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Clarkson University Doctoral Students Recognized For Underwater Research
Two Clarkson University electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. students have been nationally recognized for their underwater laser detection and ranging (lidar) research.
David Illig of Norfolk, N.Y., received a Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship from the United States Department of Defense. The scholarship will fund Illig's tuition for three years of Ph.D. study at Clarkson. It also guarantees him a full-time research position at Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent River, Md., upon graduating. There were only 142 SMART scholarships awarded nationwide out of 2,000 applications.
Luke Rumbaugh of Canton, N.Y., earned second place and $2,000 at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Oceanic Engineering Society Student Poster Competition in San Diego, Calif. Rumbaugh's research on fiber lasers for hybrid lidar was one of only 16 submissions that were selected for the competition from 100 received abstracts.
"This competition gave us great exposure. We got to show our work to experts and users in the underwater community," Rumbaugh said. "To be recognized with the prize is really exciting and motivating."
Both Illig and Rumbaugh also have previously received fellowships that have enabled them to spend summers at the Navy doing research.
The underwater lidar researched by Rumbaugh and Illig aims to develop new technology to better operate in cloudy or murky waters, according to William Jemison, professor and chair of Clarkson's Department Electrical & Computer Engineering and vice provost for research.
"We're trying to develop hardware and signal processing to see through this challenging optical environment," Jemison said.
Jemison praised Illig and Rumbaugh for their recent accomplishments.
"They're both doing great work and are learning the value of collaboration. We have benefitted greatly from the expertise of several other faculty members from Clarkson and other universities and we have a great relationship with our Navy sponsor and collaborators. The synergy between their projects allows everyone to learn from each other," he said.
Illig was glad the fellowship provided both for his educational expenses and the first steps of his career.
"I'm really excited about this work area," he said. "It's great that I'll have a guaranteed job to continue the kind of research I'm doing at the university."
Dr. Linda Mullen, an electronics engineer with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, worked with both Illig and Rumbaugh during their summers at the Navy and praised them for their talent and dedication.
"I believe the education they received at Clarkson prepared them well for their work in my lab and is preparing them well for their future scientific career," Mullen said.
(Illig and Rumbaugh's research is sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Naval Research.)
(A photograph for media use is available athttp://clarkson.edu/news/photos/oceanawards.jpg .)
Photo Caption: David Illig (left) and Luke Rumbaugh, two Clarkson University electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. students, have been nationally recognized for their underwater laser detection and ranging (lidar) research. Illig has received a SMART (Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation) scholarship from the Department of Defense and Rumbaugh earned second place at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Oceanic Engineering Society Student Poster Competition.

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Companies are rushing to upgrade from the APO 4.1 and 5.0 versions to the new SAP SCM 7.0 As the purse strings are loosening up this year, companies are spending more money in ECC and application upgrades.
What are the big differences between the 4.0/5.0 vs. 7.0? There are some marginal improvements that the tech shop may admire but anything for the planning community?!
We also hear that the planners have not been using the Statistical modeling features in APO. Will upgrading to 7.0 persuade the planners to use the Stat Models more? Not just more, just even barely?
IT implementation teams say that Stat models are not a priority given the budget constraints they have. So more millions before and no stat models. Now five years and many millions later, we have a shiny new upgrade and again the stat models are not a priority.
I have been preaching Usability for the past few years.
Put together fine tools – But help the users in making the transition to the tool – give them better understanding – Make the new tool more usable!
Give them the reports they need. Provide them an exception based workflow!
APO has good statistical models. They will help you move the peanut forward but only if these models are better understood and leveraged.
We just re-launched the marketing campaign for our Usability Consulting – Model tuning and model matching to product profiles are important elements of the Usability training.
Once implemented the Usability project will harmonize the use of models across planners from various geographies for the same business/product family. There will be streamlined work flow.
We help you answer the following questions:
- Am I using a Pareto Approach in my APO planning process?
- How can I leverage APO DP to improve our forecast accuracy?
- Why does APO mostly give me flat forecasts? How do I fix this?
- What are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Sigma and Theta? How do I leverage these parameters?
- What is the correct level to model so as to improve the overall accuracy at the SKU level?
- What are weighting profiles? How does it affect my final forecast?
- How can I control time trend using trend dampening profiles?
- Are there products and customers that are better left to APO's automated modeling strategy?
- Which models to choose for what family of SKUs?
- What are custom modeling profiles?
- How is APO helping us simplify and improve the promotional planning process?
- How do I create Multiple Linear Regression Models in APO?
- Are we using the system defined error metrics in APO? Why are they different from the classic MAPE calculations?
- How do you conduct phase-in/phase-out of products?
- When should I not use the Croston's Model?
- Why am I getting 9,000+ alerts every morning?
Perhaps the stress test of your new implementation or upgrade will be to ask the team if they can answer the above questions.
Our Model tuning and training project can be launched any time -but it is better to launch it sometime during the middle of the configuration calendar before the go-live. This way the training to the planners can be combined with the Navigation training.
The benefits will be substantial: improved forecasting process, workflow and significant supply chain benefits and cost savings.
What does it cost you? Not much – perhaps one-fiftieth of what you paid for the APO DP implementation or some where in that ball park. We finish everything in ten to twelve calendar weeks.
The detailed brochure on this Model Tuning and Training service is available for download at http://demandplanning.net/documents/SAP-APO-DP_ModelTuning_v2.pdf.
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Practicing for the first time this season after serving a six-game suspension, Broncos linebacker Von Miller said Wednesday that he fit right in.
"Oh, it was great," Miller said. "I was excited to be out there with all my teammates and my coaches, the linebacker corps. It was great. It was fun. That was the thing I was looking forward to the most: not the game so much, but just getting out there with guys, running around, building that esprit de corps. I think that I had a very good day today."
Broncos coach John Fox confirmed that, saying Miller looks like he's ready to step in and contribute immediately.
"He had an outstanding practice," Fox said. "Obviously, he's got fresh legs and ready to roll and excited about the opportunity this week."
Miller said he has been working out and is in great shape, and he'll be ready to go on Sunday night in Indianapolis. Getting Miller back at full speed may make the best team in the NFL better.


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As a simple example, consider the graph of the function for , which appears below.
If we take the region between the graph and the x-axis and revolve it about the x-axis, we obtain the solid pictured in the next graph.
To help you in plotting surfaces of revolution, A Maple procedure called revolve has been written. The commands used to produce the graphs are shown below. The revolve procedure, as well as the RevInt, LeftInt, and LeftDisk procedures described below are all part of the CalcP7 package, which must be loaded first. The last line in the example below shows the optional argument for revolving the graph of about the line instead of the default .
> with(CalcP7): > f := x -> x^2+1; > plot(f(x),x=-2..2); > revolve(f(x),x=-2..2); > revolve(f(x),x=-2..2,y=-2);
The revolve command has other options that you should read about in the help screen. For example, you can speed the command up by only plotting the surface generated by revolving the curve with the nocap argument, and you can also plot a solid of revolution formed by revolving the area between two functions. Try the following examples. (Note: The last example shows how to use revolve with a piecewise defined function using the piecewise command.)
> revolve({f(x),0.5},,x=-2..2,y=-1); > revolve(cos(x),x=0..4*Pi,y=-2,nocap); > revolve({5,x^2+1},,x=-2..2); > g := x-> piecewise(x<0,-x+1/2,x^2-x+1/2); > revolve(g(x),x=-1..2);
It turns out that the volume of the solid obtained by revolving the
region between the graph and the -axis about the -axis can be
determined from the integral
Where does this formula come from? To help you understand it, two more Maple procedures, RevInt and LeftDisk, have been written. The procedure RevInt sets up the integral for the volume of a solid of revolution as shown below. The Maple commands evalf and value can be used to obtain a numerical or analytical value.
The integral formula given above for the volume of a solid of revolution comes, as usual, from a limit process. Recall the rectangular approximations we used for plane regions. If you think of taking one of the rectangles and revolving it about the x-axis, you get a disk whose radius is the height of the rectangle and thickness is , the width of the rectangle. The volume of this disk is . If you revolve all of the rectangles in the rectangular approximation about the x-axis, you get a solid made up of disks that approximates the volume of the solid of revolution obtained by revolving the plane region about the x-axis.
To help you visualize this approximation of the volume by disks, the LeftDisk procedure has been written. The syntax for this command is similar to that for revolve, except that the number of subintervals must be specified. The examples below produce approximations with five and ten disks. The latter approximation is shown in the graph below.
> LeftDisk(f(x),x=-2..2,5); > LeftDisk(f(x),x=-2..2,10);
In order to calculate the volume of a solid of revolution, you can either use the int command implementing the formula above or use the Maple procedure RevInt which sets up the integral for you. Try the examples below to see the different types of output.
> Pi*int(f(x)^2,x=-2..2); > evalf(Pi*int(f(x)^2,x=-2..2)); > RevInt(f(x),x=-2..2); > value(RevInt(f(x),x=-2..2)); > evalf(RevInt(f(x),x=-2..2));


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Year 2015, Volume 7, Issue 8, December 2015
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In the first issue of the journal Electronic Physician for 2019, we have several papers including three Randomized Controlled Trials, an in-vitro experimental study, a systematic review and meta-analysis, two instrument development studies, two case reports, and several original articles from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Jordan. Read more...
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Jordan Loveridge made just three of his 10 shot attempts on Saturday afternoon, as Utah suffered a 76-59 defeat to USC.
Jason Washburn's 6-of-13 effort produced 13 points. But his four rebounds represent a low for Pac-12 play.
Aaron Dotson didn't suit up, a knee injury forcing him to the bench and robbing the Utes of a potential scorer.
Utah's offense didn't play well at the Huntsman Center against a USC team that hadn't won a league road game in almost two years. But the Utes haven't been playing well offensively since defeating Boise State in early December.
Against the Trojans, Utah struggled to get into any kind of flow when it had possession. The lack of such created prolonged scoring droughts at the wrong times.
"We had an inability to complete shots at the basket tonight, open shots certainly," Utes coach Larry Krystkowiak said. "But I give their defense a lot of credit. They are not a turnover-minded team, but at the point of attack it's hard to get shots off against them. They draw the line in the sand, and they make it really hard to score baskets."
The Utes went 4 of 15 from 3-point range. They went 13 of 21 from the free-throw line. They shot 34.5 percent from the field in the first half and 37.5 percent overall.
Normally a team like Utah can find some scoring in transition, but the Utes haven't run the fast break effectively this season. They scored just 10 points off the bench.
"Personally, I don't think I came out to play the way I have been," Washburn said. "My team needs me to do that, and I didn't do that tonight. That's the only thing I can speak on. My team plays hard, and my coach coaches even harder."


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Like many people, I was a bit apprehensive when it was announced that Baxter Boulevard would be closed to traffic for several months.
But the traffic nightmares haven't materialized, and the road closure has been a boon to legions of bikers, walkers and joggers.
For me, the lack of cars has transformed the experience of walking the boulevard.
I find myself aware of nature and the beauty of the water and marsh, things I never paid much attention to when cars were zooming by.
Many cities, including Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., close certain roads to cars on weekends or Sundays.
Now that we know the sky won't fall in, why not close Baxter Boulevard on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. year round, or at least from April through November?
Carole Miller
Newtown parents using emotional manipulation
I understand that many of the Newtown parents do not want to be in the position they are in.
A demented, malevolent person unleashed a horrible evil on them.
No doubt, these parents would give anything for this incident to have never happened.
I do not know these people, but I mourn for them and their children. I can only imagine what they are going through.
They feel compelled to "do something" to make their life mean something. And so we must now legislate gun control by emotion and manipulation in deference to these parents.
They have hired Washington lobbyists and will not be denied time with senators.
At the end of meetings, at least one of the mothers leaves behind a card with a picture of her deceased child.
We have ceded moral authority to them to legislate gun control, and we dare not question their mission to limit our constitutional rights.
They have said they will never give up, that they will keep fighting. No doubt, whatever legislation is passed is only a first step in their quest to disarm the law-abiding.
They are from Connecticut, yet they had a 15-minute face-to-face meeting with my senator, Susan Collins.
I would never be granted this access because my moral authority is merely as a Maine voter asking my sworn elected representative to uphold my constitutional rights. In the face of the moral authority of victims, the rights of citizens hold no sway.
I do not blame these devastated parents, but I do hold accountable those who exploit this tragedy as well as those who allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated.
We are being asked to sacrifice our freedom for perceived security.
In the end, we will have neither.
Betsy Gleysteen
Obituaries contain many grammatical errors
I understand that you seldom correct obituaries before publication because they are like paid advertisements.
However, I've been reading them for many decades and wished that the newspaper person reading them would have corrected the many historical and definition errors I've seen.
For example, many Marine Corps veterans supposedly served in the "Corp.," the abbreviation for "corporation."
The recent obituary for Art Frederiksen, who attended Falmouth High School with me, said he served in a "Calvary" unit in World War II.
"Calvary" is where Jesus was crucified. "Cavalry" is equestrian.
Obituary writers and scanners could learn a lot by Googling "obituary errors."
However, within those results is this, which might apply to this letter: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written."
Dick Dreselly
LePage budget looks for cuts from vulnerable seniors
The governor's budget calls for major cuts to the Medicare Savings Program and eliminates the Low Cost Drug for the Elderly and Disabled Program. By proposing these drastic measures, Maine is turning to its oldest and poorest citizens and demanding they come up with a way to fix Maine's budget woes by cutting back or eliminating their health care, their life-saving medications and, for many, their ability to stay in their own homes.
The Low Cost Drug for the Elderly and Disabled Program provides discounts on generic drugs for all enrollees and on brand-name drugs for people with certain serious health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and multiple sclerosis. It also makes certain drugs more affordable for low-income Medicare beneficiaries.
The Medicare Savings Program helps pay for Part B premiums for Medicare, which covers many important services, including doctor visits, preventive care, ambulance services, skilled nursing care and outpatient care and medically necessary supplies such as wheelchairs and walkers.
Is discontinuing these essential programs really the answer to our state's budget problems?
The Low Cost Drug for the Elderly and Disabled Program and the Medicare Savings Program must be maintained. Those affected by these budget cuts are our friends and neighbors. For many of them, cutting back on their health care and their prescription drugs could endanger their lives.
I am 90 years old, and I find this unacceptable. Older and at-risk Mainers need to know now that their benefits won't be taken away. I hope our legislators do the right thing and restore funding to the Low Cost Drug for the Elderly and Disabled and the Medicare Savings programs.
Jane Magnus
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Thank you, Sen. Collins, for background check vote
We urge all Mainers who continue to support the federal background checks improvement bill to write a letter of thanks to Sen. Susan Collins for having had the fortitude and integrity to vote for it, in spite of threats brought to bear by the National Rifle Association leadership (who no longer represent the majority of their membership on this issue, by the way).
The Senate defeated the bill with only three Republican votes in favor, but it will be heard again.
Her vote will be remembered with appreciation when critics attempt to use it against her, and she deserves to hear of this support from each one of us, to help sustain her conviction.
For a start, we say: "Thank you, Sen. Collins."
Nancy and David Nyberg
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Each week, we'll ask our stable of scribes to weigh in on the three most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below.
Surprise Teams | Teams Likely to Fall | Rookie Coaches
Which team is set up for the biggest fall next season?
Steve Aschburner, NBA.com: However many victories people expect the Denver Nuggets to cough back from their total of 57 last season, I think it will be more. Matching last year's ensemble-driven performance was going to be tough enough with their core of Andre Iguodala on the court, George Karl on the bench and Masai Ujiri in the front office. That Musketeers stuff is hard in a star-driven league. Now, with a rookie head coach (Brian Shaw), a personnel dip defensively (losing Corey Brewer and Kosta Koufos), Danilo Gallinari's recovery and mercenary/journeyman summer additions (Nate Robinson, J.J. Hickson, Randy Foye), I think the Nuggets' slide well into the lottery.
Fran Blinebury, NBA.com: Oh, let's take a 57-win team and blow it up. Mission accomplished by Nuggets ownership. The expected slippage with the departure of Karl, Ujiri and Iguodala could turn into an avalanche of defeat and disappointment.
Jeff Caplan, NBA.com: The Grizzlies keep coming back to me as a team that could easily slip, a team that let go of the coach that built the program, a team that still hasn't addressed its glaring need for shooting, although signing an injury-prone Mike Miller and being in talks with Mo Williams is progress. However, the team I can't help believe will ride the biggest, most disappointing slide is the New York Knicks. The brains on the floor, Jason Kidd, is coaching in Brooklyn. Aging, injury-prone players abound. The No. 2 seed last season couldn't get past Indiana in the second round and the Pacers, along with the Bulls and Nets (heck, maybe even Atlanta with a new coach and key personnel changes) will all be improved. At best the Knicks are a No. 5 seed in the top-heavy East and any championship talk that wafted through Madison Square Garden last season will likely heat up again just a short subway ride away.
Scott Howard-Cooper, NBA.com: Utah. As much as it pains me as a long-time Jazz proponent, this season could be a harder fall than a fall from playoff contention. They are much thinner than before and now need Derrick Favors, Gordon Hayward, Trey Burke, Enes Kanter and Alec Burks to play big.
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: Don't be shocked if Denver goes from the 3 seed to the lottery. It's difficult to predict exactly what they'll do, because Shaw will be a very different coach than Karl, but their defense (which ranked 11th last season) will certainly take a big step backward with the departure of Iguodala. Kosta Koufos was more important to that team than most people realize, and they'll miss Gallinari's shooting as he recovers from ACL surgery.
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: The Philadelphia 76ers don't even have a coach yet. They should be the runaway winners here, especially when you consider the fact that there isn't a tougher crowd to deal with anywhere than Philadelphia sports fans. Most of the pessimists believe they are headed for an awfully tough season with this latest rebuilding adventure. It could be even worse that any of us imagined if they don't find the right coach to lead this mismatched bunch. New general manager Sam Hinkie has stripped the roster down and is going full-blown rebuild without the one player (All-Star point guard Jrue Holiday, who was traded to New Orleans) who gave this crew a little spark last season. As my main man Bubba Sparxxx said years ago, this could get UGLY!
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com's All Ball blog: I think Denver could be in for a fall. They've lost the Coach of the Year in Karl, Iguodala made a play for the Bay, and they also traded away their starting center, Kosta Koufos. I know Shaw will be a good NBA coach for a long time, and Denver still has some pieces (Andre Miller, Ty Lawson), but they're in that dangerous middle ground between being a contender and a pretender. And it doesn't take much to slide back down that hill.


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Stonington - In the densely settled village of Stonington Borough, Dodge Paddock and the adjacent Beal Preserve provide a rare pocket of unbuilt landscape, with dirt paths instead of sidewalks leading past tall meadow grasses instead of manicured lawns.
The property, between Little Narragansett Bay and the end of Wall Street, took a pummeling during Superstorm Sandy last fall. The tidal force of the storm tore a gaping hole in the seawall at the northeast corner of the property. It flattened dunes at the other end and threw tons of sand, heavy rocks and debris onto the meadow.
"It's a gorgeous piece of land, but it's so fraught with issues," said Beth Sullivan, one of the Stonington stewardship representatives for the Avalonia Land Conservancy, which owns the parcels that total about 3.6 acres. "This is maintained by a few of us volunteers, but now this is way beyond the scope of what a couple of guys and ladies with shovels can do."
The area, just a few feet above sea level, has long been prone to drainage problems from the borough stormwater that flows through there, causing a small pond to stagnate and become a haven for mosquito breeding. The storm worsened the problem, plugging one drainage pipe and breaking another beyond repair. Tidal surge flooded the paddock, once a grazing area for livestock and the site of a pottery factory and a sawmill in the 1800s, along with the homes that ring the property.
Avalonia volunteers and contractors, Sullivan said, gathered the storm debris and rocks into piles and shored up areas where the seawall was undermined by filling a gully next to the wall with rubble tossed ashore by Sandy. But the organization is still figuring out how to remedy other problems worsened by the storm, trying to balance its mission to preserve places in their natural state as much as possible, while also accounting for the unique circumstances of a property in the middle of a village neighborhood, plus the realities of rising sea levels and increasing frequency of intense storms.
"Avalonia's responsibility is to the land, but do we also bear a responsibility to protect the neighbors?" Sullivan asked. "We can't fight Mother Nature, and we can't manage this as a manicured urban park. We met with townspeople in November, and some want us to do things immediately. They don't understand it takes time."
Avalonia has gotten help from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. After doing some elevation surveys and assessing the damage, Roger Wolfe, mosquito management coordinator for DEEP, said he and colleagues have developed a plan to dig out a swale to improve drainage and allow more tidal flushing of the pond.
"That should eliminate the mosquito breeding problem, and allow some fish access for biological mosquito control," he said. "We're putting a permit application together."
DEEP plans to do the work at the property, he said. But people need to understand that shorelines are dynamic, he said, and attempts to totally prevent the reshaping power of future storms like Sandy would just be futile.
"Things are not going to go back the way they were," he said. "There is a huge educational component to this."
As a nonprofit agency, Avalonia doesn't have the money to repair the broken seawall, Sullivan said, and even if did, it probably wouldn't. The tidal surge of Sandy found its way over, under and through the wall, and future big storms would do the same, she said.
"Fixing this would be really expensive," she said, looking over the gap in the wall. "The water just funnels right though here. This (gap) may just stand here as a testament to the power of the storm."
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The war between England and Australia continues in 2009.
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Major Wedgie wrote:THE FIRST TEST ENDS IN A DRAW
Well the first test has ended in a draw after England sank incredibly low with their time wasting efforts. England failed to make a century in two innings of batting (19 wickets) and also just barely reached Australia's one innings total of 674 (made with a mere 6 wickets).
English fans must be proud of their team which must resort to time wasting tactics to get a draw. Australia arrived to play by the rules and the spirit of the game, and it was a shame to see an already humiliated opposition sink so low for the sake of a draw.
Well lets not forget the great towel time wasting in 2005 to draw. Thats why Ponting did not kick up a fuss about it and called it "pretty ordinary" because he remembers doing it in 2005.
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The Drudge Report notes that left-wing media aren't faring too well at the moment. Crashing the Gate, by Markos Moulitsos of the Daily Kos, has sold an astonishingly low 3,630 copies, according to Nielsen's Bookscan. And Air America's already dismal New York ratings have plummeted another 30%.
I doubt that those data mean anything in particular. I think a lot of people are suffering from news fatigue. My guess is that more people will tune out politics as the weather warms up, and numbers generally for politics-related media will be down until the Congressional races get going in earnest in the fall.
UPDATE: Roger Simon has thoughts on these numbers, especially Kos' book sales. His conclusion:
When it comes to politics these days, the public is not just fed up with Bush. It's fed up with "all of the above."
Roger does note, though, that Glenn Reynolds' book is selling well.
ONE MORE: I was remiss in failing to note that not all political media are waning. Our friends at Bill Bennett's radio show remind us that Bill has just signed a satellite radio deal. His show will now be appearing on Sirius Radio's Patriot channel. Bill's show debuted during the same week as Air America. Air America got the publicity, but Bill got the listeners. (This isn't a big surprise, really, since Bill is about 50,000 times smarter than Al Franken and Randi Rhodes.) His audience has grown steadily, and the satellite outlet promises to add still more listeners.
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We know the ebb and flow of physical media and how it could very well change with age. With the internet raging, CDs are being put out to pasture.
And before you say "This is speculation," it is not. Billboard reports that "Best Buy has just told music suppliers that it will pull CDs from its stores come July 1."
With the fact that inventory of CDs are hard to move in the digital age of iTunes, Amazon, and more, the stores are looking to pull back or pull out completely, and Best Buy isn't the only one.
"Target has demanded to music suppliers that it wants to be sold on what amounts to a consignment basis. Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it is shipped within 60 days, and must pay to ship back unsold CDs for credit. With consignment, the inventory risk shifts back to the labels," says Billboard's sources.
The speculation is also lumping DVDs into the mix, as Target was also negotiating their terms of payment to DVD distributing (i.e. paying for them only when they are scanned at the register, VS buying a supply and returning them).
What the article doesn't note is the resurgence of vinyl preparation and that people have been partaking in purchasing vinyl rather than digital copies, and even some vinyl pressings come with a digital download code, and if there will be any effect on the physical pressings of vinyl for artists as well as CDs.
The digital age is alive and booming, ladies and gents. For those of you who still have CD collections, hold them closely. They might become relics in the near future, to post up with the cassette tapes and 8-tracks.
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Look to Build Momentum After Win Last Week
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Coming off a six-stroke win at the Apr. 10-11 Princeton Invitational, the Yale men's golf team will look to repeat its success Apr. 16-17 at the Century Country Club in Purchase, N.Y., where it will host the Century Intercollegiate.
While last year's tournament was at Caves Valley in Owings Mills, Md., the tough conditions left the Bulldogs in fifth place overall, with a team score of +57.
This year, however, the Elis will look to capitalize on the momentum they generated at last week's Princeton Invitational, which they won with an overall score of -4, a full six shots ahead of second place, which was filled by Ivy League rival Penn.
"We're looking to keep the momentum going," said head coach Colin Sheehan '97. "I've just got a good feeling about our chances and I know the team is excited for the opportunity to get out and play on the course."
A number of golfers on the Yale team will be especially looking to make their mark at the Century Golf Club, after strong performances last week.
Leading the charge will be freshman Sam Bernstein and senior captain Thomas McCarthy, who finished last weekend's tournament at -5 and -3 to finish in first and second place, respectively. As a junior last year, McCarthy tied for second place at the Intercollegiate, shooting rounds of 75 and 73 to finish just one stroke behind Chance Pipitone of Penn.
Also likely to be in the hunt are junior Jeffrey Hatten and sophomore Bradley Kushner. Hatten played well last weekend to finish at +3 overall in a tie for seventh place, while Kusher finished just seven strokes behind McCarthy at last year's equivalent competition.
The course at the Century Golf Club, however, is not likely to be too easy. Designed by Colt & Alison, it opened in 1908 and features a number of tough holes.
Still, when interviewed last Sunday about the team's preparation for the tournament, McCarthy said the team would treat it no differently to any other.
"Looking to next week, I don't think anything will change in terms of preparation," he said. "Simply rest up, take a day off, and then get right back into the swing of things on Tuesday."
The Bulldogs will take to the course Saturday morning.
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Ex-governor of Louisiana
Dave Treen, 81, who in 1979 became the first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction but lost a reelection bid to the controversial Democrat Edwin Edwards four years later, died Thursday of complications from a respiratory illness, said his son David Treen Jr.
Treen did not have to face Edwards in 1979 because the popular governor couldn't run for three consecutive terms. Treen defeated Louis Lambert but lost in a landslide four years later to Edwards, who is serving a 10-year sentence for trying to rig the riverboat casino licensing process during his fourth term.
Treen's term was marked by a downturn in Louisiana's oil economy, with prices and production falling, cutting sharply into the state's revenue.
David Connor Treen was born in Baton Rouge, La., on July 16, 1928, and graduated with honors from Tulane Law School in 1960. He was an Air Force lawyer, then had a private practice in New Orleans.
Treen lost three times to Rep. Hale Boggs, attacking his support of the Voting Rights Act. Treen was elected to Congress in 1972 in a suburban New Orleans district.
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Winning Iowa football coach
Forest Evashevski, 91, a college football star at Michigan who coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories in the 1950s, died of cancer Friday at his home in Petoskey, Mich., said his son, Forest Evashevski Jr.
Evashevski was hired at the University of Iowa in 1952, seven years after the school's last winning season. He inherited a program that had languished in the bottom of the Big Ten Conference.
But in the 1956 season, the Hawkeyes reached the Rose Bowl, defeating Oregon State University, 35-19. The team came to Pasadena again in the 1958 season, beating UC Berkeley, 38-12.
Evashevski was 52-27-4 at Iowa, winning three Big Ten championships. He became athletic director after the 1960 season.
Evashevski, born Feb. 19, 1918, in Detroit, was captain of the 1940 team at the University of Michigan, where as a single-wing quarterback he primarily blocked for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. In 1941, Evashevski became football coach at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. He served in the Navy during World War II, then took assistant coaching jobs at Syracuse and Michigan State universities. He was head coach at Washington State University in 1950-51.
Evashevski was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
Cordner Nelson
Co-founder of track publication
Cordner Nelson, 91, a writer and editor who co-founded Track & Field News, now considered the authoritative publication on the sport, died Oct. 26 at his home in Carmel after battling cancer, the magazine announced.
A San Diego native born Aug. 6, 1918, Nelson got his first taste of major track and field competition as a teenager while attending the 1932 Summer Olympics at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with his father and younger brother, Bert.
The brothers launched Track & Field News in 1948, with Cordner serving as editor and Bert handling the business side as publisher. Cordner Nelson reported on track meets, wrote about athletic training and techniques and compiled statistics. According to the International Assn. of Athletics Foundation, Track & Field News' lists of world rankings are now recognized as the definitive authority in the sport. Nelson stepped down as editor in 1970 but continued to write for the magazine, which calls itself "the bible of the sport."
Nelson also wrote books related to track and field, including such nonfiction offerings as "The Jim Ryun Story," about the notable U.S. miler, as well as the 1969 novel "The Miler."
Nelson covered every Olympics from 1952 through 2000, plus scores of major international competitions. He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1988.
A graduate of what is now the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Nelson served in the Army during World War II in China, Burma and India.
Nelson studied creative writing in graduate school at the University of Oklahoma for two years after the war until starting Track & Field News.
He is credited with inventing an early "fantasy sports" game based on track and field statistics that was devised at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
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Manu Ginobili has spent a career defying the ordinary on the court, routinely diming through opponents' legs, using his punch-drunk lefty style to throw defenders off and squeezing through the most unlikely crevices to get his shot off. He also helped popularize the Euro-step (which was being executed as early as the 1960s, as Elgin Baylor shows us) to a fresh generation.
But one step Wednesday night in San Antonio might be as noteworthy as any he's taken. Guarding Detroit's Rodney Stuckey on a drive right before the half, he slipped. Trying to get up, he slipped again, before realizing that his left sneaker had become obsolete.
Who is more surprised: Manu or Nike? There are certain things that happen in life that, as grandma puts it, just don't make no sense.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Snow Day - a Teacher's Best Friend
I don't know that non-teachers would ever understand the incredible relief and joy I felt when school was cancelled for the past two days due to snow. I wasn't the only one stuck to the television and weather websites on Tuesday night, crossing my fingers, thinking "Please, oh please... please let's have a snow day!" I imagined I could hear my colleagues shouting YESSSSS! in to their phones as we got our snow chain calls late that night.
How shameful, you might think. Teachers have it easy, you might suggest. After all, teachers only work until 3, have summers off, and enjoy several holidays built in to the yearly calendar. So why the giddy excitement over a snow day?
Classroom teachers have it bad. I'm serious. It's gotten so out of control that the "teaching-is-my-life" mantra I used to wear like a badge, has become "teaching's gonna kill me, and lots of the folks I work with." I'm not exaggerating. Spend a day or two in my shoes and see what's happening.
Were it not for the pure satisfaction in watching children grow as readers and writers, the eye-opening discoveries that occur in math class, and the simple sense of community that comes from relationship-building, I would have totally lost it by now. However, in the scheme of NCLB and the desperation of local administrators to raise scores, time spent teaching and learning has decreased dramatically, while test-taking and useless transportations of paper have taken over.
I teach after school twice a week, and on Wednesdays I stay after for the required monthly staff meeting, as well as one or two additional "staff development" Wednesday meetings, often at the whim of my principal. On the two other days, I stay in my classroom after hours to clean up, and to be honest, to catch up. One school day can result in an enormous mess on one's desk, with no chance to get to it during the day. During the week I reach my home exhausted, with no desire to do much of anything. And yet, you can find me at my desk, after dinner, doing school work until 10 or so.
Typically, I spend most of my weekend at my desk in my chilly basement, grading papers, doing research for my lessons, locating appropriate reading materials (I don't have enough books at my students' reading and English levels), calling parents, and marking the numerous district assessments I am obligated to give - as well as completing special answer sheets and tracking sheets and data sheets. I also spend the weekend preparing fundraisers, planning and organizing parent workshops, and completing referral forms. I should not leave out lesson-planning, which is the most time consuming of tasks. Those that wish to control, rather than see what and how we teach, require pages and pages of descriptive lesson plans. (My principal has not stepped foot in my room even once this year...)
So yeah, I wanted these snow days. I prayed for them, danced, chanted, and wished for them.
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- Okibum said...
Congrats on your snow days/catching up days. My students never understand that teachers love snow days as much as they do!
- February 12, 2010 at 7:38 PM
I enjoyed those snow days as much as you and the kids did. I did absolutely NOTHING because I figured I would have been in school so it was a gift!
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- February 13, 2010 at 11:31 AM
Didn't get snow days here. We still got to trudge through snow, in the dark for another weary day. Working with young people, educating and enlightening them should be such an enjoyment, but it's not. NCLB, the economy with the threat of job cuts is part of it. Educating in the midst of such drastic technological and societal changes is such a challenge!
Teachers have always had long hours, little pay and fewer thanks. Take care of yourself! Let some things go if you have to. Get plenty of rest and do stuff you enjoy. When I was in the classroom, I stopped taking papers home because I felt like I never got away from work. Now, I make Wednesdays Latte Day. Find silly little things to celebrate!
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Rahima Abdul Majeed lives in Kabul, Afghanistan. She needed a loan of $25 to expand her tailor shop. She didn't get the money from her local bank; instead, she received the money from someone halfway around the world who saw and funded her request on Kiva.org, a microlending site. Working with a local financial company that handled all the local logistics and serviced the loan, Rahima was able to use that money to buy an electronic sewing machine and increase the money she earns to help support her family. She also repaid the loan within its specified eight-month term, so that money can potentially be used to support the lifelong ambitions of another entrepreneur.[2]
Rahima is just one of the tens of thousands of entrepreneurs who have received a muchneeded loan via Kiva.org to start or expand their businesses. Kiva's mission, to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty,[3] is an amazing example of the sustainable network's ability to reach out across all corners of the globe to establish connections and relationships that create change. It's something our tactile world simply could not have accomplished at this scale.
It is this pervasiveness that makes today's network one of the most powerful platforms we have. Its ability to spread out and infiltrate parts of the world that have typically been impervious to new technologies is simply uncanny. The network's ability to deliver equitable access to information and opportunity on a scale never before possible accounts for its rapid rise in adoption, especially over the past decade. Its ubiquity represents an unprecedented opportunity to reach, connect, involve, and impact everyone and everything.
If that last sentence seems a little outrageous to you, perhaps a little too politically correct or just pure starry-eyed optimism, you might consider that the network has already done it, and has done it all in a relatively short amount of time. While we have concerned ourselves over the past few years with the war in Iraq, or the rise and fall of our leaders, or the stock market crash and the subprime mortgage crisis, the network has been reaching out and achieving astronomical growth rates. New technology breakthroughs and network architectural evolutions have taken place, and the industry has found ways to extend broadband's reach and expand the offerings we all enjoy as users. So, the sustainable network isn't just about to happen. It just is.
After all, it was just 40 years ago, in 1969, when Leonard Kleinrock—the Christopher Columbus of the Internet and a computer science professor at the University of California in Los Angeles—and a group of graduate students connected to a computer at Stanford University and tried to send it some data. Theirs was the first real-world attempt to make the concept of Arpanet—the idea to connect computers over phone lines led by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advance Research Project Agency (ARPA)—a reality. They only got as far as "LOG" in their attempt to type LOGIN before it crashed, but there was no turning back.[4]
After a lot of work by luminaries such as Vinton Gray Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, and many innovations later, the first public demonstration of Arpanet was successfully conducted in 1972 among 40 machines. In 1970, Douglas Engelbart received a patent for a "computer mouse" (it would be years later when the inventor learned that it had been licensed to a little company called Apple for "something like $40,000").[5] Being of British heritage, I am pleased to say that Queen Elizabeth went online and successfully sent the first royal email message in 1976.
By 1981, Arpanet had 213 hosts, with a new host added every 20 days. The following year, the term "Internet" was first used to describe these interconnections among hosts; by 1990, the Internet was the de facto name for this network, particularly after Arpanet was decommissioned.
In 1990, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee implemented the first HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) connection, which is the foundational protocol that defines how to retrieve interlinked resources, leading to the establishment of the World Wide Web (www). In 1991, the Internet became much more friendly for people like you and me, with the introduction of a "point-and-click" way of traversing the Internet (Gopher) and the first graphical browser (Mosaic) for the Web.
By 1995, the Internet was entirely in commercial hands, with 6.5 million hosts and 100,000 "www" sites. In 1996, Microsoft officially entered the Internet market with its introduction of its MSN browser, designed to take on the browser introduced earlier by Netscape Communications; at that time, there were 40 million people connected to the Internet. By 1998, that number was at 70 million.
Just 10 years later, in 2008, there were almost 1.5 billion Internet users in the world (www.internetworldstat.com; August 13, 2008). You do the numbers here—from 70 million to 1.5 billion in 10 years. That, I suggest, is a staggering adoption rate literally unknown to mankind. The significance of these 10 years is that it's indicative of the accelerating rate of adoption and change that we can expect to see continue as the world becomes even more connected.
While 1.5 billion might seem a potentially staggering number, all indicators are that the numbers will only continue to grow (see Figure 4-1). According to the World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008, between November and December 2007, 5.8 million new users joined the Internet; that translates to 193,333 per day, 8,055 per hour, 134 per minute, and roughly 2 people per second! Looking ahead, the total number of Internet users is expected to surpass the 2 billion mark by 2015 and the 3 billion mark by 2040, but it could be even sooner.[6] Perhaps more telling is that the growth of Internet usage in emerging, less developed countries is just as strong. In fact, there are estimates that the number of Internet users in the top 10 emerging markets surpassed the number of Internet users in the top 10 developed markets in 2008.[7]
We have already surpassed previous predictions that had the number of Internet users hitting 1.5 billion in 2011. In its report titled "Worldwide Online Population Forecast, 2006 to 2011," Jupiter Research anticipated "that a 38% increase in the number of people with online access will mean that, by 2011, 22% of the Earth's population will surf the Internet regularly" (www.clickz.com/3626274).
Broadband penetration, which is the physical high-speed network connection often required to support a satisfactory network experience, is also growing at a heady worldwide clip. Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2011, there will be more than 1 billion broadband subscribers worldwide.[8] In 2012, 17 countries are predicted to have broadband penetration rates of 60%, up from 5 countries in 2007. Depending on market conditions, some countries could have a broadband penetration ceiling of 80% or greater.[9] Currently, the country with the highest penetration is South Korea, at 97%,[10] demonstrating the sheer range and potential of the network's reach into the homes and hands of people in all parts of the world. I don't have the numbers, but I suspect that's a higher penetration than in Silicon Valley itself.
What's caused this expansion? Some of these remarkable numbers are due in part to the fact that the network is not restricted to a singular device type; it's not constrained to just computers, as it was when Kleinrock ran his experiment. Rather, the past 10 years have been witness to a network that supports all types of devices that attach to a computer or have some type of computing power. While there are many varying estimates, the global number of Internet-connected devices is in the billions today; some estimate it's at 15 billion, with growth projections going into the trillions, potentially reaching 10 trillion over the next 15 years.[11]
Ten trillion devices does seem rather large, but consider that there are currently 4 billion mobile devices,[12] with forecasts up to 6 billion mobile subscribers by 2013,[13] and extend those numbers to the great range of devices we could be talking about—from phones and computers to TVs and refrigerators, traffic lights and cars, watches and, of course, the ever-present target, your wallet—it's easy to see how the numbers can get into the trillions.
There's another dimension to this perfect storm. These devices have become both increasingly powerful and very affordable, helping to ensure access to the network for an ever-swelling portion of the world's population. Perhaps you noticed it yourself during these past 10 years? Take the cell phone you had in the late 1990s. It's probably been replaced several times since, incrementally getting more computing power and functionality, until your present model. Now, you may have a smartphone that connects to the network and is more powerful than the full-blown computer or laptop you had just a decade ago.
In the days of the first computers, there were stories of entire rooms required to house the computer equipment to support a single application. Over time, we have seen processing power and memory capacity evolve, so that today, you can hold all you need in the palm of your hand. For example, when IBM invented the disk drive, the device used to store digital information, the prototype was a pproximately the size of a Mini Cooper and capable of storing the equivalent of two songs; today, an Apple iPod is about the size of a credit card and can hold up to 30,000 songs.[14]
The versatility of our new computing devices has also gone way up. For example, a decade ago, all you could do with your phone was make a call. Now, of course, you can take photos and videos, send and receive text messages, send and receive email messages, receive live news feeds, surf the Internet, and so much more. Smartphones are getting us ever closer to the reality of carrying our personal computers in our pockets. Palm's Pre, Apple's iPhone, and Google's G2, to name only a few, are no longer just the proven tools of the business road warrior. Now, Mom and Dad and their high-school offspring carry them, too. One million units of the iPhone 3G sold in the first three days it was available; by the end of 2008, Apple had sold more than 17 million,[15] with plans to make 40 million more phones from August 2008 to August 2009.[16]
Another factor in the soaring network adoption rates is the fact that as the technologies have matured, these devices have become less expensive to produce, and subsequently, are within the means of a larger consumer population. It wasn't too long ago that your computer had just a half a gigabyte of memory, and upgrades to get more cost hundreds of dollars; now, you can get 500 GB of memory standard. Web-enabled phones used to be hundreds of dollars, but now you can often get them for free from your mobile network provider or, at most, for a nominal price. On and on, devices that are network-enabled cost less, do more, and shrink in size at a rate that mimics the speed of their adoption.
This has all made it possible for the network to extend to segments of the population and emerging countries that might otherwise be left out because disposable income is extremely limited and a personal computer is beyond the average citizen's means, or where access is unsupported because there is no physical infrastructure (phone cables). The smaller, cheaper, more powerful devices enable the network to expand to segments of the world's population that might otherwise be left out.
Take a country such as India. There are 50 million middle-income families, but only 8 million homes with a PC. So, more than 30 million Indian consumers travel to cybercafés to access the network on a regular basis.[17] The mobile phone, however, offers a much more convenient and affordable alternative to the traditional computer. For about $10 a month, which seems to be the threshold price that Indian consumers can or are willing to pay per month for connectivity, they can have a mobile phone and all the possibilities that go along with having access to the network. This probably explains why India has been adding approximately 15 million new subscribers a month.[18] Soon they submit to temptation and pay a small fee to subscribe to SMS (Short Message Service) feeds, and it suddenly becomes the primary source of news for millions of subscribers in India.[19]
Or take China, which represents the world's largest mobile market. In November 2008, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology placed the number of Chinese mobile subscribers at 633 million; that number represents less than half the population of China, but more mobile users than almost all of Europe's population,[20] and China is adding roughly 7.8 million mobile subscribers a month.[21] The typical investment of $10 a month represents 7% (or more) of the average Chinese user's monthly salary,[22] which consumers seem willing to pay as they adopt the technology as their primary communications tool for both voice and data.[23] Of particular note is that as the "base-ofthe- pyramid" families generate more income, ICT[24] spending increases eightfold, while spending on food and housing rises only slightly.[25] I guess the network truly has become an essential.
The ICT industry refers to the full range of devices and applications that play a role in digital communication, ranging from monitors and cell phones to PCs and storage devices. This also includes all the different applications that enable the sharing or use of information, from email and online services to spreadsheets and video games, as well as the hardware and software needed to operate the networks that transmit the information, from the smallest home office to the largest global networks.
Another example can be found among consumers in the 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia.[26] Most use their phones to surf the Internet because other alternatives, such as high-speed cable, DSL, or regular phone lines are simply unavailable or too costly, even between the larger islands.
Then there's Brazil. Only 17.7% of the more than 192 million Brazilians have access to the Internet, but Brazil represents the fifth largest mobile market in the world, with approximately 100,000 million mobile subscribers in 2007.[27] It seems logical that for this market, Internet services will increasingly be delivered via the mobile phone networks. This theory is backed by the overall growth in mobile data traffic reported by the country's service providers and analyst predictions that Brazil's telecom market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.26% from 2007–2012.[28] This is in relation to a 6% CAGR for the worldwide telecom/datacom equipment market during the same timeframe.[29]
There are many more examples of consumers using alternative devices, such as netbooks (which are cheaper than computers and are getting comparable in processing power), to be connected to the network all the time. As all computing devices become smaller, more powerful, and more affordable, the network access adoption rate will continue to grow and literally penetrate the circumference of the globe. It is becoming easier and easier to conceive of a world where it is possible to get a computing device into the hands of every single person and subsequently give them access to the network and the wealth of resources and opportunity that go with it. A decade ago, it was a pipe dream. Today, you can readily see how that could be implemented. A decade from now, we might say, "What took so long?"
I noted that the amazing thing about the network's reach and astounding adoption rate is that it has happened in a relatively short amount of time. To ground it a little, compare the network's adoption numbers with the adoption of television sets—another highly popular and successful technology, which was invented in the late 1920s. As of 2003, there were approximately 1.4 billion TVs in the world, with China (400 million), the U.S. (219 million) and Japan (86.5 million) leading the way.[30] It took the television industry 75 years to get 1.4 billion devices into the hands of consumers; in a little less than a quarter of that amount of time, consumers have purchased almost three times as many Internet-connected devices by all conservative accounts.
These numbers speak volumes on the ubiquity of the network and its ability to reach and connect large swaths of the population. As much as I would like to think this is a theory made up from my insightful analysis, it's not; it's simple arithmetic. In 1998, there were approximately 70 million network users. Today, there are more than 1.6 billion users and growing. It's been organic growth, simply feeding itself. Once introduced, the network has had the ability to take off quickly, making it a transformative platform easily embedded in everyone's daily work and personal life.
And in its wake, the network removes physical and geographical barriers and facilitates connections to people and resources that would otherwise be cumbersome or resourceintensive to maintain. In the past decade, it has truly leveled the playing field for the world's population. A farmer in India can be as wired as a VP in Silicon Valley. Again, this isn't theory; it's fact. The cost and availability of devices, plus the growth of the network and its services, has made the farmer and the VP equal in terms of access.
It's this all-pervading access and the different relationships that all these connections represent that make the network one of our greatest tools for sustainable change, development, and action.
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