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cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib \ -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int chgat(int n, attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts);
int mvchgat(int y, int x, int n, attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts);
int mvwchgat(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, int n, attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts);
int wchgat(WINDOW *win, int n, attr_t attr, short color, const void *opts);
These functions change the renditions of the next n characters in the current or specified window (or of the remaining characters on the current or specified line, if n is -1), beginning at the current or specified cursor position. The attributes and colors are specified by attr and color as for setcchar(3XCURSES).
These function neither update the cursor nor perform wrapping.
A value of n that is greater than the remaining characters on a line is not an error.
The opts argument is reserved for definition in a future release. Currently, the application must provide a null pointer for opts.
Is the number of characters whose rendition is to be changed.
Is the set of attributes to be assigned to the characters.
Is the new color pair to be assigned to the characters.
Is reserved for future use. Currently, this must be a null pointer.
Is the y (row) coordinate of the starting position in the window.
Is the x (column) coordinate of the starting position in the window. changed in the window.
Is a pointer to the window in which the rendition of characters is to be changed.
Upon successful completion, these functions returned OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
No errors are defined.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
bkgrnd(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), setcchar(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)


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Michelle Obama said she and the president "see our own daughters" in the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls and called them an inspiration in the fight to educate women and girls around the world.
Sitting in for President Obama to deliver the weekly video address from the White House on Saturday, Obama praised the girls and their parents for pursuing education even though they knew that it might be dangerous.
"Their school had recently been closed due to terrorist threats, but these girls still insisted on returning to take their exams," Obama said in a video posted on the White House website.
"They were so determined to move to the next level of their education, so determined to one day build careers of their own and make their families and communities proud," she said.
The clip aired hours after seven military advisors arrived in Nigeria on Friday to support the search for more than 200 girls still missing three weeks after terrorists attacked their school dormitory in the middle of the night.
They join 10 Department of Defense planners who were already posted in Nigeria and were sent to join the kidnapping response after Secretary of State John F. Kerry made a promise to assist Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan earlier this week.
About 10 State Department and other civilian and law enforcement personnel are on their way to assist as well, an administration official said Friday.
As the Obama administration scrambled its resources, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he would convene a hearing to look into the administration's response to the crisis and its approach to dealing with Boko Haram, the terrorist group claiming responsibility for the abduction.
"It is clear that a piecemeal approach to Boko Haram, with limited U.S. military involvement, has been ineffective to date," said Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton).
In her video address, Obama said the president has directed the U.S. government "to do everything possible to support the Nigerian government's efforts" to find the girls and bring them home.
She also argued that the threat to girls who pursue an education is not an isolated one, citing the case of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while on a school bus with her classmates.
Worldwide, more than 65 million girls are unschooled, according to U.S. estimates.
"Yet we know that girls who are educated make higher wages, lead healthier lives and have healthier families," Obama said. "And when more girls attend secondary school, that boosts their country's entire economy."
The plight of the missing Nigerian girls should inspire Americans to fight for change, she said, and to take their own studies seriously.
"I hope that any young people in America who take school for granted – any young people who are slacking off or thinking of dropping out – I hope they will learn the story of these girls and recommit themselves to their education," she said.

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When people in the US talk about the scourge of violence against women in Afghanistan, discussion tends to stop cold at one word: culture. As if culture is some sacred terrain upon which we dare not tread. The flawed syllogism goes like this: misogyny is endemic to Afghan culture. We can't criticize that culture without reinforcing a racist agenda and justifying US military intervention. Therefore, we can't take a stand against misogynist violence in Afghanistan.
We can argue the assumptions embedded in that logic, but ultimately, the culture conversation misses the point. Afghan culture may be misogynist, but so is every culture. There's nothing unique about the suffocation of women's potential to live as full human beings, backed up by extreme violence and justified by religion and nature. The difference between Afghanistan and any other place is the extent to which women have succeeded in winning rights and transforming culture in the process.
What, then, is obstructing progress for Afghan women? For one thing, women who seek to exercise their basic rights are systematically hunted down and killed. A new United Nations report grimly confirms what women in Afghanistan have been telling us all year: women are being harassed and even assassinated for holding jobs, speaking out for their rights or simply appearing in public without a male chaperone. Women politicians, teachers, nurses, artists, aid workers, journalists and other professionals are being targeted by ultra-conservatives aiming to create a society in which women have no rights and no role in public life.
Despite the danger, Afghan women continue to demand their rights. Remember the hundreds of women who took to the streets of Kabul in April? They took their lives in their hands to protest a new law sanctioning marital rape.
Ultimately, though, Afghan women's prospects for transforming their society are undermined by the US-led war. In fact, many Afghan women activists identify the war as the biggest danger to women's rights in Afghanistan
Over the past eight years, uncounted numbers of women and their family members have been killed, displaced and terrorized. The war has had a disproportionate impact on women, who have had to sustain family life and meet everyone's needs for food, water, childcare and a host of other services through years of violence, constant insecurity and grinding poverty. In addition to endangering women's lives, the war has eroded the political space for women to advocate for their rights.
That's why the Feminist Majority Foundation's endorsement of the US war in Afghanistan is so perplexing. The FMF rightly argues that the US owes a tremendous debt to the people of Afghanistan, having induced 30 years of war and misery there. They've got the history right, but the conclusion wrong. US guns, bombs and military occupation cannot bring about a society based on human rights. However, a US commitment to education, sustainable agriculture and equitable economic development just might.
Those kinds of policies are what's needed to reinforce a beleaguered but vibrant Afghan women's movement, including courageous activists involved in securing food, housing, healthcare and education for women and families, defending women's shelters, holding peace demonstrations, demanding women's full participation in public life and fighting for interpretations of Islam that support women's rights. No foreign military occupation is going to do those things. Afghan women themselves will have to do it.
Through our Afghan Women's Survival Fund, MADRE is working to support the women who risk their lives to defend women's human rights. For more information about the Fund and how you can help, click here.
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Last week's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) carried no big surprises.
As expected, USDA used its own acreage figures for corn and soybeans from the June 28 acreage report. The harvested acres estimate for corn is 89.1 million, slightly lower than the 89.5 million used in June. For soybeans, USDA stuck with its forecast of 76.2 million acres harvested. The planted acreage is pretty well fixed at this point and it is too early to quibble about harvested acres.
USDA did not change its forecasts for either the corn or soybean yield, still basing those numbers on long-term trends until the first objective measurement data are available in August.
USDA did increase its estimate for corn imports for this year by 10 million bushels and increased feed/residual usage by 50 million bushels. Those two changes drove 2012-2013 carryout stocks to 729 million bushels from 769 million bushels or just 6.5% of projected total use and making a tight stocks situation even tighter. The increase in feed/residual use was made to reflect the lateness of this year's crop – a factor that has, in effect, made the 2012-13 marketing year about 14 months long. Recall that we dipped into 2012 corn supplies early last summer; this year they will have to last longer.
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Add in some tweaks for various 2013-14 forecast uses, that amounts to a 100-million bushel reduction in total usage and USDA's projected 2014 carryout stocks increased to 1.959 billion bushels or 15.4% of total usage. That would be a much more comfortable stock level indeed!
It is important to note that futures markets for corn and soybeans are carrying weather premiums at this point, though, and we concur that there is still significant weather risk. June rainfall has been below normal in much of the Corn Belt from Indiana westward. Temperatures have not been damagingly high yet, but millions of acres of corn need a good drink of water just now as pollination begins. An equation relating December corn futures price to yield derived by Iowa State University's Robert Wisner suggests that the corn futures market is reflecting a national yield of about 149 bu./acre at this time.
The premium in the soybean and soybean meal markets are even larger. New crop beans are $1.75/bu. or so higher than the mid-point of USDA's forecast price range, while soybean meal is about $65/ton higher than USDA's $320/ton midpoint. This late-planted soybean crop will likely require a late frost to reach USDA current yield forecast, and we won't know if that happens until the day it actually happens!
Bottom line: It's still the weather!
Congratulations, Dale
Finally, I write today with a bit of a heavy heart as I contemplate writing this column and working each week without Dale Miller at the helm of National Hog Farmer. Today is his last day as he retires from the work that he has done for his entire adult life. Thank goodness we are not losing Dale for good as I know he will still be involved in the pork industry, and I fully expect to see him and even work with him in the years to come. But it won't be the same, either, and that brings a note of melancholy to this day.
We come from different yet similar backgrounds. He grew up on a diversified Minnesota farm and has had a life-long interest and love for Chester White hogs. I didn't grow up on a farm, but I first knew Dale when I was raising purebred Chester Whites in the '80s and '90s. We would both argue that it takes a particularly optimistic and persevering sort to raise Chesters and that the experience has served us well. If you don't buy that, just answer this question: Have you ever driven a Chester White boar in a show ring with 10 or 15 other Chester White boars? If not, believe Dale and me when we say it's not for the faint of heart and can be one of those "character builders" that your dad was always so fond of pointing out.
As a Chester White breeder and as a professional journalist, I know of no layman who was more in tune with the science of pigs. Under Dale's leadership, National Hog Farmer became the place to look for innovation in genetics, nutrition, animal housing and handling and so much more. The Blueprint series became, I believe, "must" reading for pork industry professionals. National Hog Farmer's involvement in and promotion of the Environmental Stewards program was a key factor in taking environmental management from an "if I have to" status to one that is now part of every pork producer's everyday life. Dale worked hard to imbue objectivity and fact into the magazine's coverage of important topics.
But more than all of this, Dale Miller is just one of the nicest, most genuine and most caring people I know. I'll miss our weekly interaction, but I look forward to many more years of friendship and, perhaps, professional involvement with this extraordinary man.
Congratulations, Dale, on your first retirement. May the next chapters in your life be as productive and positive as the first!
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I was recently able to visit my friends who run Six River Farm in Maine, where spring is just beginning and a few roadside banks of melting snow remained. Though they are able to sell produce year round, the selection is more limited than their summer and fall abundance as the outdoor growing season is just getting started. However, I was able to bring home greens including spring mix, spinach, cabbage and kale and root vegetables including carrots, potatoes and one of my favorites, celeriac. I have featured celeriac before, purée with carrots and I continue to cook with this often-overlooked root vegetable. Roasting the celeriac for the soup creates a rich and well-balanced flavor, allowing few ingredients to be used for a simple creamy soup, especially delicious with an arugula and orange or beet and goat cheese salad.
For a vegan alternative, olive oil and water may be used in place of butter and cream.
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1 yellow onion, roughly chopped
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1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Drizzle the celeriac with enough olive oil to coat, toss and spread on a roasting sheet. Place the celeriac in the oven and roast until tender, 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Once the celeriac is golden brown and tender, remove from the oven and set aside.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Michele Bachmann's suggestion Saturday that the Revolutionary War began in Concord, N.H., rather than Lexington and Concord, Mass., marks the third time in recent months that the potential GOP presidential hopeful has committed a puzzling gaffe about history and current affairs.
Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Manchester: "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord."
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The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire's capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts.
For Bachmann, who leads the House Tea Party caucus and champions a return to the Constitution, to get such basic facts wrong about the country's birth is revealing.
Her comment wasn't just an off-hand reference that she inserted in her remarks. At a fundraiser Friday night on the New Hampshire Seacoast, Bachmann said almost the exact same thing, according to the Minnesota Post.
"It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world, you are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard," Bachmann said.
Bachmann's geographic mix-up prompted derision among some New Hampshire Republicans.
"Is she on her way to Lexington, N.H., now?" cracked Matt Suermann, who blogs for RedHampshire, in response to somebody who posted on Twitter that Bachmann had left the building.
Told of the congresswoman's line, another prominent New Hampshire Republican asked: "Seriously, the real question is whether she knows she (got it wrong), I suspect not."
The latest gaffe may not hurt her with those grass-roots activists who are attracted to her for her attacks against the Obama administration, but it could hamper her efforts to be taken seriously among the broader swath of Republicans she'd need to win the nomination.
"She makes Sarah Palin look like Count Metternich," groaned longtime GOP consultant Mike Murphy on Twitter after reading about the Concord confusion.
And the Lexington and Concord error followed two other instances where Bachmann got important facts wrong.
Speaking in January to an Iowa anti-tax group, Bachmann claimed that the authors of the country's founding documents sought to end slavery.
"The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States," she said.
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Mailing lists are the main communication place for the community. Before asking questions there, you should search in the archives if somebody did not already solve similar issue. It sometimes happen that some version has well known problems which was faced by many users.
To post a message to the mailing list, you need to be subscribed. While posting a message, please try to describe well your problem (basically you should follow same rules as when reporting a bug), avoid sending HTML mails and do proper quoting of replies, so that it is easy for others to follow the discussion.
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The main list where the discussion is being held is email@example.com. It's just generic place where users or developers can discuss anything related to Gammu (this includes Wammu or third party frontends like Kalkun).
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Scoop Shoppe - Ice cream matching game for kids
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Description"...these apps are simple but they're full of charm because of the design. They're beautiful to look at and full of lots of character. Plus they've got a hippo. Do I need to say more?" --The iPhone Mom
Hippo Hooray series was a "Gold Recipient" -- Mom's Choice Awards
Created by parents for their own children (and tested extensively with those very same kids), Scoop Shoppe is a great way to help young children hone their pattern matching skills and keep them entertained. From the makers of the Hippo Hooray series of iOS apps including Hippo Hooray Colors, Shapes, Numbers, and Letters, Animals, Fruit, Alien Monster Mix and Match, and A Story Before Bed, this accessible game has several characters (including a giraffe, monkey, and rhino as well as Honey the Hippo and Rafael the Robin) asking the player to build ice cream cones that match the orders coming into the ice cream shop. Starting with only a few options the first few cones are simple. But after a series of successful orders the player gets new ingredients and more complicated orders. Children can keep playing to see how high a score they can achieve!
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Who is Bolat Bersebayev of Kazakhstan and why is he "monitoring" our polling places in Indianapolis, Indiana and Lansing Michigan? And who is Elchin Musaeyev of Azerbaijan, and why has he been tasked with monitoring the November 6 elections in Boston, Massachusetts, and Concord, New Hampshire?
Neither Kazakhstan nor Azerbaijan are notable as paragons of electoral virtue. Nor are they models of liberty, honesty, and decency. The facts show quite the opposite.
Kazakhstan is a brutal and corrupt dictatorship run by 72-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev, a lifelong Communist who claims to have received 95.54 percent of the vote in the 2011 elections. No one believes the Kazakh election was anything other than a scripted event with a pre-set outcome. Put "Kazakhstan human rights" into your search engine and you'll find abundant data from numerous sources confirming that efforts to exercise freedom of expression or freedom of assembly are met with baseball bats, bullets, and prison.
Azerbaijan may even be worse than Kazakhstan. In 2009, "President" Ilham Aliyev pushed through a constitutional amendment that now makes it possible for him to be president for life.
Few expect that he will ever leave office voluntarily. His father, Heydar Alieyev, who was a KGB thug under Joseph Stalin, rose to head the Azerbaijanian KGB, which he used ruthlessly to eliminate competitors and propel himself to rulership of what was then Soviet Azerbaijan. The elder Alieyev was appointed by Leonid Brezhnev to the top leadership of the Communist Party Central Committee and Yuri Andropov rewarded him with membership in the Soviet Politburo. After Azerbaijan's supposed "independence" from the Soviet Union, Heydar Aliyev continued the Soviet-style rule to which he was accustomed. The dynastic succession from Heydar to his son Ilham was guaranteed by the KGB structures the elder Aliyev had put in place.
Information documenting the sorry state of human rights in Azerbaijan is plentiful and easily available from many government and non-governmental sources. In 2010, a U.S. Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks revealed that despite public cordiality between Washington, D.C. and Baku, the senior U.S. diplomat in Azerbaijan, Donald Lu, considered Ilham Aliyev to be a violent gangster, likening him to a composite of Michael and Sonny Corleone of the Godfather movies.
Lu noted that Aliyev is "increasingly authoritarian and hostile to diversity of political views" despite cultivating an image of moderation. "The dissonance between Aliyev's sensible approach to foreign affairs, manifested by the cosmopolitan image he presents to Western visitors, with his tailored suits and flawless English, and the unpleasant reality of his approach to domestic issues raises the obvious question of how these two realities coexist," Lu wrote in his diplomatic cable.
Most Americans are probably only vaguely aware — if at all — of theses unpleasant facts about Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, news reports regarding the deployment across the United States of international election monitors from the UN-affiliated Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continue to stir growing concern among American voters and public officials.
As reported previously by The New American, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot has warned the OSCE monitors that they will risk criminal prosecution if they interfere in the state's election procedures. Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz has also warned OSCE that its monitors must obey Iowa election laws or face arrest (see here and here). Janez Lenarcic, the director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), charged that the threats from state officials is "unacceptable."
"The threat of criminal sanctions against OSCE/ODIHR observers is unacceptable," Lenarcic said. "The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections." Lenarcic, a Slovenian, was appointed to the OSCE by the government of Slovenia, which like many other OSCE member states, is a "former" communist state that is still run, largely, by "former" communists. None of these supposedly ex-communist dictatorships have yet distinguished themselves as bastions of freedom and paragons of genuine reform. In addition to Vladimir Putin's KGB-run regime in Russia, the OSCE, based in Vienna, Austria, includes among its 56 members such democratically challenged states as: Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan — to name but a few of the unsavory governments that claim a "right" to monitor our elections.
Americans would understandably and rightfully be piqued even if all of the OSCE election monitors hailed from Western European countries with records for generally fair elections and (more or less) acceptable human rights. National and state elections in the United States may be far from perfect, but we'll deal with it ourselves, thank you. But the OSCE election monitoring rankles all the more since so many of the OSCE member states sending monitors are themselves so notorious for corruption, including electoral corruption.
What about the individual OSCE monitors; what do we know about them? Virtually nothing. The OSCE has released a list (see below) naming 44 members of its "Limited Election Observation Mission to the United States of America" that are assigned to in two-person teams to cities in 22 states. Aijana Beekulieva of Kyrgyzstan, for instance, is assigned to Sacramento, California, along with Fabian Walling of Germany. Gayane Hovhannisyan from Armenia is assigned to Frankfort, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. Mariya Heletiy of Ukraine is covering Pierre, South Dakota and Bismark, North Dakota. Aida Alzhanova from Kazakhstan will be monitoring Santa Fe, New Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona. Sergei Rachkov of Belarus is observing Raleigh, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina. Armand Shandro of Albania is checking out polls in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. (Article continues below, after list.)
Searching the OSCE website yielded no biographical information on the organization's monitors. Nor was there information on the OSCE's 13 Core Team Members who are overseeing the organization's election monitoring from OSCE offices in Washington, D.C. The Core Team is headed up by Amb. Daan Everts, a longtime Dutch apparatchik at the United Nations. Others on the team come from Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Poland, Greece, Italy, and France. The New American made repeated calls to the OSCE office to talk with Amb. Everts or the organization's media analyst/spokeswoman, Giovanna Maiola, only to be told that neither was available for comment. One of the issues we had hoped to resolve is the discrepancy between the OSCE's official list of 44 monitors versus reports elsewhere that the organization is deploying 150 election monitors across the country.
That represents a considerable disparity in numbers. If the actual total is 150, then who are the additional 100-plus monitors and where will they be deployed?
All of this is troubling for several reasons. First and foremost is the assault that it represents on national sovereignty and state sovereignty. As The New American's election and voting expert Kurt Hyde pointed out in these pages in 2004 ("End UN Interference in Our Elections"), our Founding Fathers wisely left the conducting of elections — even national elections — up to the individual States. The federal government's unconstitutional interference in our elections is bad enough; we certainly don't need, and shouldn't tolerate foreign countries and organizations interjecting themselves into our affairs, particularly those with such outrageous records.
The OSCE claims that its monitoring efforts are all in the interest of "transparency." That is also a favorite term of the United Nations, the European Union, and leftist NGOs that operate in Stygian darkness while professing to be in favor of openness and light. In the interest of genuine transparency, the OSCE should make available full biographical information on its monitors, particularly detailing each individual's history of service with his or her national government and membership in organizations and political parties. That might, at least, shed some light on the monitors' qualifications. Another transparency matter concerns how much of the OSCE election monitoring effort is actually being funded by U.S. taxpayers. Still another transparency issue concerns the OSCE relationship with the "progressive" organizations in the United States that have requested the monitoring presence (see here and here).
This not the first time that OSCE monitors have been interjected into U.S. elections. As we have reported in previous years, these earlier electoral assaults helped establish precedents and began a process of conditioning Americans to accept UN subcontractors, such as OSCE, to monitor our elections. If allowed to continue, it is a virtual certainty that the number of monitors will continue to escalate with each successive election, their supposed "mandate" will grow ever wider, their criticism will grow more harsh, and their demands will become ever more assertive.
Related articles:
End UN Interference in Our Elections
Texas Warns UN Affiliates Monitoring U.S. Election of Prosecution Risk
Obama Backs UN-linked Election Monitors, but Texas Stands Firm
Concerned About Conservatives, UN Affiliate to Monitor U.S. Election
Leftists Call on United Nations to Monitor U.S. Election
Obama Signs Belarus Sanctions; Calls Belarus President a "Dictator"


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That was my inner conversation when I heard that the "Super Congress"* (or "Super Committee") created by the debt ceiling deal might operate behind closed doors.
Congress is free to create any committee it wants, of course. Congress determines the rules of its proceedings. But ordinary committees and subcommittees are too opaque. A "Super Committee" should lead—not lag—in transparent operations.
In a forthcoming report on government transparency, we'll be looking at the kinds of things committees should be publishing in computer-useable formats, and in real time or near-real-time: meeting notices, transcripts, written testimonies, live video, original bills, amendments to bills, motions, and votes. There are ways that many of these documents and records can be optimized for transparency, including by flagging agencies, programs, dollar amounts, and so on in the texts of published documents.
That's why I'm glad to see transparency stalwart the Sunlight Foundation calling for a transparent Super Committee. "Congress pushed through the 'Debt Ceiling' bill with almost no transparency," they say. "Let's make sure the new 'Super Congress' committee created by this bill operates in the open."
The things they highlight, reflecting priorities of transparency groups across the ideological spectrum, include: live webcasts of all official meetings and hearings; the committee's report being posted for 72 hours before a final committee vote; disclosure of every meeting held with lobbyists and other powerful interests; Web disclosure of campaign contributions as they are received; and financial disclosures of committee members and staffers.
The legislation creating the Super Committee calls for some minimal transparency measures: public announcement of meetings seven days in advance; release of agendas 48 hours ahead of meetings, and:
Upon the approval or disapproval of the joint committee report and legislative language pursuant to clause (ii), the joint committee shall promptly make the full report and legislative language, and a record of the vote, available to the public.
By my read, that's a requirement to release the language the committee is voting upon after the vote has been taken.
I don't see public access to the language of such an important document as conducive to the public overseeing the committee's work. Some may argue that the committee will be pressure-cooker enough if it operates in closed sessions. Delicate political balances require important decisions to be made out of the limelight. This is how massed power in Washington fully manifests itself: major decisions about the direction of the country that people cannot even know about until the decisions are finalized. I'm not havin' it. Kudos, Sunlight Foundation, for pressing an open Super Committee.
*Many are calling the committee "Super Congress." It's a joke I … don't quite get. So I'll go with "Super Committee."


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I agree with Alistair that we may be limiting ourselves in what we regard to be a "website" and that our definition is quite generic. I think most of us will agree that we probably do not want arbitrary collections of pages from a website to be regarded as a sub-site. On the other hand it seems necessary that our Methodology can also apply to self-enclosed sub-sites such as applications and organizational departments. For example, consider these situations: - a department in an organization is updating the sub-site that they control, and wants to ensure conformance to WCAG; - an organization is procuring an application to add to an existing website, and wants to ensure conformance to WCAG; I think we need to further explain our definition for website (in the context of this methodology) and decide if and with which constraints the definition can also apply to sub-sites. Regards, Shadi On 30.1.2012 10:48, Alistair Garrison wrote: > Dear Eval TF, > > I'm now almost certain we are wanting the evaluation methodology to deliver the same things - a precise method "for evaluating the conformance of websites, sections of websites, and web applications, regardless of size, to WCAG 2.0" (copied from RQ 01 Scope and target audience of the Methodology - http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/conformance/ED-methodology-reqs-20111012). > > The question I still have is why in the rest of this draft document we have limited ourselves to saying "conformance of entire website", or words to that effect. With what I have read, I'd go so far as to say that the word 'website' has already become quite a confused term, much, much different from our definition "website - a coherent collection of one or more related web pages that together provide common use or functionality" (again copied from the draft). > > My concern is that in using the term 'website' we have lost sight of what we really meant to say - that our methodology should be able to accommodate the evaluation of "a coherent collection of one or more related web pages that together provide common use or functionality" - backed up by our continued use of the phrase 'regardless of size'. > > The main reason for suggesting the use of WCAG 2.0 Conformance claims was that they already, seemingly, provide an effective way to precisely define a "coherent collection of one or more related web pages that together provide common use or functionality", and have already been adopted by the main WCAG 2.0 WG into the WCAG 2.0 concept / documentation. > > In my opinion, our intensions for the evaluation methodology would be much more precisely captured if we were to change the first line in the scope section of our draft requirements document to possibly read - > > "The main goal is to define an internationally harmonised methodology for evaluating WCAG 2.0 Conformance claims (for entire websites, sections of websites, web applications, whole web pages, etc...)." > > All the best > > Alistair > > On 29 Jan 2012, at 21:06, Kerstin Probiesch wrote: > >> Hi Allistair, >> >>> As, only a WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim based >>> on WCAG 2.0 Conformance evaluation undertaken by an external evaluator >>> could ever be fully trusted. >> >> No. This is not what I'm trying to say. My intention is to have clear >> requirements and give guidelines for controlled testing situations. The more >> flexible our methodology is the more - I believe - it is likely that >> goodness criteria won't be fulfilled. If the evaluator is external or >> internal is not that much important. More important is: reducing the >> probability for errors and give guidance for "controlled" test situations. >> Every type of error could have an impact on the result and on the >> reliability. The more flexible the more errors - including systematic errors >> - could come in. As already mentioned: I think some exceptions are necessary >> and possible. >> >> Best >> >> Kerstin >> >> >>> >>> All the best >>> >>> Alistair >>> >>> On 29 Jan 2012, at 10:28, Kerstin Probiesch wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Elle, all, >>>> >>>> probably there is a way for some exceptions. But I strongly disagree >>> with a >>>> methodology with a scope that is externally defined in general. >>> Companies >>>> will always choose the most cheapest way for evaluating the >>> accessibility of >>>> their websites or products. But later they want to sell their >>> products and >>>> earn money with them. And I'm sure the same is true not only for the >>> private >>>> sector. Even the public sector will seize every opportunity for >>> reducing >>>> costs. The best way for doing so is: reducing the scope. What if the >>> next >>>> website owner says: choose 3 "representative" pages. Than this is the >>> scope. >>>> An evaluator will choose those pages and the company or any other >>> website >>>> owner can publish a claim that according to this there is 100% >>> conformance. >>>> Others will follow, cause it's very cheap, very fast. One can imagine >>> a lot >>>> of different scenarios and I fear in the worst case we will come out >>> with a >>>> methodology which depends on economic interests of companies. The >>> question >>>> is also if a methodology like this evaluates WCAG2 or measure what >>> companies >>>> and the public sector want to pay? Will there be a correlation with >>> WCAG2 or >>>> merely a correlation with economic interests? Sorry for these >>> probably >>>> provocative sentences, but I believe that every negative scenario >>> which one >>>> can imagine will happen. >>>> >>>> Anyway and as said before: I also recognize the necessity for some >>>> exceptions and for some guidelines for special cases but they must be >>> linked >>>> to strict conditions. They could be placed in a separate chapter of >>> our >>>> methodology: >>>> >>>> # Follow-Up Checks / quality assurance (for website which are already >>>> evaluated according to our methodology) >>>> # Portions of website: Shops (as special and even typical cases for >>> complete >>>> processes) >>>> # and probably subdomains (but without permission placing the claim >>> on any >>>> other subdomain or main page and with conditions like: a clear and >>> unique >>>> separate content which also could be a standalone website) >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> Kerstin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Von: Elle [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 28. Januar 2012 20:36 >>>> An: Kerstin Probiesch >>>> Cc: RichardWarren; Alistair Garrison; Martijn Houtepen; Eval TF >>>> Betreff: Re: Concerns about not covering full website >>>> >>>> I have an alternate example to consider: >>>> >>>> A large e-Commerce website with several segmented portals catering to >>>> different audiences - This company is trying to secure a government >>> contract >>>> to sell a specific product suite to the state of New Jersey. In order >>> to >>>> secure this contract, the company must show accessibility conformance >>> for >>>> the specific product suite portal. >>>> >>>> In our current model, the company would be forced to consider the >>> entire >>>> e-Commerce website in its evaluation, which could be cost prohibitive >>> and >>>> time consuming compared to the initial goal for securing the >>> contract. >>>> Additionally, it affects several different business teams within the >>>> company itself, so making the business case for evaluation (internal >>>> resources are always required) and remediation could be impossible. >>>> Additionally, the state of New Jersey may end up penalized, because >>>> companies find it an unreasonable burden to evaluate and change an >>> entire >>>> enterprise website for a single contract. >>>> >>>> In an externally defined scope model, the company would identify with >>> the >>>> state of New Jersey what the scope of the conformance claim needed to >>> be, >>>> and likely include areas of the website that were equally utilized by >>> all >>>> portals. The company performs the evaluation, remediates the portal >>> and any >>>> associated applications, and they win the contract. The result would >>> be that >>>> a portion of the website is now compliant for anyone who uses that >>> portal, >>>> and the company has a business case that can stand up on the >>> profitability >>>> of building accessible websites. Perhaps the next redesign of the >>> entire >>>> e-Commerce website will consider it a core requirement to meet these >>>> standards. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Respectfully, >>>> Elle >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Kerstin Probiesch >>>> <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I agree with Martijn. The more I think about it I also feel that this >>>> approach is too flexible and I fear that in the end we will not come >>> out >>>> with a harmonized evaluation methodology but with something we >>> already have. >>>> >>>> >>>> Of course there are Organizations/Clients who invest in evaluations >>> because >>>> they feel that it is important. But I believe the majority don't >>> invest in >>>> that because of the users, because of the importance of >>> accessibility. They >>>> invest because they have to and they will choose the most cheapest >>> way for >>>> doing so and claiming conformance on the base of the less pages as >>> possible. >>>> >>>> I agree that we need some procedures for cases like: >>>> >>>> #there was already an successful evaluation with a testing procedure >>> which >>>> follows our methodology and a website owner included a shop. Will it >>> be >>>> enough to evaluate just the shop? Does it depends on the time between >>> the >>>> first evaluation and second of the shop? Are there other changes, >>> other >>>> additional content? >>>> #fast growing websites >>>> >>>> And probably some other well described exceptions: for example a >>> website >>>> owner wants to claim just a shop. This should include the evaluation >>> of the >>>> shop itself and the path to the shop. >>>> >>>> These cases should be linked to strict defined conditions. >>>> >>>> But I disagree with a methodology where a website owner (always) >>> defines the >>>> scope. Except of course where a website owner don't want to claim >>> anything. >>>> >>>> Best >>>> >>>> Kerstin >>>> >>>> >>>> Von: Elle [mailto:email@example.com] >>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Januar 2012 18:53 >>>> An: RichardWarren >>>> Cc: Alistair Garrison; Martijn Houtepen; Eval TF >>>> Betreff: Re: Concerns about not covering full website >>>> >>>> I also agree. I've thought about this since our call from a few >>> pragmatic >>>> and business angles. >>>> >>>> While I see the risks that Martin identified, I don't think people >>> would >>>> invest in auditing and meeting conformance levels on individual pages >>> just >>>> to spin it for better public opinion. Organizations are either >>> committed to >>>> accessibility or they're forced to meet requirements due to >>> regulatory or >>>> litigation reasons. >>>> >>>> Either way, that scope is defined by them, not W3C or a methodology. >>> If >>>> organizations are committed to accessibility, we requiring a full >>> website >>>> evaluation penalizes any phased efforts. Additionally, the concept of >>> a >>>> "full website" is becoming less and less viable to companies in a >>> component >>>> driven environment of content delivery. >>>> >>>> I do, however, want to request that we keep the URLs as a requirement >>> in >>>> defining that scope (and not something smaller within a single page). >>>> >>>> >>>> Respectfully, >>>> Elle >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:12 PM, RichardWarren >>> <firstname.lastname@example.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> I agree with Alistair. We are supposed to be developing a methodology >>> to >>>> help people deliver a reliable and trusted conformance claim (if >>>> appropriate). It is not our job to rewrite WCAG. >>>> >>>> Richard >>>> >>>> From: Alistair Garrison >>>> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:03 PM >>>> To: Martijn Houtepen ; Eval TF >>>> Subject: Re: Concerns about not covering full website >>>> >>>> Hi Martijn, >>>> >>>> I too feel we are giving people who want to evaluate conformity to >>> WCAG 2.0 >>>> a guide on how to do a proper, representative evaluation... the >>> question I >>>> suppose is why must it be limited to only our definition of a >>> website? >>>> >>>> Can I just clarify something (it being late on a Friday) - are you >>> saying >>>> that in your opinion the evaluation methodology should primarily >>> support >>>> independent (e.g. third-party) evaluations of whole websites, like >>> something >>>> you might need to support some sort of conformance scheme / badge? >>>> >>>> I might be missing something, but I'd like to think that if I were a >>> website >>>> owner I'd be able to check the claimed conformance of my own page, >>> pages, >>>> sections, sub-domains or entire website using the W3C/WAI WCAG 2.0 >>>> Evaluation methodology - and, without having to use a third-party. In >>> fact, >>>> I think I would raise questions / eyebrows if I couldn't... >>>> >>>> I suppose I would also like to think that if I verified my claimed >>>> conformance myself using this Evaluation methodology people would >>> actually >>>> believe it - without the need to have it independently verified. We >>> should >>>> not forget, that there will be many folks out there who have a site >>> but >>>> cannot afford to get it independently verified... >>>> >>>> I'm certain that in this day-and-age a website owner would have more >>> to >>>> loose, than gain, by using 'smart wording' to inflate their claims. I >>> would >>>> even go so far as to suggest that the probability of a website owner >>> making >>>> a WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim for a small part of their site and then >>>> implying its for the entire website (by saying or not saying) would >>> be small >>>> - especially as the whole point of the WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim is >>> to make >>>> this situation ever-so-plainly obvious... >>>> >>>> Even so, you appear to have questions about the actual worth of WCAG >>> 2.0 >>>> Conformance claims (something you might consider raising with the >>> WCAG 2.0 >>>> working group). Personally, I believe the WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim >>>> concept to be quite sound... and, I can't really understand why (as >>> members >>>> of a Task Force of the WCAG 2.0 WG) we wouldn't want to be >>> encouraging their >>>> use... >>>> >>>> The draft methodology is a draft, and as such not set in stone... I >>> trust we >>>> hopefully have the possibility to change it if the consensus view is >>> that >>>> the change (using a Conformance Claim to define our scope) is of >>> value... >>>> >>>> All the best... >>>> >>>> Alistair >>>> >>>> On 27 Jan 2012, at 14:55, Martijn Houtepen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Alistair, TF, >>>> >>>> I think this approach will be getting a little bit too flexible. As I >>>> understand, all the work we have done until now is in order to >>> evaluate >>>> whole websites. We want "a standardized way to evaluate the >>> conformance of >>>> websites to WCAG 2.0." (quoted from the introduction of our draft >>>> methodology), the whole draft document focuses on 'websites' instead >>> of web >>>> pages. I can understand from an owners point of view that he/she >>> sometimes >>>> will want to split up a whole website into several subevaluations, >>> but these >>>> subevaluations, in my opinion, will together comprise the entire >>> website, >>>> and not leave out some part for any reason. >>>> >>>> Some problems arise if we do follow this strategy: >>>> >>>> If we only check what the owner of a website wants us to check, this >>> creates >>>> the risk that an owner will only have the conforming parts of the >>> website >>>> evaluated. An owner of a inaccessible website can then, with a little >>> smart >>>> wording, proudly claim conformance (of f.e. a little subsection). An >>>> experienced user can differentiate between strong and weak claims, >>> but a >>>> normal user can't. This in turn creates two potential pitfalls: lots >>> of >>>> 'empty' claims that in practice do not help users, f.e.: "Our >>> homepage >>>> conforms to WCAG 2.0", leaving out that none of the underlying pages >>>> conform. Secondly the degradation of those claims that are truly >>> useful to >>>> an user "Page X claims to conform (using an 'empty' claim) but I >>> can't use >>>> it, so I probably also can't use page Y (that conforms and has a >>> useful >>>> claim). Confusion as to what an evaluated conformance claim means, >>> need to >>>> be avoided. >>>> >>>> Secondly, this will create the possibility to exclude key scenario's >>> and >>>> complete paths. Again from the introduction: "The Methodology defines >>> manual >>>> and semi-automated methods for selecting representative samples of >>> web pages >>>> from websites that include complete processes." I feel we are giving >>> people >>>> who want to evaluate conformity to WCAG a guide on how to do a >>> proper, >>>> representative evaluation of a website. If we only check pages >>> supplied by a >>>> website owner we can not always include key scenario's or complete >>> paths. I >>>> think we do not want a web store claiming conformance, whilst it >>> check-out >>>> procedure is inaccessible. Or YouTube claiming conformance except for >>> the >>>> pages that have video's. To form a statement about conformance, I >>> feel we >>>> have to be able to independently evaluate the whole website including >>>> whatever it may contain. The resulting conformance statement, if >>> made, will >>>> then be of practical use for people with disabilities, as they can >>> trust a >>>> conformance claim to be of use for them. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Martijn Houtepen >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> Van: Alistair Garrison [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>>> Verzonden: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 10:31 >>>> Aan: Eval TF >>>> CC: Eric Velleman; Detlev Fischer >>>> Onderwerp: Re: Concerns about not covering full website >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Due to its many perceived benefits, I have long been a passionate >>> advocate >>>> for using a website owner's WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim as the scope >>> of our >>>> evaluation - writing several emails in the past months about this >>> very >>>> subject*. The following summarises my thoughts to date... >>>> >>>> I totally support the pros stated by both Detlev and Eric, >>> emphasising that: >>>> >>>> "This approach is very flexible and would make it possible for >>> evaluators to >>>> verify a WCAG 2.0 claim conformance for more stable websites or fast >>> growing >>>> websites, or portions of websites, sections of a website or even >>> single >>>> pages in a website - using sampling methods for large websites as per >>> our >>>> discussions." >>>> >>>> In addition, I strongly believe that: >>>> >>>> 1) It makes evaluation more reproducible, and more efficient, as we >>> know >>>> exactly what forms the scope of our evaluation (i.e. what is defined >>> in the >>>> WCAG 2.0 Conformance claim at the time of evaluation, from which >>> samples can >>>> be taken as necessary); >>>> >>>> 2) Once an initial evaluation had been done (scope WCAG 2.0 >>> Conformance >>>> claim) we would only ever need to assess new additions to the WCAG >>> 2.0 >>>> conformance claim on an on-going basis - hopefully saving people time >>> and >>>> money; >>>> >>>> 3) It tells the public exactly what conforms in the website - a bit >>> more >>>> like the VPAT. If the WCAG 2.0 conformance claim states, for >>> example, that >>>> a website's shopping process (defined by urls) conforms to x and y, >>> a user >>>> should know it will be accessible to them; >>>> >>>> 4) If the website contains any complete processes which back-ends >>> into third >>>> party pages - we are in fact prevented from just saying "the whole >>> website" >>>> conforms. A WCAG 2.0 Conformance Claim, on the other hand, could be >>> made >>>> for this website, and evaluated, if we choose to use WCAG 2.0 >>> conformance >>>> claims as our scope. >>>> >>>> 5) It supports, even promotes and encourages, detailed WCAG 2.0 >>> conformance >>>> claims to be made by the people responsible for entire websites / >>> parts of >>>> websites. >>>> >>>> It would also mean that the majority of Section 3 could be re-defined >>> simply >>>> e.g. "The scope of the evaluation is defined as all urls for which a >>> WCAG >>>> 2.0 conformance claim is being made, at the time of the evaluation". >>>> >>>> * Referenced emails from Nov / Dec 2011 >>>> >>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai- >>> evaltf/2011Dec/0004.html >>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai- >>> evaltf/2011Nov/0073.html >>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai- >>> evaltf/2011Nov/0086.html >>>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai- >>> evaltf/2011Dec/0023.html >>>> >>>> All the best >>>> >>>> Alistair >>>> On 27 Jan 2012, at 01:01, Velleman, Eric wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Detlev, all, >>>> >>>> Yes, it was an interesting discussion this afternoon about the scope >>> of an >>>> evaluation :-). >>>> >>>> This afternoon we discussed the possibility to use the WCAG2.0 >>> Evaluation >>>> Methodology not only for full website evaluation, but also for parts >>> of >>>> websites. In the current version the evaluation focuses on the full >>> website >>>> with a possibility to exclude parts from the scope. If we want to >>> include >>>> evaluating parts of a website (like only the WAI part of W3C or only >>> the BAD >>>> website) this should be added in the scope section. >>>> >>>> Today a different approach was proposed: We look at it the other way >>> around: >>>> the Conformance claim determines the scope. >>>> >>>> This approach is very flexible and makes it possible to claim >>> conformance >>>> for portions of websites, possibly even for technologies or >>> collections of >>>> pages or single pages. This makes the Methodology much more flexible >>> for >>>> website owners who are not always interested in evaluation of the >>> full >>>> website. This is a change to the requirements document but it will >>> provide >>>> support for requests by website owners and evaluators wishing to just >>> look >>>> at a specific part of a website. >>>> >>>> I would propose that we do a short discussion this week on this >>> approach. Do >>>> we leave the scope completely free for the site owner to decide? >>>> >>>> Kindest regards, >>>> >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> Van: Detlev Fischer [firstname.lastname@example.com] >>>> Verzonden: donderdag 26 januari 2012 17:16 >>>> Aan: EVAL TF >>>> Onderwerp: Concerns about not covering full website >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I think a lot of the heat in the disacussion we just had may be down >>> to >>>> a misunderstanding. >>>> >>>> Eric, no one says that the evaluation of an entire webiste is not a >>> good >>>> idea or should not be done. If a site owner wants it done, that's >>> fine. >>>> >>>> If however, a site owner wants to look at a particular section (that >>> can >>>> be many pages), it should be possible to evaluate just that. It's >>> also a >>>> cost issue. Any conformance claim must make that limited scope >>> perfectly >>>> clear, preferably by binding the evaluation to a set of URLs. >>>> >>>> Increasingly, sites have many different sections, like user generated >>>> content. No sane person would claim even A-Level conformance for a >>> wiki >>>> or bulletin board that allows unstructured text input. It would fail >>> SC >>>> 1.3.1 in minutes or hours. That's why it is more straightforward to >>> be >>>> able to include things even if they are important processes on a >>> site. >>>> >>>> Working out a sampling approach still makes sense even if you look at >>>> parts of a site - and also if you evaluate the whole site. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Detlev >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, >>> divide >>>> the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast >>> and >>>> endless sea. >>>> - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, >>> divide >>>> the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast >>> and >>>> endless sea. >>>> - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > > -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) Research and Development Working Group (RDWG)Received on Monday, 30 January 2012 14:18:48 UTC
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Forum:Who is the coolest GTA protagonist?
In your opinion, based on their personalities, actions, and abilities, who is the coolest of all the GTA protagonists? A-1, 11:14, 16 November 2009, (UTC)
i like Tommy, Niko, and Johnny the best
I say the best was CJ.
--Crusen7721atdbz 04:02, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
Well, all protagonists have special ability(Not Magic!)...But I think that Tommaso "Tommy" Vercetti(Tommaso is italian name fitted in Thomas) is the coolest(It's my opinion what based on GTA3 era only). But if in all series, I'll choice Niko Bellic(what a sad character). --Mr.Korean 04:37, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
Claude or Mike. I like characters who shut up and kick butt--[Delo19xcrowbarx
CJ followed by Niko then Claude


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When Tom Hanks released "Cast Away" in 2000, he was all alone in more ways than one.
Playing a man stuck for years on a remote island, the Oscar winner was helping to bring back a genre, the so-called stranded film, that hadn't had a major entry in five years (since Hanks' own "Apollo 13").
Beginning Friday, the actor can be seen in another nautically-themed marooned movie, the Somali-hijacking tale "Captain Phillips." Only this time Hanks' story of isolation has plenty of company.
The stranded film, which Hollywood has returned to intermittently since the form came into its own in the mid-20th century, is back with a vengeance. "Captain Phillips," directed by Paul Greengrass, is one of nearly a dozen movies this fall -- including Alfonso Cuaron's current hit "Gravity" and an assortment of upcoming releases -- about a person marooned far from where (or who) they want to be.
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Unlike many past iterations, characters in this go-round are fighting not only for their physical survival -- though that's often the case -- but against emotional, racial and even spiritual forces. The result is a complex spin on a familiar genre, and one that may offer a telling cultural snapshot.
Among the upcoming releases with a clear-cut stranded concept are Steve McQueen's antebellum drama "12 Years a Slave," Spike Lee's action remake "Oldboy," about a man held captive in a motel room for 20 years, and J.C. Chandor's man-at-sea tale "All Is Lost." (These films, it should be said, follow similarly themed movies, such as the shipwrecked drama "Life of Pi" last year and mountain-climber-rescue pic "127 Hours" in 2010.)
More figuratively, the definition of stranded cinema could be expanded to includes tales of spiritual and emotional isolation, in which heroes function as castaways even when they're surrounded by crowds of people.
That list: Ben Stiller's loner dramedy "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Ridley Scott's morality-play thriller "The Counselor," Jason Reitman's literary drama "Labor Day" (about a woman cut off from the outside world by an escaped convict and her own haunting memories) and Spike Jonze's piece of techno-whimsy, "Her."
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Jonze's film, about a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with a digital voice, world-premieres at the New York Film Festival on Saturday before opening, like "Mitty," on Christmas Day, when the movies will provide a bookend to what might be termed the season of the stranded.
"We are seeing a lot of these," said McQueen thoughtfully when asked of the glut. "I think with a lot of the news coming at us in newspapers these days, there's a feeling sometimes that we're helpless," he said. "[Stranded] stories like this help us feel like we're not alone."
McQueen's fact-based movie, due in theaters next Friday, is a novel twist on the marooned movie. Its main character, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is kidnapped in 1841 from his upstate New York home and sold into slavery across a series of Southern plantations, where he spends more than a decade trying to survive so he can make his way back to his family. It's "Cast Away" with a historical and racial charge.
Stiller's "Mitty," in which he also stars, portrays a timid man isolated by his own fears, trapped in a low-end job at Life magazine (where pictures of men far more accomplished adorn the walls) and cut off from a romantic crush who works down the hall but may as well be a million miles away. Mitty spends his days creating elaborate fantasies much in the way Hanks' Fed Ex worker Chuck Noland invented an imaginary life for a volleyball in "Cast Away."
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"I wanted to build a story of a man surrounded by all these people and all these great achievements but who felt disconnected from all of it," said "Mitty" screenwriter Steven Conrad, who added that he believed the spate of stranded movies spoke to a spiritual crisis of sorts. "My dime-store psychiatry is that there's less neighborhood, less church, less community, and a lot more time thinking about ourselves," he said. "It means we're haunted by incompletion, which is what a lot of these films are really about."
The idea of a man stranded far from home is as old as Homer's "Odyssey" and has taken on shapes as unexpected as "Gilligan's Island." On the big screen, it dates back at least to the early 1950s, in movies such as John Wayne's plane-crash picture "Island in the Sky" and Luis Bunuel's 1954 adaptation of "Robinson Crusoe," then continued the next decade with Peter Brooks' take on "Lord of the Flies" and the Gregory Peck-starring space-orbit drama "Marooned."
In recent years, the stranded movie has increasingly come nested in other genres -- as in the 2009 science-fiction tale "Moon" or the 2010 horror picture "Frozen."
But the genre may be reaching its most complex evolution yet. Many of these new movies are free of back story -- one gets only a brief taste of how Sandra Bullock's Ryan Stone character spends her life on Earth in "Gravity," and finds that Robert Redford's elderly sailor in "All Is Lost," about a solitary man on a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean, barely speaks. Yet the narratives are imbued with a deep-seated sense of alienation.
Hanks said he sees in movies such as "Captain Phillips" an expression of a larger social concern.
"It seems as though there is this darkness on the edge of town that's never gone away. No matter how far you get up or how relatively safe you feel, there's always this kind of lingering question that's out there, which is literally, are we going to be OK?" the actor said. "Is our world going to survive? Are we all going to be able to exist ... in the same brand of security that we've been able to have in the past?"
Some filmmakers say their stories have taken on added urgency because of fast-moving technological changes. Citing his movie as a possible representation of "what's going on in the world today," Stiller told reporters at the New York Film Festival last week that he sees the isolation of the Mitty character as a symbol of "a world transforming from analog to digital, and what gets left behind with that."
But pop culture experts don't necessarily agree; they say these movies may be less of a social symptom than a dramatic necessity.
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"It's so tempting to say that in the 21st century, when everybody is feeling alienated and not seeing other people because they're only interacting with iPads, that that's why we have all these movies," said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University's SI Newhouse's School of Communications. "I'm not sure that's it. I think what we're seeing is a pullback from the big-stakes effects movies so we can tell these intimate, dramatic stories about one life and one person. What these movies say is that people don't want large-scale apocalypse stories all the time."
The trend, Thompson noted intriguingly, may be also be part of the aftereffects of television's "Lost," which (at least until its finale) made stranded tales sexy and popular again.
If the stranded movies are cathartic and entertaining for the audience -- and judging by the box office so far for "Gravity" and the reviews for "Captain Phillips," they are -- the films offer painful challenges for the actors. Performers must work for days at a time not only at a heightened level of urgency but in solitude themselves.
Bullock said at the Toronto International Film Festival that spending hours on a sound stage with little but cameras for company was "lonely" and led to a "frustrating, painful isolation."
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Some of the people behind the movies also hope they lead to a degree of difficult self-scrutiny for those watching their films.
Ridley Scott, whose Oct. 31 release "The Counselor" follows a man (Michael Fassbender) who finds himself stuck, figuratively, on a dangerous island of sorts after a drug-smuggling plan goes violently awry, said he saw in his movie a painful reminder of what can happen when a human being sees himself as isolated from people and consequences.
"It's to do with how intelligence and arrogance can lead to disaster," Scott said in an interview. "People don't really mean to get into something dangerous and then they do, and suddenly they can't get out of it." He added: "Movies like this are cautionary tales. They're more than cautionary tales. They're big [blaring] warning signs."
Times staff writer Rebecca Keegan contributed to this report.
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For the Julius Erving completist, there's some neat stuff available at auction later this week. Besides his NBA and two ABA championship rings, there's also his class rings from high school and college. Or maybe his gameworn Pythons uniform from The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Or the watch he received for winning the Sporting News ABA Player of the Year in 1973. That last one's extra valuable because, despite this and this, neither of those things exist anymore.
But what could spur a proud sportsman to part with iconic memories of his glory days? The same thing that spurs many proud sportsmen to part with iconic memories of their glory days: a need for some quick cash. Last week a Georgia bank filed suit against Erving, seeking repayment of more than $200,000 remaining on a loan he took out in 2009 to buy a golf course. That golf course is now in foreclosure.
The auction house denies that the sell-off is happening because of the cash shortage, but Erving shouldn't be ashamed if that is the case. This is only sad if you consider a championship ring a priceless relic. But players should feel free to consider it as an additional playoff bonus. Thanks for winning us a title. Here's a get-out-of-debt-free card if you ever buy a failing golf course.
Doctor J to auction memorabilia [Philadelphia Daily News]
Bank sues Dr. J for $200K [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]