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Organizations of every size may reap the rewards in identifying, attracting, and retaining top talent with an active social media program. This can help attract passive candidates and those in highly specialized and technical fields. Companies need to understand each channel and its unique benefits and features and be able to manage the related risks.
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According to the lawsuit he filed on Friday, July 7, 2017, Simon & Schuster refused to publish his most recent book, Dangerous, because of allegations that public statements he made condoned pedophilia[1].
What's a "Morals Clause"?
It's a provision routinely included in contracts for celebrity endorsers, professional athletes, newscasters, TV actors, and various other people whose effectiveness and/or salability depends upon the public's perception of them. Going back to 1972, Marilyn Chambers, the fresh faced young mother holding the infant on the Ivory Snow detergent box starred in Behind the Green Door, which was considered extremely hard core pornography at that time. This was obviously at odds with the pure and wholesome image Proctor & Gamble wanted the public to associate with its product. Typically, morals clauses allow the company to cancel the contract if the individual is charged with or convicted of a serious crime or conduct which is immoral or widely viewed by the public as reprehensible. The wording of these clauses varies considerably, though, such as in professional sports contracts, where Morals Clauses are very broad, covering any conduct that could reflect poorly upon the team.[2] Although most book publishing houses do not have Morals Clauses in their contracts, HarperCollins, one of the largest publishing houses, began routinely including them in 2011. However, apparently not running away from controversy, it has plans to publish Mr. Santa this Christmas, a children's book in which Santa is depicted as a gay black man in an interracial marriage. More about the very interesting concept and history of morality clauses below.
Can't Simon & Schuster Refuse to Publish any Book?
Yes – But not after they have signed a contract with the author, which they clearly did in Milo's case. The next question is whether saying something offensive in public can be grounds for refusing to publish the book, because statements about a sensitive subject that upset everyone will affect sales of the book, and after all, publishers enter into contracts to sell books. In his complaint, Milo makes out a very good case that Simon & Schuster was well aware of his notoriety and his penchant for making statements that many find offensive; after all, he had been routinely infuriating half of the universe of people who knew of him in the years before they agreed to publish his book. The answer is that the terms of each particular contract determine whether the publisher's refusal to go ahead with the publication will be legally justified, i.e., whether the author will succeed or not in his lawsuit accusing them of breaching his contract.
What Will the Main Issues be in Milo's Case?
The Publishing Agreement in Milo's case (Ex. "A" to his complaint, p. 40 of 83) did not contain a Morals Clause, but said that Simon & Schuster did not have to publish the book if, in its sole good faith judgment, the book was "not acceptable". Milo's complaint claims that the publisher decided to cancel the contract within hours of when the news story broke that Breitbart was considering dismissing him due to the pedophilia allegations. A few days later, the publisher sent a cancellation letter saying only that the work was "unacceptable for publication". Despite the fact that the contract required the publisher to give the reasons why the work was unacceptable, and to ask for whatever reasonable revisions, changes or supplements it wanted, the publisher completely failed to give any reason for its decision or to ask for any revisions at all. The publisher will have a difficult time explaining the e-mails and texts shortly before the cancellation that spoke very approvingly of the manuscript. According to the contract's terms, the publisher will have to argue that its determination that the work was "unacceptable" was in good faith. This will be extremely difficult in light of the complete failure to explain the reasons for the rejection, the failure to request any revisions at all, and the suspicious timing of the cancellation. This all supports Milo's position that Simon & Schuster decided to cancel the contract because of the pedophilia story. In other words, Simon & Schuster wishes it had included a Morals Clause in its contract, but it did not, so in my humble opinion, Milo will prevail in his case.
From Fatty Arbuckle to The House Un-American Activities Committee to Charlie Sheen to Brian Williams – How did Morals Clauses Come About and How Have They Been Used[3]?
Morals Clauses started in 1921 when Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, a very famous silent film star at that time, was arrested and charged with the rape and murder of a young starlet who had been found in his hotel room. Although the evidence against him was slim and he was found not guilty of all charges, the sensational "yellow journalism" of the day convicted him in the court of public opinion. Widespread outrage at "Hollywood Immorality" prompted the entertainment industry to use Morals Clauses in every contract to protect them from having to continue to pay stars who stepped in scandal, as well as to appease their audiences.
Thirty years later, the House Un-American Activities Committee, at the height of the Cold War in the early 1950s, investigated alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. In 1947, members of the "Hollywood 10" who refused to answer the Committee's questions, had their contracts terminated under Morals Clauses on the grounds that this shocked and offended the community and brought them into public scorn and contempt. The use of these clauses to terminate these people's contracts was routinely upheld by the courts[4] at that time.
The next big splash in this area was Charlie Sheen's contract for Two and a Half Men, which had a very weak Morals Clause,requiring commision of a felony offense involving moral turpitude. This put Warner Bros. TV on shaky legal ground for firing him despite his clearly outrageous behavior, and they had to fall back on the argument that his cocaine use impaired his ability to adequately perform. Sheen sued for $100M, and although the settlement was confidential, it was clearly substantial.
Fast forward to 2015, when Brian Williams, who had just signed a $10M contract with NBC, publicly gave several variations of a false account of a March 2003 helicopter ride during the U.S. invasion of Iraq which he was forced to take back and apologize. His credibility with the public plummeted, and NBC, which could clearly have terminated his contract based on an ironclad Morals Clause in his contract, decided on a six month unpaid suspension instead.
The long and short of this is that every contract is different, and the outcome in each situation is, and will continue to be, determined based on the wording the parties agreed upon when they sat down with their lawyers and made their deal.
[1] As everyone who follows Milo Yiannopoulos knows, he is openly gay, vigorously denies that he has ever advocated pedophilia, and claims that his widely publicized remarks which led to his departure from Breitbart News referred favorably to a relationship he had with a man who was 29 when he was 17. 16 was the legal age of consent in the UK, where this took place. Milo also posted a statement on his Facebook page (which is attached to his complaint as Ex. "I") denying that his public remarks ever condoned pedophilia. Whether Milo's remarks expressed approval of pedophilia or not is a question which is not addressed here; it is merely assumed that Milo made public statements which were very heavily criticized.
[2] The NFL contract, for example, allows the club to terminate the player, "if, at any time, in the sole judgment of the Club,….[the] player has engaged in personal conduct reasonably judged by the Club to adversely affect or reflect on the Club." , http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/cba/nfl-cba-2006-2012.pdf ¶ 11, p. 252.
[3] For an excellent history of the law in this area, see, Morals Clauses, Past, Present and Future, Caroline Epstein, NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law, Vol. 5, No. 1.
[4] Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. Lardner, 216 F.2d 844, (9th Cir. 1954); Scott v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 240 F.2d 87, (9th Cir. 1957)


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Glee Stars and Actors React to Cory Monteith's Death
Lea Michele and More of Cory Monteith's Co-Stars React to His Death
Lea Michele and More of Cory Monteith's Co-Stars React to His Death
The Glee cast met last week for a private ceremony commemorating the life of late castmember Cory Monteith, but they've also been expressing their feelings publicly. This week, Cory's long-time girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele finally broke her silence on Twitter. While his death has inspired an outpouring of emotional reactions from celebrities who knew and loved him, the news has undoubtedly hit his co-stars the hardest. Mike O'Malley (aka Burt Hummel) also recently spoke at the Summer TCA about working with Monteith on the Glee set. Click through to see the heartfelt messages from Monteith's fellow Glee stars and famous friends.
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More than 50 protesters chanting: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, sand frac mining has got to go!" greeted attendees arriving for a frac sand conference in Brooklyn Center on Monday evening.
A handful of Brooklyn Center police kept the protesters on the sidewalk and out of the way of traffic in front of the Earle Brown Heritage Conference Center, where the three-day Conference of Silica Sand Resources is underway. The event, run along side a ground water conference, has attracted 600 people, organizers say.
Harvey Benson, 81, came up from near the Iowa border where he lives in Harmony, Minn., joining other protesters from southeastern Minnesota., western Wisconsin and Iowa.
"My mother always told me to leave things as good or better than I found them, and I'd afraid this frac sand mining is going in the wrong direction," said Larson, who carried a sign warning: "Beware mining $$$ frenzy."
Diane Leutgeb Munson came on a bus with 35 protesters from Winona because "we want the people attending the conference to know how those of us 120 miles away who will be affected feel." She hopes to learn "who's showing up and who's investing" in the mining projects around Winona and Red Wing.
One of the conference organizers, engineering manager Louis Rudnicki from Maple Grove-based Tiller Corp., said the event is "educational not pro-mining." But he said some of the speakers include mining industry officials. Technical sessions on Tuesday will discuss regulatory, reclamation, transportation and water quality issues and attendees will go on a field trip Wednesday to sand mining operations in western Wisconsin.
"It's pretty vanilla," said Rudnicki, who welcomed protesters to attend the sessions if they pay the $140 registration fee. "That's the beauty of this country that people can voice their legitimate concerns. It all boils down to the human element."
He said mining officials and their employees "want to realize what this land has to offer" -- namely silica sand that can help natural gas flow from holes in the shale caused by hydro-fracturing.
"The protesters want an Earth they can pass down," he said. "We all have to take a step back and realize there is a right way to do this mining. There is a demand for the end products and we have to find a way to mine this sand responsibly."
Outside the center, Benson agreed that everyone needs to take a step back and "there is another side, I hate to admit it. I just think this is a serious situation that needs more study."
Kate Foerster came up from Winona, where she'd like to buy land to farm. "But this sand mining is driving up land prices, adding truck traffic and we have this great community with bluegrass and film festivals and that's going to go away if this industry takes over," said Foerster, carrying a sign which read: "There is no right way to do something so wrong."
Kathleen Bibus joined the picketers from her home near Red Wing, worried about "unrelenting sand truck traffic" and that her scenic bluff tops are in jeopardy of being flattened for the coveted silica sand.
Rudnicki said a few of the protesters have ponied up the $140 and plan to attend Tuesday's technical sessions.


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I came across this article today, and it gave me a pleasant surprise. I've had the public/private cloud debate many times over the past year, and to me a private cloud always wins. Basically it boils down to this, if your data is so valuable, why on earth would you put it in a public cloud? Yes, there's the cost argument, but that's like being back in 1999 and having a hosting company host your site. It's a only short term solution because the costs will and do come down.
I'm also glad that CFO's are wising up to the OpEX shuffle. It struck me as bizarre that no one ever bothered to look at the long term implications. It's like everyone was managing to the next quarter, maybe next year. But what about 3,4,5 years out – oh, right, someone else's problem because you won't be there anymore.


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WASHINGTON — Even as China scrambled fighter jets to enforce its newly declared air defense zone, the Obama administration said on Friday that it was advising American commercial airlines to comply with China's demands to be notified in advance of flights through the area.
While the United States continued to defy China by sending military planes into the zone unannounced, administration officials said they had made the decision to urge civilian planes to adhere to Beijing's new rules in part because they worried about an unintended confrontation.
Although the officials made clear that the administration rejects China's unilateral declaration of control of the airspace over a large area of the East China Sea, the guidance to the airlines could be interpreted in the region as a concession in the battle of wills with China.
"The U.S. government generally expects that U.S. carriers operating internationally will operate consistent with" notice requirements "issued by foreign countries," the State Department said in a statement, adding that that "does not indicate U.S. government acceptance of China's requirements."
The decision contrasted with that of Japan's government this week, when it asked several Japanese airlines, which were voluntarily following China's rules, to stop, apparently out of fear that complying with the rules would add legitimacy to Chinese claims to islands that sit below the now contested airspace. China's newly declared zone, experts say, is intended mainly to whittle away at Japan's hold on the islands, which it has long administered.
On Saturday, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said, "We will not comment on what other countries are doing with regard to filing flight plans." It was not immediately clear if the Obama administration had notified Japan, a close ally, of its decision.
An official at Japan's Transport Ministry said it had no immediate change to its advice to Japanese airlines.
The American decision drew criticism from some quarters. Stephen Yates, a former Asia adviser to Dick Cheney when he was vice president, said it was "a bad move" that would undercut allies in the region that take a different stance.
But Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state under Bill Clinton and now president of the Brookings Institution, said it was important to avoid an accident while drawing a firm line. "The principal option is to be extremely clear that disputes" over territory "must be resolved through diplomacy and not unilateral action," he said.
American officials said they began having talks with airlines on Wednesday and characterized the guidance Friday as simply following established international air protocols independent of any political deliberations. The American announcement came on the same day that Chinese state news media said that China sent jets aloft and that they identified two American surveillance planes and 10 Japanese aircraft in the air defense zone the country declared last weekend.
Although there was no indication that China's air force showed any hostile intent, the move raised tensions. The Chinese had also sent jets on patrol into the contested airspace the day before, but Xinhua, the state-run news agency, indicated that the planes on Friday were scrambled specifically to respond to foreign jets in the area.
Earlier in the week, the United States sent unarmed B-52s into the area, and they proceeded unimpeded. China then appeared to back down somewhat from its initial declaration that planes must file advance flight plans or face possible military action.
The administration's decision on Friday underscored the delicate position President Obama finds himself in, drawn into a geopolitical dispute that will test how far he is willing to go to contain China's rising regional ambitions.
China's move thrust the United States into the middle of the already prickly territorial clash between Beijing and Tokyo, a position the administration had avoided for months even while reiterating that the mutual defense treaty with Japan covers the islands. After the Chinese declaration last weekend, American officials feared that, if left unchallenged, the Chinese action would lead to ever greater claims elsewhere in the Pacific region.
But with planes flying so fast and in such proximity, the administration's worries grew that an accident or an unintended confrontation could spiral out of control. A midair collision between a Chinese fighter jet and an American spy plane off the coast of China in 2001 killed the fighter pilot and forced the spy plane to make an emergency landing on Hainan Island, setting off a diplomatic episode until Beijing released the American crew and sent the plane back, broken into parts.
"The challenge here, as with April 2001, is when you have an unexpected crisis, things escalate very, very quickly without any plans for de-escalation," said Jon M. Huntsman Jr., Mr. Obama's first ambassador to China. "That's one of the big challenges we have in the U.S.-China relationship."
One of the biggest challenges for Mr. Obama will be navigating the complicated personalities of leaders in Tokyo and Beijing. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, a strong nationalist, has vowed to stand firm against any Chinese encroachments, while President Xi Jinping of China has recently taken over as leader and has promised to advance a strong foreign policy meant to win his country more recognition as an international power.
The two countries have been at odds for years over the uninhabited islands known as Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese. The United States does not take a position on the dispute.
Although administration officials believe China's actions are mainly meant to give it an advantage in its struggle with Japan over the islands, experts on Asia say they also fit China's larger goal of establishing itself as the dominant power in the region, displacing the United States.
Administration officials said they decided to proceed with routine military training and surveillance flights so as not to legitimize China's assertion of control over the airspace or encourage it to establish a similar air zone over the South China Sea, where it has other territorial disputes. China had said it expected to set up other air defense zones, and experts said they expected one to cover that sea.
"We don't want this to be the first in what would be a series of assertive moves," said an administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a delicate diplomatic matter. "The whole area's fraught."
Mr. Obama is sending Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the region next week, when he will meet with Mr. Xi and Mr. Abe as well as South Korea's leader. Although the trip was previously scheduled, it will put Mr. Biden in the center of the dispute, and aides said he would deliver a message of caution to both sides to avoid escalation.
Many countries, including the United States and Japan, have air defense zones, but the coordinates of the Chinese zone overlap those of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Peter Dutton, the director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the United States Naval War College, said the new air zone also gives China a legal structure to intercept American surveillance flights in international airspace, which have long irritated Beijing. "It is clear that the Chinese do not seek regional stability on any level," he said. "They intend to be disruptive in order to remake the Asian regional system in accordance with their preferences."


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Weekly 2009 H1N1 Flu Media Briefing
October 06, 2009, 12:00 p.m.
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Operator: Welcome, and thank you all for standing by. At this time I would like to remind parties that your lines are in a listen-only mode until the questions and answer session. To ask a question, please press star 1 on your touch-tone phone. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time.I will now turn the meeting over to Glen Nowak. Thank you, sir. You may begin.
Glen Nowak: Thank you, and thank you all for being here and for dialing in today for this update on H1N1, including H1N1 vaccine supply and distribution. Today's update will be conducted by Dr. Thomas Frieden, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And I will turn the podium over to Dr. Frieden. Thank you.
Thomas Frieden: Thanks, Glen. And thanks for being here. What I would like to do is update you where with are with the virus, where we are with the vaccine, and what we're beginning to see in terms of both of them. Also to discuss some of the concerns that we have been hearing out in the field about the vaccine in particular. As of today, influenza is widespread in most of the United States. We're seeing it continuing to increase in some areas. We're seeing a slight decrease in some areas. We note that it's now present throughout the United States. It's still remains overwhelming H1N1 pandemic influenza and influenza is a tough enemy. It's unpredictable, and one of our biggest challenges is continuing to anticipate what it might do next.Although there has been a slight decrease nationally and in some areas, in other areas it's still on the upswing. We wish we could predict the future. But we can't. We do know that flu season generally lasts well into May. So, we've got many, many months ahead of us where we don't know what will happen and we need to take the best steps we can to protect ourselves.
Vaccine efforts are starting. All states in the U.S. have ordered vaccine. It is being delivered and each Friday, we'll provide information on the amount of vaccine available to each state and the amount of vaccine each state has ordered. That's a little complicated, because as I have explained before, what we have decided to do is make vaccine available as soon as it comes off the production line. That means, it's coming available in lots, and states learn each day, of additional vaccine available to them. It's a little bit of a messy process and we do expect it to be somewhat bumpy in the first few weeks. This is the best way to get the vaccine out and available as soon as it becomes available.This week, the flu vaccine became available in the internasal variety. Next week, it will become available in the injectable variety. The first flu vaccinations of the season were done yesterday in many states throughout the country, with a priority on health care workers and children as well as people who care for infants. Flu mist, being only able to be used for people age 2 to 49 and who do not have an underlying health problem.
With the production of this strain, we have cut no corners. This flu vaccine is made as flu vaccine is made each year. By the same companies. In the same production facilities. With the same procedures. With the same safety, safeguards. We have had literally hundreds of millions of people vaccinated against flu with flu vaccine made in this way. That enables us to have a high degree of confidence in the safety of the vaccine.It has an excellent safety record. We wished we had the vaccine earlier. It would have been great to have had it back in April or May. But the current science doesn't allow us to produce it really in much less than six months, and that's what it has taken to produce it at this time.
People have concerns about vaccination. People always have concerns about vaccinations and that's understandable. We would all rather if we didn't have to take any shots or take any medicine and stay healthy. But vaccines are one of the truly great scientific inventions, really of science, for -- going back for hundreds of years to the first vaccination. And the flu vaccination, being tried and true, is very effective. What we're seeing still is an excellent match between the virus that's spreading throughout the U.S. and the strain that was chosen to make the vaccine against. So, we expect a very good match, a very good degree of efficacy of the vaccine. It will work to protect you if you get it in time. Three major concerns that people have, despite the clear message from all of us in public health and from doctors throughout the health care field that vaccine is our best tool to protect against the flu. Vaccine is the best tool to protect against the flu, because, not only does it prevent people from becoming severely ill, it also prevents the spread of flu. The first concern that we hear is, oh, flu is just a mild illness. Actually, on average, flu is not a mild illness. It can make you pretty sick, knock you out for a day or two or three. Make you miss school and work. And for too many people end up sending them to the hospital, to the intensive care unit and tragically some people may die from it. In fact, this year already, we have seen quite a few children who have died from flu. So, although it is not a disease that will send lots of people who get it – a large proportion of people who get it – to the hospital, it can be very serious and even for those for whom it's an average case, it's no picnic. You would rather avoid it for yourself and your kids. The best way to do that is with vaccine. The second concern we hear is that the vaccine may not be safe. That corners may be cut. That shortcuts may have taken. It's a new or different vaccine. In fact, none of that is the case. The vaccine is made in the same way it's made each year. Each year, we look at the strains that are circulating and we select the ones that likely to be in the population. We put those into the flu vaccine. That's exactly what has been done in this case. It is against specifically H1N1 influenza. It is made in the same production facilities with the same companies with the same methods as it is made each year. And it is the same type of vaccine of which hundreds of millions of doses have been given. My children will get it. Other public health and societal leaders and experts will get it, will have their families get it. It's something that we have a high degree of confidence in. Third concern, it is too late for the vaccine. Well, it's too soon to say it's too late. We don't know what the rest of the season will bring. Even in places where flu has been widespread it's affected 5% to 10%. That leads 90% to 95% of the population that's still susceptible. Flu vaccine is our best tool to protect against the flu. And though we wish we had it earlier, we can't predict what the future will hold and we know that vaccination is our best tool to reduce the impact of flu.
Just to let you know where we stand now, all states have placed orders. More than 2 million doses have been ordered. Nearly all of the doses that are available. More doses are becoming available each day. When the states learn that vaccines becomes available, they place an order, which doesn't just order one big supply, it orders it by the provider. So, the states at each state level, they identify a certain number of people who will receive or facilities which will receive the vaccine and how many doses they will receive. The state then allocates it out to different providers to receive vaccine. The different formulations of the vaccine. The flu mist or the shots. The shots can come in single dose vials or multiple dose vials. All of that has to be factored in when the ordering is done. It's then shipped from four different warehouses. Temperature-controlled -- It stays at the same temperature until it gets to the place where it will actually be given or further distributed to be given. If it's the shot, rather than flu mist, it travels together with, about the same time as, injectable materials, needles, syringes, alcohol swabs. It's a very big and complex undertaking. It will be different in different parts of the country. Some parts of the country will do lots of school-located vaccination. Some places won't do so much. Some places may be better prepared than others. Our goal is to help as many places as possible to prepare as well as possible. So they can start as soon as possible and vaccinate as large of a proportion of people who want to get vaccinated as soon as possible. And with that, I'll stop and take questions. We'll start with the room. Any questions here?
Reporter: Hello, I'm Rebecca from CBS Atlanta. There seems to be some confusion in the some of the states and local governments as to how to disperse the vaccine, given such a small amount in this initial distribution, have you all been giving them guidance to how to distribute the vaccine?
Thomas Frieden: These are early days for vaccination. We have only a small number of doses available. The injectable vaccine will become available next week. And, initially, for the flu mist, the groups that are best to vaccinate with that, are young, healthy people, like health care workers, as well as people who care for infants, as well as school children. It's really up to the state to figure out what will work best. There is not a prioritization within the priority groups. All of those groups are priority. When the shot's gone, we want the five key priority groups to be vaccinated first. Pregnant women, health care workers, individuals who have underlying health problems, people who care for infants under the age of 6 and school children and young adults up to the age of 24 years.
Joanne Silberner: One of the questions we have gotten from some of our listeners at NPR.If there's a problem, and it's unlikely there's a problem with the vaccine, how long before you knew it and how long they would know it?
Thomas Frieden: There have been initial studies from the clinical trials that have shown, nothing to be particularly concerned about in the trials that have been public so far. We look at that very carefully. We have a number of different systems in place. Using a variety of sources including health plans and others. The vaccine problems that could occur, would likely occur at a very low rate. 1 per 100,000. 1 per million. It would take some time to know there was a problem. On the other hand, there's no reason to think there would be more problem with this vaccine than with the vaccine each year. We expect that there will be concerns for problems. For example, we know that many people, each week, develop health problems, whether it's a miscarriage, or a heart attack, a hospitalization for a heart problem, even tragically a sudden death, and that those problems will not be prevented by the flu vaccine. Some people who get the flu vaccine will experience some bad outcome and we will look at each report to see if it's related and if, in the overall group, there's any sign of an increased rate of adverse events, we'll share that information publicly. We're committed to transparency. We'll go to the phone for the first call.
Operator: Thank you. At this time if you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your touchtone phone. Our first question is from Betsy McKay, Wall Street Journal. Your line is open.
Betsy McKay: My question was about distribution. I wondered if states are learning each week how much they can order only for the next week, or do they get any advanced notice of how much they'll be able to order later this month or in November. Is advance ordering something you're able to let them do, given the production schedule?
Thomas Frieden: We have the anticipated schedule for the next few months. Obviously, the further out it gets, less certainty we have. At least for the next few weeks, we have a pretty high degree of certainty that the vaccine will be available as per what the manufacturers have told us and we're hoping and advising states that they should be actively planning for vaccination programs and anticipating that the vaccine will be available in substantial quantity by the middle of October.
Mike Stobbe: Thank you.Mike Stobbe from the AP. Doctor, can you give us an updated number about how many doses will be available this week? I think you used the figure 2 million. Also, is demand outstripping supply, or is supply outstripping demand at this point?
Thomas Frieden: This week, as of yesterday, about 2.4 million doses were available for ordering.About 2.2 million of them had been drawn down or ordered by this week. Each day, as more vaccine is cleared, more vaccine becomes available for ordering, each Friday we'll provide the totals.Some which would have become available that Thursday or Friday. We're trying to make sure that we cut as much time as possible off the cycles to get it out and available for providers to vaccinate.To do that, means a little bit of messiness with how it comes out. Each day each state checks for their allocation. If there's a problem – even a minor problem with any of the vaccine in any of the warehouses, we don't have it available for ordering.We need to make sure it's safe and temperature-controlled. Before we allow it to be released to the states. So there is some lack of certainty. We have a high degree of confidence by middle October, we'll have substantial amounts of flu vaccine available. Clearly at this point, we have only some vaccine and not everyone can receive that vaccine. Demand is outstripping supply.We expect that fairly soon, supply may well begin outstripping demand. The challenge will be to try to ensure that people who would benefit the most have every opportunity to be vaccinated. On the phone?
Operator: Our next question is from Alice Park, Time Magazine, your line is open.
Alice Park: A question about the supply issue. Looking ahead, did the calculations that the CDC made as far as the ordering include the potential that more and more individual entities would mandate the vaccine for their health care workers. For example, I understand that in New York, which has mandated it for the entire state that right now, they're having problems with getting the seasonal vaccine in enough supply? Can you just address whether those initial calculations took into account that there might be more entities mandating the vaccine, therefore you might have a higher rate of compliance or demand for the vaccine than you have had in previous seasons?
Thomas Frieden: We're very confident that there will be plenty of vaccine for everyone who wants to be vaccinated. Unfortunately, it won't be available when everyone would like to be vaccinated. We're getting it out as rapidly as possible. States are signing up providers. Providers will then receive it from directly from the manufacturer. The information should be available to the public through the state health department, either on the website or through call numbers to find out the details of where it will be available.But that's not ready quite yet because, there are not large quantity-- there is not a large quantity of vaccine available today out there to be given for H1N1. Seasonal flu vaccine, although there are some areas have had less, there are well over 50 million doses already distributed earlier than is distributed generally in each flu season. So we're confident there will be plenty of both seasonal and H1N1 vaccine for those who people who want to be vaccinated. We're particularly prioritizing those key groups I spoke about earlier. On the phone?
Operator: Next is from Karen Denice, CNN. Your line is open.
Karen Denice: Thank you for taking my question, are you seeing any mutation in the virus at this point and are you concerned at some point, that the vaccine will not match the virus as we continue through the season and we get seasonal flu and H1N1 both out there?
Thomas Frieden: Our biggest concern is that the virus could change, could mutate to become more deadly. We have seen nothing to suggest that that would be the case. So far, in fact, the virus has been quite stable genetically.It hasn't changed much at all from when it first emerged back in April and May to the most recent samples that are available from laboratories around the country and around the world.The part of the virus that determines whether or not it's very deadly is a different part of the virus that determines whether or not you're going to be protected by the vaccine. That's good news. Because, it means that the vaccine that we have now, which is very effective, very highly, tightly matched with the virus that's spreading is likely to protect you even if this virus were to become more deadly. And the match is excellent right now of the more than 1,000 samples that have been looked at from around the world.The vaccine strain is right in the middle of that genetic variability and the variability is very small.That means that we do expect there will be a high level of match and a high level of effectiveness for this particular vaccine against this particular virus. Clearly the most concerning possibility is the possibility that it could mutate, either to become more deadly or to not match the vaccine. Right now, neither of those things have happened.On the phone? Another from the phone?
Operator: Robert Bazell from NBC News, your line is open.
Robert Bazell: Several local and state health departments have had to cancel seasonal vaccine influenza programs because of, they haven't gotten orders when they wanted to, and San Francisco and some other places have had to cancel novel vaccine programs that they had, because it becomes clear that even though they placed an order, promised an order on a certain date, the vaccine ends up not coming.Can we expect a lot of that in the days, weeks and months ahead?
Thomas Frieden: As we anticipate, the first couple of weeks are going to be bumpy.As we get the supply chain worked out, as the manufacturers deliver or don't deliver on time, as there are problems identified or not identified with some of the initial shipments. But, I think what we're seeing now, is the tap beginning to flow. We're seeing substantial quantity of vaccine beginning to get out.In an average flu season, we get out about 25 million flu doses per month. And we're going to have by the middle of this month, within the next two to three weeks, we're going to have tens of millions of doses available.So I think, although it won't be everywhere, it will be widely available in the next few weeks. From that point on, I think we're going to be comfortable overall with supply, increasingly comfortable, as the season goes on.From the room?
Beth Galvin: Thank you.Beth Galvin with Fox 5. What would you say to people who are not in the priority group who are very eager and might become frustrated if they don't get vaccine soon, what your advice be for that group?
Thomas Frieden: One of the groups who can get vaccinated right now if there is vaccine available locally, are people who are healthy, age 25 to 49 who can get flu mist. That's not one of the priority groups, and there is vaccine available.It will be a while before vaccine is widely available. We wish it was available for everyone now.Technology doesn't enable that to happen. Perhaps in a few years, we'll have new technologies which will allow that to happen, but that doesn't help us for this year.For this year, we ask people to remember there are simple things that you can do to protect yourself against the flu. You can stay home if you're sick, very important.Cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze. And wash your hands often.
Those three simple things can make a really big difference in how widely flu spreads this year. On the phone?
Operator: The next is from Lauren Neergard, Associated Press. Your line is open.
Lauren Neergard: Kind of a technical question that has to do with ensuring that children under 10 get their two doses. I wonder what advice are you giving to some of these providers to make sure they actually have enough on hand to give the kids a second dose, are you telling them to plan ahead and partial out that much and keep it on hand for the three-week return visit?
Thomas Frieden: We do anticipate that children age 9 and below will need two doses. We don't have the final data on that yet. We ask that places ot hold vaccine back. More will be coming. Vaccinate as many people as you can now. That second dose, which is generally given three to four weeks after the first dose, there will be plenty more to provide then. On the phone?
Operator: Next is from Jon Cohen, Science Magazine. Your line is open
Jon Cohen: Hi, thanks. You said you had an anticipated schedule, can you tell us what it is or make it public.Also, you said that right now, supply isn't meeting demand. Yet, that conflicted with requests for the 2.4 million doses, only being 2.2 million.
Thomas Frieden: We can provide information and we will each Friday. It's information that changes day-to-day as manufacturers figure out how much is ready for shipping and to clarify, vaccine goes from the manufacturers to a central distributor, and from the central distributor, onward to providers or to health departments to actually vaccinate. I'm sorry, the second part of your question was about? Supply and demand. The 2.4 million available was the first 2.4 million doses. Some states were figuring out exactly where they wanted to spend or send those doses. So far nearly all of that 2.2 million has been called down. It will take some time to get the whole system from the manufacturer through the distributor, to the providers and to people who want to get vaccinated up and running. One of the things that this weekend and next, will provide is something of a dry run. Not enough vaccine around. Although we wish we had more, some can get vaccinated. It will get us ready to get a running start on vaccination come mid to late October.
Mike Stobbe: Thanks. Mike from the AP again. Doctor, you mentioned once or twice the possibility in such a situation that a problem was identified in the shipments, I guess at the production facility, has that happened yet? Have there been any problems identified with swine flu vaccine?
Thomas Frieden: There has been no vaccine that has been found to problematic in any way.But each year, each time we do vaccination programs, we're meticulous at tracking and tracing each of the lots of vaccine. That is particularly important not just to ensure that that's safe, but also, if there's a problem either with safety or with it seeming not to work, low efficacy, to know was there was any point in the chain, at which the cold chain was compromised in which it went too cold or two warm with a narrow band it's supposed to be in. It's just a question of verifying that things are working well. We have not had any vaccine so far rejected because of any problem. Two more questions. On the phone.
Operator: Next is from Todd Neal, Medpage Today. Your line is open.
Todd Neal: I have a couple of nonvaccine questions. I was wondering how hospitals and emergency departments are faring during this outbreak?Are hospitals being overwhelmed or stretched to capacity in any parts of this country? Also, is CDC making any recommendations about restricting visitation to patients hospitalized suspected or confirmed H1N1?
Thomas Frieden: With we have seen, in places with lots of H1N1, are real stresses particularly on the emergency departments. Largely from people who are coming in because they're very worried about influenza, may have influenza, but probably don't need to be in a hospital emergency department. On the other hand if you have an underlying health condition, if you're pregnant, if you've got diabetes or heart disease or lung disease or a child with difficulty breathing, it's very important when you have the flu to get treated promptly. It's a complicated message and getting that understood and acted on effectively in communities throughout the U.S. is very challenging. We do see some stresses on emergency departments. We have not so far seen problems with intensive care units being overwhelmed with people who need respiratory support or ventilatory support or breathing machines. That's something that we're tracking closely. That would be a great concern. One of the things that hospitals can do to reduce the risk is to limit the number of visitors. But that's a balance between the emotional well being and recovery of the patient. That's something that we can provide general information for health care facilities about, but really it's a facility by facility decision at this point. One more question on the phone.
Operator: Next is from Robert Lowes, Medscape. Your line is open.
Robert Lowes: Yes, doctor, I have two questions, one is, there are recommendations to have patients who are, who have underlying conditions, receive a pneumonia vaccine? Is there any concern in your agency there may not be enough pneumonia vaccine?
Thomas Frieden: Pneumonia vaccine is effective, it works, and it's underused.We need more people to get pneumonia vaccine, and if you get the flu, it protects you against one of the more serious complications of the flu. At this point, we haven't seen a shortage of pneumonia vaccine in the market and we hope, in contrast, we will see increased uptake in pneumonia vaccine. You had a second question.
Robert Lowes: Yes, there's one poll which, by Harvard Public School of Health, that showed that only about 50% of American adults plan to get vaccinated and only about 40% were absolutely certain they would, are you going to do anything special to respond to that, I guess, lack of motivation to get vaccinated, any special program, or outreach plan?
Thomas Frieden: There have been several different polls that are somewhat variable in their findings. Most of them find that most people want to and plan to get vaccinated. What will actually happen will depend on a lot of things. How easy it is to get vaccinated, people don't like going out of their way to get vaccinated. And addressing the three concerns that I talked about earlier, understanding that flu isn't always mild, it can kill you, understanding that this vaccine is made in the same way that the seasonal flu vaccine is made, hundreds of millions of doses with an excellent safety record, and understanding that even though the flu may be here in your community and may even already be decreasing in your community, it's a great idea to get vaccinated because you don't know what the rest of this long flu season is going to hold. We have not had a flu season like this in at least 50 years. Unless there are any questions from the room, I think– Well, thank you very much for your interest. It's a real challenge to balance for the public, information about the vaccine, information about the virus, understanding whether it's in the cases of emergency departments, they need to get care promptly on the one hand if you're really sick or have an underlying health condition but not to go to the emergency department if you've got an average flu, and can see your doctor or, are able to care for yourself at home. And similarly with vaccine, to ups that people do have concerns about safety and about whether it's necessary. But in fact, the flu vaccine is our best weapon against the flu. We're fortunate to have the vaccine here. Would have been great to have it earlier. But it's starting to become available, but in the next few weeks will become widely available. Thank you very much.
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Caddo Indians
Before the middle of the nineteenth century the term Caddo denoted only one of at least twenty-five distinct but closely affiliated groups centered around the Red River in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The term derives from the French abbreviation of Kadohadacho, a word meaning "real chief" or "real Caddo" in the Kadohadacho dialect. European chroniclers referred to the Caddo groups as the Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches confederacies, although the "confederacies" are better interpreted as kin-based affiliated groups or bands of Caddo communities. The Hasinai groups lived in the Neches and Angelina River valleys in East Texas, the Kadohadacho groups on the Red River in the Great Bend area, and the Natchitoches groups on the Red River in the vicinity of the French post of Natchitoches (Fort St. Jean Baptiste aux Natchitos), established in 1714. The first European description of the Caddo peoples came in 1542 from diarists traveling with the De Soto entrada, then led by Luis de Moscoso Alvarado (Hernando De Soto had died in the spring of 1542). The Spanish described several of the Caddo groups as having dense populations living in scattered settlements and having abundant food reserves of corn. Twentieth-century archeological investigations of many prehistoric Caddoan sites indicate that Caddo communities were widely dispersed throughout the major and minor stream valleys of the Caddoan area by around A.D. 800. The roots of these peoples can be traced to Fourche Maline or Woodland Period culture groups that began to settle down in small communities, to manufacture ceramics for cooking and storage of foodstuffs, and to develop a horticultural way of life based on the raising of tropical cultigens (corn, squash, and later beans) and certain native plants.
The development of prehistoric Caddo culture may have been the result of several factors, including: (a) the rise, elaboration, and maintenance of complex social and political symbols of authority, ritual, and ceremony (centering on the construction, dismantling, remodeling, and use of earthen temple and burial mounds); (b) the development of elite status positions within certain Caddo communities; (c) increased sedentary life; and (d) the expanding reliance on tropical cultigens in the economy, with an intensification in the use of maize agriculture after about A.D. 1200. Regardless of the processes involved, it is clear that after about A.D. 900, the Caddo groups were complex and socially ranked societies with well-planned civic-ceremonial centers, conducted elaborate mortuary rituals and ceremonial practices, and engaged in extensive interregional trade. Caddoan societies shared much with their Mississippian neighbors, particularly the adoption of maize and the development of maize agricultural economies, as well as systems of social authority and ceremony.
In prehistoric times, the Caddos lived in dispersed communities of grass and cane covered houses, with the communities composed of isolated farmsteads, small hamlets, a few larger villages, and the civic-ceremonial centers. These centers had earthen mounds used as platforms for temple structures for civic and religious functions, for burials of the social and political elite, and for ceremonial fire mounds. The largest communities and the most important civic-ceremonial centers were primarily located along the major streams-the Red, Arkansas, Little, Ouachita, and Sabine rivers. The Caddo peoples developed a successful horticultural economy based on the cultivation of maize, beans, and squash, as well as such native cultigens as maygrass, amaranth, chenopods, and sunflowers. By about A.D. 1300 most Caddoan groups were consuming large amounts of maize, and this plant was clearly the most important food source for them after that time. Several varieties of corn were cultivated, an early or "little corn," harvested in July, and the "flour corn," harvested in September at the harvest of the Great Corn. Deer was the most important source of meat to the Caddos, who exploited bison and bear for their furs and meat. After the introduction of the horse in the late seventeenth century, the Caddos began to participate in winter communal bison hunts on the prairies to the west of their settlements.
They developed long-distance trade networks in prehistoric times. Important items of trade were bison hides, salt, and bois d'arc bows, along with copper, stone, turquoise, and marine shell used for gorgets, cups, and dippers, as well as finished objects such as pottery vessels and large ceremonial bifaces. Many of the more important trade items were obtained from great distances (e.g., turquoise from New Mexico, copper from the Great Lakes, and marine shell from the Gulf Coast), and these items were often placed as grave goods in the burials of the social and political elite. The Caddo peoples had a sophisticated technology based on the use of clay, stone, bone, wood, shell, and other media for the manufacture of tools, clothing, ceramic vessels, basketry, ornaments, and other material items. The Caddos are particularly well known for the beautiful artistic and functional ceramic wares they made of many forms and functions, and the ceramics are considered some of the finest aboriginal pottery manufactured in North America. Stone was fashioned into arrowheads, and the Caddos also made ground stone celts and axes for use in removing trees and turning over the soil. They made bone into awls, beamers, digging implements, and hoes, as well as ornaments, beads, and whistles. Hoes and digging tools were also made of freshwater mussel shells, while marine shells obtained through trade were used in the production of shell pendants, gorgets, beads, and cups.
The Caddos traced descent through the maternal line rather than the paternal. Matrilineality was reflected in kinship terms, as the father and father's brothers were called by the same term as the mother and the mother's sisters. The Caddos recognized and ranked clans. Marriage typically occurred between members of different clans. Religious and political authority in historic Caddoan society rested in a hierarchy of key positions within and between the various affiliated communities and groups. The xinesi inherited a position of spiritual leadership, the caddi the position of principal headman of a community (also a hereditary leadership position), and the canahas the position of subordinate headmen or village elders. The Caddo people turned to the xinesi for mediation and communication with the supreme god, the Caddi Ayo, for religious leadership and decision-making influence between allied villages and in leading certain special rites, including first-fruits, harvest, and naming ceremonies. The xinesi imbued everyday life with the supernatural. The caddi was primarily responsible for making the important political decisions for the community, sponsoring important ceremonies, leading councils for war expeditions, and conducting the calumet (or peace pipe) ceremony with visitors to the communities. The most influential and politically astute Caddo leaders or caddices in historic times were Tinhiouen (from ca. 1760 to 1789) and Dehahuit (from ca. 1800 to 1833) of the Kadohadachos, and Iesh or José María (from about 1842 to 1862) of the Anadarko or Nadaco tribe.
At the time of sustained European (Spanish and French) contact with the Caddo groups in the late seventeenth century, Caddo peoples lived on the Red River and in East Texas. European populations-living in missions, ranches, and trading posts-increased throughout the eighteenth and into the early nineteenth century in the Red River valley and in the vicinity of Natchitoches and Nacogdoches, important fur trading centers, while epidemics between 1691 and 1816 greatly reduced Caddo populations. At the same time, the Caddo peoples participated in the fur trade, traded guns, horses, and other items to Europeans and other Indians, and developed new trade and economic networks. The resulting economic symbiosis between the Caddo groups and Europeans was an important means of acculturation because great quantities of European goods became available to the Caddo. While the Hasinai Caddo groups continued to live through the 1830s in their traditional East Texas homeland in the Neches and Angelina River valleys, the Kadohadacho groups moved off the Red River in the 1790s to get away from Osage depredations and slave-raiding. Their new settlements were between the Sabine River and Caddo Lake, generally along the boundary between the territory of Louisiana and the province of Texas. Most of the Kadohadachos remained in the Caddo Lake area until about 1842, although with the cession of Caddoan lands in Louisiana in 1835 and increased Texas settlement, other Kadohadacho moved to the Brazos River in north central Texas. By the early 1840s, all Caddo groups had moved to the Brazos River area to remove themselves from Anglo-American repressive measures and colonization efforts. They remained there until they were placed on the Brazos Indian Reservation in 1855, and then in 1859 the Caddos (about 1,050 people) were removed to the Washita River in Indian Territory (now western Oklahoma) with the help of Robert S. Neighbors, superintendent of Indian affairs in Texas.
During the Civil War most of the Caddo groups abandoned the Indian Territory and resettled in southern and eastern Kansas, but they moved back to the Wichita Reservation in 1867. By 1874 the boundaries of the Caddo reservation were defined, and the separate Caddo tribes agreed to unite as the unified Caddo Indian Tribe. Under the terms of the General Allotment Act of 1887, the Caddo reservation was partitioned in 1902 a 160-acre allotment for each enrolled Caddo, and the remaining lands were opened for White settlement. The Caddo peoples continue to live in western Oklahoma, primarily in Caddo County near the Caddo Indian Tribe's Tribal Complex, outside Binger, Oklahoma.


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Huawei recently announced the mid-range Huawei A199 smartphone in its home country. This handset was previously leaked by @evleaks as the Huawei Ascend G710. However, the manufacturer decided to launch this device with a brand new name in China. The Huawei A199 packs a 5 inch HD display and a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor.
This handset runs on the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Operating System with Huawei's Emotion UI on top of it. Huawei A199 also comes with dual-mode dual-SIM support, which works perfectly on a CDMA network as well as on a GSM network at the same time. Check out the complete specs below.
Huawei Ascend A199 features a 5 inch HD touch screen display, sporting a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, 1.5 GHz Huawei K3V2 quad-core processor, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS, Huawei Emotion UI, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with auto-focus and LED flash, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and so on.
It also comes with the usual 3.5 mm headset jack, Wi-Fi 801.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity, Bluetooth, DLNA, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, Micro SD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, A-GPS, MicroUSB 2.0, Google Play Store and a 2150 mAh battery.
The China Telecom logo is placed right below the camera. It clearly indicates that the Huawei A199 will be available for China Telecom subscribers at launch. This handset is also expected to be available for China Unicom subscribers in the coming days. The price of this device will be announced soon. Stay tuned!


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text: Following some evidence suggesting that the one good thing Kanye West got out of his fashion collection was a new girlfriend, model Chanel Iman, it appears that the megastar has decided to go back to his day job, for the time being. The rapper is joining Maroon 5's Adam Levine to perform at the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and it looks like both boys have an ulterior motive. Levine has been seriously involved with Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna and Kanye's paramour has her own a set of Angel wings. It's obvious that Kanye's handling the disappointment of his fashion show really well: the best way to treat heartbreak is to go back to the things you love, and in Kanye's case, that's music, fashion, and models.


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Chromecast may be incomplete, but it's still cool
Google's (GOOG) Chromecast is not the first device to allow users to watch Internet videos on big-screen TVs, but it might have the most potential.
The new digital media adapter is cheap, small, simple to configure and easy to use. It's also flexible enough to work with Android smartphones and tablets, Apple's (AAPL) iPhones, iPads and Macs and Windows PCs.
But it can't do things that many of its rivals can, such as allow you to watch on your TV pictures or movies stored on your phone or computer.
In short, it feels like a great beta product. It has a lot of potential and a low, low price, but it's not yet fully developed.
Launched by Google last month, Chromecast costs just $35, making it one of the least-expensive digital media adapters available. Its also one of the smallest; it's about the size and shape of a USB flash drive, which allows it to plug in discretely behind your TV.
Unlike rival devices, Chromecast doesn't have a user interface of its own or run any apps itself or link to any Internet channels. Instead, everything you watch on it has to be sent to it from either the Chrome browser on your computer or from an app on your smartphone or tablet.
When you "send" a video from your smartphone to Chromecast, the video is actually streamed directly from the Internet to the digital media adapter, rather than getting relayed from your phone.
By going the direct route, Chromecast avoids draining your mobile devices' batteries and allows you to watch other videos on your smartphones or tablets without interrupting the one on the TV.
I found Chromecast easy to set up. You plug it into an HDMI port and then power it up by connecting it to a USB port on your TV -- if you've got one -- or to a power outlet.
You then connect it to Wi-Fi using the Chrome browser on your computer, which, once you download a plug-in for Chrome, automatically detects the device.
That's a lot easier than the process on rival devices, which typically force you to type in Wi-Fi passwords and account information using a remote control to navigate an on-screen keyboard.
Once you've installed the plug-in, you'll see in the upper-right corner of Chrome a button that allows you to "cast" whole browser windows or Web videos to your TV. That same button shows up in compatible apps on iPhones, iPads and Android devices. If you tap the button while watching a movie in the Netflix (NFLX) app, the app will send that video to your TV.
The process isn't instaneous, but it's simple and works fairly quickly. Even though the mobile apps don't actually stream videos to Chromecast, they can still control them.
Buttons and progress bars in the app allow you to pause, restart, fast-forward and rewind videos or songs.
One cool thing about the way Chromecast works is that you can jump from one device to another to control it. You can start a Netflix video on your Galaxy S4 smartphone and then pause or rewind it on your iPad.
Unfortunately Chromecast is limited by having few compatible apps or services. On mobile devices, Chromecast is only compatible with Netflix, YouTube and Google's movies and music apps. And on computers, it only works with the Chrome browser.
Because of those limitations, there's no way to use Chromecast to enjoy content stored on your computer or mobile device.
You can't use it to watch the home movie that's saved to your PC or view the pictures you just took on your smartphone.
Nor can you use it to listen to the songs you've stored on your PC. And you can forget about using it to watch anything you've bought from Apple's iTunes.
Unlike Apple TV, Chromecast can't beam to your TV what's displayed on other nearby devices.
So, you can't use it to play mobile games on your TV or to display a PowerPoint presentation you've stored on your laptop.
While Hulu, Pandora, Spotify and other popular entertainment apps aren't yet compatible with Chromecast, you can use the device to access some of those services by pulling them up on Chrome on your computer (but not your tablet or smartphone) and beaming them.
But beaming from a computer isn't an ideal experience.
A slow computer or a poor connection between it and Chromecast can result in choppy video.
And if your computer is located in a room other than the one that has your TV, you might find yourself wandering back and forth to queue up videos. Even if you have a laptop in the same room, a computer makes an unwieldy remote control.
Many of these shortcomings are so obvious that they're likely on some Google engineer's checklist for the next version of Chromecast, and they are what give the device its "beta" feel.
I wish Chromecast were a more complete product now, but with its low price, simple set up and ease of use, it's still pretty compelling.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Matt Damon is becoming a TV comedy regular.
Showtime said Monday that Damon will guest star next week on "House of Lies." He'll play what the channel called a "maniacal megastar" version of himself.
Last month, Damon staged a mock takeover of Jimmy Kimmel's ABC talk show, tying Kimmel to a chair and acting as host for a night. On NBC's just-ended "30 Rock," Damon appeared in several episodes as boyfriend to Tina Fey's character, Liz Lemon.
On the Sunday, Feb. 10, "House of Lies" episode, Damon seeks help in finding a charity to carry his name. The actor plays opposite "House of Lies" star Don Cheadle, his friend and a cast mate in the "Ocean's Eleven" movie franchise.


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Archbishop of Canterbury Links Anti-Gay Laws to Racism
Rowan Williams: Protection of Sexual Minorities From Violence Is Not Endorsement of Homosexuality
Archbishop of Canterbury Links Anti-Gay Laws to Racism
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the global Anglican Communion, voiced support Tuesday for the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in a call for nations to respect the human rights of gay individuals in countries where they are often targeted for violence, also suggesting that anti-gay legislation is akin to racial discrimination.
Williams states in the text of a lecture prepared for the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC), which meets this week, that laws specifically targeting gays and lesbians were equivalent to racial discrimination.
"Many societies would now recognize that legal interference with some sorts of consensual sexual conduct can be both unworkable and open to appalling abuse (intimidation and blackmail)," Williams wrote.
"The existence of laws discriminating against sexual minorities as such can have no justification in societies that are serious about law itself," the text of the lecture reads. "Such laws reflect a refusal to recognize that minorities belong, and they are indeed comparable to racial discrimination."
Williams also emphasized that concern for protection of gays and lesbians from violence and intimidation did not imply approval of homosexual behavior on moral grounds.
"This concern for protection from violence and intimidation can be held without prejudging any moral question; religion and culture have their own arguments on these matters," he wrote. "But a culture that argues about such things is a culture that is able to find a language in common. Criminalize a minority and there is no chance of such a language in common or of any properly civil or civic discussion."
Reports coming from multiple countries in the Middle East and Africa describe egregious violations of human rights of people accused of being homosexual. In most Muslim countries the existence of homosexuality is not openly acknowledged and gay individuals can be sentenced to prison or corporal punishment, and even capital punishment in some cases. The same is the case in African countries that are not mostly Muslim, like Cameroon, which is 40 percent Christian. Uganda, which is 85 percent Christian, only recently considered the death penalty for homosexuals.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said in a recent report that homosexuals and bisexuals face execution in at least five countries and 76 nations had laws criminalizing gay sex, Reuters reported. They also accounted disproportionately for torture cases in jails around the globe.
A panel of the U.N. rights body will consider action in Geneva Wednesday aimed at halting violence against gays and lesbians around the world, despite fierce condemnation from Muslim and some African countries, Reuters reported.
The pressure from UNHRC to cease such human rights violations caused protests from certain Muslim countries. Earlier this month, a U.N. delegate from Libya's newly formed government told a human rights panel that gays and other groups threaten "reproduction of the human race," drawing a stern rebuke from leaders of the international body, reported Fox News.
The UNHRC was also reportedly criticized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Most African Christian churches remain sharply opposed to homosexuality, while the global Anglican Communion is in turmoil over the issue. Traditionalists are strongly opposed to the ordination of gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex relationships, whereas liberals have been urging tolerance and change.
The U.N. put out its first global report pertaining to violations of human rights of individuals based on their religious identity in 2011.
"In all regions, people experience violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity," the report reads. "In many cases, even the perception of homosexuality or transgender identity puts people at risk. Violations include – but are not limited to – killings, rape and physical attacks, torture, arbitrary detention, the denial of rights to assembly, expression and information, and discrimination in employment, health and education."


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Decision on Gardy expected before playoffs start
MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he expects to talk about his future with general manager Terry Ryan after Sunday's season finale against the Indians.
Gardenhire, whose contract is set to expire at the end of the season, said a decision still hasn't been reached on whether he'll back next season. But he reiterated an announcement will be made before the postseason begins on Tuesday.
"We're still discussing it -- we're still talking like we always do," Gardenhire said. "Whatever happens, he's going to make a decision and go with it. And I'm going to have to live with it one way or another. That's where we're at."
Gardenhire, who is the second-longest tenured manager in the Majors behind the Angels' Mike Scioscia, said he hasn't thought about other managerial jobs, as his preference remains to stay with the Twins. He's been the manager of the Twins since 2002 and led them to six division titles before suffering through three straight 90-plus loss seasons, including this year.
"I like where I'm at," Gardenhire said. "I'd rather stay here. If it doesn't work out here, then you start thinking about other stuff. But I enjoy it here. It's as good as it gets for me."
Gardenhire added that he's not thinking about Sunday's game against the Indians like it's his last game as Twins manager.
"I don't worry about it," Gardenhire said. "It's not something I can control. I come in here like everybody else. It's going to an emotional day, but that's because it's the last day of the season. It's not because of my situation. It's not in the equation. I don't think of it that way."
Indians manager Terry Francona offered praise of Gardenhire and said he doesn't believe he should be on the hot seat.
"I think he's one of the better managers in the game," Francona said. "I think if you ask every manager, they'd say the same thing. And I've known him for a long time, so I hope that's not the case. I know, for a long time, I've respected the way they've run things. They've been very consistent in their approach from the Minor Leagues up."


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As our President departed the White House yesterday, he paused to take questions from the press pool.
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The whistleblower is blowing up in the Democrats, MSM, Leftists, Never trumpers etc. faces. The POS is scared!
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the anonymous whistleblower's lawyers are now requesting official impeachment testimony by letters not an in-person appearance.
From the article linked above:
Lawyers for the CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint helped ignite an impeachment inquiry into President Trump have asked Congress whether their client could submit testimony in writing instead of appearing in person, according to people familiar with the matter.
The request reflects concerns about whether the whistleblower could testify to Democrats and Republicans without revealing his identity, and fears that doing so would lead to it being publicly leaked, jeopardizing his personal safety. The intelligence committees haven't yet responded to the inquiry about potential written testimony, the people said.
Spokeswomen for the House and Senate intelligence committees didn't respond to requests to comment.
It also was reported yesterday that SleepyCreepy Joe would have held a working relationship with the CIA "whistle-blower" as a member of the Obama National Security Council.
From the article linked above:
The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.
Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point."
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate."
A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner: "From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with Biden when he was vice president."
As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country.
A former Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said Biden's work on foreign affairs brought him into close proximity with the whistleblower either at the CIA or when he was detailed to the White House.
The Economic Train continues to crisscross our country picking up passengers and running over her enemies.
From the article linked above:
- U.S. manufacturing has "never been better," says Shahid Khan, owner of auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate.
- "We're entering the … golden area for American manufacturing right now," he says.
- Khan adds the manufacturing sector has received a boost from President Donald Trump.
Shahid Khan, an auto parts billionaire who also owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, is extremely encouraged by the state of manufacturing in the United States.
"I've been in an auto parts factory for 50 years. Times in the U.S. have never been better," Khan said Thursday on "Squawk on the Street." "We're entering the … golden area for American manufacturing right now."
Khan, owner of Illinois-based auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate, said the past few years under President Donald Trump have benefited the manufacturing sector.
"What we've gone through here over the last few years … on investments, interest rates, I'm super pumped and excited," said Khan, whose company has supplied parts to the likes of General Motors, Ford and Tesla.
From the article linked above:
The U.S. Labor Department reported initial jobless claims fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 210,000 for the week ending October 5, beating consensus.
I didn't waste an ounce of time on the BS Fox News Poll. Here is why you can absolutely disregard their garbage.
They were biased by +12 for Democrats when compared to the latest Gallup Party Affiliation Poll. Also they stayed away from Independents.
From the link above:
- Democrats – 31%
- Republicans – 29%
- Independents – 38%
Now here is a poll that I did focus on because it gives a REAL representation of our country.
NOTE: Always pay close attention to the Independents.
From the article linked above:
At this point in time, 65% of voters believe Congress is spending more time focused on impeachment rather than issues such as health care and the economy. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 15% disagree and 20% are not sure.
However, 62% believe Congress should be more focused on the issues. Twenty-seven percent (27%) disagree and want the focus on impeachment. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.
Republicans, by an 81% to 14% margin, believe the focus should be on the issues. Independent voters, by a 60% to 26% margin, share that view. Democrats lean in that direction as well, but are more evenly divided–48% want the focus on issues and 39% on impeachment.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Republicans believe Congress is primarily focused on impeachment at this time. So do 64% of Independent voters and 58% of Democrats.
This poll shows you which way our country leans. By a 2/3rd margin, voters approve the direction that the Supreme Court is taking our country with their decisions.
Here is more polling data that shows how bad it really is for the Democrats.
Look at the difference between what was at our southern border versus what is being put up. Whenever they say that all our President is doing is replacing exiting barriers, I laugh my ass off. WHAT DAMN BARRIERS!!!!!!
I have said and will continue to say that our President WILL WIN the State of Minnesota in 2020.
From the article linked above:
"[That's a] state that I'm going to win — Minnesota," Trump told Turning Point USA in July. "I almost won it last time. We came [within] just about a point. Minnesota is very hard work for a Republican to win. We almost won it — one more night. I wanted to go there one more time. I said, 'I'm telling you, we're going to win Minnesota.'"
If Trump were to win Minnesota's 10 electoral votes, it's almost impossible to see how a Democrat could defeat him next November. And he's right: Even though the state is "very hard work" for a Republican — no GOP presidential candidate has carried it since 1972, and no Republican, period, has won a statewide race in 13 years — Trump did, in fact, almost upset Hillary Clinton there in 2016, falling short by just 45,000 votes, or 1.5 percentage points.
Working in Trump's favor is the fact that his campaign is actually investing in Minnesota this time. Last cycle, it spent a meager $30,000 on the state. Now Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale plans to unload "tens of millions of dollars," according to the New York Times. Already, the campaign has 20 paid staff members on the ground, and it expects to add another 80; along with the Republican National Committee, it's currently outspending Democrats by about 4 to 1 on digital advertising.
What an absolutely incredible rally last night! Here are some highlight video clips and pictures.


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Head to your local filling station and you might see a new blend of gas at the pump. After a three-year regulatory process, the Environmental Protection Agency approved E15 – gas made with 15 percent ethanol – this summer.
Most gas we pump is already blended with ethanol, sometimes it contains as much as 10 percent, but the ethanol industry fought hard to bring E15 to the market. For ethanol backers and the farmers who feed the ethanol industry, getting drivers to pump gas with 50 percent more ethanol is a big win.
You might see E15 at your local gas station, but you might not. While renewable fuel advocates worked for years to win federal approval for E15, even in Corn Country the E15 pickings are slim.
In July, the Zarco 66 gas station in Lawrence, Kan., became the first station in the country to offer E15 directly to consumers and for a while, it was the only one.
The locally owned Phillips 66 looks like any old filling station. And it is, for the most part. It has an island oasis theme, complete with steel drum music and "Hurricane" car washes, and a convenience store that sells sodas and sandwiches.
The normal-looking gas station, though, is a trailblazer when it comes to renewable fueling. Largely, that's because its owner, Scott Zaremba, says he has been interested in renewable fuels for years.
As the first station to offer the new fuel, the Zarco 66 in Lawrence is functioning as a guinea pig for both the ethanol and fuel industries. That's an exciting prospect for Zaremba. And he realizes it might be a while until E15 gains widespread acceptance.
"It's going to take a little time in order to implement E15," Zaremba said. "There are some other hurdles that we have to overcome."
Thanks to the EPA's approval process, individual state regulations and opposition from much of the auto and oil and gas industries, the E15 roll-out has been slow.
Some car manufacturers say using E15 could hurt car engines and void car warranties. In fact, they joined with the grocery and oil and gas industries to sue the EPA, arguing the ruling could artificially boost food prices and make gas stations liable for customers whose car warranties are voided. A federal appeals court dismissed the suit, saying the trade groups presented only speculative and indirect claims.
Ken Peterson, director of the Kansas Petroleum Council, said the EPA's approval of E15 was a mistake. The Kansas Petroleum Council is a field office of the American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil and gas industry and supported the lawsuit.
"In many cases, some of the car manufacturers have specifically said in their owners' manuals 'Do not use blends above E10 in the vehicles,' Peterson said. "It's just a case of buyer beware."
The issues and critics haven't deterred Zaremba.
"We see it being something that can move out throughout the rest of the United States," Zaremba said. "Somebody has to be the first and somebody has to show that we can get it done."
Though just in its infancy, ethanol advocates hope to see big things from E15. Yes, Zaremba says, going from 10 percent ethanol to 15 percent may not seem like much, but if E15 catches on, the ripple effects could be huge.
"It expands our ability in order to have domestically produced transportation energy," Zaremba said. "If you take 5 percent and place that in our entire feedstock we can have an impact on the importation of foreign oil."
The EPA approved E15 for use in cars that are already on the road – drivers don't have to have a special car or special engine. According to the EPA, all you need is a car that was built since 2001.
More gas stations could start selling E15 September 15th when seasonal air quality restrictions on gasoline ease. The question is, would they?
Zaremba already had the right pumps to make E15 work and stations in Nebraska and Illinois are expected to follow suit quickly. In Iowa, a huge corn and ethanol state, the Iowa Renewable Fuel Association put up billboards touting E15's arrival in the state.
It makes sense farm country would embrace more ethanol more quickly. After all, most of their ethanol comes from just down the road.
Zaremba's gas stations buy their ethanol from East Kansas Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant about an hour south of Lawrence. It looks like a bustling highway rest stop with a factory plopped on top of it – trucks pulling in and out, dropping off corn and picking up ethanol. Truckers drive the ethanol back up to Zaremba's gas stations and mix it with gasoline so customers can pump it into their cars.
Steve Gardner, the general manager of the ethanol plant, says his plant makes about 110,000 gallons of ethanol every day after grinding about 40,000 bushels of corn, which the plant buys from nearby farmers.
"I don't expect this thing to just explode," Gardner said. "But obviously, now that we have it rolled out, we'll be putting together some detailed plans as to how we get more of this offered to consumers."
Though just a handful of gas stations are expected to offer E15 this month, Gardner says it's an important first step.
"The typical consumer hears these interviews and reads it in the paper and that's all the exposure they've had up until this point," Gardner said. "Now, they can actually feel it and touch it at the pump."
Sure, some drivers may now be able to feel and touch E15. But will they pump it?


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William Balfour, the man convicted in May of killing Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison.
Judge Charles Burns gave Balfour three consecutive life sentences plus 50 years for home invasion, 10 years for possession of a stolen vehicle and 60 years for aggravated kidnapping.
"Mr. Balfour, you have the heart of an arctic night and your soul is as barren as deep space," Judge Burns said.
Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were found shot to death on Oct. 24, 2008, in the family's home on Chicago's South Side. Hudson's nephew, 7-year-old Julian King, was found murdered in an SUV days later.
A jury convicted Balfour of three counts of first-degree murder as well as charges of aggravated kidnapping, residential burglary, possession of a stolen vehicle and home invasion.
Balfour addressed the court and the victims' families Tuesday before he was sentenced.
"My condolence goes out to the family," he said. "My deepest sympathies go to Julian King. I still love him. I am innocent."
Burns called the statement an insult to the courtroom.
Before the hearing, Balfour's lawyers filed a last ditch motion requesting a new trial on the grounds that celebrity singer Hudson should not have been allowed to testify because she did not have direct knowledge of the murders. Hudson was not in Chicago when the crimes were committed.
"The prejudicial effect of the testimony on the jury far outweighed any probative value it would have," Cook County public defender Amy Thompson wrote in a court filing.
Burns denied the request.
Hudson, dressed in a black sweater and matching, light grey blouse and slacks, looked on from the courtroom as he denied the motion and was seen tearing up during testimony.
A recap of trial coverage:
- Day 14: For Jurors, Cell Phone Forensics Were Key
- Day 14: Balfour Guilty on All Counts
- Day 14: Hudson Trial Jury Makes Video Requests
- Day 13: Day 2 of Deliberations Ends Without Verdict
- Day 12: Day 1 Deliberations in Hudson Trial End Without Verdict
- Day 11: Testimony in Hudson Family Murder Trial Ends Without Defendant Taking Stand
- Day 10: Friend of Balfour's Testifies Against Him at Hudson Trial
- Day 9: Witness: Hudson Had One Enemy, "That Cat" Balfour
- Day 8: Balfour DNA Not Found on Murder Weapon: Expert
- Day 8: Judge Bars Phones in Court
- Day 7: Neighbor Says Balfour Threatened Julia Hudson
- Day 7: Court Denies Jennifer Hudson Is Getting Star Treatment
- Day 6: Police Testify at Hudson Trial About Finding Gun
- Day 6: "Somebody Killed My Mother:" Hudson 911 Tape Released to Media
- Day 5: Balfour Girlfriend Says He Confessed to Killing Hudson Family Members
- Day 4: Witness: Balfour Repeatedly Threatened Hudson Family
- Day 3: Prosecutors Show Photos of Hudson's Slain Nephew
- Day 2: Cops Describe Finding Slain Hudson Family Members
- Day 1: Jennifer Hudson Breaks Down During Murder Trial


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This is one of 33 reproductions of nose art recreated by the original artist, Don Allen. The nose art that Don painted on each aircraft was designed for a specific pilot whose name and aircraft serial number appear on the artwork. This collection was produced by Don Allen between 1993 and 1995.
Don Allen was an artist from Ohio. During WWII he was a crew chief assigned to the 4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron in England. Don considered the nose art that he painted on the squadron's P-47 and P-51 aircraft a creative break from his regular duties of readying fighters for combat. After the war, Don worked as a commercial illustrator in Cleveland, Ohio.
Question about this artifact? Email the Collections Manager, Hal Sellars.
Every artifact in the Air Mobility Command Museum, including this one, is part of the United States Air Force Heritage Program. We are not able to loan artifacts in the museum's collection.