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A generation after Congress passed the Clean Air Act, people in much of the Chicago area—including the north and west suburbs—regularly breathe in levels of soot and smog that endanger the long-term health of children, according to a Chicago Parent investigation.
And while pollution is often associated with the city and its heavy industry and traffic, many of the suburbs, including Evanston, Northbrook, Cary, Des Plaines and Naperville, have air as dirty as Chicago's, our analysis of state environmental data shows.
Polluted air can shorten lives and is particularly hard on children, whose developing lungs are vulnerable to toxins known to cause asthma and other chronic health problems.
Doctors and environmental experts say it's no coincidence that the region has some of the nation's highest rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Yet elected officials continue to resist a push to get tough on polluters.
"This has major health impacts," says Dr. Steven Boas, a pediatric pulmonologist from Glenview.
The north suburbs register some of the highest soot and smog levels in the region. On days when air pollution is particularly bad, Boas says, calls to his office spike from parents whose children are having breathing problems.
"A lot of these chemicals are so reactive they can induce an inflammatory response in the airways and cause damage to the lungs," he says.
"You know that if you go out and burn your skin every day, it's not good for you," says Rebecca Stanfield, an environmental attorney with the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy organization. "Well, it's like that [breathing] in a high-ozone area. You burn your lungs every time."
Stanfield and other advocates say the state legislature and governor could help, but legislation requiring tougher environmental standards frequently stalls or dies in Springfield.
Boas says healthy children can recover quickly from limited exposure to toxins, but studies have long shown kids simply shouldn't inhale soot, also called particulate matter, or smog, also called ozone, which can scar lung tissue. These pollutants can trigger asthma attacks and, in the long run, cause cardiovascular problems—even heart attacks.
For generations, Chicago's economy was based on factories that pollute heavily. And while regional air quality has improved in the last 35 years, the federal government this spring declared Chicago was violating acceptable standards for smog and soot.
"We're on kind of a treadmill," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs for the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago. "Yes, the air's getting better, but more people are having breathing trouble."
Slow-cooking effect
After consulting with the lung association and the state, Chicago Parent analyzed data collected over the last seven years by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The Illinois EPA periodically tests smog and soot levels at dozens of sites across the six-county Chicago region.
On the upside, the figures show Chicago-area residents encounter only a few intense periods with dangerous pollution levels. In other words, it's unlikely that children will ever find a black cloud choking their soccer field. Instead, the region's pollution has more of a slow-cooking effect: The soccer fields are probably consistently cloaked in air that, while never horrible, is never as clean as it should be.
Similarly, because wind blows airborne toxins from one area to another, some of the region's seemingly idyllic suburban spots have air nearly as polluted as those near industrial centers. For example, between 1997 and 2003, the latest year for which pollution figures are available, a testing site on Chicago's Southeast Side—not far from heavy industry along the south shore of Lake Michigan—registered the highest average ozone levels.
But levels in north suburban Zion, Waukegan, Evanston, Northbrook, Cary, Libertyville and Des Plaines were nearly as high. In each case, the testing sites repeatedly recorded eight-hour periods when ozone levels were higher than 0.08 parts per million—a rate considered unacceptable by the federal government.
Ozone (smog) forms when airborne chemicals are baked by the sun, so it is most concentrated on the hottest days. Breathing it essentially scalds the lining of the lungs, potentially leaving them less able to process oxygen.
Most ozone ingredients originate in old coal-burning power plants—Illinois has 23, including six in the Chicago area—as well as exhaust from cars, diesel trucks, buses and equipment.
"Everyone gets up, starts their cars in the morning, factories fire up—you get a big puff in the morning," says Urbaszewski. These ingredients for ozone cook as the day heats up.
Both the city's Southwest Side and the Joliet area have coal plants, and winds tend to blow from the south or southwest, carrying the pollutants along. "That's why you'll see stuff up north or on the north lakefront," he says. "It's at the tail end of the pipe."
Soot and particles
Soot—pieces of dust or droplets of liquid about 1/20th the diameter of a human hair—travels in different ways, ending up in areas that aren't always considered focal points of pollution—such as the western suburbs.
As with ozone, Chicago's particulate matter problem isn't in short-term, intense concentrations. But the average, long-term soot levels are too high.
When inhaled, the particles can become trapped in the air sacs of the lungs, then enter the bloodstream. Particulates may contribute to heart attacks, and some of the chemicals they contain are carcinogenic.
Studies have found that children exposed to particulates over long periods of time have higher rates of asthma and bronchitis.
Urbaszewski says some particulate matter comes straight from factory smokestacks or automobile exhaust pipes. Other matter forms in the atmosphere when chemicals react.
Chicago Parent's analysis found the state recorded high soot levels across the metro area. Leading the way are industrialized areas such as Summit and Lyons Township, southwest of Chicago; west suburban Cicero; and the city's Northwest and Southeast sides.
Perhaps more surprising is that the suburbs of Naperville, Northbrook and Des Plaines frequently exceed federal soot standards. For example, Naperville's yearly average registered above the federal standard of 15 micrograms per cubic meter three of the past five years.
Dr. Jay Shannon says respiratory problems can have a number of causes, many of them untraceable. But Shannon, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cook County's John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, says air pollutants are undeniably dangerous. "These kind of things can cause what we call 'bronchial hyper-responsiveness'—twitchy airways," he says. "When they're present above a certain amount, they can cause a reflexive reaction: A person who has asthma may walk out into that environment and immediately develop symptoms. … And the other thing about children is that their air passages are smaller anatomically, so they sometimes are the leading edge, if you will, of what you see in the population."
Breathing 'poison' air
Sandra Peña doesn't need any more convincing. Her oldest daughter, Clarisel, had her first asthma attack before she was 1. After weeks with a cough, the little girl started struggling for breath.
"She was crying, and the little holes in her shoulders by the clavicles started sinking," recalls Peña, who lives with her family on Chicago's Northwest Side. "So we took her to the emergency room."
Clarisel recovered by the next morning. But three months later, she went through the cycle again.
Peña knows a lot about respiratory problems through her work as a nurse on the Mobile CARE Foundation's asthma vans, traveling clinics that treat children across the city. Yet this time she was stumped—until she smelled the diesel fumes seeping in through the windows of the family's basement apartment.
The windows opened onto an alley that, starting around 7:30 each morning, was full of trucks idling as their goods were unloaded at a nearby grocery store. The heavier the traffic, the more trouble Clarisel had breathing.
"I think the air was poison," Peña says. "It's really funny—you say it's funny because you don't want to cry—but we had to come inside to get some fresh air."
That didn't always work, though. Even with the windows shut, the fumes found their way in. Peña tried installing an air conditioner and enrolled Clarisel in a school that started early so she could be out of the house before the trucks arrived.
Eventually, the family moved. Clarisel didn't have another attack for years. "Some of our neighbors moved, too," Peña says. "They said it was too polluted."
Clarisel now knows how to control her asthma with medication and she avoids the fumes that build up outside her school when buses line up at the end of the day. When her family drives on the expressway, they have to keep the windows rolled up, even though their old car lacks air conditioning.
To Boas, this is sound thinking. He suggests parents keep their kids away from heavy traffic and limit outdoor activities when the weather forecasters predict poor air quality.
"You should also know where your kids are playing. If they're in a field next to a road with tons of cars, it's really not a good idea," says Boas, who leads the Glenview-based Children's Asthma, Respiratory and Exercise Specialists. "It doesn't mean you have to eliminate activity altogether, but you can reduce the likelihood of having a problem."
Peña doesn't think her family is in the clear quite yet. Her two younger children, Kyrie, 8, and Daniela, 5, sometimes have nagging coughs.
The air outside the family's current home is better, and she tries to keep them indoors when it's hot and hazy. They can't stay inside all the time, though. And when old cars or trucks drive by, the kids start coughing.
"We just started with the air conditioner ... and we already noticed an improvement: Last night nobody coughed," Peña says.
Still, she thinks it's "just a matter of time" before Kyrie and Daniela are diagnosed with asthma, because "I don't think the air's going to be [much] cleaner as they get older."
Parents don't have to feel helpless about air pollution, according to physicians and environmental health experts. They note it's never a bad idea to cut back on driving, or to press school officials to make sure bus exhaust isn't getting into classrooms. Parents could also push elected officials for tougher regulation of power plants, diesel engines and other pollution sources. That's the only way things will change, in the view of state Rep. Karen May (D-Highland Park). This spring, May wrote a bill, now awaiting Gov. Rod Blagojevich's signature, that would create a new position in the Illinois Department of Public Health to monitor the effects of environmental toxins on children. But May can tick off a list of other environmental bills that died in Springfield, including ones addressing idling school buses and trucks and indoor air quality at schools. May doesn't think she'll get a more receptive audience until she finds a way to fund a study showing that it's cheaper in the long run to clean up the state's air than to pay for the health care costs created by pollution. "I've found that when we can prove the costs, that's when we get the naysayers," she says. But as it is, "we don't have a strong environmental legislature. … I think that parents need to find out more about this and make sure their legislators know about the [potential] health care costs." Anne Rowan, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, says the Blagojevich administration has taken a tough stand against air pollution, citing programs to take old lawnmowers out of circulation and help school districts reduce diesel emissions from buses. Illinois has also challenged what it considers a lax Bush administration policy on mercury pollution. She also urges people in the Chicago area to drive less. "The governor has taken many steps to go beyond federal requirements," she says. "We do have an ozone problem in the city of Chicago [and surrounding area]. All major cities have an ozone problem. ... We're always striving to do better, but from the Illinois EPA's perspective, we are making progress, and even going above and beyond in many areas, because it's very important for public health." "The state could create tighter emissions standards for power plants by administrative rule"—a single signature from Blagojevich—says Rebecca Stanfield, an environmental attorney with the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, an advocacy organization. For now, though, she sees no signs of movement. "When we start having ozone-action days, the news will tell parents what to do" to keep their kids safe and healthy, Stanfield says. "But they won't say who's responsible." Mick Dumke
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker successfully beat back a Democratic recall effort Tuesday night by assembling a coalition that closely resembled the electorate that propelled the Republican to victory 19 months ago. Though voters were split on Walker's signature achievement -- sharply reducing the ability of public employee unions to collectively bargain with the state -- Walker defeated Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for the second time in as many years as voters said that elected officials should only be recalled for official misconduct.
The voters who chose to stick with Walker narrowly support President Obama, according to exit polls conducted Tuesday as Wisconsin voters turned out heavily in the third recall election of a sitting governor in U.S. history. Obama leads his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, 51 percent to 44 percent, exit polls show...
Despite the state's seemingly intense polarization, exit polls revealed that there are voters who support both Obama and Walker. Eighteen percent of those voters who said they would vote for Obama over Romney in November voted for Walker on Tuesday.
Wisconsin Exit Poll: Voters Like Obama, Don't Like Recalls
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Director Marc Webb offers a glimpse of Rhino as portrayed by Paul Giamatti, whose actions are also featured in new set photos.
A first look at another supervillain Spidey will encounter in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" has been revealed by director Marc Webb. Uploaded on his Twitter account, the photo features Paul Giamatti as barbwire-tattooed Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich a.k.a. The Rhino, furiously speeding his truck.
The Golden Globe-winning actor's actions with leading star Andrew Garfield are also captured in the film's new set photos. Giamatti is seen donning a black tracksuit for his role of the thug from a Soviet-era bloc country, while Garfield is spotted wearing his Spidey full costume on the filming set in Brooklyn.
Besides The Rhino, Spidey has to face Max Dillon a.k.a. Electro, played by all-around star Jamie Foxx. Peter Parker's old friend Harry Osborn will also make an appearance in the film with "Metallica Through the Never" actor Dane DeHaan as the depicter.
The Marvel flick still follows Peter Parker busy taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen. Peter hasn't forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen's father to protect her by staying away - but that's a promise he just can't keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
Also starring Emma Stone as Parker's love interest Gwen Stacy, the pic is scheduled to open in the United States on May 2, 2014.


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Shirley from Fairfield, CA asks:
I understand that the many programs listed on the control panel may be what slow my computer. The security updates listed are 4 in 2007, 31 in 2008, 49 in 2009 and 37 already in 2010. A few are listed as Hot fix. Must they stay there year after year or can they be removed without causing trouble?
Well, Shirley, let me start by saying that installed programs may be causing your computer to run slow. It is probably not legitimate Microsoft updates doing it. These updates are typically less than 1 Mb in size, so the updates that you're describing probably take up less than a Gb of your hard drive space. However, some of the Hotfix updates, that claim to be from Microsoft, are known to cause problems. This may not be true in your case, so let's come at your situation from a different direction, by determining how full your hard drive is, and dealing with that.
The easiest way to check and see if your hard drive is too full is to open My Computer. That will show you your max hard drive space and the amount that you have free.
Depending on which operating system you're using and how it's set up, you may not see all the information shown above. If you right click on an open space in the menu bar, at the top, you can bring up more information about the free and used space in your drives.
Just check the boxes beside Total Size and Free Space.
If your hard drive is too full, you might want to consider browsing the programs and features section of your control panel to check for programs that you no longer use and uninstalling them.
As to whether or not you can safely uninstall the security updates, the answer is "probably not". Microsoft states that removing these updates can cause your system to become unstable. One reason for this is that each new batch of updates is built upon the idea that you have all previous updates installed, so the new updates may not install correctly. Another is that you really have no idea which updates are currently being used by your system.
There are also many other reasons why your system may be running slowly.
One is that your system simply needs a RAM upgrade. As new programs are released, they are designed to be more powerful than old programs, and so need more RAM to run. One way to keep an eye on your system resources and how they're being used is to run a Windows sidebar system monitor. The one that I use is called All CPU Monitor.
This shows my total CPU usage, how much of my RAM is being used, and how much of each core is being occupied. It also shows a second-to-second graph of how my system resources are being used. If your RAM is running at or near capacity, then your computer "caches" memory by creating temporary RAM space on your hard drive, which is significantly slower than RAM.
This monitor and many others can be found here.
Or you can get the information by checking your Windows Task Manager. Just click Ctrl + Alt + Delete, and then click on Task Manager. When it opens, click on the Performance tab at the top.
Another possibility is that it may just be time to defragment your computer. As you run, add and delete programs, your hard drive can become "fragmented", which means that pieces of programs are placed on your hard drive where they don't belong. Defragmenting will correct this. If you are running Vista or 7, you can set this check up to be done automatically. If you are running XP, this can be done by opening My Computer, right-clicking on your system hard drive (usually C), clicking on Properties and then Tools. (This screenshot is from Vista, but the tools submenu is the same on XP.)
It wouldn't hurt to also run an error check while you're at it.
One of the most common reasons for a computer to perform slowly is simply that you are infected with adware, spyware or viruses. The easiest solution for this is to make sure that you're using a good anti-virus program and making sure that it is updated.
You can find many good suggestions, in this Worldstart tip, about antivirus programs and spyware removers.
Hope this helps.
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Hi all,
I am trying to translate htdig into german and while doing this I came
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.html files wich are not accually linked.
After some trouble I found someone helping me with the shell things and I
generated a file with:
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Don´t know why, the server has about
MemFree: 12764 kB
SwapFree: 63208 kB
What else is there to change in the configuration-file to make it work
without using more SWAP?
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Bill's Military Service
1930 — Forrest City, Arkansas
Bill lied about his age and joined the Arkansas National Guard when he was 16. He entered the U.S. Army in 1940, where he first served in Alaska, then was sent to France for D-Day, June 6, 1944. He had attended Officers' Training School, and was promoted to First Lieutenant, assigned to Patton's Third Army, fighting through France. Ironically, he was killed on Armistice Day, November 11, 1944. He is buried in the largest American cemetery in France, Lorraine, at St. Avold. He was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery and the Purple Heart. He was my mother's youngest brother.


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String noise/squeek
The guitar amp I'm making seems to amplify string sliding noise more than is usual. Does anyone know what frequency this typically occurs at, so I can filter it?
Add a treble cut control or get some flatwound strings :) The frequency will vary depending how closely the strings are wound and how fast you move your fingers!
I guess, but it seems to have particular spike to it, like sibilance.
And yes, I'm going to roll off the highs, but I'd like some idea of where I should aim for.
Two 6N11s and an LM3875.
It probably just needs a treble roll off as has been said. At the moment it has nothing rolling off the high end except grid stoppers.
could it be the opposite, and that you have less than usual low end amplifying
so when you cranck it up your top gets too hot
don't know, but maybe its just a matter of wrong input resistors, or some other simple thing
You will kill sparkle, brightness, definition.
Improve your chording and firger technique and you won't have problems.
Just curious: what speakers are you using?
Is it the one you showed lying on the table, without a proper cabinet?
If so, correct that first, you are killing mid and bass big time, so only treble is left.
But yes, not enough mid and bass may be the issue.
Thanks guys, am going to have a tweak.
High gain can make handling noise as loud as playing.
I tend to the same answers as tinitus:
Did you make a coarse check of frequency response ? Maybe some coupling C is too small or something else is giving you a insufficient low-end response.
As already mentioned the frequency response of guitar pickups is very load dependant. Electrically (i.e. without looking at things like PU position, pole size, single-coil or humbucker etc) they usually form a second order lowpass with a peak before the final drop. Your amp might be unluckily loading the PU(s) in such a way that you end up with the peak in an unpleasant frequency range.
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Hi, the connection.autocommit feature has created the problem shown here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16250 I've taken a look and they have a set_autocommit method <https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/backends/creation.py#L347> implemented in a painful way: instead of being driver-specific they just invoke some random method on the connection, and the thing is compounds with the fact they *don't even know* there is a transaction somehow already open. As per discussion <http://archives.postgresql.org/psycopg/2011-05/msg00033.php>, psycopg's set_session gives an error if invoked in a transaction. Now, I would love to argue that Django's set_autocommit is written with the wrong anatomical part, the bug is theirs and it's all their problem. However, knowing the painful process they use to fix a bug I wouldn't be surprised it would take months (see how they handled the idle in transaction mess) and this would only be a problem for django, postgres and psycopg users, as 2.4.2 is the version installed by default by easy_install and friends. So I'm positive to change the semantics of set_session/autocommit and issue an implicit rollback if in transaction instead of raising an exception, as set_isolation_level does. Thoughts? -- Daniele
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"We must reject all forms of injustice, as well as symbols of inequality that have been imposed upon us. The 4th of July holiday," says the author, "is one of those repugnant symbols."
The 4th of July: Indoctrination, Oppression and Hypocrisy
by Solomon Comissiong
"This system presents lies as truths, oppressors as saints, murderers as heroes, and imperialist wars as justified acts of benevolence."
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels built a career on deception and totalitarian control of information throughout Germany. His tactics were extraordinarily effective in the manufacturing of consent with many German citizens. He burned books, controlled the media, and even the arts. Controlling these vehicles of information was critical in effectively controlling the minds of German people. In many ways he was Adolph Hitler's "right hand man" and his hatred for Jewish people rivaled that of Hitler's. Goebbels, like Hitler, was a reprehensible and evil human being. The mental programming he masterminded created an atmosphere of consent and complicity throughout many circles of German people. However, as effective as Goebbels' actions were, they pale in comparison with the mass indoctrination and programming that exists throughout the United States.
The United States government operates a most awesome mass propaganda program that even permeates the corporate media system. This propaganda system is virtually ubiquitous – operating throughout society, including educational systems, professional sports and Hollywood. This writer has strong disdain for this duplicitous propaganda system. However, I must respect it, if for nothing else, its sheer effectiveness. This system presents lies as truths, oppressors as saints, murderers as heroes, and imperialist wars as justified acts of benevolence. This system also cleverly presents repression as democracy. It is a system that not only (and expectantly) convinces the white masses of these lies, it also, ironically, (and sadly) convinces people of color of these blatant falsehoods. And this is one of the great achievements of America's false propaganda machine – it can convince the oppressed that the system works for them.
America is a nation founded on theft of land, massacres, genocide, deceit, slavery, and white supremacy. These are undeniable truths for anyone who accurately knows its history. However, unfortunately, most Americans have been methodically shielded from these facts (and perspectives), by the government that controls their minds. American schoolchildren are routinely fed large doses historical lies. These impressionable youth are trained not to critically think for themselves, as well as to embrace the perspectives of European thugs that inflicted so much carnage. Sadistically, children of color are taught reprehensible lies that lead them believe that the Euro-American's "Founding Fathers" are their "Founding Fathers. Without progressive intervention these children grow up to be adults of color parroting what they have heard over and over again saying things like, "the Founding Fathers would have never accepted that." One thing is certain, the so-called "Founding Fathers" would have gladly accepted those people of color who repeat such nonsense, as slaves on their stolen land. They should more appropriately be referred to (especially by American born Africans) as the "Founding Slave Masters." It should be considered mental abuse to allow young children of color to grow up believing that oppressors, like George Washington, are their "Founding Fathers." George Washington enslaved over 300 Africans and waged war on indigenous people of "America." This author hopes that if more people of color knew these truths about the so-called "Founding Fathers" they would never refer to them as anything less than vile men.
"Children of color are taught reprehensible lies that lead them believe that the Euro-American's "Founding Fathers" are their "Founding Fathers."
It's difficult to think of America's so-called "Founding Fathers" without thinking about the contradictory 4th of July holiday. The 4th of July (aka, Independence Day) is a federal holiday that essentially commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. It reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." What is truly interesting about that document and July 4th 1776, in general, is that at the same exact time countless Africans were being held (violently against their will), in some of the most inhumane conditions known to man. They were forced to work sun up till sun down (throughout the calendar year), for evil shiftless white men and their families. As a matter of fact, the wretched institution of chattel slavery would linger on for almost another 100 years. This author cynically wonders if the so-called "Founding Fathers" thought that being a slave meant that one was immersed in "Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness" or that you could be a slave and still be considered an "equal" man or woman.
It should be clear that the Declaration of Independence was not written with the interests of enslaved Africans in mind or the interests of indigenous people whose land was stolen by these amoral men and their devilish ancestors. As a matter of fact, many of the more prominent so-called "Founding Fathers" enslaved Africans including (but not limited to): George Washington, John Jay, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry and John Hancock. This annual holiday (July 4th/Independence Day) is largely predicated on a time when Africans had no rights and were held in bondage simply to live out their lives working for the good-for-nothing white people who enslaved and brutalized them. And we must never forget the indigenous first nations people whose land, livelihood, and lives were stripped away from them in order to create this white settler state (America). Knowing these facts, how can any person of color celebrate this most hypocritical holiday? Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Understanding this important aspect of American history, how can any moral white person rejoice during this holiday? White privilege, white supremacy, blind indoctrination and pervasive apathy are significant contributing factors. Institutional racism runs rampant throughout America – holidays like the 4th of July make sense in such a society.
"How can any person of color celebrate this most hypocritical holiday?"
If more people of color truly understood the long legacy of oppression that America has imposed upon non-white people (without regret), the aura of resistance within those communities would be palpable. Systematic indoctrination permeates all of American society, leaving many aimlessly wallowing in a quagmire of ignorance. Perpetual misinformation acts like psychological opiates, thus rendering many Americans to suffer peacefully. Despite the fact that many Americans (regardless of color) are affected by this process of social engineering, it is people of color who are most negatively impacted. It truly is an awful spectacle to behold when a society's most oppressed people become that plantation's most faithful cheerleaders. They, in essence, are unwittingly cheering for their own oppression, as well as that of people that look just like them.
This is why we routinely witness any number of American-born-Africans supporting America's military excursions throughout the globe, including that of imperialist wars. In 2011 many were caught mindlessly cheering on President Barack Obama's imperialist war on an African nation (Libya). Witnessing sons and daughters of Africa cheering on an American led war of aggression and imperialism is a most disconcerting sight, especially when it is being waged on their ancestral homeland. It is ironically sad. They have been methodically programmed to accept Euro-American wars of conquest as if they were their own. It is akin to enslaved Africans rooting for their colonial master each time they conquered a "new land," only to further expand their empire of chattel slavery on plundered resource-rich land.
Imagine if more American born Africans knew about the seemingly countless coups and assassinations of democratically elected leaders that the US government has orchestrated. What if they knew about the CIA backed assassinations of people like Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1961? What if they cared to know about the US's imperialist military "interventions" in placed like Grenada and Panama? And what if more anti-abortion hypocrites gave a damn about the hundreds of thousands of children who have been killed in Iraq, alone, by way of direct US military involvement and murderous sanctions? What if more black people gave a damn about the scores of drone attacks, air strikes and night raids that the brown-faced war mongering president (alone) has approved of since taking office in January of 2009? Clearly many of Obama's supporters care more about frolicking around so that they can say there is a brown face in the White House, more than they care about countless civilians being killed by way of the direct actions of that same brown face. Their actions speak volumes. However, many Americans have been infused with a kind of artificial ignorance known as "American Exceptionalism." In essence, their ignorance is a part of the US government's social engineering experiment functioning as intended. Why else would so many African-Americans unconditionally extoll a military that is responsible for taking so many lives of color abroad. Their programmed ignorance keeps them mentally numb to the true realities of America's military aggression.
"Witnessing sons and daughters of Africa cheering on an American led war of aggression and imperialism is a most disconcerting sight."
It is a sad sight to behold each time this author sees "NBA Cares" commercials featuring a procession of black/African professional basketball players senselessly praising the US military. They say things like, "I support our armed forces because they protect us at home." This is a purposeful embellishment of a false-truth. This writer wishes he could tell those players that those soldiers are not protecting your interest or their own. They are protecting the collective interests of a sociopathic empire, and those that ultimately control it. Those soldiers are being used similar to mercenaries, ultimately working for the largest corporation in America – the Unite States government. Those nations they invade, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, were never any threat to attack the US. Soldiers are fed even larger doses of pro-US lies, than is the average propaganda drunk American. This makes them much easier subjects to be trained to carry out systematic atrocities against innocent civilians. American society teaches them to be racist and xenophobic, and then the military reinforces those sentiments, all the while training them in the art of cold blooded murder. When Staff Sargent Robert Bale (and company) killed at least 17 Afghan civilians, it was unfortunately not a unique occurrence within the tainted history of America's military conquests. Regrettably, many black/African professional athletes are systematically cajoled in front of television cameras to parrot lies about America's legacy, without any knowledge of these horrific truths. It would be as if a slave master got his most physically talented "bucks" (a racist term often used by enslavers of Africans to describe black men) to parade around praising the system that mercilessly oppressed his people. Yet, we routinely see black/African professional athletes tearing up during the national anthem, with their right hands across their chests. What are they tearing up for? This author would like to believe they are tearing up thinking about the innumerable people of color who were systematically murdered in order this empire to be built. Who will think of those people this 4th of July holiday as the fireworks are being lit and the grills are being fired up?
The celebration of America's Independence Day is not unlike the rejoicing of other US holidays. Their legacy, too, is stained with oceans of blood. Thanksgiving Day is the commemoration of the massacre of scores of Indigenous people throughout America's stolen northeast. Columbus Day is the celebration of an evil man who mass murdered, raped and mutilated entire populations of Indigenous people throughout the Caribbean and parts of present day so-called "Latin America." Memorial Day and Veterans Day are essentially celebrations of the memorializing of US war veterans who served in Americans military conquests. However, what the rulers fail to tell their faithful subjects (Americans) about is the narrative of innocent civilians who were systematically destroyed by way of those conquests. Innocent civilians are never to be memorialized, especially those of color. Those brutal causalities of America's imperialist wars are simply deemed "collateral damage." America supported oppression in regions like Southern Africa while native black Africans were struggling to gain their independence from brutal white minority regimes in places like Angola and South Africa (two name a couple). And today the US finances the oppression of Palestinians each year as it militarily funds Israel by the tune of 8 million dollars per day. This July 4th, how many Americans will give a damn to think about the Palestinians who are being systematically oppressed?
"With a brown-faced pirate in the White House black/African people have become even more accepting of this nation's imperialistic wars."
Americans continue to accept this brutality furnished with their tax dollars, as well as with their silent consent. Americans are a classic case of social engineering and mass indoctrination. It is one thing for the "average" white American to support this country's global wars on nations of color and it is another thing for people of color to support them. It is not acceptable in either case. However, it says a lot about the level of mental confusion, and overall indoctrination, when people of color roundly support, and make excuses for the US government's global march of death. And with a brown-faced pirate in the White House black/African people have become even more accepting of this nation's imperialistic wars. They continue to make baseless excuse after baseless excuse for their favorite war monger and the attacks he orchestrated in places like Libya. At least with curious George W. Bush people of color knew they were up against someone who cared little about their collective interests. However, Barack Obama has thrown many of these same people in to a full-fledged state of confusion. The dangerous aspect of this unfortunate scenario is that are not only confused, but that they are cheerleading for someone who could not give a damn about their plight in America, nor that of world's people of color. His policies speak volumes. I call them "Obamacies". Regretfully, Obama's ability to sing songs by Al Green allows him to cover up his war crimes in the morally blind eyes of his most faithful supporters of color.
White America has long done its best to filter black/African history, if not completely omitting it all together. America's public educational system is a virtual cesspool of lies, indoctrination, and all out mental programming. Despite these reprehensible facts regarding schooling in America, it remains Euro-centrically based. This has ensured that the strong history of anti-white supremacy activism that has come out of communities of color will be omitted from the vast majority of America's classrooms. Innumerable children may never learn about the historically accurate heroic efforts of men and women to resist oppression like: Nat Turner, Ida B. Wells, Gabriel Prosser, and Sojourner Truth (to name only a few).
When it comes to the hypocritical and reprehensible history of this holiday, every so-called African-American would be better off if they knew of the powerful speech Fredrick Douglass gave in 1852 in Rochester, New York. On that day Douglass said:
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival...."
In 2012 Mr. Douglass' eloquent speech is just as relevant as it was in 1852 when countless Euro-American hypocrites paraded around celebrating a baseless holiday while millions of Africans remained in bondage. Today, not only are white Americans celebrating a holiday submerged in hypocrisy but people of color are too. They have not only been indoctrinated, like their white counterparts, they have assimilated – shedding much of their cultural tradition of opposing war, social injustice and white supremacy. Perpetual wars of aggression and imperialism, a prison industrial complex, social inequality, and police brutality, are all staple aspects of the American Empire – no hypocritical holiday will change any of that. However, there is one thing that can lead towards a giant step in righting these horrific wrongs.
"America's public educational system is a virtual cesspool of lies, indoctrination, and all out mental programming."
People need to wake up, especially those of color. Those of us who are informed must do all that we can to socially and historically enlighten, not just our peers, but also the youth. This enlightenment can, and will, awaken a social revolution that has been clamoring to be resurrected. The time is now. Pick up your pens, grab the megaphones and begin the long arduous process of not only speaking out (and writing), but organizing communities as well. There is no substitute for face-to-face organizing. Merely posting and "liking" pages on social media networks won't do it. Those things can only serve as supplementation to community organizing and grassroots efforts needed to mobilize galvanize and then organize the masses (community by community) toward the establishment of a society completely free of social injustice. We all play a part – if we so desire. However, we must reject all forms of injustice, as well as symbols of inequality that have been imposed upon us. The 4th of July holiday is one of those repugnant symbols. The choice is ours (collectively). Will it be freedom or injustice? How principled a stance are we willing to take? Ignorance and acceptance of injustice can no longer be bliss – they must be frowned upon. Creating our own social justice narratives and holidays starts with real social justice victories (for all), and it begins now. There is no other alternative if we want a society devoid of oppression and injustice. Peace, justice and equality are within our collective grasp.
Solomon Comissiong is an educator, community activist, author, public speaker and the host of the Your World News media collective (www.yourworldnews.org). Solomon is the author of A Hip Hop Activist Speaks Out on Social Issues. He can be reached at: [email protected]


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a resident of Ponderosa
on Aug 20, 2008 at 5:00 pm
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a resident of Livermore
on Aug 26, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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On 1/6/06, tech at adaptive dot net <tech at adaptive dot net> wrote:
> Ok consider this.
> ive got a cisco switch hanging off the monowall DMZ port
> on that cisco switch is a subnet of 25-50 computers within same /24 class c
> -if one of those computers is talking to another, does traffic even go to
> the monowall or does the cisco switch handle it all
doesn't touch m0n0wall.
> -if it does make it to the monowall, do firewall rules apply
no, since it doesn't touch it.
> -if not, how can i make it so?
VLAN's, trunking, and a /30 subnet for each host (breaking up the /24
into little bits).
here's something I wrote that's not quite done, but might help if you
want to find out more about VLAN's (I wrote it with my Cat2924 too, if
you have an IOS-based switch it should be helpful)


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In the third and final presidential debate, from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, the focus was supposed to be on foreign policy. When talking national security, about the military and foreign policy, it seemed like a great time to bring up cyberspace as the fifth domain for cyber-warfare and actual cyberwar, cybersecurity and cyber-weapons.
Despite it being cybersecurity month, cybersecurity registered one little blip of mention, as did hacking. I don't get worked up over politics generally, but there were so many opportunities to mention cybersecurity or even cyber weapons that I ended up yelling things at the TV. If cybersecurity is so blasted important, then why was it basically brushed off during the debate?
The Obama administration wants Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation, claiming it would help protect America's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. Under Obama, the Pentagon is increasingly talking about cyberattacks and the national security threat the attacks pose to our critical infrastructure. Moderator Bob Schieffer asked how the military's strength will be maintained with budget cuts in defense spending. President Obama said, "When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities. We need to be thinking about cybersecurity. We need to be talking about space. That's exactly what our budget does, but it's driven by strategy. It's not driven by politics."
When Schieffer asked about "the rise of China and future challenges for America," Governor Mitt Romney mentioned, "They're stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods."
There you have it, the single time President Obama mentioned cybersecurity and the single time Republican rival candidate Romney mentioned hacking.
When talking about Israel and Iran during the debate, it could have been the perfect opportunity to mention cyber-something. But of course no one said, "Hey Israel is our cyber-espionage weapon-building buddy." When talking about Iran and the nuclear threat, no one said a peep about cyberattacks or how America and Israel set the Stuxnet worm loose inside the Natanz nuclear program centrifuges. There was no mention of stepping up cyberattacks or even how cyberweapons are surely less costly than sending our troops into harm's way.
Supposedly America is losing the cyberwar to China and even North Korea is considered a threat after training hackers to launch "cyber infiltration and cyberattacks." This is both national security and foreign policy. Most Americans do use the Internet and we are all dependent upon it for our critical infrastructure. Not that the candidates would care, but clearly they could not hear me yelling that now is the time to mention cybersecurity, cyberattacks, cyber-weapons. It was very disappointing to me that this entire topic was basically ignored, despite the numerous times and countries mentioned that could have created an opening for cybersecurity in the debate. I rarely yell, so the cat hissed and even my poor dog was worked up and growling at whatever had me so agitated.
While we more or less understand President Obama's take on cybersecurity, not too much is said about Romney's cybersecurity stance. Mitt Romney has promised to make cybersecurity a top priority and his whitepaper [PDF] lists cybersecurity eighth in a plan of action for the first 100 days. He's talked about updating "Bush-era national cybersecurity strategy that was first drafted in 2003." What exactly that means is unknown, but Bush gave the NSA the thumbs up to start warrantless wiretapping as if Americans are the threat to our own nation. Romney was a big-time supporter and advocate for fusion centers...those places that a Senate report found to be "useless" and no help at all in finding terrorists. Whatever Romney's cybersecurity plan is, it doubtfully will be privacy-friendly and will likely continue to erode our civil liberty rights.
A Romney spokesperson told Killer Apps that Romney "will order the formulation of a national cybersecurity strategy, to deter and defend against the growing threats of militarized cyber-attacks, cyber-terrorism, and cyber-espionage. Once the strategy is formulated he will determine how best it can be implemented." Funny how that little quote has no less than four mentions of cyber-something, but it was not important enough to bring up during the debate.
Lastly, Schieffer said we know Obama's stance on drones and asked Romney, "What is your position on the use of drones?"
Romney replied, "Well I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. And it's widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes, and I support that and entirely, and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology, and believe that we should continue to use it, to continue to go after the people that represent a threat to this nation and to our friends."
Probably because this was focusing on foreign policy, there was no mention of domestic drones. Yet no matter who wins, it seems those flying spies will fill up the skies overhead here at home.
We frequently hear about cyber-terrorism, cyber-warfare and the rise in cybercrime; as Bruce Schneier said in the New York Times said, "Fear pays the bills." I agree that "the government is continually poked and probed in cyberspace," and that "industry has definitely not done enough to protect our nation's critical infrastructure," but if some type of cyber Pearl-Harbor were looming for real, then someone should have touched on it during the debate.
Were any other security freaks disappointed in the debate from a cybersecurity perspective?
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Niklas, I am confused. Why you want to Cisco and m0n0 together. Use one or
another. M0n0 has all functions as Cisco has + network shaping which you
want extra. So hang out with m0n0 only !!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Niklas Petersen [mailto:niklas at vestermarken dot net]
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:57 AM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: [m0n0wall] Running m0n0wall behind existing router
Hi everyone
I have tried looking through the archives, but couldn´t find an answer to my
I want to use m0n0wall as traffic shaper for the network in my appartment
building. We are currently using a Cisco router, and for the time being I
would like to keep this router running NAT and taking care of DHCP. The
Cisco has the WAN IP from our ISP. The LAN currently uses 10.1.0.0
I would like to set it up as follows:
Cisco Ethernet1/1 WAN 80.x.x.x
Cisco FastEthernet0/0 LAN 10.1.0.1
m0n0wall WAN ?.?.?.?
m0n0wall LAN ?.?.?.?
PC clients ?.?.?.?
Sofar I have been semi-succesful getting this to work. I used 10.1.0.7 as
WAN and 10.1.0.6 as LAN on m0n0wall. Turned off NAT and disabled DHCP in
m0n0. I set up a client machine with IP 10.1.0.9 and 10.1.0.6 as gateway
This way I was able to get an ICMP packet through to the internet. I was
however not able to browse any webpages. I took a look at the routing on the
Cisco. It currently has one route:
ip route 10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 FastEthernet0/0
I am not too much of a network wiz, but I´m guessing the packet with the
actual webpage data, is being sent back to the wrong place instead of
m0n0wall where it was supposed to? That was my idea anyway, so I added:
ip route 10.1.0.9 255.255.255.255 10.1.0.7
which made me able to browse webpages on the client PC.
This leads me to believe that this setup *could* actually work - but I
simply don't know how to make a similiar routing for all the client machines
on the LAN (10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0).
I tried adding these two routes instead of the existing:
ip route 10.1.0.7 255.255.255.255 FastEthernet0/0 ip route 10.1.0.0
255.255.0.0 10.1.0.7
No luck.
Now my question is: Would this IP setup work at all, and if so can anyone
tell me what kind of routes I need to add, or anything else I need to do, in
order to make it work?
If this is not the way of doing it, could someone tell me how I can set this
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Niklas Petersen
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Samuel Mullet, the leader of an offshoot group who reportedly ordered the bizarre attacks on other Amish men, was taken into custody along with his sons Johnny Mullet, Lester Mullet, and Daniel Mullet. Also arrested were Levi Miller, Eli Miller and Emanuel Schrock.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has more:
PHOTO, Post-Gazette: "Johnny Mullet signs documents during a preliminary hearing in October in the Holmes County Courthouse in Millersburg, Ohio. In the foreground is his attorney, Andy Hyde, and behind him, from left to right, are Lester Mullet, Daniel Mullet, Levi Miller and Eli Miller."
Armed with 8-inch scissors, the group would arrive at the homes of Amish families in rural Ohio after dark and attack the men inside, holding them down as they sheared their beards and left them emasculated and humiliated.
The Amish, whose beards carry religious significance, told federal authorities it was an assault worse than being beaten. The attackers told their victims it was religious punishment.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's office labeled the attacks hate crimes and announced it would federally prosecute Sam Mullet, a former member of the mainstream Amish who formed a breakaway sect, and six others from his group.
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Context predicts rosy 1998 for European PC sales
And 1999 could be even better
Market research company Context has predicted continued strong growth for PC sales in Western Europe following the release of its Q3 sales figures. Throughout the quarter, sales rose 22.4 per cent year-on-year to 5.25 million machines. The growth was fuelled by increased corporate expenditure on IT as part of Euro and Y2K roll-outs, said Context. Equally, the much-predicted economic slowdown hasn't happened, persuading many businesses that now might by a good time to upgrade their computer equipment. Continued growth will be driven by consumer demand in the run-up to Christmas, said senior analyst Jeremy Davies, quoted by Reuters. Compaq strengthened its leadership of the market, unlike its experience in the US, where its lead was reduced, according to figures released separately by IDC (see Compaq under increased threat from direct vendors -- now official). In both markets, the company's chief challenger was Dell -- in Europe, the direct vendor almost doubled its sales. Looking ahead, Context said the Q3 figures were in line with its earlier predictions for a rosy picture for 1999. The company reckons this year will see the Western European PC market grow by 18-20 per cent -- next year, the market will expand by between 20 and 22 per cent. "I'm happy to stick with our estimates," said Davies, though he accepted there was a possibility that in the final 12 months before the new millennium, many buyers may decided to delay purchases until after the Y2K bug is fixed. "It could go either way," he said. "We'll probably know before the end of the second half of next year." ® Click for more stories


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Our vision of meet management has always meant FAR more than simply running your swim meet on race day. There are many complexities that go into a swim meet to ensure your races go smoothly on the meet day; most happening days or weeks before the first race.
Entry Manager Makes Seeing the Future Possible
What if you knew exactly what would happen before it happened? Entry Manager helps by making entry imports significantly more insightful. View details about your meet entries in advance of actually importing them. View exceptions, review changes to seed times, preview your timeline before you commit a new or updated entry to your meet. Entry Manager gives you full control with the ability to enforce qualifying times, overwrite existing entries for a team, and even restrict imports of NT entries.
Preparing for a successful swim meet has never been easier!
Heat Sheets and a Lot More
Every swim meet management software application should be complete with a nearly endless list of on-screen and printable reports. So it won't surprise you to find such a list inside of TouchPad.
Here's a short list of features:
- Single Team Heat Sheets
- Psych Sheets and Scoreboard Files
- Lane Cards and Relay Name Sheets
- Labels for Cards and Lane Sheets
- Entries Per Team
- Meet Timelines and Finish Judges Sheets
- Warmup Totals
- Live Meet Results with TouchPad Live
- and More!
Optionally Include:
- Seed Times
- Individual Relay Names
- Capitalize Athletes Names
- Records, Cut Times, and Messages
- Empty Lanes
- Grade and/or Gender
- New Pages for Each Event
- PSYCH Sheets Slow-to-Fast
- Results of Earlier Heats
- Mark OVCs, Exhibitions, and Bonuses
- Last Name First
- Team Initials or Name
- Order of Events: Even and Odd, Even Only, Odd Only, and/or Defined Sequence
- Selectable Heat Start Numbers
- Sort Lane/Heat/Event
- Select All Teams or Individual Teams
- Number of Blanks
- Sheet Card Support: 2"x4", 2"x2", 1"x3", 3"x5" or 3"x5" Continuous
- and More!
Amazed at How Many Ways There are to Score a Swim Meet?
We are Too! TouchPad's astonishing array of scoring options will blow you away. We promise!
Here's the short list:
- Score Male/Female
- Just Male
- Just Female
- Pentathlon
- Teams/Individuals or Teams and Individuals
- Scoring by Age Group
- No Age Groups
- Use Event Ages
- Use Defined Ages
- Flexible Multiple Division Scoring
- Score ONLY EVEN or ODD Events
- Score Based on Seeding
- Prelims/Timed Finals
- Based on Finals
- "Quality" Scoring Model to Compensate for Differences between Larger and Smaller Teams
- Improvement Team Scores
- High Point Labels
- Restrict Scoring On or Off
- and More!
Live Meet Results have been Reinvented | TouchPad Live 2.0
TeamUnify's TouchPad meet management software and TouchPad Live meet results platform are dramatically improving how swim meets are created, promoted and experienced. TouchPad and TouchPad Live are FREE for all TeamUnify teams!
Free | Seamlessly Integrated | Simple-to-Use
One of the cornerstones of running a great swim meet is delivering "live results." The TouchPad Live meet results platform has been successfully delivering an immersive and interactive meet experience, for thousands of swim meets, like none other. Our seamlessly integrated meet management software is helping hundreds of swim teams host FAR more efficient swim meets. This suite of tightly integrated swim meet software produces a significantly better day-of-meet experience for hosts and spectators alike.
We've dramatically broadened and tuned device compatibility to help connect more participants and spectators to swim meet results. Users will experience a dramatically more visual and interactive meet experience, across more devices, with less effort, and always for FREE!
Simply turn on your desktop computer, Google Android™, Apple iOS™, Microsoft Windows™, or Blackberry™ device, point the browser to www.touchpadlive.com, search for a meet, then view & follow the most visually immersive live results platform ever. With device compatibility this extensive, meet hosts are now able to engage with a much larger viewing audience to watch and interact with their swim meets. All without cost to the host or participants.
Publish Meet Results with One Click
As results come into TouchPad from your timing system, you have the ability to publish results to TouchPadLive.com and OnDeck at the same time with one click of a button. Families with OnDeck will be notified immediately of meet results by a Push Notification, and results will immediately be published to your TouchPadLive.com meet page. No more FTP uploads!
Watch the Swimmers and Teams You Want to Watch
With TouchPad Live's groundbreaking Watch List and OnDeck Push Notifications, you will never miss a swim again. Families, and fans, can easily choose which teams or swimmers to be notified about when new results are published.
Publish Meet Results on Your Schedule
With TouchPad, you can sync on your schedule, so results are available to the swimmers, families, and fans who want them, as quickly and accurately as possible.
Ahh Yes. TouchPad Support. We Didn't Call It TouchPad for Nothing.
It would have been irresponsible for us not to have integrated support for the leading timing system manufacturers. So we have. Below are the currently supported manufacturers. The specific list of supported models is available by requesting a brochure.


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Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, two hundred marvelous tales bring the richness, wisdom, and humor of Yiddish folklore to life.
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library, Yiddish Folktales is a delightful compendium gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them has disappeared, these enchanting folktales continue to work their magic today.
About the Author
BEATRICE SILVERMAN WEINREICH is a research associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York and co-editor of the journal Yiddish Folklore.
Praise For…
"As host of the National Public Radio series Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, I had the opportunity to rediscover the joys of Yiddish literature. Many of the translations that we used were taken from Schocken's excellent Library of Yiddish Classics--a series that brings together a body of work that is very much alive and continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit, and humanity."
--Leonard Nimoy
"Filled with homey Eastern European Yiddish truths refracted through the colorful prism of fantasy and fancy, Yiddish Folktales evokes the vitality of a distant yet immediate realm, and thus re-creates it."
--The New York Times Book Review
"This gem of a collections open a breathtaking vista upon a vibrant world now lost to us."
--Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University


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PACIFIC PALISADES - Gloves, shivering and darkness were all the rage when golfers teed off Thursday morning for the first round of the Northern Trust Open.
Brandt Jobe, the former UCLA star who at one point was leading the tournament, teed off at 6:40 a.m., when it was 44 degrees. Not only was it cold, Jobe said another difficulty was darkness.
"You couldn't see a shot on the range, and I don't know that I saw a putt from 15 feet," Jobe said. "The putting green was dark. When we hit our first tee shots, I didn't know if it went on the fairway or where to go. The sun wasn't up yet when we teed off.
"So it was almost borderline. I think that's the earliest tee time I've ever had in my career out here. I think we've always had a little trouble getting a round in here, so maybe they moved us up 15, 20 minutes."
Phil Mickelson, an early riser having taken a jet from his home in Rancho Santa Fe for his 7:10 a.m. tee time, agreed on the weather, and he started 30 minutes after Jobe.
"It was freezing cold at 7 in the morning and the only way to play the (10 th) hole is to get it past pin-high, the green is so fast and has pitched so much and shrunk over the years that trying to hit a wedge there is very unrealistic," he said.
Usually, golfers who play Riviera are prepared for rain, but the forecast has called for sunny skies this week. Even so, there was a fog delay Tuesday for practice rounds, and then golfers likely will deal with similar cold and darkness today.
"It was cold," said Mike Bone, general manager of the Northern Trust Open. "We have cold pressure coming in and sitting in the bowl at Riviera. I was here at 6:40. I know it was cold. It's such a large field and there's such little daylight that we start as early as we can endure.
"Frankly, our larger concern is frost."
The tall and short of it
Paul Sturgess - better known as "Tiny," who at 7 feet 8 is the tallest Harlem Globetrotter - was hanging out with Jerry West, the Northern Trust Open's executive director, Thursday at the driving range. He met golfer Stuart Appleby as well and posed for numerous pictures.
Sturgess plays golf, and owns a 4-handicap he said. Obviously, he has custom-made clubs.
"My clubs are in England right now," Sturgess said. "And I have three sets. They're made by Piranha, an Australian company."
One PGA Tour player, one of the shortest ones on Tour, was asked by a PGA official to take a picture with Sturgess. He laughed and said "nice try." Appleby was a good sport about it and posed for pictures with a pair of Globetrotters and Jerry West. Instead of spinning a basketball like the Globetrotters do, he kicked the ball.
"That's how we do it in Australia," Appleby said.
In the gallery
Wayne Gretzky and daughter Paulina Gretzky were in Dustin Johnson's gallery on Thursday. Johnson is dating Paulina Gretzky. He played with Wayne Gretzky in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am last week.


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Daniel Day-Lewis says he's retiring from acting
Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he's retiring from acting.
Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he's retiring from acting.
The crash happened just before 7:00 a.m. at 21st and Adams.
Tracking periodic chances of showers and storms into the weekend.
"I don't want class size to increase and I want them to keep teachers that are very qualified," said Carrie Kaley, a Topeka mom and former m…
A donkey rescue mission is showing families how kind the animals can be.
Chris Sale shut down the Kansas City Royals while pitching into the ninth inning, and a rag-tag bunch of Boston Red Sox filling in for injur…
The Shawnee County Health Department is working to make sure your family is safe from Zika.
Rodney McGruder just finished up his rookie year playing for the Miami Heat, but his journey to getting there is unlike what other NBA playe…
A warehouse at the corner of 1st and NW Kansas Ave is getting a facelift.
The former football star has a July 20 parole hearing that could have him released from a Nevada prison on Oct. 1.
Financial terms of the settlement approved by U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber were not disclosed.
The foundation matches every dollar donated for organization's to give back.
"My child's safety is one of the very most things that's important to me especially in choosing a childcare facility,"
The Y.W.C.A. honored 25 women and three Washburn University interns for their excellence and leadership in the community.
The city plans to interview the remaining candidates in mid-July.
Mattel is introducing 15 new looks for the male doll, including different skin tones, body shapes and hair styles.
The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says no major injuries reported.
Two colleges are planning to launch new programs
Potentially bringing to an end one of the central mysteries of the ongoing probe that has consumed his White House.
The cars still zip over London Bridge at their typical fast clip, drawing little obvious attention.
The Shawnee County commission chairman is pushing for an increase in the minimum age at which people can legally buy cigarettes from 18 to 2…
A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison in connection with a 2016 head-on collision that killed a central Kansas woman.
Police say a West Virginia man found asleep in a stranger's home has been charged with burglary.


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Location: Greater London
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YearRole / TypeCompany
2000 - 2010telephone interviewer/ interviewee
Market SurveyResearch international/market probe
2010B.A. Film and Media
Additional SkillsExcellent customer and interpersonal skills. I worked in Marmaris, Turkey for a summer season which required me to look after holidaymakers in their hotels. I had to present welcome meetings and sell excursions. I also had to deal with complaints very quickly. I also conducted transfers between hotels and the airport.
Any other informationI was an account manager for an advertising/media company which involved a lot of interaction with clients. I had to place their adverts in The Yellow Pages and Yell.com as well as other publications. I am also very good over the phone conducting market research interviews and as an inbound call agent.
RefereesCarlo Maurer - Tour manager First Choice
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- Conferences, Costumed Characters, Exhibitions, Flyering, Hospitality, Hosting, Market Survey Participant, Modelling, Mystery Shopping, Presenting, Product Demonstrations, Public Relations, Reception, Roadshows, Sampling, Secretarial, Security
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- Conferences, Costumed Characters, Event Management, Exhibitions, Field Marketing Management, Hosting, Market Survey Participant, Modelling, Mystery Shopping, Presenting, Product Demonstrations, Public Relations, Roadshows, Sampling
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It looks like the 49ers will be without Bruce Miller for the rest of the season. Coach Harbaugh spoke today about the injury Miller sustained during the 33-14 win over the Buccaneers, but he didn't want to make it official at this time.[quote]"We have a pretty good idea," Harbaugh said. "We won't say anything officially, but it doesn't look good for now.[/quote]
The 49ers are bringing in former Harbaugh favorite Owen Marecic for a workout. Also look for Anthony Dixon to step up as well and get work at the fullback position.
Source confirms it's a fracture to Bruce Miller's scapula. #49ers
— Chris Biderman (@ChrisBiderman) December 16, 2013
Time is running out to see the 49ers live at the Stick. Get your 49ers tickets to the last game before they are gone.


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
Best Western Plus Pembina Inn & Suites
Top Family Hotel
Airport shuttle
Very cheap. The ratings had three stars so I fell for it. Pretty much everything. Lowest price on the list I generated, but It is really a terrible place and I'm not high maintenance.. The room smelled of years of cigarette smoke, the internet and tv didnt work, the cold water tap in the bathroom sink didn't work. Cigarette burns all over the carpet. If my wife or kids had been with me, we would have been out of there the second after we checked in.
Nothing to really like. Extreme bad smell. I hope I did not carry bed bugs. Room was cold and not comfortable. I had to cut my stay short. Bad experience, you've lost one customer!
The staff is always friendly, rooms are clean and the location is great! I didn't like that even though they changed to a nonsmoking hotel, people were smoking in their rooms and the smell was in the hallway.


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I take it that the door was frozen to the seal. In that case -> clean the seal and apply "gummi-pflege". That stuff repels water. No water - no frozen door.
Frozen windows (somebody mentioned that too):
When the windows wont go down (on coupes and convertibles) they are usually frozen to the window seal right behind the trim. What I usally do is spray WINTER-windshield-washer-fluid on the seal (cheap -> 5 Liter = 3 Euros). I always keep a spray bottle filled with that stuff in the trunk because I also use that stuff to de-ice the windshield and the windows. I hate to scratch the ice off because it can leave scratch marks on the glass (you wont see scratches during wintertime cause its dark but you will notice the scratches in the summer). In case of emergency (like when you dont have washer fluid handy) you can also use a credit card to sperate the seal from the window - you can imagine how. Ive done that a couple of times, too.
Last year I "treated" the windows (around the area that touches the seal) with the same stuff I put on my windshield (to repell water). It helped quite a bit.
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Here's the plot of my new favorite blog, 50 JDates: A 26-year old Jewish girl is in love with her boyfriend, who's a goy (aka, not a Jew). The two lovebirds are considering marriage, but because her family is super religious and it's important to them that she marries a Jewish man, she asks her boyfriend to convert. He says, "No." Now she is torn—her mother doesn't want the marriage to happen, and she's not sure what to think. So how does she deal? She does something that I can only describe as my worst nightmare—she joins JDate, a Jews-only online dating site and pledges to go on 50 dates, writing about each and every one. At the end of the 50 dates, she'll decide if she can accept her non-Jewish man, refuse her family's wishes, and get engaged. Or who knows, maybe her beshert will come along. I can't say I'd have the chutzpah to take on such a daunting task—but this girl is doing it with an open heart and an open mind. L'chaim, lady!
P.S. Don't tell my mother about this social experiment. I don't want her to get any crazy ideas.


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Strike In Turkey As Workers Extend Support To Occupy Taksim, 2 Dead
By Countercurrents.org
04 June, 2013
As protests and clashes with police continued into the night on Monday and riot police fired more tear gas at protesters on a night of violent clashes in Ankara and Istanbul , public sector workers in Turkey start a two-day strike to support the continuing anti-government protests.
A left-wing union confederation today begins the strike to protest against what they have condemned as "state terror" against the demonstrations.
The strike by the 240,000-member Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) is likely to affect schools, universities and public offices throughout the country.
In a statement on its website KESK said: "The state terror implemented against entirely peaceful protests is continuing in a way that threatens civilians' life safety."
The union confederation representing 11 unions accused the government of undermining democracy.
A second death in the protests has been confirmed by the governor's office in the southern city of Antakya .
Abdullah Comert, 22, a member of the youth wing of the opposition Republican People's Party, was "seriously wounded... after gunfire from an unidentified person," the governor's office said, adding that he died later in hospital.
Earlier, A Socialist Solidarity Platform (SODAP) member has been hit and killed after a car driver ignored warnings to stop for protesters organizing a Gezi Park solidarity demonstration,
The Turkish Doctors' Union (TTB) said: The victim, 20-year-old Mehmet Ayvalitas, is the first confirmed death in protests that have engulfed the entire country.
The hacker group RedHack also released a statement, saying Ayvalitas was a member, while implying that the killing was the intentional work of a fascist.
Republican People's Party (CHP) Sabahat Akkiraz extended her condolences on the Ayvalitas while describing him as a martyr.
A TTB statement accused the government of conducting a provocative agenda, citing several remarks of Erdogan which claimed he was barely holding back the 50 percent of the country that voted for him from coming onto the street.
The TTB called on government to pull back all police forces, and release all those detained throughout the protests.
More clashes
There were further clashes on Monday between police and protesters which continued in Istanbul and the capital, Ankara .
Protesters use clingfilm to guard against teargas
Thousands of demonstrators again gathered in Istanbul 's Taksim Square , the focus of the protests.
Many protesters shouted "Tayyip, resign!" while waving red flags and banners and blowing whistles, and tear gas could be seen wafting over the square.
Police also used tear gas again to disperse protesters near Erdogan's office in the Besiktas district of the city.
Hundreds of protesters were reported to have gathered in the early hours of Tuesday in Ankara where they were met by more tear gas and water cannon.
Unrest was also reported in the city of Izmir , Adana and Gaziantep .
Erdogan's Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) is trying to impose conservative Islamic values on the officially secular country and infringe on their personal freedoms, correspondents say.
The protests began on May 28.
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kiliçdaroglu met with president Abdullah Gül to share his worries over the week-long protests across the country, criticizing prime minister Erdogan's attitude on the issue.
After the meeting, Kiliçdaroglu answered questions from reporters.
I said the language of the prime minister tended to escalate incidents, rather than calm them. I said a president had important tasks to do, he said.
Commenting on Erdogan's recent words that he would struggle to stop 50 percent of society keeping out of the tension, Kiliçdaroglu said that only a prime minister without a sense of responsibility would make such a statement.
It is not democracy when you say I hold control of 50 percent of the society and I can put them on the field with sticks in their hands whenever I want to, and then a battle will come out,' this is the discourse of dictators, Kiliçdaroglu said.
Over 1,480 people have so far been wounded in Istanbul , with five people in intensive care and two more in critical condition, the TTB said, adding that around 414 injuries have so far been recorded by Ankara 's Doctors' Union , with 420 more in Izmir.
Erdogan has rejected protesters' demands that he resign.
In Ankara , demonstrators chanted for Erdogan to resign.
The protests are seen as a display of frustration with Erdogan, whom critics say has become increasingly authoritarian.
Groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have denounced the police reaction as excessive.
Bullet in eye
Prominent Turkish academic Ahmet Insel said on the night of June 3 a young boy had lost his eye after being shot with a plastic bullet during the Gezi Park protests.
In an interview with CNN Türk, Insel said the young boy had undergone an operation to remove the bullet in his eye.
He said the boy preferred to remain anonymous, and was injured on the Talimhane side of Taksim Square .
Turkish stock market falls 10.5%
Turkey 's main share index closed 10.47% down following investor concerns over the escalation of anti-government protests.
The Borsa Istanbul 100 index tumbled as investors feared the demonstrations could hit the economy, and the Turkish lira fell to 16-month lows.
There was also a big rise in the cost of insuring Turkey 's debt against default. It has risen to a two-month high.
Turkey 's central bank cut its main interest rates by 50 basis points last month in a bid to stimulate the faltering economy. The central bank has been trying to boost its economy with rate cuts since the middle of last year when economic growth slowed sharply.
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FOUR children in Tidworth were so disgusted with the state of a new play and recreation area in the middle of the town that they decided to clear it up.
Now their public-spirited enterprise has been recognised and rewarded by Tidworth Town Council, which has presented each of them with certificates and a £10 voucher.
Anthony Rigby, 13, said: "We decided to collect the rubbish and went to the shop to buy the bags and at the garage they gave us the gloves.
"The area was a tip – it was filled up with rubbish, empty drinks containers, bottles and fish and chip wrappers."
The play area – known as the new play area in Pennings Road – was opened last year to much fanfare and is the responsibility of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) – an arm of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Tidworth's mayor Councillor Chris Franklin, who presented the awards at the beginning of the monthly full council meeting, hopes news of the children's actions will get the DIO to redouble its efforts to keep the area clean.
He said: "We have asked the DIO to increase its litter picking during school holidays. People shouldn't throw litter but they should all be shamed by the fact that children have had to go to this trouble and have picked it up for themselves. But I'm proud that these children have shown initiative, and they are a credit to their families.
"The certificate is for being outstanding members of the community."
Garrison commander Col James Denny was in the pubic seat at the meeting and heard the concerns.
A MoD spokesman said: "The community play area is used by both military and civilian families. The play area is regularly checked for maintenance and bins are emptied weekly.
"However, some users are not using the bins provided and therefore spoiling the facility for others. We would like to appeal to those who use the play area to dispose of their rubbish properly so everyone can enjoy this wonderful amenity."


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The Governor and I attended the Tri-County Scholarship Fundraiser tonight in Parsippany. The Tri-County Scholarship Fund provides scholarship assistance, based solely on financial need, for children to attend private and parochial schools in New Jersey. Here's a great fact – in the past 2 years, Tri-County has awarded over $1.8 billion to 1,100 students. The Governor and I wanted to be at the fundraiser tonight in support of not only Tri-County, but also our friend who was receiving the "Making a Difference" Award, Reade Seligmann. Reade is very near and dear to our hearts… having faced enormous trials and turmoil in his life as a young man, he never lost sight of who he was and stayed true in his search for justice. He is now working with The Innocence Project, to make sure that what happened to him won't happen to others. Reade took the hand he was dealt, grew from it, and is now in turn helping others. He is a wonderful example for young people everywhere and a fine New Jerseyan. Congratulations Reade!
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