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Recently, newsfuck made a similar mistake, noting in a comment on this journal that "I do not want to know how unlikely it is for tentacles, whether flesh or flora, to do what needs to be done. In fact the pseudo-science that ardent tentacle-sex authors pepper their prose with make the end result all the more delightful."
Now, until I saw her comment, it had never really occurred to me to muse on the botany or zoölogy of tentacle porn, but once the question's probing tendrils had deposited their larvae in my mind, they refused to lie (or perhaps 'lay') still. So, I scanned my rolodex for intersections of the sets marine biologist and pervert and fired off a couple e-mails.
Today I received this from an old university chum*:
M. Tesla,
Your question has caused me some degree of reflection. As such, I penned this brief missive whilst the oil in my automobile was being changed last week. As you might guess, it took some great time for said oil to be changed, hence the length and scientific detail. I would ask that you kindly post this for the reference and wellbeing of your readership. I highly encourage them to all pick up a copy of Dr. Tatiana's wonderful guide, as well as a copy of Brusca and Brusca, or perhaps Rupert and Barnes. Perhaps it might also be of interest to declare a contest for the most accurate, strange, and wondrous writings with a non-vertebral theme, but excluding the usage of of the class Cephalopoda.
In Ophiuroids We Trust,
M. Nubilus
p.s. Please note I have included Mme. Hermissenda C. Rassicornis (Herme to her friends) on this missive, as her thoughts and ideas have been inspirational.
A Brief Essay on the Sad Lack of Imagination in Invertebrate Oriented Erotica with Brief Notes on the Lascivious Nature of Both the Lophotrochozoa and Ecdysozoa, or, Getting Beyond "Hur hur! That Squid Tentacle Looks like Penis!"
by Balan U.S. Nubilus
I am here to write about what I see as a severe lack of imagination, creativity, and all around failure of spirit and mind in the erotica world when it comes to sexual relations with non-mammals. As an invertebrate biologist, well versed in the bizarre sexual proclivities of the invertebrate and plant world, and witness to many a ribald joke by fellow students and professors of these wonderful creatures, I am sadly disappointed in the writers and filmmakers of the world. I hope that this small tract can outline not only where you have gone wrong, but provide some future directions so that the world can get off of this sad and worn out trope of cephalopod or creeping vine oriented tentacle sex. It is high time to move on.
I must say, it is with some trepidation that I enter into this discussion. I am not a connoisseur of "tentacle porn" and other forms of non-human erotica. I have, while at a few of the infamous Boston Tequila and Porn valentine's day events, had the occasion to witness some of the highlights of the genre. Similarly, I am a modern human being on the internet. It is impossible to escape the occasionally "Oh my god, have you seen this!" forwarded email, or the occasional example of something done right from my friend, M. Tesla. But really, I. Am. So. Bored.
The Plants, Or, Vegetable Love
Let us first take a moment to consider biological considerations, as that was the topic that first prompted this little screed. I will begin with things from the Plant kingdom. It was asked, is plant tentacle/vine sex actually possible? My resounding answer is, well, not. Granted, I am not a botanist, but, my understanding is that plant movement occurs through slow changes in turgor pressure and growth investment. Yes, when films are speeded up, the whole affair looks rather creepy. Not, plants do not possess the physiological machinery to move at the necessary speed to satisfy whatever gaping orifices with which they are presented.
True, there are examples of fast plant movement in nature. To whit, there are the snapping mouths of fly catchers and the like. These, however, are usually based around the quick release of build up pressure, rather than any suddenly directed movement. Consider it like springing a mousetrap. When it comes to matters of the bedroom, this strategy may enable a plant one good large quick thrust, but there lies an end.
And it is not even as if actual plant reproductive structures are involved in this action. Popular depictions involve vines, leaves, branches, and the like. These are hardly the drippy primed naughty bits of plant sexual reproduction. The male part, the stamen, is composed of a filament capped with a pollen bearing anther. While there is a wide variety of variation here, that the stalk of a stamen is called a 'filament' should be telling. True, stamen's have often been observed copulating with a wide variety of insects and birds (huzzah pollination!), but this is often the gentlest touch, not an obscene thrusting and grunting motion. Nor is there any movement other than in response to pushing from the pollinator itself. Granted, the female organ of a plant, the carpal, may present more opportunities for literary exploration, but, again, non-moving, and certainly not an organ of penetration. But, again, I leave it to the more botanically inclined to explore this realm. But, in general, plant tentacle sex of any sort? Sorry, but I must place this in the highly unlikely to not quite possible category.
The Cephalopods, or, Hot Calamari
Moving on to tentacle sex, I must say, there is a surprising degree of accuracy here. Animals of the class cephalopoda do indeed have a tentacle of a sexual nature. So, bravo for getting that right. What is more interesting, particularly in regard to octopodes, is that said appendage often BREAKS OFF during the act of intercourse, sometimes then moving about independently! Delightful! The possibilities of a saucy heroine coming home with a still active souvenir of her journey, and what she does afterwards, offer up a cornucopia of possibilities.
The idea that every single tentacle of a giant mutant squid beast would be involved in any orgiastic activities, however, are a bit off the mark. Most squid, octopus, and cuttlefish (to which I ask, who has properly explored the erotic possibilities of cuttlefish? The cuttlebone provides a wonderful "saddle", if you will) have suckers with teeth on all of their tentacles. Numerous accounts abound of divers getting into tussles with large, but not giant, squid, and coming away with circles of flesh removed from their bodies. Sharp. Pointy. Teeth. Of doom. I am not sure about how you would feel if placed in such a situation, but I am sure that when our brave hero finds himself the target of the ministrations of the some oversexed squidlord, his nether regions will be subjected to far more pain than pleasure. I leave that as an open topic to other authors.
Further Possibilities, or, Live Nude Prawns
Thus ends my discussion of all things cephalopod. Which is my real problem, because thus endeth any discussion of invertebrates in the sensual spotlight. It as if some pornographer, centuries ago, saw an octopus and thought "Hur hur! It's arms look like penises!" and, save for the extension to vines, there has been nary an innovation in the use of giant mutant alien invertebrates ever since.
Those of you who are unfamiliar with the entirety of the kingdom animalia, nor their sexual proclivities, I exhort you to pick up the excellent Dr. Tatiana's Sex Guide to All Creation. Read it. Sit back. Now imagine the possibilities. I will here present a few of sundry bits about the majesty of the invertebrates for your mental appetites, and suggest that, with all biological accuracy, you go forth and get past the damned tentacle thing. It's so so SO done.
The Gastropods, or, Bring on the Garlic Butter
To begin with, let us stay within the phylum Mollusca, but leave the much beloved class cephalopoda. Takinga brief stroll over to class gastropoda, the snails, there are a few possibilities that are not too much of a stretch for the tentacularly fixated. Namely, most snails have antennae. And not only do they have very tentacle like antennae indeed, but they are laden with sensory structures! How perfect! Go, look at a snail or limpet (whose suction ability ought not to be ignored), and examine the waving lubricated little appendages. There! It may not be truly original, but it's something. Or, you have the possibilities of a mutant nudibranch, its phallic cirri waving in the air, filled with goo sequestered from consuming some amour inducing plant. Of course, class gastropoda also adds one quite kinky opther possibility. As a crotchety old paleontologist once told me, regarding gastropod torsion (as can be seen in any volume of Brusca and Brusca), "To be a gastropod is to shit on one's head." For those of you who are in to that sort of thing, I hope I have provided some good fodder for new texts.
The Bivalves, or, Tales of Mussel Bukkake
Taking a step to the side, let us briefly consider phylum Mollusca class Bivalvia. Yes, bivalves at first seem boring - little sessile clam-like things that they are. However, bivalves engage in the one behavior that heretofore I think sounds like the most delightful sexual activity ever. Free spawning. I mean, seriously, think of it, you catch a sudden whif of the right scent, the right temperature, or a little shake, and then EXPLODE in pleasurable gamete release. I, myself, have had this happen right in my face in an orgy of mussel bukkake, but picture the potential for some nubile nymphet subjected to the experiments of a dastardly doctor in fusing the sexual needs of a scallop with the body of his scientific muse.
This is of course not to mention the abilities for bivalves to form threadlike attachments with their byssal gland, and the ever shape-changing, muscular, pulsing, turgid, bivalve foot. Or, the bizarre, soft, delicate anatomy of free swimming shell-less bivalves who, if airborne, could wreak erotic havoc on an entire countryside if presented by the proper author or animator.
Further Afield, or, You try to Find a Lophotrochozoan-Themed Pun Sometime, Smart Guy
Now, mind you, this is all from one phylum. Stepping back into the wider invertebrate kingdom yields even more possibilities. The whole lophotrochozoan group of phyla is replete with even more opportunities for deviance. I mean, come on now, there is an entire phyla called the Ectoprocts (yes, I have friends who are ectoproctologists) meaning exterior anus. These colonial buggers have an anus located right next to their mouth - which doubles as a sexual opening. The possibilities for a double penetration menage a trois are truly astounding. Add to that the fact that these beasties form calcified colonies, with specialized zooids representing all manner of shape and form, and - let's just say that were our intrepid team of buffed macho bois to come upon the cave of the giant lusty crust, they could both engage, and be engaged in, almost any manner of mischief the author could concoct, with DPs all around!
The idea of avicularia (one of the types of specialized ectoproct zooids) brings to mind the shape of similar structures that adorn the test of sea urchins, taking us to a consideration of the phylum Echinodermata. Two words. Tube feet. These little exctitable beasts (sea stars, urchins, and the ever phallic sea cucumber) are lined with not only tube feet, but tiny tipped structures that can be used to keep their backs free of cruft. What other purposes they can be turned towards (they are often quite long) is a subject for exploration, let alone the whole idea, let me say it again, of TUBE FEET - all of which are powered by a water vascular system that can generate swellings, protuberances, hardness, softness, and all manner of textures throughout the creature that can, of course, be used to great effect without ever straying outside the realm of biological reality.
As a last note on the lophotrophohozoa (and I have not even discussed their trochopohre larvae, possessed of many whirling cilia! Excitement!), I would be remiss were I to not mention Hirudinaids and other taxa that utilize hypodermic penises. Yes, you heard me right. Hypodermic. Penis. It exists. Run with it.
If you have stuck with me so far, I hope to now reward you. For now we enter the world of the Ecdysozoa - those creatures that molt. Think insects, crabs, rotifers, and more. Think hard waxy cuticle. Jumping right into the Arthropods, think specialized appendages.
But leaving that issue behind, I wish to stop for a moment and focus on the lowly barnacle. While I'm sure Oscar Brand labelled his randy protagonist Barnacle Bill as a means of implying his relative rough and tumble nature, much like these little pains in the butt (were one to have to clean them off of a ship hull), he was more on target when addressing their sexual nature. These are creatures who have the largest body size to penis ratio of any animal in nature. Approximately three times their body length, the hermaphroditic barnacle is a true man among...hermaphrodites. Imagine our lusty adventuress happens to land upon a planet dominated by giant barnacles, ten feet high. Imagine if she just happened to get there during mating season. I leave it to you, dear reader, to come up with what happens next.
Or, on the more small scale, there is the parasitic rhizocephalan barnacle, able to hijack the neural function of its host, making it a willing pleasure slave while taking over its sexual organs for its own nefarious purposes. The possibility of a mad scientist creating her army of madly devoted studs by spiking their drink with a little cyprid of course springs immediately to mind, but that is a mere start!
Of course, crustaceans also have a more tender side. Crabs cover their naughty bits with a hard impenetrable apron. What kind of wooing, promises, long walks on the beach, and poetry does it take for someone to get a crab to open up, as it were, and reveal themselves to the tenderness of love?
A Call to Action!
And so I end this brief, and certainly not even slightly comprehensive list of the possibilities of the animal kingdom for usage within erotica. Stop with the tentacles already, people. They are, if anything, the most mundane, vanilla sexual possibility that nature has provided. I challenge each and every lover and creator of the "tentacle porn" genre to go forth, armed with even this meager offering, and properly fuse their desire, erotic imagination, and a hint of biological knowledge to create something more bizarre, kinky, and interesting for the rest of the world to gaze upon and, for once, not be bored with a lack of originality.
* By which I mean 'friend,' not 'mixture of fish parts and blood used to attract sharks.'


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LEXINGTON, Va. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney slammed his rival's international strategy as weak Monday in a speech at Virginia Military Institute.
But many of the remarks in his critique didn't pass the truth test, and despite his tough tone, the foreign-policy positions he outlined hewed close to those already held by President Barack Obama.
"I believe that if America does not lead, others will -- others who do not share our interests and our values -- and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us," Romney said. "America's security and the cause of freedom cannot afford four more years like the last four years."
The speech lambasted Obama's response to the Arab Spring, specifically his administration's handling of the violent attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
"I want to be very clear: The blame for the murder of our people in Libya, and the attacks on our embassies in so many other countries, lies solely with those who carried them out -- no one else," Romney said. "But it is our responsibility and the responsibility of our president to use America's great power to shape history -- not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama."
In the address before more than 500 Virginia Military Institute cadets and local supporters in Lexington, Va., the former Massachusetts governor made his case to voters that he would be a more capable commander in chief than Obama.
"I know the president hopes for a safer, freer and a more prosperous Middle East allied with the United States. I share this hope," Romney said. "But hope is not a strategy. We cannot support our friends and defeat our enemies in the Middle East when our words are not backed up by deeds, when our defense spending is being arbitrarily and deeply cut, when we have no trade agenda to speak of and the perception of our strategy is not one of partnership, but of passivity."
Romney said Obama "missed an historic opportunity" to provide leadership during his term, a time of great upheaval in the Middle East.
As president, Romney said, he would work with U.S. partners to arm rebels in Syria, make aid to Egypt conditional on the development of democratic institutions -- as well as peace with Israel -- and advocate an independent Palestinian state coexisting with Israel.
Coming off a strong performance last week in a debate with Obama that centered on domestic policy, Romney is looking to boost his reputation in international relations, the topic of a debate coming Oct. 22. Although voters often don't base decisions on foreign policy, Romney's line of attack Monday dovetailed with his campaign's overarching narrative that Obama is a weak leader.
Romney's most serious charge in the speech was that the president's national-security strategy is "not one of partnership but of passivity," said Karl Inderfurth, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a public-policy research institution.
In reading a copy of the speech, Inderfurth said, he was reminded of the old political catchphrase "Where's the beef?"
"I think it's fair to ask Gov. Romney: What's his beef?" said Inderfurth, who was an assistant secretary of state under President Bill Clinton. "He basically endorses President Obama's approach on Iran, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and creating a Palestinian state, all the hot-button issues. His rhetoric is critical, but his actual policy prescriptions are quite in line with Obama."
Qataris and Saudis already are arming the Syrian rebels, for example, and the CIA has people in Turkey trying to determine which groups will receive the weapons. Egyptian aid always has been tied to its peace treaty with Israel, and a two-state Israel-Palestinian solution aligns with long-standing U.S. policy.

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- Apr 8:
- Letter from the family of Elizabeth Butler
- Letter from the family of Sergeant Loran "Butch" Baker
- Mar 13:
- Panetta: Military 'ought to be transparent' on record of man who killed Santa Cruz police officers
- Mar 7:
- Motorcade, memorial for fallen Santa Cruz officers felt like a reunion
- Thousands mourn, celebrate slain Santa Cruz police officers
- Leon Panetta: Military 'looked the other way' in case of Jeremy Goulet, and Santa Cruz officers paid the price
- Live blog recap: Slain Santa Cruz police officers' funeral service
- Huge turnout, long procession expected for Santa Cruz officers' memorial in San Jose
- Mar 6:
- Mercury News editorial: Santa Cruz officers' deaths are an unspeakable tragedy
- Mar 5:
- Man who allegedly stole flowers from fallen officers memorial appears in Santa Cruz courtroom
- Mar 1:
- Why did Santa Cruz shooter, with so sketchy a background, have registered handguns?
- Feb 28:
- Court martial of Jeremy Goulet following alleged rapes in Hawaii was dropped
- Feb 27:
- Santa Cruz officer slain was mother of two served 'the community in the best way '
- Santa Cruz fallen officer: Sgt. Loran 'Butch' Baker always wore shorts -- and a big smile
- In confronting suspect Jeremy Goulet, Santa Cruz police officers found a troubling history
- Santa Cruz reels from shooting deaths of police officers
- Santa Cruz sheriff: Killer shot two plainclothes officers at his doorstep
- Raw Video: Witness videotapes Santa Cruz shootout between cops, gunman
- From the archives: Santa Cruz Sgt. Loran 'Butch' Baker has hands full patrolling main downtown drag
- Feb 26:
- Live blog: Two Santa Cruz police officers and suspect dead after shootout
- Two Santa Cruz police officers, suspect shot and killed
SAN JOSE -- Two Santa Cruz police officers shot and killed last week were hailed as heroes for giving their lives to protect their community as leaders invoked their memory to promise the city will move forward and recover from their deaths.
Thousands of officers, officials and the public gathered at the HP Pavilion to honor Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker, 51, and Detective Elizabeth Butler, 38, who were ambushed on Feb. 26, the first officers killed in the line of duty in the Santa Cruz Police Department's 150-year history.
The 2 1/2-hour memorial was filled with memories, tears and even laughter.
The most poignant moments of the memorial came when their families came to the stage to speak.
Butler's partner, Peter Wu, walked up slowly holding the hand of their oldest son, Joaquin, who wore his mother's police hat and was clutching a teddy bear.
Wu, fighting back tears, promised Butler he would take care of their boys, make sure they always remember what a great person their mother was and that the two boys would grow up upright, gentle and loving.
"Her memory will service as my guiding light. Her legacy will be carried on in our family and our sons and they people they will touch. She will live on," Wu said.
He ended with "I miss you so much, Beth," then looked down at Joaquim who he was carrying in his left arm. "We will miss you so much. Good bye my love."
One of Baker's two daughters, Jillian, spoke as her brother, Adam, a Santa Cruz police community service officer stood in his uniform, his hat pushed low over his eyes.
Jillian said she struggled for the right words about her father until she found the card she had written for him on Father's Day 2005.
"You have done so much just so I could be happy," she read. "You have fought for me, cared for me and put my safety first."
She said she would carry on the values, morals and lessons he instilled in her.
"Daddy, I love yo more than you'll ever know," Jillian Baker said.
A series of public officials also paid tribute to the officers.
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who as a congressman represented Santa Cruz, called the killings "a horrific act of senseless violence."
"Just as those shots took the lives of these two fine officers, those same bullets ripped the fabric of our community and our family,'' Panetta said.
Panetta said the officers "paid the ultimate price to keep us safe. Butch and Elizabeth, you will forever be remembered as our heroes and our patriots."
Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant talked about the common grief of the community in the deaths of the officers, whom she called "our two heroes" who inspired the community by their actions and lives.
She thanked the officers for being a "clear beacon" for making the community a place of pride.
"We cannot bring them back," she said. "However, as a community we will move forward, knowing that's what they would have wanted."
Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zack Friend also talked the how inspired the community is from hearing stroies about the officers and about the healing.
"We will heal over time but never forget the lives of these two extraordinary people" who fought for family, community and justice.
Santa Cruz will "rise from the ashes" as it did from the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.
This, he said, is the "biggest emotional earthquake that our community has ever felt."
Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said the family asked him to keep it light. So he did, with a laugh coming when he called out Gov. Jerry Brown, asking him if anyone had every told the governor he bares a "striking resemblence to me," something Baker was the first to tell him.
Baker, Clark said, was car guy, practical joker, but also a man with a deeper side. "the ultimate go-to guy."
Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel said: "This is not something we've ever dealt with before in our department, and for us the pain is still too fresh. How do we feel the holes in our hearts, how do we take the next step?"
Vogel did take time to thank for supporting his department. And he gave special thanks to the four officers who he said brought the man who killed Baker and Butler to justice. Suspect Jeremy Peter Goulet, 35, was shot and killed by officers 30 minutes later after the two officers were killed.
Vogel recalled Butler's "tireless efforts on behalf of the victims of crimes and the underprivileged."
"She believed we as the police have to work hand in hand with our fellow citizens, that we have to solve our problems together," he said.
The chief thanked Baker, a 28-year veteran of the department, for teaching him how to be a leader.
"I dont know if Butch is the first guy to wear shorts in heaven, but I know he's making the angels laugh as he watches over us today," said Vogel, referring to Baker's penchant for wearing shorts.
Santa Cruz police Officer Laurel Schonfield also shared a funny story about Butler, a 10-year veteran. She recounted that when Butler went to get her first search warrant, the judge asked her to raise her hand to swear the grounds for the warrant were true. Butler surprised by judge by high-fiving himm Schonfield said.
The service was preceded by a somber procession of more than 200 police and other vehicles from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk to the arena -- a 33-mile journey that saw hundreds of firefighters, police and the public standing along the streets and overpasses to salute the officers.
At the arena, a huge American flag flew in front, suspended from the ladders of two fire trucks as thousands of law enforcement officers gathered for the memorial.
Videos of the two officers played on a giant screen inside the arena before the memorial began.
Law enforcement officers hailed from every corner of the state, many gathered in small, somber huddles outside the HP Pavilion in San Jose, hours before the memorial was set to begin.
Officers Pat Ryan and William Hillyard of the Irvine Police Department looked weary. After Thursday's memorial, they will have attended memorials for five California officers killed in the line of duty this year.
Last year, they said, there were just two officer deaths. California averages about 10 to 12 police killings most years.
"That's the thing about the law of averages," Hillyard said. "It always catches up to you."
Law enforcement officials set a national goal to keep the number of police fatalities in the line of duty to less than 100 this year. Ryan fears California's recent string of violence will push that goal out of reach.
A group of California Highway Patrol dispatchers took a few moments to gather themselves outside the pavilion. Much of the CHP dispatch office in Salinas -- those who weren't helping with the procession -- took the morning off for the memorial.
"The law enforcement community really is a family," said dispatcher Cara Vanderford. "Everybody's pretty solemn."
Santa Cruz mourners made the long trek to the HP Pavilion still in a state of grief. As some climb the stairs, the outpouring of tears began; the weeks of built up sorrow too much to bear.
The memorial would not provide any closure, said Santa Cruz resident Tom Ward, because closure would not be had in a tragedy such as this.
"There are some people who do some really bad things," said his wife, Deon Ward. "And I'm really grateful that we have police officers who put their lives on the line everyday. I see them as peacekeepers."
Fernando Alvarez of Santa Cruz was a friend of Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker's for more than 40 years, he said. Their families had grown up together, and Alvarez said he and Baker dabbled in buying and selling cars together. Alvarez brought his daughter, nephew and grandchildren to the memorial.
"It's been hard in Santa Cruz. It's sad," he said. "The whole city is in shock."
He said the city would feel the officers' absence for years to come, but the outpouring of support on Thursday would help it heal.
"Today has been beautiful," he said.
James Burtnett, 57, has four relatives who are retired police officers and one relative still working as a cop.
"You know when they walk out the door they might not come home," Burtnett said. "I feel for them."
Among the other Santa Cruz residents was a third grade teacher from Gault Elementary School, located near the home where Baker and Butler were gunned down. Pam Hernandez, 62, said police searched the homes of some of her students soon after the killings as they looked for a possible second suspect.
Hernandez said she spent time discussing what happened with her students, who wrote letters to the police department thanking officers for keeping them safe and expressing their sorrow for deaths of their colleagues.
Thursday, Hernandez said she took off work so she could experience the memorial and report back to her students.
Employees spilled out of businesses along West Julian Street to watch, in mostly silence, the procession for the two fallen officers. It was for San Jose residents a day of reflection on the recent wave of violence that has gripped some California cities and a grave reminder of the dangers that police officers face daily, even in a kick-back, unassuming surfing town.
"It's just so emotional," said Lori Smith, a public health nurse at San Jose social services. Smith joined a crowd at West Julian Street and Highway 87 to watch the procession. "These are people who put their lives on the line everyday. We have our own drama at work and it just seems so trivial."
A woman nearby held her hands up as the procession passed, muttering a prayer.
"I'm putting my hands over them for safety," she said.
"American Idol" star and Santa Cruz native James Durbin, who met Baker when the officer would chaperone high school dances, sang "Arms Wide Open" by Creed. The Rev. Rene Schlaepfer at Twin Lakes Church in Aptos chaired the memorial, which ended with a lone bagpiper playing "Amazing Grace."
The procession to and from the arena will cause traffic delays, including on Highways 17 and 87.
As the procession gathered earlier in the morning near the Santa Cruz Boardwalk under cloudy skies, Santa Cruz County sheriff's deputy Cathy Bramanti said that day was all about solidarity.
Bramanti donned her uniform for the first and last time in more than two years Thursday. She knows firsthand how no day in law enforcement is a given.
"Odd as it sounds, I'm just happy to be here to honor the two officers that were killed," Bramanti said. "You never know what you will face. It really is a brotherhood and a sisterhood."
Bramanti was beaten, disarmed and shot with her own Taser in November 2010 by a convicted felon while on a routine visit from the Santa Cruz County Jail to Dominican Hospital. She has been on medical leave since and is thankful to be alive.
Virginia Baker, who along with her husband, Loran, of Fresno came to the Boardwalk Thursday morning to greet the crowd of officers there to honor their son.
"It's a sad day," Virginia Baker said.
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The living room is comfortable and has a dining area with table and chairs. There is a TV and free WiFi internet access for your laptop or mobile devices. There is laminate flooring throughout. The sofa converts in to a double sofa-bed.
The modern kitchen is well provided with crockery, cutlery, glasses and kitchenware, as well as a washing machine (a clothes horse is provided for drying clothes), fridge, cooker and microwave. The apartment has full central heating.
The double bedroom is attractively furnished and is quietly located at the rear of the property. The bathroom has a wash-hand basin and bathtub with shower over.
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El apartamento es perfecto, el mejor en el que he estado. Excelente ubicación, pegado a la Royal Mile. Muy espacioso, incluso más de lo que parece en las fotos. Está perfectamente equipado, con todo lo que se pueda necesitar.
Karin es una excelente anfitriona, muy atenta y detallista: botella de vino, dulces, flores frescas...
Lo recomendaría sin dudarlo y será mi primera opción cuando vuelva a Edimburgo.
Great experience, very central, four people can live quite comfortably
Cozy, clean and well equipped apartment. The location is fantastic. We enjoyed our stay very much and were sad when we had to leave. We also enjoyed the roof terrace very much.
We would like to come back in one of the next years.
Great apartment with a perfect location close to just about everything :-) The apartment is spacious (we were two people staying there) and even though it is so centrally located in the city, there was almost no noise at night - an important thing when you value a good night's sleep ;-) Everything regarding the booking went very smoothly, Martin send us the keys in advance along with a very detailed description of how to find the apartment. All in all it was a delightful experience to rent this apartment, and we would definitely love to come back another time.
A little gem in Edinburgh ... centrally located ... nice roof terrace with a great view to the sea. Martin is very friendly and helpful. definitely recommended!
Thank you Martin for your kindness and for the apartment which is really comfortable, very well located and well equipped! Thank you again and hope to use your services again in the future
Stayed here for the second time and felt like home! Great location, absolutely recommend staying here!
For several days in May, my friend and I had a very comfortable stay here in Edinburgh's Old City. This well-maintained apartment had all of my favorite amenities and was ideally located for excursions to Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, Arthur's Seat, and whisky tastings. Even before we arrived, the nice man who owns this snug little place (which was surprisingly quiet), kindly made sure that we had milk for our tea. Two other advantages are these: if you are not dragging excessive luggage, you can walk here easily from the train station, and the bus to the airport (cheap!) stops about a block from Bull's Close.
Good appartment, clean and close to center.
No problem check in and out.
Owner mailed us the keys and when leaving we dropped them trough the letterbox.
Hi Martin
The flaw is lovely and we have had a great time in it. The location is perfect to spend some days in Edinburgh.
Thanks a lot for everything
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ETC.: Bowyer has completed 98.5 percent (4,995) of 5,070 total laps contested in 16 career starts at Phoenix. His average start is 18.9 and average finish is 16.9. He has two DNFs there.
16 GREG BIFFLE, Ford
Team: Roush Fenway Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 8th, 73 points out of first place.
PHOENIX RECORD: Seven top-10 finishes including five top-five's in 19 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Biffle said, "I love going to the desert and I'm really looking forward to Phoenix this weekend. We had a good car in the spring at Phoenix until we got back in traffic (he led 39 laps). But we've been working on our short track program so I'm confident going into this weekend. We still can finish in the top five (in the standings) with a good run at Phoenix and another one at Homestead."
LOOKING BACK: Biffle finished 12th at Texas. "That was a tough one," said Biffle. "The car wasn't very good in traffic and it seemed like we missed maybe the front gaps a little bit on the start. We didn't get it (right) until it seemed like about 20 to go or 30 or 50 or whatever that last stop was. We just weren't where we wanted to be. It was a tough day."
ETC.: Biffle said he is rooting for his former teammate, Matt Kenseth, to win the championship. "Matt's a great guy," said Biffle. "He was a great teammate (at Roush Fenway Racing). We're still pretty good friends. We do a lot of stuff together. I'd like to see Matt win it. He's been a good guy over time. I think he deserves it."
22 JOEY LOGANO, Ford
Team: Penske Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 9th, 91 points out of first place. Gained two spots last week.
PHOENIX RECORD: Three top-10 finishes in nine starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Logano said he is sad that the 2013 season is coming to a close. "I'd like to keep on going," said Logano. "I'm a racer and I like to race. When the off-season comes around, I'm good for a couple of weeks and then I'm ready to get back in a race car and race. That's what I like to do and that's what I want to do. There isn't much other than racing for me."
LOOKING BACK: Logano ran up front all afternoon as he finished third at Texas. "The guys on the AAA Fusion did a great job overnight looking at what Brad's (Keselowski) car had and what we went through in practice. We went through our notes and made sure we understood all the changes and put together a fast race car today. From the start of the race we started moving forward and I thought I was a second or third-place car all night. Overall we can't be disappointed with a third-place finish as the 48 (Jimmie Johnson) car was just ridiculously fast."
ETC.: Logano has high hopes for this weekend because it's the second time around at Phoenix for him and crew chief Todd Gordon. "When you come to a track together for the first time, you don't know how he likes to set up a car. He doesn't know what kind of adjustments that you like. You don't know exactly how to explain the car's handling to him. When you do it once and you come back a second time, you have all those notes and you know where you are going to start. That is why we have seemed to click so well going back to these places a second time."
78 KURT BUSCH, Chevrolet
Team: Furniture Row Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 10th, 96 points out of first place. Lost one spot last week.
PHOENIX RECORD: One win and 11 top-10 finishes in 21 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Busch said, "Phoenix, I love the place, led a lot of laps there. But that was on the old configuration. The new configuration is little bit slicker and if you hit it exactly right you can be quick there. But if you're off, it makes it treacherous and tough to pass on when the track heats up. After the last four Chase races, we're overdue for a strong finish."
LOOKING BACK: Busch finished 17th at Texas. "That's all we had," said Busch. "It was a struggle all weekend with our Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Chevrolet. It wasn't a good day, or for that matter, a good weekend. We were off since we unloaded on Friday and never found the right balance for this track. We gave it everything we had, but yet it was disappointing because these mile-and-a-half tracks should be good for us."
ETC.: Furniture Row Racing announced last week that Martin Truex Jr. has signed a multi-year agreement to drive the number 78 beginning with the 2014 season. Truex will replace Busch, who is moving to Stewart-Haas Racing. "As unlucky as I got at Richmond a month or two ago, I got just as lucky when this deal turned up," said Truex, who was knocked out of this year's Chase for the Championship when NASCAR ruled Michael Waltrip Racing tried to manipulate the race at Richmond. "It's been tough," added Truex. "It's been a roller coaster of emotions to say the least. I was terrified (when sponsor NAPA said it would be leaving the 56 team at the end of the 2013 season because of what transpired at Richmond). My first thought was, 'What am I going to do next year? Here it is September. Everybody has got their deals done for next year.' I'm just very, very fortunate to have the opportunity to drive for a team of this caliber this late in the season."
99 CARL EDWARDS, Ford
Team: Roush Fenway Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 11th, 116 points out of first place. Lost one spot last week.


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SANTA CLARA -- Colin Kaepernick says gay linebacker Michael Sam would be welcome in the 49ers locker room if the University of Missouri product is drafted by the club in May.
"When he steps into that locker room, everyone is going to know he's there to help us win games. That's why you're in the NFL: to help us win games," Kaepernick said Sunday on ESPN, in advance of co-hosting Cartoon Network's "Hall of Game Awards" Monday night.
"Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation."
Sam, who revealed earlier this month that he is gay, will take part in the NFL's scouting combine that begins Saturday in Indianapolis.
For the second straight year, Kaepernick will be at Cartoon Network's viewer-oriented awards show in Los Angeles. Co-hosting with him for Monday night's show is Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who Kaepernick and the 49ers eliminated in the NFC divisional playoffs last month 23-10.
Newton, also in the ESPN interview alongside Kaepernick, said the Panthers also would be happy to have Sam on their team.
Said Newton: "The main focus with football players is we're here in this organization for one reason and one reason only, and if you're helping us attain that winning success, your personal life is your personal life."
Jonathan Martin's bullying allegations against the Miami Dolphins didn't have a trickle-down effect with the 49ers last season, Kaepernick said.
"Nothing on our team changed," Kaepernick said. "We have a very tight knit group in our locker room. We joke around, we have a good time, we'll mess with each other here and there, but it's all in good fun.
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Naming conventions below are as follows:
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* FX2- represents a build off the 2.x line of source code. These will be progressing toward Firefox 2.0, and should be getting more and more stable until release.
* FX3- represents the cutting edge of Firefox development. These will be sketchy and strange at times, and should be expected to contain some bugs and generally be wacky, however they do showcase the newest features of Firefox and give you a glimpse at the direction Firefox is heading.
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This a version of Firefox with different builds for Macs with different processors (G3, G4, Intel). See the developer's website for the build that suits your needs.
It's lighter and faster than the official Firefox.
What does it do? I see some release notes but no description of the software.
This is awesome. Thanks Furbism. BonEcho and DeerPark woo! G4 power!
I really like the BeatnikPad builds as theyinclude Firefoxy or semi-Aqua form widgets, but there haven't been any updates since 0.0.8. Thanks to Adam Michel (aka Furbism) for sticking with Firefox for all of this time.
This is NOT a dupe of http://osx.iusethis.com/app/bonecho
I started out using the beatnikpad builds and soon switched to these furbism builds as I had font rendering and crash issues with beatnikpad's.
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Last night around 3:00 a.m., at the conclusion of several hours of insane police-scanner monitoring and reports of gunfights and explosions in the Boston suburbs, local law enforcement officials on their working radio band identified their quarry by name:
Mike Mulugeta and Sunil Tripathi, armed and dangerous fugitives, alleged marathon bombers, and reported killers of an MIT police officer.
Scores of red-eyed journalists and news junkies, already gathered on Twitter and deconstructing every grunt and squeak on the police scanners, launched into a public, real-time data scrape for information on the named suspects. Tripathi was a big deal, having gone missing from Brown University last month without his wallet, leaving only a mysterious note that spurred FBI agents to investigate his disappearance.
I was no exception. Having placed my confidence in the pack, I contributed to the piling on:
Update: As some alert commenters have pointed out, Gawker's own rolling coverage late last night repeated Tripathi's name.
Some media movers practically cackled as they delivered the news:
There was just one problem: Mulugeta and Tripathi had nothing to do with the events unfolding in Boston. America awoke this morning to reports that the bombers were two young Chechen-Americans, with a third possible accomplice. Virtually no one in the media, who had pushed the Mulugeta-Tripathi narrative just hours before, acknowledged the shift. They simply plowed forward with more real-time misreporting.
Sketchy and incorrect first reports in breaking stories like these are par for the course. Few media outlets have distinguished themselves by being fast and reliable this week; far more, like the New York Post and CNN, stood out by screwing more pooches than a junkyard mutt with blue balls. But this instance—an entire industry naming the wrong suspects, and amplifying the error—was a particularly epic fail, and it seemed to be going down the blackest of memory holes.
Clicking on this Google News headline, for example:
Led to this story:
The media, content to pile new data on top of old, was simply pretending that it had never fingered the wrong two guys.
How did the bad info get out there? It may have resulted from a multimedia feedback loop of epic proportions, according to J.D. Adler, a writer who had initially relayed Mulugeta's and Tripathi's IDs as suspects via Twitter:
Was it really possible that Boston's cops may have developed leads on their suspects based on threads that sleuthing Redditors had started on them? It's possible, yes—because it definitely happened this morning, when police cornered one of the actual bombing suspects and broadcast what they believed to be his intentions:
But the police officer was not referencing the real bomber; rather, it was a fake Twitter account that had been set up in his name earlier in the day:
This, in itself, is remarkable: Excited internet hounds, out to glean info on the bomber, seize on a fake social media account, whose messages are seized on by police...who convey the info via radio, where it's seized on by excited internet hounds.
That may be how the world came to learn about Mulugeta and Tripathi, though there are other possibilities. (A Boston Police Department representative said the department was busy with the ongoing manhunt and unable to comment today on the scanner report on Mulugeta and Tripathi, or much else.)
But the real story is not how the news got it wrong—there's been plenty of that since Monday. It's how, mere hours after telling a bullshit story, the news simply told a new story and expunged the previous one from its memory. Real-time accuracy isn't always possible in journalism. But no one can call himself a journalist if he can't acknowledge in the present what he got wrong in the past. Even an alleged pig-fucking alcoholic bigot understands that.


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Singapore A Model For TPP Negotiators
Singapore A Model For TPP Negotiators
03.04.13 | By Jay Taylor
Singapore is hosting the 16th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, which began today. As a global trade and financial center, as well as one of the world's leading exporters and importers, the city-state is home to some of the most talented global researchers largely due to incentivizing innovation and protecting intellectual property (IP). By embracing both, Singapore not only benefits economically from foreign investment, but also contributes to patient health throughout Asia. One example - the Novartis Institute for Tropical Disease, located in Singapore, fuels the research that gives patients new hope for medical breakthroughs.
TPP negotiators and governments across the globe should look at Singapore as an example of what can happen when investments in IP are protected and nurtured.
Here at home, IP-intensive industries directly employ more than 19 million Americans (when indirect jobs are included, the number increases to 55 million). More importantly, strong IP helps develop innovative treatments for diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to cancer to diabetes. A weak IP framework within TPP would create uncertainty when we need to be doing more to support researchers and innovators who rely on strong protections to fuel the next generation of life-saving and life-enhancing therapies.
As I arrive in Singapore this week, I hope that TPP negotiators recognize the promise and potential of the innovation around them. Medical researchers are on the cusp of major breakthroughs that could revolutionize how patients are treated. The same applies to other highly innovative sectors that are changing the world one idea at a time. A weak IP framework puts these advancements at risk. Regardless of country or sector, it's clear we need to be doing all we can to help champion them.


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A Smarter, Smaller Grid
Last month, the superstorm Sandy crippled the New York City region. With swathes of its electrical grid offline, much of the area's transportation system was hobbled, business was disrupted, and many basic relief efforts were slowed. Last month's issue also featured work from Garrett van Ryzin and Klaus Lackner on how, thanks to advances in technology, a number of industries are poised to turn away from large, centralized infrastructure to small, modular infrastructure. Ideas at Work asked van Ryzin and Lackner to share their expertise on how taking a similar approach with power supply could grant households and businesses a measure of independence from the grid and guard against widespread power failures.
Among the many questions provoked by Sandy, one of the most pressing is, what could a more resilient electrical grid look like? In our view, a resilient grid would be a smart grid. What would a smart grid look like? It would be a two-way grid that would decentralize power delivery to the end consumer.
The electrical grid was never designed to be a flexible network that allows people to take electricity out and put electricity back in — it was designed as a centralized utility that distributes outward. But opportunities arise from this fact. While these opportunities present no small challenge, the technological hurdles are not as great as the regulatory hurdles.
On the technological front, there's plenty of room for more innovation, but the pieces already exist. We already have the beginnings of a decentralized grid: after Sandy, we saw people pull out generators to produce power off their natural gas lines. There are any number of existing power conversion tools and makeshifts people could and did use to the same end, such as using solar panels off their roofs or gas from cars. A smart grid would allow individual households to switch between sources — grid, generator, solar, and so forth — seamlessly.
And that requires a design shift. On the first night of the storm, a colleague's generator failed, not because of the storm itself, but because a voltage spike blasted into his home while he was on the generator. Power companies don't want customers using generators as our colleague was, for fear consumers will create hazards outside their homes. Obviously, this may work the other way around as well.
One solution: a box at the entry to the home that allows consumers to use the power company just as they would an appliance. Rather than letting the utility company into a toaster, a consumer can stop it at the door if she has an internal power supply from her solar panel or generator or even her hybrid car parked in the garage. Is additional external power needed? Flip the switch on. No additional external power needed? Switch it off. Is the internal power supply producing more electricity than needed at the moment? Flip the switch that puts (and sells) electricity back into the grid. We could build a "handshake" into the system — the household and the utility would have a reciprocal option to accept or refuse electricity. Once we have built in that break, various other options emerge.
Provided, of course, the utility lets us. One acute example of the regulatory hurdles: utility companies tell us that smart meters that can reflect real-time power use are very expensive compared to monthly metering. Yet anyone can buy 20 dollars worth of parts at RadioShack and do it himself. These meters may not be tamperproof — yet. If the will were there, the technology is close at hand.
Today's technology also makes it possible for households to switch between power sources in microseconds: the utility delivers power to the house, the consumer takes it from there. This could be a one-way switch in which power comes in on this line but cannot leave accidentally. Inside the house the consumer switches between the different supplies, stays within their budget with the power company, and can switch in alternative sources or storage and so forth. That isolates the house from the grid, thereby removing the complaint the power company rightly has that households might create a hazard by sending uncontrollable electricity back into the grid. An underwriter could guarantee that such a device will never send power back into the grid unless the power company explicitly asks for it. It then may soon be possible for households to insulate themselves from the grid entirely — not only could power come from solar panels on the roof or, in an emergency, from a generator — but households could store energy in the house — which would build in quite a bit of redundancy.
Households would be far less dependent on the reliability of the utility company to the point where if the grid went down every day for an hour we'd hardly notice because our internal power sources would balance it out. (One of us went without power for more than a week recently, not because of Irene or Sandy but because a tree knocked out power lines in a run-of-the-mill thunderstorm.)
The ability to choose power sources would not just benefit homes, but businesses too. While large firms that have large demand are likely to have their own power plant on site and don't depend on the grid, those that don't lose money when the grid fails. The cost-benefit analysis for mid-size and even smaller firms may start looking more attractive if the power starts going out every two weeks. The recent experience many of us in northeast have had, stranded for weeks without power, may give households the incentives to embrace makeshift alternative power sources.
As consumers increasingly face new choices as a result of technological innovations on the energy delivery front, we can gradually achieve a decentralized grid and a measure of independence from it. Utilities also face a choice: continue their apparent decline in reliability, with a commensurate decline in relevance, or adapt and deliver on the promise of a smarter grid.
Klaus Lackner is the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, department chair of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, chair of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division, and faculty director of the Master Class Program at Columbia Business School.
Lackner and Van Ryzin co-teach The Business of Sustainability course at Columbia Business School.
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Garrett van Ryzin is the Paul M. Montrone Professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Chair of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the School. His research interests include analytical pricing, stochastic modeling, and operations management. He is coauthor of the book The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management, which won the 2005 Lanchester...


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In every life there comes a moment of stark realization that, despite what your brain may tell you, your body has limits.
For some people, this moment comes when attempting, perhaps failing but struggling onward nonetheless, a dramatic feat such as scaling Mount Everest or running a marathon.
My moment came trying to carry a television set.
This simple action might not sound very life-defining, but I'd never hit that wall of realization before, mainly because any of my physical attempts have been, let us say, more on the pedestrian scale. I've never scaled a mountain or run a marathon, but I have my talents.
I've always prided myself on my ability to lift heavy objects and to find a way to get a physical job done.
When I was younger and wanted to hang my Bobby Sherman posters in a line from floor to ceiling, I stacked a chair on a trunk and pulled a stepladder on top. I got the posters pinned to the wall and made it down safely. It was not the first or last time I would do that.
As an adult, my ego swelled with the knowledge I could lift heavy bags of potting soil and compost without breaking a sweat.
I developed my strength through hard work on the farm, where I grew up tossing bales of hay and straw.
My brother and I had several cows that we showed in the county and state fairs. Tim used to back the old truck up to the fence and toss down 50-pound bags of feed that he expected me to catch. And I did, because not catching them meant trying to rake up 50 pounds of something called beet pulp.
My muscles may not show beneath my layers of plump, but they are there. If you need something heavy lifted, then I'm your gal. Or I was until this past weekend, when I achieved failure to lift.
Many years ago I purchased a television set for my bedroom. I don't remember now how I got it home and up the stairs, but I'm certain that I did it by myself. The thing wasn't huge, but being of the time, it was bulky and heavy. The depth was equal to the width, making it a square-shaped, boulder-sized block of entertainment.
My old set chugged along through many generations of new technology, and I never saw a reason to change. But one evening, the television gave up the ghost. The sound was still there, but the image collapsed to a single thin horizontal line across the center.
Instead of mourning, I began comparison shopping and was a confident I could find a nice LED set for about $200. I just needed to get the old set out of the way.
I unplugged it and hefted it up. Man, it was heavier than I remembered. I took one step toward the door, already calculating the angles I would need to maneuver it through the door and down the stairs, when the unthinkable happened. In an instant, I realized that I couldn't carry it. It was too heavy.
The set slipped from my hands and crashed to the floor, breaking a picture frame, knocking over some knickknacks and bouncing off my foot.
The trip to the minor injury clinic was humiliating. I felt I had a big "injured while lifting" stamp on my forehead.
The doctor made me feel less defeated, however. After showing me the X-ray and pointing out where I had cleanly broken off a chunk of bone in my big toe and cracked the toe next to it, he smiled and told me that these injuries seem to come in phases, like the moon.
"I don't know if it's because people are moving or what," he said, "but we go through periods where we see a lot of people in here who've dropped televisions on their feet."
Perhaps I'm not such a failure after all. I am a trend.
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Tax Policy
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Testimony from ACE Senior Vice President Terry Hartle before the Oct. 7 House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight hearing.
Law and the Courts
November 19, 2014
Statement of Jack Bernard, associate general counsel for the University of Michigan, to the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Bernard testified on behalf of the higher education...
July 8, 2014
Tax reform provides an excellent opportunity to improve some of the individual provisions that will make the framework more effective for students, their families and taxpayers repaying student loans, writes ACE and the higher education groups...
Veterans Legislation
May 8, 2014
Testimony submitted by Thomas W. Ross, president of the University of North Carolina System, to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs for the May 8 hearing, "Defining and Improving Success for Student Veterans.
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April 29, 2014
The remarks continue the advocacy outlined in the "Close the Innovation Deficit" campaign, an effort to close the widening gap between the actual level of federal government funding for research and higher education and what the investment needs to...
January 28, 2014
Statement submitted to the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet for the Jan. 28 hearing on the "Scope of Fair Use.
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September 19, 2013
Statement of Terry W. Hartle, ACE senior vice president, at the first Senate HELP hearing on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. The topic of the hearing was "The Triad: Promoting a System of Shared Responsibility."
June 12, 2013
Statement of Terry W. Hartle, ACE senior vice president, before the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on Voluntary Military Education Programs.
April 16, 2013
ACE Senior Vice President Terry Hartle spoke before the House Education and the Workforce Committee on April 16, 2013, at the hearing, "Keeping College Within Reach: The Role of Federal Student Aid Programs.
August 9, 2012
ACE President Molly Corbett Broad's testimony for the record submitted to the Senate Committee on Finance for the hearing on education tax incentives and tax reform held July 25, 2012.


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Windows 7 Home Basic is a Windows 7 edition that is not available worldwide. It has been specifically created by Microsoft to be sold in emerging markets. Its feature set is superior to the Windows 7 Starter edition. The features that it comes with are the following:
- Concurrent Applications Unlimited
- 32-bit and 64-bit mode support
- Home Group Join Only
- Windows Internet Explorer 8
- Windows Media Player 12
- Desktop Window Manager
- Windows Mobility Center
- Windows Aero Partial
The most apparent differences are that it does not come with the concurrent application limit. Other advantages are 64-bit support and the inclusion of the Desktop Window Manager, Windows Mobility Center and partial support for Windows Aero.
Most users won't really see lots of differences between Home Basic and Premium, should they run the operating systems side by side. The reason is simply: Differences are scarce. The Homegroup feature might be one of the things that some users may want to have in their operating system. Windows 7 Home Basic users can only join homegroups, but they cannot create them which is a severe disadvantage in a household network for instance.
The remaining features depend on the use of the system. Premium games might be nice for some, and unimportant to others. Especially since there are so many free alternatives available on the Internet.
Windows Media Center can be replaced with a in many regards superior media player such as VLC or MPlayer.
Aero "beautifies" the desktop, that is usually not really needed to work with the operating system.
The main problem however is availability of Home Basic. It is not sold by retailers in countries like the United States. While you can find Windows 7 Home Basic on eBay, Craigslist and other marketplaces, they usually come at a price point that would get you a Home Premium or even Professional Systems Builder version or upgrade.
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Home Premium is the edition of Windows 7 that is next in line. It contains all the features of both the Starter and Home Basic edition but gets rid of all the limitations these offer. The additional feature set includes:
- Home Group Join and Create
- Full Windows Aero support.
- Home Group (Create & Join)
- Multi-Touch
- Premium Games
- Windows Media Center
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Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Professional has been designed for small and medium sized businesses as well as professionals and enthusiasts. It includes all of the features of the Home Premium edition of Windows 7 plus the following additional features:
- Windows Server Domain support.
- Remote Desktop Server support.
- Location aware printing.
- Encrypting the file system
- Presentation mode
Windows 7 Ultimate / Windows 7 Enterprise
Current plans indicate that Microsoft will only sell Windows 7 Ultimate online (for example by offering upgrades from other Windows 7 editions). Windows 7 Enterprise has the same feature set as Windows 7 Ultimate. The only difference is that the Enterprise edition is reserved for large companies.
- AppLocker.
- BitLocker Drive Encryption
- BranchCache Distributed Cache
- DirectAccess
- Multilingual User Interface Pack
- Virtual Hard Disk Booting
A full overview of all Windows 7 editions, their features and differences is available at our Windows 7 Features page.


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The children of St. John's School presented the Christmas story through songs and Biblical narration to St. John's Ladies Aid at their annual Christmas party.
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- Dec 14:
- AP PHOTOS: In Newtown, reminders of grief, hope
- Bells toll 26 times in Newtown for shooting victims
- Dec 13:
- In Newtown, 'there's nothing that hasn't changed' a year after Sandy Hook
- Newtown teammates playing for Sandy Hook in Connecticut state championship
- Newtown neighbors' kindness has proved endless
- Dec 12:
- One year after Newtown, the gun control debate rages on
- Mercury News editorial: A few glimmers of hope a year after Newtown murders
- Composer Steven Sametz starts work on Newtown-inspired 'Child's Requiem'
- Dec 11:
- One year later, has Sandy Hook changed America's gun debate?
- Dec 10:
- Newtown wants to be left alone on Sandy Hook's 1-year anniversary
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that were released Wednesday show town dispatchers urged panicked callers to take cover, mobilized help and asked about the welfare of the children as gunshots could be heard at times in the background.
One caller told police in a trembling, breathless voice that a gunman was shooting inside the building.
"I caught a glimpse of somebody. They're running down the hallway. Oh, they're still running and still shooting. Sandy Hook school, please," the woman said.
In the minutes that followed, staff members inside the school pleaded for help as Newtown police juggled the barrage of calls.
The calls were posted on the town's website under a court order after a lengthy effort by The Associated Press to have them released for review.
Another call came from a custodian, Rick Thorne, who said that a window at the front of the school was shattered and that he kept hearing shooting. While on the line with Thorne, the dispatcher told somebody off the call: "Get everyone you can going down there."
Thorne remained on the phone for several minutes.
"There's still shooting going on, please!" the custodian pleaded to Newtown's 911 dispatcher, as six or seven shots could be heard booming in the background. "Still, it's still going on!"
The gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot his way into the school the morning of Dec. 14 and killed 20 children and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle. He also killed his mother in their Newtown home before driving to the school, and he committed suicide as police arrived at the scene.
Seven recordings of landline calls from inside the school to Newtown police were posted. Calls that were routed to state police are the subject of a separate, pending freedom of information request by the AP.
Prosecutors opposed the tapes' release, arguing among other things that the recordings could cause the victims' families more anguish.
"We all understand why some people have strong feelings about the release of these tapes. This was a horrible crime," said Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor and senior vice president. "It's important to remember, though, that 911 tapes, like other police documents, are public records. Reviewing them is a part of normal newsgathering in a responsible news organization."
As the town prepared to release the tapes, the superintendent of Newtown schools, John Reed, advised parents to consider taking steps to limit media exposure for their families, as he did before the release last week of a prosecutor's report on the attack.
On the day of the shooting, the AP requested 911 calls and police reports, as it and other news organizations routinely do in their newsgathering.
Newtown's police department effectively ignored the AP's request for months until the news cooperative appealed to the state's Freedom of Information Commission, which said in September that the recordings should be released.
The prosecutor in charge of the Newtown investigation, State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, had argued that releasing the tapes could prove painful to the victims' families, hurt the investigation, subject witnesses to harassment and violate the rights of survivors who deserve special protection as victims of child abuse.
A state judge dismissed those arguments last week and ordered the tapes be released Wednesday unless the state appealed.
"Release of the audio recordings will also allow the public to consider and weigh what improvements, if any, should be made to law enforcement's response to such incidents," Superior Court Judge Eliot Prescott said.
"Delaying the release of the audio recordings, particularly where the legal justification to keep them confidential is lacking, only serves to fuel speculation about and undermine confidence in our law enforcement officials."
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There is interesting article in the New York Times today, all about Portland. The article covers some of the well known cycle-friendliness of the city itself, but really centers in more on the 125 cycle related business the city sustains.
Watch your backs and memorize license plates, Seattle area cyclists. Thursday November 1st Peter McKay suffered a punctured lung after being shot from a moving car. The police speculate the weapon was a .22 hand gun loaded with b-bs. Check out the comments on Peter's blog to see the outpouring of support form the commuter and Randonneur community.
Earlier in the week police were called to the scene of a road rage incident. A SUV driver tried to hit a cyclist or run him off the road, apparently following him from the Freemont Bridge to Stone Way. Police were called when the driver pulled his car sharply into the bike lane, causing the cyclist to reach out and hit the car's window.
Update: The PI's chimed in with an article about tensions between cyclist and cars, specifically citing these two cases. As always, the 'sound off' section proves educational about just what people think about cyclists.
I'd imagine most of these incidents go unreported and un-responded to. So Huggers, have you had experiences like these recently? What would you do to reduce tensions between motorists and cyclists?
From the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, at Humbold University, check the Pedal Power How-to, guides, articles, and examples. Like this pedal-powered washing machine.
Also see the the commercial HPG and HPT (human power generation and trainer) from Windsteam technologies for all sorts of uses.
The last time the lights went out in Seattle, I desperately needed an Espresso machine and so with an HPG, I could just crank that baby up!
Ah yes, any bike-themed basement or garage isn't complete without a saddle-sofa and matching stool … presented at Design Tokyo by ScarabBike and noticed by one of our readers.
I managed to make it out to the Lovely Ladies on Beautiful Bikes calendar release party (previously reported) with the camera and got a couple of shots. Lots of people having a good time, great music, lovely ladies with their calendars, the works!


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process 1
1A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end: military operations could jeopardize the peace process
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- We the Palestinians believe in peace, the intifada has been an effort to achieve a peace process.
- He breaks every step of the process into a series of questions.
- Gap analysis of all the business processes is the first step in any e-business project.
procedure, operation, action, activity, exercise, affair, business, job, task, undertaking
1.1A natural or involuntary series of changes: the aging process
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- Byatt's heroines are victims of a culture whose value-systems are prejudiced against nature and natural processes of ageing.
- Paul knew that Uncle Edward was a biochemist, and a specialist in natural processes, such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
- Food also provides the building blocks for the body's natural repair and maintenance processes.
1.2A systematic series of mechanized or chemical operations that are performed in order to produce or manufacture something: the modern block printer needs to accommodate all the traditional factory processes in one shop
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- Green chemistry uses cutting-edge technology to minimize the environmental impact of chemical processes, manufacturing and waste.
- We have the systems, processes, practices and skilled staff needed to operate within this environment.
- These people performed only very simple processes of production.
1.3A series of interdependent operations carried out by computer.
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- The updater applications should launch automatically once the download completes to begin the firmware update process.
- For our example, we start the two required processes on the same system.
- Unfortunately we locked up midway through the boot process.
1.4 [as modifier] Printing Relating to or denoting printing using ink in three colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow) and black to produce a complete range of color: process inks
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- The holder sports a gray and silver cover with four-color process printing for the back and insides.
- The deal gives them the exclusive rights to sell the MetalFX silver base and special process inks around the world
- He invented the process of four-colour process printing onto flexible plastics.
2 Law A summons or writ requiring a person to appear in court.
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- The plaintiff must issue his process and must serve it on the defendant.
- In some jurisdictions, the writ has to be served or the process has to be served before the action is brought.
- He successfully dodged Earthlink's process servers for several months until they caught up with him in February 2003.
3 Biology & Anatomy A natural appendage or outgrowth on or in an organism, such as a protuberance on a bone.
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- Triangular processes occurred in both bones of pairs 58 times from a total of 334 paired scapulae.
- These anomalies are often extra appendages or processes, and are probably most often produced by injury when the exoskeleton is soft.
- These processes of the maxilla sometimes project backward in the median plane, separating the horizontal plates from each other.
verb[with object]
1Perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on (something) in order to change or preserve it: the various stages in processing the wool
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- That would mean the nightmare of bad smells suffered by residents during the operation of the wool processing plant could be repeated.
- He had worked for a chemicals processing company, and was also involved in sports.
- These included chemicals, various processed articles, machines and equipment.
1.1Operate on (computer data) by means of a program.
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- Images may be processed or stored locally, or transmitted at a lesser rate.
- The generated data may be processed through the same software used to process the real data.
- Once the data have been processed through our programs to manipulate the data and to define trip ends, two steps remain.
1.2Deal with (someone) using an official and established procedure: the immigration authorities who processed him
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- Jai Ram Bhai is just one migration lawyer in Suva who says he's processed about 5,000 emigration applications since May last year.
- It was impossible for Council officials to process that amount of work in one month.
- The driver of the jeep was arrested and brought to Navan Station where he was processed under drink-driving legislation and breathalysed.
1.3 another term for conk3.
be in the process of doing something
- Be continuing with an action already started: a hurricane that was in the process of devastating South CarolinaMore example sentences
in the middle of, in the course of, in the midst of, in the throes of, busy with, occupied in/with, taken up with/by, involved in
- It is easy to see why she has already been the pick of several top directors and is in the process of putting together an impressive range of work.
- This has already happened in the Sudan and is in the process of happening in Algeria.
- Other respondents were in the process of strategically realigning their salary structure.
in the process
- As an unintended part of a course of action: she would make him pay for this, even if she killed herself in the processMore example sentences
- Of course, in the process of wanting others, we may well be found wanting by them.
- She has assured me that she will get me in the best shape of my life or kill me in the process.
- I think everyone was very relieved to find that he didn't kill anyone in the process.
in process of time
- As time goes on.Example sentences
- When he began his studies, he was a thoroughgoing Arminian, but in process of time, God used his doctoral studies for his conversion.
- Interested they were, however: they understood what was said to them, and in process of time came to understand all the characteristic doctrines of Evangelicalism.
- And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto The Lord.
processable adjective
- Example sentences
- The Semantic Web is really data that is processable by machine,' says Berners-Lee, who is director of the MIT-based World Wide Web Consortium.'
- Typically, liquid processable organic semiconductors will oxidise rapidly, Xerox says, which makes it difficult to build such transistors in air.
- From the 1970s, the scientific focus shifted away from cellulose to the more processable biopolymer, starch.
Middle English: from Old French proces, from Latin processus 'progression, course', from the verb procedere (see proceed). Current senses of the verb date from the late 19th century.
Words that rhyme with processacquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes
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verb[no object]
Walk or march in procession: they processed down the aisle
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- Upon entering the sanctuary, they processed down the aisle towards the altar, which was dimly lit with candles.
- The men trudged into the bar like polar explorers, and processed soggily towards the fire he'd just lit at the far end of the lounge.
- The priests process round the church, swinging clouds of incense.
Early 19th century: back-formation from procession.
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