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Just say no to "software engineering"
I was reading Jacob Kaplan-Moss's blog article on "syntactic sugar" and I realized that there's something sitting just below the surface of what he's saying, something important, something counter to the standard "software development is an engineering discipline" view of our work.
Jacob rails against those who say the differences between modern computer languages amount to nothing more than "syntactic sugar." Ultimately he argues that: Syntactic sugar matters.
Sure it makes no "technical" difference but it does make a huge difference — because it changes the way we think about writing software.
I'll loop back to that in a second, but first a quick detour through another recent blog post:
Eventually you come to realize that in order to truly succeed, you have to write programs that can be understood by both the computer and your fellow programmers.
Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest…. Even when you're writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you're still writing. For other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that's the truly difficult part.
The thread that ties both of these together is that they highlight the way that people and by people I mean software developers, tend to forget is that code is always two things:
- A series of instructions or declarations processed by a computer.
- A series of instructions or declarations processed by one or more human beings.
Code is a machine construct, but it's also a social construct. Software engineering is a strange name for our discipline, since the hard work of programming isn't just getting code that machines can run, but in creating abstractions that allow human beings to learn, understand, and evolve the code over time. We didn't invent Structured Programming, or Object Oriented Programming because they help the computer understand what we mean — we created them because they provide us with tools to help us as human beings to be able to understand the code we write.
Non-software Engineers aren't concerned primarily with the practice of communicating complex thoughts and ideas to others. This is a vast oversimplification, but I think it's fair to say that they are interested in constructing mathematical models of how things things behave, so that they can build stuff that works.
But that's not what we are, we are creative writers, we invent new ways of thinking about the world, and we try to communicate them to each other every day.
Software Engineers do create incredibly complex systems, and operate under constraints that other writers do not — what we write has two audiences, one human, and one non-human. Writing for the non-human audience alone will result in code that's incomprehensible to other programmers, but the opposite is also true. Computer programming is hard — and it's hard for a very specific reason — because it requires thinking like other people, and not thinking like people at all.
Fortunately, the problem is simplified a bit by the fact that other programmers have learned at least somewhat to think like silicon and metal, so you can lean a little bit in that direction and still be understood. But still you have a very exacting, very alien audience, and a very exacting, very human one — and programming languages must be designed to balance the needs of both.
So, perhaps we ought to stop calling ourselves software developers, software architects, or software engineers, and start calling ourselves software writers.


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Page 7 is updated as of 3rd November 2014 with comments on the WHO report about trees not doing their usual thing in absorbing much of our fossil fuel emissions.
Page 8 is updated with a modified version of a simple model included in the book by Bohren & Clothiaux. Proof, if proof were needed, that global warming of the Earth's surface and troposphere is real.
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Temperature Perspective (This is relevant to the spat between Lord Lawson and Sir Paul Nurse PRS)
Many criticisms of global warming theory are based on the observation that the mean global temperature since 1998 has shown a zero trend in spite of the increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2. Fifteen years data should be viewed against those for the period beginning in 1850. The HADCRUT4 set of temperature anomalies is shown in the graph.
There is an underlying upward trend with obvious extra warming and cooling periods superimposed. Such variations are caused by the approximately 30 year phases of the two main cycles; the Atlantic and Pacific overturning cycles. Two periods of global cooling occurred between 1880-1910 and 1940-1976 with warming periods from 1910-1940 and 1976-1998. The current state of the climate is consistent with the onset of another cooling period that might continue for another 15 years before the next period of warming.
Viewed from the whole graph, the period between 1998 and 2012 is reasonably consistent with the idea of another cooling period, but is by no means a rebuttal of the generally accepted theory that increases in atmospheric concentrations of a greenhouse gas should cause the surface and the lower troposphere to warm up.
The gradual and continual build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere should produce a gradual and continual warming of the surface and lower troposphere. That the warming is not continual, but is affected by other causes does nothing to destroy the basic physics of the greenhouse effect. Very little, if anything, can be concluded from a consideration of any 15-year period in the 162 year's data. Viewed overall there is an underlying warming trend enhanced or enfeebled by natural causes, some of a ~30 year cycle and others of smaller duration that make the observed graph 'jagged'.


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Over 600 athletes competed in the season's first run-bike-run race of the Hong Kong Triathlon Association 2013 Duathlon Series held at Chong San Road, Science Park, Shatin on Sunday Jan 13. Jeffrey Tang and Joyce Cheung were the respective title winners of Elite Open men's and women's categories.
The Elite Open course comprised a 3.2 km run, 20.3 km Bike and another 3.2 km run.
Jeffrey Tang took the lead in the bike section and was never headed. He crossed the finish line in 56 minutes 23 seconds (56:23).
National Squad member, Joyce Cheung won with the time 1:03:26.
Meanwhile, a new individual category in Hong Kong for athletes with a physical disability, the Paratriathlon, was introduced in this event. Samuel Ajmal and Shum Hang Fu won the inaugural races in Paratriathlon Tri 1 and Tri 4 categories respectively.
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|President of Vision Forum, writer, minister, attorney
|Beall Phillips
Douglas Winston Phillips is a Christian speaker and author. He is the son of Peggy (Blanchard) and U.S. Constitution Party leader Howard Phillips and former president of Vision Forum Ministries. He advocates Biblical patriarchy, creationism, homeschooling, Quiverfull, and Family Integrated Church.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Doug and his wife Beall have eight children.[2][3]
He resigned as president of Vision Forum Ministries on October 30, 2013 upon confession of what he termed an "inappropriate relationship" with a woman.[4][5] On November 11, 2013, Vision Forum Ministries' Board of Directors discontinued operations in light of the "serious sins" which prompted Doug Phillips' resignation.[6] Vision Forum, Inc., Phillips' for-profit business, was closed after a liquidation sale during the last two months of 2013.[7]
On April 15, 2014, Lourdes Torres-Manteufel filed a lawsuit alleging she had suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of Doug Phillips.[8]
On November 17, 2014, Phillips was excommunicated from Boerne Christian Assembly, the church that he founded.[9] Phillips had left the church in July.[10]
He has written and edited several books, including:
- The Bible Lessons of John Quincy Adams for His Son (2000) ISBN 1-929241-22-4
- The Letters and Lessons of Teddy Roosevelt for His Sons (2001) ISBN 1-929241-32-1
- Robert Lewis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks (2003) ISBN 1-929241-41-0
- Poems for Patriarchs (2003) ISBN 1-929241-45-3
- The Birkenhead Drill (2004) ISBN 1-929241-46-1
- The Little Boy Down the Road: Short Stories & Essays on the Beauty of Family Life (2008) ISBN 1-934554-34-0
- Building the 21st Century Man
Doug Phillips is a leader in the Christian film industry and is the founder of the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.[11] He produced a documentary The League of Grateful Sons in 2004 honoring the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.[12] In 2009, Phillips led a team of scientists to the Galápagos Islands for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's life and produced a documentary The Mysterious Islands.[13][14]
- ^ Barrick, Audrey (December 13, 2009). "Embrace Christianity as total world and life view, ministry leaders say". Christian Post. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ^ Campbell, Nancy (2003). Be Fruitfull and Multiply. San Antonio: Vision Forum. ISBN 0-9724173-5-4.
- ^ "About the President". Vision Forum Ministries. 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-23.
- ^ Phillips, Doug. "Statement of Resignation". Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Phillips, Doug. "Clarification on Resignation". Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ^ Phillips, Doug. "The Closing of Vision Forum Ministries". Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ Phillips, Doug. "Thank You for 15 Years". Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ^ Schilling, Chelsea (15 April 2014). "Christian Giant Sued for 'Using Nanny as Sex Object'; Lawsuit claims religious leader promised to marry young woman after wife dies". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ Horn, Jeff; Fry, David (November 17, 2014). "Update Regarding Doug Phillips". Retrieved November 22, 2014.
- ^ Dean, Jamie (July 8, 2014). Doug Phillips leaves the church he founded "Doug Phillips leaves the church he founded". worldmag.com.
- ^ Hagerty, Barbara (February 21, 2009). "Christian Filmmakers Creating An Industry Of Faith". NPR news. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ^ Wendy Griffith (May 19, 2006). Doug Phillips Documentary on Iwo Jima. CBN Newswatch. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
- ^ Yonke, David (October 31, 2009). "Video disputes Darwin". The Blade.
- ^ Wooding, Gregg (November 18, 2009). "More than 2,500 to Attend Tampa Premiere of 'The Mysterious Islands' – a New Film Shot on the Galapagos Islands Which Challenges Darwin". Christian News Wire. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
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The mission of elementary School Four, James G. Shwager School, is to provide a positive, safe learning environment in which all of the children within its diverse population achieve academic excellence in the Common Core Curriculum Standards. We also strive to help our children develop respect for themselves and others, responsibility, pride in their achievements, good citizenship and positive decision making skills. We will nurture life long learners who are capable of functioning productively in a rapidly changing world. This will be accomplished through a partnership of parents, community and a highly qualified staff that utilizes the most current scientifically researched instructional strategies that are applicable to our unique population. Our question will always be "Is this in the best interest of the child and his/her future?"
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When I first heard the phrase 'news junkie' many years ago, it stopped me cold. "Was I a junkie?" I had to ask myself. I certainly care about news, watch network news, read newspapers, I also read many magazines each month, and subscribe to a number of web feeds that address breaking news. But I didn't think of myself as a 'junkie' back then. I spent the large part of my day in the hear-and-now, focused on my work, my family, my friends. But in the past five years – that phrase 'News Junkie" has been creeping up on me – and for the first time I realize I may be hooked, and the scary fact is – we may all be.
News, as we've come to know it, now happens all the time. Celebrities die. Extreme weather hits. Gun violence rips apart peaceful communities. Politicians get caught in sex scandals.
Is there really 'more' news than there was ten years ago – or are there just more ways to get your " breaking news" zap of adrenaline?
I find the endless stream of tragedies, stock market jolts, and political swordplay leaves me on edge, with the biological 'fight or fight' instinct constantly turned on.
To be clear, the news business has gone out of their way to push at me dramatic, dangerous, and upsetting headlines. My email is full of reports like: "Well Known CBS Star Arrested" - with only one action required. "Who?" I'm supposed to wonder and click the link. ABC News has embraced two categories that, in the past, never would have made their way to national news – Weather and Health. Each nigh Diane Sawyer reports about a tornado touching down, or river flooding its banks. Is there any coverage of the cause of 'Extreme Weather' or the government's plans to address it? Virtually none. Global warming is a 'turn off' – too controversial and complex. But great weather video – that keeps the 'news junkies' hooked.
While it could be said that more news coverage brings issues to the fore, my concern is that just the opposite is happening.
Take acts of gun violence. Today I have trouble keeping track of the shootings. Schools and colleges, movie theaters and wedding parties. Politicians on the corner, or criminals in Times Square. Each story is presented with breaking news headlines, and powerfully scary urgency. But with a lack of context, or perspective, the shear volume of 'breaking' stories all meld together – and solutions seem harder to comprehend.
The fact of the matter is I have no filter, and the sources that I've come to trust increasingly are trying to out-shout each other to keep their brand and their content within my field of vision.
Today – content is ubiquitous. What we're hungry for is focused, quality, filters. No reader or visitor should feel they're facing 'too much news' – rather, the time is now to have 'the right news' come to you. Those organizers – journalists – are going to beat algorithms all day long.


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Or at least one car from it will be here tomorrow. It's scheduled for delivery to the Hopscotch Bridge tomorrow around 9:30pm. Testing will take at least 90 days. (via @ariashe, also here). We might see passenger service in March.
A few facts about streetcars:
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2. Streetcars are slightly larger than a bus.
3. They are only about as loud as a bus.
4. You can use your SmarTrip card to pay for the streetcar.
Here's info from DDOT on the nighttime closure of H Street to traffic to allow for the movement of the streetcar onto the tracks:
Nighttime Closure on H Street NE between North Capitol Street and 5th Street NE for Streetcar Vehicle Delivery to Occur December 13, 2013
First Vehicle to be Delivered to H/Benning for Testing
(Washington D.C.) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has announced it will close the eastbound and westbound lanes of H Street NE, between North Capitol Street and 5th Street NE, from Friday, December 13 at 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, December 14, 2013. The closure is to allow for the delivery of the first streetcar from the testing facility in Anacostia to H Street NE to begin the functional testing process.
The streetcar will be delivered on a flatbed truck from the Testing and Commissioning Site on South Capitol Street SE to H Street NE. Once on the corridor, the vehicle will be unloaded between 3rd Street NE and 5th Street NE and pushed into the tuck track on the Hopscotch Bridge. Unloading the streetcar will take approximately three hours.
For any combination of closures, local traffic will be permitted access to/from the Union Station garage and the Kaiser Permanente loading dock entrance. Traffic Control Officers (TCO) will be present to assist with pedestrian movements, to direct vehicles in and out of the Union Station garage and to control traffic at H Street NE and North Capitol Street NE.
Eastbound traffic on H Street NE traffic, west of the Hopscotch Bridge, will:
· turn left on North Capitol Street NE going north;
· right on K Street NE going east;
· right on 5th Street NE going south;
· left on H Street NE going east.
Westbound traffic on H Street NE, east of the Hopscotch Bridge, will:
· turn right on 5th Street NE going north;
· left on K Street NE going west;
· left on N. Capitol Street NE going south;
· right on H Street NE going west.
During the westbound closures, traffic on southbound 4th Street NE attempting to go west on H Street NE, will:
· turn left on H Street NE going east;
· left on 5th Street NE going north;
· turn right on K Street NE and follow the detour signs back to H Street NE.
During this closure pedestrian access, and access to establishments, along the H Street NE will not be affected. WMATA riders are encouraged to utilize the bus stop at H Street and 6th Street NE for both eastbound and westbound service. WMATA will provide signage at existing stops that are not in service during the closures. Loading zones will be impacted while work is taking place in a specific block. Freight and delivery vehicles are asked to please adhere to all parking restrictions. Advanced warning variable message signs (VMS) will be updated to notify commuters of each closure. A VMS will be stationed east of the Starburst intersection (15th Street and Benning Road NE) to direct westbound truck traffic to proceed west on Florida Avenue NE to the detour route on K Street NE.
The construction team will make every effort to mitigate impacts to parking during this work. The continued support and patience of the community is essential in order to meet this aggressive completion schedule. Motorists and pedestrians are urged to use caution when traveling through or near the work zone, and follow all restrictions. All construction activities are contingent upon weather, material and equipment availability and other unforeseen conditions. Citizens are encouraged to contact the DC Streetcar team at any time to share concerns or request more information at firstname.lastname@example.com or (202) 210-3700. For more information on DC Streetcar, please visit www.dcstreetcar.com.


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Nairobi — As curtains draw on the life of Kenya's tenth parliament ahead of the 2013 General Elections, the out-going Members of Parliament (MP's) have awarded themselves a hefty send-off gratuity of Ksh 9.3 million each, and other luxurious benefits as they wound up their sittings on January 10. The MP's reinstated the 9.3 million gratuity that had been rejected by President Mwai Kibaki a month ago.
Other benefits one armed security guard, diplomatic passport for both MP and spouse, unlimited access to all VIP lounges at all airports in Kenya and a expence for all.
This has led to an uproar among Kenyans arguing that the package is not necessary as that being the tax payers' money; it can be used for other purposes that will benefit all and help alleviate poverty level and bring in more developments in line with Vision 2030.
All eyes are now on the president Kibaki, as the deal can only be executed if he assents to the passed bill.
The tenth parliament however boasts ensuring the realization of the new constitution, in August, 2010, and passing over 180 bills, since they were sworn-in in 2008, the most in the history of Kenyan parliament since independence.


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Gays, lesbians and bisexuals seem to be gaining greater and greater equality – or are at least cited more and more in the news. But transgender people are often left out or considered "included" when talking about LGBT issues by simply using the phrase "gender identity."
That's why, as Michael K. Lavers reports Friday in his blog Boy in Bushwick, it is heartening to hear Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan specifically talk about transgender issues during a White House conference on LGBT homelessness:
Donovan cited Michelle DeShane, a lesbian woman who wanted to add her partner Mitch, a transgender man, to her public housing voucher. The DeShanes' local housing authority denied the request because the couple did not comply with its definition of family. The agency referred the DeShanes to a neighboring housing authority that "accepts everyone—even Martians."
"That's just wrong," said Donovan. "No one should be subject to that kind of treatment or denied access to housing assistance because of their sexual orientation or gender identity."
Donovan announced at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's annual Creating Change conference in Baltimore in late January that HUD would codify a proposed rule that would ban anti-LGBT discrimination in federal housing programs—the regulation took effect earlier this week. HUD also hosted the first-ever federal summit on housing for LGBT elders in Washington, D.C., last December.
In his speech, Donovan also cited one study that found that 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT. The secretary said half of these young people are homeless because either their parents threw them out of their homes or their communities ostracized them because of their gender identity or expression.
"At a time in life when most young people are worried about which college they're going to go to, what their first job might look like or what opportunities might exist once they graduate from high school, thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teenagers are worried about something far more basic… where they might be able to sleep that night—and whether they'll be safe once they get there," said Donovan.
American Progress also has an important breakdown on the event, held in partnership with the Ruth Ellis Center and "the second in a series of conferences being held across the country to address the unique needs of gay and transgender Americans."
According to reports, between 5 percent and 7 percent of all American youth are gay or transgender. These youth, however, comprise 7 percent to 40 percent of all homeless youth in the United States. This disparity is being driven at least in part by the fact that gay and transgender youth are coming out at younger ages.
As our laws and culture become more inclusive and accepting of gay and transgender people, many more now come out in their early to mid-teens, when they are much more dependent on their families and communities for support. Unfortunately, their families and communities might not be able to accept these youth and might be unable to give them the support and nurture they need.
This issue brief explains why gay and transgender youth too often end up on the streets, what happens to these youth once they are on the streets or in homeless shelters, and the steps that the federal government can take to help reduce the incidence and severity of this problem.
Here's Donovan's remarks, as prepared for delivery, via the White House:
Prepared Remarks of Secretary Shaun Donovan at the White House LGBT Conference on Housing and Homelessness
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Friday, March 9, 2012
Thank you, Laura, for that kind introduction, and for your leadership of the Ruth Ellis Center.
The work of this organization is remarkable — and as one of only four agencies in the country that are dedicated to runaway and homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, it is an inspiration to all of us fighting for equality for the LGBT community.
At HUD, and throughout the Obama Administration, we're proud to be your partner. So, thank you.
I'd also like to recognize and thank all my colleagues and friends from HUD and other federal agencies for their important leadership on issues that affect LGBT Americans, as well as Gautum Raghavan from the White House Office of Public Engagement for his work to bring us together here today.
I know my friend Secretary Sebelius spoke to the first of these White House LGBT conferences last month, and it's a privilege for me to join you today to tell you about what HUD is doing to ensure that every LGBT American not only has a seat at the table — but a place to call home.
A Seat at the Table
Of course, this work takes place in a broader context — one where President Obama views the fight for LGBT equality not as an issue, but as a priority.
You can see this commitment in the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
In his first State of the Union, the President called for its repeal. And earlier this year, at the President's third, an active duty Air Force colonel who is openly lesbian sat as a guest in the First Lady's box without fear of being discharged for who she is or who she loves.
You can also see that commitment in a record number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender appointments to positions throughout the Administration.
You can see it in a Presidential Memorandum on Hospital Visitation, which addressed the rights of patients in hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funds–just about every hospital–to designate visitors regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, and directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take the necessary steps to improve the health and well-being of LGBT people and their families.
You can see it in the efforts we've undertaken on behalf of the transgender community, from the State Department's efforts to ensure greater dignity and privacy for transgender passport applicants to the Office of Personnel Management's announcement that gender identity is a prohibited basis of discrimination in federal employment to the VA's directive to ensure respectful and non-discriminatory care for transgender veterans — who deserve our deepest gratitude and our commitment to their wellbeing.
And that commitment to the LGBT community doesn't stop at our borders. You can also see it in a Presidential Memorandum promoting the protection of the human rights of LGBT individuals abroad — and in Secretary of State Clinton's bold and forceful declaration that gay rights are human rights, and that all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Perhaps clearest of all, you can see the President's commitment in the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention law.
I'm proud to work for the President who signed the first federal civil rights legislation that includes the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" into law.
The Challenge Ahead — LGBT Housing Needs
But for all this progress, real challenges lie ahead.
Each of us here knows that rights most folks take for granted are routinely violated against LGBT people.
Take the story of Mitch and Michelle DeShane.
Two years ago Michelle wanted to add her partner Mitch, a transgender man, to the housing voucher she receives to find affordable housing.
The local housing authority denied her request. They told her that the couple did not meet its definition of "family."
Then, the DeShanes were referred to a neighboring housing authority — because, as they were apparently told, and I quote, that housing authority, "accepts everyone — even Martians."
That's just wrong. No one should be subject to that kind of treatment or denied access to housing assistance because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
These challenges are all too common. And most heartbreakingly of all, they are often faced by LGBT youth. And no housing challenge is as profound as homelessness.
Think about it. At a time in life when most young people are worried about which college they're going to go to, what their first job might look like, or what opportunities might exist once they graduate from high school, thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teenagers are worried about something far more basic…
Where they might be able to sleep that night — and whether they'll be safe once they get there.
The numbers are staggering. Despite estimates that about 7 percent of all American young people are gay or transgender, one recent report found that fully 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBT.
Half of them report experiencing homelessness as a result of their gender identity or expression — young people thrown out of their homes and communities, and often facing harassment and intimidation when they try to go to school.
This tragedy continues for kids living on the streets. LGBT youth experience more acts of sexual violence, are more at risk for conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, and are more likely to become depressed than their heterosexual counterparts.
Perhaps most troubling of all, the majority of young people surveyed report harassment, difficulty, or even sexual assault when trying to access homeless shelters — the very places where they should start to feel safe.
A Place to Call Home — HUD's Work for LGBT Americans
Allowing this to happen is not only wrong — it's also not who we are as Americans.
All of us–regardless of our sexual orientation, race, gender, or gender identity–deserve a place to call home.
And with your partnership, the Obama Administration is working to ensure that every American has an opportunity to do just that — whether it's preventing and ending homelessness, or ensuring that federally-assisted housing programs are free from discrimination.
Indeed, thanks to President Obama's Recovery Act, we've already saved more than 1.2 million Americans from homelessness, even in the wake of the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Under the HEARTH Act that the President signed into law, we're expanding our definition of homelessness to include unaccompanied youth under 25 years old — allowing more LGBT young people to qualify for assistance under federal housing and homelessness programs.
It's a commitment that goes beyond our work to end homelessness. Indeed, we're working to ensure that HUD's housing programs are open.
Not to some.
Not to most.
But open to all.
That's why, for the first time at our annual National Fair Housing Policy Conference, HUD hosted a session on housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
It's why last year, HUD and HHS held the first-ever LGBT elder housing summit, bringing together advocates and practitioners from across the country to highlight existing barriers and explore future opportunities to support housing and long-term care designed for seniors in the LGBT community.
Perhaps most important of all, it's why we are conducting the first-ever national study of LGBT housing discrimination — a historic and important study we designed based on feedback from town halls conducted in communities across the country.
Led by HUD Assistant Secretary Raphael Bostic, who is here today, this study is partly about getting a clearer picture of the problem.
But it's also about making the case — the case that LGBT discrimination is real and that we need to do something about it.
That's why we've been reviewing our existing authority to address housing discrimination related to the LGBT community.
For instance, under the Fair Housing Act prohibition of sex discrimination, we have authority to pursue cases alleging housing discrimination because a person's identity or expression didn't conform with gender stereotypes.
And we've provided HUD staff with guidance instructing them to carefully assess whether any LGBT-based housing discrimination complaints could be pursued through the Fair Housing Act or state or local discrimination laws — and launched a webpage on LGBT housing discrimination.
We know that these efforts are already having an impact.
With these resources we are helping uncover discrimination that had gone unreported for far too long and raising awareness that reporting such discrimination can make a difference. As a result, not only have reports of LGBT housing discrimination increased — so have the number of complaints we've been able to move forward on.
Just as we're making sure we know when LGBT Americans are facing discrimination, we're also making sure that LGBT Americans understand their rights.
With HUD's Live Free fair housing education and outreach campaign, we've been targeting print and social media like Facebook, with videos, podcasts, and ads that address discrimination and let people know how to report it.
And thanks to assistant secretary Mercedes Marquez, we've required grant applicants to comply with state and local anti-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation or gender discrimination — covering 20 states that more than four-in-ten Americans call home.
Three billion dollars in federal funding is available in these grants — and we want to make sure as many dollars as possible are protecting the rights of every American.
These are the first steps we've taken to ensure that all Americans–regardless of age, income, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity–have access to choice and opportunity.
But they are far from the last.
Just over a month ago, I was proud to stand before the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change conference to announce a new Equal Access to Housing Rule that says clearly and unequivocally that LGBT individuals and couples have the right to live where they choose.
And today, I'm just as proud to tell all of you that the rule is now final — and officially went into effect this week.
This is an idea whose time has come.
And before I go into the rule itself, I want to acknowledge the third HUD Assistant Secretary here today, John Trasvina and the rest of the HUD team for their extraordinary work to get it across the finish line.
First and foremost, this rule includes a new equal access provision that prohibits owners and operators of HUD-funded housing, or housing whose financing we insure, from inquiring about an applicant's sexual orientation or gender identity or denying housing on that basis.
If you are denying HUD housing to people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity–actual or perceived–you're discriminating, you're breaking the law — and you will be held accountable.
That's what equal access means — and that's what this rule is going to do.
Secondly, this rule makes clear that LGBT families, like the DeShanes, are eligible for HUD's public housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs that collectively serve 5.5 million people.
Third, the rule also makes clear that sexual orientation and gender identity should not and cannot be part of any lending decision when it comes to getting a mortgage insured by the FHA — part of HUD.
Now, I'm as excited about this rule as everyone here. But let's be clear: putting this rule on the books won't be the end of the process — but in many ways, just the beginning.
Enacting a rule is not enough. Training and education are essential to ensuring rules are followed in communities across the country.
And so, HUD and its fair housing partners will work to provide guidance and training on the substance of this rule — and the impact it will have for both how we administer HUD programs and also how we enforce our nation's fair housing laws more broadly.
And we look forward to working with partners like all of you on that education effort.
The Values We Share
All this work reflects a few simple values — values that President Obama articulated in his State of the Union address.
That America succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
Those values represent who we are — and who we aspire to be.
They are the values of people like Ruth Ellis — a woman whose own parents were born in the last days of slavery, but lived long enough to see the beginning of the gay rights movement.
She lived with dignity. She lived with pride.
And she lived with the hope that one day–even if she knew she wouldn't be around to see it–a time would come when every American would have the chance to live where they choose, raise their families, and contribute to their communities — regardless of who they were or who they loved.
I know we're not there yet. But I also know that by working together, all of us can realize Ruth Ellis' hope — and create a stronger, fairer country for every American.
Thank you for this opportunity — for all you do and all I know you'll continue to do in the weeks and months to come.


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MOORCROFT - When most anglers think of fishing in Wyoming the talk usually turns to trout, but Wyoming also has excellent fishing for other species as well.
One of the most diverse fisheries in the state is Keyhole Reservoir, a 9,000-acre body of water situated in Keyhole State Park in the northeast portion of the state between Gillette and Moorcroft.
"Keyhole is home to ten game species including white crappie, black crappie, green sunfish, bluegill, smallmouth bass, northern pike, walleye, perch, channel catfish and freshwater drum," said Game and Fish Department Fisheries Biologist Andrew Nikirk. "The species that folks go after primarily are the walleye. We stock 200,000 to 250,000 walleye fingerlings in the reservoir annually to help supplement natural reproduction."
Nikirk said that supplemental walleye stocking is needed because in low water years Keyhole has poor natural reproduction success. "Walleye generally like the windswept rocky shorelines for good spawning habitat at Keyhole, so when water levels are low, there's not a lot of spawning habitat available," Nikirk said. "The yearly stocking helps to ensure that we don't miss a year class of walleye."
The fishery in Keyhole reservoir is at an all time high for most species right now thanks to increasing water levels that have occurred every year since 2007.
Nikirk said the increased water levels have resulted in increased productivity for both forage and game fish species. "We have very large year classes of walleye right now and populations of crappie, smallmouth bass and northern pike are through the roof," he said. "The 17- to 19-inch walleye are a particularly strong year class."
Nikirk added that the Game and Fish is also seeing a lot of walleyes in the 13- to 15-inch range and also in the 20-to 22-inch range. "You can pretty much equate that to water levels increasing," he said. "In fact we're seeing an increase in just about everything. The perch came on, emerald shiners, spot-tail shiners, some of the main forage base here at Keyhole are also doing well."
Keyhole also has the distinction of being the only reservoir in the state with northern pike and is logically the home of Wyoming's state record: a 27-pound four-ounce fish caught in October 2004. Nikirk said northerns are doing so well the Game and Fish has stopped stocking the species because natural reproduction has dramatically increased.
"We're seeing pike everywhere," Nikirk said "We used to stock 150,000 pike annually but that stocking hasn't been needed for the past two years."
As with any fishery that has large numbers of primarily piscivorous (fish eating) species, it is important there is a good forage base. Keyhole has good population of emerald and spot-tail shiners and the Game and Fish has also been stocking gizzard shad to provide an additional forage for the walleye and northern pike. In recent years the Game and Fish has been trapping gizzard shad in Glendo Reservoir and transplanting them into Keyhole. With gizzard shad, a few fish can go a long way as each female produces hundreds of thousands of eggs each year.
As with any fishery, projections for coming years are tied to water levels. With the good precipitation of recent years and with 2014 being a good water year, Game and Fish expects the reservoir will continue to provide excellent angling opportunities for the foreseeable future.
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The technique is based on an algorithm that deduces the path that a wobbling camera took when a photo was shot, then uses that path to reverse much of the resultant blurring. The method isn't a miracle cure, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto have used it to significantly help a wide variety of sample images.
One example shows a bird with black, white and rust-colored feathers, blurred to the point where its legs are barely discernable. After processing, it's possible to see not just the legs, but also a dark patch around its eyes, white patterning amid the black feathers and other details.
"This is the first time that the natural image statistics have been used successfully in deblurring images," lead researcher Rob Fergus of MIT said in an interview after a demonstration at the Siggraph computer graphics convention last week. The authors have filed for a patent on the process.
The technique, which takes 10 to 15 minutes for typical images, uses a statistical property that describes transitions from light to dark in the photo, Fergus said. That property is the same for all real-world images, so by seeing how it varies in a particular photo, the process can infer the camera motion.
Image processing is a big business, and compensating for human and camera error is a significant part of this. Image-editing software products, and even some cameras, can routinely remove red-eye problems caused by flash photography. A big selling point in new cameras is technology to counteract the unsteady hands of photographers as the photo is being taken. And numerous plug-in modules exist to help Adobe Systems' Photoshop with photo improvement tasks such as removing the speckles of image noise, or sharpening edges to make images crisper.
Right now, Photoshop's latest version, CS2, comes with some deblurring technology in its "smart sharpen" filter. It can compensate in a limited way for focusing problems and for image blur, if the camera was moved in a straight line.
The researchers' approach, in contrast, deals with more complicated jiggling motions. "The real patterns really are weird," Fergus said.
Dave Story, vice president of digital imaging product development at Adobe, believes the group's work is a step in the right direction. It's a little nicer that what we've seen before," he said. "You can start to more accurately and more automatically judge which way the blur was coming from, and it can handle nonlinear paths."
However, the process still leaves some artifacts in the image, meaning more work is necessary, Story said. "We've been exploring this area for three or four years, and there continue to be challenges in making this predictable enough that people will want to use it and it doesn't produce any unnatural artifacts," he said.
For example, when testers are shown sample images, they say that people look "creepy and kind of unnatural," he added.
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Fergus' technique takes advantage of a statistical property of snapshots that remains constant even across widely varying photos. The property is the collective measurement of the differences in brightness from each pixel to its neighbor.
"It turns out that images in the real world tend to have a distinctive distribution (of light-to-dark gradients)," Fergus said. "If you take lots of different photos, the distribution (of gradients) is very similar--it doesn't change a huge amount between what you would think are different images."
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- It's the camera, not the subject!
- Let's throw resources in another direction, shall we?
Tripods. Learning how to use a camera. Oh, and the camera settings. Oh, but the inconvenience.
I feel digital cameras, although great at getting the images instantly (versus developing a negative, and printing) lack the advantage that being electronic, they should be superior to capturing low light, fast movement and greater detail than the manual-shuttered cameras they are replacing.
Why is it that I take this $400 digital point and shoot and it hesitates? The image looks fine in a 2" square LCD, but take the picture over to the 23" LCD and look at the blurred outline!!! Why?
My settings are for outdoors, but the flash fires and I get a dark image.
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Starting with A, we see that B+A is one fourth of the entire circle (pi/4), and B+2A is an entire square of side 1. So
A = 1 - pi/4, and
B=(pi/2 - 1)
Draw a triangle from the intersection of the circles to the two centers (T). Note the little wedges (W) that are left over.
Since T is an equilateral triangle of side 1, its area is (sqrt(3)/4).
Also, its angle is 60 degrees, so T+W is exactly one-sixth of the circle, hence T + W = pi/6.
So W = pi/6 - sqrt(3)/4 = (2*pi - 3*sqrt(3))/12
And G = 2T+4W = (4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6
R = 6 = 2*pi - G + 4*A + 2*E
2*E = 6 - 2*pi + G - 4*A
= 6 - 2*pi + (4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6 - 4*(1-pi/4)
= 6 - 2*pi + (4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6 - 4 + pi
E = 1 - pi/6 - sqrt(3)/4
Finally to calculate X. First consider the square circumscribed around the 4 circles. Area is 9.
Remove the 4 A triangles and the 4 E triangles to get the area that is covered in circles (Y).
Y = 9 - 4*(1-pi/4) - 4*(1-pi/6-sqrt(3)/4)
= 1 + sqrt(3) + 5*pi/3
But Y can be built up from superimposing the circles, as long as we remove double counted areas.
area of two adjacent circles = 2*pi - G
= 2*pi - (4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6
= 4*pi/3 + sqrt(3)/2
add another circle, remove another G,
= 4*pi/3 + sqrt(3)/2 + pi - (4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6)
= 5*pi/3 + sqrt(3)
But when we added the third circle, we double counted a tiny C section covered by the opposite two squares, so we'll subtract that out
=5*pi/3 + sqrt(3) - C
Now we add the fourth circle, remove two more Gs, but now we've gone too far and removed a C and the X, so add them back in (the C happily cancels out)
=5*pi/3 + sqrt(3) - C + pi - 2*(4*pi-3*sqrt(3))/6) + C + X
= 4*pi/3 + 2*sqrt(3) + X.
This quantity is also equal to Y, so
1 + sqrt(3) +5*pi/3 = 4*pi/3 + 2*sqrt(3) + X
X = 1 - sqrt(3) + pi/3
Edit: Sorry folks, I don't know why my spoilers didn't hide... :-(
Edit: correct sign on sqrt(3)
Edited by CaptainEd, 20 February 2013 - 07:27 PM.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 08:09 PM
Lol nice. Hooray for calculus ;P. I had to explain a similar problem to a kid I was tutoring for SAT II Math and I couldn't use calc...it was a pain (the explaining, not the kid).
Posted 20 February 2013 - 08:22 PM
I learned calculus once. I remember using the word integral correctly in a sentence.
For most of my career I used algebra and computers to solve problems. Since retirement,
I differentiate, but only in the logical sense.
I am in awe that SP did what he did; I understand what the Cap'n did.
Vidi vici veni.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 09:03 PM
Glad to please.
For that matter, I'd like to know more about how SP did what he did. My calculus, too, is out in the shed, gathering rust, plant food, and spider webs. But *maybe* I could follow it.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 10:37 PM
Posted 20 February 2013 - 11:04 PM
Yeah the integral is pretty ugly...I think you have to do it by parts and the second part will end up being a hyperbolic sine :/.
Coming up with the integral is the fun part, IMO...in my college days we had a school-wide license for Mathematica ;P.
Posted 20 February 2013 - 11:31 PM
Thank you, SP and Y-san, I remember enough about calculus to know what you're saying, and even remember the notion of integration by parts. And I've heard of Mathematica. I can spell wxMaxima. I'll bet it took me more hours to do the geometry than it took you to do the calculus. (My geometry is stored in the mudroom right outside the shed)
Interesting puzzle, BMAD, thanks.
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As angry protestors tussled with police in front of Vodafone's flagship store in London yesterday, friends and passersby held out their mobile phones to take pictures of the spectacle. Some will have sent their photos over Vodafone's own network to spread the word about the protest – which was against Vodafone.
Irony aside, Vodafone is nursing the mother of all tax headaches both on its home turf (the U.K.) and one of its most promising markets, India. Yesterday's protestors shut down its store on London's Oxford Street, after accusing the British mobile network giant of dodging a £6 billion ($9.5 billion) tax bill here in the U.K. at a time when the government is slashing its deficit by roughly $180 billion and trimming its previously-sacred welfare budget.
Both Vodafone and Britain's Inland Revenue Service (known formally as HM Revenue & Customs or HMRC) deny that the company owes that much. But the campaigners are adamant. Their accusation stems from an article in the British news magazine Private Eye, reporting the figure in September in relation to Vodafone's 180 billion-euro purchase of German engineering company, Mannesmann in 2000.
You can read Private Eye's article here, but it essentially says that Vodafone bought Mannesmann via a
Luxembourg holding company to avoid tax charges (an arrangement that HMRC at the time did not condone) into which it deposited profits at very low tax rates. Accounts for the holding company show that Vodafone deposited 15.5 billion euros in profit into the Luxembourg company up until March 2009, which, Private Eye says, suggests there must be around 18 billion euros in there today resulting in £5 billion ($7.9 billion) in lost tax revenue and interest for the U.K. The article, written by Richard Brooks, says the bill for lost tax is "likely to be at least £6 billion" and quotes a former official at HMRC as calling it an "unbelievable cave-in" by the tax authority to Vodafone.
Following negotiations with HMRC, Vodafone had agreed in July to pay £1.2 billion ($1.9 billion) to settle the long-running dispute, even though the company had previously said it was putting aside £2.2 billion ($3.5 billion) to cover what it owed the taxman.
Putting aside the £6 billion-figure, why did it end up paying so much less than its provision? Vodafone spokesman Bobby Leach tells me it had put aside £2.2 billion based on audited accounts and this was not a reflection of the maximum risk that Vodafone saw itself as paying out in the settlement.
HMRC has officially said that it rigorously examined the facts and there had been an "intensive process of negotiation" with Vodafone, and adds, "that number [6 billion] is an urban myth."
But tax specialist and blogger Richard Murphy thinks the tax man should have done a little more digging, and he points to some oddities in the negotiations and timing of events. Firstly, the man who negotiated on behalf of Vodafone for its tax settlement, John Connors, had previously worked at HMRC as the head of its large business services division, and negotiated on behalf of the tax authority. That is until April 2007, when Vodafone hired him and he moved to the other side of the negotiating table.
"Vodafone managed to poach the guy they were negotiating with, and then they got this [settlement for] less," says Murphy, adding that when he later met Connors at tax conferences, the former taxman said that former colleagues in the industry weren't talking to him anymore. "He was clearly seen as having betrayed the Revenue. He was one of their most notable departures."
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The growth of mobile technology and services which is driving the cloud computing and SaaS market, has seen a new emerging segment of BaaS (Backend as a Service) solutions, which was not much known till now.
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Monday 26 January from 2.30 pm to 5.45 pm
Room 2, Palais de l'Europe
1. Opening
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Approval of the synopsis of the meeting held on 2 October 2008 [CONF/HR(2008)SYN1]
4. Racism and discrimination : Durban Review Conference
- Update on the preparation of the Geneva Conference (to review the Durban Conference)
- Reactions to the joint statement by the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency and the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights – comments and input from INGOs in the Human Rights Committee Link to the joint statement
- Contribution to be proposed to the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe LINK TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE MEETING
5. Organisation of the committe's work in 2009
- Appointment of a rapporteur
- Appointment of 'representatives' for :
i. The Social Charter,
ii. Human Rights education,
iii.Elderly people's rights
iv.Relations with the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
- Establishment of specialist working groups :
v. Children and human rights – Preparation of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
vi.Monitoring unit on ecconomic and social rights
vii.Cultural diversity and human rights
- Preparation of the ministerial conference on the media
- Relations with the steering committees, Parliamentary Assembly committees, the Congress and other Council of Europe bodies (ECRI, etc. )
6. French name of the committee ("Commission des droits humains" or "Commission des droits de l'homme" (cf. Synopsis of October meeting, item 3)
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Blackhawks' Patrick Kane back on the ice for the first time since injuryContinue reading.
Blackhawks' Patrick Kane returns to practice, "hasn't missed a beat"
The initial breakout pass from Brent Seabrook skittered under his stick, but Patrick Kane planted hard and dashed off into the offensive zone anyway. He pounced on a loose puck in the high slot, shimmied his hips and flicked his wrists, putting a serious move on Antti Raanta before calmly flipping the puck into the net.
Aside from the knee brace poking through the sock around his left leg, Patrick Kane looked a lot like Patrick Kane in his return to Blackhawks practice on Wednesday morning.
"He looked good out there, scoring a lot of goals, making plays," Andrew Shaw said. "It looks like he hasn't missed a beat."
It was Kane's fifth time on the ice in six days, but his first session with his teammates since Brenden Morrow fell on his left leg on March 19. His rehab has been right on schedule, and both Kane and Joel Quenneville fully expect him to be "100 percent" in time for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs, either Wednesday or Thursday of next week.
It's the most significant injury of Kane's seven-year career, costing him the last 12 games of the regular season (he's on long-term injured reserve, and ineligible to return until the postseason). Kane said he initially thought he'd be back on the ice later in the game on March 19, that once the pain subsided, he wanted to return. But the team's medical staff "told me otherwise."
But Kane — a guy who hates coming off the ice for a shift, let alone a month — is trying to look at it with a positive slant, considering he has played nearly 150 games since last January, and was admittedly feeling the effects of it before the injury.
"You never want to be out of the lineup," he said. "I think we all love to play the game, love to play hockey and love to be out there with your teammates and support them any way you can. At the same time, some people think it might be beneficial in the long run to maybe take a little break, especially with the year we had last year, and going deep in the playoffs, and the Olympics, and a lot of different things we've been doing around here the last year and a half. It's something you never want to happen, but you try to think of it in a positive way, I guess."
Jonathan Toews is in the same boat, getting the last two weeks of the season off as he recovers from an upper-body injury.
"They played a lot of hockey in this last year," Quennevlle said. "I think this break is going to refresh them so whatever workload we give them they'll be able to be fine with it."
There are concerns, of course. When the playoffs begin — either against the speedy Avalanche or the bruising Blues — will Kane be in game-shape? Will rust outweigh rest? Will his timing be there without having played a single game in a month? Will the knee brace — something he's never had to play with before — be in any way a hindrance, as it was for Bryan Bickell earlier in the year? Will opponents target him, and will he be able to dodge hits as well as he usually does?
Kane said the coaching staff has been drilling him hard the last week, getting his conditioning up. He said "the technology's pretty good these days," so that the protective brace isn't bothering him. And he said he should be physically healed and 100 percent in time for Game 1.
We know he'll be healthy. We know he'll be rested. But will he still be the same Patrick Kane?
Kane thinks so. And he's not planning to play any differently when he finally comes back.
"I hope not," he said. "You try to get comfortable and get out there so you can skate a few times and make sure you're feeling the same way you did when you left the game, whether it was a couple weeks ago or whatever. That's the biggest thing — trying to get back to normal, and feeling as well as you did before."


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We asked a small number of guests, including a senior figure from the finance side of the oil and gas industry to work with us in brainstorming the economic development challenges that face Scotland.
While the scenario we chose was an independent or federal Scotland, much of what emerged is necessary to and achievable within a devolved administration. Any way up, Scotland has work to do and tough decisions to take.
The 'in or out of the EU' issue was not a specific part of the scenario – but some core development propositions that emerged would only be achievable outside it.
Issues we looked at touched on infrastructure, oil, energy, social cost, education, investment, immigration, nationalisation, health, industrial development, food, fishing, sport, arts and culture and opportunity…
At the end of it, the oil guy said: 'Where do I apply for the job?' It's been fun.
We're going to run the outcomes of this collaborative work as a daily series, each article dealing with different issues or clusters of issues and concluding with a summary piece.
We'll be starting tomorrow with oil and gas – because all other matters essentially follow from the nature of the decisions taken over the management of revenues from that sector; and, as such, it represents conceptually the role of a strategic core investment programme for Scotland.
In the case of either an independent or a federal Scotland, the planning around every aspect of this industry could not be more critical.
It is also quite possible that enhanced devolution could see Scotland responsible for this industry in Scottish waters, in exchange for radical changes to the capital grants from the UK Treasury into the future.
This series is politically agnostic. It is intended to contribute serious and informed perspectives to the debate we need to have to shape Scotland's future, regardless of whatever political commitment emerges in October 2014.
The underlying criteria for what will progressively be outlined are focused purely on what it will take to make this country a sustainable economic success. They identify the necessary and sometimes radical priorities needed and the nature of the deal to be done between government and people and between the political parties, all of which have to be assumed to have the interests of Scotland to the fore.
The bottom line is all about courage. Scotland will have to be brave – government and people – in enacting and accepting tough times on the way to a secure future. The alternative is dependency, whatever our political situation.
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IN California, a car salesman who thinks he owns the Moon and Mars has been doing a brisk trade over the Internet, selling off Manhattan-sized chunks of lunar and Martian real estate. In July came the unlikely news that three men from Yemen, convinced they were the true owners of Mars, were suing NASA for invading the planet with its Pathfinder lander. Now SpaceDev, an exploration company set up by an American software magnate, says it wants to stake a claim to an asteroid (see p 18).
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6:00 PM: Andaz [Style] (Mehboob Khan, India, 1949) 148 min. Hindi/English subtitles.
Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Nargis star in this major musical hit which speaks against the westernizing of Indian youth and the mistaken notion of love created by close friendship. "...whenever the genre of love triangles in Indian cinema is discussed, the first film that comes to mind is Andaz...a timeless classic--a rich, complex journey into the very depth of the human heart."
8:30 PM: Anand (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, India, 1971) 122 min. Hindi/English subtitles.
Dr. Prakash Kulkarni is a skilled doctor working to assist the poor and needy. However, there is a weakness in him, which is to over-charge his more wealthy clients, much to the dislike of his more ethical colleague Dr. Bhaskar Bannerjee. It is because of his "charitable disposition" that both get to meet their new, terminally ill patient, Anand Saigal (Rajesh Khanna), who is aware that he has only a short time to live. But even during this short period, he will manage to bring about positive change in the lives of both the doctors as well as the people around him..
Saturday, November 14:
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1:00 PM: Deewaar (Yash Chopra, India, 1975) 160 mins.Hindi/English subtitles.
Two brothers, abandoned by their father and raised by their single mother,grow up to take jobs on opposite sides of the law, leading to tragic results.Many consider this one of Yash Chopra's finest films. Winner of seven of India''s Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Director, and Screenplay.
3:00 PM: Loafer (David Dhawan, India, 1996) 132 min. Hindi/English subtitles.
In this Bollywood comedy, a slacker, Ravi (Anil Kapoor) and his family relocate to a new city to escape a corrupt local government. When they find their new home to be just as bad, Ravi tries to clean-up, only to be incarcerated. In an effort to help Ravi, his friends and family try to elect him to political office.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois junior Alex Burge was named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced Wednesday. To be eligible for the honor, individuals must be juniors or seniors academically, compete in at least three years at the collegiate level, participate in 50 percent of his team's competitive rounds, have a stroke average under 76.0 at the Division I level and hold a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or better.
Burge recorded a 75.00 stroke average over 17 rounds in 2013-14. His best round was a 5-under-par 67 at the USF Invitational, where he also recorded a season-best 219 (+3) for the tournament. He contributed two counting rounds during the postseason, including a first-round 72 at the NCAA Championships at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas.


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Check out the latest internship postings from Silver Chalice.
Occasionally I come across a company that I'm shocked that I've never heard of before. You'd think that after writing about more than 1,700 companies, there wouldn't be many surprises left. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Just look at Silver Chalice. It's a Chicago, IL based company that "builds and operates a fast-growing portfolio of high-value digital media businesses in the fields of sports and entertainment." The company's Chairman happens to be Jerry Reinsdorf–yes, the same Jerry Reinsdorf who owns the Bulls and White Sox. I love sports. I love tech. I live in Chicago. I should have heard about them at some point, but it seems that Silver Chalice likes to keep a low profile. I can't really figure out why they'd want to do that, but the last major press coverage that they got was in 2009 right before they publicly launched. Back then the company was described as "an outside company to supplement the team's core operations" (in reference to the White Sox).
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Even reading the Silver Chalice website won't give you a great idea of what they do. I don't know if they're being intentionally vague, but they tend to use a lot of buzzwords. But when you look a little closer and see that their partners and clients include "Verizon Wireless, CBS Sports, Raycom Media, Sony Music, Hearst, The Atlantic Coast Conference, Meredith Media, IMG, and Harpo Studios, among many others," you start to realize that there is a serious business being built here. Silver Chalice has four main lines of business: Silver Chalice Digital Networks (next generation video channels), Silver Chalice Advanced Media Platform (digital content distribution), SEASON (aggregation and monetization of digital video assets), and Silver Chalice Strategic Services (industry research). The main focus for these businesses seems to be sports (which is an obvious fit), but they're also branching into entertainment. If you want to start to unravel The Mystery of Silver Chalice (sounds like a Hardy Boys book or something), take a look at their Internships page. Right now the only internship posted is a paid Mobile Engineering Internship (Boulder, CO), but I have to imagine that they also have positions in Chicago.
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We've gotta hand it to Lindsay Lohan: When she manages to dress herself and remain upright for several seconds, she can look hella hot.
Exhibit A: This sexy metallic mini, which she wore the other night to promote Mr. Pink's Ginseng Drink, which sounds dirtier than it is.
Hey, look at that, Lindsay's a redhead again
We even like the hair color, although, as Lohan declared to an E! News reporter, "It's actually the wrong color than it's supposed to be."
Well, fine. But there's nothing wrong with that dress, or the pumps she paired it with. Now if only she could get the rest of her life together...
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