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Out of Context: The James O'Keefe Story
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One of the subjects of self-styled journalist James O'Keefe's most recent series of heavily edited smear videos reportedly says that her comments were taken out of context. The accusation is consistent with O'Keefe's history of producing distorted videos, which he then promotes with deception and lies.
Teacher reportedly says O'Keefe video distorted her comments
Video uses video snippets of union teacher to attack NJEA. A portion of O'Keefe's video is based on audio snippets of Passaic, New Jersey, special education teacher Alissa Ploshnick supposedly "brag[ging]" at a New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) conference about the difficulty of firing tenured teachers.
New Jersey teacher reportedly says her comments were taken out of context. An article in the Newark Star-Ledger reported Ploshnick's claim, according to an NJEA spokesman, that she was taken out of context. From the Star-Ledger article:
One union member featured prominently in the video, Passaic special education teacher Alissa Ploshnick, was "apoplectic" when she learned of the videos, [NJEA spokesman Steve] Wollmer said, and is also consulting an attorney.
Wollmer said an undercover videographer bought her a drink, and talked about going out to dinner, to get her to open up. He then took her comments out of context, Wollmer said, to make it sound as if she was joking about how hard it is to get a tenured teacher fired.
The video included a clip of her saying "once you get that third year, it's like 'Schwing!'"
"He was offering her both romance and a glass of wine to get her to open up," Wollmer said. "The guy's flat-out sleazy."
O'Keefe videos regularly feature "highly selective editing" that strips comments from context
Law enforcement officials criticize O'Keefe's "highly selective editing of reality." In 2009, O'Keefe and fellow conservative activist Hannah Giles produced several videos purportedly implicating ACORN employees. Three separate investigations cleared ACORN workers of any criminal wrongdoing, and a December 22, 2009 report by the Congressional Research Service stated that California and Maryland criminal laws may have been violated by the undisclosed taping done by O'Keefe. California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. pointed out that the videotapes were "severely edited by O'Keefe." In a statement, Brown said, "The evidence illustrates ... that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor." Likewise, a March 1 New York Daily News article reported that "a law enforcement source" said of O'Keefe and Giles: "They edited the tape to meet their agenda." A March 2 New York Post article, headlined "ACORN set up by vidiots: DA," reported of O'Keefe and Giles' ACORN tapes: "Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said."
O'Keefe's BigGovernment video omits relevant clip in claiming that "Census supervisors" were "systemically encouraging employees to falsify information on their time sheets." In a ten-minute video posted on BigGovernment.com in June 2010, O'Keefe stated that he had been hired as a Census worker and attended two days of training. He said, "What I found were Census supervisors systematically encouraging employees to falsify information on their time sheets." The video includes clips of census leaders, who according to O'Keefe, "didn't seem to have a problem with the discrepancy" of the hours recorded on his time sheet versus the hours he claimed to have worked. O'Keefe omitted a clip that was later aired by ABC, which shows a census leader emphasizing the importance of accurately reporting on miles driven by census enumerators.
Friend of O'Keefe reportedly objected to past transcript distortion. A September 18, 2009, New York Times article reported that Liz Farkas, a college friend of O'Keefe's while at Rutgers University, said she "grew disillusioned" after O'Keefe asked Farkas to help deceptively "edit the script" of a video involving a nurse at the University of California at Los Angeles.
O'Keefe uses lies and distortion to produce and promote his videos
O'Keefe falsely claimed that ACORN tapes were a "nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation" that implicated many ACORN employees. Discussing the ACORN videos, O'Keefe falsely claimed that the video campaign was a "nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation" implicating many ACORN employees. But in at least six of the eight heavily edited videos produced by O'Keefe and Giles and distributed by Andrew Breitbart, either the activists did not clearly tell the ACORN employees that they were planning to engage in child prostitution; or the ACORN employees refused to help them or apparently deliberately misled them; or ACORN employees contacted the police following their visit.
Breitbart and O'Keefe withheld exculpatory LA ACORN video for two months. For more than two months after Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com website began posting videos in which O'Keefe and Giles posed as a pimp and prostitute in ACORN offices, O'Keefe and his cohorts withheld video that directly contradicted what they said the videos showed. In September 2009, Giles and Big Government editor-in-chief Mike Flynn had both falsely claimed that every ACORN office O'Keefe and Giles visited had offered to help them. Also during September 2009, both Breitbart and O'Keefe were asked directly by reporters whether any ACORN offices had refused to help; Breitbart and O'Keefe chose not to disclose the existence of a tape that showed at least one ACORN worker who refused to help. In a video released November 16, 2009, O'Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN worker they filmed in August 2009 "would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities."
O'Keefe pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal charge of entering Senate office under false pretenses. As reported by The Times-Picayune on May 26:
The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses.
Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan each to two years probation, a fine of $1,500 and 75 hours of community service during their first year of probation.
James O'Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service.
O'Keefe reportedly planned to "seduce" and publicly humiliate CNN reporter. In an article posted at CNN.com, investigative reporter Abbie Bourdeau reported that when she arrived for an interview with O'Keefe, she was informed by O'Keefe's colleague Izzy Santa that O'Keefe planned to lure her aboard a boat where he would secretly record his attempts to "hit on her" using "strawberries and champagne." Boudreau reported that a document she obtained suggested O'Keefe would also use props including a "condom jar," Viagra, pornography, a ceiling mirror, and "fuzzy handcuffs." The document explained the motivation: "The joke is that the tables have turned on CNN. Using hot blondes to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television." O'Keefe later claimed that he had been "repulsed" by the scenario laid out in the document when it was presented to him, and that it did not represent his actual plan for the interview, which he described as follows:
In my version, the reporter was never going to be placed in a threatening situation. She would have had to consent before being filmed and she was not going to be faux "seduced" unless she wanted to be. If a CNN reporter would be willing to engage in such a folly, it might even be more newsworthy than Rick Sanchez's firing. (CNN also has Elliot Spitzer on payroll. He's done more outrageous things than anything I've ever gotten in my in-box).
The sexually explicit document CNN is now "reporting" on was never going to be implemented as written. She saw how I was dressed that day, with my usual blazer and collared shirt. In the document she reported as being "authentic," I was supposed to have been dressed with my chest exposed, slicked backed hair, with gold chains. That ought to have been a red flag the document was not a reflection of my true intentions. Ms. Boudreau was never going to be put in the bizarre situations outlined in the document CNN reported. There were no mirrors, sex tapes, blindfolds, fuzzy handcuffs, posters of naked women, or music. Sorry, you were not going to see my face saying the words "Bubble Headed Beach Blonde who comes on at 5" into a video camera. Those are Don Henley lyrics - and we know, thanks to Chuck DeVore, how much Henley loathes parody.
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Greek Austerity Passed, But at a Cost
The Greek Parliament has passed a key austerity package but the ultra-slim majority suggests that Prime Minister Samaras's coalition is now in danger. Dow Jones's Jenny Paris points out, there are many more political hurdles to come. Photo: AP
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You'd Think NSA Employees Would Know Better Than To Hand Out Their Passwords, But Many Gave Them To Snowden
from the nsa-is-trustworthy? deptIn the latest bizarre news concerning the Snowden leaks, Reuters is reporting that Ed Snowden was able to convince a number of NSA employees to give him their login info, which helped him access a lot of the content. Of course, this differs from earlier reports, which had suggested that, as a sys admin, he'd simply been able to login as other employees.
A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks.What fascinates me about this is the idea that if you were working for the NSA, wouldn't you know to never give out your password to anyone, ever? It just seems like basic common sense (also: if you were one of those 20 to 25 people, I'd imagine that as soon as Snowden's name came out, you were sweating bullets). You'd think that NSA employees wouldn't do that sort of thing.
Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said.
And, once again, what this brings us back around to is the simple fact that NSA employees are humans and sometimes they do the wrong thing. That is why the surveillance program is so worrisome. Keith Alexander and others can insist that there were only a small number of abuses, but all the data actually showed is that the NSA only caught a small number of abuses. It's quite likely that many more have happened, and continue to happen. The fact that it's apparently not that difficult to get NSA employees to cough up their login info shows that for all the talk of careful review, audits, limits and security -- humans remain a very weak link, and there are all sorts of ways to get at information even if the NSA believes it's locked down and carefully monitored.
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text: Hi, Thanks to everyone for your advice and suggestions. It seems I might have to re-think the thickness of the slices required - in retrospect, I was probably aiming too low anyway. Basically, the reason we want to cut them quickly is in order to culture the slices later, so I'm not sure a vibratome or cryostat would be appropriate as I think the tissue would have to be embedded/ frozen first. Overall the 'egg-slicer' or matrix type of device seem like they may be the best option, but I may try to make my own, as described by Geoff, to cut costs a bit. Katy Bad vibes, man. > > But, Geoff, your device would work, but as you note, not for less > than 1000 micron slices, definitely not 30 - 300 micron, and there'd > be more tissue damage from compression. A vibratome is pretty much > the only choice, there is no "all slices at once" instrument that > I've seen. > > Phil > >>Always wondered what a vibratome was. >>I've got a wifatome. >> >>Dr Terry L Marshall, B.A.(Law), M.B.,Ch.B.,F.R.C.Path >> Consultant Pathologist >> Rotherham General Hospital >> South Yorkshire >> England >> terry.marshall <@t> rothgen.nhs.uk >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Geoff McAuliffe [mailto:mcauliff <@t> umdnj.edu] >>Sent: 19 April 2004 19:08 >>To: k.whalley <@t> ich.ucl.ac.uk >>Cc: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu >>Subject: Re: [Histonet] tissue slicer >> >> >>Hi Katy: >> >> You could buy a Vibratome, a device with a vibrating blade that will >>cut fixed or unfixed tissue at a thickness you select. I think there are >>several models and vendors. >> Or, you could make an inexpensive device for little more than pocket >>change. Buy some high-quality double-edge razor blades and some material >>to use for spacing the blades. For 1 mm or more use square aluminum rod, >>for 0.5 mm or less use "shim stock". A well-stocked hardware store or >>maching shop will have these items. Use "super-glue" to glue up a >>"blade-spacer-blade-spacer-blade ..." tool with as many blades as your >>project demands. One 'application' of the tool to the sample will give >>you uniform and reproducable slices. Be sure to cut off or mask the >>edge of the blade not in use so you won't cut yourself. >> >>Geoff >> >>Katy Whalley wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>We are looking for a device which can be used to cut tissue quickly into >>>slices of an even thickness. We're not sure yet exactly how thick these >>>will be but something in the range 30-300 microns is likely. My >>> supervisor >>>has in mind something in which several blades are attached to a holder >>>that keeps them the correct distance apart, so that all the slices are >>> cut >>>at once. Has anyone ever used/ seen this kind of thing, or anything else >>>which would do the job? >>> >>>thanks, >>>Katy, UCL > > -- > Philip Oshel > Supervisor, BBPIC microscopy facility > Department of Animal Sciences > University of Wisconsin > 1675 Observatory Drive > Madison, WI 53706 - 1284 > voice: (608) 263-4162 > fax: (608) 262-5157 (dept. fax) > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet >


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In the Greek myth of Orpheus, we find a powerful testimony to the power of music. Throughout his journey in the underworld, Orpheus played his lyre and sang. His music pacified the dark forces, bringing tears to the eyes of the gods and softening their hearts. Music stirs emotion. It is no wonder that music has been called the language of the soul. Music can soothe, energize, enervate, or fan passions. You've no doubt experienced the emotional effects of music at some point in your life—perhaps at a wedding, a graduation, or a funeral. In every culture, spiritual or religious ritual is accompanied by music, whether it involves the rousing drumbeat of a tribal dance, the mournful strains of a medieval requiem, the awakening call of a cantor, or the joyous chorus of hand-clapping gospel singers.
Music alters the body and the mind. Just as loud, harsh sounds can injure eardrums and set the nervous system on edge, so too can music and other gentle sounds, like the ocean or your own heartbeat, enhance deep relaxation, supply you with new energy, stimulate creativity, and even transport you into other states of consciousness. When used consciously, music is a form of healing. So when you are particularly stressed, feeling sick, or in pain (with a backache, arthritis, or a bothersome cold, for instance), try using a little music therapy on yourself. Plants grow better with certain types of music. Why shouldn't the same be true for you?
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The key to using music for healing is to allow yourself to become part of it. Many people listen to music critically, identifying the interactions of the various instruments or comparing the selection with other pieces. This is listening with the mind, whereas therapeutic listening is done with the whole body. Instead of paying attention with your head, concentrate from somewhere lower in your body. Imagine that your heart is listening; allow your abdomen to be filled with the music; let the music come in through your hands and feet; breathe it. Abandon yourself to the music, as if the sounds were waves or clouds that are carrying you away or supporting you.
Depending on the type of music you choose, this method of listening can be either deeply relaxing or highly energizing. Listening with this degree of openness will alter the frequency of your brain waves, your rate of respiration, and your blood pressure. Imagery can be stimulated, memories evoked, emotions released, and tension dissipated.
Are you ready to expand your sensory awareness and appreciation of music, or to experience the healing effects? Music and sound-healing expert Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect, suggests that you spend ten minutes of undivided listening time every day for five days.
On the first day, select a piece of your favorite music (something that does not have vocals). Then sit back or lie down and close your eyes. Breathe. Notice whatever you notice.
The second day, as you listen to the same piece, do some ordinary activity like washing dishes or opening your e-mail or writing out checks.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Jan. 24, 2013) - Ever dreamt of attending a massive Mardi Gras parade? Well, you don't have to fly all the way to New Orleans to enjoy a slice of Mardi Gras spirit whilst on holiday. Dating back to the 11th century, Venice Carnival is also traditionally held on Shrove Tuesday, with a fortnight of glittering events leading up to the carnival itself.
In 2013, Venice Carnival lands on January 26th and lasts until February 12th, so there's still time to throw yourself into finding cheaper flights from Monarch and an available hotel room. Whilst Italy as a whole recognises carnival season, with most towns and cities celebrating carnival in one way or another, picturesque Venice is really at the heart of the revelry. St Mark's Square becomes a circus of elaborate costumes, and the entire canal-threaded city erupts with music, dancing and late night celebrations.
The sparkling schedule includes masquerade balls, live music and - most importantly - costumes. It ultimately culminates in a masked parade, in which revellers don cloaks and theatrical masks to cavort around the beautiful streets, squares and canals.
The emphasis on carnival couture adds a playful sense of fun to proceedings, and Venice is brimming with cosy boutiques and grand shops with walls lined floor-to-ceiling with intricate handmade carnival masks. Popular and traditional designs include the jewel-coloured harlequins, iconic long-nosed plague doctors and courtesans.
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As well as a plethora of beautiful beaches, Malaysia also offers visitors a host of offshore tropical islands that are rated as some of the most beautiful in the world. Idyllic white sandy beaches, palm trees, clear waters and an underwater heaven for scuba divers and snorkellers - these are the archetypal images of paradise that beckon and enchant thousands of visitors each year.
The unblemished beauty and peacefulness of the Malaysian islands is famous worldwide, from the well-known islands of Langkawi to tiny specks off the coast such as Perhentian Kecil. The Langkawi archipelago has become an internationally renowned resort destination, irresistible for its ancient lakes and forests, waterfalls, fauna and flora, and wonderful beaches. Pantai Tengah and Pantai Cenang are Langkawi's main resorts with good facilities, and a relaxed atmosphere. Lovely sandy beaches and crystal clear seas surround the Perhentian Islands, with wonderful coral gardens and a vast array of marine life. Off the east coast, the most impressive island is Tioman, offering a wide variety of activities on and off the water and a holiday suited to those tired of commercialised resorts. Sipadan Island is known to be possibly the best scuba diving site in the world, and it features on any dive enthusiast's bucket list. In addition to the delights of the beaches and the ocean, many of the islands are covered in dense tropical forests which provide a playground for hikers too.
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President Barack Obama tried Thursday to offer a simple assurance: He isn't claiming the power to have drones kill an American not "engaged in combat" on U.S. soil.
The statement, delivered in the form of a 43-word letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), seemed intended to provide the unequivocal declaration Paul and his supporters were demanding when he mounted a nearly 13-hour, old-fashioned filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday.
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"We really had success," Paul told POLITICO in an interview Thursday afternoon. "We got the president to respond, and the answer we finally got from the president was, I think, the answer we had been looking for all along."
( WATCH: Rand Paul on drones: POLITICO's full interview)
The letter quieted the drone flap and allowed the confirmation vote on John Brennan to be CIA director. But it didn't resolve several key questions — how broadly "engaged in combat" can be defined, for one — and didn't come close to addressing the legal and policy issues swirling around the Obama administration's drone campaign overseas.
What the administration's recent responses did make clear: Despite questions lingering for years about the increased use of drones, the flurry of attention to the issue this week caught the Obama White House by surprise. The White House appears to have misjudged the downside of its stances on transparency and how it could bend existing legal principles to justify the program — complicated by political miscalculations, fumbles by the attorney general and growing concern among some segments of the public.
( Also on POLITICO: Feinstein: Drone rules in progress)
"This has been slowly building, and when something is slowly building like this it's hard to tell whether what has stayed a slow burn and a simmer will never move past that — and when it will suddenly burst into public view," said Matt Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman.
"I would say they're somewhat like stunned bunnies at this point," said Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University and a Hoover Institution fellow.
One factor in the administration's ham-handed response may be a lack of political warning for a president accustomed to being bashed by the GOP for being too weak and diffident in his counterterrorism policy, but not used to attacks from the right for wielding military power recklessly.
( Also on POLITICO: 10 things to know about drones)
For most of the past four years, the main line of Republican attack on Obama over issues like Guantánamo and Benghazi was that (with the exception of the bin Laden raid) he was too slow to act militarily and too reluctant to identify acts of terrorism. Figures such as former Vice President Dick Cheney and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney painted Obama as foolishly insistent on applying a law-enforcement model to the conflict with Al Qaeda and on reading Miranda rights to terrorists.
Fast forward to Wednesday, when Paul used his filibuster to argue that Obama was an out-of-control commander in chief willing to kill Americans as they read a newspaper at a café and that terrorism suspects — at least those who are U.S. citizens — are entitled to full due process and a criminal trial.
"There is a little bit of whiplash," said Miller. "Paul's position has been pretty clear for a long time, but when I see others joining who had never before voiced any support for a civil liberties position, it's obviously opportunism and a chance to be on the other side from the administration. That's what drew them to the floor and onto Twitter."
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The Interrelation of Ethnicity, Iconicity, and Form in American Comics
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This dissertation analyzes issues of race, ethnicity, and identity in American comics and visual culture, and identifies important areas for alternative means to cultural authority located at the intersections of verbal and visual representation. The symbolic qualities that communicate ethnicity and give ethnicity meaning in American culture are illuminated in new ways when studied within the context of the highly symbolic medium of comics. Creators of comics are able to utilize iconic qualities, among other unique formal qualities of the medium, to construct new visual narratives around ethnicity and identity, which require new and multidisciplinary perspectives for comprehending their communicative complexity. This dissertation synthesizes cultural and critical analysis in combination with formal analysis in an effort to further advance the understanding of comics and their social implications in regard to race and ethnic identity. Much like film scholars in the 1960s, comics scholars in the United States currently are in the process of establishing a core of methodological and theoretical approaches, including Lacanian theories of the image, the comic mapping of symbolic order, the recognition of self in undetailed faces, comics closure, and the implications of the comics gutter. Drawing upon these ideas and additional perspectives offered by scholars of film and literary studies, such as the relationship between ethnicity and the symbolic, the scopophilic gaze, and filmic suture, I analyze the following visual texts: Henry Kiyama's The Four Immigrants Manga, Gene Yang's American Born Chinese, and Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles. The dissertation also performs a multimedia analysis of the current ascendency of geek culture, its relationship to the comics medium, and the geek protagonist as an expression of simulated ethnicity. Ultimately, the unique insights offered by the study of comics concerning principles of ethnic iconicity and identity have far reaching implications for scholars of visual and verbal culture in other mediums as well.
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This guide begins by describing the problem of bank robbery and reviewing the factors that increase its risks. It then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local bank robbery problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem of bank robbery as identified through research and police practice.
Bank robbery is but one aspect of a larger set of problems related to robbery and to financial crimes involving banks. This guide is limited to addressing the particular harms created by bank robbery. Related problems not directly addressed in this guide include:
See Problem-Specific Guide No. 21, Check and Card Fraud.
See Problem-Specific Guide No. 8, Robbery of Automated Teller Machines.
See Problem-Specific Guide No. 34, Robbery of Taxi Drivers.
Each of these problems requires separate analysis. Several are covered in other guides in this series, all of which are listed at the end of this article. For the most up-to-date listing, see www.popcenter.org.
A bank is a specific type of financial institution but the term is widely used to refer to all financial institutions, including banks, savings and loans, and credit unions. In the United States, the term primarily refers to financial institutions with deposits that are federally insured and that fall under the federal Bank Protection Act. This guide is focused on individual retail bank branches at different locations while the term bank refers to the financial corporation that operates the branches. Most bank robberies are robberies of bank branches.
This guide is not about investigating bank robberies. Neither does it cover serial bank robberiesthat is, bank robberies that are committed by the same offender or offenders over a period of timebecause patterns related to a single offender are not generally consistent with the problems and solutions described in this guide.
Bank robberies are relatively uncommon: only about 2 of every 100 robberies are of a bank.1 Although violence is rare, employees and customers are at some risk of injury. If nothing else, being victimized can be terrifying. In addition, bank robberies can invoke fear in the community at large, as most are well-covered by the media. And in fact, a distinctive bank robbery such as the fatal 1998 shoot-out between police and two bank robbers armed with assault weapons in Los Angeles can influence public images of crime for many years.
Injuries occur in about 2 percent of bank robberies in the United State s and in 6 percent of robberies in Australia (Maguire and Pastore, 1997; Pastore and Maguire, 2005; Borzycki, 2003). A death occurs in about 30 percent of U.S. bank robberies (Pastore and Maguire, 2005).
Because of the potential for violence, police always respond quickly to a bank robbery in progress. As one police commander said, When a bank robbery goes down, all hell breaks loose in a police department.2
The likelihood of catching a bank robber on or near the scene is higher than for other crimes. This is because most bank robberies are reported very quickly, most occur during daylight hours, many have multiple witnesses, and some produce photographic images that can be used to canvass the surrounding area for suspects. Consequently, many robbers are caught the same day. In fact, the clearance rate for bank robbery is among the highest of all crimesnearly 60 percent. Although the FBI has jurisdiction over most U.S. bank robberies, local police typically respond first.
Although the FBI has jurisdiction over most bank robberies in the United States, offenses are investigated concurrently with local police; in fact, local agencies may handle the entire investigation. The FBI maintains the Bank Crime Statistics database (BCS), an important investigative tool that documents offender and offense characteristics across jurisdictions. Despite the federal role, the primary impact of bank robbery is inherently local, as citizens and political leaders look to local police for solutions. Local police are often best positioned to advise banks about preventive strategies because of their established relationships with local bank employees.
The United States experienced a dramatic increase in bank robberies between 1965 and 1975, when the number of crimes quadrupled from 847 to 3,517. Despite the enactment of the federal Bank Protection Act in 1968, robberies continued to rise through the early 1990s and now average around 8,800 per year (see Figure 1). Other countries have faced similar fluctuations in the number of bank robberies.
The number of bank robberies in Figure 1 are those reported by local police to the FBIs Uniform Crime Report, not those recorded in BCS.
For the most part, the incidence of bank robbery is closely related to other crime trends, especially commercial robbery.3 In the United States, banks have comprised an increasing proportion of the nations commercial robberies: in 1989, 6 percent of commercial robberies were of banks; this proportion increased steadily to 9 percent in 2004.4 (See Figure 2.)
The contribution of banks to the total number of commercial robberies can change over time. For example, although bank robberies in Australia increased 52 percent during one seven year period, they also dropped from 9 to 6 of commercial robberies during that same period (Taylor, 2004). In the Netherlands, banks comprised an average of 26 percent of commercial robberies over seven years, but the proportion varied from as little as 15 percent to as much as 33 percent in any given year (Van Koppen and Janssen, 1999).
Although bank robberies track crime trends, they vary by the size of the jurisdiction. In recent years, bank robberies in smaller U.S. cities have comprised an increasing share of commercial robberies: nearly 12 percent of commercial robberies in smaller cities are of banks, compared to 8 percent in larger cities. (See Figure 2.)
Computed from data in the FBIs Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States (1989-2004).
In commercial or retail shopping areas, bank branches often cluster. On this busy street across from a shopping center, six banks are located adjacent to one another. Credit: Julie Trinks
Evidence suggests that urban bank robberies have been somewhat displaced in recent years; the share of bank robberies in small towns increased from 20 percent in 1996 to about 33 percent in 2002.5 Still, the majority of bank robberies are concentrated in urban areas. Although this concentration is often attributed to the fact that there are more branches in urban areas, the number of robberies is disproportionately higher than the number of branches. In Canada, for example, seven cities have 30 percent of all bank branches but 66 percent of all bank robberies;6 in the United Kingdom, London has 10 percent of the nations branches but 39 percent of its robberies.
The concentration is most visible at the city level. For example, California has 15 percent of all U.S. bank branches and a proportional 18 percent of all U.S. bank robberies (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2003 [PDF]); most of the states bank robberies, however, are concentrated in the Los Angeles area.
Just as bank robberies are more common in urban areas, bank robberies within a jurisdiction tend to cluster where there are more banks. Branches are often located in groups near retail shopping areas, in commercial districts, and along major transportation corridors. Although individual branches in poorer areas seem to suffer more robberies,7 this primarily reflects the fact that there are fewer branches in such areas. Bank robberies are actually more numerous in more affluent neighborhoods. In one city, for example, only 3 percent of bank robberies occurred in areas considered as poor.8
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Here are some sought-after tweaks and general information intended for Arch Linux newcomers. Template:I18n links start Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n entry Template:I18n links end
- 1 Booting
- 2 Appearance
- 3 General Console Improvements
- 4 Mantaining and Compiling Packages
- 5 Networking
Hardware Auto-Recognition
- hwdetect informs of what modules are needed for a particular device.
# pacman -S hwdetect
- Template:Package AUR is an alternative.
Lilo Boot Process Speed-Up
To speed up lilo's boot process, add the following command to Template:Filename:
Start X at Boot
See Start X at Boot
Activating Numlock on Bootup
See Activating Numlock on Bootup
End of the Boot Process
After the boot process, the screen is cleared and the login prompt appears, leaving users unable to read init output or error messages. This default behavior may be modified in a few ways:
Add one of the following to the bottom of Template:Filename:
- Wait for a keypress before clearing the screen:
read -n1
- Wait for at most 5 seconds or until a keypress occurs:
read -t5 -n1
- Remove the first 3 characters in Template:Filename, which form a "clear screen" escape code. This will also stop the screen from being cleared after logging out from regular sessions in addition to not clearing the screen after booting.
- Run Template:Codeline from the shell prompt to display all the boot messages generated by the kernel.
- Comment out the agetty instance that runs on
vc/1in Template:Filename:
#c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
Colorize the Console Prompt (PS1)
Colorize the Output of 'ls'
This will further enhance the colored Template:Codeline output; for example, broken (orphan) symlinks will show in red, etc.
File Template:Filename should already have the following entry copied from Template:Filename:
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
The next step is adding the following to Template:Filename and reloging:
eval `dircolors -b`
Colorize the Output of 'grep'
Beyond aesthetics, Template:Codeline color output is immensely useful for learning Template:Codeline and Template:Codeline's functionality.
To add it, write the following entry to Template:Filename:
export GREP_COLOR="1;33" alias grep='grep --color=auto'
The variable
GREP_COLOR is used to specify the output color, in this example a light yellow color.
Although the Template:Codeline page of Template:Codeline states that
GREP_COLOR is deprecated and that
GREP_COLORS is preferable, this variable will not work (as of grep version 2.5.4) so continue to use
GREP_COLOR for now.
Colorizing and the Emacs Shell
By default, the emacs shell will rawly show escape sequences used to print colors. In other words, it will display strange symbols in place of the desired colored output.
Including the following into Template:Filename ammends the problem:
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'ansi-color-for-comint-mode-on)
Getting a Colored Manpage
For some users, color-enabled manpages allow for a clearer presentation and easier digestion of the content. Given that users new to linux are prone to spend a considerable amount of time familiarizing themselves with basic userspace tools, setting up a comfortable environment is a necessity to most.
There are two prevalescent methods for achieving colored manpages: using Template:Codeline, or opting for Template:Codeline. The former is simpler to configure, at the expense of the advanced functionality that is native to Template:Codeline.
First Method: Using 'most'
# pacman -S most
This is similar to Template:Codeline and Template:Codeline, but also allows to render text in color in an easier way.
Edit Template:Filename, uncomment the pager definition and change it to:
DEFINE pager most -s
Test the new setup by typing:
$ man whatever_man_page
Modifying the color values requires editing Template:Filename (creating the file if it is not present) or editing Template:Filename for system-wide changes. Example Template:Filename:
% Color settings color normal lightgray black color status yellow blue color underline yellow black color overstrike brightblue black
Another example showing keybindings similar to Template:Codeline (jump to line is set to 'J'):
% less-like keybindings unsetkey "^K" unsetkey "g" unsetkey "G" unsetkey ":" setkey next_file ":n" setkey find_file ":e" setkey next_file ":p" setkey toggle_options ":o" setkey toggle_case ":c" setkey delete_file ":d" setkey exit ":q" setkey bob "g" setkey eob "G" setkey down "e" setkey down "E" setkey down "j" setkey down "^N" setkey up "y" setkey up "^Y" setkey up "k" setkey up "^P" setkey up "^K" setkey page_down "f" setkey page_down "^F" setkey page_up "b" setkey page_up "^B" setkey other_window "z" setkey other_window "w" setkey search_backward "?" setkey bob "p" setkey goto_mark "'" setkey find_file "E" setkey edit "v"
Second Method: Using 'less'
Alternatively, getting an approximate coloured result in manual pages with Template:Codeline is also a possibility. This method has the advantage that Template:Codeline has a bigger feature set than Template:Codeline, and that might be the preference for advanced users.
Just add the following to Template:Filename (where SHELL is the name of the shell in use):
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m' export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m' export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'
To customize the colors, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code for reference.
Source: http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/572-less-colors-for-man-pages.html
Changing Console Fonts
Terminus is a popular favorite amongst Arch users. Install with:
pacman -S terminus-font
Edit Template:Filename:
Other fonts (with differing styles and sizes) can be found in Template:Filename
Switch fonts instantaneously with Template:Codeline:
setfont ter-v16b
If the console font is changed during the boot process and init shows strange character output, add the keymap hook to Template:Codeline and recreate the initramfs image:
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
See Available Hooks in Mkinitcpio
Beautifying Fonts for LCDs
See Fonts
General Console Improvements
Enabling History Search
By default, when typing (for example) Template:Codeline and pressing the <Up> key, current input will be replaced with the previously issued command. With history search enabled, only past commands beginning with Template:Codeline (the current input) will be completed.
Adding the following to Template:Filename or Template:Filename enables history search:
"\e[A":history-search-backward "\e[B":history-search-forward
Fast Bash Completion
By appending the following into Template:Filename:
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
It is no longer necessary to hit the <Tab> key twice to produce a list of all possible completions, as a single <Tab> press will suffice.
Advanced Bash Completion
Bash can be extended to use smart, context-sensitive completion. This is a very handy feature that many bash users take for granted.
Install it with:
# pacman -S bash-completion
Afterwards, activate completion by sourcing the bash_completion script:
. /etc/bash_completion
Timesaving Command-Aliases
alias ll="ls -lh" alias la="ls -a" alias exit="clear; exit" alias x="startx"
Personal aliases are preferably stored in Template:Filename, system-wide aliases (which affect all users) belong in Template:Filename.
Useful Commands & Programs
- grep
- Searches for files by it's contents. Example:
grep -i syslog /etc/*
- Searches all files in Template:Filename for those containing the word "syslog", and the operand Template:Codeline enables case-insensitive matches.
- pkill and killall
- Kills processes by name.
killall kdm
- Kills every Template:Codeline thread.
- pidof
- Finds the PID # of the processes, by name.
pidof init
- Prints the PID # of init.
- ps
- Displays process status.
ps xau
- Shows display all active processes.
- locate
- Quickly locate files on the hard drive (once a database has been created using Template:Codeline).
locate Xservers
- Finds all files named Template:Filename in the database path.
Extracting Compressed Files
For Template:Codeline archives, the easiest method is to let Template:Codeline automatically handle the file according to its contents:
file.EXTENSION : tar axvf file.EXTENSION
Forcing a given format:
file.tar : tar xvf file.tar file.tgz : tar xvzf file.tgz file.tar.gz : tar xvzf file.tar.gz file.tar.bz : bzip -cd file.bz | tar xvf - file.tar.bz2 : tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 OR bzip2 -cd file.bz2 | tar xvf - file.tar.xz : tar xvJf file.tar.xz OR xz -cd file.xz | tar xvf - file.zip : unzip file.zip file.rar : unrar x file.rar
The construction of these tar arguments is considered archaic, but they are still useful when performing specific operations. Tar's manpage, section Compatibility, shows how they work in detail.
The following function will decompress a wide range of compressed file-types. Add the function to Template:Filename and use it with the syntax Template:Filename:
extract () { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.tar.xz) tar xvJf $1 ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;; *.rar) unrar x $1 ;; *.gz) gunzip $1 ;; *.tar) tar xvf $1 ;; *.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.zip) unzip $1 ;; *.Z) uncompress $1 ;; *.7z) 7z x $1 ;; *.xz) unxz $1 ;; *.exe) cabextract $1 ;; *) echo "'$1': unrecognized file compression" ;; esac else echo "'$1' is not a valid file" fi }
Using 'less' for Browsing Compressed Files
Frequent users of the command line interface might want to install lesspipe:
# pacman -S lesspipe
It allows typing:
less compressed_file.tar.gz
To list the compressed files inside of an archive:
==> use tar_file:contained_file to view a file in the archive -rw------- username/group 695 2008-01-04 19:24 compressed_file/content1 -rw------- username/group 43 2007-11-07 11:17 compressed_file/content2 compressed_file.tar.gz (END)
It also grants Template:Codeline the ability of interfacing with files other than archives; serving as an alternative for the specific command associated for that file-type (such as viewing html or pdf via html2txt or pdftotext).
Relogin after installing Template:Codeline in order to activate it, or source Template:Filename
Enabling Console Mouse Support (gpm)
Installing Template:Codeline provides console mouse support:
# pacman -S gpm
To start it right away:
# /etc/rc.d/gpm start
If the mouse is not working properly, edit Template:Filename:
- For PS/2 mice, replace the existing line with:
GPM_ARGS="-m /dev/psaux -t ps2"
- For USB mice, replace the existing line with:
GPM_ARGS="-m /dev/input/mice -t imps2"
- For IBM Trackpoint, replace the existing line with:
GPM_ARGS="-m /dev/input/mice -t ps2"
Once a suitable configuration has been found, adding Template:Codeline into the
DAEMONS array in Template:Filename will make Template:Codeline load at boot. Example:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng gpm network netfs crond)
Mantaining and Compiling Packages
In addition to pacman's standard set of features, there are ways to extend it's usability through rudimentary bash commands/syntax.
- To install a number of packages sharing similar patterns in their names - not the entire group nor all matching packages - eg.
pacman -S kdemod-{applets,theme,tools}
- Of course, that is not limited and can be expanded to however many levels needed:
pacman -S kdemod-{ui-{kde,kdemod},kdeartwork}
- Pacman has the Template:Codeline operand to hide the version column, so it is possible to query and reinstall packages with "compiz" as part of their name:
pacman -S `pacman -Qq | grep compiz`
- The above can be achieved without Template:Codeline by issuing an Template:Codeline operation:
pacman -S `pacman -Q | awk '/compiz/ { print $1 }'`
On the subject of reinstalling every package: listing currently installed packages will output everything, including packages that are local and/or might not be available for installation any longer.
Simply running:
pacman -S `pacman -Qq`
Will output errors because some (or many) of the packages were not found in the repositories. There needs to be a way to list only packages that can be installed from the repositories present in Template:Codeline's database. In order to do so, combining a command to list all packages, and another to hide the list of foreign packages is required.
This is achieved by using Template:Codeline to show only the packages that are not foreign packages:
pacman -S $(comm -3 <(pacman -Qq) <(pacman -Qqm))
Pacman Aliases
Copy these into Template:Filename or Template:Filename:
# Search through all available packages simply using 'pacsearch packagename' alias pacsearch="pacman -Sl | cut -d' ' -f2 | grep "
# sudo pacman -Syu by typing pacup (sudo must be installed and configured first) alias pacup="sudo pacman -Syu"
# sudo pacman -S by typing pac alias pac="sudo pacman -S"
# Colorized pacman -Ss search output: alias pacs="pacsearch" pacsearch() { echo -e "$(pacman -Ss "$@" | sed \ -e 's#^core/.*#\\033[1;31m&\\033[0;37m#g' \ -e 's#^extra/.*#\\033[0;32m&\\033[0;37m#g' \ -e 's#^community/.*#\\033[1;35m&\\033[0;37m#g' \ -e 's#^.*/.* [0-9].*#\\033[0;36m&\\033[0;37m#g' ) \ \033[0m" }
Downloading Template:Package AUR allows for more options.
Accessing the AUR Seamlessly
Everyone should know how to use the AUR, ABS, and makepkg if they want to build packages. Tracking and updating custom built packages can become tedious, especially if they are numerous in quantity.
There are some programs and scripts that help building packages more convenient. See a list of programs that help accessing the AUR
Using ABS to Recompile Packages
ABS is an automated toolkit that allows rebuilding any of pacman's packages, allowing the user to apply custom compiler and linker settings for the purpose of optimization, debugging, etc. Simply executing Template:Codeline will synchronize all PKGBUILD scripts from the Arch source repository into Template:Filename.
# pacman -S abs
It is not recommended to build packages inside of the main Template:Filename tree. Copying the PKGBUILD and all accompanying files to an empty directory is more practical, since there is no risk of getting modifed PKGBUILD files overwritten by newer ones when updating the abs tree. Keeping a copy of the PKGBUILD (even after the resulting package has already been installed) eases updating and keeping track of package changes across version increments.
Optimizing Packages
Makepkg is an automated tool to create packages - it automates the
./configure && make && make install procedure, (or whatever combination of commands involved in the building of the application) and packs it into a .pkg.tar.gz for easy installation with
pacman. It uses a script file called a PKGBUILD which must exist in the build directory. View a PKGBUILD file and read the installation document to learn more about how to work with Template:Codeline.
For optimizing the packages built using Template:Codeline (the kernel is a good example), editting
/etc/makepkg.conf is recommended:
# Example for an Athlon CPU CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
See Safe CFlags for more information.
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Gilbert Teodoro has Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng to thank for. Because of these tempests, he's all over the news helping out the victims. An added plus for his presidential campaign.
Because if not for these typhoons, he would have been just another candidate.
Now comes his surprising choice for his veep:
Gibo-Gwen tandem emerging for Lakas
The tandem of Lakas-Kampi standard-bearer Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia for the 2010 elections is emerging as negotiations for what the administration sees as a powerhouse team-up are nearing the homestretch, officials said yesterday.
A highly placed source privy to the talks said the negotiations to have Garcia as the Lakas-Kampi-CMD's vice presidential candidate have reached "the crucial stage and an announcement would be made anytime soon."
The ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD is expected to hold its national convention on Nov. 12 in Cebu where the party is set to formalize the selection of Teodoro and his running mate for the 2010 elections.
"It was Gibo (Teodoro's nickname) who really wanted Gwen, and she was the real target," the source said amid reports that the ruling party was wooing either Sen. Loren Legarda of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) or Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos to be the defense chief's running mate.
"This is a powerhouse team. They are both young and well-experienced executives with good credentials and track record. Together, that counts a lot for the reconstruction and reform in the country," the official said. philstar.com
A powerhouse team?
In a country where popularity in surveys counts so much, this is no powerhouse team at all. Aside from being the governess of historic Cebú island, who in the blue hell is Gwen?
Only time will tell. And if they ever win in the upcoming 2010 Philippine National Elections (very possible since this hapless country of ours is still under the chains of US imperialism and its local lackeys), a big question mark will be placed on top of the victory marquee of this so-called "powerhouse team".


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Johnny Maxwell 'Did It Big In Front of All These People' on 'X Factor'
The second night of the season premiere of 'X Factor' rightfully started off with a high note. With less of an introduction to the show than the night prior, 'X Factor' got right down to it when it came to the auditions.
Viewers were quick to be introduced to 16-year-old Johnny Maxwell. He pulled up in a truck with his mom and was dressed how any cute young man with a sense of style would: t-shirt, vest, and pants. There was a bit of ruggedness to him, which was much appreciated considering all of the Justin Bieber look-a-likes that seem to flock to auditions of this sort.
Coming from backstage, Maxwell immediately made the stage his home, offering a loud "What's up 'X Factor?!'" before finally finding his place in the center. It wasn't the smoothest start for him, though, as his vocals on his original song started to get a bit shaky during the singing portion of his audition. Then the singing turned into rapping and it was clear that that's where Maxwell was most comfortable.
"Do it big in front of all these people, all these people," rapped Maxwell, swinging his hand from side to side to get the audience participation he so desperately strived for. The audience generously reciprocated, as did L.A. Reid, who waved from the judges seat.
Demi Lovato found him cute and passed him through to the next round, as did Britney Spears, who practically gushed over young Maxwell. Simon Cowell was adamant in mentioning that the singing wasn't his favorite part, but when the rapping began, he knew he was a perfect fit for the competition.
Not a bad way to start off part two of auditions!


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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Comic 439: Thinking Ahead
So maybe this isn't technically "We Have A Quirky Relationship Aren't We AWESOME???" but it comes close - he wants to be in a relationship because she is nerdy. And he fails. But that is another matter.
But repetition aside, how is the comic otherwise? On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say it's about a 4. It's funny that he's so neurotic, and that he jumps out a window, but other than that, eh. I think the real issue the dude has is whatever it is that's "unresolved with Megan." That seems to be what's really making him confused.
Also I noticed that ohnorobot, the webcomic search engine, claims that it is searching 1,025 xkcd comics. What the heck? Also you guys know that the comic numbers intentionally skipped comic #404? Look for it. I find that fairly amusing.
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One of Munroe's repeat offenses to comedy is in the first panel: the "My problem: Thinking ahead."ReplyDelete
I understand that some of his gags require a quick setup, but 9 times out of 10 it has the effect of someone telling me "and the punchline is a hoot!" Just tell the joke -- a comicker's effectiveness will be proven by people catching the situation without having the gag being spelled out for them.
This is an interesting point that has never occurred to me. But yeah, I bet given just the first panel of that comic you could basically guess where it was going. Because you know that he'll be planning too far ahead, so the middle panels just flesh out what he's already told you.ReplyDelete
Humor is often based on surprising twists. I wonder how the comic would work if the "My Problem" was put at the end but otherwise unchanged.
- AnonymousOctober 3, 2009 at 9:13 AM
The alt-text for this comment is actually a firefly reference. During episode 2, the Train Job, Wash says something like "did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" Obvious reference!ReplyDelete
good to know.ReplyDelete
Obvious. Yeah. Because it wasn't a literal question of what just happened. Obviously.ReplyDelete


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International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
Date: May 28–30, 2009
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
A brochure of the program can now be downloaded in booklet form or in single-page form. There are also some last-minute changes.
You are invited to participate in the fifth annual Symposium on Computational Aesthetics that will take place in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on May 28–30, 2009. CAe is co-located with Computer Graphics International.
Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic by integrating aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts. It seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour. CAe also investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning.
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"This book is a fascinating, appetite-whetting glimpse for the, if you'll pardon the expression, uninitiated. If only, when you opened it, it set off a .38 caliber blank and squirted water in your face."
—David Copperfield
About twenty years ago, I came across a DeMoulin catalog at a farm auction in Ohio.
It was as if Buster Keaton and Harry Houdini took over Montgomery Ward and branched out into "weird." Each page was wonderfully illustrated and each was stranger than the one before. The contraptions listed were designed to perform some kind of devilish prank: a life-sized stuffed goat on wheels wired to shock the rider, a mechanical spitting skeleton, an exploding spanking machine.
Turns out, various editions of this prank supply catalog were printed from 1896 to 1930, mailed from their source in Illinois to fraternal lodges around the country. Their creators were America's original hi-tech geeks of the new electric age. Too wonderful to remain buried by history, I've labored to get these Extraordinary Catalogs of Peculiar Inventions back in print (thanks to Perigee/Penguin) as an important piece of Americana.


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Inviting God In
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This warm, inspiring look at the Jewish holidays—by one of the most dynamic and accessible teachers of Jewish thought today—shows us how each holy day empowers us to recognize God's loving presence in our life every day.
There are many books that discuss how to celebrate the holidays; Inviting God In explains why we should celebrate. Using biblical references, anecdotes, and teaching tales, Rabbi David Aaron takes us through the Jewish calendar year and explains how each holiday—from the most joyous to the most somber—reveals God's ever-present love for us. Passover, for example, celebrates unconditional love; Shavuot reminds us of freedom and our power to take responsiblity; Rosh Hashanah is about the joy of accountability and Yom Kippur sanctifies compassion and forgiveness. Rabbi Aaron helps us to awaken our soulful connection to the dramatic events that occured on those days, and to experience the holidays as opportunities to revitalize our personal relationship with God.
Rabbi Aaron is an enthusiastic guide, and his fresh view of the holidays will enliven and enrich traditional celebration. Inviting God In will inspire both practicing Jews who want to reinvigorate their observance of the holidays and secular Jews searching for a meaningful way to reconnect with their Jewish roots.
"Aaron's accessible explanations make difficult mystical concepts easy to understand, especially when he offers clever, offbeat analogies. . . . Aaron's book will provide sincere guidance toward recovering a tender, untarnished meaning of the Jewish holidays." —Publishers Weekly
"A spiritually rousing book. . . . In a warm, easy-to-read style, and radiating an enthusiasm that is contagious, Aaron explores the deeper meaning behind nine Jewish holidays." —Cleveland Jewish News
"This is a wonderfully inspiring book! Rabbi Aaron makes you fall in love with God and with the depth and wisdom of Judaism." —Dr. Miriam Adahan, author of You are a Jewel
"The Jewish holidays are not only profoundly deep but spiritually thrilling. If you are looking to discover the rich, inspirational tapestry of the holiday cycle, then Rabbi David Aaron is the teacher for you." —Shimon Apisdorf, cofounder of the Jewish Literacy Fund
"Contemporary, meaningful, and witty. Inviting God In is an excellent spiritual tour and guide through the Jewish year." —Rabbi Nissan Dovid Dubov, author of The Key to Kabbalah: Discovering Jewish Mysticism
"Inviting God In has a lot to teach all of us, about God and about ourselves." —Rabbi Joseph Telushkin


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Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Coming to PS Vita
Be ready to unravel some repressed, psychopathic memories as this retelling of the original Silent Hill and its prequel brings hell to PlayStation Vita.
Konami has announced that Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories are both heading to the PS Vita on the PlayStation Network. These titles were originally released on the Sony PSP and PlayStation 2 (with Shattered Memories also appearing on the Nintendo Wii), so we're glad to see two of the lesser-known entries in the Silent Hill franchise brought to the PS Vita.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories was a re-imagining of the original Sony PlayStation classic in order to segue for the theatrical release of 'Silent Hill.' The strangest change that Shattered Memories made from the main series was the removal of Silent Hill's limited combat system. So while the fighting in the original Silent Hill forced you to adhere to melee attacks and saving the few bullets that you found along the way (dear survival horror, please bring this concept back), combat was completely removed from the game. Nevertheless, there are plenty of monsters for you to frantically avoid and be creeped out by in Shattered Memories.
Silent Hill: Origins acts a prequel to the entire series. You play as a trucker who stumbles into the eerie town by accident and saves a certain little girl from a fire. After going to the hospital to check up on the girl he saved, the trucker finds that there is something quite wrong in this small town. Fans of the series, or even of the first three titles, should recognize where this story is going...
Unfortunately, no release date has been announced for either title, but Konami mentioned that the cost for downloading each each title is £7.99/€9.95, which roughly translates to $13.74.


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Worst Company In America Round One: Netflix Vs. GameStop
Everyone else might be thanking God it's Friday, but not the companies that had to start off their weekend by beating the ever-loving crud out of each other in the Worst Company America Thunderdome.
To get things started off the right way, here's a match between two companies that seem to be making an effort to make home entertainment a chore.
First up is perennial WCIA contender GameStop, where many gamers reluctantly shop because they can get new, big releases at midnight and the retailer often has enticing, exclusive extras if you pre-order through GameStop.
By that same token, gamers blame the chain for encouraging greedy game makers to create different sets of exclusives for all the major retailers, which means more money if fans want to eventually get all the content associated with a particular game.
This also leads to situations like last year's Deus Ex debacle that saw GameStop employees removing coupons from game boxes because it promoted a competitor's product.
Then you throw in notoriously bad customer service — quite possibly because management seems more intent on loss prevention than anything else — and you end up with a store that even Best Buy feels justified in mocking.
Two years ago, Netflix seemed to have the world in its hand. It had millions of customers who loved streaming videos and having a few DVDs coming in every month for a very reasonable rate — a rate the company spent a ton of money pushing through every form of advertising short of branded urinal cakes.
And then, with little warning or explanation, Netflix announced it was spinning off the DVD business in to a separate company called Qwikster, which would have its own website, and which meant you'd suddenly be paying double the rate that Netflix had built its reputation on.
The Netflix realized Qwikster was not only a stupid company name, but that it should keep the streaming and DVD businesses under one roof for a little bit longer. It did not, however, do anything about the now-doubled rate.
In the months since, it seems like there are continual announcements of companies pulling streaming content from Netflix and/or everyone from Comcast, to Dish to Sony to Amazon making inroads in the streaming business.
The result of this bout could end up being a decent barometer for Netflix's long-term outlook. Or it could be a lot of people who really, really hate GameStop.
Only one way to find out…
rock/paper/scissors vote!
(Voting for this poll will close at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 18)
This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2012 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. See the entire WCIA 2012 bracket and schedule of match-ups HERE.
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Arroyo outstanding as Reds shut out Rockies
Cincinnati, OH – Bronson Arroyo threw eight shutout innings and the Cincinnati Reds blanked the Colorado Rockies, 3-0, in the opener of a three-game series at Great American Ball Park.
Arroyo (6-5) allowed just four hits, two of them from Carlos Gonzalez, and needed just 86 pitches. He also had three strikeouts, pulling him within three of tying Gary Nolan for eighth-most in franchise history.
"I didn't particularly have amazing stuff, but it was one of those games where things just worked out," Arroyo said.
Aroldis Chapman threw a scoreless ninth to notch his 15th save.
Jay Bruce went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and two runs scored, while Todd Frazier contributed an RBI to give the Reds their sixth straight win against the Rockies for the first time since 2000-01.
Colorado pitcher Tyler Chatwood (3-1) allowed one run on four hits and a walk in four innings before leaving the game with right triceps soreness. In the top of the fifth inning, he pulled up before reaching first base while trying for a bunt single.
"It's frustrating having to come out of the game like that and kind of leave the bullpen hanging like that, but it was precautionary," Chatwood said.
Rob Scahill pitched three scoreless innings of relief, but the Rockies' lack of run support did not help.
The Reds' first score came in the fourth. With two outs, Bruce singled and stole second base. Frazier then smacked a single to left for a 1-0 lead.
In the eighth, Zack Cozart singled to center with one out and reached second on an error by the Rockies' Dexter Fowler, setting up Bruce's two-run shot.
Cincinnati had an opportunity to increase their lead even further when they loaded the bases with two outs in the inning. However, Cesar Izturis -- filling in for the injured Brandon Phillips -- grounded out to shortstop to end the frame.
Meanwhile, the Rockies' final hit came in the seventh, when Michael Cuddyer delivered a one-out single. Arroyo retired the final five batters he faced before being replaced by Chapman, who allowed a two-out walk to Troy Tulowitzki but struck out Cuddyer to end the game.
Game Notes
Since he was acquired from the Red Sox prior to the 2006 season, Arroyo's 97 wins and 1569 1/3 innings pitched are the most in the National League, while his 245 starts are the most in the majors... Chapman has 46 strikeouts in 26 innings this season ... The Reds have an 82-81 edge all-time against the Rockies.