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WASHINGTON — A Hindu clergyman made history Thursday by offering the Senate's morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors' gallery.
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Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nev., gave the brief prayer that opens each day's Senate session. As he stood at the chamber's podium in a bright orange and burgundy robe, two women and a man began shouting "this is an abomination" and other complaints from the gallery.
Police officers quickly arrested them and charged them disrupting Congress, a misdemeanor. The male protester told an AP reporter, "we are Christians and patriots" before police handcuffed them and led them away.
For several days, the Mississippi-based American Family Association has urged its members to object to the prayer because Zed would be "seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god."
Zed, the first Hindu to offer the Senate prayer, began: "We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the Earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and illuminate our minds."
As the Senate prepared for another day of debate over the Iraq war, Zed closed with, "Peace, peace, peace be unto all."
Zed, who was born in India, was invited by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Speaking in the chamber shortly after the prayer, Reid defended the choice and linked it to the war debate.
"If people have any misunderstanding about Indians and Hindus," Reid said, "all they have to do is think of Gandhi," a man "who gave his life for peace."
"I think it speaks well of our country that someone representing the faith of about a billion people comes here and can speak in communication with our heavenly Father regarding peace," said Reid, a Mormon and sharp critic of President Bush's Iraq policies.
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the protest "shows the intolerance of many religious right activists. They say they want more religion in the public square, but it's clear they mean only their religion."
Capitol police identified the protesters as Ante Nedlko Pavkovic, Katherine Lynn Pavkovic and Christan Renee Sugar. Their ages and hometowns were not available.
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Accepting a job below one's skill level can be severely penalizing when applying for future employment because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent, according to new research from a sociologist at The University of Texas at Austin.
Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change.
But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.
When a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit japan in 2011, the effects were felt by over a million expatriates worldwide.
In recent years, several international-comparative studies have analyzed the relationship between migration and native populations' decreasing support for redistributive policies. However, these studies use cross-sectional designs and aggregate the number of foreign-born residents at the national level. Both aspects are theoretically and methodologically problematic. We address these shortcomings by investigating cross-sectional as well as longitudinal effects in the case of Germany, using a combination of individual- and regional-level data for several time points from 1994 to 2010.
Taking advantage of historical census records that include full first and last names, we apply a new approach to measuring the effect of cultural assimilation on economic success for the children of the last great wave of immigrants to the United States. We created a quantitative index of ethnic distinctiveness of first names and show the consequences of ethnic-sounding names for the occupational achievement of the adult children of European immigrants.
Do police treat religious-based protest events differently than secular ones? Drawing on data from more than 15,000 protest events in the United States (1960 to 1995) and using quantitative methods, we find that law enforcement agents were less likely to show up at protests when general religious actors, actions, or organizations were present. Rather than reflecting privileged legitimacy, we find that this protective effect is explained by religious protesters' use of less threatening tactics at events.
Recent scholarship highlights the importance of public discourse for the mobilization and impact of social movements, but it neglects how cultural products may shift discourse and thereby influence mobilization and political outcomes. This study investigates how activism against hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") utilized cultural artifacts to influence public perceptions and effect change. A systematic analysis of Internet search data, social media postings, and newspaper articles allows us to identify how the documentary Gasland reshaped public discourse.
Although several studies have examined the association between religious involvement and physical functioning, there is no consistent empirical evidence concerning the true nature of the association. The Hispanic population is also surprisingly understudied in previous work. In this article, we employ seven waves of data from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly to examine the association between religious attendance and performance-based mobility trajectories among older Mexican Americans.
The article discusses alternative wedding ceremonies staged in urban spaces as a statement of protest among immigrant couples that cannot marry in rabbinical courts, because they are not recognized as Jews. These public weddings are organized and sponsored by the Fishka association of young Israeli adults of Russian origin.
This article develops a general theory regarding the onset of ethnic war, starting with two analytic innovations: a mechanism-based approach toward social facts and an emphasis on dynamic interactions. I deploy two meta-mechanisms – the security dilemma/spiral model and intergroup-intragroup interactions – as meta-synthesizers. I then bring together the numerous factors and mechanisms scattered in the literature into a more integrative and dynamic theory of ethnic war by linking factors with immediate drivers of conflictual behavior via the two meta-mechanisms.

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Methuen woman sees Jesus on bottom of her clothes iron
There is one thing that Mary Jo Coady wants to make clear to anyone who hears about her, reads about her, or tries to dismiss her – she is not trying to convince anyone that the bottom of her steam iron truly carries the face of Jesus Christ.
But the image, which bears a striking likeness to popular depictions of Jesus Christ, has had a profound affect on Coady. After a challenging past two years in which her faith waned, Coady, who was raised Catholic, said she feels spiritually uplifted by the startling depiction.
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Coady said she was taken aback when she spotted the image last Sunday while straightening up around the house, but she thought she might be reading too much into it. During a difficult past two years, she has separated from her husband, moved out of the home they owned, and had her hours cutback at the medical facility where she works as a secretary.
Now living with her two college-age daughters, Coady turned to relatives and friends. She posted images of the iron on her Facebook account, and asked for input. Did they see what she saw in the residue on the bottom of her iron?
The answer from her relatives – including her daughters – was unanimous:They all saw Jesus Christ, Coady recalled today. Strengthened by their support, Coady decided to share her story with others, beginning with an article published in today's edition of the Eagle-Tribune newspaper of Lawrence.
"For me I think it happened for a reason,'' said Coady. "I think it's good to share it with other people.
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I think I have some of the same discomfort Antoine is voicing w.r.t. serialization and annotation. Worrying about the serialization as a fundamental component of an annotation's identity strikes me as more of a document model problem than a data model problem. I can see where URI-A and URI-B denote different annotations because they are two different URLs, but I have a hard time understanding why URI-A as RDF/XML and URI-A as JSON-LD should represent two different annotations. They are simply representations of the same underlying resource named URI-A. The resource happens to be an OA annotation. We've seen this in other areas. For example, with images, we might have a URL that points to the image resource but have the image available in various serializations such as JPEG, PNG, or GIF. There are times when we will need to annotate the image as an image regardless of serialization, but there can be times when we will need to annotate the image in a particular serialization (e.g., the JPEG and PNG are fine, but the GIF has an artifact). OA provides a way to distinguish these cases. We need both kinds of addressability. I don't see why we can't treat annotations as just another resource when we use them as targets/bodies. Or am I totally missing the point? On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Antoine Isaac <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Ouch. We're coming to a comment I'd have made only while reviewing 3.2.3! > > I really don't like that an annotation resource is in fact denoting a serialization. > This puts a big burden on recognizing an annotation after it has passed a data conversion step, which will happen quite often in the kind of interoperability scenarios you're after. > There is a need for representing an annotation as a more abstract business object, which is "created" by people or smart agents. Of course I understand the need for requirements on the provenance of documents and data sources, but that seems quite distinct (and to me, quite less important). > > I still think that respecting the one-to-one principle is important in these matters: attributing statements (e.g., oa:serializedBy and oa:hasTarget) to one URI, while they belong to different levels, can be very confusing in a paradigm (the Semantic Web one) that expects this kind of mixture not to happen. > > Actually I'd be curious to hear about the feedback you received on ORE ResourceMap. I personally don't think it was technically so bad. My guess is that the negative feedback might have been motivated by the very act of trying to meet a very general requirement (data sources) within a vocabulary designed for a more specific requirement (aggregations). Especially at a time where they were other approaches (SPARQL named graphs) being devised. OK, NG were not a standard then and are still not. But I understand the will of some people to avoid another proposal, possibly difficult to re conciliate with NGs, to emerge, while they were embarking on bringing NGs to the next level. > > > To me a good way for handling solution 1 would be for OA to just coin the properties serializedAt and serializedBy and *defer to other 'data provenance' proposals* (NGs, ResourceMaps, PROV...) for how to use them, i.e., on which resource exactly to attach them. Of course we could provide a couple of examples as guidance. > I suppose you will not like it, but it's quite legitimate given that the solutions at hand at not mature or consensual yet. The community could sort out later, which is the best solution. > It could also be that different (sub) communities stick to different options. But that can be ok as well: perhaps there is one solution which is perfect for RDF but horrible for another... > > > > On option 2 or 3: I trust that if there's one resource, then it should mainly denote the more abstract annotation, not the serialization. I think this has less pitfalls for interoperability between applications. If you're searching for a justification: just imagine the kind of horrible questions data consumers will ask about the semantics of oa:equivalent! (whether or not higher-level statements like oa:hasBody or oa:hasTarget statements should be propagated across equivalent annotations -- I believe they should). > > And we could keep the current pattern but updating the semantics of serializedBy to mean something like > "this resource [which is an 'abstract' annotation]" has been serialized by X" > as opposed to "this serialization was carried out by X" as I understand the meaning of serializedBy now. > This property would become a kind of 'shortcut': > anAbstractAnnotation -serializedBy-> X > standing for the hypothetical path > anAbstractAnnotation -hasSerialization-> anAnnotationSerialization -createdBy-> X > > > Side question: I'd be curious to hear whether > oa:Annotation rdfs:subClassOf ore:Aggregation > holds for you (for me it does!) > > > > Cheers, > > Antoine > > >> >> Dear all, >> >> To pick up on one of Antoine's comments in particular: >> >> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Antoine Isaac <firstname.lastname@example.com <mailto:email@example.com>> wrote: >> >> >> 2. "An Annotation is the expression of a relationship between two or more resources in the form of a serialized graph." >> I find this confusing. Serialization is a representation in one syntax. This hints that an annotation serialized in RDF/XML is not the same as an annotation serialized in Turtle... I would remove "in the form of a serialized graph". >> >> >> That is actually the exact intent. An Annotation is a document, which necessarily has a serialization. Therefore the RDF/XML serialization of a graph, from URI-A, is a different "Annotation" from the same graph serialized in JSON-LD from URI-B. >> >> This is to avoid having to have multiple nodes, one identifying the Annotation and the other identifying the serialization. This was met with large rounds of disdain from the Linked Data community when it was done in the Open Archives ORE spec (Conceptual Aggregation vs Resource Map Document) and necessitates the use of the 303 redirect paradigm. >> >> The two options considered: >> >> (1) Have multiple nodes. One for the serialization, one for the Annotation concept. >> Costs: >> * Have to mint and maintain two identifiers. People don't like doing this. Look at the "textual body" discussion! >> * Have to have a 303 redirection service >> * Have to include both in the graph in order to have the serializedBy/serializedAt information >> * Have to have specific instructions as to what to refer to, Concept or Serialization, in further Annotations >> >> >> (2) Have a single identity that represents the serialization >> Costs: >> * Have to either explain the issue in detail to people who probably don't care, or gloss over it and hope Antoine doesn't notice :) >> * Have to have serializedBy/At and annotatedBy/At to properly maintain the provenance information >> >> We figured that option (2) was the lesser of the two evils. >> >> The hypothetical option (3) is to have a single identity that represents the concept, but that would be much harder to justify as to why you got a representation from a concept. >> >> Our proposed solution is to keep the text in the introduction as is, but explain the situation further in the Provenance section for people who care about it. >> >> Rob & Paolo >> >> > >Received on Friday, 11 January 2013 14:44:49 UTC
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NATO Deputy Secretary General to visit Jordan
The Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, will visit Jordan on 20 and 21 June 2012 where he will meet Prince Faisal bin Hussein, Prime Minister Al-Tarawnah and the Chief of Defense Staff General Al-Zaben.
Ambassador Vershbow will also attend a conference jointly organised by NATO and the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy entitled 'NATO in the new global security era'. He will deliver a keynote address at this conference.
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Josh — the eldest son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — and his wife, Anna, welcomed their third child Sunday, a baby boy named Marcus Anthony Duggar, according to US Weekly.
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As the teams prepare for the NFL championship games this Sunday, which areas of their teams are strengths or weaknesses or neither? Here's a breakdown of six key areas and the most important player involved.
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Rushing offense
Key player: Pierre Thomas
Thomas is the Saints' workhorse when healthy, but bumps and bruises have limited his effectiveness. He played through cracked ribs and a sprained ankle en route to just 52 yards on 13 carries in the divisional round. Against a stout Vikings interior defense, New Orleans may lean more on "satellite back" Reggie Bush, who has the hot hand after dropping 84 yards and a touchdown on Arizona. He can beat Minnesota's slower perimeter defenders to the edge. Weakness.
Passing offense
Key player: Drew Brees
The Vikings' pass defense dominated Sunday's win over Dallas, holding previously red-hot QB Tony Romo under 200 passing yards. Brees, however, gets rid of the ball more quickly than Romo and won't play into the hands of Minnesota's deadly pass rushers. Willing to take what the defense gives him, look for Brees to open with a short-based pass game. Successful execution could frustrate the Vikings' front four, cause them to take plays off, and open up deep-ball opportunities. Strength.
Rushing defense
Key player: Sedrick Ellis
Ellis' health was in question after being slowed for much of the season's second half by knee troubles. The defensive tackle answered by rejoining the starting lineup in Saturday's drubbing of Arizona, sacking Kurt Warner once, and playing stout run defense. After Tim Hightower ran for a 70-yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage, Arizona averaged a paltry 2.21 yards per carry. The Saints will gain a sizable edge if they similarly bottle up Minnesota's Adrian Peterson. Neither.
Passing defense
Key player: Darren Sharper
Arizona managed just two completions of 20-or-more yards in the divisional round at New Orleans, one ending on a fumble by Cardinals receiver Jerheme Urban that was recovered by Sharper. New Orleans' zone-based secondary is designed to limit long pass plays and produce takeaways. This makes for an intriguing matchup against Brett Favre, who's put together the most efficient and accurate season of his career while maintaining plenty of aggressiveness. Strength
Special teams
Key player: Reggie Bush
A year after scoring three times, Reggie Bush didn't return a single punt for a touchdown during the '09 season. All was forgotten when he broke off an 83-yard score in the third quarter of last week's blowout win over Arizona. Bush caught a Ben Graham line drive and made one cut before beating the Cards' coverage unit to the house. The Vikings are mediocre in punt coverage and gave up a touchdown this year. Bush figures to have some more openings on Sunday. Strength
Coaching: Sean Payton
Payton upped his career postseason record to 2-1 in last Saturday's whipping of Arizona. Still, this is just Payton's second playoff team, so there's not a whole lot of history to draw on. It's worth noting that Payton has won a tight, fairly high-scoring playoff game before. Keyed by two Deuce McAllister third-quarter rushing touchdowns, Payton's Saints edged out Andy Reid's Eagles 27-24 during the 2007 postseason. Neither
Rushing offense
Key player: Adrian Peterson
Lacking patience inside the tackles and getting few holes from his overrated line, Peterson is averaging 3.33 yards a carry in his last eight games. The Saints are smallish up front, however, especially after losing 290-pound defensive end Charles Grant to a torn triceps in Week 17. New Orleans showed susceptibility in the divisional round by letting Tim Hightower bust a 70-yard touchdown run on the first play from scrimmage. This may be the matchup A.P. needs to get back on track. Strength
Passing offense
Key player: Brett Favre
No playoff quarterback is playing as well as Favre, who's thrown for 25 touchdowns compared to just five turnovers since Week 8. At New Orleans, though, top receiver Sidney Rice won't see the constant single teams Dallas showed him in the divisional round. The Vikings will likely need slot man Percy Harvin, underused deep threat Bernard Berrian, and hulking tight end Visanthe Shiancoe to step up if they hope to keep pace with the Saints' relentless aerial attack. Strength
Rushing defense
Key player: Pat Williams
Coordinator Leslie Frazier's unit is always stout against the run, and 2009 was no different. The Vikings finished No. 2 in rush defense while allowing a league-low five rushing scores. Their strength is up the middle, however, where the "Williams Wall" resides, and Dallas running back Felix Jones showed last week that Minnesota's defensive exterior is vulnerable by averaging 4.9 yards per carry on a variety of edge runs. The Saints may take a similar approach featuring Reggie Bush. Strength
Passing defense
Key player: Ray Edwards
The Vikings run a zone-based pass defense that relies heavily on pass rush from the front four. Safeties Tyrell Johnson and Madieu Williams split up the deep half. The unit is so successful because defensive ends Jared Allen and Edwards are havoc-wreaking edge presences and defensive tackle Kevin Williams is a penetrator inside. Look for the Saints to work the middle of the field early, using short passes to set up the deep ball. Vikings middle linebacker Jasper Brinkley is a liability in coverage. Neither
Special teams
Key player: Percy Harvin
Harvin finished the regular season ranked fourth overall in kick-return average (27.5 yards per attempt), and his two touchdowns tied Ted Ginn Jr. for second in the league behind Josh Cribbs' three. The real question is whether the Saints will kick to him. The Cowboys didn't. Strength
Coaching: Brad Childress
Like his adversary Sean Payton, the Vikings coach is making just his second career playoff appearance. Minnesota was one-and-done in Childress' last trip, falling to the Eagles 26-14 in 2008. The Vikings won their first game in decisive, 34-3 fashion, so perhaps this is the year for Minnesota's bearded head coach. Neither
AFC Championship
Rushing offense
Key player: Joseph Addai
The weakest part of the Colts. Joseph Addai doesn't make people miss, and rookie Donald Brown is too boom-or-bust. Against Baltimore, the team struggled at times just to get back to the line of scrimmage. Six rushing plays lost yardage and the team only gained 42 yards on the ground. The Jets present a similarly physical test. Surprisingly, the Colts do excel in short-yardage situations. Weakness
Passing offense
Key player: Peyton Manning
Manning is playing his best football, but this isn't the best Colts passing attack we've ever seen. Young wideouts Austin Collie and Pierre Garcon have been pleasant surprises, but they are still developing. The kids will have to win their one-one-one matchups because Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark will see so much attention. The Ravens held Manning to 5.6 yards per attempt by roughing up the receivers and forcing short passes. The Jets have a similar group, but better. Manning will have to be patient. Strength
Rush defense
Key player: Gary Brackett
This is where the Colts are superior to past teams. The team's no-name defensive tackle rotation led by Daniel Muir holds up well in power situations. Linebackers Clint Session and Brackett attack and their speed makes up for their size. The Colts stuffed Ray Rice last week, but stopping the Jets will be even tougher. This is an aggressive unit, but their depth will be tested. Neither
Pass defense
Key player: Jacob Lacey
Tony Dungy's system left, but the Colts' ability to stop the pass didn't. That's largely because of Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis, football's best edge rushing duo. Two rookie cornerbacks -- third-rounder Jerraud Powers and undrafted free agent Jacob Lacey -- have held up remarkably well. The Colts are willing to give up the short pass, but not long bombs. Don't look for Braylon Edwards to get deep. Strength
Coaching: Jim Caldwell
Defensive coordinator Larry Coyer has been a difference maker. He's tweaked Tony Dungy's system and the result is more unpredictability. Coyer isn't afraid to blitz his linebackers or safeties at key moments. They 've shown a consistent knack for making the big play with the game on the line. Offensive coordinator Tom Moore and Peyton Manning have been together so long, they think with one mind. No team is better in end of half or game situations. Strength
Special teams
Key player: Matt Stover
Annually among the worst special teams in the league, the Colts are now closer to average. They surprisingly chose to keep Matt Stover active at kicker over Adam Vinatieri, who was recovering from a hip injury. The Colts have given up their share of punt returns, which is something to watch. Neither
Rushing Offense
Key player: Shonn Greene
The Jets wouldn't be this far without their rookie running back. Greene's passed Thomas Jones as the team's key back, providing a lethal combination of power and big-play ability. He can make defenders miss more than Jones. The Jets also use Danny Woodhead as a slot receiver/third-down back. Unlike most teams, the Jets will continue to run all game even if it's not working early. Strength
Passing offense
Key player: Mark Sanchez
Sanchez is surviving, but let's not get carried away. The "Sanchize" threw for only 100 yards on 23 attempts last week, and did virtually nothing the first three quarters. With that said, the kid has a knack for converting third downs in big moments. He throws well on the run. Sanchez will have to stay calm in the face of the pass rush. The Colts don't give up many big plays, but look the Jets to test them down the middle with Dustin Keller. Weakness
Rush defense
Key player: David Harris
In theory, this unit should have fallen apart when Pro Bowl nose tackle Kris Jenkins went down for the season. Instead, they've steadily improved. The Colts won't bother running much. When they do, linebacker Harris will pick up tackles while the team's unsung linemen like Shaun Ellis occupy blockers. Calvin Pace is the team's most versatile linebacker. Strength
Pass defense
Key player: Darrell Revis
What more can be said about Revis? He's put together the best cornerback season of any player since Deion Sanders in 2004. Revis can lock down Reggie Wayne, allowing safety Kerry Rhodes and a second defender to watch Dallas Clark. Rhodes has rebounded after a late-season benching. The team's pass defense isn't all about Revis. The top unit in the league has another quality starter in Lito Sheppard. Strength
Coaching: Rex Ryan
One of the most overlooked aspects of a team is physical play and tackling. The Jets excel at both and have turned it up a notch in the playoffs. The Colts better be ready to match the Jets' intensity. The Jets had more success blitzing Tom Brady than sitting back, and saw Manning get hit a few times last week. He's seen it all, so they probably won't get too crazy. The Jets will try to beat on Indy's receivers. Strength
Special teams
Key player: Jay Feely
The Jets have an advantage in special teams. They have a good kick return unit and they are above average on punts. The Colts' coverage groups aren't always great. The Jets would love to play a field position game. Punter Steve Weatherford has recovered from an irregular heartbeat and will play. Kicker Jay Feely hasn't had the postseason yips like many of his colleagues. Strength


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Q: What is the Common Type System?
A: The Common Type System (CTS) defines how types are declared, used and managed in the runtime, and is also an important part of the runtime's support for cross-language integration.
- What functions does the Common Type System perform?
- Establishes a framework that helps enable cross-language integration, type safety, and high performance code execution.
- Provides an object-oriented model that supports the complete implementation of many programming languages.
- Defines rules that languages must follow, which helps ensure that objects written in different languages can interact with each other.
- What types does the Common Type System support?
- Value types
Value types directly contain their data, and instances of value types are either allocated on the stack or allocated inline in a structure. Value types can be built-in (implemented by the runtime), user-defined, or enumerations. For a list of built-in value types, see the .NET Framework Class Library.
- Reference types
Reference types store a reference to the value's memory address, and are allocated on the heap. Reference types can be self-describing types, pointer types, or interface types. The type of a reference type can be determined from values of self-describing types. Self-describing types are further split into arrays and class types. The class types are user-defined classes, boxed value types, and delegates.
- Can I have an example of the difference between value types and reference types?
The following example shows the difference between reference types and value types:
Code:Imports System Class Class1 Public Value As Integer = 0 End Class 'Class1 Class Test Shared Sub Main() Dim val1 As Integer = 0 Dim val2 As Integer = val1 val2 = 123 Dim ref1 As New Class1() Dim ref2 As Class1 = ref1 ref2.Value = 123 Console.WriteLine("Values: {0}, {1}", val1, val2) Console.WriteLine("Refs: {0}, {1}", ref1.Value, ref2.Value) End Sub 'Main End Class 'Test
- What would the output be of the above example?
Values: 0, 123
Refs: 123, 123


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Perhaps the most elusive part of a college application is the essay. "The essay," or the Personal Essay as it's officially titled on the Common Application, is different than most. There is no required reading, no maximum or minimum number of quotes to be used, no textual or numerical analysis necessary. Make no mistake about it, writing this essay takes hard work. I have memories of writing and re-writing drafts of my own college essay. More than anything else, I remember my frustration when my counselor told me to start over (twice) after I handed in two different drafts that, quite frankly, I thought were excellent essays. The draft of mine that she ultimately supported was one that I cared very little for at first; then, as I put more and more of myself into it, that topic, too, became my favorite.
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Discovering Karl Popper
Karl Popper
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
Objective Knowledge
Bryan Magee's clear little introduction to the thought of Karl Popper opens with the remark that Popper's name is not yet a household word among educated people. The remainder of the book is an attempt to remedy this allegedly undeserved neglect.
The educated reader might think that Popper has received adequate recognition. After all, Popper, an Austrian schoolteacher who left his native land in 1937 in anticipation of Nazi annexation, gained a world-wide reputation in 1945 with the publication of The Open Society and Its Enemies. Later, at the London School of Economics, he became Professor of Logic and Scientific method. He has now been a leading figure in the philosophy of science for many years; his Logic of Scientific Discovery, a translation of a work he had already published before he left Austria, must now be a part of almost every philosophy of science course in the English-speaking world.
In 1965 Popper became Sir Karl, and this year the Danish government chose him, at the age of seventy-one, for its Sonning Prize, previously awarded to figures like Bertrand Russell and Sir Winston Churchill, and worth around $45,000. Now, the publication of The Philosophy of Karl Popper (a collection of critical essays with replies by Popper) gives Popper a niche in the Library of Living Philosophers, alongside predecessors like Dewey, Moore, Russell, and Einstein. In fact, Popper has upstaged them all by being the first to run to two volumes.
The rewards of academic life do not normally include knighthoods and large sums of money. Is there any reason why Popper should deserve more than most other philosophers? Magee thinks there is. His short book makes or endorses an extraordinary series of claims for its subject. If they were all justified, Popper would have to be regarded as the outstanding philosopher—perhaps the outstanding thinker—of the twentieth century.
Among these claims are: Popper is the greatest living philosopher of science, and has influenced outstandingly successful scientists; Popper has solved the problem of induction, that "skeleton in the cupboard of philosophy" which has baffled philosophers from David Hume to the present day; Popper published the central arguments against logical positivism, even before that particular philosophy became fashionable in the English-speaking world; Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies contains "the most scrupulous and formidable criticism of the philosophical and historical doctrines of Marxism by any living writer" (the quotation is from Isaiah Berlin, but Magee adds: "I must confess I do not see how any rational man can have read Popper's critique of Marx and still be a Marxist."); Popper has written the most powerful defense of democracy in the English language.
Finally, Popper's latest achievement, his theory of "objective knowledge," offers solutions to the following range of problems: the relationship of bodies and minds, the objectivity of morality and aesthetics, problems of social and political change "which have engrossed the greatest philosophers…
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I think I will be a new OpenBSD user. I want to learn about this OS using it. I read that OpenBSD is friendly to new users who aren`t security experts. After the installation, how do I know if default security is applied? What should be my best pratices to keep me secure while I study and discover OpenBSD?
Please give me your advice and opinion.
Thanks in Advance.
Yet to answer your question, users of any operating system need to be vigilant about what protocols & ports are accessible to the outside world. Password strength is another topic in which you should be familiar.
As a newbie, you will save yourself significant time & frustration by:
One of the catchphrases of OpenBSD is, "Secure by Default." See www.openbsd.org/security.html for an overview of security features, including "Secure by Default."
As mentioned there, the default installation has few services running, and each is considered secure enough to be exposed directly on the Internet without fear of successful attack. As the home page of the Project website states, there have been two known remote attack vectors in the last 10 years, but no known exploits of them.
Once you change anything in the default installation -- make a configuration change, install a 3rd party package -- you are no longer running a default install, and the choices YOU make will affect your security. Knowledge is necessary, and it is gained by experience and understanding of your specific environment and specific needs.
For example: during install, you are asked if you would like to have an OpenSSH daemon started during bootup. If you request the OpenSSH server to be started, you need to know that the default configuration allows the "root" superuser to log on, and, the default configuration allows authentication via passwords. So, if you enable the SSH daemon during install, you are immediately responsible for ensuring the strength of the root password on any network the OS is exposed to, including the Internet, if directly connected to it. Poor decisions right then, such as "root" having no password or a poor password such as "root" -- will make your OS immediately insecure.
Why is this the default configuration? Primarily for ease of initial provisioning the OS remotely. Would you want a production server to have this configuration? Perhaps, depending on exposure and the strength of passwords used.
I'm one of those admins who believes passwords are an awful way to secure anything. An 8-byte ASCII password can be broken in a few days by scripted attack. So I configure all production SSH daemons I administer to deny root logon, and also to deny password authentication. Instead I configure alternate, stronger authentications such as public keys and S/Key one-time-passphrases. The specific authentication depends upon the server and its services.
Understanding your environment, and the changes you wish to make, then comprehending the impact of your choices are necessary steps to success.
A noob can secure his network with openbsd.
I disagree, spirit.
OpenBSD makes a fine network router, and an excellent firewall.
However, setting up a firewall properly requires detailed knowledge of the network applications in use, a clear understanding of TCP/IP, and competency with PF.
I have seen countless noobs stumble with PF configurations, due to lack of knowledge of PF, lack of knowledge of their network application requirements, lack of understanding of TCP/IP. For proof, I refer you to the long history of PF problems and questions posted in the "OpenBSD Security" subforum at bsdforums.org, on the misc@ mailing list, on Usenet, on IRC, and on the PF mailing list.
jggimi makes an excellent point which bares repeating (in the fear of beating yet another horse into an unrecognizable blob... ).
Throwing OpenBSD blindly at a problem is no guarantee that the result is secure. Understanding what problems need to be solved & understanding how to implement these solutions with OpenBSD (& actually doing it...) is an entirely different situation.
Or am I missing something?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
That parameter does stop the initial session, carpetsmoker. Big deal... the script kiddies just reestablish another TCP session and continue, no time really lost.
Modern ssh attack scripts attempt to brute force password authentication anyway, even if you have it disabled in sshd_config. So I also use PF to block scripted attacks and log the blocked IPs in a database. If you're blocked at my servers, I can give you a reason and a date/time of the misbehavior.
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Psychology, with minors in Cell and Molecular Biology and Chemistry.
Tammy Jechura
I am studying circadian rhythms and muscle performance. Specifically I am looking at sleep, nutriton, and handgrip strength and fatigue times with the goal to examine the interactions of these variables in college athletes.
Essentially I monitor participants for three full days, and test them on their handgrip strength and fatigue time each day. Participants wear an armband continuously throughout the testing period that takes different physiological measurements, including information about the amount of physical activity and sleep. Participants also wear a headband to sleep that collects more in-depth data about their sleeping patterns. I also have the participants take subjective measurements of the sleep each day and an overall measure of nutriton.
I am learning quite a bit about research in general. am not only learning how to create, design, and put a research project into action, but I am learning critical thinking skills. I am gaining experience in working with participants and using statistical measures to analyze data.
This project is really a combination of my interests and those of my adviser. Tammy has done quite a bit of research in circadian rhythms, with sleep in particular, and I am interested in aspects of athletic and physical performance. This project is a mixture of both of our interests as well as incorporating aspects of some of the classes I have taken. For example, the handgrip dynameter, the tool I use to measure handgrip strength and fatigue time, was introduced to me in my General Physiology biology class, and I was able to use the same tool in my RDA II class for my experiment.
The opportunity to do this project has been invaluable. Being able to design and carry out my own research project has really helped me to realize that I want to continue doing research after I graduate from Albion. This helped me no only learn more about circadian rhythms and performance, but helped me discover that I love doing research. It will also be extremely beneficial to have research experience when I am applying to graduate schools.
In the upcoming year I plan to continue this research. I will use the results from this research as a starting point for a senior thesis in psychology and I will hopefully present at the Elkin Isaac Symposium and other conferences.
This project has been amazing. We have hit some unexpected roadblocks, like having was that the company that makes the headband monitor went out of business, which was especially frustrating because the headband would give us the most detailed data about sleep habits. The company offered online data collection and analysis; however once the company was gone, they removed the database that gives the data. Luckily after a few weeks, Tammy found a way to gather some information from the device itself.
The actual collection is much more tedious, but the information is really valuable. I love doing literature searches, and it has been really wonderful exploring a topic that no one else has really studied. People have looked at the affects of jet lag on athletic performance, but other than that, not much information on sleep cycles and athletes are available, and no one, as least as far as I have seen, has connected athletic performance, sleep, and nutrition. I am really excited to explore these topics further, and, hopefully, find something no one else has.


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It's not easy to heap praise on Mel Gibson. His apparent personal conduct and views are completely unappealing and, worse, totally offensive. On screen Gibson started out with a bang in the Mad Max films and was entertaining in the first Lethal Weapon movie, but otherwise his performances and choices of roles have not been very memorable. As a director, I couldn't slog through his The Passion of the Christ; Man Without A Face was trite; and Braveheart was an overrated piece of hokum. All that aside, it's easy to declare that his Mayan action adventure film, Apocalypto, is pretty damn brilliant, maybe even a sorta-whacked out masterpiece.
The film takes place in 16th century Central America near the end of the Mayan period, just before the arrival of the Spanish. It's shot completely in the Yucatan Maya language with unknowns and non-actors, indigenous North Americans. In some ways the film is actually one long, exciting, and very brutal chase scene. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), low on his tribe's totem pole, witnesses his tribe being slaughtered and enslaved. He hides his wife, Seven (Dalia Hernandez), and child and goes on an adventure worthy of Playstation. After killing of some of the raiders he is captured by the psychotic Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo) and led to the Mayan city, a much more advanced and destructive place than anything the young villager had experienced before. Jaguar Paw manages to escape after much horrific torture and human sacrifices, and is chased as he tries to get back to save his family. It's a delirious obstacle death course of horror, as he has to make his way through the jungle using all his survival skills to outwit his captors.Continue Reading


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Team Prenda Does Not Show Up In Court; Judge Is Not Amused
from the bad-day-for-prenda deptUpdate: And here is the deep dive analysis by Ken.
We'll have a more complete report soon from Ken "Popehat" White, who was in the courtroom for the Prenda hearing today and will be writing about it for us (and for his own site), but for the quick version of what happened, with a huge assist from both Adam Steinbaugh and White, is that the judge has not made a ruling yet, but he is not at all pleased, saying "the client has been running everything. I know who the client is." There was no direct admission of who owns AF Holdings (other than that it had been transferred to another holding company, LiveWire -- as Pietz pointed out in his chart), but nothing else directly came out in court, apparently, other than Judge Wright's claim that he knows what's going on. In fact, he noted that the shell companies are "not even shells." This does not bode well for Prenda.
Of all the people ordered to appear, Team Prenda decided not to bother -- instead telling the judge they were available by phone, though the judge chose not to call. The only person (outside of Gibbs and Morgan Pietz) who did make it was Alan Cooper. But just one of the Alan Coopers. The caretaker one, who claims that his name was used illegally on various documents. In other words, as expected, Prenda and John Steele have still failed to produce another Alan Cooper who actually was associated with the shell companies. Apparently, Cooper showed up with voicemails left by John Steele which sound vaguely threatening, promising to tie him up in litigation -- possibly the defamation case that Steele filed against Cooper and the anonymous internet commenters. This will not help Steele's case. At all.
Apparently, Judge Otis Wright was not particularly pleased about this turn of events. Similarly, he blasted Paul Hansmeier for his deposition in which he tapdanced around pretty much every question. Remember, Hansmeier gave the deposition as the official designated "representative" of AF Holdings, one of the mysterious shell companies at issue in these cases, but Judge Wright pointed out that Hansmeiers evasiveness suggested he "doesn't know anything about his own firm." Or, you know, he's choosing not to say things.
Gibbs was put on the stand to testify, and apparently continued his "I was just taking orders" defense, in which he pointed the judge to Prenda. He also apparently claims he left Prenda because of the "online harassment and unwelcome exposure," though that wouldn't explain why he then became "in house counsel" for LiveWire, the shell holding company that was "acquiring" various Prenda shells. Judge Wright pointed out that Gibbs was the official counsel of record, and therefore the person responsible, even if he was attempting to throw Prenda under the bus. Gibbs also claimed that while he was "in house counsel" for LiveWire for two months, he never got paid (just like the Hansmeier deposition). It seems that no one associated with Prenda ever seems to want to pay anyone. Funny, that.
Also, Gibbs and his lawyers apparently tried to push back on the Verizon filing, which suggested that Gibbs failed to inform Verizon that the order allowing subpoenas to move forward in one of the cases had been killed by the court, and, furthermore, suggested Gibbs then lied to the court in claiming that Verizon had been informed. However, Verizon's lawyers showed up, and that apparently silenced Gibbs' lawyers.
Anyway, that's our quick update... There will be a ruling soon enough, but come back tonight when we post a more complete analysis from inside the courtroom.
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Something Happened To Him
The very first entry in this blog was about the spring training work of a young relief pitcher, so impressive that it inspired home plate ump Tim Tschida to come over to the pitcher's bench and say it was the most remarkable thing he'd seen all spring. Daniel Bard had not only struck out the Tampa Bay side, but he had cleared 100 MPH four times, and, according to Tschida he had put one in each corner of the strike zone.
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He was throwing heat tonight, whether Damon or Tex hit him or not. You had to figure, the way the game was going, that it was going to be a pitching battle at the end because, well, that's the way it started. You're right when you say that Francona has to deal with the consequences of this past week.
I have to say, even as a Yankees fan, it hurt to continuously see the 'scoreless inning' stat for Boston come up every time a new inning started. Their hitting was just struggling, even for the big guys.
If he has the mental toughness of Colby Rasmus he'll be okay. He's got a long career ahead of him and I hope someone to mentor him.
Is it just me, or is there a striking resemblance between Bard and Mr. Kyle Farnsworth? Similar looks, similar build, similar hanging slider and late-inning temperament.
Booyahkasha, Mr. Olbermann. Booyahkasha.
By the way, you keep on clowning Bill O'Reilly for me.
-EJ the Kid From New York
As the old saying goes – you can't win 'em all. Just like every other pitcher out on the mound, Bard was going to have to learn what it feels like to lose to the big boys. And by giving up 2 HRs to the Yankees, well — that's a tough way to learn but Bard is officially a big boy now. And he will feel that much better when he strikes them out in October.
I think it's a bit early to hang a 'Farnsworth' tag on him but certainly experience has taught that if a power pitcher cannot locate his pitches and effective change speeds, major league hitters will catch him. You can't just rely on throwing it by people.
What I thought was interesting watching that game was the colour analyst (and I can't remember now who it was) said that when a fastball power pitcher like Bard gets hit by his best pitch (the Damon home run), he'll often come back at the next batter with a breaking ball. Sure enough that's what he threw to Teixeira. So it wasn't so much a matter of timing him as it was being a smart hitter. But the timing point works as an overall theme to be sure.
As a wise man once said, one of the most important tools for a relief pitcher to have is a short memory….
Great blog Keith and I really enjoyed your series on Cooperstown. I have spent numerous summer weeks in Cooperstown and truly enjoy the small town atmoshpere for the Hall of Fame. I could not think of a better place for baseball to house its history and treasures. Not sure if you are a golfer but the Leatherstocking course (the course where the HOF outing is held every year) is a blast to play.
P.S. Right on target on your Commentary the other night re the health care "debate." KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
Good blog Kieth, the kid better have a short memory. I like you but you do a better job with sports than politics.
Nice job discussing Daniel Bard, although he picked a bad time to lose his first game with the Red Sox. He's going to be making the news for years to come. From what you're saying he's got some heat with his fastball, I bet the Yankees saw that and that's why they hit him well too.
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My first visit to your baseball blog Keith – watch your show daily from the Brixton in south London – big fan of your show – you do a tremendous job, and play a vitally important role in American political discourse. As an American living in London – I can say the British are hopping mad about the Republicans' NHS slurs – even if they don't articulate it loudly.
Was watching this game last week (very late at night) and couldn't help think that Bard must have been suffering from a tremendous sense of being overwhelmed by the magnitude of that moment, and environment of Yankee Stadium. I think it was mistake to put Bard in the game, unless the Red Sox knew the series (not even the sweep at that point) was a loss.
But he'll bounce back, and haunt the Yankees again and again in the next few seasons. He seems steely and determined. Maybe he wishes he had signed with the Yankees back in 2003.
I'm sorry Victorino was interfered with by a fan. I'm also sorry that a Phillies fan interfered with the Cardinals' batters on their last trip to Philadelphia. This clown used a laser pointer to distract Lugo and Pujols by shining it in their
eyes during their at-bats. They were unable to identify who
thought that was good gamesmanship. It was the only at-bat Lugo didn't reach on that game. The city of brotherly love.


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STORRS -- A valuable lesson was learned by the UConn Huskies in their first meeting with Houston earlier this season -- you can't sleep on an opponent.
The Huskies (16-4, 4-3 American Athletic Conference) can show how well they've learned from the mistake when they play host to the Cougars (11-9, 3-4) in their first conference rematch at 9 p.m. Thursday at Gampel Pavilion (CBSSN).
"We have to come out with a lot more intensity and attention to details," junior guard Ryan Boatright said. "The first game we came out flat and thought it would be an easy win, so we have to come out with a mindset that it's going to be a tough game.
"Just come out with a lot more intensity."
The Huskies' lack of intensity led to a 21-point deficit at one point in the first half -- 46-28 at the break -- and eventually a 75-71 loss despite 27 points from Shabazz Napier.
"We have a chance to re-prepare for them," UConn senior Niels Giffey said. "We know what we have to work on to beat them and once again it's rebound and transition against them. We have to come back and rebound with three or four guys, but also really make sure we get back on defense."
The availability of junior DeAndre Daniels, who has led or tied for the lead in Husky rebounding in four of the last five wins, would help. Daniels suffered a high ankle sprain on his right foot against Rutgers, sat out practice this week, and still had a walking boot on the foot a day before the game.
"We are not going to get him out here, especially if he's about 60 percent, 65 percent," said Ollie, who termed Daniels' status as "probable." "We want to see where he's at. And then if we held him out of the shootaround, I probably won't play him. We'll see at 4 o'clock (Thursday) in our shootaround, but he's progressing well."
Whether Daniels plays or not can't be used as an excuse. Houston pulled off the upset in the first game minus two key players, L.J. Rose and Danuel House.
"Everybody has to step up," Boatright said. "We have to step up in the defensive category, in the points, the rebounds. And mentally we have to step up and make plays."
No matter whom the Huskies send out, contending with 6-foot-8 junior TaShawn Thomas will be a chore for all of them. Thomas is the lone AAC player to rank among the top five in scoring (16.4) and rebounds (8.8) per game. He dropped 23 points with eight rebounds on the Huskies in the first game, and that was with a healthy Daniels in the lineup.
Ollie said having played against Thomas once before will not make matters any easier. Neither will playing an AAC opponent for the second time in a season.
"No," the coach said. "(Thomas is) doing the same thing on everybody else. We know what it takes to try and contain him, but we didn't do it last game, but hopefully, we do it better this game.
"I imagine he's gotten better. They've put in different plays, so we just have to stick to our principles."
And with UConn those principles remain the same each game: rebound and get back in transition.
"It really doesn't change," Ollie said. "We know what we have to do. We have to play UConn basketball and that's rebound, it's get back in transition and it is play unselfishly. They are going to have different sets. I mean, every coach puts in different sets for us (based on) what worked against us and what didn't work against us.
"They have played a lot of games since our game, so we kind of know their go-to sets because we do watch tape and watch film, but it's a different game when you get out there. But the most important thing is rebounding and I'm going to keep stressing that. We are 10-0 when we outrebound our opponents and we were 11-1 last year -- that's a big key for us."
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Americans flocked to the National Mall on a blue-sky, chilly-but-not-freezing Monday morning, the air electric with anticipation as President Obama prepared for a second public swearing-in and inaugural speech.
The crowds won't come close to the crush of humanity that packed the Mall four years ago – 1.8 million people, by various estimations. Any president's second inauguration, by definition, can't match the first – even for the first African-American president, whose historic election in 2008 was celebrated the world over.
In fact, Mr. Obama began his second term on Sunday, with a small swearing-in ceremony at the White House. By tradition, when the constitutionally mandated Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, falls on a Sunday, the big show takes place the next day: another oath-taking at the West front of the Capitol, the inaugural speech, the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, the balls.
But don't sell the 57th Inauguration short. If the crowd meets the expectation of 500,000 to 700,000 people, it will be the largest ever at a second public inaugural, and the fourth largest at any inauguration, behind Obama's first, President Lyndon Johnson's in 1965 (1.2 million), and President Bill Clinton's in 1993 (800,000).
And to many of those in attendance – some of whom traveled from far and wide, many of them African-American or even just plain African – Jan. 21, 2013, is just as meaningful as Jan. 20, 2009, all the more because it is also the holiday celebrating slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's an historical event," says Felicia John, a lawyer from Benin City in southern Nigeria. "I was unable to attend the last one. This time I felt I cannot fail to attend. I had to be here."
Obama is so important, Ms. John says, because he's an African-American. "If he can be president of America, then anybody from any [origin] of the world can," she says.
Rick Harwood, principal of Global Connections High School in Seattle, was on the Mall with 38 students ages 14 to 18, mostly from low-income families.
"For [the students], the first president they're aware of is an African-American. This is the first presidency they're aware of," Mr. Harwood says. The students raised $62,000 in a month to attend the inauguration. They are part of a wind ensemble here for a festival in honor of the inauguration.
Why did the students wish to travel all the way across the country to attend? "The last [presidential] debate [between Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney] was about being rich and poor – the president representing what it takes to support people who are struggling," says Harwood.
One of the students, Amanda Saeteurn, sold books to help earn the money to come. The reason she wanted to come is "change." "Obama has made a lot of changes, and they will take time to take effect," she says.
For others, Obama's second inauguration is a chance to see history again – only with better weather and room to breathe. Suzanne Dempsey, a special education teacher in Frederick, Md., who came to the first inauguration, allowed as how she didn't have to get up so early to get a decent spot.
"I wanted to feel that wonderful energy again," Ms. Dempsey says.
Dennis Rutledge, a middle-aged African-American man from D.C. (but born in Alabama, he emphasizes) was excited to see the president walk through the door of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House Monday morning for the preinaugural service.
"I'm on a high," said Mr. Rutledge.
He came four years ago, but it was so crowded around the White House he just "smelled the air" and left. This time he wanted to make sure he saw the president, so he got a primo seat on the concrete barrier by St. John's.
Judy Garth, from suburban Virginia, volunteered for the president in that critical battleground state – she was "terrified" Mr. Romney would win, she says – and decided she had to see the inauguration, which she didn't do four years ago.
"This was the last chance to do this," she says. "Who knows what's going to happen in four years?"
And what about the big style question of the day – first lady Michelle Obama's new hairdo, complete with bangs? "Undecided," says Ms. Garth.
Some came to promote a cause. Abdul Rasheed, a 25-year-old from Nigeria who recently got his green card, was handing out fliers to thousands of visitors in the cold to raise more awareness about Islam and the Arab world. He says he hopes to bring peace "by putting more information out there."
Duncan Gilchrist, a student at American University, held signs urging Obama not to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline.
Alicia Basin and Kara Leslie, students from Clarkson, Mich., came to promote the right to same-sex marriage.
"Love comes before money, and we want to remind [Obama] and Americans that we are not second-class citizens," says Ms. Leslie. "We want to get married in our own state."
For some, Obama's reelection is infused with religious meaning.
Lynette Jones, a professional cake decorator from Massillon, Ohio, bused 6-1/2 hours into the D.C. area on Saturday with her church group from the Bethel Apostolic Church.
"We're just excited that he made it to a second term," Ms. Jones says. Some members of the group got tickets from congressmen to view the parade from stands along Pennsylvania Avenue. But for others it's just a chance to be there for a historic event.
"It means a lot with him being the first black president," she adds. "It shows we can do everything."
"My favorite Bible verse is 'I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4: 13),' " she adds. "It [his winning a second term] shows that you can."
The group will board the bus right after the inauguration to get back to Ohio Monday night.
Staff writers Gail Russell Chaddock and David Grant and intern Winnie Yeung contributed to this report.


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Throughout the month of January, The ToonSeum is proud to present a series of film screenings celebrating the birthday of one of the world's most accomplished artists, Hayao Miyazaki. The filmmaker turns 70 years old on January 5th.
Often called the "Walt Disney of Japan," Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli reinvigorated the Japanese animation industry in the 1980's and 90's with a string of genre-defying masterpieces that would become international hits. But it wasn't until the success of 2001's Spirited Away that most American audiences began to discover Miyazaki's work. Largely through the efforts of PIXAR's John Lasseter (who lists Miyazaki as not only a huge influence but a great friend), many of Miyazaki's films have enjoyed broad theatrical and DVD releases.
Miyazaki's films have changed the way the world thinks about animation. Typified by wild flights of fantasy, political and ecological commentary, and meticulous and breathtakingly beautiful hand-drawn and watercolor animation, Miyazaki films often cast a spell over viewers young and old. While combining nuanced story-telling techniques and a vibrant, naturalistic mis en scene, Miyazaki's animation often subverts the viewer's expectations, with calm, reflective moments that give way to unpredictable twists and turns. Most notably, Miyazaki's protagonists are often strong, confident female characters just as his villains are often complicated, sympathetic victims of circumstance.
The following films will be screened with discussion and production notes:
January 13 at 7:00pm – Castle in the Sky (Laputa) (1986). After a daring escape from sky pirates, a young girl teams up with an orphaned miner to uncover the secrets of a magical city floating in the clouds. The second of Miyazaki's first feature length films, Laputa is full of sweeping action and vibrant characters.
January 22 at 3:00pm – My Neighbor Totoro (1988). Miyazaki's pastoral masterpiece is a story of two young girls coping with their mother's illness and resultant move to rural Japan. There they encounter a Totoro, a gentle forest spirit that guides and protects them through the turbulent time. Totoro is the antithesis of American children's movies: quiet, observant, and humane. Named by the British Film Institute as one of the Greatest Children's Movies of All Time.
January 27 at 7:00pm – Princess Mononoke (1998) Roger Ebert called it "the Star Wars of animated film," and he wasn't exaggerating. The boldest and darkest of Miyazaki's films, Mononoke is a complex Buddhist parable in which spiritual forces do battle with ragged human imperialists. Lush and provocative, Mononoke marks Miyazaki's first foray into computer-generated imagery, accentuating several scenes with bizarre movement, though every single cel remained hand-drawn.
In addition to the screenings, the ToonSeum will conduct a poll allowing fans to vote for their favorite Miyazaki films and characters.
Films are all family-friendly, however Princess Mononoke contains adult themes and war-related violence. Admission for the screenings by donation only.