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An interference filter having a plurality of layers and a spectrum as a function of angle of observation is combined with a metameric element adjacent the interference filter and appearing to have a same color as the interference filter at at least one angle of observation and a contrasting color as said interference filter at least one other angle of observation. A plurality of interference filter layers, including a metallic layer, can be provided on a support structure for the layers. The support structure is then adapted to allow the layers to be seen from a top and a bottom side, with the layers being adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection and transmission.
1. An interference security image structure comprising:
an interference filter comprising a plurality of layers and having a spectrum as a function of angle of observation;
a metameric element adjacent said interference filter and appearing to have a same color as said interference filter at at least one angle of observation and a contrasting color as said interference filter at least one other angle of observation, wherein said interference filter and said metameric element appear to have a same color at at least one angle of observation under a plurality of different illumination sources and a contrasting color at at least one other angle of observation.
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15. An interference security image structure comprising:
an interference filter comprising a plurality of layers and having a spectrum as a function of angle of observation;
a metameric element adjacent said interference filter and appearing to have a same color as said interference filter at least one angle of observation and a contrasting color as said interference filter at least one other angle of observation,
wherein said plurality of layers includes an absorbing thin film, and said structure comprises a support structure for said layers, said support structure adapted to allow said layers to be seen from a top and a bottom side, said layers being adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection and transmission wherein said layers are adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection from each side of said structure.
16. An interference security image structure comprising a plurality of interference filter layers including an absorbing thin film, and a support structure for said layers, said support structure adapted to allow said layers to be seen from the top and the bottom side of the support structure, said layers being adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection and transmission wherein said layers are adapted to have different spectra as a function of angle of observation in reflection from each side of said structure.
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The present invention relates to optically variable devices (OVD) used for secure documents, such as identity documents, banknotes, credit cards and cheques.
Fast progress in color reprographic technology combined with a rise of criminal and terrorist activity stimulates the need for new and enhanced security features to be incorporated in financial and identity documents in order to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters.
In early 2000, fraud was at an all-time high. The Bank of Canada's annual report shows that the value of counterfeit banknotes detected in circulation rose from 4.9 million dollars in 2002 to $12.7 million in 2003 (see "Bank of Canada's Annual Report 2003", Ottawa, Canada, 2003 by R. Goodale). One who deals with security will inevitably have to deal with the issue of counterfeiting, be it in the domain of immigration (passports, ID cards, etc.), credit card fraud, drug trafficking, etc. It is therefore important to continuously innovate in the domain of anti-counterfeiting devices in order to stay one step ahead of present and future counterfeiters. It is also important to inform the general public about such devices. In fact, research has shown that only 1.7 currency security features are known in average, see the paper by H. A. M. de Heij, "A method for measuring the public's appreciation and knowledge of banknotes", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4677, 2002, p 15-55. Contrary to what is generally believed, more and more fake low currency bills are being found, simply due to the fact that most people anticipate that only high denominations are being reproduced, as said in, L. A. DiNunzio, S. E. Chuch, "Evaluating Public Awareness of New Currency Design Features", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4677, 2002, p 1-14.
Most optically variable devices (OVD), see Optical Document Security—Second Edition, by R. van Renesse, Artech House, London, England, 1998, are based on two optical effects: diffraction (Diffractive Optical Variable Image Device) and interference (Interference Security Image Structures, ISIS). The present trend consists of integrating these two effects into one device, as seen in, the paper by A. Argoitia, V. P. Raksha, R. W. Phillips, "Integration of contrasting technologies into advanced optical security devices", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 5310, n 1, 2004, p 299-311.
In the case of ISIS, there is still much opportunity for innovation. Interference is an interesting effect for it offers a color change upon tilting the device. Consequently, it is impossible to recreate this effect by a simple photocopy, photography or any reprographic process. This feature is very important considering the fact that introduction of high quality inexpensive printers has had a direct effect on the number of false bills in circulation. In 1995, less than 1% of counterfeited bills in the U.S. were digitally fabricated, compared to almost 40% in 2002, see the paper by L. A. DiNunzio, L. Clarke, "The new color of money: safer, smarter, more secure", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 5310, n 1, 2004, p 425-439. The first ISIS device of this type was developed at the National Research Council of Canada, see the article by J. A. Drobrowolski, F. C. Ho and A. Waldorf, "Research on thin film anticounterfeiting coatings at the National Research Council of Canada", Applied Optics, Vol. 28, No 14, 15 July 1989. The original design consisted of 13 dielectric layers, offering a gold to green color shift. For economic reasons, over the years, the number of layers was brought down to five and later to three by using metallic layers.
Another example is optically variable ink which is being used on many international currencies (over 40 countries) as described in the article by R. W. Phillips, and A. F. Bleikolm, "Optical coatings for document security", Applied Optics, Vol. 35 and R. W. Phillips, and M. Nofi, "Colors by Chemistry or by physics?", Society of Vacuum Coaters, 42nd annual technical conference proceedings, 1999. No. 28. 1996. This ink has also been combined with magnetic elements as described in the paper by T. Jagielinski, "Magnetic Imaging of Currencies and Secure Documents", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4677, 2002, p 159-168. and P. G. Coombs, V. P. Raksha, T. Markantes, "Overt and covert verification via magnetic optical security devices", Proceedings of the SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4677, 2002, p 182-193.
The invention will be better understood by way of the following description with reference to the appended drawings, in which:
In the present work, two types of innovative devices have been designed and fabricated. The first one relies on a hidden image concept, the second one on an unexpected optical effect. In general, one may expect that the description of such devices could minimise their future efficiency. In fact, it is important to know that it is not the design of the device itself that offers protection, but its fabrication, which would be very costly and complicated for a counterfeiter.
The device considered here relies on the metameric phenomenon. Metameric stimuli can be defined as different spectra having the same tristimulus values under a specific illuminant. As a rule of thumb, the reflection or transmission spectra of two different objects must intersect at least at three points in the visible spectrum in order for metamerism to be possible, see the article by D. B. Judd, and G. Wyszecki, in "Color in Business, Science and Industry, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1975, page 176. The higher the number of intersections, the higher the possibility that these two objects will be metameric under more than one illuminant (the infinite case being two identical spectra). It is also very rare that a pair of colors will be metameric for all observers. Therefore, perfect metamerism is practically impossible. The degree of metamerism, as described in the paper by G. Wyszecki, Color Science, 2nd edition, John Willey & Sons, NY, USA, 1982, MI (where the index indicates the illuminant), is given by the color difference under a particular illuminant. This color difference can be calculated in the L*a*b* color space (for more details see the reference by M. R. Luo, G. Cui, B. Rigg, "The Development of the CIE 2000 Colour-Difference Formula: CIEDE2000", COLOR research and application, Volume 26, Number 5, October 2001):
In order to test the degree of metamerism of the filters, illuminants C (average daylight), A (incandescent lamplight) and F1 (fluorescent), defined by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), are used.
In this patent application, the specific illuminant is understood to include a specific viewing or observation angle of the ISIS, either in reflection or transmission, namely the spectrum of the ISIS is considered as a function of viewing angle. When an ISIS is observed in reflection, the light is provided from the same side as the observer, whether by ambient lighting or a direct light source. Reflection ISIS can be used on a paper banknote or other opaque objects. When an ISIS is observed in transmission, ambient light or a direct light source is provided on the opposite side from the observer, and this is practical when the support on which the ISIS is provided is translucent or transparent. In both cases, the angle of observation results in a change in the observed color of the ISIS in accordance with its spectrum, the spectrum being the result of the ISIS layer composition and design.
Metameric filters have been fabricated using silicon dioxide (SiO2: n=1.49 at 550 nm) and tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5: n=2.14 at 550 nm). A Ta layer was used for the metal-dielectric filters. These materials were deposited using Dual Ion Beam Sputtering (DIBS; Spector�, Veeco-Ion Tech). Both beams are supplied from two Kaufman gridded ion sources. The first ion source with a 16 cm diameter is used to sputter SiO2 or Ta targets. The second source (12 cm diameter) is used simultaneously to compact the deposited layer (ion beam assist). Since only time was monitored during fabrication, slight thickness errors are observed and these inevitably affect the obtained color of the filters. The chamber pressure was of 8.5�10-8 torr, and the beam parameters were the following: the energy for the sputtering ion-source was of 1250 eV, and its flux was 600 mA. As for the assist ion-source, its energy was of 400 eV, and its flux was 75 mA. Filters were applied on B270 glass and polycarbonate.
Filters were designed using TFCalc 5.1 from Spectra Inc. Color calculations were done using illuminant D65, which corresponds to average north sky daylight. The designed filters are therefore metameric under illuminant D65, and MD65 is very close to zero.
Two metameric filters (A and B) were designed and fabricated (see
Filter A consists of 19 layers and filter B of 15 layers (see table 1). As can be seen in
The filter performance is quite consistent with that expected from the design, despite the fact that only timing was used for process monitoring (see
Even if the transmission spectra of filters A and B are very similar to their respective design, their colors appear slightly different when viewed outdoors. This is particularly important in relation to the accuracy of the human eye. It is therefore interesting to study the metamerism index of these filters under different illuminants. For the designed filters, index MD65 is equal to 0.23. Ml values below 1 in the L*a*b* color space indicate that the eye cannot distinguish any difference between the two objects (see the paper by B. Hill, Th. Roger, and F. W. Vorhagen, "Comparative Analysis of the quantization of Color Spaces on the Basis of the CIELAB Color-Difference Formula", ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 1997, Pages 109-154). For the fabricated filters, MD65=15.51; therefore, they appear different. Under other illuminants, the designed filters are no longer metameric (see table 2). Although in the case of illuminant C the difference in the perceived color is very subtle (MC is very close to one) this is not the case for illuminants A and F1. This behaviour was predictable taking into account that the two filters cross each other at only three wavelengths. For comparison, the RGB values are given in table 2.
As shown in
It is interesting to study the evolution of the index of metamerism as a function of deposition errors. Using TFCalc, the worst case (used to estimate the minimum and maximum variation of the coating's performance) Monte Carlo absolute normal error was generated for each of the filter layers. For example, an error of 0.1 nm represents one standard deviation and the maximum errors generated by the program are within two standard deviations. 100 filters were therefore generated and their color differences compared with the original design color for different maximum thickness errors.
MD65 values have also been calculated for our experimentally deposited filters A and B, yielding MD65-A=11.48 and MD65-B=4.88, respectively. Using these values, we can deduce that the actual deposition process offered a maximum performance of 0.7 nm (normal error) on each layer.
Since fabrication cost is usually an issue, one has to consider pathways to the reduction of the number of layers. In fact, incorporation of metal films can diminish the total number of layers, but it generally leads to reduced transmission. Also, the higher the difference between the high and low index materials, the higher the reflection will be at each interface, minimizing the number of layers necessary to obtain the desired effect. The materials used in this work had only a 0.65 difference; therefore a high number of layers was needed. The advantage of using all dielectric filters arises from the fact that they can be used in either transmission or reflection (deposited on a black background to eliminate the backside reflection), and offer a higher stability.
Another interesting optical effect can be obtained by using thin metallic layers. In the presence of absorbing thin films, the conservation of energy formula becomes A+T+R=100%, where A is the absorption, T the transmission and R the reflection. From the fundamental theorem, as shown in the reference by H. A. Macleod, Thin-Film Optical Filters, 3rd edition, Institute of Physics Publishing, Philadelphia, USA, 1986, page 53 that the transmission is independent of the direction by which light traverses all filters, and since R does not follow this rule, it follows that A also depends on the direction of the incident light. Using this effect, it is possible to design a filter which possesses a different appearance on both its sides, and that is also transparent. It is needless to say that this is an impressive optical effect, considering that the color variation is also present.
As an example, we deposited a model filter consisting of 26 layers, the sixth layer being 30 nm of Ta. A high number of layers was simply used in order to maximize the optical effect that was mentioned earlier. It is shown in
In order to increase the illumination stability as well as decrease to the cost of producing two metameric filters, it is also possible to create a hidden image effect by tailoring a filter using a specific material. This can be done either in reflection or in transmission depending on the requirements. Due to the fact that the material used is non iridescent, it is still possible to make an image appear; this is due to the fact that a change in the angle of incidence will lead to a variation of color of the filter.
It is important to note that one can benefit from an appropriate coincidence of the spectra of the filter for specific materials. This increases the possibility to preserve the metameric effect under a higher number of illumination sources, therefore conserving the hidden image effect.
In the case when the filters are to be used in reflection, one must use a material having a metallic appearance in order to mimic the interference filters (for example, metallic ink). In the case of a device used in transmission, one may use a colored polymer.
The filters presented here were designed and fabricated to be metameric in transmission and at normal incidence, but different angles can also be considered. The first step is to choose and characterize the non iridescent material that will be used, thus obtaining its reflection or transmission spectra. Once this is done, its colorimetric coordinates can be calculated under different types of lighting. This result is necessary in the design process. The second step consists of designing the filter that has the same color coordinates under the chosen light source and that matches the first material's spectrum as much as possible. The goal in this step is to obtain as many intersections between both of them as possible. The last step before fabrication is to make sure that the metameric effect is preserved under as many light sources as possible.
One should note that it is also possible to include a feature at a specific wavelength such that the material and filter have very different characteristics. This allows an optical verification method by using a laser, for example. At the same time the color variation must also be maximized in order for the hidden image effect to be striking.
The first example shown here is an all-dielectric filter that was designed to be metameric with Du Pont's Kapton� polyimide, a yellowish polymer. As one can see in
In this case, the color varies as a function of the observation angle from yellow to white. Also note that at 395 nm, there is a very large change in transmission, namely from 0% for Kapton to 90% for the filter, thus allowing a second level of verification.
The second example is another all dielectric filter (having layers of table 6) which is metameric with an orange polymer, thus allowing an orange to yellow color shift (see
In the following, one can see two examples of filters showing the desired effect (Tables Filter 1 and Filter 2).
In the present work, we studied several innovative approaches in the area of ISIS devices. The designed filters could be used in either transmission or reflection. In order to further enhance the filter quality, our future work will concentrate on improving the monitoring technique, diminishing the cost of the devices and applying them to different substrates.
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by CHRIS GRAYA lawsuit between Washington Township and the Romeo District Library could be on the horizon due to disagreements on budget approval.
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Washington Township Supervisor Dan O'Leary said the township's main concern was that the library should approach the three communities for approval of its budget according to local law.
He said a 7-0 vote by his Township Board decided that if the district does not request and get approval of the budget prior to July 1, the township will sue.
"We'll go to court and a judge will decide who is right," O'Leary said.
In a letter to his board, O'Leary said since the Library Board is appointed and not elected, local governments are responsible for the library's results and requires it to seek annual approval of the budget.
"I believe our involvement is justified based on given the precedent of the other ventures, the existence of the local ordinance, the clear language of the ordinance, the need for accountability to the taxpayer and the horrendous performance of the appointed RDL board over the years," O'Leary said in a letter to his board.
He claimed the library's perpetual millage is causing poor spending practices, contesting that Romeo has the highest percentage of employee costs as a percentage of total operating costs when compared to similar libraries.
"The cost problem can't be blamed solely on the extra branch we have<they are simply overpaying at entry level of the organization," he said.
Attorney Lance Werner, a past president of the Michigan Library Association and past Michigan library law specialist, presented information regarding district library law on March 18 to the board that countered O'Leary's argument.
Werner said according to Section 13 of district library laws, the board has the authority to determine the amount of money necessary for establishing and operating the library.
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The library law of 1955 was retooled in 1989 to replace the establishment law. Werner said the local communities established the board in 1969, but later re-established the library under the new act.
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He said additional powers comes from Section 12 of the law, which says the board can appoint and remove a librarian, buy and sell property and exclusive authority over any money that goes into the district's fund.
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AURORA, Colo. - The city of Aurora admits someone made a mistake when residents received an incorrect reverse notification call on Wednesday night.
As police were searching for an 18-year-old suspect in a homicide in the 2600 block of South Lima Street, dispatchers sent out a reverse notification call that warned about a loud noise from a controlled detonation at 1690 Paris Street, seven miles away.
"I went and looked up the address and realized it was far north of the city and I didn't really give it much thought," said Aurora resident Andrea Beesley. "Shortly after that I started hearing helicopters."
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7NEWS wanted to know why that message from 13 months ago was still in the system and able to accidentally get sent out.
"There are templates still in the system to be used in order to do that rather than start from scratch," said Wolfe. "It has now been purged from the system and we will be definitely examining that process."
"I think that system is something, obviously, that's meant to be used only in emergencies and when that happens the people that they're calling really need the right information," said Beesley.
After receiving the incorrect phone call, Beesley called dispatchers to find out why she was hearing a helicopter over her neighborhood. She was then given the description of the murder suspect.
"They asked me to call if I saw her, but they didn't mention that she was considered armed and dangerous or to stay inside," said Beesley.
7NEWS has learned that it was phone calls like Beesley's that alerted dispatchers that someone made a mistake.
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GIBRALTAR — Sometimes a good night's sleep can make all the difference.
"We woke up 0-14 and we came home champions of the Lefevre-Boisvenue Wooden Bat Tournament," Gibraltar Carlson baseball coach Chad Liptow said. "Our shoulders feel a little lighter with that gorilla off there."
The Marauders started the day with their first non-loss of the season, tying Flat Rock 1-1. They went on to beat Ida 1-0 and West Bloomfield 2-1, winning the round-robin event with a 2-0-1 record. West Bloomfield was 2-1, Flat Rock 1-1-1 and Ida 0-3.
Pitching was the key for Carlson.
Travis Payne threw a one-hitter with 12 strikeouts against Flat Rock. The lone hit he allowed was a solo home run to John O'Dell. The Rams' Cameron Ernest also pitched well.
Grant Nabozny shut out Ida in his first varsity start, allowing four hits, striking out nine and walking two.
Darwin Sutton threw a four-hitter against West Bloomfield.
"The last 31 innings (counting Friday's 10-inning loss to Lincoln Park) our pitchers have been fantastic," Liptow said. "We're still struggling in the run department, but we won the tournament scoring four runs."
Ramon Hollis led the offense for the 2-14-1 Marauders with four hits while Kyle Frazho, Aaron Herman, and Alejandro Torres added two each.
Flat Rock went 1-1-1, falling to West Bloomfield 4-2 and beating Ida 7-1.
Mike Chickeral returned after missing all season with a basketball injury. He threw a three-hitter with nine strikeouts against Ida in his first mound appearance.
O'Dell had four hits including two doubles in the tournament, Cody Ratcliffe also had four hits and Greg Simpson doubled and singled.
The Rams are 3-7-2.
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Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn't scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read it all. But a warning in advance: there is no drama here, no tell-all, no former colleagues bashed and nothing more than you couldn't already surmise from what's happening in the press these days surrounding Google and its attitudes toward user privacy and software developers. This is simply a more personal telling.
It wasn't an easy decision to leave Google. During my time there I became fairly passionate about the company. I keynoted four Google Developer Day events, two Google Test Automation Conferences and was a prolific contributor to the Google testing blog. Recruiters often asked me to help sell high priority candidates on the company. No one had to ask me twice to promote Google and no one was more surprised than me when I could no longer do so. In fact, my last three months working for Google was a whirlwind of desperation, trying in vain to get my passion back.
The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.
Technically I suppose Google has always been an advertising company, but for the better part of the last three years, it didn't feel like one. Google was an ad company only in the sense that a good TV show is an ad company: having great content attracts advertisers.
Under Eric Schmidt ads were always in the background. Google was run like an innovation factory, empowering employees to be entrepreneurial through founder's awards, peer bonuses and 20% time. Our advertising revenue gave us the headroom to think, innovate and create. Forums like App Engine, Google Labs and open source served as staging grounds for our inventions. The fact that all this was paid for by a cash machine stuffed full of advertising loot was lost on most of us. Maybe the engineers who actually worked on ads felt it, but the rest of us were convinced that Google was a technology company first and foremost; a company that hired smart people and placed a big bet on their ability to innovate.
From this innovation machine came strategically important products like Gmail and Chrome, products that were the result of entrepreneurship at the lowest levels of the company. Of course, such runaway innovative spirit creates some duds, and Google has had their share of those, but Google has always known how to fail fast and learn from it.
In such an environment you don't have to be part of some executive's inner circle to succeed. You don't have to get lucky and land on a sexy project to have a great career. Anyone with ideas or the skills to contribute could get involved. I had any number of opportunities to leave Google during this period, but it was hard to imagine a better place to work.
But that was then, as the saying goes, and this is now.
It turns out that there was one place where the Google innovation machine faltered and that one place mattered a lot: competing with Facebook. Informal efforts produced a couple of antisocial dogs in Wave and Buzz. Orkut never caught on outside Brazil. Like the proverbial hare confident enough in its lead to risk a brief nap, Google awoke from its social dreaming to find its front runner status in ads threatened.
Google could still put ads in front of more people than Facebook, but Facebook knows so much more about those people. Advertisers and publishers cherish this kind of personal information, so much so that they are willing to put the Facebook brand before their own. Exhibit A: www.facebook.com/nike, a company with the power and clout of Nike putting their own brand after Facebook's? No company has ever done that for Google and Google took it personally.
Larry Page himself assumed command to right this wrong. Social became state-owned, a corporate mandate called Google+. It was an ominous name invoking the feeling that Google alone wasn't enough. Search had to be social. Android had to be social. You Tube, once joyous in their independence, had to be … well, you get the point. Even worse was that innovation had to be social. Ideas that failed to put Google+ at the center of the universe were a distraction.
Suddenly, 20% meant half-assed. Google Labs was shut down. App Engine fees were raised. APIs that had been free for years were deprecated or provided for a fee. As the trappings of entrepreneurship were dismantled, derisive talk of the "old Google" and its feeble attempts at competing with Facebook surfaced to justify a "new Google" that promised "more wood behind fewer arrows."
The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone. The new Google knew beyond doubt what the future should look like. Employees had gotten it wrong and corporate intervention would set it right again.
Officially, Google declared that "sharing is broken on the web" and nothing but the full force of our collective minds around Google+ could fix it. You have to admire a company willing to sacrifice sacred cows and rally its talent behind a threat to its business. Had Google been right, the effort would have been heroic and clearly many of us wanted to be part of that outcome. I bought into it. I worked on Google+ as a development director and shipped a bunch of code. But the world never changed; sharing never changed. It's arguable that we made Facebook better, but all I had to show for it was higher review scores.
As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn't part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn't even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, "social isn't a product," she told me after I gave her a demo, "social is people and the people are on Facebook." Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn't invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google's party became the elephant in the room.
Google+ and me, we were simply never meant to be. Truth is I've never been much on advertising. I don't click on ads. When Gmail displays ads based on things I type into my email message it creeps me out. I don't want my search results to contain the rants of Google+ posters (or Facebook's or Twitter's for that matter). When I search for "London pub walks" I want better than the sponsored suggestion to "Buy a London pub walk at Wal-Mart."
The old Google made a fortune on ads because they had good content. It was like TV used to be: make the best show and you get the most ad revenue from commercials. The new Google seems more focused on the commercials themselves.
Perhaps Google is right. Perhaps the future lies in learning as much about people's personal lives as possible. Perhaps Google is a better judge of when I should call my mom and that my life would be better if I shopped that Nordstrom sale. Perhaps if they nag me enough about all that open time on my calendar I'll work out more often. Perhaps if they offer an ad for a divorce lawyer because I am writing an email about my 14 year old son breaking up with his girlfriend I'll appreciate that ad enough to end my own marriage. Or perhaps I'll figure all this stuff out on my own.
The old Google was a great place to work. The new one?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I hope you can have some kind of impact in Microsoft, but I feel like Microsoft is doing the same thing, they just happened to be Facebook's friend. Everything that Microsoft is making now revolves around the idea of "integrated experiences." I don't know how that is any better, I hope it doesn't turn in to a social battle.
honest comments! it shows how much u loved it before .. !!
Why can't I click on +1 to this article anywhere?.....;P
The ability to actually consume shared content in an efficient and productive manner is still as broken as ever. They never addressed the issue in Buzz and still haven't with G+ despite people ranting at them for this functionality forever.
Funny that I should read your post today as I wrote the following comment on another persons post a couple days back over Vic's recent interview where someone brought up the lack of a G+ API:
"But if it were a social network.......then they are doing a pretty piss poor job of managing the G+ interface and productive consumption of the stream. It would be nice if there was at least an API so some 3rd party clients could assist with the filtering of the noise, but in reality the issue is in the distribution of the stream. What really burns me is that it wouldn't be that hard for them to create something like subscribable circles.
Unfortunately the reality is that they just don't care about whether the G+ stream is productive for you at the moment as their primary concern isn't for you to productively share and discuss your interests with the world, but to simply provide a way for you to tell Google what you like so they can target you with advertising. As a result, the social part of Google+ really isn't anything to shout about at the moment."
You've just confirmed my fear about how the company's focus has changed.
A great write-up. Disillusionment does not go well with passion. And passion keeps us going . If we are no longer passionate about what we are doing, we should move ahead.
And you think you will find creativity at Microsoft? HAHA
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Maybe it's you, not them.
I never worked for Google but read your article yelling, "Yes! Yes, yes! About time someone said it!" I liked the old Google as a user MUCH better and have grown increasingly annoyed with bad search results (based on sponsors, as you point out), and all the annoying or creepy distractions thrown up at me based on what I type in private messages. I don't want all my services melded, and linked, and synced, and rolled into one, and selling all my personal info to companies whose products I never buy and never will. They ruined YouTube for multiple account users. I don't use Facebook and don't want to, and further, I resent everything being Apple-ized as well (assuming we all own ONLY iPads and iPhones and building content around Apple OS to the exclusion of others). I find I use the internet much less now except for basic email, and Twitter. It used to be great as an information source but now it's more noise...and frankly, getting a little scarier every day with all the invasions to privacy. Time to return to Linux...or maybe there's a new kid on the block in the wings.
The thing is, for many of their users, this is why we want out of Google.
Companies always seem to abandon the attitudes that attract their customers in the first place.
Hopefully, everyone will start to smell what it means to be used by Facebook, Google and the like. Can't large companies decide to make their customers the customer?
Agree 100%. what do you think? IMHO, there's a need for "separation of church and state"; this social phenomena may be heading for "separation of needs and wants".
And you went to Microsoft? Microsoft?! One of the most corrupt technology companies on the planet and you feel better about that? Microsoft?!
I work at a place that's been around since the beginning of the web. We used to act on people's ideas and let them try things out. At least in our group, which was responsible for the Internet work. That gave way to jealousy outside the group, because we were bringing in money, and others were not. They worked to undermine our group, and ended up succeeding. I still work here because of family obligations, and no other reason.
Killing people's innovative spirit is one of the worst things that can be done. I wish I had those days back.
"-1" indeed
Thank you very much for sharing your experience!
Only innovation doesn't get you money. Most of the google products (google labs) never had clear objective. So they have to depend only single big money puller. In between they lost track


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Judge Walsh received his B.S. in 1953 from Niagara University in New York, and after serving in the United States Marine Corps, he received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1958. Following his admission to the Connecticut bar, Judge Walsh was engaged in the private practice of law, until his appointment as a judge of the Superior Court in 1983.
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Both women were in the nation's capitol to witness Barack Obama's inauguration, and while they each attended parties in celebration, they didn't cross paths until they neared the end of their journey.
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Re: Hypothetical Moral Circ Question
The problem for me with these type of questions is they do not give enough context and are too simplistic for me to answer, except in generalities. It all depends on the situation. For instance, assuming you could gop back in time and kill him, it seems reasonable to believe that you could do less than kill him to prevent your being circumcisied.
My general philosophy is that when you feel threatened, you take what action is necessary to stop the attacker/molester. In general, someone doing bodily harm has the potential to kill me, I suppose, so then my actions would be that necessary to stop the action against me, even up to killing him. But that is not me original intention.
My intention is to stop the action, not kill him. This makes all the difference philosophically for me.
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"The foreskin isn't the wrapper...it's the candy!"
Re: Hypothetical Moral Circ Question
Greg, you made something occur to me: this hypo question is deranged at it's base. It's not even hypothetical, cuz it's actually limited us to a solution from the outset rather than asking from a hypothetical position of what-if. The first line was "If you could go back in time and kill your circumcisor...". Not "if you could go back in time and stop your circumcision...". But I guess that would be boring, because it's obvious. He could have said "If you could go back in time and try to stop it, would you, upon stopping him, inflict punnishment to the point of death...". But then that doesn't make sense either. This question is really just asking "Are you so mad about being circ'd that if you could go back would you kill the doc not to stop it -but to feel better now?". The circular nature of this sorta thing never need posit the act of killing as a solution, hence why the poster asked the question forcing this option on us.
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1Taoist: While I am glad you got the point that the question artificially constrains alternatives and thus forces you to a specific solution, I must say I do not agree with your characterization that it is "deranged", nor do I think it fair to assume you know the motives of the OP in posing this question. He is available to answer this if you wish to know and he can put it in words.
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Re: Hypothetical Moral Circ Question
I think you missed the point. And you're right, he did posit the question with disclaimer. However, I personally think positing the solution of killing, which by the way is a Final Solution, is deranged.
This is like asking if you would kill your first girlfriend for breaking your heart cuz you lost the ability to trust and open up intimately.
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I was worried that my original post would be misconstrued. That is indeed why I put the caveat in there that the issue of killing was NOT for revenge.
Let's back up a moment. I realize a hypothetical "thought experiment" has serious limitations. If it is indeed hypothetical, then it is by definition not real and thus seemingly not helpful to consider.
Also, you do get into issues such as the "butterfly effect" which complicates the ability to derive a good answer from examining the scenario.
However, a thought experiment CAN yield some interesting ideas that might not otherwise emerge. Even within its hermetically sealed world of assumptions, there may be value in going along with it and teasing out some answers and assertions. In this particular case, I wanted to get at how strongly people felt about having been circumcised.
Also, I didn't choose "death" in the scenario lightly. I mean, if it just involved hurting the circumciser then it's not too difficult a question to answer, is it? I guess we could change the scenario to go all the way up the continuum to death--would you be willing to have him be paralyzed for life? Go deaf? Lose a limb? in order for you to have remained whole?
Anyway, I knew this would be controversial, but I still wanted to post it. I personally feel very strongly about genital integrity. I wish I had been kept whole and I feel a lot of things would be different had I not been cut. Actually, since starting to restore, it's not that I THINK things would have been better - I KNOW they would've been better. I have proof.
But losing decades of sexual and related aspects of life because someone cut me--I think that brings up some pretty profound moral quandries.
Hence my original question...
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I think this whole idea of "what we've lost" is not only hypothetical but just pure speculation. Listen, many will jump on me for this and I could say so many things blowing smoke up everybodys asses about how sad this condition is and sorry for our loss. I'm sure I'm persona non grata for saying so, but I don't believe any of this is the case. Life isn't gonna be any better either way. You haven't "lost" any sex and to tell yourself things would have been SO much different with your foreskin is just so much hooey. I'm sorry. Life don't come down to your dick.
Maybe men will joke that it does, that all life revolves around their cock, but that's a joke. Realistically, unless you were butchered (like some) and can't fuck AT ALL, then sex ain't any better or worse. Yeah, circ is unnecessary and does damage to the sensitive tissue but for God's sake- when you're balls deep in some good trim, don't that feel pretty good? I think you're sellin yourself an irrational idea of what sex is. In other words, WITH foreskin you'd be sayin the same damn thing.
And just cuz you've tugged a bit and loosened up some skin don't mean you have any proof of what it's like to be uncut. You got proof of some loose skin.
My gut tells me you'd be unsatisfied with your life any which way, cuz that's your mindset. You remind me of this guy I grew up with who has always been so fixated on the fact that he isn't particularly great-looking that he believes women don't really like him. The truth is HE doesn't really like him. The fact that you were circumcised is such a small part of who you are, who WE are, that it can't POSSIBLY make that much difference. Sex isn't "better" with women because of us being cut or uncut, there's SO many factors that make sex good that if all you're focused on is what you're missing...I got news for you- it ain't EVER gonna be good.
Can you improve the function and sensitivity by restoring? Yes. Can it make your life what it's "meant" to be, or as great as you think it should be? No.
No no no.
That's why the idea of killing a person who is circumcising you is "hypothetically" off track. Something is wrong with your sex, and it ain't your missing foreskin. Something is wrong with your life, and it ain't your dick. Maybe I sound like a dick, but I'll tell everyone here this: don't go off the deep end. Stay aware that the many facets that make up you do not come down to excuses like "I was circumcised". I don't say this to be mean or shit on this party, but to be realistic.
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I grant that someone "lucky" enough to have an average circ might need an attitude adjustment if he's mired in murderous rage, but half of all circs are worse than average.
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Sure, you can still have sex after being cut (at least, most guys under 50 don't have a problem), but is it the same as it would be if you had all your working parts? Many who have been circumcised as an adult have stated that there is a BIG decrease in the quality of sex after being cut.
Sure, if you are color blind, you can still see, but can you appreciate the finer aspects of art? I think not. Saying otherwise is just fooling yourself.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
See my other profile at RestoringForeskin.org and my blog at RestoringTally and my Facebook page and Celebrating Foreskin Tumblr.
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Circumcision removes a large amount of enjoyment from a man, and it is only after restoring that you can start to appreciate what you lost as some of it returns. You will never know what heights you may have reached if left intact.
I now enjoy the intimate time I spend with my wife far more, and this strengthens our marriage. One post said circumcised men still want plenty of sex, but that may just be due to them endlessly searching for an enjoyment they cannot receive.
While my car may still operate without servicing, the driving experience would be much diminished with an engine lacking power and failing brakes. Generally the penis still operates after circumcision, but in a very less efficient way.
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I think "if-only"s are pointless. you know what? if I could go back in time, and stop myself from being circumcised, I wouldn't do it. everything that happens to you has long-ranging effects that can't be measured or predicted. how do I know my life would have been better if I hadn't been circed? maybe, for instance, I would have been in the hospital getting a foreskin problem checked out at a time when I otherwise would have had a formative life experience. maybe my masturbation schedule changed as a result of being cut and the fact I was jerkin' it at a different time meant that I avoided getting in a car accident that would have killed me. Maybe I would have had cancer of the penis, for god's sake! the point is, everything that happens to you becomes a part of who you are. maybe somewhere in an alternate universe there's an estefan whose parents elected to not circ him. that person is not me. as much as I hate being cut, and lament that it was done to me, it's a part of who I am, just like everything else (bad or good) that happened in my life.
now, if you asked me if I'd like to somehow grow a new foreskin, well, yes. yes I would. :P
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August 15-August 17
•Workforce Carolina is Coordinating a Diaper Drive. We need your help. Bring a pack of diapers (sizes 4 & 5 are most needed) to one of our drop off locations, WFC-Yadkinville, 331 W. Maple Street, WFC-Mount Airy, 1908 Caudle Drive Suite 200, Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce, 116 East Market Street, Elkin.
August 15-August 28
•REGISTER NOW (starburst maybe) NOW ENROLLING for UPWARD FLAG FOOTBALL & CHEERLEADING Boys & Girls grades 1-6, Elkin Valley Baptist Church, 118 N. Elkin Dr. Elkin, NC 28621 (across from old K-Mart) 835-3808. For details or forms, contact the church at 835-3808 from 9am-3pm. Cost is $35, Evaluations are August 25, 27 & 28 at the old Elkin Middle School Field on N. Elkin Dr. (See signs from the church)
Saturday, August 18
•7 a.m.-until- 8th Annual Tractor Cruise/Show at Windsor's Crossroads Community Building, 5101 Windsor Road, Hamptonville. There will be a community breakfast, Yard Sale and a Tractor Show. Contact Bill Wooten 336-468-4450 or Craig Thomasson 468-2947 for details. Sponsored by the Windsor's Crossroads Ruritan Club. Proceeds help those in need in our community.
•4 p.m.-Yadkin Valley Cruisers "Cruise-In"! Come out and see the old classic cars gathered around the courthouse square. You will see 60's & 70's classic cars, hear great music, win door prizes, and have lots of fun! Visit www.yadkinvalleycruisers.com for more information. Sunday, August 19
•2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.-Yadkin County Richmond Hill Nature Park will be open to the public. Listed on the National register of historic places and the civil war trail, docent guided tours of the home of Justice Pearson will be available at free admission, donations to continue restoration are always appreciated. Special guest, historian Marion Venable will read civil war solders letters at 3:00 p.m. •2:30 p.m.-Phyllis R. Hoots of Forsyth County will present a history of the Red Strings, or Heroes of America, a secret Unionist organization formed during the Civil War, at the Yadkinville County Senior Center. The Red Strings were active in the Quaker-Moravian Belt of Piedmont North Carolina. Membership included men who did not want the South to secede from the United States. Their tactics helped end the Civil War. The Yadkin County Historical Society will sponsor this program, which is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Andrew L. Mackie, (336) 428-8471, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saturday, August 25
•11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.-American Red Cross Blood Drive at Surry Community College-Yadkin Center.
•3 p.m.-6 p.m.-The Yadkin County Humane Society will host a Spay-ghetti Dinner at the Yadkinville Volunteer Fire Department. Plates are $6 and include spaghetti, salad, bread and a drink. Attendees can dine in or take out. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. Tickets can be purchased by calling 336-463-6009 or 336-466-2424 or by visiting the organization's Facebook page: Yadkin County Humane Society. Money raised will support the Yadkin County Humane Society's spay and neuter programs. •2 p.m.-1st Annual Yadkin Valley Cyclones, AAU Boys Basketball 9u & 10u Golf Tournament at Silo Run, Boonville, $50 per person/ $60 day of tournament, 4 man teams. Cash Prize to the Winners. For additional information contact David or Mindy at 336.902.3088
Monday, August 27
•2 p.m.-6:30 p.m.-American Red Cross Blood Drive at Yadkinville YMCA.
Friday, August 31
•2 p.m.-6:30 p.m.-American Red Cross Blood Drive at Lowes Food in Yadkinville.
•7 p.m.-10 p.m.-Whiskers & Wine Summer Social to benefit the Yadkin County Animal Shelter at the Allison Oaks Vineyards, 221 East Main Street, Yadkinville. Hosted by the Animals, Inc a 501c3 non-profit organization. The cost is $30.00 per ticket. Live music by Time Sawyer. Tickets are available at Allison Oaks Vineyards or call Alice Singh at (336)406-0965 or firstname.lastname@example.com or contact Dianne Doub 699-3143. Tickets include , 1 glass of wine, heavy hors'doeuvres, door prize entry, opportunity to bid on many great silent auction items. There is also going to be a special surprise guest.
•6:30 p.m.-East Bend Happy Quilters Guild, Meets 2nd Tuesday of each month at East Bend Senior Center. For more information call (336)699-3970.
•10 a.m.-The Yadkin River Quilters meet at the Yadkin Senior Center every Tuesday.
•4 p.m.-6:30 p.m.- p.m.-Yadkin Farmers Market,open every Tuesday Evenings and Saturday morning from 8-12 in Yadkinville! Off US 601 North Take a right on Tennessee Rd. beside the Yadkinville Community Park. The Yadkin Farmers Market will be on the left behind the park. Selling fresh in season produce, plants, honey, baked goods, homemade crafts, eggs, goat dairy products, molasses, herbs, flowers, etc.
If you are in need of clothing for your family members we would like to invite you to visit the Courtney Clothing Closet located in Building C of Courtney Baptist Church. The church is located at 3341 Courtney Church Road. The church is South of Yadkinville off Hwy 601 just pass the Yadkin Valley Telephone offices on Courtney Huntsville Road, then right onto Courtney Church Rd. The hours are Wednesdays 2-4p.m. and Thursdays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information call the church at (336)463-2681
• A fall men's softball league is being planned at Lone Hickory. If you are interested in putting a team in the league, please call 336-463-2761 as soon as possible.
•We are searching for old photos of Lone Hickory July 4th celebration or other events held at Lone Hickory (ball tournaments, donkey ball game, etc.) If you have photos we can borrow, please call (336)463-2449 or 463-2439 as soon as possible. Photos will be scanned and returned to you.
•6 p.m.-YADKIN CIVITAN PRESENTS MUSIC IN THE PARK Yadkinville Community Park ~ North State Street/Hwy 601 Bring your lawn chairs and blankets for a family night out with great music! No Alcohol and No Coolers, AUG 25 ENON BOYS ~ Gospel , SEPT 8 PORCH DOG REVIVAL ~ Bluegrass , FOOD AVAILABLE BY YADKIN CIVITAN. In case of Rain, Concerts will be moved to Yadkinville Elementary School, Free!!
• 10:30 a.m.—Preschool storytime for ages 2-5 will be held at the Boonville Community Public Library every Thursday. This will consist of stories, songs, and crafts. For more information, call 367-7737. All of our libraries of the NWRL System has access of Ancestry.com for the year of 2012. Patrons can research the web through our libraries for the year. The Boonville Community Public Library is a branch of thirteen libraries of the Northwestern Regional Library System.
•6:30 p.m.-Every Thursday of each week we hold a program called TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) weight loss program. Each program has special tips and techniques to help benefit losing those unwanted pounds. Meeting at your local Boonville Community Public Library. Any Questions please call 336-367-7737
•8 a.m.-New Horizons Adults Day Services is taking donations for their thrift shop, 1917 Old Hwy 421 W. Yadkinville. For more information call 677-1385
•6 p.m.-Bingo every Tuesday at the Yadkin Moose Lodge. ATTENTION: Effectively immediately! Monthly distributions of USDA Commodity Foods will no longer be distributed at the Moose Lodge in Yadkinville. They will now be distributed on an on-going basis through "partner agencies" of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest N.C. Families needing food assistance will need to contact one of the following agencies: Divino Redentor Catholic Church, 209 Lon Ave. Boonville, 336-367-7067, Tri-County Christian Ministries, 440 W. Main St, Jonesville, 336-526-1089, Yadkin Christian Ministries, 121 W. Elm St. Yadkinville, 336-677-3080, Yadkin Christian Ministries, East Bend, 336-699-4544.
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Commencement Address 2013 by Jordan Seavey, 06/08/123
Anyone endeavoring to manifest the ideals of Waldorf education will likely find him or herself studying the book How to Know Higher Worlds, by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner, as many of you know, was the originator of Waldorf education, establishing the first Waldorf School in Stutgart, Germany nearly 100 years ago. Early on in my first year teaching here at Merriconeag, which was also my first year as a Waldorf teacher, which was also my first year as a teacher, I too found myself in possession of this book. And early on in this book, there is a brief passage which has led me to think a great deal about what it means to be an effective teacher, and also, more importantly, what it means to be an effective student. In it—and I'm both paraphrasing and extrapolating here—Steiner conjures the image of a student waiting outside the door of a great teacher, someone the student, out of reverence and admiration, wishes to emulate. He proposes that the awe and wonderment experienced by this student could be something useful, a special feeling, something to continue to try and kindle throughout one's life. I remember when I first read this passage; I began to reflect upon all of the wonderful teachers—and I've been blessed with many throughout my education—whose understanding of a subject, or whose way of thinking, or, simply, whose style and being I've looked up to. These teachers have helped me, encouraged me, inspired me, been patient with me, and perceived things in me I didn't even know were there myself. And although many of them have been truly extraordinary, it was during the phase of my life analogous to that which all of you are about to enter in your own, that I met the one teacher who most palpably elicited this feeling of awe and inspiration in me: my college piano professor, Laura Kargul.
I remember it so clearly: the feeling of waiting outside her studio for my first lesson. How sure I was that she held the keys to something I knew I needed: the ability truly to unlock my potential on this instrument. What I didn't realize at the time, though, was that she was going to unlock more than just that. As in all great lessons, the ostensible subject matter was only tip of the iceberg. She was also going to unlock my potential for something which, although an inextricable element of all artistic endeavors, also holds ramifications far beyond the walls of the music studio or concert stage or art gallery. What she helped me to unveil to myself was my capacity for presence.
Over the course of five years, I sat in her studio for an hour and a half each week, and another three hours per week in studio class, a class in which all of her students played for one another and discussed music and piano playing. I also sat in on other students' lessons, not wanting my experience to end with my lesson alone. I found myself so completely engrossed, so present with her teachings and with the music that a remarkable thing began to happen: the music itself, and my interaction with it, started to become my teacher. I discovered that when I contemplated music with the same presence and soul disposition, if you will, that I carried into my lessons—a soul disposition borne of my reverence for music and for what I knew Dr. Kargul could teach me about it—that when I did this, the music, and the composers, truly began to speak to, and share their secrets with me.
Deep, far-ranging thought is not possible without presence. And so I urge you all to seek out the teachers, and the disciplines, that will catalyze your own capacities for presence. And I also encourage you all to use, or to continue to use, music as a presence-bringing force for yourself and for others. It won't be easy. Our capacity for presence, if not under outright attack, is at least being significantly eroded now by more forces than ever before. Last week, the eighth graders at Green Meadow Waldorf School (the school where I now teach) travelled to Washington, D. C. and divided their time there between touring the sights and helping those experiencing homelessness. I was honored with an invitation to come along on this trip as a chaperone. On the last day there, we had the privilege of entering the House Chamber and seeing the 113th congress in session. The republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, and a democratic congressmen, whose identity I couldn't discern from his voice nor the back of his head, were debating in preparation for a vote that was to be held later in the morning. And as I peered around this great room—this birthplace of such legislation as the Child Labor Act of 1916, the Social Security Act of 1935, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964—this room in which the president delivers the State of the Union address—this room in which it is decided whether or not the United States will go to war—as I peered around this great room, it occurred to me that congress might just as well pack up and convene on the Las Vegas strip, so bright and many were the glowing iPhone and Blackberry screens. I feel it bodes poorly that presence, awareness of the moment, consciousness of attention, even in this temple of democracy . . .
At this point in the presentation—in a preplanned bit—Mr. Seavey's own cell phone rang, and on the other end, Mrs. Thurrell, from her seat in the audience, began to express her excitement that Mr. Seavey would be visiting Maine for the weekend. After Mr. Seavey caught her attention to let her know he was actually right there on stage in front of her, he went on…
Well, if it can happen to Mrs. Thurrell, it can truly happen to anyone. Steiner also said that kids should laugh at least once in every lesson, so, there you go.
Your presence, in today's world is at risk, but you are still in control. And as I said earlier, it is now up to you to find the teachers, the interests, the pursuits that will allow you to develop your capacities for presence and thereby your capacities to become the best possible versions of yourselves.
Before I end, I would like to ask that you all stand outside the door of one of my great teachers, a man I've never met in the flesh, but through his music alone: the great French composer, Claude Debussy, who lived from 1862 to 1918.
Perhaps some of you remember, from your music history block, when I said, "Debussy heard the gamelan, and music changed forever." In 1889, Debussy attended the Paris Exposition, at which his ears were some of the first in the western world to hear the gamelan music of Indonesia. The gamelan instruments—consisting of various metallic, membranous, and string media—and their microtonal tuning—far afield of the twelve half steps that span the western octave—almost surely provided Debussy an entirely new experience of sound. I can only imagine the presence he music have felt in this moment. And this presence, this saturation of consciousness, allowed Debussy to imbibe so completely the sound of the gamelan, that he was then able to return to the twelve tones of the western octave and experience them anew, combining them in ways that broke down the rules of tonality that had governed western music for over two hundred years. Although they were all great musical innovators in their own right Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, and a host of other composers, treated the twelve tones in the western octave in more or less the same way. There was syntax to harmonic progression that was rarely violated: a V chord, for example, almost invariably led to a I chord. Debussy heard, in a new way, these same twelve tones that had borne millions of pieces of music, and changed the world forever.
Jordan Seavey
Circus Smirkus at Merriconeag:
Monday, August 3 & Tuesday, August 4, 1:00 & 6:00 pm,
Grade School Campus, 57 Desert Rd, Freeport.
with our own high school student, Sarah Norden,
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I had a question posted about which would be better suited for a zone 8, small clipped hedge; Green Mountain or Green Velvet boxwoods. Similar to use in this garden.
My recommendation would be to use the Green Velvet Boxwood. These are low growing boxwoods that stay dense and continue to hold color through the winter. I also have this vesitale boxwood used in my landscape at home. The Green Mountain Boxwood, is a larger boxwood that you typically seen clipped into larger ornamental shapes.
For planting the Green Velvet boxwood here are some pointers:
- Plant on about 2ft centers. In the south your boxwoods will grow faster than up here, however expect them to fill in within two seasons.
- When trimming, clip only the tops for the first few trims. This will force growth horizontal first, and them give you more height after it has hedged.
- When planting, amend the soil with some organic matter (such as leaf compost). In South Carolina thesoil is more sandy and the boxwoods are heavy feeders and the organic matter will help promote growth.
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Liverpool Football Club are backing the appeal for information about the murder of Liverpool teenager, Andrew Jones.
Andrew died in the early hours of Sunday, March 9, 2003 when he was attacked while on a night out in the city centre.
Following the 10th anniversary of his tragic death, Crimestoppers are offering a reward of £10,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to the prosecution of the offenders.
LFC are urging anyone with any information to contact Merseyside Police by phoning 0800 230 0600.
You can also text CRIME followed by your message to 61051, email email@example.com, phone Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, or the incident room on 0151 777 8660.
Crimestoppers is a charity independent of the police. You won't be asked your name or personal details and you may receive a cash award.
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