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Thursday, 9 Jan 2014
Creative Roars into CES with Affordable High Fidelity Wireless Speaker
Creative revealed its latest high fidelity compact booklet-sized high fidelity wireless speaker system at CES this week.
Thursday, 5 Dec 2013
Creative Announces the AXX200, the Latest Addition to the Sound BlasterAxx Family
Creative has just announced the latest addition to the Sound BlasterAxx family, the AXX 200, which improves on its predecessors with a host of new features including NFC and "Super Megaphone".
Thursday, 5 Sep 2013
Creative Announces Senz3D Interactive Gesture Camera
Creative has announced the new Senz3D interactive gesture camera, which combines advanced depth sensor technology with a camera and dual array microphones. It can be ordered from Creative.com from 5 September 2013 to the tune of SG$269.
Wednesday, 4 Sep 2013
Creative Announces Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1
Besides the Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1 high performance sound card, Creative has also revealed two internal sound cards that represent powerful upgrades from basic motherboard audio to immersive surround sound - the Sound Blaster Audigy Rx and Sound Blaster Audigy Fx.
Creative Signature T-Series Wireless Speaker Systems Introduced
Creative is set to unveil its new flagship T4 Wireless Signature Series 2.1 speaker system, the T30 Wireless Signature Series 2.0 speaker system, and the T15 Wireless 2.0 speaker system at the IFA 2013.
Tuesday, 3 Sep 2013
Creative Unveils New Aurvana Lineup and Hitz WP380 Wireless Headset
Creative has announced a new range of premium Creative Aurvana headsets: the flagship Creative Aurvana Platinum, the Creative Aurvana Gold, and the Creative Aurvana Live!2, the second gen of the Aurvana Live! headset. Also introduced is the Hitz WP380 wireless headset.
Tuesday, 20 Aug 2013
Wacom Brings Pressure-Sensitive Precision Input to iPad
Wacom has just introduced a new stylus for the iPad called the Intuos Creative Stylus. It connects with your iPad via Bluetooth 4.0, and brings with it 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity for "a realistic pen-on-paper" feel.
Thursday, 13 Jun 2013
Creative Adds Four Wireless Headsets to the Sound Blaster EVO Family
Creative has introduced four new additions to the Sound Blaster EVO family: the EVO ZxR and EVO Zx - the world's first wireless headsets that utilize a built-in multi-core Sound Blaster SB-Axx1 processor, and two affordable headsets - EVO Wireless and EVO.
Wednesday, 5 Jun 2013
Intel's Betting Big on Perceptual Computing
Intel is upping its ante in the perceptual computing area with a $100 million investment fund that aims to accelerate the development of software and applications that gives future computers the ability to see, listen and feel.
Thursday, 11 Apr 2013
Creative T3150 Wireless 2.1 Speaker System with Bluetooth Wireless Technology Announced
Creative today introduced the Creative T3150 Wireless 2.1 speaker system with Bluetooth wireless technology at the CEP Expo 2013 held in Moscow.


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Remember when, to fearmonger as part of 60 Minutes NSA propaganda, they warned of a Chinese attack on the US economy that, if launched, would have amounted to China acting as a suicide cyber-bomber?
The attack would have targeted computers' BIOS.
Then there's the scary BIOS plot.
I'll need to go back and review this, but the jist of the scary claim at the heart of the report is that the NSA caught China planning a BIOS plot to shut down the global economy.
Of course, if that happened, it'd mean a goodly percentage of China's 1.3 billion people would go hungry, which would lead to unbelievable chaos in China, which would mean the collapse of the state in China, the one thing the Chinese elite want to prevent more than anything.
But the NSA wants us to believe that this was actually going to happen.
That China was effectively going to set off a global suicide bomb. Strap on the economy in a cyber-suicide vest and … KABOOOOOOOM!
And the NSA heroically thwarted that attack.
The invocation of a BIOS attack was meant to provide authenticity and (for those who didn't realize how obvious this is, mystery), I think.
But I find it particularly ironic that inserting backdoors into BIOS is (or was, back in 2008) the preferred method of NSA's Access Network Technology group, which provides tools to access hardware and software.
It also develops software for special tasks. The ANT developers have a clear preference for planting their malicious code in so-called BIOS, software located on a computer's motherboard that is the first thing to load when a computer is turned on.
This has a number of valuable advantages: an infected PC or server appears to be functioning normally, so the infection remains invisible to virus protection and other security programs. And even if the hard drive of an infected computer has been completely erased and a new operating system is installed, the ANT malware can continue to function and ensures that new spyware can once again be loaded onto what is presumed to be a clean computer. The ANT developers call this "Persistence" and believe this approach has provided them with the possibility of permanent access.
Again, this is not surprising. It's just a means of doing what the NSA wants to acquire.
Still, it highlights the degree to which most fearmongering claims the NSA makes may well be projection about its own activities.
That said, given the list of companies whose products they've compromised, it may serve as a kind of suicide bomb against the tech industry:
Again, that ANT tampers with Huawei products is not surprising, but it is ironic, given that we not only won't let Huawei do business in the US, but increasingly want to keep them out of our close allies' networks, all because of concerns China would require the company to insert back doors into Huawei equipment.
Maybe those back doors are really NSA's?
But, but, but. NSA only wants to put spyware in your BIOS so that they can keep you safe.
From Chinese doomsday BIOS hackers, among others.
Or is it, "We must destroy the BIOS in order to save it"?
They could go either way here.
I think it is really good that Snowden did not get his hands on those Sensitive Compartmented Information from Special Access Programs. Because, only Clapper knows what would have happen then…
the last four of those listed are very well known manufacturers of hard drives for personal computers. this implies that nsa has gained permanent access to the content of hard rives on a computer?
i don't know the proportion of, e.g., western digital's, sales that are harddrives- internal and external – but i would guess it is very large.
corporate suicide?
or corporate murder carried out by nationalsecurityassholes, inc.?
individual computers, those devices we call desktops, laptops, etc also have a bios that boots up the entire computer, or more precisely, boots up the operating system, which in turn controls any peripherals like a hard drives, printers, scanners, etc.
i feel so grateful and so much safer knowing this, nonetheless, come monday i'm putting in a call to my broker.
NSA: leading by projection.
Just like the GOP-T, they attribute to others the wish to do what they do themselves.
I imagine the TAO elves getting themselves terribly busy in their workshops just before the Christmas – so many mail packages with laptops to open and to update… Because, in post-9/11 US, the BIOS boots You!
gop-t :))
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! bios bombs…bah! Hardrive compromise. bah!
Who needs computer compromise when all they had to do was sell you a..ahem…tea kettle….
sheeezus… China/Walmart conspiracy to infect America with tea kettle cyberterrorists!!!!!
What's next..toilet seat cameras?
a tiny bit of historical background:
"… Western Digital:
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) is the second largest computer hard disk drive manufacturer in the world. They have a long history as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Founded as General Digital in April 1970 by Motorola employee Alvin B. Phillips, the company initially manufactured MOS test equipment. Then, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric Company, the company specialized in making semiconductors. It became Western Digital in 1971 and soon after launched its first product, the WD1402A UART. The WD1771 and its kin were WDC's first entries into the data storage industry.
In 1988, WDC bought the hard drive production assets of computer hardware maker Tandon. The "Centaur" series of ATA and XT attachment drives resulted.
In 2001, WDC became the first manufacturer to offer mainstream ATA hard disk drives with 8 MB of cache buffer (instead of the 2 MB of buffer commonly found in desktop drives at the time). The first drive with 8 MB cache was the 100 GB WD1000JB; other models with capacities from 40 GB to 250 GB soon followed.
In 2003, WDC offered the first 10,000 rpm Serial ATA HDD: the WD360GD "Raptor". It has a capacity of 36 GB and an average access time of less than 6 ms.
In 2006, WDC introduced its My Book line of mass market external hard drives that feature a compact book-like design.
In 2007, WDC released several editions of a single 1 TB hard drive.
In 2008, WDC announced the next generation of its 10,000 rpm SATA WD Raptor series of hard drives.
In 2009, WDC shipped the first 2 TB internal hard drive and announced the first 1 TB mobile hard disk drive, which shipped as both a Passport series portable USB drive as well as a Scorpio Blue series notebook drive. Also in this year, the acquisition of Siliconsystems, Inc. permitted WDC to enter the solid-state drive market.
In 2010, WDC announced the first 3 TB internal hard disk drive…"
"… Seagate:
Seagate Technology is a hard drive and storage solution manufacturer that was founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner. Based in Scotts Valley, California and registered in the Cayman Islands, the company was initially founded under the name "Shugart Technology." As one of the world's biggest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, Seagate's products can be found in many types of computers (i.e. servers, desktops, laptops) and consumer devices (i.e. digital video recorders, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox, Creative Zen Micro). Seagate is also the world's oldest independent hard disk drive manufacturer. Their first product released in 1980 was the ST-506, the first hard disk that fit into the 5.25″ form factor of the Shugart "mini-floppy" drive. In the early 1980s, Seagate became a major OEM supplier for IBM's first personal computer (PC) to contain a hard disk drive, the XT, which resulted in large volumes of sales (as IBM was the dominant supplier of PCs at the time). Throughout the 1980s, Seagate mainly sold 'simple' hard disks which were derivatives of the original ST-506 design. These included the popular ST-225 20 MB disks and ST-251 40 MB disks but Seagate also sold other disks equipped with the faster voice coil technology. After co-founder Finis Conner left Seagate in early 1985 and following an unsuccessful attempt at starting his own company, he was employed briefly as CEO at Computer Memories Inc. (CMI). Connor then founded Conner Peripherals in 1986, which originally offered small-form-factor drives for laptops, but later also offered tape drives after the purchase of Archive Corporation. In 1996, after ten years as an independent company, Conner Peripherals merged with Seagate.
In 1989, Seagate acquired Control Data Corporation's (CDC) MPI/Imprimis disk storage division to gain access to their competitive advanced head development capabilities as well as their voice coil and disk-manufacturing patents. The purchase also gave access to a high end server customer base and the first 5400 RPM drives on the market, the CDC Elite series.
Notable Seagate products included the Barracuda in 1992, the industry's first hard disk with a 7200 RPM spindle speed; the Cheetah in 1996, the first 10,000 RPM disk; the Medalist Pro 7200 range in 1997, the first ATA disk with a 7200 RPM spindle; the X15 in 2000, with a speed of 15,000 RPM; and the innovative "pocket hard drive" in 2005.
In the 1990s, Seagate was mostly traded as a public company under the symbol "SGAT" on the NASDAQ system, later changing to the "SEG" symbol after moving to the NYSE system. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Seagate began to acquire storage software companies. It sold its software division to Veritas resulting in them becoming one of Veritas' largest shareholders.
In 2000, Seagate was made private by an investment group consisting of Seagate management, Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group. There was a 3-way merger-spinoff with Veritas Software Veritas merged with Seagate, which was bought by the investment group. Immediately following, Veritas was spun off to shareholders, gaining rights to Seagate Software Network and Storage Management Group, as well as Seagate's shares in SanDisk and Dragon Systems. In May 2001, Seagate Software Information Management Group was renamed Crystal Decisions. In December 2002, Seagate re-entered the public market under the symbol "STX" on the NYSE. In December 2005, Seagate acquired rival hard disk drive manufacturer Maxtor in an all-stock deal that totaled $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination would be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after the first year of combined operations, resulting in a savings of $300 million in operating expenses. The transaction was completed in May 2001…"
"most fearmongering claims the NSA makes may well be projection about its own activities." It is reasonable to figure that if we can do it, they may be able to too.
A suicide bios sounds a lot like the "Dr. Strangelove" plot with the doomsday machine. Not hard to see Alexander as Gen. Jack D Ripper and Clapper as Gen. "Buck" Turgidson. Any nominations for ol' Strangelove hisself?
Of those company names on the list, most are also associated with computer routers so who needs splitters if you can just program the router to redirect traffic to the NSA first?
@lefty665:"Any nominations for ol' Strangelove hisself?"unquote
Feinstein. Fit's like a glove.
Actually, Hayden works better.
@bloodypitchfork: Heil yes. DiFi is inspired. The vision of Peter Sellers doing Feinstein-Strangelove in drag brightened up this dreary afternoon. Thank you.
Hayden or John "Total Information Awareness" Poindexter would work too.
President Muffley has already been cast. How about Major "Bat" Guano?
How silly. The Chinese needn't use a cyber attack if they wanted to impress on the US its dependence on the Chinese economy. They have a dozen simpler ways to do it in the macroeconomy of debts, trade balances and the like. So while the Chinese could do this, and they are indeed economically powerful competitors, they look in this scenario far more like a Booze Allen or CIA contrived boogie man.
the problem with the infected BIOS is far, far worse than the "NSA-NIST Dual EC DRBG random murder generator". Recovering hidden math that can crack RSA encryption via predicting random generator output is rather hard to do, for a non-government entity. But a BIOS-based backdoor that's already in place can be scanned for, and utilized by any motivated criminal once the BIOS-based exploits become known…
@milkshaken: All Intel based machines for more than a decade have had back doors built in. In the newer cpus it is on die and permits out of band remote access (OOB – when the computer is "turned off").
BIOS based back doors are just another way to be had on those machines, but not as convenient as baked in at the hardware level.
Hardware, firmware (bios), OS, software and liveware (c'mon click this link). On individual machines, just as we've seen on mass collection, NSA is exploiting every opportunity that national technical means provides.
Strangelove question. Why the wheelchair? FDR? What was Kubrick saying?
Wikipedia says Strangelove is amalgam of four people: RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, mathematician and Manhattan Project principal John von Neumann, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and Edward Teller, the "father of the hydrogen bomb." Were any of them in wheelchairs?
Over in the ew's Pauley post, I mentioned Pearl Harbor and Robert Stinnett. There's a series of Stinnett interviews here that stretch over 10 years: http://www.correntewire.com/fdr_and_pearl_harbor_scott_hortons_2013_interview_of_robert_stinnett_author_of_day_of_deceit — that's the last, links to the rest. And on Amazon you can search inside his book Day of Deceit. Stinnett says Pearl Harbor was part of a (U.S. Navy!) eight-point plan to provoke Japan into striking first that FDR approved and started implementing in October 1940 as a back door to war with Germany that FDR believed had to happen but that Americans overwhelmingly opposed. Days earlier, in September 1940, Japan, Germany and Italy had signed the Tripartite Pact that if one was attacked, the others would join and help. Before Pearl Harbor 80% of Americans opposed entering "Europe's war," the day after Pearl Harbor that totally flipped. Stinnett did the research, did the FOIAing, served in the Pacific in WWII, and doesn't blame FDR, doesn't see him as a monster, thinks he had no other option. But you can search all the interviews and the book and find no mention of Einstein or his 1939 letter to FDR that led to the Manhattan Project and that some suggest was a reason FDR was so determined to get America into war with Germany.
Stinnett's the one who found the documents and published Day of Deceit in December 1999; Kubrick died in March 1999, so he couldn't have read the book. But it turns out others from the start believed FDR provoked Pearl Harbor or left the door open for it to happen. There's been a long-running [academic battle?] between the "court historians" and the "revisionists" – they have names for each other.
What did Kubrick know? I've been wondering why the wheelchair. And like with Lincoln and Kennedy, I wonder what would have happened if FDR had lived. Would FDR have dropped the bomb?
Waiting for someone to mention badBIOS and put it in context here –
Another intriguing characteristic: in addition to jumping "airgaps" designed to isolate infected or sensitive machines from all other networked computers, the malware seems to have self-healing capabilities.
"We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of a sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys."
Over the past two weeks, Ruiu has taken to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus to document his investigative odyssey and share a theory that has captured the attention of some of the world's foremost security experts. The malware, Ruiu believes, is transmitted though USB drives to infect the lowest levels of computer hardware. With the ability to target a computer's Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), and possibly other firmware standards, the malware can attack a wide variety of platforms, escape common forms of detection, and survive most attempts to eradicate it.
But the story gets stranger still. In posts here, here, and here, Ruiu posited another theory that sounds like something from the screenplay of a post-apocalyptic movie: "badBIOS," as Ruiu dubbed the malware, has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.
Please say it ain't so Joe…Der Spiegel has report about No Such Agency spying the old fashioned way. They are themselves an Original Equipment Manufacturer, OEM, and customizing the hardware and software, with customized hardware and software, or "bugs".
If a target person, agency or company orders a new computer or related accessories, for example, TAO can divert the shipping delivery to its own secret workshops. The NSA calls this method interdiction. At these so-called "load stations," agents carefully open the package in order to load malware onto the electronics, or even install hardware components that can provide backdoor access for the intelligence agencies. All subsequent steps can then be conducted from the comfort of a remote computer.
This will certainly inspire other governments and corporations.
And Dr. Strangelove=Dr. Kissinger.
@thatvisionthing:"But the story gets stranger still" unquote
If they discover bios sucking alien parasites..I'm goin back to analog. :)
quote"And Dr. Strangelove=Dr. Kissinger."unquote
DOH!!! of course.
@Frank33: The rest of the paragraph from wikipedia:
There is a common misconception that the character was based on Henry Kissinger, but Kubrick and Sellers denied this;[13] Sellers said, "Strangelove was never modeled after Kissinger—that's a popular misconception. It was always Wernher Von Braun."[14]
Love [13]:
As Kubrick worked on the script, the tone shifted away from seriousness and more and more to that of a "nightmare comedy." Kubrick said, "After a month or so, I began to realize that all the things I was throwing out were the things that were the most truthful. After all, what could be more absurd that the very idea of 2 mega-powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political difference that will seem as meaningless to people in a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages seem to us today?" (Starr).
Kubrick summarized, "Confront a man in his office with a nuclear alarm, and you have a documentary. If the news reaches him in his living room, you have a drama. If it catches him in the lavatory, the result is comedy."
"Kubrick spoke of how he became struck by people's virtual listless acquiescence in the possibility–in fact the increasing probability–of nuclear war by either design or accident. Dr. Strangelove was undertaken with the conscious aim of sounding an alert that would startle people into a response and even resistance to such a fate. And, laughter, not for the first time was the device selected to penetrate the sound proofing of the paralyzed will." (Walker). Kubrick and Sellers shared the conviction that power figures are impotent in one way or another, and riffed on the motif of sexual panic motivating deadly military strategy.
@thatvisionthing: Speaking of Stinnet, Scott Horton interviewed him at the beginning of December. It was a good interview!
@earlofhuntingdon: Yup. That's what I said when 60 Minutes tried it. If they haven't already done this via currency, no reason to think they would via hack.
@thatvisionthing:I think I read somewhere that Peter Sellers was also going to play Major Kong. However, a misstep in the bomb bay of the B-52 led to a foot or ankle injury for Sellers, leading to the wheelchair for Sellers and the casting of Slim Pickens as Major Kong.


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a. Water molecules make up part of the membrane.
b. The membrane is a mosaic of phospholipids and proteins.
c. The phospholipids that make up the membrane can move.
d. Membranes are made of proteins and lipids that can freely move.


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So far, so good. There's a problem: Managers of the profit-hungry corporations that produce most of the country's journalism have fewer resources to do their jobs, which predictably leads to less of the investigative journalism that requires time and money. The proposed solution: Committed journalists, backed by well-intentioned benefactors, step in to fill the gap through Pro Publica.
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This newsroom will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with "moral force." We will do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them. In so doing, in the best traditions of American journalism in the public service, we will stimulate positive change. We will uncover unsavory practices in order to stimulate reform.This articulation of the "comfort the afflicted/afflict the comfortable" mission of journalism is fine. But the mission statement makes it clear that the focus will be to "uncover unsavory practices" that and can lead to "reform." But what if the crucial questions that the contemporary world faces are not rooted in practices but in systems? What if we should focus not on the unsavory actions of people wor king in institutions, but on the nature of those institutions themselves? What if the goal should be not reform but a radical transformation of the hierarchical systems in which we live? What if, instead of chasing the latest scandal, the real work of investigative journalism should be a sustained critique of First-World imperialism and predatory corporate capitalism in the context of white supremacy and patriarchy? What if that's the analysis that really gets to the core of an unjust and unsustainable world?
We will do this in an entirely non-partisan and non-ideological manner, adhering to the strictest standards of journalistic impartiality. We won't lobby. We won't ally with politicians or advocacy groups. We will look hard at the critical functions of business and of government, the two biggest centers of power, in areas ranging from product safety to securities fraud, from flaws in our system of criminal justice to practices that undermine fair elections. But we will also focus on such institutions as unions, universities, hospitals, foundations and on the media when they constitute the strong exploiting or oppressing the weak, or when they are abusing the public trust.
Those questions reflect my politics and ideology, my way of understanding how the world works. Maybe I'm right, and maybe I'm not. I don't claim to be non-partisan or non-ideological. But no one else can make such a claim either, and therein lies the failure of Pro Publica and contemporary journalism more generally. Mainstream journalists typically will not understand their work as inherently political and ideological, even though that is the case of any attempt to understand how the world works. This invocation of "journalistic impartiality" is simply a reminder that most of contemporary corporate commercial journalism is trapped within those dominant systems of power.
Some critics have expressed concern that the Sandlers' past support of Democratic Party candidates and liberal causes will skew the coverage of Pro Publica, [see Jack Shafer, "What Do Herbert and Marion Sandler Want? Investigating the funders of ProPublica, the new investigative journalism outfit," Slate, October 15, 2007. but that misses the point, for two reasons. First, there's no more reason to doubt the group's commitment to an editorial agenda independent of a particular party or politician than there would be for any commercial media outlet, in which journalists are beholden to owners. Second, the assumptions about power behind the liberal politics of people like the Sandlers are well within the conventional wisdom that embraces corporate capitalism and U.S. "leadership in the world" (which really means "domination of") as the natural order; if not the mission statement of Pro Publica would have been quite different.
By detaching from the need to make a profit, Pro Publica takes the first step of freeing journalists from the constraints that so often limit the craft. But journalists cannot spring the trap unless they abandon the naiveté that leads to the idea that they can hover above politics — understood not merely as the struggles between competing configurations of elites but more basic questions about the distribution of power.
Yes, it's important for journalists not to become shills for a particular party or cause; independence is at the core of modern journalism. Yes, journalists should always avoid dogmatism; ideological positions can easily calcify and inhibit critical inquiry. But if we understand politics and ideology as a feature of human thought and always present — everyone works from a set of assumptions about the nature of people and power, and everyone has an ideology whether or not they acknowledge it — then we can see the limits of this approach. Journalists' claims to be outside politics and ideology simply mean that they will be trapped within conventional politics and captured by the dominant ideology.
I think Pro Publica is correct in focusing on business and government, "the two biggest centers of power." But instead of seeing the problems as ranging from "product safety to securities fraud," what if the group investigated the commodification of everything in a capitalist system and the fundamental illegitimacy of corporate structures? What if instead of pointing at "flaws in our system of criminal justice to practices that undermine fair elections," Pro Publica journalists covered how the law legitimizes the everyday crimes of the powerful and how money-dominated pseudo-elections eliminate meaningful democracy?
Again, maybe my analysis of an appropriate mission for journalism is right, maybe it's wrong. But it's no more or less political and ideological than Pro Publica's.
Some may argue that this critique is unfair. After all, the problems we face in the United States are hardly the fault of journalists, and one can't expect journalists alone to solve them. I agree — a degraded political culture has to be addressed at many levels. I believe that independent journalism has a role to p lay, but only if journalism as an institution abandons illusions of neutrality, confronts its place in a corporate commercial system, and makes clear its own political commitments.
(First published in the German magazine Message: internationale Fachzeitschrift für Journalismus, January 2008)
Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). Jensen is also the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Ta king Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang). He can be reached at email@example.com and his articles can be found online.
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Jimmy Montague said:
Journalism as a profession
Journalism as a profession is what's on trial in America. For as long as journalism remains a profession rather than a calling, so long will journalism and journalists be slaves to those who write checks.
The effort launched by the Sandlers expresses some noble sentiment, but one can't hope for too much from it. At best it will be one more voice competing with the likes of Murdoch and Sulzberger, AP and Reuters, etc. No matter how thoroughly Pro Publica investigates, no matter what they expose, there'll be no lack of lying Limbaughs who'll work 24/7 to counter the honest effort.
Lastly, one shouldn't forget the adage: "Behind every great fortune there's a great criminal." If Pro Publica gets too far out of line, stock in whoever has dirt on the Sandlers will go up and up until, finally, somebody spills. The ultimate irony would be that one of Sandler's investigators ends up putting the Sandlers in prison. 8-)
All is vanity!
AngieatWhatNewsShouldBeDotOrg said:
What Pro Publica and ALL News Should Be
Jensen, apparently believing like I do, that the range of problems these newly funded 'Pro Publica' journalists are supposed to be tackling, "from product safety to securities fraud" is laughably narrow, asks wouldn't if be better if instead
"the group investigated the commodification of everything in a capitalist system and the fundamental illegitimacy of corporate structures? What if instead of pointing at "flaws in our system of criminal justice to practices that undermine fair elections," Pro Publica journalists covered how the law legitimizes the everyday crimes of the powerful and how money-dominated pseudo-elections eliminate meaningful democracy?
My "what if" is much simpler and plain. What if this group of journalists started with the premise that each human life on this planet was equally worthy and so the most important news stories are those stories which concern the greatest number of people in the most serious (life-and-death) ways? To see what this news looks like, see my website: www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org. What if journalists heeded the challenges presented to them 40 years ago by Martin Luther King Jr. just 4 days before he was gunned down - the challenge "to develop a world perspective" and the challenge "to rid our nation and the world of poverty."
Pro publica advises that their "newsroom will focus exclusively on truly important stories, stories with "moral force."
Please tell me, Pro Publica, on how you can do that if your news stories
don't address the needless death each year of 11 million kids? Please tell me how any entity that calls themselves a newsroom or a news publication can claim to provide news when it doesn't address the stories which affect the largest number of human beings in the most serious way? How many left wing alternative news internet & other entities will continue NOT prominently addressing THE MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS FACING HUMANITY TODAY - like the very dismal state of humanity itself, with 41 percent of it without sanitation; 17 percent without clean water; and 25 percent without electricity? That's my litmus test for "TRULY IMPORTANT STORIES, STORIES WITH 'MORAL FORCE', those that address the most pressing problems facing humanity. What's your litmus test?
P.S. - For a link to King's complete sermon, and for footnotes for all the above statistics, as well as information on the accuracy of such statistics generally, see my website, www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org , and more particularly, to read a discussion on how those in power don't even see fit to accurately count humanity or quantify its needless death & suffering even though everyone knows that to solve a problem you first have to know its scope, see http://mysite.verizon.net/vze25x9n/wnsb/id15.html. That story alone would
make for incredibly important investigative journalism. Is there anything
more important than the daily UNNECESSARY death and suffering that takes
place in this world today on an unimaginable scale? If not, then there's
no more important news story. It's that simple.
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James Straffon: 100e
28th June to 27th July 2013
This year's Tour de France is a very special one - the 100th edition of the toughest sporting event in the world. We couldn't pass by the opportunity to celebrate this centenary, and I am delighted to announce that James Straffon has created a new collection of work to pay tribute to the 100th edition of the tour.
The exhibition, titled 100e, starts at the gallery on Friday 28 June, and runs until Saturday 27 July.
In this new exhibition, James celebrates one hundred editions of the Tour de France by framing this year's 100th edition of the race within the stanzas of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. Echoing the twelve books of Paradise Lost, James presents the 100e collection as a series of twelve limited edition prints, each themed around a line from Milton's poem and created as an intricately-montaged collection of vintage press photographs and graphic forms.
Highlights for me include No.44 - The verdurous wall of paradise, where we see Jacques Anquetil, the winner of the 1957 tour, signing the leg of a local beauty. Times were different then. As Jacques famously said: "To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman".
Then there's No.36 - Of patience and heroic martyrdom, featuring the rivalry between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali on the 1949 tour, won by Coppi.
Bradley Wiggins is featured obliquely in No.54 - Demy-gods on golden seats. If you look closely at Eddy Merckx's shirt, you will see Bradley Wiggins' race number, 101, from the historic 2012 victory.
The collection does not duck controversy. One of the most powerful images for me in the set is the last, No.91 - Of darkness do we dread ?, which puts Lance Armstrong at its centre and is rich in symbolism and intricately constructed.
James Straffon's limited editions from the 100e series are available to purchase in a choice of two different physical size options: a regular size measuring 16x20 inches (in an edition of 20) and a large format measuring 30x38 inches (in an edition of 5). Each print is signed and numbered by James Straffon on the front under the image area. Purchasers of the complete set of twelve 16x20 inch prints receive the collection in a handmade portfolio, which also includes 'Imaging the Century' - an 1,100 word essay written by renowned author Graeme Fife - author of Tour de France: the history, the legend, the riders and The Beautiful Machine.
Graeme Fife puts it well when he describes the collection as an "egregious tribute to the great bike race. Sensitively conceived and beautifully produced, the collection pulses with that sentiment which pumps through the extraordinary events on the roads, every July since 1903, as the Giants of those roads add a new chapter to the saga: Vive le Tour."
The twelve prints in the collection show the drama of one hundred editions of the Tour de France against a backdrop of universally artistic subjects: descent and ascent; light and dark; immortality; rebellious angels; the anti-hero; temptation; and the pursuit of Paradise. We hope you enjoy this exciting collection.


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Highflying Tech IPOs Fall Flat
By Lynn Cowan
Although Internet-related initial public offerings have enjoyed a far greater average first-day trading pop in the U.S. than their non web-oriented peers in 2011, over the course of the year they ended up with the exact same declines, according to data provider Dealogic.
The average first-day gain for Internet-related IPOs so far in 2011 is 28%, compared to 7% for non-Internet IPOs.
After the buzz of a first-day pop, however, Internet-related IPOs are in the same boat as other deals over the longer term, suggesting that flipping the stocks quickly may not be such a bad strategy if investors want to lock in gains. Both Internet and non-Internet IPOs are down 8% from their original pricing to current trading, according to Dealogic.
That larger first day gains for Internet deals include the year's best performer, Chinese firm Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd., which rose 135% during its debut in March. Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp., which had the second-best pop, generated a gain of 109% in May.
Groupon Inc., by comparison, rose 30.6% on its first day last week–not a shabby performance given the current state of the market, but nowhere near the triple-digit percentages made by hotter deals earlier in the year.
Although some of the original Internet studs remain above their IPO prices–Qihoo opened Wednesday at $17.89, 23% above its $14.50 IPO price, and LinkedIn was at $77.23, 72% above its $45 IPO price–they have given back some of their first-day gains.
Groupon opened Wednesday at $23.51, up 17.6% from its $20 IPO price, but about 10% below its first-day close. Groupon's stock price has slipped in each trading day this week, and have declined 4.4% Wednesday.
Other dot-com deals have fared worse, dragging the group's average year-to-date performance to regular IPO levels. Chinese social media site Renren Inc., which popped 29% on its debut in May, opened Wednesday at $5.12, 63% below its $14 IPO price. Internet radio site Pandora Media Inc., which rose 9% in June, opened at $15.30, down 4% from its IPO price of $16.
Right now, there are two Internet-related IPOs planning to launch before Thanksgiving: consumer review site Angie's List Inc., which wants to raise $114 million on the Nasdaq by listing as "ANGI," and Chinese social commerce site LaShou Group Inc., which is seeking $80 million on the Nasdaq as "LASO."
Online games developer Zynga Inc., which is also expected to price this year, hasn't set its pricing terms yet, and is likely to come in December.
Outside of Internet-related offerings, some of the best non-web related IPO debuts this year were in consumer companies like tea shop chain Teavana Holdings Inc. , women's boutique Francesca's Holdings Corp., car sharing service Zipcar Inc. and coffee chain Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.
Although their first-day pops never approached the triple-digit percentage gains seen by the likes of Qihoo and LinkedIn–leader Teavana, for example, rose 63.5% when it went public in July–their initial performances were still considered strong.
Teavana, Francesca's, and Dunkin' are still above their IPO prices, but they have given back a portion of their first-day gains, and Zipcar is about break-even with its debut level.
Other non-Internet deals, however, have been hit harder, particularly in energy and alternative energy stocks. Two biofuel firms, Gevo Inc. and Solazyme Inc. opened Wednesday down 50% and 41%, respectively, from their IPO prices this year.


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Monday, March 17, 2008
Put your foot in what?
Approval has been especially hard to come by lately, though, when two of those children are teenagers who have a momma that can cook like nobody's business. She can't take care of them but man can she cook. Sorry, that was rude. They actually called her one day so she could tell me how to make something. Humbling to say the least.
I have fried more cuts of meat than I ever thought possible and many without great success. Last night I made fried catfish for the first time ever with the help of my daughter Olivia. (She's reading this over my shoulder insisting she gets credit.) It actually turned out really well and I was excited to have tackled yet another vat of oil with one small victory.
On a side note, there is apparently a way to convert a diesel engine to run on used vegetable oil. At the rate I'm going, I could supply the oil for a small school bus to take my kids to school. Hmmm.
The other morning, I made breakfast and thought I had received the greatest insult so far. The boys said, "Mama Melissa, oooh, you put your foot in this! I mean you put your big toe in and stirred it all around."
"Is that bad?"
"What? You never told your momma she put her foot in something?"
"Um, no."
"It means it's really good!"
Whew! What a relief.
So, if you're ever in the neighborhood and want to stop by for breakfast. Come on in.
I make some mean Malt-O-Meal.
12 comments:
- Ellen said...
Mmmm. That Catfish sounds YUMMY! I'm a big fan of fried (though I know I shouldn't be) and my Gramma makes some mean fried okra every Easter. Another reason to love that holiday! Can't wait for the fair next fall. One fried Oreo just wasn't enough last time. :)
- March 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- MissHannah said...
Girl, you've been putting your feet all over everything. I love your cooking and that catfish was divine.
I can't wait for the neckbones!!!
- March 17, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- myminivanisfasterthanyours said...
Today I made my kids Uncrustables for lunch. I am the best mom EVER!
- March 17, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- Jen said...
Wow--that is a hilarious saying. Never would have thought that as a compliment. :)
- March 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM
- JB said...
Born and raised in New Orleans..the fried food center of the world. :) So toe cheese equals good food, huh? That's one I have not heard yet...hmmm...good to know.
- March 17, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Holli said...
How long are your toe nails anyways....
fried catfish! MMMMMM..... thanks for the thought as I am trying to get my baby - or should say toddler weight off!:)
- March 18, 2008 at 3:50 AM
- Candy said...
Love these new expressions! What are you frying for Easter? By the way, Trey grew up pretty much on fried food--fried chicken and chicken fried steak almost weekly. It's a wonder we're not all suffering clogged arteries. Keep on cooking, girl.
- March 18, 2008 at 9:09 AM
- emily said...
Oh, I know how much you love to create a post with someone over your shoulder:) I bet the catfish was awesome. I too, can't wait to hear about the neckbone!!
- March 18, 2008 at 10:47 AM
- Lori Leigh said...
Hi, just wanted to let you know that I enjoy reading your blog. I found you through the Ethiopian adoption network. My brother and sister-in-law are adopting their first from Ethiopia and I think someone you are related to is and somehow through that link I found your blog! :) Ha! Anyways, my husband has been working in Dallas for the last 4 or 5 months and if we can sell our house, we should be moving to that area. Although I don't think necessarily in your area. :)Have a great day!
- March 18, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- Big Mama said...
That is totally going to be one of my new expressions. I adore it.
- March 21, 2008 at 8:23 PM
- Kim said...
What a gift you gave those kiddos when you validated their momma in that way. Those kiddos love their momma and know lots of things she is good at even though she is not the best caretaker.
You gave those kiddos permission to love and appreciate their momma.
I know from experience how hard it is to "Respect your Mother..." as Jesus asks when they aren't behaving in a manner worthy of it.
You helped them follow Jesus in respecting their momma. Even if it is only cooking.
Thanks for loving kids.
- March 30, 2008 at 5:56 PM
- Carly said...
I know this is a day late and a dolla short, but have you never watched Madea??... She says that all the time. (Tyler Perry movies- PLEASE tell me you've seen them.)
...yes, I am still chronologically catching up on EVERY blog post, and working on other methods of stalking you. Coffee soon? ;)
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(a) The Institute22 is authorized to utilize in the performance of its functions the Working Capital Fund established by the Act of June 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 275).23
(b) The working capital of the fund shall be available for obligation and payment for any activities authorized by this Act, and for any activities for which provision is made in the appropriations which reimburse the fund.
(c) In the performance of authorized activities, the Working Capital Fund shall be available and may be reimbursed for expenses of hire of automobile, hire of consultants, and travel to meetings, to the extent that such expenses are authorized for the appropriations of the Department of Commerce.
(d) The fund may be credited with advances and reimbursements, including receipts from non-Federal sources, for services performed under the authority of section 3 of this Act.
(e) As used in this Act, the term "cost" shall be construed to include directly related expenses and appropriate charges for indirect and administrative expenses.
(f) The amount of any earned net income resulting from the operation of the fund at the close of each fiscal year shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury: Provided, That such earned net income may be applied to restore any prior impairment of the fund, and to ensure the availability of working capital necessary to replace equipment and inventories.24
SECTION 13. ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR FIELD SITES (15 U.S.C. 278c)25
To the extent that funds are specifically appropriated therefor, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to acquire land for such field sites as are necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the activities authorized herein.
SECTION 14. CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES (15 U.S.C. 278d)26
(a) IN GENERAL.-Within the limits of funds which are appropriated for the Institute27, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to undertake such construction of buildings and other facilities and to make such improvements to existing buildings, grounds, and other facilities occupied or used by the Institute27 as are necessary for the proper and efficient conduct of the activities authorized herein.
(b) RETENTION OF FEES.-The Director is authorized to retain all building use and depreciation surcharge fees collected pursuant to OMB Circular A-25. Such fees shall be collected and credited to the Construction of Research Facilities Appropriation Account for use in maintenance and repair of the Institute's existing facilities.70
SECTION 15. FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES (15 U.S.C. 278e)28
In the performance of the functions of the Institute the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to undertake the following activities:
(a) the purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards;
(b) the care, maintenance, protection, repair, and alteration of Institute buildings and other plant facilities, equipment, and property.29
(c) the rental of field sites and laboratory, office, and warehouse space;
(d) the purchase of reprints from technical journals or other periodicals and the payment of page charges for the publication of research papers and reports in such journals;
(e) the furnishing of food and shelter without repayment therefore to employees of the Government at Arctic and Antarctic stations;
(f) for the conduct of observations on radio propagation phenomena in the Arctic or Antarctic regions, the appointment of employees at base rates established by the Secretary of Commerce which shall not exceed such maximum rates as may be specified from time to time in the appropriation concerned, and without regard to the civil service and classification laws and sections 911-913, 921, and 922 of Title 5;
(g) the erection on leased property of specialized facilities working and living quarters when the Secretary of Commerce determines that this will best serve the interests of the Government; and
(h) the provision of transportation services for employees of the Institute between the facilities of the Institute and nearby public transportation, notwithstanding section 1344 of title 31.30
SECTION 16. FIRE RESEARCH (15 U.S.C. 278f)31
(a) There is hereby established within the Department of Commerce a Fire Research Center which shall have the mission of performing and supporting research on all aspects of fire with the aim of providing scientific and technical knowledge applicable to the prevention and control of fires. The content and priorities of the research program shall be determined in consultation with the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration32. In implementing this section, the Secretary is authorized to conduct, directly or through contracts or grants, a fire research program, including-
The Secretary shall insure that the results and advances arising from the work of the research program are disseminated broadly. He shall encourage the incorporation, to the extent applicable and practicable, of such results and advances in building codes, fire codes, and other relevant codes, test methods, fire service operations and training, and standards. The Secretary is authorized to encourage and assist in the development and adoption of uniform codes, test methods, and standards aimed at reducing fire losses and costs of fire protection.
(b) For purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,650,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, which amount includes-
SECTION 17. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES (15 U.S.C. 278g)35
(a) The Secretary is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to expend such sums, within the limit of appropriated funds, as the Secretary may deem desirable, through the grant of fellowships or any other form of financial assistance, to defray the expenses of foreign nationals not in service to the Government of the United States while they are performing scientific or engineering work at the Institute or participating in the exchange of scientific or technical information at the Institute.
(b) The Congress consents to the acceptance by employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology of fellowships, lectureships, or other positions for the performance of scientific or engineering activities or for the exchange of scientific or technical information, offered by a foreign government, and to the acceptance and retention by an employee of the Institute of any form of financial or other assistance provided by a foreign government as compensation for or as a means of defraying expenses associated with the performance of scientific or engineering activities or the exchange of scientific or technical information, in any case where the acceptance of such fellowship, lectureship, or position or the acceptance and retention of such assistance is determined by the Secretary to be appropriate and consistent with the interests of the United States. For the purposes of this subsection, the definitions appearing in section 7342(a) of title 5 of the United States Code apply. Civil actions may be brought and penalties assessed against any employee who knowingly accepts and retains assistance from a foreign government not consented to by this subsection in the same manner as is prescribed by section 7342(h) of title 5 of the United States Code.
(c) Provisions of law prohibiting the use of any part of any appropriation for the payment of compensation to any employee or officer of the Government of the United States who is not a citizen of the United States shall not apply to the payment of compensation to scientific or engineering personnel of the Institute.
(d) For any scientific and engineering disciplines for which there is a shortage of suitably qualified and available United States citizens and nationals, the Secretary is authorized to recruit and employ in scientific and engineering fields at the Institute foreign nationals who have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act and who intend to become United States citizens. Employment of a person under this paragraph shall not be subject to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing employment in the competitive service, or to any prohibition in any other Act against the employment of aliens, or against the payment of compensation to them.36
SECTION. 18. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (15 U.S.C. 278g-1)37
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Director is authorized to expend up to 1.5 percent of the funds69 appropriated for activities of the Institute in any fiscal year, as the Director may deem desirable, for awards of research fellowships and other forms of financial assistance to students at institutions of higher learning within the United States who show promise as present or future contributors to the mission of the Institute38, and to United States citizens for research and technical activities on Institute programs39. The selection of persons to receive such fellowships and assistance shall be made on the basis of ability and of the relevance of the proposed work to the mission and programs of the Institute.
(b) MANUFACTURING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.-67
SECTION. 19. POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (15 U.S.C. 278g-2)40
The Institute41, in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences, shall establish and conduct a post-doctoral fellowship program, subject to the availability of appropriations42, which shall be organized and carried out in substantially the same manner as the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Associate Program that was in effect prior to 1986, and which shall include not less than twenty nor more than 12071 new fellows per fiscal year.
SECTION. 19A. TEACHER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT INSTITUTE PROGRAM (15 U.S.C. 278g-2a.)43
(a) The Director shall establish within the Institute a teacher science and technology enhancement program to provide for professional development of mathematics and science teachers of elementary, middle, and secondary schools (as those terms are defined by the Director), including providing for the improvement of those teachers with respect to the understanding of science and the impacts of science on commerce.
(b) In carrying out the program under this section, the Director shall focus on the areas of -
(c) The Director shall develop and issue procedures and selection criteria for participants in the program.
(d) The program under this section shall be conducted on an annual basis during the summer months, during the period of time when a majority of elementary, middle, and secondary schools have not commenced a school year.
(e) The program shall provide for teachers' participation in activities at the laboratory facilities of the Institute, or shall utilize other means of accomplishing the goals of the program as determined by the Director, which may include the Internet, video conferencing and recording, and workshops and conferences.
SECTION. 20. COMPUTER STANDARDS PROGRAM (15 U.S.C. 278g-3)44
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Institute shall-
(b) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES.-The standards and guidelines required by subsection (a) of this section shall include, at a minimum-
(c) DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES.-In developing standards and guidelines required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Institute shall-
(d) INFORMATION SECURITY FUNCTIONS.-The Institute shall-
(e) DEFINITIONS.-As used in this section-
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 to enable the National Institute of Standards and Technology to carry out the provisions of this section."
SECTION. 21. COMPUTER SYSTEM SECURITY AND PRIVACY ADVISORY BOARD (15 U.S.C. 278g-4)45
(a) There is hereby established an Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board within the Department of Commerce. The Secretary of Commerce shall appoint the chairman of the Board. The Board shall be composed of twelve additional members appointed by the Secretary of Commerce as follows:
(b) The duties of the Board shall be-
(c) The term of office of each member of the Board shall be four years, except that-
(d) The Board shall not act in the absence of a quorum, which shall consist of seven members.
(e) Members of the Board, other than full-time employees of the Federal Government, while attending meetings of such committees or while otherwise performing duties at the request of the Board Chairman while away from their homes or a regular place of business, may be allowed travel expenses in accordance with subchapter 1 of chapter 57 of Title 5
(f) The Board shall hold meetings at such locations and at such time and place as determined by a majority of the Board.
(g) To provide the staff services necessary to assist the Board in carrying out its functions, the Board may utilize personnel from the National Institute of Standards and Technology or any other agency of the Federal Government with the consent of the head of the agency.
(h) As used in this section, the terms 'information system' and 'information technology' have the meanings given in section 20.
SECTION. 22. RESEARCH PROGRAM ON SECURITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS (15 U.S.C. 278h)46
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-The Director shall establish a program of assistance to institutions of higher education that enter into partnerships with for-profit entities to support research to improve the security of computer systems. The partnerships may also include government laboratories and nonprofit research institutions. The program shall-
(b) FELLOWSHIPS.-
(c) AWARDS; APPLICATIONS.-
(d) PROGRAM OPERATION.-


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Anyone Who Remembers The Joy of Childhood Fads?
Haha, just thought about some childhood memories of the childhood fads I grew up around.
Pokemon cards, marbles, pogs,GoGo's....
those were the times..
I was too poor to get into pogs and GoGo's but when kids started playing with marbles and Pokemon cards was when I really hit it big.
I invented so many scams when It came to Pokemons.
I went from getting a couple of worthless cards from some friend to almost having the most cards in the whole school.
One scam I used was selling "moon rocks" from the tv-show.
"moon rocks" was basically asphalt lumps I picked on the way to school.
Hahaha amazing how easily tricked kid was.
I would also trick young girls into giving me good cards in exchange for "cute" low lvl cards.
The good card I got I would than trade it for 3-4 lower/medium cards than haggle the sh1t out of some other kid for another good card but for 2 pokemons instead .
OHH PLZ! I scammed so many kids and made them think they walked away with a great deal.
So the kids would return to get scammed again and again.
HAHA one of the dirtiest scams I pulled, I bought some kind of worthless Poke cards at a gas station for 3 dollars a pack.
I would trick kids into thinking they were straight from America and they hadn't start selling them in Sweden yet, so they were worth more than normal poke cards.
This Scam did backfire when a kid realized he got scammed he went and cried to his older brother and I had to return his cards and compensate him a bit.
I worked that scam for maybe a week until it drew to much heat.
It had come to the point that I had to give cards away cus I had so many duplicates
Sorry for a long post but anyone else have a similar story?
Any memory of Childhood fad you want to share?
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I had the pre pubescent equivalent of an ejaculation when i got Charizard.
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i remember swapping a crappy condition mewtwo to kid for blastoise
machamp and mewtwo were the easiest shinies to get
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Some idiot snitched me out and she told her her mom who knock on our door and made me give it back.
How did you get your shiny cards?
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Always playing outside, no video games
strictly imagination games...
what I always remember is putting a
shirt in my face like a ninja and tie up
the sleeves in back of my head...
always wanted to be a ninja...
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Pogs and pokemon cards the good ole days.
I used to collect slammers. I used to play for keeps and had this one really cheap aluminum slammer with a killer whale sticker on it. I would lure people in because I had nice pogs, like the poison ones. People would see my pogs and my little kid slammer and think they would get some nice easy pogs. I mastered how to use the killer whale slammer. People would get desperate and start offering slammers when they ran out of pogs. I collected some badass looking slammers, lol.
I was poor when pokemon cards came out. I would receive free cards, like eevees and machops. Trade a few of them for diamond cards and a few diamond cards for some stars. I actually ended up with a decent collection doing this. No Charzards or anything, but I got some Flareons, Machamps, and other lower holos.
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I feel bad for them.
They will never know the joy of truly being a child....
Of using their imagination to entertain them self, to play with other...
in a way trading cards are an amazing training tool for kids...
it teaches them business savvy, social skills, entrepreneurial skills and spirit....
it was almost like an economy .
Status came with accumulation of the cards/pogs/fad items.
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By Steven Johnson | ECT Staff Writer
Kurt Chew-Een Lee has been gone from NRECA for 20 years, but coworkers remember him well—formal, demanding and precise, just like his demeanor on the battlefields of Korea.
For long before he was a taskmaster on pension compliance issues for electric cooperatives, Lee's valor and daring saved 8,000 troops from massacre in a hell halfway around the world and brought honor to his ancestry.
"He had a hardnosed Marine way of looking at things," said John Wade, NRECA vice president for risk management and chief actuary. "He is someone who, if you knew him, you wouldn't forget him."
Neither would the men who served under the command of Lee, who died at 88 on March 3 in his Washington, D.C., home.
"He was very strict, by the book, but he was responsible for many of us getting out alive," said Ronald Burbridge, a rifleman in Lee's unit. "I thank God many, many times that he was my platoon commander."
Four years before the Korean War, Lee already made his imprint on the military as the first Asian-American officer in the Marine Corps.
Born Jan. 21, 1926 in San Francisco, he traced his interest in the military to Junior ROTC in high school and joined the Marines in April 1944, toward the end of World War II. To his disappointment, he was assigned to Japanese language training instead of combat, but remained resolute, sailed through officer school and received his commission in April 1946.
Not all Marines approved of his rank. A slight, wiry man, Lee was the target of racial slurs and mocked as a laundryman because of his Chinese background.
"I didn't let racial discrimination hamper me in any way," he explained in 2013 to Veteran Journal. "If people know that you're a serious Marine—what is there to discriminate against? Sure, you're not 6-2 with eyes of blue, but nevertheless, you're probably more effective than the average Marine. And this was appreciated by my leaders."
On the night of Nov. 2, 1950, 1st Lt. Lee's platoon was in the Sudong Gorge on the eastern side of the Korean peninsula, when it encountered a wave of Chinese forces that entered the war in support of North Korea a few days earlier.
"The Chinese attacked that night at midnight. All hell broke loose," Lee said in "Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin," a 2010 Smithsonian Channel documentary that recounted his exploits. "The whole place erupted with gunfire, explosions; the cacophony was tremendous."
Then, silence.
In the darkness, no one knew where the enemy was. Lee told his Marines to hush and conducted a one-man ruse to get the Chinese to reveal their positions. With a submachine gun in one hand and grenades in another, he raced toward the opposing forces, randomly shooting and lobbing explosives to simulate a full-scale assault.
As he edged near the outpost, he shouted in the Mandarin he remembered from his school days: "Don't shoot! I'm Chinese!"
Momentarily confused, the Chinese were ripe for a counterattack. Lee's men unloaded on the fire they identified from the enemy's muzzles. By daybreak, the Chinese had abandoned their positions.
For his bravery, Lee received the Navy Cross, the highest combat honor awarded through the Navy Department to Marines.
"I wanted to dispel the notion about the Chinese being meek, bland and obsequious," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2010.
Shot in the leg and arm during the fighting, Lee was shipped to a field hospital at Hamhung.
When he learned the military planned to send him to Japan to recuperate, he and another wounded Marine absconded a Jeep to return to their company.
With his right arm in a sling, Lee took command of a Marine rifle platoon and headed toward Chosin Reservoir in northeastern North Korea, where Chinese Communists had cut off advancing United Nations forces.
The fighting from Nov. 27, 1950 to Dec. 8, 1950, occurred in some of the most wretched conditions in the history of war. Temperatures dropped to 30 below zero, and blizzards made movement all but impossible. For cover, U.N. troops stacked bodies of dead, frozen Chinese soldiers like bales of hay.
Lee's task was to lead 500 drained men on an eight-mile trek, in the dark of night, over uncharted hills and along rocky, frozen mountain ridges to provide a rescue route for trapped Marines.
As he recalled 60 years later: "It was like shadow boxing with a blindfold on."
Using only a compass for navigation, Lee guided his men safely and led them to their mission, even though the U.N. forces were outnumbered 6 to 1.
"Through his indomitable spirit, he contributed materially to the success of the epic night march of his battalion, which resulted in the relief of the isolated Marine unit and the securing of vital ground," according to his citation for the Silver Star.
On Dec. 8, Lee was hit by a round of machine gun fire that re-injured his arm, still in a sling, and ended his service in Korea.
"I never expected to survive the war. So I was adamant that my death be honorable, be spectacular," he said in a 2010 interview with the Washington Post.
Lee served as an instructor at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and as a combat intelligence officer in Vietnam before retiring in 1968 with the rank of major. In civilian life, he was a supervisor for several years at New York Life Insurance before joining NRECA, where he worked from the mid-1970s to 1994.
Colleagues said Lee didn't make much of his heroics; but then, the subject wasn't something that came up in routine conversations.
"I wasn't aware of all the background," said Joe LoTempio, NRECA pension marketing representative, who worked with Lee for about three years on regulatory compliance issues with the NRECA pension plan. "I did know he was the highest ranking Asian-American in the Marines at one time and he was proud of that."
Lee acknowledged he wasn't the easiest person to get along with, but said to Veteran Journal that there was a purpose to his brusque, no-nonsense manner.
"People claim I wore a big chip on my shoulder. Sure. This chip is my learning tool of expelling ignorance," he said.
But if he demanded respect, he was more than willing to return it. "Kurt was the kind of manager you quickly learned not to answer a question by beginning with 'Well, I think …' " LoTempio laughed. "At the end of the day though, he could be very personable and fair."
In recent years, Lee's story became more well-known. The Smithsonian documentary was released in 2010, on the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, and he was featured in a 2013 film, Connor Timmis' "Finnigan's War."
On Feb. 15, Lee was honorary marshal of the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco, properly dressed in full uniform, riding in a World War II-era Jeep on Market Street to a chorus of cheering thousands. He was honored at a luncheon the next day. They were his last appearances related to the war.
"What a character he could be. The bark was way bigger than the bite," said Debbie Nicholson, NRECA benefits service representative, who butted heads with him one time over a procedural matter.
"After that he was my best bud. Once he knew he couldn't intimidate you, the whole relationship changed. He would call me up to his office and talk IRS code with me," she said. "A remarkable gentleman in many ways—I certainly learned a lot from him."
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[HOWTO] Counters & Timecodes in AfterEffects
May 29th, 2012 by Dan Meyer
A few people have asked how to insert a timecode or a counter in their math videos. This technique constitutes, like, 90% of my AfterEffects usage, so I put together a quick tutorial.
6 Responses to "[HOWTO] Counters & Timecodes in AfterEffects"
It's not possible to do this in final cut pro right?
I'd wager you could hack something together in FCP. I know it supports timecodes. (I forget if they do base 100 or not.) The counters are going to be really painful, though.
on 29 May 2012 at 3:38 pm3 Chris Robinson
Oh man, I needed this a few days ago when I was teaching myself how to make transparent timers and counters in After Effects and utilizing them in Premiere Pro! Now it's time to shoot some 60fps video and get to playing over the summer. Love the work Dan, especially the tutorials.
on 29 May 2012 at 10:48 pm4 summer project: teacher workflows podcast « Quantum Progress
[…] huge fan learning more about how pros do their jobs. I love watching Dan Meyer show how you can add timecodes in AfterEffects (even though I don't have the funds for a copy of this software). I love reading about a pro […]
on 09 Mar 2013 at 7:11 am5 Matt Chadbourne
I need to get my hands on AfterEffects! IMovie just isn't cutting it anymore. What software do you use to screen capture?
on 10 Mar 2013 at 1:48 am6 Dan Meyer
Hi Matt, that'd be Screenflow.


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Definition of wasabi in English:
noun[mass noun]
A Japanese plant with a thick green root which tastes like strong horseradish and is used in cooking, especially in powder or paste form as an accompaniment to raw fish.
- Eutrema wasabi, family Cruciferae.
Example sentences
- Sashimi consists of cuts of the finest raw fish and seafood garnished with crisp shreds of daikon and dipped into soy sauce and the hot, green Japanese horseradish called wasabi.
- It comes with slices of sweet pickled ginger and a dish of salty soy sauce and fiery-hot wasabi (a green paste, similar to horseradish).
- Isothiocyanates are also found in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, and wasabi, the Japanese condiment.
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