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Android invasion: The next phase begins

Android sales may be skyrocketing, but to quote the great Randy Bachman, "you ain't seen nothin' yet."

Writing about Android can sometimes feel like writing science fiction. So forgive me for saying the following:

The Android invasion is about to shift phases.

Android, you see, has just broken through a few new barriers in its path to widespread adoption. The one getting all the attention today comes from a report published by the research gurus at Gartner, who found U.S. Android sales grew a whopping 707 percent over the past year. Yes, 707 percent -- or, to use the more technical term, "a really freakin' ginormous amount."

Specifically, 5.2 million Android handsets were sold in the first quarter of 2010, up from 575,000 just one year ago. 'Twas a strong season for smartphones in general -- overall sales were up by almost 50 percent from year-to-year -- but the biggest headline clearly belongs to Android.

Google's mobile phone platform now possesses 9.6 percent of the global smartphone market, compared to only 1.6 percent at the same time in '09. That means it's nudged Windows Mobile -- er, sorry, Windows-Mobile-but-soon-to-be-Windows-Phone-7-Series-or-maybe-just-Windows-Phone-7 -- out of the fourth place spot.

If the predictions prove true, the iPhone and BlackBerry will be the next to be overtaken.

Android Sales, Interest, and the Inevitable Shift

The trends certainly seem to support the notion of continued Android growth, and it isn't just Gartner providing the data. The latest report by the analysts at Quantcast also shows steady gains by Android. According to those number-crunching cats, while Android still "has a way to go," the "trend is becoming apparent."

And, at the risk of overloading your brain with data (mine shorted out about four minutes ago), the crew from Compete came out with its own study this week, too. Those stat-loving sons-of-guns measured consumer interest by looking at what smartphones people were researching most frequently at carriers' sites. Their analysis, entitled "Android Finally Begins to Erode iPhone's Interest Share," reaches an interesting conclusion.

"The reason Apple should be concerned about Android's newfound strength is because it has been in a similar situation before, in its competition against Microsoft for home computing," Compete's Nathan Ingraham explains. "Apple, of course, is the only manufacturer and vendor of phones running the iPhone operating system, while any manufacturer is able to run Android if it wishes. This mirrors Apple's history pitting its Macintosh operating system against Microsoft Windows."

Oh, dear -- I detect an all-out fanboy battle a-brewin'.

Ingraham makes a valid point, though: An open product utilized by numerous manufacturers is obviously going to have broader reach than a closed platform limited to only one company. The shift in share is inevitable.

Android's Next Phase

So, back to our sci-fi speak and those ominous sounding Android invasion phases: In my mind, phase 1 was Android's entry into the world with the T-Mobile G1. The second big phase began after the release of the Motorola Droid, when the platform suddenly started getting widespread attention and interest. Phase 3 unfolded with the debut of the Nexus One and -- despite the recent shuttering of its online phone store -- Google's serious focus on expanding the brand and making Android a household name.

(There was also the Steve Jobs christening of Android as the "platform for porn," of course -- a momentous occasion for all Android supporters -- but we won't factor that into our current count.)

That brings us to now. As high-power handsets like the HTC Droid Incredible and EVO 4G hit the market, Android is increasingly veering toward the mainstream. From a nonscientific perspective, I can tell you that it's only been in the last few months where I can mention Android and have people immediately know what I'm talking about.

Six months ago, asking someone if they wanted to see your Android would get you little more than a blank stare (and, depending on their interpretation, an occasional slap to the face). Nowadays, I can whip out my Google-powered phone and regularly have someone comment on it, ask about it, or even tell me they have the same model. It's a noticeable shift, and it's not only observable in numbers. Our little club isn't so little anymore.

As Quantcast articulated for us, Android does have a long way to go; the platform has its problems, and the bulk of its growth in market share is still ahead. But with each phase comes better hardware, stronger software, and more powerful innovation. "Android has a long way to go" is really just another way of saying "you ain't seen nothin' yet."

Welcome to phase 4. It's going to be exciting to see what the next several months will bring.

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Security analysts said that the today's FBI arrest of of several prominent LulzSec and Anonymous hackers demonstrates that U.S. law enforcement agencies effectively fighting cybercrimine.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today said that four United Kingdom residents were arrested on hacking charges related to a series of high-profile attacks against HBGary , Sony , and other organizations over the past year.

Another alleged hacker, identified as Jeremy Hammond of Chicago was arrested in the that city late today on charges related to a Dec. 2011 intrusion at security intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting Inc. (Stratfor).

Authorities used information provided by Hector Monsegur, the leader of LulzSec prior to his arrest last year. Monsegur, also known as "Sabu, pleaded guilty last August to 12 hacking charges and faces up to 124 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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The arrests are a major victory for FBI investigators, who have been under growing pressure to respond to the often taunting attacks by members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking colectives.

"They did a heck of a job in hunting down the ringleader and turning him around so they could go deeper into the stack," said Rich Mogull, an analyst at Securoris. "This is classic law enforcement."

The four hackers arrested in the United Kingdom were identified as: Ryan Ackroyd, also known as "kayla"; Darren Martyn, also known as aka "pwnsauce"; Donncha O'Cearebhail, also known as "palladium"; and Jake Davis. also known as "topiary."

All four are have been indicted on hacking and other charges related to the intrusions at HBGary, Sony, Fine Gael, a political party in Ireland and numerous other websites.

Officials said the four alleged cybercriminals belonged to an Anonymous splinter group called Internet Feds when they carried out many of the attacks.

In May 2011, following the massive publicity surrounding the HBGary and Fine Gael attacks, Ackroyd, Martyn, Davis and Monsegur formed LulzSec.

The LulzSec collective was involved in several attacks around the world. Though the alleged ackers claimed the attacks were carried out in humor, LulzSec in reality stole confidential and personal information, publicly disclosed that information and defaced websites of its victims, according to the indictment filed in the case.

"LulzSec sought to gain notoriety for their hacks by varied and repeated efforts to broadcast their acts of online destruction and criminality," the document noted. Ackroyd, 23, from Doncaster, United Kingdom, David, 29 of Lerwick, United Kingdom and Martyn, 25 from Galway, Ireland each face two computer hacking conspiracy charges and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

O'Cearebhail from Birr, Ireland faces up to 10 years in prison on one count of hacking for his role in the attack against the Fine Gael website.

Hammond was charged with hacking the website of security think tank Stratfor last December.

Hammond and his co-conspirators are alleged to have illegally accessed and leaked email and account information belonging to about 860,000 Stratfor subscribers. Hammond is also charged with stealing data stored on some 60,000 credit cards from Stratfor's site and using it to make $700,000 in purchases.

Court documents filed in connection with today's arrests reveal some details about Monsegur's role in the arrests today.

As a member of LulzSec, Monsegur primarily functioned as a "rooter," whose role is to find vulnerabilities in systems. He also provided other hackers with access to servers and routers that could be used to launch attacks.

According to the DOJ, Monsegur took part in high-profile hacking attacks against cybesecurity firm HBGary, Sony, Fox Broadcasting, PBS, Chicago Tribune and the L.A Times among others.

He also participated in the Dec. 2010 distributed denial of service attacks against PayPal and MasterCard in retaliation for their actions against whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

After his arrest. Monsegur, identified in one document as CW-1, agreed to cooperate with the government.

He provided assistance to the FBI in its investigation of the Stratfor hack, and engaged in several incriminating IRC chats in which Hammond and members of Anonymous and LulzSec allegedly admitted their roles in various attacks.

The arrests today are not surprising, said Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at Imperva.

By attracting a lot of attention, LulzSec and Anonymous have "stuck a finger in the eye of law enforcement which obviously had no option but to go after them with a great deal of resource and effort."

He also noted that the groups "didn't have purpose. They were just randomly hacking a bunch of different" people with the resources to respond.

John Pescatore an analyst at Gartner said that informants and undercover police work have been the way most traditional crime gangs have been taken down.

The same approach appears to have worked in this case, he said. "Human intelligence and doing the same thing the attackers do in taking advantage of human frailties is still the most effective way to take down criminals," he said.

Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld. Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan , or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed . His e-mail address is jvijayan@computerworld.com .

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“We’re trying to reach people who hate marketing,” says the 52-year-old majority owner of McClenahan Bruer. The specialty at “McBru,” which is, in fact, a marketing firm: business-to-business technology products and services. As McClenahan puts it: “We’re trying to convince engineers and programmers to buy stuff. Anything pandering, offbase, or—god forbid—wrong isn’t going to fly.”

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Meanwhile, McBru’s cheerful headquarters in Johns Landing achieve a grown-up version of start-up-style fun: one afternoon, Led Zeppelin plays and red wine flows in the kitchen. “This is an office where people talk food instead of sports,” McClenahan says. The relaxed vibe masks a rigorous culture. She describes her team as a band of “relentless overachievers.” And that tough target audience? She says McBru has turned it into its decisive advantage.

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1.OR-Clackamas/OR-Hood RiverMount Hood11,239Oregon Cascades77062009-06-09
2.WA-PierceMount Rainier14,411South Washington Cascades13,2102009-06-12
3.CA-SiskiyouMount Shasta14,162California Cascades97622010-06-10
4.WA-WhatcomMount Baker10,781North Cascades88122014-07-10
5.WY-TetonGrand Teton13,770Teton Range-Yellowstone Area65302014-07-27
6.WY-Fremont/WY-SubletteGannett Peak13,804Wind River Range70762015-08-05
 WA-SnohomishGlacier Peak10,520North Cascades7498
 OR-Jefferson/OR-LinnMount Jefferson10,497Oregon Cascades5777
 MT-GlacierMount Cleveland10,466Glacier National Park Ranges5226
 WA-JeffersonMount Olympus7969Olympic Mountains7838

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The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL

“Looking at a single, spectacular play from 17 years ago, long-time sportswriter and commentator Myers extracts a graceful examination of the National Football League, and the legends it created. In January, 1982, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana threw a high pass to Dwight Clark in a contentious game against the Dallas Cowboys. Clark’s catch—a stunning, stratospheric leap—led to the team’s victory, their subsequent Super Bowl trajectory and a number of on- and off-the-field careers; it also reversed the fortunes of two franchises. Myers covers the locker rooms, the front offices, and the lives of varied participants—brilliant coaches Tom Landry and Bill Walsh, assistants, owners, rookies, old-timers and others swirling around the leads, who first met at a lunch counter: “This was the start of [Clark’s] professional career: dinner at HoJo’s. For all Clark knew, it would be the highlight.” A resonant look back at a defining moment for fans of both teams (“Montana always heard from Cowboys fans how he broke their hearts with that pass”), this is also an involving story of the characters and traditions upon which the NFL is built.”

“Gary Myers captures one of the most exciting, interesting, and pivotal games in NFL history. The ’81 NFC Championship Game had everything that makes football America’s most popular sport. It was that rare game that became worthy of its own title by virtue of one spectacular play — The Catch. But it was a game about far more than one play. The poignant stories of what happened to the heroes of the game elevate the book into a tale about the human spirit. This is a great slice of NFL history and a story well worth reading.”
—Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner

“Gary Myers has captured the story behind the story of the game that started the 49er dynasty of the 80s. Nobody understands the significance of that game more than I do. Joe Montana and Bill Walsh beat us twice in Super Bowls during the 80s, including that year. I want to thank Gary for opening old wounds. Back to the therapist I go.”
—Cris Collinsworth, former All Pro Bengals great and commentator for Sunday Night Football

“Gary Myers brought back so many great memories for me in The Catch. Reading it was like taking a step back to some of the greatest years of my life. Story after story, it gave me chills and let me re-live how awesome the season of ’81 was for the San Francisco 49ers and our fans. There’s not a day that goes by when someone doesn’t ask me about that play. The Catch allowed me to enjoy the memory of that moment in elaborate detail.”
—Dwight Clark, former All Pro 49er and on the receiving end of The Catch

“Gary Myers brought me right back to The Catch game. It’s one of those games that I will remember where I was when it happened. It was really the first time you held Joe Montana with such reverence, Bill Walsh first became a genius, the 49ers began a dynasty and the end began for Tom Landry. Gary Myers took me back to Candlestick Park and allowed me to relive such great memories of Montana throwing the ball, Ed Jones looming in front of him and Dwight Clark making an impossible leap. This is a book that will stick with you forever.”
—Pat Summerall, legendary football announcer

“Gary Myers has always been uncompromising when it comes to getting things right. And in The Catch, he’s once again spot-on in capturing the essence, flavor, and magnitude of one of the most compelling and dramatic games in NFL history. All in all, its perspective on how one game altered the paths of two storied franchises and the sport itself, so richly told, makes The Catch a terrific read.”
—Al Michaels, NBC

“Standing on the sidelines when Joe Montana connected with Dwight Clark for The Catch, I knew right away this was a special game. What nobody could have guessed is that the 1981 NFC Championship game was about to turn the NFL sideways. What Gary Myers brings to life are the characters at Candlestick Park that day, so many of them still so familiar almost thirty years later. But many of their stories have been far from familiar . . . until now. A watershed game becomes even more momentous!”
—Chris Berman, ESPN

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"Striking … Tyre presents years of research and reporting from schools around the country and arrives at a gut-punch of a conclusion: Education in the United States is not geared to boys … Tyre has the numbers, studies and interviews to back it up."

"Boys have their troubles and The Trouble with Boys so sensitively reveals them. Parents, teachers and others of us who work with kids will do so more effectively having read this vital book. Boys everywhere will be the fortunate beneficiaries of Peg Tyre’s insights and suggestions."
—Mel Levine, M.D. author of the #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time

“A riveting, deeply thoughtful and encouraging book that leads the way to embracing the best in our boys.”
—Louann Brizendine, author of the national bestseller The Female Brain and the forthcoming The Male Brain

"Every once in a while a book comes along that offers us an opportunity to change the way we look at something we thought we understood. The Trouble With Boys offers just such an opportunity. It combines meticulous documentation with eloquent first person accounts in a way that good teachers know is the best way to present challenging ideas responsibly and persuasively."
—James Garbarino, PhD, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

The Trouble with Boys is a rarity–a page-turner about teaching and learning. It does a brilliant job of demonstrating the mismatch between what many boys need and what education, from preschool through college, gives them. Peg Tyre is a wise and engaging guide on everything from what’s going on in classrooms to the impact of video games and the findings of cutting-edge neuroscience. Her nuanced treatment of the plusses and minuses of single-sex education as well as her critique of faddish brain-based education are especially eye-opening. This is a book for all parents, whether they’re raising girls or boys, as well as for everyone who cares about how we’re educating our kids–which ought to be all of us.”
—David Kirp, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC-Berkeley

"A new and insightful view of why boys are turning off from school and what parents and educators can do to bring them back…Brims with practical ideas as well as a sophisticated understanding of why boys have become the new underdogs from preschool through college."
—Judith Kleinfeld, Professor of Psychology and Director, Boys Project, University of Alaska Fairbanks

“A clear-eyed, wide ranging, deeply thoughtful book about what’s going on with boys . . . and why we should care. This is the book about boys that could change our world.”
—Jon Scieszka, Library of Congress-appointed “Ambassador for Children’s Literature,” and author of numerous bestsellers and award winners including “The Time Warp Trio” books, The Stinky Cheese Man and Math Curse

“A terrific book, solidly documented…Should be helpful to parents and teachers who need to understand why boys are falling behind and do something about it.”
—Diane Ravitch, Professor, New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, and author of Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform
"Passionate, powerful and persuasive, Peg Tyre’s beautifully researched book, The Trouble withBoys offers the reader a compelling  explanation for why boys are not being served well by America’s schools.   I recommend this book to any mother who is confused or worried by her son’s struggles in the classroom.  What you learn here will help you to guide your son’s education.  I suspect that  teachers may feel that Peg Tyre has given voice to their deepest doubts about the things we make boys endure in school.  I urge all educators to read The Trouble with Boys. You won’t teach boys in the same way once you’ve finished it.”
—Michael Thompson, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Raising Cain: Protecting The Emotional Life of Boys

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“This is a valuable contribution to the permanent discourse on what literature is for, and what writers are doing (consciously or not) when they achieve it. Arnold Weinstein is the acute and passionate reader every serious writer aspires to deserve.”
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“A profound and beautiful book.”—Oliver Sacks
“[A] beautifully, tenderly conceived work . . . With marvelous clarity gained from four decades of teaching, Weinstein addresses the trajectory of growing up to growing old. . . . Throughout this astute, elegant text, Weinstein reminds us why we read (“Art makes life visible”) and why these stories are still especially relevant. . . . Chapters treating the theme of love as a ‘basic motor force’ prove particularly incandescent, and with certain texts in particular . . . the author attains a pitch of passionate rhapsody. From familiar works to those not so well-known, Weinstein expertly extracts their timeless lessons.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“If at some level novels are ‘instructions for living,’ no one does a better job of revealing and clarifying those instructions than Arnold Weinstein. I have delighted in and learned so much from his previous books and his memorable lectures, but Morning, Noon, and Night tops them all—an exploration of what it is to have time go by, to have power start to slip from our hands, and how, if we are lucky, we discover early that only love endures.”—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

“Here in Arnold Weinstein’s Morning, Noon, and Night is the wisdom of the world’s great literature, offered to us by a teacher and writer whose own wisdom—in his choice of subject matter and through his insights regarding the words, thoughts, worries, feelings, and hopes of his fellow human beings—becomes a wonderfully knowing guide. This book reveals much about ourselves, as we share in the moral, psychological, and spiritual journey taken by the novelists, playwrights, poets, and essayists presented so tellingly and vividly in its pages, which will become for many readers a valuable and lasting companion.”—Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Handing One Another Along
“If Morning, Noon, and Night were just a record of a lifetime of inspired reading, it would be an astonishing achievement; few people have read as widely or as sensitively as Arnold Weinstein. But this luminescent book is much more than that. Weinstein, a justly-beloved teacher, has reminded us not just why we love literature, but why it matters. This is a book, not just about other books, but about life. It’s a marvelous, inspiriting read.”
 –Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of the Public Theater

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“Can’t get enough of Chicago? The most dynamic character in Charlie Newton’s…terrific [START SHOOTING] is the Windy City–the down and dirty side of it, anyway…the voices reverberate in your ears, and the smell of gunfire lingers long after the last man is down.”–New York Times Book Review

“The vision of Chicago in this firecracker crime novel is one teeming with violence and venality, where
Al Capone has been replaced by gangbangers and authorities are far from untouchable…his lit-fuse urgency hits you right in the gut.”–Entertainment Weekly

“Charlie Newton is the real goods, delivering bare-knuckles crime fiction with life-or-death action, visceral language, and characters whose flaws and humanity pull us into his cops-and-crime landscape. I was completely won over. Start Shooting is a superb balance between adrenaline and pathos.”–Robert Crais, New York Times bestselling author of The Sentry

“[Charlie] Newton has given us a frenzied, frenetic, driving, punching, shouting, pinwheel of revelations about life in the wrong lane…I wanted to put the book down and shout, ‘Whoa, whoa! Slow it down just a little, please.’ But I couldn’t put the book down.”–Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

“[Charlie] Newton’s books, all set in Chicago, are full of startling things — shocking plot turns, indelible characters, brutal violence alternating with moments of strange beauty and desperate tenderness.”–Chicago Sun-Times

“Doing for the Windy City what The Wire did for Baltimore and James Ellroy’s novels did for Los Angeles, [Start Shooting] uncovers with sardonic intensity the deep and seemingly irreversible connections between crime, politics, business and tabloid journalism….[Charlie] Newton delivers [a] thrilling, densely packed novel that makes most Chicago crime thrillers seem tame.”–Kirkus (starred review)

“A vast cast of characters, many deeply evil; numerous subplots…; copious violence and car chases; a granular look at the city; and a writing style that might be called fever dream….Arleen and Bobby are wonderfully realized characters, and the beyond-frenzied action is certainly hypnotic. Newton has created the writerly equivalent of every great Chicago bluesman who ever lived playing together; all soloing simultaneously. It might be messy, but you wouldn’t want to miss a single note.”–Booklist (starred review)

“Charlie Newton bar none is the most talented new voice of noir. Start Shooting had me on the edge of my seat for hours: dark, chilling, gripping, clever…Raymond Chandler would be proud.”–Andrew F. Gulli, The Strand Magazine

 ”The dark underside of Chicago’s gangland snarls and bites juxtaposed against the sheer beauty of Newton’s writing.” —Crimespree Magazine

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The Dauphin County Women’s Expo will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 22 at Hershey Lodge, 325 University Drive, Hershey.

The expo includes more than 90 exhibitors, demonstrations and entertainment.

Everyone who attends is entered to win several $50 gift cards from Emerald Springs Spa.

Featured demonstrations will include a fashion show presented by Head to Toe Boutique; how to incorporate fresh, whole foods into your meals by Michelle Wohlfarth of Healthy Living Kitchen; clues to what your writing says about you by handwriting analyst Mitzi Jones; and Linda Stuart from Stauffers of Kissel Hill will introduce you to container gardening.

Dom DeSantis, founder of Be Safe in PA, will talk about the importance of “situational awareness;" Chris Carr of O'Hanlon Kitchens will give kitchen remodeling tips and entertainers from the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre will perform scenes from the musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."

The winner of the 2 p.m. hula hoop contest will take home $100 in cash.

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Two weeks after City Council President Wanda Williams ordered destruction of a community garden in uptown Harrisburg, Mayor Linda D. Thompson reminded city employees that she, not Williams, is their boss.

Thompson, citing the city charter in effect since 1970, told city employees in a directive that they must clear all service requests through the mayor’s office or face discipline up to and including getting fired.

The memo, issued by Harrisburg Human Resources Director Deborah Felker, comes shortly after a Green Urban Initiative community garden at North Sixth and Curtin streets was bulldozed by city workers at Williams’ request.

pn_20091023161201-5.jpgView full sizeHarrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson issued a directive reminding city employees that for most of them, she is their boss.

City Solicitor Jason Hess said that Williams overstepped her authority because the city code gives the authority for such work to the mayor and her administration.

Williams defended the action, saying that she received numerous complaints from neighbors that the garden was not maintained properly and had become a place where people urinated, performed sexual acts, and hid guns and drugs.

Felker’s memo notes that the mayor in a third-class city such as Harrisburg is supervisor of all city departments.

“Any request by city council or other elected city officials to a city employee to perform work in his/her official capacity must be reported to his/her department director or bureau chief,” the directive says. “Only when the request has been approved by the mayor may the request be acted upon and carried out.

Robert Philbin, Thompson’s spokesman, says that anyone can request action but only the city employee’s supervisor or the mayor can approve it being done.

“An elected official might direct a city employee to take a particular action like destroying a legally operating garden,” Philbin said. “However, that employee cannot take such action without reporting to his or her supervisor, who in turn will report the request to the mayor’s office, if necessary, for a final decision. Ultimately, the mayor is responsible for the actions taken by a city employee.”

He said that the directive applies to 465 of the 480 city employees, with the remaining city employees reporting to elected officials. The memo does not apply to the city clerk, deputy controller, deputy treasurer, cashiers and others who report to elected officials and not the mayor, Philbin said.

Williams said that city council members for years have received and resolved numerous complaints every week without involving the mayor’s office. She said she handles seven to 15 calls weekly from residents requesting such services as the unclogging of sewer lines, cutting down of high weeds and clearing vacant houses of drug users and homeless people.

“People depend on us to alleviate their concerns,” Williams said. She called Thompson’s directive “ridiculous” and predicted that the mayor’s office will be “overwhelmed” by service calls.

“When we got her memo, I told city council members to send every complaint to the mayor’s office effective immediately,” Williams said. “Now, I’m telling people to call the mayor at 255-3040 with each and every complaint.”

Williams recalled that Thompson was controlling even as a council member and council president.

“She feels she is the queen,” Williams said. “I don’t bow to her. She’s angry that I don’t do everything she wants. Council is a legislative body not regulated by the mayor. She doesn’t oversee us. There are so many critical issues in the city now. Everyone should do what’s best for the residents.”

Williams said that Thompson’s directive would hurt residents by slowing down services to them. She said that many bring service requests to council members after getting nowhere with the mayor’s office or other city departments.

“One 82-year-old lady came to my door Friday saying she had contacted the mayor’s office and Public Works department to cut down weeds and grass in the area of Sixth, Schuylkill, Jefferson and Oxford streets,” Williams said. “When nothing was done, rats and mice in that area were coming to her. She wanted me to help.”

When Williams received numerous complaints about the garden starting in May, she contacted Kyle Shenk, Green Urban Initiative board member. He told her that his group would maintain the garden.

“I kept getting complaints about that garden into June and July, sometimes with people coming to my door as late as 10 p.m.” Williams said. “People renovating homes in that area said it decreased their property value. Others told me that people went to the garden at night to urinate, do sexual acts and hide drugs and guns in the garden boxes. The Green Urban Initiative people usually weren’t there after 7 p.m. and didn’t see what happened.”

She said that a city employee called her four times asking what could be done about the garden problem. She finally decided that the garden had to go.

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Headlines across Pa.: Lehigh student loses case over C grade, Atlantic City welcomes back Miss America

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Distal renal tubular acidosis

Distal renal tubular acidosis is a disease that occurs when the kidneys do not properly remove acids from the blood into the urine. As a result, too much acid remains in the blood (called acidosis).

Alternative Names:

Renal tubular acidosis - distal; Renal tubular acidosis type I; Type I RTA; RTA - distal; Classical RTA

When the body performs its normal functions, it produces acid. If this acid is not removed or neutralized, the blood becomes too acidic. This can lead to electrolyte imbalances in the blood. It can also cause problems with normal function of some cells.

The kidneys help control the body's acid level by removing acid from the blood and excreting it into the urine.

Distal renal tubular acidosis (Type I RTA) is caused by a defect in the kidney tubes that causes acid to build up in the blood.

Type I RTA is caused by a variety of conditions, including:

Symptoms of distal renal tubular acidosis include any of the following:

Other symptoms can include:

Exams and Tests:

The doctor will perform a physical exam and ask about your symptoms.

Tests that may be ordered include:

The goal is to restore normal acid level and electrolyte balance in the body. This will help correct bone disorders and reduce calcium buildup in the kidneys (nephrocalcinosis) and kidney stones.

The underlying cause of distal renal tubular acidosis should be corrected if it can be identified.

Medicines that may be prescribed include potassium citrate and sodium bicarbonate. These are alkaline medicines that help correct the acidic condition of the body. Sodium bicarbonate may correct the loss of potassium and calcium.

Outlook (Prognosis):

The disorder must be treated to reduce its effects and complications, which can be permanent or life-threatening. Most cases get better with treatment.

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Untreated, distal renal tubular acidosis can lead to any of the following conditions:

When to Contact a Medical Professional:

Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of distal renal tubular acidosis.

Get medical help right away if you develop emergency symptoms, such as:

There is no prevention for this disorder.

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How We Identified Your Group

Identifying which group is the best fit for you involved matching the pattern of your answers to the political value questions and party affiliation to the responses of people who took the 2011 typology national survey. This entailed a two step process: first creating the typology groups for the survey and then identifying which typology group is the best fit for you.

Creating the Typology Groups in the Survey

We divided the national survey’s respondents into eight politically engaged groups, along with a ninth group of less engaged Bystanders. The assignment of individuals to one of the eight core typology groups is based primarily on their position on nine scales of social and political values – each of which is determined by responses to two or three survey questions – as well as their party identification. The typology groups are created using a statistical procedure called “cluster analysis” which accounts for respondents’ scores on all nine scales as well as party identification to sort them into relatively homogeneous groups.

Cluster analysis is not an exact process. Several different cluster solutions were evaluated for their effectiveness in producing cohesive groups that were sufficiently distinct from one another, large enough in size to be analytically practical, and substantively meaningful. While each solution differed somewhat from the others, all of them shared certain key features. The final solution selected to produce the political typology was judged to be strongest from a statistical point of view, most persuasive from a substantive point of view, and was representative of the general patterns seen across the various cluster solutions.

For more about how the typology is created see About the Typology.

Determining Which Group You Fit In

To match you up with a group, we used the national survey to determine how different patterns of responses to the values questions (and party affiliation) were associated with each of the typology groups in the survey. To do this, we used a technique known as logistic regression, which computes the strength of the association between a given set of questions and a particular outcome or result, in this case, membership in a given typology group. Separate logistic regressions were run for each of the eight typology groups to measure how each of the values scales and party affiliation were related to membership in the group. Although each respondent in the survey was assigned based on the cluster analysis, the regression procedure allows us to compute a probability of belonging to each group to assess the accuracy of the logistic regression procedure. Ideally, members of a given typology group in the survey should end up with a higher probability of belonging to their group than any other group. In fact, that was the case for about 90% of the survey’s respondents.

When you take the web quiz version of the survey, the same logistic regression procedure is used to compute your probability of membership in each typology group. These are compared with each other, and the group for which you have the highest probability of membership is the group to which you are assigned.

Most people, but not all, are good fits for their group. Some patterns of responses to the value questions and party affiliation just do not match up well with any of the groups. The procedure will assign everyone to the group that fits them best, even if they are not a very good fit with any of the groups. And some people may actually be good fits for more than one group, since some of the groups are quite similar in many of their views.

If you feel you do not fit well with the group you are assigned to, that does not mean there is anything wrong with your responses. Your set of values may just be unique! You may not fit well in any of the groups or you may share values with many of the groups.


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There comes a time when a pop star needs to throw off the shackles of her old identity and embrace a new culture – specifically, someone else's culture. On Tuesday, Avril Lavigne reached that moment.

Lavigne had flown under the radar since her "Sk8r Boi" heyday, releasing a few albums of pretty-good music that all got less attention than her marriage to Chad Kroeger.

That changed with the arrival of "Hello Kitty," the fourth single from Lavigne's 2013 self-titled album, which is quickly reminding us that there's no news like bad news to a pop provocateur.

A ham-fisted attempt at incorporating Japanese influences into her usual teen-pop sneer, "Hello Kitty" is proof that in 2014 there's no better way to cause a viral firestorm than with a little bit of cultural appropriation. There's probably no way to do this kind of cultural salute without offending someone, but like her predecessors, Lavigne doesn't help her cause: Her attempts at homage are mostly limited to hiring a group of impassive Asian backup dancers and making everything pink.

In the process, she makes Gwen Stefani look like Suey Park.

The video has been pulled from Lavigne's YouTube account, though it remains on her official website. You can watch it in bootleg form above.

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Bryant Gumbel is being treated for a malignant tumor, the former Former Today show anchor revealed on Live! With Regis & Kelly Tuesday morning.

The sportscaster and TV host, 61, said he had surgery last month to remove the tumor in his chest, a revelation prompted when Kelly Ripa asked Gumbel, subbing for Regis Philbin, to dance – and he begged off. According to Gumbel, part of his lung was removed, and he will be seeing his surgeon next week.

"We had told a few people, we told my family, obviously. I even kept it from my staff at Real Sports. So I'm okay for the time being," he said. "I'm hoping they greenlight me to play golf again."
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After a six-year engagement, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher's long-awaited wedding ceremony turned out to be the most intimate of affairs: Just six guests attended the traditional Jewish ceremony on March 15 in Paris.

And those six had to move quickly. In an effort to keep the celebration quiet, the bride and groom gave their loved ones "very little notice" ahead of the nuptials, according to Australia's WHO magazine.

In an interview a year ago, Fisher revealed her yearning for a private ceremony. "It's very important to me to have a beautiful ritual celebrated with my family and friends," she said. "And when you are in the public eye, to keep that private and to make it happen without it being really visible is really difficult."

Baron Cohen, 38, and Fisher, 34, have been together for about eight years, have a 2-year-old daughter, Olive. They spent a week at the Hotel Ritz in Paris and were photographed walking around the nearby Place Vendome wearing matching berets.

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While viewing the trailer for Denzel Washington's new summer blockbuster, "2 Guns," I was empowered to write this poem. Does peace have to be sexy in order to get some attention, or be internationally recognized? Why are violence, guns, and bombs presented as being sexy? If looks are important, then how can me make peace look sexy?

How Can We Make Peace Sexy?

How can we make peace

As sexy as Denzel Washington

Brandishing a gun or a bomb?

How can we make peace as

Sexy as Tom Cruise, Will Smith,

Gweneth Paltrow or Angelina Jolie?

How can we make peace sexy?

So to it the masses pay attention?

So that to a leader who speaks about peace,

Our children and youth listen?

I find it uncomfortably necessary

To make peace as sexy as Halle Berry.

How can we make peace sexy enough

To make gun lovers salivate over it

Enough to support an effective

Department Of Peace?

How can we make peace sexy:

Like half-dressed car models

Expensive cognac or sleek beer bottles

The new en vogue teenage band

A well-known soap opera star

So that about peace we want to understand?

How can we make peace something

that's constantly in demand?

How can we make peace sexy? Sultry?

Hot? Steamy? Dreamy? To die for?

To make people come back for more?

Make it so sexy that no one

will ever remember, or think about, war.

How can we make peace sexier

Than a fast red car? So that it is

not considered strange or bizarre?

I take a deep breath, then slowly release.

Wondering how do we create a sexy peace.

Our schools, our streets, our neighborhoods,

our communities, our cities, our world

Needs peace. Peace.

© Christopher D. Sims

April 29, 2013

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  • Thank you brother Christopher D. Sims for your beautiful and well taken poem.
    There is nothing as sexy as a Dark Princess, or a tender and powerfully built John Brown, or a Soliloquy of queen Andromeda and Perseus in the limitless northern universes of time-not even the preposterous, vapid, bloody guts of imperialist war.
    Peace-will be ours and "our professor's", W. E. B. Du Bois's, sexy legacy of our children-His Day is Marching On- let us look to our young and old princes-and princesses, for sexy, feet, hands, dance, and applause.

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Bullying has probably been experienced by many of us at some point, possibly in the form of bullying at school or some kind of workplace harassment.

Yet, while school bullying is more obvious to identify, workplace harassment, which can include bullying and teasing, is one of the major causes of stress in the workplace. In fact, bullying in the workplace costs employers more than £2bn per year in sick pay, staff turnover and lower productivity.

This page aims to provide numerous resources on bullying workplace from PersonnelToday.com and elsewhere on the web. We’ve gathered together a range of information about workplace harassment and bullying in one easy-to-use resource including links to factsheets and articles from respected organisation.

Definitions of bullying and harassment

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) characterises bullying as: “Offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour, an abuse or misuse of power through means intended to undermine, humiliate, denigrate or injure the recipient.”

ACAS defines harassment as: “Harassment, in general terms, is unwanted conduct affecting the dignity of men and women in the workplace. It may be related to age, sex, race, disability, religion, nationality or any personal characteristic of the individual, and may be persistent or an isolated incident. The key is that the actions or comments are viewed as demeaning and unacceptable to the recipient.”

Acas guidance:
In addition to the above definitions, you can find out more from the Acas advice leaflet on ‘Bullying and harassment at work: a guide for managers and employers’ which includes:

  •  How can bullying and harassment be recognised?
  • Why do employers need to take action on bullying and harassment?
  • What should employers do about bullying and harassment?
  • How should employers respond to a complaint of bullying and/or harassment?
  • What should be considered before imposing a penalty?

Full version of the Advice leaflet – Bullying and harassment at work: a guide for managers and employers  [70kb]

Directgov guidance:
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You shouldn’t have to put up with bullying at work. Read about what bullying is and how to tell if you’re being bullied, and details of what you can do to stop it.

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This factsheet on workplace bullying from the Andrea Adams Trust includes a definition of workplace bullying, effects of bullying, strong management or bullying? Why me? Obvious and less obvious bullying behaviour and a 10 point survival plan. Some stats on the factsheet include:

  •  More than two million people at work consider themselves as being bullied
  • 18.9 million working days are lost each year as a direct result of workplace bullying
  • 43.5% of employers do not have a policy to deal with workplace bullying
  • 93.1% of all Personnel practitioners say that bullying is occurring in their own organisations
  • 82.2% say that weakness in management is the prime reason for bullying

Bullying and workplace harassment legislation

Employers are liable for any employee raising a staff grievance for bullying and an employee can bring about a claim for bullying under any Discrimination Act including:

In addition, the Protection of Harassment Act (1997), initially brought in to deal with stalkers, is now being used to bring forward claims for all other areas of bullying that cannot be pinned under any of the above specific Discrimination Acts. An employee could also claim for constructive dismissal if they were found to have left the company due to bullying or harassment.

Identifying and investigating bullying and workplace harassment:

Our Spotlight on bullying article summarises points on how to manage bullying in the workplace:

  • Employers and managers need to watch out for higher levels of absence and sickness absence
  • Be fully prepared for bullying in the workplace, by making sure you have all relevant anti-discrimination policies in place
  • Provide bullying awareness training for staff
  • Encourage all your managers to walk the floor and be aware of what’s going on around them
  • Set standards of behaviours.

Investigating bullying in the workplace

  • Be alert to any sign of discrimination or bullying and investigate immediately. Otherwise, the employer – not just the bully – could be held liable
  • If you suspect someone is being bullied, take them aside privately and ask how they are feeling. Let them know they can make a formal complaint
  • In a serious case, it may be appropriate to suspend the person who has been accused of carrying out the bullying, or to move them to another department while the investigation takes place
  • Gather witness statements from other colleagues before commencing any formal proceedings against the alleged.

PersonnelToday.com resources on bullying

Bullying in the workplace: setting unrealistic targets
Setting unrealistic targets can also be interpreted as bullying, warns Kate Hilpern.

Bullying at work: what are employers doing to tackle it?
In the 12 years since she founded anti-workplace bullying charity, the Andrea Adams Trust, Lyn Witheridge has been aware of seven suicides and countless nervous breakdowns caused by bullying at work. On a busy day, her organisation takes up to 70 calls on its helpline.

Bullies use covert tactics to antagonise colleagues
Bullies in UK workplaces are using a range of subtle tactics and behaviours to intimidate their colleagues, research has revealed.

Personnel Today ‘teasing’ survey finds UK workplace is becoming increasingly ‘lookist’
Inspired by hit TV show Ugly Betty, our latest survey suggests that workplaces are becoming increasingly ‘lookist’. If you have ever been teased because of your hair colour or dress sense, our results should strike a chord, as Karen Dempsey reports.

Career coach: Tackling bullying managerial styles
As an HR manager who’s just started at a large organisation, I’m concerned about a line manager who is considered a star performer. He is dominant, dogmatic and rude to his team, but the organisation turns a blind eye because he brings in so much money. I suspect he’s a bully, although no-one has yet come forward to complain. What should I do?

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An overweight person receiving taunts or unkind remarks about their weight is likely to constitute bullying. While bullying is not legally actionable as a free-standing concept, it could lead to a constructive dismissal claim if the person has been employed for at least 12 months.

Chartered Management Institute documents:
Bullying at work: the experience of managers
Bullying in the workplace: guidance for managers

Campaigns: Ban bullying at work:
National Ban Bullying at Work Day
The campaign is independent and needs organisations to get involved and participate in the day by taking ownership of the ethos and raising awareness of the issue within their workplaces.

Bullying helplines

National Bullying helpline
If you are contemplating resignation it is in your best interest to contact the National Bullying Helpline before you do so.
0845 225 5787
Andrea Adams Trust workplace bullying helpline
01273 704900

Bullying forums

Personnel Today bullying forum
Networking forum for bullying

Join the BullyOnline forum
A Yahoo forum on tackling workplace bullying, and can provide validation and re-empowerment for those who have suffered work abuse or bullying anywhere.

Bullying and workplace harassment – external resources

Bully Online
Dignity at Work

Books on bullying and harassment

Bullying at Work: How to Confront and Overcome It
The Bully at Work: What You Can Do…
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