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(October 11, 2012, Washington, DC) – Special Olympics announced the launch of two break-through online education resources for its coaches, aimed at improving the quality and consistency of Special Olympics' coaches training worldwide. Special Olympics has partnered with two leading sport coaching education providers: American Sport Education Program (ASEP) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to develop and deliver Special Olympics-customized online courses that meet entry-level and continuing education certification requirements for Special Olympics coaches. As Special Olympics coaches are volunteers, the courses provide much-needed web-based alternatives to traditional in-person trainings and are a tremendous step forward in Special Olympics' ongoing commitment to providing quality coaching for all athletes. Annette Lynch, Sr. Manager, Sports Partnerships, Special Olympics North America: "These courses represent an important first for Special Olympics – by leveraging technology, the training delivery expertise of some of the best coaching and instructional minds in sports, we are able to bring quality training to our volunteer coaches in a way we've never been able to before," Lynch added, "traditional training obstacles for volunteers such as geography, time, and money will be removed, allowing for more people to become the quality coaches our athletes deserve."
Through the American Sport Education Program-offered Coaching Special Olympics Athletes online course, coaches will develop a better understanding of how people with intellectual disabilities learn and how they participate in sports. The course offers an overview of the coaching principles and successful techniques involved in working with Special Olympics athletes, as well as practical ideas that can be used during coaching. The National Federation of State High School Associations-offered Coaching Special Olympics Unified Sports® course provides techniques and tools for coaches working with Special Olympics' Unified Sports program, where athletes with and without intellectual disabilities (partners) train and compete together as a team. This course helps coaches understand and implement the most successful coaching strategies for this very special mix of teammates. The course features an introduction by former NFL quarterback, and Special Olympics supporter, Kurt Warner, and his wife, Brenda. NFHS is the official provider of interscholastic coach education."We're excited to collaborate with Special Olympics and support their efforts to provide quality coaching education," says Jim Schmutz, ASEP executive director. "24/7 online access to Coaching Special Olympics Athletes provides flexibility that will help reach more coaches with valuable information and practical tools. This athlete-centered course will help more Special Olympics coaches bring out the very best in each of their athletes. ASEP is proud to be part of the Special Olympics movement that enhances lives and transforms communities.""With the assistance of Special Olympics, the Arizona Interscholastic Association and Special Olympics Arizona, we are pleased to be able to offer this course," said Tim Flannery, NFHS director of coach education. "Unified Sports is a program that promotes social inclusion and participation for all students, and this course will be of tremendous help to coaches who serve in these programs."
Special Olympics focuses on delivering high-quality year-round competition opportunities to children and adults with intellectual disabilities in a variety of sports in an inclusive culture that stresses athletic excellence, rewards determination, emphasizes health and celebrates personal achievement.More than 306,000 volunteer coaches currently support Special Olympics' athletes globally. The organization has a strategic goal of increasing the number of certified coaches to 530,000 by 2015. Special Olympics currently serves 4 million athletes in 170 countries, offers 32 Olympic-type summer and winter sports, and holds nearly 53,000 competitions annually - the equivalent of about 146 competitions a day! Therefore, the need for volunteer coaches is constant and growing.
Special Olympics is a global organization that reveals the champion in all of us through the transformative power and joy of sport, everyday around the world. Through programming in sports, health, education and community building, Special Olympics is changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities tackling the injustice, isolation, intolerance and inactivity they face throughout the world. Learn more at www.specialolympics.org.The American Sport Education Program (ASEP) is the leading provider of youth, high school, and elite-level coaching education programs in the United States. Rooted in the philosophy of "Athletes first, winning second," ASEP has educated more than one million coaches, officials, sport administrators, parents, and athletes. For more than 30 years, state high school associations, individual school districts, state departments of education, and local, state, and national youth sport organizations have partnered with ASEP to lead the way in making sport a safe, successful, and enjoyable experience for all involved. For more information on ASEP sport education courses and resources, call 800-747-5698, e-mail email@example.com, or visit www.ASEP.com. The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the national leadership organization for high school sports and performing arts activities. Since 1920, the NFHS has led the development of education-based interscholastic sports and performing arts activities that help students succeed in their lives. The NFHS sets direction for the future by building awareness and support, improving the participation experience, establishing consistent standards and rules for competition, and helping those who oversee high school sports and activities.
The NFHS writes playing rules for 17 sports for boys and girls at the high school level. Through its 50 member state associations and the District of Columbia, the NFHS reaches more than 19,000 high schools and 11 million participants in high school activity programs, including more than 7.6 million in high school sports. As the recognized national authority on interscholastic activity programs, the NFHS conducts national meetings; sanctions interstate events; offers online publications and services for high school coaches and officials; sponsors professional organizations for high school coaches, officials, speech and debate coaches, and music adjudicators; serves as the national source for interscholastic coach training; and serves as a national information resource of interscholastic athletics and activities. For more information about the NFHS, visit www.nfhs.org. Access and order NFHS Coach Education courses at www.nfhslearn.com. Creative Street Media Group, the design team behind the NFHS course, is a nationally recognized, fully integrated multimedia production company with particular emphasis on developing media for the sports, education, health care, and pharmaceutical industries as well as programs for telecast. For 28 years, CSMG has served national Fortune 500 clients with core competencies in creative and content development, graphic design, video production, website and interactive media development, and online education programs.
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I have been praying for Alanna and her family. I have also been praying that God show me how I can help to meet their needs. God has led me to set up this donation site to help defray their costs while Alanna is at the hospital.
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I've owned two Radeon HD's, a 4670 and a 5670. The stability of the open source driver is good and its performance is good in most cases. Their proprietary driver is totally broken and dangerous to use. If you're considering buying an AMD card to try to run games and professional software with, you should take the following warnings.
AMD doesn't listen to or respond to most of their bug reports http://ati.cchtml.com/buglist.cgi?qu...duct=&content= for their proprietary driver, including one by me. http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463.
Most of their driver releases are incredibly unstable and WILL (there is NO IF, only WHEN) cause data loss, kernel panics, X.org Server collapses, etc.
Sometimes a simple thing like putting the monitor in standby mode will make the system unable to wake up. (Which was the subject of my bug report.), this has been ongoing for at least a year, I only decided to file a bug report because this way I have something to point to when they say "where is the bug report?", but it should be obvious to most people that this happens. It's kind of hard to not notice your system going to sleep and not waking up, and having to hold down the power button.
In their Catalyst 12.4 beta, sometimes simply creating an OpenGL context will seems to panic the kernel, though this seems to be a race issue and of course it freezes the X server, so you see whatever the X server drew to the screen before the system died, not the actual kernel panic.
Last year, for two months (11.1 and 11.2), sometimes viewing a PNG with an alpha channel would cause the X server to collapse. Between 11.10 and 12.2, using an application which used X Video would cause the server to crash.
AMD's proprietary driver does not EVER support the current stable X server. If it does, it will be extremely error-prone, even for Catalyst, until another stable X server is out that Catalyst will again take months to support. Their kernel support is sometimes a release or two behind. Sometimes just fixing a bug in a current STABLE KERNEL SERIES will cause their module to not build (like it hasn't on x86-32 since 3.2.12 came out).
AMD has a number of technical problems with their Catalyst driver that are caused by it being developed outside of the kernel and outside of X.org with basically no quality control process. AMD's John Bridgman claims they have one, but I have yet to see a driver that looks like it has been through any kind of QA. It seems instead that they simply shit another one out every month and say it's a new version when it usually has all the same problems it ever did and maybe more.
The driver bundle is obese. The download size is well over 100 MB COMPRESSED, that's larger than an entire Linux kernel source package and all of X.org, combined. Even at this clownish size, it only manages to support about half of the Radeons that are out there. Anything pre-Radeon HD has no official support from AMD.
I understand that the reasons for some of this are:
(1) As a hardware company, they don't want to support cards that are more than a couple years old.
(2) They suck and are unable to compete with Nvidia. Which supports every card they've ever released and usually provide betas that support THE NEXT KERNEL AND X SERVER!!!!!
Why can't AMD do this? They wait for Microsoft to sign the freaking Windows driver and they hold that month's Catalyst Linux driver bundle hostage until Microsoft gets around to certifying the Windows counterpart. They release betas for Windows users without the Microsoft certification all the time, and they even have a Twitter account where their employee's advice is frequently to just use the uncertified betas to fix whatever their current release is doing wrong on Windows.
Just stop. Kill your evil driver or fix it please. It's getting to be a broken record on IRC in any distribution's chat room of "I installed Catalyst and now my system is fucking broken". It comes up, predictably, about a dozen times a day that I see, in one particular room.
And Bridgman, please stop ignoring me when I mention a bug and stop telling me you have a QA process when you clearly do not and it's anyone's guess what programs it will savagely maul that month because you can't make it work right.
Thanks. And if anyone is looking to buy AMD's hardware, take this as a warning that it's very hard to get it to do anything terribly useful, and you might as well just get a cheap one if you possibly can, because you're not going to get serious 3d performance or OpenCL support out of the open source stuff anytime soon.
Last edited by DaemonFC; 03-29-2012 at 02:47 PM.
[QUOTE=bridgman;256400]I'm not ignoring you, I'm telling you that I work on the open source side not fglrx.
sure there is QA process but its useless
i was doomed by the AMD QA process back in 2007-2009 wen my Opteron workstation with nforce3600 chipset was completely broken with the catalyst driver for maybe 6 month.
yes not a cheap worst desktop a full workstation with a 400 mainboard and 2 opterons +amd card FAIL!!!!!
if a QA process don't work for cheap desktop bullshit OK but on Workstation hardware with very expensiv OPTERON CPUS??? LOL!!!!!
This QA process is just Bullshit!
because of my problems with "Opteron" systems with "AMD" cards i now do have a "cheap" system. because my opteron system teaches me that the QA Process of AMD is bullshit.
on the other side the QA Process of the opensouce driver is "Perfect"
because its community driven.
in my point of view the catalyst is "Hopeless" Say that to your manager Friends @AMD
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Probably not "nothing" as he has the same employer but you can't blame Bridgman for the trash software made by the fglrx people. It isn't Bridgman who destructs the proprietary driver, the fglrx people are responsible for this (Bridgman probably just tries to help). You also can't blame Bridgman for decisions elsewhere in AMD regarding QA. Please stop chasing Bridgman and rant elsewhere if you can't stop ranting.
Last edited by AlbertP; 03-30-2012 at 10:41 AM.
he is a "manager" he can talk to other managers and the HDMI audio show the AMD hardware is cloused source focused only.
bridgmans point of view is: they only do drivers means software they will not chance hardware part for opensource.
this means opensource is doomed.
next is the "UVD" unit bridgman try the "impossible" and they allready drop hd2900+uvd1 cards+uvd2 cards because they don't have a extra layer to protect the DRM against the opensource driver.
I'm sure they will fail on the UVD stuff. and its simple why: if you know how the stars mcirocontroller works in his role then you can easily Re-Engineerin the catalyst to get the information to break the DRM.
and this is "Bridgmans" job wasting the open-source money on impossible missions.
Talking usually doesn't do much. If FLGRX has certain goals set for them, they follow them, Bridgman can't change that.
Opensource is doomed? Hahahah, what?
Open-source money? AMD uses part of their money to develop open source driver for their hardware, I do not a problem with that. Progress is progress, no matter how long it takes.
When did YOU do something useful for opensource-community instead of ranting here? If it's so easy, maybe you can join AMD and get their stuff fixed?


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Durham, 65, held the position since the show's inception in 1996, and worked last Tuesday's opening night game between Boston and Miami with longtime partner Dr. Jack Ramsay.
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Harrah's Joliet Casino & Hotel
Featuring 1,100+ slot machines, most Video Poker in town, 25 table games, and WSOP Poker room. Experience exceptional dining at the Reserve steakhouse and luxurious comfort in our hotel.
Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway
If you are looking for affordable summer fun, look no further than Joliet's Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway. We provide the fastest entertainment in the area and play host to NASCAR, NHRA, and Team Demolition Derby on three different tracks. Headlining at Route 66 Raceway, the O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals presented by Super Start Batteries takes place on June 28-30. At Chicagoland Speedway, make sure to join us on September 13-15, for the first race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup! As the first of 10 Chase races, the GEICO 400 begins NASCAR's thrilling playoffs. With a wide variety of family friendly options, you can't beat summer at Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway.
Hollywood Casino Joliet
Live in the moment at Hollywood Casino Joliet and experience heart-pounding gaming action, thrilling entertainment, an on-site hotel and a wide variety of dining options!
Haunted Trails Restaurant & Entertainment Park
Perfect setting to raise your spirits! 14 acre park offers 3 go kart tracks, two 18-hole mini golf courses, batting cages, laser tag arena, rides, 100+ games, restaurant w/ private dining room plus private 5 acre picnic grove for company picnics and groups up to 2,000.
Joliet Slammers
The Joliet Slammers are a professional baseball team based in Joliet, IL that play in the independent Frontier League. Home games are played at Silver Cross Field in Joliet. They are the 2011 Frontier League champions.
Chicago Fire Soccer Club
The Chicago Fire is an American professional soccer club based in Chicago.
Balmoral Park
Just 30 minutes south of Chicago, Balmoral Park is one of the nation's premier harness racing tracks. See live standardbred horse racing action on a 1 mile oval every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday night all year round. Live race post times are 7:10p. Parking and admission are always free.
Hollywood Casino Hotel Joliet
Convenient and comfortable and loaded with amenities, the Hollywood Hotel is a great place to stay and play. Enjoy the latest technology like high-speed internet access and 32-inch high-def plasmas TVs. Relax and enjoy our indoor pool and whirlpool. You'll always get complimentary breakfast and shuttle service to the casino.
Cog Hill Golf and Country Club
The public is invited to play any of Cog Hill's four award-winning, 18-hole championship golf courses, including the world-famous Course #4, Dubsdread. Dubsdread was host to the PGA Tour's BMW Championship from 2009-2011.
Haunted Trails Family Entertainment Centers
Family entertainment center featuring hundreds of games, rides, award-winning miniature golf, Go Karts & Batting Cages, Restaurant/Party room featuring karaoke. October Haunted House (www.frightmarehauntedhouse.com). Birthday party and group packages available.
Chicagoland Speedway Camping
Choose from 4 unique camping options at Chicagoland Speedway! Benefits include: FREE newspaper delivery, payment plan options, free tram services around the facility, and non-stop entertainment.
Windy City Thunderbolts
The Windy City ThunderBolts baseball brings affordable family entertainment all summer long at Standard Bank Stadium. 2007 & 2008 Frontier League Champions! Call to reserve groups or parties today!
Legends Sportsplex
This year-round facility offers five basketball courts, eight volleyball courts, two soccer fields, a video game arcade, bumper cars, two mini-golf courses, softball batting cages, a go-kart track, climbing wall and paintball field.
Route 66 Raceway
This racing and entertainment facility features concerts, NHRA drag racing events and demolition derbies.
Balmoral Woods Country Club
An 18-hole championship course cut thru 10,000 oak trees, with water hazards on 9 of 18 holes, complete clubhouse bar and restaurant. Chicagoland Golf 5 Star rated facility.
Silver Lake Country Club
Golf the two championship 18-hole courses, one nine-hole executive course, or play in the racquetball courts.
CITY:Orland Park
NASCAR Racing Experience
You can't get much closer to the real thing than this. At the NASCAR Racing Experience, you'll drive a race car that's been driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin and other NASCAR drivers. You'll get a true NASCAR driving experience: There's no pace car to follow. Passing is allowed. And you'll have in-car Racing Electronics radio communications. In 2014, the NASCAR Racing Experience will be at Chicagoland Speedway May 9-10, July 4, 5, 11, 12, and August 29-30. See their site for more details.
Toyota Park
Home to the Chicago Fire soccer team, Toyota Park is a world-class stadium and concert venue located southwest of Chicago.
Autobahn Country Club
Autobahn Country Club is the 4th largest road course in the US. We have multiple public driving events and programs including Go Karting.
Centennial Lanes
You'll find 32 bowling lanes, all equipped with bumpers for kids, cosmic bowling on weekends, a snack bar, lounge and a bowling pro shop that's open daily during the season.
CITY:Tinley Park
Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure
You've seen them race, now drive in real stock cars that have been used in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. At the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, you can drive around Chicagoland Speedway at speeds over 170 mph. Or you can choose the Ride-Along to experience the thrill of NASCAR racing like never before as a professional driver thunders you around the track. In 2014, the Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure will be at Chicagoland Speedway June 14-15 and August 16-17. See their site for more details.
Stony Creek Golf Course & Clubhouse
The Oak Lawn Park District's family friendly 18 hole golf course with restaurant and banquet facility.
CITY:Oak Lawn
Skydive Greater
A tandem Skydive with Skydive Greater is a fun safe way for you to experience the thrill of skydiving while securely attached to an experience instructor with 1,000 jumps and many years of experience.
Hollywood Park - Crestwood
This family entertainment center features two miniature golf courses, a large game room, a restaurant and Fangalangus Island, a children's interactive playland.
Ice Valley Centre Ice Arena
A facility of the Kankakee Valley Park District, Ice Valley Centre Ice Arena features a NHL rink, Game Zone arcade and Breakaway Cafe concessions.
Richard Petty Driving Experience
Experience NASCAR racing firsthand at Chicagoland Speedway in an "adrenaline pumping thrill of a lifetime." Suit up and get behind the wheel of a real stock car as you drive 155 mph around the track, or ride shotgun and feel the rumble of 600 horses as you motor down the same asphalt driven by NASCAR drivers. In 2014, the Richard Petty Driving Experience will be at Chicagoland Speedway May 16-18, July 25-27, and September 19-21. See their site for more details.
Wedgewood Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course is known for its hilly terrain, and features a clubhouse.
Rusty Wallace Driving Experience
No matter what your need for speed, you'll find it at the Rusty Wallace Driving Experience. You can get your basic adrenaline rush from the "Taste of Speed" racing experience at Chicagoland Speedway. Or ramp things up with the "Advance Racing" option that puts you behind the wheel of a race car powered by a TRD engine—the same one used in Rusty Wallace's Nationwide cars. In 2014, the Rusty Wallace Driving Experience will be at Chicagoland Speedway April 26-27, May 24-26, June 20-22, August 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, and October 18, 19, 25, 26. See their site for more details.
University Golf Club & Conference Center
18-hole championship golf course; Restaurant, full menu; live entertainment; weekend breakfast/brunch; Banquet & Meeting facility, custom design to fulfill your special event.
CITY:University Park
Deer Creek Golf Club
This University Park golf course is rated 3-1/2 stars by Golf Digest, and has been host to several major Chicago-area golf events.
CITY:University Park
Woodruff Golf Course
Opened in 1921, Woodruff is an 18-hole sporty course with hilly terrain and a clubhouse.
Haigh's Scuba Diving Quarry
Scuba dive in a 12-acre, spring-fed quarry and see several varieties of fish, along with underwater attractions that include a 33-foot cabin cruiser, a marine dump truck and an amphibious vehicle. Rental equipment, air-fills and dive instruction are available.
Kankakee County Soldiers
The Kankakee County Soldiers, members of the International Basketball League, provide hoops action during their regular season and special exhibition games.
Ruffled Feathers Golf Club
Just 40 minutes from Chicago lies one of the area's premier golf courses. The only Illinois course designed by Pete Dye offers a world-class golf experience and outstanding banquets/weddings for our guests.
Prairie Bluff Golf Club
This 18-hole championship course has a driving range and learning center.
Windy City Thunderbolts
The Windy City ThunderBolts baseball brings affordable family entertainment all summer long at Standard Bank Stadium. 2007 & 2008 Frontier League Champions! Call to reserve groups or parties today!
Tuckaway Golf Club
18 hole championship golf course with 1st class practice facilities. Full service restaurant and banquet facility.
Chicago Fire Soccer Club
Come out and cheer on the Chicago Fire! Experience the fun and excitement of Major League Soccer at Toyota Park today!
Hollywood Fun Park
Award-winning miniature golf, Hollywood Speedway go-kart track, arcade games, indoor bumper cars, indoor laser maze, rock wall, Hollywood Memorabilia and Cafe-Pizzeria. Hollywood Fun Park specializes in parties and group outings and is open year round.
Water's Edge Golf Club
Championship Golf; GSP golf carts; bentgrass tees; fairways and greens; lighted driving range; breakfast, lunch dinner and beer specials, golf outings and private events; name-brand merchandise.
Lansing Country Club
Private golf and fishing club offering bocce, bean bags and numerous events all year long. Open to the public for golf on Mondays. The club's banquet facilities are available to non-members for special events, weddings, showers and meetings.
Glenwoodie Golf Club
18-hole Championship Golf Course is one of the oldest public golf facilities. Originally built in the 1920s. Senior tees available. New Club House in 2011. Traditional layout.
Odyssey Golf Course & Banquets
This 18-hole championship course was designed by two-time U.S. Open Champion Curtis Strange. It's a masterpiece of lush fairways and manicured greens.
CITY:Tinley Park
Ravisloe Country Club
Ravisloe Country Club is a 110 year old golf and banquet facility that opened to the public in 2009.
Southland Center, A Ho-Chunk Nation Enterprise
The newly renovated Southland Center has 100,000 square feet of space. This includes state-of-the-art Desso Turf, four hardwood basketball courts and a full service restaurant and bar. We are located at 10 Southland Drive Lynwood, IL 60411.
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Yes, going from a 6850 to a 7970 yields a 3x improvement in Luxmark V2.0 running on open cl 1.2
However, FAH yields a negative, ie. a 7970 does not work as well as the 6850. Running the same (open version) Opencl program.
The difference is attributed by the programers to a lack of robust drivers compilers on the part of AMD...ie. the functions supported on the previous compiler stack are not now supported/optimized to run on the new open source stack.
FAH cores themselves are not open source. Mike Houston could give you some insight as he was actively participating at one time.
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wow, i feel like getting a job just so i can get this ps3, looks and sounds like its the best thing that has happened to the gaming industry!
wow, i feel like getting a job just so i can get this ps3, looks and sounds like its the best thing that has happened to the gaming industry!
i've been saving up for the ps3! yay, cant wait for the release. i need to find a place to preorder it in california :[ havent had luck yet
I'm already number one in line for a PS3 at my local Gamestop. I called them yesterday and they are telling me that pre-orders won't begin until late September or early October.
Looks like they are playing it safe this time
thanks for the heads up ninja. i talked to the guys at ebgames and they said something similar about the date being late sept, or early oct. how are you number one in line? did you leave your contact info with them? the ebgames near my house wouldnt take my info :[
will be much the same as the EggBox 360 :-)
Will no doubt have to get one to finish off my gamming 'wall' lol
the whole article sounds like bs specially considering Oblivion didnt take up an entire 9GB disc.
I talk about it here, near the bottom:
Oblivion didn't fill the entire DVD9 because compression was used. With the PS3, they could devote more room for textures or even improve load times and draw distance.
Don't get me wrong Oblivion is the best looking console game to date, but the textures seem to be a bit lacking. Obviously, the PS3 will probably get an improved version with extra features and all the downloadable content already included.
We'll see either way. All the information above is speculation at this point.
hummm...don't know...a lot of marketing games goes on out there in the market... about the umds, $15 dollars still expensive, $ony should sell this for max $9.99. this ps3 seems to be TOO MUCH MONEY... not sure how this will go...it is not that people are getting raises and finding better jobs out there all the time...$ony needs to keep in mind that in an economy world evrything balances each one out... not everyone can afford all this money in gaming stuff...
The article screams Fanboy BS. And with the recent news about the PS3 launch it wouldnt supprise me one bit that the entire article is BS. And that oblivion argument is pure rubbish. If they had to lower the textures and compress them as much as he said, and that bethesda didnt want it using such low res textures. They would have probably tried to squeeze in everything they could and use the entire DVD9, not just 4 gigs of it. Heres hoping it maybe true, but i highly doubt it. And the Blueray drive Sony is using is slower than the 360 DVD9 drive. So just imagine those load times if a game has 20 Gigs of content. Ill still be getting a PS3, dont get me wrong. But i cant beleve all this hype, from a non offical source, who states in his opening that he is biased.
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Yes, most of it was wishful thinking, but interesting nonetheless
You are correct about the BluRay drive being slower then DVD; I wonder how that will affect load times. Maybe IGN will do an article on that so we can compare it to the 360.
I'm still in shock about the fact that there will only be 500K PS3s at launch. Japan gets shafted with only 100K and Europe doesnt get anything.
Good luck to everyone (including myself), because we're going to need it
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Steve Doyle | |
Wisconsin State Assembly District 94 | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office May, 2011 | |
Current term ends January 3, 2013 | |
Political party | Democratic |
Profession | Attorney, Professor |
Website | Assembly website |
Doyle was an attorney in private practice and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse before his election, and served on the La Crosse County Board for 25 years. [2]
Committee assignments
In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Doyle has been appointed to these committees:
Doyle defeated John Lautz (R) in the special election on May 3, 2011.[3][4][5]
Campaign themes
On his 2011 campaign site, Craig details his key policy positions:
- Job Creation and Retention: "As Chair of the County Board, one of my priorities was to ensure that La Crosse County continued to grow--even in a difficult economy. That is why I worked to establish the development of the Lakeview Business Park. Lakeview Business Park has helped create hundreds of new jobs in our area and allowed for the retention of hundreds of jobs, which could have been lost in this economic downturn. The development of Lakeview also shows how private/public partnerships can and should work. This project was a collaboration of La Crosse County, Village of West Salem, La Crosse Area Development Corporation, Xcel Energy and CenturyTel. We need more of this collaboration in Madison, and I will continue the work Ive done to enhance job growth in our area--working not only with government entities, but with our private sector partners."
- Accountability with our Tax Dollars: "La Crosse County taxes are the 5th lowest in Wisconsin, something I worked diligently to protect as County Board Chair. I worked to develop innovative solutions to keep services without raising property taxes--and in many cases even saved taxpayer dollars. One way La Crosse county was able to keep taxes lower was by creating the Mississippi Valley Health Services, which runs the Lakeview Health Facility. This consortium is saving La Crosse county taxpayers over $1.2 million per year, while protecting a needed service. With the state budget reaching record high deficits, we need leaders who will look for the innovative solution to the problem--not just what is easiest. Innovative and accountable solutions not only work, but save our tax dollars. I'll bring this leadership to Madison."
Doyle for Assembly
N5525 Hauser Rd.
Onalaska, Wisconsin 54650
Phone: (608) 345-2372
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Doyle and his wife, Gloria, have two children.
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- Steve Doyle campaign homepage
- Steve Doyle Facebook page
- Campaign YouTube Channel
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- 8 WKBT, "Getting to know the candidates of the 94th Assembly District," Apr 12, 2011 (Candidate Roundtable, Includes Video)
- ↑ WKBT "3 Wis. lawmakers bid adieu to take jobs with gov", January 3, 2011
- ↑ Campaign homepage, Bio
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Governor Orders Special Elections for Three Assembly Seats," February 23, 2011
- ↑ LaCrosse Tribune, "It's Lautz versus Doyle in 94th Assembly," April 6, 2011
- ↑ WKBT.com, "Dem wins Wis. Assembly seat previously held by GOP," May 3, 2011
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Thousands of motorists are expected to hit the roads in Illinois during the three-day holiday.
The state agency is also giving advance notice of lane closures that will remain in place.
The halt in construction will start at 3 p.m. today through the end of Monday.
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iOS 8 wants: Better file attachment handling
Almost 8 years after it was introduced, you still can't attach files to emails in iOS. While iOS 6 has introduced a method to attach photos and videos to in-progress emails, it suffers from poor discoverability, and only works with content from the Photos app. If you want to attach any other file to an email, it's a usability disaster. That's because iOS has an ImagePicker but no broader DocumentsPicker, so it can't handle a broader range of attachments. So why is that such a bad thing?
The current method for adding photo or video attachments to in-progress emails is done via the same pop-up menu originally introduced in IOS 3 for cut, copy, and paste. You tap the screen to get the popup, tap a tiny, obscure arrow button to get more options, and then tap to add the attachment.
An easy to find, easy to use attachment button would be simpler. It's a solution employed by third-party apps like Gmail. Maybe a paperclip is obscure as well, but it's discoverable.
Emailing, and including files as attachments in email, is a common task and something that takes only a few seconds on the Mac with OS X. Trying to attach a non-photo or video file on an iPhone or iPad with iOS takes an annoying amount of time and causes an unreasonable amount of frustration. Here's some blog-theater by way of example:
"Hey, Rene, can you email me the dates for that trip?"
"Sure, Kevin." I grab my iPhone, open the [Mail](http://www.imore.com/mail "Apple Mail app for iOS and OS X) app, add Kevin as the recipient, add the subject "Trip", paste in the dates, then--
"Could you also attach that outline for discussion topics?"
My only option now is to copy the contents of the email, trash it, go to the app I wrote the topics in, find the file, tap share, tap email, add Kevin again, add the subject again, paste in the dates again--
Crap. I deleted the app I wrote the topics in. A hotter, newer app came out and I started using that instead, and even though both use iCloud, neither has any idea the other exists so... I re-download the old app and pray the data is either still there, or magically comes back from the cloud.
"And those two PDF files about that thing?"
Double crap. Both those PDF files are in different PDF apps, one in a simple reader, the other one in an app that supports annotation. Now I have to send the discussion topics from one app, and each of the PDF files from their apps. That's three separate emails, and nothing approaching a thread.
Oh, wait. I have copies in Dropbox. I can share from Dropbox... Only no, each file is in a different directory and I can only share from one directory at a time! I'm back to three separate emails again!
Now Kevin is laughing his ass off at me and asking me to tell him again how the iPhone is easy to use, and I want to punch things.
And the reason for all this goes back to the violation of a cardinal principle of design: the attempt to keep things simple can ultimately cause ridiculous levels of complexity.
Apple already uses a blue + button to add contacts. They already use a gray camera icon in Messages. Something like that could work for attachments as well. Especially if, as I've been asking for the last 4 years, iOS added a DocumentsPicker controller that works the same way the current ImagePicker controller works.
A DocumentsPicker controller for iOS would remove unnecessary cognitive load from users and solve a wide swathe of current usability problems with iOS, including email attachments. Any file could be attached to any in-progress email, without the need for a Share Sheet, or for the user to remember app ownership. And it would do so in a way that's consistent with how iOS already works and increasing simplicity at the same time.
And it would make iOS more powerful without alienating the mainstream user base Apple is so good at embracing.
Note: This post was originally written prior to the announcement of iOS 7 but has been updated for iOS 8.
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iOS 8 wants: Better file attachment handling
Or...Apple could just allow a user to set another mail application as the default, and Sparrow would get you 95% of the way there, perhaps spurring Apple to improve their own Mail.app to compete. Even if Mail.app does not compete for sales per se against Sparrow et al, an open, level playing field would almost assuredly lead to *somebody* getting you that last 5% faster that the status quo is doing.
Sparrow has a paper clip attachment button, but unless/until Apple makes some form of document repo, Sparrow is still stuck with only pics/vids as attachments.
Boxer and Evomail both allow Dropbox and Box document attachments. Acompli allows attachments of files in your email and Mailbox allows attachments from Dropbox.
Here's your problem, you're asking for too much. iOS blows, and Apple are their own worst enemy. They create these apps, I believe, for the sole purpose of fucking with us. I don't think anyone at Apple uses any of their own apps. Why would they when they've created this great device that's so much better when running other apps outside of Apple apps?
As soon as Apple realizes that they are their own worst enemy and stop putting tons of restrictions in place, they'll be able to compete in the "next" market. Because at their current pace, if they don't, someone will come along and make a better mobile OS that allows you and I to do exactly what we want with our device. Right now we are so limited by what Apple chooses to let us do. When that new device comes, it will be like a magical awakening and we'll see all we've been capable of accomplishing but couldn't before because Apple wouldn't let us...and then we'll watch porn on that new device.
But seriously. iOS needs a complete overhaul from the ground up. It's bloated and ass backwards and creates a roadblock in front of every alleyway we want to go down because traffic is so congested. It reminds me of those old Apple commercials making fun of John the "PC" guy. Go back and look at all of those and you'll see Apple now does everything it used to make fun of Windows for.
P.S. Stop using iCloud, that's your main problem. It's stupid.
Agree. He's asking for too much.
Just ditch the iPhone and get a Galaxy S5, HTC One M8, Xperia Z2, Galaxy Note 3 (if you can deal with the size), Nexus 5, or Moto X and be more productive.
If you still want an iOS device... That's what the iPod Touch is for.
So you don't have to punish yourself with using the iPhone as a daily driver, should productivity be a high priority.
The TW/Sense email apps poop all over Mail.app on the iPhone. The disparity is so huge, it's as if Apple had an intern create this app (and the Calendar) in like 1 or 2 afternoons and then forgot about it, save for the forgettable touchup here and there...
Yes, the shortcoming you described is really a problem for making email with attachment, so hope that apple can see this and improve
It seems frustrating, but its a result of sandboxing each app's documents. I think most users would send out a few separate emails in practice.
You can at least FORWARD an email containing lots of attachments to a group with our best-selling "MailShot Pro" app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailshot-pro-group-email-done/id445996226... It creates a special "contact" that contains your group, which you can use from Mail, so it's the only group email app that can do this.
Disclosure, I am the developer of MailShot and may benefit from its sale.
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Have you thought about an HTC One Mini (Android)? Same size as iPhone, with larger screen, and all the file attachments your mailserver will allow (via a real file-system). Build quality the same too. I only mention this because you said you liked your Treo, and I came from Treo to iPhone, to HTC Android phones (currently Galaxy Note 2, though). I keep waiting for Apple to add that functionality, but after 7 releases of the OS, I think they are unlikely to. Unfortunately, iPhones are too far behind in terms of the functionality I have come to rely on in Android phones, for it to be a good match for me. It's a shame too, because their build quality is quite good (well, except for the iPhone 5c, of course).
I agree with you here. I found myself always jailbreaking to to have this feature that I used on a daily basis in the office. Waiting for a jailbreak to be released wouldn't cut it anymore. As iOS will always have a place in my heart, I did try out Android 2 years ago and loved the file system. Today, my Note 3 is my daily driver because of the ability to attach files in your file directory and the in-app ability to 'share via' across your apps. In the beginning, I did find it difficult to give it a chance and learn. This is not for everyone.
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This is why I will be returning to Android in all likely hood when my contract ends in July. As much as I want the Z30, its a VZW exclusive, so Android it is. I'll be honest, of the two iphones and the GS3 i have had since I left my 9630 behind, the GS3 handled my needs the best. The only thing that gives me hesitation,is my wife is required to use an iPhone by her university and we tend tend to travel a bit. Its been so much easier to have one charging cable in all our cars/bags.
The best work around for me when I had an ipad was using Logmein for those things. I still prefer to think of phones and tablets as extensions or remotes for your laptop or desktop.
Although file attachment is something you'd think would be basic, the more you add to iOS, the more it becomes something complex for users. We should still push the idea that a Mac or PC should be your central hub. My PC's are left running 24/7.
R.I.P. LogMeIn! Your change from a purchased app to a subscription model made you dead to me. We used to be pals! Your selfishness brought collateral damage along with it, and basically killed the usefulness of my pc and it too is now dead to me. It's ok though, I'm learning to cope, and I'm a much stronger person now because of it!
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GoodReader is a good option for this. But it would be better if we had a native File Repo like Renee said. I'm surprised more people haven't written about this.
It never occurred to me that Apple would have made such a grievous lapse as to not include attachments as part of their Mail app when I moved from BlackBerry a couple of years ago. While I long maintained that the iPhone was nothing more than a content delivery device for the iTunes Store, this discovery was a surprise and hardly argues for the device (or the iPad) to be taken seriously as a business device.
I 'get' that Apple has a certain neurosis about users gaining access to files with the iOS, but I also note that the Mail program has gained access to the Photos app (though, as Rene points out, neither gracefully or obviously), so in-keeping with trying to leverage as much profit / user-dependence on their products as possible, perhaps allowing Mail to access onboard iWork files (so you gotta purchase Pages, Numbers, etc) and/or your iCloud files?
Rene's mockups above are great and the solutions he offers incredibly obvious - so clearly not a route Apple would take. They seem more fixated at present on embedding new useless / Beta apps into the iOS.
Here is a full feature email client app with attachments handling and cloud services integration :
Note: we are the developers
Why stop there? For their seventh attempt perhaps they could include a real file system so we can access files in multiple programs...
I would like that. And I'm seriously ready for a complete overhaul to the typing and autocorrect. Would love to see something along the lines of android typing w word choice. With that extra touch of finesse apple usually puts on its products.
Hi René,
I do agree with most of your article except for the bit about the file repository.
I know how it makes sense to us, coming from years of desktop computing to see this as the solution, but i think we have to force ourselves beyond that and forget the filesystem.
A file repository is a file system. Apple will never go back to that.
We have to think in terms of apps instead of files.
If you want to access a file, you're supposed to know which app it belongs to.
But i can see the problem here for similar file types.
Example, a photo which resides in the photo.app or in the iPhoto.app !
Or a PDF you saved in iBooks or in PDF Expert...
But still. I don't think Apple will go the file repository way...
I do agree though that we need a system in which sharing files between apps is simplified.
That's a glaring omission and potential problem of iOS.
If sharing file types between apps is made easy and Apple solves it without compromising security and app sandboxing, it may well be the answer we are all looking for !
We can still use an app centric approach, but see all the files the chosen app is able to open.
Too much to ask for ?
Apple can get rid of the file system as we know it but still... a document repository of some sort should be available to the user... call it whatever you want...
I'm certainly going to link to this article as this is an area of much needed improvements for iOS7. http://myios7wishlist.tumblr.com
I think the app centric file system is a total failure and iFruity definitely didn't think it through on this.
First of all, it creates all sorts of unnecessary duplicates of files and when it is huge files it creates more than a hassle, it actually eats up a lot of storage space.
Secondly, you also hit on the main weakness, though you did not recognise it as such. And that is that the USER must REMEMBER which files was used and saved in which apps .. and which version is the latest one. Do you really expect a user to remember all these things at the snap of a finger?
Thirdly .. god forbid if you want to delete an app and migrate to another app. There really isn't any easy way to migrate your files from one app to the other. And if you delete an app for whatever reason, ALL the files associated with it will be gone as well.
If they want to insist on this silly app centric system, which are all CON and no Pro, they should at least
1) work out some common sharing and editing rights between apps that access similar files.
2) Have universal rights for common apps such a mail clients etc.
3) have a common repository for apps that have access to such files, so that they do not create unnecessary duplicates.
This document repository is a much need space in iOS that really needs to be fixed somehow... http://myios7wishlist.tumblr.com.
I would like to see the Unified Inbox colour coded, so at a glance I could see which emails are from which account (ie work, personal etc). This could be very subtle, for example in the form of a small coloured dot, or very obvious where the entire email is coloured. This would definately help my work flow...
All you guys say is you want iPhone to do what Blackberry does for years and now Androids do as well.
I had different Blackberry devices and some experiences with a Samsung Galaxy S2.
Now i got an iPhone and i'm shocked with how this can be possible. I found this article because I went like crazy googling and looking for answers to this attachment problem.
It's simply unbelievable!
Convenience is the enemy of security. Start poking holes in the sandbox and pretty soon it's useless. Let's stop trying to make out mobile devices behave just like our desktop.
I guess you didn't get the memo, PC sales are down, everything is going mobile. Apple needs to play catch up here because as soon as Android comes out with a piece of hardware that can compete with Apple's, Apple will be toast.
I guess you don't care much about security. Designing for security means making some trade off between utility and risk. Apple needs to do nothing at all. Your view of the market is too simplistic.
Security? Guess you don't read much. Apple hasn't been protecting email attachments since iOS7 came out.
And please, point me to a major cc or bank account breach that has been the cause of lax Android security. Your tired regurgitation of Android-bashing talking points shows you aren't able to think for yourself.
Hi Rene, that's a great idea you've put forward...I also think why on the earth iCloud is not integrated with the Mail.app meaning why I cannot access iCloud from the Mail.app.
But I have found an elegant solution: http://www.getseedapp.com an elegant FREE app which is integrated with the DropBox, so you can attach any file in your DropBox while composing/replying to an email. The only downside it does not support Exchange, only IMAP.
Apple is slipping. Can they maintain their market position without Steve Jobs? This is but one of several annoying problems on a list of tasks that I can't perform from my iPhone or iPad. Half the time when someone sends me an email with a a critical attachment that I need to forward, and I select "include" attachment, the next recipient gets the email without the attachment. For best results, repeat one or two more times. Forwarding links with embedded videos is also problematic. People receive the link, but the embedded videos don't arrive. I can spell and predictive spelling is horrible on iOS. iOS7 has been a cluster. A colleague in the next office got on the waiting list to replace his aging company phone with a 5S. A friend stopped by with a new 5S, my colleague looked at it for 5 minutes and was so unimpressed he cancelled his order. My iPhone is 2.5 years old and I'm waiting for the battery to begin to fade. But unless there is a new iPhone sooner than September of 2014, I'll probably go in a different direction. Time is money and I can't do the time, regardless of price.
I'd be happy if they would just fix email search so you can sort by date. It's the most incredibly annoying thing about iOS7 to me. Often I am trying to find something like a tracking number for a recently shipped package, and I have to go to a PC to do it since iOS7 just lists every email I've ever gotten from that company in a random order. I don't have time to scroll through pages and pages to find the most recent one, it's sheer insanity that it doesn't sort by date by default much less offer a way to do it, period.
Nobody seemed to mention Mailbox- yes, the free mail app that was acquired by Dropbox a few months back. With Mailbox, you can attach any files stored on your Dropbox since it's integrated into the app.
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I totally agree!!! This mess is so annoying & its the reason I even entertain the thought of purchasing some sort of Android device.
Screw emailing attachments. Email in general is crap. Trying to keep track of conversations is such a pain in the ass. Now your talking about tracking versions of a file, who handled it last, and managing saves and duplicate copies, and in multiple apps. True it takes human effort to stay on topic and keeping folders organized. So sending data via email is just stupid. Especially if both parties need to work on the same document. I want to see centralized cloud storage, then I can simply send a link to the file. Like ShareFile, etc. I also don't want my mail.app to unnecessarily take up space with stored attachments.
Mobile devices are not currently suited for these tasks.
On a side note Rene, you keep saying that "Apple will never..." because iOS is moving away form file systems. When has that ever stopped them from bowing to the market. They bow all teh time and then act like they were going to do it all along. Maybe we'll eventually get a file management system like we finally got 16:9, copy/paste and mms support.
I hate to say it, because it's another ridiculously bloated app, but a file manager like iTunes would be great on the iPhone.
One thing I'd like to see in iOS8 is this:
1. Swipe up in a locked screen, to open the camera.
2. Take a picture.
3. Click on the thumbnail on the bottom left.
4. Why can't you "share" (iMessage, email, etc.) from the viewing of the image?!
They need to just fix that little tiny problem.
Annoy anyone else?
Like--you're in traffic, you see an awesome license plate, you swipe up faster than you can say "SWIPEUP," and you take the picture and remember you can't send it to anyone from inside of the "lock-unlocked-cam-feature".
wa wa waaaa
I know this has already been discussed and run in the ground for several iterations of iOS but I think we are going to have to get access to some type of file system alongside this. My way around it is using Mailbox and just keeping everything synced to Dropbox. It's far from perfect but it suits my needs except for when I need to use my Exchange email account.
Not happening. Forget about local file attachments. Maybe they'd make iCloud a repository for documents and you can attach from there. Of course you'd need more storage space by default, but I wouldn't count on it.
If Apple wants business to use iPhones then multiple attachements in emai are a must. In my job before I retired multiple attachements in emails were the norm rather than the exception. It's also true for individuals. Since emails are commonly used for insurance or medical transactions the need to attach documents from home exits where in years past it didn't.
There are several other things Apple needs to upgrade as well. I think they should establish a group to look at issues like these and see they get corrected. I think that all of the current iOS development is to add new innovations which is great but other necessities get left out
Simple shouldn't mean dumb. Apple needs to face up to the real complexity that exists in the way people use smart phones. iOS needs to keep up. There are numerous elegant solutions suggested in forums like this and displayed in other products. Why Apple refuses to address these prior to them becoming an embarrassment is beyond me. They initially get the overall look, feel and functionality right, but often miss on some critical details with their implementations. Mail, maps, images, video, music and document management are all areas where Apple seems to stumble if the user is slightly interested in putting their iOS device to work. Sometimes you just have to add some functionality, even if it isn't pretty to look at. They rightfully avoid the garish, sensory overload design style that has made all the MS Office products UI's such a PITA. But they tend to go too far the other direction by eliminating critical functionality all together. Something as simple and ubiquitous as text editing is overly difficult in iOS. These are all solvable problems that Apple refuses to address with any alacrity, if at all.
This isn't a mail specific issue. It's an iOS system-level issue. Even iMessage you have to jump from app to app just to send specific data types. That's one of the main reasons I took the iPhone 5S back after 10 days. It totally killed my productivity and I have more important things to do with my time then peruse the App Store or internet looking for a suitable replacement for every subpar stock application they put on their devices.
Someone sent me a PDF via iMessage when I had the iPhone and I was stomped for like 30 minutes trying to find the option to attach a document until I finally asked and he told me to install something that supports the file format and share it from there... Umm, what?
I had to get rid of it. I was spending more time trying to figure out work-arounds to accomplish things I was doing with ease before the "upgrade," than actually enjoying using the device.
Everyone's complaints are valid, and we obviously need Apple to step up. However, if find yourself in the situation played out in Rene's post, I think Dropbox is the solution in the interim.
Using the "open in" mechanism, you can get your discussions notes and PDF's to the Dropbox app. If you deleted your app with the discussion notes, while a flaw of iOS, that is your own fault for not backing up important work.
Copy the various docs from each app to a folder in Dropbox, hit share, and hit "copy link."
Back to your email:
You say, "Here are the dates. *Paste the dates.* All the files you need are here: *paste the link*.
Here's a way that security/sandbox app could be maintained, and yet the problem solved - but it would have to be programmed by Apple:
Every time an app writes a file in its sandbox make a link automatically in a file repository.
The user could make folders and sort the links as they wish, follow the links to the original file to open or attach, and IOS could limit the number of apps that could follow the links to perform particular functions - so that no app has complete, unfettered access.
Just a thought.
Yes, it is confusing to have no file system. For a business user it is more difficult to live without it.
Thank you for inspiring Apple to introduce the document picker in iOS 8.
If I read the documents correctly then we will get exactly what you have described.
Why you don't use MailAnyFile
It allows you to download/import any file and then attach it to your email.
- Save any file from Safari, Mail app or our built-in browser to your phone and simply attach it to your email.
- Attach any Office documents, music, videos and PDFs etc.
- Import files from Photos, Dropbox.
- Supports Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Exchange, Yahoo, AOL.


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Who May Be Killed? Anwar al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal ForceRobert ChesneyUniversity of Texas School of Law February 2, 2011 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN, Vol. 13, M.N. Schmitt et al, eds., 2010 U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 189 Abstract: Anwar al-Awlaki is a dual Yemeni-American citizen who has emerged in recent years as a leading English-language proponent of violent jihad, including explicit calls for the indiscriminate murder of Americans. According to the U.S. government, moreover, he also has taken on an operational leadership role with the organization al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recruiting and directing individuals to participate in specific acts of violence. Does international law permit the U.S. government to kill al-Awlaki in these circumstances? Part I opens with a discussion of what we know about AQAP, about al-Awlaki himself, and about the U.S. government's purported decision to place him on a list of individuals who may be targeted with lethal force in certain circumstances. Part II then explores objections to killing al-Awlaki founded in the U.N. Charter's restraints on the use of force in international affairs. I conclude that a substantial case can be made, at least for now, both that Yemen has consented to the use of such force on its territory and that in any event the conditions associated with the right of self-defense enshrined in Article 51 can be satisfied. Part III then turns to objections rooted in IHL and IHRL, beginning with the question whether an attack on al-Awlaki would fall within IHL's field of application. I conclude that the threshold of armed conflict has been crossed in two relevant respects. First, it has been crossed in Yemen itself as between AQAP on one hand and the U.S. and Yemeni governments on the other. Second, it has been crossed as well with respect to the United States and the larger al Qaeda network – and not only within the geopolitical borders of Afghanistan. Building from these premises, I then proceed to consider whether al-Awlaki could be targeted consistent with IHL's principle of distinction. I conclude that he can be if he is in fact an operational leader within AQAP, as this role would render him a functional combatant in an organized armed group. Should the analysis instead turn on IHRL, however, the central issue becomes the requirement of necessity inherent in IHRL's protection for the right-to-life, and in particular the notion of temporal necessity. I conclude that this requirement is not an obstacle to attacking al-Awlaki insofar as (i) there is substantial evidence that he is planning terrorist attacks, (ii) there is no plausible opportunity to incapacitate him with non-lethal means, and (iii) there is not good reason to believe that a plausible non-lethal opportunity to incapacitate him will arise before harm to others occurs. A second question then arises, however. Must al-Awlaki be linked to a specific plot to carry out a particular attack, or is it enough that the evidence establishes that he can and will attempt or otherwise be involved in attacks in the future without specificity as to what the particulars of those attacks might be? The former approach has the virtue of clarity, yet could rarely be satisfied given the clandestine nature of terrorism. The latter approach necessarily runs a greater risk of abuse and thus perhaps justifies an especially high evidentiary threshold, but in any event it is a more realistic and more appropriate approach (particularly from the point of view of the potential victims of future terrorist attacks). Number of Pages in PDF File: 58 Keywords: Targeted Killing, Anwar al Aulaqi, Anwar al-Awlaki, Drones, Drone Strikes, Law of War, IHL, IHRL, Yemen, Self-Defense, Article 51 Date posted: February 4, 2011 ; Last revised: October 17, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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Experiencing Christmas Day with a 3-Year-Old
While I have not one but two toddlers, our Izaiah ,the 3-year-old, is the one who really GOT it this year. Everything about Christmas leading up to the day was magic… There was the Elf on the Shelf (that just sat on the shelf the whole time because I just can't do that. I tried, it didn't work!). Izaiah named him Magic. The Christmas tree we bought this year came with a remote to control the lights, that was magic. (And I am sure the neighbors enjoyed our nightly strobe light show!) With all the anticipation, I knew our Christmas day was sure to be magic as well.
On Christmas Eve, in an attempt to prevent Izaiah from seeing the gifts, I let him sleep upstairs with his big brother. "Is Santa Claus coming?" he'd say. "Yes, baby… Santa is coming–just get some rest and we will have a great Christmas."
After a good two-hour rest, I woke up extra early (meaning 7 am–I don't do mornings) to start Christmas morning breakfast and beat the kids to the punch. I heard Izaiah upstairs, so I ran to get him.
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The poor buddy was expecting for us to have Santa Claus as a visitor. It wasn't the toys (that being said, he LOVED the toys) he was expecting, it was Santa.
He got over the fact that Santa wasn't coming fairly quick as soon as he say Santa left him a drum set. And then as soon as he got done playing his drum solo, he started ripping into every present he could–most that weren't his.
It was a Christmas to remember. One that we will never forget. I can't wait for our Zeke to enjoy Christmas next year. This year, it was too overwhelming. He unwrapped a total of three gifts before deciding all of this was too much.
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The flexibility of COMSOL Multiphysics enables a variety of computational approaches to be applied towards solving electromagnetic problems across the whole spectrum. I will describe techniques for studying resonant electromagnetic interactions in a range of structures, including materials with negative electric permittivity (metals at optical frequencies), and small microwave resonators and antennas. The techniques to be presented include: scattered field formulation for the evaluation of scattering cross-sections, eigenmode analysis incorporating PMLs to determine resonant frequency and radiation Q-factor, and antenna impedance matching using lumped circuit elements.
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Kyoto's Festival of Ages
It was an unplanned treat, last October, to arrive in Kyoto just in time for the Jidai Matsuri, also known as the Festival of Ages. In this annual event, over 2000 people parade through the streets of Kyoto in traditional costumes from Japan's feudal history. Performers wear historically accurate costumes of both noblemen and commoners, warriors brandish period weapons and geisha in all their stoic elegance grace the crowds with their beauty.
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