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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL: Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. I'm sorry we had to move this one day, but nonetheless, it's been a slow news week for you. I know you've been looking for something to do and to report on.
Let me begin by making an announcement regarding a nomination that the president is going to make, and that is a change of command for our forces in Korea. General Curt Scaparrotti is going to be nominated by the president to replace General J.D. Thurman in Korea. And we're very proud of that announcement; I know the president is. And General Dempsey may want to address that in a little more detail, since he's worked very closely with General Scaparrotti. We'll have more to say about that announcement as we go on and as the president makes his formal nomination.
But let me just note a couple of things about General J.D. Thurman. He has done a tremendous job for our country, for our forces of that region. He has credibility. The confidence that people have in him everywhere is really pretty special. He's been there, as you all know, at a very uncertain time. And his steady, wise leadership has really counted, so I wanted to note that, and, as I said, we'll have more to say about both those -- those generals at the appropriate time.
Yesterday, as you all know, I participated in a meeting with the prime minister of Turkey, with the president, vice president, Secretary Kerry, and others. Long meeting, very productive meeting, good meeting. If you want to talk about any of that, I'd be glad to respond to any of the questions you have.
This morning, General Dempsey and I hosted the Turkish minister of defense and foreign minister for about an hour-and-a-half, and we talked about many -- certainly the regional issues and followed up on a number of points that were made in the meeting with the Turkish prime minister and President Obama yesterday and would be glad to respond to any of those questions.
This afternoon, after this news conference, I -- I will host the French minister of defense. And we will spend a considerable amount of time talking about different mutual interests in NATO and certainly what we're doing together in a number of areas. And so if you want to pursue any of that, I'd be glad to respond.
Before I ask General Dempsey for his comments and we take your questions, just a couple of updates on the sexual assault issue. You all know that General Dempsey and I met with the president, the vice president yesterday, as well as our senior enlisted and officer leadership in the U.S. military. I thought it was a very important, productive meeting.
It was important because it gave the president an opportunity to ask questions directly, and get the sense of this huge problem, serious problem in our military, ask questions of the military leadership.
The military leaders in that room answered and responded and, at the president's invitation, gave I thought very honest evaluations of what they thought about the issue and clearly articulated what we're all going to do, and are doing, to address it.
It was also important for our leadership, our military leadership, to hear from the president on this. The president was very constructive. He was very clear. There wasn't anybody in that room who wasn't disappointed and embarrassed and didn't recognize that we've in many ways failed.
But we all have committed to turn this around, and we're going to fix the problem. As the president said in his comments after that meeting, there's no silver bullet. This is going to take all of us.
The problem will be solved here, in this institution, and we will -- we will fix it and we will do everything we need to do to fix it. There's not a military leader who was in that room who's not completely committed to that. These are men who -- and women in our services who have devoted their lives to this institution and to the men and women who serve this country. So no one understands the depth of this more or more concerned or more committed to fix it than -- than those people in that room with -- with the president. And I will be glad to respond to any particular questions on that.
This morning, I had the first meeting with the congressionally mandated sexual review panel that was mandated in the FY [fiscal year] 13 National Defense Authorization Act, which I think you're generally familiar with. I noted a few days ago that I had selected the final five panelists. It's a nine-panel review board, four selected by the Congress, five selected by me. We had about an hour-long telephonic meeting this morning to go over what the expectations were, what the president's expectations were, what -- what my expectations are, what the Congress's expectations are.
And I think we've -- you've all seen the membership, they're all highly respected, highly regarded, experienced men and women who understand cultures, society, command, and I think it's an exceptionally well-balanced group of men and women who we look to, to help us. And they are charged with reviewing everything we're doing and then coming up with recommendations to the Congress and to me and to our military leadership on what we need to do to fix it, how can we fix it. And they will have their first meeting physically impaneled -- most likely it'll be in this building -- next month. We're putting that together. So if you want to get into any of that here in a minute, I'll be glad to.
Also, I wanted to note that this afternoon, after the meeting with the French minister of defense, I will hold my first weekly review and progress meeting on the sexual assault directives that I started about a month-and-a-half ago. It's not good enough to say we have a zero-tolerance policy. We do, but what's that mean? How does that translate into changing anything?
And I want to know -- and I'll get weekly briefs. They will be on my schedule, in my office. I'll chair the meeting. What are we doing? What did we do? How do we continue to break through this? It's just not good enough for people to walk out of my office and say, "Well, we're doing it." I want to know how it's being done, and I want to know everything about it. Who's being held accountable?
And I just signed off on a directive here today on another part of this, and that is the recertification and the review and the retraining of everyone associated with the United States military who has any responsibility for any sexual abuse offices, sexual protection offices, in any way dealing with this program across the board. It will be standardized in all the services.
And all our military recruiters, every military recruiter, regardless of the service, will undergo this. We've got timeframes on it. You will all be given, I think, copies of the directive here after the conference, so you'll see exactly what I said. But that was signed off on today.
There will be more of these directives. There will be more action. You know a number of the things that I've done, we've done.
And I might add, because I ask General Dempsey for his comments, this wasn't done just independent of everybody else. I've spent a tremendous amount of time with the chiefs on this, the secretaries. Chairman Dempsey has led on this.
This problem can't be fixed by the secretary of defense alone. I can direct it. I can hold people accountable. And I will. The president's held me accountable for it. And there's not one of these people in leadership today that wants this to be their legacy. And so we will continue to work this, and we'll work it hard. It is as big a priority as I have, for obvious reasons.
Our force structure is the core of who we are. It's the fabric of our system. No matter how many new technologies we employ and how much the quality of our technology and our weaponry gives us an edge -- and it does -- no matter how much money we have, it won't work unless your people make it work. And so it has to be at the center of our focus of leadership and our priorities.
So with that, let me ask General Dempsey for his comments and then we'll open it up.
GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I can think of no finer officer to be promoted to general and to take command of U.S. Forces Korea than Mike Scaparrotti. Scap's an exceptionally competent leader with the moral character to match. Like our current commander, General J.D. Thurman, he's extraordinary well-suited to sustaining our strong alliance with the Republic of Korea.
Scap's quiet confidence has delivered success throughout his career, whether as deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan or, most recently and currently, as the director of the Joint Staff. As my director, he has helped advance my priorities to include our urgent work to eliminate sexual harassment and sexual assault from our ranks.
As I've said before, the risks inherent to military service must not include the risk of sexual assault. It betrays the trust on which our profession is founded. It's a crime that demands accountability and consequences.
And as you know, the Joint Chiefs have spent the better part of the last year implementing a campaign focused on prevention, investigation, accountability, advocacy and assessment. The additional actions recently directed by Secretary Hagel will strengthen those efforts.
The emphasis on prevention is especially important. As the president made clear to us yesterday, we can and must do more to change a culture that has become too complacent. Now's the time for us to recommit ourselves to our profession. Now's the time for character to be valued as much, if not more than competence. Now's the time for moral courage at every level. There can be no bystanders.
I remember my early years in the Army when racial issues and drug abuse tore at the fabric of our service. The Army was broken. With moral leadership and a recommitment to professionalism, we changed that course, we restored trust in the ranks, and trust among -- between us and the American people.
Today the joint force is not broken. In fact, it's remarkably resilient, something I spoke to last week when I was presenting the commencement address at Arizona State University. But we have a serious problem that we must solve, aggressive sexual behavior that rips at the bond of trust that binds us together.
We need -- actually, we must change course. Every single member of the joint force in every unit at every level must be alert to the problem and be part of the solution. Working together, we can and will restore faith in ourselves and the trust and faith of the American people. Thank you.
SEC. HAGEL: Bob?
Q: Mr. Secretary, you mentioned that the president said yesterday after your meeting that there is no silver bullet to fixing this problem, but what is your best bullet? And also, do you think that -- is there any reason to believe that alcohol use and/or abuse is part of this equation and there needs to be more attention to that?
And I've got a question, also, of the chairman. You were quoted the other day as saying that you see a connection between this problem and the effects of being at war for more than a decade. I wonder if you can elaborate on that. And also, with the war winding down, does that suggest in any way that this problem would wind down with it?
SEC. HAGEL: On your question regarding the use of alcohol, yes, alcohol does play a very big factor in sexual assault, not every case, but in many cases. And I don't have all of the demographics and all the metrics on this, but there's no question it does. That is a part of this, but -- and it can be used as an excuse, but it is -- it's part of the larger context of, why is this happening.
To your bigger question, what are our best bullets, well, as the president said yesterday, and I've said, and certainly our leadership, both at the enlisted and the office corps level, has said that this is -- and you've heard it -- this is cultural, this is an accountability issue. It's sometimes a structural issue. Are we going far enough up and down the chain of command?
There are so many dimensions to this that I don't think you can come at it in one simple way. You know, I -- I get a lot of advice on this, and I listen to everybody. Well, why don't you just fire some people? Well, yeah, we could do that. And, you know, who are you going to fire?
Now, the people who have been charged, they, as you all know, are moved out of their billets and the responsibility until they have due process. Where we can find people who have actually perpetrated these crimes and we prosecute, and so on, yes, we get rid of them. And -- but there's no simple way to come at this.
And so, you've got to come at in -- I think from the entire framework of starting with, why is this happening? And try to understand that. And there are a lot of dimensions to that. And the chiefs got into that with the president yesterday. Then you get into the reporting process.
Now, when you look at the -- those numbers that are essentially spiking, and I -- and I suspect they're going to continue to rise on the reporting, as Vice President Biden reminded us yesterday, there is a glimmer of hope in that. There's no good news in this, but there's a glimmer of hope, because in many cases -- and we're going back in and trying to understand this better and asking a lot of questions -- is at least there some new confidence being built out there and developed that, when people come forward and report something, that they have some assurance that, first of all, the victim will be treated fairly and -- and that there will be something done about it.
Then -- then you have the victim's rights here. The protection of those victims, what does a victim think about and expect if they -- before they come forward? Will they be treated fairly? That's part of it.
Then you -- then you've got to look at the prosecutorial side. Then you look at the penalty side. You look at all those pieces, and you can't take just one or two or three of them and -- and fix just one or two. It's -- it's everything.
That's why the panel, the outside independent review panel, is so important here, because as you all know, I think the last count I got this morning, there are 10 pieces of legislation in the House and the Senate that change components of -- of all this reporting and the structure and who's accountable and some of it -- even taking it out of the military command structure. And we're going to have to do something. We will do something. We're working with everybody.
But whatever we do, we want to make sure it's right, because there are consequences to whatever we do. And that's why the panel is so important. It was congressionally mandated. And we need to see what they come up with, and we're listening to everybody. We're talking to everybody. We're talking to other militaries, by the way, from around the world and -- and see what they think. The president noted that yesterday, and I told him that we were talking to different militaries around the world. How are they dealing with this? And what kind of command structure have they changed and what works? So I think it's all of those things, Bob. It isn't just one or two things.
GEN. DEMPSEY: Bob, at some level, this is actually a continuum of -- of a challenge we've had. You know, you were around in the mid-'90s when we had -- within a space of about 18 months in the mid-'90s we had Tailhook, Aberdeen, and a military academy scandal.
And then I think, you know, we went to war and maybe some of that was masked. And you asked, do I think that there's an effect of 10 years of war? Yeah, instinctively, I do. And we've been looking at what that might be.
And, you know, you might -- you might argue that we've become a little too forgiving because, you know, if a perpetrator shows up at a court martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, you know, there is certainly the risk that we might -- we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.
So we're looking for game-changers, really. And some of these congressional proposals could be game-changers. And so we want to make sure, as the secretary said, that as we take a look at the -- the proposals, that we understand how they fit together and, more importantly, how -- what are the second- and third-order effects?
Because, look, in our system, we give a commander life-and-death decision-making authority. I can't imagine going forward to solve this issue without commanders involved.
Q: Well, can I follow on that? Because if you listen to the women in the military who are sexually assaulted, they say the best thing that you can do to change this is to take this out of the commanders' hands, put this in civilian courts. They are afraid to talk to their commanders, because they know the men who are assaulting them. Are you considering at all changing that? And where do you all stand on that move?
And then I do have another question on Syria. We -- we've learned that Assad is being provided with anti-ship cruise missiles and that the Russians are putting a dozen or so extra ships in the Med [Mediterranean] off Tartus. Do you consider this a provocative act designed to sort of push the U.S. out of involvement in Syria?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I'll start on your first question. We're looking at everything. And we are listening to victims carefully, closely. And I addressed this in my -- in my first answer to -- to Bob's question about the rights of victims and what goes through their minds before they come forward. And are they afraid? Are they intimidated? Obviously, yes, yes, yes, on all those questions.
So we're looking at everything. We're not taking anything off the table. And we want to understand all that's best. So that -- that's what I've said, that's where I come down.
As to your Syrian questions, just a couple of general responses. One of the reasons -- one of the primary reasons that Secretary Kerry went to Moscow to meet with President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov was to talk about all of these issues and try to find some common ground that the Russians and the U.S. can come to, some intersection of interests, because we all have interest in the Middle East. What's happening there, everybody knows, is very, very dangerous.
And what we don't want to see happen, the Russians don't want to see happen, is for Syria to erupt to the point where we -- we may well find a regional war in the Middle East.
So we continue to work with the Russians on their interests and everything we can do to convince the powers that are involved in the region to be careful with escalation of military options and -- and equipment. We'll continue to work through that. So this is complicated, and I think I would leave my answer that way. And if General Dempsey wants to add anything...
GEN. DEMPSEY: Well, just on Syria, I mean, you know, it's at the very least an unfortunate decision that will embolden the regime and prolong the suffering. So as -- it's ill-timed and very unfortunate.
Q: Mr. Secretary...
Q: You're talking about which -- which missiles, the anti-ship...
GEN. DEMPSEY: The ship -- the ship missiles.
Q: So they have made clear, the Russians, that they're going to keep delivering missiles in accordance with arms sales they made years ago. How does that change -- and particularly I'm thinking about the S-300 air defense system -- how does that change your thinking about arming the rebels? And how does that complicate your planning for all of the military contingencies that you're planning for?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, we plan for every military contingency, as you know, and every option. As General Dempsey said, the escalation of weaponry in the Middle East is dangerous, and we are working with our partners in that area, as well as other countries, to make sure that whatever influence we have, that that doesn't continue.
General Dempsey made it very clear that, on the specific areas of the missiles, whatever else is involved with the Russians, does not help. It makes it more dangerous.
And I think, to summarize my thoughts on this, is that we continue to keep every option open, as the president has said. We are already doing a lot in Syria on the humanitarian side, on the non-lethal side. We are continuing to try to bring some consensus with all the different countries involved, the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries, others. A lot of the conversation with Prime Minister Erdogan yesterday and this morning and their entire delegation was about this issue.
And certainly my opinion that to -- to de-escalate, to find some common ground to assure that Syria doesn't disintegrate and the Middle East erupt into a regional war, we continue to obviously keep every option open and what further action we may take, but also working with the other players here.
GEN. DEMPSEY: Just on the -- on the shore-to-ship missile capability and the -- and the SA-300 system, there are more capable systems. The SA-300, for example, higher altitude, longer range, multiple tracking capability. It pushes the standoff distance a little more, increases risk, but not impossible to overcome. What I'm really worried about is that Assad will decide that, since he's got these systems, he's somehow safer and/or more prone to a miscalculation. So, you know, again, an unfortunate decision.
SEC. HAGEL: Yes.
Q: Yeah (inaudible) from Al Jazeera English television. One hundred days since the hunger strike began in Guantanamo, 102 detainees currently on -- making this protest. And I wondered, can you fill us in on what the department has done, what the overall military has done to try to address some of their concerns, to try -- what -- what is being done to try to end this hunger strike?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, first, we have a responsibility, an ethical responsibility, to assure the health and well-being of every detainee. And certainly, we're doing everything we can to do that.
As you know, President Obama noted a couple weeks ago that he is going to come back -- and he's in the process of that now -- to find some resolution to Guantanamo. And I think our role, the military's role there, is being handled with -- with as much responsibility as we should and need to with our detainees.
And so I think -- I'll ask General Dempsey if he's got any other thoughts, but we're doing everything we can to protect those detainees. And we do need a resolution to this. The president has said that, and he's working toward it.
GEN. DEMPSEY: The only thing I'd add is that, you know, the United States military guards Guantanamo, and our responsibility is clear. That is the -- the safe -- the well-being of the prisoners, the safety of both them and the guards, and that's our job. That's what we're doing. The rest of this is really policy decisions.
SEC. HAGEL: Okay.
Q: You talked a little bit earlier about looking at the various congressional proposals on sexual assault. Just to -- to follow up on Justin's, do you at this point support Senator Gillibrand's legislation to take sexual assault and battery cases out and put them in the hands of a prosecutor, as opposed to the chain of command? And what do you think about some of the new proposals by Senator Blumenthal about creating a victims compensation fund? Could that encourage people to come forward?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I've spoken to all of those senators a number of times, as many of our leaders have, on their proposals. We're working with their staffs on all their proposals. We're talking to all the members of Congress, both in the House and the Senate. And I've got two more conversations this afternoon on their proposals.
We are -- and I appreciate this -- we all do -- accommodating House and Senate members and working with them on what we think is workable, giving them our best assessment. They are listening, and they are giving us that opportunity. We are not taking any position on any bill, that this is our favorite bill or this is not our favorite bill. We're looking for components of all the legislation that we think make sense.
But I also would say that -- going back to what I noted earlier about the congressionally mandated panel, I would hope that we -- we would have some time here, everyone would have some time, to listen to what the panel comes back with. This was a congressionally mandated panel and give them some time here to go in and really assess the problem. Why do we have the problem? How can we prevent the problem? What should we be doing better? It may well end up those recommendations are exactly what -- one or two are the same way that Congress have been -- have proposed in their bill. So we're looking at all of it and working with all of them.
GEN. DEMPSEY: Yeah, I'm actually in receipt of a letter from Senator Levin and Senator Inhofe, Senate Armed Services Committee, asking me to provide my military advice on the specifics of those bills. And I'll -- I will communicate with them before I communicate with you.
SEC. HAGEL: Barbara?
Q: Mr. Secretary, you've talked a lot about the concept of accountability, but this isn't a new problem in the military. This has been going on for military women for some time. So what -- what's your philosophy, your decision-making about accountability? When do you hold someone accountable?
And with respect to both of you, the Joint Chiefs, as an organization, they -- they're in charge of training, and they know this problem's been going on for many years now. When do you hold somebody accountable on the senior level for -- I'll be very quick -- not getting the job done as you would if there was a major accident and lives were lost, if it was drugs, racism, attacks against gays in the military?
Very quick follow-up for General Dempsey on Syria. Should this -- given what you've said about your fear of a wider war, do -- do you recommend the Syrians be stopped militarily, if they have to be, from getting the S-300?
SEC. HAGEL: I think, when you come at this, as you noted, specifically focus on accountability. And I have. You're exactly right. I have felt -- by the way, it isn't just applicable to this issue. It's everything in life. If you don't have accountability, you don't have much. In fact, our Constitution, our country, our government was founded on accountability. It's why we have three coequal branches of government.
And what we're looking at in every way, many of the directives that I've given this week, two weeks ago, back a month-and-a-half ago, were focused -- if not every one of them -- on some element of accountability of every chain of command.
The division commander is in charge of that command. Regardless if there's a brigade commander, battalion commander, company commander, that connection has to work all the way up and down the line. We are looking at how we can do that better. We are -- one of the reasons we're going back and we're re-certifying everybody that I talked about earlier, the directive I gave -- formally gave today, announced a couple of days ago, is -- is to go back into that chain of command, go back into that accountability. The president talked about it. It is an essential component that somehow has been lacking or broken down. I don't know. But it is -- is a central part of how we fix the problem. There are other pieces, too.
Q: But the accountability (OFF-MIC) United States military on the issue of sexual assaults against military women and men, seems to me that is more than just -- I mean, that's an extraordinary thing for a secretary of defense to acknowledge. If accountability is lacking, what do you do about it?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I responded in the -- in the general sense of your question of accountability. The accountability of any institution, especially the discipline of the military -- and I'll let General Dempsey, who's devoted 39 years of his life to this, understands it far better than I do -- if any component of that breaks down, if it's lacking anywhere, there's going to be a problem.
Of course there's accountability in the military, or we wouldn't have a military. The chairman couldn't make decisions and the combatant commanders couldn't give orders. And if there wasn't accountability in the chain of command, things wouldn't happen. Of course there's accountability.
I was referring to the specific area of what's broken down in sexual assault, starting with reporting, starting with reporting, and the follow-through of that. And of course, we -- that -- that's a key part of anything to get to a resolution, how do you fix it?
Starting with some of the questions about victims saying -- and rightfully so -- that they didn't feel their commanders were accountable enough to be able to come forward and -- and register a complaint, file a complaint, because they thought they would be subject to many things, which is true, which has happened, and then also having no confidence that anything would be done about their complaint. So that's what I was referring to. And that needs to be addressed, as well as all the components of this.
GEN. DEMPSEY: You want the Syrian question?
GEN. DEMPSEY: Yeah. Well, first of all, they don't have these weapons systems. Syria doesn't have control of them.
GEN. DEMPSEY: Right. Right. If they have control of them, there -- there are several -- there are several capabilities that Syria has not used or potentially has not used responsibly, chemicals, long-range rockets, and missiles, and high-end air defense. And so the things that are in their control, we have options to deal with that. We -- we do not have options in any way to prevent the delivery of them.
Q: (OFF-MIC) delivery to Syria militarily?
GEN. DEMPSEY: I -- I didn't say that. I didn't say we couldn't. I said we do not have options to prevent the delivery of any military sales to the Syrians.
GEORGE LITTLE: Last question.
SEC. HAGEL: Yes?
Q: Actually, on -- on Syria, can you just both update us on -- you mentioned the humanitarian aid the U.S. has provided -- has there been any change in thinking on providing any lethal weapons to the -- the rebels since the last time we asked you?
And then also, General Dempsey, could you just clarify, earlier you were talking about -- to Bob's question about the war and any -- any impact that may have on sexual assaults. And you said that the military may have become a little bit too forgiving when they see someone walking in with all these awards and whatnot. Have you -- have you seen specific instances of that happening? I mean, presumably you have a lot more clarity on individual cases than we do. Are we seeing that as a problem?
GEN. DEMPSEY: You want me to go first?
SEC. HAGEL: Yeah.
GEN. DEMPSEY: You know, you never -- you -- you don't know what a panel -- what turns a panel as it deliberates. I mean, that's -- you know, you're not afforded the opportunity to go back and scrutinize it.
But what I am suggesting is that, after 10 years of war, there is the potential that we should examine whether -- whether we've become a little bit too forgiving, not just of -- of -- of sexual harassment, sexual assault, but of other forms of misconduct, as well.
So if you're -- what you're hearing me expressing is that -- is the commitment to try to gain a deeper understanding of what we're dealing with and -- and an instinct that suggests that 10 years of war might be a factor.
SEC. HAGEL: On your question, the answer is we -- we continue to look at every option, and we will. We have to. Every option is on the table.
MR. LITTLE: Thank you, everyone.
SEC. HAGEL: Thank you very much. Thank you.


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ON THE ROAD; Registered Traveler Program Appears Ready to Take Off
By Joe Sharkey
Published: September 5, 2006
AT this time -- as flight attendants like to begin each announcement -- I would like to direct your attention to the new rules.
The Transportation Security Administration has quietly revised its list of things you can and cannot carry onto a plane. It is now lawful (which it was not two weeks ago) to have the following: small amounts of baby formula or breast milk, if accompanied by a baby; up to four ounces of essential medications, including saline solutions and KY jelly; gel-filled bras and ''similar prosthetics''; and ''gel-filled wheelchair cushions.''
Under the new rules, available at tsa.gov, you are also permitted to carry on ''solid cosmetics and personal hygiene items such as lipstick, lip balm and similar solids.'' The notice adds, ''Please remember these items must be solid and not liquid, gel or aerosol.'' (Excepting, of course, the permissible gel bras and cushions and the KY jelly).
Suddenly, my mind is back in the thickets of high school chemistry class, having just stumbled out of English class where the play under discussion was by Samuel Beckett. What are the specific differences between a liquid, a solid and a gel? And more existentially, how is a gel-filled cushion unlike a bowl of jelly?
This routine at airport checkpoints is starting to resemble the theater of the absurd. No wonder Steve Brill has more than 27,000 people signed up in Orlando, Fla., for Clear, the only operating version of the Registered Traveler program. Under the program, a traveler agrees to a federal background check and, once cleared, is issued an I.D. card encoded with fingerprint and iris images by Mr. Brill's company, Verified Identity Pass.
The card gets you through a special expedited security checkpoint. It evidently is perceived as having value among frequent fliers in Orlando, where it began 13 months ago and where renewal rates are about 92 percent, Mr. Brill said.
While the Registered Traveler program has critics who question its value, it appears to be catching on, and companies other than Mr. Brill's are expected to enter the market eventually. This fall, Mr. Brill said, Verified Identity expects to open a checkpoint at Terminal 7 at Kennedy International Airport in New York, in a partnership with British Airways, that terminal's major tenant. Under T.S.A. regulations, airlines -- which often control entire terminals -- as well as airports can offer the program.
Mr. Brill's company also has agreements, pending T.S.A. approval, to begin programs at airports in San Jose, Calif., Indianapolis and Cincinnati, as well as a Canadian version in Toronto. About 20 other airports, like Los Angeles and Atlanta, have filed statements of interest in the Registered Traveler program with the T.S.A.
Right now, the major benefit of membership is predictability. Travelers know they will move through the Clear checkpoint in Orlando and through the T.S.A. security station in minutes, even when other lines are backed up. As the program is introduced more widely, it is expected that technology now being tested by the T.S.A will let Registered Traveler members avoid having to remove shoes or items like jackets. A kiosk using fingerprint explosives-trace detection and shoe scanning is being tested under T.S.A. supervision at the Clear checkpoint in Orlando, Mr. Brill said. That technology is the result of a partnership between Verified Identity and the General Electric Company.
Other explosives-trace technology has been in development for checkpoints in general, and has even been installed for testing in 34 airports. But citing delays and uncertain reliability, the T.S.A. said recently that it was suspending installation of these electronic devices, known as puffers because they use puffs of air to look for traces of explosives on passengers.
Mr. Brill said that the technology being tested for Verified Identity in Orlando was the opposite of puffer technology; it requires a passenger to press a finger down for an electronic scan that tries to detect traces of explosives, while at the same time standing on a shoe-scanning device. In an article in The New York Times on Sunday about the suspension of the installation of puffer devices, Randy Null, the T.S.A.'s chief technology officer, said, ''What we are finding is that an actual finger scan may be a more effective way.''
Whatever the technology, some critics of the Registered Traveler program said it was not worth the effort. ''All it does is create a select class of people who pay 80 bucks in order to get in a shorter line. And most of those hijackers on 9/11 could have passed the background check,'' said Michael Boyd, of the air travel forecasting firm the Boyd Group.
He added, ''And how do you do a background check, say, on a 21-year-old? Call his English teacher?''
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U.S. Rep. Paul Broun wants to ignite a "grass fire" of opposition to health care reform legislation pending in Congress, and two overflow crowds in Columbia County helped him fan those flames Monday night.
Dr. Broun, R-Ga., called the pending Democratic legislation an "abomination" and "a stinking rotten fish" and said Democratic efforts are the "steamroll of socialism." He did offer up his own idea for reform, including a Medicare health savings account that would follow the beneficiaries, allowing them to spend what Medicare would have spent on them in their own way.
The crowds at the Columbia County Board of Education building -- organizers had to add a second event to accommodate the hundreds of people initially turned away -- egged him on.
"America is mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore," said Joyce Jamison of Evans.
The crowd was not uniformly opposed. Sameera Thurmond of Augusta joked that she might be the only Democrat in the room as she held a sign that said 83 percent support the public option insurance program envisioned in the legislation.
"I just think that it is equitable that everyone should have access to health care," she said.
Dr. Broun said that public option is the first stop toward "socialized medicine" once employers begin dropping coverage and forcing employees into it.
Many in the crowd, including Jim Pritchard of Harlem, asked how they could do more to help defeat the legislation.
"The common man should be able to do more," Mr. Pritchard said.
Dr. Broun assured him that public opposition to the plan had already prevented its passage before the August congressional recess.
"Y'all stopped it, and I congratulate y'all," he said.
But he urged the crowd to contact friends and family in other states -- particularly in districts with conservative Democrats who might be on the fence -- to voice their opposition.
"This crowd right here has influence in every state in the country," Dr. Broun said.
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Electronic devices and assemblies are getting smaller and more powerful. As a result, they generate more heat during operation that has to be dissipated. The demand for thermally conductive thermoplastics for housings therefore has risen sharply in recent years. LANXESS in response is putting together a new line of polyamide products called Durethan TC (thermally conductive) for the thermal management of devices. The first representatives of this line are two easy-flow polyamide 6 variations, which will be marketed in the future under the names Durethan BTC65 H3.0 EF and BTC75 H3.0 EF. Their high thermal conductivity is based on reinforcement with 65 and 75 percent of a special mineral. Both materials display a very good balance between high thermal conductivity, outstanding mechanical properties and good processing behavior. They have since been successfully tested and approved by two international automotive suppliers and are poised for use in full-scale production, explains Dr. Tobias Benighaus, Durethan product development specialist.
Alternative to compounds with boron nitride or aluminum oxide
The thermal conductivity of the two materials was determined by the Nanoflash test method. In the case of the polyamide with 65 percent mineral reinforcement, this value is 1.0 W/mK, or three times higher than that of Durethan BKV 30 H2.0, a polyamide 6 already established in industries such as automotive engineering. The material with a 75 percent mineral content tested at 1.5 W/mK, meaning it is even 4.7 times more conductive. The two materials conduct heat as efficiently as polyamides containing boron nitride or aluminum oxide as thermally conductive filler. However, aluminum oxide systems have the disadvantage of being very abrasive, which quickly causes damage to the injection mold. Compared to boron nitride systems, our materials are significantly less expensive and have better mechanical properties. Furthermore, their thermal conductivity is not anisotropic, but virtually the same in all directions, Benighaus says.
The materials also have the potential to replace pure metals. Compared to die-cast aluminum, housings can be fabricated from the two thermoplastics much more cost-efficiently, particularly in the case of high production volumes, and they yield more lightweight components. The precondition for substitutions of this kind is that the thermal conductivity of the metals is not fully utilized in these applications.
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The greatest advantage of these two innovative products is their good mechanical properties on par in some cases with those of Durethan BKV 30 H2.0 despite a high filler content. For example, Durethan BTC65 H3.0 EF is equally as stiff and displays a similar elongation at break of three percent. Its tensile strength is 90 MPa, which also is very high. The Izod impact strength is excellent for a thermally conductive compound at 35 kJ/m2 and more than twice as high as in comparable polyamide compounds with aluminum oxide filler, Benighaus explains. Furthermore, the mechanical property set of the polyamide 6 variation with 75 percent mineral reinforcement is superior to that of corresponding aluminum oxide compounds.
Wide processing window
The new, thermally conductive polyamides can be efficiently injection-molded in a wide processing window and a reliable process despite their high mineral content. Durethan BTC65 H3.0 EF, for instance, displays melt viscosities similar to those of the established compound Durethan DP BKV60 H2.0 EF, which already is used to fabricate numerous components, including thin-walled ones.
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Thor Announces Results Of Annual Meeting Of Stockholders
Dec 17, 2012, 16:15 ET from Thor Industries, Inc.
JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO) today announced the results of voting at its annual meeting of stockholders held on December 11, 2012. At the meeting, nearly 91% of the eligible votes were cast in person or by proxy for the election of three directors, the ratification of Thor's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and the advisory vote on executive compensation.
Based on the votes cast, on Proposal 1, 98.8% voted for the election of Andrew E. Graves as director, 97.5% voted for the election of Alan Siegel as director and 98.5% voted for Geoffrey A. Thompson as director. On Proposal 2, the ratification of Thor's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, 96.8% of votes were cast for the proposal. On Proposal 3, the Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of Thor's Named Executive Officers, 98.1% of votes were cast for the proposal.
Thor is the sole owner of operating subsidiaries that, combined, represent the world's largest manufacturer of recreation vehicles and is a major builder of commercial buses and ambulances.
This release includes certain statements that are "forward looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward looking statements involve uncertainties and risks. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ from our expectations. Factors which could cause materially different results include, among others, price fluctuations, material or chassis supply restrictions, legislative and regulatory developments, the costs of compliance with increased governmental regulation, legal issues, the potential impact of increased tax burdens on our dealers and retail consumers, lower consumer confidence and the level of discretionary consumer spending, interest rate increases, restrictive lending practices, recent management changes, the success of new product introductions, the pace of acquisitions, cost structure improvements, competition and general economic conditions and the other risks and uncertainties discussed more fully in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2012 and Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended October 31, 2012. We disclaim any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward looking statements contained in this release or to reflect any change in our expectations after the date of this release or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based except as required by law.
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The brilliance of Buster Keaton as seen in these scenes from Sherlock Jr.
Commentary by Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life
The brilliance of Buster Keaton as seen in these scenes from Sherlock Jr.
Great find!
You Tube is better than any attic or junk shop. Like you, I'm getting to be an addict.
As I watched I had two recollections.
First was an episode on Candid Camera which featured Keaton as a customer at a breakfast counter. The camera was on a nearby customer who watched in disbelief as Keaton seemed to accidentally spill his coffee as he brought it to his lips, then without missing a beat reached for his toast which he then used to soak up the puddle, then squeezed the coffee back into the cup and did it all over again... never looking around or cracking a smile. It was "deadbeat comedy" at it's best.
Also, clips from those days reflect the cinematography perfected by Chaplin which eschewed any radical camera effects (zoom, fade, swoops, etc). Chaplin saw the camera as a window to a stage upon which actors and action took place. Special effects by the camera offended his artistic sensibilities.
(from John... I'm using "anon" because someone else is signed in)
I first saw Keaton's films a few years ago and was stunned at the creativity.
Chaplin, of course, is amazing. Both men had impeccable timing.


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A Nobel laureate isn't entitled to royalties from an invention that earned him a share of his prize because the idea belongs to his university. Last week, a U.S. District Court judge ordered John Fenn, a former professor of chemistry at Yale University, to pay Yale more than $1 million in damages and attorney's fees, as well as patent rights. Attorneys say the case demonstrates how universities and researchers can find themselves at odds as schools increasingly try to profit on discoveries made within their labs.
The decision is the latest round in a decade-long legal fight between Fenn, 87, and the university where he spent most of his storied career. The saga centers around electrospray ionization--a mass spectroscopy technique pioneered by Fenn at Yale in 1998--that allows researchers to characterize large biological molecules. The invention won Fenn a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry and has touched fields ranging from drug discovery to forensics. It has also led to millions of dollars in sales of mass spectrometers.
Under the university's patent policy, Fenn should have given Yale the right of first refusal to patent his innovation. Fenn did not, and in 2003 federal judge Christopher F. Droney found that Fenn "misrepresented the importance and commercial viability of the patent … while at the same time secretly preparing a patent application in his own name." In his 8 February ruling, Droney expanded that finding by saying Fenn had "no good faith basis" to believe he had a right to the patent, which Yale had sought in court. The judge concluded that Fenn had committed "fraud" and "larceny" and awarded damages and legal fees totaling $1,037,549 to Yale plus recent legal expenses and patent rights. Fenn says he "probably" would appeal the case but declined further comment.
Although lawyers say the case raises few basic legal questions, patent attorney Dennis Crouch of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff in Chicago says it should send a powerful signal to academics. "Professors should ensure that they are up-front with their employer about the potential market for any invention," he says.
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I downloaded a copy of the code you guys have on here to do drag & drop files with PHP and JavaScript. Inside my own network, everything works fine. I was trying to have a family member upload some files onto my server using this code, but we are getting the following error...
PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/upload.php on line 24
I'm not familiar at all with PHP...I mostly script with CGI/Perl, but have had a problem doing this task with those. I've tried doing single and multiple files from within my network and outside. Inside works fine...outside not so much. It gets about 200k or so of the 2MB file. So I'm not sure if my web server is dropping the connection or what.
One thing that did come to mind...could there be a problem with running over a secure connection instead of unsecure? Thanks.
Other than that I think the code is AWESOME...it works really nicely. I need to add in the progress bar though.
Hi ryan.prather, welcome to the forums.
I don't know what code you're referring to, but the "invalid" most likely means the variable you are using is not an array. Easy would be you typoed it. Harder would be you need to follow the code back to see where things are going wrong.
This is the code block in the PHP file that is giving the error.
// form submit
$files = $_FILES['fileselect'];
foreach ($files['error'] as $id => $err)
if ($err == UPLOAD_ERR_OK)
$fn = $files['name'][$id];
'uploads/' . $fn
echo "
File $fn uploaded.
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I retrieved it from "http://www.sitepoint.com/html5-ajax-file-upload/". I copied the code directly and did very few changes except for the "{" placements.
Try adding this
var_dump($_FILES); // for debugging only
// form submit
$files = $_FILES['fileselect'];
foreach ($files['error'] as $id => $err)
if ($err == UPLOAD_ERR_OK)
$fn = $files['name'][$id];
'uploads/' . $fn
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File $fn uploaded.
";
You should see whether or not there is an index of "fileselect" with an array with an index of "error"
I tried adding that, but I don't know how to see the output. If I run "php5 uploads.php" then it generates "array(0){}". But the script only get's called when it submits the AJAX with the file info. And as I said, everything works just fine on my intranet. The problem only seems to occur when I open it to the internet and try to access it from outside.
Are you using FireBug? Open the Network panel and fire off an Ajax request - the request will show in FireBug. You can right click it and copy it with url parameters, then paste that in to the browser. Then paste this in to a new tab so you can see the ajax content easily in your browser window (including the var_dump'd stuff). Hopefully then you can provide that output to help debug further...
That doesn't really work either, because it's a script to upload an image. So I can't really do a direct AJAX call.
Did you try a lower weight jpg? Or change the attr val
<input type="hidden" id="MAX_FILE_SIZE" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="300000" />
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
I'll send three people one volume each from this "Pulpit Commentary" series.
All you have to do is leave a comment by September 20 (closes at midnight PST) and tell me what one art supply item do you have too much of, and why?
Blog about this giveaway and comment again (with a link to your blog post) and you get another entry!
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Hi Leanne!ReplyDelete
the one supply I have a ton of would be pens. I love pens! My friend got me hooked on my first set of Sakura Glaze pens... sigh.... I have all Sakura pen sets now. And in multiples! Love testing new pens, but if I don't find a connection right away, I put it aside until I come across it again. A bad thing about that, is that sometimes the pens will clog with disuse. This can be expensive... ; )
Oops! Forgot to say that I blogged it too!ReplyDelete
Thank you!
- AnonymousSeptember 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Only one!well on checking out the craft room I have too many cross stitch kits, mainly because I buy them when there is a sale but just haven't got to do all.Kids will have fun when I fall off the perch.Much love.ReplyDelete
I have too much fabric! (I don't really sew, just a little and I still have odds and ends of fabric I just couldn't pass up!ReplyDelete
I have too much lace and trim and vintage sewing notions. I collect them and now my friends pick them up for me too. Way too much.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance.
Ironically, I have too much old paper... but I still would LOVE to win!ReplyDelete


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Look, I know it's soccer and I know a lot of you have stopped reading at this point, but IT'S A GOOD SPORT! Especially when played at its highest level, and Saturday's Champions League final was just that. Barcelona put on a futbol clinic in a 3-1 dominance of Manchester United.


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Set in America's Deep South, the story begins in 1887 on the Cotton Blossom show boat as it sets sail on the Mississippi River. Following the lives of the performers, dock workers, musicians and stagehands over a period of forty years, Show Boat is rich with nostalgia, humour, love stories and well-loved melodies including Ol' Man River and Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man.
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We, the online players of Godswar- Olympus/Troy/Lydia server humbly asks your good administration to review the character of our Sentinel: pQiCeish.
This is inline with your description of what a real sentinel is. In the events page you said that '"their role is to maintain order in the game", but we the players noticed that she exhibits some character that shouldn't be of a sentinel. And these characters can be proven by all the players signing this petition.
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WHEN you are next up to take on a team that has lost its past four matches and conceded 16 goals in the process, then the fixture can take on all the characteristics of a banana skin.
Thus Melbourne Heart, hardly itself in the greatest form, travels north to take on crisis club Sydney FC on Sunday acutely aware there will be plenty of finger pointing in its direction if it becomes the first team in five weeks to fall to the managerless Sky Blues.
Both sides are likely to be hit by international call-ups, with Sydney having two players - Brett Emerton and Terry Antonis - in the Socceroo squad Holger Osieck has gathered in Sydney for next week's East Asian Cup qualifiers in Hong Kong, while Heart has three: Michael Marrone, Aziz Behich and Richard Garcia.
Osieck will trim the squad to 20, but it is likely the Heart trio - all of whom have either played for Australia or been in the squad for World Cup games - will make the cut.
That puts more pressure on the first-season coaching duo of John Aloisi and Hayden Foxe to get a result, with Heart eighth of 10 on the A-League ladder, two points above bottom-of-the-table Sydney.
Teenage defender David Vrankovic, who is usually a centre-back, could replace Marrone at right-back, while Golgol Mebrahtu or youngster Ben Garuccio could be tried forward, where Garcia has been playing well in recent weeks.
Aloisi could also opt to change the team's shape and play with a back three, using Vrankovic in a central defensive line-up with Simon Colosimo and Patrick Gerhardt.


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Hello, I would love someone to create or tell me if there's one plugin for at least C language, which could rename all the variables, functions etc. in the code when I'm changing one. For example:
int a;...some code...if(a > something) a = something;...some code...
So if I change a to for example b, a should change to b all over the code. It's possible to do it with CTRL+D or Alt+F3 but that's very inconvenient, because if you've got for example 2 variables:
char a, ab;
And if you want to change only a, Alt+F3 would change ab also.
If you don't have anything selected when you press control+D, it should select the variable and any subsequent presses of control+d will only select exact matches. So a will match but ab won't. This behavior is different if you have something initially selected prior to pressing control+D, which will select subwords as well.
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It's no longer the stuff of crackpot conspiracy theorists.
Imagine you're in your living room, glance out your window, and saw this.
That's what Maggie, a resident of suburban Crookston, Minnesota, saw — U.S. troops armed with rifles walking past her home, doing a "training exercise" in a residential street lined with family homes.
Aaron Mathis reports for The Libertarian Review, April 30, 2012:
The photo shown above was taken by a subscriber in the city of Crookston, MN from the front porch of her suburban home. No, the men pictured aren't from the local high school's J.R.O.T.C sqaud – they are in fact trained soldiers serving in the Minnesota National Guard, Unit 2-136 CAB / B Company. Now, I have never personally been to Crookston (although I'm sure it's lovely), but I'm relatively confident that they are located on domestic soil, and unless I am missing something, the citizens of Crookston weren't dealing with any natural disaster at the time this haunting snapshot into the coming police state was taken.
No, what was actually going on that morning was a "training exercise" involving a quiet neighborhood that probably isn't that different from your own. Being the patriot that she is, Maggie decided it might be a good idea to start asking some questions. Nothing too difficult, mainly just what the hell they were doing walking fully armed down a street regularly used to facilitate the innocent pastimes of all American kids.
Glancing at her briefly one Soldier responded, "Just training Ma'am. Joining up with another patrol at the rally point."
Not accepting this as a reasonable answer to her inquiry, Maggie went on, "Oh, ok. What are you training on the streets of town for exactly?"
At that the young soldier replied, "To be honest ma'am, I don't know."
The reason for his domestic training exercise that morning might be unknown to him, but sadly this is not only just another indicator of the uncertain times ahead, but also a revealing indicator of how worried the Feds are of a possible outbreak of civil insurrections across the nation.
Source: The Libertarian Review (http://s.tt/1asa1)
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The merger between the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu could certainly lose Netanyahu the vote in the Likud Central Committee.
The leader of the National Religious Party, Moshe Shapira, was badly wounded 55 years ago when a hand grenade was thrown into the Knesset. He added...
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A PENSIONER who is walking almost 8,000 miles across the country to raise money for charity has visited Derbyshire.
Seventy-year-old Andy Peddle, from High Wycombe, is trekking to each of the 700 Salvation Army churches in the UK in a bid to raise £100,000 for the charity which aids the homeless and victims of human trafficking.
The generous pensioner visited Ripley last Wednesday to meet members of the town's Salvation Army before singing them a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone.
Andy said: "This is my way of saying thank you for all the blessings I've had over the years.
"I can walk long distances without getting tired and I do a bit of singing so I'm just using my talents really."
Kevin Wibberley, of Ripley's Salvation Army, said Andy's visit had been inspirational.
He added: "It's been a special day for us to be able to meet Andy and to support him in everything he's doing."
And began his trek in the Shetland Islands in May and hopes to finish in November next year.


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In April 2010 the first arena polo event has been hosted at the Munich airport. Six teams with two participants each fought between the two Munich terminals.
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Reigning Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series Champion Jack Harvey has been confirmed as the official Sean Walkinshaw Racing (SWR) driver coach for the 2013 BRDC Formula 4 Championship.
The 19-year-old is one of the country's most highly rated FIA Formula One World Championship hopefuls, enjoyed a tremendously successful second season in British Formula 3 last year with seven race victories and five other podiums en-route to the prestigious title win.
Aiming to deliver the most professional presence possible in the F4 paddock, the appointment of Harvey as the SWR driver coach underlines the Chipping Norton team's incredibly high standards and desire to hit the ground running when the 2013 season commences in late April.
"Whenever I've spoken with the team over the last few weeks it always comes across just how much they want to do the best job possible, everything is very professional", said Harvey.
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"Everything I do, I want to do it to the best of my ability and that's no different whether I'm on track racing myself or working with SWR in F4. I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to be at the front straight away, it will be very challenging but everything is in place at SWR to succeed."
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LG G2 and MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 - Mini Reviewby Brian Klug on September 7, 2013 1:11 AM EST
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LG's G2 features a quad-core Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974). For a quick refresher, Snapdragon 800 features four Krait 400 cores running at up to 2.3GHz courtesy of TSMC's 28nm HPM process. The 2.3GHz max clock speed comes at a surprisingly low voltage thanks to the low power HPM process. Gone are the days of 1.4V to hit near-2GHz frequencies it seems, instead 8974 will hit 2.3 GHz at around 1V. Krait 400 improves L2 access latencies over Krait 300 (which is at the heart of Snapdragon 600 and S4 Pro) and is optimized for higher frequency operation, but Krait 400 is otherwise architecturally similar to Krait 300. Make no mistake, MSM8974 is the new high-end, pushing Snapdragon 600 and S4 Pro parts further down into midrange category. There are other SoC level enhancements as well, including things like a new version of the Hexagon DSP and obviously Adreno 330 vs. Adreno 320 (which I'll get to later). We already ran through a performance preview of Snapdragon 800/MSM8974 using Qualcomm's 8974 Tablet Mobile Development Platform, but today we get to do the same with the G2.
LG was pretty eager to get us a G2 sample as early as possible, unfortunately that comes at the expense of software maturity. LG made it very clear to us that the International G2 sample (LG-D802) we received has nowhere near final software, and as a result may not deliver performance indicative of what we'll see when the device shows up later this month. This puts us in an interesting situation as we want to see how close shipping Snapdragon 800 devices come to the Snapdragon MDP/T we tested back in June. Software maturity aside, there's no skirting the fact that the G2 simply has a smaller chassis and perhaps lower thermal limits than the tablet MSM8974 MDP/T we tested previously.
The most interesting comparison points here will be to LG's Optimus G Pro which ships with a Snapdragon 600 (4 x Krait 300 running at 1.7GHz), the Exynos 5 Octa based Galaxy S 4 (SHVE300S) and to the MDP/T. As always, we'll start with a look at CPU performance.
The state of CPU performance testing under Android is unfortunately still quite broken. We're using a mix of browser based tests with Java & Native apps (AndEBench).
SunSpider has quickly become an exercise in browser optimization rather than platform performance. Qualcomm's browser optimizations are clearly good for showing off Snapdragon 800's potential, however the G2 doesn't appear to have the same optimizations in place (yet). Performance isn't bad, but it's merely on par with Snapdragon 600 and ARM's Cortex A15.
Kraken is an interesting test as it has (thus far) remained less of a browser optimization target. Kraken is also a physically larger and longer benchmark, which provides results that I tend to be a little happier with. The G2 once again falls short of Qualcomm's MDP/T, but given its early software I'm not too surprised. Performance is roughly on par with the Exynos 5 Octa, and slightly behind the very high clocked Snapdragon 600 in the nearly stock Moto X.
Octane is the first benchmark where we see the Snapdragon 800 flex its potential. Here the G2 not only ties the Snapdragon 800 MDP/T, but it also roughly equals the performance of the Cortex A15 based Exynos 5 Octa. Ultimately that's the comparison that Qualcomm will be most interested in winning. If Snapdragon 800 can deliver better performance (or at least perf per watt) than the Cortex A15, it'll be a definite win for Qualcomm.
If Octane had the S800 in the proverbial passing lane, Browsermark 2.0 shows the G2 in the clear lead. Here LG was able to even outperform Qualcomm's own reference design by 16%. I suspect this has more to do with browser optimizations than anything else though, as the S600 based Optimus G Pro also does extremely well.
AndEBench provides us with very low level look at SoC performance. I'm not a huge fan of these types of tests, especially ones that aggregate a bunch of microbenchmarks and attempt to present a single performance number. AndEBench is unique (and useful) in that it presents performance in both native code and Dalvik interpreted states. The G2's native performance here is quite good, but it's actually equalled by the Galaxy S 4 GPe and not far ahead of the Optimus G Pro. I suspect we're once again seeing the limits of early software rather than a full understanding of Snapdragon 800's performance in a retail device. Dalvik performance is a bit worse. The relatively high ranking of the Google Play Edition devices points to software optimization being a culprit here.
Both Vellamo tests put the G2 on par with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 MDP/T.
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tuxRoller - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkYou are making a point which, given our data, is impossible to prove/disprove.
They are saying, I think, that they don't believe MOST people care about having a removable sdcard. Given that iphones sell so well, I'd think that there are very large groups for which this is true (roughly a third of smartphone owners worldwide). Samsung offers removable storage, but so have the other manufacturers (like sony) yet it hasn't/isn't helping them. Reply
flyingpants1 - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkThe people who are generally knowledgeable about phones are the ones recommending Samsung Galaxy S3/S4 to their friends. Partially because of the extra features like removable/customizable battery and storage. These features always get a mention in reviews also. You're a fool if you think they're not a factor in Samsung's success.
Right now in my S4 I have the capability to add a 64gb microsd card purely for movies and TV shows and crap like that. That would cost me $50, whereas an additional device like an iPod touch would cost me a lot more. I'd rather just turn my phone into my iPod, but I just CANNOT do that if I have to constantly worry about my onboard space.
All flagship phones going forward should be 32gb+. Reply
rocketbuddha - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkDude!
a) How many HTC phones have you owned?
b) Do you know how many software updates HTC does for its "premium" phones in its life cycle?
c) Have you seen the quality of the software releases for 1-2 yr old phones? Battery life/random restarts etc.... Reply
Arbie - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkI agree with BabelHuber. No micro/SD = no sale. Talk all you want about how "most of us are streaming from the cloud" or "internal memory is lots faster" - but that means nothing to me. I *DO* want to watch and listen to media and I *DO* want to move it on and off the device quickly. Like when I grab the thing for a trip. Micro/SD lets me do this and works GREAT. You stream; I'll snap.
Micro/SD is worth $$ to me. Conversely, I'm not going to spend $$$$ on a device like this without it. As Babel says: why take the phone with less options? It simply does not make sense. Reply
hughlle - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkYet people happily take the iphone with less options time and time again. apple market their harware properly, and the lack of options becomes irrelevant.
The lack of an SD card will certainly cause a loss of sales from a certain market, but it is a minimal loss of sales in the grand scheme of things. Rather like imagining the loss of sales from people who won't buy this phone because it's not available in pink. It's a non-event.
As has been said, the majority of people care about total space, not removable storage. you can not put an accurate number on the ratio, but to try and argue it is otherwise is silly. The majority want to be able to take photos, record videos, dowload music and shows, not root around in their handbag or pocket or draw for the correct SD card that has their scrubs episodes on it. Average joe wants simplicity. they want to be able to press the screen and access their content. Not start swapping cards in and out. Reply
Impulses - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkYes, the power of branding is incredible. The words Samsung and Galaxy are pounded into the social consciousness to the point that they're now synonymous with Android (like Moto/VZW's Droid campaign early on). It's a very very strong effect. Reply
Impulses - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkI don't think sporting removable media and batteries is even amongst the top three reasons why Samsung outsells everyone... I think to imply so seems a bit near sighted. Samsung started dominating long before most manufacturers moved to sealed batteries etc, you can trace their upward track pretty closely to how much more they invested in branding with each successive generation (much to the carrier's chagrin, if it were up to them we'd still have five different Galaxy variations every year).
Personally I could care less for removable media and batteries, but I do appreciate and applaud the fact that Samsung still offers that choice... I think it's one of the advantages of the Android ecosystem. I don't think the majority of the market cares about this tho. Reply
Spunjji - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkAs someone who'd be moving from a Note 2 with 16GB internal and 64GB Micro SD, I think I'd actually appreciate the smaller unified space. It'd be a bit more of a pinch, but the fact is that after several re-formats and changes of software I'm getting sick to the back teeth of different builds treating my SD card differently (no exFAT support in CM10 is a real killer) and having to re-create links from my in-built storage to the external for apps like Google Play Music.
The fact is that external removable storage is a pig to set up and maintain. It could work so much better than it does, but Google don't want to maintain it and I think the point where it's worth letting go has now arrived. Reply
[-Stash-] - Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - linkNo exFAT in CM10 is a pain, I'll agree, but since you root your phone anyway, just bung this on, it means you can even read/write to NTFS formatted storage (SD Cards, USB HDDs):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.c... Reply
bill5 - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkThis seemingly would be the phone to get if I needed one right now. Nice battery life.
However my upgrade isnt for almost a year, like a lot of people I suspect, I upgraded right when SGS3 came out.
That means I wont be due for another upgrade til SGS5 hits, and I'm guessing it will trump this phone, naturally. Such is the life of everybody trying to fight samsung... Reply


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Columbia, SC (WLTX) South Carolina lawmakers should get big pay raises, according to a study that was commissioned two years ago but is just now getting attention because lawmakers are talking about it. The state Senate voted last week to give all state lawmakers an additional $12,000 a year for in-district expenses, things like traveling to meetings around their districts and running their local district offices. They already get $12,000 a year for in-district expenses.
Lawmakers commissioned a study in 2012 by an independent consulting firm, the Hay Group, to compare South Carolina lawmakers' pay to other states.
SC lawmakers make a base salary of $10,400 a year. The Southern region average is $21,109, while the national average is $31,643. But the study did not include the $12,000 SC lawmakers already get for in-district expenses, which is taxed as salary. Including that would raise their salary to $22,400, above the Southern region average but still below the national average.
Sen. John Scott, D-Columbia, brought up the study when senators were debating the in-district expense increase.
The study cost taxpayers more than $60,000, but Sen. Scott says it was necessary.
"Just to pull a figure out of the air to say, 'This is what we think needs to happen,' without any justification? The study is the justification. It shows what was going on in the Southern region. Even Alabama's outpacing South Carolina in terms of its pay for its members of its General Assembly," he says.
Alabama lawmakers make $28,920.
The government watchdog group Common Cause says South Carolina lawmakers might be underpaid, but it's difficult to say because there are a lot of variables. They're also paid mileage, which varies based on how far lawmakers have to drive to Columbia. Common Cause state director John Crangle says, "In addition to that, some legislators spend a lot of time on their job and some spend less. It depends on how much constituent service you're able and willing to do."
He thinks paying lawmakers more would increase competition and improve the quality of lawmakers. "A low-paid legislature may seem cheaper on the surface, but if you get a poor quality legislature that makes bad decisions, wastes money, is corrupt, engages in a lot of insider transactions, it may cost the taxpayer a great deal more," he says.
A lot of taxpayers were not happy about the idea of senators voting themselves pay raises, even if the money is supposed to cover expenses. Taxpayers say lawmakers knew when they ran for office what the pay was, and taxpayers can't vote themselves pay raises like lawmakers can.
To that Sen. Scott replies, "Yes, I knew what the pay was. But was I in agreement that the pay should not keep pace with the times? What I would also say to that person, would you accept the pay you received 20 years ago?"
The study recommends that lawmakers' pay should be raised $10,000 to $20,000 to compare to the Southern region average.
The $12,000 increase for in-district expenses is not definite yet. The House will also have to agree to it, and Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to veto the raise if it makes it to her desk.


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You mentioned you saw no RBE with K750. Are you very sensitive to RBE? Did you see rainbow with other 6x speed color wheel DLP of the similar movie?
Thanks for your feedback
I'm only mildly sensitive to RBE. That opening scene in Casino Royale was one where I saw flashes on my IN83. But I'm not sure what the wheel speed is of the IN83 - I want to say 5x. The K750 does not have a color wheel, so all is good.
My LG PA70G doesn't have a color wheel, but still shows some rainbows. I see a lot less if I run it @ 120Hz.
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Awfully tempted to buy one as an upgrade for my K330.
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
even less pop than lamp proyector some user can confirm that.
Is the feel after read user opinions
even when the saturation in test is about 81%
I have the K750 and in the movie mode with eco enabled it's very quiet and bright enough with reasonable color accuracy. I'm quite happy with it.
Problem is that any tuning changes the mode to "user" with a lot more fan noise. Do others recognize this?
Second question because I can't compare to lamp based projectors. Is the fan noise in standard mode comparable to lamp based projectors?
if you selected user always change de fan speed??
I have this projector in the point of view and I am very interested in all about him.
The eco mode setting is independent of picture setting, so any picture mode is more quiet in eco than in normal.
But my issue is with the combination of movie mode and eco on, this combination is the only one which is whisper quiet. But if I increase for example contrast with 1, the mode changes to user which increases the noise a lot. I contacted Acer support with this question.
they are going to lose market share against the flat panel TVs and Virtual Glasses.
By the way, if anyone wants to access the service menu, combination is: press red power button once, down, up.
Note: use at own risk. Menu contains a couple of test patterns and calibration control, not so many different options than the standard menu.
I buy too ,
don't cant wait for pf80g less according to the price range in this moment.
I am happy, colours not quite spectacular comparing with pf70 but the projector is in another level , and either the sharpness not so good like me hc3800 and the bright scenes don't looks superb like hc3800 here is the not good things .
The good I have almost the goods of the two worlds and
the best shadow , night scenes detail than ever seen
I only have two days and not too much time with it , I have to try get better result with not so goods
Black Level/shadow detail. If i set gamma, brightness, contrast so that i don't loose details in dark scenes i get a very poor blacklevel, if i try to improve the black level i loose many details in dark scenes. I know that Kraine measured a very good black level and good shadow details. So, i think my settings must be much more imperfect than Kraines are. Unfortunately i don't have any calibration tools and can only work with movie scenes+test patterns, like Buroschs.
I Don't want to say you miss something but sometimes if the colour range of hdmi is not proper according to source can be a problem
I use in eco mode and I have very good black level and the best shadow detail mixed
I get best day scenes with other projector but not dark scenes
I my settings are film mode right out of the box
and hdmi colour :in limited range
OK, i'll try that.
So far this little guy is doing its job quite well as our day-to-day TV. I have it displaying a 94-inch image from roughly 11-feet. I use all standard modes, but would love to try Kraine's settings in our 1 user slot.
Also looking forward to Kraine's mini shootout between the K750, Optoma HD91, LG PF-80G, and Vivitek H9080FD. Not sure how the K750 will do against those other models (isn't the Vivitek $12k??), but it will be a good read and hopefully insightful on how best to set-up the Acer.
In any case, it will be the first comparison of its kind (that I know of).
The typical casino royal train scene and some patrons for black level and contrast .
I am using film mode by the fan mode and tweak settings in bluray but not too much in satellite receptor i can't touch nothing and still very good.
I am impatient too for the shoot-out of kraine will be very usefull if him can see this projectors at the same time.
not very good photographer a not very good camera
Hey, Jasinto, nice pics. Can you post a picture of a really dark scene, starry sky or something like that, please?
The picture is little bit burn and looks with more light than really see in person.
what is starry sky
No need to apologize.
is a pity than change fan speed
Already the standard movie mode setting is ok for me, with screen colour set to grey or black. I prefer the very quiet projector above less colour error. So yes, all the K750 owners unite and ask Acer to change it :)
By the way, do you guys also hear this soft high pitched noise? I wonder if it comes from the phosphor wheel or if my projector has some issue.
I see to with select some colour temperature the light pumping in the brighter picture parts .
And change in bright when is selected the deep black control like brightness control with iris
but some pictures are a little bit burn as you can see down in amplifier display
casino royal train , vampire hunter and prometheus but the definition is good .
and dark mongoose scene
I am proud of the bourne legacy one
I take several classic of reviewers and some of stars to T-N-O
First about 2 weeks fan fail and off
and yesterday no warning and off
I try to put on and the warning lights goto flashing and all the warning light turn off and the remote don't work i have to unplug the projector wait several seconds and plug
then all work perfectly until the moment .
But was a little scare .
Right now is all is normal
the two times was connected to hdtv sat receiver (Digital+ ) never with samsung bluray dtv player is my other source
I should be call to the acer service?
Thanks for alle the nice pictures Jasinto.
Maybe an overheat issue resp. the heat sensor? I would call the Acer service.
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Health Fair in Hometown
Andrew Leibenguth
The Hometown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Hometown hosted a Senior Health Fair recently at the Masonic Lodge in Hometown. Fair organizer Renee DelValle Buchanan, admissions and marketing director for the Hometown Nursing Center, said over 30 vendors participated in this year's fair. Pictured getting his blood pressure checked from RN BSN Sharon Miller of the St Luke's Tamaqua Home Health Department is Donald Young of Independent Living, UDS parent company. For more information about future fairs or events hosted by the Hometown nursing center call Buchanan at 570-590-9470.