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Jack Jackson should have been a natural to tap into the millions of dollars Arizona's Indian tribes pump into elections. A member of the Navajo Nation, Jackson had represented his people as a Democrat in the state Legislature, as his father had before him.
So when Jackson decided to take on Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., in this year's congressional election, he was banking on early financial support from Arizona's casino-rich Indian communities.
What he got instead was a rude awakening — $2,000 from a single Arizona tribe and $5,550 from out-of-state Indian communities.
The lesson for Jackson is that when it comes to Indian money, political loyalty runs thicker than blood.
Renzi is not an Indian. But he is a favorite of the tribes, an incumbent who almost always takes their side in Congress. His reward so far this election is almost $80,000 from Indian tribes, including about $25,400 from Arizona communities.
"I certainly was banking on getting better support from the tribes when I started," said Jackson, who scrapped his congressional bid in March, citing trouble raising money. "I don't know why they weren't quicker with the checkbook."
Indian tribes have become a powerful force in politics. They are among the top financiers of state elections in Arizona, and their financial influence is growing nationally.
Flush with casino revenue, Arizona's 22 tribes have paid more than $48 million to push their political agenda in the last six years. Almost all of it came from tribes that operate casinos.
Most of their largesse — $30.7 million — went to a pair of 2002 state ballot initiatives to expand gaming at Indian casinos. An additional $4.6 million was spread across dozens of congressional candidates and partisan political committees nationwide. The balance — $12.9 million — was used to pay lobbyists to push tribal agendas that some in Congress say are being skewed toward protecting casinos at the expense of other issues affecting Indian communities.
The biggest beneficiaries of tribal money in Arizona are Reps. J.D. Hayworth and Renzi, both Republicans who routinely collect the maximum allowed by law from both Arizona and out-ofstate tribes.
This election cycle, Hayworth has raised almost $98,000 from tribes, less than a fourth of it from Arizona reservations, according to a Tribune analysis of campaign disclosure reports. He ranks fourth nationally among members of Congress in terms of how much he collects from Indian casino interests, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks federal political donations.
Hayworth is so successful at raising money from Indian tribes that at least four of them gave money to his 2008 campaign after reaching the limits of what they can donate this cycle.
Hayworth's political action committee, TEAM PAC, collected an additional $54,000 from tribes, more than half of the PAC's total earnings this election. Hayworth pays his wife, Mary, more than $2,000 per month to run TEAM PAC.
What tribes are buying with their money is not votes on specific legislation, said Joni Ramos, president of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the state's top tribal donor to political campaigns. Rather, they are seeking access, sending their money to lawmakers who are willing to listen to tribal concerns and have a history of supporting Indian interests, she said.
"When we look at any contribution we make, we look to see who is going to support our issues, as well as other Native American issues," Ramos said. "What we are looking at is to make sure that all legislators understand our issues. Anything that's done at the national level affects us here locally. You have to characterize it as an essential part of doing business."
But some on the reservations say their elected leaders are squandering money on political contributions, money that could be better spent to help their people. Lori Thomas-Luna Riddle, a Gila River Indian Community member who is active in social issues on the reservation, said poverty, unemployment and substandard housing are rampant in her community.
"It's very disturbing because that is money that can be used for these things that we are all concerned about," Riddle said. "Gila River spends too much money on other things instead of right here at home. It's just ridiculous to see the tribe trying to become some big player in the game."
Getting a political voice has been slow in coming, said Ivan Makil, who spent 12 years as president of the Salt River community. He remembers what it was like for Indians before the casinos, before the money, before the political clout.
Makil was the tribe's director of community relations in the early 1980s. It was his job to set up meetings with political leaders. Before the casinos, Indians were the poorest of the poor in America, with no money for lobbyists or political donations, he said.
"No clout whatsoever," is how Makil described Indians' past political power. "There was a total lack of respect for the tribes as viable, functioning governments."
Most tribes do not have a large enough population to deliver electiontipping votes. Indians did not even have a right to vote in Arizona until 1948.
The dynamic began to change in Arizona in the 1980s, when the state needed Salt River reservation land to build the Pima Freeway stretch of Loop 101, Makil said. Because tribes are sovereign governments, and not subject to condemnation, politicians were forced to negotiate with them.
The most dramatic shift in Indian political power in Arizona happened in a dirt parking lot at a bingo hall on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in 1992. Federal agents raided the casino and seized slot machines that had been illegally brought in. Tribal members blocked the exit with heavy trucks and their own bodies to prevent the removal of the machines, triggering a standoff that lasted until an agreement with then-Gov. Fife Symington allowed a limited number of slot machines on tribal land.
A 1996 ballot initiative financed by the tribes forced the state to enter into agreements allowing other tribes to operate casinos.
Since then the money has been rolling in, especially to tribes like Fort McDowell, Salt River and Gila River that abut urban areas in the Valley. With the money has come the political clout that eluded most tribes for centuries.
In 1996, a coordinated effort between the National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Gaming Association encouraged tribes to be more politically active by donating money to targeted congressional campaigns, said Makil, who was chairman of the effort. That helped people who are supportive of Indian issues get elected, he said.
As more and bigger casinos came on line through the late 1990s, the tribes' ability to influence elections also boomed.
Ten years ago, Arizona tribes gave just $11,000 to federal campaigns. By the 2000 election, the figure had reached nearly $200,000, and this year it is already more than a half-million dollars.
The trend is similar to the national pattern of tribal giving. In the last 10 years, tribes have donated about $26.7 million to federal campaigns, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the six years before that, tribes had given less than $900,000.
More than 99 percent of the donations to federal campaigns come from tribes with casinos, according to congressional records.
But the newfound wealth and influence have come with a political price. Indian money is a particularly volatile issue this year because of the influence-peddling scandal involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in January to charges of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. Most of the money Abramoff passed around Washington came from tribes that operate casinos.
Hayworth and TEAM PAC received about $64,000 from Abramoff and his clients, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That puts him second among congressional recipients of Abramoff-related donations.
For the most part, tribal leaders and politicians are reluctant to discuss Indian money. Though Ramos spoke to the Tribune, elected officials at the Valley's two other Indian tribes — the Fort McDowell and Gila River communities — would not.
Politicians who represent the East Valley were reluctant to talk about Indian money as well.
Hayworth answered a few questions when cornered after an event in Scottsdale earlier this month, but then said he had to leave and did not answer requests for an interview to discuss his tribal donations in detail.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., refused to discuss the issue, and neither Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., nor members of his staff responded to repeated requests for an interview.
Even Reps. Jeff Flake and John Shadegg, both Arizona Republicans, who do not accept donations from tribes that operate casinos, were guarded in commenting on the politicians who do take Indian money, and the tribes that dole it out.
"I don't begrudge them for what they're doing," Flake said of the tribes. "We create the laws and we create these loopholes, and I don't begrudge anybody for using them."
What tribes are doing when they spend their money on the political process is trying to be heard amid the chatter of Washington, where campaign donations are often the currency that gets people's attention, said Don Pongrace, lobbyist for the Gila River community.
So much of what happens in Indian country is dictated by Congress and federal agencies, Pongrace said. It makes sense that tribes that have profited through gaming would use some of that money to hire lobbyists and lawyers to protect their interests, he said.
With that political activism has come the expectation from members of Congress that tribes contribute to their campaigns, Pongrace said.
"It's not that they expect to get anything from it," Pongrace said. "It's just that if they are going to play here in Washington, it's an expectation."
Since 2001, the Gila River community has paid $8.3 million in fees to Pongrace and other lobbyists. The tribe has given an additional $1.3 million to candidates and partisan political organizations at the federal level and in Arizona.
Those numbers sound big, but are misleading, Pongrace said.
Most of the reported lobbying fees were for legal work — not lobbying — related to the landmark Gila River Water Settlement, a 2004 law that resolved decades-long disputes over Indian water rights in Arizona, he said. Legal fees do not have to be reported as lobbying, but Pongrace said he reported his total billings to ensure complete disclosure.
Political activity by tribes also is unfairly lumped together as casino interests, Pongrace said. In truth, tribes like Gila River are sovereign governments responsible for the well-being of their people, much like cities that pay far more for lobbyists and staff attorneys, he said.
Tribes also are major employers. The donations and lobbying fees are not out of line with those of big corporations, which give millions through PACs, and through individual donations by their stockholders and officers, he said.
The $5.6 million donated by Indian gaming interests so far in the 2006 election cycle is dwarfed by other industries contributing to federal campaigns through their PACs. Labor groups, for instance, have given about $44 million this election cycle, according to rankings by Political MoneyLine, another group that tracks federal campaign contributions. The financial industry has donated more than $40 million through its PACs and the health care industry has added $28.8 million.
Even among Arizona's top recipients of Indian money, tribes are not the top special interest donors. The $97,870 Hayworth received from Indian tribes is surpassed by the $175,000 he got from the health care industry and $149,269 he got from the financial industry. Hayworth has raised more than $2.3 million this election, according to his most recent disclosure reports, which cover donations through September.
But Indian tribes are not treated the same as other interest groups in federal election law. State and city governments cannot spend money on political donations. Indian tribes do.
Corporations and labor unions cannot donate directly from their general funds. Indian tribes can.
Corporations have to form PACs in order to donate to federal campaigns, and file regular reports disclosing those donations. Indian tribes don't.
That is because of a quirk in federal law known as the "tribal loophole," which allows tribes to donate money as "individuals." But unlike other individuals, whose total donations are capped at $101,400 in a two-year election cycle, there is no limit on how much a tribe can give. In all three election cycles beginning with the 2002 campaign, both the Salt River and Gila River communities have exceeded the aggregate cap to federal campaigns.
Candidates who take tribal money do have to abide by the limits. That means a candidate cannot accept more than $4,200 per election cycle, $2,100 each for the primary and general campaigns. Candidates also must report their tribal contributions.
Even then, tracking tribal money is tough, said James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. The lack of reporting requirements, the ability of tribes to tap directly into casino revenue and the "tribal loophole" make Indians a powerful special interest and a favorite money source for politicians, Thurber said.
"The lack of reporting requirements throws a veil of secrecy over the arrangements between Indian tribes and candidates," he said in congressional testimony. "It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions. The problem is a lack of transparency and reporting requirements makes attribution of campaign money difficult, if not impossible. There can be no transparency in this hide-the-ball environment."
Thurber testified at a hearing held by McCain to consider whether tribes should have to abide by aggregate caps or form PACs to donate to federal campaigns. No legislation made it out of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, of which McCain is chairman. A House bill also was killed amid tribal opposition.
Attempts to limit Indian donations are unfair attempts to single out tribes just as they are getting a voice in Congress, Pongrace said.
"It's almost like as soon as they register on the political radar screen, suddenly they've got too much voice," he said. "It's like being uppity Native Americans. It's ridiculous and frankly it's offensive to see people who finally have a voice being told to shut up."
There seems to be little incentive to turn off the tribal money spigot. Though tribes tend to favor Democrats, they also spread their wealth to Republicans.
Overall, about 86 percent of the money donated by Arizona tribes in the last six years has gone to Democratic candidates and committees. The top recipient of money from Arizona tribes is the state Democratic Party, which raked in more than $3 million since the beginning of the 2002 election cycle. That includes money to aid both federal and state candidates, which are made and reported separately.
The state Republican Party received only $140,000 from Arizona tribes in the last six years.
But individual Republican candidates have fared well, too. Hayworth and Renzi are among the top recipients of Indian money, both from Arizona tribes and those outside the state.
Renzi said the loyalty of the Indian tribes is something he had to earn.
About a month after he took office, Renzi toured an Indian hospital in Tuba City and saw three newborns with severe deformities caused by their mothers drinking water tainted with uranium, he said. That instilled a commitment to "go to the wall" on issues like Indian health care and education, Renzi said.
Being a strong advocate of Indian issues also is good politics for Renzi, since more than a fourth of his constituents are American Indians.
"Once you've proven yourself, they're willing to stay with you," Renzi said of the big bucks he gets from tribes. "They've stood with me thick and thin."
Though Hayworth would not agree to a detailed interview about the influence of Indian money, he did say he supported Indian interests before the money started rolling in.
"From my vantage point, when you are a United States representative, you represent all of the people who sent you there," Hayworth said. "It doesn't mean they are going to agree with you on every question, but you represent them. To the extent that people choose to support you, I welcome that support."
Representatives of Indian communities say they have funneled money to Hayworth and Renzi because they have been among the strongest advocates of Indian issues in Congress.
"To us, J.D. Hayworth stands for fairness and justice, not just for the Indians in his own district but for all American Indians," said Emily Johnson, director of governmental affairs for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota, which is among his top tribal donors. "He is one of the only members of Congress who can discuss tribal sovereignty and Indian law as well as any tribal attorney I know. To have someone as smart and knowledgeable about our issues in Congress is just a godsend for all Indian people, and that's not something that stops at Arizona's border."
The Mille Lacs have given Hayworth $5,000 since the beginning of the current election cycle. That is $800 more than he can accept. Hayworth's campaign has contacted the tribe to determine whether it wants the balance refunded or applied to the 2008 campaign.
Hayworth has received more than $77,000 from out-of-state tribes this election cycle. His political action committee, TEAM PAC, has received an additional $40,000.
The biggest single expense for TEAM PAC this election is Mary Hayworth's salary, about $43,000 since January 2005, according to disclosure reports. Her salary accounts for about a third of the money spent by Hayworth's committee this election.
Known as leadership PACs, committees like TEAM PAC are created by members of Congress so they can spread their money to other candidates, raising their own clout as they jockey for powerful positions like committee chairmanships or a role in their party's leadership, said Massie Ritsch, communications director at the Center for Responsive Politics.
Politicians who control leadership PACs cannot funnel the money into their own campaigns. But they can use it to make donations to other candidates, or pay for their own travel and expenses as they campaign for others.
The committees also provide a place where big-money donors can continue sending checks to their favored candidates after reaching the limit of what can be donated to an individual campaign, Ritsch said.
For instance, the Gila River community has donated the maximum allowed in the current election to Hayworth, and an additional $800 for his 2008 campaign. The tribe also gave $5,000 to TEAM PAC.
"They can really become slush funds for the members that control them," Ritsch said of the committees. "Leadership PACs provide a way for big donors to have even greater influence with the politician. Whether you give to the campaign account or you give to the leadership PAC, it all benefits the politicians that control the accounts in some way."
While some politicians pay their spouses to run their PACs, it's not typical, and the amount paid to Mary Hayworth is an unusually large chunk of TEAM PAC's total revenue, Ritsch said.
Harry Mitchell, Hayworth's Democratic opponent, said he does not begrudge Hayworth the money he gets from tribes, shrugging it off as the power of incumbency.
What troubles Mitchell the most is that Hayworth is using money raised from the tribes through TEAM PAC to pay his wife, making him particularly beholden to Indian interests.
"It probably does have an influence," Mitchell said. "I just think that's not a very proper way to do business. Where it comes from is important because people that give big money probably have issues before the very committees he sits on. It's one thing to have it in a PAC. But if you are going to pay your wife with that money, it becomes a personal interest."
Mitchell's only tribal donation is $1,000 from the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua in Oregon.
Hayworth and Renzi did break with most of their fellow Republicans earlier this year to oppose legislation that would have curbed the ability of tribes to use newly acquired lands to build casinos. That bill was opposed by virtually every Indian tribe. Killing it was a top priority of groups like the National Indian Gaming Association.
Hayworth and Renzi were the only two Arizona Republicans to oppose the bill, which ultimately failed on a procedural vote. Only 16 Republicans voted against the measure. Arizona Democrats Ed Pastor and Raul Grijalva also opposed the bill.
Renzi said he was against the legislation because it would have changed the rules for opening Indian casinos just as the Navajo Nation is preparing to get into gaming.
"The tribes that I represent hadn't even had a bite at the apple," Renzi said. "And my tribes are the poorest of the poor in this nation."
Jeff Flake, whose Mesa-based district has no Indian communities, said he does not take donations from tribes that operate casinos because he does not support reservation gaming.
"I don't want to be accused of being influenced by the gaming money," he said, adding he does not judge those who do take the donations.
As tribes with casinos pump more money into the political process, Flake worries that gaming issues have come to dominate the Indian agenda in Congress, pushing other needs of the poverty-stricken reservations to second-tier status.
"They tend to roll those issues into the gaming issue, saying we can more easily develop economically — take care of health care needs, take care of education needs — if you loosen the strings in terms of gaming," Flake said.
Political prowess
Donations by Arizona tribes to political campaigns since the beginning of the 2002 election cycle, from highest amount to lowest: 1) Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community: $1,558,089 2) Gila River Indian Community: $1,337,617 3) Ak-Chin Indian Community: $503,560 4) Tohono O'odham Nation: $444,000 5) Pascua Yaqui Tribe: $285,680 6) Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation: 253,630 7) Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe: $105,000 8) Colorado River Indian Tribes: $72,000 9) Cocopah Tribe: $43,780 10) Quechan Tribe: $15,000 11) San Carlos Apache Tribe: $13,400 12) Yavapai-Apache Nation: $7,500 13) White Mountain Apache Tribe: $4,000 14) Tonto Apache Tribe: $1,000 15) Hualapai Tribe: $250 NOTE: Figures are based on reports of candidates and political committees in Arizona and nationally. Since tribes do not have to file their own disclosure reports, there may be other donations. No campaign donations were found for seven tribes. Totals include contributions to state and federal political committees and candidates, but not the 2002 gaming initiative. SOURCES: Federal Election Commission, Arizona Secretary of State, Political MoneyLine, Center for Responsive Politics, Tribune research.


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Mike Trout agreed to a six-year contract extension with the Los Angeles Angels after finishing second in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player award in each of his first two full Major League Baseball seasons.
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HTC's Power to Give app, the philanthropic software created by HTC to devote idle processing power to scientific research, has been updated with a refreshed interface and a single sign-on feature to help streamline the process of signing into various projects.
Fun fact: Microsoft was working on "smart watches" a solid decade before the current craze. Microsoft partnered with Fossil and a few other watch makers to release SPOT Watches, which received information updates via FM radio broadcasts. I don't want to say that SPOT watches were terrible, and I don't have to, because this Cnet review does it for me. Maybe Microsoft is trying to capture the not-so-glorious days of early 2000s smartwatches, because the company's research division has just posted an experimental keyboard for Android Wear.
Technology in general and mobile tech in particular is on a rapid march forward, but there's a bottleneck that's holding it back: batteries. For years lithium-ion batteries have been the best option for storing energy pound-for-pound, but they've hit a wall - now we can only get bigger batteries or make our gadgets more efficient. A team of researchers at Stanford University have created what they call the "holy grail" of battery technology, a battery with a stable lithium anode.
At this point, we've got some really amazing technology in our smartphones, and not just on the inside. Corning's continued work on their Gorilla Glass has made phone screens amazingly resistant to scratches, and as soon as someone manages to figure out how to make synthetic sapphire faster and cheaper, they'll be even better. But no matter how tough your screen is, it's still glass, and dropping it on the pavement is an almost inevitable recipe for a broken screen.
Most mobile users these days are happy to get LTE service (and a few of us just wish we could get 3G reliably) but there is already a surprising push towards the next big thing in wireless speeds. Samsung thinks it has the solution, or at least what might become one: expanding existing LTE networks into the super-high 28GHz range, the lower part of what's known as the millimeter wave bands.
Smartphones have a staggering amount of data they can monitor, and not just in terms of the Internet. Position, orientation, speed, sound, light, g-force, the list goes on - that's why academics are using them as self-contained sensor stations for cool stuff like blasting into space. If you need to monitor data remotely for decidedly less cool reasons (like seeing if your CDL contractor got four tons of gravel to the worksite without stopping at Arby's first) Valarm might be the right service for you.
The rumor mill giveth and the rumor mill taketh away. Late Sunday night, a commenter on our site posted a surprising confession: he was the source of several rumors regarding Android 4.2. Initially, we confirmed that this commenter was the same who had sent us some different yet equally fantastic stories. Our batch hinted that Robert Downey Jr. might have been hired to introduce the new Nexii for the next couple years, for example.
Google's Android Developer's site got a massive overhaul today, with a brand new UI, tons of new features, and a unified guide for developers on how to design, develop, and distribute their apps all in one place. The new site is fantastic-looking. Clearly Google wants to engage developers more and give them more guidance on how to succeed on the Play Store. So, what say we take a tour?
About Android
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If there's one downside to the proliferation of touchscreen technology, it's the lack of tactile feedback. Tactus is one of many companies that aims to alleviate this problem. This week, at SID 2012, the company demoed a product that offers disappearing physical touch keys. As seen in the demo video here, these buttons can raise on command and disappear when they're not needed. Which sounds like something out of science fiction.
From the day I picked up the original Evo 4G, I realized that battery technology was, no doubt, lagging behind the devices it powered. Looking to push batteries a bit closer to the impressive power of today's mobile technology, researchers at Northwestern University have significantly boosted the power of lithium-ion batteries by making a few key changes.
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Travis Hampton Willingham (born August 3, 1981) is an American actor and voice actor who works for anime series and video games at Funimation/OkraTron 5000 and Viz Media/Studiopolis. He is well known for his roles as Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece, Takashi Morinozuka in Ouran High School Host Club, Zetsu in Naruto Shippuden, and the current voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic series. He married fellow voice actor Laura Bailey on September 25, 2011.
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They are currently working on Atlanta. So there's that.
96,000lbs of Wii Machinery? (150 comments)
Wouldn't want to be the guy to wire that one up.
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Options A or B (397 comments)
...I choose C. Seriously, find a job that is closer to home and more fun. Those jobs do exist.
Re:Mother Theresa Principle (208 comments)
She was against abortion and birth control. This is a Christian tenet that is held by many women (and men) worldwide.
I can't speak for others, but I am glad that I was not aborted.
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Anyone who claims to care about sex slavery and doesn't advocate the legalization of prostitution is simply not serious.
This is a classic example of an informal fallacy. If A -> C, you must support A or you are against C.
By that logic, you must burn your car if you are against pollution. If you don't burn your car, you are for pollution. The problem is that this does not take into account any other side effects.
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"Either large segments of the population are going to have to give up on college or they're going to have to put themselves in a position where default is almost an inevitability."
So you're assuming that there is no middle ground? The choices are bankrupt for life or no college at all? How about an in-state institution with a scholarship or two. This is obtainable for a reasonably smart person. I did this, and I paid off all loans in just about one year. Sure, I did not go buy a brand new car after college, but I am debt free and loving life.
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I hope Goldman Sachs is paying close attention to this matter.
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So someone who accidentally shares their music library for a couple days...
Should not be in court at all, since there is no intent to commit a crime or violate copyright.
...so what if I accidentally hit your car? I didn't mean to do it.
Better yet, what if I accidentally share your business plan online? Pretend all of your competitors download this and use it. You lose profits within weeks. I didn't steal it, I accidentally copied it. No harm, right?
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Yeah, we only had one semester to build that, so that is all we could do with that time frame. Hindsight 20/20, we would have picked faster motors. The sound could easily be reduced by enclosing the unit. We left it open for display purposes. As for the surface, we used plexiglass, and gave it a coating to reduce the glare. Good times.
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This project is similar to my old senior design project in college. We built a chess game where the computer could detect and physically move the piece to the proper place (video below). It brings a smile to my face, now that I'm not being graded on it anymore
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So I'm wondering what is actually inside the party pack. Since I'm wanting to abide by the rules around here, can someone please read TFA and tell me?
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"make sure your closet doesn't overheat"
Yeah, 'cause then you might have to come out of it.
Nothing New (59 comments)
Some fellow students of mine built this project years ago at Georgia Tech for their senior design project. I believe they only had 4 people working on it as well. The final product functioned well, and reacted quickly.
My group built a fully automated electro-mechanical chess board (nothing new here either). Any other cool projects out there?
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I'm not even a Mac fan, but let's entertain this scenario...
You and I sell apples on a street. My apples have worms inside, yet appear just fine. Your apples appear the same, yet have no worms. Do you just advertise that your apples are tasty? I think letting people know about the worms in my apples might just boost your sales. But hey, thanks for keeping my secret
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Perhaps a trivial question, but how would one measure a level increase of 3.1mm? No part of the ocean is completely calm, and such a small increase would seem almost impossible to measure in precise quantities. I do understand that number is likely an average given over time, but that still seems hard to measure as well, given all the variables (moon's gravitational pull, storm pressure systems, Al Gore, etc.)


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30 And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. | 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. |
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1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John; | 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, |
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Mulching creates an infestation of earwigs and pill bugs around here. I really need a way to prevent weeds around my beds though. Is sprinkling Spinosad pellets in the mulched areas from time to time a reasonable solution/cost effective, not toxic? Anything else instead? |
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never heard of spinosad pellets but i would go by whats on the label. i've given up on organic mulch...too many slugs here. |
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One thing I don't have is slugs. |
- Posted by boulderbelt 5/6 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 19, 13 at 5:24
I use landscape fabric for mulch, does a far better job than straw/hay and lasts for at least 15 seasons, if you take it up in the fall and store it indoors. Though voles will try and live under the fabric at certain times of the year. |
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Insects build up resistance to Spinosad fairly quickly. As boulderbelt suggested, can you lay landscape fabric instead? That would be a more cost-effective solution. |
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Hello. We just bought a new house and we are wanting to change most of the lighting in it. It is very dark in the house, even with all the lights on so we thought changing the excisting lights to recessed lights would help. Are there recessed lights that spread the light out vs having a spotlight effect? We could also just change the fixtures since all of them have a yellow/bronze frosted glass, but we thought the recessed lighting would update the house better. |
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More or less unless the bulb or a globe protrudes below the mounting surface. |
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Despite years of focus on melting Arctic sea ice, research models predicting how it changes are lacking. Getting the physics right is now the focus of a $12 million project funded by the US Office of Naval Research. The first-of-its-kind study began in March and ends in September.
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As sea ice begins to melt back toward its late September minimum, it is being watched as never before. Scientists have put sensors on and under ice in the Beaufort Sea for an unprecedented campaign to monitor the summer melt.
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A tireless scientific expedition is currently encamped across a huge stretch of Arctic pack ice. There isn't a single human among them. This remotely monitored outfit is made up entirely of machines and they're aiming to revolutionise our understanding of Arctic sea ice.
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Following a lavish renovation of this city center grande dame, Bordeaux finally has the luxury hotel it so sorely lacked. Opposite the magnificent eighteenth-century Grand Théatre, the 150-room Regent Grand perfectly mirrors the aristocratic elegance of this lovely city, thanks to the exquisite interiors of designer Jacques Garcia. Black-lacquer wrought-iron lamps with pleated silk shades soften the reception area, which is furnished with striped-velvet barrel chairs and potted palms, and rooms are done in pretty nineteenth-century damasks and wallpapers, with reproduction Napoleon-something furniture. The signature restaurant, Le Pressoir d'Argent, is a stunner with a rocaille decor (seashells set into elaborate plaster moldings) and a sublime seafood menu. There's also a lively wine bar, a brasserie that offers great people-watching from the sidewalk terrace, and a full-service spa scheduled to open this summer.2009 Hot ListWhen to go: Spring or fall.
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13 Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; | 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. |
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Jim Boeheim Felt Compelled to Mention Carmelo Anthony's Freshman Grades at Syracuse
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Four C's and a D. Why mention that?
It's October! One of the top three months of the year! November is 1st, then March, then October.
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The article "How to Become an App Store Millionaire: Make a Hit App, and Don't Make Anything Else" – like Steve Martin's advice of how to become a millionaire and not pay taxes "First, get a million dollars". Both are easier said than done. Link – via All Things D.
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Shape Shifting Interfaces
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Snezhniyat Chovek
English Title: The Snow Man
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- Theatrical Short
- Traditional Animation
- Boyana Film
- Directed By Radka Bachvarova.
- Animated By Lilyana Lyutzkanova, Todor Nedev, Proyko Proykov, Ivan Tonev.
- Written By Angel Vagenshtain.
- Music: Simeon Pironkov.
- Originally Released on March 19, 1960.
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 10 minutes.
- Color
- Bulgaria
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Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn
(Narration by Viggo Mortensen)
H/T Open Culture
Howard Zinn's History of the American Empire, animated style |
By: Elliott Saturday January 19, 2013 6:29 pm |
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn
(Narration by Viggo Mortensen)
H/T Open Culture
I went to a small rural school but it was fairly liberal.
Even my school, which was run by blue haired old ladies and men who volunteered for as church ushers on the weekend was much more liberal than what is usual these days. The world is topsy turvy. The "good old days" that the right wing thinks they are pining for was much more liberal than they are.
I talk about this kind of thing a lot in my race and ethnicity class and it really comes as a shock to my students. Have agree that, while my hometown was fairly conservative, I got a lot more liberal version of history than most of my students do.
Yeah this modern day reactionary learning is a sad portend of the future.
Has anyone been watching Oliver Stone's series? I haven't seen any yet
they are pining for a fantasy
Superb. Thanks for this.
I will just say one thing to Howard's spirit: you did a good thing in World War II, you did help to stop a horrible evil.
Excellent Elliot.
Yeh, I'm hep. :-/
Maybe there was a better way.
The 3 books I've read on the way the U.K. & U.S. fought WWII by bombing civilian pop in Germany, culturcide (targeting culturally impt sites) might have prolonged the war. IOW, if those U.K.-U.S. resources had been used for tanks and other forms of military hardware, and the pilots who suffered unimaginable losses, esp U.S. who bombed during the day, were directed to a diff activity, the war could well have ended sooner.
Germany didn't have oil. It had developed synoil. (Push in USSR to Stalingrad was to try to capture Soviet oil in Caucasus. Germans ran out of fuel, among other impediments.) U.K.-U.S. claimed to be bombing synoil sites (too), but bombs were so inaccurate, that assertion didn't pass cred test. Suppose special ops had been sent in to pinpoint destroy the synoil factories.
Besides, Soviets won the war against fascism, although without 2 fronts it might have taken them longer.
Cutting-edge satire from the benighted days of 1962, when the Cincinnati Reds felt it prudent to make-do as the Redlegs:
The John Birch Society, sung by the Chad Mitchell Trio.
It's a good idea periodically to remind them that some of us remember.
Yes, the Good War, where those who'd thrown off the yoke of the Nazis and the Nips, quickly returned to continue opressing colonized peoples around the world.
Capitalism is the enemy.
I am an anti-capitalist. I
Not to mention Operation Gladio, U.S. way of "thanking" Soviets for sacrificing 2 millions lives (but who's counting) to win WWII for the West.
I have clumsy fingers.
I am an anti-Bolshevik.
What am I?
This gets into the world of alternate history, but I seriously doubt the Soviets could have won without American material aid or that the Americans could have won if the Soviet Union had collapsed. Whatever.
I just think it's a good thing that Nazi Germany LOST.
Consider Bakunin.
IMO the devil is imperialism, not capitalism per se. No perfect econ sys has been developed, so I favor mixed one, with mix depending on circumstances.
However, don't think the history of imperialism exalts much good that came from that, unless you worship at the feet of Nial Ferguson.
I just think it's a good thing that Nazi Germany LOST.
Agree. Was addressing issue of Zinn being involved in bombing campaign. Didn't realize how awful that was until I visited Dusseldorf with my SIL in 1989.
The Soviets were well on there way to Berlin by the time we landed in Normandy.
FDR had authorized military and civilian aid to the USSR early on but our own military held up the shipments because they hated the Soviets.
I refuse to accept any history that show the US to be "The Good Guys" since upon further examination we have rarely – if ever – been the good guys.
Marshall Plan was more anti-Soviet than pro-Europe.
Marshall Plan was more anti-Sovihttp://my.firedoglake.com/elliott/2013/01/19/howard-zinns-history-of-the-american-empire-animated-style/et than pro-Europe.
Got pwned in cyberspace.
The wind here is fericious.
As ferocious as hot air will be on inagu day?
Aloha, Ellie and all…! I thank dawg that I had a lentil-stirring, librul, History Prof, require Zinn's 'Peoples History' in an early US History class of mine…! I've never been the same since…! *g*
Capitalism and Imperlialism wear the same mask.
The question is: how do the exploited gain what is right-fully theirs?
Marching in the street.
Capitalism and Imperlialism wear the same mask.
Disagree but too late for cogent discussion and am about to turn in.
Marching in the street is useless. Need a program of demands, outcomes oriented, like 1% Wall St turnover tax wh would solve U.S. fiscal mfg crisis.
Nite all.
Wasn't referring to The Marshal Plan. This was aid Roosevelt promised Stalin just after we got into the war.
From my reading of Zinn, I would say the main lesson he
draws from his experiences in the Second World War is that
it is very hard to keep violence "surgical" in nature. His
essay on Hiroshima and Royan, the latter a French town
gratuitously bombed in the final days of the war when
surrender would likely have followed quickly in the natural
course of things, powerfully makes this point. The various
examples of nonviolent as well as violent resistance to the
Nazis make for interesting discussions by pacifists and
nonpacifists alike.
United States history is part of the history of the "new world" post 1492 which in and of itself is a false begin point as there were humans here in abundance when the first Europeans accidentally "discovered" the New World. Many years ago I came across a book about Indians that told some history from the perspective of Indians — not the Spanish,French,English or those Americans who called their nation the United States. This book was a early introduction for me to how history and how it is told has much to do with point of perspective,who wants to control navigation of the narrative,airbrush some or many parts and shape the endpoints to bring about sought justification and "feel good" aspects.
Needless to say Barack Obama is not going to be showing this short Zinn video at State or DoD anytime soon — is likely safe to say not ever.
I think as I recall Barack Obama is on record somewhere having said there is no American Empire. I would disagree with that pov.
Good on you Elliot for putting this Zinn video up here at FDL — as is often the case the more one learns the more one finds out still remains to be considered and taken in. Surely this is the case with the history of the United States — the history of the American Empire.
Some years back I came across a book written by Harvey Wasserman titled "History of the United States" that I still have in my collection which is a good introduction to contrary/contrariwise U.S.history. Another very good and relevant contrariwise U.S history book I have had in my collection for decades now is one titled "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" which was written by William Appleman Williams and first published in early 1960′s. Williams pulled together in this book a very perceptive and clear view of what American Empire is and has done or for that matter is still doing.
We Americans have been bombarded with some world class propaganda for a very long time and it is often nearly impossible to move Americans off of some or large parts of this propaganda. It is plain to see here in 2013 that this American Empire has become what we were told it was so bad for Japan or Germany to seek to be doing during 20th century. The deeper deception which goes back about one hundred years to the early 1900′s is how the British Empire was knitted into the American Empire in ways that led to what came about during WW1,WW2 and post WW2.
Today who runs and where is this running done of massive chunks of the global money and wealth business ( held wealth,speculative and transaction and sub work for fee(s) )? The answer would be New York City and London. Recently Germany put the word out it wanted to pull a portion of Germany's gold reserves held in New York City at the Fed back to Germany. No small matter in terms of action sought or how it will be done. All this QE being done is sending out ripples I suspect.
Many Americans will tell you the German Nazis were bad,evil or just plain wicked.That the Japanese Empire was bad,evil and wicked and the atomic weapons that were dropped on Japan in August 1945 were deserved by the Japanese. Many Americans will tell you the Communists were bad,evil or just wicked. Many Americans also will tell you the United States is the greatest nation ever on this planet and we are a free and liberty loving nation who were and are the Good Guys. These same Americans can and will become very agitated and yes — hostile — when one suggests a contrary view of what the U.S. has been,how it came to be and what it has been doing while shoveling some very polished propaganda since 1945. That the American Empire killed a lot of innocent Asians during the American Empire War On Vietnam. That what was subsequently done to many innocent Iraqis and now has been done to many innocent Libyans and seemingly is very much sought to have happen to many innocent Iranians ( is happening with the sanctions now put in place at American Empire insistence ) is little better and often because of the worked deceptions is very dark hearted conduct being done by the "freedom loving" and "democracy spreading" American Empire.
Apologia that is offered up and intended to soft sell American Empire at this point here in early 21st century is often not worthy of much respect nor of being viewed as honorable. War crimes done by the "Good Guys" are still war crimes and at this point in 2013 to suggest otherwise is self satisfied and complacent arrogance and ignorance.
This Zinn video touches on a number of valid points/thoughts to consider,learn more about and incorporate into ones thinking and politics.
Thank you Elliot.
Thank you for this short, yet powerfully revealing, history lesson of Zinn's, Elliot.
Recommended to the front page (where I note it has already appeared, for which I thank the decisive wisdoms of this site), and to the conscience and conscious understanding … of everyone.
Capitalism and Imperialism wear the same mask.
Along with nationalism, jingoism, and patriotism. That's because all five — capitalism, imperialism, nationalism, jingoism, and patriotism — is just the official "feel-good" public-relations jargon we invented to avoid calling a spade a spade: Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And the maintenance and perpetuation of NPD literally requires dependency, which John Taylor Gatto explained in his essay "The 6 Lesson School Teacher" as having a symbiotic Siamese twin relationship with education and economics …
Good people wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of all, that we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. It is no exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned. Think of what would fall apart if kids weren't trained in the dependency lesson: The social-service businesses could hardly survive, including the fast-growing counseling industry; commercial entertainment of all sorts, along with television, would wither if people remembered how to make their own fun; the food services, restaurants and prepared-food warehouses would shrink if people returned to making their own meals rather than depending on strangers to cook for them. Much of modern law, medicine, and engineering would go too — the clothing business as well — unless a guaranteed supply of helpless people poured out of our schools each year. We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don't know any other way. For God's sake, let's not rock that boat!
This is usually the point where economists say, "Hey! Zip it, dammit! Coveting thy neighbor's house, car, and his smokin' hot wifey on the same level as food-junkies covet a double stuffed meat-lovers pizza or a meth-junky covets a fix creates like 90% of all the possible jobs in a given country – LEAVE IT ALONE!" :P ;)
Which is the kerosene of empire …
The phrase "economic interests" is just a euphemism for, "GIMME YOUR OIL RESERVES! GIMME YOUR NICKLE CADMIUM!"
Yes, I've been watching it with my neighbors, a couple who had absolutely no idea of what the U.S. government has been up to. Both are ex military. We'll watch the last episode this Wednesday evening that they Tivo'd. The man isn't sure whether to believe it and he wanders in and out. The woman is watching with me and is feeling depressed about what she's learning.
It's well worth watching, especially with folks who are unaware. I've learned quite a bit I didn't already know also – mostly about the details.
I so miss Howard Zinn. Thanks for putting this up.
Episodes are coming up on YouTube.
When the student is ready, the master appears.
My uncle was one of the lead navigators for the Dresden bombing near the end of the war. He made the mistake of going there after the war, suffered a nervous breakdown, and never really recovered from the guilt.
I'm not sure where you got that. I do know that lots of American sailors lost their lives on the Murmansk Run around German-occupied Norway to get supplies to the Soviets. The Red Air Force flew lots of American-made planes. But the biggest American contribution was trucks, thousands of them, that were used to transport the Soviet infantry.
Sorry, but any history that says Hitler would have been defeated by just the Americans or the Russians is just propaganda as far as I am concerned. We needed each other then, and the truth is that we still need each other now.
Oliver Stones Untold History, Howard Zinn and Morris Berman.
Eliot the series is on Youtube. The first 5 parts.
I have heard this simplistic assertion before, that the Soviets primarily won the war. Don't forget there was a fierce naval war which the United States fought against the Japanese and won. If that hadn't happened, the Soviet army might have been further spread out and cut down by the Japanese air force.
Forwarded to three high school history teachers in my area. Thanks for the link Elliot, marvelous starting point for further timeline event analysis.
At about 2:28 is a picture of the Moro Massacre
Dunno why that stuck with me, but I'm sure it's from something Zinn wrote. Mark Twain wrote a biting piece on the murders


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