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Friday, June 8, 2012
Indonesian leagues sign truce
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Belmont and that's not all on big NYC sports day
This combination made Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from file photos shows, at left, New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey on May 22, and New York Yankees' Derek Jeter on April 17. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including a regular-season, three-day series between the city's two baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, starting on Friday, June 8. (AP Photos/Files)
This combination made Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from file photos shows, at left, New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey on May 22, and New York Yankees' Derek Jeter on April 17. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including a regular-season, three-day series between the city's two baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, starting on Friday, June 8. (AP Photos/Files)
This combination made Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from file photos shows, at left, Brazil's Neymar on May 30 and Argentina's Lionel Messi on June 2. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including an exhibition soccer match between two of the game's great rivals, Brazil and Argentina, Saturday, June 9, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photos/Files)
FILE - In this May 20, 2012, file photo, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another is lead around his stable just after arriving at Belmont Park in New York. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including the Belmont Stakes horse race, featuring I'll Have Another's bid for the first Triple Crown in 34 years, on Saturday, June 9. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - In this June 2, 2012, file photo, New Jersey Devils' Steve Bernier, right, skates past celebrating Los Angeles Kings after the Kings' 2-1 win in Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup finals in Newark, N.J. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including Game 5 of the Stanley Cup on Saturday, June 9, if the Devils can pull off a road win Wednesday in Game 4 at Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2011, file photo, United States' David Oliver competes in the 110-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events, including a world-class track and field meet, the Adidas Grand Prix, at Icahn Stadium, Saturday, June 9, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? New York likes to think of itself as the hub of, well, pretty much everything. Finance, fashion, theater. And this Saturday, sports can claim a spot on that list.
Fans around the world will be focused on the New York metropolitan area as it hosts at least four and maybe five major events: the Belmont Stakes, featuring I'll Have Another's bid for the first Triple Crown in 34 years; a world-class track and field meet, the Adidas Grand Prix, at Icahn Stadium; an exhibition soccer match between two of the game's great rivals; a regular-season matchup between the city's two baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees; and, Game 5 of the Stanley Cup, if the New Jersey Devils can pull off a road win Wednesday in Game 4 at Los Angeles.
True, sports lovers may start their day watching the women's final at the French Open from Paris and end it by checking out the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley welterweight title fight in Las Vegas, but between morning and late night, it's all New York.
To mark the big day, The Associated Press talked to people with a connection to each of the five sports ? horse racing, track, soccer, baseball and hockey ? and asked them why a fan who could only attend one event should go see theirs. The AP also asked what they'd go to see, if they couldn't watch their own game or race.
Here is what they said:
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METS STARTING PITCHER R.A. DICKEY
? On why a fan should go see baseball:
"It's the New York Mets vs. the New York Yankees. We're both playing well. It's a trophy game, it's for bragging rights. The winning team gets its colors lit up on the Empire State Building. It's like an intrastate rivalry in college football. It'll be an exciting environment."
? And if you couldn't go to the baseball game:
"I would go to see the Olympians in the track meet. The track first, then the Belmont, then the soccer, then the hockey. I was in the '96 Olympics and got a chance to watch some events from track side. I remember seeing (gold medal sprinter) Michael Johnson coming around the turn, those golden shoes, that was really something special. If you're talking about athletes, I'm thinking that means human beings more than horses. I'd rather see a human being run fast than a horse."
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SUNIL GULATI, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION (also an economics professor at Columbia University)
? On why a fan should go see Brazil vs. Argentina:
"You've got one of the world's great rivalries, and one very rarely played outside South America, a few miles outside of Manhattan. And you've got what everyone would agree are two of world's five best players on the field at the same time."
? And if you couldn't go to the match?
Gulati based his answer on what his 14-year-old son would like to do. "I'd take him to the hockey game. My son hasn't been to the hockey game," he said. Then he hesitated. "But Neymar and (Lionel) Messi in the same game?"
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TOM DURKIN, NEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION TRACK ANNOUNCER (will call Belmont at the track):
? On why a fan should go see the Belmont Stakes:
"Because this is something that is going to happen only once every 34 years. The Yankees and the Mets play, what, six times a year? The Stanley Cup, it's hockey. Argentina and Brazil. They play all the time. A Triple Crown happens once in a generation."
? And if you couldn't go to the Belmont?
"I would go see the Empire Classic, the 10th race at Vernon Downs (a harness racing track in central New York). Why? Because I own a horse that could win it."
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TOM RENNEY, FORMER NEW YORK RANGERS COACH
? On why a fan should go see Game 5 of the Stanley Cup, assuming the Devils win Game 4:
Renney said a Game 4 win would show the Devils haven't quit. That, he said, "lends itself to the support any hockey fan should give the game of hockey . not just the New Jersey Devils and the L.A. Kings. The Stanley Cup finals are not over, and the New Jersey Devils, do have the ability to come back, especially at home."
? And if you couldn't go to Game 5?
"If not able to attend the game, I would go to the track (Belmont) and watch a seldom seen, lifetime experience. History repeating itself is a distinct possibility."
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DAVID OLIVER, AMERICAN RECORD HOLDER IN THE 110-METER HURDLES AND 2008 OLYMPIC BRONZE MEDALIST
? On why a fan should go see the Adidas Grand Prix, part of the Diamond League series:
"This ... question is extremely hard!" Oliver said in an email. "If you could only buy one ticket, it should be to the NYC Diamond League because: Mets/Yankees will be played on Sunday, Game 7 on the 13th will be a much better game to attend, there will be racing at the Belmont, but only at the track meet can you actually get an autograph from the athlete. I know the Triple Crown is at stake but just DVR it and re-live it over and over. Do we really watch soccer in the USA? No competition for the Diamond League!"
? And if you couldn't go to the meet?
"If I couldn't go to my event, hands down I would be attending the Brazil vs. Argentina friendly. I'd be going for the simple fact that if both teams fielded their top teams, I'd be watching some of the world's greatest soccer stars in Gonzalo Higuien, Messi, Javier Mascherano, Maxi Rodriguez and Sergio Aguero for Argentina taking on one of the most successful countries in World Cup history and their young guns Hulk, Neymar and Marcelo. Will be an awesome match."
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Proud, too-big-to-fail Spain ponders bank rescue
LONDON (Reuters) - As the world's 12th largest economy and No.4 in the euro zone, Spain by common consent is too big to fail. But all the signs are that the country is not too big for a bailout of its banks.
Markets have rallied this week partly on optimism that euro zone policymakers, proven masters at improvisation, will reach a compromise with Madrid on the terms of a bank rescue and so defuse the latest threat to the single currency.
Spain, growing in confidence that it can get help without some of the politically humiliating baggage that often goes with it, is looking at ways to fill a capital shortfall at a clutch of troubled lenders that will be at least 40 billion euros, according to sources in the financial sector in Madrid, [ID:nL5E8H769]
If Spain does seek outside help it is expected to ask for funds from the 440 billion euro European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the euro zone's temporary rescue fund, or its successor, the 500 billion euro ($625 billion) European Stability Mechanism, due to be operational in July.
"The Spanish government must consider all options," Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said. "We must find ways to deal with this fairly quickly because that is today the major threat to the world economy," Borg, whose country is not one of the 17 members of the single currency, told Reuters in Copenhagen.
Underscoring the gravity of Madrid's predicament, credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded Spain by three notches on Thursday.
HIGH STAKES
There are high stakes for Spain and the global economy.
To use a phrase popularized in 1984 when the Reagan administration bailed out the seventh biggest bank in the United States, Continental Illinois, on the grounds that its collapse would have caused economic disruption that would leave all Americans poorer, Spain, it seems, is "too big to fail".
Should either Spanish banks collapse under the weight of bad property loans, or the Madrid government rescue the banks alone and then struggle to pay its own creditors, possibly defaulting or being forced from the euro zone, the chaos that would cause in the world economy is worth other governments paying to avoid.
In contrast, Greece, with only 11 million people to Spain's 46 million and a banking system and trade less deeply integrated with its EU neighbors, may be left to its fate if voters this month elect a government which rejects the terms of a bailout.
The mooted Spanish bank rescue is important because of what it will say about a shifting balance of political power in Europe as politicians propose ways of putting the 13-year-old single currency on more solid foundations.
Germany, Europe's paymaster, has ceded ground and said Madrid should be allowed more time to cuts its budget deficit at a time when its economy is in recession and one in four Spaniards are out of work.
But Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reaffirmed her government's opposition to bending the rescue fund rules, for example by handing money straight to the commercial banks.
The EFSF's statutes say any loans for the purpose of bank recapitalization must be made via euro zone governments - making explicit their sovereign responsibility - and not directly to the ailing lenders.
"It is important to stress that we have created the instruments for support in the euro zone and that Germany is ready to use these instruments whenever it may prove necessary," Merkel said. "That is a clear expression of our political willingness to keep the euro zone stable."
For his part, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is keen to avoid the stigma of a full-fledged bailout of the Spanish state itself, with strict conditions attached of the sort Greece, Ireland and Portugal were forced to accept in return for emergency finance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
The EFSF prescribes much lighter conditionality for a bank-recapitalization loan than a traditional EU/IMF program. But the borrowed money would still go on the Spanish government's books, adding to its fast-growing debt burden.
Rajoy believes Madrid, where the government's own debt level has actually been lower than the likes of Germany and France, deserves credit for its efforts to put its house in order. The country's external deficit is narrowing rapidly, its competitiveness is improving as unit labor costs fall and it has enacted reforms that will inject much-needed flexibility into the labor market.
"Outside of the banking space, they are largely signing up to all the structural reforms and fiscal targets that Europe would like them to pursue anyway," said Malcolm Barr, an economist with JP Morgan in London.
On the other hand, Barr said, Spain's size should not be a sufficient reason for Germany and other northern European creditors to sacrifice the principles of sound long-term currency management for the sake of a quick political fix.
"Independently of size, that's the message that you continue to get from policymakers: that there is a trade-off between short-term expediency and long-term incentives," Barr said.
Spain, he argued, still should commit to do better.
MAJOR MISTAKE
Rajoy said on Thursday he would wait to see the results of independent audits of the country's banking system before talking with Europe over the best course of action to recapitalize the banking system.
The Spanish premier, who enjoys the backing of newly elected French President Francois Hollande, won support on Thursday from Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski.
"I think it is a major mistake to have a system whereby recapitalization of Spanish banks has to go through the Spanish public sector, increasing public sovereign Spanish debt," he said at a conference in Copenhagen.
"I am actually very confident that a sensible solution to the Spanish banks will be arrived at very soon," he added.
If Rostowski is right, would it do the trick and soothe markets?
JP Morgan, for one, has its doubts and suspects Spain will be forced into a full-blown IMF/EU bailout.
If such a package were to provide $75 billion to recapitalize banks and meet the financing needs of the central and regional governments through 2014, it could total $350 billion to $450 billion, the bank reckons. That is up to a third of Spain's entire annual national income.
Riccardo Barbieri, chief European economist at Mizuho International in London, is not sure either. He would like Spain to agree to a loans-for-reforms program that tackled overspending by autonomous regional governments as well as the country's banking problems.
But he said a loan aimed narrowly at addressing banks' capital shortfall could go down well.
"If a big lending program promises to stabilize the banking sector, the markets might be pleased with that because I don't think many people believe IMF/EU programs have been particularly successful," he said.
The bigger picture, though, is that even if policymakers win the battle for Spain, they are still far from winning the war with financial markets over the future of the single currency.
Plans being sketched out for the closer fiscal, banking and political integration needed to underpin the euro will take a long time to finalize, let alone implement. Yet Europe's needs are immediate and urgent, as Spain's plight shows.
"The most worrying thing is that, even if you take an optimistic view, it will take years to sort this out. It would be nice to solve it in six months, not in six years," Barbieri said. "We'll be in stagnation/depression for a long time if we don't come up with a new perspective." ($1 = 0.7960 euros)
(Additional reporting by Mette Fraende in Copenhagen; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
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Tina Fey big winner at Audie Awards
NEW YORK (AP) ? Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and William Shatner are now award winners in the book world.
On Tuesday night, Fey received Audie Awards for Audio Book of the Year and best Biography/Memoir for her narration of her million-selling "Bossypants." Fonda won in the Personal Development category as the reader of her own "Prime Time." Shatner was cited in Humor for "Shatner's Rules." An audiobook about the Titanic, "The Watch That Ends the Night," won for Distinguished Achievement in Production.
Hope Davis' narration of Ann Patchett's "State of Wonder" won for literary fiction and Will Patton's reading of James Lee Burke's "Feast Day of Fools" won for mystery. The awards, in more than 25 categories, were sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
HBT: Orioles draft Ripken's son in 20th round
Day 3 of the draft is going on right now and the Orioles just used their 20th-round pick on Cal Ripken Jr.?s son, 6-foot-6 high school first baseman Ryan Ripken.
Baseball America didn?t have Ryan Ripken among their top 500 prospects for the draft, although in fairness more than 500 players had already been taken by the time the Orioles selected him.
Orioles blog Camden Depot notes that Ripken is committed to playing college ball at South Carolina if he opts not to sign, although presumably the team?s scouting department had a little inside information regarding his intentions.
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It's Time to Retire "Security" From Our Lingo - The Falcon's View
The future of security is that it shouldn't have a future; at least, not as its own dedicated profession. Rather, security is merely an attribute of operations or code, which is then reflected through appropriate risk management and governance oversight observations and functions. That we still have dedicated "security" functions belies the simple truth that creating separation ends up causing as many problems as it solves (if not more).
This is not a new line of thinking for me. Nearly 3 years ago I asked whether or not a security department was needed. At the time, I was working as a technical director of security for a SMB tech firm, and as the first dedicated security resource, I had concluded that building a team wasn't going to be fruitful. Rather, it made sense to jump right past the "dedicated security team" phase and go right to the desired end-state.
The Security Lifecycle
I've used this example anecdotally in talks over the past year, but I think it bears relaying here, too. The rise and maturity and "security" practices seems to follow a consistent lifecycle. While there is often a point where having a dedicated security resource or team is useful, there also seems to be a law of diminishing returns. More importantly, having dedicated resources seems to address short-term organizational deficiencies, rather than solving persistent, long-term problems.
In the beginning, we had IT, and it was by-and-large a dedicated, separate function. Out of this grew an environment of sheer hubris wherein business people came to the IT gods and supplicated, asking for resources and assistance. However, the walls of this sanctum began to disintegrate in the mid-90s with the rise of the Internet and the mainstreaming of PC technology. By the turn of the century, IT had become routinely accessible to everyone, and a few years later - thanks in large part to innovations from Apple - technology became demystified and essentially commonplace. No longer can IT personnel play the role of demigods demanding reverence and ritualistic sacrifice. The day of the Bastard Operator From Hell are essentially gone.
Similar to the rise and fall of the IT-as-demigods culture, so has security followed a similar trend. Out of the IT ranks arose dedicated security professionals - many of whom being extremely smart, cynical, and paranoid - who in turn treated IT folks the way that IT historically treated business peers (see Jimmy Fallon's portrayal of Nick Burns, Computer Guy). I'm sure many of you can think of multiple "ID-10-T" errors attributed to "stupid IT people" over the years?
As security resources emerged, it quickly became necessarily to consolidate them into dedicated teams or departments, oftentimes taking on an increasing amount of varied responsibilities ranging from operations to governance. Unfortunately, given the origins in IT, the majority of these teams remain(ed) buried in IT departments, or reporting up through CIOs, with a heavy operational focus (not that this is bad, per se - it just changes how "security" business is done and focused). Fast-forward to modern times, where much of security needs to be driven by risk management programs, and we quickly see a disconnect forming.
The natural evolution, which we've been seeing evolve over the past few years, is to get away from dedicated security teams almost altogether. The first target for transition is to remove operational security duties and dissolve them back into IT operations. After all, operations is operations is operations, and there's really no need to maintain duplicate staff or infrastructure. Second, there are typically a couple areas remaining: incident response and GRC. The incident response team can oftentimes remain in IT, close to the technology that it's supporting. This is logical and easy. However, GRC programs (and, here we're talking about GRC as a discipline, not as a tool or platform) cannot and should not remain buried in IT organizations. Instead, they need to be elevated into the business structure, oftentimes reporting in with other risk managers, such as under a General Counsel (Legal team), CFO, or business analysis team.
It seems to me that this is all widely held and accepted today. Many organizations have already moved to this end state where security-related operations have been dissolved back into IT departments/teams, with oversight functions elevated into GRC programs that pull together risk management, policy, audit, and various related testing and data analysis duties. However, if this is the case, then I wonder why it is that we're still talking about security? In fact, it strikes me as sadly ironic that the politicians and the federal government seems increasingly incensed with "cybersecurity" just as those duties return to ops. Instead of focusing there, where should they be focusing?
Supplanting Security With Reliability and GRC
Last month I heard the inimitable Dan Geer speak on the future of security at the Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) in Denver, CO. During his keynote he discussed the need to do away with "security" in favor of terms that better describe the desired outcome. In particular, he stated that he views security as being an attribute of reliability, and encouraged people to move to a mindset focused on reliability - which, incidentally, has strong roots in engineering - and get away from the sentiment-oriented term "security," which is often meaningless.
I think Geer's idea is excellent, and it further supports the lifecycle described above. Moreover, when it comes to defining metrics for IT operations, we already understand reliability and how to measure it. Sure, there are additional considerations related to the traditional cause of security, such as from all the additional data sources. But, for the most part, this is an easily understood concept. And, more importantly, focusing on reliability aligns with networked systems survivability and the imperative for business survival. Moreover, it also better aligns with risk management approaches, which are themselves focused not on eliminating all risk, but on managing risk within acceptable limits so as to optimize business performance.
This shift in approaches also helps address the question that Michael Santarcangelo recently asked in his CSO Online article "Is your definition of security holding you back?" We oftentimes have difficulties managing security because everyone is not on the same page, which in turn relates to the fact that we aren't generally speaking the same language. Dumping the confusing term of "security" (or "cybersecurity") in favor of reliability and GRC would go a long way toward resolving those concerns.
So, What's My Job?
Making a wholesale change like this is not necessarily easy, but it is necessary. Thinking in terms of my TEAM Model, I think this necessitates a revision, which I believe changes the first two component areas to GRC and Operations (or IT Operations), as depicted below. In terms of the impact on organizational structure, this translates to having a strong operations team/department, elevating a GRC team into the business leadership to help with decision analysis and support, and enhancing quality and performance programs like audit, penetration testing, and code analysis, to have an equal say. At the end of the day, your job should fall under one of those buckets.
At the end of the day, this is not so much about "security" going away as a need, but it evolving and maturing into something more useful. As long as we continue talking about security, then we continue to perpetuate myths that are counter to our desired objectives. Instead, shifting to GRC and reliability as the core focus, we can then leverage well-established engineering practices, as well as help mature them to better account for all relative attributes. This imperative further solidifies when considering modern challenges like "big data" wherein we already have decent analytical islands, but still lack a consistent second-tier level of analysis to pull it all together. Operations teams can have the luxury of working with siloed analytics, but the business as a whole cannot, which necessitates an elevated GRC program that helps provide better quality data to decision-makers. All of these changes culminate in better-informed leaders who can then make decisions that are more defensible legally, which in turns helps improve the risk management posture of the business; a true win-win.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Samsung teases Series 5 Hybrid PC, a Windows 8 tablet with magnetic keyboard dock and pen support (update: hands-on photos)
You wanted Windows 8 tablet / laptop mash-ups, you got 'em! On the heels of some rather inventive product launches from Acer and ASUS here at Computex, Samsung is teasing a Win8 device of its own, the Series 5 Hybrid PC. For now, Samsung's not sharing many technical details -- we don't even know the screen size! -- but the concept, at least, is self-explanatory: this is a Transformer-like tablet that slots into an accompanying keyboard dock. In an interesting twist, though, this device doesn't make use of your run-of-the-mill latch mechanism; instead, the slate attaches magnetically.
The Hybrid is rated for 10 hours of battery life and has a pair of 2- and 8-megapixel cameras. It also supports pen input, and will come bundled with the same S-Pen and S-Memo software used on the Galaxy Note 10.1 (but modified for Windows, of course). This might be a good time to clarify that unlike the 10.1 (or any other Galaxy Tab, for that matter), this is not an ARM-based slate, but rather, an X86 PC. This means, of course, that it runs full Windows 8, and not just the RT version. As it happens, Engadget had the chance to check out a prototype in advance of the launch, and it was running a two-watt Intel Clover Trail CPU. At the time, a Samsung rep told us the company was considering an ultra low voltage notebook-grade processor. Other possible specs: a 1080p display option, with some lower, unspecified resolution offered as well. Lastly, the early model we saw had a USIM slot, a microSD reader and a Superspeed USB port. Keep in mind, though, that all these details are subject to change.
Back when we got a sneak peek at the Hybrid, we handled a non-powered unit, and members of the press were not permitted to take photos or video that day. We can't speak to the software experience, then, but we did find the build quality to be solid. If the idea of a magnetic hinge gives you the willies, this one seemed quite sturdy -- we don't see the slate slipping out of its cradle without any effort on the part of the user. At 747 grams (1.65 pounds) and 9mm (0.35 inches) thick, it feels denser than similar-looking products like the ASUS Transformer Prime, but then again, this is a fully functioning PC. Though Samsung won't confirm the screen size, a quick once-over told us it measures between 10 and 11 inches diagonally, matching other Win8 tablets announced this week. For now, this blend of facts and educated guesses will have to suffice, but we'll naturally hit you back with more particulars as we hear them.
Update: Samsung reps staffing the company's Computex booth confirmed that the screen measures 11 inches.
Zach Honig contributed to this report.
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ChildCareGroup Joins Dallas Early Childhood Leaders to 'Honor the ...
ChildCareGroup?and leaders in the early childhood development field?came together to recognize Dallas-area early childhood professionals for their extraordinary talents and dedication.? The ?Honoring the Profession? awards ceremony and dinner was held Thursday, May 31st at the Dallas Marriott Suites Market Center.? The special evening?s theme?was ?Teachers Change the Future!? celebrating the outstanding work of early childhood professionals and was sponsored by IBM.
Hundreds of professionals attended the event, recognizing those who play an instrumental part in the educational development of children from birth to age 5.
?Early childhood professionals have a profound impact on the children they serve, greatly affecting their present and future development,? said ChildCareGroup President/CEO, Tori Mannes.? ?We want everyone to become more aware of the significance of this profession.? The work they do is so incredibly important ? not just to the children served, but to our society?s future.?
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And the winners are?
The Dallas Association for the Education of Young Children (DAEYC) presented a Life Time Achievement Award to Wanda Meshack Smith, CEO of Head Start of Greater Dallas for her vast contributions to the field of early childhood education for the past four decades, touching the lives of close to 90,000 children and their families.
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ChildCareGroup?s Sonya Bemporad Excellence in Child Care Award and DAEYC?s Alzenia Hunter Teacher of the Year Award for positive contribution to teaching young children were presented to Maria Caballero, an infant toddler lead teacher at ChildCareGroup Oak Cliff United Methodist Church. She has over 25 years of experience working with young children. Accepting the awards for Maria is Leticia White.
Brenda Pearse, from Ratcliff Learning Center received the ChildCareGroup?s? Elaine Krause Award, recognizing her professional development achievements in the field of early childhood education.
ChildCareGroup?s Health Services Shining Star Award, recognizing an active medical professional dedicated to early childhood development, was presented to Toya Hart, CCG Inclusion Specialist.
DAYEC?s Margaret Cone Award for outstanding impact on children and families was presented to Maria Angeles Sierra-Hernandez from Mi Escuelita Crossover.
The outstanding Trainer of the Year Award was presented to Pamela Arnold, Head Start of Greater Dallas for providing numerous professional development opportunities to child care providers.
The Advocate of the Year Award for outstanding voice for children?s issues was presented to Denetra Adams, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
DAEYC?s Administrator of the Year Award?was presented to Kim Barnes, Greenhill School.
?The Pat Kennedy Educator of the Year Award for an outstanding professor in the early childhood field was given to Barbara Hammack, Texas A&M University- Commerce.?
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Joanie Pieper Scholarship Award, for an Educator who has impacted early childhood education?was presented to Angel Duncan from Hockaday School.
DAEYC?s Education Scholarship Awards was presented to Nicola Montelongo, Ennis ISD.??
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Monday, June 4, 2012
The imperative need for social dividends - Natural Finance
Social dividends are a citizen's basic right to an equal share of surplus tax revenue. ?This is a variation of basic income. ?Basic income is a fixed entitlement to all citizens designed to be an amount to meet survival needs. ?Social dividends are a variable entitlement, that likely includes a fixed basic income amount, which is based on actual tax revenue collected, and any savings from government program reductions.
The simplest implementation of basic income in Canada would be to lower the Old Age Security eligibility age to 18. ?Social dividends and basic income are both taxable benefits.
Equal share of taxes instead of equal share of economy
Communism (the entitlement to an equal share of all economic output) has the significant and insurmountable disadvantages of eliminating individual motivation, and requiring a permission based bureaucracy for any investment. ?An equal share of tax revenue models a nation or society as a an equal-partnership corporation where its revenue is the tax income from its members. ?Maximizing shareholder value becomes running the society as efficiently as possible, and actually paying out (social dividends) the social tax revenue surplus to its members. ?Tax-based market societies protect individual motivation of rewards from effort, and eliminate permission-based restrictions on activity.
The classical definition of social dividends is one of all business profits (or 100% tax rate) being redistributed equally to citizens. ?That is not politically viable in many jurisdictions, and provides no economic confidence that individual motivation to contribute economically will be sustained. ?At any rate, a democratic process can determine tax rates, and if there is consensus certainty that a 100% tax rate is desirable, that option pursued.
True democratic philosophical justification
The fairness of democracy is based on the presumption that it is a quasi-market force (voting) that will cause the "best" or correct leadership and policies to be enacted. ?Because, both revolutionary justifications and grade-school incodtrinations for democracy place heavy emphasis on equality, brotherhood, and citizen empowerment, these best leaders/policies are supposed to respect such values. ?Social dividends is the only perfect egalitarian social spending item, because every citizen receives the same benefit. ?Every other program has at least some bias in rewarding some groups over others, even if in some cases that bias is minimal.
Eliminating the war on youth
One of the most despicably evil policy mistakes ever implemented is Old Age Security programs. ?The evil has nothing to do with socializing the care for the elderly, which is perfectly noble. ?Rather, the evil was the creation of a pyramid scheme whose sustainability was dependent on 4 children per women birth rates. ?The solvency cliff scheduled in 20-40 years in every OECD country is creating a political crisis that pits a monolithic senior and baby boomer voting block into a war on youth, where political forces, in order to preserve existing senior entitlements, are destroying welfare and education, labeling youth political movements as terrorists, expanding prison infrastructure to?contain and?ruin their lives, while at the same time, enslaving the remaining youth to support current seniors, near retirees, and prison confinement, and ?eliminating these taxpayers' future retirement benefit?opportunities. ?Politically connected older citizens are merely postponing the solvency cliff to preserve the current entitlements for their voting block.
The only moral solution to this sustainability crisis for civilization is to extend retirement entitlements to adults of every age. ?Essentially identical to basic income. ?Every other alternative selectively protects one age groups' benefits while destroying the benefits of the young. ?Basic income doesn't eliminate the solvency cliff that civilization is headed for, but it spreads out the costs evenly, rather than motivating one generation to cling to the current path on the backs of the young.
The superb economic benefits of taxation and wealth redistribution
If 40M people receive $15k per year in social dividends, then 40M people can afford most goods and services, since they all have at least $15K income, and so there is a large addressable market for any good or service. ?If we instead cut all taxes and wealth redistribution and let 10M people starve, then it creates a strong deflationary spiral, and collapse to a primitive society. ?The immediate effects are that 25% fewer employees are needed to provide goods and services to 25% fewer living people, and sales and profits are 25% lower. ?Then those people starve and die, and so on. ?The value of land, homes, resources shrinks rapidly as there are fewer people and fewer people that can afford them.
For the middle class and rich, having $10k-$15k in guaranteed future annual income, allows them to spend or invest more, instead of saving, allowing the economy to grow even more rapidly. ?Poorer people can group together in order to share large purchases such as homes and vehicles. ?With $10k-$15k in guaranteed future annual income, everyone is more credit-worthy.
Spreading the benefits of productivity increases
It is much better for any society if 20 people are able to provide for 100 people's food, shelter and clothing needs than if 95 people are required to provide for 100 people's basic survival needs. ?If further productivity gains are capable of reducing the number of required workers even more, that is also always better for a society. ?The rest of society can be employed in transportation, health/child/domestic care, technology, finance and entertainment. ?If some people are not needed for anything obvious, they remain economically useful as consumers.
Productivity gains are innevitable, and technology will continue to destroy hopefully as many jobs as possible. ?Social dividends provides a simple formula to tax the wealth concentrators and redistribute the benefits of productivity increases throughout society, and so social dividends softens the burden caused to any single person as a result of productivity gains.
Great benefits to wealth concentrators
If one person is ever able to create machines that provide for the needs of 40M people, then that person will be far more useful and far wealthier if 40M people are able to afford those needs, than if there is only one person able to afford them. ?The wealth concentrator would be far wealthier even if taxed at 99%.
General benefit to taxpayers
When wealth is redistributed as broadly as possible through taxes and social dividends, it trickles back up. ?Middle class employee tax payers get to keep their jobs through the sustainability of higher consumer spending, and the highest taxpaying owners of successful enterprises, have any income that is taxed away, trickle back up to them through future sales. ?Even seniors and babyboomers benefit if they have stock market holdings, because social dividends will create extra sales, profits, stock price increases and dividends from large corporations.
Small government wealth redistribution
Big government wealth redistribution is permission-based filtering bureaucracy designed to determine who can and cannot receive welfare, unemployment benefits, and other social services. ?Including their salaries and office space costs, removing any permission filtering bureaucrat could provide basic income benefits to 50 people, and allow the bureaucrat to contribute to the productive economy instead. ?Social dividends provides an alternative to a left-wing political hierachical empire, and should appeal to conservatives.
Advantages for the poor
Permission based filters for social aid cause the poor to be trapped into those services. ?It is too easy to choose to stay poor in order to continue qualifying for the aid. ?Because there are ominous clawbacks on any official employment income earned while under social programs, there is an incentive to engage in dangerous underground/criminal activities. ?Social dividends not only removes the welfare traps associated with permission-based social services, it removes the need to shame or ghetoize the poor into social housing, and any and all restictions for aid, including arcane rules that force people to stay in difficult employment areas. ?Even if basic income were less than the maximum welfare subsidy available to someone, the choice/freedom to keep work income, and to live their lives like any other citizen, should provide self-esteem and opportunity for upward mobility.
Advantages for labour-left
Social dividends eliminate labour oppression by empowering labour to refuse underpaid or oppressive work. ? ?If people choose to get out of the labour force, due to social dividends being sufficient to support their desired lifestyle, then the competitive position of everyone remaining in the labour force is improved and wages will be better.
Reduces crime, and need for police and prisons
In addition to eliminating the root of most crime, desperation, social dividends also provides all citizens with something to lose. ?An alternative to expensive prisons can be forfeiture of social dividends, or better, assignment of social dividends to a victim of crime, from a victimizer proven through due process.
Social Justice
Income innequality is a serious issue that brings political unrest, and creates an abusive and expensive police and judicial response. ?The same senior and baby boomer political block that pushes for wrong and short-sighted tax cuts are responsible for this un-necessary war on the young and poor. ?Social dividends by removing the state/political responsibility and discretion in providing income equality, makes the government blameless in the process and outcomes. ?Similarly paternalistic charities also become much less necessary. ?Citizens are provided with the means for survival, and participation in the economic success of society through social dividends. ?Social responsibility to individual citizens can end there.
The proper structural adjustment mechanism to productivity gains outstripping job growth
There is no reason to believe that high paying union jobs lost in the last 20 years are comming back. ?In the competition between labour and machines, 15k in annual social dividends, not only keeps economic spending up, and therefore demand for labour up to meet economic demand, but someone who was earning $30000 in wages before social dividends, can earn $15000 in wages, and still have the same total income. ?Minimum wage laws become no longer necessary, and so, labour's competitiveness with machines is improved if they want to work. ?These adjustments are automatic, and occur only if productivity increases occur as expected.
Any economic argument for tax cuts has a better argument for increased social dividends.
Arguments of tax cuts for the rich are all selfish lies, destructive of society and the economy. ?Arguments for reducing taxes on lower income earners has a similar argument to social dividends: ?Lower income earners are likely to spend any extra available cash, and so both social dividends and low income tax cuts substantially boost economic activity. ?Social dividends provide a greater economic stimulus than low income tax cuts for the same reason that low income tax cuts provide a greater economic stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy. ?They affect more people, and people tend to need/want just one of anything.
Government efficiency
Social dividends are paid based on the surplus of tax revenues over government spending. ?This means that every citizen pays an equal share of any government program. ?The alternative to spending $1000 per citizens on expensive fighter jets with a broken design is to give $1000 to each citizen as increased social dividends. ?There is likely to be popular support for cutting most programs, and it forces government to provide excellent value in any program if its people are going to tolerate them.
Entrepreneurship and education
Most new economy new jobs are technology and software based. ?Even low tech startups will usually involve some pre-revenue development time. ?Social dividends provide the means/self-funding for people to pursue entrepreneurship or training. ?In the case of poorly funded startups, paying co-founders with equity (promises of shares of future profits) can become viable, since co-founders will have their subsistance needs met by basic income or social dividends.
In combination with natural taxation policies....
Natural business income-taxation is a new philosophy with 2 key features. ?First, it separates taxes on sales from tax rebates on expenses, such that exports and imports have different tax impacts on a corporation in any country, with no relevance to where a corporate head office is, and it provides for simplified process of obtaining tax rebates in the event of income/investment losses. ?The benefits are that a high tax jurisdiction can outcompete a neighbouring low tax jurisdiction because taxes are paid in the jurisdition of sales, and expenses and investment losses are subsidized with tax rebates in the jurisdiction that they are incurred. ?High tax rates encourage investment because they generate high tax rebates if those investments fail. ?Natural taxation prevents setting too high of a tax rate, because the rebate system may cause a net tax drain as companies develop and manufacture in your jurisdiction in order to export to others.
Improvement in international competitiveness
The same benefit to labour of being able to compete with automation through social dividends, provides the same competitive benefits with 3rd world globalizaiton. ?Wages can adjust downward to meet any problematic unemployment without an oppressive force feeding on labour's desperation. ?With natural tax policies, a high tax economy can also compete with tax havens.
Social/Volunteer service
Under natural taxation the distinction between investment and donation is blurred. ?Whether an organization fails to achieve a profit by design or by accident, investments/donations made to it are tax deductible. ?This means that complicated laws on what a non-profit or charity is allowed or not allowed to do are unnecessary, and any organization can include a social component to its mission. ?Social dividends allow people to volunteer or work at below market rates for social causes without necessity making the choice impossible.
A start to eliminating politics
Political control is a form of war. ?Whether fought through perfectly fair elections or more deceptive or violent means. ?The winners gain the control of resources to spend on themselves. ?Social dividends is a key way to remove the prize sought to be controlled, while still providing the key economic benefits of tax-based market societies. ?Natural taxation is a means to depoliticize corporate welfare, by subsidizing any investment loss.
The 3rd option in the austerity vs. spending debate
Spending austerity is being recommended in most economies at this time, because without it, sovereign credit will dry up, and eliminate the option of future spending. ?Paul Krugman passionately notes that spending cuts are depressing world economies and thus making debt levels relatively worse. ?Higher tax rates with social dividends would increase economic output in a budget balanced manner, and natural tax policies permit higher tax rates without fearing flight of capital and wealth.
Frequent criticisms and questions over social dividends/basic income....
While there is no valid criticism of social dividends and basic income that can survive democratic review or economic analysis, concerns are frequently brought up....
Will basic income create inflation?
Inflation results from any economic growth. ?While large employers, and senior citizen stock holders, can see a selfish advantage in destroying the economy and employment in order to reduce costs, the position is short sighted and misguided because such actions also reduce sales. ?Inflation that is the result from economic thriving is a normal byproduct of growth, and should never be a basis for avoiding economic health. ?Even retired citizens benefit from taxation and?investments?sustainability.
I would rather have $20000 in guaranteed income instead of lower basic income or social dividends
That is because you would prefer not to work at all. ?Guaranteed income is exactly like Canadian welfare system, except for no application process, and a much higher social subsidy. ?It discourages work because all earnings up to the guaranteed income level ($20000) are effectively taxed at 100% because any earned income replaces the government subsidy. ?This creates a significant reluctance to join the entry level labour force, and creates significant resentment from people who receive no benefits (due to having earned income above the guaranteed amount). ?Another issue is the affordability of the program becomes uncertain.
Even if finding work continues to be increasingly difficult, it is critical that there be no disincentives for working, and that people continue striving to participate in socially useful activities. ?Basic income is meant as a survival stipend that frees you up to do anything. ?Not a social subsidy that permits you to do nothing. ?Social dividends are meant as your deserved egalitarian share of social revenue surplus, and rewards the collective contribution to the economy.
Basic income should be higher than $7000
The level of basic income should be whatever the majority of society agrees it to be. ?I demonstrated that for Canada, $7000 would be revenue neutral, meaning no new taxes are required if obvious alternative social programs are eliminated. ?The $7000 number is a near status quo policy, assuming that there is tolerance for current taxation levels, and so prevents arguments that it might be too high or too expensive to implement any basic income. ?Tax increases or other program cuts would fund supplemental social dividends. ?Each province can choose to supplement it as they see fit, and with natural taxation, even individual cities can ?add income taxes for the purposes of providing social dividends.
Wouldn't this enable drug addicts?
For some people, spending double or triple the cost of direct cash payments as social services is worth it if it is spent trying to prevent spending on drugs by the beneficiaries. ?While encouraging people to make good choices is worthwhile, there should be no preconditions for survival. ?Better choices become automatically more viable when individuals have fewer problems, are not discouraged from earning income (welfare trap), don't need to steal or join gangs to support drug habit, or profit from prohibition without losing social benefits, are not burdened with criminal records, and are not persecuted/harrassed for potential drug involvement or welfare fraud.
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Facebook stock follows market, falls sharply
NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook's stock fell Friday with the broader market following a weak jobs report that showed the U.S. economy adding far fewer jobs than expected.
Shares of Facebook Inc. fell $1.88, or 6.4 percent, to close at $27.72 on Friday. That's down 27 percent from its initial public offering price of $38. And it's down about 13 percent for the week.
Facebook began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market two weeks ago Friday on a day marred by trading glitches and general investor confusion. The IPO capped the worst week for the U.S. stock market so far this year.
Baird analyst Colin Sebastian started coverage of Facebook's stock Friday with an "Outperform" rating and a target price of $37. The keyword, he said, is potential.
"Despite near-term headwinds from the shift to mobile and sluggish social game trends, we believe Facebook represents an attractive long-term investment in advertising, digital media, payments and e-commerce," he wrote in a note to investors. He is referring to concerns about the company's ability to make money from the growing number of people who access Facebook through their mobile devices, where advertising is still scant.
Sebastian added that Facebook collects an "unprecedented amount of personal data and is in the early stages of monetizing these assets via targeted advertising."
Morningstar analyst James Krapfel, meanwhile, advised investors to be cautious and said the company "is likely to disappoint investors over the next 12 to 18 months."
Other social media company stocks declined as well. Shares of online game maker Zynga Inc. slid 25 cents, or 4 percent, to close at $6.01. LinkedIn Corp., the online social network for professionals, fell $4.59, or 4.8 percent, to $91.51. Online reviews site Yelp Inc., meanwhile, fell $1.02, or 6.1 percent, to $15.69.
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The Quality of Overseas Automotive Engine Parts | labraceboston.com
One of the best difficulties within the automotive engine rebuilding business is finding the proper automotive engine parts to accomplish a comprehensive rebuild. Though several aftermarket internal engine half makers are obtainable, over the last many years we?ve observed major development in offshore producing. This presents specific issues for engine builders and automotive enthusiasts.
Even though this provides distinct short-term monetary relief for people building their automotive engines, the permanent ramifications are diminished components accessibility, quality declines and extended waiting periods to amass bought elements.
The tolerances of engine elements manufactured overseas normally are not held to identical specifications as they?re within the USA. Whether or not it?s tooling wear from mass producing, or the shortcoming to finish finishing, lots of the machined automotive engine parts created in China are substandard and out of doors accepted tolerances. This pushes several native automotive machine retailers to undertake the end machining them to create positive that their reconditioned engines can perform as meant and tolerate a few years of use.
Just lately, we tend to have a brand new imported engine block delivered to our auto garage that was created in China. There was casting sand during a few non-critical sections of the engine block. The challenge when acquiring engine blocks, and associated internal automotive engine parts from overseas vendors, is that they are not procurable if a haul arises. Unquestionably we tend to might have refused the engine block, though the fee to deliver it back to China would are additional expensive then the repairs that were performed.
Being unable to contact a close-by or domestic business to support elements utilized in rebuilt engines could be a troublesome downside for a few specialized automotive machine retailers. Several of those retailers exerting to make very prime quality engines. However when faced with a shrinking domestic producing base, they?re finding that manufacturing quality work is turning into tougher and additional expensive within the finish for his or her valued customers. This can be a part of the rationale why numerous native machine retailers are letting their customers understand that by building their engines domestically, and supporting domestic engine half manufactures when in a position, every client helps to preserve a business that may be used by future generations.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
The Lost Art of the Ghana Movie Poster - Visual News
While the Hollywood movie industry is famous for spending literal fortunes on their film fare and its subsequent promotion, not everyone has the means to promote movies with such gross excess: enter the lost art of the Ghana movie poster. During the boom of the video cassette in the 1980s, small-scale mobile theaters popped up around the sub-saharan country, providing entertainment as they passed through towns and villages. The showings often took place in social clubs, houses or outside in the warm night air, and sometimes only consisted of chairs, a generator, VCR and a television. To promote these shows artists were employed to create large, colorful posters and given full creative license to attract the viewing public? often with very entertaining, but less than accurate results.
Each of the highly unique and imaginative one-off pieces was created on a large canvas, sometimes employing used flour sacks for the purpose. Artists used oil paints for flexibility and rolled the final result for easy transport to the next show.
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Today, with much easier access to VHS, DVD and the internet, the mobile cinema has largely died out in the country, and with it the colorful posters that advertised the events. The few outfits that continue the practice do so with much less interesting photocopied images announcing the show. If you?re interested in getting your hands on some of the original, age worn posters from the bygone era, you can find them here or see more examples on Flickr.
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Boats take to Thames for queen's jubilee flotilla
LONDON (AP) ? More than 1,000 boats were to sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years.
Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the riverbanks between Hammersmith and Tower Bridge in London, feting the British monarch whose longevity has given her the status of the nation's favorite grandmother.
The queen and members of her family will lead the river pageant aboard a flower-bedecked royal barge, accompanied by skiffs, barges, narrowboats, motor launches, row boats and sailing vessels from around the world.
"We in Britain are experts at not letting the weather spoil our fun," said Adrian Evans, pageant master for Sunday's flotilla. "The London Philharmonic Orchestra will be playing 'Singin' In The Rain' as they travel down the river, and the crowd can sing along with them."
Hundreds of people ignored the persistent rain and camped out overnight to secure prime riverside spots.
"It would have been wonderful if it had been sunny like last Sunday but we have come prepared," said 57-year-old Christine Steele. "We have got blankets, brollies (umbrellas), flags and bunting. We even got our glittery Union Jack hats and wigs, and the Champagne is on ice."
The spectacle is a tribute to Britain's past ? monarchs used the river as their main highway for centuries, and naval power built the island nation's once-great empire ? as well as its abiding love of boats and the sea.
Among the flotilla vessels will be several of the "Dunkirk Little Ships," private boats that rescued thousands of British soldiers from the beaches of France after the German invasion in 1940 ? a defeat that became a major victory for wartime morale.
The four-day Diamond Jubilee celebrations also include thousands of street parties across the country on Sunday and a Monday pop concert in front of Buckingham Palace featuring Elton John and Paul McCartney ? though not everyone in Britain will be celebrating. The anti-monarchist group Republic plans a riverbank protest as the flotilla goes by on Sunday, followed by a pub night where royal refuseniks can drown their sorrows.
"People are sick and tired of being told they must celebrate 60 years of one very privileged, very remote and very uninspiring head of state," said the group's chief executive, Graham Smith. "The hereditary system is offensive to all the democratic values this country has fought for in the past."
Jubiliee celebrations kicked off Saturday with a royal day at the races, as the queen watched a horse with the courtly name of Camelot win the Epsom Derby. Jubilee festivities officially began with a 41-gun salute fired by the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery at Horse Guards Parade in central London.
The 86-year-old monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, visited Epsom racecourse south of the capital for the Derby, one of the year's biggest horse-racing meetings.
The queen is a racing fan and horse breeder who has attended the Derby for decades and reads the Racing Post each day over breakfast, although unlike many of her subjects she does not gamble.
"She's incredibly knowledgeable. Her knowledge of thoroughbreds and breeding goes way back," said Anthony Cane, chairman of Epsom Downs Racecourse.
Jubilee events end Tuesday with a religious service at St. Paul's Cathedral, a carriage procession through the streets of London and the queen's appearance with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren on the palace balcony.
The queen took the throne in 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI, and most Britons have known no other monarch.
Prime Minister David Cameron ? the 12th British leader of the queen's reign ? paid tribute to the monarch's "extraordinary level of physical energy, mental energy, and above all devotion to her people, to the institutions of this country, to the way our democracy works."
In a jubilee gift from Britain's politicians, lawmakers from the three main parties have backed a motion calling for the tower housing Big Ben ? the beloved London bell that chimes the quarter hour ? to be renamed the Elizabeth Tower in the queen's honor. It's currently called the Clock Tower.
While many Britons used the long weekend to relax ? and an estimated 2 million left the country on vacation ? writers and religious leaders used the occasion to reflect on how Britain has changed over the queen's reign, from a war-scarred imperial power to a middle-sized power with oversized cultural clout.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the Anglican Church, expressed a widely held view when he said Britain had been lucky to have Elizabeth as monarch throughout a period of rapid change.
"It seems to me that what her importance has been for most people in this country has been as a sign of stability, a sign of some kind of security," Williams said in a jubilee video message.
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