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Ep 10: Charlie
Social media stokes the fire of frustration as Susan's oldest son Charlie heads off to school. Josh Powell strikes back with a website of his own. Police plant an undercover in the hopes romance will grow.
Josh and Susan Powell's first child, Charlie, was a bright and curious boy.
Even at the young age of five, Charlie had a fascination with the natural world. He collected bugs, memorized facts about reptiles and dinosaurs.
This 2007 family photo shows Charlie Powell reading a book to his younger brother, Braden. Their mother, Susan Powell, sits just out of frame to the right
Tammy Forman taught Charlie in kindergarten at Carson Elementary School.
"He was really interested in rocks," Tammy said. "He was kind of obsessed about worms and wanted to name every worm he'd ever run over with his bike, for some reason."
Yet, there were also signs that Charlie Powell was haunted by the loss of his mother.
How to Kill a Bear
Josh Powell moved with his boys from West Valley City, Utah to the outskirts of Puyallup, Wash. in early January of 2010, just weeks following the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell.
That summer, he enrolled Charlie in summer camp programs at the Mel Korum Family YMCA.
Josh Powell enrolled his sons, Charlie and Braden, in summer camp programs at the Mel Korum Family YMCA in 2010. Charlie made several comments that caught the attention of staff members. Photo: Dave Cawley, KSL
It didn't take long before staff members learned who Charlie was and about the troubling circumstances of his home life. Their concern for his wellbeing grew throughout the summer, as he made a series of odd statements.
On Aug. 19, 2010, Charlie told a pair of counselors about the best way to kill a bear.
Two summer camp counselors at the Mel Korum Family YMCA wrote this statement to document a concerning story told by 5-year-old Charlie Powell about how to kill a bear
Just shy of a week later, on Aug. 24, 2010, Charlie explained during a campfire activity that it was important to kill Mormons.
A counselor at the Mel Korum Family YMCA wrote this statement about a troubling comment from Charlie Powell about killing Mormons on Aug. 24, 2010
Charlie wasn't alone in raising eyebrows at the YMCA.
On Aug. 4, 2010, Josh Powell told one of the YMCA managers that he wanted to make sure his missing wife, Susan, would not be able to pick up their boys. The statement baffled the manager, who spoke to Cold but asked that she not be publicly identified.
A manager at the Mel Korum Family YMCA provided this statement about an Aug. 4, 2010 conversation with Josh Powell to West Valley City, Utah police
West Valley City, Utah police, who were investigating Susan Powell's disappearance as a likely murder, later collected statements from all of the YMCA staff members who had interacted with Josh or Charlie.
At the end of that same summer, Charlie enrolled in kindergarten at Carson Elementary School. His father, Josh, harangued the faculty to make sure they would not allow Susan Powell or her family anywhere near his son.
Josh Powell delivered this letter to Carson Elementary School on Sept. 19, 2010, ordering the faculty to keep "outsiders" away from his son, Charlie
The command seemed strange to Charlie's teacher, Tammy Forman.
"I was certain that Josh had killed Susan and it was really creepy to me that one of the first things he had said to me was 'Their mom is not allowed to see them,'" Tammy said. "Once I found out who he was, I thought 'If you killed her, why would you even be saying that? Why would that be an issue for you?'"
Josh Powell caused concern for some faculty members at Carson Elementary School during 2010 and 2011. He at one point attempted to join the school's PTA, over protests from other parents. Photo: Dave Cawley, KSL
Tammy appreciated Charlie for his inquisitive mind and love of science. He didn't seem to make friends easily, but neither did he seem depressed or mopey.
"Even in the classroom, he could be sitting by other kids but he was completely engrossed in whatever he was doing and not paying attention to the kids around him," Tammy said.
One day during free time, Tammy noticed Charlie coloring with a crayon. She asked what he was drawing. Charlie told her it was a gun.
Charlie Powell drew this picture during "choice time" while in kindergarten at Carson Elementary. He told his teacher, Tammy Forman, that it was a gun
"He drew it kind of upside down so when I first saw it, it looked like people on a mountain or something," Tammy said. "I right away felt very uncomfortable. Sent him off to the counselor. That poor counselor."
Another day, Charlie overheard a classmate say that his mom was dead. Charlie marched over to the other boy's table and shouted that his mom wasn't dead, she was just away from her parents because they had abused her.
Tammy went to try and comfort Charlie after he had calmed down a bit.
"I asked if he was feeling better.' He said 'I'm feeling a little better because I'm really smart and I can figure out a way for liars like this student to go to jail for fourteen years,'" Tammy said.
Tammy Forman, who taught Charlie Powell in kindergarten at Carson Elementary School, shares her impressions of Charlie as a student. Video: Sean Estes, KSL 5 TV
West Valley City police gathered statements from Tammy, just as they had from the YMCA staff.
Puyallup Gem and Mineral Club
Josh Powell began taking both Charlie and his younger brother Braden to meetings of the Puyallup Gem and Mineral Club after encountering their booth at the Washington State Fair in September of 2010.
The club's vice president, Nancy, noticed the new arrivals.
"Originally he was this nice guy. And he just seemed like a nice young man."
Nancy, on meeting Josh Powell
"I didn't even know who he was. And I would look at the little boys and I would think, 'Where's your mommy?'" Nancy said. "Then I'd just put it like 'Well maybe they're separated and he's got custody every other week and this is where they go because it's something to do, rather than just stay home on a Friday.'"
It didn't take long before another club member set Nancy straight.
"Then I went home and I watched the TV, or you know I pulled it up on the internet and there his face is," Nancy said. "I literally cried because, first off, that's where's your mommy. That was answered."
Nancy asked that her last name not be used in Cold, out of concern for her privacy.
"I got frightened," Nancy said. "I sent an email out to the board members and I said, 'Don't ever leave me alone with him again.'"
The vice president of the Puyallup Gem and Mineral Club sent this email to Washington DSHS social worker Forest Jacobson on Oct. 17, 2011. She shared concerns over Josh Powell's parenting skills
Josh brought his boys to every meeting and several field trips, even though he was advised the trips were not safe for young children. He allowed the boys to use potentially dangerous tools, like rock tumblers, without supervision.
Nancy crafted new rules requiring young children to have an adult with them to take part in any hands-on activities.
"He went to the back where the kids would meet once a month — the kids had a special meeting spot — and I guess he came unglued with a gal that ran the kids group at the time," Nancy said. "Just angry and saying 'That's not fair!'"
Nancy drafted a letter to Washington's Department of Social and Health Services as a result of these and other experiences. She suggested Josh be required to take "extensive parenting classes."
"I am doing this for Susan," Nancy wrote.
Hear how police tried to use an undercover officer to get Josh talking in Episode 10 of Cold: Charlie.


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Why I Appreciate How Far Women Have Come, Rather Than Dwelling on the Gender Gap
September 14, 2018 Lisa Promise Leave a comment
There's never been a better time to be a woman entrepreneur.
Imagine your grandmother saying that growing up, she wished she'd been born a male. Perhaps you'd be surprised by that, or saddened. But, really when you think about it, it isn't a shock at all. For much of the 1900s, women's rights were secondary to men. That comment is exactly what was said to me recently, and I couldn't help but think, "I've never felt that way!" I believe each gender has its own unique privileges and benefits, but never once have I thought that I wished I were a man or that I would have it easier as a man.
Related: The 24 Most Powerful Female Executives and Their Net Worths
As a woman in the business world, sure, I've encountered some discrimination. As have countless others for gender, race, religion, sexual preferences and more. But, we're getting better with that all the time, and regardless, I've never felt I wasn't taken seriously in the workplace because I'm a woman.
And so, instead of focusing on the areas where the gaps still exist, let's spend a moment on the wins — the positive breakthroughs for females in the United States, and how this helps us as entrepreneurs.
Then: "Decades ago it was normal for a woman to be chiefly a caregiver, housekeeper and wife. Wives did all the cleaning and made sure dinner was on the table. It was the husband who would give weekly allowance to the kids. On occasion, he would also give his wife some money to pay the bills," said Marguerita Cheng, co-founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, in her CNBC article earlier this year.
Now: According to a NerdWallet survey, as of just a few years ago, almost 80 percent of women pay at least a quarter of the household bills. We also know that many more women now hold jobs outside of the home, and spouses are sharing financial duties and household contributions.
Why that matters: Women, now more than ever before, are responsible for managing their own finances. Investing in 401(k)s, budgeting and paying the bills have become the norm for many women. This means that women are better equipped to manage the finances of their own businesses as well. While accountants and lawyers are great assets for any small business, it's important to know at least the basics yourself.
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Then: In years prior, you would often see no women in politics, board rooms or senior positions of any kind. If you've seen the show Mad Men, you'd recognize the clear depiction of women as assistants, there to bring a cup of coffee or answer your phone. When one of the female lead characters was promoted to copywriter, it was a big deal, because that just wasn't done at that time.
Now: Women like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and Hillary Clinton — like them or not — have certainly made a name for themselves. Female leaders are on the rise, breaking glass ceilings around the world by becoming the first woman to do something never before done.
Why that matters: More women leaders means more women entrepreneurs. Females are able to gather the skills needed to lead their business, and to confidently take on new challenges and new risks. Slowly, it's becoming easier for women-run businesses to raise funding, and this is just the beginning.
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3. Traits
Then: Previously, the natural characteristics shared by many women were seen by some as "weak." Rather than "empathetic," women might be considered "overly sensitive." The double-edged sword is that women couldn't behave like men — that was frowned upon. A woman should know her place … and stay there.
Now: Today, female qualities are often celebrated instead of shunned. These traits enable women to develop long-lasting relationships based on trust and understanding. Because of this, the relationships tend to be genuine versus only self-serving. Their ability to care for others has helped them to become good managers and mentors.
Why that matters: Not only do many people better understand the differences between men and women, but they appreciate them also. Both genders have unique qualities to be valued and they come together to create a balanced team. This has allowed women to embrace their own traits and talents, and at times — develop their own businesses.
There has never been a better time to be a woman in the United States, and many countries around the world for that matter. While there's still a ways to go — with pay discrepancies domestically and personal safety internationally — we've made great strides. We should always strive to improve, but not lose sight of how far we've already come. I like to believe that a woman in the United States has the same opportunities as a man, and I challenge you — whether man or woman — to continue pushing that bar. It's up to us to modernize, and we can do it together.
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The sorceress Queen Magmarinan is destroying the Kingdom of Grenwyn in her search for a fire emerald. Adult villagers have either been enslaved to work the mines or have vanished without a trace.
More disturbing are all the missing children.
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When word spreads of the children's abilities, hundreds seek their protection against the queen and her soldiers.
Danelle Lansing discovers a new meaning to terror when five extraordinary strangers lure her into a web strung with deception, abduction, covert hominid species, and murder.
After two years of running from a senator lover she witnessed murder a governor's widow, she finds refuge in a cottage belonging to the Bacstair estate on the west coast of Washington State. Within two weeks of her stay, she is robbed and beaten by an unknown assailant, then introduced to the existence of Wolfinga, a shape-shifting werewolf race who were the dominating species occupying Earth until thirty-six thousand years ago. She is indoctrinated into the Packs by a bite on the shoulder, and soon learns she has graduated from a mistress on the lam to a target test subject by yet another race of beings called Terrans, who seek a specific gene only in Wolfinga DNA to override a genetic empathic curse they call Well Link.
Danelle has had enough. The war for survival is on.
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For Rose, it's also a ticket to another time.
Hiding from him is not an option for long.
Rose has always known she is fated to walk a tough path through life. Nothing, however, prepared her for a man like Eli Tucker.
Determined to unravel the mysteries piling up around them, they find themselves on a journey of love and danger.
For twelve years on Garon, Brehan Tucker has chosen isolation from her people on the chance she will misuse her power. It has become a comfortable way of life. No responsibilities. No expectations. No messy emotions to confuse her. And if she's patient long enough, perhaps even her persistent, annoying husband, Erth, will renounce his undying love and move on.
Loving Brehan is enough to push any Guardian over the edge, and Erth is close to plunging into an abyss of regret from which there seems no escape. He sees his wife's isolation as a means for her counterpart, Di'me, to garner more power until she is able to take over the shared body. Since he can't bring himself to destroy the woman he loves, he creates a series of schemes to confuse their enemies and test the strength of Brehan's human side. It only creates a wider emotional chasm between them.
Understanding that love has brought her nothing but pain and grief in the past, Erth offers up a supreme sacrifice to tear down the walls between them and to win her heart.
While Brehan Tucker battles inner and extraneous demons alike, Erth is forced to admit there is more to her than temper, fortitude and beauty. She is not only his averse lifemate and the reluctant mother of his children, she is someone he cannot separate from.
Too late he realizes he has been snagged in a cunning trap. Within Brehan resides Di'me, a spawn conditioned to not only destroy the Earth women and the Syre men he raised from infancy, but himself and the Guardians of Haveth.
Love wielded a shield of denial.
Now it must serve as a sword of justice.
Brehan Tucker's hunger for freedom and identity ignites when she and other women are abducted from Earth by a godlike being, as breeding stock to a dying alien race. Determined to return to her world, she uses wits and cunning to sabotage her abductor's authority and win the loyalty of his crew.
But fate has other plans for her.
Erth is the unfortunate incarcerator. A being whose immeasurable power is confined within a humanoid shell, his laws are unchangeable his command unquestionable, his will undeniable.
But fate has other plans for him as well.
A tragedy of three centuries ago continues to fracture Reith's efforts to win Blue's trust. His only hope is to find a way to end the spell preventing him from revealing the truth. Without it, he has no chance of sharing his life with his faery queen wife.
With the passage of time, resisting Reith proves more difficult than Blue imagined. Despite her powers, her love for him chips away at her resolve not to succumb and risk the safety of her kingdom. Her heart. But they are forced to work together when a preternatural fog covers the Baird estate, and an unknown enemy targets Reith, Lachlan and Broc.
Little do Blue and Reith realize the extent of their unified magic.
Their alliance is about to expose all of the mysteries involving Faerie and Baird House.
With the stolen MacLachlan dirk in her possession, Taryn Ingliss journeys to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland in search of answers to the mysteries surrounding Lachlan Baird and her ancestor, Robert Ingliss.
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Rumors of Lachlan and Beth's reappearance have Baird House once again besieged by reporters. And as if the three couples at the mansion don't have enough to juggle, Roan's belligerent sister arrives uninvited from the States, followed by his and Laura's parents.
But more disconcerting is the return of centuries-old former residents, for the Kingdom of Faerie brings with it yet another couple in desperate need of the land's magical intervention.
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Winston Connery, a detective with psychic abilities, has seen too much and has suffered too much to go on. He parks across the road from Baird House one bitter cold winter's night and waits for death to release his tortured soul. But deep in the shadows of the infamous mansion, Deliah watches and waits. A magical woman of an ancient clan, she understands the depths of Winston's hopelessness and believes her love for him is enough to save them both.
Two willful souls. Two diverse paths. One destiny.
A fortuitous snow storm and a car wreck bring American Laura Bennett, her three young nephews and Roan Ingliss under the roof of Baird House, where lively ghosts Lachlan Baird and Beth Staples welcome them. However it isn't long before the century-and-a-half old animosity between Lachlan and the Aiken/Ingliss clan casts a pall over the mansion. To make matters worse, a deadly secret is exposed.
Only a love forged in truth and trust can unshackle the dead and the living at Baird House. But Roan and Laura aren't sure their love is strong enough to survive the present, let alone the past.
In 1843, Lachlan Baird brings his bride to the mansion he'd built just for her and their future children. But the honeymoon is cut short when Lachlan is murdered. He's been haunting Baird House ever since, determined to protect his "treasures" and hoping to find a woman willing to spend eternity with him.
In 1993, Beth Staples is ready to live her own life after caring for her ill mother for eight years. She accepts an invitation to visit a friend residing at Baird House but instead of a delightful vacation with Carlene, she finds herself in the care of an irresistible, seductive and sometimes annoying Scotsman--with a secret.
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A diabolical plot contrived by three sorcerers begins to unravel on the island of Kevlon when CasKae, a Woodland Faer, escapes an orb of light, one of hundreds conjured to enable the sorcerers to feed off Faer magic. CasKae flees to Cambrius with other escapees, where seven Magi are the only hope of saving the entombed kingdoms and stopping the sorcerers.
On the isle of Cambrius, twenty-one-year-old Magus Reddak Locc believes the only challenges in his future are discovering the cause of his father's death, winning the respect of the other six "ancient" Magi, and capturing errant leader Brodin Highwater, whose twin sister, Britin, he secretly fancies.
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David Mazella specializes in eighteenth-century British Literature. His first book, a cultural and conceptual history of the "cynic" and "cynicism" in Great Britain, is entitled The Making of Modern Cynicism (University of Virginia Press, 2007). He has also published articles on Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hobbes, and George Lillo.
As a member of the UH Faculty Senate, he was also one of the founders of the UH Center for Teaching Excellence in 2010, and served as its Director for two years, until spring 2013. In this vein, he has published on curricular reform and eighteenth-century studies, inquiry-based pedagogy in literary studies, and the political stakes of assessment and organizational learning in higher education. In spring 2014, these contributions were recognized when he received the University of Houston's Distinguished Leadership in Teaching Excellence Award.
He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library ('93) and the Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen ('98), and received research support from the Whiting Foundation ('94-'95) as well as several University of Houston internal grants.
Research Interests: eighteenth-century British literature and culture; the history of the British Empire; the historical reception of Enlightenment thought; history of rhetoric, literary criticism, and critical theory; historical and contemporary pedagogy.
This is a literary history of a single year, as found in the Anglophone writings produced in a series of metropolitan or colonial settings: e.g., London, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, and Kingston, Jamaica. It treats the writing produced in that year as part of a collectively authored text in the British Empire. It focuses upon the year's passage in each of these imperial cities and depicts a wide range of writers and readers producing and consuming literary works, periodicals, pamphlets, letters, and journals during that brief period. It attempts to reconstruct something of the everyday life of writing and reading in each city, and to draw connections between the everyday reading and rhythms of the city's population and the more abstract literary, philosophical, and political genres that emerged from the cultural life of each city and region. When taken together, these chapters should help to reveal the diffuse imperial perspective created when these cities' readers and writers become increasingly aware of one another.
"English Departments, Assessment, and Organizational Learning," (28 pp.; in Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, ed. Donna Heiland and Laura Rosenthal (Teagle Foundation, 2011), 228-255.
"Diogenes the Cynic in the Dialogues of the Dead of Thomas Brown, Lord Lyttelton, and William Blake." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2 (Summer 2006): 102-22.
"'Justly to fall unpitied and abhorr'd': Sensibility, Punishment, and Morality in Lillo's The London Merchant." ELH 68.4 (Winter 2001): 795-835.


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Mobile App Concept: How to Make it Clear to Your Developers?
So you have a great idea for iPhone app. Just hire a programmer to code it, right? Not right-it's not that easy. If you don't clearly define exactly what it is you what from the programmer, you probably won' t get it.
Before looking for an app developer to write the code, there is an important step in the process we will call concept design. The concept design fully defines and describes exactly what the app does at the functional and appearance level. This provides app specifics that will then be implemented with the Objective C code that the developer writes. The concept design defines, for example, what the app does or how it responds when it receives an input (i.e. a user enters some numbers or presses a button), and what feedback or display will result from the input.
The following pages discuss creating concept design documents; flowcharts and screen sketches that, in turn, lead to producing an app specification to guide the programmer in creating the app code.
Before you spend a lot of time and effort fleshing out your idea with a detailed concept design, it is wise to consider exactly what your app is, does and what makes the idea workable on a basic level.
As with so many facets of app development, the amount of effort required here will depend on how lofty your technical and marketing goals are. The more basic your app the easier this phase will be, and vice-versa. For example, if you want a simple app for you and your friends, or for you and your staff, the only real question is whether or not you can fit it into your budget. Plus, if the app is pretty basic it shouldn't take long to put a concept together and request some proposals. In these cases, there is very little risk in proceeding with the concept.
On the other hand, if you plan on making the app publicly available-even for free as a customer service or promotional tool-it will behoove you to make an effort to learn the who, what, and whys of the app scenario.
If you plan on marketing the app for revenue, then knowing the answers to these same questions becomes extremely important.
We are going to discuss the preliminary design review as if the goal is to market the app. To do so, we will use a somewhat oversimplified example to illustrate the process. If you have other goals for the app, then you can choose what parts of the preliminary review apply to your situation.
The first step is to make sure you have clear definition and description of the app. You might think you have the app fully defined in your head, but getting things clearly documented is an important step. This might seem like a simple, straightforward step, but you shouldn't take it lightly. This is the information you will use when determining the feasibility of the app and when defining the functional details. It is also an important step in being able to communicate the app is to others.
Start the definition with a brief statement that summarizes the app then move forward to more detailed descriptions. If you are not sure how to go about this step, a great starting point is to answer the basic questions like who, what, when, why, and how. Then brainstorm other questions that a potential user or customer might have, and potential questions a programmer might have about the app. Capture the information in a table or form. It is important to properly record this information instead of relying on your memory. Plus, sometimes the act of simply writing it down helps us realize oversights or generates new ideas.
Let's use an example to illustrate the process. Say there is an avid fisherman from Wichita. Before selecting a destination to fish and heading out, he spends about 30 minutes on the Internet checking conditions at area lakes and rivers. If he had an iPhone app that could collect conditions at area lakes and rivers then display them together on a scrollable list, it would save him both time and effort. Plus, he believes that most people with Apple devices who live in the area and enjoy fishing would appreciate the app as well. It may even generate income if marketed properly.
Interested in pursuing the idea, the Fishing Wichita app project is born. The preliminary design app is shown in the "Fishing Wichita App Definition table below.
While some of the information captured here may seem obvious, not recording every aspect on paper is risky because it can lead to oversights and misunderstandings. Getting it on "paper" is essential.
Now you are ready to use that information in the next steps of the concept design.
What does the app do? (Summary) The app will gather weather/water conditions and fishing reports from popular fishing lakes and rivers in a 150 mile radius of Wichita and combine them into one easy to read and scroll display.
What exactly does the app do? (Technical Description) Using available on-line data or information, it will collect conditions and then consolidate them into an easy to read display. The app will update conditions to user settings, such as every morning or every Saturday morning. Conditions can also be updated upon request. Users can enter set-up information to customize app in terms of update frequency, and site categories (i.e. favorites, complete list, ignore).
Why would someone want the app? It is time consuming to gather current conditions information about area lakes and rivers, but without information choosing the best place to fish is just a guess. Time is precious when leaving to fish, especially in terms of getting an early start. Having quick and easy access to all the area lake and river conditions would have value for people who like to fish.
Who would want the app? The market or audience would be people in the Wichita area who fish regularly in area waters.
When would they use the app This would be particularly important for fishing day trips, where there is only a morning or a day to go fishing, and going an hour north versus an hour south could be the difference between a great fishing outing and a lousy one. Spending 30 minutes on-line checking conditions wastes valuable fishing time. With regular daily/weekly updates you have the information at your fingertips. Or update conditions manually, and by the time you load your gear or get a cup of coffee, you have the information you need to make an informed decision about the best place to fish that day.People would tend to use and buy the app during spring, summer, and fall with little demand over winter months.
When is the app needed? No pressing need or deadline. Overarching goal would be to have app complete and available to buy in 6 months.
How would they find and get the app? Since it is an Apple device they would purchase and download the app from the Apple App Store. Marketing would be through the App Store, an app website, using regional on-line/Google ads, and through local merchants, events, and word of mouth.
Conditions Displayed: Display conditions from the latest update or update the conditions then display.
The last selected will be the default selection on this screen. The user will then press a Display or Cancel button. Cancel closes the app. Display does just that: a Display Screen with an easy to read and scroll format using clear titles and labels with proper/appropriate color and shading schemes. An [X] in the upper right corner closes the app, and a back arrow [<-] will take users back to the selection screen.
How much would prospects pay for the app? TBD – depending on how well the app works, between $4.99 and $19.99.
If your plan is to make money by selling the app, you need to do your homework to verify that the potential to make a profit is there and that any expectation about sales and revenue are realistic. This step is especially important if you are investing significant funds into the app project. While it is a little out of the scope of this book, it is worth noting that if you are launching a business based on an app or apps development, then you have to create a comprehensive business plan that addresses the market very thoroughly. But every app development should have its own marketing viability report.
Much of what is calculated for market research will be based on best guesses or anecdotal deduction, because many of your questions will not have answers available based on firm, objective statistical data. Obviously it is best to look for hard data, and use it as a foundation for marketing calculation when possible. But the main point behind analyzing the marketplace is to create an in-depth understanding and to know why and how you arrived at that number – including both the known and the unknowns involved. When you say you can sell a million apps, how did get that number? If you have done your market research, you can answer that question in a very precise manner. Wild guesses are not market research.
Let's consider the Fishing Wichita app again. While our fishing friend is very interested in creating the app, like most of us he can't afford more than a modest financial risk. Plus, he feels it is only worth the effort and the investment if he can make a small profit.
The first guess is how much it will cost, not including his time, to get the app developed and to market it. A very conservative guess is $5,000, and he feels pretty confident it shouldn't cost more than that. If he invests $5,000, what are the chances of making a profit? In other words, realistically, how many apps could he sell at what price? And how long would it take to recoup his investment? Market research is about ultimately answering these questions in the most accurate way possible.
From the app definition, we know the potential customers are people who like to fish in the Wichita area. If you knew how many people fit this description, then you could make an educated guess about the number of prospective customers.
Using this information we can easily calculate a good guess as to the number of people in the Wichita area who fish.
By dividing the number of annual fishing licenses purchased in the state of Kansas by the population of the state we can estimate the percent of the population who fish. Then we can apply that percentage to the Wichita area population to determine an approximate number of people in the Wichita area who regularly fish.
After just a little research and basic math, the number of people who fish in the Wichita metropolitan area can be estimated to be about 43,000. But remember that only people with iPhones or Ipads will buy the app. Some additional research reveals that about 6% of the U.S. population has iPhones and about 10% have iPads. Since the iPhone/iPad owner demographic does not perfectly align with the fishing demographic, a very conservative estimate of the percentage of the people who fish who have iPhones or iPads might be 5%.
After a little more math, a conservative approximation would be that about 2178 people with fishing licenses in Wichita area have an Apple device. That is very critical piece of information to know in deciding whether or not the app idea is feasible in terms of making a profit and in deciding whether to proceed with app development.
The final step would be to estimate how many of these prospects would actually buy the app and for how much, but we will get back to that later.
First, let's reiterate that all it took to come up with that number was a little thought and five minutes of Internet research. Using this approach may have a significant margin of error, but it is still infinitely better than just making wild guesses. While this is a simple example for illustration, the larger point is always true. Be innovative and motivated and you can probably figure out a lot more about your market than you thought you could. Make some effort to understand the numbers.
Would they find the app helpful or useful?
Would they buy the app?
Are there missing features they would find useful?
Another important facet of market research is to explore any and all existing apps that do similar things. However, just because there is an existing app doesn't mean you shouldn't proceed. The question is; can your app compete? Perhaps the other app is flawed or doesn't work right. Perhaps your app has features or advantages over an existing app. Buy, review, and analyze apps that do any kind of similar function. For example, maybe there are no other fishing condition apps, but there is an app that reports skiing conditions in New England. How does that work and how well is it selling?
Knowing the marketplace gives you a better chance of success, especially with a concerted effort to understand what your competition is doing wrong and what they are doing right.
The final step before sketching out the functional app concept is making sure the app is doable and does it make sense technologically. In other words, does it make financial sense and can it be done with current technology and methods?
The market research really comes in handy when making the financial analysis. Now you can at least make an educated guess as to how many apps you might sell over the next 1-2 years (which is generous for an app lifecycle). That, in turn, gives you a clue as to what price you need to sell the app in order to see a return. The other part of that return equation is the cost. Don't forget to consider sustaining costs as well as the development costs. You can keep sustaining costs very low, but if you market the app there are bound to be some expenses like web hosting and advertising. Of course, the more you plan to do after development in terms of marketing and support, the higher the sustaining expenses will be.
Is it feasible for the Wichita fisherman to make a small profit from his app idea? It could be calculated from a few different perspectives or scenarios by plugging in some different possibilities. Remember, the App Store will take a 30% cut of sales, so you will only realize 70% of the price in revenue.
For example, assume over the next two years 25% of the prospects (people in the Wichita area who like to fish and own an iPhone or iPad) buy the app for $4.99. Development costs are estimated at $3000 and sustaining costs are estimated at $1000.
Using these numbers, Fishing Wichita would end up almost $2000 in the red. It is hard to see any scenario with costs in this ballpark where the app could make a profit at $4.99, so that price is just not feasible. Since numbers like development costs and price are uncertain, it is wise to explore other scenarios.
The price of $9.99 would likely still be a great value for people who regularly fish in the Wichita area, so it is assumed the higher price would not impact sales significantly, but the percentage of prospects is lowered to 20%. At $9.99, however, the app is still not making a profit if the app costs $4000 to develop. One concern is that if the price goes much higher it could significantly impact sales. The only chance might be to be lower the estimated development costs.
If the development costs are lowered to $3000 (i.e. $2000 development + $1000 sustaining) then a price of $9.99 makes the project more financially feasible. With the right marketing approach, a price point of $11.99 or $14.99 would provide an opportunity for profit, and these prices would likely not be an obstacle for people who fish and have iPhones – if it provides a service they want.
Again, while the example is simple, the point is that with a little research and exploratory calculations you can get a much better feel for where you stand in terms of prospects, price point, revenue, and profits than if you just guessed. This insight will be important as you start talking with developers to create the app and you understand how different development costs will impact the project financially.
While exploring financial feasibility, it is worth noting that there are also other ways to profit from apps besides selling them. You can incorporate ads into the app, for example. There are networks like AdMob, AdModa, BuzzCity, and iAd who sell and manage ad space for apps, and most programmers can easily accommodate these services in development.
You can also find sponsors who may help finance the app or promote the app. Returning to our fishing app example, a sporting goods store may invest in the app if their store is promoted through the app. Affiliates can promote the app by specials or bundling. An example of this would be getting the app when a customer buys a particular model of fishing reel.
After the financial evaluations there may be some technical questions to answer as well. After all, not everything is possible even in our current technology-driven world.
For example, you might consider creating an app for making reservations at restaurants in your city. It would be an easy sell to people who enjoy fine dining, but there is one problem. After a little investigation you learn that very few restaurants have the capability to make electronic reservations. At this point it is simply not a feasible undertaking because the technical capability is not there.
It is better to discover these things before investing significant time and money into a project that isn't possible.
You might not be able to find definitive answers to every technical question, but if you do your homework you will at least be able to intelligently discuss technical concerns with the programmer selected hire to make sure they can be resolved before proceeding with the project.
Let's go back to the Fishing Wichita app. There would certainly be a technical concern in being able to gather the information from various sites automatically and without any manual intervention. Conditions for most area lakes and rivers are posted as text on various websites such as the National Weather Service websites or State/National Park websites. But it is unclear how that can be retrieved or used for the app. While this concern may not be enough to stop the concept process, the issue must be addressed and resolved with you outsourced app developer before proceeding with the project.
Another issue related to feasibility is considering if a mobile device app is more appropriate than a web app. For a fishing app like our example, people might often want to use it on the go and when they do not have internet access, therefore, a device app seems most appropriate. However, in some cases a web app that they can run on-line with PCs or smart devices might work just as well. Since a web app would be simpler and less expensive to develop, it might be preferable if internet access is available.
Once you have covered preliminary design concerns like those discussed here (and others that are specific to your situation), you are ready to move on to the concept design.


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The Lively Arts will present a Q&A talk-back session with cast members from the hit Broadway musical Spamalot on Monday, December 3, in the Mezzanine Lobby of Fisher Auditorium following the performance at about 10:20 p.m.
"This is always such a tremendous opportunity for not only the IUP theater students, but any students and others in the community to meet actors from the show, and to ask them questions about the show, careers in music, and music theater in general," said Lively Arts Executive Director Kristen Koehler.
The actors participating are Kasidy Devlin, Robin; Adam Grabau, Lancelot; Richard LaFleur, Historian/Others; Amy Laviolette, Ensemble; and Stephanie Wasser, Ensemble. Each brings a wealth of talent and experience that they're willing to share.
For more information, visit the Lively Arts or call 724-357-2787 (ARTS). To buy tickets to Spamalot, visit the Lively Arts website, call 724-357-1313, or visit the IUP Performing Arts Center Box Office between noon and 5:00 p.m. M–F to purchase in person and save the $3 ticket fee (except day of show).


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Contested Histories Onsite
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A collection of key readings in the field of history, heritage and memory.
Historical Justice and Memory
By Klaus Neumann & Janna Thompson (Eds.) • 2015
Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice—acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs—as one of the most significant moral and social developments of our times. Such historic wrongs include acts of genocide, slavery, systems of apartheid, the systematic persecution of presumed enemies of the state, colonialism, and the oppression of or discrimination against ethnic or religious minorities. Read More
Post-Communist Poland
Contested Pasts and Future Identities
By Ewa Ochman • 2013
Anti-Semitism #125 Communism
The book explores the reinterpretations of Poland's past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy. Read More
How is Historical Knowledge Recognized?
By Ernest Wamba-Dia-Wamba • 2008
The author discusses the concept of historical memory, what is it and how is it collected, and how historical knowledge plays an integral part in social transformations and developments. Read More
Sorry States
Apologies in International Politics
By Jennifer Lind • 2008
The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful healing effects when they are offered, and poisonous effects when withheld. The author demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and inhibit international reconciliation, by examining the cases of South Korean relations with Japan and of French relations with Germany. Read More
The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory
By James V. Wertsch • 2008
In the article, the author explores the power of narrative and how this connects to collective memory. Read More
Explaining Wartime Rape
By Jonathan Gottschall • 2004
Sexual Violence #224
The article provides a brief overview of the literature on wartime rape in historical and ethnographical societies and a critical analysis of the four leading explanations for its root causes: the feminist theory, the cultural pathology theory, the strategic rape theory, and the biosocial theory. Read More
From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation
By Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov • 2004
While conflict resolution is believed to cause temporary settlements and brief periods of peace in volatile situations, conventional conflict resolution techniques are not capable of building long-term stability. Instead, this book contends, practitioners of conflict resolution need to focus more on reconciliation (the restoration of confidence, friendship, and harmony between rivals) than on mere conflict resolution. Read More
Theorizing Historical Consciousness
By Peter Seixas • 2004
Theorizing Historical Consciousness sets various theoretical approaches to the study of historical consciousness side-by-side, enabling us to chart the future study of how people understand the past. Within this book, the problem of historical consciousness from the disciplinary perspectives of history, historiography, philosophy, collective memory, psychology, and history education, is addressed. Read More
Voices of Collective Remembering
The author outlines a particular version of collective remembering grounded in the use of 'textual resources', especially narratives. This takes him into the special properties of narrative that shape this process and into the issues of how these textual resources are produced and consumed. Wertsch brings these general ideas to life by examining the rapid, massive transformation of collective memory during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet Russia. Read More
Myths and Memories of the Nation
By Anthony D. Smith • 1999
Myths and Memories of the Nation explores the roots of nationalism by examining the myths, symbols and memories of the nation through a 'ethno-symbolic' approach. The book reveals the continuing power of myth and memory to mobilise, define and shape people and their destinies, examines the variety and durability of ethnic attachments and national identities, and assesses the contemporary revival of ethnic conflicts and nationalism. Read More
From the Ruins of Colonialism
History as Social Memory
By Chris Healy • 1997
The book focuses on investigating social and collective memory in the framework of Australian national identity. Healy Identifies problematic instances of white and black histories through James Cook, the British navigator. In examining the ways in which memories and histories were installed during and after the nineteenth century, Healy draws on a good deal of recent research, notably the work of Tom Griffiths. Read More
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haven't heard this madvillain track in a while. cheers. 4:30 and i'm britain's most blunted.
no way, which parts? business or pleasure? try the fish and chips?
bizarre. worth it? i've never been to inverness.
It was my grant aunt's 100th birthday, and I got to eat haggis.....which I LOVE!!
also never tried haggis. you an ex-pat? this tune is rad.
who was that with the background music? you said the name but i have cloth for ears.
I was born in Eastbourne, but grew up in the States... the beatmaker we were talking about is Will C. - LOOK HM UP, amazing stuff!
Thanks for tuning in Jonathan!! Sleep well!
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DAMN, sooo many great 90's gems that I've forgotten about, thank you guys! Big ups!!!
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 "The Visitor" and "Hippocratic Oath"
Dad? I mean… son?
An older Jake Sisko receives a visit from a fan of his writing in the middle of the night. She's curious about his writings and why he didn't write more. Jake agrees to tell his story. It turns out that on DS9, there was an accident that transported Captain Sisko into some kind of time-locked dimension, keeping him connected to Jake but also making it impossible for him to escape. The younger Jake became obsessed with trying to rescue his father, ultimately losing his wife and his writing career in pursuit of finding a way to get his father back. Jake has seemingly figured out what's happening with his father–he himself is acting as a kind of tether keeping Captain Sisko bouncing around in the time thingy. To fix it, Jake has taken a lethal dose of a drug, freeing his father, but only after informing him that he's going to be transported back to the moment of the incident and needs to avoid the accident that began the whole thing. Captain Sisko, back to the "present," rescues himself and his son from the tragic accident, freeing them both to pursue a life that they missed in an alternate realm of possibility.
Here we have the kind of emotional storytelling that made TNG so spectacular at its best. There is tragedy here on a grand scale–we feel immense loss throughout the episode, and even at the end, when everything turns out well, we still feel the tragedy of the whole of the "other Jake's" life. Because really, "other Jake" is truly dead, as Star Trek works its multiverse. It is haunting and beautiful. Yes, you know as the viewer all along there will be resolution, but that doesn't take the power away from the narrative.
Grade: A "Hauntingly beautiful."
Wife's Grade and Comment: A- "It was quite good acting with a compelling story, but the thunderstorm visitor felt a little contrived."
On DS9, Worf tries to impose his own way of rule of law on Odo, which leads to Odo losing a valuable lead in an investigation. The bulk of the plot, though, is O'Brien and Bashir stranded on a planet with a bunch of Jem'Hadar. One of the Jem'Hadar appears to be immune to the drug the Changelings use to enslave them, and Bashir tries to work on a cure. His efforts ultimately lead him to discovering that the man is immune not due to some built up immunity or anything he can do; rather, it was something genetically unique to him. Bashir can't save the others, and O'Brien attempts to bust them both out of the planet, much to Bashir's chagrin as he worked on trying to find a cure. They escape, but Bashir is displeased with O'Brien's attempts to escape, feeling his own commitment to helping others was more important.
Bashir and O'Brien will need some patching up after this one. I thought it was a great character piece for the four primary movers- Bashir, O'Brien, Worf, and Odo. It showed how different Odo and Worf are regarding their mindset when it comes to security. It also helped establish Bashir as more than simple comic relief. The main plot is brutal, too- the whole time I thought there'd be some breakthrough and we'd start seeing Jem'Hadar getting cured, but once again they baffle attempts to change them. It's a kind of nature vs. nurture playing out all over again, and it is a fascinating way to deal with a whole people group.
This episode is one that is part of what I think may be a larger problem with DS9, though–there are a lot of big idea episodes with far-reaching implications that don't seem to keep having an impact beyond the episode itself. Time will tell if anything from this episode will reverberate beyond its 45-minute confines.
Grade: A- "A strong central plot coupled with great character development makes for a great episode."
Wife's Grade and Comment: A- "I thought it was really interesting and now I want to know more about how the Jem Hadar are impacted by their mind control drug."
Posted in Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, Television
Tagged Captain Sisko, Chief O'Brien, Dr. Bashir, Eclectic Theist, Hippocractic Oath, Jake Sisko, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, Star Trek: DS9, The Jem'Hadar, The Visitor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4 "Way of the Warrior"
Boom. There goes our budget for this season.
"Way of the Warrior"
On DS9, the crew trains for the possibility of Changelings coming to attack. Meanwhile, a huge Klingon fleet shows up, much to the chagrin of, well, everybody. They begin causing trouble on the station, causing Starfleet to send Worf to try to act as a kind of liaison. Worf discovers the Klingon fleet is planning to launch an attack on the Cardassians, allegedly because they suspect Cardassia has been taken over by Changelings. Worf lets Sisko know, and the latter takes the Defiant into Cardassian space to warn them. They're too late, but manage to rescue Dukat and the Council. The Klingons have withdrawn from the Alliance with the Federation, thus showing that they have once more embarked on an era of conquest. Sisko et al. return to DS9, and after much combat, they manage to fight of the Klingons, who leave only after many threats.
Uh… what? I mean this was a cool two-parter in that it had a whole lot happen, but it was incredibly implausible all throughout. You're telling me the Klingons would suddenly go off the deep end, withdraw from a lengthy and seemingly awesome alliance with the Federation, and start going and killing stuff without any reasonable evidence? I just don't buy it at all. I mean, even if we buy the idea that the Klingons are almost entirely bloodthirsty crazies, they still have demonstrated that they will listen to reason and do not operate completely without reason. This undercuts the whole premise that we're supposed to buy into for this episode and makes it difficult to take it seriously overall.
Does the episode have great action? Yes, it certainly does. But too much happens too quickly to be believable.
Grade: C "What the hell just happened?"
Wife's Grade and Comment: C "Great Klingon action, but totally unbelievable."
Tagged Captain Sisko, Eclectic Theist, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, Star Trek: DS9, Way of the Warrior, Worf
Presidential Biographies: John Quincy Adams #6
My quest to read (at least) one biography per President continues with John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States. The biography I chose with my selection process (reading reviews online and utilizing and this website- My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies), I picked
Here, I'll offer my thoughts on that biography, and proceed to the DEFINITIVE RANKING OF PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul C. Nagel
John Quincy Adams – Lived 1767-1848 ; President from 1825-1829
John Quincy Adams is often seen a bit enigmatically. He doesn't have the same resume as the other early Presidents, it seems, nor does he have a long list of sterling accomplishments to solidify his legacy. Yet what I discovered when reading this biography by Paul C. Nagel is that appearances, as always, are not as they seem. John Quincy Adams (hereafter JQA) was a phenomenally interesting person, and a truly effective person of state, if not the flashiest President of his time.
Most obviously, JQA was the son of President John Adams. He greatly admired his father, though as I observed in the look at John Adams, his father was something of an absentee father. Some of the personality traits of the father passed to the son, and at times JQA seemed aloof and uncaring of the problems of even those close to him. One example is that when he was engaged to his wife, Louisa, he wrote urging her to break off the engagement if she felt it would be better for her. I suspect that Louisa did not take the letter as kindly as it may have been intended. In any case, even in his early life, he traveled to Europe to study abroad. Later, he became the United States Foreign Minister to Russia. He was supremely successful in this role and Louisa certainly contributed to some of this success. One example of the difficulty facing him in this role would be to look at the budget. The French Minister to Russia had a budget of about 300,000 per annum, while JQA's own budget was $9,000. Despite this, JQA formed close ties with the Czar and managed to leverage this advantage for the sake of the young United States.
Throughout his period as Foreign Minister and for much of his life, JQA struggled financially, unable to ever seem to stay out of debt. Late in his life, he allowed his surviving son, Charles Francis Adams, to take over his finances. However, JQA never seemed to be comfortable with his financial situation, and this serves as one example of his overarching personality trait of being quite ambitious. He longed to be likened to Cicero or Aristotle and counted among the greatest minds of all time. Yet, he constantly felt frustrated at his own perceived lack of ability and knowledge. Ironically, late in life he complained that his diary would never be seen as a great work of humankind, yet his journals have survived largely intact to become one of the most important early records of the United States. His ambition was perhaps his greatest trait and flaw, as it both encouraged him in endeavors at which he would succeed and led him to be somewhat vindictive and uncooperative in the political sphere.
I already noted his success in Russia, but JQA also negotiated peace with Britain after the War of 1812, settled disputes over borders both north and south, drafted the Monroe Doctrine which would, obviously, get credited to Monroe, and was overall a complete success as Secretary of State and diplomat. His foreign policy was decidedly in line with republican (not to be confused with Republican) ideals of the time, pushing policies that attempted to expand the borders and influence of the United States while also showing a commitment to independence and individualism. It was a tough balance, and speaking of policy in such general terms doesn't seem wholly accurate or decisive. Moreover, whether one agrees with the Monroe Doctrine and its broader ramifications or not, it is clear that JQA was highly influential on the shaping of US foreign policy.
As President, JQA faced vigorous opposition of his embittered political opponents. He had big ideas, including trying to expand on both the arts and various areas of learning at the Federal level and encouraging spending in various areas. But again and again his opponents in Congress thwarted him. Frankly, the part of the biography covering JQA's Presidency was perhaps the least interesting, if only because it was filled with the kind of seeming obstructionism that often has played into current politics as well.
After he was President, JQA continued to make huge impacts on public policy. He argued in favor of the Africans in the Amistad case and powerfully condemned his contemporaries on the issue of slavery. Interestingly, Nagel argues that JQA's initial movements towards abolitionism may have been, in part, influenced by the fact that so many of his opponents while he was in the White House were in favor of slavery. However, it would be tough to fully buy into that argument as his family didn't own slaves and had other abolitionists therein. It seems more likely to me that JQA simply bought more into abolitionism as he grew older. Regardless of his motivations, he became a powerful spokesperson for abolitionism as a Representative from the state of Massachusetts. His most cogent arguments included a frank mockery of the notion that the U.S. could affirm that all people are created equal while also holding slaves. He continued his push to attack slavery in sidelong fashion throughout the rest of his life.
The sidelong approach to slavery was seen, in part, by his constant arguments for the right to petition. He continued to defend the right of people to petition the government, which had been scaled back at least in part alongside a gag order on discussing slavery. That is, the U.S. Congress had effectively issued a blanket gag order on slavery such that it could not be directly disputed or debated. Abolitionists constantly wished to petition the government, but they were not allowed to do so. JQA took up the mantel of arguing in favor of the right to petition, despite its notorious unpopularity at the time. Eventually, he managed to help get the gag order removed, setting the stage for broader debate and eventual emancipation (not without the Civil War, of course).
I've not had a President as difficult to rank as John Quincy Adams yet. That's not saying much because I'm only at #6, but I always assumed John Quincy Adams was kind of a footnote to history. Moreover, after reading the biography it seems his Presidency may not have been very effective, but that was hardly his own fault. He was a phenomenally important foreign minister and congressman before and after his Presidency, respectively. It's very tough to judge him so far as the definitive list goes, but I'll have to try. Whatever one's view of his Presidency, he was a fascinating, amazing public figure who is well worth studying.
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life is a fantastic biography of a fascinating person. I truly had no idea John Quincy Adams was interesting at all and frankly figured he'd be nowhere near as interesting as his father or any of the other early Presidents. However, reading this biography completely changed my view of this complex person.
THE DEFINITIVE RANKING OF PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES*
My criteria for ranking the Presidents will be somewhat arbitrary. Random things I've thought of so far is whether they improved our infrastructure, how Presidential they acted/looked, whether they got us into any silly wars, and the like. As you can see, these criteria are somewhat… subjective. So you'll probably end up disagreeing with me. I look forward to your comments!
1. George Washington (1st President- original ranking- #1): Washington basically defined the office of the President for all who followed him. It was left intentionally vague by the framers, so he had to work within those strictures while trying to expand on them. Not easy, but he seems to have done it rather ably, refusing to become a major partisan while still demanding certain powers of the Executive Branch. During his Presidency the national bank was created, the country's credit recovered, massive trade booms occurred, the Mississippi was opened for exploration, and beneficial partnerships with other countries were being formed. On the other hand, during his Presidency and life generally, slavery was tolerated and even expanded, Native Americans were brutalized, and throughout it all Washington either participated directly or turned his face the other way. It is difficult to underestimate the impact of Washington on the office of the President. On the other hand, we ought not to lionize him or see him as perfection itself.
2. Thomas Jefferson (3rd President- original ranking- #2): Jefferson's accomplishments as President, Secretary of State, and Revolutionary cannot be understated. He deftly handled relationships with such countries as France and Spain, while also helping to secure borders of the United States for decades to come. One of the biggest splashes of his Presidency was the Louisiana Purchase, which vastly increased the size of the country. However, Jefferson was also a blatant womanizer, a slave owner who pandered to abolitionist leanings while owning slaves, was clearly racist, and encouraged the destruction of Native groups living on the land that was "purchased" from Napoleon. Back on the positive side, he advocated for religious tolerance–even of other faiths–despite his Deistic leanings. His diplomatic skill is beyond dispute. He actively sought compromise and valued even minority opinions–lessons we need to re-learn now. The legacy he left would impact almost every aspect of the country going forward, for good or ill. It is difficult to fully analyze such a complex, contradictory man.
3. James Madison (4th President- original ranking- #3): Called the "Father of the Constitution," Madison's impact is perhaps most important for what he did prior to becoming President. The sheer amount of work he did to get the Constitution written, improve upon it, amend it, and put it to vote is astonishing. As President, perhaps the most important event in his career was the War of 1812, itself a possible foreshadowing of the many and sundry conflicts the United States has entered with tenuous justification since. Though often disastrous, the War did lead to, somewhat paradoxically, better relations between the United States and Britain going forward. Perhaps it is best said that Madison was the consummate compromiser, for good or ill. As with many others, his owning of slaves directly conflicted with his affirmation of the idea that all people are created equal.
4. John Quincy Adams (6th President – original ranking #4): It would be easy to argue that John Quincy Adams was a more successful member of Congress and Foreign Minister than he was a President, and I would concede that argument. So yes, I absolutely tilted his score based on his achievements outside of the Presidency, but that's because they were such monumental and important achievements it is tough to mark him down due to the opposition his Presidency received. What were those achievements? He negotiated the end of the War of 1812, drafted the Monroe Doctrine, helped shape our country through treaties regarding borders along Canada, Florida, Texas, and California, successfully regained the right of petition for the American people, and stood up against slavery in the courts–specifically with the Amistad case. Yeah, I think that's worth a significant bump on this list.
5. James Monroe (5th President – original ranking- #4): Monroe was a master of foreign policy, and his Presidency and political career reflected that. Certainly left his mark on U.S. policy in ways that we still feel regarding Europe and South America in particular. Probably to be considered a "moderate" regarding relations with Native Americans and for his stance on slavery, though his positions were still bigoted and rather arrogant regarding both groups of people. Little by way of scandal (see Jefferson for an early example of some rather scandalous things going on with Presidents), so that makes him more Presidential than some. Also, he appeared to be a loving husband and father, overall.
6. John Adams (2nd President- original ranking- #2): There's something to be said for the fact that Adams basically held the line against all the forces threatening to either break the United States back apart or subsume it under an "alliance" that would turn it into a kind of vassal state. Adams did that, and he managed to keep the US out of another war in its infancy. The political treatises Adams wrote went on to define the constitutions of many states and help clarify the relationship between the state and federal government. Adams did, however, fail to hold his own political party together, whether through inaction or simply not being charismatic enough or willing enough to step into the leadership role he needed to take. Moreover, Adams was an absentee (at best) father and husband.
*Rankings not definitive
Posted in Books, History, Presidential Biographies
Tagged Eclectic Theist, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams A Public Life A Private Life, Paul C. Nagel, President, President John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, Presidential Biographies
March 6, 2018 by J.W. Wartick
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3 "The Adversary"
That's not creepy at all.
Commander Sisko is promoted to Captain Sisko (finally). A Starfleet ambassador tells him some uprising might cause a war and asks him to intervene. On the way, it becomes clear, however, that the Defiant has been tampered with and indeed may itself be the cause of rising tension. The ambassador was actually a Changeling trying to help destabilize the Alpha Quadrant, and Odo defeats him, but not before the Changeling tells him that it's too late because the shapeshifting aliens "are everywhere."
Here's a good way to end a season: with a warning that I as a viewer can't tell is accurate or not. Are the Changelings everywhere, or did the foe simply want to take Odo's hope away? Who knows? I guess we'll find out over the course of the next few seasons! I thought it was a pretty awesome way to end Season 3, though.
The episode itself feels pretty straightforward, as the ambassador is quickly revealed to be an enemy. The tension comes from seeing whether the crew can halt the possible coming war in time or not. Also, Sisko is finally promoted to Captain, something that probably should have happened at the discovery of the wormhole (or at least have a captain on station). I mean, he's only in charge of a station guarding one of the most important finds in history.
There are some plot holes here, though it's hard to tell if they're intentional or not. Are the writers trying to make us wonder about missing plot elements, or could they just not fill in all the gaps in the allotted time? I don't know.
"The Adversary" was a good ending to another solid season of DS9. I look forward to seeing what drama happens next.
Grade: B "Foreboding ending with an action-packed episode. Despite some holes, it felt like a great way to end the season."
Wife's Grade and Comment: A "I thought it was a really compelling storyline, and now I'm just wondering who else is a changeling."
Tagged Captain Sisko, Changelings, Odo, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, Star Trek: DS9, The Adversary, The Dominion


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Wylfa
Facing a hat-trick of terrible UK energy policy decisions . Pulling plug on Swansea barrage would avoid adding to Hinkley Point and Wylfa mistakes. Hitachi wants to build a £16bn nuclear power station at Wyfla in north Wales.
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Fylde MP Mark Menzies is lobbying for nuclear fuel for a proposed new power station in Wales to be made in his constituency. Japanese firm Hitachi is currently leading on the project for two reactors at the Wylfa Newydd power station project which is set to cost around £12-14bn. It is looking for additional partners to join the Horizon Nuclear Power consortium to drive the scheme forward and to take some of the funding burden. Horizon has handed in a 41,000-page dossier to the Planning Inspectorate for a development consent order and aims to complete the advanced boiling water reactors in the mid 2020s. Fylde MP Mark Menzies has been told his representations to ensure nuclear fuel made at Springfields at Salwick can be provided for a new nuclear power plant on Anglesey will be heard.
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Free speech or knowing misrepresentation?
America's Department of Justice hopes to prove that something that in the past may have been seen as merely unfair is also a crime
by T.E. | NEW YORK
IT IS beyond argument that ratings agencies did a horrendous job evaluating mortgage-tied securities before the financial crisis hit. Whether that failure was a crime has long been a matter of debate, particularly because no other entity—including America's federal regulators—did any better.
On February 5th the Department of Justice (DoJ) weighed in, filing a complaint against Standard & Poor's (S&P) in a Los Angeles federal court. The complaint charges that the ratings agency "limited, adjusted and delayed updates to the rating criteria and analytical models" needed to evaluate risk, and, based on information from an unnamed executive, did so deliberately to protect its business.
News of the pending litigation had already prompted a dramatic plunge in the share price of S&P's parent, McGraw Hill, on February 4th. With the actual filing, its shares fell again. Moody's, the other leading ratings agency, has also seen its share price collapse.
It is unusual for such an important financial case to be filed in Los Angeles. The suit cites the Western Federal Corporate Credit Union (WesCorp), a financial firm based in Los Angeles county that collapsed under the weight of losses from mortgage-backed securities. But the DoJ may have also been hunting for a favourable jurisdiction. Losses from these sorts of bonds were spread across America. The issuing banks, ratings agencies and various witnesses are all based in New York, where such litigation is usually filed.
Since the crisis, 41 legal actions targeting S&P have been dropped or dismissed. The company and other ratings agencies have prevailed by asserting their rights under the first amendment of the constitution, which states that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech".
So the DoJ is taking a new approach, accusing the firm of knowing misrepresentation, which is not covered by the first amendment. Similar cases have failed, but the DoJ's complaint is based on a law passed in 1989 in response to the savings-and-loans crisis. Called the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, it has never been used in this sort of case.
S&P says it will mount a defence. It will certainly present evidence that its performance during the crisis was consistent with that of others trying to determine the validity of the troubled credits, and that it operated in good faith. As the complaint makes clear, the ratings in question were issued after intense arguments within S&P about how to evaluate complex new securities—and about how to expand the business without undermining the quality of opinions.
The firm is likely to argue that the decision-making process was inherently subjective rather than intentionally fraudulent. Implicit in this defence is the notion that the decision to invest is ultimately the responsibility of the buyer—particularly if the buyer is large, established and operating under the scrutiny of federal regulators, as was WesCorp.
In announcing the case, Eric Holder, America's attorney general, said that S&P had misrepresented the credit risk of the securities it rated and pretended to act objectively. "S&P's desire for increased revenue and market share," Mr Holder asserted, led it to favour the interests of investment banks issuing securities over those of investors. In the past such activity may have been seen as merely unfair, and commercially suicidal in the long run. Mr Holder hopes to establish it as a crime.
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