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Stow -- Mike Andy possesses an unsurpassed drive and indomitable energy that underscores a life of personal success and adventure that borders unbelievable.
He's traveled the world as a tour manager for legendary rock groups like AC/DC, U2 and Motley Crue, arguably mastered the hospitality industry in the Cleveland area, and still reunites with his good friend and former Ohio State University head football coach Jim Tressel to reminisce about their college football days at the University of Akron.
Andy, 57, says strangers sometimes believe his stories are too fantastic to be true -- but they're as real as the awards, photos and concert memorabilia that fill his home.
"I would not trade one second of my entire career, whether academically, athletically or otherwise for anything in the world, and I would not have wanted anything different," he said.
Andy is among a group of seven athletes who will be inducted into the 38th class of the University of Akron Sports Hall of Fame during a Feb. 15 ceremony at the school's Martin Center Ballroom.
Ever humble, Andy -- a Zips walk-on and offensive tackle who eventually earned a full ride along with All-Mid-Continent Conference honors and an honorable mention in NCAA II All-America accolades by the Associated Press in 1978 -- attributes the prestigious distinction to the many influences in his life.
"This hall of fame induction has nothing to do with me," he said. "It has to do with the people who helped put me in that position and helped made me who I am."
The building years
Andy still remembers the first time he put on a set of football pads for two-a-day practices at Walsh Jesuit High School. Little did he know his shoulder pads were on backward and his leg pads were meant to fit inside pockets in his football pants.
He advanced a long way before walking on at the University of Akron in May 1974 -- a year after he graduated high school -- after "All City Sid" Laria passed film of his high school football work on to Zips coaches.
"When I had this opportunity, man, I was tickled pink," said Andy, who confesses a love of the "togetherness" a football team fosters.
"He didn't have a lot of skills and wasn't overly coordinated when I met him," said Tom Flaherty, Andy's line coach through his five-year tenure with the Zips. "He looked a little rough at first, but I could see his potential . . . He started at the lowest level and worked and worked until he worked himself into the starting lineup."
Andy spent three years on the team lifting, practicing and developing before his 1974 season was redshirted, giving him 1977 and 1978 to start at offensive tackle.
Andy fondly remembers the first time he dressed for a Zips game in 1976. Even though he wasn't a starter yet, the moment symbolized one of many "brass rings" he constantly reached for.
At nearly 6-and-a-half feet tall and 260 pounds, Andy was a bruiser -- but he's never been one to stifle his energy or emotions.
"I'm sitting there putting on that blue and gold, and the things were so blue and so gold, I'll tell ya, I cried," he said. "I was so overwhelmed and so happy, I was just thinking, 'This is unbelievable.'"
He paid for school all by himself, originally working an asphalt job to pay for his first apartment. He eventually earned financial assistance -- he received money for books, tuition, and food. Prior to all that, he was given a place to live at the cinder-block fieldhouse and Buchtel Field.
A Future Hall of Famer
Tressel -- now the vice president of strategic engagement for the University of Akron -- was one of Andy's roommates at the time. While only two years older than Andy, Tressel had landed a job on the football team's coaching staff as a graduate assistant, working with specialty positions.
Tressel still refers to Andy as "Shamu," his nickname that has stuck with him to this very day.
"'Mu was just one of the guys. He was kind of a comedian and the life of the party. He was the guy that got everyone together," said Tressel, noting how Andy's positive mental attitude was incredibly infectious. "He is a fun-loving guy who cared deeply for his teammates and his friends."
Tressel noted how Andy's path from walk-on to full-ride was unique and a symbol of his hard work and dedication.
"I didn't want a full ride because of the things it taught me being a walk-on helped me succeed after that [in life]," Andy said.
"Nothing was ever easy for him. Nothing was ever handed to him. But that was OK because he wanted to earn every single thing that would come his way," Tressel said. "It meant the most for him to succeed on behalf of his teammates."
Andy still has the wood-handled, leather jump rope Tressel gave him in the '70s to work on agility so he could be quick off the snap if not fast in general.
"I don't know everyone that's in the Hall of Fame," said Tressel, "but I can promise you there's no one in there that this will mean more to than it does to Mike."
"I went from walk-on with nothing to a full-ride," said Andy. "I'd accomplished something that I always wanted to accomplish, but never thought I would."
Ironically, Andy has never owned a football of his own. He said he loves his coaches, teammates and what football taught him more than the sport itself.
"I loved the camaraderie, the unity, the fact that everything was so regimented, the discipline and accountability to not just your teammates and your team, but yourself," said Andy. "I didn't want to screw up because I didn't want to disappoint the coaches and teammates, but I sure as hell didn't want to disappoint myself."
Andy decided not to pursue an NFL career after his time with the Zips.
Rather, he finished his education at UA, earning a bachelor's degree in both food service management and technical education in food service management. A self-confessed lover of food who dabbled in cooking at just 4 years old, Andy said it had been his dream to own a restaurant.
Andy also took on jobs as a bouncer for various bars and clubs to earn extra money during his time at UA.
He went on to work the hotel circuit around Cleveland after college when Bob Wein -- a security manager who worked with Andy and toured with Bruce Springsteen among other notable groups and musicians -- gave Andy the chance to handle security for AC/DC.
Andy went on to tour the world with popular arena bands for 11 straight years.
Andy said football influenced him throughout his entire life. He recalls when he was the tour manager for AC/DC during the band's 1991 show in Salt Lake City, Utah where three fans died after being trampled to death.
"That was a nightmare," said Andy. "When you have an experience like that, you resort back to something you handled earlier in life."
When Andy pulled a dead girl out of the crowd at the 1991 concert, to cope, he fell back to the day his friend and Zips teammate and tight end Chris Angeloff died during a game in 1975 of a massive heart attack. He remembers how his coach, Jim Dennison, broke the news to the team -- which didn't know Angeloff had died when he was taken off the field -- in tears.
The positive mental attitude Andy kept with him his entire life also helped him cope with the loss of his mother last year, and his eventual diagnosis with the autoimmune disorder Lupus.
Just like in football, a person may lose the game or take a big hit, "but the sun will still come up tomorrow," he said, "and people need to remember that."
He also thanks the people who have supported him throughout life's hard times -- just like how his teammates and coaches supported him during his time with the Zips -- including his physician, Dr. Richard Henkel, his half-sister, Kay DeBolt, and his two sons, Mike and Tyler.
Just as he succeeded in sports, reaching ever further for his next "brass ring," his next goal is to beat his illness each and every day.
Andy chooses to work past life's struggles and focus on each day and remember the people who made him a success.
"If I died today, I've had an unbelievable life," he said, "and I'm so happy for it and so happy for the people who helped make that happen."
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after the "Bail in" in Cyprus were depositers money was stolen I checked on the web to see where else it may happen. sadly the US and UK have already put this on the statute books and Canada and New Zealand have followed. Not many people realise that the money you have on deposite in a bank does not belong to You, Legally it belongs to the bank!! .and they can call a Bank Holiday and steal your money if they wish.best to keep some outside the system, and with the price of gold and silver at new low prices it's a great time to buy precious metals

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The new boss for the Serious Fraud Office has been named as Australian Julie Read.
State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie said Read had more than 20 years experience as a litigator, including 10 years with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) holding several senior executive roles.
Read is currently the Special Counsel (Litigation) in ASIC's Chief Legal Office - a position she has held since 2010.
"Ms Read is a senior public servant with significant experience at executive level managing work very similar to that of the Serious Fraud Office," said Rennie.
"She has a track record of building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders and colleague agencies, while discharging her statutory role in complex and challenging investigations and prosecutions," he said.
"Ms Read will lead the Serious Fraud Office to actively monitor, investigate and prosecute so that serious fraud and corruption does not go undetected or unpunished," said Rennie.
He said Read had been appointed for a term of three years and will take up her role on October 21.
Simon McArley has been acting chief executive of the Serious Fraud Office for the past year, since the departure of Adam Feeley in August.
Supplied biography of new SFO head Julie Read:
- Julie Read was appointed to her current role of Special Counsel (Litigation), Chief Legal Office within ASIC in 2010. In this role, Read is a senior executive responsible for the conduct of ASIC litigation. She is also the Minister's delegate responsible for the approval of requests for assistance from foreign regulators.
- Read is also the Regional Commissioner of ASIC for Tasmania, a role she has held since 2002.
- From 2008 to 2010, Read was Senior Executive Leader, Major Fraud and International, ASIC. In this role she was responsible for the investigation and litigation of major matters and the provision of advice to the ASIC Commission on various cross-agency bodies.
- Read was also ASIC's representative on the International Organisation of Securities Commissions committee responsible for cross-border securities law enforcement matters for six years from May 2006.
- Read was previously a Director of Enforcement and an Acting General Counsel, ASIC from 2002 to 2008, roles which related to ASIC investigations and litigation.
- From 1992 to 2002 Read was the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, managing the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Tasmania.
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For your clients who have been playing the wait-and-see game in estate planning this year, the time for waiting is over. Absent congressional action, the current $5.12 million exemption will revert to $1 million in less than three months, and the current 35% maximum estate tax rate will jump to 55%. While Congress could act to extend the 2012 rates, this appears less and less likely given today's political landscape. And though a compromise provision could present a more reasonable solution, the opportunity for legislative compromise is quickly disappearing in this overheated political environment. The bottom line: the time for estate planning is now.
The Political Arena
The increasing difficulties in achieving a compromise on estate tax issues can be seen by examining the proposals presented by the 2012 presidential candidates. Mitt Romney would attempt to eliminate the estate tax entirely. President Obama's proposal would reduce the exemption to $3.5 million but increase the maximum estate tax rate to 45%.
Further, the president has proposed inclusion of assets held in certain grantor trusts in calculating the gross estate. These assets are currently excluded from a decedent's estate—and grantor trusts are frequently created specifically to reduce the value of assets included in the gross estate—therefore President Obama's proposals would cause many more estates to exceed the exemption level.
The gap between the two candidates' proposals illustrates the problem in reaching a compromise, but the landscape in Congress is even more troublesome. While we will not know who will win the presidential election for another month, the split in Congress is similarly pronounced, with widespread disagreement over the appropriate rates presenting a difficult hurdle for compromise.
The disagreement within Congress is evidenced by splits within the parties that have emerged in recent months. Many Democrats disagree with the increased estate tax rates and decreased exemption proposed by the president because of the anticipated impact on small business and farms. This has made it difficult to secure agreement even within a single political party in Congress.
Impact of Reversion
According to a LIMRA survey, more than one in eight U.S. households would end up owing estate taxes if the estate tax rates are permitted to revert to their 2001 rates in 2013. This is because, in addition to financial assets, assets such as real estate and life insurance are usually included in calculating the gross estate.
While the proceeds of life insurance on a decedent can be used to pay his estate tax liability, the LIMRA survey estimates that 55% of households would not have sufficient insurance coverage to pay the taxes owed if the estate tax rates revert to their 2001 levels. Each of these households would be left owing, on average, $1.6 million. Even if the president's compromise proposal is enacted, the LIMRA survey found that 53% of households affected by the tax would not have enough life insurance coverage to pay their estate tax liability. On average, each of these households would be left with an estate tax liability of $3 million.
Although several months remain before we will have a conclusive answer to the 2013 estate tax question, now is the time for decisive planning. If your clients want to take advantage of the current high exemption, they should begin the planning process as soon as possible, and consider making gifts, as well as other moves that can be made before new law becomes effective.
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By Cheryl Pellerin
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2013 – U.S. Cyber Command has activated the headquarters for its Cyber National Mission Force, the one of its three forces that would react to a cyber attack on the nation, Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Cybercom's commander, said at the National Press Club today.
The other two forces are the Cyber Combat Mission Force that is assigned to the operational control of individual combatant commanders, and the Cyber Protection Force that helps operate and defend the Defense Department's information environment.
Speaking at the 4th Annual Cybersecurity Summit, the general, who is also director of the National Security Agency, said Cybercom teams are now fully operational and working side by side with NSA to defend the nation.
"We will ensure that we have the best force anywhere in the world," Alexander said.
Federal, military and industry officials listened as the general detailed five aspects of cybersecurity that NSA and Cyber Command are working to improve.
"Look at what's happened in the past year," Alexander said. "Over 300 distributed denial-of-service attacks on Wall Street. We saw destructive attacks in August 2012 against Saudi Aramco and RasGas [Co. Ltd.]."
There've also been "destructive" cyberattacks against South Korea, he added.
"What that says to me is that this is going to pick up. It's going to get worse and we have to get a number of things done to protect this country," Alexander said.
The top priority, he said, is a trained and ready force.
"The best [force] in the world — that's what the American people expect of our military and of our intelligence community and that's what we're doing. Why? In this area, technical skills really matter," the general said. "So we're engaged in a multiyear effort with the services to train our forces."
The Army, Navy and Marines trained about a third of the force in 2013 and they will train a third in 2014 and another third in 2015, he said.
"That's a huge step forward and the service chiefs have stood up and pushed those forces forward despite sequestration and despite all the battles that are going on in the Pentagon," Alexander said. "They've stood up and they've all agreed that this is a threat that we have to address for the good of the military and our nation."
Cybercom also is conducting exercises such as Cyber Guard and Cyber Flag, the general said. These include the combatant commands, the National Guard, the reserves and interagency participation to develop the tactics, techniques and procedures and working relationships needed to conduct operations in cyberspace.
"Cyber Command provides cyber support elements to every combatant command today," Alexander said. "We're refining our operational concepts and our command and control. And I think … coming up with the operational concepts and the command and control is absolutely vital to the future.'
The second area critical to cybersecurity, especially in the Defense Department, is to move from the legacy information technology architecture in use today to a defensible architecture, the general said.
In fact, the Defense Information Systems Agency, working with Cybercom, NSA and the services, is beginning to implement a Joint Information Environment that will eventually upgrade the DOD legacy system.
"I think the cloud architecture that's been pushed forward for the Joint Information Environment and the intelligence community's IT environment is where our nation needs to be," Alexander said. "A thin [or very minimalized] virtual cloud environment offers some great capabilities for the future."
In such an environment, he explained, patching for many computers could be done at network speed with 100-percent accuracy, essentially fixing an entire network within minutes.
"You could remove humans from the loop in that [operation] and put them where you need them — protecting the networks," the general said.
In this environment, he said, "we can break down each system we see being scanned by an adversary and put it in a new place. You can jump networks, you can jump databases, and you can jump your phone system, [making] it very difficult for adversaries to exploit them."
Shared situational awareness is a third area of critical importance to the nation, Alexander said, describing it as a common way for people to understand events that happen in cyberspace.
"Ask the IT people to draw you a picture of a recent exploit into your network," the general said. He then drew examples in the air to demonstrate the likely confusion that would ensue with no common framework.
"How does it look? How are we going to fix it?" he asked.
Such a framework will be even more important, the general said, when "forces in cyberspace must ask questions like, 'Where is the adversary coming from? Where are they getting into the country? What is Cyber Command's role? What is NSA's role? How do our allies see that? How do we work together?'"
The answer is, he said, "nobody sees it today. We don't have the shared situational awareness we need and this is going to be a key capability for the future."
As a result, Alexander said, Cybercom, NSA and the Defense Department are developing a common operational picture and will share it with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, with all the combatant commands, and with some U.S. allies.
The fourth area that's critical in cybersecurity is that government must work with industry, the general said.
"Industry owns and operates 85 percent to 90 percent of our networks," Alexander said. But the government, led by the president, he added, has to be responsible for defending the country from attack and for attacking back.
"We have to share what we know about [cyber] threats and [industry] has to tell us what they see. This is where the Internet service providers are critical. Not just here but with our allies and others," the general said.
"But we have to work with industry because we can't see the threat," he added. "And if we can't see it we can't respond to it."
Government and industry must come together and figure out how that will work, Alexander said, adding that industry is critical to defending the United States in cybersecurity, and U.S. allies are critical partners in this.
"If we can't share information with industry," he said, "we won't be able to stop it."
The fifth area that's critical to the United States in cybersecurity involves authorities, Alexander said.
"We need to work with Congress on additional legislation regarding cybersecurity and private industry — specifically, how we will share information and how we will provide liability protection to them," he said. "Those are the key issues that have to come out of this."
Rules of engagement also must be clarified, the general said, including what is expected of Cybercom.
"This is a difficult topic," he said. "We don't want NSA and Cyber Command doing something irresponsible. On the other hand, we don't want NSA and Cyber Command waiting for the authorities while Wall Street is taken down in [a] cyber[attack]. So we have a dilemma. How do we work that?"
He said officials at Cyber Command and NSA are working within the Defense Department and the interagency to study the authorities and processes needed.
"It very closely follows what you would expect us to do if this were a missile attack on our country," Alexander said. "How do we go through those authorities? How do we set up the conference calls? How do we go to the secretary of defense and the president and get the authorities we need and give them the options?"
He added, "We're working our way through that and I think the government has done a great job moving that forward."
Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander
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Her public speaking was forced by her husband's presidency and his disability--she often made appearances when he could not--and after FDR's death, she was tapped by President Truman to serve as a delegate to the brand new United Nations and to marshall the Declaration of Human Rights. The late 1940s and 50s became her most prolific period of public speaking as a result.
Roosevelt's work on the human rights declaration was mostly behind the scenes, negotiating, lobbying and listening until she could bring UN delegates to a consensus. But in this speech to a Columbia University sorority, she explains the process that resulted in the human rights declaration, disclosing discussions and nuances in an early version of what we'd call "transparency" today. Here, she describes the impact that women on one of the committees had on its final language, which originally mimicked the U.S. declaration of independence to say "All men...":
Right away they saw something in our document that we brought to them which we had not given much thought to. As we presented the document, it was perhaps a little too Anglo-Saxon, a little too much like the American Declaration. It said "all men" in the beginning of a great many paragraphs; the final Article reads, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."Women in places where human rights are in question have reason to thank her every day for that change.
After I got home I received a letter from a gentleman who said, "How could you as the United States Delegate vote for Article I of the Universal Declaration when it is not like our Declaration?"
Now I will tell you how I could. The women on Committee III--and remember there were 58 representatives of governments in Committee III, not 18-58--and the women said " 'All men,' oh, no. In this document we are not going to say 'all men' because in some of our countries we are just struggling to recognition and equality. Some of us have come up to the top but others have very little equality and recognition and freedom. If we say 'all men,' when we get home it will be 'all men.'" So you will find in this Declaration that it starts with "all human beings" in Article I, and in all the other Articles is says "everyone," "no one." In the body of the Article it occasionally says "his," because to say "his or hers" each time was a little awkward, but it is very clearly understood that this applies to all human beings.
There's no one speech to point to about the declaration--rather, far too many--but here's what I observe about Roosevelt's speeches and speaking that you might be able to use:
- She never fails to use examples featuring real people: A master of this form, Eleanor Roosevelt genuinely saw her mission as one of shedding light on the experiences of "ordinary" people, and used them to illustrate her points, whether they were the women delegates helping to frame the declaration of human rights, or a rural couple whose lives were changed by the presence of a public library where one had not existed before. Roosevelt spent countless hours touring with and talking to citizens, and incorporated their stories into her speeches--her way of representing them, even though she never held an elected office.
- She was a master of the aphorism: And we quote hers every day, from Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't, to A woman is like a tea bag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is. Those short, punchy, funny lines give the listener something they can recognize and relate to--and remember later to repeat to others, just what a speaker wants to prompt.
- She was shy, feared public speaking--and did it anyway: In the video examples below, you won't see a sign of nerves (and by the time these were recorded, she'd had ample practice). Her call to service was stronger than her public-speaking fear.
Here's video from a television "speech" she gave later, to celebrate Human Rights Day--I think it will give you a good sense of her speaking style in a less cavernous setting:
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MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell.
An example would be building a library that uses the autotools build system. Users will typically run "./configure" then "make" to build it. The configure shell script requires a shell script interpreter which is not present on Windows systems, but provided by MSYS.
A common misunderstanding is MSYS is "UNIX on Windows", MSYS by itself does not contain a compiler or a C library, therefore does not give the ability to magically port UNIX programs over to Windows nor does it provide any UNIX specific functionality like case-sensitive filenames. Users looking for such functionality should look to Cygwin or Microsoft's Interix instead.
Installing MSYS
Up to MSYS 1.0.11, all components of MSYS were distributed in one single installer you downloaded and ran. While convenient, this made it difficult to update individual components. So, all the MSYS components are now available as separate downloads managed by mingw-get (see Getting_Started (currently alpha release).
For convenience, you can follow the instructions below to install 1.0.11.
Previous MSYS versions (up to 1.0.11)
These instructions were based on the Enlightenment Wiki. Thanks to Vincent Torri for pointing them out.
The total size of the installation of MSYS/MinGW is around 110 MB. Be sure to have enough space on your hard disk.
- If you haven't already installed MinGW on your system, install MinGW in C:\MinGW. It is better to not install it in the same directory than MSYS, though there should be no problem since MSYS 1.0.11. In the installer, choose "Download and install", then "Current" (it will install gcc 4.4.0).
- Install MSYS 1.0.11. I usually install it in C:\msys\1.0, but you can use any directory that you prefer.
Check http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ for more recent versions of all these files.
- Next, the post install process will ask for the directory where MinGW was installed to. Enter "c:/mingw". If you make a mistake, you can change it by editing the "C:\msys\1.0\etc\fstab" file, make sure to use 'LF line endings. An example fstab may contain:
c:/mingw /mingw c:/java /java
- Install MSYS DTK 1.0 in C:\msys\1.0.
- Install MSYS Core 1.0.11. It is an archive. Untar it in C:\msys\1.0.
- Set the environment variable HOME to C:\msys\1.0\home
Now you should have a cyan "M" link on the Desktop. When you double-click on it, a terminal should be launched.
Using MSYS with MinGW
It is convenient to have your MinGW installation mounted on /mingw, since /mingw is on MSYS PATH by default. For this to work, just type (assuming MinGW is on c:\mingw):
mount c:/mingw /mingw
To install 3rd party library and applications which uses the autotools build system the following commands are often used.
./configure --prefix=/mingw make make install
Installing to "/usr/local" should be avoided, since the MinGW compiler won't look there by default.
Building for MSYS
To build an application for MSYS (as opposed to using MSYS), users will need to install the MSYS Toolchain. It contains headers and libraries for MSYS along with a patched version of GCC and Binutils. See HOWTO Create an MSYS Build Environment.
It should never be treated as a targeted platform. It is meant only as a means to update the MSYS components or the MSYS runtime DLL itself. Resulting programs will only run under MSYS.
MinGW build VS MSYS build
Some programs when used under the MSYS shell can be tricky. One such example is sed.
$ ls *.txt -1 | sed -e s/.exe/\&\!/g
Normally, sed will append "!" to the end of every .txt file, but if sed was compiled and link using MinGW, MSYS will treat it as a native application and will try to change "/" to "\" to compensate for the difference between UNIX path and WIN32, resulting in unpredictability when used under the MSYS shell.


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But just as they get together, Marc and Sammy were torn apart when life and family obligations interfere. It's been ten years and Sammy never got over losing Marc. Even though he has a successful career as a social worker at the local GLBT youth center, Sammy has always felt as if a piece of himself is missing. Then one day when he least expects it, Marc shows up at the center, wanting to film a documentary. Sammy is shocked and hurt that Marc has stayed away so long only to turn up when he needs something. What Sammy doesn't know is Marc had a good reason for staying away. One that could not only destroy their lives, but the love they once had for each other and any choice of a future together.


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Corey Arnold is a photographer and Alaskan crab fisherman. During October, January and February he can (or cannot) be found aboard the F/V Rollo in the Bering Sea. The rest of the year is packed with travel, gallery exhibitions, magazine and ad photography assignments with a bit of backyard gardening, cat maintenance, and skateboarding in Portland, Oregon. Corey is currently working on his life long photography project, Fish-work, which is a portrait of the modern commercial fisherman. He has spent six years photographing his life as a crab fisherman in the Bering Sea. In 2005, he received an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant to photograph the men at sea in Northern Norway. Upcoming projects include working with the Salmon fishermen of Bristol Bay, Alaska and the Trawl industry of Northern Russia.
As a professional fisherman you must have a unique perspective on human/animal relationships. How does this influence your photographs?
'When I was a kid I used to stalk birds and other animals with my bb gun in the backyard. My hunter instinct was strong and I'd spend hours searching for victims. Then, after killing something, I was torn by my adrenaline fueled sense of accomplishment and deep sadness for what I had done. The same applied to sportfishing as a child. The goal was, of course, to seek out and kill the largest, most beautiful fish! At home, I've fathered many pets… cats, snakes, dogs, rabbits. For some instinctual reason, I'm endlessly curious about animals. I like to be in close quarters with them, whether it be gutting a fish for dinner letting my cat sleep on my head. The human animal series came along naturally… it's a series of curious animal situations that I've encountered throughout my recent life. This is an ongoing series, an exploration of how we relate to animals and it covers a broad perspective of events both real and designed. My time at sea as a commercial fisherman has given me a more animal perspective on animals then a human one in some ways. The goal is to make pictures that are curious, sometimes brutal and often ridiculous… which is how I experience our shared world with animals'.
How did the shot of the raccoon and the cookie come about?
'My girlfriend and I were staying at a little bed and breakfast in Astoria, Oregon. We were in the kitchen when a raccoon appeared at the window and the lady running the place opens the window while talking in a baby voice to the raccoon… " ohhhh, why helllooooo little friend! Are you hungry for a treat!" Apparently there is a whole den of raccoons living in the backyard and she spends the days feeding them cookies… cookies for years! It's amazing that raccoons can survive off cookies. This pic was taken outside later that day during another cookie feeding'.
What camera are you using?
'I've mixed it up a bit over the last 5 years but most of my pictures were taken with a Mamiya 645 or Mamiya 7. Although recently I've been able to mix some digital pictures in and was surprised at how seemlessly they could be incorporated into the same exhibition. With digital, I'm using the Canon 1ds Mark III with fixed lenses. Mostly film though. Film, whenever possible!'


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I ordered this fig within hours of it going on sale and mine still has not shipped Was there a limited initial shipment that swshop received? Anyone else still showing in stock in there account but not shipped?
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Yesterday, I wrote about a serious Linux kernel bug and fix. However, few readers like to know about patching running Linux kernel. Patching production kernel is a risky business. Following procedure will help you to fix the problem.
Step # 1: Make sure your product is affected
First find out if your product is affected by reported exploit. For example, vmsplice() but only affects RHEL 5.x but RHEL 4.x,3.x, and 2.1.x are not affected at all. You can always obtain this information by visiting vendors bug reporting system called bugzilla. Also make sure bug affects your architectures. For example, a bug may only affect 64 bit or 32 bit platform.
Step # 2: Apply patch
You better apply and test patch in a test environment. Please note that some vendors such as Redhat and Suse modifies or backports kernel. So it is good idea to apply patch to their kernel source code tree. Otherwise you can always grab and apply patch to latest kernel version.
Step # 3: How do I apply kernel patch?
Change directory to your kernel source code:
# cd linux-2.6.xx.yy
Download and save patch file as fix.vmsplice.exploit.patch:
# cat fix.vmsplice.exploit.patch
--- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ static int get_iovec_page_array(const struct iovec __user *iov, if (unlikely(!len)) break; error = -EFAULT; - if (unlikely(!base)) + if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, base, len)) break; /*
Now apply patch using patch command, enter:
# patch < fix.vmsplice.exploit.patch -p1
Now recompile and install Linux kernel.
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An American professor and his Australian colleague have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, an official at the American University of Afghanistan confirmed to NBC News.
The two foreigners were taken from their SUV while driving on Sunday night on a main road near the university, according to Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction.
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Sediqqi also added that initial reports show that up to five armed men stopped the foreigners' vehicle and carried out the kidnapping. The two abducted are both men, he said. He did not reveal any more details except to say that an investigation is underway.
Attempts to recover the kidnapped professors are underway, Kabul police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi confirmed to NBC News. He declined to comment further amid the ongoing investigation.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement confirming "the apparent kidnapping of an Australian in Kabul"
"Due to privacy and security considerations we will not be commenting further. We continue to advise Australians not to travel to Afghanistan because of the extremely dangerous security situation, including the serious threat of kidnapping," it said.
Senior staff at the university in Kabul could not immediately be reached for comment.
Kidnappings are not uncommon in Afghanistan. Three other foreigners who were kidnapped in Kabul over the past year have all been released, including an Indian woman, Judith D'Souza who was freed last month after being held for more than a month.
An Australian woman, Kerry Jane Wilson, was abducted in the eastern city of Jalalabad in April. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Sediqqi said that kidnappers in all the Kabul cases, including Monday's, had been wearing military uniforms, establishing a pattern and hinting at some form of organized gang activity.
Most of the thousands of foreigners living and working in Kabul are largely confined to their embassies or, in the case of those working for the United Nations or other non-government organizations, to their residential compounds, with limited movement permitted.
The abductions heighten the risk for the few foreigners, including journalists, who move with relative freedom across the Afghan capital in order to do their work.
Residents of the capital complain that crime has risen in recent months, especially robbery and car theft. The apparent rise coincides with an economic crisis as the government has not been able to create jobs or stimulate growth.
President Ashraf Ghani took office in 2014 promising jobs and peace, but has provided neither as the war with the Taliban grinds on for its 15th year.
The police, however, deny a spike in crime.
On Sunday, a court in the western city of Herat sentenced 14 people to death for kidnapping and murder. Another three, including a woman, were handed prison sentences of between six and 20 years.


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Bacon & parsley hotcakes
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal201
- fat15g
- saturates4g
- carbs10g
- sugars0g
- fibre0g
- protein7g
- salt0.68g
- 100g smoked bacon lardons
Bacon is pork that has been cured one of two ways: dry or wet. It can be bought as both rashers…
- 100g self-raising flour
- 50g grated mature cheddar cheese
Once cheddar was 'Cheddar', a large, hard-pressed barrel of cheese made by a particular…
- 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, or ½ tsp dried
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Sunflower oil
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- poached eggs and crème fraîche to serve
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Dry-fry the lardons until crisp and golden. Tip onto a plate to cool. Mix the flour, cheese, herbs, lardons, salt and pepper in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and drop in the eggs. Beat with a wooden spoon, then gradually add the milk, drawing the flour into the centre as you go. You should end up with a fairly thick batter.
Heat a little oil in a frying pan, drop in large spoonfuls of the batter, then cook until the hotcakes start to set around the edges. Flip them over, then cook until golden. Keep warm while you cook remaining hotcakes.
Serve each person 2 hotcakes topped with a poached egg and a spoonful of crème fraîche, garnishing with extra thyme, if you like.
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Make a veggie hotcakeSweetcorn & chive hotcakes Replace the lardons with 100g canned sweetcorn and the parsley with 2 tbsp snipped chives.


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Come, Rejoice
31243, Hymns, Come, Rejoice, no. 9
1. Come, rejoice, the King of glory
Speaks to earth again.
Gladsome words ring out from heaven,
Joyous, wondrous strain.
Truth bursts forth in radiant light,
Showing all the path of right.
Shout hosanna to his name;
One and all his might proclaim.
2. Angels, messengers from heaven,
Come to earth once more;
Bring to men the glorious gospel;
Priceless truths restore.
Let all hear who live today!
This is life, the truth, the way.
3. Great, oh, great is Christ our Savior.
None can stay his hand.
Now he brings to us salvation,
Cheering ev'ry land.
Sing, rejoice, the King of love
Speaks to earth from heav'n above.
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One of the most charismatic and colorful nicknames in college sports belongs to Rollins College. Quite simply, a "Tar" is a sailor. Centuries ago, during the age of tall sailing ships, British sailors were known as "Tars." Rollins connection with the Tars began in World War I when a small Navy vessel was stationed on Lake Virginia, which borders half the Rollins campus.
With the war leaving only ten male students at Rollins, attention shifted to the snappy uniformed trainees going about their duties. The girls called them "TARS." Until then varsity teams were called the "Blue and Gold," but soon the new title was adopted. The Rollins Alumni re-introduced the "TARS" with the 1965 Annual Fund Appeal. Since then all athletic teams have borne the nickname TARS. Rollins College is the only collegiate institution in the United States with the "Tars" as its sports nickname. To further familiarize the public with the "Tars," Rollins introduced a new sports logo in August of 1993. A slightly altered version of the Tar logo was introduced at the time of the completion of the Alfond Sports Center in 2000.


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Dear Carolyn:
My boyfriend of three months constantly wants to be together. We're still in high school, and see each other there every day. I appreciate that he likes hanging out with me so much, and I love hanging out with him. But he's insistent on me being with him whenever it's remotely possible. I sometimes feel that I need a break.
When he's asking me to procrastinate on schoolwork, or skimp on practice for an upcoming audition, I start to put my foot down, but it's difficult. He argues and begs to squeeze a few minutes (hours, a whole day) out of my schedule. Last night, we spent almost an hour confirming that I in fact could not go on a day trip with him today.
Am I avoiding him, or giving him too little time? Should I drop a few activities to be with him more? And how can I say "no" without being made to feel guilty or suffer for it every time?
— Harried Sally
A: No. 3, easy: Date someone who won't pressure you. Or, stop negotiating for an hour after you say no.
Nos. 1 and 2 are your call, but I can connect your letter's dots for you: Yes, you're avoiding him somewhat (understandably -- he's being a pest); and no, you shouldn't "drop a few activities," because if you really wanted to you'd be doing it, not asking me.
Hectoring someone for togetherness is not romantic. It's needy, cloying, disrespectful. Granted, if romance novels adhered to this principle they'd be one page long (He: Run away with me! She: I do love you, but I also value my friends, family and activities. He: I'm disappointed, but understand. (BEG ITAL)The End.(END ITAL)) But while it may initially be flattering to have someone apparently want you so so badly, the constant pressure to change your decisions tends to pry out some legitimate questions about the meaning of "you." If he's trying to take you away from everything else you care about -- things you choose and work hard toward -- then does he really like you? Or just your physical presence? Possessiveness, after all, is an abuse precursor.
It needn't even be this high-concept. He wants A, you want Z, and he's not even suggesting you meet at M; he's pushing you to the point of discomfort toward A. Is that why you have a boyfriend -- to argue? To be continually challenged or negated?
Time to learn the art of drawing and respecting lines: (1) Decide what you feel comfortable doing; (2) Say yes to things within your lines and no to things beyond them; (3) Trust that if you're right for each other, then you'll both be either comfortable with these limits or open to compromise without pressure or guilt.
(4) Walk away from any insisting/arguing/begging/guilt-tripping, every time. You: "I can see you Friday, no sooner." He: (Pressure.) You: "I like you. I have things to do. I won't go eight rounds on this." He: (Pressure.) You: "I'm going to hang up now." Then do. Enforcement is the linchpin.
If he continues the pressure and disrespect, break up.
High-schoolers aren't known for limit-setting mastery, so expect bumps — but stay with it. Entering adulthood, few things will serve you better than some skill at sticking up for yourself.
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John Sturges' The Great Escape is regarded as one of the most exciting dramas ever filmed. The movie is a favorite of critics and casual fans alike for good reason, as it remains a thrilling, intelligent retelling of the prison break at Germany's Stalag Luft III in March 1944. Nearly fifty years after its original theatrical release, The Great Escape makes it high-definition debut for modern audiences. The film's three hours fly by thanks to the gripping screenplay by James Clavell and W. R. Burnett, and Sturges' direction is assured. Steve McQueen leads the cast as American Air Force Captain Virgil Hilts, a witty, Nazi-baiting prisoner and escape artist locked up with the trickiest bunch of POWs in Germany. The prisoners - played by James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson and Donald Pleasence, among others - dig elaborate tunnels under the prison and attempt a daring escape from captivity. The Great Escape is grand, thrilling drama, rife with richly developed characters and authentic human interaction, and deserves its designation as "a classic."
Grounded in reality but without fear of taking some dramatic liberties, The Great Escape is the best kind of war film. It celebrates the heroics of the Allied Forces imprisoned in Stalag Luft III without turning them into anti-German caricatures, and it uses the war as an effective backbone for a story about human resilience and ingenuity. The Nazis grew tired of wasting troops and resources tracking down Allied prisoners of war, and in 1942 created a prison to house the men who had escaped other German military jails. In The Great Escape, Hilts is recruited by British Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Attenborough) to help 250 men break out of the prison. The plan involves tunneling under the yard and into the nearby woods, but also includes an elaborate operation to furnish the men with fake papers, transportation and living supplies. The men begin digging three tunnels - "Tom," "Dick," and "Harry" - while running constant interference against prying Nazi guards.
Full of suspense and humor, The Great Escape is perhaps most memorable for its motley crew of protagonists. McQueen, ceaselessly icy cool and rebellious, pushes the guards to the brink of violence and gains valuable information about prison security at the cost of weeks and weeks of solitary confinement in "the cooler." RAF Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley (James Garner), known as "the Scrounger," procures the prisoners all manner of tools needed to enact the plan, and RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe (Pleasence) goes blind from forging so many documents. Other key players include RAF Group Captain Ramsey (James Donald) and Bronson's "tunnel king" RAF Flight Lieutenant Danny Velinski. Each man has a personality, fears and talents, and The Great Escape shows that it is possible for an audience to care deeply for an ensemble cast.
When the escape does not go as planned many are left behind, but it is the men who briefly taste freedom that suffer the most. The German command orders their capture, but enraged officers go further. McQueen's triumphant flight from German soldiers on a motorcycle is the film's most memorable scene, and Hilts must shoulder the losses of his friends and fellow soldiers after his journey ends. The Great Escape truly is a flawless drama, and few films can capture an audience's attention for three hours as this film does. A great tribute to The Great Escape's authenticity is the praise and acknowledgment from actual Allied troops who commended the film's historical accuracy despite its dramatic embellishments. The remarkable cast, Sturges' direction, the Elmer Bernstein score, Ferris Webster's editing, and its inspiring real-life inspiration make The Great Escape a five-star film.
High-definition aficionados have been clamoring for The Great Escape to receive a Blu-ray release for some time, and MGM finally has released this high-definition disc to American audiences via distributor Twentieth Century Fox. The Internet has been ablaze of late with divergent opinions about the quality of this 2.35:1/1080p/AVC-encoded transfer, which I find warrants a mark slightly north of average on DVD Talk's rating scale. A quick Google search yields interesting discussion about whether or not this Blu-ray was created from a source that received a new 4k restoration or a source restored for an earlier DVD release. MGM hasn't commented, but I suspect it's the latter. That is not necessarily a fatal flaw, and I have no information about the existence of a superior source that could have been used. That said, The Great Escape is a substantial improvement over all standard-definition predecessors, and the Blu-ray looks quite a bit better than the HD broadcast version that I've sampled a few times. Detail is often very good for a 50-year-old film. Of course, detail and sharpness expectedly vary, and there is quite a bit of softness due to the era's filmmaking tricks that were used for the effects and editing. Black levels are often very good - inky but not so dark that detail is completely crushed - and there are no real compression problems to report despite the moderate bitrate. The print used is nearly flawless, and dirt, splices and grime are all but absent from the image. Colors are interesting here, and vary somewhat from what I have seen in the past. Simply, this Blu-ray appears slightly washed out; with colors either toned back or appearing slightly more blue/grey than my older DVD. I'm not sure if that's how Sturges shot The Great Escape or if it's the result of some digital tinkering. There is a layer of grain (natural, I think), and the image has thankfully not been DNR'd to death. At times The Great Escape looks very good but it still feels like a missed opportunity. I will admit to being ignorant of the exact science of restoring the original negative of a film. I've been spoiled by superior restorations like Jaws and The Wizard of Oz, but every film is visually unique - restored or not. So, The Great Escape is on Blu-ray and, flawed or not, provides the best image available for home theater viewing.
The Blu-ray does not offer the original mono mix, but the 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack provided likely replicates the film's other original mix, which was 4-Track Stereo. Those expecting a modern surround mix may be disappointed, but The Great Escape sounds quite good for being over half a decade old. Dialogue is crisp and clean, and no hiss or distortion is present. Surround effects, both ambient and action, sound full and fairly deep. These effects do creep toward the rear speakers and retain their clarity as to avoid overwhelming the dialogue. Range is also good, and quiet conversations are audible and well balanced with louder elements. I have little to complain about with this mix. The disc includes a ton of alternate soundtrack mixes (Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0; French DTS 5.1; Italian DTS 5.1; German DTS 5.1; Castellano DTS 5.1; and Polish Dolby Digital 5.1) and subtitle options (English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Castellano, Cantonese, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Korean, Thai and Mandarin).
This single-disc release is packed in a Blu-ray eco-case. I really hate the menu design, which was also used on Fox's release of Blue Velvet. There is no main menu, and the disc instead offers a Java-based menu that pops up only while the movie is playing. This is especially annoying when viewing the extra features, and feels like the cheapest way out of authoring a disc. Most of the extras from the 2004 Collector's Edition DVD are carried over:
The Great Escape is a true classic, and fifty years on still thrills and excites as it did when originally released. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and others join Director John Sturges for this dramatic retelling of the 1944 prison break at Stalag Luft III by Allied prisoners of war. The Great Escape is a perfect mix of suspense, human drama and intricate plotting, and deserves to hold its place as one of film's finest dramas. The long-awaited Blu-ray release of The Great Escape is imperfect, with somewhat underwhelming picture quality and only standard-definition carry-over extras. But, based on the film alone, this Blu-ray is Highly Recommended.
William lives in Burlington, North Carolina, and looks forward to a Friday-afternoon matinee.


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Kenseth wins opening Chase race at Chicago
Rain delays at race totaled more than six hours
JOLIET, Ill. — A long day's journey into night ended with Matt Kenseth winning the Geico 400, the opening race of the 10-event Chase for the Sprint Cup championship Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.
In earning his series-high sixth victory of the season, Kenseth led a race-high 89 laps in an event that not only saw its start delayed by rain for more than an hour but also included a five-hour, 10-minute delay before a stubborn front finally passed and the track was able to be dried.
Kenseth's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Kyle Busch, finished second, followed by Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman.
Equally as important as the win for Kenseth was the fact he left Chicago still leading the Chase. The leading Chase drivers and where they are in the standings are: Kenseth, Kyle Busch (eight points back), Johnson (11), Harvick (15), Carl Edwards (23) and Kurt Busch (23). Seventh through 13th are Jeff Gordon (24), Ryan Newman (28), Clint Bowyer (28), Kasey Kahne (31), Greg Biffle (31), Joey Logano (52) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (53).
Several Chase drivers suffered a variety of mechanical maladies in the race that proved costly, including Logano and Earnhardt, both with blown motors. Earnhardt finished 35th, while Logano wound up 37th.
The race started under clouds in mid-afternoon and resumed under the lights on what was essentially a green race track after all the rain washed away any rubber to aid with grip for drivers and their race cars.
With 75 laps remaining in the delayed event, Kyle Busch was the race leader — and looking to win all three races at Chicagoland Raceway, having triumphed Friday in the trucks race and Saturday in the Nationwide event. He was followed by Martin Truex Jr., Kurt Busch, Biffle and Kenseth.
Once the race restarted, it remained under caution until Lap 115 when the green flag finally fell to resume high-speed action.
The field completed 109 laps before a heavy deluge descended upon the Speedway.
Of the 13 Chase drivers, 12 were in the top 17 positions before the rain delay. The 13th Chase driver, Kurt Busch, was in 27th position when the stoppage came. Busch was caught speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a costly stop-and-go penalty that plummeted him in the field.
Joey Logano, who started on the pole, and Jimmie Johnson dominated in the first part of the race, with Logano leading 32 laps and Johnson 40. After building nearly a three-second lead, Johnson had a slow pit stop during a caution period on Lap 76, which was compounded by an incorrect ruling by a pit official who believed lug nuts were loose on the right rear tire of Johnson's car, further delaying his exit from the pits.
Johnson eventually came back on the track in fifth position.
"There was one (lug nut) hanging there," crew chief Chad Knaus said during the rain delay. "One had fallen off during the hand-in, so it was kind of hanging there, but the tire changer had taken his time. He did his job. He did a great job getting the other lug nut on there and making sure it was tight. The official thought there were only four on there. We all make mistakes. That happens from time to time."
Logano suffered engine troubles on Lap 146 that dropped him back to 27th in the field, becoming the first of the 13 drivers to have a major problem that will seriously affect his place in the Chase standings going forward for the remaining nine events. Greg Biffle also suffered issues, dropping to 26th, but they did not appear as potentially terminal as the issues to Logano's car.
NOTES: It was the second time in three years that the Chase opener was impacted by rain. Three years ago, the race never even got under way, as it was postponed to the following day. NASCAR didn't want a repeat performance Sunday, choosing to wait as long as it did rather than have teams and fans return to the track Monday. … The rain notwithstanding, Sunday was the first race under NASCAR's mandate of more dedication by drivers as well as more scrutiny by sanctioning body officials to maintain integrity of the racing after last Saturday's fiasco at Richmond.


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Founding Fathers' Vision For Prosperity In US Has Been Destroyed!
October 29, 2010: Washington's Blog Editors / Washington's Blog – October 29, 2010
The Founding Fathers not only fought for liberty and justice, they also fought for a sound economy and freedom from the tyranny of big banks:
"[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and…the Revolutionary War." – Benjamin Franklin
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." – John Adams
"If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied". — Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies…The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the Government, to whom it properly belongs." – Thomas Jefferson
"The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, 'friends of paper money. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from England and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system. " – Peter Kershaw, author of the 1994 booklet "Economic Solutions"
As I noted last year: Everyone knows that the American colonists revolted largely because of taxation without representation and related forms of oppression by the British. See this and this. But – according to Benjamin Franklin and others in the thick of the action – a little-known factor was actually the main reason for the revolution. To give some background on the issue, when Benjamin Franklin went to London in 1764, this is what he observed:
When he arrived, he was surprised to find rampant unemployment and poverty among the British working classes… Franklin was then asked how the American colonies managed to collect enough money to support their poor houses. He reportedly replied: "We have no poor houses in the Colonies; and if we had some, there would be nobody to put in them, since there is, in the Colonies, not a single unemployed person, neither beggars nor tramps."
In 1764, the Bank of England used its influence on Parliament to get a Currency Act passed that made it illegal for any of the colonies to print their own money. The colonists were forced to pay all future taxes to Britain in silver or gold. Anyone lacking in those precious metals had to borrow them at interest from the banks.
Only a year later, Franklin said, the streets of the colonies were filled with unemployed beggars, just as they were in England. The money supply had suddenly been reduced by half, leaving insufficient funds to pay for the goods and services these workers could have provided. He maintained that it was "the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and…the Revolutionary War."
This, he said, was the real reason for the Revolution: "the colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction." (for more on the Currency Act, see this.)
Alexander Hamilton echoed similar sentiments: Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary, said that paper money had composed three-fourths of the total money supply before the American Revolution. When the colonists could not issue their own currency, the money supply had suddenly shrunk, leaving widespread unemployment, hunger and poverty in its wake. Unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, people in the 1770s were keenly aware of who was responsible for their distress.
As historian Alexander Del Mar wrote in 1895: [T]he creation and circulation of bills of credit by revolutionary assemblies…coming as they did upon the heels of the strenuous efforts made by the Crown to suppress paper money in America [were] acts of defiance so contemptuous and insulting to the Crown that forgiveness was thereafter impossible…
[T]here was but one course for the crown to pursue and that was to suppress and punish these acts of rebellion…Thus the Bills of Credit of this era, which ignorance and prejudice have attempted to belittle into the mere instruments of a reckless financial policy were really the standards of the Revolution. They were more than this: they were the Revolution itself!
And British historian John Twells said the same thing: The British Parliament took away from America its representative money, forbade any further issue of bills of credit, these bills ceasing to be legal tender, and ordered that all taxes should be paid in coins…Ruin took place in these once flourishing Colonies…discontent became desperation, and reached a point…when human nature rises up and asserts itself.
In fact, the Americans ignored the British ban on American currency, and: "Succeeded in financing a war against a major power, with virtually no 'hard' currency of their own, without taxing the people."
Indeed, the first act of the New Continental Congress was to issue its own paper scrip, popularly called the Continental. Franklin and Thomas Paine later praised the local currency as a "corner stone" of the Revolution. And Franklin consistently wrote that the American ability to create its own credit led to prosperity, as it allowed the creation of ample credit, with low interest rates to borrowers, and no interest to pay to private or foreign bankers .
Is this just ancient history? No. The ability for America and the 50 states to create its own credit has largely been lost to private bankers. The lion's share of new credit creation is done by private banks, so – instead of being able to itself create money without owing interest – the government owes unfathomable trillions in interest to private banks.
America may have won the Revolutionary War, but it has since lost one of the main things it fought for: the freedom to create its own credit instead of having to beg for credit from private banks at a usurious cost.
As economic writer and attorney Ellen Brown has tried to teach to Obama, Schwarzenegger, and anyone else who will listen, the way out of the economic crisis is to stop paying interest to private banks for the creation of credit, and to return to the system of government-issued credit used by the Founding Fathers to create prosperity for the people and to gain independence from their oppressors. (And see this).
As I wrote in July: The U.S. has become a a kleptocracy, an oligarchy, a banana republic, a socialist or fascist state … which acts without the consent of the governed. This essay focuses on economics, but – obviously – the other ideals of the Founding Fathers have been abandoned as well. See this and this, for example. Note: If we can't implement public banking, let's at least return to a gold standard.
The Tonka Report Editor's Note: For more on this subject, read the excellent article in Yes Magazine.org written by Ellen Brown at the link below… – SJH
Time For A New Theory Of Money
Link to original article below…
Written by Steven John Hibbs
October 29, 2010 at 1:31 pm
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Wanted: New Default K3b Theme for 1.0
K3b 1.0 is in sight and with it I would like to introduce a new default theme. Not because I don't like the current ones, but I just want K3b 1.0 to look different so that people will see the difference, not only feel it. If you are interested in creating a theme for K3b see the themes howto which describes the pictures that are needed in a complete K3b theme set. Send your entries to k3b-devel. In other artwork news one of our best community sites kde-look.org passed its fifth birthday.
Color themes? (little off-topic)
Though I wonder why it is not possible to match the current color scheme with these pixmap themes. Theme designers may create a pixmap skin which fits a specific color theme, mostly KDE default, or their favourite KStyle. Changing the KDE color settings may yield a distracting result.
There are quasi-pixmap style engines like Baghira/Keramik which blend their pixmaps with the individual color settings. Why not adopting this colorizing algorithm for K3B themes or themes in general (like Amarok themes, Konqueror's context bar, help system stylesheets). Currently, we have a mixture of themes being totally different and mutually visually excluding.
Being consequent, KDE4 should rethink its theming concept. On the one hand we may adjust the shape of widgets (KStyle) and the corresponding colors individually, on the other hand pixmaps are used which fit only one specific color scheme. In this regard, Gnome seems to be more consistent where the color settings are defined by the used theme, such that everything fits together. Which way to go?
By sebastian at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
I stumbled yesterday on this 3-years old article about magically changing the colours of KDE icons. I think this should be implemented in an automatical way, so one only stores the basic icon theme, and the new hue (the new ones can be written on disk too of course).
Also, using indexed colours would help to have icon themes magically follow the colour scheme.
By oliv at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
If you run under the assumption that icons and whatever other visual images on the desktop will continue to trend toward SVG, then with QT4 and Zack's work, the sky's the limit.
SVG animations and CSS-color assignments. If you want icons to follow a color scheme or have effects (brightness, animation, whatever) upon a mouse hover, it's all possible. If you want you mount point/hard drive icons to show a current little capacity pie chart on it, or a decoration/notifier on icons that are already running, or an integer on your IM icon for how many session you have open, or, or.....what an icon is and what an applet is will be blurred.
Possible before? Yes, but harder.
Of course:
1) It all depends on HCI/usability and people actually doing the work. Auto-color changes might help desktop consistency, but it can also impact accessibility aspects if not watched. And it dilutes icon/image recognition and
2) This all has little to do with a request to pretty-up with cool application.
By Wade Olson at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
"HCI/usability and people actually doing the work"
We have already discussed this in the HCI workgroup, taking accessibility, usability and artwork into account. What we urgently need at the moment are developers implementing it - and later the willingness of developers and artists to listen to our advise.
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
> But what the hell do marketing people know.
By Jakob Petsovits at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
Similar algorithms for changing the hue, saturation or brightness of a colour are described here:
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
I compared both pages. I do not want to sound too hard with you, but I think the difference is that the page I linked to is written by someone who is a professional of colour, so it is accurate. He uses CIELAB space to perform the rotation. Your formulas are probably much faster, but they are less accurate (for example, you use a gamma of 2.2 for sRGB space, when sRGB cannot be described by a simple gamma curve, and the part that can be has a gamma of 2.4). And accuracy is quite important with colours.
You also rely on the sRGB standard, which fortunately, is already phasing out of the HDTV world (replaced by the xvYCC space with a much wider colour gamut). Most new devices will use better light sources (LED, lasers, new CCFL or HCFL) which will make the sRGB space too limited. It has already started last year with LED LCD TVs (Sony, Samsung, etc.).
By oliv at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
The two pages have totally different aims. The page linked by you does not address how to compute the luminosity contrast or other topics important for accessibility.
The sRGB standard defines a gamma value of 2.2, but it also says that the real gamma value depends on the brightness of the room where the monitor is placed. This implies that total accuracy is impossible when dealing with monitors or HDTV devices, unless we know the exact luminosity characteristics of the room (i.e. all lamps, the colour of walls, the time of the day, etc).
An additional problem is that some CIELAB colours cannot be expressed in sRBG. This means that a conversion to CIELAB and back to sRGB doesn't make sense if hue accuracy is your sole aim, as the page linked by you explains.
CIELAB and derived colour spaces can be used in professional image editing applications, but they are never used for the user interface. All colours used in the KDE user interface are expressed as sRGB (colour schemes, CSS, SVG images). sRGB is also used in 99% of all raster images, and none of the image editing applications on Unix/Linux bar one (Krita) can handle anything different from sRGB internally.
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
Unless you allow in your sRGB algorithms the use of values inferior to 0 and superior to 1 (or 255, depending how you normalise), then they will stop working as soon as the new displays (such as the ones introduced 1.5 years ago for HDTV) will be available. If you use CIELAB (or allow the negative RGB signal in your algorithms), then whatever the display technology, your formulas will work. DO you really wish to rewrite your library in 2 years from now ?
Allowing the negative RGB values (and the ones superior to 1) allows to acess all of the colours. See the xvYCC standard.
By oliv at Mon, 2006/08/28 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
It's pretty much impossible to do well adjusting colors in general.
By SadEagle at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
"Though I wonder why it is not possible to match the current color scheme with these pixmap themes."
This is indeed very important, for example for partially sighted users who can only read light text on a dark background.
The plan for KDE4 is to have image colourisation algorithms in the KDE libraries, as well as a global option for switching off all background images:
Olaf Schmidt
KDE Accessibility team
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Color themes? (little off-topic)
Actually the current svn trunk supports transparent pixmaps and defaults to the current KDE color scheme. This way one can create K3b themes that fit the KDE color scheme.
By Sebastian Trüg at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Good Looks aren't everything
Just as long as they replace that default reveille (or whatever that bugle riff is) sound for completed burns...I *hate* that.
By Rube at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
Why do people always bug devs about their preferred DEFAULTS? You want to personalize sounds - Control Center > Sound > Sound and Notofocations
Personalizing KDE is SO SIMPLE, leave the defaults alone.
By Daniel "Suslik" D. at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
> Personalizing KDE is SO SIMPLE, leave the defaults alone.
The problem is, that this is also time expensive, so the defaults should fit for as many people as possible. Sometimes people do not even find the place to perform the changes. KDE is not shining in this regard. Too many places where you can change options. Not to speak about missed kconf_update files you stumble about in the one or the other case, later; So it's actually beneficial, when developers do not chose to set their preferred options as defaults, so they stumble about such issues.
By Carlo at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
The problem really is: Why does everyone assume that just because he dislikes a particular default setting the majority does?
By Martin at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
Agreed. I happen to love the sound of a finished burn. Hurray for trumpets!
By Paul van Erk at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
No. While your point seems to be a good one, it's just that the other way around the point is as good. Most dev's are not usability experts, nor do they usabilty tests with a decent number of testers - which is of course asked (maybe too) much for FOSS projects, without commercial backing.
Maybe I should add that I do not argue about this particular sound - having sound notifications disabled, I couldn't care less - but usablity issues are a general problem of the Linux desktop and especially KDE 3.x.
By Carlo at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
Actually, I don't consider this bugging the devs. It was a light-hearted comment to begin with, posted on a call at the Dot for input on K3b's default theme. "Leaving the defaults alone" is pretty much the opposite of what they're trying to do here, isn't it?
By Rube at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
Perhaps a more taste neutral default would be desireable. My preferred default is no sound. If I were to leave the disc burning and be concerned about not missing the end of the burn then an option to enable a sound on completion that is visible during burning would be great. Just a checkbox for play a sound on completion that saves between burns and file picker for the sound with preview.
By matt at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
Re: Good Looks aren't everything
I like the bugle sound. I even re-used it for a contact in kopete.
still, knotify config stuff could use some work. or, well, all of kde's config stuff. it can be kinda.. daunting.
By Chani at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Colorizable theme
I agree with sebastian about the colorizable theme feature. It would allow to users to adapt the theme to their personal environement whatever color it is.
By Francois Chazal at Fri, 2006/08/25 - 5:00am
A general problem with our usability and visual standardisation issue is that applications like K3B look like other applications. Just imagine everything is themed the same.
It is important to keep contrast. Wow! applications need Wow! theming, with the default as neutral, invisible as possible.
By furangu at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: Glitter
A general problem with our usability and visual standardisation issue is that applications like K3B look like other applications
I would call this a usability feature actually...
By Mark Hannessen at Sat, 2006/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: Glitter
Lovely. A desktop with all applications constantly trying to out-glitz each other. Sounds like the recipe for a consistant desktop.
By Robert at Tue, 2006/08/29 - 5:00am
Re: Glitter
MSN IM, EI7, WMP, and MS Office all have their ownwidget themes, and all other built in Windows apps are split between XP style and Classic... It's been tried, and the result is a confusing mess of styles.
Interface consistency, IMHO is an important feature that sets KDE apart from that sort of system.
No one is ever going to mistake K3B for Konqueror or Kopete, because obviously it has different buttons because it performs different functions, so why make things inconsistent?
By Ben Morris at Sat, 2006/09/02 - 5:00am


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