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IACP News
May 2012
National Center for the Prevention of Violence Against the Police to Release Felonious Line of Duty Deaths Summary Document
Felonious Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers, 2011: Leveraging Current Trends & Issues to Prevent Future Assaults, developed by the National Center for the Prevention of Violence Against the Police, is a report that focuses on prevention through awareness by bringing together brief summaries of each line of duty death from felonious assaults in 2011. Although the sheer number of assaults against law enforcement is clearly a concern, the focus in this report is singular. Our goal is to begin the examination process and improve awareness within the field. Recorded incidents have been categorized by call type. This classification was used to break down the summaries to better understand prevention. This document is intended to help facilitate this process and highlight the necessity for law enforcement to rely on their training and remain vigilant when dealing with the public.
For more information on this report and additional resources, visit http://www.theiacp.org/NCPVAP.
Assets Seized from Criminals Help Build the National Law Enforcement Museum
In 2008, then-Sheriff Kevin Beary of the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff's Office had a brilliant idea: Why not use money seized from criminals to help build the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, D.C.? This idea—to support a worthy cause with funds accrued illegally—was introduced at the National Sheriffs' Association conference during a drug enforcement committee meeting. The association has now amassed more than $1 million toward building the nation's first-ever museum about law enforcement.
Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) returns to state and local law enforcement agencies millions of dollars in ill-gotten assets seized from drug dealers and other criminals. In 2010, such asset forfeitures totaled more than $389 million nationwide. The use of these asset forfeitures by law enforcement agencies, however, is very restricted by federal law and DOJ guidelines. For instance, agencies cannot use them to pay for day-to-day purchases, salaries, or equipment.
For additional information about using state or federal asset forfeiture funds to support the National Law Enforcement Museum, please contact John Shanks, Director of Development and Law Enforcement Relations, at (202) 737-8529 or at email@example.com.
For more information about the National Law Enforcement Museum, please visit http://www.LawEnforcementMuseum.org.
ATF Graduates 22 Highly Trained Explosives Specialists to Combat Violent Crime in America
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has just certified 22 new Certified Explosives Specialists (CES) to assist the bureau with enforcing the federal explosives laws throughout the United States and provide technical and investigative support to its law enforcement partners regarding explosives.
These highly trained ATF special agents completed one of the most comprehensive explosives training programs offered by any law enforcement agency in the United States. Their training and field experience prepares them to demonstrate and maintain efficiency in the areas of explosives identification, applications and effects, handling, use, disposal, and investigation. This new class of CESs joins the other 222 located throughout the United States.
The newly implemented CES training program's two-year curriculum includes two phases consisting of formal classroom and range training combined with written assignments and testing. During the two-year candidacy period, the program requires eight weeks of formal training and 24 months of mentored field training, as well as documented participation in explosives related investigations, disposal operations, and range demonstrations. The demanding curriculum is conducted under the guidance of senior CES personnel who serve as mentors.
All CESs are then required to attend the Naval School Explosives Ordnance Disposal Improvised Explosives Device Training Course, a four-week IED course at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and attend the ATF's Homemade Explosives (HME) course at NCETR.
Each CES is required to attend a 40-hour recertification course biennially and attend out-of-bureau explosives training on noncertification years.
If you are interested in the name and contact information for a CES in your area, please contact your local ATF office: Visit http://www.atf.gov and click on Field Divisions.
National Online Directory of Permanent Prescription Drug Collection Boxes Launched
The American Medicine Chest Challenge (AMCC), the nation's largest privately funded public health campaign preventing prescription drug abuse, announced the creation of a national online directory of permanent prescription drug collection boxes for the collection of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine.
The directory, created in cooperation with local, county, and state law enforcement, is available at http://www.americanmedicinechest.com. Currently, the directory includes collection sites in 40 states—including 175 locations—and will be updated daily. The directory will contain an interactive map of each state's permanent collection sites.
The AMCC encourages every individual to take inventory of and secure medicine in the home; dispose of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine; take medicine only as prescribed; and talk to children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
The AMCC is sponsored by PhRMA, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, the Partnership at DrugFree.org, and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.
For more information, visit http://www.americanmedicinechest.com. ♦
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXIX, no. 5, May 2012. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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When new, experimental laptop computers were given to students at Oakridge Upper and Lower elementaries to use in classrooms earlier this year, teachers were pleased, but a little suspicious.
It was obvious that students were sharing answers and secretly communicating during class. But, teachers didn't know how until students spilled the beans.
"The students had figured out how to text message each other," said Tom Livezey, Oakridge Public Schools' assistant superintendent for curriculum, assessment and instruction. "We knew the feature was there, but we hadn't figured out how to use it yet."
That lesson prompted teachers to take a crash course in text-messaging and figure out other ways to use the laptops to best teach students, said Livezey.
Teachers learned how to use laptop software to instantly measure whether students are grasping what's being discussed in class, said fifth-grade teacher Kari Turnes. When teachers ask a question, students are prompted to type in their answers, and that information is transmitted to teachers who can identify which students are struggling. It
Several classrooms at the district's upper and lower elementary school buildings have been trying out the "NEO2" laptop computers this year, thanks to a business partnership it has with Renaissance Learning, a company that develops educational technology. The company is headquarters in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
Under the agreement, Oakridge gets to try out the latest classroom technology first, and if happy with it, buy it at a reduced price, school officials say.
In return, Paniucki and Livezey are required to go to the company's Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., headquarters twice per year to huddle with other "lighthouse" school districts and officials. During those visits, which Renaissance Learning pays for, school officials will serve as product advisers.
Oakridge is one of eight school districts in the nation participating in the deal. Oakridge is also used as a showcase site that other school districts can visit and check out.
The partnership also allowed Oakridge to roll-out the new "Home Connect" system this school year. The Internet-based computer software allows Oakridge parents to access their children's classroom assignments and performance levels on a daily basis.
Many schools in the area, including Oakridge, already use "Parent Viewer," another company's system that gives parents general information about their child's attendance, grades and homework assignments.
"Home Connect," provides the information with colorful, easy-to-read graphics. For example, an animated bookshelf on the website shows what books students are reading and hopefully encourages parents to ask more questions about assignments, said Livezey.
Parents must obtain a password to access the site. But, it appears they like it. The site received more than 20,000 hits in just two weeks after it was introduced earlier this year, said Livezey.
Last year Oakridge used a $13,500 federal grant to purchase and implement the company's "Read Now With Power Up!" software program.
The district began using the NEO2 laptops this spring.
So far students, teachers and administrators have been impressed.
"I like them because you can move around with them (the laptops)," said third-grader Lanessa Neyers, who recently used the pint-sized computer to take a quiz. Normally, Neyers and her 21 classmates have to take turns using two large desk-top computers.
Classmate Brady Luttrull says he's more comfortable typing on a computer than writing on a piece of paper. Plus, when you take a quiz on the NEO laptops, "your answers go right into the computer," and it shows you the results right away, said Luttrull. Luttrull and Neyers are both third-graders teacher Tammy Peterson's class.
School officials like the laptops for other practical reasons.
The NEO laptops operate for nearly 700 hours on three AA batteries and cost $200 a piece, said Livezey. Regular-sized desk-top computers, which the district currently uses, cost $1,000 each.
Depending on teacher feedback, school administrators may ask the board to consider purchasing them in the future, Paniucki and Livezey said.
"It's been a very good partnership for us," said Livezey. "We tell them what's working and what's not. That's how they benefit the most."

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Why Do So Many Moms Hate the Color Pink?Jessie Knadler
Sometimes I feel sorry for the color pink. It's so maligned by our culture. I know so many moms who are adamantly opposed to this feminine hue because they're afraid it's going to turn their young daughters into bubblegum clad prima donnas who spurt glittery taffeta from their eyeballs.
I too had my own issues with the color before I had June. I resented pink's implications and associations for little girls even though I, the grown up, like the color. What can I say: Pink is pretty. It can look so serene and chic in the right context.
But I definitely took notice whenever I saw a little girl flouncing around the grocery store clad in head to toe shades of Pepto Bismal with sequins, feathers and doe eyed princess imagery dripping from every body part. The overflow of cheese ball girlishness has a way of broadcasting to the world: I AM A PRINCESS. GIVE ME WHAT I WANT OR I WILL CRY.
One pregnant friend of mine recently let it be known before the birth of her daughter (her first child) that she was instilling a No Pink Policy in her baby's wardrobe.
Yeah, good luck with that, I thought.
Before I had June, I did the exact same thing. It lasted about a week. See, I quickly realized that it's impossible to find clothes in the little girl's department that aren't pink, Seriously. Just try to find a blue tee shirt…or flannel…or cords…in the baby girl's department. You can't! Why? Because they don't make them. It's almost like clothing manufacturers got together and collectively banned any color or fabric for baby girls that isn't culturally perceived as "feminine." Oh sure, they have the gender neutral yellows and greens, but that stuff always comes emblazoned with ducks and frogs. And what if you don't want your baby to be a poster child for frogs and ducks? Did you ever think about that?
I thought I didn't care about this stuff, but I admit, I found my panties ever-so-slightly getting into a twist every time a stranger innocently commented on how cute my "little guy" was just because June wasn't wearing the designated feminine colors. I couldn't take it anymore so I dressed her in shirts splattered with pink unicorns. You can't tell me pink unicorns are anymore cloying than frogs and ducks.
There was another reason for my hasty capitulation to pink. By publicly swearing off the color, I was effectively cutting myself off from mountains of glorious hand-me-downs. Hand-me-downs for girls are always pink. They just are. Did I want to spend precious hours and money shopping for hard to find gender neutral colors or gratefully accept the truckloads of free pink? I took the pink, and have never looked back.
Still, it's kind of baffling to me that June, who has never seen a princess movie, heard a princess book or worn princess clothing in her life (with the notable exception of a full on princess gown purchased by her Marmie for her third birthday), has a special affinity for this color. She requests pink clothes, pink shoes and pink barrettes all the time. And she sometimes asks me if I think she "looks like a princess."
Yes, I tell her, you look just like a princess. Now go feed the dog.
Because here's the thing I've realized about pink: Pink does not make the princess. Parenting does.


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Can government make men "marriageable"?
Did a New York Times columnist just call for the government to practice sex discrimination? A straightforward reading of David Brooks's Friday offering would lead to an affirmative answer. Brooks praises Rick Santorum for "thinking about how to foster an economic system that would nurture our virtues" but faults him for failing, thus far, to present "an agenda far more drastic and transformational." Here is some of what he has in mind:
If you believe in the dignity of labor, it makes sense to support an infrastructure program that allows more people to practice the habits of industry. If you believe in personal responsibility, you have to force Americans to receive only as much government as they are willing to pay for. If you believe in the centrality of family, you have to have a government that both encourages marriage and also supplies wage subsidies to men to make them marriageable.
The problem is evident immediately. As the Supreme Court held in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982), sex discrimination by the government is unconstitutional absent an "exceedingly persuasive justification." It strains credulity to think that the goal of making men "marriageable" would meet this standard of scrutiny.
The way around this problem would be to structure the Brooks subsidy so that it predominately benefits men but is also available to women. In a 2009 piece for The American Prospect, a left-liberal magazine (hat tip: Ira Stoll), writer Dick Mendel proposed doubling the Earned Income Tax Credit for "low-wage workers without children [in their care], primarily noncustodial fathers and men without children."
Mendel foreshadows Brooks in speculating that an EITC boost would make men into more appealing mates: "For conservatives, much of the appeal of increasing the EITC for childless workers rests on the prospect that wage subsidies might boost marriage rates. Census data show that young men earning $20,000 to $40,000 are two and a half times as likely to be married as those earning less than $10,000."
If the Brooks subsidy is along Mendelian lines, then, it would be limited to men at the lower end of the income scale, who are least likely to marry. That seems sensible enough. In any case, the important thing to understand about the Brooks subsidy is that it seeks to encourage marriage by changing the incentives for women. It's a sort of sexual socialism, promoting equality among men (in the sense of males, not mankind) in order to persuade women to consider men they would otherwise reject.
Would it work? Color us skeptical, for at least three reasons. First, the subsidy could simply not be big enough to make a difference.
Second, it could create perverse incentives for women, who are more complicated than Brooks seems to realize. A woman's measure of a man is not merely the size of his wallet, and it is possible to imagine the Brooks subsidy having the opposite of its intended effect. Particularly in a country with a highly individualistic culture that disdains welfare, women might end up stigmatizing recipients as losers rather than regarding them as good catches.
Third, men's incentives matter, too. If the Brooks subsidy does work as intended, a recipient will find his options with women expanding, giving him a disincentive to commit.
Marriage has been on the decline in America for decades, as shown by a host of measures, including the rates of divorce and illegitimacy and the average age of first marriage. This is true at all income levels, although the effects are most severe among the least affluent.
Many factors have contributed to the weakening of incentives to marry--among them welfare policies that reward illegitimacy, higher rates of female participation in the workplace, and the easy availability of contraception, abortion and divorce.
These changes in American society over the past half-century or so have been, to use Brooks's phrase, "drastic and transformational." By contrast, the idea of doubling the Earned Income Tax Credit looks piddling and ineffectual.
The causes of the decline in marriage have involved changes in law and policy. But except in the cases of welfare and abortion, the laws changed after the culture did. Not coincidentally, welfare and abortion are the only areas in which there has been serious debate about changing the laws to something resembling the status quo ante. No politician, especially with presidential ambitions, would call for abolishing laws against sex discrimination, enacting prohibitions on contraception, or restoring fault-based divorce.
Our point is not that such changes would be desirable, only that the weakening of marriage is a cost society has borne as a result of dramatic changes that most people regard as progress. Thus it is, at least for the foreseeable future, a problem with no political solution.
Fact-Free 'Fact Check'
A New York Times blog "fact checks" Friday night's Republican debate, and the first item, by Jeremy Peters, is a classic of the genre:
Asked what would happen if his son told him he was gay, [Rick] Santorum said, "I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it."
But Mr. Santorum has been asked that question before, and he gave a very different answer then. In a 2003 interview with GQ, he was asked what he would tell a son who admitted to having an attraction to men. He essentially said his son should remain celibate.
"I would try to point out to them what is the right thing to do. And we have many temptations to do things we shouldn't do," he told the magazine. "It doesn't mean you have to submit."
Mr. Santorum added that all parents should help steer their children in a direction "that would lead them to a better and happier life."
Then, when pressed on whether he would still love his son, he replied, "It's all you can do."
Do you notice what's missing here? Any factual assertion at all! Peters is faulting Santorum for changing his answer to a hypothetical question, not a factual one.
Further, while the answers are different, they are not inconsistent. Santorum said both times that he would love his son, although he led with that assertion in 2012 and had to be prodded in 2003. On Friday he added, "And I would try to do everything I can to be as good a father to him as possible"--which presumably would include pointing out "what is the right thing to do," as he said in '03.
We don't fault the Times for reporting Santorum's change in emphasis. It is newsworthy--and, by the way, it is also to Santorum's credit. But what in the world is it doing in a "fact check"?
Meanwhile, PolitiFact Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's franchise, checks an actual fact, and hilarity ensues. Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, a Democratic state lawmaker from Madison, complained that a hearing on whether to allow a mine in northern Wisconsin, was held very far from the site in question: "in Milwaukee--15 hours away from those most directly affected."
PolitiFact notes that the hearing was actually in West Allis, a MIlwaukee suburb. But they're just getting started:
[Roys] goes on to acknowledge that that distance and duration would be round-trip between Port Wing and West Allis, not one way.
Indeed, Mapquest shows that the longer of two driving routes between West Allis and Port Wing is 385 miles and just over seven hours one way.
Roys concluded her email by telling us not to "miss the bigger point here," saying it was "an extremely long and inconvenient drive" for northwest Wisconsin residents to attend the West Allis hearing.
It is, indeed, a lengthy drive from northwestern Wisconsin to West Allis. About seven hours long, or less. Not 15.
We rate Roys' statement False.
Presumably anyone who came from Port Wing would return there after the hearing, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to cite the round-trip travel time. In any case, this is the sort of hair-splitting in which this column might engage in a tongue-in-cheek item. It's kind of astonishing that these guys actually expect to be taken seriously.
The Incredible Shrinking Coalition
Roll Call's John Bicknell compares and contrasts Barack Obama's re-election campaign with Harry Truman's, informed by David Pietrusza's recently published book, "1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America":
What made 1948 a watershed was the cementing of a new Democratic coalition that had begun to form under President Franklin Roosevelt but was made firm by the splitting of the party into three parts, with former Vice President Henry Wallace claiming the leftist faction made up mostly of communists and fellow travelers, and Strom Thurmond peeling away the segregationist Dixiecrats.
That left Truman with the rump of a party, in search of a bloc of new voters. Pietrusza concludes that he uncovered them, ironically, thanks to the exits of Wallace and Thurmond, whose bolting made the Democratic Party less leftist and less racist, making it safe for Catholics and African-Americans to support.
Having lost the Solid South and the leftist intellectuals, Truman created a new coalition centered on those black and Catholic urban dwellers, anti-communist liberals who couldn't stomach Wallace and Midwestern farmers who liked the New Deal.
That coalition appears to be unraveling now, as all political coalitions eventually do, and Obama is hoping to forge a new one that brings in well-off social liberals, blacks and organized labor because he appears to have lost the white working class.
That could make Obama, like Truman, competitive in states that were previously Republican territory, while requiring that other states once competitive for Democrats be written off.
Bicknell finds other parallels--especially involving the "do-nothing Congress"--less convincing. But we think he misses the weakness of the coalition argument as well. Two of the elements of Obama's "new coalition" have been voting reliably Democratic for decades: blacks since 1964, "social liberals" since at least 1984 (some of them chose John Anderson over Jimmy Carter four years earlier).
"Organized labor" is a once-Democratic constituency that has at times been competitive (especially in 1972, 1980 and 1984), but the overlap with the "white working class" shows that it is not a monolithic group. Democrats do command strong support from government employees, the segment of organized labor that is growing.
Can Obama win re-election with a coalition of blacks, social liberals and government employees? Maybe, but didn't he max out among these groups in 2008?
Let Them Eat Race
From the Los Angeles Times's Christopher Knight:
A baldly racist depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared Tuesday on a right-wing website is based on a 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740-1786). The full-length painting hangs outside Paris in the Palace of Versailles.
The Internet image grafts [Mrs.] Obama's face onto Gautier-Dagoty's lavish depiction of the French queen, dressed in full regalia. It also replaces the draped left arm of the young monarch, then barely 20, with a muscular black arm and shifts the position of the right hand to place it in front of a world globe.
The caricature of [Mrs.] Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an "uppity Negro," which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. [Mrs.] Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War South, graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, prior to holding several high-level positions in the academic and private sectors.
The racist image appeared Tuesday on the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit; the slur was later called out by Media Matters [sic] for America. A post by Gateway blogger Jim Hoft paired the picture with a clip of the first lady's guest appearance on a forthcoming episode of "iCarly," a Nickelodeon sit-com. In the script, [Mrs.] Obama commends the cast for their support of military families. Responding to a cast member who mistakenly addresses her as "your excellency," the script has [Mrs.] Obama jokingly reply, "I kinda like it."
Blogress "Bookworm" replies dryly:
Is it possible that you're unaware of Marie Antoinette's reputation for living extravagantly while the ordinary people around her starved in the street? And are you unable to make the connection between Marie Antoinette's reputation (and she was Austrian, by the way, not African American) and the fact that Michelle Obama just recently went on a $4 million tax payer funded vacation, while wearing $1,200 sundresses, even as Americans have been struggling desperately with unemployment and rising prices? For the informed mind (or just the living mind), the comparisons are inevitable, appropriate and non-racist.
It's sad that in 2012 there are still people who can't look at a picture of a powerful and prominent black woman without thinking in terms of ugly racist stereotypes. People, that is, like Christopher Knight.
Two Wannabe Pundits in One!
- "Those of us who pointed out that [Broncos quarterback Tim] Tebow had issues actually throwing the ball were dismissed as haters, know-nothings or, even worse, prejudiced against Tebow because of his piety. Let's address this. I could [sic] care less about the religion of Tebow or any player."--Dave Zirin, sportswriter (!) for The Nation, Oct. 31, 2011
- "I made the cardinal error of applying the laws of politics to sports. In the last two weeks, two Republican primary also-rans--Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry--invoked the name of Tim 'Focus on the Family' Tebow to inspire their flagging Christianist base. To put it mildly, the gambit failed to work for either candidate. I was over-eager to see Tebow then fail in their footsteps. In what is not news to my regular readers, I abhor the kinds of politics that Bachmann, Perry and, yes, Tebow, represent."--Zirin, Jan. 8, 2012
Those Who Can't Do . . .
- "And, as we sit here today, the popular trend is not with the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, what makes the uprising here [in Egypt] so impressive--and in that sense so dangerous to other autocracies in the region--is precisely the fact that it is not owned by, and was not inspired by, the Muslim Brotherhood."--Thomas Friedman, New York Times website, Feb. 13, 2011
- "Someday I'd love to create a journalism course based on covering the uprising in Egypt, now approaching its first anniversary. Lesson No. 1 would be the following: Whenever you see elephants flying, shut up and take notes. The Egyptian uprising is the equivalent of elephants flying. No one predicted it, and no one had seen this before. If you didn't see it coming, what makes you think you know where it's going? That's why the smartest thing now is to just shut up and take notes. If you do, the first thing you'll write is that the Islamist parties--the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Al Nour Party--just crushed the secular liberals, who actually sparked the rebellion here, in the free Egyptian parliamentary elections."--Friedman, New York Times, Jan. 8, 2012
Metaphor Alert
"It was a game of chicken in which everybody ended up with egg on their faces."--New York Times, Jan. 9
Homer Nods
Friday's column quoted a humorous tweet from a fake Twitter account carrying the name of Paul Krugman. Our intention was simply to relay the joke, but after publication we concluded that this was insufficiently clear, so we removed it lest anyone confuse it for a real Krugman tweet.
Out on a Limb
- "About Santorum, Pundits Pathetically Failed"--headline, The American Spectator website Jan. 6
- "Leasing a Car Has Advantages, Drawbacks"--headline, Observer & Eccentric (suburban Detroit), Jan. 8
We Blame Global Warming
- "Santorum Takes Heat on Values"--headline, Washington Times, Jan. 7
- "Rick Santorum Highlights Global Warming Record"--headline, Yahoo! News, Jan. 8
If Only He'd Thought of That in 1996
"Dole Challenges Americans to 'Go Bananas' Every Day In 2012"--headline, Dole Food Co. press release, Jan. 5
Longest Books Ever Written
"Women Who Would Really Mystify Stephen Hawking"--slideshow title, Orange County (Calif.) Register website, Jan. 6
The Littlest Apprentice
"Native American Roots Trump in Adoption Battle Over Toddler"--headline, Reuters, Jan. 8
You're No Body Till Somebody Finds You
"No Body Found off Loop 360, Officials Say"--headline, Austin American-Statesman website, Jan. 9
Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
"Maybe it is time to start calling the glass half full."--New York Times, Jan. 7
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "East Bay Assemblywoman Enters Shoplifting Plea, Tumor to Blame?"--headline, KPIX-TV/KCBS-AM/FM website (San Francisco), Jan. 6
- "Will We Be a Cohesive Country of Laws or a Divided States?"--headline, Puffington Host, Jan. 8
- "Is Ron Paul in It to Win It?"--headline, CBSNews.com, Jan. 7
- "Can I Vote for a Mormon?"--headline, Washington Post, Jan. 9
- "Ask Not What Occupy Wall Street Will Do Next; Ask How We Will Change The Status Quo"--headline, Puffington Host, Jan. 6
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Why Americans Sing About Food"--headline, Salon.com, Jan. 8
- "My Baloney Has a First Name, It's M-I-T-T"--headline, Slate.com, Jan. 8
Too Much Information
"Exclusive: Gingrich Tells The Brody File His Goal Is to Slow Romney Down and Expose Him"--headline, CBN.com, Jan. 8
News of the Tautological
"After 12 Years, Bulls See Stocks Coming Out of Rut"--headline, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8
Breaking News From 1984
"Kerry [sic] Considers Seeking U.S. Senate Seat"--headline, Columbus (Neb.) Telegram, Jan. 8
Breaking News From Tomorrow
"For Jon Huntsman, New Hampshire Primary Could Be Now or Never"--headline, Washington Post, Jan. 9
News You Can Use
"Illinois Law Lets Motorists Salvage Fur, Food From Roadkill"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 7
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "Decision to Delay Realignment Met With Varied Reaction"--headline, NHL.com, Jan. 7
- "President Obama Vows to Do 'Whatever It Takes' to Grow Economy"--headline, ABCNews.com, Jan. 7
- "Kerry Reporting for Duty"--headline, Time.com, Jan. 8
- "Todd Palin Endorses Newt Gingrich"--headline, ABCNews.com, Jan. 9
Is 60 the New 70?
Did a New York Times columnist just call for the government to permit age discrimination? A straightforward reading of Charles Blow's Saturday offering would lead to an affirmative answer. Blow faults Republicans for supposed racially insensitivity, including criticism of President Obama over the swelling rolls of food stamps (known by the euphemistic acronym SNAP, for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Here is some of what he has in mind:
First, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, most SNAP participants are either too old or too young to work. Forty-seven percent were under age 18, and 8 percent were 60 or older.
Maureen Dowd, who turns 60 Saturday, may want to sit down for a chat with her young colleague.
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London, U.K.--November 28th 2012--Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that Experian, a leading provider of global information services for businesses, has implemented Compuware APM® — dynaTrace — as its solution for application performance management (APM). With Compuware dynaTrace®, Experian is able to reduce time-to-market and improve the quality of new applications and services by quickly pinpointing the source of performance issues during the early stages of development and quality assurance cycles. This enables Experian to launch new services in shorter time periods, which is a key business objective for their data and analytics specialist.
"We need to deploy the latest and most advanced services for our customers as quickly as possible, and this is where the information delivered by dynaTrace offers the highest value," said Paul Hill, head of support and quality assurance at Experian. "By implementing dynaTrace, we have the ability to dig down into application code on a granular level during the quality assurance (QA) stage, identifying the source of any performance problems picked up during load testing."
"With our software architects, development and testing teams based in a number of locations across different time zones, it's important that communication is as clear and as detailed as possible," said Hill. "With dynaTrace, we are able to identify exactly where performance issues originate and share transaction snapshots that different teams can utilise consistently. This helps us to remedy the root cause of any problems quickly and effectively, allowing us to bring our latest services to market much faster, and ultimately deliver the best customer experience possible."
Experian has grown rapidly over the past few years, both organically and through acquisitions. Coupled with the nature of its business, this means that Experian's services are based on a number of complex applications that are pulling information from multiple internal and external systems to provide users with the intelligence they need. This model has been hugely beneficial in helping Experian to maintain its competitive edge through delivering new services to its customers quickly.
"For organisations like Experian, reducing time-to-market while improving the user experience of online applications is a key objective," said David Cooper, U.K. Regional Director for Compuware's APM business unit. "In order to maintain a competitive edge, companies now require more information about exactly where performance issues are occurring during the testing and development stage—not just after the service has been deployed. With dynaTrace's end-to-end approach, Experian gets actionable insight into where its applications can be improved, ensuring their customers receive the best user experience possible."
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The Paucity of Law in the ICJ's 2010 Advisory Opinion on Kosovo's Declaration of Independence
Valerie Epps
Suffolk University Law School
International Law Student Association (ILSA) Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 26, 2010
Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 10-60
This article analyses the International Court of Justice's recent advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence. It finds the opinion a considerable disappointment as it fails to address the central issue presented on the possibility of the right to remedial secession by part of a state in the face of widespread abuses by a central government. The article documents the deep disagreement among members of the Court and concludes that by drawing dubious "factual" conclusions the opinion is ultimately one of extreme narrowness, representing a missed opportunity to give substantive guidance on the law of self-determination and secession.
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Rose City Comic Con: Showtime in a comics capital
"There are huge shows you can go to that put 'comic' in the title, but really aren't about comics," says Greg Rucka. That's one of the reasons why Rucka — who lives in Portland but commands an international following for the comics and novels he writes — is excited about being a guest at the Rose City Comic Con, happening Saturday and Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center.
"This town is lousy with comics folks," he says. "But this town has also been lousy about comic book shows."
However, in its debut last year, the homegrown Rose City Comic Con drew a capacity crowd of fans and won the support of many members of Portland's community of top-of-their-game comic artists, writers and publishers.
"The Pacific Northwest is huge in the comics industry," says Rucka, whose résumé includes work for comics giants such as DC and Marvel, as well as his own, creator-owned title, "Queen and Country."
"You're not going to find a higher concentration of comics professionals anywhere in the United States outside of New York," he says.
"It's kind of a no-brainer," he adds, that there should be a Portland show like the Rose City con, with its strong emphasis on comics of all kinds.
Ron Brister couldn't agree more, which is why he founded the Rose City con. Brister, the convention director, drew inspiration for the event after taking his then-10-year-old son to Seattle's Emerald City Comicon and the massive Comic-Con International geekapalooza in San Diego.
Brister, who lives in Canby and works for a software company, is a longtime comics fan. He was acquainted with many of the comics creators who were guests at the Seattle and San Diego shows. "And my son finally asked, when we were driving back from San Diego, how come we know all these people, but we don't have our own con?"
Brister also got to wondering why Portland didn't have its own, locally founded show celebrating a wide variety of comics and comic creators.
"There was the Portland Comic Book Show, but that's just a dealer showcase," he says. "The Stumptown Comics Fest is successful, but that's creator-focused."
While Portland has many geek-friendly conventions catering to fans of sci-fi, video games, anime and other forms of pop culture, what Brister envisioned was a Portland version of something like the Seattle and San Diego shows.
He wanted a family-friendly pop culture convention, with an emphasis on comics exhibitors and creators, but also featuring celebrity guests, gaming and special events.
Celebrating the art
"If you ask me, the celebrities aren't our focus," says Brister. "They're a key piece of our convention, but we are a celebration of the art of comics. The celebrities are there because that's something our attendees want."
Among the celebs at the Rose City con are David Giuntoli, star of the filmed-in-Portland TV show "Grimm"; Avery Brooks, of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"; Jewel Staite, best-known for Joss Whedon's "Firefly" and its movie spinoff, "Serenity"; voice actor Billy West ("Ren & Stimpy," "Futurama"); Sam Jones, star of the camptastic 1980 sci-fi epic, "Flash Gordon"; and Christopher Judge, who went from a football career with the University of Oregon to the role of Teal'c in TV's long-running "Stargate SG-1."
For Judge, one of the appeals of being a guest at the Rose City con was the opportunity to come back to Oregon. The Los Angeles native has fond memories of his years at UO, from 1982 to 1987. "I went by Doug Judge when I was at Oregon," he says, by phone from Los Angeles. (Christopher is his middle name.)
Judge remembers he loved football, but also wanted to be an actor. "The guy who kind of changed my life was Grant McKernie. He was the head of the theater arts department back then. I thought being an athlete and wanting to be an actor were two different things. Grant was the guy who said you could do both."
Judge knew he wanted to pursue acting. "So I went to (veteran U of O coach) Len Casanova, and he asked me what I wanted to do. I said acting. He called Stephen Cannell (a U O alum who helped create such shows as 'The Rockford Files' and '21 Jump Street'). Cannell had actually played for Cas at Oregon, so Cas called him, and that's kind of how I got started. One of my first jobs was on '21 Jump Street.'"
Playing the role of the alien warrior Teal'c in "Stargate SG-1" — the TV series spinoff of the 1994 movie — has won Judge loyal fans. The show ran from 1997 to 2007, "and it's popular now through Netflix, and reruns and syndication. So it's like a whole new generation is finding the show."
Increased visibility
Brister hopes even more people find the Rose City con this year. When he and his team put on the first show last year, they hoped for attendance of about 750. Looking at his budget, Brister recalls, "I thought 750 covered all of our costs. We didn't have to eat Top Ramen if we had 750 show up."
As it turned out, about 4,100 people turned out. "My ad budget was about $150, so that was pretty good word-of-mouth."
He wanted to expand this year's con, and to that end, he affiliated with Emerald City Comicon. "We're in an exclusive partnership," says Brister. That deal has given him the benefit of a wider circle of contacts, and more capital.
Returning as one of the Rose City con's sponsors is Things From Another World Inc. the comic book/pop culture online store that's a sister company to Dark Horse Comics, the major comics publisher headquartered in Milwaukie.
"We found that we really enjoyed working with them," says Andrew McIntire, vice president of TFAW. "What set Rose City apart was, while holding to that love of comics, they made room for pop culture, without it superseding their mission.
"I feel they really tailor their efforts, in terms of what they display, towards the interests of the Portland community. They aren't serving just the diehard comics fan, but also reaching out towards people who may not be aware of the comics community. I like their non-exclusionist nature."
It comes down to joy
After so many people came out last year, for 2013 the Rose City con made the move from its former location — in a hotel — to the spacious convention center.
"I'm ultra-conservative," Brister says. "I think right now if we got 8,000 people, I'd be happy. I'm expecting north of 16,000 at this point, based on our ticket pre-sales."
Beyond the business side of things, Brister hopes attendees may find the same joy he did in comics and all things related to them.
"When I was a kid, my mom was struggling to get me to read. She was a single parent. One day she drove me to the comic store, and told me I could buy some comics. Next thing I knew I got a box of 'G.I. Joe' and 'Spider-Man' comics every month. We grew up with very little money, so it was a good outlet for my imagination as a kid, being able to daydream about the things I was reading in comics, and adventures."
While fans get a kick out of meeting comics creators and celebrities, Rucka says there's a benefit in attending these events for the guests, too.
"One of the great things about a show is the pleasure that comes from a one-on-one interaction," he says. "I'm very fortunate in that I've written a couple of stories that people have really liked. And for some of those people, they've been not only entertaining, but very important. It's a rare show where somebody doesn't come up to me and say, 'This story mattered to me. It was there when I needed it.'"
You can't get that kind of interaction online, Rucka says. "There's something to be said for being in a community space with people who share the same passion."
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Bulls point guard Derrick Rose would not have been pleased. And, given the strength of candidates around the Eastern Conference, there was a chance Rose would be disappointed. He was so certain that teammate Luol Deng would be an All-Star, he said, "Lu is definitely going to make the All-Star team this year. If he don't, it'll be cheating. It'll be cheating for sure."
OK, there was no cheating. Deng is on the Eastern Conference squad, joining Chris Bosh, Roy Hibbert, Andre Iguodala, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce and Deron Williams as All-Star reserves chosen by the conference's coaches and announced Thursday night. On the other side are the West reserves: Steve Nash, Tony Parker, Russell Westbrook, Dirk Nowitzki, LaMarcus Aldridge, Kevin Love and Marc Gasol.
That's the list of who will be there. But there is also a pretty strong list of players who were snubbed:
Ryan Anderson, Magic. Anderson has been a key component in keeping the Magic afloat during their tumultuous season, averaging 16.5 points with 7.4 rebounds and, most impressive, a 43.0 percent mark on 3-point shots. His breakout year has been impressive, and it was plausible for him to beat out Deng, who has missed seven games, but the coaches decided otherwise.
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Brandon Jennings, Bucks. Jennings has pulled his game together after an injury-riddled year, and the Bucks are having a better season behind his play, even with limited contributions from Andrew Bogut and Stephen Jackson. He was more deserving of a spot than Williams, who is shooting 41.1 percent from the field and whose team is 8-19.
Kyrie Irving, Cavaliers. If not Jennings, a better case can be made for Irving, a rookie, to be an All-Star over Williams. Irving is averaging 18.0 points and 5.3 assists, shooting 49.2 percent from the field and 41.3 percent on 3s. While Williams' may have better scoring and assist averages, he's shooting poorly this season. The Cavs are 10-14, but would be much, much worse without Irving on board.
James Harden, Thunder. Sure, Harden is a reserve for Oklahoma City. But he has put up some very impressive numbers for the league's best team, averaging 16.8 points, 3.5 assists and 4.0 rebounds with very efficient shooting numbers (47.0 percent from the field, 36.2 percent from the 3-point line and 86.9 percent from the free-throw line). He is a stabilizing force off the bench for Oklahoma City, though Tony Parker's recent surge probably put Harden out of contention for a spot.
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Paul Millsap, Jazz. Cases could be made for both Millsap and center Al Jefferson, especially with the Jazz having turned around their year. But Millsap's rebounding (9.7 per game) and shooting (52.3 percent, for 16.5 points) set him apart and make him a better candidate than Nowitzki, who was selected as a reward for his play last year. Nowitzki is averaging just 17.6 points and 6.2 rebounds this season.
The Nuggets. There were a handful players from Denver who had a chance, including small forward Danilo Gallinari, center Nene and point guard Ty Lawson. All have pretty decent numbers, but none have the kind of stats that wowed coaches enough to send them to Orlando. Still, with the start that Denver got off to, it's tough to see them without a player in the game.


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Syracuse, NY -- Junior attackman Chris Daniello, who has scored three goals in each of the last two games for the Syracuse University men's lacrosse team, was at practice Wednesday. Senior midfielder Greg Niewieroski was not. Each was shaken up during SU's 10-3 victory Saturday over Rutgers. Head coach John Desko said each is day-to-day regarding Friday's 7 p.m. game vs. Albany in the Carrier Dome.
Niewieroski, who was coming into his own in the last few games after making the transition from crease attackman to second-line midfielder this season, made a strong dodge to the cage and scored SU's first goal against Rutgers. He appeared to get leveled well after the shot by an RU defender, although no penalty was called, and was slow getting up.
"He took a pretty good shot in the Rutgers game early on, which is a shame," Desko said. "I thought he was really playing well in that game and scored early, and I thought we were going to get a couple more goals out of him. It's too bad he didn't get to finish. We'll get him back. It's just a matter of when. Same with Chris Daniello. Chris took a shot in that game and wasn't able to finish the game, either. Another guy who had three goals at that point, and I think he would have had more."
Niewieroski took one more run and was part of a nice transition goal that was finished by Kenny Nims and Daniello but afterward limped off the field and did not return. His knee was wrapped in ice as he watched practice Tuesday, but the good news is the knee itself did not sustain an injury but rather the muscle above it, which absorbed a blow from the RU defender's knee as he came in high on Niewieroski.
Daniello, who has come on strong lately and has 16 goals on the season, was flattened after scoring his third goal of the game early in the third quarter. It is unclear what was injured in the collision, but he appeared to be running fine as he took part in drills Wednesday.


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It's time now to take a look at one of my favorite programs that's part of the Windows Live Essentials' bundle of programs and that's Windows Live Movie Maker. If you want to throw together your photos, video, even music and create cool looking videos to share with others, this is a simple application to use and it will help you do all of that. Now Windows Movie Maker has been around for quite some time but here in Windows Live Essentials, in Windows 7, it's newly designed. It's got a fresh new look, so let's take a peek now. We are going to be using the contents of the 12_11 sub-folder of the Chap12 folder of the Exercise Files.
We have got some photos, we have got a video, even a song here that we can use as we create our video. If you have got your own and you want to try this out, that's fine. If you have got the Exercise Files, you can follow along with me by going down to the Windows orb, selecting All Programs, then Windows Live, and of course when you install it or download Windows Live Essentials, you got to have to make sure that Movie Maker was one of the programs that was being installed. And when you select it here, we see that fresh, new, simple looking user interface, broken up into three main areas really.
I have got the Ribbon across the top with all of our commands, and you can see there are different tabs here. We have our Preview screen where we will be able to see what's going on as we create it and over here on the right- hand side, an area for dragging in content, videos, and photos, for example. And we can just drag them in here from a folder, or if you would prefer you can click to browse for them, so it's totally up to you how you do to this. I like to have it filling my entire screen, so instead of going to Windows Explorer, moving this around and trying to drag things in, I prefer just to browse for them from this window.
So I am going to close up Windows Explorer. And before I even start dragging in content, I am going to go up here and make sure the Home tab is selected. If you have got a video camera or a camera and you want to be able to add video from that, in other words you need to import the content, you are going to go just left of the Home tab here and you are going to click the Application button, and here you will notice you have the ability to import from a device. Of course, you would have the plug-in the device. If it's a video camera, you plug it in probably with a USB cable.
And to begin making a movie with Windows Live Movie Maker, you will select your photos and videos that you would want to use. You don't need to see this message every time, click OK and off you go. Now, if your camera is plugged in, it's going to be recognized here. You'll see the device. If you simply select it and then whatever you do on your camera you will actually see in the Preview screen here. You can import with the Import button. We've already got all of our content, so in that case we are going to go back to our Home tab here on the Ribbon and start to add videos and photos from here.
Something called AutoMovie is really cool. Once you have got your content, you can have Movie Maker create the movie for you. And what it's going to do is automatically create a title. Let's go to Title here, and click. This allows us to add a title. You can see the content was added. We get to enter our text now. Let's just type in something like California Cool. I am going to hit Return, by D. Rivers. There we go. Now this is the default formatting, we got a black background, we have got white text, but all of this stuff can be changed.
You will notice as soon as we started typing, we got our Format tab selected on the Ribbon. We have got Text tools and Video tools to choose from. Right now we're looking at the Text tools. You can see the color-coded border around the outside of the Ribbon. So for example, if I want to make this little bit bigger, I could do that right from here. If I want to change the font to something else, go ahead and change the font. If you want to add some attributes, change the font size, center, left, or right, add transparency, even go inside to edit the text, which we are already inside editing, if we wanted to make changes, no problem.
Let's just change the background color, we will click the Background color and choose a nice dark blue. And for the text itself, the text color, we can go to this button and let's choose bright yellow, there we go. We can also choose the duration, so how much time are we going to be looking at this title. I can see the duration is set to 5 seconds, but we can change that. Let's just shorten it to 2 seconds for the sake of this movie. I will just click in the screen in the background, so you can see your text. Click again and you will notice that nothing seems to be appearing here.
But if we click the Play button, you are going see the default effect that was applied here. So you can play that back at any time just to preview it. And if you want to change that effect, you can, no problem. So we can't see it right now, we will just go back to the beginning and you could see we have got this slider here as well. Here it is. There is our text. Click anywhere on the text itself and choose a different effect if you want. As you hover over these effects you are going to see what actually happens here. I like this one here. Zoom in if you want to see more.
Click the little dropdown. We have lots to choose from here, maybe that one, Spin in. Let's use that. We have also got this bar that we can move across back and forth to preview what's going on as well. Okay. Let's get some more stuff in here. Let's add some video and photos. And we click this button, here we go, we can start browsing. We will go to the 12_11 sub-folder of Chap12. If we just want to bring all of this stuff in, let's bring all the photos in, click the first one, hold down Shift, click the last one and let's just leave this video out of the picture.
Hold down Ctrl while you click that to deselect it. When you click Open, you can see everything got added, and that's the same order that they appeared in our folder. We can change the order up. Now they are all selected right now, so there's nothing to move. So you need to deselect and just click one, for example. Notice the border around the outside. Now you can move it. When you let go, it's dropped in place. I am going to move the otters over here. There we go. So you can move a group or you can move individual images.
In this case we are using photos. So you can choose how you want them to appear and in the right order. Let's bring in that video now. We will go to Add Videos and Photos again, but this time we just want the video. This way we get to pick its location or maybe we just import it. It's automatically added to the end and you can see how it's broken up. You can also see the duration when you hover over. It's 40 seconds worth. I am going to move that just up here before the Rocks, so you can see now it wraps around onto the second line.
And with video you have a number of different options to choose from. With this frame selected, you'll notice up at the top, we have got Video tools. So we can do things like let's go down to Edit, have it fade in and out. I like this. The Trim tool allows us to trim the video, any unwanted parts that we don't need. So to really see where we want it to start, for example, we can click and drag this border over. And I actually don't want any of this right here, so I am going to leave it right there at the end.
I am going to split it. When I do that now, it's like I have got two videos. In this one, I am going to select it and press Delete on my keyboard. It's gone. Now the video starts here. As I scroll over, you can see that's good, I like that. All right, I am going to split again and I am going to move across all the way to there and I am going to split. Now I have got it split into three and this little section here I don't want. Trimming. You are going to use just for your start and end points.
So for example, if I drag this across, maybe right there is where I want it to end. I am going to set that as my endpoint and you can see it's really gotten shortened up here. So as I hover over this little clip, you can see it's 6 seconds. It's trimmed. It also tells me that this one is 8. All right so, now we have got all of that in. Let's add some credits at the end. Go back to the Home tab and we will add some credits. You can see they get added to the end. Enter name here. I am actually going to type in a bunch of words here. Created by David Rivers.
You can type in your own information. Again, we have got all of our Text tools here as well as effects if you want. By default, it's going to scroll up. And we can change the duration here. I am going to bump it up to about 8 seconds, and now I've got everything I need. The only thing missing might be some cool transitions in between. So if I select the first frame, hold down Shift and click the last frame, which is my Credits. I have got all of them selected again. And now, let's go up to Animations and you will see Transitions here.
As we hover over these, we see a preview happen. Some cool transitions. We also have some pan and zoom options. So if you want your images to be panned across, for example, going from left to right, right to left, you got a whole bunch to choose from. It's almost as if the still pictures are moving. So I am going to choose one of these. Let's go down to Zoom in top. Remember everything is selected, so it's being applied to everything and let's choose a cool transition here. Choose the Diagonal - box out.
You can also choose the duration for these things, how long it takes for the transition to start and end. In this case, a second, and that's going to affect the entire length of our video. And you can see the total length here is 53 seconds. Back to the Home tab. Now this is cool, we can add some music to this. Our video actually has some sound, so if I click the video clip, hold down Shift and click the second one, I want these both selected. I might not want to hear any of the audio here, so I need to access those options.
And you can see under Video tools, I have got Edit, or the Edit tab. I will go to Video volume. I am going to drag this slider all the way to the left, which is the equivalent of muting it. Okay, perfect. Now we will go back to the Home tab and add music. When we click Add music, it could be at the current point or just add it to the entire movie. I want to add it to the entire movie. I am going to go back to my 12_11 sub-folder of the Chap12 folder in the Exercise Files, and I've got an MP3 song in there, FinalSong. Click Open, and you can see it gets added, beautiful.
And I have got some options. Music tools for example. If I go down to Options, I can fade the music in, but I want it to fade out slowly, there we go. We can also adjust the volume for our music. I am going to just bring it down a little bit. Now you can see the music track across the top here. It's actually over 3 minutes long, so I don't have enough content to fill up the entire song and it gets cut off at the end. And that's why fading out is a good idea. Another option though might be to have it automatically fit.
Let's go to the Home tab. I kind of like this feature. When you click Fit to music, automatically your photos and your video are going to be stretched out so it fits the length of the music, and you can see everything just got stretched out. It's as if we added duplicates of all of our photos and that's actually going to fit the entire song. The new length of my movie is 3 minutes and 6 seconds. I can press play just to take a peek at what that's going to look like. (Music playing.) I will just press Pause right there.
So once you have assembled all of this, and by the way clicking AutoMovie would have done everything we just did: added the titles, the credits, the effects in between, the panning and zooming that we added. And it would have, with our song, made everything fit to the music. We just did it all manually, but you know what? It was a lot more fun having full control. If you are in a rush though, AutoMovie is a great option. Now it's time to save this up, so let's just click the Save button and I am going to save it to my Desktop. It's called My Movie by default.
You can call it whatever you want. I am going to type in CaliCool, and notice this is going to be saved as a Movie Maker Project. So when you click Save, you just go back to your project any time you want to make adjustments. When you're ready to share though, you have got some sharing options. I am going to click this little dropdown to see them all. YouTube is an option. It will publish right to your YouTube account and then you can see we have got some common settings, high-definition settings, or in this case we can burn to a DVD, and we have got these other options down below.
If you have a portable device like a mobile phone or if you want to send it via e-mail, you can do that from here as well. Also if we go up to the Application button, you can see we've got the Save movie. We have got these options here and you can choose different definitions. We have also got Publish movie, and there is our YouTube option from here. So it's totally up to you how you want to save it. I am going to choose Save. I am going to click Widescreen. And in this case, it's going to be saved as a Windows Media video. That's my only option when I choose Widescreen.
It's going to have the same name. I am going to click Save and now I've got that option as well. Now when we actually publish or save to a format that we can use to play the movie, not just a project, it could take a while depending on how much video and how many photographs are in there, the music, etc. So you can see with Windows Live Movie Maker, I have got the progress bar going across. At the end, I will be able to play this movie. So let's let this complete and then we'll take a look at the finished product. All right. It's done. We see this little message here.
So our movie called CaliCool, WMV format is complete. So we have the ability now, if I want to go and play that, click the Play button. You can see it's opening up here in Windows Media Player. (Music playing.) I am just going to bring the volume down and you can see the progress bar in the Media Player here moving across. You can see that slight pan and zoom, the moving in, one of the special effects. And when we move from one photo to the next photo, we are going to see that transition effect as well, there it is, and some more panning and zooming.
Of course, everything got stretched out so it could fit this song and that's why it's moving so slowly. But we've got a finished product and it took us literally minutes to throw our photos, video, and music together. I am going to close this up and I am going to close up Movie Maker. I have saved the project. There is my file right there on the Desktop any time I need to play it. So keep in mind, there is a newly redesigned Movie Maker built in to Windows Live Essentials. It makes it really easy for sharing video that you create based on photos, video, even music.
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Initial B'Tselem investigations indicate that between the launch of the Israeli military's "Pillar of Defense" operation on the afternoon of November 14, 2012 and the night of 17 November, 43 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Initial investigations indicate that at least 13 of those killed were civilians, among them seven children (five of them toddlers under the age of 4), and two women.
B'Tselem will continue to investigate the incidents in which civilians have been killed in Gaza, and to review reports coming in even now regarding additional incidents in which civilians have been killed or injured.
Three Israelis have been killed in the course of the operation to date, as a result of rocket fire from Gaza by Palestinian militant organizations.


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Five Tips for Finding A Trustworthy Car Mechanic
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There are some shady car mechanics out there so it's hard to find the right mechanic to do the work that you need. Also, not all shops are equal, some are good at detailing, some are good at body work, some are good with suspensions; some might specialize in foreign makes and models while others are great with GM and Ford. Be sure to look for one that knows how to perform the work you're looking for.
When I slid on black ice over a year ago, I had some work done on my car by the local mechanic. The work was good and I was limited in my options because the car barely drove (I didn't want to pay for a tow) but a few months ago I heard a clicking when I turned left. Apparently what happened was my rear hub assembly was cracked and after a year of driving there was enough crud buildup in it (from sand and other junk) to create this noise, but I didn't know this and needed to have the car checked out. Without a geographic restriction, I started to look for a local mechanic and realized that finding a decent one you could trust is hard! So below you will find some helpful steps I took to figure out which one to go to.
1. Ask your Neighbors – Both of my neighbors have been in the area for quite some time and know the lay of the land and that's probably the case for you as well. The best way to find a reputable car mechanic is the ask your neighbors because they've needed work and they've probably gone to a local mechanic to get it performed. Depending on how long they've been living in the area, they could be a wealth of knowledge on local mechanics from either personal experience or anecdotes from their friends, plus they're going to be on your side so take advantage of it.
2. Ask your Co-workers – Again, since you'll probably be working relatively close to home, this is another source of information that will have more loyalty towards you than to any particular body shop.
3. CarTalk (and other online forums) – If you've never heard of Click and Clack on National Public Radio, you haven't truly lived! These two Boston brothers are both funny and brilliant and they have a cult following despite only appearing on radio for a single hour each week on Saturday mornings. Anyway, on their website they have an area called Mechanics Files where readers can review mechanics and submit their reviews of them. The reviews are usually brief, a few sentances, and the scoring isn't terribly valuable but it's another point of reference.
4. Scope The Place Out – Does it have a lot of cars sitting around? Does it look professional? I know they say looks can be deceiving, but if you scope a place out for a little while you can get at least an idea of how they do business. Talk to some people who walk out of the place, see if they were happy with their service, what they thoughts, etc. People, who aren't in a hurry to get somewhere, are usually very candid and you can tell if they've gone to this place a lot or this was a one-time thing.
Check out their lot too. If you drive a Toyota, it'd be nice to see a couple Toyota's sitting on their lot waiting for service or waiting for their driver to return. If you drive a Toyota and you only see BMW's, that might not be the place for you. If you have a relatively new car and all the cars there are late model, you might want to turn elsewhere.
5. Check Their Credentials – Check the Better Business Bureau and AAA to see if they have any complaints and whether they are certified. Also check to see if their mechanics are certified by ASE (National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence).
Lastly, if you can't find a mechanic you think you can trust in the area, go with the dealership because you know they have the experience and the knowledge to work on your car, even if they're going to be expensive.
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Jul 25, 2011, 07:29 PM
You guys always seem to have a good idea what is going on every second of the game. Who's friend with who. Who's attacking who. Where you rank in terms of military, economy, etc.... I must be missing the easy to read screen that tells me this. Tips please.


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> Vivek Goyal
> > Hi All,
> >
> > How does following series of patches look like. I have moved
> > elfcorehdr_addr out of vmcore.c and pushed it to arch dependent section
> > of crash dump to make sure that it can be worked with even when
> > CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is disabled and CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled.
> >
> > I tested it on x86_64. Compile tested it on i386 and ppc64. ia64 and
> > sh versions are completely untested.
> Given the current state of the code:
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
> To process a kernel crash dump we pass the kernel elfcorehdr option,
> so testing to see if it was passed seems reasonable.
> In general I think this method of handling the problems with kdump is
> too brittle to live, but in the case of iommus we certainly need to do
> something different, and unfortunately iommus were not common on x86
> when the original code was merged so we have not handled them well.
Agreed, however these patches look like they really ought to be merged
into a single patch for the sake of bisect. As things stand, applying
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Carnegie Mellon Concert ChoirRobert Page conducts.10/07/2012Time: 3:00 pmLocation: Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts, CMU, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Carnegie Mellon Symphony OrchestraUnder the direction of Ronald Zollman, the Carnegie Mellon Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Beethoven program including the Overture from The Creatures of Prometheus and Symphonies #8 & #4.10/07/2012Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Opera Orchestra Artists in RecitalPittsburgh Opera Orchestra violinist Dawn Posey, violin, and harpist Nuiko Wadden perform an arrangement of J.S. Bach's Lute Suite #1, Saint-Saens' Fantasie for violin and harp, Ricardo Lorenz'sJaromiluna, and Henriette Renie's Trio for Harp, Violin, and Cello with cellist Katya Janpoladyan of the Freya String Quartet.10/07/2012Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Monk's Place, 3634 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Jeffrey ToobinJeffrey Toobin is the preeminent writer about the current Supreme Court. He appears with his anticipated new book, The Oath: The Obama White House vs. The Supreme Court. Toobin claims, "The battle between a conservative court and a liberal president will be one of the central behind-the-scenes dramas of the Obama years."10/08/2012Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Yeomen of the GuardThe Savoyards' 74th season begins with Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard." Set in the Tower of London...A Gallant Prisoner, Jester and Jailers...Love and Woe...A magnificent score. Musical Director Guy Russo, Stage Director Charles Penick.10/12/2012 - 10/21/2012Location: Andrew Carnegie Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Ave., Carnegie, Pawebsite
Honeck Presents Mozart's RequiemActor John Lithgow narrates this work with readings form Mozart's letters to his father in this realization created by Manfred Honeck. Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and Honeck leads the PSO premiere of ABBA-MA by Herbert Willi.10/12/2012 - 10/14/201210/12 - 8:00 pm10/13 - 8:00 pm10/14 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Opening ConcertIstvan Jaray conducts Danzon #2 by Arturo Marquez, Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto #2 featuring the Romanian-born violinist Lenuta Ciulei, and Mahler's Symphony #1 "The Titan."10/13/2012Time: 7:30 pmPasquerilla Performing Arts Center, 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PAwebsite | map
Say, Darlin' SayThe spirited folk music of our Appalachian region gets the Chatham Baroque treatment! Acclaimed folk musicians Mark Tamsula (banjo, fiddle) and Ellen Gozion (vocals, banjo) join the group to explore the influential musical traditions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina.10/13/2012 - 10/14/201210/13 - 8:00 pm10/14 - 2:30 pmLocation: variouswebsite
Time Remembered/Time ForgottenThomas Douglas conducts the Pittsburgh premiere of Robert S. Cohen's Alzheimer's Stories, a touching oratorio which captures the memories of families, friends and individuals affected by the disease. The choir also sings Howard Hanson's Song of Democracy,with text by Walt Whitman, and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise.10/13/2012 - 10/14/201210/13 - 8:00 pm10/14 - 4:00 pmLocation: Eastminster Church, 250 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Midnight Radio, Jr.In 2011, Bricolage launched its first-ever, family-friendly episode of Midnight Radio, and it was so successful that it's becoming a permanent part of the sesaon. Kids aged 6-12 will enjoy an unique combination of storytelling, music, and live sound effects.10/13/2012 - 10/14/2012Time: 2:00 pmBricolage Production Company, 937 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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5 Quick and Essential Mascara TipsMonique Frausto
Raise your hand if you feel naked without mascara? Are you raising your hand? If you are, you're not alone. Wearing mascara has become a daily part of our makeup routine. As a blogger who dabbles in the beauty department, I love experimenting and trying out different brands.
Mascara comes in so many different formulas, colors, and qualities. But, there are a few quick and essential mascara tips that every makeup user should know. Things I've learned along the way from brands, experts, and some of the best makeup artists around.
Expiration Dates
First and foremost, know that your makeup has an expiration date. No matter how much we spend on it, it's not going to last a lifetime. Yes, that means your beloved mascara has a shelf-life. According to Good Housekeeping, you should toss your mascara away after three months. Apparently, a mascara tube is the perfect place for bacteria to grow!
Quit Pumping
I've learned over the years, that one of the most common things we do with our mascara is a big "no-no." Before applying, how many of us pump the mascara wand in and out? We think we're getting more product on the brush, but in reality we're drying it out by forcing air into the the tube. Instead, simply turn the wand a few times. The brush will get all the product you need for application.
Wiggle It
Yes, there's a way you should be applying your mascara—one that will add thickness to your lashes. According to CoverGirl, hold the brush as close as possible to base of your upper lashes. Then wiggle it as you move it up through your lashes. Let your mascara dry for 10 seconds and repeat.
Messy Clean Up
I don't know about you, but I tend to make a little bit of a mess when I apply my mascara. You might get some on the upper lid, sometimes your cheek, and even on your nose. What? I'm only human! A makeup artists once taught me to allow the mascara to fully dry, then grab a cotton swab and just flick the dry mascara off. Trying to clean it off when it's wet, will just make more of a mess.
Sharing is Not Nice
Yes, our moms taught us to share. But, what they didn't tell us is that sharing our makeup is not nice! According to WebMD.com, it might not be such a healthy decision. Especially when it comes to your mascara. Beauty and skin care expert Dr. Laurie Polis tells WebMD why: "When it comes to bad makeup sharing habits," Polis says, "the eyes rank as the most dangerous. The most common viral infection of the eye is conjunctivitis, or pinkeye, which is extremely contagious. People don't always know they're brewing it." So…keep it to yourself!


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"I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage, mathematician, computer pioneer, analytical engine designer (1791-1871)
-- (Question: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?')
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It's not hard to close your eyes and imagine the road as it was then, either. A narrow passageway of compacted dirt weaving through alders, Sitka spruce and maples before it slips into the quiet woods where redwood trees reach hundreds of feet into the sky. The redwoods are so tall that sunlight barely pierces the canopy in places, sunbeams falling like water on dense sweeps of ferns, huckleberries and broad-leafed skunk cabbage.
The road may have started as a Native American trail -- one tribe traveling on foot to trade with others. In time, mules traversed it loaded with supplies for early Gold Rush miners digging in the Oregon towns of Kerby and Jacksonville. Then came wagon trains. Then stagecoaches. Finally automobiles -- Model A's long before the big yellow school buses that finally stopped taking kids on the road for field trips because massive trees narrowed the road.
To commemorate Oregon's 150th anniversary, a group of nonprofits in the state's southwest corner are sponsoring the Old Redwood Stage Road tour Saturday. It covers roughly 60 miles, some of it on U.S. 199 and some of it backcountry roads seldom traveled anymore. The free tour is meant to educate travelers about a remote part of Oregon and a slice of state history that doesn't get as much attention as the better-known branches of the Oregon Trail.
Spend time on this road less traveled, a road that never became an interstate as many did, and you'll see where the state has been and maybe where it's going.
It's easy to imagine how bumpy it must have been for those who fled California's crowded gold fields and spread north once gold was discovered in 1851 on Sucker Creek in Oregon's Illinois Valley.
The road they took still swerves around canyons carved of ocean crust rock, where the water far below runs clear and green, like the bottom of a Coca-Cola glass. The road still travels uphill where fog envelopes the surrounding Doug fir forests. The traffic encountered in the Redwoods National and State parks at the start fades once you hit the stretch built by Chinese immigrants known as the Gasquet Toll Road.
Some of those curves, like the one known as Danger Point, have been straightened to accommodate cars. Model A's were thought to have been forced to make three-point turns to round the sharp 180-degree curves easily maneuvered by wagons.
Other than the places where the road has been straightened or paved, such as where it became U.S. 199, it has changed little, says Roger Brandt, a chief organizer of the tour and the history and geology buff who put together the exhaustive tour guide.
To Brandt, the road is a chance to experience firsthand a route taken by previous generations. It's also an opportunity to slow down a hurried modern existence and ponder history, how it was lived, how it looked and smelled and sounded.
Sweeping views, jostling roads, hairpin turns. The lush redwood forest gives way to a different setting: brick-colored soil, tree-topped ridges, lodgepole pines, colonies of insect-eating pitcher plants, stands of knobcone pines -- among the first trees to grow after a fire.
Then comes an old stagecoach stop at Adams Station, established circa 1898. The remaining buildings have weathered like old bones. Lichen speckles an ancient wooden fence, and old apple trees grow as gnarled as if they had arthritis.
The road widens in places; it narrows again. Barren stretches show little signs of human activity. Bear scat chock-full of manzanita leaves is the only sign of life in one bend. Rocks the size of cinder blocks have tumbled down the hillside. In one lonely stretch, a covey of quail skitters across the dust. The babies trail the waddling mother like beads on a string, one after the other.
The old Gasquet Toll Road merges into the old Wimer Toll Road near the border and comes into Oregon with little fanfare and no big welcome sign. The Wimer Toll merges with the 1856 Puncheon and Turnpike Road later, and the road soon begins to look and feel like any logging road. You pass over a mountain saddle with a sweeping view of southern Oregon's gold rush sites but you have to know they were once there to care now, which is when you realize something.
The road goes through small crossroads and through communities that no longer exist. It goes through communities that sprang up after gold mining -- following timber first and tree farms later -- and many communities still evolving.
Near the end of the road, near the town of Kerby north of Cave Junction, where the familiar Doug fir forest morphs into a bland expanse of scrub brush and oaks, you pass a stone corral believed to be one of the few remaining signs that the pack trains passed this way.
The rough wall, maybe waist-high now, is thought to have been built by mule handlers who laid the stone to keep their animals from wandering off at night when they bunked down. Wagon trains bumped mules from the road, and cars kicked stagecoaches to the curb. But how long must it have taken to build that wall? To haul every stone, to stack each into place on top of the other? Why did they bother unless they thought it would last?
Look at that wall and you think: Those men and women never saw the future coming. If the road they traveled brought us here, where will it take us next?
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Look at that homio with the skinny jeans!
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A gay word for a girl given by juicy,
another meaning of homosexual,homo
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anisha m. is a homio, and is a gay fuckhead that licked a pussy.
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2009 Chateau Gruaud Larose Saint-Julien
Producer: Chateau Gruaud Larose
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Dark ruby-red. Intense aromas of red cherry, cassis, aromatic herbs and cedar. Rich, dense and suave, with concentrated flavors of dark berries, cedar and quinine complicated by smoky and peppery nuances. Finishes very long and smooth, with a highly tactile quality to the cedar and cassis flavors. This Gruaud stands out for its purity, as it seems free of the earthy and gamey nuances that have been present in many past vintages. In fact, this impressive wine strikes me as the best young Gruaud-Larose in recent memory. (ID)


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quote: If you have an iphone, an iPad, an Apple TV, and a Mac then everything works seamlessly together. WIthout installing extra software or configuring anything you can share music, videos, audio, pictures etc via iTunes and iCloud wirelessly to all devices.
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Former College of Charleston basketball coach Bobby Cremins has been appointed to the NCAAs Division Committee on Infractions.
Cremins and former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr are two of eight new members on the committee, which is expanding to handle more cases.
The NCAAs Division I board of directors approved the additions over the weekend. Last October, the board approved expanding the Committee on Infractions from 10 voting members to as many as 24, with smaller panels expected to handle individual cases. The committee now stands at 18 members.
Cremins also coached at Appalachian State and Georgia Tech.
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Watch your boyfriends, girls! This girl is the biggest flirt around. She means well but thrives off attention of anyone she can get it from. Very outgoing and insists she'll be famous one day for her singing but doesn't realize she's just like every other washed up artist out there.
Meg: So you're saying you don't love me anymore?
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Is she flirting with him?
Totally, she's such a Kenna.
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Someone who tends to spill things a lot, incredibly clumsy, stupid, says things before thinking, and is very forgetfull. Can also mean dumb or not very intelligent.
"I just pushed a door, it said pull on the handle" that would make you a Kenna"
by xkelzx September 08, 2008
somebody who likes men.outgoing. pretty cute.can be your bestest friendd.
if your nice she can be your kenna!
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slang word derived from old inuit language meaning used to describe someone who is beautiful, athletic, short tempered, smart, funny, sexy, and naive.
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A fantastically beautiful young woman with everything guys dream of and more. Loads of guys are attracted to her and she can pick which ever she wants. She can seem like a bitch at times, but it's just cuz she has to fight off all of the guys she isn't interested in.
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Ahhh Kenna is so perfect. I can only dream of being with her one day.
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Is a name whose origin comes from either Kennan, McKenna, Kenny, or Kenneth.
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Nigeria knows the location of more than 200 girls who were kidnapped from a school in April by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, according to news reports.
Nigerian Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh told the News Agency of Nigeria the military has no plans to use force to rescue the girls:
"We want our girls back, I can tell you that our military can and will do it, but where they are held, can we go there with force? Nobody should say Nigerian military does not know what it is doing; we can't kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back. So we are working, the president has empowered us to do the work. Anybody castigating the military, definitely there is something wrong with him. The good news for the parents of the girls is that we know where they are, but we cannot tell you. We cannot come and tell you the military secret, just leave us alone, we are working to get the girls back."
U.S. officials said they are unable to confirm the report that Nigeria knows where the girls are, according to NBC News. Badeh has not disclosed the location.
"We still don't know where the girls are," one U.S. official told NBC News.
Boko Haram abducted an estimated 276 girls on April 14 from a boarding school in Chibok. Dozens escaped, but more than 200 girls are still missing, CNN reports.
Al Jazeera says a Boko Haram video has shown some of the girls reciting verses in Arabic from the Koran and two of them explaining why they had converted from Christianity to Islam while in captivity.
Boko Haram is known for its ruthless tactics. At least 470 civilians have died violent deaths in various locations at the hands of Boko Haram since the girls' kidnapping, according to Reuters.
On Monday, gunmen killed four Nigerian soldiers in an ambush on a military patrol in central Plateau state, Al Jazeera reports, although it was not confirmed if this was conducted by Boko Haram.
On Sunday, suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed a Christian village in northeastern Adamawa state, killing 20 residents, a local government spokesman told Al Jazeera.