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Dominic Fornal was under fire for an expletive-laden tirade and questionable car stops
Sarasota County Sheriff's Deputy Dominic Fornal resigned Wednesday afternoon.
Fornal had been under fire recently for an expletive-laden tirade that was captured on a state trooper's video recorder. Fornal referred to a man with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder who was a passenger in an accident as a "dumb f---ing retard," adding, "I wish he would have got hit by a f---ing car on University. That would have been kinda funny."
Fornal had previously been scrutinized for questionable car stops, including one last May where he claimed he smelled raw marijuana coming from a car he was following at 35 mph with his windows rolled up. No raw marijuana was found in the vehicle.
According to a written statement by sheriff's spokeswoman Wendy Rose, Fornal came into the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday accompanied by a union representative, as part of an internal affairs investigation.
"He was allowed to review the evidence and witness testimony against him. It was at that time that he submitted his resignation," Rose said in the statement.
The internal affairs investigation will be completed in the next few days, Rose said.
Sarasota attorney AnneMarie Rizzo represented the driver at the crash, during which Fornal's comments were caught on video.
She said his resignation was "maybe in the best interests of everyone involved."
The former deputy's reputation among the defense bar was not good, she said.
"There were a lot of questions as to the credibility of the allegations he made in the past," she said. "The State Attorney's Office had to file various motions to try to avoid attacks on his credibility."
In a separate case involving one of Fornal's arrests, Assistant State Attorney Farral Broeder filed a Motion in Limine — a legal maneuver that asks to court to bar defense attorneys from raising Fornal's past stops or from introducing newspaper accounts of his activities.
Sarasota attorney Brandon M. Daniels represented several drivers stopped by Fornal.
"As a former police officer and current DUI defense attorney I find Dominic Fornal's treatment of the civilians that he encountered ghastly," Daniels said. "His actions both on camera and off certainly were not in line with the ethics and integrity that I have come to expect from the Sarasota County Sheriff's office."
Daniels said Fornal's resignation was an admission that the latest internal affairs investigation was warranted.
As a result, Daniels said, the public "will not have to endure his disdain towards others and questionable arrests."


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While repetition in the humdrum of daily life can at times be a little boring – capturing it in your photography can create an image with real impact.
Life is filled with patterns – many of which we overlook due to the business of our days – however once you get an eye for spotting them (and it takes being intentional and some practice) you'll be amazed by what you see and you'll wonder why you didn't incorporate them into your photography before.
When it comes to capturing repetition in photography a couple of techniques come to mind – you can either emphasize it or break it. Let me explain with a few examples:
Filling your frame with a repetitive pattern can give the impression of size and large numbers. The key to this is to attempt to zoom in close enough to the pattern that it fills the frame and makes the repetition seem as though it's bursting out (even if the repetition stops just outside of your framing).
Some examples of this technique might include faces in a crowd, bricks on a wall, a line of bicycle wheels all on the same angle etc. Almost any repeated appearance of objects could work.
The picture of bottles (left) gives the sense that there could be hundreds or thousands of them – even though there could be as few as 20-30.
The other common use of repetition in photography is to capture the interruption of the flow of a pattern. For example you might photograph hundreds of red M&Ms with one blue one.
Sometimes you'll find these broken patterns naturally appearing around you and on other occasions you might need to manipulate the situation a little and interrupt a pattern yourself.
Broken repetition might include adding a contrasting object (color, shape, texture) or removing one of the repeating objects.
Pay particular attention to where in your frame to place the break in the pattern. It might be that the rule of thirds comes in to play here (the example to left might be improved simply by placing the red bead slightly higher or lower in the frame).
Also consider your focal point in these shots – the broken pattern might be a logical spot to have everything focussed sharply.
This week I'm setting myself a little assignment to get out and take some shots that emphasize patterns and repetition. Like I said above – it can take a little practice and intentionality to see them. I hope you'll share some of your own pattern photography in the forums.
Great post, I've always loved different photographs that include geometric pattens or shapes to create visual interest. Its funny how often we all miss these types of patterns in day to day life until we have a camera in hand.
I gave a shoutout to 11 photographers who used geometric patterns and shapes to create cool photos on this blog post: http://photosmakemehappy.com/11-awesome-photos-using-geometric-shapes-and-patterns/.
Thanks again for the great post!
Great informations
your lessons are great, I learn from you a lot. Thank you ! .
This is great! I needed to learn more on what to look for and the best way to photograph a pattern. thank you so much for all the you teach and all I have learned :)
hoho i love patterns too i was sitting in the WC and a i took a photo of my carpet in the floor haha
i also have this other one, better i think haha
Vry thought provoking. The opportinity for repeating patterns is very to the fore in cities. People also make incredible patterns if taken from a distance, although this can be more random and less repetition.
Patterns are a disease that affect many photographers. I am no exception.
Here is one I found in New Orleans, LA, USA:
Hans, thank you for looking! Do you think I should have cropped off the grass?
Hi bridget, I like the shot but maybe a little crop at the bottom?
Great wall, anyway.
Well, I went out yesterday and got this great photo of some beautiful patterns and colors after the inspiration given me by your post. I like it and I have another pattern photo to post today.
Darren Rowse,
I'm doing year 12 art and for my student choice topic have decided to explore the question- The Artistic Element in Photography: What Creates It?
In your professional opinion, do you have any advice?
Nobody will answer my interviews so it would really help me out if you could give some key ideas!
This gives me some great ideas! I am going out today and looking for hidden patterns to photograph!
Again, you are great! Thanks!
To those of you that posted some examples of this lesson... thank you very much... it is very encouraging to know that there are helpful people such as yourselves that are avaialble to help people like me continue to progress as photographers... thanks again!
i will be going thru your flick shots and others later today... = )
I shot this one this weekend while working..
It's a nice example
This is great! Imagine that, I just posted some photos about patterns in my multiply site and I also posted for several days last April some patterns in my photoblog. http://aphotoaday-saanva.blogspot.com/
Wow, that's funny – I had a contribution like this exactly one year ago to the "Circles" assignments:
Check it out!
The 2nd photo really illustrates the idea very well.
One of my favorite topics to shoot :)
It might looks and sound as if it's easy to find good pattern but it's not!
My favorite photo of this kind was a scene I noticed on my last trip to NY - The windows of the big metropolis created a great pattern, here is the result - http://www.ilanbresler.com/2008/07/simcity.html
As always, great article. Do you have more examples of repetion/patterns that i/we can look at and study? Quite honestly, I do not know what the first picture at the top is, but I can see the practical application of in the other photographs. I understand the information, but I just need a few more examples... thanks...


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TALLADEGA, Ala. � Dale Earnhardt Jr. has won five races at Talladega Superspeedway. His father won 10. When a NASCAR driver named Earnhardt says �enough is enough,� he deserves an airing of his grievances.
The Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 ended with the track strewn with as many burnt-out vehicles as tanks left smoldering at El Alamein.
This wasn�t a battle, though. It only resembled one. Everyone walked away.
In the fourth turn of the final lap � which was one too many, owing to overtime � 25 cars crashed, making Matt Kenseth�s victory elementary.
That crash left Earnhardt 20th in the race and, more importantly, 11th among the 12 in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. He is 51 points behind Brad Keselowski , and since Talladega will host no other races this fine autumn, the odds of an Earnhardt championship are as long as the distance from Talladega to El Alamein, which is in Egypt.
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�If this is what we did every week, I wouldn�t be doing it,� he said, exasperated. �I will just put it to you like that. If this is how we raced every week, I would find another job.
�It�s really not racing. I don�t know. It�s a little disappointing how that all went down. That cost a lot of money right there. If this is how we are going to race, and that is how we are going to continue to race and nothing is going to change, I think NASCAR should build the cars. It would save us a lot of money.�
This wasn�t a losing coach blaming his predecessor�s recruits for a 62-0 shellacking. Earnhardt doesn�t play for a second-division team. He has no Bambino-like curse directed against him at Talladega.
Someone attempted to rationalize the � savagery on the basis of the fans �loving it.�
�Really?� replied Earnhardt. �It�s not safe. Wrecking like that is ridiculous. It�s bloodthirsty if that�s what people want. It�s ridiculous.�
Strictly speaking, it wasn�t bloodthirsty because there wasn�t any blood. Ten years ago, there might have been. Ten years ago, drivers sometimes didn�t walk away from apocalyptic horrors like the one that ended Good Sam�s big race.
�I don�t care what anybody says (about) �for the good of the sport.� I mean, it�s good for the here and now and it will get people talking today, but for the long run, that is not going to help the sport, the way that race ended and the way the racing is,� Earnhardt added. �It�s not going to be productive for years to come.
�I don�t even want to go to Daytona or Talladega next year, but I ain�t got much choice.�


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I also remember Skinny Puppy playing at my university once, some guy hopped onto the stage with a knife to go after Nivek but it was all choreographed.
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The Internet was made for humans to communicate with each other! Even though Internet calls over video and audio are totally possible nowadays, people still enjoy sending texts to each other due to their asynchronous, permanent and casual nature. To understand how important these instant messaging systems are, just check the user growth of systems like WeChat, WhatsApp, etc.
Unfortunately, all these major mainstream messaging systems belong to huge companies whose money comes from advertising and selling the data and metadata of their users.
The good news here is that in the past couple of years, there has been great progress in protecting users' data by employing end-to-end encryption using the Signal protocol. The bad news is that there has still been absolutely no progress in protecting the metadata and location information of users by these mainstream platforms.
Case in point, since most instant messaging systems are not anonymous, they get to learn the full location history of their users through the users' IP address history. Also, all major chat systems require a social media account or a phone number, which is simply impossible for some people, and it also makes it hard to create anonymous or burner accounts for everyone. It also makes you searchable and targettable by people who happen to know your phone number.
In this blog post, we showcase a few open-source text messaging tools that provide location privacy and additional security to their users by using Tor as a default. All of them are free and open source, so feel free to experiment!
Ricochet is an anonymous instant messaging tool that hides metadata by using Tor. It's got a slick UI and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
In the Ricochet protocol, each user is a Tor onion service. By utilizing onion services, the protocol achieves strong anonymity for its users. And because of its decentralized nature, it's impossible for attackers to censor it by taking down a single server.
Ricochet is designed with UX in mind, so it's easily usable even by people who don't understand how Tor works.
If you happen to only use mobile platforms (like most of the world these days), Chatsecure is an app that you should check out! It works for both Android and iOS, and it allows you to connect to XMPP servers to communicate over encrypted OTR chat. This means that you can also use it to connect to other XMPP-enabled messaging systems like Facebook chat and Google Talk.
It's developed by the Guardian Project, and it's a part of their software suite for private communications that includes Orbot and Orfox. Stay tuned on our blog for more information about this software family later this December!
And now for further excitement, let's get into the more experimental sections of the secure messaging space!
Pond is an anonymous instant messaging tool with various sophisticated security properties that is capable of hiding even the metadata of its users.
The protocol is designed in such a way that even a nasty attacker who is constantly monitoring your Internet connection will have a very hard time figuring out when you actually send and receive Pond messages, even if she conducts statistical analysis of your traffic patterns. Smoke and mirrors you might say, but if you like protocols, we invite you to check out the Pond protocol specs.
Unfortunately, Pond is a side-project, and due to lack of free time, the project is not currently actively being developed, even though there is still a community of users. It only works on Linux, and it has a GUI interface.
Briar is an experimental P2P messaging system that is currently in private beta. It targets mobile users and is closely integrated with Tor onion services.
The Briar protocol is fully decentralized, and all communication is end-to-end encrypted. It aims to be highly resilient against network failures, and so it can also function over Bluetooth or WiFi. Furthermore, it attempts to hide the social graph of its users by keeping the user contact list on the client side.
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As you can see, there have been multiple efforts for private and metadata-hiding communication over the past years. Some of these projects are supposed to be used on top of already existing chat frameworks, whereas others aim to create their own ecosystems.
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how do we help make
how do we help make end-to-end encrypted group msg happen ?
Briar does have end-to-end
Briar does have end-to-end encrypted group chat: https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar/issues/127
Video: https://twitter.com/BriarApp/status/799340502235697152
Don't forget Conversations.
Don't forget Conversations. One of the best XMPP clients at the moment. It implements all the important mobile extensions, it has Signal crypto with the OMEMO protocol, thus beating OTR, and it has Tor support (orbot required as additional app) built in. Especially OMEMO, Carbons and MAM allow a smooth, but still encrypted experience with multiple devices.
You are right, perhaps it's
You are right, perhaps it's worth mentioning! I haven't used it myself so I didn't know about the integrated Tor support :O
I definitely think that
I definitely think that Conversations.IM is worth mentioning! OMEMO+XMPP encryption will change the world of encrypted communications! ChatSecure believes in Conversation's OMEMO encryption so much that they are going to include it in their upcoming 4.0 iOS release. I connect to riseup's XMPP onion service address with Converstations and it is beautiful.
open source ? or payware
open source ? or payware
Wikipedia says its license
Wikipedia says its license is GPL, and version 1.15.0 is available in F-Droid on my device. Not sure why people keep saying it is payware. Please enlighten.
Sorry, your statement is
Sorry, your statement is incorrect...
"This means that you can also use [ChatSecure] to connect to other XMPP-enabled messaging systems like Facebook chat and Google Talk."
Facebook has not permitted the use of chat clients - including ChatSecure - since 2015.
Chat API (Deprecated)
Oops, my wrong here. Thanks
Oops, my wrong here. Thanks for correcting.
Also, > Google dropped
> Google dropped support for XMPP federation in May 2014, meaning that they will no longer support communicating with other XMPP servers.
Thanks to all for the
Thanks to all for the wonderful "Tor at Heart" series!
Already donated but plan to give more.
Some of us will need more help to use secure messaging. One of the critical missing pieces: anonymous accounts to use when communicating with journalists (e.g. Calyx, Riseup) and persuading more journalists to make themselves available using proper authentication in Calyx chat rooms (for example).
There is an on-going story possibly involving FBI malware attacks and/or NSL attacks at Riseup, which is troubling. Last word was that Riseup is seeking advice from its lawyer, and it seems that their warrant canary has vanished. I have some concern that sysadmins may be operating under duress (from USG because Riseup servers are in the USA), because as a story at The Intercept noted, their responses to internal and external queries have been strangely worded.
In the past, a critical source of Tor Project funding has been BBG, the USG funded "soft propaganda" arm which funds Radio Free Asia and other news organizations which attempt to counter certain lines in the state-run press in countries such as CN, RU, sometimes with genuine news, sometimes (some say) with slanted news, so pretty much like CN state-run news counterparts aimed at US businesspersons.
Many Tor users (and, it is said, some employees) have long urged Tor Project to seek to diversify funding to enable the Project to tell USG to take a hike if it threatens to defund Tor Project if the Project does not put in a backdoor or do other and possibly even more inimical things USIC (or the US military or other arms of USG) demands. I applaud Shari's efforts to diversify Tor funding to try to lessen the danger of such unwelcome developments.
Now both Salon and Politico are reporting that Congress (probably without realizing it) passed a law (as part of the NDAA) which guts the Board of Governors of BBG, placing BBG under control of a single Presidential appointee. This has raised fears that the new US administration will turn BBG into a full-on state-run propaganda arm offering outright fake news for foreign and domestic consumption (BBG is said to starting up English language TV stations in the US homeland, aimed at US persons). This raises the question of whether the new administration could attempt to turn Tor Project itself into a Trump propaganda arm.
> Last word was that Riseup
> Last word was that Riseup is seeking advice from its lawyer, and it seems that their warrant canary has vanished.
For what a link is worth:
P.S. My previous submission
P.S. My previous submission isn't intended for publication. It's just a heads-up.
Thanks to the TorProject for everything it does. For years, the Tor browser has been the only browser I use for everyday web surfing. (Just not with my primary email or my bank, which are not Tor-friendly.)
Regarding: "P.S. My previous
Regarding: "P.S. My previous submission isn't intended for publication. It's just a heads-up."
I don't know what that means or to what comment it refers, but it does not refer to the comment which appears just above, the one (which I wrote) which begins:
> Thanks to all for the wonderful "Tor at Heart" series!
> Already donated but plan to give more.
Hello, THIS IS NOT A COMMENT
Hello, THIS IS NOT A COMMENT BUT A QUESTION - I cannot find the answer in your FAQ's. Today THOR was very accidently and not at all intended installed on my Win 10 system with Firefox browser. My first thougt was: 'this is malware' and I removed, with some difficulties the TOR-program. Afterwards I noticed that ALL MY ;DOC & ;JPEG FILES were RENAMED in a numerous code (in stead of a common name) and that they all got the extension .osiris. I think you EASILY CAN UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT funny for me.
So, it would be a real joy to me if I can read your SOLUTION AND HOW TOT GET MY FILES BACK WITH THEIR NORMAL names and extensions on my computer.
What do I have to do to RECTIFY THIS VERY ANNOYING situation; there is no one of my documents I can use; I have no acess to them!!!!
Hoping to hear from you very soon! firstname.lastname@example.com
It sounds like you have been
It sounds like you have been infected with ransomware. :(
This ransomware has nothing to do with Tor.
I hope that
will be helpful to you here.
Hi Roger, I remember in
Hi Roger, I remember in 'State of the Onion', you said that many people are first hearing about Tor when the get infected with ransomware, and they falsely assume that the Tor Project is somehow associated with the attackers, making it hard to defend the idea of Hidden Services. I think that was in late 2014 or early 2015; it's really sad to see that's still going on today.
Plus one. I'd add that
Plus one.
I'd add that unfortunately we must also consider the possibility that at least some irate complaints about alleged infections with ransomware might actually be false reports made as part of some state-sponsored (or not) "effects campaign" targeting the Tor network.
Every citizen in every nation must recognize that at the dawn of the 21st century, we are all targets of the most sophisticated and ambitious intelligence services which have ever existed, and that the spooks frequently attempt psyops as well as more technical attacks.
Needless to add, we cannot let this unfortunate situation deter us from using Tor, engaging in activism, or from expressing our views, however objectionable our own (or other) governments may find these views.
how do i update Ricochet
how do i update Ricochet hassle free ?
I'm missing TorMessenger in
I'm missing TorMessenger in the list of messaging apps and I can recommend CoyIM for anonymous Jabber with Tor.
Be careful with feature-rich Jabber clients like conversation. In my experience most Jabber clients which support Jingle file transfer or voice and audio chats have privacy leaks ans should not be used with Tor if anonymity is important (e.g. Gajim or Pidgin for linux desktop pc)
I think Conversations is
I think Conversations is Tor-aware (integrated with Orbot, but I might be thinking of another chat app) so one would think it would handle Jingle properly (or at least block it). Also, there's always Orwall, which can block non-Tor traffic and prevent an app from learning the device's public IP in the first place.
I also would like to have
I also would like to have seen Tor Messenger in this blog post. Maybe it will get it's own post before the end of the month.
we Ricochet in Tails some
we Ricochet in Tails some time soon thanks you
will Briar be ios also?
will Briar be ios also?
pond does one install and
pond does one install and run "pond" in ubuntu ?
Conversations is payware,
Conversations is payware, you need to buy it; Chatsecure for android is discontinued: "We are not actively developing this app anymore, but will continue to fix any critical bugs" it already has problems on android 7; that leaves only Zom. So is Zom any good?
That's a bummer. I used
That's a bummer. I used Conversations when it was free, and ChatSecure when it was actively developed. Both were pretty nice. Are you sure Conversations is payware? Wikipedia says its license is GPL, which usually makes software free as in beer.
I guess Beem is the last Free (in both senses) Android XMPP client. I think it supports OTR but is nowhere close to supporting Jingle and is not Tor-aware (although you could connect to a .onion server with it).
It's a real shame that so many XMPP clients are being discontinued or were already underdeveloped, and new (non-interoperable) messaging apps are popping up all the time.
"Let's write an app that has a federated network architecture very similar to XMPP, except it won't be compatible with XMPP clients and won't federate with XMPP servers, just so we can segment the user base instead of writing an XEP to get our little algorithm into the standard everyone is already using. We'll call it 'Matrix'." Is what the logic appears to amount to.
It seems to be free from
It seems to be free from f-droid but it says to buy from google play on it's website: https://conversations.im. So it's somewhat confusing.
Fuck, how hard is to
Fuck, how hard is to understand that free doesn't mean gratis? It's totally fine to take money for a program that's free, rms actually took money for copies of Emacs, too.
Basically, the gpl asks you to not just sell a binary but also to hand the other person the source code (and allow him to modify the code and than to hand it to a third party). The code for conversations is on github and you are free to modify it and compile it and distributed (just look at the gpl) etc..
Just consider it as a kind of donation or fee for compling the source code, or to take the hassle to put it on google fucking store.
--> And you are not "buying" the program in google's store.
Actually free does mean
Actually free does mean gratis, and yes you buy it from google play, please check: https://conversations.im and see how it says buy now on google play. So FUCK YOU.
You don't sound like a very
You don't sound like a very nice person.
Let's all try to be nice people here.
Thanks for this. I don't use
Thanks for this. I don't use Google Play and I didn't know Conversations had a fee on there, so that's why I was confused in my earlier post about the GPL. Also, I've never consciously noticed the GPL being used this way before, but I suppose you are correct and it is a legitimate use. So the payware binary on Google Play is compiled from the same free/open GPL source on github (it's not a "premium" or "plus" version in other words), as is the $0.00 binary in F-Droid.
PS: I don't think you really had to use the "F" word to explain the situation. Not that I'm being uptight about it -- I couldn't care less -- but just because you've (I sense) gone over this a hundred times before with other people doesn't mean that we here should automatically know it.
Any documentation on
Any documentation on installing Pond around?
The developer has shut down
The developer has shut down the Pond website because they feel like the project is inactive, and no one has forked it yet.
The instructions used to be around https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
perhaps you can get to them using archive.org .
i love ricochet but i am
i love ricochet but i am unable to use the new version :1.4 ( it does not run).
We prefer Sig-int mail or
We prefer Sig-int mail or Tor mail is much better that using by high profile user ^_^
The android/iOS/Window/macOSX still can per-install scanning software to scan the process ID / usage /port open at those secure communication software Ricochet / Chatsecure /Pond / Briar to tag as suspicious user in watchdog_2
Do you really think it's a
Do you really think it's a good idea to promote a program that either dormant or deprecated? If there are no (security) updates for Pond people shouldn't use it anymore -- just think about a Firefox fork that receives no updates, you wouldn't recommend that, would you?
Pond is a very interesting
Pond is a very interesting project and it's stealth is attractive to me , it still can be combined with other forms of encryption to keep it secure - thanks for including it
If your talking about
If your talking about ricochet for linux you probably have this common problem.
Here is the Fix. I had to do this.
info can be found here:
I applied this update from a PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Now rico should run.
This is such an awesome
This is such an awesome series of posts!
Did you see that Edward Snowden just requested self-destructing text messaging from Twitter's CEO?
Edward Snowden
13 Dec 2016
> One more ask, @Jack: how about secret, burn-after-reading DMs? Even if E2E encryption won't work by default in all clients, give us a start!
Snowden is also asking for encrypted cameras for photojournalists.
I will not be useing tor
I will not be useing tor until 1 Feb 2017 as it has taken me 4 yrs just to understand how to safely use it If TOR where to teach this the useage starting at a level even to a layman Ide say it would be to your advantage .TOR you are second on my to Wikileaks pertaining to my efforts attempting to stop torture aginst us citizens in the US by the US federal govt (ref.bill green battles injustice or YouTube civil rs us torture jeffrey michael aliases Greg Bean , Bill green, john thompson google+


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Poetry and Dyslexia
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz didn't learn he was dyslexic until his oldest son was diagnosed with the condition. The following is an excerpt from his memoir, My Dyslexia, which chronicles his experience. Check back on Monday when Schultz joins us to answer a few questions.
I finally understand that the life of an artist is in many ways similar to the life of the dyslexic. Both are essentially dysfunctional systems that produce in each individual volumes of anxiety, perseverance, and rejection, as well as creative compensatory thinking. Each, by their very nature, makes a victim of its creator, turning him into an outsider and misfit. It's true of all artists, I think, at every level of success, the more gifted, the greater and riskier the anxiety and struggle. Each must, without appeal, strive to tolerate its own forms of self-defamation, creative excitement, and lack of forgiveness.


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UN-Habitat hosted a Summit on Urban Arts and Youth that brought together national and international artists, representatives of arts foundations, the private sector, arts industry and young people active in the arts. The goal of the event was to consult on the contribution the arts make sustainable urban development, specifically in terms of youth empowerment, employment, social cohesion, security, and the strengthening of local urban culture.
Participants provided input into the UN-Habitat's "Messenger of Truth programme" (MoT) – originally a special designation given to Hip-Hop artists actively engaged in urban issues. The programme was broadened to involve the informing of youth living in slums and inner cities of the Millenium Development Goals through songs and other artistic performances.
Kibera Film School sent three trainees to the summit.
Josphat Keya, John Ngaruiya and Faith Wavinya represented the views of young upcoming filmmakers from Kibera.
We realized that the film industry in Kenya is yet to grow; most participants were amazed to meet us as young upcoming filmmakers especially coming from Kibera.
We learnt that the only way we can help up bring social values, security in the community was producing films that have morals acceptable to the society, in this way we become role models to the others back in the community.
The programme was planned that different small workshops were held with different issues touching on the welfare of artists.
We managed to interact with different personalities in the artistic industry.
We really appreciate the chance given to us to attend such a function and getting to know and relate to other artists outside there.
The programme ended at 8pm with a cocktail party.
To support the great youth of the Kibera Film School, please visit our Global Giving Page


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Tigers still among AL favorites despite injuries
DETROIT (AP) When Justin Verlander takes the mound for Detroit on opening day, maybe then the Tigers will be able to enjoy a much-needed sense of normalcy.
As an offseason of drama gave way to spring training injuries, it was easy to forget the Tigers still have one of the most talented rosters in baseball. Sure, there have been some early problems for new manager Brad Ausmus to address, Detroit still figures to be the favorite to win its fourth consecutive AL Central title.
"We have a new look this year," outfielder Torii Hunter said. "Little bit more speed and we'll miss the big man, but we'll score some runs."
The "big man" is Prince Fielder, whom the Tigers traded to Texas in a blockbuster deal that brought second baseman Ian Kinsler to Detroit. That move gave the Tigers more financial flexibility, although they weren't all that aggressive in pursuing free agents. Detroit did sign Joe Nathan to replace departed closer Joaquin Benoit.
The Tigers also traded right-hander Doug Fister to Washington.
Lately, the focus has been on right-hander Max Scherzer, who enters his final season before free agency after winning the Cy Young Award in 2013. Negotiations with the Tigers on a long-term deal have stalled.
"They respect where I'm at. I respect where they're at, and we'll revisit this after the season," Scherzer said. "I still want to be in Detroit. I love this clubhouse and everything about it. There's been a history of this team signing free agents so hopefully I'll be a part of that history as well."
But right now Scherzer's future is uncertain, and with Hunter and Victor Martinez in the final season of their contracts, it's hard to say what Detroit's 2015 roster will look like.
So the Tigers may never have a better chance to win a World Series with this group than right now.
Here are five things to watch in Detroit this season:
INJURY WOES: Two-time MVP Miguel Cabrera is healthy again after hobbling through the stretch drive in 2013, and Verlander has recovered well from offseason surgery to fix a groin problem. As long as Detroit's stars are in the lineup, the Tigers won't need to panic too much.
But outfielder Andy Dirks, shortstop Jose Iglesias and reliever Bruce Rondon have all gone down with major injuries, and their recoveries will be measured in months, not days or weeks. It doesn't look like the Tigers will make any major moves right away to fill those holes, although they did trade for shortstops Andrew Romine and Alex Gonzalez recently.
NEW-LOOK INFIELD: The entire infield will look different from opening day last season. Fielder was traded, and the double play combination of Jhonny Peralta and Omar Infante left via free agency.
Kinsler steps in for Infante at second base, while Cabrera moves from third back to first to replace Fielder. Shortstop is now a major question mark – free agent Stephen Drew is still available, at a high price – and rookie Nick Castellanos is the new third baseman.
Castellanos has been one of Detroit's top prospects, and the Tigers are hoping for a solid year from him with the bat.
TOP ROTATION: Even after Fister was traded, Detroit still boasts perhaps the game's best group of starting pitchers. Verlander, Scherzer and Anibal Sanchez headline the rotation, and Rick Porcello has become a mainstay as well.
Left-hander Drew Smyly, who was terrific in the bullpen last season, will start this year.
"With our staff of Verlander, Scherzer, Sanchez, Smyly and Porcello, that's pretty deep," Ausmus said. "A lot of clubs would like that."
BETTER BULLPEN?: The bullpen cost the Tigers dearly in their AL championship series loss to Boston in 2013, and now Nathan arrives to take over the ninth inning. But will Detroit's relief pitching be improved, overall? Benoit left via free agency, and Rondon's injury now leaves newcomer Joba Chamberlain on the spot. Chamberlain and Al Alburquerque will likely play important roles.
With Smyly no longer in the bullpen, left-hander Ian Krol could be crucial. Detroit acquired Krol in the trade for Fister.
Jim Leyland stepped down after managing Detroit to two AL pennants and four postseason appearances. Ausmus takes over, and he's brought a relaxed, confident approach to the clubhouse.
But the pressure will be on right away. The Tigers have been to the ALCS three straight years, but they're still without a World Series title since 1984.


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For a friendly introduction to Spring Data Graph we're hosting a free webinar with VMware and presented by Neo Technology's CEO Emil Eifrem on April 20 at two convenient times for the Americas and Europe. [Update: Webinar video available on Youtube.]
Now that Spring is in the air, the Neo4j and Spring Data teams are happy that almost a year's worth of work has produced our 1.0 version of the Spring Data Graph library. The Spring Data project aims to bring the convenient programming model of the Spring Framework to NOSQL databases. Spring Data Graph supports graph databases within Spring Data and builds in support for Neo4j as its first supported implementation.
The best way of getting to know Spring Data Graph is by using it, so we'd like to encourage you to read our Spring Data Graph Guide Book, check out the examples and sources on github and tell us what you think.
Spring Data Graph provides simple and convenient access to graph databases from any Spring application. Originally, Spring Data Graph was the brainchild of SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson and Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem. Together Rod and Emil refined the design philosophy, and some foundation technologies like AspectJ (used to transparently map POJOs to an underlying graph).
Spring Data Graph debuted publicly at a presentation at JAOO Aarhus 2010, when Rod invited Michael Hunger of Neo Technology to demonstrate cross-store persistence as part of his SpringSource presentation. Later in October there were several sessions at the SpringOne conference that discussed different aspects of the Spring Data and Spring Data Graph projects.
Throughout the past year, we've taken regular feedback from our community and have responded with frequent iterative releases, each release improving and extending the scope and functionality of the library. In all, we've built support for detached entities, in-graph type representation strategies, repository support and a Neo4jTemplate implementation. We've also developed preliminary support for Spring Roo as an add-on.
Here is an overview of Spring Data Graph features:
- Support for property graphs (nodes connected via relationships, each with arbitrary properties)
- Transparent mapping of annotated POJO entities
- Neo4jTemplate with convenient API, exception translation and optional transaction management
- Different type representation strategies for keeping type information in the graph
- Dynamic type projections (duck typing)
- Spring Data Commons Repositories Support
- Cross-store support for partial JPA – Graph Entities
- Neo4j Traversal support on dynamic fields and via repository methods
- Neo4j Indexing support (including full-text and numeric range queries)
- Support for JSR-303 (Bean Validation)
- Support for the Neo4j Server
- Support for running as extensions in the Neo4j Server
Another highlight is the social movie database cineasts.net which is part of an extensive tutorial in building real-world systems with Spring and Spring Data Graph. The cineasts.net application runs on Spring Framework, Spring Data Graph and the Neo4j Graph Database, and uses movie data from the free and open themoviedb.org.
Our community has also been busy building productive and interesting systems atop Spring Data Graph. For example Spring Data Graph has been used for a large and sophisticated energy market simulation at the Technical University of Delft.
Spring Data Graph is released under the Apache Software License. Its source code is hosted on github. Several examples can also be found there. Issue tracker and forums are provided at springsource.org. You can follow @SpringData and @Neo4j on twitter and also subscribe to the Neo4j mailing list for more information.
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I wonder how the licence works out for a closed source non-web project when using Spring Data Graph and neo4j as backend.
Is it really like MySQL where I can sell/distribute my software without neo4j and do not have to buy a commercial licence?
I presume you haven't seen the recent change in the license here.. http://blogs.neotechnology.com/emil/2011/04/graph-databases-licensing-and-mysql.html
Thanks for this great article
Extreme Java
Thanks, mark. I Read it but it is still unclear to me if Spring datagraph and neo4j usage is Concidered as "Embedded" As Stated in
http://neo4j.org/licensing-guide/
Gould Be Great if it could be cleared up.
It depends if you actually physicall _ship_ a product/software to customers. Only then the GPL applies, in all the other cases – hosted webapp, internal use, development, open source – Neo4j is free to use.

Michael
What if you want to write your own integration with a different quad store. It seems like the spring integration all the way up to the top level of org.springframework.data.neo4j.aspects.support.node.Neo4jNodeBacking in spring-data-neo4j-aspects is tied to neo4j.

I assume that's why name was changed from Spring Data Graph.

That's not the normal spring way of doing
Perhaps integration layer should be based of Rdf2Go http://semanticweb.org/wiki/RDF2Go

Then neo4j can maintain their own RDF2Go adapter.


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Day will take up the role on 2 April after four years at Portcullis, where he has worked for Standard Chartered Bank, Peugeot, chemicals company Ineos and Japanese pharmaceuticals company Takeda.
He will report to Amanda Pierce, the UK CEO of Burson-Marsteller, which last month hired UK public affairs veteran Kevin Bell as global public affairs chairman.
Day began his career working in Parliament in 2000 for the shadow secretary of state for trade and industry and the Conservative front bench.
His agency experience has also included roles at Euro RSCG Apex Communications, FleishmanHillard, Weber Shandwick and GPC International, working for clients such as News International, Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer and British Energy.


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E is twelve weeks pregnant this week. Do you believe that shizzle. I understand this may or may not mark the beginning of the second trimester. "Understand" being a rather strong word.
I have allowed myself to begin reflecting on the fact that our baby will probably be a Gemini.
Are Geminis not fantastic? I've known just a few intimately, but they are each spectacularly weird and wonderful people. People you remember your whole life kind of people. I would love a weird kid. One scenario I can actually imagine involving parenthood is having a moment with E in which we look at our kid doing something annoying or bizarre and then look at each other and just shake our heads and give each other a look that says: where the hell did this weirdo come from?
I can picture that.
On another note, I've thrice evaded death this week.
1. An elevator I was riding in free fell 20 stories before bouncing brutally to a halt. Nearly crapped myself.
2. On the way back to my office from Starbucks, a pair of electrician's shears came falling from the sky and landed -- point down -- mere inches from my feet. Hazards of working in midtown Manhattan, I suppose.
3. I just choked on a Smartie.
I have many blessings to count tomorrow.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.


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An Honest Mistake?
Melissa celebrates her anniversary and weighs in on the toast drama.
Hi lovers!
Today is my 8-year wedding anniversary to the love of my life. I'm very proud of the family we created together and the bond we have. Marriage is never easy; you constantly have to work on it. I put my all into my marriage and show Joe respect -- I respect him as a father and as a husband more than words can say. We are so blessed and I am grateful. He's truly the love of my life!
So we are still in Cali! How gorgeous is the estate we stayed at? Now this is vacation. It was truly breathtaking! The vineyard Chris and the boys took us to visit was so much fun. I had no idea it was supposed to be just business! The Manzo/Laurita clan didn't look so happy. Sorry, guys! We were on vacation and there was wine everywhere… I don't think we should have gone on that business trip! LOL! We probably should have stayed at the estate and let them do their business thing.
The surprise 50th birthday dinner for Caroline was so sweet and so special coming from her family. I love the bond that family has, they are unbreakable. Whenever I see them all together, I always think of my own family with one girl and two boys. I know we will be as happy as they are when I'm 50! God bless them. The speeches were perfect, and we all shed a tear!
When Teresa and I were talking in the RV, I thought it was hysterical! I was teasing her and she was laughing. It was perfect. I needed to explain to her that when she puts out these articles about her marriage and kids in a magazine and accepts a paycheck, then it's no longer just her business, it is now everyone's business. So she can't get upset when people discuss it. I felt like she was listening to me, but I'm not sure, because I just saw another one yesterday. To each their own. Just trying to help and get her past this hump. I did think Teresa was trying to make a nice toast, but the fact that she mentioned all the ladies besides Kathy ruined it. I can see why Kathy was upset and a little embarrassed. Relationships aren't about taking turns. It shouldn't be that it's either one relationship or the other. It might have just been an honest mistake. Not really sure, what do you guys think?
Well there's more California to come! Thank you all for being such great fans. I love reading all your tweets and beautiful comments. I heart you all!
All of my songs are on iTunes! Here's the link!
Catch a sneak peek of my new music video.
Follow me on Twitter for all the scoop @melissagorga and on Facebook.
Lots of Love,


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Very Hot Summer Tour
The last few years have been golden for swaggering country popster Thomas Rhett. Gaining popularity on both sides of the Atlantic since 2013's No.1 bop 'It Goes Like This' he's now heading out on his Very Hot Summer Tour in support of his third album 'Life Changes' which is full of a diverse batch of content and is said to be his biggest and boldest record in his career. Joining him on the road for the extensive series of dates is Dustin Lynch and Russell Dickerson, along with his father, hit songwriter Rhett Akins.
Born to the legendary country singer Rhett Akins, Thomas actually started out in the entertainment biz by helping out at his father's concerts on the drums. Luckily for us, that wasn't quite enough to contain his musical talents, and he began writing songs for Big Machine after dropping out of college. One such song happened to be a little-known ditty "I Ain't Ready to Quit" by one Jason Aldean, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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The owners of Rita's Italian Ice stores in New York and Connecticut are suing their former accounting firm and demanding $5 million in compensation in a lawsuit filed in federal court in White Plains, according to the Business Journal .
In the suit, filed in December, the DeAngelis family of Dutchess County, accuse their former accounting firm, Brendon Pierson Inc. of Wall Township, N.J., of malpractice, saying they committed a series of gross errors in services causing the company to suffered severe damages, the Journal said.
The suit also names company accountants Brendan J. Pierson and Jeffrey M. Kotch.
The firm handled the family's business and personal accounts including taxes, investments, and payroll, the Journal reported.
The family owns and operates Rita's stores in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, Peekskill, and Brooklyn, as well as in Danbury and Bethel, Conn.
The suit claims the problems began in 2011 when they sold several Dunkin' Donuts stores and the firm allegedly failed to file franchise tax returns. Years later, the family said they were notified of the oversight and fined by state and federal tax agencies, the Journal said.
They also claim that over the years the accounting firm failed to file required tax forms, including in their personal income taxes, resulting in the company suffering a tarnished credit rating, "fear of arrest, fear of people knocking on their home door, embarrassment and mental distress," the complaint said.
The family claim they repeatedly contacted the firm to fix the errors, but their requests were ignored and fell on deaf ears, the Journal said.
The complaint adds that because of the accounting firms errors the family was unable to open a business on Coney Island they have invested thousands of dollars in, as well having loans rejected, including a student loan for their son, the Journal reported.
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