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Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job - working as a $US42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - was the best he ever had.
The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Barack Obama, who was visiting the agency's headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic.
It was not only that his bosses had entrusted him with staying close to such an important dignitary. It was that, as an African-American born in Chicago, he was going to meet the nation's first black president, a man he deeply admired.
But by the time Obama's visit was over, Tate was on the way to losing his job.
As Obama's motorcade was preparing to leave the CDC, Tate tried to take a picture on his mobile phone as a memento. Angry Secret Service agents told him he had gotten too close to the Beast, as the presidential limousine is known. When the agents relayed to Tate's bosses what had happened, they reacted angrily.
"This was unjust and has been a nightmare," Tate, 47, said in an interview last week. "I've tried to rationalise it. It won't go away."
But it took several weeks before the full consequences of the incident became clear. An investigation conducted shortly after Obama's visit revealed that Tate was carrying a CDC-issued firearm, a violation of Secret Service protocols - and a security lapse that the agency's director at the time, Julia Pierson, never mentioned to the White House.
Then, on the same day that Pierson testified at a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill about how a fence jumper with a knife gained entry to the White House, the Washington Examiner revealed that Obama had been on an elevator with a CDC security guard who was carrying a gun in violation of Secret Service protocols.
The story added to a growing debate over whether the Secret Service was failing in its most basic duties. Some news media organisations, as well as RepJason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said - erroneously - that the security guard had been convicted of felonies. Tate had been arrested several times, including for robbery and assault, but never convicted.
The next day, Pierson resigned. But in Tate's view, he is the real victim.
"From the reports, I was some stranger that entered the elevator," he said in an interview here at the office of his lawyer, Christopher Chestnut. "I mean, I was appointed."
The Secret Service and the CDC have not released a chronology of what occurred that day, making it difficult to assess the accuracy of Tate's account. A Secret Service official, who was given a summary of Tate's account, said it was largely consistent with what an agency investigation had found. He said the inspector general's office of the Department of Homeland Security is investigating the incident.
But William R Banks, president of Professional Security, the private security firm that was Tate's employer, said in an email that Tate's description of the day's events "are not correct," though he declined to say what was inaccurate. He confirmed that Tate "did not have any felony or misdemeanour convictions." The CDC declined to comment.
According to Tate, the day Obama travelled to the CDC started the way every work day did, with being issued a .40-calibre Smith & Wesson handgun and two magazine clips. Tate said he holstered the weapon on his belt under his suit jacket.
He was then told by his supervisors that he was going to operate the service elevator Obama was going to use. Everything appeared to be going right for Tate. The previous day he had taken off for his birthday and won $US800 playing his birthday digits in the lottery.
About 2:25 pm, the presidential motorcade arrived at the back entrance of the CDC On the elevator ride, Tate said, the president struck up a conversation.
"He acknowledged me, said how you are doing. He said, 'What's your name?' I told him my name, and he extended his hand, shook my hand, and I said it's a pleasure to meet him. And I proceeded to escort him upstairs."
"I was just proud," Tate said. "That was a big accomplishment to me." He said one of the Secret Service agents told him it was remarkable that Obama had talked to him, considering it had taken the president two years to acknowledge the agent.
Tate said that also on the elevator was "one of the little ladies who is always speaking on the news." The president's national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, was with him that day.
After Obama's meetings, Tate took him back down to where the limousine was waiting. After the president got in, Tate tried to take a picture. He said he thought nothing of it because he had taken photos of other dignitaries before - including one with Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York.
When a Secret Service agent officer waved at him to get back, Tate said he headed into the building.
An agent he passed on his way inside said someone was probably going to lose his job because no one was allowed so close to the limousine. Tate said he had no idea why the agents were so concerned since he did not believe he had disobeyed any of their instructions.
A few minutes later, he said, his bosses angrily pulled him aside. Secret Service agents then took him into a conference room to question him.
"I was upset. I'm nervous because I'm like, I don't understand what's going on," he said. Tate said the images he took on his smartphone were of the limousine and the agents around it - similar to ones that often are taken by news crews. He said the Secret Service ordered him to delete them; he complied. After the Secret Service interview was completed, Tate's bosses took away his CDC badge. The next week he was given his letter of termination.
Tate said he still has not been provided with an explanation from the CDC or the contractor about why he was fired. Making matters worse, his 27-year-old son - who had worked at the CDC as a contractor for seven years - was unexpectedly dismissed two weeks after the incident for "downsizing" reasons, Tate said.
Now unemployed, he looks back with sadness on the day he met the president.
"It was something to tell my mom - if I meet him everything will be complete," he said. "I didn't know it was going to be my job."
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It's time to see what teams are made of. Regardless of how you started the season, the road to Durham starts this week and everyone still has a chance. Even Livingstone can run the table and make it Durham. Not really, but my point is, everyone still has a chance to make it to the CIAA title game.
Game of the Week
Bowie State (3-0) at St. Aug (2-1)
This past week, the Bowie State defined the "never quit" attitude. Down 17-0, the Bulldogs rallied with 24 unanswered points to win 24-17 in overtime to remain undefeated. For St. Aug, they traveled north to play NE 10 conference power S. Connecticut and smashed them 30-14. This was a statement game for St. Aug and they have displayed they will be a force this year and could be pulling off some major upsets. However, Bowie proved they are no slouch, and they are coming in here hungry to let the conference know they are for real and will make some serious noise if they can defeat St. Aug on the road. My thoughts are, St. Aug should be undefeated right now and Bowie will be the next victim.
My prediction: St. Aug 35 Bowie 17
Elizabeth City State (1-2) at Fayetteville State (1-2)
This could be a case of two of the best 1-2 teams in the country. ECSU defeated a tough Albany State team and they appeared to return to their preseason form. They have now positioned themselves to run the table into Durham. There were a lot of people around the CIAA thinking the Vikings were going to bulldoze their way through the division and possibly upend WSSU because they had a shiny new QB transfer from UCONN. But the Vikings have the toughest non-conference schedule in the CIAA, and they sputtered from the start. For Fayetteville State, the defeated Virginia Union last week at home and this weekend is Military Appreciation night in Bronco-land. Fayetteville State continues to play QB round robin by playing Hudson and Concepcion two drives a peace. They pulled out their first win of the season against VU, but Concepcion seems to be the more electric play-maker, while Hudson just looks the part of a tall athletic guy. One thing I do know, ECSU is not Virginia Union, and my thoughts are the Vikings will put an end to the QB controversy and make the Broncos decide who should be the starter. The Vikings train is steady moving to Durham.
My Prediction: ECSU 24 Fayetteville 21
Virginia Union (2-1) at # 8 Winston Salem State (3-0)
Virginia Union lost for the first time last week to Fayetteville State after playing two mickey mouse teams to start the season off undefeated. For the Rams of Winston Salem State, they slammed a powerful Morehouse College team 55-21 in Cleveland, Ohio in the Cleveland Football Classic. The Rams have played three tough teams to start off the season and they are gearing up for the stretch run. I dont think this game will be close.
My prediction: WSSU 45 Virginia Union 10
Virginia State (1-2) at Johnson C Smith (1-2)
Coming into the season, I honestly thought JCSU would be doing a lot better. Yes they won last week, but against NAIA Concordia-Selma which can be compared to the Edward Waters of the world. For Virginia State, they beat Benedict last week but the week before lost to a terrible West Liberty team. These two teams are searching for answers.
My prediction: Virginia State 14 JCSU 13
Chowan (1-2) at Shaw (1-2)
Chowan has been putting up some impressive numbers on offense. They actually had a chance to defeat FCS Virginia Military, but fell short in the end. Shaw finally got a win last week for head coach Robert Massey. A win this team desperately needed. For some reason, I feel an upset brewing in this game. Shaw, take Chowan lightly if you want to, their offense is for real.
My prediction: Chowan 35 Shaw 31
Lincoln (0-3) at Livingstone (0-3)
We have two 0-3 teams hoping not to finish 0-10. I'm going with the home team.
My prediction: Livingstone 21 Lincoln 19
The non-conference games are finally over. How do you think the CIAA overall will be viewed to the rest of the country? As we start conference play, what teams are surprising both good and bad?
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Eric Bledsoe has kicked off his inaugural campaign as a full-time starter in Phoenix with a bang, averaging 21.0 PPG, 7.2 APG, 5.0 RPG, 1.8 SPG in 33.8 MPG, and helping the Suns to a 3-2 record after five games. The 4th year veteran is set to become a restricted free agent next summer after failing to land an extension last week, and while some may be worried that this potentially means a short tenure for Bledsoe in Phoenix, GM Ryan McDonough was openly optimistic about being able to re-sign him (Adam Green of Arizona Sports, hat tip to Burns and Gambo of Arizona Sports 620):
"I feel very confident that he's going to be a Sun long-term…We negotiated with Eric and his agents. I think the contract situation was handled very professionally on both ends…We can match any offer to Eric next summer…Another advantage would be we have an extra year to play with. Other teams who are making Eric an offer can offer him four years, we can offer him up to five if we chose to do so…So there's some inherent advantages that I just mentioned, also we can give higher percentage increases than another team could give Eric in a contract."
Here are some more miscellaneous news and notes to pass along tonight:
- Looking into Lance Stephenson's comments that he thinks the Pacers would "do anything" to keep him in Indiana for the long term, Candace Buckner of IndyStar.com (along with USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt) explores how the 23-year-old shooting guard could be positioning himself for a five-year max deal next summer. While I'm not too sure about labeling Stephenson as a max-level player at this point, if he can maintain his current averages of 16.3 PPG, 6.2 RPG, 4.6 APG, and 47% shooting from the field, he should draw some very lucrative offers next July.
- Christopher Dempsey of The Denver Post notes how the Nuggets' plans to recruit Kyle Korver this past summer led to nothing more than brief contact because of the massive turnover that had been going on within the front office and coaching staff. Korver would eventually re-sign with the Hawks.
- The Thunder have hired former Raptors vice president and assistant GM Maurizio Gherardini in a senior adviser/international affairs position, according to Darnell Mayberry of NewsOK.


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One person was stabbed when about 20 Islamists chanting and some carrying knives attacked the demonstrators on Saturday, the Milliyet andHurriyet newspapers reported.
About 200 people staged the kissing protest after officials in the Ankara municipality, which is run by Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) [3], [4] admonished a young couple for kissing in the street.
Turkey is predominantly Muslim but staunchly secular, although the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has introduced several measures [4] opponents see as a sign of the creeping Islamisation of the country, including restrictions on alcohol.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colts coach Chuck Pagano has been medically cleared to return to the team by his physician and could be back as soon as Monday.
On Thursday, Dr. Larry Cripe told The Associated Press it's up to Pagano and the Colts to figure out when he'll be back and how much he'll do.
Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia Sept. 26. Players and most of Indy's assistants were told Oct. 1 that Pagano was taking an indefinite leave from the team to undergo three rounds of chemotherapy. Cripe said that while the cancer remains in remission, Pagano will continue to take oral medication and will be closely monitored for the next couple of years.
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5/12 Long Beach Comics Expo, Long Beach, CA
On May 12, the 2012 Long Beach Comics Expo will take place in Long Beach, California. Focusing on California-based creators, the show will feature such comics creator guests as Joshua Hale Fialkov, Georges Jeanty, JT Krul, Bernard Chang and Dustin Nguyen among many others. The 2012 Longbeach Comics Expo will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center at 300 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA. Hours are 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15 for adults, which includes free admission for two children ten or under.
5/18-5/20 University of Chicago's "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" with Bechdel, Clowes et al in Chicago
On May 18-20, the University of Chicago will hold "Comics: Philosophy & Practice". a special three day educational event and academic conference about the creation and culture of comics and their evolving future. The conference will feature live lectures and discussion from seventeen different renowned comics creators including Alison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman and Lynda Barry among others. The event will take place at the University of Chicago's new Logan Center for the Arts and will be the new facility's first conference. The conference will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, from 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free to the general public, but preregistration online is encouraged. The University's Logan Center for the Arts is located at 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL.
5/22, 5/23 Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman Discuss "Blown Covers" Live in New York
Comics creator Francoise Mouly, art director for The New Yorker will be discussing her new book Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See alongside comics creator Art Spiegelman and illustrators Barry Blitt and Roz Chast at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Tuesday, May 22 and with Blown Covers blog creator Nadja Spiegelman and illustrator Jorge Columbo at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. Mouly and her fellow panelists will discuss the process of creation and submission process of New Yorker covers as well as the amateur cover contest on the Blown Covers blog. The 92nd Street Y event will take place at 8:15 p.m. on May 22 in Buttenweiser Hall and tickets cost $34 each, the Greenlight Books event will take place at 7:30 p.m. on May 23 and admission is free.


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The use of landing pages, microsites, PURLs (personalized URLs) has grown in recent years. Companies use these small focused sites to convert visitors to leads in a narrow and defined vertical market. The traffic delivered to the site is always narrowly defined around a qualified interest in the topic of the site. This approach is very effective but often cost and time prohibitive. There is also the issue of the landing page looking like a landing page and not a site offering a legitimate product or service.
The ideal stage to present a message to a client is of course the home page of the main company website. This is comparable to the reception area of the companys corporate headquarters. There is a reason this area is planned and designed to create a certain impact. There is a reason you dont ask prospective clients to meet you at the back door of the building and walk them in through some back office.
A video spokesperson company has created a very sophisticated high impact solution to this problem. Scott Martin, CEO of Live On Page explains,Our clients usually bring traffic to their websites with sponsored links in Google, Yahoo and Bing. We developed a mechanism to allow the various ads to toggle on specific videos on the very same home page. The team at Live On Page call this ad-loading and it uses a feature that is only possible when video is controlled from a server outside of the clients own webhost. Since the video that plays on the home page is not hard-coded in the html of the page, variables can be passed backwards into the Live On Page server to control which video plays in the milliseconds after a viewer comes to a home page.
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I wasn't thrilled about this trip because amusement parks and roller coasters give me anxiety. I am going to write a whole post on my journey to overcome this specifically another time. It's really deserving of it's own home because it became quite the leap for me.
This story is same same but different (as they say in Bangkok). I had a very long and arduous anxiety attack at a theme park. I'm embarrassed so much that I have to write about it. We arrived at the park in the morning all stoked and ready. I was mentally and emotionally prepared to conquer some fears. I was fucking ready! Except that deep down in the core of my being something was off. It was off from the moment I woke up in the tent that morning. Something just wasn't right. It was the slow build of an anxiety attack that had started tightening it's grips on me the night before as we were going to bed. I woke up multiple times during the night with mild panic but swiftly stifled that shit and stuffed it away.
We rode one coaster and on the outside I was feeling exhilarated and wonderful AND NORMAL. Not moments after walking away with the adrenaline still pumping I sensed the anxiety starting to overflow. The dam had burst. I tried plugging a hole here and there. I tried so fucking hard to tell my brain to shut the fuck up already but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Here we were walking around a fucking amusement park and I'm in absolute shambles. Literally the worst place ever to endure an anxiety attack. I threw some more anti-nausea meds at that shit and patiently waited. I watched Ryan go on ride after ride and all that was happening was my anxiety was steadily mounting and my coping was non-existent. I couldn't escape it. I worked hard to try and get past it but it kept coming in ebbs and flows. Deceiving me with moments of feeling normal only to be shaken down to almost not even being able to move. I was done. It was emotionally exhausting me.
In the midst of said very horrible anxiety attack. I asked Ryan to take a picture to document it for a future blog post. I didn't want to stand up. I didn't want to move. Hands in fists, this is my normal.
We left the park and went back to our campsite. I sat still in almost tears while Ryan went for a trail run on his own. I felt like my body weighed a ton and I couldn't do anything but sit and stare at nothing. I walked a few feet into the forest where I saw a sunny patch and plopped my ass down on the forest floor with my legs outstretched. I stared. I breathed. I thought long and hard. I knew what was triggering this anxiety and it still embarrasses me to my core because it's an absolute fucking stupid reason. I'm not even going to mention it.
The point is, I sat there sometimes with my eyes closed and other times watching the beetles and ants musing about in the leaves and dirt. I really meditated for the first time probably ever. It was so quiet and comforting sitting on the forest floor. Nobody was around. I lost track of time but I think I was there for about 40 minutes. Just still. It felt like 15.
Ryan got back from his run and I insisted we go back to the park for a couple hours before it closed. We did and we had a really sweet time. I can't explain what happened but what I learned is I made it happen. I focused and overcame a day-long anxiety attack which usually would have taken me out until the following morning. That's the first time ever that I was able to sit down with my anxiety and bitch slap it upside the head. I made that happen. I made it stop. Yeah I lost a good 3/4 of the day but the point is, I overcame.
I told Ryan countless times that I have to deal with this. I have to find ways to pacify myself no matter where I am or what I'm doing. I'm ashamed to admit that I rarely have grips on it when it arises in situations like that but I NEED to work on it when it does. I must find ways to address it so I'm not left running the fuck away. Especially on holidays when I don't really have a "safe place" to go to (in my mind and physically).
I'm not sure the outcome would have been the same if I had access to wifi. Being in the US means our phones have no data and we only have access with wifi. Sitting at that campground I felt a little stir crazy for not having my phone to occupy my brain while I endured waves of anxiety. Turns out it was a good thing because it forced me to confront it.
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I found the cookie recipe on the back of an old favorite–Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix. This mix is so versatile, and always popular, but can easily replace it with your own favorite sugar cookie recipe. Then about a week or so ago, I saw some pink hot chocolate mix in Michael's. It was super cute, but also really expensive. It started me thinking, and even though I didn't know how to make true hot chocolate pink (pink + brown??), I did have a yummy white hot chocolate recipe that I could try it with.
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
1 package Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix (prepared as directed for drop cookies, + 3 T. flour), OR your favorite sugar cookie dough
raspberry jam
white chocolate chips
Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press thumb into the center of each ball, then place about 1/4 tsp. of raspberry jam in the indentation. Bake according to package or recipe directions. Cool for 10 minutes. Melt white chocolate chips in a glass bowl in the microwave until smooth. Spoon the melted chips into a sandwich bag, forcing into one corner. Snip the very tip, and pipe the chocolate over the cookies.
I love the hearts! It really makes it an extra special Valentine treat. I also tried some xoxo's, and you could even write names, initials, or "be mine". So fun!
Pink Hot Chocolate
(recipe originally from Food Network)
1 c. white chocolate chips
1 c. heavy cream
4 c. half and half
red food coloring
In a large saucepan, melt the white chocolate chips with the heavy cream, stirring until completely smooth. Add the half and half, vanilla, then the food coloring to get your desired color (I used 7-8 drops). Heat through. Serve in mugs, topped with whipped cream!
Valentine Serving Tray
I wanted something fun to serve some of the treats in, but I didn't really have anything that I liked.
So, I took this box I had saved…
spray painted it white, and added some fun Valentine's Day paper to the bottom. I did distress all the edges first, using Distress Ink. A little Mod Podge adheres it on perfectly!


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Oklahoma Sooners project anywhere from 4-7 seed in NCAA tournament
As I wrote yesterday, the Sooners are playing in the toughest conference in America. The Big 12 has the highest average BPI (Basketball power index) of any conference, and as I opined, it may be the strongest year ever for the Big 12.
As a result of the brutal schedule for each team, chances for quality wins come often. At 21-8, the Sooners have two games left against West Virginia and on the road against TCU. The Sooners will be projected to win both of those game, and neither would serve as a marquee win.
Therefore if the Sooners want to elevate their seed past its current status, they need to make some noise in the Big 12 conference tournament.
The Sooners are currently ranked 23rd, and they rank 26th on ESPN's BPI ranking. According to the BPI seeding projections, the Sooners project as a seven seed. Their archrival Oklahoma State is projected to be a five seed.
ESPN's Joe Lunardi recently lowered OU to a five seed. Lunardi projects a matchup against 12 seed BYU in Spokane, Washington, for their "second round" game.
Meanwhile, CBS has the highest seed of all three for the Sooners. CBS ranks them as a four seed, taking on 13 seed Toledo in the second round in Spokane.
Continuity has been the key for the Sooners this season. They are the only team in the country to start the same lineup every game and have all those starters averaging double-figures in scoring. Then, when the close games come down to free throws, the Sooners are the best in the Big 12. OU shoots 76.9 percent from the free throw line. A myriad of reasons suggest the Sooners could make a deep run in March.
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text: Politics 2 April 2007 Purely cosmetic? Make-up is so much more than just face paint. Sign up for our weekly email * A woman's handbag is, quite rightly, a mystery. But within the folds of fluff and amid the wraps of paper that register phone numbers of unimag inable importance, there is something of such value that it could be described as the beating heart of the handbag: the make-up bag. It takes time to build a cosmetics purse. Sure, you can go to those shiny counters, staffed by women whose eyebrows are tamed beyond any possibility of revolt, and spend a couple of hundred pounds, and you would, indeed, end up with a fully staffed make-up bag. It wouldn't be yours, though - and it won't be, until the lipstick has been worked down into a shape that exactly fits your lips, and until the eyebrow colours in their neat-no-more palette have been broken down to make them more malleable, and therefore easier to apply. In terms of status in among the cosmetics, the lipstick is queen. Lipsticks have had entire books dedicated to them. Next is mascara. These are the two items most women say they cannot live without. It's nonsense on one level, of course, but the power of lipstick, and how it makes a woman feel, must never be trivialised. From the silly everyday occurrence - the woman having to "put her lippy on" before a relatively difficult exchange - to the enormous impact make-up and lipstick can have on a woman's psyche, there's more going on than just colouring in one's face. The skincare guru John Gustaf son shocked me one day by telling me how he gave all the excess (unused) make-up he got in the course of his job to a women's refuge. It seemed a frivolous, almost insulting, thing to offer women who had been beaten by their partners; but apparently it was a huge help psych ologically for the women, many of whom had had to leave their homes with very little. Some years ago I read this powerful extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, one of the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945. (I have verified the source from the Imperial War Museum.) "I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives . . . It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted. We were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it. It was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick . . . At last someone had done something to make them individuals again: they were someone, no longer merely the number tattooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity." Annalisa Barbieri was in fashion PR for five years before going to the Observer to be fashion assistant. She has worked for the Evening Standard and the Times and was one of the fashion editors on the Independent on Sunday for five years, where she wrote the Dear Annie column. She was fishing correspondent of the Independent from 1997-2004. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 02 April 2007 issue of the New Statesman, Africa: How we killed our dreams of freedom More


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(Spring 2011) Instead of using counting sort to sort digits in the radix sort algorithm, we can use any valid sorting algorithm and radix sort will still sort correctly.
False. Need stable sort.
[Spring 2009] A set of n integers whose values are in the range [0, n8) can be sorted in O(n) time.
True. Use radix sort with a radix of size n. Then each invocation of counting sort takes O(n + n) = O(n) time. Each element has 8 "digits", so the total time for radix sort is O(8n) = O(n).
[Fall 2009] Heapsort is not a stable sorting algorithm.
[Fall 2009] Finding the minimum element of a binary min heap takes logarithmic time.
[Fall 2009] Any type of sorting algorithm can be used to sort the digits in one phase of radix sort.
[Spring 2008] To sort n integers in the range from 1 to n2, a good implementation of radix sort is asymptotically faster in the worst case than any comparison sort.
True. Split each number into two digits, each between 0 and n. Then make two passes of counting sort, each taking θ(n) time. Any comparison sort will take Ω(n log n) time.
[Spring 2008] Call an ordered pair (x1,y1) of numbers lexically less than an ordered pair (x2,y2) if either (i)x1 < x2 or(ii)x1 = x2 and y1 < y2. Then a set of ordered pairs can be sorted lexically by two passes of a sorting algorithm that only compares individual numbers.
True. The idea is similar to RADIX-SORT though it is not exactly the same. First we sort on the yi digit of each pair, (xi, yi). Next we sort on the xi digit using a stable sort.
[Spring 2008] Any in-place sorting algorithm can be used as the auxiliary sort in radix sort.
False. The auxiliary algorithm has to be stable. In-place means the algorithm only uses constant additional memory.
[Spring 2008] Every sorting algorithm requires Ω(n lg n) comparisons in the worst case to sort n elements.
False. Counting sort, radix sort, and bucket sort all sort in fewer than O(n lg n) comparisons. The lower bound only applies to comparison sorts.
[Fall 2008] The running time of Radix sort is effectively independent of whether the input is already sorted.
True. All input orderings give the worst-case running time; the running time doesn't depend on the order of the inputs in any significant way.


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Seed Napkin Rings
Make a seed mosaic around cardboard tubes to create these earthy and charming seed napkin rings that are perfect for a Thanksgiving or garden table setting.
A variety of seeds, beans
and spices
Cardbiard tubes
White glue or tacky glue
Craft knife
Poster paint or acrylic paint
Paint brush
Cut a cardboard tube into three sections, with each section about 1.5 inches wide.
Each paper tube section will be the base for your napkin ring. Paint each one with a background color.
Prepare various seeds, grains, beans and spices.
Apply a thick layer of white glue or tacky glue on a small area of the napkin ring base. Tacky glue is a thicker variety of white glue and bonds things quicker than white glue.
Sprinkle seeds onto the glue.
Work on a section at a time. If you're using white glue, you may need to let each section set before moving on to the next. Tacky glue will bond the seeds more readily.
Continue until you have covered the entire surface of the napkin ring. Here are some notes and ideas for your mosaic design:
Doing simple geometric designs like stripes or triangles are the most doable for younger kids because it allows them to just sprinkle on the seeds.
An even more spontaneous option would be to have kids mix 2 or more types of seeds on a tray. After applying a thick layer of glue on the napkin ring, let them sprinkle, spoon on some seeds or roll the napkin ring onto the trayful of seeds.
Try out a more intricate design by carefully lining up the seeds rather than sprinkling them onto the napkin ring.
You don't always have to do a full mosaic. The background can be a charming and integral part of your design.
Allow your finished napkin rings to dry completely.
If you're concerned about the seeds coming off, you can seal in the seeds by covering the surface of the napkin ring with a thick layer of white glue. Squeeze on a glob of glue and spread it with a paint brush, covering even the spaces between the seeds.
White glue and tacky glue will dry clear. These beautiful seed mosaic napkin rings are perfect for a Thanksgiving or garden table setting.
This craft is reprinted courtesy of FirstPalette.com.
A free resource for fun and educational kids' crafts, the site features a step-by-step guide for each craft project and includes printable templates, art recipes, and environment-friendly tips for crafting.
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Any chance of Slackware including /etc/os-release?
At Opera (my employer) we often see bugs that only show up in one distro, often in a specific version of a distro. Usually we notice a trend once enough bugs or crash reports come in and we have contacted several of the people reporting them.
It would greatly speed things up for us (in terms of reproducing the bug locally and hence having a chance of fixing it) if we knew the distro (and version) up front. A handful of people remember to include this information in their bug and crash reports but sadly the vast majority do not. We have considered various ways of determining the distro automatically (looking for /etc/$DISTRO-release, /etc/$DISTRO_version, /etc/$DISTRO-version, or reading /proc/version and/or /etc/issue) but all methods have various drawbacks. Not least the fact that formatting changes drastically between each of these methods, particularly across distros and distro versions.
For a while it looked like lsb_release might fix the problem. However, that never really took off. It's an optional package in many distributions and has the downside in any case that you must call the application directly rather than reading a file (Note: Ubuntu includes the file /etc/lsb-release, which is read by their lsb_release tool, however the LSB does not standardise any such file, so its presence or format cannot be assumed in any case).
Recently, .... [drum roll] .... Lennart Poettering wrote the following on his blog:
(Please keep an open mind when reading it and don't just dismiss it due to whatever feelings you have towards Lennart, PulseAudio or systemd).
I actually quite like this idea. Not only would it solve a problem here at Opera but also for various other software companies and/or projects. I have seen distro checks in numerous other applications and scripts, so this is a common problem. It would also help on forums such as these as you could always ask a newbie to cat /etc/os-release if he/she was not providing clear information about his or her setup.
Even if Slackware manages to avoid systemd (which I hope it does) perhaps this file could still be added. It is already present in recent versions of the following distros: Angstrom, ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora, Frugalware, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Mageia (and possibly others). Its presence in Debian will mean that it also eventually shows up in Ubuntu and Mint and its presence in Fedora will mean it ends up in RHEL, CentOS, Oracle and Scientific. These list of distros includes all the core development distros (with the exception of Slackware) to the vast majority of smaller distros out there. If Slackware adds the file as well, then I predict that within a few years the problem of distro detection will be solved (at least for modern distros).
P.S. In case anyone is wondering when reporting Opera bugs and crashes you have the option of seeing all the data we gathered and hence removing or adjusting it if you so desire. ;)
EDIT: The /etc/os-release man page on freedesktop.org is also worth reading for more details of the exact format.
EDIT: Since there are no doubt plenty of scripts out that there that look for /etc/slackware-version I am certainly not suggesting its removal. For backwards compatibility it will need to stay in addition to /etc/os-release. I know this is not as pretty as having one file but Slackware has always strived to do things right and keep things stable first and foremost. For that reason I want both /etc/slackware-version and /etc/os-release
Any chance of Slackware including /etc/os-release
it's there already as /etc/slackware-version
@dgrames: You might want to actually read the link before replying. ;)
EDIT: Ok, I'll be nice and summarise. /etc/slackware-version is not a standardized naming format, e.g. /etc/fedora-version does not exist on Fedora but rather /etc/fedora-release and Debian uses another naming format again by calling their file /etc/debian_version. Additionally the formatting within the files /etc/slackware-version, /etc/fedora-release and /etc/debian_version is not the same.
Therefore to write a distro checking script you actually have to already know the names of the files each of the distros use and how they format their contents internally. What happens when a new distro appears? You have to be aware of it and update your script to account for it. You will never automatically detect a new distro.
/etc/os-release is one file name with a well defined format. That is the point.
I read the first paragraph of Poettering's blog post and that was again enough for the day:
Regarding the above statement of dropping of support for systems lacking /etc/os-release, he clarifies his statement on the mailing list. Rephrasing it to say it is only kinda mandatory. You can work around this by using --with-distro= on the configure line when building systemd. Or you can do neither and when a systemd-based distro boots it will now read "Welcome to Linux" in white instead of the distribution's name in the colour. Previously to requiring /etc/os-release they apparently had a method that tried to determine the distro by jumping through hoops (like we had considered). So it is not so much that systemd requires this file, it requires it if you want your distro name listed and won't consider --with-distro= when building systemd as an alternative.
EDIT: I should also add that by mandating /etc/os-release (or --with-distro= when building) a new distro who decides to use systemd will get their name printed without having to patch systemd so that it autodetect's their distro just to print the correct name. So actually this probably makes it easier for the distro maintainer and helps simplify the systemd code. Its not as bad as it sounds but I can see that his arrogant style certainly makes it read that way! ;)
Sigmund Freud once wrote: "I have no problems with my enemies. It's my friends that are causing me headaches."
In a similar vein, I'd say with supporters like Lennart Poettering, Linux doesn't need enemies.
A casual observation of this thread shows that there seems to be mixed feelings. But "feelings" is what is seeming to dominate. Perhaps we should be conceding that adding this file 1) costs nothing, 2) wins a bit, 3) can't hurt anything. It's not as if it's a brand new program that could crash the new release. And if it misses this release, it could take another year before the chance to remedy arises. And as @ruario points out, it could be useful for a lot of developers who write cross-(linux)-platform stuff.
I'm not expecting everyone around here to start suddenly liking Lennart. Hell, I'm no fan of the guy. But you don't need to like the guy to decide if /etc/os-release is beneficial or not. It would be nice if we could focus on that. ;)
Well, at first glance this seems beneficial, but wouldn't it also make things easier for potential distro-specific malicious code? A _little_ bit easier, but still...
To be fair to Lennart, I think this is the first idea of his that I actually *like*. He should probably stick to standardizing text file formats. ;)
To get some idea of the tricks you have to employ have a look at 90linux-distro (Part of os-prober, used by the Debian installer and Grub), or perhaps the detection script used by Lynis (an auditing tool for Unix), or look at "detect_distro()" within the linked script on the Compiz-Check page. Once you start looking for it you realise there are lots of scripts doing stuff like this, reinventing the wheel over and over again and detecting different selections of distros (the ones the maintainer of the script knew or cared about). They are also all ugly hence often broken. VirtualBox is another application where I have recently seen similar style code (download one of their cross distro ".run" files and open it in less, then search for /etc/slackware-version).
You also see the question coming up again and again on various forums and mailing lists. These are the results of a very quick search:
I would prefer that the Common Platform Enumeration string be the only mandatory field in /etc/os-release. It is a cross platform specification.This would serve the needs of software developers.
The other fields are fluff that are not applicable in Slackware and most could be parsed from the CPE string.
I also do not like the idea of an extensible structure to /etc/os-release. This smacks of the thin end of wedge. No offence ruario, but you work for a commercial company that wants users to make use of social networking and cloud computing. Providing accessible information about private computing setups just creates more potential fields for data mining.
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- Revenge can be more fully understood by making distinctions between anger and hatredAaron N Sell
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Mt Gravatt Campus, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Qld 4122, Australia
Behav Brain Sci 36:36-7. 2013..Here I present a contrast between revenge motivated by anger (as discussed in the target article) and revenge motivated by hatred, which remains largely unexplored in the literature...
- Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and faceAaron Sell
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:575-84. 2009..These studies are the first empirical demonstration that, for humans, judgements of strength and judgements of fighting ability not only track each other, but accurately track actual upper-body strength...
- Formidability and the logic of human angerAaron Sell
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:15073-8. 2009....
- Standards of evidence for designed sex differencesAaron Sell
Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 9660, USA
Behav Brain Sci 32:289; discussion 292-311. 2009..In this commentary I describe the standards of evidence for both the positive and negative claims. In my opinion, Archer has met the standard for designed sex differences in intrasexual conflict...
- Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voiceAaron Sell
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:3509-18. 2010..These results provide, to our knowledge, the first direct evidence that both men and women can accurately assess men's physical strength from the voice, and suggest that estimates of strength are used to assess fighting ability...
- The importance of physical strength to human malesAaron Sell
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Australia
Hum Nat 23:30-44. 2012..New data are presented showing that among Hollywood actors, those selected for their physical strength (i.e., action stars) are more likely to believe in the utility of warfare...


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is possible to include an external html file in silverstripe?
In /theme/mytheme/template/Page.ss I have a div that include "flower" word. I need put here a link to services.html file. Where I must put this file?And how can create link?
I'm not sure the answer you're looking for is this but...
If I understand correctly, your solution is quite simple.
Create a folder under "assets" folder which is in the root of your SS installation. And just put your any neccessary HTML files inside this.
Then go to the page edit screen and click on "download a file" under link menu. Select your folder and after your HTML file.
Thats it :)


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Hybrid Online-Classroom Education: How's It Working?
A Duke University bioengineering professor offers his first impressions of Coursera
Steven Cherry: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations."
My name is Roger Barr, and I'm the professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. This course is about bioelectricity. So why should you be interested in bioelectricity? Fundamentally, it's the way your brain works, your heart works, your nerve works….
That's from an introductory video to a course being taught this semester simultaneously at Duke University, in North Carolina, and on the Internet.
Longtime listeners may recall a show I did back in February with computer science professor Daphne Koller of Stanford University about that school's hybrid model of online learning, in which video lectures and digital assessment tools are used to free up valuable classroom time. Koller was a bit guarded in that conversation; a couple of questions couldn't be answered, it turns out, without talking about a stealth company she and a colleague were about to launch.
That company, Coursera, is up and running. It has an office in Mountain View, Calif., with more than a dozen programmers, and its courseware is being used by classes at a number of schools this fall.
One of them is that Bioelectricity course at Duke. I thought it would be interesting to follow up on the February podcast by hearing from a professor using it, what the Coursera experience is like.
Roger Barr is the Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. He's an IEEE Fellow and a longtime member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
Roger, welcome to the podcast.
Roger Barr: Well, thank you very much.
Steven Cherry: Well, so, Bioelectricity is an eight-week class, and as we record this, you just started the third week. How much of it is still done in person, and how much of it is video and software?
Roger Barr: The entire course is either video or software. The only part that is, in a sense, live and in person, is the "forum," as it's called, which is kind of a discussion board where people put up questions. Some of the questions are answered by students, and then some are answered by the course TA or by me.
Steven Cherry: So how often does that meet?
Roger Barr: Well, the course runs on a weekly basis; the discussion board runs nonstop. There are questions being posted, I'd say, almost every hour of every day. If I go to look at it, it'll be three minutes since the last question was posted, or maybe five minutes, or maybe no minutes—just some number of seconds.
Steven Cherry: So that's real time, but it's not in person?
Roger Barr: That's correct. It's real time, but it's not in person. It's all Internet based. Now, of course, the student who's a Duke student who's doing this classroom is also attending in-person classes at Duke, and those in our case meet three times a week.
Steven Cherry: And is that with you or with TAs or both?
Roger Barr: Once with me and twice with a TA.
Steven Cherry: So that time used to be lecture time and then discussion sections with the TAs, I guess. What is it now?
Roger Barr: Well, it's essentially 100 percent discussion. It's putting up questions on the board. It's talking about having different students come up to the board and talk about it, having comments from me, and quite often having comments from other students. It really is a much better use of the time.
Steven Cherry: So how many students are taking it at Duke, and how many online?
Roger Barr: So in the course that I teach at Duke, there are 20 students that are currently enrolled, and online there are maybe 11 800, or something like that.
Steven Cherry: And it's probably too soon to tell, but do you think the Duke students will do better this semester, or about the same, or what?
Roger Barr: The Duke students always do well, so it would be hard to compare one semester with another. But I think the course is more fun this way. The part that is different is that the class time is used more extensively for things people really enjoy doing. They enjoy talking to each other, they enjoy commenting on how problems are done, they enjoy thinking about alternatives, and more of the class time goes to that. It's a better class.
Steven Cherry: And are you getting specific feedback along those lines yet?
Roger Barr: Well, since the Coursera part is only three weeks old, I hear comments that people like it, or they're having no problems, or it's going well, but it's not possible to look back on it in the way you can do at the end of the semester.
Steven Cherry: So the lectures that I gather are being delivered by video, it's your standard lectures broken up into smaller chunks?
Roger Barr: That's right. They're standard ideas, core ideas, and each one is broken up into 10-minute pieces. That's to say 10 minutes on the average—some might be a little bit longer, some might be a little bit shorter. And those are recorded segment by segment. This is a plan, at first I was very doubtful about it, but as I started doing it, I really started to like it. It's easy to focus on what you're going to do in 10 minutes and try to do that well.
Steven Cherry: Are there things that you can see yet that you might want to be done differently by Coursera or by yourself?
Roger Barr: So, the good thing about recording and then playing back material is you get to review your own performance, and, of course, you have a lot of people to help you review your performance. So where you make mistakes in a live class, they're just made, and maybe you correct them later on. Here I can go back. I can rerecord that segment and things I said before. I can fix a lot of little mistakes that I make and that other people make, and really, over time, make it a much better course.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, I was going to get to that. I would imagine all your academic life your lectures have been ephemeral, like a play, and now it will exist forever, like a movie. And you cited some of the benefits of that, but do you have any qualms as well?
Roger Barr: You know, to do this, you just have to have a sense of adventure and hope that it's all going to work out in the end. So if I were to reflect on it, I'm sure I would have qualms about it, but I don't even think about it. I just enjoy doing it right now.
Steven Cherry: Now there's a kind of dynamic to a classroom. You can sort of deliver an idea better than you thought you could have because of that dynamic. It's sort of the same dynamic in a Socratic dialogue. Do you feel the loss of that?
Roger Barr: So, you do in the sense of when you're talking, you don't have anybody there who's looking at you and grimacing or smiling or whatever their emotion might be, so that is a loss in making the videos. On the other hand, when the videos go live on Coursera, and I assume any course, you immediately get feedback via the text messaging and the discussion boards, so there is a dynamic to that that is much more intense than I had anticipated it to be. Partly because online, the Duke students are saying, but so are lots of other people. And some of the other people are very focused, very attentive to detail, and they bring their own specialized knowledge.
Steven Cherry: Now, in addition to the videos, the Coursera strategy includes homeworks that might be a little different than the homeworks that you might assign, and something that you didn't have before at all, which would be the assessment tools. Tell us about those.
Roger Barr: So, the Coursera mechanism as I use it involves occasional interruptions of the lectures, where you ask students, "Did you understand this? Do you want to continue?"—things that are within the lectures themselves. Then, in addition to that, it involves two quizzes every week, and my class, we have a conceptual quiz that involves multiple-choice problems and has to do with the ideas, and then we have questions that have to be answered with numbers and equations in the fashion that is normal for engineering courses. So it has a multifaceted sort of structure. The part that is really different is that in the online course you can do the questions multiple times, so doing it multiple times, on the one hand, makes it easier to make a higher score in the end. On the other hand, you have to keep coming back and back and back, perhaps maybe three or four times, in order to get to that point, and I like that. That's nice.
Steven Cherry: So people are getting a higher grade, but they're, in fact, earning the higher grade because they're really learning it a little better.
Roger Barr: Well, if you think of ordinary life, if you're working with your child or your friend or somebody, and you do this or do that or ride a bike or whatever, they don't get it quite right at first, or not at all right. You say, "Let's try it again," and that's what's happening online: You're trying again, perhaps with more review, perhaps with more thought, but you're coming back, you're spending more time with it, and I'm sure you're learning more.
Steven Cherry: Now, in your own discipline, are there classes that you teach, or that others teach, that you think would be unsuitable for the Coursera treatment?
Roger Barr: Well, obviously a course that's a laboratory course, that depends on online laboratory experiences, where you need equipment or preparations in electricity or some kind of biological preparation. It's hard to replicate that online. You could do some steps through video, but that would not be the same thing. And at the other extreme, a course that involved a lot of interpersonal discussion back and forth between a student and a faculty member, direct one-on-one, or just a small group discussion, that would be hard to replicate. But there's a huge world in between that I think is actually done better in the Coursera format.
Steven Cherry: Now, potentially, other schools will get a chance to choose between having their own bioengineering professor record his or her lecture or just using yours. Do you have any thoughts about that?
Roger Barr: So what I'm trying to do is do the best I can as the instructor of this particular course, not make that decision on behalf of other people. But I can say that here at Duke, we have discussed using the lecture sequences from other schools where we know the school and we know the instructor, and incorporating that within our own program, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happened in other places.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, I was going to ask you about the flip side of that: What if Duke or your department decides that somebody else's bioelectricity lecture is better than yours?
Roger Barr: Well, I'm not worried about them doing that, because I think ours will be better than theirs, and we'll change it to make it better if we can. But the thing that I think is true is that Duke, like every other university, Duke has a big program here, and we have a lot of smart students, but there are a lot of things we don't do either. We're not specialists in everything. So there are other places that do things very well, which we don't have anybody here that's equivalent, so we could adopt some work done in other places very much to our benefit.
Steven Cherry: And so those would be sort of elective courses within the program, and I guess you would still run discussion sections but use the others' lectures and assessment tools and so forth?
Roger Barr: We're still trying to figure out what the best way is to do that. I think that's the most straightforward thing to do, is use other people's lectures and incorporate it within an existing course that has labs or discussion or whatever as a part of the total framework. But I wouldn't want to rule out the possibility that in the future, under certain circumstances, we might accept an online course for course credit, or for course credit after an exam, or something like that. We just don't know. The whole thing is so new, we're just trying to figure out what the best thing is to do.
Steven Cherry: Very good. So I have to close by asking you kind of an offbeat question. One of the frequently asked questions on the Web page for the bioelectricity course asks, "What's the coolest thing I'll learn if I take this class?" And the answer is, "How a battery can be in saltwater for 100 years, used over and over, and yet never discharge." So I just have to ask you, How can a battery be in saltwater for 100 years, used over and over, and yet never discharge?
Roger Barr: It can be like a nerve or a muscle in your body, and it has a sodium potassium pump. And it takes the saltwater, separates the sodium from the potassium, and uses their diffusion to generate voltages, and it keeps on doing that for as long as you live. So it doesn't fight against the saltwater; it makes use of the saltwater.
Steven Cherry: Well, thanks. It sounds like a really good course, and I'm sure the tens of thousands of students are enjoying it. And good luck to you, and good luck to them.
Roger Barr: Thank you, and thank you very much for talking to me today.
Steven Cherry: We've been speaking with Duke University professor of biomedical engineering Roger Barr about his experiences so far with the hybrid classroom-and-Internet way of teaching promoted by Coursera, a California start-up.
For IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations," I'm Steven Cherry.
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An open house to celebrate the 80th birthday of Carolyn (Stricker) Jacobson, Moorhead, will be from 4 to 11 p.m. June 14 at Sunset Bowling Lanes (upstairs), Moorhead. There will be a band from 7 to 11 p.m. No gifts, please.
She was born June 15, 1934, in Fargo to Sam and Francis King.


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Could you end up in jail for not paying your bills? Is our country's need for speed going to derail efforts to end improper loan-servicing and foreclosure practices? How do Florida's nuclear power plants compare to those in Japan?
Those are just some of the questions being asked this week from top tier business and real estate reporters around the country. Most importantly, the answers could have profound effects on Florida's housing market and our country's economy.
Welcome to Debtors' Prison, 2011 Edition
More than a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers who are behind on credit-card payments, auto loans and other bills to be jailed, according to The Wall Street Journal Business Writer Jessica Silver-Greenberg.
However lawmakers, judges and regulators are beginning to crack down on this practice analogous to the Shay's Rebellion 2.0 Oppenheim Law described almost a year ago.
In Florida, training this week for dozens of new judges moving to courts with the power to lock up borrowers includes a session about potential abuses of debt-related warrants. "Before we take away a person's freedom, we want to ensure that there are procedural safeguards," said Peter Evans, a Palm Beach County, Fla., state-court judge who proposed the session.
A Swift Deal May Not Be a Sound One
This country's need for speed derailed the mortgage industry, and that same breakneck pace is threatening to ruin a bank settlement being devised by state attorneys general relating to improper loan-servicing and foreclosure practices.
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times comments in her column, "While some might argue that a rapid approach will help borrowers, it is apt to benefit the banks far more."
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JERUSALEM (Apr. 21)
The five-day conference of the Palestine National Council, which opened in Algiers Monday under the chairmanship of Yasir Arafat, bodes ill for the Middle East peace process and particularly for those in Israel and elsewhere who support an international peace conference with Palestinian participation.
The PNC, which calls itself the Palestinian parliament in exile, is controlled by Arafat's mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization which has been split by dissension and violence since the last PNC conclave in 1984. At this, its 18th session, a great show is being made of reuniting the dissident factions under the PLO umbrella.
Extremist groups such as George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Naif Hawatmeh's Democratic Front which broke with the PLO years ago, are represented at the Algiers meeting this week. Even more important is the presence of Syrian-backed terrorist organizations, including the Palestine National Salvation Front, PLO dissidents who drove Arafat's forces from Lebanon in 1984 and attempted more than once to assassinate the PLO chairman.
Whether the display of unity is genuine or cosmetic, Arafat willingly paid the price. He is less flexible and more intransigent in his demands. He declared null and void his 1985 accord with King Hussein of Jordan which called for a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to negotiate with Israel in the framework of an international conference. He is also expected to cool relations with Egypt.
Arafat still calls for an international conference, with the participation of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. But he demands an independent Palestinian delegation of his own choosing. That would require Israel to recognize the PLO, which it will never do. Actually, the Arafat-Hussein rapprochement has long been a dead issue. "The pact with Jordan has been shelved since February last year," Hanna Seniora, editor of the East Jerusalem Arabic daily Al-Fajr wrote Tuesday. It was in fact abandoned by Hussein who noted in February 1986 that after a year of negotiations with Arafat, the PLO was an unreliable partner.
Hussein still adheres, at least publicly, to the notion that the PLO is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. But now the PLO appears to be moving to the extreme.
There were hints in Algiers that Arafat is seeking peace with the most dangerous, most wanted Palestinian terrorist, the shadowy Abu Nidal whose hit squads, operating under a variety of flatulent names, are held responsible for a long string of bombings, hijackings and assassinations in Europe and the Middle East. His victims include ranking PLO officials, and Arafat was said to head his death list. He himself has been condemned to death by the PLO.
Now the PLO chief is speaking of intensifying terrorist attacks in Israel and ending them "outside the occupied territories." This was seen as an oblique invitation to Abu Nidal whose antipathy for Arafat stems from the latter's alleged "softness" on Israel.
The Abu Nidal group is not represented at the PNC meeting. According to Arab sources, other factions opposed his presence. But should a rapprochement occur, Israel would face a dangerous escalation of terrorist attacks in the months ahead.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin has linked the recent Katyusha rocket attacks on Galilee and the attempted infiltration of Israel Sunday by a three-man terrorist gang to the PNC meeting.
Premier Yitzhak Shamir reacted strongly to the PNC meeting Tuesday. "The worst of our enemies are sitting somewhere discussing how to unite, how to harm us and how to take Jerusalem from us," Shamir told a Jerusalem audience. "We shall tell them that the people of Israel are united. We are one front. Their conspiracy will fail." As far as Israel is concerned, there no longer seems any point to work out some complicated formula that would allow for Palestinian representation at peace talks in tandem with Jordan. But Arab observers in East Jerusalem were insisting publicly Tuesday that the developments in Algiers did not necessarily doom the peace process.
But off-the-record comments by Arabs expressed concern that a reunited PLO would adopt a hardline that will scuttle the Middle East peace process. Well informed Arabs admitted that the idea of an international conference suffered a severe blow by Arafat's demand for separate PLO representation.
But the PNC conference has won wide approval among rank-and-file Arabs in the administered territories. According to one observer, "there is nothing like national unity to cheer up the popular spirits, even if it is doubtful how much real benefit the local population will derive from the closed ranks."
Arab newspapers in East Jerusalem hailed the show of unity. Al-Fajr carried a front-page cartoon Tuesday showing two Arabs congratulating each other in Algiers. Walls in East Jerusalem were covered with freshly painted slogans acclaiming the newly achieved unity.


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Marilyn Young tells Bill Moyers she's upset with Obama for bombing PakistanHistorians in the News
MARILYN YOUNG: He used the word "respect" repeatedly. And it's an excellent word to use and an important one. He, it's not impossible to say we're going to pause in Afghanistan and listen. We're going to think about it. We're going to figure it out. We're not going to move militarily at this moment until we know what we're doing.
BILL MOYERS: But suppose, Marilyn that somebody from the Pentagon came to the White House right after the inauguration and said, "You know, we've had this drone attack planned. And we've spotted these insurgents whom we think really are militants--"
MARILYN YOUNG: Right.
BILL MOYERS: "and killers in their own right. And we want to - we want you to approve this raid." And suppose he had said no four days after the inauguration and that had been leaked. You know what would have happened on all of the right-wing talk radio shows in.
MARILYN YOUNG: Sure.
BILL MOYERS: And maybe "The Washington Post" and editorial page and others like that. He has no backbone, right? I mean, wasn't he in a sense, trapped by this option?
MARILYN YOUNG: Yeah, but that's, that's you know, he's read history. He should at least or he should have been very familiar with the Johnson administration. That's exactly the trap that Johnson walked into. And it's not necessary. I have this odd notion that the American public is actually, in the main, adult enough to listen and think and to respond to a president who says, I'm going to tell you what's going on. For eight years there has been miasma, lies, deception, bizarre behavior. We're going to change that and not just economically and not just domestically. But we're really going to see what we're doing everywhere. That means I did not approve a military move I was urged to approve because I want to know what I'm doing. And I'm sure my fellow citizens will join me in wishing to know what it is the United States is doing militarily before it does it....
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Charles Lee Geshekter - 2/5/2009
I have great "respect" for Young. Simply judging from her pained and jumbled comments to Moyers here, however, she remains marooned in the '70s.....
Lorraine Paul - 2/4/2009
It seems to me that it isn't Ms Young who is poor, pathetic and lost. Your analysis of this piece seems to fit that description more readily. Especially when the fact of 'appointees' did not come up in the conversation described.
I have heard excellent reviews of Ms Young's scholarship, but who are you??
Charles Lee Geshekter - 2/4/2009
Poor, pathetic, lost soul Marilyn Young........spitting out her attacks on an administration now out of power, yet conveniently turning a blind eye towards the cavalcade of tawdry and tarnished appointees already forced to withdraw their names from consideration by the Obama White House.
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New Bedford man allegedly attacked girlfriend's baby in wave of rage
NEW BEDFORD – When the 9-month-old girl he was caring for became fussy, Ethen Harrison became angry, attacking the defenseless baby, according to Bristol County prosecutors and court records.
Harrison, according to court records, shares an apartment on Adams Street with his girlfriend and was the sole person in charge of the woman's 9-month old-daughter, Ariel Eluziario, at the time of the attack Thursday.
According to Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter's office, the injured child was first driven in a private car to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and then transferred to Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, where she was pronounced dead.
In a summary of the case, authorities reported that the infant was "fussy'' and that Harrison allegedly responded with multiple assaults on the child, which he admitted in interviews with State and New Bedford police.
First, authorities allege, he grabbed the child and dropped her to the floor, causing her to hit her head. Then he grabbed the child and pulled her up from the floor with such force that her head and neck snapped forward.
His wave of anger unabated, Harrison allegedly tossed the child onto a bed, but did so with such force that the child bounced up into the air, and fell to the floor, a distance of about four feet, where she again struck her head, the summary said.
Harrison also admitted to slapping and shaking the child. "The defendant admitted to shaking the baby and slapping the baby three times on or about the mouth and two times on the side of the baby's face,'' the summary said.
Harrison, according to court records, has a violent temper, one that led his father to obtain a restraining order against his son that is still in force some six months after Francis Harrison first sought protection.
In an affidavit dated June 15, Francis Harrison wrote that his son was "out of control'' and threatened to "beat me up. … I am done with him.'' The father wrote that when his son got angry he would break things — "Windows. Doors. Whatever he gets his hands on.''
Francis Harrison also wrote that his son was self-destructive. "He hurts himself,'' the father wrote. And he said his son carried knives.
Harrison was being prosecuted for allegedly violating that restraining order. He also had been arrested previously for disturbing the peace when he faced off against a New Bedford police officer, and a marijuana possession charge, according to court records.


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