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JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: · Uses a Radio Frequency Device to accurately pull products from stock for customer orders as pick slips are printed. Packs and prepares products to be shipped using the most economical and safe method of packing available. · Accurately compares products to pick slips to ensure proper filling of orders (i.e., product size, strength, dating and unit of sale, quantit...
JOB SUMMARY: Reporting directly to the Vice President, Purchasing, the Director of Purchasing will direct the day to day purchasing and replenishment functions for multiple warehouse locations. A key responsibility will be to optimize the use of technology in purchasing to ensure the greatest efficiencies and service levels and lowest acquisition cost. In collaboration with purchasers, the Directo...
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JOB SUMMARY: This position provides support to the sales organization to update/maintain the customer master in System21. Compiles, evaluates and reports statistical data from a variety of sources to assist management in evaluating the accuracy of the customer master file. Ensures that daily work activities support the Company's sales programs and business plan objectives. JOB DUTIES: · Monitors,...
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My second article was about pirate TV and starting your own "Local Area (TV) Network." Here's a chunk:
In 1989, Bill Gates founded a company called Interactive Home Systems, which changed its name a year later to Corbis. Now, Corbis owns one of the largest collection of stock images in the world: more than 100 million shots. A slew of those images are safely stored deep underground in a former limestone mine in Pennsylvania. If you want to use the photo of, say, Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue, Corbis will sell you a digital copy and sell you some rights. That wasn't Gates's big vision though. His forecast was that huge screens would hang throughout our homes, rotating through a global collection of photos and artwork. The future isn't quite here yet though, and Corbis's business is about supplying newspapers, magazines, and ad agencies. That's all well and good and makes people money, but twenty years later, I still find Gates's vision compelling. And it seems easy to turn your home into a digital art gallery using a home network, media players, and inexpensive LCD TVs. The art is also free, although I always recommend supporting artists whose work you dig...
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In the 1980s guerilla media scene that birthed Boing Boing, the proliferation of pirate TV was a holy grail for culture jammers. Proto-cyberpunk television series Max Headroom featured a character who ran a pirate TV station out of a converted bus, and rumors of late-night anonymous signals floating in the ether fueled our Videodrome-inspired fantasies. And it wasn't all wishful thinking that individuals with a bit of tech know-how could take back the TV airwaves, much like operators of pirate radio stations had done since the 1960s. Famously, during one weekend in 1978, a pirate TV station called Lucky Seven reached viewers in Syracuse, NY. The station, hosted by an anonymous announcer wearing a gas mask, mostly aired Star Trek and Twilight Zone episodes – geek programming to be sure. And in 1987, a TV pirate sporting a Max Headroom mask broke into the broadcast of a Dr. Who episode on WTTW Chicago. Decades later, the proliferation of wireless networking and media players could bring "pirate TV" out of the shadows, enabling anyone to curate and stream video programming to a nearby niche audience – college dorm, apartment complex, or even city block...Discuss
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monitorhead says:
the max headroom infiltration happened twice. both available on youtube. On WGN-TV and the other, as mentioned, on WTTW later that evening.
Anonymous says:
Sure you COULD set up a LAN TV, but why go to the trouble when there is a PERFECTLY GOOD 100 channels of unused analog television ready to be used since being abandoned last month?
Anonymous says:
The history of "Lucky 7″ was a legend by the time I got to the student TV station at Syracuse University (then called UUTV), several years after it happened. I did get to see a tape of a local news station story on the Lucky 7, where they pointed a camera at a TV set, capturing the Lucky 7 logo and jingle, but alas, not the dude in the gas mask. Scuttlebutt had it that the scam was done by UUTV personnel and the host segments (dude in gas mask) were taped at the UUTV studio (tiny), and later broadcast on semi-professional videotape. Illegal movies they showed were taped from cable or from the station's "film chain." I never met anyone directly involved, only heard the stories third hand.
Brainspore says:
Maybe Gates' vision will come true when someone creates a true, inexpensive "digital ink" that doesn't feel like you just left your TV in screensaver mode. Right now the idea of homes full of screens that stay on 24/7 sounds like a colossal waste of electricity.
Does Gates have something akin to this in his house, I wonder? If anybody had the budget, technological access and inclination to try this it must be him. Or maybe he just pays the staff to rearrange the paintings every 15 minutes.
Anonymous says:
Speaking of starting your own TV Station the FCC is opening up a window for LPTV applications (August 25th to January 25th). So, if you have about $20K you can have your own legal TV station.
jennylens says:
Can you verify they "WILL SELL YOU SOME RIGHTS"?
The last line, "the art is free," you mean you can get art from Corbis for free to use in your home? How can they make money that way? Usually agencies guard their images and won't let you download without paying first.
Some RF, Royalty Free, arrangements are different. And there's tons of public domain or art which peeps post and give away. But we are talking about Corbis, right?
Usually images are LICENSED for the specific usage, for a specific amount of money, perhaps also for a specific geographical area, how many books (as an example, the more books, the more it costs to license, hardcover, softcover, all versions), specific media (books, mag, online, DVDs, doc, CDs: how is the image specifically being used), used for a book cover or interior or ads or online too.
Corbis or the licensor maintains ALL rights in most cases.
MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS or their estates STILL OWN THEIR IMAGES (which means they own the rights), but CORBIS is their photo agency. I think. I have never dealt with Corbis, but that is the usual arrangement between agencies and photographers.
It's a case-by-case contract, whether the agency owns the rights or only represents the photographer.
In any case, IF an individual or company wants to buy rights, that's gonna cost some money. Unless it's some crap image that's collecting dust.
But this arrangement works best when Corbis or others maintain their rights, never selling, just licensing. UNLESS someone contacts Corbis for a work-for-hire situation, and the contract includes transfer of rights.
Just saying . . . otherwise, I thought this story about Gates and the digital art and Corbis was common knowledge. Guess I live in an insulated world. Thanks for sharing it!
Do you know what Corbis means? I was told by an early employee it means "basket."
Barry Foy says:
I did some editorial work for Gates's Interactive Home Systems. The specific project was a set of computer terminals allowing visitors to the Seattle Art Museum to navigate the collections electronically, but my understanding at the time was that it was all basically R&D for the system in Gates's new mansion. In the moment's giddy enthusiasm over the newfangled high technology, the notion of a room's pictorial artwork changing instantaneously to suit the tastes of the person walking through it seemed kind of cool. Twenty years later it strikes me as, frankly, idiotic–infantilizing rather than empowering. Perhaps the fact that IHS became Corbis and seems to have changed its specialty means someone else came to the same conclusion.
David Pescovitz says:
@JENNYLENS, I think you're confused about what I meant, probably due to some imprecise language on my part and also that only part of my essay appears above. When I said "sell you some rights," I meant "sell you the right to use the image in some way."
And my statement about free art, as I go into more later in the piece, is not referring to Corbis specifically but that there are obviously plenty of beautiful images on the Web that you could grab for this kind of non-commercial, personal, private use without paying anyone. That said, it's always nice to support the people who make things that you like.
devophill says:
You know who gets on my tits almost as much as Dorothy Haskins? Jenny Lens.
Anonymous says:
what is missing in gate's notion and yours a little bit is interactivity. we need input devices, not just screens, to experience the new art that is being made.
InsertFingerHere says:
Let me put on my tin-foil hat for a moment.
In Canada, there's only 3 region-based cable TV providers of note, the rest are small mom & poppers yet to be gobbled up.
You run.. say.. Shaw … you can show ANYTHING you want, US channels, no Canadian, .. the heck with the CRTC.. as long as it's something the customers will buy, it's fair game. And if the CRTC says you gotta stop.. what can they do?
Like seriously, they can't pull the plug, or 'take over' a cable office.. It's a business that needs to operate without a glitch, you got all these stations counting on being seen by the viewers, and you sure can't tell a whole city the cable company is going black while the courts deal with the issue.
So.. I'm saying cable companies (who are also big players as Internet providers) don't need to play by any rules, as long as they don't piss off the customers.
Foil hat in now off, but the blue vans are still parked in my lane. This coax must be tapped. Damn it.
spot says:
Why limit yourself to a slideshow when you can have art that evolves? The future is now. See the Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity.
David Pescovitz says:
#13, Thanks for sharing those bits. Really intriguing stuff. Even though it's so easy these days to set up your own "channel" on YouTube, there's still something so cool about old-school pirate TV and Lucky 7 style pranks.
zuzu says:
The myth of interference by David Weinberger
Mar 12, 2003 | There's a reason our television sets so outgun us, spraying us with trillions of bits while we respond only with the laughable trickles from our remotes. To enable signals to get through intact, the government has to divide the spectrum of frequencies into bands, which it then licenses to particular broadcasters. NBC has a license and you don't.
Thus, NBC gets to bathe you in "Friends," followed by a very special "Scrubs," and you get to sit passively on your couch. It's an asymmetric bargain that dominates our cultural, economic and political lives — only the rich and famous can deliver their messages — and it's all based on the fact that radio waves in their untamed habitat interfere with one another.
Except they don't.
"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he's right, then spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order.
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
So throw out the rulebook on what should be regulated and what shouldn't. Rethink completely the role of the Federal Communications Commission in deciding who gets allocated what. If Reed is right, nearly a century of government policy on how to best administer the airwaves needs to be reconfigured, from the bottom up.
David Pescovitz says:
SPOT, *great* call on the Electric Sheep. A media player is a perfect delivery system for generative art (visual and audio)!


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Christopher Charles Archer, 33, 915 N.E. Fourth St., is now in custody at the Daviess County Security Center for charges related to the incident. According to city police, Archer was taken to jail Tuesday following his release from Daviess Community Hospital.
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Cornelius' family members were then contacted. Cindy Meade, Cornelius' daughter, said her son was living with his grandmother. She also said "she was very concerned and stated to officers that she thought something like this was going to happen."
Cornelius' 2004 Buick Regal was then reported missing. Meade told officers, according to court records, that Archer was not allowed to take the car and Cornelius' purse and cellphone were locked in the vehicle. She said there were problems with Archer taking items.
The victim was taken to Daviess Community Hospital for multiple injuries. Hospital personnel told officers Cornelius had blood in her ears, nose and mouth. She had to be intubated to prevent further injuries and had multiple fractures to her face, court records said. She was then taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Evansville where personnel told officers Cornelius also had fractures to the back of her head. A representative of the hospital said information was not available on Cornelius Tuesday.
A search warrant was issued and officers searched the home. They found large amounts of blood, with most concentrated in the bedroom. Officers then found a broken stepping stone with writing, like the ones received after the loss of a loved one, in the bedroom. They believe, according to a probable cause affidavit, Archer used the rock to strike his grandmother.
Washington Police Chief Mike Healy said Tuesday Archer was at Daviess Community Hospital for an altercation not related to the incident. Archer has been charged with aggravated battery, a Class B felony; battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery by means of a deadly weapon, both Class C felonies; auto theft, and theft, both Class D felonies.
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Last week when I said that I'd finished my sketches for FARMER, I was wrong. Fixing a few inconsistencies led to my resketching almost the entire book in just one weekend.
The story is set on a farm run by a German immigrant family, about 1930. Because I lacked good source materials early on, without realizing it, I resorted to creating a lot of close-ups or odd angles, taking the focus off of what I didn't know. What is a "chris-cross" garden, and what does one look like? What would a farmer in the 1930s wear to a funeral? A black suit of the time period? Or bib overalls? Would a German farmer dress any different than, say, a black farmer? Geez, I don't know. By the time I finished my sketches, and after several trips to the library, I'd found more answers to my questions. So I spent the weekend changing and adding details.
Finally, I spent this morning creating a layout of the book. I prefer creating layouts as opposed to dummy book mock-ups, unless the publisher asks for one specifically. When I worked as a book designer for an educational publishing company, we used flat spread layouts and that's how I've been doing it ever since.
I had quite an assembly line going — from the drawing board to the photo copier. From the photo copier to the paper cutter. From the paper cutter, back to the drawing board. And so on.
Now, problem is, after seeing the book all laid out, to size, with text, I've discovered a few more problems. For now, I just noted them, and will make revisions once I get feedback from the publisher.
I hope my editors won't mind, but I suggested a few places to cut text. Ouch! I know. But with 3000-plus words in 32 pages, one half-spread illustration per page, somethings gonna have to give or else were gonna have to go with 8-point condensed text.
Congratz to all the award winners! And thanks to Cynsations who provided early results when I couldn't get into any of the live webcasts.
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This time, I'm really finished
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- rindawriter said...
I have a blog up now about being at the 2007 ALA...perhaps more later about trends, etc. I was only able to be there for about three hours--came home LOADED with new reading material--great fun!
- rindawriter said...
P.S. I REALLY do think requesting a few word cuts in a 3,000 page picturebook is not asking too much. I'd do it in a flash did an illustrator ask me to do it for a longer PB text. They are DIFFICULT as it is to fit into 32 pages. It is, after all, a PICTURE book!
- Liz said...
And plus, if its 8pt text none of us who are over the age of.. cough, muffle, ahem... will be able to read it.
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The Limits of Foreign Policy
What America may be losing in the 21st century is its ability to choose when it wants to assume the point position of world affairs.
The Economist is widely read as a conservative voice on economics and international affairs. In general, it can be counted on to argue a "less is more" approach to governance. When it comes to foreign policy, however, The Economist wants America's government to do considerably more for the world's sake.
A survey on American foreign policy in the magazine's Nov. 23 issue was followed quickly by a positive assessment of the prospect of the recent Iran agreement as a potential building block for broader stability in the Middle East. Whether the survey's conclusion – a call for the U.S. to shake off its own pessimism and declare a new "morning in American foreign policy" – holds up will depend in large part on whether that agreement becomes a stepping stone to more lasting efforts to contain Iran's nuclear program. The agreement demonstrates both the value of the additional diplomacy The Economist survey recommends and the potential ripple effects each individual diplomatic effort may have on other U.S. alliances. In addition, while the survey discusses the dangers of an administration straying off message, it does not comment on what should happen when public opinion compels change in a policy that the administration has consistently supported. The Obama administration has seen pertinent examples of both.
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News of Secretary of State John Kerry's six-month agreement on Iranian nuclear program was just breaking as The Economist's Nov. 23 issue went to press. The survey therefore could not address the deal in detail or fit it into its arguments for change in U.S. diplomacy (it has commented on the deal favorably in subsequent articles). Secretary Kerry's non-stop global outreach falls within the survey's call for the U.S. to, "make better use of diplomacy." It quotes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates lamenting that the U.S. has, "fewer diplomats than it has players in military bands." Secretary Kerry's frenetic travel pace has amounted to a one-man diplomatic horn section.
Yet the Iran deal is a good recent exploration of whether more diplomacy is always better. Imperatives on both sides drove its limited structure. The Obama administration needed to be proactive on the world's biggest proliferation issue. Conversely, the government of newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani wanted to begin to bring Iran out of diplomatic isolation, but could not be seen to be giving away the store on an initial round of talks. Some of the strongest criticism of the deal came from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who flatly contradicted the Obama administration's view that it made the world "safer." Strong rhetoric on both sides of the issue is to be expected and Secretary Kerry has subsequently moved to address Israel's response to the agreement.
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Time will tell if the interim deal's real value – opening the door to a more comprehensive agreement – will be lasting. It makes sense politically that it would. Today, however, it is an example of how every U.S. diplomatic action in one area makes waves that ripple into another. Any push for "more" diplomacy must take this kind of timing into account as a first-order issue.
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One survey recommendation aimed squarely at the Obama administration is the lack of a foreign policy strategy that is consistently articulated and backed with consistent action. The survey argues President Obama set and moved "red lines" in U.S. policy towards Syria, creating uncertainty around U.S. intentions and undermining the sense that the White House would stand behind its future proclamations. This is a legitimate criticism that has been leveled at the administration extensively.
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What goes unmentioned in the survey is the trouble the Obama administration has cultivated by staying consistent. On counter-terrorism policy, particularly the expanded use of drone strikes, the current administration has been criticized by both the right and left for continuing policies established by President Bush. Drone strikes ordered from the White House have eliminated terrorist leaders with low cost to U.S. military personnel. They have, however, made President Obama vulnerable to charges of perhaps overstepping accepted norms on the use of force. America's drone capability, like its broader military capacity, leads the world. Its defenders argue that, responsibly run, the drone program makes the world safer. Whichever side one takes, it is clear that as more time elapsed between major terrorist incidents in the U.S., a brighter spotlight shone on counter-terrorism policies drawn up in the more immediate wake of 9/11. While policy stayed consistent, public opinion on drone use shifted underneath and compelled government response, if not immediate change. To preserve a policy in response, the president needs to do more than stay on message, he needs to re-sell the policy to the public.
The Economist writes about "America's once boundless confidence" and the need to restore it. Whether U.S. confidence has ever been "boundless" for long is highly debatable; whether it is a good thing, more so. Strong global leadership has been America's default position about as often as isolation. Plenty of foreign policy problems – the aftermath of the Iraq invasion most recently – have stemmed from excesses, not deficits, of confident activity. U.S. efforts toward Iran reflect a new temperance regarding what it can accomplish abroad. What America may be losing in the 21st century is its ability to choose when it wants to assume the point position of world affairs. It has been pushed there before, and will be again.
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The Athens-Limestone community has a chance to help Athens Middle School's robotics team secure a $110,000 grant for the school.
The team is among the finalists for a technology grant as part of Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow contest. The initiative will provide more than $1 million to schools nationwide.
Students on the robotics team chose recycling as their topic, and recently spent time at the Athens-Limestone Recycling Center and Custom Polymers PET to learn more about plastics recycling. After the team's application essay made it to the semifinals, the students were required to make a two-minute video showcasing their project.
Athens Middle School teacher Jennifer Kennedy said 40 students have been working on the project since Thanksgiving. The students comprise two robotics classes and Kennedy's after-school competitive team.
She said the first-semester robotics class came up with the recycling concept, and the second-semester class took that idea and ran with it.
"The whole reason we applied for this grant was for new robotics materials and to replace our iMac (laptops)," she said. "We're the only school in Alabama (to be participating). It's wonderful they've had the opportunity to see their hard work come to fruition. If you put yourself out there, fabulous things can happen."
More than 1,500 application essays came from teachers and students across the country. The top 75 were chosen and sent video production kits containing a Samsung laptop, camcorder and software from Adobe.
The students found out Monday their video made the top 15 for the $110,000 grant. Securing the top prize, however, will require a majority vote from the community. Those interested in voting for the school's video should visit www.samsung.com/solvefortomorrow. Voting closes on March 4.
The first time a person votes, he or she must register a name, email address and ZIP code. Votes may be cast once daily per email address. Each time a vote is cast, the vote must be validated.
Samsung will send an email to the voter containing a link, which must then be clicked to validate the email address. The vote will not be registered until the email address is validated after each daily vote. After the initial vote, subsequent votes only take a minute.
"The school could really use this technology (grant)," said Lynne Hart, executive coordinator of Keep Athens Limestone Beautiful. " … We just really need the community to vote."
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Chairman Abel introduced Mr. James Bickhart from the Los Angeles Office of the Speaker of the California State Assembly, The Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa. Mr. Bickhart began his presentation of the Speaker's Commission on State and Local Government Finance by giving the reason behind the formation of the Commission. The Speaker believes there is a direct relationship between fiscal imbalance and the publics increasing cynicism regarding the public sector. He elaborated that the Speaker wants this new commission to recommend solutions to the State Legislature. The Commission, meeting monthly for up to a year, will likely have twenty-five members from all over the State representing both county and city governments, business, environmental, and community leaders. It should be fully staffed by the end of this month (January, 1999) and the first meeting should be held in Sacramento by the end of the month (January, 1999).
Mr. Bickhart referred to the distributed curriculum, which lists what the Commission believes to be the key issues regarding the problems facing local government. These issues include: the adequacy of local revenues, coping with the business cycle, the fiscalization of land use, home rule issues, the plight of counties, the allocation of property taxes, and local control over tax rates. He also referred to additional issues for consideration by the Commission, including: the importance of regions, redevelopment, control and financing of schools, finance of development infrastructure, and special districts.
Commissioner Buerk asked if the allocation of sales tax revenues is a part of the redevelopment issue. Mr. Bickhart answered that the allocation of sales tax is actually intertwined with several of the key curriculum issues that were previously mentioned.
Chairman Abel commented that while the final responses to the invitations to serve on the Commission are still pending, it is clear that it will be a bipartisan and geographically diverse body of commissioners. This broad spectrum of opinions and insights regarding state and local government finance should be significant. Mr. Bickhart confirmed that political viability is enhanced by such a diverse roster of commissioners.
Commissioner Petak said that he saw no mention in the handout (list of issues) explicitly relating to the use of enterprise funds versus general tax revenue to pay for services. Mr. Bickhart confirmed that enterprise funds have not been talked about up to this point, but issues such as that will be open for discussion at future Commission meetings. Commissioner Petak explained that the formation of special districts has largely focused on the issue of being able to charge for services. Thus, when looking at the special district issue, consideration has to be given to the feasibility of enterprise funds paying for services as opposed to general tax revenue. Mr. Bickhart said he expects the Commission to have an open agenda to address such topics.
Commissioner Padilla asked how the new Commission anticipates countering the pressure of interest groups that wish to kill a recommendation. Mr. Bickhart responded that he has identified several potential roadblocks to future recommendations. One is a small group of municipal governments which have been very successful at attracting sales tax revenues. They have recently demonstrated their influence in the State Legislature when they opposed a bill that was going to ban tax breaks to attract certain types of retail development. In this instance the opposition effort came from the League of California Cities. The other groups are the developers and/or owners of retail corporations that want communities to bid for their business. Another potential obstacle lies in the possibility of this discussion tinkering with Proposition 13 (tax rates).
Vice Chairman Fuhrman clarified that there seem to be two levels of issues; the technical issues, i.e. the distribution of sales tax revenues among cities, the more fundamental issue the fiscal stability of cities and counties and restoring to them what they had previously. The latter will require a significant statewide budgetary increase. The building of a consensus on such an increase will be difficult.
Chairman Abel stated that the issue is not about how much money is spent for local government, it is about whether local government has the authority and accountability over those funds. Could another method be found for returning home rule and authority and accountability back to the local level? For many who will serve on the Commission, home rule is a higher priority than the absolute amount of money which may be allocated.
Commissioner Crowley asked about the relationship of the Commissions agenda to the product of the State Constitutional Revision effort. Mr. Bickhart responded that the former chairman to the Constitutional Revision Commission has been asked and agreed to serve on the Commission. Commissioner Crowley responded that he thinks that many of the features of the constitutional revision analysis should be addressed. Mr. Bickhart agreed, confirming that the agenda for the first Commission meeting is being put together with input from the former Constitutional Revision Commission, the California Governors Consensus Project, the Metropolitan Forum Project, etc. Chairman Abel mentioned that he has agreed to serve on the Speakers Commission. Mr. Bickhart assured that he will keep the EEC appraised of the Commissions activities and that all EEC commissioners are welcome to participate at the meetings.
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I keep thinking about it. I can't fathom the strength it would take to carry on after such a tragedy. I pray for strength for the moms and dads of the lost children of today. I hope they remember their children's laughter. A child's laughter embodies all that is good in the world, and can take you back to a time when there is no fear, and your world is filled with love and happiness. That is the place that I pray that those families can go to in this time of insurmountable sadness.


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NAIROBI, Kenya—Clement Ibrahim Muhibitabo is one of the forgotten ones.
So is Ines Chine. So is Abdul Hamid Moosa.
The snatch-and-jail operation was carried out by U.S. allies Kenya and Ethiopia but involved CIA and FBI interrogators, say European diplomats, human-rights groups and the program's many detainees.
It may be little-known to the American public, yet it has stoked deep anti-U.S. sentiment among Muslims in the Horn of Africa.
That fury may even have contributed to the bloody election crisis in Kenya that first erupted last December and killed 1,300 people. Muslim human-rights groups and political analysts in Kenya say the renditions helped incite the nation's Muslims to vote en bloc against a pro-American president and set the stage for an explosive, razor-close election.
While the operation netted a handful of hard-core Islamist militants who were training at jihadist camps in Somalia—an American among them—the vast majority of the detainees have been released without charges.
Many were held for months at "black site" secret prisons in Ethiopia. Today they have scattered across Africa and the world, their stories overshadowed by the more famous detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"You know what was strange? They only interrogated me twice," the Rwandan, Muhibitabo, recalled of the American agents who showed up in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to grill him about Al Qaeda. "It was like I was unimportant to them. Like I was a mistake. A mistake that took away four months of my life."
Like most of the people ensnared in a security affair known locally as "Africa's Guantanamo," Muhibitabo, a gem trader, was arrested after fleeing to Kenya from Somalia in January 2007.
With covert U.S. support, Ethiopia had just toppled a radical Islamist movement in Somalia. And jittery authorities in neighboring Kenya, advised by CIA and FBI agents, were screening the tide of refugees streaming across their border for militants.
At least 150 suspects from more than 18 countries ended up being shunted into Kenyan jails, says Human Rights Watch, an international humanitarian group. More than 100 were later loaded, handcuffed and blindfolded, onto chartered airliners and flown secretly to Ethiopia for months of further questioning.
"We had no access to lawyers, no contact with embassies, no phone calls," said Moosa, 42, a South African accountant who says he traveled to Somalia to look into the possibility of charity work for the country's Islamic movement.
"I was kept in solitary for a month, shackled ankle and feet, night and day," said Moosa, who spent almost five months in Ethiopian custody. "The Ethiopians would come collect me, blindfold me and drive me to some apartment in Addis. And the Americans would be there waiting behind a desk, asking me over and over about my terrorist connections."
Kenya and Ethiopia—both Christian-dominated countries—have longtime security concerns with their anarchic neighbor, Muslim Somalia. For its part, the U.S. has accused Somalia's Islamists of hosting top Al Qaeda operatives such as Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a mastermind of the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa.
The most high-profile case to emerge from the clandestine African renditions was Mohammed Abdul Malik, a Kenyan accused of participating in the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa in 2002. Abdul Malik was caught after fleeing from Somalia. Deemed too important for jail in Ethiopia, he was secretly expelled to Guantanamo Bay.
"The police handed him over to the Americans without giving him a single hour in a court," said Mariam Mohammed, the suspect's sister. "We still don't know the evidence against him."
How much Washington actually steered the sprawling arrest and deportation operation—a covert counterterrorism sweep second in scope only to the deportation of more than 200 terror suspects out of Afghanistan immediately after the fall of the Taliban—remains unclear.
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The endgame was in sight Tuesday as borough residents worked in shifts to propel Collingswood into a cash prize-winning spot in the Reader's Digest sweepstakes.
A Monday night Stay-at-Home vote party leading up to the townwide Get Out the Vote party Tuesday. The infectious energy fueled a 56,000-vote day in which volunteers make up lots of ground on the field.
Residents like Kieth Monahan and Charlie Sarkioglu, both of who had voted in the Monday Stay-at-Home party, were on hand Tuesday to finish the job against 18th-place Richville, NY.
Cass Duffey, Collingswood director of community development, said that catching up to the impoverished, 300-resident, rural community had been difficult.
"They've been voting [in Richville] as fast as we have," she said. "If we can keep pace with them, we need to close that gap tonight and keep voting."
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By 7 pm, the margin to 18th place had narrowed to 10,000 votes. At 7:30, it was fewer than 9,000; by 7:55, it had fallen to less than 6,000.
"We are the best town, of course we'll win," said Nicolas Schwam, 8, of Grant Avenue.
"We shoulda won last year too," said Pat Ciervo of Main Street Realty.
"This is why I love Collingswood—things that bring people together," said Katie Rosato of East Palmer Avenue. "It's BYOB, that makes it fun, and it's a lot of different generations [participating]."
Although not a resident, Linnie May of Glendora volunteers often in Collingswood, ushering at the and donating her time to things like the May Fair and Proud Neighbors. May has been participating in the "We Hear You America" contest since the first voting party at .
"I love community," she said. "I don't have community where I live, so I look for it elsewhere."
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By 9:45, Collingswood was looking down at Richville from a 4,000-vote cushion, and 16th-place Needles, CA, looked like raw meat. Another hour later and Collingswood was sitting solidly in 16th place.
Maley praised the citizens of the borough and Duffey in particular for their efforts.
"Collingswood has a long history of volunteers," he said. "Everything we do is sustained by volunteers."
Duffey echoed his sentiment.
"It's really heartwarming the way people turn out to support town," she said. "If all these great people voting go home with their computers, we can get ahead and stay ahead."
Voters' wishlists for what to do with the prize ranged from the personal ("get rid of those digital parking kiosks") to the practical ("Knight House is getting old.").
Realtor Joy Messner said she'd love to see Collingswood put the money into an art house cinema. Sarkioglu said he appreciates Collingswood's green streak, and hoped that the cash prize could be used in keeping with environmental efforts.
Mayor James Maley said that the money should be used on something to commemorate the event and beautify the town, such as a public art project or tree-planting, "something that we just wouldn't do" otherwise, he said.
The borough will sponsor another pair of Stay-at-Home vote parties Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m.-midnight. The last push will come Thursday, March 1, the final day of the sweepstakes. Join your fellow citizens and vote!


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Two average people ran for mayor of Boston.
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series but not for you.
They play for money.
The mayor-seekers play for prestige, not making important changes.
Why should there be changes anyway?
Let's live in reality.
Let's give up pretending it's for us this or that happens.
Here's to a better us, the secret us.
Malcolm Miller


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'Anchorman 2's' David Koechner Wacks Washington
The man behind 'Whammy!' studied political science.
He's the comedian, but it's Washington that's full of clowns. David Koechner, who plays the somewhat folksy, definitely bigoted, sportscaster Champ Kind in the two "Anchorman" films, pursued political science before turning to comedy.
"I was under the foolish notion that as a politician I could actually help people," Koechner told Whispers. "It's hard to actually achieve any traction in politics -- you're either monied, you were born into it as a family or you are the brightest guy or woman in any room you walk into -- I was none of those three things."
So Koechner went the comedy route instead. On a trip to Chicago, he discovered the Second City, where Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and his "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" co-star Steve Carell got their start. His stint at the Second City was worth it, landing him a spot on "Saturday Night Live," before going on to NBC's "The Office" and the "Anchorman" films.
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"I think perhaps me being in political science was just me seeking a stage," Koechner further explained.
That being said, Koechner still pays attention.
"They are all fools right now," he said. "I really believe they should all go."
The former poli sci student gave some suggestions for reform, including having more than two political parties.
"This two-party system is just a lie to the American people," he said. "It's hard to find the truth and it's certainly hard to find honesty, or someone that's not already sewed up into someone's pocket."
Koechner also said Congress should do something to rectify the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which removed campaign donation limits for corporations and other groups.
"They need to be made fun of," Koechner added. "If in a minor way that holds them somewhat accountable, then great. If it makes them think about what they're doing, then all the better."
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The comedian hat tipped Colbert and "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart for holding politicians' feet to the fire.
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Koechner appeared Wednesday night in Tuesday at the Newseum to promote the new "Anchorman" movie, alongside actual anchorman CNN's Jake Tapper. (Koechner swiftly renamed Tapper "Jack Tap.") The Newseum is also hosting an "Anchorman" exhibit, which opened last month and attracted "Anchorman" star Will Ferrell, and stays on display until Aug. 31, 2014.
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The District of Columbia is not a state, it is a federal district. When the Constitution of the United States was adopted in 1787, what is now the District of Columbia was a part of the state of Maryland. In 1791, the District was ceded to the federal government for the purpose of becoming the nation's capital, a district that was to be governed by Congress.
In 1973, the District of Columbia Home Rule Act provided the city with more control of local affairs, including the election of a mayor and a 13-member city council. Residents of the District of Columbia lack full democratic representation in the U. S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives. Representation in Congress is limited to a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives and a shadow Senator. In recent years, District residents have been seeking Statehood to gain full voting rights. They have not yet been successful. Read more about DC Voting Rights.
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Hmm. So common or garden Alsace Riesling with sugar added at fermentation can still be 50% sweeter than any other regular French dry white wine. And surely the fact that wines with village or vineyard designations, along with Vendanges Tardives and SGN wines, are exempt continues to foster the suggestion that the best wines of the region are sweeter than dry?
I also think this superfluous sweetness problem applies just as much and arguably even more to Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer myself.
Obeying instructions from purple pager Mark Prust, I shall be tasting in Alsace later this month and will follow all this up.
Julia: I have to say that they seem to have picked the worst of the three options. Rather than restrict the sweetness levels that can qualify as AOC Alsace Riesling, much better to try give an indication on the label as to approximately how sweet the wine will taste - along the lines of Zind Humbrecht's sweetness index. The German regulations on what constitutes trocken or 'dry' are even more complex, as outlined in my article on German wine classification and the VDP - see especially the section near the end on definitions.
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It's no secret that the world boxing scene has exploded and that many of the sport's biggest and best fighters are currently non-Americans. From Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko to Manny Pacquiao to the ever-present stars from Mexico, boxing is no longer a sport dominated at the highest levels by American talent.
Still, even in this age of boxing globalism, some foreign fighters just don't seem to get their proper level of respect and attention. Here are eight main stage foreign fighters overlooked by many fight fans:
Daniel Geale (29-1, 15 KOs)
Australia's middleweight kingpin has been on a killer three-year run and would still be a two-belt world titlist if not for a political boardroom decision by the WBA. Geale still has the IBF world title he took from Sebastian Sylvester in 2011 and recent victories over the likes of Anthony Mundine, Felix Sturm and Roman Karmazin. Geale is the clear no. 2 in the middleweight division, behind Sergio Martinez, but has yet to get the attention of some of the flashier, better-promoted 160-pound fighters.
Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KOs)
The UK's "Cobra" came up as a tough, but marginally skilled fighter whose long-term career prospects were relatively uncertain. However, Froch has spent the better part of five years fighting some of the best talent at 168 lbs. and has become a well-seasoned pro. Now, there's little doubt that the native of Nottingham could be a solid no. 2 in the 168 lb. division and is slowly working his way on to all-time great lists in the super middleweight class.
Yoan Pablo Hernandez (27-1, 13 KOs)
The Cuban-born German resident has earned the right to call himself an elite-level cruiserweight and is currently considered one of the division's very best. Recent wins over Troy Ross, Steve Cunningham, and Steve Herelius make the case for the tall, lanky southpaw and at 28 years of age, Hernandez is likely just beginning to enter his boxing prime.
Lucas Matthysse (33-2, 31 KOs)
The heavy-handed battler from Argentina has been getting some recent attention as one of the junior welterweight division's best, but is still far from a household name to the casual fan. Dominant stoppage wins over recent opposition and highly-controversial losses against division elite (Devon Alexander, Zab Judah) make the case that Matthysse is one of the very best in the jam-packed 140 lb. class. Likely one fight removed from a world title shot against Danny Garcia, he'll get the chance to establish his dominance by year's end.
Kubrat Pulev (17-0, 9 KOs)
These days, the heavyweight division is much-maligned and the favorite target of armchair boxing critics everywhere. In this atmosphere, a Bulgarian heavyweight contender can't help but be overlooked and underrated. But Pulev is a legitimate talent with a solid resume and an accomplished amateur career. The 6' 4" boxer just may be the most legitimate and immediate threat to the reign of the Klitschkos.
Miguel Vazquez (33-3, 13 KOs)
A slick, cautious boxing stylist may not be the most popular type of Mexican fighter, but few can argue with Vazquez's level of success in recent years as a lightweight. With five defenses under his belt as IBF champ, the native of Guadalajara seems to be getting better as time progresses. On March 16 he faces another foreign-born fighter who could very well have made this list of overlooked boxers, Scotland's WBO lightweight champ, Ricky Burns.
Kazuto Ioka (11-0, 7 KOs)
With just eleven fights and four years as a pro, Japan's 23-year-old wunderkind has accomplished a career's worth of achievements. The former WBC and WBA strawweight champ just recently captured the "regular" WBA junior flyweight title and may be on a collision course with hard-hitting "super" junior flyweight titlist, Roman Gonzalez.
Roman Gonzalez (34-0, 28 KOs)
At 25 years of age, "El Chocolatito" is already a two-division world champ and may be one of the sport's best offensive fighters. Currently the WBA junior flyweight champ, the battler from Nicaragua may soon find himself in the ring with fellow 20-something overachiever, Kazuto Ioka.
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Yesterday, I got out and voted.
Is a debt-free federal government next?
More likely than a debt-free me.
Thankfully, your health isn't dependent on a debt-free government.
Um, or is it?
Anyway, glad you're on the mend.
(welcome back)
Debt-free government? I see that the meds are still working.
I want whatever you're on!
Now, get back to the couch and ESPN!
How's the toilet paper hanging today?
See ya.
Best wishes for a fast recouperation.


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Clemson's 12-man 2011 baseball recruiting class has been ranked 31st in the nation by Collegiate Baseball magazine.
The Tigers' class is ranked sixth in the ACC behind No. 6 Miami, No. 14 NC State, No. 16 Florida State, No. 17 Virginia and No. 26 North Carolina. Georgia Tech's class is ranked 38th.
The SEC dominated the Collegiate Baseball recruiting rankings, with nine teams in the top 25, led by two-time defending national champion South Carolina, which claimed the No. 1 spot ahead of Vanderbilt and Mississippi.
The Gamecocks signed 21 players, including seven who turned down pro offers after being drafted.
The Tigers' class is headlined by pitcher Daniel Gossett, who was drafted in the 16th round of the Major League draft in June by the Boston Red Sox, and catcher Garrett Boulware, who was the 42nd-round pick of the San Diego Padres.
Clemson took a signing-day blow, however, when Daniel Norris of Johnson City, TN – the nation's top-rated lefthanded pitcher – came to terms with the Toronto Blue Jays after being drafted in the second round.
Clemson's 2010 recruiting class was ranked 30th nationally by Collegiate Baseball, and produced several first-year contributors – many of whom will be counted on to step up into front-line roles next season.
Clemson coach Jack Leggett must replace more than half of his starting position players and good portion of his pitching staff in the wake of graduation and heavy losses to the Major League draft.
Looking ahead, the Tigers appear well-set for a strong 2012 class, as 14 players are currently committed, including 12 from South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Those players will sign during the upcoming early recruiting period in November.
The group of 2011 signees includes four righthanded pitchers – Patrick Andrews of Hilton Head, SC; Brock Goodling of Mount Union, PA; Tyler Kieboom of Marietta, GA; and Gossett – as well as two lefthanders – Kyle Bailey of Southlake, TX and Jeremy Scheck of Vernon Hills, IL.
Clemson also signed a pair of catchers in Boulware and Andrew Cleveland, from Moore, SC and a teammate of Gossett's at Byrnes High, and an infielder in Jay Baum of Alpharetta, GA.
Joining the Clemson outfield – where replacements must be found for all three starters – will be Brad Felder, a senior transfer from The Citadel; Tyler Slaton, from Cumming, GA; and Mike Triller, from Rutland, VT.