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After a big improvement in 2012, banks are about to show what the future of an industry ravaged by the 2008 financial crisis will look like.
This week, many of the nation's top banks will disclose fourth-quarter 2012 profits and give their first glimpse of prospects for the new year. In all, 22 of the 37 S&P 500 companies expected to report fourth-quarter earnings this week are from the financial sector, according to FactSet.
One early sign: Wells Fargo reported Friday that fourth-quarter profit rose 24%. The stock fell because investors were disappointed that low interest rates and high expenses kept profits from rising more.
The financial sector overall is expected to post quarterly earnings growth of 8.7%, but excluding insurance companies whipped by Hurricane Sandy losses, growth will exceed 30%, according to the average forecast of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Commercial banks are projected to report 39% growth in earnings.
Among the big financial firms reporting this week are JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs on Wednesday, Bank of America and Citigroup on Thursday and Morgan Stanley on Friday.
JPMorgan and Citigroup are forecast to report double-digit gains in fourth-quarter revenue, besting by far the projected 1% revenue growth for diversified financial firms overall, according to FactSet.
Banks not among the top six megabanks are expected to report a 17% increase in full-year operating profits, with an additional 8% jump in 2013, according to research firm Keefe Bruyette & Woods.
Loans are more available now that banks have shored up their capital. And with loan demand still not growing as fast as banks' piles of cash, industry analysts predict banks are likely to raise dividends and buy back shares as they try to keep up returns to investors in a period of growth slower than during the last decade.
In the past year, the S&P 500 financial index is up 23%, trouncing the 14% gain of the S&P 500 overall.
"What we saw through 2012 were recovery years, and 2013 will give us more of a look at the new normal,'' said Nancy Bush, an analyst at SNL Financial. "What we hope to see is that a recovery that has been simmering starts to bubble.''
There will be flaws in the picture, Wells Fargo's report and market reaction suggest.
San Francisco-based Wells said commercial loans rose 9%. That wasn't enough to match growth in deposits, making Wells shovel money into low-yielding government securities and mortgages. That pushed down its net interest margin — the difference between the rate at which it takes in money and the interest it collects on its loans and other investments. Other banks face the same problem, said analyst Fred Cannon at Keefe Bruyette & Woods.
"Banks are working hard to stay even on profitability, and struggling for growth,'' Cannon said.
One effect of margin pressure: more layoffs.
American Express said last week it will cut 5,400 jobs, mostly in its travel services unit, and Morgan Stanley is shedding 1,600 jobs. Citigroup is implementing 11,000 layoffs it announced last month.
New regulations will also mean some banks fire bankers and traders and add lawyers to manage compliance, said Erik Oja, an analyst at Standard & Poor's Capital IQ. Banks announced fewer layoffs in 2012 than in 2011, says outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas.
"The layoff situation is different at every bank,'' Oja said.
But Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said on a conference call with analysts Friday that what will really propels new profit growth is rising interest rates. That, and a recovery that lets new demand for construction and commercial loans replace an expected drop in mortgage refinancing, he said.
Before that happens, banks will see fourth-quarter results trimmed by lawsuit settlements to resolve claims of fraud in mortgage origination and servicing. Wells Fargo took a $644 million charge to pay for its share of a 10-bank, $8.5 billion deal that resolved a federal review of foreclosures done during 2009 and 2010.
Separately, Bank of America agreed to an $11.6 billion settlement with Fannie Mae to resolve claims that it sold the government-backed mortgage financier substandard loans.


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One of the biggest problems with Elf is that it never quite figures out what kind of movie it wants to be - is it a kids film? A comedy? A fish out of water film? A love story? Or a film about Christmas Cheer? Elf wanders lost stumbling in each of these directions and manages never to succeed at any of them. I won't deny that there were several very funny points in the film, and at many of them I did really laugh. But these moments are so few and far between, that you have to suffer through a fairly bad film to get to them.
Perhaps I expected more form the paring of Swinger's writer Jon Favreau and SNL great Will Farrell. Elf is Jon Favreau's second time out as a feature film Director, and while many people mistakenly think he directed Swinger's, he actually was that films writer. Here he's paired with first time writer David Berenbaum (who also penned the upcoming 'Haunted Mansion' film) and the combo just doesn't work. Berenbaum's script is aimless, light on humor and schmaltzy in all the wrong places. Often SNL alumni are involved with the scripts of the films they do, or they pull along SNL writers with them to make a feature. I think Elf would have benefitted greatly from a team of writers with a strong comedic background. Favreau here seems to be trying to hard to tip his hat to classic TV Xmas shows while failing to resist the temptation to let 'good ole Xmas cheer' fill in where the script can't.
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It's very difficult to recommend Elf, it's not really a kids film and kids will probably be quite bored through parts of it, it's not a good comedy and fans of SNL and Will Farrell will definitely disappointed and it's only passable as a maudlin 'Believe in Santa and everything will be OK' Xmas film. While Elf isn't an 'F' of a film, it is a definte C and with such a jam packed fall season of films, you're probably best waiting to rent this film when it comes out to DVD.


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A woman's ovaries make estrogen until menopause, which happens at about 52 years of age. Before menopause, estrogen in a woman's bloodstream helps keep the skin of the vagina healthy and stimulates vaginal secretions. After menopause, when the ovaries stop making estrogen or after ovarian failure or removal, the walls of the vagina become thin and vaginal secretions are lessened. Similar changes can happen to some women during breastfeeding, but these changes are temporary and less severe. Disordered eating, excessive exercise, and therapies for breast and edometrial cancer may also result in atrophic vaginitis.
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Hi to the ATARI community!
After the release of Laserball for the ST I stumbled over another old GFA Basic Game-Torso I made in 1990 – a driving simulator… ok… kind of… it was a technical experiment on the mathematical background of making a road "move". Well… I could not let go the past evenings and had a fairly good run … And it has become some kind of a complete anarchic "crash everything in your way" kind of thing… haven't you ever dreamed of crashing into a tree and see it explode? And it don't even slow you down! And yes: you can shoot rockets on everything in your path… for no apparent reason.
Here is a video of the current status.
Its all very down technical at the moment. And the biggest thing missing: Some decent graphics!!! My cars look terrible! So does everything else! So before I go on creating a game out of this … ähhh… whatever it is…:
Is there a ATARI ST artist out there who would like to contribute some nice 16 Color graphics?
Oh yes… one thing before excitement hits too hard: This is written in GFA Basic (as I never mastered to learn anything else) The frame rate is faked by pushing the STeem emulator to 16mhz. So this will be an "emulator only" thing, as it plays with only 7FPS on a STE 8mhz setup…


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Counting and Numbers
We read two great books about numbers this week. The first, aimed more at the younger kids, was 1,2,3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle. It's a simple animal counting story, but, as with all Eric Carle books, is beautifully illustrated.
The second book we read was a new one to me, but has quickly become one of my favorites - Numbers, Counting in the Natural World. Filled with beautiful nature pictures, this book counts to twelve and discusses sequence, comparison (lot, little, none; smallest to largest, etc), greater than and less than, evens and odds, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I have the feeling we will be reading this book a lot!
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Pinky has decided that she really wants to learn to count to 100 before she starts Kindergarten. She knows the basic pattern but forgets the 10 place holders. I printed out a number chart from 1-100 for her to count with. I highlighted the 10 units and she practiced skip counting another love of hers) to help reinforce her memorization.
You can find the number chart here at apples4theteacher and the skip counting charts here at Homeschool Creations.
Chaos and I made sticker math charts together. He's gotten very good at counting, and I was surprised at how interested he was in completing the charts with me. The idea for this activity came from this post at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.
We had a lot of fun exploring magnets and their properties this week. We started by exploring our new magnet sensory box.
Next we tried an activity I read about on the Prekinders blog. Using a ruler, we placed a magnet marble at one end and slowly pushed our magnet wands toward it. We took guesses as to how far the marble would "jump" to the wand.
We then experimented with different strength magnets to see which could make the marble jump the furthest.
Our magnets - magnet wand, refrigerator magnet, a MagnaDoodle magnet and our magnetic cabinet lock "key"
Our next activity (inspired by this post at Tinker Lab) was to see if the magnets would work through glass and water. We submerged a marble magnet and tried to retrieve it using our different magnets. Both the wand and the cabinet lock key were able to move the magnets.
This was definitely the favorite activity for the kids. They loved "rescuing" the magnets over and over again.
We also read two books about magnets: Magnet Power and What Makes a Magnet?
We tried a few of the activities in each of these books which included magnetizing a needle, discovering North and South poles, making our own compass, and discovering that the refrigerator seal is magnetic (this was news to me too!).
Finally, we decided to do some magnet painting!! This is such a fun project to do. We filled 4 small bowls with Crayola fingerpaint and added a magnet marble to each one.
We put paper in the bottom of a shoe box and dropped in the magnet(s) of our choice.
By moving the magnet wand on the underside of the box we were able to paint our pictures.
Pinky continues to read the Bob books. I've noticed she has some trouble distinguishing the lowercase b, d, p and q. Using an idea I found here at Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary, I made a letter matching game for her to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
And since I had even more plastic eggs, I also made a few word family eggs to play with. The idea came from this post on Living and Learning Now.
Other Reading Activities:
This week we were also lucky enough to host Pete the Pigeon - a friend from Pinky's preschool class. He takes turns visiting each student during the school year.
This was our second visit with Pete the Pigeon. The first time he visited he brought along Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus for us to read. This time he brought Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog. Pinky and Chaos both find the Pigeon stories hilarious.
At the end of Pete's visit, we record what we did with him in the classroom journal and Pinky is able to share her story with her classmates. It is so much fun to read all the stories! This week Pigeon Pete joined Abby at dance class, Spanish class and was even able to attend Sunday School and sing in church! I think he had a good time.
Also this week, Wild One had fun with her first sensory box - The Texture Box. She liked to cuddle the softer fabrics and had a fun game of emptying and refilling the bin over and over again. Finally, Pinky showed her how to use the squares as small blankets for her Little People.
Speaking of Little People, Wild One had the best time playing with the Little People school bus this week. She would open and close all the doors, pull out the stop sign, and push it all around the house. She even let her baby dolls take a few rides.
Sprout continues to grow bigger every day. I am amazed that she is a month old already. We spent a lot of time cuddling this week and spent some time on exploring her playmat (she has just started noticing the toys hanging from it). She surprised us all by rolling over from her belly to her back this week too!
Here's one of my favorite pictures from this week. Sprout was crying so Wild One gave her back her pacifier and was stroking her cheek. So sweet!
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Newly Established Union Newspaper in Richmond on the Assassination of Lincoln
The Library of Virginia does have the Saturday, April 15, 1865 issue of The Richmond Whig, but the paper made no mention of the assassination attempt from the previous night. In the April 15 issue, the first item on page one is an account of a speech given by President Lincoln on April 11 from a window at the White House on the subject of Reconstruction. Here is one interesting bit from the President's speech, "The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, energy and daring to the same end. Granting that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps toward it than by running backward over them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. [Laughter.]"
Richmond has a long history of Whig newspapers, but similarly to The Richmond Times mentioned in the previous post, this edition of The Richmond Whig was a new newspaper, starting up in the days following the conclusion of the war.
Lester J. Cappon wrote about The Richmond Whig in his book Virginia Newspapers 1821-1935: "Publication suspended M[arch] 31, 1865, because of war conditions and 'resumed this afternoon Ap[ril] 4–new ser., v.1, no. 1] with the consent of the military authorities. The editor, and all who heretofore controlled its columns, have taken their departure. The proprietor [William Ira Smith, April 4 - June 22, 1865] . . . has had a conference with Gen. Shepley, the Military Governor. . . . The Whig will therefore be issued hereafter as a Union paper,' (cf. issue of Ap 4) the first … read more »
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Eye Witness Account of Lincoln's Assassination and Funeral Preparations
From the Richmond Times dated April 21, 1865, Volume 1, Number 1.
The first edition of this newly established newspaper was published a full week after the assassination of President Lincoln. It is the predecessor of Richmond's only remaining daily newspaper, The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Page one of the newspaper has a thorough account of the evacuation of Richmond which began on the morning of April 3, 1865.
From Page 2:
Paticulars of the Assassination!
The President's Death-Bed Scene!
Statement of an Eye-Witness.
Mr. James P. Ferguson, who was present at the theatre on the night of the assassination, makes the following statement:
When the second scene of the third act of the play was reached, Mr. Ferguson saw (and recognized) John Wilkes Booth making his way along the dress circle to the President's box. Mr. Ferguson and Booth had met in the afternoon and conversed, and were well acquainted with each other, so that the former immediately recognized him. Booth stopping two steps from the door, took off his hat, and holding it in his left hand, leaned against the wall behind him. In this attitude he remained for half a minute; then he stepped down one step, put his hands on the door of the little corridor leading to the box, bent his knee against it, the door opened, Booth entered, and was for the time hidden from Mr. Ferguson's sight.
The shot was the next Mr. F. remembers. He saw the smoke, then perceived Booth standing upright, with both hands raised, but at the moment saw no weapon or anything else in either. Booth then sprang to the front of the box, laid his left hand on the railing in front, was checked an instant evidently by his coat or pants being … read more »
Newspaper Accounts on the Death of Lincoln
With the renewed interest in President Abraham Lincoln due to Steven Spielberg's latest movie, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at newspaper coverage of the assassination and the ensuing manhunt. In the spirit of full disclosure, much of Lincoln was filmed in Richmond, Virginia and I was an extra in the film, playing a Radical Republican. See photo below.
To my surprise, our collection has very few Virginia newspapers from the period just after the war. Many newspapers we have from that time seemed to have stopped publishing in March 1865 as a result of worsening conditions in wartime Virginia. It is helpful to know a few dates concerning the end of the war: Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865; Lincoln was assassinated on Friday evening of April 14, 1865 and died the following day at 7:22 AM.
I was able to find several papers from the days following the assassination that have interesting information I have never come across before. I thought it would be beneficial to simply transcribe some of these accounts to satisfy public curiosity.
Over the next several days, we will feature extracts of articles from the newspapers published shortly after Lincoln's assassination.
From The Alexandria Gazette, April 21, 1865
On page 1, appeared the following:
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, April 20, 1865,
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Reward.
The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large !!!
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD will be paid by the Department for his apprehension, in addition to any reward offered by Municipal authorities or State Executives.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD will be paid for the apprehension of G. A. ATZEROT, sometimes called "Port Tobacco," one of Booth's accomplices!
TWENTY-FIVE … read more »
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A report surfaced yesterday that a decision on whether to charge Jameis Winston in connection to an alleged sexual assault last December would be coming soon. While that still appears to be the case, "soon" won't translate into "Friday."
Willie Meggs, the state's attorney whose office is investigating the case, told the Tallahassee Democrat that there will be no announcement made Friday in regard to charging Winston in the case. Meggs met earlier in the day with his staff, including the two investigators he assigned to the case last week, the Democrat wrote, "to determine what else must be done before deciding whether to press charges against" the Florida State quarterback.
That meeting came a day after Meggs reportedly met with Winston's accuser.
"We are tying up some loose ends," Meggs told the paper Friday morning. "Hopefully, we will have a quiet day. …
"I'm going to try to have all of our I's dotted and T's crossed. Hopefully, don't overlook anything we could do."
It remains unclear when a decision will be made by Meggs and his office whether to file charges against Winston, although that could happen as early as next week. The only known is that Meggs will likely not present the case to a grand jury, instead deciding himself whether enough evidence exists to pursue charges against Winston.
A DNA analysis, ESPN.com reported early Wednesday morning, concluded that there was a one in 2.2 trillion chance that the semen obtained from the alleged victim's underwear was not Winston's. Winston's attorney, Tim Jansen, acknowledged Thursday that his client had sexual relations with the woman but that the act was "absolutely" consensual. In a statement released Tuesday, the family of the alleged victim claimed she was raped and that Winston was the perpetrator.
While a report surfaced yesterday morning that "extraordinary circumstances" might preclude it, an indefinite suspension is a near-certainty if Winston were to be charged with a felony, an FSU official told CFT Friday.
UPDATED 3:03 p.m. ET: ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach stated on the Paul Finebaum radio show this afternoon that Meggs informed him that decision on whether or not to charge Winston will come Tuesday at the earliest. No decision will be made this weekend, Meggs said.


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Read pp. 496-499 in Institutes of Biblical Law.
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moovel acquires Validated, a technology platform that offers mobility incentives through loyalty programs
moovel (becoming REACH NOW), the leading provider of mobile ticketing solutions in North America, announced Wednesday that it has acquired Validated, a technology company that allows businesses, universities, retailers and restaurants to subsidize transportation for customers and employees and helps drive retail traffic to brick-and-mortar stores by offering ride subsidies to users of shared mobility services.
Digital mobility budget: MaaS pioneer moovel helps companies make employee mobility more flexible
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That's what happened to Radjoe Popovic, 62, a Yugoslavian immigrant turned real estate developer who bought Walt Disney's 1901 birthplace, thinking the nostalgia value would help it sell quickly.
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But the home at 2156 Tripp in Hermosa Park is failing to attract buyers -- even from Disney devotees who stop to check the place out.
Popovich "didn't think twice" about purchasing the home in 2002. He planned to convert it into an art center. But instead of moving in he became the property's landlord.
The home was built in 1893 by Walt Disney's father Elias, who worked in construction for the World's Columbian Exposition, reports the Sun-Times. When the animator was five years old, the family moved to Missouri.
Popovich and his wife, Barbara, put the house up for auction on eBay in 2006 with no success. Its been on the real, non-auction market for a year now. It's listed for $199,000, just $9,000 more than Popovich paid for it seven years ago.


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This article (the first of two) contains ideas for investigations. Space-time, the curvature of space and topology are introduced with some fascinating problems to explore.
This is the second of two articles and discusses problems relating to the curvature of space, shortest distances on surfaces, triangulations of surfaces and representation by graphs.
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As for tonight itself, it was like the Allegory of the Cave, except not boring. Turns out all the shadows (the shades of the twitterverse) are actual real people, all of whom are lovely, some of whom now have buttons. Thank you! Thank you least of all for cutting down of my shipping costs! Thank you most of all for being real people and not just well-programmed bike-obsessed twitter bots. We shall keep Turing at bay together.
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U.S. Senate debate: Which candidates will make the stage?
UPDATE, April 4: 9News announced the eight candidates who qualified: Jon Keyser, Jack Graham, Robert Blaha, Ryan Frazier, Tim Neville, Peg Littleton, Jerry Natividad and Darryl Glenn.
The announcement of the first televised debate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate is sure to create controversy: With more than a dozen candidates in the race, who will make the debate stage?
Denver NBC-affiliate 9News scheduled a one-hour debate for 7 p.m. April 5, just days before the Colorado Republican Party holds its state convention, where delegates will nominate candidates for the June primary ballot. The Lincoln Club of Colorado, a GOP organization, is the co-host.
In determining the candidates invited to attend, 9News is facing the same heat that generated consternation in the early debates for the Republican presidential race and raised questions about fairness.
Unlike the White House race, 9News likely will make its decision without the benefit of independent polling or official campaign finance reports, which the entire field will not file until after the debate.
Instead, the TV station convened a five-member panel of political analysts to make the decision based on a single metric: Whether the candidate is "viable" in the GOP primary?
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During the first internet job wave in the '90s, ambitious graduates moved west to San Francisco to strike it rich working for a dotcom. Fifteen years later, you don't need the degree, the dotcom job, or even a San Francisco address.
Meet Max Weisel, the 19-year-old wunderkind who began experimenting with iPhone app development in his mid-teens. He was building iOS apps before Apple announced the App Store — or even made an SDK (Software Development Kit) available so that developers could build official apps.
On the strength of his Soundrop app, Björk tapped Weisel to build three song apps for her awesomely-ambitious Biophilia project, considered to be the first "app album" in the world.
[Updated 4pm ET: This article originally stated that Weisel made the already-released "Virus" app, but in fact he's working on three Biophilia song apps that have yet to be released: "Moon," "Solstice," and "Dark Matter." Scott Snibbe and his studio created "Virus." We regret the error.]
Weisel dropped out of college, just like the man who built iOS, and convinced three friends to do the same. They set up shop in South San Francisco to make apps. We had to know more.
(This interview has been edited for length and clarity; see also our interview with lead Biophilia developer Scott Snibbe — part one and part two.)
Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm: I've seen your work with Soundrop. What were your early experiences with computing, and how did you make the leap into programming?
Max Weisel, Develoe: When I was in fifth grade or so, a friend showed me a website where you could make your own website — I think it was called Yahoo Geocities. From there, I progressed into web development in middle school. In high school, there was a group that got together to put custom ringtones on the iPhone. They noticed that the file structure was very similar to the Mac operating system, and one thing led to another — they compiled a tool chain that allowed them to create apps for it.
This was before the [iTunes] app store or anything like that. I started making apps on my own, and so when the iPhone SDK actually came out, I already had experience designing iPhone apps, before, I guess, anybody else.
I started to look more at audio processing and getting into the drawing system on the iPhone, and that's how my app Soundrop was born. I was messing with some functions to draw lines and dots, and then added some physics to it.
I went to college for a semester and dropped out last year. I'm 19 years old and I've moved out to San Francisco to pursue my business.
Evolver.fm: Wow. Can you tell me more about how working with ringtones led you to build apps before Apple launched the iOS SDK?
Weisel: When the first iPhone came out, you couldn't have your own ringtones on it. One guy wanted the theme from the television show 24 to play on his iPhone, and about a month after the iPhone came out, they were already able to use the same mechanism iTunes uses to put songs on your device to put ringtones onto the iPhone.
Evolver.fm: Did it have to be jailbroken?
Weisel: This was before jailbreak. From looking at the structure of the file system, they figured out where ringtones would go, and that's how jailbreaking was born. Also, here's some background on the term: When iTunes syncs music to your iPhone, it's in a folder which is called a "
true chroot jail," which just means that you can't go outside of it and look at the other stuff in the file system. Early on, the goal was to break out of that, which was fairly straightforward back then, or at least easier than it is now. That's how "jailbreaking" was born. I was sort of following that closely, and learned how to make apps through it.
Evolver.fm: So how did this idea for Soundrop turn into a music app?
Weisel: At first, I was just drawing lines and dots, because that's all I could do with custom drawing in the framework I was using. It sort of looked as though it was this "frozen in time" sort of thing. My friend was like, "Well, you should just make the dots bounce off the lines." So we did that. It still felt like there was something missing, so we added a little code just to give it some sound, then brought that onto a pentatonic scale so that the notes sounded good together, and submitted it to the app store.
This was just before the deadline for apps to be in the app store for the iPad launch. [Its success] was cool, because this was basically something we created to have something in the app store when the iPad came out.
Evolver.fm: That's interesting about using the pentatonic scale to make it sound good, because I wondered initially: Why isn't it the length of the line that determines the pitch, like with stringed instruments?
Weisel: I have a new version, and it lets you adjust that. Originally, I think we used the length of the line, but we did it before we had the pentatonic scale, so it was awkward. Also, I was in physics class at the time, so using the ball velocity to determine pitch was fairly straightforward.
Evolver.fm: Again, wow. Scott [Snibbe] told me he normally wouldn't work with someone as young as you. What is it that enabled you to make such progress without doing all the starter internships and stuff that people usually do? Is it you, has something changed in the landscape, or is it a combination?
Weisel: It's definitely a combination. I'm able to show my work to a huge audience through Apple's app store, which delivers it to millions of people. People start to see a reputation based more on my work rather than that I'm wearing a suit or not, or my age. But computer science has also been a hobby of mine. I wouldn't say that it's my favorite thing to do, but I would love it as a career, and it's always been really fun for me. There's this passion that goes into my apps. I really pay attention to fine detail.
I've definitely hit that wall before where people judge me by my age, and I try to get my work out there — something to show them before they're able to make that judgment. That's kind of what happened with Björk. They contacted me and we came up with some ideas. Then, when we met in Iceland, people were a little shocked. I don't think it was a bad thing — Björk was pretty excited about it — but I don't think anyone was expecting it.
We'd just gotten to this hotel in Iceland, and I remember walking out of my room because I heard everyone's voices, which I recognized from Skype. But as soon as I got out, nobody happened to be talking, so I didn't know who to approach and introduce myself to, so I had to just pretend to keep walking. I think I went to a bathroom or something.
Evolver.fm: Can you tell me more about how Soundrop led to Björk?
Weisel: Soundrop wasn't meant to be a "hit" app, but it seemed to catch on. People really enjoyed it, and so we created a pro version that's actually been featured in the Museum of Modern Art. It opened officially on July 24. I haven't updated it in about a year, because I've been busy with the Björk app and moving to San Francisco, but I have a new version, which should be coming out soon, which is the one that's on display at the MOMA. It has most of the requested features.
Evolver.fm: I moved to San Francisco around the time of the "first" internet wave, but I was 22, and a college graduate. How are you managing to deal with that at 19?
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Candidates for Dean's post at John A. Burns School of Medicine schedule visits to campusUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Four candidates for the permanent dean's position at the John A. Burns School of Medicine will be at the UH Manoa and Kakaʻako campuses beginning next week.
"The search committee did an excellent job of identifying quality candidates for the dean's position," said Interim Mānoa Chancellor Denise Konan. "Leadership is critical for the school to strengthen research and education to benefit health care in the state of Hawaiʻi."
"I hope that the campus community will take advantage of opportunities to hear what these candidates have to offer," she added. "We always welcome feedback and comments from the campus and that will be important to the process as we make a recommendation to the Board of Regents later this year."
The candidates are:
Neal Cohen, MD — Vice Dean, School of Medicine and Professor, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cohen received his medical education at UCSF, and has a Master's in Public Health, Epidemiology, from UC Berkeley.
Bruce Jarrell, MD — Professor of Surgery, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Acting Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Jarrell is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
Bonita Stanton, MD — Professor, Graduate School (Associate) Faculty, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Pediatrician-in-Chief, Children's Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Stanton received her medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Kenneth Ward, MD — Professor and Chair, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Women's Health. Dr. Ward is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Medicine.
The candidates will visit the university through the month of October on the following days:
Dr. Bruce Jarrell — October 10-11
Dr. Bonita Stanton — October 16-17
Dr. Neal Cohen — October 23-24
Dr. Kenneth Ward — October 26-27
More information about the candidates and the search process, including a list of the members of the search advisory committee, may be found at:
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Program Director James Ginsburg of the Fort Lyon Supportive Residential Community explained how the recovery program at Fort Lyon is working to the Community Conversations group at The Barista on Thursday evening.
Program Director James Ginsburg of the Fort Lyon Supportive Residential Community explained how the recovery program at Fort Lyon is working to the Community Conversations group at The Barista on Thursday evening.
Ginsburg expressed his thanks to the local communities for the welcoming attitude toward the persons who are living in the Fort Lyon Community now, all of them formerly homeless and most recovering from addiction problems. All have some sort of criminal record, he said, but nobody with a recent problem or an outstanding warrant is accepted. Also, no registered sex offenders or court referrals are accepted. No one with acute mental health issues is admitted and a criminal background check is done on everyone. These are only people who have decided to deal with their problems and have been referred by one of seven agencies scattered across the state in Denver, Fort Collins, Durango, and other cities. There is a waiting list of 100. The capacity of the facility is 300, but that would overtax the present staff and organizational state, said Ginsburg.
Current residents number 180, of the 220 originally enrolled. The attrition rate is very low for this type of facility. This is Colorado's first effort at dealing with the problem of homeless, traumatized and addicted persons. The average age of the people at Fort Lyon is 48. The average life span of a person in the type of life they were living is 49. So for most, this is a last chance effort.
The question was asked about how many veterans are being treated there. Ginsburg answered that in the general population of the homeless, veterans account for only 11 percent. In Fort Lyon, 26 per cent are veterans.
Ginsburg said the problem of homelessness is systemic. To pay for a two bedroom apartment in Denver, a person working at minimum wage would have to work 18 hours a day seven days a week. The group immediately saw the advantage of returning some of these people to areas other than Denver, although everyone admitted must have a sponsor for the rehabilitation period after release.
Training and education are major components of the treatment, along with counseling (every person has a counselor and a peer mentor). Otero Junior College is now offering five courses, in which 50 persons are enrolled. One very popular program is Health Navigator. An emphasis is placed on programs which can be completed in two years or under and will make a person employable for a living wage. Some of the clients have disability Social Security, but most do not. Addiction is not recognized as a disability.
When a person enters the facility, he must stay for two weeks in the facility, then he is allowed to go into the community with accompaniment for another two weeks. All females have their own rooms, and nobody is crowded. Houses on the Fort Lyon campus are being rehabilitated for the use of persons almost ready to go back into the general population. Two are now ready for occupancy, and there are persons ready to enter this stage, as the program is now 10 months old.
Ginsburg said this is a growing program, evolving according to the needs of the individuals involved in it. They take care of their own housekeeping and even helped with the wastewater disposal system which had to be replaced when the facility was first activated. They also handle the cooking chores.
Many institutions are helping with this project. Otero Junior College has already been mentioned, but Lamar Community College is also involved, as are Valley-Wide Clinic, Southeast Health Group, the 12 Step Program, local churches and Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center, to mention a few. Marianne Hale discussed bringing an arts and crafts program to the Fort. Volunteers are used, said Ginsburg, but very carefully and with training.


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The Report has triggered vigorous dissent from the two Republican Commissioners, sponsored researchers and libertarian leaning publications by stating what I thought was obvious: there are plenty of areas in America where marketplace forces work against the offering of any affordable broadband access option, particularly wire-based services. I will go so far as to use two words that apparently cannot be uttered: market failure.
Broadband wireline options from carriers such as Verizon and AT&T do not even serve many urban and suburban locales. These carriers are hell bent to jettison their rural customers and the obligation to service as carriers of last resort offering telephone service. They have doubled down on wireless and do not seem to care about declining DSL subscribership and the need to migrate to faster transmission speed services outside the metered and more expensive wireless option. Smaller carriers do want to provide broadband services and generally have expressed support for FCC efforts to extend universal service subsidies.
Some time ago both Democratic and Republican Commissioners at the FCC typically would thank the staff for doing such a comprehensive and conscientious job in preparing a Congressionally-mandated Report. They would consider factors such as the public interest as their foremost concern, not whether they could accrue brownie points for their party and its ideology. FCC Commissioners of both parties gladly supported extraordinary and admittedly too generous and inefficient universal service programs. These initiatives included "rate integration" that required carriers to average in the higher costs of providing telephone service in non-continental United States locales, e.g., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. No one balked at providing "free" satellite earth stations to Pacific island residents whose governments have an affiliation with the United States, e.g., The Federated States of Micronesia. Nobody invoked Ann Rand to suggest that rural residents should suffer any cost disadvantage for the various upside opportunities from living in the hinterland.
Now a Report to Congress somehow has all sorts of underlying messages. By truthfully answering a question posed by Congress that more work needs to be done to achieve ubiquitous and affordable broadband, the FCC apparently is foreshadowing a broad agenda to preempt the marketplace. See Larry Downes, How the FCC sees Broadband's 95% Success as 100% Failure, Forbes (June 23, 2012); available at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2012/08/23/how-the-fcc-sees-broadbands-95-success-as-100-failure/. And what kind of preemption would there be? Most subsidies flow directly to the carriers! But instead of acknowledging that carriers stand to benefit financially from such subsidies, opponents of candor strive to see some hidden agenda, including an effort by the FCC to impose network neutrality—if not the public utility, common carrier regime—on broadband.
At an unprecedented rate, the entire telecommunications policy ecosystem has become so politicized as to ignore the first principle of serving the national interest. Instead we have warring parties arguing over whether and how government is subverting market forces that time and again work against making service available absent government efforts to stimulate supply and demand.


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The Australian Open is never my first choice among all the Grand Slam tournaments. I've dreamed about attending the French Open first but after visited the Australian Open recently, I think I'm more than lucky being able to visit one of the most tennis-loving cities in the world. The Australian Open is indeed the Happy Slam.
I was there at the tournament for only one day due to a packed itinerary. I bought the ground passes online way earlier to avoid queuing up and paying more. Made the right choice! I saw long queues at Flinders St. over the weekend before the tournament kicked off as well as the tournament site on event day.
The venue is easily accessible by train and tram. I stopped at Richmond station and walked towards a very familiar building - the Hisense Arena. It's a tennis fan's dream to attend a Grand Slam tournament and I'm glad I have achieved mine.
I've attended ATP 250 tournaments so to compare to the Australian Open, this is like 50 times bigger. I was amazed by the passionate fans from all walks of life walking down from the train and trams walking towards the entrance. Some were wearing their favourite flags and AO caps, and some would proudly carry their Australian Open tote bags.
Australian Open trademark true blueChecking in with the barcode system was smooth despite thousands of people already queuing up earlier than me. The first thing that caught my eyes was the trademark Australian Open True Blue at the Grand Slam Oval, a multi-faceted entertainment precinct is located. I quickly queued up for body painting - I've got myself Vamos Rafa on both of my arms. I'm not sure if any of the body painters had MFA degrees, but they were doing a fantastic job!
An Australian fan got his body paintedAs my trip here was restricted to only one day, I didn't intend to watch any matches. I've planned to court hop and find out what were the facilities offered.
I met up with a former colleague at the Malaysian Open last year. David Steed who worked on the IBM statistics and he gave me some tips on who were training on that day. Court 16 and 17 are top players usually training ground so if you're at the Australian Open, you'll probably hang out a lot here.
Stanislas Wawrinka vs Benoit Paire in the first roundThere are plenty of food, beer and sun here! Surprisingly people don't use umbrella here although it was so freaking hot. I was at Stanislas Wawrinka's first round match and I only managed to sit through the first game!
Do check out some of the pictures I took at the tournament. The sponsors' presence never fail to amaze me – that's why I took many of their pictures.
At Garden Square
Heineken beer garden
Places where you can get your food and drinks
Lacoste Clubhouse and Kia
Nestle Drumstick Walk on Water
Inside Lacoste Clubhouse
Inside Hisense Arena
Janko Tipsarevic walks with style
Marcos Baghdatis
Philipp Kohlschreiber during the first round match against Juan Monaco
Michael Llodra at the Autograph Island
Rafael Nadal
Kim Clijsters
Juan Monaco
Roger Federer
Maria Sharapova
Ivan Ljubicic
Novak Djokovic the eventual champ
Kei Nishikori
(All images belong to HCFoo's Tennis Blog)


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For more information on the Concurrency Runtime Framework, see Concurrency Runtime: The Resource Manager.
Visual C++ 2010 comes with new features and enhancements to simplify more native programming. The Concurrency Runtime (CRT), for instance, is a framework that simplifies parallel programming and helps you write robust, scalable, and responsive parallel applications. The CRT raises the level of abstraction so that you do not have to manage the infrastructure details that are related to concurrency. The Concurrency Runtime also enables you to specify scheduling policies that meet the quality of service demands of your applications.
Figure 1 presents the architecture of Concurrency Runtime Framework.
In this article, I discuss the Task Scheduler layer and examine how it works internally. To do so, I use CppDepend, an analysis tool that makes it easier for you to manage complex C\C++ (native, mixed, and COM) code base.
The Task Scheduler
The Task Scheduler schedules and coordinates tasks at runtime. A task is a unit of work that performs a specific job. The Task Scheduler manages the details that are related to efficiently scheduling tasks on computers that have multiple computing resources.
Windows provides a preemptive kernel-mode scheduler -- a round-robin, priority-based mechanism that gives every task exclusive access to a computing resource for a given time period, then switches to another task. Although this mechanism provides "fairness" (every thread makes forward progress), it comes at some cost of efficiency. For example, many compute-intensive algorithms do not require fairness. Instead, it is important that related tasks finish in the least overall time. Cooperative scheduling enables an application to more efficiently schedule work.
Cooperative scheduling is a mechanism that gives every task exclusive access to a computing resource until the task finishes or until the task yields its access to the resource.
The user-mode cooperative scheduler enables application code to make its own scheduling decisions. Because cooperative scheduling enables many scheduling decisions to be made by the application, it reduces much of the overhead that is associated with kernel-mode synchronization.
The Concurrency Runtime (CRT) uses cooperative scheduling together with the preemptive scheduler of the operating system to achieve maximum usage of processing resources. In this article, I examine the Task Scheduler design and lift its hood to see how it works internally. For information on the CRT Resource Manager, see Concurrency Runtime: The Resource Manager. Again, I use CppDepend to analyze the CRT source code.
Scheduler Design
The CRT provides the interface
Scheduler to implement a specific scheduler adapted to application needs. Let's examine classes that implement this interface:
The CRT provides two implementations of the scheduler --
ThreadScheduler and
UMSThreadScheduler. As illustrated in the dependency graph in Figure 2, the
SchedulerBase contains all common behavior of these two classes.
Is the Scheduler flexible? A good indicator of flexibility is to search for all abstract classes used by the Scheduler.
As shown in the dependency graph in Figure 3, the Scheduler uses many abstract classes. It enforces low coupling, and makes the scheduler more flexible, so adapting it to other needs is easy. To explain the role of each abstract class used by the Scheduler, I'll discuss its responsibilities.
There are three major responsibilities assigned to the Task Scheduler:
Getting resources (processors, cores, memory). When the scheduler is created, it asks for resources from the runtime Resource Manager (as explained in CRT Concurrency Runtime: Resource Manager). The Scheduler communicate with Resource Manager using
ISchedulerProxy, and
IScheduler interfaces. Resources given by Resource Manager use scheduler policy to allocate resources to the Scheduler.
The policy as shown in Figure 4 is assigned when the Scheduler is created.
The CRT creates a default Scheduler if no Scheduler exists by invoking the
GetDefaultScheduler method, and a default policy is used. The Task Scheduler enables applications to use one or more Scheduler instances to schedule work, and an application can invoke
Scheduler::Create to add another Scheduler that uses a specific policy.
Concurrency::PolicyElementKey enumeration defines the policy keys that are associated with the Task Scheduler.
For more information on policy keys, see this article.
The following collaborations between the Scheduler and Resource Manager shows the role of each interface concerned by the allocation.
Ask for resource allocation:
Getting resources from Resource Manager:


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Sebastian Rich has covered every major war and conflict of the past 30 years. He has been wounded several times, kidnapped and held hostage while on assignment as a photographer and television cameraman.
Children in Conflict, an exhibition at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is showcasing a selection of images from Rich's career alongside a new body of work produced for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. The new collection illustrates the plight of Afghan refugees in the Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan.
Sebastian Rich
Young Afghan refugee in the Jalozai UNHCR refugee camp, Pakistan, 2012. Jalozai is one of the largest of 150 refugee and transit camps in Pakistan, holding Afghan refugees from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the present day.
By Sebastian Rich
The reason I became a photojournalist is summed up eloquently by this saying:
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Being a chronic dyslexic to the point of near-illiteracy, I guess taking photographs was a natural progression, given the old adage, "A picture speaks a thousand words."
I left school, or should I say, ran away from school, at the tender age of 15 and have been looking through cameras of one sort or another at the world's wars ever since.
Sebastian Rich
Pakistan, 2012. An outside classroom for Afghan women and young girls in the UNHCR Jalozai refugee camp.
One of the women had brought her small son with her, and he cheekily leaned back from the group to look at me.
Sebastian Rich
Bosnia, 1993. A local priest talks to the crew of a British United Nations tank. He is trying to negotiate some sort of cease-fire between a local Bosnian militia and a group of heavily armed Croatian fighters. The cease-fire lasted all of ten minutes then the priest and myself ran for cover!
These past decades have not been without personal loss and pain. I have lost so many friends in the theater of war that I am ashamed to admit I have lost count.
I have lost most of the hearing in my right ear and 30 percent of the vision in my right eye -- courtesy of a Serbian sniper with a high velocity rifle. Obviously, not a very good sniper, otherwise I would not be telling the tale, but good enough to cripple.
Sebastian Rich
The first prisoners of war taken by the United States Marine Corps during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
A large chunk of my lower intestine is missing due to the shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade. I was lucky that the hot shrapnel was slowed down by two Lebanese soldiers standing in front of me. They were not so fortunate.
My sternum is cracked and deformed, once again from a Serbian sniper, this time hitting me directly in the center of the chest smashing the ceramic plate in my flak jacket and crushing my rib cage. Last, but not least, I have experienced being kidnapped in Lebanon and a mock execution in an unpronounceable town in the former Yugoslavia with far too many consonants in its name--particularly difficult for a dyslexic.
Sebastian Rich
Fighters of a warlord in Mogadishu, Somalia. They tolerated me as they fought but as you can see there were those whose burning eyes did not fall too kindly on this photographer.
I am often asked how I keep my objectivity while constantly photographing and filming the worst the world has to offer. Well, I believe we all have an agenda to some degree or another, however subtle. My agenda, if you like, is not left or right of the political spectrum, but in the center of the insanity that I witness. Hoping somewhat (very) naively, that a single image one day might change the course of that conflict, ergo an agenda.
Sebastian Rich
A terribly malnourished Afghan baby boy in a UNICEF Therapeutic feeding center in Herat, Afghanistan. His fate is unknown to me.
Objectivity was ironically summed up for me by my mentor and friend, the extraordinarily talented American combat photographer John Hoagland.
John and I had been trying not to get shot by Salvadoran troops in that bloody civil war by hiding behind a cow. To the left of me was the dead body of a pregnant woman, who had been shot through the stomach revealing part of the fetus. In a moment of calm from the hail of bullets, I lay on my back shaking and asked John, "How do you stay objective in all this horror?" He answered, "It's easy Sebastian. You do something good, I will take your photograph. You do something bad, I will take your photograph."
John was shot and killed just a few weeks later photographing Salvadoran troops doing something very bad. He was 36 years old.
Sebastian Rich
U.S. Army Medics fighting hard to save the life of a young baby girl on board a Blackhawk medevac helicopter in Afghanistan, 2011. She had been hit by shrapnel from a Taliban RPG. Inside an airborne Blackhawk helicopter you can hardly hear yourself think. But I could hear the little girl's screams of terrible pain clearly above the roar of the rotors.
Sebastian Rich's exhibition, which is supported by UNHCR and The Diplomatic Courier, runs at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. from October 2 to October 12, 2012.
Rich will be giving a talk at the Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design in Philadelphia on Thursday, October 4th.
Click here to see more of Sebastian Rich's work and here to view a trailer for Crossing the Line, a documentary about his experiences in Bosnia.
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If you lived through the mid 90s, you more than likely heard of, if not played, a popular game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You probably remember him for his famous role in the movie "Footloose". In 1994, a group of college students got the idea to invent a game that sought to connect Kevin Bacon to any actor in 6 degrees or less. I remember some people were wicked serious about this game. As a matter of fact, the game ended becoming a board game. Now, it has made its mark on the web as Google has actually programmed Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon into its search engine.
Playing the game on Google is very simple. In the search bar, type in "Bacon Number" and then an actor or actresses name. Below, you can see where I chose Prince and you can see that his "Bacon Number" is 3.
Notice that there are 3 lines listed showing how Prince is associated with Kevin Bacon. I will go ahead and apologize to you in advance, as if you needed another time waster in your life. Unfortunately, this one can be pretty addictive.
The Guardian had a nice piece about Bacon and his attitude about the game. He thought it was negative at first. He thought it was some new way to poke fun at him, but apparently he ended up meeting the students that invented the game and even wrote the intro to their book. Kevin actually turned this whole thing into something very positive. He started a charitable website called http://sixdegrees.org. It is a social networking site that connects people to charities and even lets them start their own charitable campaigns. Kevin makes a personal statement on the "about" page of his website.
I want to thank those partners — and especially, I want to thank you, for making a difference in this small world.
All the best,
Take a moment to play the game on Google, then swing over to the Six Degrees website and see if there is a cause near and dear to your heart.


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Warm weather may be weeks away in most parts of the country, but these spring titles are sure to heat up cinemas with action ("Hardcore Henry," "Criminal"), laughs ("The Boss," "Barber Shop: The Next Cut," "Keanu"), drama ("Demolition," "Nina") and family fun ("The Jungle Book," "Ratchet and Clank").
Check out these titles scheduled to hit screens in April.
"Miles Ahead" (April 1)
U.S. & World
Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
Don Cheadle directs, co-writes and stars in this art-movie biopic that freely shifts time periods and narratives as it explores the life of jazz legend Miles Davis. [[374169001,C]]
"Everybody Wants Some" (April 1)
Billed as "the spiritual sequel to 'Dazed & Confused,'" writer-director Richard Linklater ("Boyhood") takes on the early 80s in this coming-of-age story about a Texas college freshman (Blake Jenner) and his new disco-loving, girl-chasing baseball teammates (Will Brittain, Ryan Guzman). [[374169601,C]]
"Demolition" (April 8)
Investment banker Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins to question his life choices following the unexpected and tragic death of his wife. Along comes a rebellious boy (Judah Lewis) and his sympathetic mother (Naomi Watts) who may just help Mitchell find his way back to life among the those still living. [[374262371,C]]
"The Boss" (April 8)
Melissa McCarthy plays loud-mouthed mogul Michelle Darnell in this comedy about what happens when the richest of rich suddenly find themselves having to live among everyday folk. Busted for insider trading, America's wealthiest woman is suddenly broke, homeless and shunned by her once adoring friends and fans. But a new business model based on selling brownies for girl scout troops may just be her way back to the top. Also stars Kristen Bell and Peter Dinklage. (Note: the following trailer contains strong language.) [[374261671,C]]
"Hardcore Henry" (April 8)
Video game meets big screen movie in this crazy action ride shot from the first person perspective. Henry awakes to learn that he's been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid who goes on a blood-soaked rampage to rescue a woman claiming to be his wife. Only thing is, Henry has no memory of his former life, and no voice. [[374262691,C]]
"The Jungle Book" (April 15)
Disney reboots the classic animated tale based on the Rudyard Kipling story – this time in live-action/CGI format featuring the voices of Neel Sethi (Mowgli), Idris Elba (tiger Shere Khan), Bill Murray (Baloo the bear), Scarlett Johansson (Kaa the snake), Ben Kingsley (panther Bagheera) and Christopher Walken (King Louie the orangutan). Jon Favreau ("Iron Man") directs. [[374262831,C]]
"Criminal" (April 15)
Kevin Costner plays a dangerous convict implanted with the memories and skills of a dead CIA operative (Ryan Reynolds) in order to complete the deceased's final mission. Think 21st century "Face-Off." [[374276901,C]]
"Barber Shop: The Next Cut" (April 15)
The third installment in the "Barbershop" franchise finds Calvin (Ice Cube) and Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) joining forces with a hair salon to save the shop, and the neighborhood, from growing gang activity. Also stars Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Eve, Nicki Minaj, Common, JB Smoove and Tyga. [[374263261,C]]
"Nina" (April 22)
Zoe Saldana portrays Nina Simone in this biopic about the life of the legendary singer-songwriter and civil rights activist. The film also stars David Oyelowo, Ella Thomas, and Mike Epps. Simone's estate has declined to endorse the film. [[374277011,C]]
"Elvis & Nixon" (April 22)
"House of Cards" actor Kevin Spacey is back in the White House, this time in the guise of President Nixon, who on December 21, 1970 meets Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) when the King arrives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue requesting a meeting with the Commander in Chief. [[374277571,C]]
"The Huntsman: Winter's War" (April 22)
The backstory to 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman" sees Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron returning to their roles as the titular hero and evil queen, respectively. Betrayed by her sister Ravenna (Theron), literal ice queen Freya (Emily Blunt) retreats to a northern kingdom where she raises an army of huntsmen forbidden to fall in love. [[374263991,C]]
"A Hologram for the King" (April 22)
Based on the novel of the same name by Dave Eggers, "Hologram" finds corporate washout Alan Clay heading to Saudi Arabia to try and land the IT contract for a massive new building development. But it's Clay's journey inward that is the heart of this cross-cultural expedition. [[374277751,C]]
"The Meddler" (April 22)
Struggling to accept the death of her husband, Marnie Minervini (Susan Sarandon) moves from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be closer to her single, screenwriter daughter Lori (Rose Byrne). It's a case of mothering versus smothering in this gentle comedy. With bagels! [[374278241,C]]
"Mother's Day" (April 29)
Director Garry Marshall is back with another star-studded, holiday-centric movie – this time based around the titular celebration. Like previous efforts "New Year's Eve" and "Valentine's Day," "Mother's Day" features multiple storylines that interconnect and stars Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Britt Robertson, Sarah Chalke, Jon Lovitz and Timothy Olyphant. [[374279481,C]]
"Keanu" (April 29)
"We in the market right now for, like, a gangster pet," says Keegan-Michael Key as Clarence in the trailer for this action comedy that combines a rescue kitten with the music of George Michael and the joke stylings of Comedy Central's "Key & Peele" in the duo's first, big screen outing. When Rell's (Jordan Peele) kitten is stolen, he and Clarence must infiltrate a gang in order to retrieve the feline. [[374298091,C]]
"Ratchet & Clank" (April 29)
Based on the PlayStation video game franchise of the same name, this 3D animated tale explores the origin story of how Ratchet and Clank meet, and their attempts to save the Solana Galaxy from being destroyed by evil Chairman Drek and the Blarg. [[374279671,C]]


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6.5.2 Estimates of Tropospheric Ozone Radiative Forcing since Pre-Industrial
188.8.131.52 Ozone radiative forcing: process studies
The dependence of surface temperature response on the height of an imposed constant change in O3 amount (often 10 Dobson Units, or DU) can be estimated using radiative convective models (e.g., Wang et al., l980; Lacis et al., l990; Forster and Shine, l997). Figure 6.1a shows the results of such a calculation. This figure suggests that surface temperature is particularly sensitive to O3 trends near 8 to 15 km, in the vicinity of the tropopause. However, Forster and Shine (l997) made the important point that since there is far less O3 in the troposphere than near the tropopause and in the stratosphere, the use of a constant perturbation is unlikely to provide a realistic measure of the sensitivity profile. For example, 10 DU corresponds to roughly a 400% increase in mid-tropospheric O3, but much less at higher levels. Figure 6.1b shows how a 10% (rather than 10 DU) local O3 perturbation affects the calculated surface temperature as a function of the altitude where the O3 change is imposed (from Forster and Shine, l997). This figure suggests that the sensitivity of surface temperature to the altitude of O3 perturbations is considerably smaller than suggested by earlier studies that employed constant absolute changes to probe these effects. While the study of Forster and Shine (l997) employed a simple radiative/convective model, Hansen et al. (l997a) carried out similar calculations using a GCM. Their study suggests that cloud feedbacks could further lower the altitude at which surface temperature is most sensitive to O3 perturbations (Hansen et al., l997a; WMO, l999), but this work employed perturbations of 10 DU in each layer (which is necessary to obtain a significant signal in the GCM but is, as noted above, an unrealistically large value for the tropospheric levels in particular).
Portmann et al. (l997) and Kiehl et al. (l999) combined an O3 climatology based upon satellite measurements of the tropo-spheric column content (from Fishman and Brackett, l997) with a model calculation to derive estimates of the O3 radiative forcing for the tropics and for the globe, respectively. They showed that the dependence of the normalised O3 forcing (Wm-2 per DU of integrated O3 column change) upon uncertainties in the vertical distribution of the perturbation was less than previously thought, about 0.03 to 0.06 Wm-2 per DU based upon their radiative code and considering a range of profile shapes. This rather limited sensitivity to the altitude distribution of the imposed perturbation is broadly consistent with the work of Forster and Shine (l997) highlighted above and in Figure 6.1.
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