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Congress: Where justice goes to dieSubmitted by Derek K on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 3:37pm.
I think the Supreme Court's ruling today on the Voting Rights Act and the believed implications it will have is a clear testament to how sad this country has become.
Quick summary for those who might not be aware: The Supreme Court ruled today that preclearance - the part of the Voting Rights Act that requires certain communities to have their voting laws checked by the federal government - was valid. But the court said the current maps that designated which communities those were was not valid. By process, the court will leave it up to Congress to create new maps, and that is where the utter ridiculousness of this country comes in. Because no one believes Congress will create new maps.
I mean, really think about that. What kind of country are we? To think that after a ruling like this, it is accepted, and acceptable, that our elected representatives will do nothing? To think that they'll continue to collect paychecks, appear on talk shows and meander comfortably along while others work on surgically cutting millions of voters out of the process? ... Fuck that. And fuck them. This country is so backwards, screwed, and I'm sorry, but I'd really like someone to try to explain to me how anyone who doesn't at least call on their member of Congress to do the just thing and create new maps, how are they not culpable for its sad state?
Nina Turner to Make "Special Announcement" Next Monday. Hmmmmm ....Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 1:26pm.
Got this email this morning from the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.
Join Senator Nina Turner for a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Monday, July 1st 2013
9:00am - 10:00am
Harvard Community Services Center
18240 Harvard Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44128-1743
Everyone is welcome to attend!
Gosh, I wonder what she's going to announce.
I guess no one will be TOO surprised if she announces she's running for Secretary of State.
And in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's just-issued decision, which weakens the Voting Rights Act, it will be IMPERATIVE that we elect her.
In fact, we now need to prioritize electing Democratic secretaries of state across the country to protect everyone's access to the ballot box. While I wouldn't use the word "gutted" the way so many melodramatically inclined progressives are today, the decision has certainly opened the door for suppression-included Republicans to do still more mischief in depriving people of their voting rights.
Turner, not exactly a shrinking violet, had this to say today about the decision:
"I am deeply distressed by today's ruling that, in effect, nullifies the preclearance requirements of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. These locations have a troubling history of suppressing the right to vote, and the scrutiny of preclearance certainly helps increase ballot access in the affected areas. The very existence of our democracy hinges upon free and fair elections. Congress understood this in 1965 and it is no less true today.
63 of Ohio's 88 Democratic County Chairs Endorse Ed FitzGeraldSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:18pm.
Today Cuyahoga County Executive ed FitzGerald's gubernatorial campaign announced that he had received the endorsements of 63 of Ohio's 88 county chairs, an overwhelming number.
Among the supporting county chairs are those from nine of the 10 most populous counties. Party chairs from Cuyahoga County and four of the six surrounding counties — Geauga, Lorain, Medina and Summit — were among those endorsing.
There is a small band who are holding out onto their dream that former attorney general Rich Cordray will run, and they have a "Draft Rich Cordray" Facebook page. But it's getting late in the day for that.
Cordray, being no dummy, surely knows that and hasn't made a move because he's not planning to run this time around (I hold out hope that Cordray, currently in D.C. running the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau while Republicans sulk and try to block his permanent confirmation, will come back to Ohio and run for the Senate against Rob Portman in 2016).
I am not entirely clear on why a handful of people think FitzGerald isn't a good candidate. I have even heard a few people announce that he "cannot" or "will not" win, which is ludicrous given the length of time until the election and the egregious blundering of Governor Kasich. The ever-changing budget's latest permutation raises taxes on the most struggling Ohioans while claiming to have a "surplus" to "give back" to taxpayers — meaning the richest taxpayers. That is going to be hard t o spin.
Ed CAN win, and he's snapping up more and more of the available endorsements. It's really time we all got on board and helped him win this sucker because another four years of Kasich would be a disaster for Ohio's working people.
63 of Ohio's 88 Democratic County Chairs Endorse Ed FitzGeraldSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 06/21/2013 - 10:18pm.
Today Cuyahoga County Executive ed FitzGerald's gubernatorial campaign announced that he had received the endorsements of 63 of Ohio's 88 county chairs, an overwhelming number.
Among the supporting county chairs are those from nine of the 10 most populous counties. Party chairs from Cuyahoga County and four of the six surrounding counties — Geauga, Lorain, Medina and Summit — were among those endorsing.
There is a small band who are holding out onto their dream that former attorney general Rich Cordray will run, and they have a "Draft Rich Cordray" Facebook page. But it's getting late in the day for that.
Cordray, being no dummy, surely knows that and hasn't made a move because he's not planning to run this time around (I hold out hope that Cordray, currently in D.C. running the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau while Republicans sulk and try to block his permanent confirmation, will come back to Ohio and run for the Senate against Rob Portman in 2016).
I am not entirely clear on why a handful of people think FitzGerald isn't a good candidate. I have even heard a few people announce that he "cannot" or "will not" win, which is ludicrous given the length of time until the election and the egregious blundering of Governor Kasich. The ever-changing budget's latest permutation raises taxes on the most struggling Ohioans while claiming to have a "surplus" to "give back" to taxpayers — meaning the richest taxpayers. That is going to be hard t o spin.
Ed CAN win, and he's snapping up more and more of the available endorsements. It's really time we all got on board and helped him win this sucker because another four years of Kasich would be a disaster for Ohio's working people.
Ohio: The Radioactive Waste Capitol of the U.S.?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 12:10pm.
Doesn't that just have the greatest ring to it? Well, maybe not to you but to John Kasich and to our treasurer Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel, both water carriers for Big Gas, it does.
Handout to the oil and gas industry? Gee — who would have thought?
As other states tighten up on how and where radioactive fracking waste can be dumped, they're sending it to Ohio. And while Kasich has made some feeble noises about protecting the state, Mandel has been a full-throated advocate for tossing the regulations and letting the radioactive waste pour in.
Hey Josh, how about your backyard in Beachwood?
OK, no, because someone was telling me they know some of Josh's neighbors, who are less than impressed with him, and they don't deserve that.
Seriously, though, I wonder how some of these politicians would feel if their homes were near a landfill that was accepting radioactive fracking waste.
Of course, these concerned groups are the ones that the arrogant Mandel so blithely dismissed as "fringe" groups — fringe apparently because because they care about the health and well-being of someone besides his billionaire sponsors.
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) "Evolves" on Marriage EqualitySubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 11:17am.
Well, this is good news to hear on a Wednesday morning! Lisa "The Anti-Palin" Murkowski of Alaska has become the third sitting U.S. Senator to endorse marriage equality.
She follows Ohio's Rob Portman whose evolution involved his college-age son's coming out, and Illinois' Mark Kirk, whose evolution involved representing one of the most reliably blue states in the nation where a batshit insane bigot stands little change of statewide re-election (demographics: Illinois population about 12 million, greater Chicago, eight million).
Murkowski's evolution is due to the fact that she's NOT batshit insane, which led to some trouble for her in the last election. She actually LOST the Republican primary to someone who WAS batshit insane and ran as an independent write-in candidate — and won. (The batshit insane candidate, embracing typical GOP voter suppression tactics, went to court to try to have any vote that didn't spell her name exactly right tossed out).
She opens her official statement (link above) with this story:
Not too long ago, I had the honor of nominating an Alaskan family as "Angels in Adoption," a celebration of the selflessness shown by foster care families and those who adopt children. They arrived in Washington, DC, a military family who had opened their doors to not one child but four siblings to make sure that these sisters and brother had the simplest gift you can give a child: a home together. We had lunch together, and they shared their stories with me. All the while, the children politely ate lunch and giggled as content youngsters do. ...
Kasich Wants to Bribe Voters to Re-Elect HimSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 10:17am.
According to the Toledo Blade,
Lawmakers have some additional funds to play with as they enter the home-stretch of finalizing a state budget for the next two years.
"We want them to go into tax cuts," Gov. John Kasich said. "I just don't want to go back to the old days of taxing and spending."
By the way, those "good old days"? That would be right now. The proposed budget, currently being batted around the legislature, tops $60 billion (the Blade says $61.7 billion).
Wild-spending Kasich's last budget was $55.8 billion, according to SunshineRview.org.
This so-called "surplus" is all sleight of hand, of course. Kasich has "balanced" his budget by robbing local governments and schools of money, necessitating levies. Those are tax increases due to Kasich's financial chicanery, no matter what he wants to call them. And I doubt he's going to give me a cut big enough to over the nearly $250 my property taxes increased thanks to his "budgeting." That's an enormous Kasich tax increase. That $25 or $30 I'd probably get back sure isn't going to buy MY vote.
And I REALLY pity the homeowners of Cleveland who were sold a bill of goods to pass a 15 mill levy with a song-and-dance about yet another "transformation plan." What was hidden from the voters was the fact that this new money basically filled the hole left by Kasich's cuts in the last budget.
In fact, "returning" this money to taxpayers is probably the most reckless form of spending Kasich could do (and make no mistake — it IS "spending"). The best form of "spending" would be to invest in Ohi's future by restoring the money that has been cut from public education since Kasich took office.
Josh Mandel, Dutiful Puppet for Big Fossil Fuel, Speaks!Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 10:13pm.
And isn't this special:
Mandel speaks to his masters, addressing the Stark County Oil and Gas Partnership.
Please know that as treasurer of the state, as the CFO of the state, I'm doing everything I can to create a better environment, a strong environment, for oil and gas exploration, and in my mind that means getting government out of the way.
In other words, screw the environment, screw the citizens of the state and let Joshie's corporate puppet master stomp all over us.
According to the Canton Repository, Mandel spewed lies like, well, like Josh Mandel! Said the paper,
Drilling will create jobs in some of the poorest parts of the state, provide money for education and fire and police protection, ensure sound state finances and improve national security by reducing dependence on foreign energy, he said.
Of course, that's mostly hooey from beginning to end.
Mandel also said,
I personally believe this could be one of the biggest upside potentials for the state of Ohio, not just in decades, but in generations, if we approach it in a responsible way that protects the air we breath, the water we drink and the environment for our kids and grand kids.
Apparently all this responsibility will come from the good hearts of corporations who ONLY interest is maximizing profit, since Mandel wants to eliminate regulation of the industry.
Ohio Agency Up for Big National Award!Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 9:06pm.
Don't get too excited. Unfortunately it's Investigative Reporters and Editors' "Golden Padlock" award "honoring a U.S. government agency for its unrelenting commitment to undermining the public's right to know."
Among the five finalists: RobsOhio!
IRE says,
Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the state legislature are nominated for creating a non-profit economic development entity exempt from public records disclosure laws, despite its financing by state grants and bond sales backed by $100 million in profits from the state liquor store monopoly. JobsOhio was spun off from the state's Development Services Agency and staffed by former agency employees at much larger salaries. The governor and legislature designated JobsOhio as a private company exempt from state audits and financial disclosures required for state agencies, making it impossible for the state auditor, news media or citizens to monitor its finances, business investments or potential conflicts interest.
The winner will be announced at the group's national conference in San Antonio Friday. We will be waiting with bated breath to see if our governor's little scheme to steal tax money for his cronies and donors and arrange to have the books slammed shut just as the money starts to flow will beat out the other worthy contenders.
Well this is odd...Submitted by Derek K on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 7:51pm.
Don't really know what to write about this - - check it out...
Packed Event for Connie Pillich in Cleveland TonightSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 6:54pm.
A big crowd of local Democrats, Democratic officeholders and candidates congregated on the patio on Maxi's in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood this evening to support Connie Pillich, Democratic candidate for state treasurer. The weather was perfect, the food was plentiful and excellent, and Connie made it clear why she's the perfect choice to be our next state treasurer.
Ed FitzGerald Speaks Out Agains GOP Assaults on WomenSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 06/14/2013 - 12:24am.
I know that a few months ago there was foot-dragging about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald among some women who assumed that, as an Irish-Catholic male, he might be inclined to oppose women's reproductive rights.
As Cuyahoga County executive, it wasn't an issue on which he had needed to take a position. Issues like abortion, access to contraception, and sex education aren't issues counties are tasked to deal with.
If there's any question about which candidate for governor is the only one women — and men who care about women — should even THINK about voting for, Ed has put that to rest.
He was one of many people/organizations to release a statement today about the assaults on women's health in the "budget" bill and the ghastly limitations on women's rights that is HB 200, introduced this week. And he minced no words.
He said,
Today we saw Ohio House Republicans introduce yet another attack on women's health, and it may be their most extreme yet. I wanted to share with you my response:
I'm appalled that Ohio Republicans are continuing their litany of outrageous attacks on women's health and livelihood. A mandatory ultrasound law is nothing but a government intrusion into private, personal decision-making, coming from the party who pretends to stand for the opposite. These discussions belong only between a woman and her doctor.
"One thing is clear: these escalating attacks on women's health and decisions demand a response—and Governor Kasich has been silent. The longer John Kasich stands idly by as these life-threatening attacks on women continue, the more unforgiveable it becomes.
"I'm running for governor because these cruel and unnecessary attacks on Ohio women must stop. I vow to stand up for Ohio women against these types of attacks which threaten their freedom and well-being.
"Cruel and unnecessary." Well said.
Down With Tyranny Blog Writes about Jennifer GarrisonSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 2:38pm.
The out-of-state blog Down With Tyranny has picked up on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's (DCCC) effort to recruit anti-gay, anti-choice former state legislator Jennifer Garrison to run against Bill Johnson for Congress in Oh-06 next year.
We blogged about this recently.
I think DWT is wrong about a couple of things. Garrison is NOT "Ohio's Sarah Palin." She's not dumb and stumbling and undereducated, relying on flirting to get across. She's a trained lawyer and she's smart. It's just that her positions on key issues are far out of step with practically every Democrat and most other people who aren't hardcore teabaggers.
I'm also curious what their evidence is that she's anti-union because in 2010, one of the reasons the Ohio Democratic Party gave for her being worthy of our support was that she was staunchly supported by unions. As I recall, she had a long list of union endorsements.
But most of the rest of what they say has been well-documented. I wasn't aware that just last year, she argued as an attorney against EHEA or ENDA saying basically that it was a "special right" to guarantee that LGBT people are not discriminated against in housing and jobs. That's really damning.
And for those who have forgotten, here is her April 2004 letter to the Marietta Times, supporting Ohio's 2004 DOMA ballot issue.
Marriage is suddenly under the national microscope. Across our country, citizens are debating the question of gay marriage.
In fact, 30 people - many of them college students - recently rallied in support of gay marriage in Marietta.
To many of us, it may seem as if this debate over marriage dropped out of the sky.
Attorney General Candidate David Pepper in Cleveland Last NightSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 1:28pm.
In light of the insanity and extremism exploding in Columbus, it was refreshing to hear Democratic candidate for attorney general David Pepper speak last night at the Clifton Martini and Wine Bar on the west side of Cleveland. The open-to-all, non-fundraising meet-and-greet was sponsored jointly by the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, the Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus, and the Lakewood Democratic Club.
The first thing Pepper told the assembled group was to stop being doomsters! Anyone who has read my stuff for a while knows this is a pet peeve of mine — this attitude that Republicans are all-powerful, that everything they do will succeed, and nothing we do ever will.
Pepper said he's tired of hearing people insist — a year and a half out from the election — that we have virtually no chance of winning any of the statewide offices next year. He told the crowd that if you start with the attitude that you are defeated, you will be.
He reminded people of several things. In 2010 John Kasich won by two points — 49-47. He didn't even win a majority. Democrats didn't turn out — but if we do, we outnumber them and will always win.
Second, he said there's a large group of people who, thanks to SB 5, will never vote for Kasich — teachers, police officers, firefighters. I know a lot of doomsters who insist they have "forgotten," and maybe a few have. But most haven't. And we need to keep reminding them that if Kasich and his pals are re-elected, a right to work for less bill will be at the top of their agenda.
This Is How They Destroy Women's FreedomSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 10:26am.
"Ohio abortion clinic closes its doors, foreshadowing state budget impact."
Gee, Governor Kasich, whatever happened to those "Jobs" budgets you were promising?
According to the Salon article,
The Center for Choice, an abortion clinic in Toledo, Ohio, shut its doors last week after failing to obtain a transfer agreement with area hospitals. The abortion services provider, which had been open since 1983, is one of two in the Toledo area; the other, Capital Care Network, is expected to close after it loses its transfer agreement with the University of Toledo Medical Center come July. University of Toledo president Lloyd Jacobs withdrew negotiations for a transfer agreement with the facility in order to stay "neutral" on a "controversial issue."
This "transfer agreement" crap is one more way they shut abortion providers, banning abortion by the back door. They place an unneeded restriction on providers, then make that restriction impossible to comply with.
And make no mistake — sanctimonious UT president Lloyd Jacobs the polar opposite of "neutral" on this issue. He has come down completely on the far right anti-woman side of this "controversial" issue and made his university a tool in stripping women of their rights. He cannot dodge this with mealy-mouthed language.
Contact Info:
Lloyd Jacobs
Main Campus
University Hall
Room 3500
Phone: 419.530.2211
Fax: 419.530.4984
(Read the back-patting bio and laugh)
As a medical doctor, Jacobs should know better. So he is either a coward who puts the threats and intimidation of the far right above the lives of women, or else he is a far right Tea Party partisan himself who puts ideology about common sense.
Really? You Dispute My Contention That "Pro-Life" Legislators Don't Care About "Babies"?Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:38pm.
Tell me something. Have you heard raging and handwringing in the state legislature about this:
"Expert says infant mortality rate near University Circle exceeds that of some Third World countries."
The Plain Dealer's Politifact finds this to be unequivocally true.
To stay within three miles of University Circle, we looked at data for neighborhoods on Cleveland's East Side.
We found that two neighborhoods, Hough and Mount Pleasant, had infant mortality rates above 27 per 1,000 -- worse than in North Korea, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Samoa, Maldives or the Gaza Strip.
Two other neighborhoods -- Kinsman (with an infant mortality rate of 31 per 1,000) and South Collinwood (29) -- had infant mortality worse than was reported in Zimbabwe.
Infant mortality in the University Circle neighborhood, according to the NEO CANDO database, was slightly above 69 deaths per 1,000 live births. That exceeds the rate in countries that include, among others, Bangladesh, Haiti, Burma, Cameroon, Djibouti, Sudan, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda and Uganda.
These are ACTUAL "babies," babies being born to exactly the same cohort of women who would have zero choice about whether to have a baby or not under the proposed Republican regulations, the same women least likely to have access to affordable contraception, the women most likely to rely for health care — including maternity care — in Planned Parenthood (which the legislature is defunding) and Medicaid (which the legislature is refusing to expand).
So obviously our fine "pro-life" legislators are lying when they say "life" is so all-fired important to them.
It's not. What is important to them is that these nasty sluts (in their opinion) pay and pay and pay for having had "bad" sex. if the baby dies, well, maybe it's their fault for having been "bad girls."
Ohio Legislature Escalates Its War on Women — AgainSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:29pm.
Is there any limit to the Ohio legislature's hatred of women and its zeal to place them under the total control of Big Government?
Apparently not.
You may have heard about other states who have introduced forced ultrasound bills, where it's mandated that a women seeking an abortion get an invasive transvaginal ultrasound and be shown the pictures, the only reason clearly to try to guilt-trip her into not having an abortion or feeling like shit if she absolutely must.
It raised such a stink in Virginia that it kind of disappeared there.
It surfaced in Ohio yesterday.
In a bill sponsored by Republican (of course) representative from Hocking County Ron Hood and cosponsored by more than 30 of his equally woman-despising colleagues (yes, even the women among them) HB 200 would not only force this procedure upon women, it contains a whole list of other mandated medical requirements, including forcing a doctor to lie to patients in a government-provided script.
It's truly vile. If you can stomach it, you can read this toxic piece of shit here: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_200
if you don't want to slog through the whole thing, Innovation Ohio has a good summary.
Among other things:
it modifies the notification requirements prior to performing an abortion, requiring a physician to meet with a woman 48 hours, instead of the current 24 hours, prior to the abortion. The bill also requires additional documents to be provided to a woman considering an abortion including documents that outline the physiological and anatomical characteristics of the fetus. Among other changes the bill adds the requirement an ultrasound be performed and that the physician describe the fetus and its neurological development.
Innovation Ohio notices potentially big raises for Kasich AppointeesSubmitted by Derek K on Tue, 06/11/2013 - 6:11pm.
In Innovation Ohio's review of the state budget proposal they found some Kasich appointees could get a 30% pay raise. The raise could change their salaries from $102,960 to $134,056. Geez.
They report...
"Current law provides for five senior employees to be involved in policy implementation and development at each state agency. These positions are unclassified, meaning there is no competitive process to apply for them, they merely serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority – in this case the Governor or his cabinet members. They may even be employees who are paid by an agency but work directly out of the Governor's office.
A provision in Kasich's two-year budget — retained by House and Senate lawmakers — increases the amount these appointees can be paid from $102,960 to $134,056 annually:"
Full write-up can be found here:
John Carney, you're such a jokerSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 9:12pm.
We've written about the neat little set-up the legislature rushed through to put the books of taxpayer-funded JobsOhio off limits to auditing. And of course Kasich quickly and privately signed this into law — no surprise since it was probably done at his request.
State representative John Patrick Carney from the Columbus area is now demanding that state auditor David Yost audit the JobsOhio books before the law goes into effect.
He sent the following letter to Yost today:
Auditor Yost,
I am writing to address the recent passage of Senate Bill 67, the bill that was rushed through the legislature to eliminate your ability to audit records at JobsOhio, a deliberate undermining of the Auditor's responsibility to Ohio taxpayers.
After hearing your recent public comments, I am glad to see that you are as concerned as I am about the lack of transparency and accountability at JobsOhio. As you are aware, the Ohio Constitution requires that a full 90 days must pass after a bill is signed before it takes effect as a law. That means you have until September 3, 2013 to receive and audit the full records of JobsOhio, and restore some semblance of trust and understanding to JobsOhio, and its secretive use of millions of taxpayer dollars.
At the very least, I expect that your office will use the next 85 days to audit the subpoenaed documents that were handed over to you on March 19, 2013 from the Ohio Development Services Agency and JobsOhio before SB 67 becomes law and they are shielded from scrutiny. And if you have performed the audit already, Auditor Yost, will Ohioans get to see what you have found?
Nothing makes sense about Edward SnowdenSubmitted by Derek K on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:44am.
In case you were unaware, Edward Snowden is a former employee of a government contractor who recently leaked some information about a government spy program. If you'd like more information you can read about it here.
Edward Snowden would like you to believe he's an honest guy. The people who "broke" the information he provided and then subsequently introduced you to him when he outed himself as a leaker certainly would. But when you dig just a little bit into his story - nothing makes sense.
I'll start out with a broad brush and note that according to Mr. Snowden, he outed himself, because, "I'm not going to hide."
Except he is in hiding. After he leaked all his information he took off to Hong Kong.
He then states that he's all about transparency. Except that he refused to disclose what party he supports or who he voted for in the Presidential election. When asked he just stated a third party, but really, why hide it? It's just going to make people dig, and that's exactly what they did. After Mr. Snowden's vague response, people found that he donated a few hundred dollars to Ron Paul in 2008.
After that you get into Edward Snowden's history, which turns out to be pretty murky. According to the Washington Post
"Some former CIA officials said they were troubled by aspects of Snowden's background, at least as he described it to The Post and the Guardian.
The real outrage is the phony concern over government spyingSubmitted by Derek K on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 4:07pm.
I've been trying not to follow the latest "scandal" involving the Obama Administration. I put the word scandal in quotation marks, because the information that's being reported is nothing new. In fact, it's about a decade old. The information being, that the government is collecting a mass amount of data on people.
But ignoring this new "scandal" is getting pretty hard, because stories about it are everywhere. And as I read them, all I can think is, if this information is new to you - you're an idiot.
Seriously, if this is new to you, where have you been for the last ten years?
I remember reading about the mass collection of data on people back when the Patriot Act was being debated. The erosion of our civil liberties; this is what all those far-lefties were yelling about. There were articles and books written that specifically explained that the US government was working with telecommunications and internet companies to monitor citizens. I can think of two books off the top of my head that reported this. One was Robert O'Harrow's No Place to Hide. The book was written in 2005. Here's Amazon's intro of it...
"In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex. Drawing on his years of investigation, O'Harrow shows how the government now depends on burgeoning private reservoirs of information about almost every aspect of our lives to promote homeland security and fight the war on terror."
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Then there's also Angler by Barton Gellman. It's a book about Dick Cheney, but he also covers the fact that almost every American has been spied on (or "profiled") by the US government.
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Defunding Planned Parenthood denies access to affordable health care to both men and womenSubmitted by Derek K on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:20am.
Great Letter to the Editor in today's Plain Dealer about the many health care services Planned Parenthood offers. While many people believe all Planned Parenthood does is abortions, it sets the record straight...
"Only 3 percent of their services have to do with abortion. Another 33.3 is contraception services. This includes vasectomies. Thirty-eight percent of its services include treating men and women for sexually transmitted diseases. Another 14.5 percent is for cancer screening and prevention. Other services include pregnancy tests, prenatal services, adoption referrals and a nutrition program for low-income families."
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The effort to bring fairer wages and benefits to WalMartSubmitted by Derek K on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 3:30pm.
Great write-up in the Huffington Post about OUR WalMart (Organization United for Respect) and their efforts to bring change to the world's largest retailer. It starts out...
"Earlier this year, Janet Sparks was called in to meet her bosses at the Walmart in Baker, La., where she works as a non-salaried supervisor in the customer service department.
Sparks, 53, had approached the managers earlier to complain about the treatment of some of her co-workers. Now, her bosses accused her of "creating a hostile work environment," Sparks recalled. "They were not going to allow this."
It continues...
"But Sparks had already become involved with a nascent labor movement seeking to organize people inside the world's largest retailer, and she was cognizant that she had rights. She presented her managers with a government document that laid out the rights of non-union workers to organize. By the end of the meeting, she said, the bosses had agreed not to discipline her or her co-workers."
And then there's this...
"Many of Walmart's 1.5 million workers earn close to minimum wage, placing them among the fast-growing cohort of American workers who earn so little that they officially live in poverty. Those who earn more often lack the hours they need to make ends meet."
We've heard it before, but it can't be said enough, WalMart and their low wage policies are helping to create mass poverty. We need to start working towards livable wages. People who have jobs and are working should not also need food stamps. The saying "united we bargain, divided we beg" couldn't be truer. Let's end the begging: this is America.
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Josh Mandel = Male version of Michele BachmannSubmitted by Derek K on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 12:57pm.
I recently watched the following video from CNN. It's the one where Michele Bachmann is desperately trying to flee a reporter. As she's running the reporter does manage to get some questions in, but all they get in response is gibberish. The "titanium" spine woman evades questions about outright lies she told as she looks for a place to run and hide. And while I was watching it all I could think is, this is Josh Mandel. And then I really thought about it, from bizarre Muslim allegations (Kevin Boyce, Huma Abedin)to telling outright lies and then staring blankly when confronted about them, these two, are basically the same person. I mean think about it.
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More Potential for GOP Scandal. Oh No! Not in Josh Mandel's Office! Can't BeSubmitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 10:55am.
Apparently, our state treasurer, Josh "The Empty Suit" Mandel isn't going to let our governor outdo him in setting up a situation ripe for abuse.
He has assumed ALL authority for deciding where state public pension funds are invested, with no input from the pension fund managers. He's getting some probably unwanted attention on this from the Columbus Dispatch:
And the Youngstown Vindicator:
Remember, this is the same Josh Mandel who, a few weeks ago in the Dispatch story, voiced the opinion that public workers had unrealistic expectations that their funds would not be able to deliver — but the figures he cited in the story were wrong, said the Dispatch.
In that story, Mandel expressed the opinion that the pension deals — hammered out last year and passed with bipartisan support — would have to be revisited, never mind that public workers had already increased their contributions and length of service to collect.
All this based on figures about the return the funds were showing that were way off and showed them to be in much better shape than Mandel was claiming.
Why on earth would anyone trust this guy to make decisions about where the funds would be banked?
Of course, why on earth would anyone trust this lazy, lying, unethical creep to begin with?
For the good of Ohio, the good of its workers and citizens, and the safety of its money, we need to elect Connie Pillich our state treasurer next year.


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Players/Officials: AB de Villiers | Imran Farhat | David Miller | Misbah-ul-Haq
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A lot of attention coming into the fourth South Africa-Pakistan ODI in Durban was centred around the pitch and subcontinental-like conditions the venue often proffers. While both captains agreed that the track was a bit slow, South Africa's AB de Villiers said the conditions weren't that "difficult" to deal with, rather it was losing set batsmen at the wrong time that cost his team.
"The main thing was to adapt quickly and to assess the pitch conditions, it just took us a while and cost us a few wickets," de Villiers said after the match. "After about three or four overs that I faced, I got used to the pace of the deck and realised that it wasn't turning much. It only started to turn more after about 30-35 overs, because of which the leading edges were there. There wasn't a lot of turn and it was quite slow; once we got used to that, we rotated the strike and picked up a few boundaries to get the momentum on our side again."
De Villiers was left to salvage the South African innings with David Miller, who replaced the injured Faf du Plessis, after the top order was carved up by Pakistan's new-ball pair. Mohammad Irfan and Junaid Khan had the hosts gasping at 38 for 4 in 10 overs, before a 115-run stand between de Villiers and Miller put them back on track. However, both batsmen were dismissed within four overs on either side of the 35-over mark, denying South Africa an ideal finish.
While that proved costly for his side, de Villiers pointed out that they were dismissed by the "best bowler in the world", in Saeed Ajmal, so it was not "the end of the world". "It was very important to bat till the end. But it's part of the game, you're not going to bat 50 overs every game as an individual.
"My gameplan was to get to 45 overs, which I didn't, and I'm sure Dave too wanted to bat longer," he said. "I thought both of us batted really well, did a massive job for the team to get back into the game and to get a decent total. At one stage we were staring at a low total but we fought back well. Unfortunately I got out at a really bad time. It cost us 20 runs which would have been handy during the end of the bowling session there."
Pakistan's innings took a similar course, with a clutch of wickets going down at the start, only for captain Misbah-ul-Haq to resurrect the chase in the company of Imran Farhat. Importantly for Pakistan, Farhat stayed till the 48th over, bringing them to the very brink. Misbah had good words for him: "The ball wasn't coming at an even pace, there was a little bit of extra bounce in the second half, some balls were stopping a little bit, it wasn't easy to bat on that, but I think at the end Imran batted well. They bowled well, but we showed a little bit of character and we managed to win this game."
It was a game Pakistan had to win to keep the series alive, and their chances of doing that took a blow early on as Mohammad Hafeez was out for a duck in the second over, becoming the first batsman in international cricket to be dismissed obstructing the field under the new laws. While Misbah accepted that the decision ultimately lay with the umpires, he said Hafeez's reaction suggested he did not wilfully change course while running to get in the way of de Villiers' throw.
"He was just running in line, trying to shorten the length," Misbah said. "He wasn't looking behind when AB threw the ball, so he was suggesting it wasn't intentional because he didn't know where the ball was thrown [from]. But in the end, it was the umpire's call."
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed certain aspects of the financial viability of the Great Plains coal gasification project. Specifically, the report examined the financial status of the project as shown in Great Plains' May 1984 cash-flow projection to the Department of Energy and the effect of proposed assistance from the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC) on the project's finances.
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Very new in WMC 7 and I am facing a serious problem with sending SPDIF signal to my external amp.
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I hereby mention the configuration already done but no AC3 and DTS from my movies reaches the amplifier.
I just finished my movie library and i can not hear proper sound.
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Well, I have two suggestions.
1. Right click on the speaker icon, select "Playback devices". There you should see a "Digital Output Device" Right Click on it and select "set as default device". That should do the trick.
2. Install AC3filter, block ffdshow and prefer ac3filter in settings, and set it to SPDIF mode.
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Notes of the State of ... Connecticut??
You've probably heard of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (and if you haven't, just wait until next week, and watch this space!), but you may not have heard that Jefferson's text was an expanded version of answers to a set of questions posed by François Marbois, the secretary to the minister from France, Anne-César, Chevalier de La Luzerne. In late 1780 and early 1781, Marbois sent lists of queries to representatives of each state (some with 16 questions, some with 22), requesting information ranging from "descriptions of the state boundaries and natural resources to the religion and social customs of its people. He asked for information about state history, population (including Native American peoples), manufacturing, and colleges, as well as specific information about how each state handled estates taken from Tories."
Our April Object of the Month is a draft of Roger Sherman's reply to Marbois, which he wrote in November 1782. Sherman, a Connecticut representative to the Continental Congress from 1774-81 and again in 1783-84, notes in his letter that he has delayed answering until he was "able to obtain an account of all the articles about which you desire to be informed." He goes on to provide answers to Marbois' questions, and enclosing several additional lists and texts. Of the principal manufactures, he writes: "Coarse linens & Woolens. Potash. Salt Petre, of which more than 100 Tons has been made in Connecticut Since the present war. & a Sufficient quantity of G. powder. Most kinds of Iron ware is also manufactured here, such as Cannon, & Cast Iron of all kinds & Edge Tools Such as Axes Sythes &c." Of Tory property: "The Estates of the Rebels who have joined the Enemy or voluntarily taken probation under them are forfeited to the State, & disposed of for the expence of the war." You can see images of the full draft letter, or read a transcription, here.
In her Object of the Month essay, Digital Projects Coordinator Nancy Heywood also touches on the other known responses to Marbois. John Witherspoon penned "A Description of the State of New-Jersey" (viewable here via Google Books), and we have a copy of Marbois' queries regarding that state in the William Livingston papers II (viewable online here). And General John Sullivan answered Marbois in December 1780 regarding the state of New Hampshire, of which the original is at the Huntington Library (we have copies of both Marbois' queries and Sullivan's reply in our Miscellaneous Bound collection). The Historical Society of Pennsylvania holds Marbois' letter to Thomas McKean with queries about Delaware, although we don't know if any response exists. Of course the most famous reply, which was what grew into Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (the original manuscript copy of which is part of the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson manuscripts at MHS, and is now viewable online here).
Are there other "Notes on the state of ___" still out there? We suspect it's entirely possible, and welcome news on any of them!
Apr 8, 2010, 8:10 am
A few other works spring to mind-
Gilbert Imlay's "A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America" discusses the Northwest Territories (1791)
Henry Marie Brackenridge's "Views of Louisiana" (1814)
Apr 8, 2010, 8:48 am
Colleen - thanks for those suggestions! Those works are certainly early descriptions of American locales (and fascinating ones, at that), but they're not - so far as we know - direct responses to Marbois' queries from the early 1780s.
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Joshua writes "JAXA, Japan's version of NASA, has scheduled the launch of its new rocket, the H-IIB, for September 11th, 2009. The rocket will be carrying up the first in a series of unmanned supply vessels for the ISS called the HTV. The new Japanese addition to the international space fleet comes as a huge welcome sign to NASA, who has scheduled the space shuttle to retire in 2010. The HTV will be able to transport vital supplies, equipment, and experiments to the ISS, a job that the US space shuttle has been doing largely up until now. Yearly launches for the H-II2 and HTV are scheduled between now and 2015. Until NASA can finish the next generation Ares I rocket, which isn't likely to be finished before 2017, taking astronauts into space and to the ISS will likely become the job of Russia."


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Using objective data to justify responsive websites
published 7 February 2013
We took a popular ecommerce store (O'Neill Clothing) that we'd recently redesigned and monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks. Then we quietly deployed the responsive conditions to the already live site and monitored for another three weeks….
iPhone transactions more than doubled. Android transactions more than tripled. All from relatively quick optimization.
In the article, they lay out some pretty impressive increases in conversions, transactions, and revenue as responsive features were introduced to the site.
Coincidentally, Electric Pulp is hiring a PHP Developer and Front-End Developer. Candidates local to South Dakota preferred, but telecommute and relocation are options, too.
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"Design is a business activity."
published 5 February 2013
Erika Hall, guest author in A List Apart's "What We Learned in 2012":
Changing the design of an interactive system changes the organization behind it…. Organizations are just groups of people with goals, rules, and customs. Designers are just people with certain skills. But because of insecurity on both sides, differences trigger defense mechanisms. We resort to jargon. All the hoo-ha around "design thinking" is just a distraction. Design is a business activity. It goes well when designers and businesses work together to solve a real problem with good information and clear goals. The hard part is confronting all the specific mundane things that interfere.
Plenty of other savvy observations in ALA's round-up from various authors, including predictions for the coming year.
"The problem of sitting comfortably was solved already."
published 24 January 2013
Yaron Schoen adding (subtly) his voice to the "flat design", "to PSD or not to", and skeuomorphism banter making the rounds of late:
Clearly without function, form is pointless. But a beautiful and timeless product has both an elegant solution and an elegant aesthetic, it rarely ever is one or the other. For example, the problem of sitting comfortably was solved already, what makes the Eames chair iconic is its timeless beauty and its comfortableness….
There are many ways to achieve or interpret beauty, it's not an absolute science. If it were we'd all be out of a job and life would be pretty boring.
Takeaway: Beauty has, and will always have, a place in making our world better. But we designers should avoid absolutes, even if they seem reasonable. (After all, the skilled designer intentionally breaks rules from time to time, confidently knowing what the rules are.)
The "post-full-comp" era
published 23 January 2013
Daniel Mall, continuing the post-PSD conversation I mentioned in yesterday's post:
To be fair, I don't think we're in a post-PSD era, but I do think we're moving towards a post-"full-comp" era. I can't envision a project where I don't use Photoshop. Photoshop isn't the problem. It's a great tool. My favorite, actually. It's the stigma that comes with presenting a full comp (I define "full comp" as an image of a website viewed on a desktop, typically around 960px wide). By default, presenting a full comp says to your client, "This is how everyone will see your site." In our multi-device world, we're quickly moving towards, "This is how some people will see your site," but we're not doing a great job of communicating that.
As an industry, we sell websites like paintings. Instead, we should be selling beautiful and easy access to content, agnostic of device, screen size, or context.
"It's like looking at an awkward love child of two designs."
published 22 January 2013
Noah Stokes, admitting that the general simplicity of current responsive web design leaves him wanting more:
Where are the RWD sites that have some sense of unique design that goes further than a clean/clear grid, beautiful imagery and nice typography?
Continuing in want, Noah confesses something that I wish more of us would admit, as Noah and I surely aren't the only ones longing for optimal renderings of our intended designs:
The purist in me wants a pixel perfect design in the browser and responsive gives me that at certain break points, but the in betweens are what kill me. It's like looking at an awkward love child of two designs….
Bottom line: I'm a perfectionist and a design junkie. I want to see beautiful, immersive sites executed with perfection in every browser and responsive web design doesn't play to either of those tendencies very well, thus leaving me wanting.
We are indebted to Ethan Marcotte, Dan Cederholm, and the many voices that have rallied for responsive, bulletproof web design over the years. But perhaps we've gotten a little carried away lately, arguing that there's little value in tools and processes outside those that are optimized for flexible designs fleshed out with code from the beginning.
Brad Frost's "The Post-PSD Era" comes to mind. It's well-written and makes a compelling case for using methods more efficient than Photoshop for articulating interactions and screen resolutions. Brad is another voice that, thankfully, has championed the cause of responsive design.
But just as Noah is left wanting more, I find myself longing for more of us to encourage you and your team to do what works best for you, not what works best for the experts. You know your circumstances, your users, and your personal preferences best. And if that means responsive web design — or design methodology or todo app or office chair or whatever — isn't the right choice for you, don't be ashamed if you find yourself wanting more, or at least wanting something else.
New Year's: 50% off all listings at Authentic Jobs
published 2 January 2013
Get a jump start on hiring new employees and finding freelancers at Authentic Jobs with our annual New Year's promotion: 50% off all listings. Use promo code
We typically offer a discount this steep only twice a year, so take advantage of the promotion while it lasts. Expires midnight on January 11.
(Bokeh photo used in the promotional artwork is from my Flickr stream.)
Angelo Badalamenti: "That's how it was done."
published 18 December 2012
This is terrific, beautiful storytelling. Angelo Badalamenti, composer of the theme for TV series "Twin Peaks", describes how the music came to life in a conversation with the show's creator, David Lynch.
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Ethiopia + Will Smith
published 14 December 2012
I've waited literally months to share this.
The annual September campaign is past, and respect for the privacy and security of the Smiths has been given. I'm now free to share some of the details of our trip to Ethiopia this past summer.
Rewind a little bit. In 2011, you helped my company, Authentic Jobs, raise nearly $25,000 for charity: water in our annual campaign. That amount, or the sum of your generous donations, qualified our campaign for the chance to visit Ethiopia with Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
But only two spots on the trip were given to each of the three qualifying campaigns, based on overall donation amount. I remember fielding the call from Paull Young, notifying me that our campaign was one of the three, while I was at the soccer fields watching my sons train. I was elated. And yet, simultaneously, I felt empty inside. You, all of you, had donated so charitably, and I didn't feel worthy of an opportunity that every one of you should have been privy to.
Weeks passed before the details of the trip were finalized by charity: water, in large part due to working around the Smiths' schedule. This afforded me plenty of time to continue lamenting the fact that I shouldn't be the one to go; that all of you were equal suitors for the chance. In the end, I convinced myself that I would represent all of you on the trip. My wife, Suzanne, was the logical choice to occupy the second spot, having been at my side since founding Authentic Jobs seven years ago. I felt her perspective would be critical to sharing the experience with all of you.
Fast-forward to Summer 2012. We were on a flight. A rather long one. To Ethiopia. TO JOIN UP WITH WILL SMITH WOW THIS IS CRAZINESS SRSLY? And how were we supposed to address them? Mr. & Mrs. Smith? Agent Jay & Gloria? We asked ourselves this question numerous times, I assure you.
To clarify, and this is important clarification, the trip wasn't about the Smiths. It wasn't about visiting Africa with an international superstar and his celebrity wife. We were there to see the impact charity: water and its supporters (again, you) have made in one of the many regions where charity: water has brought clean drinking water to local villages through freshwater wells and other purification efforts. We were all in this together for three days.1 And it really felt like that.
For those three days from sun up to sun down, we traveled from village to village. Some villages were very remote requiring half-hour drives by car over rough terrain. Some had received a well already. Others were anticipating receiving a well. All were welcoming.
As we drove into each village, a welcoming party was there to greet us, sometimes numbering several hundred strong. Signs in both Tigrinya and English were waving, drums were beating, and we were expected to dance with the locals (which we did). It was a party unlike any other I'd ever seen. Most importantly, it was a gratitude party, as I'd call it. Have you ever attended one of those? I hadn't prior to Ethiopia, and it was incredible to experience.
After the initial welcome, we were whisked away to the center of the village where we were fed and showered with gifts.
The expressions of gratitude continued, which were nearly redundant, for you could see the gratitude written all over their faces. Words weren't necessary to convey their appreciation. It shone abundantly in their countenances.
There was plenty of walking, and during that time we had a few moments to chat with the Smiths. We joked about the scene in one of his movies where his face swells up from a food allergy. "That really happened to me as a kid," he explained, but from a bee sting. "So we worked it into the movie."
There were other times we shared meals together, back at the Gheralta Lodge. We sat right across the table from Will and Jada on a couple occasions, and they were genuinely pleasant.
Yet as I said earlier, we were all in this together. We were there for the locals, not the other way around. Will and Jada took every step in stride, as we all did. You can see, for example, the genuine interest and concern on Will's face as he watched Suzanne give an impromptu speech at one of the schools we visited.
I was fortunate to capture her speech with my iPhone. I was seated with the rest of the locals, and pulling out my rather cumbersome Canon 7D didn't feel right. So I quietly removed my phone from pocket and began filming. How grateful I am for doing that.
But of everything we experienced during the trip, nothing impacted us like the children. Consistently we were left behind by our group as we tried to communicate with them using hand gestures, as we took photos and showed them the images on the camera's screen, and as we made them smile and laugh with high-fives and other Western gestures.
Just look at those faces. How can you not fall in love with that?
Below are video recaps from our trip. The first we produced, and the second was produced by charity: water. Most of the footage in both was captured with my Canon 7D camera, which records video exceptionally well.
As for the impact the children had on us, I'll share more about that before the year is over. For now, please enjoy the videos and photos. More importantly, please share our campaign site on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and consider donating generously to help us reach our $30,000 goal.
The 'we' being Suzanne and myself; Will and Jada Smith; Matt Hall and Dr. John Nosti of Smile Generation (the second qualifying campaign); charity: water founder Scott Harrison and two important staff members, Lindsay Ratowsky and Lauren Miller, who masterminded literally the entire trip. Jane Berentson of Inc. magazine, the third qualifying campaign, was unable to attend our trip but did attend another. ↩
"Presenting is the art of directing attention."
published 6 December 2012
Tech conferences can be a hostile environment for presenting. Everybody has four devices, three IRC channels, mail, twitter, and a commit or two in flight while you are doing your thing onstage. Attendees know that the talks are going to be available later online. They can afford to tune you out because they're here for the "hallway track". Attempting to harness attention can feel as futile as spooning back the tide.
Every design decision you make, from the talk topic to the slide design, must help you combat this reality by making it easier to acquire and retain audience attention. Learning how to write a succinct talk abstract is half the battle. Know thine audience, and make sure the first sentence or two will pique their curiosity and leave them with a taste for more.
Idan's full article, Designing Presentations, is wonderfully insightful, even for a speaking veteran like myself.
From my personal archives, see also 20 tips for better conference speaking. Three years after the article was authored, #1 on the list still remains my #1 tip. And it aligns nicely with the advice from Idan above.
"The iPad Mini is a conflicted product."
published 13 November 2012
Apple didn't make an arbitrary decision to withhold Retina on the Mini to save money, upsell more buyers to the iPad 4, or "force" the first generation of iPad Mini owners to upgrade next year. They chose not to ship a Retina iPad Mini because it would be significantly worse than the previous iPads in very important factors.
Imagine the fallout if a Retina Mini shipped with only three hours of battery life, or was inelegantly thick and heavy. Or, very importantly to the iPad's market, imagine if its GPUs were slower and it ran existing iPad games extremely poorly….
That's why we don't have a Retina iPad Mini yet. It's not only about price: it's because the resulting product would suck in at least two other important ways.
Speaking of previous models, you can pick up refurbished iPads for as little as $319.
(For the record, I'm still strongly considering getting an iPad mini, even if that means ebaying it when the retina model comes out.)
Adiós, Apple Skeuomorphism?
published 1 November 2012
New York Times, yesterday:
[Steve Jobs] pushed the company's software designers to use the linen texture liberally in the software for the company's mobile devices. He did the same with many other virtual doodads that mimic the appearance and behavior of real-world things, like wooden shelves for organizing newspapers and the page-flipping motion of a book, according to people who worked with him but declined to be named to avoid Apple's ire.
The management shake-up that Apple announced on Monday is likely to mean that Apple will shift away from such visual tricks, which many people within the company look down upon.
Yes, please. And a shift away from Jobs' preference for skeuomorphism would perfectly align with this advice given shortly before his passing to Tim Cook:
"Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. 'Just do what's right,'" Cook said. Jobs wanted Apple to avoid the trap that Walt Disney Co. fell into after the death of its iconic founder, Cook said, where "everyone spent all their time thinking and talking about what Walt would do."
Hats off to Tim Cook for following through on a dying wish.
/via @neilw
"We've all started talking about content again."
published 22 October 2012
Mark Boulton, on adaptive content management:
For a long while, our content problems were hard problems and nobody wanted to confront them. But as far back as the monks, good designers have always concerned themselves with content however difficult it was. So let's not think about our pages of content anymore, let's think about bits of content. Let's think about stories as collections of resources, meta data and links that never have a beginning, middle and end. Let's think of our stories as adaptive. And let's build systems so we can make them that way.
/via @karenmcgrane
"No two creative blocks are alike."
published 9 October 2012
Alex Cornell has compiled advice from 90 creative professionals such as Debbie Millman, Paula Scher, and Nicholas Felton, all on overcoming creative block. And he's packaged it all neatly in a book titled Breakthrough!: Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block and Spark Your Imagination.
My advice is found on page 47. With Alex's permission, reprinted below are my remarks.
My process for battling creative block is to not prescribe a process for battling creative block. By that I mean no two creative blocks are alike. To assume the same process can cure each and every block would be a little bit nutty, if you ask me.
Sometimes just plowing through a block works great for me. The more I crank out bad or mediocre ideas, the better my chances of cranking out good ones eventually. Then again, sometimes that doesn't work.
Sometimes temporarily conceding defeat works great. I leave a design alone for a time, only to return victoriously later in the day or the following day. But sometimes that doesn't work either.
Sometimes just staring at a screen or printed matter works great. In fact, I find I tend to stare at my designs, comtemplating the rightness or wrongness of them, more than I actually spend time designing those designs. Of course, that doesn't always work.
Sometimes I get lucky and amazing designs slip from my fingers as if fate was in the driver's seat. Rarely does that work for me.
So, how do I overcome creative blocks? By having several block-curing methods at my disposal, rather than a single method. Overcoming blocks is an art, not a science, and we all know art is much more about trial and error than established practices.
I've not read all of the other strategies yet, but I'll be taking the (nearly) pocket-sized book with me on my flight this evening to Brooklyn Beta, where I'm positive I'll hear epic war stories about overcoming creative block. (Creative block is an all-out war sometimes, is it not?)
"Our creativity comes from without, not from within."
published 18 September 2012
Kirby Ferguson speaking at TED on the topic of remixing:
Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another, and admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness. It's a liberation from our misconceptions, and it's an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves and to simply begin.
This is the same topic I'll be speaking on — creativity and remixing existing matter — at ConvergeFL in Tallahassee, Florida (October 4–5).
"In closing. Not good."
published 14 September 2012
Brand New on the new eBay logo:
This logo is not bad. Let's establish that. There is nothing wrong with it. The letters haven't been mangled, the colors don't induce puking, and the ™ is, amazingly, all lowercase to match the logo.
But this logo is not good either. Very far from good actually but unfortunately not so far that it demands the full berating it deserves. Of all the potential logos that could be done for eBay this is the absolute most boring and risk-averse logo that could have been both presented and selected.
As for what the logo might have been, even one that was visually "rooted in [their] proud history" perhaps better than the Lippincott-designed one? See Tony Gines' 12-minute makeover.
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Ch-ch-check out the issue of Stellar this month! The bumper edition is packed to celebrate their birthday so it's well worth a buy. I'm giving my winter style tips alongside some of Ireland's most fashionable ladies.
I'm finally getting into routine now (four weeks later!) and will have a style post later in the week. I'm beginning to do more projects with other blog/photographers/stylists etc, so hopefully I can show you more of that work too. It's all so exciting! Though I do feel guilty that I have to pull back from the blog in order to balance everything. Everything comes at a price I suppose!


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