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The spiritual strength behind the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers. Swami Sivananda taught a synthesis of all the formal doctrines of Yoga. Author of more than three hundred books on Yoga and health, Swami Sivananda was a medical doctor before renouncing worldly life for the spiritual path. The essence of his teaching:: serve, love give, purify, meditate, realize.
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Sent to the West in 1957 by his Master Swami Sivananda to spread the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta, Swami Vishnudevananda remains a world authority on Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga. Founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, he worked tirelessly to spread his visionary message of world peace. He authored the bestsellers The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga and Meditation and Mantras. His teachings and energy remain the backbone of the TTC programs.
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The TTC began over 40 years ago, is recognized worldwide and has produced more than 26,000 graduates. Swami Vishnudevananda was the first in the West to develop this kind of training program for yoga teachers with the vision to not only develop successful yoga professionals, but also to spread peace in the world through them. The TTC is a unique, profoundly transforming and personal experience that is based on the ancient gurukula teaching system which integrates the student's daily life into the yoga training. For four intense weeks of ashram living, students strenghthen their own yoga practice through self-discipline and awareness of the nature of mind, body and spirit. They also build a firm foundation from which to teach others instinctually and confidently.
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The new RRD religions arrived at SOS in Fremantle Western Australia, 2 weeks ago, unfortunately just as our summer thermal breeze season here nears an end, but northern hemispere forum readers may be curious to know what they are like before their season begins, as it has been hard to find an online review.
To give you my perspective I am dedicated surfboard riding wavekiter and i generally prefer strapped and hooked in with down the line off the lip aerials manoeuvres what floats my boat.
There was a lot of hype about a 'dedicated wave kite' at least 6m ago, but when the kite failed to materialise people were starting to wonder was it all just 'piss and wind', but then those of us lucky enough to get a quiver rom the fisrt batch to arrive in Australia 2 weeks ago have been well impressed, and I do not apologise for pimping such a great wavekite as it may just be the advance that a lot of dedicated surfboard riders have been waiting for.
How does it fly?
This is not touted as 'do it all' kite, but as a dedicated wave kite and it's all about the turn......... incredibly quick and smooth with no stall, no jerk, and quicker around the corner than a type 9, which is saying something. It is absolutely the fastest turning kite I or I expect anyone else will have ever used, and it may take a bit of getting used to if you have been riding slow kites til now. The 11.5 turns nearly as quick as the 9m type 9 and faster than most 7m kites. This opens the door on performance riding in 12-15 kts. When you're on the 7m its so quick you forget just what you can achieve to start with. A section looms downwind and where previously you would have been waiting for the kite to come around you have already snapped around and bashed the lip on the religion.
The struts and LE are big and solid [it takes a lot of pumping but is one pump as with all RRDs] and the whole thing feel absolutely rock solid in the air. It has been reinforced to take a hammering if you drop it, with big Dacron cross reinforcments on the canopy. Consequently, combined with it's bold square low aspect shape this kite is going to really stand out from every other kite at your local.
If you do more park and ride style, It drifts back beautifully as you ride downwind, but is always just sitting there waiting for bar input. The power level as it is thrown across the window is constant and smooth and easily killed with depower, keeping the rider in control, but by the same token it would not satisfy someone wanting massive boosts. Upwind is much improved on the type 9 and is on par with the Obsession and most modern kites. The bar pressure is really light coming off the type 9 and I expect those who have suffered elbow tendonitis will welcome this, but for me it takes a little adjusting not to be able to crank down on the bar for balance or any extra squirt of power.
The RELIGIONS are not grunty size for size and alot of the quoted area is in those big foward sitting square tips for turning speed. I would suggest one compares the religion more with a C kite [and to look at they are really a low aspect bridled C] than a bow, on a size to wind range comparison, so the 11.5 would have equivalent wind range to most 10s in a more bow shape.
For Perth WA kiters John and Andy at SOS have demo kites available and If you see me at Scarbs I am happy to give people a go.


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New 2018 Forest River RV Wildwood X-Lite 171RBXLMURPHY BED makes plenty of space inside!
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Coker's Katie McElveen (Hartsville, S.C.) and Cynallyhia Indriago (Columbia, S.C.) had 11 and 10 kills respectively in the Lady Cobras 3-1 loss to Converse College on Wednesday night. Coker lost the first, third and fourth sets by scores of 25-11, 25-22 and 25-19. The Lady Cobras did pull out a win in the second set, 25-23.
Along with leading Coker in kills, McElveen and Indriago each had 12 digs, while Brittany Bass (Bethune, S.C.) had a match high 21 digs and Molly Bookhart (Orangeburg, S.C.) had 33 assists.
Converse as led by Val Thoms with 10 kills and seven digs, while Jameiha Maxwell had six kills and 10 digs. Lauren Hunsberger and Kandace Griffin combined for 23 assists with Hunsberger also picking up 10 digs for the Valkyries.
The Lady Cobras will take to the floor for their next match on Tuesday, September 14 when they host Barton College in their first home match of the season at 7:00 p.m. in the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium.


text: Energy audit takes chill off Taylor Library in Derry By HUNTER McGEEUnion Leader Correspondent October 10. 2013 12:11AM DERRY — Taylor Library Director Linda Merrill said she remembers how cold the library used to be before an energy audit was conducted several years ago by the Town's Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee. During the winter, frigid winds would buffet the aging building and send staff members seeking warmer places within the library, Merrill said. "We used to have to go to the end of the stacks," Merrill said. "You could feel breezes blowing." But all that changed after the audit was conducted in 2010, Merrill said. "It's been well worth it," Merrill said. "It's warmer now, and they are a good group." Part of the committee's mission is to work with residents, business owners and town staff on energy concerns and ways to reduce costs. Advisory committee member Tom Minnon, who performed the audit, recommended the library take such simple steps as changing standard light bulbs for the more modern, efficient ones, Merrill said. The library was able to use staff, volunteers and trustees to make this and other cost saving changes, Merrill said. Minnon also recommended switching the hot water heater for a much smaller, point- of-use model that heats up water only as it is needed and doesn't run continuously like the older one, Merrill said. "It's unbelievable," Merrill said of the cost savings. Other steps included adding new storm windows and setting the thermostat so it automatically shuts off a half-hour before closing and switches back on a half-hour before the library opens. In addition, joints were also sealed with oil paint; a flood light was replaced with a more efficient LED spotlight; the attic and front door were weather stripped; and outlet covers were replaced with better insulated ones, Merrill said. Those changes have resulted in a savings of 20 percent for the library, said Maureen Reno, newly elected chair of the advisory committee. The committee has also worked with town administrators to lower electricity costs at Veteran's Hall, resulting in a savings of 30 percent, said Reno, who recently made a presentation to the Town Council about the committee's mission and the members' desire to work with councilors in the future. "These are real savings and our committee would love to be involved with savings in the future because we are taxpayers as well and we want to see those costs go down," Reno told councilors. Along with conducting energy audits, the advisory committee also holds a series of lectures twice a year. As part of the series, Minnon is scheduled to give a lecture on Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Derry Public Library. Minnon, who has 35 years of experience in energy conservation and renewable energy, will show homeowners several inexpensive methods to save energy and lower heating and hot water costs. General News Derry


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So Im trying to build some binaries for as most linux systems as possible. I use the functions gethostbyname () which is defined in glibc, I also link against libcurl which is also using this function.
When I attemped to build a static binary I received a number of warning telling me wherever gethostbyname( ) was used, that this binary must have the same version of GLIBC that I linked against (2.3).
I guess there really no getting around this if I want to use that function. So I guess my question is how do I compile against earlier version of GLIBC? Also is there an easy way for me to determine what version of GLIBC is on other linux machines?


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Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "The Shrimp Boat" Roger and Sarah Bansemer visit the port of Tarpon Springs, the sponge diving capital of the world. Roger paints a shrimp boat and Sarah explores the rich heritage of the unique Florida Gulf Coast town. D
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Sew It All "Splendid Stitchery-Jenny Hart, author of Embroidered Effects & founder of Sublime Stitching" Jenny Hart teaches all about hand embroidery, and then embellishes a garment with an easy design. D
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Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting "Pinwheels Plus" Marianne and Mary demonstrate how to make two half-square triangle units at once using a special ruler. They will also demonstrate how to get secondary designs by rotating the blocks. D
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This Old House "Barrington Project, Part 2 of 10" Host Kevin O'Connor arrives to find builder Andy Tiplady with the house wide open, his foundation in place and framing underway. The new open floor plan requires structural steel that gets bolted and then welded in place. With the steel installed and high winds already kicking up, Andy and his crew button up the house for the impending bad weather, which turns out to be Hurricane Irene. D
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Ask This Old House "Upgrading a Neglected Urban Patio; Hanging a Heavy Mirror" Landscape contractor Roger Cook heads to San Francisco to upgrade a neglected urban patio. Then Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, general contractor Tom Silva and plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Tom shows Kevin how to hang a heavy mirror on a wall. D
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Growing a Greener World "Organic Lawn Care (Arlington, VA)" The impression that lush lawns require high inputs of synthetic chemicals to keep them looking good is a myth. We visit a private estate to see a major test case by the University of Maryland to show that lush green grass is possible and how you can have that lawn of your dreams organically. D
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Moyers & Company "Suppressing The Vote" The fight against voter fraud is a solution in search of a problem -- documented instances of voter fraud these days are surprisingly few. Nevertheless, since the 2010 midterm elections, new election laws passed by Republican-dominated legislatures in 14 states have sought to limit voter registration or require photo IDs in order to vote -- identification that for many is too expensive or otherwise difficult to obtain. Such laws, according to a recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice "will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of poor Americans to vote. D
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William and Mary As the second season of shows begins, William and Mary are about to be married. William is cooking up a few surprises for Mary for when they come out of the church following the ceremony.G
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War "Pride of Our Nation" (June 1944-August 1944) On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), 1.5 million Allied troops embark on the invasion of France and succeed in tearing a 45-mile gap in Hitler's Atlantic Wall. Allied progress from there is measured yard-by-dangerous-yard. In the Pacific, Saipan is the costliest Pacific battle to date. Dreaded War Department telegrams arrive on doorsteps at home. By mid-August, the Germans retreat from France. Part 4 of 7G
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This guide was developed and reviewed by MDA, Missouri DNR, MCGA, NRCS and MU Extension representatives. Parts I, II, III contain the information needed for preliminary planning and record keeping for those key players in a specified watershed. Part IV is a plan of action for communities to follow if a notice of violation (NOV) is issued for their public water supply.
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Local NRCS and MU Extension personnel work together to help communities develop watershed management plans and watershed teams. They encourage collaborative efforts, sound management practices and convey the message of shared watershed management responsibility for urban and rural residents.
NRCS and MU Extension are also partners with nongovernmental groups to help local officials and/or local water district personnel coordinate individual management plans.
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Jaydan Bird enrolled at the University of Oklahoma after finishing his high school career at Conway Springs High School as a standout linebacker, running back and Kansas commodity. Four years later, he has set aside individual accolades and taken up a unique role for the better of his OU football team.
The Conway Springs, Kan.-native is officially listed as Oklahoma's second-string middle linebacker, but his impact is most felt on offense and special teams. Bird is the only OU player to play on offense and defense, and he loves every snap he sees.
"It's always exciting to get on the field, especially on offense, when you're a defensive player," Bird said. "It's really fun to get out there and show what you can do on offense as well."
Although Bird is asked to contribute in more ways than some of his other teammates, he recognizes the value of his role and knows everyone has a role to play.
"I feel like it's an important role, but every role on the team is important," he said.
Junior center Gabe Ikard believes Bird is exactly the type of team-player OU needs.
"He's the kind of guy you want on your team," Ikard said. "He does what the coaches ask him to do, and when he's given his opportunities, he always seems to make a positive impact."
Putting the team first was never an issue for Bird. He did experience some difficulties adjusting to his new role, though.
"Obviously any Oklahoma player that comes in had a huge role in high school," Bird explained. "They are the man of their town, the big star of their city. It's always a new role coming in here."
Like many of his teammates, Bird's transition to the college game was difficult. However, few can relate to his experience. Senior Lane Johnson may have the best understanding of the roles Bird has played throughout his career.
Before attending OU, Johnson played quarterback and tight end at Kilgore Junior College. He committed to the Sooners as tight end, before redshirting and being moved to the offensive line. In his junior season, Johnson was asked to play defensive end before moving back to the offensive line. He is currently listed as Oklahoma's starting left tackle.
"I was hesitant to move around at first because I had never played any of those positions," Johnson said. "It was probably more natural for Jaydan because he played running back and linebacker in high school."
Bird's impact on offense comes as a blocker in Oklahoma's now-famous Belldozer package. Bird lines up with fullback Aaron Ripkowski and Blake Bell for a majority of the Sooners' red zone and short-yardage situations.
In the eyes of the fans, Bell steals the show, but the players and coaches know the package would be nothing without the offensive line and blockers doing their jobs, as well.
"All of our coaches acknowledge the blocking," Bird said. "They know it's not a one-man show. The offensive line has a big role, too. The play wouldn't have been successful if all of us hadn't done our job."
Despite the possibility of being under the radar by the majority of fans, Bird recognizes the value his coaches put into him as a fluid component in the team's game plan.
"It feels good to be valued," Bird said. "I'm just glad I can help the team the ways that I can, wherever I'm being utilized whether it be on offense, defense, special teams or wherever they need to put me."
Such a team-first mentality like Bird's does not go unnoticed by his teammates either.
"Jaydan is a very unselfish guy," Ikard said. "He does whatever he can do to help the team. He is a guy that puts team goals before his individual goals."
Johnson echoed those statements, saying Bird, "is always positive and always fun to be around. He is very energetic and a great teammate."
Bird will finish his senior season with the same positive attitude with which he began and continue to play whatever role asked of him in the best interest of his fellow teammates.
"I'm grateful for the roles and the opportunities the coaches have given me on the field," Bird said. "I'm glad to help the team win in any way I can. That's my mindset: just help the team win at whatever position they put me."


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police officers wearing olive search-and-rescue fatigues gripped a church lectern Monday, choking up as they remembered a colleague who died last week saving a hiker stranded on a mountain ledge.
Co-workers described David Vanbuskirk, 36, as a disciplined and humble man who rose before the sun, refused to take off his wedding band for training exercises, and returned to the hospital the day after rescues to check on people he had saved.
"He was absolutely the best of us," said Sgt. Gavin Vesp, who was Vanbuskirk's supervisor for 3 1/2 years. "He was a phenomenal human being."
The auditorium at Central Christian Church, which seats 2,900, was near capacity for Vanbuskirk's funeral. The church's upper seating section was a sea of police officers in tan, many wearing a black stripe across their badges as a reminder of the death, which was the department's first on-duty casualty since 2009.
Authorities are still investigating how Vanbuskirk died performing a maneuver he'd done dozens of times before. The officer was on the search-and-rescue team since 2007 and worked for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department since 1999.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said they expect to release their preliminary report on the accident later this week.
Rescuers responded shortly before 9 p.m. July 22 to reports that a hiker was disoriented and stranded on a rocky ledge just above Mary Jane Falls. The area was marked with signs warning hikers to stay out or face fines, according to Jay Nichols, spokesman for Spring Mountains National Recreation Area.
A wildfire had been burning in the area, and park workers closed some trails to protect hikers from smoking material, ash pits and falling trees.
After landing, Vanbuskirk attached a safety harness to the stranded man, who was hiking alone. Vanbuskirk signaled to the four rescue workers in the helicopter above to hoist him and the hiker from the craggy ledge. But the officer somehow detached from the line in midair and fell a "nonsurvivable" distance to the ground below, officials said.
The hiker was safely rescued.
Vesp fought back tears as he described the helicopter crew returning to the scene to recover "our brother's" body, and how he touched Vanbuskirk's face and closed the fallen officer's eyes for the last time.
"I want everyone to know that David was at peace and that being on that mountain with him that night was the greatest honor of my life," he said.
Vesp said some have questioned why the hiker entered the area in the first place, but the sergeant told the audience David risked his life for others each day and wouldn't want people to focus on that.
During the two-hour funeral, Vanbuskirk's friends and his sister Jenny told stories about his playful side. Gov. Brian Sandoval's chief of staff, Gerald Gardner, said the officer every day displayed "courage most of us can only guess at," while Sheriff Doug Gillespie lauded Vanbuskirk as selfless.
"Men like David restore the balance," Gillespie said. "They give us faith that there's more good than bad in this world."
When the service came to a close, an honor guard of two dozen drummers and bagpipe players led the way for nine pallbearers, who lifted Vanbuskirk's flag-draped casket to the open bed of a police pickup truck.
Family members slipped into two cream-colored limousines behind it, and a train of black and white police vehicles followed them to the cemetery, their lights flashing blue and red in silence.


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LOME, Togo (AP) — Pierre Warga is among the majority of Togo's 6 million citizens who have spent their entire lives ruled by the Gnassingbe family.
Eyadema Gnassingbe was in power for 38 years before dying of a heart attack in 2005. His son Faure Gnassingbe was then installed by the military before winning a highly flawed and violent election later that year, and a re-election in 2010.
The small West African country goes to the polls Thursday for legislative elections that will test whether recent signs of discontent might legitimately threaten Gnassingbe's hold on power. Some experts say there may be, for the first time, vulnerabilities in a country that has seen an increasingly daring public outcry against entrenched poverty, high youth unemployment and controversial crackdowns by the security forces.
"The regime is still strong but the president is not as strong as his father," said Lydie Boka, a Togo expert and manager of the France-based risk analysis firm Strategico. "The population is younger, they are interested in information technology and they are following what's going on in the world. It's going to be harder for the regime to win outright."
Development has lagged under Gnassingbe. Despite new campaign promises for better education and more jobs, the literacy rate remains stubbornly low at 57 percent, according to this year's United Nations Human Development Report. The African Development Bank has voiced concern about youth unemployment and underemployment, which it says together affect nearly 30 percent of Togo's young workers.
"How can I have any confidence when the government makes these promises?" asked Warga, a 27-year-old communications student. "They haven't been able to accomplish these things for the last 40 years."
In this year's U.N. Development Program survey of "life satisfaction" in 159 countries worldwide, Togo placed dead last.
Togo's citizens are increasingly acting on their frustrations. In December 2011, students in the northern city of Kara staged massive demonstrations over a decision to cut financial assistance. The protests grew more violent after the movement's leader was arrested, prompting the police to respond with beatings and tear gas.
The Open Society Institute for West Africa, in an analysis published last year, called the incident a "landmark" event because it occurred outside the context of elections and because it was in the north, an area that has traditionally been a bastion of support for the Gnassingbes, who hail from there.
More demonstrations erupted last year over controversial changes to the country's election law ahead of the legislative vote, which was originally scheduled for last October. Prime Minister Gilbert Fossoun Hounbgo stepped down in July, but issues over the election — including the role of the opposition in the electoral commission — remained unresolved. The following month, female activists announced a weeklong sex strike to call for the president's resignation.
This year, tension has been exacerbated by mysterious fires in January at major markets in Lome and Kara. The opposition has accused the government of using the fires as a pretext to arrest its activists, some of whom remain behind bars.
Marcel Magloire Kuakuvi, a political philosophy professor at the University of Lome, said the timing is ripe for opposition gains, but that those leaders will need to overcome the ruling party's financial advantage as well as the support it enjoys from the military.
The opposition landscape is in flux, however. The leader of the opposition party with the most seats in parliament, Gilchrist Olympio, agreed to join a unity government three years ago. Two main opposition coalitions failed to coordinate going into talks about how Thursday's vote would be run, and did not secure major concessions on the composition of the electoral commission and other outstanding issues.
More broadly, some voters say there is little excitement around opposition leaders who have been on the scene for decades and whose careers are defined by their relationship to the Gnassingbes.
Gerry Taama, however, has started the New Togolese Engagement party and is considered one of the few independent candidates to have a following outside his home district. Taama often speaks of the need for a "renewal of the Togolese political class" while blasting more established opposition leaders for their infighting. He also has a strong social media presence.
Marc Bidabi, 32, began volunteering for the New Togolese Engagement party.
"This is an opportunity that I could not have with the government or the traditional opposition," said Bidabi, who now runs political affairs for the party. "Both sides have a prehistoric conception of politics, which means they are giving no chance for the youth to emerge."
As voters become more vocal in their opposition to Gnassingbe, the ruling party may revert to old tactics like offering voters rice for three to four times below market price, said Kuakuvi, the University of Lome professor.
"But I don't know if they will be able to convince reasonable people that a 25-kilogram bag of rice can feed them for the next five years," he said.
Rosa Noamessi, 55, said she would only vote for the ruling party if she got something in return.
"Some people have received money from the ruling party during the campaign, but I have received nothing even though I'm living just across from the headquarters," she said sitting outside her house, using a rock to crush palm nuts, which she plans to sell.
"They cannot expect me to vote for them as long as I am hungry. I have not eaten this morning. If nobody gives me money, I know I will vote for the opposition," she said.
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To a crescendo of clicking cameras, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped before a row of shimmering U.S. flags last March to make an announcement Americans had been waiting four months to hear.
November's elections had swept Democrats into power on a wave of frustration with the Iraq war. Now, flanked by three committee chairmen in her ceremonial Capitol office, the San Francisco congresswoman prepared to unveil the party's plan to bring the troops home.
"The American people called for a new direction," the speaker said, trying to give voice to the historic moment. "That's what this bill does."
There was just one problem. Pelosi had no answer for a simple question: Would the plan get any GOP support?
"I'm the last person to ask about Republican votes," she said curtly.
The speaker's dismissive comment drew little attention that morning. But it was telling. Today, the legislative drive against the war -- the most intense on Capitol Hill since the Vietnam era -- is all but over. As Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a leading antiwar Democrat, bluntly put it: "We have made no progress."
What happened?
The answer lies partly in the slim Democratic majority and a determined Republican president.
But it was the new Democratic majority's inability to work across the aisle that ultimately ensured failure.
Like the Republicans they had replaced, senior Democrats chose confrontation over cooperation.
They squandered opportunities to work with Republicans unhappy with the president.
And, under pressure from their antiwar base, they tried to bully their rivals.
"Even now, I fail to understand how we think we can stop the war unless we bring in Republicans," said Hawaii Rep. Neil Abercrombie, one of the liberal Democrats who challenged his party's strategy.
Unintended outcome
Democrats -- and even many Republicans -- had expected a far different result.
When GOP senators sat down for a tense luncheon in the Capitol's wood-paneled Mansfield Room last January, their party was in turmoil.
President Bush's decision to send additional troops to Iraq, combined with the party's election losses, infuriated many lawmakers. As Vice President Dick Cheney sat silently, a heated debate erupted.
Virginia Sen. John W. Warner, a white-haired veteran of two wars, rose to express deep concern that the U.S. military was caught in a civil war in Iraq. On the other side, Arizona's John McCain and South Carolina's Lindsey Graham passionately warned that retreat would spell disaster.
"It was a very difficult time," recalled Graham, who struggled that afternoon to prevent a full-scale revolt. "Republicans wanted to drop Iraq like a hot potato."
Senate Democrats were trying to capitalize on the dissent with a resolution that would simply express opposition to the troop buildup.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a conservative Democrat from Nevada who had worked often with Republicans, turned to Warner.
His decision to effectively cede control of the war debate to a lawmaker from the president's party was the calculation of a veteran tactician. Democrats had taken control of the Senate by the narrowest of margins, 51-49. (The chamber's two independents typically side with the Democrats.) If they wanted to force the president to do anything, they would need as many as a dozen Republicans to overcome a filibuster.
But Reid, a former boxer, was also a fierce partisan who had excelled as a leader by keeping Democrats together. That impulse would be decisive.
As Warner walked the hallways of the Senate trying to find GOP votes and proposed weakening the resolution, the staunchest antiwar members of Reid's caucus grew increasingly restive.
Within days, Feingold said he would oppose the resolution. So too did Connecticut's Christopher J. Dodd, another liberal Democrat. Reid, who was skeptical that Warner could deliver enough Republicans, cut off debate. GOP senators killed the measure on a procedural vote.
After just four weeks, the drive to build consensus was effectively over.
"It changed the political complexion of the debate and the environment," said Maine Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, a moderate Republican who had worked on the resolution.
The quick demise of the anti-surge resolution prompted Democrats to focus inward. The party, which had done little to develop a consensus antiwar strategy, was in turmoil.
Grass-roots groups that had helped elect Democrats were clamoring for legislation to restrict war funding and compel a swift withdrawal. So, too, was the nearly 80-strong House Out of Iraq caucus, one of whose leaders, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), would get in a shouting match with Pelosi at a packed Democratic caucus meeting.
Other Democrats were reluctant to try to end the war by limiting money. "We didn't want to send a message that we weren't going to fund the troops," said Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman.
Pelosi turned to House Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey to write a bill that would bring Democrats together.
Obey, an old-school liberal from rural northern Wisconsin, was a fierce critic of the war. But the 38-year veteran was also someone who could cut deals with Republicans. Obey scorned doctrinaire antiwar Democrats who "didn't want to get any specks on those white robes of theirs." In one confrontation with a soldier's mother who asked Obey to stop paying for the war, the lawmaker exploded in a rant against "idiot liberals."
Republican leaders -- still struggling to keep their caucus from splintering -- worried that Obey would reach out to GOP moderates. "If they had put their hands out . . . there were probably 50 or 60 of my members who could have been there," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio said recently. "It could have been a very different outcome."
That was not the task Pelosi handed Obey.
The new speaker, who like Reid had united her party against hard-nosed GOP majorities, had never chaired a committee or drafted major legislation that required bipartisan compromise. She had a frosty relationship with Republican lawmakers. Now, she made it clear to Obey that she wanted a withdrawal timeline.
Drafts upon drafts
Obey and his staff hunkered down in his office for weeks, poring over scores of Democratic proposals. With Obey dictating language over his senior aide's shoulder, they produced draft after draft. Most of them went into a shredder.
Then, over the first weekend in March, they reached for a little-noticed bill filed just days earlier by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Valley Village) that linked pullout dates to the performance of the Iraqi government.
The war-funding bill that Pelosi announced at the March news conference would require the administration to begin withdrawing troops no later than March 2008, and to complete the pullout by August.
Democrats would triumphantly pass the most sweeping antiwar legislation since the Vietnam War. But it had attracted just two Republican votes in the Senate and two in the House, not nearly enough to override a presidential veto.
The Democratic response was to threaten to bury their Republican foes at the polls.
New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the combative head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, gleefully touted plummeting GOP poll numbers. "They're going to have to break because they're going to have to look . . . extinction in the eye."
Democratic leaders now openly ridiculed compromise proposals from Republicans.
When Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a soft-spoken Republican and former Foreign Relations chairman, in late June made an earnest call for withdrawing troops, he got a visit from Bush's national security advisor within 48 hours. Democratic leaders ignored him and shut down debate on his proposal to require the Bush administration to submit a withdrawal plan.
Senior Democrats insisted the measure was too weak and would give Republicans political cover.
On the other side of the Capitol, Democrats were attacking their own. Hawaii's Abercrombie, a former Vietnam War protester, was shouted down at a meeting with fellow antiwar Democrats to discuss a similar bill he drafted.
"This was taken as a sign that suddenly I wasn't on the road to Damascus anymore. I had fallen from the true path," Abercrombie said. Pelosi, under pressure from the Out of Iraq caucus, prevented his bill from ever coming up for a vote.
A whiff of revenge
Many Democrats wrongly believed Republicans would break over the August recess when a well-funded antiwar campaign would target many in their districts. This heavy-handed approach had been a hallmark of the way Republicans had run Capitol Hill. Now, GOP lawmakers recoiled at the withdrawal timeline and the smash-mouth tactics.
No Democratic withdrawal measure ever won more than four GOP votes in the House or Senate.
By September, when Army Gen. David H. Petraeus gave Congress an upbeat report about diminishing violence, the Democratic legislative campaign against the war was effectively dead.
Today, Pelosi professes surprise that so few GOP lawmakers joined the Democratic antiwar effort. "I didn't foresee that," she said.
But neither she nor Reid express any regrets.
"We tried everything except yoga," Reid said recently, sitting by a fire in his office on the other side of the Capitol. "Republicans weren't looking for middle ground. . . . We felt we were on track with what the American people wanted."
But, the Congress that began 2007 with a relatively high 35% approval rating now rates just 22%, according to Gallup surveys.
"One of the many messages sent by voters in 2006 was that they were unhappy with the war in Iraq," said Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican. "Another message that was sent and not heard was that they were tired of partisan gridlock."


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One of the wonderful things about working for the Earth Observatory is that we often get first crack at examining imagery from satellites new and old. It's been especially exciting to look at data from Landsat 8, a joint U.S. Geological Survey and NASA mission launched in February 2013.
But with new things comes new challenges. We've had some odd problems with the very intense memory demands of Landsat 8 imagery, for example. And when I saw the image below, I thought for sure I had stumbled on a processing error.
This is a natural-color, pan-sharpened image of the Elbe River near Wittenberg, Germany, obtained by Landsat 8 on May 6, 2013. I had obtained this to compare to a new acquisition from June 7, 2013, which showed major flooding in the Elbe.
Oh dear. Look at that ripple pattern along the river banks. Superficially, it looks a lot like a software processing error. New code I wrote: my error, right? In fact, at first glance, it looked a lot like Landsat data of a decade or so ago when the source files were being distributed with nearest-neighbor resampling–a technique used in remapping and resizing data which limits interactions between adjacent measures, something often useful in science measurements, but which causes jagged-looking edges. Since this was not the first time my code had done something unexpected, it was the obvious first place to look for the cause. The software failed me! Again!
However, a quick glance through the data files showed that, whatever was going on, it was coming from the source data: the same rippling showed up in all the bands. Ha! Someone else's software had failed!
Because Landsat 8 is so new, it is easy to assume maybe I was not the only one having occasional processing problems with old software on new data. There was one more check I should have done before contacting customer service at USGS, but…
…I didn't think of it. If you see something odd in imagery, it is always good to check reality. In this case, a quick zoomed-in view in Google Earth (as shown here) would have informed me that the jagged edges along the banks of the river in the imagery are real jagged edges along the banks of the river.
In hindsight, there were other clues. Notice that the jagged features are present in some places and not others. And notice that the rippled pattern along the banks bends and curves with the flow of the river. A processing artifact might only show up on very strongly contrasting features (the boundary between land and water here, for example), but would most likely be aligned consistently through the image. It wouldn't appear and disappear like it does here, and it would probably be more regular. It would probably distort in the same direction every time it happened.
In the end, it turns out that all the new systems were working just fine and there really is a very oddly shaped series of features along the banks of the Elbe River near Wittenberg, presumably to stablize the banks of the river and control sediment flow.
But there's not much they can do in the face of severe flooding.


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By the fall of 1963 there were 150 Minuteman Missile Launch Facilities (silos) dispersed across western South Dakota. For every 10 silos there was a support structure known as a Launch Control Facility (LCF). This building had a facility manager, cook and several security police who were stationed on the topside to provide support for two missileers stationed in a Launch Control Center (LCC) capsule 31 feet below the surface. These topside personnel worked for three straight days followed by another three days off. The missileers in the underground Launch Control Center were on duty for 24-hour shifts at a time. About 80 miles east of Rapid City, South Dakota and Ellsworth Air Force Base was Launch Control Facility Delta-01. This LCF was operational for nearly 30 years. The Air Force personnel on duty here experienced some of the tensest moments during the Cold War. Though they were not on the front lines of international incidents, they were on the frontlines of America's Cold War defenses. These were the forgotten soldiers who performed these shifts year after year.
Of all the duties performed by Air Force personnel at Delta-01 there was none more important than that of the missile combat crew which occupied the LCC. The crew consisted of a commander and deputy who were both military officers. The capsule in which they were stationed, buried 31 feet below the surface, was both their living and work area for an entire 24-hour shift. The missileers underwent intense training for several months before they were allowed to go on duty in an active missile field. Not only were they expected to learn a mind boggling amount of technical data about the Minuteman system, but they also had to be psychologically stable. Their jobs could possibly be one of the most stressful in the Air Force. Once they were properly trained and on duty they were expected to be no less then perfect at their jobs.
A typical day for a launch crew stationed at Delta-01 would start early in the morning when they arrived at Ellsworth. They would first undergo a security briefing about the international situation around the world. It was during this briefing that they would be informed if there was any reason that the base might be placed on higher alert status. They would then drive an official Air Force vehicle out to the LCF. Usually the drive to Delta-01 would take about an hour and a half. Once they arrived at the security fence surrounding the LCF they would radio in their dispatch information to the Flight Security Controller who monitored the grounds from the Security Control Center. This information was checked for accuracy then the gate would be opened by remote control. The missileers would pull up to a door adjacent to the Security Control Center to have their identification checked. Once they had been properly identified they were allowed into the building. The missileers would then call down to the missile crew already on duty in the underground capsule to authenticate secret codes. They must have the correct codes or it would mean a trip all the way back to base for another set of codes.
From the Security Control Center they would then be allowed entry into the elevator leading down to the capsule. When they arrived underground the deputy crew member already in the capsule would open the eight ton blast door to allow them in. This door was to be kept shut at all times unless someone had the proper authentication codes to enter the capsule. When passing by the door they would see painted on the wall: "No Lone Zone, Two Man Concept Mandatory." This meant that no one could ever be in the capsule alone. All areas of extremely high security in the missile field adhered to the two man concept. Being in such an area alone would result in the loss of one's job.
The off-going missile crew always gave the new crew a short 10 minute briefing which consisted of among other things the handing over of two .38 revolvers for use if any intruders entered the capsule. The crew going off duty would then exit the capsule and the new crew's shift would officially begin. Former missileer Andy Knight recalled years later what a typical work shift was like:
Ninety percent or ninety-five percent of the time, usually we'd just sit there. We would read magazines. Study for the professional military programs, or some people would work on their master's degree. It was a great time, at that time. And at that time they didn't allow any kind of t.v. sets or anything like that down there. It was just the crew. And, as I said before, there was one cot there and one crew member could go to sleep. And usually the person who had the graveyard shift--the midnight to six o'clock in the morning shift--usually that person would crawl into the cot right after dinner. Usually we'd have dinner right around five o'clock, so that person'd get in the cot and go to sleep from five, and then from five until about midnight. And then the deputy, at midnight then we'd swap off. And, you'd get into, it was like a hot bunk and you'd sleep until about six o'clock in the morning. That was generally what took our tour.¹
Even though many shifts were spent passing time, the missileers knew from their training that their jobs were of the utmost importance. As Knight recalled:
it was probably the most, most responsibility that I've ever had in my life. And, we were tested constantly. And, the tests that we were, whether it was, whether it was multiple choice or written exams. Or whether it was actual training scenarios in the simulator, we always had on the written exams one hundred percent was passing, if you missed one question, you failed, and you had to start all over again. So there was no room for error.²
During their shift the missileers received coded messages from Strategic Air Command (SAC) in Nebraska. Though the crew may have been stationed at Ellsworth they took their orders from SAC. The most important and feared command they could ever receive was known as an Emergency War Order (EWO). This order would mean the missiles were to be launched. The following description is a detailed account of executing such an order:
In the Delta One capsule, an alarm would have alerted the two-person missile crew of those directives. Immediately, over the speaker system, the launch control officers would hear a coded message, giving the command to launch. After verifying the message's authenticity, the launch officers would unlock a small, red, "Emergency War Order" safe above the deputy commander's control panel. Within the box were two launch keys. Each officer would take one key, and insert it into his or her control console. The missileers would then strap themselves into their console chairs and begin the final countdown.
Though missileers never executed an actual launch there was always the distinct possibility that such a moment could come. As the Emergency War Order proceedings illustrate, the missileers had one of the toughest jobs in the Air Force. For nearly 30 years at Delta-01 they worked shifts awaiting orders which fortunately never arrived. These silent soldiers went relatively unnoticed by the general public or even their own fellow Air Force personnel. They protected America from armed aggressors thousands of miles from home and the end result was a valuable contribution to victory in the Cold War.
In 1991, less then two years after the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union began to crumble. The Soviet economy had been faltering for years. The cost of keeping up with advanced American military weapons systems such as the Minuteman had led the Soviet economy to the brink of bankruptcy. The nation's infrastructure began to fall apart. For decades, the Soviets had barely been able to take care of its military needs, but this came at the expense of their citizen's standard of living. By the beginning of the 1990s the Soviet people began to grow increasingly restless as they saw democracy and free enterprise economics take hold in the nations of Eastern Europe that had once professed their loyalty to communism. In a remarkable series of events which included street protests, rallies, and the attempted overthrow of leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union finally dissolved in December of 1991. The Cold War ended with world civilization intact. The arms race subsided and many of the Minuteman Missile facilities were slated for deactivation, including the Minuteman Missiles in South Dakota. These missiles, which had acted as silent sentinels guarding the United States for nearly three decades, had completed their mission.
Questions for Reading 3
1. Why would the missile combat crew have the most stressful job at Delta-01?
2. What is the primary mission of a missileer's duty?
3. Why do think there were so many security procedures for missileers? Do you think other jobs in the Air Force require secret codes and high security? If so, what might those jobs be?
4. What role do you think missileers played in both protecting the citizens of the United States from nuclear attack and helping the nation eventually win the Cold War?
5. Why do you think missileers did not receive the glory and accolades that other military personnel have?
Reading 3 was compiled from Knight, Andy, Interview by Dr. Steven Bucklin. Typed transcript. May 19, 1999; Manson, Craig, Interview by Sue Lamie. Typed transcript. June 27, 2002; Special Resource Study for Minuteman Missile Sites: Management Alternatives and Environmental Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force Legacy Resource Management Program (Denver: National Park Service, 1995); The Missile Plains: Frontline of America's Cold War, Historic Resource Study, Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota (Omaha: Mead & Hunt Inc., 2003).
¹ Knight, Andy, Interview by Dr. Steven Bucklin. Typed transcript. May 19, 1999, 17-18.


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This modell is wonderfully fit for any type of figure. I changed bodice interlining for reversing front piece cutting from diagonal line. It makes big difference to fitting on bodice. I made long sleeves because i need to wear without any jacket under fall sun. Thank you again for viewing my projects. Sewing makes me calm and happy I know you too!
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Dec 27, 2012, 04.02 PMby ink
AMAZING- this dress is stunning on you and the sleeves are amazing on you. Are those sleeves in this pattern? Because your version is so beautiful, I would never have looked at this pattern otherwise. You are stunning in this !
Dec 27, 2012, 02.03 PMby kihli
Great dress! I think it is better anyway with sleeves!
Dec 26, 2012, 11.24 PMby janene
I love your variation on this dress. Amazing colour too. did you cut the outer fabric on the bias too? or just the lining? Wondering if I can get away with using a woven fabric instead of a stretch fabric.
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Jan 14, 2013, 10.18 AMby GULSEN GOKSEL
Sorry for my late reply. Colour and the fabric was for just this dress. I cannot imagine with non stretch fabric. For my experience neck needs to attention because there is no more bust curl for fitting exactly between bust pattern pieces. That means if you use a woven fabric please pay attention for feeding inside of neck side with correct interfacing for holding and standing posture. Good sewing…
Dec 26, 2012, 07.51 PMby carottesauvage
Great with long sleeves. Do you really need stetchy fabric (as it is suggested in the magazine instructions) for this model? Season's greetings!!!
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Jan 14, 2013, 10.21 AMby GULSEN GOKSEL
That was big holiday, wasn't it? I can just find a time that I'm thanking for your nice compliment. Yes, absolutely it's better if you use stretch fabric. Happy New Year too!!!
Dec 26, 2012, 04.36 PMby mojo elgin
I love this dress! It looks great on you. Gorgeous color, perfect fit… :)
Dec 19, 2012, 10.54 AMby flowergirl22
thats a nice colour on you, great loocking dress
Dec 19, 2012, 09.43 AMby ritsel
you made it work! beautifull!
Dec 19, 2012, 08.07 AMby martinK
great cut and shape; it's chic and elegant, beautiful!!!
Dec 19, 2012, 06.38 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous dress. The colour shape and fit are perfect on you x
Dec 19, 2012, 04.17 AMby mwelland
Very beautiful. I love the colour and the cut looks fabulous on you.
Dec 19, 2012, 03.48 AMby heatherrique
Gorgeous color and style on you!
Dec 19, 2012, 02.30 AMby Vicki Williams
Of your three dresses, I have to vote for this one. You look wonderful in it. Great cut, color, fit, style. I love everything about it on you.
Great Job! You obviously know what you're doing!
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Dec 19, 2012, 02.52 AMby GULSEN GOKSEL
Thank you Vicki… Have nice projects
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Singing, Old Order Amish
In their regular biweekly worship service most of the Old Order Amish use the Ausbund exclusively. The hymnbooks are the property of the congregation and are gathered by the oldest hymn leader after each service and carried home in a satchel-like box. For the next service he selects the hymn sung traditionally with the Scripture suitable for that season of the year. (See "Amish service manuals" in MQR 15, 1941, 26-32.) Before the next meeting he marks with a piece of bluish-gray yarn in each book the first hymn to be sung. Arriving at the home where the service is to be held, he distributes the books along the benches in the rooms where the worshipers will sit. As the time for the service approaches, each one present takes up a book and turns to the marked page. Each congregation has several hymn leaders (Vorsänger), who decide among themselves who is to lead each hymn. Since the hymns of the Ausbund are sung to well-known medieval or Reformation folk tunes, and the books contain no music notation, hymn leaders must learn them by ear. Very few ever are able to learn all of the twenty-one tunes used by the Amish; many can lead only six or eight with complete confidence. Because leading a hymn is the only congregational activity usually engaged in by a layman, many members chosen for the lot when a minister is to be selected have first served as hymn leaders.
The Amish leader usually sings all but the last word or syllable of the first line alone, the congregation joining in unison at that point. The entire congregation sings the air; the men and women an octave apart; there is no four-part singing. The second hymn in every Amish worship service is the Loblied (hymn of praise), page 770 in the Ausbund, known in northern Indiana as the Lobgesang. Amish tunes have become embellished, down through the years, with so many glides and grace notes and are sung so slowly that the singing of a single stanza requires many minutes, The Loblied with its four seven-line stanzas seems to be the only one ever sung in full. If the ministers enter the room from their half-hour pre-service counsel meeting before the congregation finishes the Loblied, the singing stops at the end of the next line even though the hymn is not finished. If the ministers have not appeared by the time the Loblied ends, one of the hymn leaders announces further singing by saying, for example, "Page 492, stanza 25." Hymns always are announced by the page and the number of the stanza. When the ministers enter, the singing ends at the end of the next line even though the sentence is not complete. There is no further singing until after the benediction, which is spoken with both speaker and audience remaining seated. One of the hymn leaders then announces two or more stanzas from an appropriate hymn. After the service on the Sunday nearest Christmas, for instance, he says, "Page 545, stanzas 14 and 15," two stanzas dealing with the Incarnation and taken from a doctrinal hymn of 32 nine-line stanzas. On certain occasions Amish young people sing faster tunes like "Beulah Land," adapted to their Amish hymns. This is true of the celebration following a wedding service and at the Sunday evening "singings." Amish young people are fond of singing and usually have good, though untrained, voices.
"Amish Service Manuals." Mennonite Quarterly Review 15 (1941): 26-32.
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Securing Public Spaces, Super Wealthy Asians Vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons, as seen in the London Bridge attack over the weekend and in New York's Times Square last month. The Compton-based company Calpipe is designing security bollards to help make public spaces safer. And novelist Kevin Kwan satirizes the "crazy rich" Asian jet set and their luxurious tastes in his latest book, "Rich People Problems."
Why is Trump so behind on filling staff jobs, establishing concrete policies? Yesterday Donald Trump signed a "decision memo" to revamp the air traffic control system. But there was little legislative detail in the plan. There's not much to other splashy announcements from the White House, including tax cuts and the arms deal with Saudi Arabia. And hundreds of positions are unfilled in federal agencies.


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At one level, this course provides a bridge between the professional
practice and ethics course in part 1a and the courses in business and
e-commerce in part 2. But that is not all.
Economic arguments are starting to appear in a surprising number of
areas of computer science. Economics deals with mechanisms whereby
global equilibria emerge from the behaviour of large numbers of agents
who optimise their utility locally. Economic arguments and techniques
are starting to be used by computer scientists to tackle problems from
network congestion, through resource allocation in distributed
operating systems, to security. As systems become ever larger, these
techniques are likely to become more important. (I got roped into
teaching this course because of my interest in the interaction between
economics and
information security.)
Useful though economic arguments and explanations may be, however,
there are many reasons why market mechanisms may fail, or yield an
equilibrium that is far from the social optimum. Law deals with rules
developed to remedy this. As the Internet has changed from a research
tool to a public utility over the past ten years, legal questions have
become increasingly important to computer scientists.
One of the classic puzzles in game theory is the Prisoner's
dilemma. Two crooks are arrested and questioned separately about a
robbery. The police tell each of them that if he confesses, he will go
free while his partner will get 10 years for the robbery. If he keeps
quiet and his partner confesses, it will be the other way round. If
both confess, they will get five years; while if neither confesses,
they will get a year each for possessing a firearm. Here, the optimal
strategy from the prisoners' collective viewpoint is for both to keep
quiet, but if they cannot both trust the other then the optimal
strategy for each individual is to confess.
This is typical of many problems encountered in real life. Resolving
them is easier where the games are not isolated, but are part of a
series. Then one might, for example, have a strategy of tit for
tat - if you cooperate with me this round, I'll return the favour
next time; but if you stab me in the back, I'll retaliate. There has
been a lot of study of such strategies; they are important not just in
economics, but also in fields such as evolutionary biology where the
evolution of strategies is believed to be the foundation for much
social behaviour in animals.
At the level of routine economic analysis, game theory provides useful
tools for understanding monopoly and oligopoly behaviour. For example,
suppose that it costs $250 to fly a passenger from Boston to London
and back, and only two airlines comnpete on the route. How will they
set prices? Will they collude and charge $500 each, making a healthy
profit, or will they compete for market share and charge $300 or even
$255? What sort of strategies are available, and what sort of
equilibria might emerge? Given the small number of firms in the typical
IT market sector, understanding such issues is important for the
working computer professional.
There are many books and web pages, such as Game Theory .net and the Stanford
Encyclopaedia of Philosphy. (Of particular interest to computer
scientists is the work of Robert Axelrod, one of
the pioneers of the evolution of cooperation, who initiated regular
tournaments of interated prisoner's dilemma which contributed to the
development of genetic programming ideas. The 20th anniversary
competition was won by
computer scientists from Southampton.)
We will then look briefly at a number of the ways in which classical
economic models fail, including the criticisms of Keynes and the
fact that efficiency, welfare and justice do not always coincide.
There is a huge literature on basic economics. Cambridge economics
students cut their teeth on Varian's textbook, `Intermediate
Microeconomics', of which your college library should have many
copies. You might look at chapters 1-6 and 14-16 to begin with. For an
entirely different perspective, try JK Galbraith's `History of
Economics'. A very convenient online reference is the History of Economic Thought
website. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the growth of
anti-globalisation protests, trade is perhaps the most controversial
topic nowadays: the consensus view of economists is probably well
represented by Steven
Suranovic's notes.
Information goods and services markets tend to be characterised by
high fixed costs, low marginal costs and increasing returns to scale,
together with lock-in effects, all of which tend to lead to monopoly
or oligopoly. In many markets, there are also network effects: the
more people use a given service, the more value it is to each user.
So products may take a long time to reach critical mass, then take
off very rapidly (as happened with faxes in 1985-88 and email ten
years later). Network effects can reinforce a tendency to monopoly.
We will look at a number of other ways in which information goods and
services markets can deviate from the classical ideal. These include
asymmetric information, where one party to a contract knows more than
the other. For example, people applying for health insurance typically
know more about their health than the insurance company does, and this
leads to adverse selection effects whereby sick people buy more cover.
(Attitudes to risk in general are well known to be perverse; see John
Adams on Cars,
Cholera and Cows.)
The strategies used by monopolies to maximise their revenue are
important, both as a practical foundation for later work on e-commerce
and as a theoretical underpinning for understanding regulation. These
include marget segmentation, price differentiation and bundling. Why,
for example, does Microsoft prefer to sell Office as a single product
rather than as separate word processor, spreadsheet and other
By far the best book on this is Shapiro and Varian's `Information
Rules'. Varian's textbook also has some useful material, especially in
chapters 32-36. As for online resources, there are many: the Information
Economy page at Berkeley is a reasonable place to start.
A surprising number of things can go wrong with auctions. The British
government's success was not replicated everywhere else; in a number
of countries, phone companies managed to rig the auctions and get
bandwidth cheaply. Often this didn't require any overt criminal
behaviour; the rules of the auctions were such that players could
signal to each other, during the bidding process, which blocks they
were interested in. The resulting tacit collusion meant that the
taxpayers in many places got much less than expected. (The UK
government's adviser, Paul
Klemperer, has some interesting papers on what people did wrong -
see especially `What Really
Matters in Auction Design' for the practicalities. For a proof of
the Revenue Equivalence Theorem, see his Guide to
the Literature, and for its applications see Why
Every Economist Should Learn Some Auction Theory.)
At the theoretical end of things, there has been a huge surge of
interest among computer science researchers in the design of
combinatorial auctions. A combinatorial auction is one in which you
can bid for combinations of objects: `I'll give you $100 for lots 1
and 4 and 7, or I'll give you $80 for lots 3 and 4 and 7'. Finding an
optimal allocation in such an auction is not merely an NP-complete
problem, but is close to many engineering problems of practical
interest - such as finding a low-cost route across a network. (For
more detail and links, see the notes of a course
at Berkeley by Christos Papadimitriou.)
The second talk, by Richard Clayton of FIPR, looks at more specific
issues of law and regulation. There are a number of EU directives
which affect how you can do business on the net, covering subjects
that range from distance selling, electronic commerce, data protection
and electronic signatures to copyright; there are a number of
particular issues relating to their UK implementation. There are also
some specific UK laws, such as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Act, that one might have to watch out for. One of the best-regarded
cyber-law courses is that taught at Berkeley by Pam Samuelson (who
deals mostly with US law issues); her course notes are here.
Intellectual property is increasingly seen as the foundation of
prosperity in the information age, but is increasingly controversial.
Powerful lobby groups, such as Hollywood and the music industry, have
pushed for increased legal protection in ways that have brought them
into conflict with the computer industry and with liberties groups.
There is a nice primer on the economics of intellectual property here; for
further analysis of the economic effects, see papers by Scotchmer,
especially ``The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering''. You might
also be interested in a talk given at the Computer Lab by Richard
Stallman. A paper that has caused much controversy is The
Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis by
Felix Oberholzer and Koleman Strumpf. This shows that file-sharing has
little effect on CD sales and may even help promote sales of the most
popular CDs. It thus rather undermines the music industry's case.
Even within Cambridge University, there has been controversy at a plan
by the previous Vice-Chancellor to assume ownership of almost all
intellectual property rights generated by faculty and research
students. Academics at the Computer Lab and elsewhere organised resistance to
these plans; there is a lot more material linked from here. (In
the end the current VC managed to grab our patent rights but left
us, for now, with our copyrights and 85% of the patent royalties.
A recent major development was the EU IPR Enforcement Directive; in its original form
it would have had some drastic effects on the competitive landscape for
computer and communications companies. It was toned down by
the European Parliament but the Commission are trying once more to pass the
measures the Parliament rejected, such as criminalisation of patent
infringement. Such IP enforcement measures may interact with `Trusted Computing',
which in turn raises a number of policy issues described in a recent
position paper by the German government. (The Germans managed to bully the
Trusted Computing Group into being less hostile to small technology business.)
So `economics and law' is a highly topical subject for people in our trade.
One word of warning: many part 1b students may never have studied a
humanties subject since GCSE. It is a different task from learning a
programming language; it is not sufficient to acquire proficiency at a
small core of manipulative techniques, and figure out the rest when
needed. Breadth matters. You should spend at least half of the study
time you allocate to this subject on general reading. There are many
introductory texts on economics and on law; your college library is
probably a good place to start.
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How many of you make your bed everyday? Me, I'm luck to make it once a week, really once a month. But when I do I feel so good. Walking past the room makes me think how clean it looks. Getting into a made bed makes me think of hotel rooms with clean fresh sheets. And I hope someone else will notice. But tonight as I climbed into bed, still appreciating my handiwork, I realize no ones gonna notice. All 3 boys are asleep. Darrell has already messed up his side as he snores on. Maggie, who might have noticed, is away on an overnight GS trip. And I feel slightly robbed. Like a kid who's brushed her teeth but didn't get the gold star for the chore chart.
Which reminded me of something my mom said to me a few years back. Everything was difficult. Darrell was gone every night on the late shift. I was forced to cook almost every meal. I was constantly cleaning up something, cooking something, doing laundry, picking up toys, vacuuming endless hairballs from the dogs, and no one noticed. No one offered me a gold star, a pay check, or even a thank you, gee the house looks great. It was depressing. I was depressed. I called mom one day after coming to see a whole new meaning of the phrase target practice with Gabe toilet training. And someone was sick, maybe a dog. Anyway, I was fried and mom suggested I write down my accomplishments each day. Things I wanted people to have noticed. Or maybe even that I'd wiped down the bathroom 5 times that day. So I did. I diet show anyone it. But I saw it and my mental gold star was brightly shining on that chart.
I hope you moms get a gold star today and if not,
Know that I'm sending one your way! Happy mothers day!