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Moments before opening arguments were to begin in the trial of accused Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, the unpredictable suspect paralyzed the proceedings by demanding that his attorneys be fired. He said he didn't want lawyers who would "pursue a mental-health defense." Mr. Kaczynski's attorneys, who have been working on the case for 18 months, say their client suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and intend to offer a defense that focuses to some degree on his "mental defect." The trial judge ruled that Mr. Kaczynski's effort to change lawyers was too late and that the trial would go forward.
Less than a week after the death of Michael Kennedy in a skiing accident, entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono died instantly last week after crashing into a tree on a Nevada ski slope. Rep. Bono (R-Calif.) made an unlikely entrance into politics after about a decade of relative obscurity. Living a quiet life as a restaurateur, Mr. Bono was frustrated by city-government red tape that delayed his placing a sign outside his restaurant. He ran for mayor of Palm Springs in 1988 and won, but not without enduring some of the same kind of disrespect he received from his wisecracking ex-wife Cher during their comedy/variety show in the '70s. Frank Bogert, the Republican mayor Mr. Bono defeated, called him everything from a hippie to a squirrel; when Mr. Bono won a seat in Congress in 1994, Mr. Bogert said, "I don't like to see a darned Democrat go to Congress, but I sure don't want to see Sonny Bono there, making a fool of himself and us." He didn't, and steadily earned the friendship of his GOP colleagues by speaking for them at fundraisers. "We lost a very good friend," said Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Politics are just as competitive as any sport, but sometimes it's better to be second. White House and congressional officials struggled mightily on last weekend's talking-head programs to avoid taking the lead on the issue of reforming the politically sensitive Social Security system. "The president needs to exert leadership on this," said House majority leader Dick Armey on CNN's Late Edition. "And we're anxious to see him make a proposal." White House Budget director Frank Raines on NBC's Meet the Press said, "We can't do it by the president alone or Democrats can't do it alone." The Washington Post reported last weekend President Clinton may call a special session of Congress following the November elections to deal specifically with Social Security. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week he wants "an adult discussion" about the problems facing the system. But he said "the politicians ought [not] to try to get ahead of the American people," whom he said needed to summon the "moral courage" to act to head off Social Security's demise. His proposal: a commission to recommend reforms and congressional action to establish a new system in 1999, between election years.
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, lately a cable television personality, announced last week she's entering the New York Democratic primary to earn the chance to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Alphonse D'Amato. The New York senator faces reelection this fall. A three-term member of Congress from 1979 to 1985, Mrs. Ferraro cited her recent work on CNN's Crossfire as valuable experience that would make her a better senator. "Night after night, I've seen firsthand the problems facing this country," she said, referring to her hours toiling on the set in a television studio. Mrs. Ferraro sought the Democratic nomination to take on Sen. D'Amato in 1992, but lost in a four-way primary. This year, her entry makes the Democratic contest a three-way race with Naderite activist Mark Green and New York Rep. Charles Schumer.
Convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols escaped the death penalty after a divided federal jury in Denver deadlocked over his punishment. The sentencing is now the purview of trial judge Richard Matsch, who under federal law cannot impose a death sentence. At a news conference after the deadlock was announced, jury foreman Niki Deutchman said some jury members continued to be deeply skeptical of the government's case against Mr. Nichols. She accused the FBI of being "arrogant" and "sloppy" in its handling of the investigation and said that prosecutors "didn't do a good job of proving Terry Nichols was greatly involved" in the attack. Later, about 60 relatives of bombing victims gathered at a church about a block from the courthouse to seek consolation. The service ended with the church bell's chiming 168 times, once for each person who died in the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.
A state judge in Idaho ordered FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Vicki Weaver, killed during the bureau's 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge. Seeking Mrs. Weaver's husband Randy on a weapons charge, dozens of FBI agents surrounded the Weaver family's mountaintop cabin. As Mrs. Weaver, with a baby in her arms, held open the cabin door to allow her husband, a daughter, and family friend Kevin Harris to take cover inside, Mr. Horiuchi fired, killing Mrs. Weaver. He later claimed he was shooting at Mr. Harris. Although the Ruby Ridge incident touched off a firestorm of concern about government abuse of power-the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called the FBI's "shoot-on-sight" policy at Ruby Ridge "a gross deviation from constitutional principles"-the FBI has defended Mr. Horiuchi's actions and the Justice Department is paying for his attorneys.
Almost two-thirds of children in urban public schools are failing to reach minimal standards in reading, math, and science, according to a report from Education Week magazine. While fretting about lack of funding for some urban schools, the report also concedes that "huge bureaucracies and special interest groups" are a big part of the problem. Feeding at the public trough proved quite satisfying for 90 members of an extended Georgia family. Working together, they laid claim to more than $1 million in federal disability benefits before government officials discovered they didn't qualify. The inspector general for the Social Security Administration said that while the Georgia case was unusually large, abuse of the federal disability program is not unusual at all, but increasingly common. NASA headed back to the Moon, the first lunar mission in 25 years. The space agency launched an unmanned orbiting spacecraft, the Lunar Prospector, to search for water that could one day be used by human settlers.
Concerns about Asian economic problems continued to roil international markets. Currencies in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines fell to record lows. Sharp currency declines also occurred in Taiwan and Singapore, even as the Clinton administration sought to project confidence that a $100 billion bailout effort by the International Monetary Fund is bearing fruit. That assessment was further undercut by Indonesia's refusal to implement budget cuts ordered by the IMF. Instead, hoping to quell unrest caused by rapidly rising unemployment-Indonesia has more than two million newly unemployed-Indonesian leaders moved to raise government spending by 32 percent.
Algeria's bloody six-year Islamic insurgency got bloodier. An estimated 1,000 people died in a new round of massacres coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Several hundred people were said to have been burned alive and many others were chopped to death with axes. Some 65,000 have died in brutal attacks by Muslim guerrillas. Repercussions continued from the December massacre of 45 unarmed Indians in a southern Mexican state. The governor of the state resigned Jan. 7, becoming the second top official to do so. So far, more than 40 men have been arrested, including the top county official where the slaughter took place. He's charged with organizing the killings. A local village leader is accused of buying the weapons that were used, ranging from machetes to AK-47 assault rifles.
Sex educators like to say that kids will "do it anyway," so it stands to reason they should be taught to "do it responsibly." Those who want sexual abstinence taught point out that "responsible" fornication or adultery is a contradiction in terms. There's an analogy here to government spending on sex-education programs in the public schools. Can education bureaucrats be trusted to spend taxpayer money responsibly? Apparently not, one congressman complained last week. He charges that local officials may be misusing money from a five-year, $50 million annual federal program to promote sexual abstinence among public-school students. Part of the 1996 welfare reform bill, the abstinence provision is aimed at reducing family-destroying sexual promiscuity and out-of-wedlock pregnancies that worsen poverty and welfare dependence. At the time, the program met with much criticism from sex educators who didn't like the requirement that none of the money could be used for, or mixed with funds for, other school curricula that promote birth control. Now, there's evidence that officials in at least half of the states signed up for the money anyway and found a way around the law. In a letter last week to Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) noted that some states plan to use the money for after-school programs, without any effort to tell children not to have sex. Other states, the letter says, may be using their matching money to distribute information about birth control. "It is imperative that the guidelines used by [HHS] to approve applications are consistent with the letter and spirit of the legislation," Rep. Bliley wrote. The Virginia congressman also demanded an investigation into an e-mail message sent by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffer urging state officials to lobby their members of Congress to repeal the abstinence-only requirement. It is against the law for federal agencies to spend money on "grass-roots" lobbying efforts, Mr. Bliley noted.
The Canadian government issued a formal apology for a centuries-long campaign that attempted to stamp out the cultures and beliefs of the land's Indians and other indigenous peoples. In an official "Statement of Reconciliation," the government expressed its "profound regret for past actions." Along with the apology, the government pledged to establish a "healing fund" for the thousands of Indians forced to leave their homes. Former South African President Pieter Botha will face criminal prosecution for attempting to hinder the work of the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the panel investigating human-rights abuses under apartheid. While serving as president from 1984 to 1989, Mr. Botha is suspected of having mounted a campaign against anti-apartheid opponents that included both overt repression and covert killings. A former South African police general has told the truth commission that Mr. Botha ordered the 1988 bombing of the Johannesburg office of the South African Council of Churches.
Hours after House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week unveiled his 1998 agenda that included modest tax cuts, President Clinton announced that his Fiscal Year 1999 budget proposal to Congress would show a three-years-ahead-of-schedule surplus. The Wall Street Journal reported that whatever surplus is finally unveiled-White House budget director Franklin Raines said it would be "slight"-would be due to growth in the economy "rather than to government action." Stronger economic activity has boosted government tax revenues to the point where taxpayers have apparently finally surpassed Washington's appetite for spending. Not so fast. Even as he announced the surplus, the president began previewing a host of new spending programs in the budget scheduled for official release Feb. 2. The biggest-ticket item is his proposed expansion of Medicare by lowering the eligibility age to 62 from 65. Under the plan, early Medicare entrants would be required to pay $400-per-month premiums, which private analysts doubt would cover all the new costs. Mr. Clinton also outlined his five-year, $20 billion child-care bill. In addition, the president provided a glimpse of his plan to make new taxpayer subsidies available for college education. The supposed "slight" surplus, The Washington Post reported, is actually no surplus at all-because government accounting includes Social Security revenues in the total. Subtracting those revenues, the government will actually run $135 billion in the red in Fiscal 1999. Without mentioning Mr. Gingrich directly, the president said he would resist GOP tax cuts, charging that they would cause a return to deficits. At the same time, Mr. Clinton claimed his new spending initiatives would not bust the budget because they were offset by tax hikes and fees, such as higher taxes on cigarettes that are part of a yet-unapproved legal settlement with tobacco companies. Mr. Gingrich instead urged spending restraint and a gradual reduction of the federal, state, and local tax burden from 38 percent of the average American's earnings to 25 percent. The House speaker also proposed "a World War II style victory plan" to rid the nation of illegal drugs; a crackdown on bad schools, with the threat of getting "rid of the people in charge of them"; and the liberation of students "trapped in bilingual programs where they do not learn English." Mr. Clinton's proposal to increase Medicare costs was opposed by Republicans. House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich said on NBC's Meet the Press, "To add more people to a system that's running out of money doesn't make any sense."
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government frayed but didn't unravel, following the resignation of Foreign Minister David Levy. Mr. Levy, protesting a lack of welfare spending in Mr. Netanyahu's 1998 budget, took with him a block of five previously pro-Netanyahu votes in Parliament, leaving the prime minister's coalition with only a 61-59 majority. Analysts predicted it was only a matter of time before the coalition would collapse and force new elections. But Mr. Netanyahu, whose budget passed despite the Levy resignation, said he's been eulogized "at least 18 times in the last 18 months, and look, I'm still here."


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The first Monroe-Carbon County Autumn Art Show debuts Saturday at the Jackson Township Volunteer Firehouse in Reeders.
The first Monroe-Carbon County Autumn Art Show debuts Saturday at the Jackson Township Volunteer Firehouse in Reeders.
"This is the first combination of Carbon County Arts League and the Pocono Mountains Art Group. We have over 70 members. The Pocono Mountains Arts Group dates back to 1956 and has members from Monroe and Carbon counties and the Lehigh Valley," said Julia Saeger, president of Pocono Mountain Arts Group. "We also do demonstrations, not only for members but to the public as well. I work with oils and acrylics, and I am a student myself."
According to organizers, the new show is designed for artistic enjoyment and not competition. While the work of the participating artists will be judged on the quality and artistic execution of their work by the show's juror, Thomas Augusta, there will be no cash prizes awarded.
Augusta retired from a career in art and advertising, and now works from his studio in Portland. Like many of the group's members, Augusta displays his watercolors in both local and regional galleries.
Andy Collazo is another member who is using retirement to do what he loves, painting in oils and acrylics from his home in the West End.
"I'm a retired New York City firefighter, and when I retired, I came out here. I love it here. I've been drawing all my life, self-taught. I was doing fire scenes, and one of my paintings was chosen for the cover of Connections magazine. I was honored that they chose my painting. I became art director for WNYF magazine — that stands for With New York Firefighters — doing illustrations for five years," Collazo said. "I did lots of 911 scenes as well, but now I try to get into other areas, a range of things. I'm trying everythin — houses, horses, birds. I just did a tomato scene with waterdrops."
Collazo has recently branched out to do portraits taken from photographs as well.
"I did a painting of Jimi Hendrix, and I sold that one (at Art in the Park). Now someone wants me to do one of Santana. I'm 74 years old, I said, 'Let me try everything.' I just get up in the morning and say, 'Let me see what I can paint.' I just finished one of Eli Manning because I'm a Giants fan. I do it for the love of it. I'm donating a painting to the Jackson Township Fire Company, a fire scene of three firemen going up the stairs," Collazo said, adding that the painting will be on display during the show before it finds its new home at the fire hall.
Mary Jane Arner is another of the 20 or so artists presenting paintings and photography. Arner, who lives, works and teaches in Brodheadsville, is an active octogenarian with many interests.
"I'm 84 years old, and I just had to quit tennis, but I still golf. I'm a pretty realistic painter — realistic, not photographic. I paint the historical places that are still standing, or market scenes from around the world. I travel a lot. I do some still-lifes, too, of what we know and see every day. I've been painting for 45 years. I took every course I could find all over the country. I wasn't happy with my work and took lessons from Phoebe Conrad; she died a few years ago. She would say, 'Paint what you see!' and I would say, 'What do I see?' " Arner recalled, laughing.
"I teach the way I wish I had learned. It should be fun; it should be easy. I teach in my studio in Brodheadsville, 25 years, in my Fresh Air Gallery. ... I don't want my students to emulate me, but to express themselves."

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Secretary of State John Kerry revisits childhood days in Berlin visit
BERLIN – John F. Kerry has done town hall meetings in Manchester, N.H. He's fielded questions about corn subsidies from voters in Des Moines, and stumped in cities across Massachusetts.
But on Tuesday, the new secretary of state brought those political skills to Germany, holding a town hall meeting here with students in the foreign country where Kerry himself spent time as a child. He cracked jokes, often at his own expense. It was, as he made clear on this third day of a whirlwind tour of European and Middle Eastern capitals, an emotional journey.
Kerry had returned to a city he knows well. Everywhere he stopped on Tuesday – the US embassy, the town hall, and meetings with German leaders – Kerry mentioned his personal connections to the city. He told tales of his boyhood in the city in the 1950s, when his father was a foreign service officer advising US officials about a variety of legal actions.
One day, Kerry rode his bicycle over to East Berlin.
"I saw the difference between the east and the west. I saw people wearing darker clothing,'' Kerry said. "There were fewer people in the street, there were fewer cars. I didn't feel the movement or the energy that existed elsewhere.''
But when he got home, his father grew angry with Kerry when he told him about the incident. It could have created an international incident. His father was in charge of upholding laws, and his son was breaking them.
"So I lost my passport, and I was grounded,'' Kerry said. "And I never made another trip like that.''
That memory guided him as he arrived in this city Monday night. He walked up to the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of the Cold War divide between East and West Berlin, and snapped a photo with his Blackberry. Kerry, whose paternal grandparents were raised in Europe and converted from Judaism to Catholicism at a time of virulent anti-semitism, also walked through a Holocaust memorial.
During the town hall meeting, held at a crowded internet café, Kerry held a wireless microphone in his left hand, gesturing with his right. He paced the stage, with his jacket draped over a stool. Several dozen students sat on white foam blocks and couches, with bottles of water, cups of coffee, and Macbook laptops in front of them.
To excited applause and laughter, Kerry started the town hall with several phrases in German.
"I want to hear from you,'' he said. "I don't want to just speak at you.''
"Let's go,'' he said eagerly, removing his suit jacket. "Who's first?''
He spoke about the illusive effort to broker peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, the ongoing conflict and Mali, and what he plans to do about Africans exploited by mining. He promoted a proposal for a trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, and he outlined the reasons why he opposed the Vietnam War. He batted away a question about whether he would push the Russians to be more accepting of gays and lesbians.
But not all topics were so serious.
"I like your tie,'' the first questioner said.
"You can get it on the internet,'' Kerry responded, looking down at his pink tie. "It's inspired by my state, Massachusetts – but the company's actually in Connecticut. And I'll tell everybody. It's called vineyardvines.com.''
He added that he didn't own stock in the company, which specializes in preppy clothing.
Later, a woman mentioned that she was majoring in film studies.
"Did you watch the Academy Awards?'' Kerry asked.
She said she did.
"And did the right movie win?'' he inquired.
She had wanted Les Miserables to win best picture, not Argo.
"I'm not going there,'' responded Kerry, who has done little to restrain his exuberance for Argo, the movie directed by Ben Affleck.
But the most profound moment of the town hall came when a woman in a light blue headdress rose and asked Kerry what he thought about when he saw people like her – and what he viewed as the difference between Muslims in Germany and the United States.
Kerry answered that he didn't know enough about the German Muslim community to make a comparison but he talked about the American Muslim community.
"In America we have total – sometimes you have somebody who's a little, not as tolerant as somebody else, and that happens anywhere,'' he said. "But as a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance.''
Speaking in this city where the history of Naziism runs deep, Kerry spoke about how the United States deals with intolerance.
"In America, you have a right to be stupid if you want to be,'' he said. "And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be. And we tolerate it. We somehow make it through that. Now, I think that's a virtue. I think that's something worth fighting for.''
Kerry added that he was fascinated by religion as a window to the world, saying that he's currently reading "No God but God,'' a book by Reza Aslan on the evolution of Islam. If he went back to college today, he said, he would probably major in comparative religion and comparative literature.
He went on to discuss Massachusetts, and said that one of his maternal ancestors, John Winthrop gave a speech to pilgrims traveling to what became the Bay State about establishing "A city upon a hill.''
But, Kerry said, "It turned out that in Massachusetts, they weren't as tolerant as they thought they were going to be. They had witch hunts in Salem, Mass., and they burned people at the stake.''
"Finally, after years of working on it, we kind of worked the balance,'' he said. "I can say to you that our country is incredibly tolerant of people of all walks of life and different philosophies and religions.''
One student asked him why he opposed Vietnam War, in which he served as a naval officer.
"I thought it was a mistake,'' he said. "And so, when I came back to America as a young veteran, I led veterans against the war…Anyone who has been to war should hate war.''
"I am not for war as a choice,'' the nation's top diplomat said, underscoring what doubtless will be a theme of his tenure. "War is a failure of diplomacy.''
An hour after taking the stage, Kerry didn't seem to want the moment to end. Switching back to German, he asked, "Can I please come back?''


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The idea behind this Thanksgiving survival guide is not intended to help you survive your in-laws or your unwanted visitors but to guide you with safety tips for an stress-free thanksgiving dinner to remember for years to come.
Thanksgiving holiday is about abundance, but with 30% price increased in groceries this year, a lot of Americans will have to become creative in the kitchen. Potluck can be a great idea to reduce cost for this feast, but don't you fret over small details and look at the big picture! Even if it's your first time cooking a thanksgiving dinner, there are ways to make a healthy and delicious thanksgiving dinner without breaking your wallet.
Here's some very successful tips for a smooth thanksgiving dinner:
- Plan ahead
- Designed a menu and guest list
- Have a shopping list ready at least 4 days before thanksgiving
- Give yourself enough time to shop around for the cheapest turkey/ingredients
- Clean the fridge and make space for all the stuff you'll need to refrigerate (cranberry sauce, pies and breads)
- Get your turkey at least 3 days before the thanksgiving dinner to properly thaw it out
- A frozen turkey will be cheaper than a fresh or free-range one
- You'll also need a meat thermometer to gauge when the turkey is fully cooked
- The safest way to thaw a turkey is in the refrigerator (24 hrs per every 5 pound of turkey)
- Never defrost a turkey at room temperature since bacteria breed and multiply at room temperature
- Follow your turkey cooking instructions
- Cook your stuffing outside the bird to avoid cross-contamination
Approximate Roasting Times for un-stuffed Turkey
Roasted at 325° F oven temperature:
- 6 to 8 lbs. — 2 to 2¾ hrs
- 8 to 12 lbs. — 2¾ to 3 hrs
- 12 to 14 lbs. — 3 to 3¾ hrs
- 14 to 18 lbs. — 3¾ to 4¼ hrs
- 18 to 20 lbs. — 4¼ to 4½ hrs
- 20 to 24 lbs. — 4½ to 5 hrs
How can I confirm when my turkey is done?
The safest way is when the thermometer reaches 180 degrees F in the thickest part of the thigh. Most turkey now come with a pop-up thermometer that will let you know when is ready. In addition, make sure to follow the roasting time whether your bird is stuffed or un-stuffed and confirm temperature with thermometer. You'll also need a sharp knife to carve it.
Let's talk about Brining:
For a juicy tender Turkey, I'll recommend brining also known as salting. Brining is a marinate where you completely submerge your bird in salted water and other spices of your choice such as garlic, lime, anise star, bay leave etc. for over 24 hours depending on the size and weight of the turkey. Salted water changes the structure of the muscles tissue in the meat allowing it to swell and better absorb flavors. The basic brining ratio is 1 cup of salt per gallon of water. Brining can be easily done in a cooler if you don't have a big enough container. Your container or cooler does not fit in the fridge? just remember to add ice in a sealed plastic bag to keep it cold during the minimum 24 brining process. Now it's time to decide how will you cook your bird:
Oven Roast or Deep-fried? The traditional easiest way to cook a turkey is oven-roast, but if you decide to deep-fried your bird, make sure to do it outdoors to avoid fire. Deep-frying a turkey can be a very dangerous endeavor if you are new to this process, use caution!
Side dishes
You can make delicious and healthy side dishes to compliment your turkey. A good rules of thumb to follow is; dark vegetables over white ones. for instance if you're making a potato dish try to use Purple or red instead of white potato. Another thing to keep in mind is try making your own sauces and pies from fresh fruits and vegetables instead of cans or already made ones which the main ingredient is sugar, in addition to a host of other unhealthy chemicals to preserve it and keep it fresh.
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Summer Camp Swim Meet
by Shelly Hazard
Last weekend, the Woodland Boys summer camp hosted their annual swim meet with their rivals, the Lakeside Boys camp, the Wild River camp, and the Forest Ridge camp. The swim meet lasted all day and involved a number of events, which each camp team participated in. This particular meet was very exciting since each team broke a meet record for a different event. In the history of the camp event, never before had four records been broken at a single meet. From the clues below, determine the full name of each team captain, the camp each team was from, the team's colors, and the event each team broke the record for.
1. Sam Brown wasn't the team captain from the Woodland Park Camp and his team wasn't wearing purple. The Forest Ridge camp, which Dan wasn't with, was Mr. Smart's camp.
2. The Woodland Park Camp team colors were red.
3. Mark, whose last name wasn't Manor or Smart, was the captain of the purple team. The Lakeside camp team didn't win the diving competition.
4. The Forest Ridge camp colors weren't red or blue. The Wild River Camp team won the 1-mile race.
5. Bill's team didn't win the freestyle race.
6. The four camps are represented by: the camp that won the relay race, Mr. Rand's team, the green team, and Dan's team.
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Recently, Revealing Politics released a video of Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar arguing that college women don't need guns to prevent rape because they can use whistles, "safe zones", and call boxes instead. His theory behind this was that just because women feel they're going to be raped, doesn't mean it's actually going to happen.
On Wednesday, NRA News Radio Host Cam Edwards interviewed Amanda Collins, a woman who was raped at the University of Nevada at gun point in a gun free zone. The brave woman responds to the comments made by Rep. Joe Salazar.
"It is so frustrating. I wish I could sit down with each one of these policy makers and have a face-to-face conversation with them and tell them my story, especially the representative out of Colorado who made the comment that he did on Friday – I have it in front of me. He said, 'It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have whistles.' And, I can just go through and argue each one of those statements with the experience that I had.
"For one, all of these are just sentiments that give a false sense of security. In my experience, I know that. The university that I attended, the University of Nevada, Reno, they didn't have any call boxes the night that I was attacked, they afterwards they installed them. I can tell you that a call box above my head while I was straddled on the parking garage floor being brutally raped wouldn't have helped me one bit. The safe zones? Well I was in a safe zone and my attacker didn't care," said Collins.
Edwards asks, "What do you mean you were in a safe zone?"
"The campuses are designated as a safe zone, or as I take it, a gun free zone. All it does is ensure the perpetrator that they are going to be unmatched when they pick a victim", Collins responds.
"You were attacked in what would be considered a safe zone, I'm assuming. You were within sight of the campus police department."
"Right. I'm going to share something this afternoon that I haven't shared before, and that is that knowing that I could see the police cruisers less than 50 feet away from me where from where I was being attacked- the moment I saw those cruisers I knew no one was coming for me", she replied.
Here's Dr. John R. Lott to explain why gun-free zones should really be called "helpless victim zones".
Contrary to public perception, Western Europe, most of whose countries have much tougher gun laws than the United States, has experienced many of the worst multiple-victim public shootings. Particularly telling, all the multiple-victim public shootings in Western Europe have occurred in places where civilians are not permitted to carry guns. The same is true in the United States: All the public shootings in which more than three people have been killed have occurred in places where civilians may not legally bring guns.
Look at recent history. Where have the worst K–12 school shootings occurred? Nearly all of them in Europe. The very worst one occurred in a high school in Erfurt, Germany, in 2002, where 18 were killed. The second-worst took place in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, where 16 kindergartners and their teacher were killed. The third-worst, with 15 dead, happened in Winnenden, Germany. The fourth-worst was in the U.S. — Columbine High School in 1999, leaving 13 dead. The fifth-worst, with eleven murdered, occurred in Emsdetten, Germany.
It may be a surprise to those who believe in gun control that Germany was home to three of the five worst attacks. Though not quite as tight as the U.K.'s regulations, Germany's gun-control laws are some of the most restrictive in Europe. German gun licenses are valid for only three years, and to obtain one, the person must demonstrate such hard-to-define characteristics as trustworthiness, and must also convince authorities that he needs a gun. This is on top of prohibitions on gun ownership for those with mental disorders, drug or alcohol addictions, violent or aggressive tendencies, or felony convictions.
The phenomenon is not limited to school attacks. Multiple-victim public shootings in general appear to be at least as common in Western Europe as they are here. The following is a partial list of attacks since 2001. As mentioned, all of them occurred in gun-free zones — places where guns in the hands of civilians are outlawed.
Dr. Lott then lists about two dozen incidents – all occurring in gun free zones. The only reliable way to defend yourself against a criminal is to defend yourself yourself. The only people who oppose self-defense are the people who think that only criminals should have guns – not law-abiding citizens. Gun control supporters don't care if law-abiding people are raped, killed, robbed or tortured. They are more concerned about criminals – they don't want the criminals to be scared or hurt when they are raping, stealing and killing their law-abiding victims.


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Boston Consulting Group Study, Commissioned by Leading Financial Services Organizations, Analyzes Costs and Funding Needs of Oversight Options; Survey Reveals Adviser Preferences
Washington, DC, December 15, 2011 – Creating a self-regulatory organization (SRO) to oversee investment advisers (IA) would likely cost at least twice as much as adequately funding an enhanced Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) examination program, according to an independent economic analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In a survey conducted by BCG, more than 80% of IAs said they would prefer to pay user fees to fund enhanced SEC oversight.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board), the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Investment Adviser Association (IAA), the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), and TD Ameritrade Institutional commissioned the study and survey in response to calls for additional analysis of the recommendations in the SEC's study under Section 914 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In that study, released in January 2011, the SEC discussed three options for increasing the frequency of IA examinations:
Each of these options would require Congressional action.
BCG's economic analysis of the recommended options in the Section 914 study involved two key components: (1) economics, including setup costs, ongoing costs, and the cost of SEC oversight of an SRO; and (2) level of funding and total potential fees required. BCG modeled three core scenarios informed by the SEC Section 914 study: (1) Enhanced SEC (i.e., the costs associated with an increased level of SEC examinations) (2) FINRA-IA SRO (i.e., the costs associated with FINRA developing an IA SRO with an examination and enforcement mandate); and (3) New-IA SRO (i.e., the costs associated with creation of an entirely new SRO with an examination and enforcement mandate). The cost analysis was based on the assumption that IAs would be examined on average once every four years. BCG relied on publicly available data, research, studies, and reports, as well as in-depth interviews with IA firms and former regulatory officials, among others. The SEC and FINRA did not sponsor the study and were not asked to participate in it.
Key Findings of the Economic Analysis
Key Findings of the Survey of IA Preferences
In addition to the economic analysis, in November 2011, BCG conducted an online survey of a broad base of IAs in the United States to understand their regulatory preferences, and received 424 responses. The survey results are statistically significant at a 95% confidence level +/- 4%.
View the BCG Report on Investment Adviser Oversight: Economic Analysis of Options
View the BCG Report on Investment Adviser Oversight: Survey of Investment Adviser Preferences
Statements from Members of the Investment Adviser Oversight Study Group
"The Boston Consulting Group study makes the economic case that outsourcing investment adviser oversight to FINRA or a new SRO would cost too much and is strongly opposed by investment advisers. We firmly believe that the SEC should retain oversight of investment advisers and be given the tools to adequately do the job, including the option of imposing user fees, which will be the most appropriate and cost effective way to achieve the most important goal – protecting investors."
– Kevin Keller, Chief Executive Officer, Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
– Kevin Keller, Chief Executive Officer, Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
"Let's be clear – enhanced investment adviser oversight is needed. But giving the job to FINRA would be the wrong choice for many reasons, including its lack of accountability, lack of transparency, weak track record, excessive costs, and its bias favoring the brokerage industry. The BCG report underscores the conclusion that the best and most efficient approach is to ensure that the SEC has enough examiners."
– David Tittsworth, Executive Director, Investment Adviser Association
– David Tittsworth, Executive Director, Investment Adviser Association
"Now we have the cost context that's been missing from the months of discussion on how to improve adviser oversight. It's not the only factor in trying to get to the most effective and efficient way to oversee advisers, but it's an important consideration that's been missing from the debate."
– Marvin Tuttle, Executive Director & CEO, Financial Planning Association
– Marvin Tuttle, Executive Director & CEO, Financial Planning Association
"As most of our members are small business owners, NAPFA is keenly aware of the likely disparity in funding costs between the SEC, FINRA or a new SRO. We are unwilling to support a new layer of bureaucracy that would burden our member firms and further confuse consumers."
– Susan John, 2011-2012 Chair, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
– Susan John, 2011-2012 Chair, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
"This study addresses the critical issue of cost and serves to provide perspective and add needed objectivity and independent analysis to the discussion. With the release of this economic analysis, we take another step toward informing a productive industry debate."
– Skip Schweiss, Managing Director, Advisor Advocacy and Industry Affairs, TD Ameritrade Institutional
– Skip Schweiss, Managing Director, Advisor Advocacy and Industry Affairs, TD Ameritrade Institutional
About CFP Board: CFP Board is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that acts in the public interest by fostering professional standards in personal financial planning through setting and enforcing education, examination, experience, and ethics standards for financial planner professionals who hold the CFP® certification. CFP Board's mission is to benefit the public by granting the CFP® certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for competent and ethical personal financial planning. CFP Board currently oversees more than 64,000 CFP® professionals who agree to comply with CFP Board's competency and ethics standards and subject themselves to the disciplinary oversight of CFP Board.
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About the IAA: The Investment Adviser Association is a non-profit association based in Washington, DC that represents the interests of SEC-registered investment advisory firms. The IAA's membership consists of more than 500 SEC-registered investment adviser firms that collectively manage in excess of $10 trillion for a variety of institutional and individual clients. For more information, please visit: www.investmentadviser.org.
About the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA): Since 1983, The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) has provided Fee- Only financial planners across the country with some of the strictest guidelines possible for professional competency, comprehensive financial planning, and Fee-Only compensation. With more than 2,400 members across the country, NAPFA has become the leading professional association in the United States dedicated to the advancement of Fee-Only financial planning. For more information on NAPFA, please visit www.napfa.org.
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Notepad++ website was defaced last weekend (the12th May).
Only the site's content (database) was compromised, the release binaries are untouched.
After this issue, all the eventual backdoors have been checked and the entry point of site has been secured.
For the sake of release security, in the long term, a certificate will be included in the installer. In the meantime, the sha1 hash codes will be published on SHA-1 digests of binary packages forum for each future release.
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I'm happy to announce that a revised version of the Lean Development Governance white paper which I co-wrote with Per Kroll is now available. This version of the paper reflects our learnings over the past few years helping organizations to improve their governance strategies.
There's a more detailed description of the paper here.
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Hey NBA LIVE fans, welcome to the new Coach's Corner series - where we take you behind the scenes on some of the work we're doing to help us improve the series going forward.
As some of you may have noticed, we've been spending the past several months working hard to get head scans of as many players as possible. This has a number of benefits, but the most important is that it allows us to accurately capture the details and subtleties of each player so that they look more realistic in NBA LIVE. It's no longer up to artists to interpret how a player's brow wrinkles or what the contours of his face look like. Now, we've now got the actual data right at our fingertips.
This year has been big for us, as we have been able to take a mobile head scanning rig out on the road with us. Previously, players had to come to us for head scans. Now we can easily go to them, which has allowed us to scan more than 220 players and coaches, and that number continues to grow every week.
Another benefit to these sessions with the teams is that we've been able to chat with some of the players and coaches about the game of basketball. For instance, gameplay designer and former pro baller Scott O'Gallagher had a chance to sit down with Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel and talk about the team's offensive and defensive philosophies.
Vogel explained that the Pacers adjust their offense around their opponent's defense, and that the team's offensive sets may change several times a game. For example, the team may see a certain pick-and-roll defense and immediately switch to Four Corner Spacing in order to stretch out the defenders and open up lanes. Strategy sessions like these are extremely helpful for our team, as they help us keep up with how NBA teams run their games so we can implement their styles into our game.
We like to get player feedback, and the Pacers' Paul George and David West both took some time to play NBA LIVE 14. George was a big fan of the signature dribbles, and gave us some valuable details about his own moves. In addition, we got some great insight from George and West on how they play screen-and-rolls, which we can use to tune and improve our own system. The two All-Stars also talked about how they adjust when facing other defenses that load up against them.
We're planning on making this Coach's Corner a weekly series, so keep checking back every week for more info and more sneak peeks at what we're working on. As always, we welcome your feedback on ways to improve the game, and hope you'll continue on the journey with us as we constantly strive to deliver an authentic, fun basketball experience in NBA LIVE.
NBA LIVE 14 is now available worldwide for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Order today, and be sure to check the NBA LIVE website, Facebook and Twitter for updates.


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By Harry Indicott
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Fred Gulley, a native of Fayetteville, Ark., learned to love basketball at a young age.
"I have a sister that's five years older than me, so growing up, I was always playing against her, watching her play, and just being around basketball," Gulley said.
It was this early love of the game that eventually brought him to Oklahoma State University to play for Travis Ford and the Cowboy Basketball program.
Gulley, a redshirt sophomore point guard at OSU, is a major piece of the Cowboys' young and inexperienced basketball team. Unfortunately, over the past year, Gulley has been all too familiar with adversity on the basketball court.
After starting in the first seven games of the 2010-11 season, Gulley suffered a shoulder injury. The injury demanded surgery that would keep him on the bench for the rest of the season.
"It was tough because I had to sit out and watch the team and see places where I could make the team better," said Gulley.
Last season, the Cowboys finished with a 20-14 record, only one of those losses coming with Fred Gulley in the lineup. Oklahoma State finished the year with a loss at Washington State in the second round of the NIT.
"Just seeing the team out there going through practice and going through games without me was tough, but I think it made me better in a lot of areas," Gulley said.
At the beginning of this season, Gulley was hungry to bounce back strongly from his injury.
"It's tough not being able to do something that you had grown up doing and always had," Gulley explained. "Getting cleared and able to get back out on the court was really exciting."
Gulley was averaging almost six points in 18 minutes of playing time over the first four games of his comeback season. However, the season was almost brought to another grinding halt when he appeared to re-injure his shoulder in a Cowboy loss to the Stanford Cardinal on Nov. 23 in Madison Square Garden.
With Gulley out, the Cowboys played hard, but fell short against Virginia Tech in the third-place consolation game of the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off, losing 59-57.
Fortunately for the Cowboys, Gulley only missed a couple of games, including
the game against Virginia Tech as well as an Oklahoma State win over Tulsa the
following weekend.
Gulley once again returned to the court on Dec. 4 against Langston University in Gallagher-Iba Arena. While he struggled to find the basket in his first game back from his second injury, scoring only one point, Gulley managed to rack up four assists, three rebounds, and a steal against Langston.
Gulley appeared back to full strength in the Cowboys' next outing at Missouri State, playing an instrumental role in Oklahoma State's impressive comeback victory.
"That was a big game and it felt really good," Gulley said. "You always want to do whatever you can to help your team out."
Gulley was able to get to the free-throw line seven times and made six of his attempts, helping rally the Cowboys to their first road win of the season after trailing by 12 points in the first half.
"Being able to step up and hit a few baskets always feels good," said Gulley. "It always feels better if you can win."
While big things may be ahead for Gulley on the basketball court, he has other big goals on his mind too.
"Graduating is definitely a big goal of mine. That's one of my main focuses."


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'Frankenweenie' Interview: Five Things We Learned From Tim Burton
At Fantastic Fest 2012, we sat down for a chat with legendary director Tim Burton who was there for the world premiere of his film 'Frankenweenie.' As star Winona Ryder would later admit, this is very much a movie about Tim Burton. It's a very personal project and we learned a lot about the film talking to Burton for a few minutes. Like the one thing he has never done and never will do. Take a look below at five things we learned from Tim Burton, check Movieline for even more from our Burton chat and see 'Frankenweenie' in theaters this weekend!
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'Frankenweenie' is Filled With Easter Eggs and Nods to Classic Horror Films
From 'Frankenstein' to 'Godzilla,' 'Frankenweenie' is filled with clever little nods to many of the classic horror movies Burton himself grew up watching. "Here's my relationship to monster movies. Like Boris Karloff and dubbed Japanese science fiction monster movies, you know? All of that plays into it in terms of it going back through a sort of memory filter."
And in addition to classic monster movies, there are also plenty of Easter eggs for fans of Burton's film. In the grainy photo above, you can see a local newspaper that has mentions of Edward Scissorhands ("Man With Scissorhands Wins International Topiary Contest"), Willy Wonka and 'Big Fish.'
Burton was careful though not to let these mentions get carried away. "There are lots of references and I was always trying to monitor it. I tried to really analyze it and say, Okay – even though these things are important to me and part of it, I tried to make sure none of it had to be a prerequisites to enjoying it, keeping it the simple boy and his dog, and family and neighborhood story, a story about people."
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The Movie Characters Are Based on Real Kids From Burton's Childhood
As we mentioned above, the film is very personal to Tim Burton and very much based on his own life. Down to all the supporting characters.
"There was a weird girl, and there was a Nassor, there was a Toshiaki, and there was an Edgar. All of them. Some of them are almost 100 percent real people, but there are a couple of mixtures of a couple into one."
And, like in the movie, Burton's father was a baseball coach who tried to get his son to play on the Little League team.
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Burton Was Especially Nervous to Show 'Frankenweenie' to an Audience
Because this was such a personal film, Burton was nervous to watch 'Frankenweenie' for the first time at the premiere.
"I always get a bit scared....With this movie I feel very strongly about, which also makes it scarier. You always feel a bit exposed when a movie comes out and you wish you could enjoy it more. But with this I'm going to try to strap myself in and tie my arms down, clockwork orange style, and watch the movie."
For the record, we saw Burton in the theater watching along with the enthusiastic crowd and he made it through just fine.
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Burton Has Been Dreaming About a 'Frankenweenie' Film For Many Years
As you can see in the image above, it was a long time ago that Tim Burton directed his live-action 'Frankenweenie' short for Disney; 1984, to be exact. And in the 28 years since then, he's had kids of his own and had a lot of time to think about how to make that short into the perfect movie.
"When you have kids, it expands your perspective on things and you start thinking about things that maybe you wouldn't have thought about in the same way, exploring memories and things. You get involved with other things and take the time to go back and dream about that, or think about that. But also just having the time and without the pressure, to kind of let a project develop over years – it gives you the time to dream about it."
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Tim Burton Will Not Sing Karaoke
Sorry karaoke fans. While you might see Bill Murray crash your sing-along, don't expect to see Tim Burton doing karaoke anytime soon. Says Burton, "It's one thing I've never done – maybe the only thing I've never done." And why is that? "I've never been drunk enough."


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If you have been following the forums, you may have noticed the revision in the Canadian IUKF test standards regarding Dan Kumite. The revisions have also been added to our IUKF site.
Dave Mott did a great job creating a standard for changing this area of the test. Anyone wishing to make a change will have to follow a pretty strict formula for instituting a new drill. They can't just come up with a substitution simply because they don't like dan kumite.
I'm hoping that other regions will adopt this procedure, since it is both fair and more importantly, give our seniors an opportunity to experiment and possibly improve on a mostly overlooked area of the test.
I would also like everyone to consider adding a segment to our test that would, in my estimation, add to the credibility and goals of our test. Joe Pomfret spent a great deal of time and effort developing the "Reality Self Defense" Two Person B.J.J. Kata". Although Joe called this a "kata", I feel it falls into our dan test's "cooperative drill" segment.
I will be starting a new "thread" on the Forums, dealing with this subject. I would appreciate your visiting and letting me know how you feel. On the 21st of the month, when we have our official dan test, I will request that discuss my suggestion to add it to our test, as an additional category. Our recommendation can be published here and a vote taken.
As always, I am available by phone or email.
Best, George


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NEW YORK—A man's confession in one of the nation's most notorious child disappearances was false, peppered with questionable claims and made after almost seven hours of police questioning, his lawyer said Wednesday in court papers asking a judge to dismiss the murder case.
"No evidence or witnesses have been found corroborating any of the few facts" in Pedro Hernandez' statements about the 1979 vanishing of 6-year-old Etan Patz, defense lawyer Harvey Fishbein wrote, arguing that there's not enough proof to support the case.
While he has said before that Hernandez' startling arrest last year was the product of an untrue admission from a mentally ill suspect, Wednesday's filing fleshes out some key contentions.
The Manhattan district attorney's office, which has previously said there's sufficient evidence to sustain the charges, declined to comment. A judge isn't expected to rule until next month.
Etan vanished on May 25, 1979, on the first day his parents allowed him to walk to his school bus stop alone. He became one of the first missing children pictured on a milk carton, and the date of his disappearance became National Missing Children's Day.
Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., was arrested last year after police got a tip that he'd told people years before that he had killed a child in New York City.
Hernandez then told authorities he'd seen Patz at the bus stop, lured him to a corner store where he worked with the promise of a soda and choked him in the basement. Hernandez said he tossed the boy's book bag behind a freezer in the basement, put the boy's limp body in a box and left it with some trash about a block away.
But nobody else reported seeing Etan actually at the bus stop and the book bag was never found, despite an extensive search for clues that likely would have included the shop basement, Fishbein says in court papers.
Hernandez, 52, was questioned from 8 a.m. to nearly 3 p.m. before his statements were recorded and he was read his rights, his lawyer says, arguing that the statements can't be considered voluntary and should be suppressed. Prosecutors have said Hernandez willingly talked with investigators.
The law surrounding exactly when a suspect being questioned must be notified of his or her rights is complex and often the subject of legal arguments.
Under New York law, a person can be convicted based only on a confession, so long as there's additional evidence that a crime was committed.
But Fishbein has said Hernandez is schizophrenic, bipolar and prone to hallucinations, so his admission can't be considered reliable. Prosecutors, however, have said there's no history of Hernandez being treated for a major psychiatric condition before his arrest, and they don't believe his confession was spurred by mental illness.
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Attendees: Nathan, Steve, Jenett, Jay, Dan, Zach, Mitchell, Barry, Adam, Nick, Owen
[edit] RFI for the firehouse
- Code changes
- ADA bathrooms
- Change the swing of the front door
- Put a platform on the back door
- Get the ceiling up to a 2 hour fire rating (may already be that way, but probably not)
- City will review the responses and get back to us
- Probably won't do anything with the firehouse until 2014
[edit] Fundraising
- Fund raising at Makevention
- $1200 grant opportunity through the city for art projects
[edit] Non-Profit Status
- Bloominglabs LLC is no more!
- Bloominglabs Incorporated is born!
- All donations for tax credit purposes needs to go through the School Factory
[edit] Laser cutter
- 100W laser would be awesome, but expensive
- Need to have some fund raisers for this
[edit] Officers
- Current officers
- Nathan, president
- Steve, secretary
- Jenett, treasurer
- The current officers were voted to continue their terms for 2013.
[edit] Fab Lab
- Nicole Jacquard, prof in Fine Arts, wants to relocate her 3D printers from IU at Bloominglabs
[edit] Physical Security
- We should get some better cameras and motion detectors
- Possibly get insurance for the tools
- Maybe create a security group
[edit] New Digital Infrastructure
- Google calendar
- New WordPress site
- http://bloominglabs.org/wp
- This will be our fancy front page and the wiki will be for internal stuff
- Asset Trackers
- https://bloominglabs.org/assets
- Nathan will add asset value
- Yearly review of our assets
- Dues/Invoicing system
- https://bloominglabs.org/dues
- Will send members invoices when dues are due
- Customer Relation Manager
- https://bloominglabs.org/crm
- Web interface for the RFID system
- LDAP server
- Working towards a single-signon system
- Jenett will get information on the wiki for how to create accounts
[edit] Wonderlab summer camps ideas
- throwies
- led push button lights
- kylie peppler's group
- conductive playdough
- makey-makey
[edit] Workshops Ideas
- We need em!
- Nick will hold a solar panel workshop
- Corey will hold a HAM radio workshop
- Jay has the stuff to do a Raspberry Pi workshop


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Buildable, programmable and very much the adult face of the company, the Lego Mindstorms series is set to return in 2013 in the form of Lego Mindstorms EV3.
The Intelligent Brick at the core of the experience now comes with an SD card for local storage, is Linux-based and comes with compatibility to both Android and iOS apps out of the box. There's also more hardware with an infrared sensor included too.
Generally, there's going to be more you can do than ever before with these robotic creations and the whole set-up sounds as if it's right up to date by being the first Lego to come with a 3D instructions guide. By the looks of things, you're going to need it. Well, that and the $350.


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One of the biggest difficulties in building America�s defenses against predatory computer hacking is that relatively few people seem to take it seriously, as if it�s the work of a few nerdy high schoolers and merry pranksters. Some seem to believe it�s no more problem than the computer virus spam that paralyzes a computer at work from time to time.
Ahem, not so. This ain�t Facebook spam we�re talking about.
Over the past week reports of computer espionage by the Chinese military should serve as a wake-up call. It�s a national security threat and an expensive one.
The government and major corporations have been reluctant to acknowledge major computer security breaches. Col. Cedric Leighton, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, told Bloomberg News last month that hacking costs the United States up to $500 billion a year, yet Congress still lacks a sense of urgency about the threat.
That�s a mistake.
Evidence abounds that China and other nations have penetrated America�s best computer defenses and gained access to networks controlling air traffic, power grids, nuclear generators and classified Pentagon files. Corporations such as Apple, Google, The New York Times, Coca-Cola and Lockheed-Martin have acknowledged breaches.
So far, much of China�s probing appears aimed at mapping out how the pieces of the American puzzle fit together and finding shortcuts to duplicate American technology. American newspapers that report on China have been hacked in an apparent effort to identify reporters� sources.
It�s not far-fetched to determine that in the event of war, the first strike might not come in the form of a nuclear launch but rather a shutdown of the computer-operated infrastructure that makes America work. The United States conducts such activity, too, as was evident in the 2010 Stuxnet computer attack on Iran�s nuclear program.
China is very sensitive to hacking accusations, and the government denies any involvement. An investigation by Mandiant, a U.S. computer security firm, determined the Chinese military used diversionary tactics, such as entering via university network servers, to disguise its activities.
The threat from China is credible. But it�s also a warning that any high-tech, industrial nation could do the same.


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Talk:Lemon8-XML Roadmap
- 1 Priorities (descending)
- 2 Proposed Features / Integration Points (by descending priority)
- 3 Proposed Architecture (citation integration only)
- 4 Installation Requirements and Compatibility
- 5 GUI specification for Feature #1 (citation support in submission process)
- 6 Next Steps
- 7 Further Ideas (Attic)
Priorities (descending)
- Add L8X's citation parsing, lookup/correction and editing functionality to OJS
- Add L8X's metadata extraction to OJS
- Add document parsing/editing capability to OJS
- Add document conversion capability to OJS
Proposed Features / Integration Points (by descending priority)
- automatic citation lookup and editing in submission process ("citation box")
- addition of citation data in XML export (e.g. for PubMed, Synergies, and CrossRef)
- allow readers to view citations in multiple citation formats (including Zotero integration)
- generation of COinS (Context Object in Span) from citations
- add citation editing and lookup to editorial process
- automatic citation data extraction from ODT in submission process
- automatic metadata extraction from ODT in submission process
- add section parser / editor to editorial process (generate and edit full semantic XML structure) in OJS
- add automatic document conversion to submission process * -> ODT to allow automatic extraction for more formats
Proposed Architecture (citation integration only)
Citation Backend Services Library
- Move L8X citation parser components to pkp/classes/citation/CitationParser*.inc.php
- Move L8X citation lookup components to pkp/classes/citation/CitationLookup*.inc.php
- Specific implementations extend a base object that enforces the API contract (template pattern), interfaces are no-go in PHP4
- Make sure that the API can be used by all PKP applications
- Use migrated code in L8X standalone
- Make sure that the components can be integrated/extended for metadata/section parsers/editors later
Citation DAO Library
- We can use the usual PKP DAO pattern for all citation data persistence requirements
Citation GUI Pages
- We might need an extra step in the submission process and an extra page in the editorial process for citation editing/lookup
- Pages have to be application specific so we cannot usually share them between applications.
- We'll however try to move as much as possible to the GUI components library for re-use, the page will only consist of a very high-level outline (GUI components library)
- Apart from citation editing I don't think we'll invent new pages, it's more about integrating new components into existing pages.
Citation GUI Components Library
L8X editing capability is a lot more demanding than anything I know so far in OCS/OJS.
My bet is that 90% of the migration effort will go into the GUI migration (MJ, can you comment, please?). We have to port from scriptaculous to jQuery and from CakePHP's MVC-implementation to PKP's (including smarty). To achieve re-use between PKP applications and between pages we'll have to "componentize" the GUI more than it currently is in L8X.
These are my ideas for the GUI architecture:
- Create L8X-specific GUI components and template fragments in WAL (e.g. citation editor component, re-use in all PKP applications)
- Create an L8X citation renderer template library
- One smarty template per citation style, including COinS
- Migrate COinS plugin to use COinS template fragment
AJAX Request Architecture
- We should probably think of an AJAX specific high-performance MVC controller architecture. This means to implement shortcuts in the request processing for AJAX requests wherever possible (performance bottleneck!)
- Both, the AJAX handler and the Page handler will be based on the same base classes but will extend them differently
- Make sure, there is no AJAX security bypass of course (maintain the single point of entry + common security infrastructure for all types of request)
Installation Requirements and Compatibility
- No new initial installation requirements
- Maintain PHP4 compatibility for initial installation
- New installation requirements (additional software, PHP>4) only for optional plug-ins
- Thorough documentation of additional installation / runtime environment requirements
- Make sure that L8X functionality will be easily portable to other PKP products (OMP, OCS, Harvester)
- Make sure that L8X standalone will continue working/improving by cleanly backporting/integrating migrated code to L8X (DRY!)
- Use standard UI technology to make sure that backport of new OMP GUI will be easier
- Comments have to follow Doxygen syntax
- See e.g. http://pkp.sfu.ca/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/ojs2/classes/article/Article.inc.php?rev=1.48;content-type=text%2Fplain for a standard code header
- Functions should at least include a general description as well as @param and @return tags as necessary.
GUI specification for Feature #1 (citation support in submission process)
Citation Extraction/Insertion
- must-have: copy & paste
We can use the existing text field in the submission process for "bulk citation insert":
- enter citations (text-only) -> disable TinyMCE-plugin for citation field
- "parse" button will split up citations (one per line?) and send them to the configured parser services
- new: parsing should be non-blocking if possible - alternatively: a progress bar should appear
- citation editor appears as soon as citations have been recognized
- optional: automatic extraction
Use document parser to extract citations:
- recognize .odt file type and try to extract citations
- show citations in citation editor if citations have been found
Citation Parsing/Editing/Lookup
I think the current citation editor GUI is already very good. It has the following functionality:
- open/close citation details (current bug: opening details for one citation should close all other citations)
- save citation details
- parse/lookup citation
- text field for editing the unparsed text
- moving citations up and down
- new: allow users to move a citation anywhere in the editor
- remove citation
- add citation
Plugin Configuration
- enable/disable L8X citation parsing
- enable/disable automatic citation extraction
- select/configure parsing services
- select/configure lookup services
- citation insertion
- use existing text-area for input in submission step 2 (metadata)
- "parse"-button triggers AJAX request that will insert the citation editor on the same page
- open: non-blocking AJAX-request / progress-bar
- citation extraction
- use full-page-request on file upload
- if citations have been found then display a check-box (default: on) to enable citation extraction
- citation editor will automatically appear in step two (metadata) with the extracted citations
- citation editor
- port existing GUI to jQuery
- "edit" triggers an AJAX request that inserts the citation field editor
- "edit" closes other open field editor (if any)
- "edit" for an open citation closes it
- implement dirty-pattern to avoid losing user-data on editor close
- "save details" and "save citation text" will become one single button ("save")
- "save" triggers an AJAX request that persists citation text and citation fields to the database
- "parse citation" and "lookup citation" will become one single button ("lookup")
- "lookup" triggers an AJAX request for parsing and lookup that inserts lookup data into fields and provides the user with feedback for the parsing/lookup score
- unparsed citation is implemented as text area
- citation fields are implemented as input fields
- "move up" and "move down" trigger AJAX requests that update the GUI accordingly (this is different from current implementation which triggers a full-page request that is not really usable)
- "insert before" is a drop-down field that shows all citations by number, it has an entry "at the end..."
- "remove citation" triggers an alert "do you really want to remove ...citation title...?" - if confirmed, an AJAX request will be triggered that persists the removal
- "add citation" triggers an AJAX request that inserts a new citation into the GUI and opens the citation editor with empty fields
- make sure that GUI conforms to PKP's standard design re-using existing CSS wherever possible
- configuration
- check-box in setup - step4: enable/disable L8X citation parsing (if jQuery support is enabled then this will trigger the other options to appear)
- check-box in setup - step4: enable/disable automatic citation extraction (available only if L8X parsing is enabled)
- select/configure parsing/lookup services: use the existing GUI elements from L8X (no AJAX required, if jQuery support is enabled then dependent sub-options will only appear when the main service is enabled)
Next Steps
- specify backend services / DAOs
- co-ordinate with OMP-development
- specify AJAX request architecture
- specify GUI fragments/AJAX components
- get specification approval from Alec, Brian, ...
- start coding
@Alec: From my side the specification for this first feature can be complete for approval until (at the latest) Wednesday next week. The only limiting factor is co-ordination with OMP-development.
Further Ideas (Attic)
- Don't kill L8X as a standalone application, integrate it with PKP WAL
- Package/brand/SEOize parser/lookup library separately for re-use in other document based OSS applications (ECM)
- Let users configure "content types" (document types) to improve parsing and reduce manual work for batches of similar documents
- extract styles from sample document
- extract sections from sample document
- let user attribute semantic information to styles and sections (e.g. first section = always contains author information)
- parse document (metadata, citations, structure) batch based on these specific user definitions
- Integrate more citation lookup services
- Additional XML schemas for export
- Additional file conversion based on plugins: XSLT, ICE, GD, ImageMagick, etc.
- Improve support for metadata schemas
- Use machine-learning approaches (data mining technology) to improve parser robustness (citations, document structure, metadata)
- Introduce a "batch processing mode" for citation parsing/lookup
- keep the application responsive while citation parsing is going on in the background
- do citation parsing/lookup during off-hours (e.g. every night)


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BART talks go past deadline, but trains to keep running
Updated at 4:13 a.m. Eastern
OAKLAND, Calif. A San Francisco Bay Area transit system and its two largest unions kept negotiating into the early hours of Tuesday morning, past a midnight deadline, but CBS News station KPIX reported that trains were to run, sparing commuters a second gridlock-inducing strike in three months, for at least one more day.
The parties held talks throughout the day after the unions backed off a threatened strike deadline late Sunday and gave Bay Area Rapid Transit managers a 24-hour reprieve. But by late afternoon it appeared that both sides were remaining firm in their positions.
KPIX reported that an agreement had been reached to keep trains running in spite of the continuing negotiations.
BART board president Tom Radulovich earlier urged representatives of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and the Service Employees International Union Local 1021 to let its more than 2,300 members vote on the agency's final offer presented Sunday.
"We've been at this for a total of 150 days at this point and we think it's time for the union leadership to let us know, to let the people in the Bay Area know whether they are going to take an offer to their membership," Radulovich said.
But SEIU 1021 executive director Pete Castelli said the unions remained unhappy with BART's last offer. He said the unions presented a counteroffer to management late Monday and warned that the strike deadline still stands. He told commuters to consider transportation alternatives in the morning.
"It rests in the district's hands at this point," he said.
About 400,000 riders take BART every weekday on the nation's fifth-largest commuter rail system.
"I am so frustrated with the way they've been holding the riders hostage," said BART commuter Toba Villatore, 45, of San Francisco as she headed to work. "I'm tired of staying up until midnight wondering if there's going to be a strike or not."
Sticking points in the 6-month-old negotiations include salaries and workers' contributions to their health and pension plans. Castelli said Monday that while the parties had made progress on pay, pension and health care benefits they also were still at odds on issues related to work rules.
BART General Manager Grace Crunican said that the offer presented to the union Sunday was $7 million higher than Friday's proposal. It includes an annual 3 percent raise over four years and requires workers to contribute 4 percent toward their pension and 9.5 percent toward medical benefits.
Workers from the two unions, which represent more than 2,300 mechanics, custodians, station agents, train operators and clerical staff, now average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually, the transit agency said. BART workers currently pay $92 a month for health care and contribute nothing toward their pensions.
Crunican said the unions have two weeks from Sunday to accept the deal before it is taken off the table.
"It is time to bring this to a close," Crunican said.
BART workers went on strike for nearly five days in early July and were about to go again on Friday when a 60-day cooling-off period ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown expired.
However, the parties continued negotiating over the weekend and into Monday, as ridership was light because of strike fears and the Columbus Day holiday.
A pending strike forced San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to cancel a trip to China. He said that "people's very livelihoods hang in the balance."


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How to Dev
This page will continue to be updated with development-related information... thanks for your interest :)
This page serves as the official introduction on how to collaborate with our community and help to improve Funtoo Linux.
Thanks for your interest in helping out with Funtoo Linux! Funtoo Linux has existed for several years, and we've been using git since the beginning of the project, but have played with various approaches on how to develop Funtoo Linux in a collaborative fashion. Some approaches have worked, some haven't, and I (Daniel) and others like to periodically experiment with different approaches, so these methods are likely to change in the future.
How to Develop -- The Quick Summary
Okay, so you want to get involved. How do you do it? Well, here's how we want you to start:
- First, you need to actually use Funtoo Linux in some capacity.
- Create a Funtoo account
- Help in the forums.
- Find things that need fixing on the bug tracker, and submit fixes for them.
- If you have a new ebuild, then create an issue on the bug tracker for it.
- Testing things and finding bugs is also a form of help.
- Help us document stuff on the wiki. See How to 'wiki'.
- Hang out in #funtoo on freenode and chat with us.
- Learn more about ebuilds by reading our Developer Guide. Ask questions.
- Compare Forked Packages To Gentoo, find one that needs updating, and ask us how to help.
- Subscribe to funtoo's rss feeds.
If you start doing a good amount of this, you will get noticed and plugged in to our development efforts in a short amount of time.
Now that you have the big picture, let's start by doing a quick overview of Funtoo infrastructure and how it (currently) relates to Funtoo Linux development.
Currently, bugs.funtoo.org serves as the center of operations for all development. If you're going to collaborate with us, then you should definitely Create a Funtoo account and familiarize yourself with our bug tracker. We try to ensure that all work in Funtoo Linux has a corresponding issue opened on the bug tracker, so there is some reference for someone to look to find out why some change was made.
The Wiki
You are currently reading the wiki, and it is becoming a more and more important part of development. We currently have the ability to define wiki pages for Ebuilds, which are used as official documentation for the ebuild. Documentation is a very important part of Funtoo Linux development, and you're strongly encouraged to read about Adding an Ebuild to the Wiki. Developers who write good documentation gain much respect :)
We have all of our git repositories on GitHub.
This has historically created some confusion, because we don't really (right now) do active development on GitHub, using pull requests. If you have an improvement to Funtoo Linux, we want you to open a bug on our bug tracker. However, I am hoping that this will change - see FL-1322. But for now, if you create an issue or a pull request on GitHub, we probably won't see it in a timely manner.
The Git Repositories Themselves
One important thing to understand about Funtoo Linux is that the git tree you receive when you type emerge --sync is what I call a transport tree -- it is used to deliver updates to you, but it is not used for development. This tree is generated using automated scripts which take the Gentoo Portage tree, various funtoo overlays, and several other overlays and combine them into a unified tree. We generate an updated commit for our transport tree every 4 hours.


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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 27, 2013) - Fusion (
"Channel Partners has always provided an excellent forum for NBS to share innovations and solution strategies with our valued long term partners," stated Mr. Jon Kaufman, President of Fusion's NBS Business Services. "We are especially looking forward to meeting with the outstanding new partners that we have met through our recent integration with the Fusion team. Having the chance to conduct a meaningful dialog with our partners by merging customer requirements with the technologies and solutions we've developed to meet them will help drive real customer value. We also look forward to sharing our vision for the expansion of our cloud services product portfolio and the introduction of those services to the Channel in the coming months."
Fusion's NBS-branded cloud and unified communications solutions deliver the flexibility and scalability that only a next generation cloud-based technology can offer. It replaces traditional premise-based technology with an advanced, network-based communications system that offers a hosted and fully managed feature set, increasing customer productivity and efficiency while reducing costs. Its enhanced multi-location integration solutions support satellite offices, remote teleworkers, and a geographically diverse mobile workforce and is provisioned as a completely meshed cloud-based network.
The proprietary NBS cloud communications platform seamlessly integrates voice, video and messaging for true unified communications with mobility solutions that turn mobile devices into office extensions, connecting employees from the desktop to any Smartphone or tablet. The NBS SIP Trunking portal is also available to NBS' customers for the real-time management and administration of corporate SIP trunk lines, which offers customers maximum control and flexibility.
NBS has also recently completed a significant expansion of its network, driving more direct connections to the cloud for less latency, higher quality and increased cost savings.
About Fusion
Fusion is a leading provider of cloud communications, cloud computing and managed applications solutions to small, medium and large businesses, and carriers worldwide. Fusion's advanced, high availability service platform enables the integration of leading edge products and services in the cloud, including hosted voice, data, managed network services, Infrastructure as a Service, storage, security, data center services and Emergency Preparedness. Fusion's innovative yet proven cloud-based solutions lower our customers' cost of ownership, and deliver new levels of security, flexibility, scalability and speed of deployment.
The company's proprietary NBS cloud communications platform is a full-featured cloud-based communications network, which provides hosted voice, data and SIP trunking services to business customers nationwide. Through its own extensive network and those of its carrier partners, NBS also provides a full range of network services to complement its cloud communications solutions. This unique mix of powerful network and platform capabilities, combined with flexible implementation options, allows NBS to provide integrated cloud communications solutions with a one-stop-shop approach characterized by a commitment to service excellence.
For more on NBS products and services, please visit www.nbsvoice.com. For more on Fusion, please go to www.fusiontel.com.
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