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Off-season dining deals on the island are beginning to crop up and one of the first sproutlings is Cucina dell'Arte's "express" lunch menu.
It's a two-courser—a choice of appetizer and entrée—for $14 at the Royal Poinciana Way eatery, where, given the still-perfect weather conditions before the onslaught of summer heat, the patio is prime people-watching dining terrain.
For instance, you might start with poached asparagus with fried egg and parmesan, followed by a pesto, faro and chicken salad or a pizza with grape tomatoes, burrata, garlic and basil.
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Two award-winning films about social causes, Sept. 30 & Oct. 13
Contact: Nancy Dunker, associate director of media relations, 630-637-5306
Sept. 24, 2010--Both classics in their own way, the award-winning Bollywood film "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India" and local documentary "Workers' Republic" will be shown at North Central College.
Both films are free and open to the public. "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India" will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 S. Ellsworth St. "Workers' Republic" will be featured at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the College's Smith Hall at Old Main, 30 N. Brainard St.
"Lagaan" (rated PG) tells the story of an extraordinary revolution in India during British rule. After Capt. Jack Russell announces his plans to double the Lagaan (tax) in India, the villagers, led by Bhuvan, decide to challenge the British to a game of cricket-a game none of the villagers, including Bhuvan, know how to play. Eager to beat the British at their own game, Indians from around the region come to play. Filled with song, dance and beautiful colors, the nearly four-hour film received awards and nominations across the world, including the nomination for Best Foreign Language film at the 2002 Academy Awards.
The documentary "Workers' Republic" focuses on a modern-day labor victory. Knee-deep in a recession and three weeks before Christmas in 2008, Chicago-based Republic Windows and Doors closed, leaving its employees without a final week of pay or benefits. The workers belonged to a small union and responded with a sit-down strike. Their efforts garnered lots of news coverage and led to a surprising result for the factory and its workers. Compiled by Andrew Friend, the film won the 2010 John Michaels Human Rights Film Award.
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Facebook's 'Option on the World' Valued at $4.50
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - New revelations about the rocky path towards Facebook's (FB) initial public offering are yet another indication that valuing the billion-plus member social network is as much science as it is art and an exercise in wishful thinking.
For those who want to double down on a price tag for Facebook, new calculations on Wall Street indicate that the company's inestimable prospects may be worth a paltry $4.50.
The consensus amongst investors is that Facebook's stock value will hinge on the company's ability to generate ad revenue from the social network, specifically revenues from mobile devices - an area where the Mark Zuckerberg-run company has been slow moving.
Still, when it comes to calculations on how to value Facebook's overall platform monetization and its expected mobile-based earnings, company estimates and analyst projections are notably imprecise. With that said, recent exercises in sizing up Facebook's finances point to a radically diminished, if not depressing outlook.
In assuming coverage of Facebook on Wednesday, Credit Suisse analyst Stephen Ju cut the social networker's price target by nearly 30% to $24 a share. The analyst cited lowered expectations that Zuckerberg & Co. will be able to execute on a mobile strategy, and if successful, that the opportunity is what was once projected. Facebook's price target cut highlights higher costs of capital assumptions - think risk - and more importantly, a significant re-rating of what the analyst calls the company's "blue sky" ad network, mobile advertising, and expanded payments opportunities.
In the analysis, Facebook's existing business is now worth just $20 from a previous estimate of $23 a share. As of 2011, Facebook had nearly $4 billion in annual revenue, a number that is forecast to grow over $5 billion this year, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. More importantly, Ju of Credit Suisse values "blue sky" monetization opportunities -the hard-to-calculate growth of a billion member network that has some investors jazzed up - at just $4.50. That's a 60% decrease from Credit Suisse's previous estimates that future monetization efforts were worth $11.50 a share.
Notably, Credit Suisse's sharp cut is a result of diminished expectations that Facebook will prove successful in mobile, or in growing revenue opportunities on its network.
"Given the more nascent state of these businesses, we have elected to take a more conservative stance and attribute a lower probability of success at 50%," writes Ju, in the Wednesday note to clients that maintains a 'Neutral' rating on Facebook shares in spite of the sharp price target cut. "This reduces our valuation of Facebook's to-be-realized businesses to $4.50," the analyst adds.


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With a number of lawmakers convinced that Sullivan County taxpayers can't afford an $80 million new jail, county officials have moved to get a second opinion. The $80 million plan came from LaBella Associates; now a company called Goldberg Group Architects (GGA) will provide the county with a "concept plan" for a new jail.
That information was passed on by the county attorney, Sam Yasgur, at a meeting at the government center on September 11. He said GGA will "see if they can design a facility that will save substantial dollars; they have to design it that meets with the commission of corrections in Albany." He added that they will also determine what uses, if any, the existing 102-year-old jail can be put to.
(County treasurer Ira Cohen, who is running unopposed for a new term, sent an email to residents on September 20 saying, "because of poor leadership in the county government center, to date, the County has paid (and wasted) millions to LaBella for initial work on the prospective new jail with little to show for it." He added some good news saying, "GGA is now estimating it could build a 300+bed facility on that already-acquired property off Route 17's Exit 104 in Monticello for as little as $40 million, which is a much cheaper (half the $80 million) price to build a new jail." See the full message below.)
One question that has yet to be answered is where Sullivan County Sheriff's Road Patrol and Office will be located when the new jail is built. Under the original plan, the sheriff's office and other law enforcement agencies such as the probation department were to be located at the new jail. But the La Bella plan for that would have cost $120 million. After those entities were dropped from the plan the price dropped to $80 million, but a decision about the location of the Sheriff's Patrol was never made.
At the meeting on September 11, legislator Alan Sorenson said that county lawmakers should consider using a county-owned building situated behind the Apollo Plaza, a third of which is now being used to house the county's new voting machines, which unlike the old lever machines, require housing in a climate-controlled building.
But the county has agreed to sell that building to developer Butch Resnick as part of the deal for him to develop a supermarket on the site. Sorensen said because of the attributes of the site, the deal with Resnick should be renegotiated.
That suggestion brought a strong reaction from legislator Kathy LaBuda, chair of the Division of Public Works. She said, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not going back and negotiating anything. We've been talking about Apollo for four years."
Legislator Ira Steingart, who as chair of the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency has been involved in the Apollo negotiations, said he agreed with LaBuda.
Legislator Gene Benson repeated his concern that the annex to the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Fallsburg was being overlooked. He suggested that the existing buildings there might serve the road patrol and there would still be room to build a new jail.
County legislature chair Scott Samuelson said that he had spoken to a representative of the COC, and was told they would need full build-out plans before they could render a decision on the site, a requirement that would cost the county "a couple hundred thousand dollars."
The current plans for the jail call for a pod system. Each of four pods is capable of housing 48 inmates, and with special authorization for double-bunking each could house up to 60 inmates.
The core of the building, which is the kitchen, the laundry, booking and other central functions, is planned to be large enough so that the number of pods can be expanded to a total of about 600 inmates, should the need arise.
Legislator Jonathan Rouis said that any savings of building a smaller core were negligible, and given that the jail is meant to serve the county for decades into the future, it did not make sense to build a smaller core.
Update on Sullivan County Jail: Recent NYS Comptroller's Report Irresponsible
Let's continue to explore cost options for building a new facility
By Ira Cohen
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The Sullivan County Jail in Monticello is a very outdated facility. Despite the poor conditions that have existed there for decades-and demands by Albany to close it down- county legislators for years have chosen to do practically nothing to address the situation.
That recently changed.
During the summer, the NYS Comptrollers Office issued a report saying that the delay in building the jail was costing taxpayers money-and that the County should build a new jail sooner than later.
Up to that point, the estimated cost of a new jail was an astronomical $80 million, and with major budgetary problems already in place, county legislators chose to basically place this issue on the back burner.
This NYS Comptroller's report stated the obvious-that we still need to build a new jail.
But it was a very irresponsible report from a fiscal point of view. It falsely argued that the county could build an $80 million dollar jail without negatively impacting the County's credit rating and without imposing a huge new tax burden on the taxpayers.
Somehow, the Comptroller's office inconceivably figured that the new debt in building a jail could be recovered from "savings" generated from the new jail. They argued that the high cost would be offset by savings generated by the layoff of several jailers (due to the automation arrived from a state of the art facility) and the revenue generated from inboarding prisoners from other counties, the state, and the Feds.
Those arguments are irresponsibly premised on facts and figures that may or may not exist at the time the jail is ready to open.
Over the past several years, county legislative boards took some preliminary steps to meet the daunting challenges of building a new, costly jail. They bought a proposed site on Pittaluga Road in the Town of Thompson and executed a contract with a company, LaBella Associates, with a good reputation for construction of municipal buildings, including jails.
But because of poor leadership in the county government center, to date, the County has paid (and wasted) millions to LaBella for initial work on the prospective new jail with little to show for it.
LaBella has never demonstrated a need or desire to bring costs down without sacrificing quality, notwithstanding legislative mandates and taxpayer pleas.
What's worse, is that during LaBella's tenure, the cost of the jail skyrocketed from $50 million to $110 million and then settled at $80 million, a figure that was subsequently accepted without question as the minimum amount needed to erect the new facility.
So at the same time that the County was buying time, it was convinced that a less expensive jail was impossible and failed to seek alternative prices.
Here's the good news: With matters looking grim in terms of the State Comptroller demanding that the county move forward with the construction of a $80 million dollar jail sooner rather than later, I fortuitously received a recommendation from a Herkimer County legislator (where they face the same challenge) to contact Goldberg Group Architects (GGA) based out of a St. Joseph, Missouri to obtain an alternate cost and construction assessment.
After making the initial contact and several conversations later, I arranged with GGA to meet the new Jail task force, Sheriff Mike Schiff, and county officials and staff.
As a result, GGA is now estimating it could build a 300+-bed facility on that already-acquired property off Route 17's Exit 104 in Monticello for as little as $40 million, which is a much cheaper (half the $80 million) price to build a new jail.
Where it stands now, GGA will be submitting a new formal proposal to build a less costly new jail for Sullivan County that would comply with all the demands of the Department of Corrections in Albany, at half the cost, at half the debt service, and without the terrible strain that an $80 million jail would cast on our county finances and taxpayers.
But our County Legislators should not stop there either. If for some reason the GGA intitiative does not pan out, then we must continue to scour the nation to find others who can and will build what our county needs at a reasonable cost.
To their credit, this new legislature gets it. We desperately need a new jail in Sullivan County.
It's time to move forward in a fiscally prudent manner and put the years of inaction and waste behind us.
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After spending 29 years in a forest-fire lookout tower, it would have been understandable if Lawrence Buchheit preferred seeing fewer trees after retiring in 2001 from his career with the Missouri Department of Conservation. But Buchheit keeps planting more trees.
"I've been planting trees ever since I was a little kid,"he says. "I've always liked trees, and I've liked working with them."
These days, Buchheit especially enjoys working with trees that protect water sources from contamination by creating buffers near streams and sinkholes. Buchheit and his wife Shirley have been establishing riparian forest buffers on their property near Perryville, Missouri. They have utilized various USDA programs that make it affordable to establish buffers by offering combinations of one-time incentive payments, cost-share to establish trees and shrubs, and annual payments in exchange for 10-year to15-year contracts.
In the last five years, Buchheit has utilized the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CCRP) to establish 32 acres of riparian forest buffers that filter the runoff from marginal pastureland adjacent to Rocky Branch Creek and Black Haw Branch. He also has used CCRP, administered by the Farm Service Agency, to establish 3.6 acres of buffers to filter runoff draining into sinkholes in a crop field.
"The purpose of a riparian forest buffer is to improve water quality,""says Dana Seibel, resource conservationist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. "The wider the buffer, the more protection it provides. He always tries to put in the maximum width that the program will allow."
Seibel and Mike Keeley, Missouri Department of Conservation forester, worked in partnership with Buchheit to develop a conservation plan that includes riparian buffers, fencing, livestock exclusion and tree-shrub site preparation and planting. Seibel says no one has to sell Buchheit on the benefits of riparian forest buffers. In fact, she says Buchheit helps sell the practice to others.
"He's been a good advertiser because he has sites along the interstate that are visible to the public when they drive by day-to-day,"Seibel says. "He also uses word of mouth."
Buchheit has another reason to sell the concept of riparian forest buffers. He operates a commercial tree planting business in five counties in southeastern Missouri. He estimates that he has planted more than 1,000 acres of trees in the five-county area. He adds that CCRP is a good selling point. The program pays about 90 percent of the initial cost to establish trees and shrubs for riparian forest buffers. That one-time, cost-share payment is in addition to annual, per-acre payments for the life of the contract.
"It's a good program. It provides a good incentive for people to establish buffers,"Buchheit says. "A lot of people at first say they don't want to plant (riparian forest buffers) because it will cost too much. When I explain to them that their out-of-pocket expenses will only be 10 percent, they look at it a lot differently."
Buchheit says that in addition to proper species selection and planting, the success of a buffer also is dependent upon caring for the trees after they are planted to ensure successful establishment. Chemical control of vegetation that competes for moisture and nutrients is the most important thing, he says. In some instances, financial assistance may be available for purchasing chemicals needed to establish the trees and shrubs.
Buchheit says he is proud that he is doing something to protect water quality and to improve the land.
"During different tours that I took in the military, I saw abuse of the land,"he says. "It always frustrated me. I want to do something to help. This helps the whole environment."
Buchheit says he is grateful for the programs that help him establish riparian forest buffers, and for the technical assistance he has received.
"As far as the help out of the office at Perryville, they are great,"he says. "They have to do their jobs well in order for me to do a good job, and they do. Everybody I've worked with has been super helpful."
Buchheit says he doesn't miss his time spent in a tower high above the forest. He says he much prefers contributing to the trees"cause from ground level.
"I like planting them,"he says.
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Fairmont: The City of Fairmont has received isolated reports of potential water damage as a result of the flood event occurring on Sept 23, 2010. Subsequently, the City is undertaking a Property Damage Assessment in the event Martin County is declared a Disaster Area. City of Fairmont residents are asked to call the Inspection Department at 238-9461, if they feel their home was damaged as a result of that storm. Your name and address will be recorded for FEMA's use, later during this recovery process.
More information about FEMA's assistance click on the FEMA website; http://fema.gov/hazard/flood/coping
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Every spring thousands of animals are born in the wild. With more and more suburban areas, young animals are increasingly born near humans and discovered without an adult animal nearby. Well-meaning people can upset the course of nature by taking young animals from their nests. Removing wildlife from its environment is prohibited by state regulations without proper handling permits. The apparent lack of an adult does not necessarily mean a young animal is alone. Adults often leave their young alone, safe in nests or dens while they forage for food, but rarely do they abandon their young. If a bird has fallen out of a nest, it is OK to gently return it to the nest. The best way to make sure an animal is truly orphaned is to wait and check it periodically. If you are unsure, place some strings or sticks across the nest. If such items are later disturbed, the adult animal has returned. In such a situation, leave the young animal alone. The adult will return after you leave the area. If the nest is not disturbed, or if after monitoring the young for several hours an adult does not return, contact a licensed rehabilitator. The DNR- Division of Fish and Wildlife maintains a list of wildlife rehabilitators who have state or federal permits to care for wild animals. If you find an injured animal, contact a wildlife rehabilitator. The DNR- Division of Fish and Wildlife does not care for injured animals or transport them to rehabilitators. Find more information on the Wildlife Rehabilitation page.
Many wild animals in Indiana have become displaced as the result of urban growth and removal of their habitat. While some species may move to other areas where natural habitat exists, some species actually thrive in urban settings. Species such as raccoons, opossums and even red foxes are becoming more common in urban areas and are frequently seen by people. However, these animals can also cause problems when they use a person's attic for shelter, destroy shingles and soffits, and eat garbage.
Wild animals such as these are protected by the State of Indiana for all of the citizens of Indiana, but sometimes they cannot peaceably coexist. Because of the large number of raccoons and other species that cause a nuisance for landowners throughout the state, the DNR is unable to provide assistance to actually help remove the animals. The DNR does, however, offer some solutions and advice on how to try to prevent future problems and remove wild animals that have created a problem. The DNR also licenses individuals to provide nuisance wild animal control services to the public. Find one near you at Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators.
Resident landowners and tenants have several options for dealing with many of these animals. A resident landowner or tenant can legally capture some species of wild animals without a permit if the animal is discovered damaging property. However, a wild animal that is captured by a landowner or tenant must be reported to an Indiana Conservation Officer within 72 hours. If the animal is going to be released after it is caught, it must be released in the county of capture. You must also have permission from the landowner before releasing any animals on the landowner's property; this includes city, county or state property. Please contact the property's owner or manager before releasing wild animals. If the nuisance wild animal is not on your own property or you wish to receive an annual permit, you can apply for a nuisance wild animal control permit. The application form and regulations are available on-line.
If you think that you might have a critter in the attic, the best thing to do is try to identify what the animal might be and how it has entered your home. If you can find the entrance, the best thing to do is wait for the animal to leave and block off the hole. If this is not a possibility, there are businesses that will remove the animal for you. Look in the Yellow Pages under animal removal services or call the local sheriff's department for information on nuisance wildlife control businesses near you. The DNR- Division of Fish and Wildlife does not provide removal service.
Many kinds of animals could make your home theirs. Animals enter homes for a few reasons: food, warmth or a place to have their young. Raccoons and squirrels are probably the most common invaders due to their ability to climb. Signs that these animals are in your home are usually obvious. Raccoons are large animals and need a good size opening to make their way in. Squirrels usually enter the home along eves, chimneys or any where they can pull away siding. They often leave behind signs of chewing. Both squirrels and raccoons are fairly noisy and if not seen, they are usually heard. Other possible intruders could be birds, bats, opossums, and snakes. Prevention is always the best measure - install chimney caps, seal eves, and secure any loose siding or roofing material to prevent entry from occurring.
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Yes. Youth hunting licenses are valid for a full year after purchase, even if you turn 18 during that year. The next time you purchase a license, however, you will need to purchase a regular license at the normal fees.
Bird populations may fluctuate quite dramatically over short periods of time in local areas. This may be due to normal annual life cycle changes (breeding, post-breeding dispersal), migration, short-distance movements as birds seek out more available food sources, or a variety of other reasons. West Nile Virus (and other diseases) may be a factor in causing unusual mortality in large or local areas. Most bird species can die from this disease but some species seem much more susceptible (crows, blue jays, hawks) than others.
Long-term changes in regional bird populations are monitored through a variety of surveys, although pin-pointing the causes of increases or declines is more difficult to ascertain. Besides diseases, birds succumb to collisions with vehicles, buildings, windows, towers, and utility lines; are preyed upon by wild and domestic (especially cats) animals; and are affected by adverse weather.
There are 35 snake species in Indiana. Only four are venomous. Most snakes found in yards are harmless. Garter snakes are one of the most commonly seen snake. The garter snake is harmless and beneficial. Garter snakes have distinguishing horizontal stripes that run the length of their body.
They can be several different colors, ranging from green to yellow to brown.
Other harmless snakes sometimes found in yards are black rat snakes, fox snakes, hognose snakes and banded water snakes.
The venomous snakes that are found in the state are: northern copperhead, timber rattlesnake, cottonmouth and Eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
Both rattlesnakes are state-endangered species and if found, should be left alone. The copperhead is the most common of the state's venomous snakes and is found in the limestone region of southern Indiana.
The cottonmouth (or water moccasin) is a distinctly southern species. One small population is known in the south central portion of the state. The water moccasin is recognized by the distinctive white mouth lining that it displays when annoyed. The color patterns are easily confused with those of the northern or midland water snake.
If you find a snake in your yard, the best way to identify it is to use one of the many identification/field guides that can be found at your local library. Peterson's and Audubon's field guides are both good sources of information.
The DNR supports the biological diversity of wildlife in Indiana. Species, such as the timber rattlesnake, are rare and endangered in Indiana, so the DNR conducts studies on these snakes. To study these snakes, DNR biologists and university researchers collect the snakes from their environment, tag them and release them into the same place the snakes were collected. No new snakes are ever placed in these environments.
The DNR is not stocking any new venomous snakes, such as rattlesnakes, into any new areas in the wild. If the DNR ever considered releasing a species such as the rattlesnake into the wild, the agency would first gain public input before proceeding.
Backyard bird feeding has grown dramatically over the past few years. This practice has increased the state's number of amateur bird watchers. If you enjoy viewing birds and learning what kinds of birds are at your feeders, we suggest you use a field guide. It is impossible for us to identify birds or any animal over the phone without actually seeing the animal. So, we recommend Peterson's or Audubon's field guides. They are available at your local library or most book stores. These guides are the quickest and best way to identify your backyard guests. Some common birds that you could see visiting your feeders might be house finches, golden finches, chickadees, cardinals, buntings and many more.
The Indiana legislature has strengthened protection for landowners who allow people on their land to hunt, fish or trap.
Farmers who might otherwise welcome responsible hunters on their land are often concerned about liability, that they just refuse to allow anyone on their land. Horror stories have cropped up about innocent landowners being sued for thousands of dollars when clumsy hunters fell out of tree stands. Infamous cases, such as the coffee spill that cost McDonalds millions, strike lawsuit fear into landowners hearts.
Recognizing the barrier that liability places between farmers and outdoor enthusiasts, the Indiana Sportsmen's Roundtable asked Indiana lawmakers to strengthen the law that is already in place protecting landowners from liability.
Indiana law states that landowners do not assume responsibility or incur liability for injury to people using their land for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, and that sportsmen using land do not have assurances that the premises are safe for that purpose.
However, the law does not protect landowners who charge for access to their land. When you lease land for hunting, you fall under the same responsibility that a business establishment has for its customers. If you lease hunting rights on your land, you should contact your attorney or insurance agent to find out how to protect yourself.
Even with this strengthened legal protection, you must let people who use your land know about dangers that you are aware of in the area, such as open wells, aggressive dogs or livestock, etc.
Allowing hunters, anglers and trappers on your land can be beneficial to you and to sportsmen. Hunters and trappers can help manage wildlife populations on your land to minimize crop damage. Responsible sportsmen can also help keep an eye on your property and keep unwelcome trespassers off.
Fear of liability should no longer stand in the way of landowners developing strong, beneficial relationships with ethical, reliable sportsmen.
All employment for the Indiana DNR is handled through the State Personnel Department. Search the state job bank at http://www.careers.in.gov/ for current openings. To find out more information about careers in fish and wildlife, visit our Careers page.
The DNR Customer Service Center can be reached at (317) 232-4200 or (877) 463-6367, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For emergencies, contact the DNR Division of Law Enforcement Central Dispatch (812) 837-9536
The Division of Fish & Wildlife can be contacted via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Division staff strives to answer questions in three business days.
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Home List of Titles Happenstance and compromise: a gendered analysis of students' computing degree course selection
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- Happenstance and compromise: a gendered analysis of students' computing degree course selection
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- Lang, Catherine
- Abstract
- The number of students choosing to study computing at university continues to decline this century, with an even sharper decline in female students. This article presents the results of a series of interviews with university students studying computing courses in Australia that uncovered the influence of happenstance and compromise on course choice. This investigation provides an insight into the contributing factors into the continued downturn of student diversity in computing bachelor degree courses. Many females interviewed made decisions based on happenstance, many males interviewed had chosen computing as a compromise course, and family helped in the decision-making to a large degree in both genders. The major implication from this investigation is the finding that students of both genders appear to be socialised away from this discipline, which is perceived as a support or insurance skill, not a career in itself, in all but the most technical-oriented (usually male) student.
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- Computer Science Education, Vol. 20, no. 4 (Dec 2010), pp. 317-345
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- 2010
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Does Anyone Know What Time It Is?
By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
In the office, I have a fast computer with e-mail and a modem, a fax machine, a cell phone and a pager. At home, a microwave/convection oven, dishwasher, washer/dryer, trash compactor, cordless phones and answering machine. All designed to save me time. So where's all that time? Why don't I feel like I have more time?
Time, as we know it, was invented only in the last century. A century ago, most people got up and went to bed with the sun, and measured their day by the factory whistle or the town clock. Arriving 20 minutes one way or the other didn't much matter. Time was local. Two o'clock in San Francisco had no relation to 2 o'clock in New York. All that changed with the railroad. Trains run on schedules. And schedules demand standardized time. An act of Congress divided the country into "time zones," and time was made uniform. The concept of an "appointment" was invented only in 1880. So was the concept "you're late." The advent of radio brought uniform time into the home as families rushed to finish dinner to hear their favorite program. Relative to human evolution, 50 years is a remarkably short period. But in the 50 years from 1880 through 1930, our sense of time was completely overturned.
And it has turned again. A friend who works as a business lawyer describes his stress: Once, a contract or letter or proposal came in the mail. You thought about it, drafted your response, and sent it off. Total turnaround: about a week. Then came express mail. The proposal comes FedEx by 10:30 a.m., and the response is expected the next day. Then came fax: The response is expected by day's end. Then came e-mail. Now the response is expected instantaneously.
Just yesterday, I called a fellow whose voice mail has voice mail. There's no break. No retreat. We carry cell phones so that we can be reached anywhere, at any time. Call-waiting breaks into whatever conversation we're having to bring us another.
We live in what writer Michael Ventura describes as "the age of interruption." There is a mismatch between "inner time" -- our personal sense of the rhythms of time -- and "outer time" -- the regimented time society imposes upon us. What happens to human beings when the rhythm of life speeds up so drastically? The faster we go, the more empty we feel. The more we "get done," the less it seems we've accomplished. The more contacts we make, the more shallow we become.
"Hurry up!" I shout at my son. "Stop playing! Put your shoes on. Let's go!" And then something shocks me into awareness: Is this really what I want? To stop playing? To slam the child into my adult rhythms? To hurry his childhood?
Deuter-onomy's pre-eminent verb is shema, "listen." "If you will listen to these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers. He will favor you and bless you and multiply you.... You will be blessed above all other peoples" (Deuteronomy 7:12-14).
We are commanded to listen. But listening takes time. It takes patience and concentration. Perhaps that's why we affix a mezuzah to the door of the home. The mezuzah contains a text. Its first word is shema -- listen. You're coming home to a spouse, to a family -- listen! Listen to what is said and what is unsaid. Listen to the echoes and resonances of each word. You love your family? Take the time to listen.
The voice of God fills the world. It is we who have lost the ability to take the time and listen. We who can't quiet the rush of e-mail and CNN factoids, who can't turn off call-waiting or hush the cell phone long enough to hear the echoes of the eternal in each moment. "Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world." Amen.
Ed Feinstein is rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino.
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Hero Tales
Chapter Two: The Karma of Mizar
Episode 2 | TV-14
Tales of a destiny written in the stars are overshadowed by Taito's ferocious desire for a rematch with Keiro. While the young warrior plots his quest for vengeance, Ryuko tries to teach him to control his newfound power.
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My only grievance about Omega is the lack of Squadmate involvement. The lack of squad dialogue and interaction has a way of making the mission feel disjointed from the rest of the game, at lest that's how I felt with the mute squadmates in LotSB and Overlord.
But I have high hopes that Aria and Nyreen will satisfy so I remain optimistic.
Continuity. But aside from that, I actually like War Assets, not because of the affect they have on your ending or game in general, but because, like Planet descriptions, I feel they add to the universe. I enjoyed collecting them and reading about the different forces and troops in the galaxy, I felt it added some depth and insight into the Alien species and their militaries and I welcome more.BTW: What´s the point in adding more and more war assets with each DLC when they already reduced the needed EMS for the best ending to 3000 or something?


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Baseball Meets Art: "The Hawk's Nighthawks"
Besides baseball, one could say that I get pretty ravenous about the arts. Especially in the winter, when all is dead on the diamond. I pay rent at the Art Institute of Chicago. That's how often you'll find me there.
So I got to thinking… what would happen if I combine baseball with the arts?
That's what would happen.
Sorry. Y'all can't out-hawk the Hawk.
Congrats on the Hall, Andre.
Congrats on being one of the best.
And thanks for not hating me 'cuz I'm right.
Happy Friday!
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He was pretty fearsome when he played. In his era he definitely stood out. He played with seriousness and behaved the right way. Back when he played 300, 350 and 400 home runs actually meant something special unlike today. Hawk deserves it. In Montreal he did it all before injuries started to slow him down but not before he wore Wrigley out. Stat Heads might argue otherwise but I know what I saw.
Mike — I don't care what the stat zombies said. The Hawk made all his hits count. The dude was paid to hit and to drive in runs. That's what he did. Even stole some bases in his younger days. He was (and is) money.
Brilliant. Nighthawks is one of my favorite paintings. Now you need to include Andre in A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Russel — Yeah, y'all put a hurtin' on us… today. But you're still lookin' up at us in the standings and we'll be back tomorrow😉 Glad ya like this rendition of Nighthawks though. Fitting! Always dug Andre, even as a Northsider.


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By Karl Terry: Freedom New Mexico
The sweet potato has been a part of Thanksgiving fare for a long time. Sweet potatoes were also a part of the Roosevelt County agriculture scene for nearly a century.
Sweet potato crops slowly died out in the 1970s and 1980s around Portales. Growers that are still around aren't exactly sure when the Sweet Potato Association in Portales closed down, but they say it was probably the late 1970s. Only a few growers continued producing sweet potatoes after it closed.
"We were the last ones and we quit probably 12 or so years ago," Caroline Newberry said of growing the yams.
Her husband, Roy Newberry, said his family got into the business in 1970. He admits that was late in the history of sweet potatoes in the Portales Valley. He said when he started the potatoes were still being dug by hand, but lack of labor soon forced them to switch to a mechanical digger.
"You couldn't find the help that was willing to get down on their knees and dig them," Newberry said. "It (raising sweet potatoes) made us more money than anything else but it was a lot more work."
While sweet potatoes were a staple crop for the Newberrys, who normally planted 125-130 acres, other farmers mixed their production with peanuts, corn and sorghum and might only have 40 acres in potatoes.
Bud Kenyon's family was one such farm. He says his family grew sweet potatoes on their place just east of the Portales Cemetery for generations.
"I was raised out there," Kenyon said. "Grandpa grew 'em and daddy grew 'em. Grandpa started growing them when he came here in 1915 and I know they were being grown before that."
Kenyon and others say the crop was very labor intensive, which was one of the big reasons for its demise in the valley.
He said his family, like most others, had their own hot beds where they raised potato slips (seedlings) from cut up seed potatoes.
Kenyon says when it was time to plant the crop, women worked in the beds and pulled the slips that the men hauled to the field, where they were set out usually by hired field hands.
A stick was used to push the slip into the ground in the early days. Later a machine would set the seedlings, but hand labor was required to feed the slips.
In the fall, Newberry says before the days of mechanized diggers a breaking plow was used to turn the plant and potatoes underneath. Then field hands were employed to dig the potatoes out of the row and crate them in wooden bushel crates which they dragged behind them through the field as they worked. They were normally paid by the bushel.
"Grandpa Kenyon was pretty particular about how they packed 'em in the crates," said Kenyon's wife, Jewel Kenyon. "They had to put them in longways and they had to all go the same direction. If they didn't do it right he made them repack them."
Former Sweet Potato Association manager Bill Owen said the labor required turned the economic wheels of Portales by providing pocket money in time for the holidays.
But many farmers reached a breaking point and went elsewhere.
"A lot of them (farmers) didn't have enough water and they could make bigger profits on other crops," Owen said. "It got to the point where they couldn't compete and make a profit."
Owen said some of the production went to places in Texas, where the potatoes could be a dryland crop. Newberry said today California and North Carolina are the biggest sweet potato producers, with Texas producers dying out.


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I agree.
Your about to get into some arguments with "The ****lovers" lol.
i really wish people would stop putting their sights on CP3 and D will in 2012..
There is no way we can get Melo, have max money in 2012 and keep gallo all at the same time.
We all nee to relize that we would have to let Gallo go in order to sign a max in 2012...
Amare and Melo would both be making about 20 mil apeice in 2012...so do the math...
Add in Mozgov's 3 mil and a team option for TD..
we might have about 16 mil in cap space.. all of that will get suck up
We wont have fileds, felton, AR , chandler, etc..
fields maybe different because he is a second rounder.. and has no QO..
but if we are lookin for a big three..
we wont have these guys long term anyway..
SO if OUR PLAN is to get Melo then get Cp3 in 2012... we would be foolish to hold on to players we will only have for 1 more season after this one...
if this trade is being held up for these guys...come on....we aint winning a Chip this year anyway...or competing with MIA or Boston in the East...
So lets get Melo in the fold.. and move forward...
I agree.
Your about to get into some arguments with "The ****lovers" lol.
We'd still want to trade him in the most distant of possible futures, to boost his value as high as possible,
See how good we are with simply adding Melo and a big.
That could easily be as good, and more feasible a team, as Paul/Melo/Amare and who knows,
Especially when cp3 is still a total who knows.
The plan isn't to bank n focalize on a hypothetical "big three". Even if it gets the rocks off ppl who wanna ditch Gallo in every possible scenario.
MIA big three materializes through the sheer fortune and unliklihood of Wade/Bosh/Bron being total FA's at the same time,
And Riley making cap clearing movies *right before* the signings,
And it still took the three not getting derailed by any other team and coalescing together.
I like the Rooster but we can always train Rautins to be the fun-loving three-shooting white boy that everybody grows to love and hate at the same time.
Wally Sczerbiak
Tom Guggliotta
Bobby Sura
Mike Miller
If Gallo, and say Fields, goes in a "gutting", i guess the consolation of giving up a lot, is "well, maybe I guess now we can more easily get CP3/Williams in 2012".
A success of bringing in Melo doesn't make us a success, or assure us of one.
MIA success also hinged/hinges on the masterful signings of Miller and Haslem, which predicated on them taking less. And again, all this got done at the last hour by Riley, and with very little risk (unlike this proposed acquisition of a Big Three).
With a few weeks if we do not get Melo I am sure the D'antonio/Gallo haters will blame it on our reluctance to give up Gallo...
Guys come on....Donnie Walsh has proven himself has he not ?
Give him his due credit...He would trade Gallo in a heartbeat if it meant getting Melo.
Denver is not pulling the trigger and until they are ready there is ZERO reason to show all your cards to Denver BUT more important not to show your cards to the other teams you might be competing against to get Carmelo...
As stated I am a huge Gallo fan. I would add him to any deal that can land us Melo.
Have Faith in Donnie....BUT REMEMBER DOLAN GOT INVOLVED AND HIS FAT ASS ARROGANCE ALONG WITH HIS SNUG BUDDY COULD HAVE ONLY MADE THINGS WORSE.
if the big plan is to get chris paul as well as melo, then trade felton and gallo
If getting rid of Gallo means we get Paul I'm all for it.
Gallo is my fav on the Knicks, but Paul is prolly my fav player in the league.
We might not HAVE to have three max players. It's not like we won't have a lot of cap if we don't get another max.
Anyway, too soon in my opinion to know if we need a third max player. Fun to talk about though.
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This is like one time I saw a blog post (not on this board) of someone saying Gallinari was going to ultimately be Darko...
As to the OP: Remember a long time ago when we gave up assets and tanked two years for the purpose of landing two max free agents one of whom was a 2-time reigning MVP? Remember when that totally did not work out and people got all pissed off b/c the president's plan did not go exactly as planned? Remember when we vowed not to trade away assets we had to speculate on free agents who gave no commitment to coming here?
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Dolan getting involved in the trade was probably the worse thing that could have happened in the negotiations. I just hope that we send a rediculous offer to Denver just to get it done. We will never go ANYWHERE with our current players/coach....
Getting Carmelo will at least make other players want to come here and like the threads poster said, we need to drop a lot of these salaries anyways for a 3rd max contract. Once we get 3 stars, other star players will come here and play for peanuts. Fans and our FO needs to drop their affection for these role-players and move on. Have of our starters probably wouldn't start on other teams in the league and their stats are inflated. Stop acting like these guys are top-talent. I like Felton but he's streaky too and he can be replaced.
I see us having to give Denver the following players for the deal to work.
We'll have to probably send the following:
Eddy Curry's Contract
(I don't think they want chandler...Who would after he's been tanking his performances lately and crying about possibly getting traded to Denver.)
In return we'll probably get:


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Miracle on Center Street, Live in HDNovember 06,2013The majority of us here at the Paramount Theatre have spent our entire adult lives working in the arts, and the majority of the staff is, as well, rabid sports fans.
One year ago we had absolutely no idea that we would add $75,000 in enhanced exhibition technology, which would allow us to present, not only the Live in HD From the Metropolitan Opera Series, but also postseason Major League Baseball and National Football League broadcasts, free of charge, in crystal-clear HD on a 30-by-24-foot screen.
The moment of discovery following completion of the installation was a moment to remember. Once the many pieces of technology required to present Met Live were in place and fully functioning, the Paramount staff stopped, looked at one another and spoke five powerful words: What if we were to?
In short order, we had an HD box installed in our booth and dialed up the first sporting event we could find a soccer game in progress in Germany. Our jaws dropped the image and the sound were like nothing we could have imagined and certainly had never seen or heard.
After the acquisition of a public view contract from Comcast, the Sports Live in HD Series was on its way.
The subsequent roll-out of the entire postseason charge of the Boston Red Sox was nothing short of a Rutland miracle Live in HD. Night after night and game after game, diversified audiences thrilled to the gigantic new image and enhanced sound: We could see names on bats and dew on the grass. Home runs exploded like shots from a cannon.
Audiences represented the full spectrum of the extended community: laborers and chief executives, accountants and educators, lawyers and janitors, college students and elementary school kids, fixed-income seniors (including 84-year-old Lorraine Allen, a Red Sox fan for 78 years, who was brought to the games by her son Doug and who pronounced the proceedings awesome!), and 15-year-old Rutland native Noah Jakubowski, delivering a rousing, live a cappella rendition of Sweet Caroline in the eighth inning of the Saturday night World Series game ended by obstruction.
The buzz and the electricity in these crowds were like nothing any of us have experienced in a formal theatre in our lifetimes. Big Papis grand slam (certainly the turning point of the ALCS), Victorinos slam to propel them into the Series and his bases-clearing double in the final game and Kojis final strike to send the Redbirds home to St. Louis, produced group euphoria bordering on hysteria. Live championship sports pack seismic jolts and unbridled joy.
So many profound thanks are in order (now and for years to come) for helping us realize this new Live in HD technology for the entire community: the board of the Paramount for extending us the faith that we could deliver and fund it; the aldermen of the city of Rutland (led by the passion of Sharon Davis and the eloquence of Ed Larson) former Mayor John Cassarino at a critical moment, Tom Huebner and Rutland Regional Medical Center, the Johnson Family Foundation, the Vermont Arts Council and many individuals, all of whom contributed generously to the campaign to bring it and the extended campaign to sustain it. We, on behalf of our board and the extended community, are profoundly grateful.
The postseason is over, and we were there. The Red Sox are world champs. The trophy has been raised, Fenway is quiet, and Boston Strong is strong indeed. Rutland Strong is strong as well, and the future shines brightly. The sport that begins in the spring as the world is awakening has ushered in another fall with chilly and blustery nights, opening the doors to the holiday season that unites us all.
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Keynes, John Maynard
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946
English economist.
Keynes is considered one of the foremost economists of all time. His The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money transformed the course of economic thought with its controversial interpretation of the causes of unemployment and prescriptions for its remedy. The impact of this book on twentieth-century economic history—known as the Keynesian Revolution—has been profound, encompassing economic method, theory, and policy.
Biographical Information
Born and raised in Cambridge, England, Keynes grew up in an atmosphere that fostered intellectual achievement. His father, John Neville Keynes, was a noted logician, economist, and a registrar at Cambridge University, while his mother, Florence Ada Keynes, was a writer and social welfare advocate as well as the first woman mayor of Cambridge. Keynes attended Eton from 1897 until 1902 and then entered King's College, Cambridge, on a scholarship in mathematics and the classics. During his freshman year at Cambridge, Keynes was invited to join an intellectual group called "The Apostles" that met periodically to discuss literary, philosophical, political, and aesthetic questions. Among the members of the Apostles were Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and Bertrand Russell, all of whom would later become leaders of the exclusive circle of intellectuals and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. Through his association with the Apostles, Keynes became introduced to the philosophy of G. E. Moore; critics note the pervasive influence of Moore's Principia Ethica on Keynes's A Treatise on Probability, his only philosophical work, as well as on his economic methodology. After graduating from Cambridge with a master's degree in mathematics, Keynes studied economics for a year in preparation for a civil service examination. In 1906 he was assigned by the British government to the India Office; the knowledge he gained there formed the basis of his first book, Indian Currency and Finance. Keynes resigned from the India Office in 1908 to join the economics faculty at Cambridge. He taught at Cambridge until 1915, when he returned to government service as a Treasury official. By the end of World War I, Keynes had risen to a prominent position in the Treasury and was responsible for managing foreign-exchange arrangements. Although he seemed destined for great success as a public official, Keynes's trip to the Paris Peace Conference as economic adviser to Prime Minister Lloyd George caused his career to change directions once again. Appalled by the political maneuverings of the conference and convinced that the reparations policies imposed upon Germany were excessive, Keynes resigned from his Treasury post. Shortly after, he published a stinging indictment of the Versailles Treaty, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which provoked international controversy and made Keynes famous. During the 1920s, Keynes resumed his teaching duties at Cambridge, pursued an active business life in London as a financial consultant and insurance company executive, and was named bursar at King's College. Around the middle of the decade, Keynes became convinced that he needed to develop a strong theoretical foundation to support his belief that public expenditures would be useful in lowering unemployment. This conclusion became the impetus for A Treatise on Money and the General Theory. By the time the General Theory appeared, politicians and economists all over the world were searching for a way to reverse one of the longest depressions in economic history; orthodox, or classical, economic policy, which held that prosperity would return if prices and wages were lowered, was not promoting recovery anywhere. Keynes's General Theory was quickly accepted by many economists as an answer to the world's economic tragedies, and when Keynesian fiscal measures began to produce the desired results, he became widely viewed as the savior of capitalism. The General Theory also influenced economic thinking on how World War II should be financed. When the war commenced, Keynes returned to the British Treasury and was consulted on all important questions regarding the economic management of the conflict. He was a principal negotiator at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, where he played a significant role in the inauguration of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His last major public service was his negotiation in 1945 of a multi-billion-dollar U.S. loan to England. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1946, shortly after returning from an economic conference in Savannah, Georgia.
Major Works
The revolutionary content of Keynes's economic theory, the bulk of which is contained in A Treatise on Money, the General Theory, and, to a lesser extent, A Tract on Monetary Reform, developed out of his active involvement in England's economic problems during the 1920s and 1930s. During the 1920s, he advocated economic policies, either in an official capacity or as an independent expert, that he arrived at largely by intuition. In The End of Laissez-Faire and Can Lloyd George Do It?, he recommended a government-sponsored program of public works to get the unemployed off welfare, but these works lacked a theoretical foundation, and A Tract on Monetary Reform, which also suggested that government intervention could curb unemployment, was unsuccessful at refuting the classical argument, or so-called "Treasury view," that government spending financed by loans would cause inflation or crowd out private investment. In A Treatise on Money and the General Theory, Keynes sought to establish a firm theoretical basis that would explain the reasoning behind his policy proposals. In A Treatise on Money, he attempted to replace the classical explanation of money and its function in the economy, known as the quantity theory of money, with a more dynamic model that related booms and slumps to oscillations in the credit cycle and that described the causal processes by which the price level is determined. It was not until he began composing the General Theory, however, that Keynes was able to completely break away from the quantity theory of money. When the General Theory was published, it was viewed as a powerful challenge to orthodox economic theory, which held that a decrease in the wage level would stimulate employment because firms would take on more labor at a lower price, and that the interest rate would always adjust in such a manner as to prevent variations in savings and investment from causing any change in spending. Keynes declared this theory nonsense, tracing the origins of unemployment not to excessively high wages but to the total purchasing power in the economy, or aggregate demand. While classical economists focused on the individual firm or household, Keynes looked at output and employment as a whole. He maintained that a decrease in wages would not stimulate employment because it would lower the overall demand for goods and services, thereby causing prices to drop. He also contended that the classical economists erred in thinking that savings would always be equal to investment, arguing that there are times when savers wish to save more than investors are willing to invest, causing part of output to go unsold and leading producers to cut back on employees. Keynes placed great emphasis on the idea that private investment was a function not only of interest rates but also of expectations about costs and demand for products in the future. He was skeptical that monetary policy in the form of lower interest rates would provide a sufficient stimulus to business investment in times of severe economic depression to bring the economy back up to a level of full employment. He therefore proposed that fiscal measures such as public works or subsidies to afflicted groups were the only possible correctives to prolonged unemployment.
Critical Reception
On January 1, 1935, during the course of writing the General Theory, Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw: "I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionise—not I suppose at once but in the course of the next ten years—the way the world thinks about economic problems." Keynes's prophecy proved accurate. Quickly after the publication of the General Theory, governments everywhere began adopting policies advocated by Keynes or associated with his name, a trend that continued for over thirty years. By the late 1940s, his theories had been incorporated into textbooks in the United States and England, and millions of students were introduced to the idea of national income accounting. Keynes was not without his critics, however. While many scholars attributed the economic prosperity experienced after World War II to the adoption of Keynesian policies, some insisted that it was the result of other factors, such as rearmament in Europe and the United States after the outbreak of the Korean War, improved international economic relations, and new technology that stimulated large amounts of private investment. Keynes was also attacked by hard-line communists, who argued that the General Theory was an attempt to save capitalism with remedies he knew to be ineffective. In the 1970s, with the onset of rising inflation and unemployment, the popularity of Keynes's ideas plummeted. Many economists traced the weakening of private investment to growing budget deficits and maintained that inflation was the result of the Keynesian policy of high employment, which had caused too great an increase in wages. Today, Keynes's policies remain in a state of official disfavor, but there are large numbers of economists who contend that the world's current economic problems are the result of the pursuit of anti-Keynesian ideas. The dispute over the validity of Keynes's ideas has taken shape in a vast amount of literature written by professional and academic economists. Immediately after the publication of the General Theory, classical economists sought to dispel the notion that Keynes was proposing a drastic change in economic thought by arguing that Keynes's ideas were a special case of orthodox equilibrium theory. In the ensuing years, additional attempts have been made to reconcile classical economic theory with the existence of involuntary employment, further undermining the revolutionary content of the General Theory. Other economists, and a large number of socialists, have read the General Theory as a radical threat to the capitalist system. These conflicting interpretations have resulted in large part from the vagueness and incomprehensibility of certain parts of the General Theory, which has allowed scholars to conjecture what Keynes meant to be saying. Among the most common types of studies on Keynes are expositions of specific aspects of his theory, such as investment, savings, consumption, and interest; analyses of the development of his economic thought, primarily as revealed in A Tract on Monetary Reform, A Treatise on Money, and the General Theory; examinations of the relationship between his theories and his policy proposals; and studies attempting to establish the difference between Keynes's own ideas and the various schools of Keynesian thought his works have inspired. The publication of Keynes's collected works by the Royal Economic Society and the centenary of his birth in 1983 prompted countless reassessments that further added to the growing literature on Keynes. In recent years, scholars have placed greater emphasis on Keynes's philosophical beliefs as expressed in A Treatise on Probability, studying the moral underpinnings of his economic method and tracing his theory of investment expectations to his ideas on probability and induction. As many of Keynes's critics point out, the passionate controversy he has inspired is evidence of the depth and range of his ideas. In the minds of most scholars, this fertility of thought, combined with his enormous influence on economic theory and policy, justifies his reputation as the twentieth-century's most important economist.
Principal Works
Indian Currency and Finance (nonfiction) 1913
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (nonfiction) 1919
A Treatise on Probability (philosophy) 1921
A Revision of the Treaty: Being a Sequel to "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (nonfiction) 1922
A Tract on Monetary Reform (nonfiction) 1923
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (nonfiction) 1925
A Short View of Russia (nonfiction) 1925
The End of Laissez-Faire (lecture) 1926
Can Lloyd George Do It? An Examination of the Liberal Pledge [with H. D. Henderson]...
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Allan G. Gruchy (essay date 1949)
SOURCE: "J. M. Keynes' Concept of Economic Science," in The Southern Economic Journal, Vol. XV, No. 3, January, 1949, pp. 249-66.
[In the following excerpt, Gruchy examines Keynes's economic thought at its various levels of analysis—from his theory of output and employment, to his theory of the capitalist order, to his set of proposals for remedying the capitalist system as it was then operating in England—illustrating how his views on the nature of economic science adhered to and diverged from the orthodox position of the Cambridge school.]
Recent attempts to reduce Keynes' economics to the general textbook level raise the very...
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Arthur Smithies (essay date 1951)
SOURCE: "Reflections on the Work and Influence of John Maynard Keynes," in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXV, No. 4, November, 1951, pp. 578-601.
[In the following excerpt, Smithies surveys Keynes's career, commenting on the relationship between his economic theories and his philosophical beliefs, his views on domestic and international economic policy, his method of argument, the success of his policy proposals, and the political consequences of his theories.]
The publication of Mr. Harrod's biography of Keynes will enable many of us who were not his intimates to reflect on his personality and achievement in a way that was not...
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Paul Lambert (essay date 1963)
SOURCE: "The Social Philosophy of John Maynard Keynes," in Annals of Collective Economy, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, October-December, 1963, pp. 1-33.
[In the following excerpt, which is a translation of chapter five from his study L'oeuvre de John Maynard Keynes, Lambert provides a chronological study of Keynes's writings, portraying the economist as the founder of a "new liberalism" that sought to reconcile the individualistic spirit of capitalism with the need for government intervention to ensure full employment.]
As my book [L 'oeuvre de John Maynard...
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Izumi Hishiyama (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: "The Logic of Uncertainty According to J. M. Keynes," in The Kyoto University Economic Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, April, 1969, pp. 22-44.
[In the following excerpt, Hishiyama maintains that A Treatise on Probability had a direct bearing on the General Theory, particularly with regard to the two essential components of Keynes's principle of aggregate demand, investment and consumption, both of which, according to Keynes, contain an element of uncertainty that is not mathematically calculable.]
I think that one chapter has been left untouched in the studies about J. M. Keynes which have been made so far. It is none other...
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John Kenneth Galbraith (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "How Keynes Came to America," in Essays on John Maynard Keynes, edited by Milo Keynes, Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp. 132-41.
[In the following essay, which was first published in 1971, Galbraith explains how the ideas contained in the General Theory were disseminated and eventually adopted in the United States.]
'I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize—not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years—the way the world thinks about economic problems.'
—Letter from J. M. Keynes to George
Bernard Shaw, New Year's Day 1935....
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Harry G. Johnson (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "The Early Economics of Keynes," in The American Economic Review, Vol. LXII, No. 2, May, 1972, pp. 416-21.
[In the following essay, Johnson examines the relationship between Keynes's plans for the International Monetary Fund system, established after World War II, and his early economic work specifically, his thoughts on the Indian currency problem and his views on international monetary relationships directly after World War I.]
The Royal Economic Society has this year published the first eight of a projected twenty-four-volume series of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Six of them are already in print or in library; the other two, edited...
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Elizabeth Johnson (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "John Maynard Keynes: Scientist or Politician?" in Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 82, No. 1, January-February, 1974, pp. 99-111.
[In the following excerpt, Johnson discusses the nature of Keynes's involvement in British political life and economic policy. Johnson's essay was originally read as a paper on September 5, 1972, at the annual meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.]
John Maynard Keynes—scientist or politician? The reader of the popular press of a generation ago would have had no doubt of the answer. Keynes, a swinging weather vane of a man, was the most unscientific of individuals—a cartoonist's dream. He was...
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D. E. Moggridge (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "The Economist," in John Maynard Keynes, Penguin Books, 1976, pp. 20-41.
[In the following excerpt, Moggridge describes the general character of Keynes's thought, his method of approaching economic problems, and his views on the making of public policy.]
Before examining the development of Keynes's economic ideas …, one should try to get inside the man and the mind behind the ideas in question—one must become aware of his habits of thought, his methods of working, his views as to the nature of economic inquiry, and the like. Fortunately, although Keynes did not leave behind an autobiography or a treatise on the nature of economic inquiry, his drafts,...
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Richard Kahn (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Some Aspects of the Development Keynes's Thought," in The Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XVI, No. 2, June, 1978, pp. 545-59.
[In the following excerpt, Kahn examines Keynes's changing attitudes towards the quantity theory of money, as revealed in A Tract on Monetary Reform, A Treatise on Money, and the General Theory. The critic also discusses Keynes's views on the behavior of money wages and the causes of inflation.]
In this brief essay I have picked out certain particular strands of thought, on the basis partly of theoretical significance and partly of relationship to economic policy.
Monetary economics is in a state of...
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Josef Steindl (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "J. M. Keynes: Society and the Economist," in Keynes's Relevance Today, edited by Fausto Vicarelli, The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1985, pp. 99-125.
[In the following excerpt, Steindl judges the contemporary relevance of Keynes's ideas. Basing his arguments on a discussion of several key topics in the criticism on Keynes, he outlines the main points of Keynes's economic theory, illustrates how the unorthodox content of the General Theory developed out of Keynes's active involvement in the formulation of economic policy during the 1920s and 1930s, identifies the focal points in the critical attacks on the General Theory, discusses the way in which the revolutionary arguments...
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Bill Gerrard (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Keynesian Economics: The Road to Nowhere?" in J. M. Keynes in Retrospect: The Legacy of the Keynesian Revolution, edited by John Hillard, Edward Elgar, 1988, pp. 125-52. [In the following essay, Gerrard charts the development of what he terms "mainstream Keynesianism"—the various attempts made by economists since the publication of the General Theory to reconcile classical economic theory with the existence of involuntary employment—and assesses the value of these developments with respect to economic theory, method, and policy.]
Economics in the last fifty years has been mainly Keynesian economics, inspired by Keynes' General Theory. Keynes...
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Mark Blaug (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "The Keynesian Revolution," in John Maynard Keynes: Life, Ideas, Legacy, The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1990, pp. 25-37.
[In the following excerpt, Blaug attempts to explain the phenomenal success of the General Theory and the unprecedented rapidity with which Keynes's theories were adopted by professional economists.]
The impact Keynes had on economics with his book The General Theory is what is known as the Keynesian Revolution in economic thought. This Keynesian Revolution is one of the most remarkable episodes in the entire history of economic thought; never before had the economics profession been won over so rapidly and so massively to a new...
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J. B. Davis (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Keynes's View of Economics as a Moral Science," in Keynes and Philosophy: Essays on the Origin of Keynes's Thought, edited by Bradley W. Bateman and John B. Davis, Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. 89-103.
[In the following excerpt, Davis discusses Keynes's understanding of economic method in terms of his philosophical beliefs, focusing on his conception of economics as a moral science and his emphasis on the role of individual value judgments in the construction of economic models.] J. M. Keynes's theoretical understanding of economic method is one of the less well understood dimensions of his thought, both because Keynes's thinking, unlike that of most economists, was motivated by...
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Robert Skidelsky (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: An introduction to John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 2, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1994, pp. xv-xxix.
[In the following excerpt, Skidelsky discusses Keynes's efforts to reconcile his private values with his public duties, focusing on the moral underpinnings of his economic theories. The first volume of Skidelsky's biography was published in 1983 and the second volume originally came out in 1992.]
'My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind.' This second volume of biography tells the story of Keynes's metamorphosis from aesthete, philosopher and administrator into world saviour. It is a reshaping of life-purpose which...
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David Felix (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Theorizing of the Middle Period: A Treatise on Money," in Biography of an Idea: John Maynard Keynes and the "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money," Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 67-83.
[In the following excerpt on A Treatise on Money, Felix discusses the genesis of the work the weaknesses in its argument, and its contemporary critical reception.]
In Keynes's lifetime of inexorable success, his Treatise on Money, his only work to go beyond one volume, was the grand exception. In it all of his strengths and weaknesses were given space in which to play themselves out to the greatest extent: his gift for exquisitely refined...
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Further Reading
Harrod, R. F. The Life of John Maynard Keynes. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1951, 674 p.
The official biography.
Hession, Charles H. John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man Who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984, 400 p.
A reevaluation of Keynes's life that explores aspects of his personality, especially his bisexuality, first brought to light in Michael Holroyd's biography of Lytton Strachey (1967) and the collection of essays on Keynes edited by his nephew Milo Keynes (1975). Hession emphasizes the integral relationship between Keynes's early,...
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/proc/ filesystem is a trick the Linux kernel uses to make certain internal information available to user-space processes. The kernel presents the information in virtual files in virtual directories. The files and directories of the
/proc/ filesystems are virtual because the data is not actually stored on any sort of permanent storage like a hard disk; instead, the directories, files, and data within them are created dynamically in memory from raw kernel data whenever you attempt to read from them. A variety of network information and data is available in the
/proc/net/ directory. In this column we'll take a look at some of the more useful files available in the
/proc/net/ subdirectory and how you might use them in administration of your network.
/proc/ filesystem
All Linux distributions automatically mount the
/proc/ filesystem at boot time. It's not essential that this be done, but a number of programs rely on it, so it's wise.
To see if the
/proc filesystem is mounted on your machine, use the mount command without any arguments. You should see output that looks something like this:
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
If not, you can mount the
/proc/ filesystem manually using the command:
mount -t proc proc /proc
and put the following entry into your
/etc/fstab file so it is mounted automatically next time you reboot your machine:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/proc/net/ directory
When the
/proc/ filesystem is mounted, you can treat it as though it were a real filesystem containing directories and files. If you move to the
/proc/net/ directory and list the files it contains, you will see a list that looks somewhat like the following:
arp ip_fwnames route udp dev ip_mr_cache rpc/ unix dev_mcast ip_mr_vif rt_cache dev_stat netlink snmp igmp netstat sockstat ip_fwchains raw tcp
The actual list of files will vary a little depending on what version kernel you are running and what networking options you've compiled into it.
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition
Each of these files contains information about some aspect of Linux networking. To view the contents of any of these files, you can simply use the
cat command. Other utilities such as
more or
less should work more or less equally well. If you closely inspect these files, you'll see that they're all listed as zero bytes in length in a directory listing; this confuses some programs, so keep this in mind if you strike problems.
Let's take a look at what is inside some of these useful virtual files.
/proc/net/dev file contains information about the configured network interfaces. To view it, type
cat /proc/net/dev -- you can view sample output here.
If you repeat this command periodically while there is active traffic on your network, you will see some of the numbers changing to reflect the updated statistics collected by the device drivers.
If you examine the format of the file, you'll see that there is one line for each logical network interface known to the kernel. In each line you are given the interface name followed by two sets of nearly identical statistics, receive and transmit, for that interface. The meanings of each of the columns are:
The total number of bytes of data transmitted or received by the interface.
The total number of packets of data transmitted or received by the interface.
The total number of transmit or receive errors detected by the device driver.
The total number of packets dropped by the device driver.
The number of FIFO buffer errors.
The number of packet framing errors.
The number of collisions detected on the interface.
The number of compressed packets transmitted or received by the device driver. (This appears to be unused in the 2.2.15 kernel.)
The number of carrier losses detected by the device driver.
The number of multicast frames transmitted or received by the device driver.
The kernel exports information about open network sockets. The relevant
/proc/net/ files for IPv4 are:
udp, and
raw. All three files have identical syntax. The first line provides labels for each of the columns in the output. Each following line represents one open socket. Results from
cat /proc/net/tcp are shown here.
The data presented in each output column is:
The number of the line in the output listing.
The local IP address and port number for the socket. The IP address is displayed as a little-endian four-byte hexadecimal number; that is, the least significant byte is listed first, so you'll need to reverse the order of the bytes to convert it to an IP address. The port number is a simple two-byte hexadecimal number.
The remote IP address and port number for the socket. Encoding is the same as for the local_address.
The socket status.
The size of the transmit and receive queues.
The tr field indicates whether a timer is active for this socket. A value of zero indicates the timer is not active. The tm->when field indicates the time remaining (in jiffies) before timeout occurs.
The ID of the user that owns the socket. This is the same ID found in the /etc/passwd file.
A cryptic-looking number that identifies the socket to the Linux virtual filesystem.
The ARP and routing tables are exported in files named arp and route. They're both fairly self-explanatory. The ARP table looks like this.
The fields make sense when you know that
HW means "hardware". The hardware type and flag codings are the
ARPHRD_* and
ATF_* codings found in the
/usr/include/linux/if_arp.h file. The Mask field is used when advertising a promiscuous ARP entry for an IP network or subnetwork.
The first entry in the example is for a host on an Ethernet network (hardware type 1). The flags indicate the entry is incomplete; this is further evidenced by the hardware address of 00:00:00:00:00:00, which would normally contain the hardware address of the mapping described by the entry. The second entry is a working ARP entry mapping the IP address 192.168.0.4 to the hardware address 00:80:C8:8B:7A:46 on the network connected to the eth0 device.
The routing table is also easy to understand (view using
cat /proc/net/route, and view an example here). Just as for the socket status tables, the IP addresses and network masks are displayed in byte-reversed hexadecimal.
The fields are:
The network interface that datagrams matching this route will leave.
In combination with the Mark field, this specifies which datagrams will match this route.
The IP address of the host that will act as a gateway for datagrams matching this route.
An indicator of a number of route attributes. The flags field values are the RTF_* codings found in the /usr/include/linux/route.h file.
The metric value associated with the route. This is used to indicate the cost or priority of a route.
In combination with the Destination field, this specifies which datagrams will match this route.
Specifies the largest TCP segment (in bytes) that will be built for transmission via this route.
Specifies the TCP window (in bytes) that will be advertised for TCP connections made via this route.
Specifies the Initial Round Trip time (in milliseconds) that will be used for TCP connections established via this route.
Window, and
IRTT values are per-route values that override those assigned to the interface and allow for some clever ways out of tricky network configurations.
/proc/net/snmp file exports protocol statistic. It is intended to be used by SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) daemon programs and provides summary statistics for each of the IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP protocols. There is a lot of information in this file, so much that I won't discuss it in detail in this column. Refer to the MIB-2 RFC if you're looking for good descriptions of these fields. Suffice it to say that if you're conversant with how the protocols operate, you can gain important insights into how your network is performing by careful analysis of the information presented here.
There is one important thing to note. All of the fields are decimal integers excepting the
Ip: Forwarding field, which is a boolean value. In the SNMP world, boolean values are represented with values 1 and 2, so a value of 1 indicates that IP forwarding is disabled.
View the results of
cat /proc/net/snmp here.
IP addresses in /proc/net/
In the files offered by the /proc/net/ directory, IP addresses are often represented as little-endian four-byte hexadecimal numbers. These are easy to convert into the more usual dotted-decimal notation.
For example, to convert the remote address and port of line 16 of the /proc/net/tcp output shown in this column, we'd do the following:
Take the rem_address field:
Reverse the ordering of the bytes in the IP address part:
Let's separate the bytes of the address for readability:
Perform a simple hexadecimal-to-decimal conversion on each:
It's a telnet connection to localhost. Simple enough.
An important part of the power of the
/proc/ filesystem is that all of the files are readable and parsable using just about any program. In the past, the sort of information presented in
/proc/ would have been made available via
ioctl() function calls against special device files. Using plain-text files means that this information is directly usable by shell scripts, Perl scripts, PHP, and C or C++ programs alike.
It's possible for example to reimplement much of the functionality of the
netstat command as a bash shell script. It's a simple task to write a shell script to read data from the
/proc/net/ files and write it to a database or flat file for analysis and presentation at a later time, for example, on a web page or report. You could write a Perl script that monitored the data in the
/proc/net/dev file and automatically create or destroy additional PPP connections to share network load using EQL. There are many potential uses.
If you're comfortable with the
/proc/net/ directory and are hungry for more network-related configuration and statistical information, you should explore the
/proc/sys/net/ directory. It contains a whole new level of detail and allows your programs to actually manipulate certain configuration parameters by writing replacement values into the files.
Happy exploring.
Terry Dawson is the author of a number of network-related HOWTO documents for the Linux Documentation Project, a co-author of the 2nd edition of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrators Guide, and is an active participant in a number of other Linux projects.
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Teen prices for ages 12-18. Airfare Lima to Cusco of approximately $375 per person is not included but Wildland can assist in booking these flights.
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The cinema is a temporary cinema that is open for the next 2 weekends and the address is 3rd Floor, Yorkshire House, Dewsbury WF13 1JT. The entrance is at the right hand side of the building next to the O2 shop.
Tickets for this event are strictly limited to a maximum of 50 and they will be priced at £3 for everyone who wants to attend. These can be purchase from the Bissa website www.bissa.co.uk through the shop
The event will be open from 2.30pm and the showing will kick off at 3pm and will run for approx 120 mins.
This is a unique opportunity to watch the Dogs on a big screen in old fashioned cinema seats and an ideal way to fill the void on a Sunday now the season has finished.
Drinks and light refreshments will be available and the DVD can be purchased on the day, ideal for an early Christmas present.
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