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Debates of Nov. 18th, 2010
House of Commons Hansard #99 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was aircraft.
- Question Period
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Parliament of Canada Act
- Business of Supply
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Business of Supply
- Prostate Cancer
- Act of Bravery
- La Voix de l'Est Newspaper
- Health
- Taxation
- Laurent Coderre
- Veterans Affairs
- Poverty in Canada
- Member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin
- Veterans
- Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Poverty
- Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security
- Universal Children's Day
- Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Democratic Reform
- Banting Homestead Heritage Park
- National Defence
- Hydroelectricity
- National Defence
- G8 and G20 Summits
- The Environment
- Afghanistan
- Government Advertising
- Veterans Affairs
- Democratic Reform
- The Environment
- Quebec City Arena
- City of Lévis
- Nortel Pensioners
- Poverty
- Mining Industry
- Foreign Affairs
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Victims of Crime
- Amateur Sports
- Justice
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Tobacco Products
- Presence in Gallery
- Business of the House
- Eliminating Entitlements for Prisoners Act
- Points of Order
- Business of Supply
- Secure, Adequate, Accessible and Affordable Housing Act
Opposition Motion—National Defence
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Alan Tonks York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, my colleague spoke about whether these are the right tools to do the job. The question is: What is the job?
My question then is: Is this not the opportunity, given what has happened in Afghanistan and the whole issue of peacemaking and peacekeeping, to conduct a foreign policy review with respect to what Canada actually is expected to do and what Canadians want us to be seen to be doing? Is this not the time to put this on hold, never mind the issues with respect to whether it should be a proposal call or whatever, and that we really need to look at what we are doing—
Opposition Motion—National Defence
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
The hon. member for Parkdale—High Park.
Opposition Motion—National Defence
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:35 p.m.
Gerard Kennedy Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, the short answer is yes, we should have that very debate. It is being denied. Our mission will follow the spending instead, which is the wrong way to go. That is no way to respect our military personnel. If the average airmen were involved in this particular debate, what would they be looking for and what would they need? Consistently the government tries to speak for them and does not allow this debate to take place.
Canadians cannot have the confidence that we know what we want our military to do. That is what should come first. Then we should ask ourselves how to support them in the best fashion possible. This massive expenditure is the other way around. It would take other options away from us and would not allow us to actually support our armed services when we deploy them for things that could be completely different from where this expenditure puts us.
1:35 p.m.
The Acting Speaker Barry Devolin
Order, please. I have the honour to inform the House that a communication has been received as follows:
Rideau Hall
November 18, 2010
Mr. Speaker:
I have the honour to inform you that the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, signified royal assent by written declaration to the bills listed in the Schedule to this letter on the 18th day of November, 2010, at 9:10 a.m.
Yours sincerely, Sheila-Marie Cook
Secretary to the Governor General
The schedule indicates the bills assented to were BillC-40, An Act to establish National Seniors Day and Bill S-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (auto theft and trafficking in property obtained by crime).
The House resumed consideration of the motion.
Opposition Motion—National Defence
Business of Supply
Government Orders
1:40 p.m.
Mario Laframboise Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to speak on behalf of the Bloc Québécois to the motion moved by the Liberal Party on its opposition day, especially since I am the member of Parliament for the beautiful Mirabel region, home to a significant part of the aerospace industry. I have been following the F-35 situation very closely over the past few weeks and months.
From the outset, the Bloc Québécois is not in favour of the motion moved by the Liberal Party on the F-35 contract. We cannot say we did not try to make them see things differently.
It is too late to do anything about this purchase contract because it has already been set in motion. It is a done deal. We proposed an amendment to move forward with this matter, but the Liberal Party has rejected it. The Bloc Québécois thinks we should focus on two important items when it comes to this F-35 contract. First, it is high time that we come up with a real foreign affairs policy here in Canada. The government makes military purchases, from helicopters to tanks to fighter jets, without any real foreign affairs policy. These purchases are made without any sense of where Canada is going or the direction, which is becoming more military than anything else, Quebeckers are funding.
The first part of the Bloc Québécois amendment indicates that this purchase is regrettable since no real foreign affairs and defence policy has been discussed openly here in the House. We would have thought that the Liberal Party would agree with the Bloc Québécois on this. The Liberals refused simply because they agree with the direction the Conservative Party is taking toward a more belligerent way of defending this country's foreign affairs, with no real plan.
The second part had to do with guaranteed economic spinoffs. The Bloc Québécois will not give up on that because 55% of the aerospace industry is in Quebec, and we believe that investments in Quebec should be in proportion to spending. We are being told to leave companies alone. There are companies, some of them in my riding, that tell us they are able to compete with foreign companies, and they could end up bitterly disappointed one day because this Conservative government did not see the need to protect investments in proportion to spending, investments that will be made in Canada and particularly in Quebec.
That is why we proposed an amendment to the Liberal Party's motion today to encourage a real discussion on this country's foreign policy and also to ensure that real economic spinoffs are guaranteed in any contract the government may sign for the purchase of these F-35s.
Obviously, we must also have a good understanding of the economic activity related to the aerospace industry. This is very important to Quebec because it represents jobs. Once again, it is clear that there is no real aerospace development policy in Canada.
The government launches programs, creates new ones and abolishes others, but there is no real action plan to develop the aerospace industry. The industry in the Montreal-Mirabel region is the third largest in the world, after Toulouse and Seattle. In my opinion, that represents a very important economic force.
The aerospace technology and engineering training that is offered in Quebec provides the industry with its number one resource, people, but the Canadian government still needs to develop a long-term plan. For this industry to develop, it needs huge investments in research and development. This Conservative government has no long-term strategy, and neither did the Liberal government before it.
All that to say that when we look at both of these parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives, current events seem to dictate their policies. That is never a good idea because that is how we end up in never-ending wars. That is what we are seeing with Afghanistan.
According to the government, the extension of the mission is meant to focus on training. There are 950 trainers. Our leader, the member for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, joked—but there was some truth to what he said—that with that many trainers, there will not be enough classrooms in Afghanistan for the schoolchildren. That is a fact. There is no long-term plan and no Foreign Affairs and National Defence strategy for Afghanistan. There is also no long-term national program for developing the aerospace industry. That is something the Bloc Québécois has always called for.
Cancelling the F-35 contracts, which is what the Liberal Party would have the government do, would send a very bad message to the companies that have already begun work on developing this aircraft. I am thinking of Héroux-Devtek, L-3 MAS, Pratt & Whitney and the other companies based in Quebec. A number of them are located in Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel, the riding I represent, but there are also companies in other parts of Quebec and the rest of Canada. The decision has been made and we cannot go back on it.
This morning, the Bloc Québécois reached out to the Liberal Party, but we were rebuffed. The Liberals feel that the only solution is to cancel this contract and launch a new competitive process, regardless of how that could hurt the companies that have already started work on the project. Some strategy.
I had the chance to attend an industry briefing setting out the whole long-term strategy for developing an aircraft, all the research and development and all the investments companies are making in order to be among the bidders. Most of our aerospace firms have already made investments in order to be able to bid on work in connection with the F-35 contract.
What the Bloc Québécois is calling for and what we might have expected from the government is that Quebec and Canada benefit from the $12 billion investment. That is what we might have expected. The agreements that have been signed contain no investment guarantees. I know that industry representatives are watching, and I want to acknowledge them. Many of them are in their offices in Mirabel. I can understand that they feel capable of competing with companies around the world. We are the third-largest aerospace centre in the world, but without investment guarantees, we cannot be sure of what will happen.
We would like these companies to understand why the Bloc Québécois wants to require economic spinoffs for Quebec and Canada. Among other reasons, 55% of the aerospace industry is located in Quebec.
A number of experts have considered this issue. The government must address several concerns. I will simply quote from an editorial on the purchase of the F-35s, which was written by Jean-Robert Sansfaçon and published in Le Devoir on July 20, 2010. It is important that the members of the House understand the nature of Quebec's criticism. Here is an excerpt:
If the...government planned in advance...to provide its armed forces with the type of aircraft that will be central to the United States' military strategy ten years from now, it did so because it intends to play an active part in it, as is the case already in Afghanistan. Given the circumstances, the government could, at the very least, have asked Canadians their opinion before dragging them into the type of situation that history has shown is always much easier to get into than to get out of.
I took the time to read this excerpt so that the other members of the House would understand that situations like the one we saw this morning with Afghanistan arise when we do not have a foreign affairs and defence strategy, as is currently the case in Canada, and when we are being towed in the wake of a neighbour like the United States. It is never-ending.
This morning, we reached out to the Liberals and asked them to accept our amendment, which has two parts. The first would give Canada an actual foreign affairs and defence policy. The Liberals rejected this amendment quite simply because they support the Conservative government's approach, which involves being towed in the wake of the United States. They must be aware that voices are being raised in opposition.
I quoted Jean-Robert Sansfaçon, an editorial writer, but there are many Quebeckers and Canadians who are wondering what direction Canada's foreign affairs and defence policies are taking. No one knows. What we do know is that we are following in the footsteps of the Americans. It is time that we have a real debate in the House about the government's foreign affairs and defence policies. The Liberals' decision this morning to reject the Bloc Québécois amendment clearly shows that they are willing to support the haphazard, American-style foreign affairs and defence policy.
The second part of the Bloc Québécois amendment would guarantee spinoffs for our companies and our industries. If we invest up to $12 billion in this contract, we must ensure that we receive $12 billion in spinoffs for Quebec and Canada. It is very important for Quebec, which is home to 50% of the aerospace industry.
This morning, the Liberals again said no. They are trying to defend a motion to cancel a contract that is already in place. The last time they cancelled a contract—the helicopter contract—it took so many years to choose another supplier that our helicopters were falling out of the sky. That is the Liberal reality.
This morning, in its wisdom, the Bloc came to the aid of the Liberal Party. The Liberals were unwise and did not accept our outstretched hand. When an amendment is proposed in the House, the party presenting it supports it. Since 2000, the party moving a motion during an opposition day has been able to reject any proposed amendments. The Liberals did so this morning; they used this procedure.
We have not seen that often but, again, I understand. They are obsessed. They made a bad choice, and they do not know what else they can do to explain it. And they will have a hard time explaining it to the people of Mirabel and to the workers in the Montreal and Mirabel aerospace industry who are counting on this contract to guarantee, save and protect their jobs.
We sincerely believe that it is time we had a real debate about this government's foreign and defence policies. We need a real debate on the economic spinoffs that should be included when a contract of this size is signed. That is what we proposed to the Liberal Party this morning. Obviously, they refused. And so we oppose today's motion that aims to put an end to this contract that has already been approved, a contract that is already being prepared and in which Quebec and Canadian companies have already invested a lot of money. They are completely ready to claim their piece of the pie.
Once again, we felt that a debate on the orientation or the macro-politics of such a contract—in other words, where the government is going with its foreign affairs and defence policies—was long overdue. What must the government do when signing such a major contract? At the very least, it must guarantee spinoffs for Quebec and Canadian businesses, which the Conservative government has not done.
It is very disappointing that the Liberal Party refused to discuss what the Bloc Québécois was proposing. We will therefore oppose the motion by the Liberal Party, which once again has a very short-term, politicized and partisan view. The Liberals are incapable of any kind of long-term vision for the entire industry and incapable of questioning the Conservative government's foreign affairs and defence policies—which are blindly based on American policies—which they blindly support. A real debate on this was long overdue. The Bloc Québécois tried to initiate such a debate with its amendment, but it was refused. A real debate also must be held on the economic spinoffs that Quebec and Canadian companies should enjoy as a result of such a contract.
Lastly, we could have used this as an opportunity to create a real, long-term investment plan for the development of our aerospace industry with a focus, once again, on research and development. This would have allowed our companies not only to win such a contract, but also to win all other aerospace contracts around the globe.
Prostate Cancer
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Ed Holder London West, ON
Mr. Speaker, along with thousands of other men, I have looked in the mirror each morning like a teenage boy, wondering if I can grow facial hair.
Despite the laughter, my efforts to grow a moustache have drawn lots of attention to a very serious situation: prostate cancer. Through friends I have been touched by this deadly yet wholly preventable disease.
The month-long Movember campaign has broached the subject with humour. Well it has to, because too many men still do not get it. That is why thousands of men across Canada, including some of my colleagues in this House, otherwise clean shaven and handsome, have grown, or tried to grow, a moustache.
We are raising awareness about prostate cancer, the advantages of regular checkups, early detection and talking to one's doctor. I encourage all Canadians to donate to this worthy cause, but critically, I urge all men to take action now.
To members of this House and my friends and family who have had so much fun at my expense, I ask them to participate in this awareness campaign, too. They might be amazed at how much fun they can have being serious.
Act of Bravery
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Judy Foote Random—Burin—St. George's, NL
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute a woman from Marystown in the riding of Random—Burin—St. George's.
On July 14, 2009, while travelling on the Burin Peninsula Highway, Beverly Rose came upon an accident where a van had left the road, flipped on its side and trapped a family of seven inside.
Beverly heard cries for help coming from the vehicle, and as she rushed toward the van she telephoned her husband telling him to call for an ambulance. When she reached the van, there was smoke coming from it and the possibility of fire breaking out. Beverly risked her own safety in order to help the two adults and five children trapped inside.
She climbed on top of the van and will tell people she does not know where she got the strength to pry open the damaged door on the overturned vehicle. As smoke poured out, Beverly helped those trapped climb out. She passed the children to two men who had also arrived on the scene by then. By her actions, she ensured that tragedy was averted.
I was pleased to nominate Beverly for a decoration for bravery and was especially pleased when she was recently presented the Governor General's Certificate of Commendation.
I ask all members of the House to join me in paying tribute to Beverly Rose for her act of bravery.
La Voix de l'Est Newspaper
Statements By Members
November 18th, 2010 / 2 p.m.
Robert Vincent Shefford, QC
Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the entire team at La Voix de l'Est, a daily newspaper that is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Over the years, this paper has become quite well known.
With their professionally written articles and news reports, the employees, who are passionate about current events, have always captured the readers' interest. This paper provides readers with everything they need to stay informed about what is happening locally, in Quebec and elsewhere.
Congratulations to the men and women who have contributed, day in and day out, to writing, producing, photographing and publishing the La Voix de l'Est. Their work has contributed to the sterling reputation this paper has enjoyed for 75 years. And thank you to the people who deliver this daily local paper to our doorsteps in fair weather or foul.
On behalf of my team, I would like to wish La Voix de l'Est success and longevity.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Megan Leslie Halifax, NS
Mr. Speaker, it is national medicare week, a time to celebrate the strengths of our universal, not-for-profit health care system, the pride of Canadians. It is also time to recognize the challenges we face in meeting our health needs.
Addressing those challenges requires strong federal leadership to uphold the five principles of the Canada Health Act: comprehensiveness, universality, portability, public administration, and accessibility. With only a few years left before the renewal of the 2004 health care agreement, now is the time to show this leadership and work toward making our health care system sustainable.
The NDP is working on ways to improve our system, looking at best practices across the country and by developing policies like a national affordable drug strategy and robust long-term care and community services.
The health care system is just one component of what makes Canadians healthy. Addressing issues such as poverty, food security and housing will help prevent people from becoming ill, saving health care dollars and improving the health of Canadians.
Canadians deserve a health care system and communities that promote their health. Let us work together to achieve this.
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Candice Bergen Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, last week I had the opportunity to visit the 3M manufacturing plant in Morden, Manitoba, which is in my riding.
3M employs 140 people from the region and has a payroll of almost $9 million per year.
We know that because of our Conservative government Canada is on track to having one of the lowest business tax rates in the G7, which helps keep businesses like 3M in Canada.
Our government believes, and experts have confirmed, low business taxes equal more jobs and more opportunity for everyday Canadians. The only ones who do not seem to get this are the Liberals and their leader.
The Liberals have promised to increase taxes on small and medium size businesses, as well as on job creators like 3M. The Liberals want to increase the costs to do business in Canada and kill hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process.
While the Liberals and their leader want to increase taxes and kill jobs, our government remains committed to lower taxes and more opportunities, of that Canadians can be certain.
Laurent Coderre
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Bernard Patry Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Mr. Speaker, Laurent Coderre is an artist who paints and draws, but his is not a household name in Canada. However, this Quebecker is well known in London, Venice, Krakow, Los Angeles, Sydney and Zagreb, where he has earned an impressive series of prestigious distinctions and awards.
Laurent Coderre associated with such iconic Canadian painters as the Group of Seven's Varley and Jackson. What is more, this multi-talented artist caught the eye of Canadian film-maker Norman McLaren, who decided to have Coderre join the animation department of the NFB.
On November 5, the entire artistic community of Montreal and Quebec came together to pay well-deserved tribute to Mr. Coderre with the launch of the book entitled, Laurent Coderre: artiste peintre-dessinateur, written by Claude Sauvage and published by Marcel Broquet.
On behalf of all Canadians, I want to thank Laurent Coderre for his rich contribution to our society's culture and arts.
Veterans Affairs
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Pierre Lemieux Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Speaker, last week was Veterans Week and it was with great pride that I took part in Remembrance Day ceremonies throughout my riding.
As a retired member of the Canadian army with 20 years of service, it was an honour for me to attend these ceremonies in uniform to honour the fallen and show my support for the men and women who are serving and those who have served our country with loyalty and courage.
During that week I had many occasions to talk and listen to our vets. I have assured them of our government's commitment to providing services that meet their needs and those of their families.
Veterans were asking for better support for seriously injured soldiers and their families, and we established the legacy of care fund.
Veterans were asking for extended benefits to better protect their family members, and we increased the benefits to make more family members eligible.
Finally, veterans were asking for changes to the veterans charter, and yesterday we announced changes to ensure our veterans receive the care, services and financial support they need and deserve.
We are on the side of our veterans.
Poverty in Canada
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Meili Faille Vaudreuil—Soulanges, QC
Mr. Speaker, an increasing number of Quebeckers and Canadians are going hungry. According to Food Banks Canada, last year more than 80,000 people walked into a food bank for the first time, which represents an increase of 9.2%. The most shocking statistic is that 38% of food bank clients are children. This is disturbing news that comes two days before Universal Children's Day.
The Conservatives can go ahead and boast about their economic action plan, but according to the executive director of Food Banks Canada:
...the recession is not over for a large number of Canadians. ... Many people who lost their jobs during the recession have now exhausted their unemployment benefits....
By rejecting many of the Bloc Québécois bills that would provide real help to affected workers, the Conservatives have chosen to put on rose-coloured glasses and spend almost $858 million on the G8 and G20, including $20,776 for an ice sculpture. The government's sense of priorities is evident.
Member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin
Statements By Members
2:05 p.m.
Steven Blaney Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, while he was public safety minister in Quebec, the member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin brought in legislation to force police officers to report misconduct by their fellow officers. Yet 14 years later, when he cross-examined former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney before a parliamentary committee, here in Ottawa, the member said:
What intrigues me is that it took you so long to realize that you had made such an error in judgment.
To get to the bottom of this error in judgment by the member for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, we will be presenting a motion on Monday, in the ethics committee, to give him the opportunity to come explain himself in full transparency.


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Topic: Using devise, how do you route to and after login?
Using rails 3.2.5 and devise 2.1.0
I've looked at so many posts and web pages about this that I probably wouldn't recognize the answer if it was placed in front of me, but my questions are these:
How do I make the login page the root of my (internal usage only) app?
I tried adding to my routes.rb file:
root :to => <%= link_to('login, new_user_session_path) %>
but this results in an error from the server: "Unexpected '<' ..."
How do I route the user after login? I need to send them to, for example employee 10119, to '/employee/10119/timecard'. Everything I have read assumes the user will try to access a restricted page, Devise will log them in then send them to the page they were trying to get to. I want to send the user to their specific timecard page after logging in.
Any ideas? Thanks. --Fred

subset: commoncrawl


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No individual or organization acting alone can eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but together we can make a difference. Individuals, governments, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and civil society groups each have a unique and vital role to play. To reach our goal, we must focus our collective efforts on eradicating the root causes of child labor so that children can break out of the cycle of poverty.
How can we meet this shared responsibility?
- Laws and regulations: National governments play a central role in the elimination of the worst forms of child labor through adopting and enforcing national legislation against child labor and its worst forms in particular.
- Labor inspection and enforcement systems: Putting effective enforcement and monitoring mechanisms in place is crucial to the success of these efforts.
- Social protection programs: Increase access to social protection programs aimed to help ensure the basic needs of families living in poverty are met so that parents can send their children to school instead of sending them to work.
- Public Awareness: Sensitize the public about child labor, the value of education and training, and the longer term costs of child labor, in terms of health, employment opportunities, persistent inequalities and intergenerational poverty.
- Education and training: Primary education should be free, compulsory, and accessible with a particular focus on girls.
- Decent Work: Promoting decent work for adults that is consistent with the fundamental principles and rights at work will help ensure adult workers can better support their families.
- Trade unions and other civil society groups: Effective worker organizations are critical elements of any effort to identify and deal with child labor and other labor abuses. Adult workers who have the right to organize and negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment can better support their families and be helpful advocates in the fight against exploitative child labor.
- Empowerment of women: Studies show that when women are educated, trained, and empowered, the incidence of child labor drops dramatically. Programs that give women the opportunity to make a living ensure that the basic needs of families are met without having to pull children out of school.
- Company Engagement: Though they do not substitute for strong government action to protect children and workers, companies' social compliance programs can help fill critical gaps where governments have not yet developed full capacity.
- Consumers' Buying Power: We are all interested in reducing the chance that the products we buy —and the raw materials they come from — are not manufactured, mined or harvested by children who should be in school.
For more information:
- U.S. Department of Labor's International Labor Affairs Bureau
- U.S. Department of Labor's Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labor Toolkit
- International Labor Organization's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor
- United Nations Resources for Speakers on Global Issues -- Briefing Paper on Child Labor
About the Author: Carina Klein serves as a Labor Officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
June 13, 2013
Laws are great and we have them, but they need to be applied. That means not giving Uzbekistan a free pass once again this year, and downgrading it to tier III rather than leave it to remain yet another year on tier II -- because of massive child and adult forced labor run by the state. To be sure, Uzbekistan gets excused because the US needs it for cooperation on the Northern Distribution Network. But the Afghanistan war is winding down, a balance has to be found and so far it has tilted too far toward catering to Tashkent. Uzbekistan is trying to distract from its very real problems by claiming it will take part in a "round table" with the ILO that is only a discussing of modalities for ILO inspection -- not letting in the high-level ILO mission it must let in to be accepted as really improving. Don't let them snow you once again.
June 17, 2013
petfect (important, basic) (give kindness , love, good will , pity, sympathy---- the children by the parents , government, society , organization and all human.)
June 14, 2013
Clay brick manufacturing looks like a very explotative industry in most parts developing world. It is also most damaging ecologically. There are alternate industrial waste based green masonry product technology available, which are sufficiently mechanised to elinate human drudgery, which one sees in traditional brick industry.


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Skip to comments.Sean Bielat 2012 Congressional Campaign Announcement
Posted on 01/13/2012 5:10:17 PM PST by Sparky1776
Please join me on Tuesday night as I announce my 2012 campaign for Congress for the Massachusetts 4th District
(Excerpt) Read more at facebook.com ...
Looks like Sean is in the hunt for Barney's old tired seat.
There's no real polite way to say it!
Oh I hope he wins!!!
A single year w/o a Kennedy in a national office is just not long enough.
Bravo! He'll be my first campaign donation.
I hung up on the RNC caller today...after I gave him a piece of my mind....felt good.
That is great news! We've got to stop the latest Kennedy mutant!
Dusting off the ole Mass Master Ping List.........let's get er done this time!
Glad to see him jump back in. Maybe his campaign manager can arrange to have a leftist run as a third party candidate to syphon votes from the Dim/Commie candidate.
Please add me to you ping list. In Freetown, I get to vote for him!
Consider it done Tull, welcome to the team!
SharpRight - that may not be enough - SEIU is strong here and well organized. The good thing is the district is totally redrawn and Sean has a decent chance especially after doing fairly decent the last time out.
Great Road - I visited your profile - I thought I was the only one that noticed that!
Let's end it here Calvin - enuff with those inbreds!
Good for you Sue! Sean is a Tea party type imo, hope he makes it this time around!
Sean's 2012 site is up and running!
The Official kick-off!
Attleboro Area Industrial Museum
42 Union St Ste 2, Attleboro, MA 02703-2948
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
5:30pm until 8:30pm
"Sean has a decent chance especially after doing fairly decent the last time out."
I thought that I had read about the redistricting about the time Bwarney announced he wouldn't run again. I hope the new district helps Bielat out. I sent a modest donation to him in 2010 and thought he ran a very good campaign in a very tough district.
Hey, Sparky! Nice to see you! Thanks for the ping.
I believe that Tom Wesley lives in the new district. He ran against Neal D-Springfield. Hope he and others avoid a primary.
Yep, here's the new district map - they lose New Bedford which should help A LOT!
Pete, I'm not sure how this effects Tom Wesley, my guess is since it is still most of the old 4th where Sean made major inroads into the last time around that he would be the favorite.
Trisham, likewise. Looks like this will be a jump ball election though Kennedy will have the media, SEIU, the dead supporting him.
You should see the hot response Mrs. Jennings sent to "The Friends of Boner" solicitation today! It will hit File 13 in less than a nanosecond I would guess...but she felt good after venting!
Good Luck, to anybody and everybody with an "R" next to their names, on general election ballots, winning any to all of the highest political office levels throughout Massachusetts, and it's even more difficult for "conservatism" to make any kind of actual improvements, throughout Massachusetts. Whenever the GOP does win anything in Massachusetts, they are, almost always, RINOS, instead of being conservatives, and this political trend has been ongoing for more than six decades, throughout Massachusetts.
Thanks for the ping, Sparky.
Sean had a credible run against HotBottom in 2010. He could prevail this time with an open field.
I sense the same energy that Scott Brown generated during his special election campaign.
Hey FWC, I'm going to try to make it to Attleboro for the annoucement - we got to keep the stake in the Kennedy Dynasty's heart!
Looks like Barney received 14,916 votes to Sean's 6244 votes for a net gain of 8,672 in New Bedford. Well they lose that advantage now.
The end result was 125,825 for Frank to Sean's 101,315.
Dropping NB from the district would have made it 110,909 for Frank and 95,071 for Sean. The question is whether the new suburban towns (in Scott Brown's backyard) will be enough to offset?
I can't say I disagree John, if we look back just a decade or two some of the state's Dems were more conservative than current Republicans, Flood, King, as examples.
That said we need to reverse the trend and that will take time, perhaps decades.
Let's not weed the garden before the crops come in.
My wife and I drove an hour through the rain last night to hear Sean's announcement in Attleboro.
Fox 25 sent a TV crew from Boston for live coverage, plus there were a few local scribes and photographers in attendance. There were also quite a few local politicians, plus a couple dozen friends and family. Everybody trooped over to Scorpio's Italian Eatery afterwards for pizza and a cash bar.
Sean is an engaging personality up close, but he's not a dynamic stump speaker. He carries himself like a good Marine, and has an efficient campaign machine in place. It could be a interesting primary fight between Sean and Dr. Elizabeth Childs for the Republican nomination. When was the last time Republicans fought each other for anything in Massachusetts?
Sean Bielat makes me feel old. He has two kids under the age of 2. He also commented that he wished he could do battle with Barney Frank again. LOL!
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What If Everything Is Perfect Just The Way It Is | Aria Alperts, Italian Journals
Contributing Monkie Aria Alpert
Topics of Interest Journal, Life, Power of Now, Rome
Published on April 4, 2012
Section Monkie Journals, Traveling & Cool Stuff To Do
Comments 4
Photographer: Aria Alpert
So, this is what happened. I am in Roma right now and, being that I am a foodie, I was taken to a hidden Italian slow food restaurant last night for a 9:30pm dinner. Which meant that we didn't really eat until 10:30pm, much much later than I normally eat. But I was fine with it. I mean shit. I am in Roma for f-sake!
We started with a salted cod capriccio with black truffles and red onion dressed with lemon and amazing olive oil. Then we went on to have fried zucchini flowers and olives, then we split an order of anchovy, raisin, pine nut homemade tagliatelle pasta and then I ordered an onion flan and he had the rabbit.
Oh yes and washed it all down with a lovely crisp bottle of white wine. Oh and I forgot to mention the traditional Italian aperitivo we started off the evening with, at a bar overlooking the coliseum no less. I forgot what the aperitivio was called but it was a mix of campari, sweet vermouth and sparkling white wine. Bitter and very very strong. Definitely woke my jet-lagged ass right up! Anyway we ate and drank and all was delish and merry. Oh and very salty. A bit too salty but f-it I am in Roma remember.
What is my point at painting the picture of my eating and drinking…well first it's fun and if you are anything like me I like to have a visual…but my main point is…I went to bed with a full belly and a warm fuzzy wine haze. Which, not only affected my not so sound sleep but I woke up feeling not rested and very salty. Puffy to be exact.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (57 votes).
In short: Excellent run. Challenging hill, but great view from the top. Parking/registration easy. Start just 200metres from car park.Date of review: December 12, 2007
In short: The race got better after around 4 miles!!Date of review: December 27, 2006
In short: Excellent race: I enjoy hilly courses!Date of review: December 21, 2006
In short: you need to do hill training sessions before you try thisIn full: the first 4 miles were hard, very hard.the back 3 miles were also hard with some steep bits to contend with.well marshalled, decent xmas pud which will take a month of running to work off.decent number of runners involvedDate of review: December 19, 2006
In short: Worst hill just before 4 mile mark - you think the hills are over but there's another one shortly after....Date of review: December 18, 2006
In short: A great eventIn full: First mile up hill killed and by mile 4 I thought I would die. That is one beast of a hill at mile 4. Flew down the last 3 miles at a rate 2 minutes quicker per mile. Second attempt and I will be back again. Well done to the organisers....great bacon butty at the end.Date of review: December 18, 2006
In short: Another good turn outIn full: My 3rd year. Weather damp at start but it doesn't seem to hamper anyone's running.Good atmosphere. Marshalls as always encouraging.Lots of details for other races available.Date of review: December 17, 2006
In short: What a great day for running when you get to the top fantastic views.Thourghly enjoyed it will be back next year!!!Date of review: December 17, 2006
In short: Absolutely tops !!In full: The course takes you steeply up Jeffrey Hill for 4 miles. Its an absolute killer on the final left turn but then you cruise down to the finish for 3 miles where a warm welcome awaits in LongridgeDate of review: December 17, 2006
In short: what a hill at half way!!In full: had a great day out to this race todaybit wet bit cold bloody hilly but a cracking race well done davenice pudding!!Date of review: December 17, 2006
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Aeschines c. 390 b.c.-c. 314 b.c.
Athenian orator.
Considered one of the greatest Athenian orators, second only to his rival, Demosthenes, Aeschines used his verbal skills to try to convince the leaders of Athens to seek peace with Macedonia. Demosthenes was ultimately more persuasive in their bitter debates, however, and the defeated Aeschines exiled himself to Rhodes. Only three of Aeschines's speeches are now extant but they demonstrate Attic rhetoric at its finest and are important to the historical study of the rise of Philip II of Macedonia.
Biographical Information
Little is known of Aeschines's life except for what may be gleaned from his speeches and those of Demosthenes. Although Aeschines's parents were not poor, they had to work for their living. His father, Atrometus, taught reading and writing; his mother, Glaucothea, took part in religious purification ceremonies. Atrometus's profession of schoolteacher was not well respected, but Aeschines benefitted from associating with his father's students. Before entering politics, he worked as undersecretary to assorted magistrates and then was elected public secretary. In this post he read laws out loud to the Council and the Assembly. Aeschines next worked as an actor. As secretary and as an actor, he gained experience in using his voice in front of crowds. He married a woman from a fairly wealthy family sometime around 348 b.c., and the couple eventually had three children. No longer having to struggle for a living, Aeschines entered politics. Although he was not trained professionally in rhetoric, he was familiar with all the intricacies of the craft and took advantage of his excellent voice and impressive physique in addressing the Assembly. After a devastating rhetorical defeat at the hands of Demosthenes in 330 b.c., Aeschines left Athens for Rhodes, where he lived his remaining years, teaching rhetoric.
Major Works
Aeschines's first surviving speech is Against Timarchus (345 b.c.) While serving as an ambassador for Athens, Aeschines was either outmaneuvered or bribed by King Philip II. Although Aeschines was able to make the terms of the peace agreement with Macedonia less harsh than Philip had at first declared, the citizens of Athens were not pleased. Demosthenes, also involved in the peace agreement, charged Aeschines with treason. One of the planned witnesses for the prosecution was Timarchus. Aeschines successfully brought a countersuit against Timarchus, thus weakening Demosthenes's case. Although Against Timarchus accomplished what Aeschines had sought, Demosthenes went ahead with his case. On the Embassy, sometimes referred to as On the False Embassy (343 b.c.), preserves Aeschines's defense. Aeschines survived the battle but his political power waned, while Demosthenes's grew. The two men became even more bitter foes, and over the years neither missed an opening to attack the other. Against Ctesiphon (330 b.c.) is the last of Aeschines's surviving speeches. Although the speech's target is nominally Ctesiphon, who proposed that Demosthenes be given a crown for his services to Athens, its main purpose is to attack Demosthenes. Aeschines charges Ctesiphon with violations of Athenian law, but the infractions are minor, technical, and really just an excuse to discuss Demosthenes's career and argue why he does not deserve the award. Demosthenes replies with a speech known as On the Crown, considered a masterpiece, and prevails in the contest.
Critical Reception
Numerous critics have analyzed Aeschines's speeches for his debating tactics. Charles Darwin Adams explains that he makes use of accusations, slanders, and personal attacks, much as Demosthenes does, but falls short of his rival in the area of broad statesmanship. "In the two speeches of Aeschines in which we should expect a review of the whole field of international relations during the critical period of the rise of the Macedonian power, we find nowhere any large grasp of the situation, no broad view of either Athenian or Hellenic interests, nothing statesmanlike in the discussion of policies." He believes this deficiency was largely responsible for Demosthenes gaining the advantage over Aeschines. J. F. Dobson praises On the Embassy overall, but is critical of its occasional vagueness and writes that sometimes "Aeschines seems to aim not at refuting but eluding the accusations." E. Badian and Julia Heskel contend that Aeschines constructed misleading chronologies in On the Embassy in order to deceive his audience; a similar use of the trick is explained by Edward M. Harris. Cecil W. Wooten credits Aeschines for using the simple and effective technique of enumerating his arguments in the beginning of his speech and then consistently following through on them. Despite some reservations concerning their nastier elements, critics agree that the speeches of Aeschines are superb examples of Athenian oratory.
Principal Works
Against Timarchus (speech) 345 B.C.
On the Embassy (speech) 343 B.C.
Against Ctesiphon (speech) 330 B.C.
The Speeches of Aeschines (translated by C. D. Adams) 1919
Greek Orations (translated by W. Robert Connor) 1966
Aeschines (translated by Chris Carey) 2000
Aeschines: Against Timarchos (translated by Nick Fisher) 2001
J. F. Dobson (essay date 1919)
SOURCE: "Aeschines," in The Greek Orators, Books for Libraries Press, 1967, pp. 163-98.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1919, Dobson offers an overview of Aeschines's life, including evaluations of his public character, personality, and oratorical style.]
Aeschines was for twenty years a bitter enemy of Demosthenes. This enmity was perhaps the chief interest in his life; at any rate it is the dominant motive of his extant speeches. Demosthenes on his side could not afford to despise an enemy whose biting wit and real gift of eloquence assured him an attentive hearing, whether in the courts or before the ecclesia, and thus gave him an influence which the vagueness of his political views and the instability of his personal character could never entirely dissipate. Aeschines had no constructive policy, but he had just the talents which are requisite for the leader of a captious and malicious opposition. To the fact of the long-maintained hostility between these two men we owe a good deal of first-hand information about each of them, both as regards public and private life. It is true that we cannot accept without reservation the statements and criticisms made by either speaker about his rival; but in many cases they agree about facts, though they put different interpretations on them, and so, with care, we may arrive at a substratum of truth.
Aeschines was born about 390 b.c.1 His father Atrometus, an Athenian citizen of pure descent,2 was exiled by the Thirty, and fled to Corinth, with his wife. He served for some time as a mercenary soldier in Asia, and finally returned to Athens, where he kept a school. His wife, Glaucothea, filled some minor religious office, initiating the neophytes in certain mysteries, apparently connected with Orphism. Aeschines seems to have helped both his parents in their work, if we may suppose that there is a grain of truth mixed with the malice of Demosthenes:
'You used to fill the ink-pots, sponge the benches, and sweep the schoolroom, like a slave, not like a gentleman's son. When you grew up you helped your mother in her initiations, reciting the formulas, and making yourself generally useful. All night long you were wrapping the celebrants in fawn-skins, preparing their drink-offerings, smearing them with clay and bran,' etc.3
The whole of the description from which the foregoing passage is taken is an obvious caricature, and its chief value is to show that Demosthenes, if circumstances had not made him a statesman, might have been a successful writer of mediocre comedy; but it seems to point to the fact that Aeschines' parents were in humble circumstances, that he himself had a hard life as a boy, and did not enjoy the usual opportunities of obtaining the kind of education desirable for a statesman.4 After this, at an age when other aspirants to public life would have been studying under teachers of rhetoric, he was forced to earn his living. He was first clerk to some minor officials, then an actor—according to Demosthenes he played small parts in an inferior company, and lived chiefly on the figs and olives with which the spectators pelted him.5 He also served as a hoplite, and, by his own account, distinguished himself at Mantinea and Tamynae. In 357 b.c. he obtained political employment, first under Aristophon of Azenia, then under Eubulus, and later we find him acting as clerk of the ecclesia.
He married into a respectable family about 350 b.c., and in 348 b.c. he first appears in a position of public trust, being appointed a member of the embassy to Megalopolis in Arcadia. On this occasion he went out admittedly as an opponent of Philip, but came back a partisan of peace. The reasons for this change of view will be discussed later. His own explanation, that he realized war to be impracticable, is reasonable in itself.6 Two years later he was associated with Demosthenes in the famous embassies to Philip, which, after serious delays, resulted in the unsatisfactory peace of Philocrates. The peace was pronounced by Demosthenes to be unworthy of Athens,7 though he urged that, good or bad, it must be upheld; and besides uttering insinuations against the conduct of Aeschines as an ambassador, he prepared to prosecute him for betraying his trust by taking bribes from Philip. He associated with himself as a prosecutor one Timarchus. Aeschines prepared a counter-stroke. He prosecuted Timarchus on the ground that he was a person of notorious immorality, and, as such, debarred from speaking in public. Timarchus appears to have been found guilty. In 343 b.c. Demosthenes brought the action in which his speech de Falsa Legatione and that of Aeschines bearing the same title were delivered, and Aeschines was acquitted by the rather small majority of thirty votes. In the next year Aeschines prepared for reprisals, but when on the point of impeaching Demosthenes he in his turn was thwarted by a counter-move on his rival's part.8
In 339 b.c. Aeschines was a pylagorus at the Amphictyonic Council, and an inflammatory speech which he made there led to the outbreak of the Sacred War.
In 337 b.c., the year after the battle of Chaeronea, the proposal of Ctesiphon to confer a crown on Demosthenes for his services to Athens gave Aeschines a new weapon with which to strike at his enemy. He impeached Ctesiphon for illegality. The case was not actually tried till 330 b.c., when Aeschines, failing to obtain a fifth of the votes, was fined a thousand drachmae, and, being unable or unwilling to pay, went into exile. He retired to Asia Minor, and lived either in Ephesus or Rhodes. He is said by Plutarch to have spent the rest of his life as a professional Sophist, that is to say, no doubt, as a teacher of rhetoric; but we have no further information about his life or the manner or date of his death.
Aeschines cannot be considered as a statesman, since he had no definite policy. He was, as he admitted himself, an opportunist. 'Both individual and state,' he says, 'must shift their ground according to change of circumstances, and aim at what is best for the time'; and though he claims to be 'the adviser of the greatest of all cities,' he never had in public matters any higher principle than this following of the line of least resistance.
It is necessary, however, to consider whether he was actually the corrupt politician that Demosthenes makes him out to be.
Athenian opinion with regard to corrupt practices was less strict than ours; Hyperides admits that there are various degrees of guiltiness in the matter of receiving bribes; the worst offence is to receive bribes from improper quarters, i.e. from an enemy of the State, and to the detriment of the State.9
This principle implies a corollary that to receive bribes for doing one's duty and acting in the best interests of one's country is a venial offence, if indeed it is an offence at all; in which case a man's guilt or innocence may be a matter for his individual conscience to determine.
Demosthenes definitely accused Aeschines of changing his policy in consequence of bribes received from Philip. It is known that at the beginning of his public life he was an opponent of Macedon, and we have his own account of his conversion on the occasion of the embassy to Megalopolis:
'You reproach me for the speech which I made, as an envoy, before ten thousand people in Arcadia; you say that I have changed sides, you abject creature, who were nearly branded as a deserter. The truth is that during the war I tried to the best of my ability to unite the Arcadians and the rest of the Greeks against Philip; but when I found that nobody would give help to Athens, but some were waiting to see what happened and others were marching against us, and the orators in the city were using the war as a means of meeting their daily expenses, I admit that I advised the people to come to terms with Philip, and make the peace which you, who have never drawn a sword, now say is disgraceful, though I say that it is far more honourable than the war.'10
After the conclusion of the peace of Philocrates the accusations were more definite. Demosthenes asserts that Aeschines had private interviews with Philip when on the second embassy, and that for his services he received certain lands in Boeotia;11 he recurs to this charge in the de Corona, many years later. Aeschines does not deny or even mention this charge either in the speech On the Embassy or in the accusation of Ctesiphon. Demosthenes, having, apparently, little direct evidence, tries to establish his case by emphasizing the relations of Aeschines with the traitor Philocrates; but this is a weak argument, for though Aeschines at one time boasted of these relations, on a later occasion he repudiated them, and even ventured to rank Demosthenes himself with Philocrates.12 Perhaps we should attach more importance to the other fact urged by Demosthenes, that Aeschines from time to time urged the city to accept Philip's vague promises of goodwill; but before we condemn him on this ground we must recollect that Isocrates, a man of far greater intelligence than Aeschines, and of undoubted honesty, had come so completely under the spell of Philip's personality as to place a thorough belief in the sincerity of his professions.13 Aeschines may have been duped in the same manner.
But the most severe condemnation of Aeschines' policy is contained in his own speeches.
During a visit to the Macedonian army in Phocis he was guilty of a gross piece of bad taste by joining with Philip in dancing the paean to celebrate the defeat of Phocis. He admits the charge, and maintains that it was even a proper thing to do.14 His conduct at the Amphictyonic Council was far more serious.15 He was invited to make a speech, and as he began, was rudely interrupted by a Locrian of Amphissa. In revenge it 'occurred to him' to recall the impiety of the Amphissians in occupying the Cirrhaean plain. He caused to be read aloud the curse pronounced after the first Sacred War, and by recalling the forgotten events of past generations worked up his audience to such a pitch of excitement that on the following morning—for it was too late to take action that night—the whole population of Delphi marched down to Cirrha, destroyed the harbour buildings, and set fire to the town. Though this action undoubtedly plunged Greece into an Amphictyonic War, Aeschines, quite regardless of the awful consequences, can only dwell upon the remarkable effects of his own oratory.
Something of the personal characteristics of Aeschines may be gathered from his own writings and those of Demosthenes. He must have been a man of dignified presence, for even if he only played minor parts, as Demosthenes so frequently asserts, he acted, on occasion, in good company, as his enemy, in an unguarded moment, admitted. The conditions under which Greek tragedy was performed required a majestic bearing even in a tritagonist, and the taunt of Demosthenes, who calls him 'a noble statue,' makes it certain that Aeschines did not fall short of these requirements.16 The words of Demosthenes probably imply that the dignity was overdone, that the statuesque pose of the ex-actor appeared pompous and exaggerated in a law-court. Aeschines himself condemned the use of excited gestures by orators. He urged the necessity of restraint, and often insisted that an orator should, while speaking, hold his hand within his robe.17 This declared prejudice on his part gave Demosthenes his opportunity for a neat retort—'You should keep your hand there, not when you are speaking, but when you go on an embassy.'18 On this occasion Demosthenes scored a point, but where wit and repartee were in question, the honours generally rested with Aeschines.
Another striking characteristic of Aeschines was his magnificent voice, which he used with practised skill; Demosthenes, who had serious natural disabilities as a speaker, envied him bitterly, and in consequence was always trying to ridicule his delivery. Conscious, no doubt, of his natural advantages, to which Demosthenes had once paid a more or less sincere tribute, Aeschines was apparently unmoved by these taunts; but he seems to have been deeply injured when Demosthenes compared him to the Sirens, whose voices charm men to their destruction. His indignation can find no repartee; he can only expostulate that the charge is indecent, and even if it were true, Demosthenes is not a fit man to bring it; only a man of deeds would be a worthy accuser; his rival is nothing but a bundle of words. Here, recovering himself a little, he delivers himself of the idea that Demosthenes is as empty as a flute—no good for anything if you take away the mouthpiece.
In the case of other orators I have laid but little stress on personal characteristics, because as a rule the orator must be judged apart from his qualities as a man. In considering Isaeus, for instance—an extreme case, certainly—personal qualities and peculiarities are of no importance at all. But so many personal traits appear in the writings of Aeschines that we cannot afford to neglect them; they form important data for our estimate of him, both as a speaker and a public character. There is some excuse, then, for dealing at greater length with his personality than with that of any other of the Attic orators. The question of his public morality has already to some extent been discussed;19 an examination of his more private qualities may possibly throw further light on the question of his culpability.
He was, as we saw, to some extent a self-made man; he had at least risen far above the station in which he was born. All through his speeches we find traces of his pride in the position and the culture which he has attained—his vanité de parvenu, as M. Croiset styles it. He is proud of his education, and boasts of it to excess, not realizing that he thus lays himself open to the charge of having missed the best that education can give. Demosthenes is just, though on the side of severity:
'What right have you,' he asks, 'to speak of education? No man who really had received a liberal education would ever talk about himself in such a tone as you do; he would have the modesty to blush if any one else said such things about him; but people who have missed a proper education, as you have, and are stupid enough to pretend that they possess it, only succeed in offending their hearers when they talk about it, and fail completely to produce the desired impression.'20
Aeschines considered … want of education, almost as a cardinal sin, and could never conceive that he himself was guilty of it. He displays his learning by quotations from the poets, which are sometimes, it must be admitted, very appropriate to his argument, and by references to mythology and legend, which are sometimes frigid. His use of history betrays a rather superficial knowledge of the subject; it is hardly probable that he had studied Thucydides, for instance. Still, he possessed a fair portion of learning; what leads him astray is really his lack of taste. He is at his best in the use of quotation when he adduces the lines of Hesiod on the man whose guilt involves a whole city in his own ruin—the passage will be quoted later.21 The verses give a real sting to his denunciations, and the opinion which he expresses on the educational influence of poetry is both solemn and sincere. But he cannot keep to this level. His much boasted education results generally in an affectation of a sort of artificial propriety in action and language, and a profession of prudery which is really foreign to his nature. He professes an admiration for the self-restraint of public speakers in Solon's time, and during the greatness of the republic, and speaks with disgust of Timarchus, who 'threw off his cloak and performed a pancration naked in the assembly.'22 In the opening of the same speech he makes a strong claim to the merit of 'moderation'; in the prosecution of Timarchus his moderation consists in hinting at certain abominable practices, which he does not describe by name.
'I pray you, Gentlemen, to forgive me if, when forced to speak of certain practices which are not honourable by nature, but are the established habits of the defendant, I am led away into using any expression which resembles the actions of Timarchus. … The blame should rest on him rather than on me. It will be impossible to avoid all use of such expressions, … but I shall try to avoid it as far as possible.'23
Notice again the hypocritical reticence or 'omission' (paraleipsis)—a rhetorical device familiar to readers of Cicero—which insinuates what it cannot prove:
'Mark, men of Athens, how moderate I intend to be in my attack on Timarchus. I omit all the abuses of which he was guilty as a boy. So far as I am concerned they may be no more valid than, say, the actions of the Thirty, the events before the archonship of Euclides, or any other limitation which may ever have been established.'24
'I hear that this creature' (an associate of Timarchus) 'has committed certain abominable offences, which, I swear by Zeus of Olympus, I should never dare to mention in your presence; he was not ashamed of doing these things, but I could not bear to live if I had even named them to you explicitly.'25
In spite of the prosecutor's modesty, particular references to the offences of Timarchus are frequent enough throughout the speech; the reticence is assumed for the purpose of insinuating that only a tithe of the offences are really named. The whole tone of the speech, therefore, is disingenuous and dishonest.
On the other hand, the orator's tribute to the judges' respectability is at times overdrawn. They are informed that 'Timarchus used to spend his days in a gambling-house, where there is a pit in which cock-fights are held, and games of chance are played—I imagine there are some of you who have seen the things I refer to, or if not, have heard of them.'26 No large assembly could ever take quite seriously such a compliment to its innocence, and it must have been meant as a lighter touch to relieve the dark hues around it. Such playful sallies are not infrequent, and, like this one, are often quite inoffensive.27
A far more serious arraignment of the character of Aeschines is brought by Blass, who, having made a very careful study of the speech against Timarchus, finds a strong presumption, on chronological grounds, that the majority of the charges are false. It is certainly remarkable that the charges of immorality rest almost entirely on the statements of the prosecutor. He expresses an apprehension that Misgolas, a most important witness, will either refuse to give evidence altogether, or will not tell the truth. To meet trouble half-way like this is a very serious confession of weakness, which is confirmed by the orator's further comment on the state of the case. He has, he says, other witnesses, but 'if the defendant and his supporters persuade them also to refuse to give evidence—I think they will not persuade them; at any rate not all of them—there is one thing which they never can do, and that is to abolish the truth and the reputation which Timarchus bears in the city, a reputation which I have not secured for him; he has earned it for himself. For the life of a respectable man should be so spotless as not to admit even the suspicion of offence.'28
Blass considers that the minor charges, directed against the reckless extravagance with which Timarchus had dissipated his inherited property, are better substantiated; but these alone would have been hardly enough to secure his condemnation.
Against Blass' theories we must set the little that we know about the facts. Timarchus was certainly condemned and disfranchised.29 Now an Athenian jury was not infallible, and whether in an ordinary court of justice or, as for this case, in the high court of the ecclesia, political convictions might triumph over partiality; nevertheless, a man who was innocent of the charge specifically brought against him, especially if he had not only committed no real political offence, but had played no part in political affairs—a man, moreover, who had the powerful influence of Demosthenes behind him—might reasonably expect to have a fair chance of being acquitted. Aeschines himself was acquitted a few years later on a political charge, though his political conduct required a good deal of explanation, and he had all the weight of Demosthenes not for him, but against him.
Aeschines might well feel a legitimate pride at the high position to which he had climbed from a comparatively humble starting-point; but to reiterate the reasons for this pride is a display of vanity. He likes to talk of himself as 'the counsellor of this the greatest of cities,' as the friend of Alexander and Philip. 'Demosthenes,' he says, 'brings up against me the fact of my friendship with Alexander.'30 Demosthenes retorts that he has done nothing of the sort. 'I reproach you, you say, with Alexander's friendship? How in the world could you have gained it or deserved it? I should never be so mad as to call you the friend of either Philip or Alexander, unless we are to say that our harvesters and hirelings of other sorts are "friends" and "guests" of those who have hired their services.'31
And again—'On what just or reasonable grounds could Aeschines, the son of Glaucothea, the tambourine-player, have as his host, or his friend, or his acquaintance, Philip?'32 Demosthenes' estimate of the position is probably the truer one; Aeschines, with all his cleverness, was not the man, as Isocrates was, to meet princes on terms of equality.
His vanity about his speeches and the effect which they produced is attested by the various occasions on which he quotes them, or refers to them. He gives a summary of a speech which he made as an envoy to Philip;33 a speech delivered before the ecclesia is epitomized;34 a speech made before 'thousands and thousands of Arcadians' is mentioned.35 The notorious speech delivered to the Amphictyons is quoted at some length,36 and its disastrous effect described, the speaker's delight in his own powers blinding him completely to the serious and far-reaching consequences of his criminal indiscretion.
His private life, in spite of some damaging admissions in the Timarchus, seems to have been satisfactory according to Athenian standards. Demosthenes accused him of offering a gross insult to an Olynthian lady. Whether or not the statement was an entire fiction, we are not in a position to judge. Aeschines indignantly denies the charge, and asserts that the Athenian people, when it was made, refused to listen to it, in view of their confirmed respect for his own character:
'Only consider the folly, the vulgarity of the man, who has invented so monstrous a lie against me as the one about the...
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Charles Darwin Adams (essay date 1919)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Speeches of Aeschines, William Heinemann, 1919, pp. vii-xxiii.
[In the following excerpt, Adams provides a biographical sketch of Aeschines, concentrating on his political career and his feud with Demosthenes.]
Our knowledge of the family and life of Aeschines comes from his own speeches and those of Demosthenes. The brief biographies which have come down to us are late and untrustworthy. At the time of the speech On the Embassy we hear of Aeschines' father as an old man of ninety-four years. He was in the court-room, and Demosthenes, speaking to a jury some of whom, at least, were...
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Galen O. Rowe (essay date 1966)
SOURCE: "The Portrait of Aeschines in the Oration on the Crown," in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 97, 1966, pp. 397-406.
[In the following essay, Rowe contends that Demosthenes succeeded in his major attack on Aeschines by representing him as a comic impostor.]
The separate techniques of character assassination employed by Demosthenes and Aeschines in their famous oratorical duel were distinguished by Ivo Bruns who, with obvious disapproval, noted that Demosthenes' portrait of his enemy had little factual basis; Aeschines, on the other hand, he praised for skilfully exploiting his opponent's weaknesses in such a...
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Cecil W. Wooten (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Clarity and Obscurity in the Speeches of Aeschines," in American Journal of Philology, Vol. 109, Spring, 1988, pp. 40-43.
[In the following essay, Wooten analyzes Aeschines's varied uses of distinct, enumerated arguments to achieve advantage over his opponents.]
One of the most striking features of the oratory of Aeschines is what Hermogenes calls eukrineia or distinctness.1 In the system of Hermogenes this is one of the two sub-types of style that create saphēneia or clarity. Distinctness involves an approach whose function, according to Hermogenes, is "to determine what aspects of the case the judges should consider first and...
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Edward M. Harris (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "When Was Aeschines Born?" in Classical Philology, Vol. 83, No. 3, July, 1988, pp. 211-14.
[In the following essay, Harris reveals a possible rhetorical deception on the part of Aeschines regarding the relative ages of Misgolas and Timarchus.]
At first glance, the answer to this question appears to be rather simple, for Aeschines himself states quite plainly in his speech against Timarchus (l. 49) that he was then forty-five years old: since the speech was delivered in 346/45 b.c., he would have been born in 391/90 or 390/89.1 But this is not all that Aeschines says in the passage. He goes on to remind the court that many men do not look as old...
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Edward M. Harris (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Family, Early Career, and Start in Politics," in Aeschines and Athenian Politics, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 17-40.
[In the following excerpt, Harris examines Aeschines's family background and his careers as a public secretary and an actor, explaining how he overcame certain disadvantages to enter politics.]
Even in the case of the most important figures in antiquity, the information we possess about their early lives is scant at best. We do not know the year of birth for many famous people, and little is told to us about their education and early activities. Occasionally we are fortunate enough to have a few anecdotes about the childhood and youth...
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Further Reading
Badian, E. and Julia Heskel. "Aeschines 2.12–18: A Study in Rhetoric and Chronology." Phoenix 41, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987): 264–71.
Stress that Aeschines had particular motives for writing his account of the peace with Philip, and warn that historians should not be unduly swayed by his rhetorical skill.
Diller, Aubrey. "The Manuscript Tradition of Aeschines' Orations." Illinois Classical Studies 4 (1979): 34-64.
Describes many different Aeschines manuscripts, most of which are from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries.
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'Liking' Curly Fries Shows You're Smart. Liking Too Much Else is Dangerous.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- If you're predisposed to "liking" a lot of things on Facebook (FB) , watch out: You could be opening the vault for anyone to take a look, figure out your interests and act accordingly.
By "act accordingly," that could mean you'll soon be inundated with unwanted direct marketing offers, including product and political ads geared to your "Likes." Or it could mean identity thieves gathering data on your personal interests and possibly using it to compromise your credit card or bank account.
Sounds like a bit much?
Not really -- not after research from the University of Cambridge says that virtually anyone can compromise your personal privacy by engaging in what researchers call "innocuous digital behavior" resulting in "high levels of accuracy" by online foragers.
The Cambridge data focus on those ubiquitous Facebook likes -- information widely available to anyone who wants it.
Through "automatic analysis of Facebook likes," con artists, marketers or any stranger can accurately assess your race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, likelihood of substance use and political views. Cambridge researchers say it is easy to gather highly sensitive information that can be used against you.
The study tracked 58,000 U.S. Facebook users and focused on their likes, demographic profiles and personality traits revealed on the popular social networking website. Cambridge analysts fed the data accumulated into algorithms, with surprising results. The models were:
- 88% accurate in determining male sexuality.
- 95% accurate in distinguishing white Americans from black Americans.
- 85% accurate in distinguishing Republicans from Democrats.
- 82% accurate in separating Christians from Muslims.
- And had up to a 73% accuracy rate in figuring out relationship status and substance abuse.
Facebook users are hardly revealing all this information directly.
The Cambridge study says it was easy to draw "inferences" from likes. For example, while only 5% of gay users directly clicked on "gay marriage" as a like, a majority of users could be identified as gay by likes regarding cultural themes such as movies, music and television shows. That's valuable information for political campaigns and media advertisers, Cambridge researchers say.
The research also revealed some unique personal attributes. Who knew curly fries were linked to a high I.Q., or that smokers are more afraid of spiders than non-smokers?
Until now, we're guessing nobody.
The study concludes by saying Facebook likes are a huge privacy issue, so users had better be careful about their online preferences.
"I am a great fan and active user of new amazing technologies, including Facebook," says Michal Kosinski, operations director at the university's Psychometric Centre, who conducted the research with his Cambridge colleague David Stillwell, along with Thore Graepel from Microsoft Research (MSFT) . "I appreciate automated book recommendations, or Facebook selecting the most relevant stories for my newsfeed. However, I can imagine situations in which the same data and technology is used to predict political views or sexual orientation, posing threats to freedom or even life."


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New York Power Authority Trustees To Meet January 25
January 20, 2011
WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 11:30 a.m., at NYPA's White Plains administrative office building at 123 Main St., in the 16th floor boardroom.
Consistent with Section 104(4) of the Open Meetings Law, the public has the right to attend the meeting.
The meeting can also be viewed via the Internet by visiting the Power Authority's Web site at www.nypa.gov and clicking on "Meetings and Webcasts," near the center of the page, and then another link entitled "Watch Live."
Contact person for non-media inquiries: Karen Delince (914) 390-8085
Media inquiries should be directed to Michael Saltzman at (914) 390-8181.
About NYPA:
■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state-owned electric utility, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ About 75 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■ For more information, www.nypa.gov.


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By completing the FAFSA, you are applying for all Federal Title IV programs including the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, Federal Work Study, Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Stafford Loans (Subsidized and Unsubsidized) and Federal Parent Plus Loan. It may be offered separately or in combination.
We recommend that your application be submitted no later than the priority deadlines set, which are April 15th for the fall semester, October 15th for the spring semester and March 15th for summer session. It is important that you complete the financial aid application process early so that your award will be in place prior to registration deadlines and to avoid processing delays.
All students who file a FAFSA are selected at random by the federal government for review in a process called verification. If you are selected for verification, you will be notified by the federal processors by email and then by Claflin's Office of Financial Aid with a letter. Be sure to turn in all of the requested documents so that the financial aid process can be complete.
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Peanut butter recalled nearly 2 weeks earlier was in meals sent to Ky. ice storm victims
By BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press
February 5, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent to Kentucky in the wake of an ice storm had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated by salmonella, federal officials said Thursday.
An apparent communication breakdown among federal officials allowed the kits to be sent to Kentucky to help feed hundreds of thousands of people left without power at the height of last week's storm. The storm also swept through Arkansas, but federal officials don't believe people there got the meal kits affected by the recall.
People were warned Thursday not to eat the peanut butter packets. No illnesses have been reported and recalls were ordered out of "an abundance of caution," said Jay Blanton, a spokesman for Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.
The company that distributed the peanut butter packets used in the meals recalled them last month because of the salmonella outbreak suspected of sickening at least 575 people, eight of whom died. A Blakely, Ga., peanut-processing plant that produces a fraction of U.S. peanut products is being investigated in the outbreak.
The company that packaged the meals, Red Cloud Foods Inc., sent a memo dated Jan. 19 to the arm of the Department of Defense responsible for getting them to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But FEMA said it didn't learn of the recall until Wednesday, more than two weeks later.
Beshear had eaten some of the peanut butter while touring storm damage and said Thursday he felt "pretty good."
But people still in shelters because of the storm weren't so positive.
"You look forward to them helping and they're handing out things that are making it worse," said Rebecca Schmelz, who was at a shelter in downtown Greenville with her 6-month-old and 6-year-old sons.
She said her family had eaten several emergency meals but she did not believe any contained the peanut butter packets shown on a FEMA flier warning people about possible salmonella.
"I'm glad that my kids don't eat peanut butter, that's for sure," she said.
The kits, which contained entrees, cookies, chips and sometimes peanut butter packets, were assembled in September for relief efforts after Hurricane Ike, said Bob Harrison, chairman of South Elgin, Ill.-based Red Cloud Foods Inc.
Harrison said Red Cloud learned of the peanut butter recall and notified the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, an arm of the Department of Defense that supplies meals to FEMA, that it was recalling about 530,000 meals. Dennis Gauci, spokesman for the Defense Logistics Agency, which oversees the supply center, could not say when the recall notice was received from Red Cloud or when FEMA was notified.
FEMA spokeswoman Alexandra Kirin said the Food and Drug Administration notified it about 10 days ago that a different company had been added to the list of recalled products that might contain contaminated peanut butter. FEMA went through all of its prepared meals and found fewer than 10,000 made by that company. They were removed so disaster victims wouldn't get them.
On Wednesday, the FDA told FEMA that a new company, Red Cloud, had been added to the recall list. Red Cloud told FEMA it had notified the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia in January.
As of Thursday evening, FEMA did not know why Defense Supply Center Philadelphia did not tell it about that notification.
"So we need to find out about that," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
She said FEMA was telling people to throw away the packets and the meals would be replaced by Friday. She did not know if the new batch would include peanut butter products.
FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek said Thursday the agency could not answer questions from The Associated Press about the FEMA meals.
Kirin said 167,900 of the Red Cloud meals were distributed in Kentucky. It wasn't clear what happened to the rest of the 530,000 and whether any had been distributed to victims of Hurricane Ike or other disasters.
According to an internal briefing document Thursday morning, FEMA had delivered 959,000 meals to Kentucky in the aftermath of the ice storm, with 490,000 more on the way over the next few days. Arkansas received 468,864, and no more were expected.
Kentucky National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Connie Vick said emergency meals containing peanut butter had likely been distributed to nearly two dozen counties there.
Meals with the suspect peanut butter were found at Nelson Creek Missionary Baptist Church in western Kentucky, but only one had been taken and it wasn't eaten.
Nelson Creek Volunteer Fire Chief Terry Peveler said his wife, Michaelle, had planned to eat a meal that included peanut butter but didn't because her boss bought pizza. He said he wasn't angry at FEMA.
"If they hadn't handed them out, a lot of people would be starving," he said.
The salmonella outbreak has led to questions about Peanut Corp. of America and its Georgia plant operated. Authorities say Peanut Corp. shipped peanut butter, paste and other products that had tested positive for salmonella. The company retested, got a negative reading, and shipped the products. A criminal investigation is under way. The Lynchburg, Va.-based company denies any wrongdoing and said Wednesday that the Blakely plant received regular visits and inspections from state and federal authorities in 2008.
Associated Press writer Bruce Schreiner contributed to this report from Greenville, Ky.; Eileen Sullivan contributed from Washington; and Daniel Shea contributed from Little Rock, Ark.
© 2009 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
Awesome. Sounds like the govt is wanting to control the population due to the economic crisis and they are staring with KY.
My son made this for me:
Don't worry, one way or another, it's George Bush's fault just like Hurricane Katrina.
There will be an inevitable baby boom following the storm so KY does kinda go with the KY disaster. There's always a baby boom after a natural disaster. I swear people, use condoms. They should be handed out with the MREs and water.
My son made this for me:
Yeah I'm wondering when the press will start blaming Bush! After all they can't blame the chosen one!
"Whaaaah! My free peanut butter MIGHT have had Salmonella."
If you're going to be so irresponsible to get yourself caught in an ice storm, then be happy for that laced peanut butter. In my day we walked to school through ice storms, barefoot and uphill both ways. We would have gladly eaten some toxic peanut butter. All we had to eat was snow! Some of it was yellow.
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The EPA did investigate Hyundai for misleading mileage claims as well as Kia, and changes in fuel economy estimates are coming as a result of the investigation. Both Kia and Hyundai will be lowering the fuel economy estimates on the majority of their 2012 to 2013 models after EPA testing discovered discrepancies between its data and the company's data.
Hyundai and Kia admitted to overstating the estimated fuel economy on window stickers of about 900,000 vehicles sold since late 2010. The two automakers will reportedly spend millions of dollars to compensate owners for faulty claims of economy.
Hyundai will also have to retract its widely used claim that it leads the industry with four vehicle models able to get 40 mpg on the highway. That statement will be retracted because estimated highway economy on the 2013 Accent, Veloster, and Elantra are being reduced to below 40 mpg.
Some of the biggest losers include the Hyundai Accent and the all-new, redesigned 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. The Accent saw its 30/40/33 (city/highway/combined) rating drop to 28/37/31. The Santa Fe Sport (2WD) saw a huge drop in its highway rating, going from 21/31/25 (city/highway/combined) to 20/27/23.
Many of the mileage adjustments take Hyundai models from being class leaders to either middle-of-the-pack or lower.
On the Kia side of things, the Soul took the biggest hit as it saw its highway numbers drop by 6 mpg (35 mpg highway to 29 mpg highway).
Overstating fuel efficiency is a significant blunder by the two car companies because gas prices are up, and many people are shopping based on fuel economy claims by the manufacturer. The EPA notes that window sticker values have previously been reduced on only two vehicles sense 2000, so that makes Hyundai's folly even more egregious.
"Given the importance of fuel efficiency to all of us, we're extremely sorry about these errors," said Hyundai Motor America President and CEO John Krafcik. "We're going to make this right."
Krafcik blamed the inaccurate fuel efficiency claims on "procedural errors" in the fuel-economy testing methodology the company used. Hyundai-Kia's combined fleetwide fuel economy average declined from 27 MPG to 26 mpg for the 2012 model year working out to about a 3% reduction.
Krafcik added, "We've identified the source of the discrepancies between our prior testing method and the EPA's recommended approach."
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An interactive Museum of Math dubbed MoMath is opening in New York City on Dec. 15 funded by a math-loving financial analyst named Glenn Whitney.
Math Midway, a traveling exhibition of math marvels, is touring science museums as a preview: Kids can "ride the square-wheeled tricycle, spin the universal wheel of chance or dare to challenge the ring of fire." Also included: "mind-bending mirrors, terrific tessellations and perfectly packed patterns."
MoMath will show that math matters, writes Daniel Willingham, who shows Joel Klein, the former New York schools chancellor, on the trike. (It "can be ridden smoothly on a track with inverted curves, calculated to keep the axles of the trike level.")


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This week, IBM made over a dozen announcements related to IBM storage products. Here is part 2 of my overview:
- IBM System Storage® DS8000 series microcode
One of the advantages of acquiring XIV as IBM's other high-end disk system, is that it allows the DS8000 team to focus on the IBM i and z/OS operating systems. As a result, IBM DS8000 has over half the mainframe-attach market share.
For both the DS8700 and DS8800 models, IBM Easy Tier now support sub-LUN automated tiering across three storage tiers: Solid-State Drives, high-performance spinning disk drives (15K and 10K RPM), and high-capacity disk drives (7200 RPM).
For System z customers, the latest DS8000 microcode has synergy with z/OS and GDPS, now supporting 4x larger EAV volumes, faster high-performance FICON (zHPF), and Workload Manager (WLM) integration with the I/O Priority Manager. IBM has a world record SAP performance of 59 million account postings per hour. DB2 v10 for z/OS queries were measured at 11x faster using the new zHPF feature.
- IBM System Storage® DS8800 systems
On the hardware side, the DS8800 now supports a fourth frame to hold a total over 1,500 disk drives. Yes, we have customers that three frames wasn't enough, and they wanted more.
IBM is now also offering new drive options. Small Form Factor (2.5 inch) drives now include 300GB 15K RPM drives, and a 900GB 10K RPM drives. But wait! There's more! The DS8800 is no longer a SFF-only box, it now allows for mixing in Large form factor (3.5 inch) drives, starting with the 3TB NL-SAS 7200 RPM drive.
- IBM XIV® Storage System Gen3
We announced the XIV Gen3 already, but we have two enhancements.
First, we now offer a model based entirely on 3TB NL-SAS drives. If you are thinking, what IBM is going to put 3TB drives into everything? Yup. Once we go through all the pain and suffering of qualifying a drive, we make sure we get our money's worth!
Secondly, we have now an iPad application to manage the XIV. This has nothing to do with Apple CEO Steve Jobs passing away last week, it was merely coincidence.
- IBM Real-time Compression Appliances™ STN6500 and STN6800 V3.8
The latest software for RtCA now supports Microsoft SMB v2, and enhanced reporting so that storage admins know exactly the benefits of the compression ratios of different file extensions.
- IBM System Storage EXP2500 Express®
The EXP2500 is for direct-attach situations, like the IBM BladeCenter. IBM adds LFF 3.5-inch 3TB NL-SAS drives, SFF 2.5-inch 300GB 15K RPM SAS drives, and 900GB 7200 RPM NL-SAS drives.
My colleague Curtis Neal refers to these as "B.F.D" announcements, which of course stands for Bigger, Faster, Denser!
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