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0.023178 | <urn:uuid:8bf1bc1a-0a0c-4d4e-ad58-c2f92f0deaa0> | en | 0.922626 | Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked his cabinet ministers to not take holidays this New Year as Russia prepares for recession. Photograph: Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has scrapped New Year holidays for government ministers because of the unfolding economic crisis.Russian private sec(...)
The rouble fell to as low as 80 per dollar this month
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Pedestrians pass a neon sign displaying the latest Russian ruble euro dollar exchange rate outside a currency exchange bureau in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday. The rouble sank to a record, deepening Russia’s currency crisis, as people scrambled to convert their money into dollars after a surprise interest-rate increase failed to shore up investor confidence. (Photograph: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
Russia has failed to halt the collapse of the rouble, leaving president Vladimir Putin facing a full-blown currency crisis that could weaken his iron (...)
A Ukrainian soldier on a military vehicle in Kramatorsk, near Slaviansk, Ukraine, yesterday. Photograph: EPA/Roman Pilipey
Members of Nato will supply arms to Kiev in its battle with separatist rebels, Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has said, while claiming the co(...)
Cars produced by foreign automobile-makers at a dealership in Moscow. Russia may tighten sanctions against western nations to include a ban on imports of cars.
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Service attendants use fuel pumps to fill automobiles on the forecourt of an OAO Rosneft gas station in Moscow. Photo: Bloomberg
Igor Sechin, the head of Russian oil giant Rosneft, has asked the government to provide the company with 1.5 trillion roubles (€31.1 billion) to help(...)
Obama’s authorisation of air strikes against militants in Iraq is accelerating a retreat in European stocks that started weeks ago. Photograph: Joshua Card/EPA
The first back-to-back weekly losses in European stocks since March sent markets tumbling across the continent yesterday. US president Barack Obama’s(...)
European shares dropped today, sinking for the seventh time in eight sessions on mounting geopolitical jitters after US president Barack Obama authori(...) | http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?article=true&tag_person=Dmitry%2BMedvedev | dclm-gs1-248720000 |
0.062076 | <urn:uuid:fd0455ed-87fe-4113-9fe7-b7e7ed2587d3> | en | 0.972214 | Rosie Perez's Life Lessons
Rosie Perez means business. Just ask any of the hundred or so teenagers—most of them black and Latino—assembled in the auditorium of New York's Facing History school at 3pm on a Wednesday afternoon, who watch her on stage with rapt attention. The students are taking part in the Working Playground Master Class, a program Rosie started over a dozen years ago, giving talented urban teens the resources to realize their potential in the arts.
Master Class isn't just a charity Rosie lends her name to, but something she built from the ground up, and actively participates in every year. She knows her students by name, remembers their strengths and weaknesses, works with them one-to-one to make them the best actors, directors, musicians and photographers they are capable of being.
To inspire them, she brings in professionals from different industries to talk about their experiences and teach the students in small groups. This year, her co-instructors include rapper Pharoahe Monch, actors Michael K. Williams and Ramon Rodriguez from The Wire, legendary music producer Cory Rooney (who's responsible for most of Jennifer Lopez's albums) and MTV personality Sway. She also gives the kids a few simple words of wisdom, "when you push past your fear, you step into your greatness." It's a mantra they repeat throughout the day.
We caught up with Rosie after her Master Class to talk about why she gives so much of herself back to the community, and the outspoken star surprised us with some explosive statements about Jessica Alba, John Leguizamo and why she thinks there aren't more Latino stars in Hollywood.
On why she started the Working Playground Master Class:
It was about answering this conviction I had in my heart. When I was growing up, there were wonderful people in my life and my family that made it easier. It's about passing the torch. I want to give these kids a stronger sense of self esteem. As [music producer] Cory Rooney says, they need to know that artists become great because they believed in themselves, not because they were born great.
On how she finds time for family and charity work with her busy schedule:
It's hard, but I force it. People think I'm crazy when I turn down a job or a movie premiere because I'm babysitting my sister's kids. But I'm a sister, and an aunt, and a friend before I'm an actor or a celebrity. When I can't be those things, I get very dark and depressed.
On why she thinks there aren't more Latinos and Latino stories in Hollywood:
John Leguizamo and I talk about this a lot. John says, "Latin people do not support me. They don't come to see my plays, they don't come to see my movies." If we’re the #1 buying market in America, then how come the ticket sales don’t reflect that? Then [people in Hollywood] complain that John's too ethnic. We have a lot of growing up to do as a culture.
On the backlash against Jessica Alba from the Latin community:
I know she's said some things about me but I don't want to enter into a cat fight, because that's detrimental. She's on her journey, and if she gets there that's great and if she doesn't, that's really sad. Everybody has their journey. I have to be less judgemental.
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I was that cool motherfucker
But living in the world of these cruel motherfuckers
Society they made me a fool motherfucker
And sixteen shots leaving the pussies taking cover
Huh I'm sorry mother motherfuckers just ain't like me
The fucking braid buy twenty one is so likely
A million letters from the penn is writing me
Fuck the system the DEA sellin all the damn yay
So I pray them fuckers die
And when they leave let them pussy motherfuckers fry
And make they families eternally have to cry and
Crucify me and label me the n ride I testify I'm ready
Oh father come and take me I surrender I'm ready [repeat 4X]
Statistics said I wouldn't live to see the grey in my head
There is to much drama in theses streets to much heat and she said
Wont let the feds red said they want no dust in my tomb
So I keep my eyes red and I stay in my room
I'm prayin soon that my income cause income is halted
If you got then I got it but anyone can talk it
Now tossed so simply this is universal this shit is the real deal
Try to feel the commercial america tell me where is the freedom of liberty
This place ain't meant for me so I got a quarter key
And move it like ryder trucks
Those crackers are already stuck a path
For my niggaz because my niggaz ain't give a fuck
Bout nothin they had to say we always going to rule the GA
Your games is what we can play and lucifer better pray
That I do not do what was planned to do yesterday
I sware to god in Georgia
This is for my folks in Cuba
This is for my folks in Jamaica
This is for my folks in Africa, we ready
Them crackers had me fucked up I scooped a job for a min
But couldn't deal with the pay I quit that shit in a day
Back on the grind servin my yay nothing to say
But I tried I'm told there is a better way but who going to pull me inside?
They in they ride disappointed because I had bad luck
I ain't ever goin to sell this shit my nigga I'm stuck
My people roll they window up and then they hit and they locked
Its fucked up but that's the way it is down here on the block
Maan everyone servin some rocks if not some rocks some weed
Everybody's trapped high I can't afford the heat it's kinda neat
How they just creep and kick the door off the hinge
And when theses motherfuckers leave they taking all of my friend
No way to win cause we are in for the ride of our lives
When I was writing this shit I had to wipe my eye
Cause this is chaos they after us we will never succede
Cause we some ignorant niggaz but all we need is to see I guarantee
If we stop competition get our children off these fucking streets
And get some Qu'ran I'm just speaking shit who am I to tell anyone
I'm telling ya there ain't nothing new up under the sun
You got your gun well fuck ya gun
If you goin run when they chase ya
Why don't you do some that crazy shit slap that bitch in the face
Now or later we going to have to stand up and fight
We pay the taxes in this bitch nigga use your rights
Now I know I ain't right but I'll be damned if I'm wrong
They say two wrongs don't make a right
But damn it's making me strong and when I'm gone
I hope this song rang in your heart
My nigga ain't no better time then right now to start
Oh father come and take me I surrender I'm ready [echoes]
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0.021749 | <urn:uuid:e97a2195-6836-4a8f-a7d4-d8fe668c5dbd> | en | 0.978807 | Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears
Josh Hakala By Josh Hakala
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on April 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM, updated April 27, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Faithful wearing face masks, who managed to get inside a closed door mass, listen at the Metropolitan cathedral in Mexico City on Sunday.
The worrisome new virus -- which combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before -- also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though there have been no deaths in the U.S.
The outbreak caused alarm in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been sickened. Residents of the capital donned surgical masks and authorities ordered the most sweeping shutdown of public gathering places in a quarter century.
President Felipe Calderon said his government only learned late Thursday, with the help of international laboratories, what kind of virus Mexico is faced with. "We are doing everything necessary," he said after meeting with his Cabinet to coordinate a response. "We understand the seriousness of the problem."
The WHO was convening an expert panel to consider whether to raise the pandemic alert level or issue travel advisories.
It might already be too late to contain the outbreak, a prominent U.S. pandemic flu expert said late Friday.
Given how quickly flu can spread around the globe, if these are the first signs of a pandemic, then there are probably cases incubating around the world already, said Dr. Michael Osterholm at the University of Minnesota.
In Mexico City, "literally hundreds and thousands of travelers come in and out every day," Osterholm said. "You'd have to believe there's been more unrecognized transmission that's occurred."
There is no vaccine that specifically protects against swine flu, and it was unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might offer. A "seed stock" genetically matched to the new swine flu virus has been created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said Dr. Richard Besser, the agency's acting director. If the government decides vaccine production is necessary, manufacturers would need that stock to get started.
Authorities in Mexico urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection. They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such as shaking hands or kissing cheeks. At Mexico City's international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.
Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only fatalities so far were in young people and adults.
The eight U.S. victims recovered from symptoms that were like those of the regular flu, mostly fever, cough and sore throat, though some also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.
U.S. health officials announced an outbreak notice to travelers, urging caution and frequent handwashing, but stopping short of telling Americans to avoid Mexico.
Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 68 people have died of flu and the new swine flu strain had been confirmed in 20 of those deaths. At least 1,004 people nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, he said.
The geographical spread of the outbreaks also concerned the WHO -- while 13 of the 20 deaths were in Mexico City, the rest were spread across Mexico -- four in central San Luis Potosi, two up near the U.S. border in Baja California, and one in southern Oaxaca state.
Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch a worldwide pandemic of a killer disease. A new virus could evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird, mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.
Still, flu experts were concerned but not alarmed about the latest outbreak.
"We've seen swine influenza in humans over the past several years, and in most cases, it's come from direct pig contact. This seems to be different," said Dr. Arnold Monto, a flu expert with the University of Michigan.
"I think we need to be careful and not apprehensive, but certainly paying attention to new developments as they proceed."
Cordova said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.
Mexico's government had maintained until late Thursday that there was nothing unusual about the flu cases, although this year's flu season had been worse and longer than past years.
The sudden turnaround by public health officials angered many Mexicans.
"They could have stopped it in time," said Araceli Cruz, 24, a university student who emerged from the subway wearing a surgical mask. "Now they've let it spread to other people."
The city was handing out free surgical masks to passengers on buses and the subway system, which carries 5 million people each day. Government workers were ordered to wear the masks, and authorities urged residents to stay home from work if they felt ill.
Closing schools across Mexico's capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students. All state and city-run cultural activities were suspended, including libraries, state-run theaters, and at least 14 museums. Private athletic clubs closed down and soccer leagues were considering canceling weekend games.
The closures were the first citywide shutdown of public gathering places since thousands died in the devastating 1985 earthquake.
Mexico's response brought to mind other major outbreaks, such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in 2003, Beijing shuttered schools, cinemas and restaurants, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.
In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half-million students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
"It's great they are taking precautions," said Lillian Molina, a teacher at the Montessori's World preschool in Mexico City, who scrubbed down empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol between fielding calls from worried parents.
U.S. health officials said the outbreak is not yet a reason for alarm in the United States. The five people sickened in California and three in Texas have all recovered.
It's unclear how the eight, who became ill between late March and mid-April, contracted the virus because none were in contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And only a few were in contact with each other.
CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of gene segments not seen before in people or pigs. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. It may be completely new, or it may have been around for a while and was only detected now through improved testing and surveillance, CDC officials said.
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0.075846 | <urn:uuid:512bd8b9-09d0-4153-b375-8571b82c8a32> | en | 0.972089 | Downturn means more St. Peter's College students can't pay tuition
Downturn means more St. Peter's College students can't pay tuition
by Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist
Sunday February 15, 2009, 9:37 PM
It simply doesn't happen to more than 100 students.
But not this year.
Jobs lost. Foreclosure. Loss of other assets.
This is far from just a St. Peter's problem.
"Independent institutions are especially vulnerable to economic downturns."
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Posted by doctorphil1 on 02/16/09 at 10:59AM
Where is the money going?
It is not going to the vast majority of people who are actually TEACHING! As a way keeping teaching cost extremely low, St. Peter's hires an army of adjuncts on a course basis. So for about $2000/course (no benefits) they have someone teaching a course that should be taught by a full time, regular faculty member. Thus, having four adjuncts teaching each semester ($8000) for one academic year ($16000) instead of a full timer ($50,000+ with benefits) save St. Peter's a ton of money. Which leads to two questions?
1. With the heavy use of part-time faculty, why is tuition sky-high?
2. Are the students getting the same quality education that they thought they were paying for?
Posted by jiggy10023 on 02/17/09 at 11:07AM
Several of the private colleges in NJ are more affordable than our state universities. Saint Peter's awards more than $22 million in scholarships and grants (that's $2 million more than Drew, the most expensive school in the state). Many privates are working hard to minimize any tuition increases. The state universities are likely looking at double digit increases this year alone. Schools like Saint Peter's, Felician, Rider and others provide a great value, dollar for dollar, as compared to large schools like our state university. The ability to graduate in four years, small classes, abundant internship opportunities, personal attention . . . the state institutions can't afford to provide all of this to every NJ student who wants a college education. They just don't have the capacity. The details from the story above are an example of the kind of 'dedication to individuals' that a place like Saint Peter's can provide. The President of the school personally looking into how to assist students who are in financial trouble? Is that happening at large state universities? Times are tough, we all have to work together in situations like these, and it looks like they are doing that at Saint Peter's. | http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/downturn_101_more_students_can.html | dclm-gs1-249080000 |
0.095053 | <urn:uuid:3494ce25-5acb-4e85-a1bf-648f01b60995> | en | 0.963631 | Artist Captures Wonder of Natural Phenomena
Ned Kahn and his wife
Ned Kahn lives with his wife and two children in a country house in Northern California's wine country. Joe Palca, NPR hide caption
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Artists use their creativity to reveal the world in new and sometimes unexpected ways. Artist Ned Kahn's work focuses on the physical world. From the harmonies of randomness to the dynamics of the Earth's crust, Kahn uses scientific principles to create mesmerizing works of art.
'Encircled Void,' a spiral sculpture made of teak by Ned Kahn
"Encircled Void," a wood turbine made of teak that was steamed and bent into an inwardly spiraling warped surface. The sculpture was one of several of Kahn's works recently on display at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Northern California. Satri Pencak hide caption
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Kahn started out in college as a botany major, but gave up when he saw the three-inch-thick textbooks filled with Latin names. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, he headed west. One day he stumbled into the Exploratorium, a San Francisco museum dedicated to the natural world and the forces that shape it, and he was hooked. He begged for a job and was offered an apprenticeship with one of the machinists who built the exhibits.
Kahn's first piece for the museum was enormously popular — a metal bar dipped into a trough of soapy water, then hoisted into the air by ropes on either side. A giant film of soap would stretch from bar to trough. With just the right lighting, patterns and colors would reveal themselves dancing across the film.
Dozens more exhibits followed. Chaotic pendulums, smoke vortexes, wind-sculpted dunes. Most of the pieces are visual, but some are musical.
One such work, on display recently at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Northern California, consists of a spinning disk and tiny steel bearings. The balls drop through a grid of nails, creating tinkling musical sounds as they fall. Kahn says the work had started out as a math demonstration, "but the sound these nails made in this board was compelling."
Kahn says he's most satisfied when people see his work and share that sense of wonder and delight that he feels for the processes of nature.
"I've tried to create things where I've basically framed a phenomena, and I'm letting nature do the sculpting," he says.
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0.019829 | <urn:uuid:209ea15d-bac5-4730-8ca5-6602856cd59d> | en | 0.938087 | Edition: U.S. / Global
A Consensus in Iraq
Published: December 29, 2003
To the Editor:
Re "Inventing a New Iraq" (editorial, Dec. 24):
¶Democracy should not be imposed, as the benefits of freedom would create a need for democracy.
¶Iraq's constitution of 1925, which was annulled by a coup in 1958, should be revived and modified.
¶Iraq should not be divided into Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish entities, because it may cause huge population transfers.
¶The restitution of the monarchy is the best solution under the present circumstances in order to create a united Iraq.
¶Iraq has never had an elected president. A king of the Hashemite family would rally the tribesmen (Shiite, Sunni and Kurd) who constitute the majority in Iraq behind him and thus unite the nation.
New York, Dec. 24, 2003
The writer is president of the World Organization for Jews From Arab Countries. | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/29/opinion/L29IRAQ.html | dclm-gs1-249160000 |
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So the short run down of me:
Dog Dad
Drummer in a cover band
One of my friends described me as the salt-of-the-earth kinda guy.
Awful at gardening but trying to raise blueberries
I tend to be a realist. Sometimes people view me as being a pessimist - which I'm not. Blame my engineering background for the analyzation of forces in a given situation.
This is probably the best way to describe how I go about dating: I am not interested in convincing someone. Courting - absolutely. Convincing - that's a colossal waste of time.
I am not looking for a fling nor some arm candy for the holidays - and hope you are not either. I actually want to meet and will lose patience quickly with those who are only looking to email. I've been on and off here for about two years and getting a little (read that as A LOT) tired of the merry-go-round of serial dating. Being persistent is the only way you get what you are looking for outta life, right.
.....oh & if you are 5'10" or under, I can pass the 3" heel test. :-)
What I’m doing with my life
I spent the last bunch of years working as a mechanical designer and going to college part-time. I left the full-time gig, in January, to focus on the education stuff. My career was stalled, the job was very stressful and taking a toll on my health so I decided to bolt.
I'm also a drummer in a cover band. This is our guy's night out type thing - just our way to blow off steam.
Other spare time activities are transporting dogs for a couple of rescues and running (I just finished my second marathon and debating doing a third).
I’m really good at
Opening Jars
Falling while ice skating.
Falling while skiing
Sense of direction. I've recently added the greater San Diego area to a growing list of places I can navigate, in general, sans electronic devices
Making banana pancakes - FROM SCRATCH (none of this Bisquick stuff with a banana mashed up in it)
One more thing I am good at:
S = 8
T = 9
A = 4
L = 7
E = 5
Thus: STEAL = 89547
.....I love how people get this wrong and then say its of utmost importance I also have it wrong.....and they are generally the people who say their confidence is "very, very, high". It strikes me as self-awareness is not one of their strong suits. (Yes, some guys actually read the answers to your questions - and occasionally go beyond the "About Sex" questions.)
The first things people usually notice about me
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Maybe my eyes - they are blue. I was told sometimes I have a very stoic facial expression.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Help your potential matches find common interests.
Books: lately some type of textbook but I do try to pick up the odd WSJ or Atomic Ranch. I am a regular reader of Classic / Grassroots Motorsports.
Movies: I love action movies like Boondock Saints, and comedies.
Shows: I don't really watch much TV. In fact, I don't own a DVR!
....and no I am not one of those people who says, "I don't watch TV" and then watches the sh!t on the computer via Netflix. :-P
Music: I grew up listening to rock & roll so that's my default setting. I do listen to a bit of everything though.
Food: I would say some sort of Italian dish will always win me over. Maybe Mexican as well. I HATE eggplant. I've had it several times, different ways, and it always turns my stomach. Carrot Cake & Cannolis might be my favorite desserts.
The six things I could never do without
My dog Scotty - he gives me a reason to laugh nearly every day and a reason to drag my butt outta bed (mainly because I know he has to pee)
Music - love jamming with the guys & I dig my Sonor drums
A comfy pair of jeans
Chipotle - nothing beats a 3000 calorie burrito after a long run.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
How much longer do I have to wait for Justin Beiber to transform into Leif Garrett? (Although maybe this is starting to happen....)
If everyone on here thinks their confidence is higher than average, wouldn't that really make everyone's confidence.....average? Perhaps a paradigm shift is in order.
Why do my black socks get holes faster than the blue ones?
How is it that all this social media can make us so socially inept?
Are there really as many guys (on here) with shirtless bathroom selfies as there are girls with pictures at Machu Picchu?
On a typical Friday night I am
Ghost ridin' the whip. Nah actually it's like what it says on a box of puddin: "cook and chill - and baby that's what I do every night, I cook - 'n then I chiiiilll." Saturday night is a little different.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I’m an empty essay… fill me out!
I was once set up on a blind date by a divorce attorney.
If you don't find that ironic and funny as hell, I'm not the guy for you. (Just for clarification - I've been engaged but never married. The divorce attorney just happens to live in my neighborhood.)
You should message me if
Offer a few tips to help matches win you over. are actually looking for a relationship - for the right reasons. Not because you want to duck the, "So, are seeing someone?" question you are going to get at the holidays......or you've spent the entire summer in a bridesmaid dress and are starting to feel left out..... understand, I have a dog; he's not going anywhere.
Other than that:
No kids, but wants them
Self Awareness
(I didn't think these three would be a difficult combination to find but man, am I wrong.)
I own a house in Baltimore. While sometimes I day-dream of California livin', the reality is unless an absolutely perfect opportunity landed in my lap, I'm here to stay indefinitely. Having said that: you; be looking to put down roots. I'm really not interested in getting to know someone who is looking at Baltimore as a stop on the way to someplace else.
I do have to say, it's not a deal breaker, but tattoos just aren't my thing. Why put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari?
FYI: I am more likely to return an email than I am to email. In nearly two years, dates with someone I've emailed first have been few and far between. It's kinda not worth the effort to me anymore. I'm beginning to think this site just inundates women with assholes only looking to get laid. And note I used the term "effort". That's because the odd chance I do email someone, I actually spend time crafting an individual (i.e. non-form) letter. It gets time consuming for little results.
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Free Game Friday: Three Short Platformers With Twists
This week's collection of free games has three different twists on the platformer formula.
It's all platfomers all the time in this week's collection of free games, including a platformer where the screen is only one pixel high and a collaborative platformer where two characters have to work together to get to the next screen.
Spin Spin
Spin Spin is a platformer with no jump button. Instead of bouncing your way to victory you have to rotate the entire screen and fall toward your objectives, but make sure to avoid the spiked walls!
Tower of the Gorillion
The title Tower of the Gorillion sounds like an old-school 8-bit platformer, and the game looks like one too. Besides the retro Game Boy-era graphics, the game's calling card is a unique two-player system. One character runs along a foreground layer while the other makes his way along another layer in the background. Both characters have to work together to solve the challenging puzzles. Gorillion can be played with 2 players but if you don't have a buddy around to share it with don't worry, you can also operate it just fine playing alone.
Linescape is a platformer that's only one pixel tall. Pressing the spacebar launches your blue blob off screen for as long as you hold it down, which makes it difficult to judge exactly how far you've traveled. Your goal is to make a precise series of jumps by estimating where you'll fall back into the linescape when you end your jump.
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"When I find something that works," John Candy leered, "I stick with it!" I have no idea if the folks at Stax Industries are fans of Splash or not, but they've certainly taken Candy's philosophy as their own. Despite manufacturing superb—if demanding—loudspeakers and electronics for the last 15 years or so, Stax has been best known for producing one thing: electrostatic ear-speakers, aka headphones.
Stax headsets aren't quite like any others. The Lambda series sports large rectangular drivers that are held away from the ear at an angle—they're deeper at the front than at the rear. They function more like tiny electrostatic speakers placed within an inch of the ear than like a conventional headphone that couples to the ear canal—which also means that they feature less of that "in your head" sensation than most headsets, although they aren't any better at portraying image depth with conventional stereo recordings.
Stax has continually refined the basic Lambda headset by improving the diaphragm, as well as by upgrading the energizer/amplifier that drives it. As a result, one incarnation after another has inhabited the Class A section of our "Recommended Components" listing since the Lambda's inception. John Atkinson and Steven Stone use the Lambda Signatures as location monitors for their recording projects, while TJN—lucky man!—uses the state-of-the-art Omega (currently not in production) as his reference for neutrality in a transducer. I've owned a pair of Lambda Pros since 1984—complete with a no-longer-in-production battery-powered energizer.
So it came to a shock and a severe disappointment to audiophiles everywhere when we heard that Stax had closed its doors about a year ago. Just when things looked darkest, however, a group of engineers—former employees—were allowed to reestablish the marque for limited production of the ear-speakers, on the condition that they honor existing warranties on Stax products. (Actually, this didn't put an end to the confusion, as the new Stax authorized no fewer than four US companies to distribute the line. However, since three of them have not placed any orders with Stax recently, it seems that Audio Advisor has become their sole agent by default.)
"I'm just changing."
As I mentioned above, the basic Lambda design is familiar: They're kind of bulky, although not particularly heavy, and tend to slide off your head if you're given to sudden movements. They're reasonably comfortable, although the vinyl "synthetic leather" earpads become uncomfortably warm and slick if worn for extended periods in warm weather. The ear-speakers attach to a U-shaped "spring," under which is slung a synthetic leather strip that rests upon the head. By sliding the strip up or down the side pieces of the spring, the headsets can be adjusted for different-sized heads. I find this arrangement comfortable; others—my wife among them—do not.
The most visible difference between the Lambda Nova Signatures and earlier Lambdas is the color: The Nova Signatures are a soft brown, whereas the earlier models were black. Inside, Stax claims, the diaphragm is thinner and the electrodes have been improved. The six-conductor ribbon cable that attaches the headset to its energizer/amplifier is wider than on previous models, and each strand appears to be thicker, while the conductors are now made from Pure Crystal Ohno Continuous Casting copper.
Electrostatic headsets require "energizer" boxes, specialized power amplifiers that both charge the stator and drive the ear-speakers. The Lambda Nova Signatures are sold with two different models—the SRM-T1S and the SRM- T1W, both utilizing FETs in the first stage and pairs of 6FQ7/5CG7 triodes in the output stage. Both amplifiers accommodate balanced inputs without resorting to the use of transformers or inversion amplifiers in the signal path, due to the double-axis quad volume controls Stax employs.
SRM-T1S: The SRM-T1S can be considered the "standard" model; it was the amplifier TJN used in his review of the $6000 Omega S system. It's quite deep (14" from volume control to RCA input), but only 8" wide and 4" tall. The front two-thirds of the top plate is perforated for ventilation; in the center, the two 6FQ7s bulge slightly out from the surface—circular patterns in the perforation, resembling stylized daisies, highlight their location. There's no practical advantage to this, of course, but it adds a welcome touch of whimsy to the otherwise austere package.
Dominating the front panel, on the far right, is a large split volume control; the front half adjusts the left channel, while the rear half adjusts the right. This pot has a silky feel and both halves track tightly. To the left of the volume pot, in a row along the lower half of the face, are three connections for Stax headphones (Stax does not use the typical ¼" phono plug)—two are labeled pro only, the other normal. Above them are three switches: power, and inputs 1 and 2.
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The French actor tells Catherine Shoard why she swerved away from sweetness to play a gritty, troubled heiress in the 1920s
Meeting Room F in the basement of Toronto's Hyatt Regency hotel has no windows. It has coffee and cookies and the groggy chuckle of an extractor fan. It is 11am at the fag-end of last autumn's film festival. In the corner is a whiteboard in search of a mantra, and a big bin.
And then suddenly Audrey Tautou, too: nose to knees in red satin, eyes like Minstrels, skin like milk. She could be a hologram, a creature from another world – specifically, Cannes, where the film she's talking about today first premiered and where, earlier this year, she hosted the festival's opening and closing ceremonies with perfect grace and maximum gamine.
Yet Tautou is not a person to feel out of place. Rather, she is a fish out of water who changes the temperature of whatever pond she's in. Questions are asked in English; she responds, through the translator, in French. The arms-length sense of her responses cannot completely be put down to this filtration.
No, she says, there was nothing in particular that made her and the director Claude Miller compatible, other than that they were. "I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship." Yes, his death a month after finishing the film has added to her passion to promote it. "I know how much he wanted people to see it." She blinks: sweetly fierce, impressively French.
The film is Thérèse Desqueyroux, a strict, rather brilliant chamber piece in which she plays a minted heiress in the 1920s, destined from childhood to shack up with boring Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), brother of her childhood pal Anne, and in line to inherit his own whopping estate. Together their families will have claim over a fair chunk of France, mostly smothered in pine trees. But Thérèse's apparent conservatism, especially in the face of Anne's fling with an unsuitably Jewish hottie, masks a desire for a life less patriarchal. So she starts adding a splash of arsenic to Bernard's nightcap.
The François Mauriac novel on which the film is based unfurls flashback-style; Miller dismantled the architecture and made it linear. "It makes you think, it destabilises you," says Tautou. "What is mysterious and moving about the film is that it asks questions but doesn't provide answers."
Presenting the chronology in a straightforward way adds to a sense of easeful sin: as Anne slips into sex, so Thérèse slides into crime. "She says she's in a tunnel with no end. For her, this is a legitimate defence. She doesn't see any other solution to this imprisonment. Before shooting, I asked myself at what point she became morally culpable. Bernard is no monster. I asked Claude and he said: 'No, no, she does not feel guilty. She has pride in herself. No pity for the stupid, please.'" Tautou herself chips in as the translator stops, to strengthen the sentiment. "For idiots," she smiles.
It is 12 years since Amélie, still the role with which she is most associated – despite a raft of dramas and comedies in France, and playing the direct descendant of Christ in The Da Vinci Code. Thérèse Desqueyroux is a firm swerve away from sweetness: bitter and gritty, puckered and troubled, almost until the very final shot. In the flesh Tautou is all poise, but the sympathy she feels for her character runs deep. If she offered you a coffee, you might think twice before knocking it back.
Tautou quashes the notion it's a time-specific tale. Society continues to compel people into unhappy marriages, she says, even in the west. "In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu."
Perhaps all marriages involve some element of imprisonment? Tautou stonewalls. Thérèse initially sees marriage as a way out of mental anguish, after all. "She says: 'My head is too full of ideas, and I want marriage to stop that.' She feels that the virtue of marriage is to discipline her. She is trying to convince herself it is a salvation. What she wants is the freedom to be able to express herself."
Next up: another classic of French literature – Boris Vian's Foam of the Daze, adapted by Michel Gondry as Mood Indigo. Tautou is Chloé, who falls ill when a lily begins to bloom in her chest. So, a woman ruled by nature rather than one whose identity is predicated on land ownership. "It's true that in Michel's film there is an encroaching of nature on everything; the disease is taking over her body. With Claude, it's a much more materialistic view. There is no room for poetry in Thérèse's world."
Yes, it's curious that a film in which the environment is so crucial presents it so pragmatically. "It's just a sign of their wealth. Claude chose to film it that way; he wanted to show the rigidity and austerity of the pine forests, also perhaps as a metaphor for what's hiding under the bark." She fixes me with a bright look. "Everything has meanings. Nothing is said without intent." Later, I look up what does lie beneath the bark of a pine tree. It is, it turns out, a potent antioxidant, a chemical that deactivates free radicals. Just try it, trees. Just try it. | http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/06/audrey-tatou-film-interview-therese | dclm-gs1-249510000 |
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You won't find this in your phone: A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for badass boxes
Not all silicon boffinry is in mobile... And IBM refuses to give in to Intel
By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Posted in Servers, 27th August 2013 11:24 GMT
Hot Chips Big iron sales are still generating $6bn to $7bn a year for IBM - which is enough to justify designing its own Power processors and building its own wafer baker.
At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Monday, some of the chief architects behind the Power8 electronics were on hand to show off the feeds and speeds of the next-generation motor for the company's Power Systems lineup.
Significantly, the Power8 chip is also the foundation for Big Blue's OpenPower consortium - an effort to make it easier to hook networking, accelerators and other features into Power processors by allowing third parties to license chunks of intellectual property in the style of ARM Holdings and its RISC cores.
IBM announced the OpenPower effort earlier this month, with GPU maker Nvidia, network chip maker Mellanox Technologies, motherboard maker Tyan, and advertising moneymaker Google all lending their support to the cause.
Whether or not the OpenPower effort gains traction remains to be seen; the Power8 is so clearly engineered for midrange and enterprise systems for running applications on a giant shared memory space, backed by lots of cores and threads. Power8 does not belong in a smartphone unless you want one the size of a shoebox that weighs 20 pounds. But it most certainly does belong in a badass server, and Power8 is by far one of the most elegant chips that Big Blue has ever created, based on the initial specs.
IBM's Power8 processor
IBM's Power8 processor
Jeff Stuecheli, who has the title of chief nest architect for the Power8 processor, gave the presentation at Hot Chips going over the feeds and speeds. If the cores on a Power chip are the eggs, then the chief nest architect worries about all of the other things that surround the cores - what Intel calls the uncore regions when it talks about chips.
The Power8 nest is lined with L3 caches, PCI-Express and DDR memory controllers, various other accelerators to speed up functions that might otherwise run on the cores, and the NUMA interconnects for implementing shared memory across multiple sockets.
The evolution of the Power chips for the last decade
The evolution of the Power chips for the last decade
With the Power8 chip, IBM has a few goals. First, the company is shifting from the 32-nanometer processes used for the relatively recent Power7+ chips to a 22-nanometer process. The shrinking of the transistor gates allows IBM to add more features to a die, cranks the clocks, or do a little of both.
Judging from the Power8, it looks like IBM is content to keep in the same clock speed range as the Power7+ chips - around 4GHz, give or take a little. It'll also move PCI-Express 3 controllers into the chip package to keep those hungry little Power8 cores fed; these controllers will offer a coherent memory protocol to external accelerators as well as a new cache hierarchy that goes all the way out to the L4 cache.
As expected, IBM is also goosing the number of processor threads per core with Power8, doubling it up to eight per core. IBM has been vague about how many cores it might squeeze onto a die with the 22-nanometer shrink, and it could have probably done as many as sixteen cores if it had not added so much eDRAM L3 cache memory with the Power7+ and then boosted it even further with the Power8.
On the workloads that Big Blue is targeting with its Power Systems iron, having more cache and cores running at near peak utilisation is more important than having lots of cores on a die. Just as is the case for mainframes, at the prices that IBM has to charge for Power Systems servers, the chip has to be architected to run at close to full-tilt-boogie in a sustained manner. If IBM can do that, then it can garner the prices it commands and the profits we all presume it gets from Power Systems.
The Power8 core looks a lot like the Power7+ core, with some tweaks
The Power8 chip is implemented in IBM's familiar high-k metal gate processes, which include copper and silicon-on-insulator technologies in a 22-nanometer process. The precise transistor count was not given during the presentation, but the Power8 chip weighs in at 650 square millimetres; this is a bit bigger than Power7+, which used a 32-nanometer process, had 2.1 billion transistors, and a surface area of 567 square millimetres.
The Power8 core has a total of sixteen execution pipes. These include two load store units (LSUs) and a condition register unit (CRU), a branch register unit (BRU), and two instruction fetch units (IFUs). There are two fixed-point units (FXUs), two vector math units (VMXs), a decimal floating unit (DFU), and one cryptographic unit (not labeled in the core diagram above).
Each core now has eight threads implemented using simultaneous multithreading (what IBM calls SMT8), instead of four threads per core with the Power7 and Power7+ chips. And like earlier Power chips, this SMT is dynamically tuneable so a core can have one, two, four, or eight threads fired up.
Putting it all together: What does a complete package look like?
If single-thread performance is the most important thing for a piece of work, a core or set of cores will step down the threading automagically and run it with fewer processor threads. The Power8 core, said Stuecheli, has twice as much L1 data cache at 64KB compared to its predecessor (L1 instruction cache remains the same). Data buses from L1 to L2 cache on the die are now twice as wide at 64 bytes. The core has larger issue queues, improved branch prediction, can handle twice as many data cache misses, and has significantly beefed up prefetching of instructions and data. Add it all up, and at a 4GHz clock speed, a Power8 chip will yield about 1.6 times the single-threaded performance of a Power7 chip from 2010.
Block diagram of the Power8 chip
Block diagram of the Power8 chip
Each core has 512KB of SRAM memory etched right near it. A segmented NUMA-like L3 cache using what IBM calls a "non-uniform cache architecture" or NUCA for short, spans all twelve cores on the die, for a total of 96MB of L3 cache. That's only 8MB of L3 cache per core, compared to 10MB per core for the Power7+ chip announced last year, but the Power8 has a much more sophisticated main memory subsystem and an L4 cache that obviates the need for so much L3 cache on the die. (More on that in a second.) The L3 cache is implemented using embedded DRAM, as was the case with the Power7 and Power7+ processors.
At a 4GHz clock speed, you can move data into L3 cache from the external L4 cache at 128GB/sec and from the L3 cache out to L4 at 64GB/sec. Data can be crammed into L2 cache from L3 at 128GB/sec (or back out at the same bandwidth). The pipe from L2 cache into the cores has 256GB/sec of bandwidth, but only 64GB/sec in the other direction. Add it all up, across a twelve-core Power8 chip that works out to 4TB/sec of L2 cache bandwidth and 3TB/sec of L3 cache bandwidth.
The Centaur memory buffer/controller chip for Power8 processors
The Centaur memory buffer/controller chip for Power8 CPUs
Chip makers have been putting memory controllers onto processors for quite some time now, but IBM has done something clever with the Power8. Instead of picking either an existing DDR3 or a future DDR4 controller for the die, Big Blue has instead created a generic memory controller for the die that speaks out over a high-speed bus to a memory buffer (and now quasi-controller) chip called Centaur. This chip is so named, says Stuecheli, because it is half L4 cache and half memory controller.
In this case, the Centaur chip is implementing DDR3 main memory, but should IBM want to shift out to DDR4 at some future time, it can swap out the memory cards and their integrated L4 cache and buffer chips that were designed for DDR3 memory for ones that use DDR4 chips without changing anything on the processors.
All of the memory scheduling logic, caching structures, and energy management features of what was an on-die memory controller with prior Power chips are now in the Centaur chip. That memory link between the Power8 package and the Centaur memory buffer chip has a 40-nanosecond latency and 9.6GB/sec of bandwidth. That Centaur chip is also implemented in IBM's 22-nanometer processes and includes 16MB of cache memory which is used as L4 cache by the processor.
Each Power8 chip can have up to eight of these Centaur chips, for a total of 128MB of L4 cache in a fully loaded socket. That socket would have eight memory channels, for a total of 230GB/sec of sustained bandwidth into and out of the processor and the 32 DDR memory ports hanging off one twelve-core chip would have 410GB/sec of peak bandwidth at the DRAM level.
With 32GB DDR3 memory sticks, each Power8 socket will be able to support 1TB of main memory, and presuming the high-end Power8 machine has 32 sockets like the Power7-based Power 795 server does, that means IBM can deliver a box with 32TB of memory across 384 cores and 3,072 processor threads.
The Power8 chip will also have integrated PCI-Express 3.0 controllers, bringing IBM's Power chips on par with competing Sparc T5 and M5 chips from Oracle and Xeon E5 (and soon Xeon E7) chips from Intel. Those PCI-Express ports have an aggregate of 48GB/sec of I/O bandwidth, significantly more than the 20GB/sec that the Power7 and Power7+ chips offered with the combination of the GX++ bus and I/O bridge chip that was used to implement PCI-Express 2.0 slots.
These integrated PCI-Express 3.0 controllers on the Power8 die provide the transport layer for what IBM is calling the Coherence Attach Processor Interface, or CAPI. And this interface will allow accelerators plugged into the PCI bus of a system - possibly GPU coprocessors or field programmable gate arrays - to easily access data and follow pointers in main memory just like processors themselves do. This is going to be very handy, and has a good chance of getting Big Blue back into the supercomputer racket in a way that didn't happen with the Power7-based beast formerly known as "Blue Waters".
Depending on the workload, a Power8 chip will yield somewhere around 2.5 times the performance as a baseline Power7+ chip. Again, we presume those are comparisons for chips running at 4GHz.
IBM will offer memory cards with 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities, will have a variety of chip packaging options and will use the Power8 chip across a full line of machines, William Starke, the SMP architect for the Power processors, told El Reg. IBM is not being precise about when the Power8 will come to market, with rumours ranging from late 2014 to early 2015, but Starke said those rumours were wrong and that mid-2014 is a better timeline for system launches using the Power8 chips.
IBM was showing off a part, has systems of all sizes up and running in its labs using the Power8 chips, and has been designing the Power9 processor for quite a while already, according to Starke.
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Everyone watch out, John's having his mansies! Someone get him a tampon!
লিখেছেন- samanscomingthrough 13 de জুন de 2009
(1) A boy who THINKS he's a man, but has very girly tendencies such as: watching Gilmore Girls, having little armpit hair, not being able to play sports or video games, can't face his problems and doesn't act like a gentleman.
(2) Cross between a man and a pansy.
I can't believe he thinks he's mature, he's the biggest mansy ever!
লিখেছেন- antimansies 24 de জুন de 2009
A term used for a man that is half man half pansy. A man that is not a complete pansy, but he does have his moments.
You'd light you're ass hair on fire, but you wont jump off this cliff. You Mansy!!
লিখেছেন- B$ 27 de মার্চ de 2005
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Hasselback potatoes and a butter question ?
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Hi Chowers: I am making Hasselback potatoes for Xmas dinner (a potatoe that is peeled and sliced at intervals, but not all the way through, so it looks like an accordian) then roasted. Does anyone know if it matters if you used a Russet, Idaho or Yukon. I typically buy Yukons because I find them more all purpose for mashing, shredding, cubing, frying, and potato salads. Any feedback is appreciated....Now, Part Deaux: I know when you clarify butter you remove fat solids... so does the end product have less fat... and therefore would clarified butter be helpful for someone on a lowfat diet or in baking. I'm sure if fat solids are removed, it would take away from a baked recipe... Just a ponderable if anyone has a thought... Thanks :)
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1. You're removing the milk solids, not the fat solids. So no; not helpful for low-fat eating.
1. Strictly speaking, it's "higher fat" though not enough to matter either way, from a nutrition standpoint. And except where specifically called for (and offhand I can't think of a recipe) or where a minimal amount is used, removing the solids would detract greatly from the flavor one expects to find in baked goods made with "butter." You might use it to good effect for greasing pans, but I wouldn't make it for that purpose.
1. I'd use Yukons or something similar. I've made hasselbacks a couple of times and they are so good! I'm on a low-carb regimen at the moment so I can only dream about them.
1. Hi, Buddernut... I just made them for dinner last night. I love 'em...an easy thing to do for weeknights; and special and beautiful enough for Christmas dinner.
I've seen recipes calling for any baking or AP potato; I think Nigella Lawson uses new potatoes. I've used Russetts and Maine APs.
I think Yukons would be a great choice, if that's what you'd like to use. They'll present such beautiful color when the flower.
As for the clarified butter, I'd agree w/themis.
I've been thinking about ways to cut the fat, too. I think it's really the heat that makes them open, so I'll probably experiment myself with different versions.
Even if you want only to use a healthier fat, I'm sure olive oil would work, too. Or maybe butter or oil cut with white wine or stock suited to your entree. (I think I'd use at least some fat, to help that crusty effect.) Or...maybe use full fat for the first basting only. I wonder if some kind of buttermilk dressing could be used, at least for basting number two?
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American microbiologist who pioneered the use of restriction enzymes—enzymes that break DNA molecules down into manageable fragments—to create the first genetic map on which the location of specific genes on the DNA could be identified. For this work, which revolutionized genetic engineering, Nathans shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine with Werner Arber and Hamilton Smith.
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Cover design by Stefan Heilemann
EP by Leaves' Eyes
Released 2 May 2005
Recorded Mastersound Studio, Fellbach/Stuttgart, Germany, 2005
Genre Symphonic metal
Length 25:01
Label Napalm
Producer Alexander Krull
Leaves' Eyes chronology
Vinland Saga
Elegy is a Maxi single/EP by symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes,[1] released on 2 May 2005.[2] Almost all vocals are by the Norwegian singer Liv Kristine, with some backing "growls" by her husband Alexander Krull. The song "Elegy" is taken from the then upcoming album Vinland Saga, and a further track from that album, "Solemn Sea" is also included in demo form. The rest of the tracks are exclusive to this release, but unlike the following EP Legend Land, they do not share the Vinland theme.
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All lyrics written by Liv Kristine, all music composed by Alexander Krull, Thorsten Bauer, Mathias Röderer & Christopher Lukhaup.
No. Title Length
1. "Elegy" (single version) 4:33
2. "Senses Capture" 4:58
3. "A Winter's Poem" 4:06
4. "Solemn Sea" (demo version) 3:47
5. "Mot fjerne land" (Towards the Faraway Land) 2:28
6. "Elegy" (album version) 5:06
Total length:
Leaves' Eyes[edit]
• Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Alexander Krull at Mastersound Studios
• Assistant recording engineers: Mathias Röderer, Thorsten Bauer, Chris Lukhaup, Robert Suß
Year Chart Position
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0.152671 | <urn:uuid:70ff66f0-30a7-46ac-8a8a-2adc25f9ce20> | en | 0.700319 | Geometric programming
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A geometric program (GP) is an optimization problem of the form
Minimize \ f_0(x)\ subject to
f_i(x) \leq 1, \quad i = 1,\dots,m
h_i(x) = 1,\quad i = 1,\dots,p
where f_0,\dots,f_m are posynomials and h_1,\dots,h_p are monomials.
In the context of geometric programming (unlike all other disciplines), a monomial is defined as a function f:\mathbb{R}_{++}^n \to \mathbb{R} defined as
f(x) = c x_1^{a_1} x_2^{a_2} \cdots x_n^{a_n}
where c > 0 \ and a_i \in \mathbb{R} .
GPs have numerous application, such as components sizing in IC design[1] and parameter estimation via logistic regression in statistics. The maximum likelihood estimator in logistic regression is a GP.
Convex form[edit]
Geometric programs are not (in general) convex optimization problems, but they can be transformed to convex problems by a change of variables and a transformation of the objective and constraint functions. In particular, defining y_i = \log(x_i), the monomial f(x) = c x_1^{a_1} \cdots x_n^{a_n} \mapsto e^{a^T y +b}, where b = \log(c). Similarly, if f is the posynomial
f(x) = \sum_{k=1}^K c_k x_1^{a_{1k}} \cdots x_n^{a_{nk}}
then f(x) = \sum_{k=1}^K e^{a_k^T y + b_k}, where a_k = (a_{1k},\dots,a_{nk} ) and b_k = \log(c_k) . After the change of variables, a posynomial becomes a sum of exponentials of affine functions.
See also[edit]
• Richard J. Duffin; Elmor L. Peterson; Clarence Zener (1967). Geometric Programming. John Wiley and Sons. p. 278. ISBN 0-471-22370-0.
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[Making of the Beat w/ Cam]
[Intro: Vic Mensa]
In my suitcase..
[Verse 1: Chance The Rapper]
It's not a suitcase, more of a briefcase
I be on binness
, and my new place isn't a duplex
More of an escape
, I been gone trippin'
Kiss the kids and kick the dogs, fix the dinner, fix the faucet
Wash the dish and wish for rain and when it pours make sure in the midst of all
You don't forget to call me to come back
Pardon me on that, I was too young
You was young too but uh, I was too young
What you want me to say? I'm a deadbeat dad, all the sex we had was my fault?
The checks she had wasn't enough to get by, it's my fault?
I bought, a new suitcase, I be gone trippin'
Only briefly, probably wrong decision
But I can do it later if he got game, oh now he trippin'
Got his own case, he dippin', run like your Pops, junior
[Verse 2: Vic Mensa]
Out of state feels great but it's good to be home
Lookin' at the crib through the window
Sometimes the littlest things in life don't seem so big 'til you're grown
Take it for granted, cement footsteps smoke rings rotate with the planet
And the plan is spend it all before the market crash
"Oh Shit, red alert, panic!"
Somehow the fuel in the left wing leaked and we all went down
And my seatbelt be tight enough to keep me wired up with a plane spiralin' off in the clouds
And was lost in the dust but they scooped me up in a cup and dumped me off in a pile
Blow me in the wind, over the mountain, would I owe my accountant?
What if they only found my suitcase? Would I be on Newsweek?
What if I was a newlywed with a newborn of 2 weeks
And my flight to the UK crashed in the Yukon
And I woke up on a distant beach with a peach in my mouth
Sand in my hair, and no shoes on
Where am I?
[Bridge: Chance the Rapper]
Hit the road Jack, don't you come back no more, no more, no more...
Hit the road Jack, please come back one more, one more, one more
[Outro: Vic Mensa]
Every other day is a trip, another suitcase, ah
Flying high with gray skies and my suitcase, been gone for 2 days, ah
Packed my memories in the bag, inside my suitcase, take it to the UK
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Chan, R.H. ; Dept. of Math., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ; Chan, T.H. ; Hau Man Yeung ; Wang, R.W.
The composition vector (CV) method is an alignment-free method for sequence comparison. Because of its simplicity when compared with multiple sequence alignment methods, the method has been widely discussed lately; and some formulas based on probabilistic models, like Hao's and Yu's formulas, have been proposed. In this paper, we improve these formulas by using the entropy principle which can quantify the nonrandomness occurrence of patterns in the sequences. More precisely, existing formulas are used to generate a set of possible formulas from which we choose the one that maximizes the entropy. We give the closed-form solution to the resulting optimization problem. Hence, from any given CV formula, we can find the corresponding one that maximizes the entropy. In particular, we show that Hao's formula is itself maximizing the entropy and we derive a new entropy-maximizing formula from Yu's formula. We illustrate the accuracy of our new formula by using both simulated and experimental data sets. For the simulated data sets, our new formula gives the best consensus and significant values for three different kinds of evolution models. For the data set of tetrapod 18S rRNA sequences, our new formula groups the clades of bird and reptile together correctly, where Hao's and Yu's formulas failed. Using real data sets with different sizes, we show that our formula is more accurate than Hao's and Yu's formulas even for small data sets.
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0.587882 | <urn:uuid:1f168d7a-994d-49fa-9bfb-f6903a253106> | en | 0.974413 | How an 1870s marine expedition changed oceanography and drove eight sailors insane
When was the first voyage of the Challenger? No, not the Space Shuttle — the original Challenger, a sea ship that sailed in 1872. The HMS Challenger traversed the world's oceans for four years, drove some of its sailors completely insane, caused about a quarter of the crew to jump ship, and forever changed the face of ocean science.
Is there a way to scroll past the nature channels without seeing one that describes the richness of the ocean and the life that teems in its depth? In the early 1800s, the ocean was something to fish in and to get across. What happened below 1500 feet was of no concern to anyone, although scientists calculated that the pressure, the temperature, and the lack of sunlight meant that no life existed below. The bottom of the ocean was presumed to be as lifeless as the surface of the moon, though it was far less known. In 1872, the HMS Challenger was sent out to circumnavigate the globe, with a crew of around 240 sailors and scientists. When it got back in 1876, it had 144 people aboard, losing people to madness, death, sickness, and sheer desperation to escape the voyage. It also held a wealth of information that launched a new era of exploration, and a new field of science.
The HMS Challenger sounds like a dream assignment to anyone who has ever imagined exploring new territory or making a contribution to science. It was set to go around to the globe, via some of the most beautiful islands in the world, taking reading and collecting life from regions never studied. Then reality set in. The routine of the Challenger was this: the ship would sail to a certain part of the ocean, send down lines to a certain depth, take temperature and pressure readings, send nets or dredgers down, and haul up whatever life they could find. It would do this at several points nearby, should it find anything interesting. Then it would move on and do the same the next day. And the next. For the scientists it was a thrilling, if stressful, time. For the crew it was excruciating. The manual labor was repetitive and backbreaking. To maintain accuracy of readings, the work also had to be extremely precise.
How an 1870s marine expedition changed oceanography and drove eight sailors insane
Although ship's records only vaguely references sailors 'going mad,' or leaving the ship at various ports, it's known that at least eight people did go insane during the voyage, and one threw himself into the sea. Others picked the more conventional method of waiting until they got to a likely port and running like hell. Still others died of sickness or simply became sick and were put ashore at the next port and left. (This strategy of simply putting people ashore and letting them hope they could find some other way to get home was pretty common at the time. The ships' logbook mentions finding two brothers, both whalers, who were set on a slip of a beach next to huge unscalable cliffs to hunt seals, and left there by a ship that didn't return for them.)
The HMS Challenger's mission was rough on everyone, and disastrous to some, but something did come out of it: all of oceanography. The voyage invented the science, changing it from something done casually by 'naturalists' and scientifically-minded staff aboard ships to a reason for going to sea in the first place. The voyage brought back 4,700 marine specimens from areas that were considered lifeless. The crew discovered mountains under the sea, which many thought were the lost city of Atlantis. They discovered the Marianas Trench, the lowest spot on Earth. They brought back enough material, overall, for a fifteen-volume text that took nearly two decades to complete. They shifted the idea of exploring the depths from a Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea fiction to scientific possibility. The first few deep sea explorers, who went down to terrifying depths in glorified tin cans, and unmanned divers and everyone who heads down to the depths for science is participating in a science, and a mindset, kicked off by that one, long miserable voyage of discovery.
Via A Short History of Nearly Everything, UCSD, and Dive Discover.
Top Image: NOAA
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Snagglepuss was the pinkest of Hanna-Barbera's cast of characters, and often used the ear-catching tag line, "Heavens to Mergatroid," whenever something shocking or surprising happened. The origins of the phrase date back to some of the most beloved screen and sound actors of the 1940's. Snagglepuss was voiced by cartoon actor Daws Butler who was known at the time as a wiz at mimicking famous actors for cartoon work.
Snagglepuss' voice was modeled after Bert Lahr, the actor who played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Butler worked his background connections to learn of some of Lahr's mannerisms and idiosyncrasies and adopted one of his catchphrases as that of Snagglepuss, "Heavens to Mergatroid." Where Lahr got it from, nobody knows. This leads us to today's news Adrian van Hooydonk would be taking the design reigns at BMW, where A Pimp Named DaveR know's where we got van Hooydonks name:
C'mon, admit it: You made that name up, didn't you!!!!
What's next, Mergatroid von Fantzypantz-Biffleboffle taking over as CEO of Daimler?
Heavens to Mergatroid, no! Everybody knows Spiderman McBurgertime is in line for the top spot at Chrysler. Don't be silly. | http://jalopnik.com/5146606/commenter-of-the-day-snagglepuss-edition?comment=10523852 | dclm-gs1-250930000 |
0.021306 | <urn:uuid:3ec7d563-054a-4941-ae04-f764e7aca35f> | en | 0.885873 | Tatar, Crimean in Ukraine
Largest Religion
Main Language
Introduction / History
Crimean Tatars emerged as a distinct ethnic group at the close of the 13th century, following the Mongal invasion of Crimea in 1239. More than two hundred years passed before the Crimean Khanate was officially founded. By that time, Islam was firmly established in the the southern areas of modern Ukraine, especially among the Crimean Tatars.
Strategically situated on the Black Sea, Crimean power increased until 1783, when a series of wars between Russia and Turkey resulted in Crimea's absorption into Russia. The Russian government pursued the Muslim population, and more than 100,000 Tatars were compelled to leave their country. Then, in 1944, Stalin's Soviet regime deported the entire Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia and Siberia, accusing them of cooperation with Germany. It wasn't until 1989 that repatriation to their homeland began.
What are Their Lives Like?
Today, Crimean Tatars are a minority group in Ukraine, and continue to face discrimination. The mass deportation of 1944 immobilized their culture; nearly one half of their population died en route, and those who survived were forced to grow up among foreigners, far from home, often uneducated.
Until 1989, the Soviet Union refused to recognize the Crimean Tatars as a distinct ethnic group. Since the commencement of their repatriation, the Crimean Tatar National Movement Organization has documented an ethnic population of 550,000. So far the Tatars have been allocated eight areas for settlement in their homeland. Before the deportations, these areas were populated by 15 % of the Crimean Tatars; now they must contain 63.6 % of the people.
Their dress and language make it difficult to distinguish Crimean Tatars from Russians or Ukrainians. Many of their traditions are falling away, especially among the younger generation.
What are Their Beliefs?
Islam remains the dominant religion of Crimean Tatars. The majority are nominal Muslims, though the number of those practicing Islam has increased since Ukraine's independence in 1991. Only 0.01 percent of the Tatar population is Christian.
What are Their Needs?
Although granted some degree of self-determination, the Crimean Tatars who have returned still face problems.
Prayer Points
* Pray for this people group to realize that there is a God who loves them.
* Pray for workers to be raised up and sent to the Crimean Tatars to give them His Word and to help them establish a Christ centered fellowship.
* Pray for a translation of the Bible into Krym and wide distribution of it.
* Pray for tentmakers with skills in agriculture and construction to live among them, evangelize them and plant Tatar churches
Profile Source: Anonymous
Prayer Links
Global Prayer Digest: 2012-03-21
People Name General Tatar, Crimean (Tah-tar)
People Name in Country Tatar, Crimean
Population in Ukraine 301,000
World Population 586,000
Countries 9
Progress Scale 1.2
Least-Reached Yes
Indigenous Yes
Alternate Names Crimean Turk, Crimean Turkish, Krymchak, Nogai, Nogay Tatar, Tartar, Tatar
Affinity Bloc Turkic Peoples
People Cluster Ural-Siberian
People Name General Tatar, Crimean (Tah-tar)
Ethnic Code MSY41h
People ID 11434
Country Ukraine
Region Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Continent Europe
10/40 Window No
Persecution Rank Not ranked
Location in Country Crimea. Source: Ethnologue 2010
Crimean Tatar Tatar: Western Tatar
Crimean Tatar Tatar: Western Tatar
Bible Translation Status (Years)
Bible Portions Yes (1659-2011)
New Testament Yes (1666-2011)
Complete Bible No
Format Resource
Audio Recordings Audio Bible teaching (GRN)
Film / Video Jesus Film: view in Crimean Tatar
Major Religion Percent
0.00 %
Christianity (Evangelical 0.10 %)
0.12 %
Ethnic Religions
0.00 %
0.00 %
99.88 %
0.00 %
Other / Small
0.00 %
0.00 %
Christian Segments Percent
0.0 %
0.0 %
100.0 %
Other Christian
0.0 %
0.0 %
Roman Catholic
0.0 %
Photo Source: International Mission Board-SBC Copyrighted © Used with permission
Map Source: Bethany World Prayer Center
Profile Source: Anonymous
Data Sources: Data is compiled from various sources. Read more
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kcpc가 작성 2011년 12월 29일 (목)
Literally, "bro love". Absolutely no relation to intimate love. A special bond that exists between two bros who share common interests and goals and spend much time participating in awesome adventures and chasing tail.
Brove has nothing to do with an intimate relationship. A Bro may brove more than one brove and may be broved by several bros as well. There is no jealousy. If the bros all know each other, a brotherhood may form. When two brove notice that their brove is fading, no messy breakup takes place. The bros simply say "You go that way and be awesome over there, I'll go this way and be awesome over here."
There is no love like Brove.
"Man, Johnny and I did some crazy shit with these babes down by the ravine yesterday. I'm so glad he got me out of the house, I brove that man."
Violaghost가 작성 2010년 05월 08일 (토)
The physical consummation of a bromance. Some examples could be from playing video games, to having one on one conversations, to shootin' hoops.
Two bromancers meet up after not seeing each for some time and are sort of surprised and they say emphatically, "what up man! Show me some BROVE!" and then they proceed to do a bro hug (half handshake half hug).
trojan29가 작성 2009년 03월 07일 (토)
The enigmatic essence of bromance.
I brove you, bro...
IM YOUR BRO!!!!가 작성 2010년 01월 07일 (목)
for a male to love his male best friends in a brotherly way; best way to express friendship
highest form of friendship between two or more males
Verb: "Brove you, man. Thanks for the party"
Noun: This is some intense brove we got here.
Lacor Reuz가 작성 2014년 03월 22일 (토)
(Noun) Pronounced "bra-uhv"
1.Exactly like "Bromance".
2. "Bro" love.
3. When two guys are good friends but not gay.
4. When you do something like "Hug-it-out".
"Man, last night durring the truth circle, Jim and Alex showed some brove."
Hunter A.가 작성 2007년 03월 23일 (금)
Brotherly love; synonymous with "bromance" (Also spelled" "bruv")
I brove you man.
curtis x meyer가 작성 2010년 12월 08일 (수)
매일 매일 받아보는 무료 이메일
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0.024046 | <urn:uuid:cca71c4c-d802-431f-a7a0-2140f2309aec> | en | 0.942279 | Submitted by GamerEuphoria 637d ago | review
Bioshock Infinite Review - Gamer Euphoria
Ahead of you looms a dark, moody and mysterious lighthouse sitting in the middle of the ocean, separate from land and lore alike. You’re plonked at its entrance and forced to explore what’s inside, and what’s already a mystery in itself is simply a conduit to more intrigue. Six years ago, you entered a lighthouse and plunged into the depths of the ocean below to explore the vast wilderness of Rapture and the horrors that lay within. This year, that lighthouses thrusts you in the opposite direction to a land sitting not with the fishes but with the birds, and suddenly all that mystery becomes an empty canvas with each piece of the picture becoming apparent the more you explore it. (BioShock: Infinite, PC, PS3, Xbox 360) 9.4/10
kriauciuniux + 636d ago
Just started playing this.
And it's amazing.The atmosphere and scenery alone are worth a 10.I wish there would be more devs like irrational who put that much care in to their games...
Roper316 + 636d ago
I personally would give it a solid 9 just because of some screen tear & it has froze on me twice where I had to do a hard reset of my system.
Story & atmosphere are top notch & I agree we need more development studios like Irrational Games who always seem to deliver a deep single player campaign with a amazing story to go with it. They also just don't throw in a MP component just to say it's there. If Irrational in making a game I am buying it no questions asked.
GamerEuphoria + 636d ago
Which version were you playing?
Roper316 + 636d ago
PS3 version and very early on when I first got to Colombia I was looking for coins along the edge of a flower bed that was against some rocks and I could see patches of blue were the 2 met where the sky was coming through the seam.
The freeze happened when I was on my way to meet Elizabeth for the 1st time and again I was searching around the perimeter for coins and every time I passed these 2 guards at a locked gate the game would freeze on me.
GamerEuphoria + 636d ago
I'm not quite sure if we could justify a perfect score on just two elements. I (as in the person who uses this account) have not yet started to play the game so I'm excited either way!
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0.024472 | <urn:uuid:daa56a7c-0582-4590-aab9-2866d4d90562> | en | 0.963633 | Fiscal Cliff Notes: Part II
One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays “chicken” with the Congressional Republicans along the “fiscal cliff,” is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media– nor, apparently, by the Republicans.
A key lie that has been repeated over and over, largely unanswered, is that President Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich” cost the government so much lost tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit– so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for “the rich.”
It sounds very plausible, and constant repetition without a challenge may well be enough to convince the voting public that, if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not go along with Barack Obama’s demands for more spending and higher tax rates on the top 2 percent, it just shows that they care more for “the rich” than for the other 98 percent.
What is remarkable is how easy it is to show how completely false Obama’s argument is. That also makes it completely inexplicable why the Republicans have not done so.
The official statistics which show plainly how wrong Barack Obama is can be found in his own “Economic Report of the President” for 2012, on page 411. You can look it up.
You may be able to find a copy of the “Economic Report of the President” for 2012 at your local public library. Or you can buy a hard copy from the Government Printing Office or download an electronic version from the Internet.
For those who find that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” they need only see the graphs published in the November 30th issue of Investor’s Business Daily.
What both the statistical tables in the “Economic Report of the President” and the graphs in Investor’s Business Daily show is that (1) tax revenues went up– not down– after tax rates were cut during the Bush administration, and (2) the budget deficit declined, year after year, after the cut in tax rates that have been blamed by Obama for increasing the deficit.
Indeed, the New York Times reported in 2006: “An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget deficit this year.”
While the New York Times may not have expected this, there is nothing unprecedented about lower tax rates leading to higher tax revenues, despite automatic assumptions by many in the media and elsewhere that tax rates and tax revenues automatically move in the same direction. They do not.
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
This has happened as recently as the George W. Bush administration and as far back as the Reagan administration. Moreover, tax revenues went up when tax rates went down, as far back as the Coolidge administration, before there was a Congressional Budget Office to make false predictions.
The bottom line is that Barack Obama’s blaming increased budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts is demonstrably false. What caused the decreasing budget deficits after the Bush tax cuts to suddenly reverse and start increasing was the mortgage crisis. The deficit increased in 2008, followed by a huge increase in 2009.
So it is sheer hogwash that “tax cuts for the rich” caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. Moreover, “the rich” paid a larger amount of taxes, and a larger share of all taxes, after the tax rates were cut.
That is because people change their economic behavior when tax rates are changed, contrary to what the Congressional Budget Office and others seem to assume, and this can stimulate the economy more than a government “stimulus” has done under either Bush or Obama.
Yet there is no need to assume that Barack Obama is mistaken about the way to get the economy out of the doldrums. His top priority has always been increasing the size and scope of government. If that means sacrificing the economy or the truth, that is no deterrent to Obama. That is why he is willing to play chicken with Republicans along the fiscal cliff.
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How do I delete a trigger for a job in Quartz.net and keep the job? This is only an issue when deleting the last trigger on the job, right now it deletes the job as well.
The code I am using is:
and that works fine as long as the job for that triggers has more than one trigger. If this is the last trigger the job is also deleted, and that is something I don't want.
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When you create your job you have to specify that you want it to stick around after all triggers have been deleted, which you do by calling StoreDurably()
IJobDetail job = JobBuilder.Create<HelloJob>()
.WithIdentity("job1", "group1")
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Perfect! Thank you! – Tomas Jansson Apr 4 '13 at 6:13
You can also use
// Unschedule a particular trigger from the job (a job may have more than one trigger)
scheduler.UnscheduleJob(new TriggerKey("trigger1", "group1"));
Note that my syntax is slightly different than the Quartz.net reference
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I think that might have the same issue as I described in my test, that is, it also deletes the job if it is the last trigger. – Tomas Jansson Nov 21 '13 at 15:53
That's correct, it deletes the job if it was the last trigger. Sorry did not ready your question in entirety. – hmd Nov 21 '13 at 20:03
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I was wondering if someone can explain what is informal protocols in Objective C? I try to understand it on apple documentation and some other books but my head is still spinning so i will really appreciate that if someone can explain with example.
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An informal protocol was, as Jonnathan said, typically a category declared on NSObject with no corresponding implementation (most often -- there was the rare one that did provide dummy implementations on NSObject).
As of 10.6 (and in the iPhone SDK), this pattern is no longer used. Specifically, what was declared as follows in 10.5 (and prior):
@interface NSObject(NSApplicationNotifications)
- (void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification;
@interface NSObject(NSApplicationDelegate)
- (NSApplicationTerminateReply)applicationShouldTerminate:(NSApplication *)sender;
Is now declared as:
@protocol NSApplicationDelegate <NSObject>
- (NSApplicationTerminateReply)applicationShouldTerminate:(NSApplication *)sender;
- (void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification;
That is, informal protocols are now declared as @protocols with a bunch of @optional methods.
In any case, an informal protocol is a collection of method declarations whereby you can optionally implement the methods to change behavior. Typically, but not always, the method implementations are provided in the context of delegation (a table view's data source must implement a handful of required methods and may optionally implement some additional methods, for example).
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One of the common examples given of informal protocols is to define callbacks. Suppose you are using a library that lets you download something in the background. This library lets you register a callback object to be called when complete.
- (void)download:(NSURL*)url whenComplete:(id)callback
When the download is complete, it will call a particular method on your callback object:
- (void)downloadComplete:(NSURL*)url
Of course, there is no guarantee that your callback object actually implements this method. Informal protocols provide trivial implementations of these methods on NSObject, using a category. As a result, all objects in the system will respond to the downloadComplete: method, though they will do nothing in response to that method by default. Classes that override the downloadComplete: method can provide more useful functionality.
So far, you can accomplish the same thing with a formal protocol. However, informal protocols allow you to have optional methods. A class that implements a formal protocol must provide an implementation for every method in the protocol. A class implementing an informal protocol can omit implementation for any method - it has already inherited an implementation from NSObject.
Since Objective-C 2.0, formal protocols can contain optional methods. In addition, Apple might be moving away from informal protocols for new APIs - UIAccelerometerDelegate is a formal protocol.
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The use of the term callback is potentially confusing here, especially in a world where blocks exist. What you're talking about is delegation. (I realize that this answer probably made more sense in 2010.) – lwburk Nov 21 at 20:07
We define an informal protocol by grouping the methods in a category declaration,
@interface NSObject ( MyXMLSupport )
- initFromXMLRepresentation:(NSXMLElement *)XMLElement;
- (NSXMLElement *)XMLRepresentation;
Informal protocols are typically declared as categories of the NSObject class, Since that broadly associates the method names with any class that inherits from NSObject.
Because all classes inherit from the root class, the methods aren’t restricted to any part of the inheritance hierarchy. (It would also be possible to declare an informal protocol as a category of another class to limit it to a certain branch of the inheritance hierarchy, but there is little reason to do so).
When used to declare a protocol, a category interface doesn’t have a corresponding implementation. Instead, classes that implement the protocol declare the methods again in their own interface files and define them along with other methods in their implementation files.
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Informal protocols are a way to add optional methods to an object by means of category.
So one doubt may arise
Will it become informal protocol if there are any optional methods on protocol itself?
The answer is no.
If the methods are declared in protocol and it is said to be conforming to a class without any usage of category then it's formal protocol.
Optional methods in protocol were introduced in objective c 2.0 so before that the purpose was achieved through informal protocol I.e by means of category.
It is a language level feature meant to be alternative for sub classing aka inheritance.
I hope it sheds some lime light on this..
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All an informal protocol is is a category on some class (often NSObject) that states the interface for the protocol. AppKit uses this a lot for its delegation.
A subclass that you write can implement these methods. The difference between this and a formal protocol is that formal protocols are declared using the @protocol ... @end notation. There is no checking whether a class implements a given informal protocol.
I almost always use formal protocols, but I suppose an informal protocol is useful if you want to provide default behavior (just provide an implementation for your category that can be overridden).
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So its about "Subclassing" thing and then implement them? I was trying <protocol/category> syntax. – itsaboutcode Jan 6 '10 at 0:22
Based on "Jonathan Sterling" answer, can i say the following code represent informal protocol?
Apple documentation:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface Cat1 : NSObject {
- (void) simpleMethod;
@implementation Cat1
- (void) simpleMethod
NSLog(@"Simple Method");
@interface Cat1 (Cat2)
- (void) addingMoreMethods;
@interface MYClass : Cat1
@implementation MYClass
- (void) addingMoreMethods
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
MYClass *myclass = [[MYClass alloc] init];
[myclass addingMoreMethods];
[myclass release];
[pool drain];
return 0;
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Sorta. The method declared in Cat2 is an informal protocol, more or less. The usage, though, is not -- typically, you would see if([myclass respondsToSelector: @selector(addingMoreMethods)]) [myclass addingMoreMethods];. – bbum Jan 6 '10 at 0:31
Thanks bbum, i am not interested if its used too much, but i really wanted to understand the whole concept! – itsaboutcode Jan 6 '10 at 0:35
The point, though, is that an informal protocol is composed of methods that may optionally be implemented. Thus, the calling site must check to see if it is implemented or else the call will crash! – bbum Jan 6 '10 at 0:46
Yah you are right, we should check if it respond to. Why? because lets say NSObject has a category named "NSCoderMethods", since i dont know if it implement or not (i dont have its code), so i should always check it. Infact all the category methods should be check if they respond or not using respondsToSelector. – itsaboutcode Jan 6 '10 at 1:01
an informal protocol defines which methods an object must understand. This is called "conforming to a protocol". Conforming to a protocol is independant from the class hierarchy. When declaring a pointer to hold the reference to an object you may define to which protocols this object should conform. If you write code that assigns an object which doesn't conform to all the required protocols, you'll get a warning at compile time. Informal protocols help you to rely on a set of methods that an object understands. You don't have to invoke isKindOfClass: or respondsTo: in your code to check wether objects passed in will be suitable for your processing. Protocols are sort of aspect oriented programming.
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liz_brent.jpgOccasionally, I meet a volunteer, and I'm left with the impression that it is all about the leader. Twice in the past 3 days I have had an encounter with an adult who was a Girl Scout during her entire school career. In both instances, these individuals said they would not have stayed involved, had it not been for that special adult who served as their leader. They had a relationship with the adult, who was a role model for them. And, in some instances, they pursued their career because of the influence of this adult role model.
It is important to remember, children imitate what we do. Having worked with college students for 30 years, I sometimes don't realize my vocabulary might not be what some of the girls can relate to and understand. Or worse, sometimes they understand more of what is going on around them than we realize. I heard of an incident last week where the adult volunteers had some differences of opinions. This happens with all of us, but it isn't something we need to involve the girls in. I do this job because I believe I am laying a foundation for the future. I believe we are building future responsible citizens who will give back and be contributing members of society. I do this because I believe what I do is, in a small way, an investment in the health and happiness of others.
Why do you do it?
You can’t learn to ride a bike unless you actually have a bike. Similarly, you can’t make a point without examples. Most people online are looking for "show me" rather than some out of the blue, unbacked information (or claim). I consider blog entries such as this one a souvenir, something you can take home and use it in a real conversation or small talk even.
In this particular case I try to resolve opinion conflicts away from the audience. Not because I want to keep it under the hood but in order to protect the children from intepreting human interactions out of context. Adults don't deal in absolutes so a disagreement does not actually mean 'you are not my friend anymore'.
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0.134709 | <urn:uuid:32c8354f-8b75-4b90-95de-c981e252567b> | en | 0.940736 | Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. 2014-12-26T14:00:00-05:00 Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=dirk-schulzemakuch-phd Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. Good old fashioned elbow grease. A Bold New Chance for Mars Exploration! tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1510355 2012-05-11T15:44:30-04:00 2012-07-11T05:12:13-04:00 Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dirk-schulzemakuch-phd/
To address the question of life on Mars in a cost-conscientious way, we called for a mission to Mars with a strong and comprehensive life detection component. At the heart of our proposal, just published in the journal Planetary Space and Science, is a small fleet of penetrators that can punch into the Martian soil and run a range of tests for signs of ancient or existing life. We call this mission BOLD and it is both an acronym for Biological Oxidant and Life Detection and a nod to the proposal's ambition.
With this mission proposal, we anticipate to address the big questions on Mars in a much more straightforward way. With the money for space exploration drying up, we have to get some exciting results that not only the experts and scientists in the field are interested in but that the public is interested in as well. The BOLD mission would feature six 130-pound probes that could be dropped to various locations. Shaped like inverted cones, they would parachute to the surface and thrust a soil sampler nearly a foot into the ground upon landing. On-board instrumentation would then conduct half a dozen experiments, transmitting data to an orbiter overhead.
The soil analyzer would measure inorganic ions, pH and the concentration of oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide, since microbial organisms could be adapted to the harsh conditions on Mars by using a mixture of water and hydrogen peroxide as their internal fluid. Hydrogen peroxide or perchlorates might also account for several of the findings of the Viking Mars landers in the late 1970s.
The probe's microscopic imager would look for shapes similar to known terrestrial microfossils, while another instrument (Nanopore-ARROW Instrument) would look for single long molecules similar to the long nucleic acids created by life forms on Earth. Other experiments would repeat work done by the Viking landers, but with greater precision that could detect previously overlooked organic material and re-examine the question of the presence of life on Mars (note: the Viking lander's results from the '70s were inconclusive). Each probe would have about a 50-50 chance of landing successfully. But with the redundancy of six probes, the chance of at least one succeeding is better than 98 percent, which is a very high likelihood for success given the past track record for Mars landing missions.
The proposal comes at a time when NASA is reevaluating its Mars exploration program. In order to find a way out of the current situation, a workshop has been announced on "Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration" to be held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in the Houston area, June 12-14, 2012. It is to be hoped that the Mars program within NASA can be reinvigorated. What many of us eventually like to see in their lifetime are humans walking on Mars. However, before this grand goal can be achieved, robotic exploration has to move forward and we have to do this in a way that both prepares for a later anticipated human landing and to answer the bigger questions that are close to our heart: Are we alone and is there life on Mars?
Let there be no mistake. We live in a dangerous universe. If we do not take steps to explore our planetary neighborhood and eventually build outposts on other worlds, we will follow in the footsteps of the dinosaurs. Certainly, there is no replacement for Earth, and Mars will never be a replacement for Earth. But we do need to move forward, and mission proposals, such as BOLD, will be the first step toward a grand vision. We do have the technology, but the question is: do we also have the political will? All we can do is encourage Congress to provide NASA with the necessary funds to achieve its mission, so that NASA can build on its past great accomplishments. Let's take up a BOLD new chance for Mars exploration!]]> | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=dirk-schulzemakuch-phd | dclm-gs1-252910000 |
0.07157 | <urn:uuid:e35235e6-9d1a-4395-84e7-30c665149dbe> | en | 0.979289 | SEATTLE There are roughly 2 million obese children in the United States, prompting a suggestion by some doctors that children who are already suffering from obesity-related conditions should be removed from their homes.
An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association says the doctors believe placing the children in foster homes may save their lives.
Mandy LaFontaine and her family decided to go for a picnic Wednesday. Even on the go, she plans what her children will be eating.
Mandy says when she was young, her mother was all about convenience. She often ate fast food. It's a routine she refuses to let her kids grow accustomed to.
Instead, Mandy says she combs the aisles of the grocery store, on a limited budget, for deals on healthier foods.
Mandy can't understand how parents don't keep tabs on their children's weight. She supports taking obese children away their parents and temporarily placing them in foster care.
Clearly, they need to be with a family who's gonna care about their health and not just now because they need a quick meal instead of later in life, when the health problems really do catch up with you, Mandy said.
Bioethicist Dr. Doug Diekema with Seattle Children's Hospital said it's not that easy. There are a lot of things that parents don't have control over, including genetics and economics. He said it's easier to feed a family on cheaper, higher calorie foods and that sometimes the parents are doing the best they can.
Just because you put a child in a different place doesn't guarantee weight loss, said Diekema.
Furthermore, he says ripping a child from a loving home could have the reverse effect. They could become depressed and rely on food for comfort, resulting in weight gain. He says it's also not that easy forcing a child to exercise.
Try to make a 15-year-old exercise when they don't want to. It's not that easy, said Diekema.
Diekema said the emotional impact of ripping a child from a loving home has to be balanced against any medical benefits.
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Ivan Allen Jr., 92, Dies; Led Atlanta as Beacon of Change
Published: July 3, 2003
Ivan Allen Jr., who as mayor of Atlanta led racial integration efforts in the 1960's at a time when other Southern cities were erupting in violence, died yesterday in Atlanta. He was 92.
Mr. Allen, the grandson of a Confederate cavalryman, came from a wealthy and distinguished Georgia family and overcame his original segregationist beliefs. This personal transformation allowed him to lead Atlanta to integrate schools, its municipal work force and its businesses with such deftness that the city gained a national reputation for racial tolerance during his service as mayor, from 1962 to 1970.
''Over the turbulent waters of the 1960's, Ivan Allen was the human bridge from the old South to the new in Atlanta,'' said Gary M. Pomerantz, author of ''Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn'' (Scribner, 1996), which chronicles the Allen family history.
''Literally on his own back, he carried the city's white establishment to a more enlightened day,'' Mr. Pomerantz continued at the interview yesterday.
The trajectory of the journey of Mr. Allen and his city is suggested by the fact that in his first Democratic mayoral primary, his opponent was Lester Maddox, the segregationist who died last week. The second mayor to succeed him, only four years after he served, was Maynard H. Jackson Jr., the city's first black mayor, who received strong backing from blacks and whites alike. Mr. Jackson also died last week.
As Mr. Allen desegregated swimming pools and hired Atlanta's first black fireman, among many similar moves, he presented his actions as necessary to preserve the city's reputation for moderation. He told Mr. Pomerantz that ''business pragmatism'' was how he cast his racial message.
The surging 1960's Atlanta economy, reflected by the soaring atriums of the local architect John Portman, was the pleasant backdrop to Mr. Allen's two four-year terms. The mayor used the city's glossy image to attract professional baseball, football and basketball teams to the city.
But his friendship with prominent blacks, particularly the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., became an increasingly important part of his life. The dinner he held in 1964 to honor Dr. King for his Nobel Peace Prize, attended by the city's elite, was seen as a pivotal moment for race relations in the city.
Ivan Earnest Allen Jr. was born in Atlanta on March 15, 1911, and was the only son of the owner of a successful office-supply company. The older Mr. Allen served as a state senator.
Ivan Jr. joined the family company in 1933 after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and in 1936 began his public service by serving as a treasurer of the state's Housing Authority. In World War II, he served in the Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States.
In 1946, he became president of the family company, and its sales increased to $8 million from $1.3 million in five years. He found time in 1945 and 1946 to serve as executive assistant to Gov. Ellis Arnall, a political moderate.
In 1957 Mr. Allen ran for governor as a segregationist, but dropped out because of lack of support. He became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, which worked closely with William B. Hartsfield, mayor of Atlanta for 25 years, to smooth racial tensions and portray the city to outsiders as more progressive than the rest of the South.
In March 1961, as chamber president, Mr. Allen brokered an agreement between white merchants and black leaders for the desegregation of the city's lunch counters at the same time schools were to be integrated, starting in the fall.
Mr. Allen won almost all of the black votes in the mayoral election, enough to overcome Mr. Maddox's majority of white voters, Mr. Pomerantz said. In his first term, in December 1962, blacks and liberal whites criticized him for erecting a fence between a black and a white neighborhood, but he refused to back down until forced to do so by court order. Blacks also criticized his demolition of a black neighborhood to make way for a sports stadium.
That same December, an air crash in Paris killed 200 Atlanta cultural leaders. Mr. Allen flew to France to help identify bodies.
''This was my generation,'' he said. ''My friends.''
In 1963, Mr. Allen appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to testify in favor of the Kennedy administration's civil rights bill, the only major Southern politician to do so.
The mayor was swayed to speak in favor of the bill by a call from President John F. Kennedy, whom he admired so much that his office chairs were modeled after Kennedy's famous rocker.
''It will not only not defeat you, but it will help you get re-elected,'' Kennedy said of Mr. Allen's appearance.
Mr. Allen won a second term with majorities of voters of both races. In 1966, he walked into a racial riot in Atlanta's Summerhill section. He chatted with the rioters, even asking one for a cigarette. The policemen were wearing helmets, but he refused one.
''Cover up all this gray hair?'' he said.
After his second term, Mr. Allen returned to his business and many civic pursuits, including Boy Scouts. He is survived by his wife, Louise Richardson Allen, and two sons, Hugh Inman and Beaumont. His eldest son, Ivan III, died in 1992.
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Mortgage Fraud Sweep Nets Hundreds of Arrests
June 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM EST
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The Justice Department and the FBI announced hundreds of arrests Thursday for mortgage fraud, which is blamed for sparking a national credit crisis and nationwide housing crisis. An NPR correspondent and Columbia Law professor examine the government crackdown.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The government’s crackdown on mortgage fraud. Ray Suarez has our story.
RAY SUAREZ: It was just about a year ago when the collapse of two large hedge funds first alerted Wall Street and the broader public to a subprime meltdown already under way.
The failure of those Bear Stearns funds foreshadowed what was to come: hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed losses around the world; record foreclosures in a number of communities; a bailout of Bear Stearns; and the beginning of a larger credit crisis throughout the financial system.
Early this morning, the federal government indicted the two former hedge fund managers. And then, in the afternoon, it announced the separate arrests of hundreds of defendants connected with mortgage fraud.
For more on this, we turn to Dina Temple-Raston, who has been covering the indictments for NPR, and John Coffee, a professor of securities law at Columbia Law School.
Suspicions of widespread scamming
RAY SUAREZ: Dina Temple-Raston, first to that nationwide sweep called Operation Malicious Mortgage. Who are the defendants? And what does the government say they did?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, National Public Radio: Well, what they're looking at is there have been a number of mortgage fraud scams that have basically been going on for a couple of years now.
The latest scams are things called foreclosure rescue scams, in which someone who's about to lose their house, for example, would have someone come in and say, "I can be a consultant to you. I will help you get your credit OK'd. I will make sure that you don't lose your house. You need to pay me this sum of money and maybe temporarily sign over the title of your house."
This was happening all over the country. And it was very prevalent. And there were a lot of suspicious activity reports that went to the FBI, and the FBI started checking into this.
That's just one of many scams that they are seeing now that part of this sweep was meant to stop.
RAY SUAREZ: Professor Coffee, are mass arrests -- in this case, hundreds over the last several weeks -- common in a white-collar investigation from the FBI?
JOHN COFFEE, Columbia Law School: Not at all. And these aren't necessarily white-collar executives. They're more at the regional, local level.
I think all you see uniting these cases and the Bear Stearns case today is the common gravitational pull of the subprime mortgage crisis, which is certainly beginning to direct and orient federal prosecutorial behavior. It's now a priority.
RAY SUAREZ: Dina, you talked about that house-saving scam. Was there a large umbrella here? Are these defendants charged with a wide range of misdeeds involving people who were in subprime trouble?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, not even necessarily subprime trouble, maybe people who just got in a little over their heads.
For example, there were schemes in which they would try and take your home from you by signing your title away, or there were schemes in which they said they could get you a better mortgage rate, and then you would pay them money to go and do that, and then they would disappear.
There were schemes in which people would set up straw buyers, basically people who had a name and a good credit rating, and they would put their name on the mortgage papers to buy a house that they never intended to live in, wait for the price of the house to go up, and then flip the house. That was very common.
The reason why I was talking about foreclosure rescue scams is because now, with house prices actually falling, the scams you're seeing now have much more to do with what the current economic problems are for homeowners, which is foreclosure.
Charges of hypocritical advice
RAY SUAREZ: And, Dina, were the Bear Stearns arrests the fruit of a totally separate case and separate investigation?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON: No, I would actually go back to what Mr. Coffee said, which is these are all of a piece of one fabric, and that fabric being the subprime mortgage crisis.
I mean, the Bear Stearns guys were the sort of marquee names that they arrested today. I don't think it's any coincidence that they announced both these things on the same day. The morning starting with a perp walk of these two gentlemen, former hedge fund managers from Bear Stearns, and ended with some very high-profile press conferences, in which they said, "Mortgage fraud. Get the message: Mortgage fraud is something that that the FBI is going to start focusing on. And if you have any intention of doing these sorts of things, you should think twice or we're going to prosecute you."
This is really tough talk from the FBI director, Robert Mueller. I mean, he hates these kinds of big press conferences. He's actually known for scratching out the words "I want to announce" in his speeches because he wants to be more low-key. So they clearly wanted to send a message today.
RAY SUAREZ: But, Professor, in the case of the Bear Stearns execs, the nature of the accusations were very different, weren't they?
JOHN COFFEE: Oh, these cases are not factually or legally connected, but they are part of the same high drama, the same tapestry.
The case against the two Bear Stearns executives is essentially pivoting around the fact that they simultaneously told investors that there were, quote, "awesome buying opportunities out there" in March of 2007, while the founder of this fund, who was telling investors this, was bailing out himself and moving $2 million of his own money out of the fund.
That looks like hypocrisy, and I think you can present that to a jury. Without that key fact, I think prosecutors would have been nervous about trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an individual saw the subprime mortgage crisis as early as March 2007. But when you see him behaving like a hypocrite, that really resonates with a jury.
RAY SUAREZ: So, Professor, the government's case hinges on proving to a jury that these men knew things were bad with the funds they managed, even as they were telling them they were a good buy?
JOHN COFFEE: Exactly. Their behavior contradicts their defense. They knew it was bad, because they took their own money out, while they told others to put their money in.
Now, of course, the defendant will have a possible rebuttal. They may have left lots of their own money in these funds, and then they have other reasons by which they could show they were still committed to these funds.
But it's a fact that really sticks in a jury's craw when it looks like you're doing better than the people you owe a fiduciary duty to.
Case hinges on e-mails
RAY SUAREZ: Well, Dina, saying one thing and doing another, what's the government pointing to as evidence?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, they have quite a bit of circumstantial evidence. And a lot of this is e-mail going back and forth between people within Bear Stearns, where they were saying one thing to each other and saying quite another to investors.
The problem is, is that e-mails, when you read them out of context, look very bad. And when you read them in the context of things, they are less so. I mean, we write e-mails and say, "I feel some deal is toast," which is one of the expressions one of them used--Tannin used this--and you might feel that way on Monday, but you don't feel that way on Friday.
And at that time, the markets were very volatile. So it's possible that there were some mood swings going on, as well. And that might be why, say, if you wrote an e-mail like this on Monday, on Friday you wouldn't say to investors, "Hey, I think we're toast."
RAY SUAREZ: Well, Professor, how about that as a defense, saying, "Look, the market took a bad swing that afternoon, I was in a lousy mood, so on my personal e-mail account I sent a message to my colleagues saying, 'Boy, this looks bad'"?
JOHN COFFEE: I think that is a fair statement about e-mails. But I'll point out to you that Eliot Spitzer had e-mails against a securities analyst about five years ago today and none of those major investment banking firms ever dared to go to trial.
The evidence can be striking. These are words from the defendant's own mouth, and it's corroborated by their behavior. When you sell $2 million of your own money out of the fund, and deny that you've done that to investors, and tell them there are awesome opportunities, I think a jury that's already skeptical about the market right now will view that in the most skeptical light possible.
RAY SUAREZ: But, Professor, aren't these by their very nature risky investments? And when you invest, aren't you warned upfront that the value of things can go up and down, past performance is no guarantee of future returns, and on and on and on? Don't those indemnify managers?
JOHN COFFEE: Well, you're exactly correct that you know these were high-risk securities. But the charges in the indictment deal with very specific denials. They denied that anyone had redeemed their position in the fund, but they knew some of their largest investors had denied.
They told investors they had maintained their own stake in the funds, while they had moved their own stake out and it bailed out.
It's correct that you can look at e-mails different ways from different perspectives and that's what a good trial is about. But the behavior here and the statements point in a manner that's very adverse to these defendants. And it would not surprise me that we see one or more of them plea-bargained before trial.
Not as clear-cut as Enron
RAY SUAREZ: Well, Dina, the professor cited the Eliot Spitzer cases, prosecutions he brought while attorney general of New York. Do we have at the federal level a track record for the use of e-mails as evidence?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, I think it's very sketchy. Again, I think what's important about e-mails is that, in isolation, they look very bad and, in context, sometimes they look less bad.
Particularly now, I think, that e-mail, so many people use it, and people know they put things in e-mails that they wish they hadn't committed to electronic mail, I think that works to their advantage.
I would also just try to put a finer point on pulling their money out of the actual funds. And I've read the indictment and I've spoken to the defense attorneys. And what they are saying is that, in fact, while he did pull $2 million out of the fund and put it into another fund, $4 million of his dollars were still in that fund.
And if you were really trying to liquidate, say the same way Enron did, when you had Enron executives who were saying one thing to employees and investors, while quietly trying to sell as much as they could while the price was still good, that's not what happened here.
Cioffi, who is one of the two Bear Stearns men who was handling this fund, actually still had $4 million of his own money in there. He took a third of it out. Clearly, that's going to need explaining. But if he was really liquidating, wouldn't he have taken everything out?
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One of the ways we can protect our self-esteem and body image from the media's often narrow definitions of beauty and acceptability is to become a critical viewer of the media messages we are bombarded with each day. Media messages about body shape and size will affect the way we feel about our bodies and ourselves only if we let them. When we effectively recognize and analyze the media messages that influence us, we remember that the media's definitions of beauty and success do not have to define our self-image or potential.
Use your creative mind to view all media with a discriminating eye.
All media images and messages are constructions. They are not reflections of reality. Advertisements and other media messages have been carefully crafted with the intent to send a very specific message.
Advertisements are created to do one thing: convince you to buy or support a specific product or service.
Remember that you are only seeing what the advertisers want you to see. To convince you to buy a specific product or service, advertisers will often construct an emotional experience that looks like reality. Just because they think their approach will work with people like you doesn't mean it has to work with you as an individual.
As individuals, we decide how to experience the media messages we encounter. We can choose to use a filter that helps us understand what the advertiser wants us to think or believe, and then choose whether we want to think or believe that message. We can choose a filter that protects our self-esteem and body image.
Express yourself. Help promote healthier body image messages in the media.
When you see an ad or hear a message that makes you feel bad about yourself, your body, or others by promoting only thin, formulaic body ideals, talk back to the TV and the advertiser by writing a letter. It works, you can make a change.
Also write to advertisers who you think are sending positive, inspiring messages that recognize and celebrate the natural diversity of human body shapes and sizes. Compliment their courage to send positive, affirming messages.
Make a list of companies who consistently send negative body image messages and make a conscious effort to avoid buying their products. Write them a letter explaining why you are using your "buying power" to protest their messages. There is power in grass-roots movements. Take out the pages of your magazines that contain advertisements or articles that glorify thinness or degrade people of larger sizes. Enjoy your magazine without negative media messages about your body. If you want, send them back to the advertiser with a message: "Here, I don't want them."
Don't keep it to yourself. Talk to your friends about media messages and the way they make you feel.
Talking Back to the Media
If you believe you can't make a difference, read this story told by Joe Kelly. Executive Director of Dads and Daughters.
In November of 2000, the Campbell Soup Company launched a series of new ads for its television campaign. Joe Kelly saw the ad and decided he needed to do something about it.
The 30 second television spot featured nine year old girls, and boys. The boys offer soup to the girls, who decline saying, they can't accept, they're watching their weight. The boys reply, "Lots of Campbell's soups are low in calories!" The girls then hungrily ask for some, while the announcer adds: "Because over 30 savory Campbell's soups have under 100 calories or 3 grams of fat or less per serving. So you can feel full on fewer delicious calories!"
They're talking to pre-pubescent girls about managing their calorie intake!! With Campbell's soup, of all things -- an All-American family company. This is crazy! I saw the ad on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. Several of our members saw it and sent me e-mails saying, 'Have you seen this ad, it's crazy.'
Dads and Daughters wrote to the CEO of Campbell and asked them to think carefully about the message their corporation was sending with this ad. Joe and his colleagues found the ad additionally upsetting because of the time slot it occupied, and the show it was on.
Girls watch that every day... The message was that pre-pubescent girls, should be worrying about their weight; should be eating low fat food, low calorie food. That's the last thing kids that age should be thinking about. It's ridiculous. Their bodies haven't even begun to change, through puberty. Come on! What could they have been thinking?
Within a couple of days, the Vice President for Marketing and Corporate Communications for the company called Joe in his, as he describes it, "little two-person office in Po-dunk Duluth, Minnesota." The Vice President acknowledged he had received their letter, reviewed the ad again, saw their point, and was pulling the ad. Joe was heartened, "A multi-national company responding to a couple of guys writing a letter!"
This decision is a real victory for girls. So, just as DADs urged parents to demand that Campbell's pull the commercial, we now encourage parents to thank to the company.
When you are writing, father to father, I think it carries a special weight.
I think we as consumers have a lot more influence with corporations than we realize. Especially nowadays, when corporations are so competitive with one another, fighting so hard to get our attention, and have to be so flexible and responsive; just a few people, raising their voices, can make a huge difference.
Joe Kelly sees the broader implications of the response to his letter. He suspects that possibly his man-to-man approach carried more weight, and wonders, had a women's organization written the letter, might they not be written-off as complaining feminists. He finds this upsetting in general, but more so on his daughters' behalf.
My kids shouldn't have to suffer because we continue to let our culture get away with narrowing our notions of what it means to be male, and what it means to be female... I'm going to use the influence I have to try to make this into a world where my daughters are no longer taken less seriously just because they are daughters.
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Lady vanity!
Why thy heart love, but thy lips lie,
From what the god had bestow;
When thy though seem to die,
From the creation of love below;
My bosom still revere thee,
Even though thou are lady vanity.
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* German court suspends trial until payment received
* Ecclestone was accused of bribery over company sale
* Risked losing control of Formula One if found guilty
* German law allows for cases to be terminated
By Jörn Poltz
MUNICH, Germany, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday halted a bribery trial against Bernie Ecclestone in exchange for his paying a $100 million fee, under the terms of a settlement agreed by prosecutors and the chief executive of Formula One.
Such an agreement is possible in German law, depending on the charges. It means the 83-year-old Ecclestone preserves his innocence and is spared the prospect of a lengthy trial.
Judge Peter Noll told the court the suspicion of bribery against Ecclestone could not, by and large, be backed up in a trial. He gave Ecclestone one week to pay $100 million - $99 million to the state and $1 million to a children's charity.
"The trial is temporarily suspended until you've honoured your commitments and then it'll be permanently discontinued," Noll said. "If you don't honour your commitments, we'll continue the trial. I assume we'll only ever see each other again on TV."
Ecclestone, 83, replied in English: "Thank you very much. I will honour my commitment."
Ecclestone went on trial in April over allegations he paid a $44 million bribe to a former German banker to facilitate the sale of a major stake in the motor sport business eight years ago.
Ecclestone, a former used car salesman who became a billionaire by building the sport into a global money spinner over the past four decades, denied any wrongdoing.
The state prosecutor told the court earlier on Tuesday that due to Ecclestone's "advanced age" and "other extenuating circumstances", they supported the proposed settlement.
"The charges could not, in important areas, be substantiated," Judge Noll said. He added that any other charges against Ecclestone that remained were not so serious as to warrant the continuation of the trial.
Ecclestone's lawyers applauded the settlement after the court heard more than 100 hours of testimony. "A conviction of Mr. Ecclestone could not be expected with any likelihood," his lawyers said in a joint statement.
They also dismissed the suggestion that Ecclestone had bought his way out of the trial.
"Through this abandonment, the presumption of innocence in favour of Mr. Ecclestone remains intact ... The monetary compensation is geared to his income and financial situation."
Private equity group CVC, the largest shareholder in Formula One with a stake of 35 percent, has said it would have fired Ecclestone if he were found guilty.
The state prosecutor added that during the course of the trial it was becoming increasingly clear that the bribery charges would be difficult to prove.
If he had been found guilty, the British billionaire could have faced up to 10 years in jail, although a prison term would have been unlikely.
Under German law, judges, prosecutors and the defence can agree to dismiss a case or settle it with a light punishment, although terms for such an agreement are strictly defined.
A spokeswoman for the Munich court, Andrea Titz, said a settlement did not mean there was an admission of guilt.
"With this type of ending ... there is no ruling on guilt or innocence of the defendant," she told reporters. "He is neither acquitted nor judged - rather this is a special type of ending a procedure which is in theory available to all types of cases."
Ecclestone is accused of channeling cash to jailed BayernLB banker Gerhard Gribkowsky to smooth the sale of a major stake in the business by the bank to private equity fund CVC, which became the largest shareholder in Formula One in 2006.
Ecclestone was accompanied at the trial his wife, Fabiana Flosi, who watched from the spectator section of the court.
Despite his age, Ecclestone attends almost every Grand Prix and remains central to the sport's commercial success. He has always dismissed talk of retirement and has no obvious replacement ready to take over when he does finally quit or get forced out.
The German law is intended to ease the burden on courts of hearing relatively minor cases and to spare first-time offenders a criminal record. The sums agreed under the settlement are often paid to the state or charity organisations.
According to German broadcaster ARD, the procedure was used by ex-chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2001 to end a trial for accepting illegal party donations and by ex-defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to prevent charges of copyright infringement in his dissertation. Former cyclist Jan Ullrich also paid to halt a German investigation into doping charges. (Reporting by Joern Poltz; Writing by Erik Kirschbaum, Alexandra Hudson and Kirsti Knolle; Editing by Crispian Balmer, Larry King) | http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/05/germany-ecclestone-trial-update-3-pix-tv-idUSL6N0QB48820140805?feedType=RSS | dclm-gs1-253620000 |
0.020376 | <urn:uuid:9c6a051d-a957-4d24-aca5-072777aa2ed4> | en | 0.968601 | Obama's New Reverend Wright
He may not be as controversial as Jeremiah Wright, but Skip Gates has become Obama’s latest racially polarizing friend. Adam Hanft rereads Professor Gates’ analysis of the Wright controversy through the lens of the professor’s arrest.
Read other takes on Gates' arrest from Daily Beast writers.
Memory can heal and haunt. All of us are the manufactured sums of the tribal stories we’ve absorbed, that were handed down to us as implacable lessons, and that we overheard as children, tracking the whispers of anxious adults in the night. Barack Obama is. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is. Benjamin Netanyahu is. You and I are.
When Gates saw the cop enter his house, he suddenly became a proxy for history.
That’s the teaching moment of the Gates incident. His emotional explosion was, I think, less about the immediate incident and the behavior of that particular cop. It feels to me like a very personal reaction to a long history of police terrorism of black Americans, resulting in an eruption that appears to be disproportionate to the circumstances.
In that sense, Gates’ reaction struck me as literary and historical, a mis en scene that could have come straight from a Mamet play or, going back earlier, a moment of concentrated emotional intensity from Odets and his compadres in the Group Theater.
Were it actual theater, in fact, a reviewer assessing the performance might write that when Gates saw the cop enter his house he suddenly became a proxy for history. He was the embodiment of—and revenge vessel for—all those helpless and demeaned black Americans bullied and abused by racist authority figures. And he reacted as the heir of great pain. The cop was merely objectified at that point. We can’t escape the whispers. Art Spiegelman often says that his father told him to stop drawing and learn how to pack a suitcase.
When we react both as individuals and as inheritors, the context suffers, overwhelmed by what we bring to it. That’s not the teaching moment Obama had in mind, though. The heuristic opportunity he was talking about is a PBS narrative, a national lesson about racial profiling, the lingering stain of racism, and how America still has work to do. And yes, those are real dimensions of our culture that must be dealt with.
But the deeper issue is how our tribal baggage defines us. That was a big part of Obama’s now-famous Philadelphia speech. What he said then about Reverend Wright is, in some Möbius-strip irony, applicable to Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is nine years older than Wright:
It’s not easy—and some would argue passionately, not always desirable—to put sufficient distance between ourselves, history, and the world of now to look at a set of circumstances with objectivity.
Obama failed to do that; when he said that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly,” he was doing exactly what he criticized Reverend Wright for. He defaulted to the stereotype of the racist cop. Obama said that Wright “…spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country…is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.”
Later, when the president said should have “calibrated” his remarks differently, he was really saying that he shouldn’t have said what he was feeling deep inside. Which makes this a teaching moment for him, personally, as much as for the rest of us.
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0.044847 | <urn:uuid:cc02e857-6874-46f1-9bb0-4616d9b22b3d> | en | 0.964174 | A close shave
Sweeney Todd has it all: love songs, cannibalism, a murderous barber. Is it just a surreal comedy - or was Sondheim telling his own dark story? By Michael Billington
Lyric Opera Chicago's staging of Sweeney Todd
Cutting edge: the Lyric Opera Chicago's staging of Sweeney Todd. Photo: Robert Kusel Lyric Opera Chicago
It is a long way, geographically and aesthetically, from the rackety Theatre Royal Stratford East to the Royal Opera House. But if, 30 years ago, Stephen Sondheim had not dropped in to see Christopher Bond's ghoulish melodrama, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, at Joan Littlewood's old stamping ground, he would never have been inspired to write the "musical thriller" that comes to Covent Garden this month.
The extraordinary journey the work has undergone raises many questions. Is it opera or musical? Epic spectacle or chamber piece? And where exactly does it belong in the expansive Sondheim canon?
I remember being blown away by the work when I first saw it at New York's cavernous, 1,700-seat Uris Theatre in 1979. Yet it seemed a strange anachronism in a Broadway dominated by musicals like Annie, Ain't Misbehavin' and Bob Fosse's Dancin'.
Here was a show that, in the heartland of capitalism, attacked greed, rapacity and exploitation. Its hero was no sympathetic smoothie, but a vengeful barber turned serial killer. And, musically, it seemed a sophisticated amalgam of Bernard Herrmann, Benjamin Britten and the Dies Irae. Indeed, on the first night Harold Clurman, the doyen of American theatre critics, rushed up to Schuyler G Chapin, former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, demanding to know why he had not put it on at the Met. To which Chapin replied: "I would have put it on like a shot if I'd had the opportunity. There would have been screams and yells but I wouldn't have given a damn. Because it is an opera. A modern American opera."
Although it has since been staged by opera houses all over the world from Helsinki to Chicago - whence Neil Armfield's production for Covent Garden derives - it strikes me as one of those transgressive works that makes nonsense of existing categories. In that sense, it is like Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera: it changes its colours depending on the context in which it is staged.
You can stage it as a big Broadway musical, as Hal Prince proved in 1979. But it's significant that Prince told Sondheim, "You'll lose some of the scary part but you'll gain size," which turned out to be true.
Some of the story's lamplit horror was sacrificed to an epic vision of industrial England, symbolised by the iron foundry, complete with rusted beams and grimy glass panes, which designer Eugene Lee shipped on to the Uris stage. It was massive but overwhelming and prompted the English actor, Keith Baxter, to remark: "You can see many things from Fleet Street but the Manchester Ship Canal isn't one of them."
The challenge for any director is to find the appropriate style. If you do it as a musi cal, you need to retain its smoky intimacy. If you stage it in the opera house, you have to ensure you don't lose its Brechtian savagery.
But the best production I've so far seen was Declan Donnellan's at the National's Cottesloe Theatre in 1993. A nine-piece band ensured that every word of Sondheim's lyrics was crisply audible. The chorus was on stage throughout, laying supportive hands on Alun Armstrong's manic Sweeney as if he were a mythic hero. And Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lovett, who helps Sweeney turn his tonsorial victims into meat pies, went about her task with the practicality of a Victorian Delia Smith.
With Thomas Allen and Felicity Palmer as Sweeney and Mrs Lovett, Armfield has two great actor-singers at his disposal. The test for Armfield, Australia's best director, who has also done a fine Billy Budd for Welsh National Opera, will lie in entwining the work's masterly mix of black comedy and sombre tragedy.
For a masterpiece Sweeney Todd undoubtedly is. And, in trying to work out why it stands supreme in the Sondheim canon, I was struck by a tiny incident that Meryle Secrest describes in her excellent life of the composer.
Apparently, it is Sondheim's custom to play songs from a work in progress to Judy Prince, wife of his long-time collaborator Hal. Thinking Sweeney Todd was going to be a murder mystery, she was somewhat reluctant, but when she heard the first few bars she was knocked sideways. According to Sondheim, she cried: "Oh God, I didn't know this was what it was about. It's nothing to do with Grand Guignol. It's the story of your life."
This may seem a strange remark to make about a show dealing with a crazed Victorian serial killer. But Prince hit, I suspect, on a profound truth: above all, this is a work about destructive obsession and seems to spring from some dark, expressive need in Sondheim himself.
I hardly know the man but, according to Secrest's biography, he is - or at least was - emotionally reclusive, slightly "scary" (even to his best friends) and known to bear grudges. This is not to say that Sondheim is Sweeney; but only a fiercely driven individual could have so convincingly created a hero who misanthropically argues that "We all deserve to die" and "The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat."
Only in Company, which deals with a Manhattan bachelor terrified of emotional commitment, and the more recent Passion do I get a similar sense of personal revelation. In all his other musicals Sondheim, to use a distinction made famous by Isaiah Berlin, is more fox than hedgehog: he knows many things rather than one big thing.
It was once said of him: "Every time Stephen Sondheim writes a new score Broadway gets rebuilt." And, over the years, he has shown that he can write kabuki pastiche (Pacific Overtures), ironic Ziegfeld spectacular (Follies), dark Grimm fairy tale (Into the Woods) and acrid historical revue (Assassins).
Sweeney Todd stands apart in its portrait of a tragic hero driven to destruction by existing inside his own glass bubble: "Back of his smile, under his word, Sweeney heard music that nobody heard." Just like a composer, in fact.
What makes the opera aesthetically pleasurable, however, is the creative friction between words and music - Sondheim's particular trademark. The most emotionally intense love song in the piece is the rapturous hymn delivered by Sweeney to his precious cut-throat razors.
And when Sweeney and Mrs Lovett seal their cannibalistic pact in a song entitled A Little Priest, they do so in rousing three-four waltz time. Eating people may be wrong, but the grisly prospect of "some shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top" is alleviated by the gaiety of the tune. It's as if the murderous obsession of Vendice in Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy had been set to music by Johann Strauss.
How this will work at Covent Garden remains to be seen. But what one hopes is that the arrival of Sondheim alongside Donizetti, Offenbach, Adès and Verdi will not be the occasion for an outbreak of musical snobbery. This is not a case of Broadway invading the temple of high art; it is more a matter of a complex musical tragedy finding an appropriate home and proving that the road from Stratford-atte-Bowe to Covent Garden, while a long one, is also surprisingly direct.
· Sweeney Todd is in rep at the Royal Opera House, London WC2, from December 15 until January 14. Box office: 020-7304 4000. | http://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/05/classicalmusicandopera1 | dclm-gs1-253910000 |
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Reading chief Nicky Hammond has revealed they haven't given up hope of convincing Nicky Shorey and Leroy Lita to pen new contracts.
He told the Reading Evening Chronicle: "Leroy and Nicky are keeping their options open and I can understand that to a certain degree.
"But my priority is to move the conversation forward and get them to commit to us.
"There's a week before the window closes so it's understandable they won't commit at this time. And who's to say they will in the future? We just don't know.
"But it's certainly our intention to convince them to stay as we continue to move forward as a club."
And Hammond added: "We don't comment on speculation, but I can stress we haven't had anything official through, other than the normal conversations you have in the course of everyday business.
"But the important thing for us is to move discussions forward. It's up to us to convince them of the merits of staying here."
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Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is a persistent organochlorine pesticide[1].
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DDT, like other organochlorine pesticides enter the marine environment mainly through inputs from water and air, as a result of their use in agriculture. Although the use of DDT in Western countries has been forbidden since the 1970's, they are still detected in the marine environment due to it's extreme stability (half-life of 15 years), to illegal use or to use elsewhere (third world countries). DDT is metabolised into dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) which is equally toxic. Therefore, to asses the risk of DDT exposure, the sum both contaminants needs to be taken into account. This also means that when you encounter a high percentage of DDT, the contamination must be a recent one.[2].
DDT affects the central nervous system of insects and other animals. This results in hyperactivity, paralysis and death. DDT also affects eggshell production in birds and the endocrine system of most animals. [3]
DDT has a very high tenancy towards biomagnification. When in a simple ecosystem the background concentration is equal to 1, then zooplankton can accumulate concentrations of 13.000, small fish species concentrations of 170.000, large fishes up to 670.000 and finally birds will accumulate concentrations up to 8.300.000. [4] DDT has been found in all marine ecosystems, including the Antarctic and the deep sea. It can be found in all components of the marine food web.
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1. Lawrence E (ed.), 2000. Henderson’s Dictionary of Biological Terms. 12th edition. Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Limited. Harlow, Great Britain.
2. OSPAR Commission 2000. Quality Status Report 2000, OSPAR Commission, London
3. ↑ Kennish, M. J. (1996): Practical Handbook of Estuarine and Marine Pollution, CRC Press 524 pp
4. Janssen, C. (2008). Wat is giftig en wat niet, de zee onder de loep. Het Laboratorium voor Milieutoxicologie en Aquatische Ecologie, in: Goffin, A. et al. (Ed.) (2008). UGent aan Zee. pp. 54-61 | http://www.vliz.be/v/index.php?title=DDT&oldid=34817 | dclm-gs1-254090000 |
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Late Complications of Head and Neck Radiation
Late oral complications of radiation therapy are chiefly a result of chronic injury to vasculature, salivary glands, mucosa, connective tissue, and bone.[1,2,3,4] The types and severity of these changes are directly related to radiation dosimetry, including total dose, fraction size, and duration of treatment.
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Mucosal lesions include epithelial atrophy, reduced vascularization, and submucosal fibrosis. These changes lead to an atrophic, friable barrier. Fibrosis involving muscle, dermis, and the temporomandibular joint results in compromised oral function. Salivary tissue changes include loss of acinar cells, alteration in duct epithelium, fibrosis, and fatty degeneration. Compromised vascularization and remodeling capacity of bone leads to risk of osteonecrosis.
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Ionizing radiation to salivary glands results in inflammatory and degenerative effects on salivary gland parenchyma, especially serous acinar cells. The early salivary gland tissue response to irradiation results in decreased salivary flow rates within the first week of treatment, and xerostomia (the subjective feeling of oral dryness) becomes apparent when doses exceed 10 Gy.
The degree of dysfunction is related to the radiation dose and volume of glandular tissue in the radiation field. Doses larger than 54 Gy are generally considered to induce irreversible dysfunction. Serous parotid glands may be more susceptible to radiation effects than are nonserous submandibular, sublingual, and minor salivary gland tissues. Management strategies described for late salivary gland complications are generally applicable to the acute complications in the head/neck radiation patient. (Refer to the Oral and dental management of the xerostomic patient section of this summary for more information.)
Salivary gland hypofunction (decreased salivary gland secretion) and xerostomia are among the most frequent and severe long-term side effects of radiation therapy to the head and neck region. The adverse effects will have a significant impact on a patient's quality of life in a lifelong perspective after radiation treatment.[5]
Xerostomia is caused by salivary gland hypofunction. Saliva is necessary for the normal execution of oral functions such as taste, swallowing, and speech. Unstimulated whole salivary flow rates lower than 0.1 mL per minute are considered pathologic low (normal salivary flow rate = 0.3–0.5 mL/min).[6]
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Four drivers had to be rescued. Two walked out with the help of Richland Hills fire fighters. The other two required swift water rescues performed by Haltom City fire fighters in rubber boats.
One trapped motorist called 911 three times.
The first was so garbled, the operator could barely get an address. In the second call, the man is getting worried. Water is rushing over his hood.
Caller: I don't know if I can get out of my car, because there's so much water out there.
Operator: Just stay where you're at. They'll be there as quick as they can.
The third call comes 20 minutes after the first, as Haltom City fire fighters are tying off and launching a boat into the rushing water.
Caller: It's Robert Jeffress again. The water is up to my chest. I'm freezing to death out here.
Operator: They're coming as quick as they can.
Caller: Okay. I'm going to drown here in a little bit.
He tells the operator he can see the emergency lights close by. But swift water rescues must seem like anything but swift to a freezing man who's starting to wonder whether he'll get out alive.
Fire fighters say such rescues are not instant or easy.
Number-one risky situation you can put you people in, said Haltom City Deputy Fire Chief Fred Napp.
Napp also assisted in one rescue Wednesday morning when he came across another trapped motorist.
Some drivers hit the water before barricades went up, but officials say some motorists were ticketed for driving around barricades into high water.
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1963 250 GTO racer acquired by private buyer for $52 million
POSTED: 09:51 AM EST Dec 24, 2013 UPDATED: 10:13 AM EDT Oct 04, 2013
1963 Ferrari 250 GTO
A 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO racer has become the most expensive car ever sold.
The red competition car, formerly owned by Connecticut collector Paul Pappalardo, was recently acquired by an unidentified buyer for $52 million, according to Bloomberg.
The previous record was held by a 1962 GTO, built for legendary British racer Sir Stirling Moss, which sold last year for $35 million.
The 1963 race car was acquired by Pappalardo in 1974, restored and driven in many historic races, including the 2002 Le Mans Classic, before being sold, Bloomberg reported.
It won the 1963 Tour de France road race with the French driver Jean Guichet at the wheel.
So what makes the 250 GTO so great?
First, there are just 39 in existence. Add in its heritage of racing in competitions like the Le Mans, and the 250 GTO has become somewhat of a status symbol, according to Yahoo! News. | http://www.wsbt.com/news/nationworld/ferrari-gto-is-most-expensive-car-ever-sold/22274864?view=print | dclm-gs1-254170000 |
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. the positive side, again, hurricane sandy appears not to have been the job killer many had feared. the labor department says the havoc wrought by sandy had no substantial impact on the unemployment picture. with us now, jill schlessinger, editor at la w manyre the jobs aart me ,ow m t are seasonal jobs? >> not so many seasonal. we saw some broad based gains and we continue to see some really robust gains in retail, in business services, health care is really continuing to show great improvement. you mentioned manufacturing. mentioned one other area, 20,000 jobs lost in construction. that may be a little bit of sandy related. >> but also, one of the interesting things, you looked at the numbers and said there was 300,000 people that said weather did affect the job surge. why is that not considered sandy related? >> it is weird because there are two different surveys when you look at these jobs numbers. one comes from the businesses. the businesses, they take that survey, november 12th, and the businesses are for the job creation number. the other survey is called a household survey. that's h
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before. remember, we had big jobless claims reports for a few weeks in a row because of hurricane sandy, superstorm sandy. it looks like those are coming down again. the big jobs report will be tomorrow, which will give us the real gauge of what's happen iin here. they expect only 77,000 jobs added. and the unemployment rate, they think, will tick back up to 8%. 77,000. why? because of superstorm sandy. you didn't have hiring, people getting jobs in the northeast because during that time the last month or so. >> jack welch right now, they went up after the election. >> those chicago people. >>> all morning we've been following major developments in both syria, in egypt and syria there are new fears that they could unleash nerve gas on some of the rebels. that's a report from nbc news, that syria is loading the component chemicals. cnn has not confirmed that report yet. egypt, protoasters have started to gather outside the presidential palace in cairo. lots of anger building after the new president gave himself extra powers. the protests were very violent last night. the clashes killed a
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not only because of the election, maybe firms sitting on their hands but superstorm sandy. still, guys, the number much better than expected. few tuesday, which were down right before the numbers hit, turned around. they are now higher fractionally so a big turn for stock futures and better than expected jobs number for november. i can dig in more once i get to the website. but those are your headline numbers. better than expected. >> gillian, better than expected. a lot of people blamed hurricane sandy again but that's encouraging. >> i have two economists, a liberal, who both said it was going to be somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 jobs -- say that go sandy was worth 80 -- negatively 80,000 to 100,000. you take 146,000 and this could have been a 200-plus number. >> it's interesting because it ties in with consumer data we've been seeing which actually, you know, is not great. it's not buoyant, but it's not bad. and you look at the fact what american households have been doing recently with debt and the degree of debt they've been repaying, sort of deleveraging. you add it togethe
of superstorm sandy got so heat that had we had to share it with you. >> you think it's a joke. you really think it's a joke. you go home for the holidays, i don't! but you sit there. >> our affiliate wabc captured a very tense scene as you see it there. this was on thursday night as more than 700 people angry about the slow pace of the recovery efforts sought answers from fema representatives about when they could expect relief. some residents reportedly walked out of the meeting while fema officials talked about how to register for assistance. >>> can you imagine the frustration there? >>> women at war, many are barred from parts of the military, now some are going to court for their right to fight. we'll talk with one service woman about her own struggles in the military. who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.
what kind of impact sandy had on those numbers and maybe fiscal cliff holding some employers back tomorrow. >> so bad news? >> we'll see. >> for now we all know the siren mogul. >> but the ceo, howard schultz, some sobering advice to offer on the looming fiscal cliff. the consequences will be worse than last area's debt ceiling fight, when the u.s. credit rating was downgraded for the first time ever. his message to lawmakers, now is not the time to play politics. you've got to do the right thing for the american people. >> i think if people would get in the room and leave their ego behind and not be so skewed towards the party, but be so sensitive to the lens to have the american people, we will have an agreement. >> poppy harlow joins us now with more of her conversation with howard schultz. much of the conversation has been about, you know, what's the best thing to do for this country, but it's a globe -- he says the whole world is watching. >> yeah, that it has massive consequences for the entire world. but you want to ask someone like howard schultz who runs a big global comp
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From a recent post:
I've been using two 'Great' olive oils lately.
One is the 'house' olive oil from Alex Farm, which they import from Greece by the barrel. Following is the description on their website: "This extra virgin olive oil is stone pressed, giving it a thick full olive flavour complimented by a slight bitterness in the finish; a sign of pure oil". Alex Farm sells two kinds: one that starts with a K and the other with an M. I can't remember the names. I use the one with a K; it is the stronger, more flavourful of the two.
The other one, which also comes in bulk, is in the basement of St. Lawrence Market (the place at the northwest of the basement). They bring in barrels and sell one litre plastic jugs for about 10 bucks. Also great stuff.
Anyone have other suggestions for great olive oils?
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1. I purchase olive oil exclusively from Pusateri's. They have an incredible selection. They also have a woman who will help make the love match for you depending on the style you want. PLUS you can taste test many of the oils available. You'll pay dearly, but it's the one thing that makes going to Pusateri's truly worth it.
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that and the abundant parking (not!)
2. Check out www.myolivetrees.com. These folks are in Kitchener and import barrels of certified organic, single estate olive oils from Greece and label/sell them under the "Ralo" brand. Amazing stuff! I got a large bottle from my Mother-In-Law as a gift and now it's all I buy.
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I just checked out the website. Looks like great stuff. I'll try to pick some up at St. Lawrence Market in the morning. Their website says that it is sold at 'A Bisket A Basket", the jam place in the basement.
2. We also get the "K" oil from Alex Farms, and love it. It's fruity and peppery, and a steal at that price.
1. How about two great suggestions. There are olive oils that I have never seen anywhere else. You will find much more than olive oil. Bring a lot of money, you'll be glad you did.
The Olive Pit
805 Queen West
Boncheff Greenhouses
382 Olivewood Road
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The people at the Olive Pit are as knowledgeable as anyone else in Toronto. I'd go there over Pusateri's - but prices are similar!!
And I think they are the only retail outlet in North America for Manni olive oil (if you don't know it, you can't afford it - it's specifically mentioned as being in dishes at the Fat Duck and other top restaurants).
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The Ralo olive oil I referred to earlier IS available at the Olive Pit BTW.
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Hi all,
I am finishing up a 7 month stint in France (have been living and teaching in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region) and am wondering what I should attempt to bring back with me. I want to start a well stocked bar in my apartment when I get back to the USA and am wondering what distinctly French liqueurs I should bring back- specifically things that are either hard to find or more expensive in the US. I have browsed the site and seen some suggestions such as Amer Picon, Benedictine, St Germain, Chartreuse, Creme de violette and cassis but am looking for other input.
Thank you!
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1. The Chartreuse monks have come up with a new Chartreuses liqueur that has a fantastic bouquet and great taste.
I get it at my downstairs neighbor, le Comptoir des Abbayes, here in Paris.
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Can someone point me to a place where I can find more information regarding Karl Marx's theory of making your victims your enemy (to summarize), the theory Palahniuk integrated into his book [I]Lullaby[/I]. I am writing a research paper on [I]Lullaby[/I] and Marx's theory, but am having difficulty finding where Marx talk's about this theory himself.
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Some people seem to be justifying the way mobile networks try to discriminate against tethering. One comment even suggests that multiple devices is a valid justification. Really? Isn't it just as simple as measuring the actual volume of megabytes used, regardless of how many devices are connected?
Lets consider a couple of analogies:
• A petrol station puts some fine print at the bottom of their sign in the street: cars with passengers pay an extra 0.05 per litre (or gallon). It is just a gimmick: the marketing man has worked out that he can put a lower price on his big sign this way and people with passengers may well be splitting the fuel bill between them. There is no technical reason for the charge however - the car actually uses more fuel carrying the extra weight anyway.
• Or imagine this: the marketing man puts up small print that advises a higher charge of 0.05 per litre for fuelling an exotic car like a Ferrari. The only reason for this, of course, is that the Ferrari driver is probably busy (so he doesn't have time to shop around) and wealthy (so the extra charge won't deter him from making any purchase at all, because he has money to pay it).
Of course, these ideas sound a bit outlandish but the only difference between these crazy ideas and tethering charges is that mobile phone networks usually have the monopoly/duopoly to get away with it.
Mobile networks actually dread the idea of becoming commodities like fuel. They thrive on price discrimination and they seem to have an endless number of tricks to get extra money out of people who may have it by deliberately crippling parts of the service for everybody else. This goes against the ideals of innovation and efficiency and in the most extreme cases their practices are widely recognised for the sham that they are.
Revealing that you have connected a laptop to your phone may be like revealing you live in an affluent area or that you have an expensive car. Plenty of businesses try to exploit such knowledge when deciding how much they can charge you or other aspects of how they provide you with a service. This is why privacy is important in every feature of the technology we use.
This rogue behaviour by "creative" marketing men also helps to understand just what would happen in the world of technology if it wasn't for the use of free licenses, open standards, accessible encryption and net neutrality.
We dislike being ripped off, but then, we individuals do not have the power to stop the practice.
Can you please post your blog to slasdot (www.slashdot.com) This website will reach a large international group of users.
It does in some ways cost the provider more to support multiple devices. Remember this is wireless communication, which means everything is effectively on a bus, and there's significant effort involved in coordinating the devices that are connected. If you think of it in terms of hub-era ethernet, two clients transmitting 5mb/s are going to generate more total traffic than one client generating 10mb/s, because they'll spend some portion of their time talking over oneanother and then transmitting jamming noise, effectively occupying the bus with garbage.
Cell networks coordinate in a more efficient way, but there are still analogues to the problem.
This is irrelevant to tethering. Your phone aggregates the traffic generated by something else and as far as the wireless connection is concerned, there's no difference.
When I buy fuel, I expect to buy it on the basis of its energy content. How I use it is none of the petroco's business. Price discrimination on the basis of use is just wrong. Same with data. Joules is joules, bytes is bytes.
Again, the government does this all of the time. Some fuels are untaxed and intended for off-road use only, typically dyed a certain color to indicate such usage.
is Verizon's insistence on charging users of Good email an extra charge. My boss recently had to shut hers off and start trialing an ActiveSync solution, because she was on a family plan that would not allow Good at all, and switching up along with the Good fee would have cost her an extra $45 per month!
She's still getting work email, but now they don't know and they have yet another pissed off customer on their hands.
Actually your second example is quite common, its just not paid at the pump. Many jurisdictions subject fuel inefficient cars (mainly sport and big luxury) to additional taxation. So you do pay a tax for your choice, just not a per-usage tax.
While there is no question that mobile network operators' tethering charges are little more than profit mongering, there's also little question that they have some valid reasons to deter such behavior. Traditional computers use more data. Bandwidth is a precious and shared commodity. Then again, I've certainly had far more bandwidth problems from the guy next to me using YouTube on his phone than the guy next to me has using mobile broadband (which has never happened)
Some people in the comments of this and of the previous post seem to justify the discrimination against tethering by equating it with high bandwidth usage.
However, you are wrong: If the problem is bandwidth hogging, then a) you should know that you can watch Youtube or download torrents also from a mobile device, no tethering required, and b) if the issue is bandwidth hogging, then they should discriminate directly against that, rather than assuming that anyone who tethers is going to use lots of bandwidth. Not to mention the fact that, as Daniel has already written, 1 byte = 1 byte. This is a net neutrality issue! | http://danielpocock.com/tethering-and-petrol-charges | dclm-gs1-254560000 |
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Plus Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH
Former type GmbH
Industry Food retailing
Founded 1972 (1972)
Defunct 2009 (2009)
Headquarters Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Key people Michael Hürter
Revenue 10 bn (2006)[1]
Plus was a German-based international supermarket chain founded in 1972. It operated 2,840 stores in Germany with an approximate 27,000 employees and about 1,200 stores in several other European countries.
The Edeka Group and the Tengelmann Group entered a joint venture to acquire the Plus supermarket chain on November 16, 2007, which resulted in 70% of Plus supermarkets being owned by the Edeka Group and 30% owned by the Tengelmann Group.
As of January 2009, the stores in the Plus supermarket chain owned by the Edeka group were remodelled into Netto Marken-Discount supermarket chain branches, while the Tengelmannn Group's supermarkets were bought by Lidl, Spar, Carrefour, etc.
In the Netherlands, there is an unrelated supermarket chain called PLUS which is part of the Sperwer Group.
Former operations[edit]
Country First supermarket Number of supermarkets
Germany Germany 1972 2840
Austria Austria 2003 3551
Spain Spain (all Spanish stores were bought by Dia) 1994 238
Portugal Portugal (all Portuguese stores were bought by Jerónimo Martins group) 2003 75
Poland Poland (all Polish stores were bought by Jerónimo Martins) 1995 183
Czech Republic Czech Republic (all Czech stores were bought by REWE) 1992 134
Romania Romania (all Romanian stores were bought by Lidl) 2005 120
Bulgaria Bulgaria (all Bulgarian stores were bought by Lidl) 2009 25 (200 planned)
Hungary Hungary (all Hungarian stores were bought by Spar) 1992 174
United States United States (all US stores were operated by A&P. Closed by 1982.) 1980 21
Greece Greece (all Greek stores were bought by AB Vasilopoulos) 2006 10
1 including the projected number of stores being planned
1. ^ "Keine Tabus". WirtschaftsWoche (10). March 5, 2007. p. 58.
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Do you want a small, portable projector that can stream a near-endless supply of movies and TV shows onto any surface with no extra hardware? Of course you do! Which makes 3M's Roku-streaming projector such a welcome concept—and such a let down.
What Is It?
A palm-sized projector with a built-in Roku stick for streaming movies and TV shows through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and others.
Who's it For?
Movie-watchers on the go. People with big walls.
It's a little projector (4.3 x 4.2 x 2.0 inches) that weighs only a pound. It can run off a rechargeable battery or a DC adaptor, it has built in speakers, a remote control, and an audio out. Looks a little like someone chopped off Wall-E's girlfriend's head and smushed it flatter.
Using It
It's pretty intuitive, especially if you've used a Roku before. You just turn it on, find a Wi-Fi network, sign in to your channels, and use the provided remote to access and navigate through your content. There's a small focus dial for keeping your video sharp, and the unit can supposedly project as large as 120 inches.
The Best Part
It's even smaller that it looks. You could toss it in a jacket pocket, take it to a friends house, and be watching movies in minutes.
Tragic Flaw
Hard to pick one, but I'm going to go with the keystoning problem. If you're projecting at any kind of angle (which you usually will be) your frame isn't going to be perfectly rectangular—it'll be a trapezoid. Most projectors have a way to compensate for keystoning, not this one.
This Is Weird...
Why not include another input? If it could connect to your computer so you could use it for presentations at least it wouldn't be a one-trick pony, and way more people would have an excuse to buy it. UPDATE: You can remove the stick and connect another device via HDMI.
Test Notes
• The resolution is a long way from HD. It's WVGA, coming in at roughly 854×480 pixels. Pretty low by today's standards.
• The built-in speakers are really bad. If there's any kind of ambient noise, you probably won't hear anything. If you attach some nice computer speakers you'll be fine, but then you lose the untethered portability.
• It's really not very bright. Especially as the image stretches beyond 60 inches. You'd better be in a near pitch-black room. As it approaches its 120-inch maximum you'll be hard-pressed to find a room dark enough (also big enough) to provide a watchable experience.
• The most fun I had with this was when I grabbed a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot from work and took this thing to the park. I was able to project a surf movie on a wall. Neat, but...
• Navigating the Roku menus with this little remote is even worse than normal. Entering usernames and passwords will make you want to slit your wrists even on the full-sized Roku remote, but the small, flat buttons on this miniaturized one make for many missed presses. And if the remote isn't pointed very squarely at the projector, it often won't pick up your input.
• It has a hole on the bottom so you can attach it to a tripod, but it doesn't have adjustable feet.
• The focus dial is hard to use. It tends to overshoot the adjustment you're trying to make.
• 3M claims up to 2.5 hours of battery life, but that must be when it's at half-brightness. At full brightness (which you will pretty much always want) you'll be lucky to get 90 minutes, which won't get you through most movies.
Should You Buy It?
No. It's a fun novelty, but for most people $300 is too expensive for a novelty. It's clear to see how future generations of this product will be awesome, and we can't wait to see how it evolves. But for now it's more of a proof-of-concept. It begins shipping from Amazon on October 22nd. [3M]
3M/Roku Projector Specs
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi
• Weight: 1 pound
• Brightness: 60 lumens
• Max image: 120 inches
• Resolution: WVGA (854×480)
• Price: $300
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JB gets a Jesus Tattoo
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Justin Bieber has got himself some religious new ink!
While Justin and his father already have the name "Jesus" tattooed on their torsos, the pop star showed off some new body art yesterday in Los Angeles.
So ... what'd he get this time? Check out his calf -- that's definitely the face of Jesus.
Justin also has a bird on his hip.
No word yet what Selena thinks of his new tattoo ... but what about you? Sound off below!
i'm not yelling, bb. i got nervous for a little while because i could not understand shit of what he was saying because it was so loud in there, but he fixed the connection. i never raise my voice at phone operators, they are recording everything (or so they say idk) and i don't want to sound like a crazy person if i end up suing them.
haha good. when customers get upset i just lol on the other end =x
i don't blame you, i would probably do the same thing
it's mean because the people can be really frustrated, but it's inevitable, so i don't judge you! after all, there's a 98% change of the customer's irritation to not be your fault
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Hawks’ Joe Johnson to miss at least two more games
Mar 2, 2012, 3:10 PM EST
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Apparently Joe Johnson was not ready to come back yet.
The Hawks’ leading scorer been battling knee tendonitis that kept him out of two games before the All-Star Game as well as that game itself (the coaches voted him in as a replacement). He came back for the Hawks first game after the break and had 18 points.
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Ok, so this has been somewhat addressed alot on this site, however I do not believe the exact problem with what my code uses. I am filling a listView with CheckedTextViews which works completely. However when I click on an item it gets checked but when I scroll up and down random rows are also checked. I realize it must have something to do with how the ListView keeps track of the items. I am running into some errors at the moment. I attempted to fill a hashmap with the list of the rows so I can keep track which one is set to true and which are false. However I am not positive where to implement the map and try to fill it.
Here is my OnCreate
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
//Get table name of menu clicked.
Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
tableName = extras.getString("table");
// map each contact's name to a TextView in the ListView layout
String[] from = new String[] { "name" };
int[] to = new int[] { R.id.toppingCheckedTextView };
for(int i=0; i< from.length; i++){
map.put(i, false);
contactAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(
ViewToppingListing.this, R.layout.toppings_list_item, null, from, to);
setListAdapter(contactAdapter); // set contactView's adapter
I attempt to place the map in the onCreate to fill it however it complains about a nullpointer.
Here is where I tried using the OnListItemClick method
protected void onListItemClick(ListView arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3){
final int index = arg2 - arg0.getFirstVisiblePosition();
View v = arg0.getChildAt(index);
CheckedTextView ctv = (CheckedTextView) v.findViewById(R.id.toppingCheckedTextView);
if((Boolean)map.get(index) == true){
} else{
I have read alot on this, and it seems that alot of solutions involves using getView(), however I don't know if that applies to my situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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First of all do you need a SimpleCursorAdapter? You set the adapter with a null cursor:
contactAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(
ViewToppingListing.this, R.layout.toppings_list_item, null, from, to); // the third parameter is the cursor and you set it to null!
The behavior you see it's because of the ListView is recycling views and yes you'll have to implement your own adapter and override bindView(). The code bellow is based on another answer to a similar question maybe you'll want to look at it( Getting the Selected View from ListView ). Here is an example:
public class TestCursorAdapter extends ListActivity {
MySimpleAdapter adapter;
private HashMap<Long, Boolean> positionHide = new HashMap<Long, Boolean>();
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
String[] columns = new String[] { "_id", "name" };
MatrixCursor mc = new MatrixCursor(columns); // cursor for testing
for (int i = 1; i < 35; i++) {
long id = i;
mc.addRow(new Object[] { id, "Name" + i });
int[] to = new int[] { R.id.checked_text };
adapter = new MySimpleAdapter(this,
R.layout.adapter_mysimpleadapter_row, mc, from, to);
private class MySimpleAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter {
public MySimpleAdapter(Context context, int layout, Cursor c,
String[] from, int[] to) {
public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
super.bindView(view, context, cursor);
CheckedTextView ctv = (CheckedTextView) view
long pos = cursor.getLong(0); // the id from the cursor
if (positionHide.get(pos) == null) {
// we don't have this id in the hashmap so the value is by
// default false, the TextView is GONE
} else {
// we have the value in the Hashmap so see what it is and set
// the textview visibility from this value
Boolean tmp = positionHide.get(pos);
if (tmp.booleanValue()) {
} else {
Boolean tmp = positionHide.get(id);
if (tmp == null) {
// if null we don't have this key in the hashmap so
// we add it with the value true
positionHide.put(id, true);
} else {
positionHide.put(id, !tmp.booleanValue());
// if the value exists in the map then inverse it's value
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); // notify the adapter that something has
// changed
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thanks! that works! And I started using the SimpleCursor because I saw it in a tutorial. If I am calling a cursor in the background in an AsyncTask, should I still not use a cursor? – James.Bradley Mar 18 '12 at 23:40
@James.Bradley It doesn't matter where you're calling it, what is important is that if your data comes from a database or a source that returns a Cursor then you should use a Cursor related adapter and if the data is something like a list then you should use a simple adapter (like ArrayAdapter). I just saw that you use a SimpleCursorAdapter that expects a Cursor with data but you pass null. – Luksprog Mar 19 '12 at 8:40
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The Associated Press Stylebook calls for use of the pronoun that is either an individual's preference or is consistent with the way the person lives publicly.
The news agency said in a statement it would let that "be our guide as this story develops."
However, Leavenworth spokesman George Marcec said later Thursday that if Manning wants to go by Chelsea in prison, a name change would have to be approved in court and then a petition submitted with the Army to change its records.
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I want to make a squirt gun/taser combination. I will get a nice, high pressure water gun and a generator to amplify my taser. I will mount it in front of the squirt gun, and shoot it like and electrical flame thrower. Imagine how fun it would be to fire it as a crowd control officer. Babies would be fried and young girls would be having the best orgasm in their ******* life. I would have the power of Zeus's ******* penis! Thor's hammer handle in his pants! NEW IDEA!!! Go to a water park wave pool, get 500 taser. Duct tape their power button and throw those ******* death dealers in the water. Hahahaha!!! I don't think zombies with rotting flesh will ever exist. However, when we get nanobots sent into our bloodstream, there could be a virus (like a computer virus) that kills the person, but the robots that are in the bloodstream could reanimate the body. The only survivors would be the hicks that couldn't afford or didn't want the vaccine. I need some sleep, I'm running on 4 hours and 3 monsters right now. I should probably stop typing, but get pickles **** bitches, amairyte? NOTHER IDEA! Get tons of glow sticks, and snap them in half. Put the glowing juices in water balloons. Go to a rave, and throw those mother ******* everywhere! People will be like, "Wow, I'm glowing! This is ******* **** balls on Sarah Palin's ************* nipples!" Then it will get in their eyes, mouth, and other organs. They will all die glowing, and when the police show up all there will be is broken rubber and a bunch of people still laying on the ground (Basically a normal rave). OR... instead of filling the balloons with glow stick stuff, fill them with gasoline and those snap rocks. That would be those most brutal concert ever, and the most metal way to die. August Burns Red muahahaha... what? You don't know how they got their name? The lead singer had a girlfriend named August. When He broke up with her, she took his dog named Red... and, well, Burned him. The newspaper headline was August Burns Red, and that's how they got their name. Look that last part up, it's ******* legitameter over 9000. My left brain is going to go all out on this last part, but before that I just realized I just typed a third of a page in a few minutes and can't get five paragraphs done on my persuasive essay. What tthe **** , smorky lorks smell like crylinooms, not puelightnmjoses. Whyt thy fyck, yyy cynt yss nyggy? Mama the movie= chopchopchopchop. I hope you enjoy
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#4 - Hightower (04/10/2013) [-]
As to the description, it would be impossible. Water does not form a continuous stream, rather a line of sometimes connected droplets.. You would have to be ridiculously close for it to be effective.
User avatar #3 - shadowm (04/10/2013) [-]
When did Draco and Cho shrink and start dating?
User avatar #2 - nsali (04/10/2013) [-]
mini golf.....doing it right?
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User avatar #240 - Ramseys (07/17/2010) [+] (6 replies)
**rolls 22**
User avatar #242 to #241 - stikperson (07/17/2010) [-]
lay down on your back and tilt your body 360 degrees.
User avatar #290 - MurphyUK (07/17/2010) [+] (3 replies)
I would teach her how to play xbox. lol
#295 to #293 - BrianHimself **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [-]
I would have sex with her.
User avatar #92 - bikelesswhiteboy (07/17/2010) [+] (61 replies)
whos bella swan?
User avatar #203 - MUZZAkill (07/17/2010) [-]
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#328 - AttackedBahBees **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [-]
You do now realize I have a bullet in the left side of my skull now thanks to this compilation.
#104 - aiefo **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [+] (1 reply)
holy **** whered you find a picture of my sister?
User avatar #19 - xMzzWolfx (07/16/2010) [+] (6 replies)
******* BITCH. THATS NOT HOW I AM......i actually know which button is to shoot.
User avatar #331 - thecollegedropout (07/17/2010) [+] (16 replies)
anyone else want to punch that bitch in the face?
User avatar #256 - zombieninja (07/17/2010) [+] (3 replies)
Hey! Nerd girls are cool >:(
User avatar #267 to #262 - Middi (07/17/2010) [-]
not all of us...just the ones that are trying to be nerds...
User avatar #183 - RawrberryDelphi (07/17/2010) [+] (36 replies)
Horrible display of my kind >:(
#141 - lightwolfess **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [-]
Aye, I want to teach her how to be a real gamer girl, but I'd probably kill her in 5 minutes for being so retarded.
#109 - thislittlepiggy **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [-]
if someone ever said "i love pokemon" and then said "yoshi is my favorite" i would punch them in the face.
#82 - shanime (07/17/2010) [+] (12 replies)
cool meme idea, but the girl in it actually looks pretty chill.
#162 - JiffypopisGOD **User deleted account** (07/17/2010) [+] (5 replies)
I love pokemon, my favorite is GOD!
User avatar #305 - herpetology (07/17/2010) [-]
LOL I know her, her name is Myranda!! Who posted this? I might know you too than..
#275 - slapyousillyfoo (07/17/2010) [+] (7 replies)
i hate girls that TRY to be nerds. you just CAN'T. just NO STOP IT NO YOUR NOT CUTE OR FUNNY JUST SHUT YOUR FACE PLEASE.
******* bitch-_-
you have to be raised that way, you can't just become a nerd. its a way of life, something you have to spend your whole life learning to be. like how to be awkward, how to slouch, get good grades in class, play video games, etc.
User avatar #179 - PedoHunter (07/17/2010) [-]
i take my 3d glasses of to check what the screen looks like in movies
srsly i do
User avatar #149 - cmurderx (07/17/2010) [+] (1 reply)
to be honest i have to agree with #4. when i switch shooters often i'll usually forget which trigger is to shoot then accidentally flash myself
User avatar #145 - Ejvind (07/17/2010) [-]
I don't care how she can't play games, just stare into my eyes...
User avatar #99 - THEDIDDLELATOR (07/17/2010) [-]
You know... I'm playing MW2 right now as i read this.
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#1Ink-RibbonPosted 2/21/2013 4:18:20 PM
It seems that Tameem is now working with PG and even assisting them, with gameplay and other stuff.
Now I get why he said there was nothing to fix. Way to go, Mr Tameem.
I hope Tameem leaves PG and must g away and never touch our beloved MGR series again!
#2Dark_EpathyPosted 2/21/2013 4:49:14 PM
Alright. Let it go.
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#3RetsuxDPosted 2/21/2013 5:06:55 PM
Tamoomoo is trying to subtistute Kamiya, first, the bald, next the glasses, finally Kamiya's facial hair, and tomorrow, THE WORLD.
#4megaultrarice34Posted 2/21/2013 5:09:15 PM
Of course, that's why Tameen Andonlades shaved his head. He wanted to emulate his kami, Kamiya-san.
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#5Pesmerga255Posted 2/21/2013 5:12:57 PM
Off topic/Trolling.
Enjoy your ban.
#6DuuuDe14Posted 2/21/2013 5:18:00 PM
And you were doing so well too Ink. Oh well.
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#7Pesmerga255Posted 2/21/2013 5:18:42 PM
Ink is employing a similar trolling tactic to m100t1s or whatever his username is. That's very strange.
#8Lord_MizerPosted 2/21/2013 5:18:49 PM
*Eats popcorn*
Can't think of anything right now, so....*Sits on lawn chair*
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#9xLysergicPosted 2/21/2013 5:26:24 PM
not off topic because tameem makd this game, and this topic about tammeem
so pesmerga is not right
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#10Kung_Fu_FighterPosted 2/21/2013 5:33:15 PM
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that you can use the OP Infinity Wigs on Revengeance mode with no penalty...Yay S ranks!
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Is SC: Blacklist worth the money for spies vs mercs?
#1Stalker415Posted 9/15/2013 9:38:42 AM
I want to make sure its not a bad port so my friend and I get a new game to play against people.
#2Mangorush-VPosted 9/15/2013 9:40:48 AM
Get it for consoles, PC version doesn't have very many people playing spies vs mercs while console or the 360 version anyways have more playing it.
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#3AcquirePosted 9/15/2013 9:50:57 AM
It's a very good game, but I wouldn't get it just for spies vs mercs.
#4BIGGESTPS3FANPosted 9/15/2013 10:10:20 AM
I love it. I bought it on PC, and I've had no trouble getting into games. Though, I haven't unlocked anything higher than a 2v2.
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#31n00bsaib0tPosted 8/19/2013 8:31:22 AM
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i don't see how 7/10 quality is settling. if i only bought 7/10 quality games i wouldn't have half my games. 6/10 would be settling but not 7/10.
You don't see it because you're not reading it right. My point has nothing to do with how good a game is, that's why it still stands.
When the market is fluffed with quality RPGs you tend to skip quality games you know nothing about. The market isn't saturated right now, this this quality game he would have passed on before is now something he is interested in. This is why your point doesn't stand.
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#32SMASHKING84Posted 8/19/2013 11:06:20 AM
yeah excuse me for giving new games a chance.
The ironic thing is some of the best rpgs i've played i knew NOTHING about.
like dark cloud 2,elder scrolls iv oblivion,final fantasy mystic quest(which was the first rpg i ever played),hell even POKEMON.
that's right when i first played pokemon blue i knew literally nothing about pokemon.
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#33Prince ShondronaiPosted 8/19/2013 11:25:14 AM
Kemco! I've missed those guys since they dropped out of the US console game market. The Top Gear series on the N64 was really great, and Lagoon is one of my favorite SNES games of all time.
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#34McMarblesPosted 8/19/2013 11:31:04 AM
It's scratching my nostalgic itch, and the Engrish translation's sealing the deal.
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#35Ame_no_MurakumoPosted 8/19/2013 11:58:00 AM
I've played Grinsia on my Droid Razr. Not a particularly engaging game...
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#36ecco6t9Posted 8/19/2013 10:09:44 PM
Hopeful that this leads Kemco to making their own eShop games.
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#37parKb5Posted 8/19/2013 11:09:50 PM
CynicalNaivete posted...
First Fantasy Chronicle gets a PSP/Vita port and now this? Honestly, these Kemco RPG's are mediocre at best. When they go on sale for iOS/Android for 99 cents, they're okay if you need a moble JRPG fix, but they're so generic and bland that charging anything more than a dollar is highway robbery.
On iTunes the game is 99 cents, but you know it will be something like $9.99 on the eShop.I hate playing games on my iPhone b/c I always carry my 3DS with me and I would most likely buy this on the eShop over iTunes for that reason, but you know it is going to be so much more expensive on the eShop.
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But what happens next? Your choices are limited. You don't want to blurt out something that will destroy the relationship. You don't want to sound lame or accommodating. You know the perfect comeback will pop into your head as soon as you leave the building.
There is another option, says communications consultant Geoffrey Tumlin, author of Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life. "The hallmark between a decent communicator and a great communicator [is] the ability to not say what’s on your mind. What we’re trying to do in any interaction that goes wrong is prevent fatal damage to the relationship."
Instead of straining for the perfect riposte, says Tumlin, start by keeping your mouth shut. That'll give you the space to practice what he calls conversational containment--carefully thinking about what you want say, and limiting back-and-forth dialogue to stop trouble from escalating.
Here are seven smart ways to play dumb:
1. Put on your best poker face
When an I-can’t-believe-she-just-said-that moment happens, your first instinct is probably to react physically: You might roll your eyes, sigh, raise your eyebrows, or even throw your hands in the air. None of that will help. If you’re serious about defusing the episode rather than escalating it, you’ll need to pretend that you’re competing in the World Series of Poker.
2. Be subtle
Making an effort not to react to an inappropriate statement is considerate, but don’t take the act too far. Your "performance" needs to be believable, so don't even think about zipping your lips in pantomine.
"Be inconspicuous," Tumlin says. "If you oversell your dumbness, you may even cause the other person to double down on his unproductive words, repeating them in an attempt to help you understand." You're trying to give the other person a chance to back away form his or her clueless comment.
3. Muzzle your inner know-it-all
It’s human nature to want to be right. However, the urge to prove another person wrong can get you into hot water and torpedo any chance of a friendly conversation. Correcting another person can spark arguments, damage the way he or she perceives you, and harm the underlying relationship. "Unless something crucial hangs in the balance," says Tumlin, "if you hear someone misquote a statistic, mangle a story, or make a logical error, don’t whip out your smartphone and start searching the Internet to prove her wrong."
4. Don’t expect it to be easy
Playing dumb sounds simple: Just don’t react. But it can be difficult to override your instincts. "As conversations pick up a rhythm, or as our inbox stacks up, we feel increasing pressure to respond when it's 'our turn,'" says Tumlin. "Playing dumb requires us to resist the urge to reply."
5. Don’t play dumb too often
There’s a line between playing dumb for relational harmony and playing dumb because you are in denial about a clear and present problem. If you find yourself playing dumb frequently, it may be a sign of a larger issue that needs to be addressed.
6. Don’t fan the flames
It’s best when your silence and intentional gaps provide enough room for someone to self-correct. You can play dumb and still talk, as long as you don’t add anything to the conversation that redirects attention back to the offending words. If you feel like you need to say something after your conversational partner says something stupid, use neutral continuers like" um-hum," "I see," "Okay," or "I hear you."
7. Pick and choose your targets
Build a mental list of people with whom you might need to make a special effort to play dumb, so that when you interact with them you can remind yourself beforehand to keep your reactions on a leash. Tumlin says: "If a key client tends to make off-color jokes after a couple of happy-hour cocktails, start inviting him to breakfast instead. Or if Aunt Sarah can’t resist criticizing your housekeeping every time she comes over, try to visit at her home instead."
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Even professional traders and investors can't always speak the language of colleagues working in a different segment of the financial world. With that in mind, we've introduced this weekly column, looking at one esoteric or potentially misunderstood finance or trading term every week. After bringing you "carry trade," "contango," and "reflation" in past columns, we'll now focus on a term from the world of technical trading: the head-and-shoulders pattern, sometimes shortened to HASP.
What Exactly Is the Head-and-Shoulders Pattern?
The short answer: It's a pattern in an asset's price movement that literally looks like a head and shoulders on the asset's price chart. The pattern is important to traders because it generally signals a drop in price. We asked Braden Perry, COO of the broker dealer Kennyhertz Perry, to help explain what this means. As he told us, "The general head-and-shoulders pattern begins with the left shoulder, which includes a price increase, peak, and then decrease. The head begins on the following price increase forming a higher peak, then is followed by the right shoulder, showing a lower price peak."
Below is an illustration of this pattern:
A reverse head-and-shoulders pattern can also happen, where a bottom head and shoulders signals that a price increase will likely be the ultimate outcome. Below is an illustration of the reverse head-and-shoulders pattern:
How Can Traders Profit From the Head-and-Shoulders Pattern?
To give an example, a trader will watch for patterns like the head and shoulders to form in an asset stock of, say, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). When a head-and-shoulders pattern does form, a trader can assume that the value of Apple's stock is going to decrease upon the completion of the pattern. So the trader will short-sell Apple stock to make a profit. Conversely, another trader watching for patterns in, say, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may notice a reverse head and shoulders and buy shares of Google, expecting the stocks price to increase.
There's no defined time frame for the pattern, meaning it can occur over a course of days or months. "Many day traders and short-term traders utilize the pattern, as well as technical and long-term investors," said Perry.
Can the Head-and-Shoulders Pattern Be Relied Upon?
"The head-and-shoulders pattern is one of the more reliable [indicators], both in reversals and in uptrends, in traditional equity stocks, but it has been recently invalidated by several commodity stocks, including silver and platinum," said Perry.
However, some consider the reverse head-and-shoulders pattern to be weaker than the standard HASP. In his book How to Make Money in Stocks, William O'Neil, the founder and chairman of Investor's Business Daily, says, "A head-and-shoulders bottom may succeed in a few instances, but it has no strong prior uptrend, which is essential for most powerful market leaders."
Still, O'Neil admits that the head-and-shoulders top is one of the most accurate patterns that a trader can use. One mistake that's sometimes made, however, is that some traders don't pay close enough attention to the shoulders. "Watch carefully where the shoulders form," said Paul Whitfield, an Investor's Business Daily writer. "The right (second) shoulder must be slightly below the left shoulder. A lower right or second shoulder is much more indicative of a downward trend than when it is higher."
Whitfield also takes issue with the so-called "neckline," a trend line that's sometimes drawn touching the lows of the pattern. In a case where a neckline is used (see the image above of the inverted head-and-shoulders pattern), the trader shorts the asset when its price drops below the neckline. On this error, Whitfield writes, "This, however, is an obvious signal and sometimes doesn't work. Instead, it more often pays off to wait until the stock has made a sharp break below its 50-day moving average. Usually this occurs after attempting a few rallies back above the 50-day line." Most trading platforms will allow you to place an asset's 50-day moving average on the same chart as its price, for comparison.
Click here for an illustration of Whitfield's point on a price chart for Alexander and Alexander Services, an insurance brokerage firm that was acquired by Aon (NYSE:AON) in 1996.
Why Exactly Does the Head-and-Shoulders Pattern Offer a Signal That an Asset Price Will Drop?
It's not stock market trading magic, so what is it? As Braden Perry told us, "Its pattern follows the natural rationale that there are bullish and bearish trends, and this is a microcosm of the markets generally."
The head-and-shoulders pattern works because it signals a top to an asset price, a ceiling through which the price of that asset is not likely to rise. The top is the beginning of a downtrend, so traders can be fairly confident that a proper head-and-shoulders pattern is signaling a drop in price.
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My 8-year-old with Aspergers has two verbal/speech issues that are challenging. One is a tic or stim where he clears his throat or says "um" frequently (my MIL, who is also on the spectrum, does the same thing). The other issue is that he sometimes hesitates and says "um" several times while saying a single sentence. This is most frequent when he is speaking publicly (in class, for example). It doesn't happen all the time, though. Some of his therapists have never heard it. His teachers have mentioned it, though, and said the kids are patient with him, but it is something of an issue. I know other kids do notice it and the tics. He is very bright and in a mainstream private school. We'd like to minimize the social stumbling blocks he faces as much as possible.
Our professionals have not been super helpful with this. Our speech pathologist called is "developmental disfluency" and said he should outgrow it, but it seems like that typically happens by this age. One (condescending) psychologist said he is using it as a method to preserve his space in the conversation. He does have a very slow processing speed and can be anxious. I think both are anxiety related, but can't figure out any strategies. Does anyone have ideas?
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My Aspy son (7.5) doesn't have the tics, but if he has a complex thought he'll get a few words out, stop, begin at the beginning of the sentence again and get a few more words in, then rewind and try again with a few more words, sometimes 7 or 8 times till he gets the whole thought out.
In terms of strategies, really acceptance is mostly what we use. We ask his teacher to please give him the wait time he needs to say what he needs to say rather than finish his sentences for him, and we ask his brother to please wait his turn to talk. Yes, it's kind of a pain for people around him, but I think in general in our culture we'll all (me included!) in such a rush to get our own turn in a sentence that we're not such great listeners, and I think of my son as giving me the opportunity to learn patience. :)
He definitely has a harder time getting it out if he's stressed, and not being listened to stresses him out, so we mostly just listen (unless it's not his turn to talk- but that's a whole other thread! he's pretty terrible at waiting for his turn and I wish I had some strategies for _that_!)
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Jacob Vigdor, adjunct fellow, Manhattan Institute
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law, Georgetown University
The Manhattan Institute reports that U.S. metropolitan areas are now more integrated than any time since 1910. The migration of African Americans to the South, gentrification and immigration have all contributed to the shift. Yet some argue the decline of segregation does not mean racial inequality is obsolete.
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. The civil rights movement established segregation as a social sin, but progress has been slow in the decades since. Now a report released this week by the Manhattan Institute finds a widespread decline. Metropolitan areas are more integrated now than they have been since 1910. All-white neighborhoods are nearly extinct. Gentrification and immigration have helped shrivel inner-city ghettos, and many African-Americans have moved to the Sun Belt, the most-integrated communities in the country. Critics note the numbers, but argue there's still a long way to go.
Tell us the story of how your neighborhood has changed. Give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email: You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program: What did you learn from Don Cornelius and "Soul Train"? You can send us an email now. The address, again, is But first, Jacob Vigdor joins us from the studios on the campus at Duke University, where he's an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He coauthored the report "The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America's Neighborhood, 1890-2010."
And nice to have you with us today.
JACOB VIGDOR: Well, thanks, Neal. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
CONAN: And the end of the segregated century?
VIGDOR: Well, the segregated century is a term of art that I kind of made up to refer to the period between 1910 and 2010, because I think that when historians write the history of this period long in the future, they'll see 1910 and 2010 as sort of bookends of a period where segregation rose dramatically, and then segregation reversed. And integration happened to the extent that all those increases disappeared.
CONAN: Well, what has happened - you're obviously working off the census figures from 2010. Correct?
VIGDOR: That's correct. That's correct. So this is an extension of a project that Professor Glaeser at Harvard - my coauthor, Edward Glaeser - and I have been working on since the mid-'90s to track segregation metro area by metro area in the United States since 1890. The 2010 census figures enable us to continue this time series forward.
CONAN: And you say - one of the conclusions is, for example, the all-white neighborhood is virtually extinct.
VIGDOR: That's right. If you go back to 1960, it's about 20 percent of all neighborhoods that the census counted had exactly zero African-American residents. And today, that is down to one in 200. Or that's one half of 1 percent. So there are still a few out there, but you have to search pretty hard to find them.
CONAN: And also that inner-city ghettos are shriveling, yet clearly, they still exist.
VIGDOR: That's one of the interesting things about this report. There are still segregated neighborhoods out there. If you talk about the South Side of Chicago, if you talk about Detroit, the key to remember is that these cities have been declining in population. So there are segregated places, but fewer and fewer segregated people.
CONAN: And the - one of the big changes has clearly been suburbanization.
VIGDOR: That's correct. And that's a big part of the story. And the two facts that you brought up - the near-disappearance of all-white neighborhoods and the movement out of segregated inner-city neighborhoods - suburbanization by African-Americans is what explains both the phenomena.
CONAN: Where 60, 70 years ago, a - one black family moving into a white neighborhood had the effect of triggering the phenomenon we called white flight. Has that phenomenon disappeared?
VIGDOR: The phenomenon of white flight, you have to understand, is a phenomenon that's really rooted in an era where black migration from the rural South to cities was rampant. That era came to an end around 1965. Since that era, this phenomenon of tipping and blockbusting that you hear talked about in discussions of the pre-civil rights era, it's much less common. The - I'm sorry. The integration that we're seeing in suburban neighborhoods looks much more stable than patterns that we would have seen a half-century ago.
CONAN: And we're talking about African-Americans and white Americans. But clearly, Asian-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are part of this conversation, too.
VIGDOR: That's something that's changed dramatically over the period that we've been looking at, 1890 to the present. The United States is not a biracial country anymore. And what's interesting is that the new ethnic groups - Latinos, Asians - you find them in - moving into neighborhoods that had been white. You find them moving into neighborhoods that had been black. And so that's really diversifying all parts of the country.
CONAN: And we want to get callers in on the conversation. We also have another guest, Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University. We want to get her into the conversation, too. But I have to ask you: What happened - your study from 1890 to 2010. What happened between 1890 and 1910? What was the advent of this segregation that you're talking about?
VIGDOR: Well, if you think back a century ago, the African-American population was still concentrated in the rural South. So there were just not very many back residents of many of these cities. And those blacks that lived in the cities were actually kind of integrated. Sometimes they were living with Italian immigrants or other ethnic groups like that. It's really the - what historians would call the Great Migration, that started around 1920, that brought African-Americans out of the rural South and into cities that created the birth of what we would call the ghetto.
CONAN: And what happened, do you think, in the last 30, 40, 50 years, to see this precipitous decline?
VIGDOR: Well, if you look at where the turning point was, the turning point was right around 1970. We had the Fair Housing Act in 1968. We had other legislative and policy changes that really made housing market discrimination illegal and stopped discriminatory practices. And so I think we are seeing the legacy of those changes.
CONAN: As we mentioned, Sheryll Cashin is with us, a professor of law at Georgetown University, author of "The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream." She's been kind enough to join us here in Studio 3A. Thanks very much for coming in.
SHERYLL CASHIN: Thank you for having me.
CONAN: And I assume you've seen the same figures that Jacob Vigdor has.
CASHIN: Yes. I read the study very carefully.
CONAN: And what's your conclusion?
CASHIN: I don't disagree with the data. I disagree with the interpretation of the data. The language of the end of segregation or the end the segregated century, I think, is highly misleading. What the data shows is we've gone from being an extremely segregated country, where mid-century, eight out of 10 blacks would have to move to be integrated, to now only five out of 10 blacks would have to be moved. I think the numbers show that we are - have gone from being very segregated to segregated, or moderately segregated. You know, half of black people, mid-century, lived in ghettos. Now one in five do.
But there's still a lot of segregation in American society. I would still say it's a segregated society, and segregation continues to structure opportunity in this country, and it continues affect race relations. One of the things that I think the study does not account for is the lives of children. Children live more segregated - live more segregated than adults do, and particularly children in public schools. While we've had this - you know, laudatory, modest decline every decade in segregation in neighborhoods since 1970, since 1980, our schools have been increasing in segregation. And now children in public schools are more segregated than they have been in a very long time.
I looked at a study today from three researchers at Northeastern University. They looked at school districts in the top 100 metropolitan areas. And the picture they paint is one of separate, but equal - unequal. A black and Latino child in public school today, their average existence is one where a majority of peers are minority and many of their peers are poor. Forty-three percent of black and Latino children go to schools where 80 percent of their peers are poor, compared to only 4 percent of whites. So we still have a lot of segregation in society.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor, is this a question of glass half full or glass half empty?
VIGDOR: As a matter of fact, I didn't hear any statements there that I really disagree with. There's something important that you have to think about in regards to schools. I think segregation in schools is an important issue. At the same time neighborhoods are integrating, school districts have reduced their effort in terms of busing for integration, and they've been spurred on in large part by the courts.
You may recall from a few years ago, the Supreme Court issued rulings with regard to the school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington, basically forbidding them for busing to achieve racial balance. And so you see this increase in neighborhood segregation that's not matched - I'm sorry, an increase in neighborhood integration that's not accompanied by an increase in school integration, and it's because of these countervailing movements that are driven by court decisions.
And, you know, there are a lot of problems with high-poverty schools. And, you know, I've done some work on this myself with Jens Ludwig at the University of Chicago and where - you know, I think that those are the - these are all important things to keep in mind.
CONAN: But we should not - I'm sorry, go ahead, Sheryll Cashin.
CASHIN: Well, I'd also say there's still a lot of problems with high poverty in highly segregated neighborhoods. You admit in your study that the number of census tracks that you would characterize as a ghetto hasn't changed that much. It's just that they've been depopulated, but still one in five black people live in what you would describe as ghetto neighborhoods.
And I'd venture to say that to live in a ghetto today, in 2012, is very different than what it was like in 1970. These are alternative universes where the prison system plays a more dominate life - role in the life of young black men. Some neighborhoods, four out of five young black boys can expect to be caught up in the prison system.
These are places where anybody who can leave have left, and frankly, the persistence of the ghetto, I think this is one of the last vestiges of Jim Crow, the persistence of the ghetto and the system of mass black incarceration that's grown up - I mean, since 1970 we have created this system of mass incarceration. That's a form of segregation in itself.
It heavily colors race relations. I mean, if we're honest about it, we all carry stereotypes in our heads, and there are psychology studies that show it, where, you know, we heavily associate black with crime, particularly black boys and men, and this is part of the reason why it becomes very difficult to get political will to support the kind of policies that will create more inclusion in neighborhoods and schools.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor, those prison numbers are beginning to come down for any number of reasons, but they are accurate, too.
VIGDOR: That's true. You know, I got into this business of studying segregation in part because I was motivated by this concern that being segregated into neighborhoods affects your life chances in some way that goes beyond schools.
But what really opened my eyes quite a bit was some research that's come out of a number of universities since the mid-1990s concerning an experiment that the Department of Housing and Urban Development did in the 1990s called the Moving to Opportunity experiment where they gave a randomly selected group of residents of high-poverty housing projects vouchers to move into low-poverty neighborhoods.
What the evaluations of these programs have shown over and over again is that when you move these residents out of the ghetto, their outcomes don't necessarily change. And so that changed my mind about this issue.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor of the Manhattan Institute, Sheryll Cashin, author of "The Failures of Integration," are our guests. We're talking about a new report issued by the Manhattan Institute, "The End of the Segregated Century." We want to hear from you. Tell us the story about how your neighborhood had changed. 800-989-8255. Email us, Stay with us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Social scientist Robert Putnam, well-known for his research on civic engagement and communities, the "Bowling Alone" author, found Americans tend to bond with people very much like themselves in terms of age, race, religion and more, which can be bad news in diverse neighborhoods.
ROBERT PUTNAM: What we discovered in this research, somewhat to our surprise, was that in the short run, the more ethnically diverse the neighborhood you live in, the more you, all of us, tend to hunker down, to pull in. The more diverse - and when I saw all of us, I mean all of us, I mean blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos, all of us, - the more diverse the group around us, ethnically, our neighborhood, the less we trust anybody, including people who look like us.
Whites trust whites less. Blacks trust blacks less in more diverse settings.
CONAN: And now a new report from the Manhattan Institute, working on analysis of 2010 census data, says diverse neighborhoods are more and more the norm in the U.S. So we want to hear from you. Tell us the story of how your neighborhood has changed, 800-989-8255. Email You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Jacob Vigdor, one of the authors of the report from the Manhattan Institute, is with us from Duke University. Also with us here in Studio 3A, Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin. And let's see if we can get a caller on the line, and we'll start with Jay, and Jay's on the line with us from Jacksonville.
JAY: Good afternoon. I've seen my neighborhood change. It was predominately African-American when I moved in and more whites and other races have moved in over the last about decade or so. And some things have improved, and some things have remained the same.
I would say overall that you can't just look at where people live as an indication of the effects of integration, that most of the statistics about African-Americans lagging behind in education, wealth and social mobility have remained unchanged and are in fact even becoming worse at this point.
So the goal of integration wasn't to make a society where you can live anywhere, predominately. The real goal was to create a society in which all people can achieve their goals, and we haven't gotten there yet.
CONAN: Well, I'd say that was one of the goals, but equal opportunity, of course, the overarching goal, as well. But I wanted to ask you about that, Jacob Vigdor. We keep seeing statistics on the - amidst this housing crisis, the gap between black homeownership and white homeownership growing ever, ever larger.
VIGDOR: Well, I think that it's important to think a lot about racial inequality. I wrote a book chapter a few years ago called "The Perplexing Persistence of Race." And the point of it was to illustrate how we made what we thought were a lot of advances in the civil rights era, the Fair Housing Act, equal employment legislation, and yet somehow in the wake of all those good movements in the 1960s, black-white disparities - now, it's not just homeownership, but it's unemployment rates, it's income, it's wealth - they have persisted.
And I think that one of the things that comes out very clearly is that - the caller is absolutely right that it's not about segregation. So we can make segregation go away to some extent, but you can't expect that to just sort of magically make all forms of racial inequality go away. The inequality is still there. It is a more complicated problem than we might have thought it was back when we were passing this legislation.
CONAN: Jay, would you say your neighborhood had changed as a result of the process we sometimes call gentrification? I think Jay has left us, and we thank him for his phone call. And that has been, Sheryll Cashin, one of the engines that is driving change in many African-American communities where they're becoming integrated because, well, to some degree blacks would say they are being driven out.
CASHIN: Well, I'm not sure about that. I'd actually like to take up Jay's point about whether policies to support desegregation matter or not or whether segregation matters. I think one of the hopeful things that comes out of this study is that policy choices do matter. The study acknowledges that decades of intentional segregative policies created segregation, and reforms to undo that helped to bring segregation down.
And I would beg to differ. I think the phalanx of policies we got from the civil rights movement, including the Fair Housing Act, created a lot of freedom and mobility, mobility that my parents didn't have, and it helped to create the black middle class.
In 1950, 72 percent of African-Americans lived below the poverty line. The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act helped create a black middle class. Yes, there's persistence in inequality, but I can point to a number of policies that continue to have discriminatory effects, including racially targeting of predatory lending that helped create or exacerbate the wealth gap between blacks and Latinos.
CONAN: Let's see if we can go next to Michael, Michael calling from San Antonio.
MICHAEL: Yes, when I was young, we were the first African-American family on our street, and I guess we experienced white flight. Whites moved out, and more African-Americans moved into the neighborhood until it was very diverse. And then some of the whites that were in the neighborhood never moved out and are still, in fact, in the neighborhood, some very elderly people.
But I think that one of the thing that is being missed in this argument concerning the benefits of desegregation is the fact that the cultural atmosphere has changed so broadly in the United States and has been a helpful impetus to what was going on in civil rights in the courts.
Give you an example, well, first of all, I think it was Thurgood Marshall who originally said, well, we lost as much with integration as we gained. But later on, what happened was as we moved further and further away from white male-dominated society, and I'm not trying to disrespect anybody when I say that, but the fact is that young white males said, hey, we're not following this government just because you say we need to go to Vietnam.
White females say you know what? I'm going to burn my bra because I'm not going to be anybody's subject. African-Americans, of course we know what was going on there. So we had this cultural upheaval against all of those things that really helped to enforce segregation in the society, and as those things have slowly begun to slip away, we've seen a more integrated society.
Now of course there's still more work to be done, and in this regard, you know, I still haven't heard a politician say that what we need to do is lower all the tax rates in all the ghettos so that we can encourage more businesses to start moving in there and employing people, so - which would probably be a great impetus to help the wage, you know, the...
CONAN: I actually remember Jack Kemp talking about that, enterprise zones. That was quite some time ago. But it's interesting, Jacob Vigdor, you find that communities like San Antonio, a city that is exploding in population, that those Sunbelt cities are in fact the most integrated communities in our society.
VIGDOR: San Antonio is one of the 10 largest cities in the United States. I've just recently looked up that information, and I was kind of surprised, but it's really true. And this phenomenon that Michael in San Antonio describes, of black families moving in but then the neighborhood not quite tipping all the way, I think that's something that we really saw in large measure starting with data in the 1970s and going forward.
And what Michael was talking about in terms of this cultural shift, that's a big part of it, that racial animosity, it's not gone. It's certainly not gone. But it's not the same as it was 50 years ago, and that's a big part of it. You know, the general social survey has been collecting information from adults for a very long time, asking them questions such as would you have a person of a different race over to dinner.
And you can see the change in attitudes that way and the trends in that over time.
CONAN: Sheryll Cashin?
CASHIN: I would agree with that. I mean, one of the most hopeful things I take from this study and what's new and really interesting is the decline of all-white spaces. The Latino population grew at 40 times the rate of growth of the white population in the last decade. It is increasingly difficult for anybody to avoid having encounters with people who are different racially or ethnically.
And what's happening, I think, in a lot of metropolitan areas and what I hope will continue to happen is a rise in what I call cultural dexterity, the comfort of people being around people who are different. And my hope is that as this rise in cultural dexterity continues, we will be able to create a multiracial coalition to support saner public policies that give everybody, particularly struggling middle-class people, more choices in housing and schooling.
And I think integration will help with that.
CONAN: Let's go next to Ellen, Ellen on the line with us from Milwaukee.
ELLEN: Well, I'm sorry to tell you that it's really bad here. I've been living here for 70 years, and, well, the only reason I didn't live in Milwaukee for a while was because I lived in a little place called Town of Lake, which was annexed and became the city of Milwaukee. So I've been in this neighborhood all of my life, and we do have a terrible inner-city problem. And I think the last recording was that 50 percent of black men in the city of Milwaukee are unemployed.
Manufacturing has left the inner city. There's - these young black men are being targeted, I'm positive, by our police force. I'm sure that they're doing as much - white kids in the suburbs are doing as many drugs as the black kids in Milwaukee, but the black kids in Milwaukee are the ones that are going to jail. And we have - even have a governor now that is trying to put into place the fact that people with a - black men with a felony - or any man with a felony, I guess, but they are mostly black - can't even be hired into the government.
CONAN: Into a government job is, I think, what you're talking about.
ELLEN: Exactly. Exactly.
CONAN: And - but following up on her point, Jacob...
ELLEN: Maybe even being a janitor in a school.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor, the places that have changed least, you found, were in the North, places, well, I guess, like Milwaukee.
VIGDOR: Yeah. It's very interesting. We've had three callers so far, two from the Sun Belt - Jacksonville, San Antonio - and Milwaukee. I'll tell you, Milwaukee is a place I spent a lot of time. My mom lives there. I have a 91-year-old grandmother who lives in West Allis. And that's a place where I was a kid growing up where I sort of learned about segregation because it is one of the most segregated cities in the United States.
And the fact that segregation hasn't changed much there, one thing that we've learned is that the places where segregation is happening are places that have undergone a lot of population growth. Milwaukee has not really experienced that. It is in the new neighborhoods, the neighborhoods that are rising out of the fields, on the outskirts of Sun Belt cities - where you see integration happening the most. The neighborhoods that don't have a history behind them, that's where you see an integrated group of residents coming in and creating a new history.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the call, Ellen.
ELLEN: You're welcome.
CONAN: We're talking with Jacob Vigdor of the Manhattan Institute, co-author of a new report titled "The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America's Neighborhood, 1890-2010." Also with us, Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, author of "The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And here's an email from Tom in Charlotte: At my church, which is an intentionally integrated church led by a black and white pastor, we've been wrestling with this. But the church, in trying to take the long view, recently the pastor said, maybe we're building the church our sons will someday lead.
And, Sheryll Cashin, it's been described as the most segregated hour in America, that Sunday morning.
CASHIN: Yeah, well, I go to a black Baptist church in Washington, D.C. But where people choose to worship God, I think, is less important than whether or not we are going to pursue public policies that encourage rather than discourage race and class inclusion. And this becomes extremely important as we rapidly diversify.
CASHIN: To go back to one of the things that the previous caller from Milwaukee said, the reality she describes about what it's like to be a black male in a high-poverty inner-city neighborhood is not related solely to Milwaukee. Wherever ghetto census tracts exist and they continue to persist, you have this alternative reality I talked about.
And the thing she describes are described very well in this book, "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. While it is wonderful that in American society there's a lot more freedom and markets to live where you want to if you can afford it, we still have created this alternative universe of mass incarceration. And the people who are left behind in a relatively small percentage of ghetto census tracts do face incredible difficulty in terms of participating in the American mainstream.
And if your callers hear nothing else I say. I want to underscore that segregation in American society harms everybody, not just ghetto residents. It harms everybody. The vast majority of struggling middle-class white people are trying to figure out where to live. It's only the 7 percent of Americans who can buy their way into what I call gold standard, high-opportunity neighborhoods that happen to be overwhelmingly white.
They're the only ones who are truly living the American dream, where they get high-quality public schools, very little poverty, low taxes, low crime. Everybody else gets a different deal. And if we pursued policies like inclusionary zoning and...
CONAN: I just wanted to give...
CASHIN: Right.
CONAN: ...Jacob Vigdor a chance to respond.
CONAN: As you look ahead to the future, do you see this kind of rapid progress that would shrivel those pockets of ghetto neighborhoods and inner cities down to, well, much smaller than they are now?
VIGDOR: Yeah. You know, one of the things that you learn when you look over this much history of segregation in the United States is that history matters. And we've seen it all over the country where we've analyzed the data.
When neighborhoods are established as black neighborhoods - and we're talking about neighborhoods now that were largely established between, say, 1920 and 1965 - you don't see much movement into those neighborhoods on the part of people of other races. Maybe you see a little bit of immigration here, a little bit of gentrification there, but, for the most part, these neighborhoods are not changing very much. And that's something that's come up already today. They are sort of depopulating.
And so that's - it's hard to forecast a lot of change happening there in the future because we haven't seen much change there over the past 40 years. This kind of change that's easier to point to and anticipate will be the change that we've already seen in terms of the movements towards more newly-constructed integrated neighborhoods.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor, thanks very much for your time today. Appreciate it.
VIGDOR: Oh, you're welcome. It's a pleasure to be here, Neal. Thank you.
CONAN: Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics at Duke and co-author of "The End of the Segregated Century." Our thanks as well to Sheryll Cashin, who joined us here in Studio 3A, professor of law at Georgetown, author of "The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream." Thanks very much for your time.
CASHIN: Thank you.
CONAN: Coming up, we're going to be talking about the late Don Cornelius. We got this email from Greg in Charlottesville, Virginia: Growing up watching "Soul Train," and Don Cornelius taught me two things. One, there is no such things as a bellbottom that's too wide or a platform shoe that's too high. Two, the "Soul Train" dance line features the coolest cats on the planet, hands down. We would like to hear what you learned from Don Cornelius. 800-989-8255. Email us: Stay with us. Shabba Doo will join us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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My parents were Evangelicals, but they always enjoyed Halloween. My father was a pastor, and he and my mother would put on a yearly Halloween party for the young people’s group at our church. They would decorate our house with witches on broomsticks, ghosts, and pumpkin faces. My dad would turn the lights down at some point and tell a story designed to frighten the partying teens. We always also had a good supply of candy in stock for the Trick-or-Treaters, and I was encouraged to go around our neighborhood collecting candy. Then we would argue about how much of it I had to share at home.
None of that would play well today in evangelical congregations, where—at the end of October, at least—a “Christ against culture” spirit takes over for a week or so. As a counter-celebration, churches often put on “harvest festivals.” Kids may dress up in Pilgrim-like or patriotic garb—but none of the typical Halloween fare.
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The train crew blew the horn and put the train in emergency mode, Eckelberry stated, but Skeel did not hear it. The coroner’s office removed the body from the scene. An autopsy was not conducted.
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That was suicide. Unless he was deaf. How does one NOT hear a frippin' train? And even if he was deaf, one can certainly feel it approaching from the ground and air waves. I've lived and worked around trains for quite some time.
This news was not posted so people could guess why it happened or so you could give your 2 cents on what happened..... Have some compassion for the fact the family may see this!
I can only assume all the snow that had to be on Everything may have dampened the sound enough to not hear the train. I don't think it's a suicide at all, just a unfortunate incident that cost Mr. Skeel his life. Headphones, a stocking cap, 10+inches of snow, and a steadily moving train=tragedy........ RIP
Can't be suicide, because the register states they do not cover suicides.
They do not cover PRIVATE suicides. This was PUBLIC...outside. (sarcasm)
Lots of suicides lately. RIP Mr. Skeel!
Please show some respect! I graduated with him and no one knows what was going on in his life and maybe he didn't hear the train, who knows, no one else was there except for him...he was always nice and a great guy who cared about others first.
My sincere sympathy for his family & friends, so young. I also feel for the train crew, what a terrible thing to witness.
When will people learn to STOP trespassing on railroad's private property??
What Sandusky Register, no pictures?
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CommentInsight & Opinion
Racist Hong Kong is still a fact
York Chow says while Hong Kong may not be the world's most racist society, prejudice - often at a subconscious level - still pervades the city, and the problem needs to be tackled at all levels
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 25 May, 2013, 12:00am
UPDATED : Saturday, 25 May, 2013, 5:27am
Recently, there has been much media coverage over the results of the global World Values Survey, which seemed to indicate that seven out of 10 Hongkongers do not wish to live next to someone of a different race. For a few days, it appeared that Hong Kong was the most racially intolerant of all the places surveyed.
It has now been revealed that the data was wrong; in fact, the figure for Hongkongers should have been around 27 per cent. While the corrected result is undoubtedly better, we nevertheless must contend with the fact that more than a quarter of respondents still said they do not want a neighbour of a different race. For "Asia's world city", this figure is unacceptably high.
It is worrying to witness xenophobic...behaviour towards ethnic [minorities], recent immigrants and mainlanders
When I was in my local high school some 50 years ago, we had Indians, Pakistanis, Portuguese, Malaysians and Thais as classmates. We all learned Chinese together, and some even studied it as their major at university. They became senior civil servants, executives and professionals. We valued the multicultural school environment, helped each other, played in the same sports teams and enjoyed lasting friendships. Ethnic acceptance and respect was natural and spontaneous.
Unfortunately, surveys and studies by the Equal Opportunities Commission, the government and other organisations in recent years still point to the existence of bias against our ethnic minorities and the prevalence of racial discrimination. In a survey last year by Hong Kong Unison, a non-governmental organisation, fewer than half of the respondents said they accepted Africans, Nepalis, Pakistanis, Filipinos and Indians in their personal lives, including as friends or spouses for themselves and their children.
While such prejudicial attitudes may be subconscious, they can manifest themselves in unequal treatment in various areas of daily life. For instance, in the 2009 Thematic Household Survey on Racial Acceptance, commissioned by the EOC and conducted by the Census and Statistics Department, approximately one in three respondents found it unacceptable to lease premises to an African, South Asian or Middle Eastern tenant.
Since the Race Discrimination Ordinance came into effect in 2009, nearly three-quarters of the complaints handled by the EOC under this law have been unrelated to employment; most were about access to goods, facilities and services. Last year, 55 per cent of respondents in a survey by Time Out said they had witnessed or experienced racism in admission to facilities, services, restaurants or shops.
In addition, many people from ethnic minorities still face serious systemic barriers to equal opportunity in areas such as education and employment. In 2011, the EOC released the report of our Working Group on Education for Ethnic Minorities, which describes how the mainstream education system has failed the majority of ethnic minority students, particularly in supporting them to master Chinese when the language is not spoken at home.
This issue was also highlighted in March by the UN Human Rights Committee in its concluding observations on Hong Kong's third report in light of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It noted its concern that "ethnic minorities are underrepresented in higher education and that no official education policy for teaching Chinese as a second language for non-Chinese-speaking students with an immigrant background in Hong Kong has been adopted".
These obstacles have devastating implications for generations of ethnic minorities and their ability to pursue their aspirations. By not taking prompt action to ensure equal opportunities in education, the government is damaging ethnic minority children's prospects over their entire lifetime. Many who received insufficient support in learning Chinese during their school years now find themselves unable to meet the Chinese-language requirement for various jobs and are relegated to low-pay work.
In turn, this contributes to a perpetuation of a cycle of poverty and poses a hurdle to social integration. And despite recent moves by the Civil Service Bureau to open up government job opportunities for ethnic minority applicants, a substantial number still struggle to access them.
In fact, thus far, the solutions offered by the government have been piecemeal and largely reactive. What we need is a multi-pronged, holistic approach to a systemic problem. The government must take the lead to address the issue with conviction, based on the recognition that true equality may require accommodative measures to level the playing field.
A starting point must be the introduction of an alternative standardised Chinese-language curriculum and assessment framework for non-Chinese-speaking students to enable them to compete more fairly against native speakers. The Education Bureau should also review its policy of designated schools, which is not conducive to integration and effective Chinese learning, and strengthen language support for ethnic minority students starting at the pre-primary level as well as for their families.
It is worrying to witness the various local xenophobic comments and behaviour towards ethnic minority groups, recent immigrants and mainlanders. Discrimination is usually a result of ignorance, misconception and a lack of experience. Our government, society, schools, institutions, and goods and service providers need to work together to tackle this growing epidemic through appropriate public education, policies and organisational codes of practice.
While it is true that racial violence in this city is rare, assumptions, often subconscious, about those of different cultural backgrounds or ethnic origins remain common.
This is to our own detriment as an international city and business hub. It is also contrary to our core value of openness and to our long history as a place where talents of different backgrounds mix and mingle, fuelling innovation.
While we can breathe a sigh of relief that Hong Kong is not the most racist society in the world, we also need to remember that we can still do far better to eradicate racial bias and discrimination. We must work together to build a truly equal community of which we can all be proud.
Dr York Chow Yat-ngok is chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission
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Sticks Evans
My son is half-Chinese so can he live here half the time? I am looking forward to the first African Chief Executive and the First African Royal Family Member.
All polls are flawed. All people are racist.
Its because HK has very few blacks so HKers have little eposure to them. It took Europe a long time to adjust to migration, and that it only took action after race riots, stabbings etc with laws AND enforcement. And that hasnt stopped racist nationalist groups from forming and for scaremongering about being overwhelmed by immgrants - such that mainstream political parties now espouse radical immigration controls to placate the whites.
When you go to another country, you need to realise things arent the same as 'home' and try to understand the local culture. Goods vehicles drive in the middle lane not purely out of their own laziness, but because there isnt education about letting cars in and coz the inside lane disappears into a left turn. Likewise HK has had few black immigrants til China made most things. And some may ignore foreigners as the fear the unknown (like being able to communicate).
That doesnt mean you should be overly sarcastic - Asia's world city is just gov marketing, and I wouldnt say Paris is a world city with its own racial problems, unemployment, arrogance and crime. You should also adjust your own expectations to the local culture and not seek to impose your ideas on others without understanding the past (both yours and the host country).
So quite a number of 'black people' deal in drugs and are take an interest in local girls? Are you talking about Beijing or Hong Kong? In Beijing it seems that Africans are prominent in selling drugs, but not so in HK. Statistics show that 80% of the world's heroin traffickers in the 1980's and 1990's were HK Chinese. And why can't they take an interest in local girls? Is it because you think they are inferior?
The idea ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ‘ in christen faith or ‘Within the four seas, all men are brothers’ of Confucius teaching while all have been around for over centuries, we are mostly still struggling to behave accordingly. As much these ideas must have urgently conceived to counter our innate survival instinct in being discriminatory against who aren’t us. Hong Kong suffers an acute institutionalized prejudice. People are divided by race, ethnicity and region, schools are divided into bands, and housing is willfully differentiated by location for the poor from the wealthy. While the third class ferry ride has gone, the rest persisted since the colonial days. The fact that Hong Kong Chinese inhabitants were greatly discriminated for over half a century under the British rule, the prejudice practice becomes an inerasable inheritance. The discriminated becomes the discriminator.
More so, giving the difficulty in extricating from our innate behavior, a society must institute law against discrimination at least by race, ethnicity, region or ability. Here I must say US has done the most. Hong Kong should do the same.
Not to belittle of Dr. York‘s contribution in this article and his work, Hong Kong must have law against discrimination to remove prejudice. Equal Opportunities Commission is vastly insufficient to do the job. Neither the pulpit nor classroom has succeeded.
Hong Kong’s discrimination culture has many facets. So it seems so. There are the racial. There are the cultural. There are the dogmatic. But, most of all, there are the economic which manifests and disguised as if one being racial, cultural or dogmatic. The instinct for economical survival is supreme in Hong Kong individually or collectively. Perhaps to turn barren rocks into bread or rice is both magical and ugly. Yes the beauty of those rocks has been tainted. Even university students before leaving their campus armor up to discriminate. Sad but true.
No, HK is not the worse but don't pretend we are a welcoming world city and proud of the international community living here. In the matter of fact, HKners in many ways are very racist especially those who came from other Western places back to HK. They are the worse adding the discrimination and think they are even something better than local HKnese. Maybe because they got discriminated as well in the place they used to live.
I am an overseas Chinese who lived in Malaysia, New Zealand and now living in the United Kingdom. In Malaysia, Chinese are being discriminated by the economic policies of the government. In New Zealand and United Kingdom, everyone is treated “equally” under the law. I was sometimes called a **** growing up in New Zealand and in small towns in England. White women in New Zealand have a preference to date British men and white women in United Kingdom aren’t interested in non-white women but having said that some white English women I know have a preference for dating big tall black men because they have huge penises.
However, there is a big difference between Hong Kong and immigrant countries such as United Kingdom and New Zealand. The former has never claim and pretend to be immigrant territory and the latter claims to be multicultural societies which accept immigrants. I do not have the rights to live in any of the Chinese territories such as Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland so I can’t claim to know how foreigners are being discriminated in Hong Kong.
Sticks Evans
Who are "you guys"? "Whitey"?
How saddening that you have been saddened. Let's just feel enlightened together and embrace being "culturally enriched" by the smell of cars burning, violence, gang rape and all the other niceties that "other countries" can teach Hong Kong. Let's just ignore all social problems caused by immigration altogether, that would be great? Well, thanks, but no thanks.
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