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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and of the enormous toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit. Marjane's child's-eye-view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a stunning reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, through laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.
"A dazzlingly singular achievement....Striking a perfect balance between the fantasies and neighborhood conspiracies of childhood and the mounting lunacy of Khomeini's reign, she's like the Persian love child of Spiegelman and Lynda Barry." Salon
"A triumph....Like Maus, Persepolis is one of those comic books capable of seducing even those most allergic to the genre. The author's masterstroke is to allow us to experience history from within her family, with irony and tenderness." Libération (France)
"I cannot praise enough Marjane Satrapi's moving account of growing up as a spirited young girl in revolutionary and war-time Iran. Persepolis is disarming and often humorous but ultimately it is shattering." Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde
"I thought [Persepolis] was a superb piece of work....Satrap has found a way of depicting human beings that is both simple and immediately comprehensible, AND is almost infinitely flexible. Anyone who's tried to draw a simplified version of a human face knows how immensely difficult it is not only to give the faces a range of expression, but also to maintain identities from one frame to the next. It's an enormous technical accomplishment." Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
"You've never seen anything like Persepolis — the intimacy of a memoir, the irresistability of a comic book, and the political depth of a the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre." Gloria Steinem
"I grew up reading the Mexican comics of Gabriel Vargas, graduated to the political teachings of Rius, fell under the spell of Linda Barry, Art Spiegelman, and now I am a fan of Marjane Satrapi. Her stories thrummed in my heart for days. Persepolis is part history book, part Scheherazade, astonishing as only true stories can be. I learned much about the history of Iran, but more importantly, it gave me hope for humanity in these unkind times." Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
"I'm not normally a comic book reader, and I'll admit I was skeptical. Within the first few pages, though, I felt the tiny hand of the narrator pulling me into her world. As she regaled me with tales of her extraordinary life, I found myself moved, fascinated, shocked and enthralled. The next time I looked up, I had finished the book. I looked around the room feeling bewildered. How, I wondered, did this wonderful little book manage to transport me so completely?" Alison Wearing, author of Honeymoon in Purdah
"This child's eye view of survival during Iran's revolution and the Iraq war made me laugh and cry. Most importantly, it helped me to see recent upheavals in a new way. This comic strip should be required reading!" Suzanne Fisher Staples, author of Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind and Haveli
"This witty, moving and illuminating book demonstrates graphically why the future of Iran lies with neither the clerics nor the American Empire." Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
"I found the work immensely moving with depths of nuance and wisdom that one might never expect to find in a comic book. It's a powerful, mysterious, enchanting story that manages to reflect a great swath of Iranian contemporary history within the sensitive, intimate tale of a young girl's coming-of-age. I didn?t want it to end!" Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Crescent and Arabian Jazz
"A rare and chilling memoir that offers every reader a personal, honest portrait of Iran's recent political and cultural history. Ms. Satrapi's provocative, graphic narrative of life in Iran before and after the Islamic revolution is an extraordinary testament to the level of human suffering experienced by Iranians tossed from one political hypocrisy to another. Aside from the humanistic dimension, the beautifully minimalist Persepolis gives further evidence of Marjane Satrapi's sensitivity and superb skill as an artist." Shirin Neshat, visual artist/filmmaker
"Readers who have always wanted to look beyond political headlines and CNN's cliches should plunge into this unique illustrated story. Let Marji be your trusted companion, follow her into the warmth of a Persian home and out along Tehran's turbulent streets during those heady days of revolution. Persepolis opens a rare door to understanding of events that still haunt America, while shining a bright light on the personal humanity and humor so much alive in Iranian families today." Terence Ward, author of Searching for Hassan
"Blending the historical with the personal is not an easy task, to blend the individual with the universal is even more challenging. But Marjane Satrapi has succeeded brilliantly. This graphic novel is a reminder of the human spirit that fights oppression and death, it is a witness to something true and lasting which is more affective than hundreds of news broadcasts." Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Women of Sand and Myrhh
"A remarkable achievement!" Janet Afary, Associate Professor of History & Women?s Studies, Purdue University
"Both enchanting and devastingly real, Persepolis captures the many complexities of modern Iran, filtered through compelling illustrations and a wise child's eye." Christiane Bird, author of Neither East Nor West
"Satrapi's super-naive style is powerful; it persuasively communicates confusion and horror through the eyes of a precocious preteen." Joy Press, Village Voice
From the best-selling author of Fun Home,and#160;Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilariousand#160; graphic memoir ofand#160;Alison Bechdeland#160;becoming the artist her giftedand#160;mother alwaysand#160;wanted to be
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazineand#8217;s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.
Alison Bechdeland#8217;s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdeland#8217;s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Motherand#8212;to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between andldquo;crazyandrdquo; and andldquo;creativeandrdquo; in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity.
Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia Oandrsquo;Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to andldquo;cureandrdquo; an otherwise brilliant mind.
Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forneyandrsquo;s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artistandrsquo;s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.
About the Author
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Lycée Français before leaving for Vienna and then going to Strasbourg to study illustration. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis and where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. She is also the author of several childrens books.
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Pope Benedict XVI held an emotional meeting with victims of clerical abuse on April 18 during his pastoral visit to the island nation of Malta.
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Hacker's Hell: Many want to narrow the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
By Stephanie Francis Ward
May 1, 2013, 08:40 am CDT
I'm not so sure that "email addresses are like phone numbers". Oftentimes, in order to establish an online account with a business, one has to provide not only one's email address but a number of other personal items of identification (address, d.o.b., credit card number, etc). So the ability to access a business's client information and retrieve email addresses carries with it an ability to access other forms of identification. Having said this, I agree with one of the underlying premises of this article—namely, that US Attorneys have too much power under the current CFAA to prosecute computer "crimes". The sanctions mentioned in this article for violations (even what seem to be minor violations) of the CFAA are staggering. One wonders whether prosecutorial resources couldn't be put to better use attempting to stem violent crimes and their perpetrators. Sure, if fraud was either the intent or the outcome of a CFAA violation, then it should be investigated and pursued. Too often, however, it seems that federal prosecutors go on witch hunts to identify and nail computer hackers when no real harm has occurred. Such cases may, technically, be a violation of federal law. But, too, there is such a thing as "prosecutorial discretion". US Attorneys use their discretion to not prosecute many more serious crimes (federal firearms violations come readily to mind). Is it merely because prosecuting computer crimes is so much "sexier" that it gets the attention it does? This doesn't seem to me to be a valid reason for prosecuting one set of crimes over another, especially if the computer crime in question has resulted in no harm.
By David on 2013 04 30, 12:35 pm CDT
The issue with Aaron Swartz is not the act so much as it was the overzealous prosecution. Carmen Ortiz misplaced her ethical duty to the defendant and the people. To threaten a citizen with a term of prison that the U.S. Attorney and her office knew would not be imposed was unethical. Moreover, Carmen Ortiz's prosecution of this case underscores the lack of knowledge a U.S. Attorney has in this area of the law.
By A. Frank on 2013 04 30, 12:39 pm CDT
Questions re: terms of service violations under the CFAA - If my terms of service say "by accessing this web page, you agree not to include this site on any search engine," for example, would Google be in criminal violation of the CFAA if they indexed my site?
By Charles on 2013 04 30, 2:10 pm CDT
the trouble with 1030a2 is that it is violated by millions of unwitting innocent people every day, and thereby give prosecutors the discretion to put a few they choose in prison.
legislators' zeal to criminalize something related to every newsworthy bad event has laid the foundation for a police state—everything from regulatory offenses to acts innocent in themselves but in a few cases are related to a real crime—where a cop and a prosecutor can decide that somebody deserves prison, do a little snooping, indict, and then there's no defense because they did in fact violate a criminal statute that millions of others do but are not prosecuted
By fred on 2013 04 30, 2:34 pm CDT
Given the apparent surfeit of prosecutorial resources that the government seems to have, why don't they use some of those resources to prosecute the jerks who constantly robocall me, offering to reduce my credit card interest rates?
By emjaycee on 2013 05 01, 7:50 am CDT
The lack of balance in this article disappointed me. Any practitioner of criminal law could tell you that there is often a large gap between the maximum possible sentence proscribed by the legislature and the sentence that a court will actually impose. A quick study of any set of sentencing guidelines shows this. Thus, saying that it is prosecutorial abuse to charge the defendant with violation of the various laws that he broke is not a well-reasoned argument.
Mr. Downey decided that he did not like the policies of PayPal, so he shut their business down. In a brick and mortar world, we would not view him as a hero. The distributed denial of service attack that he launched was the same tool used against Estonia and Georgia and is used by extortionists to get money from businesses. It was the subject of recent news about the attack on Spamhaus. http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/spamhaus-ddos-suspect-arrested/240153788.
Mr. Swartz decided that he did not like the constitutional judgment that there is value in giving a financial incentive to "authors and inventors" "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts." (U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8,clause 8). He felt that "information should be free." He did more than take copyrighted works (and J-Stor was a licensee, not the copyright holder). He attempted to remove forever the copyright protection by making them available digitally to the world.
Making information free is not necessarily a positive good. If the Internet had been available in the 1950s, how would we view a KKK member who hacked the membership database of the Alabama branch of the NAACP and posted it online? (NAACP v. Alabama, 360 U.S. 240 (1959)).
There is no doubt that Mr. Swartz' suicide is an unfortunate event. However, it is likely that the same mental imbalance that drove him to "free" information and to take steps to defeat the efforts stop him played a role in his decision to end his life.
Mr. Nosal took confidential business information from his employer to use in his new, competing business. This is a common scenario in today's business world, where thumb drives are easily concealed and can store massive amounts of data. I do not dispute that changes are needed to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Businesses need protection against disloyal employees and the CFAA is not well drafted to cover them.
By Mike on 2013 05 03, 7:34 pm CDT
I have mixed feeling about all of this. To be sure, the part of the law criminalizing private TOS agreements is a bit inappropriate. We should be weary of laws that criminalize beaches of private agreements. However I have no sympathy for Downey. Sure, Downey, like everyone else has a right to disagree with PayPal's stance on a particular issue, but doesn't PayPal have a right to its opinion as well? What if the roles were reversed? ...say PayPal chose to terminate allowing donations to a controversial cause whose views Downey does not share? Suppose a hacker sympathetic to that group did the same thing Downey did?
By SME on 2013 05 03, 8:25 pm CDT
Ha ha… "beaches" is supposed to be "breaches" . Sorry!
By SME on 2013 05 03, 8:27 pm CDT
The CFAA may be overbroad and abused but you certainly cannot tell that from this article.
Downey and Swartz are examples of the types of criminals that the act was designed to punish. Their acts were deliberate, malicious and destructive and the prosecutors involved were perfectly correct in pursuing them.
By W.R.T. on 2013 05 25, 9:24 pm CDT
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I've become obsessed with the Attic 24 'Granny Stripe' blanket. There is something so simple but vibrant about the pattern, and of course, the colours are so bright and cheerful. It's just perfect.
I love the crochet patterns that Lucy at Attic 24 designs, but most of all I love the way she uses colour to make simple designs really sing. The Granny Stripes blanket is made using Stylecraft Special DK which is acrylic. I usually avoid acrylic yarns as I don't really like the feel of them, however, this pattern has got me excited! The other plus point for acrylic is that its so much more affordable than wool or cotton. So much cheaper! I've decided to throw caution to the wind and embark on my biggest crotchet project ever, and give in to the blanket lust. I've happily found that Country Crafts sell a special Attic 24 pack of Stylecraft Special DK containing all the 17 colours needed to recreate the original blanket. Each ball is just £1.45! I wish alpaca and wool were this cheap… 😉
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i am using a proton board and i have a nokia 6210 andits original DLR-3P cable .
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By Lee Murray
A state auditor's report found several problems in Liberty Township's accounts that raised "substantial doubt" about the township's "ability to continue as a going concern."
Officials blame severe cuts in state tax revenue, the elimination of estate taxes and a reduction in the property tax base for a 22.4 percent cut in the township's general-obligation fund budget, which led officials to borrow from one account to cover another.
In 2011, the township had a general fund budget of $1.1 million. For 2013, that budget has been cut to $854,000.
Borrowing between accounts – specifically moving funds from the fire fund and the police fund into the general obligation fund – is forbidden by the state.
"They're worried that we don't have the dollars to operate the township," said Liberty's fiscal officer, John Fusco.
"We get through our bills and our payroll, but that's about it. There's no extra to do roads or to do anything else."
Brittany Halpin, spokeswoman for the Ohio auditor, said that the state will offer assistance to the township.
"Yes, it is serious, and it is reported as serious," Halpin said. She added that representatives from the Local Government Services section, a division that assists struggling townships with financial advice and evaluation, will meet with township officials to decide what is needed to go forward.
"Talk is cheap," said Trustee Stan Nudell. "How can we spend the money differently? Unless we have more money coming in, we're going to spend it the same way."
Nudell added that the township is managing funds properly and can pay its bills.
Trustee Jodi Stoyak said that cuts in the Local Government Fund and estate taxes are to blame.
According to policymattersohio.org, a nonprofit research organization based in Columbus, Liberty incurred a $389,000 loss in local government aid as part of a $1 billion state budget cut for 2012 and 2013.
"The governor [John Kasich] has reduced our Local Government Fund," Stoyak said, "and he's taken away our estate tax. That's gone after this year."
The township's estate tax income has fallen too, from $300,000 in 2011 to about $32,000 this year, according to the township's budget.
Despite the harsh language of the report, Administrator Pat Ungaro was keen to point out the township's successes.
"They should be complimenting us," he said. "Every operation is in the black."
Ungaro added that the township inherited some financial challenges that it overcame.
"When these trustees started we had $800,000 in bank debt," Ungaro said, "Now we have no debt at all."
Halpin said she could not discuss what the next step would be if Liberty's accounts remain deficient.
"It's hard to say what will happen next until we get in [there]," she said.
The state said the township misused funds in 2010 by transferring $22,444 from the police fund to pay for the new 911 communications center. The 911 center has since closed because the levy that was passed to pay for it did not draw in enough money to cover costs. The township also took money from the fire fund to pay for police salaries because of a deficit.
Both transfers are against state rules. Halpin said, however, that there is no legal penalty for swapping funds in that manner.
"There wasn't enough money for the police payroll, so Pat [Ungaro] and John [Fusco] decided, together, to take money from the fire fund and pay the police," Stoyak said. "You're not allowed to do that, but he didn't want to lay off a whole department so we did what we needed to do."
Fusco added that there was an understanding between now-retired state auditors and the township.
"We're not allowed to do that, but we had no choice," Fusco said. "The state auditor told me that they would have done the same thing.
"We had to do it, otherwise we wouldn't have a police department," he added.
Halpin said she could not confirm whether or not any previous auditor agreed with the township about swapping money between funds.
The township continues to seek ways to save money.
It has hired Joshua Cleland of Campbell as a full-time firefighter. Nudell said the decision to hire a firefighter for $33,597 per year was more cost-effective because the township was continually incurring overtime expenses with regular firefighters. Last year the department spent $208,000 on overtime pay because two firefighters were injured and one was on extended leave.
"I'm really optimistic that we haven't been better than we are today," said Ungaro, who has recently gone down to four work days a week to ease salary expenses.
This is a prelude to a road levy; just read between the lines. Thanks to the township and the schools, the taxes in Liberty are 39% higher than the next highest community in Trumbull County. If you gave them a penny; they spent a dollar. They could have saved $750,000 by going to the county 911, 5-6 years ago, but those who wanted re-elected supported by those departments that wanted the power, threw common sense out the window. How many of the other county communities would love to have this kind of money and the tax base to go along with it??? Always remember, 'the higher the taxes, the lower the property values'. And that translates into the exodus of good taxpayers to other communities with lower taxes. Liberty has yet to learn that, "TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS' is not as easy in real life.
Every township has had their budgets cut. This is simply a lack of leadership by the trustees. A failure to manage the monies that they have to run the township. Now you hear the excuses.
Road levy coming again soon!! Check the guys working out on the roads. One or two working and three or four standing around. One guy ran the street sweeper down my street a few weeks back. I went to store and saw two of them sleeping in the truck. When I came back they were still there sawing logs.You want to save money? Get rid of the dead beats. All the road supervisor does is ride around in his pick up truck all day. That is when it's not parked behind his house trying to hide it. (I can see it!!) Vote No!! on any road levy until they get their house in order.
I think kasic is to blame. He's cuttin' everything. How do you think he's gotten such a surplus for the state. Whats he sayin'? 2.5 billion. I'm probably wrong about that figure,but it's alot. My food stamp's got cut in half,but that may be federal. Anyway,kasic's tryin' to take credit for Star,but that was all Tim Ryan.In the end,it's kasic. kasic's the worst thing for this state.Yeah,I know.h
State Surplus Is Coming Off The Backs Of Local Governments,As Proven By This Article. There's A Point Where Cuts Becom Detrimental To The Community, And We Have Hit That Point In Ohio. Columbus Has Decided To Keep More Of Your Tax Money In Columbus,And Not Return It To The Cities And Townships.
I Find It Interesting That Townships Can Not Move Money Because Of State Law, When The STate Budget Does The Exact Same Thing.
I bought a house in Liberty two years ago. Now everywhere I look they are short of or out of money. Put levies on the ballot for specific things. Police, Fire, Roads, Schools etc. If we want them we vote for them. My pockets aren't getting any deeper. I have to live within my budget. So do the schools and township. Sorry but it's true. I can't afford any more!
You're Missing The Point. The Money Should Be There, But The State Budget Has Taken Your Tax Money From Your Local Community For Columbus And A Rainy Day Fund.
Why is everyone so cynical? The township was operating fine until Governor Kasich cut the revenue. Now the state has a surplus while local governments like Liberty go broke. When revenue is cut, so are services. What do the citizens of Liberty want to give up so Ohio can have a 2 billion dollar rainy day fund?
Not surprising Mr Ungaro, the township administrator, is ducking responsibility. But at the mere possibility of a new motel or other business, he'll run over anyone between him and a TV camera to brag "I did this. Me, me, me.". Good job, Pat -- doing for Liberty what you did for Y'town: glad-handing while using smoke and mirrors.
"We get through our bills and our payroll, but that's about it. There's no extra to do roads or to do anything else."
Right there says it all. Make sure payroll is covered, even if there's nothing left over to do anything that you're on payroll to DO. lol
I have known Liberty Township for nearly 60 years and I am originally from there. The trustees have had a constant history of never being the best since the mid 70's, so this township management problem is nothing new and this includes all the inside hiring which has gone on for years too. Liberty has lost revenue over the past 50 years here and there, like all areas do. Nothing new. If the road dept employees are asleep on the job..why not take their pix, the truck number and report it....dah! Post it online. If the road department supervisor is hiding a township service truck behind his house to avoid his nosey neighbors..take a pix and report it. Liberty ppl have always been complainers about every single thing in the entire 5 square miles of that township...FOREVER. They are the biggest group of constant bit----- around..... HANDS DOWN. Can't please these ppl. If the rotten governor has pulled the funds apart...then get down to Columbus and start making some noise!!! Call all those blow bag congress and senate ppl to help you and stop waiting for a bag of money to fall from the sky. That's right....get off your calcified hind ends and do something for yourselves....for once. And...get off Ungaro's back....you ppl ought to be darn grateful he came to help repair your busted township.
I bet Ungaro is the single largest annual expense the township has.
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Cringely's main point seems to be that the intention standard, on which many people have focused (see for example discussion at SCOTUSblog, or various postings by Derek Slater at Deep Links) is irrelevant. It's irrelevant because the true successor to Grokster won't be BitTorrent or any of its ilk (see Donna's pointer to Ernie Miller's summary on BitTorrent).
The true successor, says Bob, will be an API-based service built from pieces offered by different organizations, so different from Grokster that there won't even be an entity to which the intention standard could be applied. Erm, maybe.
Cringely leaves out a lot of steps in this chain, one of which is that the semantic Web project is in its fourth year and shows no signs of disturbing the huge growth of the WWW as we know it. There's every reason to believe that the semantic Web will remain a pipe dream for many years to come, and file-sharing will likely continue to evolve in the meantime. You can also bet that the intention standard will be tested in plenty of court cases soon. My personal feeling is that the Cartel will take this as carte blanche to go on deep fishing expeditions into the business model of anyone they don't overtly control, under the guise of trying to show "intention."
Second, the open API construction that Cringely is talking about is coming to pass in the guise of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). These SOAs are built using XML-based protocols such as SOAP that may be useful in the semantic Web, but aren't really the same thing any more than TCP/IP is the same as email.
Cringely's best quote comes at the start of the column, where he opines that
Depending on who you are, this decision probably appeared to be wise or unwise, fair or unfair, good or bad, and either chilling for technical innovation, or...well, chilling for technical innovation.
At least he got that part right.
(Full disclosure: at least one of my friends works at W3C on the Semantic Web team. No offense intended either way.)
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1. jtw on July 6, 2005 12:29 PM writes...
Full disclosure: I used to work at W3C on the semantic web (SW) team.
The various SW standards are just really maturing - especially the search language SPARQL - and the impact is just starting to be felt in some domains, especially life sciences. Remember that the Web didn't disrupt the Internet for a long time. Until it did. It came from users that needed to share information in a different way than gopher, archie, and ftp. SW uptake will similarly come from those who need a richer connection between elements than SOA provides.
For example, you might find inside a pharmaceutical company's decision process: rich relationships among genes, proteins, chemicals, business processes, government regulations, patients, doctors, marketing and sales staff. Stitching together APIs ain't going to cut it. That's why Merck has joined the W3C and it's why the NIH is asking for "concept based queries" in contract proposals. The SW is taking off in science, much as the WWW took off originally in high energy physics.
Under the hoods of stuff that normal people use, RSS 1.0 is chock full of semantic web information. And Creative Commons' copyright licenses (my current employer) have put millions of pieces of metadata online in semantic web formats. Yahoo now uses RDF to search for our metadata - "find me songs I can remix" and so forth. There's a plugin for firefox that lets you map craigslist onto google maps (it's called Piggy Bank and is part of the simile project at MIT) just like Cringeley says you'll be able to do in the future, although this works today.
I'm also pretty sure that we'll see something along the API stitching that you mention - but that in the life sciences it'll be stitching bottom-up tagging to top-down ontologies. Already seeing that in a traditional, human-mediated sense - the biological norm was to let everyone call a gene whatever they wished. Still is the norm. But there's a serious need, for serious researchers, to map all 50 names for a gene into the ontologies that describe gene function (and therefore standardize on how to "tag" a piece of DNA as being a gene with a described function, location, etc.).
That's already been made usable in semantic web format as well, using scrapers that generate such information just from the basic website.
So I would argue that, in fact, the semantic web as seen by W3C is indeed well on its way. It just hasn't made that jump outside of its initial domains yet. But wait til the first real semantic web browser hits...
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2. Andyu on July 8, 2005 4:54 PM writes...
I wanted to let you know that I had blogged on this yesterday, with the most germane part reading as follows, jumping off from jtw's comment:
But will there be a Semantic Web browser (or, more responsively to jtw, will it lead the charge of conversion, or will it take advantage of the conversion after the geeks have led the way?
I'm of the opinion that it will be somewhere in the middle. Somebody (or somebodies) will inevitably see the SemWeb as an opportunity to either chip away at the Big Browser Boys' market share, or, alternatively, tweak their collective tails -- just because then can (presumably using, say, FireFox), and the Big Boys will respond not to the opportunity, but defensively.
You can read Tim Berners-Lee's most recent opinions on this subject (which can briefly be summarized as "been there, done this before; just be patient) in the June CSB: The Semantic Web: an Interview with Tim Berners-Lee. My own, somewhat more subdued opinions are in the Editorial from the same issue: Web of Dreams'. In brief, I'm more in agreement with jtw (his Semantic browser observation aside) and Tim than Alan, but still believe that we have a few years to wait before the SemWeb wagon really gets rolling.
Assuming that it's still to early to call it all a question of "when" and not "whether,", I think that one of the big "ifs" relates to whether the ad hoc, neural, viral world of tagging and other shortcuts that people will think up will absorb all of the energy, which is closer to Cringely's point (which, you may recall, is where this all began). Perhaps the appetite for more rigid and demanding Semantic approaches will be limited to highly structured, highly disciplined areas like health sciences, leading to two parallel Webs: a stuffy, precise, and more reliable Semantic one, and an anarchic, freewheeling, morphing one that rollicks along, trying out all kinds of interesting experiments that may (or may not) eventually settle into something we can't even imagine at this point in time. Personally, that sounds like not such a bad future to me.
Either way, we'll see. But best not to be in too much of a hurry to find out.
3. jtw on July 9, 2005 5:13 PM writes...
I tend to agree with the "two webs" concept, although i think they will indeed be a single web, with different neighborhoods. What i like about rdf/owl is that you can flexibly map between two such worlds - if you've got a formal ontology, that's fine, but if your ontology is evolving or changing, it's nice to be able to draw relationships on more of an adhoc basis. I could rather easily write owl relations from a gene "tag" (in the chaotic sense of tagging) to that gene's formal name in GenBank, which is connceted into formal ontologies as the canonical URI, thereby connecting the two worlds. It's precisely that stitching function that makes the SW approach so powerful to my eyes...
Now, the hard part is how to navigate such a world. How do you dial in the chaos from the cool gleaming halls of ontology, and vice versa? How will my Mom deal with it? It's going to require more software on the client side than browsing, and much thought on UI.
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I vote Long John Silver... Scared the crap out of me as a kid and has the best tag line as Captain Silver is challenging the crew held up in the fort, "Them that die'll be the lucky ones!"
General Off-Topic Board / Re: How old was your oldest cat or dog?« on: July 13, 2006, 06:55:42 PM »
I had a miniature dachshund that finally bit it at 21 and I have a cat that's currently 17 and lives in the garage....
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Jung/ Myers-Briggs Test.« on: July 13, 2006, 06:53:59 PM »
General Off-Topic Board / Re: P1AYB0Y« on: July 13, 2006, 06:53:37 PM »
Wax strips.... The best thing to happen to female hygeine in 5000 years... Only slightly eclipsed to the razor...
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Say the first thing that pops into your head after looking at the 'tar above you« on: July 13, 2006, 06:48:06 PM »
Bum, bum, bum, ditty, Let's Get it On!
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Which one are you?« on: July 13, 2006, 06:44:39 PM »
INTJ! WOOHOOO! I mean.... woohoo...
I could argue that I am an INTJ in RL and online I am an ESTP!
General Off-Topic Board / Re: pray for barbaro or wish him well (for the non-believers).« on: July 13, 2006, 06:30:32 PM »
To the GLUE FACTORY! MUHAHAHAH!
Just kidding... It is quite sad...
General Off-Topic Board / Re: For those that proclaim themselves religious« on: July 13, 2006, 06:29:09 PM »
my religion doesn't have rules, only consequences
HOW CAN YOU HAVE CONSEQUENCES WITHOUT RULES!!!!! ARGGGhhhh!
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Poll: Foie gras« on: July 13, 2006, 06:25:11 PM »
I really don't give a crap how it's made (and yes I know how it is made).
The bottom line though is, it tastes nasty... If it was at all tasty, I might condone it, but for now I am ambivalent...


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Gold, and Cell 211 percolating, and today there's news of another film that will get the Haggis Touch.
Universal is in talks with the writer/director to develop a new spy film franchise based off the Gabriel Allon novels by Daniel Silva. The character Allon is an ex-Mossad agent who avenged the murder of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics. The story picks up ten years later when an old enemy pulls the retired Allon back in. There's a good chance that Haggis would direct this film as well if he can work it into his busy schedule of thinking about racism and how it's bad and stuff. (LA Times)
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Severe Cold Wave In Delhi
A boy with his pet dog covered with woolens going for the morning... Nieuwsfoto'sDelhi,Hond,Horizontaal,Huisdier,India,Jongens,Kind,Mist,New Delhi,Ochtend,Wandelen,WeerPhotographer Hindustan TimesCollection: Hindustan Times 2013 Hindustan TimesNEW DELHI, INDIA - JANUARY 4: A boy with his pet dog covered with woolens going for the morning walk in cold and foggy morning at around 7:00 AM at Mayur Vihar on January 4, 2013 in New Delhi, India. Delhi experienced the Coldest Morning Temperature of 2.7 Degree Celsius of this Winter Season. (Photo by Sushil Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)


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Mass. Promoting Locally-Grown Christmas Trees
BOSTON (AP) — State officials are urging residents to buy locally-grown Christmas trees this season.
State agriculture commissioner Greg Watson joined other state and local officials for Friday's annual tree-cutting ceremony at Crane Neck Christmas Tree Farm in Groveland.
Watson said locally-grown trees and renewable and recyclable, and an important part of the state's economy.
According to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture figures, there are 284 Christmas tree farms in Massachusetts, producing more than 75,000 trees each year.
The vast majority of Christmas trees are grown on farms, limiting damage to forests.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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The majority of Australians live in close proximity to the coast, but Deb Hunt's new book gives an insight into the lives of remote farming families.
Harper Lee to release second novel 50 years after To Kill a Mockingbird | video
Michael Idato Harper Collins says it is planning a first printing of two million copies of Go Set A Watchman.
"I dips me lid": 100 years of The Sentimental Bloke
Staff correspondent When C.J. Dennis's The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke was published on this day in October 1915, it became a phenomenon, spawning three sequels and a host of stage and film adaptations. Here we revisit the Herald's review of the Australian classic
Avid Reader won't stock Can Do: Campbell Newman and the Challenge of Reform launches
Amy Remeikis Former premier to launch memoir at Tattersall's club.
Australian authors earn only $12,900 from their writing, a new report says
jason Steger Most authors have to supplement their income from their writing in order to survive, a new report has found.
Book reviews: We Shall Inherit the Wind, I'm Travelling Alone, Europa Blues
Reviewer: Anna Creer Nordic noir: Three for a Sunday.
Kate Forsyth's The Beast's Garden reimagines a French fairytale in Nazi Germany
Linda Morris Kate Forsyth reimagines the fairytale Beauty and the Beast in Nazi Germany in her new period novel.
Books that changed me: Lucy Estela
Lucy Estela studied languages at university and has worked as a developer of websites and computer games in London and Sydney for companies including Disney, Warner Bros Pictures and Xbox.
A year of practiculture: Author Rohan Anderson's insights into spring lamb
Rohan Anderson Spring is lambing season. Rohan Anderson ponders the idea of buying lamb which has been raised locally.
Riddledom: Author David Astle reveals his passion for words and puzzling moments
Ron Cerabona Wordsmith David Astle looks at the long and fascinating history of linguistic befuddlement around the world in his latest book.


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Summer Bridge Academy
The Center for Academic Excellence offers the Summer Bridge Academy (SBA) to aid high school graduates in achieving academic success in college. We believe that all students should master basic academic skills to achieve their educational goals. Some students need to develop these skills before enrolling in college, and therefore are required to participate in the SBA. SBA is designed to give students the tools and resources they need to be successful at Salem State University.
Those selected for the SBA will participate in a six-week summer program. Students will be enrolled in a combination of college level credits along with non-credited courses, which are designed to supplement and improve their academic skills. Additionally, students who enter the university through SBA participate in various activities that help to ensure their success outside of the classroom. Through weekly individual appointments, group meetings and a variety of workshops held throughout the summer and academic year, our SBA staff endeavors to develop the whole student. Each student is assigned a designated student development coordinator who meets with them on a regular basis. These meetings allow our coordinators to monitor the academic progress of each student and to address any problems that may arise. The student development coordinators also conduct various workshops, some of which include: classroom etiquette, information literacy (using library resources to enhance student learning), getting involved on campus, and selecting majors and minors. Further, the student development team works closely with other offices on campus including, but not limited to counseling and health services, career services, financial aid, and academic advising.
The student development coordinators seek to:
- Develop an awareness of educational and career goals of each student
- Serve as a role model through year-long mentoring
- Provide assistance in helping students obtain financial aid
- Provide academic and career advising
- Help students develop self-confidence, self-determination and self-esteem
Important SBA 2015 Dates:
- June 24: Move-in day for SBA resident students
- June 24 and 25: SBA orientation
- June 29: SBA classes begin
- July 4: No SBA classes
- August 7: Last day of SBA program
Click to view a sample SBA schedule for commuter and resident students [Word doc]


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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Sony Corp. 6758, +1.55% SNE, +1.63% ended Monday's morning session with a 0.8% gain after the company announced it had begun "a phased restoration by region of PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services." The systems were shut down April 20 in the wake of a cyberattack that stole customer data. "Working closely with several respected outside security firms, the company has implemented new and additional security measures that strengthen safeguards against unauthorized activity, and provide consumers with greater protection of their personal information," Sony said in announcing the restoration. The share gains compared to a 0.6% drop for the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.75%
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Application Requirements
MBA Sustainability (full-time day program)
MBA (part-time and full-time evening), MS-ISM and MAcc
Below are the deadlines for submitting the Online Application, all supporting documents and GMAT/TOEFL scores. We will complete the review of your application after ALL requirements have been received.
|MBA Application Deadlines
|Fall rolling acceptance: July 1
|Spring acceptance: December 1
|Summer acceptance: April 1
|Fall early acceptance: December 1
|Fall regular acceptance and consideration for Graduate Assistantships: March 1
|After March 1, reviews will be on a rolling basis until July 1
|MS-ISM and MAcc Application Deadlines
|Fall early acceptance: December 1
|Fall regular acceptance: March 1
|After March 1, reviews will be on a rolling basis until July 1
Supporting Documents
Official Transcripts
You must submit official transcripts with the application. Unofficial transcripts are not acceptable. Notify the schools that you have attended to send an official copy of your transcript to you in a sealed envelope. You must submit official transcripts from ALL schools attended whether or not some of the work is shown as advanced standing on another transcript.
The Duquesne University Registrar's Office will forward the transcript via campus mail upon the applicant's written request. There is no fee for forwarding a Duquesne transcript to a University office. However, Duquesne graduates who have also attended another school must submit official transcripts from those schools with their application. This is required even if the information appears as advanced standing on the Duquesne transcript or if another University department has an official copy of the transcript on file.
After you submit the Online Application, you will receive an email directing you to our Supplemental Document Portal for uploading resumes and other documents.
GMAT Scores
Request that PearsonVue send a copy of your official GMAT scores to the Donahue Graduate School of Business. Neither the student's copy nor a photocopy is acceptable. The GMAT scores must be sent directly from PearsonVue to Duquesne University. The institution codes for our programs are: MBA Program (Full-time) 3R6-7B-57, MBA Program (Part-time) 3R6-7B-43, MS-ISM Program 3R6-7B-33 and MS-Accountancy Program 3R6-7B-83.
Two professional recommendations must be provided as part of the application process. Recommendations must be from former professors or supervisors who can evaluate your potential for graduate study. After your Online Application has been received, you will be directed to a Supplemental Document Portal where you can enter the contact information for both recommenders. The recommendation form will be sent electronically to each of them from this site.
Foreign Language Exam Information
International students must also submit the following information: official TOEFL or IELTS scores, Duquesne University Affidavit of Support form completed in full and submitted together with required officially certified statements of financial resources available to support your education (see estimates of costs for an academic year available from the Office of International Affairs), and official transcripts in English. Uncertified photocopies cannot be accepted. Send all application materials to the following address: Donahue Graduate School of Business, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282.
Duquesne's institution code for the TOEFL is 2196. The department code is 02. If your TOEFL scores are more than two (2) years old, you must retake the exam. You may telephone ETS regarding the TOEFL at (609) 771-7100 or mail correspondence to: TOEFL Services, CN 6151, Princeton, NJ 08541-6151. The minimum score for IBT TOEFL is 90.
We also accept IELTS exam scores. Please refer to www.ielts.org for information on sending official scores to Duquesne University. The minimum score for IELTS is 7.
Please include on a separate sheet an essay that addresses the following:
- MBA and MS-ISM Applicants:
- A summary of your academic and professional background, your present situation, your motivation for pursuing a graduate business education and your future goals.
- What strengths you bring to the program.
- MAcc Applicants (limit your responses to 250 words for each question):
- Why are you interested in pursuing a MAcc degree?
- How will Duquesne's MAcc degree help you to achieve your career goals?
- How has your background prepared you for the challenges of graduate business study?
After you submit the Online Application, you will receive an email directing you to our Supplemental Document Portal for uploading essays and other documents.
Additional Requirement for International Students
In general, international students must have a four-year bachelor's degree. Certain three-year degrees may be acceptable. Please contact the graduate office for verification.
International students may also wish to contact the Office of International Affairs at Duquesne University for such items as I-20 forms, etc.
Admission Decision
You will be notified by mail of the admission decision. Admission decisions are not released over the telephone. If you are admitted, registration information and an evaluation of your academic background will be mailed to you. You will be notified of the admission decision no later than three weeks after your John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business application is completed.


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In order to receive BU Law's Master of Laws in Taxation, students enrolled in the fully online option must complete 24 credits of coursework.
*Required course
Visit the Boston University Online Course Schedule to view all current and upcoming courses.
To learn more about BU Law's online Graduate Tax Program option, contact an admissions advisor at 877-308-9945 or visit the program website.


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MEMBERSHIPSThe Atlantic Club is proud to announce that we are now part of the following Associations:
The Medical Fitness Association, a non-profit organization, was formed in 1991 to assist medically integrated health and fitness centers achieve their full potential. The Association is a professional membership organization whose mission is to ascertain and respond to the needs of medically integrated centers throughout the world. As a resource to the medical fitness industry, Medical Fitness Association is 100% focused on medical fitness, and is the first association to have focused on hospital fitness and wellness. Medical fitness is their #1 mission---and their ONLY mission.
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American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Throughout the country senior fitness clubs and organizations have funded efforts to educate people on the risks of heart disease in order to reduce the number of cases.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has been the nation's premier emergency response organization and part of a worldwide movement that offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, aiding victims of devastating natural disasters and the aim of preventing and relieving suffering.
FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties
The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties links those with extra food and those without enough, gathering food products and distributing them to charities. This charitable association is partnered with other organizations in order to expand their reach of influence.
TAC Riptide
Our USS Club Swim Team, the Riptides, enables swimmers to get proper coaching and personal training for all levels of competitive swimming. Swimmers range from novice to Olympic Trials qualifiers. Our youth fitness training facilities and summer swim camps prepare those interested in becoming a part of our successful swim team.
United States Swimming (USS)
The Atlantic Club (TAC) swim team, the Riptides, offers swimmers of all ability levels the opportunity to compete against swimmers throughout New Jersey through USS regionally sanctioned Invitational Swim Meets hosted by USS affiliated swim clubs. USA Swimming is the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming. The team practices at our family fitness centers pool.
Clubs for the Quest
Clubs for the Quest was formed to harness the power of health clubs, their staff and members across the United States to help Augie Nieto and his team to fund the research that will find the Cure for ALS.
Parisi Speed School
Parisi Speed School is sport specific training for young athletes that focuses on performance enhancement and a positive training experience that improves speed of movement and strength in character regardless of ability or economic status. It all started when Bill Parisi drove to high schools in New Jersey looking for coaches and teams that wanted to take advantage of state-of-the-art training techniques and the way American athletes were training for sport. Find a personal trainer utilizing these methods at our sport and health clubs.
International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA)
The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) is a trade association serving the health club industry that promotes healthy living via lobbying and education for fitness facilities and businesses. Members can provide those participating in tai chi for arthritis, yoga for seniors, prenatal fitness classes, and more with industry leading resources and information.
United States Tennis Association (USTA)
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is a progressive and diverse not-for-profit organization and the national governing body for the sport of tennis whose mission is in the promoting and developing of the sports growth on every level in the United States, from local tennis clubs in NJ to the crown jewel of the professional game, the US Open.
Chateau Inn & Suites, Spring Lake
As a resort destination for leisure guests, families and business travelers, you can choose from an array of accommodations and packages to fit your personal style. Midweek getaways, weekend escapes, bed and breakfast plans, wedding and spa specials, and romantic rendezvous are available year round.
The Molly Pitcher Inn offers first-class amenities with the sophistication of an elegant 19th century small luxury hotel and is among the most scenic luxury hotels in Central New Jersey.
Chamber of Commerce Organizations
Southern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce
The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce
Monmouth Ocean Development Council (MODC)


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Crossing the Border Into the Middle Class
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: June 3, 2004
LAS VEGAS— Here are a few of the startling, improbable, only-in-Vegas apparitions that can be seen in and around Las Vegas Boulevard South, also known as the Strip: an ersatz Eiffel Tower. A Venetian palace. A miniature Brooklyn Bridge. An Egyptian pyramid that, once darkness falls, sends a towering shaft of light into the black desert sky.
Here is another: a petite woman with a jet-black ponytail driving to and from the pyramid in a white Dodge Ram pickup.
What makes this vision extraordinary is less what this woman looks like than who she is, how she got here and how well she reconciles a jumble of seeming contradictions in her hard but happy life.
She is Graciela Diaz: upwardly mobile waitress, Mexican immigrant soccer mom, middle-class striver, former undocumented sweatshop seamstress and now satisfied suburbanite, living with her husband and daughter in a two-story, four-bedroom stucco house with a two-car garage in a gated community north of town.
Thanks to a relentlessly booming economy and an unusual collaboration between labor and industry, Las Vegas has become a paradise for people like Ms. Diaz: unskilled newcomers, many of them immigrants. In Las Vegas, unlike most other American cities, dishwashers, busboys, hotel housekeepers and hotel janitors can easily gain a foothold in the middle class.
In Las Vegas, not only do these workers often obtain the emblems of middle-class life -- a house and a car or two, good health insurance and a pension -- but they have the opportunity to climb ever higher.
For Ms. Diaz, 32, a native of Jalisco, Mexico, it is no easy matter juggling the life of a low-skilled immigrant with that of a suburban middle-class mom. Ms. Diaz, who works as a waitress at La Salsa, a Mexican restaurant in the giant Luxor hotel casino, is learning, for example, that it is impossible to be the perfect parent, always there for her 8-year-old daughter, Cecilia, as she struggles to grab her piece of the American dream. But after coming so far, she is not giving up.
Until recently, Ms. Diaz was on the go seven days a week. Five days she bused tables at La Salsa, putting out tortilla chips and salsa, fetching drinks, removing dirty plates.
On Wednesdays and Thursdays, her days off, she took a six-hour-a-day course that would elevate her to waitress. For five months, she studied the fine points of the food server's trade, like how many pancakes are in a short stack and the difference between fettuccine and farfalle. She was enrolled at the Las Vegas Culinary Training Academy, which gives courses in jobs at all levels of the hospitality industry: grease-trap cleaner, hotel housekeeper, sommelier.
''I want to jump another step,'' Ms. Diaz said. ''I want things to be better for my family. I don't want my family to miss anything. That's why I sacrifice for.''
A Gilded Ladder
The academy is the brainchild of an enlightened labor union and a hotel and restaurant industry that needs a well-trained work force.
''Our union's goal and the training center's goal is you can come in as a non-English-speaking worker, come in as a low-level kitchen worker, and if you have the desire, you can leave as a gourmet food server, sous-chef or master sommelier,'' said D. Taylor, secretary-treasurer of Culinary Local 226, one of the nation's fastest-growing unions. ''We want to have a situation where the only limits are your own ambition.''
With the food server's course now under her belt, Ms. Diaz has made an impressive leap in status and income. Busing tables, she made $500 a week, or $25,000 a year, but as a waitress, her wages and tips total about $20 an hour, or $40,000 a year.
Ms. Diaz is doing so well that her husband, Manuel, a burly six-foot construction worker, says he jokingly tells friends: ''She'll be earning so much that I'm going to be able to quit my job and take care of the house. So when she arrives home, there will be steaming food on the table.''
Two years ago, the Diazes paid $125,000 for their house on Gold Sluice Avenue. Their gated community, called Sutter Creek, was built in the desert 10 miles north of downtown and is so new that none of its trees are taller than 12 feet.
Mr. Diaz said they wanted a gated community because they were unhappy with their previous neighborhood. ''People from Mexico -- I call them paesanos -- were burning tires,'' he said. ''They played radios real loud. I was afraid of Cecilia playing outside, that someone would run her over. Here it's quiet and safe for her.''
With a sheepish grin, Ms. Diaz said her parents could hardly believe how she lives. She and her husband have a 48-inch television, satellite dish, gleaming kitchen with track lighting, and his-and-hers pickup trucks. His is a dark green Ford 150 with a ''Bad Boy'' decal.
Manuel and Graciela Diaz have come a long way since 1994, when they met in a Los Angeles sweatshop. She was a seamstress, he bundled garments, and they both earned about $30 a day, or $7,500 a year.
Smitten with Graciela's broad smile, lustrous hair and easygoing manner, Manuel, clinging to Mexican tradition, asked her parents for permission to date her. They refused, partly because he had once lived with another woman and partly because he was not exactly raking in money.


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Alex Beutel
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
About Me
By now you should realize that my name is Alex Beutel - I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Christos Faloutsos. I research large-scale user behavior modeling, covering fraud detection, recommendation systems, and scalable machine learning.
Before being a graduate student, I studied computer science and physics at Duke University. At Duke I researched computational geometry with Professor Pankaj Agarwal and Thomas Mølhave, ran the Duke Schedulator, and was the Director of Online Development for The Chronicle.
Email me at or contact me through one of the social networks to the right.
Recent News
September 2015 - I will be speaking at WIN 2015 on CoBaFi - Bayesian collaborative filtering, robust recommendation, and polarized ratings.
August 2015 - A General Suspiciousness Metric for Dense Blocks in Multimodal Data with Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Christos Faloutsos and Shiqiang Yang was accepted to ICDM 2015.
July 2015 - My tutorial with Leman Akoglu and Christos Faloutsos Fraud Detection through Graph-Based User Behavior Modeling was selected for ACM CCS 2015.
April 2015 - My tutorial with Leman Akoglu and Christos Faloutsos Graph-Based User Behavior Modeling: From Prediction to Fraud Detection was selected for KDD 2015.
April 2015 - I was selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in August.
March 2015 - I will be spending the summer at Google Research in Mountain View.
January 2015 - My paper ACCAMS: Additive Co-Clustering to Approximate Matrices Succinctly with Amr Ahmed and Alex Smola was accepted to WWW 2015. I will be in Florence in May to present the work.
November 2014 - My paper Elastic Distributed Bayesian Collaborative Filtering with Markus Weimer, Tom Minka, Yordan Zaykov, and Vijay Narayanan, based on our work this summer at Microsoft, was accepted to the NIPS Distributed Machine Learning workshop. I will be at NIPS in December to present the work.
October 2014 - My paper Spotting Suspicious Link Behavior with fBox: An Adversarial Perspective with Neil Shah, Brian Gallagher, and Christos Faloutsos has been accepted to ICDM 2014.
July 2014 - CatchSync has been selected as one of the best papers in KDD 2014.
June 2014 - A research proposal that I co-authored with Christos Faloutsos, Amin Mantrach, and Alejandro Jaimes on spam and fraud detection in Tumblr was selected for the Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award.
June 2014 - August 2014 - I am spending the summer at Microsoft, working with the CISL team to scale machine learning on top of REEF.
May 2014 - My paper CatchSync: Catching Synchronized Behavior in Large Directed Graphs with Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Christos Faloutsos and Shiqiang Yang was accepted to KDD. I will post the camera-ready version soon.
Feb. 2014 - I was lucky enough to win the Facebook Graduate Fellowship for 2014-2015.
Jan. 2014 - The paper Fugue: Slow-Worker-Agnostic Distributed Learning for Big Models with Abhimanu Kumar, Qirong Ho, and Eric Xing was accepted to AISTATS for a full presentation in Reykjavik, Iceland in April.
Jan. 2014 - My paper CoBaFi: Collaborative Bayesian Filtering with Kenton Murray, Alex Smola, and Christos Faloutos was accepted to WWW. I will be presenting it in Seoul, South Korea in April.
Jan. 2014 - The paper FlexiFaCT: Scalable Flexible Factorization of Coupled Tensors on Hadoop with Abhimanu Kumar, Vagelis Papalexakis, Partha Talukdar, Christos Faloutsos, and Eric Xing was accepted to SDM and will be presented in Philadelphia in April. We will relase the source code soon.
Jan. 2014 - The paper Inferring Strange Behavior from Connectivity Pattern in Social Networks with Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Christos Faloutsos, and Shiqiang Yang was accepted to PAKDD. Meng will be presenting it in Tainan, Taiwan in May.


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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sociology professor Dr. Scott Monsma has twice taken students to Oman as part of a three-week study abroad course. This time he will be accompanied to the Arab nation by colleagues: theatre professor Karen Barker; psychology professor Dr. Daniela Cambetas; resident directors Lisa Barber and Brian Moriarty; and Dr. Doug Carlson and Carrie Krohn of Northwestern's study abroad office.
Monsma expects what the group learns to impact intercultural understanding as well as recruitment of students for the future Oman program.
"It's going to change us," he says of the trip. "We're going to come back different, and we'll be sharing our experiences with students."
In preparation for their time in Oman, the group was joined by others on campus in reading and discussing "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam." While in Oman, the seven will meet with faculty and staff of Sultan Qaboos University, visit a mosque, and build ties critical to the later development of an Oman study abroad semester. Assisting them in their efforts will be Michael Bos, coordinator of the Al Amana Centre, a Reformed Church in America mission in Oman.
Upon their return, the seven will present a public forum at Northwestern to share their perspectives about participating in an interfaith dialogue, relating to others in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious environment; and living out one's faith in a global context.
The exploratory trip was funded in part by monies from Northwestern's $2.5 million Lilly Grant.
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