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Historically a nation of immigrants, the United States is home to nearly 41 million immigrants, who represent 13 percent of the total population and play a key role in the economic, civic, and cultural life of the country. The research collected here covers many facets of immigration to the United States, by the numbers and how immigrants fare in the country's classrooms and workplaces, the policies and regulations that shape the admission of new immigrants, the enforcement programs and polices in place at U.S. borders and within the interior, and integration policies and efforts taking place in local communities, in states, and at the federal level.
Find relevant MPI resources on the child migration crisis—from research, articles, and public briefings that analyze the trends and policy developments surrounding the recent uptick in migration of unaccompanied minors to data on Central American immigrant populations and country profiles of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—all in one place. Click here.
The U.S. immigrant population—estimated at 40.8 million in 2012 — is the nation's historical numerical high, and it is also the largest foreign-born population in the world. About 20 percent of all international migrants reside in the United States, even as the country accounts for less than 5 percent of global population. This article presents the latest, most sought-after data on immigrants in the United States—by origin, residence, legal status, deportations, languages spoken, and more—in one easy-to-use resource.
The 2.9 million Central American immigrants living in the United States were more likely than both the native born and the foreign-born population overall to be of working age and to be participating in the U.S. labor force. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines the population's size, geographic distribution, and demographic characteristics.
As an update to this month's Policy Beat, MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the DREAM Act's failure in the Senate.
MPI's Muzaffar Chishti, Claire Bergeron, and Kristen McCabe report on the passage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in the House, Supreme Court oral arguments on the Legal Arizona Workers Act, the record number of diversity visa applicants, and more.
Interested in information on annual naturalization trends, illegal immigration, the geographical distribution of immigrants in the United States, current and historical shares, and a host of other topics?
MPI's Jeanne Batalova and Aaron Terrazas have assembled the latest, most interesting data on immigrants and immigration into one easy-to-use resource.
The writing was on the wall by late 2009, but 2010 confirmed the migration trends glimpsed months earlier in major immigrant-receiving countries: the global recession that began in late 2007 caused migration flows to drop, halting rapid immigrant population growth, and it pushed unemployment levels for some immigrants far higher than those of the native born.
This policy brief examines the legalization debate on both sides of the Atlantic and discusses policy parameters that characterize legalization programs, such as qualifications, requirements, benefits, and program design and implementation.
This policy brief shows that more unauthorized immigrants in the United States have been legalized through population-specific and registry programs than through the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act general legalization provisions.
This fact sheet, based on analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2009 American Community Survey, documents the top languages spoken by English Language Learners (ELLs) nationwide and on a state level.
In 2010, based on changes to the DREAM Act legislation pending in Congress, MPI issued revised total and state-level estimates of the unauthorized youth and young adults who might be eligible for conditional legal status, updating its DREAM vs. Reality fact sheet.
This book takes stock of the impact of the crisis on immigrant integration in Europe and the United States. It assesses where immigrants have lost ground, using evidence such as levels of funding for educational programs, employment rates, trends toward protectionism, public opinion, and levels of discrimination.
This brief argues that an essential first step to any type of U.S. legalization must be a registration process that rapidly identifies, screens, and processes potential applicants. The government could successfully administer a large-scale legalization only with a well-crafted bill, sufficient funding, an unprecedented mobilization of public and private stakeholders, and intensive planning.
This edited volume examines the development impact of diasporas in six critical areas: entrepreneurship, capital markets, "nostalgia" trade and "heritage" tourism, philanthropy, volunteerism, and advocacy.
This report provides an overview of diaspora advocacy by looking at five issues: who participates in diaspora advocacy, who or what are the "targets" in these efforts, what means are used to advance these causes, what are the issues on which they focus, and the effectiveness of the efforts.


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"When should the last of the snow be cleared, and when should things be back to normal?"
Tempers are short in DC after 60 inches of snow and the Mayor made no pretext of playing nice. He said her question: "doesn't make any sense, if you forgive me." "The snow has fallen," the Mayor helpfully added, saying: "It's not going to be gone until the temperature gets warm enough that it can melt."

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Academic Credits
Students can earn 4 s.h. of University of Iowa academic credit (1.sh. spring semester, 3 s.h. summer) for the Summer Dublin Internship Program. The application of credit is as follows:
Nonbusiness Elective Credit (1 s.h.) :
Global Internship Preparation (1 s.h.): This is a 1 s.h. course taught in the spring semester directly proceeding the Summer Dublin Internship Program. This course will focus on professional development and predeparture preparation for the internship experience. The course is graded S/U.
Business Elective Credit (3 s.h.):
Global Business Perspectives (3 s.h.): This 3 s.h. summer course seeks to link the practical experience of working abroad, and the professional development skills therein, with a scholarly capacity to reflect on the experience in a rigorous manner. This course includes writing and professional development assignments submitted online and successful completion of the two weekly courses offered by EUSA in Dublin. The course is graded A-F.
- Business Students: This course can satisfy the Business GE Global & Cultural Studies (pre-Fall 2011)/ International and Global Issues (Fall 2011 and after) requirement.
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Officers in the City of Grosse Pointe responded and investigated fewer crimes in 2012 as compared to 2011, including a 7 percent decrease in those crimes classified as the most dangerous by the FBI, Department of Public Safety Director Stephen Poloni reported to city council this week.
Poloni generally credits the drop to the "pro-active nature of the officers" during patrol, which is a deterrant, he said to Patch Friday.
In addition to experiencing fewer crimes, the department received about 15 percent fewer calls for service at 4,508 in 2012 as compared to 5,322 in 2011.
Poloni is the first of the directors of public safety in the Grosse Pointes to present his annual report on crime statistics. He said the numbers show that "Grosse Pointe remains one of the safest communities to live in."
The crime statistics show a 15 percent reduction in crimes in 2012 with 257 cases as compared to the 302 investigated in 2011.
Those crimes are broken into two categories according to the FBI's uniform crime reporting standards: index crimes, which are the most serious offenses generally involving a direct victim, and non-index crimes, which are the less violent crimes that generally involve property.
According to the annual report compiled by Poloni, the City had 109 index crimes and 148 non-index crimes in 2012. The City reported 118 index crimes and 184 non-index crimes in 2011.
The most significant reductions of index crimes came in the area of burglaries and motor vehicle thefts, which had a 14 percent and 31 percent drop respectively. Additionally, the City experienced nearly half the number of malicious destruction of property crimes in 2012 at 15 as compared to the 31 cases in 2011.
There were some notable increases:
- double the number of fraud cases
- about a 40 percent increase in narcotic/drug cases
- more than double the number of non-aggravated assaults
- about 30 percent more drunken/drugged driving arrests
Poloni said to Patch the City experienced several notable "high-profile crimes" that may have led to the perception of crime being worse but the numbers show the decline in crimes.
While there is not one particular reason for the drop, Poloni said the department was more vigilant in having a heavier foot patrol presence in the business districts, such as the Village. Additionally, patrolling along Mack Avenue is another deterrant to crime, he said.
Among those high profile crimes are:
- the repeated break-in and eventual arson of Coins and Stamps early in the year
- the series of daytime home burglaries in May
- the $1 million jewelry heist from a home in September
- the December reported armed robbery of a business on Mack Avenue that was determined through investigation to be a false report
Officers arrested 114 individuals throughout 2012, about 20 percent fewer than the 143 arrests in 2011.
Additionally, the department responded to 383 calls for fire service, ranging from house and building fires to smoke investigations to downed wires and more. Fire causes approximately $1.35 million in damage throughout the City in 2012, which includes all loss reported.
The two most notable fires were of Coins and Stamps, which caused approximatley $750,000 in damage and the duplex on Neff Road, which caused about $550,000 in damage.


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1. Complete student information (Please remember to include your Student ID number.)
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B. Documented positive measles titer (rubeola blood test) lab result. Please submit copy of lab result with the UW Measles Immunity Requirement Form.
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Woman answers to theft; stolen goods chargesJune 19,2013Woman answers to theft charges
A Rutland woman denied this week that she shoplifted or was found in possession of more than $1,000 worth of stolen goods from stores in Rutland and Manchester.
Rebecca L. Lambert, 32, pleaded innocent in Rutland criminal court Monday to misdemeanor charges of retail theft, possessing stolen property and operating a motor vehicle without a license. She was released after her arraignment on court ordered conditions.
The charges against Lambert stem from two separate incidents in late April and May.
She was first arrested and cited to appear in court on April 28 after store security at Walmart in Rutland told police Lambert had been seen stealing $84 worth of beauty products and clothing, according to court records.
On May 17, a Vermont State Police trooper arrested Lambert after a search of her car, found by police pulled off to the side of Route 7 in Wallingford, uncovered $1,005 worth of clothing reported stolen from the Orvis and Orvis Outlet stores in Manchester, police said.
If convicted of all three charges, Lambert faces a maximum penalty of up to 3 1/2 years in jail.MORE IN This Just InBRATTLEBORO — Police in Brattleboro say three men have been taken into custody following a... Full StoryMONTPELIER — The state Public Service Board has ordered Vermont Gas Systems to stop digging... Full Story
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By Adam Hetrick
and Kenneth Jones
04 Jun 2013
Schwartz penned God's Ear, produced by the Vineyard in 2008. Anne Kauffman reunites with her as director of the new work that runs through June 23.
According to the Vineyard, "Somewhere Fun follows Rosemary and Evelyn, two women who met 'a hundred thousand years ago' in Central Park when their children were barely born, and who are reunited on Madison Avenue one windy fall day 35 years later. With their children now grown and the world changing rapidly before (what's left of) their eyes, each finds herself face to face with the terrors, joys, and surprises of life and time." It's a "wildly original story about connection — to our families, our memories, our moment in time."
The cast also features Makenna Ballard, Richard Bekins, Griffin Birney, Brooke Bloom, Maria Elena Ramirez and Mary Shultz.
The Vineyard Theatre's leadership includes Douglas Aibel (artistic director), Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell (executive producer), Sarah Stern (co-artistic director) and Michael Page (general manager). Vineyard's home is on 15th Street, just east of Union Square.
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This isn't the Eastern Shore and it sure isn't central Kansas, but the mourning dove population in and near Western Maryland seems to be in pretty good shape this September.
As of this writing I've been out twice and with a little more accuracy could have stored a couple limits in the garage icebox. That's the old refrigerator that chills things such as deer quarters and whole wild turkeys until I can get to them to do the fine-tuned cutting work.
I clean it as often as I think about it or feel up to it and I think the proof that it is an appropriate place for such wild foods is that none of us has ever gotten ill from this home-processed venison. The word venison, by the way, is a term used for all wild game, though most folks mean deer meat when they verbalize it.
Anyway, in spite of the refrigerator's occasional cleanliness, it apparently has a force field that keeps my wife from approaching it. Either that or she is concerned about what she might see should she open the door.
The opening day of mourning dove season is like a holy day to me. The kind of day on which you are required to hunt. To not hunt would be to commit a mortal sin with all of the accompanying spiritual problems.
Speaking of hunting, or not hunting as the case may be, the story making the rounds now is that the number of hunters continues to dwindle. We ran the Associated Press version of the piece Sept. 2 at the top of page one with the headline "Hunter decline worrying state wildlife agencies."
The article went on to say that the number of hunters 16 and older declined by 10 percent between 1996 and 2006, from 14 million to about 12.5 million.
Is hunting going down the tubes?
This isn't the Eastern Shore and it sure isn't central Kansas, but the mourning dove population in and near Western Maryland seems to be in pretty good shape this September.


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November 27th, 2012
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Could this possibly be the scariest practical joke ever?
A Brazilian TV station decided to put unsuspecting people in an elevator… with a ghost.
Would this freak you out?
Honorable mention, and one that would make most of us queasy, is an elevator prank from television manufacturer LG:
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I laughed at all the people screaming, but I admit, if that was me in that elevator I'd be screaming like a girly man.
When did cruelty become an acceptable form of entertainment? That is just sad. I have a strange sense of humor myself but it doesn't extend to this.
Those people won't be needing any coffee that day
They're playing russian roulette with peoples' minds. It's all fun and games until the final bang. Perhaps even then they'd find humor in it.
Any child one encounters in an elevator who turns to face you and shrieks hysterically needs a calm word, gentle reassurance, a touch on the shoulder. Then get on your knees to eliminate the height difference and hold their hand, make eye contact. Most likely this series of actions will quiet him/her for a moment, and you can ask the necessary question of why and what is wrong.
It does not matter that the lights go out, technology does fail. It does not matter if people appear impossibly out of nowhere, just be grateful you're in an elevator and not driving on the freeway. It does not even matter if you're seeing a ghost, who cares, if God really wanted to take your ass he'd just reach out and grab it.
We instinctively fear the unknown but what these people faced was not the unknown, just a shrieking girl.
A girl who really needs to be taken aside right now and assured that while she participated in a cruel prank it is not her fault, the adults who put her up to it exhibited bad judgement and are the cruel ones.
Stop God preaching and get a life
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A newly uncovered video from 26 years ago shows young Prince William and Prince Harry playing with their mother, Princess Diana, and father, Prince Charles.
William is just 3 years old in the footage -- Harry is 1, and Diana is only 24.
Sadly, while the video shows a happy mother playing with her children, she's not so happy when talking about her royal wedding -- an event William enjoyed earlier this year.
When asked if she enjoyed her wedding, Diana replies, "Enjoy something like that? Oh God."
Harry and Will are too cute!
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cytoskeletal reconstitution
From endocytosis to crawling motility, a vast array of cellular functions require the cytoskeleton to organize and remodel the intracellular space and surrounding membranes. Cytoskeletal filaments, such as actin, act as highly dynamic building materials. With the help of regulatory proteins, they self-assemble into structures that push forward membranous protrusions, serve as directed tracks for intracellular transport, or contract to pinch the cell in half or facilitate the cell's adhesion to and remodeling of its surrounding matrix.
We want to understand, broadly, how mechanical forces shape the growth of actin structures and how the molecular architecture of these structures influences their mechanical properties. How does the velocity of branched actin network growth respond to a resisting force? What are the viscoelastic properties of branched actin networks, and how do they change in response to applied forces? What is the role of network architecture in determining the behavior of an actin structure? How do individual components of actin networks, such as single filaments or actin-binding proteins, respond to mechanical forces? We are also interested in using minimal systems to discover the fundamental physical mechanisms that underlie more complex biological functions such as filopodium formation or cell cortex rearrangements.
To address these questions, we use fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, surface patterning and AFM techniques and develop new AFM-based technology. We also collaborate with the Mullins Lab (UCSF) to study the force-dependent biochemistry of dendritic actin nucleation, and with the Geissler Group (UCB) to create simulations that help us understand how thermal fluctuations shape the complex elastic properties of actin networks and actin-membrane interactions.
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Center for Excellence in Knowledge Management & Computational Science
Welcome to CECS
Our nation's security and robust economy rely heavily on infrastructures for communication, energy distribution, water supply, finance, and transportation systems. Some of the civilian infrastructures provide a range of essential services that are necessary to support nation's economy and our quality of life. Computer Science Department has established a Center for Excellence in Knowledge Management and Computational Science (CECS) to under take the nation's needs. The Center will bring several disciplines Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Mathematics together in the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences (NBS). The Center will be used to integrate knowledge and expertise in all the listed disciplines in the newly established College shared facilities. The center is to support programs such as bio-terrorism, network security, bioinformatics and other related areas. The center has the capacity to build infrastructure and new masters programs. The center involves a diverse group of NBS faculty and students in the projects. The Faculty and students come from different disciplines within California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and community colleges in partnership with the University.
The CECS Center serves as a bridge between the technological skills development from the academic community and the economic requirements of the industrial, transportation, and security communities. It provides students with research training and hands-on experiences using state-of-the-art facilities in the various aspects of computational science and related fields that contribute to the further development of homeland security. The Center's programs focus on the following objectives:
- Development of technology-based research and educational programs that will allow the University to participate effectively in public/private partnerships targeting homeland security.
- Engagement of faculty in cyber security, data mining, sensor networks, bioinformatics, and related areas of research and education.
- Involvement of undergraduate students in appropriate levels of research activities.
- Provision of research mentors from educational institutions, industry, and specialized laboratories,
- Increased enrollment and retention of students in technology and quantitative areas of science
- Increased participation of women and minorities in technologically-based undergraduate and graduate studies.
- Collaboration with experts from federal, industry, and other research institutions.
The Center's approach is to develop strategically planned activities to recruit faculty and students to participate in highly competitive technological research programs supported by Federal, State and private agencies. Research opportunities are available throughout the academic year and summer. Students joining CECS center, are required to participate in internships and research experiences in other institutions or agencies. These research and educational activities will evolve into new tracks in our existing academic programs, based on the nation's current technological and homeland security needs.
Date Established: October 15, 2005
Nature of Research: Science & Technology and Research Based
Dr. Mohsen Beheshti
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EYEWITNESS LOCAL NEWSTwo Senior Citizens Earn GEDs After 60 Years
from Eyewitness News Online
Reported by: Elizabeth Noreika
Web Producer: Jeff Morris
Also Contributing: Tiersa Davis
Reported: Dec. 11, 2013 10:27 AM EST
Updated: Dec. 11, 2013 11:18 AM EST
Ashland , Boyd County , Kentucky
Imagine being out of school for more than 60 years and then going back and learning it all over again. That is the challenge that two Kentucky residents faced who were up to the task.
Bob McGinnis, 87, and Willena Cheri McCormick, 72, have a reason to celebrate. They both earned their General Education Development certification at the Adult Learning Center at Ashland Community and Technical College. On Tuesday, the center held a party for the new graduates.
Both dropped out of school at different ages and for different reasons. McCormick was in the eighth grade. She tried to go back to school several times, but it never clicked for her until she started taking classes at the center.
McGinnis was in 11th grade and left Huntington East High School in 1943 to serve in the U.S. Army. He retired from CSX after 41 years on the job and felt like something was missing. He started taking adult education classes at the age of 86 and one year later, was an official high school graduate.
"It's a really good feeling," McGinnis said.
McCormick agreed.
"It meant so much to me once I started, I couldn't get enough of it," she said.
Both will walk across the stage for the official graduation ceremony in June. McGinnis hopes to further his education in college.
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In the Garden > Gardening Tips, Books, Techniques and Tools
Tibouchinas (Tibouchina sp.) should be pruned after flowering or whenever necessary to promote dense, bushy growth. The plant shown in our segment was looking spindly and ugly, so Don pruned it back severely. He started by removing all the dead and dying wood. He then shortened all the branches by about two thirds, even some that were up to 70mm or 3" thick.
Many people would be alarmed at Don's harsh renovation pruning demonstration. However, Don showed another tibouchina that had been treated in exactly the same way and had already grown back into a beautiful, shapely plant. He explained that with this sort of severe pruning you will probably lose one year's flowering, but in the following and subsequent years the plant will produce more and more flowers.
About tibouchinas
Tibouchinas, also known by their old name lasiandras, are native to south-east Brazil. They have purple or pink flowers in late summer or autumn, with some varieties flowering in winter. Popular varieties include 'Alstonville' (tree to 5m or 15', with violet/purple flowers), 'Kathleen' (tree to 7m or 20', pink flowers) and 'Jules' (dwarf shrub to 1m or 3', with purple flowers). Tibouchinas will grow in most warm to cool temperate regions of Australia but are not suited to cool mountain districts, or the warmest parts of tropical Australia.
Tibouchinas like a sunny spot and a light friable soil with plenty of moisture during the growing season. Protect from frosts. Their square stems are brittle, so they also need protection from strong winds, especially when young.
General pruning tips prune at just about any time of the year prune so that you think the whole thing either works better or looks better always take your time and cut carefully and gently aim for a clean, neat wound when pruning large branches first make a small cut underneath to stop the bark tearing when you're unsure, prune in stages; you can always take more off but it's hard to stick bits back on again don't leave stubs poking out that might injure somebody - safety first be ruthless when necessary
A good pair of pruning secateurs can cost $70 - $120.
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Santa Fe Raises Money For Breast Caner, Raiders Volleyball Falls To Buchholz
Published September 26th, 2012
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ALACHUA- On a night when everyone was dressed in pink, it was the Santa Fe girls volleyball team feeling blue after a straight sets loss to Buchholz.
The Bobcats won 25-14 25-13 and 25-16, but both sides won off the court as a pre-game fundraiser offered more than $400 for the Dig Pink Side Out Foundation.
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High-impact aerobics' stepsister, cardiofunk--which marries dance club moves and hip hop music in a low-impact aerobics format--was born at her gym several years later. A version of this class, which is trademarked by Voight, is still taught at her Santa Monica studio.
Its cousin, city jam, another Voight creation that was designed in conjunction with one of her students, soon followed. It features low-impact moves and contemporary music. The concept was taken up by Reebok, which named a shoe after it.


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From: mohammad assadsolimani (m.assadsolimani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-08 09:08:28
Dear all,
I do my PhD in physics and use a program, which uses openmpi for
a sophisticated calculation.
But there is a Problem with "max. message size ". That is limited to ~2GB.
I do not know how is called it exactly?!
Is there any possibility to extend this memory size?
I am very grateful for all of your help and thank you in advanced
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A chance for children to experience music, art, drama and nature all in one place. Three talented instructors, with years of experience with kids, share their knowledge of music, art, theater and nature. They will write a play which they will produce on the final day, create and paint a set, learn watercolor and drawing technique, explore music appreciation and learn a couple songs to put into their play. They will also have a chance to discover the beauty of nature and the outdoors. This week long enrichment program runs from 9 AM to 3 PM, Monday through Friday.
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Apple has invited the media to "come see our latest creation" at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater this Wednesday, but given their recent track record with the iPhone's DRM and App Store policies, it's more likely to be "come see our latest restriction."Support DbD at Apple's Jan. 27 "Come see our latest restriction" event in SF (Thanks, John!)
The anti-DRM Defective by Design campaign will be on-hand to highlight the threats Apple poses to computer user freedom. We're asking people to come out and join us for a little theater of our own, and to help take photos and talk to folks around the event about DRM. We got through to Jobs before on music DRM -- we can do it again with the App Store.
34 Responses to "Defective by Design anti-DRM picket at Apple tablet launch"
holtt says:
Oh are we arguing about this still? Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.
I was setting up a game server and memcache on my Mac while using an iPhone app to see if there was any free wifi around. Found it. Hmm, I gotta get Heligoland when it comes out. iTunes? Sure.
If only Apple's products would quit messing up my life I could actually get some stuff done. Oh, wait.
Halloween Jack says:
You know, maybe I'm still just too bitter over the apparent failure of health care reform, but I really can't let some stanky-ass blurb like "the threats Apple poses to computer user freedom" pass uncommented. Apple poses exactly no threat to computer user freedom, because there is exactly no requirement that I know of to buy one of these gadgets, or any of Apple's others, by any institution that I'm aware of, unlike the many institutions that require their members to use Microsoft products.
What this is really about is that Apple shows signs of, yet again, coming out with The Really Cool Thing, and you'd have to accept their terms if you want one, and damnit, don't you deserve a pony on your terms? Because the TechCrunch tablet debacle proves that you can't really get a pony on your own.
Anonymous says:
Apple has created products so innovative, would the market be the same without them? Unlikely, as few other companies have the vision Apple does. Without Apple leading the way, our phones and laptops would be less innovative on the whole and the market would be stale. I'd rather have them crushing "computer user freedom" than using the boring junk other manufacturers churn out.
JKCalhoun says:
DRM on iPhone apps seems to me to be a *good* thing for a number of reasons:
1) There are no other devices I could even move the software to. If I have another iPhone I can download the same app to it from Apple free of charge since I already paid for it. This is in contrast to music that I would like on many different devices and in possibly different formats.
2) The DRM has been in part responsible for the low prices of AppStore apps since "piracy" isn't baked into the price. A smorgasbord of $0.99 apps has been good for the consumer by and large.
I confess I'm an Apple fan though….
Clif Marsiglio says:
I can't believe the Audible thing keeps coming up.
Audible HAS sold their wares as straight MP3 for years if the licensees allowed it. Audible is owned by Amazon who could easily ask Apple to allow a good portion of their audiobooks to be DRM-free…but instead, one manager from the company came to Apple and said I Got One Thing I Want DRM-Free…You Know That Contract We Have And All That Code We Gave You To Run Under iTunes? We Want You To Devote Considerable Amount Of Time To Change All This…BTW…The Author Of The Book Will Spread Misinformation About You At Any Time And Goes Out Of His Way To Put Your Company In The Worst Light….
Seriously, I would have ignored the request too…maybe if Amazon asked Apple to carry a significant portion of their audiobooks DRM-free and gave a time / date for switchover, that would be different. What was being asked was that one single work be given special status…one that was not going to probably pay for the efforts to change to that special status. Especially after Amazon specified how their DRM was to be used (i.e., it has screwed me on occasion with Audible, but I also know how to get around it…so I just converted all my stuff to MP3 and stopped worrying)…
But good on you for slamming Apple at ever turn, telling people to buy competing products, and then complaining that they won't do you a favor.
Cory Doctorow says:
"Audible HAS sold their wares as straight MP3 for years if the licensees allowed it. "
Clif, you're just wrong.
Provide a single, solitary example of this, please.
Because I'll tell you what: I went to Audible with the Random House Little Brother audiobook in 2008 and asked them for DRM-free and they replied that they had never done DRM free and would not do DRM-free now.
Now, Apple *does* have non-commercial spoken-word records as AACs (*not* MP3s) available through iTunes, e.g., various iTunes University recordings. So Apple already has the infrastructure to provide DRM-free spoken word, and to sell AACs. The hypothesis that they would need to write any new code whatsoever is also just wrong.
Much as I'd like to believe your hypothesis that Apple is so afraid of me that they can't bear to make money off of my books, I think it's also wrong. But if you're right, then you're saying that the company that controls the single, major retail channel for spoken word recordings uses its position to punish its critics, which leaves me wondering, why are you defending them?
Clif Marsiglio says:
Ok, I'm wrong…I looked and it seems that Audible's Type 4 Format is 'MP3*" not actually MP3. I have downloaded things in this format and converted them over to CD without worry in the past, so I took for granted it was an actual CD.
The fact of having DRM-Free AAC on iTunes means nothing if Amazon's contract with Apple demands that they put security on it and to do otherwise would mean going around the contract for ONE SINGLE RECORDING. The technology is there, they just don't care to devote the resources when Amazon is probably saying "Hey Go Give Lipservice To Doctorow And Tell Them We Are Really Trying To Change Our Business Practices". They probably asked, and Apple said Ok, lets change the contracts and everything else, and Amazon said, thats too much work…Apple Said No…
Honestly, I've had features put into software at Apple because I was nice to them…if I acted like a jerk to them at every opportunity condescending on how they just don't get 'it', I'd probably not care to go to the work either.
This doesn't imply being afraid of anyone…its like a gnat in your ear…annoying, but mostly harmless. Still, I'm not so sure if I'd care to do the gnat any favors…
As for punishing critics? I would say yeah…its alright to punish critics if you by punishing them, it means doing exactly what they were before (and most likely doing so under contract). Its the equivalent of saying Megan Fox is punishing me by not returning all the phone calls and emails asking her on a date…even if I wasn't one of the internet nerds screaming that I THINK SHE IS TOO SKINNY AND HER ELBOWS WOULD CUT ME and I post a variation on this every day somewhere on the web, I mean, I believe she is purposely punishing me by ignoring my requests…
Then again, its pretty much like arguing with a wall…
Anonymous says:
Jailbreak anybody?
holtt says:
You go right ahead. I'll try not to enjoy it too much in your presence :)
mgfarrelly says:
A sincere question: Does apple even need to advertise any more?
They put out this single, splattered image and every tech blog on the planet has been trying themselves in knots analyzing it. Couple that with the months (years?) they've been waiting for the iTab/iSlate thing to launch.
Now even the protests are keyed into the product launch? And I agree with them, DRM is nonsense. But man, it's starting to get kind of Monty Python. Apple comes out, says "Boo!" whole world goes mad analyzing just what they meant by that, who this "boo" character is, and so forth.
In short, Apple is bloody brilliant.
Chris Tucker says:
Yeah, you "got through" to Jobs.
What part of the RIAA WOULD NOT ALLOW the iTunes Store to sell tracks without DRM are you having trouble understanding, John?
Apple, now owning the online music sales universe, was able to force the RIAA to allow DRM free sales. As Jobs apparently intended all along.
Don't like Apple's policies? Don't buy anything from Apple.
That'll show them!
Now, DO pay attention:
YOU are not the target audience for the iPod/iTunes/iPhone app store.
YOU have never been the target audience for the iPod/iTunes/iPhone app store.
YOU will never be the target audience for the iPod/iTunes/iPhone app store.
For at least 95+% of the iPod/iTunes/iPhone app store, DRM means nothing to them and does not affect them in the slightest.
The seamless and effortless "click and I have music/iPhone app" is what affects the average user. No hassle, no BS. Just instant gratification.
Want to help humanity? Take all the money EFF is wasting on this silly protest and donate it to any of the Haitian earthquake relief groups.
Cory Doctorow says:
Well, Chris, this version of events would be a lot more compelling if:
1. Apple hadn't dropped DRM in response to Amazon's MP3 store
2. Apple wasn't still insisting on DRM even where major rightholders want it otherwise: Random House Audio (largest publisher in the world) and Audible (largest audiobook publisher in the world) asked Apple to carry my latest audiobook without DRM and were rejected
Chris Tucker says:
Cory, do you deny that Jobs wanted the iTunes Music Store to be DRM free from the beginning?
And how on Earth could Jobs strip DRM from music files without the consent of the RIAA copyright holders?
Apple is just the shopkeeper, it's up to the rights holders to determine if a music file will be DRM free, not the putative iTunes shopkeeper, Mr. Jobs.
Of course, I can see Jobs pointing out the bleeding obvious to the RIAA that Amazon sales are no where near iTunes sales, however, you know guys, if you also allowed Apple to sell unencumbered files you could squeeze even more money out of the buying public, which happens to be the majority of iTunes customers.
As for audiobook DRM, FSM alone knows WHAT ALL goes through the minds of the lawyers and beancounters. Maybe they're confusing you with Harlan Ellison and fear the mighty wrath of the author who sued AOL, thinking he was actually suing the Internet.
Seriously, though, have the Apple legal types made any explanation of why they're insisting on DRM, other than some perceived need to cover the legal ass of Apple for some reason.
I can tell you this, neither the Apple lawyers or beancounters cares one little bit about the DbD people or protests.
Cory Doctorow says:
"Cory, do you deny that Jobs wanted the iTunes Music Store to be DRM free from the beginning?"
I certainly do. Apple's DRM was incredibly profitable to them, giving them control over music-pricing (When Bronfman asked them to change the pricing, they said no, and Bronfman couldn't license to a competing DRM because doing so would require his customers to abandon their investment in iTunes music) and creating a lock-in whereby customers couldn't switch to competing devices without abandoning their investment, or investing time/money in removing the DRM.
Apple made no public statements about DRM until they had achieved a very healthy lock-in.
Even then, as Jobs was calling for the removal of music DRM, he was *giving press conferences* where he advised the film industry to stay away from HD DVD releases until the DRM was perfected. Then, as the single largest shareholder in Disney, he continued to insist upon DRM in Disney releases through the iTunes Store.
Steve Jobs doesn't hate DRM. Steve Jobs wants whatever DRM situtation is optimal for locking in his customers. He and his company are presently the single largest DRM vendors in the world.
"And how on Earth could Jobs strip DRM from music files without the consent of the RIAA copyright holders?"
By offering them the option. There were plenty of musicians, labels and companies asking for no-DRM for many years before Apple began to allow its suppliers to go DRM free.
"Apple is just the shopkeeper, "
No. Apple is the single largest retail channel for an entire industry, selling in a proprietary format that it controls. It's "just a shopkeeper" the way WalMart is "just a store" and "China is just a country where they make stuff."
Cory Doctorow says:
I'm boggled that you think "Apple mistook you for Harlan Ellison" is more plausible than "Apple things DRM is good for its business."
Chris Tucker says:
Cory, I am equally boggled that such an obvious joke went so far over your head that they had to move the ISS out of its way.
I agree that Jobs is not some super holy altruist.
But neither is he the evil, nehru jacket wearing, white cat stroking super villain.
You, yourself enforce a type of DRM on your books via your CC license.
No one but yourself is allowed to profit from them, as I understand it. And that is your undisputed right as copyright holder.
If the actual rights holders to music files wish to exercise their copyright, as they see fit, that's their right. "Mr. Jobs, thou shalt not allow MY intellectual property to copyable. Keep my copyrighted music secure!" "Sure thing!" (aside from burning ten copies of any playlist to discs, and then re-ripping them to MP3, that is.)
I am not disagreeing with you at all about the futility of DRM. I have a ton of applications so I can strip that nonsense from whatever I legally obtain. I still have a VHS Macrovision stripper/stabilizer in the closet that'll pretty much strip Macrovision from any video source with an S-Vid output and send the stripped signal to anything with an S-Vid input.
Claiming that Jobs had some ulterior locking in motive is akin to claiming Jobs had an ulterior motive in locking in Mac OS to Mac hardware.
Um… Maybe that's not the best analogy, perhaps.
Yes, that was also a joke. not at all intended to be taken seriously.
Anonymous says:
You know, I just don't get all this anti-DRM anger. I've under iTunes and many other similar programs and sites and have never once been annoyed with DRM or found it restricting to my behaviour. I mean I can still burn CDs and listen to my music and do most everything I would want to. I certainly don't love the music industries or any restrictions on customer rights, but I'm yet to hear a convincing argument as to why it's a threat to "computer user freedom" as you say.
BritSwedeGuy says:
Now that Apple are ganging up with Microsoft, this battle got all the more important.
adonai says:
I love how the slightest hint of criticism about Apple always brings out the white knights, frothing at the mouth to defend the poor, struggling company.
They are a corporation. They don't give a shit about you. They design some good products, no one contests that fact. But ultimately, every move is about getting more market share and more money. Steve Jobs didn't remove DRM because he's a hippy, but because it was good for business (see the videos & audio books – no real competition, and the DRM stays).
mdh says:
So, you get to go to Apple and get in their face to tell them that they are doing it wrong – on their turf?
I love the moderators at BB, but positions like this one you make their job kinda hard to do evenhandedly when people decide to get in your face on your turf.
How is this picket line not just you trolling their sidewalk?
mkultra says:
I'm slightly befuddled by protests like this. This isn't about CIA secret prisons… it isn't about illegal wiretapping… it has nothing to do with debt relief for Haiti.
Let me summarize: this company makes a product, which does a thing. Despite many other options, and many other products that work in different ways, this one particular product is especially popular. Despite this, people who had no part in making this product, who don't use this product, and who don't think other people should use this product, nevertheless feel the need to protest the company because their products don't work like these guys think they should.
Why? Are they angry that other people like something they don't? What is the motivation here? It seems like there's some sort of ideological purity test that I'm just not getting.
I'm probably overthinking this. Maybe this really is just a shallow attempt by a small group to capitalize on the press swirling around this announcement.
One thing I've kind of always wondered when these things come up… why don't the people who protest this kind of stuff just come up with a better device of their own that does everything they want, in exactly the way they want? Even today, there should be enough venture capital floating around to make this a reality. Gadget design and creation aren't exactly secret lost arts, the Crunchpad debacle proved that. Isn't it logical to compete in the marketplace like everyone else, instead of trying to force other companies to build their devices the way you want them to? I mean, if people didn't like what they bought, they wouldn't buy it, would they?
I swear, I'm not being sarcastic: I honestly don't understand the motivation.
dequeued says:
Why do I protest stuff like this?
Because I find it inherently offensive.
Because society is straying in a direction that I strongly disagree with, and I want to have my say.
Apple, and anyone who pushes DRM, is trying to kill something awesome that I love (freedom, openness, etc)
I don't see what's so complicated about this.
If the Westboro Baptist church had a hate-rally in my town, I would be out, counter-protesting them.
By your logic, I should just stay out of it, because it doesn't directly involve me.
And yes, I did just compare Steve Jobs to Fred Phelps.
No, Steve Jobs isn't as evil.
But DRM still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Everyone in my study group is on-board with this, and I put defective-by-design fliers up around my campus.
What better reason is there to protest something, than that it offends you?
mgfarrelly says:
I'm a librarian and I can tell you that DRM and the arcane pile of hooey that is our copyright code in the US costs students, teachers, schools, universities, businesses and innovators money and time every single day.
Students pay ridiculous fees for books and materials whose creators are long since dead. They get audio and ebooks that are locked to a paticular gadget or borked program. Teachers choices in what they can expose students to are limited by a minefield of copyright and DRM lockouts. Universities are running scared at being sued by the likes of the MPAA and RIAA, two groups of lawyers who are essentially large scale lawsuit-generating factories. Writers, innovators, artists all suffer when information, music and production is locked away behind paywalls and permissions. It's ugly, nagging and it does nothing, NOTHING, to protect or defend the creators.
That's right, it does not help the creators one iota. DRM benefits the middlemen, it benefits the corporations and record companies, it does nothing to help the artist. The notion that an author can't even opt out of the system (like Cory) shows you how profoundly silly it all is.
And don't even go looking at the mess that the sciences face with all this. It's obscene.
I'm angered by it because good ideas should be accessible, shapeable and malleable by all. I want artists and creators to be well compensated. But getting 8% of every book sold is not well-compensated, even though it's pretty standard for publishing. The fact that big name artists can sell millions of albums and still not even break even with their record companies offends me. I want creative people to remix, reinvent, to flow as freely as their ideas will let them. It's the difference between an open and a closed society. The former is better on every single level.
jimkirk says:
Thank you for that! A clear, concise description of how the system is broken and why it matters.
mkultra says:
An artist can't opt out of the system? How does that work exactly? Does someone hold a gun to their head to make them put their work on a DRM-laden online store? It seems like if the principle of the thing were the point, you would want to opt out entirely until they are behaving in a way you can live with. If an artist signs a contract that allows the publisher to do things with the artwork that the artist doesn't agree with, who is to blame? The publisher? The artist? The third party DRM store?
For example, the company I work for officially refuses to sell to Wal-Mart for a bunch of reasons, one of which is because we think they are evil. (they probably don't want what we sell, but it's still our policy.) We're not really being altruistic, it's a lot to do with simple self-preservation, but still.
Anonymous says:
DRM is not a new thing. Rights holders have been building limitations into the media they distribute for a long time, and they aren't going to stop. Sometimes, the limitations come as a happy byproduct of some other design decision (e.g., moving from four track cassettes to CDs) and other times it is deliberately engineered in as an extra layer (remember computer games with code wheels and in-game copy protection?) Eventually, the DRM goes away, either because consumers won't buy it, or because they find a way around it. But something else always shows up.
The real fight against DRM will be won or lost in the legislature and in consumer education. If we can prevent our legislatures from passing (or, if they already have, get them to rescind) DMCA-style protection for DRM and requiring prominent disclosure of any non-obvious copying or usage limitations on all media sold, and if we can raise public awareness about what DRM is and what the consequences of having it are, allowing people to make informed choices (not necessarily the same choices you or I would make, though) then DRM will either become irrelevant or will go away.
At the point where it comes down to some retailers imposing DRM and others not, you can simply vote with your wallets. What an individual retailer does only starts to matter in a monopoly situation and, as far as I can tell, Apple does not have a monopoly over any kind of media distribution.
I'd certainly like for Apple to drop DRM from its ITMS offerings. I've bought music from them since they dropped DRM, and I'd probably buy other stuff from them if they dropped the DRM on that too. But it's not like I can only buy from them; I can quite happily play stuff I got elsewhere on my iPhone and my Mac, and that's exactly what I do.
Kid Geezer says:
I take almost anything Cory says about Apple with enough salt to kill a hobbyhorse. Cory had a major snitfit with Apple a few years back and seems to have dedicated a good deal of his time to bashing them whenever, wherever and for whatever. And he still hasn't presented us with his how-seamless-and-wonderful-my-transition-to-linux (complete with paid support so I won't have any problems)has been. Chris Tucker nailed it at #4 and is rather more credible.
Anonymous says:
This is awesome. I totally support it. Wish I was on the west coast so I could join in. Either way, I'm glad that there are people like the EFF, and Cory (who really handled the comments above perfectly, in my opinion), to say intelligently and effectively what I have felt more quietly for a while now.
Thank you for posting this, and I hope other sources pick up on it, too. Imagine if the Times ran an article about something like this. Not necessarily in support of it, but just bringing the issue to light, factually (probably impossible). That would be really good.
Chris Tucker says:
KidGeezer, your check is in the mail!
All this talk has brought back memories of stripping protection from C64 apps and discs so that I could just Get Things Done without code wheels and counting words in manuals!
Between Maverick and SuperSnapShot, any C64 program I owned was stripped, ripped and in many cases tweaked and tuned to my tastes before being saved to a floppy.
Which reminds me, gotta burn a few iTunes Store purchases to a CD and rip them to MP3.
No one tell Jobs, lest he send his DRM Enforcement Gundams after me.
Eric Ragle says:
What are the alternatives in a DRM world? A Handy Guide would be great. I hate the Apple stronghold (as well as other company's) as much as anybody but I guess I'm just not clear on who the alternatives are.
Rindan says:
Protests are worthwhile for the education, especially in "obscure" cause such as anti-DRM. Here in good old Boston when Sony was selling CDs of rootkit d00m a local Free Culture group set up shop outside of Virgin Records and handed out flyers explaining that there Sony CDs = virus. I spent a few minutes talking with those crazy Free Culture folks and in the few moments I was there saw a pile of people become enlightened, pissed, and turned away.
I might not take to the streets over Apples latest locked in POS, but I sure as shit will be voting with my wallet. Why buy Apple locked in crapware when you can get a nice unlocked Nexus One? Hopefully more companies will follow Google's lead and offer open and unlocked phones.
Eh, in the battle between the evil authoritarian Apple and Microsoft overlords (who the fuck ever predicted them jumping in bed together?) and the omniscient creepily all seeing and all known but apparently benevolent, open, and connected Google god-king, I'll pick the later.
Anonymous says:
Shouldn't we all at least wait to see what is announced before we all start talking arguing over how much we love or hate it?
Knowing just how reliable Apple rumours are, we might end up with anything.
neolithic says:
As an information consumer allow me to fantasize about how I would like to pay for my content (and I do want to pay for it!). As it comes to me through a "tube" like water or gas I would like to pay for it like water or gas, via a meter. What I don't want to do is what I do now: pay for the privilege of storing content that I might not use and that I can never resell.
If we put aside dystopian big brother scenarios, the best solution – and the technology exists if hardware could serve as a meter – would be to be charged a micro rate, set by and negotiated with, the content producer every time I play a song or view a page of an ebook or even visit a website. It is a bit like using Skype rather than having to pay a monthly phone bill.
Zieroh Tardy says:
Defective by Design is the New Greenpeace. By that I mean they are simply picking on the entity that will get them the most headlines and the most attention for their own selfish ends. I find that really pathetic. Any message of truth or importance would stand on its own.
And Cory, your version of Apple history bears only the most tenuous resemblance to reality, and is full of ergo hoc propter hoc.


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18-year-old Robert Salo of Brooklyn, New York was presented a $1,000,000 over-sized prize check today. Lottery officials said he bought his "Win for Life" ticket at Coney Island Convenience, a local store, on May 14th.
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I don't really see why everyone gets mad about kentards online. They usually spam fireballs, jump around, and abuse shoryukens which isn't too hard to punish. I personally enjoy playing Boxer.
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Not now! I know that much. But in two years when there is an option for a sixth at the ML minimum? Hear me out.
Now that the Sox have an option for a 6th year of John Lackey at $500k, would they be able to trade him after exercising that option? If Lackey can pitch 150+ innings at an ERA at or under 5.00 for the next two years, I can imagine a low budget NL team like the Padres taking him on for a year at that price, and giving up some pretty good prospects. What would one year of 150 innings and 5.00 ERA cost in free agency? Five million? And if the Padres or the Rockies could get it for just 500k, they might jump on the chance.
He won't have 5-10 rights, will he?


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This page contains Over The Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts Unlockables for GameBoy Advance called "Unlock Stella" and has been posted or updated on Nov 5, 2006 by liamalexander. Let us know what you think of this Unlockable by thumbs voting.
- Developer: Vicarious Visions
- Publisher: Activision
- Genre: Action Platformer 3D
- Release Date: Oct 10, 2006
- ESRB: Everyone
Unlock Stella
Finish level "Depelter Turbo" of the Story Mode, and then buy her for 70 nuts.
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29/11 Integrity - Creativity :)
2: Cooperation
9: Integrity
1: Creativity
1: Creativity
All digits have an influence — but the two
bolded issues are both key to your hidden calling.
Those on the 29/11 life path are here to combine creative energy with higher principles and integrity, finding ways to apply their creativity in service of others, aligned with higher wisdom. Such higher wisdom is revealed by spiritual laws, especially the laws 29/11s are here to live and learn. All 29/11s, along with other double 1s, have tremendous creative potential. But because their primary life purpose represents a kind of mountain to climb, they may not feel as creative as others who aren't working 1 energy and who have few pressing issues or obstacles in that arena. Some 29/11s are still "stuck" working the 2 or 9 issues that precede the 11, which may block their awareness of the abundant energy available to them. Many 29/11s are extremely creative, but they have trouble handling the energy. Before 29/11s can open the floodgates of their inborn creative potential, they have to find themselves — their center, identity, balance, and boundaries. 29/11s display extraordinary potential; when they face their issues with awareness and commitment, they are among the most creative people on the planet. The energy of 2 entails a form of cooperation with others, and 29/11s are born to support humanity in ways both large and small. Whether businesspeople or healers, construction workers or hairdressers, mail clerks or athletes, they have the potential to bring the spark of creativity to life through their work, their hobbies, or their family life.:)
Hmm this is really interesting... makes me think. I am very Creative and I value Integrity. Haha I have many things that block my creativity as well, so it seems this is quite well on. :)


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The unidentified men were adrift and running out of time when a cargo ship spotted them clinging to their overturned boat, and called for help.
Lt. Jarod Glover, a U.S. Coast Guard pilot, said, "When we first saw them we had no idea how long they'd been out there. It wasn't until moments later when we'd gotten word that they'd in fact been out there for eight days in that situation."
A Coast Guard rescue team found the Bahamian boaters stranded in the middle of the Gulf Stream, approximately 30 miles off shore, between Florida and the Bahamas.
Once there, the Coast Guard lowered rescue swimmer, Kyle Stallings. "I swam over, and you could see they were excited," Stallings said. "They definitely were on their last ray of hope and they were ready to get off that boat."
He says they were dehydrated and were suffering from hypothermia: "You could see it in their skin, you could see it in their eyes, you could see it in their hands.
Using a rescue basket, the crew hoisted the two survivors up to the chopper flying overhead. Stalling said, "One of the gentlemen was saying his prayers, crying."
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