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The Florida Aquarium is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to entertain, educate and inspire stewardship about our natural environment.
The Florida Aquarium began as the Clearwater Marine Science Center (CMSC), a private non-profit educational organization located on Clearwater Beach, Florida incorporated in 1977.
In late 1985, consultants from New England, National and Monterey Bay aquariums advised the CMSC Board on expansion potential. The consulting team emphasized the need for a world-class facility if the project was to compete successfully as a nationally recognized educational facility in the Florida marketplace, and thus, become financially viable.
The Florida Aquarium, Inc. was incorporated on December 12, 1986 as a separate not-for-profit organization. The newly organized Florida Aquarium Board of Directors formally committed to building a public aquarium comparable to the finest in the nation, and contracted Joseph A. Wetzel Associates of Boston to provide conceptual design of exhibits for a new facility.
Briefings with local and state officials were conducted and broad-based support for the project was garnered from the local Clearwater Chamber of Commerce to then Governor Bob Graham.
Garrison Seaport Center emerged as a major redevelopment of downtown Tampa's waterfront. On August 15, 1992, The Tampa City Council voted to accept the financing package and site work began within the next few months for the new Aquarium. During the next three years of construction, educational outreach programs were held throughout the community to create awareness for the project.
On March 31, 1995, The Florida Aquarium opened its doors, serving one million residents of and visitors to the Tampa Bay area and bringing a positive economic impact of $60-million to the community in its first year of operation.
"No BoneZone" touch-tank exhibit of invertebrates opened in Summer 2000; "Sea Hunt" exhibit opened Summer 2001 which renovated existing pathways. The DolphinQuest ecotour boat, "Bay Spirit" was christened March 27, 2001 and allowed visitors to learn about the bay waters of Florida.
In 2003, the Aquarium's most exciting new program began allowing visitors to swim in the shark tank in the "Dive with the Sharks" program. Renovations for 2003 included a $1.3 million project, "Explore A Shore." This outdoor children's water adventure area includes animal play sets and water splash areas.
In March 2004, Explore A Shore, the children's outdoor water fun zone opened including the Caribbean Cantina with a sit-down full service bar and grill.
In the Fall of 2005, Coastal Living Magazine ranks The Florida Aquarium in the "top-10 aquariums in North America."
In 2006, African Black-footed penguins waddled their way to the Aquarium and instantly became a guest favorite. Daily Penguin Promenades delight guests as the penguins waddle on a red carpet directly in front of guests in a unique "no barriers, no borders" experience.
In the Fall of 2007, Parents Magazine ranks The Florida Aquarium in the "top 5 kid-friendly aquariums in the country."
Summer 2008, Penguin Promenade: Backstage Pass begins – a behind the scenes experience with a half-dozen penguins. TripAdvisor.com ranks The Florida Aquarium in the "Top 10 Aquariums in the Country".
February 24, 2014,The Florida Aquarium Starts Construction on the Carol and Barney Barnett Learning Center kicking off phase II of their Rising Tides Capital Campaign
March 1, 2014,Journey to Madagascar Exhibit opens
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November 5, 2014,The Florida Aquarium launches Shark Swim that allows guests to become immersed in the Coral Reef Gallery
January 20, 2015, The Florida Aquarium, Florida Department of State and the South Eastern Archeological Preserve held a unique dedication ceremony for the USS Narcissus Civil War Ship honoring it as 12th State Underwater Archeological Preserve.
The Florida Aquarium was first accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) in March 1997.
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It's Saturday - time to share my weekly bookmarks with you. These are recipes I want to try or projects that have inspired me. Here are a few from this week I hope they inspire you as well.
When I saw this recipe for Sticky Peanut Butter and Jelly Wings, I knew right away I would be making this sometime soon - maybe even for the Superbowl. This is from The Noble Pig.
This recipe for Strawberry Valentine Oreo Cookies from Six Sisters' Stuff looks like a fun treat to make with the kids.
I'm also considering making this Red Velvet Cheese Ball from Taste and Tell for the Superbowl. Look how pretty it is!
These Skinny Beer-Garitas from Eat Yourself Skinny! are also a definite must make.
I love this Stencil Tutorial from Gluesticks - I have a glass candle holder that needs revamping and I am definitely doing this soon!
How smart s the Hutch Update Idea from Remodelaholic. It's changeable so no commitment required.
A Craft A Day made a Jewelery Tree Creation inspired by anthropologie - I love it!
Also don't forget, if you have been bookmarked on my site be sure to grab a button from the right sidebar I have a new button!
You can find a lot more of my favorite things on Pinterest - yes I'm addicted too!
These are few of the many things in the blogosphere that have inspired me this week - what has inspired you??

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okay, this just makes me smile. "This airy and clever interpretation of a vase will freshen up the look of any home. This porcelain outline vase from the Museum of Modern Art is a unique way to display a single bloom without interrupting the space around it. Made in Japan."


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David Hogberg, Ph.D., is a former health care policy analyst for the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Previously, Dr. Hogberg was a Washington Correspondent for Investor's Business Daily, specializing in his coverage of health care and Medicare.
Prior to IBD, he worked as a policy analyst studying health care and other issues for various think tanks, including the National Center for Public Policy Research, and for the office of Representative Jeff Fortenberry.
Dr. Hogberg holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa. He is author of the book Medicare's Victims: How the U.S. Government's Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians.


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Adobe Reader MUI is Adobe's Multilingual User Interface version, with which you can install any combination of supported languages. For example, you can install French, German, and Spanish simultaneously and then switch among those languages within Adobe Reader. The user interface changes to the appropriate language automatically.
If you have problems controlling the startup language of Adobe Reader MUI, then try the following to gain more fine-grained control over the startup language:
- Under the Reader preferences, there is a setting for the startup language under the section entitled "International." You can set this setting to the language of choice. Or, you can set it to "like operating system," which starts Adobe Reader MUI using the same locale as the host operating system.
- Set the registry key UseMUI as outlined in the screenshot so that the operating system language is used as the Adobe Reader MUI startup language:
If you are still having problems with the startup language, try manually configuring the appropriate keys in the registry. Use either the Customization wizard (for enterprise deployments), or change them directly in the Windows registry for single installations.
- Delete (or make sure that the following keys are not present) NOTE: for a fresh non-customized install these keys are sometimes not present:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\9.0\Language\UseMUI\UseMUI
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\9.0\Language\next
- Then add the following registry key:
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\9.0\Language\next]
Note: For Reader, the value is "RdLang32.DEU".
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Open Access and Digital Sharing Project
The Open Access and Digital Sharing project seeks to advance the ideal that end users on the Internet should be entitled access to academic journals and other publications currently being held hostage behind licensing fees that prevent the majority of the public from engaging in the knowledge and research contained within such publications.
Led by PIJIP Director Michael Carroll, the Open Access and Digital Sharing project seeks to accomplish this task through raising greater awareness of current Open Access journals that provide such freedoms, by educating the greater public on the merits of Open Access, and through critical research and analysis of the current Open Access environment to encourage debate and wider adoption of Open Access within the publishing community and elsewhere.
Open Access is mainly accomplished through the concept of Digital Sharing. This endeavor focuses on utilizing the public internet as a vast archive and library, sharing information with others in a digital format that will allow the end user to convert it into an appropriate form for consumption. Digital Sharing aims to drive awareness of the falling costs of publication through the Internet, and the opportunity users have of sharing knowledge across cyberspace.
Open Access is the act of publishing material in such a way in that there is no cost to the end consumer of the material. This is not a call for completely free information. Instead, the goal of Open Access is to remove the pricing and permission barriers that inhibit the end user by passing the costs to publishers and distributors.
OA focuses primarily on scholarly articles. Once an author decides to distribute via OA, there are a variety of OA journals and OA archives that can be utilized to share the article with the appropriate audience. Authors do not give up copyright to OA, nor are they asked to release blanket licenses to allow everyone to utilize their work. Instead, OA relies on simple licensing "consent" from the author to allow OA to utilize the article. Once consent is given, OA takes care of the rest.
OA accomplishes its goal primarily through digital sharing, meaning the online distribution of articles on the public Internet.
For more information on the foundation and history of Open Access, please visit Peter Suber's Open Access Overview.
Open Access Links
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Open Access Day
- Science Commons Open Access Law Program
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
- Public Knowledge: Open Access to Research
- MIT Open Access Mandate and Self-Archiving Policy
- Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Votes for Open Access for Scholarly Articles
- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation


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text: As much as I try to teach my kids to respect authoirty, it gets harder and harder these days. Should I teach them to be scared of the police? Should I teach them to be a lemming and let go of their rights? Or should I just roll the dice they don't one day get gunned down by some young punk wearing a badge that makes him consumned by the power not humbled by the responsability? This makes me sick.


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THE family of Mr Carslake issued a statement.
They said: "This truly hideous and unlawful act of violence has robbed our family of a loving brother and uncle and has robbed society in general of a hard working, friendly and kind man.
"Richard had a difficult childhood, being taken into the care system whereby his trusting nature was exploited.
However, he overcame this with support from close family and friends to go on to make a decent life for himself.
He always worked, even performing the jobs that some within society would consider demeaning, such as a kitchen hand.
"It is through this hard work the he has continuously contributed to society and the wider economy, yet these two so-called men have now forever denied him the chance of claiming a pension, growing old and enjoying his retirement as should be every hard working man's right.
"When we found out that Richard had been killed, we had just returned from Cornwall where we had sadly buried another brother – lost to cancer. If it were not enough for our poor mother to have already buried one son, this heinous act ensured that she outlived another of her children, which is against nature's law.
"This proved to be too much for our mother and following Richard's killing, she gave up, deteriorated medically and sadly passed away at the beginning of July.
Thus, although the family cannot deny nature in the death of our brother to cancer, we strongly feel that it is due to Richard's killing by these two men that we then went on to lose our mother, meaning three family funerals within as many months.
"The huge sense of loss and anger we feel as a family has been compounded by our unfavourable experience of the criminal justice system.
In a meeting held with the CPS less than a few months ago, after repeatedly asking about the charge of manslaughter, we were assured this was not to be the case and told that 'the only justice for Richard is with the charge of murder and if these two men serve a murder sentence.' "However, just seven days before the trial was due to start, the CPS accepted a charge of manslaughter without any consultation or discussion with us. We were only informed of this decision after it had been accepted in court and, to our disgust, it was published on some media sites before even all of the family knew.
"In a letter received from the CPS offering an explanation as to the acceptance of the charge of manslaughter, it outlined that the injuries did not amount to GBH and none of them on their own were sufficient to cause Richard's death.
"However, when we were taken to identify Richard's body, his face was bloodied and severely bruised and his head considerably swollen. We disagree with the CPS letter and feel that the beating Richard was given resulted in significant injury and did cause his death.
"The thing that really compounded the family's anxiety and distress in this situation is the fact that we know from seeing Richard's body that his last minutes on this earth were filled with utter fear and terror of these men and knowing that he would die at their hand.
"To us, the fact that these two men have lied from the beginning leads us to believe that they have no respect for anyone or any remorse for their act.
"The whole case from the start has caused nothing but upset to the whole family with its twists and turns and yet another twist at what should have been the start of the trial leads us to fell that they are again laughing at the family by opting for manslaughter and a lesser sentence than they would have received for murder."
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SIOBHAN Blake, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS Wales, said: "At a fairly late stage in proceedings, we were asked whether the prosecution would accept guilty pleas from the two defendants to the offence of manslaughter.
We had previously considered this possibility in consultation with the police investigative team, leading criminal barristers and pathologists.
"Unfortunately, due to the last minute nature of the defendants' pleas, we were unable to notify the family of this development before having to inform the court.
"We subsequently sought to explain the decision-making process to the family by letter and in person, although we fully understand they may not be happy with the outcome. Nevertheless, we have to base our decisions on the evidence available and our view was, and remains, that accepting these pleas was the correct decision given the evidence and expert opinion available.
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Once again this provincial government made it clear to the business community in this week's budget that it's on its own.
Not that that's a bad thing.
The province has done well eliminating the small-business tax and experience has shown it's a mug's game trying to pick winners.
At the same time the Selinger government can be thankful there are no major fires to put out. There's no need for massive bailouts for a key sector -- such as the auto industry in Ontario -- because it could be argued there are no sectors more important than any others in Manitoba.
That's neatly pointed out in the budget documents that show there are 11 different sectors that each make up more than five per cent of the GDP.
Manufacturing is the largest at about 10 per cent of GDP and although employment there has declined -- as it has across North America -- Manitoba's manufacturing group has a reputation for strategic investments and strengthened efficiencies.
With its hands full trying to stave off further deficits and meet its health care and education spending, Premier Greg Selinger and Finance Minister Stan Struthers were happy to trot out the fact that between 2007 and 2012, Manitoba's average annual growth rate of 2.1 per cent was second-best in the country.
With little positive trends to point to, however, the forecasters expect slightly weaker growth this year -- 1.9 per cent -- which is nothing to write home about but still slightly ahead of the Canadian average.
For the past few years the mining industry has enjoyed strong commodity prices and significant capital investment led by HudBay's $700-million-plus investment to build the Lalor mine outside Snow Lake.
Ed Huebert, executive vice-president of the Mining Association of Manitoba, said the industry was pleased the budget calls for renewed efforts to reach out to the aboriginal and northern communities to develop resource-revenue sharing and other types of co-operation. But the industry was disheartened because the Manitoba Geological Survey budget has been cut by 10 per cent.
While spending for that traditional industry is getting pared back, assistance for digital media companies -- likely the fastest-growing global industry -- was enhanced.
The Manitoba Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit got a significant boost in the budget. Not only has the province budgeted $1.2 million this year compared with $200,000 last year for the tax credit, its application has been significantly broadened
"We're pretty thrilled," said Kevin Hnatiuk of New Media Manitoba.
He said it puts Manitoba on par with Ontario and Nova Scotia, which is trying to set itself up as a new media hub.
"We hear people tell us that there is excellent work done in Manitoba, but there are just a little better incentives elsewhere," he said. "Now we can be that much more competitive."
The Small Business Venture Capital Tax Credit program -- ostensibly the alternative to the retail venture capital tax credit that blew up so badly over the Crocus Fund -- has been extended. It's far from a sure thing.
As well the First Peoples Economic Growth Fund is to be renewed. It was formed about six years ago with a five-year budget of about $20 million as a way for First Nations people to leverage some of Manitoba's lottery profits. It received a one-year renewal last year and a long-term extension agreement is being negotiated between the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the province. Last year it placed 17 loans totalling $5.8 million, which attracted an additional $18 million to those projects. It's not going to alter the economic dynamics for First Nations on its own, but it helped create close to 300 jobs last year, about half in northern Manitoba.


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For international students seeking to obtain a degree at an American college, mastering English is a critical step to gain admission. To help prepare these students, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) serves as a test center for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), which is run by the Educational Testing Service. TOEFL is the most widely respected English-language test in the world, recognized by more than 7,500 colleges, universities and agencies in more than 130 countries. SMWC is the only test site in the Wabash Valley and one of 13 in Indiana.
"TOEFL is often required for students who do not speak English as a first language before entering into a higher education degree-seeking program," said SMWC Director of the Learning Resources Center Kim LaComba. "The addition of TOEFL at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College is an excellent resource to add to the Wabash Valley."
Every year, nearly a million people take the TOEFL test to demonstrate their ability to use and understand English at the college level. It evaluates how listening, reading, speaking and writing skills are combined to perform academic tasks. The test is administered in an internet-based format. The program offers a variety of paid and free resources to prepare participants for the test and improve English-language skills.
Free test preparation materials are available at SMWC's Learning Resource Center. The next test date is May 13, 2011. Additional test dates are posted at http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/register/centers_dates/. To register, log on to http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/register/ or call 1-800-468-6335.
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Microsoft Hyper-V has slowly but surely expanded its footprint into the small to medium-sized server virtualization market. To date, its No. 1 competitor, VMware, hasn't focused much attention on this slice of the virtualization pie, instead concentrating its efforts on larger enterprise organizations. This has created an inroad for Microsoft, giving Redmond an opportunity to advance its platform feature set while expanding within a target audience where price, more often than not, outshines additional capabilities.
But with such a small sliver of the server virtualization market share, Microsoft has not had the luxury of a deep, rich virtualization partner ecosystem like VMware, and the Redmond giant has been forced to go at virtual management alone. Unfortunately, within the small-business market, products like Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) don't fit the bill.
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In many cases, the System Center 2012 suite has too steep a learning curve and comes across as too complex, giving the impression it was designed with a large enterprise shop in mind as opposed to a small to medium-sized business. That's a hard pill to swallow, considering Microsoft Hyper-V is geared toward the small-business market right now as opposed to the enterprise where VMware currently dominates. Beyond that, System Center is too expensive for most small businesses.
To answer that call, two third-party virtualization management vendors who've long been a part of the VMware partner ecosystem both announced plans to add support for Microsoft Hyper-V to their respective management technologies. Veeam Software and SolarWinds will join another well-known virtualization third-party software vendor, VKernel, on a quest to expand virtual management software beyond the confines of VMware and into a heterogeneous environment that includes Microsoft's latest hypervisor technology, Hyper-V.
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Veeam Software, a community fan favorite, is perhaps best known for its data protection and disaster recovery software, Veeam Backup & Replication. However, it's also making a name for itself as a virtualization monitoring and reporting management provider for virtual data center environments. As part of that growing market, Veeam said it will release an update to the company's management suite, Veeam One, which will include support for Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as other as-yet unnamed new features to enhance the product's ease-of-use and offer even more powerful virtualization management capabilities.
With support for Hyper-V, Veeam One will be up to speed with Veeam's Backup & Replication product, which added that feature last May. At that time, Doug Hazelman, senior director of product strategy at Veeam, told InfoWorld, "Hyper-V is pretty clearly the second most popular hypervisor on the market, and since it's a free product its market share is likely to continue growing." He went on to say that Hyper-V is the hypervisor his customers ask about most frequently, which explains the company's recent engineering push behind the virtualization platform.
Ideal for small businesses with budget and staff constraints, Veeam One addresses virtualization challenges with efficient allocation of resources, documentation of the virtual infrastructure, and management reporting for performance, utilization, and workload. According to the company, unlike other products that monitor only a few performance metrics in Hyper-V environments, Veeam One will monitor more than 60 different metrics. It will also offer granular alarms that pinpoint the virtual machine on which an alert is occurring and include integrated monitoring of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs).


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Very interesting.
Wallace tried to understand what the communists were doing by putting himself in their shoes.
The problem is, Stalin and Mao and the Czech Communists weren't Wallace. They weren't motivated by the motives that would have driven Wallace if he was in their place. They had their own psychological, cultural, and ideological drivers.
The year 1952 is pretty late. But, it is not as late as many in the west. Indeed, it is only four years later in 1956 that the western communist parties suffer their greatest losses following the 22nd Party Congress denunciation of Stalin by Khrushchev in February and then the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution in November. Not that Wallace was ever a communist, but he was certainly much more sympathetic to the Stalin regime than most and his views prior to 1952 make him look pretty naive. It is not like there was nothing known about places like Magadan in the 1930s and 40s.
Oops that should be 20th Party Congress.
First, it sounds like what he rejected was Stalinism.
And second: who cares. Yes, I watched Untold History, but, again, why does it always have to be about the struggle between evil and wise leaders? That's just silly. There are objective reasons for things that happen, and a part of it is that certain individuals, certain kinds of individuals rise to power or fall from grace.
I disagree. It wasn't inevitable that either Hitler or Stalin became leaders of Germany and Russia. Lenin was no saint but millions of people would not have been killed if he had lived longer or prevented the rise of Stalin. History is not just about evil and wise leaders but evil and wise leaders make a big difference
As far as Untold History, the failure to mention the fact that Wallace recanted his views on the Cold War demonstrates the fundamental dishonesty of that series
It wasn't inevitable that either Hitler or Stalin became leaders of Germany and Russia.
Of course not. But it was extremely likely that the USSR would have to industrialize, at a great sacrifice to the population.
And that Germany would be rearmed by the Western powers and enticed by them to do a 'drang nach osten', in one form or another, to go fight the bolsheviks. Hitler or Schmitler, it doesn't make much difference.
Oh dear Lord.
But it was extremely likely that the USSR would have to industrialize, at a great sacrifice to the population.
It wasn't inevitable that they had to do it like Stalin did.
So a massive bloody war between Germany and the USSR was inevitable, and it's all the West's fault. WTF?
Of course it wasn't inevitable that they had to do it like Stalin did it, it could happen the way Mao did it in China, for example. Either way, like I said: at a great sacrifice. Even in undeveloped places where the US facilitated industrialization (Korea, Taiwan), it took 40-50 years of a fascist dictatorship to achieve it.
You shouldn't think of everything as someone's fault. Yes, some sort of showdown was inevitable. The West fucked it up by betting on Hitler, and in the end WWII was inconclusive. What's so 'WTF' about this?
What's so 'WTF' about this?
To start with, there's the idea that the West, which allied itself with the Soviet Union to fight Hitler, after spending decades limiting Germany's military, was actually "betting on Hitler."
Before April-May 1940 they didn't fight Hitler.
Of course after Germany attacked Northern and Western Europe instead of marching east, then they had to. That's exactly the fuck up I'm talking about.
Before June 1941, the USSR didn't fight Germany, either. What's your point?
So the "betting on Hitler" argument is "no longer operative?"
If I seem to be having trouble understanding the fuck you're talking about, it's because you keep changing it from comment to comment.
I don't think of it as being anyone's fault, but you seem to.
And that Germany would be rearmed by the Western powers
The one outside power helping german rearmament was actually the Soviet Union.
Nonsense. Until 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop pact (at which time Germany was already well-armed), there was very little trade even, let alone any help.
um you are wrong
hell long before that treaty the luftwaffe was allowed to train in Russia so the west couldn't observe it.
there was a little dust up called WWI remember?
the west not only had no interest in helping Germany rearm after that but actively impeded it, such efforts unfortunately waning in the 1930s
but the ONLY major power to actually assist Germany's re-armament was the USSR
Until 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop pact (at which time Germany was already well-armed), there was very little trade even, let alone any help.
Yeah, no. That's not even close to true.
If you don't count Ford Motor Company, which eventually spun off Opel to keep building trucks in Germany, or IBM, who put together machines to help track populations movement (read: deprtations to concetration camps) or Curtiss Aircraft, who taught the Luftwaffe about dive-bombing. Hell, even Coca-Cola spun off Fanta to keep selling in Germany.
But of course none of that was official US government involvement. Just US-based companies.
Lenin was far more ruthless than Stalin. People make this mistake all the time of believing that Stalin was the primary difference between an extreme or moderate course for the Soviet Union. In fact Stalin was far more pragmatic. Lenin was much more ideologically driven. Even NEP, which is pointed to as some great practical reverse, followed Lenin's understanding of Marxist progression.
More precisely, what he rejected was a particular foreign policy stance – that of treating the Soviet Union as if it was not an expansionist empire seeking to dominate the international order, and was instead an essentially benign actor that could be trusted to honor its commitments, respect democracy and self-determination in the countries where it had military or political influence, and exist peacefully within a stable world order.
The precise ideological flavor that was in vogue in the Kremlin the week he wrote the essay doesn't really seem to be all that central to its point.
As far as the foreign policy goes, it seems fairly obvious to me to me that in most cases the USSR was indeed a more benign actor than the US.
Anyway, here; this guy always explains things better than I can…
You're claiming Oliver Stone as a reliable source?
Okay then.
The Hitler-Stalin pact, the rape of Poland and the show trials had soured most thinking people on Stalin by 1940. We are very fortunate that Wallace hadn't remained on the ticket in 1944 and became president
We are?
I mean, I'm a big fan of Truman, but what giant disasters would have befallen the US had Henry Wallace remained on the ticket and become President?
Wallace would have given a blank check to Stalin in Eastern Europe since he trusted Stalin and believed, until the change of heart in 1952, that the Cold War was the fault of the US and that all you need is peaceful dialogue with Stalin to create peace and prosperity for all (a view that he still seems to advocate in the 1952 piece). And he would have allowed Stalin to take over Germany since there would have been no Berlin Blockade and a lack of determination to support a pro-Western Germany. I dont think Stalin would have moved into Western Europe but the lack of opposition to Communist expansion might would likely have led to electoral successes for the Communists in Italy and Greece
I referred to disasters, not disasters to the US. Italy and Greece controlled by parties subservient to the Soviet Union would have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. And even if Italy and Greece had not fallen, the lack of any opposition to Soviet domination in Eastern Europe would have led to even more death and misery than what actually happened. I also think its likely that Stalin was restrained in his internal policies by the push back from Truman. AS it was, its very likely that the Doctor's Plot, abrogated only by the death of Stalin, was the first step in a plan to forcibly evict all Jews from Moscow and St. Peterburg and send them to a soviet state specifically for Jews in Siberia. The thought of a President Wallace dealing with the Soviet Union after World War II is chilling.
Italy and Greece controlled by parties subservient to the Soviet Union would have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Debatable at best. What isn't debatable is that in preventing the electoral victories of Communists in Greece and Italy we helped install a bloody military junta in the former and abetted neo-Fascist "strategy of tension" terrorism in the latter, which also resulted in a whole bunch of deaths.
A "whole bunch" is far, far less than the deaths that would likely have resulted from Communist takeovers in those two countries. I highly recommend you read Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain, if you haven't already, for a history of what life was like in Poland, East Germany and Hungary and think about what life might have been like in Italy and Greece
Anne Applebaum? Are you serious? Why not throw in some Amity Shlaes, too, just to keep our historical accuracy high, or trot out The Black Book of Communism to keep our World Anti-Communist League score up?
You might want to read up on what life was like in Greece under the colonels. Poland was a step up.
I know what life was like under the colonels. Fortunately, the colonels were never able to institute the type of totalitarian system they might have wished. Bad but not anything like life in Poland. Very unfortunately, the governments in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslavakia, East Germany and Rumania were able to create a totalitarian system the Greek colonels could only dream about.
You have reason to distrust the scholarship of Applebaum? Her Gulag was the most thorough book ever on that subject (won the Pulitzer for history as well) and Iron Curtain is amazing research. I dont think anyone can call themselves educated on the subject of the Cold War and Eastern Europe without reading it.
Gulag was trashed by the Russians she interviewed. Applebaum was an apologist for the oligarchs during the Yeltsin era, and wrote reams of crap trying to make the case that life improved after the fall of the USSR, ignoring the evidence in front of her.
Google "Operation Gladio" and look into our efforts to prevent Communism's electoral victories in Europe, and what they begat. Turkey got a neat integration of the Gray Wolves into law enforcement, Italy got the Bologna train station bombing, France got wildly increased organized crime, and Greece got the colonels.
All much better than what occurred in Eastern Europe. Gulag got universal high acclaim except from Stalinists
If you don't believe that Russia is better now than under Brezhnev, well then it's clear we have major differences in the way we look at things
If you don't recognize that lifespan dropped and infant mortality rose under Yeltsin, and have only slowly gotten better since that time, your grasp of Eastern Europe is slippery.
That there are still Stalinists im Russia in non-trivial numbers tells a lot about life under the oligarchs. Anti-Communism has a very bad track record.
Infant mortality is lower in Russia today, and life expectancy is longer, than in 1988.
You should stop. You sound like the guy who wrote the defense of Imperial Japan.
Yes, today. I know you don't read well, but your need to look at what's written: under Yeltsin.
Nicolas Werth who wrote the Soviet chapter for the Black Book of Communism is a first class scholar of the USSR under Stalin. He is probably the foremost such scholar living today in France. His chapter for the Black Book is not the best thing he has ever written, but it is certainly a decent piece of work. It is also the best chapter in the book. His other work, at least in English translation is generally of very high caliber. I can not judge the work of the other authors in the collection as well. But, the work of Jean-Louis Margolin who wrote the chapters on China and Cambodia also strikes me as being solid academic expositions. However since the Werth piece is the center of the Black Book what exactly do you think is wrong with it?
Do you really think he's read a word of the book he's denouncing?
Yes, joe, I have.
The Black Book is a straight-up propaganda piece. If I wanted to write a piece on deaths caused by capitalism and cited the Indian slaughters, I might come up with something similar. As history…let's just say it lacks something.
Again you make no specific mentions of any factual or interpretive problems with Werth's piece in the Courtois collection and what it is lacking. It is a history of Soviet repression and as such does not deal with other aspects of Soviet history. So what? Not every history of Nazi Germany or Native Americans has to deal with things other than persecution either. Many historians have written perfectly fine histories that deal only with the Holocaust. Many others have written histories that only deal with the massacres of Native Americans. It is perfectly legitimate to write a history of Soviet repression which is what Werth's piece does. It is also perfectly legitimate to write a history of the Holocaust or massacres of Native Americans. Do you object to the scholarship of Raul Hilberg and David Stannard as well? After all Hilberg only talks about the negative aspects of Nazi Germany and Stannard only talks about the negative aspects of colonial and US policy towards Native Americans.
Then there was that communist in Yugoslavia that prevented a whole bunch of deaths. You are seeing all communists as a monolith. A very distorted and unhelpful view of history.
The communists in Yugoslavia were extremely brutal from 1944 to 1948. Over 48,000 of the remaining 350,000 ethnic Germans in the country perished in concentration camps during this time. That does not count the over 7,000 shot or the countless women to die while being raped by Tito's partisans. It also only includes victims among the rather small German minority. I thought that the myth of Tito's benevolence had been banished. But, evidently there are still people covering for him.
It is not debatable what actually happened in the areas of Europe conquered by the USSR. If you think that the Italian and Greek post-war governments was worse than what happened in the Baltic States in 1948 (Operation Vesna in Lithuania) and 1949 (Operation Priboi in all three nations)then you really need to reexamine the events. The re-imposition of communist rule on the Baltic States, western Ukraine, and Moldova involved the massive deportation of civilians to Siberia. There is nothing equivalent in Italy and Greece.
According to wikipedia, 10,000 people were arrested in the first day of the Greek coup of 1967.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source. But, 1967 is far removed from 1948 and 1949 which was the period under discussion. However, 10,000 is quite small compared to the hundreds of thousands of victims in the Baltic states especially since Greece had considerably more people than Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia put together. To make your analogy of Greece being worse in the proper time period you need to show about 1 million arrests and several hundred thousand deaths as a result during the late 1940s not the 1960s.
1948&49 were immediate post-war years, right after the most brutal war of the modern times. Tens of thousands of collaborators (very loosely defined) were executed in France, for example. That doesn't prove anything at all.
Debatable at best.
Why, exactly, is it "debatable at best" to claim that Italy and Greece, if they had been subsumed into the Soviet empire, would have looked more or less like the other European countries that did so?
Because, joe, we're talking about victory at the ballot box, not being conquered by the USSR. Yugoslavia, to take one example, was a European communist state not "subsumed into the Soviet empire". Communist victories at the polls in Greece would not have meant T-72s rolling through the streets of Athens.
Yugoslavia during its early days despite its independence from the USSR was extremely brutal. Among other things most of the ethnic German population were put into concentration camps by the early Tito regime. Some were also shipped off for forced labor in the USSR. There were also some brutal massacres of Croatians and Slovenes during Tito's early rule. Even after Tito's reforms after 1948, the regime still imprisoned dissidents and poets and had an official campaign by UDBA to assassinate Croation emigres in Europe and the Americas.
Of course, you sort of forget that in 1944, Stalin was our ally and the US had been providing Stalin plenty of aid to fight Germany.
I would also point out that many American "thinking people" continued supporting Hitler and the Nazis, despite the German remilitarization of the Ruhr, the annexation of the Saarland and even saw no problems with the annexation of Austria or the Sudetenland. And just as many Britons were supportive of the Germans pretty much right up until the beginning of the Blitz (despite the evacuation of Dunkirk and other British military defeats and/or setbacks), so too were many Americans solidly pro-German right up to Pearl Harbor.
Didnt forget at all that Stalin was an ally. But it was apparent that he and the Soviet Union would not always be an ally and that it was necessary to start preparing for the world after Germany and Japan were defeated. The nature of Stalin and the Soviet Union were apparent to anyone who chose to look. The Wallace view, that Stalin could be trusted and wasn't different than our other allies like Britain and France, was delusional.
As far as supporting Germany, you're right that, as of 1940, there were considerable portions of this country that supported Hitler and considerable portions that supported Stalin. They did so despite the massive evidence that both were bloodthirsty killers and tyrants of an unprecedented sort
Wallace would've been a great President. FDR's new deal policies combined with someone with a scientific background. Imagine if those massive public investments in science hadn't just gone into better rockets for ICBMs, and the President hadn't been rolled into supporting a massive 'defense' state.
That Wallace then believed the post-war Czech people feared a resurgent Germany more than the Soviet Union is inexplicable. FDR did well when he bounced him from the ticket in '44.
That Wallace then believed the post-war Czech people feared a resurgent Germany more than the Soviet Union is inexplicable
Is it? As far as i know the communist party used fears of Germany as one of the instruments of their takeover in Chzechoslovakia.
The Czechs had very little reason to trust the West either way.
The thing about Wallace in 1948 is this: he expected a large number of New Deal liberals who were disillusioned with Truman to support him. But few did (Rexford Tugwell was one of the few exceptions). So he had to depend for his support on Communists and people close to the CP. These were the only people who were willing to do the hard work involved in organizing a new party, getting it on the ballot etc. And as his dependence on the Communists increased, even more liberals used it as an excuse to repudiate the third party and back Truman as the "lesser evil." Which in turn made Wallace even more dependent on the CP and CP-aligned unions in the left wing of the CIO. It was truly a vicious cycle. Even if he had wanted to repudiate the Communists in 1948, he couldn't, because his new party was dependent on them.
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Dances are being fine tuned and lines are almost learned, sets are up and props acquired but one job was still needing to be done – shave the Dame!
So the director Eleanor Ellis and the musical director Vickie Burns took the drastic step of forcing the Dame to lose his beard during last Sunday's rehearsal.
The group have been incredibly successful over the last few years, winning lots of awards at the Wharfedale Festival of Theatre – including the award last year for best Dame for Paul Jennings who plays the Dame again this year.
Joining the now clean-shaven Dame on stage are stalwarts Andy and Vickie Burns, last year's baddie Emma Turner turns regal as the Queen of Gooseland and a few of the cast from 2011 (the year the group won best panto) also return. Charles Arrowsmith plays the miserly Squire, Lauren Ellis plays Zoe Goose and Richard Vaughan once again plays the villain as the Demon Discontent.
They also welcome some newcomers. Lucy Hunter Rowe has the role of the good fairy and Chris Lloyd appears next to Richard Hunter Rowe as the wonderful comedy duo. The Dame and group chairman Paul Jennings said: "We are extremely proud of the success over the last few years, winning best panto at the Wharfedale Festival twice in three years is a real achievement.
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Wolverine's Hugh Jackman replaces one pair of sideburns for another in a movie adaptation of the smash-hit musical Les Miserables. He talks to Susan Griffin about tackling the role of a lifetime.
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If you've been known to lather up and enjoy a good old sing-song in the bathroom, then you're in good company.
"I always sing in the shower," says a smiling Hugh Jackman. "I sing most days of my life and the shower's where I spend a good 10 minutes."
He showcases his vocal prowess in the much-anticipated movie adaptation of the long-running musical Les Miserables, playing the story's protagonist, Jean Valjean.
"You follow him for a 20-year span, and throughout that time you see all the ups and downs, the pain and the ecstasy that life brings," says Jackman, who puts in a tour de force performance as the reformed convict which has already garnered him a Golden Globe nomination.
"Valjean's like a Hamlet; he's one of those parts that you hope one day you're going to get to play apart from in your bathroom."
Although best known for his movie roles, notably as X-Men's Wolverine, Jackman, 44, boasts an impressive theatrical background, having starred in productions such as Sunset Boulevard and Oklahoma. Only recently he performed a one-man show on Broadway. He even got to do a few song and dance numbers at the Academy Awards four years ago.
"All the things I've done leading up to [Les Miserables] whether it be on stage or in film, I feel came together in this role. It's the role of a lifetime," says the Australian native, looking ruggedly handsome in a blue jumper and dark trousers.
"I've been in musical theatre for a number of years and I've done movies for a number of years, so there have been two sides of my career that's felt slightly schizophrenic," he explains.
"For a long time I've wanted to combine the two and I'd dreamt of being in a movie musical."
But the Emmy and Tony-award winning actor didn't think a big screen adaptation of Les Miserables was possible.
"It's been around 27 years, it's so iconic and the idea it could be made into a film wasn't even on my radar," he says of the production that's been seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and 21 languages.
Then Jackman's agent heard a potential movie was in the pipeline.
"I immediately rang Cameron [Mackintosh, the theatre producer] and said, 'Oh my God, I've got to do this'.
"Then I rang Tom Hooper and said, 'I need a meeting'. I've never been so aggressive going for a part," he says, grinning.
The Oscar-winning director, fresh from his success with The King's Speech, agreed to meet.
"I came into the room and I was like, 'Mate, I'm so excited, I really want to audition for you', and Tom went, 'Woah!'" recalls Jackman, laughing. "He hadn't even signed on [to the film] yet but was thinking about it.
"Anyway, I auditioned for him about a month later and the rest is history."
The director has since described Jackman as "a genius at both acting and singing", but he cringes at the mention of this.
"Good actors don't know that stuff but it's very kind of him to say that," says Jackman, who has two adopted children - Oscar, 12 and Ava, seven - with his wife of 16 years, Deborra-Lee Furness.
"I've certainly learnt from some incredible people. Theatre director Trevor Nunn, who I've done two musicals with, really taught me how to make a lyric of a song feel like dialogue, so it's not just a pretty song any more."
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo and set against the social and political upheavals of 19th century France, Les Miserables is an epic tale about broken dreams, unrequited love and a timeless testament to the endurance of the human spirit.
It begins with prisoner Valjean being released by Javert (Russell Crowe), an officer in charge of the convict workforce who tasks himself with hunting Valjean down when he later breaks his parole and vanishes.
"There's the old adage that great actors make other actors look good, so trust me if you're ever in a movie and you can get Russell opposite you it's a good thing," says Jackman, who credits his fellow Aussie co-star for mentoring him early in his career.
Crowe also recommended Jackman as his replacement when he turned down the role of Wolverine.
"It was one of the great, most generous acts for me I could imagine," says Jackman, who looked to his father, Chris, for inspiration in creating Valjean.
"My father's quite a religious man but, like Valjean, wasn't really religious growing up, and then when he was about 30 had some kind of an epiphany and was converted," says Jackman, who's talked openly about the fact it was left to his father to raise him and his four siblings when their mother walked out.
"I never heard him talk about religion," says Jackman. "He said once, 'Religion you talk about means nothing, religion that's in your actions means everything'."
Though Jackman's bulked up for a series of action roles, the 6ft 2in star insists Les Miserables was one of the most physically demanding roles he's ever undertaken - not least because Hooper wanted him to look unrecognisable in the opening scenes.
"What you can do on film that you can't do on stage, obviously, is show the expanse of time and Valjean's an incredible internal, as well external, transformation," says Jackman.
"He starts as a prisoner filled with hate and even though he's strong, he's emaciated with his head shaved and a long beard, so we just went for it and I lost a lot of weight."
Then the story moves on eight years and Valjean's reinvented himself as a respected mayor and factory owner, which meant Jackman needed to put 15kgs back on.
"That bit was fun," he adds with a grin.
Unusually for a movie musical, the cast - which includes Anne Hathaway as factory worker turned prostitute Fantine, Eddie Redmayne as politically-minded student Marius and Amanda Seyfried as Valjean's ward Cosette - sang live on set.
For that reason Hooper insisted on an intense nine-week rehearsal period before the cameras started rolling.
"Normally on a film, rehearsals can be a little half-hearted but it wasn't like that. Tom was literally moving his chair to be three feet away from us and we did a lot of exploring, which made us really focused on set," says Jackman.
"I remember on day one of rehearsals, Russell said, 'Man this is what you wait for, this is the feeling', because we knew we were doing something that's never been done before. It had that frisson in the air."
But while he enjoyed every minute of the experience, he admits he's never had a role "require more of me, or take as much of an emotional commitment".
It's why he'd spend quiet evenings indulging in a new found passion for jigsaws, not only to wind down but to preserve his voice.
"It's not a sexy pastime but I really enjoyed it. I'd light a fire, do some pastoral mountain scene and find myself engrossed in it," he reveals, before adding with a grin: "Not very rock 'n' roll, is it!"
Extra time - Les Miserables :: Les Miserables opened at the Barbican Theatre on October 8, 1985.
:: In 2006, it surpassed Cats as world's longest-running musical.
:: The movie rights were sold 25 years ago but the option lapsed and the rights reverted to Cameron Mackintosh who agreed this time round, with the assurance the actors would sing live.
:: Anne Hathaway follows in her mother's footsteps playing the tragic heroine Fantine.
:: Eddie Redmayne sang his big solo number Empty Chairs At Empty Tables more than 20 times to ensure he'd nailed it.
:: Les Miserables is released in cinemas on Friday, January 11


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One of my client has an existing facebook (business) account and he wants to integrate his wall feeds into his website. And that involves of create an app at the developer's page. I also realized that it's impossible to create an app with a business account on Facebook.
So the only solutions that i can thought of is to create a Personal Facebook account from a business account and i'm not sure if that's possible and how could that be done.
I couldn't find any options that allows me to create a personal account from a business account. Does anyone know if there is any solutions for this situation? Because creating multiple account for the same user is violating facebook's term of use. And my client doesn't want to lost his followers / fans either.
Thanks for your attention
A business and a personal account are not the 'same user'. Personal accounts are for individuals and Facebook pages are for groups and businesses. You can create a Facebook page for a business, a group, and an individual account without violating Facebook's TOU. It is my understanding that using a personal page to promote your business is dodgy both for their TOU and your followers.
Hi Shyflower,
Thank you for your feedback. However, we're not trying to use a personal account to promote a business thou. What i want to achieve is to create a personal account within the business account which has created and use that personal account as a developer to create app for the business page. So two accounts are completely irrelevant at all. I couldn't find any better solutions to create app for the business account which has already created.
Thank you.
Hi everyone,
I just had another thought but not 100& sure how it can be done.
What i think i can do is login into the business account and add someone (another account) as a admin role and create an app. My concern will be how am i going to use the app id / access token for the business account's page? cause the app ID that i've generated from different account doesn't have anything to do with the business account right?
Please advices. thank you
Found another solution by myself.
Solutions:Login to Business account and assigned admin role (manager) to a different facebook personal account (who must liked the page first or else it won't work). Then create an app and integrated as "page tab". And it works.
Great to hear you have found a slution on your own.. Just a little thought, you can access almost everything that your 'admin' can access, because first of all, you are the owner of that page.. When you create a personal account, which is not a business account, you can create a page that is actually integrated in your personal account- meaning, you can access this page by simple logging into your personal account. There is a tab on the lower left side of the your home page directing you to the page that you have created. You are the admin so you can do whatever you want. However, if you wish, you can still have somebody else to be the admin.
I'm sorry but I don't think that's possible. I've tried that before as well but it never happened. There might be a small chance that you may get to do what your client wants you to, you just got to ask Facebook about it if it is indeed possible because that is a tough one.
What I will suggest you is to actually create a personal account, then create a page from it.
Merge the existing facebook page with the new page.
you can check this post on how to merge two facebook pages
Then create a tab on the page and insert your content using static HTML.
You can also use developers and create a facebook application.
The application can't be integrated inside the page but it is something every1 can access.
You can create your personal account by using the business account you can use the exchange link in your profile.
you can create a separate account and give admins rights of your page to that newly created account.
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You can use your personal facebook account or anyother account then make a page to promote the business of your client.You can share it with your friends and can get maximum likes for that.


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In one sense, campaigns are doing a more sophisticated version of what they've always done through the post office — sending political fliers to selected households. But the Internet allows for more subtle targeting. It relies not on email but on advertisements that surfers may not realize have been customized for them.
Campaigns use voters records to assemble lists of people they're trying to reach — for instance, "registered Republicans that have made a donation," Yahoo's director of sales Andy Cotten told ProPublica. Microsoft and Yahoo help campaigns find these people online and then send them tailored ads.
These messages don't just pop up in Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. Because Microsoft and Yahoo operate huge networks that provide advertising on some of the most popular web destinations, targeted ads can appear when a voter visits a swath of different sites.
Microsoft and Yahoo said they safeguard the privacy of their users and do not share their users' personal information directly with the campaigns. Both companies also said they do not see the campaigns' political data, because the match of voter names and registration data is done by a third company. They say the matching is done to target groups of similar voters, and not named individuals.
According to Microsoft, President Obama's re-election campaign has recently done this kind of targeting, and both national political parties have done so previously.
The marketing site ClickZ, the Wall Street Journal, Slate and others have previously noted the ability of campaigns to target online ads to specific groups of voters. But what has not been detailed is which companies are now making the targeting possible by providing users' personal information — and which have decided it's off-limits.
Google and Facebook told ProPublica they do not offer this kind of political matching service.
Google's privacy policy classifies political beliefs as "sensitive personal information," which should not be used for online ad targeting. Facebook does allow political campaigns to target political advertisements, but only on the basis of political beliefs reported by the users themselves, rather than information culled from their voting records.
Jules Polonetsky, a former chief privacy Officer at AOL, and now the director of the Future of Privacy Forum, said political targeting has grown more aggressive in recent years.
Polonetsky recalls conversations within the online ad industry about "not wanting to do things like targeting users based on donor history" because "all of that was considered far too sensitive and likely to alarm users and set off privacy concerns."
"Today, those barriers have been leapt over with abandon," he said.
Industry experts argue targeted advertising can help campaigns save money by advertising more efficiently, a factor that could level the playing field for smaller campaigns.
Privacy advocates note that there's no way to track what messages campaigns are showing to different targeted groups — or whether politicians may be pandering to different voters.
"Whenever a campaign or other big organization knows much more about you and your habits than you know about them, any voter is open to manipulation," said Chris Calabrese, the privacy lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Neither presidential campaign would comment on how it targets voters.
"We have no interest in telling our opponents our digital strategy," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Katie Hogan. "However, this campaign has always and will continue to be an organization that respects and takes care to protect information that people share with us."
Mitt Romney's campaign, which also uses sophisticated microtargeting tactics, did not respond to requests for comment. Targeted Victory, a firm that specializes in digital political targeting, had done nearly $4 million of work for Romney's presidential campaign as of March. Targeted Victory's advertised services include reaching voters online using voter registration data. The company's co-founder, Zac Moffat, currently serves as the Romney campaign's digital director. Neither Moffat nor Targeted Victory would comment on whether the Romney campaign is using voter records to reach potential supporters online.
Microsoft would answer questions about its targeting services only through a public relations spokesperson, who also asked that her name not be used. Microsoft's chief privacy officer, Brendon Lynch, did not respond to requests for comment.
Yahoo would not comment on specific clients, but said it has worked with Democrats and Republicans.
The Republican National Committee worked with both Yahoo and AOL to match Internet users to voter lists in 2007, according to Becki Donatelli, co-founder of Connell Donatelli, one of the most prominent Republican digital strategy firms. Contacted by ProPublica, AOL would not explain how its targeting service works.
The Republican National Committee also wouldn't provide details about its practices, but a spokeswoman said, "Targeting is one part of a larger playbook we have and will continue to employ. We follow legal guidelines and industry best practices." The Democratic National Committee did not respond to requests for comment.
When you see an online ad, you may assume it's comparable to a billboard — identical to everyone who walks by. But that's not the case for many ads. In the milliseconds it takes for a page to load, advertisers can identify a particular user visiting a site, and choose ads to display based on what they know about that user.
For instance, surfers may be shown a shoe ad if they recently visited a shoe site. Most of this sort of targeting doesn't require your name. Political targeting does. Campaigns may want to reach only reliable party members, or independents who might swing their way.
In order to do this, campaigns assemble lists of names from public records of voters they hope to reach, using such criteria as party registration, turnout history and previous donations. The campaigns often hire companies that harvest vast amounts of consumer data about individual Americans, further refining their voter lists with factors not publicly available such as income, education, magazine subscriptions, and purchasing habits.
Finding voters online is difficult, since no public record connects voters to a particular Internet address.
That's where Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and other lesser-known companies come in. Their enormous stores of registration data can serve as the bridge between particular Internet users and their voter information.
Online advertising is delivered with the help of cookies, tiny files that companies place on surfers' browsers. Cookies can be used to track people as they move from site to site, helping specialized firms most users have never heard of create detailed records of the sites users visit and the links they click. This tracking is typically done through anonymous ID numbers; the tracking firms and advertisers don't know you by name.
Microsoft and Yahoo's targeting service combines two crucial factors: their knowledge of users' personal information and their ability to add cookies to browsers. Over the years, Internet users have given these companies their name when they signed up for free programs like the Microsoft suite of services known as Windows Live, which includes Hotmail. (Microsoft said it does not sell campaigns access to information users provide when they register for Office or other Microsoft products they've bought.)
Microsoft and Yahoo both said the cookies aren't connected directly to names or other personally identifying information. Instead, they use a complicated process to match coded voter information back to anonymous cookies on particular users' browsers.
But many parts of the process remain unclear since the companies were reluctant to explain the details of their matching and targeting.
Microsoft said that the credit reporting giant Experian performs a "double-blind" match between Microsoft's data and campaigns' data. Yahoo uses another massive data company, Acxiom. Both Experian and Acxiom also offer similar matching for commercial clients who want to find previous customers online.
"They don't need your permission to do this," said William McGeveran, a data privacy expert at the University of Minnesota Law School. As long as a company has not explicitly promised users not to do this kind of matching, the process is legal for both political and commercial entities, McGeveran said.
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL all point out that users who don't want to be targeted can opt out.
"At AOL, we take privacy very seriously," Caroline Campbell, a company spokeswoman, wrote in an email. "We strongly support self-regulation, consumer transparency and choice, and responsible uses of data."
The Network Advertising Initiative, an industry group, offers a one-page site that allows users to turn off targeted advertising from a long list of prominent companies. Another industry group, the Digital Advertising Alliance, also offers a one-page opt-out site.
But you need to realize you're being tracked before you can decide whether to opt out.
Under the online ad industry's self-regulations, most targeted ads are marked with a tiny blue triangle and a phrase like "Ad Choices." Web surfers can click on this icon, read some general information about targeted ads, and find a link to a page that will allow them to opt out of receiving such ads in the future. Few ever notice or understand the symbol.
Speaking to an industry audience at the CampaignTech conference in Washington, D.C., in April, Cotten, from Yahoo, said less than one percent of Yahoo's users have chosen to opt out of targeted advertising.
"Most users are not even cognizant that they're being targeted," he said.
Nor are the companies' privacy policies much help.
Microsoft's privacy policy makes no mention of matching people's names and Zip codes against voter lists.
The Microsoft online privacy highlights page notes that the company collects users' personal information, and that "We use the information we collect to provide the services you request. Our services may include the display of personalized content and advertising." Like Yahoo and other companies, Microsoft's privacy policy is broken up over several different Web pages.
In an "advertising privacy supplement" Microsoft explains it may target ads using data from other companies, as well as "demographic or interest data, including any you may have provided when creating a Windows Live ID (e.g. age, ZIP or postal code, gender)." It does not say whether it classifies users' first and last names as "demographic or interest data."
"You are in charge of deciding whether we know anything about you," Microsoft explains elsewhere. "But the more you tell us about yourself, the more we can help you find information or products you want."
Yahoo's more straightforward privacy policy on data matching explains that the company may combine its users' personally identifiable information with information from other companies in order to customize ads. It names CampaignGrid, a political targeting firm, as one company that helps Yahoo! "provide more relevant content and advertising." Yahoo told ProPublica users' registration data is "consensually provided."
AOL's advertising privacy policy explains that it may customize ads "by using the registration data or other household data you have provided or that we have acquired from other companies."
The voter matching process is still far from perfect. Blaise Hazelwood of Grassroots Targeting, a Republican firm, said that the process is expensive, and that it's typically only possible to locate 20 to 40 percent of a given list of voters online in a typical matching process.
"You're not getting everyone," she said, "but the people you get, it's great."
Hazelwood was one of the first to use this tactic. She worked with Resonate, a data and targeting company, to deliver online ads to groups of Louisiana voters during Bobby Jindal's 2007 gubernatorial campaign.
In a 2008 campaign supporting a California proposition to ban gay marriage, Republican firm Connell Donatelli targeted online ads at registered Democrats over the age of 55, Kate Kaye of Clickz News first reported. One of the firm's strategists compared online voter matching to "a stealth bomber."
This spring, the Federal Trade Commission, which maintains the national "Do Not Call" registry, called for Web companies to implement a "Do Not Track" mechanism "that would provide a simple, easy way for consumers to control the tracking of their online activities."
Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have agreed to implement "Do Not Track," but how exactly websites and advertisers will have to respond to the setting isn't clear.
In a surprise move, Microsoft recently made "Do Not Track" the default setting for the latest version of Internet Explorer browser, a decision that has received fierce pushback from the advertising industry and a key policy group.
Defending its stance, Microsoft's chief privacy officer last week cited a recent Pew study that found that 68 percent of respondents "were 'Not OK' with targeted advertising."
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This could be OK if we could also be given access to what the politicians are REALLY thinking.
But I haven't seen any news about hell freezing over so far.
I see nothing wrong with it as long as both sides get the same info.
We as americans are stupid, yes stupid, if we believe the garbage we see or hear these days. Also, are we commoners so nieve to believe these sites aren't fighting for every advantage to be domanant.. If our political world is doing it what makes anyone think this isn't going on in the private sector? And pushing the law to it's limits and even beyond.
As for this Here is what I have to say about my company but don't say who reveiled this? Would you risk your job by reveiling sensative info about whom you work for?
I am aware of this because on almost any website I visit, but especially on my e-mail which uses the Yahoo portal, I am constantly being harassed by ads for Barack Obama. They certainly do not have a blue triangle which would let me opt out of receiving them. I find this extremely irritating but console myself that he is using part of his huge financial industry re-election slush fund in vain as I would not vote for him under any circumstances, no matter who was running against him.
The disparity in the "arms race" is increasingly infuriating. We're forced to surrender more information for access to (sometimes required) services and content, with a government and private sector that's more and more tight-fisted with its own information.
And there are two fundamental flaws with the microtargetting approach.
Preaching to the choir is a stupid way to spend advertising money. If someone's registered for a particular party and donated to the campaign, it takes a true idiot to sell him on the candidate unless something has gone catastrophically wrong.
Also, we don't like advertising. Lots of us block it, because it's obnoxious, wastes bandwidth, and introduces security and privacy risks. I recommend it.
Personally, I'm waiting for the personal drone to follow me around to make sure I can't possibly miss the propaganda.
Of course, I guess when the alternative is actually engaging voters with real policy decisions and transparency is really hard, compared with firing up the Republican/Democrat tribal division. I also guess that it's hard to win on policy decisions when you're pretty obviously going to make exactly the same decisions as the other guy.
Americans for sale; and how does Microsoft or Yahoo think it's their right to allow or sell access to you? It's your right, and should be yours alone.
...and all targeted phishers are sent directly to "suspected phishers" bin for scanning and relayed to many other "safe" sites.
OMG!!! they are doing what Google has been doing for years, and when Facebook becomes too big to fail and the Government bails them out they will have access to all of your Information!!!
I have a lot to tell later in this regard. The head of head-less Prime Ministers of some Western countries know it very well - how Yahoo and Microsoft is partially owned by ugly an old boss or a group of businessmen in control of a manipulative system operated by some thugs in disguise and kings, which are protected by stinky old books of rotten laws that in reality have no respect for the Truth and natural justice.
May you please later visit: http://www.shahislam.com? Thanks ProPublica.
They can send as many adds as there are dollars and this includes political and commercial and I could care less! You see,I decide whom to vote for based on my review of the information about their voting record,business record and their general moral attitudes and this does not mean religous but how they view the ecology,freedom, the poor and other issues I support! As to commercial adds,I have a very good mute on the teley and a quick delete for pop-ups and all ads in general! As that great man,George Carlin once said:"Madison Ave.has been trying to sell us crap we do not need since the 1920's"!
Nowadays you can't avoid it because just to get a stupid email account you have to fill out all kinds of personal forms. Bullshit. Anyone know of any sites that don't share? This is getting over the top. And people wonder why ID fraud is exploding. Every website knows half of your history these days.
Make yourself impervious to online trackers, install dnt+.
Problem solved.
It's a sad day when email services demand more info than credit card companies or the loan officer at your bank.
no wonder I'm getting all this unwanted solicitation.
I would pay $10.00 a month to find out the same information on all of the politicians in an election year. I want to know where Nuncy Pelosi and other politicians shop and what she/others buys and where she/others invest. I bet they would tighten the privacy laws if that information were made available to the public.
Pros: Targeting provides a more relevant advertising experience. Being a man, how often should I be forced to look at advertisements for Summer's Eve Douche or Tampax Tampons? Likewise Republican vs. Democrat. They want to touch issues that will motivate the voters to turn-out and participate.
Cons: It can seem a bit creepy.
But let's get the real issue here: The threat against our privacy is not likely as big with Yahoo/Microsoft/Google/Facebook… it's with our government: TSA, Big Sis, Domestic drones, and the New NSA data center in Utah.
@ JoeX51 re: "they will have access to all of your Information" - read the terms…. it's not your information! It's FB's or Google's, or whatever website you visit.
Perhaps a billion dollar lawsuit filed against Microsoft, Yahoo, the RNC, and DNC for invasion of personal privacy and soliciting for PII and selling same PII, would get their attention.
There is more to this than you think - pay atention sometime - notice that when you email someone you'll often get spam email within the next few minutes with a portion of their name in it or sometimes regarding some topic you discussed in your email… it's down right scary soemtimes - I only noticed it because some of my acquantences have unusual names and then just a few minutes later I get a spam email caught in my junk box form someone with the same name… or uncommon key words that I used itn he earlier email show up int he subject lines of junk email and you open it and it has nothign to do with that subject…
What's to sell. I will be voting against Obama. I would vote for a dead cat before I'd vote for Obama. Can I make this any clearer to any politician out there? Idiots.
This kind of abuse by insatiably greedy advertising companies will lead to regulations and controls being put on the internet, and they will have only themselves to blame.
Today, anyone who believes privacy to be anything other than an illusion is a complete fool.
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I don't get any (email) ads at all from using Shaw mail (Canada) but my friend who uses Google gmail does… Also get no ads while surfing with the adblocker resident house geek installed. Cross my fingers that it lasts for a bit.
I use Do Not Track Plus. As a reluctant consumer who is adverse to buying junk, they are wasting time and energy on me.
I don't go for this Shit…
David, I'm not sure we share the same definition of benefit. Partly, that's because I'm not going to buy something purely because it's advertised—does anybody?
But mostly, I don't see an upside to someone (government or corporate) deciding what I should and should not see. I don't need to be shielded from the apparently-horrific world of feminine hygiene products or political messages I don't agree with. I don't think I should be. If there's ever a need, I can turn away on my own, and don't need my mother to cover my eyes for me.
Mary, the theory is that you're exchanging that right for access to their service. And "if you don't like it, go somewhere else." They also don't need to care about civil liberties, because they're not a government, which is something I hope changes, given the control companies have over our lives.
It's also getting worse, because the major ISPs signed an agreement with the big media companies to start monitoring and policing your downloads for pirated material. Considering that my ISP a few years back tried to bust me for downloading the crappy Tom Cruise "War of the Worlds" movie when I was downloading the (long public domain) novel, this'll be loads of fun.
(And I'm sure that information will be sold, too.)
Needless to say, I'm looking for an alternative ISP that wasn't a party to such a thing. If anybody has recommendations for the Long Island area that aren't Cablevision or Verizon…
Adblock is your friend. Do Not Track Plus is your *best* friend.
By the way, DNT+ shows eight ad networks, social networks, or companies tracking you on this very page.
Et tu, Pro Publica?
To be fair, this is exactly the same way Internet advertising is sold to businesses, and anyone else who will pay.
I have noticed ads following me around, political and commercial. Frankly I expect it and reconciled to ignoring them, don't even notice them anymore. Advertisers are free to waste their money trying to get my attention; the more they send the less I see. Especially all those Obama ads which have long ceased getting my attention. They are truly over-reaching beyond stupidity.
I ignore most of the ads. Those that I can't ignore, I add to my "do not buy" list.
So what? Stopped by the police on the road you gotta show your ID, Driver's license if driving. Name, address, citizenship. Every page sees who is selling you internet service and has every bit of personal info ur server does. Has no one ever went to a website that showed the town the visitor was coming from? Have you never had a 'counter' that shows who is looking at your page or blog and where THEY are?
Ever been pissed that no one pays any attention to what you say and think? Well, now they can and do. On the internet. One day, I will not be here anymore. Will you?
its incredible that this article does not mention 2 or 3 of the web sites/programs that people can use to check which companies are snooping on and sharing information about people
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