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Rod Blagojevich
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|Rod Blagojevich
|Governor of Illinois
|Former officeholder
|In office
|January 13, 2003-January 29, 2009
|Elections and appointments
|First elected
|Term limits
|Prior offices
|Representative, United States House of Representatives
|Northwestern University (1979)
|Pepperdine University School of Law (1983)
|Date of birth
|December 10, 1956
|Place of birth
|Chicago, Illinois
|Eastern Orthodox
- 1 Biography
- 2 Political career
- 3 Elections
- 4 Controversies
- 5 Personal
- 6 See also
- 7 External links
- 8 References
Blagojevich was born and raised in Chicago's northwest side in a middle-class family. His father was a former Chetnik who immigrated to the United States and found work as a steel plant laborer. He has an older brother, Robert. Blagojevich spent much of his childhood working odd jobs to help the family survive. He was a shoe shiner and pizza delivery boy before working at a meat packing plant. In order to afford college, Blagojevich worked at the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System|Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System as a dishwasher.[1][2]
He graduated from Chicago's Foreman High School after transferring from Lane Technical College Prep High School. After graduation, he enrolled at the University of Tampa because, with his lackluster grades and an ACT of 18 or 19, he could not get into a more prestigious school. After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University in suburban Evanston, Illinois where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1979. He attended Pepperdine University law school where he obtained his doctorate of jurisprudence in 1983. Upon his return to Chicago, Blagojevich entered the legal profession in the public sector. He served as Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, prosecuting domestic abuse crimes and felony weapons cases.[3]
- Juris Doctor - Pepperdine University School of Law (1983)
- Bachelor's of Arts - Northwestern University (1979)
- Foreman High School
Political career
Governor of Illinois (2003-2009)
Following his arrest on charges of an attempt to sell the vacant U.S. Senate seat, and after an entrenched public relations campaign, Blagojevich was impeached on January 8, 2009 and removed from office on January 29, 2009.
After the 2002 elections, Democrats had control of the Illinois House, Senate, and all but one statewide office. Since taking office, Blagojevich signed numerous pieces of progressive legislation such as ethics reform, death penalty reform, a state Earned Income Tax Credit, and expansions of health programs like KidCare and FamilyCare. Blagojevich signed a bill in 2005 that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit.
- Death penalty
Shortly after taking office in 2003, Blagojevich continued support of a "moratorium" on executions of Death Row inmates, even though no such executions are likely to occur for years (his predecessor, George Ryan, commuted all of the death sentences in the state shortly before leaving office in 2003). This support continued through his administration.
- Gun Control
Blagojevich was a long time supporter of gun control. He tried to raise the price of an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card from $5.00 to $500.00, saying that such a large increase was necessary so people would think twice about wanting to own a gun. Blagojevich vetoed 3 gun bills in 2005, which would have:
- Eliminated the police database of gun purchases
- Eliminated the waiting period for someone wanting to buy a rifle or shotgun, when trading in a previously owned weapon
- Overridden local laws regulating transport of firearms.
In February 2006, in his "State of the State" address, he talked of the need for a state ban on semi-automatic firearms, prompting threats from several gunmakers in the state to leave. Among these were ArmaLite Inc., Rock River Arms, Les Baer Custom and the legendary Springfield Armory.
- Safety
Blagojevich proposed and signed into law a bill that was concerned with making seatbelt enforcement a primary offense (no traffic offense required before being stopped for a seatbelt violation). He also signed a bill allowing the Illinois State Police to operate photo radar on Illinois Tollways in construction zones. He vetoed a bill that would permit trucks to drive 65 mph instead of the current 55 mph.
- Budget
Gov. Blagojevich was criticized for using what his opponents call "gimmicks" to balance the state budget. Republicans have also claimed that he is simply passing the state's fiscal problems on to future generations by borrowing his way to balanced budgets. Indeed, the 2005 state budget called for paying the bills by shortening a state employees' pension fund by $1.2 billion. In May 2003, Blagojevich passed a series of measures aimed at raising revenue from businesses around the state to help balance his budget. Among the new sources were a 10-fold to 20-fold increase to automobile dealer license fees and a measure to make businesses print their own tax forms (and all other state forms). These measures are considered controversial because they caused a greatly increased financial burden on small business without attracting much public attention [1].
- Healthcare
Blagojevich issued a controversial executive order in 2004, requiring pharmacists in the state to dispense any drugs for which a customer had a valid prescription, including "morning after" birth control medication, even if they reject on moral or religious grounds. This order was not well received by some pharmacists (see [2],[3]). Blagojevich appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss the controversial measure, which was being challenged on the show by state legislator Ron Stephens from Highland in the 102nd District [4]. Blagojevich was interviewed by Jason Jones who repeatedly pretended to be unable to pronounce Blagojevich and simply called him "Governor Smith." This prompted Blagojevich to turn to the camera and ask "Is he teasing me or is that legit?" Two weeks after the interview, Blagojevich admitted that he was unaware of the nature of the show.[5]
In October 2005, the State of Illinois had $1.4 billion in overdue medical bills, yet in November 2005, Blagojevich created two new government agencies and signed the All Kids health insurance bill into law. The bill, criticized as Socialist medicine by its opponents, obligates Illinois to provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance to every child in the state.
In spring, 2007, Blagojevich proposed a $7.6 billion dollar tax increase, with proceeds earmarked to provide universal healthcare in Illinois. The plan, a gross receipts tax on businesses, would have been the largest tax increase in state history. When it became apparent that the plan would be defeated, Blagojevich announced that supporters should vote against it. It was defeated by a vote of 107-0. [6], [7]
Executive Mansion
As Governor of Illinois, Blagojevich was entitled to live in the Illinois Executive Mansion, located in the state capital. However, he and his family have opted to remain in Chicago (other governors have also chosen not to reside in the Mansion, usually retaining their residences in other towns). One reason he gave was an unwillingness to move his infant daughter away from home. In the governor's absence, the Illinois Times, a newspaper based in Springfield, held a satirical contest in 2003 for readers to decide how the mansion should be used. Suggestions ranged from using it as a hotel or homeless shelter to converting it to a "house of ill repute".
United States House of Representatives (1996-2002)
The Fifth Congressional District, in which Blagojevich lived, had long been represented by powerful Chicago Congressman Daniel Rostenkowski, who served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. However, following his loss in 1994 (Rostenkowski pled guilty to mail fraud), the overwhelmingly Democratic district was represented by Republican Michael Patrick Flanagan.
However, in 1996, Blagojevich defeated Flanagan with support from his father-in-law, and served three terms in the United States House of Representatives. (Following Blagojevich's election as governor, the Fifth District elected former Clinton aide and 1992 financial chief Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel was chosen to head the DCCC for the 2006 election cycle.)
In Congress, Blagojevich continued to champion anti-crime measures, especially gun control legislation. In general, though, he was not known as a particularly active Congressman. Blagojevich was thrust into international prominence in the late 1990s when he traveled with Jesse Jackson to Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia to negotiate the release of American prisoners of war with president Slobodan Milošević.
On October 10, 2002, Rod Blagojevich was among the 81 House Democrats who voted in favor of authorizing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Illinois State House of Representatives, District 33 (1992-1996)
With the backing of his influential father-in-law, alderman Richard Mell, Blagojevich ran for a seat in the Illinois General Assembly and won in 1992. Most of his legislative accomplishments centered on crime and justice issues. He took from his experiences as a prosecutor to pass laws that he argued would strengthen the state's judicial system and cut down on crime.
Blagojevich formally launched his 2006 re-election campaign for Governor of Illinois on February 19, 2006 [8]. He defeated challenger Edwin Eisendrath in the Democratic Party primary election on March 21.
On November 7, he was declared winner in the re-election campaign against challengers Judy Baar Topinka and Rich Whitney.
In 2002, Blagojevich ran for his party's nomination to become governor. Blagojevich won a close primary campaign against former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, whose base was largely African-American voters, and Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas, who ran strong in the suburban "collar" counties of Chicago. Blagojevich won the primary largely by dominating the downstate Illinois (i.e., outside Chicago and the collar counties) vote.
In the general election, Blagojevich defeated Republican Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan handily (Ryan chose to run for Governor instead of running again for the Attorney General position, which is now held by Lisa Madigan). Ethics scandals had plagued the previous administration of Republican George Ryan (no relation to Jim), and Blagojevich's campaign focused on the theme of "ending business as usual" in state government.
A major event of 2005 was Blagojevich's feud with his father-in-law, Richard Mell. The feud went public when Blagojevich shut down a landfill owned by a distant cousin of Patti Blagojevich for environmental problems and it was revealed that Mell had served as an advisor to the cousin. Legislation was eventually passed giving the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency more authority over landfills and preventing relatives of top Illinois officials from owning landfills.
Regarding his decision to shut down the landfill despite the fact the landfill was owned by a relative, he said, "This is the kind of thing that I think frankly separates the men from the boys in leadership. Do you have the testicular virility to make a decision like that knowing what's coming your way? I say I do." This remark was both ridiculed as an undignified comment for a governor as well as criticized for being sexist. [9]
In June, Mell served as honorary co-chairman of an event for state Representative Jack Franks, a longtime Blagojevich critic. Blagojevich's Lieutenant Governor was Pat Quinn, with whom he had a sour relationship after taking office. Quinn and Blagojevich publicly disputed the latter's proposed "Gross Receipts Tax" to increase revenue for schools and other projects within Illinois.
2006 re-election
During 2005-2006, he served as Federal Liaison for the Democratic Governors Association. Numerous scandals brought the Governor's approval rating as low as 36%, with 56% "disapproving" near the end of 2005 [10] The most recent polling has his approval rating at 38% with 59% dissaproving. [11]
By early-2006, five Republicans ran in the primary for the right to challenge him in the general election, with state treasurer Judy Baar Topinka eventually winning the nomination.
Federal arrest and corruption charges
Blagojevich was accused of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, as well as soliciting bribes to fill the Illinois Senate seat vacated when Obama was elected president. On December 9, 2008, at 6:15 a.m., FBI special agents arrested Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John F. Harris.[4]
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald charged Blagojevich with several offenses, including mail fraud and wire fraud, and attempting to sell Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat for personal financial and influential gain.
On January 8, 2009, the Illinois House of Representatives voted to impeach Blagojevich by a 114–1 vote on the grounds of corruption and misconduct in office. He was then convicted and removed from office by the Illinois State Senate with a unanimous 59–0 vote on January 29, 2009. The state senate appointed Pat Quinn (D) in his stead. Before Blagojevich left office, he appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris.
After a year and a half, Blagojevich's trial in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals began June 3, 2010.[5]
It was expected to last six months, however, on July 21, 2010 Blagojevich's attorney, Sheldon Sorosky, ended the 19-month saga with the words: "At this time the defendant Rod Blagojevich rests."
Trial observers and the prosecution were surprised at this as Blagojevich's defense team had told the 18 jurors Blagojevich would be taking the stand in his own defense.
"It is my decision under advice of counsel (not to testify)," Blagojevich told federal Judge Zagel after the jury was dismissed.
Blagojevich faced more than 400 years in prison if convicted of the more than 20 corruption charges, including racketeering.[6]
Blagojevich is married to the former Patricia Mell, daughter of Chicago Alderman Richard Mell. The couple has two daughters, Amy and Anne. Anne was born just months after her father was sworn in as governor. Blagojevich has no middle name, but uses the initial "R" in honor of his late father Radisaz Blagojevich.[7]
See also
External links
- Illinois Governor Official website
- Follow the Money - Rod Blagojevich 2006 campaign contributions
- New York Times - Times Topics: Rod Blagojevich Collected news and commentary
- On the Issues - Rod Blagojevich Issue positions and quotes
- Project Vote Smart - Former Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Profile
- Rod Blagojevich for Illinois Official campaign site
- Washington Post - Congress Votes Database: Rod Blagojevich Voting record 1997-2003
- Federal Election Commission - Rod Blagojevich Campaign finance reports and data 2001-2002
- OpenSecrets.org - Rod Blagojevich Campaign contributions 2002
- Il. Gov. creates Office of New Americans Policy and Advocacy
- Gov. Blagojevich signs law creating new Illinois Juvenile Justice Department
- ↑ SAN Dnevne Novine, "Hercegovac pokušao prodati Obaminu senatorsku funkciju," accessed January 9, 2009
- ↑ [Copley News Service, "Three Democrats battle for party's nomination for governor," March 9, 2002]
- ↑ Project Vote Smart, "Rod Blageojevich's Biography," accessed January 30, 2013
- ↑ "Blagojevich co-defendant resigns post," Chicago Tribute, December 13, 2008
- ↑ "Blagojevich case timeline," Chicago Sun-Times, June 14, 2010
- ↑ Illinois Statehouse News, "Blagojevich Doesn't Take Stand as His Defense Rests," July 21, 2010
- ↑ The Chicago Tribune, accessed August 3, 2010}}
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Scrumhalf Piri Weepu will start for the All Blacks against the Springboks this Saturday.
Weepu replaces incumbent No 9 Aaron Smith, who was ineligible for a starting role at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium because of a breach in discipline following last Saturday's Test against Argentina. According to Fairfax NZ News, Smith's infraction involved him arriving back to the team hotel after the game past the team-imposed curfew.
Weepu may not boast Smith's speed but it is his physicality that the All Blacks will look to harness in a bloody battle with the Boks.
In other changes, Liam Messam replaces Victor Vito on the blindside flank, while lock Sam Whitelock and hooker Andrew Hore also start.
New Zealand – 15 Israel Dagg, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Sam Whitelock, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Tony Woodcock
Subs: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Charlie Faumuina, 18 Brodie Retallick, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Aaron Smith, 21 Beauden Barrett, 22 Tamati Ellison

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First, I request that contributors to this thread be in agreement with the following assertion: Human morality is specific to humans and is not Platonically/heavenly perfect, eternal or true in any natural or supernatural way other than as it might pertain to human individuals and societies. If you disagree with this assertion, I hope to see your analysis somewhere else. Such a separation may be just the thing that will keep supremely confident folks from falsely strumming each others beautifully tuned instruments.
What is morality? On what is it based? Where does it come from? How does continually (almost daily) revised Darwinian theory fit into the idea of morality? Much has recently been written on this forum about these questions. I'd like to attempt another take on things, and hope—perhaps futilely—that it appears inviting for further discussion. First, some quick definitions for the purpose of this discussion:
Morality is something that is commonly fought by certain people, though it often involves simple, everyday situations. When the answer to a situation is clear and obvious, then to do otherwise issues a private challenge to morality itself. When the answer is fuzzy, difficult or convoluted, chances are that such an answer relies on ethical consideration. Ethical consideration tends to corral attention to various or disparate circumstances attempting to align themselves into morality as it's perceived. People generally agree on moral issues and often disagree about ethical consideration.
I'd say that morality is clearly—though of course not perfectly—defined in modern societies. Theft, acting negligently or recklessly, harming others or their property, subjective killing (i.e., murder), etc. etc. all are heavily codified in print and tradition (court precedence) and punishments for the most part are appropriate according to the sensibilities of most people. Now we can drop back down one or two levels, switching from the macroscopic to the microscopic. What is morality to the individual? What causes one to follow its principles and what causes one to ignore them?
I've heard that if you place an ant into an environment that has ample food, water and—apparently—every other life necessity, the ant will starve to death. This is because individual ants have what amount to strong psychological needs involving working and socializing in specific ways. When they are kept from doing so, I suspect the result is comparable (if only distantly) to a toddler needing the attention of its parent, or even a fully grown and educated person needing the psychological support of family and friends. I bring this up not to compare cross-species moral systems, but only to emphasize that our views on reality are, by necessity of survival, not at all objective. In many ways we act like ants, failing to consider implications of—or even reasons for—our actions. Individuals of our species have lived and acted, for the most part, as we've needed to live and act rather than as though we act always out of divine-like moral perfection. I'm trying to emphasize that our morals are specific to us, not to nature as a whole. We feel their need and presence, we live by the laws they've inspired. Morals, in my definition, are not very flexible. But they are biological-cognitive constructs only. They hold no sway anywhere but within our souls. That's a level of literality that is perhaps unnecessary for this discussion. We can instead focus on real-world morality, as it pertains to humanity as a whole and as individuals.
In a general sense, morality obviously plays a key role in bridging the individual with the group. Human individuals rely on working together in order to survive, and instinct allows for and even dictates a need for empathy at times and lack of it at other times. It's such a strongly needed instinct that human societies have taken it away from the individual and placed it in public trust, in a sense. Now that we have laws and punishments, most of us don't really need to focus on morality. We do need to be informed about laws, and we need to consider ethics. Morality is fairly cut and dried. Ethics are anything but.
For anyone who might still be with me, I would next suggest that morality not be seen as though informed by anything such as spirituality or supernaturalism. I hope we can view it in light of exactly what it is. There's really nothing vague or mysterious about how our early instincts and eventual laws got to where they are today. We're repelled by looking down from a high height and we're horrified by the sight of a person being beaten or stabbed. Both tendencies are beneficial to us and our survival. Without them, societies wouldn't exist.
I don't know exactly how this sort of analysis might be useful, but it seems obvious to me that self understanding never hurts. I may see morality differently from how it's commonly spoken about, and hope to have my thoughts shot down by anyone who has even a minimum of ammunition. Please come after me, as I honestly don't want to walk around with false ideas rattling around in my head. At the same time, I propose that this thread be a polite discussion. If someone makes a point that seems flagrantly mistaken, let's just let it go in this thread with a simple correction. Let's play nicely for a while at least, while we look at morality on a slightly deeper level than how it's usually described and discussed. If any or all of my definitions seem incomplete or mistaken in some way, please explain. I don't think anyone is going to go after your throat for clarifying how you see the world of morality.


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As agencies come to terms with cloud security, another barrier emerges
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Over the last three years, agencies slowly have been moving to the cloud while holding security out as the biggest barrier.
But as initiatives such as the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) reduce the anxiety over how to secure cloud services, a new, and much bigger, barrier is starting to emerge: culture.
Richard Spires, the Homeland Security Department's chief information officer and vice chairman of the CIO Council, said cloud is changing the way IT, acquisition and program management employees do their jobs, and that makes them uncomfortable.
"People get [cloud computing] intellectually, but because they are used to what they are doing, it's a really big shift to work in this different model, especially for people in the IT department," Spires said recently at a Homeland Security and Defense Business Council event on cloud computing. "We are shifting out the whole infrastructure, their old style and way of working with the infrastructure provider. That's hard, and we recognize it's hard. So it's about bringing people a long and showing successes and building on that."
Budget pressures culture change
Spires said agencies are making some progress in changing the culture, but he worries whether it is at a quick enough pace.
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"My big concern, and I don't have a good answer for this one, my big challenge, maybe my biggest, is how do race, even with a change management mechanism, fast enough so we don't get into a position where we actually have to lower our service quality because our budget is declining faster than we can keep up with that," he said. "My biggest challenge is racing to try to make these changes, while bringing people along, while we look at these budgets that continue to decline."
Those declining budgets also may act as just the forcing factor to change the culture.
Spires and Kevin Deeley, the deputy CIO at the Justice Department, also pointed to the cost savings and efficiency possibilities of cloud that could help make the culture change easier.
DHS stood up 11 different cloud based services, and lowered the cost of an email box per user by half. Spires said DHS is taking the money it's saving and reinvesting it into new mission critical technologies.
Spires said cloud brings standardization and scale to the commodity side of the infrastructure and that will free up money for other things, which becomes especially important during these times of budget decreases.
Deeley said at Justice, the culture change is just beginning with the more than 40 different components, all with their own IT shops which manage their infrastructure.
"To bring them along and moving to more commodity based services and gaining those efficiencies, it would be helpful if cloud providers looked at different ways of pricing and challenges associated with buying it by the drink, eventually, and getting the economy of scale across the agency," he said. "Today, to work through those policy issues, those culture boundaries, those security challenges that we all suffer from, moving through that has to be a learning curve on both sides."
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FedRAMP is supposed to be one main way to lower the boundaries, create efficiencies and trust in cloud services.
The General Services Administration, the Defense Department and DHS run the Joint Authorization Board (JAB), which provides initial approval to companies for meeting the FedRAMP cybersecurity standards for low and moderate systems under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
So far, the JAB has approved two cloud service providers and more than 70 are in the queue.
But even with this industry acceptance, agencies have a long way to go to use FedRAMP.
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"Despite FedRAMP, we still get a lot of agencies that look like they want to do the whole thing all over again," said Mark Ryland, the chief solutions architect for Amazon Web Services' World Wide Public Team. "That's going to be a problem now, we cannot have 25 or 30 agencies going through what we are doing, what we are going through with our third party accreditation organization. It's an intense process. We love it. We hate it. And in the end, we will all benefit from it. It will make the documentation better, systems more secure, but we can't do it 25 times in a year. We have to get people to utilize those decisions made by FedRAMP."
Amazon Web Services was one of 12 vendors to have gone through the pre-FedRAMP certification under the infrastructure-as-a-service blanket purchase agreement GSA awarded in 2010.
Ryland said Amazon understands the complexities and rigorous standards required under FedRAMP. For instance, he said Amazon had to add two-factor authentication to its routers. He said no one had to do that before, but because FedRAMP required it, now they did.
But a third party certification and approval from the JAB may not be enough to get agencies to change their culture and trust the FedRAMP process.
Spires said he recognizes why some agencies are hesitant, but strongly encourages CIOs, chief information security officers and others to get past it.
"I understand there may be some things around the edges they want to tweak and maybe that's fair. But for the most part, they have to accept for the FISMA low and the FISMA moderate what has been done by the cloud service providers to meet that mark and then move on," he said. "If they do that, we will have a very successful model. I think that will happen, but it's a very big change management process for the whole CISO and information security community to go through."
Integration into a broader set of cyber initiatives
GSA recently announced it would stop accepting applications for vendors to become third party assessment organizations as of March 25. The agency also issued a request for information in February to update the requirements for third party assessment organizations.
GSA also plans on holding a FedRAMP workshop for agencies on March 18 in Washington to address the benefits of the cloud security program and what agencies need to know to use it.
Along with FedRAMP, the CIO Council and DHS are trying to help move agencies beyond those security concerns.
DHS' National Protections and Programs Directorate (NPPD) is figuring out how cloud fits in with other security initiatives.
"There is a mechanism here at work that is maturing, but still has a ways to go particularly as we move into a continuous monitoring world," Spires said. "Under the federal CIO Council, there is a continuous monitoring working group that is working hard right now with NPPD, and the Cybersecurity and Communications office in particular, regarding continuous monitoring and concept of operations, and how that is really going to work and mature. We still are at the early stages of true continuous monitoring, but many of us certainly feel that is where we need to go."
The White House recently updated its cross agency cybersecurity goals and added cloud to the mix, especially around the Trusted Internet Connections initiative. That should add another step toward acceptance of cloud and its security rules across government.
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The Alabama rock band Drive-By Truckers has a song about the state's three great icons.
University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace. Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.
That song got me thinking about who North Carolina's would be.
You had to know Andy Griffith's death would be a big deal. And when he died in July at 86, it was.
If you put up a Mount Rushmore with icons from my home state, at least icons from the 20th century, Andy would be on it.
Billy Graham would be on there. And so would Dean Smith. And Michael Jordan. Maybe Richard Petty.
Who would be on the second string? You tell me.
Jim Hunt never became a national figure but he and Jesse Helms are the biggest political figures in the state over the last 50 years. In terms of national influence, perhaps neither could best Sam Ervin, though. No one will ever be more important to the UNC system than Bill Friday, though he's not a national figure, either.
Charles Kuralt. John Coltrane. Doc Watson. Earl Scruggs, Edward R. Murrow. Ava Gardner. Dale Earnhardt. Thelonious Monk.
We can put together a solid second team. And a third and fourth.
These are some pretty big names. Andy's death was big news here, and Dean Smith's will be, too. Billy Graham's will be the biggest of them all. Jordan and Petty are a little younger. They will be around for a while, I hope.
But who comes after?
As I look forward, it's hard to believe the next generation will produce people with the same level of state and national influence.
We've been considered a bit of backwater for a long time, at least when it comes to the rest of the country, but we had this group of people that puts North Carolina on the map. People of great importance in entertainment, sports and faith.
The funny thing is that, at the same time that the state of North Carolina is growing in national influence — people are moving here from hither and yon and we just hosted a major party presidential convention — we're losing our icons.
And no one is really stepping up to take their place.
Andy Griffith was the star of one of the most popular television shows ever and it was pretty much all about him. Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. Billy Graham is the most influential American pastor of the 20th century.
Today there are a lot of prominent North Carolinians doing some awesome things.
Roy Williams has two basketball national champions at Carolina. Nicholas Sparks cranks out very successful books that turn into very successful movies. Dale Earnhardt Jr. remains very popular and, if this year is any indication, he might actually start winning something in the next few years.
But you don't replace those North Carolina icons with American Idol winners, or solid but not legendary actors or ballplayers. You don't replace them with John Edwards, most of whose prominence in recent years has been for negative reasons.
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Michael Shannon might be what some would call an acquired taste, but though he usually plays roles that are unnerving and kinda scary, he's actually pretty darn cute.
Michael Shannon first gained notoriety in a small indie thriller called 'Bug' alongside Ashley Judd (and in which you can see him very naked), and followed that up with roles on the HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire,' and most recently in movies like 'Take Shelter,' 'Premium Rush,' and 'Mud.'
In most of his roles he's often intimidating and weird in an unnerving way, but that's far from the real Michael Shannon — and what's great about him is that he has a sense of humor about how he appears on screen. To wit: A couple of weeks ago, he did a hilarious reading of that crazy sorority girl letter for FunnyOrDie.com (below).
In the upcoming film 'The Iceman,' he plays the legendary contract killer, but in real life, he's kind of a cuddly dude and very aware of the way people perceive him. Personally, I find something very attractive about his unique looks and acting choices.
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New Enterprise Associates led a $30 million Series D equity round in Relievant Medsystems, Inc., a specialist in the therapeutic use of basivertebral nerve ablation for the treatment of chronic axial low back pain.
Existing venture capital investors Canaan Partners, Emergent Medical Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, and ONSET Ventures, joined the round.
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It's been two years since the joint U.S. Cyber Command reached operational capability but, before and since then, the individual military services have been hard at work building their own robust but discrete cyber forces. The next question is, who's responsible for what?
Each of the military services has its own cyber command. While their authorities and responsibilities vary somewhat, each is accountable for manning and training their forces, and operating and defending their respective services' networks. But they're also tasked with providing joint cyber capabilities to U.S. Cyber Command and the geographic combatant commanders around the globe.
Gen. Keith Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Up until now, defining precisely which national cyberspace missions belong to the Army, Air Force, Navy or Marine Corps has been a somewhat murky issue, but new guidance from Gen. Keith Alexander, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has begun to clarify the issue, the cyber chiefs from each of the four DoD branches told Congress last week.
Arriving at those definitions has been a key priority for the military's cyber leaders, said Lt. Gen. Rhett Hernandez, the commander of Army cyber command.
"We really have to nest that strategy from the top to the bottom in terms of who's going to do what requirements," he said. "I think we all believe that over time a couple things are essential. One is that this is going to become more joint. Certainly the training and the standards will need to be joint so that you can count on cyber warriors being able to interact with joint teams. We also need to take a hard look at functional requirements and make sure we're providing capabilities as one force so you don't duplicate efforts and have to de-conflict things too late because you've already invested resources. We're working on all of that together."
Geographically split roles
Hernandez and the other service cyber chiefs told the House Armed Services subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities that Alexander's operational directive, issued within the last several months, gave each service a lead cyber role for specific geographic areas of the world.
"[It says] here is my operational vision in terms of how I'll parse out who will have leadership within different areas of the world," said Vice Adm. Michael Rogers, the commander of Navy Fleet Cyber Command. "Once you're designated as the lead, then we collaborate with each other for how we're going to generate the full spectrum of capability we'll need to support those joint commanders. Then the tie-in is the Joint Information Environment, which hopefully will give us, over time, an underpinning that we can all plug into somewhat seamlessly as opposed to what we have now, where that's definitely not the case."
Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, commander, 24th Air Force
Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, commander of the 24th Air Force, that service's cyber command, said the order also assigns specific tasks to each of the services.
"It leverages the core competencies that are specialties within each of our services, not just for a combatant command but in support of each other as we provide those rare capabilities," she said. "And the orders process that began when U.S. Cyber Command was established has been very freeing in this regard. Those orders come through to all of us to provide capability across the board. Cyber is foundational to every one of the air, ground, sea and space missions, and we all need to operate in a synchronized and consistent manner."
But even as the somewhat disjointed pieces that make up DoD's network transition to a more homogenous environment and the services' cyber operations become more joint, the military leaders told lawmakers they also want to make sure their individual cyber commands retain the distinctive characters of the four services they represent.
Integration to the cyber role is necessary
The Navy's Rogers said it's a message he delivers frequently.
"I regularly tell U.S. Cyber Command, 'Please don't view your components as manpower pools.' We are integrated warfighting organizations just like every other mission set within the Department of Defense," he said. "Task us, just as we do in every other mission area across the department. We need to bring capacity and capability as an integrated, cohesive whole, which is the way we've all structured ourselves."
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the emerging threats subcommittee, was not entirely convinced the services will be able to seamlessly interoperate in a joint cyber environment. Thornberry said he wants to see plenty of testing of the new operational directive.
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"It just occurs to me that as you all sort through these issues, exercises are going to be really essential to test all this out," he said. "I'm not too concerned about the young folks who work for you, but I am concerned about all the bureaucratic gobbledygook that can foul up even the best intentions, and until we exercise some of this capability it'll be really hard to know whether it'll really work."
Among other lessons learned over the past two years, the cyber commanders told Congress, has been the surprising rate at which servicemembers with highly-valuable cyber skills opt to stay in the military rather than rushing to the exits to earn a much larger paycheck in industry.
"To be honest, we've exceeded my expectations," Rogers said. "I can well remember one of my concerns early on in this mission set was how we were going to retain these men and women. The thing that's surprised me the most is that increasingly, they view themselves as warriors. That's one distinct advantage to those of us in uniform. Our civilian counterparts offer many opportunities and, arguably, advantages. One thing they don't offer is the ability to be a warrior. The workforce really seems to crystallize around that idea and the broader Navy as a whole is very energized by the mission set and has great respect for that mission set. It goes out of its way to highlight to its cyber partners how well-positioned they are for the future, and the workforce really responds well to that."
The other three cyber leaders agreed retention of cyber warriors has turned out to be mostly a non-issue.
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I was curious if you discard the waste gate or what max pressure you use if you do utilize the waste gate ? Also how many CFM required to start engine as i see several 12v auto style blowers that provide approx 230 cfm.
Probably a really bad idea but would you be able to fix it to a gocart and what would be an estimated max speed?
okay i know this sounds stupid but im wanting to make a real working ironman suit but i need to know how to make to turbine small enough to fit the hand and feet so my suit can fly. i need some help. more or less hands on help.
Sorry to say, but you'll never be able to make it actually fly (for a couple of reasons). First off, if you make the turbines small enough to fit in your palm (literally), then they would not have nearly enough power to lift you off the ground. Second, Jet Engines produce huge amounts of heat, and so you would have singed hands if you ever tried. Also, Jet Engines need a large amount of air traveling (more or less) in a linear direction, so unless you have a large hole in your hand to allow air to enter the turbines, you would have a lot of trouble pumping through enough air. Lastly, unlike in the movies, controlling flight with the center of thrust(s) being the ends of your limbs is really difficult. Really cool idea though :)
hello. the jetspecs program is very useful but i need the long hand calculations of the flame tube holes to develop a better understanding. i have tried the link you have share above for those calculations but i can't find anything. can you please give me a current link and help me out regarding it?
A note about aluminum, as the creators of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle can attest, when exposed to high combustion temperatures, it creates extremely toxic (read FATAL) gases. Be very careful if you intend to use aluminum for any of the core components of your jet turbine engine.
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Second law: A body of mass m subject to a force F undergoes an acceleration a that has the same direction as the force and a magnitude that is directly proportional to the force and inversely proportional to the mass, i.e., F = ma. Alternatively, the total force applied on a body is equal to the time derivative of linear momentum of the body
you are right, but never, never ever ever quote Wikipedia
That quote is a verbatim quote from my college physics textbook which predates Wikipedia by about 30 years.
Fuel weighs a lot, engines more. You could, but check the price tag....
so i have looked in to these jet engines for a while now and ive found a designe for it and i am making a motorcycle version(most i have found for vehicles is a go cart type thing) so i want to know will the little portable grill propane tanks work im gonna use two of them on it one on each side to try and balance it better i just dont know if they have enough fuel for a short run or even that of driving it to like the store or somthing
please tell me how that works out ?
the melting temperature of steel is not that high, I melted a 2" thick jackhammer bit in my forge and it's not anywhere near that hot the melting temp of steel is closer to 3000 F
That part tends to spin pretty damn fast, so it would stay dry, any water that formed on it before it started would be forced to the outside, and as it compresses the air it gets hotter, thus it will start to evaporate if it hangs around.
That's true, but I'm sure most people stop the engine eventually. Moisture in the air could easily condense when the engine gets cold in the shed overnight.
however, a component such as an intake, can be very light as its not reaching as high heat as the pistons.
galvanic corrosion only happens when it is electrified though.
No it isn't.
A. Aluminum is very weak (I can bend a 1/2 inch thick bar easily)
B. Aluminum has very weak melting point
C. They wouldn't need to make it out of Aluminum because the engines have a 59,934 horsepower
D. Steel is stronger, so there for, if a bomb goes off it won't explode like a tin can full of firecrackers like aluminum does (tin cans are also made of aluminum).
E. steel is cheaper than aluminum.
F. Research your comments before posting them (you can see I made the same mistake on this Instructable already.)
A. Aluminum alloys can be stronger than steel
B. Aluminum alloys have higher melting points
C. Making an engine out of steel would make the engine weigh 2 times as much greatly reducing the efficency (pardon my spelling)
D. How would a bomb go off in or on an engine, and aluminum alloys are more resistant to explosive forces
E. ... We'll that one is true
I would say for a personal jet engine aluminum would be an ideal material
ok i made a few mistakes when typing.
I meant if a bomb went off IN or ON the engine (also aluminum would heat up a lot from the friction causing warping, etc.)
AND I deleted my stupid comment from before.
I would not think so. The Engine would require a source of wind (I.e leafblower in this case) and a fuel source as well.


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