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House GOP Wants Omnibus to Block D.C. Pot Law
Republicans push a provision to prevent the city from using its own money to legalize marijuana, but Democrats are opposed.
Daniel NewhauserNational Journal
Medicinal marijuana user Dave Karp smokes marijuana at the Berkeley Patients Group March 25, 2010 in Berkeley, California.National Journal
House Republicans are fighting to roll back the District of Columbia's recently passed marijuana legalization initiative in the midst of high-level negotiations over the national budget, according to several Democratic and Republican sources.
Republicans are insisting on including a provision in an omnibus spending bill that would ban the District from using local funds to carry out the legalization measure, which was passed overwhelmingly by ballot initiative in November.
A proposal to disallow the city from using local funds to carry out the decriminalization of marijuana was attached to the House Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill when it passed the full Appropriations Committee this summer, and this latest measure being discussed would carry a similar ban.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers has been a vehement opponent of relaxing drug laws, animated by the spread of methamphetamine and prescription-drug use in his home state of Kentucky. Both he and Speaker John Boehner favor limiting the city's ability to carry out the initiative, according to sources in both parties.
"The speaker obviously supports the provisions in the House-passed bills, but we are not directly engaging with Democrats on this issue," said Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel.
Rogers's office declined to discuss any specific riders being negotiated, but noted that he supports the bills passed by the House.
"We are fighting for all House policy provisions," Rogers spokeswoman Jennifer Hing said.
Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, the author of the amendment passed this summer, has been pushing hard to disallow the ballot initiative to go into effect, but District of Columbia leaders and activists will be infuriated if Congress passes such a funding ban. Local authorities have little say in the matter, however: Congress is able to override local law because it has final say in how the District can spend its money.
The White House said in a policy statement released after the House passed the Financial Services and General Government bill that it "strongly opposes" any efforts to direct how the District enforces its laws. Congressional Democrats, including Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, are opposed to the marijuana rider as well, but if Republicans make the proposal central to their demands, it remains uncertain how hard Democrats will fight to keep it from becoming law.
That is because the issue is just one of hundreds of potential appropriations amendments being negotiated, as Congress is less than two weeks away from a lapse in government funding. It is unclear if the marijuana amendment will be in the final bill that appropriators have said they will unveil no later than Tuesday.
But in the past, Congress has allowed riders into bills that override locally passed D.C. law. Some current riders, ones that will almost certainly be in the final legislation, limit the District from spending local funds on abortion and federal funds on needle-exchange programs.
There would likely be at least some bipartisan opposition to the rider. This past year, the House passed a few pro-marijuana bills, indicating that the chamber may be disinclined to block the District from carrying out its law. In May, the House passed an amendment that would ban the Justice Department from using funds to hinder states from carrying out medical marijuana laws. Another amendment passed by the House would keep the federal government from impeding state industrial hemp laws.
But it is not clear that the opposition would be strong enough that members would vote against a sweeping bill funding every aspect of the federal government and face a government shutdown if it fails.
House and Senate appropriators have been meeting every day to whittle down the list of potential riders, with other legislation targeting everything from Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the Affordable Care Act, and the Internal Revenue Service to whether the government will fund high-speed rail in California.
Even these national issues have been overshadowed in the public discussion over spending negotiations, as some Republicans have insisted the appropriations process be used to stymie President Obama's recent executive action granting work visas to millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Congress must pass appropriations legislation by Dec. 12.
Since the D.C. Financial Control Board ended its activities in 2001, Congress has mostly left the District to govern its own affairs. But Congress still has the authority to tell the city how to spend its money and occasionally does so, with abortion being the most common battleground issue.
Daniel Newhauser is a staff correspondent for National Journal, where he primarily covers the House of Representatives. He was formerly a House leadership reporter for Roll Call, where he started as an intern in 2010 and quickly earned a slot as a beat reporter.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Newhauser traveled further West to study journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and write for newspapers including the East Valley Tribune and the Green Valley News & Sun.


Daily Maverick recently published two articles, one by the South African director of the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Henning Suhr titled, "South Africa vs people of Venezuela" in which he argued that when Chavez took power in the 1998 elections he perfected the "left-wing populist system which is based primarily on the distribution of state funds in exchange for loyalty", adding that his model of the so-called "Socialism of the 21st century" was completely "unsustainable".
The article, which goes on to discuss the administration of President Nicolas Maduro is full of generalised pious and unsubstantiated assertions.
Suhr criticises the South African media, including the Mail & Guardian, for an editorial which argues that the policies of the US administrations are "putting the international order at risk" and claims that "the Organisation of the American States and the US is trying to restore democracy in Venezuela".
He criticises the Minister of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation for meeting with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister in July 2018 and for saying that "South Africa would oppose any kind of regime change in Caracas at the UN Security Council".
The second article, by Martin Van Staden, a research assistant at the Free Market Foundation and a master of law degree student at the University of Pretoria alleges that "the South African government has thrown its support behind the tyrant … Maduro in the midst of a constitutional crisis". He criticises Minister Sisulu's statement that "South Africa recognises the democratically elected President of Venezuela until such time he steps down, or until such time that there is an election".
They assert that the crisis is "self-made" and that socialism is the cause of Venezuela's failed policies and crisis.
Both articles contain many unsubstantiated assertions, including the allegation that the administration does not produce information on mortality rates because figures were so high, refer to the lack of basic necessities, poverty and the numbers of people leaving Venezuela.
They also assert that South Africa's foreign policy violates its constitution.
These articles are some of the worst examples of perception management to mobilise for regime change and are based on information from biased mainstream sources, with no serious attempt to analyse developments in Venezuela historically, verify, substantiate arguments or refer to alternative information.
What is the truth?The assertion that the Venezuelan crisis is "self-made" and a consequence of "failed socialist policies" must be treated with the contempt it deserves.
So must the argument that the Organisation of the American States and the US is trying to restore democracy.
In a conference organised by the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations attended by oil executives, bankers and officials in January 2019, speakers predicted that the increased sanctions would lead to more refugees, and Shannon O'Neil of the council said that if "sanctions do not work in dislodging the regime, then there is not a lot in the toolkit left besides things like military intervention".
The US military, in a March 2018 document titled "The Strategic Relevance of Latin America in the US National Strategy", stated that in the aftermath of the fall of dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s "most democratic societies in the western hemisphere" are "feckless and unconsolidated, thereby representing a threat to the national security interests by external actors such as China and Russia opposing US interests in the region".
President Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, said that the US would "kill, jail and torture President Maduro if he refused to resign … the sooner he takes advantage of his resignation, the sooner he is likely to a have a nice quiet retirement, rather than being in Guantanamo".
Given past experiences, the question must be asked whether conditions are being created for destabilisation and "humanitarian intervention".
These sentiments come amidst reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that there was a coup attempt in Venezuela on the 23 January 2019, the date when an obscure opposition leader, Juan Guiado, was declared President by the US Deputy President Spence. The coup was promoted, organised and financed by the US and, surprisingly, supported by many European governments.
President Guiado, newly imposed by the US, announced that it will deliver aid at three locations along the Venezuela-Colombia border. This correlates with developments in the region where the far-right President of Colombia recently announced that he gave a "few hours to the Venezuelan dictatorship", while a few days earlier at a press conference Bolton revealed his notes saying "5,000 troops to Colombia", the Venezuela-Brazil border and a Caribbean Island.
Such military intervention is likely to be the largest since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This could escalate into a confrontation with other nuclear powers because of their geo-strategic interests and investments in Venezuelan oil.
The Mail & Guardian therefore correctly concluded such military intervention is a great threat to regional and global peace and security. This was criticised by Mr Suhr.
Suhr's argument that the "Organisation of American states and the US is trying to restore democracy in Venezuela" is therefore fallacious. Is this possible when Elliot Abrahams is the US point man for Venezuela? On his appointment, he was described as a "man appointed for his rights and liberties of all people". This is the same man who, amongst others, advocated for US support for the genocidal Guatemalan regime and Salvadoran death squads. When a UN report catalogued 22,000 atrocities in El Salvador, Abrahams praised the US administrations "fabulous achievement" in El Salvador.
He was convicted of lying to Congress about US support for the fascist and murderous Nicaragua Contras. He was known as Reagan's "Secretary of Dirty wars".
His task in Venezuela will be to continue with the "dirty wars".
All governments without exception have made "mistakes" while governing. While Venezuela is no exception, the argument that the crisis is "self-made" and created by "failed socialist policies" is unsubstantiated.
The reality is that 70% of the Venezuelan economy is in private hands, the country is completely integrated into the global market and the world capitalist system and is dependent on oil, the fluctuating prices of which are determined by the capitalist market.
Any mistakes by the Venezuelan government have been made in its efforts to develop a system that would create a better life for all its people.
Contrary to what some "experts" write, Venezuela has since 1998, and despite its challenges, achieved much for its people including reducing poverty and improving standards of living. Many of the "middle-class demonstrators" today are the products of this reality. Any mistakes real or imagined cannot be justified by sophistry supporting regime change.
The activities of the US government, some countries in the region and Europe could lead to regime change and civil war which will threaten regional and international peace and security.
Supporters of regime change pretend to be ignorant of the many books and revelations by investigative organisations such the WikiLeaks.
The CIA has a long history of regime change operations in Latin America, including Guatemala (1954), the failed regime change activities in Cuba since 1961, the coup in Chile (1973), the intervention in Nicaragua (1980s) the invasion of Panama (1990) and regime change in Honduras (2009).
1. UN Rapporteur Alfred Zayas Covert operations including "public diplomacy", promoting democracy, human rights, good governance and "humanitarian intervention".
2. Using think tanks to influence support for intervention in the internal affairs of other countries.
4. Subverting local military and intelligence services.
There is a wealth of substantiated information showing that the US State Department, the CIA and US NGOs, support opposition parties, student organisations, religious organisations and cultural organisations to achieve regime change.
Philip Agee, a CIA whistle-blower, commented that "nowadays, instead of having the CIA going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process by inserting money or giving secret instructions so forth, they now have The National Endowment for Democracy".
A former "leftist" Alan Weinstein, a founding member of the NED, told The Washington Post as early as 1991 that "a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA". The NED is one of the many government-funded NGOs in the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia that uses its substantial funds to bring about regime change under the smokescreen of democracy, good governance, the protection of human rights (narrowly interpreted) and humanitarian intervention to achieve regime change by military or non-military means.
The NED was created by President Reagan's administration in 1983 and its founding members were extreme right cold war ideologues and some former "leftists". For decades the NED and similar NGOs used tactics including unprecedented perception management, training of "human rights activists", economic sabotage and sanctions as key tactical methods to fund, organise and train unsuspecting NGOs and individuals to achieve regime change. A NED-funded publication – the Global Americans –openly boasted that the organisation played a key role in "laying the groundwork for change in Nicaragua" and "it is becoming more and more clear that US support has… played a role in nurturing the current uprisings". Such information is also on the WikiLeaks website and many books.
A former UN Rapporteur Alfred Zayas, a American lawyer and a former secretary of the Human Rights Council, in his recently recently published UN report said that the US is engaging in "economic warfare against Venezuela which was the real reason for the economic and humanitarian crisis facing the country", and that sanctions against Venezuela are illegal and could amount to "crimes against humanity", under international law. He recommended, amongst other actions, that the International Criminal Court investigate economic sanctions against Venezuela as possible crimes against humanity under article 7 of the Rome Statute.
He concluded that the solution to the Venezuelan crisis lay "in good faith negotiations between the government and the opposition, an end to the economic war and the lifting of sanctions".
He also said that those sanctions are part of a US effort to overthrow the Venezuela government and install a friendlier regime saying those calling the situation a "humanitarian crisis" are being "weaponised" to discredit the government and make violent overthrow more "palatable".
De Zayas is one of 70 signatories of an open letter, along with Noam Chomsky and other academics and experts who have condemned a US-backed coup attempt against the Venezuelan government.
The US and its allies' strategy for regime change is economic warfare. The objective is to destroy the Venezuelan economy, by imposing illegal unilateral sanctions, interfering with Venezuelan oil, and making it difficult for Venezuela to access foreign sources of capital. All this creates extreme hardship and conditions for a civil conflict under the pretexts of "humanitarian intervention", seen most recently in Libya and Syria. In addition, the US and its various NGOs have funded and trained opposition forces in their strategy of continued violent demonstrations to make the country ungovernable.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and is presently the 10th largest oil producer. While it also has many other natural gas and mineral resources over 80% of its export earnings are from oil sales.
A WikiLeaks-exposed cable from the US embassy dated 1988, "US Goals, Objectives and Resource Management", states that "our fundamental interests in Venezuela are that Venezuela continues to supply our petroleum imports and continue to follow a moderate and responsible oil price position in OPEC." Bolton stated in a recent press conference, "We are in conversation with major American companies … it would make a difference if we could have American companies produce oil in Venezuela. We both have a lot at stake here." This regime change effort has no basis in the US Constitution or indeed the Charter of the UN.
The respect for sovereignty and self-determination of people, non-interference in the internal affairs of states and respect for countries' democratic institutions would be violated should a policy of regime change be implemented. The Trump administration, some countries in the region and Europe recognised an unelected relatively unknown as President, discussed a military coup with some Venezuelan military elements, sanctioned Venezuela's oil exports and are considering "all other options including military".
There is a commitment to impose neo-liberal capitalist economic policies on Venezuela. The IMF and World Bank recently concluded that contemporary challenges facing humanity are due to globalisation and neo-liberalism which has benefited a few and inequality is one of the biggest challenges the world faces today. The January 2019 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos confirmed this assessment.
In many other countries in Europe, there is the rise of fascism, neo-fascism, narrow populism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia.
Good governance, respect for international law and democracy are being trampled with impunity.
We are all living in a volatile and dangerous world where the rules-based system, and respect for international law and multilateralism is being challenged as never before.Regime change in Venezuela is not about the people's welfare, democracy or good governance but its vast oil reserves, its attempted model of anti-neoliberal policies and its geo-strategic position in Latin America. A Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Thulsi Gabbard, noted "it's about oil… again".
According to a study conducted by Hinterlace early in January 2019, 86% of all Venezuelans opposed military intervention in Venezuela and 81% opposed US sanctions.
All countries in the world have to think out of the box to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
The doomsday clock is ticking and the very future of humanity is at stake. How we choose to respond to the situation in Venezuela could bring us lessons for many years to come.
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Q: AndroidViewClient dump animated view One of the view is constantly refreshing (a SeekBar for music progress)
When I try to make a dump, I got this error:
RuntimeError: The views are being refreshed too frequently to dump.
Is it possible to freeze the app while the dump is not finished, or something similar?

A: This is a uiautomator limitation. You may try using ViewServer as the backend as it works in most cases, however you would need a rooted device or access to the application source code as described in https://github.com/dtmilano/AndroidViewClient/wiki#select-the-correct-implementation.

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The Surgeons' Hall Museums are owned by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and consist of the Wohl Pathology Museum, the History of Surgery Museum and The Dental Collection.
With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2014, the Museums underwent a major redevelopment that focused on the College's heritage and helped create a new and enhanced public space within the Museums to inform and share with the general public the historical journey of surgery and its advances.
The Museums also feature exhibits that inspire public engagement through interactive computer simulation, audience participation devices, film and user-friendly textual explanation, encouraging people to think about health and wellbeing.
Mediascape was selected via competitive tender to design, supply, install and configure the AV design for the new central exhibition in the History of Surgery Museum. All AV technology, configuration, set up and control provided by Mediascape; Multimedia creation was provided by Heritage Interactive.
The centrepiece of the project would be a 3D model of a human body onto which 2D graphics demonstrating an autopsy would be projected. This was designed and built to our specification and then coated for rear projection. Working within tight tolerances, we blended bespoke multimedia and used 3D geometric correction to display dynamic multimedia and created AMX timeline links to trigger video displays.
Heritage Interactive created and delivered 26 touchscreen interactives. The software included a large format 3D model of the human body, interactive timelines, layered content interactives for surgical specialisms, and a live interactive news feed application.
Heritage also created footage for 10 different film stations throughout the museum. A total of 39 short films were used showing various aspects of surgical practice. Each film was edited to ensure content was appropriately paced. Title graphics and subtitles were added for accessibility. To enable museum staff to update the interactive timeline, Heritage Interactive developed a bespoke CMS that allows for adding new items to the timeline, and update existing items, adding text and imagery.
This software and footage were all setup on the digital displays and touchscreens provided by Mediascape.
AV hardware used on the project included multiple interactive installations using large touch displays; 17″ touch screen kiosks and 10.1″ displays with associated audio.
This was a high-profile installation opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and broadcast on national news channels, both on TV and online. The team at Mediascape is proud to have successfully tendered for the project and we are glad to have delivered such an interesting, interactive AV experience for visitors to the Surgeons' Hall Museums.

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The Golden State can go on playing by its own rules. President Donald Trump will not take away California's ability to set its own vehicle emissions requirements as part of a review of the EPA's fuel economy goals, the White House said on Tuesday in advance of the president's official announcement today.
Trump will, however, be granting automakers an extra year to contest the current planned 54.5 miles per gallon corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard set for the year 2025 by the Obama administration. He is expected to make the announcement in Michigan today, in a speech to a group of automotive executives and other industry workers.
The administration's decision to examine the CAFE plans effectively restores an earlier timeline for review set by the EPA before the Obama administration fast-tracked its decision to implement the new standards in the final days of the outgoing presidency. Originally, the EPA had planned to deliberate on whether the goals were feasible until April 2018.
Automakers have been lobbying Trump to reject the Obama-era ruling almost since the new president took office. In a letter written to Trump last month, a group of CEOs and other executives claimed that the 54.5 mpg standard could cost up to a million jobs, among other economic penalties.
But California's unique status among the states to set its own emissions rules will not be challenged—at least, for now. Last week, rumors swirled that the Trump administration in general—and new EPA head and climate change denier Scott Pruitt in particular—would seek to strip California of its waiver that allows it to set more restrictive pollution standards for cars and trucks than the rest of the nation. (California's emissions rules are also followed by 16 other states.) The latest from the White House, however, makes clear that won't be happening at this time.
That said...there are still 1,407 days until January 20th, 2021, if you get our drift.
The president's planned trip to the Detroit area would seem to be the ideal place to make the announcement, which the auto industry has been advocating for.
The waiver actually affects a far larger segment of the population than just California.


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Mica Levi scores new film, Monos, by Alejandro Landes
Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 23:00
Matt McDermott
It follows the UK composer's scores for Jackie and Under The Skin.
Mica Levi has scored director Alejandro Landes' new film Monos. The film, which stars Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias and Sofia Buenaventura, revolves around "a group of eight kids with guns who watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow at a faraway mountaintop," according to Film Music Reporter. It will premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Levi's score for Monos follows her work on Jackie and Under The Skin. Earlier this year, Demdike Stare's label released Levi's music for the anime short Delete Beach. She also produced Tirzah's debut LP, Devotion, which made our list of 2018's Best Albums. Watch our RA Sessions film with Levi's band, Micachu & The Shapes.


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This has been going around in email and blogs, and we're not really going to get into it too much, but apparently this dude started something at a SF con where men who wanted to grab women's boobs could do it if the women were wearing a button that said it was okay. If a woman had a button that said "No, it's not okay" you're not supposed to grab her boobs, which is gentlemanly. He ended his call for creating an "Open Source Boob Project" that would carry the practice far and wide with the words "Touch the magic, my friends. Touch the magic."
Our first thought is that we wish boobs really were magic so we could magically change the kitty litter. Our second is that SF cons have this whole "sex positive" thing going on and a lot of people go to them to meet up with other people and some times get it on with other people who like to wear cat ears or whatever. But maybe that is not supposed to be carried over to other areas of life. Val, as usual, put it in some perspective:
I think if people want to have adult-themed comic book or sci-fi conventions where this sort of behavior is agreed-to upon before people even buy the ticket, that's fine. If there is such a driving need among some people to have sexual situations at a con, to fully "liberate oneself," great — create a separate con for that. Then "consenting adults" can purchase a few fanzines, cop a feel, and call it a day.
Val also links to theOpen Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project.
Related: We found this link in our trackbacks and we can't read Italian but it seems to be on the same topic and we stole the above illo from it.
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Douglas Wolk 04/28/2008 12:59 pm At 12:59 pm
On the one hand, I find the sexualization of a specifically non-sexual public space (Penguicon is apparently also a tech convention) sort of creepy. On the other hand, on a mailing list I'm on, somebody suggested that perhaps the way to do this would instead be to have buttons for the men who were hoping to be asked to "touch the magic," which I have to admit would solve a whole lot of problems with the idea at once.
Christopher Moonlight 04/28/2008 1:54 pm At 1:54 pm
"Our first thought is that we wish boobs really were magic so we could magically change the kitty litter."
I could use those, too.
But really people. Comic book conventions really aren't the place for this, no matter what your point of view on the subject is. We're always talking about getting more kids and women into comics, and this sort of thing goes against that in every way I can think of. Besides, what girl with even less then half a brain in her head would weir such a badge? Yes, women are wonderful, and their breasts are pretty (when they're real) but the greatness of women doesn't stop there. NOT BY A LONG SHOT!!! Those with their eyes closed to this fact are missing out on a whole world of cool.
~chris 04/28/2008 2:05 pm At 2:05 pm
The other Chris is right. I didn't take my niece to (San Diego) Comic Con until she was 12, due to the booth babes and poorly covered "adult" art. If I'd seen stuff like this going on, I'd have never taken her, and stopped going myself.
Alex 04/28/2008 2:38 pm At 2:38 pm
Could there be a pin that says 'Yes, its okay' for being punched in the face. You just walk through the con, and punch the guy in front of you in the face.
Randy Lander 04/28/2008 3:09 pm At 3:09 pm
I think the magic solution no one has found is to link both Open Source projects. Of course, the OS Swift Kick to the Balls project would be given precedence.
But if "Can I touch your boobs?" was swiftly followed by "Yes, if I may kick you in the balls repeatedly" I'm guessing the whole thing would sort itself out quickly. ;)
Lea 04/28/2008 5:35 pm At 5:35 pm
Wow, that Benes. (It's Benes, and I'm guessing, ED Benes art.) Class all the way.
Alan Coil 04/28/2008 5:45 pm At 5:45 pm
Ann Arbor, Michigan—hotbed of gentlemanly conduct.
Cary Coatney 04/28/2008 6:30 pm At 6:30 pm
Next thing you'll know – they'll be bringing females escorts to Friends of Lulu meetings.
Oh wait – I already done that.
Vichus Smith 04/28/2008 6:50 pm At 6:50 pm
Wow, this sounds completely stupid- only because it doesn't sound like it would work.
Red Stapler 04/28/2008 7:10 pm At 7:10 pm
You can find my take on this phenomenon here.
I actually know one of the women who participated. She wore a red button.
I have a sneaking suspicion that had she, or Ferrett's wife, been the person to post about it, we'd be having an entirely different discussion. Or none at all.
Primate 04/28/2008 7:16 pm At 7:16 pm
Jeezus, between this, the Hope Larson link, and the Adam Hughes kerfuffle last week, The Beat and its readership have gone BOOB CRAZY. CRAZY, I tells ya. Must be spring in the air.
Forget cons, I'm not letting the kids I know go to BLOGS anymore.
Jes' funnin', y'all.
Unpopular 04/28/2008 7:20 pm At 7:20 pm
This is ridiculous. Is there a huge female population at conventions so in need of having their breasts touched that some guy had to create buttons to help fill that need? Not likely. I'm all for people in this country to loosen up about sexual stuff, but this isn't really going to help much.
I am a little bothered by the "swift kick in the balls" counter program because it's not exactly on the same level as a boob grab. However, it is quite humorous.
"I am a little bothered by the "swift kick in the balls" counter program"
I am a little too, but that's not going to stop me from teaching it to my daughter.
"However, it is quite humorous."
Yes. Yes, it is.
In addendum to what I said about getting kids and girls into comics before, I'd also like to point out to those who might be a bit slow to make a connection to parents that will never pick up a comic. First impressions (at a con or otherwise) will dictate what they'll let their kids get their hands on.
michael 04/28/2008 10:40 pm At 10:40 pm
I heart Val's opinions on this.
In the age where everything is accepted, some folks still don't know that certain boundaries are good to have.
Tag 04/28/2008 11:09 pm At 11:09 pm
Let me put this into some perspective for anyone still on the fence about this:
I am a man who loves boobs and, more importantly, the women attached to them. I wrote and drew a comic about an imp that molests boobs for the express purpose of making fun of the male compulsion towards them, including my own. It's important that we be able to joke about such things in order to defuse them though acknowledgement.
And yet even I think this is perhaps the most idiotic idea that I've ever heard. The lack of faculties in distinguishing a time and place for these sort of shenanigans (ie, Dragon*Con [rimshot]) only serves to reinforce negative stereotypes about comic readers, both within and without the community. A system by which the socially-awkward bypasses engaging women as individuals and instead objectifies them in a public context, almost Sim-like in its treatment of women as an "other," speaks to a misanthropy that if it weren't already self-defeating by nature would guarantee to perpetuate the alienation that makes it seem necessary.
Christopher Moonlight 04/29/2008 12:08 am At 12:08 am
Tag, I wanted to check out your page but the link didn't work.
Tom Galloway 04/29/2008 2:57 am At 2:57 am
I agree this was very dumb for all the reasons so far mentioned, plus others, but I do feel I should correct the two factual errors/omissions in Heidi's initial post (based on what I've read happened from several primary sources, not my actual experience as I wasn't there).
1) The "OK buttons" were supposed to mean "You can ask if you'd like to touch my boobs", with "No" supposed to be an "acceptable" answer, not an open announcement that anyone could walk up and grab 'em sans asking.
2) It wasn't just a male touching female boobs thing. Seems there were a considerable number of women relative to the whole number (what I've seen was on the order of 40 people out of a 1,000 person convention) involved on the touching side as well as the touched, and who were in on it from the start. No equivalent bit for touching men though.
Torsten Adair 04/29/2008 9:56 am At 9:56 am
Hmm… might the easiest solution be a comicbook equivalent of the bandana code? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandana_code) Everyone wears generic colored buttons, similar in size to the freebies DC hands out. Left side means you enjoy it happening to you, right side means you enjoy doing it to someone else. Of course, ettiquette requires you ask politely and discretely.
I don't quite understand the point of just copping a feel. It's much more fun to have a nice conversation over dinner and drinks, discover how interesting the other person is, and slowly seduce him or her so that the mere act of holding hands makes the object of your affections swoon with passion.
And then later you can dress up as Batman, she can be the damsal in distress, or Catwoman, or Robin, or Poison Ivy with plant pheromes, or …
Kat Kan 04/29/2008 2:37 pm At 2:37 pm
I am a little bothered by the "swift kick in the balls" counter program because it's not exactly on the same level as a boob grab.
The emotional impact is exactly the same. It is also a physical assault. I still can feel the way that man grabbed me, and it's been 35 frelling years since it happened! I felt physically ill after it happened. Never told my parents. Never told my boyfriend (now my husband of 30 years). It still feels incredibly nasty and I still experience that helplessness when I think about it.
So damn straight, nowadays if anyone tried to cop a feel on me I'd kick him in the balls! And I know how to do it now, too. Of course, now I'm a middle-aged woman so I wouldn't be a typical target for this asinine behavior.
Tag 04/29/2008 5:35 pm At 5:35 pm
Christopher: I must've mistyped the URL. This link will lead you to my blog. That blog has a profile. That profile has a link to another, ostensibly for one of my future comics, which in turn has a link to my Comicspace profile. I realize that's a pain in the ass but I've linked this way on The Beat since I started commenting here, before I had either of the latter two, and I'll likely continue to once I get a dedicated website, just out of habit, truculence and good ol' fashioned paranoia.
"The emotional impact is exactly the same. It is also a physical assault. I still can feel the way that man grabbed me, and it's been 35 frelling years since it happened! I felt physically ill after it happened. Never told my parents. Never told my boyfriend (now my husband of 30 years). It still feels incredibly nasty and I still experience that helplessness when I think about it. "
Clearly this was a traumatic experience for you. However, you have no idea what sort of emotional impact a swift kick in the balls provides just as I have no idea what an unwanted boob grab has on you. The simple fact remains that a boob grab and a kick in the balls aren't physically equal, but you have every right to defend yourself if you feel threatened. I just have a problem with a kick in the balls being the go-to method for anything and everything. Maybe it's because I just don't get this fascination with breasts.
All in all, I'm on the side of no boob grabs and no ball kicks. I think we can all agree on that.
Jordon 01/25/2009 3:11 pm At 3:11 pm
The whole thing sounds kinda…hypocritical really.
I mean it IS sanfransicko right? Are we to believe that this is the worst thing that is going to be seen in that city?
So often we hear "oh if its between TWO consenting adults, blah blah blah", now those same people saying that they are concerned about the kiddies seeing it?
Again…in a place like san fran..I hardly think that this is the worst thing that they'll see in a place like that (on ANY given day).
I really hope that this sick stuff ( consentual boob grabbing)isnt brought to other convention sites, and it should be shunned for the shite it is. But what I think is also kinda disgusting is the hypocritical stance by so many that are the first in line to preach the tired line of "between two consenting adults.." that allow this garbage to even exist in the first place.
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FirstName:Francis; LastName:Walter; DisplayName:Francis Walter; BirthDate:1894-05-24; DeathDate:1963-06-01; BirthLocation:Easton, PA; Gender:Male; Ethnicity:White; GenerationIdentifier:; Nationality:US; ExternalResourceLink:; PrimaryGeography:; Religion:;
Representative Francis Walter (1894–1963), the longtime Democratic representative from Pennsylvania and a notorious hardline anti-Communist, was the House sponsor of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act of 1952 , which overturned Japanese exclusion and opened naturalization to Issei and other Asian immigrants.
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Francis Walter, widely known as "Tad," was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, on May 24, 1894. He attended Lehigh University, George Washington University (where he starred on the baseball team) and then Georgetown University, where he studied law. He served in World War I as a naval flier on an anti-submarine patrol, then returned to Easton. After being admitted to the bar in 1919, he became a successful corporate lawyer and director of the Broad Street Trust Company in Philadelphia. He was elected solicitor of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in 1928. Four years later, he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, riding on the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt . He gained a reputation during the 1930s as a reliable supporter of Democratic positions on social issues, and a close ally of House Speaker Samuel Rayburn. During World War II, Walter was called back into service. He took a leave from Congress and enlisted in the navy as a lieutenant commander, spending six months in naval aviation. He earned notoriety in 1944 by presenting President Roosevelt with a letter opener made from the bones of a Japanese soldier. The war increased his developing interest in international affairs and the problem of refugees. In 1947, he visited Europe as part of a Congressional committee in support of the proposed Marshall Plan for European reconstruction. Three years later, as head of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, he toured Germany to study the problem of displaced persons. In 1951, he helped found the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. At its annual conferences, held in Europe, delegates sought havens for European refugees.
Ironically, while in 1945 Walter had proposed abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and had voted against funding it, as the Cold War intensified, Walter became an increasingly outspoken advocate of internal security measures to fight against Communism. In 1949, once the Democrats regained the majority in the House, he was asked by Speaker Rayburn to join HUAC, in order to burnish its reputation. Once appointed a member of HUAC, he became second in command to its chair, Georgia Representative John Wood, and an active force. In 1950, he travelled to Hawai'i as head of a subcommittee to hold hearings on Communist infiltration in the territory. Several Nisei witnesses testified about their past Party membership, notably Ichiro Izuka, a former president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union who charged that the ILWU was Communist-controlled.
Immigration Act of 1952
Meanwhile, as an admirer of the war record of Nisei soldiers, Walter became interested in promoting equal naturalization rights. In coordination with Rep. Walter Judd (who had sponsored a series of unsuccessful measures), in January 1950 Walter introduced a resolution to abolish race and ethnicity as factors in naturalization. After passage by the House, and in modified form in the Senate, it was ultimately twinned with a bill, sponsored by conservative Nevada Senator Pat McCarran, that placed numerous restrictions on civil liberties. Because of these restrictions, the bill was vetoed by President Harry Truman in September 1950. While the House voted to override the president's veto, the Senate failed to act before Congress adjourned. Once the 82nd Congress convened in January 1951, the Walter Resolution was folded into a larger omnibus bill on Immigration and Naturalization, HR 5678 (for partisan reasons, Speaker Rayburn insisted that the bill carry Walter's name rather than Judd's), which proceeded through a long set of hearings.
In addition to opening up naturalization for the first time to aliens of Asian ancestry, the act allowed legal entry to a tiny quota of Asian immigrants (135 from Japan, 100 from other nations). On April 26, 1952, the House voted 206 to 68 to approve the bill. It was then merged with a Senate version sponsored by Senator McCarran, and sent to the White House. Despite the large majority vote in favor, the final bill was controversial. Although it slightly enlarged the total number of immigrants admitted annually and ended the absolute ban on Asian immigration, the bill reinscribed the outmoded and racist "national quota" system, with quotas based on the proportion of immigrants in the United States in 1920. It also ended the policy of free entry into the United States by immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, including many Caribbean and West Indian Blacks. Worst of all, the bill denied entry to present and former Communist Party members and allowed the U.S. government to deport and/or bar from re-entry those identified as subversives. Thus, while he approved ending racial barriers to immigration, President Truman vetoed the legislation, stating that the deportation provisions were so vague as to amount to "thought control." Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower likewise publicly opposed the measure. On June 27, 1952 the McCarran-Walter Act was enacted by Congress over Truman's veto.
Japanese Americans divided sharply over the bill. Because winning naturalization rights for the Issei was their primary goal, JACL leaders reluctantly gave the larger bill their support, and helped lobby Congress to override President Harry Truman's veto. However, many Nisei liberals and leftists denounced the bill. In articles in the Nisei press, writers Togo Tanaka and S.I. Hayakawa accused the JACL of putting selfish group interest ahead of all those who would be damaged by the law. Hayakawa proclaimed, "To secure the rights to naturalization of Issei at the cost of all the questionable and illiberal features of the McCarran-Walter Bill appears to be an act of unpardonable shortsightedness or cynical opportunism." [1] Nevertheless, Japanese communities celebrated the passage of the law, and numerous resident aliens (including Hayakawa) rushed to apply for U.S. citizenship. One Japanese American couple paid tribute to the law by naming their newborn son McCarran Walter Ono.
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As chair of House Subcommittee on Immigration, Walter continued over the following years to resist pressure from liberals of both parties to abolish or update the national quotas, or to pool unused immigration slots from favored countries. When Rep. Emanuel Celler, chair of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization appointed by President Truman, called in 1953 for changes in the law to grant equal admission to non-Nordics, Walter denounced what he called "professionals including professional Jews shedding crocodile tears" over imagined discriminations in the law. [2] In 1960, he opposed as a "phony issue" the insertion of a plank in the Democratic Platform urging abolition of the national origins quota system as deliberately discriminatory. [3] He did, however, sponsor small bills for the admission of political refugees, and also supported statehood for Hawai'i.
In 1955, following pressure from Democratic leaders, Walter agreed to become chair of HUAC, whose prestige had been further sullied by the fall of Joe McCarthy. He continued to defend HUAC as vital to national security. As he told a group of critics in 1961, "I'm just doing a job, and it's a stinking job, one I don't relish. But one of the things that makes it more difficult is the opposition of those who have more at stake in this fight than anyone else." [4] Similarly, in 1962 he complained of "soft-headed clergymen and college professors who think communism is just innocent fun." [5] During these years, he served as head of the Democratic Patronage Committee, and in 1960 was named was chair of the prestigious House Democratic Caucus. Although he was a favored candidate for Speaker of the House following the death of Sam Rayburn in late 1961, he declined the post on health grounds and announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of the term. While he ultimately changed his mind and was elected for a 16th term in fall 1962, soon after the new Congress convened he entered the hospital with leukemia, and died there on June 1, 1963. At the time of his death, he was the House's longest-serving Pennsylvania Democrat.
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Masaoka, Mike, and Bill Hosokawa. They Call Me Moses Masaoka . New York : William Morrow, 1987.
Robinson, Greg. After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics . Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
↑ "S.I. Hayakawa, Semanticist, Criticizes Support of Walter-McCarren Act," Chicago Shimpo , September 13, 1952.
↑ "Attacks on Jews Arouse Congress," New York Amsterdam News , January 17, 1953, 1.
↑ "Defends Nordic Entry Quota," Chicago Defender , September 7, 1960, A4.
↑ "Francis E. Walter," Christian Science Monitor , June 3, 1963, 14.
↑ "Clergy Cautioned on Reds by Walter," New York Times , February 21, 1962, 41.
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Russian ice hockey youth coach Alexander Antropov is known in his home city of Ekaterinburg for his passion for making short videos of kids performing elaborate drills during practice. Thanks to the success of the clips, he could be well on his way to wider fame.
Antropov uploads his clips on his personal Instagram page, where they rarely get more than 50000 views. However, they go viral after others download and post the content on various social media platforms.
One example which bears testimony to this, is a video which drew 59000 views on his Instagram page, but attracted over three million eyeballs when it was republished on a Facebook group called Minor Hockey Parents on December 10.
Antropov is seemingly unfazed by his popularity.
"It doesn't bother me much. If people like my videos, I don't mind that they post them on different pages," he told RT Sport.
"I always liked watching all kinds of hockey highlight videos. And highlights of different kinds of sports as well.
"I didn't see any original content of that kind coming from Russia though, so I thought that I should try to make my own," he added.
His latest video published on Instagram just four days ago has already been shared over 1500 times after it was re-plugged on a Facebook group.
Rather than being carried away, the Antropov interprets the 'likes' and 'shares' as free publicity for his hockey school.
"I know that my videos are getting millions of views on other resources, but I don't plan to block it in any way.
"More people are learning about our school this way."
Antropov is coaching a group of children born in 2008 for the Avtomobilist Hockey Club in Ekaterinburg, whose professional team is competing in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Ekaterinburg is also home to legendary NHL star Pavel Datsyuk, who recently moved to the KHL to play for SKA St. Petersburg.
When asked whether any of his students could reach such a level in the future, Antropov said that he and fellow coaches at the Avtomobilist will do all they can to help them in that endeavor.
"Me and my colleagues we are training this group of kids from their first steps on the ice, we do what we can to help them improve their skills in this game.
"But becoming a professional athlete is hard. Especially if we are talking about such high profile players as Pavel. But we will be happy if that happens one day."


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The Web Mindset: Browsers reinvented everything.
We talk, work, and think different thanks to the web.
by @maguay
Writer. Amateur photographer. Information architect. Frm. founding editor @racket and @capiche, senior writer @zapier, Mac and Web editor @AppStorm. Personal blog: @techinch.
One day, Internet Explorer was nearly the only game in town, powering 96% of website visits at its peak in 2002. Then, quickly it turned into the app you only used to download Firefox or Chrome, or so the joke went. And then Internet Explorer died and turned into Chrome.
Empires rise then quickly fall in tech. One year, the web was merely a vision "about anything being potentially connected with anything," as inventor Tim Berners-Lee put it before releasing the web in late 1990. 5 years later, Microsoft would bundle its Internet Explorer web browser with Windows—something the U.S. Department of Justice called anti-competitive in 1998.
From creating an industry to lawsuits over monopolizing said industry in under a decade may be a record. But that's the web. Everything moves faster online, from the dot-com boom and bust to today's smartphone-powered world.
"The Web is already so much a part of our lives that familiarity has clouded our perception of the Web itself," wrote Berners-Lee in 1999, something far truer decades later. It's almost hard to remember a world without browser and tabs and bookmarks.
The web and browsers didn't simply change computing. They changed us, forever.
Reinventing language.
First the web changed language.
Browsers were cows grazing in the field. Humans looking through shelves for the next book to read bore a passing similarity, so they in turn also were called browsers.
Then came the internet, and it's hard to imagine browsers as anything other than apps to access the web.
We needed something to call the app we'd use to access the web, and the groundwork had been laid years before. InfoWorld in late 1983 mentions a reader as a "browser," but earlier that year the rebranding had started in an article about the latest Smalltalk, a new programming environment from Xerox' PARC laboratory.
"The programmer's display lets you write a program in a window referred to as a 'browser,'" explained InfoWorld writer John Markoff. "When the program is complete, you can select a menu item that compiles that text without making you save it to disk." No files, no saving, just browsing.
That idea stuck around for naming other software for viewing things. Dr. Dobb's Journal mentioned Browse command to view files without editing them as a File Browser in 1984. And by 1987 when Microsoft was rumored to build a HyperCard competitor, Robert Cringely said "It's called Browser, appropriately enough." Browsers were mainstream years before the web needed one.
Browsing in its original sense was part of Tim Berners-Lee's original inspiration for the web, with the Victorian-era book Enquire Within Upon Everything. The early single-volume encyclopedia was "a portal to a world of information," reminisced Berners-Lee, covering "everything from how to remove clothing stains to tips on investing money." It was a hardcover internet for an earlier age, where a young Tim browsed for information.
Browser alone was too restrictive a term for Berners-Lee, who envisioned the web as an interactive place where we'd read and write the web together. So he called WorldWideWeb a "browser/editor"—but the portmanteau was not for long. "As soon as developers got their client working as a browser and released it to the world, very few bothered to continue to develop it as an editor," mourned Berners-Lee in his book Weaving the Web.
Browser stuck. And along with the name, the idea of the web as somewhere we scroll through content—browsing instead of creating—would stick until web apps reinvented software on the web.
That'd hardly be the last word the web would change. The Web itself was borrowed from what spiders weave. Sites were locations, until they became locations on the web. Links were parts of a chain, until they became underlined text. And now there's an entire Urban Dictionary filled, in part, with words we've collectively invented and repurposed on the web.
Rapid iteration.
Then the web changed the way we work.
WorldWideWeb was a quite basic reader, a proof of concept for Berners-Lee's hyperlinked text ideas. You could read and edit HTML pages, but you couldn't embed photos or other media. The students at the University of Illinois demanded more. Thus came Mosaic as a project from students, where the National Center for Supercomputing funded the browser that made the web popular.
Mosaic turned the web into a magazine, with in-line photos and fancier layouts. You couldn't have built Netflix or Spotify just yet, but the seeds were planted with embedded media. The web wouldn't just be a collection of static documents.
Mosaic was also the original downloadable app. If you already had a browser, you could download Mosaic and install it on Unix, Windows, or Mac, for free, an early glimpse of the app stores of the future.
And that's what changed the world. Mosaic wasn't just software that stayed the same, as traditional boxed software had up until that time. It evolved quickly, in an early example of the rapid iteration and continuous release cycles web apps would later bring to software development, that would then spill over to the continuous news cycle in media.
"Marc maintained a near-constant presence on the newsgroups discussing the Web," recalled Berners-Lee of Marc Andreessen, one of Mosaic's developers. People would ask for something, he'd add it as a new feature and release it, then iterate on their next feedback. Each new feature increased Mosaic's popularity. Why stick with the same old software when a better version was a click away?
That set the tone for decades of web development. When your competitors are only a tab or download away, you can't afford to not listen to users. Give them what they want and they'll give you a near-monopoly—until someone else meets their needs better, and your app will be an also-run.
"Marc, more than anyone, appeared interested in responding to users' wants," said Berners-Lee. Thus fancier web pages were in, editing was out, much to the web inventor's frustration.
Then somehow, it came full circle. As Gary Wolf noted in Wired, after seeing people experience the richer web in Mosaic, "Almost every person who uses it feels the impulse to add some content of his or her own." Editing would still be a core part of the web, from original homepages on Geocities to WordPress blogs, Facebook status updates, and every new work file in G Suite and Figma and more. It would just come from apps on the web, rather than from the browser itself.
Rethinking everything.
Then the web changed everything.
Mosaic died. The NCSA funds dried up, leaving the university to license Mosaic to other companies. Andreessen went to look for a job, linking his resume in Mosaic's About page as an early personal growth hack.
AOL had a proprietary network, with publishers like National Geographic and the Smithsonian. Early Apple employees started General Magic and built an early smartphone-like device, with a custom AT&T-powered network.
The web was nice, so the thought went, but the future was custom networks run by media companies. The web got the idea started, but it was bound to be an information superhighway, a better TV.
So Andreessen, along with Jim Clark of Silicon Graphics, got the idea to make interactive TV—only it turned out to cost 10s of thousands of dollars per household. They considered connected gaming—but that was years away from working. "It was illegal to do commerce on the web until 1993," as Andreessen recalled, but once that changed, maybe the web could work with a more powerful browser. Nothing else seemed to.
"It wasn't until deep into the planning process that they decided that by improving the browser to make it secure, more functional, and easier to use, they could make the internet the network of the future," recalled early Netscape employee Ben Horowitz. "And that became the mission of Netscape."
Netscape turned the web into a business, kickstarting the dot com bubble when the year-old company was suddenly worth $3 billion after its IPO. The web was here to stay, and with it the tech startups that would dominate the NASDAQ over the coming decades.
WorldWideWeb threw away the assumption that information couldn't be connected, Mosaic that information had to be plain, Netscape that the web was only for academia. And along the way, it brought Javascript and interaction to the web, and SSL encryption for secure transactions, paving the way for web apps.
Rebuilding software around the web.
Rebuilding your core product around something that was invented merely 5 years earlier would be madness in the analogue age. But once the web sped everything up, there was little else to do. Adapt or die.
"The Internet is a tidal wave," wrote Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 1995. "It changes the rules."
Aol would go on to embrace the web, acquiring Netscape in the process and turning its network into a dial-up internet service. Microsoft would embrace the web so fully, it rebuilt the Windows desktop around the browser.
First they licensed Mosaic, used it to build early versions of Internet Explorer, and bundled them for free with Windows. Then they combined the two with Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4. You could put parts of websites on your desktop, and use the same interface to browse your files or websites. The web wasn't just another app, it was a core part of your computer—an early hint of what the web-only ChromeOS would offer decades later.
Web apps were still basic, with Hotmail's online email and Amazon's online checkout as state of the art. So IE also added browser extensions, to build mini-apps that lived in toolbars and could add extra features to websites, laying the groundwork for multi-million dollar businesses built as browser companions.
We'd grow to hate the stacks of toolbars, yearn for a simpler web. But the idea that software development would revolve around the web stuck, enough to uproot Microsoft's dominance in desktop software.
"Our work moved developers from Win32 API, Microsoft's proprietary platform, to the Internet," said Horowitz of the Netscape team. Ironically, Microsoft itself did the rest of the work, fueling the web's growth while hastening Windows' demise at the same time. Decades later, it's increasingly rare to see business software developed for anything but the web.
Removing everything else.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer won thanks to a combination of new features and bundling with most new computers, both Windows and Mac. Then it got complacent, shipping Internet Explorer 6 in 2001 then waiting five years before making another browser.
The rapid iteration that fueled Mosaic, then Netscape, then IE's rise had come to a stop. Perhaps we'd be content with desktop software after all.
Then the Netscape team regrouped, built Firefox, and turned Internet Explorer into just a tool to download a better browser. It was fast, with features like tabs and popup blockers that tamed the web, and let developers build extensions that made it an increasingly better browser.
Then Steve Jobs decided Apple should build a browser. "The focus would be on one thing: Speed," recalled engineer Ken Kocienda. "Steve wanted our browser to be fast, really fast ... much faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer, the product we aimed to replace." So they forked KHTML, a Linux browser engine, turned it into Webkit, built Apple's Safari browser, and put the internet in our pockets.
Webkit, in turn, provided the groundwork for Google to build Chrome. The search giant forked Webkit's rendering engine, added a faster Javascript engine to make the browser better for apps, and removed everything else. Google named the browser after the UI chrome surrounding the web, then ironically removed most of it. Gone were the toolbars that cluttered IE, and the titlebar that announced the site's name. Gone, too, was the Google search box that had become a secondary address bar ever since Firefox added it.
Chrome had less chrome than any other browser, left the focus on the web. You searched and browsed from the same box, with extensions relegated to tiny icons. Everything else was the web.
And that stuck. Today, every browser generally looks the same, with a unified address/search bar, extensions as small toolbar buttons, and site names in the tabs. Nearly every browser works the same too: Webkit still powers Safari, its forked Blink engine powers Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera, while Firefox alone has a truly unique rendering engine. And every browser now supports similar web extensions, as Google's simpler extensions became the default way to add features to the web.
Somehow, by removing everything other than the essentials, Chrome won the browser wars. It was the web all along that we wanted, as a platform for sites and positional software. Everything else was just extra.
Seasons change.
Market power on the internet is a fickle thing.
World Wide Web was the only browser. Then Mosaic quickly became the crowd favorite, before being eclipsed by Netscape, the competing browser built by one of its founders.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer had 33% market share when the DOJ accused them of anti-competitive practices; it would go on to peak at around 96% market share in early 2002. Then came Firefox as Netscape's revenge, gaining over 30% market share in 2009 before Apple's Safari paired with the iPhone's popularity gave it over 20% share in 2014.
Now, it's Google's world, with the search giant's Chrome being used by over 70% of people on the web and the technology behind it powering Microsoft's latest browser.
Today's browsers are the ultimate remix. They've come and gone with surprising speed, each successor picking up the best things their predecessor introduced and adding new twists. And they've remade the world in their image. We now expect free software updates, tabs and bookmarks, and software companies being worth billions overnight. We're used to tech-infused language changing how we communicate.
To think it all started with the idea to connect everything.
Image Credit: Header photo by Nicolas Picard via Unsplash. Chrome comic from the Google Chrome Team.
@codyofficial (replying to maguay )
Great piece! I definitely learned some browser history that I didn't know before. I'm curious about the future: will Chrome fall and be supplanted by something new? I've found Chrome to have slowly morphed into all the things people hated about IE—bloated, cluttered, resource hog, too powerful.
@maguay (replying to @codyofficial )
@codyofficial Thank you!
It is interesting how the tides turn and where Chrome was the new fast browser years ago, today it's more known for using up all your Ram. The big advantages it has today are distribution where Google can easily promote it through Google Search, G Suite, and pre-install it on Android and Chromebooks, and then that it's optimized for web apps where G Suite among other apps work better in Chrome. But then, those were IE's advantages too—at a certain point, many sites only worked in IE, but that's now changed into where many sites break in IE.
Would be ironic if Edge became the most popular browser again. Safari keeps its smaller share through bundling with Apple devices, though not being on other platforms limits its potential.
Would be fun to see a fully new browser that's not just another Chrome/Webkit reskin. A Superhuman for the web?
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In Year 9 pupils look at some of the risks facing them, including smoking, alcohol, drugs and relationships.
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To work at the position of a systems administrator and utilize my technical skills to manage the computerized systems employed at the organization. To gain effective experience of installing systems and correcting errors to ensure trouble-free technical support for the employees.
Sound familiarity with Windows2000, WindowsXP and Windows 7 at the user level, including user and application installation.
Installation and configuration of Cisco Router.
M.Sc (IT) from Acharya Nagarjuna university ,Guntur.
Degree in Arts from Utkal university ,Bhubaneswar.
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MCSE , CCNA , EXCHANGE SERVER 2007 and Linux training From ZOOM TECHNOLOGY, Secundrabad.
Worked as a Assist-System Administrator in RRV INFRA PVT Ltd since October 2010 to November 2012 .
Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy.
Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
Implimation of Disk quota and sharing folder and sharing resource throughout the network .
Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures.
Provide technical support to users and help them install, operate and make minor repairs to the systems on their own .
Hobbies : Reading of different computer books regarding tips and tricks.


When it comes to mainstreaming low-carbon lifestyles, why do we need to move from 'nudge' to 'think'? How do we make sure we're focusing on the behaviours and audiences that really matter? When does one sustainable behaviour lead to another? What role do positive social norms and authentic storytelling play?
These are some of the questions brought together in a report drawing on key findings from Cardiff University's Low Carbon Lifestyles & Behavioural Spillover (CASPI) programme. This programme funded by the European Research Council has spanned 5 years and 7 countries.


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Woronoff: New coach, new offense, same old Yellow Jackets
Brent Woronoff
brent.woronoff@staugustine.com
Medicine balls and footballs littered the sidelines. The late afternoon sun roasted players and coaches alike before slipping behind black clouds, providing a reprieve.
Not much was different at St. Augustine High School on Monday's first day of preseason football practice. And yet everything was different.
For the first time in 20 years, Joey Wiles, the man who had guided the Yellow Jackets to 14 district titles, six final-four appearances and one state championship, was not present.
"He wasn't going to come out on Day 1," said Brian Braddock, Wiles' protégé and replacement as the team's head coach. "He'll come out at some point. He probably thinks it's the best thing."
Braddock would have welcomed Wiles on the first day, maybe even put him to work. "If he's willing and able, I will," Braddock said.
The players would have taken a moment out to welcome him. Too long and they would have heard it from their new head coach, just as they would have heard it from their old head coach.
"Coach Wiles would give it to you. Coach Braddock is a little more understanding," said senior safety Jacoby Feliciano, who waited until after practice to announce his commitment to Southern Mississippi.
"As soon as I walked on campus I felt like I was home, Feliciano said of his visit to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. "It was like all the players already knew me. It felt good."
Feliciano has the same feeling every time he steps on the Jackets' practice field.
"I love it," he said. "Nothing really changes. If you're a Jacket, you know it's always going to be the same.
"This TV," he said pointing to a screen on a wall outside the locker room, "and this board (the Jacket Football Goal Board on the wall opposite the TV) are the only differences."
Practice is set up a bit different. Because of thin numbers, Braddock decided to combine the varsity and JV players for much of the practice.
"It's the first time we've done this in a long time," said defensive assistant coach Curt Stewart, who is beginning his 16th season with the Yellow Jackets. In nine of those years he coached alongside Braddock, who left St. Augustine three years ago to become the head coach at Mandarin, where he compiled a 23-10 record, culminating with a 12-1 season last year.
After Wiles stepped down to become an assistant athletic director at Flagler College, Braddock, who also graduated from St. Augustine, seemed like the natural choice to step in.
"Brian's from the same cloth as Coach Wiles," Stewart said. "He coached with him for so long."
"He reminds me of a younger Coach Wiles," said quarterback Cole Northrup. "It's like if Coach Wiles was 30 years younger, he'd even talk like Coach Braddock, I think.
"It's all very familiar. They're both very encouraging, but they'll get on your mistakes and correct them."
Braddock's style is a bit different from Wiles. He bounced around the field Monday, joining a JV group one minute, a varsity group the next.
"The first day is always a little bumpy," he said. "But it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of energy and enthusiasm."
St. Augustine's offense will also be different this year.
"It's fun, up-tempo, new stuff," said Northrup. "More of an Oregon-Auburn feel. Before it was Alabama-Florida State - ground and pound. We're still going to pound it (with running back Jahquise Russell), but with a quicker pace."
Tuesday's practice, and everyday the rest of the week - until Saturday's scrimmage at Joe Pomar Park, part of CommUNITY Day with the Jackets - will be more of the same.
But at some point Wiles may stop by.


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Small businesses could save €41bn on EU red tape - Hoofdinhoud
Met dank overgenomen van EUobserver (EUOBSERVER) i, gepubliceerd op dinsdag 14 oktober 2014, 7:03.
Auteur: Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Small businesses should be exempted "wherever possible" from EU law, according to an expert group tasked with slashing red tape.
The recommendations, which would exempt small firms from a raft of EU laws aimed at improving health and safety or social policy, are contained in a non-binding report by the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens.
Chaired by Edmund Stoiber, the conservative former first minister of Bavaria, the report will be unveiled on Tuesday (October 14) by European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso i. The 15-member group was set up in 2007 and advises the EU executive on how to reduce the bloc's regulatory burden.
The political objective of regulation has become "predominant whilst any resulting bureaucratic burdens were rarely taken into consideration", says the Stoiber report.
It estimates that its proposals would save businesses €41 billion per year.
The group also urges governments not to go beyond the provisions in an EU law when transposing it into national legislation, saying that a third of unnecessary costs on business are caused by "gold plating".
"SMEs and micro-businesses should be exempted from EU obligations as far as this is possible," it notes.
The report calls on the EU to establish a new body to scrutinise the impact assessments of commission proposals, and to "assess the evidence base for and the costs and benefits of" future regulation.
It would also set up a red tape Ombudsman.
But the paper has been publicly disowned by four members of the panel, who represent trade unions, consumer and environmental groups, and who drafted a minority opinion.
Focusing on exemptions "is the wrong approach, and would deprive policy making of much of its effectiveness," they say, adding that new targets for reducing regulation would be "shortsighted as it reduces the range of tools that policy makers have to address as well as unresolved problems."
Reducing red tape on business has become a mantra for governments and the EU executive in recent years.
Last autumn, a task force appointed by UK prime minister David Cameron i made 30 recommendations to reform or scrap EU rules. It said that exempting small firms from health and safety reporting requirements would save €2.7 billion.
It also called for small businesses to have special treatment when applying legislation on maternity leave and temporary agency workers.
Meanwhile, Frans Timmermans i, the Dutch commissioner-designate, has been appointed specifically to promote "better regulation".
Legislation regulating the use of chemicals, known as Reach, has been cited as the most burdensome EU law by small businesses, along with rules on maternity leave and temporary workers.
The EU's executive arm previously said it has already cut 5,590 rules and reduced the bureaucratic burden on firms by €32 billion since 2005. It also launched its Refit initiative, aimed at streamlining the EU's rule book, last year.
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Heat a large saucepan over medium heat. Pour the oil into the saucepan and swirl to coat the bottom. Cook the onion for 3-4 minutes or until tender, stirring frequently.
Stir in the carrots, sweet potato, celery, bell pepper and garlic. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
Stir in the lentils, cumin, thyme and mustard. Cook for 1 minute, stirring to coat.
Increase the heat to medium high. Stir in the broth, tomatoes, water, bay leaves and pepper. Bring to a boil. Skim off any foam. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered for 25 minutes. The lentils will still be firm.
Stir in the hot dogs and vinegar. Cook, uncovered, for 5-7 minutes, or until the lentils are tender.
Remove they bay leaves before serving the stew.
A bowl of this satisfying and nutritious stew (low-fat, cholesterol-free, high-fiber), full of vegetables, lentils and vegetarian hot dogs, might very well become a new family favorite.
Cooking tips: You can usually find vegetarian hot dogs in the refrigerated section of the supermarket near the fresh produce or in the freezer section. They might also be called soy dogs, soy wieners, veggie dogs, meatless sausage or vegetarian sausage.


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OpinionTop Stories Author: DQINDIA Online - January 2, 2020
Top 5 trends for digital payments in 2020
The convergence of finance and technology gave rise to 'FinTech', and digital payments have been one of its primary drivers
Technology has always been a keystone to the evolution of the banking and financial services sector, as it continuously revolutionized the way the financial services were conceptualized, regulated, disseminated, and consumed. However, the last few years witnessed technology emerging from the backroom and taking center-stage alongside financial services. The convergence gave birth to the 'FinTech' movement, and digital payments have been one of its primary drivers.
Over the years, the emerging FinTechs have evolved from disruptive threats to enabling partners, offering technological innovations and newer opportunities that expand well beyond the realm of traditional financial services. As we continue our 'Digital India' journey in 2020, it is imperative to build stronger infrastructure, innovate continuously, and develop a policy framework that fuels the acceptance and adoption of digital payments. Technology will continue to influence financial services enterprises' focus on customer-centricity and impact the initiatives pertaining to trust, privacy, and security. All, while enabling game-changing insights from the core currency: the data.
Here are the five key technology trends that we expect to shape the digital payments landscape in 2020.
The Hyper-Connected World
As technologies like 5G roll out, lightning-fast connectivity will become more commonplace – though not ubiquitous. Businesses outside the traditional retail system will be able to take advantage of this by selling services and products to customers, near instantly, from anywhere. From an India perspective, the framework for 5G is underway, and is expected to help businesses investing in AI, data and 5G to run simultaneous processes and transactions all at once. Furthermore, the internet of things (IoT) could become a dominate force in micro-payments by transforming connected devices into payment channels.
Indian Banking Will Experience Significant Disruption with Consolidations
Two major factors – UPI and banking consolidation – have begun to remarkably impact the Indian banking this year and would continue well into the year 2020. Come April 1st, we will witness the birth of mammoth banking entities, with mergers of three public sector banks – Union Bank of India, Andhra Bank, and Corporation Bank. Earlier this year, State Bank of India merged its five associate banks and Bharatiya Mahila Bank. Bank of Baroda later joined the fray by merging Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with itself. With the advent of these mega banking entities, the rise in dominance of NBFCs among retail and small business credit, the explosion of digital payment methods led by UPI, and the pressure to continuously optimize operations, Indian banks would need to significantly invest in building digital capabilities to sustain and develop core differentiators.
To pave way for growth in 2020, Indian banks would need to optimize and upgrade their core technologies to adopt the concepts of open banking. Banks would continue to leverage open APIs to create horizontal stack with fintech partners for customer interface, product & services, and infrastructure to cater to the burgeoning digital payments demand. BCG suggests that by FY22-25 UPI will account for 59% of the market share for payments in the country, up from 17% this year. The quantum of opportunity can be gauged by the fact that only 10% of the UPI transactions in FY19 were accounted for by banks. The rest were initiated by consumer-facing fintech apps.
The Digital Disruption of POS – The Impact of eCommerce
The state of merchant POS is an interesting story in India. Industry pundits suggest that while there are about 80-odd million MSME merchants, only about 5 million POS machines are in operation. Though the POS ecosystem in the country seems to have doubled over the last five years – to about 4 million in FY19, and the Reserve Bank of India expects the number to cross 5 million by the end of 2021, the penetration of traditional POS remains weak in terms of availability and viability. Moreover, according to reports, the POS share may dip from 20% of the current payments market to about 14% in FY22-25. Banks are also witnessing a sharp decline in the usage of cards at conventional POS terminals and ATMs.
Interestingly, digital payments in India seem to grow at a CAGR of 12.7% as per KPMG and may jump to Rs. 4,055 trillion in FY24 with a five-year CAGR of 20% according to CRISIL Research. POS is undoubtedly experiencing disruption with digital payments. The year 2020 will see an explosion of the digital POS ecosystem in the country, especially among the MSME segment. Many industry experts from large private and public sector banks in the country believe in FY19, more than 70% of POS registrations came from online-only merchants. Digital POS (based on NFC, RFID and QR code) will continue to grow phenomenally. In fact, with e-Commerce, digital POS may also impact the Cash-on-Delivery model and replace it with digital transactions. What may be even more interesting is that while there seems to be a decline of debit card issuance and usage, the contactless method of digital POS may result in an increased acceptance of cards (credit, debit and PPI) across smaller centres in the country.
Regulators Will Turn Digital
Indian banking and financial regulatory bodies and industry enablers are increasingly adopting a wide range of AI, data gathering and analytical tools to create transparency and safety frameworks. We can already see this happening with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) having formed a new unit to strengthen its own frameworks in the face of emerging disruptive trends like cryptocurrency, blockchain and AI. This will help businesses and banks to monitor overall systemic activity and predict potential challenges – and avert them before they become a threat.
Cybersecurity and RPA Will Focus Primarily on Fraud Prevention & Detection
As digital payments go mainstream, financial institutions are straining hard to continuously reduce their exposure to financial crimes and be compliant with evolving regulations. Customer data breaches, lack of professional cybersecurity talent, deployment of security automation and its integration with current systems will continue to plague banks and financial services firms. The rise of 'digital' in the financial sector will see more calls for robust cyber protection, which will be heavily influenced by cybersecurity innovations. Enhancing cybersecurity and fraud mitigation is poised to be one of the most crucial trends in 2020.
Moreover, Robotic Process Automations will continue to impact migration activities, data security & governance, and compliance management, especially in the wake of the recent and ensuing PSU bank consolidations. The prime application of RPA in the coming year will be in the field of data governance and fraud detection & management. Banks and payment players would like to drive intelligent automation with RPAs by incorporating AI, ML, and adaptive analytics to enable risk managers to create real-time fraud detection systems that will be reacting and adapting to new fraud signals, driving fast decision-making and responses to emerging fraud threats. RPAs-led intelligent automation in the field of financial fraud will gain grounds in helping banks and digital payments firms to earn consumer trust.
By Kaushik Roy, VP & Country Head – South Asia, ACI Worldwide
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