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Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
from the they-don't-have-them dept
While we've pointed out for years that when people claim that infringing works are "stolen," they're using the wrong word, since nothing is missing, that is not the case here. Here, things are absolutely missing. The entire purpose of copyright law is to provide the incentives to have the work created in the first place. As such, it's a deal, where the public grants the creators an exclusive right for a number of years, in return for getting the work (in a limited fashion) for a period of time and then having that work become public domain at the end. Retroactive copyright extension is a unilateral change in that deal -- directly taking the work away from the public domain without any recompense to the public the work has been stolen from. This makes absolutely no sense. Clearly, since the work was created, the incentive was good enough at the time of creation. Adding on more years that the public doesn't get it at the end does nothing to incentivize the work that was already created fifty years ago.
There is simply no reason to have done this, and to have taken these works out of the public domain. Scholars have pointed out that there is no legitimate reason to do this, no evidence that it does anything useful at all. Instead, there's plenty of evidence that the cost to the public is tremendous -- somewhere around a billion euros. The cost to culture in general is even worse, because the longer copyright terms are, the more works disappear entirely, and the more it harms the dissemination of knowledge. It's basically a disaster all the way around -- except for some old record labels that still have the copyrights.


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TheRedQueen wrote:I'm not trying to be a downer...it's just sometimes the trainer part of me comes to the surface...and I have to look past the cute faces to mention what us dog trainers hate to see!
No, I understand, really.
And I am trying soooo completely hard NOT to let his cuteness cloud my decision. As I know there are cute dogs EVERYWHERE.
But what it is going to come down to is this:
IS he a dog that I cannot imagine giving up??
AM I willing to crate and rotate if it comes down to that??? Because I am WELL AWARE that these two have more potential to become dog aggressive than say, some other dog breed.
I KNOW they are puppies. And I KNOW their true temperaments and personalities won't shine through until they are mature adults. But so far, Ophie and Luke both give me what I am looking for in a dog.
Ophie has the aloofness, but lovingness, that I saw in Ella. She's going to be athletic. She's a snugglebug.
And she has the drive. She may very well be my "sporting" dog. A dog I can get into sports with.
Luke gives me what I've NEVER experienced in a dog before: COMPLETE all over body wiggles just at the sound of my voice. He rolls over onto his back just for belly rubs, and if I ask him to sit, he will, but he soon falls over just because he wiggles so much. But he's obedient. He'd do just about any command just because I asked him to (once he's taught the command). He'd make an awesome therapy dog and/or obedience dog.
I see such absolute potential in BOTH dogs.
And if I have to crate and rotate (which I do a lot of now anyway, even though it's not necessary because both dogs adore each other as of now), my house would be perfect for it because I have an upstairs and a downstairs and a door to shut off both levels.
But I have to think about if I'm willing to do that and just how fair I think it is to the dogs.
THAT is the BIGGEST decision to be made as to whether or not Luke is going to be a foster or a foster failure.
I also work from home and am home ALL DAY.

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|System: PS3, Xbox 360*
|Dev: Re-Logic
|Pub: Re-Logic, 505 Games
|Release: March 27, 2013
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
Another feature that comes as a bonus to console owners is the addition of splitscreen multiplayer (which unfortunately doesn't work for players with standard definition television sets.) This means that now you can couch co-op your Terraria experience. Of course, there's also online multiplayer, which supports up to eight players.
The more controversial addition to the console version is new content. You see, Re-Logic, the original developer, stopped supporting the PC version a while back. Now that the console port is out of Re-Logic's hands, 505 Games plans to continue adding new content to the game. This means that the console versions are most likely going to see some new content that won't end up in the PC version. And this content includes things like new armor, new weapons, new pets, and a new final boss. Oh, and now there's a new feature that draws in areas on a world map as you explore them in the game world. So it's a considerable amount of cool stuff to miss out on.
Needless to say, the basement-dwelling PC enthusiasts are thumbing their noses, punching at their keyboards to fill Terraria's forums with anger and hatred. They feel betrayed, abused, cheated.
While I understand their pain, I think this is ultimately a positive move for 505, as it adds value to the game even for those who've spent countless hours in the PC version. Sure, it's a bummer that those people have to buy a second version in order to see all the content, but it also makes that second purchase worthwhile.
The bottom line is that Terraria is immensely enjoyable. Almost endlessly so, in fact. If you haven't played it yet, you're missing out on a very clever 2D crafting/survival game that wears its retro influence on its sleeve. If you've already spent hundreds of hours in this world, there's some new stuff to see in this version of the game. Either way, it's definitely worth the 1200 Microsoft Points.
Josh Wirtanen
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Baishygashev, 2013, Kazakhstan
On the diversity at Fletcher: Prior to coming to Fletcher, I'd heard of its diversity, but I never imagined it would be so amazing. During the first month, I had the pleasure of getting acquainted with brilliant people from almost all corners of the globe. At Fletcher, I found fellow diplomats, NGO activists, teachers, businesspeople, journalists, and students from many other professions. All Fletcher students have exceptional hands-on experience, and the great desire to make a difference in the world. It was also surprising to meet students who worked in my country and, to my great admiration, fluently spoke the Kazakh language (in addition to several other tongues).
On the future: After graduation from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, I am planning to continue my career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. I believe that the knowledge and skills I obtain from Fletcher will increase my ability to understand the state of global affairs and help my country in making decisions, both domestically and internationally.
Consul, The Embassy of Kazakhstan, Doha, Qatar
The Department of Asia and Africa, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Astana, Kazakhstan
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Historic windows present challenges when it comes to mitigating the effects of UV and thermal transfer. Providing both UV and thermal barriers for historic windows is often accomplished via some ancillary attachment. Here are a few examples, with associated pros and cons:
Insulated roller shades
- Can protect against UV while still allowing natural ventilation
- Can sometimes be concealed when not drawn (doesn't always interfere with historic import)
- Not the best possbile air or thermal barrier - e.g., in winter, can still allow for condensation to form on glass
Sealed quilt or roman shade
- This refers to a heavier, well insulated interior shade mounted on tracks that forms a reasonably good air seal around the window
- A well known brand is Window Quilt (claimed R value from 4.6 to 7.1)
- Bulky, and may not appeal to some; may detract from historic import
- Better air/termal barrier than a roller shad, but might be less than adequate if both UV protection and natural ventilation are desired in summer
Exterior storm window
- Might help to further mitigate any air/moisture infiltration issues
- Newer ones are designed to be nearly invisible - don't detract from historic import
- Can be onerous to remove every spring and replace every fall
Use of exterior awnings, overhangs, or plantings (transpiration, shade)
- Natural, passive
- Can help extend the effects of existing heating/cooling mechanisms
In general, what approaches have any of you attempted, and what sort of results have you achieved? What seems to be a preferred strategy (or combination of strategies), or potential best practice solution to this problem?
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I did an audit recently for a lady that does custom window treatments. Curtains, blinds, drapes. She discussed the Hunter Douglas line of blinds that she handles. Interesting stuff. Some have an Energy Star Label, and make claims of an R-Value.
My personal preference is for Solar control outside the envelope. My professional guidance is that people have to do something and an effective interior solar control they will have installed and use is better than an approach that is not used or even installed.
Thanks very much Bill, for describing your exterior storm solution (sorry I'd neglected to reply when you first posted this a year ago). Question I have is: Do you drill weep holes in the bottom furring strip supporting the exterior storm? And if so, do you just leave them open or install small plugs and open or close when necessary? Thanks Bill!
Hi John,
I don't internet much either.
I install the bottom furring strip in pieces and usually have enough left over from the other 3 sides to piece together the bottom. This is the only time I use that funky PVC wood. I keep the holes small, so I feel like it is OK to leave them open all the time. I haven't had any call backs yet, though sometimes I wonder if it is wise to claim that exterior storms will eliminate interior condensation problems.
Thank you so much for starting this group, my overarching passion is to merge the craftsmanship still intact in many older buildings with technology and building science.
I'd also like to add to your "laundry list" a product that I have had some experience/frustration with, but ultimately hope for. http://www.solarizewindowinsulators.com/ It's dang intriguing if nothing else. I'd love to hear of other folks' experiences with the Inflector product.
It's basically a reversable interior storm window-- radiant barrier on one side, solar absorber on the other. It's brilliant in concept but I can't help thinking it looks like an overpriced NASA-designed trash bag.
My mother in law had three skylights facing south in her 1890's home-office. She loved the light, hated the heat, and wanted to save energy in the winter too. (Wow, that's a lot to ask of a hole in your ceiling). So I installed three Inflector panels. She hated the way they looked and took them out before I ever got any good data on their performance. I'm a little suspicious of their own data claims, as the product is outside the realm of a SHGC-defined window/ storm tests.
Hi Chris. Thanks very much for added this to the forum. The information and test data they provide seems rather substantial. But I agree with you -- it'd be great to hear from any one else who's installed these or a similar reflective barrier, and had had a chance to observe the results. Agree that it at least sounds good.
Here is my list of other professionally made interior air panels and interior "storms":
Downeast Interior Storms
Rendon Sabina
47 Chase Farm Rd.
Newcastle, Maine 04553
rendon at downeastinteriorstorms dot com
Eugene Mueller
Energy Wise Mfg
Advance Energy Panels (AEP)
James Levine
(800) 819-9463
AEP now has kits to make panels:
R-Plus Window Insulators
Hi John,
Thanks very much for contributing all this information. It looks like a few of the links were broken when I tried them. In particular, the "Buy AEP -Kit" button is broken on both the Windo-Therm and AEP home pages and I couldn't find any other obvious links that worked. On the other hand, if you Google "Advanced Energy Panels Kit", quite a number of third parties who resell them are listed. Also, the Window-Therm and AEP home pages (one in the same) are either http://www.windotherm.com/ or http://www.advancedenergypanels.com/, respectively, while the R-Plus Window Insulators home page now seems to be http://rpluswindows.com/.
There's a company right in Boston that makes a very nice aluminum/low-e glass spring tension interior storm that I've seen a few times, who's name just keeps on eluding me. I need to sift though some paper files to find it (never an exciting prospect), but when I do, I'll post here as well.
Thanks again, John, and hope all is going well by you!
Both interior air panels and exterior storms are now included in the National Window Preservation Standards:
Air panels:
This is great, John. Thanks very much for posting these links here...
Larson is a manufacturer with national distribution of interior and exterior storm windows. See: http://www.larsondoors.com/storm_windows/ for more information.
It is indeed a challenge to retain those historic windows, etc. but I think any contractor can remodel it maybe by adding blinds, etc. nothing is impossible now.
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LeAnn Rimes - "SPITFIRE" TASTE OF COUNTRY ALBUM REVIEW
June 19th, 2013 - via TASTE OF COUNTRY
During 'I Do Now,' a song from LeAnn Rimes' new 'Spitfire' album, the singer name-checks the Dixie Chicks. The track is a feel-good, take-my-life-back kinda song nestled between much more moody and emotional fare. The similarities between the two acts were never so apparent until she says it.
"I always did believe the Chicks / Cowboy would send me away / That ol' record makes me wanna dance," Rimes sings during a song in which she admits she listens to cheating, drinking and love songs differently these days.
Songs that are so real it's almost uncomfortable? Check. One-of-a-kind vocals and a total command of the microphone? Check. An soul-baring album that rips apart your heart? Check. Social drama leading to name-calling and abandonment by country radio? Check. Rimes isn't quite the pariah Natalie Maines and company are, but she certainly has a passionate group of haters.
Step back from what you think you know about LeAnn Rimes and you'll find a project packed with truly brilliant moments — songs that are amongst the best of her career. 'What Have I Done' leads the way with shocking rawness and honesty. "I shot an arrow in your heart that I can't take back when I said you were my first love but you're not my last," Rimes sings in this letter to ex-husband Dean Sheremet.
Later, 'Borrowed' describes the pain she carried around while current husband Eddie Cibrian remained with now ex-wife Brandi Glanville. Judge her if you wish, but don't accuse Rimes of being anything less than genuine on this and similar songs. 'Spitfire' isn't an album for fans. It's an album for the oft-crucified Rimes.
Sprinkled between the drama is the classic soulful sound Rimes has refined on recent albums. The title track begins the album like a freight train tunneling down through a mountain. Her style evokes vibrant visuals — it's a music video waiting to happen, even if it should be called 'Spit Fire' instead of 'Spitfire.'
'You Ain't Right' dives back into the same beat with a pure country farm girl lyric that doesn't seem like a natural fit at first — after all, it's difficult to imagine the L.A.-based singer raising chickens. But somehow, she pulls it off as great theater.
From a production standpoint, a few songs could be cleaner, but Rimes' vocals continue to carry each tune like Lebron James carries the Miami Heat. 'You've Ruined Me' and 'Gasoline and Matches' (with Rob Thomas) are somewhat generic. 'Bottle' is peppy, but it never pops like some others. The one cringe-worthy moment is 'Just a Girl Like You,' a song that offers a sort of mea culpa to Glanville. That boat's not gonna sail, and while it might have salved Rimes' conscience, it takes away from the more sympathetic moments.
'Spitfire' is a fascinating album, and at times one feels like a voyeur listening to it. It's like breaking into your sister's dresser drawer and finding her diary, but high-quality songwriting keeps it from resembling a childish tabloid. With everything she's been through these last few years, Rimes never stepped away from the spotlight like so many (John Mayer) do when the media turns on them. It's not a stretch to say that the music, and specifically these songs, gave her the strength continue her career at full speed.


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Why Dustin Hoffman's 'Tootsie' Confession Is More Than A Personal Epiphany
A clip of Dustin Huffman's emotionally charged recounting of a decades-ago epiphany that cross-dressing for his role in 'Tootsie' forced him to recognize how men are brainwashed to value women based on their beauty above all else recently inspired rampant, viral support. Some intrepid voices, however, were thoroughly unimpressed. Mansi Kathuria of Feminspire.com wrote, "Yesterday, I was cat-called on the streets of Chicago three times within a couple of hours, and Hillary Clinton's new haircut made several news articles. Meanwhile, millions of people continued to share and watch a video of Dustin Hoffman realizing that society has taught him to value women only for their physical appearance." Tyler Coates of Flavorwire mused, "isn't there something a little uncomfortable in the notion that it takes being transformed into an unattractive woman to force a man to think, 'Hey, I want to be taken seriously no matter how I look, too!'"
These are valid reactions to a video of a very privileged, famous, white man's discovery of an issue against which plenty of women have spent decades ardently fighting. These are reactions with which I even agree. But, these criticisms, as well as the responses embracing Hoffman as a veritable feminist activist on the basis of a few sentences, miss the bigger picture. This clip provides a model – imperfect though it admittedly is -- for how to include men in a discussion about an issue that, though it affects them and requires their involvement to be solved, is currently dominated by women. Furthermore, the fact that this clip went viral indicates that we may actually be ready to embrace such discussions fully.
The criticism of Hoffman for speaking about this issue as a privileged white man, for being lauded for restating what women have been saying for years, is certainly valid. As Tyler Coates of Flavorwire aptly noted, "When men come to great conclusions about how sexism exists (usually too late and with great amounts of self-satisfaction), they're granted hero status; when a woman does it, she's bitter, sensitive, angry, man-hating, etc." Truly, the sexism evident in our society's willingness to listen to a man speak about this issue over women is deeply problematic.
But at the same time, is it not equally if not more damaging to condemn men who try to speak about the way they are brainwashed into these beliefs, encouraging them to forever remain silent and complacent? So often -- because we do live in a sexist society that has brainwashed men into ignoring women who fail to meet unattainable beauty standards – conversations about this strand of sexism do largely occur amongst women. Whether justified or not, this can often lead men to conclude that they have been categorized as the enemy rather than invited to be allies.
And while there certainly are sexist men who individually and personally perpetuate beauty standards, the greater issue is a patriarchal social structure that permits and even encourages them to do so. Of course, individual men are not excused because of this: they obviously have free will and can choose not to objectify women -- and many men do. But to paint men as unilaterally evil, rather than our patriarchal society as evil, to criticize individual men, like Dustin Hoffman, when they do try to own up to the role they've played in this system, is missing a larger opportunity to open up the conversation, to show that female beauty standards, that a society that encourages men to behave this way, negatively impacts men as well as women, to show that women want to include men in this conversation and want to work towards a solution together.
Supporting Hoffman's comments doesn't necessarily equate to applauding a supposedly gallant defense of all womankind: sharing it supports a man who models what it looks like to join women, to own up to the way they were raised and their very real (albeit misguided) actions without feeling targeted as individuals or cast as the enemy. I think supporting Hoffman's admission models the way we should be having these conversations with men, the way men can productively participate in these conversations without resorting to unproductive self-defense and/or denial.
Yes, it's valuable to point out that there is an element of lingering sexism in the way Hoffman made this admission and the specific way it was vastly supported over other attempts to impart the same basic sentiment. But, ultimately, his admission did not occur in a vacuum – it occurred within the context of a society that does brainwash men to think this way, in a society where conversations about these beauty standards usually are relegated amongst women. So, while undeniably imperfect, let's not criticize a man who tried to speak out about his experience with a very real problem -- and let's not cast him as a feminist icon, either. Let's instead look at Hoffman's comments as a suitable starting point for a bigger conversation: a movement that includes men as allies and partners and shows that a patriarchal society that upholds unrealistic standards of beauty is a system that hurts us all.
Originally posted on HLN
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Dartmouth researchers were awarded $5.6 million during December, including $2.4 million in new and competing awards. Among the recipients of recent new and competing grants, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects:
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CURTAINS: Play brings murder-mystery to life
COLUMBIA CITY – Columbia City High School students will present a whodunit show featuring show-stopping musical numbers and suspenseful entertainment."Curtains, The Musical," is a murder-mystery storyline centering around a cast of characters presenting their stage adaptation of Robin Hood in the Wild West. The show is set to perform April 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased from any cast member or at the door.Lieutenant Frank Cioffi, played by junior Matt Swain, is ushered into the theater when the star of "Robbin' Hood of the Old West" is murdered on opening night. His investigation requires the cast to be sequestered to the theater. Among those waiting out the investigation are songwriters Aaron Fox and Georgia Hendricks, played by senior Foster Eber and junior Hannah Schaefer.Cioffi, who secretly wants to be an actor, is torn between the love of the stage and his duty to solve the murder. He forms a connection with the innocent and inexperienced understudy Niki Harris, played by senior Kirstie Crisp. Love starts to form between the two as the murder plot thickens.To read the rest of this story, see the April 20-21 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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Turners lead Texas A&M over South Carolina
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Elston Turner scored 28 points and Ray Turner 16 to help Texas A&M to a 74-56 win over South Carolina on Saturday night in the first-ever meeting between the new Southeastern Conference foes.
The Aggies trailed by two points early in the second half before using a big run to take a 46-36 lead. South Carolina couldn't get anything going on offense for the first 10 minutes after halftime en route to just over 29-percent shooting in the second half.
The victory broke a two-game skid for Texas A&M (17-12, 7-9), and was the ninth loss in 10 games for South Carolina (13-16, 3-13).
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Danish architects CEBRA have won first place in the design competition to renovate an old mineral water bottling plant into a Science Centre in Copenhagen. The original building will be redeveloped to serve as an interactive centre for science, technology and culture, housing their concept, Experimentarium, and is due for completion in 2015.
The 320,000 sq ft project will receive a generous donation from The A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation to enable its completion, and the building will have a huge green ramp which will spiral up through its floors, an exhibition hall, a rooftop exhibition space, a botanical roof garden, a flexible stage for an audience of 400 spectators, as well as accommodation for learning, innovation and research. The project is organised with great attention to crafting an extensive internal synergy that defines the dynamic and active interior.
As Experimentarium develops its educational and research platforms, the building needs to offer flexible accommodations to meet evolving programme demands. To help with this, exhibition areas can be expanded, reduced or altered without compromising flow and functionality. Rectilinear volumes made of perforated aluminium will be placed on top of one another over the walls of the building in order to turn its two floors into three. Large areas of glass are inserted into the volume's 'boxes' to provide views into and out of the building. This links the Experimentarium to the outside urban space as the staggered boxes 'push' outward to offer external views.
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Keramic Art of Japan, Pl. L. (1875) in the collection of the New York Pubic Library (Digital Image ID 495836) [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the New York Public Library and (2) mention this site.]. Chromolithographs printed by Firmin-Didot, Paris — from
Audsley, George Ashdown, and James Lord Bowes. Keramic Art of Japan.. Liverpool, For the subscribers by the authors; Londoo: Harry Sotheran, 1875.
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Pennington's one-hitter propels Punxsy to king seed
DUBOIS — Two months removed from his first collegiate baseball season, Punxsy's Braedon Pennington was nearly unhittable Thursday night during the Jefferson County American Legion playoffs.
Pennington, who will begin his sophomore year at Allegany College of Maryland this fall, allowed just one hit and an unearned run during John J. Fisher Post No. 62 of Punxsutawney's 2-1 victory over DuBois at Showers Field.
With the win, Punxsy is now the king seed. Top-seeded DuBois will have to beat Clearfield at 6 p.m. Saturday in DuBois to earn a rematch with Punxsy at 6 p.m. Sunday. One win pushes Punxsy into the regional tournament, while the DuBois-Clearfield winner will have to defeat Punxsy Sunday and Tuesday to head to regionals.
Clearfield defeated Brookville, 12-0, in five innings Thursday to reach the losers' bracket final and eliminate Brookville.
Thursday night was all about Pennington, who hardly look stressed at any point in the game. DuBois never had two runners on base at once, and it didn't score until the sixth inning, when Matt Zimmerman reached second on a two-base error by Punxsy third baseman Joe Pisano. Zimmerman moved to third on a Nate Liddle fly out and scored on a Dante DeSantis groundout.
Pennington retired six in a row after Zimmerman reached base, including two-straight strikeouts of Mario Gregorio and Derek Clark to end the game.
"Braedon, when he had to bare down in the sixth inning, he did his job. He knew he had two runs to work with," Punxsy manager Mike Dickey said. "He didn't get rattled with a guy on base in a tight game. Classic Braedon."
DeSantis, DuBois' starting pitcher, was nearly as crisp as Pennington.
Punxsy, however, began to sit on his first-pitch fastballs, and that's how it scored both runs.
After Punxsy stranded two runners in the first inning and went down in order during the second, Kyle Neal ripped the first pitch he saw over the fence in left field.
"That was a big hit. That lifted us," Dickey said. "It didn't get us rolling so much, but when Braedon's pitching with a lead, we feel pretty good."
Punxsy, which knew one run wouldn't be enough to beat DuBois, added a second run in the fourth inning. Tyler Skerkavich, who went 2-for-3, singled to lead off the fourth and moved to third after both a sacrifice bunt by Jordan Mesoraco and a groundout to second base by Ty Zimmerman.
Designated hitter Spencer Levy then lined the first pitch he saw off DeSantis, and DuBois shortstop Liddle was unable to throw out Levy in time after the ricochet. Skerkavich scored in the process to provide Punxsy with what was the game-winning run.
"That was a big at-bat," Dickey said about Levy. "We did enough to squeak out two runs, and Braedon made it stand up."
Pennington threw a complete game without walking a batter and striking out eight. DeSantis also threw all seven innings, surrendering six hits with one walk and 10 strikeouts.
"That was pretty dominating stuff (with) two good pitchers going at it," Dickey said.
"Good pitching beats good hitting, and that's what we saw tonight."
Sean Sleigh had DuBois' only hit — a single in the second inning. He also reached base on an error in the fourth inning. He was unable to advance to second base both times.
Pennington doubled, and Mesoraco singled for Punxsy's other two hits.
Punxsy wouldn't be surprised if DuBois beats Clearfield to earn a rematch at Showers Field. And since DuBois is the top seed, every game it plays will be at home.
But Punxsy has the leg up, and even if expected starting pitcher Pisano doesn't lead his team to victory over DuBois or Clearfield Sunday, Pennington should be ready to toe the rubber again Tuesday with the Jefferson County title on the line.
"We're sure we'll see them again, and JoePa's ready to go," Dickey said about Sunday's game. "If we happened to have to go to Tuesday, Braedon will be sitting and waiting. That's a big advantage for us at this point."


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Tahoe RF Semiconductor has introduced the industry's first single chip integrated dual-channel (L1 and L2 bands) GPS RFIC that provides 60 dB of dynamic range in high level interfering environments. The TRFS15011 was developed to address the use of position information in a wide variety of industrial and consumer electronic products where high level interferers may exist. Specifically, because of the impending FCC frequency allocation of the Mobile Satellite System (MSS) frequency band to terrestrial transmitters, commercial GPS receivers may need to operate in environments with high levels of interference. However, commercial GPS receivers currently do not have sufficient dynamic range to mitigate interfering signals from MSS transmitters. One possible solution is to use highly selective filters, but these filters are costly and bulky.
The TRFS15011 reaches new levels of functional integration for high dynamic range GPS receivers. It embodies high levels of integration and combines Tahoe RF Semiconductor's proprietary wireless signal integrity implementation to deliver superior interferer mitigation, lower system cost and eliminate the use of highly selective external filter solutions. The TRFS15011 is currently the only integrated solution that allows GPS receivers to operate in the presence of a high power interferer from terrestrial MSS band transmitters.
Dynamic Range and Potential Interferer from Terrestrial MSS Band Transmitters
The GPS L1 band is from 1560 to 1590 MHz. The proposed portion of the MSS band that will be used by terrestrial transmitters is 1526 to 1536 MHz. The MSS anticipated power level at the transmitter is 32 dBW. With free space path loss, the input of a GPS receiver antenna could be as high as -20 dBm. The L1 signal level difference compared to the interferer can be as much as 90 dB (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Interferer and GPS signal.
New GPS receivers need to operate in the presence of high level interfering signals. Current GPS RF receivers typically do not operate over more than 18 dB of dynamic range. The embedded filtering in most GPS RF receivers is not sufficient to suppress the interferer and typically requires highly selective external filter solutions to mitigate interference as illustrated in Figure 1.
TRFS15011 Performance
The TRFS15011 integrates high dynamic range 12-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and full receive paths for both L1 and L2 bands. The result is a fully integrated L1/L2 GPS receiver with 60 dB instantaneous dynamic range, providing significant power savings over more discrete systems. Commercial GPS receivers are hampered by low resolution ADCs, which are used in an effort to conserve power. The TRFS15011 solves this problem by including two programmable ADC modes – a low power mode with 3 bits of resolution and a high dynamic range mode with 12 bits of resolution.
Figure 2 FFT of the output with CW tone representing LTE interferer and GPS signal.
Figure 3 FFT of the output with CW tone representing LTE interferer and GPS signal.
Performance in LTE Environments
A single-tone interferer at 1555 MHz was inserted at the front-end of the TRFS15011 along with a low power GPS-like narrowband signal. The signals were down-converted and sampled with the high resolution ADC. The spectral plot of the output shown in Figure 2 represents the typical dynamic range of the TRFS15011 that can be further improved, if needed, with external filtering and baseband processing.
Of more concern is how the receiver processes wider bandwidth signals. A single-tone interferer at 1555 MHz was inserted at the front-end of the receiver along with a low power GPS-like wideband signal. The signals were down-converted and sampled with the high resolution ADC. The spectral plot of the output is shown in Figure 3. The TRFS GPS receiver has enough instantaneous dynamic range to mitigate a high level interferer signal such as the terrestrial MSS.
Figure 4 Block diagram.
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Black Bean Soup
by chefs at Pazo in Baltimore
Black Bean Soup
by chefs at Pazo in Baltimore
- 5lb. Dried Black Beans
- ½ lb. Butter
- 1 lb. Yellow Onions, diced
- ½ lb. Shallots, diced
- 2 oz. Garlic, finely chopped
- 1 Tbsp. Cayenne
- 1Tbsp. Pimenton (paprika)
- 4 Tbsp. Salt
- 4 qt. Heavy Cream
- 4 qt. Half and Half
- ¼ oz. Thyme, fresh
- 6 Bay Leaves
-Place the beans in a large pot, cover with water, and cook until soft, strain and reserve the beans for later use.
-In a separate pot melt the butter and sauté the onions, shallot and garlic until the onions are soft and translucent.
-Add the cayenne, pimenton, and salt. Cook for 2 minutes.
-Add the heavy cream, half and half, and herbs. Bring to a boil, turn down to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes.
-Remove the herbs and add the beans to the cream mixture.
-Puree in a blender and strain through a chinois.
Yields 2 ½ gallons.


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Jordan Carlos's TV show and Op-Ed piece
I did Sexytime with Jordan Carlos, Margot Leitman, and Dave Hill, on Friday night. I have to say, I'm so not a comedian and never will be, but I liked sitting on the side with all the cool kids while Heather and Brandy goofed around onstage. The crowd was kinda not that into us, though a few Happy Corp.ers came up and said hello afterward.
Anyway, wanted to direct the three readers of this forsaken blog to Jordan's recent Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post:
Casting directors can be anxious creatures. In their zeal to find the right actor for a part they often use shorthand to explain what they want. "More Chris Rock! Less Cosby!" or "Can you play it with lots of energy and attitude?" (That's code for "black it up.") Sometimes I wish they'd come right out and ask if any actors in the waiting room can break dance while spinning a chicken wing on their finger like a basketball.
Read on
Also, Jordan's new show for kids premiered tonight on Nickelodeon
And yes, I miss comedy, and I hope it misses me, but for now, too busy to go to every show in the city, but will try to get to a few shows here and there so I don't lose my mind.


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Huawei E220
Marketed by various telecommunications companies in several countries, the E220 is a 3.5G HSDPA USB modem used mainly for wireless Internet access via mobile telephony networks. Technically it is a modem, USB and (due to the CDFS format) CD-ROM device. With a kernel version older than 2.6.20, getting Linux to recognize the device as a modem and accessing its functions requires a workaround.
"Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.20 have some problems with it, as the SCSI CDROM fakevolume with drivers for Microsoft systems gets automounted by usbstorage.ko module, preventing serial device /dev/ttyUSB0 from working properly."
However, as support for it was added in 2.6.20 via modules usb-storage and usbserial, getting it to work is as simple as plugging it in and dialling up (the above statement is of no concern to us as we can load and unload modules at will, it was probably meant for pre-packaged GNU and Linux distributions). In fact, using the modem under Linux proves to be more reliable as there are no uncalled-for disconnections. This is probably due to the fact that we are communicating directly with the modem, whereas in Windows or Mac OS X drivers are installed on first run (that is what the storage portion is for) and connection is achieved through a thick software layer every time, leaving room for possible interferences and conflicts.
Plugging In
Archers do not use old stuff, let alone use old kernels. That is, however, not enough reason to explain why in some cases the modem still needs the workaround. Thus, you have to see for yourself if you are one of the lucky ones. It almost seems as if the "support" in kernels > 2.6.20 is a myth, although that may be entirely incorrect (maybe it is how Arch developers package the vanilla kernels in which case we have only phrakkkture and gang to thank).
The magic (trick) lies in the kernel modules; unloading, blacklisting, reloading and loading things will get it done.
Quick Start
After hooking up to the USB port (some say an upright position is best; let it hang over the edge of the desk), check to make sure it is detected.
$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
You should see Huawei somewhere there. If not, you are on your own. The usb-storage and/or usbserial modules must be loaded, whether manually or by HAL is up to you and/or your system.
# modprobe usb-storage # modprobe usbserial $ sleep 6 # the modem may take a while to initialize $ ls /dev/ttyUSB*
You should see three renditions of ttyUSB. If not, we will get to that later. This is a "Quick Start" after all, no? The ports:
- ttyUSB0 - Modem
- ttyUSB1 - USB?
- ttyUSB2 - Nothing
Now you need a dialler. Most convenient of all would be wvdial, so install it. You should have ppp already, if not just pull them both in.
# pacman -Sy wvdial ppp
Most SIM and data services provided together with the device do not require special settings and work with similar configuration to get connected. They are almost "Plug n' Play", a special trait of Linux. Edit /etc/wvdial.conf and use something like the following:
[Dialer hsdpa] Phone = *99***16# Username = 65 Password = user123 Stupid Mode = 1 Dial Command = ATDT Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Baud = 460800 Init2 = ATZ Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ISDN = 0 Modem Type = Analog Modem
There is an example here by a "Linux Guru". Then load the PPP module.
# modprobe ppp-generic
You can now connect immediately, but probably only as root, which is not a disadvantage.
# wvdial hsdpa
Slow Start
So why then? Well, for some reason those of us on newer kernels still have to ride the old ways. In some cases, all that is needed to be done is to remove the usb-storage module first, then load usbserial with the device IDs. The first cat command on this page will have that information, while lsusb is an alternative. Anyhow, the IDs are the same for almost all E220s, so you can copy wholesale.
# modprobe -r usb-storage # modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003
When you cannot salvage anything from this either, you have to go Gentoo and compile something. Do not worry, it is only a script and we do things like this almost everyday, albeit in bash.
$ mkdir ~/huawei-e220 && cd ~/huawei-e220 $ wget http://www.kanoistika.sk/bobovsky/archiv/umts/huaweiAktBbo.c $ gcc -o e220 *.c # ./e220
This gets around the kernel to recognize the modem functionalities of the device. You can now carry on and connect using the above methods. If you had to follow this step, you will always need the script unless you set udev rules and such (package link below). So move it to a global PATH.
$ cd ~/huawei-e220 # mv e220 /usr/bin/e220
Now it is easier.
Note: It seems some people get it to work using ttyUSB1, which should not be the case, but rest assured that at least on recent kernels and systems ttyUSB0 is the correct port to dial with.
Port Testing
To check if the device is functioning alright on a particular serial port, there is a program for probing serial devices.
# pacman -S minicom
Now run it.
# minicom -s
Change the serial port to /dev/ttyUSB1 and exit from the page, this will open the main program. When it initializes the modem, issue the command AT. The answer should be OK, which means the modem is working well on that port.
For an "automated" workaround, there is huawei-e220 in AUR.
For Vodafone brands of this device, you can use vodafone-mccd which is the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card Driver for Linux. The official name is very long, yes.


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Friday, March 19, 2010
Why criticize modern macro when you do not follow modern macro?
Richard Holt, Barkley Rosser and David Colander claim that neoclassical economics is now dead and a new era has now begun, which they call "Economics of Complexity." I think we all agree that an economy is a complex object, none the least because you have many different people interacting. Like in other sciences, we use models that are simplified abstractions of the reality in order to understand it. One could argue that one simplifies too much, but often the resulting basic intuition is enough to understand what is going on. Sometimes more complexity is necessary, and can certainly no accuse macroeconomics of shying away from complexity. The days of analytically solvable models, even representative agent models are long gone, there are frictions galore and market imperfections are frequent modeling features. But this is still done within models that are clearly of a mainstream neo-classical tradition.
So why do Holt, Rosser and Colander claim that the future economics "is a vision that sees the economy as so complicated that simple analytical models of the aggregate economy—models that can be specified in a set of analytically solvable equations—are not likely to be helpful in understanding many of the issues that economists want to address. Thus, the Walrasian neo-classical vision of a set of solvable equations capturing the full interrelationships of the economy that can be used for planning and analysis is not going to work"? While I can this in say, international trade and public economics, macroeconomics, which is the most under fire, has in fact made that step long ago.
What do they concretely see coming in economics? "Instead, we have to go into the trenches, and base our analysis on experimental and empirical data. From there we build up, using whatever analytic tools we have available. This is different from the old vision where economists mostly did the opposite of starting at the top and then built down." That is not economics they are talking about, this is statistics. Also, when talking more about theory, they say "combined, these changes can be summarized as a movement in economics from a textbook economics of rationality, selfishness, and equilibrium to a new economics of purposeful behavior, enlightened self-interest, and sustainability. What they are criticizing here is the Max U paradigm, but when you think about it, "purposeful behavior" is rationality with information problem, "enlightened self-interest" is selfishness with a some altruism, and "sustainability" is about multiple equilibria, which are common in heterogenous agent models. There is nothing new here, and such modeling features are routinely used.
Does this mean the "Economics of Complexity" of the future is already happening? Probably. It is just that Holt, Rosser and Colander have not noticed it yet, despite the fact that it has been pursed for to decades already. Consider this gem: "the thought that one could develop a micro foundation of macro without considering the feedback of the macro system on the individual is beyond belief." Did they read any macroeconomics paper published in the last twenty years?
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The same could be said about Krugman, with the difference that he has done much more damage.
- March 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Economic Logician is barking up the wrong tree. If one googles "Macrofoundations of Microeconomics" one will find a paper written by one of us, David Colander to be precise, that was published in 1994 in the Eastern Economic Journal. Looks like E.L. is the one who has not been reading the literature thoroughly enough in the last 20 years.
E.L. could also check out my 1991 _From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities_, Kluwer, or, better yet, the 2000 second edition.
BTW, anybody interested in economic logic might find my paper "On the Foundations of Mathematical Economics" of interest, available on my website at http:/cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
Barkley Rosser
- March 19, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Here is the link to the article: The Macrofoundations of Micro, EEJ 1993. No word about heterogeneous agent models in macro either, which is the point of EL I believe.
- March 19, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Agent Continuum said...
Here's a better alternative *snarf* just kidding, but I suspect some of you remember the episode: Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and the European CVAR Approach to Macroeconometrics.
HET people are supposed to be lagging, but that puts them into a disadvantage re: forecasting or making claims about the future of the profession.
- March 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM
As much as I admire Colander's work on the Economics profession and especially the status of graduate teaching, I have to admit he is way off the mark here, and that is a huge disappointment to me. A paper he should not have written.
- March 19, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Barkley Rosser said...
How or why is he "way off the mark"? BTW, anybody who goes to my website will find papers dating well back into the 90s, as well as the book I mentioned, that talk about and even do (in some cases) agent-based modeling of macro. E.L. and some of the rest of you are just out to lunch.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM
I am a little puzzled why they just don't write papers in the vein that they are talking about ("complexity"), and stop worrying about what the rest profession is doing.
My 6th grade English teacher imparted some valuable wisdom that these authors seemed to have missed. "Show, don't tell."
If Agent based models are better then build one and compare it to a DSGE model. People will listen if you are getting better results. If their method is better then eventually people will pick up on it.
- March 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM
- email@example.com said...
Are you talking about me? Go to my website. I have and do.
Sheesh. Whoever is "Economic Logician" invited me to observe his posting here, and all I can say is that it was full of ignorance, and a large number of the subsequent comments have not been much better.
What kind of a blog is this? Gag!
- March 19, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Barkley, you seem to be confusing agent-based computing with heterogeneous agent DSGE models. The first have brainless automatons that have been imparted with particular rules by the researcher. The second have optimizing agents who react to their environment. This is what is currently done in macro and you have seemingly grossly overlooked.
- March 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM
- email@example.com said...
I would suggest that you and the rest of the commenters here should get your facts straight before you make too many remarks about who is doing what or should do what. So, I have been involved in agent-based modeling where learning occurs. Good enough for you?
I would suggest that anybody who is interested go check out previews of papers about to come out at Macroeconomic Dynamics, where there is a paper up by me and Mauro Gallegati and Antonio Palestrini, which is the first example (since my 1991 bookd, but better) that models the most common form of speculative bubble crashes, namely those that peak, decline, and then crash, the "period of financial distress" model observed in the vast majorityh of major historical speculative bubbles and initially anaylyzed by my old friend Hyman Minsky, and discussed in his classic book, Manias, Panics, and Crashes, by my old friend, Charles Kindleberger.
- March 19, 2010 at 5:48 PM
we are not disputing the fact that there are agent-based models and that they may be useful. What we are criticizing is that your paper paints a picture of macro that is plain wrong. There is a rich literature with heterogeneous agent DSGE models that you completely ignore while writing that macro is only using representative agent models.
- March 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM
cat fight!
- March 19, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Isn't Colander a macroeconomist? Shouldn't he know the literature enough to figure this out?
- March 19, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- email@example.com said...
Have had trouble posting here from my home computer.
You guys are badly misrepresenting things. There have been het agent DSGE models around, but not for "decades" or even from before the Colander EEJ paper. Many, such as Krusill-Smith, are just homog rat agent with a distribution being dragged along. No interactions among agents beyond the GE calculation. I will grant that current models have more bells and whistles.
So, there is an emerging competition in the research shops of the central banks between ACE and DSGE, with neither having done well on the recent events. However, Kansan is wrong that ACE models have "automatons." Many ACE models have learning, such as my forthcoming one in MD.
I would also dispute E.L.'s contention that using empirically research as bases for agent behavior in ACE is "just statistics." This is silliness in the extreme.
I am aware that there is the possibilitiy of a sort of synethesis. An example of this might recent work out of CeNDEF by Hommes and crew. These guys are doing ACE models, but they have taken to having them move off a benchmark of a DSGE model. That is rather interesting, but in the end it is an ACE approach that is going on.
- March 21, 2010 at 1:33 AM
I see Colander is an author on this paper as well as on the one that generated a similar outrage in the blog linked by Agent Continuum. Colander was also heading the publication committee of the American Economic Association that decided on launching the American Economic Journals. His misunderstanding of macroeconomics may explain why the editorial board of AEJ-Macro was staffed and why this journal has had such difficulties attracting papers, at least compared to the others.
- March 21, 2010 at 4:58 AM
Krusell-Smith has heterogeneous agents, but in a form that can be summarized by a moment or two, which allows to use some methods used by representative agent models.
But models without such restrictions to the distribution have existed in the early 90's already. See the work of Ayiagari, Huggett, Rios-Rull, Imhrohoroglu, among others. Some have been published after Colander's 1993 piece, but that does not excuse that you current knowledge about this class of models should be updated.
- March 21, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Barkley Rosser said...
The heavies on the pub committee of the AEA were Bob Hall and Peter Diamond, not Colander. The macro journal changed editors, from Blanchard to Davis. I do not think that is the fault of any of those three.
Frankly, I see almost zero citations to any papers in any of the AEJs. My current take on that project is that it is a miserable flop, although that could change.
I do not see much in the way of serious interactions between agents in any of the papers you are talking about, Huggett, Aiyagari, or Krusell-Smith. In all of them, there are distributions of agents, but the aggregation problem shown by Jerison and publicized by Kirman is not addressed, and they are all subject to it. Just garbage. Furthermore, Huggett and Aiyagari are not full GE papers. They are incomplete markets papers. Maybe it is "you knowledge" of these models that needs some fixing.
I would say that there have been some papers in the last few years that are moving the direction of incorporating such elements, with the one I mentioned from last year by (my former coauthor) Cars Hommes and Domenico Massano being a good example. We did not make all the generalizations in the paper that some here think we did, but I am perfectly willing to accept that some of these should probably have been noted, although I would continue to maintain that this one is more of an ACE one that is connected to a DSGE benchmark, which is one way to go.
I note that in E.L.'s original post he scarfs over and simply gets wrong what we (and anyone who knows the lit on this) means by "complexity." It is not just "complicated" or having lots of agents, and it is most certainly not at all about "frictions," although as a practical matter for macro we see the ACE-type models as the obvious complexity competitor with the DSGE ones. The discussion of what complexity is draws mostly on my work, which is readily available.
BTW, I notice that not only is "Econmic Logician" ultimately anonymous, but he or she encourages those commenting here to use phoney monikers. This seems to encourage a particularly nasty and insulting tone that is reminiscent of the nauseating and embarrassing econjobrumors blog. It is all the more annoying when those leveling all kinds of insults make flaming errors in their remarks.
- March 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Economic Logician said...
Wow, it had to be on a superb week-end like the last one that a passionate discussion erupted. I missed all the fun.
I see the point that complexity is agent interaction and not heterogeneity. But you need heterogeneity to get interaction. And you get this, in the class of DSGE models, with the myriads of search models out there. Also, one could argue that agents do not need one-on-one interaction to actually feel the impact of others, after all there is a price system that does that. And let us not forget all the models with bargaining.
And you can have general equilibrium under incomplete markets, of course. It is just harder, as you need to specify all markets.
All in all, I still think you grossly misrepresented the macroeconomics literature by pretending it was still only working with representative agent models.
- March 22, 2010 at 4:03 AM
- email@example.com said...
Economic Logician,
Ah, so you were off and not following all this. I note that I am usually accused of providing too many citations in my papers, and that coauthors tend to reign me in. The section of the paper that had you most upset was rather short, and as I have agreed above, probably some of the recent papers could have been mentioned, although I continue to be unimpressed by the ones from the 1990s that some of your folks think are suitable examples.
I would note that there is a definitional matter here as well. Once one starts introducing lots of frictions and incomplete markets and so on, one is arguably not in a strict general equilibrium mode, although one is certainly in a contingent one. There is also the matter that once one abandons ratex for adaptex, one is no longer in a position to claim that one is not subject to the Lucas Critique, which was the supposed original reason for going the DSGE route. As it is, I consider the ratex assumption in particular to be the worst part about the DSGE models, at least the ones that use it.
I can't resist making a more humorous poke at Agent Continuum, presumably a strong defender of the view that such assumptions constitute serious use of het agents in DSGE models. So, a continuum is an uncountable infinity, but such can have no weight, as the Cantor set has a continuum of members, but Lebesgue measure zero, which seems appropriate for "Agent Continuum," :-).
- March 22, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Why would an economy with frictions and incomplete markets, yet balanced markets for all goods, not be general equilibrium? General equilibrium is not necessarily "perfect."
- March 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Barkley Rosser said...
If you had read carefully what I wrote, you would have noticed that I put modifiers into what I wrote that somehow you seem to have overlooked.
BTW, it is ludicrous to claim that people responding to prices is an example of a macro foundation of micro. This is the rank nonsense.
- March 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM
relax. Debating is part of the scientific process. This is what we are doing here. And, don't you appreciate it that for once it is about research and not some politics?
- March 29, 2010 at 7:26 AM
before spreading false rumors on other forums, the comment you claim EL censored is on the Social Security thread. Keep track of where you post...
- March 30, 2010 at 4:31 AM
- Barkley Rosser said...
Sorry Alabama, you are full of shit. What is on the social security thread is not what I attempted to post that did not appear. Now maybe there was a technical glitch that is responsible, but given E.L.'s dishonorable record of third rate trolling, I would not put it past him to censor my post here.
As it is, I wonder how it is that you presume to know what has been posted and what has not? And why do all of you follow E.L in a lockjaw lockstep, even referring to yourselves as "we" and repeating his most inane assertions?
Frankly, I suspect that at least some of you, if not the whole lot, are sock puppets of E.L. I offer all of you the opportunity to prove to me that you are not sock puppets by communicating with me privately at firstname.lastname@example.com your identity, preferably with a link to proof that you are who you say you are. I offer the same I offered E.L. on this matter, complete anonymity.
If I see at least two of you (E.L could fake one) who are real people, I shall apologize here for making the accusation. But the conduct of this blog is so poor and E.L.'s public reputation so low that I will not be surprised if I do not hear from any of you supposedly real people.
- March 31, 2010 at 2:05 PM
A 62-year-old economist starting a flame on a blog! Talk about "low public reputation"...
- April 4, 2010 at 3:04 AM
I came late to this post. I must say that it has disappointed me. I thought EL knew what he was talking about.
"I see the point that complexity is agent interaction and not heterogeneity."
So, you didn't know that??
"But you need heterogeneity to get interaction."
No, actually you don't.
"And you get this, in the class of DSGE models, with the myriads of search models out there. Also, one could argue that agents do not need one-on-one interaction to actually feel the impact of others, after all there is a price system that does that."
And your point is?
- August 20, 2010 at 2:21 PM
- Christos Koulovatianos said...
I find resistance to the overall idea of agent-based modeling as being potentially constructive. One problem that I and others into dynamic games have is the replacement of explicit forward-lookingness of players by rule-of-thumb heuristics in agent-based models.
Think about a city with driverless cars, like the scientific project indicated here:
At the moment it is true that such a city of driverless cars driven by robots would result in more accidents than those driven by humans, i.e. human error is lower than error due to poor driving modeling.
Yes, it is a fact that cars in the world of human drivers are driven through human heuristics as opposed to the trillions of calculations made by robots. But does this mean that the project of driverless cars should seek heuristics in order to be more successful?
Moreover, research done to simplify a complex system, always within the spirit of scientific reductionism is potentially more promising, at least in terms of usefulness through policy prescription.
But open-minded we should always be.
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The first webpage was served off a NeXTcube at CERN, Switzerland, developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He also wrote the first web browser, confusingly named WorldWideWeb - the world of web browsers has come a long way since then, more or less turning into a platform of their own. This puts increasing pressure on web browsers to be really really good pieces of software, and as such, ZDnet has a 7-page comparison of the world's major web browsers, comparing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
ZDnet used the iBench and SunSpider benchmark suites; the former tests performance of HTML, XML, and JavaScript, while the latter deals solely with JavaScript. The suites were loaded off local webservers, to Windows Vista SP1 and Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard machines. The conclusions are clear:
Overall, and taking the performance of the beta versions into consideration, the browser performance rankings are as follows: Firefox and Safari in a clear lead ahead of Opera and finally Internet Explorer. Firefox 3, due in June, promises very good performance and efficient memory usage. No browser used less memory to open multiple sites than the Beta 5 version of Firefox 3, and only a few sites failed to display correctly. Safari and Opera, however, are more likely to exhibit incompatibilities.
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Westboro Baptist Church and their cretin of a minister, Fred Phelps are being sued by the father of a marine who died in Iraq after they picketed his son's funeral.
Some nights Albert Snyder wakes up at 3 a.m. Other nights he doesn't sleep at all, tormented by thoughts of the hateful signs carried by a fundamentalist church outside his Marine son's funeral.
"Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
"You're Going to Hell."
and "Semper Fi Fags."
Now, more than four years after his son died in a Humvee accident in Iraq, Snyder's legal battle is headed to the Supreme Court. And his tireless efforts have drawn support from across the country, including a wave of donations after he was ordered to pay the church's court costs — a $16,500 judgment that the congregation plans to use for more protests.
Donations have come from people of all political and religious persuasion including Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly who pledged to pay the entire $16,510. I have to give Bill O' an atta boy on this one.
While I am pretty sure the SCOTUS will uphold the church's right to free speech – more the pity, I admire Mr. Snyder's courage and tenacity for taking on that slime of a church and their pastor of hate.
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Living Here Survey
EVMS recently conducted a "Living Here" survey of current Faculty, Residents, Staff and Students to find out where they Live in Hampton Roads, why they live there and information on commuting to EVMS. Here are highlights from the results.
In what city do you live?
Average Commuting Time
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|2-20 minutes
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|20-40 minutes
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What do you like about your city?
I live in the West Ghent area. It is a thriving community with great local eateries, shopping, and activities. It is easy to access all interstates and best of all, the traffic is minimal.
~EVMS Faculty Member
Near the Tide Easy access to school, food, mall, freeways, and downtown. Great school district for daughter. Proximity to school. In addition to the above neighborhood is quiet and safe.
~ EVMS Student
Virginia Beach
Good schools, nice laid back community, values education, more diverse socio-economic and racial groups. Lifestyle, the beach has a younger healthier feel. Both old and young running, biking, rollerblading on beach or boardwalk. Great restaurants. Newer construction. Access to many forms of entertainment and culture. Safe environment.
~EVMS Faculty
The neighborhood we moved to had the best public schools for our daughter and it has a strong civic league, walking distant to state park and the Chesapeake Bay. There is many things to do and see here and diversity.
~ EVMS Staff
Affordability, close to family, live on the water, accessible to all major interstates and attractions and centrally located in Hampton Roads. Cost of living, safety of neighborhoods and community, accessibility to various attractions, quiet peaceful surroundings.
~ EVMS Staff
Chesapeake is the safest city and I'm just on the other side of the midtown tunnel from school. Where I live offers quick access to interstates and is a midpoint for all seven cities for internships.
~ EVMS Student
Cost was a large factor for me, and Portsmouth was a lot cheaper than other cities. The tunnel traffic makes the short commute take longer than expected. I like Olde Towne.
~ EVMS Student
It has a small town feel to it, but it's kind of centrally located to everything. Portsmouth is not too far away from the beach, Downtown Norfolk, the peninsula or the country. I like taking the ferry across the Elizabeth River to go to events in Town Point Park.
~EVMS Resident
Suburban living with easy access to city life. Access to western parts of the state without having to use a tunnel. Also, cost of living.
~EVMS Faculty
It's away from the hustle and bustle of Norfolk and Virginia Beach (far less traffic), but close enough to enjoy the offerings of those cities when I choose to do so.
~EVMS Staff
Nice, safe neighborhood. Proximity to things/services I utilize. Lower housing costs.
~ EVMS Student
Born and raised in Hampton, love the city and its accessibility to other areas. Cost of living, good schools, neighborhoods, access to work.
~EVMS Staff
Newport News
Centrally located between Williamsburg and the southside. Everything is no more than a 30-60 minute drive. Residential feel. Don't like the "city feel" of Norfolk.
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- M.A.T. & Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Germany
Research and Teaching
The author of a book on the Satires of Horace, Professor Knorr has also published articles on the comedies of Terence, Plautus, the Odes and Satires of Horace, and on the anti-heretic writings of two Greek church fathers, John of Damascus and Epiphanius of Salamis. He is currently working on a book that discusses Terence as an innovator of Roman comedy. Smaller projects include papers focusing on Catiline's first and rather inauspicious encounter with Cicero and on one of Martial's Epigrams.
At Willamette, he teaches Greek and Latin classes as well as courses in English translation on Greek and Roman epic poetry, ancient theater, Roman women, and a College Colloquium (first-year seminar) on ancient Greece and Rome in modern film. In addition, he serves as the Director of the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (CASA) and is the Chair of an interdisciplinary program in Comparative Literature and the History of Ideas. He is also a former Program Coordinator of the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Professor Knorr joined the Willamette faculty in 2001, after teaching at Georg August University in Göttingen (Germany), the University of California Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University.
- Verborgene Kunst: Argumentationsstruktur und Buchaufbau in den Satiren des Horaz [Hidden Art: The Argumentative Structure and Book Composition of Horace's Satires, in German], Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2004 (Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 15). Pp. 277, ISBN 3-487-12539-0.
- "Terence's Hecyra: Farce or Failure?" in: Antonios Augoustakis and Ariana Traill, eds. A Companion to Terence. 295-317. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013 (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, 103)
- "Terence: Heautontimorumenos." The Literary Encyclopedia. 27 December 2012 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13479]
- "Morbus Campanus in Horace, Satires 1.5.62," Classical Quarterly 62.2 (2012) 869-873.
- "Plautus, Mostellaria 213: Another anus ebria?" Mnemosyne 63 (2010) 450-53.
- "Theatralisches Spektakel und Metatheater in der Andria und Hecyra des Terenz" [Theatrical Spectacle and Metatheater in Terence's Andria and Hecyra, in German], Gymnasium, 115.5 (2008) 435-451. pdf download
- "Metatheatrical Humor in the Comedies of Terence," in Terentius Poeta, eds. Peter Kruschwitz et al., Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2007 (Zetemata, 127), 167-174. pdf download
- "Horace's Ship Ode (C. 1.14) in Context: A Metaphorical Love Triangle," Transactions of the American Philological Association 136.1 (2006) 51-71.
- "Three Orators and a Flawed Argument (Hor. Sat. 1.10.27-30)," The Classical Journal 100.4 (2005) 393-400. pdf download
- "Die Parallelüberlieferung zum Panarion des Epiphanius von Salamis. Textkritische Anmerkungen zur Neuausgabe" [The Parallel Transmission of Epiphanius of Salamis' Panarion: Critical Notes on its Text on the Occasion of the New Edition, in German], Wiener Studien 112 (1999) 113-127. pdf download
- "Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Liber de haeresibus des Johannes von Damaskus (um 650 - vor 754): Anmerkungen zur Edition B. Kotters" [On the History of the Textual Transmission of the Liber de haeresibus of John of Damascus (ca. 650- before 754): Notes on the Edition of B. Kotter, in German], Byzantinische Zeitschrift 91 (1998) 59-69. pdf download
- "The Character of Bacchis in Terence's Heautontimorumenos," American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 221-233. pdf download


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"Marriage, whose nature and purposes are established by God, can only be the union of a man and a woman and must remain such in law."
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The debate over same-sex marriage has been in the news nonstop, which means it's also on the minds of your students and catechists. And the controversy is not confined to courtrooms and homosexual couples - it has implications for society as a whole.
Questions are sure to come up. Any discussion of same-sex marriage requires great care, however, because of the potential for alienation and persecution. What the Church Teaches: Same-Sex Marriage helps you talk about this timely topic with respect and compassion. Our Sunday Visitor's timely pamphlet puts the controversy in scriptural context, answering the toughest questions with the Church's faith-based perspective. It goes beyond to issue a call for action, encouraging married couples and all Catholics to defend marriage and live as a loving example of divine law.
Some of your students and catechists may find same-sex marriage a particularly difficult issue. Many likely know and care for someone - a family member, friend, co-worker, neighbor - who lives a lifestyle contrary to Church teaching. Offer them sound yet sensitive guidance with What the Church Teaches: Same-Sex Marriage.
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Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Summary, Explanation, & Defense by W. May, R. Lawler, & J. Boyle
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Catechism of the Catholic Church on Marriage
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Vatican: Familiaris Consortio (On the Family)
Vatican: Gaudium et Spes (On the Church in the Modern World)
Vatican: Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons
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This is just to say thanks with your help and patience, I am now running puppy 2.1 on a recordable dvd and it is excellant, but I still need to get my printer working with memory measured in nanoseconds I do need a printer, if someone will handwalk me through the installation I will be ever so grateful.
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I have just loaded 2.12 on a DVD-R and a CD-R and the both work ok, but when I loaded it onto a CD-RW it stopped loading, this happened twice, as I said it works fine on the DVD-R, is there a reason for this or have I done something wrong?
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No, it's not you. Multisession is not as robust on CD as it is on DVD, and CD-RW is the most flakey of all. Be happy that it works for you on CD-R.
For the record, Puppy has always worked for me on multisession DVD+RW and DVD-RW. I only tried it once on CD-RW and I don't remember that it worked.
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Thanks your reply has given my confidence a boost, as a person who although I thoroughly enjoy it computing does not come naturally I find my way round by trial and error.
There are many problems to me and some of them seem to silly to ask about, for instance with the printing, if it had not been for the walking through that pakt did for me I would have given up on Linux.
Along with many others I think if the forum had section not only for beginners but for any thickos like myself that would explain in detail how to do simple jobs eg copying any files from one puppy to the next upgrade.
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Unfortunately for those of us who'd prefer a more sedate pace, Puppy is "rocketing ahead," as raffy put it
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Flash wrote:
Here's a neat trick you can use if you have a DVD burner and a DVD+ or -RW:
Download the Puppy iso in Windows, if that's all you have. Use whatever burning program you have in Windows to burn a bootable DVD of the iso. Then boot the DVD+/-RW, mount the Windows partition where you put the Puppy iso and use burniso2cd to burn it on the same DVD+/-RW. No need to blank the DVD first, just overburn it. I've done this several times, with both DVD+ and -RW. I believe there are technical reasons why +RW is better than -RW if you're going to do it, but both have worked for me. I've never tried multisession Puppy on CD-RW but I think you must erase it first.
How did you "in Windows to burn a bootable DVD of the iso"? - I've got Nero 6 and it says it cannot use the DVD to burn this type of image (iso).
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I use DVD Decrypter in Windows to burn a DVD-RW or CD-RW
(I don't use DVD-R nor CD-R)
No problems, always got a good burn.
See: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/DVD_Decrypter/1011845169/1
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TimH: due to the limitations of most Windows-based burning programs, you may have to do it in two steps. Most Windows-based burning programs will burn a bootable CD, so first burn a Puppy CD of the iso, then boot the Puppy CD, mount the Windows partition where the iso resides and use burniso2cd in Puppy to burn the DVD. A CD-RW works fine, if you have one. Good luck.
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I downloaded BURNCDCC in windows from TeraByte unlimited and copied puppy linux to a DVD-R without a problem.
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Subject description: Cant burn multisession CD-R 2.16
Hi to all, Im new to Linux and Puppy and Im trying to burn a multisession 2.16. I boot up from a Puppy CD and go into "burniso2cd" put the CD-R in the DVD buner (Panasonic 112d ) as I proceed it askes me to "choose the iso file". I dont know what to do at that point so I dont choose anything and just follow the rest of the steps. It looks like everything is going ok but at the end it says burn could not be varified,you should start over?. I tried it a few times and the same thing happens. Is their something I should be choosing when asked about the iso. I thought that would automatically come from the Puppy 2.16 I was copying from? Any help would be appreciated.
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I don't mean to bring a thread back from the dead, but I like this thread.
A couple of questions:
1. Why is a DVD better than a CD-RW?
2. Why is it fool-proof to burn the ISO in Puppy Linux than inside Windows?
Does it have something to do with assembly language, the way the laser touches the disk, and so forth? Something about sectors and tracks? I'm curious as to the mechanical, electrical, and programmatic differences.
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Inuyasha wrote:
I don't mean to bring a thread back from the dead, but I like this thread.
A couple of questions:
1. Why is a DVD better than a CD-RW?
First, multisession seems to work much more reliably on a DVD, possibly because the DVD specification included multisession capability from the start. Second, a DVD holds more data, is physically more rugged (the data layer is sandwitched in the middle instead of being on the back of the disk, protected only by a thin layer of lacquer) and the data transfer rate is probably a bit higher, than a CD.
2. Why is it fool-proof to burn the ISO in Puppy Linux than inside Windows?
I don't know. Maybe the Windows program doesn't do it very well because Puppy is one of the few uses for multisession DVD. Until Puppy came along, the multisession specification was a solution looking for a problem. Nobody knew what to do with it.
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Nanex Research has been at the forefront of discovering market abuses, particularly in the area of high-frequency trading. For instance, the Chicago-based firm was the first to make public the fact that certain economic releases, like the University of Michigan\'s consumer sentiment survey, were getting out early.
Now the firm is saying last Wednesday's decision by the Federal Open Markets Committee not to taper its bond purchases was leaked.
Why? Nanex founder Eric Hunsader said in a blog post late Friday that stock and futures trading activity surged the same millisecond that the Fed\'s decision was officially released in Washington, even though it takes 2 milliseconds for the data to travel from Washington D.C. to New York, and 7 milliseconds to travel from Washington to Chicago.
A millisecond is 1/1000th of a second. It takes between 300 and 400 milliseconds for a human being to blink their eye. High-frequency traders using computer algorithms can complete thousands of trades in that time.
Hunsader also claims, trading activity in stocks — traded in New York — and futures — traded in Chicago — surged at the exact same time, with no delay, despite the distances between the cities.
But what Hunsader discounts is that the Fed, unlike the Labor Department or Commerce Department, does not have a \"hard\" switch turning on and off outside access to accredited media outlets (including MarketWatch) who receive the FOMC statement on embargo.
While that\'s not how MarketWatch operates, a news outlet could conceivably upload the information to a server outside of Washington during the embargo — so long as the outlet didn\'t release the news early. And there\'s no evidence so far that any media outlet did release the FOMC statement early.
A spokesman from the Federal Reserve was not able to immediately answer questions about the topic.
That doesn\'t make it impossible, as Hunsader speculated, that the Fed\'s decision was \"leaked to, or known by, a large Wall Street firm who made the decision to pre-program their trading machines in both New York and Chicago.\" But it\'s certainly plausible — and not physically impossible — that a firm legitimately subscribing to an algorithmic trading feed executed trades at the proper time.
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I trying to see how far back I can go I am Thomas w. Allen Jr. born 4-7-54, my father is Thomas w. Allen born 1932, in Aliquippa Pa. . His Father was William (Buck) Allen also from Aliqippa (at one time an airforce fighter pilot). He was married to Eleanor Raffle (my grand mother) then later about 1953 remarried to Jean. His father was William S. Allen worked in a tin factory originally from Virginia. Was Married to Elsie Scnelling from Germany. The Story I have next is William S. Allens father was a blacksmith for the confederacy during the civil war. Oh ya William S.Allen had another son David and a daughter Edith. Thats where I am now could use some help can't pick out what family crest is mine English, Irish, or Scottish till I can go alittle futher. My father told his great grand father the blacksmith was so big his wife had to sew two shirts together to make one that would fit and he was so strong he could hold his anvil straight out in front of him with his arms extended. Any help is appreciated.
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They used to say you lost a game for every freshman you started, but that game has changed.
Did you see UCLA's Brett Hundley on Saturday?
"Did he even look like a freshman?" senior receiver Joseph Fauria asked.
The nerve of these kids playing today.
Hundley is technically a redshirt freshman, which meant he was around campus last year to hold a clipboard.
UCLA has a new head coach and offensive coordinator, however, so Hundley really was starting from scratch.
Hundley was simply brilliant in Saturday's 38-28 victory over USC at the Rose Bowl, outplaying Trojans senior quarterback Matt Barkley in every way, shape and form.
"Money throws, hard throws, critical throws," UCLA Coach Jim Mora said of his freshman.
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In the decades since, big wave riding has evolved tremendously with superior surfboards, better-conditioned athletes and personal watercraft that started towing surfers into mountainous waves. Holding a towrope and already foot-strapped and standing, surfers were being whipped by jet skis into waves once thought too big to paddle into. The last decade saw a quantum leap in monster-size waves being ridden at places like Cortes Bank, (an underwater mountain peak 100 miles out to sea off Point Loma that can easily handle 75-foot waves) and Mavericks near Half Moon Bay.
Lessons learned from a few years of tow-ins on these giant waves started motivating a select group of surfers to pursue a more purist form of surfing, using only their paddling strength to launch into these behemoth swells. Emboldened surfers have, of late, been successfully catching and riding monster waves, which, five years ago, were accessed strictly by tow-ins.
Derek Dunfee is one of these big wave-riding purists. The 30-year-old professional surfer grew up at Windansea Beach and still lives there today. He developed a taste for thick, powerful waves riding the reefs of La Jolla and then tackling the giant surf off the Isla de Todos Santos near Ensenada. He first surfed at Half Moon Bay's Mavericks in November 2004.
A winter break off Pillar Point near the village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, Mavericks was named in 1961 after a surfer's German shepherd that routinely followed his master into the break. A quarter-mile offshore, the wave doesn't even begin to break unless the swells are solidly over 10 feet and the location can easily hold waves with 40-foot-plus faces.
The water is cold, and the wave rises up and pitches out with incredible power delivering major punishment to the surfer who doesn't successfully make the elevator drop-in. Brutal underwater hold-downs are guaranteed after a wipe out and giant rocks await if one is swept inside. Two world-class big wave riders — Mark Foo and Sion Milosky — have died after wiping out and drowning at Mavericks.
"I thought Mavericks was the scariest wave I had ever seen," recalls Dunfee about his first time paddling out. He paid some heavy dues there and in other big-wave locations culminating in a Billabong XXL Monster Paddle Award in 2009 for a beast of a wave he caught and rode at Mavericks.
On Jan. 20, the Mavericks Invitational big wave-riding competition was held for the first time since 2010, during which a rogue wave unexpectedly rolled far onshore, knocking down and injuring dozens of spectators who were swept along the steep cliff beach by a flood of water.
Dunfee was selected as an alternate to compete in this year's event. It's a prestigious honor to be invited, and though a spot didn't open up for him during the contest, he was on hand to tackle the waves before and after the event.
"I rode a 10-foot Stu Kenson-shaped board and the conditions were perfect, although very inconsistent," he said.
The waves were in the 12- to 15-foot range, with sunny skies and a light wind. The beach was closed for spectators after the wave carnage of 2010, but a nearby festival was held in Princeton with a live, big-screen feed being aired for the thousands who showed up to watch the spectacle, and to watch 43-year-old Mavericks veteran Peter Mel win this year's event.
"Peter Mel is one of the best Mavericks surfers ever," Dunfee said afterward. "He still catches huge waves every swell and he deserved the win."
Dunfee is now waiting for the last few big swells of the winter at home in La Jolla, and he hopes to score some size at Isla de Todos Santos, as well. He is an alternate at Waimea Bay's annual The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau big-wave competition on Oahu's North Shore. Known as "The Eddie," the prestigious event is held only when the waves are consistently in the 20- to 25-foot range.
In the meantime, Dunfee watches the weather charts, studies the swell forecasts and takes out a Pat Curren-shaped big wave board for some rides at the local La Jolla reefs when the surf gets big enough. Curren — father of surfing icon Tom Curren and a big wave-riding pioneer in the 1950s — cut his teeth on the punchy waves off La Jolla, much like Dunfee, who is proud to be part of the new generation of committed big wave surfers, pushing the edge of skill to new limits and loving every minute of it.