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History of the Office of the President
W. H. Bruce
Dr. William Hershcal Bruce was selected as the first official president of the upstart John Tarleton College in 1898. His selection was marred by internal disputes within the Board of Trustees that delayed the official opening of the school. Bruce had built a highly distinguished career prior to his tenure at Tarleton earning his first undergraduate college degree in mathematics at Alabama A & M University and his first Ph.D. awarded by Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He was a very highly regarded administrator, receiving recognition from the University of Texas. The first president of John Tarleton College faced an intimidating mission being required to devise the curriculum, tend to all administrative chores, hire a competent faculty, and personally teach nine classes. At the time of the opening, the classrooms were furnished with little except chairs, desks, and blackboards and attendance fluctuated each semester. Though John Tarleton had left behind a generous bequest, this gift was simply not large enough to correct the existing difficulties and still be able to maintain the day-to-day operations of the college. Bruce resigned his position following his first year in order to accept a teaching position at Teacher's College in Denton (now known as the University of North Texas.) He taught mathematics here until 1911 at which time he assumed the role of University President.
E. E. Bramlette
Dr. Edgar Elliot Bramlette became the second president of John Tarleton College and served in this capacity for the next six years. (Guthrie 28, King 45). Bramlette earned a Bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt and was the first person to receive his Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas. In addition, he served in the United States Consulate in Germany where he studied at Leipzig University. He taught German and mathematics while serving at Tarleton (King 44). Bramlette faced the same problems as his predecessor, but he still made physical improvements by erecting a second building for science, adding four new rooms and a third floor library to the main building. (Grissom 31, Guthrie 28). Bramlette also presided over the construction of the Marston Science Hall in 1907 - the first brick building to be added to the campus. Edgar L. Marston, owner of the T & P Coal Company and the Thurber Brick Company, donated the bricks and stocked the science building with modern scientific equipment (Grissom 30, Guthrie 29, King 54, Traditions 47). President Bramlette oversaw the introduction of the first campus newspaper and athletic activities such as track and field and football. Many of his accomplishments arose from the support of community organizations and businesses. Bramlette resigned his position in 1906 eventually becoming the superintendent of the American Publishing Company for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky.
Frank M. Martin
Frank M. Martin, the third and youngest man to be appointed president, assumed the role in 1906 at the age of 27 and held the position for a year and a half. The college experienced very little change during this time period. Martin graduated from Washington and Lee University and did postgraduate work at the University of Tennessee and the University of Chicago. During Martin's brief tenure, student enrollment hit a record low, tuition costs were high, paying faculty salaries required dipping into the principal of Tarleton's endowment, and the quality of the physical facilities and equipment suffered a great deal. The entire future of the John Tarleton College as an institute of higher learning was beginning to be seriously jeopardized (Guthrie 32). Despite the financial limitations, Martin hoped to oversee the construction of a new college building and dormitories. He campaigned actively, but was not successful in arousing support for his campus vision. Martin blamed the "lethargy of the people" for the failure and claimed in effect that Tarleton would never reach its potential until the town started to support the school. In making such pointed statements, Martin must have ignored the fact that private donations had built new buildings, kept the college athletics afloat and that the library was established via contributions from the town. Martin abruptly withdrew from the presidency in January of the 1907-08 semesters. A committee of faculty members carried on the day-to-day administrative duties for the rest of the term (King 60).
J.D. Sandefer
Jefferson Davis Sandefer replaced Martin as president of the college. He had been a member of the Tarleton faculty since 1901, teaching history and Latin classes as well as serving as assistant to the president. In his college career, Sandefer was one of only three students to earn a degree from the Parker Institute in Parker County. Upon assuming the role of president, Sandefer immediately took steps to remedy the increasingly gloomy outlook facing the college. The most dramatic measure that he enacted was the downsizing of the university from a four-year college to the status of junior college. An extremely unpopular decision in the community, the shift in focus allowed the college to reduce the cost of operation in a time of serious financial difficulty. (Finley 28, Grissom 15, 45, Guthrie 32-33). President Sandefer also made financial aid available to all students. Though this violated John Tarleton's original will, it doubled enrollment in the first year. Attendance remained stable for the next decade, and the college was given a bit of breathing room in which to operate (Guthrie 33). The most visible examples of campus improvement during the Sandefer administration was the construction of a women's dormitory constructed from the selling of 370 acres of land donated by wealthy widow Mary Corn Wilkerson. (Grissom 332, Guthrie 34, King 61-65.) After only one year at the helm of Tarleton, Sandefer moved to Abilene and assumed the presidency of Hardin-Simmons University.
Elzy Dee Jennings
Elzy D. Jennings advanced to the presidency rather early in his career upon the recommendation of his predecessor. He had comparatively little administrative experience at the time of his appointment; he joined the Tarleton faculty shortly after earning his undergraduate degree. His prior experience had been limited to being the co-principal at the Huckabay Academy for four years (1909-10 Catalog). There was very little change or campus development during Jennings's tenure. However, one extremely fortuitous event occurred which would later result in a major addition to the school. In 1910, a wealthy widow named Mollie J. Crow died and bequeathed a substantial amount of money to the university. The exact dollar amount is not clear, but estimates range from $75,000 to $100,000. Mrs. Crow suggested in her will that her donation be used to build a new college hall and a dormitory for men. The new administration building would not be built until 1915 (Guthrie 34, King 84, 85). Jennings left Tarleton after two years in order to earn his advanced degrees from the University of Texas. Later, he became the dean and vice president of Texas Women's College and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and later as vice president of Southern Methodist University. Upon his death in 1938, Jennings was returned to Stephenville where he was buried near the campus at the West End Cemetery (Guthrie 34, King 87).
George J. Nunn
George J. Nunn was a distinguished scholar and world traveler. He had earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University and studied overseas at Leipzig in Germany. His previous experience in administration was from presiding over the Alexander Institute in Jacksonville and Polytechnic Institute in Ft. Worth. In addition to this, Nunn had traveled at length throughout Europe and the Holy Land. Very little was accomplished during his tenure, but Nunn was undoubtedly one of the worldliest of Tarleton's presidents (King 88, 89). Nunn left Tarleton after his first year in office. In his resignation, Nunn claimed that his business interests back home in Amarillo were suffering due to his absence. The college was once again forced to replace its fourth president in five years. The difficulty of maintaining any constancy in administration was compounded by the tremendous financial woes facing the school. Unfortunately, the worst was yet to come (Guthrie 35, King 92).
Roswell Rogers
Roswell W. Rogers attended the University of Texas and the University of Chicago. At the time he was hired at Tarleton, he was serving as the superintendent of Hillsboro high school. As president of Tarleton, Rogers actively promoted the college by traveling to local communities and issuing promotional statements to the press (Guthrie 35, King 92, 99). Rogers left his tenancy after one year and became a professor of education at the University of Mississippi. During World War I, Rogers served as state publicity chairman for Mississippi war savings bond drives. (Guthrie 35, King 100-101).
James Duncan Hughlett
James Duncan Hughlett, a math professor at Tarleton, was named interim president at the end of Rogers' tenancy. Hughlett was a graduate of Randolph Macon College, and was the principal of Millington High School in Millington, Tennessee, before coming to Tarleton in 1912. He went on to teach at Corsicana High School in Corsicana, Texas, in 1913 and 1914, and taught mathematics and Latin at Wesley College in Greenville, Texas, in 1915 and 1916.
James F. Cox
James F. Cox received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas. Preceding his presidency at Tarleton, Cox served as president of Lingleville Christian College and as principal of Midway public schools (King 109-110). Several new buildings were added to the campus during these years. These additions were made possible by well-timed private donations. In 1915, the Mollie J. Crow Administration Building was completed. This was made possible by the bequest of the wealthy widow upon her death five years earlier. It would later be called the Home Economics Building and would remain a part of the campus until 1981. The old Campus Hall, which was the first building on campus, was rendered obsolete by this new and modern structure. (Actually, it had been outdated for years.) The opening of the Crow Building allowed the old wooden building to be demolished (Grissom 33, Guthrie 34, 36).The addition of the Crow Building allowed further reorganization of the campus. The science program was moved here, and the old Marston Science Hall was leveled. The bricks from the old science building were used to construct the new Marston Conservatory that now housed the fine arts department. This building would be used for a variety of purposes until its demolition in 1950 (Guthrie 34, King 116). President Cox was honored for his hard work and improvement of the campus by having the 1916 inaugural edition of the yearbook dedicated in his honor. The Grassburr is a yearly collection of pictures and articles that chronicle the events of the previous year (King 116). As Cox tried to expand the college, he realized that raising enough money to purchase 500 acres of land to be dedicated as the school's farm and restore Tarleton's original endowment fund proved to be a Herculean task, regardless of the actual dollar amount. Luckily, a wealthy citizen named Pearl Wiley Cage heard of the dilemma and intervened on Tarleton's behalf. She used her friendship with Edgar Marston, owner of T&P Coal Company in Thurber, to secure the needed funding. Her timely involvement allowed Cox to finalize the deal and bring John Tarleton College under the Texas A&M sphere of influence. The deal was finalized in the spring of 1917, and the new John Tarleton Agricultural College opened the following September (Grissom 18, Guthrie 39-40). Cox announced that he was resigning from his position in order to seek a less demanding job. Later, however, he would go on to teach in the education department of Abilene Christian University. He would later serve as both dean and president of this institution until his retirement in 1940. Even while serving at another school, Cox followed the goings on at his old school that he had done so much to preserve (Guthrie 48, King 124).
J. Thomas Davis
James Thomas Davis became the dean of John Tarleton Agricultural College in 1919. Davis, who was born in Georgia, and raised in Alabama, moved to Texas at the age of fourteen. He received his undergraduate degree from North Texas Normal College (now known as the University of North Texas). Davis taught classes at several local schools during his college years. After graduating in 1904, he began teaching history and Latin at Honey Grove School. Davis moved on to become principal of Navasota School a year later. In 1907, he assumed the role of superintendent for the Grimes County schools. Finally, he returned to Navasota in order to serve as superintendent in 1910. Davis held this position for nine years until being hired as dean of Tarleton. He earned a B.S. degree from Texas A&M in 1919, and received his M.A. from the University of Texas in 1921 (Guthrie 48, King 132-133). Davis made an important acquaintance during his employment at Navasota. Superintendent W.B. Bizzell, who would later become president of the Texas A&M College, hired Davis to serve as principal. When Bizzell resigned from Navasota, he suggested that Davis replace him as superintendent. Bizzell was the president of A&M at the time that James Cox left Tarleton in 1919. The president immediately hired Davis as dean even though he had yet to earn his bachelor's or master's degrees and lacked any collegiate experience as either teacher or administrator (Guthrie 49, King 133). Davis also set strict guidelines concerning student behavior. His policies were spelled out in the somewhat infamous "Purple Book" which governed most aspects of student life. Davis held himself and his faculty to similar standards. He believed that they "must never do anything at all that they ask the students not to do." The campus underwent tremendous growth during Davis' 26 years in office as numerous facilities and buildings were added. Student enrollment had steadily increased since 1917, necessitating these new additions. Since Tarleton was now supported by the state, Davis could attain adequate funding for projects such as the first administration building, the auditorium, a gymnasium, a permanent science building, various student housing and the famous smokestack. Davis personally helped design and supervise the construction of a new Dean's House in 1923. Students were hired to perform much of the labor on this new residence. The president/dean of Tarleton lived in this campus house until 1982 when president Barry Thompson decided to make his residence in a more private location off campus. Today, it is known as the Trogdon House and accommodates the current president and his family. It is the oldest building remaining at Tarleton (Guthrie 60, King 150-151). The Tarleton athletic teams received their first formal nickname during the Davis era. Coach Wisdom coined the term "Plowboys" in 1925. He had intended to conduct a contest and award five dollars to the person who thought of the best moniker for the teams. However, Wisdom apparently was most impressed by his own idea of "Plowboys" and the name was used until 1961 (Guthrie 293-294, King 159). Dean Davis withdrew as chief executive after World War II ended in 1945 at the age of 65. His 26-year administration is the longest tenure of any Tarleton chief executive. He was given Dean Emeritus status and remained active at Tarleton by teaching a current events class until his final retirement in 1950. Davis died shortly thereafter on May 12, 1950 and was honored at a funeral service in the Auditorium (Guthrie 96-97, King 222-223). The J. Thomas Davis years have been described as the "golden age" of Tarleton history. He truly loved the school and always displayed a father-like concern for his students. Davis' numerous contributions to Tarleton make him one of the most important figures in the school's history.
E.J. Howell
Eugene Jody Howell was selected to become the new dean of the John Tarleton Agricultural College following the retirement of J.Thomas Davis in 1945. Howell had been associated with the Texas A&M system most of his life. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and his master's degree in economics from that university. In 1923, Howell was hired to teach chemistry at Tarleton a year after he graduated from college. After only one year on the job, Howell was promoted to the position of registrar and Commandant (whose duties included directing the military program.) His initial employment at Tarleton lasted until 1930 when he went to work for Texas A&M in College Station. He was hired as the assistant registrar, but became the head registrar after two years (Guthrie 107, King 224-225). Howell also possessed a strong military background. He was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and served in World War II. Howell was not sent into combat, but still managed to serve his country by commanding many officer training schools across the country. During this time, Howell developed an exam for recruits who had not completed their high school education. Today's G.E.D. test is modeled after his innovation (Guthrie 107, King 225). Several important additions made during Howell's tenancy such as Joe W. Autry Agriculture Building, the library's permanent building in 1956, and the original Student Center which opened in 1964. The most visible addition to Tarleton's landscape during this era was the new Memorial Stadium. This football complex was built in honor of the Tarleton students and faculty killed during World War II. Unlike the other additions made during the Howell years, the stadium was financed through primarily private means. Stephenville citizens, Tarleton Alumni, and current students created a "Stadium Fund" in 1946 in order to built the stadium. They raised enough money to begin construction the following year, although the drive had fell short of its $100,000 goal. The stadium was therefore built in increments until it was ready for opening in 1951. This original stadium did not resemble the larger facility that stands on that location today. It has undergone several renovations including a massive remodeling throughout the early 1970s (Guthrie 110-111, King 229, Traditions 42). During Howell's tenure, Tarleton introduced a new Department of Education and Psychology. In recent years, this teacher education program has become one of the most acclaimed and successful in the state (Guthrie 132). One of Howell's earliest decisions as president was to change the name of the college. Howell felt that the name ought to mention the fact that the school was state supported. The A&M Board of Directors and the Texas Legislature approved the change. In 1949, the institution became known as "Tarleton State College" (Guthrie 125, King 239). The most notable achievement of the Howell administration was the conversion into a four-year school. The college had offered upper level classes during the very early years of its existence, but was forced to limit its scope in 1908 due to dire financial problems. In 1954, the Booster Committee (a group of community and school leaders dedicated to helping the college) began to take concrete steps toward returning Tarleton to four-year status. By 1959, enough key legislators had been convinced, and the "Tarleton Bill" was ratified. Howell traveled to Austin on April 27 to take part in the official signing of the document. A huge banquet was held in October to commemorate the occasion and to show appreciation to the contributors. The bill did not take affect until 1961. By the next year, Tarleton had become completely transformed back into a four-year institution (Guthrie 125-131). E.J. Howell retired in 1966 after reaching the age of sixty-five. He continued to reside in Stephenville until his death eleven years later. His legacy was cemented in 1997 when the former Administration/Education building was renamed in his honor (Guthrie 132).
William Oren Trogdon
Dr. William Oren Trogdon was selected to succeed the retiring E.J. Howell in 1966. Trogdon was an accomplished agronomist who held a variety of directorial positions in several agriculture-related businesses. In addition to working in private business, Trogdon served as Chairman of the Agriculture Department at Midwestern University and as head of the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M. Trogdon was noticed by Earl Rudder, the president of the university during his tenure at A&M. Rudder would later offer the Tarleton presidency to Trogdon, making him the third straight chief executive to be hired due to connections with the mother school. Despite the fact that Trogdon probably received the job due to his connections, his education and management experience in colleges and private business made him a highly qualified choice as the new president (Guthrie 141-142). Trogdon oversaw the introduction of an agriculture education program to the university curriculum. Tarleton soon ranked first in the state (and second in the nation) in ag education graduates (Guthrie 143-144).The College Farm was renovated and expanded during Trogdon's term as well. These improvements included numerous new facilities (Guthrie 144-145).Trogdon also added four-year programs in Industrial Arts, Home Economics, Social Work and a fully accredited Nursing degree (Guthrie 145-150).The graduate program at Tarleton was a creation of the Trogdon administration as well. Originally, allowing graduate classes at the Stephenville campus to count towards credit at Texas A&M and eventually, Tarleton's own graduate program (Guthrie 150-152).In 1973, Tarleton State College became known as "Tarleton State University." The proposal was initiated by the Student Senate, encouraged by President Trogdon, and accepted unanimously by the Academic Council. The state legislature passed the bill, and the school received its current name (Guthrie 152-153). The Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center was perhaps the most significant addition to campus made during the Trogdon administration. Trogdon also oversaw a major modification of the physical landscape of Tarleton as well. He came under criticism for having a large number of trees chopped down around the campus. Although some of these trees had been existed since the opening of the college, Trogdon claimed that many were either becoming rotten or were causing maintenance problems. In 1976, a landscaping plan was enacted that introduced seventy-five new plant species to the campus, and provided a more orderly arrangement to the vegetation (Guthrie 165). W.O. Trogdon stepped down as president in 1982. The announcement came as a surprise, coming shortly after he had created a new position of executive vice-president. He simply claimed that after sixteen years a change of leadership and direction was needed. The man who was given this new job, Dr. Barry B. Thompson, became the next president of Tarleton. Trogdon served as a part-time agronomy professor for six years before fully retiring in 1988. The former Dean's House on campus was later renamed the "Trogdon House" due to the fact that his family was the last to occupy it (Guthrie 229, Traditions 40).
Barry B. Thompson
Dr. Barry Baird Thompson became the thirteenth president of Tarleton after W.O. Trogdon decided to step down in this capacity in 1982. Thompson was a Tarleton alumnus who earned his associate's degree in 1956. Earlier, Thompson had been among the student contingent who were sent to Austin in order to lobby for passage of the "Tarleton Bill"." Because the school remained a two-year school at the time, he was forced to continue his education at Texas Tech in Lubbock. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology and secondary education (Guthrie 230). Thompson began his post-graduate career with flying colors. In his second year of teaching in the public schools, he received "Texas Junior High Teacher of the Year" in 1960 while teaching at Andrews, TX. The next year he moved on to become high school principal at Dalhardt. Amazingly, Thompson was only twenty-five years of age when he assumed this job. Meanwhile, he earned his master's degree in administration. During the 1960s, he served as superintendent at Post and deputy superintendent of instruction at Waco. Thompson also found time to serve as Tarleton Alumni Association president in the year 1968-1969 (Guthrie 230). By 1971, Thompson had moved out of the public school system. He earned his doctorate degree from Texas A&M while serving as head of the Secondary Education Department at Pan American University. His next job was as a professor and head of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education at East Texas State University. Finally, he served as Chief Academic Officer at East Texas while concurrently serving as Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Commerce branch of campus. Thompson came to Tarleton after President W.O. Trogden created the position of executive vice-president. After Trogden left office shortly thereafter, Thompson was appointed to the presidency. Incidentally, the "executive vice-president" position was abandoned after Thompson was inaugurated. This gives the impression that the job was created in order to prepare him for an eventual term as president (Guthrie 229-231). The Thompson years were a time of enormous growth in enrollment. In 1987, enrollment reached the 5000 mark for the first time in history(234-237). Thompson oversaw the implementation of the Writing Proficiency Exam in 1982. Tarleton also received a number of physical enhancements and additions during the 1980s. A new administration building was one of the major buildings to be constructed during these years. The building's large glass windows, rounded roof, and central location within the town make it one of Tarleton's most symbolic structures (Guthrie 255-256, Traditions 37). Thompson also reinstated baseball as a sport at Tarleton and built a new stadium for the team as well as the intramural field. Thompson's time in office represented eight of the most expansive years in Tarleton's history. However, he unexpectedly resigned in 1990 to assume the presidency of West Texas A&M. This "sister" school was facing a number of serious problems and the A&M Board of Regents asked Thompson to rectify this situation. The mother school was so desperate to attract Thompson to this new job that they appealed to him six times before he finally accepted. Despite his admitted affinity for Tarleton, Thompson accepted this new job and eventually fixed the problems plaguing the school. In 1994, Thompson was asked to assume the biggest job of all. He was hired as Chancellor of the entire A&M system, which was facing a number of problems itself. Thompson held this job until his retirement in 1999. In 2002, college officials paid tribute to him by having the Student Development Center renamed in his honor. Although this building was built after Thompson had left Tarleton, the idea for a new SDC originated during his administration. It is fitting that one of Tarleton' most important buildings be named after one of its most accomplished administrators (Guthrie 265-266, 280-283).
Dennis McCabe
Dr. Dennis McCabe became interim-president of Tarleton in January of 1991 after Barry Thompson resigned. In April, he was officially inaugurated as the fourteenth president of the university (Guthrie 265). McCabe graduated from New Mexico Highlands University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and minor in chemistry and secondary education. He attended on a baseball scholarship and played all four years of his college career. He moved several times in the next few years, teaching math in California, Texas, and New Mexico. McCabe returned to Highlands and earned his master's degree in natural science. In 1972, he received his doctorate in educational administration from the University of New Mexico (Guthrie 267-268). McCabe began his work at the collegiate level in 1972 when he became an assistant professor in the Pan American University education department. He moved to East Texas State in 1976 where he became an associate professor in their department of education. Incidentally, Dr. Barry Thompson was his department head at this job prior to both men's tenures as Tarleton president. McCabe moved up the ranks at this university as he became the assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs and then was promoted to head of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education. From 1984 until 1988, he served as the Dean of the College of Education at Lamar University (Guthrie 268). In 1988, McCabe was hired at Tarleton as Vice President for University Operations by then-president Thompson. It was speculated that this position was created especially for McCabe as a means to get him to Tarleton and prepare him for a future term as president. Once McCabe assumed the office of president, he eliminated his old position (Guthrie 266).The McCabe administration had to deal with a serious monetary problem during the 1990s. The entire state struggled during this time, but Tarleton was hit especially hard. At the beginning of the decade, tuition was $18.00 per hour. By 1999, this amount had increased to $60.00. This situation was remedied in 1997, when the state legislature modified its funding formula to be more equitable to schools such as Tarleton. McCabe seized this opportunity to give the faculty a substantial raise in salary. Prior to this, Tarleton salaries had been among the lowest in the state (273-276). McCabe also oversaw the construction of the Student Development Center, one of the centerpieces of the Tarleton campus. The names and symbols of sixty student fraternities, sororities and campus organizations were carved into the wet concrete in 1994. In 2002, the Student Center was renamed the Barry B. Thompson Student Center in honor of the ex-president who had first envisioned it (Guthrie 280-283, Traditions 43-44). The long-needed new Science Building was built late in the decade. This cutting edge facility opened in the spring of 2001, and will undoubtedly serve the needs of science students for years to come (Guthrie 283-285). Tarleton was also expanded outside of Stephenville for the first time during the 1990s. The Dora Lee Cultural and Education Center in Granbury represented the largest private donation ever given to the university. Ms.Langdon donated an entire city block and five buildings that had originally been used as a cultural center for the performing arts. In 1996, she decided to give this $1.3 million property to Tarleton (Guthrie 286-287). McCabe worked with the A&M system to establish a new branch of Tarleton in Killeen, Texas. The former University of Central Texas now was brought under the control of the larger Stephenville campus. In addition to utilizing the Killeen campus, classes are also held in Ft. Hood, and Temple Junior College. Temple, Copperas Cove, and Killeen public schools also donate classroom space for the college. This branch has been renamed the Tarleton State University System Center-Central Texas. This name was frequently shortened to "Tarleton-CT" (Guthrie 287-288). Tarleton has been greatly expanded and modernized during the McCabe years. At the time of this writing, the university continues to experience new levels of success under his tutelage.


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Using ffmpeg to extract snippets of video
After trying Avidemux with mixed results, I am now deciding to try a command line alternative. This is totally new to me. Here is a brief summary of my workflow.
Locate and mark the beginning and end of a piece of video.
save the snippet
That's it. Can someone let me know what tools I need to accomplish this? I have been using mpeg streamclip on the Mac side and now I want to see if I can use ffmpeg to quickly automate the way I extract snippets of video in puppy Linux 5.2.8.
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Not sure if got the question, you mean extract just a part of a video? If so, I'd try something like this (example):
ffmpeg -i input.wmv -ss 60s -t 60s -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.wmv
Which takes 60 seconds (-t), from the second nº60 (-ss), using the same codec settings for output file.
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Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2013, 11:25
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Thanks for the reply. To be more specific, I need to extract snippets of video and save them to a new file. So for example in MPEG Stream clip on my Mac I put a marker at the beginning (00:2.34), and the ending (00:5:20). Once I do this, I save this to a new file and that's it.
Can I set the beginning and ending times above in ffmpeg, or do I always have to manually calculate the difference? If I am not making sense, please let me know. Being new to this I am just trying to wrap my head around how ffmpeg works. Once I understand it, I can more or less automate the process.
And finally, if I can nail down how to do this in Puppy Linux using ffmpeg and it works to my liking, it's good buy after over 25 years to using my Mac. For me, this would be a great milestone to celebrate!!
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I read the man page and did a quick google search about it, as I don't know any about ending points options, and found a big hole: seems that ffmpeg just doesn't have any. Guess that so far everybody calculated those...
Now I'm wondering, those marker positions are kept in the file's metadata or just belogs to the app? Could you try this?
ffmpeg -i yourfile.ext
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Thanks, nice page also, but that's exactly what I was saying here before.
You can set offset starting time, then duration time, but you can't mark a begginning position in the "time line" and a final one: you can just mark the beginning and specify a duration. Thus, you can't do what rmcellig's request needs just with ffmpeg.
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Exactly. If there was a way to set the beginning and end points, that would make a ton of sense. What I have to do now is calculate the duration which to me doesn't make much sense. A start and end point seems more obvious. I'm going to probably look at something else. While I appreciate the power of ffmpeg, it doesn't seem to meet my needs which is unfortunate. I did download the Avidemux 2.6.1 debs and installed them (in an ubuntu distro but after all that, I can't find where to launch Avidemux.
So, for me, I haven't been very lucky trying to achieve something that I think is pretty basic, in Linux yet. This is the only thing that is holding me back from going 100% Linux. Maybe there is another command line tool or simple video editor for Linux that I am unaware of?
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Well, ffmpeg is a great command line tool and a terrific piece of software, but is way more common use durations than final positions, makes a lot of sense to me...
But anyway, if wont consider calculating, you should just try with some -others- video editors, as I don't think that the command line has more to offer than ffmpeg in any video-related issue (which is just my opinion).
I'd take a look at Open Shot and Cinelerra, there is a sfs with KdenLive somewhere too; just some options that came to my mind quickly.
Good luck.
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Thanks! I'll have to check out Openshot to see if you can mark the beginning and ending of a clip and then save it. If it can do this, I will be fine.
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Frank Potenza, 77, a former New York City police officer who turned to comedy as "Uncle Frank" on his nephew Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show, died Tuesday.
In a statement, ABC's"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show confirmed the death but released no other details.
The silver-haired Potenza had spent 20 years as a police officer and 10 more as a private security guard in Las Vegas when Kimmel asked him to join his fledgling show as a security guard and cast member in 2003.
During his nine years on the program, Potenza would stand to the side of the stage in his guard uniform while Kimmel used him as a comic foil. The comedian liked to stump his uncle, who was once Frank Sinatra's personal security guard at Caesars Palace, by asking him to name more than two Sinatra songs, according to the show.
Potenza did comedy bits with Guillermo Rodriguez, a real-life parking lot security guard for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Potenza was also paired with his ex-wife, Chippy, and sent on comic "adventures" that included working on a dairy farm and learning self-defense.
Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, N.Y., Potenza served in the military during the Korean War and had three daughters. He was working as a security guard at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City when Kimmel asked him to move west.
"People can tell that Uncle Frank is the genuine article," Kimmel told the New York Times in 2007. "That's why they like him."
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John Howard Davies, 72, who grew from cherubic child actor to influential British television producer, died Monday at his home in Blewbury, southern England, his family said. He had cancer.
Davies is remembered by film lovers for playing the title role in David Lean's 1948 film of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist."
He later became a producer and director on enduring comedies including "Monty Python's Flying Circus," "Fawlty Towers" and "Mr. Bean."
Born in 1939, the son of writers Jack and Dorothy Davies, the young actor followed "Oliver Twist" with roles in "The Rocking Horse Winner" (1949), "Tom Brown's Schooldays" (1951) and "The Magic Box" (1951).
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Davies was head of comedy at BBC television between 1977 and 1982.
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Jack Layton, 61, a folksy and charismatic political leader who guided his party to become the dominant opposition group in Canada's parliament while battling severe health problems, died Monday of cancer at his home in Toronto.
Layton was at the height of his political career after the union-backed party took Canadians by surprise during the May federal election by winning official opposition status for the first time in its 50-year history. The party gained 103 seats, up from 37, most of which were won in Quebec.
The New Democrats' gains were attributed to Layton's folksy, upbeat message.
Born in Montreal, Layton was the son of a former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and the grandson of a prominent provincial politician in Quebec.
Layton was a career politician, a former longtime city councilman known to work tirelessly on behalf of the poor and homeless. He ran for mayor in Toronto and lost in 1991 after being criticized for living in subsidized housing and for opposing Toronto's ultimately failed bid for the 1996Summer Olympics.
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On the October day that Congress nearly defaulted on the national debt, two dozen of the nation's top political scientists gathered privately in California to discuss what they viewed as one of the greatest crises in the nation's history. American democracy, they believed, was at grave risk, and something had to be done.
One by one, the men and women, envisioning themselves as modern-day writers of the Constitution, laid out the problem. The system, they believed, was being undermined by an explosion in campaign money, the rise of political factions, and politically motivated redistricting.
No one suggested that democracy be replaced with some other system. But many urged that fundamental elements be reshaped to repair what they called the nation's "democratic deficit," aiming to make a Congress dominated by extremes better reflect the public's more centrist viewpoint.
The group concluded it had a moral responsibility to warn the public and propose solutions. "The notion that we can be different and exceptional and survive, the faith in that has been shaken to its core," said Stanford University professor Bruce Cain, who attended the session near his school's campus.
In this year of extraordinary trials for the American way of democracy, such dire warnings and calls for new solutions have grown in number and intensity. Throughout this year, the Globe has detailed many of the problems facing Washington in a series called "Broken City." Today's final installment turns the spotlight to possible solutions — some presented at the California conference, some hatched by other experts, some already at work in the several states and in other democracies around the world.
What became striking in this review was not how little can be done, but how many intriguing options exist. Amid the diversity of ideas there is, however, one common thread: almost complete indifference in Washington, the world's capital of gridlock, even when alternative, perhaps better, ways are already at work, some in plain sight.
Imagine, for example, a place where elected officials are officially nonpartisan, terms are limited, the budget is balanced, backroom deals are discouraged, and legislators actually get things done in swift sessions.
Someone's far-fetched idea of political heaven? No, it's Nebraska.
How about a country where government institutions have an approval rating that regularly goes above 80 percent, and where majority power finds a way to make smaller factions part of the solution? Welcome to Denmark. And is it possible to have a 92 percent voter turnout, ensuring broader representation? Yes, in Australia, where voting is compulsory.
In California and Washington, legislatures have tried to make voting more democratic by adopting "open primaries," in which the top two vote-getters face each other, encouraging a battle for moderate voters and discouraging complacency among incumbents.
Even the government framework the American colonies rebelled against — the British Parliament and prime ministry — offers useful lessons in how a democratic system can get things done. The real fear of monarchical oppression that led the framers of the US Constitution to divide power among branches, legislative bodies, and the states now seems almost quaint. The sovereign to fear today is called stalemate.
That there are many ideas is not to say that any, or even one, will be easy to enact. Getting to consensus will require some with vested interests to give way to a sense of a larger national interest. And given the scorching tone of debate in Washington of late, it is easy to say, good luck with that.
Still, many of those who suggest solutions hope that this year's series of crises in the nation's capital — from the fiscal cliff to the sequester to the government shutdown to the botched rollout of President Obama's health care plan — will lead to a historic reckoning.
"The American people should start thinking about, is this a good system?" said John Hibbing, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The increasing ability of factions such as Tea Party supporters to stymie action has, he said, focused attention on whether "we have gone too far in allowing minority rights. A legitimate and serious nonpartisan reflection would be very useful for the country."
There is, after all, no one recipe for implementing democracy. To many observers, American democracy has many elements that are ripe for reform, starting with the way that the voting power of a citizen can be applied in unequal ways in different states.
For example, the winner of the popular vote in presidential elections can lose due to the quirks of the Electoral College, as happened in 2000. The two Republican US senators from a small state such as Wyoming (population 576,412) have the same power as the two Democratic senators from California (population 38 million), while the reliably Democratic District of Columbia (population 632,323) is not even allowed senators and representatives, other than a delegate with limited voting rights.
Moreover, the nomination system in some states is tilted toward selecting the most partisan nominees. While some states have primaries that encourage the greatest participation of voters, others have caucuses or conventions that can give outsized power to groups of the most partisan players.
In Utah, for example, Republican Tea Party backer Mike Lee needed just 982 votes at a state convention to get on the primary ballot, effectively ousting incumbent Senator Bob Bennett. Lee went on to win the primary and general election, and he became a leader in the effort to shut down the government. That has led some Republicans to call for dropping such state conventions in favor of primaries that might produce more mainstream candidates.
But Tea Party backers say they represent the solution to much of what ails Washington, and the name of their movement highlights their belief that they represent a return to American tradition.
From their perspective, Obama's decision to sign health care legislation without winning a single Republican vote — which was only possible at a time when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate majority and controlled the House — was one of the biggest overreaches in recent American political history, setting the stage for the gridlock that followed when Republicans picked up seats in the 2010 midterms elections.
Once the GOP took control of the House, the underlying separation of powers all but assured little legislation would pass.
Any proposed reforms are bound to create concerns that America's vaunted system shouldn't be tampered with. There is nothing, some believe, that can't be fixed in the next election.
But others worry that our time is running short, that our system has grown distorted in unsustainable ways. What if the current gridlock is not another phase, but signals a permanent drift toward inaction driven by increasing partisanship in both parties? A recent analysis of voting patterns by National Journal found that the political middle in the US House has practically disappeared in the last 30 years.
In 1982, 344 out of 435 House members were viewed as being in the ideological middle, drawing about equally from both parties. In 2012, only 13 House members were classified as being in the middle. Yet about half of Americans surveyed recently by NBC News considered themselves to be centrists.
So, what sort of changes are needed — in the way Congress is constructed, how its members are elected and how it does business — to make Washington more representative and revitalize the political center?
The solutions being discussed in various quarters all aim to resurrect the best intentions of the democratic system, giving more voice to the average citizen while ensuring that those at the extremes who can unravel a nation's political fabric don't have outsized influence.
Some or all of these measures, if adopted at the federal level, could loosen the partisan cement that seems to keep key players at the edges. If that doesn't work, some observers say the biggest possible solution may be required: amending the Constitution, a step that is, by design, extraordinarily hard.
Consider that it took well over a century to get from our original framework to one in which senators were directly elected by the people and where women could vote. It took a century and the Civil War to win passage of the amendments that would free millions of Americans from slavery and enshrine, if not quickly make real, the mandate of equal rights under the law for all.
Even so, if amending the Constitution sounds drastic, consider this: much of the current gridlock can be traced to a series of measures implemented in recent years with little or no public referendum.
These include the influx, abetted by court decisions, of unlimited, secret political donations, known as "dark money"; redistricting plans that all but ensure the election of the most partisan politicians; and the increased use of legislative tools that a minority can use to stymie the majority, such as the filibuster. While the Democrat-controlled Senate recently voted to get rid of filibusters on most nominations, it still takes only 41 senators out of 100 to block legislation.
Indeed, the American form of democracy has been undermined in ways that the founders could never have envisioned. No other democracy gets so bogged down in a debate over whether to raise the "debt ceiling"; it is a crisis that is made in America and puzzles the rest of the world.
One of the most disturbing trends in US politics has been the shrinking voter turnout. Only 57 percent of Americans voted in the 2012 presidential election, and only 41 percent of eligible voters turned out for the 2010 mid-terms. The rate can be in the low single digits in some congressional primaries where the most partisan candidates emerge. Other democracies have found ways to boost turnout, including compulsory voting. Australia, for example, imposes a fine equal to about $19 for failure to vote and, as a result, has 92 percent turnout.
Now the question is: can the broken pieces of American democracy be glued back together?
It is a question that has, in fact, been asked many times before, with results worth studying anew. Just 24 years after American independence was declared, the fissures were so great that two Founding Fathers faced each other in the election of 1800.
After Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams, the sage of Monticello declared that his victory ushered in a second American revolution. He could not have imagined how many decades would pass before revolutionary inklings yielded further necessary changes.
One reason for today's stalemate, of course, is that the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches was designed to make it difficult to push through major changes. But scholars say the Constitution, itself the result of the "Great Compromise" among its authors, was not intended to stifle action. Instead, it was designed to facilitate or force consensus — a notion that now seems forgotten, even quaint.
"We don't as a polity understand that we have put ourselves willfully in a position in which we must negotiate," said Jane Mansbridge, a Harvard professor and former president of the American Political Science Association. She was among those who attended the California conference, which was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation. "The separation of powers system means it is designed to require negotiation."
There is precedent for dramatic change in the nation's democratic framework, even if the pace has traditionally been glacial. And such changes to the Constitution were once expected to be applied regularly. Jefferson expected revision by every generation, writing of his vision that "every constitution . . . and every law naturally expires at the end of 19 years." Yet the Constitution has only been amended 27 times (including the 10 measures in the Bill of Rights) since it was adopted in 1787 and went into effect in 1789.
"We totally let the Founders down," said University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato, who proposed a series of amendments in his book, "A More Perfect Constitution." "We ended up worshiping what they did when in fact all they tried to do is create a system for their time. They would have been the last to say the Constitution was handed down on the mount to Moses, but that is the way a lot of people treat it."
Prior generations once avidly experimented with changes to their democratic institutions. One of the most vivid examples is in Nebraska.
It was 1934 when US Senator George W. Norris, a Republican supporter of the Democrat-authored New Deal, campaigned across Nebraska for a series of political reforms. He successfully argued that there was no need for a bicameral legislature or even for partisan labels. The result can be seen today in the state capital of Lincoln.
The legislature has only one chamber, composed of senators, making passage of legislation less time-consuming. Instead of each party holding a legislative primary that appeals to a partisan base, the state's system enables candidates for the state Senate to run without being identified by affiliation, with the two top finishers facing each other in a general election.
Once elected, the state's senators are still not identified by party. Senators of all political stripes receive committee chairmanships. No senator can serve more than two consecutive four-year terms.
"I've been on the inside now for seven years, and I keep looking for partisans," said state Senator Bill Avery, a Democrat and former political science professor. "I see it on some issues, but mostly the same 25 votes don't come from the same 25 people. You have to look for a new coalition of votes on every issue."
To be sure, Nebraska has its problems. Nebraska's redistricting formula has been dominated by Republicans, eschewing the reforms adopted by Iowa, which has one of the most nonpartisan systems of setting the boundaries of congressional districts.
But that is the point: from state to state, some laboratories of democracy are experimenting with ways to keep their political machinery functioning more smoothly than it does on the federal level, providing lessons and possible solutions.
Washington, meanwhile, is mostly stuck in an aging system, increasingly burdened by the extremes of partisan positioning and free-spending political committees.
The two-party system has been turned on its head. Once envisioned as a way to limit the influence of smaller factions, the two parties now can be dramatically influenced by such groups, as demonstrated by the way Tea Party supporters have influenced the direction of the GOP.
As a result, the political scientists who attended the conference in Menlo Park, Calif., suggested strengthening the parties and allowing them to collect much more money, leveling the playing field with independent interest groups that can use unrestricted funds to influence elections.
As the conference attendees issued their recommendation, Washington gridlock reached a nadir. Having already shut down the government, Congress came within hours of defaulting on the nation's debt. Only a last-minute bipartisan deal that rejected Tea Party demands kept the country from going over the brink. The crisis was postponed but hardly solved.
"We almost defaulted. That's about as close as you get to the equivalent of a constitutional crisis as we have ever had," said Nathaniel Persily, a political science professor at Stanford who helped organize the conference of political scientists. "If we looked at other countries coming this close to political breakdown we would say that is not a functioning system."
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A humonoid creature residing on planet earth. Planet earth has a problem. Most of the people living there are unhappy. BAIN was one of them. but after realising that passing around rectangular pieces of paper isn't the real solution for the unhappiness, he turned towards digital watches (sometimes mass marketed under brandnames like pentium or athlon). So far he is happy with them.
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Abhijit Bhopatkar: aka BAIN.
Mostly Harmless.
On a bit serious note :
This site is a dump place for anything that i care to share with anyone on the net. I am a geek and a free/open source software advocate so you should know what to expect on this site.


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With Blackmagic Design's products resold by Multiverse, professional video equipment sales are expected to take on a whole new dynamic for industry pros in the market for such gear.
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) January 22, 2014
Professionals in the video business are being invited to buy pro studio gear and production equipment from experts who actually use it. Multiverse Media Group, marketing and video leaders based in Jacksonville, FL, have become an authorized reseller of Blackmagic Design products, one of the world's leading innovators and manufacturers of creative video technology. With Blackmagic's products resold by Multiverse, professional video equipment sales are, according to representatives from both companies, expected to take on a whole new dynamic for industry pros in the market for such gear. The seasoned team of experts at Multiverse Media Group works with such equipment day in and day out, offering their clients dynamic video production, responsive website design, online marketing and social media services that "get results."
Blackmagic Design's founders built the company on post-production editing and engineering prowess, the manufacturer boasting some of the most talked-about products in the industry. With extensive experience in high-end telecine, film and post, Blackmagic's engineers have become famous for their unbeatable codecs and affordable high-end quality editing workstations built upon their proprietary software and hardware.
In the realm of best camera for video, best professional movie camera or high definition digital video cameras, Blackmagic Design has cornered the marketplace with its Cinema Camera. Answering the question of what to look for when buying a professional video camera as well as taking center stage in the company's featured favorite category, Blackmagic Design's Cinema Camera adds the "timeless beauty of feature film quality" to production work.
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|Naruto Shippūden: Ninja Destiny 3
|(ナルト- 疾風伝 忍列伝III, Naruto Shippūden: Shinobi Retsuden 3)
|Video game info
|Playable on
|Nintendo DS
|Naruto Shippūden: Ninja Destiny 2
|Release Date
|April 28, 2009
Naruto Shippūden: Ninja Destiny 3 is the third part of Naruto Shinobi Retsuden series.
At a certain point in the Story Mode, the player can fight against Matatabi with Hidan or Kakuzu, and also go against Isobu at the end, with Sasuke Uchiha. Characters are playable, both in their Part I and Part II appearances. This game also features a Beast Battle Mode where the tailed beasts, Matatabi and Isobu can be fought again, along with three other masked beasts (仮面獣, kamenjū) exclusive to this game.
Certain characters in this game have two special attacks instead of just one and they are as follows:
- Naruto Uzumaki (Part I):
- Naruto Uzumaki (Part II):
- Sasuke Uchiha:
- Kakashi Hatake:
- Might Guy:
- Gaara:
- Quicksand Waterfall Flow followed by Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral
- Another attack where he summons the hand of Shukaku from the sand, which then crushes the opponent
- Itachi Uchiha:
Playable Characters
- Naruto Uzumaki (playable in Part I and Part II, also playable in a Nine-Tails form, also playable in a one-tailed form, also playable in a four-tailed form)
- Sai
- Sasuke Uchiha (playable in Part I and Part II, also playable in a Cursed Seal form)
- Sakura Haruno (playable with both pre- and post-timeskip outfits)
- Kakashi Hatake
- Neji Hyūga (playable with both pre- and post-timeskip outfits)
- Rock Lee (playable with both pre- and post-timeskip outfits)
- Might Guy
- Gaara (playable with both pre- and post-timeskip outfits)
- Temari (playable with both pre- and post-timeskip outfits)
- Hinata Hyūga
- Kurenai Yūhi
- Shikamaru Nara (playable in Part I and Part II)
- Asuma Sarutobi
- Hidan
- Kakuzu
- Deidara
- Sasori
- Itachi Uchiha
- Kisame Hoshigaki
- Hashirama Senju
- Tobirama Senju
- Tsunade
- Orochimaru
- Jiraiya
- Minato Namikaze
- Iruka Umino
- Yamato
- Kabuto Yakushi
- Hiruzen Sarutobi
- Unlike the other games released for the Nintendo DS, this is the only game to not have been translated into English officially.
- The tailed beasts Matatabi and Isobu are simply referred to as Two-Tails (二尾, Nibi) and Three-Tails (三尾, Sanbi) in this game, whereas the masked beasts are referred to as Masked Beast First-Type (仮面獣 壱式, Kamenjū Ichishiki), Masked Beast Second-Type (仮面獣 弐式, Kamenjū Nishiki) and Masked Beast Third-Type (仮面獣 参式, Kamenjū Sanshiki) respectively.
- The first masked beast uses wind-natured attacks and takes the appearance of what looks like a dog or a wolf, the second masked beast uses fire-natured attacks and takes the appearance of a wild boar, and the third masked beast uses water-natured attacks and takes the appearance of a bear.


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Earlier this week, Apple sent a letter to the US Chamber of Commerce, letting the organization know in no uncertain terms that the group's stance on greenhouse gas emissions regulation was not in line with Apple's own. The group's criticism of proposed legislation and the EPA's proposal to regulate based on power granted by the Clean Air Act moved Apple to sever its ties and resign from the group. Now, Chamber president Thomas Donohue is attempting to chastise Apple for its action, but given the Chamber's stance on climate change, it sounds like little more than sour grapes.
"Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the Chamber at odds with us in this effort," Apple VP Catherine Novelli wrote in a letter to Donohue on Monday, informing the Chamber of Apple's resignation from the group. Apple joined Pacific Gas and Electric, PNM Resources, and Exelon in resigning over the issue, while Nike has resigned its position on the Chamber's board.
In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs today, Donohue takes Apple to task for its "failure" to grasp the issues. "It is unfortunate that your company didn't take the time to understand the Chamber's position on climate and forfeited the opportunity to advance a 21st century approach to climate change," Donohue wrote in the letter. He further criticizes the proposed legislation that Apple supports, suggesting that it will "cause Americans to lose their jobs and shift greenhouse-gas emissions overseas, negating potential climate benefits."
This is the same Chamber of Commerce that proposed that the EPA hold a public hearing to prove that greenhouse gasses are a threat to health and welfare of the public. The Chamber's vice president for environment, Bill Kovacs, had the unfortunate distinction of referring to the proposed trial as a modern-day equivalent of the "Scopes Monkey Trial," the case that attempted to put the theory of evolution on trial in a court of law. This is also the same Chamber of Commerce filled with flacks for the industries that are most responsible for GHG emissions, and have a vested interest in blocking regulation.
It's also worth noting that one of the Chamber's chief complaints about proposed regulation is that it doesn't require any action from other polluting countries, suggesting that US companies would be at a competitive disadvantage if it had to spend money to be in compliance with GHG emission standards. This argument ignores the fact that neither the EPA nor Congress have any authority over countries other than the US. It also ignores the growing awareness of sustainability among general consumers—being pro-active about GHG emissions can actually serve as a competitive advantage as consumers seek out companies that are making "green" efforts.
Apple has taken its responsibility to reduce its environmental impact seriously, and has a number of programs in place to not only reduce its own GHG emissions and reduce its reliance on harmful chemicals, but also to encourage its suppliers to do the same. As Clean Product Action Project Director Alexandra McPherson said of the company's efforts, "Apple's accomplishments prove that [real change is] possible."
While the EPA's or Congress's attempts to regulate GHG emissions may not be exactly what the Chamber has in mind, it's clear that Apple and other US companies are making efforts to embrace sustainability practices. It's unfortunate that the US Chamber of Commerce is more interested in attempting to maintain the status quo on climate issues than encouraging its members to take a leadership role in working to reduce environmental impact due to GHG emissions.


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About Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson is the creator of The Scary Godmother and Magic Trixie. She is the co-creator of Finals and Beasts of Burden. She has illustrated many other comics and books including Wonder Woman, Sandman, Death at Death's Door, The Little Endless Storybook, Delirium's Party, The Invisibles, Seekers into the Mystery, Fables, The Badger, Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx, Tales from Wrescal Lane and much, much more. You can follow her on twitter to find out what she is up to @theJillThompson . You can demand her comics at finer comic shops everywhere!


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CEO Tweets are 'Shrt N Swt'
Is the USA drifting away from capitalism toward a European-style hybrid of capitalism and socialism? Let's tweet some CEOs and see what they think.
Turns out that the top tweeting executives nationwide widely agree with former CEOs Jack Welch of General Electric and Steve Case of AOL that the country has made a detour, but a necessary one, to get around the economic wreckage. Most recommend a quick return to the interstate of capitalism.
Tweeted Ken Robbins, president of Response Mine Interactive, an Atlanta tech company that helps companies boost revenue from search engines and interactive media: "Government (Gummit) controls business. I ate Chinese 2 days ago. The restaurant had 9 licenses/permits on the wall. (1of2)."
This is not your typical treatise on the challenges facing the U.S. economy. This story is largely an interpretation of what the executives say, because all interviews, top to bottom, were completed on Twitter. Undertaking an experiment, USA TODAY might be the first major news outlet to report an entire story on the Web's hottest new hot spot, limiting itself to the growing number of CEOs it could reach via the tweet. There were no phone calls. No e-mails. No next-day delivery. Of course, nothing face to face. Only tweets from Welch, Case and 19 other top executives. Even most of the photos of CEOs published with this story were downloaded to USA TODAY by a link provided via Twitter.
For those yet to be baptized into the latest social networking craze, Twitter is a site that lets people "follow" what others write with an important restriction: Any single piece of prose distributed via Twitter, called a tweet, is limited to 140 characters or less.
That's restrictive, to the point that the preceding sentence, at 267 characters, would require a major haircut to be launched into Tweeterdom.
"140 character thing is a pain but forces u 2 distill your thoughts 2 the very essence of the subject. good luck on the piece," tweeted David Morris, CEO of Dillanos Coffee Roasters, a wholesaler of beans to coffeehouses in 50 states. He employs 80; he has 25,500 followers on Twitter.
USA TODAY exchanged 427 tweets with the 21 executives, mostly over three days. Twitter may be the latest in social media, but it hearkens back to the 19th century when newspaper correspondents filed by telegraph. Stop. Or even almost 27 years ago when USA TODAY was launched with sentences squeezed to fit because so few stories were jumped to inside pages.
Conspicuously absent from this story are Twitter executives: CEO Evan Williams, Chairman Jack Dorsey and co-founder Biz Stone. Do any of them ever look at Twitter? If so, they chose not to respond to numerous tweets for comment from USA TODAY and other tweeters who saw that USA TODAY was after them and enlisted in an unsuccessful quest to get their attention.
Even as USA TODAY and its enlistees were trying to hunt down the executives, Elisabeth Hasselbeck tweeted that they were on the set of "The View". "about to head upstairs for show: just hung out with twitter guys(founders)&their wives.love'em," Hasselbeck tweeted.
It wouldn't be fair to say that the Twitter executives declined requests for comment, although the requests were many. USA TODAY did not phone or e-mail Twitter headquarters. And, the Twitter executives weren't alone. Many others did not respond to USA TODAY's tweeted requests for comment, including Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey and Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz.
One explanation may be that many of the best-known executives have hundreds of thousands of followers. Williams had 771,768 followers as of late Wednesday, and Dorsey and Stone each have more than 600,000. They are swamped with tweets, so many that they may not have time to cull through even those that are directed at them. However, Tony Hsieh, CEO of online retailer Zappos, had 658,901 followers late Wednesday, and he found time to deliver a one-tweet response.
"Capitalism will always be part of the US economy, but I think more people are realizing there's more to life than money," Hsieh said.
Even though Schwartz didn't respond, it's of no consequence because his tweets are written by an imposter, as are those of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, tweeted Amy Dean, co-founder of tweetexorcist.com, a site that exposes tweeters posing as celebs, athletes and executives. Some use ghost tweeters, including Guy Kawasaki, former Apple whiz and now venture capitalist, Dean says.
An interview request from (AT)jonesdel
Twitter is new to most CEOs, and many had been testing it for only a few weeks or days when this landed on their screens: "(AT)jonesdel: Reporting USA TODAY cover story entirely on Twitter. Topic: Is U.S. economy evolving away from capitalism? Your thoughts please."
Back came the Robbins tweet: "Government (Gummit) controls business. I ate Chinese 2 days ago. The restaurant had 9 licenses/permits on the wall. (1of2)."
OK, sounds like Robbins is an opponent of regulation?
"US has moved to fascism- Private "ownership", but gummit control by rules, regs, statutes, agencies. Free-market being bled out."
Please go on.
"Observed in Decl. of Ind. 1/8king has...3/8 sent swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
Anything else?
"We may have capitalism but we no longer have free market capitalism. We have not evolved. Our system has devolved. :-)"
CEOs' opinions regarding the fate of capitalism range widely: "US is not evolving away from capitalism, it is evolving towards a better form of it -- one that is more balanced and responsible," tweeted Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of San Francisco technology venture Radar Networks. "I am generally in favor of more regulation of giant corporations, healthcare reform, energy and financial industry oversight, etc."
"Gov role now to correct greed driven excess in markets," tweeted Stuart Blake, founder and CEO of legal services provider The General Counsel. "What do you think it was like as US evolved from agri econ to industrial in 1800's? US must now evolve into global econ w/ethics."
Some CEOs, including Hsieh, tweeted requests to be interviewed by e-mail or phone, but were told that rules were rules. Even background information was restricted to websites linked to from tweets, but there was an abundance of background information to be found. Many of the websites were found using what are known as "hashtag" searches on Twitter for ‥capitalism and ‥socialism. Those sites often leaned to one fringe or the other, but others had useful information, such as a Rasmussen survey in April that found just 53 percent of Americans believe capitalism is the superior economic system, although it remained solidly ahead of socialism because 27 percent were undecided.
Chris Jenkins, CEO of executive search firm Harrington & Reed, says the new capitalism is spelled "Capitol-ism," due to the intervention from Washington, D.C., and he tweeted a link to his May 5 blog entry headlined "Observations on Whether We are Moving Away from Capitalism," where he criticizes government intervention into the private sector.
"The government takes $1,000 in taxes, wastes $800 on bureaucracy and inefficiency, and pays the employee the remaining $200 of his own money," Jenkins wrote in his blog. In a tweet he added: "Nothing like the citizens funding the government takeover of their own jobs. Feels good short term. socialism or worse long term."
"history affirms that capitalism works but that a widespread societal quest for "security' can be it's enemy," tweeted Mark Oakes, CEO of Concentric Security, with expertise in anti-terrorism solutions. Then, later: "In the event there was any question relative to my earlier tweets, I firmly believe capitalism will win out!"
Another blog link from Twitter suggested that a generation of investors has been lost due to the market collapse, but former GE CEO Welch tweeted to USA TODAY and his thousands of followers that he was unconcerned. "hold that thought and watch what happens when Dow goes thru 10,11,12. "Experts' love to focus on today not tomorrow."
Companies and the CEOs they hire are largely to blame for capitalism's erosion, tweeted Alexandra Gibson, CEO of Gibson Design Management. "Bob Nardelli was a disaster (AT) Home Depot & then hired as head of Chrysler? Govt is bailing out bad leaders & sending message ..."
"A pure Capitalistic Economy would let Chrysler fail then another company would come in and buy them for pennies on the dollar, " tweeted Jeff Mello, co-founder of BuzzCal, a website that alerts sports fans to when their favorite teams are playing.
Morris agrees. "a huge problem is that the irresponsibiliy of those large company CEOs has painted a negative portrayal of ALL business..."
"we WILL end up paying for the free lunch we've been enjoying. Capitalism/entrepreneurship is in the human DNA. Drift is temporary," tweeted Larry Strassner, CEO of Russell & Mackenna, which makes cottage-style furniture.
John Q. Public gets chance to weigh in, too
Twitter allows interviews to be conducted in private using what is known as a direct tweet, but most CEOs, including Welch and Case, had no objection to being interviewed publicly where all could read what was being said, and at times weigh in.
"maybe capitalism itself is evolving," tweeted in Martin Montero of Austin, who describes himself as a social media practitioner, cyclist and knowledge junkie, among other things.
Mr. Case, do you care to respond to Mr. Montero? "Of course it is. Has evolved and will continue to," tweeted Case, now CEO of Revolution.
After tweeting that the government needs an exit strategy from a necessary intervention, Case tweeted: "As we learned with Iraq, there are typically unintended consequences, and it is always easier to get in then get out." Another tweet from Case: "So I support Obama's economic intervention, but would be very concerned if gov't doesn't pull back in year or two."
Blinds.com CEO Jay Steinfeld tweets this warning: "So as with happiness, it takes sadness to appreciate it. Sunshine: rain. And maybe, capitalism: socialism?"
One other CEO was quiet. It might have been coincidence, but shortly after USA TODAY began reporting this story, it won over a prestigious Twitter follower: Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActive, who started Fox Broadcasting.
Unsolicited, (AT)BarryDiller was now following (AT)jonesdel. Yet, Diller did not respond to tweeted requests for comment, and for more than a month Diller had only a single posted tweet, dated April 21.
Tweeted Diller: "I have no interest in Twitter," and by press time (AT)BarryDiller was nowhere to be found on Twitter.
Does he have an interest in capitalism? The answer to that might force one to pick up the phone.


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Tell Congress That Raising Revenue Isn't Scary; It's Lifesaving!
Tell Congress to Stop Frightful Cuts to HIV Programs and Other Essential Safety Net Services
October 31, 2012
Fear not the ghosts, goblins, witches, or vampires this Halloween. It is the specter of sequestration and its looming cuts that are the most frightful.
If Congress and the President do not reach an agreement by January 1 to address the nation's deficit, automatic cuts will slash funding for vital health care, treatment, housing, and other essential services for low-income people with HIV. The automatic cuts are called "sequestration" -- a scary name for terrifying cuts.
Tell your U.S. senators and representatives that we need a balanced approach to deficit reduction. Revenue increases must be a part of the solution to avert harmful cuts that will cost more lives and more money and to ensure that essential public health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare are protected.
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Also, the gasket must be taken into consideration as well. Using a high strength bolt and torquing to a higher value could impact gasket integrity. Obviously the original specs are for original gasket, bolts, etc and might be different for performance upgrade components.
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His pickup left Fairfax Ave., went through ditch, and struck unoccupied, parked bus at Tri-Valley Opportunity Council's transportation facility.
A 67-year-old Crookston man, Robert A. "Bob" Cournia, died Thursday after the vehicle he was driving left Fairfax Avenue on Crookston's southeast edge and traveled through the ditch before striking a parked Tri-Valley bus.
Crookston Police hadn't publicly identified the victim as of early Thursday afternoon, but the announcement of Cournia's death and information regarding his funeral service was released shortly after noon by the Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home.
The accident was reported at 8 a.m. Thursday, with police, Crookston firefighters and Crookston Area Ambulance Service paramedics being dispatched to the Tri-Valley Opportunity Council transportation building, the onetime home of Crookston Implement. According to the report, Cournia was eastbound on Fairfax Ave. in a 1998 Chevrolet pickup when the vehicle left the roadway and entered the north ditch before colliding with the unoccupied, parked bus in the parking lot.
Polk County deputies that were the first on scene were notified upon arrival that one person was possibly trapped inside the pickup. Cournia was subsequently removed from the vehicle and CPR was initiated. He was taken by ambulance to RiverView, where he was pronounced dead.


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Louvre Building Set from LEGO®
Located in the heart of Paris on the bank of the river Seine, this magnificent structure, renowned for its striking blend of Renaissance and Modernist architecture, welcomes over 9 million visitors a year and houses over 35,000 works of art, including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The Louvre started life as a fortress, built by King Philip Augustus in 1190 to protect Parisians from foreign invasion and has since undergone a number of renovations. The result is the architecturally stunning Louvre we know today. Now you can build your own Louvre out of LEGO® bricks with this set from their Landmark Series. The kit contains 695 pieces and a booklet with details on the tower's design and history. Recommended for ages 12 and up but great for adults too!
Size: 5" x 6" x 7"
Code: 74876
Member price: $58.50
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