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We do the majority of our dirt testing in the tight, technical trails of Southern Oregon, however we wanted to sample these two competitors in several different terrains so we took advantage of the awesome Corral Canyon OHV riding area outside of El Cajon, CA. The scenic riding area provided an opportunity for this duo to stretch their legs on the granite roads as well as test their mettle on the technical trails which come replete with trials-esque hillclimbs, some fast berm trails and some strategically placed massive boulders also known as navigable roadblocks.
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Discussion in 'Dancers Anonymous' started by lynn, Aug 3, 2005.
Obviously, it's never possible to make everyone happy - esp those who stay grumpy 24x7!
who's grumpy 24/7? just curious :raisebro:
I've never gotten into the name calling BS, but I've seen it or should I say heard plenty of it. I know some guys don't like a woman of authority. I have no problem with it, but it just depends on the person. There are good and bad female bosses, just like men. Some (bosses) with big egos and I think hidden insecurities. It seems that management looks for very aggessive people these days who rule with an iron fist and they like to play this role. In the old days :lol: , it seemed that the bosses were team leaders and would coach & protect their people. Now, they're thankless and just looking out for themselves and want to try to find someone to blame for anything! :lol:
Oh, we used to have a manager in our office who was never in the "right mood" or it's always the "wrong time" when we need to talk to him. Stepping into his office felt a little like going into the dragon's lair.....
Our network admin person (i hope he hasn't installed spyware on my computer) is like that too....talking to him is like a challenge to see how loud i can yell.....
really?? I thought it's the other way around that nowadays they hire people with more soft skills and don't rule like a dictatorship!
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have you tried wearing a mini-skirt ?? :lol:
That reminds me, i used to have a really moody boss - i bet his mood changes faster than the weather in vancouver!! I remember one day he came into the office & just slammed on the door and started yelling at us....it turned out he had a fight with his wife..... Temperamental bosses should be the #1 "things to avoid" in a work place!
I'm ashamed to admit it, but i did. And believe it or not, it worked, he was nicer for that one day! But i refuse to stoop that low. I'd rather stick to yelling....call me crazy....
I have a manager like that in my office too. He's extremely talented and bright, but has a chemical imbalance and is on lot's of medications. He even mentioned Prozac, to try and keep him cheered up! He's screamed at Directors above him and just about everyone else at one time or another. He recently separated from his wife too (we used to have to listen to him screaming to her over the phone!). Now he works about 16 hours a day (6 or 7 days a week) well, come to think of it, he always has! In fact, one of the co-workers had to walk him out of the office today when he unleashed on some unsuspecting new guy from an outside supplier. He loses his temper so easily, that he's been advised to walk away for a bit. He's a manager, but could have easily been promoted to a director if it wasn't for his people skills.
What I think is that a lot of men benefit from their (stereotypical) gender role in the workplace. Meanwhile, a lot of men are hurt or constrained by it. Much the same as women, IMO. *shrug*
Think not? Take a look at the stats of men who take family leave versus women who take family leave and the online articles of Mr. Moms trying to reenter the workforce. :?
Yeah, they did move out some of the "good ole boys" (dictators) and for awhile preached about "working together" "teamwork" "open door policy...", but when the economy dropped out, there are alot less employees now (to do even larger workloads) and things have gone back to the old dictatorship style again. Everything goes full circle it seems. It probably depends on where you work too. I'm in a highly charged atmosphere. Lots of excitement with impossible budgets and deadlines! :lol: :lol: Somehow, it all comes together in the end!
In fact, I have to head in for a half a day tomorrow (Saturday), but a number of them are staying 10+ hours Saturday and Sunday.
Been there. Seen that first hand, myself. :? Eh. Folks are what they are, I guess. :?
Hmm, my current workplace is a little weird. We're totally democratic on the surface but we take a draconian approach underneath. We have an open door policy where everything can be discussed, except the management makes the decision, actually, the president makes the decision. I remember a while back we wanted to buy a bell for our new office (costing less than $50) but couldn't because the proposal was sitting on the president's office for months! Talk about weird..... and we're a high-tech company, aren't high-tech firms the most flexible of all industries??
Probably should have sent the request via e-mail!
lol. I used to work for a director whom I still like ( and who throws a GREAT wine and cheese party!) a physicist who just can't relate to people. email it. Or send it to his secretary. But just don't tell him.
Wow! I miss that guy. He's a semi-recluse. But he's good people, IMO.
:lol: I used to have a boss who told everyone that he'll only communicate with you electronically. Kind of like the man behind the curtain; ala, the Wizard of Oz!
pymalion, maybe you should have invited him out to a salsa dance to loosen him up alittle! :lol: :lol:
I'm becoming a semi-recluse too! I'm trying to decide if I should go out dancing tonight. I'm alittle on the tired side and have to work in the morning, so I might just go out to listen to a band and do some freestyle. Don't have to think so much about all the moves.
I wish, except he gets 200+ emails per day, I wouldn't want my email to get lost in the black hole!
Heck, we even have internal MSN Messenger, and we've got less than 15 ppl in the office!! It takes less than 30 seconds to walk from one end of the office to the other!! And to think, during our last company communication, we all agree what the biggest problem our company is facing: POOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION :shock: :lol: !........
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Well, I guess it only takes a minimum of 2 people to have poor communication. We have over 13,000 people in our building! I don't even know half of the people in my department!
I know.. Funny. I often find myself e-maling to ask a question the person next to me... I just feel that I don't interrupt them and they can answer whenever is most convenient for them .
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He was interviewed last week. At that time, he said they'd already received a report from Kane on coroner's salaries across the state, but had not taken any action. Commissioner Bob Rolston, who was also interviewed, said the discussion sheds light on an ongoing dilemma.
Rolston, like Ringley, said they haven't really studied the information, just yet, but did say at the original meeting they wanted to make the decision by the middle of next month. That way, anyone filing for the elected position would know what to expect for pay, and that the position, as it stands right now, does not come with benefits like the other county elected positions.


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I looked at my lovely crop of thriving beetroot growing in the garden and I wondered if I could come up with something slightly different for it. My father planted the seeds and gave me the seedlings when they were about an inch high. Now look at them!
There is always something incredibly satisfying about growing something, harvesting it and then making something delicious with it.
We often have pre-conceived ideas about how certain things taste and how they should be prepared and only if they meet our particular set of criteria will we eat them. Although the idea of beetroot bread was not really something that I'd considered before, I could not help myself .. the thought of making bread which had a hot pink dough was just too much for me to resist. I had to make it.
Look at this - there is no food colouring in there, that's just how it is! The colour of the dough is really amazing - I could not take my eyes off it when I was kneading it. It was like squishing a giant raspberry marshmallow. I had playdough flashbacks and felt the urge to make all kinds of funny things with it.
I'm really glad I was brave enough to try this bread, because we all loved it. As long as you like beetroot you'll enjoy the bread. The bread has a slight beetroot taste, but certainly nothing overpowering and in fact quite complementary to sandwhich fillings. I made a second loaf very soon after we devoured the first, to use as sandwich bread for the next day. While beetroot is in season this bread will be made regularly in our house.
There was no recipe which really drew me to it that I could find online or in my books, so I came up with something based around this one here at Travel Flower Children.
The bread has a soft crust rather than a crisp one.
Beetroot & Sunflower Seed Bread
Please note: The quantities of water and flour are very much approximate in this recipe, because it will depend on the size of your beetroot and just how juicy it is. Don't be scared to add a little more flour if you need to. This bread is very forgiving.
The sunflower seeds are a wonderful addition, they add some texture to a very soft bread.
Tip: Use rubber gloves to cut and grate your beetroot - or you will have stained hands.
- 1 medium beetroot peeled and grated raw
- 2 tspns of sugar
- 1 Tblspn of olive oil
- 1 tspn of salt
- 300 mls of warm water - just slightly warmer than skin temperature
- 1/2 cup of hulled sunflower seeds or green pumpkin seeds.
- one package of instant yeast (8 grams instant yeast- 25g/0.6 oz compressed yeast- 2 1/4 tspns active dry yeast)
- between 500g/16oz and 700g/1 1/2 lbs of flour plus more for the work surface
- Milk or water to glaze
- Sesame seeds to sprinkle on the top if wished.
Place your warm water, oil, and sugar in a bowl with your yeast and leave until foamy (about 5 mins). Then add your sunflower seeds, grated beetroot, flour and salt
If you are using instant yeast you can just mix it in with your water, oil and sugar and add your other ingredients adding flour and salt last.
Stir together initially with a spoon (this is so you do not get bright red hands) until your dough starts to come together. Tip out on the work surface and knead together to form an elastic dough - about 10 minutes kneading. If your dough is very sticky do not be afraid to add more flour while you are kneading. Your dough should be slightly sticky, but still be able to be kneaded with relative ease.
You can use a Kitchen aid for the kneading if you wish, but you will miss out on the playdough experience if you do that!
Set aside in a warm place in a covered bowl to rise until doubled in size - roughly 40 mins to an hour.
Punch down dough and form into the shape of your choice.
Leave to rise at room temperature for about 30 minutes. When well risen brush with a little milk or water and sprinkle black sesame seeds on the top if wished.
Bake in a 200C/392F oven.
If you choose to braid your bread into a long loaf it will take roughly 20 minutes cook time. If you place your dough in a loaf tin it will take closer to 40 minutes to cook through to the centre of the loaf. Your cook time will vary depending on the shape.
Test for doneness by tapping on the bottom of the loaf it will sound hollow when cooked.
Leave your bread to cool on a rack and slice when cool. This is a soft-ish loaf, if you try to cut it when it's too hot it will be doughy.
The sunflower seeds add a fantastic texture to the bread, they were a perfect addition.
This was quite an experience making this, the dough was so wonderfully pink, and each person that came into the kitchen uttered some kind of exclamation depending on their age - ranging from "Cool Mummy!" to "Holy *&\^%# how did you get the dough that colour?!"
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The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) will hold a roundtable policy discussion Thursday to explore the potential for P3s for America's ports and waterways.
With the recovery of the import and export trade volumes after reductions in 2008 and 2009, many port authorities in the United States are looking to plan, finance, and construct new projects, adjust and expand their ports for larger vessels, and modernize their road and intermodal connections in order to stay competitive with other ports and accommodate the anticipated increases in volume and size of ships.
Public port authorities have a long and successful track record working with the private sector. In the U.S. it is common for port authorities to grant private operators concessions to build and operate container and bulk terminals under long-term lease contracts or to operate existing container and bulk terminals under long-term leases. However, this model does not solve the need to finance the expansion and improvements of common user facilities (non-terminal assets) and port expansion projects.
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The Panel on Public-Private Partnerships is chaired by U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), and is tasked with examining the use of and opportunities for P3s across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings, water, and maritime infrastructure.
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Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 16, 2012 - 06:36 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: ssd, sandisk, PQI, memory, flash, CES
Sandisk had a booth with a large array of small nand flash storage devices, though most of it appeared to be SD, CF, or for embedded mobile applications:
One of the more interesting pieces was a 64GB e.MMC nand flash part that fit *within* the dimensions of a penny! This is not a plug-in module - it's the type that would be soldered onto the mainboard of a cell phone or other small mobile device:
While the booth was generally light on SSD's, there were a couple on display, namely the U100, in both 7mm (left) and 9.5mm (right) form factors:
The U100 is also available in even smaller form factor. We're currently taking a look at an Ultrabook equipped with the same Sandisk U100 SSD - mounted to an even smaller PCB.
PQI has been a favorite of mine for years. They were among the first to make a really tiny thumb drive, and I'm glad to see they continue to make a versatile line of products:
A little known fact is that PQI also has a line of SATA SSD's:
The S525 Series (also available as the S518 - 1.8" form factor), is a bit long in the tooth and uses a dated JMicron controller, but PQI made the extra effort to include the optional USB 2.0 interface that most other manufacturers chose to omit.
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How not to handle a corporate crisis: lesson number one. Thai Airways tried to black out the airline's logo on a plane that skidded off the runway today at Bangkok airport, injuring 14 passengers.
After the accident workers on a crane erased the name on the tail and body of the aircraft, in accordance with Star Alliance guidelines on crisis management. It was the second mishap in less than two weeks for Thailand's national carrier.
The Airbus A330-300, which departed from Guangzhou, in China, had a "glitch" in its wheel base while landing at Suvarnabhumi airport late on Sunday, the airline said.
Photos taken after the incident showed deep furrows from skid marks in a grassy area off the runway leading to the stalled aircraft,…


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Where To Dig For Value In Greece
Value investor John Maloney is finding it tough locating great buys in the U.S. So where does he dig? Greece. Maloney, president of M&R Capital Management, bought shares in National Bank of Greece (NBG ), the country's No.1 bank, which is growing 25% a year, vs. an average of 10% for European banks. Maloney sees NBG as a play on booming Southeastern Europe. Through acquisitions, NBG is in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey, which have probusiness monetary and fiscal policies that keep inflation and interest rates low. Maloney sees earnings of $2 billion, or 83 cents an ADR, in 2007, up from $1.2 billion, or 60 cents, in 2006. In 2008, he expects earnings to jump 25%, to $1.04 per ADR. He thinks the stock, now at 11.30, will hit 21 in two years. Ronit Ghose of Citigroup (C ) in London, who rates NBG a buy, believes that by 2009 it will derive 45% of its profits outside Greece, with Turkey bringing in 30%. "NBG remains our top pick in Greece," says Ghose, with its "strong home market, exposure to rising deposit spreads, and a high-growth Southeastern European franchise." Citigroup has done banking for NBG.
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Touches upon poverty, population, sustainability, etc.
I don't know what people, in particular omnivores, think of regarding the 10 kilos of grain to create 1 kilo of beef fact. It seems so wasteful... but the few people I've mentioned that to called it a myth or said they didn't care. "Well it's already there so may as well eat it" sort of attitude.


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Russia tries to save stranded Mars probeMOSCOW - Russia made desperate efforts on Thursday to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that now hangs in a low Earth orbit and could potentially crash back down in a matter of days.
The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft failed to find the right course to the Red Planet and its moon Phobos after taking off from a space centre Russia leases in Kazakhstan early Wednesday.
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The setback extended Russia's year-long streak of space mishaps and dimmed the once-vaunted programme's hopes of sending a manned mission to Mars some time in the next 25 years.
A source in the Russian space agency said Roscosmos had managed to establish contact with the wayward craft on two occasions overnight.
"The results are still not in," the source told RIA Novosti.
Another space official said it was imperative to quickly raise the craft into a higher orbit from which it could receive more detailed commands that could set it on its course.
"On this orbit, we can only maintain one-way communications -- we can only receive telemetry data from Phobos-Grunt," the official told the Interfax news agency.
Roscosmos did not explain how exactly it hoped to revive the craft and one Russian space official had earlier said that success "would be a miracle".
"Based on my experience, you cannot make the upper-stage work on a second attempt," the armed forces' former chief space adviser Vladimir Uvarov told Interfax on Thursday.
Russia's main concern now is that the 13.5-tonne system -- also equipped with the Chinese Yinghuo-1 satellite it was supposed to place around Mars -- and its highly toxic fuel could crash back to Earth.
The space agency said it had a window of two weeks to reprogramme the craft while it clings on to its current orbit. But the agency's chief Vladimir Popovkin said the system's batteries could only last three days.
The five-billion-ruble ($165 million) probe was set to reach Mars next year before deploying its lander for the mysterious Mars moon Phobos in 2013. The original plan was to have it return to Earth with soil samples in August 2014.
The mishap caps an inglorious list for Russia's space programme on the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space.
Three navigation satellites plunged into the sea after a failed launch in December and Russia has since lost new military and telecommunications satellites upon launch.
The last big space crash occurred in August when a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach orbit -- a frightening failure that some newspapers said could now be repeated again.
"Russia has sown fear," the popular Moskovsky Komsomolets broadsheet said in reference to the moon's Greek name Phobos.
"The Mars mission's failure could mean that we lose space as a field of scientific research," the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily added.
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An accomplished stage, film, and television actor and his wife, a costume designer, stand at the center of a lawsuit seeking to nullify a key aspect of the state and city housing laws.
The plaintiffs—two of a group of five, all Upper West Side residents—are Davis Hall, a veteran performer with credits that include the London stage, the McCarter Theatre, the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the NYC-based Lark Theatre Company, and Ingrid Price, the costume designer for "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Represented by Colleen F. McGuire of the law firm of McGuire & Zekaria (whose speciality is tenants' rights), the group is suing Gov. George E. Pataki and the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, a state agency.
At issue is a city law allowing landlords to evict tenants when they wish to use a dwelling for themselves or a member of their family. The plaintiffs, who held a press conference on Aug. 27 announcing the lawsuit, claim the rule is unconstitutional—a violation of the right to equal protection—because the law applies only to dwellings in New York City. Elsewhere in New York State, by contrast, rent stabilized tenants living in their homes for 20 years or more are exempt from the provision and thus cannot be evicted.
The loophole has long been cherished by New York City landlords as a convenient yet legal way to raise the rent on an apartment.
"We feel we have a very good case here," McGuire says, "because, frankly, I don't know what the state of New York is going to say in court—that New York City neighborhoods and tenants are less deserving of protection under the '20-year rule' than neighborhoods and tenants elsewhere in New York State? What is their rational basis for the disparate treatment—that the suburbs are entitled to have cohesion, stability, and diversity in their neighborhoods, but New York City isn't?"
Hall, she says, has been living in his apartment since 1973. For the last several years, however, the building's owner, Ervin Rosenfeld, has been "trying to make a kibbutz out of the building," a fact Hall confirms.
Rosenfeld's daughter, Hall says, "already has one apartment in the building, so now there are only two [tenants] left who have rent stabilized apartments, and the other one is a senior citizen." Seniors cannot, in any event, be evicted, so Hall and Price are "the only ones vulnerable" to Rosenfeld under the law being challenged.
Calls by Back Stage to Rosenfeld and his attorney, Dave Tendler, were not returned.
McGuire is careful to note that what is at stake is not the overall rent stabilization law in New York. Instead, it's the rights of tenants who moved into their apartments between 1971 and 1974, a "narrow class" of city dwellers who "attained their rent stabilization status through the 'Emergency Tenant Protection Act.'" That act, which amended even older legislation dealing with the city and state's perpetual housing challenges, was enacted into law because "the legislature…finds and declares that a serious public emergency continues to exist in the housing of a considerable numbers of persons in the state of New York…that there continues to exist an acute shortage of housing accommodations caused by continued high demand, attributable in part to...decreased supply."
It was also enacted because "preventative action by the legislature continues to be imperative…to prevent exaction of unjust, unreasonable and oppressive rent and rental agreements and to forestall profiteering, speculation and other disruptive practices…[such as] uncertainty, hardship and dislocation." Potential dislocation is exactly what is currently being faced by Hall, Price, and the other plaintiffs, who include a bookkeeper and two jewelry designers.
Interestingly, Hall sits on Actors' Equity's housing committee. The union, which Hall concedes "has a policy of not being political" on such hot-button issues as the need for affordable housing for performers, can at least, he says, "work on just getting information out to the membership about the housing situation in the city—that there are issues involving just what the [housing] law is. We've also been having seminars that explore the idea that if you can afford to rent, perhaps you can afford to buy."
Hall feels that the need for the committee is becoming clearer by the day. "Actors are having to leave the theatre district because they can't afford to live there anymore. Now, if you look at the entire theatrical profession, it's a major industry for the city—it seems to me if there was some kind of union coordination there would be a lot of clout there. I'd like to see the unions take some kind of stand on housing issues because we're certainly affected by them."
Yet even McGuire concedes that no matter how narrow or vociferous the lawsuit, "those who own property ultimately have more power and negotiating leverage with Albany than tenants. When they want to, they can form a formidable lobby."


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Get me my coffee James f#$%in Murphy
It's about 2 o' clock in the afternoon, and I'm thinking a cup of expertly made coffee is about to make the rest of the day go by so much smoother. So do I get a regular cup of coffee, or do I get a cappuccino? And do I get a maple-bacon donut or a gruyere and cinnamon goulash cookie with candied yam butter? Should I get that to go and waste a paper cup, or should I get it for here and waste time staring at shoes and ugly dogs? And do I put raw sugar or regular sugar in it. Milk or half & half? Or do I want foam? You know what, I really need a coffee consultant. Someone who really loves coffee, maybe even wants to develop their own blend. Ideally this person would also run their own record label and be the former front man for a now defunct electronic dance band that kind of revolutionized the game and influenced countless other musical trajectories. And maybe this person should come and play a DJ set at Public Works on Friday November 16. Just maybe
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Analisis Of The Employers' Anticipation Regarding The Changes That Are Likely To Occur In The Romanian Manufacturing Industry Companies
Lifelong learning represents an important factor in the accommodation process of the firms' activity to the market changes. The introduction in the economy of new technologies imposes the necessity to continuously improve the level of labor force qualification. If some years ago people thought that their abilities and qualifications would allow them to stay employed many years without any problems, today they have to understand that the abilities, with which they entered on the labor market, will not be sufficient during their active life. From this reason, the education and training, even if they are carried on at their work place, in formal or informal systems, have to be always in the attention of the employees, because they represent for everybody the key for their personal development and career evolution. The present paper aims to analyze the employers' anticipations regarding the future development of their own companies, the changes that are likely to occur and the implication of these upon the employment level in their companies. For this analyze data were collected based on questionnaires and were processed with SPSS 11.0 software.
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The ICYBento is a simple but stylish external 3.5" disk enclosure, designed (as the name suggests) for effortlessly converting a single drive into an external device. It is a passive device, meaning that there are no active cooling methods and all heat dissipation is being performed by the aluminum frame of the enclosure. Make no mistake however; only the frame is aluminum, with the external body of the enclosure being painted plastic. When on its side, the ICYBento stands on four small plastic legs which can be folded and hidden.
The rear of the ICYBento is busy, with a standard on/off switch and the power adapter plug on the right side, the USB 3.0 plug right in the middle, the eSATA connector right next to it and a small button which opens the plastic legs of the enclosure on the far left. There also is a Kensington lock there, if security is required.
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Once the locked lever is released, the tray may be pulled out. The tray indeed is made of aluminum, although its mass is hardly important. A plastic support brace is installed, it will have to be removed for a drive to be mounted.
After the drive is installed, the user just has to slide it back inside the case and it will lock onto the SATA connector inside the ICYBento automatically. There is enough space, therefore all 3.5" drives should fit without problems.
As the ICYBento is meant for 3.5" drives and mechanical disks cannot nearly fill the bandwidth of eSATA and or USB 3.0, the maximum speed that the ICYBento may achieve will be that of the disk installed inside it. Stylish, light, practical and very handful, the ICYBento has only one enemy; its own retail price. Retailing for about 55 EUR (90 SGD), it is expensive for an external HDD enclosure and will have a hard time combating the competition.


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During an Q&A with Variety, Robert Downey Jr. discussed the perks and disadvantages of playing Iron Man, recalled urging Chris Evans to play Captain America, and praised Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age of Ultron script. "There was so much riding on (playing the part of) what essentially could be considered the squarest superhero in history," said Downey of why he, too, urged the hesitent Evans to play Steve Rogers. "It was probably the most risky of the franchises we launched. I say 'we,' like I'm a company man, which I like to think I am. By the way, I'm a fan of his." He continued, "I'm not kidding. I'm having 50 kids over and I'm screening Captain America 2 on my birthday, which happens to be the day it opens. I haven't seen it. That's one of the perks of being on the inside track at Marvel. I hope it's not watermarked too heavily."
When asked how many more Marvel Cinematic Universe ventures does he think there will be, Robert Downey Jr. said: "The smart money is you have to look at everybody's age. I'll put myself at the top of the list. Sooner or later, they've got to start over and get somebody young. I'm not there with them yet. It really is the closest thing to being a beloved contract player with a big old-timey studio that there is right now. When you really think about it at the end of the day, these films are entertainment largely driven by young folks. There is something very honorable about that. I run into kids wearing 'Captain America' masks. My kid believes that Captain America is real." On the downside of playing a superhero, the actor said, "It's kind of like having a really cool TV job. They are always hoping they don't get picked up for another season; or they are wondering if they're going to get picked up for another season; or they have done so many seasons, and they are already sick of doing the show, but the show is so big, it's working well for them. Any of those three things is better than calling your agent and saying, 'Hey, anything going on? It's pilot season.' "
As for The Avengers sequel, Downey declared: "This one is a very ambitious sequel. If you read it, it's dense, it's smart. Joss [Whedon] is a really smart guy. My 2-year-old is crazy about Hawkeye, and I think Jeremy [Renner] has a lot to do with the plot. There's always so many plates to spin to get these things half-right, and I'm really excited about this one."
To read the interview in its entirety, make the jump over to Variety. What do you think?
The Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, with Paul Bettany, Samuel L. Jackson, and James Spader. The film is set for release on May 1, 2015.


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Gus Grosskopf, WWII bomber pilot, dies in Austin
By ESTHER ROBARDS-FORBES | Austin American-Statesman (MCT) | Published: September 5, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — Gus Martin Grosskopf did a lot of things with precision, whether it was flying a B-25 bomber over the Pacific in World War II, running a major typesetting company in Austin or handcrafting a piece of furniture for his church.
"He was all about building and serving," said his son, Bill Grosskopf, 63. "He was always looking out to see how he could help someone else."
Gus Grosskopf, who passed away Tuesday in Austin at age 89, grew up on a farm near Pflugerville, picking cotton as a boy, his son said. He attended Austin High School. When he turned 17, he applied to enlist in the Army Air Corp; while the application was being processed, he was drafted into the Army and went through basic training to become and infantryman. His Air Corp application finally caught up with him and he was sent to officer training and flight school, his son said.
After he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, he was assigned to fly B-25 bombers out of the Philippines and flew 24 successful missions between 1944 and the end of the war.
"He never really talked about the war much until the last couple of years of his life," Bill Grosskopf said. "He talked about some of the low-level strafing and bombing runs they had to do and talked about pilots coming back with coconuts stuck in their fuselage because they had clipped a tree. They had to fly that low."
Grosskopf had worked at a typesetting shop while he was in high school. When he returned from the war, he went back to that work. Eventually he started his own typesetting business, G&S Typesetters, which would become one of the largest typesetting companies in the country, according to the Grosskopf family and former employees. It prepared books, textbooks, scholarly publications and even early copies of Texas Monthly for print. Clients included the University of Texas, University of California, Princeton University and Stanford University.
He started the business with his wife, Carolyn. The couple had two sons, Bill and Jack.
Despite no education beyond his officer training in the military, Grosskopf was able to teach himself how to run a business and build things.
"He was extremely clever and could build almost anything out of anything," Bill Grosskopf said.
When their sons graduated from college with engineering degrees, they came to work in the family business.
"The key is stay so busy you stay out of each others' way," Bill Grosskopf said. "That way, there is no time to bicker over things."
His sons persuaded Grosskopf to retire in 2005 -- more than 50 years after he founded G&S Typesetters -- and the company was sold Newgen North America.
Bill Grosskopf still works there, but gone are the days of hot metal typesetting. The work is done on computers now.
Gus Grosskopf turned his attention to woodworking, volunteering at St. Martin's Lutheran Church to build furniture and cabinets for the church.
"He very patient and tended to be on the quiet side," said longtime friend and fellow volunteer John Sommer. "He would not criticize people."
Grosskopf was a perfectionist with his own work and generously shared it, building furniture for friends and family members and helping with minor repairs well into his 80s.
"When he took a project," Sommer said, "it always ended up being better than you thought it would be."
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by Lawrence Meyers | November 7, 2011 12:35 pm
There are these little things called "secular trends" that all investors must be aware of.
For example, there is a secular trend toward viewing entertainment on mobile devices and computers, which is one reason why television viewership and the volume of movie admissions have been dropped during the past 10 years.
Another secular trend is that people are abandoning newspapers, and for that reason you should sell all your newspaper stocks. The trend is your friend. Newspapers are not trending toward growth. They are contracting. Here's why, and a look at the stocks to sell.
Thanks to the Internet, people can get their news whenever they want, wherever they want. Mobile devices are the new instant newspapers — they provide up-to-the-minute news, whereas newspapers provide day-old news. Moreover, content providers are entering the field all the time, and a good story can come from anywhere, not just The New York Times. And in the case of fabulous blogs that published stories that do not hew to the left-wing bias of most newspapers, people have started to realize that the truth is out there — but not in the mainstream media.
Then you have the fact that the actual context and convenience for reading a newspaper is gone. It used to be that you went to the bagel store on Sunday and read the newspaper. Now you go the bagel store and read your iPad. Plus, those newspapers are so bulky.
As a result of all this, eyeballs have migrated away from newspapers to the Internet. Circulation has fallen dramatically. In Q1 of 2010 — just choosing a random quarter — the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed a 9% drop in circulation. That included a 23% drop in circulation for the San Francisco Chronicle. In the past six months, newspapers saw a 5% drop.
When circulation falls, advertising rates follow and advertisers spend their dollars elsewhere. Newspapers are also really expensive to run, whereas websites aren't nearly as expensive.
How bad is it? Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO[1]) hit a high of $983 a share in late 2004. It has never come close since, and today trades at $330. In its most recent quarter, it reported a 20% drop in ad revenue. Even online revenue was down 14%.
New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT[2]) was a $51 stock in 2002. Today it trades at $7.50. Third-quarter ad revenue was down 6%. Gannett Company (NYSE:GCI[3]) — well, things there are so bad that the company stopped reporting paid ad pages. The company replaced that detailed information with a simple and embarrassing statistic: national advertising fell 17%. Gannett trades at $11.32 and is not likely to see its 2004 high of $89 ever again.
This is what we call a secular trend. If you own these stocks, or for that matter McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI[4]) — which is down to about a buck a share from $70 — get out now. You are holding a highly flammable product with no future. In fact, you may even want to consider shorting. It's better than watching your money go up in flames.
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Thanks for the attention paid to the questions raised about furloughs at the University of Georgia and other educational institutions in the state (Story, "Furloughs a worry at UGA," Thursday). Many very troubling issues have yet to be worked out.
However, here I want to address the simple-minded thinking that makes it possible even to consider furloughing educators and researchers.
The whole idea of furloughing is based on assembly-line manufacturing. Closing the factory for furlough days makes sense, because one can work only when one is on the assembly line. If you close the line, there's no way to work, so no reason to get paid.
But it's naive, if not downright deceptive, to claim to control working hours at a school, college or university simply by closing the classroom or campus. The problem with this is that good educators must put energy into teaching and research year-round, 24/7 and often at home much more than the office. Just ask my own spouse and kids, who frequently ask, "Dad, when are you going to be done?"
Please be more accurate about furloughing in general. The word "furlough" really means "pay cut." The governor - and reporters - should at least call it by its true name.
And please be more accurate when you talk about teaching and pay. Most UGA professors are paid over 261 days, but they emphatically do not also work only 261 days of the year.
Jay Hamilton - Watkinsville
• Jay Hamilton is an associate professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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The same way that Impetigo managed to create a world of gore and rot to live in almost, with their album 'Horror Of The Zombies', I believe Dead Infection managed to also capture the same atmosphere but with different riffs on this release. There really is no reason to call this a demo other than the fact that it was released DIY, for it is 45 minutes long and sounds better than most grind releases out there.
In fact, the sound is somewhat comparable to the aforementioned Impetigo album, it is relatively quiet with the low overtones gaining much of the forefront, while the high notes are kinda lost and sound a little weak. The drums are well audible, even the toms, although the cymbals kind of fade into one sound, with the bell of the ride being an exception, but the crash and the hi-hat sound similar. This annoying aspect of the recording is why it only gets an eighty, otherwise it would well deserve a 90. Why not a 100? Well, sometimes the riffs drag on for too long, that is basically the only bad thing I can say about this recording, some of the riffs sometimes drag on a bit, and not all of the songs are as memorable. Most of them are, but some of them I think got left out of the repertoire on purpose later on. Some filler material. The vocals of this band are absolutely love them or hate them, and this is before they started to use a vocal distortion pedal, or do that annoying raspy kind of gurgle he does now. This is still when he was doing death metal voice over all of his shit, and his lows are fucking low as hell. I think his voice is what adds that definitive touch of decay and death, although the guitar sound in and of itself is perfect and reminds us of that sort of stench. The whole albums sound seems to pulsate and gives this warm, poignant sound. recommended for everyone into that sort of gore sound.


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BOSTON (CBS) – Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli dismissed reports Thursday night regarding a trade with Los Angeles for Marco Sturm.
According to TSN, the Bruins traded their injured left winger to the Kings for a conditional draft pick.
Sturm is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.
He hasn't played since May 1st when when he went down with a torn right ACL and MCL in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Flyers.
The Bruins are struggling to make room under the salary cap and moving Sturm would clear $3.5 million off their books.
Sturm came to the Bruins in 2005 from the San Jose Sharks as part of the Joe Thornton trade.


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I'm first going to address how
you can perform a large-signal phase noise analysis on a design block such as a
VCO using our transient noise analysis capability in our Spectre circuit simulator.
This approach is in addition to our small signal phase noise
analysis which is available using either pnoise or hbnoise analysis in the
SpectreRF option to Spectre.
Here are the steps to obtain a phase noise plot from transient noise analysis:
1. Set up your oscillator testbench circuit for a transient noise analysis (See sourcelink for the Transient Noise appNote - it doesn't discuss the phase noise measurement, but describes how to properly set up the simulation analysis
2. Add the block freq_meter from the pllMMLib library ($CDSHOME/tools//dfII/samples/artist/pllMMLib) to the testbench circuit. Important: The instance name for this block must be 'vco_freq'.
If the oscillator output is differential, connect it to the vin_p and vin_n pins on the freq_meter block. If the oscillator output is single ended, connect it to the vin_p pin and connect the vin_n pin to ground. Connect a noConn cell from the basic library to the out_freq pin.
The parameters for this block are (set Tools Filter to veriloga in the CDF parameter form:
Vthup: Threshold voltage to determine the rise edge of the input waveform. The input waveform period is determined by two adjacent rise edges. Default is 0.
ttol: The tolerance of the time where the rise edge is determined. Default is 1p.
outStart: The time-dependent period of the input waveform is output to the file when the time is greater than outStart. Default is 0. To get accurate phase noise measurements, set this to past the time when the oscillator is fully powered up and oscillating at the design frequency.
outfile: The name of a file to contain time-dependent periods for use in later psd calculations. Specify just the file name, not a path. If outfile is left blank, the default name is periods.txt.
3. Before starting the simulation, in the ADE window, Select Tools->RF->PLL. In the PLL Macro Model Wizard window, enable PLL Macro Model and select PLL Bench as the Bench Type. Then OK this form.
4. Run the simulation. The simulation must run successfully to completion in order to get to the phase noise results.
5. In the Direct Plot form for transient noise there should be a PLL PSD Noise option. This will allow you to plot the phase noise results. If a message appears saying that the PLL Noise PSD data is not available, check steps 3) and 4). If you make any corrections, you will need to re-run the simulation.
The phase noise plot will extend from fmin = 4/tstop to fmax = fosc/2, where tstop is the transient noise simulation stop time and fosc is the oscillation frequency of the circuit.
Important note: You will need to use MMSIM701 and IC5141USR5 or IC613 (or latersubversions) to obtain a phase noise plot from transient noise analysis.
do i have to run this simulation on MMSIM701?
i found this function on MMSIM220.127.116.110 as well
and run this flow as you post, however ending up failure.
why?? can i use this function on MMSIM188.8.131.520 ??


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Olympus is the leader on the Japanese mirrorless market.
BCN Inc., has released the ranking and market share of the top three companies "BCN AWARD 2013" annual sales. Here are the winners of the digital video and camera market:
Digital camera (integrated lens)
Canon 17.6
Sony Corporation 16.5
Nikon Corporation 14.1
Digital camera (SLR)
Canon 52.7
Nikon Corporation 35.1
Sony Corporation 7.1
Digital camera (SLR mirror-less)
Olympus 29.8
Panasonic 23.3
Sony Corporation 20.1
Digital video camera
Sony Corporation 40.2
Panasonic 24.8
JVC Kenwood 18.2
These are the market shares based on the camera sales number of 2012. There is no such report available in any EU or US market :(
Amazon ranking (just ro see what's hot in EU and US):
US ranking (Click here).
DE ranking (Click here).
UK ranking (Click here).
FR ranking (Click here).


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Socrates Citizen
182nd Commencement Address
May 25, 2003
Tom Gerety
Years ago, when I was in high school in France, I read some Plato and came under the spell of Socrates. I count it as my beginning in the liberal arts. We know there is no endpoint to inquiry or discussion, but still there are markers along the way. You pass one today, and so do I. I return to Socrates as you and I finish up our work together at Amherst.
When I first read Socrates' words, they were translated into French. I was living alone in Paris, a yearning adolescent, full of rebellion and solitude. Late nights I would sit at my desk with a cup of watery hot chocolate in front of my book. I remember still the curlicue look of the Greek words for soul and virtue dangling at the bottom of the French page. What made Socrates so captivating for me was the constant play, in his life and words, between a passionate idealism and the insistent irony with which he challenged himself and others to think harder and more skeptically.
In Plato's Apology, Socrates gave what may be the most eloquent legal defense ever recorded. He began by saying how poor and bumbling a speaker he was. "My accusers say I am a gifted, fearsome, speaker," he said. "The only clever thing I have to speak is the truth."(1)
He tells the jurors how surprised he was to learn that the Oracle of Delphi, the local soothsayer, was saying that no man was wiser than Socrates. "How can this be?" he asks, in what seems to us completely feigned astonishment. But I suspect that he was astonished. He took the Oracle's word as a kind of mission: why in the world would anyone think Socrates wiser than others? He questioned all those he could find who were known for their knowledge, their wisdom. What he found was that they knew less than they claimed to know. That, in turn, led to the famous but irksome insight, that "I am wise because I know that I do not know." And the corollary to this, proven again and again in his conversations with the great and glorious, was that wise men everywhere were fools to think they knew much at all about what really mattered - "the care," as he said, "of the soul."
At his trial Socrates was condemned on two well-documented charges. Plato tells us in the Apology that the charges included impiety - not believing in the ruling mythology or theology of Athens - and corrupting the young, presumably by teaching them to question their elders, sometimes with the exasperating obsessiveness and skepticism that I found so alluring at 17. In addition to these definite charges, there were others, unstated charges against Socrates - prejudices, really - against his friendships, his questions, his whole way of living and thinking, of philosophizing, in the small world that was classical Athens. Thus Socrates has to insist that he was never one of the natural philosophers whom Aristophanes and others mocked. Socrates says over and again that he had only one concern, the care of the soul. Today we would call him a moral philosopher. One of the most powerful of these tacit or hidden charges against Socrates was that he had remained aloof from the rest of Athens' citizens. He was disengaged - detached - from the civic obligations of his nation-state. He had a good patriotic defense against this charge: he had been a brave soldier holding his ground more than once as an infantryman abroad in Athens' wars; what's more, he had been a brave citizen at home, once resisting a rush to scapegoat defeated generals and, another time, refusing to collaborate with a bloody coup in an Athens humiliated by its rival Sparta. Still, Socrates was undeniably, to his fellow citizens, a troubling presence both as a skeptic and dissenter and, what may be more, as a man detached from the interests and passions of his neighbors and even friends. It's as if one of us were scornful, let's say, of the deeply held religious convictions of all those around us or, more pointedly still, indifferent to their shared sense of outrage and vulnerability after a great national defeat. Many years after Socrates' death, an orator named Aeschines mentioned that Socrates had been executed because he taught, among many others, a tyrant named Critias. Thus some have argued that the real reason for Socrates' execution was that he taught his students to mock the democratic constitution of Athens. When that constitution was overthrown, by Critias and others, Socrates neither protested nor rebelled, critics say.(2) Indeed he lived more or less safely for months under the dictatorship of the Thirty while many others died or fled. Again, Socrates has an eloquent defense of both his action and inaction. Socrates tells this story: The Thirty tyrants ordered him and others to seize a man named Leon from the outlying village of Salamis and to bring him into the city for what was bound to be an assassination. This happened all too often under the dictatorship. The Thirty killed hundreds of Athenians, often seizing the property of the murdered for themselves. But, Socrates tells us, "the regime, with all its might, did not scare me into doing injustice. . .the four others went to Salamis to bring Leon back but I went straight home. . . . And for this I might well have been put to death," had not the dictatorship itself fallen.
Philosophy students have argued for centuries about whether Socrates did the right thing. Leon was murdered after all; Socrates was innocent of that murder, of course. These are plainly judgments based on fact. Still, most of us feel there's little heroism in going home to safety while thugs and cowards murder someone who might have been saved had we only warned him.
The account that Plato gives of this one incident from Socrates' long life can serve as a kind of pivot on which to turn and ask a question about you and me and all of us. Study and inquiry have often been seen as reflective, contemplative, even passive, in relation to the world of action, politics, heroism. Plato's writing shows this clearly. In his greatest work, The Republic, Plato describes the constitution of the state as like the constitution of the soul. He divides the soul into three parts, using the metaphor of three kinds of lives, each representing an aspect of our souls: most people seek wealth, he says; some seek chiefly honor or glory; and some others, perhaps very few, seek knowledge, and with it virtue or goodness. Plato may well have taken this division from an older school of mystical mathematical thinkers who surrounded the great Pythagoras. Among these Pythagoreans it was said that we had to choose among three sorts of lives. We could see the choice most clearly in the people who crowded into the city for the annual athletic contests. "Some come to compete for fame and glory," they said. "Some come to make money by selling and buying things. But some come only to watch." Oddly, at least to us, it was in the spectators that the Pythagoreans found a proper image for themselves as students, as philosophers.
I know that passivity is not the right word for contemplation. Aristotle said that contemplation was the most active of all our mental states. Contemplatives in many, many faiths have agreed. It is not passivity they seek but detachment. Still, detachment in politics and civic life can be a form of passivity. Take voting as a simple example. Less than half of Americans vote these days. Among college students only a quarter vote. I doubt that it is the most philosophical, the most contemplative, who stay home on election day. I suspect the reason is much more ordinary: laziness perhaps; indifference to the issues; postponement of adult responsibilities. But there is one motive that may link up to the intellectual life you have led as students: it is cynicism, a sense, a perfectly rational and sophisticated sense, that individual votes make little or no difference. In a society as large and powerful as ours, one so full of contradictions, it's easy to lose hope in change, in the effectiveness of your own efforts against large social forces, forces that can more easily be steered with fibs and fears than with complex truths. The sheer size of our country, its enormous economic and military power, may contribute to a sense of futility: who am I, you may wonder, to protest or complain about the actions of the mightiest state in human history? How often can one person, or even a handful, turn around policies in an Athens, never mind in an America? The insecurity and anxiety that we have all felt since September 11, 2001 only intensify the sense that futility haunts our best efforts to build good lives for ourselves and for others.
In the last two years, we have fought a pair of wars, both intended to make the world safe -- or safer from terrorism. In the run-up to both of them, we debated the politics, economics and morality of these relatively small wars. In the aftermath of victory, the debate continues. No doubt it will go on for years. There may well be more small, brief wars to come with equally uncertain outcomes and equally unresolved debates. Can these debates make a difference? The temptation from cynicism is to say, as with voting, that none of this talk makes any difference at all. Wars are fought now by specialists, few of whom you will know or influence as your lives and careers unfold. Policy experts in Washington seem to make the key decisions; some of you may join them as the years go on; but necessarily most of you will have little contact with them or their world of think tanks and political appointments. The president of the United States, elected by an increasingly small fraction of those who might vote, has little or no time for the sorts of debates or protests that make campus life interesting. So as you move on you will be tempted to say, "What's the use? All that talk was a kind of educational exercise; now I have better things to do. . . ." By this logic, you will turn away not so much to go home to safety as to go on with work on a scale where you can achieve concrete and measurable results, for yourselves and for others.
That turn makes sense for most of us. But I worry that it represents a surrender of hope that through democracy we can change history even a little. One case (of the sort I will be working on in my first job after Amherst) pushes against my own temptation towards detachment or cynicism. On May 8, 2002, an American citizen named José Padilla returned to the United States from abroad, traveling from Pakistan to Switzerland and then on to Illinois. As he got off his plane at O'Hare Airport outside Chicago, he was arrested by federal marshals. At first he was held as a material witness for a grand jury in New York investigating terrorism. But on June 9, President Bush ordered that Padilla be held henceforth as "an enemy combatant" associated with Al Qaeda. He was transferred to a Navy prison in South Carolina, where, as far as we know, he remains today. Except for the presidential statement, Padilla has never been charged with a crime to which he might plead innocent or guilty. No lawyer or relative can see him.(3) Petitions of habeas corpus filed on his behalf have all been denied on appeal. Newspapers tell us about his childhood and family, his criminal record, and his conversion to Islam and adoption of an Arabic name. Statements from officials suggest that he was followed overseas by intelligence agents. They report that he trained with Al Qaeda to plant "dirty" nuclear bombs here at home.
José Padilla may well be guilty, as President Bush, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and others suggest. The question that nags at me-and the question that should nag at us all-is the one your teachers have put to you again and again in the spirit of Socrates: How do we know that? How can we be sure of it? Have we listened carefully to those - like Padilla or his lawyers - who might disagree?
Under our Constitution, under our laws, we seek answers to such questions through what we call due process, that is, hearings and trials before judges, evidence and arguments presented by lawyers. Socrates defended himself in an ancient version of due process. But our country is grievously threatened, as we all know, and the threat forces hard choices on us as a people. It is, I think, an important and valid question just where and when we may have to suspend or postpone these processes so as to secure our safety. During the Civil War President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. In a case in Indiana, a troublesome man named Milligan challenged the president's power to use military courts to try Americans like himself.(4) His argument was the simple one that citizens of the United States were entitled to appear before civilian judges and juries rather than military officers, even in wartime. The Supreme Court held that the government could not do this "where the courts are open and their process unobstructed." And thus Milligan was released. Does this principle, should this principle, apply now to José Padilla? He is an American citizen, born in Brooklyn and reared in Chicago. The courts are "open and unobstructed." But, again, the nation faces threats we have never known before.
Padilla is said by experts to be a terrorist enlisted in an enemy force. One of the most important precedents in this area of constitutional law was decided by a Supreme Court headed by an Amherst graduate, Harlan Fiske Stone of the Class of 1894. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Calvin Coolidge, Stone was named Chief Justice by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1942, in the midst of the Second World War, Stone's Court upheld the conviction and execution of seven German soldiers, all of them onetime residents of the United States fluent in English.(5) They had landed from submarines on beaches in Long Island and Florida, buried their uniforms, and headed toward towns and cities in order to sabotage bridges and factories. Like Padilla, they did not get far. Today we would call them terrorists. Chief Justice Stone said, in upholding their military execution, that unlike Milligan they had violated "the laws of war" and thus could be tried and convicted by military tribunals. These precedents do not close off the question raised by the Padilla case: Can citizens of the United States be arrested on the say-so of high officials? Can they be held indefinitely in military detention? Can they be convicted and punished by the military rather than civilian authorities when the civilian courts are "open and unobstructed?" When the nation is at peace the answer to these questions is clearly no: we are all entitled to the elements of due process from American courts. When the nation is at war, as in these two cases, the answer may well be more difficult.
Our own situation partakes of both war and peace: we have enemies who have or seek to have the weapons of war; we will have such enemies for a long, long time. Yet the nation is in nothing like the disorder and desperation of the Civil War nor the urgency, the stringency, that obtained during the great wars, the world wars of the 20th century. Padilla, whatever wrong he did or planned to do, was and is an American citizen. Like the German soldiers he may well have enlisted with an enemy army, and what is worse, a covert terrorist army. But the question for us - the question for you - is whether our security needs have become so urgent that we need to suspend due process, suspend the Bill of Rights, so as to make the nation safe from terror. If so, any one of us must be ready to be imprisoned without a hearing on the secret report of intelligence and defense authorities.
Socrates may have turned away from the execution of Leon of Salamis. He would not have turned away - he did not turn away - from questions such as these, about the fairness of our laws and the justice of our wars and executions.
I urge you, then, to take up these questions. Neither I nor anyone else can decide them for you. You must debate them; you must vote them; above all, you must take them up on your own. Take them up with a conviction, with a faith, that your thoughts, your arguments, your actions, will shape America in the years ahead. Your active, Socratic citizenship can contribute, in ways large and small, to justice in the United States and around the world. When Socrates was executed in Athens in 399 B.C., his nation, small as it was, stood threatened by both conquest and subversion. America now, and in your lifetime, is not likely to be threatened by either. But Athens, like America, was under a kind of siege. For one reason or another, and partly in self-defense, it had become an empire, if a very small one. We in America are not a true empire, though many say we are becoming one. Certainly we have a kind of military and economic dominion that few of the world's empires could ever claim. What I take from Socrates - what I hope you will take from the liberal arts - is not passivity or detachment but the conviction that even in the midst of great danger we should never fear questions and arguments.
Will our actions make any difference to America and to the world? The cynic in each of us will say no: it's a big and busy world, a stubborn world, and one not likely to listen to you or me as we debate at length or protest or vote. There is an act of faith in all action. You came here in that faith, as I did. As we leave here together then, may your faith and mine remain both strong and stubborn.
Good luck to all of you.
2 Most notably I.. F. Stone in The Trial of Socrates.
3 He did see a court-appointed lawyer, however, when first transferred to New York.
4 Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866).
5 Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942).


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