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Albert Sidney Johnston
At the start of The Civil War only Winfield Scott was more respected and more widely known than Albert Sidney Johnston. He was born in Kentucky to a family who had migrated west from New England.
After graduating from West Point (1826) he served as a brevet 2nd Lieutenant at Sackett's Harbor, New York (near the Canadian frontier on Lake Erie). Sidney Johnston and Jefferson Davis's post-school paths first crossed at Johnston's second assignment. Both West Pointers were stationed at Jefferson Barracks south of St. Louis under Edwin Vose Sumner, where Johnston met and married his first wife, Henrietta Preston.
It would be an uprising of Sauk and Fox Indians under Black Hawk (commonly combined as Blackhawk) in 1832 that would introduce Johnston to war. For weeks he campaigned in present-day Illinois, returning to St. Louis to see his wife and new daughter before the action was over. After completing his tour of duty, Johnston resigned his commission and moved to St. Louis. In an incredible string of bad luck, his wife became ill with tuberculosis and a daughter with influenza. His father died in October, 1832 and his brother died in the explosion of a steamship on the Mississippi River in 1833.
His wife seemed to improve, becoming pregnant early in 1833, but in September she was forced to return to doctors in her hometown of Louisville. Here she gave birth to the Johnston's second daughter before leaving the infant in the care of her mother and traveling south with Johnston. When they returned the infant was dead and his wife dying.
Sidney Johnston, as he was almost universally known, was attracted to the Republic of Texas in 1836 because it was fighting a war of independence with Mexico. Stephen Austin came to Louisville to make a personal appeal for support. It was an appeal that touched Johnston and brought him to the Republic. After meeting with Sam Houston in Nacogdoches, Johnston joined the Texas army. Within the year the U. S. Army 2nd Lieutenant was a general and ordered to take command of an army in the field. When he reported for the assignment General Felix Huston, whom Johnston had relieved of duty, demanded a duel. Johnston took a shot in the hip, damaging his sciatic nerve, numbing his leg for the rest of his life and making the recovery painful as well. Sam Houston rebuked Johnston for his part in the duel. Following a long recuperation, Johnston returned to active command, but Mexico had serious internal problems and withdrew from Texas and the war.
Johnston became Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas in 1838, returning to civilian life in 1843. This was perhaps his most trying time in the Republic. Dealing successfully with both Comanche and Cherokee Indians, he left his office without securing the one thing he most desired: an admission from Mexico that Texas was an independent state.
He was notably unsuccessful as a planter, and advocated war with Mexico as the Republic moved towards statehood. During the Mexican War, Johnston tried to secure a command in the regular Army but failed. He served instead as commander of a volunteer unit from Texas. At the battle of Monterrey Johnston rallied an Ohio division after their line had been breached by Mexican lancers. Captain Joseph Hooker, who was with Johnston at the time, considered it to be the bravest action he ever saw on a battlefield.
While accompanying Jefferson Davis to negotiate the surrender of Mexican commander Pedro de Ampudia, Johnston and Davis were surrounded by Mexican soldiers. Johnston took one as hostage and forced them to take him and Davis to Ampudia.
During the 1850's he served in various duties as a colonel in the U. S. Army, most noted as commander of the famed Second Cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee was his second in command, and among his officers were George Thomas, William Hardee, Earl Van Dorn, Kirby Smith and John Bell Hood.
During the summer of 1857, Johnston left the Second Cavalry with Lt. Colonel Lee in charge and headed west to the Utah Territory, established during the Compromise of 1850. The followers of Brigham Young needed the resources of the United States to protect their boundaries and police the large, mostly desolate areas of the state. They wanted to run the state as a theocracy, where the church determines the outcome of everything, including secular matters such as trials. At first, this was either accepted or overlooked by the U. S. Government, but in 1857 a federal judge ruled that the territorial court system was stacked against non-Mormons. Polygamy was compared to slavery by Republicans in the Election of 1856, making James Buchanan not want to appear to endorse the practice when Brigham Young and his followers ousted the federal judges. Furthermore, Buchanan didn't want Young's territorial forces to take control of federal affairs - it might establish a precedent for the Southern states to follow.
William Harney was originally dispatched to handle the problem, but when he said he would hang Brigham Young and others, Buchanan wisely sought a calmer presence. Albert Sidney Johnston was the obvious choice. In command of an army spread across 1500 miles, including infantry under E. P. Alexander, an artillery battery under Jesse Reno, Johnston and dragoons under Philip St. George Cooke, Johnston headed west in late summer. The Mormons activated the Nauvoo Legion (as the Utah militia) to defend Utah from the army.
With October came winter, and Johnston decided to occupy Fort Bridger, northeast of Salt Lake City on the Oregon Trail. When the men arrived at the fort, however, it was ruble, destroyed by the Mormons. In the bitter cold of the high mountains, Johnston made camp and survived until spring. In early April, with his force lessened by a single man over the winter, Johnston prepared to move against the Mormons. Word came that the Mormons accepted the authority of the United States, but that was not enough for Johnston. In early June he began to march on the capital of Salt Lake City.
Young sent an invitation to Johnston to enter the valley even as the Mormons were withdrawing from Salt Lake City. On June 26, the U. S. Army entered a deserted capital. The Mormons had fled south to Provo. As Johnston headed south from Salt Lake City a parade of Mormons headed north to the capital. Near Provo, Johnston established Camp Floyd, named in honor of John Floyd, Secretary of War and took a wait and see approach to the situation.
Since the Mormons did not resist, Johnston never engaged in combat, but in the Spring of 1859 he sent Hans Heth to Provo to enforce the power of the federal judges who were preparing indictments against some of the church elders for actions not directly related to the war. To no one's surprise, the grand jury refused to return an indictment. Johnston remained in Utah until 1860. It was after this successful mission that Johnston's name was brought up as a possible Democratic contender for the U. S. Presidency.
As commander of the Department of the Pacific (sometimes called the Pacific Department), Johnston watched the widening rift developing between North and South from the West. Although the governor of California and many Southern sympathizers considered him to be loyal to the Union, Johnston was the target of Unionist's patter.
On March 23, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln removed Sidney Johnston from command, replacing him with Edwin Vose Sumner. Rather than send the orders by Pony Express (the transcontinental telegraph was still six months away), Lincoln sent the orders with Sumner by boat as a precaution. When news reached California on April 9, that Texas seceded, Albert Sidney Johnston resigned his commission. He was officially relieved of duty by Sumner in San Francisco on April 25, 1861. On May 6 the War Department approved Johnston's resignation.
Johnston considered staying in California, perhaps watching the conflict from the West Coast, but his sense of duty swept him up when he heard of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. He was making plans to return by boat to New York, then travel south to Richmond when word reached him that his arrest had been ordered on June 3, 1861. It would no longer be possible for him to sail to New York. His children and pregnant wife would have to remain in California while Johnston headed east to Texas. Johnston joined a group of soldiers returning to Texas via a dangerous 800-mile southern route, including a 400-mile section of the Mojave Desert.
The arduous route headed southeast from Los Angeles to Warner's, a ranch that was considered to be the start of the desert. From here the Confederates headed to Fort Yuma at the confluence of the Gila River and the mighty Colorado. The men decided to avoid Fort Breckenridge and Fort Buchanan, carefully moving from a Pima Indian village (near present-day Phoenix, Arizona) to Tucson, which was between the two forts. From Tucson the men headed east through the Chiricahua Mountains at Apache Pass and into Texas, reaching Picacho on July 27. From here he headed south to El Paso then overland to New Orleans, catching the railroad to Richmond, Virginia.
Unfortunately, Johnston could not communicate his planned delay to the command structure in the South. When Jefferson Davis made him a full general in August, 1861, he had not fought in a single battle.
A week after Leonidas Polk ended Kentucky's neutrality by seizing Columbus, Johnston appeared at Davis's front door. Polk, a mutual friend of Johnston and Davis, had been asking the President to assign Johnston as commander in the West. Davis wanted Johnston to accept the position of Confederate Secretary of War, a move supported by his cabinet, but it was Polk himself that gave Davis reason to send Johnston west. Seizing Kentucky was a dreadfully bad idea, one most Confederate politicians assumed Johnston wouldn't make.
Albert Sidney Johnston did not do as well as everybody had hoped, and he was not helped by his old friend Jefferson Davis. Sidney began by stringing his men across halfway across Kentucky in order to protect Nashville, the capital of Tennessee. On his right he ordered a small army from Knoxville under Felix Zollicoffer to advance to Somerset, Kentucky, and hold the Cumberland River. To the left, Polk held Columbus and in between were various garrisons anchored at Bowling Green.
Opposing Johnston were two Union forces, the Department of Kentucky under Robert Anderson and John C. Fremont in command of the Department of the West. Probably of little concern was the brigadier general in charge of the forces west of Columbus, Kentucky, Ulysses S. Grant. Anderson felt that Johnston's goal was Louisville and the Ohio River Valley, but Johnston lacked the manpower for such an offensive.
With Zollicoffer's loss at Mill Springs, Davis shipped P. G. T. Beauregard west to get the Creole general out of the way but would not back Johnston up any further with men, munitions or supplies. The loss also hastened Grant's move against Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. Beauregard had encourage Johnston to concentrate his force at Donelson and strike Grant. Johnston went with Beauregard's plan but they ended up with 3 generals at Donelson, John Floyd, Gideon Pillow and Simon Bolivar Buckner, two too many. The surrender of Donelson ensured the fall of Nashville a week later.
Retreating to Murfreesboro, Johnston struggled to form a secondary line. With his army in two distinct segments, Johnston ordered Beauregard west to command the group in Corinth. As March turned into April it was apparent to everybody in the South that a massive battle on the Western Frontier was shaping up. Johnston withdrew from Murfreesboro to the south, then headed west to join the growing Army of Mississippi at Corinth.
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Daniel….. Previewing the Alabama, Mississippi and New Mexico Primaries…..Today
Hello Folks!
There are Multiple States Primaries TODAY.…
We'll have a "Special Election Night Results Thread" starting at 7pm ET. That will be 1 Hour before Polls close in Alabama and Mississippi. Polls in New Mexico will close one hour after AL & MS.
Here is a little Election Viewers Guide on the Races that are highly competitive and you should look out for: ENJOY THE GUIDE
1. Alabama (Yellowhammer State, Heart of the Dixie) All Polls close at 8pm ET:
Alabama Governor (Open Seat, Republican Governor Bob Riley is term-limited)
Republican Primary
A very competitive Primary indeed. The two Frontrunners Bradley Byrne & Roy Moore were within 5 Points during the Primary Campaign. A Research 2000 / KOS Survey released on Monday had Byrne leading Moore 29-23.
The Candidates are:
Former State Senator Bradley Byrne
Former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore
State Representative Robert J. Bentley
Former Birmingham City Councilman Bill Johnson
Tim James
James Potts
Charles Taylor
Democratic Primary
This Primary is also very competitive pitting U. S. Rep. Arthur Davis against Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks.
The R2000 / KOS Survey released this past Monday gave Davis a 8-Point lead (41-33)
The Candidates are:
U. S. Rep. Arthur Davis
Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks
Alabama 2nd Congressional District
Republican Primary
Who will face Democrat Bobby Bright (D-AL 2) in November?
The Candidates are:
Montgomery Councilor Martha Roby
John McKinney
Stephanie Wolf Bell
Rick Joe Barber
Alabama 5th Congressional District
Republican Primary
Will Party Switcher Incumbent U. S. Rep. Parker Griffith (R-AL 5) survive the Primary?
The Candidates are:
Incumbent U. S. Rep. Parker Griffith
Madison County Commissioner Morris J. "Mo" Brooks
Lester S. "Less" Phillip
Democratic Primary
The Candidates are:
Tazewell Shepard
Stephen Walker Raby
David Joel Maker
Mitchell John Howie
Alabama 7th Congressional District
Democratic Primary
Who will replace Arthur Davis in Congress?
The Candidates are:
Terrycina Andrea Sewell
Sheila Smoot
Earl Frederick Hilliard Jr.
Martha Renee Bozeman
2. Mississippi (The Magnolia State) All Polls close at 8pm ET:
Only one competitive Race here.
Mississippi 1st Congressional District
Republican Primary
Who will face Incumbent U. S. Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS 1) in November?
The Candidates are:
Angela McGlowan
State Senator Patrick Alan Nunnelee
Herman Henry Ross
Of Course there are Primaries in the other 3 District but they won't be competitive.
3. New Mexico (Land of Entchantment) All Polls close at 9pm ET:
New Mexico Governor
Republican Primary
So far based on the latest Polls it looks like a Race between Dona Ana District Attorney Susana Martinez and Businessman Allan Weh.
The Candidates are:
Dona Ana District Attorney Susana Martinez
Businessman Allan Weh
Attorney Pete Domenici Jr.
Public Relations Firm Owner Doug Turner
State Representative Janice Arnold-Jones
The 3 New Mexico Congressional District don't have competitive Primaries.
I hope you enjoyed this little Preview. See you Later!.
Daniel G.
49 Comments »
5 days closer to seeing Arthur Davis WIN
Comment by Timothy Leal | May 27, 2010 |
James B, I think Davis' polling numbers may have taken a severe hit due to alienating many in the state's African American political establishment who HATE the man for voting against Obama's Economic Stimulus, Health Care Reform plan, and other things.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | May 28, 2010 |
Wh cares about Davis?
Alabama aint about to elect a Black Governor!
Im for Roy Moore
I like my nuts certified
Besides this goof is bound to make Alabama the laughingstock of the nation
And take the heat off South Carolina
Southern Republicans!
Comment by My Name Is jack | May 28, 2010 |
Very unlikely Roy Moore will be the GOP Nominee. He has too much baggage. I'm torn between Byrne and James. I like both. Difficult to decide whom I'm going to support on Tuesday.
Comment by Daniel G. | May 28, 2010 |
What "baggage?"
This is ALABAMA
The Republicans down there regard Moore as thoroughly mainstream
Like most non southerners
You have NO idea how really extreeme these lunatics are
Comment by My Name Is jack | May 28, 2010 |
Conservative Democrat
what you trying to???
I hope you don' t SQUASH this century long dream of having an African American Governor in Alabama
especially a GOOD MAN like Arthur Davis who was looking out for his constituents by rejecting the Obama Health Crappy Plan
Comment by Timothy Leal | May 28, 2010 |
Arthur Davis POLL numbers are looking good
Come Tuesday I want all you down in BAMA to help your neighbors get to the polls
Comment by Timothy Leal | May 28, 2010 |
Moore will not win this – PERIOD and End of Story.
Thanks for making this Preview the first Post.
Comment by Daniel G. | May 28, 2010 |
..gotta take care of my polling KING!
ala ML King or Rufus King
Comment by Timothy Leal | May 28, 2010 |
See Gail Collins' astonishing, but apparently all-true, NY Times op-ed column on Alabama campaigning this year.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | May 30, 2010 |
Final CA Primary Field Poll to be released either tonight or tomorrow Night.
Comment by Daniel G. | May 31, 2010 |
whoops! seems you goper's also have a candidate blemishing his miltary record claiming to have served in iraq(wich he did not) and winning awards for himself(it was a group award not to himself personally). rep kirk of illinois). where are the rightwingers cries now like they did to my attorney general blumenthal and senate dem nominee in connecticut? blumenthal is still way ahead unlike kirk.
Comment by Terry Green | May 31, 2010 |
jack believe what u want to believe. it is not end of story according to self appointed polling god daniel g. anything is possible in politics.
Comment by Terry Green | May 31, 2010 |
true james b, but gopers love taking the moral high ground. see rep souder, henry hyde, newt gingrich, ect…..
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
also i see the new election projection(blogging caesar) put the pa senate race from weak gop to weak dem lead. yay! im sure daniel g. seen that by now. toomey MAY go down. i am not like daniel g. claiming im RIGHT all the time. but i feel good about the dems keeping that seat!
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
the Scott Brown WIN was because Obama couldn't afford to have Coakley on Capitol Hill complaining about the war in Afghanistan
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
off for the day from work so i will chill on and off thru the day and eve for the primary results. hey james. thinking about pizza for dinner this eve.
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
Terry Green
Look forward to celebrating the ARTHUR DAVIS victory in spirit with you
I have been campaigning for Arthur Davis for a little over a year and TONIGHT I hope to see that work pay off
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
Netanyahu cancels White House visit
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
Arthur Davis is a G_D send
An African American DEMOCRAT opposed to the WORST policies put forth by Obama
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
lol, i feel honored but that said if davis wins in november i would be shocked. i just think that aint happening. alabama is just too ruby red for ANY dem let alone a african american. i could be wrong but i DOUBT IT SERIOUSLY. i want him to make it. davis winning in alabama is like a rightwing nutjob winning very blue new state.
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
alabama is the same state that brought us george wallace, voted gop for president for 30 years and had no dem in the chair for like 16 years. i see davis has became a blue dog dem to court more moderate to right leaning alabamans. a none starter for the general. if a redneck rightwinger has a pick between a rightwing real goper and a johnny come lately blue dog dem he will pick the real conservative everytime. just being realistic.
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
To get his butt elected….
I believe it is because Arthur Davis has thought the policies through and realizes they are harmful policies
taking a break
looking forward to a cigar, beer, and thinking of Conservative Democrat and the DREAM WE have shared about Davis winning
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
will not work tim. obama lost alabama by 20 points in 2008. even bill clinton lost alabama in both 1992 and 1996 when he was wining big nationwide in those years. if davis wins in alabama that would mean dems all over the country is mopping the floor with gopers. i admit dems will lose seats in november regardless. just less than gopers here and nationally have been perdicting.
Comment by Terry Green | June 1, 2010 |
Whoever wants to say there's any state (or territory) in the Union where someone should abstain from running because of his or her race?
That said, I can't see Artur (no H) Davis winning Alabama. It has a large Afro-American minority (26.2%), but it's not as big as Mississippi's (37.5%), Louisiana's (31.6%), Maryland's (28.9%) or South Carolina's (28.4%) . And while Obama's race helped him to carry the Democratic electorate in the Southern primaries, he won none of the Deep South states in November, even with much higher black turnout, because of the racial alignment of the parties (Southern GOP = non-black; D = almost all of the black vote + about a third of the white vote).
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 1, 2010 |
Arthur Davis is different from Obama and Clinton
dont hate.. HISTORY is here
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
BREAKING news about one of the GREATEST CIA OPERATIVES
Al and Tipper Gore, whose playful romance enlivened Washington and the campaign trail for a quarter century, have decided to separate after 40 years of marriage, the couple told friends Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38001.html#ixzz0pdzuZPc3
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
Folks, Davis is MODERATE pro-life, pro-gun, pro-capital punishment, etc.,
He'll win the Democratic nomination tonight, but I see the GOP primary going into a runoff between James and Byrne.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 1, 2010 |
Jack, do you have problems with African Americans winning statewide office in the South ?
Thurbert Baker, Mike Thurmond in GA and many others have held down-ballot statewide offices in other Southern states.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 1, 2010 |
I have problems with silly cheerleading practiced by you and some others
Davis is not going to be elected Governor
Its as simple as that
And your incessant blabbering that he is
Is annoying as well as absurd
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 1, 2010 |
Conservative Democrat
Davis can win this thing
It is all about GALVANIZING the voters
Obama did it
and NOW Davis must do it
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
The Davis machine needs to build strong in Birmingham and Montgomery and use the SCATTER EFFECT from those two hubs
with a constant build-up and SCATTER EFFECT from those two cities ALL SUMMER and FALL
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
The Davis plan
Guaranteeing African American voters feel comfortable with Davis
Guaranteeing the YOuth will step up for Davis
PLENTY of face time with OLd time DEmocrats
and getting FISCAL conservative INDEPENDENTS to vote for him
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 1, 2010 |
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I activated my student version of MATLAB R2012a on the Mathworks website with my original host ID (my Mac address).
For some reason MATLAB thinks that my host ID is 0000..0 (sequence of zeros) when I open MATLAB.
It exits with an error saying that this version of MATLAB is registered with some other host ID other than your computer's host id (00000000).
Its true because my hostid is not a sequence of zeros.
What do I do?
I installed MATLAB Student Version on my Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit OS. I installed ia32-libs too.


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How 7 Top Brands Are Using Facebook's New Ad Tools
On Leap Day 2012, Facebook gathered all its marketing executives in New York City for a coming-out party of sorts for a slew of new ad products. To people outside the industry, the promise of new initiatives might appear a bit on the dull side. But for advertisers, anything that Facebook does for advertising is of interest.
Among the products Facebook introduced were Premium on Facebook, Reach Generator, Offers and Logged Out ads. The company also asked brands to embrace a paradigm shift from advertising to "Stories," Facebook's preferred term for brand-related messages. Since that time, a few big brands have experimented with the new tools.
Here are a few examples or, if you prefer, Stories. Is there a standout brand campaign that you enjoy? Let us know in the comments.
1. Premium Ads: Tide
The Procter & Gamble detergent brand Tide turned a PR event into advertising in March. The program started when officials used Tide to clean up the chemical residue on a racetrack after a big fire at a NASCAR course in March. Tide's program, which included outreach on Twitter, public relations and search, also leaned heavily on Facebook's Premium ad products. Tide used the format to draw attention to the brand's role in the incident. As with other Premium ads, the status update went out across the network, but it was especially focused on Tide fans and friends of Tide fans. If you or your friend interacted with the Tide brand page, then you might have seen it in your News Feed.
Tide's initial post was a link to a Business Insider article about the event, which included photos of people hauling boxes of Tide to the scene. Tide used Premium on Facebook to blast the post and further boosted engagement with a post asking fans to fill in a caption for a photo of workers cleaning up the mess.
Facebook says that the NASCAR ad had a 62% higher engagement rate than previous ads the brand has run. The premium buy also got the post in front of 1 million people, more than doubling the usual reach of a Tide post. (Tide has close to 2.8 million fans, but only a portion see a post at any given time.) Sarah Pasquinucci, external relations manager for North American fabric at P&G, says the brand has experimented with other premium posts but can't say how they perform versus standard Facebook ads. "We're always looking to reach consumers in the right place at the right time in the right way," she adds.
2. Premium and Logged Out Ads: Subway
Subway used the new Premium and Logged Out ads on Facebook to highlight spokesman Blake Griffin. The sandwich chain ran an update that featured a video with fun outtakes of Blake on the log-out screen and used the Page ad unit to promote it. People interacted nearly 1 million times with the ads and video, which hit nearly 500,000 plays. As a result, Subway's reach during the week-long campaign increased tenfold.
Tony Pace, the SVP and CMO of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Trust Fund, says the brand takes a "test and learn" approach to Facebook advertising and jumped at the opportunity to do something different. Pace says the Stories, in this case, performed better than his expectations and were a good way to reward fans without alienating consumers.
"People who are really into our brand are surprisingly happy to get lots of content from us," he says. "This was a good way of rewarding folks that want to see a lot from us."
Pace says the Logged Out ad did well because the content was compelling. "If people are logging out, they probably don't want to spend more time there unless it's something really interesting," he says.
3. Reach Generator: Ben & Jerry's and Dr Pepper
The Unilever-owned ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's took advantage of Reach Generator to make sure all its fans got the latest updates. Reach Generator is designed to expose fans to updates they might not otherwise see. As Facebook noted back in February, the typical post on a brand site only reaches 16% of fans. With Reach Generator, Ben & Jerry's hit 98% of fans during a 28-day period and saw twice as much engagement. Another early adopter of Reach Generator, Dr Pepper, hit 83% of its 8 million U.S. fans over a 28-day period and saw a 140% jump in "People Talking About This" (PTAT) with the tool.
4. Offers: Einstein Bros. Bagels and Chili's
Einstein Bros. availed itself of another new Facebook ad product, Offers, with a buy-one-get-one offer from Feb. 29 through March 4. Some 32,000 people (out of 690,000 fans) took the chain up on its offer, and Einstein Bros. logged a "significant" spike in PTAT during that time.
Offers is an evolution of "Check-in Deals," a mobile-only Facebook product. With Offers, consumers can redeem the deals on their desktop or mobile, since they live on a Brand Page.
Meanwhile, Chili's ran an Offers promotion offering a free appetizer or dessert with an entree purchase for three days. The chain, which has 1.9 million Facebook fans, saw 433,773 people claim the offer — around 20% of whom were on Facebook. About 30% of redemptions also came from Facebook, which is about three times higher than average.
5. Logged Out Ads: Ford
Ford tried its hand at a Logged Out ad on March 20. The video, a Mustang commercial, got more than 1 million plays and boosted Ford's PTAT that day by 180%. Thomais Zaremba, digital marketing manager at Ford, says she wasn't sure that people would stick around to watch an ad when they were logging out, but many did. "I was surprised," she says, noting that the number of people who log out every day — 40 million — was way more than she thought.
Zaremba hasn't tried another Logged Out ad since, but plans to. Says Zaremba: "We're always interested in testing new spaces."


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Why Obama Strikes out in Court
As the world awaits the Supreme Court's ruling on ObamaCare, there's a larger story that the pundits are missing: the court's rejection of the Obama administration's increasingly extreme claims on behalf of unlimited federal power.
This term alone, the high court has ruled unanimously against the government on religious liberty, criminal procedure and property rights. When the administration can't get even a single one of the liberal justices to agree with it in these unrelated areas of the law, that's a sign there's something wrong with its constitutional vision.
Let's take these cases in order:
First, in Hosanna‐Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the government sued a church school that fired a teacher for violating one of the church's religious tenets: threatening to sue over an employment dispute rather than resolving the disagreement internally. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed this violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because the firing was related to the teacher's health issues.
The Supreme Court ruled 9–0 in January that punishing a church for failing to retain an unwanted teacher "interferes with the internal governance of the church, depriving the church of control over the selection of those who will personify its beliefs." Such interference, it concluded, violates the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses.
In United States v. Jones, also decided in January, the government claimed the power to attach a GPS device to a suspected drug dealer's car and electronically monitor his movements, all without a warrant. This claim drew opposition not just from the ACLU and the Cato Institute, but from the conservative Rutherford Institute, the liberal Constitution Project and organizations ranging from the Gun Owners of America to the Council on American‐Islamic Relations.
While the justices had differing opinions on why this action violated the Fourth Amendment—was it a physical trespass, a violation of privacy expectations, or something else?—all agreed it was unconstitutional. Nevertheless, last week the Justice Department was back in a lower court, using technicalities in Jonesto claim again (United States v. Pineda‐Moreno) that it could attach GPS devices without seeking warrants.
Third, in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the government denied the right of property owners to judicial review of an EPA order to stop building a house it claimed was in violation of the Clean Water Act. In March the court unanimously rejected that position. Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the opinion, called access to courts the least the government could provide in response to "the strong‐arming of regulated parties" by government agencies. "In a nation that values due process, not to mention private property," wrote Justice Samuel Alito in a concurring opinion, the government's "treatment [of the homeowners] is unthinkable."
Later in March, the administration claimed in the ObamaCare case that the government could require people to buy something as a means of regulating a broader national market. And a month later in Arizona v. United States, the government said that a federal policy decision regarding immigration enforcement priorities could by itself trump state law—a position that seemed to trouble even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the president's own nominees.
More recently, the Justice Department has been suing states over voter‐ID laws. Attorney General Eric Holder makes speeches claiming these laws herald the return of Jim Crow. Never mind that the Supreme Court has found them to satisfy the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution, most recently by 6–3 in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2008), where plaintiffs claimed that needing a photo‐ID placed an undue burden on their right to vote.
The government's arguments across a wide variety of cases would essentially allow Congress and the executive branch to do whatever they wanted without meaningful constitutional restraint. This view is at odds with another unanimous Supreme Court decision, Bond v. United States (2011). Bond vindicated a criminal defendant's right to challenge the use of federal power to prosecute her. As Justice Kennedy wrote, "[F]ederalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power. When government acts in excess of its lawful powers, that liberty is at stake."
If the government loses in the health‐care or immigration cases, it won't be because its lawyers had a bad day in court or because the justices ruled based on their political preferences. It will be because the Obama administration continues to make legal arguments that don't pass the smell test.


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Thousands of New Yorkers are inviting total strangers into their lives by posting their thoughts online (and linking to things that interest them) in often personal journals, called web logs or just blogs.
Blogs are particularly useful for telling the folks back home what you are up to without having to pick up the phone or write e-mail; in a city of transients and transplants, this is one technology that serves a true purpose. In the media capital of the world, though, it shouldn't be surprising that some bloggers have aspirations beyond personal expression, aiming to be treated as journalists ... or media pundits ... or at least gossip columnists. In fact, a few have started to realize their ambitions, launching (or advancing) professional writing careers as the result of their blogs.
As Catherine Shu pointed out in her list of favorite NYC blogs on one of Gotham Gazette's own weblogs (see her entry for June 26), there is a blog called nycbloggers that aims to connect to as many NYC blogs as possible. The key feature is an interactive map which links each blog to the author's closest subway stop. The exact time of each entry is posted and authors often mention where they are or where they've been prior to writing.
Another list of sites in and around NYC is searchable at GeoURL. GeoURL was written by Joshua Schachter, a visionary blogger that started community entertainment site memepool in 1998.
You can find NYC blogs on just about everything. For example, there is a list of 32 blogs that (more or less) have something to do with technology.
And blogs are faster and easier to create than Web sites, using Web publishing software like MovableType or inexpensive services like Blogger and Blog*Spot.
Many bloggers like to link to one another, and some favorite New York blogs have emerged. Gen Kanai, a New Yorker currently living in Tokyo, lists his favorite New York blogs as Gawker and Gothamist, along with blogs by Anil Dash, Jason Kottke, Jeff Jarvis and Paul Ford. Another NYC-centric blog, EverythingNY, begun by Ari Paparo in March, has recently started to summarize and link to all the latest posts from some half dozen of his favorite NYC blogs -- updated automatically, every 15 minutes!
Blogs have become businesses, albeit not very profitable ones yet. That said, some of the most skilled bloggers claim to make upwards of $20,000 per year in additional income from contributions from friends, family, fans and those who just can't live without hearing from their favorite bloggers. Nycbloggers sells merchandise like "Brooklyn Bloggers" t-shirts and "Big Apple" coffee mugs, lunch boxes and messenger bags to pay for their overhead and keep people passionate about blogging. Some blogs have started to run ads.
If blogs have reached the point of competing with other media outlets for readers' attention, are they strengthening our relationships, communities and cities or are they merely self-centered musings gone public? It is too early to tell.
However, the impact of this new medium was felt after 9/11 as many New Yorkers turned to their blogs to share their experiences and grief. Thus, the nycbloggers site has dedicated a whole section to 9/11 posts which is linked to the subway stations closed after the attack. There were also those observers who argued after the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times that bloggers were responsible for keeping that story alive past what would have been its normal shelflife, disrupting the Times so much that the publisher of the Times felt forced to accept the resignations of the executive editor and managing editor.
What's next? Mobile blogging or sending images from your cell phone directly to the Internet. The images include location information about the place where the photo was taken.
" Moblogging" (pronounced "moe blogging" NOT "mob logging") has already become popular with a core group of eclectic enthusiasts in Europe and Asia where camera-phones have been already on the market for several years. In early July, the first International Moblogging Conference (1IMC), was held in Tokyo. The excitement is spreading as more advanced phones hit the market in New York. By next year, there could be enough mobloggers in New York to warrant hosting the event here.
In the future, cities may also allow people to access information about their surroundings on small wireless devices. For example, NYU graduate and Web-site design guru Adam Greenfield offers this vision of how technology might be integrated into cities:
" You're on the corner of Washington and Greene facing southeast. In front of you is what is now NYU's Main building. Now look up - you're looking at the site of the worst fire in the history of New York City. On March 25th, 1911, 146 women doing textile piecework burned to death inside of fifteen minutes because the bosses had locked the doors on them."
In Other News
Arts and technology non-profit Eyebeam is playing host to several great events this Summer including a Robot festival in partnership with New York-Tokyo and its sixth annual Digital Day Camp. The day camp focuses on civil disobedience, cyber-activism and contagious media. It will have a public exhibition of student's final projects from July 29 to August 2.
Laura Forlano is a doctoral student studying communication technology policy at Columbia University.


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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, August 24
Well, that's it and that's all for Joe Turner's Streak.
Mark Teixeira's 0-for-5 against Brandon McCarthy and the A's last night sealed our season leader's fate at 41 games. Losing a season-best run on a player who entered Tuesday's action batting .251? Yikes! Joe certainly had his reasons, though, and that's gotta be worth something — potentially $10,000, to be specific.
Phils4ever75 is now in the current BTS drivers seat at an impressive 36 games, with letsgonets44 right behind them at 35. Don't get too comfy on the season throne just yet, Joe.
Wednesday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
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Ryan Howard: .375 (15-for-40) since '06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Robinson Cano: .545 (6-for-11) since '06 vs. A's starter Trevor Cahill
Josh Hamilton: .500 (6-for-12) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
Todd Helton: .400 (8-for-20) since '06 vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
Hunter Pence: .385 (5-for-13) since '06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Feeling kinda spicy?
Casey McGehee: .467 (7-for-15) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Aaron Thompson
Jack Hannahan: .500 (6-for-12) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
You'll thank me later
Michael Young: .138 (3-for-22) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
Brian McCann: .083 (1-for-12) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Randy Wells
Curtis Granderson: .091 (1-for-11) since '06 vs. A's starter Trevor Cahill
Miguel Cabrera: .167 (1-for-6) since '06 vs. Rays starter Wade Davis
Melky Cabrera: .182 (2-for-11) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
Top MLB Streakers
Robinson Cano: 14 games
Aramis Ramirez: 12 games
Carlos Gonzalez: 11 games
Shane Victorino: 11 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Ryan Braun: (25 home runs this season) vs. Pirates starter Aaron Thompson
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Jvairo has quite a few entries rolling at 20 and 21
I went with Aramis Ramirez of the Cubs to try and get to 4.
I absolutely positively must play every day for the rest of the season for a shot at the runner-up prize and figure there's no way a 5 for 5 effort gets sat.
Phillies losing 7-3 I'm not getting a save today. 😦
I went with the CIN/FLA DH today. Figure get 2 chances for a save and at a streak of zero, no risk
Reds lost 1st game of DH, but up 3-0 in 9th of 2nd game & my pick in for the easy save. Should be back on the board today.
I may have gotten really lucky today as Aramis Ramirez pushed me to 4.
1 for 2, 2 walks, a soft infield single in the 5th inning
Yet I live another day and seem to be the only one left standing on the blog for BTS anyway.


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Underground Education
UMR uses an experimental
to train the next generation of miners
by Jim McCarty
The students in Jerry
Tien's class look bored. The University of Missouri-Rolla associate
professor is doing his best, but the material is tough and dry.
He talks about how
elevation causes changes to air pressure. He explains oxygen concentration
levels. He shows how to use instruments like an altimeter.
The dozen students
in his mine atmosphere class take careful notes. But their minds are on
the second half of the class when they will leave the classroom for a
unique laboratory used by UMR's mining students.
They will head underground,
armed with hard hats and battery-operated head lamps, to record data in
the university's experimental mine. Located just a mile or so off
the Rolla campus, the mine is one of only a few such facilities located
on university campuses in the United States.
This class splits
into groups of three and heads to various positions deep inside the mine.
As they leave the light behind, a strong draft of cold air chills their
faces and hands. A powerful fan pumps the air into the mine. The air flow
is there for ventilation, and if this were a real mine it would be there
to save their lives.
Methane and other
gases can collect in underground mines. Someday these students might have
the job of maintaining air flow in commercial mines. Their task on this
day is to conduct a pressure survey to ensure the mine is safe for workers.
Later the data will
be assembled and plotted on a computer to create a picture of the mine
ventilation. Then the students can play "what if" scenarios.
For example, if a new shaft was bored in the rock how would that affect
the air flow? Or if the mine was enlarged would more air need to be moved?
kind of unique," says Tien, who came to UMR in 1985. "You
look at other college mining programs. A couple of them have mines but
they are not as close to the campus. Penn State uses the basement of one
of their buildings. The Colorado School of Mines has one but it's
30-40 miles from campus. That's a day-long trip at best. We are
very blessed to have this mine."
UMR was founded in
1870 as the Missouri School of Mines. The college was created to serve
the state's booming mineral industry. Missouri's mineral wealth
is so vast that it was responsible for much of the early settlement of
the state. In fact mining has been a part of the state's economy
for 275 years.
As early as 1804 those
involved in the industry were petitioning the Civil Commandant of the
Upper Louisiana Territory for advanced training in mining. But the first
official proposal for such a school came in 1865 at the request of Gov.
Thomas Fletcher.
While other disciplines
were added to the mining program, it wasn't until 1964 that the
School of Mines name was dropped in favor of the University of Missouri-Rolla
designation. Today UMR is the state's leading engineer training
program, and mining engineering is still a major part of the curriculum.
It seems logical that
the state's School of Mines would have its own mine. But it wasn't
until 1914 that one was created.
Land for the mine
was purchased on the outskirts of Rolla on Bridge School Road. In 1921
a horizontal opening was made into limestone bedrock to begin the mine.
Several structures were also started, including buildings to house a steam
boiler, air compressor, blacksmith shop and a mine hoist.
Most of the mine's
pillars and rooms were completed by 1945. Three vertical shafts were sunk.
An adjacent quarry offered practice in surface mining. The original buildings
were refurbished during the next four years and a new mine office and
warehouse was built in 1949.
By now the mine was
getting so much use that more land was required both above and below ground.
An additional 12 acres of land was purchased in 1949, bringing the mine
site to 19 acres.
Two years later work
started on the west section of the mine. The ventilation fans were added
in 1956 and a second quarry was opened.
Students and faculty
members conducting research shared time at the site. Their research included
rock mechanics, drilling, blasting and explosives testing. As the mine's
use continued to grow, work on extending the mine to the east began. In
time a second mine would be opened and a fourth shaft bored.
A classroom was built
on site and an extensive collection of mining equipment donated by manufacturers
provided additional opportunity for hands-on education. Today every aspect
of mining technology takes place at the experimental mine, guaranteeing
UMR students leave the university ready to enter the workforce.
On any given day students
might engage in surveying to lay out expansion for the mine. They might
practice drilling into the dolomite walls of the mine. Some classes learn
to use explosives while others gain experience quarrying crushed stone.
Experiments are carried out to determine just what happens to rock under
"This is something
that distinguishes us from the other mining students out there,"
says Peter DuBois, a UMR student from St. Charles. "We get hands-on
experience. We drill through real rock, not concrete blocks like at other
universities. That dilutes the experience."
While the latest high-tech
mining practices are put into place and often invented here, students
also have an opportunity to experience mining as it was practiced in the
days when Moses Austin opened the first lead veins at Potosi in 1798.
The college's mucking team challenges other universities to see
who is best at traditonal skills ranging from sawing railroad ties to
filling ore carts by hand to drilling holes with a sledge hammer and a
star drill.
UMR also boasts the
only college-based mine rescue team in the nation. The team competes against
professional teams organized by commercial mines around the world.
The rescue team works
with self-contained breathing apparatus that can extend the time underground
by cleaning and recycling exhaled air. In their competitions the teams
must solve rescue scenarios that might include going through flooded areas
of a mine.
Training like this
can be invaluable in the real world where mine disasters do happen.
Another unusual aspect
of the mining program is the Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center.
Important research into the use of explosives sponsored by the government
and industry offer more valuable experience to graduate and undergraduate
The university also
offers a pyrotechnics course, which is taught at Richland. In this course
UMR students learn to build and set off firework displays. Students have
put together shows for Missouri towns like Richland and Blue Springs.
But the mine isn't just for students and faculty. It also serves
a vital role in educating the public about the important role mining plays
in the state. "If it can't be grown it has to be mined"
is the slogan of the state's mining industry.
"People don't
realize all the mining-derived products out there," Tien laments.
"When you think of cars you think of Ford, GM, Toyota. You don't
think about mining and all the steel and aluminum it takes to make them.
We are very glad to be providing things people need."
And the many tour
groups that visit the experimental mine learn first hand how true that
motto is. Visitors, ranging from school groups to tourists who wander
off I-44 and find the Rolla Visitor's Center, watch a movie and
then don hard hats for a trip through the mine led by Jim Taylor, the
mine's manager.
In October the mine
is the setting for a scary haunted mine tour that raises money for student
field trips and food donations for the Russell House, a local crisis center
for women and their children. In its first year the haunted mine tour
brought in $5,500 and it has been a tradition ever since.
While no valuable
mineral deposits other than fool's gold have been found at the mine,
its value comes from something else. It's creating the next generation
of miners and giving them a leg up on the competition when it comes to
landing a job in the shrinking market for mining industry employees.
"We have fewer
and fewer people but they are becoming more efficient," says Tien.
"I was in the coal industry in the '70s. Average tons per
shift was 350 to 400. Now it's 4,000 to 5,000. In a way we are working
our way out of a job."
The mine is open
to the public for tours by special arrangement made at least two weeks
in advance. For more information call (573) 341-4753.


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Samsung's Smart Watch Rumored to Come in Five Colors
Samsung's smart watch will come in four different colors at launch, with a fifth color coming a week later, SamMobile reports citing insider sources.
Samsung's wearable device, rumored to be called Galaxy Gear, according to the report, will come in white, orange, gray and black. The fifth color will be the slightly more exclusive white gold, though Samsung will likely give all these colors distinctive, fancy names.
A smart watch is partly a techno gadget and partly a fashion statement, so it makes sense to offer it in multiple colors. For comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S4 is available in white, black, blue, red, purple, brown and pink.
SamMobile also pegs the shipping date for the device at late September or early October, noting that it might shift back or forth "a week or two."
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I've heard about the fine-tuning principle and how if the fundamental constants of the Universe were changed even a slight bit, life could not exist as we know it.
However, study on this subject seems to only have really started after the discovery of relativity (or at least study based on any real empirical inferences), and focus mostly on the fundamental constants of nature, rather than the laws of nature itself. This gives rise to the question: could a universe exist that relied completely on Newtonian mechanics with no concept of relativity whatsoever?
Additionally, is there any study on this subject, and if so, where can I find it?


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Technically Ive gone as far as I can in the 12 step system! it is like a giant psych hospital for me! its a place I've used to hide out, hide away! now; I dont want to hide their anymore! when I was in college; I hid out! before this; I hid in relatives houses and basements or my mothers house! before this, I was hiding from the neglect I was experiencing! Ive been hiding all of my life! Ive been hiding from terror and abuse and bulling of one level or another! Or from complete rejection of everything and everyone!
Im working with God on my future! Im not sure what it is or what it looks like yet! I have no idea career wise! I can only guess! I feel like an 8 year old trying to make decision for what or who I will become in 30 years!
Its like living in the twilight zone; your never living how you want to live or up to your potential! Im not protected in a fine or good career! Im not in anything! i was thrown away young into mass poverty and confusion! meaning, my schooling was ruined, and I was ruined! and given away or thrown away! I was defranchised from my way of life very young; I could not regain myself because I had no established myself! my maturity is so very young within me that it off balances everything! I never thought this would happen to me; Im attempting to regain myself in life some how! Im working with success based thinking ignored to regain my life!
Time keeps ticket into the future! Im 54 today! Im always running and hiding! that is all I do! I haven't thought about establishing myself at anything; Im to pissed of and angry! but Im slowly allowing myself or willing to think in terms of what I would like to do! but their is no support team that wishes me well; like a family! not for me! at least, not in the present! The last thing I remember; I was 8 years old! and here I am now!
Ive worked through much of my dissociative disorder; but very little when it comes to making money or the understanding of it! However, Im working on those things! I have to work with God and learn to trust God!
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I have God! Those who do not accept me do not accept the God that is in me!
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'3-Parent Babies' Hit 15-Y-O; Researchers to Examine Current Health of Lab-Created Embryos
'3-Parent Babies' Hit 15-Y-O; Researchers to Examine Current Health of Lab-Created Embryos
A new investigation will look into the well-being of 17 teenagers born in a New Jersey hospital 15 years ago that are believed to be the world's first group of individuals born using and advanced fertilization technique that utilizes a "three-parent" embryo to avoid the risk of passing on maternally inherited, life-threatening mitochondrial diseases. The findings of this investigation could be the key determination for the legalization of a similar procedure in the United Kingdom.
This in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique takes cytoplasm from a donor egg or embryo and is injected into an egg with compromised mitochondria to help produce a healthier egg and, in theory, a healthier person free of mitochondrial diseases.
Although the procedure, commonly known as cytoplasmic transfer, does not involve the transfer of nuclear DNA, the resulting children still inherit genetic material from three parents.
About 1,000 to 4,000 children are affected each year by mitochondrial diseases in the United States, according to The New York Times.
The technique was banned by the U.S. government in 2002 because of lack of pre-clinical data that ensured the technique's safety, but not before the technique was put to the test creating approximately 30 "three-parent babies" including 17 at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. Until now, there has never been a followup on these kids to see if there are any lasting health effects of child being born with genetic material from three parents.
The investigation that will be conducted by the Saint Barnabas Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science, will be closely watched by United Kingdom's members of Parliament who are expected to vote on legalizing a similar procedure called "Mitochondrial Replacement," in early 2015.
Forty-five nations have considered legalizing germline modificaition, but none have permitted it becuase of the uncertainity of the long-term safety of the modifications. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a hearing in February and concluded that more animal testing is needed to permit testing of the techniques on humans.
Dr. Geoff Watts, a British scientific writer and broadcaster, said in an interview with CloseUpResearch.com, that it is imperative for the potential advancement of techniques like mitochondrial replacement and cytoplasmic transfers for resulting babies to be followed up for generations.
"If this technique is introduced, there should be a concerted effort to follow up," Watts said. "Not only the children that are born of this technique to find out if they really are as healthy as we hoped they would be, but also the children's children, and the children's children's children's children. In other words, to follow this down the generations. Normal follow up studies are difficult to do. Following up over decades is even harder."
It is unknown if any of the 17 teenagers born at Saint Barnabas Medical Center over 15 years ago are willing to go through with follow-up examinations to ensure their long-term safety. Professor Jo Poulton, a consultant in mitochondrial genetics at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, however, noted that the teens have no obligation to cooperate with such followups.
"For an unborn child, when they get to the age of 16, they are in charge of their own destiny and nobody can make a child agree to carry on with this type of follow up," Poulton said. "They can be strongly advised that it is in there best interest, but nobody can force that child to do it."
Although the idea of "three-parent embryos" could possibly be an innovation of modern medicine toward preventing congenital mitochondrial diseases, opponents of the procedures claim that it could open the door to allow other genetic modifications and could ultimately lead to allowing "designer babies" and allowing parents to "play God."
David King, director of Human Genetics Alert, said that legalizing of "three-parent embryo" fertilization clinics will start a "slippery slope."
"Once you start modifying a child's genes, you are shaping them to your desires and your whims," King said. "The fundamental thing about being human is that your genetic essence has not been manipulated by other people to suit their desires. You are not an object to be manipulated, you are a person."


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· HENRY SOKOLSKI of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center explains the need for America to take a tougher stance against Iran's nuclear program.
Iran Hangs Man for Killing Nuclear Scientist
· War correspondent, ALEX QUADE, gives us an inside look at her upcoming film "Horse Soldiers of 9/11" which will premier at the GI Film Festival
· American Enterprise Institute scholar NICHOLAS EBERSTADT gives his analysis on the future of nations with a declining population.
Europe's fundamental long-term deficit isn't measured in euros; it's measured in babies
· ANDY McCARTHY from the National Review Online explains the latest case of Sharia infecting Western court systems.


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(Santa Ana)—Santa Ana College's award-winning student newspaper el Don recently received the National Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). The National Pacemaker Award is college journalism's most prestigious and oldest prize for general excellence, first given in 1927, honoring those who set the pace, surpassing all others. El Don also received Best of Show honors. The award was presented at the 29th annual ACP National College Journalism Convention in New Orleans, La.
"The National Pacemaker Award is comparable to a Pulitzer Price for collegiate journalists," said C.W. "Bud" Little, el Don advisor and Santa Ana College journalism professor. "Santa Ana College is one of four community colleges nationwide to receive the award and the only one in California."
The entries were judged based on the following criteria: content; quality of writing and editing; photography, art and graphics; and layout and design.
C. Harold Pierce, el Don's editor-in-chief, also received a second place National Reporter of the Year and fifth place National Story of the Year in the Diversity section for his feature story, "On the Down Low," about the diminishing lowrider trend in Santa Ana. Pierce was the only community college student recognized in this category.
Pierce, who already has a bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz, joined the el Don editorial team during fall 2012 as a writer. By spring 2013, he was the news editor and in his second year he became editor-in-chief. Next year, he plans to enter a master's program in journalism.
Of these awards, Pierce said, "It validates our work. As a reporter, you're not sure that you're writing is having an impact. We all work really hard; nobody is paid. It is really encouraging for our staff. We are thankful we have a wonderful advisor and great faculty that make it possible for us to step away from this program and get jobs."
The el Don website http://eldonnews.org was also recognized by ACP as one of the 10 best in America among colleges of its size.
Since 1990, Santa Ana College journalism students have won more than 1,500 first place honors in national, state and regional competitions. The el Don was inducted into the ACP College Journalism Hall of Fame in 2008 and has won 17 ACP National Pacemaker Awards.
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The objective of signing an MOU with BELTRON was to provide training for building capacity for the officials of various government departments and individuals in various IT and non IT domains for enhancing their skills accruing direct and/or indirect benefits to all government employees identified and nominated by Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd. We proposed to impart training in the domain of Tally related Accounting, Communicative English, e-Learning, Soft Skills modules, Personality Development and various Employability Enhancement programs by class room presentations, practical demonstration, projects designing and supplying course ware which enhances the prospects and inducts special skills in individuals as well as group dynamics at our Center of Excellence Infrastructure through our skilled manpower and various technology and knowledge partners. All those government employees who wish to avail training programs are facilitated as per the Modules packages provided in the training annexures by their respective departments. Notwithstanding B.S.E.D.C Ltd. and CoE take the decision to launch new courses from time to time depending upon the requirement and market justification.The cost is borne under Government schemes which has provisions of capacity building.
Astric works as a technology cum training partner jointly with B.S.E.D.C Ltd., and has tie ups with various leading ICT, IT, Communication and knowledge partners like Hewlett Packard India Private Limited (HP), LiqVid eLearning technologies, Tally Solutions Private Limited, IMTAC ICT, Touchstone technologies Pvt. Ltd., CSM Technologies Pvt. Ltd., NComputing, Microsoft Corporation, Adobe India, SAS, Cradle Technologies Ltd., LG Electronics and many more all of which hold expertise in their respective domains to help and assist in the technology transformation and capacity building initiatives for overall development of our state Bihar.
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Astric offers various programs in field of Training & Capacity Building for students, people, government officials from all age groups. With help of government bodies like NIESBUD & NIELIT, we have been providing training courses on various subjects in IT - both Software and Hardware. With age group ranking above 18 years and 35 years. Let have a look what we have to offer:
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We are associated with National Institute of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD, Noida, UP) under Ministry of Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India and are conducting several IT related skill development programmes under its aegis. We conduct vocational training for the under privileged students above the age of 18 years who have not been able to secure a job, so as to either secure a job or become self employed. We also conduct training for students in the field of Computer Science and IT in summer and winter where in we partner with Hewlett Packard Education for training in specialised courses like Java both Core and Advanced, Robotics, Multimedia, Animation, Tally, Web Designing, Programming languages, Linux, Server Adminstration etc. We are an Authorized Training Centre for Centre for Development in Advanced Computing (CDAC) to conduct The Diploma in Advanced Software Development Methodologies (DASDM) course which is targeted towards students who wish to venture into the domain of computing. The DASDM course aims to groom the students to enable them to work on current technology scenarios as well as prepare them to keep pace with the changing face of technology and the requirements of the growing IT industry. After the completion of the course, students can work as developer/programmer/System Analyst in IT industry and associated service sectors.
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We are partners to National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT, New Delhi) under the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeITy), Government of India earlier known as DOAECC for conducting the CCAC (Course on Computer Application & Concepts). This Course is specially designed for Bihar State Govt. Employee and Group "C" Employee, Assistants employed as part of the State Government Secretariat. We are partners to the State Government of Bihar to conduct Training and Capacity Building for departments and run multiple courses for employees with BELTRON since 2010 one such initiative took off with Sainik Kalayan Nidheshalaya, under Department of Home – Govt. of Bihar which is to help in resettlement and re-employment of ex servicemen and their dependents. Job is not a problem today but the companies are in search of professional with honesty and Integrity. The huge pool of ex-servicemen in Bihar has a growing need and demand to fulfill their needs post retirement as they retire at their peek when their children or dependents are studying or of the age of getting married hence they require job to fulfil the ambitions for the family. Since they are not IT skilled our job is to train them as per the modules set by Government of Bihar and help them earn a livelihood once again, the state government also helps in recruitment for its internal needs.
Center of Excellence is our education and technology interface initiative which is a Public Private Partnership initiative with Government of Bihar (Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd.-BELTRON) for the training of semi/unskilled government staff belonging to different departments who would drive the state of Bihar to gain the number 1 spot in the coming years. It is having almost 12,000 square feet space in Khajpura on Baily Road in Patna with a network of additional training centers across all districts of Bihar to cater to the increasing capacity building and skill development.
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By design, Microfinance is not sustainable without the dedication of hundreds of thousands of Credit Officers (CO's) working for Microfinance Institutions (MFI's) around the world. The Kiva online person-to -person (P2P) lending platform only works because CO's employed by the 95 Kiva Field Partners in 44 countries are out visiting clients, taking pictures and writing business profiles for our website in addition to their regular loan disbursements and repayment collections. My job as a Kiva Fellow at AMK in Cambodia also relies heavily on the CO's who bring me out to the field so that I can interview Kiva entrepreneurs and create journal updates that get sent to Kiva Lenders around the world.
A few things to point out:
- Being a CO is extremely hard work. AMK CO's often drive their motorcycles 100+km a day through extremely hot weather to meet with clients. It is currently monsoon season in Cambodia but CO's work rain or shine.
- CO's can be responsible for managing 300+ clients (in some cases as many as 700 in areas that are dominated by village bank group loans) and these clients must be visited on a monthly basis in order for repayments to be collected
- Co's are highly visible and typically well respected figures in the villages they represent. When I ask entrepreneurs what type of work they hope their children will pursue when they are older, I frequently get an answer along the lines of "I want them to work at a bank like AMK."
- Microfinance is a cash business and the CO's are responsible for transporting and accounting for large quantities of currency. Unfortunately this carries with it the risk of being robbed and conversely a potential temptation to commit fraud.
So how does one become a CO? While I was out in the field visiting Kiva entrepreneurs in Kandal Province a few weeks ago I came across a group of AMK CO's in training as they were observing loan disbursements and repayments. I was able to talk to the training instructor and ask a few of the trainees about the process.
- In order to apply for CO openings at any AMK branch, the candidate must first sit for an exam which tests quantitative abilities such as interest calculation and agriculture specific conversion formulas (most frequently to hectors).
- If the candidate passes the exam, they apply for a position in a training class. CO training lasts 10 days and while the majority of it takes place in a classroom, trainees spend 2 days doing field observations.
- Upon graduating from the course, the new CO's will shadow a seasoned CO out in the field for several weeks. A new CO must then build up their own portfolio of clients by visiting villages that AMK does not currently have a presence in.
- The new CO first builds a relationship with the village or commune leader who will give the CO permission to work in their village and help spread the word to the community.
- The CO will then host an information session to explain how to get a loan and what the requirements are, and then they will return to village a week or two later to collect loan applications from the villagers.
- Yet another village visit must take place for the actual loan disbursement to be made. It is sink or swim for many new CO's in their first few months on the job.
- Some CO's are fortunate to be able to take over the existing portfolio of clients from a CO who quits or is promoted to Area Manager.
Despite knowing all of this, I gained an even greater appreciation for CO's last week while attempting to visit Kiva entrepreneurs in Kandal Province. AMK Kiva Coordinator extraordinaire, Sopanith Hay, and I decided that it might be more efficient to try and find some entrepreneurs on our own rather than tagging along with an AMK CO who was collecting repayments from non-Kiva AMK borrowers in the same area. Not the brightest idea we have ever had…'
And that is 5 minutes of footage boiled down from our 3 hour mis-adventure. A slightly humorous (I hope) reminder that the implementation of the "developed world's" idea of microfinance really rests in the hands of the citizens of the villages, provinces, towns, and cities where microcredit is extended. I am just giving credit where credit is due (pun intended). Cheers to the CO's!
Katie Davis has been working as a Kiva Fellow (KF7) at AMK in Cambodia for the past 4 months. Katie is wrapping up her role as a fellow and is staying on with AMK on an interim basis to help start an exciting new unit within the bank focused on serving vulnerable groups./>


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i think that our 15 new very expensive CH-47F's Had better be very well escorted because inside thoes helicopters are our kids. I say that if we didn't get rid of the GST, just froze it and chaneled it into northern development and military spending we could afford what we needed. Attack helicopters are essential, I'd rather not have to keep saying to other countries 'CAN WE BORROW, DO YOU HAVE, WE CAN'T AFFORD' the basics. When it comes down to it if country A needs the capability that is theres and we need the same and dont have it we wait, Is that worth a life to save face in Ottawa?
(ground attack by aircraft coming in the weeds has been largely replaced by high altitude bombing using smart weapons, for example)
The government putting out a RFP and tenders for any sort of attack helicopter will certainly cause Stephen Staples and his fellow travelers to go into collective shock, so maybe there is something to that suggestion after all ...
T, pun intended? If so,
Air Weapons: The Missile That Sells HelicoptersDecember 15, 2017: In early November South Korea held a live fire exercise off the west coast featuring its newly organized force of AH-64E helicopter gunships. Eight AH-64Es flew sixty kilometers to the coast and then each of them fired at an offshore target using a Hellfire guided missile. This exercise was more for North Korea than anyone else because the 36 South Korea AH-64s began arriving in mid-2016 and were all in service by January 2017. What makes the AH-64 so effective is that it is combat proven, reliable and carries sixteen Hellfire missiles. Each one can be used to destroy individual vehicles (including tanks) or ships (especially the small, fast ones North Korea depends on).The current Hellfire II weighs 48 kg (106 pounds), carries a 9 kg (20 pound) warhead, and has a range of 8,000 meters. The Hellfire is fast, travelling at about 450 meters a second, meaning that it can hit a target at maximum range in less than 20 seconds. Hellfire is popular for use in urban areas because the small warhead (with only about a kilogram/2.2 pounds of explosives) reduces casualties among nearby civilian ("collateral damage"). Hellfire was introduced in early 1980, shortly before the AH-64 entered service. Both systems were successful and remain in high demand worldwide.South Korea ordered the AH-64E in 2013 and they arrived a year ahead of schedule because of the growing threat from North Korea. The South Korean AH-64Es are equipped with the new TADS/PNVS ("Arrowhead") all-weather targeting systems. This cost an extra $6.8 million per helicopter but was considered worth it because South Korean Army aviators had seen Arrowhead in action on U.S. 48 AH-64Es stationed in South Korea and urged adoption of the system because they could see how effective it was along the DMZ, which is hilly and often covered in low clouds or mist. Moreover the Arrowhead system had proved itself during combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. Army began installing Arrowhead in its AH-64s in 2005 after two years of development and testing. Arrowhead uses the latest night vision devices (light enhancement and thermal, or heat, based) and fire control electronics to enable AH-64 crews to operate more safely, and effectively, at lower altitudes and in any weather. This is particularly critical in urban areas, where South Korea expects a lot of combat to take place if the North Koreans manage to get across the border (DMZ).Work on Arrowhead got a boost after the Iraq invasion in 2003, which was followed by a growing amount of urban fighting. This created the need for an AH-64 that could hover at 800 meters (2,500 feet) altitude (safe from most small arms fire) and use its high resolution sensors to see who was doing what for out to eight kilometers (five miles) away. Arrowhead could do that, and now most American AH-64s have Arrowhead and many transport helicopters as well (to make night flying safer). Whatever an AH-64 can see (or detect via Arrowhead) it can hit with a Hellfire missile.Arrowhead was a major shift from the previous Longbow fire control system developed in the 1990s. Longbow was designed for the original AH-64 mission: flying at higher altitudes and looking for and destroying distant enemy armored vehicles. The Longbow allowed the AH-64 to go after armored vehicles at night and in bad weather. In the past, potential American enemies practiced moving their armor at night and bad weather, to avoid helicopters armed with long range missiles (like Hellfire or TOW). Longbow was doubly lethal because it was designed to avoid giving away its position when using its radar. AH-64s also had electronic countermeasures. Arrowhead, on the other hand, made night and bad weather deadly for enemy troops thinking they could sneak through urban areas unobserved. Longbow could not spot these guys, but Arrowhead could and did. South Korea had plenty of evidence that North Korean troops trained to use tactics that Arrowhead proved it could handle. The latest AH-64E exercise using Hellfire missiles made it clear that South Korea was now ready to handle North Korean gunboats and high speed hovercraft North Korea had stationed on the west coast for landing commandos.Both American and South Korean forces are using the latest version of the AH-64. This model was originally designated the AH-64D Block III. But the changes proved to be so extensive that the name was changed to AH-64E. The E version had its first flight in 2008 entered service in 2011. The U.S. Army decided to upgrade all 634 of its AH-64s to the new E standard, a process that won't be completed until 2020.The E version had a lot of improvements. One of the notable ones is a more powerful and fuel efficient engine, as well as much improved electronics. This includes Internet like capabilities with other aircraft and ground troops. The E version is able to control several UAVs and launch missiles at targets spotted by its UAVs. The E version radar has longer range and onboard computers are much more powerful. The electronics are easier to upgrade and maintain. The combination of Longbow, Arrowhead, and Internet capabilities greatly increased the capabilities of the AH-64. That and all the combat experience it gained after 2001 made it the most popular helicopter gunship design and nations that could afford to (and were on good terms with the U.S.) ordered the AH-64 or the Arrowhead upgrades.The 10 ton AH-64E carries a pilot and a weapons officer, as well as about a ton of weapons. The AH-64 can operate at night and has a top speed of 260 kilometers an hour. Sorties average 90 minutes but can be extended to three hours or more by replacing weapons with fuel tanks. Most of the existing 1,100 AH-64s (American and foreign) will eventually be upgraded to the E standard. AH-64Es can fly several sorties a day, for at least a few days. This is the kind of weapon North Korea fears most and the South Koreans are trying to keep their new AH-64s safe from North Korea artillery or commando attack on the first day of any war.
You are absolutely right...dreaming still is free FYI:50 New AH64E Apache cost US$ 2.3 Billion (US$ 56 Million a piece). Re manufacture to AH64E will cost US$ 12.9 Million a piece (US$ 488 Million per 38 Apaches). BATUS for UK is priceless...hope a GoC representative notice this asymetry.https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-to-remanufacture-38-apaches-for-uk-437205/
Get some used A-10's instead.
Second: Whatever else is needed to support the infantry and armoured fight
Apache is a formidable infantry support asset (Do not forget during the first Gulf war a complete Iraqi Battalion surrender to a couple of Apaches. Source: Desert Storm Land Power Osprey Coalition Iraqi Armies Gulf War by Tim Ripley and they were design to combat Varsovia Pact armored tanks in Eastern Europe. Agreed with MLRS, btw...anyone knows what is the status of that purchasing process?
Imagine one of this...with the Red Maple on itQuote from: Loachman on April 16, 2018, 13:58:56We haven't painted red maple leaves on green helicopters for more than three decades.
We haven't painted red maple leaves on green helicopters for more than three decades.
Lets start a petition. Who is joining? Basically Buy Apaches Helicopter...who is with me? https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Search?category=All&text=apache
You are serious? You come to Army.ca and ask serving military personnel to sign a petition to buy attack helicopters for the CF?You are delusional.


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A former president of Apple's products division has added fuel to speculation that the Cupertino company is working on a TV set, writing that such a development has "got to happen."
"Imagine a true plug-and-play experience," writes Jean-Louis Gassée, now a partner with venture capital firm Allegis Capital, in his Monday Note blog. "One set with only two wires: power and the cable TV coax. Turn it on, assert your Apple ID credentials and you're in business. The program guide looks good and is easy to navigate; pay channels are just a click and a password away. The TV runs apps, from games to FaceTime and Skype, it 'just works' with your other iDevices and also acts as a WiFi base station using the cable provider's Internet service."
"The idea is exciting and so obvious it's got to happen," he adds.
Rumours of an Apple TV began to crop up last year, but they recently garnered new life when a noted Apple analyst, Gene Munster, of Piper Jaffray, said, based on information from component manufacturers, that such a device was in the works. In addition, the company has reportedly made a mystery expenditure of $3.9 billion on supply contracts for "component parts." Such an amount would be more than enough for Apple to obtain the LCD technology it needs for a TV, according to Munster.
Jean-Louis GasseeAs exciting as an Apple television may be to some, even Gassée sees some formidable challenges to the idea that must be surmounted before the product is brought to market.
For one, it's assumed that such a device would use a CableCard. CableCards plug into the back of a TV set and perform the functions of a set-top box. The devices have never gained much traction in the market. Critics say it's because cable TV companies are incompetent when it comes to new technologies, but Gassée maintains there may be another reason for slow adoption.
"Carriers looked at the CableCard and saw complicated field service calls in their future," he writes. "A separate, outboard set-top box is easy to diagnose and fix; a card inside the TV set, not so much."
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Another problem with the kind of smart TV that Apple would presumably produce is that it is aimed at a "dumb" system. Cable TV systems—especially large systems—are a patchwork of acquisitions. Because TVs are relatively dumb as devices go, incompatibilities within the systems have never posed much of problem to cable providers. Such incompatibilities could restrict the market for an Apple TV to a limited number of cable providers. Or worse, "make the product more complicated and prone to more bugs—and more field tech visits," Gassée writes.
Then there's Moore's Law. In computer circles, users are accustomed to frequently buying new products because of rapid technological improvements. Television owners, on the other hand, don't have that mindset. "Once a family shells out for a nice 1080p set, it's difficult to sell them the new improved model next year," the former Apple exec writes.
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One of the reasons that Apple's set-top offering has received a tepid market reception is that it's technologically challenging to many couch potatoes. An Apple TV could remove that complexity and provide the missing link between the computer and the living room that's been so elusive for high-tech companies. If that were the case, the Apple TV, by achieving what seemed to some an "impossible dream," would be a fitting crowning achievement to the legacy for Apple's ailing founder Steve Jobs.


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Korea Fair Trade Commission Raids Google. Again.
Google is in hot water in South Korea again.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) raided Google's offices in Seoul on Monday, people familiar with the matter say. This is the second time the agency has busted in on Google's South Korean headquarters, and appears to be a response to the search behemoth's resistance to the KFTC's Android-related antitrust investigation. Sources say the agency believes Google impeded its probe by deleting documents and asking employees to telecommute while it was occurring.
The KFTC's last raid of Google's South Korean headquarters was a search for materials supporting complaints that the company is allegedly limiting access to local search engines on Android smartphones. Sources say that was the purpose of this one as well. In the past, Google has claimed it is cooperating with the KFTC, and denied accusations that it meddled with the investigation.
Google declined comment on the details of the investigation, but stressed that it will "continue cooperating with this and other government inquiries."