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It is a bit embarrassing to have respond to the paranoid (perhaps diagnostic) ramblings found in the Laura Rubenfeld's article entitled "Caught in the Act? Akbar Ahmed, the 'Islamization of Knowledge,' and the Muslim Brotherhood". Of course, this is not the first time that a blogger has attacked Akbar Ahmed (after all, he has committed the unforgivable sin of being born a Muslim) and probably will not be the last.
In this one especially, the arguments are so weak and the research so sophomoric, any impartial reader would be left shaking their heads in confusion. Alas, the "Pajamas Media" campaign against Islam is neither impartial nor factual, nor known for making logical arguments. In Rubenfeld's previous attack of Ahmed's work, post she casually dismisses facts in favor of propaganda (example: she quotes a satirical article by Benjamin Franklin as evidence that he does not like Islam and a forward to John Adams' Quran as evidence that he himself hated the religion. More on that here).
It is unclear whether she actually believes what she is writing or whether she is just assuming the reader will accept her writing as fact. It is probably somewhere between the two. As a subordinate to a larger and well-funded campaign, Rubenfeld is a mercenary whose charter is to write negatively about Islam, truth be damned. The reader is expected to buy it, send it chain letter style to all of their contacts, donate, buy books and come back for more. Many so-called experts, including her predatory boss Steve Emerson, have made quite a career off of this charade.
But this, unfortunately, means we have to spend our time responding to this nonsense.
The first point, and the thrust of the entire article, is that Akbar Ahmed is concealing his work with a "global Islamist movement known as the Islamization of knowledge." Her evidence is that an article that Ahmed wrote in the 1980's which was originally published by IIIT is not found on his bio. She cites two bios from the American University website to prove this. We have various bios in the office of various lengths. Ahmed has spent the past 40 years working in the discipline and the full CV with everything listed is over 30 pages with all of his 25+ books, hundreds of articles, Forewords, book chapters, etc. listed. Most often, when asked, we provide a condensed version with a "Selected Books" and "Selected Recent Articles" as in the CV that Rubenfeld cites. "Selected Recent Articles" means we choose only the most recent articles. The bio even leaves off some of his best known works including his dissertation which broke him in to the field in the first place. The other is a one paragraph brief bio. Surely I don't have to explain what that means.
Rubenfeld goes on to state that Ahmed published a paper entitled "Toward Islamic Anthropology : Definition, Dogma and Directions". The paper was part of a series by IIIT where they asked leading scholars in many disciplines to examine the concept of Islamic knowledge. The question was to be if there could be "Islamic" sciences, math, history, etc… in part an effort to attempt to rediscover the concept of knowledge in Islam. Not being a scholar of Islam, Rubenfeld is apparently unaware that Muslims were once at the forefront of world civilization in every field, and their achievements played a central role in establishing Western civilization as we know it, providing the foundations for the Renaissance. It is Ahmed's thesis that Muslim societies must rediscover this value if they are to progress in the 21st century.
Had Rubenfeld actually read the article she bases her attack on Ahmed around (we'd be happy to send a copy), she would have realized that he came out against the "Islamization" of anthropology, concluding that knowledge is knowledge and there is either good anthropology or bad anthropology, and therefore no such thing as Islamic anthropology. To again reach new frontiers in the arts and sciences and change the world, Muslims did not have to see these subjects through the lens of Islam as some believed, but rather should see them as subjects in and of themselves.
Far from hiding this work as Rubenfeld suggests, Ahmed has been proud of the paper since it was published, In fact, the paper will be republished in an academic book entitled "Anthropology of Islam" by Routledge.
With strong innuendo, Rubenfeld suggests that Ahmed is forever linked with IIIT, who is linked by her to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, therefore Ahmed is guilty by association to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ahmed was asked, in 1980-81 while he was at Princeton, to write on the subject, given no royalties, only tasked with furthering knowledge. At that time, IIIT was not on any list of threatening organizations, nor did he or anyone else know of any link to the Muslim Brotherhood. Further, despite what you read from the mainstream press, the Muslim Brotherhood has denounced violence since the 1970's, was not and is still not on U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations list per the Department of State.
How ridiculous are these links? Here an example: Laura Rubenfeld speaks Russian and went to College in Russia where she surely interacted with someone who was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. She must be a Communist. These kind of ridiculous claims are comical but dangerous because people start to believe them.
Furthermore, throughout the 1980's and 1990's, Ahmed was a member of the Civil Service Pakistan and strictly forbidden to join any political parties. He never did and never has. Further, he spent much of that time writing a book, producing a documentary, feature film and comic book promoting Mohammed Ali Jinnnah, the founder of Pakistan who believed in Human Rights, Civil Rights, women's rights and minority rights. Jinnah's life and Professor Ahmed's work have both been in direct opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups like it.
Rubenfeld also make the claim that Ahmed is on the boards of various institutions not to her liking. He is constantly asked to be on boards and lends his name to many boards and institutions but has neither attended any meetings nor interacting in any way with IIIT or any of the other institutions Rubenfeld mentions. Again, the full CV mentions all of the boards he is on.
We consulted both the Dean of the school and Ambassador Ahmed and colleagues and all said that it was beneath his dignity; however he wanted to offer a brief statement to set the record straight.
Here is Ambassador Ahmed's response:
Some notorious bloggers who spread hatred against and fear of Muslims have recently raised questions about my work after the publication of my book Journey into America last summer. As the book was widely discussed in the media and I was even invited by John Stewart on the Daily Show, these bloggers seem to have gone into a frenzy. They did what they do best—spread smear and slander. They accused me of "lying" and "hiding" facts about my scholarship. Recently, they picked my small book—really an essay—on Islamic Anthropology, accusing me of "hiding" it. I was persuaded by Muslim scholars in 1980 when I was at Princeton to examine my discipline, Anthropology, in the frame of a global project called "The Islamization of Knowledge". In my little book, I concluded that the quality of knowledge can only be based on scholarship, research and observation, not by attaching labels such as Islamic. I also emphasized, as I have throughout my writing, the importance of knowledge.
Far from hiding it—in spite of having to deal with the fate of about two dozen books—I noted with pride that it has been reprinted several times and even translated. It is mentioned in my full CV and references to it are given in two of my most popular books, Discovering Islam (see new edition 2002) and Postmodernism and Islam (see new edition 2004). I worked on it last year for yet another reprint to be published this year. The book is also widely available in bookstores and frequently checked out at the library here at American University.
As for the question of indirect support of the book by the Muslim Brotherhood through its publishers, I have no dealings whatsoever with the Brotherhood and have no idea what is on their website but if the book is being read by their members, I am confident they will benefit from the importance of knowledge in Islam—something which my blogger critics would also do if only they read it.
As a Muslim living in an atmosphere of poisonous hatred against Muslims, I expect to be attacked by this kind of Islamophobic nonsense, but to attack two world class scholars like Professors Lawrence Rosen and Tamara Sonn and accuse them of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood is a disgrace, and these bloggers and their paymasters should feel ashamed about it.
These critics neither discourage nor intimidate me or the patriotic, brilliant young Americans who have been working with me. They do amuse us. However, we need to get on with our work spreading knowledge, light and compassion—clearly desperately needed in the dark quarters inhabited by these bloggers—and not be distracted by their fear and hate mongering.
Rubenfeld's piece is a good example of what is currently occurring in the United States, where any Muslim can be targeted on the flimsiest of evidence and smeared as a terrorist. Rubenfeld's dishonest game of guilt by association can be played with anyone about anything. Rubenfeld's twisted logic is commonplace in our civil and media discourse. If someone who is reputed by obscure "counterterrorism" analysts to have some link with organizations they describe as terrorist speaks at a conference, anyone at that conference is also a terrorist. If an organization deemed terrorist features or links to writing by someone, than that person is a terrorist.
The end point of this line of thinking is dark and frightening. Its goal is to link Islam inherently with terrorism, and to smear any Muslim who commits the crime of practicing their religion. Rubenfeld's goal is to make Americans terrified of Islam. For Rubenfeld, simply speaking the words "Islamization of knowledge"—a phrase Rubenfeld simply invents a meaning for—Is enough to get someone thrown in Guantanamo Bay.
All Americans who believe in the pluralist vision of America need to challenge this kind of dangerous and hateful thinking. The worth of an American should not be judged by their religion—or skin color or any other similarly meaningless criteria—but by the content of their character. The more Americans that do, the less influential people like Rubenfeld and her bosses will be.
We will not continue to waste our time with these responses, especially considering the fact that Rubenfeld fails to engage with any of the points that we refute.


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Ever since the birth of interactive Web applications in the mid 1990s, we've been on a path of convergence between content and software platforms. This evolution has continued for the past one and a half decades, giving birth to new labor markets centered in software development and overall raising the importance and role that developers play in a society driven by the digital economy.
Back then, the Web browser ushered in a document-centric view of software applications, which was in response to end user's preferences for content-centric experiences offered by the Web browser paradigm.
What do I mean by content-centric software? Well, back then it was the evolution of software from traditional desktop software applications which were based on monolithic forms-based user interfaces into document-based interfaces with richer, more content based experiences.
That shift toward content-centric software gave birth to new labor markets built around Web design and development, establishing new disciplines like user-centered design and user experience design, and elevated the importance of content and design in the creation of good software.
Much of this was in response to an overall elevation of the role of software in society, and required the creation of new programming languages and models that could open up software creation to many more people. These were the inspirations behind ColdFusion, with the introduction of a human-readable and writable programming language that was tag-based and declarative just like HTML, and had the ability to dynamically generate content and apps on the fly fusing all types of media with data and logic. This shift toward page-based scripting such as ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, and PHP created a revolution in software development that is of course still very much playing out.
This further fusion of media and software gave rise to entire new online industries, everything from casual and social gaming to rich media advertising to user generated media and the entire online video industry. And it parallels the rapid rise of "Software as a Service" (SaaS), where nearly every category of business software was re-envisioned and re-implemented in a rich, browser-based interface with a more content-rich user experience and the ease of use of the browser.
Then nearly a half decade later another transformation gave rise to an even deeper fusion of software and media, and that was the introduction of the iPhone (and clone devices and software environments that have emerged in its wake) and the App Store model for software. In this case, software itself became content, and gave rapid rise to an incredible range of content-rich and content centric software application experiences.
As both new device platforms and SaaS models grew, the race to bring richer forms of content experiences into the browser and onto these devices also accelerated, and the industry galvanized around HTML5 as the next-generation of content-centric application authoring and delivery.
The Continued Revolution in Global Software Manufacturing
At the same time that we've seen the rise of the iPhone and SaaS, we've also seen the rapid proliferation of cloud-based computing and application models. Specifically, by leveraging highly available and affordable hosted computing resources, more and more functions are being made available as cloud services that developers can build on. The first component of this shift is in "infrastructure as a service" offerings like Amazon Web Services and EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, etc. These layers abstract the complexity of hardware, storage, networking, databases and other fundamental infrastructure needed to operate online software.
The second component of this shift is most often referred to as Platform-as-a-Service offerings. These PaaS offerings abstract a significant set of functions and data-models into collections of coherent APIs that can be easily used by developers to rapidly construct rich applications. Examples of this include Force.com for customer management centric applications, Facebook's open graph APIs for adding social features to applications, as well as dozens of more discrete functions like mapping and geo-data, push messaging, search, ad networks, analytics engines, and many other fundamental building blocks of rich, content-centric consumer facing software.
The third component of this shift is the continued proliferation of open platforms for developers to participate in the evolution of software through open source SDKs and open collaborative platforms for software distribution (e.g. GitHub, Google Code) and knowledge sharing (e.g. Stack Overflow).
At the core of all of this is an ongoing revolution in the economics of software manufacturing, with richer and richer building blocks available as inexpensive pay-as-you-scale utilities for millions of developers all around the world. And, the explosion in new device platforms is driving organizations around the world to grow their appetite and investments into software that takes advantage of these services.
One of the results of these shifts is that as Internet software grows in importance to organizations around the world, the technical leaders and contributors (read: developers) are becoming the decision making elite of the digital economy. The platforms and applications that gain traction with developers are disproportionately becoming those that are being adopted by consumers and organizations.
As the role of software in society continues its inexorable expansion, it is an amazing and inspiring time to be a developer. Never before have so many powerful tools and technologies been so accessible and affordable, which is critical as we move into a world of not 600,000 Apps but 60,000,000 Apps.
Further Fusion of Media & Software
All of these shifts continue to drive a deepening fusion between media (content) and software. Organizations of every size and scope are seeking to create software in the form of web applications, phone and tablet applications, smart TV applications (soon) and Facebook applications. Every potential or existing customer (or constituent) of any company or organization expects to be able to have content-rich application experiences on all of the devices that matter in their lives.
And this fusion of rich media and software will gain another significant boost as leading platforms like Apple iOS find their way onto HDTV screens, creating a model of software that spans the hand held touch-based experience with the rich immersive display of the HDTV (note: I'm not talking about Internet video on the TV set, I'm talking about dual screen apps that users interact with using touch devices, though video-enabled TV Apps will certainly be one popular category of apps -- see my recent article on Apple TV & Dual Screen TV Apps).
This continued shift is forcing organizations to rethink and reconsider the entire model and architecture that they use for publishing content and data and how they create rich, content-centric application experiences around that content. Content of all types needs to be easily defined, published, stored, transformed, discovered, delivered and analyzed and shaped into a multitude of app experiences.
Legacy, home-grown and installed content publishing models are giving way to SaaS and PaaS models, giving birth to new software categories like Video Platforms and App Platforms and myriad of standalone API services.
What are we doing about all of this?
Brightcove's mission is to publish and distribute the world's professional digital media. We believe deeply that rich content and media are at the center of value creation for all types of organizations in the digital economy. To accomplish this mission, we want to empower millions of developers, designers, producers and innovators in organizations all over the planet to easily take advantage of the tectonic shifts described above.
It's with all of this in mind that helps to contextualize some recent and strategic moves from Brightcove.
First, last month at our annual user conference, Brightcove Play, we announced and launched App Cloud Core, and associated Pro editions. App Cloud Core is a free and open source development platform for creating rich, cross-platform (iOS & Android) native apps using HTML5 and JavaScript. It includes powerful developer tools, SDKs for things like using native device APIs, rich UX libraries, data services for things like offline content and data, and powerful testing tools that everyone in an organization can use. It also includes free and unlimited cloud-based app compilation. With App Cloud Core, developers can use the existing Web development tools that they know and love.
We also launched a suite of additional cloud-based services for push messaging, dynamic app updates, real-time analytics, and in-app monetization, available for starting at just $99/month on a month-to-month contract.
Second, last week we announced our acquisition of Zencoder, the industry-leading cloud-based encoding platform and provider of the popular free and open source HTML5 video player, Video.js.
We're incredibly excited about this acquisition, and you can read a bit more about it here and here.
Additionally, however, this acquisition underscores several things that are increasingly core to Brightcove:
- We are serious about empowering developers all around the world with rich, API-based utility services focused on media and content. There are potentially millions of applications that will need to ingest, transform and deliver rich media content, and we want to empower developers with an affordable utility to accomplish their dreams.
- We are serious about taking video playback to the next level through open and free SDKs and players that can be easily and broadly adopted and extended by developers all around the world. Video.js is an important piece of this puzzle and we're going to have a lot to share in the future about what we're doing here. Again, millions of applications need seamless and cross-platform video and rich media playback, and we intend to provide the free infrastructure needed for anyone on the planet with that need. This builds on our App Cloud Core open source SDKs and free cloud development tools.
- Increasingly, we see the world not through the lens of video, but the the lens of rich content that is published, packaged, distributed and consumed on a myriad of new consumer facing app and distribution platforms. We are going to lead the industry in this shift.
I am excited as I have ever been by the ongoing fusion of media and software. I've been pursuing this problem for more than 20 years, and to be honest, it really does feel like we're just getting started. Media and software are coming together like never before, and the underlying architecture of all of it is changing rapidly, empowering millions and re-shaping our economy and society.
We're all about it at Brightcove, and we look forward to continued collaboration and learning together as we explore this exploding medium.
Oh, and BTW, we are hiring aggressively -- if you are smart, nice and get things done, please tell us about yourself!


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In the middle of January, we were shooting photos for my column in Lehigh Valley Style in a bookstore in Easton. I changed outfits next to the history books and me and Colin wandered into the alley. "Stand there, look happy", he said when I crunched my way into a pile of ice-snow almost up to my knees and he took a few quick shots before the bitter biting winter air hurt too much to pretend it was Spring.
Unknown to either of us, one of those photos became the May 2015 cover of Style. It is Colin's first cover (something he has wanted for two years), and mine too (something I didn't think was possible?). Surprise!
In a year of so much loss, of leaving behind or moving on from so many of the things that were a part of me for so long, I have spent the last six months remembering how to be alone; how to find community when you leave the town where you lived for a decade; how to take a break from creative projects and hold on to the truth that it doesn't mean they will crumble or you will be forgotten; how to focus on love for those who mean the most to me – to allow love to change when the time for change has come, to find it in my friends and my family and my friends who have become my family, to be surprised back into passion; to remember that things change but our value doesn't increase or lessen because of it.
It has not been easy. Important things never are.
But I have found, over and over, that just when we are about to give up on ourselves something happens that reminds us that we are enough. That we will be OK, and we are already OK.
On Tuesday, May 12th, the magazine is having it's monthly Insider Happy Hour, which is a FREE event and open to EVERYONE. You can wear a fancy outfit and bring a few dollars for drinks, and we can hug each other and get our pictures taken for the magazine. I hope to see you there!
You can get more information here: LV Style Insider Happy Hour
And find out more about Colin's work: Colin Coleman Photography


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If you're applying for a job in the near future, there's a chance you could end up on the FBI's imminent new facial recognition database alongside criminals, whether you like it or not. According to information obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the database, known as Next Generation Identification (NGI), will for the first time combine criminal and noncriminal fingerprint databases, along with records of palm prints, iris scans, and mugshots. The NGI, which sounds like Facebook mixed with the NSA, will be capable of adding 55,000 images per day and could hold up to 52 million photos by 2015, BBC News reports. The FBI say the database will help protect against terrorist and criminal activities.
One of the main issues flagged by privacy advocates is the possibility of false positives, that nightmare scenario of someone who submitted a photo for a government job or a background check being pulled into a lineup of potential criminal suspects' faces. But with the likes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul making privacy from sprawling government institutions one of the centerpieces of his presidential campaigns, it's possible that there could backlash similar to that directed toward the ill-fated DHS license plate tracking database. Following a Washington Post story on DHS's solicitation of private companies, the program was cancelled in February. Google Glass also swiftly banned facial recognition apps last year, which illustrates just how creepy, and ripe for error, the technology really is.
This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.
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A lawyer who says he was defamed by his portrayal in The Wolf of Wall Street is asking for 25 million US dollars (£15 million) in damages and the film removed from cinemas.
Andrew Greene says in a complaint filed on Tuesday in US District Court in the Eastern District of New York against the filmmakers and Paramount Pictures that the toupee-wearing character Nicky "Rugrat" Koskoff played by actor PJ Byrne in the film was modelled after him.
The hedonistic Oscar-nominated film starring Leonardo DiCaprio is based on the 2007 memoir by notorious Stratton Oakmont brokerage firm founder Jordan Belfort. Greene served as the firm's head of corporate finance in the 1990s.
The lawsuit says the filmmakers made Greene look like a depraved criminal and drug user.
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HOUSTON (KTRK/CNN) - An assistant district attorney in Houston was fired after an officer said he refused to pursue a sexual assault case.
Houston police say the prosecutor was more concerned with the victim's immigration status than the crime.
The assistant district attorney with the Harris County District Attorney's Office was fired on Friday after an officer said he questioned a sex assault victim's immigration status and refused to file charges on the suspect.
"I'm glad the D.A. finally took action on one of her top appointees that was hand-picked by her," said Joe Gimaldi, president of the Houston Police Officers Union.
Gimaldi went to the media earlier this week and said on Halloween night, an HPD officer witnessed DWI suspect Karl Bonner expose himself and pull another inmate toward him, and the victim yelled out for help.
When the officer spoke with John Denholm at the district attorney's office he said Denholm was more interested in the victim's immigration status instead of the sex assault incident, Gimaldi said.
"Our officer reached out to us immediately," Gimaldi said.
Soon after, Denholm was re-assigned, pending an internal investigation, but as of Friday, he was let go.
"It is wrong to ask about a victim's immigration status; it is against our policy, and it won't be tolerated," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. "We treat everyone equally under the law, no matter how they came to be here."
"Other officers were able to follow up on the case a few days after this unfortunate incident and were actually able to get charges on that suspect," Gimaldi said.
Bonner is now charged with DWI and sex assault.
"As it turns out District Attorney Denholm, he actually did violate a policy," said Carlos Doroteo, an immigration rights attorney.
Doroteo said he contacted the district attorney's office and was told this should have never happened and will never happen again.
"At the end of the day, criminals count on people being afraid. We don't want you to be afraid," Doroteo said.
It's a sentiment Gimaldi agrees with and hopes the immigrant community is not discouraged by this isolated incident.
"Please, please if you are the victim of a crime, come forward. We will help you," Gimaldi said. "We are not going to question your legal status nor should anyone in criminal justice question their status."
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The technology team within an award winning IT and Digital Media recruitment agency w /offices in Sydney, Melbourne & Singapore is looking to hire a Candidate Manager to work in a Highly flexible environment with a focus on quality & ethics, professionalism and delivery.
Bullet Points
- Candidate focus
- Work with a driven, close knit team
- Highly organised person with an understanding of recruitment
- Some business development, candidate marketing
Who's it with:
Xpand is a specialist recruitment firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our business model is based upon aligning closely with a core group of customers who are top employers or leaders in their field. Essentially, we only want to partner with the best, which usually means the type of company that candidates really want to work for. We work across Technology, Digital Marketing, Media and Communications from Executive level down.
We not only look a little different from most agencies (step into our offices and you'll quickly see why) but our work environment is only part of the story. If we were to boil it down to one thing, it would be culture. We hire real, down to earth people who are passionate about what they do. We treat them like the responsible adults they are and give them the freedom to manage themselves.
What you'll be doing:
You will work with the technology team in Melbourne covering roles in the applications and operations space, with your focus being on delivery! This diverse role will see you:
- Sourcing top talent for our customers
- Building talent pools
- Interviewing candidates
- Networking
- Being responsible for maintaining our fantastic database
- Some Business development
WHAT we're looking for:
We're primarily after two things, the right attitude and the right cultural fit. In context of this role, that means being someone who is hungry to learn, gets satisfaction from doing a great job and giving people a great experience, and someone who is a strong team player (e.g. happy to muck in and do whatever needs to be done even if it's not on your job description). I'm also looking for someone that is keen to learn and carry out some business development as not only will this give you a great insight into all aspects of the process it will also increase your earning potential and keep your role varied and exciting.
Ideally I'm looking for an experienced candidate manager with passion for recruitment, a background in Fintech is desired but not essential as this would be a huge help when trying to understand what our clients are looking for. You'll need to be able to demonstrate strong attention to detail and the ability to pick up systems quickly. If you're someone who's very web savvy then you're on the right track.
WHY you'll want it:
This is an excellent opportunity to get your start in recruitment for a business that is going through exciting growth! Learn from industry leaders. Work in a relaxed environment where individualism is encouraged! Casual dress code, work from anywhere systems, table tennis table in the office.


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Icarus is a Java-based Android application that is developed for and tested on the G1 phone. It is part of the Spacebridge project.
Currently maintained by nf (email@example.com) and located in a Mercurial repository (http://bitbucket.org/0x0000/icarus/). Contributions are encouraged (It's really easy!) just keep in mind the key goal of this project is reliability before all else.
In its current form, it logs the following values from the phone's internal sensors:
- Latitude, Longitude, Altitude (GPS)
- Temperature (AK8976A)
- Orientation (AK8976A)
- Magnetic fields in 3 dimensions (AK8976A)
- Accelerometer in 3 dimensions (AK8976A)
It writes the data, timestamped, to a file on the SD card: 'IcarusLog'.
If it has GSM connectivity and has a GPS lock, it will report its GPS coordinates once a minute via SMS. It has been tested to recover from loss of both GPS and GSM signals.
Todo list: (immediate future)
- Make the destination phone number and SMS interval configurable.
- Other interface cosmetic enhancements.
Todo list: (pie in sky)
- Make Icarus signal an external camera at a particular altitude threshold (eg, to start a video record on descent).
- Icarus itself could record video and/or take photos at specified altitudes using the phone's internal camera.


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Bullpen follows through behind stellar Fister in finale
Homers from Cabrera, Dirks help deliver first post-All Star break win
KANSAS CITY -- Tigers starters have outpitched James Shields three times this season. Sunday was the first time they came away with a win out of it.
They can thank their bullpen for that, which is something they haven't been able to say enough this year.
"I think we're good. We're not as bad as people put us," said closer Joaquin Benoit, whose ninth save in as many chances rewarded Doug Fister for six innings of one-run ball and salvaged a win out of this three-game series against the Royals with a 4-1 win.
Considering how the bullpen was described the last two times the Tigers faced Shields, that's progress. As Tigers scouts continued to look at potential reinforcements on the trade market, the progress they're seeing from the relievers they have is something they need, no matter what they do over the next week and a half before the Trade Deadline.
"That's what we've got, and we're going to roll with it," manager Jim Leyland said.
No reliever in that bullpen has made as much progress recently as Bruce Rondon. When seven innings of one-run ball from Justin Verlander gave the Tigers a one-run lead over Shields on April 25 at Comerica Park, the Royals took advantage of three eighth-inning hits off Rondon to tie it before pummeling Phil Coke for four runs in the 10th.
Verlander outpitched Shields again at Kauffman Stadium on June 12, that time with seven scoreless innings. That became better known as Jose Valverde's final save opportunity, which he blew with a two-run homer from Lorenzo Cain with two outs in the ninth.
There was no such late-inning drama on Sunday. Not much went right for the Tigers in this series, but the bullpen did.
When Jhonny Peralta's barehand grab and throw retired Alcides Escobar for the final out of the sixth, stranding runners at the corners to preserve a 2-1 lead, it allowed Leyland to line up Drew Smyly -- normally his eighth-inning setup man -- for three left-handed hitters in the seventh.
Smyly used up 26 pitches, but retired the side in order, leaving three consecutive right-handed hitters for Rondon in the eighth. Rondon retired Billy Butler on a groundout, induced a Salvador Perez lineout, then hit 102 mph to fan Cain.
It took a high hop off the first-base bag for the Royals to get a baserunner, putting Mike Moustakas on to lead off the ninth. Benoit promptly erased him with a Miguel Tejada double play, retired Escobar, then quietly celebrated.
No drama, no doubt, no complaints.
"We have a great bullpen," said Fister (8-5), who used an effective breaking ball and an emphasis on pounding the lower part of the strike zone to induce 10 groundouts. "We've got some young guys out there but they're coming right along and learning and knowing exactly what they need to do. That says a lot."
Rondon's perfect outing was his third in a row. He has retired 11 consecutive batters over that stretch, striking out four. Leyland says he wants to progress slowly with him, working him into more close situations in the late innings without much fanfare.
"I don't want a lot of focus on Rondon right now," Leyland said.
A large part of the learning process with Rondon comes from Benoit, who has given advice on hitters' tendencies to the 22-year-old fastballer.
"He's coming together," Benoit said. "He's throwing the ball good. Smyly's been good the whole season. So if they keep doing what they're doing, we're going to be fine, as long as I'm consistent, too."
Benoit's consistency has been the stabilizing force the Tigers lacked with Valverde. After insisting repeatedly that the ninth inning is no different from the eighth, he has demonstrated it by posting eight consecutive scoreless innings over his last nine appearances, all in the ninth inning or later.
Sunday's save improved him to 9-for-9 in save chances this year, five of them since taking on the closer's role full-time in late June. What was thought to be an emergency stopgap situation when Leyland promoted Benoit at the time has become an unexpected strength.
It doesn't mean the Tigers won't add relievers before July 31. It might change the kind of relievers they add, and the holes they're expected to fill.
Even the bullpen depth, though, looked better in Kansas City. Add in four outs from Al Alburquerque on Saturday with an encouraging outing from Phil Coke Friday night, and the Tigers bullpen tossed 7 1/3 scoreless innings for the series on three hits with eight strikeouts.
Between the bullpen dominance and Fister's groundball work, no Tigers outfielder recorded a putout on Sunday. Tejada's second-inning homer was the only extra-base hit. Four groundball singles and a Perez blooper comprised the rest of the damage.
"Fister was really good today," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He had tremendous movement on his two-seamer, was boring it in on lefties then running back, boring it down and away to lefties and he just had good run on it. He had a tremendous curveball. It's a slow curveball, but it's got a lot of bite."
With the exception of two key hits, Shields' outing wasn't vastly different. The former Tampa Bay ace looked dominant early, striking out Austin Jackson and Torii Hunter to start the game, until Miguel Cabrera turned on an inside pitch and lined it over the left-field fence, just inside the pole.
Cabrera's 31st home run of the year was his second off Shields. He came within a few feet of another in the fourth inning before speedy center fielder Jarrod Dyson made a highlight catch crashing into the fence, the third such play against the Tigers this series.
The catch preserved a 1-1 game for another inning until Dirks sent a Shields pitch just out of Dyson's reach in the fifth, putting Detroit in front for good. Brayan Pena's sac flies in the seventh and ninth padded the lead.


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A Walton County Sheriff�s deputy ran over a 21-year-old woman who was asleep on the beach Tuesday evening.
MIRAMAR BEACH � A Walton County sheriff�s deputy ran over a 21-year-old woman who was asleep on the beach Tuesday evening.
The Sheriff's Office reported that Florida Highway Patrol investigators have found Deputy Chad Biernacki at fault in the accident.
The woman, Jessica Nystrom of Destin, was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast with serious injuries, according to the FHP.
She still was in the hospital Wednesday afternoon, but her condition had improved and she was expected to be released later that day, said Maj. A.J. Smith with the Sheriff�s Office.
Biernacki, 30, was patrolling the beach west of Pompano Joe�s in his Ford pickup truck shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday when he came across a group of underage drinkers and issued them notices to appear in court.
After clearing the scene, he got back into his truck.
Nystrom was lying on the beach west of the truck, according to the FHP.
Biernacki did not see her. He drove forward, turned right to make a U-turn and his right front tire rolled over the right side of Nystrom�s body.
Biernacki told sheriff's investigators he felt �a slight bump� and heard a woman curse.
He said at no time did anyone yell at him to stop or try to flag him down to let him know he was going to hit someone.
When Biernacki got out of the truck he saw two women. Nystrom had a tire mark on her right shoulder.
According to the Sheriff�s Office, she had been asleep on the beach for more than 20 minutes and did not wake up until the truck hit her.
The FHP reported that the crash was still under investigation Wednesday afternoon. It had not released any information on charges.
That information will likely not be available until Friday, Smith said
When the Sheriff�s Office receives a copy of FHP�s final report, it will be sent to an internal accident review board to determine whether any disciplinary action is warranted, he said.
In the meantime, Biernacki will remain on active duty.
The initial news release from the FHP said alcohol was not a factor for Biernacki or Nystrom.
Smith said Biernacki submitted to a standard breathalyzer test immediately after the accident, which showed no signs of alcohol. A urine sample also was taken, but test results were not available Wednesday.
Smith said beach patrol deputies who have been with the Sheriff's Office for 15 years said they could not remember a similar incident. Even so, he said he has asked deputies to develop additional advanced training for specific skills needed for beach driving.
�You can never train too much when you are dealing with high-liability areas like operating a vehicle, especially when it is in crowded and congested areas like the beach,� he said.
He said deputies must be on the beach to ensure the public�s safety and reduce crime.
�It�s necessary to be there but we certainly don't want to put anybody at risk, so we are going to do everything we can to make sure that this does not happen again.�
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If I continue to blame my mother; their will be problems! This suggests more work with resentments!
The idea is; get mother out of the picture! Well, they're really was no real human mother; a psychopath! I must remember this!
You always want your mothers approval; it can make you or break you! However, in my case; all of that must be laid to rest! For their was no one who should have stood in my way!
I was used and brainwashed by a psychopath! And the effects of fear and intimidation are still upon me! And its at a very large and bad level!
I am extremely scared! And still suffer from agoraphobia!
I have not dealt with the intimidation of my mother and the terror of such things! terrified is the right word! for this monster held my life in her hands and then snuffed it out!
Hanging out with monsters is bad news! and I could never get away from her! codependency! and Im trying to get away from her now!
In my memory was a middle class life! it was false! and it was stolen from me and I could never live with it; the stealing of it!
I must go through it; sift through it! work through it; look at it!
the goal is not to have a past, but to move on into what I was originally planning! what I was originally planning on being!
She was disrespectful! This individual was of no regard! However, as a boy, she was paying for everything! and I never knew this!
meaning, she owned the house I was living in! and that would come to an abrupt stop! she got rid of me as fast as possible and never looked back!
I must pray about these things, and work on the resentment of such things, and get to the bottom line of such things!
I had my beautiful neighborhood taken from me as a boy! Yet, how could it be my neighborhood; if I was brought their by sociopaths who cared nothing for my future!
It was all false; including the neighborhood! I came from no where; I came from nothing! I must work on remembering this!


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Ending homelessness: Residents cheer The Crossings
Does Charlottesville have its own "Million Dollar Murray?" A Malcolm Gladwell-penned piece for New Yorker magazine details the seemingly paradoxical ways in which communities save money by providing the chronically homeless with an essentially free place to live, and the grand opening of The Crossings, a 60-unit residential dwelling, marks an effort to do that locally.
"All of us like to have a place to call home," said Charlottesville Mayor Satyendra Huja, who was among several officials to address the crowd at the April 10 dedication ceremony after which several residents welcomed reporters into their new homes.
"I'm still getting used to it," says Karen Martin, 50, who became homeless six years ago after losing her job at McDonald's and, subsequently, her home. A triple bypass surgery-spurring heart condition in 2010 may have pushed Martin to the top of the list of incoming homeless residents, who now number 20, with 10 more more slated to arrive. Thirty market-rate efficiencies will also be rented.
"Instead of thinking of myself as broken, down, and out," said formerly homeless resident Mark Sistrunk, "I now call myself financially challenged and slightly displaced." His comment drew laughter and applause from the crowd.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell hopes to reduce homelessness by 15 percent by the end of his term, said Jim Chandler, the director of low-income housing tax credit programs for the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Chandler said that tax credits generated $3.9 million of the development's $6.6 million pricetag.
In the 360-square-foot unit that resident James Fitzgerald now calls home, the 53-year-old provides a personal history that explains why he just might be Charlottesville's Million Dollar Murray. Citing hundreds of "drunk in public" arrests over two decades of homelessness, he reveals a nasty wound on his wrist that he says he sustained from too-tight handcuffs during a recent arrest.
Fitzgerald apologizes for "the mess" of an unmade bed and a bow-tied trash bag as he gazes out his window toward scrubby trees and a little-used rail spur. Tears fill his eyes, and he's asked to reflect how life might change.
"I think," he says, "it's going to be alright."Read more on: SRO apartmentsThe Crossings
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So now the reward for 100s of drunk in public arrests is a free home?
6.6 million for 60 efficiencies doesn't sound very "efficient" to me.
Folks... say what you want the emporer is wearing no clothes.....
(and for all the liberal whiners out there, take two minutes and see if you can't make 6.6 MILLION dollars help more than 60 people. ) (and don't forget that annual 240k subsidy that the city is on the hook for FOREVER)
What a joke....
Very glad C'ville has finally something to help these people - which is a hand-up, not out. With a place to live, they have the foundation of making a life back to where they once were or perhaps to where they want to be. We have long had a huge issue with affordable housing in this area and it is time we all look into ways to help end that.
^Bill Marshall, so hope you never are worried that you will no longer have a home, that you don't have an income and you may fall on "harder times". A community that works to help one another is stronger and strengthens itself. Perhaps we ought to take away all your benefits and see where you end up?
All for the hand ups to help anyone who needs it - not hand-outs. You may be suprised by this venture.
I may be homeless someday but I hope the people helping me are at least SMART enough to figure out how to get a roof over my head for less than 6.6 million.
It is the liberals that need to sober up.
When a person who DESERVES a roof because they DID NOT get drunk 100s of times and there is no room at the inn where are you going to get the money to pay for it?
Charlottesville needs some adult supervision.
and nobody "took away" their benefits...
If you have enough money to get so drunk that you get aressted for it you have enough money to find a place to stay.
Why don't you ask some of these folks why their own families gave up on them?
Homes in Keswick sell for less per square foot than this place.
The numbers don't lie.
Anybody else notice the ad on the side for walker square?
Why didn't they just buy them a two bedroom condo for less?
Ah - from my understanding this was built to be an energy efficient and green dwelling which will save those millions in electric, heat and water bills in the future.
http://www.virginiasupportivehousing.org/residences/the-crossings.php, it was a joint effort by our current REPUBLICAN Governor (who loves to make women go back to the 18th century with laws that shouldn't be) and both the city and county.
It is expensive to build these days dude - a home that will sell for $300 K in this area - built when homes were built correctly - 1975 and earlier - to build it exactly as it was - using the same quality and craftsperson level would cost you $600K or more. That is a fact.
Yes, there are homeless out there who may be impossible to help but there are some out there who this will lead to a more productive life and in turn they will pay it forward. Why don't you go try to find a bit of optimisim out there "bill marshall"?
This is what makes Charlottesville a great place, in spite of people like Bill Marshall and all the other tea baggers and haters. A little compassion goes a long way. Thanks to Dave Norris and the others who made this happen.
Speaking of compassion, it is well documented that liberals give less to charities than conservatives (just look at some of Al Gore's charitable contribution figures). The difference is that conservatives will teach a man to fish; liberals will keep giving him canned kipper snacks.
The long-term homeless are overwhelmingly homeless due mental illness and/or substance abuse. Many of the short-term homeless need a temporary fix. The ones who are mentally ill or druggies should be institutionalized.
Please do not try to equate Norris's mantra of "affordable housing" with this place. Murray's problem is not lack of affordable housing or handcuffs that are too tight (gee, is he a boisterous, hostile drunk who yanks on the handcuffs?)...it is long term alcohol abuse. He is a bricklayer--you mean there are no jobs for them anywhere in the USA?
But pols like Norris and Huja think a place to live is the solution.
Great thinking from more libs who work from the "feelings" and not from logic.
R.I.P.: Danny Sweeney, Truck Co. 10
Thanks for the link to Gladwell's article - fascinating . And proves the point that in the long run housing the homeless saves us all money. Dave Norris, the true fiscal conservative in town deserves our thanks for a business savy, compassionate project.
Now the hard part. Finding 30 homeless to occupy this place is the easy part. Getting them motivated to improve their lives will be an entirely different matter. Along with the fact that they are allowed to drink and smoke on the premises will pose a serious issue. How many friends will be able to "visit", who will monitor these "visits"? How long will these folks be allowed to live there? indefinitely? You don't see a lot of motivated folks in these circles, how do you deal with complacency,which will be a factor.?
Ah, right! We should put all the mentally ill and druggies in institutions! That'll solve the problem! Except that we've now closed most of the institutions. Oh, and we've cut funding for mental health services so much that people with chronic mental illness have a hard time finding someone to prescribe them medications let alone give them the therapy and rehabilitation they need. All in the name of "cost saving" so we don't have to raise anybody's taxes.
It costs far more money to repeatedly incarcerate or institutionalize someone than it does to subsidize their housing this way. As a taxpayer, your money is going to subsidize them somehow - you just have to decide where you want the bed. The jail bed or hospital bed costs more, plain and simple.
What bill marshall and liberalace don't want to acknowledge is how complex the problem of the chronically homeless really is. They would prefer to apply the rule that these guys just need to buck up and get it together and get on with life. Can't agree more with part of that but throw in addiction and ruined family relationships (due to alcoholism in many cases) and suddenly you've got someone with whom you're now going to have to deal with whether you like it or not.
If either of them would actually read the Million Dollar Murray article, they might get a glimpse of this complexity. Follow this scenario: Drunk man pisses on building. Police come, arrest him. In jail for 72 hours. Out again, starts to feel ill, goes to hospital, released, gets drunk (from money from panhandling) again, does something stupid, gets arrested, and so on. At each point here between jail, hospital or other services, we've just paid out money to take care of these guys.
I know both Mark and Jimmy (interviewed for this article) and can tell you both of them realize full well the chance they're given to change and turn their lives around. It simply was not happening on the street and frankly there are plenty of studies that will confirm that.
What irks people like bill and liberalace is that they have to pay for it. The problem is that you HAVE been paying for it and ironically, you would be paying for a lot more than $6.6 milllion--that's basically 6.5 "Murrays"--if it were not for this stabilization.
You want to crow about this money but what you don't realize is that you would have been paying it--that and more--if it were not for programs like this. Spend some time looking into this issue, getting to know these guys personally and you come to see that this is a important step in addressing this issue.
As one other post mentioned, now the hard part starts--this is only part of the equation and it is not sufficient in itself. But it is still the right thing to do from whatever political spectrum you're coming from.
Thank you Profugo Amicus! You stated this very well. I know Jimmy and Mark also, and agree with what you said. This is a better use of my tax dollars and resources then criminalizing homelessness. Maybe if this project could have happened sooner, possibly Linda Doig would still be with us.
R.I.P Linda
prodo is WRONG. There is simply no excuse for spending 6.6 million dollars on 60 oversized motel rooms that have to be subsidized by an additional 240k a year by the city (and the loss of 70k a year in property taxes)
If we take your scenarion and multiply it by the number of homeless and drunks to solve the problem your way we would bankrupt the city.
The fact of the matter is that we SHOULD spend the money on instituionalizing people who need it and warhousing people with the bare minimum who are simply chronic drunks. Drunkenses is a self inflicted wound.
With that 6.6 million they could have spent 1 million on a hundred acres in the county, spent 1 million on a giant warehouse with 200 beds. Created a deal with a farmer to "share crop" for food and meat in exchange for using 80 acres. Spent 10 grand on a retired school bus to commute back and forth to the city for jobs and had 3.5 million left over for awards ceremonies for Dave Norris.
There is no excuse for giving a room to a chronic drunk when there actually DESERVING people who gave up drinking, living on the streets who could one day rejoin productive society.
If the judge had sentenced this guy to a road gang everytime he was arrested he would have at least sobered up for the week he was repaying society for the cost of dealing with him.
I think that overall the housing is a good idea if the intention is to truly help build a good foundation for those that live there. That said, I am not sure that choosing Fitzgerald for this article was a good choice. It doesn't really sell the concept to those that are still feeling unsure about it. I do understand that people get to homelessness in various ways, and I think it would have been better if they would have highlighted someone with a background of having lost their job, house, etc, versus someone that is famous for drunkenness arrests. Hopefully this housing will help him move forward, though.
Nice VT Hokie sweatshirt on that first homeless guy! But seriously, I hope all their lives get better, and they get the help they need. Even the Hokies.
Well let's see. The city council has imposed its cure for homelessness. DONE and legally enforced. So your thoughts are mute. And your philanthropy is mandated, legally enforced as dictated by city council. Thats kind of an admission that free will is callouss.
So we move on to more and more social mandates which are financed through taxes and enforced by government. Is that a free society or are we enslaving ourselves. Is government becoming the class of the elites who decide how we live our lives? What will become of individual responsibility?
@Bill M, did you read the New Yorker article? If you didn't, I vote you "the person most likely to be talking out his #$%."
I would rather spend $6m housing the homeless than $6m on bloated defense contractor salaries. If you want to see who is ripping off this country, look no further than the military-industrial complex.
@Dawg, you forgot to mention the "green" movement.
The subsidies may not stop at $240K. The line in the article that grabbed me was, "Thirty market-rate efficiencies will also be rented."
I wonder who will rent an eficiency in a building half filled with the homeless? While I've worked with the homeless in temporary housing settings and sympathize with a number of them, I wouldn't rent an apartment in a building half filled with folks who've made a lot of bad choices in their lives.
If/When that rent doesn't come in, who picks up that slack?
@Bill M---- the USA spends more money murdering innocent civilians overseas than they do on being compassionate to people like Jimmy. personally I find it financially immoral to keep spending my tax dollars warehousing people in the prison system just to feed the prison-industrial complex. Review that for wastefulness of your tax dollars.
"A Malcolm Gladwell-penned piece for New Yorker magazine details the seemingly paradoxical ways in which communities save money by providing the chronically homeless with an essentially free place to live,..." Murray is being thought of as the typical homeless person. He is not and the money he may be costing the system is not typical either. However, I know that people feel more comfortable in their so-called charity when they use stereotypes. The fact that society actually saves money by giving a homeless person a place to live has not been agreed upon by the social scientists that have looked at this issue and, indeed, does not make sense. It will not keep them out of jail (unless they are sentenced to home arrest) and it will not keep them out of the ER. There is no causal relationship at work here. Having a home does not prevent alcoholism and alcoholism does not cause homelessness. Many of the homeless are not guilty of substance abuse. Getting drunk and hitting your head on the sink in your apartment will not keep you out of the ER either. The City went into this project without actually studying it. Dave Norris heard about these SROs and found Virginia Supportive Housing already operating in VA. He then convinced Council to spend public money, not his, on this project. He deserves no kudos. It is the public who actually did not protest this project that is responsible for its moving forward.
@perspective, you ask some good questions. Unfortunately they will go unanswered. We will not know what progress the residents will make toward self-sufficiency, what is the reduction in their going to prison or ER, how much money the City will contribute to subsidizing rent for these units each year, the cost of operating or the costs of maintenance. We will not know how many will undergo substance abuse treatment or complete it successfully. Will will not know how many move out and back into homeless. We will not know how many will get kicked out. We will not know how many get a GED, job training or securing permanent employment. You see this is a "feel good" project. Out of the 200+ homeless in the area, we are housing 30. That will not "end homelessness as we know it," according to Dave Norris. It will not even put a dent in it. But, we can go on our merry way feeling good about ourselves with a clear conscious (because we do not have the answers to the questions).
@Cville native and Hook reader, obviously you two have found employment on the cortner of 4th and Preston. Nobody could suck up like that except for an employer.
Councilor Kristin Szakos recommended that the City put up statues that will balance out the statues of Lee and Jackson. Maybe we should put up a statue of Dave Norris. Perhaps The Crossings or Jefferson School would be appropriate sites if not Lee or Jackson parks. Or we could put a statue of him in each of Lee and Jefferson parks.
@Cville Eye, there is corresponding research on people with chronic mental illness--just having a place to live makes a huge difference in their being able to stabilize themselves and make something of their lives.
It bears mentioning that the disappearance of the SRO hotels, even though they had many problems, contributed greatly to the increase in homelessness. If developers thought they could make money building them, I'm sure we'd have plenty of SROs for homeless or nearly homeless people. Because there is no profit in it, it falls to the government to fill the gap. I agree that some data should be collected on the people living there now to see how well the experiment works.
It's a fact that some people are just broken. Yes, they have made bad choices, but does that mean they deserve to die on the street? A civilized society does not go that route; nor does it lock up people who are not particularly a danger to themselves or others. Having a place to live can keep many people out of jail, especially those who deliberately get arrested so that they can get food and shelter.
The City in its wisdom 50 years ago, took someone's land and made someone homeless on this very land when vinegar hill was taken. Hopefully a descendant of someone whose very land was taken for this doesn't need help. If they do, they should be at the top of any list to get an apartment.
@Dawg..."Not particularly a danger to himself or others" not being locked up? The cops do it all the time when they arrest a drunk walking along I-64 or a drunk running into traffic on the Corner. The fact is that these people are a danger to themselves and others by virtue of their chronic substance abuse.
I am not for putting them away a la "Cuckoo's Nest." But that is the stereotype the libs would like you to believe: the cold, unsympathetic, profit-driven righties. What we despise is lefties like Norris who produce non-efficacious solutions to complex problems using tax dollars knowing--that when the solutions fail--we just go back and pickpocket productive citizens again.
Do you think the homeless problem will improve long term? We have a generation of kids being raised not to value education, not to value working hard, who seek get-rich-quick lifestyles, and who abuse alcohol and drugs earlier than ever. Where will they be at age 40 or 50? But again, it's the liberals who do not want to "judge" broken families, bad behavior, dysfunction in the home and school...they just want to toss money at it.
And if you want to see the efficacy of this Norris approach, come back in three or four years and see how "The Crossings" looks and see what became of the 30 tenants. But we will not hear that; we will see news stories about the two out of 30 who made it, not realizing that the other 92 percent of homeless were not really helped long-term by this.
R.I.P.: Steve Fredericks
Liberalace, I was referring to the idea that people who are not a danger to others being locked up, as someone upthread suggested. That is not a great idea. Of course a drunk wandering along I64 is a danger to self and others.
The fact is that not everyone can or will make it. 2 out of 30 sounds like a good statistic to me. Not all at the Crossings are substance abusers; many have mental illness or low IQ. I don't know what you think is going to work for these people. Conservatives have cut social programs to the bone.
"We have a generation of kids being raised not to value education, not to value working hard, who seek get-rich-quick lifestyles, and who abuse alcohol and drugs earlier than ever."
I really don't see that. AOD abuse rates are a lot lower among high schoolers now than they were when I was a kid, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. What I see are a bunch of kids with good educations who are living with their parents, in part because they have so much student loan debt that living on their own is almost impossible on entry-level wages.
Cville Eye, that's pretty funny. No, I don't work at 4th and Preston. But I grew up in Charlottesville and new and loved people like Mary Ann and Bill Elwood and Drewery Brown. Do you remember them, or are you one of the new-comers here, the new breed of "conservatives?" I'm proud that Charlottesville can provide places like the Haven and the Crossings. I pay taxes, so don't worry. I love that the good people of Charlottesville still want to help others.
"it is well documented that liberals give less to charities than conservatives (just look at some of Al Gore's charitable contribution figures)."
Well documented where but in your imagination? I call BS on made up factoids like that...
@ Angel eyes, google charitable contributions, you will be surprised.
@ C'ville eye, I think what Szakos has in mind is a couple of statues of herself scattered around town.
I was told at a meeting with a developer who was going over the plans for land adjacent to us not to say "homeless" but to say "housing challenged" person. I suppose we should not say alchoholic any more as they would be "sobriety challenged" person. I see the luxury apartments Arden Place look massive and mostly empty to me. So I hope he won't be "mortgaged challeged" soon.
Matbe we should refer to liberals as "conservative challenged?"
huh, so should I quit my low paying job and become homeless, so I don't have to pay $600 a month for a dump in Belmont & get a newly built place?
@Hook reader, I was born here 81 years ago. I can not ever remember a time when Bill or Mary Ann Elwood or Drewary Brown ever championed a welfare program. In fact Drewary Brown directed the Opportunities Industrialization Center which promoted education and job training, not welfare. When Mr. Brown's home was razed on S. First ST for urban renewal, he did not move into Westhaven but choose to stand on his own two feet. I do not know why you are invoking any of those names.
Subsidized housing is not a liberal or conservative concept. I guess you would be surprised to know that there would have been no Westhaven if the bankers and downtown business owners had not supported it. Many landlords/owners have been rewarded handsomely for their support through cash received though tax credits and Section 8 vouchers. VSH did not build the Crossings primarily as a vehicle to help people but they recognize it is a BUSINESS that pays the staff's housing costs and other bills. That's why they are getting good salaries.
I have my doubts about how well this will work. The article said the Crossings will not accept people with ceretain criminal convictions- so these individuals then may remain homeless.
Had a friend once who would try to help some of these "street people" by renting them rooms very cheaply in her home in Belmont about twenty years ago. Usually didn't work, they couldnt seem to come up with the modest rent(but usually had momey for drugs or booze), as well as other problems like trashing the place or stealing.
Maybe the solution for some of these dysfunctional individuals would be along the lines of the oldtime "poor farm" which provided shelter for the indigent without other resources in exchange for their labor in helping to raise to raise food, maintain the premises, etc.
But that would only work if people were willing to work and obey rules of society. The problem with some individuals is that they are not willing to do that.
They originally said that no one would be admitted unless they had a job. Having a job would indicate that they were trying to have a better life and just needed a helping hand. That criterion changed before they actually built it.
But I will say a lot of those 24yo "kids" living at home with student debt should never have gone to college anyway. College is a huge scam for many students, a wonderful marketing ploy to convince the masses that a college degree is your ticket to wealth. For many, it is. But kids should be educated early on to discover what you love, pursue and be the best at it you can. For docs, engineers, teachers, attorneys, etc., that means college. For broadcasters, journalists, plumbers, computer types, auto mechanics, etc., that means learning the trade, being erudite, and taking a biz course or two to learn basic business practices.
It also means being mobile: moving to where the jobs are. I think we could reduce college enrollment by 25% and lose nothing as far as a skilled society is concerned. Does the advertising sales exec at WVIR really need a college degree? If you wanted to be a police officer, could you get a good LE education in two years of college versus piling on electives? If you aspire to be an LE executive, then get the BS and MS later on (like people used to do).
More people are going to college now than before, but we claim to be falling behind in skills and talent pool. What exactly are they learning for their $50,000?
R.I.P.: Kurt Cobain
@Cville Eye - you are blind.
I do not work at 4th and Preston but I am a native of this community, educated in the public and private school systems and obtained my degrees in this area. (I have moved away and come back, this area is far superior to raise children than most others.)
Ponder this: " A mind is like an umbrella - only useful when open."
@Cville Native: Actually some umbrellas are designed to also serve as a cane, closed.


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WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. consumers are warming to alternative fuel sources in higher numbers as frustration with the oil industry grows, a renewable energy advocate says.
The U.S. Energy Department this week reported average retail gasoline prices for the summer were moving toward an expected seasonal average of $3.53 per gallon. The weekly average price of $3.57 per gallon is 14 cents higher than the same time last year.
An online survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted in early June for renewable energy advocacy group Fuels America found 75 percent of the respondents wanted more renewable fuel options at refueling stations. It found support for renewable fuel and renewable fuel standards crossed political lines.
Most of the respondents taking part in the survey said they blamed the oil industry for high gasoline prices.
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This post is part of the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop. The first Wednesday of every month is Insecure Writer's Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. The awesome co-hosts for the January 2 posting of the IWSG are Patricia Lynne, Lisa Buie-Collard, Kim Lajevardi, and Fundy Blue!
Happy New Year! I missed the IWSG last month for the first time ever, because life was keeping me away from blogging (and writing) but I've promised myself this year I'm going to be more diligent about both–call it a resolution, if you will. I tend to be a happier person when I'm getting words down, whether they be in stories or blog posts–and I'm determined 2019 will be happy!
I guess my insecurity this month is focusing on the new year–another writing year–and wondering if I'm EVER gonna at least make a living off it. I've got a lot of books published but I'm nowhere near making enough money off them to pay the bills, which is what I want eventually. I know sometimes it takes a lot of books, a lot of hard work, and a big old dash of luck, but it gets frustrating. It gets disheartening. Sometimes I ask why am I still doing this, when it feels like I'm getting nowhere? Of course, I know if I DON'T keep doing it, that's a surefire way to get nowhere forever. So…I'll keep on keeping on. I don't want to be famous, I just want to make a career of it!
Well, okay, it would be nice to be famous too. But that's not the actual goal.
Do you ever get frustrated and disheartened?
January 2 question – What are your favorite and least favorite questions people ask you about your writing?
Hmm, well, I don't mind anyone wanting to talk to me about writing. It's my favorite subject, after all. I guess my favorite questions focus on specific aspects of my books or my writing techniques–I love to talk shop. I love when non-writers are curious and want to know when I devote time to my writing, how I do it, and how I come up with ideas. I'm always very flattered and grateful when someone is genuinely curious about my writing.
Least favorite–I would have to say, the impossible questions. When someone asks me "can you tell me how to write a book?" (I've gotten that one a few times!) it's not a question I can easily, or even non-easily, answer. It's a huge, complicated process and it takes a lot of work and practice. Also, everyone writes a book their own way. And, not a question, but I greatly dislike the "I have an idea for your next book!" conversation. I can't just write any old thing, and most of the time their ideas aren't even in the generes I write. I appreciate it, but no thanks.
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A more specific use case would be to respond to the clicking of a button by generating a fragment of HTML using PL/SQL, and then refresh a DIV on the page with that dynamically generated content. See the screenshot below for an example; notice that part of the first region has been updated with content generated on the server (using input from the user, in this case the name from a regular text input item). Every time the user clicks on the button, the line above the button is updated using an Ajax call to the server.
The second region illustrates another use case: Automatically refreshing part of the page at a fixed interval.
This is how the page has been set up:
The first region has a standard text input item, and a button. The button has a Dynamic Action that is triggered when the button is clicked. The click executes the PL/SQL code which generates the greeting.
The dynamic action is set up as follows:
We can see that the content generated by the PL/SQL code is returned into a page element called "my_div". This div is simply included as the static content of the HTML region:
The second dynamic action has been set up to trigger on "Page Load". The plugin is set up to call the PL/SQL code every 5 seconds (nice way to hammer your database with requests...) and return the content into another div, called "my_other_div". The mode has been set to "Append after", which means the content will be added to the end of the existing content, instead of replacing it.
Here is the setup for the second region:
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Windows users should consider WinAVR's avrdude instead of the avrdude included with Arduino software.
This is kind of getting off topic, but if my application will not be doing anything with analog inputs, how should I leave AREF; floating or decoupled to GND(or other option)?
wondering about the proper fuse settings, etc.
What's the best solution for a newbie like me to get this thing loaded and functioning?
Also, once burned, can it be reburned with new fuse settings?
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Equity futures are up this morning as, according to McHugh, we launch higher on wave 3 up of 3 up of c up of B up:
Again, let's get over resistance at night, not during trading hours…
The dollar is about level and it's hard for me to tell what the bond market is doing this morning as treasury futures rolled to a new month but appear to be down… I'll have to see what they look like during trading hours. Oil is up slightly and gold is substantially higher, getting close to the top of its triangle (potentially bullish on a break above).
Personal income and outlays were reported this morning. Income was flat month over month (expecting .1% positive growth), it was down 2.4% year over year, while consumer spending was up .2% mom and up 1.1% yoy. This would mean that the savings rate is falling again as consumers earn less but spend more, a dynamic that is either not true because of the data and/or because we're now getting yoy comparables to a time last year that was already lower.
The consumer is not getting much fuel for spending as personal income was flat in July. Cash for clunkers boosted an otherwise bland month for consumer spending. Personal income in July was unchanged after plunging a sharp 1.1 percent in June from the end of a fiscal stimulus program. June originally was a 1.3 percent drop. The July number fell short of the market forecast for a 0.1 percent rise. Even the wages and salaries component was sluggish but at least gained 0.1 percent, following a 0.3 percent drop in June. Consumer spending is primarily fueled by wages and salaries.
Consumer spending continued to rise, advancing 0.2 percent after a 0.6 percent boost in June. Strength was in durables, which jumped 1.8 percent on auto sales. Nondurables dipped 0.3 percent while services increased 0.3 percent
Meanwhile, inflation eased substantially as energy costs softened. The headline PCE price index slowed to a flat reading after surging 0.5 percent in June. The core PCE price index also softened, rising only 0.1 percent after a 0.2 percent boost in June. The July rise in the core index matched market expectations.
Year on year, personal income growth improved to minus 2.4 percent from minus 3.2 percent in June. Year-ago headline PCE inflation declined to negative 0.8 percent from minus 0.4 percent the prior month. Year-ago core PCE inflation slowed to 1.4 percent from 1.5 percent in June.
The July personal income report shows the consumer sector with little contribution to pulling the economy out of recession other than the boost from the cash for clunkers program. The report should be about neutral for the markets today as small upward revisions in June numbers should offset the incremental shortfall of July to expectations.
Well, Econoday must have employed a new reporter? At least he's not trying to pump this report and is breaking out the cash for clunkers compenent. It'll be interesting to see the subsequent data and if it falls off because of that.
Consumer sentiment comes out at 9:55 Eastern this morning. Consumer confidence was higher earlier this week, but two weeks ago consumer sentiment surprised on the down side. If I were trading in here, I'm not, I'd be ready for anything. Keep in mind that we still are awaiting a large move in the markets due to the small changes in the McClelland.
If McHugh's count is correct, that move would be up as subwaves 3up of 3 up strike. He is actually targeting the mid 1,100 area on the SPX, and his count seems to be tracking pretty well so far.
I am always suspect of large moves upwards overnight. There are several open gaps in the charts below us and we're going to make another one this morning on the open…
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Every now and then I find myself focusing way too much on areas of my body that I don't like. Do you ever do that? Often times it is the skin spots that keep popping up with age or the way my body has changed after having three kids. *Sigh*.
Well today I got an email that included the video I have posted below. Talk about impeccable timing. I am glad God put it on someone's heart to pass it along, because I needed this reminder. Just in case you needed it too, I decided to share it with you!
This video is an eye-opener in more ways than one. Not only does it make me think twice about nitpicking areas of my physique, but gave me a kick in the pants for when I get down about life or complain about a task being too difficult.
Attitude is everything. Don't deprive yourself of a good life just because everything isn't perfect. And I love what Chris says, "If you are worried about how you look, you are cheating yourself out of opportunities." Needed to hear that. So true.
I hope this touches your heart like it did mine. Enjoy…


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Burch to address Civic Association
The Cape Coral Civic Association will host newly elected District 1 Council-member Jim Burch as featured speaker Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 7 p.m., in the ballroom of the Cape Coral Yacht Club.
Burch will share his vision of where Cape Coral is headed, and what it will take to get there.
This is also the CCCA's annual "appreciation night," where the organization takes the time to thank all those who have attended its meetings, and participated in the effort to educate the citizens of the Cape during the past year.
Hot, fresh delivered pizza and cold drinks will be available to all who attend. Come on out, bring a friend and a question. Parking and pizza are free.


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With 20% of children classified as obese in the US, pediatric obesity is a growing health concern. Now, there is evidence from recent research that autism is linked to obesity. In a clinical sample of 6672 autistic children the odds of overweight and obesity were significantly higher compared to healthy children. While this association does not prove causation, another study found that children with autism exhibit high food selectivity (i.e limited food repertoire and strong preference over certain foods) which may lead to weight gain in case of over-consumption of nutrient-poor discretionary foods and drinks. Obesity in autistic children may also be caused by the anti-psychotic drugs which affect the metabolism, leading to weight gain. These findings agree with those of CDC whereby children with autism face twice the risk of obesity than typical children. But how can we lower the possibility our children develop autism? A study in 93,000 Norwegian children found that children to obese fathers have twice the risk of developing autism than children to fathers of normal weight. Parents should practice natural strategies to help children with autism lose weight. Some of these include Sonic Whole Body Vibration, Physical Activity, Homeopathics for weight loss, Nutritional Planning, and Supplementation. Obese parents, on the other hand, should make sure they lose excess weight before they give birth to a child. Nutrisystem is a clinically studied weight loss program which delivers portion-controlled food at home. In the last 10 years, thousands of married couples in the US have used Nutrisystem discount coupons and Nutrisystem discount codes to join this diet program and lose weight effectively. Regardless of the weight loss method that is chosen, the CDC recommends that in order to lose weight and keep it off, physical activity and diet adjustment is needed.
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A number of scientific research papers have been published on the relationship between vitamin D and autism. The first paper was published in 2008 by Dr John Cannell, and it showed that in areas with increased rainfall and cloud coverage there is a high occurrence of autism. What's interesting, regions in the USA with the lowest solar UVB—the rays that trigger Vitamin D production in the body—have the highest rate of autism in children. A groundbreaking study by Schmidt et al. showed that autism and low vitamin D blood levels have common genes. The connection between autism and vitamin C makes sense because the sunshine vitamin is involved in brain function. All brain cells have vitamin D receptors which control expression of certain genes. The possibility that autism could be treated by vitamin supplementation has been studied by Dr Cannell and others. Autistic children that received a high daily dose of vitamin D (5,000 IU) had an improved outcome. The human body gets vitamin D in two ways: through exposure of skin to sunlight and through vitamin D supplements. The best type of supplement to take is Vitamin D3. Vitacost, an online retailer of vitamins and other supplements, offers vitamin D drops for kids. A discount of 10% is often obtained through a Vitacost promotion code. In response to the American Academy of Pediatrics doubling its recommendation for the daily dose of Vitamin D that all children should receive, Vitacost created Childlife Vitamin D3, a special formulation for children.
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Sioux Falls Business Conference "Ready to Rebound" Announced
The Sioux Falls Business Journal and Augustana College are pleased to announce the first Sioux Falls Business Conference "Ready to Rebound" to be held Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
The conference will be held at Augustana College located at 2001 S Summit Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota beginning at 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
This is a hands-on conference that focuses on providing strategies for independent businesses to position themselves for a successful rebound once the economy improves. Breakout panel sessions will include panel discussions with local business experts in the following fields: marketing, real estate, finance, human resources and technology and the Web.
For more detailed information about free online registration, please visit http://siouxfallsbusinessconference.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
Read coverage about the conference in the Sioux Falls Business Journal.
KSFY recently reported on the press conference about the event.
Brad Heegel
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Augustana College
Phone: 605.274.5508 or 605.274.6294