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Keeping American vehicles rolling in Afghanistan while avoiding the perils of hauling in fuel via ground transportation is costing the military big time.
Frosty relations between the U.S. and Pakistan - which led to Pakistan closing its border to Afghanistan-bound truck traffic- haven't helped, either.
The Pentagon is increasingly relying on parachute drops of fuel and other supplies to bases in remote parts of Afghanistan, and as Nathan Hodge of the Wall Street Journal reports, the military estimates such deliveries are spiking the ultimate price of a gallon of fuel to as much as $400 per gallon.
"We're going to burn a lot of gas to drop a lot of gas," Capt. Zack Albaugh, a California Air National Guard pilot with the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, told the WSJ. Albaugh would be at the controls of a C-130 cargo plane that drops pallets of food, water, ammunition and fuel by parachute to troops below.
Avoiding the dangers facing truck convoys on the ground, the Pentagon has relied more and more on air delivery of supplies. Six years ago, about two million pounds of supplies were air-dropped to troops in Afghanistan. Last year, that amount was about 60 million pounds. Estimates are that this year the total will be about 90 million pounds.
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The Obama-Ortiz 'Selfie': Could the President Make a Legal Case Against Samsung?
Were President Barack Obama to sue over the "selfie" photo taken last week by Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, would he have a case?
He very well might, say legal experts, while conceding it's highly unlikely that the president would take such a step.
To recap, Samsung Electronics Co. drew the ire of the Obama administration after the company retweeted a tweet from Mr. Ortiz of a photo the Red Sox star snapped while posing with the president. The company also tweeted that Mr. Ortiz, who has an endorsement deal with Samsung, used a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone to take the photo.
The key question, legal experts say, is whether Samsung's tweets can be considered advertising or marketing and thus subjected to federal and state laws that deal with publicity rights and deceptive trade practices.
A White House spokesman referred Law Blog to earlier comments made by White House press secretary Jay Carney, who said, "As a rule the White House objects to attempts to use the president's likeness for commercial purposes. And we certainly object in this case."
A spokesman for Samsung didn't immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
It's possible the president could make a claim against Samsung under the Lanham Act, a federal consumer-protection statute that provides civil remedies for false or deceptive advertising, says Paul M. Fakler, an intellectual property lawyer at Arent Fox LLP.
Mr. Fakler told Law Blog that the president would have to make a case that the tweets gave the average consumer the misleading impression that Mr. Obama had endorsed or sponsored Samsung's product.
State courts could be another avenue for the president, he said. Many states, including the president's home state of Illinois, have laws to prevent people from exploiting a celebrity's status without permission.
Such an approach might work here, said Barbara A. Solomon, a partner at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C who specializes in false advertising and right-of-publicity cases.
"The retweet was clearly for commercial purposes to enhance Samsung's brand awareness," Ms. Solomon told Law Blog.
Mr. Fakler said Samsung, if sued, might argue in its defense that the tweets didn't rise to the level of advertising and that by posing for the shot, Mr. Obama implicitly consented to the viral distribution of the photo. The company might also argue that it was simply exercising a First Amendment right of commenting on a noteworthy public event.
But Mr. Fakler and Ms. Solomon both caution that any litigation would venture into largely uncharted legal territory.
They couldn't recall the last time a sitting president personally sued somebody for using his likeness for commercial purposes. And they also couldn't point to any such lawsuit — let alone one brought by a head of state — that revolved around a retweet.
"That's what makes it so interesting," said Mr. Fakler. "It's an issue that hasn't come up before because the nature of advertising has changed so much."
On Sunday, Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," said White House officials have "had conversations with Samsung about this and have expressed our concerns," according to news reports.
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Almost eight years after he helped start a war, the Iraqi behind the US claim that Iraq had mobile weapons labs admitted in an interview with the Guardian that he lied. (h/t Hissypit)
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995.
The article as a whole provides fascinating details of how the German intelligence, BND, service basically fed Curveball the details he'd need to fabricate his lies.
But I'm particularly interested in two new details he reveals. First, BND and British intelligence met with Curveball's boss in mid-2000; the boss debunked Curveball's claims.
Janabi claimed he was first exposed as a liar as early as mid-2000, when the BND travelled to a Gulf city, believed to be Dubai, to speak with his former boss at the Military Industries Commission in Iraq, Dr Bassil Latif.
The Guardian has learned separately that British intelligence officials were at that meeting, investigating a claim made by Janabi that Latif's son, who was studying in Britain, was procuring weapons for Saddam.
That claim was proven false, and Latif strongly denied Janabi's claim of mobile bioweapons trucks and another allegation that 12 people had died during an accident at a secret bioweapons facility in south-east Baghdad.
The German officials returned to confront him with Latif's version. "He says, 'There are no trucks,' and I say, 'OK, when [Latif says] there no trucks then [there are none],'" Janabi recalled.
So this is yet another well-placed Iraqi who warned western intelligence that the WMD evidence that would eventually lead to war was baseless (one George Tenet and others haven't admitted in the past).
And Curveball describes how BND returned to his claims in 2002, then dropped it, then returned to it just before Colin Powell's Feruary 5, 2003 speech at the UN.
We've known the outlines of these details before. But it sure adds to the picture of the US dialing up the intelligence it needed — however flimsy — to start a war.
So all those calls from Bush and Cheney to Blair were just as suspected. British Intelligence helped get the story too. No wonder Blair keeps lying. He is afraid he will be disappeared!
It's almost beginning to look like a cabal of the Bush Diaspora – US, GB, and GDR – got together and decided to make a power-play for Oil in the Middle East.
From their point of view, world hegemony depended on controlling the limited sources of petroleum. Rising economies like India and China could triple demand within a few years. Therefore, he whose hand was on the Oil throttle, would be the de-facto King of the Industrializing World.
So, if the cabal's cold-blooded assessment of global energy realities determined that controlling the second-largest known Oil reserves – Iraq – was essential to ensuring the continued hegemony of Western Civilization, then a guy like "Curveball" – 'I lied to get rid of Saddam' – would likely be very useful…
I still think we got punk'd by an Iranian intelligence operation.
Boxturtle (But if not curveball, we'd CLEARLY have found some other reason)
Well written insight.
Thank you.
the picture of the US dialing up the intelligence
The president needs to dial up an investigation of this.
So this is yet another well-placed Iraqi who warned western intelligence that the WMD evidence that would eventually lead to war was baseless (one George Tenet and others haven't admitted in the past).
the important point of this is that we knew it was baseless
you know this is sort of revisionist, it gives them almost a pass;
"well, we were informed there were wmd and couldn't take a chance there was not"
when instead it was they who insisted there was wmd and made certain they would have some justification even though they were making it up
What is most disappointing is that a country & people that boasts of being based on law refuse to submit to an international war crimes court for prosecution those who are clearly responsible for 40,000 dead and over 30,000 injured Americans, over 100,000 dead and innumerable injured Iraqis in an illegal war. It is even more discouraging that Americans vote for Bush the Lesser and enabled him and his neo-fascist thug cronies to commit these atrocities. There is a reason why the rest of the world considers Americans to be a nation of hypocrites: it has a long history of directly committing heinous crimes against other nations or supporting dictators who do America's dirt jobs against their own people in exchange for the might dollar.
Duh. The only person this is likely to surprise is Judith Miller.
I like the Brit Intel agency's way of putting it:
"The facts are being fixed around the policy."
I think that was it, in a nutshell.
And, a few hundred thousand dead human beings, and nearly a trillion dollars, later, presto! Here we are mired in one, giant, shitmire in Iraq.
Hell, Rumsfelt could have saved lots of space in his new book, and just had, on one page' in capital letters:
"Fuck you, world! We pulled it off!"
BTW, nice interview on antiwar.com Marcy.
If he lied about the reasons to go to war, then why is he not in jail and why would he be given asylum unless the Bush Administration was in on it?
But he's "looking forward, not back"™, to "win the future"™ and besides, the MIC is "too bog to fail"™, and any real investigation would shake them to their foundations. So it's time to "not let the perfect be the enemy of the good"™, realize that it's "the art of the compromise"™ go get drug tested and realize that "we (Democrats) suck less"™ and "bein' prezznit's hard werk"™. Wait… wasn't that last one from Bush? I get them so confused these days.
Bob Drogin of LATimes did yeoman's job of uncovering Curveball almost in real time.
hold tight, bush the slightly more then the lesser is going to be running next cycle
Better Q: Why was he not suicided long before he came out with such embarrassing admissions?
Good one.
Because as is typical, the administrations always seem to trust the wrong people. It's like they work at it.
Have a linky for the hacked emails?
So they hate us for reasons other than our freedom?
Here's FDL's book salon with Drogin.
Do you mean this? It's a great read, even if it's not what you're looking for. Even a computer moron like me could understand it.
I suppose in a way they do work at it.
They have a conclusion, and a policy, and nothing will get in the way of 'executing' it. Since U.S. foreign policy is almost always wrong-headed (and now you can add domestic policy to the list), they have to 'work at it' to find shreds of evidence to support what they want to do anyway.
On edit: Which is why I, without people to talk to pre-Iraq invasion, was able to figure it out. Every shred of 'evidence' (aka propaganda) fell apart the minute you touched it, including Curveball.
Great read, thanks. Finding a link to the actual emails seems to be a challenge.
Exactly. This is the kind of thing when one starts with a desired result and then tries to fix a policy around it, coupled with an arrogance that means they don't even try to come up with a believable fiction. Throw in a gullible or apathetic populace and viola! You get something that's bound to fail at some point.
The LA TIMES has, almost certainly, done the best job of keeping track of all the bloody-handed bullshit about Iraq, of any major newspaper.
As contrasted with the koolaid pimping by the NY Times and the WAPO.
Having near total control of the media is a big help in making the fiction believable. Having the ability to discredit (or worse) those who challenge the fiction keeps the fiction perpetuated.
Having near total control of the media is a big help in making the fiction believable.
Only for the gullible and apathetic. I, for one saw through this bullshit when Powell made his big UN speech. I'm not special or brighter than anybody else. I dropped out of school in the tenth grade. If I could see through it so easily, that makes me believe that the only people who were "fooled" were people who wanted to be fooled. (Judith Miller for example)
Britain disappeared/killed Kelly for saying truth. They are still trying to hide the facts that he was murdered.
Yep. I knew when the UN would not agree with Bush and Cheney and when Bush started his mucho macho crap about either being wit us or against us mumbo.
Did you see my comment yesterday about where I was was when I watched Powell's speech?
I'll repeat it & try to shorten it. I was at a job interview at a hedge fund in Stamford, CT. Arrived from the train station in the middle of it, so we finished watching it together. Came in around the Curveball part, with the slide of the sat-pics of 4 rectangles which he claimed were the mobile labs. I was rolling my eyes & the hedge fund guys were ooohhing & aaahhing about all the evidence.
I couldn't believe their gullibility.
Didn't go to work for them. Of course, didn't get an offer either.
I saw that comment and replied to it. I also watched it with some co-workers and then got unanimously ridiculed for saying "bullshit" to the television.
According to the former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neal's book, the decision was made for a regime change in Iraq (Cheney's Energy Task force, maps of Oil Field…..blah blah…..). The next step was implementation. Curve Ball, Judith Miller, Friedman (domino effect in the Middle East on democracy, one of my favorite), Washington Post, NYTimes, and Don't forget FAUX NEWS… were just components of the execution. After 8 years we are feeling elated to discuss who lied and how? Majority voices against the war in Iraq were ignored. The question is how it could be avoided in the future?
Only for the gullible and apathetic
Unfortunately, that accounts for a substantial demographic. There are many who prefer not to be confused by facts. If it's not explained to them on Fox News, it didn't happen.
I'm sorry. I don't remember seeing your response. I think it was pretty late in the thread & I may have moved upstairs.
Colin Powell is someone like Donald Trump. No matter how many & how egregious their failures, they & their reputation always gets salvaged.
Wish I knew how they do it.
The question is how it could be avoided in the future?
Can't be IMO.
They're doing the same thing with economics policy, if you hadn't noticed.
You're saying if you went "Woo hoo!" you would have gotten the offer?
That reminds me of the task force! thanks for that.
When are we going to be able to see those documents? He has hidden that stuff for far too long now.
Also, when there were thousands of people at the mall protesting against the wars, they had the people sprayed with something that made them all nauseous. I remember Cindy Sheehan and her group really had a hard time with being chemically sprayed.
I'll answer for her. YES!
Wall Skreet makes loads of money off of war.
No, that wouldn't have helped either.
We had a genuine sit down interview after Powell was done. What they expected from me was completely unrealistic (figure out some macroeconomic trends in advance that could be translated into sure shots in the stock market). I was much too old to even try to play that game. Esp since they thought all their micro pics were flawless, i.e. without actually knowing their record, it was pretty clear they would excuse all their mistakes but be intolerant of any I might make.
Great post EW – but it was worse than that.
The lie factory
They set up an "Office of Special Plans" – the special plan was about how to go to Iraq. The filtered intelligence to the president, substituting "Feith" intelligence of dubious credibility and stripping it of its indicia of reliability. It was the beginning of a systematic campaign to politicize the government, and destroy the independence of intelligence gathering and analysis.
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So as you can see, BillyP, the investigation has already been done. What we need now are indictments.
oops! Sorry to step on your turf. I thought you had left the thread for good.
Glad you came back to clear that up. Anyway, war is a racket not just for those owners of the MIC, but the investors as well.
Sounds like there was some bias at play. Did you detect any?
Best job bias story I heard was from a female chemist who interviewed for a position in San Diego. The hiring manager liked her, but the chemists from the ME were not keen about working with a woman. While at dinner with the group, her handbag mysteriously disappeared. Needless to say, she didn't accept the offer.
Right, and Chalibi played his part too. Spain has tried to go after Bush and Cheney. They are now in the process of Yoo and others which are to respond by March 1st.
again, msiddique, it is worse than that. The Bush administration withdrew from the International Criminal Court treaty, to prevent the Senate from ratifying it. They have denied international warrants for CIA agents involved in extraordinary rendition (snatch n' grab) – which is a war crime. They have also obstructed justice, interfering with the Spanish torture investigation – and yes, it is still ongoing.
Because the cabal that runs america knows that the populace is too lazy and stupid to care. Theyve been openly committing crimes for the past 5 years. Meaning they dont even try to hide things anymore. And the people do absolutely nothing. Actually they keep reelecting them and keeping them in power. So why would they try to "suicide" him.
I don't think gender bias played much of a role. It's always there in a subtle & subconscious way, and hedge funds are overwhelmingly guys. But my view at the time was no deeper than the one I already stated: disproportionate expectations.
There were other considerations for me. I didn't want to commute & the resources (i.e., assistant, computerized economics data banks) that they were willing to pay for were too small.
It was really a no-go from the start on both sides. The interview happened only bc my friend there thought highly of me.
OTOH, why take chances?
I'm thinking of W's recent canceled trip to Switzerland. There are always some nasty gnats around, and USG is so lawless, I am always surprised when they don't just kill them.
I think i remember hearing or reading somewhere that the reason the theocrats in old europe didnt like "liberalism" is literally because they thought free thought would destroy the country. This still permeates the right wing a great deal and sadly is becoming more and more the norm in this country. Some people literally like to be told what to think so i guess they dont have to worry when things happen.
Job interviews are always exciting experiences. Consider yourself lucky you survived without having your handbag snatched.
No problem. Your point is generically accurate, if not particularly germane in this particular case.
Can't find anything about March 1st and Yoo. Thought the whole Spain investigation was squashed.
Do you have a linky?
Maybe they are just incompotent. Youre actually reasoning through this. Which its blatantly obvious the american government and many local governments dont do at all. Theyre too deep in ideology and having their heads stuck each others buttocks to actually think about things.
Hey! I'm one of those gnats!
(should be @47 – clicked on wrong linky)
I did learn from them about a new type of smaller more efficient jet plane with a longer flight capacity. It was supposed to change the airline hub & spoke model, favorably for passengers, in the sense that there would be more direct flights on less traveled routes. I'm not sure it has actually worked out that way, but it was interesting to hear about it.
There has been pressure from the US, but the case is still open.
BillyP said,
"Having near total control of the media is a big help in making the fiction believable. Having the ability to discredit (or worse) those who challenge the fiction keeps the fiction perpetuated."
Specially the white house press corps.
If they want to keep their jobs there, they will tow the party line or they will not be chosen to ask questions. If you are not asking Q"s, you might as well be somewhere else.
Ho hum, old news. The Iraq caper wasn't a war, it was a carefully choreographed production – after all, it was launched in March because you don't launch a new product in August – to boost Bush's falling numbers and divert attention from binLaden who was apparently not to be caught. Besides, who in his right mind would bank a war on the testimony of someone called Curveball.
The 800 pound gorilla that lurks everywhere is the fact that congress no longer has the power to end a war. Nor was its explicit constitutionally granted power exercised to get us involved in these illegal wars except through a pro forma AUMF which should have been reined in while the Democrats controlled both houses of congress… another missed opportunity for the ineffective Democratic party.
It seems that since the passage of the War Powers Act back in the 70s we've allowed the executive branch to continually usurp congress's role in committing American troops to combat whether it's through secret agreements with dictator-controlled governments to allow us to establish bases in their countries or through presidential extensions of power under Status of Forces Agreements which are used to bypass the senate's advise and consent role.
I still have that article as a hard copy and I miss the excellent flow chart in the online version. It was a great picture of "The Intelligence Chain". HBGary planting false docs to discredit Greenwald, Brad Friedman etc. is so like the Niger Uranium forged docs that were shown to be a fraud. What a web.
Miller isn't dumb enough to be surprised; she was dumb enough to have been complacent.
Hard to imagine that this does NOT link up with the death of Dr. David Kelly, the British biological warfare expert who was presented as having committed suicide.
Thanks for bringing this up. He apparently slit his wrist but didn't leave any fingerprints on his knife.
US intelligence never directly talked to al-Janabi (Curveball) and that was a result of the egos in the BND who would not allow it and the lack of persistence on the part of our agencies. We forgot a basic principle of investigation and that was to look for motive. Sad, sad…"when the truth is shown to be lies…"
Hmm..maybe it had to do with the distance between LA and the hub of deceit, Washington? I'm no "beltway" hater but there is something to be said for looking at a mess from a distance and calling it a mess. Yes, the LA Times did a great job and was dismissed as being from the left coast, was it not?
Sorry for OT: Russ Feingold launches "Progressives United". to fight corporate fascism.
Driveby – will have to catch up on comments later.
But I was just at the guardian.uk, and it looks like Powell (and Wilkerson) are now saying that this needs further examination.
I doubt we'll get it, but when it turns out that there was ONE source for WMD, and that source had been effectively shown to be a liar, and DIA didn't alert Powell, and CIA didn't alert Powell, and Tenet is now selling Drumheller down the river…. Well, I hope this turns into one hell of a knife fight. And I sincerely hope Powell wins it in the longer term of showing how he was set up.
So what this says about: Hadley, Bolton, Condi Rice, Tenet, and DoD (presumably DIA is within DoD, and how much did Wolfowitz and Feith run that show?)… well…
Time for me to go spend a few minutes at EW's Ghorbanifar Timeline.
And the "slitting" didn't do much damage; as is true of most slit wrists, s/he failed to slice deeply enough. The rate of blood loss was inadequate to kill him. The risk of that is well known in medical circles, and would have been known to someone with his academic background. That would also have been true for anyone experienced enough to have acquired a "OO" designation at work, which means whoever did it was pretty cocky or was rushed into doing poor work.
Earl, I don't know if you're in the UK or not, but sometimes I get the feeling you are
If you're not, and I don't know if you've seen it, but this string of comments reminds me of an episode of BBC's Spooks called The Book. This is a really good episode and I highly recommend watching it if you can get a hold of it; one thing about the British is they know how to do drama
Clapper and DiFi engaged in a little sparring today. Oh, my.
US spy chiefs grilled over Muslim Brotherhood LINK.
On the tellie in the States, Spooks is called MI-5. Hollywood must think Yanks might think spooks are ghosts, goblins or people of color [sic], whereas most have seen a James Bond film and at least know that MI-6 is somehow related to spies, so MI-5 must mean something spy-ee too.
The show suffers from the dramatic need to keep the number of characters to a minimum and to keep 'em barely young enough to vote. Analysts abound in real life, I imagine, but on the tellie, the characters' reluctance to commit ruthless acts strains credulity. As Bond told Vesper when she asked about how he could be so cold, have no reaction to what he does, "I wouldn't be very good at my job if I did, now would I?"
As you know, MI-5, military intelligence, section five's responsibilities include domestic counter-spy work, something it was inconsistently good at when Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt were at work. It's budget has grown since the days when Harry Palmer "worked" for it. MI-6, the secret intelligence service, has responsibilities that include foreign intelligence gathering. It only launches speed boats from its Thames side offices in order to help Cubby Broccoli's old franchise.
For moody spy thrillers, I prefer Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, then Smiley's People. The pace is slower, bureaucracy heavy and convoluted, closer to John le Carree's experience; the threat of violence is pervasive but unseen, making it scarier. The film cutting is much less fast-paced than today and the technology is all in Smiley's head, not in his computer, his wrist watch or his weapon. Substitute modern bad guys and there you have it.
MI-5, though, is more up-to-date and trendy; it gives the viewer a decent flavor of ruthless bureaucratic competition and a range of potential threats to decent society, which can sometimes include one's own government. The scariest thing, though it may be somewhat exaggerated, is the extent to which thousands of CCTV cameras can be harnessed to keep someone in view for so long and in such minute detail.
Somehow I've missed it on American tv, and only recently found it as Spooks online
One impression that's stood out for me, is they seem to have Americanized it with all the guns, I don't know if that many people over there have access to guns (good guys and bad guys) but it makes it seem as though everyone has one. And I've only seen the first few
seasons … er, series ;-) … yet where Harry, Tom, and later, to a lesser extent Adam, have a reticence in abusing people's rights
And as I'm sure you know, the funny thing about the CCTV cameras is, they don't stop, and rarely solve crimes
CCTV's, like copying all internet and telecoms traffic, generate too much data to be useful. If you have an identified target, or want to evaluate a scene after a crime, it's another matter. Several years ago, it was estimated that a London tourist would be caught on camera roughly 3,000 times in a two-week period. I imagine that number is higher today.
Guns are much more prevalent in the UK now than formerly, even though about ten years ago civilians were banned from using pistols. Shotguns can be licensed by the great or good, especially up north or out west; rifles are harder to get a license for, unless you live on the moors or highlands.
Gone are the days when constables were armed only with their uniform, a radio, and a sense of humor. Police "armed response units" seem to be drawn to many more crimes than before. I imagine the intelligence services have always had access to them. Professional criminals and hardened terrorists never seem to lack for weapons either.
So, now that we know this, when are we (Americans) going to go a little bit further back and investigate 9/11 in a rational way?
Here's a nudge in that direction, but since it involves Tenet it'll probably lead to not much:
Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex-German foreign minister
Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector's sketchy background


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Lucy said,
March 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm
That's a shame that a man of God should feel that way.He should read his bible and learn more before he thinks of preaching to others.
A headcovering and not preaching to men does not mean one sits quietly in the back, hands folded, opinionless.Woman are to teach younger women and their children, they are to run their households and they are to help others in need (Titus 2:3-5).The Proverbs 31 woman is married with family, has her own business and helps the needy.And then there are many women, both Jewish and Christian, who were important in the bible- Anna the prophetess, Dinah and Esther strong, capable women.Paul spoke highly of various Christian women like Phoebe and in his letters greeted both brothers and sister including various women in his letters such as Olympas, Julia and Apphia.None of these women sound oppressed or unable to be active members of their churches (or synagogues).
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Blanche arrives in New Orleans, reunites with sister, and meets Stanley. Conflict seems inevitable as we get a glimpse of Stanley's violent streak, and of course the Mitch saga begins. Stella's pregnancy is revealed as well.
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My favorite Friday of the month is HERE! Why the excitement? Well, I'm part of a Book Club (which as any woman will tell you, is code for "eating/gossiping/generally not discussing any book" – and tonight, this serious literary event is at my house. I chose a book that's staged in the Alaskan wilderness, with a family of pretty hardcore survivalists. Although I don't plan to swap my house for a sturdy tent any time soon, I did take a page from this book (figuratively!) when it comes to simplicity and simple happiness in life.
Here's your food for thought on this grey, rainy day!
How much money should I save? How much is going to make you happy? How much will make you comfortable? Chances are, your answer is not "$0" – although that's the number in many folks' savings accounts. Make a simple change today, by contributing something more to savings each month. Whether that's $5 or $50, you'll feel better about your balance if you take some small, proactive measure toward boosting it each month. As ongoing motivation, remember the difference between how much you NEED and WANT in savings. By making small, steady progress toward your "needs," you'll be closer to achieving your long term "wants."
How much money can I spend? Although it's easy to snatch credit card offers out of your mailbox and stockpile plastic in your wallet, it's not so easy to control spending within responsible bounds. Emergencies and unexpected circumstances happen, but for the most part, you should stick to spending REAL money and not the exciting, imaginary credit card kind. To trim spending and get a better idea of your necessary weekly budget, try going a week or more with only spending the money you NEED to spend – no extravagances. This means skipping the coffee-stand coffee, evaluating your costly vices, and even limiting the money you spend on food and gas. Shop smart instead of often, and you'll find that the money you need to spend is much less than imagined. What to do with the newfound "fat" in your budget? Well, put it toward savings of course! Or outstanding debt, which will save you money on interest.
This evening, as I fill up on book club dessert and good conversation, I plan to fully appreciate these simple luxuries of life. However you spend your own evening, I challenge you to evaluate your own keys to living richly! I bet you'll find this answer isn't solely based in money – so don't panic if your path to healthy finances is a long one. You'll get there one step at a time. Enjoy the journey!
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I, being currently involved with free software, see it being mentioned so often in publications that specialise on the subject and which target sad geeks like myself who have nothing better to do. However, an advertisement caught my eye in my non-technical local newspaper—Cambridge Evening News (That is Cambridge UK, not the one in Mass). It was entitled...
"Free software—but at what price?"
Naturally this grabbed my attention. It was an advertisement using one column for the depth of the page. It was for Hewitson's Solicitors, a local law firm, and it was largely prose with a photograph of one of the partners, a Mr Bill Thatcher, at the top, whom I assume was responsible for the content.
The advertisement had no copyright assignment so I assume I can repeat sections of it here under a "fair use" umbrella.
He starts the article "Why pay for software when you can download it for free?", and then gives a very brief generic introduction to free software and GNU/Linux in particular. He then mentions the possibility you may need to employ IT specialists to implement and support this software properly and states "so 'free' software often comes with a price".
He then goes on to mention some restrictions in the licenses. In particular he gives two examples, that "some of these [software packages]... prohibit commercial use", and also that "[if you] combine the free download with proprietary software... [it] could mean... you are obliged to share that as well". I think this is a bit our of order on behalf of Mr. Thatcher. I am running a freely downloaded Fedora Core 4 software suite. This includes full functionality of desktop, office suites, web browsers, databases, file servers, web servers, lots of other things and even Blog writing software. Not only does none of the software I use have any of the restrictions stated, I do not know of any current free (as in speech) software that contains the restrictions mentioned.
Granted, I have in my time come across "only free for personal use" restrictions, but that is getting rarer now, and I cannot remember when it was part of a GNU/Linux distribution. I remember that restriction a lot in the proprietary world, especially under the "shareware" umbrella, which is very contrary to the free software philosophy. Maybe Mr. Thatcher is getting confused here.
The second restriction mentioned is a common misunderstanding of the GPL. The restrictions of the GPL only kick in if you distribute the software. You may combine it, alter it, put it in the oven at gas-mark-6 or do anything else with it with no restriction at all, if you just use it for yourself or your company. It is only if you distribute it that you need to do so under the same terms as you received it, and any derivative works. "Ah-ha!" I hear you cry—"Derivative works—isn't that combining it with your proprietary software?". The answer is yes, but if you are distributing proprietary software the chances are you are a software house, or at least a business which sells software or a product or service that includes it. In this case the same restrictions apply to you as they would for any other piece of software. You are limited to what the copyright holders say you can do. In the case of GPL software and its derivatives, it is as stated: ALWAYS re-distributeable so long as it is done so under the same license. Details can be found at the GNU web site. Like proprietary software, if you want to redistribute free software or a derivative under a proprietary license you need to either get the permission of the original authors of that software, or rewrite the GPL components yourself without copying them. Granted, the first may be impracticable, and the second too difficult, but it is for ALL software, not just for the free (as in speech) variety. To re-iterate, there is a third choice for GPL software of course, make YOUR software free! After all, chances are that you are making money on the product or service that goes with it, not the software—but I digress.
The advertisement finishes by mentioning the Open Source Initiative, stating that it sees itself as providing a service for the good of the community. But the ad goes on to question if these programs are good for your business. The final conclusion was, of course, that you may need legal advice... I wonder who they had in mind that you should see?
My reactions to the advertisement are mixed. My first was approval that Free Software had made it into the business pages of the local newspaper that was not IT oriented, even as an advertisement. However, my second reaction was not so good. I realize that the legal firm was trying to drum up business, that is the point of advertisements after all, but I felt they could have been more informative and less self centered than they were. Proprietary systems need to be implemented and supported just as much as free ones, sometimes more so. The restrictions on the license were misrepresented as a far bigger threat to the end user than it actually is, and the restrictions of free software are irrelevant to most people anyway, and representing the entire free software community as "do-gooders-who-are-unaware-of-business" types (although he did not say that in as many words, he sure as anything gave that impression) was very unfair.
Another thing he "forgot" to mention was that people and businesses rarely "roll there own" as far as free software goes. They use a specific GNU/Linux distribution from a free software vendor such as SuSE/Novell or Mandriva. These are hardly fly-by-night organizations, and would have checked the legal status of the software they include themselves. This makes the legal risks of using this software even more remote.
By far his biggest sin was misrepresenting the word "Free". The entire advertisement was saying that "Free Software" was "Free-as-in-beer", in other words no cost. He did not mention the "Free-as-in-speech", in other words the vendor independence, the removal of worry that the software vendor would pull the product (in Free Software land anyone, even you, can pick it up and continue), the departure of expensive forced software and hardware upgrades, the freedom from being reliant on someone who is not answerable to you or your shareholders. In other words, he missed out the ACTUAL benefits of Free (as in speech) Software.
Hewitsons Solicitors are a law firm. They must have read and understood the free software licenses. I feel slightly saddened that they wrote an article that, in my opinion, misinform people about the real benefits of free software and mislead them regarding the risks.


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AbstractAttempts to produce colloidal platinum nanoparticles by using steady absorption spectra with various chemical-based reduction methods often resulted in the fast disappearance of the absorption maxima leaving reduced platinum nanoparticles with little information on their optical properties. We synthesized colloidal platinum nanoparticles in an aqueous solution of polyvinyl pyrrolidone by gamma radiolytic reduction method, which produced steady absorption spectra of fully reduced and highly pure platinum nanoparticles free from by-product impurities or reducing agent contamination. The average particle size was found to be in the range of 3.4–5.3 nm and decreased with increasing dose due to the domination of nucleation over ion association in the formation of metal nanoparticles by the gamma radiolytic reduction method. The platinum nanoparticles exhibit optical absorption spectra with two absorption peaks centered at about 216 and 264 nm and the peaks blue shifted to lower wavelengths with decreasing particle size. The absorption spectra of platinum nanoparticles were also calculated using quantum mechanical treatment and coincidently a good agreement was obtained between the calculated and measured absorption peaks at various particle sizes. This indicates that the 216 and 264-nm absorption peaks of platinum nanoparticles conceivably originated from the intra-band transitions of conduction electrons of (n = 5, l = 2) and (n = 6, l = 0) energy states respectively to higher energy states. The absorption energies, i.e., conduction band energies of platinum nanoparticles derived from the absorption peaks increased with increasing dose and decreased with increasing particle size.
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The Coast Guard announces the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) considering the reasonably foreseeable environmental impacts and socioeconomic effects of implementing a Regulated Navigation Area in Buzzard's Bay, MA. We request your comments on the draft EA.
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Church Partnerships in Asia: A Singapore Conversation (Genesis Books, 2010)Christian Movements in Southeast Asia: A Theological Exploration (Genesis Books, 2010) Protestants in Nineteenth-Century Macao. An Anthology. Edited by Loflands, B.J., and Michael Nai-Chiu Poon. (Institute Cultural, 2009)Pilgrims and Citizens: Social Engagement in East Asia Today (ATF Press, 2006)
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Binoculars, Microscopes, Telescopes, Weather Stations And More Expand Celestron's Universe
Torrance, CA – (January 10, 2012) – Celestron, a leading designer and manufacturer of telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, weather stations, GPS devices and related accessories, is pleased to announce an exciting lineup of new products for 2012 in the outdoor, science, and education categories.
This year Celestron's extraordinary SkyProdigy™ series will see two new additions – the SkyProdigy 102 refractor style telescope and the SkyProdigy 6 Schmidt-Cassegrain style telescope. The AstroMaster telescope line will also expand to include three new models – the AstroMaster LT 60AZ refractor, the AstroMaster LT 70AZ short refractor, and the AstroMaster LT 76AZ Newtonian reflector.
In the outdoor electronics arena, Celestron is debuting two new products - WindGuide™ and WindGuide™ Plus. Basic features like wind speed, gust, temperature, and chill measurements, make WindGuide perfect for wind sailing, parasailing, skydiving, and more. And with advanced features like altitude, humidity, and barometric pressure readings, the WindGuide Plus model is surprisingly well priced. Both join Celestron's extensive line of recreational/GPS devices that include the TrekGuide, reTrace, and CoursePro series.
Two exciting new Amoeba™ USB digital microscope models are also being released. These exceptional two-in-one microscopes pair a biological microscope for specimen slides with a stereoscopic microscope for solid objects. Used with a traditional base or as a handheld instrument, they are capable of capturing images or recording video for digital computer viewing. Additionally, Celestron is offering an upgraded PentaView™ LCD digital microscope, as well asa new heavy-duty, dual-purpose, entry-level Micro360™ microscope.
Celestron is also introducing nine upgraded models to the popular UpClose® binocular series. The new UpClose® G2 binoculars, plus one new monocular, bring brighter, sharper, multi-coated optics together with a stronger, sleeker ,more ergonomic design that truly elevates the already best-selling line. And there are two impressive new additions to the premier Granite™ series, a 10x50 and a 12x50, that raise the bar on Celestron's finest binocular line even further.
Then, of course, there is the revolutionary new SkyQ™ smart phone app, a personal interactive star guide, and a compatible add-on SkyQ™ Link Module for computerized Celestron telescopes that allows easy and accurate remote control.
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"As an industry leader in quality and innovation, we strive to continually improve and expand upon all of our product offerings, and this year is certainly no exception," says Celestron President and CEO, Joseph A. Lupica, Jr. "Our growth in the lifestyle and recreation markets has been both remarkable and rewarding."
All of Celestron's new products, along with the outstanding Nightscape CCD camera, will be on display during the 2012 International CES, January 10-13, 2012,at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Please visit Celestron.com for dealer locations or more information.
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Celestron is a leading designer, manufacturer and importer of high-quality optical products including computerized and non-computerized telescopes and related accessories, weather stations, GPS devices, binoculars, spotting scopes and microscopes. Since manufacturing its first telescope in 1960, Celestron has grown to become the world's leading telescope maker, and enjoys brand-name recognition among serious amateur astronomers for superior optics, outstanding design, and innovative technology. Celestron's extraordinary products continue to receive numerous industry and consumer media accolades, adding to an already impressive list that includes awards for product innovation from Reader's Digest, Popular Science, PC Magazine, Popular Mechanics, the Consumer Electronics Association and more. Celestron is a privately held company with corporate offices and manufacturing facilities in Torrance, CA.


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Physicians who rely on nonpharmacologic means to control hypertension are wasting a lot of time and achieving little success in lowering the blood pressures (BP) of their patients, a Canadian physician told a national conference on prescribing held at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
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"Studies show," said Haynes, "that fully 98% of physicians recommend weight reduction in overweight patients, and over 90% say they recommend salt restriction to help control blood pressure.
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One of your first questions should be this. What are you going to use when learning how to do all the SharePoint stuff? Well, what I'm fully expecting is that you already have an existing SharePoint 2010 server installation that someone else has already installed that you can play with. What that means is I am expecting right now you could open up a web browser and type in the address of a SharePoint site that you know you already have access to. That could be a really long address. It could be a really short address.
It could be a .com address. It could be an internal server name. It doesn't matter, and whether the site that you see looks anything like the one I'm looking at now, whether it looks completely different, that doesn't matter either. But I'm expecting that you can already go to SharePoint 2010 site, and if you can, that's great. We will start from there. But what if you don't? Well, to properly learn SharePoint, you are of course going to need access to a SharePoint server. Now, the response I often get from people is "well, can I just quickly go ahead and install it?" And unfortunately not, if you think you can just quickly install SharePoint, you're mistaken.
This is one of the most complex products you could ever dream of installing. It requires a database. It's usually integrated with a lot of backend systems like your mail server and your existing user directory. And I am not going to go into SharePoint installation at all in this course. Installing SharePoint would be a completely separate course all in itself. Now, many companies actually provide commercial SharePoint hosting. If you search for the phrase SharePoint Hosting, you will find out a whole bunch of different solutions including Microsoft themselves who provide this.
If you don't have a SharePoint store together yet, you might want to take a look at these. I'm recording this course in May 2010. This is right at the release date of SharePoint 2010, and that means when I search for SharePoint hosting, I'm seeing a lot of results for the old version of SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, which is not what I want. But as SharePoint 2010 becomes more popular, as we move through 2010 and 2011, this will of course change. But what if you want your very own SharePoint server to experiment with? Can you do that? Well, yes, absolutely you can, if you want to spend the time to get it set up.
Now a very common method for this is to have a virtual machine. A self-contained machine within a machine. You can create one yourself or even use somebody else's. So I am going to go out to microsoft.com/downloads, and see if they have anything, because Microsoft actually often has pre-created virtual machines that can be downloaded. So I am going to search for the phrase SharePoint VM here. I actually have two results. You want to pay attention to any results you see.
Again, this is going to depend on the time that you search for this and what month and what year you're in. I'm seeing the 2010 IW or Information Worker Demo VM (RTM) and Information Worker Demo VM (Beta). And I can tell just from the dates that the one in May is really the one I'm interested in. This is the released to manufacturing or the final shipped version of SharePoint in May 2010. This is a virtual machine that Microsoft has created that you could actually download for, as it says ,evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server.
Now, this is a huge and complex download. This is nearly 20 GB for you to download and yes, I did say gigabytes. There are about 20 different 700 MB downloads that you have to do. I don't want to belittle the idea of how complex it is to set up a virtual machine and the actual requirements just for setting this one up, if you take a little look at what you get here, is that those two different virtual machines, one that has a Windows Server 2008 on Exchange and the other machine has all sorts of different things on it.
SQL Server, Office Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint Server, Fast Search, Project Server. These machines themselves have to actually be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. So that means you can't just put them on a say a Vista or a Windows 7 machine even, because you have to use Hyper-V, which is Microsoft's Virtualization software. Now, if at this point you're thinking, "oh good, Lord, I don't want to mess with all this." "Do I have to do this just to work with SharePoint?" No, absolutely you don't. Again, my assumption is that someone else has already installed the software that you can use, but if you really are needing to look into SharePoint and set something up, and have your own servers to play around with, you might want to take a look at the virtual server solution.
Whatever happens, you need to be able to open up a browser and go to a SharePoint site in order for much of this course to make sense and in order for you to have hands-on experience with SharePoint.