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Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos
"I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege," acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote Trump's team in May.
Updated: August 23, 2022 - 8:26pm
Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump's estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president's claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.
The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump's Florida home.
By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor's claims to executive privilege, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.
The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump's Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.
The most complete summary was contained in a lengthy letter dated May 10 that acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent Trump's lawyers summarizing the White House's involvement.
"On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel's Office — affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum — formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes," Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.
That letter revealed Biden empowered the National Archives and Records Administration to waive any claims to executive privilege that Trump might assert to block DOJ from gaining access to the documents.
"The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President's purported 'protective assertion of executive privilege,'" Wall wrote. "... I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege."
The memos provide the most definitive evidence to date of the current White House's effort to facilitate a criminal probe of the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election and may face again as a challenger in 2024. That involvement included eliminating one of the legal defenses Trump might use to fight the FBI over access to his documents.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and the committee's likely chairman if the GOP win control of Congress in November, called the Biden White House's involvement and privilege waiver "amazing news" with implications for past and future presidents.
"Look, the left, they've been out to get President Trump because President Trump's a threat to the clique, to the swamp, to the bureaucracy, to the deep state," Jordan told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Tuesday night. "Whatever term you want to use. And they all know it.
"That's why they were out to get him before he was in office, and they set up the whole Russia collusion hoax. It's why they tried to get him while he was in office. And of course, obviously they continue to do so now that he's left. It's just never going to end."
Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus and lifelong Democrat, reviewed some of the correspondence at Just the News' request. He said the Biden White House's eagerness to waive Trump's claims of privilege could have future implications for generations of presidents to come.
"I was very surprised," Dershowitz said after reading the text of Wall's letter. "The current president should not be able to waive the executive privilege of a predecessor, without the consent of the former president. Otherwise, [privilege] means nothing. What president will ever discuss anything in private if he knows the man who beat him can and will disclose it."
While some courts have upheld the notion of a successor president waiving privilege for a predecessor, Dershowitz said the matter remains to be decided definitively by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The best thinking is that an incumbent president cannot waive the right of the previous president," he said in a phone interview with Just the News. "It would make a mockery of the whole notion of privilege."
In her letter, Wall told Corcoran the Biden administration believes a Watergate era ruling suggested Biden had the authority to waive Trump's privileges.
"The Supreme Court's decision in Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977), strongly suggests that a former President may not successfully assert executive privilege 'against the very Executive Branch in whose name the privilege is invoked,'" she wrote. That ruling, however, was issued under an earlier predecessor law for presidential records and in the immediate aftermath of one of America's worst presidential scandals.
The correspondence reviewed by Just the News also provides a contemporaneous window into what the National Archives (NARA) found when it first got boxes of documents returned from Trump's compound in February 2022. Those boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration as Trump was leaving the White House on Jan. 20, 2021.
"In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials," Wall wrote. "NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them."
The correspondence and emails show Corcoran had a phone conversation with Su about privilege claims in the spring, with Trump's lawyers raising concerns that some of the materials were subject to Trump's claims of executive privilege.
"We have requested the ability to review the documents," Corcoran wrote National Archives General Counsel Gary Stern on April 29, copying Su on the letter. "That review is necessary in order to ascertain whether any specific document is subject to privilege. We would respectfully request that you restrict access to the documents until we have had the opportunity to review the documents and to consult with President Donald J. Trump so that he may personally make any decision to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege."
But a dozen days later, Wall informed Corcoran that she had the blessing of Biden to overrule those privilege claims and share all materials requested by the DOJ and FBI.
"The White House Counsel's Office acquiesced in an extension of the production date to April 29, and so advised NARA," she wrote. "In accord with that agreement, we had not yet provided the FBI with access to the records when we received your letter on April 29, and we have continued to refrain from providing such access to date.
"It has now been four weeks since we first informed you of our intent to provide the FBI access to the boxes so that it and others in the Intelligence Community can conduct their reviews. Notwithstanding the urgency conveyed by the Department of Justice and the reasonable extension afforded to the former President, your April 29 letter asks for additional time for you to review the materials in the boxes.
"Accordingly, I have consulted with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel to inform my 'determination as to whether to honor the former President's claim of privilege or instead to disclose the Presidential records notwithstanding the claim of privilege.' ... I have therefore decided not to honor the former President's 'protective' claim of privilege."
Within a couple of weeks of Wall's letter to Corocoran, the DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena to Trump's team demanding the return of any remaining national security documents, which precipitated a voluntary visit by the FBI to Mar-a-Lago on June 3, when agents picked a small amount of materials Trump's lawyers said were responsive to the subpoena
Two months later, the FBI escalated again, seeking a search warrant to raid the Trump estate on Aug. 8.
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Fundraising for The Vital Signs Foundation
The Buy to Let Broker UK Treadmill Tour
We taking on a 1000 mile virtual UK Tour for The Vital Signs Foundation because they are our official charity of 2019.
Event: The Buy to Let Broker UK Tour
The Vital Signs Foundation
We provide FREE Heart Screenings to Young People aged between 16 to 35
We're putting power to the pedal and hitting the treadmill to conquer 1000 miles in a virtual tour of the UK's biggest Mortgage Lenders in aid of the incredible heart screening charity, Vital Signs Foundation.
As a true whole of market broker, we work closely with all of the UK's biggest mortgage lenders on a daily basis, so for our first ever official charity challenge, the team are walking/cycling 1000 miles to circumvent the UK to virtually visit 16 of our top partners.
The whole Buy to Let Broker team are stepping up to the plate, plus there will be some special guests along the way.
The team are ready for action and ALL donations will go to Vital Signs Foundation. It costs just £30 to fully screen one person for any undiagnosed heart conditions, so your donations no matter how big or small really could save a life. We would love your support to help this amazing charity grow, as it continues to reduce Sudden Cardiac Arrest in young people across the North West aged 16-35.
The Vital Signs Foundation (VSF) was formed following the tragic and sudden death of Christopher Haw, aged 25. Chris was a much-loved son, brother, grandson and friend to many people throughout his local community and the charity was set up in his memory. In just a few years, VSF has already screened over 2800 young people and helped diagnosed over 100 people with unknown heart conditions. Only with ongoing support can the charity continue to grow and save others from unnecessary bereavement.
You can find out more here → www.vsf.org.uk
The Vital Signs Foundation (VSF) was formed following the tragic and sudden death of Christopher Haw aged 25. Chris was a much loved Son, Brother, Grandson and Friend to many people throughout his local community and across the NW. He died, aged 25 from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. www.vsf.org.uk
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H.J.Res.205 - A joint resolution establishing March 20, 1984 as "Children's Day".98th Congress (1983-1984)
Rep. Martin, James G. [R-NC-9] (Introduced 03/17/1983)
House - 03/24/1983 Referred to Subcommittee on Census and Population. (All Actions)
Cosponsors: H.J.Res.205 — 98th Congress (1983-1984)All Information (Except Text)
Sponsor: Rep. Martin, James G. [R-NC-9] | Cosponsor statistics: 96 current - includes 24 original
Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-6]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Duncan, John J. [R-TN-2]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Ford, Harold E. [D-TN-9]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Hansen, George V. [R-ID-2]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Hefner, W. G. (Bill) [D-NC-8]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Lagomarsino, Robert J. [R-CA-19]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Oakar, Mary Rose [D-OH-20]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Roe, Robert A. [D-NJ-8]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Stokes, Louis [D-OH-21]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Won Pat, Antonio B. [D-GU-At Large]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Biaggi, Mario [D-NY-19]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Edgar, Robert W. [D-PA-7]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Frenzel, Bill [R-MN-3]* 06/02/1983
Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-32]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Kemp, Jack [R-NY-31]* 06/02/1983
Rep. McGrath, Raymond J. [R-NY-5]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-12]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Simon, Paul [D-IL-22]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Sunia, Foto I. F. [D-AS-At Large]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Gingrich, Newt [R-GA-6]* 06/02/1983
Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] 07/28/1983
Rep. Goodling, William F. [R-PA-19] 08/01/1983
Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24] 08/01/1983
Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4] 10/31/1983
Rep. O'Brien, George M. [R-IL-4] 11/14/1983
Rep. Broyhill, James T. [R-NC-10] 11/14/1983
Rep. Neal, Stephen L. [D-NC-5] 11/14/1983
Rep. Bevill, Tom [D-AL-4] 11/15/1983
Rep. Young, Robert A. [D-MO-2] 11/15/1983
Rep. Hammerschmidt, John P. [R-AR-3] 11/17/1983
Rep. Horton, Frank J. [R-NY-29] 11/17/1983
Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-16] 11/17/1983
Rep. McNulty, James F., Jr. [D-AZ-5] 11/17/1983
Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7] 11/17/1983
Rep. Jacobs, Andrew, Jr. [D-IN-10] 11/18/1983
Rep. Lent, Norman F. [R-NY-4] 11/18/1983
Rep. Madigan, Edward R. [R-IL-15] 11/18/1983
Rep. Britt, Robin [D-NC-6] 02/01/1984
Rep. Dymally, Mervyn M. [D-CA-31] 02/01/1984
Rep. Fish, Hamilton, Jr. [R-NY-21] 02/01/1984
Rep. McEwen, Bob [R-OH-6] 02/01/1984
Rep. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD-3] 02/01/1984
Rep. Reid, Harry [D-NV-1] 02/01/1984
Rep. Barnes, Michael D. [D-MD-8] 02/08/1984
Rep. Bateman, Herbert H. [R-VA-1] 02/08/1984
Rep. Coats, Daniel [R-IN-4] 02/08/1984
Rep. Donnelly, Brian J. [D-MA-11] 02/08/1984
Rep. Leland, Mickey [D-TX-18] 02/08/1984
Rep. Richardson, Bill [D-NM-3] 02/08/1984
Rep. Clarke, James McC. [D-NC-11] 02/09/1984
Rep. Gekas, George W. [R-PA-17] 02/09/1984
Rep. Wolpe, Howard E. [D-MI-3] 02/09/1984
Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-7] 02/23/1984
Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12] 02/23/1984
Rep. Jones, Walter B. [D-NC-1] 02/23/1984
Rep. Daniel, W. C. (Dan) [D-VA-5] 03/15/1984
Rep. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ-9] 03/15/1984
Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-11] 03/20/1984
Rep. Montgomery, G. V. (Sonny) [D-MS-3] 03/20/1984
Rep. McCain, John [R-AZ-1] 03/20/1984
Rep. Shumway, Norman D. [R-CA-14] 03/20/1984
Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8] 03/20/1984
Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5] 03/20/1984
Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2] 03/20/1984
Rep. Winn, Larry, Jr. [R-KS-3] 03/20/1984
Rep. Moore, W. Henson [R-LA-6] 03/20/1984
Rep. Gilman, Benjamin A. [R-NY-22] 03/20/1984
Rep. Gray, William H., III [D-PA-2] 05/10/1984
Rep. Ray, Richard B. [D-GA-3] 05/10/1984
Rep. Edwards, Mickey [R-OK-5] 05/22/1984
Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-35] 05/22/1984
Rep. Solarz, Stephen J. [D-NY-13] 05/22/1984
Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-8] 05/22/1984
Rep. Whitley, Charles O., Sr. [D-NC-3] 05/22/1984
Rep. Lewis, Thomas F. [R-FL-12] 05/22/1984
Rep. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI-2] 05/22/1984
Rep. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA-6] 05/30/1984
Rep. Hubbard, Carroll, Jr. [D-KY-1] 06/12/1984
Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6] 06/12/1984
Rep. Martinez, Matthew G. [D-CA-30] 06/12/1984
Rep. Mineta, Norman Y. [D-CA-13] 06/12/1984
Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] 06/12/1984
Rep. Crockett, George W., Jr. [D-MI-13] 06/12/1984
Rep. Bedell, Berkley W. [D-IA-6] 06/12/1984
Rep. Bryant, John W. [D-TX-5] 06/26/1984
Rep. Ritter, Don [R-PA-15] 06/26/1984
Rep. Long, Gillis W. [D-LA-8] 08/08/1984
Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-1] 08/08/1984
Rep. Morrison, Sid [R-WA-4] 09/19/1984
Rep. Quillen, James H. (Jimmy) [R-TN-1] 09/19/1984
Rep. Daub, Hal [R-NE-2] 09/19/1984
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In Australia, most firms will kick off a new financial year on 1 July. The start of a financial year is a great time for new beginnings when it comes to business development. It's a time to look at what you've been doing, to analyse what's been working, to figure out ways you can improve and to trial and implement new ways of winning work.
That's why I've come up with 10 ideas to help you kickstart your BD with a bang in FY18.
What better way than to start the new financial year by Googling your name, looking at your LinkedIn profile and reviewing your website. What do each of these tell you about your practice area and your expertise?
Now identify your three closest competitors and do the same for them (do this incognito when you're using LinkedIn). When you do, put yourself in a prospective client's shoes.
What do you notice? How are you positioned? Do you show you can help in a way the others can't? Or are you undifferentiated, mediocre and getting left behind?
Be honest and be critical… And if your messaging isn't cutting the mustard, start the year by improving it.
Last year I wrote about the importance of consistency when it comes to BD. In other words, don't binge on BD by spending weeks drawing up elaborate plans you never get around to implementing. Instead, go to your calendar now and set aside 30 minutes a day to doing small BD things that - when strung together - can make a real difference. Schedule these sessions into your diary and make them an appointment you're not allowed to break.
Use your 30-minute intervals to do practical things like taking a colleague out for a coffee to ask their perspective or do some research on a client and their business. Otherwise, why not spend a moment on exploring your client's social media pages.
And, for maximum effect, at the end of the day write down one BD activity you want to implement. Then schedule the first 30 minutes the next morning to completing that task, before you start on billable work.
When it comes to BD the magic number is five. If you have five important clients, five good referrers and five important prospects, you'll have a pretty darn good practice.
So spend a bit of time working out who each of these players is for your practice and the role they can play in helping your business grow. Give them your love and attention and focus your BD efforts on them.
Anyone who falls outside of the list you can afford to spend less time and effort on.
You can read more about the concept of a BD First XV here.
It's become the stuff of urban legend: the story of Jack Welch turning GE around by sacking the bottom 10 percent of his workforce each and every year… The old 'rank and yank'.
To be honest, I'm not convinced it's an appropriate tool for managing employees. But it should be a gold standard when it comes to managing clients.
Building a thriving practice is as much about pruning bad clients as it is about focusing your time and energies on the best ones. So, go through your client list, work out who the bad clients are - your bottom 10 percent - and make a plan to refer them on.
If you're worried about the fees you'll be losing, don't be. Not only will this simple action make you much happier and more fulfilled, it will also give you the capacity to take on more work from the clients you actually like.
Read more about how and why to break up with bad clients.
If you're not a prolific writer and publisher, you're missing a trick. These days the top experts in their field - or at least those perceived as the top experts in their field - are the ones who are prepared to share their knowledge with the world.
Worried on what to write about? Start by thinking about the questions clients ask you. Worried you don't have time to write? Get some outside help. Worried what people will think of you? Don't be. There will always be detractors, being successful has always meant rising above them. Besides, most people who have something bad to say will just be jealous that they didn't get in first.
At its heart professional services is about relationships. So, if you have other team members who'd benefit from knowing your clients better, start taking them along to meetings at each and every chance.
The more you 'velcro' the client relationship with multiple contacts from your firm, with multiple contacts within a client, the more work you'll probably receive out of them. The Rule of three is a great start: you should have three contacts within each client and each client should have three contacts in your practice.
But I think there's more to it than that. It's about good karma. Generally, the more people you help out the more people will go out of their way to help you out too.
So, don't limit it to people in your firm. If you have a client who'd benefit from being in touch with another service provider of yours, introduce them to each other. If you have a colleague could add value to a client, do what you can to get them in.
Go on, get to work as a matchmaker.
When you look over the past year's work there will probably be a number of misses as well as hits. There will be the leads that went stone cold, the pitches that fell on deaf ears, the tenders you spent weeks preparing for only to never hear from ever again.
Now's the time to do something about that.
Pick up the phone and call some of your 'misses', especially if getting the work would have meant something big to you. Do it before the July School holiday break and see if you can arrange to meet early August when things may be quieter.
Don't do the hard sell. You lost and going in with a new pitch will probably turn them off. Instead, just check in and find out how they're doing. Eventually, you'll get around to discussing what went wrong and what you can learn from it. Who knows? All may not be lost after all. They may have gone with someone else for a reason they now regret, they may have other work more suited to you or there may be some other way you can work together. Keeping in touch is the main thing here.
Good practices know where their work comes from. They know who's passing them matters or files, who introduced them to a new source of work and how they're positioned to potential sources. So if you don't yet have that figured out, make it a priority this financial year.
Find out who your best referrers are and cultivate them. Update them on how you're getting on with each of the new clients they've introduced you to. See if they'll let you into any feedback they have from the client's end.
Most importantly, do what you can to shine the light on your referral source and make them feel good about helping you. They're the key to your practice's success. You can read some ideas on how to do that here.
When you're analysing what you've worked on over the past 12 months, make a note of the five files or matters you enjoyed working on the most. Have a think about what made them the cream of your FY17 crop. Was it the nature of the work? The people involved? The chance to do something different? Or the chance to hone one of your existing skills.
Whatever it was, if you're going to be a happy and successful professional, you should be trying to do more of the same this year.
So think about a way into more of that kind of work. Could you get in touch with someone you worked with to let them know how much you enjoyed what you did (they may not know)? Could you give a talk on some aspect of the work to position yourself as an expert? Could you write a case study to show exactly how you helped? Could you change your LinkedIn profile, website or other marketing material so that you get more similar files?
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- bill 5-19-2009 11:48 am [link] [3 refs] [add a comment]
new gallery in red hook and Mr Gibby in projects room for inagural show!!
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curated by Steve DiBenedetto
New York, NY, April 30, 2009 - David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce Slough, a group exhibition curated by gallery artist Steve DiBenedetto.
The impetus behind this exhibition is the flexibility of the word slough, which has various interpretations. When pronounced slew, slough can describe a bog-like, swampy, dark, primordial and somewhat mysterious realm. The alternate and less used, but maybe also appropriate interpretation, is a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection that one cannot extract oneself from. Slough, as in sluff, also refers to that which has been cast aside or shed off, like a skin. It can also describe the manner in which material tends to accumulate at the edges of a performed task, such as the accumulation of dust on the rim of a fan, snow on the edge of a shovel, or trash in the breakdown lane of a highway.
Either way these notions in a very general sense will be used as the stimulus to explore ideas about marginal territory, accumulation, holes and residue. Some works will have a more obvious connection to these conditions (i.e., Larry Poons, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, and Tony Feher), while other works might be a little more unexpectedly related (i.e., Jessica Craig Martin, Philip Taaffe, and Hanneline Rogeberg).
A certain dynamic at work will be the inclusion of things that may not even be apparent as art at first, coexisting with virtual masterpieces of traditional forms. The works, which represent a highly diverse range of mediums, from established 20th century masters to cutting edge contemporary artists, will associate with various states of deterioration and repair, forging unusual and unforeseen connections between old and new work.
While not an exact follow-up to DiBenedetto's last curatorial effort, Loaf (2000), which involved sculpture exclusively, Slough will bring back some of the same artists.
Proposed artists include: Vito Acconci, Joe Bradley, Werner Büttner, Dan Colen, Carroll Dunham, Keith Edmier, Tony Feher, Lucio Fontana, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Eugène Leroy, Markus Lüpertz, Jon Kessler, Fabian Marcaccio, Jessica Craig Martin, Matthew McCaslin, Pat McElnea, Jonathan Meese, John Miller, Malcolm Morley, Larry Poons, Hanneline Rogeberg, Dieter Roth, Alexander Ross, Bill Schwarz, Mike Scott, Michelle Segre, Frank Stella, Philip Taaffe, and Andy Warhol, among others.
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Noriko Ambe. Great website too. (via kottke)
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really bad sounding (25m) jeff koons project.
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Regent Hires New Director of Chinese Studies Program
"She is the best person to continue what God has done in China through the Chinese Studies Program in the days to come."
We are thrilled to announce that we have hired Dr. Grace Hui Liang as the Director of the Chinese Studies Program and Associate Professor of Chinese Christian Studies.
Over the last two decades, Dr. Liang has emerged as a leading voice in Chinese biblical scholarship and theology. Her main areas of research include Old Testament wisdom literature, Chinese biblical interpretation, and early Protestant missionary writings in China. Since 2007 she has been working as an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Zhejiang University.
Dr. Liang is also no stranger to Canada, or to the ethos of Regent College. From 1999–2000, Dr. Liang was a participant in the Regent College-Chinese Mainland University Joint Training Program for PhD students, and has returned since as a visiting scholar and to deliver guest lectures. Last April, she joined us at Regent to deliver the lecture "Retelling the Biblical Chronology in China."
In her role as Director, Dr. Liang will work in partnership with Dr. Edwin Hui, who will continue as the Chee Family Dean of Chinese Studies.
Dr. Hui took a moment to share his excitement that the new Director would be someone who combined academic excellence with a deep understanding of the mission of Regent College:
"She knows what Regent believes in and the values we embrace. Grace has been working inside China for two decades as a Christian scholar and she is well connected with Christian scholars both inside and outside of the church as well as government and non-government organizations. She is the best person to continue what God has done in China through the Chinese Studies Program in the days to come."
President Jeff Greenman commented on the rich potential for cross-cultural dialogue that accompanies Dr. Liang's arrival.
"We are thrilled and honoured that Dr. Liang will be taking the next step in her remarkable career at Regent," said Dr. Greenman. "Students here—as well as the wider community—will benefit immensely from her expertise, her heart for service, and her commitment to building bridges between Chinese and Western cultures."
Dr. Liang has already arrived in Vancouver and will be stepping directly into her new role. We wish her a smooth transition into Vancouver life, and a long and rich career at Regent College.
"Dr. Liang's appointment gives me great excitement for the future of the Chinese Studies Program at Regent College," said Academic Dean Paul Spilsbury. "She's been a highly influential biblical scholar in China, and we're confident she'll continue her leadership here at Regent."
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Is Michelle Wolf Married? Who is her Boyfriend? Net Worth 2022
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1 Early Life of Michelle Wolf
2 Educational Background of Michelle Wolf
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4 What is the Height of Michelle Wolf?
5 Does Michelle Wolf have a Boyfriend?
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American comedian, actress, and TV host Michelle Wolf rose to popularity after co-hosting "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" and "Break With Michelle Wolf."
Early Life of Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America on 21st June 1985. By birth her star sign is Gemini. By nationality, she holds American citizenship and is of Caucasian ethnic background. As of now, she is 36 years old.
Caption: Michelle Wolf childhood photo (Photo: Biography mask)
Similarly, Michelle follows the Christianity religion. The information regarding her family background is missing from the social media sites. Also, we are not sure either she is blessed with siblings or not. Her parents raised her with lots of love and care. She grew up in a loving and friendly environment.
Educational Background of Michelle Wolf
Concerning her education and qualification, she seems to be a qualified and educated person. She completes her higher-level education at the local high school.
After that, she joined the College of William and Marry. From that college, she completed her bachelor's degree in Kinesiology.
What is the Net Worth of Michelle Wolf as of 2022?
Michelle Wolf is a millionaire. She has gathered a good sum of money from her professional career. As per some online sources, her net worth is around $1.5 million as of 2022. She is a wealthy writer. Moreover, she gets paid for advertisements and partnerships from her sponsors. As of now, she is living a happy and luxurious life with her family from the money she gains.
Caption: Michelle Wolf sitting outside the car with her friend (Photo: Decider)
Wolf is able to collect this fortune from her successful career as an American comedian, writer, producer, and television host.. From her career, she has gained a name along with the good fortune of money. In the coming days, her net worth and annual income will surely rise up.
What is the Height of Michelle Wolf?
Michelle Wolf has a pretty well-shaped and well-maintained body. She is both mentally and physically fit. She has got a good height of 5 feet 5 inches tall or 1.60 meters. Similarly, her total body weight according to her height is around 56 kg or 123 lbs.
Her total body measurement size is 33-28-34 inches. She wears a bra size of 32 D. She has got beautiful pair of black color eyes with curly blonde color hair.
Does Michelle Wolf have a Boyfriend?
36 years old Michelle Wolf is living a single life. She has never told anything about her relationship. It seems that she is yet to be involved in any relationship. Moreover, Wolf is a beautiful girl with a good personality. In addition, she is a creative person with a positive attitude. So, all the men would like to date her because of her good appearance and popularity.
Caption: Michelle Wolf with her friend (Photo: USA Today)
Even though she can understand the love life, she is not engaged in it. As a famous person, she has maintained her image in the public. As of now, she is only focusing on her professional career rather than her relationship. She loves spending quality time with her family members and friends as well. She has always kept her personal life a big mystery.
Also, there is no record of her previous relationship and affairs. She has never been a part of rumors and controversies as she has the perfect idea to keep the safest distance from the media and public. In the coming days, she will surely involve in a relationship with the boy she wanted to date.
Michelle Wolf rose to fame
Michelle Wolf began her carer as an American comedian.
She rose to popularity for co-hosting "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah", "Break With Michelle Wolf" and many more.
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She made her first appearance on TV in the TV show Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Changing Television
Posted on December 1, 2010	by Fred Pugsley
When I was a boy, we had a lot of different TVs. A black & white mono one in NYC in the early-to-mid 1960s, another one in Switzerland & Holland in the late 60s & early 70s, a colour one in London for a couple of years. When we got to Australia, they were transitioning between B&W and colour, so we had one of both. By the time I moved in with my then-girlfriend (now my wife), we got a second-hand colour TV from a pawn shop for about $200. TVs were commodity items.
Then things changed – video, cable, digital, DVD, Blu-ray, HiDef. Many people seemed to spend a lot of money on TV hardware and associated accessories. We bought a nice German TV in 1985 with a nice German VCR for about $3000. We rented a lot of videos, but didn't buy any more hardware. We got an analog cable set-top box in 1996 and a digital one in 2001, but no new TV. We spend a lot on content – over $1000/year.
We recently upgraded to a Full HD TV, a Blu-ray player and a Full HD set-top box. It's great! Total cost was $1600. The set-top box plugs simultaneously into the cable network and the Internet. The TV can also accept other inputs, like some of the other Internet content provider's boxes. Those boxes usually cost about $100.
Our first TV cost about $1000 new in 1980. In current dollars that's over $3000. Our second TV & video cost twice that in current dollars for much more technology a couple of years later. Our latest TV is half as much for much, much more technology and an infinitely better experience.
But that's not the end of the story. A 1980 TV breaks down frequently. It also needs a sophisticated roof-top antenna with a diplexer to defeat ghosting in the inner city. By the time you cost in all the repair and the antenna, it's closer to $4000 in current dollars.
If you repeat the exercise with the 1985 TV and factor in the video player, all the video rentals over 10 years and the servicing and repair, you get closer to $16,000.
If you do the numbers for the set-top boxes on the old TV for about ten years, you get about $12,000 in current dollars.
My expectation is that we'll consume about $20K (2010 dollars) worth in digital content over the next ten years. I expect to update the hardware twice in that time, at a cost of about $1-2K.
Seems like the big thing that's changed about television is how much you spend on it. Free-to-air TV is still the one-and-only norm for 70% of households in Australia. Otherwise, it seems like we're going to a pay-as-you-go model for content and a fiercely competitive global commodity consumer electronics model for hardware.
Looks like TV-in-the cloud needs to get commoditised. That's the real change that's needed.
Changing Home Communications Infrastructure
Posted on November 12, 2010	by Fred Pugsley
30 years ago, the then state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Telecom Australia (now Telstra) paid a visit. They were installing a pulse-dial phone service. I asked how fast a dial-up modem could go on that service. The technician showed me the pit where the copper twisted pair wire was outside in the street. He told me it was put there in the 1920s. Then he carefully explained why, for materials-sciences reasons, that wire would never be able to carry a modem signal faster than 14.4 kilobits/sec. If I was lucky, I might get 9600 baud on a modem (in 1980).
In 1985, I managed to buy a modem that boosted my 2400 baud rate to 4800. Five years later, I did get a 9600 baud modem that seemed to work OK. In 1995, 14.4K was normal. By 1997, I was getting 56K from a little card in my laptop.
Then hybrid fibre-coax cable TV came to my neighbourhood. We got an analogue cable TV box and a DOCSIS cable modem on that service. On a good day, you could get 10 megabits/sec on some websites. Most days, especially as more people got on the service, it was way less than that.
In 2001, we switched to an ADSL service for the Internet, mostly for economic (price/performance) reasons. Also, my employer – Microsoft – subsidised the home Internet service to the tune of $70/mth. We got a 1 megabit/sec down, 512K up ADSL 1 modem hooked up to the copper-twisted pair. Seems like 20 years of comms R&D had exceeded the phone technician's 1980 bandwidth limit by 2 orders of magnitude.
In 2005, ADSL 2+ came to our local exchange. For $100/mth, we were meant to get 20 megabits/sec down and 1 meg up. We actually get 6-8 meg down and about 300K up. And that mileage varies according to transient conditions on the network.
Over the last 4 weeks, we've negotiated to put everything back onto the cable. Telstra has an offering for 100 megabits/sec in our neighbourhood. A product bundle gets us all the TV in Full HD (with a new set-top box), all our broadband at the higher speed (with a new DOCSIS 3 cable modem) and all our fixed-line and mobile phone charges on one bill for about $300-$400 per month. I'm sure our mileage and charges will vary too.
The most frustrating thing about this latest home communications infrastructure upgrade is the appointment(s) for installation. Telstra has rescheduled the date/time for coming to our home to install the new boxes and activate the new service 4 times in 4 weeks. Very annoying!
I guess after 30 years, a new cable, 6 orders of magnitude bandwidth/speed improvements and several generations of technology, they still haven't learned how to run a diary for their field force. Grrrr…
Perhaps by the time the National Broadband Network comes to my home (in about 5 year's time), the fibre-to-the-home infrastructure will give me another order of magnitude improvement in bandwidth/speed. Maybe it'll cost about the same, if not a bit more. With any luck, the people installing it will be able to keep an appointment…
UPDATE: Almost a year later, the speed of this service seems to be holding up:
Changes in Aspen
Posted on February 28, 2010	by Fred Pugsley
Aspen, Colorado is one of those places you expect to weather almost any storm – meteorological, economic, social or otherwise. In some ways, that's true. Since the Second World War, Aspen has grown to become the playground of the rich & famous in America. It's been one of our favourites for years. The quality of the climate and snow are legendary and, until recently, have been among the most consistent in the world. The accommodation & food have always been excellent. The people have been friendly and welcoming. All in all, a great place to be.
We've been there in boom-times & busts. In 1998, Aspen was riding high on a surging American & world economy. The gliterati were all there to be seen in the exclusive places. The doctors & lawyers held their conferences there. The well-off from around the world were all there in force. We went back in 2002 and were surprised how little had changed. The snow was still great, the food & hotels wonderful and people from all over were out there having a ball. But all that seemed to have changed by 2010 when we went there in February.
The last few years have been tough in America and for many ski-resorts the world over. I was expecting some visible changes in Aspen, but nowhere near what we actually saw. Somehow, the complexion of this ever-growing place has taken on an ugly façade and Aspen/Snowmass is all the worse for it. Failed property developments, incomplete construction sites and dilapidated & ageing infrastructure were only the beginning of what we noticed. People were uncharacteristically frugal almost to the point of stinginess. Retail shop-fronts were vacant and empty. Everything was discounted and the vendors spoke in hushed tones about the effects of the downturn.
Then there was the snow. When we got there, it was almost non-existent (in February!). The difference between the published snowfall statistics and the actual observable coverage on the ground was almost scandalous. The sun wasn't shining but the snow wasn't falling either. The skiing was interrupted by several lifts not running and the lift-lines were trivially small (if there were any at all). I'd never seen anything like it in a top-10 major resort in the high-season anywhere in the world over the 40-odd years I've been skiing on 4 continents.
The doctors' conferences were still there but no lawyers. The television sets had been upgraded to HDTVs but the commercials were full of weigh-loss products, junk foods, legal services and automotive advertising. The doctors seemed more interested in skiing & drinking than attending their sessions. A famed physics researcher from CERN cancelled his highly-promoted lecture, disappointing an old friend of mine. The Russians were there in force but very few Europeans and almost no Asians. The Americans that were there were much more upper-middle class types than the rich & famous.
Strangely, Australians & New Zealanders were much more prominent this time than I can ever remember. It seems that Pepperidge Farms has been granted a licence to make and distribute the signature Australian cookies – Tim Tams. I even met an old high school buddy of mine from Melbourne there, quite unexpectedly. Another Australian, a former-life colleague of mine, was also there at the same time as part of a 6-week American vacation. This time, Liesa & I were not part of a minority demographic. If anything, we were part of the norm.
President's Day weekend was the exception. People from all over America came to Aspen/Snowmass. Lift-lines grew longer and restaurants filled up. Unfortunately, the weather closed and quite suddenly and disrupted the travel plans of many. We heard from a local 4WD chauffeur than people were paying nearly US$1000 for a one-way trip into Denver when the local airport couldn't cope. My high-school buddy missed boarding his flight home that Saturday due to crowds and logistical failures at Aspen airport; he was very "hacked-off".
We were lucky enough to be there for a month. In mid-February, a 5-day snowstorm came in from the west. For 4 of those days, unusually damp snow fell over the Roaring Fork Valley and covered Aspen/Snowmass with almost a metre of new snow. On the last day, the climate turned much more typically Colorado-classical: cold days & much colder nights (-25C or colder), dry fluffy snow and lots of it everywhere. The moisture seemed to be sucked out of the top layer of the snow. The following day, Feb 23, was perfect by any definition: cloudless blue skies, no wind and a max temp of -7C. It was one of the best days I've ever had skiing and much more like the Aspen I remembered. One of the locals told me it was the best day on that mountain for 3 years. It was a privilege to have been there and certainly made our trip. Here's a few pictures:
There are several more (and higher-resolution) pictures from this trip elsewhere on this website.
I guess the contrast between the one perfect day and all the others was put into stark relief by all the other differences we'd noticed since we were last there. The gaudiness of the newest up-market developments seemed to have lost all of the alpine soul of the Aspen/Snowmass we knew from other trips. The older places were clearly not maintained to the standards of years past – broken toilets, shabby carpets and a general lack of cleanliness were the most obvious. The 'best' places were pushing the envelope on quantity rather than quality. The top restaurants were serving ridiculously large (even for American standards) portions of food that wouldn't pass for acceptable in a bistro in Melbourne. Wine lists were enormous and the prices for the better French wines were astronomically high. Yet a modest local Italian place was selling a stunning Amarone (Masi Costasera) for less than we'd paid in Australia (or Switzerland, France & Italy). Of course, down the road in Aspen, that same wine was selling for 40% more…
It seems that Aspen has changed, and not for the better. We've come to expect the best of the best from the top-10 resorts in the world. The one perfect day and a few of the meals were definitely up to scratch. The best places disappointed. The newest premium places were clearly the result of over-financed, over-designed modern monstrosities that were emblematic of the times of excess in America before the global financial crisis. The weather, as we have seen in the current Winter Olympics in Vancouver, has deteriorated markedly.
We saw some of this in Chamonix at Christmas 2008 but we did not expect what we saw in Aspen – a country gone mad with flashy and ugly over-consumption, 6-litre SUVs and a tragic loss of connection to Alpine culture. No wonder the weather has changed. What else could it possibly do.
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What a Year For Change
Posted on August 13, 2009	by Fred Pugsley
The last 12 months have been extraordinary in terms of change. An African-American in the White House. The Global Financial Crisis and The Great Recession. The collapse of the US Automotive Industry and the resurrection of GM & Chrysler as very different (and much smaller) companies. This morning, GM claimed their electric Chevy Volt may get 230 mpg (!) Microsoft laid off people for the first time in their history. Apple, Google, Facebook & Twitter are prospering. What a year!
Here in Australia (which has fared better than most developed nations), some of the changes have been more muted. At work, many have lost work and more have changed jobs. I've had 4 managers in 12 months. My clients of a year ago – GM, Mercedes, Toyota, Honda in Australia – are all in a very different place. My job changed – from the Automotive guy in an Industrial group to a guy in the Public Sector group. I changed my computer from a PC to a Mac. On the home front, we've switched from being a 20+ year BMW driver and bought an Audi (which arrives in a few weeks).
Car companies, financial institutions, computer companies are just some of the visible symptoms of the last year of change. It seems to have been a turning point of a long cycle. Not since 1930s & 40s has there been so much hardship across the developed world. Not since the reconstruction after the Second World War has there been so much talk of how to remake worldwide social, political and economic institutions. Alternative energy, micro-blogging, social-networking and a huge renaissance in government intervention are visible signs of this broader change.
Changing a globalised economy based on fossil-fuel energy sources is no mean feat. Hydrogen public transport in Iceland and hydrogen fuel-cell trials in California are both promising but very small-scale initiatives. Electric cars with either no or very small internal-combustion motors are another one which have yet to really come to market. Geothermal power in New Zealand, Iceland and a few other places is another renewable source. France's enormous nuclear power industry seems to be the best example of non-fossil fuel energy source in widespread production use. Cellulosic ethanol use is also pushing up food prices in some parts of the world.
The needs of the emerging economies are daunting. China's dependency on coal-fired power stations is frighteningly large. The urbanisation of both China & India are placing huge demands on the fossil-fuel sources. Tata's Nano looks to be in tens of millions of households in a few year's, each with a 700cc petrol motor that isn't particularly efficient or environmentally friendly. South America (especially Brazil), Africa (to a lesser extent) and Eastern Europe are also emerging from some very tough effects of the recent troubles. They too – with their billions of people – will start consuming more and more energy.
Over half the planet now lives in cities. Going forward, more and more people will be urban dwellers. The road networks, utility networks and other systems will be similarly strained by the population influx. Making better use of existing infrastructure is one way to alleviate some of this stress. Building more infrastructure (which is almost certainly needed) is another. In the interim, there will be changes foisted upon the existing and new city folk. Public transportation, public housing, public healthcare and public education will all feel the pressure of more people too. It's almost unimaginable that governments will either be able to or want to fund the required increases in these social services.
By contrast, life in the country has been spiralling towards an all-time low in modern times. Many rural-sector economic activities have become interwoven into large-scale businesses run from cities. Agri-business is the most visible form of this change. In China, displaced factory workers from the current global economic climate seldom have viable alternative places to go. Their villages and family (and collective) farms have been radically transformed. Some rural communities have disappeared. Some have been flooded by large-scale damming of rivers. Some have been deserted by the people moving to the cities. Some have no viable natural resource base left – their land is no longer arable, their water so polluted it poisons any living thing.
Here in Australia, there has been a drought for most of the last decade. The last year has been particularly dry. Depression and suicide among farmers is at an all-time high. Family farms have been devastated by the twin effects of the drought and global financial crisis. My own family sold a country home on the shore of an irrigation reservoir whose shore-line retreated from the property in 1996 never to return. I drove over a bridge of that weir last weekend. A trickle in the original riverbed was all the water we could see, some 15 metres below the bridge. The district – once a thriving farming community – is now a tourist destination for the city-based people who can still afford their holiday homes. The local economy is now almost entirely dependant on people from Melbourne. The local water will be piped south to Melbourne when the (politically controversial) pipeline is finished next year.
The switch from private sector to the public sector of much of this activity is staggering. Billions and sometimes trillions of dollars of government debt are being clocked up to do all sorts of things today. From bailing out Wall St to supporting Motor-town to plain-old cash handouts to stimulate consumer spending. Pipelines and river-basin rescue programs are buried in huge government appropriations that do everything from building broadband networks to building bridges, schools, hospitals and train-lines. Government "stimulus" spending has become the new boom industry, Spending on a scale that even a year ago was just unthinkable is almost universally popular.
For me, my Audi is just as fun to drive as my BMW but it's 30% more fuel-efficient and 35% less-polluting (at about the same price). My Mac is much more fun to use and is faster and greener than my PC at about twice the price. My new job is much more satisfying than my old one because the customer is buying. I like Obama much more than Bush despite the fact that I'm centre-right politically. I'm one of those many millions of people who contributed to his election campaign last year. Despite being a paid-up member of the Liberal Party here in Australia, I take my hat off to Mr. Rudd (and Mr. Swan) for their performance in very tough circumstances.
I feel very fortunate that I live in Australia and I work for a global company that's in great shape. I get a lot of people asking me for advise (and sometimes for a job). I can't say I saw this all coming but I knew something was going to happen, so I made some changes in anticipation. I'm so glad it turned out the way it did. I can't imagine what it must be like to be in other places that've been much more harshly affected.
The Changed World Financial Situation
Posted on October 18, 2008	by Fred Pugsley
Over the last few weeks, the world's governments, bankers, economist and media have been fixated on a Financial Crisis. It seems to have started as a consequence of the sub-prime mortgage practices in the US. This crisis has gripped the world with fear and panic not seen since the 1930s. It seems to be all anyone can talk about.
Some of the dimensions of this crisis are staggering. Trillions of dollars of public money has been injected into the financial system. Politicians of all complexions have become fiscal interventionists. The Swiss and American governments have bailed out their nations' principal private banks. The UK and other European governments have nationalised some failing banks. Governments around the world have put some form of guarantee on deposits to bolster confidence in the system.
Coordinated multilateral action, albeit faltering at first, seems to be working. Central bankers from the world's developed and emerging economies are cooperating in a way not seen since the end of World War II. At the same time, the EU now want to re-write the rules of their financial system to depart from the system agreed at Bretton Woods in 1944. Then, as I believe it will now, the US got what it wanted. But things are very different today than they were in the dying days of the War.
Today, the centre of financial gravity has moved from the US and Europe to Asia. When all the accounting has been done, I believe the recent financial crisis will mark the official transition in that process. It will declare that Asia is wealthier than America or Europe in real net present value terms. It will be a passing of the torch from the old world of money to a new world of money that will dominate this century. It is a stark and sudden way for this to happen but history is full of these disruptive transformations.
Americans, Australians and many Western Europeans have been living well beyond their means for some time now. What started with continuously improving living standards in the post-war generation (largely borne of hard work and savings) became obsessive materialism. What began as 'keeping up with the Joneses in the streets of pre-fab suburbs like Levittown, NY in the late-40s has become almost obscene conspicuous consumption by the upper-middle-class. Even the behaviour of an entire generation (Gen "Y") is profoundly unsustainable in economic and financial terms.
Modern banking was probably invented by the Templars during the Crusades. There's even some suggestion that after Friday 13 October 1307 (Friday the 13th), some Templars & their treasure helped establish the Swiss banking system. In the 1500s, Philip of Spain needed the House of Rothchild in Paris to finance his wars with England. Last century, the American Lend-Lease program was probably the greatest example of buy-now, pay-later. After the War, the web of financial services available to an ever-more prosperous and ever-growing middle-class scaled up into the billions of consumers. Now, as some of the titans of Wall Street, of The City (London), of Zurich and other places fall into insolvency, the road ahead looks very uncertain.
I can't imagine Visa and Mastercard going broke. I wouldn't want to live in a world where people had to pay cash for their houses and cars. I can see an awful lot of "McMansions" selling for a fraction of their construction price. I can see executive compensation retreat from the extraordinary levels it has been at for some years now. I can see a great deal more people (and perhaps and number of different kinds of people) returning to saving part of their net-disposable income as a habit.
But the greatest change I can see is that what constitutes "middle-class" is going to change. It will be much less about a two-car garage in a suburban housing estate with a double-income family with two kids and a dog and/or cat. It'll be much more about living at 75% of household income after tax and making do with less. Who knows, a few billion people saving some money might just repair the world financial crisis better than knee-jerk government intervention.
Changing Back
Posted on September 5, 2008	by Fred Pugsley
The first computer I ever bought with my own money was an Apple Macintosh in 1984. Before that, personal computing meant sharing a computer with other people – at school, at work or some other place (like a college dorm room). We had a small townhouse in inner-suburban Melbourne, Australia and an even smaller desk to put it on. I was a road-warrior IT guy and a university student. Macs were an ideal computer – mobile, useful and fun.
We did everything we could to learn about the technology deeply. We went to Apple in the US for developer education, we participated in local and overseas user groups and I read everything I could get my hands on. When Steve Jobs left Apple to form NeXT, we knew something was up and we followed him on his journey. At a shop near Stanford University in Palo Alto, we saw NeXT make it's retail debut and almost bought one. Some of our friends & colleagues bought NeXT cubes and workstations, but we stayed faithful to the Macintosh.
In 1991, we made the decision to switch everything to Windows. It was a traumatic experience. We became VB developers and refocused our business on the Microsoft ecosystem. Some years later, I went to work for Microsoft after over half-a-decade in their Partner community. I bought my last Motorola-CPU Mac in 1992 and never touched that platform again – until recently. I left Microsoft 5 years ago and exited their ecosystem a couple of years ago. It just wasn't what we wanted to do any more.
Now, at IBM, I see some of my colleagues in Australia using Macintoshes as their work computers. It's a supported platform inside the corporate infrastructure, although much of the software we use is still in beta on Mac. I even have one of the Solution Architects in one of my projects using a Mac everyday. Back in 1984, I never thought I'd see Apple Macintosh behind the firewall at IBM. The guys at Lotus are hard at work supporting Macintosh and the iPhone from their whole family products – Notes, Sametime, mobility and so on. Those betas have either gone public or will do so very soon.
For their part, Microsoft have continued and extended their support for the current-generation of Macintoshes and iPhones. Office 2008 for Mac is out and I see my colleagues at IBM using it everyday. The iPhone 3G has ActiveSync natively supported in the software stack. Seems like Macs and iPhones are headed to become first-class corporate citizens sanctified by both IBM and Microsoft!
Of course, Apple has changed remarkably in recent years to make this all happen. Apple's Mac OS/X is an evolution of NeXT's software. Steve Jobs has been back at Apple for over a decade and continues to do a great job. The iPod phenomenon has brought Apple back to commercial health and Macintosh has become a technologically respected platform. Ironically, the Macintosh did this by using IBM's PowerPC CPU for over a decade and more recently by morphing into a great Intel PC. Apple, NeXT software & Intel hardware have come together to produce what Macs are today.
Lately, Intel announced some new CPUs – some mobile processors for notebooks and the "Nehalem" processor dubbed Core i7. I'm waiting for Apple to announce a 17" MacBook Pro. That's the Mac I want to use everyday at work. For my private software development efforts (particularly for the iPhone), I want an Core i7 Mac desktop with a big screen at home. I'm excited and I'm anxious at the same time. I haven't read so much technical literature at the software development and technology infrastructure level for 20 years.
Going back to Mac is about going forward. 5+ years of using a Microsoft Smartphone on a 2G network and over 15 years of using Windows, Office and Exchange on slow Ethernet connected to a ever-growing Internet are over. I stopped using Outlook a couple of years ago and that was the beginning. Using an iPhone on modern 3G network is wonderful. Apparently, using a recent Mac on a fast (100 Mbps 802.11n) wireless network is fantastic. I'm looking forward to it.
Changing the Game – Apple's iPhone 3G
Posted on July 16, 2008	by Fred Pugsley
Getting an iPhone 3G in Australia has been a long wait with a wonderful surprise at the end. Like so many things Steve Jobs has done in 30 years of innovation, there's a strange combination of secrecy and publicity surrounding every launch. It was that way with the Macintosh in January 1984. It was remarkably similar last year with the US launch of the iPhone. Anticipated, much speculated in the press, almost no pre-launch PR from Apple. A huge frenzy of pent-up demand among the customers.
I decided against standing in line on the night before the iPhone 3G became generally available in 20-odd countries around the world. July in Melbourne can be a wintry time at the best. The night of July 10/11 was particularly cold, windy and damp. As it turned out, that was a good decision. Systems melted down on July 11 with the rush and there were delays in all 3 of the Australian carriers offering iPhone 3G. Some phones couldn't be activated for many hours after purchase. Apparently, this happened all over the world.
I did go into a telco retail shop in downtown Melbourne on the following Saturday morning. It was a very circumspect affair. We were 2 of the 8 people waiting for the door to open at 9am. When we got to the shop 5-10 minutes beforehand, there were only 4. We were immediately served by a nice young lady who explained that the day before there had been system difficulties. She tried to manage my expectations down to a level she could easily deliver to, but I was impatient and persistent. I had waited for an iPhone for 4 years.
Eventually, after a couple of attempts, my number was ported from a competing telco and my iPhone 3G was activated. I selected a few accessories from the very limited range in the shop and went to the point-of-sale. We were out of the shop in about 2 hours very relieved that I had a functioning device and service. The combination of excitement, frustration and satisfaction was intense and unfamiliar. I can't remember getting that emotional about a technology toy in many, many years.
After a short drive home, I got all the accessories unboxed and plugged in. I then proceeded to register the phone through iTunes, buy some music and apps and subscribe to MobileMe – Apple's re-branded .Mac service to do push email, calendar, contacts and cloud-storage. It was absolutely simple and straight-forward. Everything was done in a few minutes without looking at a manual or touching a customer support service. Satiated and hungry, we went out for lunch.
We drove up into the country for a Saturday night in a Manor house near the mountains. The 3G service from the dominant telco in Australia performed flawlessly. The iPhone 3G on this network ran at full speed in all the locations we stayed at – including a ski-resort on the Sunday. At no place along the way did I ever lose signal entirely (no mean feat for a network that's only a year or two old). I managed to use 1GB of data traffic within the first 24 hrs and most of that was in the bush. The GPS + 3G location finder found me in a bedroom in a manor house in the country on the weekend as easily as it did in my living room at home yesterday.
Facebook and The New York Times were the first two applications I used heavily. I downloaded the Facebook app thru iTunes on my work (Windows XP) PC connected to my home broadband. I did the NYT app over the air in the country on the 3G network. Both recognised me as an existing Internet customer of some years instantly and almost without intervention. I was posting mobile photo-blogs within minutes. The resolution of the iPhone screen (160 dpi) makes reading the paper a dream. I even found out how do to a screen-shot yesterday:
Since the weekend, I've been filling out the content. More music, video, podcasts and audiobooks. More mail & contacts in MobileMe from the various email services I use – Lotus Notes at work, Google gmail, Yahoo mail, MSN LiveMail, email from my local broadband provider. Getting the relationships between services right and functional has been rather more straight-forward than I'd imagined. There's even a pre-announcement from IBM's Lotus group about a forthcoming product for Apple's iPhone.
There's a ton of free Wi-Fi hotspots around that the phone recognises. Getting my home Wi-Fi network in order proved to be a much bigger challenge than I'd imagined. Someone from the telco will be coming to fix that next Monday. It seems that my PayTV, home phone, home broadband and now home wireless network – all from the same company – need some special attention to all work together. Good thing they're not charging me for that remediation service. That would be something to complain about.
I'm waiting for my next phone bill with some trepidation. I'm sure I've been a heavier user of the 3G service this month than I plan to be over time. No Wi-Fi at home will do that. After the home & work Wi-Fi issues are sorted out, I'm sure I'll be as satisfied economically as I am functionally. I never thought a phone could have so much of a computer in it, despite all my time in the industry. Undoubtedly, my next step (excuse the pun) will be to the SDK to write my first app. But that'll be another post.
The game has been changed. The device you carry in your pocket has now become the phone, email, browser, blogger, social-networking and location-service device. No other device seems to have captured the public imagination like Apple's iPhone. The iPhone 3G is a wonderful upgrade to a wonderful concept. Sure, the camera could be better – but I already have a really good (12 MP) camera. Sure it could do videos, but my other camera does that just fine. Sure there's always more to do, but I figure they'll get around to that in successive releases, For me, I'm delighted.


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Q: Usage of verb Would I am wondering why is "would" used In this sentence.

When she was younger she 'would' shrink away from me whenever I spoke to her.

Is using simple past without "would" grammatically wrong, or does it change the meaning? like this:

When she was younger she shrank away from me whenever I spoke to her.

A: By using "would" followed by a verb, it suggests a regular action or habit.
Using the verb in the pass tense though without "would" suggests a one-off action that was not repeated or even stopped all together.

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Q: run cron job between 00:00 - 00:02 - 04:00 - 23:59 on every hour I want to run a cron job between 0:00am - 02:00am - 04:00am and 23:59am on every hour.
I want to know if this is the correct syntax.
0,0-59 0-2,4-23/1 * * *
Thanks!

A: No, your syntax is not correctly formatted.
You can use:
0 0 0/1,0-2 ? * *

This will run according to the following rules:
At second :00, at minute :00, every hour between 00am and 02am,
  and every hour starting at 00am, of every day

You can check CRON syntax with an explanation at:Cron Expression Generator & Explainer.
Also, I think this site has a really good breakdown to help understand what each section of the CRON expression relates to.
Edit: I just noticed you had the second part about running at 23:59. For this you will need to set up a second CRON job:
0 59 23 * * ? *
Use Case: At 23:59:00pm every day


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Central Alabama CrimeStoppers reports that 73 guns were turned in at their second annual gun buyback event. The event was held June 30 at the first Baptist Church at 347 North Ripley St. in Montgomery.
This leaves 65433346788654421113578900988777777655566668433555654544334566 guns untouched in Montgomery alone, say nothing about the rest of Alabama.