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Features of the plugin include:
- Define popup layouts by choosing predefined styles or creating your own style based on dozens of options! Live previews of the final project as it's being created.
- Include custom-made sign-up forms in popups and define when it will be displayed.
- Enabling automatic sign-up to a subscription with the use of a checkbox added to other standard WordPress forms like: adding comments, user registration as well as forms of other plugins: WooCommerce, Easy Digital Download, bbPress, MultiSite, BuddyPress.
- Adding a checkbox to any other form with a few lines of code.
- Get reports on the sources of users' registration in a selected period and check which form or checkbox generates the most new subscribers.
- Plugin integration with Google Analytics.
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FreshMail – create, send and track email marketing campaigns that work
FreshMail is a web app for creating, sending and tracking email marketing campaigns. The system provides users in an intuitive tool for newsletter creation – FreshMail Designer – based on drag&drop method and rich in beautiful ready-to-use email newsletter templates. Many tests available in the system help to optimize campaigns and the report section allows to analyse their results. FreshMail provides customers with an excellent customer service.
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Installing the plugin
This plugin requires at last: WordPress v 3.0 and PHP v 5.3.
The installation works in the conventional way.
- In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > Add new, search for FreshMail for WordPress and click Install.
- Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of FreshMail_for_Wordpress.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
- Another way is to download the plugin, log into WordPress and go to Plugins > Add new > Upload plugin. Find the downloaded zip file and then click Install.
- When installed, click on Activate Plugin.
Connecting Plugin to the FreshMail account
Go to FreshMail tab > Connect with FreshMail and enter the API key and API secret in order to enable WordPress integration with FreshMail.
- Where do you find the API information?
- If you're not already a FreshMail.com user you can create a free account.
After entering the correct data move to the Add New Form tab and select your list. Here the list of custom fields that you will be able to use in FreshMail will appear.
In Properties, Layout and Messages you will find additional possibilities of sign-up form configuration.
Adding Sign-Up Form
If you want to add the plugin to a template you should enter the Appearance > Widgets tab on the admin panel. In available widgets you will find the FreshMail option that is responsible for the sign-up form. For proper operation of the plugin just drag a widget into the selected spot on your template and select from the list previously configured sign-up form.
The plugin could be also inserted with the use of shortcode into any post, page or text widget. For example:
[FM_form id="1"]
You can also display a sign-up form from your theme files by using one line of PHP code:
<?php echo do_shortcode( '[FM_form id="1"]' ); ?>
Configuring Pop-Up
To display popup you have to check Show the sign-up form in a popup by the form configuration. The advanced settings of popups can be found in All Forms > Edit Form > Popup Properties tab.
You can define the criteria of popup display:
- after a defined process of page scrolling
- after a defined time spent on the website
- before an attempt to close the browser
and block the popup:
- for smartphones
- for defined UTM tags
- after reaching the maximum number of displays per user
- at a defined frequency
You can also set up forwarding to any page after sign-up to newsletter.
Configuring Sign-Up Checkboxes
You also have the option of enabling automatic sign-up to a subscription with the use of a checkbox added to other standard WordPress forms like:
- adding comments
- user registration
as well as forms of other plugins:
- WooCommerce (checkout)
- Easy Digital Download (checkout)
- bbPress
- MultiSite
- BuddyPress (registration)
How to Configuring Checkboxes?
- Go to FreshMail for WordPress > Checkboxes.
- Select at least one of your FreshMail lists to subscribe to.
- Select the forms you want to add a sign-up checkbox to, eg your comment form.
There is also the possibility to add a checkbox to any other form with the use of a few lines of code.
<p class="comment-form-fm-sign">
<label for="fm-sign">
<input id="fm-sign" name="fm-sign" type="checkbox" /> Label txt
<input type="hidden" name="fm-sign-referer" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>" />
- How to display a form in post or page?
Use the [FM_form id="1"] shortcode.
- How to integrate the plugin with Google Analitycs?
You just need to add a below code into a source of website and configured it precisely to follow the activities in Google Analytics.
<script type="text/javascript"> var forms = document.querySelectorAll(' form.form_subscribe'); for( var i = 0; i < forms.length; i++ ) { forms[i].onsubmit = function() { // ga.js _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Forms', 'Submit', 'Sign-up form submission']); // analytics.js ga('send', 'event', 'button', 'click', 'Sign-up form submission'); } } </script>
- How to display a form in widget areas like a sidebar?
Use the FreshMail Widget that comes with the plugin.
- Where can I find my FreshMail API keys?
Contributors & Developers
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2.3.2 – 2019-10-10
Fix: API REST
2.3.1 – 2019-08-13
- Fix: Close button on shortcode
2.3 – 2019-06-04
- Add: Contact Form 7 messages
- Fix: Contact Form 7
- Fix: Show popup
2.2 – 2019-02-09
- Add: Get list type from Freshmail Panel
- Fix: Change jquery (dialog) popup to js/css popup
2.1.9 – 2017-09-25
- Fix: compatible with WordPress 4.8.
2.1.8 – 2017-05-30
- Fix: Error.
2.1.7 – 2015-10-30
- Fix: Show popup.
2.1.6 – 2015-10-30
- Fix: Session issue.
2.1.5 – 2015-09-22
- Fix: Add possibility to disable SSL verification.
2.1.5 – 2015-09-22
- Fix: Add possibility to disable SSL verification.
2.1.4 – 2015-09-01
- Fix: Now ApiKey and ApiSecret are checking only once per day or if they were changed.
2.1.3 – 2015-07-24
- Add: Option to display popout on every single page, post, product.
- Fix: Checkboxes in freshmail form now are avaliable to uncheck.
- Fix: Redirection works properly in shortcode form.
2.1.2 – 2015-07-20
- Add: Google url.
2.1.1 – 2015-06-29
- Fix: alert about php version
2.1 – 2015-06-23
- Add: Margins in fields
- Add: Remove all options and database tables during uninstall
- Fix: Remove old options from 1.x version
- Fix: Removed textarea from contact form 7 checkbox
2.0.2 – 2015-06-22
- Fix: Info about required PHP version (5.3 or higher)
2.0.1 – 2015-06-17
- Fix: Displaying shortcode in custom place of content
- Fix: Freshmail version compare
- Fix: Database converting to freshmail 2.x standard
2.0 – 2015-06-15
- NEW: redeveloped stable version
- Fix: validation secret and API keys
- Fix: checkboxes and integrations with: registration, comments, multisite form, WooCommerce, Easy Dig, bbPress, buddyPress, Contact Form 7
1.6 – 2015-05-06
- Fix: major security update
1.5.8 – 2015-04-24
- Fix: compatible with WordPress 4.2
1.5.7 – 2015-04-23
- Fix: fixed duplicating form
- Fix: plugins conflict while including REST API classes
1.5.6 – 2015-04-14
- Fix: fixed issue with popup
1.5.5 – 2015-03-18
- Fix: updated rest api class
1.5.4 – 2015-02-26
- Fix: issue with already subscribed e-mail
1.5.3 – 2015-02-16
- Fix: info about authorization/connection errors
1.5.2 – 2015-02-11
- Fix: removed short php tags
1.5.1 – 2015-02-03
- Fix: removed error with unknown variable
1.5 – 2015-02-02
- Add: Pop-up on selected pages
1.4.3 – 2015-01-27
- Fix: counting displayed pop-ups for non logged users
1.4.2 – 2015-01-19
- Fix: trimming connection data
1.4.1 – 2015-01-15
- Fix: Displaying authorization errors
1.4 – 2015-01-12
- Add: New default themes
- Fix: Displaying fields without labels and placeholders
1.3 – 2015-01-09
- Add: placeholder in fields
- Fix: database tables set to UTF8 encoding
1.2.10 – 2014-12-22
- Fix: adding first form
- Fix: save themes
1.2.9 – 2014-12-19
- Fix: save messages
1.2.8 – 2014-12-03
- Fix: doubled save custom theme
- Fix: numbers of custom theme
1.2.7 – 2014-12-02
- Fix: display names default themes
- Fix: Save custom themes
1.2.6 – 2014-12-02
- Update: Default themes
1.2.5 – 2014-11-26
- Fix: Wp color picker,
- Fix: Custom theme repair
1.0 2014-11-19
- Initial realise


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Welcome to my 2nd challenge! Hope you'll join here too, guys. This challenge is not about a boy band. Yup! It's still all about ANIME. I just named it "Boys like Girls" because it's about anime boys/hunks with a long hair just like a girl's. You see Sesshoumaru, Katsura, Howl, and Hotohori? Exactly like that!
1. Create an anime wallpaper of a male character with a long hair. At least shoulder length, pls..
2. Feel free to use any anime of your choice. It can be from an anime that we don't even know or familiar. As long as he's handsome. Hihihi!
3. Hey! Why not try different resolution aside from 1024x768?
4. Submission is always unlimited.
5. Ooopps... Don't forget about the credits, guys. At least show us where did you find the images you used. No credits given, no chances of winning. I tell you. I'm quite strict about this 'cause it's a policy that every one of us MUST obey. But then, there's still a lot of artists that seem have always forgotten about this. It's not my policy, but just a friendly reminder from me. (^-^)
Peace to all of you!
1st - 1 drawing, 1 gift, 2 wallpapers, 2 cards
2nd - 1 drawing, 1 gift, 1 wallpaper, 2 cards
3rd - 1 drawing, 1 gift, 1 wallpaper, 1 card
Best Wallpaper + Credits = WINNER
I would like to tell you guys that aside from the 3 winners of this challenge, the chosen wallpapers for "Other Nice Wallpapers" will receive 1 drawing each as their prize.
And that's all! Goodluck!
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♥Run Devil Run
Renji by Chiisaiyuko
Hijitaka Toshizou-Resubmit by Mysticmom2
- [ D r e a m. ] - by Hanaro Souhi
Embrace The Très B by IChiTa

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British Values
In 2006, Corporal Donald Payne was the first British soldier to be convicted of a war crime in this country under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. His crime was the inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners held by British Forces in Southern Iraq in September 2003. He received a year in jail and was dismissed from the British Army for his crime. However, whereas a foot soldier who is complicit in torture is sent to jail – as the book reveals, for those higher up the social spectrum a CBE, knighthood or peerage await. Such is the hypocrisy in the British history of torture
If that sounds like an unlikely or extreme thing to say, I can only respond by saying read Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain.
His book is a remarkable narrative and will come as something of a shock to most readers who are taken in by Britain's image of fair play and decency abroad. This is a myth, as Cobain explosively demonstrates. When the publishers sent me the manuscript I wrote to them that it was like hand grenade rolled into the heart of the British Establishment. Here is why.
Firstly, the book is explosive because it reveals direct participation by the United Kingdom in torture since 1944. This probably will come as a great surprise to many readers but the official line that "the British do not participate in torture", is revealed as just part of a deliberate and well-practised line of deceit. The book charts the use of torture from "the Cage" in London used to interrogate leading Nazi's at the end of the Second World War, through the colonial campaigns of Kenya, Cyprus and Aden and then makes the link to Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan with the repeated and wilful use of "the five techniques". It exposes the exceptional brutality of the British in the treatment of the Mau Mau in Kenya – as is just beginning to emerge in the case of Nzili, Nyingi and Mara, currently being heard in the High Court.
Evidence reveals that one British policeman at the time described the conditions in the camps as "far worse than anything I experienced in my four and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese". To hear the British described as being more brutal than the Japanese will come as a great shock but, should there be any doubt as to the depravity of British Forces, the description in the book is unequivocal:
Men were whipped, clubbed, subjected to electric shocks, mauled by dogs and chained to vehicles before being dragged around. Some were castrated. The same instruments used to crush testicles were used to remove fingers. It was far from un-common for men to be beaten to death.
If this still does not convince any reader then, if they can get to London, I suggest they go to the High Court to hear it for themselves.
This savagery by the British continues throughout the colonial period and Cobain details the campaigns in Cyprus against EOKA and in the Aden Emergency where yet more torture was perpetrated on those we captured. The book then makes interesting references to the refinement of torture techniques which were developed in between 1950-1970 known as an "assault on the mind" whereby far subtler techniques capable of causing "irreparable psychological damage" were developed. The scientists found that a combination of five things: sensory deprivation through hooding, together with enforced stress positions, white noise, sleep prevention and very little food together produced "stress that was almost unbearable for most subjects".
This resulted in what became known as the "five techniques" which were subsequently employed against the IRA during interment in 1971 and later banned in the case of Ireland v UK in the European Court of Human Rights in 1978. Yet, despite the assurances of the British Government that such practices would never again be repeated in any circumstances, Cobain makes the very alarming claim that the five techniques were in fact retained by the UK which is, perhaps, why they re-emerged in Iraq in 2003 and why the doctrine cited by the Intelligence Branch during the second Iraq War miraculously went missing when it came to the Baha Mousa trial in 2006 and the Inquiry two years later.
The second reason why the book is explosive is because it exposes the institutional cover up that has been perpetrated throughout the post war years. At the time of writing this article there is a sense of national outrage at what appears to be an institutional cover up over Hillsborough and connivance by numerous institutions in the Savile affair. Indeed, it seems to be a national trait that there are so many institutions and individuals who are prepared to participate, passively or actively, in a cover up of scandals for something as prosaic as enhancing their own career prospects or reward from the State.
The 'Establishment' is shown to be remarkably adept at not establishing the truth using methods every bit as subtle as those developed by the interrogators in the 1950's – 70. At the same time, the book reveals the courage of a few men and women who stand against torture. Men such as Colonel Arthur Young who repeatedly complained to Sir Evelyn Baring about the "unjustified or abhorrent crimes by British Forces" in Kenya but who resigned when he realised that Baring and others were not interested in his complaints. Or Lord Gardiner, who spelt out the legal position that the five techniques were a flagrant breach of International and domestic law but who was similarly ignored lest it get in the way of an interrogator's war. At the same time, the few good men who do speak out know what fate will befall them. Craig Murray was drummed out of the Foreign Office for revealing Foreign Office connivance with torture evidence and Ben Griffin, the former SAS Trooper who spoke out against the UK treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan, is now living under a Government injunction which prevents him from speaking any further. If he breaks the terms of the injunction he will go to jail. In Cruel Britannia you can lose your job or go to jail for revealing UK complicity in torture and rendition. Those who are complicit meanwhile remain untouched and untroubled. The only tap on the shoulder is the sword used to knight them.
Finally, the most explosive part of the book is the fact that complicity in torture and rendition are potentially war crimes and are required to be outlawed in our domestic criminal law. The UN Convention against torture (UNCAT) states:
Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.
If such acts are committed during armed conflict then they constitute a war crime or, in the case of rendition, a crime against humanity. However, to date despite increasingly weighty evidence no one has been prosecuted. As the Tory MP David Davis recently stated in the case of R v Ahmed and others:
Although the combined circumstantial evidence of complicity in all these cases is overwhelming, it has not so far been possible — because of the government's improper use of state secrecy to cover up the evidence — to establish absolutely clear sequences of cause and effect.
And here lies the rub. As the weight of evidence mounts up, so the State becomes increasingly desperate to cover up. Miliband (David) pirouettes in the High Court, Straws denies any involvement in rendition before his assurances are contradicted by the discovery of documents in Tripoli. Then up pops the so called "Justice and Security Bill" – currently making its way through Parliament – in a desperate, blanket attempt to cover up all UK complicity in torture and rendition. However, the more attempts there are to cover it up the more the issue is exposed and it must be the supreme irony that as details of torture are finally being exposed from Kenya, the Government is embarking on yet another cover up.
This is why Cobain's allegations in Cruel Britannia are like a hand grenade in the heart of the establishment. The truth has had the pin pulled out of it by this book and is likely to go off at any moment. When it does, it will not only be the foot soldiers who end up being caught in the explosive consequences.
The Reverend Nicholas Mercer (formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Mercer) was the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year 2011-2012 for integrity and courage in the face of dissembling and denial of human rights abuses by British forces in Iraq. This article was first published by Open Democracy under a Creative Commons licence.


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Lebanon's state news agency says shells fired from inside Syria have struck Lebanese border villages.
The National News Agency said the shells exploded in four villages late Saturday near the northern border and that residents reported an unpleasant smell after the strikes.
The agency did not report any dead or wounded or say whether government troops or rebels fired the shells.
Shells and gunfire from the Syrian civil war have repeatedly crossed the border into Lebanon, occasionally killing and wounding civilians.
Lebanon and Syria share a complex network of sectarian and political ties that are often enflamed. Many worry that the civil war in Syria between forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his ouster will spark widespread violence in Lebanon.


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Today's bonus vote art: An example of my script, from the last few pages. You can see now why I have so many typos.
If you've read this far, I'd rec now as a good point to go back and do a reread (if you're into that)… The online-posting pacing is slow (3 irl months to show ~2 comic hrs) but now that this big chunk is complete, it should read much better. And pack a jacket for next week, it is chilly outside.
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Were those important? Something tells me that those were pretty vital for something….
My guess is that those are antidepressants.
It's really hard to have advanced medical care on a remote planet, so they do thorought screenings for all potential astronauts regarding potential health issue ; it it was anything physical I doubt he could have hidden that from them.
…then again, they do thorought mental screenings as well, but he must have either developped depression after arriving on Mars, or managed to hide it.
I'm tempted it was due to the LEVi accident, but Goto was apparently already trying to access his medical file before that.-
Huh. That contributes an unsettling twist to my pet theory about what happened to Mike.
… poor Bex. I have a feeling this isn't going to be a good trip for her. I think Mike, while maybe not an awesome person to start with, has been dreadfully wronged and needs a witness to vindicate himself…
aaand that was supposed to go on the main thread, not as a reply to DarkNeko's comment. Ah well.
Not sure about that. He felt genuinely happy she'd tell her kids about it, so I don't think he wanna ruin that.
It wouldn't ruin it, if he's right. It would elevate him to the status of one of the greatest contributors to human knowledge in the history of history. And if he's wrong, well, he's not thinking about that, obviously…
I'm sure that he was mentally sound when he was shipped off, it's possible he had some kind of freudian hidden trauma from his childhood which was unearthed by the incident mentioned on previous pages.
But won't people notice all those crushed pills- oh wait, isn't that the cleaning robot?
I like that the cleaning robot is apparently a horseshoe crab.
Is THAT what the bloody thing is? I was gonna ask about it when it ran into his slipper a few pages back…
ah, so it WAS his meds.
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I'm getting a "Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you've already said that!" error every time I post.
If I'm not the only one with that issue, it probably mean the comment system is calling something twice during the send process.-
D: well… If anyone else is getting those, please comment here and let me know! So I can harass smart friends to fix it for me, haha.
I don't know why, but space sandals make me happy.
They're so comfy *_*
Der, it is so good to have you back.The cream (your work) has floated back to the top. You have only 22 pages up, and this morning, Mare Internum shows up as number 1 on TWC. Congrats.
Does including a button for "The Meek" men there's a possibility of its soon coming out of mothballs?-
Yes, after Ch1 of this comic is complete, I'm going to start updating The Meek again. Looks like that will be sometime in May.
yes!!i cant wait to see you back on meek, altho i loved this comic story
Aqua&white doesn't look like a "happy" pill so much as a "nice and calm" pill. I guess he's decided he would rather not.
Next week? I've had my seat-belt fastened for two weeks already! -
Oh, I do not like where I think this is going. I see (two) bad moons arising…I see trouble on the way.
Have you ever heard or read of mentally-stressed people who take their (mandated) medications and THEN think suicidal thoughts? TRUST the nice Doctor, who only wants what's best for you. (Or only wants to keep your brain stewed until you're off Mars?)
Maybe Mike is rebelling from what has been done to him.
Just not enough information to know anything yet…-
yes because a warning on some medications for depression include "may increase thoughts of suicide" and there have been accounts of people getting medicated and feeling like "everything is so clear" and think suicide is the logical way to go.
Then again, sometimes people actually need medication to not always be thinking about suicide or partake in reckless behavior, but doing so can also feel like a cessation of creativity as well.
Just saying that the realm of drug therapy and mental/behavioral health issues is complex and not necessarily good vs. bad.
Yes it is complex, but so is the brain and all of the mental configurations that can somehow be generated in billions of connections. Every single human is unique, so you'd hardly expect there to be an exact match in treating some problem, especially in some frontier outpost on another planet.
-Remember that there's an international group running the show with a corporate facet.
(No accidents. Not our fault. We deny it.)
There's not enough information yet to know what good or bad is, but so far some readers have been ready to write Mike off as some crazy guy (who now doesn't want to take his meds.) What we've seen so far might be misleading. Until the facts are known we should keep an open mind.
Adorable little horseshoe crab cleaning bot helps Mike conceal the true extent of his problems.
Can't tell whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing.
It's definitely a WORRYING thing though.
Initial feeling was that he was saving up those for an overdose instead of those being his antidepressants? Gah, either way, I'm nervous. D:
( lordy tho, those shadows are gorgeous. )
…I may or may not know that antidepressant are not good for overdosing.
Oh I've definitely already covered the rereading multiple times, haha! In other news, my curiosity has definitely been aroused…
That's worrying. That's….That's worrying.
…that's a whole lot of pills. I concur with other commenters who say that this is a worrying page.
A few months' worth gets delivered at once, since the resupply vehicle only comes around 8x a year. Anyways I'm sure they're not important.
Don't do it, Mike! Don't do it! Pills that alter your brain chemistry should be handled with care!
So Intersection is a few months away?
Oh my. Looking at that script is giving me war flashbacks. Not that my scripts look much different now, I've just upgraded to using ~*~evernote~*~ instead of notepad (mostly so I can check them on my phone if I'm sketching/thumbnailing without my computer). Handy!
I've been reading this comic for awhile, never realizing you were the same author who wrote The Meek. I love your work and look forward to seeing what happens next.
Urk, I'm seeing two kinds of pills in there. SSRI and something else?
Yellow/green capsules could be Prozac or benzos of some sort, assuming the Der-Shing-Future uses American capsule standards. Small round ones could be almost anything.
My guess is that Mike is at least borderline OCD (stops to fix his suicide note, picks dust off his suit, both have at least an entire panel dedicated to them, which means they're important actions). Clearly he's got some depression issues, too…
They actually look remarkably like my meds, a combination of Prozac capsules and rispirdal/rispirdone tablets. The former being an anti-depressant and the latter an anti-psychotic. They help with the depression, anxiety and OCD. Which would support Vert's theory.
*tap-dances away*
Mike, you're doing it wrong, gotta flush 'em down the toilet.
Not being anti-medication in general here but I've been on enough mental-related medications to know there are good and bad ones so I don't judge people for deciding to take OR not take them.
Guesses—everything from modafinil to mirapexin, and spiro to sertraline—on a postcard, please.
1) They're gonna all get trapped on Mars
2) Those are his mental health meds, ordered and delivered in thatmany quantity prior to his losing his job just now or w/e
3) He is going to be trapped on Mars without his meds
4) Hoooly cowwww would I not want to be him getting caught out by boss lady about this whole clusterfuck later on while trapped on Mars -
*raises brows* Well, he's not been taking them, it seems, for quite some time. I wonder what they are. If I had to guess, a mood stabilizer. He seems to swing pretty wildly emotionally.
Then again, this is a very short time span and he just tried to kill himself…
I will wait for further info.
BTW, it's the future and people still wear socks and slides. At least the future is comfy, though I would love some space-age fuzzy slippers.
Gotta love those space roombas.
White and teal pills are prozacs (depression, mood swings, anxiety) and I would guess the other ones are antipsychotics, which are known to fuzz your memory and feelings i.e. zombie pills.
Also, overdosing on that kind of drug is not very easy even at those quantities.This story does not pull any punches and I like it.
What the hell is he doing? Did he just destroy his meds?!


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Primary elections are about running to the extremes; general elections are about running to the middle. In the case of the Republicans, that journey back to the middle requires balancing their need to keep their fragile base of evangelicals, Tea Partiers and free-marketers content with the urgency of reaching the growing percentage of voters that no longer identify with one party. General elections in modern times are increasingly about wooing independent voters, and as we move toward November the focus will be on them. Romney, the likely nominee, will have to balance his ticket with someone that will satisfy his base and yet be able to reach independent voters in the swing states. There are a number of possible picks, but the happy middle for Romney seems to have Gingrich's name on it.
The recent political chatter has centered on Rand Paul. On the surface it seems plausible. First, it would at least explain why Ron Paul has been so uncharacteristically tame toward Romney. Second, Rand Paul is a conservative Southerner, an identity that Romney does not connect well with. However, Rand Paul's brand of conservatism is far too extreme for the general voter. In Paul's Senate campaign he argued that private businesses should still have the right to discriminate. It's one thing to advocate for states' rights in general terms, and another to try to argue against the long-settled constitutional and societal norm that discrimination is unacceptable. While this position did not harm his election, it may not play as well outside of his home state of Kentucky and the Deep South.
The vice-presidential speculation has also gotten hot about Marco Rubio. The presumption is that Rubio has got it all. He is Latino, young, articulate and a Tea Party darling from a swing state. But this option is a non-starter. Cubans in Florida are largely Republican, making up 5 percent of the Latino electorate, and are densely concentrated in Florida. The reality is that the vast majority of Latinos outside of Florida are Democrats and of Mexican descent, for whom Rubio would have little appeal. This is especially the case given the hard line he has taken on immigration. Romney could not count on Rubio to connect with Latinos in the swing states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada and bring them over to the GOP ticket.
Another possibility would seem to be the primaries' number two, Santorum. After Super Tuesday he has shown that he can deliver in the South and in the Midwest. And the fact that Romney and Santorum don't care much for each other doesn't matter—neither did Ronald Regan and George H.W. Bush nor John Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The issue with Santorum is that he's got a lady problem. His views alienate independent and moderate Republican women. Women vote at consistently higher rates than men. This is not a group you want to alienate in the general election.
This brings us to Newt Gingrich. Yes, he has a number of flaws. He has a history of marital infidelity, murky financial dealings and charisma that borders on arrogance. But it just so happens that these flaws are counterbalanced by Romney's rock-solid personal and professional narrative and his social awkwardness. During Gingrich's brief tenure as front-runner he also demonstrated an eagerness to be confrontational and combative, qualities that Romney seems to abhor. Gingrich also demonstrates a Palinesque quality in his ability to work a crowd and charm voters, two characteristics that would make up for Romney's country-club persona. And as far as the marital infidelities go, who doesn't like a story of redemption, especially evangelicals, who embrace forgiveness as a reminder of human frailty?
Gingrich is in that sweet spot to the right of Romney and to the left of Santorum. It is in this spot that Romney needs to concern himself. Sure, he will help turn out the South, but then again, there is about a zero likelihood that the South would vote for President Obama regardless of the vice presidential pick. Gingrich is the Ying to Romney's Yang. And finally, it would be kind of fun to see a Gingrich-Biden debate.


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(Reuters) – An eventual bid for Best Buy Co Inc by founder Richard Schulze could come below his initial proposal of around $8 billion and is now not expected to be made before December, sources familiar with the matter said, in a new twist to the months-long saga at the struggling electronics retailer.
Schulze has done most of his due diligence on Best Buy and has formed a business plan to turn around the world's largest consumer electronics chain, with his efforts now focused on securing financing commitments, the sources said.
At least three private equity firms – Apollo Global Management LLC, TPG Capital LP and Leonard Green & Partners LP – are considering joining Schulze in the bid, the sources said. Cerberus Capital Management LP, which was among the buyout firms that weighed joining the bidding group, is no longer working on the deal, one of the four sources said.
The sources declined to be identified because the information is not public.
Schulze said in August he could buy Best Buy for $24 to $26 per share, valuing the deal between $8.16 billion and $8.84 billion and if debt is included, as much as $10.9 billion.
But Best Buy's shares have since fallen 24 percent to trade around $15.
While a final decision on the offer price has not been made, the drop in shares has raised the likelihood that Schulze's bid could be below $24 per share, the sources said.
Schulze is expected to take a 30-day extension to mid-December for submitting a final proposal to Best Buy's board, they said.
The consortium's efforts to clinch equity and debt commitments for what could be one of the largest leveraged buyouts of the year were delayed by superstorm Sandy which disrupted operations at several major Wall Street banks.
An extension will also give Schulze and the buyout firms a chance to see how Best Buy is performing in the crucial Christmas holiday season, the sources said.
Best Buy and Apollo declined to comment. The other private equity firms could not be reached for comment.
Best Buy has seen its fortunes falter over the years, as consumers increasingly use its big box stores as showrooms for products they end up buying online at Amazon and other websites. To add to its troubles, the company forced out Schulze's protegy Brian Dunn as CEO earlier this year amid allegations the executive was having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
That scandal also led to the ouster of Schulze, who founded the company in 1966, from the board, and to Best Buy hiring turnaround expert Hubert Joly as its CEO to come up with its own restructuring plan.
In October, the retailer, which has suspended its profit forecasts and share buybacks for the rest of the year, warned that earnings and same-store sales would fall in the third quarter. Joly plans to meet investors in New York on Tuesday to unveil his turnaround plan.
One analyst has said that Best Buy's declining fortunes could make a buyout more attractive for some investors.
"We are starting to believe that current shareholders may be more receptive to Schulze's previously disclosed offer of $24-$26 per share than we previously believed," Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy said late last month.
There are no guarantees, however, that Schulze will ultimately be able to table an offer or that his eventual bid will be as attractive to shareholders.
Schulze has said he plans to fund any deal through a combination of private equity and debt financing, as well as the reinvestment of some of his own equity in the company.
(Reporting by Soyoung Kim, Olivia Oran and Dhanya Skariachan, Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Edwina Gibbs)
Image Credit: Best Buy


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It's Not a Game
Watching the computer system known as Watson defeat the top two human Jeopardy! players of all time was fun in the short term. This demonstration of IBM's software, however, was a bad idea in the longer term. It presented a misleading picture to the public of what is known about machine and human intelligence, and more seriously, it advanced a flawed approach to science that stands to benefit the enemies of science.
There's a crucial distinction to make right away. My purpose is not to criticize the work done by the team that created Watson. Nor do I want to critique their professional publications or their interactions with colleagues in the field of computer science. Instead, I am concerned with the nature of the pop spectacle hatched by IBM.
Why was there a public spectacle at all? Certainly it's worthwhile to share the joy and excitement of science with the public, as NASA often does. But there were no other Mars rovers to compare with the NASA rovers when they landed, and there is a whole world of research related to artificial intelligence. By putting its system on TV and personifying that system with a name and a computer-generated voice, IBM separated it from its context, suggesting—falsely—the existence of a sui generis entity.
Contrast IBM's theatrics with the introduction of Wolfram Alpha, a "knowledge engine" for the Web that physicist Stephen Wolfram released in 2009 (see "Search Me," July/August 2009). Although the early rhetoric around Alpha was a touch extreme, sometimes exaggerating its natural-language competence, the method of introduction was vastly more honest. Wolfram Research didn't resort to stage magic: Alpha was made available online for people to try. Stephen Wolfram encouraged people to use his technology and compare the results with those generated by search engines like Google. Alpha proved honestly that it was something fresh, different, and useful. Comparison with what came before is crucial to progress in science and technology.
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But Watson was presented on TV as an entity instead of a technology, and people are inclined to treat entities charitably. You are more likely to give a "he" the benefit of a doubt, while you judge an "it" for what it can do as a tool. Watson avoided any such comparative judgment, and the public wasn't given a window into what would happen in that kind of empirical process. Stephen Wolfram himself, however, went to the trouble of writing a blog post comparing Watson with everyday search engines. He entered the text of Jeopardy! clues into those search engines and found that in many cases, the first document they returned contained the answer. Identifying a page that contains the answer is not the same thing as being able to give the answer on Jeopardy!, but this little experiment does indicate that Watson's abilities were less extraordinary than one might have gathered from watching the broadcast.
Wouldn't it have been better to open the legitimate process of science to the public instead of staging a fake version? An example of how to do this was the DARPA-sponsored "Grand Challenge" to create self-driving cars. By pitting technologies against each other, DARPA informed the public well and offered a glimpse into the state of the art. The contest also made for great TV. Competitors were motivated. The process worked.
The Jeopardy! show in itself, by contrast, was not informative. There are a multitude of open questions about how human language works and how brains think. But when machines are pitted against people, an unstated assertion is inevitably propagated: that human thinking and machine "intelligence" are already known to be at least comparable. Of course, this is not true.
In the case of Jeopardy!, the game's design isolates a specific skill: guessing words on the basis of hints. We know that being able to guess an unstated word from its context is part of language competency, but we don't know how important that skill is in relation to the whole phenomenon of human language. We don't fully know what would be required to re-create that phenomenon. Even if it had been stated (in fine print, as it were) that the task of competing at Jeopardy! shouldn't be confused with complete mastery of human language, the extravaganza would have left the impression that scientists are on a rapid, inexorable march toward conquering language and meaning—as if a machine that can respond like a person in a particular context must be doing something similar to what the human brain does.
Much of what computer scientists were actually doing in this case, however, was teaching the software to identify statistical correlations in giant databases of text. For example, the terms "Massachusetts," "university," "technology," and "magazine" will often be found in documents that also contain the term "Technology Review." That correlation can be calculated on the fly to answer a Jeopardy! question; similar methods have proved useful for search engines and automated help lines. But beyond such applications, we don't know where this particular line of research will lead, because recognizing correlations is not the same as understanding meaning; a sufficiently large statistical simulation of semantics is not the same thing as semantics. Similarly, you could use correlations and extrapolations to predict the next number in a given numeric sequence, but you need deeper analysis and mathematical proof to get it right every time. Goodstein sequences are sequences of numbers that seem to always go up—until eventually they revert and fall to zero. A prediction based on statistical analysis of the early phase of such a sequence would get the rest of the sequence wrong. Correlations can simulate understanding without really delivering it.
Ultimately, does the Watson show really matter? Why not let IBM's PR people enjoy a day in the sun? Here's why not: there is a special danger when science is presented to the public in a sloppy way. Technical communities must exhibit exemplary behavior, because we are losing public legitimacy in the United States. Denying global climate change remains respectable in politics; many high-school biology teachers still don't fully accept evolution.
Unfortunately, the theatrics of the Jeopardy! contest play the same trick with neuroscience that "intelligent design" does with evolution. The facts are cast to make it seem as though they imply a metaphysical idea: in this case, that we are making machines come alive in our image.
Indeed, that is a quasi-religious idea for some technical people. There's a great deal of talk about computers inheriting the earth, perhaps in a "singularity" event—and perhaps even granting humans everlasting life in a virtual world, if we are to believe Ray Kurzweil.
But even if we quarantine overtly techno-religious ideas, the Watson-on-Jeopardy! scheme projects an alchemical agenda. We say, "Look, an artificial intelligence is visible in the machine's correlations." A promoter of intelligent design says, "Look, a divine intelligence is visible in the correlations derived from sources like fossils and DNA."
When we do it, how can we complain that others do it? If scientists desire respect from the public, we should expect to be emulated, and we should be careful about what methods we present for emulation.
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, writer, and musician. His most recent book is You Are Not a Gadget (Knopf, 2010). He is a partner architect at Microsoft Research and the innovator in residence at the Annenberg School of USC. His name has been used in a Jeopardy! clue.
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It was the era of Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. Pearls, hats, skirts, and heels dominated fashion, and "you didn't think of going out without your white gloves," remembers Patricia "Pat" McCullough Stevenson, who worked as a fashion illustrator for B. Altman from 1954 to 1961.
The upscale department store, one of the first of its kind in the country, took up an entire square block of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. "I remember hearing tales of horse-drawn carriages and fashionable ladies being escorted to the store by liveried doorman," she says. "It was very elegant. You went there to buy something special." Pat is no nonsense when describing her years in the fashion capital, and it's easy to imagine this "tell it like it is" woman holding her own in those days of the male-dominated advertising world. "I wasn't glamorous myself, but I loved the glamour of others," she says.
Pat grew up an only child on a less-than-fashionable side of Manhattan, and her parents divorced when she was young. But creativity kept her company, and she "never had a bored moment—I was always drawing." Following high school, the burgeoning artist received several scholarships to The School of Visual Arts, where she studied cartooning. And when the art director of B. Altman visited the school and saw one of her pieces on the wall, he immediately offered the 18-year-old a job.
Pat's career blossomed during the heyday of big-city newspapers such as the Herald-Tribune, the New York World-Telegram & Sun, and The New York Times. As the sole in-house illustrator for the company, the young woman worked under strict deadlines to create "double-truck ads" (two-page drawings) of beautiful ladies wearing the latest fashions.
The illustrator's natural talent flourished in the competitive environment at B. Altman. She remembers when her boss, Lou Ritter, refused to give Andy Warhol a job, declaring, "What is this?" as he threw the artist's résumé in the trash. Pat retrieved the drawing of a woman with advertisements covering her arms and legs like tattoos. "Ritter said Warhol would never make it at Altman," she laughs, noting that she still has that rescued picture.
Over the years, a mastery of technique and simplicity of style defined Pat's sketches. She understood the way a woman stood and walked and could capture the tilt of a lady's head in such a way that whatever she drew created a demand. "I had to be careful about what I put into my pieces," she explains, recalling the time she included a baby chick wearing a flowered hat in an ad and women rushed to B. Altman wanting to know where they could purchase one.
Her pen and pencil drawings on tissue paper are crisp and elegant. In some, the faint lines of ad space measurements and notes in the margins can be made out. With downcast eyes or a hand placed on an outward jutting hip, the subjects pose as they sip tea, lounge on the beach, or clutch flowers. On the front lines of fashion during one of the most glamorous decades in our country's history, Pat's illustrations speak volumes about American women of the '50s.
Those original sketches are now available at Eye Level Art, taking audiences "back 60 years to a busy New York atmosphere," says director Mike Elder. Jennifer McGrath, a former New York runway model and Charleston artist, has been collecting Pat's work for years. "Her fashion illustrations portray classically styled, sophisticated women and transport you to a time when a lady always dressed like one," she says. "They are truly timeless treasures."
After almost a decade in the fashion industry, Pat left her position at B. Altman in 1961, opting for the less glamorous (but for her, more important) job of staying at home with her four children. She continued drawing for pleasure, but with her husband frequently traveling for work, she had limited free time. The couple eventually retired to Mount Pleasant, where they are now surrounded by children and grandchildren. A bad fall two years ago has restricted her to a wheelchair, but she still has the use of her hands. And as part of her therapy, Pat has started to draw again. After all these years, creativity remains her constant companion.


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Elysia is a young German company, made up of a partnership between a former SPL designer (responsible for the Transient Designer, among other projects) and a marketing guru, specialising in hi-end professional audio processors.
Discrete class-A circuitry, complete absence of integrated devices and unusual topologies are some of the common highlights for Elysia's hardware products.
The hardware Alpha Compressor fully embraces the company's esoteric beliefs and is intended for top-end mastering studios - its RRP price of over £8,500 clearly makes it a wild dream for most.
The software version, programmed by Brainworx, is surprisingly affordable and aims at delivering the same uncompromising quality and functionality as its slightly higher-priced hardware counterpart.
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The Alpha Compressor plug-in requires an iLok account and hardware dongle to activate it and run it in your DAW.
There are two versions of the plug-in you can choose from: the Alpha Mix, available both in mono and stereo format, and the Alpha Master that is stereo only.
The Mix is effectively a stripped down version of the Master. The plug-in features a nice and easy to read GUI, painstakingly modelled on the looks and functions of its hardware counterpart, with the only notable difference of the Transformer button, replaced by the Warm button on the software version.
Basic controls
At first sight, it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of knobs and buttons - the GUI takes up most of the available screen width on a laptop.
The Master plug-in is a dual-mono design, and familiar controls are laid out on the top row - threshold, attack, release and ratio.
Both attack and release have a useful 'auto fast' option that tracks the dynamic content of the material - an attack set to 100ms will automatically dip to lower values for fast and loud transients and then return to nominal.
An important option is the Feed Forward button, which radically changes the compressor's topology by moving the sidechain feed from before the compression stage to after.
This turns the Alpha Compressor into a much harder-sounding audio processor and yields surprising amounts of gain reduction and even negative ratios, and also influences attack values - a sort of 'overdrive' button when more extreme behaviour is needed.
Equalisation, sidechain and output
The middle row hosts two by-passable sets of equalisation controls: a clever Niveau filter with positive/negative gain adjustment and frequency range (including a handy x10 button) and a filter for the compressor's sidechain - this latter one continuously adjustable into either a low-pass or a high-pass with variable attenuation.
Each channel also features a make-up gain control and a simple matrix to enable 100% dry (Direct) or 100% processed (Compressed) signal. If both buttons are pushed, a Mix control allows you to blend dry and compressed signal for parallel processing.
Just like the hardware unit, two further options are available on the output of each channel. The Soft Clip control acts like a limiter but instead of squaring out the output in a brickwall fashion it introduces a subtle saturation that results more in a 'rounding-out' of the waveform.
This allows you to push the make up gain by several dB more with little change to the sound, until extreme settings make the distortion more apparent.
The 'Warm' button replaces the switchable audio transformers that are present on the hardware unit. This option has some impact on the music as the harmonic content is modified and the 'warming' effect takes place, though still well within the realm of mastering subtleties.
The Channel Link button gangs all mirrored controls on both left and right channel and also applies the resulting compression to both - this means that the channel with the loudest signal will impose its compression values to the other.
The MS Mode button turns the Alpha Master into a Middle+Side mastering plug-in. In this mode, the link button is not effective on the Niveau filter, the mix and gain stage as well as the Warm button. This is to allow some degree of tweaking between channels.
Alpha Mix
We started off using the Alpha Mix plug-in, as it's easier to get a sound using first the simplified version. Three functions from the Master version are removed here - Niveau filter, Soft Clip and M+S Mode.
The plug-in is a joy to use, and a particular credit is due to the Auto Fast Attack and Release options, which are deservedly the best we've heard in any compressor.
There's a smoothness of operation here that can easily range from subtle, invisible compression to heavy and distorted. When we moved up to the Master version, we truly enjoyed the M+S option - we're familiar with M+S compressors, but the Alpha Master makes it an easy choice with plenty of give for even the most awkward settings.
Also notable is the ease of use and musicality of the Niveau filter that make it a simple and effective tool. The Soft Clip option sounds good at moderate settings, but we found that when pushed too hard it gives out a raspy sound that isn't always usable as a distortion trick.
We also found it difficult to maintain a given balance between channels while in M+S Mode while trying to push level into the Soft Clip section with the Make Up gain - an auto-gain option for the clipper would be quite handy.
This plug-in is a real achievement for its raw musicality and sheer number of unusual but much-needed functions. While not recommended to those that need a simple fix, we cannot think of a better mastering compressor plug-in or indeed for mix buss compression.
Due to its oversampling design, it is fairly power-hungry so we would not recommend it for repeated channel strip use, though it would feature well on selected instruments.


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Mysterious Phoebe: Cassini's next fly-by
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Tomorrow, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will fly past Phoebe, one of Saturn's many moons and one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system.
The craft will send back pictures 1000 times more detailed than those produced last time Phoebe was photographed, when Voyager 2 swung past in 1981. The pictures below, sent back earlier this month, are already twice as good as any that have been seen before and reveal a substantial amount of detail. For example, the shadows suggest a surface covered in deep craters and tall mountainous peaks.
Scientists hope the data Cassini-Huyges sends back, which will include spectroscopic and radar data, will help them learn more about the composition of the moon. The ESA says the mission will help with unanswered questions such as did Phoebe ever melt? Does it have evidence of past interior melting? Was it ever an icy body?
Just 220km in diameter, Phoebe is in a very peculiar, retrograde orbit, and is very dark. Scientists speculate that it could be a body from the distant Kuiper belt, way out in the outer solar system. ®
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Medieval Charnel House discovered in Slovakia
Archaeological research near the church of St. Nicolaus in the town of Trnava in Slovakia has uncovered the largest charnel house ever found in Slovakia. A charnel house, or ossuary, is a vault used to hold the bones of the dead.
The medieval charnel house in its original state was apparently a rotunda, about six and a half metres across and six metres high. Its function was two-fold. Below the ground it held the bones of the dead; above the ground it was a church.
"It is the oldest church building ever discovered in Trnava," explaied Erik Hrnčiarik, the chair of classical archaeology at University of Trnava. "Its foundation dates to the 11th century."
The archaeologists were able to date the rotunda from broken ceramic fragments found in the structure. According to Hrnčiarik, it ceased to function as a church or charnel house some time around 1360. He added that the nearest similar constructions are in southern Austria.
Besides the rotunda, other important findings have been made in the area including remains of a sacristy of the Church of St. Michael as well as a 16th century graveyard. "We found 20 graves of apparently well-off Trnava inhabitants," Hrnčiarik said.
The most important finding according to Hrnčiarik is the well-preserved skull of a woman wearing a crown. Some crosses were also found, as well as a precious medallion with ivory inlays dating back to 15th century.
Following the archaeological research, art and history experts will analyse the newly discovered data. These investigations will be funded by the town of Trnava which has already allocated €17,593.
The archaeological research was begun last year as a part of a project to reconstruct the church of St. Nicolas.


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"On this issue and this day we stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel." So said Paul Ryan at the outset of the Chicago's teacher strike this week.
Now in its fourth day, the Chicago strike affects 350,000 kids. It occurred despite an offer by Mayor Emanuel to support a 16 percent pay raise over four years—on top of an average $76,000 teacher salary—despite the city facing a $1 billion budget deficit. In exchange, educators would need to accept teacher evaluations and principals' discretion over hiring and firing. The union rejected the deal.
Sometimes policy, not just politics, makes strange bedfellows and Paul Ryan's status as a charter member of the Republicans for Rahm fan club shouldn't distract from perhaps an even more surprising dynamic—the growing number of Democrats who are standing up for education reform.
The courage, of course, comes from the fact that the Teachers Union is one of the most influential special interests in the Democratic Party, power brokers capable of derailing careers with organized opposition in closed partisan primaries—just ask former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, an education reformer who had $1 million spent against him in 2010 and lost to the union-backed (and now corruption-plagued) Mayor Vincent Gray.
In the 2008 election cycle, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers spent a combined $71.7 million on candidates and issue campaigns, outspending the next largest public sector union by a 2 to 1 margin.
This year in New York City, the teachers' union has donated at least a quarter of a million dollars to local politicians who pledged not to support Mayor Bloomberg-backed reforms or accept donations from StudentsFirst, an advocacy organization founded by former Washington, DC, schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.
Rhee, incidentally, is a Democrat. Her husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, is also a Democrat who supports education reforms, from charter schools to school choice.
This year, Mayor Johnson and colleagues in the U.S. Conference of Mayors backed an impressive array of education reforms including teacher evaluations, charter schools, and "parent trigger" policies, which would give parents the ability to push for intervention in chronically failing schools. Among his fellow Democratic mayors who backed the measures: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Detroit Mayor David Bing and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has gone even farther, supporting school choice—the ability for poor parents in underperforming school districts to receive a voucher to apply toward a private- or parochial-school education. Booker has worked productively with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the education-reform front—a rare and welcome cross-aisle collaboration on a cutting-edge reform.
The reason so many Democratic mayors are embracing politically risky education reforms is not a mystery—it is a matter of practical necessity. The status quo isn't working. In Chicago, 40 percent of high school students drop out before graduation and 80 percent of eighth graders are not proficient in reading or math. Mayors—more than members of Congress—are hired to be problem-solvers. They have direct responsibilities for their budget that tends to make them elevate fiscal responsibility over ideology.
As growing number of Democratic governors are embracing education reform as well. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who has been effective in gaining concessions from unions to balance the budget without raising taxes—is a proponent of teacher evaluations and charter schools. Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy pushed for teacher evaluations and expanding charter schools and, against the strenuous objections from unions, received unexpected support from the Black and Puerto Rican legislative caucus to get the reforms enacted. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley—both former big city mayors—have backed teacher evaluations.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick successfully tied teacher tenure to teacher evaluation, while doubling the percentage of students in failing school districts who could attend charter schools. "I consider him a role model in terms of how to lead in a way that is bold and purposeful but also respectful and collaborative," says Jonah Edelman, the CEO of Stand for Children, a leading education-reform-advocacy organization.
President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan—a former Chicago Schools superintendent—have actually accumulated a fairly impressive education-reform record, using their Race to the Top funding contest to encourage states to push through needed reforms. They have also backed contentious but needed initiatives like merit pay and ending teacher tenure for failing teachers as well. On the negative side of the ledger, the Obama administration sat and watched as the Washington pilot school-voucher program was defunded by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2009. Compared to Democratic predecessors, education has been an area where the Obama administration has been willing to stand up to their base, but there are practical limits, especially in an election year, which is why the Obama campaign must be viewing the Chicago strike with some displeasure.
While the president has been officially silent on the topic, Mayor Emanuel suggested to reporters that President Obama supported him, saying "I want you to understand, the president has weighed in… Every issue we're talking about regarding accountability of our schools, quality in our schools to the education of our children, is the core thrust of Race to the Top."
Mitt Romney actually gave one of the best and most substantive speeches of his campaign on the subject of education reform, calling it "the civil-rights issue of our era." It is an issue where Republicans have more political flexibility than Democrats to seize the policy high ground and embrace cutting-edge reforms.
While union rhetoric against education reform can be harsh and intentionally intimidating, watch a documentary like Waiting for Superman—directed by Democrat Davis Guggenheim—to get a sense of the moral dimensions of this struggle. Listen to someone like Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone to get a sense of the stakes and you'll quickly start to see that this shouldn't be seen as an issue of right versus left as much as it is a matter of right versus wrong.
Whatever the results of this teachers' strike in Chicago—and there are hopes that it may be settled soon—there are signs the policy fault lines are starting to shift, creating the opportunity for cross-aisle collaboration and a new consensus. Being pro-teacher is not necessarily the same thing as being pro-union—and in the pursuit of improved education results, partisan politics should always take a back seat to putting kids first.


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In Eternal Memory For the Weinfeld family of the village of Swaryczow
My father Reb Elyakim David the son of Yisrael HaLevi and Feiga
Uncle Lipa and his wife Freida Weinfeld
Aunt Dvora Freier (nee Weinfeld) and husband Salomon
Uncle Zeev Wolf and his wife Malka of the family of Reb Itzikel of Rozniatow
Uncle Itzio-Yitzchak and his wife Esther nee Archer Uncle Mozes-Moshe Weinfeld Perpetuated by Wilhelm-Zeev Weinfeld of Hadera, Israel |
In Eternal MemoryOf the Fishman family of Wygoda
My father Godel the son of Reb Hersh and Rachel
Perpetuated by Chana the daughter of Godel and Leah, nee Fishman, |
In Eternal Memory
My father Shmuel Rosenberg
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On Friday 20th June 2014, the second annual Ride On Belfast event took to the city streets. Last year, around 70 people rode from the Gasworks to the City Hall, inspired by and assembled under the banner of The Fréd Festival. This year the theme was ruthless expansion, with the twin aims of:
- being the biggest peloton in Belfast since the Giro d'Italia
- encouraging people not used to cycle commuting to try it out
That was the simplest expression of what Ride On Belfast is about – people riding bicycles in Belfast for their own reasons, whether being the most practical way to work, for the school run, for their health or just the enjoyment. It's not a protest, it's not 'taking back' the roads, it's not causing aggro to others – just riding a bike.
But to make this year really special, we needed some new, innovative tactics..
The Weather Underground
Belfast is used to long arid summers, heatwaves lasting months and emergency air-drops of Mr Frostie supplies, but Fréd and his goons needed to be sure that precipitation wasn't going to affect Ride On Belfast. There was nothing for it – with a brass neck, we tweet-bombed all of the finest weather presenters on local television, and Frank Mitchell too.
And by jove, the BBC crew got into the spirit, with Angie Phillips retweeting, Barra Best tweeting his own predictions, and the fabulous Cecilia Daly (the new darling of Belfast cycling) going the extra mile..
And so, the day before Ride On Belfast gathered, we got our first official 'national' weather forecast!
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And as it turned out, the weather was just about perfect on the day..
The Gathering
This year's Ride On Belfast was helped by some last minute news from Translink, as their early morning ban on bicycles on trains was eased to accommodate those travelling for the event:
This was a most welcome nod to active travel, and hopefully will give Translink and DRD pause to consider trialling this over a longer period.
The gathering crowd was impressed to see Northern Ireland's Transport Minister Danny Kennedy ride into the bunch with his new Cycling Unit in tow. Regular cyclist and MLA Sammy Douglas also joined in.
The Grand Départ
Under severe pressure from hungry commuters, the peloton set off a little earlier than planned. With a tight first turn from the Gasworks green onto the road, the Minister seized his opportunity and put in a devastating early kick. This split the peloton at the Ormeau Road crossing, and the breakaway group was never caught again. Apparently, Danny Kennedy's sprint finish down Donegall Place was a phenomenal sight.
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On The Open Road
This year Ride On Belfast took an extended trip around Belfast, leading to an iconic roll down Royal Avenue towards the City Hall. The PSNI officers took a relaxed back seat this year, yet the busier junctions were taken with ease. Notable pinch points (again) were the length of time to traverse Shaftesbury Square (not great for cycling at all) and the bus lane at Great Victoria Street (still not great for buses, never mind cycling). Holding the outside lane along Carrick Hill worked to control what was expected to be the busiest and fastest traffic of the ride. The traffic-restricted streets of the city centre were a joy.
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Selfie On Belfast
After the last year with Máirtín Ó Muilleoir as Lord Mayor, Belfast has fallen in love with the selfie. As well as people just taking them for the craic, See.Sense also ran a competition for the best selfie taken by their stand at Belfast City Hall..
City Hall and well-earned grub
A huge thank you again to Travelwise and Belfast City Council for providing a free breakfast at the Bobbin Cafe (and the new option of a free coffee at Javaman) for those who completed Ride On Belfast. The City Hall grounds became a sea of bicycles for the morning, while local cycle lighting tech firm See.Sense showed off their wares and PSNI bike officers were busy security-marking bicycles for the punters.
Inside the City Hall, the breakfast queue stretched out the door (which is testament to the rise in participation at Ride On Belfast) and we're all grateful to the Bobbin staff for coping under severe pressure.
The Media
Straight after the event, our Twitter traffic was enough to set #RideOnBelfast trending locally – maybe next year "sectarianism" can be beaten by cycling? Little steps..
Paul Reilly brought the UTV cameras down to see what all the fuss was about, and importantly set the day in context with a reminder of the shocking scene of a child's bicycle under a truck at Ballyhackamore the day before. Along with the tragic death of 5 year old Conor O'Neill 9 days before, Bike Week had a strong focus on road safety and infrastructure improvement this year.
The Irish News covered the event in its Saturday edition. Might need to check that ear-to-shorthand connection though, as 'enthusiast' (a word I'm almost violently resistant to when it comes to practical cycling) somehow crept into a quote. And "giro d'italia" needs capitals. #facepalm
The Aftermath
Ride On Belfast turned out to be a really positive, fun event and this was reflected in social media comments directly afterwards. We had new cycling commuters, people trying out cycling for the first time in years, as well as familiar faces.
In the end, the various breakaway groups which started from the Gasworks numbered 150, with close to 200 registered for the bicycle breakfast at City Hall. Overall that was a doubling of participation from 2013, which is a credit to all involved – The Fréd Festival, Travelwise (DRD) and Belfast City Council.


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Press Release Major League Baseball
NEW YORK.- Culminating a year when Apple named MLB.com At Bat the 10th highest grossing iOS app of all-time – out of more than 900,000 available apps – MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) announced that its flagship mobile product has surpassed 10 million downloads for the first time in a single season. At Bat broke its previous record of 6.7 million downloads, set in 2012, less than three months into this season on June 21.
With 60 percent of At Bat 13 subscribers opening the app every day, fans also will eclipse one billion app starts this season, nearly matching the cumulative total of app starts from 2008, when it debuted as one of the original 500 apps in the Apple App Store, through 2012 (1.2 billion).
Symbolizing MLBAM's commitment to distributing live baseball to fans on their favorite devices, At Bat was the first media app to stream live video to iPhone in July 2009 and its continued development of a proprietary graft of broadcast television and interactive media delivery, coupled with a native user interface design, has driven more than two billion minutes of live video consumption.
At Bat is the official application of Major League Baseball. For more information, visit MLB.com.


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USCCB Marks 9/11 Anniversary with Memorial Website
WASHINGTON—The Catholic Church Remembers, a website to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, will highlight people's firsthand experiences of pain and hope from the disaster. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will launch the site August 12. The site at http://www.
WASHINGTON—The Catholic Church Remembers, a website to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11, will highlight people's firsthand experiences of pain and hope from the disaster. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will launch the site August 12.
The site at https://www.usccb.org/resources/september-11-patriot-day includes six video vignettes, including recollections of Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop-emeritus of New York. He became intimately involved in the tragedy moments after it happened – when New York Mayor Giuliani called and asked him to head for St. Vincent's Hospital.
Thus began soul-searing days tending to the sick on stretchers and anointing bodies pulled from smoldering rubble where the Twin Towers fell. Cardinal Egan also speaks movingly of Ground Zero, which he dubs "Ground Hero," the funeral Masses at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the priests pressed into service that day.
"If I had to sum up 9/11, I would say it was a time in which people taught this nation and the world how to be strong and how to be willing to sacrifice themselves for others," he says in one video. "It was a terrible tragedy, it was a crime, but it was a magnificent manifestation of courage and willingness to sacrifice self."
He describes finding closure at Ground Zero with Pope Benedict XVI in April 2008, as the pope met with victims' families, lit a candle and prayed.
"There was so much goodness there that the evil was, I think, not only conquered, it was smothered," Cardinal Egan says.
The website also includes video of Chaplain Donald Rutherford, a two-star general and Catholic priest now head of all U.S. military chaplains. He is based at the Pentagon, where terrorists flew a plane into the building on 9/11. He describes the effect on young soldiers.
Before 9/11, he says, "it was kind of a carefree world where you never had been attacked before. I think now it says that we're all vulnerable .… We look at the young soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines that we work with everyday …. they are a faithful people. We saw their faith grow that day."
The website also hosts individual reflections of several people impacted that day.
Lt. Col. Shareda Hosein, U.S. Army Reserves, a woman Muslim chaplain, immediately afterwards was both applauded for her military service and scorned for her Muslim dress.
"I feel the resiliency of my faith as the biggest strength in helping build bridges of understanding with my fellow Americans. I have persevered with patience, a loving kindness, non-judgment and taken a stand to live in a pluralistic America that has liberty and justice for all no matter what race, gender, religion or personal affiliation."
Beverly and Thomas Burnett, Sr., saw their son Thomas Burnett, Jr., and others "drafted unknowingly as the first citizen-soldiers in the war on terrorism," they said.
"Little more than one hour into the war, America won its first battle against terrorism," the couple said. They described their son speaking via cell phone to his wife of a plan to take back a hi-jacked plane and his last words: "We're going to do something." Young Burnett and others died fighting terrorists over the skies of Shanksville, Pennsylvania and brought down a plane thought to be headed for the nation's capital.
New York City firefighter Kenneth Zaveckas, who lost 343 firefighter brothers – 24 of them close friends – when the Twin Towers imploded, asks why he was let live. He was on loan from Manhattan to a unit in Brooklyn, the only borough unit ordered to stay there to protect another suspected target, the Hasidic community. Zaveckas later retired early from the fire department because of lung damage from rescue work at the site.
"I still try to figure out what God was thinking and why I deserved to be spared twice that day."
Jesuit Father James Martin, culture editor of America magazine, aided rescue workers.
"In this hell I found grace," he said. "I thought 'what is God like? God is like the firefighter who rushes into a burning building to save someone. That's how much God loves us.' And I saw this love expressed in the great charity of all the rescue workers who gathered at the American Golgotha."
Msgr. Anthony Sherman, a Brooklyn pastor, led funerals for parishioners lost in the inferno. There were firefighters, and a woman whose marriage he had officiated at a year before, and who had announced on 9/10 that she was pregnant.
"9/11 led us all into the very depths of the mysteries of human suffering, death and resurrection. We discovered that we cannot obtain nor find all the answers to the atrocities we experienced. Yet with God's grace we also experienced the height of human sacrifice and the ability of our brothers and sisters to manifest heroic love."
Franciscan Father Joseph Bayne, chief chaplain of New York's Erie County Emergency Services, traveled from Buffalo, New York, to support his fellow rescue workers sent downstate.
"I did not see the devil's face at Ground Zero. I saw the face of God in the people working, caring, sweating, crying, rescuing, recovering and being very spiritual in their very humanness."
Paulist Father Paul Wierichs, a former chaplain to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, worked with the New York FBI office.
"People came together in unity that day. We can all remember where we were on 9/11 because we were all together."
Keywords: 9/11, Cardinal Edward Egan, Chaplain Donald Rutherford, Ground Zero, Pope Benedict XVI, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Muslims, Thomas Burnett, Father James Martin, Msgr. Anthony Sherman


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Harry Lee took Singapore from third world to first world. He created an economic order that every nation should imitate, and many have.
Singapore was about to fall to communism and racial violence, following the path of so many other third world hell holes abandoned by their colonial masters. Harry Lee created order peace, and economic freedom, which brought prosperity. As Spandrel says, he was a legalist, not a reactionary. Legalism, done right, brings order, peace, and prosperity. So, why would one need more than legalism?
In legalism, the great man decides what is to be done, then makes people do it. And then he dies, and the tide comes in, and washes away his sandcastles, however impressive they may be.


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Facebook Offers Choices for Gender Identity
For the first time, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is letting users of its online social network identify themselves as a gender other than male and female.
The basic user profile for members in the United States now includes a customizable category among the gender types that users must select, the world's No.1 Internet social network announced on Wednesday, the day the feature became available for U.S. members using the site's English-language version.
Those who select that option can select up to 10 gender identifications, including "transgender," "intersex" and "fluid."
The company said it worked with a leading group of gay and transgender advocacy organizations to come up with the selection of identity options.
Until now, Facebook's 1.23 billion members could only select male or female for their genders, which Facebook requires users to state in their profiles. Users of rival Google Inc's Google+ social network already had an "other" option for gender.
Facebook said users also can control the audience who can view a custom choice, noting the challenges that some people may face in publicly sharing their gender identity.
Users can also choose the personal pronoun to which they are referred publicly. A message on Facebook might now invite a user's friend to write a birthday message on "their" wall, instead of "his" or "her" wall.
"We want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self," Facebook said.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Amanda Kwan)


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Who: Ted Nugent headlines the Aug. 16 "Tuesday in the Park" concert at Artpark. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.
Opener: Chakras
Notice: This concert may contain adult material.
The incomparable guitar genius and fire-breathing intensity of Ted Nugent have carved him a permanent place among the legends of rock. Hailing from Detroit, the guitarist's prodigious talents, ear-shattering volume and over-the-top onstage antics quickly earned young Ted the moniker of "Motor City Madman," along with international acclaim.
Recognized as the world's leading guitar showman, Nugent's no-holds-barred career spans five decades of multi-platinum hits. From the ground breaking Amboy Dukes' "Journey to the Center of the Mind," to classics such as "Stranglehold" and "Cat Scratch Fever," the Damn Yankees chartbuster "High Enough" to cult classic "Fred Bear," and now "I Still Believe," Nugent's rapid fire sonic assaults continue to sell out venues around the globe.
The sounds he wrings from his mighty Gibson Byrdland leave audiences gasping for breath and begging for more. To millions of guitar lovers everywhere, Nugent is rock 'n' roll.
Visit Ted Nugent online at: http://www.tednugent.com.


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