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One of the most devastating effects of discrimination during the Jim Crow era was the effect on the health care of African Americans. The combination of poverty and racism put black Americans, especially in the segregated South, in a precarious position regarding their health. Blacks were far more likely than whites to die of ailments such as tuberculosis (TB) and heart disease than whites in the Jim Crow South, because of both poor living conditions and the lack of available medical care. The malnutrition of poor blacks had a tremendous effect on their susceptibility to diseases like TB, and the lack of concern for black health from state governments kept those infected from receiving treatment. For example, while the black death rate for TB was three to four times that of whites in South Carolina in the early twentieth century, it took five years before the state TB sanitarium even admitted blacks, and it was not until the 1950s that blacks were admitted to the hospital on a par with whites.
In addition to exclusion from proper care, during the Jim Crow era, many African Americans, especially from poverty-stricken rural areas of the South, rarely sought professional medical care, even if it was available. Doctors were people one saw only when they were "really sick," many believed, and hospitals were places where people went to die. Others refused to patronize physicians because of the cost involved. "I was really sick enough for a doctor, but I didn't call one," recalled one black Southerner. "They say they won't come less you have money." Poor people knew they could not afford proper medical care, and therefore did not seek it, resorting instead to patent medicines, folk healers, or unlicensed practitioners when they were ill. Because of both the lack of access and the unwillingness to seek professional medical care, "unknown causes" was a leading explanation for black deaths in many parts of the South well into the twentieth century, as so few African Americans in the South died in a physician's care.
The use of homemade remedies and "conjure doctors" to supplement health care needs was a legacy of slavery that was still common in many black communities, especially in rural areas, during the Jim Crow era. Many rural blacks went through a type of "lay referral system" in attaining health care, first taking home remedies or patent medicines, then seeking the aid of friends and relatives before moving on to traditional healers, and only turning to the services of a professional physician when a condition persisted.
Midwives were also central to the health care system of African Americans in the Jim Crow era. Well into the twentieth century, the majority of black children born in many Southern states were delivered by midwives. Accessibility, cost, and tradition were the main reasons for the persistence of midwifery in the South. There were very few hospitals open to black patients in the rural South, and even if there was a hospital bed available, few Southern blacks could—or would—pay for a hospital stay for something as "routine" as childbirth. Midwives typically charged less than half of what physicians did to attend to a birth, and were usually more willing to accept payment in kind. The midwife, not the physician, was also the traditional birth attendant in Southern black culture. Many black women expressed a dislike for male physicians delivering their babies, preferring instead to have women attend to births. While a mother was in confinement, midwives also often performed numerous household duties, such as cooking and cleaning, that a physician would not be expected to do. In addition to delivering infants, midwives were often also called in to administer all types of health care—usually, but not exclusively, to women. One woman interviewed by sociologist Charles S. Johnson in the 1930s stated:
When I gets sick, [my husband] don't take me to no doctor. He'll buy medicine and bring it to me . . . Last time I was sick I had stomach trouble and he kept getting me medicine and I got worse, so he got me a midwife and she said my womb had fallen. She fixed it up and I got all right.
When I gets sick, [my husband] don't take me to no doctor. He'll buy medicine and bring it to me . . . Last time I was sick I had stomach trouble and he kept getting me medicine and I got worse, so he got me a midwife and she said my womb had fallen. She fixed it up and I got all right.
While traditional healers continued to care for many Southern blacks during the Jim Crow era, the desire by most Americans to be treated by professionally trained physicians increased dramatically during the early twentieth century. African Americans in the Jim Crow South sought care from white and black physicians alike, although most white physicians treated only those blacks who could pay their fees, while subjugating them to segregated service. "All of the white doctors and white dentists have separate waiting rooms for colored people," recalled T. M. Bibbs of Cleveland, Mississippi. "Most of the time they work out all of the white people and then they get to the colored." Physician Ranzy Weston remembered that similar practices were used by white physicians in Georgia. A white doctor, he recalled, "would see all of his white patients first and then he would see his black patients afterwards. In the meantime some patients did sit up and die; black patients." While not all white practitioners treated their black patients poorly, Weston believed "white doctors would not give the same type of service to the black patients as they did to the white patients."
While no public medical school in the South admitted African Americans before the 1950s, in the late nineteenth century, a number of institutions were founded to train black doctors in the South. However, as a result of medical reforms, in the first three decades of the twentieth century, medical schools for African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana, Raleigh, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee, all closed their doors, leaving Howard University in Washington, DC, and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, as the only institutions south of the Mason-Dixon line where African Americans could receive a medical education. While some medical schools outside of the South, most notably Harvard University and the University of Michigan, did accept a limited number of African Americans, up until 1969, Howard and Meharry together annually produced more than 50 percent of the nation's black medical graduates.
Black physicians often tried to exploit the lack of dignity and respect that white doctors showed African Americans as a means to lure those patients into their own offices. South Carolina's black medical leaders publicly criticized the state's African American population as late as the 1950s for "seeking aid from sources where segregated waiting rooms are not much more than broom closets with a few chairs." However, African Americans did have a host of legitimate reasons for choosing white physicians, despite the humiliations of segregated waiting rooms and Jim Crow care. Because of either discrimination or expense, black doctors often could not provide patients with the same services as their white counterparts, as white doctors usually had better-equipped offices with more modern facilities and medicines than did blacks. Some drug companies even refused to sell medicine to black physicians. Outside of Washington and Nashville, there were almost no black specialists in the South before the end of World War II, so African Americans who wanted and could afford specialized treatment had to go to white physicians.
Economic pressure also played a role in the decision of Southern blacks to choose white doctors. Many African Americans went to the doctor their employer told them to go, and, more often than not, white employers steered their employees to white physicians—especially if the employer was paying the bill. "Most of the people are in domestic service and their white bosses and mistresses influence them to use their doctors," bemoaned a black New Orleans physician in the 1930s. The economic pressure of the Jim Crow South that was used to keep blacks out of the voting booths and "in their place" therefore also aided white professionals in competition for the black dollar. White physicians, recalled Mississippi's B. L. Bell in 1939, had an advantage in soliciting black patients because white doctors "can work through the people that the Negroes work for."
Access to hospital care was another factor in African Americans' decision to patronize white doctors. Because black physicians were rarely allowed to treat their patients in Southern hospitals, African Americans often needed to have a white physician in order to receive hospital treatment, even though that treatment would most always be in a segregated, basement ward. "The rural Negro physician is simply unable to practice modern medicine," wrote Milton Roemer in 1949, because "when his patient needs hospitalization he is nearly always compelled to release the case to a white practitioner." Montague Cobb, the dean of black medical history and long-time editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association, concluded in 1947 that because of the lack of facilities and professional opportunities, "the Negro doctor [in the South] tends to retrogress." Black patients understood this, and therefore, according to Cobb, "the majority of Negro patients will seek medical attention from white physicians, whom they believe better, no matter how badly they are treated or even exploited."
As a result of discrimination, violence, lack of opportunities, and the migration of Southern blacks from the region, by 1930, 40 percent of the nation's 3,805 black physicians resided outside of the South, where 80 percent of the nation's almost 12 million African Americans still lived, and the vast majority of those who remained in the South were located in urban areas. In rural states, the situation was most acute. Mississippi saw its number of black physicians decline from 71 in 1930 to 55 in 1940, and the bulk of those physicians were located in the cities; 56 of the state's 82 counties had no black physicians at all. Even Southern cities saw a decline in their number of black physicians as the century progressed. For example, New Orleans, once a hub of the black medical community, saw the number of black physicians practicing in the city decline from 50 in the 1930s to only 16 by the mid-1950s.
Even if attended to by a white physician, African Americans were barred from many hospitals in the Jim Crow South, and most that admitted black patients usually did so only in segregated basement wards. In 1910, 30 percent of all hospitals in the South refused black patients entirely; in some states the exclusion rate was much higher. Some hospitals, moreover, regarded black patients, especially indigent ones, as training subjects for white interns and residents, contributing to black distrust of white-run health care facilities.
Excluded from most of the larger, better-equipped hospitals of the South, a number of African American physicians founded their own small, private hospitals and clinics to serve their communities and keep their patients from abandoning them for white doctors. These hospitals were often little more than clinics set up in physicians' offices or homes, sometimes having only five or 10 beds. Unlike public or nonprofit hospitals, these institutions were often designed to generate income for the proprietor. Most of these small hospitals did not meet the minimum standards set by the American Hospital Association in the early twentieth century in regards to size, equipment, resources, or even cleanliness. Yet, in this time and place, these small clinics met a valuable need for both doctors and patients, especially in the more rural areas of the South. In some areas, in fact, they were the only hospital facilities for persons of any race for dozens of miles in any direction.
By the 1930s, more than 200 small, independent black-run hospitals had opened in the United States. Serving an impoverished clientele with little or no outside financial help, physicians constantly struggled to keep their small hospitals open. Many private black hospitals of the Jim Crow South did not prove to be the moneymaking ventures that their proprietors had initially hoped, but instead consumed not only the bulk of the fees collected but often the physician's savings as well. Others, like the Burruss Sanitarium in Augusta, Georgia, prospered and grew during the early twentieth century. G. S. Burruss's private hospital eventually had 27 rooms, modern equipment, and a staff of a dozen black physicians, making Burruss a wealthy man. Despite the fact that, unlike the Burruss Sanitarium, many of the proprietary hospitals opened by black physicians were ill-equipped, poorly staffed facilities that survived only a few years, they represent an assault on the unjust exclusion of black physicians from white-run public and private hospitals, and serve as a striking example of the self-help mentality of many black physicians who made the tough choice to practice in the Jim Crow South.
In addition to small hospitals built and owned by physicians, African American organizations in some Southern communities built their own hospital facilities. Many of these hospitals were owned and run by fraternal organizations, churches, or independent boards. Two of the most successful black fraternal hospitals were located in the Mississippi Delta towns of Yazoo City and Mound Bayou. The first fraternal hospital opened for Mississippi's black population was the Afro-American Sons and Daughter's Hospital in Yazoo City. Fraternal hospitals provided both inexpensive medical care for the working classes, and private care—without the indignities of Jim Crow—for the black middle classes. Because of the success of society hospitals, a number of fraternal organizations built their own hospitals in the South during the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to those in Mississippi, there were black fraternal hospitals in Arkansas, South Carolina, and Florida. Arkansas alone had four such hospitals by the end of the 1920s, including the 100-bed facility of the Woodmen of the Union in Hot Springs. Other black-run hospitals were administered by black colleges and medical schools, some of which survived even after the medical school folded.
At Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, a hospital was established in 1892 to care for the school's faculty and students and to train black nurses. The hospital expanded after the appointment of John A. Kenney as director in 1902 and began serving the surrounding African American community as well. During the early twentieth century, the hospital was renamed the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital, in honor of the Civil War governor of Massachusetts, and became a center for the postgraduate training of black physicians in the Deep South.
Like Tuskegee, a number of the South's black hospitals also served as training centers for black nurses. These facilities filled a need for both young women looking for a career in nursing, and for physicians who desperately needed black nurses to aid them, as the caste system of the South strictly prohibited white nurses from working with—and taking orders from—black doctors. In Charleston, South Carolina, Alonzo B. McClennan proposed the establishment of a nurse training school in 1896 to Charleston's black medical community, which at that time consisted of six physicians and one dentist. With a great deal of community support, McClennan opened the Cannon Street Hospital and Training School for Negroes in 1897. The hospital and nurse training facility survived until 1949, when it closed because the 26-bed facility did not meet the state's new minimum patient load requirements for a nursing program.
With the aid of philanthropic organizations such as the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the Duke Endowment, a number of all-black hospitals, or all-black wings to existing hospitals, were built in the South between the 1920s and 1960s. In Kansas City, Missouri, City Hospital #2 (City Hospital #1 was for whites) was opened exclusively for black patients in 1930, while across the state in St. Louis, Homer G. Phillips Hospital was opened for blacks in 1937. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital was opened in 1938 for the city's African Americans with both public and private funding. The construction of black hospitals, or the renovation of older hospitals for black patients, was seen by many whites and blacks as an answer to the hospitalization needs of the South's black community, the demands of black physicians for hospital access, and white insistence of racial separation. Many black leaders, however, deemed such facilities as "Deluxe Jim Crow," which only served to make discrimination more palatable to the general public.
Hospital care, even at all-black hospitals, was often an expense black Southerners could not afford in the Jim Crow South, however. Many physicians, white and black, therefore gave of their time and expertise to bring health care and education to African American communities at little or no cost. Some of the public health work done for the African American community was sponsored by private industry, black medical hospitals and schools, or philanthropic organizations, where physicians donated their time and services; still other doctors spent significant sums out of their own pockets in order to fill the glaring public health need of Southern black communities. Public health projects conducted by black physicians serve as a shining example of the self-help movement within African American communities during the segregation era, and is evidence of the desire of many physicians to reach across class lines to aid their less fortunate neighbors.
Booker T. Washington was one of the first African American leaders to understand fully the need for improved public health if Southern blacks were going to be able to lift themselves up and gain equal opportunity in American society. In conjunction with Howard University, the National Medical Association (the African American counterpart to the American Medical Association), the National Insurance Association, and the National Business League, Washington started National Negro Health Week at Tuskegee Institute in 1915 to raise consciousness to proper health care. Negro Health Week was patterned on a program begun in 1913 by the Negro Organization Society of Virginia called "Clean-up Day," which encouraged black communities to improve the sanitary conditions of their homes and schools. Clean-up Day was such a success that the following year, Hampton Institute president Robert Russa Moton sponsored a "Clean-up Week." By the 1930s, counties throughout the United States celebrated Negro Health Week every April, with lectures and demonstrations pertaining to health and sanitation concerns at home and school, and rallies designed to persuade local white health authorities to give more attention to their black citizenry. On the national level, special commissions were appointed in conjunction with Negro Health Week to study a number of diseases as they related to blacks, including a tuberculosis commission, a hookworm commission, and a pellagra commission. Support for the program was bolstered in 1921 with the sponsorship of the U.S. Public Health Service. Twenty years after its inception, Negro Health Week programs were conducted in over 2,000 communities, reaching over a million black families.
Churches were another vital element in the health care delivery system in black communities of the Jim Crow South, as African American churches were much more than simply religious centers; they were often the center of black society as well. "The church has been the one place that black people had control of," recalled Reverend William Holmes Borders of Georgia. "Black people never controlled the school. . . . The school belongs to the white folks. So they dictated its use, and you got turned down." Black churches, however, were "always open." Because the churches were always open to black physicians and nurses, whereas other public buildings—schools, hospitals, auditoriums, gymnasiums—were not, churches were a natural place to hold health clinics. They were not only large enough facilities to handle the need, but also symbols of black autonomy and self-reliance—owned and operated by the black community, free of white control. Black churches were also centers of communication, especially in the rural areas of the Deep South. In a time before television, among poor and sometimes illiterate populations without access to radios or newspapers, the minister was not only the mouthpiece of the Lord, but also the town crier. Ministers announced coming events, like health clinics, and encouraged their congregations to attend. Preachers often participated in health education as well, instructing their flock to get immunized, eat properly, and maintain a clean home. A church also had another great advantage as a community health center—everyone knew where it was located.
Church clinics were founded in many areas of the Jim Crow South. In 1907, physicians from Washington, DC's Medico-Chirurgical Society opened a free dispensary clinic at the 19th Street Baptist Church. Twelve physicians, along with two dentists and two pharmacists, donated their time to the clinic. The White Rock Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina, opened a health clinic at its community center in conjunction with the city health department in 1939. The next year a similar program was begun in Jackson, Mississippi, when the Galloway Memorial Church opened a community center in a cottage on its property. A small room was added to the center, and a retired physician donated his office equipment for a health clinic, which was conducted every Wednesday morning for the local community. The state board of health provided a public health nurse, and local black doctors donated their services. Children received free examinations and vaccines at the church clinic, and one day a month was dedicated to prenatal care for expectant mothers.
In addition to free treatment, many African Americans during the Jim Crow era paid for their health care through a variety of methods known as contract medicine. Contract medicine represented any one of a number of agreements that physicians entered into to treat groups of people for a fixed price. Sometimes these were prepaid arrangements; at other times, flat rates were assessed to members of the group for certain medical treatments and procedures. Insurance companies, fraternal and benevolent societies, private clubs, factory and shop organizations, and even some plantations made health care provisions for their members and workers, and physicians competed for the often lucrative contracts to serve these clients. Black physicians in particular saw contract medicine as a means both to build a reputation and secure a steady income. While contract medicine was openly denounced by most American physicians and medical associations, physicians of all races participated in different forms of contract service in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The most common form of contract medicine entered into by African Americans in the Jim Crow South was through fraternal and benevolent societies. Many of these societies were sponsored by local churches, while others were fraternal, neighborhood, or even drinking clubs. New Orleans, for example, had African American benevolent societies as far back as the eighteenth century, but in the immediate post-Reconstruction era, they became an integral part of life in black New Orleans. While these clubs provided benefits only for those who were able to pay their dues, it was estimated that as much as 80 percent of the city's population belonged to such groups in the late nineteenth century. Outside of churches, more black New Orleanians belonged to benevolent societies in the early twentieth century than to any other type of voluntary association.
Many of the medical services benevolent societies provided to black communities in the South were eventually replaced by industrial insurance agencies. These companies provided benefits similar to those of fraternal organizations, affording limited protection against sickness, accident, and death, usually for a weekly premium. As African Americans were typically unable to afford ordinary life insurance policies, and white companies were unwilling to insure them at the same rates as whites, the insurance industry created an opportunity for black entrepreneurs. One of the forerunners in the industrial insurance industry was the Sun Mutual and Benevolent Association, organized in the 1880s by J. T. Newman and Constantine Perez in Louisiana. It provided the services of a physician, supplied pharmaceuticals, and offered a burial contract to members. Joseph Hardin ran the Metropolitan Relief Association in New Orleans. Along with Hardin, the Metropolitan employed three other physicians who treated patients for a weekly assessment of 15 cents. The company also had contracts with six drug stores that provided its members with pharmaceuticals.
While prevalent in urban areas, contract medicine was by no means limited to the cities. Plantations were the most common areas that physicians formed contracts for service in the rural South. Carter Woodson found that "Occasionally a Negro physician may be engaged by a rich man to visit his tenants on his plantation from time to time." Daisy Balsley recalled that her father, Robert Fullilove, "did a large plantation practice" in the area around Yazoo City during the early twentieth century. "Those who could bring their patients in from the farms did so," she remembered, but he had to go out to the plantations to treat those who were unable to make it to town.
Throughout the Jim Crow era, black leaders fought for both an end to segregated medical facilities and to improve health care for African Americans. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Medical Association led the charge for change, agitating governmental bodies and the American Medical Association to desegregate, and by bringing lawsuits to enforce desegregation. In 1963, the federal bench handed down the landmark case in the fight for hospital integration in Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. It took the enforcement of the Simkins case, along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to finally bring integration to the South's hospitals. Between 1964 and 1970, most Southern hospitals accepted the integration of both black patients and staff without the application of federal sanctions. Along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, another major incentive for southern hospitals to integrate was the advent of Medicare in 1965. This federal program, part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, provided financial support to hospitals for the medical care of elderly patients, costs that had previously often gone uncompensated. In order to qualify for Medicare funding, however, hospitals were required to abide by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which forbade the federal government from allocating funds to any institution which discriminated on the basis of race, creed, or national origin. Providing the carrot to the Civil Rights Act's stick, Medicare funding helped sway the last segregated hospitals into compliance with the law by the end of the decade. See alsoFolk Medicine; Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Beardsley, Edward. A History of Neglect: Health Care for Blacks and Mill Workers in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987;
Morais, Herbert M. The History of the Negro in Medicine. New York: Publishers Co., 1967;
Smith, David Barton. Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999;
Ward. Thomas J., Jr. Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003.


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From coast to coast, newspapers are blasting the President's decision to punt on an energy pipeline that would have created more than 20,000 American jobs. As Speaker Boehner noted last week, it's clear that the Administration has put campaign politics in the driver's seat.
Here's a sampling of what editorial boards around America are saying about the President's pipeline punt:
>> DETROIT NEWS SAYS DECISION REAFFIRMS "THE PRESIDENT IS NOW IN CAMPAIGN MODE": "More evidence that the president is now in campaign mode comes from his announcement last week that he won't make a decision on the pipeline that will carry crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries until after his re-election bid is over. Keystone XL is a major infrastructure project of the sort Obama said he wanted for America when he proposed the $450 billion Stimulus II. The only difference is that the jobs will be entirely funded by private investment, and not taxpayer dollars....Obama's waffling may appease the president's base. But it's not likely to help him with the hundreds of thousands of Americans who want jobs, and want them now." (Detroit News, 11/14/11)
>> HOUSTON CHRONICLE CALLS IT A "POORLY DISGUISED POLITICAL PUNT": "The Obama administration's decision to postpone a ruling on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline till 2013 is a poorly disguised political punt. The ruling has 2012 presidential politics written all over it, despite the environmental reasons given. By delaying a decision on the $7 billion project, which is 'shovel-ready' and would immediately produce an estimated 20,000 well-paying jobs in this country, Obama has avoided offending environmentalists on his party's left, a key fund-raising and voting bloc. ...Eventually, the completed pipeline was expected to result in as many as 130,000 jobs, many of them on the upper Texas Coast, where the heavy oil would be refined into 700,000 barrels of oil daily. Postponement of a decision on Keystone is an opportunity missed for this administration to create needed jobs and enhance energy security. It is a shortsighted call." (Houston Chronicle, 11/11/11)
>> LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL WRITES THAT IT'S "HARD TO ENVISION A MORE 'SHOVEL-READY' PROJECT": "It's a private project. Unlike solar and wind farm boondoggles, no federal subsidy would have been sought. Much of the pipe is already sitting in warehouses. It would be hard to envision a more 'shovel-ready' project -- nor one better suited to reduce America's dependence on far more expensive oil imported from hostile foreign lands....Terry O'Sullivan, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, noted: 'The administration chose to support environmentalists over jobs -- job-killers win, American workers lose.'" (Las Vegas Review-Journal: 11/13/11)
>> WASHINGTON POST NOTES THE DECISION WILL "COST INFRASTRUCTURE JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES AND OFFEND A RELIABLE ALLY": "The United States must reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, from any source, and it should encourage nations such as China to lower the carbon intensity of their economies, too. Even if that happens, though, the world will continue to use oil, with all the dirty realities that entails. Rejecting Keystone XL would not change that fact. But it would help China lock up more of the world's oil production, cost infrastructure jobs in the United States and offend a reliable ally. More delay after three years of review is insult enough." (The Washington Post, 11/13/11)
>> RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH: "OBAMA'S PUNT DOES NOT REFLECT LEADERSHIP": "America will need a lot of energy in the coming years, so it will need to rise above the petty carbon/non-carbon debate and embrace every realistic source of power. The Keystone pipeline should be part of that multi-pronged approach. Obama's punt does not reflect leadership." (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/12/11)
>> WALL STREET JOURNAL CALLS POTUS THE "PRESIDENT OF THE 1%": "We're guessing this decision to abdicate was really made by President Plouffe, as in David Plouffe, the White House political aide who seems to be running most of the executive branch these days. The Keystone cop-out couldn't be a clearer expression that this Administration puts its anticarbon obsessions—and Big Green campaign donors—above job creation and blue-collar construction workers. He's President of the 1%." (Wall Street Journal, 11/14/11)
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- Supreme Court's Blockbuster Week: Day Three Jun 26, 2013 This is the final day of the Supreme Court's term, when it will be handing down decisions in its two gay marriage cases. Bloomberg Law is live blogging the rulings and reaction.
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In response to TexasPat's comment:
Then after he slams Welker, Brady makes it a point to say what a good friend Wes is.
RESPONSE: And your point is?
It's not probably the best feeling to go out and slam Welker, have the press and fans castrate you for it and then have your best player immediately and publicly support the guy you just knocked.
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DVD review: 'House' finds casualties of Drug War
Grade • B+
DVD • The "War on Drugs" is into its fifth decade now, and filmmaker Eugene Jarecki poses this question in the powerful documentary "The House I Live In": What do we have to show for it? The disquieting answer: More people in prison (a disproportionate number of them African-American), a criminal justice system weighted toward easy arrests and convictions rather than going after the big fish, and as many drugs on the street now as in 1971, when Richard Nixon launched this so-called "war."
Jarecki lays out the policy implications in stark human terms, interviewing both experts and those caught up the daily struggles that 42 years of U.S. drug policy has wrought.
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This is a program I have been using for a little while in WoW, for my model editing. I noticed that no-one has mentioned it here, so I thought I would post it up. It makes things a lot easier if you are new to model editing, and lets you do basic things with a easy interface.
You will also need the following bypass program to use it. It simply goes into your WoW folder, and you run this program instead of the normal WoW.exe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
(Updated for 2.4.3)
NOTE: This program, and the following guide/information was NOT made by me, thus all credit goes to the creator (Glitchy).
ANOTHER NOTE: Model editing is considered against the TOS, so in the (very unlikely) case you are caught, you will be warned or possibly banned.
Glitchy's World of Warcraft Model Editing Suite(MES)
Current Version: 2.6
Last Update: 4/23/2008
Newest Features:
- MPQ Combiner Added
This is a set of tools to do the most basic to the most advance model edits. This program is design to help take some of the more tedious work out of model editing. With the suite you can swap weapons/armor/races/spells/skies/mounts/animations. There are also more advance tools for those of you that like to get deeper in model editing besides the normal swaps.
Current Applications Included
1. WDB Model Swap
2. Model Injector
3. Sky Box Editor
4. Race to Race
5. MPQ Combiner
6. Search Tools
A. Model Finder7. Mount Tools
B. MPQ Searcher
C. Baked NpcA. Mount Swap8. Advance Tools
B. Mount Point
A. Animation ToolsProgram Features
A. Animation SwapperB. M2 Tools
B. Animation Editor
A. Particle EditorC. Item MPQ Creator
B. Attachment Editor
C. M2 Data Viewer
D. Model Resizer
D. Zone name Changer
E. WMO Lights
F. Spell Swapper
1. Check For updates
Lets you know if there is a new version available on the net
Gives you Answers to FAQ's about stuff you would want to know in side the application
3. All In One Interface
All the programs are opened into a single windows to cut down on clutter
4. Setup Progress
The first time you start the application it will start up a setup progress this is used so that the program will always be up to date with the latest WoW Files. If For some reason you are unable to get this step to work click the "Skip" button and it will let you use only the apps that don't require WoW data files such as WDB model swapper
What is a MEF?
A MEF or (M)odel (E)dit (F)ix is required in order to run model edits now. It is a small file that sits in your World of Warcraft folder and launches WoW to let model edits work.
Bug Reports
Before you post About an error please consider the following
1. Read other peoples post to see if its already been solved.
2. Read the FAQ To see if its already been Answered.
3. If your Error does not involve a error inside one on my Programs post it in the correct forum.For example an error that you might get in My Warcraft studio.
4. If you find a bug please be as detailed as possible in your description. As the only way for me to fix the error is for me to replicate the error.
WDB Model SwapDescription:Model Injector
This Application is use to change Weapons/Armor in WoW. It removes the need to know HEX Editing and simplifies the whole process to a simple 3 click process
v.1.0 Armory Support
v.1.1 Memory Support added
MEF Required?
NoDescription:Sky Box Editor
With this application you are able to extract the models from a M2 and re-inject them back into the original M2 that they where extracted from while keeping the animation intact
v.1.0 Bug Fixes
MEF Required?
YesDescription:Race to Race
With this program you will be able to make works of art out of your sky's that you see every day. Or if you are not the artist you can make a simple swap. Say you love that sky in Old Hillsbrad and you want it in Westfall that can be done with this program.
v.1.0 Bug Fixes
v.1.1 Added the Ability to move the sky location.
MEF Required?
Description:MPQ Combiner
With this program you are able to change your race from one race to another. ME Fix is required!
v.1.0 First Release
v.1.1 Fixed List Create Bug
v.1.2 Added Java Test and more Bug fixes
MEF Required?
Description:Mount Tools
With this app you can take all those MPQ's you have and combine them into 1 MPQ. Cuts down on the space you need in your data path.
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
A. Mount SwapSearch ToolsDescription:B. Mount Point
With this application you are able to swap any mount to any mount in 5 simple steps.
v.1.0 First First Release
MEF Required?
This is my public release of mount point. It takes a model(not custom) and adds a point where you can mount it.
v.1.0 Bug Fixes
v.1.1 Added Support for What ever bone you want.
MEF Required?
A. Model FinderAdvance ToolsDescription:B. MPQ Searcher
With this program you enter the common name of a model and it find the MPQ path of the model for you. The common name would be the name that the item is in game. For example "Storm Helm" will get you "Item\ObjectComponents\head\helm_leather_pvpal lian ce_a_01.M2".
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
NoDescription:C. Baked Npc
This application opens up a MPQ and searches the file for a given phrase. For example you could open up "Patch.mpq" and search for all the files that contain the word "Cow" in it.
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
This is an application that will search for a given NPC and find the texture for you. For example you could search for "Thrall" and it would return "4918059d7f213e1c38fd50a3c13bf057.blp" It can also extract the file for you.
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
A. Animation ToolsRequired FilesA. Animation EditorB. M2 ToolsDescription:B. Animation Swapper
This Program is intended to help people that are looking to change there animation around. EX:Change bow animation with wand animation
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
It finally Here! With this application you can swap one animation in a model for another. For instance you can swap the animation for /bow for the animation for /dance.
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
YesA. Partial EditorC. Item MPQ CreatorDescription:B. Attachment Editor
This Program is to edit partial in models. Partials are used for glows on armor and weapons.
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
YesDescription:C. M2 Data Viewer
With this program you can remove attachments on models. Attachments are, for example, weapons. So for example you can remove weapons off a character.
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
NoDescription:D. Model Resizer
This program is an advance tool for people that are interested in how m2 files work. This will show you all the data inside the file.
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
This program can enlarge or shrink a model. It can also offset(Move) the model base position
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
YesDescription:D. Zone Name Changer
This Program is intended to be used to help make MPQ's out of custom models and help with model swaps. At this moment it only supports Weapon and shields.
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
YesDescription:E. WMO Lights
This program is used to change any zone name you want into any other name you want. For example you could change the name "Iron Forge" into "Lag Forge".
1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
YesDescription:F. Spell Swapper
With this tool you are able to change the color of lights inside WMO's root file.
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
With this tool you are able to swap the visual effects of spells based on thier Id's. You can find these Id's From WoWHead Or ThottBott
v.1.0 First Release
MEF Required?
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The lithium/air couple has a theoretical energy density that is close to the limit of what is possible for a battery (~10,000 Wh/kg). Although lithium/air chemistry has intrigued battery scientists for decades, it was only with the recent invention of the protected lithium electrode (PLE) by PolyPlus that lithium/air batteries are now approaching commercial reality. Primary Li/Air technology is nearing commercialization and has already achieved specific energies in excess of 700 Wh/kg (~ 2 Ah cells). Rechargeable Li/Air technology, also based on the protected lithium electrode, is still in development, but is expected to achieve much higher energy density than commercial Li-ion chemistry. It is unlikely that conventional battery technology can safely exceed a specific energy of 250 Wh/kg since stoichiometric oxidant and reductant are present in concentrated form. However, in a lithium/air battery oxygen is utilized from the ambient atmosphere, as needed for the cell reaction, resulting in a safe, high specific energy power source. The use of a solid electrolyte membrane in advanced Li/Air technology also eliminates self-discharge, leading to exceptionally good shelf life and maintenance of high quality inventory over time.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Fox 4 is learning more about the shooting at an apartment complex in Fort Myers last night. Police confirm that the victim, 58-year-old Keith Stengel, has died from his injuries. His colleagues at a realty office in downtown Fort Myers share their thoughts.
At Market America Realty in downtown Fort Myers, more than 30 realtors are without their friend.
"We lost a friend, good colleague," said Jennifer Tolar, the office manager. "And Keith would have done anything for anybody."
Keith Stengel's colleagues say he started working there two years ago. Tolar told us about Stengel's passion for life and helping others.
"He was a great listener, a great friend," remembered Tolar. "He was a great team player. He contributed to our organization and every day he was happy to be alive."
Stengel had left work yesterday around 5:30 p.m., his colleagues say. An hour-and-a-half later at Sienna at Vista Lake Apartments in Fort Myers, officers found him suffering from a gunshot wound to the back. Text messages revealed Stengel was meeting 18-year-old Brittany Stubbs, who allegedly planned to rob him. She is now charged with his murder.
"It's going to be a shock for many of us for a long time," said Barbara Truax, a close friend and colleague.
Friends say Stengel owned several businesses before joining the company, including a nightclub. But it's the time spent with him out of work that Truax will miss most.
"Missing our conversations, our times at Art Walk, our open house," said Truax.
So, as the office waits for answers, "Just trying to weed out the facts, piece it all together," said Tolar.
They're hoping for facts that might shed some light on why a spirited friend would be shot dead after work.
Police say Stengel died from his injuries overnight at Lee Memorial Hospital.
They're still looking for two male suspects in the case. If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800 780 TIPS.
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Poignant stories of race, gender and sexuality during a defining period of American history
In 1957 Elizabeth Spencer fired a shot across the bow with "The Voice at the Back Door." Even though her best-known work is likely her novella, "The Light in the Piazza," which was adapted into a 1962 film starring Olivia de Havilland and George Hamilton. In recent years it won six Tony awards as a Broadway musical. Her distinguished career includes nine novels and seven books of short stories, including 2001's "The Southern Woman."
An extraordinary woman still writing today
Born in 1921, Elizabeth Spencer was reared in Carrollton, Mississippi in the midst of the Great Depression. Throughout her adolescence, she observed first-hand the racial and gender inequities of the American South. It was this intolerance that would eventually drive a wedge between Elizabeth and her family, especially her father, a deeply religious and conservative Mississippi entrepreneur. These experiences soon led her to create a new life as a single, young woman in 1950s Italy. It was in Rome where she would write some of the period's most poignant portraits of race and gender in America.
"Landscapes of the Heart" is a documentary film about the life of this extraordinary woman who's still writing in her 90s. Spencer's eyes twinkle like a schoolgirl as she vividly recounts her life story and the many decades she lived abroad in Rome and Montreal, away from the American South. A life spent in exile from the discontent of family and a literary community indifferent to her non-traditional writings about the South. Her story is filled with vivid memories and personal reflections about race, class, and the changing roles of women in society during a defining mid-century in American history.
This film is also a story of courage and redemption. Hear voices from the literary community chronicle how, decades later, her works are finally receiving critical recognition and further study. Interviews with authors Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith, Hodding Carter, Randall Kenan, and Pulitzer-winner Douglas Blackmon, among others, share how her early works are viewed as some of the most "dangerous" and "important" literature to come from a female writer, or any writer, in the American South during the 1950s and 1960s.


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Postcards from Umbria: L'Olivo di Santo Emiliano
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Now this is my quest. Thank you for telling me about this tree!
It has been added to travel must-see bucket list.
Thanks for sharing! I love how old thing are on Italy and the history behind them.
What an amazing tree! I've added this post to my top 10 posts this week from the bloggers in Italy on http://www.italytutto.com
Ciao ciao
Two questions, please:
1. Is it possible to visit this tree with a small (24) group via a 30-passenger motorcoach, i.e. can the coach get in and out easily and be able to park so the group can get off and take photos? The group will be staying in nearby Trevi.
2. Where exactly is the tree in Bovara?


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May 29, 2011 (Sixth Sunday of Easter)
6 Easter, Year A
Pop Culture and Paul's Excellent Athenian Adventure
The Rev. Elizabeth "Betsy" Tesi
Acts 17:22-31
When I first started looking at these readings after getting home from Connecticut, I did as I often do: I plugged in my iPod to update with the latest music I'd bought (I've been on a Beatles and a Hey Monday kick lately), and let my computer sing to me as I considered the readings. A little later, I joined my husband downstairs with my laptop and we watched some mainstream TV. Just yesterday, the youth on Urban Adventure introduced me to Portland. We went to see things like the Beverly Cleary statues in Grant Park, the Portlandia statue, the Pioneer Place, Powell's Books, and Saturday Market (which is definitely not as good as our Saturday Market here)- all the standard Portland stuff. We watched and commented on a few of the street preachers who were preaching at Saturday Market, near the plastic bucket drummers. Pop culture surrounds my life and my thinking.
This is actually excellent news, as the apostle Paul seems to share my journey this week. Look at what happens in the Acts reading today: he goes for a stroll throughout the city of Athens, checking out their statues and reading the inscriptions. Finally, he stands on the Aeropagus, a big piece of rock where elders met and spoke, and speaks to a gathered crowd. In so many ways, Paul's journey to the Aeropagus is so much like our journey today.
He's a man within a culture. He doesn't just throw out a random message of Jesus and salvation into a new place, but he takes the time to get to know the culture. He explores. He takes in the sights. How many of you, when you've traveled, have taken the opportunity to go to visit other churches and cultural sites? I've heard from some of you who've visited St. Peter's in the Vatican. St. Paul's in London. I've been to see the Chapel of the Miraculous Staircase when in Santa Fe. But we also all go to explore other parts of the town, don't we? We go to see things like the Coliseum, or the Tower of London. I liked taking people on a walk to see the Circus in Bath. When I lived in DC, I usually took out of town visitors to the National Cathedral, and then straight to the Hirschhorn. Getting to know the culture- the religion, the poetry- is a normal part of how we humans learn about and interact with each other.
And you might want to mark your bulletins, because I'm going to do something unique today. I don't usually agree with Paul or even like Paul very much- I actually argue with poor Paul a great deal, but this time, I think he was right on the nail. He went for a real visit in Athens before he began speaking of the story of God as he had heard it. That takes the message of God's amazing grace to humanity to a new level: instead of this great story becoming just another piece of beat poetry in a jammed cultural landscape, being in conversation with the culture helps make it relevant and real. I love that Paul is actually quoting the poets of Athens when he quotes "in him we live and move and have our being" and "we too are his offspring". It's the same difference as "liking" an event or cause of the day on Facebook, and getting involved in real life. Paul has become comfortable enough with the culture of the Athenians to remain in a real, full, intellectual conversation with them. He makes it real.
To me, it's incredibly exciting to hear a biblical character, an apostle, speak fluently in popular culture, and then work to consider the story of God moving over the chaos of the waters of human life… because it makes sense to me as a Christian in this modern day and age. I don't live my life in here (even though I work here!). I live out there in that world. We all do. We all live in the world outside with all its pain and loss and joy and schedule conflicts and excitement. In this church, we do not check our brains at the door. One of my seminary professors had a poster proclaiming, "Jesus came to take away your sins… not your mind". I said yesterday to one of my co-leaders that I was an Episcopalian because this is how I hear the story of God's work in humanity, even though I know that everyone else may hear different stories. For me, one of the great gifts of the Episcopal Church is our ongoing conversation with scripture, intellect, and tradition. Our entire person comes to church here.
And this is going to be essential to us, as we live into the future of what our church is becoming. God is not static as God continues to love humanity. Who we are is going to keep becoming what it is becoming, which is to say we will always be changing. When Paul stands on that Aeropagus and speaks to the Athenians, he speaks of their culture. He doesn't just hit "Like" on Facebook and limit his interaction- he puts his whole self where his mouth is. Paul gives us this image of a person who can be a Christian while being fluently part of the real world out there. Our brains come to church with us. God is able to be present and real in all parts of our life. The person we are on Sunday in this place can be the same person who comes home from work on Wednesdays. Our total life matters here, in the presence of God.
Naturally, what do we do? We explore each week one of the great mysteries of all time- the radical concept of a God who came and died and rose again so that we might be wiped clean of sins and free to live into full community and love. This is an insane story whispering hope into a full world. Sometimes, that world out there is chaotic- people die, tornadoes devastate towns, planes are delayed, the debt ceiling spirals out of control. And sometimes, that world out there is gorgeous, like a Saturday in Portland washed clean by the rain, and the green rolling hills and mountains I watched from the train. Sometimes, my friends write to let me know their new baby was born healthy, and sometimes, I play songs like "If I Fell" or "Running to Stand Still" over and over because I can't get enough of the harmony and rhythm because it is just too gorgeous. Paul gives us the story of a God who is present in our every day culture and life. This worship we do isn't just lip service. We worship because your whole person matters to God.
The apostle Paul (and this might be the only time in the bible I give Paul his props) gives us the unique gift of this idea of a religion where our brains matter. Our culture matters. You matter. Your ideas and your feelings matter. Christ crucified and risen to redeem us matters to us just as we are now. You- just as you are- are exactly what we want and need to be in a real community in this church.


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New Passport Needed!!
Okay so I'm from Ireland, I need to get a passport for a pony I recently bought. She hasn't had any previous passports and I don't know her parentage etc but I was just wondering does anybody know any good sites where I can get a cheap one, they can be sooo dear over here. I will also be getting her microchipped etc every horse must have a passport over here now so I need to get her marked etc asap. Any cheap ones guys??


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Specifications for the
Biplane Fighter Aircraft
Focus Model: SPAD S.XII
Country of Origin: France
Manufacturer: Societe Pour l'Aviation et ses Derives (SPAD) - France
Initial Year of Service: 1917
Production Total: 300
Crew: 1
Length: 21.00 ft (6.4 m)
Width: 26.25 ft (8.00 m)
Height: 8.37ft (2.55 m)
Weight (Empty): 1,294 lb (587 kg)
Weight (MTOW): 1,947 lb (883 kg)
Powerplant: 1 x Hispano-Suiza HS 8Bc engine developing 220hp OR 1 x Hispano-Suiza HS 8Bec engine developing 220hp.
Maximum Speed: 126 mph (203 kmh; 110 kts)
Maximum Range: 217 miles (350 km)
Service Ceiling: 22,474 ft (6,850 m; 4.3 miles)
Rate-of-Climb: 1,090 feet-per-minute (332 m/min)
Hardpoints: 0
Armament Suite:
1 x 7.7mm Vickers machine gun
Some with HS 8Bec engines featured a 1 x 37mm Puteaux cannon mounted between the cylinder banks.
S.XII - Base Series Designation
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Connecting the Intangible to the Tangible
By: Valerie Jacobs
Posted: July 12, 2011, from the July 2011 issue of GCI Magazine.
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Scents are the newest frontier of immersive, multisensory experiences that engage consumers emotionally and, in time, build loyalty.
Fragrance can be an enhancer or delivery device for a brand story, helping brands connect the intangible to the tangible and providing the thing that resonates with consumers beyond the look and feel of a product. Across categories, brands from Samsung and Cadillac to Westin Hotel & Resorts are leveraging fragrance as a point of difference to transform and elevate an experience.
Also known as ambient scenting, scent branding has become an $80–100 million business globally, a figure that is expected to increase dramatically as more and more companies adopt this subtle yet powerful sensory identifier. First adopted by the casino industry in the early 2000s, the hospitality industry soon followed, with major hotel chains creating scents to evoke engaging, emotional responses to the environment.
Westin Hotels boasts a "mood-enhancing lobby" that includes Jane Parker botanicals, a White Tea by Westin signature scent and atmospheric lighting. This "sensory welcome" is a key trait across Westin brands, with its sister chain W Hotels scenting its public spaces with its own signature scent, Sicilian Fig. In 2009, both of Westin's signature scents, White Tea and Sicilian Fig, became available as candles for customer purchase.
Ambient scenting is gaining respect in retail, as well. Pascal Gaurin, a French perfumer achieving prominence as an ambient scent marketer, recently helped to develop Samsung's signature fragrance. In testing, Gaurin's fragrance did well among consumers who, when exposed to the fragrance, spent an average of 20–30% more time browsing in-store offerings. Even more interestingly, these consumers also associated the scent with characteristics sought by the Samsung brand, including innovation and excellence. This trend is growing more all the time. According to Bloomberg' Businessweek, companies leveraging ambient scent in retail now include Credit Suisse, De Beers and Sony, and retailers are beginning to include scent within advertising campaigns, as the first scented billboard was erected in summer 2010.


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LAS VEGAS, NV, 1/10/14/–– 2014 International CES® UPDATE brought leaders from Twitter, Facebook, MediaLink, Salesforce Exact Marketing Cloud, MillerCoors and Ford to the CES stage. Owned and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, the 2014 CES, the world's gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies, runs through Friday, January 10.
"Innovation is the lifeblood of the consumer technology industry and the show floor and conference sessions at the 2014 International CES are invigorating and energizing as fresh ideas, breakthrough technologies and new ways of doing things come to life," said Karen Chupka, senior vice president, International CES and corporate business strategy, CEA. "From the biggest technology companies in the world to startup entrepreneurs, CES shows off the industry's latest developments and discoveries on the show floor and through our dynamic conference programming."
The second annual CEA MoDev Hackathon featured nearly 100 award winning developers competing individually and as teams for up to $100,000 in cash and prizes. Apps were awarded for innovative integration with Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, Sony and Modev. App Projects from Travel Channel Cities Metro, Travel Offers, Travel Swipe, Travel Channel Navigator and Travel Live were awarded top honors. The Journey Live app was selected as the grand prize winner.
The Leaders in Technology dinner featured keynote speaker Bre Pettis, CEO and co-founder of MakerBot, a leader in desktop 3D printing. Underscoring this hot trend, for the first time there is a 3D Printing TechZone at CES with more than 30 companies showing the latest 3D printing technology.
Day three of the 2014 CES was highlighted by the Last Gadget Standing and Mobile Apps Showdown competitions. The Last Gadget Standing competition challenged contenders to present fast-paced product demos to a live CES audience.
Co- hosts Gary Dell'Abate and Jon Hein from SiriusXM Radio's Howard Stern channels hosted the competition, and winners were selected through an applause-o-meter. The winner of the product "most likely to change the face of technology," was a Bluetooth-enabled deadbolt that is managed through a smart phone. A separate online vote awarded the top prize to the Skulpt Aim, a body fat/muscle-quality measurement device. A full list of finalists is available here.
Password Box, a password management app with a social twist, took home the top prize at the 2014 Mobile Apps Showdown sponsored by Living in Digital Times. The fully-encrypted app lets you instantly login to your go-to websites and apps without having to type in your password. You can also track credit cards, passports and other sensitive data and securely share information with friends through the app.
Emceed by Gary Dell'Abate and Jon Hein from Sirius XM, the showdown featured four-minute elevator-pitch-style presentations from 10 semifinalist app developers, selected ahead of time by a team of expert panelists and Living in Digital Times readers. The winner was chosen by crowd applause.
Ballerz, an app that helps players find pickup basketball games in their area based on skill level, was the online showdown winner. Ballerz was developed by a group of active duty naval officers who found that playing sports reduced stress and boosted morale on the base. A complete list of semi-finalists and "app-reneurs" can be found online.