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|J. James Tringali, Sergey A. Gorobets, Shai Traister, Yosief Ataklti
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/954,694, filed Aug. 8, 2007 entitled "Managing Processing Delays in an Isochronous System" to Tringali et al. This application is incorporated in its entirety by reference as if fully set forth herein.
This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/864,740, entitled "Urgency and Time Window Manipulation to Accommodate Unpredictable Memory Operations", filed on the same day as the present application. This application is incorporated in its entirety by reference as if fully set forth herein.
Prior systems based on isochronous processors have typically relied on read only memory (ROM) for rapid access to code that needs to be rapidly executed by the processor. ROM has long been a preferred code storage device for executable applications where uninterrupted and predictable access is an issue. However, ROM cannot be easily reprogrammed or programmed at the last minute. A ROM is typically masked out long in advance for a the specific code/application and once masked and subsequently manufactured it cannot be changed in most scenarios. This thus results in large inventories of product that may or may not be well received in the marketplace. For consumer related devices where inventory must be produced before demand can be accurately gauged, this may result in unsold inventory.
While use of flash memory allows for different programs to be loaded on the same hardware quickly and easily, use of certain types of flash memory is problematic in isochronous systems due to the operations that the memory performs to ensure data reliability. The background operations performed to ensure data integrity result in unpredictable latency times when reading data from the flash memory. This is especially true for NAND flash memory.
In an isochronous system that incorporates NAND flash memory the unpredictable latency times of the flash memory are problematic. This is particularly true for read operations.
NAND memory typically includes memory management operations to accommodate for the physical limitations of the NAND memory cells. These operations may be taking place when a read command is received, and thus the called for data may not be immediately received.
Various aspects and embodiments allow for a flash memory storage device with variable latency in responding to data storage commands or requests from a host device to be used in demanding environments where a ROM might otherwise be used to provide a program. For example, mechanisms within the flash memory controller allow the memory controller to accommodate both the physical limitations of the flash memory and the needs of a host processor to quickly and regularly access the memory.
This for example, allows the flash memory storage device to be used not only in read intensive environments but also in isochronous systems where flow control cannot be introduced. For example, embodiments of the present invention may be used is systems where there is not a wait, busy, or ready signal to assert or de-assert on the bus.
Memory Architectures and their Operation
Referring initially to
A typical controller 19 includes a microprocessor 21, a read-only-memory (ROM) 23 primarily to store firmware and a buffer memory (RAM) 25 primarily for the temporary storage of user data either being written to or read from the memory chips 11 and 13. Circuits 27 interface with the memory array chip(s) and circuits 29 interface with a host though connections 31. The integrity of data is in this example determined by calculating an ECC with circuits 33 dedicated to calculating the code. As user data is being transferred from the host to the flash memory array for storage, the circuit calculates an ECC from the data and the code is stored in the memory. When that user data are later read from the memory, they are again passed through the circuit 33 which calculates the ECC by the same algorithm and compares that code with the one calculated and stored with the data. If they compare, the integrity of the data is confirmed. If they differ, depending upon the specific ECC algorithm utilized, those bits in error, up to a number supported by the algorithm, can be identified and corrected. Typically, an ECC algorithm is used that can correct up to 8 bits in a 512 byte sector. This number of correctable bits is predicted to increase in time.
The connections 31 of memory of
The memory of
In NAND memory, media errors are introduced through device cell stresses induced by read and write operations. The useful life of a NAND memory can be maximized by monitoring the increasing error levels and moving the data to a physical location which has experienced lower access activity. In systems utilizing NAND memory today, this media repair activity is performed as a background operation. These operations happen during bus idle times or during read or write requests extended by hardware flow control techniques.
As part of those background operations, blocks are occasionally copied or updated to other locations when the physical reliability of a particular block cannot be depended upon. For example, if the error rate of a block appears as if it will shortly be unreadable, even with multiple read cycles and thresholds, a block may be updated. For example, if the number of errors is not correctable with ECC, an update would be necessary.
Also in NAND, read operations cause disturbs, one of the aforementioned cell stresses. Certain systems incorporating NAND memory may be very read intensive, thus increasing the importance of the data correction and scrub techniques. For example, a video game system reads the memory very often to update the image being displayed during the game. While the background display may only be written once, it is read very frequently. Thus the effect of disturbs will be particularly noteworthy in such a case and must be mitigated.
Error Detection and Data Integrity in NAND Memory
There are two individual measures of data quality that can be used as thresholds to determine if corrective action should be taken: 1) the detection of data errors through use of ECC, and 2) even though few or no data errors are detected, a shift in the charge storage levels can be detected before they cause data read errors.
The purpose of a scrub operation is to detect disturbed storage elements before the number of bits in error and the level of shifted cells exceed any recovery schemes available on the memory system. To this end, it is generally desirable to detect disturb as early as possible and before much of the guard band for a given voltage threshold level has been lost to disturb.
Flash memories usually store data at discrete states, or ranges of charge storage levels, each of which is separated from other states by some guard band. There is generally a nominal sensing level of discrimination between each state above which a storage element is deemed to be in one state, and below which it is deemed to be in another state. As a given storage element is disturbed, the level to which it has been programmed or erased may begin to shift. If the level of the storage element approaches the sensing level of discrimination, or crosses over it, it produces data in a state different that that to which it was programmed or erased. The error will generally manifest itself as one or more bits in error in the data, and will generally be detected through the use of ECC covering the data field.
Margining or biasing the read conditions such that the sensing level of discrimination is shifted more toward one state or another will cause disturbed storage elements to be sensed in the wrong state even if the amount of shift would not cause an error under nominal read conditions. This allows the system to detect shift before it approaches the point at which it would cause errors during normal memory system operation.
If disturb mechanisms are known to affect data storage levels in a specific way, it is possible to target detection of those specific disturb mechanisms by margining read conditions toward the expected level shifts. While the ideal situation would be to target the expected disturb mechanisms with a single read operation under a single set of margin conditions, this may not usually be possible. It may be necessary to perform multiple read operations under different conditions. For example, it is possible that different disturb mechanisms present in a memory cause storage elements to become either more programmed or more erased. Storage elements both above and below a discrimination level may be shift toward it, in which case it may be necessary to check first for a shift in the storage levels toward a discrimination level from one state, and then from the other.
As discussed above, the scrub read conditions may be margined in order to target certain expected disturb mechanisms, or to simply check for sufficient margin in the stored levels. Whether the data was read under nominal or margined conditions, the decision whether or not to take corrective action may be based on the number of bits in error detected during the scrub read operation. For example, if the number of bits in error are below the ECC correction capabilities of the system, the system may decide to defer the corrective action, or to ignore the error altogether.
In addition to using the number of bits in error as a threshold to initiating corrective action, the system may make the decision to correct based on other factors such as the pattern of bits in error. For example, the ECC correction capabilities may be sensitive to bit error pattern, or bit error patterns may be indicative of a particular known disturb mechanism in the nonvolatile memory. There may be other reasons for basing the threshold on bit error patterns. The bit error pattern is generally revealed during the ECC correction operation.
It may be desirable for performance purposes to defer a scrub corrective action even if it has been determined that corrective action is required. The reasons for doing so may include real-time considerations. For example a host may require a certain data transfer, and dedicating resources to scrub corrective action at certain times might impact the ability of the memory system to meet the guaranteed data rate. For such a purpose, the memory system may queue the scrub corrective action operation parameters for later processing, at a time when performing the scrub corrective action would not impact performance to the host. The scrub corrective action operations may be deferred until sometime later in the host command processing, sometime after the command processing, or until a later host command. The main point is that the scrub operation parameters would be stored and processed at a later time when it is most convenient to the host.
Additional Vulnerable Block/Page Criteria
In response to data being read from less than all of a group of memory cells by a host or otherwise, such as fewer than all the pages of a block, a scrub read is performed on a small proportion of the memory cells in the block, such as one or a small number of sectors, and the quality of the scrub read data is checked by use of the ECCs stored with the sectors of data. The scrub read most commonly, but not always, reads data stored in one or more pages that were not read in response to the command. If there are an excessive number of errors in the scrub read data, then the entire block is refreshed. A refresh operation involves reading all the data from the block, correcting the errors in the data by use of the ECCs, and then rewriting the corrected data into another block that has been erased. This process is desirably performed often enough to avoid the stored data being disturbed to the extent that they are no longer correctable by use of the ECCs, but not so often that performance of the memory system is excessively degraded. By limiting the scrub read to a small amount of the storage capacity of a block, such as just one or a few sectors or one or two pages, the overhead added to the memory operation by the scrub process is minimized. The scrub read and any resulting refresh are preferably performed in the background, when the memory system is not otherwise responding to commands to read or write data therein.
The scrub read preferably reads data stored in a page or pages of the block that are more vulnerable to having their data disturbed by the particular partial block command read than other pages of the block. It is preferred to identify a single most vulnerable sector or page, whenever that is possible, and then scrub read the data from it. Either way, a worse case picture of the quality of the data in the block is obtained with only a small amount of data needed to be scrub read. The impact on the performance of the memory system by such scrub reads is therefore minimized.
Objective criteria may be established to identify the portion of the group or block of memory cells, such as a page, that is more vulnerable to being disturbed by the command read than other portions of the group. At least some of the criteria are dependent upon the structure of the memory array. For example, in a NAND array, it is recognized that the pages formed by word lines at either end of the strings of series connected memory cells are more susceptible to disturbs from programming in other pages of the block than are the remaining pages in between. This is because the memory cells at the ends of the strings behave differently than those located away from the ends. If data in one or both of these pages has not been read in response to the command, it is likely that the data in the unread one of these pages have been disturbed to an extent that is greater than in other unread pages. A scrub read is then performed on the unread one or both of these more vulnerable pages.
Another of the criteria for selecting the more vulnerable page(s) may be established to be dependent upon which pages of the block have been read in response to the command and in what order. For instance, in the above example, even if one or both of the extreme pages of the block has been read in response to the command, one of these pages is desirably scrub read if it was read early in the execution of the command and therefore subject to thereafter being disturbed by the subsequent reading of other pages of the block. In such a case, the ECC check performed as part of the normal command read may no longer represent the quality of the data in that page because of potential disturbs that could have resulted from reading subsequent pages. If one or both of these extreme pages are read in response to the command at or toward the end of the commanded data read process, however, the ECC bit error checking that occurs as part of a normal data read provides information of the quality of the data in those page(s) so that another scrub read of the same page(s) need not take place.
A further possible one of the criteria for identifying a more vulnerable page is to identify a page that has not been read in response to the command but which is physically located adjacent a page that was so read. Disturbs are more likely to occur on this page than other pages in the block, with the possible exception of the two pages at the extreme ends of NAND memory strings. This will depend upon the specific structure of the memory cell array.
Yet another of the established criteria can be the relative patterns of data stored in the pages of the block. For example, in the NAND memory array, disturbs of the charge levels of memory cells in states near or at their lowest stored charge levels is more likely than those with charge levels near or at their highest stored charge levels. This is because potentially disturbing voltages experienced by a memory cell with the lowest charge level are higher than those of a memory cell with the highest charge level. Therefore, a page with data represented by predominately low charge levels stored in its memory cells will be more vulnerable to disturbs than one with data represented primarily by higher stored charge levels. This is therefore another factor that may be used to select a more vulnerable page as a candidate for a scrub read.
For further information on measuring errors and maintaining the integrity of data stored in flash memory, please refer to: U.S. Pat. No. 7,012,835 entitled "Flash memory data correction and scrub techniques," to Gonzalez et al; and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/692,829 entitled "Flash Memory With Data Refresh Triggered By Controlled Scrub Data Reads" to Jason Lin, which are hereby incorporated by reference in the entirety.
The ECC threshold for triggering a corrective action may be anywhere in the range of ECC correction capabilities, but is preferably around 75% of the capability. For example, if the ECC is capable of correcting 12 bits, corrective action may be triggered when around 8 bits in error are detected.
Ensuring Data Integrity in an Isochronous System with NAND Flash Storage
The use of the NAND flash memory device within an exemplary embodiment of an isochronous system will now be described. Other embodiments are of course contemplated and the present application should not be limited to the embodiments described.
Handling NAND flash media refresh operations efficiently is important in a low latency operating environment, especially an Isochronous system environment. The memory controller 19 incorporates an isochronous system ("IS") interface (the "ISI") in addition to the other interfaces such as those for a Secure Digital ("SD") card, Memory Stick, Compact Flash card, USB flash drive, or the like. Thus, one controller can be used to create any of the aforementioned devices.
The ISI monitors media error statistics and take action whenever needed to scrub or update the media, as described earlier. Since the IS environment does not allow flow control at the transaction level, a new approach has been implemented for media repair.
The problem is that in systems lacking signal level flow control constructs and requiring high system availability there is no way for the media control processor to test for and correct induced media errors.
In prior solutions that utilized a ROM to store a program, latency was not an issue due to the nature of ROM. For example, for a gaming system, it is important that the game itself be instantly accessible, so that the game play is fluid and responsive. To accomplish this, prior games were stored on ROM. However, each ROM was therefore masked out and otherwise manufactured specifically for each game title. The up front costs are therefore unnecessarily high in relation to the return if a game is not successful. In such a case a large inventory of game cartridges/cards and/or ROM's may be manufactured without subsequent demand. The present invention, however allows for different programs, including games, to be stored in an identical or even the same NAND chip. The systems and methods described herein can be used to overcome the latencies of the NAND so that it may be used in isochronous systems such as game machines. Of course, it should be understood that, although a game system has been mentioned for illustrative purposes, use of NAND will work for any isochronous system where quick and/or constant response time is desirable.
Isochronous System ("IS") Bus Operation
One version of the IS read operation is shown in
The system processor read operation/structure shown in
For integration purposes, in one embodiment the system processor command structure is augmented by wrapping the mode dependant RD_PAGE commands with a following READ_ST1 (read status one register) command within the same cycle or period. This can be seen in
STATUS1 Register Layout
The RefReq bit (D2) will be set as a request for the host to initiate a refresh operation. This request is not considered urgent. The host will honor this request in as timely a manner as possible without sacrificing user interactivity. The second bit, RefReqUrg (D3) is an urgent request for a refresh operation. This host must find a way to honor this request as quickly as possible without regard for effects on the user experience.
From the memory controller firmware perspective these requests can be implemented by using the presence of scrub or update requests. Whenever the queue holding block scrub requests goes non-empty a request for a slot of time to go off line is made to the host device. This request is made via the RefReq and RefReqUrg bits in the STATUS1 register. Urgent requests are either important yet time efficient safety events, such as copy block index saves, or critical time consuming but low frequency events, such as the queuing of more than 4 block copies.
The queuing of 4 block copies is preferably used to denote an urgent request in the case where the queue holds eight total entries. In other words, when the queue is 50% full the request will be an urgent request. The range in the ratio of entries to available slots of the queue used to indicate an urgent request may be anywhere between ten and ninety percent. The ratio selected will affect the performance of the overall system and may be tailored to each application. A lower ratio will require the host to respond more quickly and may result in higher data reliability or integrity while a higher ratio will allow for better system response because the host will be able to allocate more time to running the processor application (e.g. game).
A state diagram of media error processing interacting with the host's refresh status bits is shown in
However, if a copy request enters the queue an urgent request to save the index of the block to be copied is posted, as represented by state 310. Once this request is satisfied a follow-on non-urgent request to satisfy the copy operation will be posted, as represented by state 318.
The index save serves to ensure guaranteed error processing across power cycles. Since the index save operation is short, performing the save at the highest priority will not negatively impact the gaming experience. There is a rare but possible situation where the number of copy requests in the queue start to accumulate. Whenever there are more than 4 copies in the queue the system should treat this as a critical event. If this queue overflow is detected the request will be urgent and the time hit will be at a maximum, as represented by state 326.
The base assumption is that the host will be timely in it's response to any refresh request, urgent or not. In one embodiment, the maximum latency between refresh status requests and the issue of a RFS_BLK command will be less than 6400 read operations. This is 1/10 the number of reads expected to complete successfully before an update event would be required. In some environments the maximum latency allowed may be a controlling criteria. For example, a gaming system may specify a maximum latency period, of 230 microseconds
As mentioned above, a scan and/or copy queue is used to keep track of what blocks or other units of memory need to be scanned and/or copied. The queue may be stored in RAM or alternatively in the NAND flash memory itself. For more information on this, please refer to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/726,648 entitled "Methods For Storing Memory Operations In A Queue" filed Mar. 21, 2007, which is hereby incorporated by reference in the entirety.
However, as seen in
All of the embodiments illustrated in
Block Refresh Execution
A block refresh cycle is initiated whenever the host issues a RFS_BLK command. Once a RFS_BLK command is issued, only RD_STATUS1 commands are allowed until the refresh operation completes. Completion of refresh is indicated when both RefReq and RefReqUrg bits are set to zero.
In order to minimize the impact on (back end) BE memory controller firmware media fixup and host operating delays a minimum poll time of 50 mS has been specified for the NAND flash memory devices used in the IS systems. It is not a requirement that the firmware always finishes the scrub or update operations in 50 mS time but it is desirable that the system be able to respond to RD_STATUS1 commands potentially every 50 mS until the operations do complete. The 50 mS requirement is independent of Low/Normal speed functionality.
It is the responsibility of the host (system processor) firmware to generate RFS_BLK commands in as timely a manner as possible. In a gaming system this will be the game console processor's responsibility.
Power Failure
There is no early warning for power down in many electronic devices that may incorporate flash memory.
The embodiments described above ensure that if the power to the NAND memory device is interrupted that the information stored in the memory will be available when the power is restored. For example, a block that needs to be copied to another location that was in the process of being updated will be taken care of upon power restoration because it will be contained in the copy queue. This is true even given the demanding read requirements and timing limitations of an isochronous system such as that of a time sensitive application like video games and the like.
This is accomplished in part by utilizing command and data structures that notify the host of the need for urgent or non urgent processing of operations needed to assure data integrity. This notification is accomplished while requiring only minimal processing time. The system processor then allocates time to update and service the queue on an as needed basis. Time will be allocated in a timely fashion before the reliability of the data blocks is past an undesirable threshold. An urgent command is used to update the queue. A non urgent command is used to scan or to copy a block. Once an entry is in the queue and the queue is updated, the status will no longer be urgent.
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February 17, 2012
Meaning of Blood Diamond Naming About to Change? Or does the De Beers Forevermark Help?
I read with interest an article by CNN stating that "blood diamond," a name with heavy baggage, is about to change its definition.
Most people know the name from the title of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, but it is actually a real term that means a great deal to the diamond industry.
A "blood diamond," is one that comes from a rebel group who has used its diamond sales as a means of overthrowing a legitimate government, or to fund human rights abuses, mainly against women and children.
And it looks like the Kimberly Process, which was launched in 2003 to certify that diamonds sold on the world market do not come from dicey sources, is looking at broadening the definition of a blood diamond.
New chair of the Kimberley Process, Gillian Milovanovic stated "One of the things which will certainly be looked at and which we certainly support looking at and believe should get a close look is whether that definition is still sufficiently encompassing or appropriate given today's challenges."
The spectre of "blood diamonds" has hung over the entire diamond industry, leading the largest diamond producer, De Beers, to create the "Forevermark" that guarantees the diamond comes from a legitimate source.
Luxury brands seem to be doing incredibly well. There is a rising global demand for diamonds as the precious stones are being snapped up by investors, and the wealthy, especially in the developing regions of China, India and the Middle East, who are flocking to jewelry stores to buy the diamonds as a physical asset in these uncertain times.
But if the diamond industry does not start regulating itself better, consumers of luxury products may start being put off by the magic rocks.
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October 25, 2011
"Occupy Wall St." and "We Are the 99%" To Be Trademarked As A Brand Name?
It had to happen sometime. Somebody has decided to try to trademark the phrase "Occupy Wall Street."
Robert Maresca, an injured Long Island ironworker, has applied for the trademark while a Brooklyn man named Ian McLaughlin has applied for the "We Are the 99%" trademark.
McLaughlin hopes to create bumper stickers, tote bags, hats and so forth using the slogan, while Maresca has been making T-shirts with the "Occupy Wall Street" slogan.
Both men claim that they are not trying to make a buck off of the social movement, particularly Maresca, who claims he's just trying to protect his interests. He and his wife have learned that a trademark is "something of a gamble."
The press finds this amusing, with one writer suggesting that the Marescas would like to join the 1%.
Another blogger suggested they make a "hobo bag" as well as other items that include an "Occupy Condom." Says another blogger, "While it's not categorically a horrible idea - the idea of trademarking something and profiting off the merchandise - this is sort of a horrible idea, right? Unless bankers buy the merchandise out of irony?"
Many good movements have been trademarked. Think Woodstock. Or, think about the way Nelson Mandela has become a brand as well.
But I doubt either of these men are going to take full advantage of the possibilities of trademarking the brand name.
If these two men decide to become squatters on the name, holding the mark to prevent it from being used in documentaries or in a serious franchising effort in order to get top dollar, then I would have to agree that this is a pretty paltry effort to make money from a movement that is critical of shortsighted greed.
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May 5, 2010
Naming and Branding Low Point of 2010: The Better Marriage Blanket
Today I bring you the year's top contender for most ridiculous product name. Ladies and gentleman, behold the "Better Marriage Blanket."
How does this blanket improve your marriage, you ask? By absorbing the foul smell of flatulence, oh, and the "toxic fumes from mattresses and box springs," which has at least one blogger saying "Seriously?"
I wish I was joking. I am not.
This is a really imaginative nadir in marketing. The idea is that passing gas in the bed can cause divorce so you should buy this thing with it's military grade fabric that comes to us from the technology used to protect soldiers from poison gas.
Fact is, the company can hardly keep up with demand, according to Bnet.
They note that "The phenomenon says something profound about the psyche of the American consumer," but they're just not sure wha that profound thing is.
It is also suggested that you do not give this as a marriage gift, but notes that the word "marriage" occurs six times in the (ridiculous) ad.
Walletpop is loving this, wondering if the twin and king sizes of the blanket refers to the size of the blanket or the size of the problem. The site also offers some alternative naming ideas: "You've Gone Too Fart" and "Bubble Wrap."
Geekolgie says this is, "Officially signaling the end of mankind."
I wouldn't go that far, but it's definitely a turn for the worse.
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October 27, 2009
Is Baby Einstein Brand Naming Misleading?
Yesterday Brandweek noted that watchdog groups are calling for Disney to change the name of its beleaguered Baby Einstein products after news broke that these products probably do not make your baby smarter.
In fact, one study suggested that these actually make Junior a bit dumber.
This all follows a New York Times piece entitled "No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund," which outlines the refund Disney is now offering to disillusioned parents who bought Baby Einstein videos between June 5, 2004 and Sept. 5, 2009. That might be quite a financial blow: it seems that a third of all babies in America between 6 months and 2 years old have one of these videos, which also include Baby Mozart, Baby Shakespeare and Baby Galileo.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is demanding a name change, saying:
Disney should change the name of Baby Einstein because it still has a strong implication that it makes your child or baby smarter. They should change it to a name that does not imply that it could improve a child's cognitive capacity or that it is any way educational for children under the age of two.
The Wall Street Journal has put up a great blog about this and asked readers what they think about very young children watching "educational" videos (whether or not a video for toddlers can be termed educational at all is now a debatable concept).
One reader defended the series, saying that his son "learned things from them, especially when he was able to talk and say the colors and shapes. He would even do sign language along with one of the sign language ones."
Another leads us to the Baby Einstein site, which points out that this is a consumer satisfaction issue and nothing more and says that implications that the company is admitting that they ever suggested their products were educational are simply misleading.
I applaud Disney for offering the refund, but must wonder if the product naming doesn't at least suggest that it will make your child smarter. Parents I know who have bought baby Einstein products did so under the belief that these were designed to help their children's cognitive development.
Still, as one marketing executive points out in Brandweek, "I don't think Baby Einstein should change its name. It's a great name and gets to the heart of the concept in the brand."
What do you think?
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October 20, 2009
Droid Phone Naming: An Irresistible Force for iPhone Owners
So Internet geeks around the world are rejoicing over the forthcoming "Droid" smartphone war, or to quote the NY Post, who in turn quoted Yoda, "Begun, the droid wars have."
Verizon, Motorola and Google have licensed the product name from George Lucas and on Sunday the new TV spot came out, which looks like a teaser for a movie. The ad, entitled iDon't, lists all the things the iPhone, er, doesn't do. They even have a web site called droiddoes.com.
According to Beta News:
While the ad harkens back to the 16-bit era of video gaming when Sega ran a campaign with a nearly identical tag line ("Genesis Does what Nintendon't"), it is one of the most direct advertising attacks a Fortune 500 company has made on Apple, which has itself been directly attacking Microsoft Windows in its advertisements for many years.
The reviews on this thing have been very positive, but of course I am interested in the naming.
Everyone who has watched Star Wars knows what a "droid" is - an intelligent robot. Anyone who has not will probably think it has something to do with the Android system behind it. I have written before about the (somewhat sinister) Android name, of course, but this is different, because these guys really are aiming at iPhone customers.
And if you want to entice customers away from Apple, naming a phone after a Star Wars character is almost unfair because, let's face it, Apple people are Star Wars people. The temptation to dump an iPhone to own your own droid will really be hard to resist on the part of most Apple folks.
Just watch. Every single male iPhone owner under the age of fifty will feel the Force call him.
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As we look back at Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and his Muses during it's final few weeks, we couldn't help notice that many visitors to the exhibition were asking the same question: what happened to the paintings during World War II? How did they survive and wind up here? This is a common question asked of art acquired since the war, but a particularly important and interesting question when considering the subjects and dates of Vuillard's paintings. To shed light on these survival stories, I began researching several of the paintings hanging in the galleries, consulting the audio guide, books, and articles for clues on the paintings' pasts. I discovered how one family saved its portrait, a story that is wonderfully unique and yet typifies the atmosphere in Europe and the Jewish experience on the brink of WWII.
By 1940 some portraits had already passed into different hands than their original owners, perhaps sold on the eve of the war in the hope that the paintings would be saved. Sam Salz, a European gallerist established in America and Gaston and Josse Bernheim of the famous Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris probably sold many portraits to non-Jewish collectors. Just three years earlier, Salz had brought many of Vuillard's recent works to America to sell after a trip to Paris. Other portraits managed to remain with their respective families through the Second World War by various means. Such was the case for the portrait of the Bloch family included in our exhibition, Madame Jean Bloch and Her Children, second version. Jean-André Bloch commissioned the painting of his wife and children for his private office in the avenue Matignon. It hung there until 1941, when Nazi officers requisitioned his office and arrested him. Following his arrest, Bloch's wife, Gilberte, bravely went to the Nazi office and asked for the portrait. Her daughter, Claude, recalls what happened next: "The occupants, who must not have been connoisseurs, were concerned only to have the works replaced by others, so that their removal wouldn't be noticed. . . . So we went to Montmartre, where Sunday painters sold their mediocre daubs; we bought some of these and the exchange was made." Friends hid the painting in a country home until the war ended. Gilberte and her four children survived the war and recovered the painting thereafter. But, following his arrest, Jean, Claude's father, was deported to Auschwitz, from where he never returned.
Gilberte valued the portrait as a representation of not only her family but of her husband's interest in and taste for contemporary art. Although a number of Vuillard's paintings have far less exciting histories, the personal as well as art historical significance of his portraits is well represented by the Bloch portrait and other accounts of Vuillard works surviving World War II.
To learn more about the Bloch Family, visit The Jewish Museum's website .
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Image Credit: Edouard Vuillard, Madame Jean Bloch and Her Children, second version, 1930, reworked 1933 and 1934, glue-based distemper on canvas. Private collection, Paris.


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Almost like one hypnotized, Miss Mystery gave a helpless glance at her inquisitor and murmured a low, almost inaudible "yes."
What the execution of the inquisitor's office meant, is, alas!
In fact, the most pressing business of the inquisitor in visiting his district was to attend to this.
The Frenchman darted a quick and angry look at his inquisitor.
In fact, they were subject to excommunication if they refused to give money when called upon by the inquisitor.
I asked again, as an inquisitor might say, 'Have you had enough?'
Here the inquisitor again admonished him to confess the truth before his torment began.
If he could work upon the fears of the inquisitor, they might yet be saved.
One of his authorities is the inquisitor Bernardus Guidonis, and there is no writer whom, in various shapes, he quotes so often.
There was no trace of swagger or bravado when Tom faced his inquisitor.
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A MISGUIDED fruity gesture led to police being called to a quiet York street.
Officers were called to reports of a suspicious object left under the car of a resident in a street off Carr Lane, Acomb, last night.
A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said the resident had been on a date with a man but didn't want to continue their relationship, and the man then sent a text message to tell her he had left something under her car. Upon seeing the box, she became concerned, and phoned police at about 10.30pm.
Police attended and discovered a melon, a romantic letter and chocolates. They said they believed the package was an effort to win back the resident's affections.
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Jerry Seinfeld has a bit: Have you ever noticed that doctors are the most insecure people in the world? When you go into their office, on the wall behind their desk are all their diplomas. It's like they're saying, "Hey, I really did go to medical school, you know."
Anyway, I don't know why that story occurs to me just now, but let me show a list of articles I've written:
- Developing a standalone Java application for WebSphere MQ (dW: 23 Feb 2005)
- Meet the experts: Bobby Woolf on J2EE architecture and design (dW: 15 Dec 2004)
- Eliminate caching in service locator implementations in J2EE 1.3 (dW: 13 Oct 2004)
- Configuring and using XA distributed transactions in WebSphere Studio (dW: Jun 2004)
- JMS 1.1 simplifies messaging with unified domains (dW: 01 Aug 2002)
- Designing For Object Serialization (JDJ: 1 Jul 2001)
- An Introduction To Workflow and Workflow Management Systems (JDJ: 1 Sep 2000)
Have I mentioned that I'm a co-author of two books?
- Enterprise Integration Patterns w/Gregor Hohpe (AW: 2003)
- The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion w/Kyle Brown and Sherman Alpert (AW: 1996)
I've also written a few book chapters:
- Pattern Languages of Program Design: Chapt. 25: "Understanding and Using the ValueModel Framework in VisualWorks Smalltalk" (AW: 1995)
- Pattern Languages of Program Design 2: Chapt. 3: "Partitioning Smalltalk Code into ENVY/Developer Components" (AW: 1996)
- Pattern Languages of Program Design 3: Chapt. 1: "Null Object" and Chapt. 4: "Type Object" (w/Ralph Johnson) (AW: 1997)
- Pattern Languages of Program Design 4: Chapt. 1: "Abstract Class" and Chapt. 4: "Object Recursion" (AW: 1999)
- Implementing Application Frameworks: Chapt. 26: "Framework Development Using Patterns" (JW: 1999)
My friend Don MacQueen has even scanned most (all?) issues of the Smalltalk Report, including many (all?) of my articles (geez, this is like looking through your old high school yearbook):
- Improving dependency notification (Nov-Dec 1994) (PDF)
- Making MVC code more reusable (Jan 1995) (PDF)
- A sample pattern language: concatenating with streams (Feb 1995) (PDF)
- A hierarchy that acts like a class (Jan 1996) (PDF)
- The selection channel technique (Feb 1996) (PDF)
- Equality versus identity (May 1996) (PDF)
- A strategy for using instance variables (Jun 1996) (PDF)
- How to display an object as a string: printString and displayString (Jul-Aug 1996) (PDF)
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ezGear announced an accessory kit for Wii Music. The ezGear Wii MusicPack offers enthusiasts three versatile peripherals for Wii Music - a Violin, a combination Conductor's Baton/Drumsticks and a Saxophone.
Place the violin under your chin and play like a virtuoso. The Violin holds the nunchuck and the Wii Remote acts as the bow.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Bulldogs have ridden this horse to defeat before. Mistake-prone Georgia inflicted the worst damage on itself as Florida beat the Bulldogs 41-17 on Saturday at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.
The loss was Georgia's 17th in the last 20 meetings against the Gators and Georgia coach Mark Richt's seventh in his nine-year tenure. The gap between the Bulldogs and the defending national champions doesn't appear to be widening. But it certainly isn't narrowing either.
Georgia made modest improvements in its level of play, but serious mistakes erased any gains the Bulldogs might have made.
Florida didn't play great football, but it played better than Georgia. Georgia quarterbacks Joe Cox and Logan Gray combined to throw four interceptions. Those four interceptions led to 17 Florida points and the Gators won by 24.
The black pants and helmets that Georgia wore made little to no impact on the game. The more you think about it, the more it looks like a cheesy gimmick from a coach who's desperate for something to go right.
Georgia stayed within sight of the lead, but never really challenged for it. Whenever the Bulldogs grabbed the momentum, they promptly gave it back with turnovers and/or penalties. Now the Bulldogs (4-4, 3-3 in the Southeastern Conference) are looking at a .500 record and the possibility of not making a bowl. Georgia's chief rival remained unbeaten with its conference and national championship ambitions intact.
The best long-term news for Georgia was the running improvement. Although Georgia's ground game was short of a resurrection, it at least showed a pulse.
Washaun Ealey led a Bulldog backfield that totaled 129 yards. Three sacks brought the official total to 121 yards, but Georgia showed the most consistency this season against a top-shelf opponent.
Ealey has started to look more comfortable and finds more out of the holes than the rest of the backs. The offensive line seems to be gaining confidence and creating more space to run through.
Clint Boling's knee injury is a concern. Boling has been Georgia's most versatile and consistent lineman the last two seasons, so losing him for any length of time could be disastrous.
If there's a way for the Bulldogs to stump their own toe, they'll find it. Georgia actually played fairly evenly with Florida, if you don't count penalties and turnovers.
Cox has thrown an interception in every game this season and has now thrown 12 total. One of Saturday's interceptions was the result of a great defensive play by A.J. Jones. Another ricocheted off Georgia receiver A.J. Green and into Ryan Stamper's hands. The third was a poorly-executed attempt to throw out of bounds that all but ended the Bulldogs' hopes.
Georgia finished the game with four turnovers and nine penalties. That kind of performance will get you beat in the lunch-time YMCA league, let alone the No. 1-ranked defending national champion.
Gray had a nightmare come true in his first possession. The Bulldogs had ended their first four possessions of the second half with a touchdown and three interceptions. Georgia trailed 34-17 with 7:42 left in the game and an 8-yard kickoff return by Brandon Boykin set up the Bulldogs at their own 12-yard line.
A 5-yard sack and a 3-yard delay of game penalty pushed the ball back to the Georgia 4-yard line. Gray capped a disastrous day by throwing an interception to Brandon Spikes, who returned it 5 yards for a walk-in touchdown.
The Georgia coaches don't seem intent on replacing Cox soon. Gray's first chance to impress the people who count most had the opposite effect. Gray will probably receive another opportunity, but he can't afford to march the team backward again.
Georgia is now 4-4 for the season and in a fight to even qualify for a bowl. Although Richt is does not like the won-loss record, he is not worried that the program is in an uncontrollable downward spiral.
"If there's chaos and things are getting really messy in the locker room or the staff room or something like that, I'd have a very large concern about that right now," Richt said. "I'm concerned about the fact that we're 4-4, but I'm not concerned about the stability of the program or the direction of the program."
Georgia (4-4) invites Tennessee Tech (5-3) to Sanford Stadium hopefully for some homecoming fodder on Saturday. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
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It's definitely sad to see businesses that have been around for years face the possibility of shutting down due to rent increases. Gothamist reported that Big Nick's, the Upper West Side diner best known for its burgers, pizza, and late night hours, is facing a $200,000 per year rent increase on top of the $40,000 they already pay to use the space monthly. Ouch! Management is claiming that may simply be too much for the restaurant to handle, and shutting down seems to be on the horizon. If you've lived here long enough you have probably ended up here at one time or another, I know I have…and have had some good memories at this place!
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By Kathy Chu, USA TODAY
HONG KONG This glamorous Asian city is known for its mouth-watering dim sum. Its high fashion. And its 100-pound-and-under women.
Agatha Yau, a marketing executive, is one of these women. She has done many things over the years to stay trim: taken diet pills, eaten meals of boiled vegetables and practiced delaying gratification.
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"Sometimes, I'll look at the food and just smell it," Yau, 22, says one morning as she has her breakfast — a skim caramel macchiato from Starbucks. "I think to myself that once I get married and have kids, I'll be able to eat it" because there'll be less pressure to diet.
"Guys here are so small and skinny," she adds. "They need to feel masculine, and they don't if you're bigger than them."
In most developed parts of the world, women feel pressure to be thin. But such pressure is especially intense in Asia — in places like Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo — where scores of skinny women seem always to be looking for ways to get even skinnier. Experts say dieting in Asia tends to be more extreme than in the West because of cultural perceptions of beauty.
"The magic number is to be below 100 pounds, no matter your height or your weight," says Philippa Yu, a clinical psychologist at the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association.
In Asia, women want to stay skinny without exercising because muscles aren't considered a feminine feature, says Sing Lee, director of the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Center at Chinese University.
That's why, "when they want to control their body weight, they eat less or take pills" instead of exerting themselves, Lee says.
Hong Kong dieters also flock to slimming centers throughout the city for ultrasound, electrical stimulation and infrared radiation treatments that promise to whittle away inches of fat. (The Hong Kong Consumer Council has called some of the slimming centers' weight-loss claims "dubious.")
The newest dieting fad in Hong Kong? Swallowing parasites. This radical form of weight loss has become popular enough that the Hong Kong Health Department issued a warning in February that these worms — which are sold on Chinese websites — can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and even death.
Eating disorders on rise
As extreme weight-loss methods take hold in Asia, eating disorders are also increasing.
In Beijing, at Peking University's Institute of Mental Health, more than 100 patients were hospitalized last year for eating disorders, says Darong Zhang, director of the institute's treatment center. That compares with about 20 patients hospitalized 10 years ago.
In Hong Kong, the number of patients treated for eating disorders at one clinic has nearly doubled — to 128 — from 1998 to 2007 when compared with the prior 10-year period, Lee's research shows.
Eating disorders also are becoming more common in Korea, but many women don't want to admit they have a problem, says Mirihae Kim, a psychology professor at Duksung Women's University in Seoul.
"The last time I tried to run an eating disorder group, only one person showed up," Kim says. "So I changed the group's name to Overeaters Group Therapy."
The reality is that in Korea, being thin is the "main standard of beauty," Kim says. "People say that if you are overweight, you can't study, you will fail the exam. That's the attitude here."
Koreans also say weight plays an important role in whether someone can find employment and how good a job he or she can get.
Duksung Women's University senior Hyun-Jung Lee, 25, says she's dieting because she wants to land a job as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company.
"If I am in good shape, other people will judge me as diligent and successful in life," says Lee, who is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. "But on the other hand, if I am fat and out of shape, people will think: 'She's lazy. Maybe she doesn't care about herself.' "
Unlike others, Lee says she's choosing the "healthy" way to lose weight. She eats low-fat food and exercises five times a week, two hours each time. She has lost about 10 pounds and hopes to lose an additional 22 pounds.
"The better you look, the more opportunity you have," she says.
As Asian societies become wealthier — and people have more options about what to eat — it's only natural that some will struggle with their weight, experts say.
A new kind of competition
With the shift from an agrarian to an urbanized society, "there are definitely more opportunities to overeat," says David Schlundt, an associate psychology professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, who researches eating habits.
In Asia, obesity is becoming more common among adolescents, although it's less of a problem than in the USA. For now, in cities such as Hong Kong, health professionals say their biggest challenge is dealing with young women who don't eat enough, not those who eat too much.
"You can see how pervasive slimming is in this culture," says Yu, of the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association. In the old days, Asian women competed with one another to see how many children they could have, but now they compete to be the most successful, and the thinnest, she adds.
Slimming centers have cropped up all over Asia to cater to such desires.
In Shanghai, at Chuanye Slimming Center — a popular Chinese chain — women buy packages of 10 sessions. They can choose from treatments such as "ultrasonic liposuction," which claims to vibrate your fat away, or one in which they're covered with Chinese herbs and bandages, then encased in an Austin Powers-esque, heat-emitting machine that's said to draw out toxins while toning the body.
During the treatments, "we don't recommend exercise because it'll turn into muscle," says manager Xu Wenli, whose clients include brides-to-be who are eager to fit into their wedding dresses. "After you lose a certain amount of weight, then you can exercise."
Another slimming center, Marie France Bodyline, which has locations throughout Asia, promises results with "no vigorous exercise." One treatment applies heat and a pulsating suction to remove 2 inches of body fat after just one treatment, the company's brochure says.
Wing Yim, a customer service manager at a Marie France slimming center in Hong Kong, says that women want to be thin, but they already work long hours, so they "don't want to sweat" to achieve their goal.
Yau, the Hong Kong marketing executive, says slimming centers are too expensive (a package of treatments can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars) and she's not sure they work. So she loses weight the inexpensive way, she says: via portion control. For dinner sometimes, she'll have two spoonfuls of rice with vegetables and soup.
"Dieting is a life-long career for women," Yau says. "It's true for women everywhere, but especially in Hong Kong."
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Gamecocks Claim First SEC Win In Road Victory At LSU 82-73
Behind double-doubles from freshman forward Michael Carrera and senior forward Lakeem Jackson, South Carolina (11-5, 1-2 SEC) defeated LSU (9-5, 0-3 SEC) 82-73 in conference play on Wednesday night. The win was the first SEC win of the Frank Martin era and is the first road win in league play since a 64-56 victory at LSU on Feb. 2, 2011. Carrera scored 21 of his career-high 23 points in the second half and overtime. The freshman also notched 10 rebounds. Jackson added 11 points and 11 rebounds in the winning effort for his third double-double of the season. The duo's stat lines marks the first time two Gamecocks registered double-doubles in the same game since Dominique Archie and Mike Holmes did so against Winthrop on Nov. 16, 2008.


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Here, in 1981, is John Gordon Sinclair being me, in 1981:
Numbers are so reassuringly certain to a particular kind of teenage boy. Unlike one's body, unlike one's hormones and definitely, definitely, unlike girls, they're the same from one day to the next, wherever you are and there's always another one if you think it's time for a change. It's when numbers had to be turned into symbols and Pan's People had to be turned into real people, that the trouble started.
I'd fallen in love with cricket statistics at a much earlier age – 10 (or nine and three quarters as I would have insisted in an Adrian Mole way) when I got hold of the somewhat unprepossessing Observer's Book of Cricket 1973. Here it is, with its cover showing Dennis Lillee yorking MJK Smith while Peter Parfitt looks on:
It was just a pocket-sized publication, one of a series of such titles covering a wide range of subjects, all of which adopted a didactic tone and worthiness – a kind of Blue Peter between hard covers. It wasn't Wisden; I was too young for that slabby brick and it wasn't the sort of book that appeared in our house, that is a book that you could buy at Woolworths or borrow from the library. I didn't miss what I didn't know.
I was interested in the text on the book's shiny pages (that smelled of book), but I was more interested in its numbers – its gloriously dense Records Section, which were the most fascinating pages I had ever seen. Having had nothing beyond the Daily Mirror's county cricket reports (tabloid papers had only three pages of sport then – more space was dedicated to horse-racing – but they still printed all close of play scorecards in full), here was a positive avalanche of numbers in which to wallow. And I wallowed.
The most iconic number was assigned to an iconic name – top of the Test runs chart was the impossibly exotic sounding Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, who, I quickly discovered by reading elsewhere in the book, lived up to his moniker… and then some.
More prosaic names followed: MCC Cowdrey (I didn't get the initials' significance), WR Hammond and DG Bradman, whose outlandish average is as bizarre today as it was then. FS Trueman was atop the wicket-taking table with 309, with Lance Gibbs (who I had seen on telly and didn't rate) second and Deadly Derek Underwood coming up through the ranks.
But there was more – so much more. We were still a long way off 21st century television's torrent of onscreen graphics informing us that Virat Kohli's 47 is now his highest score in India v Bangladesh T20Is at Chittagong – so sighting a simple list of highest partnerships for each wicket in first class cricket was a thrill beyond measure.
Who were Vijay Hazare and Gul Mohammad and where was Baroda? Were Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe not gruff supervisors in an ITV sitcom as I would have guessed, but two real-life openers who once added 555? And what unimaginable circumstances led to Alan Kippax and Hal Hooker putting on 307 as the last pair?
I would lie awake in bed while these numbers tumbled through my consciousness. So dedicated did I become to cricket's numbers that before long, when my dad came in late after his overtime, I could recite the scorecard of a day's Test cricket or the Gillette Cup match just finished on BBC2, the numbers just there in my head, lodged until beer chipped away at a memory that made schooldays much easier for me than for most.
Ceefax improved access to cricket's continually evolving flood of numbers, but the next real thrill was Cricinfo. Sitting at my desk in the late 1990s, not only could I see the Test scorecard flick over with every ball instead of Ceefax's every two minutes – who could wait for that interminable time now? – but I could see cricket's beautiful tables of runs, wickets, partnerships etc updated with every run, with every wicket and with the players' records sorted and re-ordered before my very eyes.
I just stared in wonder as Alec Stewart nudged up towards Len Hutton and Andy Caddick pushed on towards Brian Statham. Often, as I ate a lunchtime sandwich, I would call up a table on a whim – say Most Stumpings in Career – and just stare at it, marveling as one column numbers descended predictably while the others' seemed to have their entries flung at them, their figures almost random in their distribution. Before Statsguru made it easier, one could look for obscure connections and unexpected names, and arm yourself with a bit of smartarsery to drop into conversation at just the right moment. (I still do that now, of course).
We're all used to these databases these days, with stats invading other sports (like football) and becoming simply too much (hello MLB.com), but, for those who lived through the data revolution, we will never lose that thrill of our first encounter with cricket's numbers.
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Jun 30, 2013 - By Andrea Novotny, Staff WriterCitizens announced their verdict on "The Trial of Joe McCarthy" Wednesday night at Lander Middle School.
In the mock trial, set in 1954, the State of Wyoming has charged deceased Sens. Joseph McCarthy, Styles Bridges and Herman Welker of four crimes. They are charged with the blackmail of Wyoming U.S. Sen. Lester Hunt; aggravated blackmail of Hunt, resulting in Hunt's suicide; and conspiracy to commit both crimes.
Bruce Palmer, chairman of the sponsoring party, the Fremont County Democrats, described the event as something close to "readers' theater."
But this play has no predetermined ending. This time, the jury found Bridges and Welker guilty of all three counts, but could not come to a unanimous verdict on McCarthy himself.
In many ways, by not convicting the man who led the movement and who lends his name to the term, the hung jury was a rejection of the thought process behind McCarthyism.
Jury foreman Gena Robinson said the entire jury of six men and eight women felt that McCarthy was responsible for Hunt's suicide, but that they did not have sufficient evidence to convict him.
Hunt had Fremont County connections. A Democrat, he was a dentist in Lander and a Fremont County representative to the Wyoming Legislature in the 1930s. He later moved to Lusk before being elected both Secretary of State and Governor of Wyoming.
In the mock trial's closing statement, Devon Petersen, playing the defense attorney, reminded the jury and audience of the importance of having evidence beyond reasonable doubt. He said to make a conviction without definitive evidence would be "the same as holding up a piece of paper and saying 'Here are 57 communists. Just believe us.'"
The decision came after hearing testimonies from five witnesses, each presenting different pieces of exposition of the life and death of Hunt. The testimonies also served to educate, reminding the audience of historical details and the political climate of 1954.
The performance was punctuated with humor, but also carried themes of corruption, homophobia, bullying, and what Palmer calls the "politics of destruction."
Hunt's son, Lester "Buddy" Hunt Jr., was charged with soliciting homosexual sex from an undercover police officer of the Washington, D.C, vice squad, also known at the time as the "Pervert Elimination Squad."
One chief function of the squad was to find and expose homosexuals, especially homosexuals in the government, as it was believed that they would be more susceptible to treachery.
Adolf Hitler was said to have compiled a list of American homosexuals. This list purportedly had fallen into the hands of Joseph Stalin, who intended to use it to turn the individuals into spies for the Soviet Union.
Initially, the charges were dropped because Buddy Hunt had a clean record and was a practicing seminary student.
But the 1954 election was approaching, and the Democrats controlled Congress by one seat. Welker and Bridges encouraged Hunt not to seek re-election. He refused, and the charges against Buddy were soon reinstated.
The White House offered Hunt a position as chairman of the Tariff Commission, which paid more than senator, if he promised to resign from the Senate and never seek re-election. He refused again.
Hunt faced threats from Welker and Bridges, who claimed to have printed 25,000 posters to expose Buddy as a homosexual, which they would distribute to every household in Wyoming if Hunt ran in the next election.
McCarthy held a press conference to announce that he had evidence, which he would present the following day, to expose a democratic U.S. Senator of bribery.
The next day Hunt shot himself. McCarthy never delivered on his promise.
Rodger McDaniel, whose book "Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt,"inspired the mock trial, maintains that there is little doubt that McCarthy was referring to Hunt.
McDaniel, a Cheyenne minister and former Wyoming legislator, wrote the book to tell "an incredible story that so few people in Wyoming have ever heard." McDaniel says he has lived in Wyoming his entire life, but had not heard Hunt's story until about 10 years ago.
"Because of the way he died, and the tragedy surrounding his death, his life story was lost," says McDaniel.
The research for the project took 20 months to complete. McDaniel reviewed all of Hunt's papers at the American Heritage Center, including speeches, letters, diaries and photos. He traveled to Concord, N.C., to review the papers of Styles and Bridges, to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, and to the U.S. Senate Historical Office. He reviewed the papers of presidents Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower and of people who knew Hunt, including T.A. Larson, Joe Manning and Edward Crippa. He studied numerous contemporary newspapers and interviewed both of Hunt's children, including Buddy Hunt.
There was one invaluable resource that he was unable to obtain: the papers of McCarthy. McCarthy's papers are to remain sealed until the death of his daughter.
Lander's event, with an attendance of about 90, marked the third performance of "The Trial of Joe McCarthy" in Wyoming. The first performance, in Cheyenne, resulted in the conviction of all three senators, while Rock Spring's performance ended in a hung jury.
The trial also is expected to be performed in Sheridan and Casper, and a tentative date of Oct. 23 has been set for a performance in Washington, D.C.
The lead role of prosecuting attorney was played former Riverton Mayor John Vincent, an attorney.
Retired Wyoming Supreme Court justice Michael Golden played the judge. Witnesses included Bill Sniffin as Drew Pearson, the journalist who wrote "Washington Merry Go Round"; Geoff O'Gara as historian T.A Larson; Ernie Over as Glenn "Red" Jacoby, athletic director at the University of Wyoming from 1946-73; Palmer as Lt. Roy Blick, the detective involved in Buddy Hunt's case; and Jared Steinman as Sen. Roy Elson.
Rod Haper played McCarthy.
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The stability of the banking industry is of importance for the entire economy. This is why society, policy makers, central bankers, bank supervisors and regulators are so concerned with the systemic risk in the banking industry. Although there is more or less agreement on when the system is at risk, as of yet we lack precise indicators. This research project will design various systemic risk measures and indicators and subsequently use the measures to determine the contribution of individual financial institutions or macro-economic shocks to systemic risk. Studying measures on systemic risk indicators and related issues can help supervisors in monitoring the development of systemic risk in the financial system, supervising systemically important financial institutions and devising resolution plans during financial crises.


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- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
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Even $2.6 Trillion Can't Buy You Love in Japanby
Your move, gentlemen. That's the message Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda tried to communicate this week to a Japanese political establishment that doesn't seem to be listening.
For 15 years now, a revolving door of prime ministers, finance officials and lawmakers have blamed Japan's central bank for all of the economy's woes. If only the BOJ did more, the thinking has long been, deflation would be history, Japanese companies would rule the world again, and living standards would skyrocket. This mindset informed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to hire Kuroda one year ago. Kuroda didn't disappoint, unleashing the very monetary shock-and-awe campaign Tokyo wanted. When he unveiled an unprecedented easing program last April, the BOJ pledged that the monetary base would rise to 270 trillion yen ($2.65 trillion) by the end of 2014.
Funny thing, though: All that cash hasn't solved Japan's problems. The virtuous cycle that aggressive BOJ policies were supposed to unleash still hasn't begun. A 20 percent drop in the yen isn't raising living standards, as hoped. Nor has it convinced companies to fatten paychecks. Whatever inflation Japan is feeling is the bad kind: Energy imports are boosting consumer prices and denting business and consumer confidence.
Instead, Kuroda's main achievement in his first year has been to settle a debate once and for all. Japan's big problem clearly isn't the amount of yen in the system but how it's used. Unless people borrow and banks lend, monetary policy lacks the multiplier effect that can revive economies. Besides, deflationary forces still abound -- from Japan's aging population to China's rising influence. Just as money can't buy you love, a wall of yen can't buy Japan prosperity. "Kurodanomics" just isn't enough.
That's why Kuroda pulled off a cagey move this week, turning the spotlight back on Abe. Sure, the BOJ governor tweaked some lending programs to give markets a sense he's not being complacent, and served up the usual central banker gibberish about striving for price stability. But the real takeaway from this week's BOJ policy meeting was that the prime minister needs to do his part. He must implement the structural reforms at the heart of his "Abenomics" program -- rewriting corporate taxes, lowering trade barriers, stimulating innovation, empowering women and opening the labor market. Otherwise, Japan's best chance in years to restore vibrant growth will likely fail like every other over try the last two decades.
The recent volatility in Japanese shares is a sign that investors share Kuroda's anxiety. Investors are caught between feeling conned by Abe's big talk and obligated to give his policy pledges more time. If Abe's team doesn't act soon, lots of the foreign capital that helped drive the Nikkei up by 57 percent last year will leave.
That's not to say Kuroda won't add even more yen to the economy by broadening his quantitative-easing program -- QEII, Japan-style. If Japanese shares continuegyrating and raising even more doubts about Abenomics, he may have no choice. But Kuroda clearly seems to letting Abe know that after 12 months of the BOJ doing all the heavily lifting, it's time the government did its part.
What's often forgotten about Japan is how the BOJ's zero-rate policies over the last 15 years enable the government. All that monetary largess deadens the urgency for politicians and bureaucrats to retool Japan's growth model, just as weaker yen takes the onus off companies to raise competitiveness. Kuroda probably senses free money isn't the answer; only a true shakeup of Japan Inc.'s fossilized ways will revive the economy. Your move, Abe-san.
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Atlus and Spike Chunsoft are teaming up to bring North American games Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars. The standalone release, scheduled to launch next spring for 3DS and PS Vita, will have players working their magic to create the soldiers necessary to face monsters, the labyrinths the monsters spew forth from, and the labyrinths' creator, the Pandora Labyrinth. As a Disciple, players take on the role of a human that has been granted the powers of a Star God so that they may engage in battle against the monsters plaguing the lands. Humans only have the Star God's powers until they are 18, which means that they must create more Disciples with fellow Disciples. Ahem. Actually, it's not as unsettling as it sounds, as it's the powers that combine to form the next generation of warriors, the Star Children.
The protagonist may combine energies with up to seven heroines in order to create enough Star Children. The ethereal beings, along with the protagonists and his classmates, will clear dungeons by engaging the demons in turn-based battles that will focus on careful maneuvering and building meter to unleash Chain Drives for stronger attacks.
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