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This story has gotten some pub today, and I authored a post about it in other Police thread.
A quick backstory for those of you not familiar with what happened.
Dallas Cowboys running back Ryan Moats was driving himself and his family to the hospital to be the bedside of his dying mother-in-law. Being in a hurry, Moats had turned his hazards on, and rolled through a red light after getting the go ahead from another driver wanting to cross the intersection. They were pullled over in the hospital parking lot.
What happened after that is very disturbing, but I'll spare everyone my opinion and let them form their own.
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The arresting officer has been placed on administrative leave and the Dallas Police Chief issued a public apology to the Moats family.
ya that is pretty sad with a family member dying i would have been ******
if it would have been any family member they would have to subdue me before they died in this circumstance
So if he would have just let the red light turn then he probably would have gotten there in time, rather then having to wait for the cop to write the ticket and everything?
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Originally Posted by joefrog
I will admit, I am to blame in sometimes making mountains out of molehills.
According to him, he stopped at the light with his flashers on, and the only other vehicle at that interesection waved him through.
Saw this story earlier today. It's pretty sad.... I am surprised Moats kept his head (relatively speaking- family was dying). I'm not sure I could have kept me cool in that situation. That cop needs his head examined.
Remember guys, cops are perfect.
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
Originally Posted by Al_4_State
Remember guys, cops are perfect.
I don't think anyone in the other thread is saying cops are perfect. The officer was perfectly within his right to pull him over, as he did run the red light.
However, after hearing Moats explain that his mother-in-law was on her deathbed, the officer could have just written the ticket or let it go. Even after the hospital security told him what was going on, he took his sweet-*** time.
Every once in awhile I go back home to where I grew up- run into an old HS classmate... surprised to find out HE'S A COP???!!!
I know people can change... but they'll let anyone (sometimes) wear the badge it seems.
Originally Posted by Al_4_State
Remember guys, cops are perfect.
Cops aren't perfect, that's the point. They are human beings, capable, maybe even prone to mistakes.
I haven't watched it all yet. Boy, kinda a hard call.
Can't blame him for being cautious initially and telling her to stay in the car (which she never did comply with).
But you'd think the officer would go out of his way to figure out the situation pretty quick when you consider they were in a hospital parking lot.
And I somewhat disagree that the driver was calm initially. The officer asked for his license and he immediately questions him with "we need to do this now?" A more calm explanation would probably been beneficial instead of just dismissing the cops instructions.
The cop did persist a bit long. Staring in with the insurance thing was getting ridiculous.
The thing to do (IMO) would be to go inside and verify that the family's loved one was in the hospital. If so - best wishes and leave them be.
Ok - watched more of it. After the insurance thing - the copy got to be rather a-holeish. Like there was some sadistic pleasure in dragging it out and watching him squirm trying to get out of there.
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Kudos to Moats, I would have lost it. I hope that cop is fired and ends up working at Wal-Mart for the rest of his life. And people don't think some cops are on power trips.
I feel bad that his mother-in-law died while he waited, and the cop was probably more of a dick than he needed to be. But neither party handled things right in this case. Moats shouldn't have ran a red light and then kept driving while the cop was attempting to stop him. The cop should have let him go when he got confirmation that his MIL was inside dying.
Barney Fife!
How well would you handle things if you had just gotten a call from the the Hospital saying "get here now, she's dying". It's early morning, you get to a red light, the intersection is (mostly) empty. Would you stop? I wouldn't. Would you be calm when a cop approaches you (at the hospital) w/ his revolver drawn? I'd already be distraught from the call, let alone a cop not being able to fathom why I may have been in a hurry to get to a hospital.
Maybe I'm just more emotional... but I rarely think of myself like that.
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Russian ice hockey star Alex Ovechkin heads into the "biggest tournament" of his career ready to embrace the pressure and dearly wanting to claim a gold medal on home ice at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Ovechkin, who is the face of Russian hockey, says this tournament, his third Olympic Winter Games, is special for him as it will be the first where he will have the chance to play in front of family and friends.
"It is going to be my biggest tournament," Ovechkin said on Monday after his first practice session with his Russian team-mates at the Bolshoi Ice Dome arena.
"It is a home Olympic Games so it is my biggest moment," he explains.
After suffering a 7-3 quarter-final defeat to Canada at Vancouver 2010, where they ended up finishing sixth, Russia is determined to take care of some unfinished business in Sochi.
Their much-vaunted team is now looking to become the first Russian team to win gold since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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"You can compare the Sochi Games to Turin (2006) and Vancouver (2010)," Ovechkin said. "Turin was my first Olympic Games. I was 19 and it was new for me and it was crazy.
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Stocks retreated from new record highs for the Dow Industrials and S&P 500 after a Federal Reserve official known for his hawkish views endorsed an end to the central bank's quantitative easing. The head of the New York Fed perhaps unintentionally also fueled the afternoon selloff, saying he's seeing signs of an improving U.S. economy - re-igniting worries among investors the Fed could soon shut down its stimulus programs. Late market chatter also centered on comments from activist investor Carl Icahn who, at a Reuters event, reportedly expressed concern for stock level sustainability.
Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser told a Risk Management Association audience today that he expects the central bank will begin to taper its bond-buying program yet this year in anticipation of the economy reaching a 3% growth rate and 6.25% jobless rate by the end of next year. He also said the Fed should clearly detail its future bond purchases and then quit when that target is reached.
Plosser currently is not a voting member on the Federal Open Markets but will re-join the policy-setting panel in January.
And while Plosser hawkish view were not unexpected, New York Fed President William Dudley - a permanent FOMC member - surprised Wall Street with comments today he was "getting more hopeful" for the U.S. economy, pointing to better-than-expected hiring last month and improved Gross Domestic Product during the latest quarter.
Despite the rosy assessment, however, Dudley said he expects the Fed will maintain a "very accommodative" monetary policy "for a considerable period of time."
Earlier, the Dow Industrials pushed above 16,000 for the first time, led by gains for Boeing ( BA ) and financial stocks, while Abercrombie & Fitch ( ANF ) and Tyson ( TSN ) helped advance the S&P 500 past 1,800.
It was a light day for economic data, with the National Association of Home Builders today saying its housing market index declined a single point to a 54 reading in November, trailing market consensus expecting the industry group's housing gauge to remain unchanged from the prior month at 55.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average up 14.32 (+0.09%) to 15,976.02
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So, I have some code that looks approximately like (truncated for brevity - ignore things like the public member variables):
public class GenericThingy<T> {
private T mValue;
public final T[] mCandidates;
public GenericThingy(T[] pCandidates, T pInitValue) {
mCandidates = pCandidates;
mValue = pInitValue;
public void setValue(T pNewValue) {
mValue = pNewValue;
public class GenericThingyWidget {
private final GenericThingy<?> mThingy;
private final JComboBox mBox;
public GenericThingyWidget (GenericThingy<?> pThingy) {
mThingy = pThingy;
mBox = new JComboBox(pThingy.mCandidates);
//do stuff here that makes the box show up
//this gets called by an external event
public void applySelectedValue () {
My problem is that the mThingy.setValue(mBox.getSelectedItem()); call generates the following error:
The method
setValue(capture#4-of ?) in the type
Generics.GenericThingy<capture#4-of ?> is not applicable for the arguments (Object)
I can get around this by removing the
<?> from the declaration of mThingy and pThingy in GenericThingyWidget - which gives me a "GenericThingy is a raw type. References to GenericThingy should be parameterized" warning.
I also tried replacing the setValue call with
which I genuinely expected to work, but that produced a very similar error:
The method
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Is there any way to do this without generating "raw type" warnings ("unchecked cast" warnings I'm OK with) and without making GenericThingyWidget into a generic type? I'd think I could cast the return of mBox.getSelectedItem() to something, but I can't figure out what that would be.
As a bonus question, why does the replacement call to mThingy.setValue not work?


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We currently wanting to migrate from our legacy pop3 mail solution but management wants to know what to do if/when a user deletes a email.
I know the backup and archiving part of zimbra are available in the "pro" versions but what do you do if a user needs a deleted email?
For instance since we use pop3 for mail this is the way we retrieve deleted emails.
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The second helpful convention that frames CID material solutions, is the role time and space play in Friendly ID (FID) or Situational Awareness (SA) system dominance in the CID equation. When planning, preparing, and moving to the fight, or to shape the battlefield, SA systems are the dominant CID technologies employed.
Once contact is made, and the fight is closed (i.e. direct fire engagements), target identification is the dominant technology to prevent fratricide and enhance combat effectiveness.
Studies have shown that reliance on SA systems or a combination of SA/TI during the direct fire fight actually increases friendly casualties. The increased casualty rates are not due to increased fratricide; it is a function of increased engagement times resulting in increased Red on Blue kills. When a shooter has closed with the enemy, the only effective CID solution is a through sight target ID system that does not substantially affect engagement time.
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Multiple exposures
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III offers a multi-exposure mode that is easily accessible via the 'Creative Photo' button to the left of the camera's LCD monitor. It allows you to blend between 2 and 9 exposures in one single images. You've got the option to only save the end result or all images including raw files, so you've got the option to composition the images again in post-processing, using customized blending parameters.
You can either select an image that is already on your memory card and then take one or more shots to combine it with, or you can take all shots to composition in one go. You cannot blend two or more images that are already saved on the card.
|The EOS 5D Mark III's multiple exposure mode offers a variety of parameters.
|You can blend between 2 and 9 images and have a choice of four different blending modes.
The samples below demonstrate the blending modes available for the Canon 5D Mark III's multiple exposure mode. Image 1 was taken and saved on the memory card. We then took four pictures of the same scene (Image 2) and each time used a different blending mode - Additive, Average, Bright and Dark.
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Picture Styles
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III offers six Picture Style color response presets, shown in the table below.
These presets can be applied prior to image capture via the Q-menu or the Picture Style button, or when converting a raw file in-camera. There is also an 'Auto' setting which automatically picks the best style for a given scene and three user definable settings.
|Within each of the Picture Control options you can make adjustments to sharpness, contrast, saturation and hue settings.
In-camera raw conversion
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III comes with a fairly comprehensive in-camera raw conversion mode. You can pick any raw file on the memory card and modify the following parameters: brightness, white balance, picture style, ALO, noise reduction, image quality and size, color space, vignetting correction, CA correction and distortion correction. The latter can only be applied to images this way as it is not available while taking an image. Once you've selected your settings the new image is saved onto the card.
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For 'noise-sensitive' situations the Canon EOS 5D Mark III offers various silent shooting modes. In these modes the Canon's shutter sound is significantly quieter than in the standard mode which is, compared to for example the Nikon D800, not particularly loud anyway. The more silent shutter actuation is achieved by slowing down the shutter and mirror reflex action and as a downside there is a slight increase in shutter lag and viewfinder blackout time.
|Silent shooting modes are available in the menu for live view shooting...
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In Standard shooting mode you can select the 'Silent single' and 'Silent continuous mode' via the drive mode button or the Q-menu. The latter mode captures images at the same rate as the 'Continuous Lo' mode - 3 frames per sec. Below you can download MP3 sound files of the Silent and Standard continuous shooting modes.
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When shooting in live view the sound generated by pressing the shutter button is quieter as the mirror does not need to be moved but in addition you have a choice between two LV silent shooting modes which can be set in the LV-tab of the shooting menu.
In Mode 1 the shutter sound is only marginally quieter but the camera shoots in the drive-mode that is currently set, i.e. you can shoot at 6 frames per second in 'Continuous Hi'. In Mode 2 you can suspend any further camera operation after an image has been taken by keeping the shutter button pressed. In a very quiet shooting situations you can therefore keep the button pressed until ambient noise increases and the camera sounds will be less noticeable.
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Closed as fixed if next.
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Attempt to logon to msprojects integration fails when userid and loginid do not match. Error BMXAA0035E Not a project integration issue but a bug in base Maximo. ****Steps to replicate Alter a user account so that the userid and loginid are different. So for example change smith to smithlogin. Attempt to logon as smithlogin -- Error: BMXAA0035E - The user name smithlogin is not recognized. Please contact your system administrator. Reproduced on BS 7118. Apply the latest Hotfix BS7118 problem is resolved. We think that this is related to code fix from Security related classes such as SecuritySevice.class etc. It does appear to be the SecurityService.class, but I am not sure if you need other files for it to work correctly (ie dependencies). Looking at the hotfix documentation. I can not identify the APAR. It could be the fix was logged internally and therefore not documented. ****Environment Envir: BS 7118, Oracle, WebSphere, OS win2008 J2EE: VMMSYNC, MSAD Projects: ---------------- Client desc: when the ?userid is not same as loginid? we are getting this issue. BMXAA0035E - The user name RWIL is not recognized. Please contact your system administrator. ****Version of Maximo: BS 7118 ****Application within Maximo: Logon ****Industry Solution (if applicable): n/a --- Requested to added a APAR by development.
Local fix
1. Apply the latest 188.8.131.52 hotfix This can not be done because of customization's implemented which prevents applying patches or fixes. 2. Create a user specifically for projects integration where userid/loginid are identical. A temporary user could be setup in the projects ini file so that users can log-on and use the projects adaptor while waiting for fix. But been told security at client site is so tight this workarounds can not be used. 3. Reset the userid/loginid to be same temporary. This would resolve the problem, but client says this is not possible due to security constraints. ----- Apply the following files from the HF7118 SecurityService$SecurityInfo.class SecurityService$SessionCounter.class SecurityService$UserMonitor.class SecurityService.class UserInfo.class The error is coming from SecurityService.class but the other files are required (dependencies).
Problem summary
**************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: * * Maximo Project Adapter users with LDAP/SSL configurations * **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: * * Mismatched check on login attempt from Maximo Project * * Adapter * **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * * Update to latest Project Adapter DLL via HF * **************************************************************** Mismatched check on login attempt from Maximo Project Adapter
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Guyanese appointed Dominica High Court judge
Guyana-born Anguillian Magistrate, Mrs. Birnie Stephenson Brooks, has been appointed a High Court Judge and she has been assigned to Dominica. She will be taking up her appointment on October 25.
Mrs. Brooks has been resident in Anguilla since 1992 when she joined the firm of Mitchell's Chambers. She was also associated with and was a Partner of the local firms of Webster Dyrud Mitchell and Caribbean Associated attorneys.
She has been admitted to practice in Guyana, St Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands.
She is a former President of the Anguilla Bar Association and of the Rotary Club of Anguilla. She is also a Paul Harris Fellow having won an award for her service above self to the people of Anguilla.
Since living in Anguilla Mrs. Brooks also worked closely with the young people of Anguilla, with the Methodist youth, the Young people of the Church of God of Holiness and with the New Testament Church of God.
She was the prime mover and shaker in the sustenance of the Interact Club of Anguilla where she was able to play a part in molding the lives of many Anguillian Young People who are now leading members of our Community. She also was a member of the Royal Anguilla Police Force Community Band for many years where she played the tenor saxophone.
Mrs. Brooks played an active roll in the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive Parent Teacher Association where she was the Vice President.
Mrs. Stephenson Brooks is the daughter of the late Lt. Col. R.B Stephenson and Mrs. Yvonne Stephenson of Guyana. She is married to Anguillian Mr. Keith "Chinnicks" Brooks. She is the mother of Kibibi who is a second form student at the high school and the late Robert.
Mrs. Brooks has since departed Anguilla to take up residence in Dominica.
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I have a very simple Objective-C sample
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int littleFunction();
int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
NSAutoreleasePool * pool
= [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
// insert code here...
NSLog(@"Hello, World!");
[pool drain];
return 0;
int littleFunction()
return 0;
With this code I get a "no previous prototype for function" warning for littleFunction but as you can all see there is a declaration before main. What is wrong here? It seem the compiler is unable to match the declaration with the function implementation.
If I change both like this:
int littleFunction(void)
it works perfectly. I am using the latest Xcode 4


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DAILY NEWS: German Festivals and Lardner Jr. Dies
by Eugene Hernandez and Anthony Kaufman/indieWIRE
>>Blitzkrieg! German Fests Take NY and LA
After Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" sprinted to the box office finish line last year (becoming the second highest-grossing German film ever in the United States), the rise of German cinema has been on the minds of the film industry -- especially the German one -- eager to keep the pace in high gear. Two completely separate film festivals starting this week in the U.S. -- one in Los Angeles, one in New York -- are lending credibility to this supposed Germany film revitalization, but in very different styles.
Made in Germany, the 1st Annual Festival of German Cinema, (running today through the 9th) at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles is the decidedly more Tykwer-influenced affair. "Dazzling! Exhilarating! A Knock-Out! (critics about 'Run, Lola, Run')," sells its website, clearly hoping to capitalize on that film's success. "The international critical and commercial success of Tom Tykwer's "Run, Lola, Run" and Wim Wender's "Buena Vista Social Club" suggests German Cinema is returning to international prominence," further announces the website for Made in Germany. (Never mind, apparently, that Wender's "Social Club" was more about Cuban music, and his latest film "The Million Dollar Hotel" was considered a bomb when it premiered in Berlin).
After opening tonight with the Gala U.S. premiere of Fatih Akin's reportedly crowd-pleasing road movie, "In July" (starring Moritz Bleibtreu of "Lola"), the festival will screen a total of 14 features, 2 documentaries, and 20 shorts. U.S. Premieres include Achim von Borries' "England!," Peter Keglevic's "Falling Rocks," Vanessa Jopp's "Forget America," Anno Saul's "Green Desert," Lenard Fritz Krawinkel's "Sumo Bruno," Martin Eigler's "Trust Me," Cannes premiere "No Place to Go" by Oskar Roehler, and Berlin premiere "Paradiso -- Seven days With Seven Women" from Rudolf Thome. An audience award for best film will be announced on closing night. "For American audiences and film industry professionals," the website promises, "the festival provides the exclusive frame for exposure of exciting, brand new film products made in Germany."
Disputing that exclusivity, this same week in New York another German festival has begun: Germany 2000: New Films, running now through November 19th at the Museum of Modern Art. In contrast to its concurrent infant brother on the West Coast, the MoMA series has been running for 22 years -- and represents a more cineaste's affair than the glitzy Galas promised by Made in Germany. A handful of films (perhaps the more acclaimed ones) do share screenings at both festivals, however, including Veit Helmer's award-winning dream-film "Tuvalu," the latest from "The Harmonists" director Joseph Vismaier "Marlene," a bio-pic on Dietrich, and the U.S. premieres of Pepe Danquart's documentary "HomeGame," Venice entry, "The State I am In" from Christian Petzold, and Andreas Dresen's "The Police Woman."
MoMA's cache as a cultural institution has garnered it perhaps the highest profile screening of the two, "The Tim Drum" director Volker Schlondorff's "The Legend of Rita," with the director and his award-winning star, Bibiana Beglau, scheduled to appear. MoMA has also found a context for this year's line-up with the tenth anniversary of the reunification of Germany this year. In addition to "Rita's" tale of politics in transition in two Berlins, there's "Stammheim," which chronicles three members of the militant Baader-Meinhof group, and Petzold's story of former terrorists hiding out in Portugal. Germany 2000 will also screen Romuald Karmakar's Locarno Silver Leopard winner "Manila," and several North American premieres. [Anthony Kaufman]
>>Ring Lardner Jr., one of the Hollywood 10, Dies in NYC
(indieWIRE/11.3.00) -- Ring Lardner Jr., the last living member of "The
Hollywood 10," a group that was blacklisted in the late 1940's and 50's,
died Tuesday in New York City. Lardner Jr. won an Oscar in 1942 for his
work on the script for "Woman of the Year." Reporting his death yesterday,
the LA Times indicated that the writer did not receive another official
movie credit until 1965 when he wrote "The Cincinatti Kid." Lardner Jr. also
won an Oscar for "MASH" in 1970.
Lardner Jr., Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Robert Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo were all blacklisted for their refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Dmytryk, according to the LA Times, was the only one of the 10 to name the names of suspected Communists.
Lardner Jr. was honored by the Nantucket Film Festival in 1998, receiving
the event's first writers tribute. indieWIRE reported on the ceremony and a
link to the article follows.
RELATED ARTICLE @ indieWIRE.com:
+ Lardner Receives Nantucket's First Annual Writer's Tribute


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Byobu: Screen on Steroids
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I use screen on linux for a long time now and I always knew there's something more into it but I was to lazy to customise it or learn more that basic functionality. If you don't know that the screen does and you regularly work with remote ssh sessions, especially on crappy Internet connections, than you have a big problem and you could really use a rtfm.
Browsing the Internet I bumped into this application called Byobu. The name doesn't say much, if you're not a Japanese speaker, but it worth installing as it completely improves the way you work with your screen sessions. There's a package available for Ubuntu 9.10, don't know about packages for other distributions and to tell you straight I don't even care.
Here's the ubuntu package description : "byobu includes a set of profiles for the GNU screen window manager. These profiles are quite useful on server machines which are not running a graphical desktop. The 'screen' command provides a number of advanced features are not necessarily exposed in the default profile. These profiles provide features such as status bars, clocks, notifiers (reboot required, updates available), etc. The profile-switcher allows users to quickly switch their .screenrc to any of the available profiles"


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I have to admit I knew nothing of Hispanicize up until a couple months ago. Curious, I went on the website and I found the lingo a tad superfluous and hyperbolic. Words like iconic and mighty are used to describe the young but clearly flourishing event. Then again, this kind of grandiose speak is typical Public Relations so it makes sense given it is a partnership with Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
I reached out to the founder Manny Ruiz to find out more about the mission of the event and found his enthusiasm and excitement for what he considers a pioneering movement infectious. It's hard to argue that this mass tech and entertainment crossroads gathering makes for an incredible networking opportunity. Ruiz called it a "Uniting of these industries to create a symphony" and went on to note it is much more powerful for bloggers to converge at the same place with journalists, marketers, digital, music and film innovators then if you had them out there individually and remotely. Before I knew it I was put in touch with with Roman Morales, the Film Showcase Organizer and I came onboard as Programmer for the film component. A big reason I stepped in was because I was particularly attracted to presenting US independent Latino films to an audience heavy with social media influence and bloggers, to see if it would indeed create a higher level of buzz, publicity and exposure from the community.
Along with a special screening of Filly Brown days before its national theatrical release, this year Hispanicize will screen six features including the high profile sneak preview of The Weinstein Company's Aftershock, the horror comedy produced and starring Eli Roth, directed by Chilean filmmaker Nicolas Lopez (Que Pena tu Vida, Promedio Rojo). Also, straight from SXSW the music industry and character-driven documentary Los Wild Ones about the Wild Records label and family of Mexican rockabilly acts. With the exception of Aftershock, all the films reflect a taste of the diaspora of unique, bi-cultural US narratives, and notably are all first features. Three of the films, Blaze You Out, Filly Brown and Mission Park are being distributed by Lionsgate labels Pantelion and Grindstone Entertainment. Meanwhile, seeking distribution is Dreamer written and directed by Salvador born Jesse Salmeron, a poignant and timely story starring and produced by Jeremy Ray Valdez about an upwardly mobile American whose paralyzed by the fear of being deported. Los Wild Ones is also seeking distribution and should find considerable traction within and outside hard core music fan circles.
My personal pride and joy however has to be the shorts film showcase. Portraying visionary quests for identity, love, truth and legacy and created by multicultural emergent voices from San Antonio, Miami, LA, NYC, Oaxaca and Puerto Rico. This is the medium in which to find provocative, daring and versatile young generation of fresh voices who you can expect will blow up big soon. To name just a few, the filmmakers include Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva of the Borscht corporation, Zoé Salicrup Junco, the filmmaker of Gabi who workshopped her feature script of the short at San Antonio's CineFestival's Latino Screenwriters Project, Victor Hugo Duran the Colombia Film grad whose short, Fireworks played at the LA Film Festival last year and is currently shooting his first feature in Mexico called La Victoria, and Steve Acevedo, the director of El Cocodrilo which is a powerful and urgent film about a journalist played by Jacob Vargas on the run from narcos, who participated in NBCU Directing Fellowship.
I'll try not to go all Spring Breaker debauchery when I head to Miami next week. I'm very interested in immersing myself in the Hispanicize program to cover the dialogue and scrutinize the impact so stay tuned for my report.
See below to check out full film list and links. Hispanicize will take place April 9 – 13. For information on how to attend and the schedule click here.
(USA, 2013, 90 min)
Writers/Directors: Mateo Frazier, Diego Joaquin Lopez
Cast: Veronica Diaz Carranza, Elizabeth Pena, Q'orianka Kilcher, Mark Adair Rios, Elizabeth Pena
Logline: An unyielding young woman ventures into the ruthless underworld of the town's heroin trade in order to save her younger sister's life.
Writer/Director: Jesse Salmeron
Cast: Jeremy Ray Valdez, Isabella Hofmann, Cory Knauf
Logline: Joe Rodriguez is an All American young man. He's amiable, well educated and attractive. He's graduated from college and is working and excelling in his field. He's on his way to achieving the American Dream. That is until his employer discovers his undocumented status and the life he's worked so hard for begins to crumble around him. He must face the possibility of losing his livelihood, his family and even himself.
(USA, 2013, 95 min)
Director: Elise Salomon Writers: Ryan Brown, Elise Salomon
Featuring Luis Arriaga, Gizzelle, the Rhythm Shakers and more
Logline: Wild Records is an LA indie music label comprised of young Hispanic musicians, it is run by Irishman, Reb Kennedy. Wild is an unconventional family, reminiscent of the early days of Sun Records, all of its musicians write and perform 50s Rock 'n Roll. If Wild is going to continue to grow and reach broader audiences, its current business model will cease to work.
(USA, 2012, 90 min)
Director: Nicolás López
Writers: Guillermo Amoedo, Nicolás López and Eli Roth
Cast: Andrea Osvart, Ariel Levy, Eli Roth
Logline: In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
(USA, 2013, 120 min)
Writer/Director: Bryan Ramirez
Cast: Jeremy Ray Valdez, Walter Perez, Fenanda Romero, Joseph Julian Soria, William Rothaar, Jesse Borrego
Logline: Four friends from the rough side of town grow apart when two are consumed by a life of crime, and the other two become FBI agents sent deep undercover – to bring down those childhood friends.
(USA, 2012, 13 mins)
Writers/Directors: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer
Cast: Jillian Mayer, Kayla Delacerda, Amy Seimetz, Arly Montes, Jesse Miller, Shivers Thedog
Logline: A comedic, satirical, sci-fi pop musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, #PostModem is the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.
(USA, 2012, 11 mins)
Director: Victor Hugo Duran
Writer: Kevin James McMuillin
Cast: Roger Cruz, Alberto Castañeda, Irene Sorto, Azucena Benitez, Edgar Vanegas, Julio Duran, Victor Hugo Duran, Kevin James McMullin
Logline: During the Fourth of July in South Los Angeles, a teenage boy and his brother scour the neighborhood for fireworks in order to win the admiration of a girl.
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(USA, 2012 10 min)
Writer/Director: Fernanda Rossi
Cast: Kathiria Bonilla León, Sixta Rivera, Rubén Andrés Medina, Alfonso Peña Ossoria, Stephanie Quiles Reyes, Eyra Aguero
Logline: Clara is the only light-skinned and clear-eyed girl in an all-black neighborhood. Teased incessantly, the children claim her unknown father is actually a "gringo" tourist. However, Clara was told a different story, and to find out the truth, she will venture into the magical waters of the bioluminescent bay all on her own.
(USA, 2012 6min)
Writer/director: Yolanda Cruz
Cast: Joe Nunez, Hugo Medina, Tzina Carmel, Donato López, Lobo Manet
Logline: Bear, a single gay Latino man in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood, looks for love online. Fearing traffic, he searches locally, but soon discovers how geographic convenience can turn to heartache overnight.
(2012, USA, 12 min)
Directed by Mark and Angela Walley
Logline: Two years in the making, this beautifully shot and perfectly paced short documentary captures the creative process of painter Vincent Valdez, as the artist works on a series of pieces dedicated to a childhood friend John Holt Jr. an Army combat medic who died in 2009 after serving in Iraq.
(2012, 15 min)
Director: Steve Acevedo
Writer: Alfredo Barrios, Jr.
Cast: Jacob Vargas Hugo Medina Shannon Lucio Manuel Uriza
Logline: A Mexican journalist and a cartel assassin collide in a diner, with tragic consequences for both.
(USA, 2012, 3:29min)
Writer/director Lucas Leyva
Shark: Alberto Ibarguen Man: Epifanio Leyva
Logline: Told from the point of view of a dying shark, 'Reinaldo Arenas' metaphorically captures the current state of the aging Cuban-American exile community, many of whom have still not come to terms with the Communist Revolution that changed their lives forever. The film culls from various Cuban films and works of literature to create not a singular voice, but a feeling of a particular moment in time
(2012, USA 20 min)
Writer/Director: Zoe Junco
Cast: Marisé Alvarez , Dalia Davi , Roy Sanchez Vahamonde , Aris Mejias
Logline: A Puerto Rican saying haunts single women in their 30's: "If such a woman is not married by this time, she must be a slut, a lesbian, or a prude." This is the story of that woman...


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Peter Korn On 'Why We Make Things'
Peter Korn's new book, Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman, lies comfortably somewhere between memoir and deep meditation. He is a master New England furniture maker whose work has been exhibited in some of the nation's top galleries and museums, and founder and executive director of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine.
Korn's book seeks to connect head and hand, spirit and toil, meaning and physical matter — not the mass-produced, industrialized stuff of every day consumerism. Rather, we're talking about beautiful things made by someone who cares. And to that end, the book's title has a declarative feel. But shift the emphasis slightly, and you open the door to Korn's more profound purpose. He asks the question: "Why do we make things? Why does it matter?" Peter Korn joins us to try to get a little closer to that answer.
Peter Korn, founder and executive director of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and author of Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say traffic on the Ohio Turnpike is back to normal following a massive pileup about halfway between Toledo and Cleveland on Wednesday that left three people dead.
The State Highway Patrol says the toll road was fully reopened today after a series of crashes involving about 40 vehicles that resulted in two separate pileups.
Bulldozers worked into Friday clearing tractor-trailers and debris left behind on a two-mile stretch of the eastbound lanes southwest of Sandusky.
The patrol said an injured trooper who was pinned between two vehicles during the crashes had surgery Saturday and was recovering.
The accidents were triggered by a late-winter storm that swept through the Midwest and Northeast this week.


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Ouch! The Bundesbank Slaps The Fed In The Face
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"Yellen and Cisco lift US stock futures," the headline read enticingly in the morning. Priceless. Their combined pronouncements were driving up the markets, it seemed. Cisco CEO John Chambers is famous for adding adjectives during earnings calls that cause or predict crashes; his use of "very lumpy" to describe demand for Cisco products in November 2007 unleashed a round of mayhem. But to everyone's great relief, he kept any errant adjectives to himself during the earnings call, though he did admit that the "macroeconomic environment" was "challenging" and that "order trends in Europe" were "very challenging." But not "very lumpy."
The other spark that goosed the futures, according to the headline, wasn't a corporate giant, but Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen who is rumored to have a shot at becoming Chairman, if Ben Bernanke decides to abandon ship in early 2014. Her words weigh. So late yesterday, she extended the Fed's Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) even further. It had already been extended and re-extended and now is scheduled to run until mid-2015. But she extended it to eternity apparently when she said that she was "strongly supportive" of decoupling rate increases from the calendar and pegging them instead to the unemployment rate.
She followed in the footsteps of Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, who'd proposed to keep ZIRP effective until the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota too had backed that idea, but his trigger would be an unemployment rate of 5.5%! An elusive date is to be replaced by an equally elusive unemployment rate. ZIRP forever!
Yellen also explained that the Fed's 2% inflation target—based on PCE, so maybe 3% CPI—is not a "ceiling" but a guideline. Or perhaps a floor; a policy that might lower the unemployment rate, she reassured us, would lead to inflation above the guideline. So her plan is clear: wealth confiscation will continue through yields that will remain below inflation year after year until bond investors and savers have been bled dry. And if investors don't like getting bled dry the slow way, the Fed keeps implying, they need to invest in riskier assets, such as the stock market, in order to re-inflate the bubbles that had been so devastating already.
But by the time the markets closed, the manipulative power of Yellen's words had dissipated, and the DOW was down 1.45% for the day, at a time when a 10-year Treasury note yields 1.6% in a year! So savers, plow your savings into the stock market. The Fed wants you to.
With impeccable timing, that's exactly what the German Bundesbank warned about in its annual Financial Stability Report. The "massive monetary and financial policy measures" used to stabilize the financial system "led to an ever greater transfer of risk to the public sector and to the solidification of the environment of low interest rates, the report explained. The side effects of the short-term stabilization could in the medium and long term prove to be "a burden for financial stability."
It warned that the longer the low-interest-rate environment dragged on, the more irresistible the incentives would be to shift financial means from low yielding, comparatively safe assets to higher yielding, but "more hazardous assets." And chasing yield has intensified: yields and risk premiums of European corporate bonds have "dropped significantly" despite "clear signs of economic cloudiness and higher risks of default."
The report pointed out that low yields jeopardized the conservative investment portfolios of life insurance companies. Their products, which offer guaranteed minimum yields, are a popular tool in Germany for building retirement income. To keep their chin above water, life insurance companies were investing in higher risk assets—such as infrastructure projects. In the process, they pushed down those yields further, exposed themselves to more risk, and invaded the turf of banks. It all could ultimately "jeopardize future financial stability."
It was a resounding slap in the face of the Fed. Which it brushed off by ignoring it publicly.
Republican Party insiders would love to blame their election losses on emerging demographic voting patterns. This excuse does provide cover for some Republican PACs, but Ron Paul eloquently points at other, more powerful reasons, writes Chriss Street. Read.... Romney Would Be President If He Picked Ron Paul As VP.
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"But she extended it to eternity apparently when she said that she was "strongly supportive" of decoupling rate increases from the calendar and pegging them instead to the unemployment rate."
The beatings will continue untill morale improves.
FED won't care until the US arrests Bernanke and his accomplices. Maybe Texas should arrest them.
I hope Yellen gets hit by a SanFran streetcar with BAC adds on the side of it.
Stupid crooked bitch
It warned that the longer the low-interest-rate environment dragged on, the more irresistible the incentives would be to shift financial means from low yielding, comparatively safe assets to higher yielding, but "more hazardous assets."
Equities are nothimg more than useless flotsam trapped in stagnant tidal pools of Fed liquidity.
"..that's exactly what the German Bundesbank warned about in its annual Financial Stability Report."
When "stability" requires massive desperate measures/patches year after year you clearly do not have stability
central banking has failed miserably by its own measure, it is time to move on ...let's try a Free Market in money, it couldn't possibly be worse than these monopolists tragically unstable systems requiring patches the size of national GDP's to 'fix'. The failure of central banking is total and complete. Game Over chumps
"Romney would be president if he picked Ron Paul as VP" -- not! I am a big fan of liberty but must constrain myself to what is real. The only way the GOP could have retaken the Oval Office if they ran H. Cain (the pizza guy) against Obama. 93% of the black voters voted for Obama, only 5% for Romney.
Ah, 'americans' and figures:
1994:Clinton 83 pc
1996:Clinton 84pc
2000:Gore 90pc
2004:Kerry 88pc
2012:Obama 93pc
Since 'americans' consider that the slight boost Obama got is what got him elected and re-elected, one could wonder if Gore and Kerry did not get elected because of that or if, more essentially, if Bush got elected due to the US american negro votes.
But hey 'americanism' is as 'american' does so bear with it.
The black population in America is less than 13% of the total population. Winning 95 of 13% will not in itself win a presidential election. 95% black would definitely win you a mayoral race in DC or Detroit!
American Mosaic Exit Poll: Romney's Share of the Vote (edited: 32 categories in all)
Black single women – 2.4%
Blacks – 3%
Hispanics – 23%
Single women – 31.1%
Married Hispanics – 34.9%
Single men – 39.4%
Women – 46.7%
Single whites – 47.5%
All Voters (2 candidate) – 48.5%
Men – 50.5%
Single white men – 50.6%
Homeowners – 54.8%
Married women – 55.4%
Marrieds – 56.6%
White Catholics – 57.0%
Married men – 58.0%
Whites – 58.1%
Chart By Steve Sailer; Exit Polling By Reuters-Ipsos, Sample Size 40,000.
As did Asians. The only way I can see for middle-aged white men to continue to hold the reins of power is to disenfranchise everybody else.
the voting was a MASSIVE fraud
ever seen 60,000 people cue for the Cowboys Football stadium? Now compare that to the static cues at voting stations and the claimed figures of the voter turnout. If we'd had 1/10th the number of voters claimed most cities would be in gridlock
the lie is exposed by watching the cues at places like schools. They'd normally be rammed just at Mum pick-up time. The electoral cheats made voters cue to make it look bizzy but that exposed how slow the voter cues moved and just how slowly they processed voters ..the numbers were actually pitifully low
but 50% of the US elctorate voted they claimed??? It would have been madness if they had, cars gridlocked all over the city, the turnstiles of voters would have had to move faster than the Cowboys stadium on match day, 20 or 30 Cowboys stadium sized booths per city to process the claimed voter numbers
democracy is one HUGE LIE from start to fraudulent finish
I like your bird's eye clue... gives me some ideas about how to catch a liar.
The "voting"? WTF!!
The entire fucking system is broken. The fact Ron Paul was strong armed out in blatent disregard to rule of law and the Constitution is the real fucking story. I could give fuck about the "voting process" when you aren't voting for any fucking real choice.
R. Paul has proven that the American public election system is a total fraud. The ballot box results are predetermined well in advance. It is not even about money. No. Only outright stupid and blind people cannot see that. Our elections are no better than elections in Putin's Russia. We are just more lie/fraud sophisticated but the rest is the same.
As a results of it, the changes will definitely come but not through a ballot box. It is that simple.
Most American High School graduates can't pronounce "constitution" let alone have a conversation about it...good luck.
Zero, you are close to the truth, but off a bit because the fraud is not dependent on bodies in a queue (although the morgue does play a part).
In the days of the Constitution when there was a modicum of honesty in elections, voting was conducted and fraud minimized, with few exceptions, on voting day and it was the with layers of human supervision and vote/voter verification from both parties.
In our modern, post-Constitution era, motor voter and community organizer fraud is given years to grow and blossom, early voter fraud is given weeks and consequently so is "No ID"or "Utility bill ID" voting. The icing on the cake is electronic voting and scanning that removes human scrutiny form the process almost completely.
The dangers of pure mob democracy were checked by the Constitution but that was thrown out the window in 1913 with the 17th Amendment.
At this late stage, most of this does not matter anymore because the system is so warped and putrefied that catastrophe is the only path to a potential Constitutional reconstruction.
Hitting bottom is the only way out and who knows what will happen after that.
But enough of my cheery outlook..
Manthong - I maintain my stance the Presidential election numbers were MASSIVELY RIGGED.
Look at tapes of the cues at voting stations. If they last an hour count the number of voters processed, it's pitifully low
the electoral frauds were so desperate to show cues for voting they slowed the processing but forgot the flip side, it showed how slow voters were being handled at polling stations.. they dribbled through in slo-mo.
I watched one voting station cue outside a school barely move 3-4 people in 5 minutes. That same school would handle a couple of hundred Mums picking up their kids over half an hour. This school voting post could barely handle 100 in an hour let alone tens of thousands!!!
Now take a look at a football or baseball game and watch it deal with 50-60,000 fans. Times that by 20-30 to get the sort of numbers claimed by the electoral frauds across a city. 20-30 Cowboy Stadiums across a city would cause CHAOS
instead the voters dribblòed through around town like a few thousand (not hundreds of thousands) zombies looking for a steakhouse
the voter cues were at a near-standstill purely to defraud everyone and provide lots of TV pictures and newspaper photos there was high demand when there wasn't... same con the press used when Saddams statue was brough down, the square barely had 200 people in it but it ws made to look a populist uprising by shooting in the crowd not showing the vast expanses of square empty of people
...if 50% of the electorate had voted (110 MILLION people) city's would be in all-out log-jam chaos on the roads and their buses rammed to over-flow with the Govts totally inept transport and road network. The numbers at polling stations were f'king pitiful, it was TOTAL ELECTION FRAUD
Its all going to fall a part in a massive debt deflation. The fact that the FED is mouthing off policies like ZIRP forever is proof of it. They are powerless to stop it. Yellen can spout off her bullshit all she wants. The reality is that when inflation kicks in, yields will explode and debt will default en masse. The FED will be forced to raise rates. They are not in control and they know it. It is all a CONfidence game.
Here are some additional points to think about.
Fool and his money. Hyper inflation depends on the loss of confidence in a currency. We have a lot of fools who trust the dollar not just here in the USSA, but worldwide. This trend probably has a lot more left in it before the great event happens if it happens at all.
The Roman empire abused their currency far longer than anyone could ever image. It was a default on pensions that created the crack in the dam. How much longer can we kick the can down the road before the fools realize they are not getting paid?
Fall apart = decentralization - get to know your neighbors. It will be important if things fall apart.
Food for thought.
I know my neighbors have obama bumper stickers
Ouch...they will be shark food once the sheeple start to panic.
Confidence or lack of confidence in the dollar will only have a minimal impact on what is sure to be the most massive money printing wealth transfer in history
When Nimrod start building the tower of Babel, I'm sure that some thought it was a great idea also.


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We have been noticing a large volume of invalid suggestions, to combat this:
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Something different, I personally hate the UI of the synonyms overview. I'd love to vote some of them, but to do that I have to click every master tag open in a new tab (because there's no link to go back to the synonyms page other than the browser back button). That's too much clicks forward and back. It would be a great improvement if the synonyms overview itself also contains the vote buttons in the synonym column.
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Assault weapons etc
I just can't get behind the assault weapons ban.
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Because he lies about everything. Anyhow, just for the record, from CQ in mail:
Obama was a gun control advocate as a state legislator and an Illinois senator. As a candidate four years ago he called for reinstating the assault weapons ban, and after Giffords was almost gunned down last year he promised to propose legislation that would "keep those irresponsible, law-breaking few from getting their hands on a gun in the first place." But he has never fulfilled that promise, and yesterday the White House made abundantly clear that no such proposal was coming.
It's like they want us to live in fear of being randomly shot by some psychopath. What is this Afghanistan? Yemen?
I just can't get behind the assault weapons ban.
cosmetic at best. I can't be sure of the biases in this article, but they sum up the objections fairly well. Firearms can skirt the ban simply by looking different than those weapons banned by the old act.
What's needed is much more stringent regulation of gun licenses and gun purchases as a whole, along with perhaps a federally standardized security test in order to obtain a gun license. You're required to pass a test to drive a car; at minimum you should pass a test and take a class to own a gun.
I oppose the assault weapon ban because I think that lethal weapons do have a place in American society, and not only within the hands of law enforcement and the professional military. I could make a variety of legal arguments, and invoke the Constitution, case law and statutory law. However, in this comment, I will restrict myself to public policy arguments.
The debate about guns is actually a debate about the nature of society, and what kind of society people want to have. Some people actually want to wholly deny the majority of individuals any agency with respect to violence. What makes me say that? Read on.
In a a lot of the discussions, people will say that the firearms used by the Aurora shooters are "only used for killing people." That's supposed to end the argument. Setting aside that the statement is factually untrue, let's unpack the meanings behind that statement.
The unstated assumption is that average citizens have no business owning efficient tools for delivering violence. Please spare me the maximalist discussions of "so you want people to own nuclear weapons?" For the purposes of this discussion, we're discussing human-portable small arms-- pistols, rifles, etc.
Are people arguing that we should have no more police, and no more military? In most cases, I'd guess no-- liberals are generally not the people asking to eliminate those institutions. That would be the anti-statist anarchists. What they really mean is that someone else is going to wield violence. Someone other than them. My experience is that people, especially liberal professional journalists often shy away from this discussion, but I think it's one worth having.
Under the above mentioned values system, who then, wields violence? Why, there will be a specially anointed group of people who wield violence on behalf of the populace. Who is going to control these institutions? In theory these institutions will be answerable to the populace via democratically elected officials. However, liberals are the same people, generally, that believe that the surveillance state is growing at unacceptable rates. These are the same people who are concerned with police brutality, and the ever militarized war on drugs. And these are the same people who are concerned about the seemingly unchecked growth of the military-industrial complex, and the explosion of private military contractors.
I believe that it is impossible for an unarmed populace that shirks from discussing violence and when it is justified to successfully govern those who use violence as their language. As the Romans said, who will guard the guardians? Will the guardians simply say "oh, you wrote a newspaper editorial, so I guess I'd better do what you say." That's ridiculous-- and has it worked so far? No. Or I wouldn't look at Salon.com every day and see people justifiably agitated by the creeping surveillance state.
The answer is, that all of us must guard the guardians. I would argue that the increasing separation of the professional armed services from the majority of the citizenry threatens the long term viability of the Republic. Standing armies, we know from history, have a nasty habit of devouring the civilian governments that attempt to control them. It's pretty simple-- when only one group in society has the tools and training to do violence, they will end up in control. This was the fate of the Roman Republic, and it was for this reason that the early founders of the United States were so concerned with standing armies to begin with.
As leftists, this is actually an important question for us to grapple with. We are often challenged , with good reason, to ask what kind of society do we want? I think that if we want to survive as a democratic republic, then we will have to drastically downscale the size of the professional security services and thereby reduce their power. The USSR used to call these the "power ministries," for good reason. That we will also have to reduce or eliminate the majority of our overseas commitments goes without saying. Domestically, part of turning back the militarization of police can come from ending the drug war. But part of it also must come via developing violence controlling institutions that demand the participation of ordinary citizens from all economic/cultural levels of our nation. It is my opinion that the mainstream left in the United States has completely abdicated any discussion of violence and who wields it, other than to either 1) opt out of personal participation in said institutions 2) just say that violence is bad. That's not a political program, unless it's a political program that plans on eliminating violence completely from society, and that's completely unrealistic.
The hardcore theocratic Christian right has made it a policy for decades to target the security services, and they have had much success. All one has to do is look at the work of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and it is apparent how far the influence goes. And where is the left? Mostly absent. A widespread policy of public participation would go far to dilute the influence of the theocratic right. Does anyone actually think that allowing one organized religious/political outlook to dominate the security services is a good idea?
Violence, and who wields it is far too important to be left to a professional cadre of people-- it is something in which all able bodied adults must participate, within a transparent institutional structure.
Does this mean ordinary people will have access to deadly weapons? Yes. Just like they have access to powerful computers and communications devices. Does this mean that once in a while someone will flip out and shoot people? Yes. Just like having access to modern communications and freedom of movement means that it is possible for a group of malcontents to stage a mass attack and kill thousands of people. Yesterday it was an airliner, perhaps tomorrow, an LNG tanker. Could we dramatically reduce the risk of these plots if we did as the Chinese did-- employ tens of thousands of internet police to do real time monitoring of all internet communications? Sure. And is that a society we want to live in? My answer is no.
What about you?
The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there's no resolution in sight.
By Adam Winkler
The eighth-grade students gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with California's new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour the granite building constructed a century earlier to resemble the nation's Capitol. But the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of 30 young black men and women carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols.
The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. "The American people in general and the black people in particular," he announced, must
take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.
The political spectrum has shifted, hasn't it?
Firearms laws are just another example of a freedom that is only available in a society that is generally run with the consent of the governed.
What the Panthers exposed was that many black people in the US were not happy with their government or the treatment they received from society. They expressed that strongly, and exercised their rights under the law of the day. Then the state government elected officials decided to change the laws. Freedoms such as firearms ownership and availability cannot exist when one group is oppressed.
The situation today with social media and communications technology is similar, and thus, the increased monitoring.
I'm advocating for a Swiss-type militia with universal participation, to supplant the existing standing armed forces of the United States.
I am NOT advocating that people replicate the Black Panther's methods of operation.
Assault weapons are for assaulting.
The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed. ....
The firearms used by a well-regulated militia, at the time the Second Amendment was written, were mostly long arms that, like a smaller stockpile of pistols, could discharge only once before they had to be reloaded. In size, speed, efficiency, capacity, and sleekness, the difference between an eighteenth-century musket and the gun that George Zimmerman was carrying is roughly the difference between the first laptop computer—which, not counting the external modem and the battery pack, weighed twenty-four pounds—and an iPhone.
And suffice to say, taking semi-auto rifles out of civilian hands isn't going to stop a repeat of Bosnia, or the Spanish Civil War for that matter. Actually, what it does is guarantee that, should things come to that, the organized left will end up dead. Some people like that because it appeals to their sense of moral probity.
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Hasselblad is going to use it in their next gen digi--estimated price $30k, but I remember when the 10MP back was $40k.
Kodak is announcing a 50MP CCD sensor.
Hasselblad is going to use it in their next gen digi--estimated price $30k, but I remember when the 10MP back was $40k.
Megapixels: blah, no drool here. All I see is huge files and the same crappy performance. Give me much higher dynamic range, really high ISO, and NO NOISE. Give me a Foveon chip (3 colors at every pixel) that fulfills its promise. I would take a 6 MP chip with these characteristics over that Sony 24 MP 35mm-format chip.
kewl.. and it's rated at an ISO of ~ 6 ... ..
^^maybe when our sun supernovas you can actually take a photo with it sans teh strobe. -?
Megapixel envy is like megahertz envy. It's made up by marketing folks, and most people wouldn't know what to do with all that mega-whatever anyways.
Like carbonlife, I like pixel quality. Give me a 6-10 megapixel RAW file, from a sensor that is 24x36 in size (to get back my DoF), has virtually no noise from ISO 25 to 25600 (wide sensitivity range for creative control), has >12 stops of dynamic range (so I don't have to use PS tricks on high-contrast scenes), and has very accurate color. If it comes on a body that has a Leica M-mount, even better!
I hear y'all, really I do, but....
I print mural size images in the darkroom. At 6x4 feet megapixels actually mean something.
Also nice to be able to crop to the optical preformance of the glass and not the size of the sensor.
This is why Hasselblad/Kodak is spending so much money making giant digital sensors:
And yet, they still haven't matched good 4x5 film. It's not even merely about sharpness, but look at the contrast, too. Almost none of the image fades into black or is blown out in featureless white.
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Yeah...I want a Nikon D700.
"Study your math, kids. Key to the Universe." - Gabriel in The Prophecy
I want pentax to come out with a professional dslr. Hopefully soon, or i'll have alot of lenses to sell.....
" The love you withhold is the pain you carry, lifetime after lifetime."
50mps! That should result in quite the detail in all the porn rags pretty soon.
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Belgium Bertin. an angel spared it and sent it my way.
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Specialized HR -A1, latest trash find (who throws bikes out??!!)
I'd be happy with 21 megapixels.
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I am an at will employee.
I do have a contract with my employer.
The hospital is non-unionized.
Can you point out to me where the misuse is and its definition in terms of labour law ?
I corrected the timecard and signed that I did not want to incur overtime and the manager approved it.
I can not open the patient's chart if I clock out because then I would have ended up with a HIPAA violation which is even worse.
When did I display unprofessionalism?
I went above and beyond my duty of care to those patients.
Yes, it's true that I did not follow her instructions to say no that I could not see them at that time and too rebook them.
I can not say that in front of the patient, it seems to me like abandonment and poor customer service and they did not provide me an alternative or a person to hand off the patient. They do not have provisions for that.
If, I did not see them at that time, my workload will double-up and I will be forever be behind as I will be chasing and looking for those patients and when the PI time comes I will have no outcomes to show for and then they will get me on that in my performance evaluation.
Where is the time management issue?
My workload is huge and to review 2 volumes of charts per patient is not humanly feasible to accomplish in an hour and to deal with the patient and other factors..
Was I wrong to accept the CCO's words in good faith when he asked me about my schedule and I told him that let us track it be so we can determine the needs of our population group?
It was quite surprising to be given a verbal counselling before the meeting was set -up to discuss the issue and to find a solution.
I think it was handled inappropriately and I dont deserve to be the guinea pig for a management experiment nor my life and career to be shaken just because of poor judgement , lack of management skills or inexperience of these people.
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