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Today at the Wells Fargo Center, new 76ers coach Doug Collins spoke to the press about all things Sixers, including today's trade involving Willie Green and Jason Smith. If you want the details of this morning's trade, scroll below to the previous post. Or you can click here: Sixers Trade.
Here's everything Collins had to say this afternoon. He opened the talk with this statement, which was quite savvy: "I'm starting Michael Vick at point guard on Tuesday, just so you know." If you want to follow things quicker than we can post them on this blog (as in just moments after they're said) please follow on Twitter: Deep Sixer.
Doug Collins:
What are his thoughts on today's trade of Green/Smith to New Orleans for Darius Songaila and Craig Brackins?
"In the draft last year I said one of the things I'd love to be able to do, after we got Evan, was to get a developing big guy. To be able to find a developing big man that we could bring in here and we thought had a good future. And we feel like Brackins fits that mold. He's a very talented player. If he'd come out the year before, he'd probably have been a lottery pick. Last year he had a little bit of a down year ... very, very skilled, can shoot the ball, can score in the post against guys his size. So we feel like that now, with him, we have Spencer, Mo Speights, and Craig who are young players we think we can develop."
On the loss of veteran Green ...
"It was tough for me today because Willie was in the gym. And he may be one of the best pros this franchise has ever had ... Willie came out and he worked out today and he brought his 10-year-old son in with him today. I brought him out and I talked to him to the team, with him, and just shared what I felt about Willie and his little son was just crying. And, man, it hit me hard. It reminded me of when I got fired in Chicago, with my kids. And that was hard."
What improvement have you seen from Evan Turner?
"Evan got knocked back this summer. I think it's the best thing that ever happened to him because it gave him an idea of how hard it is and how tough it is in this game. And how, nightly, he's going to have a bulls eye ... right now, he's much more comfortable having the ball in his hands. When the guys are playing pickup, and he and Lou are playing together, he's doing a lot of the playmaking and Lou is off the ball scoring. It's interesting to me to see how I'll put it all together. Right now, he's much more comfortable as a facilitator than as a guy who has a scoring mentality. One of the things I've talked to him about is he has to have a terrific mid-range game, teaching him to play with contact and use his body."
"I told our guys today, 'Just so you know, in the eyes of the officials we're a 27-win team. And 27-win teams don't get calls.' We're going to have to learn to play through that, get to be better, so we'll get some of those calls. If we're going to look around for whistles, that's not going to happen."
Do you have a sense of if Andre Iguodala's successful summer will carry over to this season?
"I think that Andre is going to come back a totally different guy. My son Chris called me on the phone before USA Basketball and he said, 'Look, so you know, Coach K is looking for Andre to come in and be our best defensive guy on the perimeter. If he'll do that, he'll make our team and he'll be really good and he'll help our team win. If he comes in and he tries to score, he's not Danny Granger, he's not Rudy Gay, he's not Kevin Durant, that's not who we want him to be, those guys can score.' And so Andre went in and embraced that role."
"I want him to come back with that same mindset. He needs to be a slasher and defender and not depend so much on jumpshots ... he can get to the foul line and do those things so he doesn't have to live and die with the jumpshot. If we can get in the open court and run, that's where he'll be at his best. That has to be our identity. And I want him to be more of a leader. It's a great time for him to come back after that experience."
"I think Andre's excited. I told him to get away and get some rest and he and I are going to sit down and talk about his training camp schedule because he played seven hard weeks this summer. I want to figure out how much he wants to practice. I want to work with him on that, how much he wants to play during exhibition. I'm not worried about him being physically tired, I worried about him being mentally tired."
Are you concerned with not having that go-to scorer?
"I said the other day, we could be a team that our leading scorer is averaging 15 or 16 a game and we could have seven guys averaging double figures. That's the kind of team we could be. I think legitimately if you looked at it, Jrue, Dre, Thad, Elton, Spencer, Lou, and Mo are all guys who could be double-figure scorers."
Do you feel you have an opening in the frontcourt, a starting spot?
"I want all positions to be competition. I want Lou Williams to have an opportunity to be our starting point guard. I don't want him to just hand it to Jrue, because that makes Jrue better ... We feel like in the off season we haven't hit any home runs, so to speak, where it's like, 'Wow,' but we feel like we have quietly improved our team on paper and now we have to put it together."
Is Speights in the mix for a starting spot?
"Yes. The big thing on Mo is, can he play 36 minutes? Or is he better at 25 and then you start getting diminishing results. A lot of people don't understand, they say, 'If Mo Speights is one of your best five players, why isn't he starting the game?' Well, he might be more valuable to me to finish the game, to be able to play the last eight minutes and be fresh. It might be that Lou Williams and Mo Speights coming off the bench give me an advantage at those two positions that they wouldn't give me if they started. These are the things I'm thinking about as I try to put it all together and get the best out of everybody."
Did you look at this summer as your key role being changing the attitude?
"No question. I always tell guys, there's no sympathy in the NBA. When you're bad, people want to play you. You have to be ready to take on that challenge. I want to be the kind of team that, if we lose, it's because people outplayed us ... If we play every night, we'll win some games, and if we play together we'll win games simply because there are teams in the NBA from night to night that don't want to play. That's the way it is."
How did you go about changing the attitude?
"It doesn't change overnight ... I think they respect the places I've been. You really can't put a team together until you go through the fire and the fire doesn't start until Tuesday."
Is there pressure on Turner being the No. 2 pick?
"No. In fact, the one thing I don't want to do is put him in a situation if he's not ready for it. It'll knock him back farther. Evan is very hard on himself. He has to lighten up. He's too critical of himself. He might play in a particular scrimmage and a guy score on him and afterwards go, 'What did I do wrong?' I say, 'Evan, guys are going to score on you in this league. They're good.'"
"His tendency right now, when he doesn't have the ball in his hands, he's not sure the timing of when to cut. I saw that in summer league. We run a cluster action on the weak side and it's similar to what the Bulls and Lakers run ... right now for him, he gets down there and he's not sure what to do. Because he's always had the ball in his hands. Right now, he's having more success playing with Lou because he does have the ball in his hands. And then Lou likes to score, so they've been a good fit. They play very well together. In the two pick up games I've watched, he and Jrue haven't played that much together. We've had Lou and Jrue opposite and Evan has played opposite either Thaddeus or Jodie Meeks or someone like that."
You still want to play Iguodala only at the 3?
"He'll play both ... as I look at our team now, he'll have to play some two, with Thad at three. The thing I've talked to Thad about is that he can't be a mistake player. Sometimes he pounds that ball and spins and gets himself into traffic. Don't pound that ball, do what you do best. It's breaking habits ... you have to keep correcting him and I talked to the team earlier and said the only thing I'll take from your game are the mistakes."
On defensive philosophy ...
"If you viewed the basketball court as the lane is our house, inside the three-point line is the yard, outside is the fence. We want to chase people inside the fence, make them play in the yard, and keep them out of the house. If we make them make two-point shots against us, not in the paint, we think we have a good chance to defend well."
On these players having so many coaches in so few years ...
"I'm aware of how many coaches they've had. I told them the other day, 'At some point in time, we have to all roll up our sleeves and make some changes or the name on the plate and the coach will change again. At some point we have to do it together.' When I talked to Andre the other day I said, 'Dre, get away and refresh yourself and I'll see you at training camp.' And I said, 'I'm going to work with you on how much you practice.' And he goes, 'Thank you. I've played for so many coaches and I feel like every training camp I have to prove myself.' He doesn't have to come in and show me anything special. I want him to come in and do the things he does best."
On the frontcourt ...
"When I look at our big guys, our three real rotation guys would be Elton, Mo, and Spencer. And then I've got Darius for situational things and then Tony Battie. And then Brackins is a guy we want to develop."
On last year's defensive issues ...
"Last year I think they were sort of random on what they wanted to do. We're not going to do that. We're going to have a defensive system in. It's not complicated, but if you're not in the right spot when I stop the tape all I have to say is, 'Are you in the right spot?'"
Do you feel like Iguodala has an obsession with proving himself; and is that a problem?
"It is if you get out of character. You have to play to your strengths, and that's up to me with Dre. I have to get him in position to succeed. If he scores 18, 19 a game, it's because he's slashing, getting to the rim, getting to the foul line. I want him to create contact. I don't want to put him in position where he's shooting a bunch of threes. I don't think that plays to his strengths ... [on talking with Iguodala about USA team] you put that gold medal on your neck and now you're a champion and you can bring that mentality back to our team. If you are a great defender, if you are a situational scorer, if you get out in the open court and play with that passion I know you have, you're going to be rewarded for that because our team is going to be better. And now people start talking about being an All-Star. I said to him, for good or for bad, any time I voted for the All-Star team I voted for guys who were on winning teams. It may not be fair, but that's what I did."
How close is this roster to what you first envisioned it being?
"I think we've improved it. I said before I thought we had good young players. I think we continue to add to that mix. I talked to Jrue Holiday today and I looked at him and said, 'I have me a good point guard.' .... I honestly believe that this kid is such a good kid, he's such a hard worker, and he's so pure -- he's pure -- that I honestly believe that next year you'll talk about him being one of the top 5 point guards in the NBA. I think you'll speak about him in the same breath as Chris Paul, Darren Williams, Russell Westbrook, Derrick Rose, and Jrue ... because he can play both ends of the floor. He can disrupt you on one end. He's unselfish. He's a teammate. He makes the game easier for other people."
"The thing for me is, how mentally and competitively tough are we going to be? How resilient are we going to be? If we get knocked back, is it going to be the 'Here we go, same old stuff.' Or are we going to fight through it ... that's when you find out what you've got."
How difficult is it, with Phillies and Eagles, grabbing some attention in this town?
"Last year the fact that our team was not playing well, I think being at home overwhelmed them. And it was tough. We have to show these fans we're going to compete every night. If we do that, we'll win games. And if we do that, this city will start embracing you again. But I said, 'To get embraced, you have to be embraceable.'"
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Speed bump 'replies' to students at Goffstown High School
GOFFSTOWN - It's not a case of "if the walls could talk," but it's close.
The newest speed bump to be installed in the Goffstown High School parking lot has its very own Twitter account, and apparently it's well aware of the trashing it is getting on another social media site - Facebook.
In a pair of tweets Tuesday night, the speed bump account had some choice words for students who don't much appreciate that it is slowing down exiting the lot.
"Saw some people talking about me on Facebook, #sorry but I'm here to stay," went the first tweet, minus a pair of unprintable words. "Happy Birthday to Me! Hoping to make new friends at GHS! Especially with @gcaine82 he seems pretty cool" went the second tweet.
And while the tweets give readers the impression that there is a single speed bump at the high school, there are actually a series of them in front of the school as well as behind it.
The speed bumps were installed last weekend, according to school officials, and now they're getting the thumbs down from some lead-footed student drivers.
The new speed bump "was a big topic of conversation among the seniors," said English teacher Jennifer Beauchemin yesterday. "They asked me, 'what do you think about the speed bump?' and I told them that I'm not that emotionally invested in it."
Beauchemin laughed when told that the GHS speed bump had opened a Twitter account to defend itself against the harsh teenage criticism. "Hey, I say anything to get the kids to slow down is a good thing," she said.
As of 9:51 p.m. on Tuesday, the GHS speed bump had five followers and was following 134 other Twitter accounts.
SAU 19 Superintendent Stacy Buckley laughed also when told that the speed bump had taken to social media to justify its existence. And while she said she appreciated the humor behind the tweets, the yellow strips of plastic bolted into the asphalt are an important public safety tool with a serious mission.
"Yes, we've had some issues with people tending to go really fast" in the parking lot, she said. "This will slow them down a bit."


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Last Updated Oct 15, 2012 4:49 PM EDT
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks returned before a military tribunal Monday, forgoing the protests that turned their last appearance into an unruly 13-hour spectacle.
But the apparent cooperation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has said he masterminded the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, and four codefendants did little to speed up proceedings that have stuck in a legal and political morass for years.
And Mohammed, dressed a white turban and traditional black vest, made clear he still feels a deep disdain for the proceedings, saying "I don't think there is any justice in this court."
Defense lawyers spent hours arguing that their clients shouldn't have to attend the hearing, saying they dredge up bad memories of their harsh treatment in CIA detention. The military judge ruled that the men would not have to attend the hearings at least for the rest of the week.
"Our clients may believe that ... I don't want to be subjected to this procedure that transports me here, brings up memories, brings up emotions of things that happened to me," said Jim Harrington, who represents Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping to provide support to the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
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The five men sat quietly at the defense tables under the watchful eyes of military guards and several 9/11 family members at the U.S. base in Cuba. Wearing traditional robes, Mohammed, his beard dyed a rust color with henna, serenely read legal papers and listened quietly to the proceedings through headsets. Two others responded politely to the judge when asked.
The Sept. 11 victims' family members attending the hearings in Guantanamo are chosen by lottery. Other families and the public were invited to view the proceedings from closed-circuit video in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland.
At Guantanamo, five blood relatives of victims were allowed to attend the hearing, and each were allowed to bring a guest. At the Fort Hamilton Army base in Brooklyn, N.Y., the only U.S. location to see any victims' family members, just four attended the first day of the hearings, CBS News reports.
Robert Reeg, a retired New York firefighter who was critically injured on 9/11, told reporters it's been "a long ordeal" leading up to the hearings. He said he'd felt "mentally waterboarded" since a 2009 decision to drop earlier military-commission charges. Congress then blocked civilian trials amid opposition to bringing the defendants to U.S. soil.
"We're going to persevere," said Reeg. "We want justice."
"It's very hard to go into those courtrooms," Jim Riches, whose firefighter son, Jimmy, died at the World Trade Center, told CBS New York station WCBS-TV. "You sit there and you watch these men smirk and laugh and say that they're proud of what they did and then nothing gets done. There's nothing but motions and movements. The trial hasn't even started yet."
Diane Fairben, mother of Keith Fairben, a 24-year-old paramedic who died from responding to the attacks, said she was happy with the proceedings against the defendants.
"They are getting the best defense; they are getting everything and then some, and things are being done right, and we're happy about that," said Fairben, "because we don't want anything to have to come up on appeal that would let these -- I don't even want to say people -- but lets them slip the noose, so to speak."
Ken Fairben came with a picture of Keith. As he watched the proceedings, he said he looked into each of the men's faces, wondering, "What is he thinking? Why would he want to do this?"
The suspects could be sentenced to death if convicted, but Ken Fairben said he hopes they get life sentences instead.
"If you give them death penalties, that's martyrdom to them," he said. "Why give them something they want?"
All seemed to cooperate with their attorneys in a specially designed high-tech courtroom that allows the government to muffle sounds so spectators behind a glass wall cannot hear classified information.
The orderly scene was in stark contrast to their arraignment in May on charges that include terrorism and murder. At that session, one prisoner was briefly restrained for acting out, Binalshibh launched into an incoherent rant, the men generally ignored the judge and refused to use the court translation system, and two stood up to pray at one point.
Debra Burlingame, whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, said it was disturbing to watch the suspects showing disrespect to the court and their own attorneys during the spring hearings.
"One of the defendants made a paper airplane and balanced it on the top of the microphone to mock the victims and their families," Burlingame told WCBS-TV.
She plans to attend the latest round of hearings sometime this week and feels she needs to be there.
"I think it's very important for the world at large to know that the families have not forgotten," Burlingame said.
Harrington told the court that the defendants may want to boycott future court sessions because they don't recognize the U.S. government's authority, or because their transportation from their high-security cells may remind them of the harsh treatment they endured when confined in the CIA's overseas network of secret prisons before they came to Guantanamo in September 2006.
Prosecutors want the men to be required to attend court sessions. Army Col. James Pohl ruled that Mohammed and his codefendants would not be forced to attend hearings that were scheduled to run through the end of this week. He said he may require them to attend future pretrial sessions and said they would have to be present for their trial, likely to begin more than a year from now.
He questioned each defendant individually to make sure they understood the consequences of choosing not to attend. Mohammed responded with a brusque "yes," in Arabic, almost a grunt, before making his one and only statement of the day about the court and justice.


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WOCCU Assesses Needs of Tsunami-Affected Credit Unions in Solomon Islands
May 04, 2007
Madison, WI—World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) chief operating officer Brian Branch recently traveled to the Solomon Islands to assess the damage inflicted by last month's tsunami and to identify how WOCCU and the Credit Union Federation of Australia (CUFA) can help credit unions rebuild.
The delegation met with government officials to advance strategies that will better equip credit unions to serve the struggling rural communities. "As part of the government's bottom-up strategy, we recognize that credit unions are one of the best ways to get financial services to the rural areas," observed the Governor of the Solomon Islands Central Bank.
Credit unions began organizing in the Solomon Islands during the 1980s. Since its establishment in 1987, the Solomon Island Credit Union League (SICUL) has led the rapid expansion of credit unions into rural areas. CUFA has been working with SICUL since 1992 to establish MicroFinance Rural Resources Centers (MRRCs), where people in small rural communities pool their funds in savings clubs, provide basic health services and make small artisan handicrafts to generate income.
Today 159 credit unions and their 200 associated MRRC savings clubs serve more than 62,000 members in the Solomons, where 85% of the 483,083 total population lives in rural areas with little or no access to basic financial services or infrastructure. Rural communities still rely on traditional subsistence production, fishing and copra (dried coconut) in barter economies.
Roads do not reach many rural areas, where people walk long distances to get anywhere. Villages elect treasurers to hand carry the pooled savings of the MRRC to the nearest road and then buy passage on a truck to take them to a credit union.
"It is hard," described Stewart, a village elder who had walked half a day, slept by the side of the road and then traveled the second day in the back of a truck to meet with WOCCU/CUFA staff to talk about the importance of the link between his village savings club and credit union services. "We do this to give our children a better future," he explained.
"There is tremendous will and commitment among credit union volunteers to develop their communities. We need to find ways to help them build infrastructure and put into place systems that will allow them to achieve their ambitions," Branch reported.
After the tsunami hit the western islands in April, villagers fled to the high mountains of the interior for fear of repeat waves. The tsunami destroyed the little communications infrastructure that had existed.
As part of its earlier work, CUFA had donated radios to the MRRCs so that remote communities could communicate with the rest of the country via the credit union network. In the chaotic aftermath of the tsunami, the credit unions operated their radios 24 hours a day to help villagers across the islands connect with their families and find out where they could go for aid, shelter and assistance.
Relief efforts in the western province, where the tsunami destroyed entire villages, are in full speed. The government is providing emergency food, water and shelter while trying to survey the damage to remote villages reached only by canoe and several hour hikes. Everyone is pitching in. Local citizens in the islands of Guadalcanal and Malaita have organized concerts of local bamboo flute musicians mixed with rock-and-roll bands to raise money for survivors.
Immediately following the tsunami, WOCCU partnered with CUFA in a joint appeal to raise funds. The two organizations will work together in rebuilding efforts. To support the relief fund to rebuild Solomon Islands credit unions, send donations to:
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Jason Aldean, Lady Gaga To Perform At "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!!"
Country artist Jason Aldean and five-time GRAMMY winner Lady Gaga are the first performers announced for "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night." Two-time GRAMMY winner LL Cool J once again is set to host the one-hour special, which will take place live on Nov. 30 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles. The show, which will announce nominations in several categories as well as feature performances by past GRAMMY winners and/or nominees, will be broadcast in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 10–11 p.m. ET/PT.
The concert special marks the fourth time nominations for the annual GRAMMY Awards will be announced live on primetime television. Last year's airing of the nominations special helped lead to increased ratings in all key demographics for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast last February, delivering the show's best ratings in all key measures in more than a decade.
Tickets for "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" go on sale Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. PT, and are available online and via Ticketmaster charge-by-phone lines at 800.745.3000. For discounts on groups of 10 or more, and for more information on VIP packages, visit www.aegtickets.com or call 877.234.8425.
The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards are set to air live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 12, 2012, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
"The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" is produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC. Ken Ehrlich is the executive producer. LL Cool J is producer.
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My Play Room: Connor
Raise your hand if your dining room is underutilized. Yup, Suzie's too so she and her husband made part of it into a fun playroom for their son. Suzie shares: Our home is on the small side, so dedicating an entire room to toys and books and puzzles was just unfortunately out of the question. Our dining "room" was virtually unused and since we still have an eat-in kitchen/family room, we decided to donate that table and make that area a play space.
Room is in quotes because really it is not a room. It is a portion of a room...a nook...a tiny nook. We are making it work, though. Since the other half of the room is a living area and also the first room of our home that you see when you walk in, I wanted the spaces to flow and to make sense in our home and I didn't want the toys to be the first things you see. I wanted the play space to be a fun, creative area while also still making sense with the decor in the rest of our home. I didn't want the space to seem disjointed in any way.
A few details:
• Paint color: ""iced espresso" by Behr
• The shelving (EXPEDIT from IKEA) and accessories were already in our home, just taken from other rooms, so this was a free makeover.
• The mirror on the right wall is metal, so not only is it perfect for face-making, but also letter magnets!
• The easel (MALA, from IKEA) was one of his Christmas gifts from us and is currently doubling as a kitchen/grocery store, with a bin of pots, pans, and utensils underneath, next to his car.
• My husband and I made that penguin from a box. I 100% copied the one from Gourmet Mom on-the-Go when we had a penguin party for Connor's first birthday. My mother-in-law helped me sew felt fish bean bags to be thrown into the penguin's mouth. They are in the bucket next to the penguin.
Thanks Suzie! Readers, you can see plenty more photos and read more about Connor's room on Cupcake Monkey.


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let's face it, the highly religious, the ones we here have the biggest problem with, is the base of the Republican Party. given this, news of its imminent demise should thrill most Atheists. and make no mistake, barring a gargantuan shift in policies and rhetoric, they are absolutely on the path towards extinction.
it's common knowledge that the GOP is an old, white party. while not an absolute, that is an accurate enough description of the Republican Party today. two trends to keep in mind here. one, old people tend to die at a faster rate than young people. two, white people are shrinking as a percentage of the electorate. they are running out of supporters, and it's happening quicker than many thought.
take yesterday's election. President Obama won over 90% of the black vote and 70% of the latino and asian vote. Romney did well with seniors and whites overall. meanwhile, the country is getting browner. the GOP may end up becoming a whites only club, a nativist and pale collection of isolationists who choose to ignore the changing demographics of the country. worse, they may choose to keep it this way. if they choose this path, their extinction is all but guaranteed. their option would be to abandon their social issues, immigration policies, and economic austery programs and to open up their tent through real policy change.
anyone wanna bet which way they go?
for Atheists, either way is a win. if the GOP becomes irrelevant then the power of the religious right goes with it. if they truly make changes to make more people inclusive and begin to part with their religious base Atheists will celebrate. yesterday's election is better for Atheists than most people would think.
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Andrew, sometimes things truly change. this may not be that, but it is starting to feel like it.
the GOP has been co-opted by the delusional, the paranoid, and the less intelligent Americans. they've ousted "establishment" types in lieu of radical, science denying, homophobic, xenophobic nativists. they have one policy idea - that of cutting tax rates. they can't even ratify an international treaty that doesn't effect the US in any way because they see boggeymen in the UN. the NRA and the Christian Right (if they aren't one in the same) is their last stronghold.
b/c of redistricting, they may be able to hold onto their House majority for years to come, but they're days of winning state-wide or national elections may be waning.
"... but they're days of winning state-wide or national elections may be waning".
You could be correct at the national level, the Rs do have a knack of running some strange characters - Missouri being a prime example. But at the state level it is quite a different picture. The Republicans have many strong governors, who do not run on social issues. They have also increased their hold on the state legislatures. States like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin - elect strong reform minded Republican Governors but voted for Obama.
2016 will be a new ballgame without an incumbent running. The Repubs have many younger, diverse and successful Governors vs. an older bunch in the Dem Party. It will be interesting.
Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein have a good summary of the current state of the Republican Party in their book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks:
Today's Republican Party, as we noted at the beginning of the book, is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional uncerstanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition, all but declaring war on the government.
The Democratic Party has its faults, but it is nowhere near as extreme and has now come to occupy the center of the political spectrum. Most disturbing is the GOP's repetition of factually incorrect statements even when those have been repeatedly exposed along with their willingness to cause the country economic harm by refusing to compromise.
At the moment the GOP is in almost total disarray and cannot even come together on a position in the fiscal cliff negotiations. This is bad news and means we will very likely face the new year without an agreement, setting the stage for a second dip recession and tax increases on everyone.
that book is on my xmas list. i've seen them interviewed several times. most importantly they are viewed as politically neutral, and have been covering beltway politics for decades. i'm looking forward to reading it.
It's an excellent analysis of the situation and the possible remedies, but it won't make you feel any better about things.
As to who is really extreme or in the center is purely a matter of perspective.
The same could be said about the current Democrat Party - refusing to compromise. It is Obama's way or the highway. He acts like he can fix the deficit by raising tax rates only on those who make more than $200,000 while at the same time adding even more to spending with a transportation "stimulus" and offering no real reform on entitlement spending. You will see the Democrats in disarray when and if the topic of reform of entitlements is ever discussed, which may not happen in the next four years.
I believe Obama would have no real issue with taxes going up on everyone - after all he campaigned on returning the country to the Clinton era tax rates. He knows it is the only way to significantly raise money to continue the increased spending. He has had the Republicans backed in the corner before - at the start of his 1st term. He actually ended up uniting the Republicans. I believe he will over play his hand again. His second term looks like a disaster in the making from an economic standpoint. I don't think he truly cares about the economy though - just increasing the size of government. He said as much in his famous "rope line" comment to Joe the Plumber. It will be hard to undue the things he has put in place and he knows it. He will be viewed historically as a transformational President (his goal), but it will again depend on perspective as to whether that is a good or bad thing.
As to who is really extreme or in the center is purely a matter of perspective.
Once upon a time you could make a good case for that statement, but no longer. By any measure the GOP has moved far right, purging from the party those who are not ideologically pure.
For example, Richard Lugar was a distinguished senator for many years and a genuine expert on foreign policy. He was respected for most of his senate career by his colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Now he is gone, a victim of the Tea Pee'rs, and the GOP has no other foreign policy figure of his stature and experience.
"...whether that is a good or bad thing."
Until you answer "Good for whom?" and "Bad for whom?" your sentence says very little.
Maybe, if he restores the backbone the Dems built with their 1960s civil rights laws, and then lost in Viet Nam.
Tom - I am just saying that Obama is transforming the direction of the country more than a caretaker type President (he wants to be remembered as the "Reagan of the Left). Whether you view these changes as positive or negative will depend on your perspective.
Obama once said in an interview that he would rather be an excellent one term President than a mediocre two term President. On it's face this comment does not make much sense. If he were viewed by the majority of the country as excellent, he would be easily re-elected. On the other hand being viewed by the majority as mediocre would jeopardize a 2nd term. He was saying he would rather go down in flames sticking to his ideology than move to the center and be viewed as mediocre. (although Clinton moved to the center and was not considered mediocre - in fact he saved Obama with his strong support). Obama came close to going down in flames, but was saved in part by a massive ad spend attacking/defining Romney early in the campaign when Romney was most vulnerable. You could say a storm called Sandy helped him greatly, and one of the biggest factors was not having to run in a brutal primary. Romney was also not a great communicator, and vulnerable in several areas. I do not think that Obama won a mandate for his ideas. The Dems would have retaken the House if there were a mandate for his policies.
So you can speculate on who he wants to view him as an excellent President. Who do you think that is ? I personally think history may rate him as a mediocre two term President, but elements of the left will view him as excellent as they blame the other party for the economic decline. My perspective.
"...will depend on your perspective."
Jim, you appear to like empty cliches. That one and your "...whether that is a good or bad thing" above are empty. I'll use another cliche: Where's the beef?
Perspectives result from needs. Identify the needs and you might be saying something.
OK Tom - The left/progressive desire is for a European entitlement type state (single payer government run healthcare eventually, greater wealth redistribution., etc). The conservative desire is for less government and more market driven capitalism. No one is for getting rid of the safety net (unemployment, food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security), that is too firmly entrenched. The problem is we can not afford what the left desires unless the economy is growing at a much greater rate.
So far Obama has not been a "transformational" President - note this is what he said he wanted to be. He could - if he gets his way - run up government levels and the deficit so high that it will transform the country down the road. I don't think he knows how to bring about big change other than through sheer force (health care bill) and he has not had the votes, even from his own party (cap and trade, immigration reform). I am glad we have a Republican House that is slowing him down - however I also believe he would not mind everyone's taxes going up, and then using it as a hammer on the Republicans. The economy will suffer, the Republicans will suffer, and he will suffer a further decline in ratings except among the far left and those totally dependent on government.
I don't think that "depends on your perspective" is a totally empty cliche. I agree it is a rather obvious statement, and I know this is not rocket science. I am just saying that you will never get agreement on whether he was a successful President, for a number of years anyway. Right now there is much disagreement even among progressives. The criticism is fairly muted though. OK an EXAMPLE - drone strikes within Pakistan. The left wailed about water boarding a handful of militants, but is generally silent as we drop numerous missiles on suspected combatants, including American citizens, killing who knows how many innocents. At least with Bush we captured them and were going to give them military trials, until Obama stopped that practice. It has effectively stopped the growth of the number of residents at Gitmo though.
"He could - if he gets his way - run up government levels and the deficit so high that it will transform the country down the road."
Jim, you weren't paying attention during the mid-1980s. The Repubs, knowing they had too few votes in Congress to cut the social programs, started borrowing--intending to bankrupt the government and thus cut the social spending.
Evidence? The record borrowing by Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43. Add Bush 43's wiping out Clinton's surplus.
The Dems? The Repub attack machine's "tax and spend" charges terrified them into silence.
Finally, aided by Repub excesses, they regrew a backbone. Obama was slow to grow his.
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Last night marked the darkest hour in all of human history. Humanity has seen pestilence, wars, famine, genocide, and atrocities of all shapes and sizes. But all of that paled in comparison to Scott Walker's "surviving" a recall victory by a "narrow" 7-point margin.
Why was this the darkest day in human history? Because it was the day democracy died.
It's the end of the USA as we know it, but strangely I feel fine.
According to Democrats, the recall election was either the moment western civilization marked its inevitable decline or a great sign that Barack Obama is going to roll to re-election. While the truth is probably somewhere in between, either way Democrats expressed tremendous outrage over this election that was bought by Scott Walker and the evil Rethuglicans. Evidently spending a lot of money on elections is a bad thing. Unless of course you're Barack Obama.
The narrative shift demonstrates a couple of things about the progressive left, neither particularly positive. The first is the blatant dishonesty. It's quite amusing to listen to these people complain about "the death of democracy" when they've spent the better part of the past 18 months organizing, busing people in from other states, staging rallies and sit-ins, ushering their representatives out of the state in the middle of the night to shut the legislature down, and basically just throwing giant hissy fits because they aren't getting what they wanted.
More importantly, it highlights something that has been an essential fabric of the left since the Enlightenment: their utter contempt for people. According to their vision of how the world should work, Scott Walker would easily have been thrown out on his keister were it not for all the money funneling into Wisconsin on his behalf. The implication is that the people are so dumb that they forgot how angry they are supposed to be with Walker just because of a bunch of 30 second advertisements. I wonder if these people even realize how arrogant and snobbish they sound. Because there is a rather nasty undercurrent to all this talk that makes it seem that they don't have too high an opinion of most other individuals.
As I said, this really dates back to the Enlightenment, particularly the philosophes of the French Enlightenment. As Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote, it was a common tendency among the philosophes to generalize the virtues and elevate "the whole of mankind" over the individual. The most striking example of this wariness towards real, live, human beings was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Throughout his writings, but especially in his Confessions, he continually wrote of other people in a manner that demonstrated his contempt for them. He felt so isolated from the world that he wrote:
I am now alone on earth, no longer having any brother, neighbor, friend, or society other than myself. The most sociable and the most loving of human has been proscribed from society by unanimous agreement. In the refinements of their hatred, they have sought the torment which would be cruelest to my sensitive soul and have violently broken all the ties which attached me to them. I would have loved men in spite of themselves. Only by ceasing to be humane, have they been able to slip away from my affection. They are now strangers, unknowns, in short, nonentities to me – because that is what they wanted.
And yet his entire philosophy was geared towards improving the lot of mankind.
This succinctly summarizes the attitude of much of the left throughout history: they love humanity, but they hate people. Much of what I have read and seen over the past 24 hours has made that abundantly clear.


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Saturday morning Allen Park police said 32-year-old Danielle Greenway's tan 2005 GMC Safari with Michigan license plate No. 7JCM9 had been located. This comes after the bodies of Greenway and 42-year-old Chris Hall were found Tuesday in the Detroit River near Alter Road and Riverview.
Police said Greenway's van was used to transport the bodies. Police tell Local 4 they can't release where the vehicle was found.
Detroit and Allen Park police held a joint news conference Friday afternoon to address the two homicide cases which led investigators to a home in Allen Park.
Allen Park police confirmed a search warrant was being executed Thursday night at a house on Anne Street near Allen Road.
Read: Allen Park news conference statement
Police said Friday a man was in custody for his connection to the murders. The 39-year-old man had been living with Hall and Greenway at the Allen Park home. Allen Park police have been searching the home where the two lived on Anne Street.
"She was a very sweet young lady," said Elena Polocoseri, who lives next door. "Young couple. They just moved in a year ... a year an a half ago."
Police sources told Local 4 Hall and Greenway were shot to death and likely killed inside their home before being brought to the river. They were last seen alive last week.
"It was very disgusting," said Richard Dolliver, who lives across the street. "Whoever did this really should be ... I mean, I wish we had the death penalty because that's really disgusting."
Detroit police believed the couple was targeted by someone they knew.
"Someone obviously had a bone to pick with these two people, and wanted to send a message," said Detroit Police Commander Steve Dolunt.
The remains were taken to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office.
Had police and the Coast Guard on shore and in boats walked a few hundred yards up river where some men were fishing, they would have also found some key evidence.
A fisherman looked into the water and found legs, arms, a head and at least one power saw, possibly two power saws or saw parts in the water.
"We left because there wasn't a crime scene." Dolunt said.
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Elderly woman dies in house fireBy LARISSA MULKERN
Union Leader Correspondent
November 16. 2012 8:48PM
Officials had not yet released the homeowner or victim's name early on Friday, but according to the property tax records, Richard Cary owns the home. Tuftonboro Fire Chief Adam Thompson said the victim was the owner's wife.
Cary, who is 78, escaped the blaze and called 911 at 1:11 a.m. Upon arrival 13 minutes later, fire crews found the two-story, wood-frame, lakefront house totally engulfed in fire. The owner met the fire chief outside and reported that his wife was missing. He told fire officials he believed the fire started outside the building.
Thompson said another complication for arriving crews was a ruptured underground propane line feeding the fire from the outside, making entry into the building impossible.
The fire is under investigation by the Tuftonboro Fire Department, Police Department and the state Fire Marshal's office. Investigators were at the scene on Friday morning. Officials said an autopsy on the victim would be performed on Friday to determine cause of death.
A Tuftonboro firefighter was taken to Huggins Hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation and chest pains, and then released later on Friday. Difficulties battling the fire included its remote location at the end of a narrow, winding road, access to water, and a lack of parking for all the fire trucks and apparatus at the scene. He said drivers of the apparatus had to be careful not to hit the trees en route to the fire scene.
"The road was lined with apparatus," he said, adding that once the trucks arrived they were stuck in one spot, unable to pass.
Additional water tanker trucks were called to the fire, and the Moultonborough Fire Department's boat pumped water at a rate of 1,000 gallons per minute from Lake Winnipesaukee to fight the blaze. The fire was called under control at 3:11 a.m., but firefighters were still dousing hot spots into the early afternoon.
Thompson said the husband was checked out by emergency medical staff at the scene and did not require further medical attention. He said the husband was staying with family members who arrived from out of state.
Thompson said investigators would look for areas of the heaviest fire damage in an effort to determine the cause. Between 30 and 35 firefighters from Tuftonboro, Wolfeboro, Center Ossipee, Ossipee Corner, West Ossipee, Freedom, Middleton, Wakefield, Alton and Moultonborough fought the blaze. Ambulance crews from North Conway, Stewart's Ambulance Service and LifeStar EMS assisted at the scene.
According to town property tax records, the home has a total value of $810,000 - $665,000 for the land, $126,500 for the house and $19,200 in additional features.


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TOMS RIVER: A Story of Science and Salvation. By Dan Fagin. Bantam Books. 462 pages. $28.
This story is horrible. That's no reason to avoid reading "Toms River." It is, in fact, exactly why you should read it if you live anywhere near heavy industry, have economic development recruiters seeking it or have any remaining faith in regulators to make sure its discharges are safe.
This book is no fun to read. You will squirm, a lot, as Dan Fagin details the ravages of cancer in child after child in the New Jersey coastal community where chemical industries discharged into the ground and drinking water for a half-century. Here's a disturbing moment with one child whose face bulged with tumors, from a 1988 public hearing:
"(T)he small boy beside her asked to speak. He had not filled out a request card, but it made no difference. No one would have dared to tell Michael Gillick he could not speak. As he began, the television cameras scrambled for a clear shot of the boy whose face seemed the very personification of cancer's torment. 'If you have a child, picture him with cancer because of this water,' he said. 'Think of what it could do to him. He could die at any second, any minute, so please stop!' As he spoke, there was no other sound in the auditorium but the clicking of cameras. Michael Gillick's voice broke and he began to cry."
Fagin's story is a forensic on how the industries, legally and not so legally, dumped while being disingenuous about it, how public officials fell all over themselves to allow and provide for it because jobs were created, as "fixes" were made that included pumping the waste through a pipe into the Atlantic Ocean offshore near popular beach towns.
Fagin chronicles the travails of the residents as they grapple with clusters of cancers that officials say aren't statistically relevant enough to suggest an environmental cause, who finally get the studies they need, then see no real vindication.
Fagin is exhaustive to the point of exhausting: He delves into the minutiae of the science of cancer, detailing the history of research from Hippocrates to DNA. Sometimes it intrigues: "A tumor has even been discovered in a dinosaur bone at least a hundred and fifty million years old." But other times it gets tedious.
His dogged pursuit of a complete story breaks down at one telling point: He mentions mob connections to illegal dumping in Toms River and elsewhere, but doesn't pursue the point any further.
Regardless, this book is required phys. ed., a plunge into one of the uglier pits of the world we are manufacturing. Take it. Just don't swallow.
Reviewer Bo Petersen is an environmental reporter at The Post and Courier.


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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In Honduras, political crisis is taking a holiday.
A standoff between the president and congress and the Supreme Court that brought the country to the brink last week is now on hold until Jan. 3, as offices closed Monday for the holiday season.
No one answered at the Supreme Court or the attorney general's offices, and President Porfirio Lobo was silent after calling Friday for a national dialogue to find a way out of the crisis.
"We're going on Christmas vacation," congressional vice president Marvin Ponce said Monday.
Little more than a week ago, Lobo had accused a group of powerful business leaders and the Supreme Court of plotting against him. Then congress, with soldiers surrounding the building, voted in the early morning hours on Wednesday to oust four justices who voted against Lobo's police reform. Many called the vote illegal. The attorney general's office promised to investigate.
But for now, the country where Lobo's predecessor was deposed in a coup apparently plans to spend the next three weeks in heavenly peace.
Three years after former President Manuel Zelaya was run out of office at gunpoint in his pajamas, Lobo has struggled. He has twice warned that his enemies are conspiring to oust him in a coup, and then provoked a constitutional crisis with congressional vote, which legal scholars have described as everything from an abuse of power to a betrayal of the country.
Lobo met all day Friday behind closed doors with leaders of the various factions and the help of the Venezuelan embassy. Venezuela was key in brokering a 2011 deal that saw the peaceful return of Zelaya, who has now formed his own political party. Lobo's approval of the deal was one of the first things he did to alienate the business leaders who supported the coup.
The Supreme Court tried to meet last week to address the crisis, but couldn't agree on a quorum between the ousted justices and their replacements. The fired justices complained that they didn't receive due process.
Justice Antonio Henriquez, who remains on the court, told Honduras Channel 3 television that he too intends to remain silent, but not because of the holidays.
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The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, Oct. 4, 1912
Twenty or more members of the Conanicut Grange participated in a straw ride Friday evening to the north end of the island. Meeting at the Town Hall, the party took Peckham's large lumber wagon and drove to Mr. T.G. Carr's farm, where they found a large driftwood fire on the shore. After the fire died down they adjourned to Mr. T.G. Carr's farm, where supper was served. The return drive down the island, under the full moon and with perfect weather conditions, was delightful. Altogether the affair was voted one of the most enjoyable this year.
(Headline) Hotel Thorndike burned.
(Headline) Big Jamestown hostelry a total loss, but surrounding buildings saved.
(Headline) Newport firemen, with forces from the training station and the ships, aid local department.
Saturday night Jamestown had the largest and most destructive fire in its history. The Thorndike Hotel was completely destroyed. The fire itself was discovered a little after 11 o'clock and in two hours the hotel was a mass of ruins.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Oct. 1, 1937
The yacht club closed its season Thursday and all the boats have been laid up for the winter.
At the Red Cross rummage sale Wednesday afternoon, the proceeds were gratifying. From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 2, 1937
William A. Gosford of Union Street has been appointed superintendent of the PWA projects in Jamestown. Mr. Gosford has been in charge of work at the crusher for the past two years.
The contract, which was awarded to the Peckham Wrecking Company of Newport for razing the Stout cottage on the cliff walk, has been completed. From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 5, 1937
The treasurer reported to the Town Council that the income from $200, left by the late Anna J. Armbrust, will be used as an annual prize, to be awarded to the girl in the public schools of Jamestown who shows the most proficiency in the sewing department. From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 6, 1937
The Board of Trade met in the Town Hall. Mr. Ross Harrison of the summer colony spoke on the change of the town election and Financial Town Meeting dates. Members of both parties have approved the proposition of having a council elected for a five-year term instead of a one-year term, one member to be elected each year. This also has the approval of the present Town Council.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 1, 1962
About 200 attended the Jamestown Firemen's Ball Saturday night at Holy Ghost Hall. The Rhythm Ramblers of West Warwick provided the music. From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 2, 1962
(Editorial) There's no question but that any community with the population and area of Jamestown should have a zoning ordinance. The security of the property of all citizens demands it. While Jamestown's Town Council has so far failed to consider the study that the town's planning board, as prepared with the aid of the Rhode Island Development Council recommends, the fact that the council has re-enacted the zoning code adopted in 1935. There has been some question as to its legality, but it will serve to prevent excesses in land and building use until the zoning subject is finally settled.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 7, 1987
Traffic was backed up for almost an hour Tuesday afternoon as the state Department of Transportation began repairs to the Jamestown Bridge. Both Jamestown and North Kingstown police reported considerable tie-ups because DOT has one lane of the bridge closed. From the Newport Daily News,
Oct. 8, 1987
State and federal transportation officials are now leaning toward a mechanical drainage system for the new cross-island bridge-connector road in Jamestown. Previously, the state Department of Transportation had favored boring a 4,000-foot-long tunnel through the hill on Eldred Avenue to drain runoff from the new road into the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Oct. 2, 1997
The Town Council Monday authorized spending $4,000 to hire a professional to design and cost out an addition to the ambulance barn on Knowles Court. For several years, town officials have been discussing the possibility of razing the existing building and building a new barn on a lot immediately west of the fire station that is owned by Michael Muksian. The town-owned lot on Knowles Court would then be turned into a parking lot to help alleviate the parking problem at East Ferry.
The state Department of Transportation Monday agreed to eliminate the east sidewalk from its plan to upgrade Southwest Avenue and to pave the west sidewalk with porous bluestone aggregate.
William J. Gelb will have to jump through a few more hurdles before his application to locate an aquaculture farm off the west coast of Conanicut Island will be a reality.
The quarterly water pumping report shows that water usage jumped significantly during the early summer months. The most recent report shows a sharp spike in the month of July – up to approximately 325,000 gallons per day, in a town that averages about 250,000 gallons per day.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Oct. 3, 2002
It was a beautiful fall day Sunday for Heyday [sic] at the Watson Farm.
The sentiment among Chamber of Commerce members is that Jamestown had a very good summer season, and that the restaurants "with the wide variety that we have to offer" makes Jamestown "more of a destination," according to chamber president Joan Goldstein.
The town needs to plan for a new financial format, with greatly increased data and documentation, for audits beginning with the next fiscal year. The need was emphasized by James Nadeau of Warwick, whose company of certified public accountants conducts the annual audit for Jamestown.


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Bahrain court clears 2 police in protester death
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a court has acquitted two policemen charged in the shooting death of a protester at the beginning of the 2-year-old uprising in the Gulf nation.
Tuesday's decision could stir more clashes in the strategic kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. It comes just two days after an appeals court confirmed the acquittal of two other policemen in the deaths of two protesters in February 2011.
More than 60 people have been killed in unrest in Bahrain, where majority Shiites seeking a greater political voice are confronting the Sunni-run leadership.
Defense lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi said the two policeman fired shotgun blasts at the protester, but charges were dropped because the court decided there was no intention to use lethal force.


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Blogger: Richard Watson
The term "disruptive technology" is much-abused in analyst writing. Let's remind ourselves what it really means. Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower coined the term "disruptive technology" in their 1995 Harvard Business Review paper [1]. Christensen and Bower point out that products tend to improve incrementally to a point beyond which customers cannot adopt the product's new capabilities. At some point, the high-end capabilities of the product will exceed the needs of its customers. At this point, a disruptive technology may enter the market and offer a new and different value proposition. Disruptive technologies offer "a different package of attributes from the one mainstream customers historically value". This often means less leather trim and walnut dash inlays, but a raw performance that makes the impossible, possible. Christensen and Bower use the evolution of the hard-disk-drive from 14" to 8" to 5.25" then to 3.5" to illustrate points of disruption:
Each of these new architectures initially offered the market substantially less storage capacity than the typical user in the established market required… But the disruptive architectures created other important attributes – internal power supplies and smaller size (8"); still smaller size and low-cost stepper motors (5.25"); and ruggedness, lightweight, and low-power consumption (3.5"). From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, the availability of the three drives made possible the development of new markets for mini-computers, desktop PCs, and portable computers, respectively.
So, bored with reading endless, 'X of the decade' reviews in newspapers over the holidays, I decided to join in with a list of technologies that have disrupted application development over the last ten years. Here's my list (in no particular order):
- Spring Framework
- Ruby on Rails
- Eclipse
- Amazon Web Services
- JBoss Application Server
- Open Source Databases, such as MySQL
- Apache Ant
- JUnit/xUnit
Each of these disruptors is detailed in a table embedded in these slides.
What's interesting in retrospect is the bias in my list towards open source innovations. I didn't set out with that in mind. My colleague Kirk Knoernschild posits that this is because:
Developers creating tools to "scratch their own itch" tend to hit the mark better than vendors trying to invent a problem that needs solving.
Which brings us back to another Christensen concept: the "innovators dilemma". Vendors tend to create products for their existing customers; disruptive innovation tends to create new markets outside an existing customer base, or a new demand for products with different attributes (often a lower price point). While some of these technologies were disruptive on price point (e.g. JBoss, MySQL), many are not – just better functionality (Spring, Ruby on Rails) or brand new (JUnit, Amazon Web Services).
The Jolt Awards are another reference worth returning to, for spotting trends in application development technologies. I would say, the Jolts award sustaining, rather than disruptive technologies: they tend to be more vendor-centric than the open source bias in my list. That Eclipse and Hibernate won the 'languages and development environment' and 'libraries, frameworks and components' awards respectively in 2004 and again in 2005, was unusual.
There are many other disruptors I wanted to include that do not fit with these technologies: disruptive architectures like REST or development practices, especially agile methods. These other disruptors will make a fine topic for another article.
[1] Bower, Joseph L. & Christensen, Clayton M. (1995). "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" Harvard Business Review, January-February 1995.


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This is my first time starting a thread but here goes anyway...
What's the stupidest lie you've told and thought there is NO WAY this person will believe this crap!
Mine was when I was a teenager. I told my friend that Green Day's tour bus broke down in front of my Dad's house and they came to my door to ask to use the phone. I went on to tell her that they stayed and played a couple songs for me then gave me backstage passes to their next show. I didn't think she actually believe me since I was saying it in a totally sarcastic manner. It wasn't until she started telling other people my lie that I thought, oh my god how stupid is this girl? Who on earth would believe that lie? I told everyone else that I was just kidding when I told her that obvious lie... I never told her though!
Like I said, this wasn't really meant to be a lie, it was in response to her telling me and obvious lie about her meeting Coldplay and them taking her out to dinner.
What was your lie and why did you tell it?
Was it like mine, meant to be a joke?
Was it meant to cover something up?
Was it just for the hell of it?
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
i don'r remember when but I once told a buddy of mine that the tentacles in some hentai shows were real. He acted like he didn't believe me but i noticed that he put up a question on wiki answers so he really did question whether they were real. What is really funny is that the trolls came to my aid and told him they were real. LOL
I was very young and still quite happy to be a thief stealing small things from various locations. I was in a...um...religious building and decided that I would practice pulling money out of a donation box. Something I never did before by the way. So I wasn't really expecting any success but then to my surprise I managed to snag a wonderful $50 bill. Of course then I had a problem. I wasn't working at the time for anyone other than my family who obviously paid me and I was quite well known for spending money the second I got it. I had no real way of spending the money since my parents would have to take me to the place and walk with me inside the place to spend it so I had to either come up with a lie or put the money back. Due to me posting in this thread I am sure it is obvious which path I chose. I decided to tell my mom that I found the bill folded up in the coin return of the pop machine as it was the only somewhat logical place that my stupid brain could come up with at that age. She believed it but my happiness was crushed when I was told I could only spend it on clothes but oh well. I believe that was one of the last times I ever stole something that wasn't digital.
Telling people my brother was adopted....
and people actually believing me.
I'm such a mean person, I know.
i can't lie. the guilt in the end kills me. so i choose not to. i dont even remember the last time i lied.
I have upon numerous occasions actually told people that I knew what I was doing. . .
just wandering about...
I told my friend over the phone that i got my whole body covered in tattoos. (knowing i dont even want one) he believed me and asked where he could get it done for cheap. that was just something i said because he is really gullible.
All I wanted was to start over.. miserable and alone.
I told a boy I couldn't have sex with him 'cause my Dad made me wear a chastity belt every time I left home. So he said if I only had to wear it when I left home that he could sneak into my house when my parents were sleeping.. I have a hard time just saying no..
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I have upon numerous occasions actually told people that I knew what I was doing. . .
I do this quite often myself ^_^
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
i lie often, often jokingly. but the one that gets people believing is when i do racial jokes of myself.
on my way to my DREAMS- your smile - through food
Back when I was in college me and a buddy of mine convinced a group of freshmen that you were actually supposed to pull condoms all the way up and over your balls. A year later we were at a party and overheard a group of people discussing this and telling other people to try it. Good times.
God exists?
thekevin4 wrote:
Back when I was in college me and a buddy of mine convinced a group of freshmen that you were actually supposed to pull condoms all the way up and over your balls. A year later we were at a party and overheard a group of people discussing this and telling other people to try it. Good times.
Sir, I have to ask.. what reason did you give them as to why you were hanging from a telephone wire with your pants on fire?
Only DEATH can cure STUPIDITY!!
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Sir, I have to ask.. what reason did you give them as to why you were hanging from a telephone wire with your pants on fire?
About 35 years ago when I lived out in the Pacific Northwest I would take weekend trips with a good friend up to British Columbia to photograph freight trains out in the high country. We usually camped out overnight in rugged areas only tolerating the public for warm meals (eateries) and restroom facilities (rest areas). It was the visit to the latter at a highway rest area that we encountered a tourist who was obviously lost and disoriented. He asked us if we knew which direction Vancouver, BC was. I must add that this part of Fraser River Canyon back then was traversed by just one major highway and the only two directions you could go by car were east and west. My friend could have easily pointed the correct direction to the man but it was obvious from his breath and demeanor this gentleman was still recovering from an inebriated state of intoxication.
My good friend Dan, not one to ignore the plight of this traveller in need, decided to test his cognitive skills or recall. He looked at the guy straight faced and asked "Which way did you come from?". The old guy thought for a moment, staggered to the rest area entryway, and pointed east. My friend didn't miss a beat. "Did you see Vancouver in your travels coming from that direction?" The old guy gave both of us a cursory glance, scratched his chin with his right hand for a moment, glanced skyward, and replied a rather sheepish "No?" "Well," Dan intoned, "it must be that way", inferring the opposite direction while pointing with an arm gesture toward the west. I wish we had taken a picture of that look of bedraggled perplexion the old bugger gave us. At first I thought he was going to hit us for being dipsticks. But no, his cranial wheels slowly moved toward enlightment, his facial muscles beamed and revealed a smile, and he thanked us for being so helpful while staggering back to his car.
This could have been a fun lie. My friend could have pointed east. This slightly inebriated Indian could have remained confused and wound up back in Kamloops again but that, thanks to my friend's wry sense of wit, didn't occur.
MYTH: the universal language. Always question AUTHORITY.


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As we head into 2013, many Americans may have resolved to get more sleep this year. Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes for Health, recommends that adults get seven to eight hours of sleep each night. According to this Infographic from Greatist.com, most Americans are clocking in just shy of the full seven hours they need, catching about 6.9 hours on average. The results of too little sleep include slower reaction times, higher blood pressure, increased risk of diabetes and—pay attention all you 2013 weight watchers—eating more.
Check out the infographic below to learn more about the foods that inhibit a good night's sleep, the power of naps and some famous folks who made good use of day dreaming:
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Wheatland, Missouri - A big day of activity at Lucas Oil Speedway concluded with on and off track fireworks Saturday Night. The Hickory County Fair wrapped up and the NBRA North/South Shootout completed day one of action. The Lucas Oil Weekly Championship Series hit the Diamond of Dirt for one of the best nights of racing in 2013, a large display of fireworks set to patriotic music, capped off a spectacular day in Wheatland, Missouri. The Shootout continues today (Sunday, June 30th) on Lake Lucas. KIX 105.7 American Patriot Night is one of the most popular events of the summer with a special "Salute to America" Saturday night. Lucas Oil Speedway and KIX 105.7 wish you and your family a safe and enjoyable holiday, thank you to all those who serve or have served, we salute you.
Shawn Strong edged Kris Jackson on the last lap coming to the checkered flag, in the Tri-Lakes RV B-Mods. A more than year old rivalry heated up and had fans on their feet to witness the on track fireworks on the front stretch! Terry Schultz continues to lead the National USRA point standings, he held off Jon Sheets and John Allen for the big "W" in the Pitts Homes USRA Modifieds. Although Schultz leads the National points, he is currently a mere two points behind Sheets in the current Lucas Oil Speedway charts.
Brian Schutt finished the night with a win over Randy Gilmore and Chip Shaddox in an exciting 2 lap shoot out after a late race caution, in the Carson's Corner NAPA Factory Stocks. In the finale of the night, $1000 to Win presented by Rain's Ice Co. in the ALPS Food Stores ULMA Late Models, Payton Looney picked up his first ever win at Lucas Oil Speedway over Josh Hughes, as he continues to lead the Rookie of the Year in the overall ULMA point standings.
The intense racing from Saturday night is not likely to cease, as the season hits its boiling point on Saturday, July 6th for the Casey's General Store Mid-Season Points Championship presented by Coca-Cola. Don't miss the crowning of the Mid-Season champ and arrive early to get in on special promotions and give-a-ways for Casey's and Ozarks Coca-Cola. Discount coupons will be available at the Wheatland Casey's General Store for $2 Off admission on Saturday, July 6th. The night will also feature a special 25 lap, $500 to Win Tri-Lakes RV B-Mod race. For complete event information visit LucasOilSpeedway.com.


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11 Female Abstract Expressionists You Should Know, from Joan Mitchell to Alma Thomas
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Critics and historians have called Grace Hartigan both a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter and a forebear of Pop art, though she was not satisfied with either categorization. In explaining the content and purpose of her work, Hartigan once said: "perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor—emotional pain remembered in tranquility." Hartigan painted intensely colored, gestural figures, inspired by coloring books, film, canonical painting, and advertising. She was a disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and also studied with Isaac Lane Muse. She gained early critical attention when in 1950, she was included in Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro's "New Talents" exhibition. In 1958, Hartigan was hailed by Life magazine as one of the best young female American painters.
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Do You See What I See?
Watching Esther Williams tread water in those old 1940s movies is a cozy way to pass a rainy afternoon. But trying to decipher a computer screen with similarly swirling syllables is nobody's idea of a swank soiree. An audio CAPTCHA, on the other hand, is an attractive alternative to its visual counterpart.
Some people may be sufficiently turned off at the thought of navigating yet another visual CAPTCHA that they turn away from your site. Providing an alternative that may be easier for some people to navigate may prove an incentive for more people to unlock the virtual door to your site feedback.
Another reason for considering alternatives to visual CAPTCHA mechanisms involves a government regulation called "Section 508," officially known as "The Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act."
Section 508 (www.section508.gov) says that when Federal agencies develop or use electronic information, they are required to make that information available to everyone equally. In the case of CAPTCHA, this means that people who are unable to read a CAPTCHA should have access to an alternate entry mechanism. At least, that's my translation of the regulation's government-ese.
To date, Section 508 requirements apply only to sites with financial ties to the federal government. However, it makes good sense, from a business as well as a human standpoint, to provide accessibility alternatives for people with different physical challenges. Think about implementing these alternatives on your personal website as well as the business sites you develop.


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What's your passion?
Mental health and substance abuse recovery as well as working at the humane society.
Personal fun things; I love cosmetology. Makeup, skincare, especially bath products.
I'm a writer and express best through words, so I'm in love with words.
Great question, thanks for starting this discussion, which I've enjoyed reading while drinking my first cup of tea. I am passionate about justice. To me that word describes many different aspects of fairness and equality. For example, I am passionate about literature, and so I have been a literacy tutor and feel so strongly that if people can learn to read, they can access justice, or at least have a chance to do so. I love animals, and I want to see them treated with justice. My career has been in the area of early intervention, and all over the world I believe young children and their families have the right to access care and education. And the beautiful world we live in, we are stewards…I care very much about treating our world with justice. If we could all treat each other as sisters and brothers, with fairness and kindness, imagine!
Well since you asked… I think the "troubled teen" industry is a horrible horrible thing that should be dismantled and I feel quite passionate about that. For those who aren't familiar with it, they are usually private facilities who present themselves as boarding schools or treatment centers for teens who are troublesome or who's parents don't want to deal with them. They have no external or governmental oversight, have teachers, councilors and other staff who have no credentials and often get away with abusing the kids mentally and physically because there is no way for the kids to reach the outside world to make reports. So it's basically a prison for kids where they get treated way worse than adults in our prisons. Nice, huh?
On a lighter note, I love collecting pop up books, I'm into gardening, beekeeping, alternative forms of building housing, I love tattoos, but body piercing and modification has held my interest a bit more. I like building and making things. Scavenging for materials to make things. Re-use, less waste, minimizing my possessions all interest me. Unfortunately, having a lot of interests counteracts my wanting to have less stuff.
Oh pop up, how fun!
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart are the most amazing pop up artists ever!
You mentioned you teach in Palo Alto, 8th grade was Hillview in Menlo for me. I'm in TX now, so the connection is a little more amusing to me than if I still lived in the bay. :)
Yes Palo Alto is where I've done all my post-student teaching teaching :) the downside is I lived in Sunnyvale when I started the job but moved to Manteca last summer and… still working 80 miles away!
That must be a brutal commute! Why Manteca? The only thing I know about Manteca is that they have water slides. I used to live in Sunnyvale too in some town houses behind the Toy's r Us that everyone swore was haunted.
Funny story!
So, we first visited Manteca to go to Bass Pro Shops and my boyfriend was like WOW we should move here so I can fish more! And I said ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Flash forward about 6 months and SURPRISE He was transfered from San Jose to Modesto andddddddd here I am now, a Manteca homeowner!
The commute (3 to 3.5 hours) does suck, but I am able to get a lot of lesson planning and grading done on it. And almost every day SOMEBODY comments on my giant 32 oz bubba of tea I'm drinking haha :)
I don't remember where Toys R Us was… I don't know if it was still there! The water park isn't in Manteca anymore, either… :( Now I just live in the middle of NOWHERE with NOTHING nearby. But it's okay because I like cows :D I'd like a natural foods store, though…….
Hmmmmm, are you sure he didn't ask to be transferred so he could fish more? :) That's nice that you can do something on your commute. Sometimes I think I'd like to live somewhere out of the way and then I remember how much of a city gal I am. It makes for a bit of an internal conflict.
The Toy's r Us was on El Camino and maybe Matilda? It could be gone, but I thought those things never went away once they were established.
Oh I have been there! Forgot about that! I lived right by there Haha.
AND I wouldn't be surprised if he requested transfer ;) it's actually better now because his old job site was only gonna run another year, this one is 5-6 more so more guaranteed income! And he just got a 10k raise! I asked if that meant I could stop commuting, he said he was hoping it meant he could buy a boat Haha.
How funny you identified as a city gal because after 1.5 years of the bay I was THROUGH! grew up in Sacramento but I spent almost 6 years in Chico in college and I love the small town, slow pace life! I miss like Whole Foods, but I love that I'm two blocks away from cows! I have an unnatural obsession about cows! They're just so ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Get him a row boat, stop commuting and call it a win/win!
I grew up all over the bay area and lived in SF as an adult. It just weirds me out to be too far from a city. I'm in Austin now which is pretty slow pace for a city, but still has enough going that I don't feel like things are stagnant. I live in walking distance from four urban farms which is pretty cool. They don't have any cows, but they have chickens, goats, rabbits, ducks and donkeys. I'd love to see them get miniature cows tho. Mini anything is pretty cute.
He already has a pontoon.. .you would think that would be enough but nooooo, he wants one with a "motor"… selfish! You know how much tea I could buy with a boat budget!! !!!!!!
Guitars. I love guitars. I play in our praise band. I'm not a great player but would feel lost without playing – but not in the religious sense :p Tony Iommi was the inspiration for buying my first guitar. If you know who he is you might better understand the saying God works in mysterious ways.
I also love astronomy. When you look into infinity and realize the photons hitting your retina have been travelling for billions of years it just sort of humbles you somehow. Or at least it does me.
When it comes to books, give me a technical manual or science book every time. I just can't relate to fiction. I'd rather wait for the movie with CGI effects. I do love to watch sci-fi. Syfy and Discovery are probably our most watched stations.
What kind of guitar(s) do you have, KS? I play bass and currently have just one, an Ibanez SRX700 I got in the early 2000s. I used to gig quite a bit playing musical theater orchestra pits and jazz, and that bass was a trustworthy instrument!
Awesome. I had plans of getting a bass but that is on hold for the moment.
I am currently guitar deprived. I only have three :) A Peavey Ecoustic which is a small bodied electric acoustic. A Washburn electric beater that I hot rodded with Carvin pickups. My baby is a Parker Nite Fly. It is a hybrid that was the bridge between the Nite Fly M and the Mojo. The only difference I can tell from the Mojo is mine does not have Seymour Duncans. The carbon fiber fretboard is amazing.
Gibson Ripper here! But it is really hubby's, not mine. I can only play Smoke On The Water and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys on bass. LOL!
I'm very passoinate about banning fracking. Being in the state (PA) that everyone is kind of looking at right now of how things are panning out with it, I'm hoping that other states either get better research done before drilling or ban it altogether. I know a lot of people are against it, too, but it always amazes me how many younger people don't realize there's something you can do about it other than complaining. I am an adult learner in college, and I have yet to meet a student that is aware that you can even write to your govener. They say they are against it, and I'll tell them to write to the govener, and they always give me this bewildered look of "I can do that?!" It amazes me how much schools are able to teach people, but they don't teach us how to parttake in society.
I apologize about that turning into a bit of a tangent, but when you ask what someone's passionate about, you know it's going to happen!
Other things I love are wildlife and the environment, yoga, and reading. I'm sure there are other things, but these are what comes to mind right away.
Passions? Great topic! Indo-European religion, culture, mythology and archaeology especially Celtic, Germanic and Baltic (even more specifically Irish, Norse and Lithuanian).
Art and music especially pertaining to the above both historic and inspired. Ritual, shrines and home design. Collages and various aesthetic stuff. Poetry and music again usually inspired by the above.
Tolkien, all his writings as well as the art and films inspired by it. Other geekery like Doctor Who and Sherlock.
Ancestry/genealogy. Nature, environmental and LGBT issues as well, I founded a Gay-Straight Alliance in high school.
I'm pretty passionate about gaming. My PS3 is practically my sister in how much time I coddle it and most of my money goes to gaming in some way. Even when I'm buying teas I wonder what will pair well with taking down dragons or exploring a new world. (Or what will calm my nerves when I get oh-so frustrated because asdfghjjffjk!)
I also am very loving about my cats. Despite the bites, I could spend all day with them just sleeping by my side.
I do have a passion for cooking but the kitchen in this house is so awful I find I just can't bring myself to spend all day cooking as I once did. And my love for History has been muted a bit since I quit school to take on a job. When you no longer have access to academic works describing the wonders of the Ottoman Empire or Third Reich or Ancient Egypt… Well, life becomes dull.
Although I must admit I am very passionate about the love for my job. Not so much the job itself but the crew I am on. I love them all so much and how much they care for me and act as a second family.
You might want to check out The Great Courses website. They have some wonderful non-credit university level lecture series on all different subjects, many of them history. I've watched their Egyptian lectures, and they were amazing. They have sales all the time.
I have alot of interests but My Passion would have to be: Creativity. Writing, Arts and Crafts, trying to feel creative when doing mundane tasks, not to mention convince myself to spend sometime outside even when it's cold and sometimes wet, during the day, soak up the sun a little bit…hoping to alleviate some of depression. (regular depression and probably Seasonal Affective Disorder.)