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Soundgarden is one of those bands that has been unfortunately pigeonholed by their era and their scene. They emerged in the late '80s as a promising new metal band before they got scooped up in the grunge movement following Nirvana's big break in 1991. No matter what, though, they were always the we ... More >>
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Kids of the '80s have to face the fact that it's time to put that "Beat It" jacket in cold storage, because the '90s are officially all the nostalgia rage. While the editor of this blog was vacationing last week, he happened to take in a screening of the very funny The World's End, whose plot pivots ... More >>
Well, folks, it appears we're getting a Superman/Batman movie whether we like it or not. Comics fanboy and Frank Miller obsessive Zack Snyder broke the news a couple weeks back at San Diego Comic-Con that his big-budget sequel to Man of Steel will find a way to shoehorn in the Dark Knight. A much mo ... More >>
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Soundgarden Bayou Music Center May 24, 2013 See more of Soundgarden and their long-suffering local fans in our slideshow. Grunge sounded old even when it was new. This misbegotten mutation of metal and alt-rock tapped into such primordial angst and soul-suffering it seemed world-weary even as band ... More >>
The Black Angels Fitzgerald's, May 24 Austin's Black Angels, with a band name pulled straight from the Velvet Underground's catalog, and a high-contrast image of Nico splayed across their logo, are unapologetic in their admiration of the prophetic NYC rock band. The Angels, though, have carved out ... More >>
In about 12 hours or so, the editor of Rocks Off expects to be a very happy man. One of our favorite bands of all time, and one that we haven't seen live in almost 17 years, is playing tonight at Bayou Music Center: Soundgarden. Certainly Soundgarden has a lot to recommend them. Guitarist Kim Thayi ... More >>
NOt long ago, we finally saw the release of the long-awaited album from Radiohead/Red Hot Chili Peppers supergroup Atoms for Peace and it got me thinking: supergroups are a tough trick to pull off. We all fantasize about our favorite musicians playing together, but when it actually comes to fruition ... More >>
In Part 2 of Rocks Off's interview with the King's X leader, DUg Pinnicktalks about possibly creating grunge, using Drop D tuning, and his new album, entitled Naked. Many Houstonians discovered King's X through their singles getting airplay on Rock 101.1 KLOL. They had a great track record of play ... More >>
Red Hot Chili Peppers Toyota Center October 20, 2012 The Red Hot Chili Peppers have stuck around long enough -- through drugs, overdoses, creative strife and changing musical tides -- to have 30 years of hits they can knock out into the nosebleeds at any given live show. Saturday night's Toyota C ... More >>
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So you are disgusted, angry, and outright righteously pissed that your beloved 103.7 is gone with the wind, replaced by 24 hours of Christian music. Gone are your usual playlists full of Wilco, Soundgarden, Sheryl Crow and Death Cab For Cutie, not to mention your favorite DJs and personalities. Th ... More >>
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Time was in the '90s that every big summer action movie came prepackaged with a great hard-rock soundtrack. As the industry went through growing pains it died off a bit, reducing a soundtrack to maybe one or two free downloads from a middling band close to the project. The heady days of hard-rock d ... More >>
This week in 1980, Van Halen released their third album Women And Children First, which contained the hits "And the Cradle Will Rock...," "Everybody Wants Some!! and fan favorite "Romeo Delight." It's not the best VH album ever, but it was, in fact, their third album. Most VH super-freaks I know an ... More >>
When I was nine years old, I was taping Nirvana and Soundgarden songs off the radio from a tiny boombox and learning to pee at a urinal without pulling my pants down to my ankles, but DJ BabyChino is gigging around the world. I caught him on Friday night close to midnight on Sixth Street at Status, ... More >>
The '80s and '90s will never die as long as young artists continue to keep their influencers alive in song. When news broke earlier this week that D'Angelo of all people have decided to cover Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", it marked one of the few times that R&B, a genre which now sadly revolves ar ... More >>
The summer festival season is winding down, but even as that stops, the fall festival season begins. The weather will be getting nicer, and it will actually be pleasant to be outside, so we're looking forward to it, especially with Austin City Limits, our own BestFest and Fun Fun Fun Fest all ... More >>
Today is Chris Cornell's birthday, and the Soundgarden lead singer only seems to be getting younger, even at 47 years old. Seriously, last two times we have seen him, his voice keeps regressing back to the early Soundgarden days and he seems to be getting more spry. He lives in France with hi ... More >>
"Move back in with your parents! Let them worry about you!"There will be no guitars and Marshall stacks at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion this weekend, just "Pomp and Circumstance." As the Class of 2011 walks across the stage soon to be occupied by Peter Gabriel, Widespread Panic and Ki ... More >>
The '90s' sweatiest band, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, cleans out the vaults and gets back on the road.
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Tomorrow night, former Audioslave lead singer and (thankfully) current Soundgarden member Chris Cornell will be at House of Blues for a long-sold-out acoustic show. Recent set lists have included a number of Temple of the Dog songs, some solo work, the usual 'Garden and 'Slave tracks, plus a ... More >>
Not a bad album cover. Not even close.These are some of the worst album covers to grace store shelves your hard drive this year. Only a few of you seem to be buying albums anymore unless you still buy vinyl, in which case you are a saint and a scholar. You know what is a good album cover? K ... More >>
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The line-up for the 2010 Austin City Limits Music Festival went live at the fest's website at midnight this morning while the rest of the world was snoozing. Luckily we are up and stirring to bring it to you. No Pavement and no Soundgarden, but we do have the Strokes down. More commentary coming in ... More >>
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Friday, September 9, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 281-363-3300.
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At Yakima Adventist Christian School (YACS), our misssion is to enable our students to develop a vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ.
We encourage an environment where students feel safe to grow spiritually, academically, emotionally, socially, and physically in order to be equipped with the skills for life and eternity.
Established in 1903, YACS has gone from a one-room country school house to a modern high-tech facility, preparing students for the 21st century.
Yet one thing has not changed, God is the center of this school.
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->''"I could not enjoy myself better anywhere-I can lay on my back, look up at the stars and it seems almost as though I can see the angels praising God, for he has made all things for good."''
-->'''Johnny Appleseed'''
Johnny Appleseed is an American legend. Wearing a pan on his head, he traveled across the northern fledgling United States, planting apple trees left, right, and center for the American people to enjoy. Taking no money for himself, he did it entirely out of the kindness of his heart. He dedicated his life to wandering about the land, continuing this work for the benefit of all.
Or so the tales go.
In reality, Appleseed (born John Chapman), was a shrewd businessman and Swedenborgian missionary, who traveled across what is now Ohio and Indiana. He specifically left apple tree nurseries in the care of other farmers, and later returned to collect the profits of the tree sales. As he was frequently willing to accept barter goods or credit instead of money, he was never very monetarily wealthy; most of his wealth was in the frontier land that he had claimed as his own. And he owned ''a lot''. His will left over 1200 acres of land to his sister, and had he pursued the legal rights, he could have owned even more.
His generosity and kindness were hallmarks of his character. He was known, when he received barter goods such as clothes as payment, for keeping the worst of them for himself and selling or trading away the better quality ones. He frequently entertained children with various stories he heard, and regularly promoted his own religion, often leaving pages from his Bible behind.
The majority of the apple trees he planted, incidentally, were of the crab-apple variety, mostly used in the production of hard apple cider. Hence a large part of his popularity during his lifetime came from the fact that he helped bring alcoholic drinks to the frontier, rather than the apple trees themselves, or their fruit.
As a HistoricalDomainCharacter, he shows up quite often in folklore, and in some other forms of fiction as well. Most fictional accounts of the man have a tendency to [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney-fy]] him, emphasizing his personal poverty and generosity, and downplaying his religious views and mercantile accomplishments.
Either way, his influence is felt to this day, as many tales and stories indicate. Oh, and a type of apple is named after him.
!!Tropes associated with Johnny Appleseed:
* FillItWithFlowers: Trees variant.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: To the point of supposedly putting out his own campfires to avoid harming mosquitoes.
* TheMissionary: He was one, of a smaller Christian sect known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Church Swedenborgianism]].
* ProBonoBarter: In some of the stories. In reality, barter was more common, so this trope doesn't really apply there.
* SelfMadeMan: One of the earlier examples in American history.
* TallTale: Despite being a historical person, his life has been so embellished that it became the subject of Tall Tales.
* WalkingTheEarth: A RealLife case of this. While he was hardly the only one doing so at the time, he was certainly the best known.
!!Works in which Johnny Appleseed appears:
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* Many Apple corporation ads use him as a slogan character, for obvious reasons.
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* One of the shorts of ''MelodyTime'' is dedicated to retelling his story.
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* The StonerFlick parody ''Johnny Appleweed''; the main character is inspired by Mr. Appleseed to spread pot plants across the US.
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* {{Neil Gaiman}}'s ''Literature/AmericanGods'' has him making an appearance.
* In ''Literature/{{Incompetence}}'', references to Johnny turn up at Klingferm's apartment when Harry snoops around after Klingferm's death. It's a clue as to the motives of the BigBad, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Klingferm after faking his death in order to draw Harry as part of his mission from the U.S. government to subvert European interests]].
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* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Liz wanted to do a Johnny Appleseed sketch on TGS, but Appleseed's descendants wouldn't let them use the name. They had to settle for Johnny Bananaseed, until it turned out to be the name of a serial killer.
* Johnny Appleseed {played by singer Roger Miller) appeared in an episode of the series DanielBoone, in which he averted an Indian war.
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* "Johnny Appleseed", by Music/{{NOFX}}.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}} Legends'' has a parody named "Johnny Zucchiniseed", the description starts with "stop him, stop him now."
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* While he never shows up directly, in ''VideoGame/WildArms5'' his name is one of only two things [[MysteriousWaif Avril]] remembers, and thus is central to the plot.
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* In one of ''TheSimpsons'' anthology episodes, Lisa took the role of a DistaffCounterpart of Appleseed.
** Parodied in another episode where Lisa's class go on an excursion to the local paper, The Springfield Shopper. They learn the story of founder Johnny Newspaperseed, an illiterate 14-year-old boy who wandered the nation founding newspapers.
* ''GarfieldAndFriends'' parodied him, with Jon playing the role of Johnny Ragweedseed while Garfield played his faithful cat, Roosevelt. Every town formed an angry mob and chased them out whenever they planted ragweed, because as we all know, [[CaptainObvious ragweed makes people sneeze]].


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One of the places where In a Better World is especially successful is comparing and contrasting the moral worlds of children and adults, showing how difficult but essential it is for each group to learn from the other.
Anton has a sad, gentle detachment that allows him to turn the other cheek literally through a series of slaps.
A most deserving Oscar winner and a film that could provoke discussion anywhere it is shown, anywhere people of any age are being bullied.
The acting is superb across the board, and the film moves dreamily yet with razor-sharp precision, building to a sequence of deeply felt climaxes.
A fine example of Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's (Brothers) talent for weaving together accessible domestic melodrama and issues of ethical awareness of the world beyond our doorstep.
Mar 28, 2011However didactic the film's final scenes, there's no denying the sheer dramatic intensity Bier achieves.
There are no answers in her film, no intractable rights and wrongs. No characters are indicted for their mistakes or misjudgments, yet no one gets off scot-free either.
Although it starts slowly, the accumulated tension and thematic resonance leaves us breathless.
Give director Susanne Bier full marks: Her encasing parable is brand new and immediately provocative.
This meditation on violence explores the toxic knock-on effect of powerlessness and overcompensation, delivering a potent essay on the roots of society's most primal evils.
The film about violence and retribution is a tough piece of work, subtle in some ways, obvious in others, viscerally affecting throughout.
Director Susanne Bier's chilly morality play is slow to get started, but once established, its three parallel stories comment provocatively on one another.
Above all, what makes the movie work -- what renders it not merely exhausting but fulfilling -- are the boys. Bier summons fine performances all around, but Nielsen, in particular, turns the role of christian into a drama all its own. [4 April, 2011, p. 82]
Bier has done far more compelling work before, but the globe-spanning, life-affirming, morally upright trajectory of her latest accomplishment weakens its quality while sustaining its popularity. In a Better World is heavy, but it's also heavy-handed.
Bier appears to have a delicate touch with actors: In a Better World is loaded - perhaps overloaded - with nuance, and her performers never overdo a thing.
After a few queasy moments at its midpoint, the trajectory of In a Better World becomes so relentlessly platitudinous that an audience that ought to feel seriously rattled will be settling back, feeling comfortably reassured.
There are two strong stories here, in Africa and Denmark. Either could have made a film. Intercut in this way, they seem too much like self-conscious parables.
I hate to rap this serious-minded filmmaker, but I'm beginning to wonder whether her scripts aren't better realized when they're held in check.
Everything about In a Better World feels just a little too easy: a better movie might have let in more of the messiness of the world as it is. This one falls into cheap manipulation, winding up the audience with foreboding music and the spectacle of blond children in peril.
Slick moralizing grows exponentially as the plot, wrapped in travelogue photography, transparently expository dialogue, and cheap thrills, drives home spurious parallels between the first and third worlds.
Bier dramatizes our ambivalence so earnestly that it's tempting to give her awards rather than admit that the movie is a crushing bore.
It is not the redemptive uplift that I am objecting to here. It's the way that Bier manipulates us in order to send us aloft. She wants the world to be a better place. Fine. But what she has concocted here is an arty version of the same old Hollywood dumb-down dramaturgy. It just has a higher gloss.
While Bier doesn't offer easy partisan answers, she still dilutes a social issue down to the level of soap-operatic background noise and back-patting platitudes. It-and we-deserve better.
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May 1, 2011One of the recurring themes on this season's "Glee" has been bullying. In this Oscar winner (Best Foreign Film), the Danes tackle the subjectâ
Jun 29, 2014As a film concerned only with it's subjects this work succeeds - an artful, touching account of violence, consequences and mulling-over of the philosophy therein.
However, I feel as a social commentary, or the 'critique of masculinity' that the blurb expouses, it fails. It deals too much with the polar extremes of violence and passivity, and not enough with the bold-faced positives of masculinity such as creating positive firm boundaries, and being able to defend oneself without succumbing entirely to anger and aggression.
The social chord seems to be saying that 'either you fight back and become an aggressor yourself, or you are passive, or you are a woman and you suffer the effects of masculinity'. Nothing could be more 2-dimensional or further from the truth. And in a world where woman are, by and large, attracted to dominant, powerful men who do not overtly display emotion, and where men are compelled from birth to meet that expectation as best they can and suppress their emotions, it comes across as compelling, but unfair.… Full Review »
Jun 8, 2014"In A Better World" is a rich melodrama, richer than any melodrama in recent memory. It brings modern human themes into the deep, such as family, marriage, parental, friendship, death, morality and professionalism. This film successfully mixing, comparing and contrasting two different world between adult and children and two strong stories in Africa and Denmark.… Full Review »


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Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Cornelia "Nina" T.L. Pillard to the influential Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pillard is one of President Obama's three nominees to fill vacancies on the court, which is currently operating with nearly one-third of its seats empty.
Pillard is a fair-minded, nationally recognized law professor and experienced appellate lawyer with an extraordinary record of service. She has won historic Supreme Court victories: she opened one of the last male-only public colleges to women, and protected the Family and Medical Leave Act. She has served two tours as a high-level government lawyer and is currently a distinguished and beloved professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Her expertise in appellate litigation led to her appointment as a co-director of Georgetown's Supreme Court Institute, which assists lawyers from around the country in preparing for Supreme Court arguments, without regard to which side they represent. Her record demonstrates her superb character, judgment, and fundamental commitment to upholding the principles of our Constitution and laws.
Right-wing bloggers are already making nasty and untrue attacks on Professor Pillard, but here are the facts:
The National Review Online cited unnamed sources in a blog calling Professor Pillard a "complete ideologue." In reality, Professor Pillard is a fair-minded, highly accomplished litigator with broad experience and an outstanding reputation for public service. She has litigated major constitutional cases brought or defended by Republican Administrations, and Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents have often written the majority opinions agreeing with Professor Pillard's legal arguments. And prominent officials in Republican-appointed officials are supporting her nomination.
FACT: Because of Pillard's unbiased approach to the law, which has earned her the respect of her colleagues, she was asked to chair an American Bar Association Reading Committee that evaluated Judge Samuel Alito's qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court. Her committee's evaluation led to the ABA rating Alito "well qualified."
FACT: Pillard serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, the world's largest alternative dispute resolution provider.
FACT: Pillard has a long track record of fair and unbiased work, including litigating major constitutional cases brought or defended by Republican Administrations. And Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents have often written the majority opinions agreeing with her legal arguments.
FACT: President George W. Bush's Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh signed a letter of support for Professor Pillard citing her unbiased approach to the law.
The Family Research Council has attacked Professor Pillard, claiming she has radical liberal ideas on abortion, motherhood and abstinence only education.
The FRC wrongly attributed a quote to Professor Pillard which was actually a quote belonging to former Chief Justice Rehnquist.
The Family Research Council wrongly accuses Professor Pillard of broadly claiming that abstinence only education is unconstitutional, saying, "Pillard is so fiercely opposed to abstinence education that she has said publicly she would declare it unconstitutional."
The FRC claimed that Professor Pillard has 'extreme pro-abortion' views when in fact Professor Pillard's academic writing on abortion seeks ways to bridge the gap between abortion rights advocates and opponents by finding common ground for ways to reduce reliance on abortion.
On ABC News' "This Week" yesterday, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah claimed that he takes the "principled position" of voting against filibusters of judicial nominees:
And matter of fact, I continue to vote against filibusters with regard to judicial nominations because I think it's a principled position. I actually think the president, whoever the president may be ought to have the full choice of who they put on the bench.
And unless there's just some overwhelming reason why somebody should never be on the bench.
But on many pivotal votes to break GOP filibusters of President Obama's federal judicial nominees, Sen. Hatch hasn't voted "against" the filibuster. Instead, he's made a habit of voting "present" or not voting at all. Because a motion to break a filibuster requires 60 affirmative "yes" votes to succeed, not voting or voting "present" in effect supports the continuation of the filibuster.
Hatch voted "present" on efforts to break Republican filibusters of Obama judicial nominees Caitlin Halligan, Goodwin Liu, Jack McConnell and Robert Bacharach. He did not vote at all in cloture votes on nominee Andrew Hurwitz and in the second cloture vote on Halligan.
These votes allow Hatch to say he didn't support a filibuster, while in fact voting to do just that. And he certainly didn't take a "principled position" to vote "against" his Republican colleagues' obstruction.
The Senate Judiciary Committee today held a hearing for the first of President Obama's three recent nominees to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, attorney Patricia Ann Millett. Republican committee members, having no actual objections to Millett's qualifications, used the opportunity to grandstand about what they see as the enormous injustice of a Democratic president nominating people to open seats on the federal judiciary.
Chief among the grandstanders, of course, was Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who spent most of his time telling Millett that Republican opposition to her nomination has nothing to do with her and has everything to do with President Obama's supposed effort to "pack" the DC Circuit.
Very little of what he said had any basis in reality. He started out by claiming that the DC Circuit is currently "evenly divided" between Democratic and Republican nominees and that President Obama and Democrats are now trying to "pack the court" with Obama's nominees:
Right now, the DC Circuit is evenly divided among active judges, with four Republicans and four Democrats. And you find yourself one of three nominees from the president. The president and senior Democrats on this committee have made clear that they want to pick a fight on the DC Circuit. They want to pick a fight on the DC Circuit, and unfortunately I believe part of this pressure, part of the effort of stopping qualified Republican nominees and then deciding to pick a fight now, is a desire to pack the court.
While it's true that there are currently four Democratic nominees and four Republican nominees in active service on the court, Cruz obscures the fact that the court has an active backbench of six senior judges – five of whom are Republican nominees:
This imbalance exists because Republican presidents have nominated the bulk of DC Circuit judges in the past three decades -- 15 of the last 19 confirmed to the DC Circuit were nominated by Republicans. Far from "packing" the court, President Obama has had fewer judges confirmed to the DC Circuit than any of his four most recent predecessors.
Cruz continued, insisting that President Obama is trying to "pack" the court because it is "holding this administration accountable, and in particular, holding rule-making accountable that has been contrary to federal law":
The DC Circuit has been a court that has been holding this administration accountable, and in particular, holding rule-making accountable that has been contrary to federal law. And I believe that there is an activist base that is pressuring the president, that has been pressuring senior Senate Democrats to get judicial nominees on the DC Circuit to protect the regulations coming from this administration. And I think any effort to pack the court because the administration doesn't like the outcomes of judges applying the law fairly should be decried.
What Cruz is referring to is the fact that the D.C. Circuit is currently dominated by right-wing Republican nominees, who have delved into far-right legal theory to strike down common-sense protections for workers, consumers and voters – you can read about some of their most appalling decisions here. President Obama is not trying to "pack" the court to get the decisions that he wants, as Cruz alleges. Instead, he is using his mandate from American voters to pick judges who will restore some ideological balance to one of the farthest-right courts in the country.
Finally, Cruz declares that his objections to Millett have nothing to do with her "very fine professional qualifications" and instead have to do with too much "partisan politics" in judicial confirmations – partisan politics which he seems to have very little interest in putting aside.
Because I think partisan politics has driven this committee's approach to the DC Circuit for over a decade. And I think that's unfortunate, I would rather see a situation where able judges are confirmed irrespective of that. But it is not consistent with our responsibility to let one party prevent qualified judges from going to the court, and at the same time to enable packing the court to reach preferred outcomes. So I thank you for being here, and I think it's regrettable, the overall context of this dispute, which as I said is irrespective of your very fine professional qualifications.
So, Cruz is refusing to support Millett, who he thinks is unquestionably qualified for the job, for purely political reasons… because he thinks the judicial nominations process has become too politicized.
In the wake of last week's Supreme Court rulings on critical civil rights issues, a new poll finds increasing support for marriage equality and falling support for the high court itself.
A national Princeton Survey Research Associates poll found that 55 percent of Americans think that marriages of same-sex couples should be legally recognized – the highest level of support ever. A similar percentage (53 percent) believe that affirmative action programs are needed, and more Americans oppose the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act (49 percent) than support it (40 percent). In other words, the American people are not on board with the Supreme Court turning back the clock on our civil rights.
So it is not surprising that Supreme Court approval ratings are falling. The Princeton poll found the lowest level of approval (43 percent) in eight years, with slightly more Americans disapproving of the way the court is doing its job (44 percent). Similarly, a Rasmussen poll released yesterday found that the percentage of likely voters who think the Supreme Court is doing a poor job is rising.
What is more surprising is that both polls show that a greater percentage of Americans still believe that the high court is "too liberal" than believe it is "too conservative." As PFAW President Michael Keegan pointed out in May, this is no accident:
"In recent decades, right-wing leaders have worked in popular culture to attack the courts as a liberal peril while successfully organizing to dominate and control legal institutions to create courts that no longer look out for the rights of all Americans. They have set up law schools and legal societies to promote corporate and right-wing commitments, have promoted the appointment of reactionary judges and Justices, blocked the appointment of even moderate jurists, and defined a legal agenda that subordinates individual rights to government power and public regulation to corporate power. Right-wing success in remaking the judiciary in the image of the Republican Party has not led conservatives to curb their bitter attack on 'liberal judicial activism,' a fantasy that is several decades out of date but indispensable to this smoke-and-mirrors operation."
While conservatives continue to crow about "liberal judicial activism," the American people are realizing that the Supreme Court's conservative rulings on issues like voting rights and the rights of workers and consumers do not reflect their beliefs or the nation's core constitutional values.
Following the approval of House Joint Memorial 6 by a 17-13 vote in the Oregon Senate today, Oregon became the 16th state to call for an amendment to the Constitution overturning the 2010 Citizens United decision and related cases.
The passage of HJM6, first introduced in January by Representative Brian Clem, is the result of a grassroots mobilization effort by the people of Oregon. In 2012 alone, 12 Oregon cities and counties passed local resolutions urging state and federal legislators to call for a constitutional amendment taking back our democracy from corporations and special interests. The mobilization at the state level was led by Oregonians for Restoring Constitutional Democracy, a coalition that gathered signatures and endorsements in support of HJM6.
The joint memorial urges Congress to propose a constitutional amendment "clarifying the distinction between the rights of natural persons and the rights of corporations" and recognizing "that Congress and state legislatures may regulate all moneys raised and spent for political purposes."
Rep. Jules Bailey, speaking to the Oregon House last week, urged his fellow representatives to support the measure, saying, "When we confuse the monolith with the individual, then a piece of our humanity dies. Let us ask Congress to undo this mistake." The measure passed the House by a vote of 48-11 on June 21st before being sent to the Senate.
With each additional state joining the movement to overturn Citizens United and related decisions, the will of the American people becomes clearer. We will not let our elections be bought and sold. We will not let corporate power subvert the will of the people.
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality apparently had to spend quite some time stewing over the Supreme Court's decision striking down the key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, finally coming out today with a press release slamming the decision. The high court's decision, LaBarbera writes, "continues America's godless trajectory toward sexual and gender chaos" and helps to make us "a Profane Nation at war with our own heritage."
He saves his special vitriol for Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the DOMA opinion, whom he predicts "will go down in history as one more craven elitist who sold out Almighty God for a place in the Gay Hall of Fame."
Yesterday's decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and effectively invalidating Californians' vote to preserve marriage as between a man and a woman — continues America's godless trajectory toward sexual and gender chaos. We have become a Profane Nation at war with our own heritage and the Judeo-Christian moral values that helped make us great.
Healthy societies discriminate against sexually immoral behavior: homosexuality, sex outside marriage, pornography, incest, etc. This benefits children and adults by using the law to reinforce stable moral boundaries and steer citizens away from destructive (sinful) behaviors. So it was stunning to read the majority decision by Justice Anthony Kennedy – a Reagan appointee – overturning DOMA's pro-natural-marriage provision in the name of the children.
Kennedy surely has earned his future laudatory obit in the New York Times for capitulating to "gay" activist ideology — but among clear-thinking Americans who still know right from wrong he will go down in history as one more craven elitist who sold out Almighty God for a place in the Gay Hall of Fame.
The Kennedy majority's legal insanity is what emerges from an Isaiah 5:20 culture (evil is good and good evil) that puts deviant sexual identities on a pedestal, to be celebrated as protected "civil rights." The LGBT Pandora's Box has been flung open, and there will be much more folly and destruction to follow — including the public policy madness of establishing "gender identity" (read: extreme gender confusion) as a parallel "civil right."
At least the Supreme Court did not create a national "right" to homosexual "marriage." But we must be vigilant, as future LGBT litigation, coupled with the appalling self-righteousness of Kennedy's liberal court majority, will combine to make this the next goal of the judicial supremacists.
LaBarbera also discussed the DOMA decision on VCY America's Crosstalk yesterday. He attacked President Obama's statement praising the Supreme Court's decision, calling it an example of "radical egalitarianism," and warned that marriage equality will now be "foisted" upon children which is "not good for their hearts and souls."
The other thing that strikes me, Jim, is the radical egalitarianism of that statement. You know, this idea of homosexual love, homosexual unions are equal to marital unions, it's not all equal. A marriage between a man and a woman produces children, it's the very foundation of human civilization. And the idea that two men or two women is somehow 'equal' to that is a liberal falsehood. And I'm worried that it's going to be foisted by necessity now upon children, especially in the states that have so-called homosexual marriage, they will be taught that same-sex so-called marriage is equal to the real thing, and that's not good for their hearts and souls.
It's been a week of mixed emotions for those of us who care about civil rights. There was the elation today when the Supreme Court overturned the so-called Defense of Marriage Act -- the discriminatory law that has hurt so many Americans in its nearly 17 years of existence -- and let marriage equality return to California. There was the anger when the Court twisted the law to make it harder for workers and consumers to take on big corporations. And there was the disbelief and outrage when the Court declared that a key part of the Voting Rights Act that was so important and had worked so well was now somehow no longer constitutional.
But throughout the week, I have been reminded of one thing: how grateful I am that Mitt Romney will not be picking the next Supreme Court justice.
It remains true that this Supreme Court is one of the most right-leaning in American history. The majority's head-in-the-sand decision on the Voting Rights Act -- declaring that the VRA isn't needed anymore because it's working so well -- was a stark reminder of why we need to elect presidents who will nominate Supreme Court justices who understand both the text and history of the Constitution and the way it affects real people's lives.
We were reminded of this again today when all the conservative justices except for Anthony Kennedy stood behind the clearly unconstitutional DOMA. Justice Antonin Scalia -- no stranger to anti-gay rhetoric -- wrote an apoplectic rant of a dissent denying the Court's clear role in preserving equal protection. If there had been one more far-right justice on the court, Scalia's dissent could have been the majority opinion.
Just think of how different this week would have been if Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were not on the court and if John McCain had picked two justices instead. We almost certainly wouldn't have a strong affirmation of LGBT equality. Efforts to strip people of color of their voting rights would likely have stood with fewer justices in dissent. And the rights of workers and consumers could be in even greater peril.
As the Republican party moves further and further to the right, it is trying to take the courts with it. This week, we saw what that means in practice. As we move forward to urge Congress to fix the Voting Rights Act and reinforce protections for workers and consumers, and work to make sure that marriage equality is recognized in all states, we must always remember the courts. Elections have real consequences. These Supreme Court decisions had less to do with evolving legal theory than with who appointed the justices. Whether historically good or disastrous, all these decisions were decided by just one vote. In 2016, let's not forget what happened this week.
The Supreme Court today ruled that the core section of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law. DOMA's Section 3, which the Court vacated, prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in the states, thereby hitting legally married gay and lesbian couples with extra taxes and depriving them of a slew of federal protections.
People For the American Way Foundation president Michael Keegan said of the Supreme Court's ruling: "Today's DOMA ruling is a profound step forward for loving, committed same-sex couples across the country. The decision is premised on the plain fact that there is no good reason for the government to recognize some legally married couples while discriminating against others."
PFAW launched a campaign to "Dump DOMA" in 2008. Since then, our petition calling on Congress to repeal the discriminatory law has gathered 230,000 signatures.
But the effort to overturn DOMA is not over. While Section 3 was the law's most damaging provision, DOMA's Section 2, which says that states don't have to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, still stands. We will continue to work to overturn the remainder of DOMA and ensure that all gay and lesbian Americans have the right to marriage, no matter which state they make their home.
While our work continues, today's decision represents a historic turning point for equality. DOMA will no longer tear apart binational couples. It will no longer impose a "gay tax" on legally married same-sex couples. It will no longer deny benefits to same-sex spouses of federal employees. It will no longer deny gay and lesbian veterans benefits for their spouses.
The story of Edith Windsor, the plaintiff who brought DOMA to the Supreme Court, and Thea Spyer, her late wife and partner of 40 years, illustrates what this decision will mean to so many Americans:
WASHINGTON – In response to the Supreme Court's decision today in Shelby County v. Holder, People For the American Way Foundation President Michael Keegan released the following statement:
"As the Supreme Court swerves further to the right, our constitutional liberties continue to take a beating. Today, the Supreme Court seriously undermined an important piece of the premier civil rights legislation of the past century – legislation that civil rights heroes gave their lives for. This decision sends a chilling message to all those Americans who continue to face politically-motivated hurdles on their way to the ballot box.
"In his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts pledged to behave like an umpire—just calling balls and strikes, and staying out of the game. Today that umpire upended decades of civil rights law. His decision substitutes his own opinions for the findings of America's elected representatives in Congress, who found numerous cases of ongoing, racially-based political gerrymandering and trickery. Moreover, it does so in an area in which the Constitution specifically and intentionally gives Congress wide discretion. Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act received near unanimous support in both houses of Congress just a few years ago, and was signed into law by President Bush. Today's decision is a blatantly inappropriate exercise in legislating from the bench. Conservatives who have spent decades decrying judicial activism should take note.
"In two separate cases yesterday, Justice Ginsburg called on Congress to fix the damage done by decisions handed down by our nation's highest court. That need is even greater today. Congress should move quickly to enact a coverage formula under Section 4 to protect voters whose right to participate in our democracy was badly undermined today. The American people deserve no less."
Today Senators Tom Udall [NM] and Jon Tester [MT] introduced amendment resolutions in the United States Senate that would overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC (2010). Leaders from state and national organizations applauded the efforts of these US Senators as well as other members of the 113th Congress who are responding to the will of the American people by introducing and co-sponsoring amendments to the US Constitution.
The group includes leaders from the 15 state across the country that have already passed resolutions or initiatives putting their states on record calling for an amendment to overturn Citizens United and related cases.
"We applaud the leadership of Senator Tom Udall and others in Congress who understand that we must now amend the US Constitution to undo the Supreme Court's disastrous decisions in Citizens United, in Buckley v. Valeo, and in related cases… For the sake of our democratic future, we must end corporate rule over our political process and enact meaningful election reform in America," said Mimi Stewart, New Mexico State Representative and lead sponsor of the NM amendment resolution.
"Last month, I was proud to co-sponsor S.J.R. 27, a resolution calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to get money out of politics and overturn the Citizens United ruling. The values expressed in that resolution, which passed with bipartisan support, are reflected in the amendments introduced by Senators Udall and Tester," said Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois House Majority Leader.
"In my district there has been overwhelming support for reversing the Citizens United ruling. Last November 74% of Kane County residents voted in favor of a public advisory to reverse the ruling. I'm proud to represent my constituents and their views in Springfield," said Karen McConnaughay, Illinois State Senator and lead co-sponsor of the IL amendment resolution.
"California's Legislature is on record as opposing the Supreme Court's misguided Citizens United ruling and I strongly support attempts by Congress to protect the integrity of our legislative and electoral processes. Congress must act to tip the scales away from the powerful corporate interests and back to the people," said Bob Wieckowski, California Assemblymember and lead sponsor of the CA amendment resolution.
"The state of Montana has spoken loud and clear on the need for such an amendment, and the time has come for the rest of Montana's congressional delegation to listen to our voices and go on record in support," said C.B. Pearson, Stand with Montanans Treasurer.
"The U.S. Constitution belongs to the American people, and in our history we have many times had to amend it to respond to the antics of a conservative Supreme Court playing politics with our most precious document … I am urging the Maryland congressional delegation to join the campaign to reverse the Roberts Court and restore basic democratic and popular meanings to the Constitution," said Jamie Raskin, Maryland State Senator, Majority Whip.
"It is great that more members of Congress are waking up and moving the issue forward. We applaud those in Congress who understand the need for a constitutional change to undo the Court's grave mistake," said Anthony Pollina, Vermont State Senator and lead sponsor of the VT amendment resolution.
"When it comes down to democracy or big, corporate money, Vermonters definitely vote for democracy. Vermonters at 64 town meetings called for an amendment and the Vermont Legislature passed a resolution calling on the Court to reverse the decision last year," said Vermont State Senator and lead sponsor of the VT amendment resolution Virginia "Ginny" Lyons.
"We must now amend the U.S. Constitution to undo disastrous Supreme Court's decisions that have allowed money to swamp our elections and diminish the voices of everyday people… we must enact meaningful federal election reform that places voters, not wealthy campaign donors and special interests, first in our government," said Andrew Bossie, Executive Director of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections.
"Americans' voices are being drowned out by huge corporations and wealthy special interests. We are heartened that these senators understand the need for a constitutional amendment to take our democracy out of the hands of corporations and wealthy special interests put it back into the hands of everyday people, where it belongs," said Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program of People For the American Way.
"We applaud Senators Jon Tester and Tom Udall for their outstanding leadership in introducing today their constitutional amendment bills to reclaim our democracy. We must reverse Citizens United and ensure that people, not corporations, govern in America and that the nation lives up to its fundamental promise of political equality for all. Senator Tester's sponsorship of the People's Rights Amendment and Senator Udall's re-introduction of his amendment bill on campaign spending represent significant political developments for our movement. They reflect the growing support across the country for overturning Citizens United and restoring democracy to the people," said John Bonifaz, Executive Director of Free Speech For People.
"The American people are refusing to accept the corporate takeover of our politics and country. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have called for a constitutional amendment to restore our democracy, as have nearly 500 cities and towns across the country. Now come U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) to supercharge the momentum for constitutional reform," said Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen.
"Our country has lived with the disastrous consequences of Citizens United for over three years now. Americans have had enough. Millions of Americans have registered their anger by filing voter instruction resolutions to overturn Citizens United at the ballot box, in town halls and in state capitols across the country. We applaud Senators Tester and Udall for taking seriously the voter instruction ballot measure that passed in Montana by 75% and a resolution that passed both chambers of the New Mexico state legislature. We look forward to working with Senators Tester and Udall and other members of the House and Senate as we work in every state to support a constitutional amendment to combat the flood of money unleashed by the Citizens United decision," said Karen Hobert Flynn, Common Cause Senior Vice President for Strategy & Programs.
"To date, 15 states and nearly 500 municipalities have called upon Congress to overturn Citizens United and related cases by amending the Constitution. The introduction of these two joint resolutions today takes that call seriously and moves us two steps closer to ensuring that in our democracy the size of your wallet does not determine the volume of your voice," said Blair Bowie, Democracy Advocate of U.S. Public Interest Research Group.


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Counter (カウンター Kauntā, Counter, Contre in the French version) is a skill from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and Fire Emblem: Awakening.
In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, the enemy will receive half the damage he/she inflicted onto his/her opponent. The activation of the skill is also based on the user's Skill stat.
However, in Awakening, it will always activate. The effects of Counter will only go off against a non-fatal attack on the user and will only reflect back when the attacker is next to the user. In Lunatic+ mode, the enemy often suicide rushes users with Counter because of its effectiveness against the player early on. This continues until Chapter 4 when the player can start level grinding units that can attack from a distance to kill them.
If an enemy is killed by the effects of Counter, no experience is given to the user, even if they did damage against them.
Fire Emblem: Path of RadianceEdit
|Upon activation, the enemy will sustain half of the damage he/she inflicted upon his/her opponent.
|Base skill of Titania; Can be assigned with the Counter Scroll.
Fire Emblem: Radiant DawnEdit
|Upon activation, the enemy will sustain half of the damage he/she inflicted upon his/her opponent.
|Base skill of Titania; Can be assigned with the Counter Scroll
Fire Emblem: AwakeningEdit
|Receive non-fatal damage from an adjacent enemy.
|The user will deal back all damage received when attacked by an adjacent enemy. Will not activate on a Dual Strike attack or if the attacker defeats the user.
|Class skill of Level 15 Warriors.
Upon reaching Chapter 3 and beyond of Lunatic+ mode, all enemies have a chance of appearing with this skill.
Non-Canon AppearancesEdit
Counter is the B down special move of Marth, Roy, Ike and Lucina in the Super Smash Bros. series. In all of its versions, Marth, Roy, Ike, and Lucina take a defensive stance and will flash white for a few seconds. If any opponents hit them while they are in their defensive stance, they will quickly counterattack and nullify all damage they would have received. The amount of damaged dealt differs between characters and games. They can nullify projectiles with this move, but they will cause explosive items to detonate such as Link's bombs.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, Marth's counter deals a maximum of 7% damage while Roy reflects 1.5x the amount of damage he would have received. Marth's counter is much quicker to start up and lasts longer, but the damage is low. Roy's is much slower to start up and lasts very shortly, but the damage output is much higher.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Marth's counter now reflects 1.1x the amount of damage he would have received with a minimum of 8%. Ike's counter reflects 1.2x the amount of damage he would have received with a minimum of 10%. Marth's counter is still the fastest to start up, but Ike's last longer. Marth is left vulnerable slightly after his Counter ends while Ike's start up leaves him vulnerable, but has a shorter recovery.


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How would I go about setting up and activating a custom admin theme? i've customized the admin theme and I really would like to set it up in an upgrade-friendly way. I'm sorry if this has already been discussed,...i searched and was unable to find any information. thank you.
as far as i have seen magento isnt really set up to use a different admin theme. If you are wanting to change the appearance of the admin area, i think the best way to do it would be edit the css of the current theme.
Basically that's what i did,...i was just wondering if there was a way of future proofing these changes against upgrades like you can do with frontend themes,...or if each time i upgrade i will have to overwrite the admin theme files?
i dont think there is any way to ensure that. maybe thats something that will be added in the future.
You can setup a new admin theme, very similar to the way you do it for a frontend theme (add new folders/files in the package and theme locations in app/design/adminhtml and skin/adminhtml). Once that is in place, just override app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/etc/config.xml as app/code/local/Myname/Adminhtml/etc/config.xml and add the following code to it:
<config> <stores> <admin> <!-- default admin design package and theme --> <design> <package> <name>newpackage</name> </package> <theme> <default>newtheme</default> </theme> </design> </admin> </stores></config>
Also note you will need to enable your new module before the changes are recognized.
How can I enable this new theme?
I suspect i've to declare this in a config.xml somewhere. But i don't know whichone and how to define this new admin theme.
Thanks in advance!
frenske - 30 September 2008 11:45 PMHow can I enable this new theme?
I suspect i've to declare this in a config.xml somewhere. But i don't know whichone and how to define this new admin theme.
Thanks in advance!
How can I enable this new theme?
I suspect i've to declare this in a config.xml somewhere. But i don't know whichone and how to define this new admin theme.
Thanks in advance!
Read here http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/174/changing_and_customizing_magento_code#custom_modules
seems an extenstion has been developed but only at alpha status at the moment.
Thanks bott - very useful.
For those of you who already have your own module up and running with its own config.xml, it's your existing one that you need to edit.
(I wasn't sure from bott's instructions whether this needed an additional config.xml somewhere or not. It doesn't if your module already has one)
I just put:
<stores> <admin> <design> <theme> <!-- force admin theme to be 'mytheme' --> <default>mytheme</default> </theme> </design> </admin></stores>
into my existing config.xml and it worked nicely.
Thanks again,
Hi all,
For some reason I'm bashing my head against this - so a couple of questions for the brains trust:
1. Does this still work with 1.3.x ?
2. I'm trying to just do a simple local override of the Mage config rather than using a new module, does this work?
All I want to do is change a couple of lines in boxes.css so I've made the following changes in
<config> <stores> <admin> <!-- default admin design package and theme --> <design> <theme> <default>peas</default> </theme> </design> </admin> </stores></config>
And....nothing happens - Is there a step I've missed?
I've also manually deleted the /var/cache files in case the admin caching isn't controlled by the same menu options as the front end with no change.
Benz, did you get this to work?
No I didn't I'm afraid, stopped looking into it after that post and just quickly changed the admin skin files to get through our client review - I'll have to revisit this before the site goes into production however.
The solution steps proposed here don't work on my 188.8.131.52 version.
Any idea why ?
Ok for 188.8.131.52 it works in ./app/etc/local.xml
Just add the above line, this file won't be modified during magento upgrade.
Thanks Ubukus2, that was what I'd stuffed up - working perfectly now in 220.127.116.11.
The solution works really well in 18.104.22.168 CE. Thanks people.
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Recently I had the privilege to be the emcee of the Rice County Dairy Banquet at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Faribault. In the picture is the Rice County Dairy Royalty. From the left: Dairy Maid Kelsey Kuball, daughter of Nathan and Shannon Kuball of Waterville, Junior Ambassador Jack Saemrow son of Gordon and Hindy Saemrow of Waterville, Rice County Dairy Princess Emily Pieper daughter of Ray and Bridget Pieper of New Prague and Dairy Maid Hannah Fessel, daughter of Brad Fessel of Waterville and Kari Cole of Faribault
It's no secret that music is a huge influence on our lives. Just hearing a particular song can take you back in time, or make you think of a certain someone. Sometimes its the tune that pulls you in, other time you relate to the lyrics.
This guy wants you to feel the highest of highs.
It's that time of year again when prom is on the minds of every teen girl. Many have bought the tickets, booked the limo and, most importantly, picked out the perfect prom dress. It's all for the shear thrill of making everyone's heads turn as they roll up to the dance floor. But no matter how elaborate or lavish the dress is, chances are it won't be as quite a showstopper as these non-traditional prom gowns.
It's become somewhat of an annual tradition in Faribault, because it seems like at least once a year someone slams a semi into the bridge on 7th st. Last night it happened again!
Talk about "Under the Sea!" A giant fish tank in a Downtown Disney restaurant, T-Rex, nearly exploded this week after it sprung an unbelievable leak in the middle of dinner.
A member of the armed forces is facing the toughest battle of his life.
'Cruel Intentions' turns 15 this year, and it's time to catch up with Sebastian, Kathryn and Annette.
Spring does not offically start until the 20th of March, but temps are starting to heat up.In fact, we were about 12 degrees higher then average today! I'll take it!


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This weekend (3/23-3/25) Ruths Chris, Felix's Fishcamp, the Blue Gill, donate 10% of all sales to USCG Foundation. Coast Guard personnel enjoy 40% discount too.
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Dr. Matthias Mann, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, talks about how impactful innovative technology, like the Orbitrap, has been in his lab. The end goal of his collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific is to build a system that anyone can use to "dramatically extend the reach and impact of proteomics.
Thermo Fisher Scientific's San Jose, California facility registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a medical device establishment. The site has established a quality system in accordance with the FDA Quality System Regulations to design and manufacture devices for analyzing samples from patients for in vitro diagnostic use.
Talk presented at the 28th Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Biocrystallography on Sept 25, 2014.
"I fought a lot; I thought I could win, but fate and nature repressed my study and my efforts. But it is already something to be on the battlefield, because to win depends very much on fortune. But I did as much as I could, and I do not think anyone, of the future generation, will deny it. I was not afraid of death, I never gave in to anyone, I chose courageous death instead of a coward's life". Giordano Bruno, De Monade (1591).
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The trailer for Prometheus has arrived, and the latest space odyssey from director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) looks like it may live up to its considerable hype.
From this introductory look, the film bears some resemblance to Alien - not just with its stunning, otherworldly visuals, but its theme of desperation against rising odds.
Many think the film is a prequel to Alien, a theory Scott denies, but it could be something of a companion piece, a film that exists in a parallel universe. Just a theory.
Starring Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, the film touches down in theaters summer 2012. Here's the Prometheus trailer ...
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Convincing the astute executive who is cautious in not making an impetuous decision on an APM investment can prove to be challenging. Consider the amount of due diligence that is brought to bear in the decision making process. The wide array of APM technologies that need to be reviewed can be intimidating.
The selection criteria for application monitoring doesn't have to be an arduous one, lending credence to the idea that an APM solution can be simplified, understood, and implemented. I'm suggesting that the critical success factors in the adoption of APM center around the End-User-Experience (EUE) and the integration touch points with existing ITIL/ITSM processes.
Focus on highlighting the simple metrics, ease of use, and positive impact that this investment will make to the business.
The following are three points to consider when presenting APM's panoramic view of the enterprise and articulating its benefits.
1. Highlight the Simplicity
Dial it down, and fine tune the message to how the application is performing from a business perspective. The second generation of APM comes with a myriad of metrics, gauges, and dashboards, which can be overwhelming at first glance.
Steer clear of flashy dashboards with dozens of metrics and animated icons that have little true meaning. Present a dashboard that answers critical performance questions in one click or less. Focus on showing basic, easy to understand real-time monitoring metrics.
2. Show Value with Existing Tool-Sets
It is important to show how the APM solution can tie into systems that are in place today, by articulating the big picture, so that IT leaders can conceptualize the value coming from the new solution. How you articulate the Manager of Managers (MoM) concept and how it will support the overall solution is essential for buy-in. For more insight into this overall concept read: APM and MoM.
3. Get Your Priorities Straight
Begin your quest to clear up the cognitive dissonance your sponsors may have with the need for purchasing multiple technologies in order to provide application monitoring (real business value), and start the process of first understanding what's important to them.
Don't let the technical dogma of the APM Model cloud the overall vision you are trying to create. For help on this, read The Anatomy of APM. You want to create the most accurate picture possible and show how an APM solution can complement the existing technologies that are in place today.
How extensible will your APM solution be? If it is flexible enough to integrate ubiquitously, and dynamic enough to be configured rapidly, then you will be poised for expansion and ready to begin monitoring anything that comes your way. This is the essence for APM adoption to become successful by being an integral part of the overall IT solution.
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,138
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,050
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
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Glass Sales Down Despite Record Second-Quarter Profits for PPG
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Glazing Helps Protect Our National Treasures
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PPG Donates $15,000 to Air Force Museum Foundation
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Industry Veteran Don Graham Passes Away
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PPG's Boone Opens Up Regarding New Role
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Obviously I'm going to have one for the MLT, but are there any issues with just using the ball valve to drain either the kettle or the hot liquor tank?
Your vessels will only drain to the level of the ball valve. Most people want to drain as much as they can.
You can always tip the vessel to get more out, but when you're dealing with hot liquid, fire, etc. it usually seems easier and safer to use pickup tubes.
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