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Hans Rott, whose once-obscure Symphony in E major received its Chicago-area premiere by the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra on Sunday at Sheely Center for the Performing Arts in Northbrook, was one of the saddest cases of unfulfilled promise in music history.
Born in 1858, the Austrian composer studied organ with Anton Bruckner and was a classmate of Gustav Mahler's at the Vienna Conservatory. Both composers held Rott in high esteem, but Bruckner's strong support failed to impress a jury to which Rott had submitted a movement from his symphony for a possible award. Johannes Brahms was a jury member, and when Rott later approached him to seek his help in getting the full symphony performed, he was rebuffed a second time.
So deeply was the young composer hurt that something snapped. While traveling by train to the German town of Muhlhausen to take up a post as organist, Rott pulled a revolver on a fellow passenger who was lighting a cigar, apparently convinced he was conspiring with Brahms to blow up the train. Rott later was committed to a mental hospital where his health rapidly deteriorated. After destroying many of his manuscripts, he died in 1884, short of his 26th birthday.
It wasn't until the 1980s that the manuscript of Rott's First Symphony was unearthed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Public performances and two recordings ensued. The hour-long symphony struck many musicians, including Lawrence Rapchak, the Northbrook Symphony's music director, as a revelation. Rapchak wasted no time making the work the centerpiece of his enterprising, three-year cycle of forgotten late-Romantic symphonies, "In Mahler's Shadow."
Mahler's shadow does indeed loom large over the 1880 composition; so does the influence of Bruckner, Wagner and Brahms. But the really fascinating thing about the E-major symphony is how much of that work crept into the first three symphonies of Mahler. Mind you, none of those works were begun until after 1884, the year of Rott's death. Mahler, who was two years Rott's junior, certainly knew the E-major symphony, having played a piano version of it and extolled it as a work of "genius."
Rapchak offered side-by-side musical comparisons in the course of his pre-performance remarks to the audience. Particularly striking was the close resemblance of the Scherzo of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony to the corresponding Scherzo in the Rott symphony. Just as uncanny is Mahler's recollection of the nature-sounds that open Rott's epic finale, in the beginning of the younger composer's First Symphony.
The "borrowings" seem too close to have been unconscious. But scholars and musicians have gone easy on Mahler, allowing that Rott's college classmate completed what Rott did not live long enough to realize. Clearly the young Mahler assimilated what he needed of Rott's ideas and took them in his own stylistic directions. Today we can only wonder what Rott might have achieved had his career not ended so early.
Technically and musically, the Rott symphony would pose an immense challenge even for the Chicago Symphony, let alone a suburban orchestra of constantly shifting personnel. Despite this, Rapchak did a superb job of sustaining the intensity level for the duration of this demanding score. There was some suspect intonation in the violins, while the trumpets and horns occasionally faltered in their demanding parts. Overall, however, Rapchak's podium exhortations bore fruit in orchestral playing of remarkable power, brilliance and commitment.
The first movement, with its pre-echoes of the discarded "Blumine" movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 1, set off the solemn nobility of the chorale-like slow movement, with its magical close of shimmering, tremolando strings. The lengthy Scherzo danced with the lumbering swing of Austrian folk dance. The epic finale flirts with bombast, and Rott surely would have tightened its 24-minute sprawl had he lived longer; all the same, the sheer sweep and majesty of this music were impossible to resist.
Mahler's own "Songs of a Wayfarer," a song cycle written the same year Rott died, began the concert in a vivid, sensitively projected performance by Katherine McGookey. The young, Ohio-born mezzo-soprano, now a Chicago resident, revealed a fresh and appealing voice along with detailed attention to how words and music combine on an expressive plane greater than both. She's a discovery indeed. Rapchak and the orchestra were full partners in tone-painting.
Thanks to the Northbrookers, Rott languishes in Mahler's shadow no longer. I can't wait for the third and final installment of their cycle of neglected late-Romantic symphonies – Czech composer Josef Foerster's "Easter Eve" Symphony (1905) – next season.
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The Northbrook Symphony Orchestra season will continue Nov. 17, Feb. 23, March 23 and April 13 at Sheely Center for the Performing Arts, 2300 Shermer Rd., Northbrook; $30-$50, $8 for children and students; 847-272-0755, thenso.org.
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The 5D we've been waiting for, since, well, the EOS 5D Mark II came out
How does the Canon 5D Mark III stack up against its competition the Nikon D800? Check out our in-depth comparison in the Buying Guide.
There's no questioning the popularity of Canon's EOS 5D Mark II. After all, it's a very close second to Apple's iPhone 4 for the most-used camera on the image-sharing website Flickr. And now Canon has brought us the EOS 5D Mark III. If our tests are a guide, get ready for an even bigger hit.
The pixel count hasn't gone up much—a mere 1.2MP bump from the Mark II's 21.1MP. But look deeper and you'll see new metering and autofocus systems, an increase to 6 fps bursts (from 3.9), a top sensitivity of ISO 102,400 (up from ISO 25,600), plus several other convenient new features.
After running it through the Popular Photography Test Lab and experiencing it in the field, we can say that the 5D Mark III ($3,500, street, body only) is every bit the imaging machine the Mark II was—and more. It delivers low-noise, high-resolution images with manageable file sizes.
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A perfect blend of accurate color rendering, high resolving power, and low noise comes together to earn Canon's EOS 5D Mark III an Excellent rating in overall image quality from ISO 50 all the way through ISO 12,800.
Let's pause for just a moment to realize what that means: The Mark III delivers color images with a Low noise rating on our stringent scale up to a sensitivity beyond that which was, not too long ago, relegated to very coarse-grained black-and-white film. That's a seriously admirable achievement.
Despite the Mark III having about one-third fewer pixels than the Nikon D800, it still easily scored an Excellent rating in our resolution test, with 2750 lines per picture height at its lowest (expanded) sensitivity of ISO 50. While that's a little less than the 2830 lines than the 5D Mark II delivered in this test, given the Mark III's noise performance (and considering that it has enough resolution for the vast majority of photographers), we don't see this as a real problem.
Likewise, the Mark III's average Delta E at ISO 50, our measure for color accuracy, was 6.9 compared to the Mark II's slightly better score of 6.3. Still, both earned an Excellent rating in this test, and we doubt that anyone will be able to see a difference between the accuracy of their color reproduction.
Looking for clean images in very low light? Welcome to Mark III country. The camera earned an Extremely Low rating from ISO 50 through 400, stepping up to Very Low from ISO 800 through 3200, and Low at ISO 6400 and 12,800. It doesn't become Unacceptable, and then only barely so, at ISO 51,200. Even at ISO 102,400, the noise score is only 4.4—compared with 4.9 at ISO 25,600 on the Mark II.
But this noise performance is thanks in part to a heavy dose of noise reduction at higher ISOs—which comes at the price of resolution. At ISO 12,800, the Mark III showed 2520 lines of resolution, but it dropped signicantly to 2150 lines at ISO 25,600. By ISO 51,200 it hit 1910 lines, and at ISO 102,400 it resolved just 1500 lines.
To compare, the Nikon D800 reaches Unacceptable noise at ISO 6400, yet still manages to resolve 2900 lines. Prior to the D800, the full-frame DSLR with the most resolution was Sony's Alpha 900, which resolved 2440 lines at its top of ISO 6400, though it too had Unacceptable noise at that setting.
In our lab-based autofocus-speed test, the Mark III showed very pleasing—if not record-breaking—results. It was able to focus in less than a second all the way down to nighttime darkness (EV –1). That's impressive. At EV –2, it became considerably less consistent, but averaged 1.15 seconds. So while it's not the fastest focuser we've seen, it represents a massive improvement over the Mark II: In the bright light of EV 12, the latter took 0.51 sec to focus, while the Mark III took 0.37 sec. Worse still, at EV –1 the Mark II lagged nearly a half-second behind, taking 1.47 sec to lock focus and shoot an image.
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Though it's about the same size as its predecessor, the 5D Mark III's body has some advantages. The grip is more comfortable, with a nice divot for your fingertips on the side facing the lens. And the rubber has a different texture for more friction, so the grip feels more secure.
The well-placed, dedicated live view/video switch and button sit just to the right of the finder, making entering and exiting those modes intuitive and speedy. The on/off switch is now on top with the mode dial, and the second command wheel on the back now has a dedicated lock switch. This should make it less confusing to lock and unlock the wheel, and eliminates the possibility of accidentally turning off the camera when locking it, as could happen on the Mark II.
The addition of the Quick menu lets you change settings rapidly through the LCD interface when setting up for a shoot.
If you prefer to use dedicated buttons to change settings, the Mark III has you covered with a slew of them. Many let you change two settings through the different command wheels. There's a programmable multifunction button just behind the shutter button; the depth-of-field preview button on the front of the camera, like many of the buttons on the 5D Mark III, can be assigned one of numerous functions should you want to customize the camera controls.
Betraying its age, the 5D Mark II had only one memory-card slot (for CompactFlash), while the Mark III has both a CF and an SD card slot. These can be configured to mirror one another, or to fill up in sequence, or to split different kinds of files between them—you can record RAW to one and JPEG to another, for instance.


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Friday Afternoon Reads
Here, you'll find our weekly round-up of links from the Minnesota 2020 staff and writers. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
From Steve:
Leading for a Greater Minnesota (Organizing Apprenticeship Project) -- On Wednesday, Organizing Apprenticeship Project led a rally for equity at the capitol, presenting the legislature with an inspiring vision for what they might do if they made racial justice the framework for decision making.
From Colleen:
The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip: What I learned in the slush with His Holiness. (Slate) -- This is just a fun and uplifting read!
From Lee:
From Grid Waste to Good Taste (Ensia) -- Environmental scientist and writer Justin Lichter offers an exciting prospect in the U's Ensia online mag for turning power grid electrical waste into a green house farming resource, and the potential is great.
From Michael:
Hennepin County among best in nation at closing housing-affordability gap (MinnPost) -- "Good news" is always a bit of a stretch in housing equity, but Hennepin County's progress at increasing its stock of affordable housing relative to the number of families in need is, indeed, good. With that said, it's nowhere near enough; there are only 42 affordable units for every 100 families in the greatest need, the fifth best ratio in the country.
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Day 2: A World Class Transportation System (Strong Towns) -- I've long admired Minnesota conservative Charles Marohn's deep critiques of post-WWII U.S. transportation and development policies. This week his Strong Towns blog is featuring a five-part series conceived mainly as a response to the MOVE MN transportation funding campaign. He doesn't like it; we think it has some merit. That said, his second installment offers great insight about the inherent weakness of our system of paying for roads and bridges.
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Energy Sec. Predicts 30-40 Pct. Renewable Energy By 2030 (Here & Now) -- Cool interview with Secretary Moniz about the future of energy, particularly nuclear and renewables.
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A Letter From Ray Jasper, Who Is About to Be Executed (Gawker) -- An amazing article on race, the prison industrial complex and death row from the graceful perspective of an inmate on death row.
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The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (BBC) -- The cost of sanitary napkins is prohibitive for many rural women in India, leading to menstrual practices that are not always effective or hygienic. This article tells the story of an Indian man who overcame many obstacles to invent a machine that makes affordable sanitary pads. The machines have now spread across rural India, and may soon expand to more countries.
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Oil is no Lubricant for Transport Matrix
If you've ever doubted the critical importance of transportation to the broad economy, consider the havoc being wrought on many other enterprises at least partly by the sudden glut of crude oil shipments by rail from North Dakota's booming Bakken Formation.
We've already focused on the dangers of deadly explosions and fires and the disruption to Amtrak passenger train schedules posed by these rolling pipelines. Now reports are filtering in of other commodities and commuters being shoved off the tracks to make way for a virtual river of black gold. Railroads say bad winter weather is causing the problems, but frustrated shippers of Canadian oats and Minnesota sugar say their products are being sidetracked because moving the oil is more lucrative.
The oats controversy, reported in the Wall Street Journal, tickled the fancy of Minnesota media outlets because of a threat to Twin Cities-based General Mills' production of Cheerios. Despite a bumper crop of the hearty grain on the Canadian prairies, its U.S. futures contracts soared 42 percent beginning Jan. 1 because of the shipping backlog.
In classical economic terms, no matter how great the supply, if it can't reach its markets it does nothing to ease demand or prices. At the grocery store, expect prices of cereal, cookies and granola bars to rise 1.5 percent, the Journal warned.
In late January, the Associated Press reported that rail shipping delays forced American Crystal Sugar to cut production at a plant in East Grand Forks, Minn., and two in North Dakota. The plants were running out of space to store their sweetness.
Meanwhile, Metro Transit's Northstar commuter rail service from Big Lake to Minneapolis saw its stellar 96 percent on-time record shredded by freight train congestion beginning in January. One scheduled morning run on the tracks it leases from BNSF Railway was scratched recently, the four others delayed up to two hours. "Commuters could wait for their trains or board replacement buses," the Star Tribune reported.
Again, the railroad blamed the weather. But, as American Crystal CEO Dave Berg noted, "winter weather is not a new phenomenon" in these parts.
What is new is dozens of 100-tanker car unit trains carrying crude oil through Minnesota every week, gumming up the works. We don't have to suffer a blazing train wreck catastrophe to feel adverse effects. But as long as our economy keeps running on oil, we'll be beholden to it in surprising ways that will keep emerging.
Posted in Transportation | Related Topics: Freight Rail
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Video: Getting to and Staying at a Fair Minimum Wage
Catch up and keep up. That's the main message from a strong coalition of nonprofit groups who are advocating for a $9.50 minimum wage, indexed to inflation. They are adamant about ensuring wages keep pace with the rising cost of rent, food, and gas, so that workers don't fall further behind in our economy.
Had the 1973 minimum wage kept pace with inflation, it would actually be $9.44 today, according to Minnesota 2020 analysis.
Posted in Economic Development | Related Topics: Minimum Wage
Lingering US Housing Problems Threaten MN
"It could be worse" is the old Minnesota explanation of weather conditions. It might apply to our housing markets as well.
Minnesota 2020 and Minnesota Housing Partnership have been collaborating on a series of articles looking at the "Uneven Recovery" for our state and local housing markets in the five years since the housing bubble burst. Now come data showing more severe problems in other parts of the country, and why the entire U.S. economy may hang on the housing market going forward.
Katie Doyle of Bankrate.com has assembled data showing "Foreclosures: 10 Worst States Right Now." Nationally, one mortgage in 1,055 is in some stage of foreclosure – improved from 655 in second quarter 2012 - while Florida continues to lead the pack with one in only 346.
Following behind Florida is Nevada, one if 533; Maryland, 543; Illinois, 603; New Jersey, 619; Connecticut, 752; Delaware, 818; South Carolina, 850; Ohio, 885; and California, 921. Whew. Minnesota doesn't make the list.
A related real estate data offering from msn.com sheds more light on how vulnerable the housing market recovery might be to rising interest rates and possible Federal Reserve policy going forward. In a slide show presentation on "Home, sweet unaffordable home," it uses Zillow Inc. data and analysis to list cities and metro areas especially vulnerable to interest rates.
Consider this example: San Francisco homeowners have historically paid 38.2 percent of median household incomes on housing costs. If mortgage interest rates go up to 5 percent, housing costs will take a projected 46.4 percent.
Other areas that should be of concern for the national economy include San Jose, where a mortgage rate increase to 5 percent would raise housing costs from an historical median of 35.6 percent of household income to 42.4 percent; Santa Rosa (Calif.), from 32.2 percent to 40.3 percent; Honolulu, from 37.5 percent to 39.6 percent; and San Diego, from 35.6 percent to 38.9 percent. Los Angeles homes are hanging on the same interest rate cliffs.
Such data beg a couple of Minnesota observations.
First, it means homeowners in California and a few other high-cost areas face the same range of housing cost burdens we've noted for 66 percent of renters in Minnesota. Federal guidelines say everything above 30 percent of household income spent on housing is a burden.
Second, our Minnesota economy might withstand downward pressure from a housing collapse and regional recession in states such as Nevada, South Carolina and even Florida. But there is no way we would escape economic shocks from a collapse of California – America's most populous state.
Posted in Economic Development | Related Topics: Economic Recovery
The Cost of Green Grass
Before being elected to the City Council and later Mayor of Carver, like most of you I knew little about City water, where it came from, and what it cost, but I soon got to learn a lot more. Some cities rely on surface water, usually rivers, but many depend on deep wells to draw water from subsurface aquifers.
We often think of these supplies as unlimited and free. Today as our population and water usage is growing dramatically, it is becoming obvious that our supplies both from surface water and the aquifers are not unlimited. If we do not reduce our usage, we will suffer shortages.
Today I would like to discuss the amount of water used to keep our lawns green especially with irrigation systems, and why it raises costs and threatens our supplies.
When we first moved to Carver in 1997 the city had one well and one 150,000-gallon water tower. The population was probably about 1100 people; although the quality was poor the supply was adequate as long as there were no problem with our one well or storage tower. Carver's population grew from 1265 in 2000 to 3724 in 2010. As you can imagine this population surge forced us to expand our city water system. We added a filtration plant, three wells, and 750,000-gallon water tower to meet the growing demand and federal water specifications. The investment exceeded $10 million. So much for free water.
The other day there was a news story about the average person uses about 75 gallons of water per day. This number is about right for personal usage, but I have found it greatly understates the usage in Carver.
In the table below I show the water usage for the year 2007. Looking at the numbers in the first three months of the year and the last three months usage is about 5 to 6 million per month, but from May through September usage ranges from 11.9 to 26.6 million gallons per month.
In 2007, which I suspect was a drought year, almost 40% of our water was used in June and July and almost 60% between May through August. There are many reasons why water usage rises in summer, but we all know that most of it is going for our lawns. It is important to realize that when building a water supply system it has to meet the maximum capacity, which for Carver was five times what was needed for winter requirements, one of the reasons pushing up the cost of city water.
Is the solution to get rid of our lawns? Some day it may be, but today it would help if we just got smarter. Most of us over water our lawns partly because of the convenience of irrigation systems. We need to start doing things differently such as using drought resistant grasses, monitoring rainfall and water only when needed not just if it is our day. We need to collect runoff and use of it on gardens and lawns. We need to do more than worry about the debt we are leaving for our children, but if we are leaving them resources like water.
Posted in Energy & Environment | Related Topics: Sustainability City Management
Trust Me: Polymet comment period was too short
What can you do in 90 days? You can grow your fingernails about a third of an inch in 90 days. In 90 days, the average American will drink 144 cups of coffee. And if you had the time to read 25 pages a day of dense technical material, you could read the entire Polymet Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, or SDEIS. You might just need that coffee.
Polymet Mining Corporation is planning to mine for copper, nickel and other precious minerals in an extensive wetland area at the headwaters of the St. Louis River.
When the SDEIS was released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in December, 2013, the public was given 90 days to comment on the document. That time period resulted in two options, both relying on trust, and both bad:
- Don't even try to read it yourself. Trust the state and federal agencies and their contractors to do the right thing.
- Let outside experts you trust have just 90 days to review complex materials seven years in the making.
Trust the agencies?
Incredibly, citizens who testified at the three public hearings in January had just five or six weeks to review the SDEIS and prepare their testimony. At the hearings, people who did refer to the SDEIS said things like:
- "I haven't read the whole thing but I did look at the executive summary."
- "I can't understand this myself, but…"
- "I trust the agencies that developed this."
Trusting agencies short-circuits the public review process. The public needs to examine and review the functions of the government that represents its interests. Anyone who goes to a city council meeting or follows the action in Washington, DC understands this.
Trust the rushed outside experts?
When the SDEIS was released on December 7, 2013, Minnesota Environmental Partnership member groups quickly reviewed the document and determined, among other things, that the SDEIS was overly long, unnecessarily multifaceted, and not written by or for laypersons. Groups quickly determined that critical information wasn't even in the document but in hard to obtain supporting documents.
During the course of the 90-day comment period, substantive issues with the Polymet SDEIS became apparent, each of which could have been addressed by a longer comment period. We learned that the water models in the document didn't even match with current conditions on the ground, not to mention the mine area after it's impacted. Researchers found that basic information on water balance, water chemistry, geological conditions of the mine site, and potential pollutants was missing.
Yes, 20,000 citizen comments have been submitted already. But the experts whom citizens are supposed to trust haven't had enough time. A number of professional conservation organizations, despite having access to the preliminary documents and having extensive staff resources and contracted experts, will not be able to meet the deadline. Their detailed analysis has found flaws buried deeply in the SDEIS, and now there's inadequate time to frame comments. These groups just need an additional 30 days to complete their comments. But the DNR has refused to extend the comment period.
The entire process has been inadequate. The public should not trust the result. And so, like the fruit of the poisoned tree, the Final Environmental Impact Statement will be inadequate. And an inadequate EIS means the project cannot continue to the next stage, environmental permitting.
Posted in Energy & Environment | Related Topics: Environment mining
New Teaching for Old and New Disciplines
"Twenty-first century education" is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. It means different things to different people, but certainly education in the modern age must include needed updates to how we teach well-established disciplines as well as recognition of new disciplines.
Math education is one area ripe for an overhaul. Many otherwise successful graduates of the US public education system describe themselves as bad at math. There is evidence that the way we teach math undermines students' likelihood of mastering the skills most important to their academic, professional, and personal life after high school.
This reflects a combination of what we teach, how we teach, and in what order we teach when it comes to math. Retooling math curriculum and instruction to be more playful and exploratory, more conceptual, more reflective of a growth mindset, and less focused on drill-and-kill could all, perhaps counterintuitively, help students master the math skills they do need.
If mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines in need of curricular overhaul, computer science is one of the newest. Often shoveled into math, science, or business standards, computer science deserves more attention as a discrete, multifaceted discipline. This means starting earlier, offering computer science classes at more (ideally all) schools, and developing more teachers who specialize in teaching computer science. There is great need for a true pedagogy of computer science that reflects the ways that students will use these skills in the future, including in conjunction with fast-growing fields like biotech.
All of this requires an approach to curriculum, instruction, and assessment that is different from more traditional techniques. Responsibility for this change is shared between schools of education, local school districts, and state policymakers. The more our schools, especially for students from under-resourced backgrounds, are driven by lockstep curriculum and disempowered teachers, the less able they are to take on the significant work of updating teaching for current needs.
Ultimately, this is about equity of access to a solid education. That equity of access -- especially in disciplines like computer science -- is a prerequisite for equity of outcomes. Of course, equity of access does not mean that this will look the same in every school in every district. It is important for schools to invite their communities to join them in defining what's important and supporting the work of achieving those goals, and it is important that schools have the freedom and power to do so. Policymakers at the state and local level need to know what Minnesota communities want and need for students to thrive in this day and age.
Posted in Education | Related Topics: K-12 education Curriculum
Catching Up and Keeping Up with Cost of Living
In the next few days Minnesota has a real shot at achieving economic justice for working families. Representatives from the state House and Senate are negotiating on a compromise that should ensure that the minimum wage catches up and keeps up to the cost of living.
It appears there's agreement on raising the wage to $9.50; however, there is still debate around ensuring that the minimum wage keeps pace with inflation in future years. This is know as indexing.
Currently the House is calling for the wage to keep pace with inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), but not to exceed an annual growth of 2.5%.
Under that plan, we'd see a modest increase in the minimum wage, but because of the 2.5% cap, the cost of goods would still likely outpace the minimum wage over time.
If inflation over the next 10 years resembles inflation over the last decade, the minimum wage under the current proposal will grow by $1.93 per hour. However, the minimum wage would need to grow by $2.22 to keep pace with the projected growth in the cost of consumer purchases. The graph below shows the growth in the minimum wage over the last decade, assuming that a $9.50 minimum wage had been adopted in 2004 and indexed to inflation along the lines of what is proposed by the House; the graph also shows the growth in total consumer purchases, food, and housing over the same period.
Indexing is a fair compromise between the concerns of the business community over a rapidly escalating minimum wage and the need of working families to maintain the purchasing power of their wages in the face of inflation.
If Minnesota's original $1.80 per hour minimum wage enacted in 1973 had been indexed to the CPI from 1973 to the 2013, today it would approximately equal the proposed minimum wage of $9.50.
If state policymakers had indexed the minimum wage in 1973, the purchasing power of minimum wage workers would not have eroded over time as it has done. Furthermore, the periodic legislative skirmishes over the minimum wage (such as the one we are now experiencing) could have been avoided and the level of the wage would have been more predictable and stable for businesses and workers alike.
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Inching Toward Oil Train Safety
Since MN2020 started focusing on dangerous rail shipments of North Dakota crude oil through Minnesota in mid-January, a lot of other people have taken notice. Among them are the railroads, which agreed under pressure from federal regulators to new safety measures such as slowing most oil trains through urban areas to 40 m.p.h., stepped-up track inspections and braking technology to avert pileups when trains derail.
That's a start, expected to be fully implemented by July. But, as the St. Cloud Times editorialized, "Spilling 5 million gallons of crude oil the past five years is bad enough for the environment. But when such spills also catch fire and cause deadly explosions, it's clear more must be done to protect everyone -- and everything -- living near these increasingly busy rail lines."
Like the Twin Cities, St. Cloud is seeing multiple 100-car unit trains of Bakken crude pass through every day of the year. Other Minnesota cities affected include Brainerd, Duluth, Elk River, Marshall, Red Wing, Willmar and Winona.
Recently, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said the nation's infrastructure is inadequate for the dramatic increase in domestic crude oil now being transported. "The Bakken shale has gone from close to nothing to a million barrels a day in a very short time," he told Capital New York. "What we probably need is more of a pipeline infrastructure and to diminish the need for rail transport over time."
That prescription is sure to meet opposition from the progressive wing, but it's clear that a lack of pipelines isn't slowing the pumping and combustion of fossil fuel linked to climate change. That's a much broader problem than can be solved by fiddling with the ways we transport fuel. It may be short-sighted in the long run, but massive spills, fires and explosions along rail lines are a more imminent challenge with better prospects for solution.
Fortunately, both the public and private sectors are confronting the challenge with new urgency. Federal regulators, who knew the risks of oil shipments by rail more than two years ago, recently levied fines totaling $93,000 against three oil companies accused of mislabeling crude shipments as less volatile than they really were.
The wrong information can hamper efforts by emergency responders to fight fires or spills. Spot inspections of 18 crude samples taken from Bakken tanks and pipelines that feed oil trains found 11 of them mislabeled. Chillingly, Canadian inspectors found that the crude oil train that exploded in Quebec, killing 47, was mislabeled as less flammable when it was loaded in North Dakota. That's "why it ignited so quickly," the inspectors said.
BNSF Railway, a major transporter of Bakken crude through Minnesota, is buying 5,000 stronger tank cars, an unusual step for the rail industry, which usually pulls tankers owned by oil interests. It's a small step toward replacing a national fleet of 78,000 old tank cars that are extremely vulnerable to crude spills and fires.
In Minnesota, Gov. Mark Dayton joined United Transportation Union officials in calling for tougher state oversight of oil shipments. One initiative could increase the number of state rail inspectors from the current one -- with responsibility for nearly 4,400 miles of track. Meanwhile, the UTU rail union accused the Canadian Pacific Railway, the other major oil shipper through Minnesota, of compromising safety by cutting jobs and costs as its profits soared fivefold in the fourth quarter.
The company denied the union's allegations and said it will cooperate with the governor on safety issues. CP should do more than that. So should the oil companies, government policymakers and everyone else involved in this risky business, before a real disaster close to home forces truly prompt action.
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If Not Tests, Then What?
I'm wrapping up my coverage of the recent Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs (MAAP) conference in Duluth, and hope you enjoyed the series.
Many of the educators at the MAAP conference faced a shared dilemma: The vital work they do doesn't always show up clearly on standardized tests. This raises an obvious question for policymakers and community members. If tests aren't the right tool, what is?
One session focused on the use of multiple measurements in assessing alternative programs. "Multiple measurements" is a term that didn't have a very precise meaning to begin with, but the way the presenters used it differed strongly from the way it's used in the state's Multiple Measurements Rating (MMR) system. Most of the MMR uses calculations based on a single measurement tool: standardized tests. The other measurement, at least for high schools, is graduation rate.
However, state tests aren't particularly appropriate for programs working with students whose past school history means they're unlikely to take the tests seriously. Even more inappropriate is using a conventional graduation rate measure for a school with an average entry age of 17 and which specializes in students who have already dropped out or at severe risk of doing so.
What, then, should we do? In part, we need to have a more flexible system that assesses schools on what they're actually trying to do. For some programs, that means including not just achievement on state tests, but growth on other measurements, rates for dropouts and dropout recovery, and engagement measures like attendance improvement and student surveys.
Another session went even further. It suggested a process of schools working with communities to define the student outcomes that were most meaningful and agreeing on ways to assess those outcomes. It would be more difficult to compare schools and districts on these measurements, but schools would feel a much more immediate sense of accountability to their particular communities. This approach would also allow each community to make sure that its priorities are being addressed in school, whether those priorities can be put on a standardized test or not.
The schools at the MAAP conference represent some of the most clear-cut cases where the current accountability approach is a bad fit, but all schools can and should focus on skills beyond those on the state tests. We need to give more consideration to measurements and accountability that better reflect the needs of specific students and communities.
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Parlament: Political WordPress Theme – Introduction
Parlament is a political WordPress theme which features a highly interactive and retina-ready design, fully responsive implementation and a focus on user experience, usability and performance. The theme also features a flexible design, top notch support and I think it's safe to say that is one of the easiest and most intuitive to use political themes on the market right now.Please do not forget to rate the theme: if you like it!
Parlament innovates. There's no other political theme out there exposing your candidate the way this theme does. We do it with HTML5 niftiness, CSS3 transitions and animations, and last but not least jQuery wizardry to give the end user the best possible web experience one can get using your website. You'll make a lasting impression on your electors, if you're going to use the right theme for it – Parlament.
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Parlament was built using the WordPress best practices and based on all of my working experience, I think once again I've done it! I've crafted an intuitive, easy, user friendly and future proof political WordPress theme. The usability part and user experience were never neglected during the thought process and implementation of the theme. Before I thought what goes into it, I thought what you'll get out of it. Parlament also features a working donation form optimized for high conversion rates which works beautifully with PayPal! When I designed Parlament, I started by thinking about its purpose. My purpose was to get your candidate noticed and to help him gain the winning spot.How Parlament helps your candidate win the race? By providing support for the following plugins:
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The Events Calendar & The Events Calendar Pro – organize your candidate's events and gather masses of people using a simple yet efficient event calendar and management system
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Meta Box – Easily control every aspect of the theme by using meta boxes and more.
Parlament has valid HTML5 code, is W3C compliant and makes no use of bloated option panels. We're using the WordPress Theme Customizer, which was introduced in WordPress 3.4, and it is the place where every single change can be seen right away. Your eyes won't believe it how easy it is to change things in Parlament. Parallax effects, CSS3 transitions and animations are omnipresent in the design of the theme, which make the experience that much different and enjoyable.
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All photos are licensed and are not included in the final downloadable package.A big thank you for the icon pack "Batch" goes to Adam Whitcroft. Also special thanks to Modern Tribe team, WPML team, Rogie (creator of View.js).
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Important Basics You Should Know
Python builtin functions: see the http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html. Or
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Keywords: see the docs http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords. Or
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With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try something different. The Seven Little Foys was the first of Hope's two "straight" biopics (the second was 1956's Beau James). Though not completely abandoning his patented persona, Hope does an admirable job of impersonating legendary Broadway song-and-dance man Eddie Foy, right down to the soft-shoe shuffle and affected lisp. A successful "single" in vaudeville, Foy meets and marries...more
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The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11
Related Topics: Democracy, Diplomatic History, Military History, Modern Korean History, International Security, Nuclear Proliferation/Non-proliferation, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya
A Book Launch Event for Regime Change was held on Feb. 21, 2007, at the Wilson Center.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks starkly recast the U.S. debate on "rogue states." In this new era of vulnerability, should the United States counter the dangers of weapons proliferation and state-sponsored terrorism by toppling regimes or by promoting change in the threatening behavior of their leaders? Regime Change examines the contrasting precedents set with Iraq and Libya and provides incisive analysis of the pressing crises with North Korea and Iran. A successor to the author's influential Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy (2000), this compelling book clarifies and critiques the terms in which today's vital foreign policy and security debate is being conducted.
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"Robert Litwak has performed an invaluable public service for both students and practitioners of American foreign policy. Regime Change addresses the unholy trinity of 21st-century threats—weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and failing states—through a post-9/11 prism. What makes this not just an important book but an urgent one are his insights into the Bush administration's approach to these issues. This volume stands alone in its analytical rigor and deep understanding of how the Bush administration has embraced the concepts of unilateralism, preemption, and regime change, and the foreign policy consequences that have flowed from its decisions. No other book so clearly illuminates the challenges and opportunities the United States faces in reshaping the international system."—Mitchell B. Reiss, vice provost of International Affairs, College of William & Mary, and former director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department, 2003–5
"Regime Change is destined to become a classic work of contemporary strategic studies. Robert Litwak masterfully tackles the fundamental strategic paradox of our time—how America has never been as powerful and as vulnerable—through a rich and detailed examination of the globe's rogue states and the threats they pose to U.S. security."—Bruce Hoffman, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"This impressive study is the best yet of those that outline the dilemmas and choices that face the United States as it confronts hostile states threatening to build weapons of mass destruction."—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007
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Chapter List
Part One
1. The "Imperial Republic," Rogue States, and International Order
2. Dilemmas of Force after 9/11
3. Strategies for a Change of Regime—or for Change within a Regime?
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4. Iraq: From Containment to Regime Change
5. Libya: Rejoining the "Family of Nations"?
6. Iran: Revolutionary State or Ordinary Country?
7. North Korea: Proliferation in a Failed State
8. Non-State Threats: The "Nexus" of Proliferation and Terrorism
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after reading several OpenGL documentations I understand that glVertexAttribPointer takes a numeral value between 1 and 4 for its second parameter (size) as information how many vertices are taken into consideration to render a single triangle. But I do not understand how to use other then three vertices for a triangle. Also trying different values and seeing the result doesn't help me.
What exactly does this do and what is it used for?
glVertexAttribPointer - understanding the size attribute
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Posted 18 November 2012 - 01:18 PM
For example, you might have an attribute with 2 as size for texture coords, or a size of 4 if you need x,y,z,w coords (which you will eventually). Moreover, it doesn't needs to be juts coordinates, you could store color in with 4 components in RGBA form (red, green, blue, alpha).
You can additional information besides the position of a vertex.
You can additional information besides the position of a vertex.
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Tramadol Disease Interactions
There are 8 disease interactions with tramadol:
- Acute Alcohol Intoxication
- Drug Dependence
- Liver Disease
- Renal Dysfunction
- Seizure Disorders
- Acute Abdominal Conditions
- Intracranial Pressure
- Respiratory Depression
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Acute Alcohol Intoxication
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Alcoholism, Acute Alcohol Intoxication
The use of tramadol is contraindicated in patients with acute alcohol intoxication exhibiting depressed vital signs. The central nervous system depressant effects of tramadol may be additive with those of alcohol. Severe respiratory depression and death may occur. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in patients who might be prone to acute alcohol intake. Naloxone may only partially reverse clinically significant tramadol-induced respiratory depression while increasing the risk of tramadol-associated seizures.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Drug Dependence
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse/Dependence
Tramadol has the potential to cause dependence and abuse. Tolerance as well as physical and psychological dependence can develop after prolonged use. Abrupt cessation, reduction in dosage, or administration of an opiate antagonist such as naloxone may precipitate withdrawal symptoms. Tramadol may also reinstate physical dependence in patients previously addicted to or chronically using opioids. Therapy with tramadol is not recommended in patients with a tendency to drug abuse, a history of drug dependence (including alcoholism), or chronic use of opioids. After prolonged use or if dependency is suspected, withdrawal of tramadol therapy should be undertaken gradually using a dosage-tapering schedule.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Liver Disease
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Liver Disease
Tramadol is converted by the liver to several metabolites, one of which (referred to as M1) is pharmacologically active and a more potent analgesic than tramadol itself. The metabolism of both tramadol and M1 has been shown to decrease in patients with advanced cirrhosis of the liver, resulting in increased exposure to tramadol as well as substantially prolonged elimination half-lives for both tramadol and M1. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in patients with impaired hepatic function. The recommended dosage for patients with cirrhosis is 50 mg every 12 hours.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Renal Dysfunction
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Renal Dysfunction
Tramadol and its metabolites, one of which (referred to as M1) is pharmacologically active and a more potent analgesic than tramadol itself, are primarily excreted in the urine. The rate and extent of excretion of both tramadol and M1 have been shown to decrease in patients with impaired renal function. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in such patients. The manufacturer recommends increasing the dosing interval to every 12 hours, with a maximum daily dosage of 200 mg, in patients with creatinine clearance below 30 mL/min.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Seizure Disorders
Severe Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse/Dependence, CNS Disorder
Seizures have been reported in patients receiving tramadol within the recommended dosage range. The risk appears to increase with doses above the recommended range. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in patients with epilepsy, a history of seizures, or other predisposing factors for seizures, including underlying neurologic abnormalities such as head trauma, brain damage or CNS tumor; excessive use of or abrupt withdrawal from alcohol; addiction to opiates, cocaine, or stimulants; and concomitant use of medications that lower seizure threshold. In tramadol overdose, naloxone administration may also increase the risk of seizures.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Acute Abdominal Conditions
Moderate Potential Hazard, High plausibility
Applies to: Acute (Surgical) Abdomen
The use of tramadol may complicate the clinical assessment of patients with acute abdominal conditions. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in such patients.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Intracranial Pressure
Moderate Potential Hazard, Moderate plausibility
Applies to: Head Injury, Intracranial Hypertension
Tramadol may induce pupillary changes (miosis) that may obscure the existence, extent, or course of intracranial pathology. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in patients with increased intracranial pressure or head injury. Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for adverse drug reaction when evaluating altered mental status in these patients if they are treated with tramadol.
Tramadol (Includes Tramadol) ↔ Respiratory Depression
Moderate Potential Hazard, Moderate plausibility
Applies to: Pulmonary Impairment, Altered Consciousness, Asphyxia, Brain/Intracranial Tumor, Cerebral Vascular Disorder, Head Injury, Respiratory Arrest, Sleep Apnea
Tramadol may produce some respiratory depression, but less than morphine at recommended dosages. Respiratory depression most often occurs when tramadol is given in high dosages with anesthetic medications or alcohol. Tramadol may also increase airway resistance, which can result in dyspnea. In general, the respiratory effects at therapeutic analgesic dosages are not clinically important except in some patients with preexisting pulmonary impairment. Therapy with tramadol should be administered cautiously in patients with underlying CNS and respiratory depression; sleep apnea; hypoxia, anoxia, or hypercapnia; upper airway obstruction; chronic pulmonary insufficiency; a limited ventilatory reserve; or other respiratory disorders. Caution is also advised in patients who may be at increased risk for respiratory depression, such as comatose patients or those with head injury, intracranial lesions, or intracranial hypertension. If clinically significant respiratory depression occurs, naloxone may be administered. However, it may only partially antagonize the effects of tramadol while increasing the risk of tramadol-associated seizures.
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Drug Interaction Classification
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Moderate | Moderately clinically significant. Usually avoid combinations; use it only under special circumstances. |
Minor | Minimally clinically significant. Minimize risk; assess risk and consider an alternative drug, take steps to circumvent the interaction risk and/or institute a monitoring plan. |
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