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10 Huge Technology Stories to Watch in 2014, Part 1
A look ahead at what will be making the news next year.
I love technology, but I also hate it.
But our transition to a more digital economy carries profound changes for the way we live and work, and that makes it more interesting than just about anything else.
Even though the Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) is up 30% year-to-date, it has felt like a tumultuous year, courtesy of a hyperactive 24/7 flow of both real and imagined news.
2014's shaping up to be just as crazy, as we're set to see shooting stars, dramatic collapses, and -- perhaps the most fun -- all-out wars.
So I've compiled a list of 10 of the biggest tech stories to watch for, which we'll publish in two parts.
Here are entries one through five, in no particular order:
1. Twitter: A Long-Term Investment?
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) will go public today and this IPO is going to be a doozy. The company's huge revenue growth and cool factor have investors rolling their eyes at complaints about a lack of profitability.
Now while the Twitter party has the potential to rage on, in 2014, we're going to get potential bumps in the road in the form of earnings.
My sense is that with other mega-growth stories such as Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), investors aren't terribly worried about Twitter's actual bottom-line profitability. There's a persistent belief that there's a massive pot of gold coming in the far future, which means forgiveness in the present day.
Can Twitter keep up its blistering revenue growth in 2014, at least to justify the massive valuation created by today's near-certain pop in the stock?
We're going to find out.
2. Instagram, and Facebook's Young Teen "Problem"
I put problem in quotation marks for the simple reason that Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) teen problem is perhaps fictional in the company's actual business operations, but very real in the minds of investors.
On October 30, Facebook reported a spectacular third-quarter earnings report, driving the stock as much as 18% higher.
But the party ended in a jiffy during the conference call when CFO David Ebersman disclosed that Facebook saw "a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens." I'm all for more information, but Mr. Ebersman himself identified the data as being "of questionable statistical significance given the lack of precision of our age estimates for younger users."
Facebook is no slouch when it comes to data processing and statistics. So why it would even entertain this topic is a mystery to me, especially since its Daily Active Users were up 25%.
However, this gives Facebook's Instagram unit the opportunity to plug the hole.
Instagram recently pushed out its first ad and should see a ramp up in 2014 -- will that have investors ignoring this silly issue?
3. A New, New Thing From Apple?
The iPhone came out in 2007, and the iPad followed it in 2010.
Is it time for a whole new class of product from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)?
On its last earnings call, CEO Tim Cook hinted at new categories of product next year. Apple has always been extraordinarily secretive when it comes to upcoming products, which means a guessing game for investors.
A couple years back, we were dreaming of an iTV, which I regarded as the easiest money Apple would ever make, with an annual revenue potential of $25 billion or greater. There were plenty of headlines implying it was a sure thing, and yet, here we are with no Apple television set on the horizon.
This time around, the gossip surrounds wearable technology, specifically in the form of the iWatch, which for now remains a figment of our collective imagination.
But this segment remains challenging. The highest-profile wearable technology products like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Glass and the Samsung (OTCMKTS:SSNLF) Galaxy Gear smartwatch haven't yet proven they're ready for prime time, at least in a mainstream sense.
So I'll throw a question out to readers: Assuming Apple enters a new product category in 2014, what will it be? Post your response in the comments section below.
4. High-End Smartphone Wars
For years, Samsung and Apple have been the dominant forces in the smartphone market. Samsung took an extraordinary amount of market share through aggressive marketing and a rapid stream of product development all across the smartphone market, while Apple was content with its focus on the profitable high-end.
In recent months, the tide of momentum has shifted toward Apple. Its iPhone 5S debuted in September to rave reviews and an enormous opening weekend, helping power a very strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report.
Meanwhile, Samsung recently said that its high-end smartphone sales flattened out after several quarters of booming momentum. Its lower-priced mass-market models had to pick up the slack.
So for now, Apple's back on top in the high-end, even as its global market share continues to shrink.
Samsung has got its work cut out for itself ahead in retaking momentum. For years, there has been an avalanche of high-end Google Android-powered phones hitting the market, which makes it tough for any one model to stand out.
And it certainly doesn't help that every reviewer has called the iPhone 5S the best smartphone on Earth.
Can Samsung's Galaxy smartphone lines reignite growth? Or will they get lost in the shuffle while Apple soars?
5. Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Next Chapter
In August, Microsoft announced that controversial CEO Steve Ballmer would step down within 12 months.
On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the company has narrowed its list of candidates to "about five" people, including Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) Stephen Elop and Ford's (NYSE:F) Alan Mulally.
The challenges are obvious: Microsoft has to A) gain a bigger foothold within the mobile computing industry, B) keep the legacy PC industry afloat as long as possible, and C) build a better brand name.
The latter objective may be the most important, and most challenging.
Too many consumers view Microsoft with disdain, or worse, apathy, because of past product quality issues and poor product planning. The Xbox brand has a large and loyal following, but gaming has never been a serious profit center for Microsoft.
With a fresh start under a new leader from the outside, will consumers view Microsoft any differently?
Stay tuned for the second part of this series next week!
Related stories:
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Hope College registrar Jon Huisken and education faculty member John Yelding have been named recipients of the college's 12th annual "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" awards for strong, positive impact on students.
Hope College registrar Jon Huisken and education faculty member John Yelding have been named recipients of the college's 12th annual "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" awards for strong, positive impact on students.
The award recognizes and supports the efforts of Hope faculty and staff who make extraordinary contributions to the lives of students. Huisken and Yelding will be honored during a dinner on Thursday, May 5.
"John Yelding and Jon Huisken epitomize the essence of going above and beyond the call for students," said Dr. Richard Frost, vice president and dean of students at Hope, whose office coordinates the award, which is presented based on nominations from the campus community.
"For Dr. Yelding, this has taken place in the education department, ethnic studies and the Phelps Scholars Program," he said. "For countless students, Dr. Yelding has been and is a mentor, supporter and guide as they travel through the academic maze and life's hurdles."
Regarding Huisken, Frost said, "Perhaps no one has touched more lives than Jon has over his 42 years at Hope College. He has been task master and savior; a reality check and a source of inspiration; but most of all he has always provided hope through a strong commitment to faith and hard work. There is no doubt in my mind that many students would not have a Hope College diploma if it were not for the special hand of Jon Huisken."
Huisken is dean for academic services and registrar and an adjunct associate professor of English. A member of the Hope staff since 1969, he is retiring at the end of the current school year.
Huisken, who had graduated from Calvin College in 1965, had been teaching middle school and junior high school, but was interested in working in higher education when the opportunity arose to come to Hope as assistant registrar. He became registrar a year later, and in 1989, to reflect the way that his responsibilities had grown, he was promoted to dean for academic services and registrar.
Among other duties, in addition to handling student records, his office runs course registration (now conducted online), coordinates academic advising, and oversees the Academic Support Center, FOCUS and SOAR programs, and Great Lakes Colleges Association Philadelphia Center, with Huisken additionally serving as the college's official contact with the Immigration Service. To stay in touch with what faculty experience, he's also been teaching the college's business writing course, and for several years had taught at DavenportCollege as well.
Hope students expressed their appreciation for him in 1987, when the graduating class presented him with a special award for service during that year's Commencement ceremony. In addition, he received the "Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program" in 2004.
Huisken's work has had an effect on not only thousands of Hope alumni, but on his immediate family as well. Wife Joanne, who retired from a career in elementary education this past spring, completed an additional degree at Hope in 2004. All four of their daughters are also alumnae: Amy Praestgaard, Class of 1986; Shelley Spencer, Class of 1988; Jana Huisken, Class of 1994; and Jennifer LaPointe, Class of 1996. In retirement, he and Joanne plan to spend more time with their children and five grandchildren, as well as at the family cottage near Ludington and catching the Cubs during spring training.
Yelding is an associate professor of education, and directs the college's American Ethnic Studies minor and "Encounter with Cultures" course. He has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1994.
His teaching specializations are secondary education, multiculturalism and rural education. He team teaches the First-Year Seminar for students participating in the Phelps Scholars Program, a residential program for students interested in exploring issues related to diversity.
His involvement at Hope has included serving on the advisory boards of the Phelps Scholars Program and Hope College Upward Bound. His scholarship has included a chapter in the departmental book "Finding Our Way: Reforming Teacher Education in the Liberal Arts Setting."
He is a past member of the West Ottawa Public Schools Board of Education, which he served as president.
In January 2009, the college presented him with its "Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program." In February 2003, he received a Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) "Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award," presented in recognition of influence on or engagement of students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, instruction and/or special projects.
Prior to joining the Hope faculty, Yelding was principal of South Haven High School. He had also been a junior high school and middle school principal in Coloma, and held teaching positions in South Haven and Covert. His honors while in secondary education include being named Van Buren County Principal of the Year in 1993.
He holds his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University, and a master's in educational leadership from Western Michigan University.
Yelding and his wife, Kathy, have six children, two of whom graduated from Hope: Nicole Sinclair, Class of 2003; and Jason, Class of 2004.
The "Vanderbush-Weller Development Fund" was established in honor of longtime Hope professor and football coach Alvin Vanderbush, who retired in 1972 and died on Feb. 20, 2005. It was created by Ken and Shirely Weller of Pella, Iowa. Ken Weller is one of Vanderbush's former players and also a former Hope faculty colleague.


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(HOUSTON) – The Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) Institute of Biosciences and Technology annual Graduate Student Symposium was May 20 in Houston, featuring talks and poster presentations by students and a keynote by Dr. Duojia Pan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
The symposium began with a breakfast attended by HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology students and faculty, Dr. Pan, also a professor at Johns Hopkins University; David S. Carlson, Ph.D., interim director of the HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology and HSC vice president for research and graduate studies; and Emily Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of systems biology and translational medicine in the HSC-College of Medicine. Thirteen platform speakers then presented their research projects, drawing exceptional reviews from the audience.
Dr. Pan served as a judge and was complimentary, likening the students' presentations to those seen at the nation's top graduate programs. Rui Xie, Qiong Xue and Xiao Li received awards for first-, second- and third-place talks, respectively. Ying Wang, Julia Chang and Jean Tien received first-, second- and third-place awards, respectively, in the student research poster presentations.
Dr. Pan, a world-renowned developmental biologist, presented a provocative talk on his discovery of the Hippo signaling pathway, an intracellular signaling cascade responsible for determining the appropriate size of internal organs and relevant for cancer development. He also left trainees in the audience with some inspirational advice for their own research, emphasizing "there are so many unknowns in biology that anyone can make the next big discovery – because in the world of the unknown, everyone has equal opportunity." Dr. Pan was treated to dinner by the students who received additional sound career advice from him.
James Martin, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology and interim director of the Center for Molecular Development and Diseases in the HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology, was honored with the Stanley R. Glasser Award for Excellence in Mentoring. The award recipient is determined by vote of the institute's students and presented to the faculty member who best epitomizes the virtue of good mentorship.
The symposium was sponsored by the IBT Graduate Student Organization (GSO) with generous volunteer contributions from students and faculty. The organization represents students earning degrees in HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology faculty research groups.
"The day was a general celebration among the IBT community," said Tien, GSO president. "Science does not work without collaboration, and friendship won't work unless you give. Thanks to all of IBT for this."
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Think that health care isn't a massive part of the economy?
This graphic should make you rethink that. From U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and our colleagues at The Wall Street Journal, it shows how health care and social assistance have overtaken manufacturing as the biggest employer in most of the country over the last quarter-century.
The 1990 map shows a predominance of factory jobs, while the 2013 map shows a large blue swath in health care, which wasn't even the top employer in any state in 1990. A count shows health care took over as the predominant employer in 34 states as a result of the 2008-2009 recession.
The whole story can be found here.
More must-read health coverage from MarketWatch:
Khosla: Your cell phone may soon be your doctor
Obamacare helps hospitals to gains


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Kegzie Beverage Cooler
Tiny kegger
- Beverage holder that looks like a keg
- Fun for tailgating or BBQ parties
- Smallest keg on the planet, guaranteed
Sam Weir: What am I gonna say to Cindy?
Bill Haverchuck: Don't say anything. Be dominant. It's all, all about dominance. I saw this monkey show on PBS, if you talk to her first, it's a sign of weakness and she will not pick you to be her mate.
Sam Weir: Are you drunk?
Bill Haverchuck: I think so, yes I am.
Sam Weir: Aw, man, go into my room, lock the door, and don't drink any more.
Bill Haverchuck: [after Sam leaves] That's very dominant.
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Hold us closer, tiny kegger. We'll be your blue jean baby and give you a pirate smile and go dancing in the sand. Are we drunk? Only on life, friends. Only on life.
With the Kegzie Beverage Cooler your tiny kegger will be always with you, a tiny kegger in your hand. Do we need to say more?
Product Specifications
- Beverage holder that looks like a tiny keg
- Holds any standard sized can of beverage
- Can be used for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages
- Materials: Comfy, cold-saving foamy stuff
- Care: Hand wash with a damp cloth and mild detergent
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Interview by Kimo Friese and Horikichi
TJ: Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
HORIYOSHI: My real name is Yoshihito Nakano. I was born on March 9, 1946 in Shimada, Shizuoka. I am the eldest son with a sister and brother.
TJ: Tell us a little about Irezumi, the traditional art form of Japanese tattooing.
HORIYOSHI: It depends what you mean by traditional? Tattoo tradition, Japanese tradition or Asian tradition? If you say Asian tradition, it was most affected by Confucianism. But if you are obedient to Confucianism, you can't get tattooed because the belief states that you should not hurt your body. But since tattoo culture had already existed before the ancient Chinese ideas that transformed into Samurai philosophy in Japan, Confucianism couldn't exclude tattoo culture. The concept of the tattoo can translate into strength, religion, or many other things. But in Japan, it basically represents courage or strength, like the Samurai's fighting spirit. On the other hand, tattoos also have artistic aspects. Actually, it's difficult to talk about Irezumi tattoo and tradition because the scope is too wide.
Why is Yoko Ono amazing, you ask? What is not amazing about her would be a better question! Not only is she the most famous Japanese person in the world, she has been breaking new ground in art, peace activism, and music for six decades. Now, 81-years old, Yoko is producing one chart-topper after another, with 11 #1 dance singles, all while traveling the world promoting peace. Performing with her band, the Plastic Ono Band which includes the exceptionally talented Sean Lennon (son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono), Yoko has captured the interest of a new generation not emotionally vested in The Beatles and free of prejudice.
As one of the most iconic pop-rock bands of the '60s, the Beach Boys' vocal harmonies are among the most unmistakable, innovative and enduring in the history of rock and roll. They were the only group able to challenge the Beatles' success in terms of their overall impact on the Top 40. The Beach Boys had over 80 songs chart worldwide, including 36 U.S. Top 40 hits, which is the most by any American rock band. Four songs reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The GRAMMY Award-winning group is one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, with worldwide sales exceeding 100 million records. Rolling Stone magazine listed them as the 12th greatest artist of all time in 2004. The California quintet's original lineup ー consisting of the Wilson brothers, Brian, Dennis and Carl, as well as their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine ー was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. The group's lineup has changed over the years and two of the Wilson brothers have passed away, but in 2012, for the band's 50th anniversary, all of the surviving members briefly reunited for a new studio album and world tour. The Beach Boys are no strangers to Japan, having first performed in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka in 1966. A look at the back cover of their 1966 album, Pet Sounds, reveals photos of the group in Kyoto, outfitted in traditional samurai costumes. Half a century later, the current lineup of the Beach Boys not only returned to perform six concerts at the new venue, Billboard Live Tokyo, but they also performed for the first time ever in Seoul, South Korea. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie talked to original member, singer, songwriter and activist, Mike Love, about the band's legendary career, his love for transcendental meditation and his fondness for Japan.
On June 3, 2016, Muhammad Ali, three-time heavyweight champion and one of the most significant and renowned sports figures of the 20th century, passed away at the age of 74 after a long ght against Parkinson's syndrome. The self-proclaimed greatest boxer of all time, famous for his ability to "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" in the ring, was also known for his efforts to promote peace and compassion outside the ring. His 1967 stand against the Vietnam War transcended the realms of faith and politics and resulted in Ali being arrested, found guilty of draft evasion charges and stripped of his boxing titles. However, he successfully appealed in the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned his conviction in 1971. After retiring, he devoted his life to charitable work by promoting world peace and condemning bigotry — two things that all faiths could relate to. He met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and successfully negotiated the release of American hostages, served as a United Nations Messenger of Peace in Afghanistan, walked with Malcolm X, exchanged jokes with the Dalai Lama and lit the torch opening the 1996 Olympics.
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Japanese scientist Dr. Takaaki Kajita and Canadian scientist Arthur B. McDonald for the "discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass." Modern physics uses the Standard Model, which defines three differerent types, or "flavors," of a very small, elusive particle called the neutrino. In 1998, Dr. Takaaki Kajita detected neutrinos that were created in reactions between cosmic rays and the Earth's atmosphere inside the Super-Kamiokande detector, an experimental facility in a Japanese mine. Measurements showed deviations, which were explained by the neutrinos switching between the differerent "flavors." This is ultimately meant that neutrinos must have mass. As the Standard Model is based on the theory that neutrinos lack mass, this research meant that the model must be revised. Dr. Kajita was born in 1959. In 1981, he started his scientific career in the graduate program at the University of Tokyo, where he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1986. After graduating, he began working at the University of Tokyo's International Center for Elementary Particle Physics. In 1988, he moved to the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and has served as its director since 2008. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie talked to Dr. Takaaki Kajita about his contributions to the eld of physics.
Dr. Rod Ellis is a world-acclaimed British applied linguist and thought leader in the field of second language acquisition. In the late 1990s, Dr. Ellis joined renowned applied linguists Dr. David Nunan and Dr. Ruth Wajrnyb at Anaheim University where they helped pioneer the field of online education. A former professor at Temple University in both Japan and the U.S., Dr. Ellis serves as a distinguished professor in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland and as a senior professor in the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University, where he has held the roles of department chair, dean of the Graduate School of Education and VP of academic affairs. He has taught in numerous positions in England, Japan, the U.S., Zambia and New Zealand. TJ caught up with Dr. Ellis at the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2015 conference in Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, along with two other Japanese researchers, Dr. Isamu Akasaki and Dr. Hiroshi Amano, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of their major breakthrough in lighting technology with the invention of efficient blue light- emitting diodes (LED), which has enabled bright, energy-saving white light sources. Dr. Nakamura is a physicist and inventor specializing in semiconductor technology. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara College of Engineering. Tokyo Journal's Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie spoke with Dr. Nakamura about his career, the intellectual property legal battle he faced with his former company, Nichia Corp., and the impact of his invention on the world.
It's little wonder that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been called the greatest basketball player of all time. After a record-breaking college career under the great John Wooden at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the 7'2" history major made history himself during 20 seasons from 1969 to 1989 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) playing center first for the Milwaukee Bucks and then the Los Angeles Lakers. He continued to break record after record as the all-time leading scorer in NBA history, a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) and a 19-time NBA All-Star, reaching the finals with eight NBA championship teams (six as a player and two as an assistant coach). Born in New York City on April 16, 1947 as Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, the basketball hall of famer, who was known on the court for his trademark "skyhook" jump shot, is also known off the court as an actor, martial artist, historian, philosopher, public speaker, businessman, philanthropist, education advocate and as a best-selling and highly regarded author. Kareem has traveled the world for his sport and was appointed as a U.S. global cultural ambassador by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie met with living legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to explore his remarkable life both on and off the court.
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and philosopher, Dr. Kazuo Inamori is a living legend of Japan's business world. He founded Kyoto-based multinational electronics and ceramics company Kyocera and Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI. His restructuring of Japan Airlines allowed the troubled airline to go from bankruptcy protection to being relisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Through his Inamori Foundation, he established the Kyoto Prize to recognize individuals and groups worldwide that have made outstanding contributions to the betterment of the global community and mankind. His private management school, Seiwajyuku, teaches his management philosophy to business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide. To top it off, he's a Buddhist priest who has inspired his employees with a unique management style, which incorporates Buddhist philosophies. Tokyo Journal's Miyuki Kawai talked to Dr. Kazuo Inamori about his fascinating views and extraordinary accomplishments.
Linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, logician and political commentator– all of these have been used to describe Noam Chomsky, one of the greatest minds in the world today. Born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Avram Noam Chomsky studied linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He was later appointed as a professor of foreign languages and linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He became a pioneer in the field of psycholinguistics, helping to establish a relationship between linguistics and psychology. Today, he is one of the world's most highly influential academic figures, being cited in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index more often than any other living scholar between 1980 and 1992, influencing such fields as mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, logic, cognitive science, music theory and analysis, political science, programming language theory and psychology. Outside of academia, Chomsky is internationally recognized as a political activist for his writing and speaking on U.S. foreign policy, capitalism and the mainstream news media. In 2005, he was named the most important public intellectual in the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers poll conducted by Foreign Policy magazine. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky about his views on Japan and some of the greatest threats to the survival of the human race.


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brr mode
Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
Why isn't
brr mode automatically disabled when there are no
monitored runes? The reason is that the list of monitored runes is
kept in a wormhole state.
See wormhole for more information on wormholes in general. But
the fundamental property of the wormhole function is that it is a
no-op, a constant function that does not take state as an
argument. When entering a wormhole, arbitrary information can be
passed in (including the external state). That information is used
to construct a near copy of the external state and that ``wormhole
state'' is the one with respect to which interactions occur during
breaks. But no information is carried by ACL2 out of a wormhole --
if that were allowed wormholes would not be logical no-ops. The
only information carried out of a wormhole is in the user's head.
Break-rewrite interacts with the user in a wormhole state because
the signature of the ACL2 rewrite function does not permit it to
state. Hence, only wormhole interaction is possible. (This
has the additional desirable property that the correctness of the
rewriter does not depend on what the user does during interactive
breaks within it; indeed, it is logically impossible for the user to
affect the course of
Now consider the list of monitored runes. Is that kept in the external state as a normal state global or is it kept in the wormhole state? If it is in the external state then it can be inspected within the wormhole but not changed. This is unacceptable; it is common to change the monitored rules as the proof attempt progresses, installing monitors when certain rules are about to be used in certain contexts. Thus, the list of monitored runes must be kept as a wormhole variable. Hence, its value cannot be determined outside the wormhole, where the proof attempt is ongoing.
This raises another question: If the list of monitored runes is
unknown to the rewriter operating on the external state, how does
the rewriter know when to break? The answer is simple: it breaks
every time, for every rune, if
brr mode is enabled. The wormhole is
entered (silently), computations are done within the wormhole state
to determine if the user wants to see the break, and if so,
interactions begin. For unmonitored runes and runes with false
break conditions, the silent wormhole entry is followed by a silent
wormhole exit and the user perceives no break.
Thus, the penalty for running with
brr mode enabled when there are
no monitored runes is high: a wormhole is entered on every
application of every rune and the user is simply unware of it. The
user who has finally unmonitored all runes is therefore strongly
advised to carry this information out of the wormhole and to do
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Drawing Nature & the Landscape Indoors
Course #2000037
Shelley Haven
Required materials for the FIRST class:
soft vine or willow charcoal
artist's or masking tape
2 sheets of drawing or charcoal paper
Materials for subsequent classes:
(*Materials will be discussed at the first class session)
Classes 1-3:
Charcoal Sticks: Soft vine or willow, soft and medium compressed, square Charkole (cheap, black pastel) Erasers: Artgum, rubber or plastic, kneaded.
Classes 4-6:
Black Waterproof Drawing Ink: Asian sumei or Pelikan, Winsor Newton, Higgins Brush: Sable or other soft hair, bristle, or synthetic: rounds, flats, brights Sticks (twigs) and 4 water containers.
Classes 7-8:
Graphite Sticks or Woodless Pencils (Pitt brand): B, 4B, 6B, 9B Erasers: Artgum, rubber or plastic, kneaded.
Classes 9-10:
Black Conte Crayon: HB, B, 2B or the "Classic" Conte set Erasers: Artgum, rubber or plastic, kneaded.
Additional materials for ALL classes:
artists' drafting or masking tape
chamois and soft cotton rag
single-edge razor blade, sandpaper
foamcore to use as a drawing board and portfolio
Paper (number of sheets of paper will vary depending on individual's work pace):
For Dry Media: Basic Drawing (Vellum or Smooth), Charcoal/Pastel
For Wet/Dry Media: Watercolor, coldpress or hotpress; Printmaking; Bristol
Artist-grade paper brands widely available include Arches, Strathmore, Rives, Fabriano, Canson, Lana, Saunders.
Paper sizes will vary, but some standard sheet sizes are 19 x 24", 22 x 30" and larger. Watercolor blocks and pads come in a variety of other sizes as well.
Manufacturers listed above provide professional-grade materials that are widely available. Other brands may be substituted.
Suggested Art Supply Stores:
New York Central Art Supply: 62 Third Avenue
Utrecht: 111 East 4th Avenue -Dick Blick: 1-5 Bond Street
Pearl Paint: 308 Canal Street
DaVinci Art Supply: 137 East 23rd St.
Some of these stores will give you a student discount if you present your Cooper Union Continuing Education registration receipt.


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EL PASO, TX -- The Sioux Falls Canaries had a six-run lead in the sixth inning on Sunday night, but they could not stave off an El Paso Diablos comeback, losing 12-10 at Cohen Stadium.
El Paso (9-25) scored eight unanswered runs from the bottom of the sixth on to overtake the Canaries (13-24) and win the four-game series. The Canaries concluded a 10-game road trip through Texas with only one win.
Trailing 10-9 in the eighth inning, Edgar Corcino tripled for El Paso with two outs and nobody on against Jack Van Leur (0-2). Jonathan Cisneros then doubled him home to tie the game. Van Leur exited, and Alan DeRatt came in but gave up an RBI double to Brian Joynt for an 11-10 El Paso lead. Murray Watts padded it with an RBI single.
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The Return Of Rigo, A Master With Much To Prove/
By Eric Raskin
It was supposed to be Guillermo Rigondeaux's crowning moment, his chance to shout "I'm going to Disney World!" as confetti fell from the ceiling and the multitudes chanted his name. But when he cupped his hand around his ear, the Cuban master craftsman didn't hear echoes of "Rig-on-deaux! Rig-on-deaux!" He heard boos. And then it got worse. He heard his own promoter declare him virtually un-promotable.
All Rigondeaux did on the night of April 13, 2013 was decisively outpoint Nonito Donaire, who came into the fight as high as number three on some people's pound-for-pound lists and no lower than fifth on anyone's. Donaire is arguably the best fighter who has lost a bout in 2013 (Juan Manuel Marquez being the only possible alternative choice), making Rigondeaux the fighter who beat the best fighter anybody beat this year. On top of that, he got off the canvas to do it and dominated the final round, usually sure indicators of guts and mettle and all those intangible qualities that fans prize.
But Rigondeaux was berated more than celebrated, because he fought in a defense-first style. Bob Arum, his promoter, gave him a harder time than perhaps anyone else. "Running the way [Rigondeaux] does really makes it into not a watchable fight," Arum told the ringside reporters immediately after the disarming of Donaire. "He's a very good fighter, but it's not a pleasing style. This kid is one of the best defensive fighters I've ever seen. Now, does it sell tickets? [To sell him] will take all the abilities of this 81-year-old promoter."
If that was a slap in the face to Rigondeaux, a kick in the groin came a couple of months later, when Arum said he couldn't convince HBO executives to air the Cuban's next fight, insisting, "Every time I mention him, they throw up."
Either that statement was a stretching of the truth or the truth has changed, because on Saturday night, junior featherweight champion Rigondeaux returns to the HBO airwaves. He's fighting for the first time since his magnificent but maligned triumph over Donaire for the lineal title, taking on two-time former bantamweight beltholder Joseph "King Kong" Agbeko. Rarely has a boxer coming off a career-best win had so much reason to fight with a chip on his shoulder. But the chip is there. And the question is whether he will alter his slippery, counterpunching style in any way as a result of the mixed reviews he received in April.
When asked what type of fight it would be, Rigondeaux responded, "It will be full of action and brawling." However, when asked whether he feels any pressure to fight more aggressively because of the criticism of the Donaire fight, Rigondeaux contradicted himself by stating, "I have never felt any pressure to change my style, since I know true boxing fans who appreciate the sport understand my style. Boxing is a game of hit and don't get hit. Once I'm comfortable in the fight, it just becomes me and my opponent, where the more mistakes my opponent makes, the worse it's going to end for him."
Arguably the greatest amateur ever, Rigondeaux won Olympic gold medals in both 2000 (when he won the Val Barker Trophy as the best overall boxer at the Games) and 2004 and compiled a reported amateur record of 374-12. He waited until age 28 to turn pro, won a belt in just his seventh pro fight, and now, at age 33, is regarded as one of the very best in the pro ranks despite a limited record of 12-0 with 8 knockouts. He's a lefthander who fits most of the stereotypes of slick southpaw defensive whizzes, except he's also an elite bodypuncher.
Agbeko is generally perceived to be an older 33 than Rigondeaux. That doesn't mean he's a shot fighter; it might mean he's a fighter without much of a shot. The Ghanaian's run in the last four years includes impressive wins over Vic Darchinyan and Yohnny Perez, a defeat to Perez, and two losses to Abner Mares, one controversial and the other clear-cut. Agbeko's record of 29-4 with 22 KOs suggests noteworthy punching power, but most of his knockouts came early in his career against suspect opposition; his last seven fights have all gone the full 12-round distance. A knockout win over a defensive artist like Rigondeaux therefore seems unlikely. But Agbeko is more than capable of letting his hands go and outworking Rigondeaux, which can accomplish one of two things: It can fool judges into giving him rounds he doesn't necessarily deserve, or it can inspire Rigondeaux to try to match his pace, a stylistic scenario that would give King Kong his best chance at felling the 122-pound division's Godzilla.
However, Agbeko could be slowing down following a grueling series of 12-rounders against the aforementioned string of world-class opponents from 2009-'11. On the other hand, he has fought just once in the past 24 months, which might be precisely what he needed for rejuvenation purposes. Those looking for proof of the potential good a vacation from boxing can do need look no further than Manny Pacquiao, who appeared refreshed in his recent return after 11 months out of the ring.
And then there is the matter of Rigondeaux suffering a potential letdown, having climbed to his division's peak his last time out and having intriguing opportunities awaiting on the horizon—namely, a rematch with Donaire or a meeting with fellow greatest-amateur-ever short-lister Vasyl Lomachenko. It's safe to say that those are matchups Arum will be able to promote and HBO will gladly televise.
But there's no reason for the promoter, the network, or the fighter to get too wrapped up in them just yet. Rigondeaux has to first get by King Kong Agbeko. As the underdog and the B-side against Donaire, Rigondeaux's only goal was to win. As the favorite and the A-side against Agbeko, there's a certain degree of onus on Rigondeaux to make a show of it. The boxing purists may delight in the mere fact that a practitioner of Rigondeaux's rare talent is back in action. Everyone else will hope that the words and the boos Rigondeaux heard on April 13 still sting—and might inspire him to sting back.
On the undercard as part of a tripleheader from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, there's some action insurance just in case Rigondeaux opts for more "make him miss" than "make him pay."
Few fighters offer a more reliable guarantee of entertainment than James Kirkland. Making his ring return after a 21-month break filled with the sort of legal and managerial problems that forever plague him, Kirkland (31-1, 27 KOs) takes on local prospect "Jersey Boy" Glen Tapia (20-0, 12 KOs) in a fight certain to please the bloodthirsty viewer for as long as it lasts. Kirkland has the fight game's top female trainer, Ann Wolfe, back in his corner, which seems a necessary ingredient if the troubled Texas junior middleweight is going to make one more charge toward a title shot with his 30th birthday looming.
In another veteran-vs.-unbeaten-prospect showdown, the broadcast opens with former middleweight title challenger Matthew Macklin (29-5, 20 KOs) squaring off against unproven Lamar Russ (14-0, 7 KOs) in a massive step-up fight for the prospect from North Carolina. You probably remember Macklin from his spirited loss to 160-pound champ Sergio Martinez in 2012 and his dispiriting bodyshot KO to Gennady Golovkin six months ago. This Saturday's assignment seems, on paper, to be easier than those. But you never know quite you're going to get with a fighter like Russ, who doesn't know what defeat feels like and isn't planning on finding out.


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05 September 2009
Not Proust's Mother's Madeleines
Not only did I make this decision, I then proceeded to start reading and have now read 150 of the 465 bajillion pages (give or take a few) left to read. But this is not a literary blog, so I'll get to the point. The point is madeleines, "those squat plump little cakes...which look as though they ha[ve] been molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell" (Swann's Way ). This is probably one of the most famous passages in French literature, and it's about food. That is why I love the French.
So I decided to learn about Proust's madeleines. Although the expression "la madeleine de Proust" is now used to designate any small action that brings a strong memory or emotion, as the madeleine crumbs in his tea do for Marcel, it turns out MP knows a lot less about his little cakes than it would seem. In his wonderful account The Way the Cookie Crumbles: How much did Proust know about madeleines?, Edmund Levin describes his failed attempts to reenact the scene in Swann's Way and explains why we might want to look somewhere else for a decent recipe.
Having already made yummy Almond-Cinnamon Madeleines last year when my sister gave me (blue!) madeleine pans for Christmas, I was happy with my method, except for one thing: it wasn't traditional. So I started from scratch looking at recipes and decided that I liked the idea of simple lemon ones. However, being absolutely obssesed with butterscotch, especially since I started making Butterscotch Pudding, I wondered if I could add that flavor to my madelines.
I started by making this absolutely wonderful recipe for Butterscotch Sauce from Simply Recipes, complete with step by step pictures. Then...
Lemon-Butterscotch Madeleines
3/4 cup (170g) unsalted butter
4 eggs
1 cup (200g) sugar
zest of one lemon
1 3/4 cup (265g) flour
1/4 tsp salt
a little extra butter for buttering the tins
1/4 cup butterscotch sauce
Melt the unsalted butter in a heavy-bottomed pan and set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until they lighten slightly and add the lemon zest. Fold in half the flour and the salt. Add the melted, cooled butter and fold in the other half of the flour (thanks to Camille for calling on her lunch break with this piece of emergency madeleine advice - now there's a true foodie!).
Refrigerate 1 - 1 1/2 hours. (Good quality Proust-reading time if temporary insanity strikes.)
Preheat the oven to 375ºF (190ºC).
Butter the molds and spoon in batter. Make a small depression in each madeleine and add a dollop of butterscotch sauce. Bake 12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans and let cool.
Enjoy warm while reading french classics - or something else ;-)
12 comments:
- Cicero Sings said...
Well it seems like you like things BLUE in your kitchen ... even a blue Madeleine pan. Now I've pondered on making Madeleines and have wondered if they were worth the purchase of a pan. It seems that they are ... so maybe on my next foray into a kitchen shop ...
As for blue in my kitchen ... I just have my blue enameled cast iron pot ... and a very pretty blue it is too. I did see I was tagged and I'll get there one day.
- 05 September, 2009 21:58
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A very pleasant combo! Those madeleines must taste heavenly!
Cheers and have a great weekend,
- 05 September, 2009 23:03
- Hopie said...
Cicero - It's funny, I never noticed how much blue I had until I got that tag! Your blue cast iron pot sounds beautiful. Maybe you have more blue things than you think! I think madeleines pans are worth it. They're fun little cakes!
Rosa - They certainly brighten up the weekend! Have a good one!
- 06 September, 2009 16:20
I read Du Côté de Chez Swann in college, but have never touched the rest of it. (Found Sartre more intriguing.)
Love the butterscotch madeleine idea - glad they came out! :)
- 06 September, 2009 18:48
- Hopie said...
Camille - Well thanks for your help. The butterscotch addition was yummy.
Apparently Du Côté de chez Swann is the most difficult to get into so I'm determined to keep going one or two books further. (Though if he mentions the bell tower in Cambray one more time, I might have to hit him.) Plus I'm a huge fan of Virginia Woolf and I can see why she liked Proust (well actually, she said reading Proust made her feel suicidal because there was nothing left worth writing - but this is Virginia Woolf we're talking about ;-)).
I don't think I have an existentialist bone in my body, though I'm sure that's sacrilege for a French major. I find Sartre bearable, and Camus makes me want to fill my pockets with stones and walk into a river - and not because I want to write like him! Pure heresy, I know, but there it is...
- 07 September, 2009 14:33
- Sam said...
I love the butterscotch idea, the madeleines looks incredible.
It looks like you have a lot of blue in your kitchen, everything in mine seems to be red! I never really paid attention to the colour of things until you posted that tag!
- 08 September, 2009 21:42
- Katharine said...
You made butterscotch thumbprint madeleines - you can't fool me! They look divine. Love, Mom
PS Imagine with raspberry jam! Mmm :)
PPS That is indeed a noble (foodie) deed on Camille's part - brava!
- 08 September, 2009 22:46
- Nicole said...
Mmm, madeleines. They look scrumptious
- 13 September, 2009 20:21
- Hopie said...
Sam - Thanks. Well perhaps you'll have to do a red version!
Mom - Hehe, yes, although if you actually try to stick your thumb into madeleine batter, you just get a sticky thumb! I used the handle of a spoon. With raspberry jam...mmmmm!
Nicola - Thanks! They certainly are yummy.
- 14 September, 2009 17:34
- Mini Baker said...
YUm yum yum! Lemon and butterscotch sounds delicious :)
I just found your blog and I love it. And I'm very jealous of your life in Paris!
Happy Baking,
Mini Baker
- 15 September, 2009 01:31
- Hopie said...
Mini Baker - Well thank you. I'm off to check out your blog. With a name like mini baker, it sounds good already :-)
- 15 September, 2009 14:45
- Arabic Bites said...
I always love madeleines so I'll give your recipe a try soon.
Thank you for sharing :)
zainab :D
- 17 September, 2009 04:28


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An outbreak in the DRC has spread to neighboring Uganda, and conflict and mistrust of health workers is impeding international efforts to contain the disease.
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Under the leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa, the African National Congress (ANC), improved its electoral performance in the 2019 national elections. The ANC won more than 58 percent of the vote, up from 54 percent in the local government elections of 2016, though still a decline from the 62 percent in won in 2014 national elections.
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The extradition process enables governments to bring fugitives abroad to justice, but it can be fraught with political tension, even when a treaty is in place.


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Las Vegas 51sThe New Triple-AAA Baseball Affiliate Of The New York MetsWWW.LV51.COM
LAS VEGAS:The Las Vegas 51s professional baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) announced today they have signed a "new" two-year Player Development Contract (PDC) with the New York Mets, member of the National League East.
The two-year PDC with the Mets will run through the 2014 season. Las Vegas just completed its 30th season in the Silver State and the fourth season as the Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays (2009-12). The Blue Jays are expected to announce a two-year PDC with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons of the International League. The New York Mets spent the last four seasons in Triple-A Buffalo (2009-12).
"We are familiar with many of the front office personnel with the Mets," 51s Executive Director Don Logan said. "I've known Sandy Alderson (Mets GM) for 20 years to go along with J.P. Ricciardi (Special Assistant to the GM), Paul DePodesta (VP, Player Development & Scouting), Dick Scott (Minor League Field Coordinator) and Terry Collins(Manager). These individuals are all very familiar with Las Vegas from the time they spent here with other organizations. We are excited to welcome the Mets as our new Triple-A affiliate."
This will mark the fourth Major League Baseball affiliation for the Las Vegas franchise in the 30-year history as a member of the PCL.
"We are excited about our new partnership with the Las Vegas 51s and the city of Las Vegas, one which values equally player development, winning and community involvement," Mets General Manager Sandy Aldersonsaid.
"We are looking forward to working with the New York Mets as our new affiliate," 51s General Manager Chuck Johnsonadded. "The Mets will continue to provide quality players for us on the field that our fans will enjoy watching play. We are also excited to have the New York "brand" in the Las Vegas market.
"From the 51s perspective, nothing is going to change from our end. We will continue to provide affordable family entertainment to go along with the promotional nights (ie, fireworks, giveaway items) and the outstanding caliber of competition that typifies PCL baseball.
"We had a great relationship with Toronto for four years and the Blue Jays front office was fantastic to deal with and they provided an excellent product on the field with some outstanding players (ie, J.P. Arencibia, Adeiny Hechavarria, Brett Lawrie). We understand with the lack of player amenities at Cashman Field and the proximity of Buffalo to Toronto (100 miles), it makes sense geographically to move to Buffalo."
Las Vegas Triple-A Affiliation History:San Diego Padres, 18 seasons (1983-2000), 1,227-1,329 (.480), 7 playoff appearancesLos Angeles Dodgers, 8 seasons (2001-08), 561-586 (.489), 1 playoff appearanceToronto Blue Jays, 4 seasons (2009-2012), 287-288 (.499), 0 playoff appearancesALL-TIME RECORD: 2,075-2,203 (.485)
The Las Vegas Stars/51s have captured the PCL Championship twice (1986 & 1988) and appeared in the playoffs eight times (17-23 record, .425).
The 51s will open the 2013 season at division-rival, the Sacramento River Cats, Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland A's, on Thursday, April 4.
Season tickets and mini-plan packages for the 2013 campaign are available by calling the 51s office at (702) 798-7825.


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Photography Workshops – NJ / NYC
If you need instruction or help with your photography, I present photography workshops –
most often on topics relating to flash photography and photographic lighting.
The workshop programs are intended to give you confidence in using your photo gear. My approach is to teach other photographers how to achieve what they want to. What we are aiming for, are those "aaaah, NOW I get it!" moments. Any aspects of flash photography that had been elusive up until then – whether it is a technique or bit of theory – should fall into place.
There are workshops on using speedlights, as well as on studio lighting.
However, if you prefer, you can also arrange for an personal photography workshop.
I also offer personal tutoring sessions.
These are either done in person at my studio in New Jersey,
or via Skype for those who live further away.
Recaps of previous workshops, with feedback from attendees.
Also, here are the kind of results you can expect to achieve yourself! It's well within your reach.
1. Flash photography workshops – speedlights
The flash photography workshops are full-day events, held at my studio space in NJ. Each workshop is limited to 6 people only. This way I can make sure of individual attention with each photographer, and allow everyone enough time to work with the models.
The flash photography workshops for 2019 will take place on:
- May 26 2019 (Sunday) 9am-6pm
- Sept 08, 2019 (Sunday) 9am-6pm
- location: my studio in NJ | (directions)
2. Photo walks – NYC
- June 09, 2019 (Sunday) 4-6pm – Brooklyn Waterfront
- July 21, 2019 (Sunday) 4-6pm – Brooklyn Waterfront
- Oct 27, 2019 (Sunday) 4-6pm – Brooklyn Waterfront
3. Studio lighting workshops
- Nov 17, 2019 (Sunday) 9am-6pm
- location: my studio in NJ | (directions)
4. Personal workshops
5. Personal tutoring sessions
- location: my studio in NJ | (directions)
6. Skype sessions
7. Video tutorials
Contact me
Please feel free to e-mail me or phone me at 862-485-7276, for more information about the workshops.
If you'd like to be updated about upcoming workshops (and other snippets of news and info), then there is the monthly newsletter that you can subscribe to.
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Archive for February, 2009
Family Tree Maker 2009 Features (Guest Author Bob Larson)
Part two of my review of Family Tree Maker 2009© (FTM 2009) includes features in the Web Search, Places and Media workspaces. FTM expanded the Web Search feature with more databases on a manual basis, either paid for or free. FTM still searches the Ancestry database for results.
Family Tree Maker 2009 Review (Part 1) (Guest Author Bob Larson)
Family Tree Maker 2009© (FTM 2009) has many new features over the previous versions. Even though it's the nation's most popular genealogy software, it's amazing how many features are included in this software package for a low price. FTM 2009 offers three packages: Essentials, Deluxe, and Platinum, which gives 1, 3, or 6 months of Ancestry subscription databases.


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The need amounts to at least $1.6 trillion dollars over the next five years, they said, a need too great for any one level of government to handle alone.
"So we all got together and we decided that we should form a partnership, that we'd form a coalition," Schwarzenegger said. "You have an Independent here, you have a Democrat here, a Republican. I mean, how much better can you get? And we are soul mates. We totally believe that we must rebuild America."
In the short term, the coalition will work with presidential candidates and the platform committees of the national political parties to ensure that the next president understands the enormity of the infrastructure crisis and is committed to increasing federal funding, the three officials said.
From left: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Ed Rendell, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announce the Building America's Future coalition. (Photo courtesy Office of Governor Schwarzenegger)
"This coalition is going to demand that the presidential nominees tell us what their position on infrastructure is, talk to us about what their goals and dreams are for building a better American infrastructure," said Governor Rendell.
"In July of this year I take over as the chair of the National Governors Association," said the Pennsylvania governor, "and with Governor Schwarzenegger's help, we the governors are going to focus attention like a laser on infrastructure."
The new coalition, called Building America's Future, will be not-for-profit organization made up of elected and executive officials serving at the state and local levels of government.
"Our coalition is going to be made up of literally hundreds of local and state government officials and leaders," Governor Rendell said. "It's going to include private sector associations and individuals, and it is going to go everywhere to beat the drum for infrastructure for America's future."
"We have an infrastructure crisis," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Nonstop television showed us in New Orleans when the levees broke, and Minneapolis when the bridge collapsed. But the governors and the mayors of this country every day see at an operational level bridges that are rusting away, and tracks that can't carry high speed trains, and power transmission lines that can't keep up with demand, and airports that need new runways, and water lines that need backup systems, and sewage plants that leak into the rivers and the oceans."
"If we continue to ignore these problems we are going to suffer more collapses, more human tragedies, and more economic pain, and that's just in the short term," Bloomberg said. "Over the long run we really are going to risk losing our place as the world's leading super power."
"China, Japan, India, Dubai, Malaysia, Europe, all of them are investing in modern infrastructure at higher rates that we are here in the United States," the mayor said. "But Congress is setting back and resting on its accomplishments of past generations, our parents' generation. And they can only go on this way for so long before the rest of the world starts to pass us by. And we are here to say we cannot let that happen. We cannot hand our children a country that is crumbling from neglect."
"America needs $1.6 trillion worth of infrastructure over the next five years, yet federal investment has been cut in half as a percent of gross domestic product since 1987," said Governor Schwarzenegger. "This is disastrous because without adequate infrastructure to quickly and safely move goods and people our economy and our traffic will stop dead in its tracks."
Cars and roadway litter the river where the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minneapolis. August 5, 2007. (Photo by Todd Swain courtesy FEMA)
The problem has two parts, Bloomberg said, "we under-invest in infrastructure, and we invest badly. And both problems spring from the same source; short-term political calculations."
But in his view, the timing of the new coalition's push for funding "couldn't be better" because "there's a lot of talk in Washington about putting together an economic stimulus package."
"Democrats can say that investing in infrastructure is in the great tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Republicans can say it's in the great tradition of Dwight D. Eisenhower. I think it is in the great tradition of America, and if both parties want to take credit for it, I think that's great. Let's just get the job done," said the mayor.
Governor Rendell said he and the other other two founding members are good people to lead the coalition "is not just, as Governor Schwarzenegger said, that we represent parts of the political spectrum, but each and every one of us has made a significant commitment in our own jurisdiction to rebuilding our infrastructure."
"In the past 20 years, state and local governments have been forced to pay more and more of the cost for infrastructure repairs and expansion," said the Pennyslvania governor. "Three-quarters of our nation's infrastructure spending is by state and local governments. In the past five years Pennsylvania has increased state funding for bridge repairs by 300 percent, yet the number of structurally deficient bridges has increased. Our country can't do it without federal leadership."
One organization has already offered its support to the fledgling coalition. The Rockefeller Foundation has committed funding for staffing and resources.
"For almost a century, the Rockefeller Foundation has supported breakthrough solutions to society's most pressing problems, and one of the most urgent challenges today is our aging and inadequate transportation infrastructure," said Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin, who joined the Mayor and the two governors under the L.A. highway interchange.
"A few years ago, the Rockefeller Foundation funded the hurricane recovery planning process in New Orleans, and so we saw deeply and personally what happens when infrastructure and transportation fail. Lives are lost, vast amounts of property are damaged, elected officials are held in account. All of this was after the fact," Rodin said.
"We've seen now the need for robust advanced planning, and much more focused attention on investments and infrastructure and transportation," she said. "We can no longer rely on FEMA and the federal government to solve our infrastructure disasters after the fact.
"First, it is very clear that our aging and insufficient infrastructure makes us frighteningly vulnerable to natural and to manmade disasters," said Rodin. "We can do better; we must do better."
"Second, as the governors and mayor articulated, continuing environmental degradation and climate change are inextricably linked with the choices we make, not just about the roads we build or the railways we need, but about land use and zoning and housing," she said.
The bottom line, said Governor Schwarzenegger, is that we cannot wait for people to die in floods and bridge collapses before we get the message.
"I think we got the message," he said, "that we must rebuild America, we must invest in America, and that is the bottom line."
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved.


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Wide receiver/punt returner Denarius Moore provided the Raiders with a bit of welcomed good news by returning to practice Wednesday.
Moore has been sidelined with a sore foot since he sprained it against the Minnesota Vikings on Nov. 20. He is fielding punts and catching passes on the field right now.
Meanwhile, running back Darren McFadden is nowhere to be seen. He has missed the past 52 days with a midfoot sprain and there still isn't a timetable for his return this season, if at all.
Wide receiver Jacoby Ford (foot) and running back Taiwan Jones (hamstring) are working on an adjacent field with a team trainer. That portends their being a realistic shot at one or both returning in time for Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions.
Wide receivers Chaz Schilens, Darrius Heyward-Bey and Louis Murphy also are practicing despite getting banged up at some point against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
Defensive tackle John Henderson (knee) and free safety Michael Huff (hamstring) are not practicing today. Both suffered injuries against the Packers. Cornerback Chris Johnson is not practicing, and he was not on the field as a spectator, either.
Center Samson Satele (shoulder) made it to practice despite his injury against the Packers.
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|System: X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: EA Tiburon
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: EA Sports
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Oct. 19, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
The career mode itself is fairly deep, and players will definitely have some fun joining the different MMA leagues and participating in matches in familiar locales. However, the real replay value for EA Sports MMA will come from the online modes. The game has an immersive online mode which includes an online mode that allows you to fight against ranked opponents to earn online belts using XP earned in the ring.
There are over ninety belts you can earn (separated into two classes), and as you work your way through the ranks, your character progresses too. Although if you slip up too many times, you can lose belts just as quickly as you earn them. The belt progression is definitely a great hook to keep you immersed in the game and provides a career-like experience with your favorite MMA fighters (you can only use custom characters in career mode.)
The online fighting modes are probably going to be your go-to modes for online play, but there is another mode which is definitely exciting, and a first for a sports game. Live Broadcast is an online mode where two players (selected by EA Sports) can get together and fight live once a week. The live broadcast will be publicized both on the game's main menu and the EA Sports MMA website, and fans can tune in every week to watch the selected players battle it out. Of course, if you aren't at the top of the leaderboard, you might feel like you will never have a shot at Live Broadcast. However, I recently sat down with members of the EA Sports MMA team, who assured me that many factors will be taken into account when selecting players for Live Broadcast, including community activity and creative hype videos.
EA Sports MMA is definitely an interesting take on the burgeoning MMA genre of sports games. Although other games have focused on adding a plethora of modes and abilities, it seems the folks at EA Tiburon were solely focused on bringing an experience to the table that faithfully replicated the MMA sport, and creating a combat system filled with nuance and strategic detail. And on those notes, they have certainly succeeded. EA Sports MMA is a solid start for this new franchise and it will be interesting to see where EA will take it from here. But no matter what the future holds, EA Sports MMA is a title that MMA fans should appreciate, and is a refreshing take on the MMA genre.
Amanda L. Kondolojy
CCC News Director
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The Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence
Faculty Development, Student Research and Engaged Learning, Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies
Charles Center programs reach throughout the College to support student and faculty excellence.
Two highly visible services are the Center's role in incubating and providing administrative support for the interdisciplinary programs that combine departmental expertise to address emerging academic areas; and facilitating the departmental Honors program. Each year about 10 percent of graduating seniors pursue an Honors research project, with guidance from their home departments and support from the Charles Center.
The Center also functions as a hub of information and assistance for students seeking scholarships and grants, internships, and undergraduate research opportunities. Several student scholars programs in Arts & Sciences are administered through the Charles Center.
Initiatives that support faculty excellence include orientation for new A&S faculty members and a variety of funded opportunities to improve teaching and develop new curricula.Major programs of the Charles Center are guided by the Committee on Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies.


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F&ES Conference Calls for
Renewal of Haiti's Landscape
By Marc Wortman
In an impoverished land like Haiti, people view trees as a cheap source of cooking fuel and building materials. Trees also cover farming land or block other commerce. As a result, over the past 60 or so years Haitians have consumed virtually every tree in the countryside, leaving a fast-eroding rock garden that can't produce enough food for its own people. Sparked by urgent calls to rebuild the country following January's earthquake, a group of leaders in the effort to restore Haiti's blighted rural landscape came together at F&ES for two days in May to explore ways to delink the cycle of poverty from environmental degradation.
James Lyons '79
Until the middle of last century, lush forests covered much of Haiti's rural landscape. With the forests now gone from all but about 3 percent of the mountainous countryside, tree crops like mangos and cacao have also virtually disappeared. With little to hold back the water, more frequent and more intense tropical storms in recent years have made natural disasters endemic within the watersheds where most farming occurs, notably floods which have killed thousands of people and wiped out harvests, most recently in 2004 and 2008. To sustain a malnourished population, aid programs often supplement Haiti's food supplies, sometimes undercutting efforts to encourage sustainable farming practices. Extended droughts have added pressure on farmers to plant food crops on every available bit of arable land to feed one of the West's most densely populated countries. The earthquake on January 12 that sent thousands of people fleeing out of the devastated capital city of Port-au-Prince into rural areas further sapped already scarce food supplies. The earthquake's horrifying destruction may have convinced world leaders, though, that concerted action was finally needed to tackle Haiti's many thorny rural environmental problems contributing to the nation's deep poverty. About 100 agroforestry and environmental experts, United States and Haitian government officials and aid organization leaders convened at Kroon Hall in May to explore ways to turn the real rubble left by the quake into the figurative soil needed to grow trees in Haiti once again.
"Deforestation is at the core of the issues driving poverty in Haiti," says F&ES lecturer and research scholar James Lyons '79, during a break in the meeting's sessions. "The restoration of the Haitian economy has to start with the restoration of the Haitian environment." Former U.S. president Bill Clinton now serves as the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti. He agrees with Lyons, who was his Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment and head of the U.S. Forest Service. Even before the earthquake hit, Clinton asked him to formulate a strategy for sustainable restoration of Haiti's rural environment. But, says Lyons, restoring the forests "is not a simple problem." The misery accompanying the earthquake merely made coming up with solutions "that much more urgent," he says.
Lyons turned for help to his Clinton administration colleague and friend John Lewis. Lewis, who received a doctorate in anthropology from Yale in 1979, spent four years as a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) rural development officer in Haiti and later served, under President Clinton, as director of its Office of Agriculture and Food Security. Now he is a managing director at Terra Global Capital, an environmental strategy advisory and investment firm. He has advised the William J. Clinton Foundation on using global carbon reduction strategies as a means of supporting anti-poverty and sustainable reforestation efforts in the developing world.
F&ES already had ties to the post-earthquake relief effort. Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, had come to campus in the month after the earthquake to meet with F&ES faculty and students and others at Yale to discuss ways of helping Haiti recover. Learning about the Clinton Foundation's interest in pushing forward environmental restoration efforts, Dean Peter Crane urged Lewis and Lyons to follow up the ambassador's visit by convening a meeting at Yale. When Joanas Gue, Haiti's Minister of Agriculture, heard about the planned meeting, according to Lewis, he "jumped" at the opportunity to participate. With the support of the Clinton Foundation and World Vision International, the U.S. State Department's lead nongovernmental organization (NGO) for Haiti, Lyons and Lewis quickly organized the meeting of Haitian and American environmental and rural economics experts.
The immediate goal for the Yale conference was to draft a strategic blueprint for a meeting between the Haitian Inter-Ministerial Committee for Land Use Planning and President Clinton that was held in July in Port-au-Prince. That document was aimed at getting all the many NGO and government aid agencies, private companies and the Haitian and U.S. governments, which rarely cooperate and sometimes act at odds, moving in the same direction. Speaking in French after the first morning's Kroon Hall sessions, Gue lauded what he calls "Yale's very fine initiative. This is an opportunity for strategic collaboration among all the actors. We need to define approaches that move all of us in the same direction."
Mike McGahuey, a natural resources management advisor at USAID, attended both meetings, and he said, "The Yale meeting provided the foundation for a watershed-based program. It also helped reformers within the Haitian ministry gain strength."
A series of speakers laid out the problems plaguing the Haitian countryside and explored long-term solutions in the works, as well as next steps for sustainable environmental restoration. According to Jean-Marie Robert Chery, a counselor at the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR), the best-planned previous strategies have faced the daunting challenge on the ground in Haiti of gaining support from the thousands of often isolated small-plot farmers dotting the watersheds. The farmers and villagers lack what he terms "natural solidarity," without kinship, farmer's cooperatives or governmental structures representing their interests. He asks, "How do you intervene in the absence of local solidarity?"
Jean Serge Antoine
According to Chery, any attempt to convert farmland to trees for production of potentially profitable and environmentally more-sustainable agroforestry crops also needs to convince wary farmers that aid organizations and government officials would not abandon the effort before it took root. The various programs that speakers proposed would also need to provide farmers with enough income and food to survive while waiting for newly planted trees to mature and begin generating perennial income.
Jean Serge Antoine, deputy director of forest and land management at MARNDR, explains, "Farmers presently need everything—water, credit, border trees." He notes that most programs take into account only the downstream point of view, where the destruction and human catastrophes from flooding have been most apparent. He warns that any restoration program would need upland farmers to participate and "take ownership" of programs from the start. "If you overlook the needs of the farmers," he says, "it is worse than not trying. You will extend the cycle of poverty." He calls for programs that change cropping and agricultural production systems, but "any changes must be gradual to get farmer buy-in. To lift pressure on natural resources, you need to generate revenue-increasing opportunities."
Several academic experts and a number of representatives from international aid organizations described their existing efforts, including demonstration projects to plant border trees for plots that could also provide sustainable crops such as shade coffee, avocadoes and cocoa, as well as biomass for fuel. Lewis and others spoke about ways of using carbon offset credits from planting trees as a means of funding the long-term changeover needed in land use. Several private for-profit and nonprofit companies sent representatives to the May meeting, among them Timberland, the shoe and apparel maker; Mars, the candy manufacturer; and the Paradigm Project, developer of fuel-efficient, low-carbon cooking stoves.
Considering the many promising ideas and willingness to back change in Haiti, Lewis says, "We have a pretty good idea of what kind of land use changes have to happen so that trees that take many years to grow don't have to compete with cultivation of small plots by farmers. But getting from here to there in this informally governed country will take a focused effort coming out of meetings like this. It can be done."


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