Daily Archives: November 28, 2014

11.25.14 | The Second Scoop: Ferguson Riots, The Curve, Good Gal w/ a Gun, Belt-fed M16 upper – Video

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11.25.14 | The Second Scoop: Ferguson Riots, The Curve, Good Gal w/ a Gun, Belt-fed M16 upper
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Grantham seeking second term in Colo. Senate

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By Carie Canterbury

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Kevin Grantham is hoping voters will re-elect him to his second and final term in the Colorado State Senate, representing District 2.

When the Republican ran for office the first time, he said there was a change in direction in the state and in the country that many people in conservative areas didn't agree with. A number of people asked Grantham to run for office so he could take their values to Denver, and he said that's exactly what he's done.

"There is unfinished business that needs to be taken care of when it comes to things like energy policy and Second Amendment rights," he said. "We are still heading in the wrong direction, and the conservative values of this community are not being reflected right now in total up in Denver."

He said he wants to make sure the people and their values continue to be represented.

"I think they saw that being done with me, and I hope they will put their trust in me just one more time, and we'll continue to fight for those things" he said.

During his last four years, Grantham said many of the issues he fought for are items that didn't pass, and some of the things he fought against did pass.

"The gun control legislation and the way our Second Amendment advocates up there fought for Constitutional rights was outstanding, but ultimately, we didn't have enough votes," he said. "Certainly, I am proud of the fight that we waged. Even then, at the same time, there is still legislation that needs to happen other than that."

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Book Review | Speech, Conduct, And The First Amendment By Howard Schweber – Video

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Professor Craig Smith Wins National Awards

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Craig Smith, a California State University, Long Beach, communication studies professor and former presidential speechwriter, received two national awards Nov. 21.

The director of CSULBs Center for First Amendment Studies was honored at the National Communication Associations (NCA) 100th annual convention in Chicago.

Smith said he is now a third time recipient of the Robert ONeil Award for outstanding scholarship on First Amendment issues.

I wrote the award-winning paper with my centers research director professor Kevin Johnson, who was once a student of mine here, Smith said. So I am doubly proud of that award.

Smith also accepted the Gronbeck Award for his work in interpreting and addressing political communication issues. The award, Smith said, is the result of his latest book, Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter, published last year in February by Michigan State University Press.

In his book, he describes the time spent as a speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford and later for George H.W. Bush, Smith said. He said he recounted his history involving Freedom of Expression. According to his books overview, Smith wrote about meeting Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon and advising Gov. Ronald Reagan. His book explores his time in Washington D.C., when he founded the Freedom of Expression Foundation and became its president.

The Gronbeck Award was named after Bruce Gronbeck, who died in September at 73 years old.

Gronbeck was a communications professor at the University of Iowa and was recognized as a scholar of rhetoric and media, according to the UI website. He received several awards including the Outstanding Mentor Award from the university as well as the NCA Mentor Award. He is responsible for mentoring 65 doctorate candidates at UI.

I knew Bruce for a long time since both of us were in political communication, Smith said. Bruce published a lot of articles and books on political communication, and I think thats why the National Communication Association decided to honor him by naming this particular award after him.

Smith said he recalled a Facebook post from Gronbeck on Sept. 9.

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Cryptocurrency cruncher cranks prime number constellation

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Bitcoin mining, our own Simon Rockman wrote last January, is essentially a brute-force attack on the generating algorithm.

Bitcoin, and all the other alt-coins, is training a skillset for building password-cracking hardware that is both powerful and portable, he wrote.

It looks like cryptocurrencies are also helping to spot some useful prime numbers, according to the folks behind Riecoin.

Riecoin is a fork of Bitcoin and offers the chance for distributed or standalone mining. Participating in currency's gestation also has a by-product of highly-verified prime sextuplets. As the Riecoin folk note, there's a US$1million prize up for grabs for anyone who can prove The Riemann Hypothesis' suggestion that prime numbers occur in some sort of pattern.

As prime numbers are rather handy when encrypting data, there's some value in knowing more about them. Detail-oriented Reg readers will, by now, have noted that Riecoin and Riemann Hypothesis are rather similar: that's no accident, as the currency is named in homage to the mathematician.

Riecoin claims that its cluster of distributed coiners have, during November, twice broken the world record for creating a prime sextuplet, a collection of six prime numbers packed together as tightly as possible.

On November 17 the Riecoin swarm cranked out a sextuplet in 70 minutes. A week later, it beat that record and produced longer primes while doing so. There's more detail about Riecoin and the maths behind it in this FAQ.

Riecoin's also a cryptocurrency and is traded on several exchanges, at a value of about 0.0000175 bitcoin.

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BBT Episode 22: Hashers Recap, NFC Bitcoin Wallet, KNC Titan Pt1, Feathercoin Neoscrypt – Video

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