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Founded in 2001, the academic institute Paideia grew out of a Swedish government commission to investigate the country's Holocaust role. Based in Stockholm, it works to promote Jewish culture across Europe, according to the story, and believes those committed to Jewish culture can acquire, through education, a Jewish identity. It is also open to non-Jews interested in Jewish life and Jewish culture.
Its year-long fellowship in Jewish texts immerses students and educates them for activist roles in European Jewish life. A summer 10-day project offers training and networking to social entrepreneurs with projects to stimulate Jewish culture.
The program receives six times as many applicants as it accepts. Most are not raised as identified Jews, some aren't Jewish at all. Paideia is a Greek concept indicating that culture may be transmitted via education rather than blood, and has implications for those in secular communities.
Some participants:
A lapsed Polish Catholic cites the "Jewish sparks in my soul" when explaining his affinity for klezmer and his desire to foster intercultural exchange through Jewish music.Jewish consciousness is rising among both Jews and non-Jews in Jewish Europe in some very secular places. In Sweden, for example, only 3% attend regular religious services, but assimilated Jews want to reassert their identities.
A 25-year-old Hungarian born to intermarried parents and working to create an Israeli cultural center in Budapest says he would not be crushed if his children decide not to engage in Jewish life.
An Armenian Christian wants to start a Judaic studies seminar at an Armenian university that would highlight shared elements of Armenian and Jewish history.
A German Jewish journalist who became interested in Judaism through an ex-girlfriend aims to start an Internet show focusing on the weekly Torah portion and Israeli culture.
The trend has been in evidence in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism 20 years ago paved the way for many to rediscover Jewish roots. But even in Western Europe, the emergence of the European Union coupled with the growing diversity of the region's population has prompted a reassertion of national identities, including among Jews.The group's founding director Barbara Spectre says this has a secular quality. Many participants come from small communities with weak to no Jewish communal institutions, few Jewish religious opportunities and the likelihood of high intermarriage.
"With that sort of multiculturalism, and I think with the united Europe, your roots become more important," said Gabriel Urwitz, a leader of the Stockholm Jewish community and the chairman of Paideia. ...
"So even people that three generations ago were Jewish and knew about it, until quite recently they never said a word about it," Urwitz said. "Now all of a sudden they feel they can somehow search that root and to some extent promote it and find their own way into it."
"They don't have those components and yet they choose to be Jewish," Spectre said. "The question is, of course, why would one do this? It's a tremendously important question. And I think that they can act as sort of informants to us, the rest of the Jewish world."A non-Jewish participant who completed this year's fellowship is klezmer guitarist Piotr Mirski, of Lublin, Poland.
"I realized that I shared somehow the experience of Jewish people in Poland, and it drives me to make something against it, against exclusion," Mirski told JTA. "My main goal is to build bridges between people."
The goal of his project (Jazz Midrash-The Hebrew Songbook) is to produce two CDs, including one with original Polish-language songs based on Jewish stories, and to promote the book and CDs with street festivals in Polish towns that once had major Jewish communities.
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19-year-old Peter Clatworthy went onto eBay and bid £450 (about $734) for what was clearly marked as a photo of an XBox One for his four-year-old son.
And now he's mad.
According to the Nottingham Post, Clatworthy felt duped:
Despite the listing stating it was a photo of an XBox One Day One edition console, Mr Clatworthy said he'd expected to receive the console as it was listed in the video games and consoles category on eBay.
He said: "It said 'photo' and I was in two minds, but I looked at the description and the fact it was in the right category made me think it was genuine.
Hopefully he'll also steer clear of this other guy, who is selling a XBox One box.
eBay has ruled the seller must make a full refund, according to the newspaper.

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They gave crime statistics for the past month and said it has decreased compared to this time last year. Orelleana said the cold and snowy weather has played a major factor in that.
"I think the weather impacts a lot of things," he said.
While crime is down, Gonzalez said grand larceny auto is high because many people have been leaving their keys in the car as they let warm it up. People who need heat or shelter might just take it, she said.
"Just like you're cold, someone that's walking is colder," Gonzalez said.
She also spoke about the upcoming Youth Summit on March 17 at Campus Magnet High School in Jamaica, where kids and their families are invited to discuss issues in the community.
Additionally, kids can get involved with the Police Explorers, where they train with officers, help with street fairs, and go on ride-alongs.
Many residents said there should be a larger police presence near schools, specifically along Francis Lewis Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard. Orelleana said officers get assigned to places that are known for crime, such as Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica.
Mitchel Ikema, a founder of the Hollis Avenue Community Center in St. Albans, asked why cops couldn't be put in other areas.
"We can't predict where the crime is going to happen," Orelleana said. "We wish we could put cops everywhere, we can't. We want to put people where we think we can get the best results."


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Eclipse is a great IDE to develop Java and Android applications in. It is also the base for technologies like EMF, JET, GMF, OAW and lots more…
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- Displaying an Eclipse MessageDialog in a Non-UI Thread
- Writing to a Console in Eclipse
- Force an IProject file system refresh in Eclipse
- Enabling an Eclipse Popup Menu for only Certain File Extensions
- Eclipse Popup Menu Subtrees
- Getting the last error or IStatus thrown in Eclipse
- Writing a String to a File in Java (really for Eclipse)
- Correctly using IProgressMonitors in Eclipse, and Reporting Progress in Eclipse (modal, non-modal, jobs)
- NoClassDefFoundError when running JUnit Plug-in Tests with JARs
- java.lang.LinkageError in a JUnit Plug-in Test Case with a redeployed Eclipse application
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If you get the following error while you are trying to implement IWizardPage/IWizard, using the provided abstract classes WizardPage/Wizard:
org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert$AssertionFailedException: null argument;
at org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:149)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert.isNotNull(Assert.java:125)
at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.Wizard.createPageControls(Wizard.java:183)
at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createPageControls(WizardDialog.java:611)
at org.eclipse.jface.wizard.WizardDialog.createContents(WizardDialog.java:502)
The solution is to add one line of code to your implementation of WizardPage#createControl(Composite):
public void createControl(Composite parent) {
Composite page = new Composite(parent);
... rest of code ...
Note that if you use parent instead of another Composite, this will give weird problems when trying to switch between different pages in the wizard (successive wizard pages will appear blank, and the back button won't work).
Source code not found when debugging plug-in applications
Even though Eclipse usually lets you attach source code to missing source locations, sometimes it won't let you attach it to imported JAR files, for example when you're developing a plug-in project. You might get this error:
The JAR of this class file belongs to container 'plug-in dependencies' which does not allow modifications to source attachments on its entries.
The problem is not that it can't add the source code; I think the problem is that it expects the source code from another, different Eclipse plugin. Try going to an Update Site and installing the source code/SDK feature plugin.
In one case I couldn't get the source code even this way; my solution was to manually download the source code/SDK and extract the plugin/org.eclipse.foo.source_1.0.101 plugin manually into the eclipse/plugins folder. Once I restarted Eclipse, it worked fine!
Get current workspace location
URL workspaceLocation = Platform.getInstanceLocation().getURL(); (also works for JUnit plugin tests)
Loading an internal browser
Displaying a message dialog box or error dialog box
MessageDialog.openWarning( PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getDisplay().getActiveShell() ,
"Dialog box title", "Dialog box contents");
Getting an IFile from a java.net.URI
IFiles[] resolved = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().findFilesForLocationURI(URI);
(There may be more than one file for a given URI: ref)
"The import org.eclipse cannot be resolved"
Assuming that you have all the correct .project settings (e.g. the PDE PluginNature), this can happen when you switch between different Eclipses with the same workspace settings:
- Close all projects in your workspace.
- Open all projects in your workspace.
- Go into the build menu and clean out all projects: Project > Clean…
- Rebuild all projects, this problem may be resolved.
Launching failed. Bootstrap code cannot be found.
This occurs in an Eclipse environment when you haven't loaded up the correct Eclipse plugins. I'm not sure what they are, but simply selecting "org.eclipse.*" plugins works.


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The Turkish soccer association has finally permitted its sanctioned teams to play in front of fans again—so long as those fans are women and children who will not riot and attack journalists.
Back in July, officials ordered that the Istanbul club Fenerbahce play two games without spectators as punishment for storming the field in the middle of a match against Shakhtar Donetsk and attacking members of the press. On Tuesday, the association distributed 41,000 free tickets to women and children to see Fenerbahce play Manisaspor in Istanbul with the hopeful thought that it would "bring 'the joy back to football.'" Here's more on the scene from the AP:
Before the game, Fenerbahce and Manisaspor players tossed flowers at the fans. The visiting team was greeted with applause, instead of the usual jeering, the Anatolia news agency reported.
"This memory will stay with me forever," Fenerbahce captain Alex de Sousa said. "It's not always that you see so many women and children in one game."
Manisaspor midfielder Omer Aysan added: "It was such a fun and pleasant atmosphere."
The fans were searched by female police officers.
"This really is a historic day," Yasemin Mercil, a female member of Fenerbahce's executive board, said before the game. "For the first time in the world, only women and children will watch a game. The women know all the chants. The same anthems, the same chants will be sung."
Flowers and singing! It is rather amazing what a lack of alcohol and testosterone can do to a fan base.
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The Greenhouse Effect
Given the title of this blog post you might expect it to be about global warming, and I won't blame you for it; greenhouse effect has become another popular term used when debating climate change. However, its original and literal meaning refers to a very different process, in particular when it comes to heat retention. Here we will describe the effect of heating up an actual greenhouse and suggest steps for optimizing its design.
How the Greenhouse Effect Works
Let's suppose your neighbor wants to grow some plants and enlists you to construct a greenhouse that keeps them from getting cold in the winter but without overheating in the summer. Before optimizing the greenhouse itself, we obviously need to understand how the greenhouse effect works.
In short, greenhouses retain heat via solar radiation and by keeping the warm air enclosed, but let's not leave it at that. When the sun shines on the greenhouse, heat enters through the glass in the form of short-wavelength infrared (IR) light, and in turn heats up the ground. As we all know, warm air rises, and that's just what happens when the air closest to the ground heats up. Next, cooler air replaces the warm air at ground level, and then that begins to heat up too, in a continuous cycle. This is also known as convection.
A) Long-wavelength infrared light is reflected by the glass. B) Visible and short-wavelength infrared pass through the glass. C) Short-wavelength infrared light is absorbed and re-emitted as long-wavelength infrared. D) Visible light is reflected. E) Reflected visible light passes through the glass. F) Long-wavelength infrared light is reflected by glass and is trapped inside the greenhouse.
Furthermore, all of the plants contained within the greenhouse absorb the short-wavelength IR light and become warmer in the process. As that happens they begin to emit long-wavelength IR light, which is absorbed by the glass. The glass then heats up as well, and gives off long-wavelength IR light. What happens next? The long-wavelength IR light does not escape through the glass but instead is mostly shone back into the greenhouse.
Optimizing the Performance of a Greenhouse
There are four main parts necessary for operating a greenhouse. These include a frame, covering (glass, for example), flooring, and ventilation. That's right — ventilation. While the typical goal of a greenhouse is to keep plants warm, we do need to watch out for overheating. Vents are commonly added both at the top of the structure and at the bottom. This allows the hot air to exit up top, and cooler air to enter closer to the ground. For the covering, we don't necessarily have to use glass, but this material lets in around 90% of the sun's radiation — a desirable trait in this scenario.
Did you know you can simulate radiation through glass (and any other media with a refractive index other than 1, for that matter) using COMSOL Multiphysics along with the Heat Transfer Module? That feature was released last year with version 4.3, and we wrote about it here in a blog post on "Heat Transfer, Accounting for the Radiation of the Sun". If we were to optimize our greenhouse, a good first step would be to simulate it, and the Heat Transfer Module would certainly come in handy. With its solar positioning feature we can define an external radiation source for all interfaces (including surface-to-surface radiation, like our greenhouse), in 3D. That means we could define the intensity and direction of the sun's radiation based on the greenhouse's position on Earth, the date, and the time of day.
Our simulation would then answer questions such as "How hot does our greenhouse get?", "At what point in time is it hottest? Coolest?", and so forth. This could be a fun project for you to test out on your own. (And if you're new to COMSOL, check out our list of upcoming free workshops to get started using our software.)
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Ivar KjelbergMay 9, 2013
I know that some advance building thermal control software had 2 wavelengths, with 5 COMSOL stretches itself really further.
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We've just started to see a few leaves turning, and usually peak season is the end of October or early November. Lookout Point has been privileged to receive great publicity lately, in USA Today and The Huffington Post.
In USA Today, "This 12-room lodging in the Ouachita Mountains overlooking Lake Hamilton offers leaf-peeping from private decks. Peak foliage may not be happening till late October or in November.
Lookout Point was named one of the top ten B&B's (by The Huffington Post) for enjoying fall foliage from the comfort of your own porch at the inn. The blog from The Post states: "Indulge in deep relaxation at the Lookout Point Lakeside Inn which is surrounded by the Ouachita Mountains and overlooks placid Lake Hamilton. Enjoy your morning coffee and the foliage view from your private deck before taking a walk along the labyrinth waterfront trail."
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Clinical Trials
Comparison of GW433908 and Nelfinavir in HIV Patients Who Have Not Had Antiretroviral Therapy
Verified July 2001
Glaxo Wellcome
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
First received: January 13, 2001
Last updated: June 23, 2005
Last Verified: July 2001
History of Changes
The purpose of this study is to compare GW433908 and nelfinavir when each is given with abacavir and lamivudine to HIV patients who have not taken antiretroviral drugs.
HIV Infections
Drug : Abacavir sulfate
Drug : Nelfinavir mesylate
Drug : Lamivudine
Drug : GW433908
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase III, Randomised, Multicenter, Parallel, Open-Label Study to Compare the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of GW433908 (1400 Mg Bid) and Nelfinavir (1250 Mg Bid) Over 48 Weeks in Antiretroviral Therapy Naive HIV-1 Infected Adults
Further study details as provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2000
Detailed Description:
Patients are randomized in a 2:1 scheme to 1 of 2 treatment groups. Group 1 receives GW433908 plus abacavir (ABC) plus lamivudine (3TC); Group 2 receives nelfinavir (NFV) plus ABC plus 3TC. Patients undergo safety and efficacy assessments at the Screening Visit, Day 1 (Entry), and Weeks 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, and every 8 weeks thereafter. A follow-up visit is performed 4 weeks after the permanent discontinuation of study drug. Detailed assessments for the development of lipodystrophy/fat redistribution occur at Day 1, Week 24, Week 48, and every 16 weeks thereafter. Patients have examinations and laboratory tests performed at visits.Eligibility
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are at least 13 years old (consent of parent or guardian required if under 18).
- Agree to use a proven barrier method of birth control (e.g., spermicide plus condom) during the study period (hormonal birth control will not be accepted), if able to have children.
- Have received less than 4 weeks treatment with any nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) and have never received any nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRT) or protease inhibitor (PI).
- Have a viral load (amount of HIV in the blood) of 5,000 copies/ml or more, or have a positive result at the screening visit.
- Abuse drugs or alcohol in a way that would interfere with the study, in the opinion of the doctor. Patients stable on methadone will be considered for participation.
- Have an active/acute CDC Category C event.
- Are unable to absorb or take medicines by mouth.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Have a serious medical condition (such as diabetes, heart problem, hepatitis) that might affect the safety of the patient.
- Have had pancreatitis or hepatitis within the last 6 months.
- Have been treated with radiation or chemotherapy within 28 days before the study drug will be taken, or will have the need for these during the study.
- Have taken drugs that affect the immune system (such as corticosteroids, interleukins, interferons) or that have anti-HIV activity (such as hydroxyurea or foscarnet) within 28 days before the study drug will be taken.
- Have received HIV vaccine within 3 months before the study drug will be taken.
- Have received certain other drugs within 28 days before the study drug will be taken, or think that they will be needed during the study.
- Have received experimental treatments.
- Have allergies which might interfere with the study, in the opinion of the doctor.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00008554
Locations Show More
|United States, California
|East Bay Clinical Trial Ctr
|Concord, California, United States, 94520
|Ocean View Internal Medicine
|Long Beach, California, United States, 90803
|United States, Florida
|Florida ID Group
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32801
|Hillsborough County Health Dept
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33602
|Clinical Pharmacology Services
|Tampa, Florida, United States, 33617
|United States, Illinois
|Veterans Affairs Med Ctr of North Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60064
|United States, Kansas
|Univ of Kansas Med Ctr
|Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 661607415
|United States, New Jersey
|Saint Michael's Med Ctr
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07102
|UMDNJ - New Jersey Med School
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 071032757
|United States, New York
|Bronx Municipal Hosp Ctr/Jacobi Med Ctr
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10461
|Addiction Research and Treatment Corp
|Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11201
|Brookdale Univ Hosp and Med Ctr
|Brooklyn, New York, United States, 112123198
|Gervais Frechette
|New York, New York, United States, 10011
|Howard Grossman
|New York, New York, United States, 10011
|Mount Sinai School of Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|Univ of Rochester Med Ctr
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
|United States, North Carolina
|SMO-USA Inc
|Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28211
|United States, Oregon
|Advanced Clinical Trials Inc
|Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97401
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Thomas Jefferson Univ
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
|United States, Texas
|Univ of Texas Med Branch
|Galveston, Texas, United States, 775550835
|MacGregor Med Association
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77054
|Walter Gaman
|Irving, Texas, United States, 75038
|Southwest Texas Methodist Hosp
|San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229
Sponsors and CollaboratorsGlaxo Wellcome
More Information
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|Glaxo Wellcome
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00008554 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 13, 2001
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:HIV-1
Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on June 01, 2020
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 67-year-old Lawrence man who told investigators he killed his wife because of her many health problems has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Larry Hopkins will be eligible for parole after 25 years under the sentence he received Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
Hopkins shot and killed 61-year-old Margaret Hopkins on Nov. 5, 2013, at their Lawrence home. He pleaded no contest earlier this year to first-degree murder, turning down a plea deal that included lesser offenses.
In court Thursday, Hopkins read a statement describing the many ailments suffered by his wife of 24 years, including diabetes, multiple strokes and knee replacement surgeries.
Larry Hopkins also had suffered a stroke and had heart problems as well.


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Sun Microsystems is to begin donating its Solaris clustering code to the open-source community, the latest move in the company's ongoing strategy to eventually make all of its software freely available.
It has been more than two years since Sun released OpenSolaris, an open-source version of its Solaris 10 Unix operating system. Since June 2005, the vendor has made other pieces of its software freely available, notably its core Java platform starting in November of last year.
Sun hopes opening up its software will enable its products to enter new markets and lead to more customers for its servers, storage and paid support services.
Known as Open High Availability Cluster, Sun will release its Solaris Cluster source code over the next 18 months through the High Availability (HA) Clusters community on the OpenSolaris Web site. Developers can use the code to help them build clustered and high-availability applications and services.
Sun will make the clustering source code available under its own open-source license, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), said Paul Steeves, director of Solaris marketing at Sun. There are no plans to also provide the code under the GNU general public license (GPL) as Sun did with Java
That situation might change, if, as rumoured, Sun decides to also provide OpenSolaris under GPLv3. The third version of the GPL is due to be finalised later this week. OpenSolaris is currently offered under CDDL.
Sun will make three major contributions to the clustering code, according to Steeves.
The first donation, due out this week, is focused on application modules or agents that allow open-source or commercial applications to become highly available in a clustered environment. Sun will make the code available for 24 of the high-availability agents it offers with its commercially available Solaris Cluster software.
Among the agents are modules for Sun's Solaris Containers virtualisation technology, BEA Systems's WebLogic application server and the open-source PostgreSQL database.
"There are a couple of agents we need to work through, that have encumbrances," Steeves said, where Sun doesn't hold enough rights to release the code under CDDL. These modules include agents for Oracle's Real Application Clusters (RAC) technology, Sybase's database and IBM's WebSphere middleware. "We intend to release them once we've worked through the licensing," he added.
Sun will also provide documentation for the agents along with the source code for the Solaris Cluster Automated Test Environment (SCATE) so that developers can test new agents they develop, Steeves said.
Agents written using Open HA Cluster will run on Cluster Express, a binary version of Solaris Cluster, which Sun plans to release in a few weeks, Steeves said. The agents will also run on the latest version of Sun's commercial clustering product, Solaris Cluster 3.2, which debuted in January, and runs on the Solaris 9 and 10 operating systems.
The second donation will likely appear in December, Steeves said, and will include code for the Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition, software that enables multisite disaster recovery.
At the end of the 18-month period, Sun will release the code for the core Solaris Cluster infrastructure along with more documentation and additional SCATE infrastructure tests.
In total, Sun will make around 2 million lines of clustering source code available, Steeves said. By comparison, Sun's donation of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software to the open-source community represents over 6 million lines of code.


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The state of Illinois is using its online auction website to sell surplus Department of Transportation heavy equipment for the first time later this month.
The Department of Central Management Services said the sale will be its largest web-based auction of surplus heavy equipment ever.
"We've never sold IDOT equipment online," said CMS spokesman Mike Claffey. "It's all been done at the warehouse before. This is the largest heavy equipment deal we've done."
The sale is through its iBid website, the state's equivalent of eBay.
It will begin taking bids Monday on more than 550 pieces of equipment deemed surplus by IDOT. CMS held its last in-person auctions at its Springfield warehouse last year.
The equipment includes dump trucks, scoop loaders, backhoes, pickup trucks, cars, pavement rollers and more, Claffey said.
More than $10 million worth of surplus property and equipment has been sold through iBid since 2003, including agricultural equipment and motor vehicles.
The move to all on-line sales has saved the state $60,000 annually in banking, security, and other associated expenses typically required for on-site warehouse public sales, according to CMS. It increased revenues from online sales by nearly $1 million in fiscal 2013.
Acting CMS director Simone McNeil said iBid was designed to increase the money earned from the sale of surplus property and to make it easier for buyers to participate.
"Bidders no longer have to drive to Springfield or spend hours on the auction floor," she said. "They can follow the auction from their office or home, night or day, on their computers or other devices, instantly bidding on items no longer needed by state government."
Claffey said an item is deemed to be surplus when it is no longer needed for some reason, when the cost of repairing it exceeds its value or when it reaches the end of its useful life.
Internet bidding on the various types of off-road equipment, heavy trucks, tractors and other vehicles will end at 4 p.m. March 28.
Interested bidders may register and preview the equipment online at http://ibid.illinois.gov.
Auction terms and conditions, pickup times, methods of payment, and photos and descriptions can be found online. No on-site previews will be permitted.
Winning bidders are notified immediately after the auction closes and may pay online via credit card (MasterCard or Visa) or by certified check or money order.


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If Ben isn't somehow directly related to this guy, then he has to be reincarnated.
No good deed goes unpunished :( Poor Butterfield
Hah – he's speechless! And who wouldn't be…
This is masterful storytelling. You both are absolutely amazing at what you do.
*on the edge of my seat*
Ben and Charlie were totally possessed for telling this story, ya?
Oh dear, well this just got more confusing.
Ahhh! I can't wait to see what happens next!
I bet Charlie snaps out of it while in mid run…! =)
"Where am I goin'?"
Anyway, great colors as usual!
Charlie: "..and why have I apparently swapped shirts with Ben?"
Jeremy: "I'd like to know that as well" >:(
WHOA. I am on the edge of my seat!!! Can't wait for the next page!!
Haha, you know, those two look so alike that in panel 4 I didn't realise it was Ben and not Butterfield xD Now this is really interesting. What happens next??
Okay.I'll be counting the days to the next one,then…
Amazing. Purely amazing.


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Parents' Guide
If you want to understand the basics of career guidance and how it can work for your child, help is at hand with this concise guide.
Parents play a huge role in the choices children make when they start looking for a career. They influence the level of education or training that their children achieve, the knowledge they have about work and different occupations, the beliefs and attitudes they have to working, and the motivation they have to succeed.
Most of this is learned unconsciously – children and teenagers absorb the attitudes and expectations of them as they grow up. Some of the key influencers are:
- The expectations parents have for their children's education and career;
- The examples they set for their children;
- The values they show to their family, friends and to society;
- The opportunities they offer their children to learn and develop; and
- The kind of parent-child relationship they develop.
To nourish a healthy and rewarding career for your child, the following factors are worth considering:
- Encourage your children to get the best education possible.
- Strengthen their self-understanding.
- Develop their knowledge about work.
- Teach them decision making skills.
- Value gender equity and cultural diversity.
- Become aware of career resources.
- Help them become skill-oriented.
What is Career Guidance?
It's useful to understand some of the basic principles of careers guidance and the processes involved in planning and building a successful career. Once you have familiarised yourself with these concepts, you can harness them as you support and guide your child on their career and life journey.
In this Parents' Guide to Career Guidance we:
- Outline the main principles, influences and processes at work on your child's career journey
- Provide useful tips on how you can help along the way
- Indicate school activities that support each stage of the process
For a detailed discussion on the main areas of concern expressed by parents, follow our extensive guide by using the buttons at the top of this page.
REACH+ Career & College Preparation Programme
The REACH+ Career and College Preparation Programme is Ireland's most comprehensive, in-depth and multi-format careers programme available. Much more than any textbook, it is a complete and integrated guidance programme, tailored to the classroom learning environment, that supports students, guidance counsellors and teachers throughout the career guidance process. The programme covers the entirety of the senior cycle, with lessons relevant to those in Transition Year, and those taking the Leaving Certificate Established, Leaving Certificate Applied, and Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme.
The programme consists of a comprehensive range of topics designed to help your son/daughter prepare for the transition from school to either work or college. It is managed by the school guidance counsellor, is full of engaging activities and provides essential resources for helping your child to plan for their future.
As a parent, you can view your son/daughter's progress with them by discussing the many reports produced by the programme. These reports will help you to gain a deeper understanding of the the career planning process, which is supported by the guidance counsellor.
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Aiming Higher: A Guide for Parents and Guardians, is a guide aimed at parents (and guardians) of prospective third-level students, to give them a practical understanding of the higher education system in Ireland and to help them to support their daughter or son in making informed decisions around third-level courses and career choices. It is the first guide of its kind that is specifically targeted at parents. A lot of the content of the book has come as a result of close consultation with parents who have supported their children's progression through the Irish education system.
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Born: 1923, Leipzig, Germany
Describes search of his family by German soldiers at the German border with Italy [Interview: 1991]
In 1938, Martin's father was imprisoned during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). Upon the intervention of the family's chauffeur, a gentile, Martin's father was released after three days. The family obtained visas to immigrate to Palestine and left Germany in 1939. Martin aided "illegal" immigrants who defied British restrictions on immigration into Palestine. He was imprisoned by the British in 1947 and forbidden to live in Palestine. He then came to the United States.
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Headley seeking solution for season-long struggles
After stellar 2012 campaign, Padres star's numbers have dipped dramatically
SAN DIEGO -- Of all the things Chase Headley has missed this season, and the list is by no means short, it's that unmistakable echo of what a well-struck ball on the sweet spot of a bat sounds like.
It's intoxicating, gratifying and, this season at least, it's been far too elusive, that precise moment when ball meets barrel, before a ball in play becomes a ball in play. It's when Headley first gets the inkling that he might be on to something big.
"Usually, you can tell by the sound off the bat," Headley said.
It happened Wednesday, in the seventh inning of an otherwise forgettable 13-5 loss to the Giants, when Headley ran into a 93-mph fastball from Giants reliever Sandy Rosario.
In an exasperating season where not nearly enough has gone right for Headley or the Padres, there was the sound again, one that essentially reverberated throughout Petco Park.
The result was a near-miss, a long fly ball to center field that chased Giants center fielder Juan Perez to the warning track.
"I just got under it a tick," Headley said.
To be sure, Headley -- one year removed from one of the most successful single-season performances in franchise history -- hasn't heard this blissful sound nearly enough in 2013, nor has he seen the results he or the team have expected.
It's been a precipitous fall, one that has befuddled Headley, who is still searching for answers each day, each at-bat, each swing.
"I think I am being pitched to a little differently. Guys are being a little more careful. But I think a big part of it is I've swung at pitches I typically wouldn't have swung at," Headley said. "When you do that, they don't have to get in. They can keep throwing their pitch every time. There's been a lot more offspeed pitches. I haven't done a good job adjusting to that."
Could Headley's luck be changing? He hit a long home run to right field earlier in the game, lined out to second base and then, of course, had the near-miss to center field on what might have been the ball he hit the hardest in the game.
"I felt like I took some good swings all day," Headley said.
The question Headley and the Padres have is this: where has that swing been all season? A year after he led the National League in RBIs (115) and hit a career-high 31 home runs, Headley will head into Friday's game against the Rockies hitting .240 with nine home runs and 37 RBIs in 441 at-bats.
"The swing just hasn't been where I'd hope it would be all year," Headley said. "There are probably a lot of little things that go into that. I haven't really been right for any extended period of time. There have been a few games here and there where I started to feel as if I was getting there and then would get away from it again."
So what exactly happened to Headley this season? Even he isn't quite sure, though he's certain that it's not one thing. Has he been pitched to differently? No question. Has he been susceptible to breaking balls? At times, absolutely.
So which is the true Chase Headley -- the 2012 model or this current incarnation?
"It's a tough question. I've been asked that a lot," said Padres manager Bud Black. "He had a spectacular year a year ago. It was a great year. But I think to ask a player to hit 31 home runs and knock in 115 runs is a bit unfair. I think this year is not indicative of the type of career Chase is going to have moving forward.
"Is it somewhere in-between? I don't know. But it's not this."
It's been a struggle from the start of the season. Well, actually before the season, as Headley missed the first 14 games of the regular season after fracturing the tip of his left thumb while sliding during a Spring Training game on March 17.
Headley hit .261 in April, .243 in May and then in June, his average for the month plummeted to .183 as he had more strikeouts (27) than hits (20). He hit over .260 in July and August and, as mentioned before, had productive at-bats in Wednesday's game, his first of September after missing five games with back spasms.
Now, he just wants to finish strong.
"I just want to get back to what I know I can do," Headley said. "I feel like I've made some strides the last couple of weeks with some feel things in my swing that are starting to feel right again. Obviously, this is not the season I had hoped it would be."
Headley's zone contact rate, according to PITCH/fx has dropped from 85.2 percent in 2012 to 83.3 percent this season. His walk rate is down, his strikeout rate up. And Headley's HR/FB ratio (home run to fly ball) has dipped dramatically, from 21.4 percent a year ago to 9.2 percent.
"I think the home run and RBI explosion got a lot of people's attention. Whether that will show up again, I don't know," said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said. "… But his durable play, he's turned into a good third baseman, a switch-hitter who can matchup with a lot of pitching, he still gets on base, [so] that still makes him a very valuable player."
But how valuable remains to be seen, at least in terms of his financial worth. Headley is making $8.575 million this season and is under control through 2014. The Padres have stated they would like to keep him, with executive chairman Ron Fowler suggesting earlier this season that a long-term deal could be in the works. Headley, 29, reiterated that he didn't want to talk about a contract until after the season.
Headley still sees a future for himself in San Diego, the only organization he's known, the one that drafted him out of the University of Tennessee in the second round of the 2005 First-Year Player Draft.
"Obviously, my first choice is to stay in San Diego, long term," Headley said. "If the organization is interested in talking long term … and I'm here for another year anyway. I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but it would be a prudent discussion in the offseason to see where each side stands."
Until then, Headley will keep his focus on the final 23 games, regular opportunities to produce, to get better, to get back to finding that success -- and that sound -- he had a year ago.
"Of course you're frustrated and it gets to you," Headley said. "You think about it when you go home, you think about it in the cage, you think about it all the time. But you have to show up each day refreshed, thinking that today is going to be the day it turns for you."


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Father Pat's Pastoral Ponderings
All Saints' Sunday
June 19, 2011
fter his long panegyric on the heroes of faith, the author of the Epistle makes reference to Jesus as "the leader and perfecter of faith" (12:2). This expression requires closer inspection, if we want to understand Jesus' relationship to faith.
First, we should clear up the misunderstanding created by the incorrect insertion of "our" with respect to faith. There is no manuscript support for this insertion, and it fits ill with the large historical sweep of the author's view of faith. Hebrews is concerned about faith, or perhaps the faith, and not just our faith. Faith permeates the whole of salvation history. It does this as a principle of continuity, because "without faith it is impossible to please" God (Hebrews 11:6).
Second, we observe that Hebrews juxtaposes the two nouns — "leader and perfecter" — to form a polarity implied in their roots: Archegos ("leader") is based on the root arche, which means "beginning," and teleotes ("perfecter") is derived from telos, which means "end." "Beginning" and "end" are syntactical poles. Thus, as the two nouns are employed in this text — covered by a single article in Greek — they convey the tension of contrast.
This combination — "leader and perfecter" — is similar to Jesus' self-identifications in the Book of Revelation. For example, "I am the Alpha and Omega" (1:8) and "I am the first and the last" — ego eimi ho protos kai ho eschatos (1:17; cf. 2:8). Indeed, at the end of Revelation all these terms are combined into a triple polarity: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the protos and the eschatos, the arche and the telos" (22:13).
Third, in what sense does Hebrews call Jesus the "leader" of faith? As we observed above, "leader" translates the noun archegos, which conveys the sense, not of a manager or director, but of someone who actually "begins" something. In classical Greek it often conveys the sense of a "founder" or "originator."
Such a meaning of the noun is consistent with the other place where Hebrews uses it in reference to Jesus: "For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect [teleiosai], through sufferings, the archegos of their salvation" (2:10).
The image of Jesus as archegos is apparently derived from the traditional apostolic preaching. St. Peter used the word twice in reference to Jesus, calling him the "leader of life" — archegos tes zoes — and declaring, "God exalted him to His right hand as archegos and Savior (soter)" (Acts 3:15; 5:31).
As Jesus inaugurates both "life" and "salvation," he also inaugurates faith. In the context of Hebrews, he does this by going out ahead of believers as the leader who shows them where and how to run: "With endurance let us run the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus." He modeled this faith chiefly in his Passion, inasmuch as he "endured the cross, despising the shame" (12:1-2).
Fourth, Jesus is the "perfecter of faith" in the sense that he brought to its proper completion the faith earlier exemplified in the lives of those champions of faith celebrated in the previous chapter of Hebrews. He brings to perfection those who preceded him.
It seems probable that the author of Hebrews coined the noun he uses here — teleotes, "perfecter" — inasmuch as the expression is otherwise unknown in either the Greek Bible or other literature of the time. This suggestion is consistent with the emphasis on "perfection" all through Hebrews (cf. 2:10; 5:7-9; 7:28; 9:14; 10:5-10,14). Jesus is the "perfecter" of all the faith that preceded his coming, during the course of salvation history.
The Old Testament saints had faith, of course, but it was not perfect, "God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us" (Hebrews 11:40).
The "perfection" accomplished by Jesus was not simply a supplement — a "more" — added to the faith of the ancients. After all, the relationship between "perfect" and "less than perfect" is not just quantitative. The perfect is qualitatively different from the "less than perfect." It is of a different order. Indeed, the Epistle to the Hebrews began with that qualitative distinction: The God who earlier spoke through the prophets has now spoken through a Son (1:1-2; cf. 3:5-6).
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois, and a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity.
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By MARK GUNN
Your Voice Contributor
By means of full disclosure, I have to state that I am trained in the use of firearms. I've used everything from .45 caliber pistols, automatic weapons like the M-16, M-60 and others in between. I've also taken the time to get a Concealed Carry Permit. I don't like guns, but I do respect them.
While I have a great deal of respect for the majority of gun owners, there are some that just don't get it. These are the ones who use the Second Amendment in some sick and twisted context and are stupid enough to think that they can hoard enough firepower to actually take on the government.
Throughout this whole debate, I haven't been able to shake the image of 20 little kids being slaughtered. I also haven't been able to shake my own experience with gun violence. Being caught in the crossfire of someone who could care less about human life, much less his own, shapes your perspective in a way that you never fully realize until something like the Sandy Hook massacre happens.
It's safe to say that, other than the military and law enforcement, a majority of gun owners have never had to fire their weapon at anyone. They've probably never seen the results of someone being shot either. The sight of a human lying on the ground with blood flowing like lava leaves you shaken to your very core. No amount of movie or video game violence can even come close – and yes, they are a part of the problem. Our kids are becoming desensitized to the kind of violence at Sandy Hook, and parents, along with the entertainment industry, must be held accountable.
People, for the most part, are in favor of some measure of gun control. Mandatory background checks for every weapon purchase, closing the loophole for gun shows and private sales, mental health screenings, a limit to the size of magazines and a return to the 1994 assault weapons ban all make sense in limiting the access to weapons that are only designed to do one
thing: KILL.
I would require that all weapons be registered and fitted with a GPS microchip. They would then be entered into a national database which would be able to track them, should they be stolen, since a majority of so-called "illegal†guns are stolen from "legal†gun owners. Mandatory testing would be required every six months and owners would have to qualify to keep their weapons. Trigger guards and Safety classes would also be mandatory and would be subject to periodic testing. The bottom line being that greater responsibility must be placed on the part of
the gun owner.
Some would say, "You're just punishing law-abiding citizens,†but gun owners are putting the rest of us at risk. "Criminals don't care about gun laws.†No, they don't. However, if this society is to finally get serious about gun crime, much harsher penalties would be handed out for possession of unregistered weapons and mandatory life or death sentences for crimes in which a gun was used.
Legal gun owners must face sanctions for their carelessness as well. Had Adam Lanza's mother been more responsible in the way she locked up her firearms, he wouldn't have had access and Sandy Hook might not have happened. You are more likely to get shot by someone in your own home, or due to a gun owner's negligence, than you would by a criminal. Just this past week, there were six accidental shooting incidents at gun shows throughout the country.
There are rabid gun owners that somehow see gun control as "taking my guns away.†They also see the Second Amendment as a means to having unfettered access to any kind of weapon made. Somehow, they miss the fact that you can't legally own a rocket launcher. They also ignore the fact that the Supreme Court has stated that there are limitations to the amendment. They rant and rave like spoiled little brats when you press them on the need for military-style assault weapons. It's these people who scare me, and who illustrate the need for mandatory mental health screenings.
Meanwhile, the leadership of the NRA and politicians who've prostituted themselves for them are playing paranoid gun owners like chumps. Runs on guns and ammo have them laughing all the way to the bank, while we continue to pay the price in blood.
You know what the bitter irony in all this is? If "We The People†don't get our act together when it comes to guns, that "big, bad, tyrannical, Communist, Socialist†president and the government that these deluded paranoids swear is out to get them just might be forced into existence. Then what? How will your weapons and serious lack of skill fare against those black helicopters you keep imagining? Some would say, "There's no way the military would fire upon American citizens.†Are you willing to take that chance?
In order to stem the tide of gun violence, it's going to take a collection of initiatives and, more importantly, people of good will and courage, to carry them out. Those that do not own guns far outnumber those that do. The majority of gun owners are reasonable and see the need to finally tackle this problem. Ask yourself what's more important. Is it the life of an innocent child, or the need for some yahoo to carry an assault weapon because he's overcompensating for some
other shortcomings?
Mark Gunn is a radio personality on WMJM (Magic 101.3) and is celebrating his 10th year in Louisville and 34th in radio. He's worked in a variety of formats including Top 40, Rock, Urban Contemporary and Country to name a few.
In 1992, as Music Director of KACE – FM in Los Angeles he instituted a policy called "Enjoyability With Responsibility.†It was designed to remove songs whose lyrical content had a negative effect on the Black Community. He received awards from the N.A.A.C.P., N.O.W. (The National Organization For Women) and the California State Senate and a commendation from President Bill Clinton.
Mark Gunn has always been an extremely conscience voice in the community. He sums it up everyday when he goes off the air with this phrase: "If you can't change the people around you, then change the people around you.â€


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Alavera de los Baños is a dainty hotel located in Ronda's historic quarter, beside the thirteenth-century Arab Baths. The hotel offers eleven rooms in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, where peace and quiet reign along with the amiable staff.At Alavera, your days will always start with a square breakfast consisting of pastries, home-made jam, fruit, bread, cheese and traditional cold cuts from the Serranía de Ronda. Relish your delicious, calm, peaceful breakfast enjoying the spring or summer morning sunshine outdoors, or our quaint lounge area throughout the rest of the year.We have plenty of advice to give you so you can make the most of your stay; places to eat, villages to visit, trips to go on, the best beaches…We like it when you visit us. We love it when you come back.
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PureDWTS Season 17 Exclusive: New Sharna Burgess Interview!!
A few of our readers had some really good questions to ask Dancing With The Stars Pro Sharna Burgess. Sharna answers questions about the most important things she's learned once she became a pro on Dancing With The Stars. Sharna also takes us through the process of how she assesses her partner's dance potential. She also chats on her pre-show rituals, her guilty pleasures, her dance mentors, and how she learned to choreograph for television and the movies. Lots more below. Enjoy! Thanks Sharna for another awesome interview!!xx
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What was the one most important thing that you learned about yourself once you became a pro on the show?
hmmm, thats tough! I think i learned greater patience, though I've always been a patient person, this show requires SO much of it. Patience is an art and a gift, and in tough situations it helps me stay calm, not sweat the small stuff and keep moving forward. Im such a passionate person that if my partner is not into it 150% i can become very frustrated. Dancing only works when you surrender to it and go all in, messing up is fine, but not trying is unacceptable. In saying that i have to remember that what can see like disinterest and disregard, is actually fear, and that is something that needs patience and nurturing if its going to be beaten.
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Please tell Sharna I think she's an excellent competing pro, and I love her innovative choreography.
When you begin rehearsing with your new celeb, how do you begin to assess their dance potential? Do you start without music and see how they handle some basic Latin or standard steps, or do you put some music on the CD player and see how they move to music?
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What do Target, AOL, LivingSocial, Evernote, and Adobe have in common with one another? Answer: they were all victims of huge data breaches during 2013, part of a phenomenon that a new Symantec report calcuates has reached epidemic levels.
According to the firm's latest Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), such 'mega' breaches are only the best-known victims from a spike nobody saw coming after a quiet 2012.
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That last year was a record year for data breaches has been apparent for some time, but the scale of the rise revealed in the numbers is still extraordinary. It doesn't seem to matter which measurement is used, what happened was bad, nay appalling, with the number of breaches hitting a record 258, a 62 percent rise over 2012.
This saw 552 million identities compromized, including 8 breach incidents that exceeded 10 million in each case. This compares with the previous high point for data breaches, 2011, which saw 208 breaches, equivalent to 232 million records.
The first uncomfortable fact is this: these are only the ones we know about. Almost all the names on the top ten list are US-based, which doesn't mean they haven't been happening everywhere else too.
The second uncomfortable fact is this: 552 million breached records means that excluding duplicates the criminal underworld now probably knows not just the email addresses of approaching half a billion people but in many cases their home addresses, names and perhaps even social security numbers. And this is only one year's total.
"One mega breach can be worth 50 smaller attacks. While the level of sophistication continues to grow among attackers, what was surprising last year was their willingness to be a lot more patient -- waiting to strike until the reward is bigger and better," said Symantec Security Response director, Kevin Haley.
"Nothing breeds success like success -- especially if you're a cyber criminal," said Haley. "The potential for huge paydays means large-scale attacks are here to stay. Companies of all sizes need to re-examine, re-think and possibly re-architect their security posture."
Arguably, Haley is wide of the mark on the idea that size necessarily equals significance. While the number and size of breaches is definitely worth paying attention to, even tiny breaches can cause huge potential trouble if the targets are valuable enough. Just ask the 10,000 women whose records were breached after contacting the UK's British Pregnancy Advisory Service for abortion advice.
The hacker accused of that attack threatened to reveal these names and was only stopped from doing so after intervention by the police.
So why was 2013 so bad after a drop in breaches the year before? There is still no convincing explanation for that although Symantec believes that it was the end result of greater organisation and planning by cyber -criminals. The previous breach wave of 2011 was driven by the low-hanging fruit of poorly-secured databases; 2013 used far more organized techniques and intelligence to find the weak spots in enterprises that had tightened some of the easier ways in.
These 'ways in' turn out to include partners, associates and third-parties, many of whom have remote access rights to larger enterprises without themselves having good security. Symantec reckons that two of the most targeted professions include personal assistants and PR people, two groups seen as easy-to-penetrate stepping stones to more valuable targets.
Given the number of attacks on the media by groups such as the Syrian Electronic Army, one could also add journalists to that list even if those are motivated more by ideology than data. The figures for 2014 will be interesting. Was last year an anomaly or a marker for what is now inevitable?
This story, "World hit by record wave of 'mega' data breaches in 2013" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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An overview of the evolution of crime films, their authenticity, the issue of using films to change public behavior and whether crime films, in the last two decades, have influenced public thinking about such matters as crime, prisons and capital punishment.
by J.J. Maloney
Motion pictures have a way of creating their own reality. It is only through the strange power of film that one finds an audience of ordinary people cheering Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lector, at the end of Silence of the Lambs, because Lector has not only gotten away, but plans to kill and eat the superintendent of the mental hospital Lector had been confined in.
Or "caper" films, in which the audience roots for the criminals who pull off a big job and get away (of course they often do this in real life, as anyone who remembers the Brink's Job will recall).
Or "Death Wish" philosophy films wherein rogue (but good) cops indiscriminately kill the bad guys because the "system" doesn't work anymore.
Because of a motion picture's power to capture the imagination, there have always been those who would harness this power to try to achieve one purpose or another.
The problem lies in what is viewed as art on the one hand, and the propaganda value of film on the other. With the advent of AIDS it became politically correct for filmmakers to include messages about safe sex – even though, artistically, it ruins a romantic film moment to pause and say, "Do you have protection?"
The latest big drive to control filmmakers is the "outrage" over stars smoking on the screen – the argument being that it promotes smoking among adolescents. Perhaps it does. Or maybe kids smoke because grownups smoke – or because grownups don't want them to smoke, and it is one form of rebellion.
Outside of sex, the next most controversial film depiction is that of crime. There have always been those who argue that film portrayals of crime actually cause crime -- evidenced by the occasional lawsuit filed after someone commits a crime similar to one they'd seen at the movies.
Crime films are different from sex films in one important respect, authenticity. Virtually any depiction of sex has some basis in reality. Another way of saying that almost everyone who has made a film has had sex, of one kind or another, while most filmmakers and screenwriters have had no experience with crime, other than what they've read or seen on screen.
Which is why so many crime movies are celluloid comic books. Crime has been a popular film topic since the invention of movies – yet the really fine crime movies are a very small percentage of the total number.
Charley "Bird" Parker is reported to have said that if you haven't lived it, it won't come out of your horn. That isn't necessarily so. The Red Badge of Courage, considered by many to be one of the best war books ever written, was written by Stephen Crane, who had never been in a war.
There have been movies written by screenwriters who had never been involved in crime, yet they were extremely realistic, and artistic. There have also been books by former criminals which were turned into powerful movies. One example is Cool Hand Luke, arguably the best prison movie ever made (even though hyperbolic in places, it was more realistic than most people realize). The Riot, written by Frank Elli, while in prison, was laden with every prison cliché ever created. On The Yard, written by Malcolm Braly while doing time in San Quentin, was a powerful book (published in 1967), but a mediocre movie.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) was shown to an audience of convicts at the Missouri State Penitentiary in the late 1960s. When Luke finally "broke" and fell to that guard's feet, and begged for mercy, the convicts in the audience hissed and booed – just as the convicts in the film did, while watching that spectacle from the barracks windows. And when Luke made another break for freedom – having apparently fooled the guards into thinking he was broken, the convicts in the audience cheered wildly, as did the convicts in the movie. Life imitating art? Or life imitating art imitating life.
Crime books and films (often films made from books) have had a definite impact on society. The words "stoolie," "fink," "shiv," "Big House," and many others became common terms in the language, implanted in our minds by films. When a crime film achieves greatness it is because it is rooted in the truth, even though it is stereotyped and far more simplistic than the truth.
Early Crime Films
The "modern" gangster film originated in the late 20s, with two silent films (Underworld, 1927 and The Racket in 1928). But the real onslaught of gangster and crime and prison movies came not only with sound, but with prohibition and the depression. The Lights of New York (1928), one of the first talkies, had a gangster theme, followed in 1930 with Little Caesar and in 1931 with The Public Enemy. These last two films established Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney as archtypical gangsters. George Raft played a coin-flipping hit-man in Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932). For several years after that movie a lot of men were seen flipping coins and looking cool, imitating Raft (who was dogged his entire life with accusations he was mob connected). Although Raft made many movies, he is best remembered for that role. Humphrey Bogart made The Petrified Forest in 1936 and went on to be generally perceived as the equal of Cagney, but he wasn't – at least not in the gangster genre.
The first major prison movies, The Big House (1930) and The Criminal Code (1930) were followed two years later by I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang and by Each Dawn I Die (1939).. Such films became stereotypes that would dictate the course of prison movies in much the way that the early gangster films implanted a stamp of "authenticity" by which later films (and gangsters) would be judged.
The Big House was made following a wave of prison riots, including one at the Auburn Penitentiary in New York in 1929. This film began the trend of portraying a prison code and convict stereotypes that continue to dominate society's view of what a prison is, and who convicts are. The "code" was that you minded your own business and never ratted or "squealed" to the guards (or "screws" as they were commonly known). Another part of the code was that a good (or "solid") con was always against the administration of the prison. In this view, such a good con became the hero of the film and the stoolies were the enemy. The cons frequently ended up running the prison, because of their superior intelligence and, in Hollywood's view, their superior morality.
The Big House, in particular, set the tone for most later movies about prison. First published as a book, Grimhaven (written by a San Quentin convict), in 1924, the novel portrayed convicts as taciturn, loyal and courageous, ingeniously evil and misunderstood, and gave us words like stoolie, shiv, screw, etc. The words "Big House" have become synonymous with a maximum security prison surrounded by guard towers – a dark, brooding place where evils things happen and yet the human spirit can, if not triumph, at least survive. The convicts of The Big House, with the exception of the stool pigeons, were treated sympathetically, and the guards were generally brutes.
Of course, life isn't that simple. There are convicts who have many of the qualities you see in these movies, and there are guards who are brutal and insensitive. But, as in the outside world, there are infinite shades of gray. There are decent, kind and humane guards, and there are evil, foul convicts who would sell their mothers for a pack of cigarettes. One of the oldest sayings in prison is that prison wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to live with convicts.
The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), a compelling movie starring Burt Lancaster, supposedly the true story of Robert Stroud, who served more than 40 years in federal prisons, idealized Stroud without giving us a real feel for who the man was. Convicts I've talked to, who served time in Alcatraz with Stroud, portrayed him as a stool pigeon and a predatory homosexual – but also as a man with a brilliant mind. Not all convicts portray Stroud this way. I've also heard him described as a "solid con," who was resented by many fellow convicts because of his fame. The truth may lie somewhere between these two extremes.
One thing that no two hour movie can ever convey is the incredible tedium and emotional deprivation of prison – or the impact on a person of spending more than 40 years in prison.
Which brings us to whether films have, or should have, a purpose beyond entertainment. Films like Little Caesar and Public Enemy were originally, in addition to their artistic purpose, intended to show America a growing criminal underbelly that truly was a menace. Later films, like White Heat, Key Largo, etc., were never intended to change the world. If they did so – by causing real criminals to imitate the stylized cool of the film gangsters, that was an incidental effect of a film intended to make money as a dramatic story.
Boy's Town, with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, had a "message" – that even the toughest, most intractable boy, is still a boy and can be changed for the better. Father Flanagan, the founder of Boy's Town, who reportedly once said that there are no bad boys, also did not take (or keep) every boy that came his way.
The advent of official "messages" in films goes back to the early 20s and 30s, arising out of such episodes as the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal.
As a silent screen comedian, Arbuckle became as famous, and liked, as Charlie Chaplin. He was the only actor of his time to be given complete artistic control of his films. He frequently co-starred with Mabel Normand (as did Chaplin).
On September 5, 1921 a young actress named Virginia Rappe died in San Francisco from what the medical examiner described as peritonitis and a ruptured bladder. The investigation revealed there had been a party at the St. Francis Hotel, hosted by Arbuckle. Newspapers across the nation gave massive coverage to the story, with the stories containing a great deal of speculation on what had happened at the hotel. One common theme was that there had been a drunken orgy that ended in tragedy.
Without question there had been alcohol at the party – in violation of the Volstead Act (Prohibition). There were allegations that Arbuckle had shoved a shard of jagged ice into Rappe's vagina, or that he had fatally pummeled her with his nearly 300-pound body while ravishing her. Rappe was often portrayed as a virginal young actress, defiled by Arbuckle. In fact, she'd had a number of abortions and was suffering from gonorrhea at the time of her death.
After three trials Arbuckle was acquitted. But his career was permanently ruined and he died in disgrace in 1933.
The second major incident leading to censorship of Hollywood was the murder of William Desmond Taylor on Feb. 1, 1922, while Arbuckle's second trial for manslaughter was underway. Taylor, a prominent director (president of the Los Angeles branch of the Motion Picture Director's Association at the time of his death), was romantically linked with both Mary Miles Minter and Mabel Normand, two prominent actresses of the time. In fact, Normand was one of the greatest film comediennes of all time (she invented the pie-in-the-face).
Normand had visited with Taylor shortly before he was shot to death, and the nation's newspapers headlined the story for a long time. There were widespread allegations that Normand was a cocaine addict, and that Taylor was killed by drug pushers who feared he would spur a federal investigation of drug trafficking in Hollywood.
As with Arbuckle, the explosive publicity ruined the careers of Minter and Normand.
The Taylor murder has never been solved, but between the Arbuckle and Taylor scandals, and the drug overdose of actor Wallace Reid, and the death, on Sept. 10, 1920, by mercury poisoning of prominent actress Olive Thomas, in Paris, after using cocaine, many corners of the public were convinced that Hollywood was a degenerate scar on society and clamored for it to be reined in.
Newspaper accounts of the day illustrate the public's attitude.
February 11, 1922
Chicago Suburb Will Ask to Have Name Changed
"What's in a name? A lot, according to the citizens of Hollywood, Ill., a placid little suburb of Chicago.
Since the Arbuckle and Taylor cases were revealed the tiny Illinois town doesn't feel so placid. While it boasts of a movie theater, the Illinois Hollywood is innocent of Japanese butlers, love bungalows, Chinese dope peddlers and screen ingenues whose faces register "frozen horror."
Because of the notoriety of the movie colony, the residents of Chicago's suburb today announced they would have the name of their town changed."
February 10, 1922
Hollywood Must be Purified by U.S. Government
"Hollywood must be purified by the government, Canon William Sheafe Chase, veteran movie reformer, declared today in an interview.
He demanded passage by congress of a resolution to investigate the film colony and prevent its scandals from debauching the mind of America.
"Actors and actresses of the screen," he charged, "are teaching the public free love, adultery, murder, infidelity and lust. And," he added, "too many of them naturally are practicing what they teach.
"The murder of William Desmond Taylor is another reason why Hollywood should be investigated," Chase asserted."
February 10, 1922
Doctors hurry, bankers worry, another movie murder threatens to tear down the assets of another line of movie reels. At twice the salary of the President of the United States the movie producers hire Will Hays out of the President's cabinet to lend a touch of respectability to a gigantic business that has lost its place of popular respect because it has deported itself in defiance of public decency.
Will Hays has announced that he is going to Hollywood to personally investigate conditions there. He has served notice sufficiently in advance to find things remarkably good and pleasing there by the time of his advent. Not unlike the old-fashioned Tulsa police raids, a tip in time will save many.
February 18, 1922
Somebody with a bright idea wants to "probe" the moving picture industry. But what does somebody want to find out? The government is not going to investigate unless there is a probability that a law is being broken by the industry, and so far while there may be a lot of individuals in the movies breaking laws, what is there in the recent cases of Arbuckle and Taylor for the United States to look into? Will actors and actresses be all of them asked if they smoke cigarettes and chew gum and dance? Will they be asked if they take a little drink now and then when they think the brand is safe? Will they all be asked if they have led strictly moral lives? Will they be made to tell the truth about their salaries?"
In 1934 the Hollywood studios adopted the Hays Code – an effort by the studios to censor themselves to avoid government censorship, which in those days might well have been imposed. Under the Hays Code, Hollywood could no longer portray criminals in a sentimental way, and crime should never pay (even though, at the time the code was imposed on Hollywood, organized crime was virtually immune from prosecution). Movie people lived in fear of being banned, which Hays could do. While criminals could no longer be glorified, cops could (despite the fact that many police departments were totally corrupt and in Kansas City, for example, scores of ex-convicts were appointed to the police department), so the emphasis shifted to showing the same material by transforming James Cagney from a snarling gangster to a snarling cop (G-Men in 1935) or by showing Cagney as a hoodlum who goes to the chair bleating for mercy at the end (Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938). Ironically, if the intended purpose of Angels With Dirty Faces was to show that crime doesn't pay, it failed. In this movie Cagney is idolized by a group of street kids, who would like to grow up to be just like him. As he faces the electric chair a priest convinces him to go out like a coward, so the street kids would quit trying to be like him. So, as Cagney, at the last minute, starts crying for mercy, and has to be dragged to the chair – he may no longer be a hero to those street kids, but he becomes a hero to every kid watching the movie – because he is transformed from a killer gangster to a killer gangster with class and character.
History has proved that propagandizing films did not change America for the better – just as preventing married people from occupying the same bed on television did not prevent the free love atmosphere of the 60s.
Under Hays a movie like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer could never had been made, because Henry does not get caught. Yet this movie is the truest depiction of a serial killer ever filmed, and reflects the unfortunate truth that at any given moment as many as 50 (some say 500) serial killers are roaming the United States, and some of them will never be caught.
The problem with Hollywood is that a minority of the people in the movie industry are genuinely creative – the rest have various levels of technical proficiency. This has always been the case.
Someone makes a successful movie and the movie makes a bundle. Immediately you have a dozen production companies gearing up to try to duplicate that movie and the result is a slew of cheap knockoffs. The problem in Hollywood, the problem for Hollywood's image, lies in the cheap knockoffs – movies with no intelligence, lacking originality.
One prominent example is Death Wish with Charles Bronson. The original movie tapped into a theme that was compelling – that, in modern society, a man is victimized by crime, cannot find justice, goes out to seek justice on his own and becomes not only a vigilante, but a revenging angel for the public at large. It was a cheap production, but had a core idea that the public responded to. It had originality. Then came Death Wish II and Death Wish III and Death Wish ad nauseum.
The first Death Wish had an underlying theme (whether you agreed with it or not), while the rest were merely vehicles for escalating violence.
Hollywood has fallen into a stagnant "Death Wish" pool. The progression of the Death Wish series has been the progression of most crime films in general. In the first movie, Charles Bronson engaged in violence, with a handgun. After the original idea had been milked, and with nothing original to offer, the handgun got bigger, and bigger, until it became necessary for Bronson to use military hardware to inject something new into the sequels. Throughout the Death Wish series, the criminals were unwashed cretins, barely human creatures who evoked no sympathy from the audience.
Ditto for the Dirty Harry series, with Clint Eastwood. The gun gets bigger and bigger, the violence more apocalyptic, because the underlying theme of the original movie (a roque cop who breaks the rules, because the "system" doesn't work) has been milked to death.
For several decades Hollywood has cartoonized crime, with the same unrelenting message -- the "system" doesn't work, and therefore extraordinary measures are called for -- mostly in the form of gratuitous violence -- to stem what is perceived as a tidal wave of crime washing over society.
The advent of this underlying message of Hollywood began in the 1970s -- coincidentally or not, that is also the advent of society's hardening of its attitude toward crime and criminals.
The late 1960s and early 1970s were the last vestiges of the prison reform and prisoner rights movements. In fact, it was in the early 1970s that Norman Carlson, director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, declared that rehabilitation had been tried, and failed, and that rehabilitation would no longer be the underlying purpose of federal prisons. As usually happens, many states followed the federal lead. Unfortunately, Norman Carlson forgot to tell us where and when rehabilitation had been tried and failed.
The federal system then abolished parole, and many states have followed -- by either abolishing parole or severely restricting it. Where capital punishment was on the wane by the late 1960s, then abolished outright by the Supreme Court (under the laws as then applied), capital punishment has roared back into vogue, to the point now where an overwhelming majority of people are in favor of it. After the execution of Carla Faye Tucker in Texas, a poll in that state showed that more than 50% of Texans favored the death penalty even in cases where the condemned person had changed (as was the main reason Christian groups sought clemency for Carla Faye Tucker-- i.e., that she had become a born-again Christian during her long stay on death row).
Is it really a coincidence that society's extreme hardening of its views toward criminals, and prisons, has followed a parallel decades-long cartoonizing and demonizing of criminals by Hollywood? Is it also a coincidence that, since the early 1970s, the prison population in America has risen from 225,000 to approximately 1,300,000 today?
Lost in the Hollywood message is the fact that more than 50% of the people in prison are there for non-violent crimes -- and that even many of those incarcerated for violent crimes are not the mindlessly violent creatures portrayed on film.
As Hollywood has adopted a bumper sticker mentality about crime, so have modern politicians -- liberal and conservative alike. The entire modern philosopy toward crime is a Bubba type philosophy -- "get tough," "lock'em up," "three stikes and yer out," "soft on crime," "more prisons." The quickest way for a politician to be voted out of office is to be "softer" on crime than his or her opponent.
When I say Hollywood, of course, in this instance I'm including television-- since both genres drink from the same well.
Oddly enough, this simplistic view of crime not only cartoonizes criminals, but police officers as well. Some of the best police officers I've known have never found it necessary to shoot another person. I've also known good cops who have killed people in the line of duty. Just as movies fail to capture the psychological erosion that often occurs in prison, particularly in maximum-security prisons, they fail to capture the "life sentence" that a career as a police officer can become, or the debilitating office politics that permeate large police departments. The cynicism of many police officers springs from the fact he must not only be a good police officer, but a politician as well if he wants to get ahead.
My step-father, who'd been a police officer in St. Louis for 29 1/2 years, could not bring himself to serve the final six months that would have given him a larger pension.
Certainly, in the last several decades there have been extremely violent crime movies that were also intelligent. Goodfellas springs to mind -- a tremendously authentic look at would-be "made" guys. Goodfellas is my pick as the best gangster movie of modern times -- fully the equal of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, the most unrelentingly realistic crime movie ever made. The Godfather movies -- while deserving the appellation "great" movies, for artistic reasons -- are simply fawning, groveling mea culpas to organized crime.
Which brings us to the problem, and the challenge, of crime films in the years ahead. The early gangster films were original and compelling, because they reflected a new phenomena and an attempt to understand it. Same with the early prison films.
But once the early films had been done, the challenge became how to do the next one? In what way would it be original?
The Hollywood solution, usually, is to change the actors, and maybe the cities, but the core of the movie is deja vu.
Art and reality often conflict. Prison dramas become a blur when you think of the last 68 years – too often filled with snarling cons and weasly stoolies and dumb and brutal guards. Gangster films after the 1930s usually became parodies of themselves.
Only in the film noir category has Hollywood, after the early films (The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, etc.), frequently lived up to the promise of art on film – possibly because such films have a literary, rather than a documentary, frame of reference.
The often overlooked To Live And Die In L.A. is excellent. As are Chinatown, Taxi Driver, The French Connection, Reservoir Dogs, L.A. Confidential, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver (Death Wish with a brain), The Accused.
One truly good crime movie – seldom mentioned by critics – was Devil In A Blue Dress, the 1995 Easy Rawlins film, with Denzel Washington and, particularly, Don Cheadle as "Mouse."
Devil In A Blue Dress is as good as any noir film ever made. But it will never receive a proper ranking because it is a "black" film and will always be perceived as such.
In addition to the movies already mentioned, the following movies, by no means intended to be an exhaustive list, are well worth watching:
Chinatown, 1974
Night and the City, 1950
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973
Little Caesar, 1930
Once Upon a Time in America, 1984
The Public Enemy, 1931
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, 1932
The Untouchables, 1987
To Live and Die in LA, 1985
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Big House, 1930
The Concrete Jungle, 1960
Cool Hand Luke, 1967
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, 1932
The Shawshenk Redemption, 1994
The Criminal Code, 1931
Underworld, 1927
The Sting, 1973
Midnight Mary, 1933
Farewell, My Lovely, 1975
LA Confidential, 1997
Cry of the City, 1948
The Asphalt Jungle, 1950
The Big Sleep, 1946
Bonnie & Clyde
The Godfather, Parts 1 & 2
Bugsy, 1991
The Maltese Falcon, 1941
Call Northside 777, 1948


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Monday, February 25, 2013
Posted by Rot at 6:25 PM
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2 comments:
- Autumnleaf said...
I still have about a dozen pumpkins sitting around. Some look like they're half melted into the ground.
- February 26, 2013 at 11:23 AM
- girl6 said...
this is sweet...
Love the rain..&..it feels sooo NYC..
siiiiigh...how long again before Halloween's return...
- February 27, 2013 at 12:09 PM
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