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Daily Trojan, Vol. 29, No. 13, October 05, 1937
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Editorial Offices Night - PR - 4776 RI - 4111, Sta. 227 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA United Press World Wide News Service Volume XXIX Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, October 5, 1937 Number 13 oosevelt itlines Two lajor Coals Gonteol oi Crops, Wage Legislation Placed Orr 'Must' List | SU PAUL. Minn.. Oct. 4— lent Roosevelt placed two of major legislation—control surplus crops for farmers and inimum wages for workers—at top of his "must" list for the tt session of congress as he lused here tonight for a brief en route home from the Pa-jfic Northwest. . Earlier today, the president roadly hinted that he would call senate and house into special ssion this fall to pass a law to kovide the country with 'an ever-rmal granary-' of wheat., cotton, id other agricultural products. IGHT PROMISED Mr. Roosevelt aisregarded his int tonight, but emphasized in an idress bristling with ''musts'', that lis administration would fight for crop control bill and a measure stabhshing minimum wages and <ximum hours with anti-child 1«->r provisions. • As a result of both of these." te president said, "the actual cost If relief for the unemployed should lecrease. and existing taxes—not lie her taxes—should make the financial problem of local, state and fderal governments more easy.'' Mr. Roosevelt's statement against In increase in federal levies came Ifter a scries of promises across the (ountry and back that the national jud'set would be balanced in the real year starting next July 1st. CONDUCTORS Victor Young (standing) and Sastone Usigli will conduct tfie WPA symphony orchestra in a concert to be given Thursday at the Philharmonic auditorium. WPA To Offer Symphony Price Reduction Given U.S.C. Students,-Young To Conduct Victor Young. American compo6-er-conductor. will conduct the Federal Symphony orchestra in a program of his own works at the Philharmonic auditorium, Thursday evening. Ticket prices for the concert range from 25 cents to $1.50. U.S. Varsity Club To Honor O.S.U. Team Herbie Kay To Play At Semi-Formal Dance Saturday Night CONSTITUTION TODAY WOULD BE SURPRISE TO FRAMERS'—MUNRO "The greatest surprise to the framers of the constitution of the United States would have been for them to know that it would exist for more than 150 years." These were the opening words of an address by Dr. William B. Munro, nationally famous historian and political scientist, in yesterday morning's as-*----- Coach Francis Schmidt and his j sembiy jn Bovard auditorium, hon- I individual property rights than for Ohio State university football team i oring tne founders of U.S.C. and an.vthing else. "A middle point of ______ will be guests of honor, when the ( celebrating the 150th anniversary I view ^ more accurate," Dr. Munro pan-s picked Asiatic legions today Chinese Guns Halt Advance On Shanghai Japanese 'Big Push' Meets Stiff Resistance From Battered Troops Copyright. 1917, by United Press. SHANGHAI. Oct. 5— <l'.P>—Ja- CHAIRMAN U.S.C. Varsity club sponsors its second annual scmi-formal all-university dance in the Blue room of the Biltmore hotel., Emphasizing that corsages will be banned. Morris Smith, dance chairman. said last night that the style of dress for this year's party will be the same as a year ago, formal for coeds and semi-formal for men. of the framing of the constitution. I proposed. plunged, into the most withering Dr. Munro is a professor at the Discussing the separation of pow- machine-gun and artillery fire the California Institute of Technology The original body eis as outlined in the constitution Chinese have marshalled in their of the United States, Dr. Munro stubborn defense of Shanghai. KAYr TO PLAY Anticipating approximately 500 couples, the Varsity club has en-gaged Herbie Kay and his orchestra an^ 130 ">llllon inhabitants to play at Saturday night's festivities. Kay, a graduate of Northwestern university and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, has of colonial j ' I ',',uuuuul ucicnoe ouaugxmi. coionmi compared government to two goats Thp Phinecp fiohtincr thrnmrh representatives who drafted the con- ■ oninese, fighting through stitution were designing a constitution for a government embracing 13 colonies and a citizenry of 3 million persons, Dr. Munro said. They had no idea that their political principles would remain in operation with relatively little change o\er a nation of 48 states j day assembly were a recollection of together and grazing peace- j narrow, debris-strewn alleys in ably in a pasture. 'Neither goat chapei and in the marshy fields wanted to go where the other wants north of Kiangwan and Tazang. to go. so they stay where they are. bitterly contested every foot of the Japanese advance, and by mid- In the same way, the president is tied to congress, congress is tied to | morning appeared to~~be~'holdin the supreme court, and conversely." ' Other features of the Founders Two points of view are prevalent throughout the nation today concerning the constitution, Dr. Munro stated. One contingent regards it played five record engagements at as a sacred document, so sacred the Edgewater Beach hotel in Chi- j that amendment is considered sacri-cago> I lege. An opposite group looks upon the constitution as an 18th century affair, framed in secrecy by men who had much higher regard for ! Metropolitan Opera company. ACK SKIPPED . i C. students may procure tickets for He mentioned me supreme court nee tonight. There was no word, j P™* b>' showing their associ-lo vever. on the fact that Associate ated student identification cards Justice Hu?o L. Black took his seat at the box office of the Philhor-the high tribunal bench in monic auditorium, or to Mrs. Marie hsh i ^ton this noon after admit- Carlos, cashier in the Student Un-ig one-time membership in the ; j0n bookstore after 9:45 this morn- Klux Kian. [The president first said tlie court lestroyed" lhe administration |j m program when it outlawed the jricultural Adjustment Act. Then j declared the court "knocked ' |t" legislation benefiting labor ipn it found the NRA unconsti-i ional. It must be repeated over and ?r again." Mr. Roosevelt said, lat such a policy <the farm pro-is intended not only to main-|n farme* > prtoas by holding •,vn huge surpluses which des-ly those prices, but also to as-adequate supplies of food to consuming public in event of fere and widespread drought." ing. Tickets may be reserved by telephoning Michigan 8401. The speaker at the concert will be Dr. W. Ballentine Henley. U.S.C. director of Coordination, who will be introduced by motion picture actor. Edward Arnold. Conductor of the Al Jolson broadcast over a coast-to-coast hookup, and music conductor at Paramount studios. Victor Young in interested in getting the motion picture industry to back the movement for a Federal Ministry of fine arts which he believes would give American composers and artists a chance to develop their talents in their own country. He recently completed an engagement at the Catalina island casino and has previously played for dance audiences at the Mark Hopkins hotel, San Francisco; the Blackhawk restaurant, Chicago; the Gibson hotel, Cincinnatti; and the Baker hotel, Dallas. BIDS ON SALE » Bids for the dance Ms priced at $1.75 per couple and ar^iow on sale in the University bookstore. They may also be obtained from Knights, Squires: or varsity lettermen. "All varsity lettermen who have not yet started selling bids should get their quota today from Larry or playwright; costumer, lighting Cole in 209 Student Union " stated ' expert, vocalist, or dancer; instru- ! Varsity club president, Owen Han- mentalist. composer, stage designer. the early growth of the university by President Rufus B. von KleinSmid; introduction of E. N. Currier. oldest living Trojan alumnus; presentation of children of early U.S.C. executives; introduction of faculty members who have served 25 years or more; and several vocal selections by Mario Chamlee. alumnus who has won fame with the Drama Shop To Organize WINDSORS MAY MAKE HOME IN U.S. All Phases of Theatre To Be Discussed In Meeting Tomorrow Actor, stagehand, makeup artist. United States El Rodeo Positions Announced Eugenia Rowland Is Named Associate Edilor of Yearbook Stating that the positions on the 1938 El Rodeo staff were subject to revision and modifications, Clint Ternstrom, editor, today announced the complete staff of the university yearbook. Eugenia Rowland will fill the associate editor's position while Myr-ton Purkiss will head the art department. Assisting him will b? Frank Gruys and Freeland Simm*. Ken McDonald, assisted by Jack j Dangers. Harold Gardner, and Bill Burgett. will be in charge of layout. Jack Warner will take charge of photography and will have for his j staff Stan Radon, Charles Betts. Willis Boyd. Al Griffih. Ed Guerin. I George Freedman, and Bill Bvren ENGLISH NAMED Lorine English, faculty editor; Mary Mills and Barbara Summers, assistants; Barbara Morton, student editor; Lynn Moody and Barbara Ann Bretherton. assistants; Betty Eberhard. class editor; Mur-ial Faeder. Dorothea Armstrong. ; Bernice Herstein and Margaret ' Rose Schrell. assistants. Clark Jones, sports editor; Carl Student executives have been 1 Starkey. Spec Eddy. LeRoy Strin-, called together by Gardiner Pol- Bob Flynne, and Bob Townsend. lich for the first senate meeting asslstants; Louise Brant, activity editor; Cully Gulko. Arthur Hoff- . , . , . . .. . , J man. Harold Weeks, and Esther L' ies which opened fire from that dent Union. Tne first work of Ecluse. assistants; June Temple, sector last week. , the governing body will be to check I sorority editor; Bettv Brainard and JAPANESE FEAR MINES j on the elegibility of members of all ; Virginia Schrey, assistants Japanese warships off Hongkew A.S.U.S.C, committees which have OTHER ASSISTANTS with search- been submitted for approval. I Prank Cresham. Art Guy, and will be present ' Norman Bing, fraternities; Jean Pollich, president Gardiner Pollich, president of ASUSC, will preside over student leaders tonight v/hen the senate meets for the first time this semester. most of their essential positions. AMERICANS ENDANGERED The American defense zone, held by United States marines, was in the line of fire for a time last night. Bits of shrapnel fell in the zone, and 10 Chinese were wounded. The Japanese offensive, which has been pounding for 72 hours along the Shanghai front, has been | doing tremendous damage, but ap- [ parently there was no indication I the Japanese had broken the Chinese resistance. Fires broke out in Chapei. along the Markham Road area, where the Japanese have poured their fiercest shell-fire in an effort to destrop powerful new Chinese batter- j tonight at 7 p.m. in room 418 Stu- Executives To Meet Senate To Check Eligibility of ASUSC Committee Members LONDON. Oct. 4— <i;.P>—Many of the Duke of Windsor's former subjects speculated tonight whether he raked the shoreline and his Baltimore-born duchess lights just before dawn when a Members who might establish a home in the report circulated that the Chinese are. Gardiner sen, last night. A significant fact in connection with the annual Varsity club dances is the "jinx" which has prevailed over the U.S.C. fooiball team for th^ past two years, in gridiron contests played the day of the affair. . S. C. Organizations Kcers Jojan Lancers wrM inaugurate fall social aeason with a |e at Elisabeth von KleinSmid 8:30 Priday night. The dance ben to a+1 students regardless |«<,fil»Ht*on with the Lancer len wiil be admitted k) dance, while men will be 35 cents. Tickete may be sd at the door. Bela Alpha |oma Beta Alpha, radio fra-will have Ws first meeting jiursday, in 328 Student Union |l« p.m. interested in tbe fra-or radio will call st the fice, 250 Administration, to the loncheon. )»e Council additional members of the lore council have been ap-by Fred May. president. He them to attend the meet-iigtit at 7:30 at the Sigma The new members are: Bscobar, John Carter, and Quill New officers of Os Rune erf Quill club, national professional literary society, will preside for the flrst time this year at a meeting Wednesday night at 7:30 in the men's lounge of the Student Union. Deseret Meeting for the purpose of electing officers, members of the Deseret club, which represents the Latter Day Saints church on campus, will convene for a luncheon iu 321 Student Union at noon today. Jewish Sludent Council Members of the executive committee of the Jewish student council will conduct their flrst meeting of the year at the Alpha Epsilon Phi house this evening at 6 o'clock. Prior to discussion of business for the coming semester dinner will be served. Black Takes Seat on Bench; Post Challenged WASHINGTON Oct. 4—<U.P>— Justice Hugo L. Black sat for the first time on the supreme court bench today as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes rebuked a law- when they go there again would attempt to destroy . A.S.U.S.C.; Caroline Everington within a few weeks. j vessels of the third battle fleet with vice-president A.S.U.S.C ; Virginia It was indicated that Edward, res- j floating mines. Holbrook, secretary A.S.U.S.C.; Jack c , tive under attempts of the British j Several cutters, with machine | Warner, president of the College of government to control his wander-j guns splitting fire from their fore- I Letters, arts, and Sciences: Charles ings in exile, is anxious to settle1 decks, nosed along the shore try- i Schweitzer, president of the Col-down somewhere and enjoy full *nS to find Chinese who might be w , . _ . , freedom. i planning to make another attempt workshop. Meeting for the flrst1 time this semester will be tomorrow . . . _ . . _____decide to acquire a home in the United States — perhaps around Chinese lines remained generally or cinematographer—all U. S. students interested in these or related phases of theatrical activity may join the Touchstone drama If the duke and duchess should *o blow up the flagship Idzumo. ' On the Shanghai front, the theIn"c>"Hnnfc in tho nnivprcitv Baltimore or on Long Island—the intact. despite a Japanese offensive All students In tne university . whipfa hoc hppn iinHpi* wav ■frir* rr,cv,vwc rvf British government probably would wnicn nas Deen unaei way tor are eligible to become members of approval if for no other reason days with every weapon which the the organization, which is a divi- Blve approval, ii ioi nooiner reason , a,-™-, ... , , than that thev would be 3000 milps ^i§niy-mouernized Japanese army sion of the play productions depart- inan inai mey woulQ JUUU mues lege of Engineering; Bob McClain, president of the College of Architecture. ment, an organization supported by the assoicated students,'' Elinor Brown, vice-president of the drama workshop, stated yesterday. The first cycle of six or eight one-act plays will be produced in November, and the most successful plays will be performed at local junior colleges and high schools. Miss Brown further said. "The main idea of the drama workshop from England. Green Seeks Citizens Aid In Beating CIO DENVER. Oct. 4—d'.P)—William yer who came as close to interrupt- is (jevei0p au kinds of talent. Green asked the people of the possesses. TOKYO FINANCES LOW General developments in the war during the past 24 hours included: In Tokyo, feeling the financial strain which the war has imposed on the limited finances of the empire, the Japanese government de- Peter Kalionzes. president of the College of Pharmacy; Sterling Smith, president of the College of Commerce; S. Wittorf. president of the College of Dentistry; Dan Schnabel, president of the School of Law; Emil Sady. president of the School of Government; Jose \ Caceres, president of the University of International Relations; and Walter Slike, president of the School of Music. Others to be present are: Coal- creed a drastic limitation of im- ; son Morris, president of the Tro- ing the solemnity of opening day as is possible in the austere tribu nal. There are no fees or dues. Any work done in the workshop will go for points in the National Collegiate In a 23-minute session devoted Players association. Any Trojan mostly to admission of new mem- student is urged to join the organ-bers of the bar. the court placed ization regardless of past experr under advisement two motions ence." challenging Black's right to his seat, and recessed until next Monday noon. The challenges were: 1. A petition by Albert Levitt. former U. S. district judge for the ; INVITATIONS Virgin islands and former assistant attorney general, asking the court to entertain an original suit seeking to oust Black on the ground that no vacancy exists for him to fill, and that even if there were, Black, as a former senator, would not be eligible. RECEPTION ARE ISSUED With more than 300 invitations issued to foreign students at the University of Southern California, the ASUSC international relations committee has completed plans for 2. A request by Patrick Henry | the annual informal foreign $tu-Kelly, Boston attorney, for "a hear- j dents' reception, which will be ing on the title of Mr. Justice : Thursday night from 8 o'clock to ports in an effort to conserve the nation's gold supply, partial lists of prohibited or restricted import articles were published and they will be extended in final decrees on October 10. In Shantung province, one of the United States tonight to aid the American Federation of Labor in its battle to "wipe out entirely the menace" of John L. Lewis' "rival labor movement." Green broadcast his appeal for popular support over a national network at the close of the first session of the A. F. of L.'s 57th annual convention. "There is no room in this country for two hostile labor organizations." he shouted into the micro phone. "The strength of labor is in un- j GENEVA. Oct. 4— (U.P*—Great ity. When labor is divided it can- Bntain proposed tonight before a not accomplish its fundamental ob- j 'eagUe 0 f nations sub-committee jan Knights; Jane Rudrauff. presi- j dent of the Trojan Amazons; John Hamilton, manager of the band: | Fred Hall, interfratemity council president. Caroline Nath. Panhellenic presi- i Eby, society editor; Eunice Launer and Joyce Ailringer. assistants; office staff, Mary McMaster. Jean Haygood. Esther Peterson. Marjorie Baldwin, Jane Richmond. Madelyn Hallock. and Edith Bevan; Pat Barham, campus life editor: Betty Jane Bartholomew, and Mort Brigadier. assistants. STAFF MEETING CALLED "The first staff meeting of the year will take place Thursday evening," announced Ternstrom. ' and all members of the staff are required to attend the meeting which will be in the form of a get-to-gether dinner at 6 p.m. at the Casa de Rosas. Reservations maybe made with Eugenia Rowland or Clint Ternstrom in the El Rodeo office during assembly period, or between 1:30 and 2:30 pjn. British Attempt To Bomb Pirate Submarine Oct. -<r.R> — British ■I __________________________LONDON. key areas of the war, the Chinese denti Ellen Holt, president of W.S. warships and seaplanes dropped requested United States warships ® A ' L^uis ^afjeton' Lancer pres- depth bombs off the Spanish east Chefoo to withdraw from thc 1<^ent: McKnight. junior class ccast jate today in an effort at city wharves, which were to be destroyed to prevent their seizure by the Japanese. Nine-Power Conference i On Chinese War Asked to president, Jaye Brower, senior destroy a sumbarine that fired a class president; Mildred Tebbett Y.W.C.A. president: Cecile Hallingby WA.A. president; Bob Myer. head yell leader; Eugene Choy. president of the Cosmopoli- torpeao at the British destroyer Basilisk, which was engaged in thc Mediterranean "anti-piracy" patrol. The Basilisk, a 1360-ton vessel of the Beagle class, was attacked tan club: John Golay. editor of the without warning oU Cape San An_ Daily Trojan; and Harry Pollok. tonio midway between Valencia chairman of the weilare commit tee. and Alicante. jective of improving the economic and social conditions of the workers. When labor fights itself it cannot fight for the workers. Black to sit on this court." Mu Alpha Nw Students Plan Goodwill Hour Plans are under way for the formation of a series of radio programs by the students on our campus from Central and South America. Richard Huddleston, director of the ra- the auftpioae ot Mary Alice | the Initiation of Mary Chun Dhe Clionian Literary so-1H take place in the womens of the Student Union to-7:15. Francais |-sday noon, October 7. the ily luncheon of Le Orica is will be at 1023 W. 36th The nominal charge of 35 ^11 be made. students who are en-ench 2a or more ad-are invited to attend, oan be made at the he French department day. Students interested in anthropol ogv and archaeology are invited to I Ui a meeting of Mu Alpha Nu. honor- ' d,° announced arv and professional anthropology fraternity. Wednesday. 2:30 p.m.. at the anthropology' office. 3524 University avenue. Alpha Eta Rho Alpha Eta Rho. national aviation fraternity, will present Bill Cook, of the local Douglas aircraft plant, as speaker at a luncheon meeting today in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall at 12:15 p.m. Latin American The Latin American club will have its first meeting of the year Thursday at assembly penod in the social hall of the Student Union. Club activities and reorganization of the club wiH be discussed. Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall will be the scene of the first weekly ► htnclwon on Friday m !#v30 pan. "Any student from tnese countries who would be interested in helping | with this program are asked to see 1 me in room 250 Administration," j stated Huddleston. Broadcasting material will be on music, eduation, and customs of Central and South America. 10 o'clock in the social hall of the Student Union. Though the reception is primarily to honor foreign students on the campus, committee officials yesterday emphasized that everyone in the university is invited, including both students and faculty. The receiving line will contain administrative heads of the university. as well as leaders in sttf-dent affairs. A musical background for the re-yester- j ception will be furnished all evening by a string trio composed of Glorya Curran. Josephine Madrid, and Mary Jane Gillan. Religion Students To View Film Alaska and the Yukon in movies and color photography will feature a friendship hour for religion students at the home of Dr. John G. Hill. 3600 Fairway boulevard, on October 10 at 2:30 o'clock. Dr. Hill has had experience in the field of photography in recent years, his Sotith Sea picture? being commented upon favorably by certain Hollywood producers. that signatories of the Washington Nine-Power treaty be convened in connection with the war in the Far East. The British delegates, appearing before a drafting committee of the The torpedo missed its mark and > the Basilisk answered the attack RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED with depth charges, which were WASHINGTON. Oct. 4— H'.R>— ready for use on her deck-Kemper Simpson, economic adviser 1 The small force of British war- to the Securities and Exchange ships which rushed to the Basilisk's commission, today announced his aid was reported to have dropped league's advisory froup on Chin- "enforced resignation'' and said the a series of depth bombs close to the ese-Japanese conflicts, also sug~ S E. C. could have acced to make 'Spanish shore, indicating that the gested that other Pacific powers be I the stock market reaction less se-invited to the conference. ' vere. CAPTURED U.S. FLIER EXPECTS FIRING SQUAD submarine might have been sighted. |------- Graduate Heac To Be Elected Registrar Explains Credit Requirements Associated graduate students choose a president, vioe-presio' r . . . , ... . _ secretary, and treasurer at a fir Var 4MAMP4 o ,4- " . . ,TTD \ tt , " organization meeting in 206 Adiri SALAMANCA, SDam, Oct. 4—(U.P.)—Harold E. Dahl. Amer- . * . 10.., * ________ ., , ... i istration at 12:15 p.m. tomorrow. His photo- tcan aviator who will go on trial for his life tomorrow before graphs, in color, of the land of the a Spanish insurgent court martial, said tonight that he was Candidates for the presidency I midnight sun reveal the breath-tak- sure he would be "bumped off by a firing squad." succeed Frank H. Sparks, are ing beauty of -Seward's Folly - j "They'll shoot me, I know," said the 28-year-old filer Irom D™htts*''B dc™'e\rom b'i. All students In religion classes, as ! OtamPjU®. m. who was captured *---I d M A (rom u s c whlle well as those enrolled in the School July 12 when his Loyalist plane Daily Trojan Staff To Meet Today Reporters, desk workers, and proof readers on the Daily Trojan will gather at 2:30 p.m. today in 420 Student Union for a general staff meeting. A list of students intending to work on the campus publication during this semester will be compiled at the meeting to cheek with the reetoGrw* offtoe. of Religion, are welcome. Students To Try Out Proper registration in all courses is imperative for scholastic credit. according to Theron Clark, regis- p Chimes Chair Today even fighting for an idea1' ->ust for a---"..«i familfv arivis- i "I cold cash.'' was shot down behind the Insur gent lines. What else can the\ do but stick aiissim0 Francisco France to "Please me up against a wall? This is war. dcn.L d'est the onl h iness z and I'm a prisoner of war. I wasn't haye ever known •- Rudy Vallee's orchestra, is appear- Volger was graduated from the Uni-ing with a dance band at a Cannes versity of Iowa with an A. B. decasino and has appealed to Gener- j gree. trar. Approval of faculty advis ers is also necessary for desired Students interested in operating graduation units. i the chimes in Mudd hall are re- For every class in which a stu- quested to report in the chime tow-dent is officially registered, he will er Friday at 1 p.m. for tryouts. receive a grade, whether or not he attends any of the recitations in the course. Arrangements to withdraw from any course must be made at the Registrar's office as promptly as possible during the semester concerned. Hendrikus Sjaardema, in charge of the chimes, states that any one with an ear for melody can play the carillon. It has a one and one-half octave keyboard similar to that of a piano but differs in that only melody and no ohords can be played. Dahl grew wistful when he spoke of his wife. Headed by Chairman Ariel Ballif. a nominating committee will state qualifications of the office seekers. Dahl, who will be tried before a military tribunal of a colonel and ijeep thinking of her all the 1 Philip Morris Program five captains, will base his thin tjme she's been swell, and she has hopes «of escaping death on a plea ; stUCk by me every minute of the To Salute TrO|ans r . , time. I certainly miss her, but I guess its just as well she's outside. that the Loyalists forced him to fight against his will. When he left behind his bride of six months, and joined the Loyalists at a salary of $1500 a week he thought he was going to be a technical aviation adviser, Dahl said. His bride, who formerly sang with "If I should ever get out of Spain alive I'll never leave her again. "I am not a coward, and I'm not brave. I just don't want to die any more than yon do." The University of Southem California will be musically saluted tonight by Russ Morgan and his orchestra as they play the Trojan War Song on the Philip Morris program. This collegiate novelty will be heard over KFI a* 8:90 p.m. ... ________
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Editorial Offices
Night - PR - 4776
RI - 4111, Sta. 227
United Press
World Wide
News Service
Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, October 5, 1937
Number 13
oosevelt itlines Two lajor Coals
Gonteol oi Crops, Wage Legislation Placed Orr 'Must' List
| SU PAUL. Minn.. Oct. 4—
lent Roosevelt placed two of major legislation—control surplus crops for farmers and inimum wages for workers—at top of his "must" list for the tt session of congress as he lused here tonight for a brief en route home from the Pa-jfic Northwest. .
Earlier today, the president roadly hinted that he would call senate and house into special ssion this fall to pass a law to kovide the country with 'an ever-rmal granary-' of wheat., cotton, id other agricultural products.
Mr. Roosevelt aisregarded his int tonight, but emphasized in an idress bristling with ''musts'', that lis administration would fight for crop control bill and a measure stabhshing minimum wages and
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Serious Entertaining: Super Bowl Pizza Party
Super Bowl Sunday belongs to pizza. Oh sure, give the wings a nod, but every statistic proves that the Super Bowl is synonymous with pizza. However, game day pizza parties present challenges to your typical pizza party routine, where pizza is the focus. Namely, you need to be able to actually watch that damn game! You can't very well do that when you're manning the oven. You could go the easy route and order pizza, but Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest pizza delivery day of the year! Do you really want to be a victim of subpar, lukewarm, sloppily made delivery pizza? Here's a way to put on your pizza making game face and stay in the football-watching action!
Pre-Game Pizza Snacks
Kick it off with some pizza-inspired snacks! While you're making up the dough for the pies, you could also whip up some extra for Garlic Knots or Monkey Bread (regular or the garlic knot variety). Of course, store bought dough is a time saver and makes a good stand-in for these recipes. Homemade Pizza Rolls are a classic addition and are a perfect pre-pizza finger food. And don't forget the dhorst Secret Dipping Sauce!
- Deep Fried Garlic Knots
- Pizza Monkey Bread
- Garlic Knot Monkey Bread
- Secret Dipping Sauce
- Homemade Pizza Rolls
Pizza Touchdown
The best pizzas to serve at parties are those that eliminate the need for stretching, rolling, kneading, and transferring from peel to stone. Luckily we've got a couple of recipes in our arsenal that fit the bill. All of the recipes here are no-knead, so you can essentially mix and dump these into a baking sheet or skillet and minimally stretch them into place. While most allow for an overnight ferment to develop flavor, the Basic Square Pan Pizza relies on more oil for flavor and can be done from scratch to finish in a matter of hours. Making the other doughs the day before (or even a couple of days before) can really help cut back on the game day scramble. Mix it up by making 2 or more styles for your guests to choose from.
Sauce Huddle
You can easily bring variety to your pies, and streamline the process, by making a few different sauces. Here are a few options to choose from.
- New York Style Pizza Sauce
- Quick No Cook Tomato Sauce
- Barbecue Pizza Sauce
- Bechamel (white sauce)
- Onion Cream Sauce
Party End Zone
If you are planning on having guests involved in choosing toppings, a topping bar let's everyone get creative. (For topping ideas, check out this post.) Or keep it simple by selecting the toppings ahead of time, but offer a couple of post-bake toppers that guests can add, such as fresh herbs, chili oil, grated Parmesan, honey, or spicy dried peppers.
Finally, don't forget the dessert! Try this Nutella, ricotta, and berry pizza recipe from Keste.
If its gotta be delivery, check out our Delivery Pepperoni Pizza taste test or Pizza Showdown: The Best Delivery Pizza from a few years back.

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US fastfood chain Subway has announced the opening of its first location in the Czech Republic. Subway said the new restaurant is especially important to the international development of the chain as Europe is considered to be an area with tremendous growth potential for the Subway brand.
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The Obama administration will stop deporting young immigrants that entered the United States and children and went on to live law-abiding lives, according to reporting by the Associated Press.
The move is a major victory for immigrant rights groups, which had come close to getting the protections through last year's DREAM Act, which would have given a path to citizenship or residency to young immigrants who came into the country without documents at the behest of parents and then went on to attend or graduate from high school, received a GED or enlisted in the military.
From the AP story:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.
A formal announcement will be made later today by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, according to the AP.
The new plan aims to protect young immigrants from deportation who entered the U.S. before age 16, and are now under the age of 30, have been in the country for five years, have no extensive criminal history and have attended or graduated from a U.S. high school or served in the military. The youth may then be able to apply for work permits, which would permit them to work in the country legally.
Correction note: The original version of this post incorrectly stated that the DREAM Act applied to those who pursued higher education. The DREAM Act would have affected those who gradated from a U.S. high school, and the post has been changed to reflect that correction. Apologies for the mistake.
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elvis January 20th, 2012 | 5:51pm
so excited! :)
TheDude January 20th, 2012 | 7:37pm
I like the concept of well-priced. I think that will stand apart on the DTM and be a draw as too many restaurants have gone upstream. Also, can't go wrong with southern cooking. Please have fried chicken!
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I hope you'll have my favorite meat & 3; chicken, grits, whiskey & cornbread!


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A South African prosecutor asked on Tuesday for Oscar Pistorius to be sent for a mental evaluation after a psychiatrist told the Olympic and Paralympic track star's murder trial he had an anxiety disorder.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel argued he wanted to prevent the 27-year-old sprinter, who faces life in prison if convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, from later appealing on the basis of a disturbed mental condition.
Nel told the court there was a "reasonable possibility" that Pistorius suffers from a mental illness, adding that without a proper evaluation the case could later be appealed over Pistorius' mental health.
If granted, the evaluation would likely further delay a trial now in its 31st day. Defence lawyer Barry Roux has argued against the motion, saying it was "premature" to have the evaluation done now, as he planned to call other witnesses.
Judge Thokozile Masipa adjourned the court early on Tuesday to consider the prosecutor's request and is expected to rule on it on Wednesday.
Defence witness and forensic psychiatrist Dr Merryll Vorster testified that Pistorius, who was born without fibulas, suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder after having his legs amputated at 11 months.
The anxiety disorder, a long-term condition that causes feelings of worry or fear in a wide range of situations, has worsened as Pistorius has got older, Vorster said.
She has said his parents' divorce when he was a child would have added to his general feelings of anxiety and insecurity.
After the divorce, Pistorius was brought up by his mother, who died of cancer when he was aged 15. He has frequently spoken of the difficulty her death caused him.
The state has sought to portray the track star as a gun-obsessed hothead who killed model and law graduate Steenkamp in a fit of rage.
The defence has argued that Pistorius had a heightened sense of fear and vulnerability because he was on his stumps when he thought he heard an intruder in his bathroom.
Pistorius has denied he killed Steenkamp in cold blood, saying he shot four times at the toilet door of his luxury Pretoria home to protect himself from what he though was an intruder.
Pistorius competed against able-bodied sprinters on carbon-fibre prosthetics, becoming one of the most recognized names in athletics. He won a clutch of Paralympic medals and reached the semi-finals of the 400m at the London 2012 Olympics.
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Not yet I hope i get the email soon. This is my 1st club exclusive purchase was the email sent to your personal email so I know where to watch?
Not yet I hope i get the email soon. This is my 1st club exclusive purchase was the email sent to your personal email so I know where to watch?
Personal e-mail.
Woo Hoo! Got my set in the mail today! First time in my membership that I have been one of the first to receive and not the last at the end of the month...
How's it look? Is the box pretty?
Box is interesting... not a box, but a diorama slip cover? That goes over the plastic packaging. Rodimus looks good, Arcee's hair looked better in pics than in person, but the head still looks like it could be a good Glenda accept I don't think the Pilot Scarlett helmet will fit now
Got mine today. It's nice and the diorama packaging is very cool. Glad to have Ninja Force Scarlett... but it's still a LOT to pay for four figures and some pack-ins. The diorama is nice but it's not as big as the printed boxes that the comicon sets have... which makes sense because it's four figures and some pack-ins. I just wish there could be some sanity about pricing for this kind of set because all this means is people willing to sell their NF Scarlett are now going to start listing the single figure at at least $100 as the whole set was only about $40 more than that. Once again the collectors who just want a key figure will get gouged.
Yeah, I hear that. I'll be looking at that NF Scarlett down the road a piece, but not for no sawbuck. Bad enough I can't get my hands on a FSS Covergirl because of that crap. I am looking forward to Hot Rod and Arcee though.
I try to keep my complaining to a minimum, because, like all of us, I am here by choice. But this set is really sticking in my craw. As much as they say 5 figures, I think calling the TFs anything more than pack-ins is a stretch. Not only that, but there's no ninja force in FSS 5.0, so the only NF member this year is probably this one, in a set that's just way too much (for me, anyway), which means I don't get it, or I pay too much for it somewhere else, which makes me question why I'm in the club. I can not get joes I want anywhere.
I'd be curious to know how many members would have paid the average FSS post sub price of $40 for a carded Scarlett or Biggles-Jones, and would have preferred to do so in lieu of this set. I also don't see the appeal of this for strictly TF collectors, at least at the asking price.


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It will surprise no one who eats Papa John's Pizza, shops at Target, listens to the radio, watches television, uses social media or breathes that Taylor Swift's music saturates the Billboard charts this week — and not just the country ones.
With Nielsen SoundScan-confirmed sales of 1,208,290 copies its first week out, Swift's Red tops Billboard's country and all-genres rankings and the digital albums chart as well.
Moreover, Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" holds onto its No. 1 slot on the country songs chart for the fourth consecutive week.
But that ain't all, folks. The golden girl has eight new songs on the chart: "I Almost Do," which, at No. 13, is the week's highest debut. Then she has "All Too Well" (No. 17), "Stay Stay Stay" (No. 24), "Treacherous" (No. 26), "Starlight" (No. 28), "Holy Ground" (No. 32), "The Lucky One" (No. 33) and "Sad Beautiful Tragic" (No. 37).
Like you, we're puzzled why Swift disses her high school English teachers by ignoring the rule about using commas to set off items in a series (in her song titles). But, hey, it's her galaxy.
The week's other new songs are Sam Palladio and Claire Bowen's' "Fade Into You" (No. 25), Connie Britton and Charles Esten's "No One Will Ever Love You" (No. 36) and Hayden Panettiere's "Telescope" (No. 47). All these are from actors in the cast of ABC-TV's Nashville.
There are four other new albums: Lady Antebellum's On This Winter's Night (No. 3), Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson's Wreck & Ruin (No. 35), Billy Ray Cyrus' Change My Mind (No. 38) and Montgomery Gentry's Friends and Family EP (No. 53).
Albums No. 2, No. 4 and No. 5 are Jason Aldean's Night Train, Little Big Town's Tornado and Christmas With Scotty McCreery, respectively.
Rounding out the Top 5 songs are Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away," Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise," Lee Brice's "Hard to Love" and Luke Bryan's "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."
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I am trying to create a sniffer program with libpcap on windows xp sp2. I am using Dev-C++ 188.8.131.52 and I downloaded the winpcap 3.0 developer's pack. On site the winpcap, there is a documentation about the use with MS Visual C++, but I don't get to compile using the Dev-C++.
There is a winpcap how-to using Dev-C++?
Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <pcap.h> main() { printf("Test1"); }
Compiler log:
Compilador: Default compiler
Executando gcc.exe...
gcc.exe "D:\Progs\test3.c" -o "D:\Progs\test3.exe" -I"D:\Dev-Cpp\include" -L"D:\Dev-Cpp\lib"
In file included from D:/Dev-Cpp/include/pcap-stdinc.h:32,
from D:/Dev-Cpp/include/pcap.h:41,
from D:\Progs\test3.c:4:
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/bittypes.h:36: error: redefinition of typedef 'int8_t'
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/stdint.h:27: error: previous declaration of 'int8_t' was here
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/bittypes.h:52: error: redefinition of typedef 'int16_t'
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/stdint.h:29: error: previous declaration of 'int16_t' was here
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/bittypes.h:71: error: redefinition of typedef 'int32_t'
D:/Dev-Cpp/include/stdint.h:31: error: previous declaration of 'int32_t' was here
Execução terminada
Thanks by help.


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The Acer P1265 is a smart DLP projector that has a black casing with some neat styling details that lift it above the average. There's a shiny panel that provides access to the lamp and an opening so you can manually rotate the focus and zoom rings. On the front there's a sliding lens cover - every projector should have one - and on the top the controls consist of four tidy buttons arranged around a navigation pad.
It looks a treat, but it also has a few useful features. So, in addition to the usual VGA, Composite and S-Video inputs, you also get a DVI input and VGA output. Unfortunately, there isn't a DVI cable in the package, which is something of an oversight.
Eco mode
The 28dB noise rating in Standard mode is reasonably quiet, but switching to Eco mode drops the noise to 24dB which is incredibly quiet. Strictly speaking you don't switch from Normal to Eco mode, but instead you turn Eco on and off, which is a fine distinction. The brightness dips when Eco is on, but we found the Acer was quite useable in a moderately lit room.
Less impressive is the mono speaker, which is feeble and distorts if it is used at any volume other than minimal.
On the matching remote there's a mysterious E button for 'Empowering Technology', which is Acer-speak for configuring the projector to your preferences. There's no auto-Keystone, but we managed to set the Acer up quite quickly and were unable to see much difference in image quality between signals on the VGA and DVI inputs.
The image quality has been set for presentations, so is harsh and bright. This is typical for a DLP projector, but it works fine in a wide variety of settings. This is a good quiet projector that represents very fair value for money.


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Stanford doesn't want me. I can say that because it's a documented fact: I was once denied admission in writing. I took my last math class back in high school. Which probably explains why this quiz on how to get a computer to calculate an ideal itinerary is making my brain hurt. I'm staring at a crude map of Romania on my MacBook. Twenty cities are connected in a network of straight black lines. My goal is to determine the best route from Arad to Bucharest. A handful of search algorithms with names like breadth-first, depth-first, uniform-cost, and A* can be used. Each employs a different strategy for scanning the map and considering various paths. I've never heard of these algorithms or considered how a computer determines a route. But I'll learn, because despite the utter lack of qualifications I just mentioned, I'm enrolled in CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, a graduate- level course taught by Stanford professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.
Last fall, the university in the heart of Silicon Valley did something it had never done before: It opened up three classes, including CS221, to anyone with a web connection. Lectures and assignments—the same ones administered in the regular on-campus class—would be posted and auto-graded online each week. Midterms and finals would have strict deadlines. Stanford wouldn't issue course credit to the non-matriculated students. But at the end of the term, students who completed a course would be awarded an official Statement of Accomplishment.
People around the world have gone crazy for this opportunity. Fully two-thirds of my 160,000 classmates live outside the US. There are students in 190 countries—from India and South Korea to New Zealand and the Republic of Azerbaijan. More than 100 volunteers have signed up to translate the lectures into 44 languages, including Bengali. In Iran, where YouTube is blocked, one student cloned the CS221 class website and—with the professors' permission—began reposting the video files for 1,000 students.
Aside from computer-programming AI-heads, my classmates range from junior-high school students and humanities majors to middle-aged middle school science teachers and seventysomething retirees. One student described CS221 as the "online Woodstock of the digital era." Personally, I signed up to have the experience of taking a Stanford course. Learning about artificial intelligence would be a nice bonus. After all, if I'm ever going to let a self-driving car speed me down a highway at 65 mph, it'll be comforting to have a basic understanding of what's behind the wheel.
It's not until the second week of class that I notice a small disclaimer on the AI course website: Prerequisites: A solid understanding of probability and linear algebra will be required.
Solid understanding? I majored in English. This makes me a "fuzzy" (what Stanford techies call liberal arts majors behind their backs). And now I'm trying to wrap my head around Bayesian probability, a branch of statistics that in the past 25 years has revolutionized a dozen fields from genomics and robotics to neuroscience. I'm told it all boils down to this formula:
Apply this rule to a computational problem and you can make efficient predictions based on otherwise unreliable data. Practical applications, aside from programming autonomous cars, include calculating a woman's risk of breast cancer, analyzing DNA, and building a better spam filter.
That stuff's all easier said than done. But the basics are actually fairly basic. I manage to score 58 percent on this homework assignment. I may not comprehend every which way to Bucharest. But in five weeks maybe I'll be ready to tackle a spam filter.
Sebastian Thrun stepped onstage at the March 2011 TED conference in Long Beach, California. In a ballroom filled with 1,000 heavyweight thinkers, the roboticist and AI guru offered a peek at his latest project at Google: a charcoal-gray Toyota Prius outfitted with a laser range finder, radar, and cameras. He showed video of the sedan navigating through highway traffic, dodging deer on a pitch-dark road, and even zigzagging down San Francisco's Lombard Street—all without a human so much as touching the wheel, the gas, or the brake. The applause roared.
You'd think that would have been Thrun's favorite moment at TED. But it wasn't. Salman Khan also made a presentation that week. The founder of Khan Academy, which Wired profiled last August, told the story of his nearly six-year-old website, which provides more than 2,800 tutorial videos in subjects like science, math, and economics. Khan capped off his talk by emphasizing how he's growing a "global one-world classroom." Joining him onstage, Bill Gates called Khan Academy "the future of education." For Thrun, it was a full-on epiphany. "I was flabbergasted," he says. "I teach a lot of great students at Stanford. But the entire world is out there."
Even on a campus with 17 Nobel laureates, four Pulitzer Prize winners, and 18 recipients of the National Medal of Science, Thrun has managed to distinguish himself. In 2004, six months after arriving at Palo Alto as an associate professor, he was named director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The next year his team won the Darpa Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car that can drive itself across the Nevada desert. (Wired wrote about the 132-mile robo-race in 2006.) For Thrun's achievement, Stanford was awarded a $2 million prize. Today "Stanley," Thrun's self-driving Volkswagen Touareg, lives at the Smithsonian. In April 2011, Thrun gave up his tenure at Stanford to head Google X, a lab created to incubate the company's most ambitious and secretive projects. He was also free to pursue outside ventures.
After seeing Khan at TED, Thrun dusted off a PowerPoint presentation he'd put together in 2007. Back then he had begun envisioning a YouTube for education, a for-profit startup that would allow students to discover and take courses from top professors. In a few slides, he'd spelled out the nine essential components of a university education: admissions, lectures, peer interaction, professor interaction, problem-solving, assignments, exams, deadlines, and certification. While Thrun admired MIT's OpenCourseWare—the university's decade-old initiative to publish online all of its lectures, syllabi, and homework from 2,100 courses—he thought it relied too heavily on videos of actual classroom lectures. That was tapping just one-ninth of the equation, with a bit of course material thrown in as a bonus.
Thrun knew firsthand what it was like to crave superior instruction. When he was a master's-degree student at the University of Bonn in Germany in the late 1980s, he found his AI professors to be clueless. He spent a lot of time filling in the gaps at the library, but he longed for a more direct connection to experts. Thrun created his PowerPoint presentation because he understood that university education was a system in need of disruption. But it wasn't until he heard Khan's talk that he appreciated he could do something about it. He spoke with Peter Norvig, Google's director of research and his CS221 coprofessor, and they agreed to open up their next class to the entire world. Yes, it was an educational experiment, but Thrun realized that it could also be the first step in turning that old PowerPoint into an actual business.
In June he took the next step: cofounding KnowLabs, which he funded with $300,000 of his own money. He pulled in David Stavens, one of Stanley's cocreators, as CEO; he tapped Stanford robotics researcher Mike Sokolsky to be CTO. They converted Thrun's guesthouse into a temporary office. Thus ensconced on a scenic hillside on Page Mill Road near Stanford's campus, the team began planning. They had eight weeks before the fall term started—not unreasonable given the modest scope of the project. Stavens thought they'd get 500 students. Sokolsky hoped for 1,000. Norvig figured they might hit 2,000.
Fifty years from now, according to Thrun, there will be only 10 institutions in the whole world that deliver higher education.
In late July, Thrun emailed 1,000 members of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a group that had weathered the AI winter of the 1980s and '90s only to see the field later revitalized by the likes of Stanley. By the next morning 5,000 students had signed up. A few days later the class had 10,000. That's when the Stanford administration called. Thrun had neglected to tell them about his plan—he'd had a hunch it might not go over well. The university's chief complaint: You cannot issue an official certificate of any kind. Over the next few weeks, 15 meetings were held on the matter. Thrun talked to the dean's office, the registrar, and the university's legal department. Meanwhile, enrollment in CS221 was ballooning: 14,000, 18,000, and—just two weeks later—58,000.
In all those meetings, not one person objected to Thrun's offering his class online for free. They admired his vision. The administration simply wanted Thrun to drop the assignments and certificate. He refused. Those two components, he argued, were responsible for driving the sign-ups. Someone proposed removing Stanford's name from the course website altogether. Eventually they reached a compromise: (1) Offer a Statement of Accomplishment, not a certificate, and (2) include a disclaimer stating that the class wouldn't count toward Stanford credit, a grade, or a degree.
Thrun didn't have time to celebrate. By mid-August, word of his AI class went viral after a write-up in The New York Times. Enrollment skyrocketed past 100,000. KnowLabs' website had been built to handle 10,000 students. Class was starting in a matter of weeks. "That," Sokolsky says, "is when I stopped sleeping."
Education, Mark Twain once said, is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. By that standard, it seems I'm making progress. After a month of CS221, I've come to dread the homework, especially when I check back on my performance: 60 percent, 33 percent, 44 percent. Technically, I guess you could say I'm failing. Few of the concepts in CS221 click easily for me.
The videos, which are sometimes weirdly entertaining, do help. A unit usually begins with a close-up of Thrun or Norvig in a makeshift studio speaking directly to the camera. Then you see a tight shot of a drawing pad and watch their hands write out variables, diagrams, and calculations as they provide voice-over elucidation. It's all recorded with a DSLR camera mounted on a tripod. The videos are broken up with questions, prompting students to engage, so the team overlays HTML form boxes onto each video. This allows answers to be submitted directly into the browser. The videos aren't flashy or polished; they take their inspiration from Khan Academy, which pioneered this technique of intimate, direct instruction. It's a stark contrast to MIT's OpenCourseWare videos, which mostly depict professors from afar, scribbling on blackboards. Still, some of my classmates are underwhelmed. "In a world of slick presentations and animated diagrams," one student blogs, "this looks a little homespun."
But because CS221 seems like a work in progress, students are also eager to help improve it. Early in the term, for example, Thrun and Norvig decided to nix the programming exercises (a bummer to techies but a relief to us fuzzies). The team at KnowLabs had enough on its plate. But Vitalik Buterin, an 18-year-old high school senior in Toronto, stepped in to help. He spent a few days creating an "AI playground" where students could practice coding all those basic AI algorithms we'd been hearing so much about. The site presents puzzles, such as asking for the most efficient path from point A to B. Students can write a function in JavaScript—testing out A* search, breadth-first, and naive Bayesian analysis—and check their performance. "Find your way through a world with deadly obstacles and uncertain senses and actions and make your way to the goal," Buterin's site prompts students. Just like an autonomous Prius.
Thrun is thrilled. His experiment is working. More than 20,000 students have taken the midterm and are turning in weekly assignments. The website's stability is improving. CS221's YouTube videos have been viewed 5 million times. The team at KnowLabs has automated and ramped up the workflow: film, edit, double-check the lessons, post, and monitor the message boards to put out fires.
The course is hitting eight of Thrun's nine educational components. Sure there's room for improvement. But what they're building is starting to look less like a whimsical one-off and more like a legitimate venture. They've hired a second engineer, who also serves as a teaching assistant to oversee the discussion forums. By November they're staffing up again, with a new video editor and a web designer to rethink the interface for future courses.
Stavens is thinking about potential business models. Though Thrun cringes at the notion of charging students, people might eventually pay for add-ons—say, TA services, study aids, or offline materials. He also considers other revenue streams. Near the end of the term, he emails his top 1,000 students, the ones with perfect or near-perfect scores on homework and tests. The subject: Job Placement Program. Thrun solicits résumés and promises to get the best ones into the right hands at tech companies, including Google. A recruiter who places a hire typically earns 10 to 30 percent of an engineer's first-year salary, which might be $100,000. Stavens figures he could charge much less. After all, KnowLabs discovers talent in the course of doing business.
My initial approach to the class turned out to be wrong. My grades are low. I've never wanted a D-minus so badly in my life.
In December the company secures a sizable chunk of money from Charles River Ventures, a VC firm specializing in early-stage investments. First order of business: another hiring spree, which more than doubles the staff, bringing it to 14. KnowLabs revamps its software from scratch and starts to work on a full site redesign.
KnowLabs already has competition: At the same time as CS221, two other computer science courses are being taught at Stanford using another digital platform. (Neither has attracted near the number of enrollees as CS221, but some students taking all three say the materials and website for CS221 are less polished.) Two Stanford professors then develop that platform into Coursera, an independent venture for serving online courses. (They're beginning with Stanford but plan to expand to other institutions.) The plan is to offer 14 classes in 2012, including cryptography, anatomy, and game theory. For now, these are all free. Then MIT announces it is racing to catch up with Stanford by creating a program called MITx, which will serve up a handful of online courses in the fall of 2012. Enrollment and participation will be free, but to earn a certificate of completion students will have to pay a "fairly modest" but yet-to-be-determined fee.
Thrun isn't worried that these respected universities or faculty will crush his startup. He's envisioning his own digital university, with a less conventional curriculum, one based on solving problems, not simply lectures on abstract topics. It would offer a viable alternative for students of the global one-world classroom—particularly those who lack the resources to move to the US and attend college.
Thrun decides that KnowLabs will build something called Udacity. The name, a mashup of audacity and university, is intended to convey the boldness of both Thrun's and his students' ambitions. His goal is for Udacity to offer free eight-week online courses. For the next six months or more, the curriculum will focus on computer science. Eventually it will expand into other quantitative disciplines including engineering, physics, and chemistry. The idea is to create a menu of high-quality courses that can be rerun and improved with minimal involvement from the original instructor. KnowLabs will work only with top professors who are willing to put in the effort to create dynamic, interactive videos. Just as Hollywood cinematography revolutionized the way we tell stories, Thrun sees a new grammar of instruction and learning starting to emerge as he and his team create the videos and other class materials. Behind every Udacity class will be a production team, not unlike a film crew. The professor will become an actor-producer. Which makes Thrun the studio head.
He's thinking big now. He imagines that in 10 years, job applicants will tout their Udacity degrees. In 50 years, he says, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them. Thrun just has to plot the right course.
It's a crisp and sunny December morning at Stanford—the last day of class—and Thrun steps up to a podium to deliver the in-class lecture. I'd pictured crashing a hall packed with techies, but only 41 students out of 200 show up. Four stroll in late. Two fall asleep. Five leave early. That's not uncommon. There's little incentive to come to class. During the fall term, the Stanford students taking CS221 preferred watching the KnowLabs videos. Thrun says this improved their performance. In previous years his students averaged 60 percent on the midterm; this time around they did much better. Thrun swears the exam was tougher than any other he's given at Stanford. My online classmates averaged 83 percent overall. (I did not help the average.)
He doesn't congratulate himself for long. Along with the technical hurdles, including scaling up the website and staving off at least three denial-of-service attacks, Thrun acknowledges some harsh feedback from his students. "We made a lot of mistakes," he says. "In the beginning I made each problem available only once. I got a flaming email from a student saying, 'Look, you're behaving like one of these arrogant Stanford professors looking to weed out students.' I realized we should set up the student for success, not for failure." KnowLabs tweaked the software to allow students to keep trying problems.
My initial approach to the class was wrong too. At the beginning of the term, I joined an offline study group in San Francisco and met with six of my classmates at a pub. As I expected, discussing problems was very helpful. Unfortunately, the group fizzled well before the midterm. Agreeing on a time and location proved too difficult.
Online, of course, that wasn't an issue. A dozen or more discussion groups formed on Facebook, and students organized virtual study sessions via Google+ and private IRC channels. I posed questions on the Q&A site Aiqus and on Reddit discussion boards at all hours of the day and night and received explanations and tips from around the world in near real time. On Aiqus alone, more than 4,000 questions were posted, and they received more than 13,000 answers. All that information was scattered, though. I had to filter through a dozen comment threads on Aiqus and open a dozen tabs in my browser just to solve one homework problem. It was difficult to focus.
Thrun expects such student-built innovations to multiply as Udacity ramps up this year. In February it offered its first two eight-week courses for free. These classes are not affiliated with Stanford, and as of this writing, a combined 65,000 students have registered for CS373: Programming a Robotic Car and CS101: Building a Search Engine. The robotic car course, taught by Thrun, requires some math and engineering chops. But the search engine class—helmed by David Evans, a professor on sabbatical from the University of Virginia—was designed specifically for people with zero background in programming. Thrun tapped Google cofounder Sergey Brin to appear in a YouTube video promoting the class. It worked.
An hour before that last lecture, I stop by Thrun's office to say hello. "We have a recipe that works," he tells me proudly. "Putting these ingredients together and working really hard to create good content and a good experience for the students, we can break through."
I have only a vague idea of how an autonomous car drives itself. I'm nearing the end of CS221 and I've never wanted a D-minus so badly in my life. Sadly, I don't quite pull it off. My total score for the term: 52.7 percent. That's 7.3 percent below passing—in other words, an F. I've never failed a class before. If I were an actual Stanford student, this would tarnish my GPA. It might wreck my chances of landing a summer internship. It would certainly disappoint my faculty adviser.
But I'm not an actual Stanford student. I'm a gate-crasher. A fuzzy one. At least I finished. That's better than the 137,000 registered students who dropped out. I decide to print out my Statement of Accomplishment. Will I frame it and hang it next to the master's degree in my office? Maybe. Will I ever build a better spam filter? Probably not. Will I take another online course? I'm no expert, but the probability seems high.
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Marc Chagall's paintings, murals and stained-glass windows are full
of lively swirling imagery. So it's no surprising that his work might
inspire dance.
For WBEZ, dance critic Lucia Mauro provides the details:
Chicagoans have close ties to prolific 20th century artist Marc Chagall through his stained class work, America Windows. These evocative panels, in circular strokes of multi-textured blues, were recently reinstalled at the Art Institute of Chicago.
But it seems a pleasant coincidence that two local dance companies are
highlighting works that recall the blissful whimsy of Chagall's
color-saturated palette.
Lin Shook, artistic director of Perceptual Motion,
became enamored with the painter's surreal glimpse at the City of
Lights. His 1913 painting titled "Paris through the Window," catapulted
the choreographer into a topsy-turvy universe of upside-down trains, a
lone parachutist, a cat with a human face and window frames that explode
with intense primary colors.
Perceptual Motion is a
multigenerational modern dance company, whose members range in age from
23-91. In Shook's new quartet, titled "Through the Window," 91-year-old ensemble member Inger Smith enters with two children and proceeds to watch four women dancers through a glass.
instead of recreating Chagall's fanciful canvas, Shook has her dancers
embody its illogical spirit. Moreover, they take on the anxious and
unpredictable sensibility of children in a playground. The performers
are clad in circus-like costumes, the color of cherry red, midnight
blue, emerald green and lemon yellow. They resemble the hues of the
Twister game floor mat.
It's a joyous, uninhibited excursion
across the ever-active bodies and minds of children set to high-energy
Kurdistan folk music. The dancers literally tumble onto the stage and
morph into tightrope walkers. They cartwheel, do flips and somersaults
and even form a "London Bridge" archway with their arms. They mirror
Chagall's talent for mixing up animals, landscapes and people in a
celebratory collage of the imagination.
The next performance takes
inspiration from the dream-like sensations Chagall's work provokes.
Chagall, a painter of Belarusian-Jewish heritage who lived in France,
preserved the fond memories of his childhood village through paintings
of fiddlers, livestock, birds and floating brides. They seem to drift by
like the images passing across Dorothy's window after the tornado hits
Kansas in The Wizard of Oz. These fantastical juxtapositions
naturally recall dream states. And that's the impetus behind San
Francisco-based choreographer Julia Adam.
"Night," her
ballet being performed by the Joffrey dancers, takes its lush and
fractured imagery from dreams. She subtly references the canvases of
Chagall in movements that include lifts with broken balletic lines and
capricious suspensions. A woman awakens and is carried aloft by a man
representing the disembodied forces of dreams. She seems to float
through space. The pair then embarks on dangerous see-saw lifts with
split seconds of free fall to reflect a sensation of falling or being
Both Perceptual Motion and the Joffrey Ballet carry
audiences through Marc Chagall's fleeting and profoundly whimsical
artistic vision.
Perceptual Motion performs "Through the Window" on Thursday and Friday evening at the Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater.
The Joffrey Ballet will be performing "Night" May 4-15 at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago.
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in 13th Century Italy, Intarsia is enjoying a resurgence
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Bad luck among diagnoses of Bucs' struggling bats
PITTSBURGH -- Looking up from the Bucs' historic offensive pit, Clint Hurdle still sees the physical tools and mental attitude to get it right.
"We've got a number of individuals who have not met expectations we projected going in," Hurdle said prior to Wednesday night's finale of the series against the Oakland A's. "We expect more from our offense."
The losses in the two opening games of the set may have been unprecedented. The Bucs dropped both by a 2-1 score while allowing eight total hits in the starts by Jeff Locke and Gerrit Cole.
Going back to 1959, MLB.com research revealed this was the first instance of the Pirates losing consecutive games in which they gave up no more than four runs and no more than eight hits.
Although Hurdle reiterated "I think we all like our team" and that "the guys aren't going to panic," he appeared to take a subtle swipe at some batters' mental approach in clutch situations.
The production has clearly not been there lately -- the Bucs scored six runs during the four-game losing streak they took into Wednesday night's delayed game -- but Hurdle was asked specifically if it had been a matter of bad luck by hitters who still stepped in with the right attitude.
"A lot of times we are getting the focus and preparation -- about half the time -- although not getting the results," Hurdle said slyly, doubtless aware that was actual condemnation. "Sometimes we're not getting either one [preparation or result]."
The Pirates hit a Majors-worst .228 with runners in scoring position, but that is only one example of their situational-hitting shortcomings. For instance, with 12 sacrifice flies through 89 games, the Bucs are also last among the 30 teams.


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FSA claims Aussie man killed in fight against Syrian govt
AN AUSTRALIAN man is believed to have been killed in a rebel attack on a major Syrian military base.
In a video posted on YouTube, rebel forces claim a man known as Abu al-Walid left behind family in Australia to join the uprising against the Syrian government and was killed in battle on the weekend.
Footage of the man described as Al-Australi (the Australian) shows him handling some kind of explosive.
According to the Herald, the video suggests the man, whose name means "father of al-Walid in Arabic", has a fiancée living in Australia.
He was reportedly killed near the Wadi Deif military base where forces loyal to President Bashar and the Free Syrian Army have been fighting for control since October.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said it has no record of an Australian being killed recently in Syria and could not confirm the identity of the man in the video.
The last recorded Australian death in Syria was in October when Melbourne man Roger Abbas was caught in crossfire at a refugee camp.
The 23-year-old champion kickboxer had been providing aid for about a month at a camp on the Turkish border.
Since fighting against the Syrian Government broke out in March 2011, more than 45,000 have been confirmed dead. At least 28,000 were civilians.
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Cindy Crawford's New Expression
Scientists Discover Third Cindy Crawford Facial Expression
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CAMBRIDGE, MA--The international scientific and high-fashion communities were rocked Monday by the discovery of a third facial expressionon high-profile supermodel Cindy Crawford.
The new expression, a slight variation on one of the two previously known Crawford faces, had existed only as a computer-generated theoretical construct until Monday, when a team of MIT scientists definitively proved its existence.
MIT research heads Dr. Roland Eisenheutz and Dr. Deng Mo Pan discovered the expression after meticulously sifting through more than 75,000 photographs of Crawford. The finding confirmed a 1991 theory developed by Stanford researcher Milton Standish, who, after exhaustive computer analysis of Crawford's facial musculature, postulated the existence of a third,"latent" expression hidden behind the other two.
The discovery marks the first new supermodel facial expression since University of Chicago physicist Richard Feynman isolated Lauren Hutton's "aloof pout" in 1974.
Crawford's two previously known facial expressions--the sexy "winning smile," a dazzling, white-toothed grin conveying confidence and sass, and the equally alluring "sultry glance," a smoky, heavy-lidded variation on the across-the-room stare--are well known within scientific circles for their ability to stop men dead in their tracks. The existence of a third expression, however, has until now been limited to mere conjecture.
MIT scientists describe the new expression as similar to Crawford's regular smile, but with subtle differences caused by "subatomic traces of sincerity, modesty, humility and depth" that may go unnoticed by the layman, but can be clearly detected via computer analysis.
Scientists do not expect the new facial expression to be visible again until June 2012.
"We are pleased to announce that the third facial expression, relative to the other two, appears to be equally beautiful,"Eisenheutz told reporters. "I would very much like to kiss any one of Miss Crawford's three gorgeous faces. I am a man of science, but I am also, if you follow my meaning, a man."
Research was often difficult, the scientists said, due to the fact that Crawford's facial structure, even in digitized, mathematical form, often exceeded their equipment's "prettiness" threshold.
"She's so hot, she makes the fish in the bowl hot," Deng said.
After a long pause, Deng added: "Please excuse the adolescent, sexually awkward wording of my previous statement. As a scientist, I am admittedly unfamiliar with situations involving women of such staggering beauty."
In the wake of Monday's discovery, it is speculated that Crawford's facial musculature holds the potential for a fourth, or "ugly" face, such as would exist early in the morning or under conditions of stress-induced moodiness. But such atheory, scientists say, is unprovable within the theoretical limits of modern science.
"Huegelwatt's Second Law of Supermodel Inaccessibility makes the gathering of the data necessary to prove such a theory an impossibility," MIT's Gunter Flint said.
Because of their find, Eisenheutz and Deng are considered front-runners for this year's Nobel Prize for Cindics. Funding for MIT's much-discussed $40 million Supercooled Supermodel Superconductor may also be forthcoming as a result.