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Sometimes a "deal" is no deal at all. But sometimes it's just a few tweaks away from the trip of a lifetime. This is the story of how I turned a low-budget Caribbean cruise—on a crowded megaship with a run-of-the-mill itinerary—into my family's best vacation in years.
I needed a sunny, affordable getaway for my kids' February break. So, when an e-mail from Continental Airlines touting, "Escape at Sea from $45/night" popped into my in-box, I clicked. For one low price I could get a floating hotel room, three meals a day, child care, and places to explore. There was a Western Caribbean sailing that fit my dates, on the cruise line that has my kids' favorite children's program, and on a ship with balconied "mini-suites." But could I be happy on the Norwegian Star—an older vessel that doesn't rank among _Condé Nast Traveler _readers' top 100 cruise ships? And was I willing to risk booking through a call center like Continental.com Cruises—now renamed United Cruises—even if it promised "EXCLUSIVE prices—often HUNDREDS lower than competitors' "?
The quoted $45 per night turned out to be the price per person for the least expensive room on the least expensive cruise. The sailing and the mini-suite I wanted was $117 per person per night—still not bad for an itinerary that hit three countries, a balcony with an ever-changing ocean view, and seven date nights with my husband. I would also get 6,000 United miles and $100 in shipboard credit. I put down a deposit.
Transforming this "deal" into the trip of a lifetime required minimizing the drawbacks of a huge ship (and of booking through a call center) while maximizing the benefits of a vacation at sea. Here's what I did—and what I learned:
Continental.com Cruises' promise of the best price did not pan out, and the 6,000 miles were hardly worth the bad service and billing mistakes I had to endure to get them. Had I booked through a true cruise expert and advocate—someone like Tom Baker, president of the Cruise Center in Houston—I would have avoided a $25 booking fee, saved $87 on travel insurance, and received an extra $100 in shipboard credit, and my deposit would have been refundable. More cruise experts like Baker can be found in The Top Travel Specialists Collection.
On the largest ships, where it can take 15 minutes to walk from bow to stern, cabin location is critical. So is a balcony—a convenient outdoor slice of serenity. Because I had booked five months ahead, I was able to snag a balconied room with a 30-second commute to the kids' club, the kids' pool, and the kids' buffet. A ship is a lot more pleasant when you can take the stairs everywhere and never have to wait for an elevator.
If you're booking a cruise many months in advance that departs from a U.S. port, wait to purchase your airline tickets. They typically don't go on sale until four months before a flight, at the earliest. I saved hundreds of dollars by waiting till two months before the cruise to buy our plane tickets to Tampa, the embarkation port—I had set up airfare alerts on FareCompare.com and Yapta.com, which notified me when fares dropped. Passengers on our cruise—and on most cruises I've taken—who bought their airline tickets through the cruise line complained about inconvenient schedules, while I got the nonstops I wanted. To ensure that a canceled flight doesn't cause you to miss your sailing, fly to your embarkation port early.
Because flying in a day ahead and dealing with the considerable logistics of getting from airport to hotel to ship can leave you frazzled, consider flying in three days ahead, so you can decompress before your cruise starts. Arriving in Tampa three days before our sailing made all the difference to my husband's and my mental states during the cruise.
The first line a cruisegoer encounters is at check-in. By arriving after lunch, we dodged it and the dreaded embarkation-day buffet line. Rather than waiting for our luggage to be delivered, we packed our swimsuits in our carry-ons so the kids could immediately jump in the pool. On board there was always a restaurant with no line, and there was always free room service.
The only port I could get excited about was the one I'd never been to: Roatán, Honduras. The other three were Belize City, a pit; overbuilt Cozumel; and Costa Maya, Mexico, a tourist complex in the middle of nowhere constructed for cruise passengers. What these places have that's remarkable, though, is their undersea life. My mission: to get my family underwater to see things they couldn't experience elsewhere.
On a conventional Caribbean cruise, if you wait till you're in port to plan your day or if you succumb to the group shore excursions that the cruise lines try to sell you, you'll have a tough time escaping the tourist traps. I got a sense of our options by looking at the excursions described by Norwegian Cruise Line, local tour agencies, and CruiseCritic.com.
We managed to try—and master—a new activity in every port. This was invigorating, made our trip memorable, and left us with a sense of accomplishment. In Roatán we tried snuba, a sport halfway between snorkeling and scuba. In Belize we snorkeled with stingrays and sharks, while in Costa Maya the kids drove golf carts down empty coastal roads. And in Cozumel, Tim, my husband, went scuba diving in a cenote for the first time.
In each port we did a morning activity as a family—usually one that involved exploring the ocean floor. In the afternoons Tim got a break to scuba dive on his own. Back on board he would take the kids to the pool so I could have alone time, then at night the kids' club took over so that Tim and I could enjoy civilized dinners and moonlit strolls.
We saved hundreds of dollars by booking activities independently: In Roatán Tim paid $50 for his dive—as opposed to the $119 that the cruise line was charging. In Cozumel snuba for four and a dive for one cost us $234, versus $335 via the cruise line. In Costa Maya our two-hour golf cart rental—which the cruise line didn't even offer—was $30. Thus, in Belize I felt I had license to splurge so we could explore the world-famous Ambergris Caye reef—Tim diving, the kids and me snorkeling. No company was offering such a shore excursion, and there was no way to get from Belize City to Ambergris Caye and back by boat with the limited shore time. Continental.com Cruises was useless, so I e-mailed Meg Austin of the Travel Society, who specializes in dive trips. She organized one of the best excursions ever: In Belize City we were driven to a private plane for the scenic flight to Ambergris Caye. There we were delivered to our private boat, with a dive master and snorkel guide. First, we went to Shark Ray Alley, then the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. Next, we sailed to the Matachica Resort and Spa, where we ate lunch, luxuriated in hammocks, and fantasized about coming back as overnight guests. The resort's boat then sped us to our plane, and we were back on board with time to spare. The day cost $1,140 and was worth every penny.
Each family member came home with a sense of achievement. Tim dived five times—quite an accomplishment for a family trip—and encountered not only his first cenote but also his first sea horse. My kids turned their underwater photos and stories into a PowerPoint presentation for their classmates. And as for me, I had orchestrated my family's ultimate vacation.
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Thunderhill Raceway & the National Auto Sport Association have partnered up to created a program designed to teach the basics, and some advanced, driving and car control techniques. This course is largely HANDS-ON, meaning that the students learn the most while sitting behind the wheel.
We have developed hands-on exercises for teens to develop car control and proper reaction in emergency situations. While there is some classroom time, the teens spend most of the day behind the wheel! It is guaranteed fun, which makes for an extremely good learning environment.
Some of the skills the students will learn are skid control, limit of traction, braking, parallel parking, driving in reverse, merging into traffic, and even defensive driving techniques. The curriculum has been designed to expose both new, and experienced drivers, to different road and driving conditions, in a controlled environment with a NASA High Performance Driving Instructor in the passenger seat of the student's car. The time to practice these Life Saving Car Control Techniques is not while driving on the city streets or highways, but at a facility, and using a program, designed to tech how to react to these situations.
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Charlotte roundup: Brad Keselowski's late, four-tire stop produces win
CONCORD, N.C. -- It should be a good race when it appears all the drivers in the top-five are a little disappointed they all saw opportunities slip through their hands.
But the Bank of America 500, frankly, was a little bit of a parade with one caution over a 217-lap stretch.
MORE: Charlotte winners and losers | Results | Kyle Busch's frustration
At least the finish was exciting, with Brad Kesleowski passing Kasey Kahne with eight laps to go. Well it was exciting for Keselowski fans and race fans in general. For Kahne fans? Not so much.
Winning move
Four tires on the last pit stop for Brad Keselowski. It helped his car come to life and pass the leaders.
Best move
Whatever Jason Ratcliff did to Matt Kenseth's car. It was not a good car for two-thirds of the weekend but they landed on an adjustment -- Kenseth wouldn't say what it was -- early in the race and led to his third-place finish.
Worst move
Mark Martin to Stewart-Haas Racing. Not sure why this has been such a struggle for these guys, but Martin has not had a good stretch of races filling in for the injured Tony Stewart. He started 22nd and blew an engine to finish 42nd. He has to be happy he won't be racing this week at Talladega.
Scratch-your-head move
So was that final caution really necessary? It's so hard to tell for those of us who can't see the whole track when we watch a race, and granted, it made the race much more exciting. But it would be nice for television to show it.
Quote of the weekend
"They say you need top-fives to win a championship, but when you're getting beat by the guys in front of you, then we're not good enough flat out. I don't know what to do to be better." -- Kyle Busch, who finished fifth but had Matt Kenseth (third) and Jimmie Johnson (fourth) ahead of him.
Best prediction
"I think it's going to be even harder to pass because of the cooler temperatures and track position is probably going to be the most premium it ever has been at Charlotte." -- Ryan Newman, on Tuesday, on how the race might compare to the one in May.
Blunt answer of the week
"That sucks." -- Jimmie Johnson after learning he now trailed Matt Kenseth by four points in the standings following a race where he felt he should have won.
Best "no comment" of the week
"I don't even know what it's for to be honest with you. I have no idea. I know my current team isn't inviting me and I know that my future team can't." -- Kevin Harvick, who is switching teams after this season, on the test Monday for 2014 cars.
What from the weekend we hope is repeated again
The exciting Nationwide race was one of the best the fans had seen with a great battle between two young drivers (Austin Dillon and Kyle Larson) for second and passes for the lead over the final two dozen laps.
What we hope is never repeated again
Two cautions over the final 244 laps, as there were for the Cup race. When that happens, it means there isn't as much dicing for positions as there should be.
That. Just. Happened
Brad Keselowski did an entire lap under caution with a jack stuck underneath his car. He was penalized for removing equipment from his box but he was going to have to pit again anyway to have the jack removed. The only damage? Just a little body damage to the side skirt.
Last word
"I wanted four and I wasn't leaving until he put lefts on it. If he wouldn't have put four on, I was going to yell and scream like a little kid." -- Brad Keselowski on the decision to take four tires at the end of the race.


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French politicians were taken aback when Corsican nationalists won December regional elections by a landslide, according to AFP. The Corsican public has long expressed frustration with such issues as a downtrodden economy, lack of autonomy, and North African immigration.
Corsica's unemployment rate stands at 11 percent, slightly higher than France's national average, and youth unemployment remains high. Corsica is an island off the coast of Italy, but annexed by France in 1768.
According to recent surveys, roughly two-thirds of Corsicans prefer independence from France but most are realistic enough to conclude that their small island would struggle financially. Corsica hopes to follow the likes of Catalonia and Scotland in regards to an independence referendum, but the small island has neither the wealth nor the natural resources to maintain a healthy state.
Tourism plays a critical role in the economy, and the island has a reputation for exporting such goods as honey and chestnuts, but those exports prove insufficient to attain full autonomy without help from France. The growing resentment between the French and Corsicans is one that stretches back centuries, as many people on the island view France as an occupying Nation.
Fierce Nationalism
Corsica has its own traditions and culture, including a native language, which is a combination of French and Italian, and citizens feel as though France and immigrants threaten their way of life. Corsica has a history of rabid nationalism going back to the 1970s, when armed insurgents instigated a bloody battle against France for independence.
With that, the bombings and assassinations have only ended as recently as 2014, and today's nationalists want to show a more friendly face to the public and world at large, stressing a Corsican identity without the strain of violence. The French government opposes the idea of independence, but it has supported local government autonomy under certain circumstances. However, France underestimates rising anger from the populace, and immigrants find themselves used as scapegoats.
Rising Xenophobia
Hostilities toward Arabs became all too apparent as many natives marched the streets over the weekend, in response to attacks on Corsican firefighters blamed on the Arab community. The protests mostly occurred through the island's poor areas, with some protesters vandalizing property and burning copies of the Koran, and the natives had called for the removal of Arabs from the island.
Although many protesters deny accusations of racism and xenophobia, there is no denying the racially tinged rhetoric, and societal and political tensions will grow worse if the economy does not improve. To the government's credit, new President Gilles Simeoni has vowed to tackle corruption and the high rate of joblessness, but it remains to be seen if new leadership can translate rhetoric into action.


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About Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum (bread wheat) is a major global cereal grain essential to human nutrition. Wheat was one of the first cereals to be domesticated, originating in the fertile crescent around 7000 years ago. Bread wheat is hexaploid, with a genome size estimated at ~17 Gb, composed of three closely-related and independently maintained genomes that are the result of a series of naturally occurring hybridisation events. The ancestral progenitor genomes are considered to be Triticum urartu (the A-genome donor) and an unknown grass thought to be related to Aegilops speltoides (the B-genome donor). This first hybridisation event produced tetraploid emmer wheat (AABB, T. dicoccoides) which hybridized again with Aegilops tauschii (the D-genome donor) to produce modern bread wheat.
Taxonomy ID 4565
Data source International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
Gene annotation
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Comparative genomics
What can I find? Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species.
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Phylogenetic overview of gene families
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|Triticum aestivum : Aegilops tauschii
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(Santa Ana) - Santa Ana College (SAC) is launching the Online Degree Pathway Program in fall 2014. The program's first three offerings are Associate in Science in Business Administration for Transfer (A.S.T.); Business Administration Major Preparation for California State University, Fullerton; and Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts. Designed to help highly motivated students graduate from community college in two years, the program will require students to take classes according to a prescribed schedule.
"We are excited to add the new Online Degree Pathway Program to our academic certificate and degree programs," said Erlinda J. Martinez, Ed.D., SAC president. "These offerings will be perfect for students who need a flexible class schedule due to work and family obligations, yet want to be a full-time student. The program will provide an accelerated pathway to degree or major completion without classroom attendance while offering a structured approach maximizing academic success."
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This module provides various helpful utilities for dealing with binary input and output.
You can use this module to deal with binary blocks of data as either Strings or lists of Word8. The BinaryConvertible class provides this abstraction.
Wherever you see HVIO, you can transparently substite a regular Handle. This module can work with any HVIO object, however. See System.IO.HVIO for more details.
Versions of MissingH prior 0.11.6 lacked the BinaryConvertible class and worked only with Strings and Handles.
Important note: /binary functions are not supported in all Haskell implementations/. Do not import or use this module unless you know you are using an implementation that supports them. At this time, here is the support status:
Non-binary functions may be found in System.IO.
See also: System.IO.BlockIO
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|Entire File/Handle Utilities
|Opened Handle Data Copying
Copies everything from the input handle to the output handle using binary blocks of the given size. This was once the following beautiful implementation:
hBlockCopy bs hin hout = hBlockInteract bs hin hout id
(id is the built-in Haskell function that just returns whatever is given to it)
In more recent versions of MissingH, it uses a more optimized routine that avoids ever having to convert the binary buffer at all.
|Copies from stdin to stdout using binary blocks of the given size. An alias for hBlockCopy over stdin and stdout
|Disk File Data Copying
Copies one filename to another in binary mode.
Please note that the Unix permission bits on the output file cannot be set due to a limitation of the Haskell openBinaryFile function. Therefore, you may need to adjust those bits after the copy yourself.
This function is implemented using hBlockCopy internally.
|Binary Single-Block I/O
As a wrapper around the standard function hPutBuf, this function takes a standard Haskell String instead of the far less convenient Ptr a. The entire contents of the string will be written as a binary buffer using hPutBuf. The length of the output will be the length of the passed String or list.
If it helps, you can thing of this function as being of type Handle -> String -> IO ()
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Acts a wrapper around the standard function hGetBuf, this function returns a standard Haskell String (or [Word8]) instead of modifying a 'Ptr a' buffer. The length is the maximum length to read and the semantice are the same as with hGetBuf; namely, the empty string is returned with EOF is reached, and any given read may read fewer bytes than the given length.
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|Abjuration [[[SRD:Air Effect|Air]]]
|Bard 5, Druid 6, Sorcerer/Wizard 6, Viewtiful Monarch 6, Wu Jen 6
|Casting time:
|1 round
|15 ft. and the range of all projectiles caught; see text
|50-ft. tall pillar of tornado-like winds in a 15-ft. cylinder centered on you, seizing and deflecting all nonarea attacks
|Concentration, up to 1 round/level and Instantaneous; see text
|Saving Throw:
|Reflex partial; see text
|Spell Resistance:
Barking a command for the wind to protect you, you drop to the ground and begin spinning at high speed, almost as if performing a breakdance. As you spin, you whip the air into a frenzy around you, swirling it around at speeds so intense that nothing can pass through.
Once this spell is cast, you surround yourself with a pillar of 150+ mph winds that can divert just about any attack. All creatures that try to enter the area (or are within the area when the spell is cast) get picked up by the winds, regardless of size. If they fail a Reflex save, they are carried violently by the winds for the round and take 3d4 damage; if they make the Reflex save, they are hurled out of the spell's area, landing 1d6x5 feet away and taking 2d4 points of nonlethal damage. A creature being carried by a wind shield is unable to move unless it is capable of flying or otherwise altering its midair motion, in which case it may attempt to make a new Reflex save every round. A creature being carried by a wind shield may cast spells, but it must succeed on a Concentration check (DC = 20 + the spell's level) to cast the spell; failure indicates that the spell is wasted.
Any melee attack made into the area of the spell takes a -15 penalty to the attack roll as the winds push the blow off course. Ranged attacks take a -20 penalty, and any ranged attacks that enter the spell's area and do not strike a target (including rays) are caught up in the windstorm, where they will remain until the spell ends. All spells (except for non-line area spells) cast into the area of a wind shield take a -3 penalty to their save DCs, do only 30% as much damage as normal, and their non-damaging effects have only a 30% chance of working on you or any other potential target in the wind shield, as even magic gets blown off-course (albeit not as drastically as physical objects) by the sheer intensity of the wind. The only thing a wind shield has any difficulty deflecting is an "area of effect" attack, such as a fireball or a mass spell. A spell or ability with a cone-shaped area takes a -2 penalty to its save DC, does 60% of its normal damage, and has a 60% success chance for non-damaging effects. cylinder or sphere-shaped area only takes a -1 penalty to its save DC, and it does 90% of the damage that it would normally do (or, if nondamaging, has a 90% chance to work). An attack that comes from directly above or below its target, such as a flame strike, a Perun bolt, or a cave-in, is not affected by wind shield. A wind shield also cannot deflect an attack that is conveyed completely through the ground, such as an earthquake.
Concentration on this spell is a full-round action, though the caster is allowed to move up to 5 feet as part of this action (this is not a 5-foot step, so it provokes attacks of opportunity; whether anything will be close enough to take advantage of the opportunity, or those attacks will be able to hit you, is another matter entirely).
When the spell ends, the caster may choose to conclude it as an explosive burst of wind. If the caster does this, the wind itself blows out all flames and blows back any creature within 10 ft.×the wind shield's caster level 1d6×30 feet (minus 10 feet per size category greater than Large), dealing 1d4 points of nonlethal damage if the target was blown back at least 10 feet. Furthermore, any ranged attacks caught up in the windstorm are immediately redirected at a new legal target, chosen by the caster of wind shield as if he or she had launched the projectile attack him/herself from any square in the wind shield's area, as the tornado spits them back out. The caster may choose to simply fire any or all of the projectiles at empty space if he or she does not wish to use that/those projectile(s), but the projectiles cannot simply dissipate or drop to the ground - they must be hurled away somewhere. Creatures caught up in the windstorm when the spell ends with an explosive burst are ejected as if they had succeeded on their Reflex save, and may not be chosen as targets to launch the projectiles at (the creatures and projectiles are expelled simultaneously). If the caster chooses not to conclude with an explosive burst, all carried creatures and objects (including physical ranged attacks such as arrows, bolts, and boulders) are dropped to the ground in any square in the wind shield's area, from any height the caster wishes (up to 50 feet in the air), taking and inflicting falling damage appropriately. Nonphysical ranged attacks (such as rays) simply dissipate harmlessly.
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Post for the beginner developer or for the developer who want their code to speak and easy to understand to other developer who is going to maintain the code, review the code etc.
To achive this thing most of the people talks about commenting class,method, property etc.but no one talks about the making region in the code which make code compact and easy to understand in form of regions. Region allow to block of the code which you can expand and minimize.
Syntax to define the region in you code is
#region Properties //your code #endregion Properties
So above code defines the region with name Properties. What ever code you write between between region and endregion get minimize and expand in visual studio you can see the + when minimize and - when maximize the code block.
Example of the file with the region related to BAL or DAL layer of code :
Example of Aspx file i.e presentation layer file
Why to use Region in your code
- It allow to group the member which is related to same functionality
- For Example in above code : Insert/Update method , Get Method
- It to group Class members (private, public, methods, properties, etc.) , which you can easily see in above image
- With the help of region long code blocks can be minimize to small block, which you can expand when you want to see the code and minimize when work done with it.
- Shortcut key for region is (MSDN link for this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/td6a5x4s.aspx )
- CTRL+M CTRL+M (that's two key presses!) - collapse/open the current parent region
- CTRL+M CTRL+L - Collapse/Open all regions in document recursively (meaning you might get only one line in the document - one big namespace region which is collapsed or you'll see the entire page code uncollapsed
- CTRL+M CTRL+O - Collapse all regions not recursively
- You can also make use of Context menu for that in you text editor
- To Hide 'ugly code' that is more complicated.
- To hide misc. code so that lazy reviewers don't look and ask about that part of code.
- Make region to hide the Commented code.


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The coding of sensitive information for transfer online or otherwise electronically. One may encrypt data to prevent anyone other than the intended recipient from accessing it. For example, if one buys a product online and enters credit card information into an electronic form, that information is usually encrypted so hackers and potential identity thieves cannot use it for illicit purposes.
The manipulation of data to prevent accurate interpretation by all but those for whom the data is intended. Financial institutions use encryption to increase the security of data transmitted via the Internet.


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Ha! ThanksI missed that game and there wasn't a player ratings thread so I sort of missed the comeback (I was at TWO weddings that weekend - madness!)
A freedom fighter sent back in time to protect mankind from the rise of the machines
14 goals in 30 games last season for Malaga in La Liga makes him a striker for me.
That suggests that someone at Everton is a cyborg? Is the Ross Barkley affair about trying to protect him from the infiltrator?Maybe Rooney, he always looked suspiciously older for his age, we know he has hair implants.. maybe he was sent back too early? They packed him off back then, but he managed to return this summer so the club had to hide Ross!
Obviously it's them lot from across the park
What most people don't know is that in the original timeline Liverpool were a part time outfit and Everton had 32 titles, 8 European cups and the League cup was permanently renamed the Everton Cup in honour of our fifty wins. Until a traumatised red software engineer decided to destroy the world. In that timeline of course the Korean war never happened and Donald Trump was a much beloved comedian. Damn kopites.
Sandro is an attacker who likes to drop off, or play from deeper alongside a big target man.
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Universities, "user pays", and the death of personal responsibility
Posted by Ed under Academia, policy, research
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I've been acutely aware of the rising tide of complaint/whining about rising tuitions at universities over the past few years. As a professor at a research university in a relatively poor state, I am sensitive to this problem. As a father of three small children of my own that I hope to one day put through college, I am personally concerned that the continuation of current absurd rates of tuition increase will make this goal impossible.
I grow tired, however, of continued complaining about this issue that refuses to address the reasons for this trend. Alan Jacobs' piece on The American Conservative website is just the latest example. The sighing tone of this piece, and it's total lack of discussion of the causes of tuition increases, damns universities and their employees by implication. This is just a disingenuous version of more overt attacks out there. I am sick and tired of hearing that faculty are overpaid (we must be the only sector of the economy where paying for excellence in the labor force is seen as a vice, not a virtue) and that universities are full of fat that could be cut.
This. Is. Garbage.
You want to know why your children's tuitions are rising? There are two reasons. For those of you worried about public university tuitions, the math is simple – state appropriations have been cut dramatically over the past decade, and universities have to make the difference up somewhere. In short, those of you who insist on paying less in taxes are the drivers of tuition increases. Considering that personnel costs make up more than 80% of most institution's budgets, when you cut the state appropriation to a public university by, oh, about half (such as has happened at the University of South Carolina) the result is inevitable: raising tuition to cover the missing revenue, and hiring fewer faculty to replace retirees…so students end up paying more while getting less and less face-to-face with faculty.
This is not because public universities are "fat and lazy." It's because higher education, like so many other things in our society, has become a site of "user pays" mentality. Instead of seeing higher education as a societal good (educated workforce that brings/creates better jobs, more informed citizenry, more vibrant arts, etc.), we now see it as something that only the student should pay for. Of course, all of those collateral benefits still exist – the economic multiplier for universities remains pretty impressive – but now society gets those "for free", as it burdens the creators of the multiplier with staggering debt, weighing them down. Actually, we probably get less of those benefits now than we did, given that crushing debt doesn't typically engender opportunities for risk taking and innovation. In other words, all of you who think that you shouldn't have to pay for universities or other forms of higher education because you are not using them, recognize that you are leaching off of those of us who work for those institutions, and the students who go to them – you are reaping the benefits of the university without making any contribution. This hardly strikes me as personal responsibility. If you want to pay for what you get, pay your damn taxes so the innovative class leaving universities can actually spend some time, you know, innovating, creating jobs, broadening the tax base, and enriching the community…instead of paying off crushing debt.
Now, for private universities the story is rather different. I do not claim to know the financial situations of every private university in America, and I know a good number are in serious financial trouble…often because their endowments were crushed by the 2008 economic downturn. But if you want to see what drives a chunk of the increase in the private university realm, read this article by Julia Edwards. Basically, a number of private schools have been raising tuitions because we are suckers…if it more expensive, it must be good. I have no idea what these institutions are spending their money on – though I am sure some of it is salary (if only because average salaries, in most disciplines, are higher at private institutions than public institutions). Whether that extra salary really equates to extra quality…honestly, I have no idea. I can say that in Geography, which has no graduate presence in the Ivy League, and which is dominated by big public institutions, I strongly doubt the cost/quality equation holds – at least on average*. It seems to me, then, that a lot of people are paying a lot of tuition for the illusion of higher quality, but nobody will admit that, because if we don't go along with the polite fiction then a lot of people would be forced to admit that they incurred a lot of debt for nothing (which, of course, they did). And look at that, we are back to personal responsibility – don't complain about rising tuitions you helped stoke when you decided that a higher price tag was a good proxy for higher quality education.
The chart in the middle of the Edwards article says it all – you can see the debt of students at private institutions start to take off in the early 2000s, as our ballooned economy enabled more people to behave like suckers and overpay for a product they assumed was superior. At public universities, it shoots up right at the end of the series, in 2009-10. Why? Because this is when the first students to experience the remarkably steep tuition hikes that accompanied the decline of public spending after the 2008 fiscal crisis started to graduate. Two different drivers. Same outcome. And to some extent, the same problem – a total lack of personal responsibility on the part of the citizenry of this country when it comes to higher education. People decided they could free-ride on college students and their families, or chose to make uninformed consumer decisions about higher education. And now people are reaping the consequences, and having the gall to refuse to look at themselves as the cause.
It's your fault. Deal with it. And then go fix it. Stop paying for prestige's sake. Stop electing people who tell you that you can have all the benefits of a leading public university for little or no public cost. Start taking responsibility for the things you want. Stop blaming everyone else.
*That said, I know of several faculty at private institutions in my discipline who are flat out amazing, including a significant segment of the department at Syracuse. These folks are worth every dime. But a few exceptional people at private institutions does not invalidate the larger point that most of the time the difference in quality between a public school's and a private school's education is less than the difference in the price tag.
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The problem
There is a growing number of point data, and an increasing need to perform cross referencing of the GBIF data with external sources, in this case the protected areas of the world.
The last 3 years of working on reasonably large databases (>100G) has told me that this join was not going to be an easy one, despite the obvious partitioning strategy that can be invoked here (spatial partitioning).
Therefore Javi and I set about this task by
- Using PostGIS and the traditional approach of joining 2 tables of 150M point records with 120,000 polygon records - finding will be posted shortly
- Using Hadoop and the Amazon EC2 to process the join
This is ongoing but I thought I'd post the findings so far.
Strategy 1:
Start by splitting the 150M records from one file into a file per 1 degree cell.
Loop over each polygon:
- Determine 1 degree cells covered polygon
- Use the input files as a merge input to hadoop and pass in the Polygon for the Map to do the contains()
Strategy 2:
So this approach goes through the join the opposite way. The polygons are loaded into memory and a
HashMap<Integer, Collection<Polygon>>for each Map operation to use.
The logic is effectively give me polygons intersecting the 1 degree square for this point, and then test them properly. This worked ok, but requires a LOT of memory for the polygons to be held.
Strategy 3:
Very similar to strategy 2, this approach indexes all the polygons by RTree. Thus for each point, the index provides only candidate polygons whose bounding box contains the point, and the number of candidate polygons to test is far smaller than that of strategy 2.
Hadoop requires tuning, just like a database does for large joins. Here is the final tuning for strategy 3:
- mapred.child.java.opts=-Xmx1G // for the R-Tree index
- mapred.output.compress=false // for easy reading of output
- mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum=4 // we have 7G per node, so 4G for 4 Map tasks is ok
- mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks=-1 // Reuse the Map as it has the index built (takes 90 seconds for startup)
- dfs.block.size=134217728 // use larger blocks - in retropsect this was a probable mistake and will be removed for next test


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The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.[1]
The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2014, were presented on January 11, 2015, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been held annually since 1961.[2]
- 1 History
- 2 Ceremony
- 3 Categories
- 4 Superlatives
- 5 Criticism
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
In 1943 a group of writers banded together to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and, by creating a generously distributed award called the Golden Globe Award, they now play a significant role in film marketing.[3] The 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, were held late in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at various venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.[4]
In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as an international figure within the entertainment industry, the first award was presented to director and producer, Cecil B. DeMille. The official name of the award thus became the Cecil B. DeMille Award.[5]
In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced. In its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six (of the films Operation Bikini and Beach Party) and Donna Douglas (of television's The Beverly Hillbillies), respectively.[6]
In 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned (but not for the first time in its history). The New York firm Society Awards collaborated for a year with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to produce a statuette that included a unique marble and enhanced the statuette's quality and gold content. It was unveiled at a press conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show.[7]
Revenues generated from the annual ceremony have enabled the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to donate millions of dollars to entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. The most prominent beneficiary being the Young Artist Awards, presented annually by the Young Artist Foundation, established in 1978 by late Hollywood Foreign Press member, Maureen Dragone to recognize and award excellence of young Hollywood performers under the age of 21, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.[4][8][9]
The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies (the other being the Screen Actors Guild Awards) that did not have a regular host; every year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast. Gervais returned to host the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards in 2011, and the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in 2012.[10] Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards in 2013, the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in 2014, and the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards in 2015. The Golden Globe Awards' theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi.[citation needed]
2008 disruption
On January 7, 2008, it was announced that due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the 65th Golden Globe Awards would not be telecast live. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event and by actors threatening to boycott the ceremony rather than cross picket lines. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast.[citation needed]
NBC originally had exclusive broadcast rights to the ceremonies, but on January 11, HFPA President Jorge Camara announced there would be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the January 13 press conference, announcing the winners at 6:00pm PST.[11] As a result, E!, CNN, the TV Guide Network and KNBC-TV, the network's Los Angeles owned-and-operated affiliate, aired the 31-minute event, emanating from the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel live, leaving NBC to fill the hour from 9:00–10:00pm ET with announcements, made after-the-fact by Access Hollywood hosts Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell.[12] The remaining hours of programming, set aside for the ceremonies by the network, were filled with a special two-hour edition of Dateline, hosted by Matt Lauer, that included film clips, interviews with some of the nominees and commentary from comedian Kathy Griffin and the panelists from Football Night in America.[citation needed]
Motion picture awards
- Best Motion Picture – Drama
- Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- Best Director
- Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
- Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
- Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
- Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
- Best Screenplay
- Best Original Score
- Best Original Song
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Animated Feature Film (since 2006)
- Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures
Television awards
Awarded since 1956:
- Best Drama Series
- Best Comedy Series
- Best Actor in a Television Drama Series
- Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series
- Best Actress in a Television Drama Series
- Best Actress in a Television Comedy Series
- Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Retired awards:
- Best Documentary Film • Last awarded in 1977 at the 34th Golden Globe Awards
- Best English-Language Foreign Film • Awarded from 1957 to 1973
- New Star of the Year – Actor • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
- New Star of the Year – Actress • Last awarded in 1983 at the 40th Golden Globe Awards
- [[Henrietta Award#REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other
This page is a soft redirect.Henrietta Award]] (World Film Favorite – Female) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979[13]
- Henrietta Award (World Film Favorite – Male) • Awarded from 1950 to 1979
- Best Film Promoting International Understanding (1945–63)[14]
- Golden Globe Award for Best Cinematography - Awarded from 1947 to 1952, in 1954 and in 1962.
In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight. However, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine. Additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born), producing the Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) (A Star Is Born in the ceremony held in 1977), and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each. Behind them are Rosalind Russell, Sophia Loren, Julie Andrews and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with twenty-nine (as of the 2015 nominations) and John Williams is second with twenty-five.
In the category Best Director, Elia Kazan leads with four wins, followed by Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Miloš Forman, David Lean and Martin Scorsese with three wins each. Steven Spielberg holds the record for most nominations with eleven (as of the 2015 nominations). Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are the only directors to receive two nominations in the same year.
Only four people have won two acting awards in the same year:
- Sigourney Weaver (1989)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Working Girl
- Joan Plowright (1993)
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Enchanted April
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film, Stalin
- Helen Mirren (2007)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, The Queen
- Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, Elizabeth I
- Kate Winslet (2009)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Revolutionary Road
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, The Reader
Other superlatives:
- Most awards won by a single film
- Five films have won five Golden Globe Awards.
- Most nominations received by a single film
- Nashville, with nine nominations
- Highest Sweep (Winning every nominated category)
- Three films won all five Golden Globes that they were nominated for.
- Most nominations without winning an award
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Godfather Part III, both with seven nominations.
- Youngest person to win an award
- Ricky Schroeder winning New Star of the Year – Actor in 1980 (9 years old).
- Oldest person to win an award
- Christopher Plummer winning Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Beginners (82 years old).
1968–1974 NBC broadcast ban
The HFPA has had a lucrative contract with NBC for decades,[15] which began broadcasting the award ceremony locally in Los Angeles in 1958, then nationally in 1964. However, in 1968, the Federal Communications Commission claimed the show "misled the public as to how the winners were determined" (allegations included that winners were determined by lobby; to motivate winners to show up to the awards ceremony winners were informed if they did not attend another winner would be named). The FCC admonished NBC for participating in the scandal. Subsequently, NBC refused to broadcast the ceremony from 1968 until after 1974.[16][17]
Pia Zadora awarded 1982 "New-Star-of-the-Year in a Motion Picture"
In 1982, Pia Zadora won a Golden Globe in the category "New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Female" for her performance in Butterfly, over such competition as Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime) and Kathleen Turner (Body Heat).[18] Accusations were made that the Foreign Press Association members had been bought off.[19] Zadora's husband, multimillionaire Meshulam Riklis, flew voting members to his casino, the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, which gave the appearance that they voted for Zadora to repay this. Riklis also invited voting members to his house for a lavish lunch and a showing of the film. He also spent a great deal on advertising.[20] Furthermore, Zadora had made her film debut some 17 years earlier as a child performer in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.[citation needed]
2011 The Tourist Best Musical/Comedy nominations
The nominations for the 2011 Globes drew initial skepticism, as the Foreign Press Association nominated The Tourist in its Best Musical/Comedy category, despite the critical failures of the film and that it was originally advertised as a spy thriller. Rumors then surfaced that Sony, the distributor of The Tourist, had bribed Globes voters with an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas, culminating in a concert by Cher.[21]
See also
- List of Golden Globe Awards ceremonies
- List of Golden Globe Award winning films
- List of Golden Globe Award winners
- List of prizes, medals, and other awards
- Young Artist Award
- ^ "HFPA History". www.hfpa.org. HFPA. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ Butler, Don. "Beverly Hilton recaptures lustre of its glory days", Regina Leader-Post, May 9, 2008. Accessed January 28, 2009. "And the Golden Globe Awards have been handed out in its swanky International Ballroom since 1961."
- ^ Through their eyes: foreign correspondents in the United States
- ^ a b "History of the Golden Globes". hfpa.org. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
- ^ "Cecil B. DeMille Award". hfpa.org. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
- ^ "Miss Golden Globe". hfpa.org. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
- ^ "New Look For Golden Globe Statuette". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
- ^ "KABC-TV – Budding stars shine at Young Artist Awards". ABCLocal.go.com. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ "Young Artist Awards – President's Message". YoungArtistAwards.org. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ "Ricky Gervais to Return as Golden Globes Host!". ComingSoon.net. 2011-11-16. Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ^ "HFPA News". www.hfpa.org. HFPA. 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-11-02.[dead link]
- ^ Ryan, Maureen (2008-01-13). "Golden Globes winners? Not the viewers, that's for sure". The Watcher (All TV. All the time). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
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- ^ "Golden Globe Nominees By Nomination Category – Motion Picture Promoting International Understanding". hfpa.org. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- ^ The NY Post "The Moet the Merrier: Soaked in scandal, the Globes emerge as Hollywood's biggest booze-up" By Reed Tucker January 16, 2011 And the HFPA has no problem paying for it; a lucrative contract with NBC makes the organization rich.
- ^ The NY Post "The Moet the Merrier: Soaked in scandal, the Globes emerge as Hollywood's biggest booze-up" By Reed Tucker January 16, 2011 The HFPA's seemingly cozy relationship with the stars they cover has occasionally led to scandal. From 1968 to 1974, the Globes were booted off NBC after the Federal Communications Commission claimed the show "misled the public as to how the winners were determined." The government report suggested winners were required to show up at the ceremony, otherwise, another name would be chosen.
- ^ TBD Golden Globes 2011: Why you should care By Ryan Kearney January 14, 2011 In 1968, the Federal Communications Commission accused the HFPA of misleading the public, alleging that Globe winners were determined by lobby rather than blind poll. NBC subsequently pulled the awards ceremony from its broadcast until 1974.
- ^ Golden Globes, USA (1982) IMDb
- ^ "Pia Zadora". Stomptokyo.com. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- ^ Adelson, Suzanne (1982-02-22). "How Did Actress Pia Zadora Ever Win a Golden Globe? The Answer Is Riklis Love". People.com. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- ^ Adams, Guy (2010-12-19). "Bribed Golden Globe judges nominate flops after Vegas junket: 'The Tourist' and 'Burlesque' are among poorly reviewed films up for awards". The Independent. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Golden Globe Awards.
- Official Golden Globes website
- Awards listing at Official Golden Globes website
- Awards listing at the Internet Movie Database


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Actor Matthew Newton has been ordered to pay a US hotel clerk $11,100 but will not have an assault conviction recorded against him.
The troubled Underbelly star was arrested in April over allegations he punched the Miami hotel clerk in the face.
He was also charged with trespassing at popular Miami watering hole Mr Moe's Restaurant and Bar.
The Nine Network reports the charges will be dismissed on the condition Newton pays the clerk $11,100, apologises in writing and completes 50 hours of community service and an anger management course.
His lawyer told reporters in Miami it was a good outcome for Newton, who had faced up to a year in jail.
"We're very pleased that the case is going to be dismissed, and this chapter is over," David Oscar Markus said.
Newton has also been ordered not to go near Mr Moe's or the clerk.


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American journalist Marie Colvin killed in Syria (video)
LONDON -- Respected American journalist Marie Colvin, who spent decades reporting on conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria, focusing on the suffering of women and children in wartime, died in a fierce shelling attack Wednesday in Syria.
Colvin, who was 57, was known for her courage behind the front lines and immediately recognizable for an eye patch that hid an injury suffered in a Sri Lankan ambush. She had been holed up in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Sunday Times editor John Witherow confirmed her death during a "devastating bombardment by the Syrian army."
French photojournalist Remi Ochlik died alongside Colvin, the French government announced. Freelance photographer Paul Conroy and journalist Edith Bouvier of Le Figaro were wounded, according to Witherow and Le Figaro.
Colvin, from Oyster Bay, New York, had been a foreign correspondent for Britain's Sunday Times for the past two decades, making a specialty of reporting from the world's most dangerous places. Her final dispatch Tuesday from a cellar offering refuge for women and children hinted at the horrors that eventually took her own life.
"It is a city of the cold and hungry, echoing to exploding shells and bursts of gunfire," she wrote. "There are no telephones and the electricity has been cut off. ... Freezing rain fills potholes and snow drifts in through windows empty of glass. No shops are open, so families are sharing what they have with relatives and neighbors. Many of the dead and injured are those who risked foraging for food.
"Fearing the snipers' merciless eyes, families resorted last week to throwing bread across rooftops, or breaking through communal walls to pass unseen."
Colvin often focused on the plight of women and children in battles and Syria was no different. She gave interviews to major British broadcasters on the eve of her death, appealing for the world to notice the slaughter taking place.
"I watched a little baby die today," she told the BBC on Tuesday. "Absolutely horrific, a 2-year old child had been hit. They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor said 'I can't do anything."'
Colvin's boss, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, described her as "one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation."
Colvin worked in the Balkans, where she went on patrol with the Kosovo Liberation Army as it engaged Serb military forces. She worked in Chechnya, where she came under fire from Russian jets while reporting on Chechen rebels. She also covered the conflict in East Timor after its people voted for independence; she was one of the few reporters to interview ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in his final days.
She was outspoken in her defense of independent journalism, and a fervent advocate for the cause of unfettered war reporting. During a tribute service for slain journalists at Fleet Street's St. Bride's Church in November 2010, she offered a stirring appeal to media executives, pressing the case to continue investing in conflict zone reporting.
"Our mission is to speak the truth to power," she said. "We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians."
Her death comes only days after two other respected journalists died while reporting on the uprising against Syria's president, Bashar Assad. Two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter Anthony Shadid, a correspondent for The New York Times, died last week of an apparent asthma attack while slipping into Syria.
Award-winning French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in an explosion in Homs on Jan. 11, becoming the first Western journalist to die since the uprising began. His colleagues believe he was murdered in an elaborate trap set up by Syrian authorities -- a claim that Assad's government denies.
British Prime Minister David Cameron led tributes to Colvin. Cameron told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the death of the "talented and respected foreign correspondent" was "a desperately sad reminder of the risks journalists take to inform the world of what is happening and the dreadful events in Syria."
British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband called Colvin "a brave and tireless reporter ... an inspiration to women in her profession."
"Her reports in the hours before her death showed her work at its finest," he said.
Author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding from death threats, sent a message to his followers on Twitter, noting that it was "dreadful news. A great reporter, fine writer and fearless woman is gone. Her many friends are devastated."
Colvin lost her sight in one eye during an ambush in Sri Lanka in 2001 but promised not to "hang up my flak jacket" and kept reporting on the world's most troubled places.
"So, was I stupid? Stupid I would feel writing a column about the dinner party I went to last night," she wrote in the Sunday Times after the attack. "Equally, I'd rather be in that middle ground between a desk job and getting shot, no offense to desk jobs.
"For my part, the next war I cover, I'll be more awed than ever by the quiet bravery of civilians who endure far more than I ever will. They must stay where they are; I can come home to London."


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Lalonde v. Lalonde, — S.W.3d —, 2011 WL 832465 (Ky. App., February 25, 2011)
Mother sought appellate review of the lower court's order that awarded primary physical custody of her daughter to the child's father. The mother argued, among other things, that the court improperly considered Facebook photos showing her drinking. This was not good because her psychologist had testified that alcohol would have an adverse effect on the medication she was taking for bipolar disorder. (Seems like there's no shortage of cases involving drinkin' photos on social media.)
The court rejected the mother's assertion that the photos should not be considered as evidence. She argued that because Facebook allows anyone to post pictures and then "tag" or identify the people in the pictures, she never gave permission for the photographs to be published in this manner. The court held that "[t]here is nothing within the law that requires [one's] permission when someone takes a picture and posts it on a Facebook page. There is nothing that requires [one's] permission when she [is] "tagged" or identified as a person in those pictures."
It might be easy to overstate the court's conclusion here. Some instances of tagging might be part of something actionable. For example, the posting and tagging of photos in the right context might constitute harassment, infliction of emotional distress, or invasion of privacy. Use of another's photo on the web without permission for commercial purposes might violate that person's right of publicity. And of course there is the question of copyright as to the uploading of the photo in the first place — if the person appearing in the photo owns the copyright (e.g., it's a self-portrait) there is the risk of infringement. But it's interesting to see the court appear to validate ordinary tagging.


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Why do we need an "ILP32" ABI for 64-bit MIPS?
"ILP32" describes an ABI where the
long and pointer types are 32-bit quantities. o32 is already an ILP32 ABI, but n32 is an ILP32 ABI which exploits real 64-bit hardware and instructions (so
long long is a hardware-supported type). In the same notation, n64 is an I32LP64 ABI.
Many programs which had been reasonably portable between 32-bit architectures have bugs when moved away from ILP32. Most of these bugs probably aren't terribly deep or difficult, but there are thousands of programs, and many of them have no need of 64-bit pointers. Linux is very careful to decouple the kernel and application ABIs, and you can run o32 applications on a 64-bit Linux kernel - so it's arguable that you don't need to invent such a thing: if an application really needs 64-bit instructions, recompile it for the n64-like I32LP64 universe.
In the workstation/server world this almost always made sense, the main reason to want 64-bit applications was for more address space. In the embedded world, there is significant demand for 64-bits just for the larger registers.
Dumping n32 would make life easier, but keeping it seems kinder, particularly to those whose OS' are less willing than is Linux to support two different universes.


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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Isn't this just the cutest thing ever?!?!
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Shabby Chic Attempt
Wow! This school year has kept me REALLY busy! It's been a long time since I have posted. I haven't had much time for crafting lately, but I did get a chance to make this card for my monthly Stampin' Up! group that I attend at my upline's house.
This is my attempt at Shabby Chic! I know this has been a trend in scrapbooking and cardmaking, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I used the Smooch Spritz for the first time on a card and I really like this color. The Log Cabin has a bit of a gold shimmer to it and shimmer makes everything better right? I did not add a sentiment so that it could go in my stash and I could use it whenever I needed for whatever I needed. Let me know what you think!
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Who's swinging a bigger pair--the folks who schedule their sequel months before their films comes out or the action star who writes his own sequel before his movie comes out?
With "The Amazing Spider-Man" not due to hit theaters until July 3, 2012, Sony Pictures has already declared that "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (3D)" will drop May 2, 2014.
Look, we're old to enough to realize that all the talent involved was probably signed to a three-picture deal and that the studio had a ful story written out. But to implicitly declare that #1 will be such a hit that they're already comfortable staking claim to a date some three years out for #2? Well, that's just tacky.
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Not to be outdone, however, is Jason Momoa, star of the upcoming "Conan" reboot. In a recent interview with Crave, he confirmed that he was signed on for a sequel, and when he was asked if there was a story yet, he said he'd written one himself.
"We want to incorporate three different things, because obviously you don't just want to do the [existing] story, because the fans already know it. You want to keep them on their toes. So, I think we have a good lock on it," Momoa told Crave. "Also, I feel it's beautiful... How many actors get to go in there and go, "I'm part of the writing process?" and care that much about the character, because he is a fan himself? It's great. You know some people go like, "It's great, I'm going to be in my trailer." I want to @#$%ing make a great Conan movie."
Momoa's previous writing credit is a short called "Brown Bag Diaries: Riding the Blinds in B Minor," which he made last year-that's it. So now he's written a big-budget action film?
Wonder how Andrew Garfield's script for "Amazing Spider-Man 3" is coming along?


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The Sci Fi Channel has given producers Granada America and World Cyber Games the green light to produce a new competitive gaming television series, tentatively titled GameQuest. The 8 episode series will bring together 12 gamers, who will compete in a variety of elimination events including both video games and game-themed physical challenges for the title of "best all-around gamer", with a prize of $100,000 and trips to World Cyber Games events up for grabs.
"With two out of every three American households playing video games, it's clear that this mainstream phenomenon is a perfect arena for the channel's agenda of broadening the brand while celebrating imagination," Sci Fi channel president Dave Howe said.
What Sci Fi channel president Dave Howe fails to grasp here is that with two out of every three American households playing video games, your audience is busy doing other things. Sci Fi greenlights 'GameQuest' [The Hollywood Reporter]


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Merry Christmas!
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Tony Reagins, the Day After
In Tuesday's blog, I wrote that I wanted to see what the media reports had to say about why Tony Reagins got the job and not Ken Forsch.
Not much on that score, but the sportswriters seized on the Arte Moreno statement about manager Mike Scioscia having more input to conclude that Scioscia is now the real center of power in the organization.
Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times wrote:
Bill Stoneman tearfully steps aside, Tony Reagins heartily takes over, but make no mistake.
Mike Scioscia is now in charge.
By hiring Reagins, a rookie who ran the minor league system, owner Arte Moreno is ensuring that the loudest voice in the room will belong to Scioscia.
By hiring Reagins, a former publicity intern who never even played high school baseball, Moreno is ensuring that the final opinion of the night will belong to Scioscia.
With a wink and nudge, Moreno smartly paved the way for his most important baseball decisions to be made by his best baseball guy without costing him one of baseball's best managers.
Scioscia's vision. Our luck.
I don't think it's that simple. As I wrote on Tuesday, the model for how Reagins managed the minor leagues the last six seasons may be the model he'll follow for the GM job — the baseball people take care of their business, he handles the administrative side, but in the end it's his call.
The exception here is that Reagins will now answer directly to Moreno. Arte said many times over the years, in response to those criticizing Bill Stoneman, that he personally had intervened on personnel decisions. So there's every reason to think Moreno will be just as imposing a force with Reagins.
Media reports seem to indicate Moreno himself made the decision to promote Reagins without interviewing anyone else, although he did discuss the transition with Stoneman. One reason why Forsch didn't get the job might be that he's only two years younger than Stoneman. If Bill is burned out at age 63, it's not good for organizational stability to hire someone who might leave in another two years. Reagins at age 40 will have the energy to keep up with the demanding pace, and prides himself on being a hard worker.
The big question is whether Reagins is qualified for the job. He may not be now, but in the long run the intent may be to groom him so that in a few years he can go toe-to-toe with Scott Boras and other GMs.
If you're looking for other examples of GMs who had no professional playing ability, the stathead poster boy Theo Epstein is the one. Epstein, who'll turn 34 in December, was made the youngest GM in history when the Red Sox hired him at age 28 in 2002. No offense intended to Reagins, but Epstein had a brilliant mind proven by his graduating by Yale and his law degree at age 25. He didn't inherit a crumbling operation and turn it around; he succeeded the well-respected Dan Duquette, who was dismissed in February 2002 when John Henry bought the team.
Unlike Epstein, Reagins isn't a slave to sabermetrics. But that doesn't mean he ignores statistics either. (Contrary to what some statheads claim on Angels fan sites, the Angels don't ignore statistical analysis. It's just that no one wrote a book about it.) In fact, the Angels recently promoted Tory Hernandez, a player performance analyst, to replace promoted Abe Flores to be the new Manager of Baseball Operations. But the Angels keep the statistics in context, realizing that there's more than one way to win a ballgame, and winning starts with teaching players the right way to play the game.
Don't expect Reagins to be witty or glib or a rumormongering chatterbox as some people on the fan boards seem to want. Stoneman was a quiet, private person and Reagins isn't that much different. Unlike Kevin Malone, who joined the Dodgers in September 1998 and proclaimed he was "the new sheriff in town," Reagins at the press conference was sober and even a bit meek. He didn't project confidence, he didn't seem to be in charge, and that impression was reinforced when Moreno told the press that Scioscia would have more influence in personnel matters.
For the instant gratification crowd who think Stoneman's departure means the Angels will back up the U-Haul and turn over their entire farm system to another team in exchange for some overly expensive fading star, get over your wet dream. It's not going to happen.
What might happen is that a couple prospects could be traded for a star in his prime. Stoneman had no problem with such a deal, so long as it was equitable. As he told the press many times, it was foolish to trade the future for a short-term quick fix. It was foolish then, and it's foolish now. If they can get a player in his prime who's under contract for a few more years, or one who's willing to negotiate a contract extension, sure, consider it. But shipping off Brandon Wood, Nick Adenhart and "WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!!!!!" to rent Johan Santana for year would be a pretty stupid thing to do.
I'm hoping the Angels stick to their guns and don't give in to media pressure, or such loony ravings on fan boards. The worst thing imaginable would be to execute a "feel good" trade just to make a statement. I don't think that will happen, but if it does you'll know it was Arte's decision. And that concerns me, because while Stoneman may have been a brake on Arte's temptations, Reagins as the new guy may not feel it's his place to question the boss. We can only hope that when Tony is negotiating with other GMs and free agents, he's surrounded by more experienced colleagues. The problem with that, though, is that it will project Tony as a weak GM who isn't his own man.
So for those who've been praying for Stoneman's departure, you got what you wanted. Now you'll have to face the consequences.
As an Angels fan, of course I want nothing but the best for the organization and hope Reagins is Stoneman's equal. But the sharks will be circling, and right now Tony is the chum in the water.


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