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Federal Judgeships:
The General Accuracy of the Case-Related Workload Measures Used to Assess the Need for Additional District Court and Courts of Appeals Judgeships
GAO-03-788R: Published: May 30, 2003. Publicly Released: May 30, 2003.
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Biennially, the Judicial Conference, the federal judiciary's principal policymaking body, assesses the judiciary's needs for additional judgeships. If the Conference determines that additional judgeships are needed, it transmits a request to Congress identifying the number, type (courts of appeals, district, or bankruptcy), and location of the judgeships it is requesting. In 2003, the Judicial Conference sent to Congress requests for 93 new judgeships--11 for the courts of appeals, 46 for the district courts, and 36 for the bankruptcy courts. In assessing the need for additional judgeships, the Judicial Conference considers a variety of information, including responses to its biennial survey of individual courts, temporary increases or decreases in case filings, and other factors specific to an individual court. However, the Judicial Conference's analysis begins with the courts of appeals--weighted case filings and adjusted case filings, respectively. These two measures recognize, to different degrees, that the time demands on judges are largely a function of both the number and complexity of the cases on their dockets. Some types of cases may demand relatively little time and others may require many hours of work. Generally, each case filed in a district court is assigned a weight representing the average amount of judge time the case is expected to require. Using these measures, individual courts whose past case-related workload meets the threshold established by the Judicial Conference may be considered for additional judgeships. Authorized judgeships are the total number of judgeships authorized by statute for each district court and court of appeals. The Judicial Conference relies on these quantitative workload measures to be reasonably accurate rests in turn on the soundness of the methodology used to develop them. Whether those measures are reasonably accurate rests in turn on the soundness of the methodology used to develop them. Our objectives were to (1) determine whether the methods the Judicial Conference uses to quantitatively measure the case-related workload of district court and court of appeals judges results in a reasonably accurate measure of judges' case-related workload, (2) asses the reasonableness of any proposed methodologies to update the workload measures, and (3) obtain information from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on the steps the Judiciary takes to ensure that the case filing data required for these workload measures are accurate.
The district court weighted case filings, as approved in 1993, appear to be reasonably accurate and are based on a reasonable methodology. However, they are about 10 years old, and we have concerns about the research design approved to update them. Overall, the weighted case filings, as approved in 1993, appear to be a reasonably accurate measure of the average time demands that a specific number and mix of cases filed in a district court could be expected to place on the district judges in that court. The methodology used to develop the weights used a valid sampling procedure, developed weights based on actual case-related time recorded by judges from case filing to disposition, and included a measure (standard errors) of the statistical confidence in the final weight for each weighted case type. Without such a measure, it is not possible to assess the accuracy of the final case weights. However, the case weights are about 10 years old, and the data on which the weights were based are as much as 15 years old. Changes since 1993, such as the characteristics of cases filed in federal district courts and changes in case management practices, may have affected whether the 1993 weights continue to be a reasonably accurate measure of the average time burden on district court judges resulting from a specific volume and mix of cases. Some of these changes may have increased time demands, others may have reduced time demands. To the extent that the current case weights understate or overstate the total case related time demands on district judges, the weights could potentially result in the Judicial Conference understating or overstating the need for new district court judgeships. The Judicial Conference's Subcommittee on Judicial Statistics has approved a research design for updating the current case weights, and we have some concerns about that design. The design would include limited data on the time judges actually spend on specific types of cases. Much of the time data used would be based on consensus estimates from groups of experienced judges. Such data cannot be used to develop an objective, statistical measure of the accuracy of the final case weights. Without such a measure, it is not possible to determine whether the case weights are in fact a reasonably accurate measure of case-related judge workload. In assessing the need for judgeships in specific courts, the Judicial Conference relies on the case weights to be a reasonably accurate measure of judges' case-related workload. Unlike the district court case weights, the adjusted filings workload measure for appellate judges is not based on any empirical data regarding the time that different types of cases required of courts of appeals judges. The adjusted filings workload measure basically assumes that all cases have an equal effect on judges' workload with the exception of pro se cases--those in which one or both parties are not represented by a lawyer--which are weighted at 0.33, or on-third as much as all other cases. In the documentation we reviewed, we found no empirical data to support that assumption. The current court of appeals case-related workload measure, adopted in 1996, reflects an effort to improve the previous measure, which may have tended to overstate judgeship needs. At the time the current measure was developed and approved, using the new benchmark at 500 adjusted case filings resulted in judgeship numbers that closely approximated the judgeship needs of the majority of the courts of appeals, as the judges of each court of appeals perceived them. However, on the basis of the documentation we reviewed, there is no empirical basis on which to assess the accuracy of adjusted filings as a measure of case-related workload for courts of appeals judges.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: The Judicial Conference's Committee on Judicial Resources recognizes that the methodology to be used to update the district court case weights will not result in the development of objective, statistical measures of the accuracy of the resulting case weights. However, the Committee has concluded that the planned methodology will be sufficiently accurate for use in assessing future judgeship needs.
Recommendation: The Judicial Conference of the United states should update the district court case weights using a methodology that supports an objective, statistically reliable means of calculating the accuracy of the resulting weights.
Agency Affected: Judicial Conference of the United States
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: The Judicial Conference's Committee on Judicial Resources continues to believe that the Courts of Appeals are each unique, and their individual characteristics preclude developing a methodology that could be used to create more objective workload measures that could be applied to all courts.
Recommendation: The Judicial Conference of the United states should develop a methodology for measuring the case-related workload of courts of appeals judges that supports an objective, statistically reliable means of calculating the accuracy of the resulting workload measures and that addresses the special case characteristics of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Agency Affected: Judicial Conference of the United States
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Drum Side TablePrice: $950.00
Design by Jon Eric Byers.
By Jeb Jones.
The tried and true drum silhouette gains a mod makeover in Jeb Jones' Drum Side Table. The simple cylinder shape features a smooth top with sawn texture sides and cylindrical inset footing. Each piece is made to order in a choice of 8 heavenly modern colors to punctuate modern living spaces with character. Drum is finished with VOC-free opaque and clear top coat finishes.
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Material(s): Hardwood
Dimensions: 18" Dia X 20" H
Designer: Jon Eric Byers
John Eric Byers is an artist and designer, and the creative energy behind the wooden furniture designs of the Jeb Jones brand. His individual furniture designs have been honored with numerous awards and grants, like the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards.View other products by Jon Eric Byers
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Jeb Jones: Simple geometric shaping in hand-crafted, hand-finished, meticulous detail.
Jeb Jones designs and produces American furniture in upstate New York. Under the helm of artist and designer Jon Eric Byers, all wood tables, storage and seating are distinguished by their simple geometric forms, traditional construction methods, hand-tooled surfaces and hand finishing. Only select, hand-picked hardwoods are used in the construction of each made-to-order piece. Hand-applied opaque finishes and clear coats are all VOC-free and environmentally safe.
Jeb Jones and John Eric Byers furniture designs have been honored with numerous awards and grants, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards. And several designs are part of the permanent collections of national museums, including the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.View other products from Jeb Jones


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Our lunchtime picnic cruise combines Oxford sightseeing with a leisurely picnic lunch and a relaxed experience of river life.
We travel through the city past famous landmarks including Christchurch College and Meadows, the University boathouses and regatta course, the Head of the River and Folly Bridge . From the river we take in a side of Oxford's heritage rarely seen by visitors to the city. Quaint Osney Island, well-loved allotments and gardens and majestic and ancient Port Meadow are off the tourist trail but represent some of Oxford's most beautiful and intriguing scenery. Port Meadow, a vast area of common land, has remained little changed since prehistoric times and supports plants and bird-life in abundance. At the top of Port Meadow is Godstow. Godstow was the ultimate destination of Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll when they followed an identical route to our trip while composing 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is also the site of Trout Island, an inspiration for another of Oxfords literary icons, C S Lewis, and his stories of the land of Narnia.
Your picnic lunch is provided by riverside restaurant, The Folly, and typically includes; smoked salmon and cream cheese, Parma ham, mixed leaf salad, sun dried tomato, olives, pork pie, scotch egg, Stilton and Cheddar cheese, chutney, pitta bread and strawberries and cream*.
The Lunchtime Picnic Trip costs £45 per person and £30 for children under 16.
The cruise departs from our moorings at The Folly, Folly Bridge, Oxford,
OX1 4LB. Departure is at 12.30pm. The cruise lasts approximately 2.5 hours. This cruise must be booked by 5pm the day before travel.
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For the past 35 years, Kitty Yue has dedicated her life to her goal of helping students achieve the highest educational and academic levels. She strives not only to assist her students in achieving academic excellence, but also to motivate them to become better people.
"Miss. Kitty", as she is affectionately known by staff, students and parents alike, started out in 1976 as a teacher at the St. Francis of Assisi School in Hong Kong where she worked for over 20 years. It was there where she honed her skills in teaching as well as in the fields of child development and child psychology. Always however, her ultimate goal was to run her own school in the style she felt was best for her students.
After moving to the U.S., Miss. Kitty continued her career in education by working at the South Hills Academy in West Covina, CA as their International Students Coordinator from 1998 to 2005. Soon after starting at South Hills, she began working on her dream of running a school of her own by founding the St. Paul Excelsior Academy in 1999 and running it part-time. Miss. Kitty still runs the St. Paul Excelsior Academy to this day, but now on a full-time basis.
Miss. Kitty became the Director of ACI West Covina in 2010. Running two schools full-time is challenging, but Miss. Kitty believes that helping and developing children is her calling in life. Because of this, Miss. Kitty runs both schools with a style and determination that only someone with her life goals can do. The "tough but caring" environment she provides is the cornerstone of her success with her students.
Parents praise and thank Miss. Kitty not only for their children's increasing academic achievements and growth; she also receives just as many compliments from parents thanking her for their children's improving discipline, maturity and noticeably better behavior, even their behavior at home!
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CHAT A picture should communicate pictoriality instead of just telling a story, says senior Cholamandal artist P. Gopinath
P. Gopinath, senior artist from Cholamandal says he is primarily a colourist, with an early inspiration from the Indian miniatures and the way they use colour.
"My work went through different stages," says Gopinath over telephone from Chennai. "Today I have evolved a new pictorial language. But my work should look colourful on the wall."
Gopinath says his work went through three stages. "I began painting with watercolours, inspired by the reflections of backwaters in Kerala, where I am from. Then I travelled around India where I encountered different schools of miniatures in Kangra and Kasauli. I met traditional painters, who explained the way they grind colour and make brushes."
This knowledge inspired Gopinath who then incorporated what he learnt, though in a "contemporary" sense. This was the time that he was creating his biomorphic image series which was also inspired by nature.
"Then my work evolved to this stage, where it is very visual. My work is abstract and non-figurative. I don't tell any stories in my paintings, there is only form and colour, which has evolved over the years."
Gopinath believes that an artist cannot arrive at a particular form and colour unless without experimenting with painting. "It's an evolution," he says. "I work directly on canvas or paper without predetermining what I am going to do. In the beginning it was utter chaos but a pictorial order started evolving from that. I enjoy working like that and the ideas flow from one painting to another."
Gopinath's forms can often be looked at as symbols or geometric shapes. "Symbols are easy to handle, like road signs. They are easy to understand and easy to communicate with, and they keep evolving," he explains. And the geometric shapes are not geometric shapes in the mathematical or the Western sense, but have a deep connection to Indian spirituality.
"For instance, the Sri Chakra is a cosmological image and is used for meditation. Multiples of triangles are used to depict the movement of the Nataraja form of Shiva. The area around that structure gives life to the form inside. The painter uses structure to keep form inside and it creates monumentality. We discover this in our pictorial journey."
But whether the observer looks into these aspects is a different matter altogether. Yet, Gopinath believes, a painting has to communicate. "When you look at an abstract painting that does not tell a story, then you think about it, why it is the way it is. But if it tells a definite story then it becomes a visual object that you then forget about. A picture should communicate pictoriality instead of telling a story. After the advent of the camera, there has not been a need for people to paint reality."
Gopinath's works will be on view until October 5 in the exhibition titled "Contemporary Small Format Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings" by the Cholamandal artists' group at Gallery Time and Space, 55, Lavelle Road. For details, contact 22124117.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (2/13/14) – Senator Jerry P. Rhoads, D-Madisonville, honored the Madisonville North Hopkins Marching Maroons today at the State Capitol for their championship performance in the 2013 KMEA Class AAAA Marching Band Competition.
This is their ninth consecutive KEMA state title.
"I want to congratulate Randy Adams, his assistants and the Marching Maroons on the outstanding legacy of excellence they have established. I applaud them for the distinction they have brought to their school, to Madisonville, to Hopkins County, and to our great Commonwealth," Senator Rhoads said.
The Marching Maroons, under the direction of Adams and his assistants, Alan Emerson, Cory Mullins and Katie Herrenbruck, competed Oct. 26, 2013 to capture their ninth consecutive class AAAA Grand Championship title by defeating several other finalists with a score of 90.86.
"Their win continues a remarkable and celebrated ritual," Senator Rhoads said. "The band has established a rich tradition of excellence at Madisonville North Hopkins High School and these students are to be commended for their talent and dedication."
The band has a great deal of support in the community.
Senator Rhoads praised the Marching Maroons Band Boosters for their inspiration, devotion and tireless efforts over the years to assist the band in every way possible.
The Kentucky State Senate adjourned today in honor of the Madisonville North Hopkins Marching Maroons.Senator Rhoads represents the 6th senatorial district, which includes Butler, Hopkins, Muhlenberg and Ohio counties.
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The Middle East Quartet, consisting of the US, Russia, the EU and the UN, has expressed concern over Israel's move to build 277 houses in the occupied West Bank and 900 houses in occupied East Jerusalem.
"The Quartet is greatly concerned by Israel's recent announcements to advance planning for new housing units in Ariel and east Jerusalem," the the mediating group said in a statement on Tuesday.
"This comes at a critical juncture with Quartet efforts ongoing to resume negotiations which are the only way to a just and durable solution to the conflict," the statement said.
The statement came amid intense efforts by Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy, to get Palestinians and Israelis back into direct talks.
Israel approved on Monday the building of almost 300 new homes in Ariel, a settlement inside the occupied West Bank, taking the total to more than 2,700 new settler homes approved in the past two weeks.
The planned expansion has brought a furious response from the Palestinian Authority, which has shunned direct talks since Israel ended a moratorium on settlement building in September last year.
The US said it found the reports of new Israeli settlement plans "deeply troubling" and counterproductive to the US effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
Israel has rejected international criticism insisting that the settlements are not an obstacle to direct talks.
Palestinians and Israelis are building up to a new diplomatic confrontation as Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, prepares to seek full United Nations membership at the UN General Assembly in September.
Israel says this is a threat to the peace process and the US is expected to veto any application to the UN Security Council.
Quartet divided
The Quartet itself has been divided in recent months over how to end the conflict that it has been trying for years to settle.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting in Washington last month and could not even agree on a joint statement.
The European powers want the Quartet to take a stronger role in efforts to get the Palestinians and Israelis back to the negotiating table, even if this means setting out the parameters for talks.
The US has pushed back such a move, diplomats said.
Blair, the former British prime minister, who has been the Quartet's special envoy since 2007, is working on a Quartet communique which he hopes could end divisions between the international powers and help get talks started again before the UN assembly.
"Those efforts are still going on. Tony Blair is in the centre of efforts trying to find the relevant wording to move forward," said a senior diplomat at the United Nations.
"Mr Blair is making progress. If you are talking about success -- not yet," the envoy told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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MUMBAI: It's not just in Tests and ODIs that India have struggled recently. Even in T20 cricket, a format in which India ruled the world, they have suffered more reversals than victories. After stunning everyone by winning the inaugural World T20 in South Africa under a new captain, MS Dhoni, and a fresh team, India have struggled under the same man to replicate that success.
They have not qualified beyond the Super Eights in three successive WorldT20 tournaments. They are yet to win a single T20 bilateral series comprising more than one game. And all this despite possessing the most highprofile, cash-rich T20 league in the world, the IPL.
Tuesday's defeat at the hands of arch-rivals Pakistan, though a close one, showed yet again that the millionaires of IPL are paupers in T20 Internationals. So, what ails our Men in Blue in instant cricket? This is not a format which requires us to discover express pace bowlers or batsmen who can score in any condition - something that is a must to excel in Test cricket.
"There is nothing wrong with our T20 team. There is plenty of talent. We have players who can do well in T20 cricket," Venkatesh Prasad, who was the bowling coach of the triumphant team of '07, and presently coaches the Uttar Pradesh Ranji side, told TOI.
If there is so much talent, why do we lose so often?
"The problem has been finding the right combination for the format. We need to have a 'horses for courses ' policy. We need to take a few harsh decisions," asserts Prasad. "It is a young man's game, you need young legs. You need to select the right players," says Lalchand Rajput, who was the coach of the '07 team.


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TJB Year in Review: September 2013
Brian Bassett, TheJetsBlog.comPushing through the last few months of 2013, here's a quick look at all the happenings from the Jets of the last year, month by month. Next up, September 2013 …
With the #MiniDraft in full swing, the Jets started claiming a number of players. Some players gave us some indictation to their season successes based on their preseasons.
People freaked out because Ryan visited his son at college.
The jets named their first practice squad and then signed Brady Quinn. Who was cut and then re-signed. The QB competition was "ongoing" according to Woody. Tone hit the practice field. The Jets worked out Leon Washington.
We thought the Bucs were going to be a lot better than they turned out being. Geno made it happen against the Bucs.
The team was very young. With Kerley out against the Pats, the Jets brought back Ben Obomanu. After fighting with the Patriots, there was concern some linemen would be suspended.
Sanchez was placed on IR. Despite an injury against the Pats, Wilkerson was confident of his return. Sheldon Richardson is a wrecking ball. Coples was active against the Bills after coming back from his ankle injury in the preseason.
The Jets got their second win against the Bills but it was ugly. So much so that the Jets re-instated their pushups for penalties policy. David Nelson worked out with the team.
Coples & Wilkerson were at danger for being fined of their hit on Jake Locker. Milliner had some ups and downs as a rookie, Darrin Walls didn't do much better against the Titans. Stephen Hill had a concussion and there were conflicting reports on Sanchez and his surgery.
Random stuff? The initial Power Rankings were not kind. Goodson restructured his deal. The jets wore all white on their opening Sunday. Fox Sports love Robert Malone although the Jets didn't. The Jets aint no jokes. Lankster was let loose on special teams. Rex and Willie Colon wished Mariano Rivera well.
I just went through CBS Sports updated prospect rankings and something that really surprised me was the QB rankings.
One guy who gets no respect is David Fales! He is currently ranked 6th by CBS at QB but the number 5 and number 4 guys are both QB's he beat this year!
In both games Fales also had better stats! Carr was very close to Fales in the SJSU vs. Fresno St. game but Fales easily beat out brett Smith when Wyoming played SJSU!
Here are their stat lines:
Fales: 27 of 37, 72.9% for 482 Yards, 5 TD's, O INT's with a QBR of 87.4
vs. Brett Smith 22 of 34, 64.7% for 267 yards, 3 TD's and 1 INT with a QBR of 63.1
Fales 37 of 45, 82.2% for 547 yards, 6 TD's, O INT's and a QBR of 97.6
vs. Derek Carr 380 of 50, 76% for 519 yards, 6 TD's, 1 INT and a QBR of 91.8
Another reason Fales should end up a Jet...the guy just gets no love from the media!
Lovie Smith: We have a place for a great cover corner
Revis said last week that he was excited about a future with Smith at the helm and Smith sounded like he felt the same way during his introductory press conference on Monday. Smith said, via WDAE, "there are reasons" why Revis is one of the best cornerbacks in football and that there would be "a place for a great cover corner" on a Buccaneers defense that won't be running Cover 2 on every play.
Good just hand over the round 3 pick
It is eerie linking to the old articles (pre-livefyre) and not seeing any comments!
LoL I remember nobody really didn't know this year.. How the Jets where going to be because so many changes and of coarse this was a rebuilding year and you know what that means..Thats what I remember for once I was pretty much clueless. so many changes.
Yeah I remember we set a franchise record with penalties against the Bills in that game...yet we still won!! Rex's pushups for penalties idea seemed to do the trick...
We also set a record with our win/loss/win/loss pattern!!
Why do I not remember that Robert Malone video? That was epic.
Believe it if you want, but I'm told #Maclin is re-signing with the #Eagles. To be announced after the playoffs. His words, "Done Deal."
It was the year of the wrecking ball.
Man we need to keep Colon
lucky for hank we can't call him out for contradictory statements made before the switch. @a57se
I had a similar thing happen with a TV show. I watched a rerun of Elementary last night and was shocked that I didn't remember Mycroft blowing up Sherlocks' stuff at the storage facility!! That was REALLY EPIC!
This is completely unrelated to Robert Malone, but it is an epic video.
I am glad to hear that! No more talk of the jets signing him...now if Denver would just sign Decker and the Saints, Graham!
@greggreen @jaym No
@a57se@jaym There is zero chance of Graham leaving the Saints....Zero.....its pointless to even speculate about it because it is never going to happen.... There is a more likely chance of Revis playing for the vet minimum for the next 5 seasons and Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus sharing the Nobel prize for physics than Graham leaving the Saints........
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GPS: It's your new ticket to romance. Forget finding highways and making emergency phone calls -- what's the point of better technology if it isn't going to help you hook up? The rise of location-based mobile apps means that online dating has never been easier (or more conducive to stalking). First, there's Foursquare to map your social wanderings and create user data. Then there's Ratio Finder to help you pick out locations with a high content of your preferred gender and Skout to scope out who else might be roaming around with an extra pillow and an iPhone. Finally, there's Urbanspoon to plan the perfect first date and Half-Oranges to help you seal the deal.
Foursquare: Find your friendsFoursquare is the leading mobile check-in application. The social networking program allows users to ping their network of friends when they've arrived at a particular spot -- and to see who else might be nearby. This way, friends can meet up with in a way that's convenient for everyone. Foursquare's "tips" feature lets you see advice on your current location -- what to order, better spots nearby, etc. The app also hands out "badges" and discounts if you frequently check in at certain locations. So the more you use the application, the better it works for you.
Ratio Finder: Find the chicks/dudesRatio Finder is a new program that analyzes check-in data from Foursquare users and determines the gender ratios of popular spots. With simple pink-or-blue visuals, it's easy to scroll through maps and quickly identify the areas with the highest concentration of a particular gender.
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Skout: Find the nearby hottiesSo, what to do once you've picked out your particular chromosome-saturated locale? It's time to pull out those GPS-based dating apps, like Skout. Skout works by accessing users' locations and showing photos of other singles nearby. Aside from the photo, the program is completely anonymous at this stage. See someone you like? You can check out their profile and chat them up (or vice versa, of course) all without seeing their name or personal information. Then, if things are going well, you and your new pal can access one another's numbers and set up meeting spot.
Urbanspoon: Find the eatsAnd where to find that perfect place? That's where the Urbanspoon app comes in. Urbanspoon's an eatery guide that lets you select a meeting place based on a type of cuisine and price range. Did your date's Skout profile mention a love for sushi? Pull-down "Japanese" and the amount of cash you want to drop and Urbanspoon will list all the matches is the area.
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We are honored to present the following distinguished speakers at the 13th annual Reflections | Projections Conference.
- Owen Byrne
- Cass Everitt
- Jerry Fiddler
- Phil and Kaja Foglio
- Ari Gordon-Schlosberg
- Ron Isaacson
- Joel Jordan
- Gary McGraw
- Randall Munroe
- Greg Nordstrom & David Larson
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|Owen Byrne
Sometimes You Just Have to Stay Out of the Way...Creatively
Owen Byrne, senior software engineer at Digg.com, has seen just about everything during the first two years of helping develop Digg into the leading social news site on the Internet. From helping launch Digg's beta version in December of 2004 and seeing a Paris Hilton cell phone hack story break on Digg before traditional media outlets, Byrne will discuss all the memorable and not so memorable moments from the first two years that have made the site into what it is today.
Byrne will also share his insights on the work behind the scenes at Digg—the long nights of developing innovative features and dealing with a community that drives your site.
Byrne's expert insight will allow all aspiring software students and aficionados to dig into the mind of Digg's leading engineer.
About Owen Byrne
Owen Byrne is Senior Software Engineer at Digg. Prior to Digg, he worked as a freelance web developer, contributing to the development of more than 60 websites worldwide. With more than 20 years of IT experience and a brief stint as a university professor, Byrne has worked for startups, manufacturing companies, telemarketers, a Fortune 100 company, several universities, and Canada's largest independent newspaper. Byrne holds an MBA from Dalhousie, and received his BA at Saint Mary's University.
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Real Time Rendering - State of the Art
Real-time graphics continues to drive in ever more engaging ways the way that we play, create, and discover. This talk will cover the major innovations that have occurred in real-time 3D graphics over the past few years, and what technologies are on the horizon.
About Cass Everitt
Cass is currently an engineer in the Developer Technology group at NVIDIA. He has also been a 3D Architect for GeForce™ 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs, and a manager in the Cg group in the company. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he worked in the scientific visualization branch of computer graphics, focusing on oceanographic and meteorological model visualization.
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About Jerry Fiddler
Jerry Fiddler is the founder of Wind River Systems (NASDAQ:WIND), a company which he started in 1981 in his Berkeley garage. Since then, Wind River has grown to become the leading provider of device software worldwide with over 1,100 employees in 16 countries. Through the company's dramatic growth, Fiddler's role evolved from that of the sole programmer to CEO and Chairman of the Board until his departure in 2004. While doing so, he gained a reputation as an expert in the design and implementation of real-time systems."
Since beginning his career at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Fiddler has published and presented many technical papers and articles and has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences worldwide. He is a member of the UC President's Advisory Board on Science and Innovation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
Mr. Fiddler sits on several corporate boards, including Wind River, Tensilica, Crossbow and Nanochip, as well as a number of advisory boards. He served as a UC Berkeley Fellow in Entrepreneurship and as a Wharton Entrepreneur in Residence and has undertaken similar responsibilities at the University of Illinois. Fiddler received a B.A. in music and photography, and an M.S. in computer science, both from the University of Illinois.
As the Chairman of Solazyme his role is to guide the transformation of the company's disruptive technologies from the lab to commercial success.
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Kaja Foglio
"I can haz money now?" Successfully Reengineering Traditional Comic Publishing For The Web
At the end of the '90s, Phil and Kaja Foglio were producing Girl Genius, a moderately successful independent comic book series. In 2005 they stopped publishing traditional periodical comic books and began posting their work online for free. They were first comics publisher to move from print to web.
Two years later, their readership has gone from 9,000 readers to over 100,000, and their revenues have multiplied by a factor of five. In their lecture, they will explain the differences between the old and new business models, why they abandoned the traditional paradigm, and why they were able to thrive under the new system, as well as offering insight into how other businesses can do the same.
About Phil and Kaja Foglio
Phil Foglio is the artist and co-writer on the award winning webcomic Girl Genius. His career encompasses the fields of science fiction, gaming and comics. He is the original designer of the Unix Demons, and he is a two time Hugo Award winner.
Kaja Foglio is the co-writer and graphic designer of the Eisner-nominated webcomic Girl Genius. She has done iconographic art for the trading card game Magic; The Gathering, and has illustrated several fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Bridge of Birds.
|Ari Gordon-
Human Computer Symbiosis: Building Information Systems From The Human Perspective
As computer scientists, we tend to factor the world into problem silos that seem to be interesting from a computability standpoint (faster algorithms, new data structures, etc.).
The goal of HCS-centered design is to factor the world into questions that are interesting from a human standpoint and then factor the solution into something computable. This factoring will tend to cut across established silos and the solution will tend to incorporate techniques and architectures found in classically separate areas of computer science scholarship and research.
Palantir is actively engaged in building these conceptual information systems. In this talk, Ari Gordon-Schlosberg will explore the historical context of HCS as a system design philosophy, explore how its goals are very different from what AI tried and failed to accomplish, and present some real world examples of how HCS builds better information systems.
About Ari Gordon-Schlosberg
Ari Gordon-Schlosberg is a Senior Engineer and the Technical Evangelist at Palantir Technologies. Palantir Technologies is a thriving startup that is building the next generation of information visualization and exploration systems.
An alumnus of the University of Illinois computer science department, Ari has worked in the software industry for the past ten years, including a stint as lead website and infrastructure maintainer for the SourceForge.net open source software archive.
At Palantir Technologies, Ari splits his time between working as a backend engineer on Palantir's analysis platform and thinking and writing about Palantir's vision for human-driven information data systems.
|Ron Isaacson
Putting AFS to Work on Wall Street
For the last ten years, AFS has played a critical role in Morgan Stanley's infrastructure. Today, this technology forms the core of both the Unix and Windows computing platforms at this world-leading financial services firm. Morgan Stanley's custom-designed AFS installation provides access to applications, data, and even the entire Unix operating system, with low latency and near-100% availability, in data centers all over the world.
In this talk, you'll learn about the design of Morgan Stanley's AFS plant, the many ways in which the firm contributes to the open-source AFS community, and the workings of VMS, the internally-built software deployment system that makes it all possible.
About Ron Isaacson
Ron Isaacson has been designing and developing software applications since 1997. After joining Morgan Stanley in 2001, he spent four years as a technical architect and senior developer on several business applications. In 2005 he joined the elite Unix Engineering team, and spent the next two years building the latest generation of the VMS software distribution system, in addition to leading several other initiatives related to Morgan Stanley's enterprise-class Unix infrastructure. Since early 2007, Ron has been leading a team of developers building configuration management systems for both applications and infrastructure.
Before receiving his BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Ron worked as a Unix system administrator for the University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
|Joel Jordan
Making Everyday Automation Easy and Practical
How many times have you seen a repetitive task performed by hand and thought, "it would be so easy to automate that?" Automation technology has existed for decades and continues to increase in capability even as the price drops. However, many of the people who might benefit from it the most are largely unaware of its capabilities. This talk will examine possible reasons for why this is the case, and how software can be used to better address the needs of this largely untapped market.
About Joel Jordan
Joel Jordan (University of Illinois MSEE 2004, BSEE 2003) is an electrical engineer and entrepreneur in Albuquerque, NM. Until recently, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories writing signal processing applications for a 3D laser radar on the Space Shuttle. Currently, he is starting a company aimed at providing automation technology to nontechnical users.
|Gary McGraw
Exploiting Online Games
Please note: Dr. McGraw has informed us that due to circumstances beyond his control, he regretfully will not be able to attend the conference. His talk timeslot will be replaced with Yahoo! Hack Day presentations.
This talk (based on a book of the same title co-authored by Greg Hoglund) frankly describes controversial security issues surrounding MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. This no-holds-barred approach is fully loaded with code examples, debuggers, bots, and hacks. If you are a gamer, a game developer, a software security person or an interested bystander, this book exposes the inner workings of online game security for all to see. In the talk, I will cover:
Ultimately, this talk is mostly about security problems associated with advanced massively distributed software. With hundreds of thousands of interacting users, today's online games are a bellwether of modern software yet to come. The kinds of attack and defense techniques I describe are tomorrow's security techniques on display today.
About Gary McGraw
Gary McGraw is the CTO of Cigital, Inc., a software security and quality consulting firm with headquarters in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of six best selling books on this topic. The latest, Software Security: Building Security In was released in 2006, with Exploiting Online Games slated for release this year. His other titles include Java Security, Building Secure Software, and Exploiting Software; and he is editor of the Addison-Wesley Software Security series. Dr. McGraw has also written over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authors a monthly security column for darkreading.com, and is frequently quoted in the press. Besides serving as a strategic counselor for top business and IT executives, Gary is on the Advisory Boards of Fortify Software and Raven White. His dual PhD is in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University where he serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Informatics. Gary is an IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors member and produces the monthly Silver Bullet Security Podcast for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
|Randall Munroe
Meet the President of the Internet
Randall Munroe will be talking about his experiences drawing xkcd and playing with kites. He will answer questions on the theory of humor, the internet, Web 2.0, evading kite-related FAA regulations, Web 3.0, algorithmic complexity theory, making out, seventies hairstyles, Web 4.1, syllables, romance, dromaeosauridae, simulated annealing, regular expressions in humor, Pocky, and the Federalist Papers. If he is asked about sex, he will blush but do his best to answer anyway.
About Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is a professional pencil/pen operator from southern Virginia who created the webcomic xkcd. At his previous job at NASA, he was supposed to work on software library compatibility, but instead rode around the hallways in a chariot he created by sitting in a rolling chair and lassoing a robot with cat 5 cable. xkcd has quickly become one of the most popular comics online, receiving over four million visits a month.
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An Overview of the Design and Features of the IBM POWER™ Systems Hypervisor
IBM iSeries and pSeries servers utilize the POWER processor family of processors and offer industry leading virtualization features. The POWER Hypervisor is integral to providing these capabilities. In this presentation, IBM POWER Hypervisor designers Greg Nordstrom and David Larson describe the POWER server hardware structure, virtualization capabilities, and Hypervisor structure and design.
About Greg Nordstrom
Mr. Greg M. Nordstrom is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, where he presently leads the POWER Hypervisor IO architecture and firmware design team. Mr Nordstrom is a 1981 UIUC graduate with a B.S. Computer Engineering degree. Mr Nordstrom joined the IBM Corporation in Rochester, Minnesota,in 1981, and had formerly worked at Hughes Aircraft Corp. as a UIUC Cooperative Education student. In his time at IBM, Mr Nordstrom has worked in IO adapter hardware and firmware design for the IBM 9370 and AS400 systems, and in the IO architecture and design of i5OS and Hypervisor firmware for i and p Series POWER server systems. Mr Nordstrom has formerly also been a member of the ANSI Fibre Channel Standards committee, participating in the definition of the FC-2 and FC-3 layers of this standard. Mr Nordstrom holds 23 issued US Patents and 12 pending US patents in varying areas of computer IO.
About David Larson
Mr. David Larson is an Advisory Software Engineer with the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Rochester, Minnesota, where he presently works on POWER Hypervisor architecture and development. He began his work on the POWER Hypervisor project in 2002. Prior to working on the POWER Hypervisor project he worked on a variety of projects including i5/OS PASE, an AIX runtime environment for i5/OS. He joined the IBM Corporation in 1999. He received a bachelor's degree in computer science from North Dakota State University.
|Thomas Ptacek
The Arms Race Over Virtualization
Five years from now, none of us will be using "real" computers anymore. Every interaction we have with our laptops, web applications, and file shares will be intercepted and emulated through hypervisors: thin layers of software that allow a single silicon CPU core to pretend to multiple virtual machines. And attackers who can negotiate the barriers between physical and virtual machines will seize sweeping powers to steal data, infect computers, and hide their presence.
Enterprise IT is a key theater in the three-front war being fought between information security teams and organized crime. If the enterprise falls, attackers will ignore web application security and harvest identities and bank accounts directly from the source. If the enterprise falls, attackers will ignore DRM and steal high-definition DVD masters or game source code right off of corporate file servers. And every enterprise IT team in the world is migrating to virtualized servers. Is the sky falling?
My team tried to find out. In 2006, we developed a proof-of-concept rootkit programmed directly to the hardware virtualization features of the Intel chipset. In 2007, we spent a year in a high-tech sparring match with ultra-clever security researcher Joanna Rutkowska, author of the "Blue Pill" hypervisor rootkit for AMD, whose research goal is the creation of undetectable stealth malware.
Our talk is a deep dive into virtualization technology and computer security. We'll show how hypervisors work, and how we used those concepts to invent "hyperjacking", which virtualizes a running operating system out from under itself. Then we'll explain how antivirus software can detect a hyperjacker just as easily as a kernel virus. And we'll explain how a Google researcher may have opened the floodgates to vulnerabilities that will plague hypervisor kernels for years to come, and why local crypto timing attacks mean you shouldn't take credit cards on a shared Xen web server. You'll get some perspective on how information security interacts with operating system theory, and, perhaps unexpectedly, come to see virtualization as a win for security.
About Thomas Ptacek
Thomas Ptacek is a veteran security researcher and software developer with over 10 years of industry experience. He is the author of one of the most widely-cited research results in TCP/IP implementation security challenges and former lead developer of a security product now deployed on the backbones of every major Internet Service Provider in the world, inspecting a substantial fraction of all the connections made across the Internet today.
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Quoting Side Effects
A programming-language designer makes rules to match what programmers want, whereas a linguist makes rules to match what natural-language speakers do. The same formal tools that relate form to meaning are useful on both sides. To illustrate this link, we discuss how side effects such as mutable state and delimited control interact with quoted expressions. In computer science, this interaction helps us generate faster code more easily. In linguistics, it explains why "somebody loves everybody" is ambiguous but "anybody loves nobody" makes no sense.
About Chung-Chieh Shan
Chung-chieh Shan is an assistant professor of computer science and cognitive science at Rutgers University.
|Jon Stokes
Why Most Digital Humanities Computing Projects Are a Waste of Time, and How to Fix the Problem
When historical artifacts make the leap into the digital realm through different forms of capture and transcription, they not only leave behind their corporeality, but they also become separated from the delicate, institutionally realized web of "scholarship" that is anchored in certain aspects of their physical character. This talk will first describe a few of the ways in which the physical attributes of a particular family of historical artifacts--handwritten manuscripts and printed pages--have played a formative and productive role in humanities scholarship at both the individual and institutional levels. It will then briefly and selectively survey the recent history and current state of the discipline at the intersection of computer science and the humanities--"digital humanities" scholarship--with a view to showing how things can go spectacularly wrong when the aforementioned physical attributes are (mis)cast as the unfortunate "constraints" and "limitations" of an outmoded "information medium." The talk will conclude with a set of specific recommendations for recreating in the digital realm the aspects of manuscripts and books that are the most critically productive for humanities scholarship.
About Jon Stokes
Jon Stokes is a co-founder and senior editor at Ars Technica, and the author of Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture (No Starch Press, 2007). Stokes graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in computer engineering, before switching fields and attending Harvard Divinity School to study ancient languages and early Christian history. After completing two masters degrees at Harvard Divinity School, he entered a Ph.D. program in New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago. Stokes' current doctoral research interests lie in the area of humanities computing.
|Eric Traut
Machine Virtualization
Although virtual machines have been around since the 1960's, they have only recently become widely used on PC-based servers and clients. Today they are commonly used in the datacenter to reduce capital and operational costs. They are also used on the desktop for software development and application compatibility. Fueled by recent advances in processor virtualization technologies, software developers continue to propose new uses for virtual machines. So what's with all the hype? Are virtual machines really the answer to many of today's computing problems? In his talk, Eric Traut will discuss the basic concepts involved in machine virtualization and provide an architectural overview of Microsoft's soon-to-be-released hypervisor. He will also discuss some of the factors that are driving the interest in virtual machines and talk about where virtualization should (and perhaps more importantly, shouldn't) be applied.
About Eric Traut
Eric Traut is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Director of Development for the Windows Kernel and Virtualization team. He has spent the last 12 years of his career working on virtualization technologies. He is one of the original developers of Microsoft's Virtual PC and Virtual Server products, and he now leads a talented group of engineers who are responsible for many of the core pieces of the Windows operating system. This includes Microsoft's new virtualization platform (code-named "Viridian"), which will be included in Windows Server 2008. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University. He holds 11 issued US patents and 36 pending patents in the area of virtualization.
|Jeffrey Ullman
Computers and the Education Industry
Although there have been many interesting experiments, technology investment in the education industry is the lowest of any major industry group. As a result, people are used very inefficiently; school taxes and tuition are becoming progressively more outlandish. But it is not all that easy to figure out where to apply automation in education. We shall try to sort out where people are needed and where machines can be adequate substitutes. We then turn to college-level education, especially in Computer Science. Are textbooks a thing of the past? Does the ability of schools to pipe lectures into the dorms radically change the economics of education? Finally, we shall look at what has been the speaker's personal "research" project since retirement: an attempt to automate the sort of homeworks that one normally finds in CS courses.
About Jeffrey Ullman
Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp., a startup trying to produce low-cost, high-quality tools for secondary and college education. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. He has served as chair of the CS-GRE Examination board, Member of the ACM Council, and Chair of the New York State CS Doctoral Evaluation Board. Ullman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He is the author of 16 books, including widely read books on database systems, compilers, automata theory, and algorithms.
|Peter Valchev
Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs
This talk will discuss how OpenBSD's security features and exploit mitigation techniques find real bugs in the process of porting software. Porting third party applications often results in discovering classes of bugs that cause spurious crashes on other systems, but can be reliably detected and fixed in OpenBSD. All bugs are patched and reported upstream, meaning the process not only improves the security and robustness of OpenBSD, but also that of the individual applications. For example, using ProPolice, a gcc modification that catches stack-smashing problems, we were able to detect many potentially exploitable bugs at runtime. In this talk, I will describe how you can use several such techniques to find similarly pesky software bugs.
About Peter Valchev
Peter Valchev has been an OpenBSD developer since 2001. He has worked on many different areas of the system but has remained one of the core developers responsible for the ports and packages collection. Currently, he is an Information Security Engineer at Google and holds a BSc in Computer Science and Math from the University of Calgary.
|Steve Yegge
Compiling JavaScript for the JVM
Mozilla Rhino (JavaScript) is now officially bundled with Java 6 as "javax.script", making it one of the leading choices for alternate languages hosted on the Java Virtual Machine. My dev team at Google has been using Rhino as a server-side web development language for over a year, and it has proven to be a capable, mature, and surprisingly adaptable language platform. Perhaps the biggest surprise has been its excellent performance, the result of a decade of tuning and compiler optimizations by the Rhino open-source dev team. In this talk I'll give a high-level overview of life using JavaScript as a replacement for Java (specifically in the context of our Ruby on Rails port), followed by a deep dive into the Rhino runtime and byte compiler. We'll look at some of the challenges of compiling this high-level dynamic language into efficient Java bytecode.
About Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge is an internationally (in)famous tech blogger with a penchant for writing about programming languages, productivity, and software culture. Steve obtained his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and has nearly twenty years of industry experience as a programmer, program manager and software dev manager. Steve's programming career spans such diverse domains as embedded operating systems, large-scale multiplayer game design, massively scalable e-commerce systems (at Amazon.com), web development, handheld device applications and software productivity tools. Today Steve is happily employed at Google as a Senior Software Engineer in the Kirkland/Seattle office.


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Middleton mulls solutions to problem of aging school buses
Saturday, December 15, 2012
MIDDLETON — The Middleton School Board Wednesday night weighed three options for resolving their problems with their outdated school buses but in the end, opted to hold a special district meeting for voters to decide.
Superintendent Steve Welford for the SAU 61, where Middleton students attend schools in Farmington, told the board on Wednesday, buses have about a seven-year long life expectancy. Currently, Middleton has five buses, two of which are 1997 models. The others are from 2006 and set to expire in 2013.
"My pulse of this community is that I would want to put it in front of them because a contractual obligation strikes me in a resident's eye as (qualifying for a special meeting)," Garry said, adding, "I think we've talked about it long enough."
Wednesday evening, the board also received news that an expired bus, with a cracked frame housed at DePrizio GMC Trucks, will have to be moved soon. The board previously voted to not pay approximately $11,000 to repair that vehicle.


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The Surgical Weight-Loss Center at Denver Health strives to answer all the questions you may have about bariatric surgery and our program. Below are the most common questions we receive from interested patients. If you have additional questions, please contact our Bariatric Coordinator by calling 303-602-6232.
Weight-loss surgery should be considered permanent and patients should enter into a surgical weight-loss program fully committed to the reaching their goals. If you are asking this question in the beginning of this process, surgery may not be right for you.
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Younger patients have a greater amount of skin elasticity and therefore are less likely to need plastic surgery. You may speak with one of the plastic surgeons on the Surgical Weight-Loss Center team about your specific situation.
Regarding insurance coverage of plastic surgery, coverage is not guaranteed. You will need to contact your insurance provider to determine your specific plastic surgery benefits.
Gallstones — clumps of cholesterol and other matter that form in the gallbladder — following surgery are common during rapid weight loss. Medication should be taken to help prevent gallstones from developing after bariatric surgery. If gallstones do develop after surgery, another follow-up surgery may be required.
If you have gallstones before surgery, the gallbladder will be removed.
Yes. Successful pregnancies following bariatric surgery are common. In fact, you are more likely to get pregnant as you lose your excess weight.
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In what should come as no surprise to veteran travelers, the U.S. State Dept. has issued a worldwide - but nonspecific - travel alert ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The new alert, issued Friday, states that "while we have not identified any specific threats from (al Qaeda) affiliates and allies to attack the United States or our interests on the 9/11 anniversary, U.S. citizens should be aware that (al Qaeda) affiliates and allies have demonstrated the intent and capability to carry out attacks against the United States and our interests around the world. In the past, terrorist organizations have on occasion planned their attacks to coincide with significant dates on the calendar."
The alert comes on the heels of earlier "worldwide caution," issued on July 26, reminding U.S. citizens to "maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness" after the death of Osama bin Laden in May.
Earlier this week, Amtrak announced it was boosting security in advance of the 9/11 anniversary, conducting more passenger and baggage screenings, increasing use of K-9 bomb detection teams and increasing station police patrols at stations, on trains and along tracks.


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Emerging Markets Still a Good Long-Term Bet
By Jeff Cox, Senior Writer, CNBC.com
NEW YORK ( CNBC) -- Once hailed as a beacon for investors, emerging markets have lost their status as welcoming islands in the ocean of global turmoil.
The good news is that many market pros still see investments in the smaller countries of South America, Asia and elsewhere as reliable long-term plays.
But as recession fears take hold in the largest global regions and once-booming economies in China, India and Brazil start to cool off, developing countries remain at the mercy of the global turmoil.
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"We just think our economy and the potential European recession for next year does not bode well for the global economy," said Chip Cobb, portfolio manager at Bryn Mawr Trust in Bryn Mawr, Pa. "We like the emerging markets, but we think they're going to be lackluster until Europe gets its act together."This has been a difficult year for U.S. stocks and global equities in general. But it's been especially miserable for emerging markets. The Russell World Emerging Markets Index was off 4.1% in November alone and is down nearly 14% for the year, even though its three-year return is up a robust 21%. An exchange-traded fund widely used to track the so-called BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- has performed poorly as well, falling more than 20% off its early July peak as the once-formidable bloc has come under increasing pressure from global debt distress. The iShares BRIC Index ETF (BKF), which mimics the index of the same name, also is showing signs of technical weakness, with another 8% drop likely, according to chart analyst Abigail Doolittle at Peak Theories Research. "Basically the emerging market economies have still been quite vulnerable to developments in the industrialized world. A lot of their world is export-driven," said Brian Gendreau, market strategist at Cetera Financial, an El Segundo, Calif.-based broker-dealer. "Will they be able to escape the downturn in developed countries? I don't think so." Still, Gendreau sees long-term prospects for developing economies, believing "there's still going to be quite a bit of growth in the emerging markets going forward."
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For some, Roland Celette is the buoyant man about town, perched elegantly upon the bicycle he rides from gallery to gallery. For others, he's the aesthete wading around the Phillips Collection, drawn to the disordered colors of Willem de Kooning's "Asheville."
But for France, Celette, 57, is a charm offensive, a strategic cultural mastermind who transformed the role of the French cultural attache to soft power broker of Reservoir Road. Having spent 11 years at his post as cultural attache and director of La Maison Française, the French Embassy's cultural center, Celette will move back to France after decades of promoting the Gallic gospel's trinity — arts, language and cuisine.


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The Quiet Life drops another collection along with a lookbook just in time for the holiday season. Shot at "The Falls" in Santa Clarita by brand director Andy Mueller, the lookbook shows off the goods which this season includes a corduroy coach jacket, an Ikat sweater, several button-downs, and a few other staple December pieces. Unique prints and signature graphics adorn a majority of this season's offerings, all of which is now available straight from The Quiet Life's online shop.
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