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1992 Presidential Elections - History
1992 Elections Bush vs Clinton
As the election campaign of 1992 neared, the incumbent President, George Bush, held a commanding lead in the polls, over any and all potential rivals. Bush had been the Commander-In-Chief presiding over the most decisive American military victory since World War II, the Gulf War. He had also directed American Foreign Policy as the Soviets Union fell apart. As a result, most of the leading Democratic candidates declined to run.
The Democrats held a long primary process. At the close of the primary process, Bill Clinton, the sitting governor of Arkansas, emerged as the leading Democratic presidential candidate. Clinton was favored, despite charges, he dodged the draft and was unfaithful to his wife. His wife, Hilary Rodham Clinton stood by him, throughout the barrage of allegations. As a result, Clinton was able to secure and obtain the presidential nomination on the first ballot at the Democratic Convention.
From the time of the Democratic convention, Governor Clinton held a commanding lead in the polls over President Bush. The troubled economy hobbled Bush's campaign. The campaign revolved primarily around economic issues. The ending of the cold war, for which Republicans took credit, perversely worked against them. No longer could they claim superiority by pushing Americans to question: "Do you trust the Democrats to stand up to the Russians?"
The third-party candidacy of Ross Perot was a genuine wild card in the campaign. Perot, a self-made billionaire, ran a one-issue campaign; deficit reduction. Early polls showed Perot as a leading candidate. However, his decision to first withdraw from the campaign and then reenter it, caused him to lose much of his early support.
Bush ran a rather listless campaign that failed to connect with voters. He seemed utterly disconnected from the needs of the average American.
Clinton's image of youth convinced enough Americans looking for change to vote for him. For the first time in a decade, many voted for a Democrat, sealing Clintonís victory.
State results in 1992
Electoral Results in 1992
Alabama Bill Clinton 690,080 40.9 George Bush 804,283 47.6
Alaska Bill Clinton 78,294 30.3 George Bush 102,000 39.5
Arizona Bill Clinton 543,050 36.5 George Bush 572,086 38.5
Arkansas Bill Clinton 505,823 53.2 George Bush 337,324 35.5
California Bill Clinton 5,121,325 46.0 George Bush 3,630,574 32.6
Colorado Bill Clinton 629,681 40.1 George Bush 562,850 35.9
Connecticut Bill Clinton 682,318 42.2 George Bush 578,313 35.8
Delaware Bill Clinton 126,054 43.5 George Bush 102,313 35.3
Florida Bill Clinton 2,072,698 39.0 George Bush 2,173,310 40.9
Georgia Bill Clinton 1,008,966 43.5 George Bush 995,252 42.9
Hawaii Bill Clinton 179,310 48.1 George Bush 136,822 36.7
Idaho Bill Clinton 137,013 28.4 George Bush 202,645 42.0
Illinois Bill Clinton 2,453,350 48.6 George Bush 1,734,096 34.3
Indiana Bill Clinton 848,420 36.8 George Bush 989,375 42.9
Iowa Bill Clinton 586,353 43.3 George Bush 504,891 37.3
Kansas Bill Clinton 390,434 33.7 George Bush 449,951 38.9
Kentucky Bill Clinton 665,104 44.6 George Bush 617,178 41.3
Louisiana Bill Clinton 815,971 45.6 George Bush 733,386 41.0
Maine Bill Clinton 263,420 38.8 George Bush 206,504 30.4
Maryland Bill Clinton 988,571 49.8 George Bush 707,094 35.6
Massachusetts Bill Clinton 1,318,662 47.5 George Bush 805,049 29.0
Michigan Bill Clinton 1,871,182 43.8 George Bush 1,554,940 36.4
Minnesota Bill Clinton 1,020,997 43.5 George Bush 747,841 31.9
Mississippi Bill Clinton 400,258 40.8 George Bush 487,793 49,7
Missouri Bill Clinton 1,053,873 44.1 George Bush 811,159 33.9
Montana Bill Clinton 154,507 37.6 George Bush 144,207 35.1
Nebraska Bill Clinton 216,864 29.4 George Bush 343,678 46.6
Nevada Bill Clinton 189,148 37.4 George Bush 175,828 34.7
Now Hampshire Bill Clinton 209,040 38.9 George Bush 202,484 37.6
New Jersey Bill Clinton 1,436,206 43.0 George Bush 1,356,865 40.6
New Mexico Bill Clinton 261,617 45.9 George Bush 212,824 37.3
New York Bill Clinton 3,444,450 49.7 George Bush 2,346,649 33.9
North Carolina Bill Clinton 1,114,042 42.7 George Bush 1,134,661 43.4
North Dakota Bill Clinton 99,168 32.2 George Bush 136,244 44.2
Ohio Bill Clinton 1,984,942 40.2 George Bush 1,894,310 38.3
Oklahoma Bill Clinton 473,066 34.0 George Bush 592,929 42.6
Oregon Bill Clinton 621,314 42.5 George Bush 475,757 32.5
Pennsylvania Bill Clinton 2,239,164 45.1 George Bush 1,791,841 36.1
Rhode Island Bill Clinton 213,299 47.0 George Bush 131,601 29.0
South Carolina Bill Clinton 479,514 39.9 George Bush 577,507 48.0
South Dakota Bill Clinton 124,888 37.1 George Bush 136,718 40.7
Tennessee Bill Clinton 933,521 47.1 George Bush 841,300 42.4
Texas Bill Clinton 2,281,815 37.1 George Bush 2,496,071 40.6
Utah Bill Clinton 183,429 24.7 George Bush 322,632 43.4
Vermont Bill Clinton 133,592 46.1 George Bush 88,122 30.4
Virginia Bill Clinton 1,038,650 40.6 George Bush 1,150,517 45.0
Washington Bill Clinton 993,037 43.4 George Bush 731,234 32.0
West Virginia Bill Clinton 331,001 48.4 George Bush 241,974 35.4
Wisconsin Bill Clinton 1,041,066 41.1 George Bush 930,855 36.8
Wyoming Bill Clinton 68,160 34.0 George Bush 79,347 39.6
Dist. of Col. Bill Clinton 192,619 84.6 George Bush 20,698 9.1
1992 Kenyan general election
General elections were held in Kenya on 29 December 1992. Voters elected the President, and members of the National Assembly. They were the first multi-party general elections in Kenya since independence and the first to feature a direct vote for the President, who had, in 1964, been elected by the National Assembly, and, following a 1969 constitutional amendment, been automatically declared winner of non-held popular elections, held alongside parliamentary elections, in 1969, 1974, 1979, 1983, and 1988.
The results were marred by allegations of large-scale intimidation of opponents, harassment of election officials, and ballot-box stuffing, as well as targeted ethnic violence in the Rift Valley Province. Human Rights Watch accused several prominent Kenyan politicians, including President Daniel arap Moi and then-VP George Saitoti of inciting and co-ordinating the violence. [1] Voter turnout was 69.4%. [2] [3]
1992 United States presidential election in Utah [3]
Electoral votes
Republican George H. W. Bush 322,332 43.36% 5
Independent Ross Perot 203,400 27.34% 0
Democratic Bill Clinton 183,429 24.65% 0
Populist James "Bo" Gritz 28,602 3.84% 0
Libertarian Andre Marrou 1,900 0.26% 0
Natural Law Dr. John Hagelin 1,319 0.18% 0
Democrats for Economic Recovery Lyndon LaRouche 1,089 0.15% 0
New Alliance Lenora Fulani 414 0.06% 0
Taxpayers' Howard Phillips 393 0.05% 0
American Feimer Smith 292 0.04% 0
Socialist Workers James Warren 270 0.04% 0
Independent/Peace and Freedom Party Ron Daniels 177 0.02% 0
Socialist J. Quinn Brisben 151 0.02% 0
Totals - 100.00% 5
Voter turnout (Voting age population)
Results by county Edit
George Herbert Walker Bush
Henry Ross Perot
James "Bo" Gritz [4]
Various candidates [4]
Other parties
Margin [b]
Beaver 1,040 49.27% 668 31.64% 330 15.63% 52 2.46% 21 0.99% 372 [c] 17.62% 2,111
Box Elder 7,712 49.58% 2,186 14.05% 4,507 28.97% 1,013 6.51% 137 0.88% 3,205 20.60% 15,555
Cache 15,971 51.98% 4,973 16.19% 8,032 26.14% 1,511 4.92% 238 0.77% 7,939 25.84% 30,725
Carbon 2,038 23.11% 4,480 50.81% 2,002 22.71% 235 2.67% 62 0.70% -2,442 [c] -27.70% 8,817
Daggett 172 38.91% 122 27.60% 117 26.47% 30 6.79% 1 0.23% 50 [c] 11.31% 442
Davis 39,087 48.05% 14,924 18.35% 24,105 29.63% 2,723 3.35% 510 0.63% 14,982 18.42% 81,350
Duchesne 1,983 43.44% 772 16.91% 1,229 26.92% 537 11.76% 44 0.96% 754 16.52% 4,565
Emery 1,643 36.43% 1,349 29.91% 1,138 25.23% 364 8.07% 16 0.35% 294 [c] 6.52% 4,510
Garfield 1,235 62.28% 309 15.58% 355 17.90% 79 3.98% 5 0.25% 880 44.38% 1,983
Grand 1,100 32.91% 1,160 34.71% 991 29.65% 44 1.32% 47 1.41% -60 [c] -1.80% 3,342
Iron 5,616 59.88% 1,537 16.39% 1,693 18.05% 440 4.69% 92 0.98% 3,923 41.83% 9,378
Juab 1,237 42.73% 823 28.43% 616 21.28% 209 7.22% 10 0.35% 414 [c] 14.30% 2,895
Kane 1,241 57.14% 295 13.58% 534 24.59% 85 3.91% 17 0.78% 707 32.55% 2,172
Millard 2,496 52.33% 742 15.56% 1,064 22.31% 417 8.74% 51 1.07% 1,432 30.02% 4,770
Morgan 1,339 45.54% 520 17.69% 851 28.95% 225 7.65% 5 0.17% 488 16.60% 2,940
Piute 429 56.97% 169 22.44% 146 19.39% 9 1.20% 0 0.00% 260 [c] 34.53% 753
Rich 525 59.93% 154 17.58% 187 21.35% 10 1.14% 0 0.00% 338 38.58% 876
Salt Lake 117,247 36.79% 100,082 31.40% 91,968 28.85% 6,444 2.02% 2,920 0.92% 17,165 [c] 5.39% 318,731
San Juan 2,004 46.23% 1,639 37.81% 576 13.29% 111 2.56% 5 0.12% 365 [c] 8.42% 4,335
Sanpete 2,995 44.80% 1,302 19.48% 1,742 26.06% 575 8.60% 71 1.06% 1,253 18.74% 6,685
Sevier 3,160 50.50% 1,039 16.60% 1,671 26.70% 329 5.26% 59 0.94% 1,489 23.79% 6,258
Summit 3,133 33.33% 3,013 32.06% 3,060 32.56% 128 1.36% 65 0.69% 73 0.78% 9,399
Tooele 3,676 35.79% 3,270 31.84% 3,011 29.32% 224 2.18% 90 0.88% 406 [c] 3.95% 10,271
Uintah 3,505 45.09% 1,374 17.67% 2,250 28.94% 589 7.58% 56 0.72% 1,255 16.14% 7,774
Utah 61,398 56.76% 14,090 13.02% 24,558 22.70% 7,410 6.85% 722 0.67% 36,840 34.05% 108,178
Wasatch 1,822 42.02% 1,042 24.03% 1,234 28.46% 178 4.11% 60 1.38% 588 13.56% 4,336
Washington 11,310 52.66% 3,364 15.66% 4,623 21.53% 2,037 9.49% 142 0.66% 6,687 31.14% 21,476
Wayne 706 57.63% 236 19.27% 251 20.49% 30 2.45% 2 0.16% 455 37.14% 1,225
Weber 26,812 39.30% 17,795 26.09% 20,559 30.14% 2,564 3.76% 486 0.71% 6,253 9.17% 68,216
Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins a plurality of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met in December 1992 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.
All electors from Utah were pledged to and voted for George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle.
H. ROSS PEROT
John Woolley and Gerhard Peters
Typically, incumbent presidents face little opposition in securing renomination, but Bush faced a stiff early challenge from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan. At the Republican National Convention in 1988, Bush had pledged to the delegates that he would resist any tax increases, giving his famous "read my lips" pledge. But in 1990, in an attempt to cope with a soaring budget deficit, Bush reneged on that pledge, earning him the enmity of his conservative supporters and the distrust of many voters who had backed him in 1988. Buchanan led an insurgent campaign against Bush, capturing nearly 37 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary. Despite the challenge, Bush went on to win the Republican nomination, though his candidacy was wounded.
The Democratic race was intense. With Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin running, the major Democratic candidates skipped the Iowa caucuses. The front-runner appeared to be Clinton, but other candidates, in particular former California governor Jerry Brown and former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas, hoped to secure the nomination. Just before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton's campaign was nearly derailed by widespread press coverage of his alleged 12-year affair with an Arkansas woman, Gennifer Flowers. In a subsequent interview watched by millions of viewers on the television news program 60 Minutes, Clinton and his wife admitted to having marital problems. Clinton's popularity soon rebounded, and, though Tsongas won in New Hampshire, Clinton scored a strong second-place showing—a performance for which he labeled himself the "Comeback Kid." Clinton would nearly sweep the Southern primaries held on March 10—the so-called Super Tuesday—and by mid-March Tsongas would withdraw from the contest. Still, Brown continued to challenge Clinton, who had not amassed the requisite number of delegates to secure the Democratic nomination until June 2, when he defeated Brown in California and several other states.
With Clinton suffering from personal scandals and facing a tough primary race and with Bush weakened by a faltering economy, the conditions were ripe for a third-party bid. In February, while a guest on CNN's Larry King Live, billionaire businessman Ross Perot announced that he would run for president if supporters would file petitions enabling him to be on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot initially earned widespread popularity, particularly among voters dissatisfied with traditional party politics. He reached out to both Democrats and Republicans, hiring former operatives from each party to advise his campaign. Polls in May and June showed Perot leading both Clinton and Bush, but in July, with Clinton's support increasing on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Perot unexpectedly dropped from the race.
Clinton chose as his running mate Tennessee Sen. Al Gore—a curious choice, as both hailed from the South. But, with Gore's centrist credentials added to those of Clinton's, the move was politically astute, inoculating the Democrats against charges of being tax-and-spend liberals and, in particular, weak on defense (Gore had been one of only 10 Democratic senators to authorize the use of force against Iraq in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War). The campaign seemed likely to be a battle between the Clinton-Gore team and that of Bush and his vice president, Dan Quayle, and Clinton-Gore maintained a sizeable lead over the incumbent ticket. In September, however, Perot returned to the campaign trail and selected former admiral James Stockdale as his vice presidential running mate. Although Perot's support began low—particularly as many former supporters did not warm to his second candidacy—Perot, spending $65 million of his own money and with his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (supported by both Bush and Clinton), his focus on eliminating the country's budget deficit and national debt, and his nontraditional campaign, in which he focused on 30-minute infomercial-style advertisements and appeared on the stump to deliver speeches only rarely, saw his support increase as election day neared.
Clinton, on the strength of his middle-of-the-road approach, his apparent sympathy for the concerns of ordinary Americans (his statement "I feel your pain" became a well-known phrase), and his personal warmth, ultimately was able to defeat Bush and Perot, winning 43 percent of the vote to Bush's 37.4 percent and Perot's 18.9 percent. In the electoral college, Clinton's victory was more dramatic: he captured 370 electoral votes to Bush's 168, thus ending 12 years of Republican control of the presidency.
For the results of the previous election, see United States presidential election of 1988. For the results of the subsequent election, see United States presidential election of 1996.
The 1992 U.S. presidential election saw Democratic Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton defeat incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush and independent Ross Perot. The election was notable for the presence of three major candidates as well as the centrality of economic issues to the campaign.
The 1992 election was the first presidential election since 1968 in which a third party candidate garnered a significant percentage of the popular vote. Although billionaire Texas businessman Ross Perot failed to win any Electoral College votes, his presence had an important effect on the election. For one, Perot's concerns about free trade, federal budget deficits, and the U.S. national debt helped solidify economic issues as one of the primary concerns of the campaign. Moreover, although there remains some debate about Perot's impact on the outcome of the election, most analysts conclude that his presence (Perot won 18.9% of the popular vote) drew support away from incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush (who won 37.5%) and helped swing the election to Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas (43%). The 1992 election was also significant in that it ended twelve years of Republican control of the White House and marked just the fourth time in the twentieth century that a sitting President was denied re-election.
Many observers have blamed Bush's defeat on his reneging on his 1988 campaign pledge to refrain from raising taxes. However, the most important factor in Bush's defeat was discontent with the state of the nation's economy. The sluggish recovery from the 1990-91 recession created an anti-incumbency mood that Bush proved unable to overcome. The importance of economic conditions in the 1992 presidential election was famously summed up by Clinton campaign adviser James Carville's quip that "it's the economy, stupid."
George Bush's failure to address concerns about the nation's economy effectively—particularly when contrasted with Bill Clinton's ability to do so—was exemplified in the following exchange from the second Presidential debate of October 15, 1992. The video also demonstrates the ways in which the federal budget deficit and national debt were important campaign issues—even though these issues were often poorly understood and articulated.
Gene Brown, The 1992 Election (Turtleback Books, 1999).
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, Mad as Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box, 1992 (Warner Books, 1993).
Peter Goldman, Thomas M. DeFrank, Mark Miller, Andrew Murr, and Tom Matthews, Quest for the Presidency 1992 (Texas A&M University Press, 1994).
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Republicans: President Bush ran on his military record and his successful foreign policy while pointing out the Democratic candidate Bill Clinton had burned his draft card for Vietnam, protested the war, and would not be successful in foreign policy. Bush, for the most part, focused on his Democratic rival rather than the independent Ross Perot despite Perot polling higher than him.
Democrats: Bill Clinton ran on a balanced budget and also positioned him as a centrist. He chose Al Gore as his running mate who was seen to be strong on Family Issues. With the economy faltering, Clinton specifically targeted key states and demographics which seemed to aid him.
Independent: Ross Perot, the billionaire, came into the race as the lead candidate. Many disenfranchised Republicans and Southern Democrats liked his approach to the economy and his conservative values. His business sense resonated with many Americans who feared deficit spending and he also argued against NAFTA which he believed to be a terrible trade deal.
1992, Presidential incumbent George H.W. Bush handed over the responsibility of running the nation to the 42 nd president, Bill Clinton. Only 10 times in the countries 52 elections has a presidential candidate beat out an incumbent. George H.W. Bush had served his 4 years after winning in 1988 against Michael Dukakis. While Clinton did not sweep the presidency, he did win by a formidable amount. His charisma, combined with a weak economy led voters against giving Bush a second term.
President Bush's downfall began before he even took office. During his 1988 campaign, his slogan was "Read my lips. NO new taxes." At the time I'm sure he believed that wholeheartedly however as the economy began to fall after nearly a decade of tax cuts under Reagan, Bush was forced to go back on his promise and raise taxes. Taxpayers were outraged that taxes would go up after such a long period of prosperity under Reagan. On top of this, it seemed that just as taxes increased the economy tanked (though Bush was not the cause, but rather the solution here as the economy rose soon after he left office). Usually the President at the time has an easy sweep to take the nomination of his party, but Bush faced some minor struggles in the form of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot (who later ran as a third party candidate).
The Democratic nomination was a sweep for Bill Clinton, winning 3,372 of the 4,276 primary votes. Bill Clinton had everything thing that a party was looking for. About 20 years younger than nearly 70 year old current president, he was a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Yale law school, and a Governor of his home state Arkansas. A strong resume and an over-the-top air of confidence sealed the deal. He ate at fast food restaurants and loved rock and roll Clinton's charisma and connection to the common man helped earn him his place as the Democratic nominee.
The main campaign for the presidency came down between Bush and Clinton (third party candidate Ross Perot did win some of the popular vote but no electoral votes). Statisticians took polls and predicted who would win. Early into the campaign, polls showed Bush and even Perot leading Clinton. However, as the year progressed the economy fell further and further. American's lost hope in their Republican president and turned their support towards Clinton. After a convention speech, his popularity swung from 25% to 55% topping Bush's 35%. Although he faced a variety of character bashes ranging from controversy over dodging the draft to extramarital affairs, he still pulled through to win 32 electoral votes and 43% of the popular vote.
Timeline of U.S. Presidential Elections!
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The Internet's First Election
Written by Ernie Smith on Nov 06, 2020
Hey all, Ernie here with a refresh of a timely article about the internet and presidential elections. The internet has been a deep influence on the 2020 election in stark ways. Given that, looking back at how things started strikes me as important.
Today in Tedium: For the past 24 years, a familiar trend has exposed itself with the turn of every U.S. presidential election cycle: Each one is ever-slightly more defined (heck, even redefined) by technology, particularly online trends that have come along in the three years prior. In 1996, it was a coming-out party for the web. In 2000, the growth of online news began to have an impact on how we researched candidates. In 2004, it was all about Meetup, as well as suddenly prominent individual bloggers like Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, whose dogged work in debunking a questionable report changed the shape of Dan Rather's career. In 2008, fairly new outlets like YouTube and Politico became immensely influential. Twitter was around back then, but it wasn't until 2012 when it came into its own, along with the big data campaign. In 2016, questions emerged after the fact about the influence of Facebook and misinformation. And this year: God, where do we even start? But I'm curious about how online networks affected elections before the internet had such a big impact on them, before cable networks teamed with social networks to promote primary debates. Today's Tedium goes back to the 1992 campaign, in a year when backwards pants, Temple of the Dog, and Ross Perot were still in style. — Ernie @ Tedium
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Five interesting ways technology influenced the 1992 presidential election
Prodigy, the Sears-affiliated early online service that directly competed with AOL for a time, launched a 1992 campaign database for users to track candidates. The effort came about thanks to a collaboration with the League of Women Voters. Even better, Prodigy allowed you to write your representative electronically—well, kinda. "If you want to get your view across and write to your representative, you can write a letter on the computer screen," The Washington Post noted in February of 1992. "Prodigy will print and mail it for a fee of $2.50."
For his 1992 primary campaign, current California Gov. Jerry Brown innovated by using a 1-800 number to solicit donations. Sound kind of quaint? Don't be fooled: This was a Big Deal in 1992, as it hadn't properly been utilized by candidates previously. As the San Francisco Chronicle learned back in 2013, the widely disseminated number, (800) 426-1112, was still active and owned by Brown. But as of 2020, it no longer appears to be.
Jerry Brown also used Compuserve to reach voters, but so, too, did the Lincoln Chafee of the 1992 campaign, former Irvine, California, mayor Larry Agran. Agran, who didn't last beyond New Hampshire, held online Q&ampA sessions on the early online network, with Bloomberg noting that Agran would speak out answers to the online questions out loud, while a transcriptionist would type the answers into the computer.
Usenet! Freaking Usenet! The 1992 campaign was a hot topic on Usenet, the decentralized newsgroup system which is best described to those who never experienced it in person as the Reddit of its day. There were groups for all of the major candidates, as well as ample evidence that people didn't like Bill Clinton even back then, and Ross Perot was a hot topic way back when. (Side note: Many newsgroups from the era are still active, including one for Rush Limbaugh.)
MIT-programmed mailing lists: In 1992, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ran a number of email-driven bots on the campaign92.org domain, allowing users to request position papers for any campaign on the ballot in at least half of U.S. states—which meant Libertarian Party candidate Andre Marrou and Natural Law Party candidate John Hagelin got mailing lists, too. (Not that Hagelin got any respect—the MIT press release at the time called him "Larry.") MIT estimated that the in the days before the 1992 election, it was sending out 2,000 emails a day through the accounts.
"One little-noticed development that illustrates the interactive nature of modern technology is the use of electronic mail. During the general election campaign, the text of all Bill Clinton's speeches as well as his daily schedule, press releases, and position papers were made available through on-line computer services, such as Compuserve and Prodigy."
— Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton's first White House press secretary, discussing in The American Behavioral Scientist, an academic journal, how the Clinton campaign pioneered the use of online communications during the 1992 campaign. Myers characterized the endeavor as democratizing what would have previously been private pool reports. "For the first time, ordinary citizens had an easy way to obtain information that was previously available only to the national press corps," she noted. "Instead of seeing an 8-second sound bite chosen by a network producer, voters could read an entire speech." Clinton later became the first president to launch an official email address—[email protected], of course—and website. (In case you're wondering, George H.W. Bush's use of the internet during the 1992 campaign was much more, uh, conservative—limited, according to the Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics, to emailing policy statements and speech transcripts to bulletin boards.)
Ross Perot (Wikimedia Commons)
How Ross Perot's 1992 campaign helped pave the way for the Internet Archive
Back in 2015, the Internet Archive's Jason Scott uncovered a piece of archival material so obscure that even the organization's founder, Brewster Kahle, didn't remember creating it. The two-hour-long video, previously unmarked and with fewer than ten views at the time Scott discovered it, features an interview with Kahle that dates back to his days as head of WAIS, Inc., an early attempt to create a broad online database.
WAIS, which stands for "wide area information server," was effectively an internet-enabled database technology that allowed for long-distance access of digitally organized content. Initially borne in 1989 from a research project, it became something of a footnote in the history of the internet as a combination of the World Wide Web and search engines like Google took its place. But the thinking in its design was, in some ways, fundamental to the way we use the internet now.
The technology, at the time, was seen as particularly valuable—especially in the days when it wasn't clear how we would eventually access data online. Spun off from the supercomputer firm Thinking Machines in 1992, WAIS, Inc. represented one of the first attempts to make the internet user-friendly.
And, as a company, it got its start thanks to a presidential campaign—Ross Perot's, to be specific. As Kahle states nearly an hour into the video, the campaign basically was the reason why the company was created when it was. In fact, Kahle described it as a "fortuitous event": He knew Perot Systems head Mort Meyerson, who had a sudden need for an information-organization platform for the campaign of the company's namesake.
Brewster Kahle, circa 1992. (via the Internet Archive)
"Basically they've got this organization of people that are in 50 states, that is ad-hoc, that has three months to live, that has to keep in touch with each other," Kahle explained in the clip. "So they have lots of information coming from the field, and they have, they need to collect up in a central place, figure out what it is they're trying to do, what the statements, positions of Ross Perot are, and to disseminate that information out again. Paper, or having people fly back and forth, just wasn't fast enough. Electronics made a whole lot of sense within a campaign structure."
The high-tech approach considered by the Perot campaign makes a lot of sense. As is well-known, Perot (who died last year at the age of 89) had a significant background in technology, as the founder of Electronic Data Systems, a information technology management firm that dates to the 1960s. (He also famously invested in Steve Jobs' NeXT.)
Kahle's system, put together in a couple of days, impressed political strategist and campaign manager Ed Rollins, who quickly put the system to work for the campaign. Soon after, Rollins quit the campaign, and Perot famously suspended his effort before eventually hopping back in. This created a problem for Perot Systems, which had this impressive tool at its disposal that it no longer could use for its intended purpose—organizing news clippings and press contacts.
(If you know where to look on the Internet Archive, you can actually find the proposed statement of work describing this effort to create "an Intelligence System for the Perot Campaign.")
Eventually, with WAIS Inc.'s help, Perot Systems decided to eat its own dog food.
"Basically Perot Systems' point was, 'What could Perot Systems use this for?' in terms of selling it to their customers," Kahle explained. "So we installed it within Perot Systems to help them run their own corporation. And that, now it's November of '92, we've basically installed it and got it running for six months. The pilot groups are using the system for all sorts of information."
Soon enough, WAIS, Inc., off the back of client work like the Perot campaign and other projects, became a successful, profitable business, one that was only slightly ahead of its time—and close enough in conceit to the web that it basically predicted the internet's future.
As the internet started to take a more formalized shape, Kahle and other stakeholders sold WAIS, Inc. to AOL, and with the money earned from the buyout, he and fellow WAIS co-founder Bruce Gilliat started two projects that are still active to this day: Alexa, an online search and analytics tool that crawls the internet's many websites, and the Internet Archive, which keeps the internet's memory safe for generations to come. (They eventually sold Alexa to Amazon for $250 million in stock. It's unrelated, except perhaps in spirit, to Amazon's Echo-driving AI project of the same name.)
As the 1996 election was just ending—with the internet's role in future elections secured, thanks to sites like Clinton/Gore '96 and Dole/Kemp '96, Kahle was getting a start on the project that would become the internet's ultimate scrapbook.
On October 26, 1996, the Internet Archive began in earnest, helping to collect big statements and tiny wrinkles alike on the internet. (Did you know they accept donations?)
That broad swoop of data collection extends to the world of politics. The Archive has in some ways democratized the basic ideas that Kahle's campaign machinery was built upon back in '92. During the 2016 campaign, the nonprofit's Political TV Ad Archive collected every political ad that has run during that campaign season (including links to fact-checks of the ads), along with granular data about each of the presidential debates—the latter with the help of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. What WAIS was doing for Perot's campaign way back when, the Political TV Ad Archive expanded upon.
This time of year in the '92 election, Ross Perot was making some unusual left-field moves in an effort to topple Clinton and Bush–memorably, he ran a series of prime-time infomercials ahead of the election, which he paid for out of his own pocket because he's Ross Perot. Perot didn't win in '92, in part because his decision to drop out of the race, then return, didn't sit well with some.
But just imagine how effective those ads could've been if they had the full power of Brewster Kahle's database behind them during that three-month break Perot took.
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Terrence Thomas Feb. 27, 2016 Updated: Feb. 27, 2016 9:59 p.m.
The S.A. Christian girls soccer team always had an answer for everything its opponents had to offer during three previous TAPPS Division II playoff games that propelled it to the biggest stage. Usually, the reply consisted of a defense that yielded little, and an offense that capitalized on just enough of its scoring chances.
But with a second straight state championship in sight, the Lions found out the hard way that there was no solution to an age-old axiom — speed kills.
Swift-footed Tyler Grace recovered from its opponent's early surge with an even more impressive one of its own, topping S.A. Christian 4-3 on Saturday at the Wheatley Heights Sports Complex. It was the Cougars' first state championship — and it was claimed in dramatic fashion.
Tyler Grace (19-1-1) scored four unanswered goals to bounce back from a 2-0 deficit less than three minutes into the game. Sophomore forward Lexye Price led the charge, scoring both the momentum-changing and game-sealing goals. She scored the first of her two goals three minutes after S.A. Christian took a 2-0 lead, then added her final tally 5½ minutes into the second half to end the Cougars' run of goals.
Brittani Smith and Allie McCracken added one goal apiece for Tyler Grace.
"We knew we could come back because we wanted it so bad," Price said. "Once we scored that first goal, I think it helped keep us motivated and helped us get through that game. Once we got that fourth goal, I think everyone just knew we could do it. Our whole team just worked so hard for this, and I couldn't be more proud of this team."
S.A. Christian (19-9-2) looked as if it might cruise to another state crown when Madison Price and Hallie Hausman scored goals 45 seconds apart for a 2-0 advantage only 2 minutes, 40 seconds into the contest. Lauren Ross scored the Lions' other goal to get them within 4-3 with 33 minutes remaining, but they got no closer.
"After we scored the two goals, our confidence level went up and we just weren't expecting them to come back as hard," Hausman said. "We let our guard down a little bit."
Tyler Grace capitalized, using its speed to find openings in a S.A. Christian defense that entered Saturday's match with three straight shutouts in the postseason.
"They were definitely a lot faster than us," S.A. Christian sophomore defender Annaliese Aguirre said. "It was definitely difficult to see (the four goals allowed) on the scoreboard, but I know that we were fighting hard."
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Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Japan, larger than the Kobe Chinatown or Nagasaki Chinatown. Lots of Chinese restaurants are located here and you can find various Chinese cuisine, such as Cantonese food, Sichuan food, Shanghai food, Taiwanese foods, and so on. There are also lots of Chinese shops which sell Chinese household goods and cooking ingredients. Yokohama Chinatown has become a well known sightseeing spot where many tourists from all over Japan and the world come to visit. Yokohama Chinatown also can be easily reached by train in about 40 minutes from Tokyo, so it would be an ideal day trip for your Japan visit. In this article, we would like to introduce Chungking Chinese Szechwan Restaurant, a long established restaurant in Yokohama Chinatown.
Chungking Chinese Szechwan Restaurant is a long-established restaurant founded in 1959 which serves Szechwan cuisine in Yokohama Chinatown. Szechwan cuisine is a type of Chinese cuisine made from several spices and seasonings of Chinese cooking. Dishes rich in spices are very popular in Japan. Chungking Chinese Szechwan Restaurant consists of a main restaurant (undergoing renovation until fall of 2018), an annex restaurant, Shinkan (meaning "new building") restaurant, and a kiosk that sells confections. Chungking Chinese Restaurant is also famous as a restaurant equipped with a wedding ceremony service and banquet halls for the first time in Chinatown as well as a restaurant that was a kiosk to sell Chinese sweets and buns for walk-and-eat customers.
Mabo Tofu is a typical Szechwan dish which uses a lot of spices, and it is a popular dish at Chungking Chinese Restaurant. The Masamune Mabo Tofu of Chingking Restaurant is well known among people who like spicy foods. Masamune in Chinese means "authentic"; the spice of regular Mabo Tofu is catered to Japanese taste, but the Masamune Mabo Tofu is authentic Chinese mabo. Delicious minced beef is used for the Masamune Mabo Tofu and enhances its rich flavor.
Tantanmen is a classic Chinese noodle with a spicy soup containing chili pepper, minced meat and leeks as toppings. The Szechwan tantanmen of Chungking Restaurant has bean sprouts and green onions in a chili pepper based soup with the rich flavor of sesame. In addition to this popular menu item, there is also white Tantanmen which is an off-menu item. This is also a popular dish with steamed chicken and green onions in a soup consisting of chicken stock, white sesame paste, and chili pepper.
There are also the other annex (called Shinkan) and a kiosk in Chinatown.
The main restaurant: 3 minute walk from Minato-Mirai line Motomachi-Chukagai station (near Rose Hotel Yokohama).
Shinkan: 3 minute walk from Minato-Mirai line Motomachi-Chukagai station (inside of Rose Hotel Yokohama).
People visit Yokohama Chinatown from all over Japan seeking delicious Chinese cuisine. There are many kinds of Chinese restaurants in Yokohama Chinatown; authentic luxury restaurant style, affordable all-you-can-eat style, and home-made style restaurants. In addition, you can find stores selling Chinese ingredients and herbs that are not usually available in a supermarket in Japan and the others that sell Chinese tea leaves from various region of China. Chinese holidays such as Chinese New Year and the "Kokkeisetsu (National Day)" have grand events that you cannot miss.
From JR Tokyo station: take JR Tokaido line and get off at Yokohama station. Transfer to JR Yokohama line to Ishikawacho station, or transfer to Minato-Mirai line to Motomachi-chukagai station. Estimated travel time is 50 minutes.
From Shibuya station: take Tokyu-Toyoko line to Motomachi-Chukagai station (No transferring/ changing train needed from Tokyu-Toyoko line to Minato-Mirai line as it is a direct drive). Estimated travel time is 50 minutes.
From Haneda Airport: take Keihin-Kyuko Honsen line bound for Airport-Shinzushi to Yokohama station. Transfer to JR Yokohama line and get off at Ishikawacho station, or transfer to Minato-Mirai line and get off at Motomachi-Chukagai station. Estimated travel time is 40 minutes.
Thinking about Yokohama daytrip? We have a tour!
We have a tour in which you can wear kimono while visiting sightseeing places in Yokohama with an English-speaking guide. You will enjoy taking pictures while wearing Traditional Japanese kimono with Yokohama's unique landscape in the background. This is approximately 4hour tour, and there are adult and kids sized kimono for your selection.


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Erik Lamela has revealed that his father has been desperate to get his hands on a Lionel Messi shirt. Fortunately, the Tottenham man is about to deliver for him.
The pair clashed at Wembley on Wednesday night as Barcelona faced Spurs in the Champions League with the Catalan giants coming out on top in a 4-2 win.
Messi was influential as he bagged a brace, but Lamela revealed after the game in his post-match interview that his dad has been pushing him to get his hands on his compatriot's shirt for him, and the 26-year-old can now finally say he's got it for him.
With a whole host of Spurs players likely to have been desperate to get their hands on Messi's jersey, he's shown his class by making sure Lamela's got something special to give to his dad, albeit it's unclear as to whether he made him aware of where the shirt is eventually going to end up.
Either way, it's a nice touch and although there will be disappointment for the Spurs man over losing the game, he let out a wry smile when discussing the gesture and he will undoubtedly now bring a smile to his dad's face too.


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An "A" meet is the official NVSL scored meet. They take place on Saturday mornings from 9:00 am to about noon, beginning June 22nd. Points scored by individual swimmers are added to create a team score and ranking within the Division. At the end of the year, each Division has a Division Champion determined by points earned at these meets. Individual swimmers will swim a variety of events (not always their best of favorite stroke) depending on the competition and where the most points can be scored. Each swimmer can swim up to two individual events and one relay. The age groups are: 8 & under; 9-10; 11-12; 13-14; and 15-18 for each gender. All races are 50 meters except for 8 & under who swim 25 meters. There is also a freestyle relay and medley relay for each age group.
A "B" meet is a less-formal, "practice" meet for which the scores are not counted toward NVSL points. Each swimmer can enter two events. Swimmers may not enter events in which they placed first or second in a Saturday "A" meet. "B" meets are a fantastic way for younger swimmers to get in the water and compete and for experienced swimmers to try their hand at new events. We typically schedule these meets on Monday evenings.
A relay carnival is a meet that is focused only on two types of 4-swimmer relays: 1) the all freestyle relay; and 2) the medley relay (one swimmer per each of the four official strokes). These relays are divided by gender and age group, so there are 2 relays per age group. Each relay is 200 meters (50 meters for each swimmer), except the 8 and unders. All relays that qualify (based on fastest times) may participate in Relay All Stars. There is an unofficial Relay All Stars meet in the works for this year for Divisions 10-17 only – stay tuned.
Broyhill Crest traditionally participates in the Todd Potts IM Invitational at nearby Forest Hollow pool. This is an opportunity for swimmers to swim the crown jewel of swimming events, the Individual Medley, all four strokes in the following order: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. IM is not swum in regular A meets.
Each Division in the NVSL holds a divisional competition. There is no team score for this competition, but is a meet where a swimmer can compete for individual glory against others in specific events (up to 2 events).


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Dustin Vaughan (born January 27, 1991) is a former  American football quarterback. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He played college football at West Texas A&M University.

Early years
Vaughan attended Calallen High School. As a senior, he was named first-team All-District 31-4A at both quarterback and punter. He also received All-Metro, All-South Texas and All-State academic honors.

He practiced basketball and baseball. He helped the baseball team win the class 4A state championship.

College career
Vaughan accepted a football scholarship from Division II West Texas A&M University. As a redshirt freshman, he was the third-string quarterback and appeared in 4 games.

As a sophomore, he became the starter in the second game of the season, leading the team to an 8–3 record and a win in the Kanza Bowl over the University of Central Missouri. He registered 227-for-382 completions for 3,316 yards, 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. He had 384 passing yards and 3 touchdowns in a 42–21 win against #5 Texas A&M University–Kingsville. He had 430 passing yards, 4 touchdowns and 21 rushing yards in a 49–35 win over Central Washington University.

As a junior, he helped the team reach the NCAA Semifinal for the first time in school history. He posted 359-for-555 completions for 4,712 yards (third in school history), 45 touchdowns (second in school history) and 13 interceptions. He had 409 passing yards and 5 touchdown passes against Western State University. He also had 5 touchdown passes against the University of West Georgia.

As a senior, he was the runner-up for the Harlon Hill Trophy. He recorded 5,401 passing yards (Division II record) and 53 touchdowns (school record and third-most all-time in Division II). He finished his college career with conference and school records for passing yards, (13,525), total yards (13,608) and passing touchdowns (123).

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys
Vaughan was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Dallas Cowboys after the 2014 NFL Draft. He surprised observers by making the team as the third-string quarterback.

On September 5, 2015, he was waived after the team decided to carry just two quarterbacks on the regular season roster. The Cowboys opted not to add him to the practice squad, choosing instead to sign quarterback Kellen Moore, who had previous experience with the team's offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.

Buffalo Bills
On September 23, 2015, he was signed to the Buffalo Bills' practice squad. On October 19, he was released by the Bills to make room for wide receiver Titus Davis.

Pittsburgh Steelers
On January 22, 2016, Vaughan signed a futures contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. On August 28, he was waived-injured by the Steelers after suffering a thumb fracture in a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles and on September 2, he was released from injured reserve after reaching an injury settlement.

Baltimore Ravens
On December 27, 2016, Vaughan was signed to the Ravens' practice squad. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Ravens on January 2, 2017. On August 14, 2017, the Ravens waived Vaughn.

San Antonio Commanders (AAF)
On September 5, 2018, Vaughn signed with the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football. On November 27, he was selected third-overall by the team in the inaugural AAF Draft. He was a backup behind Logan Woodside until the league folded in April 2019.

References

External links
West Texas A&M Buffaloes bio

1991 births
Living people
Players of American football from Cleveland
American football quarterbacks
West Texas A&M Buffaloes football players
Dallas Cowboys players
Buffalo Bills players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
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Turning the page from one season to the next is always exciting. For me, it's the opportunity to chase different creatures under different circumstances. For the next few months, this will happen under a layer of ice. I'm cool with that, just like many of you. But, before I get caught up in what's about to happen (tomorrow morning to be exact), I want to look back at what has already gone down. I realize that it's been months since I've journaled. To date, this has been my longest dry spell ever. I'm sorry for that, and I appreciate your continued support in following and waiting.
To say that my life has been crazy would be an understatement. When I say crazy, I mean crazy in a good way. I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams. Much of what has occured over the last few months is hard to wrap my head around in one journal entry. I'll sum it up the best I know how - with photo's and stories.
As many of you know, my world is ever evolving. While I am still a fishing guide, it's only one piece to my puzzle. My career in television production has grown and taken me places far and wide. I'm sure I'll look back on it some day and have a better grasp of it all, but for now it is almost a blur. I take my camera with me in hopes of capturing epic moments. The rest is available for you to view on the Outdoor Channel in the coming months.
I spent a stint in West Virginia filming for one of our shows called, Destination Polaris. We rode ATV's through the mountains and clouds - literally. I took a white water rapid plunge and conquered one of the top 5 rapids in the world. They score it a 5+ on a scale of 1 to 5. Lets just say that taking a 15 foot waterfall is something everyone should experience. Because I was feeling tough, I jumped out and took one of the rapids laying on my back - sorry mom. I also let go of my fear of heights on that trip and took a zip line down a mountain. Wearing a camera, all of this was recorded for your viewing pleasure (see my helmet above).
South Dakota is the obvious pheasant mecca. I left civilization for 5 days and experienced my best pheasant shoot to date. Not much needs to be said except for these 3 things. Great friends, great hunting, and great time.
When I think of Cape Cod, hunting is the last thing that comes to mind. Well, until a few weeks ago. Now when I think of this place, I think of coyotes and a funny fella by the name of Brian Downs. He's pictured on the far right, and he's the guy that almost washed our truck away. This hunt will be tough to forget. Here's the jist - deflate your tires and drive the beach. Carrying an Ipad logged in to Google Earth, we stop when the screen shows an opening in the sand dunes. Get out, climb a sand dune and try to call coyotes out of the brush and into the rolling sand hills. All the while the waves crash the shore behind you. Then, go back to the truck and repeat these steps over and again until a coyote comes running or mother nature raises the tide and threatens to wash you away. Both of these things happened.
Over the course of 3 months, I've spent time in 11 different states. Some for periods longer than I would have liked, and others not long enough. I will conclude this by saying that Midwest folk are normal. Period.
Muskies and Mille Lacs are two things that consume my November every year. I'd love to buy a place up there in November and spend every day fishing it. This year I hit the big lake only 4 times. It was time well spent, but not because of the muskies. I caught my largest snot rocket to date, and blanked on the lunge. Good weather, good friends and a few monster fish made it all worth the while. Even when Roseanne grabbed my heart and with her fat belly she crushed it.
In between all the fun I have managed to bag 3 deer. One with my bow and 2 with the gun. In the process, I experienced an evening of bow hunting that Michael Waddell would be envious of. Even though I didn't let the string fly, I'll never forget the moment of having 8 bucks in view, and two 160 class monsters within 20 yards at the same time. To walk out of that field that night with a doe in hand seems odd, but the full story would require an entire journal entry.
I'll conclude with a season of Thanks. The day before Thanksgiving I spent on the water with the president of Rapala and their marketing wiz Jack. To catch a muskie is one thing, to catch it on a Rapala lure with the president of such company - incredible. That was only the beginning. Shortly after that fish swam away I became an uncle. While the fish is a great memory, it has nothing on Kingston James Petersen. He's special in more ways than I know how to describe. It's now my goal to make him the youngest man to catch a 50 inch muskie.
I realize that I am a very blessed man. I've known this for quite some time. The best part is that now I can share it with another. Yep, that's right, I found a girl. And, I'll be man enough to admit that she holds a very large spot in my heart. Truth be told, I don't want it any other way. I'm excited for the future and all that it holds. But for now, I can't wait to see what bites under the ice in the morning. Until next time, keep on livin' your dream!


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UPDATE ON PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF VCI CONTROLS INC. TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE: SMS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, Ontario – January 31, 2014 – SustainCo Inc. (the "Company" or "SustainCo") (TSXV:SMS) is pleased to announce that the TSX Venture Exchange (the 'Exchange") has conditionally accepted the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of VCI Controls Inc. ("VCI"). Final approval of the Exchange is subject to the Company fulfilling all of the requirements of the Exchange and closing of the proposed transaction remains subject to the Exchange's final approval. About VCI VCI Controls Inc. is a leading supplier of building technologies and services that improve comfort, safety, energy efficiency, and occupant productivity. It is an industry leader in the development of intelligent building technology, including the integration of all building systems utilizing the latest in communications technologies and standards. VCI's business focuses on digital controls and mechanical services, performance monitoring, and energy efficiency solutions. Founded in 1981, VCI is headquartered in Toronto with branch offices in Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and Pembroke. It has been a pioneer in the development of direct digital controls and continues to be a leader in the industry in product development. VCI has an installed customer base of over 1,400 clients including installs in very large and complex buildings such as the National Art Gallery of Canada, the RCMP complex in Ottawa, the Canadian Forces Base in Halifax, and the Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto. About SustainCo SustainCo Inc. is a leading provider of sustainable infrastructure solutions and services. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries of Clean Energy Developments Corp. ("CleanEnergy") and SustainCo Solutions & Services. CleanEnergy is an early stage developer and investor in clean and renewable energy projects with experience in wind, solar, biomass and thermal energy projects. CleanEnergy provides strategic capital, funding management and execution expertise. SustainCo Solutions & Services provides comprehensive building performance services, incorporating full life cycle asset optimization, design, build, operations and maintenance services for new build and retrofit facilities. Specifically, it provides: engineering services, building automation controls, performance monitoring, energy retrofits, mechanical and electrical installation and services, thermal energy systems, and operations and maintenance services for multi-residential and ICI facilities. With headquarters in Toronto, SustainCo employs over 70 people in Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Pembroke, Montreal and Halifax. For more information, visit www.sustainco.ca. Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable by the Company at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, the completion of the Private Placement, consolidation of indebtedness and the Secured Note Offering and other statements that are not historical fact, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from the Company's plans and expectations. These plans, expectations, risks and uncertainties are detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with the Exchange and securities regulators. The Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Trading in the securities of the Company should be considered highly speculative. All forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Neither the Exchange, nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. For further information, please contact Emlyn David, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of SustainCo, at (416) 840-5002.
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Q: Synchronization in multiplayer networked game? Recently I have been working on a multiplayer networking app. I had successfully implemented the client server model using Bonjour services and NSStream objects. The two way communication has been done successfully.
The problem I'm facing is: the two devices running the app are connected via local wifi. There is a latency problem while sending the messages from client to server and vice versa.
Describing in brief:

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*It's a car racing game with at most two players.

*One server and other client.

*When client press the buttons a particular message is sent to the server telling which key or button was pressed. Then the server responds accordingly and make changes on the client's car on the server itself. These changes are not always the same. There is always a difference between the actual location of the car on the client's screen and that in the server screen.

Any ideas?

A: Welcome to the world of networking. :)
These are the classic difficulties with game networking programming. There's a lot of different techniques to overcome these issues.
This blog has great info on the subject and will probably help you out.
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
You may be specifically interested in this article:
http://www.gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/what-every-programmer-needs-to-know-about-game-networking
Good luck!


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package com.compomics.moff.gui.config;

import java.io.File;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;

/**
 *
 * @author Niels Hulstaert
 */
public class ResourceUtils {

    private static final String RESOURCES_FOLDER = "resources";

    /**
     * Gets a resource by its relative path. If the resource is not found on the
     * file system, the classpath is searched. If nothing is found, null is
     * returned.
     *
     * @param fileName the name of the resource
     * @return the found resource
     */
    public static Resource getResourceByRelativePath(String fileName) {
        Resource resource = new FileSystemResource(RESOURCES_FOLDER + File.separator + fileName);
        if (!resource.exists()) {
            //try to find it on the classpath
            resource = new ClassPathResource(fileName);
            if (!resource.exists()) {
                // making sure to run on Netbeans..
                resource = new FileSystemResource("src" + File.separator + "main" + File.separator + RESOURCES_FOLDER + File.separator + fileName);
                if (!resource.exists()) {
                    resource = null;
                }
            }
        }
        return resource;
    }

    /**
     * Checks if a resource with the given relative path exists on the file
     * system.
     *
     * @param relativePath the relative path of the resource
     * @return the is existing boolean
     */
    public static boolean isExistingFile(String relativePath) {
        boolean isExistingResource = Boolean.FALSE;
        Resource resource = new FileSystemResource(relativePath);
        if (resource.exists()) {
            isExistingResource = true;
        }

        return isExistingResource;
    }
}


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Dispute ideas, pope tells theologians, but don't confuse the faithful
Pope Francis greets Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, during a meeting with members of the International Theological Commission at the Vatican Nov. 29, 2019. The commission advises the congregation and studies particular theological questions at the congregationÕs request. CNS/VATICAN MEDIA
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN— Theologians must explore and debate disputed questions, at times even taking "risks" with what they propose, but those discussions should take place within the academy so as not to confuse the faithful, Pope Francis said.
"Theology must move forward," the pope told members of the International Theological Commission. "It must face things that are not clear and take risks in discussion. However, this is among theologians.
"You must give the solid food of faith to the people of God, not feed the people of God disputed questions," because that could confuse them and cause them to lose their faith, the pope told the group Nov. 29 during a meeting celebrating the commission's 50th anniversary.
St. Paul VI established the commission to continue the collaboration between theologians and the teaching authority of the church experienced at the Second Vatican Council, the pope said. And he wanted to ensure that the doctrinal congregation would benefit from the contributions of theologians reflecting on questions of faith in different parts of the world and in different cultural contexts.
"In fact," the pope told them, "you listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches in different cultures today in order to shed light on ever-new aspects of the inexhaustible mystery of Christ."
By "translating" the faith for people of different cultures, he said, theologians help people feel "closer to and embraced by the church, taken by the hand where they are and accompanied to taste the sweetness of the 'kerygma' (proclamation of Christ) and its timeless newness."
"This is theology's call," he said. "It's not an academic disquisition about life, but the incarnation of the faith in one's life."
"Good theology" is research that is born of a theologian's own active spiritual life, he said. "Theology is born and grows on one's knees!"
And, Pope Francis added, theology develops within and contributes to the life of the church. "One does not do theology as an individual, but in community, at the service of all, to spread the good news of the Gospel to brothers and sisters of their time, always with sweetness and respect."
Pope Francis thanked the commission members especially for their 2018 document, "Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church."
"You demonstrated how the practice of synodality, which is traditional but always needing renewal, is, in the history of the pilgrim people of God, the realization of the church as a mystery of communion in the image of the Trinitarian communion," the pope said.
"As you know, this theme is very close to my heart," he told the theologians.
"Synodality is a style, it is walking together and it is what the Lord wants from the church of the third millennium," he said.
The theological commission's document said synodality promotes the baptismal dignity and call of all Catholics, values the presence of different gifts given by the Holy Spirit and recognizes the specific ministry entrusted to pastors and bishops in communion with the pope for the preservation of the faith and the renewal of the church.
"I thank you for your document," the pope told members, "because today some think synodality is holding hands and going for a walk, having a party with young people or surveying opinions (like) 'What do you think about women priests?'"
In reality, he said, it is "an ecclesial way that has a soul, which is the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit there is no synodality."
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Bird, Sims and Stoneman among BRDC SuperStars
By LJ Hutchins
The British Racing Drivers Club has kicked off a fourth year of its SuperStars programme with the announcement of 13 drivers that will benefit from its support in 2011.
Sam Bird, pictured last year with BRDC SuperStar and Brits on Pole logos in his car's nose, returns to the scheme this year. Pic: Clement Marin.
The scheme, which selects the country's brightest driving prospects in open-wheel, prototype and production disciplines for training and support, aims to ensure the continued success of British drivers in all areas of international motorsport.
Among this year's SuperStars are GP2 Series pilot Sam Bird, and GP3 contenders Alexander Sims and James Calado – as well as current BRDC McLaren Autosport Award winner Lewis Williamson.
Other open-wheel drivers included are Formula Renault UK's Alex Lynn and Oliver Rowland as well as 2010 competitor Tom Blomqvist, British F3 International's Jack Harvey, and Oli Webb who finished third in that series last year.
Last year's F2 champion and Williams test drive recipient Dean Stoneman, who is sitting out the year due to serious health problems that have scuppered his planned Formula Renault 3.5 drive, is also on the list.
Prototype competitor Andy Meyrick, who drives in the American Le Mans Series, joins the BTCC's Alex MacDowell and Porsche Supercup's Nick Tandy. A 14th driver is set to be announced in due course.
Programme director Tim Harvey said of the announcement: "We always find it hard to make the final decision but after careful consideration we feel we have a very talented bunch of drivers who we look forward to working with this year."
Alexander Sims, embarking on his third year of BRDC driver development, said: "The BRDC is among the world's most prestigious motorsports clubs and I am very pleased to have had their support and backing through being part of their programmes since 2008.
"I have been involved in a number of their events and workshops in the past and have found them extremely useful so I am looking forward to continuing this and spending time with the rest of the BRDC SuperStars."
The first SuperStars event saw the drivers travel to RAF Cranwell In Lincolnshire for a day of Fighter Pilot Aptitude Training. RAF Cranwell is the oldest Air Force College in the world and the Royal Air Force's most prestigious training unit.
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First impressions count and when it comes to woodwork, other people will judge a project first by the finish - that outside fraction of a millimetre that we apply at the end of all the tricky shaping and construction work. This is not to say that internals of a woodworking project are not important, it is just that if the piece looks brilliant on the outside then people will be more interested in finding out about the rest of it. This article looks at preparing surfaces and applying some easy finishes.
Photo 1: Planing a flat surface on a glued up tabletop, for example, is bound to require you to run the plane across the grain or sometimes even against the grain, roughing it up in the process. Turning the plane away from the angle of motion reduces the damage, but it is still not practical to produce the silky-smooth finish you might achieve under ideal conditions when you plane a single piece of wood with the grain.
Photo 3: Orbital sanders produce swirling trails while random orbit sanders do the same thing but try to hide it by making each trail follow a different pattern. Using these tools it is even more important to work thoroughly through each grade of finer grit. Powered sanding can save effort but needs to be used carefully to avoid accidental rounding over that turns crisp shapes into soggy ones.
Photo 4: Under the microscope abrasive has a scattering of random shaped grit glued onto a flexible sheet of thin card or fabric. Loosely speaking we call this sandpaper because in the past it was made with sand, but now it is usually aluminium oxide or silicon carbide grits. Although not as hard as silicon carbide, shards break off the surface of aluminium oxide grit as you use it, exposing fresh sharp edges all the time. This makes the aluminium oxide cutting action last longer on wood while silicon carbide works better on metal or hard materials.
Photo 5: The flat face of a cork or rubber sanding block provides even pressure behind the paper when sanding by hand. This helps to stop the abrasive from hollowing a flat surface or rounding edges, particularly important on narrow pieces like fine drawer sides.
Photo 6: Grades of abrasive papers run from about 40, which is very coarse, to 1000, which is extremely fine, but typically a fine woodworking project calls for four grades in the range of about eighty to three hundred. Start with the coarsest grit and spend equal time working with each so the finer gauge removes all the scratch marks from the previous one.
Photo 7: Working the paper with the grain direction while you are sanding always gives the smoothest results, even with the coarsest grit paper. Running the abrasive across the wood grain would cause the sharp edges of the grit to slice across the wood fibres, leaving short fuzzy ends - something to avoid especially as you sand around joints.
Photo 8: The cabinet scraper, which is just a rectangle of springy steel sheet, is an unlikely looking tool for fine woodworking, but with a little practise it can produce great results. You first need to produce a straight flat edge on the scraper by running along it with a fine file, then a fine flat stone. This will make it feel rough on the long corners between the faces and the edge.
Photo 9: The faces of the scraper need to be smoothed or burnished by laying them flat on the edge of the bench and running a hardened steel rod along them. There are burnishing tools specially made for this purpose, but they are expensive and you can use the smooth shaft of a screwdriver or a carving gouge instead.
Photo 10: The purpose of the next stage is to produce slightly hooked edges on the scraper. Again the scraper is clamped in a vice and the burnisher held at a slight angle while it is pushed along the edge with a light stroking action. There must not be any jaggedness in the hooked edge as this would produce roughness on the wood. You may need to repeat the filing and burnishing a few times to achieve this.
Photo 11: A well prepared cabinet scraper can smooth the surface of even the most difficult woods. Hold the scraper between both hands using the thumbs to press it into a shallow curve. Tilt the scraper away from you and push it along the grain of the wood so the fine hooked edge picks up the smallest of shavings. When this becomes blunt, turn it over to use the other edge.
The cabinet scraper produces fine shavings, not dust like sandpaper. This is a special advantage on projects made from mixed wood types where dark wood dust would clog up the grain on pale wood making it look dirty, but the scraper gives clean results.
Photo 12: Using a cabinet scraper for a large area can be hard on your thumbs, and the scraper quickly becomes hot with friction making the task even more awkward. Cabinet scrapers sometimes come with handles each side while others look more like modified smoothing planes which are much more suitable for tackling tabletops and cabinets.
Photo 13: One of the most effective yet simplest finishes to apply is beeswax paste. It quickly buffs up to a light sheen on the prepared surface of any type of wood, bringing out depth of colour and protecting it from dirty finger marks. The only disadvantage of a beeswax finish is that it needs topping up quite frequently, but this is easy to do.
Photo 14: Solid blocks of beeswax can be rubbed in if you gently heat the wood with a hot air blower at the same time. This turns the wax completely liquid which has the advantage that it penetrates further into the wood. A beeswax finish like this will last a good length of time and can still occasionally be topped up with wax paste.
Photo 15: Danish oil is sold as a mixture of linseed oil, tung oil and solvents which penetrate the wood bringing out its colour and patterns or figuring. Oil finishes have a slightly yellow tinge which is successful on dark woods but less attractive on pale woods like ash or sycamore.
The oil is diluted slightly with white spirit then rubbed or brushed generously across all the surfaces. After about twenty minutes the surplus oil must be completely wiped off with a clean dry cotton cloth, otherwise it will dry as a treacly mess. In a day or two when the oil has dried it needs another coat applied in the same way. Repeat this about five times to build up a good sheen.
Photo 16: A surprise contender in the list of easy finishes is petroleum jelly or Vaseline, normally sold in large tubs as a relatively cheap and simple skin ointment. It is used in the same way as a wax paste polish but instead of building up a glossy finish, petroleum jelly will give the wood an attractive semi-matt sheen.
Photo 17: Clear water-based finishes have largely taken over from old fashioned oil varnishes. One of the main reasons is the reduction in Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) which pollute the air. Other advantages are that water-based finishes dry quickly, producing very little smell and are less yellowing of wood. Water based finishes are quite suitable for spraying from a compressed air gun, especially the High Volume Low Pressure (HVLP) type. The disadvantage is that the varnish makers rarely give you any advice on thinning. Adding 10% water is a good starting point.
"If the piece looks brilliant on the outside then people will be more interested in finding out about the rest of it."


The U.S. has reached a tipping point with respect to legalizing marijuana. Cannabusinesses and gangapreneurs, along with advocates across the country, have created a billion-dollar industry in the face of federal prohibition. Whether from a medical or recreational perspective, the question facing patients and adult users is where and how one can consume marijuana and cannabis-derivative products.
Marijuana tourism, or "cannatourism," is the hospitality industry trend of people traveling to states to participate in the new and legal cannabis industry. While it may be legal to purchase marijuana, public consumption is illegal. Public use typically includes any place where the public or a substantial group of people has access. The biggest impediment to a successful cannatourism market is identifying places where it is permissible to consume the products that are purchased.
The prohibition on public consumption is a concern for all facets of the hospitality industry, including restaurateurs who wish to develop cannabis-infused menu items. Consumers will have to wait for regulatory changes before they can enjoy a cannabis-infused restaurant meal.
Cannabis use requires private spaces. Without access to a private space, there are limited options for consuming legally purchased cannabis products. It's something that states will grapple with in the coming years to resolve the cannatourism conundrum.
The Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office has been considering rules to allow a designated area for onsite consumption within a licensed retail marijuana store. This would make the on-premise consumption of marijuana a legal reality by creating the first regulated, commercial cannabis consumption locations. It could be a first step toward allowing restaurants to serve cannabis-infused meals.
Edibles containing cannabis are increasing in popularity. For example, part of the recent debate in the Florida Legislature over implementing the new constitutional amendment expanding Florida's medical marijuana industry focused on smoking marijuana. Since smoking is the most common form of consuming marijuana, why is there controversy surrounding this practice?
The process of smoking involves the burning or igniting of marijuana and inhaling the smoke. With public health perceptions aimed at mitigating harmful tobacco smoke, it is natural to understand the reluctance to encourage smoking marijuana. Florida legislators decided that alternative methods of consumption were safer, including commercially-produced food products. The concept of edible cannabis appears to be more palatable for politicians. On the recreational, adult-use front, as marijuana use has become destigmatized, smoking cannabis is facing competition from other forms of consumption, such as edible cannabis products.
Creative entrepreneurs are producing a variety of edible products made with extracted marijuana oils containing  cannabinoids: active chemicals  such  as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or cannabidiol (CBD). Once the cannabinoids are extracted into liquid form, they can be incorporated into ordinary food. Because the stomach absorbs and processes the cannabinoids slower than the lungs, the oral method of consumption involves a prolonged release of cannabis into the system. The slow metabolism of marijuana-infused edible food products is a benefit for recreational users who want a long, continuous high. Similarly, these products can be a critical part of a medical patient's cannabis-use regimen because the medicine is absorbed and metabolized slowly through the digestive system. A more extended release of the drug can have palliative outcomes for patients with certain ailments that may benefit from a more sustained therapeutic effect.
But the cannatourism conundrum means there are no opportunities for on-premises consumption of edible food. Restaurants cannot obtain licenses to produce marijuana-infused products or sell edibles to consumers. The future of the U.S. marijuana industry may eventually see marijuana bars or restaurants. One can imagine a multi-course meal at a gourmet restaurant involving low-dose infusions for each course. While this joie de vivre experience may fit well with the foodie cultural revolution, we are not there yet.
A work-around solution involves private catering. To avoid the public use prohibition, social consumption may involve such private use as catered medicated meals in states with medical use only laws, or cannabis-themed dinner parties in recreational law states. These are happening more frequently as connoisseur- or pharmaceutical-grade cannabis is being seen as a luxury experience, like drinking fine wines.
Cannabis is stated to have a bad off taste in a reference article, why ruin good food.
Cannabis is illegal in my state, why mess with it in the first place.
Cannabis opens the door to other drugs, why waste our time on an ingredient that perhaps leads the fellow humans down the road to being hooked on other drugs.


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Five Ways To Celebrate Cinco De Mayo In The Hamptons
By Paul A. Johnson May 3, 2012, 12:55pm EDT
The Hamptons season doesn't officially begin for about three more weeks, but you can get an early start this weekend at one of the handful of Cinco De Mayo events/specials scheduled for the big day. Here's a quick rundown of the May 5th festivities.
What: Yappy Hour At Foody's
When: 3:30pm - 6pm
Details: Got a canine and the dog park's gotten boring? You're in luck! Foody's is throwing their first "Yappy Hour" of the season on Saturday. There will be "delectable appetizers" for your four-legged friends, food and drink specials for the humans, pet adoption from Last Chance Rescue, and the opportunity to "Ask The Trainer" all your dog-related questions.
What: Cinco De Mayo Celebration At Hampton Library
When: 2pm - 4pm
Details: If you've got kids and need to win some parent points, consider taking them to Hampton Library in Bridgehampton this Saturday. There will be Mexican crafts, a piñata, food, readings and, at 3:00, the local Tenochtitlan Dance Group, dancing on the back deck.
What: Cinco De Mayo Taco Party
When: All day, but it must be ordered in advance
Details: If you don't feel like dealing with the crowds, but still want to celebrate May 5th, La Fondita's got a catering package just for you. For $66.50 you get: A large order of tortilla ships, a medium pico de gallo (fresh salsa), a medium guacamole, a 1/2 pint of 3 fillings - beef, chicken and pork (enough for fifteen tacos), tortillas, onion and cilantro garnish and lime wedges. Just pick up some tequila and you're in business. Call (631) 267-8800 to reserve your package.
What: Specials At Navy Beach
When: noon to 5pm
Details: Though they've just opened for the season, Navy Beach is already bringing the deals. Saturday afternoon, stop by the bar where they'll be offering a trio of fish tacos with pico de gallo and lime crema with a Corona ($15) or with a margarita ($20).
What: Cinco De Mayo At Phao
When: 10:30pm - close
Details: While it might seem a little strange that Sag Harbor's Thai place is throwing an event to celebrate Mexican heritage and pride, we can't find fault with drink specials all night long. Add a DJ and no cover to the mix and you'll almost forget your in an establishment that serves up curry and drunken noodles.
Phao Thai Kitchen
29 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963 631 725 0101 Visit Website
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74 Montauk Highway, Amagansett, NY 11930 Visit Website


I recently saw an old high school friend that moved away 10 years ago and she invited me overto have coffee and meet her family. We were crying about loved ones we lost and i wiped my tears with my fingers. I told her that i had a cold sore to make sure she uses extremely hot water and soap to clean my cup. She then told me that her husband has hepatitas and she is unsure which one but he does have liver damage. I shook his hand about an hour before i touched my eyes and he just came out of the bathroom. He was drunk. What do I do? Can I get it ?
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Even with all your F16s and Falcons or Interceptors, to my mind, there's been no flight simulator that's even come close to Gunship. Less reliant on having dozens of attractive graphics and lots of exterior views, and more reliant on having realistic action, Gunship on the 64 has much more in the way of atmosphere and excitement than any Amiga flight sim to date. Until now.
Gunship is now available, after months of waiting, even after ST and PC versions were released, on the Amiga. At last owners of Mr Commodore's 16 bit dream machine have the chance to take an AH-64 Apache up for a spin over five different war zones and through an infinite amount of missions.
The world outside your 'copter is viewed in first person perspective, as usual, and that's how it stays. There are no outside views, there are no missile-eye views. There are no zoom facilities. There isn't even a chase plane option. But that's a much more sensible way to generate atmosphere. It's a bit hard to believe in a flight simulator if you are poncing around outside your plane, zooming in and out, not really flying. In Gunship, you are restricted to three views: look forward, look left and right, and that's the way it should be. After all there aren't external views on a real chopper, are there?
This flight sim's fun. The controls are a little sluggish, but I get the feeling that's how they're supposed to handle: after all, this is a low-level combat chopper, not a Fiat Uno.
The graphics are great. The clever use of shading mixed with filled vectors gives the game a very solid feel, especially where the enemy craft are concerned. Tanks look like tanks, AA guns look like real AA guns, small frightened people look like real frightened people.
The design of the game is identical in every detail to the 64 version, right down to the loading sequence. The missions follow along the same lines, the five areas you fly over are identical. What you have here is the same brilliant game, but adapted to suit an Amiga, with better sound, graphics and payability. So who can complain?