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Posted March 8, 2002; 03:03 p.m.
A series of organ concerts honoring the work of Charles Marie Widor is planned for Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, at the University Chapel . "Widor -- Beyond the Toccata" will begin with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday. Performances and a lecture on Saturday will run from 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Featured organists will include David Messineo, principal University organist; Daniel Roth, titular of St. Sulpice in Paris; Gordon Turk of Ocean Grove Auditorium in Ocean Grove, N.J.; and Johannes Unger, winner of the St. Albans International Organ Festival competition. The lecture will be given by John Near, author of the 10-volume work, "Symphonies for Organ by Charles Marie Widor," and professor of music at Principia College in Illinois.
The event is sponsored by the chapel music office and will mark the recent reopening of the Mander/Skinner Organ. First installed in 1928, the organ had been sealed off since a chapel restoration project began in February 2000.
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Occupy Portland is a nonviolent movement for accountability in the United States government. At 12PM on October 6th, 2011 we will assemble at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, North Waterfront Park and Ankeny Plaza, at The Pavilion in Portland, OR where Saturday Market touches the river, just south of the Burnside Bridge. If you are coming from the MAX, get off at Skidmore fountain and walk east to the Waterfront. We will be near the fountain.
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Born in Decatur, IIlinois, Richard Peck has written over 18 novels for young readers. He is the winner of the 1990 Margaret A. Edwards Award, a prestigious award sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association in cooperation with School Library Journal; the 1990 National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young adult literature; and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.
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Weather Underground is proud to announce a grant project meant to bring gardening to schools! Have you school apply today!
By: gardeneducator , 7:18 PM GMT on December 22, 2011
As part of Weather Underground's ever-growing garden section, we plan on handing out a new weather station and starter garden kit to a deserving K-12 school once per month.
Here is how it will work:
1) If a student, educator, or administrator feels their school is deserving of a new weather station, capable of uploading weather information to our vast Personal Weather Station network, along with a gardening starter kit, then all they have to do is send an email to email@example.com with the following:
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c) Teacher or administrator will be responsible for the gardening project. We need a contact information so we can follow up on the project. It would also be nice to have someone to speak to in case the school has questions about how to set up the weather station.
2) At the beginning of each month, we will take all of the applicants and choose the most deserving to receive the weather station and gardening kit. A school must re-apply each month, and no one school can win a weather station and gardening kit twice within a two year span.
3) The winning school is then asked to maintain a blog on the Weather Underground site, updating the online community of its progress in creating a vibrant garden and monitoring the weather conditions in their local community. Of course, Weather Underground will help set this blog up.
We thought to create this grant program because Weather Underground feels a curriculum that includes the maintenance of a garden is a very important trait children can carry in their adult lives. The ability to sustain oneself on the food he or she grows on her own is a vital tool in solving climate change. Today's modern civilization has afforded all of us luxuries such as the ability to buy food grown thousands of miles from our homes. Unfortunately, that food comes with a carbon footprint that is directly proportional to the distance traveled to your dinner table. So, if we teach children how to grow their own food in a backyard or community garden, the carbon footprint of both the food and the community as a whole will go down drastically. In fact, growing one's own food is one of the biggest ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Not only that, growing your own, organic, food is healthier than buying food from a grocery store of mysterious origin.
So, help us spread the word. Heck, it isn't costing your school anything but some time and a few dirty hands!
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Sunday, July 1 through Sept. 2, 2012, 1 p.m. · Graduate College, Cleveland Tower
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The University's 20th annual Summer Carillon Series, featuring carillonneurs from around the United States and abroad, will be held at 1 p.m. each Sunday from July 1 through Sept. 2 at Cleveland Tower on the Graduate College campus.
The concerts are performed on the University's renowned Class of 1892 Bells, the fifth largest carillon in the country and one of the top 10 in size worldwide.
The following are details on the dates and performers:
- July 1: Jeff Davis, California
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There are two ways to look at an IT as a service model: as a well-intentioned but jargon and bureaucracy filled worldview or as a fully integrated, engaged and involved part of the company's operations. You can guess which one we recommend, and it seems the 409 respondents to our InformationWeek 2013 Service-Oriented IT Survey agree.
Fully 83% say making IT more service-oriented, where IT at the larger organization is consumed, priced, evaluated and paid for on a service level, rather than on an overall technology architecture or capital asset level-the dreaded cost center model is either a reality now (51%) or on the drawing board (32%). Other data points:
62% collect regularly scheduled (at least once per year) service-level feedback from customers, up five points from our 2011 survey.
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 141, April 17, 1998
Storage Upgrade for Yukon Users
As announced in newsletter #139, ARSC is upgrading its storage environment. The upgrade will occur in phases, with the first taking place in a couple of weeks, concurrent with the cut-over from denali to chilkoot. Watch news items for the exact date.
Following the cut-over:
- CRL will be accessed from chilkoot rather than denali.
- Two new file systems will be cross-mounted between yukon, chilkoot, and the ARSC network of SGI visualization hosts. They are:
- /viztmp: 14GB;
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- files over 10-days old purged;
- exported to yukon and ARSC SGIs.
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MPI provides a set of functions which perform collective communications between processor groups. This includes the following functions.
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- Global communication functions such as broadcast and gather/scatter of data across processor sets.
- Global reduction operations which perform gather/scatters and an operation.
Sometimes it is asked, why are all these routines needed, since everything can be done with send and recv? Perhaps the simplest answer is that these frequently used data movement operations can be tailored to particular systems communication topologies, memory, or other hardware features and like many other libraries are tested to ensure correct behavior. This provides the user with both correct code and higher performance.
For example consider a simple broadcast operation. In the code below the broadcast operation is hand-coded using a simple serial send and recv, and this is compared with a call to MPI_BCAST which results in the same data transfer.
program prog1 implicit none include 'mpif.h' ! information for local and global conditions. integer mype integer totpes integer mproc ! general mpi error flag integer ierr integer istatus(MPI_STATUS_SIZE) ! dataspaces integer, allocatable, dimension(:) :: ia,ib integer isize integer i,is,ip integer ndata,itag,mrproc !timing integer isrtc,ifrtc,isbtc,ifbtc ! setup mpi call MPI_INIT(ierr) call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, mype, ierr) call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD, totpes, ierr) write(6,*) ' mype is ',mype,' of total ',totpes call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) mproc=0 isize=1 do i=1,20 ! setup data for testing allocate (ia(isize)) allocate (ib(isize)) do is=1,isize ia(is)=i ib(is)=i enddo ! broadcast using send/recv call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) isrtc=irtc() if(mype.eq.mproc) then ndata=isize itag=i do ip=0,totpes-1 if(ip.ne.mproc) then call MPI_SEND(ia,ndata,MPI_INTEGER,ip,itag, $ MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) endif enddo else ndata=isize itag=i mrproc=mproc call MPI_RECV(ia,ndata,MPI_INTEGER,mrproc,itag, $ MPI_COMM_WORLD,istatus,ierr) endif call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) ifrtc=irtc() ! broadcast using broadcast call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) isbtc=irtc() call MPI_BCAST(ib,isize,MPI_INTEGER,mproc, $ MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) call MPI_BARRIER(MPI_COMM_WORLD,ierr) ifbtc=irtc() ! report timing if(mype.eq.mproc) then write(6,*) ' send/recv ',isize,' took ', $ ifrtc-isrtc,ifbtc-isbtc,ia(isize),ib(isize) write(6,*) $ totpes,isize,ifrtc-isrtc,ifbtc-isbtc endif write(10+mype,*) ia(isize),ib(isize) !increase size isize=isize*2 deallocate(ia) deallocate(ib) enddo call MPI_FINALIZE(ierr) end
Note that, for both versions, the processor which hosts the data is identified as mproc and the data is distributed to arrays of the same name on all the processors. The routine MPI_BCAST is called on all processors. If one of the processors in the communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD does not call MPI_BCAST the code will deadlock.
By using MPI_BCAST in one line, the code has done what took tens of lines in user code with MPI_SEND/RECV.
Also the user has coded the broadcast operation so that the master sends data to each slave. The master's linear progression through the other PEs is clearly visualized in the VAMPIR graph shown.
VAMPIR Graph (click on image for larger view)
(For details on VAMPIR see newsletter 129: /arsc/support/news/t3enews/t3enews129/index.xml .)
A simple optimization here is to use a store and forward mechanism whereby each slave may send data to other slaves to reduce the reliance on one processor. However the user would have to reconsider the algorithm with each change of architecture or even for different data sizes. (A simple store forward algorithm takes nearly 100 lines of code.)
By using MPI_BCAST it is hoped that the vendor or supplier of the MPI library will do this work for us! In fact Cray MPI_BCAST uses an unbalanced tree algorithm to broadcast the message when the group is MPI_COMM_WORLD.
Below are some data transfer times comparing a simple hand-code send/recv and MPI_BCAST, where,
N: Number of integers broadcast. s/r: Indicates send/recv bcast: Indicates MPI_BCAST 4 PEs 16 PEs 32 PEs N s/r bcast s/r bcast s/r bcast ------- ---------- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- 1 19157 14170 100203 24761 217539 31113 32 211910 91972 843725 166380 1721043 210290 1024 614992 282801 2446954 539433 4793081 677011 524288 78409833 55263055 375497958 110121727 772674099 137610295
A graph of the full data set, which shows an interesting stair-step pattern (discussed below), is shown:
MPI_CAST vs Send/Recv (click on image for larger view)
For both the serial send/recv and MPI_BCAST, the time taken increases both with the number of processors and the number of data items being broadcast. For the simple serial send this is linear with processor number, for the MPI_BCAST the stepped structure comes from the use of a tree structure. The data is sent to a few processors first which then send data to other processors which repeat this process until all processors have received the data. The time taken is determined by the number of levels and the steps in the performance curve occur when the addition of one processor causes the next level to be occupied. As more processors are involved the width of the tree at the base level increases.
In conclusion MPI_BCAST is faster than a simple sequential send/recv, the performance advantage being greater the more processors are involved.
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Interestingly it is the same percentage as Republicans that haven't slept with someone that worked for them or that they meet in an airport bathroom.
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That isn't going to stop them from trying.
The netroots, however difficult to define, is nothing if not forward-looking. Sure, you can find plenty of angry denunciations of conservative blowhards, repetitious declarations of ideology, and over-analyses of the latest campaign micro-cycle story. But much of the energy in the online liberal organizing community has always gone toward practical action — to affect upcoming elections, pending legislation, and the landscape of American politics. Perhaps that's just the change-oriented nature of progressives.
It was true at the first Netroots Nation conference six years ago (then called YearlyKos), in Las Vegas. While reporters like me were asking everyone the Big Questions about the netroots and trying to turn bloggers into media celebrities, most of the attendees were talking about how to get a progressive elected in their home district and how to get Democrats to stand stronger on key issues.
Today, as roughly 1000 members of the online grassroots progressive community prepares to gather in Providence for Netroots Nation 2012, much of the focus is on this year's elections, both national and local.
That requires a certain amount of swallowing their idealism. At last year's Netroots Nation, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer was booed for defending Obama's centrism on a variety of issues (most particularly same-sex marriage).
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Indonesian police suspended their investigation into a defamation complaint against human rights activist Haris Azhar. An investigation is currently underway into his allegations linking security and law enforcement officials to drug-trafficking.
George Ramzi Nakhla, a member of the "6 April Youth" protest movement, was released on 25 March 2012 after being detained and beaten by Egyptian security forces.
Syrian student Suhaib al-Ammar was released without charge on 10 January 2012, following his arrest by Syrian Air Force Intelligence officials on 18 November 2011.
A Maldivian activist who was attacked and detained on 10 December 2011 for organizing a peaceful protest calling for religious tolerance was released on 6 January. His attackers remain at large.


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Photos: 1969 Lamborghini Miura P400S 'SV Specification'
Los Angeles may be a town best viewed from a distance, but you'll have little time to take in the sight of the sprawling metropolis below while tackling Mulholland. The road offers up 21 miles of constricting two-lane that courses along the spines of the hills that split Van Nuys and Hollywood. Made famous by deadly and very illegal street racing in the '80s, the road remains one the best driving challenges in LA. Daytime sees a flood of motorcyclists and bicyclists take to the hills, and local police love nothing more than to sit and wait for visitors to exercise their right to stupidity.
Top Gear did the Blue Ridge Parkway a massive favor by bashing the route for its 45-mph speed limit in Season 16. As a result, the 469-mile path from Northern Virginia to East Tennessee has largely been left alone by the poser crowd. Tackling the parkway from top to bottom is an exercise in endurance, not just for you, but your machine. With vast leaps and drops in altitude, complex decreasing-radius turns, and sections that remain miles from the closest help, the Parkway can be hell on metal. Drop off any of the Parkway's numerous side roads and prepare to plummet down forgotten threads of tumbling asphalt that course to the low country below.
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TUPELO – One Lee County children's home is committed to remaining a group home after Department of Human Services policy changes have forced others to close their doors or repurpose their facilities.
Since the 2008 court order following Olivia Y., et al v. State of Mississippi, group homes have seen far fewer children referred by the Mississippi Department of Human Services but Faith Haven has an advantage.
The ruling requires DHS to place children in the order of first, placement with relatives, then placement in a foster home in the child's community, then foster home placement outside the child's community and then finally group home placement.
Since it takes time to arrange placement with relatives or in foster care, the emergency shelter is able to step in an serve the children in the interim.
"The last few years the DHS has really been going into the new policies and we did experience a lower number of children but the need is still there and we are planning to stay open," said Safe Haven Director Katherine McKee. "We have explored some other options but the need seems to be the greatest for shelter care. Right now that's our plan – to remain open as an emergency shelter."
McKee said the shelter served a lower number of children in fall moths but 16 children came through the home in December and 15 in January.
"They try to place (the child) immediately in foster homes without coming to the shelter and it has impacted us in that way, but sometimes they don't have homes available," she said. "They may call several homes during the first night but this gives them time to look at their foster families and place the child where it might be the best place for them."
In 2012, Faith Haven housed a total of 99 children from all over the state.
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Since most children who come to the home only recently came into DHS custody, the Faith Haven staff often takes them for their initial medical, dental and vision screenings.
Jerry Clayton, director of Tupelo's Alpha House for boys, which recently announced its March closing, donated lots of furniture from the Alpha House to Faith Haven. The newly donated furniture and entertainment systems were being put to good use by Faith Haven residents this week.
McKee said the home is always accepting gifts, financial or otherwise. The shelter can be supported through the United Way of Northeast Mississippi.
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We are getting a new AT AT
next year
I hope they make another big playset vehicle
jabba sail barge, little larger scale jawa sandcrawler or the Battle Droid carrier from TPM
We are getting a new AT AT
next year
I hope they make another big playset vehicle
jabba sail barge, little larger scale jawa sandcrawler or the Battle Droid carrier from TPM
All the characters from the Star Wars films needs to be made into figures especially Luke Snowspeeder pilot (new head without cap), Wedge Snowspeeder pilot and the rest of the X-Wings, Snowspeeders, Y-Wings and B-Wings pilots! Biggs Darklighter as X-Wing, all the Jedis and all the Skiff and Sail Barge Guards all needed improvement and movie accurate!
Playset: Death Star or Jabba's Palace or a full blown Cantina!!!!
Big vehicle: super star destroyer (as big as they can do it) or jabba's sail barge or medical frigate
One way to out think people is to make them think you think they'll think what you are not really trying to get them to think what you think.
I would vote Sail Barge as well.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Redo: A new upsized Slave I and a new upsized Outrider.
New: LAAT/c and Jabba's Sailbarge.
[FONT=Courier New]"First of all, never bad mouth synergy..."[/FONT]
Slicker's Mom. She'd be HUGE!
That's my jacket!
I think the best choice would be the Sail Barge, but as Hasbro has said, that's probably not a great choice. I'd like to see the Twilight, but I dunno how well that would do, either. I don't think they absolutely have to make a new giant vehicle each year, even though I love the ones they've done so far.
Got a question for Hasbro? Ask it here!
My Photos and Reviews: SSG Toy Guide
My Star Wars Fan Film: The Lazy Jedi
Ok, what about a souped up tricked out speeder? Like one of the sports types Annakin jacks in Episode II? Or an updated Swoop bike? I suppose another podracer might be cool. I'm all about the speed. . Or does a bordok count? They're kinda vehicular.
"Dengar Ewoks!"
Darn... I forgot about the Twilight. I want one of those, too as well as a Nu Class/Republic Attack Shuttle.
[FONT=Courier New]"First of all, never bad mouth synergy..."[/FONT]
The only large scale vehicles I'm really interested in are:
New Slave I
New Sandcrawler
and maybe the Republic Attack Shuttle
As far as play sets go, well according to a Q&A response posted today, don't expect to see them for a loooooong time. If ever.
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
Thanks to TheDarthVader, Phantom-like Menace, TheRealDubya, Jediguy, Dark Marble, Umbra, Qui-Long Gone, CrunchyNug, GH_fan and jedikiss.


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What to Expect From Fed Today
The Federal Reserve's policy committee wraps up its latest two-day conclave today and a roadmap is in order.
The meeting comes after several weeks of high drama in the markets sparked by the Fed's attempts to explain how and when it might pull back from its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program, and confusing investors in the process. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's challenge: Lay the groundwork for pulling the program back later in the year without alarming the markets with a sense that the central bank is about to slam on brakes.
Let's take this step by step:
The Policy Statement: The Federal Reserve's policy making committee releases its official statement at 2 p.m. today. The Fed appears unlikely to announce any immediate changes in its policies. But what it says about the economy, risks to the outlook and its strategy for the bond-buying program could send important clues about the future. Here are a few to look for:
–Does the Fed insert any signals in its statement about when it expects to make its first reduction in bond buying? Mr. Bernanke told Congress last month that the Fed could reduce the pace of its monthly purchases "in the next few meetings," and he stressed that such a move is entirely conditional on how the economy performs. If the Fed policy committee wants to send the same message, it would most likely do so in the fourth paragraph of its statement. The committee has made changes — which have been poorly understood by outsiders — in this paragraph after both its March and April/May meetings to signal its evolving thinking on the bond-buying program. If officials want to clarify their intentions, they could use this paragraph of the statement to do so.
–Watch what the Fed says in the statement about the labor market. The Fed has said it will keep buying bonds until the labor market has "improved substantially." In May, the Fed said the labor market had shown "some improvement in recent months." If today's statement strikes a rosier view on job market improvement that could signal officials believe a first step toward reducing the program is getting closer.
–Likewise, look for any changes to how the Fed describes its economic outlook in the second paragraph of its statement. The language the Fed has used to describe risks to the economic outlook have evolved, for instance. In December, the Fed said "strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook." At the next meeting in January, Fed officials said that "strains in global financial markets have eased somewhat" but they continued "to see downside risks to the economic outlook." In March, financial strains disappeared and the Fed said simply that it "continues to see downside risks to the economic outlook." The Fed stuck with that simpler sentence in May. Are downside risks still their dominant worry?
–Keep an eye out for any changes in the penultimate paragraph where the Fed discusses its plans for short-term interest rates. According to market indicators and analysts, investors have conflated talk about reducing bond purchases — which are meant to shape long-term interest rates — with the Fed's intentions about short-term rates. All of the "tapering" talk led investors to think that the Fed could raise short-term rates sooner than expected. Fed officials see these as two different levers and want to set investors straight that a reduction in bond-buying does necessarily not imply earlier rate increases. They're already being pretty explicit with the so-called forward guidance, saying rates will remain near zero until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5%, as long as inflation remains in check. They could look for ways to emphasize the point in their statement, though it seems like a point Mr. Bernanke could take up in his press conference. (See below.)
More In Fed
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- Economists React: 'An Opportunistic Federal Reserve Raises Rates'
- Parsing the Fed: How the March Statement Changed from February
- February Jobs Report - The Numbers
- Parsing the Fed: How the February Statement Changed from December
- What Does Donald Trump's Election Mean For the Fed? WSJ Pro Explains
Economic Projections: Also out at 2 p.m. are updated projections on growth, inflation and unemployment from the FOMC members, which they release four times a year. What Fed officials say about the economy in these projections should provide insight into what they expect to do with the bond-buying program. Right now, the Fed's growth forecasts are more optimistic than private analysts' forecasts. Its inflation forecast for 2013 is also starting to look a little high. Officials might make some tweaks lower on both counts for 2013, but they aren't likely to make any big changes until they see more data. It's also possible that they have become more optimistic for 2014, given the economy's resilience in the face of fiscal headwinds. But on that count too, they are likely to want more data before shifting their outlook.
Press Conference: At 2:30 p.m. Mr. Bernanke steps up to the microphones for a press conference. He is likely to use his opening statement to emphasize that the Fed's decision on reducing bond purchases depends on the data showing solid, sustainable economic improvement. In other words, he will try to refute the notion plaguing investors that the Fed has decided to dial down the program no matter what the economy does. Mr. Bernanke is also expected to stress that the Fed's decision-making on bonds has nothing to do with short-term interest rates. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. analyst Michael Feroli said Mr. Bernanke will avoid talking about the timing of any reduction in the program but rather stress that "tapering is not tightening, and that decisions regarding asset purchases are subject to different conditions than those regarding forward rate guidance."
Reporters are also likely to press Mr. Bernanke about his future plans after President Barack Obama said in an interview Monday that the Fed chief "has already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to."
Despite all of the anticipation about today's meeting, the Fed's views have been taking shape and becoming more clear over several months.
In March, the Fed made the first hint that the economy might be doing well enough for the central bank to pull back on the bond-buying program when it added — in the fourth paragraph — that decisions about the pace, size and composition of bond purchases would take into account "the extent of progress toward its economic objectives." Until then, the Fed had only said it would weigh the likely costs and benefits of purchases.
In its May 1 policy statement, the Fed for the first time said it was "prepared to increase or reduce the pace of its purchases" depending on economic data. While it at first was seen as a sign the Fed might feel the need to boost its purchases beyond $85 billion per month, it soon emerged that the Fed meant this to describe its overall strategy for what to do once it decided to dial back the program. It would do so gradually, but not necessarily steadily – a reduction at one meeting did not guarantee a reduction at the next, and the Fed reserved the right to increase the amount of bonds it was buying upward again if the economy showed signs of weakening.
Mr. Bernanke told Congress May 22 that if the Fed continues to see improvement in the economy and if that recovery appeared sustainable, "then we could in the next few meetings … take a step down in our pace of purchases."
Markets reacted strongly and negatively, largely ignoring the fact that Mr. Bernanke was tying "next few meetings" explicitly to the economic data, not guaranteeing that the Fed was going to shut off the stimulus spigot before the end of the year. Adding to investor anxiety, that same day minutes released from the Fed's May policy meeting showed some Fed officials were prepared to start pulling back on the program as early as its June meeting, though again there were a lot of caveats to that happening.
After the June jobs report, in which the unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 7.6% because more people started looking for work, the Journal reported that the Fed was likely to signal at its next meeting (the one that concludes today) it was still likely to start pulling back from the bond program later this year, as long as the economy kept its footing.


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It's not unreasonable that the Jedi should be answerable to the military since they are generals and commanders in that military during this war. I understand that the Jedi want to handle matters like that themselves, but honestly there should have always been some consideration of transparency once they joined with the Republic military.
I found this an adequately enjoyable episode, but there were a couple frustrations that held me back from loving it. The first is how inept both sides of the Republic trial were, the fasttracking of this trial was ludicrous, and then Padme forgot to actually gather any evidence to present, so Anakin's running around doing everything and nobody is presenting what he's gathering because of a phony ticking clock. This issue really suggests to me that this arc should have been a minimum one episode longer, and probably should have had more of its elements sprinkled throughout the season.
The second issue is much smaller, Barriss Offee is the traitor we knew her to be, Anakin busts her and she whips out the Ventress sabers, Anakin gives her guff about keeping them and then she says she feels they SUIT HER! What the hell? She's fighting for the honor and integrity of the Jedi Order, she's killing people to ensure that the Jedi don't fall further into the hands of the Sith (her methods may be wrong, but her message turns out to be very true, as we learn in Ep 3), yet Ventress' evil red twin Dooku-like sabers somehow suit this Jedi all of a sudden? That was so stupid I actually groaned... loudly. That's just a dumb line though.
One thing I think was lost was the resonance on the Jedi council of Ahoska's choice, that's a moment I think that should have been held and examined, and if it doesn't resonate then I think that has to be addressed as well. But overall the final moments where the music swells and the imagery gets much more dramatic and creative, that hit hard. We didn't get nearly enough from Obi-Wan or Plo Koon throughout this episode.
Over the last 5 years, I've predicted Ahsoka might be drummed out of the order or would leave the order in disgust rather than be killed, turns out both were right. This is the ending Lucas and Filoni mapped out back when this started. Does that make this the end of the series? I don't think so, I think there have been enough rumblings to make a season 6 likely, but if that doesn't come to pass then that's ok too as I have no idea how they could address this ending anyway.
I hated Tim Curry as Palpatine, I know they had to scramble but he wasn't right at all, he sounded nothing like the character and every time his voice came out of Palpatine's mouth it looked and sounded and felt wrong. Keep in mind, Ian Abercrombie's performance was mimicking Ian McDiarmid's performance, so it wouldn't have been disrespectful to have another person in that place do the work.
Seeing the younglings and Pietro, all I could think was "you're all going to be dead at Anakin's hand in a few months" which bummed me out.
I doubt if the series continues that she is gone, but perhaps she will follow Ventress' lead and try to find her way on Coruscant without her order and that we'll watch her become a civilian struggling to be something else than a Jedi.
I liked the Jedi guards, but I don't think their outfits are entirely new designs, I think we've seen them before in another medium.


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Highlights of riding with a bike trailer so far:
* giggles when we go over a bump
* "weeeeee" when we go down a short fast bank
* "pedal faster, daddy!"
I've made a couple of short trips with the trailer, to my parents house. We can get there using off-road bike routes and quiet roads, so it's a pleasure to do. I'm hampered slightly by the fact the bike is far too small for me, and way heavier than I'm used to, but there's only one really steep hill round here (which I could get up easily, though I do have a nice bruise on my knee where it hit the handlebars).
My wife took our eldest daughter to the Dolphin Centre using the trailer. This is a journey which really shows up the gaps in the bike-path network. To get from our house to the town centre, by any route, is not possible to do legally without riding at some point on a dangerous bit of main road. Highlights include getting under the railway bridge on North Road if taking that route or pretty much all of Haughton Road if going that way. Where bike facilities are available they are often hard to get to; just how does someone heading into town on Haughton Road get onto the bike path which begins at Albert Road?
So, a law or two may have been broken in getting from our house to town, although it would have be a very hard-hearted police officer who ignored the Home Office advice to only act against irresponsible/reckless/anti-social cycling on pavements and issue a fixed penalty notice to a woman pulling a three-year-old in a trailer.
Some positive part of the the journey into town included the new crossing over the ring road from Russell Street, the patient bus drivers who waited while my wife rode on Tubwell Row and The Dolphin Centre for allowing the trailer to be stored in the room they use for storing pushchairs.
The car goes in 1 week!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Bike trailer works a treat
2 comments:
- An Inconvenient Truth said...
Well done, you two. I've just been shopping on my bike, and realised on the way back that a trailer could have come in handy there as well.
- 11:44 am, April 07, 2007
- Web said...
Non-motorized recreational bike trails are wonderful; however, to make cycling a legitimate transportation option for the community as a whole, it is critical that leaders develop safe cycling facilities throughout a community as well as practices that reduce the risk of motorists hitting cyclists (such as the campaign for a 20 mph speed limit in Darlington).
Best wishes on your campaign.
Larry Lagarde
Urging bicycling for recreation, commuting, health and a better future.
- 8:51 pm, April 08, 2007
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Posted November 23, 2009; 05:15 p.m.
Spanish author Javier Marias will read from his work in an event set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, in 101 McCormick Hall.
Marias also will discuss his work in a conversation with Angel Lourerio, professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, and Michael Wood, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Marias, born in Madrid in 1951, published his first novel, "The Dominions of the Wolf," at age 17 after running away to Paris. In 1997, his novel "A Heart So White" became a bestseller in Europe.
The event is sponsored by the Spencer Trask Lecture Fund of the University Public Lecture Series and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures.