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Workshop at the Ranch – November 2009 – Return to Neverland
Hi, and welcome to this edition of Workshop at the Ranch. Back in 2004 at the conclusion of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece I decided to move forward in my career and take on new challenges, new projects, and new photographic techniques. This decision marked the end of my deep participation with the sport of gymnastics that I had been involved with beginning at age 8 as a student, a competitor, a coach, and a photojournalist. With the conclusion of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy I intentionally severed the tie from Olympic photographic coverage and proceeded onto new photographic endeavors …… until October 12, 2009.
Via a couple of casual emails between life time friend/publisher Paul Ziert and myself, we simultaneously concluded it would be good for me to return to the sport to photograph the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in London, England. Like Peter Pan, Paul's encouragement made it reality for this trip across the big pond, and I would not work solo as Paul's staff of gymnastics photographers would have their own responsibilities to the IG publications. I had not covered a gymnastics competition for five years, but I owe Paul my sincere gratitude in offering me a wonderful opportunity to Return to Neverland………….
Image #1 Jolly Olde … My wife Susan would be joining me on this adventure and so we flew to the "second star on the right and straight on till morning" then touched down in London's Heathrow Airport at 6:45 am. We then scurried off to Windsor Castle were we meet up with Peter and the Lost Boys,… I mean Paul, his magazine/website staff, and the ever enthusiastic IG Tour group that would be attending the competition. Rather than sleepily disembark from an long international flight, lasso a photo credential around my neck, and start shooting pictures of cart-wheeling athletes training, a morning at Windsor seemed a nicer way to begin the week. Although Queen Elizabeth was in residence this morning she did not answer the door ….. guess she's too grown up for a Pan, Hook, and all the rest. Nikon D700, ISO400, 1/250 at f16, Nikon 24-70mm lens, WB 5560K, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #2 London's O2 Arena … Welcome to the O2 Arena, home to the Olympic Gymnastics and Basketball competitions for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. These World Artistic Gymnastics Championships would be the inaugural Olympic sports competition for the the O2 and London, a sort of test event that by the way ran "spot on." The O2 is huge with room to breathe. Not only will it house the two Olympic competitions and up to 20,000 fans, but it also provides space for the working press operations, training facilities for the athletes, a shopping mall, night club, cinema, and extensive midway of over 30 restaurants (I highly recommend the Slug and Lettuce.) Nikon D700, ISO1000, 1/50 at f2.8, Nikon 24-70mm lens, WB, 5560K, Lexar 16G Flash Card. The O2 is so large that finding a suitable angle to photograph it from was difficult. This image was taken from a boat on the Thames River at twilight.
Image #3 Off to Neverland … I must admit that I was a bit nervous walking into the O2 competition area. Not of Pirates, Indians, and crocodiles, but it had been 5 years since I had photographed competitive gymnastics and thoughts that I had grown up crossed my mind. All fears slipped away faster than you can say "Bob's your uncle" once I made my way from the press room through the seating area of international journalists and onto the arena floor. My 26 years of World and Olympic sports coverage and timing for gymnastics returned quickly. I was greeted by some good friends including Great Britains own Eileen Langsley, perhaps the BEST photographer of gymnastics that the sport has ever known. "Welcome to London" she said…….(welcome to Neverland I thought in my head.) A return to my youth, a return to familiar surroundings, and a return to a sport that I once knew well …. but, things had changed here in Neverland. For example, the equipment I was using was different from 2004. Today's Nikon D3 camera was capable of clean High ISO settings of 3200 and 6400 rather than a mere ISO800 or 1200 back in Athens and Torino. And for the first time ever, I would not bring my Nikon 400mm f2.8 lens, but would instead make use of the lighter and more versatile Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom f4.0 lens. I was relying on using the D3 camera's high ISO setting of 6400 in exchange for giving up the f2.8 aperture of the larger and heavier 400mm fixed lens. Nikon D3, ISO2000, 1/400 at f4.0, Nikon 14-24mm lens, WB Fluorescent, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #4 Queen for a Day … Bridget Sloan of the USA captured the Women's ALL Around title, but she didn't do it by scoring high 9's. Another change in Neverland was the absence of the score of 10.0 and in my opinion, gone also was the necessity for perfection. Today the gymnast is on a quest for a score of 14, 15, or even 16. My life time of evolvement with the sport seemed far away and sometimes useless when assessing a current performance. Routines that appeared complex and near perfect did not always measure up to the code and place an athlete on the podium. Form breaks and unstable landings used to spell doom for a gymnast, but under the protection of today's code of points rule book all is forgiven as long as you can "throw and go…and keep on throwing and going." Bridget Sloan was a worthy All Around champion. She never gave up pushing herself to finish strong and I applaud her for her undying competitiveness. Where others seem to wind down like worn out clock springs attempting to compile tricks/points Miss Sloan kept on tick-tocking like Big Ben. Nikon D3, ISO3200, 1/640 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400 G VR Zoom lens, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #5 He-mazing … He Kexin of China is the current Olympic Champion and showed the capacity crowd at the O2 why she still reigns as number one in the world. Perhaps He's Uneven Parallel Bar routine is an example of why the sport abandoned the 10.0 system. In the finals He was first to compete. This was a definite disadvantage to all others as no one could measure up to her "High Bar" standard of accumulated skills, execution, and dynamic style. I had only been in Neverland a few days, but it was easy to see why she, or He had no equal. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/1250 at f4, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, WB Fluorescent, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #6 Rising Daughter … Koko Tsurumi was Japan's female highlight and a long time awaited balance to the powerful Japanese mens program. All business and all around capable she captured the Bronze medal in the All Around competition and was a pleasure to photograph. At only 4'7″ Koko is another good reason for photographers to bring a 600mm lens to Olympic gymnastics in 2012. Nikon D3, ISO3200, 1/640 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #7 Russian Flight … Another change in Neverland was the absence of Russian dominance. The event finals lineup seemed nearly void of names ending with ova. Ekaterina Kurbatova, Anna Myzdrikova, and this image of Ksenia Semenova provided brief glimpses of former Russian greatness. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/640 at f5.6, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens with Nikon 1.4 TC14E Teleconverter, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #8 Upper Flat … The O2 Arena will be a marvelous venue for the Olympics in 2012, but photographically there is a major hurdle to overcome …… the O2 blue line. If you take another look at image #3 you will notice a bright blue line that runs through the picture and around the arena. This is an electronic marquee similar to those of most modern arenas here in the US. While it does not carry advertising it is illuminated continually throughout the competition and is a major obstacle to making great imagery. My greatest challenge during my return to Neverland was not regaining my timing for the sport, but choosing long lens angles to shoot from that had a clean background and especially a background that did not include the dreaded blue line. The O2 is "steep and deep" which offers excellent shooting opportunities from the 4th level nose bleed seats. Preliminary competition days offered plenty of open seating up high and a terrific view looking down on the competing athletes. Nikon D3, ISO4000, 1/500 at f5.6, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens with Nikon 1.4 TC14E Teleconverter, WB Fluorescent, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #9 (number 9, number 9… the Beatles White Album) Piccadilly Line … While Peter Pan, Wendy, John, and Michael used "pixie dust" and "lovely thoughts" to travel around Neverland my wife Susan and I used the London Tube. Clean, fast, and easy to maneuver we set out to visit Olde London town before the gymnastics competition sessions started. As the Tube is directly adjacent to the O2 Arena it was very convenient to "pop in" to the city and see the sites, then return for the daily competition. The British Museum, Tower of London, and Harrods all became part of the World Championship experience for us. Nikon D700, ISO500, Shutter Priority at 1/8 of a second with EV-0.7, Nikon 24-70mm lens, WB Auto, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #10 Rising Son … The high point of the mens competition was Japan's Kohei Uchimura winning the All Around. What a joy it was to watch this athlete perform with such difficulty, style, and near flawless execution. Each routine was filled with flowing continuity and a confidence that brought to my mind some of the great Japanese gymnastics champions like Kato, Kenmotsu, and Tsukahara. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/1250 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card. This shooting position is from across the O2 competition floor. During the All Around final I was the only one using this location, and to that a fellow photographer informed me "this position is no good" and went on his way to join the "photo pack" over by the Horizontal Bar. All of Uchimura's high value release skills faced this direction including his dismount and celebratory hand wave to the crowd upon clinching the gold medal, but what do I know, after all, I had just arrived back in Neverland.
Image #11 Great Britain … Daniel Keatings of the UK provided the home crowd with plenty to "go completely mental" for. The silver medallist in the mens All Around, Keating looked fabulous and exclaimed he was "over the moon" with his achievement. This long range image from across the O2 Arena competition floor offered a black curtain backdrop for terrific pictures of the Pommel Horse event. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/400 at f6.7, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens with Nikon 1.7 TC17E Teleconverter, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #12 Seoul Man … Won Chui Yoo from Korea soared into the mens Parallel Bar finals. Like the Pommel Horse event, clean background imagery of the P Bar finals would require selective positioning. Most photographers cluster at the straight-on view for the P Bar finals. I like that view as well, but made sure I had already made use of that location during the All Around competition a few days earlier. This freed me to photograph from a slightly different angle to the apparatus during the individual final and avoid the stressful crowd of anxious photographers. This strategy of shooting from different positions along with staying one step ahead of the "photo pack" has always helped me attain clean, unique pictures, and retain my sanity during heated World and Olympic coverage. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/1250 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #13 Yankee Dandy … One of the surprise performers in the All Around competition was Timothy McNeill of the USA. While his skill repertoire is continuing to develop McNeill displayed a smooth style and ability to perform under the pressure of the World's best. Here is the straight-on view for Parallel Bars during the mens All Around final. This position was mostly deserted during this preliminary day which made working very enjoyable. Nikon D3, ISO3200, 1/800 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, WB Fluorescent, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #14 Just For Men … Walking into the O2 Arena I felt I might be the one with the most gray hair. That is until I saw Jordan Iovtchev of Bulgaria jump up to grab the Still Rings. I had already photographed Jordan for many years by the time I left the sport in 2004. Like Captain Hook from Neverland Jordan had grown up and was now turning gray, but it was a exciting to see him capture the silver medal at these World Championships. With sponsorships both permissible and visible on competitors uniforms Jordon might consider contracting with Just For Men ……… gee, maybe I should look into that sponsorship myself. Nikon D3, ISO5000, 1/320 at f6.7, Nikon 200-400 G VR Zoom lens with Nikon 1.7 TC17E Teleconverter, WB Fluorescent, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
Image #15 Blue Line Logistics … When you talk about sports and a blue line it usually means ice hockey, but not at the O2. Well, here it is, the O2 blue line. It wraps around 3 sides of the arena and is just below the Sky Box Seats which are also illuminated. This is a very long lens arena in my opinion. If the photographer needs a clean background, and wants to avoid the blue line and fluorescent lit sky box seats they should come to the O2 with long glass. I used a Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens by itself and also with 1.4 and 1.7 teleconverters to obtain long low angles that kept the O2 blue line out of the frame. A 600mm f4.0 lens would have been a help, but the maneuverability and versatility of the 200-400mm even with teleconverters still worked well thanks to the clean high ISO capabilities of the Nikon D3. Also make note that the NEW Nikon D3s camera with even higher clean ISO capabilities of 12,800 and beyond will make the 200-400mm with teleconverters an ideal piece of equipment for this kind of sports event coverage. Nikon D3, ISO6400, 1/1240 at f4.0, Nikon 200-400mm G VR Zoom lens, Gitzo Carbon Fiber Monopod, WB Fluorescent, Lexar 16G Flash Card. This image was made to provide an example of the O2 blue line for this article. It was made while I was standing on the floor which gave me a low angle to the Balance Beam. All my images for the magazine/archives were made from a slightly (1 foot) elevated box and long distances to the athlete. By elevating my position by just 1 foot I was able to eliminate the blue line from the top of the images.
Image #16 London Skyline … The final session of competition ended just after Tea Time, and so one more trip into London town for my wife Susan and I before taking flight across the Atlantic. With the London Eye directly over our heads, and Big Ben and Parliament across the Thames River I stopped and thought how wonderful it was to be teamed up again with Paul Ziert and the sport I grew up with. I enjoyed myself very much and want to thank Paul for his encouragement. Nikon D700, ISO1600, 1/30 at f2.8, Nikon 24-70mm lens, WB Auto, Hand Held, Lexar 16G Flash Card.
With the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the record books and my return to Neverland over all that was left was for Susan and I to throw a little pixie dust at each other and think lovely thoughts ………. and up we go……..
See you next month here on Workshop at the Ranch. Cheers, Dave


TGIF! We love Fridays because we know that Mommy is home and gets to play with us for two whole days! I personally love when she sleeps in and I get to snuggle with her longer.
We are so honored that our new friend Kiddo wrote about us for his Friends Friday :).
He's a handsome Tuxie like me!
All of our friends are new this week so we wanted to send out a big thank you for the warm welcome! We love this place and all the kitties and kitty friends.
Have a great day! We're going to snuggle up in our favorite abandoned aquarium and wait for Mommy to get home.
We were just over at Kiddo's and saw he had written about you kitties!
We love that it is Friday too cause our mom and dad will be able to snuggles with us for two days too!!
Have a happy weekend! I will go see what Kiddo wrote!
Hi Monkeys! We hope you have a good weekend snugglin' with your mom!
Hi Monkeys! Hope you have a great weekend!


With snow already beginning to fall in the Grand Canyon State, cozying up in a cabin surrounded by towering aspens has never been so appealing. Forest Houses Resort in Sedona is the perfect getaway when you just need to check out of life for a few days, and the scenery is absolutely breathtaking no matter the season. Right now fall foliage is in full force and makes the property look like an enchanted forest, and pretty soon the grounds will be covered in a blanket of white.
Situated on 20 wooded acres in the upper portion of Oak Creek Canyon, Forest Houses Resort is an enchanting getaway year-round. With several different types of trees surrounding the property, autumn is an especially magical time to visit.
Red maple, aspen, chaparral, and oak are just some of the abundant vegetation that makes its home here. All the recent rain has supplied the forest with exactly what it needs to flourish into a beautiful scene like this, so it's safe to say we're in for a treat.
Temperatures are pleasant in early fall; afternoons are mild and evenings are just cool enough to enjoy a fireside mug of hot cocoa. Many of the 16 houses have a private patio, so your days can start and end with nature's tranquil silence.
Speaking of fires, wood is supplied to guests free of charge. Considering snow is already starting to fall in some parts of the state, it won't be long before getting warm after sunset requires timbers to be set ablaze.
Sleeping between two and ten people, the cabins can accommodate couples and large parties alike. Whether you're looking for a romantic hideaway or a family vacation venue, there's a house for every occasion.
Charming interiors resemble New England ski lodges, and luxury amenities are akin to those of five-star resorts. Enjoy rock fireplaces, wood-burning stoves, whirlpool tubs, and plenty of other features you'd never expect to find deep in the wilderness.
Although cozying up indoors all day is a completely valid option, several scenic hiking trails within walking distance of the property make exploring the canyon sound pretty tempting. Walk across historic bridges, marvel at unique geological formations, and appreciate the stunning work Mother Nature did on our beautiful state.
Rates range from $125 to $160 per night depending on which cabin you choose, and the resort is located at 9275 N. SR 89A, Sedona, AZ 86336. Click here for more information.
Have you ever stayed at Forest Houses Resort? Are there any other unique hotels in Arizona that deserve recognition? Let us know your favorites!


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1)Wear on head of rail is due to abrasion on moving rails.
3)When train starts or applies brakes, the wheel just slides on the rails causing wear on the head.
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1)It is much greater than the wear on the head of the rail.
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3)The ends are battered by such blows.
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Like magic, you can make metal candleholders look like age-worn living room displays. Just use neutral colored spray paints for a result that looks authentically antique!
Work on flat surface in a well-ventilated area, wipe the candleholders using a dry cloth before starting (to remove dirt).
Cover the glass with masking tape (to avoid getting paint on it), you may also remove glass from the frame (if applicable).
Spray the interiors of the cardholder FIRST, place it back on a flat surface then spray the exteriors.
Let dry completely (at least 3hours). Repeat if necessary.
For candles, I suggest tealight candles (flat-shaped top).
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~ Candleholders/lamps were from conventions/thrift shops.


This is the World's Smallest Inhabited Island, only enough for one house and one tree.
In movies, we often see wealthy people owned an island with mansions, wide lawns and landscapes, huge driveway and the such. But did you know famous celebrities like Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage, Leonardo DiCaprio, Celine Dion, Mel Gibson, Ricky Martin, and Shakira actually owns a private island? Yes, you heard it right!
But we will not be talking about it, but rather, this smallest inhabited island in the world in Alexandria Bay, in the middle of New York and Ontario.
Unlike any other private island, this tiny island located in Alexandria Bay, in the middle of New York and Ontario has no driveway nor a fancy garden. Why? Because this island is only big enough for one house and one tree.
It was hailed as the "world's smallest island" and was fittingly named, "Just Room Enough Island". It also became more popular than David Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio's island estates.
According to Variety Trends, this tiny island is considered as one of St. Lawrence River's 1,864 islands, with only has 3,300 square feet which roughly is the size of a tennis court. It earned a title of "smallest inhabited island" from Bishop Rock, which is double the size of Just Room Enough Island, and only has a lighthouse which is automated since 1982, so no one has to operate it manually.
Formerly, the island is called "Hub Island", until the Sizelands family bought it and renamed the island. Based on a report, they wanted a gateway to escape the hassle and bustle life in the city so they decided to buy it.
Though the island has a small and limited space, they still enjoy the relaxation view and the peace that take away their stress. The island has only one house and one tree. Also becomes a famous tourist sight especially when ferries and cruises pass by.
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Tyler, The Creator unveils the Camp Flog Gnaw line-up for 2016.
Camp Flog Gnaw is approaching. This afternoon Tyler, The Creator took to his Instagram to unveil the line-up for this year's annual festival, which takes place at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. This year the festival spans November 12-13.
The line-up this year is pretty impressive. Lil Wayne, Erykah Badu, ScHoolboy Q, A$AP Rocky, Tyler, The Creator and Chance The Rapper act as the main headliners. You'll also get to catch performances from Kehlani, DJ Mustard, A$AP Ferg, Flatbush Zombies, Action Bronson, SZA, Joey Bada$$ and many others.
Check out the flyer up top for the all the performers announced thus far-- more to come. Tyler also revealed tickets are going on sale on Tuesday. Will you be copping?
Audio Push Announce Release Date For Debut Album "90951"


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2022 marks final year for Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival
By Josh Rosenthal
Fox 5 takes a look back at the history of the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival as it prepares for it's final festival ever in 2022.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Don Hooker and his daughter Sarah started the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival in 1998.
In a Facebook message posted Tuesday, Hooker noted the event has showcased roughly 300 bands and raised more than $1.4 million for local charities, but he cited rising costs, declining attendance, loss of sponsorship, and other financial factors as reasons for making the difficult decision to shut down.
"We're not making enough of a difference in what we donate to the charities, so we thought it was just time," organizer Don Hooker told Fox 5 Wednesday.
The memories, however, will remain.
"James Brown came out of his trailer when he played there. Gave me $2,000 cash and told me to give that to the kids I do that for," Hooker recalled, before adding, "had a glass of wine with Ray Manzarek from The Doors, and we talked for about a half hour about Jim and the 60s. That was awesome."
And then there was that time with Aretha Franklin.
"She said she wasn't going on unless she had a grand piano on stage. I had to send somebody to Baltimore to pick up a grand piano, and she played it for five minutes," he laughed.
Meanwhile, fans were devastated by the news. One wrote on Facebook, "my husband passed away 3 years ago & all the memories we made at your fabulous event are truly some of the best we ever made."
"They brought tears to my eyes," Hooker said of the comments. "We started off doing the festival to make a difference with charities, but we were really making a difference in the people that attend the festival as much as the charities."
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Q: Probability (Independent Events need explanation) Here's my question. If I'm given two events, both independent of each other. How do I know if $A \cap B$ is empty or if I have to multiply $Pr(A)\;Pr(B)$ to find $A \cap B$? I had a question as such,
An insurance company pays hospital claims. The number of claims that include emergency
room or operating room charges is 90% of the total number of claims. The number of claims
that do not include emergency room charges is 25% of the total number of claims. The
occurrence of emergency room charges is independent of the occurrence of operating room
charges on hospital claims.
Calculate the probability that a claim submitted to the insurance company includes operating
room charges.
My thinking was $A$ and $B$ have no intersection. But they in fact do. Someone please explain mutually exclusive and independent events to me.

A: Two events are mutually exclusive if $P(A\cap B)=0$. This means that there is no way for these two events to occur simultaneously.
Two events are independent if $P(A)\cdot P(B)=P(A\cap B)$, but $P(A\cap B)$ isn't necessarily zero.
In your example let $E$ be the event of an emergency room claim and $O$ be the event of an operating room claim. We are told that $P(E\cup O)=0.9$, $P(E^C)=0.25$, and that events $E$ and $O$ are independent. This tells us only that
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P(E\cap O)=P(E)\cdot P(O).
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Since $P(E^C)=0.25$, then we must have $P(E)=1-P(E^C)=1-0.25=0.75$. This can be put into our formula to give us
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P(E\cap O)=0.75\cdot P(O).
$$
Then you can use sum rule for probabilities to finish this question off and get $P(O)=0.6$.


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New e-Toolkit supports greater access to information and coordination within Nigeria's Malaria Elimination Program
A group of PMI-S and NMEP stakeholders gather to review the e-toolkit.
Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, now exceeding 200 million, and is home to 25% of the world's malaria burden. Over the years, donors and implementing partners working with the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) in Nigeria have had difficulty accessing strategic documents required to effectively implement malaria programs.
Electronic Prescriptions: Enabling Health Care Reform in Ukraine
In April 2019, the USAID Safe, Affordable, and Effective Medicines for Ukrainians (SAFEMed) Activity supported the National Health Service of Ukraine with the introduction of electronic prescriptions, also known as e-prescriptions, to complement and advance Ukraine's medicines reimbursement program. At little or no cost, patients can access select medicines, which family doctors electronically prescribe, to treat cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, or bronchial asthma.
MTaPS Program Assists the Philippines With COVID-19 Emergency Response
The USAID MTaPS Program is supporting the Philippines in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The concerted effort is a partnership of USAID with the Philippines Department of Health (DoH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF. MTaPS is assisting in two technical areas critical to managing and controlling the pandemic: infection prevention and control (IPC) and supply chain management of essential emergency commodities.
Please direct all press inquiries to Jordan Coriza via email or phone, 617-283-9479.
MSH & The Tao of Leadership
Partnership and Empowerment: We take our inspiration from the Tao (Way) of Leadership, working shoulder to shoulder with our local colleagues and partners toward their empowerment and success.
Offline App Expands Malaria Protection for Children in Benin
Management Sciences for Health Supports the United States re-Engagement with the World Health Organization
Management Sciences for Health's Board of Directors Appoints John Isaacson as Chair
From health worker to patient: Preterm care is a responsibility for all


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United Way of Sumner County: A Brief History
In 1887, a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi recognized the need for cooperative action to address their city's welfare problems. Frances Wisebart Jacobs, the Rev. Myron W. Reed, Msgr. William J.O'Ryan, Dean H. Martyn Hart and Rabbi William S. Friedman put their heads together to plan the first united campaign for 10 health and welfare agencies. They created an organization to serve as an agent to collect funds for local charities, as well as to coordinate relief services, counsel and refer clients to cooperating agencies, and make emergency assistance grants in cases which could not be referred. That year, Denver raised $21,700 and created a movement that would spread throughout the country to become the United Way. Over 125 years later, United Way is still focused on mobilizing the caring power of communities and making a difference in people's lives.
In Nashville, Tenn., the idea of coodinated fundraising gains support during World War I with the success of the War Chest Campaign. After the war, four men decide to continue this successful concept to support local health and human services. This was the beginning of what became the Community Chest.
Nashville business leaders establish the United Givers Fund (UGF), replacing the Community Chest. UGF has its first $1 million workplace campaign.
The UGF joins with similar organizations nationwide to become United Way.
Discussion of creating a stand-alone United Way for Sumner County began as far back as 1967. Discussions took place in various forms until 1974, when increasing needs in the community made it clear that our community needed its own United Way. Wade Powers, then the Dean of Admissions for Volunteer State Community College and a member of the Sumner County Quarterly Court (now known as the County Commission), was approached to lead the local effort to form a United Way by the Area Wide Study Committee. Over the next two years, through several committees and meetings, the decision was made to create United Way of Sumner County in July 1977.
The organization was originally led by an Executive Committee made up of local leaders. Committees were established to make recommendations to the Committee. Included in the first group of leaders were:
Chairman Wade Powers
Vice Chairman Charles Bone
Campaign Cmte. Chair Frank Farnum
Admissions & Allocations Cmte. Chair Dr. Charles Moffatt
Collection, Disbursement & Audit Cmte. Chair Len Little
Publicity & Promotion Cmte. Chair Jack Burnette
Bill Burgess
The organization's first local fundraising campaign, with a goal of $150,000, was announced in a front-page story in the Sumner Times on Aug. 31, 1977.
United Way of Sumner County celebrates its 20th Anniversary by raising $692,000 and supporting 41 local health and human service agencies.
United Way of Sumner County sets a new fundraising record of $714,066.
United Way of Sumner County has its second-largest fundraing campaign, raising $705,536.
United Way of Sumner County responds to the early May floods that devastated Middle Tennessee by mobilizing resources and volunteers across the community to bring relief and hope to those affected by rains that total up to 19 inches in some areas. The Cumberland River crests at 51.86 feet in Nashville, a level not seen since 1937. In addition to raising money, collecting relief supplies and materials, and organizing volunteers, United Way of Sumner County works to coordinate relief efforts from various aspects of the community to make sure assistance gets where it is needed.
UWSC moves into its new home on Hunt Club Boulevard in March 2011 and continues to improve the quality of life across Sumner County by allocating funds to 36 health and human service agency partners.
United Way of Sumner County sets a new fundraising record, with donations to the 2011 Campaign totaling $715,448. More than 4,100 individuals contributed during the Campaign, which funds 36 health and human service programs across the county.
More than 400 students receive backpacks filled with school supplies collected during UWSC's Stuff the Bus school supply drive.
United Way of Sumner County takes its 2012 Campaign Kick-off on the road and visits five cities in a single day. Stops in Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland, White House and Hendersonville each include a recap of the 2011 Campaign, early news from the 2012 Campaign, comments from UWSC and local officials, food, fun and free LIVE UNITED t-shirts.
Sumner County residents exceed all expectations by donating more than 2,200 coats and jackets to the UWSC Winter Coat Drive, a dramatic increase over the 468 coats collected in 2009. The collected garments are provided to local residents through the assistance of numerous local agencies and organizations. Each donated item is cleaned by Signature Cleaners prior to being delivered.
UWSC hosts the inaugural Sumner Soiree and raises more than $20,000 for the 2012 Campaign.
For the second consecutive year, United Way of Sumner County sets a new fundraising record, generating $816,628 during the 2012 Campaign. The total represents a 14.14% increase over the amount raised in 2011 and a third straight year of Campaign growth.
United Way of Sumner County allocates more than $515,000 to local health and human service agencies in the community to meet the growing needs faced by area residents.
More than 58 individuals take part in UWSC's Days of Caring by volunteering their time to tackle a variety of projects at local health and human service agencies.
The number of Sumner County students who receive backpacks filled with school supplies collected during Stuff the Bus increases more than 50%, with more than 500 children receiving needed assistance. Stuff the Bus draws more than 70 volunteers, who assist in organizing and packing donated school supplies.
In October, 60 golfers spent a picture-perfect Columbus Day (Monday, Oct. 14) participating in United Way of Sumner County's inaugural Charity Golf Scramble at The Club at Fairvue. Presented by Servis 1st Bank and Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, the Scramble raised $12,300 to support United Way of Sumner County programs.
UWSC's 2013 Winter Coat Drive for Children and Youth collects and distributes 1,342 coats, all of which were cleaned free of charge by Signature Cleaners prior to being delivered to individuals in need.
In the month of December, Publix in Goodlettsville and The News Examiner/Star News collected Christmas toys for children in need. United Way of Sumner County worked with the businesses and partner agencies to distribute the toys in time for the holidays.
On Feb. 20, approximately 125 people braved threatening weather to come out and support United Way of Sumner County at the Celebrity Waiter and Waitress Fundraiser Dinner at Nana's Kitchen in Westmoreland. In addition to good food and a fun atmosphere, slightly more than $3,000 was raised for United Way of Sumner County at the event. The fundraiser was organized by Jan Braun of the Westmoreland Expo Center.
The second-annual Sumner Soirée was held March 8 at The Depot Square in Gallatin. The gala event and auction drew more than 130 guests and raised more than $18,000. Sponsors for the 2014 Sumner Soirée were: Presenting Sponsors ITW and Tri-Star Hendersonville Medical Center; Gold Sponsor Wilson Bank & Trust; and Silver Sponsors Mark R. Lowhorn C.P.A. and Capstar Bank.
UWSC celebrated the March 31 end of its 2013 Campaign with its annual Awards Breakfast on April 11. The 2013 Campaign raised $798,295, the second-highest amount in the organization's history. Jan Braun of Westmoreland is named UWSC's 2013 Fundraiser of the Year, and Donna Cantrell of ITW Dynatec is honored as UWSC's 2013 Volunteer of the Year. GKN>Hoeganaes earns the Hugh Carpenter Award or having the most outstanding workplace campaign of 2013.
United Way of Sumner County's Stuff the Bus collected school supplies from donors across the county and provided more than 600 backpacks to low-income students prior to the start of the school year in early August.
More than 65 people attended United Way of Sumner County's 2014 Campaign Kickoff Luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Sponsored by First Tennessee Bank, the Kickoff featured a festive atmosphere created by Kentucky Derby style "haughty hats" and men's "tacky ties." The biggest news from the event came from Publix Super Markets, which ended its United Way campaign at three Sumner County stores on Sept. 13. Goodlettsville Publix Manager Teri Schweiger, a member of UWSC's Board of Directors, announced that 365 Publix associates at stores in Gallatin, Goodlettsville, and Hendersonville pledged $104,363 toward the 2014 Campaign, an increase of $25,162 (32%) over the previous year.
Ninety-two golfers gathered at The Club at Fairvue on Monday, Oct. 13, for the second annual United Way of Sumner County Charity Golf Scramble presented by Bone McAllester Norton PLLC. The 2014 Charity Golf Scramble raised $20,606 to benefit United Way of Sumner County programs, an increase of 67% over the amount raised in 2013!
During October and November, United Way of Sumner County hosted its annual Winter Coat Drive, which resulted in 1,024 coats being donated for distribution to others. Signature Cleaners again cleaned every donated coat before it was presented to a new owner.
On Feb. 10, UWSC Board Member Jan Braun hosted the second annual Celebrity Waiter/Waitress Fundraiser Dinner to benefit UWSC at Abigail's Kitchen in Westmoreland. More than 80 people attended the event that raised $2,254 for United Way.
On Feb. 13, UWSC concluded a Winter Food Drive that collected more than 2,900 items for distribution through partner food banks to families in need. Special Thanks to Sumner Regional Medical Center for the use of Sumner Station for storage and distribution of our collected food.
More than 130 people attended United Way of Sumner County's 2015 Sumner Soirée Gala and Auction at Bluegrass Yacht & Country Club on Saturday evening, March 7. The event raised approximately $25,000 and featured recognition of our 2013 Leadership Givers, testimonials from partner agencies, and an update on the 2014 fundraising campaign. Thank you to all of our sponsors, volunteers, partners, and especially our guests, for making the 2015 Sumner Soirée to benefit United Way of Sumner County a great success!
Volunteers, business leaders, government officials, donors, and other guests gathered at the Bluegrass Yacht and Country Club May 29, 2015, to celebrate United Way of Sumner County's record-setting 2014 fundraising campaign and to honor those who played a role in our success over the past year. In addition to revealing its 2014 fundraising total of $913,206, the annual Awards and Community Celebration Breakfast featured the presentation of awards to individuals and businesses that made a difference during the effort to raise the funds that will support UWSC's local partner agencies, which meet health, educational and human service needs of Sumner County residents. For the first time ever, an employee workplace campaign, Publix Super Markets, topped the $100,000 mark, and a school, Hendersonville High School, raised more than $5,000.
More than 100 volunteers took part in UWSC's 2015 Stuff the Bus school supply drive. Stuff the Bus packed and distributed 600 backpacks for students across the county, and the Portland Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with UWSC, gave out more than 700 additional backpacks. Because of the efforts of everyone who took part in Stuff the Bus, approximately 1,300 students will be able to attend the first day of school with the basic supplies they need to fully participate in the learning process.
United Way of Sumner County officially launched its 2015 fundraising campaign to raise $1 million on Friday, Sept. 18, at the annual Campaign Kickoff event. More than 75 people turned out to show their support, enjoy lunch, hear campaign updates, model their haughty hats and tacky ties, and hear the announcement of a name for our Million Dollar Moose campaign mascot. Thank you to First Tennessee Bank for its sponsorship of the Campaign Kickoff and to everyone who played a role in making the event an outstanding success!
Ninety-three golfers gathered at The Club at Fairvue on Monday, Oct. 19, for the third annual United Way of Sumner County Charity Golf Scramble presented by Bone McAllester Norton PLLC and ServisFirst Bank. The 2015 edition of the Golf Scramble raised $20,231 to benefit the 30 programs supported by United Way of Sumner County.
In October and November, United Way of Sumner County held its annual Kids Coat Drive, and 836 coats were donated for distribution to those in need across the county. In addition to Signature Cleaners, which cleaned every donated coat free of charge, United Way of Sumner County would like to thank The Farmers Bank for serving as coat drop-off locations in Portland, Westmoreland, and White House. Additionally, special thanks to the following for organizing internal coat collections for this year's drive: the Sumner Association of Realtors, NASG in Portland, Tri-Star Hendersonville Medical Center, ServPro Industries, Hoeganaes, ITW CIP, ITW Dynatec, U.S. Bank, Peyton's MidSouth, MISA, Pope John Paul II School, and St. John Vianney School.
Through the generosity of donors across the community, more than 1,500 Christmas toys passed through the doors of United Way of Sumner County in December and are now making a difference in the lives of local children. More than half of the donated toys came from Publix Super Market customers in Gallatin, Goodlettsville, and Hendersonville. Additional toys were collected and donated by First United Methodist Church in Gallatin; the Sumner Association of Realtors; local author Angela Howell; and Walgreens in Hendersonville. The toys were then made available to United Way partner agencies for distribution to children served by their programs and to the Hendersonville Police Department for use with children in situations involving contact with emergency services.
On Saturday, March 5, the combination of fun and fundraising with a western flair made United Way of Sumner County's Boots & Bling gala and auction one of the most successful nights in the organization's 39-year history. We had our largest crowd yet, with approximately 170 guests attending. We had more auction items donated than ever, with over 100 items up for bid. With the support of our sponsors, partners, guests, and those who had winning bids on one (or more) of our auction items, we surpassed the $24,800 we raised last year AND exceeded our ambitious goal of raising $30,000 by $5,000. Thank you to everyone who helped make this a truly amazing event.
United Way of Sumner County celebrated its record-setting 2015 fundraising campaign during the annual Campaign Celebration Breakfast on Friday, April 15, at Bluegrass Country Club. In addition to honoring workplace campaigns, volunteers, and others who made a difference during the past year, the organization unveiled its 2015 campaign total of $930,399. The campaign was the largest in UWSC's 39-year history, exceeding the $913,206 raised in 2014 by 1.88%. The successful campaign marked the fourth time in the past five years that UWSC donors propelled the organization to a new fundraising record.
July and August saw the community come together like never before to support education in Sumner County. Approximately 600 local students were able to start the new school year with basic classroom supplies because of the contributions made by more than 40 volunteers, hundreds of donors, and many local businesses to United Way of Sumner County's Stuff the Bus school supply drive. How successful was it? Six hundred backpacks, filled with more supplies than ever before, were distributed throughout the county for delivery to students who needed them before the start of school. Those backpacks contained more than 12,000 items of basic school supplies.
United Way of Sumner County launched its 2016 Campaign on Thursday, Sept. 1, with a Kickoff Tailgate Party and Pep Rally presented by First Tennessee Bank at the Hendersonville Library. Approximately 70 guests attended the event, which featured games, a complimentary lunch, the premier of UWSC's 2016 Campaign Video, and comments from UWSC President & CEO Dana M. Given, Daisy Casey from First Tennessee Bank, UWSC Board Chair Leisa Byars, and UWSC 2016 Campaign Chair James Fenton.
More than 80 golfers gathered under a sunny sky at Bluegrass Yacht & Country Club in Hendersonville on Monday, Sept. 19, for the 4th Annual United Way of Sumner County Charity Golf Scramble. Thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, sponsored, and worked to help us raise nearly $18,000 at this year's event. Proceeds from the Scramble support the 2016 United Way Campaign, which benefits 31 non-profit health and human service agencies serving Sumner County residents.
In October and November, Sumner County residents responded to United Way of Sumner County Kids Coat Drive by donating 675 winter coats to help keep others warm. Local agencies began picking up coats for those in need on Dec. 2, and additional coats were distributed on Dec. 6. Most of the garments reached new owners prior to the arrival of the season's first bitter cold snap. Thank you to our continuing Coat Drive partner, Signature Cleaners, which again cleaned every donated coat free of charge. Over the past five years, Signature Cleaners has cleaned more than 6,000 coats donated to the coat drive. Without the support of Ed Vance and Signature Cleaners, our Coat Drive would not be possible.
More than 160 guests enjoyed a night of fun while opening up their purse strings for others on Saturday, March 4, to make United Way of Sumner County's 2017 Boots & Bling gala the most successful fundraising event in UWSC's history. According to UWSC officials, the event raised $40,000, an increase of $5,000 over the previous year's event.Thank You to our organizing committee under the leadership of Susan Gaimari; Presenting Sponsors The Goddard School, TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center, ITW, and Dollar General; our sponsors and partners; auctioneer Ed Cope; The Mending Fences Band; our event volunteers; those who donated auction items; and our guests who made the night one to remember. We are already looking forward to an even bigger event in 2018.
On April 13, United Way of Sumner County officials announced that donations from local residents boosted 2016 fundraising campaign to a third consecutive record-setting total, a feat last accomplished in 1995. The 2016 Campaign, which began in April 2016 and ended on March 31, raised $945,224. The new record amount is an increase of $14,825 (1.59%) over the $930,399 raised the previous year. The fundraising total was announced at the organization's annual Campaign Celebration Breakfast, where UWSC recognized numerous campaigns and individuals for their efforts during the year. Pat Gizelar was named UWSC's Volunteer of the Year; the Boots & Bling Organizing Committee was honored as Fundraiser of the Year; and Sumner County Schools took home honors for the best workplace campaign of 2016.
At its annual Campaign Celebration Breakfast on April 13, United Way of Sumner County began a yearlong celebration of the 40th anniversary of its founding. Through the conclusion of the 2017 campaign on March 31, 2018, UWSC will celebrate the past 40 years and all of those who have helped make this organization successful through the use of a special-edition 40th Anniversary Logo. The organization hopes to capitalize on the excitement surrounding the anniversary and the momentum of setting new fundraising records in five of the past six years to raise $1 million for the first time!
For the seventh year in a row, United Way of Sumner County's Stuff the Bus school supply drive made a difference in the lives of local students. Through the tremendous support we received from donors, volunteers, local businesses, and individuals across the county, this year's Stuff the Bus was the most successful ever. Approximately 75 volunteers stuffed 800 backpacks that will help local students start school with the tools they need to learn. The supplies included in those backpacks included:more than 2,400 packages of notebook paper,19,000 pencils, 1,200 boxes of crayons, 500 bottles of glue,4,000 pocket folders, 2,500 spiral notebooks, hundreds of packs of colored markers and colored pencils, and much more.
United Way of Sumner County officially launched its 2017 fundraising campaign on Thursday Aug. 31, with a '70s themed kickoff party at the Hendersonville Library. More than 80 people attended the event that featured a tribute to the original members of the UWSC Executive Committee (Board) in honor of our 40th anniversary. Thank you to founding members Dr. Wade Powers, Judge Tom Gray, Dr. Charles Moffatt, and Mr. Charles Bone for joining us on this special occasion; Daisy Casey and First Tennessee Bank for sponsoring our Kickoff; T's Hot Chicken Shack for being our lunch partner; Publix Super Markets for providing our 40th Anniversary Cake; the Hendersonville Library for hosting our event; and everyone who came out to help us launch our 40th Anniversary Campaign.
More than 70 golfers battled a stiff breeze, overcast skies, and cold temperatures to benefit others during the Fifth Annual United Way of Sumner County Charity Golf Scramble on Monday, Nov. 13, at Bluegrass Yacht & Country Club in Hendersonville. Presented by ITW CIP and ITW Dynatec, the scramble raised more than $21,000 to benefit United Way of Sumner County programs and agencies despite having been postponed several weeks due to weather.
During October and November, UWSC hosted its annual Kids Coat Drive to benefit young people across the community. This year's drive was a huge success, with more than 700 coats donated. Thank you to everyone who donated coats, all the businesses that held collection drives, HATS for serving as our storage and distribution site, The Farmers Bank in Portland, White House, and Westmoreland for being drop-off sites, and Ed Vance and Signature Cleaners for again cleaning and delivering all the donated coats.
On Friday night, March 2, United Way of Sumner County hosted the Bloomin' Bash gala & auction to benefit its annual fundraising campaign! Held at Long Hollow Gardens in Gallatin, the event hosted 130 guests and raised more than $35,000. Thank you to Long Hollow Gardens for donating the use of their beautiful venue; Presenting Sponsors TriStar Health, ITW CIP & Dynatec, Sumner Regional Medical Center, and Dollar General; Silver Sponsors The Goddard School and Amaranth Designs; Bronze Sponsors Wood Financial, ProAdvantage Supply Chain Services, Forward Sumner, and The Gaughan Team (Mike & Lindy Gaughan) at Re/Max Choice Properties.
Volunteers, business leaders, donors, and other guests gathered at the Bluegrass Yacht and Country Club on April 20, 2018, for United Way of Sumner County's annual Community Celebration Breakfast. In addition to revealing a record-setting 2017 fundraising total of $967,611, Michael Morrison of TriStar Skyline Medical Center was named UWSC's Volunteer of the Year, Amie Davenport of ITW CIP was recognized as our Advocate of the Year, Andy Brown of Sumner County Schools was honored as Fundraiser of the Year, and Sumner County Schools won the award for being best campaign of the year. The 2017 Campaign was the organization's fourth consecutive record-breaking fundraising year.


exhibits the highest professional and personal standards set by Rotary International. Ms. Morado was presented this award at a special ceremony on June 30 at the McAllen Country Club in recognition of Ms. Morado's "service in furthering understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world". Rotary International was founded in 1905 and based in "fellowship and friendship" and now has over 200,000 members in 75 countries. Ms. Morado serves as County Extension Agent in Starr County and works for Texas AgriLife Extension Service. She has served South Texas as an Extension educator for more than 30 years and was also recently recognized as a Regent Fellow by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. "Ms. Morado is the embodiment of a servant leader" commented Dr. Ruben Saldana, District Extension Administrator. "She leads by serving and she has made an indelible mark on our part of the state" he continued.


Ira S Wolfe is the "Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body." Fueled by his fierce passion for technology its impact on people, Ira S. Wolfe has emerged as one of HR's most visionary thinkers and influencers on the future of work, jobs, and talent acquisition. Ira is an accomplished speaker/author and President of Success Performance Solutions. He has presented on the prestigious red carpet of TEDx and is the author of several books including Recruiting in the Age of Googlization. He hosts The Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show, live talk radio on W4CY.com and iHeart radio.


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Don Hankey is chairman and primary stockholder of Westlake Financial Services, a privately held auto finance company that Hankey founded in 1978 to serve the segment of potential auto purchasers with subprime credit. Westlake is part of the Hankey Group, which comprises seven operating companies. The group has more than 2,800 employees worldwide and reported $1.8 billion in revenue and $8.3 billion in assets for 2017. Hankey began his career in investment banking then shifted gears to financing car loans when he acquired his family's Midway Ford dealership in 1972. Hankey is a majority shareholder in Hankey Investment Co., which is overseeing the construction of Circa, the $500 million mixed- use development near the Staples Center, which is slated to open this year. The project aims to rival New York City's Time Square with 27,000 square feet of digital and static signage. Hankey, who has an estimated net worth of $3.1 billion, is No. 25 on the Los Angeles Business Journal's list of Wealthiest Angelenos.
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Q: How simulate a Windows like admin password prompt in Linux? I use mint install application a lot but don't think it is safe if
I allow the normal user I use to have full privileges over it. I was
wondering if there is a way to gain access to this application only when
root password is entered. Basically
 be able to use something like the admin password prompt of windows when installing a new application in terminal. I know I can log into root with
su but I know that's definitely not safe. Any Ideas?
Edit: Again, I don't want to give privileges to the normal user using sudo or chmod or anything else.

A: If you need to do something that requires root privileges, you need to use some method of gaining root privileges, which on most modern systems means su, sudo, or a wrapper around one of these. What's dangerous about running commands as root (whether it's with su or sudo) is that it gives you a lot more ways to damage your system. So you should only run a command as root when the command actually requires it.
The main difference between su and sudo in their typical configuration is that for sudo, you type the same password as when you log in, whereas su requires a different password (the password of the root user). For a typical single-user machine, there isn't a significant difference between the two in terms of security. It's also possible to configure sudo not to require a password.
If you're working in a terminal and you want to run a command as root, with su, run:
su -c 'somecommand an_argument another_argument'

With sudo:
sudo somecommand an_argument another_argument

Either way, you'll be prompted for a password (the root password for su, your own password for sudo). Sudo can remember your password and not ask you again for the next few minutes; with su, you'll have to type it again each time.
You can also get a graphical prompt to type your password (with gksu, kdesu, …), but if you're already working in a terminal, that's less convenient.

A: While keeping in mind that there are no free meals, it's possible to minimize risk.
If you'd like to run your script as root and immediately exit without password prompt and exit command then you'll have to compromise a bit.
The following solution lets you store your encrypted twice (or more) root password anywhere with the current user permissions.
High level:

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*Encrypting root password in base64 twice once and placing the file anywhere (can be 1234.txt, for example).

*Invoking expect script with argument (the string from above decoded)

*Expect runs the desired script and exits.

*Cleanup file under /root invoked from expect and deletes bash_history (of common user) lines containing root, password encrypted file, and base64. To remove any trace the script was invoked (from common user perspective). This script is only accessible by root user.
So over all, it seems that from the common users' perspective, this script was never run, and it doesn't contain any sensitive password.
Furthermore, double base64 encryption, seems pretty random to innocent to me (though I'm not security expert, I would not recognize it as 2xbase64). For example:
V1c5MVFYSmxWMlZzWTI5dFpRbz0K decrypted to YouAreWelcome

Coding the password twice in base64 once:
$ cat pass.txt | base64 | base64 > innocent_name.txt
$ rm pass.txt

Then:
Running the script:
$ ./root_wrap.exp "$(cat innocent_name.txt | base64 -d | base64 -d)"

Expect script:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set root_user root;
set root_pass [ lindex $argv 0 ];

spawn bash
expect "*$ "
send -- "whoami\r"
expect "*$ "
send -- "su $root_user\r"
expect "*?assword:*"
send -- "$root_pass\r"
expect "*# "
send -- "./whoam.sh\r"
expect "*# "
send -- "/root/rm_trace.sh\r"
expect "*# "
send -- "exit\r"
send -- "whoami\r"
expect "*$ "
expect eof

Cleanup history script /root/rm_trace.sh:
#!/bin/bash

sed -i '/base64/d' /home/<user>/.bash_history
sed -i '/root_wrapp/d' /home/<user>/.bash_history
sed -i '/innocent_name/d' /home/<user>/.bash_history

Sample bash script to be run as root:
 #!/bin/bash

 echo "now running as root"
 whoami


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Dos Passos: A Reassessment
Sep 16, 2012 | Best of the Bookman
Jean-Paul Sartre once called John Dos Passos [1896–1970] "the greatest novelist of the century," a judgment which he did not hold alone.[1] Yet now, though Dos Passos has continued to write, few seem willing to rate him so highly.
His biographer, John Wrenn, states the problem as a question: "What happened to John Dos Passos?"[2] It is only one of many remarkable facts about Dos Passos that the man whom Sartreand others honored so highly has all but dropped from sight. To those who remember him, it is most often as a kind of literary curiosity. Few visit his Virginia residence, although he has shown himself to be a willing correspondent and interview subject.[3] Relatively few scholarly articles are written about him. Even the popular press seems to have forgotten the man who was once so controversial a subject. It is important, I believe, to examine Dos Passos' career more closely. For, as Wrenn argues, 'If sufficient light can be brought to bear on the problem, 'What's happened to Dos Passos?'—then some light may be reflected by implication upon the more general problem: that of the artist in twentieth-century America."[4]
Granville Hicks, one of the fairest of his critics, approaches the problem this way:
He has been student and reporter and often poet of change. And he has been the victim of change, too. Twenty years ago he was as romantic a rebel as American letters had since the death of John Reed. Today this pioneer fellow traveler defends the profit motive, quarrels not merely with Communism but also with the New Deal. . . .[5]
Hicks thus establishes the stereotype of the radical turned reactionary which has followed Dos Passos since the late thirties. It is partly true; how true we shall examine later.
It is fairly obvious that Dos Passos underwent some political change of heart in the late thirties, but he was by no means alone. There was a general movement toward the right, partly as a result of the Stalinist persecutions and the Hitler-Stalin pact. Many on the literary left re-examined their position in those years. Max Eastman and Whittaker Chambers, both former Communists, were to move as far right as did Dos Passos, who had never joined the party. Archibald MacLeish began to find his heroes in the business world. Even Edmund Wilson and Malcolm Cowley lost some of their revolutionary zeal and began to disaffiliate from popular fronts, and Lionel Trilling wrote a novel about the phenomenon. There was in the literary world a great ferment.
Yet somehow Dos Passos, only one of many writers whose politics changed, suffered most at the hands of his friends on the left. Perhaps it was because he was such a politically oriented writer, and his new political orientation was unpalatable to critics who had not moved so far right as he. In Arthur Mizener's words, "It would probably have been useless to protest against the irrelevant and damaging judgments of the forties; the subject of Dos Passos' work made an immediate political response almost certain."[6]
When Edmund Wilson reviewed State of the Nation in 1944, Hicks tells us, he remarked that the world had moved away from Dos Passos and that his imagination was not involved with his material as it had been when he was at his best. Hicks then continued the theme in a later assessment:
Today [1950] . . . he seems dissociated from the kind of reality he has chosen to deal with. Perhaps it is not merely metaphorical to talk about traumatic experiences; perhaps he is the victim of the successive shocks he has undergone. If the shocks had driven him in upon himself, they might have deepened his work, but he has remained committed, as few American novelists have been, to . . . the impersonal, the historic event. Everything has depended on his maintaining a vital relationship to the outer world and a break in that relationship was bound to result not only in political confusion but also in a decline of literary mastery.[7]
There is some insight in Hicks' remarks, and we shall take up later the problem of the shocks he refers to. But I believe he is wrong about the cause of Dos Passos' artistic decline—a problem which will be dealt with later also. And there is the implication, found in so much of the criticism of Dos Passos' later work, that a writer cannot work from the "wrong" political position. Conservative critics like Jeffrey Hart are just as guilty of this error and argue for the superiority of his later work. There is in much of this argument a blind partisanship which does great harm to Dos Passos.
The first novel of this conservative period was Adventures of a Young Man (1939), in which a young American Communist is disillusioned by the party's manipulation of the Loyalists in Spain and finally assassinated for his failure to accept party discipline. The critics, some of whom had been Communists, were outraged. "The critical responses to Adventures of a Young Man were colored as much by politics as by aesthetics. Malcolm Cowley called it Dos Passos' weakest book in nearly twenty years, a verdict which he admitted might have been influenced by his disagreement with Dos Passos' ideas."[8]
James T. Farrell reviewed it from a very different perspective. He called the unfavorable criticism "a warning to writers not to stray off the reservation of the Stalinist controlled League of American Writers to which more than one of the critics belong."[9] Dos Passos, of course, did not heed the warning, and lost his place as the darling of the Left to Hemingway.[10]
Somewhere between the bitter disappointment of Cowley and Wilson and the angry oversimplification of Farrell lies the truth about Dos Passos. Farrell was right about the motives of some critics; some of them even admitted to political bias. Yet they were also right in pointing to a decline of his artistry. Something had happened to Dos Passos. Too many of the later novels are treated "in the narrowly didactic fashion that makes us feel, in much of Dos Passos' later fiction, that we are not confronting life itself but incidents invented to demonstrate a lecture."[11]
The reason he lectures may not be, as Hicks suggested, that he has got too far from the material, but that he is too close to it. Dos Passos said in 1947 that writers should be willing to starve in garrets again. The statement suggests an artistic isolation from mainstream life; "If his comment of 1947 sounded a bit wistful, it may have been because of his awareness that he had lost his own essential isolation—or, in his metaphor, his spiritual hunger—not because he had not heeded it faithfully, but because he had satisfied it a decade earlier: he had thereby lost his artistic genius."[12] Dos Passos had, in his earlier career, a strong sense of alienation and mission in his attacks on the Establishment. He was the young romantic, battling great odds, taking risks in his support of radical causes. And, as Robert Gorham Davis has said, "As long as his quest preserved its spirit, the infusion of nostalgia and hope into politics made art possible. When romance faded, only bitter partisanship remained."[13] Although Dos Passos argues that he always fights power wherever it is established, it is undeniable that his later convictions put him more on the side of established opinion and robbed him of a sense of isolation and rebellion which permeated his early work.
Grant then that Dos Passos' late politics were bound to set the majority of critics against him. Grant that he had lost some of the passion of his youth, and his necessary sense of isolation as an artist. And grant that there is less power and substance in most of his later novels. But we are still operating with the stereotype of the two writers—one radical, one conservative—and it is thisstereotype which has hindered efforts toward a fuller understanding of his success and failure.
Were there really two Dos Passos? I think not—not in the way commonly believed. There is a consistency in his position that should surprise those who too easily accepted the cliché. This consistency is based on his fear of power. Hicks acknowledged that "Nothing is deeper in the man than his fear of power."[14] And Davis speaks of his "stubborn individualism and distrust of authority which leads him to regard each new institutional development as a final threat to popular government."[15]
Dos Passos argues that he has consistently opposed all threats to freedom and has simply seen the enemies of freedom change. He says in The Theme Is Freedom:
The knot which our society must untie is the problem of controlling the power over men's lives of these stratified corporations, which, whether their top management calls itself capitalist or socialist, are so admirably adapted by the pull of centralization to despotic rule.[16]
In the early part of the century, the power lay in the hands of the capitalists; now, he feels, it is in the hands of the same groups—Communists, labor unions, and liberals in general—who helped fight Big Business.
Like Thorstein Veblen, "Fighting Bob" La Follette, and the other lonely men whom he honors in U.S.A. for their "constitutional inability to say yes" to the dominant doctrines of the American mind, John Dos Passos has never been afraid to be different. In the era of laissez-faire capitalism his fictional spokesmen drank champagne toasts to "Revolution, to Anarchy, to the Socialist State"; with the dawn of the welfare economy they switched to the individualistic insistence that "if we want to straighten out the people we've got to start with number one."[17]
The process which produced this change was, as Hicks suggested, a series of shocks. If Dos Passos has been consistent philosophically, then he has seen a dramatic change in the form of the groups he believes can best promote his philosophy. In 1932 he voted for a Communist for president; in 1964 he voted for Barry Goldwater; in between, a series of shocks changed his allegiance.
There were several incidents—a riot in Madison Square Garden was most prominent—which showed him the Communists were ruthlessly bent on ruling or ruining the coalitions they joined. The Spanish Civil War demonstrated even more dramatically, with the assassination of an anarchist who was a close friend, that the Communists were to be feared as much as the Fascists they fought. Then, with the seeds of doubt sown, he began to re-examine Roosevelt's third term in office from the point of view of its permissiveness toward union corruption and its collection of power. He saw that the little man was still enslaved by organizations, although the organizations may have been dedicated originally to his betterment.
Perhaps the greatest shock of all was his work on U.S.A. Critics who have written about Dos Passos' journey to Spain during the Civil War, and who point to his shocking discovery while there of how ruthlessly the Communists were undercutting their supposed allies within the popular front as the operative cause of his disillusionment with radicalism, miss the point; the central experience in Dos Passos' political education was the titanic labor of creating U.S.A. The trilogy changed the man who wrote it, imbuing in him a new respect for "the ground we stand on," a new awareness of historical continuity, a new appreciation of the complexities of human motivation. History was not escapable after all, nor was it as simple as it had seemed.[18]
But understanding Dos Passos' personal consistency cannot, by itself, make us understand his success or failure as a writer. In fact, we must make a distinction between Dos Passos the writer and Dos Passos the citizen-historian, a role which Wrenn feels he has assumed.
If the perspective of Dos Passos' novels seems warped, that of the man is constant and whole. But it is still the perspective of the citizen rather than of the isolated artist. To many readers trained in the liberalism of the 1930s, Dos Passos' perspective as a citizen is also warped. But it would be fairer and truer to say that theirs is, if they have not been so ready as he to refocus as continuing problems and the institutions which reflect them constantly change and take new forms.[19]
Even Dos Passos seems to have accepted this new role. Although he continues to write novels, he seems more interested in the nonfiction works, particularly in his historical-political books, which include significantly a young person's biography of Jefferson. It is Jefferson above all Americans who appeals to Dos Passos, and it is his own Jeffersonian liberalism that keeps him on the alert against the abuse of power from any source. Like Jefferson, Dos Passos is, in Maxwell Geismar's words, "the archetype of the rational writer within our traditions, the conscious, moral, progressive writer, the embodiment, not of the destructive, but of all our civilizational aspirations."[20]
He has never abandoned the Jeffersonian ideal of maximum freedom in a decentralized nation, and he warns us that "we must never forget that we are heirs to one of the grandest and most nearly realized world views in all history."[21] As Marshall McLuhan observed, "Iniquity inside or outside the U.S.A. is always a failure to live up to the Jeffersonian dream."[22]
It is the dream of the little man, the small farmer and worker who wants to be free from centralization and tyranny, whether it come from business or labor, the right or the left. It is represented by what are surely his most sympathetic characters throughout his fiction, early and late. They are the real keys to Dos Passos' sympathies and the best evidence for his consistency. We may find them in most of his books, but the most profitable comparison can be made between U.S.A., published as a trilogy in 1937, and Midcentury, published in 1961.
A comparison between these two novels, one from the early and one from his late period, will, I believe, reveal several things. First, of course, we can see in his treatment of characters his consistent philosophical position. Second, we can, with Midcentury, discredit the notion that Dos Passos' later period produced no good novels. Third, and most important, we can see, in the technical similarities of these two books and through a comparison to his more conventional and less convincing novels, the real key to Dos Passos' success and failure as a novelist.
The characters of Fainey McCreary (Mac) in U.S.A. and Blackie Bowman of Midcentury are similar in many respects. Both are Wobblies—members of the International Workers of the World, devoted to the syndicalist purpose of "building the new world in the shell of the old." Both are sympathetic to socialism and anarchy, seeingin them akinship with their own syndicalism. Both are Irish itinerant laborers, harvest hands, and sailors. Both are tempted—by women and prosperity—to leave the labor movement and settle down. Both distrust Communists from past experience, though they have joined with them in popular fronts and free speech fights. "They are of the race that is used and exploited, and get nothing from the game but hard knocks and prison fare and occasional sprees."[23]
Mac got his education from his Uncle Tim, a hard-drinking socialist printer who told him, "Fainey, you're a bright boy . . . Read Marx . . . study all you can, remember that you're a rebel by birth and blood . . . Don't blame people for things . . . I blame the system . . . And don't ever sell out to the sons of bitches, son; it's women'll make you sell out every time."[24] So Mac fought the system, convinced that it was the real evil. And finally it was a woman, in Mexico, who settled him down. His part of U.S.A. ends with his running a book shop in Mexico City, very nearly a member of the system.
Blackie Bowman is an extension of Mac. He too fought the great labor battles, went to jail for free speech, tried to rebuild the new system in the shell of the old. He too was tempted toward respectability by women and wealth. He too was educated in syndicalism, socialism, and anarchy—by Earl Gates, a Wobbly leader he met on the bum. "Blackie has been a Wobbly, a reader of Kropotkin, an admirer of Eugene Debs, a fighter in some of the great labor battles early in the century. By evoking [these labor battles], Dos Passos recaptures the spirit of the Fainey McCreary . . . sequences in U.S.A."[25]
But there is a difference. Fainey still believed it was the system that made life rotten when his story ended. Blackie, who lived longer, knew better. He tells his story from a veteran's hospital in the fifties as an old man. He has seen labor triumph and become as corrupt as were the capitalists of earlier decades. He has seen Communists cruelly play with the lives and hopes of men like himself in their lust for power. "U.S.A. was informed by the idea that Big Business was the chief threat to individual freedom in America, whereas Midcentury insists that Big Labor is the power which threatens our liberties."[26] So while Mac says it's the system, Blackie, who has lived longer, says, "It's mass organization that turns man into a louse."[27]
McCreary and Bowman—and the Wobblies, anarchists, and socialists of the first part of this century—are the real key to Dos Passos' consistency. These groups, despite their differences, were democratic in principle and devoted to insuring maximum personal freedom in the Jeffersonian sense. Thus the young Dos Passos, in U.S.A. and other early works, found them the most suitable heroes, and Mac is probably his most sympathetic early character. But Dos Passos began to see how these well-meaning rebels were being used and destroyed by Communist exploitation, controlled by corrupt unions, and rendered ineffective by a growing federal bureaucracy. Blackie Bowman speaks for him in this passage:
It was the degradation of the Wobblies that was tearing me down. Ever since the old days . . . I'd believed in myself because I was a Wobbly . . . because I was doing my little bit towards . . . helping bring on the revolution, only the right way, the rank and file way, the American way.[28]
And again, in this one:
All my life I've been waiting for the Promised Land.We used tocall it the Revolution but all that means now is firing squads and jails. . . . Then the organizations began to take over. Opened up the Promised Land to dues paying members only, and then only so long as you keep your trap shut.[29]
Dos Passos is as angry about those who corrupted the revolution as he was earlier about those who would have denied it. He has not, like so many others, assumed that the revolution has come and that it has been fully realized, Here he speaks for himself in a recent article, but the echoes of Mac and Blackie are clear: "It seemed so simple to burn out the caterpillars who were ruining the orchard. The first of May was coming. . . . This was all fifty years ago. Now we know that the first of May will never come. Where the workers conquered they allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by organizations even more oppressive than the old regimes they had overthrown."[30] This is hardly the statement of an arch-conservative. It is more accurately the statement of a revolutionary who, like Mac and Blackie, has been cheated of his revolution. "How could they overcome the cheaters? Dos Passos cannot say. Socialism? Communism? The New Deal? These are not the answers. So far as one can interpret him, the only valid answers are what the Wobblies knew. . . ."[31] McCreary and Bowman are extensions of Dos Passos himself, and "Presenting Blackie so sympathetically Dos Passos means to show how consistent his own underlying principles have been."[32]
Midcentury is Dos Passos' answer to the critics who said he had lost his artistry and his concern for people. In some respects and to some critics it was not entirely successful. To most, it was a revival of the great talent which created U.S.A. As one reviewer put it, "Seldom does a writer retrieve a long-lost reputation at a single stroke, but John Dos Passos has probably done just that with Midcentury, by far his best novel since he completed the U.S.A. trilogy . . . in 1936."[33] Some reviewers began to question the cliché of the two Dos Passos, with Midcentury. They began to see that U.S.A. was less Marxist and more individualist-oriented than many had at first believed. And they realized that the supposedly cranky conservative they had been told about was still full of revolutionary zeal. Midcentury upset the early categories about Dos Passos.
It was designed, in subject, theme, and form, to complement the earlier trilogy. "By a similar diversification of narrative techniques, it evokes the period 1945–1960 as effectively as U.S.A. summons forth an earlier era. But Midcentury becomes even more fascinating when it is read in conjunction with the trilogy it so closely resembles—when listened to as if it were the coda to a great American symphony. For in doing so we gain, a unique understanding of what has happened to us as a people in the course of a fantastic century."[34] Wrenn, too, considers it his best book since U.S.A. and describes his purpose as "to organize the chaotic whole of American life into an artistic pattern."[35]
It is this pattern which is the most important key to Dos Passos' success and failure as a novelist—not his politics, which we have seen did not change so much; not his passion, which seems to have been rather persistent; and not simply his age. His major contribution to the novel has been the innovative pattern around which U.S.A. and Midcentury are organized. His other novels, early and late, which were organized on more conventional patterns, were less successful. Thereasons will be examined later; first, let us describe and compare the patterns of the two books.
The organization of U.S.A. compares to that of the montage in painting or film. It is composed of several elements which are interspersed throughout a more or less chronological movement. There is first the narrative itself. It deals, in rather conventional form, with a great variety of characters and covers the years from the beginning of the century to the stock market crash. Many of the characters dealt with in their own chapters turn up in relationships to other characters in theirs, thus interconnecting the segments of the narrative rather like a conventional novel. In the narrative, Dos Passos maintains an aloof, ironic position regarding most of his characters.
The Newsreels provide a contrast to the more personal elements like the narrative and the Camera Eye. They are collections of headlines, news stories, popular songs, and the like.
The biographies serve a similar function. The lives of famous contemporary Americans can be compared to the private lives in the narrative, the objective events in the Newsreels and the purely subjective material in the Camera Eyes.
The Camera Eyes are the author himself in a stream of consciousness narrative. Events in them can be compared to events in Dos Passos' life.
Thus we have a scale of subjectivity-objectivity running from the purely subjective Camera Eyes, through the narrative, to the biographies, and finally to the nearly objective (of course, the songs, headlines, etc. were selected by the author) Newsreels. The effect of this range of subjectivity-objectivity is one of tension. The reader is kept especially alert as he moves from one part to another, in a variety of sequences. He cannot settle on one emotional level of narrative and so must accept them all. Say the reader has identified himself with a character in the narrative. Then, "if the reader has affected some bonds of sympathy with the personages in the previous category, his demanded attention to public utterances, which by definition violates the subtle and personal realities with which he has found common ground, forces him in defense to apply ironic perspectives to his reading."[36] It is this irony, inherent in the form of both U.S.A. and Midcentury, which raises them above the other, less subtle work of Dos Passos, including both early and late novels, from One Man's Initiation (1920) to Most Likely to Succeed (1954). Indeed, it is often overlooked that some of Dos Passos' early work is just as heavily didactic as anything from his conservative period, albeit conveying a different message.
In Midcentury, the Camera Eye is replaced by Investigator's Notes (the McClellan Committee investigation into union corruption), and the Newsreels by Documentaries more in line with changes in the media. The same powerful irony is inherent in this slightly altered form. The political ground is, of course, somewhat different, as we discussed earlier. Biographies in U.S.A. showed America's friends and enemies as the younger Dos Passos saw them—heroes Eugene Debs and Thorstein Veblen, villains Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan; those in Midcentury reflect his newer assessment—friends like General Dean and Bob La Follette Jr., enemies like Walter Reuther and actor James Dean. The anti-union thesis is sometimes too strong; but it is no less subtle than the anti-business thesis which motivated much of U.S.A. The point is that this particular form allows a politically oriented writer like Dos Passos to keep some distance from his work.
He is able to mix tragedy with comedy, the important with the trivial, on a large scale. The reader's understanding of either book is necessarily a large one, gathered from thousands of impressions. The form allows Dos Passos to reflect thecomplexity of America. Without it, he has a tendency to oversimplify his material toward a particular thesis. "So that what appears at first a mere eccentricity turns out to be a symbol of something primary in the author's philosophy."[37]
The form of these two books is Dos Passos' unique contribution to literature. With Midcentury, he seems to have recognized how important it was to him. Without it, he is just another political novelist; with it, he may still deserve Sartre's praise.
So there are, in a sense, two Dos Passos. One, working in conventional form, is too close to his material, too obvious in his treatment. The other, the technical genius of U.S.A. and Midcentury, is kept at a distance by the form itself, and is thus able to move us with irony and subtlety. There may be a third Dos Passos, too—the citizen-historian who in the long view may care more for the fate of his nation than for his reputation as a writer.
He is still very much with us. No one has written so inclusively of America in this century. No one has changed the shape of prose so much in recent years. His life and work are rich in the influences that made this century in America, and are awaiting the necessary re-evaluation that should establish them in the important place they deserve.
1. "John Dos Passos and '1919,' " Literary and Philosophical Essays (London, 1955), p. 90. This essay was originally published in 1938.
2. John H. Wrenn, John Dos Passos (New York, 1961), p. 8.
3. Dos Passos very kindly answered a letter of mine and suggested several sources for the kind of material in which I had expressed an interest.
4. Wrenn, p. 8.
5. "The Political Development of John Dos Passos," Antioch Review, X (March 1950), 85.
6. Introduction to John Dos Passos, District of Columbia (Boston, 1938), p. viii.
7. Hicks, p. 90.
8. Joseph Blotner, The Modern American Political Novel, 1900–1960 (Austin, Texas, 1966), p. 314.
9. The New Republic, XCIX, 163.
10. Herbert Solow, "Substitution at Left Tackle: Hemingway for Dos Passos," Partisan Review, IV (April 1938), p. 24.
11. Robert Gorham Davis, John Dos Passos (Minneapolis, 1962), p. 33.
12. Wrenn, p. 169.
13. Davis, p. 45.
14. Hicks, p. 80.
16. (New York, 1956), p. 253.
17. Dos Passos, World in a Glass, introd. by Kenneth S. Lynn (Boston, 1966), p. v.
18. Dos Passos, World in a Glass, p. xv.
20. Writers in Crisis (Boston, 1942), p. 89.
21. Dos Passos, The Theme is Freedom, p. 159.
22. Herbert Marshall McLuhan, "John Dos Passos: Technique vs. Sensibility," Modern American Fiction: Essays in Criticism, ed. by A. Walton Litz (New York, 1963), p. 146.
23.Joseph Warren Beach, American Fiction, 1920–1940 (New York, 1960), p. 56.
24. Dos Passos, U.S.A. (Boston, 1937), p. 33.
26. Dos Passos, World in a Glass, p. xiv.
27. Dos Passos, Midcentury (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), p. 61.
28. Dos Passos, Midcentury, p. 76.
30. Dos Passos, "What Makes a Novelist," National Review, XX (January 16, 1968), 30.
31. Willard Thorp, American Writing in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), p. 130.
33. Harry Moore, "Proud Men in an Age of Conformity," New York Times Book Review (Sunday, February 26, 1961), p. 1.
34. Dos Passos, World in a Glass, p. xi.
36. Armand Schwerner, Dos Passos' U.S.A. and Other Works (New York, 1966), p. 65.
37. Beach, p. 44.
Mr. Richard F. Hill (1941–1999) was at the time of writing an instructor in English at the University of South Florida. He wrote five novels and thirty short stories and won the O. Henry Award in 1974.
In this "Best of the Bookman" essay from 1970, novelist Richard Hill offers a reappraisal of the writings of John Dos Passos, whose work always returns to "the dream of the little man, the small farmer and worker who wants to be free from centralization and tyranny."


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Pacific Rim: Uprising Blu-ray/DVD Release Info
We have receiving info from Universal on the upcoming video release of Pacific Rim: Uprising which will be released digitally June 5, and on Blu-ray and DVD on June 19. Check out all the details below.
Update: The Target and Best Buy exclusives have been announce, Target will have a Steelbook (same package as the HMV exclusive but different content disc wise), Best Buy version has all the Blu-ray discs & digital version. There does not appear to be any extra content not included in the others. (Basic info at bottom.)
PG-13 - for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language.
John Boyega (Star Wars series) is the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous "Kaiju". Now an even more fearsome alien threat has been unleashed on the world and Jake is called back into action by his former co-pilot, Lambert (Scott Eastwood), and a 15-year-old Jaeger hacker, Amara (Cailee Spaeny). Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure on a towering scale.
John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Jing Tian, Cailee Spaeny, Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorman, Adria Arjona, Jin 'Max' Zhang, Charlie Day
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital
Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital
HMV Exclusive Steelbook (4K, 3D, Bluray, Digital, pics at bottom)
Includes a digital copy of Pacific Rim Uprising (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details. All but DVD.)
Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Steven S. DeKnight
Hall of Heroes – John Boyega takes us through the awesome weaponry and cutting-edge enhancements of the latest generation of Jaegers featured in the film.
Bridge to Uprising – The cast and crew discuss how the world of Pacific Rim has changed in the ten years since the events of the original film.
The Underworld of Uprising – Humanity won the Kaiju War, but every war has casualties. John Boyega and Steven S. DeKnight give a tour of the coastal "Relief Zones."
Becoming Cadets – Step into the Shatterdome, and learn the grueling physical and mental preparation required of the young actors who portrayed the PPDC cadets.
Unexpected Villain – Learn the secret reason that turned one of the most beloved heroes of the original film into a villain obsessed with humanity's destruction.
Next Level Jaegers – The cast and crew discuss the amazing technological advances of the Jaeger program in the years since the events of the original film.
I Am Scrapper – Actress Cailee Spaeny shares the backstory of Scrapper, Amara's incredible self-built Jaeger and its many unique abilities.
Going Mega – Filmmakers take us through the technical and creative challenges of creating the most deadly threat the Pan Pacific Defense Corp has ever faced: the Mega Kaiju!
Secrets of Shao – Meet the woman behind Shao Industries. Actress Tian Jing shares her insights on the enigmatic tech tycoon Liwen Shao.
Mako Returns – Actress Rinko Kikuchi and director Steven S. DeKnight explain the significance of Mako Mori's return and her importance to the events of PACIFIC RIM UPRISING.
Feature Commentary with Director Steven S. DeKnight
Run Time: Theatrical: 1 Hour 51 Minutes
Language & Audio 4K Blu-ray: English Dolby Atmos/French Canadian Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround/Latin Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Language & Audio: Blu-ray: Latin Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1/English Dolby Atmos/English DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo/French Canadian Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Language & Audio: DVD: English Dolby Atmos/English DVS Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo/French Canadian Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround/Latin Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles: English SDH/French Canadian/Latin Spanish
Picture: Widescreen/Color (DVD: Anamorphic Widescreen) 4K Blu-ray Features High Dynamic Range (HDR) for Brighter, Deeper, More Lifelike Color
Number of Discs: 2 (DVD: 1)
Target & BestBuy versions basic info and prices.
Target Exclusive Steelbook (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital)
Number of Media: 2
Packaging: Steelbook
Best Buy Exclusive Ultimate Combo Pack (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital)
Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve
HMV/Target Exclusive package.
Pacific Rim Uprising, Can The International Box Office Save Pacific Rim Again
Weekend two box office totals are in for Pacific Rim: Uprising and as with it's opening weekend there are still big question marks. PRU finish it's second weekend with $47 million for the US and and $185 million for the international box office, a total of $232 million. The $47 million is less than half the US total from the first film and it dropped off more than the first film weekend to weekend ($16 million for the first film vs. $9 million).
As with the first film it's the international totals that will secure a sequel if we get one. Internationally PRU did $185 million which is better than the first film even with adding the China opening which was weeks later for the first film ($185 vs. $166 million ($88 plus $78 million)). The $185 million is also 60% of the first film international total of $309 million.
The biggest variable is how other films being released will affect PRU going forward, Ready Player One has already hurt the film (opening at $53 million) and Rampage will almost certain effect it since both films will pull from the same group of fans. Avengers Infinity War will most likely pull most remaining film goers away since it's in the same action adventure genre and already looks to be massive (base on ticket pre-sales), PRU will need to get most of it's box office take before than.
Steven S DeKnight has said he has an plan for Pacific Rim going forward (assumingly with Guillermo del Toro's blessing), hopefully we'll get to see it, since more kaiju films the better it is for fans.
Pacific Rim The Black
Pacific Rim Uprising


The second incarnation of Sculpt OS comes in the form of a ready-to-use disk image.
Sculpt for The Curious is the second development stage of the Genode-based general-purpose OS used at Genode Labs. Compared to the initial version, which was targeted at early adopters only, the new version invites a broader user base to explore the system. It comes in the form of a ready-to-use disk image for a bootable USB thumb drive. Immediately after booting the Sculpt base system, a graphical user interface enables the user to access and manage storage devices, and to configure network connectivity. The actual "sculpting" of the system is performed using a text-based interface, which is described in the accompanied documentation. It covers everything from the configuration of the base system up to the installation and deployment of software.


BMC & Cisco: using BladeLogic for the Unified Compute, Mainframe 2.0 thingy. Talk with BMC was all about "model first" approach to virtualization automation which is like what the Puppet guys talk about.
Sun Cloud (El Reg coverage, even better detail here) – Hadoop interest. Hosted at Switch Communications in Las Vegas – nice Ashlee Vance piece on them from awhile back.
There's also several rumors we go over: IBM and Sun and some more nutty ones.
Disclosure: IBM, Cloudera, Sun, Groundwork, and others are clients.
Categories: Cloud, Enterprise Software, IT Management Podcast, Systems Management.