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I have embarked on a major new research project that I am calling "Media Metrics: The True State of The Modern Media Marketplace.†The goal of this project is ambitious: I hope to paint the most thorough and objective portrait of the true state of the modern media marketplace ever constructed. To do so, my PFF colleague Grant Eskelsen and I have spent months collecting and reproducing as many datasets, charts, tables and other information that we can get our hands on. I will be publishing individual installments online--some short, some long--discussing various trends and developments in the media marketplace. Later, I will pull it all together and create a massive online database for the public, the press, and policymakers to use as a resource.
Why am I doing this? For far too long in this country--especially in recent years--debates about the media, and public policies governing the media marketplace, have been based almost entirely on emotion, not evidence. Critics are fond of using a variety of subjective barometers to gauge the health of the media market. In a sense, that's not really surprising since many of us feel a strong bond with media. It touches our lives in a variety of important ways. It informs and inspires on one hand and shocks and repulses on the other. Consequently, everyone fancies themselves a bit of an armchair critic when it comes to media.
But, in recent years, media criticism has been infused with an unprecedented level of raging emotionalism, so much so that it sometimes borders on mass hysteria. Many people—including a large number of regulators and public policy makers—argue that America's media marketplace is in a miserable state. Some claim that citizens lack choice in media outlets, and that options are just as scarce as ever. Others believe that "localism†in media is dead, or that many groups or niches go underserved because of a lack of true "diversity†in media. Others argue that the market is hopelessly over-concentrated in the hands of few evil media barons who are hell-bent on force-feeding us corporate propaganda. And still others say that the quality of news and entertainment in our society has deteriorated because of a combination of all of the above.
It makes for good copy, but is any of it true?
As a student of journalism and media history, I believe that after objectively evaluating the evidence, a very different and unmistakable conclusion emerges than what most modern media critics suggest: From the perspective of the individual citizen, things are getting better all the time.
Generally speaking, the simplest barometer of the health of our media marketplace is to ask the corny old political question: "Are you better off today than you (or your parents) were XX years ago?†I believe there are a number of objective metrics than can be used to prove that we as a society are better off in almost every way possible. Indeed, I hope to show that we are blessed to live in a golden age of media. We have access to more inputs and outlets, more and better news options, more diverse information and entertainment sources, more local fare, more media gadgets, more ways to interact with our fellow citizens, and so on, and so on.
This new project will offers a wealth of supporting evidence about the true state of America's media marketplace and prove this point.
Analytical Framework
In addition to introducing you to the project in this first installment, I also wanted to offer an analytical framework that researchers and other interested parties can use to evaluate the true state of the media marketplace.
Going back to my business school days in the early 1990s, I have long been enamored with the seminal work of Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, who developed several analytical tools to evaluate the state of industry and markets. In addition to his "5-Factor Competitive Forces†model, Porter also devised what is known as "value chain†(firm-level) and "value system†(industry-wide) forms of market analysis. Those tools can help us think about how firms or industry sectors compete, innovate, and create value. They allow us to unpack the individual elements that make up a company or an industry and then determine the current status of those individual elements.
Borrowing some of the concepts Porter set forth in those models, I have constructed a different sort of value chain model in an attempt to analyze the health of the overall media marketplace. I believe the following "4-Layer Media Model†offers a useful way to evaluate the state of the media marketplace from one era to the next.
Exhibit 1
This model can help us get a feel for just how much the media marketplace has changed over the past few decades by breaking down media into four major components or layers:
Layer 1: Product or content options: Who creates media? What is it that citizens are consuming?
Layer 2: Distribution mechanisms: Who delivers media? How is it distributed to the viewing and listening public?
Layer 3: Receiving or display devices: How is media received (seen and heard) by consumers?
Layer 4: Personal storage options: How do citizens retain media and information?
Using these layers, we can analyze what the media marketplace looked like in a sample year, say 1970, compared to today. Here's my attempt to do so for 1970…
Exhibit 2
… and for 2007.
Exhibit 3
[Note: Larger images are available on my Flickr page by clicking on the charts above.]
I apologize for the small font size, but there was just so much that needed to be included on the 2007 value chain that I had to shrink the font down to get everything to fit on one page. But that tells us something, doesn't it! The very fact that I struggled to fit so much on this 2007 value chain illustrates the extent to which our media environment has improved for the better.
In every single layer, we have more and better options at our disposal. In the first (product or content) layer, we have more forms of media content being produced than ever before. The old analog world (print, TV and radio) of media scarcity has given way to a media cornucopia of unprecedented abundance (computers, Internet, blogs, video games, mobile devices, satellite radio, iPods, and much more, including even more of the old print, TV and radio sources).
Likewise, in the second layer of the value chain, the number of distribution paths or delivery mechanisms to the home has expanded considerably. And in the third layer, the number and nature of receiving and display devices used by consumers have changed dramatically since the days of black-and-white TVs, transistor radios, and black rotary dial telephones.
Finally, a look at fourth layer illustrates how many more personal storage options citizens have today. In the past, it was virtually impossible for citizens to store their media for extended periods of time (except for personal book and album collections). Today, by contrast, every type of media content can be stored and then consumed at our leisure wherever we find ourselves in this world.
Imagine traveling back in time and trying to explain to the average citizen of 1970 these changes. It would be difficult to even put it into words and concepts they could understand such that they could fully appreciate these radical new media content, delivery, consumption, and storage options. How would you explain blogging or podcasting to them? Or e-mail, RSS feeds, iPods or the iPhone, PDFs, IPTV, VoIP, TiVo, PlayStationPortable, or social networking? Think about it. I was born in 1969 and I still have a picture of my grandfather holding me in his arms while sitting in front of an old gramophone and a floor radio that was the size of small refrigerator. That was just 38 years ago. According to my mother, there were no other media sources in the home except for a weekly newspaper. I can't believe I lived in that house! It's just stunning to think how far we've come in such a short time.
Again, the installments in this series will illustrate exactly how far we have come and how much better off we as individuals and a society are today than ever before in terms of media options. And the analytical framework I have presented here will guide this endeavor. I will be examining developments in each media layer and providing datasets, charts, graphs, tables, etc., that illustrate the true state of the media marketplace.
As we go along, I invite you to tell me how I might improve my work or tell this story even more effectively. Because I believe there is a very good story to tell and I want to tell it right.
[Up next… In part 2, we'll look at the growth of household access to various media technologies over the past 40 years.]
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First Day of the Okinawan Festival
Today was the first day of the Okinawan Festival. Behind me are two panels from the Okinawan Sumo exhibit.
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Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani Park
The annual Okinawan Festival will be held at Kapiolani Park on Saturday, August 31st and Sunday, September 1st. Here is a link to the Okinawan Festival website:
Here is a link to a map of the site:
Here is a link to the entertainment program for both days:
This year, I (the Hawaii Karate Museum) will be giving two exhibits: (1) the S. S. China steamship (the ship that brought the first Okinawans to Hawaii in 1900), and (2) Okinawan Sumo. I will be exhibiting photographs and artifacts in the Cultural Tent. There is no admission for the Cultural Tent.
Here is a link to my handout: seinenkai.com/handout.pdf
I hope that you will be able to attend the festival. It is a great cultural experience and lots of fun. Karate is from Okinawa, so our art is part of Okinawan culture. To better understand Karate, we should study Okinawan culture. Please make sure to stop by and say hello at my exhibits.
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The Sandusky High School football team about 1912:Pictured are:
Top row: C. E. Fleming, Leonard Osberg, George Singler, Frederick Slackford
Middle: Charles Abele, Frank Field, Howard Earnshaw, Wilbur Schoepfle, Estes Drake, Bob Judson
Front: Bill Busch, Roy Hazen, Wilson Harris, Gene Close, Don Hand, George Giesler, Art Wieland
Charles E. Fleming would go on to teach chemistry at Sandusky High School for thirty four years. Leonard Osberg served three two year terms as the Mayor of Vermilion in the 1940's. Robert Judson retired as plant manager from the American Crayon Company in 1964, having been with the company for forty seven years. Wilbur Schoepfle was a Navy Ensign during World War One. He majored in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. Wilbur moved to California, and lost his life in an automobile accident in Orange County, California in 1941. The football team photograph pictures the young men with all their hopes and dreams ahead of them, years before the two world wars were thought of, and without the responsibilities of a job and family.
Visit the Archives Research Center of the Sandusky Library to learn more about the history of the people who have made Sandusky and Erie County their home.
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Sandusky High School Football, 1912
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My Grandfather was Gene Close - Close Boot Shop - would love to see pics of the shop and family. My uncle Bill Close worked there during WWII. Would like to see any articles for related families in Sandusky. James/Jackson St, Close/Decatur Street, Hoyer/Doris/ Emerson Hazel & Gordon James. Bill James/179 Scott Circle/Dedham, MA
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Hope College senior Reed Swift of Midland has received the July "Senator's Award for Men in Mentoring" from State Senator Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland).
Hope College senior Reed Swift of Midland has received the July "Senator's Award for Men in Mentoring" from State Senator Wayne Kuipers (R-Holland).
Swift is a mentor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Lakeshore. He received the award during a ceremony on Friday, July 23.
The award consists of a framed certificate signed by Kuipers and Governor Jennifer Granholm, and a $50 gift certificate to the City Vu Bistro inside City Flats Hotel in Holland.
Kuipers represents the 30th District, which includes all of Ottawa County as well as the City of Grandville and SpartaTownship in Kent County. The Senator's Award for Men in Mentoring is intended to highlight the importance of mentoring by males in particular, since nationwide two thirds of all youth in need of mentors are male but only one third of mentors are male. Kuipers presents it monthly to the programs that are partnered with the Ottawa County Mentoring Collaborative (OCMC), including Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Lakeshore, with each program able to identify one recipient per year.
Swift is majoring in economics and management and minoring in organizational leadership practice. His activities at Hope have included the college's circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society. He is a 2007 graduate of H.H. Dow High School and the son of Elizabeth Swift Christy of Midland.


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Fox's Alisyn Camerota and Charles Payne attacked paid sick day laws as job-killing "entitlements" but ignored studies indicating such laws protect vulnerable workers while having little or no negative impact on businesses.
On the March 29 broadcast of America's Newsroom, the two criticized a paid sick leave law poised to pass New York's City Council. The law would require companies with at least 15 employees to give full-time and some part-time workers five paid sick days per year, which advocates say would provide paid sick days for one million New Yorkers who don't currently have them.
Camerota opened the segment by saying the law means that "business owners are taking it on the chin here in New York City," and later hyped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's concerns that the law "could crush New York's fragile economy right now." Payne agreed and said Bloomberg is "absolutely right," adding, "We're talking about very thin [profit] margins, and if you have this many sick days and people simply take them, when things get tough, there won't be jobs for those same people. ... The smaller businesses cannot afford it."
Camerota noted that paid sick day laws are becoming a trend nationwide, but failed to inform her viewers that in at least one city, the law has been a success. A paid sick leave law passed in San Francisco has benefited workers and has not harmed businesses there.
The National Partnership for Women & Families, which leads a national paid sick days campaign, noted in a fact sheet that since taking effect in 2007, San Francisco's law, which also lets workers to earn up to five paid sick days annually, "job growth has been consistently higher in San Francisco than in neighboring counties that lack a paid sick days law," as has the "overall number of businesses."
And a study conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found that "[e]mployer profitability did not suffer" as a result of San Francisco's law. The report noted that "[s]ix out of seven employers did not report any negative effect on profitability as a result" of the law, and further found that "[t]wo-thirds of employers support the [law]."
The National Partnership for Women & Families notes on another fact sheet that paid sick laws can actually help businesses by reducing turnover and increasing worker productivity -- the fact sheet states that employees coming to work sick costs the national economy $160 billion annually "in lost productivity."
Workers, of course, also reported benefiting from San Francisco's law. As the IWPR study noted, "More than half of San Francisco employees reported benefitting" from the law and "[p]arents with paid sick days were more than 20 percent less likely to send a child with a contagious disease to school than parents who did not have paid sick days."
During the Fox segment, Payne also implied that workers will abuse the law, saying that in his own small business, "90 percent of my employees take every sick day, even when they're not sick."
But the National Partnership for Women & Families noted on another fact sheet that workers with paid sick days "only take one additional day off per year on average than workers without paid sick days."
Few workers are abusing San Francisco's law. IWPR found that "[e]vidence suggests that it is rare for employees to misuse paid sick days," adding, "[d]espite the availability of either five or nine sick days under [San Francisco's law], the typical worker with access used only three paid sick days during the previous year, and one-quarter of employees with access used zero paid sick days."
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CHAPEL HILL � So seamless were his opportunities and his shooting stroke early on that it seemed as if Reggie Bullock had people changing allegiances Saturday afternoon.
�Go Reggie!� a Maryland fan shouted from behind the Terrapins bench, catching Bullock�s attention after he buried another 3-pointer in the first half, the free-flowing foundation upon which North Carolina built its disjointed 62-52 victory in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball at the Smith Center.
Go Reggie?
Is that some kind of sarcastic smack talk?
�I was like, �That�s got to be my cousins,� � said Bullock, the junior swingman, after he finished with a career-high 24 points.
Technically, it was the mother of Maryland guard Nick Faust. Bullock, who was born in Baltimore, before growing up in Kinston, discovered last season that he and Faust are distant cousins.
Back to the issue at hand, so was Mama Faust getting mouthy?
�Nah,� Bullock said. �I believe she was actually cheering for me. � It�s a family thing, I guess, all fun and games.�
With the Tar Heels (12-5 overall, 2-2 ACC) harassing Maryland (14-4, 2-3) into mistakes, Bullock and James Michael McAdoo asserting themselves like the weapons they can be and this building roaring in approval of what became a 22-point lead, it was easy to get lost in the baby-blue-tinted blur of the first half � �the best half we�ve played all season,� as McAdoo and Marcus Paige said later.
Bullock rifled in eight points during the game�s opening 86 seconds. He poured in 15 of North Carolina�s first 24 points � his third 3 of the first 10� minutes sparking the chirping from Faust�s mom � and went on to score more first-half points (21) than Maryland managed as a team (20).
�Bananas,� McAdoo said. �He just looked great. And none of it was selfish. All of it was in our system, and that�s Carolina basketball.�
More vintage Tar Heels moments at the other end of the court conspired against the Terrapins, who, three days following their court-storming edging of North Carolina State, ultimately were undone by a bumbling beginning.
Fifteen of Maryland�s 21 turnovers were coughed up in the first half. The Terrapins, disrupted by North Carolina�s run-and-jump traps on the perimeter and guards dropping down for double-teams in the post, had an unsightly 14-1 turnover-to-assist ratio at one juncture during the last five minutes of the first half.
That was the same timeframe in which McAdoo attacked for eight of his 19 points. In the last 18 seconds of the first half, McAdoo�s cutting bucket inside � nicely assisted by Paige � preceded Dexter Strickland�s steal and flying, one-hand dunk that sent the Tar Heels bouncing toward the tunnel and their locker room ahead 42-20.
�We came out with a lot of intensity, just pressuring right away from the beginning,� Paige said.
�When we really go out there and play with a sense of urgency, the crowd�s into it, we�re into it and we�re just out there losing ourselves in the game,� McAdoo said. �It�s just so much more fun.�
And then it stopped, the avalanche that appeared poised to break loose giving way to a flat, 20-point second half.
North Carolina�s lead never dipped below double digits, but focusing on that aspect would be missing the point, coach Roy Williams said.
�The second half we got away from being quite as active defensively and we really got away from what had gotten us the lead on the offensive end,� he said. �We were really, really good in the first half. I want our guys to focus on that. And then the second half, I want us to be able to show them on tape and watch it and learn from that.�
Or for a more succinct description, Williams went on to say: �The first half, it was really, really pretty. And then the second half it was really, really ugly. Young guys do that.�
Bullock, who McAdoo had pegged at halftime for a possible 40-point performance, missed all except one of his six shots from the field in the second half. He connected on his fourth 3 with 5:50 remaining, putting the Tar Heels up 60-43, one of only two North Carolina field goals in the game�s final nine minutes.
�I know I probably could�ve had more than what I had,� Bullock said. �It�s just up to me to be able to knock those shots down and finish well. I missed some easy, point-blank ones. There were some shots that were wide open that I�ve got to be able make.�
So for Bullock and the Tar Heels, there was a distinct contrast to sort through by the end.
�It was feeling good in the first half,� Bullock said. �I wasn�t thinking. I was just catching the ball and shooting. I was feeling it and just trying to get the crowd in it and just trying to play with a lot of emotion, play with that sense of urgency.�
-- TIP-INS �: Dez Wells, the Raleigh native and Xavier transfer, scored 21 points to lead Maryland. Alex Len, the Terrapins� 7-foot-1 center, added 10 points. � McAdoo grabbed 11 rebounds and finished with a double-double. � Bullock�s previous career best was a 23-point effort in November 2011 against Tennessee State. � Bullock (24 points) and McAdoo (19) combined for 43 of North Carolina�s 62 points, or 69.4 percent of the team�s scoring. � As for where his family tree intersects with Faust�s, Bullock said the Maryland guard is �kin to me by my mom�s dad�s side of the family.� � The Tar Heels� 62 points were their lowest in a victory against Maryland since February 1985. Maryland�s 52 points marked its weakest output in the series since January 1982. � North Carolina reserve guard Leslie McDonald missed his third game in a row due to a knee issue.


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There are only 2 months left before Blizzard/World of Warcraft (WoW) releases the Legion expansion pack (expac). While many subscribers left a few months after the release of Warlords of Draenor, there was a core group of gamers that stuck with World of Warcraft for social connections and RPG opportunities. World of Warcraft is our "relaxation" home. It's that special time we have after the dinner dishes are washed and the kids are in bed. We can talk to our friends and family while we play and are right there at home if an emergency pops up or someone wakes from a nightmare.
That being said, there is a very special time in the expac release cycle when you can get a lot done relatively easily. It's the time loyal players finally feel like Blizzard cares about the fact they didn't leave when the rest of the players got bored. These are the golden days where you have time to play your alts, catch up on achievements and do everything you can to prepare yourself for new content.
I was surprised at a comment someone made on a YouTube video regarding the cost to play the game (one of the actors used the word "extortion" in the video). In fact, the game can be played for free by purchasing a game-time token for in-game gold. The person in question was taken aback that I said you could get the gold in game to cover the token in a day, or a week if you didn't want to spend all day doing it. Not only do I think it could be done if you're an extremely focused person, but I am going to share some information about what those of us who stayed the entire time were able to enjoy.
First and foremost, the mission tables (both regular and shipyard) have special treasure opportunities if you have a Level 3 Lunarfall Inn/Shipyard in your garrison. Once you have a Level 3 Inn, you'll receive the Blingtron missions.
The Inn also gives you the opportunity to determine your follower's traits. As you can see Treasure Hunter is the golden ticket. While they may take a little longer to level up, you are ensured extra gold on any mission they participate in. Once you make all your followers Treasure Hunters, it turns your Blingtron Missions into something very special (there is also an opportunity to purchase a re-roll token from your garrison quartermaster for those followers gained through quests, dungeons and raids).
No doubt, you've read about the Blingtron missions. Like everything else, however, it's an RNG decision. Some weeks you might get them on multiple alts on multiple days, some weeks you won't see them at all. There are similar missions in the shipyard table, usually worth 750 gold. While the shipyard table is a little harder to balance with crews who will double your treasure and crews that will give you free ship parts, it is still possible to make large amounts of money from ship missions. Just make sure you can afford the ship parts that will give you the highest eligible percentage chance to complete your gold missions.
Another end-expac unused gem is Looking For Raid (LFR). You may shirk away from ANYTHING that remotely resembles LFR, I know most serious raiders do. This is probably why the Savage Satchels are now giving out 500+ gold for doing a single LFR wing (trust me, you'll earn every 500 of those gold pieces putting up with people).
On top of the 154 gold and variable valor seen above (75 Valor for High Maul and Blackrock Foundry raid wings, 150 Valor for HFC raid wings), the 500+ gold Savage Satchels are probably one of the MOST productive uses of your gold collecting time. Yes, you'll be dragged through each boss in out of control zerg style and you may want to throw something at a wall at some point, but if you are one of the people who prefer to earn their game time instead of paying out cash, this is a good way to do it. You not only get valor you can use to upgrade your main and your alt's gear, but the percentage drop rate for tomes is higher in LFR if you're still working on your legendary ring.
You can do Savage Satchel raid wings MORE than one time per evening/week. The amount of gold to complete the wing is lower, but your 500+ satchel gold and all the other goodies a satchel holds (account bound baleful trinkets and runes) are still there. With 12 LFR raid wings available, you'll make a conservative 7800 in gold alone for one complete run through raids if you can find satchels for each wing. If you have no need for the baleful tokens, you can convert them into gear and sell them to your garrison vendors. It only took my hunter one evening of play to run through all 12 one time (yes, I said hunter as in DPS).
These are the types of opportunities you get at the end of an expac. While many other players moved on to another game after getting one character to level 100, the rest of us took advantage of the opportunities to make gold for the things we've always wanted but couldn't afford. While I don't have a millionaire's gold balance (I can't play as much as someone with a healthier physical constitution), I have been able to use my extra gold to buy some battle pets and help others in our raid group and my guild here and there.
Blizzard has already let us know the mission tables will be nerfed into oblivion to keep people from staying in their garrisons (don't care – at the end of the day it's my REAL home and that's where I'll be logging out). Who knows if satchels will even be offered in Legion?
Professions will be much harder to process. Craftable gear will require rep grinds. Gear upgrade reagents like the Blood of Sargeras will be Bind on Pickup (BoP), making your gathering alts useless as they won't be able to trade what they've gathered with anyone. (I don't have a Beta Key, but this is what I've been told – BTW if you have a Beta Key you don't have time to use, please let me know! I'm dying to get into the Beta Server to start making notes and my contest luck has been about as bad as my Hearthstone RNG luck.)
Let's enjoy these last days of Warlords of Draenor and the easy gold they offer while they are still here to be enjoyed. 🙂


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I investigated how an audience's 'point of view' and their perceptions affect the dimensions and shadows in an artwork. Both light and shadow are intangible; they can be easily manipulated from minimal to extreme. How we view shadow – the 'negative' effect or the lack of light – depends on the direction and intensity of its source. As we move around the object, our point of view changes.
Darkness, or shadow, is the opposite of light. From the shadows it is perceived as darkness; from a position in the light, it is shadow. That is my negative illumination theory.


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August 2010
Breaking through the Barriers to Biofuels
Expert discusses the science and challenges of using pyrolysis to transform biomass into fuels
Cheap, renewable diesel from biomass would improve our nation's energy security; however, economical processes of converting biomass into fuels don't exist, yet. Professor George Huber of the University of Massachusetts is trying to change that.
Cheap, renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from agricultural leftovers and other biomass sources would improve our nation's energy and environmental security; however, economical processes of converting biomass into fuels don't exist, yet. Professor George Huber of the University of Massachusetts discussed the chemical challenges to creating fuels using two pyrolysis-based approaches at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Frontiers in Catalysis Science and Engineering Seminar Series.
Why pyrolysis: Pyrolysis involves rapid heating of lignocellulosic plant matter, the tough fibrous material that forms the cell walls of plants, in the absence of oxygen. The lignocellulose decomposes, creating 300-plus smaller compounds that are released as vapor. By collecting and cooling the vapors, Huber and his team recover these compounds as bio-oil.
"This oil is the cheapest liquid fuel made from biomass," said Huber. Bio-oil costs less than $1 per gallon of gasoline energy equivalence, making it cheaper in cost than gasoline. However, bio-oil has a ways to go. It is acidic, unstable, and agglomerates with time. Huber and his colleagues are working to eliminate these challenges and turn biomass into affordable, renewable fuel.
Using pyrolysis to create fuels: Huber and his collaborators are exploring catalytic chemistry that converts the raw bio-oil into the types of fuels commonly used today including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Their work includes using hydrogen to assist in both the removal of oxygen via cleavage of carbon-oxygen bonds and carbon-carbon bond scission. In addition, the reactions can result in the addition of hydrogen to the resulting fuel compatible molecules.
Speeding it up: Huber's team also added a recyclable zeolite catalyst to the pyrolysis process. The resulting reactions produce aromatic or ring-based molecules that are used as fuels. The key reactions occur quickly in the zeolite pores at high temperatures.
The size and structure of the zeolite pores influence the speed and efficiency of the reactions. If the pores are too big or too small, a solid carbon deposit is created that poisons the catalyst. Huber and his team determined that the zeolite pores need to be 6 to 6.5 angstroms wide—the width of a few atoms. By understanding the chemistry and optimizing the catalysts and reactor design, Huber's group achieved up to 60% fuel yield with biomass.
"Chemical catalysis and chemical engineering are critical 21st century needs to help make renewable energy a practical reality," said Huber.
George Huber: A chemical engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts, Huber is a leader in biofuels and catalysis. He is a sought-after scientist, who led the biomass fuels breakout session for DOE's national assessment of the catalysis research needs in fuels, and organized the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored workshop on "Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels." His work was recognized in 2009 on the cover of the NSF's Science Nation (see video). He has been greatly influenced by the catalysis research at Pacific National Northwest Laboratory.


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Charles Darwin turns 200 this year – and in a neat coincidence, his book On The Origin of Species is 150 this year as well. (Very considerate of him to wait exactly 50 years to publish, so we can celebrate all at once.)
|That's one angry-looking turkey.
From National Geographic's
Morphed: From Dinosaur to Turkey
Darwin's theories continue to revolutionize science – and as you might have noticed, they're still kind of controversial, even a century and a half later.
This weekend, National Geographic is coordinating a live blogging event where you'll have the opportunity to debate the facts and ask questions of several experts on the subject.
Check out their blog for the experts' bios and information about the event; you can also submit questions in advance. it's taking place this Sunday, Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. CT/7 p.m. ET in conjunction with the premiere of Morphed, a new series showing various species evolve as natural forces impact them over millions of years.
If that's just not enough Darwin for you, come to the Museum this weekend for Darwin Day! You can see live animals, study adaptations in insects, and help create an evolutionary timeline that runs the length of the entire Museum, meet paleontologists, and explore representations of human evolution. In conjunction with Darwin2009, we're also hosting Darwin-related lectures and classes all year long. You can also read more about Charles Darwin in anthropology curator Dirk's post, An 'Aha" Moment Worth Celebrating.


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Black History Month: Oney Fitzpatrick Jr.
Dr. Oney Fitzpatrick died Monday, June 1, 2015, of a heart attack. Through his wisdom, teaching and selfless leadership he has touched countless lives. A member of Lamar's faculty since 1991, he was associate professor of psychology and associate provost for student retention. The funeral, coordinated by the Gabriel Funeral Home in Port Arthur, will take place at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday, June 6, at 2 p.m. Visitation will precede the service from noon until 2 p.m.
••• profile published in February 2013 •••
In his 21 years at Lamar University, Oney Fitzpatrick Jr., 55, has witnessed prestige and growth as well as prejudice and intolerance. He has watched thousands of students graduate, many his own, and said that helping them reach that goal has been his greatest accomplishment.
"Some come in and aren't really sure what it is they want to do or even whether a college education is for them," said Fitzpatrick, associate provost for student retention at Lamar and long-time psychology professor. "To see them get all the way through and happily dance across the stage is probably the biggest thrill."
Fitzpatrick said that although many professors don't like to attend graduation because it gets repetitive and old, he goes out of his way to make it to each ceremony because it is an important day for the students.
"I like to be there to watch," he said. "Graduation is about the students — it's their day. I just think we (should) look at it from that perspective."
As much of a joy as it is for him to see his students on stage, Fitzpatrick said that it is as much of a tragedy for students who never reach that benchmark.
According to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education's website, "the nationwide college graduation rate for black students stands at an appallingly low rate of 43 percent. This figure is 20 percentage points below the 63 percentage rate for white students." Fitzpatrick said that the low percentage of graduating African-American males could be attributed to several factors.
"I think the problems go back even further than (college)," Fitzpatrick said. "High school graduation rates among African-American males tend to be low. I think it is probably at least partially a societal issue. African-American males tend to be labeled a certain way, and unfortunately, many fall into the trap of actually fulfilling that role that has been laid upon them. In psychology, you might call it a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are told that you are this and you're told that you act this way, eventually you start to believe it and you'll act out that way."
Fitzpatrick said another factor is a lack of mentoring.
"There are not a lot of African-American males that are professors that teach at universities, so I think if one is looking for a role model, it can be very difficult to find someone to model yourself after," he said. "I think that has probably been my biggest challenge throughout my entire educational experience, both as a student and now as a professor."
The number of African-American males pursuing higher education degrees beyond a bachelor's is decreasing, according to Fitzpatrick.
"I think part of it is the fact that economically, many individuals have to go to work right away to support families, and going to school is kind of viewed as self-forced poverty," he said. "You've made the decision not to go into a workforce. You've decided to put off making real money until you get out of school, and I think for a lot of people, that's a difficult thing to do, especially if you have responsibilities that require you to bring some kind of income into a family."
Deciding to forgo the workforce and pursue higher education was not a difficult decision for Fitzpatrick, however.
"Really the decision of going to college starts around age 7 or 8," he said. "If you don't plant those seeds then by making that a priority, then it's really too late. It was just understood in my family, growing up, that you go to college. It was never a question in my mind as to whether I was going to pursue higher education — it was really just an expectation."
Fitzpatrick, who grew up in a blue-collar area of Ohio, said his father, Oney Fitzpatrick Sr., held a white-collar job and was a great inspiration to him.
"Where I grew up in Northern Ohio, the steel industry was really big at the time," he said. "We had three auto assembly plants within 30 miles of where I lived. It was kind of assumed that when you grew up you would either go work in one of several steel mills, the shipyard or one of the auto assembly places. I didn't want to do that. I saw (my father) get up. He got dressed, had the suit and all that kind of stuff. I said, 'I don't know exactly what he does, but I would much rather go to work that way then have to come back covered with dirt.'"
Fitzpatrick attended Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio, and started out with majoring in chemistry, but changed his major after two years of study.
"I was bored out of my mind," he said. "You had to build these contraptions to boil stuff, and then you'd get a beaker at the end that would give you some precipitant. You spent an hour and a half building this thing, and then you put all these chemicals together. Then you have to watch it for four hours, and I was just like, 'I can't do this.'"
Fitzpatrick fell in love with social science after only a couple of classes, he said.
"I guess it was my destiny," he said. "I had a psychology professor that just blew me away. I played football in school, and he related sports to psychology. It just clicked."
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Wooster in 1980, Fitzpatrick earned a Master of Science in Developmental Psychology from the University of Dayton in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Houston in 1989.
After a two-year stint at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Fitzpatrick came to Lamar in 1991 as an assistant professor of psychology and was named Professor of the Year in his first year.
"When you come to a new location, you wonder if you've made the right move, and with that it cemented in my mind that this is the place I need to be," he said.
Lamar has afforded him great opportunity for advancement, Fitzpatrick said.
"I've been able to move through the ranks here," he said. "I started as a psychology professor and have been able to move up. Sometimes it's very difficult to move up within an institution."
While there have been several fond memories of flourishing growth and accomplishment, there have also been a few memories Fitzpatrick said he would just as soon forget.
"Following 9/11, a lot of the Muslim students caught a lot of grief because people have a tendency to lump everybody together," he said. "I saw a lot of students walk around almost in fear because they didn't know if they were going to be attacked by Americans who were mad at Muslims."
Two years before the attack on the twin towers, Fitzpatrick traveled to Morocco, which is 99.9 percent Muslim, during a sabbatical.
"My whole perspective on Islam had really changed because I actually lived in that environment," he said. "There were so many students and people I had contact with over there sending me e-mails (after 9/11) expressing their sorrows and concerns. There are bad people that are Muslim, but there are bad Christians, too. You just have to evaluate people for who they are and not lump them all together."
In a 2006 article by Fitzpatrick, he exposed some of the attitudes and prejudices of everyday Lamar students toward the religion.
"You hear all these things that happen in the news and someone will say it was a Muslim, or it was a terrorist," Fitzpatrick said. "I wanted to do an evaluation of college students and what they believed about Islam and Muslims, what they knew or thought they knew, and compare that to the reality of the religion."
The results of the survey were undesirable, Fitzpatrick said.
"I expected them to have much more positive reactions and feelings than they did," he said. "It was surprising how little people knew about Islam. My whole point was if we don't know about something, then what we've done is build in a level of fear. If college students don't get it, what does that say about the rest of society? Because college students are the ones that are supposed to be educated and have more of an open-mind."
Fitzpatrick said that results showed that students knew very little about Muslims, and that the sources they got their information from were not always reliable.
"Here's a group of individuals who are by definition smart and their knowledge about (Islam) is poor at best," he said. "You've got all these Muslims out here and you don't know anything about them. We're creating this tension between us when maybe there's a lot more overlap of what we believe in than what we don't."
When Fitzpatrick isn't thinking about how to bring together students of differing cultural backgrounds or about how to solve the pressing issues of the university, he said he enjoys unwinding with a paintbrush.
"At one time I thought I wanted to go into commercial art," he said. "When I get a chance, I like to draw and paint."
Fitzpatrick said that he likes to paint sports pictures, landscapes, musicians or whatever comes to mind.
"It's just relaxing," he said. "It's a way for me to create my own little world."
Fitzpatrick also enjoys spending time with his wife, Cheryl Black-Fitzpatrick, who also works at Lamar as senior administrative associate in the communication department. Oney and Cheryl have been married for over four years but have known each other for more than 16.
"It's been a great marriage," Black-Fitzpatrick said. "I married my best friend. He is the most sensitive and attentive man I've ever met."
While they do not have any children together, Oney has a 17-year-old daughter, Epiphany Fitzpatrick, studying chemistry at Pepperdine University in California, and Cheryl has a 31-year-old son, Marcus Black, and a 7-year old grandson, Jacob Black.
Oney's heart is in teaching, and he has had a lot of success at Lamar because he is a man of integrity, is favored by the students and loves what he does, Cheryl said.
"Student interaction is my favorite thing about teaching. I don't get to teach as much as I used to because of my current position, but I get to teach one class a year," he said. "(Students) are the reason that I am here. Students keep your mind active and force you to stay up on your field. It's fascinating the questions that (students) come up with."
Cheryl said that she once took a class from Oney while she was pursuing her degree and found his class to be rather challenging.
"I don't think I got higher than a C in his class," she said. "When he gave the first test, I didn't think it was the right test for the class, so I tried to correct him. I said, 'Excuse me, Professor Fitzpatrick. I don't think this test is the right test.' He said, 'No, it's the right test. This just tells me you haven't applied the information I've taught.'"
Cheryl said that Oney is a believer in maximizing a student's potential.
"He's not going to push you, but if you seem even a little interested in information or knowledge, then he is available," she said.
However, as close as the two may be, Oney said he hasn't been able to convince Cheryl to let him to buy a dog yet.
"I grew up around dogs, but Cheryl is deathly afraid of dogs," he said. "We've been negotiating over the last three or four years about getting a dog. She says there was only one dog in her existence that she ever got along with. Some people are just afraid, and (for her) that's how it is when it comes to dogs."
"I'm terrified of dogs, but it's not a deal breaker," Cheryl said. "We had an opportunity to get a puppy, but the litter died, so that was my sign."
While Fitzpatrick might not own a dog anytime soon, he did say that there is no doubt he plans to remain at Lamar for a long time to come.
"I really like what I'm doing now. I'm involved with student retention efforts here at Lamar which to me is very important," Fitzpatrick said. "I think that Lamar has done an outstanding job of attracting students. When I first got here, we had a little over 7,000 students, and now we are close to 14,000."
Fitzpatrick said that while it is great that Lamar can attract so many students, his job is to find ways to keep them enrolled and to encourage them to reach their goal of graduating.
"Could I spend the rest of my days (at Lamar) doing this kind of thing? I think, yes," he said. "Because I see it as that big of a problem and an issue for the university. Our growth is going to be dependent upon how we can get students in and get them through the system. There is a lot to be done."


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If the wildly successful Cash for Clunkers program proved anything, it's that with the right kind of financial incentive Americans will buy small, fuel-efficient cars. Armed with rebates of up to $4,500 from the federal government, consumers snapped up cars such as the Honda Civic and Ford Focus. They did pretty much the same thing last summer when gasoline prices in the U.S. roared past four bucks a gallon.
And what happens when high gas prices or government handouts go away? Americans buy what they want. And it's usually not compact cars but powerful family sedans and sport-utility vehicles. That presents a problem for automakers. Over the next 18 months, the industry is bringing to market nine all-new small cars and subcompacts. Now the clunker program is over, and gasoline, currently hovering at $2.62 a gallon nationally, is expected to stay below $3 for the foreseeable future. So carmakers, even traditionally strong ones like Honda and Toyota, could be forced to dangle discounts before buyers. That, of course, would hammer per-car profits, especially for the Detroit Three.
Why are so many small cars appearing when gas prices are low? Because automakers must plan new vehicles three to four years ahead, plus fuel economy rules all but require more of them. When fuel prices began marching upward in 2005, everyone from General Motors and Ford to Mazda and Kia started designing and engineering small models. The first fruits of those efforts are now showing up on dealer lots. Kia is just launching its Forte compact and the small, boxy Soul. Mazda has a new 3 compact on the market. GM and Ford each have three new small cars coming by the end of 2010. By 2013, all those new models will add 600,000 cars worth of production to a market niche that has traditionally sold about 2.5 million, according to IHS Global Insight.
It is hard to make decent money on small cars unless you have a long history of making and selling them, as do the Japanese. U.S. automakers do not, and it was instructive to watch the profit roller coaster when high gas prices created a miniboom in these vehicles last summer. In May 2008 gas prices hit a national average of $3.76, and small-car sales surged a remarkable six percentage points, to 17 percent of the overall U.S. market. Suddenly, GM had decent economies of scale: Cars that once lost as much as $3,000 apiece were closer to break-even despite discounts of up to $900 each.
But the gas-price shock had worn off by August (though oil prices didn't begin their historic retreat for another few months), and small-car sales slumped. By then, GM had ramped up production and soon small cars were piling up at dealers. Carmakers turned up the discounts, and GM later had to take off the third shift at its Ohio small-car plant. Consider this, too: While the clunker program clearly drove buyers into showrooms, carmakers spent about $1,900 per compact to help spur sales, according to Edmunds.com, which tracks new-car prices.
Carmakers badly want to believe that Americans like small cars. Eric Noble, president of the CarLab, a consulting firm in Orange, Calif., says several European and Asian carmakers have hired him to do consumer research on small-car demand. When consumers gave them the thumbs-down, the clients asked him to rewrite the questions to see if that would change the result. It didn't. Noble believes the success of the Mini Cooper has led other carmakers to believe Americans like small cars. Among other things, he says, "they think small cars are unsafe."
Americans also see them as cars for people who can't afford a better ride. So the carmakers are loading up their small models with creature comforts and technology in the hopes of winning customers and charging them a premium. Ford's new Focus compact and Fiesta subcompact will feature the Sync infotainment system, which allows drivers to load music onto an in-dash hard drive, and hands-free calling and navigation. Ford says the new SYNC-equipped Focus fetches $2,000 more than the old one. Kia has added satellite radio and hands-free Bluetooth phone technology. GM's Buick compact will feature leather seats, electronic gadgetry, and a Lexus-smooth ride.
If carmakers don't find enough buyers who want spruced-up compacts, the U.S. auto companies will be duking it out on price with their better positioned rivals. Then, these minicars could lead to megalosses.
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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew hasn't been able to practice since a foot injury ended his 2012 season in October. He wasn't cleared to practice during the team's offseason workouts and chose to handle his rehabilitation away from the team for periods of time.
With Jaguars' training camp set to open July 26, Jacksonville running backs coach Terry Richardson expects Jones-Drew to be ready to go early on. According to Ryan O'Halloran of the Florida Times-Union, Richardson has "faith and confidence" Jones-Drew will be able to participate when the team can begin full-pads work on July 31.
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Rotarians give annual Christmas party
More than 100 residents of the close-by senior living facilities in downtown Kinston attended the annual Christmas dinner party Tuesday given by the Kinston Evening Rotary Club.
The club has been giving this event to senior citizens for more than 20 years and is funded by their annual Lobsterfest held in October each year. The party, which featured roasted turkey and all of its side dishes, was held at Queen Street United Methodist Church. After the meal, Bobby Merritt, club member, led everyone in singing Christmas carols. This is the club�s way of giving back to the community.
Kinston Evening Rotary meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the House of Wang. For more information, call 252-268-3483.
Grainger board sets annual meeting
The Preservation of the Grainger Complex Inc.�s board of directors will hold its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 6 in the board room of the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, 300 Park Ave.
Anyone interested in becoming more involved with this nonprofit 501 c (3) corporation, which manages the historic Grainger Hill PAC, is welcome to attend. The board will be addressing building issues and upcoming events and electing officers for the coming year.
Grainger-Hill is a regional, cultural and civic center which serves audiences throughout a multi-county region. Its aim always has been to bring the best performing arts� opportunities possible for the people of Kinston, Lenoir County and the region.
To book an event or more information, call 252-522-0932 or 252-522-4686; check the Grainger Hill web site, ghpac.com; or email Mary Ellison Turner at email@example.com or Alison Merritt at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mail tax-deductible donations to Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, P.O. Box 1334,
Kinston, NC 28503.
Bridge club names winners
The Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club played a sectional tournament at clubs (STaC) Dec. 11.
The winners were: Eva Balknight and Jenny Holt, first place; Geneva Hood and Pinkey Harper, second; Jane Hood and Barbara Sebald, third; and Pearl Schechter and Joe Goldwasser, fourth.
The club will not play again until Jan. 8, since Christmas and New Year�s Day are both on Tuesdays. Happy holidays to all from the Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club.


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Summer-Fresh Cherry and Berry Desserts
Ozark Blackberry Cobbler [1]
A sugared crispy pastry covers sweet juicy berries in this traditional dessert from the Monte Ne Inn near Rogers, Arkansas.
Triple Red Berry Dessert Sauce [5]
This easy blender sauce tops ice cream or angel food cake with a gorgeous red berry punch. Look for spreadable fruit in the jam/jelly section of your supermarket. The sauce has just 37 calories for a two-tablespoon serving.
Pink Lemonade Strawberry Shortcake [9]
Pink lemonade concentrate gives a summery twist to classic strawberry shortcake.
Mixed Berry Slab Pie [13]
Floral notes from lemon zest, thyme and honey round out the sweet-tart punch of ripe berries in this creation from Shelly Cross and Jill Long of Madison's Humble Sweet and Savory Pies bake shop. Shelly and Jill have some mad pastry skills; amateurs can get creative, too, with the extra dough.
Mixed Berry Slab Pie [14]
Raspberry Cheesecake Bars [17]
Layers of cheesecake, raspberry filling, almonds and coconut form dessert bars perfect for summer picnics and potlucks.
Double Berry Cobbler [21]
Handy shortcuts make this recipe a breeze. Cooking the fruit in an oven-safe skillet cuts the bake time (and the number of dirty dishes). Refrigerated biscuits form the simple topper.
Double Berry Cobbler [22]
Triple-Berry Angel Food Cake [25]
This simple, make-ahead dessert is light and colorful. If you're preparing it for a party, save time by using store-bought angel food cake and making the berry fruit spread the day before. You can substitute some of your other favorite fruits in the sauce, if you like.
Cherry-Berry Smoothie [29]
This quick-and-easy blender drink, from the Michigan Cherry Committee, combines cherries, milk, yogurt, blueberries or raspberries, juice concentrate, honey and vanilla.
Cool tip Blender freeze-ups happen when there's not enough liquid around frozen ingredients. To solve the problem, pour liquids and soft ingredients into the blender first, then add the frozen stuff on top and blend. Still stuck? Pour in some juice or milk, then cover and blend again.
Very Berry Triple Fruit Pie [33]
More than 4 cups of berries make this pie extra juicy. Be sure to let it cool completely before you slice it. And don't forget the vanilla ice cream! The recipe comes from Covered Bridge Farm in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Pistachio Pavlova with Fresh Berries [37]
Mildly nutty meringue cradles fresh berries in this classic dessert named for a ballerina. Use your favorite nut to flavor the meringue. Our Test Kitchen recommends pistachios, almonds or pecans. Any fruit works: blueberries, kiwi, bananas.
Custard Parfaits with Granola [41]
This recipe makes an easy, fun layered dessert or breakfast . Use fat-free products for rich taste without extra calories. Layer most ingredients ahead, then add the granola and serve.
Chocolate-Raspberry Mousse Cake [45]
Combine raspberries with cake mix and mousse mix for this taste-tempting (and easy) chocolate delight from a Chaska, Minnesota, reader.
Berry Easy Cobbler [49]
This warm, crunch-topped cobbler calls for 3 cups of blueberries, but if you'd like a double-fruit version, reduce the blueberries to 2 cups and add 2 cups fresh or frozen tart cherries.
Berry Easy Cobbler [50]
Strawberry "Cool Brûlée" [53]
This deceptively good, weeknight-easy dessert has a topping of yogurt and whipped cream with raw sugar that looks like creme brulee, but requires no cooking.
Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes [57]
Michigan's fruit belt inspired our Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes. We played up the sweet cherries grown in the Great Lakes State, along with blueberries and raspberries. A shortcake biscuit base and sweetened whipped cream complete the dessert.
Lemon-Blueberry Biscuits [61]
Lemon yogurt is the secret ingredient in these pretty biscuits. The recipe comes from Natura Farms in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
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It seems that there is an easy-to-use app on Android TV, so I want to write an introduction.
If you write an article from overseas users.
"Everyone for the love of God do not Install ES File Explorer – seriously its the worst File Explorer App for Android TV period.
ATV Nvidia Shield owners have had all sort of headaches with that App getting its tentacles into everything.
Use X-Plore instead"
It's Google Play. Fine "X-Plore" and install it.
File X-plore Feaures.
1. Support LAN, FTP, Webstorage like Google Driver, DLNA file manager
2. App manager.
3. WIFI file sharing.
4. Support Send Anyware, Picasa Albums
5. Easy to use by Remote.
It is much better than ES File Explorer to use by RCU.
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Say you start work on a new code base. Would you, as a user, rather have 90% or 10% of its API functions commented with Doxygen or something similar?
Using my psychic powers I suspect that you chose 90%.
It seems like the obvious thing. Lots of companies even have a mandate that all API functions (or >90% of them) must be documented. Not having comments is just bad. This seems like a perfectly obvious no-brainer issue.
But is it really?
Unfortunately there are some problems with this assumption. The main one being that the comments will be written by human beings. What they probably end up being is something like this.
/* * Takes a foobar and frobnicates it. * * @param f the foobar to be frobnicated. * @param strength how strongly to frobnicate. * @return the frobnicated result. */ int frobnicate_foobar(Foobar f, int strength);
This something I like to call documentation by word order shuffle. Now we can ask the truly relevant question: what additional information does this kind of a comment provide?
The answer is, of course, absolutely nothing. It is only noise. No, actually it is even worse: it is noise that has a very large probability of being wrong. When some coder changes the function, it is very easy to forget to update the comments.
On the other hand, if only 10% of the functions are documented, most functions don't have any comments, but the ones that do probably have something like this:
/** * The Foobar argument must not have been initialized in a different * thread because that can lead to race conditions. */ int frobnicate_foobar(Foobar f, int strength)
This is the kind of comment that is actually useful. Naturally it would be better to check for the specified condition inside the function but sometimes you can't. Having it in a comment is the right thing to do in these cases. Not having tons of junk documentation makes these kinds of remarks stand out. This means, paradoxically, that having less comments leads to better documentation and user experience.
As a rough estimate, 95% of functions in any code base should be so simple and specific that their signature is all you need to use them. If they are not, API design has failed: back to the drawing board.


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The leaders of debt-ridden Europe have got Asia on speed dial. The answers to the solvency nightmares of Greece and Europe's other struggling economies, be they the purchase of bonds or contributions to the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), seem to European leaders like France's Nicolas Sarkozy to lie at least in part in Asia's cash-rich, high-growth nations.
Of course, the money trail that Greece and other eurozone debtors are now obliged to follow doesn't only lead to Asia: the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Union (EU), the G-20 and the United States all have critical roles to play in restoring the economic equilibrium. There are many potential lifelines.
So where does Asia come in? Nowhere, many Asian leaders are arguing, pointing to the political folly of still predominantly poor countries like China or India spending their hard-earned reserves on restoring the comfortable lifestyles of better-off Europeans. However, a more self-interested approach would be to ask how vulnerable Asian economies really are to the eurozone's potential failure, and to determine whether Asia, for its own sake, should take action to stop the European ship from sinking.Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month.
The global financial crisis of 2008-9 was instructive in revealing the extent to which Asia's economic fate is still tied to that of the West. It became clear then that Asia wasn't immune from catching the West's colds, and that the continent was vulnerable through its reliance on a mixture of American and European trade and capital. Only a colossal stimulus package saved China, for example, from following the United States and Europe into crisis. So would things be any different this time around?
As of late 2011, Asia had only experienced marginal downgrades in expectations for the year ahead. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has trimmed its regional growth forecast for next year from 7.8 percent to 7.5 percent; China is expected to grow by 9.3 percent, less than the 9.6 percent previously anticipated; and India's growth outlook has dipped from 8.2 percent to 7.9 percent. These are hardly forewarnings of another 2009-style slump, never mind something even worse. Unfortunately, growth forecasts are fluid – and they could be revised much further downwards should Europe fail to effect a coherent rescue plan.
"If the current situation and political debate in Europe didn't deteriorate further, Asian exports can continue to grow although with a bit of moderation," explains Minsoo Lee, Senior Economist at the ADB. "In this case, the impact on Asian exports growth may still be kept limited. A slowdown in Europe and the U.S. can be compensated by healthy private consumption and investment, supported by growing intra-Asian trade. On the other hand, a disorderly resolution for the EU followed by another financial crisis could provoke a large negative impact on the U.S. and the world economy. In the case where the U.S. and EU slip into another recession, Asian exports will also be affected negatively."
Rajiv Biswas, Chief Asia Economist at IHS Global Insight, subscribes to the view that Asia's trajectory remains dependent on how Europe's crisis plays out. Biswas regards Europe as being at a fork in the road, with the "muddle through scenario" on the one hand and the "chaotic scenario" on the other. "The muddle through scenario can enable Europe to have a mild recession and not a deep recession," he explains. "In that scenario, Asia comes out fairly well, growth forecasts only slightly downgraded, they're still relatively resilient." This option is currently the more likely, Biswas believes, so long as the EFSF can be expanded beyond its current €1 trillion capacity, and provided the new Italian government implements convincing reforms. "However, if we go into the more chaotic scenario," he warns, "bond yields rise, Italy starts to default, and you go into a more dangerous meltdown scenario. That would hurt Asia very badly."


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Major Section: RULE-CLASSES
See rule-classes for a general discussion of rule classes and
how they are used to build rules from formulas. An example
corollary formula from which a
:compound-recognizer rule might be
built is:
Example: (implies (alistp x) When (alistp x) is assumed true, (true-listp x)) add the additional hypothesis that x is of primitive type true-listp.where
General Forms: (implies (fn x) concl) ; (1) (implies (not (fn x)) concl) ; (2) (and (implies (fn x) concl1) ; (3) (implies (not (fn x)) concl2)) (if (fn x) concl1 concl2) ; (4) (iff (fn x) concl) ; (5) (equal (fn x) concl) ; (6)
fn is a Boolean valued function of one argument,
x is a
variable symbol, and the system can deduce some restriction on the
primitive type of
x from the assumption that
concl holds. The third
restriction is vague but one way to understand it is to weaken it a
little to ``and
concl is a non-tautological conjunction or
disjunction of the primitive type recognizers listed below.''
The primitive ACL2 types and a suitable primitive recognizing expression for each are listed below.
type suitable primitive recognizerThus, a suitable
zero (equal x 0) negative integers (and (integerp x) (< x 0)) positive integers (and (integerp x) (> x 0)) negative ratio (and (rationalp x) (not (integerp x)) (< x 0)) positive ratio (and (rationalp x) (not (integerp x)) (> x 0)) complex rational (complex-rationalp x) nil (equal x nil) t (equal x t) other symbols (and (symbolp x) (not (equal x nil)) (not (equal x t))) proper conses (and (consp x) (true-listp x)) improper conses (and (consp x) (not (true-listp x))) strings (stringp x) characters (characterp x)
concl to recognize the naturals would be
(or (equal x 0) (and (integerp x) (> x 0))) but it turns out that we
also permit
(and (integerp x) (>= x 0)). Similarly, the true-lists
could be specified by
(or (equal x nil) (and (consp x) (true-listp x)))but we in fact allow
(true-listp x). When time permits we will
document more fully what is allowed or implement a macro that
permits direct specification of the desired type in terms of the
There are essentially four forms of
:compound-recognizer rules, as the
third and fourth forms are equivalent, as are the fifth and sixth. We
explain how such rules are used by considering the individual forms.
Consider a rule of the first form,
(implies (fn x) concl). The
effect of such a rule is that when the rewriter assumes
(fn x) true,
as it would while diving through
(if (fn x) xxx ...) to rewrite
it restricts the type of
x as specified by
concl. However, when
(fn x) false, as necessary in
(if (fn x) ... xxx), the rule
permits no additional assumptions about the type of
x. For example,
fn is
primep, i.e., the predicate that recognizes prime numbers,
(implies (primep x) (and (integerp x) (>= x 0))) is a compound
recognizer rule of the first form. When
(primep x) is assumed true,
the rewriter gains the additional information that
x is a natural
number. When
(primep x) is assumed false, no additional information
is gained -- since
x may be a non-prime natural or may not even be a
The second general form addresses itself to the symmetric case, when
(fn x) false permits type restrictions on
x but assuming
(fn x) true permits no such restrictions. For example, if we
exprp to be the recognizer for well-formed expressions for
some language in which all symbols, numbers, character objects and
strings were well-formed -- e.g., the well-formedness rules only put
restrictions on expressions represented by
consps -- then the
(implies (not (exprp x)) (consp x)) is a rule of the second
form. Assuming
(exprp x) true tells us nothing about the type of
assuming it false tells us
x is a
The third and fourth general forms, which are really equivalent, address
themselves to the case where one type may be deduced from
(fn x) and a
generally unrelated type may be deduced from its negation. If we modified
the expression recognizer above so that character objects are illegal, then
rules of the third and fourth forms are
(and (implies (exprp x) (not (characterp x))) (implies (not (exprp x)) (or (consp x) (characterp x)))). (if (exprp x) (not (characterp x)) (or (consp x) (characterp x)))Finally, rules of the fifth and sixth classes address the case where
recognizes all and only the objects whose type is described. In
these cases,
fn is really just a new name for some ``compound
recognizers.'' The classic example is
(booleanp x), which is just a
handy combination of two primitive types:
(iff (booleanp x) (or (equal x t) (equal x nil))).
Often it is best to disable
fn after proving that it is a compound
recognizer, since
(fn x) will not be recognized as a compound
recognizer once it has been expanded.
Every time you prove a new compound recognizer rule about
fn it overrides
all previously proved compound recognizer rules about
fn. Thus, if you
want to establish the type implied by
(fn x) and you want to establish
the type implied by
(not (fn x)), you must prove a compound recognizer
rule of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth forms. Proving a rule of the
first form followed by one of the second only leaves the second fact in the
data base.
Compound recognizer rules can be disabled with the effect that older
rules about
fn, if any, are exposed.
If you prove multiple compound recognizer rules for a function, you may see a warning message to the effect that the new rule is not as ``restrictive'' as the old. That is, the new rules do not give the rewriter strictly more type information than it already had. The new rule is stored anyway, overriding the old, if enabled. You may be playing subtle games with enabling or rewriting. But two other interpretions are more likely, we think. One is that you have forgotten about an earlier rule and should merely print it out to make sure it says what you know and then forget your new rule. The other is that you meant to give the system more information and the system has simply been unable to extract the intended type information from the term you placed in the conclusion of the new rule. Given our lack of specificity in saying how type information is extracted from rules, you can hardly blame yourself for this problem. Sorry. If you suspect you've been burned this way, you should rephrase the new rule in terms of the primitive recognizing expressions above and see if the warning is still given. It would also be helpful to let us see your example so we can consider it as we redesign this stuff.
Compound recognizer rules are similar to
forward-chaining rules in
that the system deduces new information from the act of assuming
something true or false. If a compound recognizer rule were stored
as a forward chaining rule it would have essentially the same effect
as described, when it has any effect at all. The important point is
forward-chaining rules, because of their more general and
expensive form, are used ``at the top level'' of the simplification
process: we forward chain from assumptions in the goal being proved.
But compound recognizer rules are built in at the bottom-most level
of the simplifier, where type reasoning is done.
All that said, compound recognizer rules are a rather fancy,
specialized mechanism. It may be more appropriate to create
forward-chaining rules instead of


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President Barack Obama will travel to Newtown, Conn., on Sunday to meet with families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and to thank first responders, the White House announced on Saturday night.
The president will also speak at an interfaith vigil for families of the victims as well as other families from Sandy Hook Elementary.
In his weekly radio and Internet address earlier on Saturday, Obama said it was time to "take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this.''
But he stopped short of specifically calling for tighter gun-control laws.
On Friday, an emotional Obama paused to wipe away a tear as he spoke from the White House about the tragedy hours after it unfolded.
"The majority of those who died today were children -- beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," he said. "They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
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A lot of attention has been paid lately to the dangers of professional and even college football. But that doesn't mean that athletes in other sports don't put themselves in harm's way. Baseball – America's pastime – comes with its own set of dangers.Antonio Reale comes face to face with those challenges every working day. Tony earned his bachelor's in Exercise Science and his master's in Physical Therapy, both from Sacred Heart University. His hard work paid off and, for the last four years, he's been busy at his "dream job" as organizational physical therapist for the San Francisco Giants – yes, those Giants, the World Series-winning Major League Giants.A native of Brewster, New York, this son of Italian immigrants was the first in his family to attend a four-year college. Now 31 and living in Scottsdale, Arizona, he looks back with much affection on his days at SHU. "I thought Sacred Heart was a great university, not too small and not too big. It had small classrooms, which made for a great learning environment, and was always expanding while I was there. The PT department was second to none with great professors. Their 'problem-based' learning format really prepares you for the real world in our field."As the team's organizational physical therapist, he is one of a cohort of professionals charged with keeping the players healthy – and coaching them back to good health following injuries or illness. In the major leagues, he explains, "we have our head trainer, assistant trainer, strength and conditioning coach and a massage therapist/acupuncturist and a moonlight chiropractor. In the minors, we have an athletic trainer and a strength coach at each level (rookie ball all the way up to triple A), so that is 14 total. And then there is me, the sole PT in the organization in charge of the rehabilitation." Mid-way through his doctoral studies in Physical Therapy at the University of Scranton, he is involved with all the rehab for the entire organization, including minor league and major league players (about 200 total). His work has evolved into creating injury prevention programs (pre-hab) as well. A few years ago, Tony was working as a site coordinator for HealthSouth managing two clinics in Connecticut, when he starting to do research and crunch numbers on opening up his own practice. His mentor, Rod McHenry, "caught wind of an opening with the Giants as he is friends with Dave Groeschener, the head trainer. Rod wasn't willing to move his family out West; however, he knew that it was a dream job for me and thought that I would be a good candidate. So he passed along the information, I sent my resume in right before Christmas 2006. I had a few phone interviews, and flew out to Arizona in late January, and they offered me the job. Definitely a dream job for me, and it seems to have worked out well thus far," he says modestly.In baseball, he finds, most of the injuries involve the shoulder and the elbow, typically occupying as much as 65 percent of his caseload at any given time. Throwing a baseball places considerable stresses on the shoulder and elbow joints, he points out, which can lead to micro-trauma and, eventually, to macro-trauma. "This is part of the sport, and the minor leagues are a place to assess talent as well as to weed out the players that are unable to stay healthy. For as many players that you hear about that make the show, there are more players who once had talent but were not able to stay healthy in order to move up the ranks."Tony doesn't usually travel with the team. "If a player gets injured and will be down for more than three weeks at a clip or if he requires surgical intervention, he is sent to Scottsdale, where I will do rehab with him in our new state-of-the-art complex. I travel with the big league club for roughly two-to-three weeks every year and work with them all through spring training (six weeks) as well as a strength and conditioning camp (four weeks) in January. The idea of the injured players not traveling with the team is that other clubhouse weight rooms are not ideal for rehab, as well as the travel for the athletes. We feel they will fare better in a facility working full time and having access to all the equipment that we need." Tony Reale knew he wanted to pursue a career in physical therapy as early as high school. "I was really into playing sports and a buddy of mine hurt his knee. He went to physical therapy, and his knee got better. I thought to myself, what a great job to work with athletes. From there on, I figured if I wasn't going to make the pros as a player, I wanted to treat them." He notes that in his spare time, he has "dabbled" in real estate makeovers. "If I weren't doing PT, I'd probably be involved in real estate at a deeper capacity. I currently buy foreclosed homes, fix them up, and re-sell them. I am a result-driven person: if someone comes to me with an injury, I see it as a challenge and like to see the end product of a person being able to return to his normal activity as quickly as possible."
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