was still able to trot out his wry sense of humor.
"I said, 'Saul, you know, what do you think if we end up going to war in Syria?' " Miller recalled. "And he just said, 'It has been such a long time since we had a war, it may be good.' "[13]
On Landau, Cuba
"His films on Cuba were groundbreaking when they were made," said Rep. Miller, "When Saul was riding out on that point he was very unpopular, with death threats. It took 30 years for American public opinion to catch up with him, but that's the way it was with Saul. He rode out on the point all the time. Criticism and death threats were not going to deter him."[14]
Tribute in Congressional Record
Miller paced a tribute to Landau in the Congressional Record, October 10, 2013,
- Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a dear friend who spent his life trying to educate people about America's role in the world in an effort to make that world a better place.
- Saul Landau passed away last month at the age of 77 after battling cancer for almost 2 years.
- Saul was not only a very close friend of mine and my wife Cynthia's. He was a constant mentor, educator, and agitator. He was one of the smartest and hardest working people I have had the pleasure of knowing, and he was one of the funniest.
- To Saul's family, I extend my sincere condolences for their loss. But I offer to them as well a deep appreciation from the halls of Congress of the work and thought that Saul Landau contributed to our public debate.
- I will miss my friend.
Lifting travel ban on Cuba
A May 03, 2013 Press release from the radical controlled and Institute for Policy Studies affiliated Latin America Working Group's Cuba Team stated:
- Due to your action/emails/phone calls we have 59 signatures from House representatives urging President Obama to support travel to Cuba by granting general licenses for ALL current categories of travel.
- By eliminating the laborious license application process, especially for people-to-people groups, that is managed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the majority of the bureaucratic red tape that holds up licensable travel to Cuba would disappear and actually facilitate what the President wanted to see in 2011, liberalized travel regulations.
Signatories included Rep. Miller .[15]
DSA endorsement
In July 1996, the Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee endorsed George Miller, California 7, in that year's Congressional elections.[16]
Martinez Jobs Bill
In June 1997 George Miller of California and Nita Lowey of New York signed on as co-sponsors of the Communist Party USA inspired Martinez Jobs Bill.[17]
Congressional Progressive Caucus
George Miller was a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
In 1998, Miller was listed as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[18]
As of February 20, 2009, Miller was listed as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.[19]
Supported by Council for a Livable World
The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and alleged Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported George Miller in his successful House of Representatives run as candidate for California.[20]
Staffer's 2000 trip to Cuba
In February 2000, David Madland from the office of Congressman George Miller spent six days in Havana, Cuba, as part of a delegation of Congressional staffers. The trip cost $1,778.47 and was paid for by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation.[21]
Health Care Access resolution
John Conyers promoted House Concurrent Resolution 99 (H. Con Res. 99) Directing Congress to enact legislation by October 2004 that provides access to comprehensive health care for all Americans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 4, 2001.
Sponsors:John Conyers (for himself), Jan Schakowsky, John Tierney, Barbara Lee, Donna Christensen, David Bonior, Dennis Kucinich, Earl Hilliard, Maurice Hinchey, Jerry Nadler, Donald Payne Chaka Fattah, Peter DeFazio, John Lewis Tammy Baldwin, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, Cynthia McKinney, Jim Langevin, George Miller Alcee Hastings, Patsy Mink, John Olver , Bennie Thompson, Pete Stark, Julia Carson, and Mike Capuano submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce;[22]
- Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that the Congress shall enact legislation by October 2004 to guarantee that every person in the United States, regardless of income, age, or employment or health status, has access to health care..
Introduced EFCA
EFCA was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. George Miller (D-California) and Peter King (R-New York) and in the Senate by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in April 2005. [23]
Miller donated $250 to the Secretary of State Project in 2008.
J Sreet endorsement
In 2008 Miller was endorsed by JStreet PAC.[24]
Supported Lifting the Gaza Blockade
On Jan. 27, 2010, U.S. Representatives Keith Ellison and Jim McDermott led 52 other members of Congress in signing a letter addressed to President Barack Obama, calling for him to use diplomatic pressure to resolve the blockade affecting Gaza. George Miller was one of the signatories of the letter. [25] The entire letter together with a complete list of signatories can be read by clicking here.
Obama"truth squad"
Barack Obama's campaign in California formed a "truth squad," announced via conference call, in January 2008, to counter the attacks that Hillary Clinton's campaign has leveled in recent weeks. On the call were squad members Bay Area Congressman George Miller, LA Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and LA County Labor Federation chief Maria Elena Durazo, now a national co-chair of the Obama campaign. Also on the squad are Silicon Valley Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, LA Congressman Adam Schiff, state Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, Assembly Majority Leader Karen Bass, and, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.
Miller, one of the top congressional Democrats as head of the House Democratic Policy Committee and chairman of the Education & Labor Committee, noted that the truth squad was formed to deal with a threat that may or may not exist any longer. "We don't know yet," he said. "The Clinton campaign may have learned its lesson from South Carolina," where voters mostly rejected the Clinton tactics, as exit polls make clear. Will former President Clinton, historically popular in California, be a problem for Obama in the nation's largest primary? "I think there is a rethink underway about what he is doing."[26]
The Obama Agenda
In the 111th Congress, George Miller helped craft President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Miller was one of the three committee chairmen who wrote and passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to "deliver the fundamental health reforms that Americans want by slowing the growth in out-of-control health costs, introducing competition into the health care marketplace to keep coverage affordable and insurers honest, protecting people's choices of doctors and health plans, and assuring that all have Americans access to quality, stable, affordable health care. The health care law also reduces the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars over ten years."
George Miller also worked with President Obama to transform the federal student loan programs to ensure they work in the best interest of students, not big banks.
- By eliminating the banking middleman and wasteful subsidies paid to banks, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2010 saves $60 billion in taxpayer money and invests that money in students and college completion. And the law does all this without increasing the deficit, in fact the law reduces the deficit over next ten years. The law raised the Pell Grant scholarship to its highest level in history, decreased interest rates on need-based student loans and invested in communities college and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Under his leadership in the 111th and 110th Congress, the Education and Labor Committee shepherded 14 bills that were signed into law and dozens of others that passed the House. In fact, according the historian of the House, in the 110th and 111th Congresses, the Education and Labor Committee was the most productive committee in the history of the House of Representatives.
Following President Obama's inauguration in January 2009, the first bill he signed into law was written by George Miller and passed out of the Education and Labor Committee. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act overturned a Supreme Court ruling that restricted a woman's right to challenge her employer on the basis on pay discrimination.
In response to President Obama's call to action, George Miller passed out of his committee in March of 2009 the GIVE Act, now called the Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Service Act, to expand national service opportunities. The President signed this bill into law on April 21, 2009.[27]
Phillip Burton Awards Committee
In 2013, the Honorary Phillip Burton Awards Committee, of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, consisted of;
- Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
- The Honorable David Campos, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable David Chiu, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- Carmen Chu, San Francisco Assessor-Recorder
- The Honorable Malia Cohen, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable Anna Eshoo, US Representative for California
- The Honorable Mark Farrell, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable Dianne Feinstein, US Senator for California
- The Honorable Barbara Lee, US Representative for California
- The Honorable Zoe Lofgren, US Representative for California
- The Honorable Eric Mar, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable George Miller, US Representative for California
- The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the US House of Representatives
- The Honorable Jackie Speier, US Representative for California
- The Honorable Katy Tang, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable Scott Wiener, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
- The Honorable Norman Yee, San Francisco Board of Supervisors[28]
Fred Ross award campaign
In early 2013, mainly Democratic Socialists of America aligned activists, together with many elected officials across the United States came together to urge President Barack Obama to award posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the legendary organizer, Fred Ross, Sr.. The Saul Alinsky trained radical was the first to organize people through house meetings, a mentor to both Cesar Chavez and DSAer Dolores Huerta, and a pioneer in Latino voter outreach since 1949 when he helped elect Communist Party USA affiliate Ed Roybal as Los Angeles's first Latino council member, "Ross' influence on social change movements remains strong two decades after his death in 1992".
Congressional endorsers of the proposal included George Miller.[29]
Congressional Letter for Neutrality, 2014 Salvadoran Elections
On Monday December 16, 2014 Reps. Juan Vargas (D-CA), Mike Honda (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) sent a letter to Sec. of State John Kerry – signed by 51 Members of Congress – calling for a public statement of neutrality by the State Department before the first round of El Salvador's presidential elections on February 2, 2014.
The letter, , highlighted several "important steps" that the current government has taken to "strengthen its democratic system and expand the right to vote to all citizens," including those living outside of the country, who will be voting by absentee ballot for the first time in February. Since the election of Mauricio Funes, the first President from the Marxist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, the government has increased the number of polling places four-fold to increase accessibility, especially in rural areas.
"We're glad to see so many Members of Congress expressing respect for the right of the Salvadoran people to determine their own future. That's an attitude that's sorely lacking in much of the US' policy in Central America, especially with regard to economic policy," said Alexis Stoumbelis, Executive Director for the pro-communist Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), in Washington, DC, which has observed every post-war election in El Salvador, starting in 1994.
Signatories included Rep. George Miller .[30].
Miller owns a residence in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. and rents rooms to other members of the U.S. House and Senate. As of April 2010, his tenant housemates are Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and Representative Bill Delahunt. Miller purchased the residence in 1977, and his past housemates have included former Representatives Marty Russo, Leon Panetta and Sam Gejdenson.
The following have worked as staff for George Miller either as past or present:[31]
- David A. Abella
- Ian Achimore
- Rebecca Alexander
- Ali Al Falahi
- Latressa Wilson Alford
- Elise A. Amaya
- Sylvia Arthur
- Loren E Baisell
- Charles Barone
- Pamela Ann Barry
- Alice Johnson Cain
- Jennifer Coate
- Kathryn E. Corbin
- Katherine M. Cyrul
- Christopher B. Dacumos
- Benjamin A. Enos
- Ernesto O. Falcon
- Terry K. Farias
- Marina Fata
- Matthew Fisher
- Anne M Georges
- Emily Gibbons
- Connie Sue Gillet
- William J. Goold
- Jordan E. Grushkin
- Justin Hamilton
- Carol A. Hatch
- Antonio Hernandez
- Katherine A. Hoffman
- Lauren W. Hole
- Amelia Fine Jenkins
- Aaron M. Jeweler
- Barbara Edwina Johnson
- Laura Joshua
- Thomas Reid Kiley III
- Joseph A. Knox
- Nicole A. Landau
- Gretel Lauro
- Ricky Xuan Le
- Laurence E. Lea
- Alison R. Leach
- Stacey E. Leavandosky
- Brice Alarcon Lewis
- Daniel V. Lightstone
- David Madland
- Robert Madrid
- Melissa Maher
- Ruth Majdrakoff
- Alexis Summer Marks
- Andrea D. Martin
- Daniel J. Mauer
- Janelle S. Millar
- Benjamin D. Miller
- Alix Mitgang
- Stephen Edward Moody
- Hugo Mora
- David D. Murray
- Joanne Y. Nakamura
- Nelson Ng
- Brian E. Nichols
- Josef R. Novotny
- Puja D. Patel
- Amy L. Peake
- Janna Lynn Pinckney
- Joline Price
- Stephanie Puentes
- Andrea Miller Purse
- Samuel T. Ricketts
- Courtney Rochelle
- Hank Royal
- Elizabeth A. Sandbothe
- Shanelle S. Scales
- James David Sims, Jr
- Aijta R. Talwalker
- Tonya Taylor
- David A. Tucker
- Deborah L. Turner
- Adrienne Ursino Brown
- Daniel Weiss
- Peter N. Whippy
- Nicholas Zosel-Johnson
External links
- ↑ http://congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgemiller.house.gov, official congressional bio, accessed August 1, 2011]
- ↑ http://congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgemiller.house.gov, official congressional bio, accessed August 1, 2011]
- ↑ http://congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgemiller.house.gov, official congressional bio, accessed August 1, 2011]
- ↑ Information Digest April l5, 1983 p77-79
- ↑ Communists in the Democratic party, page 71
- ↑ Communists in the Democratic party, page 73
- ↑ Common Dreams, Morning After Bush's Speech, Progressive Activists to Unite Feb. 28 for Conference on 'Working Family' Agenda, WASHINGTON - February 26 - News Advisory
- ↑ Take Back America 2006 - Agenda & Speakers (accessed on May 14, 2010)
- ↑ [ http://www.foodfirst.org/es/about/staff, Food First staff page]
- ↑ IPS Flickr page, Rep. George Miller and Saul Landau
- ↑ IPS website, The Institute for Policy Studies Mourns the Loss of Filmmaker and Author Saul Landau September 10, 2013, comments thread
- ↑ WaPo Activist and filmmaker Saul Landau dies at 77, By Matt Schudel,September 10, 2013
- ↑ LA Times, 'Fidel' filmmaker Saul Landau dies at 77 September 11, 2013|By Daniel Miller
- ↑ SFGate, Saul Landau - documentary filmmaker - dies, Sam Whiting, September 11, 2013
- ↑ Update on Cuba Travel: We Gathered 59 Signatures, The LAWG Cuba Team: Mavis, Emily and Karina on May 03, 2013
- ↑ Democratic Left, July/August 1996, page 21
- ↑ PWW, June 28, 1997, page 2
- ↑ DSA website: Members of the Progressive Caucus (archived on the Web Archive website)
- ↑ Congressional Progressive Caucus website: Caucus Member List
- ↑ CLW website: Meet Our Candidates
- ↑ American Radio Works website: Trips sponsored by the Christopher Reynolds Foundation
- ↑ Dem. Left, Summer 2002
- ↑ GDDSA newsletter archives, 2007
- ↑ J Street 2008 Annual Report
- ↑ The Minnesota Independent: Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar urge Obama to lift Gaza blockade, Jan. 26, 2010 (accessed on March 14, 2011)
- ↑ Bill Bradley's New West Notes, January 27th, 2008
- ↑ http://congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgemiller.house.gov, official congressional bio, accessed August 1, 2011]
- ↑ Immigrant Legal Resource Center, 23rd Phillip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Awards
- ↑ Momentum Builds for Honoring Legendary Organizer Fred Ross, by Randy Shaw, 2013-03-05
- ↑ CISPES press release, Press Statement: 51 Members of Congress Call for US Neutrality in Salvadoran Elections December 16, 2013
- ↑ http://www.legistorm.com/member/381/Rep_George_Miller_CA.html. Accessed 30/11/02011