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America spends more and more money every year, yet the average American sees absolutely no benefit. We have run up a $15 trillion deficit, yet our roads and bridges continue to deteriorate. At the same time, our school system ranks in the lower rungs among industrialized nations. Millions go without health insurance. Employment opportunities and wages have shrunk, while more and more of our manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas.
We are not spending taxpayer dollars on the right policies or projects. The American people have a right to know what is being done with their money and how the American Congress has so grossly mismanaged the budget for the last 50 years.
I am not advocating massive cuts to the budget, far from it. I am advocating that the money the American people have to pay every April to the federal government be spent productively to stimulate growth and provide a safety net to those most vulnerable.
This is why we need wholesale congressional reform. How can we voluntarily get Congress to reform the way they do business?
Easy, we make their election to Washington conditional upon their adopting real and significant governmental reform as the main plank of their platform. They have one term to make substantial reform, or they are out of office, simple enough.
It is not hard to get Congress to act, so long as we act on our promise to punish those individuals who go against the will of the electorate.
Special interests might fund their campaigns, but while individuals like the Koch brothers have endless amounts of money, they only have two votes. Governmental reform should be top priority, because we will not solve our deep economic problems until we rid the system of the corrupting influences that contributed to the problem in the first place.
We cannot have tougher trade policies that protect American jobs or expand the middle class by creating a climate encouraging private-sector growth or make sure that the money we are spending is productive public spending on important infrastructure needs without fundamentally changing how Washington works.
America's current problems boil down to both bad policy and poor discipline on the part of our political leaders.
How can either presidential candidate rightfully stand in front of the American people and claim this election is about choosing one of two separate paths for the country?
The route may be different, but the destination remains the same no matter who occupies the Oval Office or what party controls Congress, because our elected leaders do not have the courage to act.
They worry more about their special-interest donors cutting off their endless supply of donations and rewards for making sure that their interests are protected at the expense of the rest of the country.
We need strong, honest leadership, not only from the president, but also from elected leaders down the line. This issue transcends partisan politics because both parties have unclean hands when it comes to how we have gotten to the point where we are.
The need to change the way government operates is apparent. Unfortunately, the media tends not to focus on the systemic problems of the country.
Congress appreciates the media neglecting the true problems of our country, because if the American people knew how complicit Congress has been in the ruin of our once large middle class, we would have 535 new unemployment claims.
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The best part about this tournament's outcome? Our best prospect (Jarnkrok) had, I believe, zero points across all four games - and still we dominated. (That's not an anti-Jarnkrok sentiment.)
That's a great point, and I look at it as a testament to the overall depth and balance of our prospect pool. There are lots of areas where they are starting to show signs of potential synergy causing the whole to end up being greater than the sum of its parts.
If I recall correctly, during the Cup years the Wings had quite a few players reach double digits in the goal column. With that kind of depth, even if a "star" has a slump or is shut down due to the opposition keying on him (as you could consider Jarnkrok in this tourney), there is plenty of firepower to give the defense fits.
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It is virtually inevitable government services will be cut in West Virginia, as a result of an order that most state agencies reduce spending by 7.5 percent during the 2013-14 fiscal year.
Why is spending being slashed? Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin explained it Monday, in announcing the mandate. Costs for the Medicaid program are rising drastically. Coal production is decreasing and with it, severance taxes are dropping. Finally, the economy in general is lagging, the governor explained.
Where should the blame fall? President Barack Obama's war on coal is directly responsible for cutbacks in production of that fuel. The Obama administration and liberals in Congress have contributed to higher Medicaid costs - and want much larger increases. Finally, waste of trillions of dollars in "stimulus" and "bailout" programs by Congress and the White House have, if anything, aggravated rather than solved the nation's economic slowdown. The national unemployment rate actually increased during the last reporting month.
During most of the nationwide recession, West Virginia state government did well in comparison to most other states. That was because we in the Mountain State managed our money more prudently than leaders in places such as California, New York and Illinois.
But the federal government's spending spree - with some of it funded by mandates on the states - finally has caught up to us.
A few programs, including public schools and Medicaid, will be exempt from state spending cuts. But some social programs will suffer. West Virginians who need help - and who got it before Obama led the current drive for bigger, more expensive and intrusive government - will be left out in the cold, perhaps literally as well as figuratively. Again, don't blame state officials. The fault lies almost entirely with Obama and liberals in Congress.


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There are two rules about fishing. First, never divulge the location of your prize fishing hole.
Second, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
When it comes to fishing and the one that got away, half the lies fishermen tell arent even true.
For 10-year-old Matt Crawford of St. Stephen and his fish story, no embellishment is necessary. The St. Johns Christian Academy student hauled in his prize catch, an eight-pound bass, out of a pond in Hemingway last week.
Summer was coming to an end, and after an entire summers frustration, Matts frustration was showing.
Matt kept saying, I want to catch a big fish, said grandmother Barbara Schipmann, who has a fishing pond located on her St. Stephen property. He would fish our pond every day and he wasnt catching anything.
So, we hit the road.
Crawford packed up his fishing gear and they made the trip to the Hemingway home of their former pastor, who likewise had a small fishing pond on his property.
Matt jumped out of the car and took off for the pond, Schipmann said. He cast his bait on into the middle of the pond and began to reel it in when this big fish hit.
Schipmann said her grandson battled the big lunker like a pro.
The fish would take off this way and Matt would reel hard and run with him. The fish was so big it nearly bent his pole in half.
After several minutes of battling the bass, Crawford was able to land his catch. He ran up to the house hollering, Look what I caught! I caught a fish!
The prize bass was nearly as large as the fisherman that caught him.
He could barely hold him up, Schipmann said with a laugh.
To commemorate the prize catch, Schipmann plans to have the 8-pound bass stuffed and mounted.
It cost me $280 and I didnt even get to eat the bass, Schipmann said.
As for Matt Crawfords angling expertise, not even Bill Dance has anything on this 10-year old.
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"Sheldon, please pack your knives and go!" These words, emphatically spoken by "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi, were not what he wanted to hear.
But Wednesday night, Maui's own Sheldon Simeon handled it with poise, humility and grace when he got axed from part one of the two-part season finale of Bravo Channel's "Top Chef," the top-rated food show on cable television.
"It was fun. It was a hell of a ride," Simeon said Thursday in a conference call from Honolulu. "Top Chef "staffers in Los Angles listened in to the interview so he wouldn't divulge anything about next week's finale. "I experienced so many things. It's been awesome."
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Maui chef Sheldon Simeon, who runs Star Noodle in Lahaina and Leoda's Kitchen & Pie Shop in Olowalu, bowed out of Bravo Channel's "Top Chef" show on Wednesday.
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Maui chef Sheldon Simeon (center in red hat), chef Brooke Williamson (left of Simeon) of Los Angeles and chef Kristen Kish (left of Williamson) of Boston competed for two spots in next week's season finale of Bravo Channel's "Top Chef." Unfortunately, the Maui chef was eliminated in Wednesday's show. Also shown in the photo are (from left) chefs Micah Fields, Elizabeth Binder, Kish, Williamson, Simeon, Josie Smith-Malave, Stefan Richter and Joshua Valentine.
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After final tapings at head judge Tom Colicchio's acclaimed Craft restaurant in Los Angeles in recent weeks, Simeon returned to Maui, where he runs the kitchens of award-winning Star Noodle in Lahaina and Leoda's Kitchen & Pie Shop in Olowalu.
"I came back to Maui, but then I flew to Honolulu Wednesday night to hang with friends at the Vintage Cave. There's a special dinner there. I'll be hanging in the kitchen with Blane Wetzel of Willows in Washington state. I knew last night's episode would be heavy. So I thought I'd get away, forget about it all, and start a new chapter in my life."
But nobody on Maui is forgetting how close he came to winning it all.
On Wednesday night's episode, cheftestant Kristen Kish of Boston, who had been cut from a previous episode and aced her way through the "Last Chance Kitchen" online program, returned to beat out Simeon. The other remaining chef is Brooke Williamson of Los Angeles.
But no matter. The 10th season of "Top Chef" had many memorable moments for Simeon, who finished third.
"I can't pick and choose a favorite moment," said the Hilo native. "There were so many special ones. Cooking at the top of the Space Needle in Seattle, eating oysters plucked from the ocean in Samish Bay. That was amazing. Taking the helicopter ride to a glacier in Alaska and riding the dog sled and being in all of that snow. I feel so blessed."
Always wearing a distinctive red cap, Simeon said he didn't realize he'd be setting trends on Maui.
"I knew I wanted to be recognizable - so that's how the red hat came about. I wore it throughout the season," he said.
Chef instructor Jake Belmonte, who teaches at Maui Culinary Academy at the University of Hawaii Maui College where Simeon finished his studies, is one of those influenced by the red hat.
"We had a Sheldon 'Top Chef' night Wednesday at my house," he said. "My kids made their own red paper caps, fashioned after all of the red caps other people were seen wearing in photos on Sheldon's Facebook page.
"Sheldon. He's my boy," Belmonte said "He took it all the way to the finale. He represented the island well with his fabulous dishes and his humble personality. Remember when he won the Fil-Am Heritage Festival contest at the Maui Mall?"
Simeon took that prize with his gourmet presentation and tastes of foods from his Filipino heritage.
In fact, he received the most accolades in the "Top Chef" Restaurant Wars, in which he created a Filipino menu for a restaurant he named after his grandfather, Urbano. He gave the name a little twist and called it URBANo.
"Those dishes really showcased who I am as a chef and my Filipino heritage, and it's shined a light on the path I want to take," he said. "Throughout the season, I was the guy from Hawaii who cooked Asian food. When I took time off from Alaska before the finale, I decided I wanted to show the judges I had grown. So on part one of the finale, I cooked quail. At the moment that's what my heart felt. That's what came out on the plate. But you never know what the judges want."
Quail, they didn't want from Sheldon. They wanted the old Sheldon back. Where did Sheldon go, they asked each other. Aside from Lakshmi and Colicchio, these judges included Emeril Lagasse and Hugh Acheson. They were joined by John Besh and Martin Yan at the featured dinner.
"The message was, 'just continue to be yourself.' Don't try to be something that you're not. Am I going to continue to push the envelope? Push myself? Yes, I am. I've just got to remember my past and my roots," Simeon said.
In Wednesday's episode, Maui shined in the national spotlight with video of West Maui beaches and the ocean beyond.
"It was such an honor to represent Maui and my family," he said. "It portrayed just how we live. We love to hang on the beach and barbecue."
Maui Culinary Academy student Marc-Andre Pourny has been following the 10th season of "Top Chef" from day one.
"Sheldon's a part of the Maui Culinary Academy family," he said. "It was so exciting to see a man from Hilo, who works right in Lahaina, on 'Top Chef!' If he's doing it, then any one of us from the academy can. To see him in Alaska, where I'm from, fishing for salmon and making sourdough bread, was just awesome. To me, he's a winner, no matter what the result."
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Given his current status as teacher and coach, it's reasonable to assume Brian Colatruglio had a more than satisfactory start to his educative life even back to his kindergarten days.
Plays well with others. Follows instructions. Knows how to skip.
Check, check and check.
Willing to share. Oops.
Well, there's probably no such thing as a 4.0 kindergarten student anyhow.
That sharing part sometimes is a little tough for Columbian's head football coach. The latest example came moments after the Tornadoes bounced Sandusky 40-14 to run their record to 9-0 and claim at least a co-championship in the Northern Ohio League.
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Hopewell-Loudon 21
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C - Meek 58 run (Strahm kick fails), 4:12
Second Quarter
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H-L - Mark Bouillon 49 pass from Alec Gregg (Kevin Coppus kick), 2:54
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Fourth Quarter
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C - Powers 8 run (Powers run). 2:11
H-L - Jordan Stewart 23 pass from Gregg (Bour kick), :17
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RUSHING: Hopewell-Loudon -Mark Bouillon 17- 50; Gregg 11-7; Cody Malone 2-(minus 7); TEAM 1-(minus 18). Carey - Meek 12-142; Austin Tschanen 12-50; Powers 13-44; Zechman 10-24.
PASSING: Hopewell-Loudon - Gregg 13-33-1-216. Carey - Meek 2-4-0-50.
RECEIVING: Hopewell-Loudon - Bouillon 3-94; Ryan Lommerse 4-59; Stewart 3-47; Zach Clouse 3-16. Carey - Powers 2-50.
"We finished our home season 5-0 and we're 9-0 on the season. That gives us a chance to do something pretty special - go 10-0," Colatruglio said. "That's only been done once in school history and we want to join that 1987 team and finish this thing off.
"The co-championship, that's nice," he said. "But honestly, we don't want to share it. Our motivation is there - we want to have this championship all to ourselves. We've put ourselves in position to play a really big game in week 10."
That comes Friday night at Norwalk. The Truckers might have had a chance at a piece of the title, but they fell to 7-2 overall and 2-2 in the league when Willard blanked them 24-0 Friday. Bellevue (8-1, 3-1), which whipped Shelby and travels to Sandusky this week, is the only other team with a shot.
But they are all looking up to Columbian, the state's third-ranked Division II team in the latest Associated Press poll.
On a night when veteran coach Steve Gilbert was the man of the hour, Tornado backs Ryan Lynch and Jack Jacoby were players of the night.
Gilbert, the school's all-time winningest coach with a 137-44 mark over 17 years, was honored at halftime. Lynch scored four touchdowns while Jacoby ran for 192 yards and added two scores to occupy center field the rest of the evening.
But not right away.
The Blue Streaks challenged Columbian with a loaded defensive front and limited the Tornadoes to 12 yards and no first downs in a scoreless first period.
"They play a different defense than anything you see at any other time," Colatruglio said. "They put nine guys on the line of scrimmage and they bring everybody. They did a nice job with it and it took us some time to pick our way into what they were doing.
"But with Ryan blocking and Jack running, we have a lot of answers if that's the way you want to play."
On the first play of the second period, it was Lynch running - he broke the front line and raced 34 yards for the game's first score.
That was the first of several big plays for the Tornadoes, who piled up 333 total yards.
Jacoby broke off a 60-yard run to the Sandusky 18 on TC's next series. Lynch then went 17 before powering in from the 1 for a 13-0 edge with 7:30 left in the half.
The Streaks narrowed it to 13-7 on quarterback Andrew Barnum's 4-yard run. That closed a 67-yard drive that included Barnum's 25-yard pass to Brandon Stegall and a 32-yarder to Lucas Will.
"We did a lot of good things tonight, but they hit us with some big plays," Sandusky coach Mike Franklin said.
For instance, Jacoby went 8 and 12 yards and then hit a 20-yarder for a touchdown to give Columbian a 20-7 edge at the half.
"There's a reason they're the No. 3 team in the state," Franklin said. "They showed they can make big plays when they have to and Jacoby, he's a tough one. No one's stopped him yet."
Lynch picked off a Barnum pass to give Columbian the ball on the Streak 18 to start the second half. Jacoby went the distance on the first snap for a 27-7 edge.
Ja'Vion Moore was seemingly stopped twice on the kickoff, but eventually broke free for an 89-yard touchdown return to pull the Streaks back to 27-14 with 9:37 still to play in the third period.
But the Tornadoes put it away with a pair of fourth-quarter scores.
First, Michael Rohrbach hit Lynch with a 12-yard scoring pass. Lynch closed his big night with a 16-yard TD run when Columbian went 58 yards in five plays to seal it.
On the defensive side, the Tornadoes limited Sandusky to 28 rushing yards on 26 tries. Though Barnum did have 154 yards passing, he was intercepted three times with Nate Hoyda and Tanner Fisher joining Lynch with picks.
So Columbian is on the brink of regular-season perfection, matching the effort of coach John Tomaszewski's 1987 club. The Tornadoes won a United Press International poll championship that year.
"To win every game, that's a hard thing to do," Colatruglio said. "It's something that comes from playing well, but you also have to have some things go right for you and maybe even get a few breaks. We've worked hard to put ourselves in position and we're going to go after it.
"And the other thing is we're a little selfish," he said. "The NOL, we don't want to share."


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It's difficult to find anything approaching a silver lining in the mayhem that has rocked Boston.
But Bradley Cooper is giving it his best.
The Oscar-nominated star, 38, who's in town filming a movie, paid a visit to Jeff Bauman Jr., who lost both legs below the knee in the blasts at the Boston Marathon. Bauman was there to see his girlfriend, Erin Hurley, cross the finish line.
A Twitter photo shows the smiling Cooper next to Bauman's bed at Boston Medical Center. Bauman is giving a thumbs-up sign.
New England Patriot Julian Edelman, who tweeted the picture, told PEOPLE Friday that Bauman was doing "pretty well."
"He's a really tough guy," says Edelman, who decided to surprise Bauman after hearing he was "a huge Patriots fan."
"He was coherent – we talked about football. He actually threw me the ball," says Edelman. "His mom, stepmom, brother, sister, dad and grandfather were there. You can tell they're a strong family. Jeff is a true inspiration."
Half-way through the visit, adds Edelman, Cooper "showed up out of the blue."
The same day, Cooper also attended the interfaith service where President Obama paid tribute to the bombing victims and their families.
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The trouble with Harmony: Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article critiquing the output of Project Harmony.
Legitimizing the flaws of maximalism
In opting to follow the maximalist model of contributor agreements, Harmony inherits, and thereby legitimizes, all of that model's problems. There is growing awareness that the maximalist approach can impair the effectiveness of the open source community development model, creating unnecessary barriers to contribution. Rather than attempting to address those problems, Harmony merely hides them in attractive packaging.
One such problem is the departure of the maximalist model from the traditional free software norm of licensor equality. I believe that greater equality among project participants benefits FLOSS by facilitating the growth of vibrant developer and user communities around projects. Harmony's insistence that the contributor assign copyright or grant a maximally broad copyright license signals that contributors are second-class citizens, undeserving of the same legal power as the project entity. With Harmony's maximalist predecessors, this problem is exacerbated in the worst instances of the so-called "dual-licensing" business model, where a commercial project entity uses the GPL as its "community" license, spreads unwarranted fear about the GPL, and retains the sole power to provide alternative proprietary licenses.
Another problem is that maximalist contributor agreements, particularly complex ones like the Harmony templates, seem to signal that there is something legally insufficient or doubtful about open source licensing. If open source licensing is good enough for outbound licensing, why is it not good enough for inbound licensing? Why, in other words, is it considered necessary to impose an additional foreign legal layer on top of open source licenses? By legitimizing maximalism, and rejecting the inbound=outbound tradition, Harmony's drafters call open source licensing itself into question.
The perils of uniformity
One of the stated goals of Harmony is to reduce the supposed proliferation of contributor agreements through a new standard set that is thought to embody best practices. The hope, presumably, is that Harmony will come close to occupying the field, perhaps ultimately supplanting existing contributor agreements and alternative practices, including the inbound=outbound tradition and minimalist approaches.
In this one respect, Harmony reminds me of efforts by two prestigious U.S.-based institutions, the American Law Institute (ALI) and the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), to 'restate' and unify the law on various subjects. Most of that work has been of great value. But in the software industry we have twice seen the dangers of an ill-informed push for unification. The ULC's Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) met with such strong opposition that it was adopted in only two U.S. states. The more recent case is the ALI's Principles of the Law of Software Contracts, of which Harmony's chief drafter, Mark Radcliffe, has been a notably outspoken critic.
Formal contributor agreements, whether maximalist or minimalist, remain an uncommon phenomenon in open source. We are only beginning to learn what works, what fails, and what causes harm to open source community development. It is premature for us to unify, or harmonize, the 'law' of open source contribution policies. We are particularly not ready to declare victory for the perennially controversial maximalist approach, let alone Harmony's new take on it.
I therefore apply to Harmony the words its chief drafter himself used to warn the software industry about the ALI's Principles. If widely adopted, this unified maximalist contributor agreement system may well "have a very negative effect on the open source software industry" and "could have a significant negative impact on open source licensors and contributors".
The misappeal of Creative Commons
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has likened Harmony to Creative Commons. Given the enthusiasm for Creative Commons among many open source developers, I have expected supporters of Harmony to use that tactic in urging its adoption. There may be some similarities between the Creative Commons license suite and Harmony, but I am not sure those similarities are good.
The Creative Commons suite includes licenses that implement various policies. Some, like CC BY and CC BY-SA, are normatively consistent with corresponding permissive and copyleft families of free software licenses. Others, however, particularly its "NC" (no commercial use) and "ND" (no derivative works) licenses, are in conflict with basic principles of free software and free culture. I am not alone in lamenting the application of the Creative Commons umbrella brand to cover licenses with such disparate qualities. One consequence has been a general confusing dilution of the meaning of "openness" in the context of cultural works. A more specific problem is the evidence of confusion on the part of content authors interested in applying Creative Commons licenses to their works, and resulting confusion by those interested in making use of such works. Too often a work is labeled as being licensed under "a Creative Commons license", without specifying accurately, or specifying at all, which free or nonfree policy the author sought to apply.
What resemblance Harmony has to Creative Commons raises similar concerns. Giving Harmony the greatest benefit of the doubt, I fear that the application of "Harmony" as an appealing global label to a set of permutations with differing legal consequences will confuse projects and contributors alike. In the context of Creative Commons, those concerns are somewhat attenuated by the nature of the material to which such licenses are applied. From the perspective of open source, the very different legal culture established by Creative Commons is not only tolerated but welcomed as an enormously successful experiment that is safely cabined to non-software content. It might be different if Creative Commons recommended, as it explicitly does not, the use of its licenses for software. Were someone to propose that a seemingly simple Creative Commons-like suite, designed by some central committee, should replace all traditional FLOSS licenses as they exist organically today, it would be quite alarming. I hope that Harmony is not the first step towards such a goal.
Software freedom and responsibility
Readers who have come this far may well ask, "Who cares?" If projects sincerely interested in building communities perceive that Harmony is problematic, they are free not to use it. If contributors perceive that Harmony is problematic, they are free to shun projects that use it. Part of the answer lies in the surface appeal of Harmony, and in its likelihood of causing confusion.
The rest of the answer lies in the backing of Harmony by the prestige of Canonical and its founder, or so I have thought. I have expected Canonical, the company that is behind one of the most popular Linux distributions, and Mr. Shuttleworth, a man with many resources at his disposal, to use their influence to promote Harmony. In the week following Harmony's 1.0 launch, however, I have seen no pertinent press release from Canonical, nor any supportive statement from Mr. Shuttleworth. This puzzles me, but for now I must suppose that Mr. Shuttleworth has not lost interest in this project. I will assume that we may yet see some effort by him and his company to encourage community and industrial adoption of Harmony.
Canonical and my own employer, Red Hat, are very different technology companies, yet we are united by common cultural origins. We are both authentic products of the free software movement, and in particular that part of it that produced GNU and Linux. Our respective and very different successes give us each a special place in the FLOSS universe. But that special place also implies a special responsibility to conserve and nurture the community development culture from which we both sprang, and to exercise great care not to do anything that might damage it. It is with that responsibility in mind that I say to Mr. Shuttleworth, with all respect, that I cannot join him in any support of the Harmony initiative.
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Richard: The Harmony web site is pretty clear in its intentions:
"Contribution agreements are one available tool out of many in an overall legal strategy for FOSS developers, the entities that distribute their work, and the users of their work. We hope that our work will enable more people to contribute code, by reducing the cognitive cost and legal time of reviewing contribution agreements. However, the fact that we're working to improve this one tool doesn't imply that we think it is a necessary part of all FOSS legal strategies. Many successful FOSS projects choose not to use contribution agreements, and we are hearty advocates of those projects, and of a broad variety of strong legal strategies built using a broad variety of tools."
No maximalist approaches claimed. The Eclipse Foundation, ASF, Linux Foundation (and Outercurve Foundation for that matter) all take different approaches. None of them claim to have the one true approach.
There's a corollary to Tim O'Reilly's version of freedom 0: It is up to any contributor to understand the terms under which they're contributing to a FOSS project.
The Harmony core team have tried to provide a set of agreements that are very simple in what they state and the language used to state it, as well as the supporting guidance and FAQ, so developers that encounter them will hopefully have a better chance of understanding what they're signing regardless of whether they choose to involve counsel or not.
Dave Neary's excellent blog post discussing his concerns about developing communities and CLA also puts them in context:
"Among the most common superfluous barriers to entry that you find in free software projects are complicated build systems or uncommon tools, long delays in having questions answered and patches reviewed, and unnecessary bureaucracy around contributing. A JCA fits squarely into that third category.
In a word, the core principle is: To build a vibrant core developer community independent of your company, have as few barriers to contributing as possible."
We live in a world where well run FOSS projects are transparent. Organizations that choose to abuse trust in the FOSS world generally get caught out and punished by a lack of participation. I still believe the Harmony documents are a better solution to the narrow problem they attempt to solve than the free-for-all we currently enjoy.
What problem is Harmony trying to solve?
I think the answer to that question is what disturbs a lot of folks.
The Harmony project is the second attempt by Canonical to get Debian developers to assign copyright to Canonical so it can sell Ubuntu.
Mark Shuttleworth understands the business value of Debian's software but Debian's strong Social Contract prevents him from scooping up all of Debian and reselling it - like Red Hat did with Red Hat Linux. Canonical wants to make Ubuntu profitable and to do that it needs to have some perceived value and as long as Ubuntu is Free Software, Canonical will have a hard time communicating that perceive value. One option is to create secret sauce from the free Debian bits. But to do that you need to move the software to a more permissive license, and to do that you need copyright, hence Harmony.
How does Debian's social contract prevent the resale of Debian? Isn't Canonical essentially reselling Debian today with Ubuntu LTS?
The Debian Free Software Guidelines don't seem to have a problem with it, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
Free Redistribution
The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
I don't think that Debian's social contract prevents its resale. It is just that there isn't a lot of perceived value in Ubuntu if you can get it for free by downloading Debian.
I don't think there is any problem with your understanding - rather it might be me who is merely speculating. But why does Canonical want copyright assignment if is not going to change the license of the copyrighted software? And isn't the need to assign copyright a way to get around strong copyleft licenses of which there are a lot in Debian?
Yeh, I've personally found myself drawing a similar conclusion. When I ask myself, "What problem is Canonical trying to solve with Harmony?" the only answer I can guess at that makes sense to me is "Take advantage of copyleft licensed-code without having to respect copyleft."
This is pure speculation, though. It's not clear through any of the Harmony-related things I have read what the actual problem they are trying to solve is, so all I have is my guess.
When I ask myself, "What problem is Canonical trying to solve with Harmony?" the only answer I can guess at that makes sense to me is "Take advantage of copyleft licensed-code without having to respect copyleft."
They don't need Project Harmony for that -- they already have CLA's in place for all their major software projects.
There are 2 major use-cases I can see for a project like this. The first reflects the fact that there are already in place a whole bunch of commercial software companies who insist on a maximalist CLA for contributions to their FOSS projects. Whatever their reasons for that (dual-licensing, open core, other not-very-nice reasons...), it's convenient to have in place a standard agreement which everyone uses and whose terms are widely known and understood.
In the same way it would be convenient to have a spectrum of steadily more contributor-friendly agreements, so that contributors don't need to check the details of a project's CLA but can just check which of a set of standard agreements it is. (This is where I see the potential analogy to Creative Commons: whatever the frustrations of the noncommercial or no-derivatives licences, they do at least provide an easy frame of reference for a set of different licensing conditions.) It would also provide a nice frame of reference for the community to judge the true openness of a project.
The second application I see is in facilitating the open-sourcing of currently proprietary software projects. As we know from the case of Sun trying to open-source Java this can be a very drawn-out and complicated process. Issues include proprietary dependencies that can't easily be removed, ongoing commitments to provide proprietary-licensed versions to clients, and so on -- things that make it impossible to permit outsider contributions to the project without a maximalist CLA.
A spectrum of standardized CLA's ranging from maximalist to something like the Linux DCO would provide a good framework within which commercial projects could incubate the process of open-sourcing, from the initial getting-rid-of-proprietary-obligations stage to building equitable and meritocratic development communities.
I don't say that Project Harmony necessarily fulfils these goals, but these are definitely valid use-cases for the kind of work they are doing.
The Harmony project is the second attempt by Canonical to get Debian developers to assign copyright to Canonical so it can sell Ubuntu.
Mark Shuttleworth understands the business value of Debian's software but Debian's strong Social Contract prevents him from scooping up all of Debian and reselling it - like Red Hat did with Red Hat Linux. Canonical wants to make Ubuntu profitable and to do that it needs to have some perceived value and as long as Ubuntu is Free Software, Canonical will have a hard time communicating that perceive value. One option is to create secret sauce from the free Debian bits. But to do that you need to move the software to a more permissive license, and to do that you need copyright, hence Harmony.
Richard, thank you for writing Part 2! Part 1 is a good introduction to a range of theoretical problems related to Harmony, but Part 2 really makes the problems concrete for me. In particular these two sentences really caught my attention:
With Harmony's maximalist predecessors, this problem is exacerbated in the worst instances of the so-called "dual-licensing" business model, where a commercial project entity uses the GPL as its "community" license, spreads unwarranted fear about the GPL, and retains the sole power to provide alternative proprietary licenses.
Another problem is that maximalist contributor agreements, particularly complex ones like the Harmony templates, seem to signal that there is something legally insufficient or doubtful about open source licensing.
These are serious issues! Thank you for uncovering them.
Michael: I deeply respect your viewpoints. I also know that you are well read. Please go read what Harmony has to say for itself. It makes no such maximalist claims. And then read the agreements. They can be used as license templates as well as assignment templates.
The best example of the notorious "dual" licensing business model was MySQL and I never saw anyone from MySQL AB scaremonger the GPL. The FSF was more than willing to ensure everyone understood the unchallengeable hard-line ethos of software freedom.
Lastly, your Roosevelt quote is perfect. Not just one man, nor one party, nor one nation, but the cooperative effort of the whole world. I participated on the edge of Harmony since last September. There were a lot of companies and individuals represented in the room, not just Canonical. I didn't see a lot of participation from Red Hat. I appreciate Red Hat and Canonical compete in the marketplace, but they have both contributed enormously to our industry in their products and through the actions of their employees in the FOSS world. Indeed, it takes all kinds of viewpoints.
Stephen, MySQL AB users still come up to me at conferences (as recently as LinuxFestNorthwest 2011) and tell me that they've been told by MySQL AB (now, the stories are Oracle) that they need a non-GPL license even for having ANSI SQL statements embedded in their code, even if the code works fine against both Postgres and MySQL.
As Simon Phipps notes over on identi.ca, MySQL AB was careful to do this privately with "customers" (read: shake-down recipients).
This situation is what convinced me that it's dangerous for any for-profit company to do GPL enforcement. Of course, non-profits can be corrupt, but GPL enforcement as a for-profit business model encourages as maximal reading of what is and is not a derivative work as your "sales" people believe they can get away with.
I've always considered this the hidden "gotcha" of the copyleft strategy. By maintaining tight control over the source code, even though the intended purpose is to use that control to enforce software freedom, it also grants the power to abuse that control. Permissive licensing strategy, on the other hand, levels the playing field by giving equal access to all, but at the same time gives away all power to enforce the behavior of redistributors.
I'm not arguing in favor of either copyleft or permissive here, BTW, just recognizing the inherent paradox of both strategies.
Allison, It really doesn't make sense to say you're not arguing against copyleft when you say it has "gotcha"s. The fact you bring up, meanwhile, is not part of the nature of copyleft, it's part of a single place of copyright or CLA control that cannot be trusted.
Linux, for example, will never have this problem due to many copyright holders. FSF, in my belief, will never have this problem due to the promise-backs in its ©AA, its non-profit mission, and leadership. Yet, I still see why people don't trust FSF even though I do. Centralized control can make copyleft dangerous if the control is abused.
Abuse happens when problematic CLAs and ©AAs (such as most of Harmony's options) are used with copyleft projects. It's not part of copyleft's nature by itself. For you to say the latter is to argue against copyleft. It's your right to do so, but please don't try to pretend you aren't arguing against copyleft.
Hi Bradley: Sorry to hear MySQL AB treated it's customers so poorly. And Oracle sales execs suggesting including an ANSI standard language statement that talks to an RDB in the app (even MySQL) triggers the GPL is sad commentary indeed. You are likely in a better position to hear from such folks as I. I've no problem with for-profits defending their software licensing terms if they use the GPL, but I would obviously want them to do it "properly" and not lie to customers.
Hi Richard: Thanks for the clarifications. That last meeting to which you refer was certainly poorly attended and short because of it. I've no idea what happened.
Simon has raised excellent concerns along the way. A developer better understand what they're signing away. But that's been no different for the past 25 years since the FSF first put their assignment process in place.
Your presentation last September was well received. I think being able to work with the Linux DCO process as a minimal process approach would be great if we could all keep the nasty players from our doors. Unfortunately we don't always get to play that way.
Michael, I hope that you and others will take the time to read the agreement templates before reaching any final position on them.
Collecting code from a group of contributors is a very different act than distributing code to a group of users. It involves different legal considerations, responsibilities, and consequences. That doesn't mean that open source licenses are inadequate. They are designed for a particular purpose, distributing code to users in an open way. They aren't intended to cover the details of collecting code from contributors. It would certainly be possible to bake the details of contribution into the distribution license, but the resulting monolithic document would be unnecessarily complex.
The inbound=outbound strategy works for some projects with some contribution policies. But there are also other open projects with other open contribution policies, where a simple inbound=outbound is inadequate. Harmony is simply a tool to help projects who want a little more clarity in the relationship between the contributor and the project to navigate some of the possibilities that fit with an open contribution policy.
I'm reminded here of the unjustified criticism that OSI received in the early days as being "against freedom". Harmony is not a political agenda, it is certainly not fear-mongering against the GPL, and it is not an attempt to dominate the world with proprietary licensing. Like the OSI, Harmony supports both copyleft and permissive strategies, the full diversity that is the open source community.
Allison, I spent the entire July 4th holiday weekend of 2011 studying the Harmony agreements, and I wrote extensively about my analysis after I diffed the 1.0 drafts against the Beta drafts in the following week after that. I'm certainly not among the others you reference that haven't studied them. I know that Fontana is not either, as he studied them as well. I can't speak whether Michael is or not.
Nevertheless, I've told you many times that many of us, including me, believe that CLAs and ©AAs are moral documents. The implement a moral policy for a FLOSS project.
Therefore, any set of documents that try to implement moral policies for FLOSS projects are going to have a political agenda, even if that political agenda is an amoral one.
Brad, indeed, I know from talking on identi.ca over the past few months that you and Fontana both have spent a great deal of time thinking about Harmony. I doubt others will invest as much time, but I hope they will read the documents and judge them on their own merits.
As you know from our conversations, I'm very uncomfortable elevating legal documents to the level of "morality". I think it puts far too much power in the hands of the law. I much prefer to have the "morality" vested in the project policy and governance, and keep the legal documents in a lower status position as mere tools for enacting small parts of that governance.


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skills as you find the connections between the academic disciplines, and most students see knowledge in a
more interdisciplinary manner once they have taken a learning community - they know that what they learn in a
psychology class can help them understand characters in literature, and learning about history enables them
to understand philosophy better.
Also, students develop strong friendships with their classmates and better relationships with the faculty as
well. Shy people who tend not to speak up in most classes usually feel more comfortable offering their ideas
because they know their peers better. This collaborative environment helps your group work skills and your
communication abilities.
The tools and skills that you develop in a learning community can be successfully applied to any and all your
future academic classes, regardless of the discipline. For example, learning to write better (whether it is
about baseball or travel) is a skill that will help in all your classes, not just learning communities.
Students in a recent class had this to say about learning communities:
No. These classes are not more difficult than regular classes are, but they feel as if they move at a fast
pace. Most instructors say that students read fewer texts, complete fewer exams and write fewer papers than
if they were taking the two or three classes separately. You have the additional advantage of connected
readings and assignments, so most of your work actually counts for all classes. Also, students say that the
related ideas that they are studying help them understand the information better.
Because learning communities are integrated classes – whether they are linked or fully integrated structure –
you cannot pass the class by taking only one part of it. You must sign up for all the related classes (ten or
fifteen credits, depending on the class).
SCC offers learning communities almost every quarter, but the offerings often change from quarter to
quarter and year to year. There is no guarantee that any class will be offered more than once, so if you
see a class theme that interests you, don't wait to sign up.
To find out what offerings are planned for the future,
see the schedule.
To enroll in a learning community, talk to a counselor or see the "Learning Communities" section in the
catalog. The process is relatively easy, as when you register for one class that is part of a learning
community, you should automatically be enrolled in the other(s). If you have trouble with the link, please
speak to a counselor, the faculty teaching the class or the LC Coordinator at SCC (Angela Rasmussen, 533-8011
or firstname.lastname@example.com) for help.
Yes! Signing up for a 100-level, college transfer course as part of a learning community will ultimately
show up as a regular, single course on your transcript. For example, if you took English 101 as part of
a learning community, your transcript will only show English 101, not the learning community. So depending
on your transfer needs and AA requirements, a learning community can help you complete your degree or
program. Make sure to check with a counselor for your individual course needs.
In a fully integrated course, you cannot drop part of the class during the quarter and get partial credit.
Since learning communities are ten or fifteen credits, dropping the classes can significantly affect you.
Make sure that you are prepared to do the work for the class before you commit.
Linked classes offer more flexibility in this area.
Fully integrated earning communities at SCC have a single course syllabus and course grade. Therefore, your
final course grade for the learning community would be repeated for each class that you are enrolled in. (For
example, if you earned a 3.2 in a combined, ten-credit math and science class, your transcript would show a
3.2 for five credits of math and a 3.2 for the five-credit science course.)
Linked courses usually have separate grades and syllabi, so you are scored differently for each class.
Your final transcript will list all the courses that you took separately and won't appear any different than
if you had taken stand-alone courses.
If you have questions about specific classes being offered, contact the instructors who will be teaching the
class. They can give you information about the course theme, assignments, readings and other information.
If you have additional questions about learning communities in general, you can talk to the learning
communities coordinator here at SCC: Angela Rasmussen (1-234E, 533-8011 or
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If you are new to college, or just looking to get some additional skills to help you do your best in your classes, the InSync program
might be right for you. InSync is a learning community where you will develop a sense of belonging in the academic world by reading,
studying, and writing with others in an enriched educational environment that will focus directly on your dreams, your direction, and
your success.
This ten-credit class combines two classes, either a study skills course and writing improvement course or a combination of a reading
improvement course and writing improvement course. While you are learning fantastic general strategies for college success, you have
the chance to apply them to a specific class. InSync is designed specifically to provide the skills that you need to be successful,
not just in this class, but in your entire academic experience.
InSync is offered most quarters with different instructors and different class times and course combinations. Look in the
Upcoming Learning Communities section for more information.
"InSync is the first class which I learned a lot of things in it. I learned how to be a good writer and reader. The InSync class has
a lot of skills. I have done this class with these helpful skills, which helped me in the following class. InSync has a basic and
helpful way to get to be a successful student. I learned how to take notes and how to summarize or organize my ideas so they are
easier to understand. Also, I learned how to put my ideas in order. InSync was the beginning of developing and supporting my skills
to get ready for English 99."
"InSync introduces you to the tools and resources necessary to succeed. The course stresses the need for good study skills,
note taking and attention to detail."
Here is what some other former InSync students say about their experiences:
Note: Class information on this page is subject to change without
notice and does not represent a contract between the college and its students.
Human population has passed the 7 billion mark, and all parts of the world are increasingly
interconnected. How have people modified our environment, both globally and locally, and what are the
trends for the future? As an "Introduction to Geography" course, this class is structured around an
examination of these questions.
All students who enroll in this section of Geography 101 will also be in the same section of English
101. In this course, you will compose major writing and research assignments for Geography in addition
to developing college-level essay structure, research methods, and critical thinking, reading and
Register using the following item numbers:
This 10-credit Learning Community combines composition and literature in a setting that challenges
students as critical thinkers, readers, and writers. Drawing on the literature of women writers,
students gain a better understanding of how women represent their lives and concerns. The reading
list includes a variety of authors whose lives, primarily drawing on the writings of 19th and 20th
Century British and American authors whose geographical locations and historical contexts reflect a
wide range of experiences. The class covers traditional literary analysis skills of Introduction to
Literature but focuses exclusively on writing by female authors, so students may enroll in either
ENGL 111 or ENGL 278. The class also examines men's experiences, looking at expectations of
masculinity within socially-constructed gender roles. A key component of the class is the use of
guest speakers on a variety of gender-related topics. By the end of the class, students have a deeper
understanding of how to read and interpret literature and how to write clear, persuasive academic
Register using one of the following item numbers:
The most successful scientists (biologists, geneticists, microbiologists, etc.) are not only great at
their research, they are also skilled information-seekers and know how to locate current and credible
scientific literature, synthesize what they have learned and communicate it - along with their own
scientific findings - through the written word. This takes practice!
"Writing Life: Biology Linked with English Composition" is a unique opportunity for biology majors to
use two required classes (BIOL& 222 and English Composition; ENGL 101/102) synergistically. Students in
this learning community will build a strong foundation in biology that includes a variety of important
themes such as an appreciation for the diversity of life on Earth, molecular structures and functions,
evolutionary biology, genetics and heredity, health and disease, the importance of homeostasis,
climate change, the philosophy of biology, the scientific method and the importance of academic
writing. The benefits of scientific writing cannot be overemphasized, and students will be able to
research topics that they are passionate about and that are relevant to their own lives and also to the
world around them. Note that students can enroll in their needed level of Composition, English 101 or
English 102.
Few people are unaware of the current discussions about the health crisis caused by the American diet:
record levels of obesity —particularly in children — diabetes, heart disease, etc., all of which
negatively impact, and ultimately shorten, our lives. However, many Americans remain largely ignorant
about where our food comes from, the processing and additives which alter its basic structure, how what
we eat is produced (and by whom), and the alarming lack of adequate food safety inspections, all of which
have a dramatic impact on the US economy. But even fewer Americans are aware of the profound interrelationship
between our economy and those of other nations, particularly developing nations – it is no exaggeration to
say that the actions of the corporations which dominate the food industry create reverberations felt around
the world. Join us in a course which combines the study of sociological theories with research and writing as
a means to examine the true nature of what we eat, why we eat it, where it comes from, and who besides ourselves
is impacted by our consumption.
Register using the following item numbers
This 6-credit option provides students with a unique opportunity, combining the rigorous content of
BIOL&241- Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human body structure and function with emphasis on
introductory cytology and histology; the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems; and the sense organs;
linked with PE 106 Yoga Fitness, promoting individual fitness, total mind-body awareness, and stress
management. The hands on approach of Yoga linked with the concepts of Anatomy and Physiology promotes
the long term retention of information necessary for students going into nursing or Allied healthcare
fields. This combination is also a good option for students looking to ease the anxiety associated with
an intense science course.
Prerequisite: BIOL& 160 or permission of instructor. (SCC, SFCC)
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Nine students from south Florida are enrolled at Saint Vincent College, a top-ranked Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college. Pictured, kneeling from left, are Freddy Semino, a freshman undecided major from Miami; Maleek Hodge-Webb, a freshman communication major from Coral Springs; Kyle Rivera, a freshman occupational therapy major from Hollywood; and Joey Milhomme, a freshman finance major from Miami. Standing, from left, are Jose Estevez, a junior criminology, law, and society major from Miami; Dewayne Hewitt, a freshman accounting major from Hollywood; Alex Charles a freshman international business major from Pompano Beach; Austin Mobley a freshman physical therapy major from Palm City; and Lazaro Garcia a sophomore management major from Miami. Saint Vincent College is one of the top liberal arts and sciences colleges in the Northeast and its quality educational programs have earned national recognition by U.S. News, Barron's and others. Offering a dynamic Catholic education for more than 166 years, Saint Vincent is a Catholic college sponsored by the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey. It enrolls nearly 2000 men and women from 25 states and 13 foreign countries. Undergraduate degrees are offered in many fields including Biology, Bioinformatics, Business, Communication, Environmental Affairs, Politics, Psychology, Theology and others together with Pre-professional programs in the Allied Health Fields and Pre-law, and Master's degree programs in Education and Business. Saint Vincent College's approach to education is rooted in a curriculum that provides all students with a broad-based education, an interdisciplinary view of that knowledge and the skills to increase it throughout their lives. Saint Vincent is easily accessible for south Florida residents because of direct, non-stop service offered by Spirit Airlines between Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport and Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe.
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By Cyn-d-lou
from Port Charlotte, Fl
Comments about Levenger The Fantasia of Leonardo da Vinci by Ross King:
This book is fascinating. Love having a glimpse into the mind and life of such an incredible artist. The quality is wonderful also. Had to buy a second for my granddaughter.
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A beautiful book and interesting viewpoint of his work.
By Judy
from St. Paul, MN
I am studying some of Da Vinci's work in a course and this book really enhanced my learning. Beautifully written and presented.
By DocW
from Gibson City, IL
I bought this as a gift, but after paging through it, I couldn't let it go, and ordered two more as gifts. It does show a very human side of a giant of a man, the stuff never included in documentaries and biographies.
Beautiful book, little substance
By Carobin
from NY, NY
I'd recommend this book to any friend who appreciates well-designed, elegant books, but there's little real information involved. It's really for Leonardo lovers who enjoy his quotes and illustrations.
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A decent effort but seems so much more could have been written by the author. Nice volume presented.
A gorgeous book!
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Leave it to Levenger Press to keep finding unknown treasures and serving them up in such impressive packages. Everything about this book from content to colors is truly gorgeous––mouthwatering, in fact. It doesn't take much fantasia to see why an author of King's stature would relish revealing this little known side of da Vinci.
Beautiful book
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A charming book, also very amusing and informative. Beautiful attention to detail in the illustrations and lettering. Makes a wonderful and unusual gift for anyone interested in Leonardo da Vinci ... or in jokes and riddles.
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I now know Leonardo almost better then myself.What a brilliant pseudo Nostradamus mind. The man is justly rated ... an absolute intriguing genius! My commendations to Levenger for such an excellent piece!
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OKC woman's invention could revolutionize cancer detection
Inventor has been working on idea for 20 years
An Oklahoma City woman's invention could revolutionize the way cancer is detected.
Mary Johnson has just patented her idea which she has been working on for 20 years. The glove works like an ultrasound and uses heat in addition to other factors to detect abnormalities.
She says General Electric has expressed interest in her idea.
"Whoo hooo, that's exactly what I did," said Johnson. I threw my hands up and I thanked God and I said, 'Lord, your product is on the way.'"
Johnson says her prototype should be available within the next three months. Before that it must go through clinical trials.
Johnson says her dream is to sell the glove in grocery stores so that it is available to everyone.
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Friday, June 6, 2014
The Drug Enforcement Unit of the Berkeley County Sheriffs Office has arrested four and issued arrest warrants for two following the execution of search warrants at four different locations in Summerville, Hanahan and Goose Creek.
A press release sent by the agency Friday did not say whether or not the cases are related to each other.
The searches took place Tuesday, June 3, and Wednesday, June 4.
Two suspects remain at large.Arrest warrents were issued for David John Davies, 44, of 102 Iron Road, Summerville, for distribution of heroin and Deandris Dmario Jenikins, 31, of 1147 Deerberry Road, Hanahan, for distribution of marijuana.
In the press release, Berkeley County Sheriffs Capt. Mike Williams said search warrants were also executed at 110 Carriage Lane in the Summerville area and 1218 Redbank Rd Unit 3 in the Goose Creek area resulting in the arrest of four suspects.
Demar Bacon, 28, of North Charleston was charged with possession of cocaine, obstruction of justice and simple possession of marijuana.
Irving Smith, 31, of Goose Creek is charged with possession of cocaine, possession of stolen property and simple possession of marijuana.
Pierre King, 31, of Hanahan is charged with simple possession of marijuana.
Joshua Allan Fisher, 18, of Summerville is charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and two counts of distribution of marijuana after agents made two controlled purchases at the Carriage Lane address.
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Anders Fridén started with In Flames on the 1995 album The Jester Race. His look changed dramatically following the release of In Flames 2002 release Reroute to Remain. His previously clean-shaven look was replaced with a beard, and his long hair was put into dreadlocks. His vocal style has also changed, especially on the past three records. His low-tone, harsh death growl has evolved into a higher pitched scream (done in the fry scream technique), which is now supplemented by clean vocals and layers of backing vocals. In addition to being a vocalist, Fridén is also a producer, with his most recent efforts being the albums: The Undying Darkness by Caliban in 2006 and Absolute Design by the band Engel in 2007.
In 2011 Cort has tried to make an endorsement with him and finally succeed to have him play Cort. One of the flagship lineup of Cort All solid collection, AS model sounds well, feels great and looks great with him.


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Thanks to its magnificent vista and the glacier which once reached right into the basin, Grindelwald attracted its first guests – primarily the English – from the end of the 18th century onwards. The actual breakthrough of Alpinism occurred in the mid 19th century, and local mountain guides climbed the peaks of the region with English tourists. The first ascent of the Eiger, the most difficult of Alpine mountains took place in 1858 (the north face only in 1938).
Road and railway construction made Grindelwald much more accessible towards the end of the 19th century, which in turn also heralded the onset of winter tourism. The first cableway in the Alps was built here in 1908 on the Wetterhorn. And in 1912, a railway reached the Jungfraujoch via Kleine Scheidegg; today the «Top of Europe» still remains Europe's highest railway station and a world-renowned excursion destination within permanent snow and ice.
There are 300 km of walking trails around Grindelwald. The high-altitude walk from Grindelwald-First along the Bachalpsee to the Faulhorn mountain hotel and then on to the Schynige Platte ranks among the most beautiful hikes of the region. An easy walk with fantastic views of the three, world-famous mountains of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau leads from the Männlichen up onto the Kleine Scheidegg.
The two ski regions of First and Kleine Scheidegg – Männlichen – Wengen offer 160 kilometres of pistes with around 30 lifts reaching up to an altitude of 2500 m. The Schilthorn near Mürren, also part of the Jungfrau region ski arena, even reaches 2971 metres. But the most spectacular piste of the region is without doubt the Lauberhorn piste near Wengen, popularised by the World Cup circus.
Choose from 80 kilometres of winter walking trails with views across seven four-thousand-metre peaks and majestic glaciers, as well as 60 km of toboggan runs, including, at 15 km, one of the longest toboggan runs in the Alps from the Faulhorn into the valley. Naturally Grindelwald also has many further winter sports on offer.
- «Öpfelchüechliwäg» high-altitude trail from Holenstein to Brandegg – Test how much you know about fruit and learn even more on the six information panels along the way. At the end of the hike you will want to reward yourself at the Brandegg mountain restaurant with its famous «Öpfelchüechli» (apple fritters).
- Jungfraujoch – snow and ice are guaranteed on the «Top of Europe» at 3454 m, the ultimate excursion destination in the Bernese Oberland.
- Eiger north face – one of the most spectacular and difficult faces to climb in the world; successfully climbed for the first time in 1938.
- Eiger-Trail – mountain tour imparting an 'Alpinist' feel: starting from the Eiger glacier station, the route sticks closely to the rock along the foot of the Eiger north face and leads down to Alpiglen.
- Gletscherschlucht (Glacier Gorge) – at the village end of Grindelwald lies the wildly romantic, thunderous glacier gorge with its glacial mills and striations as well as the pink and green marble blocks, through which a path leads over man-made footbridges and through rock galleries and tunnels.
- First (2168m) – over 100 km of hiking trails as well as 50 km of ski pistes and a toboggan run can be found on the south-facing, not overly steep First slope.
- Männlichen (2229m) – gentle walking and winter sports terrain with a link to the nearby Kleine Scheidegg and with the perfect panorama across the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
- Pfingstegg – at 1391m is the lookout post of Grindelwald and offers a unique vista across the valley floor.
Top Events
- World Snow Festival – during the course of a week, Swiss and international teams of artists hew and construct figures and sculptures from metre-high snow blocks that have been provided (January).
- "Velogemel" World Championship – every year a world championship on snow bikes takes place in Grindelwald, a speciality to Grindelwald (February).
- Snowpenair – Snow Openair, always held at the end of the winter season on the Kleine Scheidegg (March).
- Spring Mountain Festival – held annually on the Männlichen near Berghaus, with dances in traditional costumes, folk music and flag throwers (June/July).
- Eiger Ultra Trail – 101 km long and with 6700 m to climb, this demanding route is set amid unique mountain scenery (July).
- Eiger Bike Challenge – 3 challenging routes are waiting for seasoned bikers to conquer (August).
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Navy Yard Shooting: New Details on Aaron Alexis' Mental State
Could the deadly shooting spree last fall at the Washington Navy Yard have been avoided?
A new Pentagon report says yes.
In hundreds of pages, investigators provide the most detailed description of the missed warning signs and red flags that should have raised concerns about giving Aaron Alexis access to the military facility where he killed 12 people before being shot dead by police last September.
One of the biggest chances to intervene happened a month before the shooting in Rhode Island, where Mr. Alexis was working as a defense contractor on another Navy base.
At the time, Mr. Alexis called police and his supervisors at The Experts Inc. to say that he was hearing voices and being followed. On Aug. 6, 2013, he told the company's travel coordinator that three people were using an ultrasonic device to pin him physically to his bed in his Newport hotel room, according to the report.
That night, according to previously unreleased logs from the Navy Gateway Inns and Suites, The Experts travel coordinator called the hotel to express her concerns. Mr. Alexis had been disruptive at the hotel with other guests who called the police. Mr. Alexis even called police himself.
"She [the travel coordinator] is very worried & afraid he can harm others," the hotel noted in a previously unreported log entry, according to the Pentagon report.
After that, the front desk clerk asked local police to keep an officer close to the hotel "in case Alexis hurt someone," according to the investigation.
Within a few hours, the Experts canceled Mr. Alexis' plans to visit the Rhode Island military base where he was working and made plans to take him off the job, the report notes. Mr. Alexis left Newport the following day.
The Experts decided not to alert the Defense Department about Mr. Alexis, concluding that the information was based on "rumor and innuendo" that might violate his privacy rights, the report states.
On Sept. 9, The Experts reassigned Mr. Alexis to a new job in Virginia, the investigation notes. One month later, the company sent Mr. Alexis to work at the Washington Navy Yard.
Mr. Alexis carried out the deadly attack one week after he started working at the Navy Yard.
The Experts declined to comment on the report. Sources close to the company have said that Mr. Alexis was also supervised by Hewlett-Packard, the company that hired The Experts.
Hewlett-Packard severed its relationship with The Experts last year after the shooting and accused the company of failing to properly deal with Mr. Alexis.
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mi4codeThis is the most current version (version 1.0.1) of mi4code for Windows. It can decrypt, encrypt, and sign mi4 images. Download here
e200toolThis is the working version (version 0.2.3-alpha) of e200tool for Windows with the necessary drivers. It can be used to probe around with the device in manufacturing mode. Download here
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