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I use to be perplexed as to how America elected President a man, who on his Father(s) side, lacks the generations of roots in America, a mysterious past, and what we know about his past (from his own words) an affiliation and leaning towards a government system unlike our own (Marxism). Somebody who's greatest mentor during childhood was not his Father or one of our great American heroes - but rather a self acclaimed communist who supported and believed in the ways of our greatest enemy Russia. Frank Marshal Davis. I use to question how did America, with all the great men and women leaders in her country, allow someone without demonstrated loyalty and ancestral history to become her leader.
I am no longer perplexed and as unfortunate as it is I think I now understand how this happened. It is now evident to me, there exists a large faction of Americans (probably 30% or greater) who believe that our America is the cause of poverty, oppression, and pain in the world. That by diminishing the influence of America in the world will assist in lifting up others in the world and create a more equal quality of life for all. Prior to the Great War and World War II - they were called isolationist, post the Wars they were called Communist and during the Civil Rights Era they were conglomerated into what is now called Progressives.
It was this faction that brought Barrack Obama into the public spot light in 2004 at the Democratic Convention and then with the help of his significant oratory ability, handsome appearance, likability, and timing was able to convince the politically and historically uninformed (those who vote on sound bites and emotions) to vote for him in 2008 based on a moderate agenda of uniting the parties, improving America's global reputation, and cleaning up the politics here at home.
In the coming 2012 election, many who voted (including African Americans, Jewish, and Union Members) for Barrack Obama have seen that President Obama's agenda was not what he communicated, but rather something larger that is difficult to understand on the surface of politics. His decisions are influenced by a World perspective rather than an American one. A perspective that comes from his roots, the roots of his Fathers and their generations.
The decision in 2012 comes down to whether we regain our footing and continue down the path of believing we should make America great so she can use her wealth for good in the world ( e.g. Aids Relief in Africa, Disaster Relief, supporting human rights, etc.). The alternative decision is to lesson her influence and create a vacuum for a new world power to rise - the options of who will fill that vacuum are ominous and do not need mentioned here. This path minimizes the importance of American individual wealth and the short lived illusion of transferring this wealth evenly here in America is just tactic which results in the ultimate goal. You see, if you remove the wealth from the people - then the wealthy people take their wealth elsewhere. Without the wealthy we lose tax revenue and private sector jobs. We begin to look a lot more like many other countries in the world and the vacuum of a world power for good disappears for good.
So, in summary, based on my calculations we have about half the country who believes we should continue to support our traditional country's ideology which is American Exceptionalism. We should correct problems as they arise and utilize the power of government to do so (regulation and social safety nets), we should keep a strong defense with the goal of peace while eliminating the corruption and spending issues in all government programs (including defense spending). We should continue to adjust, modify, tweak and do these things sparingly - we should not fundamentally change what we are doing.
Author's Note:
America has made mistakes. It is lead by men and women who are easily corrupted and persuaded. There are many examples in America's history where she chose evil instead of good. It is important to understand that these are the exceptions and we as a Country have corrected and identified these exceptions. Our impact of good in the world overwhelmingly exceed these exceptions where we swayed from the path. I am a hobby historian and I believe we should educate our children of our past and what America has done for the world. In the same light, I also believe we should not forget those times we made the wrong decisions and not run from them - but rather educate our children of these events and how we corrected our path and made ourselves a better Country by doing so.


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Invader's Revenge - General FAQ
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | I N V A D E R ' S R E V E N G E | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ GAME: INVADER'S REVENGE PLATFORM: ARCADE GENRE: ARCADE SHOOTER CREATOR: ZENITONE MICROSEC Copyright 1979 AUTHOR OF THIS FAQ: Kevin Butler AKA War Doc E-MAIL: kevinb(at)technologist(dot)com FAQ VERSION: 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS UNIT I: INTRODUCTION 1. Legal Stuff 2. Version Information 3. Acknowledgements 4. Welcome 5. Overview UNIT II: GAME INFORMATION 6. The Game 6.1 The Controls 6.2 The Playing Field 6.3 Scoring UNIT III: STRATEGIES 7. Playing the Game UNIT IV: CONCLUSION 8. Conclusion _______________________________________________________________________________ To find a particular chapter or subchapter do the following: 1. Highlight the chapter or subchapter name you wish to find. 2. Press CTRL-C 3. Press CTRL-F 4. Press CTRL-V 5. Press CTRL-F 5. You will arrive at the desired chapter or subchapter. _______________________________________________________________________________ ************** ********************************* U N I T I ********************************** ************** +=================+ | 1. LEGAL STUFF |============================================================ +=================+ This guide may not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advanced permission from the author. Use of this guide on any other web site or as part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. All content in this guide is Copyright 2004 by Kevin Butler. Only the sites listed below have permission to publish this work or to display it: www.gamefaqs.com www.cheats.de faqs.ign.com If you wish to put this guide on your site, e-mail me and ask. Save yourself the headache of putting up with lawsuits and whatnot because you failed to ask a simple "Can I post your guide on <insert site>?". If you wish to use info in this guide, please acknowledge that you have done so. If I don't respond or I say no, accept it as fact. This especially goes out to Dave at www.cheatcc.com since he has a habit of taking guides without permission. In addition, do not modify this guide in any way whatsoever to suit your purposes. The latest version can always be found at www.gamefaqs.com. If you see this guide on any other site then the one listed above, please e-mail me. If you wish to ask questions or give input to this guide, please e-mail me. Just have Invader's Revenge as the subject so I know it isn't another kooky vendor trying to sell me hair gel or another XXX site telling me I have new friends. +=========================+ | 2. VERSION INFORMATION |==================================================== +=========================+ Version 1.0 2/16/04: A guide is born. +======================+ | 3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |======================================================= +======================+ The following are a list of people or organizations that have made this FAQ possible: My wonderful family (who has had to put up with the tapping on the keyboard) Zenitone Microsec for making a great arcade game GameFAQ's for putting up this FAQ +=============+ | 4. WELCOME |================================================================ +=============+ Welcome to my FAQ for Invader's Revenge. Since the game is just a shooter that goes until all your men are killed, there is no walkthrough per se. Instead it will be broken up into the game itself, strategies for survival, and some in- teresting quirks in the game. Input is appreciated along with constructive criticism. If you wish to e-mail me thoughts on this FAQ, better ways of doing things, other strategies, etc., feel free. Make sure you put Invader's Revenge as the subject. If you don't, I'm liable to discard the e-mail as spam. +==============+ | 5. OVERVIEW |=============================================================== +==============+ Invader's Revenge was one of a long string of Space Invaders clones to hit the market after the runaway success of Space Invaders in 1978. This game was developed by a company within the United Kingdom. Zenitone Microsec also went on to develop other Space Invader clones such as Super Invaders and Space Attack II. All these games were distributed in Europe and it is rumored that there is even a Dutch version of Invader's Revenge that was also released. The premise of Invader's Revenge is different from Space Invaders. Although it uses the same alien attackers (with the addition of another), your mission was different in this game. You had to protect your fuel supply from the invaders. If you lost your fuel supply, then your game was over. Good luck in defeating the invaders. *************** ******************************** U N I T II ********************************** *************** +==============+ | 6. THE GAME |=============================================================== +==============+ Invader's Revenge is a simple two-dimensional shooter. You control your fighter to defend your supply against an endless stream of alien invaders. Once you clear out one wave of six invaders, another wave comes in to take your fuel. After seven waves of alien invaders, you will then be given the chance to dock with your base to refuel. Of course, you have to navigate the hazards to get to your base. Your objective is simple, prevent the aliens from taking or destroying your fuel supply. ____________________ / 6.1 The Controls /__________________________________________________________ -------------------- In order to become a master of this game, you must be familiar with the controls. The controls are simple. They consist of: - Two buttons for left and right movement. - A fire button (thrust when you are landing at your base). _________________________ / 6.2 The Playing Field /_____________________________________________________ ------------------------- The playing field consists of a UFO at the top and six aliens who move closer to your fuel supply. I have included an example of what the playing field looks like: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | __ | | FIGHTERS LEFT _/ \_<-UFO | | ---- | | | | | | __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ | | ALIEN INVADERS->\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ | | / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ / | | | <-BOMB | | \_/ | | | | | | | | | | / \ | | | |<-FIGHTER | | ||/| |\|| | | | /| |\ | | | || | | || | | | | FUEL SUPPLY | |_____________________________________________________________________________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You control the fighter at the bottom of the screen. _______________ / 6.3 Scoring /_______________________________________________________________ --------------- Scoring in this game is pretty simple. Here are the enemies: Bombs : 50 points Successful Docking: 1,000 points / \ --- = 50 points (These aliens pulsate) // \\ _ / \ --- = 30 points // \\ __ / \ \__/ = 20 points / \ __ / \ ---- = 10 points / \ You start the game with three to six lives. **************** ******************************** U N I T III ********************************* **************** +======================+ | 7. PLAYING THE GAME |======================================================= +======================+ When you start the game, your fighter will be in the middle, at the bottom of the screen above the fuel storage area with 26 units of fuel. Your goal is to blast the invaders into dust. - Each wave of invaders consists of six alien ships. You will go through seven waves of invaders before you have a chance to dock. The order of the invaders is (by their point value): - 10, 20, 30, 50, 20, 30, and 50. - The alien invaders will attempt to make you lose your fuel one of two ways: - By getting to the bottom of the screen and actually picking up the fuel to bring back to the UFO. You can shoot these aliens down to recover a fuel unit. - The aliens will drop bombs upon your fuel supply to cause you to lose a unit. These bombs can be shot down. - Just like the original game, when the invaders get to the left or right side of the screen, they will drop down a level. In addition to dropping down, an invader may peel away from the formation and head down to attempt to take one of your fuel units. - Learn the different formations the invaders show. Some of the formations are: - In a straight line across. - In two straight lines across. - In a staggered formation that resembles a ">" or "<". - One invader on each row for six rows. - When shot, some invaders don't explode. Instead, you literally will shoot them down. After they are shot, the invader will head straight toward your fighter. Make sure you quickly move from under an invader after you have shot it to prevent this from happening. - As in Space Invaders, shoot the right or leftmost invader to prevent them from dropping another level down. In addition, the fewer invaders there are, the faster they travel across the screen. Make sure you adjust for this. - Your primary objective is to prevent the invaders from stealing or destroying your fuel supply. If you lose all of your fuel, your game will be over regardless of the number of fighters you have left. - Docking can be quite a chore. You must navigate around some space debris in order to get to your base to refuel. Watch your fuel supply because you can burn it up very quickly if you're not careful. - As the game progresses, the invaders get more aggressive and will send down two or even three of their numbers to attempt to steal your fuel. In addition, the UFO at the top of the screen moves back and forth to drop bombs on you. - Learn to conserve your firepower and only shoot at sure targets. The reason is the fact you can only have one shot on the screen at any time. - Since there is no cover, make sure you are moving around constantly. If you don't move your fighter around, you are just inviting trouble to happen. **************** ******************************** U N I T IV ********************************* **************** +================+ | 8. CONCLUSION |============================================================= +================+ Since this game never made it to the United States, I didn't get a chance to play it until the mid 80's where it was relegated to a corner at an overseas location. Although it did have the look and feel of the original Space Invaders game, it did play differently which seemed to be part of its attraction. Some strategies worked while others had to be learned in order to get past the various waves of alien invaders. It would have actually been a pretty good compliment to Space Invaders since most of the other games were just straight clones of that game. The game itself was simple in premise but could be quite hard in gameplay. Unfortunately, it is very rare to find this machine anywhere. However, through the miracle of emulation, a whole new generation is realizing what we "old" folks enjoyed those many years ago. I hope this guide helps you in being able to get the most amount of gameplay for this game. If you do have other ideas or thoughts, please e-mail me and share them. Who knows, maybe I'll start a Q&A Chapter in this guide if enough people ask the same questions. Anyway, thank you again for reading this guide. To see other FAQ's I have written please go to: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/32691.html ~~~ No trees were harmed in the making of this FAQ ~~~

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About the Course :
A project, under strict vigilance of testing, invariably fetches customer satisfaction (a key for business success).
While high level of testing calls for more investment, inadequate testing leads to enormous customer dissatisfaction. Hence there is a need for optimisation on test-investment (resource and infrastructure) in line with customer requirements.
This workshop provides an insight into the entire framework of testing which includes:
• Testing an integral part of "SDLC" and "Quality Models" (like ISO/CMMI)
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• Familiarity with levels of testing
• Exposure to testing-techniques
• Defect management (during testing)
• Measuring effectiveness (associated with testing and defect-handling)
• Industrial best practices
After attending this work shop, the participants (like business analysts, developers and testers) can comfortably adopt industrial best practices by
• Consolidating comprehensive test-requirements through timely involvement of stake holders (including customer)
• Developing appropriate test strategy, approach, plan and related assets
• Handling test-defects effectively and also building defect database (for future defect-prevention)
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With a view to closely synchronise the course-contents with real life scenarios, this faculty-led workshop will encourage active involvement of participants.
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When you opt out an expert, it isn't possible to ask them a follow-up question.
I am also having difficulty reading your question and trying to determine what you are asking, but let me try to see if I can help with some of the answers.
Propofol is usually competely out of the body within 24-48 hours, leaving no after-effects.
Narcotics can cause constipation, and both narcotics and propofol can cause restlessness, nausea, and fatigue. Neither causes pain.
Low sodium (hyponatremia) is not a consequence of using any of the drugs you mentioned. Its symptoms are primarily neurological, and may be responsible for some (or even all) of the restlessness. Sodium levels vary for a lot of different reasons. Among them are 1) reduced intake from food; 2) increased loss from urine, diarrhea, sweating; and 3) dilution due to chronic renal problems (renal insufficiency, nephrotic syndrome, or SIADH.
Another possible problem is pseudohyponatremia (it looks like hyponatremia but isn't). This is caused often by high triglycerides or less often by high levels of serum proteins.
No treatment is generally necessary for pseudohyponatremia. If aggressive treatment for hyponatremia is given, it often causes rebound hypernatremia (high sodium). Any additional sodium must be given very judiciously while the cause of the pseudohyponatremia is investigated.
Please let me know if you have other questions.
High liver enzymes can also raise restlessness and hepatic encephalopathy which can resemble psychosis, if they are high enough. Certainly both a hepatologist (liver specialist) and nephrologist (kidney specialist) can be consulted (if they haven't already been) by her admitting doctor(s). As for what can be done, that will depend on what is found. If the kidneys are not functioning, temporary dialysis can be considered. The hepatologist would need to look for the cause of the raised liver enzymes - medications, infection, blockage, and many other things. Treatment would depend on what was found.
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Social Inclusion, Security and e-Democracy Issues in e-Government: the Role of e-Learning PROCEEDINGS
Maggie McPherson, Amy Whiteside, Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Montreal, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-46-4 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
This paper focuses on aspects of e-government with emphasis on how local authorities are coping with the transition into the Information Society. E-government will be reviewed in the light of such topics as social inclusion, security and e-democracy. The challenge has been set in the UK, for local authorities to deliver 100% of services capable of electronic delivery by 2005, with 25% to be delivered by 2002. The research was carried out with the support of a local authority council in South Yorkshire. It included a survey of members of Northern Authorities Benchmarking IT (NABit) to ascertain views on various aspects of e-government. The results were analysed to provide a more valid representation of local authorities' attempts to reach the 2005 target. The findings challenge some of the views portrayed in the literature review and show low confidence in achieving government targets. eLearning emerged as a key factor to prevent social exclusion and guarantee e-democracy.
McPherson, M., Whiteside, A. & Nunes, M.B. (2002). Social Inclusion, Security and e-Democracy Issues in e-Government: the Role of e-Learning. In M. Driscoll & T. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2002--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 98-103). Montreal, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).


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The Toggle Styles tab in the theme settings has two sections, which are not consistent in UX:
1. "Enable optional stylesheets": you check the checkbox to turn the optional stylesheet ON.
2. "Disable module and theme stylesheets": you check the checkbox to turn the stylesheet OFF.
The basic idea of having checkboxes for stylesheets is great. But I did a double-take when I first saw this, and still find it somewhat confusing, since the checkboxes mean two opposite things on the same page. In general, in Drupal, my experience is that checking something means enabling it. So could section 2 be "Enable module and theme stylesheets", where you check to enable just like section 1?
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The reason these two are separated in two groups is to reflect the actual and logical changes that these options perform behind the scenes.
The first group (Enable optional stylesheets) does in reality *INCLUDE* CSS files that are not included by default when Drupal is processing your theme and spitting out the content, this option group is there to allow you to LOAD CSS files from the UI that you would otherwise have to do through the .info file.
The second group (Disable module and theme stylesheets) aims to "EXCLUDE" what is otherwise enabled by default by Drupal core unless you specify otherwise in your .info file.
So the ticking of the checkboxes in ALL cases in that UI page is the equivalent of saying *TAKE ACTION* and act on that CSS file without me having to go to my .info file and do it manually, the only difference is that the ACTION in these two groups is different, one is to INCLUDE some and the other is to EXCLUDE something that would otherwise be enabled by default if you don't do anything special about it.
As far as i am concerned i think it makes sense, my only observation is that i would like to see ALL core CSS Enabled by default unless otherwise is specified by the user, so my personal preference is having all the (Enable optional stylesheets) group TICKED ON by default and all the (Disable module and theme stylesheets) UNTICKED by default, the end result would be that ALL CSS base files whether provided by Drupal Core, Modules or the Alpha/Omega theme are loaded.
The theory behind that is that yes some of Core CSS files are good and useful while others are bad and will mess up your custom styles at such point the (Disable module and theme stylesheets) panel becomes so much useful and valuable to the themer where in case he is annoyed by a Core CSS or find it not useful they can go ahead and disable it with a click of a mouse (by TICKING the box) :)
Would like to hear other voices regarding this issue as well.


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ATLANTA - Bill Hall and Prince Fielder homered to back seven strong innings by injury-plagued Ben Sheets, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.
Kevin Barry (0-1) made his first major league start for Atlanta, which is struggling to get by with three members of its rotation on the disabled list. The rookie right-hander didn't last long, yanked with one out in the fourth after surrendering seven hits, five runs and three walks.
Sheets (3-4) has been slowed all season by injuries. He left his previous start in the first inning due to tightness in the right pectoral muscle, and the Brewers sent an extra pitcher to warm up before the game just in case their regular starter had more problems.
Not to worry. Sheets retired the first nine hitters before Pete Orr led off the fourth with a double. By then, the Brewers already had a 5-0 lead.
Sheets tired in the eighth, giving up three straight hits to start things off, and the Braves scored three times to close to 7-5. But Francisco Cordero struck out Jeff Francoeur with the bases loaded and Tony Graffanino provided insurance with an RBI double in the ninth.
Cordero finished for his sixth save with the Brewers and 12th overall.
The Brewers jumped ahead right away. Graffanino walked with one out in the first, Fielder singled to center and Kevin Mench brought them both home with a double down the left-field line.
Barry ran into more trouble in the second, but the defense bailed him out. Graffanino's drive into the gap was cut off Scott Thorman, and relay man Edgar Renteria threw out Damian Miller at the plate.
The Brewers didn't let up. Hall hit his 26th homer in the third, a two-run shot, to make it 4-0. Brady Clark finished off Barry the next inning with a run-scoring triple, and Fielder started the fifth with his 22nd homer off Oscar Villareal to make it 6-1.
Orr, filling in at third for Chipper Jones (who's on the disabled list) and Willy Aybar (who's headed there), had three hits - a homer short of the cycle - and was in the middle of things every time the Braves scored.
After getting the first hit off Sheets, Orr scored on Renteria's groundout. In the sixth, the leadoff hitter tripled into the right-field corner to drive home another run. And his infield hit in the eighth - he beat out a slow roller with a headfirst slide - helped the Braves push across three runs.
The Braves continued to struggle at Turner Field, dropping to 24-31 in a stadium where they've played so well throughout the years.
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The players might as well be on holiday. You can't shut Ricky Stuart up. It can only be grand-final week, Jacquelin Magnay reports.
If the insouciance was meant to send a message of relaxed insignificance, the Roosters pulled it off yesterday. For before the steps of the North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club, slopping around in thongs, board shorts and T-shirts as the heat of the midday sun belted down on the whitish bodies of the school holiday crowd, the Roosters started day one of their grand-final week in carefree mood.
Coach Ricky Stuart was talking, not just in staccato phrases, but real sentences that made paragraphs and pages of notes. Traditional no-go areas were elaborated on. He put refereeing standards firmly on the agenda, demanding the consistency that had been in force all year. He emphasised: "It is very important for the quality of the game that we have a real good 10."
Stuart refused to back away from the Luke Ricketson stiff arm that walloped North Queensland's Nathan Fien last weekend, saying of Ricketson: "He is a guy who sticks up for his mates. There has been a bit of a dispute, but that is football."
Unusually he also touched on the emotions of the opposition, empathising with Steve Price, whom he thinks won't play because of his medial ligament tear. "I feel for him," said Stuart.
The Roosters taskmaster, Ron Palmer, let the players escape the recovery session without raising a sweat. Their most demanding instruction was to walk through the soft sand to get to the cool water - at which point a couple of visiting 16-year-old country girls were agog that the players could ride a couple of waves anywhere but between the flags.
Sam, the six-year-old nephew of Michael Crocker, was thrilled to secure autographs on his football before heading back to Queensland, and many teenage girls (and a few of their mothers) recognised Anthony Minichiello behind the dark glasses and happily posed for pictures with him.
Clearly the pressure has, for the moment, dissipated among the Roosters' cool heads. The comforting conclusion that they emerged relatively unscathed from a tough grind against the Cowboys seemed a major reason.
"This is our time," said Ryan Cross. "The feeling this year is that it is meant to happen, it is the game we have been training for ... I feel the team is ready and I am personally ready."
Adrian Morley was chuffed because his brother Christopher, a second-rower with Halifax, will arrive in Sydney on Thursday. "He kept telling me there was no pressure to get there [to the grand final], because after all he had only booked tickets for his entire family," Morley said.
And Brad Fittler wasn't shy about the intensity of feeling between the Roosters and Bulldogs, predicting an "explosion" on Sunday. "The grudge has built up over the years, both sides are stronger and stronger and it points to a pretty big contest on Sunday," he said.


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Anyone who has heard me speak publicly lately will know that I'm currently very focused on the "Social Object" idea, which I was turned onto by Jaiku's Jyri Engestrom. Here's some more thoughts on the subject, in no particular order.
1. The term, "Social Object" can be a bit heady for some people. So often I'll use the term, "Sharing Device" instead.
2. Social Networks are built around Social Objects, not vice versa. The latter act as "nodes". The nodes appear before the network does.
3. Granted, the network is more powerful than the node. But the network needs the node, like flowers need sunlight.
4. My overall marketing thesis invariably asks the question, "If your product is not a Social Object, why are you in business?"
5. Yesterday at the Darden talk I explained why geeks have become so important to marketing. My definition of a geek is, "Somebody who socializes via objects." When you think about it, we're all geeks. Because we're all enthusiastic about something outside ourselves. For me, it's marketing and cartooning. for others, it could be cellphones or Scotch Whisky or Apple computers or NASCAR or the Boston Red Sox or Bhuddism. All these act as Social Objects within a social network of people who care passionately about the stuff. Whatever industry you are in, there's somebody who is geeked out about your product category. They are using your product [or a competitor's product] as a Social Object. If you don't understand how the geeks are socializing- connecting to other people- via your product, then you don't actually have a marketing plan. Heck, you probably don't have a viable business plan.
6. The Apple iPhone is the best example of Social Object I can think of. At least, it is when I'm trying to explain it to somebody unfamiliar with the concept.
7. The Social Object idea is not rocket science.
8. How do you turn a product into a Social Object? Answer: Social Gestures. And lots of them.
9. Products, and the ideas that spawn them, go viral when people can share them like gifts. Example: gmail invites in the early days.
10. Social Object can be abstract, digital, molecular etc.
11. The interesting thing about the Social Object is the not the object itself, but the conversations that happen around them. The Blue Monster is a good example of this. It's not the cartoon that's interesting, it's the conversatuons that happen around it that's interesting.
12. Ditto with a bottle of wine.
13. Once I get talking about marketing, it's hard for me to go more than 3 minutes without saying the words, "Social Object".
14. The most important word on the internet is not "Search". The most important word on the internet is "Share". Sharing is the driver. Sharing is the DNA. We use Social Objects to share ourselves with other people. We're primates. we like to groom each other. It's in our nature.
15. I believe Social Objects are the future of marketing.
[Written in the departure lounge of Dulles International Airport]
you are a social object 🙂
Yet another Masterpiece, Hugh. I recently watched the video of your speech in London re: "Social Objects" that Steve posted on his blog a few weeks back. Very inspirational. Thank you!
Jason DiMambro
"The most important word on the internet is "Share". Sharing is the driver. Sharing is the DNA."
There may be reason to hope you will yet understand Open Source Software. 🙂
Fun Geek History Fact:
The very first real operating system–for an IBM mainframe, as it turned out– was not written by IBM.
It was first developed by in 1956 by Bob Patrick of General Motors and Owen Mock of North American Aviation to imrove the usability of the IBM 704s their respective companies owned.
As IBM sold more computers, and more users became interested in extending and improving the programs, they formed The Society to Help Avoid Redundant Effort, who eventually released their work as the SHARE Operating System in 1959.
An acronym, you see…
Fantastic Blog . love your cartoons.
Hey Maggie, thanks for dropping by again 🙂
Fear not, I get the Open Source idea… And I'm sympathetic to a lot of it. After all, >50% of the work I do is done for "free". Makes it a lot easier to leverage the remaining https://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000889.html
Great explanation of a solid concept, I'm sold!
As usual Hugh, some critical ideas succinctly expressed. I'm not adding much to the conversation, other than to note a similarity in your concept of the geek and Seth Godin's sneezer concept. They both seem to share a lot of the vitaal signs of the social object/shared object
Well said, and here is the greatest social object of all: http://tinyurl.com/2zxqo3
very nice!
Used one of yr cartoons in this post FYI. Thanks for the laughs.
I love the social object concept. I'm not sure yet how to apply it to what we do, but I do want to share this:
One of the most enduring and powerful social objects is sports fan apparel. I saw this in high gear at the bar with my buddy wearing a Sox baseball cap. At least half a dozen people came out of nowhere to share a live sports moment. Powerful stuff.
So true about the movement from search to share.
Consumers (myself included) are pretty darn lazy.
Why should we search, evaluate and choose when someone can do it for us?
Hi Hugh, I've been enjoying your cartoons for some time now. This idea of the Social Object is intriguing to me because I'm interested in how people interact, but even more so because I'm a painter. It gives me food for thought regarding art as a Social Object. I've thought about it from many angles but not in such a clear objective way as this. Thanks.
The social object idea is slowly coming together in my brain… I think I get it but can it be applied everywhere? What if you sell a boring but powerful and useful software? What if your customers are not known to be terribly social people? How do you take a good product with very low social mobility and make it SOCIAL?
How about social objects and trust… can you always trust the judgement of those who are using social objects to build network nodes. What happens when trust breaks down… does it damage the network or just the node? Are the objects of choice such as the personal invitations trust worthy… will they spam you….
Going on from there you can get into an interesting discussion over social objects and privacy similar to conversations about facebook etc.
The way I see it social objects can be a double edged sword, they can be good or bad dependent on implementation, usage and ownership.
I love this Social Object concept. It is not something that I've considered before but as soon as Istarted reading the blog it started to make sense and is something I will be looking to incorporate into my work.
Thought you when i read this in NY Times
Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time
Great stuff Hugh. At Handmeon we're turning gifts into social objects. It's much more fun.
Loved this idea. I like also the conversion of the mundane product into the amazing one by "social gestures". 🙂 Rock on Hugh!
Great concept. To all who have joined the comment thread: how do you create social objects around luxury products– those where exclusive ownership and privacy are part of the buying and owning experience?
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Subject: Re: [DVHH] BAUTZ KIRSCHNER TIMISOARA KOVACSI
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:29:43 -0400
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Hi Linda,
I'm not aware if a Temeschburg Family book exist. Genealogical research in Temeswar/Temesvar/Temeschburg is very difficult, because the town had 6 quarters (what I call suburbs) Fabrikstadt, Elisabetstadt, Josefstadt, Franzstadt, Fratelia, Freidorf; and each quarter had their own Roman Catholic parish. And keep in mind, in 1900 there were nearly 60,000 inhabitants. With Temeschburg being the largest town in Banat, it was like a metropolitan city for transitional residents. Although there were many families who were rooted there for over a hundred years, there were also many people moving around each year. To give you an idea how difficult it is to research in the Temeswar area, consider the following example I received and posted on the Fratelia site.
The Church Book of Fratelia is beginning about 1932, the entries before then were made in Elisabethin / Elisabetstadt, there they started in 1919, and the years before 1919, the habitants of Fratelia had to go to Freidorf, but a lot of them didn't want to because the way was longer to travel than to go to Josefin. The informant goes on to say, "That was perhaps the reason, why I now found the birth of my grandmother and her siblings in Josefin / Josefstadt (from 1895 to 1905), although the birth certificate said, they lived in Tesöld (Fratelia). But with this new knowledge I luckily found the baptism of my father (born in 1917 in Fratelia) in Freidorf! I also was searching for a very long time to find the death record of my grandmother and found her in the index of Freidorf!" [A.Lorenz -17 Jul 2006]
This same scenario could pertain to any of the suburbs of Temeswar.....
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From: Linda McKenna
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:12 AM
Subject: [DVHH] BAUTZ KIRSCHNER TIMISOARA KOVACSI
I have met online with another "new" cousin. His great grandmother was sister to my grandfather. He had a 'family history' written by his mother. Many things coincided with family lore that I had. Since they lived in different states and had only occasional visits, I'm thinking this may add to the plausibility of these stories.
I know from family and the ship manifests that they emigrated from and listed Kovacsi (Temeskovacsi) as birthplace. although his family history refers to Timisoara as where Fred and Emilie settled after marriage. so perhaps I might find Friedrich BAUTZ and his wife Emilie Kirschner there.
Friedrich died 1898. no birth date known although his family info said Alsace-Lorraine. Emilie b 1864, d 1948.
I know she was still in Kovasci/Covacsi in 1915. daughter Mary b. 1884, Kovacsi
Thank you in advance.
Linda Bautz McKenna
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September 16, 2003
In This Issue:
Despite numerous setbacks relating to security which prevented DHS adjudicators from traveling to Nairobi and Kakuma camp in the last several months, DHS officers departed for Kenya on August 21, 2003 to conduct interviews. There are approximately 12,000 Somali Bantu whom we hope to be able to interview within the coming months. On this circuit ride, the officers will interview in both Nairobi and Kakuma and plan to conduct interviews of 414 cases during this circuit ride.
In May, in response to security concerns in Kakuma camp, PRM funded approximately $500,000 of upgrades to the camp, which included the construction of high fences and guard towers. These enhancements have made it possible for the DHS officers to return. Another structural improvement is the construction of an air-conditioned facility where a fingerprinting machine will be installed.
The ability to fingerprint approved refugees before they travel to the United States, will enhance security and also ease the processing at U.S. ports of entry. In-camp fingerprinting will provide the USG with the capability to check fingerprints against various U.S. security and intelligence databases, before the refugees have actually traveled to the U.S. It will also shorten the process for arriving refugees since they will already have been fingerprinted.
Plans are currently in place to have a fingerprinting system installed and operational at Kakuma by late September. The International Organization for Migration, one of PRM's partners in handling refugee processing at the Kakuma camp, hired the American-citizen fingerprinting technicians.
In addition, DHS is working to finalize a contract where mobile fingerprinting systems that are lighter-weight and less susceptible to severe climates may be utilized. This contract is expected to be settled within the next month or two. If the mobile systems are selected for Kakuma, they would help to supplement the stationary fingerprinting system there.
PRM is actively working with UNHCR and refugee advocates to identify other persons or groups in need of resettlement in Kakuma and elsewhere in Africa.
FY 2003 Admissions Statistics (as of September 15, 2003)
Source: Refugee Processing Center, Rosslyn, VA
PRM is currently working to identify possible groups of refugees for resettlement to the United States for FY 2004. PRM makes these determinations on an annual basis by reviewing recommendations from staff, and consulting with UNHCR, Refugee Council USA, and the public at-large. As part of the consultation process, PRM Deputy Assistant Secretary Kelly Ryan hosted a public outreach event on July 31, 2003 at the Refugee Processing Center in Rosslyn, VA. To read a transcript of the public meeting, please click on the link below http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/2003/23566.htm. At this meeting, representatives of resettlement agencies and refugees voiced their proposals for various improvements or changes to the program and for a wide range of groups to be designated for resettlement interviews. PRM will take these recommendations into consideration as this year�s proposal is put forth. Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar Krai, Russia are an example of one group currently under review for possible resettlement. The USG plans to participate in a multilateral assessment trip led by the OSCE in late September to assess the vulnerability and feasibility of resettling this group. PRM is also actively working with UNHCR to identify new groups in West and East Africa.
PRM has engaged David Martin, a prominent professor in immigration law at the University of Virginia and former General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to conduct the first-ever government sponsored study of the U.S. Refugee Admissions process. The purpose of the study is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current program and to provide recommendations for its improvement.
Although still in the early stages, Professor Martin has already consulted a wide-range of persons deeply interested in refugee issues: from advocates in non-government organizations to administrators in government agencies. In September, he will travel to Europe and Africa to meet with those who work in the field. With multiple perspectives and a diversity of ideas, PRM expects the study to provide valuable insight into the current process and produce a series of concrete recommendations for streamlining and reform.


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It has been erroneously derived from the Arabic caique, supposed to have been applied to the native boats by early explorers.
He went down the ladder by the side of the boat, and was pulled away in a caique.
Some day, perhaps, I shall tell you what they are, in a caique on the sweet waters of Asia or among the cypresses of Eyub.
The mast of the caique had gone right through one of the windows in the stern.
It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other.
A caique is in readiness to carry us onward to the bridge of Galata.
I have seen it so before; and where would you be with your caique then, Monsieur Soyer?
But if you find a caique, how are we going to get across the river to join you?
Then we landed (but not in a caique), and went roaming through the yellow town.
For "communication by caique" is surely a phrase of delight.


text: CHAPTER 5 PHYSICAL SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES RESOURCING TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Commanders, managers, and supervisors need to carefully plan and budget for the anticipated training needs of their careerists. Central funding will only be available for limited types of training. Recommend a minimum total commitment of an amount approximately equivalent to one and one-half percent of civilian pay costs for training and development. Review of employee IDPs and competencies should be accomplished as a basis to budget for needed funds and request quotas to implement this plan.


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People of Note
John F. Lang II, Cert. 1965, is vice president of resource development with the Mesa United Way in Mesa, AZ. A resident of Paradise Valley, AZ, he was the founder of the Dunlop/Buffalo Chamber of Commerce Pro-Am Dinner and the Association for Research of Childhood Cancer.
Henry Simon, B.A. 1965, was selected managing editor of the Buffalo Jewish Review. As editor, he is expected to build on the accomplishments of the periodical's previous editor and to help shape future editorial and advertising innovations.
Susan A. Adler, B.A. 1966, has begun her term as 2000-2001 president of the National Council for the Social Studies, the largest association in the country for social studies professionals. She is currently associate professor of education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she teaches courses in social studies curriculum design and methods, and supervises student teachers. She lives in Kansas City, MO.
Richard J. Ablin, Ph.D. 1967, has been elected to alumni membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the national academic honor society. He resides in Suffern, NY.
Clinton E. Deveaux, B.A. 1967, was elected to a three-year term on the National Judicial College Board of Trustees. He currently presides on the Atlanta Municipal Court; his areas of expertise include alternative sentencing, criminal justice, domestic violence and communications; and sex, race and ethnic bias. The National Judicial College was featured on CBS's news magazine 60 Minutes as the leading continuing education center for state trial court judges, state and federal administrative law judges, trial court judges and military court judges. He lives in Atlanta, GA.
Carl J. Montante, J.D. 1967, has been honored by the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America as its Scouter Citizen of the Year. He was cited for his continued financial support of scouting and his community contributions. A resident of Clarence, NY, he is managing director and president of Uniland Development Co., which is based at Corporate Parkway in Amherst, NY.
Jeffrey L. Berger, B.A. 1969, is currently self-employed, working as an attorney in Washington, DC, and living in Chevy Chase, MD.
Irwin Cohen, B.S. 1969, has joined the firm of Brody, Weiss, Zucarelli & Urbanek CPAs PC. He is currently vice president and board member of the Hemophilia Center of Western New York Inc. and also serves as a member of the membership executive committee of the Jewish Center, the long-range planning committee of Hickory Hill Estates Condominiums and the organizational committee of the Cancer Wellness Center. He and his wife, Gail, reside in East Amherst, NY.
Edward H. Nickson, B.A. 1969, has been promoted to vice president, facilities management and facilities security, of First Niagara Bank in Lockport, NY. He lives in Amherst, NY, with his wife, Susan.
Theodore S. Pierce, B.A. 1969, is a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. His assignments have included commercial attachÇ in Fiji, political officer in Sri Lanka, consular officer in Nigeria and Pacific Islands country officer in the East Asia Pacific Bureau of the State Department in Washington, DC.


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Academic Degree Assessment
Assessing Student Learning at the Program Level
Both direct and indirect methods of assessment can be valuable, and the assessment experts agree that no single assessment method should ever be relied on exclusively.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
The first step to any assessment plan is to define the student learning outcomes for the program or course under consideration: the things we want students to be able to do, or think or know, by the time they have finished a course of study.
Course or Program SLO characteristics
- They should describe the broadest and most comprehensive goals of the course or program, what assessment theorist Mark Battersby refers to as "integrated complexes of knowledge" or competencies. They should focus on what a student should be able to do with the knowledge covered, not simply on what the instructor will cover. Courses and programs may typically have three to five outcomes, though fewer or more are possible.
- They should employ active verbs, usually taken from the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy (reprinted in the appendix to this document)—e.g., students should be able to "analyze" or "evaluate," not "define" or "describe."
- As much as possible, they should be written in intelligible language, understandable to students.
- As often as possible, they should be arrived at collaboratively, as instructors who teach the same class or in the same program come to consensus about the key objectives of that unit of instruction. (For course-level SLOs, instructors will undoubtedly have SLOs of their own in addition to consensus ones.) Adjunct instructors–and students themselves–should be involved in the process of developing SLOs as much as possible.
- SLOs should be measurable. Ideally, they should contain or make reference to the product (papers, projects, performances, portfolios, tests, etc. through which students demonstrate competency) and the standard (e.g., with at least 80% accuracy) or criterion by which success is measured. When the behavior/product and standard are specified, the SLO is sometimes referred to as made "operational."
Program-level SLO examples
Biology majors"(Students should be able to) apply ethical principles of the discipline in regard to animal and human subjects, environmental protection, use of sources, and collaboration with colleagues." (Walvoord, 2004)
Political Science majors"(Students should be able to) identify a problem [in the discipline], situate it within an appropriate literature, pose a particular hypothesis or intellectual puzzle, then use original sources to test the hypothesis or solve the puzzle." (Walvoord, 2004)
Economics majors"(Students should be able to) use statistical methods to analyze economic questions" (Walvoord, 2004).
Master's in Business Administration"(Students should be able to) apply the strategic management process and formulate firm strategy." (Central Michigan University)
Juris Doctorate degree"Students will demonstrate effective use of the tools of legal research both hard copy and online tools, be able to create an effective research plan for assessing a legal problem, and demonstrate the ability to use appropriate citation form for advocacy and expositive legal writing." (Georgia State University)
Direct Assessment
Direct Assessment is a focus on actual student work (essays, exams, nationally normed tests) where we look for evidence that learning has been achieved.
Instructors use existing tests, exams, or writing prompts to identify learning trends in a particular course or group of related courses. A particular department might agree to give a common final in which questions are mapped to specific learning outcomes for the course, then the results aggregated. (A variation of this approach would require all instructors in a course to ask a set of common questions on a part of an exam, but permit them to develop instructor-specific questions for the rest of the exam).
Another department might simply decide to look at student writing on a variety of late-term essay assignments for evidence that certain learning outcomes have been met. The main advantage of embedded assessment is that it simplifies the assessment process, asking instructors to evaluate existing student work, but in a different way than they usually do and for a different purpose. It is usually good practice to collect such assessment data so as to make evaluation of individual instructors impossible.
Require students (or instructors) to assemble a group of projects from a single class or group of classes as a way of demonstrating that achievement of learning outcomes has taken place—and to reveal areas of learning deficiency. This is a particularly effective method of assessing institutional learning outcomes.
Capstone courses
Courses usually taken in a student's senior year and intended to allow students to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and skill in the particular major. Capstone courses (and capstone projects usually required in such course) integrate knowledge and skills associated with the entire sequence of courses that make up the program. Assessing student performance in these classes therefore approximates assessment of student performance in the major as a whole.
Standardized tests
Nationally normed tests of such institution-wide learning outcomes as critical thinking or writing, or discipline-specific tests like the ETS Major Field Achievement Tests. Standardized tests may be useful measures if instructors agree to teach the skills that such tests can be shown to measure, and they have the advantage of providing departments with a national standard by which to measure their students. But standardized tests are costly to administer; students are often insufficiently motivated to do their best work when taking them; and as noted, they may not measure what faculty in the program actually teach.
Scoring rubrics
Aid in assessing student performance captured in portfolios, capstone courses, essays, speeches, or other presentations. Individual instructors can employ them on their own, too. Look at a specific assignment— essay, a demonstration, an oral report—in which student learning cannot be measured with numerical precision.
Develop (whether alone or with others) a scoring guide or checklist that will indicate various skill levels for various "primary traits," with clearly delineated language suggesting the degree to which the assignment demonstrates evidence that the SLO has been achieved. See the PowerPoint that provides an overview and examples of rubrics: Using Rubrics to Make Assessment More Efficient.
Indirect Assessment
Indirect assessment measures should be used to augment, not substitute for, more direct measures. Ideally, multiple assessment methods should be employed whenever possible, so that student surveys, for example, can become a useful additional check against data derived from doing embedded assessment or administering standardized tests.
Student surveys and focus groups
A substantial body of evidence suggests that student self- reported learning gains correlate modestly with real learning gains. You may want to consider surveying students (or a sampling of students) at the end of a course of instruction (or after graduation from a program) to determine what they see as their level of achievement of the course or program's learning outcomes.
You may also want to gather a representative group of students together for more informal conversation about a particular course or program when it has ended, asking them open-ended questions about its effect upon them. Surveys of alumni can also produce meaningful assessment data. These techniques are particularly valuable when done in conjunction with more direct assessment measures.
Faculty surveys
Instructors can be asked, via questionnaires, about what they perceive to be strengths and weaknesses among their students.
Data likely to be kept by Offices of Institutional Research on retention, success, and persistence, job placement information, rates of acceptance into graduate programs, demographics, etc. may also be strong assessment tools, if analyzed and mapped to specific SLOs.
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are generally simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities designed to provide useful feedback on the teaching-learning process as it is happening. CATs are ideal ways of helping instructors in determine what their students know and do not know, or are having difficulty learning. These formative evaluations provide information that can be used to improve course content, methods of teaching, and, ultimately, student learning.


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Republican Canseco Wants Congressional Seat Back
One term Republican Congressman Francisco 'Quico' Canseco said today he is raising money and 'putting together a new team' to take back the 23rd District Congressional seat he lost to Democrat Pete Gallego last fall, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Canseco, an attorney and banker, defeated Democrat Ciro Rodriguez to win the seat in the Republican year of 2010, but then lost it in a close race to Gallego, a veteran member of the Texas Legislature and former prosecuting attorney, in 2012.
"Our nation must break free of self-serving, professional politicians," Canseco said in a letter to supporters. "Our representatives must remember that our government was designed to be of the people and for the people...and not of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!"
Meanwhile, Lyle Larson, the conservative champion of Bexar County, said today he is endorsing former CIA operative Will Hurd for the seat.
"Will Hurd is a leader," Larson said. "he proved it whyile serving our country in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East."
Larson himself ran for the seat in 2008, losing to Democrat Ciro Rodriguez.
Gallego has indicated he expects a serious Republican challenge in 2014. The 23rd Congressional District, which stretches from San Antonio to El Paso, is the largest Congressional district in the country which is not its own state. It is also one of the handful of truly competitive Congressional districts, so it always attracts well funded candidates.
Fair Oaks Ranch physician Dr. Robert Lowry has also announced plans to run for the Congressional seat.
The 23rd Congressional District is also at ground zero of the redistricting battles in Texas, as it has changed shape several times over the past decade due to court challenges and Republican sponsored redistricting.


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When the Scion Racing team came over to the "House of Drift" event at the Irwindale Speedway, Autobytel stopped by to check out the media preview event. The 2014 Formula D season is underway, but T.J. Keon and Autobytel's video team got the Scion racers' pre-season insight as they refreshed their skills for Round 1 of the season, The Streets of Long Beach. Though the Scion Racing team has shown that they're game for anything, and their positive attitudes are a key to their success, the cars are also important, of course. So with that in mind, Autobytel got a good look at the team's rides, both on and off the smoky drift course. Ken Gushi, one of the Scion team's drifters, drives a Scion FR-S that's actually made the public rounds before, at the 2013 SEMA event in Las Vegas. Although the car looks a little different now, it's a great example of how to modify a car for drifting, and Ken Gushi even gave Autobytel a ride to demonstrate its prowess. Drifting continues to gain popularity, and not surprisingly, the Scion Racing team's drifting competitors have some strong opinions about the direction of the sport, which pro drifter Tony Angelo was happy to discuss.
Scion Racing Drift Team at the 2014 Media Day at Irwindale Speedway
Scion Racing Drift Team at the 2014 Media Day at Irwindale Speedway
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In relaying the background and inspiration behind new songs and albums, music journalists often serve as a conduit between artist and listener. With new releases, media members are serviced with a biography that provides context to lyrics. And, of course, songwriters do rounds of interviews, explaining their art and illuminating the process. But does it matter? Does art of any sort need to be explained? Singer-songwriters Carl Newman, Jakob Dylan and Jason Collett weigh in.
A.C. Newman
Carl (A.C.) Newman, the leader of the power-popping New Pornographers, has just released his third solo album, Shut Down the Streets, a record influenced by death of his mother and the birth of his first son. "I don't think journalists listen that closely to lyrics. So, if you want yourself to be presented in some way that is close to the way you wish to be presented, you have to spoon-feed them. With the title song, for example, I think it's clear that something big has happened, and that I can't figure out why the world is still turning. I hope it's obvious. That being said, by letting people know that it had to do with the death of my mother, that's helpful context – it's all you need to know. On another song, Troubadour, the first verse is about coming out the other side of some bad things, and feeling guilty about being happy now. I can't blame people for not being able to figure that out. As for the line in Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns, "are we judged here by the things we say, or is it just the noise we make," I think only 5 per cent of listeners listen to the things we say. It's just the way people listen to music. Also, someone can sing complete and utter gibberish, but if they sing it very beautifully and soulfully, like Bon Ivor, people just inject their own meaning into it."
Jakob Dylan
Jakob Dylan reunited with the nineties hit-makers the Wallflowers this year and released Glad All Over. Asked about the song Constellation Blues and the heavy line "You can tell a few things about the soul of a town, from the blood of the men gone in the ground," the son of Bob wasn't much interested in providing insight. "Well, I mean, there's lots of inspiration. Look, there's inspiration on a simple level that you're trying to make four minutes of something meaningful and something that resonates. I would be hard pressed, though, if we were to go through all the songs, to say what they're about. I believe they're their own explanation, and if they need too much explanation, then I didn't get my point across. I know that sounds like I'm being coy. I don't mean to be. Songwriters can get into a real pickle when asked to explain what a song is about. We can make things up. We can lie to you. I follow my nose – my songs take me somewhere, and I'm just trying to not be in the way of it. I think staring at a song too long and trying to figure out what it's about is a mistake."
Jason Collett
Jason Collett, the Toronto-based singer-songwriter, speaks about his latest album Reckon, a record with political overtones in some, but not all, of its material. "That it's a political album is the go-to tag line for doing interviews for this record. It's a story. I get that. But I've been overwhelmed with the acute focus, to the point of people reading politics into songs that aren't political. That to me is fascinating. I've learned over the years that the bio is crucial for each record – you're essentially writing the review for a lot of lazy journalists who don't know how to write. You need to spoon-feed a few lines to people, because sometimes they get it so wrong."Report Typo/Error
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Oh, that we could learn to get along with each other the way Fum and Gerba have! Fum (which means "smoke" in Catalan) and Gerba ("frost") are both about a year old. The pair live and romp together in Tarragona, Spain. You can see more from them on their Facebook page. … [Read more...]
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|Integer overflow in the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted image in a Windows Write (.wri) document, which is not properly handled in WordPad, aka "Graphics Device Interface Integer Overflow Vulnerability."
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I couldn't resist. This song is both musically and romantically pleasant. The soft piano in the background should not add to you completely writing the song off as strictly "sweet talk". Homie's letting it be known to his love interest that he will look after her, on so many levels.
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