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Author | Noam Chomsky |
Language | English |
Subject | Natural language syntax |
Publisher | Mouton & Co. |
Publication date | February 1957 |
Pages | 117 |
First edition | |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Language | English |
Subject | Natural language syntax |
Publisher | Mouton & Co. |
Publication date | February 1957 |
Pages | 117 |
Syntactic Structures is a book in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1957. A seminal[1][2][3][4][5] work in 20th-century linguistics, it laid the foundation of Chomsky's idea of transformational grammar. It contains the famous sentence, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously", which Chomsky offered as an example of a sentence that is completely grammatical, yet also completely nonsensical.[6]
Chomsky had an interest in language from a very young age. His father William Chomsky was one of the foremost Hebrew linguists in the world. At the age of twelve, Chomsky read an early form of his father's David Kimhi's Hebrew Grammar (Mikhlol) (1952), an annotated study of a thirteenth-century Hebrew grammar.[7] At sixteen, Chomsky started his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. There during his freshman year, he studied Arabic and was the only student to do so.[8] In 1947, the year this university established its linguistics department, Chomsky met Zellig Harris, a prominent Bloomfieldian linguist. Chomsky became very close to Harris and proofread the manuscript of Harris's Methods in Structural Linguistics (1951). This was Chomsky's introduction to formal, theoretical linguistics and soon he decided to major in the subject.[9]
For his master's thesis, Chomsky undertook to apply Harris's methods of structural analysis to Hebrew, the language he had studied under his father in childhood. At Harris's suggestion Chomsky began studying logic, philosophy, and the foundations of mathematics. He was particularly influenced by American philosopher Nelson Goodman's work on constructional systems and on the inadequacy of inductive approaches. He found striking similarities between Harris's perspective on language and Goodman's perspective on philosophical systems. Chomsky was equally influenced by American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine's critiques of logical empiricism. In his undergraduate thesis, Chomsky attempted to construct a detailed grammar of Hebrew using Harris' methods. He tried to construct a system of rules for generating the phonetic forms of sentences, and to this end devised a system of recursive rules to describe the form and structure of sentences, organizing the devices in Harris' Methods differently for this purpose. In particular, Chomsky found that there were many different ways of presenting the grammar. He tried to develop an idea of 'simplicity' for grammars that could be used to sort out the "linguistically significant generalizations" from among the alternative possible sets of grammatical rules. Chomsky finished his master's thesis The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew in 1951.
Having won a one year junior fellowship at Harvard, Chomsky continued his studies along these lines. More significantly, he became interested in developing a linguistic theory using a non-taxonomic approach and based on mathematical formalism, and this line of inquiry represented a decisive break with the Bloomfieldian taxonomic structuralist tradition of linguistic analysis. During this fellowship, he compiled a gigantic oeuvre, nearly 1000 typewritten pages long, titling it The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (LSLT).
In 1955, with the help of Harris and Roman Jakobson, Chomsky moved to MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) as the in-house linguist in Victor Yngve's mechanical translation project. The same year he submitted just the 9th chapter of LSLT, titled Transformational Analysis, as his doctoral dissertation and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. But it would be 18 more years before LSLT would see publication.
Syntactic Structures was Chomsky's first published book, a short monograph that distilled the concepts presented in LSLT. It was published by a Dutch publishing house, Mouton. In 1956, Chomsky showed an editor at Mouton his lecture notes for MIT undergraduates[10] and a revised version of these notes were published as Syntactic Structures in the first week of February, 1957.[11] Favorable reviews from fellow American linguists, e.g., Robert Lees, made Syntactic Structures visible on the linguistic research landscape, and shortly thereafter the book created a revolution in the discipline.[3][4]
In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky tries to construct a "formalized theory of linguistic structure" and places emphasis on "rigorous formulations" and "precisely constructed models".[12]
Chomsky writes that his "fundamental concern" is "the problem of justification of grammars". He defines "a grammar of the language L" as "essentially a theory of L", as well as "a device that generates all of the grammatical sequences of L and none of the ungrammatical ones". Talking about the goals of linguistic theory, he draws parallels to theories in physical sciences. He compares a finite corpus of utterances of a particular language to "observations", grammatical rules to "laws" which are stated in terms of "hypothetical constructs" such as phonemes, phrases, etc.[13] According to Chomsky, the criteria for the "justification of grammars" are "external conditions of adequacy", "condition of generality" and "simplicity". To choose which is the best grammar for a given corpus of a given language, Chomsky shows his preference for the "evaluation procedure" (which chooses the best possible grammar for a language against the aforementioned criteria) over the "discovery procedure" (a procedure employed in structural linguistics which is supposed to automatically produce the correct grammar of a language from a corpus) or the "decision procedure" (a procedure which is supposed to automatically choose the best grammar for a language from a set of competing grammars).[14]
According to Chomsky, "the fundamental aim in the linguistic analysis of a language L is to separate the grammatical sequences which are the sentences of L from the ungrammatical sequences which are not sentences of L and to study the structure of the grammatical sequences."[15] By "grammatical" Chomsky means "acceptable to a native speaker".[15] Analyzing further about the basis of grammaticality, Chomsky shows three ways that do not determine whether a sentence is grammatical or not: its inclusion in a corpus, it being meaningful, and it being statistically probable. To illustrate his point, Chomsky presents a nonsensical sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"[6] and says that even though the sentence is grammatical, it is not included in any known corpus at the time and is neither meaningful nor statistically probable.
Chomsky concludes that "grammar is autonomous and independent of meaning, and that probabilistic models give no particular insight into some of the basic problems of syntactic structure." [16]
Assuming that a set of "grammatical" sentences of a language has been given, Chomsky then tries to figure out what sort of device or model gives an adequate account of this set of utterances. To this end, he first discusses finite state grammar, a communication theoretic model based on a conception of language as a Markov process. Then he discusses phrase structure grammar, a model based on immediate constituent analysis. He shows that both these models are inadequate for the purpose of linguistic description and as a solution, proposes his own formal theory of syntax called transformational generative grammar (TGG), "a more powerful model combining phrase structure and grammatical transformations that might remedy these inadequacies."[13]
A transformational grammar has a "natural tripartite arrangement": phrase structure rules, transformational rules and morphophonemic rules.[17] The phrase structure rules are used for the expansion of grammatical categories and for substitutions. These yield a string of morphemes. A transformational rule "operates on a given string...with a given constituent structure and converts it into a new string with a new derived constituent structure."[18] It "may rearrange strings or may add or delete morphemes."[19] Transformational rules are of two kinds: obligatory or optional. Obligatory transformations applied on the "terminal strings" of the grammar produce the "kernel of the language",[17] which are simple, active, declarative and affirmative sentences. To produce passive, negative, interrogative or complex sentences, one or more optional transformation rules must be applied in a particular order to the kernel sentences. At the final stage of the grammar, morphophonemic rules convert a string of words into a string of phonemes.
In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky invented the term "generative" and used it in a particular technical sense. When he says a finite set of rules "generate" the set of potentially infinite number of sentences of a particular human language, he means that they provide an explicit, structural description of those sentences.[20]
American linguist Paul Postal wrote in 1964 that most of the "syntactic conceptions prevalent in the United States" were "versions of the theory of phrase structure grammars in the sense of Chomsky".[21] British linguist John Lyons wrote in 1966 that "no work has had a greater influence upon the current linguistic theory than Chomsky's Syntactic Structures."[22] Prominent historian of linguistics R. H. Robins wrote in 1967 that the publication of Chomsky's Syntactic Structures was "probably the most radical and important change in direction in descriptive linguistics and in linguistic theory that has taken place in recent years".[23] Another historian of linguistics Frederick Newmeyer considers Syntactic Structures "revolutionary" for two reasons. Firstly, it showed that a formal yet non-empiricist theory of language was possible and more importantly, it demonstrated this possibility in a practical sense by formally treating a fragment of English grammar. Secondly, it put syntax at the center of the theory of language. Syntax was recognized as the focal point of language production, in which a finite set of rules can produce an infinite number of sentences. As a result, morphology and phonology were relegated in importance.[24]
Syntactic Structures also introduced Chomsky's mentalist perspective in linguistic analysis. This had a massive influence on the psychological study of language. Before Syntactic Structures, psychologists treated human language in terms of conditioned responses to outside stimuli and reinforcement. Chomsky argued that humans produce language using separate syntactic and semantic components inside the mind, and presented TGG as a coherent abstract description of this phenomenon. This induced a flurry of psycholinguistic research in the following decades.
Syntactic Structures also initiated an interdisciplinary dialog between philosophers of language and linguists. American philosopher John Searle wrote that "Chomsky's work is one of the most remarkable intellectual achievements of the present era, comparable in scope and coherence to the work of Keynes or Freud. It has done more than simply produce a revolution in linguistics; it has created a new discipline of generative grammar and is having a revolutionary effect on two other subjects, philosophy and psychology".[3] Chomsky and Willard Van Orman Quine, a stridently anti-mentalistic philosopher of language and one of Chomsky's early influences, debated many times on the merit of Chomsky's linguistic theories. Most philosophers supported Chomsky's idea that natural languages are innate and syntactically rule-governed. In addition, they thought that there also exist rules in the human mind which bind meanings to utterances. The investigation of what these rules might be started a new era in philosophical semantics.
With its formal and logical treatment of language, Syntactic Structures also brought linguistics and the new field of computer science closer together. Renowned computer scientist Donald Knuth has recounted he read Syntactic Structures during his honeymoon in 1961 and was greatly influenced by it.[25]
In his 1964 presidential address to the Linguistic Society of America, American linguist Charles Hockett considered Syntactic Structures one of "only four major breakthroughs in modern linguistics", alongside Sir William Jones's address to the Asiatic Society in 1786, Karl Verner's Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung in 1875 and Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Générale in 1916.[26] But he rapidly turned into a fierce critic of Chomskyan linguistics. By 1966, Hockett rejected "[Chomsky's] frame of reference in almost every detail".[27] In his 1968 book The State of the Art, Hockett writes that Chomsky's main fallacy is that he treats language as a formal, well-defined, stable system and proceeds from this idealized abstraction. Hockett believes such an idealization is not possible, claiming that there is no empirical evidence that our language faculty is, in reality, a well-defined underlying system. The sources that give rise to language faculty in humans, e.g. physical genetic transmission and cultural transmission, are themselves ill-defined. In Hockett's view, "we must not promote our more or less standardized by-and-large characterization of the language to the status of a monolithic ideal, nor infer that because we can achieve a fixed characterization some such monolithic ideal exists, in the lap of God or in the brain of each individual speaker."[28] Hockett also decried Chomsky's principle that syntax is completely independent of semantics.
Another long-standing critic of Chomskyan linguistics, the British linguist Geoffrey Sampson, maintains that Chomsky's linguistics is intuition-based and non-empirical, and that it largely owes its good fortune of becoming the dominant theoretical paradigm in the following years to the charisma of Chomsky's intellect. Sampson notes that there are many references in Syntactic Structures to Chomsky's own LSLT in matters regarding the formal underpinnings of Chomsky's approach, but LSLT was not widely available in print for decades. Nevertheless, Sampson's argument runs, Syntactic Structures, albeit "sketchy", derived its "aura of respectability" from LSLT lurking in the background. In turn, the acceptance of Chomsky's future works rested on the success of Syntactic Structures.[29]
Gerald Gazdar indirectly argued in 1981 that Chomsky's criticisms of phrase structure grammar may be invalid.[30]
In 2000, University of Minnesota's Center for Cognitive Sciences compiled a list of the 100 most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century. In total, 305 scholarly works and one movie were nominated via the internet. Syntactic Structures was ranked number one on this list, marking it as the most influential work of the century.[31]
Syntactic Structures was included in Martin Seymour-Smith's list of the The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written.
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It is refreshing when all your hard, honest work starts to pay off.
Thanks Again to everyone in Webmaster World for all their insight and direction.
Here is to a great New Year!
First joke of the New Year goes to GoogleGuy!
I see some sites of mine (new) appearing well for there keywords on DC1 & DC2.
Are they likly to settle there when the update is over, or are more factors going to change their current postion?
Does this mean there has been a dump available to them after early December and if so, why hasn't Google picked up on that dump yet... or will they?
I can't wait to see what a Google Directory listing will do for my ranking!
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Why should Google not recognise one of the most important days for such a large number of people.
It is about the people not the Government.
One thing to bear in mind is that as we improve our automation for things like cloak-checking and hidden text, the spam reports are the first place we look for testing. Sorry you've had a bad experience so far, but I wouldn't give up on them yet.
Actually I'm a bit surprised that figure is so low, given all the disagreement here at WW about what is or is not spam. I take that to mean that 95% of the time, when almost anyone hereabouts accuses someone of spamming, that Google will agree. Interesting.
I wonder who the biggest spammers are these days. Don't mention names here, but if you have a strong opinion--feel free to fill out a spam report. :)
I just checked www,www2,and www3 for one of my search terms. www shows nothing. www2 and www3 shows a listing way down in the cellar at 217. Not what I was hoping for. Is this where I can expect to dwell for the next month? Or will things continue to change and therefore, all hope not lost? I've also noticed that my PR has fluctuated between 4 and 5.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 4:27 am (utc) on Jan. 2, 2003]
[edited by: nell at 4:31 am (utc) on Jan. 2, 2003]
But you could have this guy for lunch. Get a few quality inbound links with the right anchor text in place and you will be sitting on top of him. None of his sites are all that strong. :)
Ban them all ..
The ODP dump is as far as I know still failing to build, so I think there will be no Google-Directory listing for new pages on the ODP for a while, Since the ODP is a non-profit section for Netscape they are only provided with one engineer, and she has other stuff to do, so I think we will just have to wait until next update... :) maybe ...
If you want to check the RDF dump status got to [dmoz.org...] or just check it at [dmoz.org...] you will see that the RDF dump structure is still 22. September :(
Happy new year! :) Steven
you need LOTS and LOTS of links to rank on a first page UNLESS you target a keyword that has little competition..
Check out the number of "results" for your "keyword" search.. anything over 500k is going to take a lot of work and LINKS LINKS LINKS to get you on the front page..2nd page (the only pages that matter)
Now if the results for your keyword search is say 20 thousand pages .. you can rank fairly easy ..but then again you're not going to generate much traffic.
It sounds like you have only have one site you are working on?
If thats the case ..just forget about Google and concentrate on getting in as many of the other SE's as possible as you build my pages and gather links..
If you are trying to rank high on a popular term it's damn near impossible..best to spread out and pick up as much traffic as you can from a diverse collection of keywords spread ocross your entire web site( with appropriate content)..
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I understand the non-profit nature of dmoz and can see that there hasn't been a proper dump done yet.. the thing that I find interesting (hence the post in this thread), is that I've had a few sites pop up this index who are using the ODP data for search results.. and they include my site.. which was only added in early December to the directory.. How are those directories getting the information? Could they be adding new sites manually?


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Google Custom App Creation Software 14. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) Google unrolled a new software program today allowing people to design their own apps for Android. Google App Inventor allows users to create their own apps by splicing together different combinations of images or "blocks", each meant to represent a certain function and each in-lieu of developing code. For example, a person could use the GPS-location-sensor block to help remember where they parked their car. Or they could use a block that tells their phone to text their loved ones, "I miss you" every three hours. Or, they could splice the two blocks together to create an app that texts loved ones their location every three hours. According to the App Inventor Web page, "The App Inventor team has created blocks for just about everything you can do with an Android phone, as well as blocks for doing "programming-like" stuff-- blocks to store information, blocks for repeating actions, and blocks to perform actions under certain conditions. There are even blocks to talk to services like Twitter." The App Inventor team has been working on the tool for about a year, and it has previously been opened for testing by schoolchildren and college students, none of whom are computer science enrollees. Google hopes that making the programming foundation available to the masses will help speed app development and bring fresh new app ideas to the table. With the new tool users can begin today and start making games like WhackAMole, draw pictures , or develop apps with educational and informational merit. For example, "You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have to phone as the questions aloud." The App developer requires no programming knowledge, "You visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."
NTP Sues Smartphone Companies Over Email Systems 9. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) NTP, a patent holding company, is attempting to dig into the deep pockets of the big-name smartphone companies with a lawsuit alleging that the companies are illegally using NTP's patented technology. NTP is best known for the several rounds of litigation that it went through with Research in Motion, the company providing e-mail software and hardware for Blackberry, ending in 2006. The litigation resulted in the patent company walking away with $600 million in settlement money. The new suit, which is aimed at Apple, Google, HTP, LG and Motorola, charges that these companies are using technology patented by LTP to run their e-mail systems. NTP was founded in 1992 by Thomas J. Campana Jr., an inventor and engingeer and Donald E. Stout, a lawyer. According to the New York Times, Campana patented several devices, spanning from antennas used on mobile devices to wireless e-mail. It is NTP's claim that Campana invented wireless e-mail, therefore, making it the intellectual property of NTP. Analysts and lawyers say NTP could potentially make hundreds of millions of dollars. But it could also make far less because the technology and product designs have changed drastically since they were first conceived by Campana in the mid 90's. NTP's argument is that the modern systems run on the foundation of those patented by NTP. However, the smartphone makers may have deliberately avoided building their smartphone e-mail systems off of those licensed by NTP with the lesson learned from the Blackberry settlement.
Studies Highlight Shift in Mobile Phone Usage 8. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) As cell phones become ubiquitous and multifaceted, the ways in which we use them is dramatically shifting. According to a survey by RingCentral, more business professionals would rather give up their morning cup of coffee than their smartphones, and Smartphones rank alongside having intimate relationships as the number one thing respondents couldn't live without. Smartphones are starting to trespass on the computer's territory as well, with 34 percent of respondents saying they use smartphones more than computers to do business. A new survey by the PEW research group shows a dramatic increase in the number of people who use cell phones to access the Internet from 2009. According to the study, 40 percent of American adults use the Internet, e-mail or instant messaging on a mobile phone (up from 39 percent of Americans who did this in 2009). And the demographics from the PEW study are of interest too. "Cell phone ownership is higher among African-Americans and Latinos than among whites (87 percent vs. 80 percent)." Minorities tend to use a broad array of features offered by the phones. Sixty-four percent of African-Americans access the Internet from a laptop or mobile phone, an increase from the 57 percent who did so in 2009. As smartphones become more versatile and companies increasingly position themselves to augment data downloading services, it is likely that "smart" will increasingly supplant "phone" as the reason people carry their mobile devices. According to ComScore, Data revenues, which come from Web browsing, messaging and wireless application downloads are more-fertile revenue streams than money coming from phone usage.
HTC to Ship 24 Million Smartphones 7. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) HTC Corporation, the Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones that brought consumers popular devices such as the Droid and Evo, may ship 24 million smarphones in 2010, according to a report by Digitimes.com. The 24 million mark will come as the result of HTC shipping 60 to 70 percent more phones than they did in the first half of 2010 in the second half, an indication of the surging popularity of the Android operating systems and smartphones in general. According to the report, "no component suppliers believed [reaching 24 million] was possible at the time with plenty of uncertainties still surrounding the global economy." In June 2010, however, HTC released sales results tallied at $741.392 million for that month alone, up 66.68 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to a separate report by Digitimes.com. HTC placed its hopes in the Android Mobile OS two years ago, a move that was risky at the time—even with Google backing it—but the gamble appears to be paying off. The company posted $268 million in profit for the quarter that just ended, a one-third increase over the same quarter last year. In April alone HTC sold 4.5 million devices, outpacing Apple during that month, which likely had purchases of the 3GS drop off as users anticipated the iPhone 4. Orders are supposed to increase during the third quarter, which is traditionally the peak season, and sources from the company say they weren't even able to fulfill all order requests during the first half.
iPhone 4 Problems Mount but Apple Stays Strong 6. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) The problems for the iPhone 4 seem to be thickening quicker than everything except Apple's revenues. First, a firestorm across the Internet sparked by early iPhone 4 adopters decried the device for having issues with the signal when the phone was gripped in a certain way. Later, Apple released a letter describing the problem as a software glitch, saying that the device was incorrectly programmed to display more bars of service than it actually had. According to the release, "Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars." Many people found Apple's response to the antenna dilemma to be more a prevarication than explanation. Several Youtube videos and engineers say that the signal does indeed drop when the antenna is touched on certain points; an assertion that Apple does not deny in the letter. Therefore, the explanation that Apple gives cannot discredit the fact that the signal is dropping. In fact, the only thing the explanation does is point out the software programming mistake—an issue independent of the actual signal decreasing. In addition, a class action suit has been filed against the company for offering a product they "knew to be faulty" and for false marketing practices, among other allegations. More recently, a thread that was opened on the Apple Support Page—and has ballooned to 70 pages at the time of this writing—describes problems with the proximity censor. Users are saying that the sensor, meant to turn the touch screen off while the phone is held to the ear, in many cases, cannot tell whether to turn the touch screen off or leave it on. This results in several people muting calls, enabling face time, or accidentally hanging-up during their conversations. Now, iPhone users have been reporting a sharp decrease in uploading speeds. According to Wired.com, iPhone users began reporting the drastically slowed speeds over the weekend. Uploading speeds have been reportedly well below 100 Kbps, a noteworthy pitfall when on Friday they were around 525 kbps. Some users have been describing the occurrence as a cap set up by AT&T, but at the moment there is ambiguity in what the cause is. It could be a new network-imposed cap or a network problem, according to Wired.com. A spokesperson for AT&T told media outlets that the company would comment on the issue later.
Google Purchases ITA Software for Airline Searches 2. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) Google will be taking a more prominent role in airfare and airline searching, announcing on July 1 the purchase of ITA Software, a flight information software company, for $700 million. ITA has existed for 17 years and provides flight-price aggregating services for sites like Kayak, Orbitz and Hotwire. Google plans to use the software to improve the way people can search for flight information, allowing fares, times, dates and actual flight plan searches to display on the Google page without people having to go to travel company or airline Web sites. This is yet another example of how Google is altering their modus operandi. Where previously Google focused on directing traffic to Web sites, it is increasingly providing content to Internet searchers directly. Similar to the directly provided airfare searches, Google provides content such as weather, shopping information and local restaurant information. Google's acquisition of ITA is pending clearance from antitrust enforcers who may look to reign in the search giant, which currently controls 63 percent of the American search market. Many key players in the $132-billion-a-year travel industry worry that Google's entering the market will rattle things up too much. According to The New York Times, companies such as Kayak, Expedia and Microsoft may lobby against the acquisition during the antitrust proceedings, and some airlines may pull against the merger too. The Times article explains that airlines are leery of how Google will display the information on search pages; they scorn the idea of having to pay for their Web sites listed among Google's own results. However, Google claims in a press release announcing the acquisition that the move will benefit passengers, airlines and online travel agencies by "making it easier for users to comparison shop for flights and airfares and by driving more potential customers to airlines' and online travel agencies' Web sites." According to the Times article, the service will allow customers to ask open-ended travel queries like, "Where can get within seven hours and within this price?"
Microsoft Kills Kin T-Mobile Halts Sidekick 1. July 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) When the smoke cleared on the cell-phone battlefields today, one mobile line was found dead and another in terminal condition: The former, Microsoft's Kin; the latter: T-Mobile's sidekick. Microsoft killed the Kin today after allowing only 48 days for customers to test its metal in the open market. The product, which according to the New York Times took developers two years to develop, was apparently slugging off the shelves in such a listless manner (less than 500 since May, according to BBC) that Microsoft saw fit to snip its losses. The T-Mobile Sidekick, a flip-phone that's been on consumers' hips since 2002, is set to be discontinued tomorrow. According to the report given CNET, whom T-Mobile first spoke of the discontinuation with, "T-Mobile looks to further innovate and raise the bar for the next generation of the T-Mobile Sidekick." For Microsoft, the Kin was supposed to carve out the younger market with easy-access to social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter; however, it fell short in competing with the powerful Apple products, and joined the bone-yard alongside the Microsoft Courier Tablet, which was meant to compete with the iPad. (If you've never heard of it, don't worry. It never hit the shelves). According to Microsoft, the decision to unplug the Kin was an attempt to rearrange their mobile man-power and put all of the momentum behind the Windows 7 operation. Microsoft slashed Kin prices from $200 to $50 for the high-end version and from $150 to $30 for version without the trimmings before discontinuation. It will not be shipping the models to Europe either. With the cell phone market still vastly untapped, the cell-phone battles will likely intensify, especially as the Android systems catch hold and make a stand against Apple. Stay tuned for details.
Cius Elbows into Tablet Market 30. June 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) Cisco announced plans for a new tablet called the Cius—pronounced "see us"—yesterday, which will be targeted for businesses as end-users and released for sale next year. The 1.15 pound device sports a 7-inch screen and permits workers to connect to Cisco applications like WebEx and TelePresence, allowing them to participate in videoconferences and share documents via the screen. According to the San Francisco Chronicler, it is "in essence a portable communications and collaboration platform." The Cius will run a version of the Android operating system and is compatible with Wi-FI and 3G services. The Cius is equipped with two cameras: a 720p high-definition webcam on the front and a 5 megapixel camera on the back for still images and video. According to an article in the New York Times, Cisco is talking about the tablet now in the hope that developers will begin creating business software for the product. Barry O'Sullivan, senior vice-president of the company, told the Times that the Cius could replace the need for a desktop computer on each employee's desk. The device runs on an Intel chip—one that usually powers laptops—and has hook-ups to connect it to a monitor and keyboard. The Cius will arrive on I.T. desks with security and management controls that can be tweaked and customized in great detail, a clear bid to give the device an edge over more consumer-oriented products.
White House Nearly Doubles Broadband 29. June 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) President Obama signed a presidential memorandum on Monday that will facilitate the auctioning off of 500 megahertz of spectrum for commercial use, a move that will nearly double the amount of airwaves available. The move comes on the coattails of mounting FCC concern that current levels of wireless broadband won't be able to keep up with increasingly popular smartphones, which use broadband spectrum to send and receive video and data. According to the New York Times, some aspects of the memorandum could cause discontent among television broadcast companies, who will be asked if they can auction off some of their broadband for access. However, National Economic Council Director Lawrence H. Summers expressed optimism for the plan, saying it should catalyze economic growth through the auctions and investment in wireless technology. Summers also said proceeds will go to improving communication for police, fire and other public safety agencies, and to improving projects such as high-speed light rail. The broadband will be salvaged in part from government agencies, such as the Defense Department, who may not be using all of their allotted broadband, and also from broadcasters and other spectrum licensees who already have spectrum up for grabs and are willing to part with it for incentives.
Healthcare Finds Hope in Telecom 28. June 2010 Chilton Tippin News (0) A summit met in San Diego on Monday to brainstorm the merging of healthcare and telecommunications technology, a field known as "mobile medicine," which is quickly gaining momentum. The summit, called mHealth, was hosted by the World Economic Forum and lured over 700 innovators from both the telecom and healthcare industries to discuss a collection of business and consumer practices that should be pivotal in redefining healthcare. At a time when the funding for the Obama Administration's plan for health reform relies on the leveraging of technology, and with a proposed $10 billion set aside per year over the next five years, the role of telecom as a steward in the collective health of the nation is set to spike. Obama's administration maintains that investing in electronic health information systems and improving access to prevention and disease management programs will keep doctors efficiently informed and people out of the hospitals, two measures that are key to long-term healthcare sustainability. According to a press release from the administration, a study by the Rand Corporation reported that if most hospitals and doctor offices adopted electronic health records, up to $77 billion of savings would be realized each year. Telecom can play a big part in those savings. Take, for example, devices such as the wireless blood monitor, a machine with internal components set to measure a patient's blood pressure and send alerts back to his or her physician. The physician will be alerted in times of emergency and will have detailed information tracking the patient's vitals. Other products and apps abound, from hundreds of healthy eating applications people have downloaded on their smartphones to wireless-complete-health-monitoring systems that connect with physicians and measure activity levels, blood pressure and weight. All of these technological features serve to keep patients healthy while minimizing costs of actual visits to the doctors. Companies such as WellPoint have organized programs where members can consult health care specialists through telecommunications media such as text messaging and video chat. According to an article in the IndyStar, WellPoint, an Indianapolis health insurance firm, is reminiscent of physician house calls, only this time with doctors coming to patients in the virtual rather than physical realm. Physicians will be able to speak with patients in real time to review symptoms, prescribe medicine, schedule follow-ups and review medical information over the Internet or telephone. A good indicator of the growing "mobile medicine" field is the Ontario Telemedicine Network. The OTN was founded four years ago by the government of Canada and uses two-way videoconferencing and telediagnostic equipment to connect patients in one location to doctors in another. In four years, the network has grown to facilitate 102,781 patient consults in fiscal year 2009/10, a 91 percent increase over the previous year, making it one of the largest telemedicine networks in the world, according to a June 15 press release. As innovations increase and consumers become more aware of the products, accessibility and ease-of-use associated with such innovations, the telecom revolution should pick up momentum in the realm of healthcare, enhancing consistency and efficiency.


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I think of Burt's Bees (not terrible, they make my favorite shampoo and lip balm - haha!) and Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street (I suppose that's not really terrible, either, but more of a deal-breaker for me...Bert is kinda weird...). I like Robert all on its own, or Rob if it has to be shortened. I think Burton nn Burt is an interesting suggestion, worth considering.
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In an auditorium so large that Columbia's Journalism School typically only uses it for its graduation ceremonies, hundreds attended the panel discussion "Journalism After Snowden" on Thursday evening. The topic was as vast as it is timely—encompassing the rising tensions between media organizations and their governments, the practical process of protecting sensitive information (digitally) and oneself (legally), and the delicate dance between privacy and power.
Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center at the journalism school (and a member of CJR's board of overseers), moderated the panel, and she started it off by asking Guardian US Editor in Chief Janine Gibson to give a behind-the-scenes account of the very beginning of the Summer of Snowden. Gibson described how Glenn Greenwald called her in New York shortly after making contact with his then-nameless source, saying something like "I think I have the biggest intelligence leak in a generation, if not ever."
Gibson was skeptical, but listening; however, she also knew that Greenwald was calling her from Rio over a Skype line. She knew from her previous work on the paper's WikiLeaks coverage that Skype was relatively untrustworthy technology, and she all but hung up on him. But Greenwald soon flew to New York to meet with her and a few trusted staff members. There, he showed them the tiny sample of stuff he had gotten from his source—starting with the PRISM PowerPoint slides—on a new, air-gapped laptop hastily bought from Best Buy for the occasion.
"You very quickly realize that this is an incredibly huge, sensitive, difficult story—or it's the Hitler Diaries, it's a great big hoax," said Gibson. Then came the story of the now-familiar trip to Hong Kong, and their meeting with an oddly young contractor and his Rubik's Cube, and the cache of documents of a size that no one has yet been able to quantify.
Verifying that Snowden's account was legit was one challenge—reporting the story out was an entirely different one. They started with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order for Verizon metadata. "We were trying to edit, write, report, understand, and verify a document that no one has ever seen," said Gibson. "You can't Google 'secret FISA Court order' to see if it looks like one that's in front of you." The audience laughed at this. "No, that's not funny, that's a genuine problem," she countered, drily.
The conversation shifted to the Guardian's collaboration with The New York Times as the documents from Snowden kept coming over the following months. Jill Abramson's first response to Bell's question about the Times getting involved was an honest memory of her disappointment that her paper hadn't been first with the scoop. "We did not break the story—the Guardian and The Washington Post did—and that caused me, you know, severe indigestion," said Abramson.
But both Gibson and Abramson agreed that the partnership between the two papers during this process was invaluable. Tech-savvy reporters and editors at the Guardian educated their peers at the Times about best digital-security practices for communicating, searching, viewing, and storing the classified documents. Then, the Times was able to protect the files when the British government aggressively pursued (and forced editors to destroy) the Guardian's hard drives in the UK.
The Guardian's outside counsel, David Schulz, was on the panel as well. He had previously worked with the Times during their WikiLeaks coverage. When asked about the legal challenges to news organizations dealing with such sensitive material, he started with the word "conundrum." A news organization possessing and then publishing classified documents is "still a legal gray area," said Schulz.
Later in the evening, Barton Gellman, who leads NSA coverage at The Washington Post, spoke to this same issue. Speaking from the audience, Gellman asked the panelists to try to parse the Director of National Intelligence's statement this week that Edward Snowden "and his accomplices" should return the documents he stole in order to protect US security from being further compromised. Are we to understand that James Clapper was referring to the press with that term, "accomplices," Gellman asked, or was this just a rhetorical flourish of his agency's frustration? Either way, he said, it is getting harder to report on national security issues.
"Almost everything you want to write about, if you are writing about diplomacy or intelligence or defense, is classified; everything but the press release and the news conference is classified," Gellman said. "That's just the way the US government works. There may be more classified information now than there is open-source information on the planet."


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Close call of the day! (And one very lucky bicyclist)
This is a discussion on Totally Off Topic -- Some times some folk just get lucky within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Close call of the day! (And one very lucky bicyclist) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1qQ6...layer_embedded...
Close call of the day! (And one very lucky bicyclist)
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Wow, guy on bike is lucky to be here today! What was the operator of the vehicle which caused this doing? He sure wasn't keeping an eye on traffic.
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If you watch careful, seconds 14 through 18, a car is stopped waiting to turn left, and a second car comes up fast and rear-ends it. Both cars spin into the intersection, narrowly missing the guy on the bike. The car that did the rear-ending then slams into the bus who had just pulled out into traffic.
Looks like typical Arkansas traffic to me
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Graffiti // Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Stand aside and let these boys show you how to clean up a spot with some solid straights.
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WGE crewmembers Enron, Pear and Harsh painted this optimistic rooftop, with the words "Worlds Gonna End" large enough to see blocks away.
Begr x Enron x Pufr
Graffiti // Monday, January 13, 2014
Why what a classic beautiful building you have there! Perhaps it would look ever better with our bubbly letters on it? Free of charge!
Building America with Enron...
Graffiti // Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Enron has been twisting, twirling and connecting his way though the American railroad system tastefully with panels like this.
Helsinki Roll Call...
Graffiti // Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Here is a stylish looking roll call with a bunch of American writers names popping up in the streets of Helsinki, Finland..
Stuck at a crossing...
Graffiti // Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Stuck at a crossing waiting for the train to pass and you are subjected to looking at graffiti from the likes of Pear and Enron. Poor you.
Graffiti // Wednesday, September 18, 2013
It would be difficult to find a better billboard to paint, ever. This is the kind of advertising that promotes fender benders. Manipulated by Enron for a collaboration between VTS and HUF.
Enron x Begr X Spoof
Graffiti // Thursday, June 13, 2013
These straight letter champions take to the streets of Detroit with some black and whites.
Enron in Action
Graffiti // Thursday, May 30, 2013
Hanging out between some buildings painting some graffiti funk on trains. Everyday life for your boy Enron.


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Journal Campus Virtuales
Description: Scientific journal of multidisciplinary research
regarding the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
in education. Created with a twofold aim, to gather researchers'
personal experiences and of institutional virtual campus as well.
Of Latin American scope, edited since October 2012, the journal is
released twice a year, in October an March. It counts on a scientific
editorial board of more than 50 members, composed by experts in this
field from Spanish Universities and from research centers and higher
education institutions mainly in America and Europe as well.
Professional management of manuscripts made via the OJS Platform that
guarantees a rigorous system of blind assessment.
Language: Spanish
Country: Spain
Publisher: University Network Campusvirtuales
Frequency: Semiannual
Fee information current as of 30 April 2013
Subscription fee or article fee: No
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Abstracts: Yes
Abstracts language: Spanish, English
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Start year: 2012
Keywords: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Virtual Campus
Subject: Education
Date posted: 30 April 2013


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Advocacy and Resources
We have trained advocates to help victims, survivors, or those affected by sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. We offer confidential and nonjudgmental on-campus advocacy to help you through the process of healing. This includes support, education, resources, and referrals. We help empower students and staff to make their own choices by providing options and support for their decisions.
- Advocacy Support Response Team Against Violence (ASERTAV) – This coalition between campus and community agencies is dedicated to raising awareness about interpersonal violence throughout the UNLV community. A key goal of ASERTAV is providing training to faculty and staff on how to respond to student and peer disclosures of interpersonal violence. ASERTAV strives to coordinate a collaborative response to student, staff, and faculty members of our community who may have been affected by violence.
- CARE Advocates (formerly PAAVE) – This organization is committed to educating students about the violent culture we live in, which perpetuates relationship and sexual violence. Our mission is to grant access to knowledge, increase sensitivity, and change individual attitudes about sexual violence through our peer education program. To accomplish our mission, our program utilizes the latest developments in the anti-violence movement.
- Campus Advocacy Resource and Empowerment (CARE) Line – The CARE Line is a 24-hour campus crisis hotline available to victims/survivors of interpersonal violence, as well as their family and friends. Trained volunteer advocates provide support, education, resources, and referrals to on and off campus entities involving crimes of sexual assault, domestic or dating violence, and stalking. CARE Line 702-895-0602
- Students United for Reproductive Justice (SURJ) – This organization helps bring a voice to the reproductive justice movement on campus, including, but not limited to, women of color, immigrants, and sex workers. SURJ is devoted to protecting and supporting rights such as the right to have safe, healthy, and realistic options involving reproduction, safe sex, and contraception.


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These last days of December I had scheduled meetings and in doing so found myself reporting on this year's progress of Less Cancer. We have reached ...
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If we truly are going to guard the next generation, we must engage communities to raise the bar on human health -- with a clear and specific focus on preventing cancer. If our children are going to have a healthier future, then cancer must not be an expected stage of life.
When the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim win a game, fans say, "Light up the halo!" about the giant A with a halo that lights up every time they win.
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Endangered crab to get help to make babies
Plans launched to protect species found only in S'pore
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Several uniquely Singaporean crabs are going to get help in making babies.
The River Safari is planning a breeding programme to make sure that some of the world's most endangered freshwater species which are found only in Singapore do not get consigned to history.
The programme is one of the outcomes of last month's two-day roundtable on saving the pebble-size Johora singaporensis crab, which is found only in hill streams at Bukit Timah and Bukit Batok, and nowhere else in the world.
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1009 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC, DC 20001, United States of America – Show map
Really friendly staff, Kitchen for own use & free Tea, Coffee and bananas all the time! Good Wifi connection, Good breakfast! Activitys for free time (pooltabel, tv, computers, instuments...) & free events depending on day (tours, karaoke..) I loved it and made so many new friends.
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The location, the cleanliness of the commun areas, the ability to cook and store your food in a clean and large kitchen, most of the staff is very friendly, the "game room" with the billiard table and tv.
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This Washington, DC hostel features Wi-Fi access along with dormitory style rooms equipped with a locker, lamp, and shared bathroom. The Metro Center Metro Station is a 5-minute walk away.
Guests staying at the Hostelling International Washington, DC have access to a common room, game room, laundry facilities, TV room, library, and full kitchen for self-service. Luggage storage is also possible.
A free continental breakfast is served each morning, featuring cereals, bagels, juice, fruit and pastries.
A weekly schedule of free activities are available that includes trivia night, tours, a pub crawl, and other social events.
The National Mall and White House is half a mile from Hostelling International Washington, DC. A variety of shopping and dining options are just a short distance away.
Downtown D.C. is a great choice for travelers interested in Old Town, City Walks and Tourism.
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Just over half a mile from Union Station in downtown Washington, D.C., this hostel provides free Wi-Fi access and dormitory rooms with air conditioning.
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Built in 1913, this historic hotel, in the heart of downtown Washington, D.C. has modern amenities and contemporary accommodations, and is perfectly situated for both leisure and business guests.
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This Washington, D.C. hotel is located a 10-minute walk from the White House and is just over half a mile from the Washington National Monument. Facilities include free Wi-Fi and an on-site...
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Just 2 blocks from Dupont Circle and the Dupont Metro Station, Hotel Baron is 1.5 miles from the Washington Monument on the National Mall. It features an on-site restaurant.
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location and staff
room is a bit small but acceptable.
Location is really good. Good breakfast.
For a 10-bed dorm, I expect the price to be cheaper.
Really friendly staff, Kitchen for own use & free Tea, Coffee and bananas all the time! Good Wifi connection, Good breakfast! Activitys for free time (pooltabel, tv, computers, instuments...) & free events depending on day (tours, karaoke..) I loved it and made so many new friends.
I liked the clean, warm and best area location of Hostel, that is best for money. Staff is very friendly. Good free food and free wifi adds in its plus points. Always the morning time warm welcome of John in kitchen.
Location No alcohol allowed Pretty quiet Breakfast
Some bathroom are very cold They are not flexible when you extend your stay, they ask you to change room because someone is coming but the rooms are almost empty, so anyway you have to check out at 11:00 AM and check in at 3:00 PM even if you stay in the Hostel. Luguage storage 4 dollars Iron Bunk bed pretty Noisy
1. the price 2. the staff 3. the staff's ability to problem solve and help the traveler with an alarm clock, directions etc etc etc 4. the new paint job
Next time that I come may I volunteer to work on your bathroom sinks so that they run faster? The dirty water leaves the sinks so slowly that it leaves a mess in the bowl. I believe it is because the overflow drain is clogged and does not allow air through as the water tries to exit. Would love to fix it!
Kind dining staff
No elevator even my room was on 6 floor. The worst facilities where i have stayed
I used to stay here when I first backpacking to Washington DC area in mid-1990s, so there is some sentimental value for me. The location is good and considering how pricey DC accommodation is (even in frozen late January), the price of this place is also a relative bargain.
The facilities are quite old, the space is quite tight. At my second stay in January, the elevator wasn't even working. I had to climb up to my room on 5th floor (which is okay for me, but may be tiring for many other guests) The dining area is nicely arranged but very crowded in morning "rush hour."
Hostel is in good location to walk or catch train to museums. I stayed in private room and it was great. Overall it is very simple, building is old and is currently being renovated (lift not working which was a bummer, however I was told at time of booking and a safe member helped me carry my suitcase to the 6th floor). Until renovations are finished this place is clean, safe and well located but don't expect any other bells and whistles. great potential though and I enjoyed my stay. Went on one tour/activity with other hostellers and our guide was fantastic and it was a lot of fun!
Just having come from Hostelling International Boston, this was a massive step down despite prices being on par, but thats because Boston is brand spanking new. I believe Washington is renovating and it should be great once it is all finished! Only minor complaints were - staff guy at breakfast is extrememly in your face and loud. It didn't bother me most of the time, but one morning I was just not in the mood to be forced to talk to people so I took breakfast back to my room - internet wouldn't work (time out) from about 5pm in the afternoon for the rest of the evening. All other times it was fine.
low price good location I really love the kitchen A warm atmosphere
During my stay the elevator was out of service and I should bring all my luggage to the forth floor and it was terrible
good price
staff not very welcoming noise from other rooms even during midnight
Slow wifi, squeeky beds, cold shower room and water
The washroom is pretty clean. The breakfast has multiple choices.
The breakfast run out pretty fast, but resupply didn't keep up. When the elevator was not working, it would be more thoughtful if they could provide free storage for big luggage.
The whole thing. I had a great stay in this hostel. The staff is great especially John, the breakfast attendant.
Elevator is under renovation.
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good breakfast and best wifi
Bad bed, dirty shower room
Staff, location, price
It was very very very cold in the bathroom, so it's easily to catch a cold if you do not have high slippers, And my bed linen was with holes. So I think it could be much better than that.
everything even the elevator and hot water are broken
vatilation blows directly to bed
I felt frustrated when I used water in the bathroom because the pressure of water was so weak and I couldn't make water keep running. Water kept stop running after even a few seconds.
good location strong wifi free breakfast
seems like many things are under maintenance, e.g. lift (it will be tough if you are living on higher floor) , some parts of the washroom are also not available
Staff is amazingly nice and understanding to accommodate those little things that make one's trip so much better. Location wise will won't get much better than that for the price. Totally worth it if you know what to expect from a cool nice hostel.


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Defunct NNSL Workers Protest Non Payment of Terminal Benefits
Former workers of the defunct Nigeria National Shipping Line have vowed to occupy the premises of the Federal Ministry of Transport in Abuja over their unpaid terminal benefits by the government.
The workers led by their chairman, Comrade Sunday Ben and secretary, Jackson Anomorisa said they have made several efforts to ensure the payment of their severance package since 1995 when the Nigeria National Shipping Line was liquidated.
The union denounced the payment of the gratuity paid to its members in 2007 saying members of the union had been greatly short-changed.
Attempts by some workers of the ministry to force their way into the building housing the ministry almost turned the peaceful protest into a violent one as the retirees prevented them from entering the building.
Efforts by senior officials of the ministry to persuade the protesting ex-workers to allow workers gain access into the ministry also proved abortive.
The retired workers said they were determined to take their destiny in their own hands as they also obstructed vehicular movement along the street leading to the ministry.
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I LOVE FILM photo exhibition opening party at Lomography Gallery Store Tokyo
4 5 Share TweetAlthough it is in the cold night we have HOT event in the Lomography Gallery Store Tokyo tonight! Lomography and GELATIN SIVER SESSION held the opening party for the collaboration photo exhibition in the culture day, November 3rd, to hope for the continued existence of film itself and culture.
Lomography and GELATIN SILVER SESSION hosted an opening party to exhibit pictures taken in collaboration between Lomography and GELATIN SILVER SESSION on November 3rd, also known as Culture Day hoping for the continued existence of film itself and culture created from it.
GELATIN SILVER SESSION is a project wishing to preserve techniques, equipment, film, printing paper and gelatin silver photography for generations to come by introducing the fun and excitement of photography. Today, wishes of both Lomography and GELATIN SILVER SESSION to preserve films got together and finally opened a photo exhibition.
I want to express our sincere thanks here in this article to all lomographers and photographers from GELATIN SIVELER SESSION. Thank you!
We had a Lomo Mission named "I LOVE FILM" two monthes before the exhibition, and we announced three winners for this competition tonight! The winners got Lomography films, a bag, and a GELATIN SILVER SESSION's photo book with autographs of all photographers who participated the opening party!
All these photos will be up in the 2nd review with lots of great lomographs.
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The Toyota Oakdale Theatre Presentation of Ray LaMontagne on June 3, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Ray LaMontagne is coming to the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford on Tuesday, June 3 at 7:30 p.m. Known for such songs as "Trouble," "You Are the Best Thing," and "Hold You in My Arms," acclaimed singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist LaMontagne has been compared to such artists as Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, and Van Morrison. With a unique sound that combines elements of folk, rock, blues and soul, LaMontagne is coming to the Toyota Oakdale Theatre for one night only. To enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to his June 3 performance, fill out the form below. Entries must be submitted by May 23 at noon. Good luck!


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Many in Washington are confident that Congress will reach an eleventh-hour agreement that will avert the universally maligned sequestration process. The former defense secretary and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff aren't among them.
Speaking Sept. 17 at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, respectively, took aim at Congress for its shortcomings, which they said has led the U.S. to the precipice of a "fiscal cliff." Blaming members for forgoing the greater good in favor of partisanship, the former top DOD brass warned of the dangers posed by the looming $1.2 trillion in across-the-board federal budget cuts – in addition to the burgeoning U.S. debt.
"A nation with our current levels of unsustainable debt, being this far out of fiscal balance, cannot hope to sustain for very long its superiority – from a military perspective or its influence in world affairs," Mullen said. Facing "abundant disorder in our fiscal house, brought upon us by ourselves, by our own doing," Mullen pointed out that baby boomers, including Vietnam veterans, have left the country in worse shape than it was received.
"This is a legacy for which we should all hang our heads," he said.
Mullen stopped short of saying he expects sequestration to happen, but he was not optimistic.
"I'm not as hopeful as others that we won't drive off this cliff. I'm worried sick about it, quite frankly," he said.
And while the former Joint Chiefs chairman said he wasn't there to point fingers – "I don't have enough fingers" – Gates set his crosshairs firmly on Capitol Hill. He outlined what he believes are the root causes for Capitol Hill's current state of dysfunction: gerrymandering, partisan ideological zeal, declining congressional power brokers and a 24/7 digital media spin cycle that has led to a "dumbing-down of the national political dialog."
"American politics has always been a shrill and ugly business, going back to the founding fathers. As the result of several polarizing trends, we have lost the ability to execute even the most basic functions of government, much less solve the most difficult, divisive problems facing this country," Gates said. "Too many of our politicians seem more concerned with winning elections and scoring ideological points than with saving the country."
Gates touched on his own cuts he instituted when in control at the Pentagon – nearly $80 billion in cuts he requested in his defense budget as he was stepping down in July 2011. By the time he retired, nearly $900 billion had been cut from defense spending over the next 10 years on paper – before sequestration was considered, he said.
The grim figures are compounded by history, Gates pointed out.
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The pointed stick has two ends. No Congress has NOT done their job. But neither has the management of DOD. Cut out the BS and the duplication and interservice rivalry (like Bob McNamara tried to do 50 years ago), and DOD could probably stand a 1/3 budget cut with no loss of mission capability.
Mike Mullen for President!
The era of partisan politics needs to come to a swift end. Our nation is in trouble and Democrats and Republics sqabbling over every issue has created a dysfunctional government. It's time for Patriots to stand up and take charge and for the American people to fire these politicians that can't get the job done - starting from the top down!
Bravo!!! Country first and politics last. If we don't save what we have, there won't be anything for congress to do except leave. Most of them should go now anyway since they are so ineffective. This may go down in history as the worst congress ever. They certainly don't know how to do the jobs they were sworn in to do. Get rid of them and the country would be more functional and much richer.