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Peter Cochrane ConceptLabs CA Co-Founder Personal Communication Wireless communication Faster & Faster Wealth Generation New Company Value US$Bn 100 90 Internet PC 80 Mobile 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Year Raw Manufacture Distribution Materials R E Recycle T Ecosystem A I L Trash Consumer Trash Consumer Raw B-B B-B B-B Manufacture Distribution Materials R E Recycle T Ecosystem A I Trash C-C Consumer achine B-C L C-B obile Trash Consumer 2G - A field of dreams… Build it and they will come… …& 750M did, just for Voice & SMS Communicating on the move… We value mobility above Quality We value mobility above Price Mobility is Personal Text messaging is about Time Shifting Data & text are more important than voice Bandwidth is now the lubricant of our society UK SMS Messages 99 300 250 200 Millions 150 100 50 0 Jan Feb MarAprMayJun Jul AugSep Oct NovDec UK SMS Messages 3.5Bn Year 2 0.3Bn Year 1 UK SMS Messages 12Bn Year 3 3.5Bn Year 2 Year 1 3G - A field of dreams… Build it and will they come…again? Wire line quality Seamless roaming MP3 Sound Files MPEG Movie Files JPEG Digital Photos On Line Games IP Telephony IP Video Conference IP Radio & TV GPS + TeleCare +++New Markets Why did WAP fail? Over-hyped Overdue Under performed -Slow -Limited web access -Nothing like a PC Too complex to engineer Too complex to use Disruptive Technologies 3G Performance >> 2G Time 13 Powerful mobile devices… Machines 0.5 year M-Media 1year Java 2 years Internet 4 years Messaging 5 years Voice 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 More Mobile than fixed Messages the voice Net purchases than a PC A small screen is not a BIG SCREEN Will 3G happen in the EU? > 60Bn = Licence fees > 60Bn = Infrastructure > 60Bn = Development >??Bn = Marketing & Sales >200Bn = Total Will 3G happen in the EU? ~ £400 per head of population > 10 years to break even > 18 months to first chip sets > 24 months to first sales > 48 months worst case Mounting public pressure & changing government position on masts & towers Operator Options? Merge companies, networks and operations to offset costs Load cost onto 2G service - More expensive handsets - More expensive calls - Reduce Quality of Service - Reduce customers services Operator Options? Merge companies, networks and operations to offset costs Load cost onto 2G service - More expensive handsets - More expensive calls - Reduce Quality of Service - Reduce customers services Government Options? Reset the clock Give the money back A once vibrant sector has been raped and may never be the same again Banks may begin to foreclose on Mounting debts The Only Realistic Option? Use 3G to wipe out the last/first mile Network Types Copper, Fibre, Radio, Optical - Static - Mobile Chip Board LANs to to Backplanes WANs Long Chip Board MANs Haul Spatial Density Spectral Density 1mm 10cm 10m 1km 1000km 1cm 1m 100m 10km 10000km Everything is moving toward IP based operations 3G Threats & Limitations?? Technology options frozen too early - Not IP based - CDMA is band-limited - 2.5G can deliver almost as much - 4G coming faster than expected - Parasitic networks are far superior Yearly Productivity 100 Quantity/Unit Time 80 70 60 BW 40 Chip 20 SW 0 350% pa The key constraint? Carrier's the 150% pa bottleneck 35% pa Wireless WWW Devices Infrastructure Content / Apps Extrapolation from 1950s 1T Clock HD RAM 1G Backbone 1M 1K Last/First Mile 1 1947 1957 1967 1977 1987 1997 2007 Office Network & Always On Dial Up Home MStream Cable PSTN 100Mbit/s 11Mbit/s ADSL Mobile LAN WLAN 2Mbit/s 0.5Mbit/s 56kbit/s 256kbit/s 9.6kbit/s Office & Hard Network Drives Home Clock LAN WLAN MStream Cable PSTN 100,000 1000 100 11Mbit/s ADSL Mobile MByte MHz Mbit/s 2Mbit/s 0.5Mbit/s 56kbit/s 256kbit/s 9.6kbit/s Net Access Bn 1.6 Mobile 1.4 phones 1.2 Wired phones Mobile Phones 1.0 With web 0.8 access 0.6 0.4 PCs 0.2 0.0 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 If Telco's sold cars… Will the Telco/Cable Co's Deliver? They just don't get it! They just don't have it! They don't want to do it! NO They don't have to do it! They can't do it anyway!! Wrong infrastructure Wrong mindset Mounting debts Have we been here before? YES Have we been here before? Community Antenna TV ABC don't do terminals YES ABC don't do support ABC don't do delivery ABC don't do networks Parasitic Nets - 802.11 et al Who needs a Telco or Cableco? PARASITIC NETWORKS Zero infrastructure! PARASITIC NETWORKS Zero infrastructure! PARASITIC NETWORKS Zero infrastructure! PARASITIC NETWORKS With mobile base stations! PARASITIC NETWORKS New modes! As today Device to Device Device Repeater Broadcast Device Wireless - the story so far… 3000GHz 0.1mm 300GHz 1mm BroadBand Military Satellite 30GHz Microwave Satellite 1cm Antenna Marine Satellite Low-Earth 3GHz Experimental Comm Orbit Satellite 10 cm Satellite Colour Cellular TV Phone 300MHz 1m Black & White Walkie- TV Talkie 30 MHz 10 m Short wave radio Modern Shortwave 100m 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 FM Opportunity TV Optical Mobile Wireless Technologies Radio Optical Regulated Unregulated Secure Very secure Medium-long range Short range Narrowband Broadband Mature Immature Radiation risk? No radiation risk < 300GHz Spectrum > 50,000GHz Diffuse Optical Network Optical transceiver Broadband Mobile Secure Cell TelCo/CableCo Defence Mobile ISP X Switch Latency • Network latency should be dominated by the speed-of-light delay • Managed by tight integration of optical and electronic technologies, architectures, operating systems and programming Minimising Latency • provide abundant network bandwidth • strip out layers and protocols • minimise network crossings - ideal: each 'expedition'=1 crossing + return • introduce 'information geography' (location and distance of information) as the key parameter in network architecture, operating systems and programming processor memory processor memory Current architecture processor memory processor memory Future-matched architecture Telephone Network Random Events + Hierarchy => Time + Frequency Aggregation => Economy => Blocking/Freeze Out Control - Total - Prescriptive => Fixed Bandwidth => Low Flexibility => Extremely Reliable => Reasonably Resilient => Fundamentally Unsuited to Data Internet Bursty Events + No Hierarchy => Time Aggregation => Economy => Variable Latency Control - Little => Variable Bandwidth => High Flexibility => Flaky => Infinitely Resilient => Fundamentally Unsuited to Speech Parasitic Nets Bursty Events + No Hierarchy => Time + Space Aggregation => Economy => Huge Latency Control - None => Variable Bandwidth => Infinite Flexibility => Highly Reliable => Highly Resilient => Fundamentally Unsuited to Real Time Established Wisdom Hardware Software Network Applications Convergence?? 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The Wiggles
The Wiggles
are a children's band from Australia. When Greg, Anthony, Murray and Jeff aren't singing and dancing, they're spending
time with their friends. Dorothy the Dinosaur is a green reptile who loves roses, Wags the Dog is a silly young dog, Captain Feathersword is a mischievous but friendly pirate, and Henry the Octopus is a jolly eight-legged sea animal with a band of his own. Occasionally, The Wiggles meet other friends like Zardo Zap and Officer Beaples. But whatever they're doing, you're bound to have a wigglin' good time!
Season Organization
There are now six seasons for the Playhouse Disney broadcast of the Wiggles, and they are organized as follows:
Season One (TV Series 2)
Originally aired
: 1999.
Disney version aired
: 2001.
Also known as
: Wiggly TV, TV Series Two
: Leanne Halloran
Number of Episodes
: 26
Opening Song
: In the Wiggles World (with the
Bee Intro
Closing Song
: In the Wiggles World (everyone waves goodbye)
: This has assorted skits and songs with a general underlying theme for each episode. The Wiggles' pants don't have the stripes yet.
Regular segments
: none
Season Two (TV Series 1)
Originally aired
: 1998.
Disney version aired
: 2002.
Also known as
: TV Series One
: Leanne Halloran
Number of Episodes
: 13
Opening Song
: Get Ready to Wiggle
Closing Song
: some organ music
: This preceded Series Two and has the
sitcom styled intro
and some of the earliest footage of the Wiggles. Henry the Octopus takes on puppet and mascot form.
Regular segments
: Wigglehouse Henry the Octopus Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show
Season Three - Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles
Originally aired
: 2002-2004
Disney version aired
: 2003-2004 (11am)
Also known as
: Network Wiggles, TV Series Three
: Leeanne Ashley
Number of Episodes
: 26 in US (54 11-minute episodes in Australia)
Opening Song
: Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles
Closing Song
: varies. Usually Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles.
: This is the more organized studio production with segments for each of the Wiggles and Captain Feathersword. The Wiggle Dancers also make their appearance as regulars.
Regular segments
: News, Weather, and Sports Anthony's Workshop Captain's Magic Buttons Music with Murray Where's Jeff? Wiggly Community Service Announcement Wiggle Bay song
Season Four and Five - The Wiggles Show
Australian version aired
: Season 4: 2004-2005, Season 5: 2006-2007
US version aired
: Season 4: Fall 2005-Spring 2006 (10am), Summer 2006 (7am) Season 5: Winter 2007-present (7am)
Also known as
: TV Series Four
: Leeanne Ashley
Number of Episodes
: 26 + 26
Opening Song
: Here Come the Wiggles
Closing Song
: none
: Captain Feathersword heads out into the world. The Wiggles even have footage from their concerts!
Regular segments: Season 4
Captain Feathersword - Sailing Around the World Dorothy's Dance Class Little Wiggles Wigglehouse Invitation to a Wiggly concert Goodbye: find who's missing.
Regular segments: Season 5
Captain Feathersword - Sailing Around the World, with larger crew Wigglehouse Dorothy's Dancing Alphabet Little Wiggles Wiggly Animation Mariachi Wiggles - they sing songs in Spanish! Mandarin Wiggles - they sing songs in Mandarin! Invitation to a Wiggly concert. Jeff features different zoo animals. More silly clips between songs.
Season Six - Wiggle and Learn
Australian version aired
: 2007-2008
Canadian version aired
: April 2008- on Treehouse
US version aired
: December 2008 at 7/6c am. January 2009 at 11am weekdays, 7am weekends
: Leeanne Ashley and Caterina Mete
Number of Episodes
: 26 22-minute segments (52 11-minute segments in some formats.)
Presented in
: HD format
Opening Song
: Wiggle and Learn
Closing Song
: Goodbye from the Wiggles
: Sam Wiggle replaces Greg as they do a brand new series on teaching kids how to read, dance, and have fun.
Regular segments: Season 6
Nursery Rhymes Anthony introduces three guests, one of whom is Captain Feathersword in disguise. Wags and Dorothy do an educational skit. Captain Feathersword tries to guess what Anthony is dressed up as. Murray and Jeff paint a picture using music. The Wiggles play different games.
Season Seven - Ready, Steady, Wiggle!
Australian version aired
: September 2013
Canadian version aired
: June 2013 on Treehouse
US version aired
: August 2013 4:30PM during The Sprout Sharing Show
Number of Episodes
: 52
Presented in
: HD format
Opening Song
: Ready, Steady, Wiggle!
Closing Song
: Instrumental of Theme Song
: Join Emma, Lachy, Simon and Anthony on new adventures.
Regular segments: Season 7
Intro; Who Am I? Guessing Game; Anthony's Food Alphabet; Concert Song; Live at Wigglehouse; Wigglehouse Segments; Songs from Taking Off, Furry Tales and Pumpkin Face/Wiggly Halloween; Dorothy closes the show.
Video Organization
Videos are generally placed at the end of each series. Many airdates listed try to match the first Disney Broadcast or US video release. If it has the Wiggly Dancers it'll be season 3 or later, otherwise the video fits in season 1. If it has Sam Wiggle or the newer Greg, it'll be in season 6. If it has Emma, Lachy & Simon, it'll be Season 7.
About Production Codes
: The regular seasons were painstakingly collected from the various TV guides and correlated with actual viewings of the show over a period of several months. Season 5 codes come from a media marketing site. They all follow the 3-digit format, except for videos which are originally listed by their Roadshow / HIT Entertainment VHS or DVD catalog number. If you have a better scheme for the videos please contact the editor.
Character Profiles
The Wiggles
Greg Wiggle
Greg is the lead singer of The Wiggles, and if you just hear one singer in your favorite Wiggles song, he is the guy. His hobby is doing magic tricks. He can make things disappear, but it'd be once in blue moon if he ever succeeds in pulling a rabbit out of his hat! Instrument = Lead Vocalist. He also plays some guitar and keyboard. Shirt Color = Yellow
Sam Wiggle
In the
Wiggle and Learn
series, Sam is the new Yellow Wiggle. People might recognize him as a Wiggly Dancer and Professor Singalottasonga in the earlier series. Instrument = Lead Vocals, and sometimes the Trumpet. Shirt Color = Yellow
Anthony Wiggle
Anthony is one hungry Wiggle. His hobbies include eating and generally being silly. His appetite can get in the way at times. He usually sings and dances with Greg. In the newer seasons, he also loves to use a low bass voice and to roll his r's. Instrument = Drums. He also plays some guitar and some other instruments. Shirt Color = Blue
Murray Wiggle
The calmest guy in the band, Murray enjoys playing his red guitar, and is quite impressed by Greg and his magic. One time he even used Greg's magic properly! Murray also loves to speculate on different things in life, like what if we didn't have elbows. He also loves to play well known guitar riffs. Instrument = Red Guitar. Shirt Color = Red
Jeff Wiggle
Jeff is full of energy when he's awake, but he tends to fall asleep on the spot, and it takes the entire audience to shout "Wake up, Jeff!" It can be hard to keep him awake. In fact, he spent a whole episode asleep once! He may be the goofiest of them all. Instrument = Keyboard and Accordion. Shirt Color = Purple
Emma Wiggle
Emma is the first female wiggle and she loves to wear bows. She replaces Greg and Sam in the newer episodes. Instrument = Drums. Shirt Color = Yellow
Simon Wiggle
Simon replaces Murray in the newer episodes. He always sings in a low bass tone and plays a game called
Simon Says.
Instrument = Lead Vocals. Shirt Color = Red
Lachy Wiggle
Lachy is Jeff's replacement for newer episodes and still does everything Jeff does like sleeping. He sometimes sings when Simon's not singing. Instrument = Keyboard. Shirt Color = Purple
Supporting Characters
Captain Feathersword
Often considered the Fifth Wiggle, Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate who has a sword made out of feathers so he can tickle people. He's best known for doing improvisational acts and voices, thanks in part to his Magic Buttons on his vest. He greets everyone with "Ahoy There, Me Hearties!"
Dorothy the Dinosaur
Dorothy is a human-sized dinosaur who wears a floppy white hat, and loves daydreaming in her rose garden. She has loved roses since she was a young child. And not just to smell them, but she uses them to make rosy treats! She is also the only female among the main Wiggles group, and has an infectious giggle. In Australia, she even has her own TV show!
Wags the Dog
Wags is a cute dog about the size of the Wiggles. In the early seasons, he only speaks to the audience, and woofs for Captain Feathersword and the other Wiggles. But in the later seasons, he talks like everyone else. He's a very resourceful inventor, and he also likes to goof on Captain Feathersword, refusing to just obey. He's also in charge of the three little pups known as the Wagettes.
Henry the Octopus
Henry leads his own underwater band. He joins the Wiggles in a bunch of different songs and dances. In the early seasons, he is both a puppet and a mascot. His favorite word is "Bree-Boop!" which is like Aloha in Octopus language.
Officer Beaples
: She's dressed like a Keystone Kop, and mostly mimes.
Wiggle Dancers
: The men and women who dance around in marching band uniforms. They start appearing in the musical numbers from the Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles season.
Friendly Pirate Crew
: The men and women who dance around and help Captain Feathersword during one of his featured skits. Many of the folks are Wiggle Dancers, but some are dedicated crew members representing a worldwide populace.
Child Dancers
: Since the show is all about the kids, many of the videos feature children dancing and participating in activities.
About Playhouse Disney
: This is the morning segment of the Disney Channel in the USA that's geared for pre-schoolers and toddlers. Because Disney is privately owned, they only air commercials for their own Disney shows and products, but during the Playhouse Disney segments, The Wiggles shows run about 25 minutes straight with NO commercials! Disney used to run the Wiggles at all sorts of morning hours seven days a week. In its prime, the Wiggles should show up from two to three episodes a day: 6am for Wiggly TV (series 1-2), 10am for The Wiggles Show and Lights, Camera, Action episodes (series 3-4), and 7am for the Breakfast with Bear segment. In series 5, The Wiggles ran at 7am weekdays, and a different time on weekend mornings. In series 6, the Wiggles ran at 7am weekdays and weekends but in January 5, 2009, the Wiggles ran at 11:30am weekdays and 7am weekends. Reruns can be found on PBS Sprout.
Submission Guidelines
Although the Wiggles guide may seem fairly complete, there are always plenty of fun things to add. Here's generally where things are categorized.
: - List of DVD Bonus Features, including Lights Camera Action Wiggles episodes. - Official original release dates for the Australia videos, US videos, and companion albums. Awards won. Differences between Australia and US version. - Novelties and debuts (set design, wardrobe, song, dancer) - consider chronological or Disney TV series order. - One-shot appearances by non-TV industry guests, lists of children and families, lists of dancers. - Family and Friends - whenever the Wiggles bring in their non-cast/crew family members (e.g. Anthony's wife, kids, or dogs), and friends into their videos and features. - Debuts in Australia, UK, or Canada if traceable.
: - On-screen song and guest debuts by name, such as Murray introducing Clare, or Anthony introducing Alfonso. - Instrument details.
: Passing references to pop culture icons like Elvis or The Beatles. For example, Racing to the Rainbow has a flurry of Elvis references, and the cover of Let's Eat is designed to look like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts band. Australian regional sayings and jargon like "slippery dip", but do not add common ones like "G'day" or "Beauty, mate" or "barbie" Song arrangements not directly explained (e.g. Hands on My Head).
: If you are adding voiceovers for any of the mascots, for example: Wags the Dog (Mic Conway) Dorothy the Dinosaur (Carolyn Ferrie, Jacqueline Field, Zoe Velez) Henry the Octopus (Jeff Fatt, Paul Paddick, Mario Martinez-Diaz), please confirm they are the correct person in the season, and that the mascot actually said something in that episode. I count the dancers as Recurring Stars / Guest Stars if: 1) They are credited at the end of the show. 2) They participated in the skits, intros, or closers. I do not count the dancer if all they did was appear in the pre-produced video footage.
- Nitpicking any time the Wiggles don't really play their instruments or lip sync. It is a given that sometimes they are more concerned about dancing and showing the actions rather than making an acoustically accurate performance. Save those goofs for only the major ones like showing two different guitars for the same concert song. - Self-evident crew credits like Music: The Wiggles (Band) or Creator: The Wiggles (Band) or Opening Performance: The Wiggles (Band). Look for explicitly listed credits like Musical Arrangement: Anthony Field instead. - Cast roles that should be listed in the credits (e.g. Kamahl guest stars as himself). - Special Guest Stars - add them as regular Guest Stars. - Dancers on replayed video footage. They did not participate in the video. - This is the second/third/fourth visit by guest star. It is self-evident from the credits that guests appear multiple times. - Anything from Wiggles Wikia. That site has way much too unverified information. - Any nitpicks on miscellaneous Wiggles songs that aren't featured in the TV series or videos. - Explanations on nursery rhymes or common pop culture.
Common questions about the guide
Q: What is with the titles for Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles? How come they don't correspond to my videos?
A: In the original Australian broadcast, the show was 54 episodes of 11 minutes each, and their titles were just Episode 1 to Episode 54. When it was broadcast in the US for Disney, they mainly combined 2 episodes into one, and posted their own 3 digit production numbers. There are NO official titles for the US version. The titles here are arbitrarily written by the editor to best reflect the theme of the combined episode.
Q: Can I add a Wiggles video to a guide?
A: Yes, Just let me know in advance and I can give you an episode number of where it should fit in. I am not accepting 2-pack releases as new entries, but you can make a Note of such things if they are important.
Q: Why is Series Two listed first?
A: Although Series Two was produced after Series One, it aired on Disney channel before Series One.
Q: What about Wiggly Waffle?
A: Wiggly Waffle, while it has new videos, is not an actual TV series, but The Wiggles hosting a block of various shows. If you want Wiggly Waffle on tv.com, you could send in a request for a new show, but my opinion is that it is a very difficult series to maintain.
Q: What about other Wiggles produced shows?
A: Dorothy the Dinosaur Show from the late 2000s has a guide now. If you want Kingdom of Paramithi, send a request to add the show on tv.com.
Q: Why are the episode names and numbers for Season 4, 5 and 6 different than the ones from the boxsets and Australian iTunes?
A: The names are from when they aired on Disney. Australia used different names and aired in production order.
Ep Guide
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
NBC (ended 2000)
The season after the original
Saved by the Bell
series ended, Peter Engel Productions and NBC rolled out
Saved by
the Bell: The New Class
, also set at Bayside High School but featuring a new group of young actors, with original cast members Dennis Haskins (Principal Richard Belding) and Dustin Diamond ("Screech" Powers, who came along in season 2) providing some continuity. Although it never was as popular as the original series,
The New Class
had enough staying power to last for seven seasons, providing an anchor for the Saturday morning "TNBC" (teen NBC) lineup, even with its necessarily revolving-door cast, which featured a lot of bright and attractive young actors. Reruns have been shown on the USA Network for a number of years, but as of August 2001, they are not scheduled anymore.
Ep Guide
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
NBC (ended 2006)
There is something weird going on at Blake Holsey High something paranormal. When Josie Trent is sent to a private
prep school she must come face to face with things that cannot be explained easily but with the help of friends and one science teacher maybe surviving school won't be that hard.
"Blake Holsey high-- Just another boarding school, or so I thought. But things are a little different here. I've made some friends. Even got a cool teacher. The principal is definitely hiding something. And this guy, Victor Pearson-- Somehow he's behind all the really weird stuff that happens here. We'll figure it out. But in the meantime, these are... strange days at Blake Holsey High."
- Josie Trent, narrating introduction.
"Blake Holsey, it's not your ordinary boarding school. Not even close. Things are a little different here. See, I've stumbled onto a mystery with my friends. I've got a cool teacher, but the principal is definitely hiding something. And this guy, Victor Pearson; somehow he's behind all the really weird stuff that happens here. Is that floating ball of his the key to the mystery? We're getting closer. But in the meantime, these are strange days at Blake Holsey High."
- Josie Trent, narrating introduction - Season Three. Contributer - carleymarie
Josie Trent:
"Okay so my mom drops me at this boarding school and I'm thinking it's like all the other places I've gone. Students, teachers, principal. You know like normal schools. But its not. Weird stuff happens here, really weird stuff, and what's this guy doing here? Something's going on and someone's behind it and we're going get to the bottom of it."
Principal Durst:
"There is nothing wrong at Blake Holesy High"
- Narration of opening titles for the UK's
Black Hole High
by Josie Trent - Contributor: Koral
Josie Trent:
"Okay so my mom drops me at this boarding school and I'm thinking it's like all the other places I've gone. Students, teachers, principal. You know like normal schools. But its not. Weird stuff happens here, really weird stuff, and what's this guy doing here? Is this floating sphere the key to the mystery? Something's going on and someone's behind it and we're going get to the bottom of it."
Principal Durst:
"There is nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High"
-Opening narration for the third season Black Hole High -Contributor: Gordo_Fan
Josie P. Trent
- "New kid at school -- Doesn't like rules": Blake Holsey High is Josie's latest stop on her long trail of boarding schools, followed by an ultra-sized permanent record. Estranged from her mother, Josie is outspoken and expressive. She is also described as smart, gutsy, and disliking everything phony. She isn't afraid of rule breaking (she is a notorious class skipper) and is most likely involved when there's trouble, especially because it is a habit of hers to investigate the odd occurrences of the school. Josie hates cats and public speaking, and is not good at singing. She lives with Corrine in room 21. She was kicked out of her last school for turning some of the students's skin green.
Corrine Baxter
- "Straight "A" student": An attendant of Blake Holsey High for two years now. Conforms to all rules and is highly organized, intelligent, and careful. She has an IQ of 172 and has sang in a choir. Her mom is a psychiatrist and her dad is a brain surgeon. Roommate is Josie in room 21.
Vaughn Jody Pearson
- "Most popular boy in school -- Has dark secret": One of the most unlikely students to join the Science Club or even be associated with science. His father is Victor Pearson. Vaughn is often placed in uncomfortable positions to find out information discussed by the science club and comes into conflict with morals. He is left handed, has dyslexia, and is on the football and wrestling teams. In room 36, he is not assigned a roommate. His birthday is June 17.
Marshall Wheeler
- "Young, gifted, geek": Very intelligent. Dedicated to getting things, aims towards amusement, and tends to think about ways of making money. He apparently dressed up as Principal Durst for Halloween and made a genetically engineered soap that turned his skin green. Has an older brother named Grant who also attended Blake Holsey. He is the lead singer and keyboard player for "Magnet 360", a band of Blake Holsey. Roommate is Lucas in room 32.
Lucas Randall
- "Suspicious of everybody": He is not good at sports and isn't the preferred choice to be on a team with. Often picked on by bullies and isn't good at insults. He is known for looking into conspiracies and his stories are often not believed. Lucas likes fishing with his father and playing chess. Lucas also has asthma. Roommate is Marshall in room 32.
Principal Amanda Durst
- Once a new teacher at Blake Holsey High, she has now been principal of the school for the last 10 years. She attempts to keep the hopes of the students high but has a watchful eye on the science club. She loves
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Professor Noel Zachary
- Science teacher and head of the Science Club, we find out though that this was not always his passion. It was luck that he received a scholarship from Pearadyne Labs to continue to college. He also was employed by Pearadyne Labs for a short time. Like Josie, he is interested (and often fascinated) in the odd occurrences and seeks to find the cause of them. He does not like giving pop quizzes. His favorite kinds of foods are hotdogs and spaghetti bolonges. He has a dog. Professor Zachary's birthday is on the 25th but the month is unknown. His last job was at an all girl school.
The Janitor
- When even Professor Zachary doesn't have the answers needed to solve their problems, the janitor turns up to individually give the students perplexing advice. He claims to like reading and his living area is usually not lit. Appears unsurprised at the mysterious events and seems to be watchful of Pearadyne Labs. He is usually seen attending to anything leftover by the suspicious occurrences.
Victor Pearson
- "Vaughn's father -- Major league bad guy": Having a fascination with science from a young age, Victor Pearson is the wealthy owner of Pearadyne Labs, an institution dedicated to science. An accident occurred 15 years ago causing mysterious happenings around the affected lands and the loss of his wife. He is head of the board of directors/governors for Blake Holsey High. He is suspicious of the Science Club and especially Josie. Victor's mission has been the reopening of Pearadyne Labs.
Kelly Trent
- Josie's mother. She worries that Josie may not like her and is trying to be more close to Josie. According to her, the work she does involves research for private companies and is an occupation involving confidentiality. She also worked at Pearadyne, apparently one of the people who began it.
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My Friend Rabbit
Mouse and Rabbit are the best of friends who encounter lots of adventures together. Preschool-age children learn a lot about
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My Friend Rabbit
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Alvin & the Chipmunks
NBC (ended 1991)
This show focuses on three superstar chipmunks who have their own band and the crazy adventures they get into. It
also features The Chipettes, their female counterparts and girlfriends. If you have any info, please contribute.
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During its run,
Alvin & the Chipmunks
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Alvin & the Chipmunks (or The Chipmunks (seasons 6-7))
(Seasons 1-7): All of the original episodes have aired on NBC.
The Chipmunks Go To the Movies
(Season 8): This also aired on NBC, but not as traditional episodes. All of the episodes were spoofs of famous movies.
The Characters
Alvin Seville
Alvin is the oldest of the chipmunks, and also the lead singer of their group. He is most often the one who gets them into trouble, (usually in an attempt to get rich or famous) and tends to be selfish, self centered, and conceited at times. He really hates to be alone and is VERY vain about his looks, although he does suffer from 'small munk complex'. (his height). Regardless of all this, he is very protective of his brothers.
Simon Seville
Simon is the middle brother of the chipmunks and is considered the brain of the group. He is always the voice of reason and logic behind Alvin's crazy schemes, and usually (unsuccessfully), tries to talk him out of following these crazy ideas.. He is very level headed in tough situations and is a strong believer in following the rules-- though occasionally he does break them along with his brothers to make sure they don't get into too much trouble... In his spare time, he enjoys reading and studying.
Theodore Seville
Theodore is the youngest chipmunk, considered the nicest out of all the chipmunks and can get along with just about anyone-- although he does tend to be shy at times. He loves to eat and almost always seems to be hungry. He also enjoys cooking and baking in his spare time-- ( which helps explain his cute little plump figure) and tends to scare easily. He usually gets really nervous when he's around a girl he likes, and tends to be a little slow when it comes to learning in school.
David "Dave" Seville
Dave is the Chipmunks adoptive father, and also their manager. He found the boys after they were abandoned on his doorstep, and loves them as if they were his own. But Alvin is always driving him crazy with his schemes, causing him to yell his name in exasperation.
Brittany Miller
Brittany is the oldest of her sisters, and also the lead singer of their group. She can be egotistical and selfish, just like Alvin at times, and is EXTREMELY vain about her looks. She enjoys acting, modeling, and singing-- and is constantly competing with the Chipmunks over whose group is better. Since she is supposed to be the counterpart of Alvin, she too is always coming up with different ideas on how to get rich and famous. And again, just like Alvin, she tends to be very protective of her sisters-- although at times, it takes her awhile....
Jeanette Miller
Jeanette is the brains of the group, and also the nice one, though she is very clumsy. Yet her personality doesn't resemble Simon's very much (except for her intelligence). In that respect, she is much more like Theodore. She is very kind towards her sisters, and tends to be quiet and shy. She is very confident about who she is, however, and doesn't seem to care what other people think about her. In her spare time she enjoys reading and studying.
Eleanor Miller
Just like Theodore, Eleanor loves to cook and bake, and because of it, is a little plump. Here though, the similarity ends. Her personality is not really like Theodore's at all: in reality, it's actually closer to Simon's than anyone else's. Like him, she is usually the one who tries to talk Brittany out of following her crazy schemes and tends to gets extremely annoyed and complains when her sister does something stupid. In a way, however, she is also a lot like Alvin: she is very athletic and good at almost every sport and would do anything to help her sisters. In this way, I think Eleanor is supposed to be a combination of all the Chipmunks, even though she is usually meant to represent Theodore's counterpart.
Miss Beatrice Miller
Miss Miller is the strange, eccentric, but nice, old lady who lives next door to the Chipmunks. She also happens to have a crush on Dave! She eventually ends up raising the Chipettes.
A sneaky, greedy, con-artist chipmunk who originally pretends to be the Chipmunks' long-lost mother's younger brother, in order to get them to work for him, with minimum wage: (or nothing at all). The Chipmunks eventually figure out that he's not really their uncle, and so successfully scheme to take the money he made off of them, and leave, returning to Dave. Harry, however, makes several more appearances throughout the television series. At his last, he even cons the Chipettes.
Vinny, the Chipmunks' Mother
Eventually, the Chipmunks go searching for their long-lost mother, Vinny, and after days of a treacherous search, actually manage to find her! At first, everyone's happy, but eventually Alvin gets upset since he doesn't understand why she abandoned them. Vinny explains that the year she abandoned them there was a horrible winter and all of the animals in the forest were forced to leave their homes because of it. The fact that they were so young, forced her to realize that they wouldn't survive the journey if she brought them with her. So instead, Vinny decided to leave them with a nice man who was always kind to the forest animals (Dave). She said, "Giving up her babies was the hardest thing she ever did," and then told them that when spring came and she could finally return to get them, she saw how happy they were with Dave, and thought they'd be better off with him. Eventually, Alvin forgives Vinny, and they all part ways on a good note: promising to keep in touch. Theme Song Lyrics "Watch out...cause here we come! It's been a while but we're back in style So get set to have some fun We'll bring you action and satisfaction We're the Chipmunks C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K We're the Chipmunks Guaranteed to brighten your day When you feel like a laugh Give us a call we'll give you our all And if you feel like a song Tune in to us and sing right along We're the Chipmunks Coming on stronger than ever before We're the Chipmunks Alvin, Simon, Theodore! Do-do, do-do-do-do!"
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A Muppets Christmas Special
A Muppets Christmas Special is an NBC television movie starring Jim Henson's Muppets. After an accident in the post office
on Christmas Eve, Gonzo discovers he accidentally went home with three letters to Santa. Stricken with fear that three people won't receive their gifts from Santa, Gonzo enlists the other Muppets to help him hand-deliver the letters to the North Pole, guaranteeing everyone will have a happy Christmas. It's up to Gonzo, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear and the other Muppets to save the day. Along the way they meet many new friends, including North Pol Airlines clerk Joy (played by Uma Thurman) and a naughty-listed police officer named Frank Meany (played by Nathan Lane). Other celebrity cameos include Whoopi Goldberg and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. This is the Muppets' 28th television special since their first aired in 1970. A Muppets Christmas Special is a fun-for-the-whole-family holiday celebration, featuring music by veteran Muppets songwriter Paul Williams.
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AppRadar 3.0 Squeals on Database Attacks as Theyre Spawned
Lisa Vaas
Posted 2006-01-30
Application Security is updating AppRadar, its real-time intrusion detection and security auditing tool, so that it regularly updates with security checks for freshly spawned nasties such as the Oracle Voyager non-activated worm code.
Application Security is updating AppRadar, its real-time intrusion detection and security auditing tool, so that it regularly updates with security checks for freshly spawned nasties such as the
Oracle Voyager non-activated worm code.
AppRadar 3.0, due out in March, will also be integrated with AppSecIncs AppDetective vulnerability assessment tool and will therefore flag threats even to unpatched databases. Thats a particularly appealing feature for the type of user who runs thousands of databases and, even in the case of critical security issues, cant patch them all immediately.
In such cases, AppDetective issues a popup window that asks the user if he or she would like to monitor for unresolved issues.
AppRadar is now tuned to a customers infrastructure, knowing details such as vulnerability specifics and what release is being run, without customers having to enter the information. Thus, the two tools working together can monitor intelligently, throwing up a red-level alarm for unpatched databases. Robin Bloor, a partner at Hurwitz & Associates, said that hes impressed with the comprehensive approach AppSecInc is taking toward database security.
"Theyre doing what nobody else has done, really," he said. "Instead of just addressing the audit issue with database security, theyve got, or are moving toward, a full database security suite. For me thats unique within the industry." But why wouldnt AppSecInc take it to the next level and make its suite an intrusion prevention system as well as an intrusion detection system? Ted Julian, vice president of marketing, said that customers havent been clamoring for it, given their leeriness over automatic tinkering with the database. "We have done research on doing prevention by putting hooks into the database directly, but when we go through as a vendor, doing product management exercises, we get [customers] to prioritize," he said. "This has never come above waterline. Ultimately, when we get to the nitty-gritty and force them to weigh it against other features, they say, Yeah, I dont know that Id use it anyway. I dont want anything making changes against my database. I want to do that myself. Its too risky." But the update does one thing that it should have done all along, Julian said: Namely, it can monitor data without storing sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. AppRadar thus manages to monitor data without creating another record that then needs to be audited.
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"Customers in our early days, they said, Its great to alert on any column, [etc.]," Julian said. "But they said, Now you guys are actually capturing all that datacan you capture information about the event but not store credit cards in your system? They said, We dont want another repository of this data well have to audit. "So we said Well, duh, why didnt we think of that." That is, in fact, something that analysts have been pointing out for a while now: the fact that sensitive data is being stored without cause, producing mountains of additional data to store, secure, audit or steal, as ones morals dictate. "Many have not even thought about how the security measures theyre deploying are exacerbating the issue," Julian said. Other new features of the update include support for SQL Server 2005, Sybase and DB2 databases. AppRadar 3.0 also will come with "huge" scalability improvements, Julian said, with one customer in the travel industry using AppRadar to watch two databases, each chewing through 1 million transactions a day. The update is also particularly audit-ready in that its now tamper-proof from both external and internal threats. If an administrator tries to turn policies off or to change policies, AppRadar will throw an alert. As far as staying on top of breaking vulnerabilities, the updates ASAP Update Support means that, roughly once a month, AppSecIn will add new security checks. Thus, when Oracle puts out its CPU (Critical Patch Update), for example, within a week or two, AppSecInc will have an ASAP update out to users. AppRadar 3.0 will be priced the same, at $12,000. Thats $10,000 for a perpetual license for the console, with a $2,000 yearly fee to purchase a sensor for each database to be monitored. The yearly fee includes ASAP updates.
Check out eWEEK.coms for the latest database news, reviews and analysis.
Lisa Vaas is News Editor/Operations for eWEEK.com and also serves as editor of the Database topic center. Since 1995, she has also been a Webcast news show anchorperson and a reporter covering the IT industry. She has focused on customer relationship management technology, IT salaries and careers, effects of the H1-B visa on the technology workforce, wireless technology, security, and, most recently, databases and the technologies that touch upon them. Her articles have appeared in eWEEK's print edition, on eWEEK.com, and in the startup IT magazine PC Connection. Prior to becoming a journalist, Vaas experienced an array of eye-opening careers, including driving a cab in Boston, photographing cranky babies in shopping malls, selling cameras, typography and computer training. She stopped a hair short of finishing an M.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She earned a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College. She runs two open-mic reading series in Boston and currently keeps bees in her home in Mashpee, Mass.
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Yesterday, "Mediabloodhound" Brad Jacobson (an occasional guest contributor to The BRAD BLOG) covered the coverage, noting the curious lack thereof, in the corporate mainstream, of the death of Mike Connell, the longtime top Bush/Rove/McCain IT consultant.
Jacobson's piece concludes:
What caused Connell's crash is only one piece of this story. One that, as in many such stories, may or may never be confirmed. Pilot error? Aircraft malfunction? Weather conditions? Foul play? Suicide? Heart attack? A thorough investigation needs to take place. Part of what the media should be doing is making sure that happens.
But everything that has already been confirmed, having nothing to do with the crash, should also have the national media covering this with at least as much gusto as "BlaggoGate" or, say, Britney's comeback or Brangelina's pre-nup. So far, though, in a replay of journalistic fecklessness rife during the Bush years, mum's the word.
Shortly following the publication of Jacobson's piece, AP/CBS filed a rather detailed report, one which is actually quite thorough by MSM standards.
Nonetheless, it's still been fairly quiet in the bulk of the MSM, especially in the broadcast MSM, and especially given the high-ranks of Connell, who had been the chief IT consultant for Karl Rove, had received millions creating websites for the Bushes, McCain, the Swiftboaters, the state of OH and dozens of other GOP campaigns, as well as having created the network firewalls for top Congressional committees (for which his company reportedly received a sweetheart, no-bid contract) and the controversial alternate email server used by the White House and at the center of the US Attorney purge scandal.
Let's hope the AP/CBS report will now spur more MSM coverage...just in time to be lost in the XMas news hole, of course.
A few more odds and ends of note today on this matter, as we head into that news hole...
I'm not sure what, if any, light this video --- as shot by local eye and ear-witnesses in Akron, OH --- sheds on the plane crash and death of high-ranking GOP IT operative Mike Connell. But, as it may reveal something, to somebody, in the still-unexplained, and surprisingly-timed crash, I suppose it may useful to put it on the record here.
For example, despite scattered reports that bad weather may have contributed to the cause of the crash, the weather seems to have been clear, at least on the ground, at least by the time the witnesses arrived, as seen in the video. Reports of "mist" seem to be belied in the early part of the video, shot through the front window of the car which does not appear to have its windshield wipers on. [UPDATE: RAW STORY also reports weather data during the hour of the crash, noting visibility was clear, and temperatures just above freezing.] Also, several descriptions of what was heard by the "ear-witnesses" as the crash occurred, may be of value as well.
The video, and an audio interview with OH attorney Cliff Arnebeck, who had sought Connell's protection after reported threats from Karl Rove, follow below...
-- Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG
The lead attorney in the widening 2004 federal election fraud conspiracy case which began in Ohio --- but is rapidly growing to other states and other elections --- says that the stunning death of a key witness last Friday is a blow to the case, but not the end of it by a long shot.
"Michael Connell was a critically important witness. His loss hurts our case," Cliff Arnebeck, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville v. OH Sec. of State lawsuit, told The BRAD BLOG in an email responding to questions about Connell's death. The Republican 'IT guru,' a top IT consultant to Karl Rove, George W. Bush, John McCain, and a bevy of congressional Republicans, had been in the nation's capital on still-unknown business before his single engine plane crashed Friday night on the way home, just three miles short of the runway in Akron, Ohio. The cause of the crash remains similarly unknown as of today.
"We will have to adjust," Arnebeck told us in response to queries about where the case may necessarily need to go from here. "The kind of organized criminal enterprise we are addressing requires the resources of the very best that the investigative press corps and law enforcement, at all levels, can muster."
As posted on the New York Times website in full on Saturday, the last line of a press release from VelvetRevolution.us, who has retained Arnebeck as counsel in the case, reads "Our prior request to have Mr. Connell protected went unheeded and now he is dead." [DISCLOSURE: The BRAD BLOG is a co-founder of VR.]
However, despite Connell's elite status as a top-rung Republican consultant for years --- he reportedly received some $800,000 from the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2004 alone --- the NYTimes, the nation's paper of record, has yet to run anything else on the death of the man who, Arnebeck notes, he had intended to both further depose, as well as call to testify as a key trial witness in the federal conspiracy case. Coverage from the UK's Telegraph, however, is published here.
Connell had been compelled by the federal district judge in the case, on the Friday prior to last month's Presidential Election, to give a deposition to plaintiff attorneys on the Monday before the general election. The order for that deposition came after the OH attorneys had sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, seeking protection for Connell and his wife. While Connell had expressed a willingness to testify about what he knew concerning the '04 election, and the election website network he had created for Ohio's then-Sec. of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, he had become reticent after Rove had sent threats to Connell and his wife, according to tipsters...
Guest blogged by Emily Levy of Velvet Revolution
[Additional material added on 12/20/08 by Brad Friedman]
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the private plane of the GOP's highly-placed "IT guru" Mike Connell's went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday evening. Connell was killed in the crash and is reported to have been the only person on board. There are no reports of anyone on the ground being hurt, though his plane crashed in a residential neighborhood.
Connell is a familiar name to readers of The BRAD BLOG as a key witness in the King-Lincoln v. Blackwell lawsuit regarding fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio. That recently revived, long-standing lawsuit led to Connell's recent deposition on November 3, 2008, the day before this year's general election. According to plaintiff's lead attorney Cliff Arnebeck in July, a tipster had warned that Connell had been threatened by Karl Rove, as The BRAD BLOG reported at the time, in an attempt to intimidate him into "taking the fall" for Ohio election fraud not long after a motion was filed to lift the stay in that case.
Connell had been memorably described as a "high IQ Forrest Gump", by the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Ohio fraud case, for his apparent penchant at the scene of "every single crime" from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the network firewall on a number of key Congressional committees to the case of the missing White House emails. (Video and text transcript of the interview with the attorneys here.)
In late September, the federal judge in the Ohio case agreed to lift the stay, and in late October he compelled Connell to give a deposition to plaintiff attorneys on the Monday before the Tuesday general election.
Connell had been served with a subpoena to appear in the federal courtroom in Ohio at the same College Park, MD airport where his single engine plane reportedly took off from last night, on his final solo flight...
As Jon Ponder noted here on Tuesday, a bi-partisan U.S. Senate panel has found [PDF] that George W. Bush was responsible for approving War Crimes (torture and abuse) at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Dick Cheney admitted in a recent interview to helping to approve War Crimes (torture and abuse) in interrogations, and the corporate media --- with the lone exception of MSNBC --- have been virtually as silent on what may be the most offensive crimes ever committed by an Executive Branch in the U.S. as they were during the lead-up to and follow-through on the War on Iraq, when those same officials sent our nation into war on the basis of demonstrable lies.
George Washington University's highly-respected constitutional law professor Jonathon Turley, noting the War Crimes now known and admitted to by Bush and Cheney, asked Keith Olbermann Tuesday night, "If someone commits a crime and everyone's around to see it and does nothing, is it still a crime?"
(Please watch the video at right, or read the text transcript at the end of this article.)
During the discussion, Turley mentioned --- no less than three different times --- that it'll be up to the citizens whether or not any action is actually taken to prosecute those who committed these crimes.
But is there any real basis --- in 2008 --- for his well-meaning argument? Not bloody likely...
It's been more than a full month since the November 13th arrest of Broward County, FL's election integrity advocate Ellen Brodsky and the state has still failed to file formal charges or supply her with discovery documents.
As The BRAD BLOG reported in detail following the arrest, Brodsky was taken into custody, seemingly at the behest of her opponent in the election, after attempting to oversee the public counting of ballots for the election in which she ran as a candidate for Supervisor of Elections.
The arrest for "disorderly conduct" (according to police records) was caught on tape and posted here last week. The tape shows fairly clearly that there was no such disorderly conduct by Brodsky, despite the order for the arrest having apparently been issued by the office of the current Broward Supervisor of Elections, Dr. Brenda Snipes.
Today's South Florida Sun-Sentinel picks up the story with an update noting that Brodsky, a month since her arrest, has been forced to seek a judge's order demanding that prosecutors explain why she was arrested in the first place.
The BRAD BLOG has also obtained a copy of a motion to compel discovery exhibits, which have similarly not been given to her, as filed by Brodksy's attorney earlier this month.
According to the Sun-Sentinel:
"Why they arrested her would be a really good start," he said.
Journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi, the new hero in Iraq, much of the Muslim world, and even among many in this country, is facing less than friendly treatment from the Iraqi military and, according to some news reports, the U.S. forces overseeing his custody...
Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether his brother Muntazer had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday's protest against Bush's visit to Baghdad or while in custody later.
He said he had been told that his brother was being held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad where the US embassy and most government offices are housed.
"He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm," said Durgham.
And yes, as we noted in our coverage on Sunday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino did, in fact, receive both a literal and symbolic black eye during the melee following the shoe toss. In what would be dismissed as ridiculous heavy-handed Hollywood symbolism, had it been featured in a movie, Perino actually received a black-eye when she was hit during the fracas, in the eye, with a microphone...
In other shoe-throwing news, you can now throw virtual shoes at Bush in a number of online games, or you can send him some actual shoes via a new online campaign promising to give Bush the boot. They all sound like good ideas to us!
Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.
The myth of the "liberal media" has become such an article of faith these days that attempting to refute it is futile. But if evidence against liberal bias were being collected, on top of the pile would go the scant coverage the liberal media are giving two stories about the approval of torture and prisoner abuse by the conservatives currently holding the offices of president and vice president of the United States.
Earlier this month, a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee put the blame for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison squarely at the top of the chain of command. Here's Andrew Sullivan:
Unlike the previous video, this one is real, as the line between satire and Bush's 'Presidency' grows increasingly impossible to discern in his waning days, and as his final visit to Iraq becomes as embarrassing as his first (when he delivered a fake turkey to the troops).
But his appearance at a news conference here was interrupted by a man, apparently a journalist, who leaped to his feet and threw one shoe at the president, who ducked and narrowly missed being struck. Chaos ensued. He threw a second shoe, which also narrowly missed Mr. Bush. The man was roughly 12 feet from the lecturn in the center of two rows of chairs, about two feet from a pool of reporters. A scrum of security agents descended on the man and wrestled him, first to the floor and then out of the ornate room where the news conference was taking place.
TV news coverage has noted that throwing shoes is one of the culture's greatest insults. So is calling someone a "dog." Unlike hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by Bush's attacks over the last 5 years, however, he was able to survive this one with his life, and even make a joke about it...
UPDATE: The video of both shoes dropping follows below. Also, MSNBC reports that WH Spokesliar Dana Perino may have ended up with a black eye. Both a literal, and an unbelievably symbolic one at the same time...
Following up on the latest monumental failure by Diebold/Premier --- whose voting system was recently found by a citizens' transparency project to have lost hundreds of ballots in a single precinct in Humboldt County, CA --- Wired's Kim Zetter covered the issue earlier this week.
Her article touched on a number of technical issues involved in the failure of the Diebold GEMS central tabulator which, though we hadn't noted them in our own coverage, are nonetheless important, even if somewhat down in the weeds, and perhaps most of note to technical election integrity geeks only.
As quoted below in some detail from Zetter's report, she advances the story by noting:
Let's take a look at the details...
Last month we reported the story of the arrest of Broward County, FL, election integrity advocate and independent candidate for Supervisor of Elections, Ellen Brodsky. She was handcuffed and arrested, according to the police report, for "disorderly conduct" and "trespass/structure or conveyance" while trying to observe post-election ballot counting and canvassing procedures in the county.
After her arrest, orchestrated by her opponent, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, Brodsky was held overnight in the county jail until 5:45am the next morning, despite her son having posted bail for her --- a grand total of $25 --- at 8:30pm the night before.
Brodksy has an impressive record of finding serious problems with counting and election procedures in Broward County, which undoubtedly helped foster the animus from her opponent Snipes. Shamefully, as we pointed out in our original coverage, Brodsky is only the latest in a string of EI advocates around the country who have been arrested recently while trying to peacefully carry out public observation of our public elections.
Here now is the video tape of the incident that results in her arrest, as captured on a small flip camera provided by election watchdog organization VideoTheVote.org. The man seen on the phone, at the beginning of the tape, calling the police, is Snipes' deputy Fred Bellis. It's clear that Bellis, in cahoots with Snipes --- again, Snipes was Brodsky's election opponent --- clearly seems to have been choreographing the entire arrest.
As you'll see in the video below, the fact that she was arrested at all, much less for "disorderly conduct," is absolutely incredible and clearly without merit. Our original report offered a great deal of background and context, as well as comments from Brodsky and a number of both EI advocates and a state election official from a different county who have all worked with her. They all, almost uniformly, described the turn of events at the time as "outrageous" and an "abuse of power."
Here's the video. You decide...
By John Gideon and Brad Friedman
"Some people have called those who have long decried our nation's move toward voting machines nuts or just sore losers," reads the editorial from yesterday's Eureka Times-Standard.
"They were loud, and they were strident in proclaiming that they didn't trust election technologies as much as they trust the ability of actual human beings to count votes," the paper continues in response to the citizen's "Transparency Project" in Humboldt County, CA which, as The BRAD BLOG reported last week, discovered some 200 ballots that the county's Diebold optical-scan system had deleted from the initially certified count. Humboldt registrar Carolyn Crnich --- who deserves much credit for working with local election integrity advocates to allow them to create a more transparent, open-source optical-scan system as a check on the buggy Diebold hardware and software --- was forced to to re-certify the November 4th election with new results after the findings.
"The recent discovery, thanks to the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, of a discrepancy in election results due to flawed software reveals that these activists were right to make noise, and right to complain about a company that has been less than responsible in dealing with the problem."
Thanks for noticing, Times-Standard. Now will the rest of the country notice? Specifically, will the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, responsible for testing and certifying these machines at the federal level, and the U.S. Dept. of Justice, responsible for enforcing federal laws --- which again seem to have been violated by Diebold (whose election division now calls themselves Premier) --- notice and take action?
Interviews with and responses from CA officials from Crnich to Sec. of State Debra Bowen's office indicate a serious problem, yet again, with Diebold's handling of the software failure which the company has known about for four years, even as they allowed election officials to continue using the same system in several states.
The BRAD BLOG has obtained a copy of Diebold's original terse, emailed notice of the software failure, sent to Crnich's predecessor in 2004, but never sent to CA's new Sec. of State, despite her "Top-to-Bottom Review" of all e-voting systems in the state which she undertook after taking office in 2007. (The Diebold email notice is posted below, in full.)
At the same time, local software programmer Mitch Trachtenberg, who developed the simple, transparent, open-source optical-scan software, using off-the-shelf hardware for the citizen's project --- including the ability to post all scanned ballots onto the web for citizen review --- may have inadvertently revealed the scam perpetuated by the nation's electronic voting machine vendor's who were allocated some $3.9 billion federal tax dollars for their efforts at creating proprietary systems, which don't even work as promised...or as required by federal law...
[Ed Note: Be sure to see the second of two UPDATES added to the bottom of the story below for Prof. Scott Althaus email sent in to note that his University of Illinois report does indeed cite The BRAD BLOG, several times, for our original contribution to their findings.]
Today's "news" that the White House altered Iraq War documents on its website regarding "the coalition of the willing" is not actually news at all.
The BRAD BLOG broke that story --- the first such scoop of ours to be noticed and picked up by the national media --- back in 2004, prior to the Presidential Election. At the time, the noise we helped cause with the revelations led to the WH being forced to restore terrabytes of documents, audio and video to their website in the week prior to the election. You're welcome.
We initially made the discovery of the missing WH website documents on the night of the Vice-Presidential Debate, after Dick Cheney claimed to be offended by John Edwards' assertion that the U.S. had "taken 90 percent of coalition casualties" in Iraq.
Cheney faked indignation in response, arguing that it was "beyond the pale" that Edwards was ignoring the sacrifices of Iraqis. Not recalling that Iraq was ever named as part of the "Coalition of the Willing," we checked the WH website, only to find the link to the list still there, but the page itself missing. Afterwards, we found many other pages, as well as audio and video, had been illegally removed from the website.
Here's our Special Coverage page, indexing our series of reports on the "White House Website Scrubbing" scandal, beginning in October of 2004.
We're very happy, in any case, that it's now "officially" news, and that the violation of the federal Presidential Records Act that we noted at the time is also confirmed, now that a professor at a university has found the same, and written about it. Guess we'll have to find a professorship somewhere. Haven't gotten to read his original report yet, but I'll assume he offered us the hat-tip we're due.
UPDATE: The above benefit-of-the-doubt, concerning credit where its due, may not be a safe assumption. The rather irony-laden coverage of professor of political science and communication Scott Althaus' findings, as reported by the Daily Illini today, follows. Get a load of this...


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Last month Israeli newspapers reported on the discovery of a huge cache of guns, bullets, artillery shells and mines in the Dead Sea… Continue reading
The Turkish regime is gradually suppressing freedom as its society moves steadily toward a more hardline Islamic identity… Continue reading
Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey's populace is reverting to its Islamic heritage… Continue reading
Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading
Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading
Wherever one looks, Turkey's "zero problems with neighbors" policy is fading… Continue reading
Turkey is aspiring to broaden its horizons to include not just Europe but the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in its strategic… Continue reading
Attacks carried out by Kurdish separatists since mid-July have set Turkey on the road to war… Continue reading
The Mediterranean islands, particularly Cyprus, proved invaluable to the expansion for the Ottoman Empire… Continue reading
In the absence of U.S. leadership, others want to direct the Middle East… Continue reading
By the end of 2011 more than 250 million people in the Middle East may well be living under what are in reality anti-American Islamist governments… Continue reading
The AKP got almost everything it wanted. It will be in power for four more years, infiltrating institutions, producing a new constitution… Continue reading
There is a grim irony to the fact that while the AKP's 2007 victory represented a defeat for the military, victory four years later requires… Continue reading