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Thank You, Holy Father
4/1/2013Columbia staff
In the eight years of his pontificate, Benedict XVI guided his flock as a gentle shepherd. He offered a wealth of teaching, and each of his many initiatives, apostolic journeys, reforms and canonizations carried a profound significance. A comprehensive assessment of Benedict's lasting impression on the Church would fill volumes. In the photos and timeline that follow, we simply share some of our memories of Benedict and highlight various ways that he influenced the Knights of Columbus.
Benedict XVI was a preeminent teacher who understood well the office of the pope as a visible sign of unity. Ever focused on the truth of Jesus Christ, he made significant gestures toward strengthening authentic Christian unity, interreligious dialogue, and emphasis on the continuity of the Church's teaching and liturgical traditions. He wrote only three encyclical letters during his pontificate, including Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), which spoke directly about the Order's first principle: charity. Instead of formal documents, the Holy Father's catechesis usually took the form of homilies and Wednesday audiences, in which he systematically discussed foundational topics such as Christian prayer. In this way, as well as through remarkable academic lectures, informal reflections and his trilogy of books on Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict left the Church with a great treasury of wisdom to ponder for generations to come.
Nonetheless, this wisdom was not intended for the annals of history or the halls of academia. Benedict recognized that "the word of God is alive and active" (Heb 4:12) and that the Christian faith is a reality to be lived, not merely believed or understood. To help the Church communicate this living faith more effectively, he presided at various synods of bishops, established the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization and proclaimed the Year of Faith, which we are currently observing. Having consulted at the Second Vatican Council and having worked closely with his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, Benedict took seriously the relationship between the universal call to holiness and the need for a new evangelization.
Benedict also presented the Church with many models of faith by canonizing 45 saints during his pontificate, including holy men and women who lived in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico and Poland. Among them was St. Rafael Guízar Valencia, a bishop of Mexico and member of the Knights. In 2008, Benedict also approved a decree recognizing the heroic virtue of the Order's founder, Father Michael J. McGivney, conferring upon him the distinction of "Venerable Servant of God."
Additionally, Benedict followed John Paul II's precedent and made numerous pastoral visits to Catholics around the world, despite the fact that, at age 78, he was the oldest person to be elected pope in nearly three centuries. In all, Benedict made 24 trips outside of Italy during the eight years of his pontificate. Among those of greatest significance to the Knights were his visits to Poland (2006), the United States (2008), and Mexico and Cuba (2012), as well as World Youth Day events in Cologne, Sydney and Madrid. Even when he was unable to travel, the Holy Father was often present in spirit, sending personal messages via delegates (as with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's presence at the 125th Supreme Convention) or satellite messages (as with the International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec and the beatification of martyrs in Mexico City).
In various ways, Benedict addressed the growing challenges facing the Catholic Church throughout the world, from the often-violent persecution of Christians in areas like the Middle East and Asia to the marginalizing and dehumanizing influence of secularism and the culture of death in the West. Addressing a group of U.S. bishops during their ad limina visit, Benedict noted "the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness" in the United States and emphasized "the need for an engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity … with the courage to counter a reductive secularism…." In solidarity with the Holy Father, the Knights of Columbus embraced this call to faithful witness.
On Feb. 28, as the sun set on his pontificate, Benedict delivered his parting words to a crowd gathered outside the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo. "I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth," he said. "I feel greatly supported by your kindness. Let us go forward with the Lord for the good of the Church and the world. Thank you." As we fondly remember Benedict's humble presence and lifetime of service to the Church, our hearts too are filled with gratitude.


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The complex offers 53,000 square feet of amenities for sports-oriented families, including batting cages, golf simulators, cheerleading competition spring floor, sporting goods store, a homework/study area with Internet connection and a video arcade and vending area, and more.
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EVP of Sports Development, Brandon Smith, will oversee the professional instruction and has recruited former major league baseball players from teams such as the Braves, Astros, Pirates, A's, and the Mets. Individuals can receive one-on-one training with certified batting, cheerleading, soccer, and weight trainers. In addition to instruction, leadership development programs, designed to improve players, parents' and coach's performance, will also be available and include programs such as Team Building, Teen Leadership, Parenting your Athlete, Team Management/Coaching, Decision-Making and Time Management.
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SAN JOSE — They play the fewest minutes of anyone on the ice, but what a hard-hitting fourth line does with those minutes can set the tone for an entire game.
"I definitely think if we're playing in their end and have the momentum, it transfers over to other guys," said Andrew Desjardins, the Sharks' fourth-line center currently slotted between Raffi Torres and Mike Brown. "It's obviously a positive thing when we're going that way."
That way?
"All three of us," Brown said, "know that we're going to be running and searching and getting on the forecheck and pucks to the net — and play that simple game."
Some of that was code for the willingness to hit anyone wearing a Los Angeles Kings jersey, something that helped the Sharks skate off with a 6-3 victory in their series opener. And more of the same is likely when the teams meet Sunday night in Game 2.
Torres may not stay on the fourth line too long as coach Todd McLellan waits to see how the forward's sore knee holds up under playoff pressure before a possible move up the depth chart and the additional ice time that comes with it.
But Torres is well aware of the fourth line's playoff value based on his experience with the Edmonton Oilers in 2006 and the Vancouver Canucks in 2010.
"I've never won a Stanley Cup but I've been to the finals twice and the teams that have won, you could tell it's not two or three guys," Torres said. "It's six D, four lines, great goaltending and obviously solid coaching. Those years that I've gone pretty deep, everybody was a part of it, everybody stuck their hand in the water at some point to help out."
As general manager Doug Wilson was preparing for this year's trade deadline, he envisioned his team having a fourth line of Desjardins, Brown and Adam Burish, with Torres elsewhere in the lineup.
But when Burish broke his hand March 25 blocking a shot in Edmonton and Torres needed more time for the pain to go down in his surgically repaired knee, McLellan decided the fourth line would be a good starting point to see how Torres would do.
If anything, the presence of Torres only magnifies what Wilson was looking for from his team's fourth line back in January: "Energy, bite, penalty kill, speed."
The line did all that in Game 1 against a Los Angeles team that led the NHL in hits last season and has a physical fourth line of its own in Kyle Clifford, Trevor Lewis and Jordan Nolan. Though the 8:42 that Torres spent on the ice was less than any other Shark, he led the team with seven hits and chipped in a second-period goal.
San Jose's bottom two lines have been a sticking point in the past, and the Shark see their current roster having better depth. McLellan noted Saturday that it has been a "focus organizationally to try to get deeper in those areas and be able to match up against other teams, regardless of how they play, whether it's a physical game, a skill game."
Players on the current fourth line took different paths to the same place.
Desjardins, 27, was undrafted and worked his way up from the Laredo Bucks of the Central Hockey League. In the 2011 playoffs against the Vancouver Canucks, he took the job away from veteran Scott Nichol.
Torres, 31, arrived at the 2013 trade deadline from the Phoenix Coyotes and made an immediate impact before last spring's playoff suspension and knee injury this fall. After Torres was hurt, Brown, 28, was acquired from the Edmonton Oilers for his grit and willingness to drop the gloves.
The is only the second time Brown, whose wife gave birth to their second son on Wednesday, has reached the playoff in eight NHL seasons. Fights may be a postseason rarity, but he still relishes his role as an agitator.
"It's just like bowling. Strike's better than a spare," he said after knocking Kings defenseman Slava Voynov into his own goaltender, Jonathan Quick, in Game 1.
McLellan liked what he saw from Brown in his first playoff game as a Shark.
"He and that line played to their strengths — straight forward, straight lines with a forecheck mentality," the coach said. "They were responsible defensively, so after 60 minutes we liked their game and his game in particular."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.


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Die Pfefferkörner is a successful German crime series for kids. In all seasons it's about a group of friends, who begin to investigate in crimes around the Hamburg harbor. In the first three seasons the stars of the show were Fiete (Julian Paeth), Natascha (Vijessna Ferkic), Jana (Anna-Lena Herzog), Cem (Ihsan Ay) and Fiete's younger sister Vivi (Aglaja Brix). In the middle of season three, Vivi becomes the lead of the show and introduced new characters to the show. Paul (Lukas Decker), Panda (Tim Patrick Chan), Katja (Jana Fomenko) and Johanna (Carlotta Cornehl) were the new team along with Vivi. But the couldn't hold the success the series had begin with and after four season the show got canceled.
In 2007, two new seasons of the show were ordered. Two years after they canceled the show official. From the old cast members was no one more board. The new team insists Lily (Laura Gabriel), Karol (Moritz Glaser), Yeliz (Mira Lieb), Laurenz (Tim Tiedemann) and Laurenz' little sister Marie (Nina Flynn).
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May 19, 2008
MACON, Ga. - The 30th Atlantic Sun Baseball Championship Presented by Progress Energy returns to Melching Field at Conrad Park, on the campus of Stetson University, for the seventh consecutive May. Fans can catch all the action on ASun.TV.
The Hatters secured their berth in the field on the final weekend of the season and earned the fifth seed. The Championship will be without its defending champion, Jacksonville, which lost out on a tie-breaker with Campbell, as well as the regular-season champion, Florida Gulf Coast, which can not compete due to NCAA reclassifying rules.
Lipscomb will make their second-ever appearance at the A-Sun Championship (2007) and will enter as the top seed after posting a 19-14 mark in conference play. The Bisons seek their first Championship game win as they went 0-2 last year as the sixth seed.
Brandon McClurg leads the staff after posting a 6-5 mark with a sparkling 2.70 ERA, third in the A-Sun with a conference-best .230 opponent's batting average. He hurled a no-hitter against Kennesaw State on March 29, the first in the league since Florida Atlantic's Mickey Storey no-hit Campbell in 2006.
For the third-consecutive A-Sun Championship, Mercer owns the two seed. In both 2006 and 2007, the Bears failed to reach championship Saturday, winning just once in 2006 and falling one game short in 2007. In has been nine years since the second seed has captured the title. Jacksonville defeated Troy in 1999 representing the only time in the 12-year history of the current six-team, double-elimination format that the second seed has won the title. The Bears will look to ride the right arm of Dan April. He enters the week with a sparkling 2.47 ERA, lowest among those competing for the championship as well an opponent's batting average of just .235, third best in the conference.
At the 2007 A-Sun Championship, the Belmont Bruins fell one win shy of winning their first championship. They return to the scene this year as the third seed with a pair of two of the top two-way players in the conference.
Junior Carlo Testa tied for second in wins with six and ranked seventh in strikeouts with 64 while hitting .389 with an A-Sun-best seven triples. Freshman Nate Woods went 5-2 with a 3.66 ERA, sixth in the conference, while slugging six home runs, second on the team. Against A-Sun foes, he went undefeated in seven appearances, winning all five starts while sporting a 3.19 ERA.
Entering the final weekend of A-Sun play, no seeds for the championship had been clinched and only three teams had even secured a berth.
Gardner-Webb locked up its spot with a win in its penultimate contest. Stetson sewed up the fifth seed by rallying from a five-run deficit to defeat ETSU leaving just the sixth seed in doubt. Campbell trailed Jacksonville by two games entering the weekend but after taking its first two against Lipscomb, the Camels learned they were destined for DeLand after Kennesaw State completed a sweep of the Dolphins.
The Dolphins fate rested on winning their final game and Campbell losing its finale against Lipscomb to make the field. Kennesaw State led Jacksonville 8-3 after the top of the sixth inning before a rain delay hit the Jacksonville area. When the game resumed, the Dolphins cut the lead to 8-6 and put runners a second and third with two out in the ninth but failed to capitalize.


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Bing may never turn a profit
Microsoft has been trying to compete in the search market with its Bing engine and hasn't been doing well. Google is still the runaway king of search and Microsoft is showing little signs of offering up meaningful competition.
Microsoft is taking a beating with Bing, and CNN reports that the search engine is losing Microsoft almost a billion dollars per quarter. Since Bing launched in the summer of 2009, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on the service and the losses are flowing faster than ever today.
Not all of the losses can be blamed on Bing though. Apparently, Microsoft has never made money on its search offerings. Since it embarked into search arena, the total mount thrown away amounts to $9 billion.
Bing has 14.7% of the search market and is proud to proclaim it is gaining on Google and has taken share from the search giant. CNN, however, points out that the gain Bing has made in the search market is in fact not coming from Google, but third place Yahoo. Since Bing launched, Google has lost market share slightly from 65% at Bing's debut to 64.8% today.
Half of the gains Bing has made came from Yahoo according to CNN and the rest of the gains came from Ask.com and AOL.
Microsoft is looking to build its market share with partnerships for search with Facebook and with Nokia. Microsoft and Nokia are tying up for a big push into the smartphone market with Nokia being a premiere Windows Phone 7 partner.


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What is Registered Apprenticeship?
The Registered Apprenticeship system has been utilized to meet the needs of America's skilled workforce for over 80 years. It is a unique, flexible training system that combines job-related technical instruction with structured on-the-job learning experiences. Registered Apprenticeship is a leader in preparing American workers to compete in a global 21st-century economy because the system keeps pace with advancing technologies and innovations in training and human resource development.
The Registered Apprenticeship system provides the opportunity for workers seeking high-skilled, high-paying jobs and for employers seeking to build a qualified workforce. In this regard, the Registered Apprenticeship system effectively meets the needs of both employers and workers.
Registered Apprenticeship is highly active in traditional industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is also quickly growing in the health care, energy, and homeland security industries.
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Apprentices start working from day one with incremental wage increases as they become more proficient on the job. Apprenticeships range from one to six years, but the majority are four years in length. In 2011, more than 130,000 individuals nationwide became apprentices.
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The earn-and-learn training model of apprenticeship provides a unique combination of structured learning with on-the-job training from an assigned mentor. Related instruction, technical training or other certified training is provided by apprenticeship training centers, technical schools, community colleges, and/or institutions employing distance and computer-based learning approaches. The goal is to provide workers with advanced skills that meet the specific needs of employers.
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Upon completion of a Registered Apprenticeship program, participants receive an industry-issued, nationally-recognized credential that certifies occupational proficiency, is portable, and can provide a pathway to the middle class. In many cases, these programs provide apprentices with the opportunity to simultaneously obtain secondary and post-secondary degrees. In 2011, over 55,000 participants nationwide graduated from a Registered Apprenticeship program.
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The Registered Apprenticeship system provides a wide array of benefits.
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- Improved skills and competencies that meet the specific needs of the employer
- Incremental wage increases as their skills improve
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- Articulation agreements between certain apprenticeship training programs and 2- and 4-year colleges that create opportunities for college credit and future degrees
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- Increased productivity and knowledge transfer due to on-the-job learning from an assigned mentor combined with related technical instruction
- Enhanced retention 87 percent of program completers in 2011 were still employed nine months after completing their apprenticeship
- Emphasis on safety training that may reduce workers' compensation costs
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- A proven training model that allows employers to set the benchmark and the structure that can determine the Return on Investment in training dollars
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The Office of Apprenticeship (OA) works in conjunction with independent State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs) to administer the program nationally. These agencies are responsible for:
- Registering apprenticeship programs that meet Federal and State standards
- Protecting the safety and welfare of apprentices
- Issuing nationally recognized and portable Certificates of Completion to apprentices
- Promoting the development of new programs through marketing and technical assistance
- Assuring that all programs provide high-quality training
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Registered Apprenticeship programs are a written plan designed to move an apprentice from a low or no skill entry-level position to full occupational proficiency. These programs must meet parameters established under the National Apprenticeship Act that are designed to protect the welfare of the apprentice. The Act and its promulgating regulations are administered by the Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship or a State Apprenticeship Agency approved by the Secretary of Labor for federal purposes.
A Registered Apprenticeship program is sponsored by an individual business or an employer association and may be partnered with a labor organization through a collective bargaining agreement. Upon finishing the training program, an apprentice earns a Completion of Registered Apprenticeship certificate, an industry-issued, nationally-recognized credential that validates proficiency in an apprenticeable occupation.
Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors identify the minimum qualifications to apply to their apprenticeship program. The eligible starting age can be no less than 16 years of age; however, individuals must usually be 18 to be an apprentice in hazardous occupations. Program sponsors may also identify additional minimum qualifications and credentials to apply, e.g., education, ability to physically perform the essential functions of the occupation, and proof of age. Based on the selection method utilized by the sponsor, additional qualification standards, such as fair aptitude tests and interviews, school grades, and previous work experience may be identified.


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TORONTO — How can Israelis and Palestinians live in harmony? What land belongs to whom? What is it like being an Israeli in the Holy Land?
These are some of the heady questions explored in A Tiny Piece of Land, presented by Teatron Theatre and running at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts until Jan. 15.
This modern American play tells the story of two brothers with opposite worldviews: Yossi (Geoff Kolomayz) ended up moving to Israel and embraced Zionism, while Barry (Bob Legare) is a typical middle-class American Jew who wants nothing to do with Israel. The play explores the tense family dynamics arising from the brothers butting heads over who's right and who's misguided.
"The beauty is that it's not really a political play, but a family play," says Ari Weisberg, artistic director of Teatron Theatre. The writers, Joni Browne-Walders and husband Mel Weiser, not only wanted to show both sides of the Middle East conflict, but also explore the relationships of a family divided by their entrenched beliefs.
Still, Weisberg points out, "you can't be a Jew in Israel without having an opinion on politics," and A Tiny Piece of Land frames the brothers' arguments in a way that lets audience members make their own decisions on this thought-provoking issue.
The production, directed and set-designed by Weisberg, also stars local actors Tara Nicodemo, and Nicole Marie McCafferty.
Theatre aficionados will also hear echoes of another Middle East play on this stage: Weisberg says the writers were influenced by My Name is Rachel, the controversial play about activist Rachel Corrie, who died while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian home by Israeli military bulldozers. The writers have said they wanted to create a response to the play showing Israel's point of view.
In a 2010 interview, Browne-Walders said that other Israeli issues also inspired the play. "We discussed the pullout from the Gush Katif [Gaza] in August 2005. The government forced the settlers out to let Palestinians move in, but the Palestinians have since used the land to shoot rockets into Israel. They've destroyed everything there, even though they were living there. Why? Because the Israelis had used it."
A Tiny Piece of Land doesn't just focus on serious topics. It also includes flashes of humour, and Weisberg believes the play isn't so heavy that young adults won't enjoy it. "I want the audience to be left with a deeper understanding of the family challenges in Israel," he adds.
A Tiny Piece of Land follows Teatron's 2011 run of political plays, such as Deceived, the story of American-Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard. Teatron plans to go a bit lighter in 2012, staging the comedy Can I Really Date a Guy Who Wears a Yarmulke? in March. Weisberg says Teatron is also considering staging a production of Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev at some point in 2012.
A Tiny Piece of Land runs at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts from Jan.4 to Jan. 15. For tickets, visit www.teatrontheatre.com.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ruling party lawmaker Mieko Nakabayashi isn't just worried that her Democratic Party will lose power in next month's election; she fears a comeback by rival conservative Liberal Democrats will spell a return to the prolonged one-party rule that critics blame for many of the country's past policy ills.
Three years after the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ended more than half a century of nearly non-stop Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule, surveys suggest disappointed voters will hand the LDP the most seats in a December 16 poll for parliament's lower house. That would put LDP leader Shinzo Abe in pole position to form the next government and regain a job he quit in 2007.
"The risk is that the old LDP will come back and once that happens, Japan will take a long time to change back," said Nakabayashi, a former academic elected in the 2009 vote that propelled the Democrats to power for the first time.
"The DPJ could be an opposition party forever," she said, in an interview in her office near parliament.
Critics say the LDP's long reign created a triad of ruling politicians, bureaucrats and vested interests such as farmers, doctors and big businesses that rigidified over time, keeping Japan from responding to global and domestic changes.
Not all agree Japan's experiment with alternating power between two big parties is over after just three years, though some pundits agree the Democrats' demise can't be ruled out.
A more likely scenario is that the December election ushers in a period of confusing coalition politics, partly because of a spate of new parties eyeing voters discontented with both the LDP and the DPJ but also because whoever wins will still lack a majority in parliament's upper house, which can block bills.
That will complicate policymaking in a political system already criticized as indecisive as Japan struggles with such challenges as China's rise, the role of nuclear power after last year's Fukushima crisis and the ballooning costs of a fast-ageing population.
Such prospects would deepen concerns at ratings agencies over Japan's ability to deal with its high public debt, which at more than twice the size of the $5 trillion economy is the heaviest among leading industrialized nations. They have already cut the country's credit status and warned of further cuts, citing a lack of political will to deal with the looming crisis.
Indeed, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda called the Dec 16 election because the opposition demanded it as the price for help to enact a national sales tax rise to curb the public debt.
"No one can win an overwhelming majority," said Steven Reed, a political science professor at Chuo University in Tokyo.
Complicating the picture are a clutch of new mini-parties, several with a right-leaning, hawkish tinge, that aim to woo the many voters fed up with the two biggest parties.
Two of those new parties, one led by popular Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and the other by nationalist ex-Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, agreed over the weekend to merge under the 80-year-old Ishihara's leadership, despite some serious policy gaps such as over nuclear power's role in Japan's energy mix.
"I think we are definitely entering a new phase - fragmentation rather than bifurcation," said Jesper Koll, head of equity research at JP Morgan in Tokyo.
"Why? Because we have the stale LDP and the stale DPJ and now new charisma parties with 'can-do leaders' who will 'rescue' Japan," Koll said. "There will be more, not less, horse trading. Governing will be more complex."
Still, such confusion could turn out to be the cost of a rocky transition to a system centered on two major parties alternating in power that would boost competition over policies and lessen the likelihood of corruption. That was a key goal of electoral reforms, introduced in 1994, that favor big parties.
"Maybe it is simply the process of political creative destruction ... and at the end of the day we may look back and say it was the establishment of a new, stable system," said Gerry Curtis, a professor at New York's Columbia University who has studied Japanese politics for decades.
"I still have hope that is what's going on, but it is taking time - more time than I thought."
The gloom in the DPJ these days is a stark change from the optimism that greeted the Democrats' landslide win in 2009, both among voters frustrated with the LDP's long rule and DPJ lawmaker pledges to change how Japan is ruled by paying more heed to individuals than companies and prying control of policy away from elite bureaucrats.
Former National Strategy Minister Motohisa Furukawa thinks that sort of exuberance was one reason the inexperienced Democrats made missteps once they gained power.
"We won too big in the election three years ago. The people's expectations ballooned and we ourselves thought we could change everything all at once," he said in an interview.
"Looking back, it would have been better to try to do things one by one."
The composition of the Democratic Party, which was begun by a core of center-left lawmakers but grew into an often-fractious group of former LDP members, ex-socialists and young conservatives, also plagued the party, hampering policymaking and ultimately setting the stage for a string of defections.
"I don't think the direction the DPJ aimed at was mistaken," Furukawa said. "But was there a consensus? There were lots of people who just tried to use the DPJ to take power."
The Democrats going into the election will be a far slimmer group. While 308 DPJ took 308 of the 480 lower house seats in 2009, dozens of parliamentarians left the party after Noda - the third DPJ prime minister in three years - pushed through the sales tax rise in the face of criticism it violated campaign pledges.
For all the Democrats' woes, the LDP - itself divided on many policies - has hardly seen a groundswell of public support.
A Yomiuri newspaper survey published on Sunday showed 26 percent of voters would cast their ballots for the LDP against 13 percent for the DPJ, a smaller gap than in recent surveys.
Abe's lead over Noda, as the most appropriate to become premier, also narrowed though he still outscored his rival 37 to 31 percent. Forty-four percent of respondents backed no specific party, suggesting a large chunk of votes are in play.
Even if the LDP - either alone or with its partner, the smaller New Komeito party - wins a majority in the lower house, it would still need to woo support from other parties in order to pass bills in the upper house, which can block legislation, at least until an election for that chamber set for July 2013.
Possible partners include the mini-parties such as the Hashimoto-Ishihara duo's Japan Restoration Party or even the DPJ, the same line-up that joined hands to raise the sales tax.
"Whoever wins a majority, the 'twisted parliament' remains ... At least until next year, things will not stabilize," the DPJ's Furukawa said.
"In any transition period, confusion must be overcome. You can't destroy the old and build something new without confusion. I think we are still in that process."
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MARTIN, Tenn. - They knew what was needed, and they did it.
The Tennessee Tech volleyball team went to Martin, Tenn., Friday and came away with a 3-1 victory to clinch at least a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular season title. By virtue of the OVC tie-breaker, the Golden Eagles have also clinched the No. 1 seed -- no matter the outcome of Saturday's match at Murray State -- and will host the OVC Tournament, Nov. 20-22.
It is the first regular season crown for the Golden Eagles since 1983.
The first set got off to a rocky start with the Golden Eagles needing to take a time out down, 6-1. But going on a small rally of its own, Tech scored 14 of the next 19 points to jump out to a four-point lead.
Holding onto a two-point lead, Tech hit into some errors and allowed the Skyhawks back into the set at 21-21. The Golden Eagles finished strong and claimed the next four points to earn the first set win, 25-21.
With a small amount of weight off their shoulders, Tech got into a rhythm in the second set.
After UT Martin claimed the first two points, the Golden Eagles came back and outscored the host team two-to-one the rest of the set.
With Tech up 21-12, the Golden Eagles went up 24-12 before two Skyhawks kills brought the lead down to 10. Meeding just one more point, Tech forced a hitting error by UT Martin and earned a 2-0 set lead heading into the intermission.
Using their home court advantage, the Skyhawks were able to turn the tides in the third set, claiming a 25-18 set win. The Golden Eagles were held to the lowest hitting percentage in a set during the third frame, while the Skyhawks had their highest.
In the fourth set, the score went back and fourth before the Golden Eagles were able to hold on to a small lead. Knowing that the title was close at hand, Tech put the brakes on the Skyhawk offense and claimed the match-winning set, 25-18.
Senior Kappy Lang ran the offense for the Golden Eagles with 37 assists and 16 digs. On the defense, junior Katie Kenline supported the blockers with 10 digs. Tech got double-figure kills from three players, led by Leah Meffert with 16 along with 10 digs. Jess Asplund had 12 kills along with nine total blocks, while Amanda Lindgren added 11 kills.
Tech (17-10, 14-3 OVC) still has one more match this weekend before returning home to host the OVC Tournament. They will travel to Murray State for the final regular season match Saturday at 2 p.m. A Tech victory would clinch the title outright.
Golden Eagles claim 3-1 win, clinch share of OVC title
MARTIN, Tenn. - They knew what was needed, and they did it.


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Man arrested for PI in Orange after kicking in ex's door
Police arrested 39-year-old Henry James Walker of Orange for public intoxication after he kicked in his ex-girlfriend's door in the 400 block of Decatur St. in Orange, according to reports from the Orange Police Department (OPD).
At approximately 9:46 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, OPD dispatched Officer James Roy to the residence on Decatur. According to the reports, the female complainant said Walker, her ex-boyfriend, kicked in the back door of her residence, then fled the area.
At approximately 11:33 the same night, Officer Roy was again dispatched the Decatur St. residence. Officer Roy reported he saw Walker, who he was looking for from the previous incident, walking on N. 3rd St. near N. Farragut Ave. According to Roy, Walker had glassy, bloodshot eyes and was swaying as he stood. Roy further reported Walker's speech as slurred and the smell of alcohol was emitting from Walker's breath and person. Roy stated Walker admitted he had been drinking and was drunk.
Officer Roy arrested Walker for Public Intoxication, a Class C Misdemeanor. Roy reported he contacted the complainant who said Walker had been back but no new damage was caused. Roy transported Walker to the Orange County Jail.


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I say like a clown, because you know how some clowns have those super creepy tear drops drawn on their faces?
When I was a kid, my aunt had her bedroom decorated with that horrible clown wall paper and this clown had a drawn on tear drop…nice. Not nightmare inducing at all.
Anyway Etude House's Tear Drop eyeliner is supposed to be one you can use to add some highlight, indeed in a tear drop like manner if you wish, around the inner corner of your eyes.
This eyeliner is liquid, medium thick and very metallic with some sparkle. Once again I reiterate that it is not for all over, just for the inner corners to add some light. It takes a moment to set on the skin which for me was a bit of a problem as with my watery eyes it started to run….Example:
This comes in a few colours, gold, silver, a rose gold from the V Line Tan range and a pink.
Packaging is ok – it's light and plastic.
If you can stop crying for 2 seconds and let this stuff dry properly, then it does stay put rather way without leaving sprinkles of glitter everywhere. It's easy to remove – well, in my case it's faded off by the end of the day anyway.
Not keen on the applicator – some people say it's a sponge tip but to me it feels like a brush. It's a bit thick and not good for precision application.
This stuff, despite my dislike of wet products used around the inner corner of the eye, works pretty well. I imagine it'll work nicely for all eye shapes but I did find it added some sparkly highlight, finishing off my eye make up nicely.
It's not something I'd wear on it's own though without say, eyeshadow – it's a bit too dressy for that
Surprisingly nice product, only cost £7 from eBay with shipping and recommended for a bit of glamour. Only negative is that it can run and doesn't last all day.


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EIT is typically available over digital television signals, either terrestrial, cable or satellite. With terrestrial signals, each channel provides it's own EIT. Information is usually only available for the upcoming 24 hours. With satellite, the EIT is broadcast on it's own stream, or an Aggregate Event Information Table (AEIT), and contains information for all the channels broadcasted, and can provide scheduling information for more than a week.
It seems that for some people EIT only works when channels have been scanned by MythTV (this has been reported to have been necessary by a DVB-T user in the UK and a DVB-C user in the Netherlands). Importing channels.conf doesn't provide enough information for MythTV to use EIT.
Howto Enable EIT Scanning
- In mythtv-setup Video Sources=>your EPG source, check the box "Perform EIT Scan".
- In MythWeb Settings=>Channel Info, tick the "useonairguide" box for each Channel you want to scan for EIT data. Sometimes, EIT data is retrieved even when "useonairguide" is not checked.
Note for Australian DVB-T users: Australian TV stations have recently started broadcasting upto 7 days of EIT information, therefore when using this data with MythTV an additional EPG source is not required. Often a generic title such as "SPECIAL EVENT" or "AFTERNOON MOVIE." is utilised with more infomation in the Subtitle or Description. For more information see Australian_TV_Listings.
Tip: If EIT does not appear to show in the OSD, you can try to enable EIT in MythTV 0.20 (assuming EIT is compiled in mythtv) using a channels.conf created from a program such as 'scan' (dvb-utils). Import channels.conf into mythtv-setup, then delete the channels. This will have populated MythTV with the correct transports for your transmitter/transponder (sometimes MythTV cannot find the transports on it's own). Now let MythTV do a full scan using the existing transports. You should now have EIT showing in MythTV. Users of DVB-T (Freeview) in UK will now have the next seven days of listings available (it may take some time for the listings to build up as the EIT is scanned).
Tip: In the U.S. some digital stations may not appear in the program guide even though they are broadcasting program information. This may be due to a "hidden guide" bit that is transmitted by the stations. To see if this is the case run mythbackend with the --verbose important,general,eit option. After some time passes check the output or check /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log for "is hidden in guide" output. One way to get the data to be included in the EPG is to "hack" the atscstreamdata.cpp file in libmythtv/mpeg/. Delete the code below from atscstreamdata.cpp and then reinstall mythtv from source.
if (vct->IsHiddenInGuide(i)) { VERBOSE(VB_EIT, QString("%1 chan %2-%3 is hidden in guide") .arg(vct->ModulationMode(i) == 1 ? "NTSC" : "ATSC") .arg(vct->MajorChannel(i)) .arg(vct->MinorChannel(i))); continue; }
Although eit over the air is not as extensive as with Schedules Direct, it is free.


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|OpenBSD Packages and Ports Installation and upgrading of packages and ports on OpenBSD.
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I am interested in running OpenBSD as my main desktop OS, after a bit of tinkering/getting used to it over the past few months. As I await the arrival of my 4.8 CDs, I'd like to ask a question / confirm what I think I understand about running Firefox on OpenBSD -stable and/or the patch branch for a particular release. (This is a question that I still have after lots of Googling and repeated readings of the official OpenBSD FAQ.)
My understanding is: if you run -release + patches, or if you run -stable, then any third-party packages or ports you run must be those that shipped with the release, or that are in the -stable ports tree. For many third-party packages, this is no problem, and there is nothing wrong with being a few months behind the bleeding edge. For Firefox, which has frequent critical security updates, getting those updates seems quite important. So here are my two questions/requests for confirmation:
1. If you run -stable, then you cannot run any version of Firefox that is newer than the one found in the -stable ports tree. This means that you rely on the maintainers of the -stable ports tree for Firefox security updates. (And I understand that -stable ports were revived last year, after a period of dormancy.)
2. Is it okay to use a patch branch system (i.e., -release + patches) with a -stable ports tree? From the FAQ, it seems that -stable doesn't introduce any major system/library changes that aren't also included in the patch branch, so I think this would be okay, but of course I could be completely off-base.
I realize OpenBSD is a small project and can't be all things to all people. My ideal scenario would be to run the patch branch, in order to avoid the frequent upgrading and possible breakage that can occur when running -current, but to have an up-to-date Firefox. Is this a reasonable thing for me to be able to expect to do? Do folks here know if Firefox is kept reasonably up to date in the -stable ports tree? Or is running -current really the only way to keep up with Firefox? Thanks in advance for any knowledge/advice you can share.
There has been little difference in the last few years between -release+patches and -stable. That does not mean that there may not be significant differences once more. It depends on the patches and their severity or audience.
For the purposes of the rest of your questions, you can consider -release, -release+patches, and -stable as equivalent.
No library changes, structural changes, or functional changes are permitted in any errata patch or -stable patch. You are safe, therefore, intermixing -release and -stable ports/packages with -release,-release+patches, or -stable.
If you cannot wait for a -stable version of a Firefox release to be built, you can always attempt to backport a -current version yourself, if you have the technical skills. Note that creating a backport may not be technically possible; there may be some dependency on a newer library version within that hypothetical Firefox release or its dependency chain.
Clicking the link for "Makefile" shows the individual check-ins & more importantly for this discussion, the CVS tags. Note that Revision 188.8.131.52 has the tagname OPENBSD_4_8. This is the tag associated with the -stable branch. If additional updates are pushed to -stable, this tag will move to a newer revision.
On the other hand, the tag OPENBSD_4_8_BASE denotes the version of Makefile associated with -release. Most likely, this tag will never move from Revision 1.40, but if any changes were pushed down to 4.8-release, you would see this tag move to a newer revision too.
Thanks to you both, and in particular for the information on how to read the CVS tree info on the web, ocicat.
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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Series Is Presented Here As Three Variables--(1)--Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1867-1906 (2)--Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1907-1946 (3)--Seasonally Adjusted Data, 1947-1968. All Data Are Published By The Frb Bulletin Except 1947-1955 Postal Savings Deposits Which Are From Unpublished NBER Files. Data Are Based On A Two Month Moving Average To Obtain Middle Of Month Figures. Source: Computed By NBER From Federal Reserve Bulletins And NBER Files.
This NBER data series m14173b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 14 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter14.html.
NBER Indicator: m14173b
National Bureau of Economic Research, Deposits in Mutual Savings Banks and Postal Savings Systems for United States [M1473BUSM027SNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1473BUSM027SNBR, February 22, 2019.


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At Codice Software we design and develop software configuration management tools that run on various combinations of operating systems and hardware platforms. For instance, both server and clients run on Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista, Linux, and Mac OS X. And since our software uses .NET, it runs on native Microsoft implementation for Windows and Mono for UNIX-like operating systems.
There's only one way to accurately and efficiently support platform combinations such as thesetesting, and lots of it. However, running a software package on 36 platform combinations, release after release, is a Herculean effort. The solution we adopted was to distribute testing tasks by running them in parallel. In addition to uncovering bugs, this approach significantly speeded up the testing process. The key to our distributed testing solution is PNUnit, short for "Parallel NUnit." PNUnit is a modified version of the familiar NUnit (www.nunit.org) testing framework that was originally ported from JUnit to .NET. The source code and related files for PNUnit are available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 5.
We were already using NUnit to develop unit tests because our development is .NET based. NUnit lets you write unit tests with all .NET languages, and even adhere to test-driven development principles. Still, our primary concern was testing on multiple platforms using distributed test scenarios. Unfortunately, stock NUnit doesn't support this, hence our decision to extend NUnit to support distributed testing.
One of the reasons we wanted to stick with the NUnit framework is that we were familiar with its environment. Usually when you move to a new testing platform, the first thing you have to do is learn a new scripting language. By extending NUnit, we could use the same programming language and constructions (test suites, fixtures, and the like) that we were used to with regular unit testing.


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Cytoskeletal actin filaments are typically nucleated at the plasma membrane, rather than the centrosome that acts as an organizational center for microtubules. Thus, it is the cell periphery that generally contains the highest concentration of actin filaments. When located directly underneath the plasma membrane, actin filaments comprise part of the cell cortex, which regulates the form and motion of the surface of the cell, playing a key role in whether or not a cell develops projections such as filopodia or microvilli. A number of external factors generally control actin filament nucleation and enable the cytoskeletal filaments to change their characteristics rapidly upon signaling. A group of special proteins, two of which are actin-related proteins (ARPs) that are very similar to actin, are chiefly responsible for nucleation catalysis. This ARP complex is most prominent in locations where actin filament growth needs to be a brisk process, and is associated with various signaling molecules and components of the plasma membrane.
Using double immunofluorescence the adherent culture of APM cells illustrated above was washed, fixed, permeabilized, blocked with 10-percent normal goat serum, and treated with a cocktail of rabbit anti-giantin (Golgi complex) and mouse anti-NPCP (nuclear pore complex proteins) primary antibodies. The target antigens were visualized with goat anti-rabbit and anti-mouse secondary antibodies (IgG) conjugated to Alexa Fluor 568 and Alexa Fluor 488, respectively. The filamentous actin cytoskeletal architecture was labeled with Alexa Fluor 350 conjugated to phalloidin. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
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Aboard the Queen Mary 2 -- Part 1by Ted Scull | January 14, 2004
The Queen Mary 2 lay at her berth in Southampton, England, poised to take on a full load of 2,600 passengers for her much-anticipated maiden voyage, a 14-day cruise-style midwinter crossing to Fort Lauderdale. As I approached the new liner, I noticed that she loomed much larger than her older sister, Queen Elizabeth 2 -- a ship I had traveled aboard only a month before, and many times prior to that, back to June 1969. Given my fondness for QE2, would I take to this much-hyped new ship?
Embarkation was swift, and soon I was running into all sorts of familiar faces among the crew and passengers. But continuity with the past would soon be peppered with the many innovations in this ship.
Straightaway, I found the TV in my cabin to be a mine of information about the QM2's services, amenities, weather, tour options, and more -- in fact, I am writing this report via a companion keyboard that came with the TV. E-mails are no longer slipped under the door, but come as a notice on the TV screen.
The ship had to load 50 per cent more baggage, so departure was delayed for an hour past the scheduled 5:30 p.m. sailing time. The QM2 then boomed three big blasts, using the original whistle from the retired RMS Queen Mary. An accompanying flotilla of local excursion boats and private craft parted to allow the giant liner to position herself opposite Southampton's Town Quay. A powerful rendition of Rule Britannia preceded a fireworks display, interrupted three times by the Britannia Restaurant's maitre d' asking, and then wearily pleading, for passengers to take up their seats for the first sitting. Few appeared to comply, not wanting to miss the big show.
The pyrotechnic display burst skyward over the ship in a most dramatic and colorful fashion, and thousands of flashbulb lights erupted from ashore. Then in 20 minutes we were on our way, with our escort shepherding the liner for some distance before turning back.
I had booked an inexpensive cabin, and hence was allocated to the two-sitting, impressive three-deck-high Britannia Restaurant. My well-positioned table, shared with friends, was on the lowest of three tiers with a great view across the room and overlooking the central well.
While our steward was a professional, the galley had trouble keeping up with the demand, and there were lengthy gaps between courses.
My pate portion was small if attractively presented and tasty, but we all stopped short when two tiny lamb chops appeared as the main course. With the trimmings, the miniscule entree could have easily been served on a butter plate.
The steward quickly responded to our surprise and brought a plate of additional chops to distribute. For dessert, a portion of Bananas Foster was equally skimpy, giving rise to my observation that this was not nouvelle cuisine but rather petite cuisine. The second night's portions were equally small.
The weather forecast was dire with a whole gale predicted, and like the QE2, this purpose-built ocean liner took the heavy seas of a Force 8 storm with ease. A cruise ship would have bounced over and slammed into the waves, and had to reduce speed.
Certain areas of the ship recall the grandeur of past Cunard greyhounds, especially the public room deck corridors, the elevator foyers, the aforementioned main restaurant and the lovely, formal Queen's Room.
Only an elegant London hotel could match the QM2's afternoon tea service; one must arrive early to secure a good table by the window. Tea is offered with white-glove service all the way, as sandwiches, pastries and scones are served course by course to the accompaniment of a string duo.
Not so sophisticated is the multiple-sectioned King's Court, i.e., sprawling buffet. It is all rather cheerless and utilitarian, though in the evening, the rooms are made more pleasant by table linens and softer lighting for their selection of reservations-only theme menus that I intend to sample.
The promenade deck, furnished with proper wooden deck chairs, is among the most spacious afloat, and the short bursts of sunshine drew scores of passengers out to circumnavigate it, with three loops adding up to 1.1 miles. The outdoor sports activities will have to await more southerly latitudes.
In the meantime, my initial reaction is that the Queen Mary 2 is indeed a worthy replacement for the venerable QE2 on the punishing North Atlantic route.
It's time for the planetarium show, and I hope I am not disappointed, as the ones I remember from my youth were among my happiest and most enchanting pastimes.


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Body in Saline County has been identified; investigation continuing for cause of death
A body found in a section of the Ouachita National Forest on Sunday has been identified as that of a missing Jacksonville woman, but the cause of death for Jackie Hibbs has yet to be determined, authorities said.
Hibbs, 29, had been reported missing on July 19 by the Perry County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said she was last seen alive in the Lake Sylvia area. Her body was discovered Sunday on the Saline County side of the national forest by a person who was preparing for the hunting season.
Along with Saline County sheriff's deputies and detectives, officers from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission responded to the area to begin the investigation.
Lt. Scotty Courtney, public information officer for the Saline County Sheriff's Office, said, "There is no cause of death determined at this time," but the investigation is continuing. He did not confirm whether foul play is involved in Hibbs' death, but said the case is being treated as such until the medical examiner completes an autopsy.
"Anytime we find a deceased body, it is always looked at as a homicide until it is proven otherwise," Courtney explained.
The Saline Courier will continue to report this story as it develops.


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The Gift Gallery needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 125 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
The Gift Gallery is a stylish online gift store dedicated to high quality gifts that represent current retail trends. We have several gift category including gifts for him, her, baby gifts, travel gifts, corporate gifts etc..We've been around for just over 2 years and it's time to re-vamp the image and look of our growing business. The current website still has the original design and we would like to improve the look of the logo and header.
We are not one of those $9.95 gift stores, if you know what we mean. Our average gifts fall in the price bracket of $40-100.
Our customers are typically style savvy individuals who are too busy to waste time searching for gifts in stores or those who know exactly what they are looking for. We stock recognizable quality brands, mainly "boutique" brands, European brands etc. We also targer the corporate market but don't want to have a website looking too "corporate". Our corporate clients shop for their executives and valued staff.
Most of our customers are females (70%>30%), age range of between 25-45 of middle to higher income bracket who are familiar with online shopping. We see our target ausience as "shoppers who have everything" who are sophisticated online shoppers.
Our project consists of two parts:
1. A simple re-vamp of the existing logo
We would like it to be font based with minimal graphic details.
NO gift boxes and tacky ribbons in the logo. The logo should remain in the existing colour scheme of the website white, grey & red. (homepage background will change).
The logo should be contemporary,sophisticateed, stylish and should assist in brand recognition & trust.
2. The header of the homepage needs a re-design to include the font based logo (on the left hand side) and also 3 promotional boxes on the right hand side. The header MUST be clean, contemporary, sophisticated & super stylish! NO corporate "template monster" style headers!
It has to be clever in design and send a trustworthiness feeling to our customers that this is a serious business they can trust. Colour scheme should be same as the whole website. I think that RED is a good colour but I'm open to suggestions (no green, blue, purple). Visit our website to see the feel and standard of the store: http://www.thegiftgallery.com.au
The header doesn't have to be in the same size/height as the existing header. We will develop this as required. Promotional boxes can stick out of the header but this is just a thought.
We will also require additional design work in the near future.
DL cards, letterheads, swing tags etc.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Musicology Jobs.
* The job wiki.
* The Rhetoric of the 'Job Market' and the Reality of the Academic Labor System by Marc Bousquet ("By 1997, the dominance of market ideology had fully bloomed into a resplendently laissez-faire structure of feeling" (224).)
* A review of Marc Bousquet's new book How the University Works
* Sarah Gerk's excellent presentation on Musicology Job Postings
* Blog posts about the job wiki by Ryan Raul Bañagale: Take Two (first presented as a talk at AMS) and Take One.
Much of the larger discourse surrounding the academic job market comes from within the fields of the Modern Language Association. One of the key words is "casualization," the system where much of the work of the academy is done by graduate students, post-docs, adjuncts, undergrads (!) and others who are not part of the full-time, health-insured, long-term faculty. They're neither tenured nor tenure track. Bousquet argues that supply-side adjustments to the academic market (read: admitting fewer people to graduate school) will not solve the problem of casualization. In fact, that kind of thinking--guilty as charged--reflects how deeply ideas of "the market" have influenced thinking about "the job market" in the academy. He asks: "What if, instead of constantly adjusting ourselves (and our compensation) to 'meet the needs of the market,' we started to adjust or regulate the 'market' to meet our needs?" It's a good read, I recommend it (go unions!).
Big deep breath.
Finally, thoughts on the musicology job market. As Bañagale has pointed out, the job wikis are an amazing resource. As upsetting it is to learn about a job posting by clicking on the dedicated "job wiki" bookmark on your Firefox Bookmark Bar (tm), any experienced job hunter will tell you that the wait is far worse. In return you get (to paraphrase Bañagale) both information on the type of jobs being advertised and how these positions are actually filled. In my case this year, the apparent disconnect between what Google told someone about my research and teaching and what was in the original job posting actually led to a comment in the discussion section. I feel famous!
Bañagale makes a third comment in his original post, the fact that the wiki "reveals which programs are placing their PhDs." Harvard—Bañagale's example, and graduate institution—did great last year, placing 7 people in the jobs on the list. Bañagale argues (in his AMS talk), "Such information is helpful for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it helps perspective graduate students get a sense of which schools are having the most success." Again, I agree that this is important information. However, Harvard has undergone a significant change in faculty and graduate student make-up since I was applying to graduate school not THAT long ago. I'm an Americanist--like Bañagale--and in 2000 when I was looking at schools at which to study American music, Harvard wasn't on the list. So, while he makes a good point about the market on the one hand, the market alone will not decide where a prospective student chooses to attend graduate school. This year's acceptance list is remarkable for the range and variety of doctoral granting institutions. So far, there isn't one institution that stands out from the pack.
Like Bañagale's talk and blog posts, I think Gerk's study of the job market for Americanists is an excellent contribution to the discourse about the musicology/ethnomusicology job market. As far as I know, there hasn't been a similar study in other subfields, although I wouldn't be surprised if something appears from the ethno side of things soon (I've heard distant rumblings). She concludes, "American music specialists remain highly in-demand." After this year, I guess my personal experience might back-up this conclusion. However, what was outside the scope of Gerk's project was information about the number of applicants. For jobs where I have been told this figure, the number is usually hovering a little below 100. If you do simple division on Gerk's figures, that's roughly 40 jobs per year for 90 people. (True, some of these people already have jobs, or are ABD, or are slightly out of field. Also true, however, is that many of these jobs go to people who already have jobs, are ABD, or are slightly out of field.) Gerk adopts the language of supply-and-demand, but only looks on the demand side.
Which brings me back to the academic job market. This academic workplace is full of term positions, part-time adjuncts, and graduate student workers. On the very top of this is a creamy layer of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Accurate figures about job placement should be easily available to prospective students in all fields. Harvard placed 7 people in one year, but they don't admit 7 graduate students every year. In addition to this placement information, I'd like to know how many of those placed had to spend how many years adjuncting (or what-have-you) before finding a job. How many give up? How many don't give up and don't find employment? What is a department's attitude towards finding non-academic employment for their students? (A commenter on the original post by Bañagale pointed out that another school had two people on the market and two people placed, another impressive statistic.)
Even after reading and digesting Bousquet's article, my gut reaction is to scream "Reduce supply! Reduce supply!" This is generally interpreted as letting less students into graduate programs. But, as Bousquet points out, there is no reason to think that this supply-side solution will fix anything. Less graduate students will probably just increase the demand for low-wage labor, not tenure track positions. There is also the fiction of the academic meritocracy, by which I mean the idea that the people who get jobs are somehow better scholars than those that don't. (Or, in another vein, the idea that poverty is somehow noble and intrinsically related to a life of the mind.) I will be starting a job in the fall at a school I love, and I am thrilled. The search committee thought I was the best person for this particular job, but this doesn't mean that those scholars that didn't get tenure track jobs this year are less qualified for a tenure track job than I am.
Indeed, Bousquet's solution, as I understand it, doesn't even mean that I should feel too much guilt for my luck this year on the market. He recommends collective bargaining, a.k.a. unionization. The result might be to make the Assistant Professor position the most economically pleasing in the eyes of the university administration. Pay adjuncts and graduate students as much or even more as the Assistant Professor, thereby opening the road to tenure and closing the road to academic purgatory. I look forward to reading his whole book. I also look forward to advising undergraduate, graduate and professional students at my job next year. I will keep my eye on the job wiki and the field as a whole so I can help them figure out what they need to get them where I am now. But I think we need more information generally, and not just information about people (like me?) who have succeeded in the job market and are now graduate and undergraduate advisors. Individuals need to resist the assumption that the best work results in tenure track jobs, and that anyone (including yourself) who doesn't land such a position in a reasonable amount of time only has themselves to blame. I don't want anyone entering graduate school to be unaware of how grim the situation is, and I want all of us on the job market to be able to understand how capricious the system is. It can feel very, very personal when you get rejection after rejection. I think it's important to temper all announcements of a high demand for musicologists with realistic information about the supply. Because even if the solution is to get away from the market-based conception of academic employment, it's not going to happen overnight. You look for jobs in the market you have, not the market you wish you had.
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- rrb said...
Congratulations on your job! What a relief that must be--bravo!
Also, thanks for your great post. It has been very interesting to watch the wiki this year--it appears to be trafficked with much greater frequency this year than last. As a result there is a lot more information out there, especially though the various discussions. But as you say at the end of your post, there remains much info that isn't available.
You make a good point with your questions regarding the 7 Harvard hires from last year. I'm not able to answer those off the top of my head, but I can tell you that none of them were part of this new Americanist thing going on here. It will be interesting to see what happens with placement as the first round of this new group of Americanists goes on the market. The first crop is almost there, so we'll soon see... I'm sure I'll blog about it at some point!
Once the hiring season is over, it would be well worth someones time (perhaps Sarah and I) to compile this years data and add it to the last. Over the course of several years we may begin to have a clearer picture.
Of course, as you say, ultimately the hire goes to whomever the hiring department thinks is the best fit. This is regardless of scholarly work, institution, and in the case of one not-yet-wiki-announced post, degree.
I'm very excited for you and all the other great PhDs that are landing jobs this year.
- April 12, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- cpo said...
Thanks Ryan! Rereading what I wrote, I realize it sounds like I only want to know about Harvard's "outstanding PhDs". I'd like to know that for any school my promising undergraduate is applying to.
I think there is a lot of data that could be collected to expand knowledge. From "how many people regularly post on the wiki" to "how many people applied for XYZ job." Of course, the latter is probably confidential for most searches, although I was told the numbers quite frequently during my interviews.
If you skim the Bousquet, he does talk about the illusion of rationality that these kinds of figures provide both the schools and the MLA as a whole. On the other hand, let us start with something, right?
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Dear OpenGl Community,
I have a strange problem with glReadPixels. Maybe you have a suggestion for me.
I was playing around with this function a bit and noticed a strange effect as soon as I display objects, which don't contain solid color. On screen they render fine but the pixels I read show strange patterns. To get closer to the source of the problem I wrote a quick and dirty demo program, which just displays one single quad and then uses glReadPixels to read all pixels of the viewport. Those I write to a tga file.
As soon as I apply a gradient to that quad I get the folowing effect. On top is a screenshot of the window, bottom are the read pixels. Its vertically mirrored since I was to lazy to change the origin before writing the tga.
If I use a solid color for the quad all works fine. Also for multiple quads. But as soon as I have a gradient it screws up the read pixels. It gets even worse if I map a texture with an uneven pattern onto the quad - which is what I eventually want to do.
Code :#include <windows.h> #include <gl\glew.h> #include <gl\glut.h> #include <gl\freeglut_ext.h> #include <iostream> #include <stdio.h> //helpers void renderScene(void) { glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT ); glBegin(GL_QUADS); glColor3f(1,0,0); glVertex2f(10 , 10); glVertex2f(10, 512 +10); glVertex2f(512 + 10 , 512 +10 ); /** glReadPixels will work if a solid color is used on this quad, * so commenting out folowing line will give correct behaviour */ glColor3f(0,1,0); glVertex2f(512 + 10 , 10); glEnd(); glFlush(); } void changeSize(GLsizei w, GLsizei h) { glViewport(0,0,w,h); //Reset the coordinate system glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glOrtho(0, w , 0, h , 1,-1); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW ); glLoadIdentity(); } bool writeTGA(const std::string & filename, unsigned char * texture, unsigned int width, unsigned int height, unsigned int bpp) { FILE *file = fopen(filename.c_str(), "w"); if( file == NULL) return false; GLubyte header[] = { 00,00,02, 00,00,00, 00,00,00, 00,00,00, 0xff & width, 0xff & width >> 8, 0xff & height, 0xff & height >> 8, bpp, 0x20 }; fwrite( header, sizeof(header), 1, file); fwrite(texture, width * height * bpp / 8, 1, file); fclose(file); return true; } //main int main(int argc, char ** argv) { unsigned int windowW = 800; unsigned int windowH = 600; int windowId = 0; std::cout << "ReadPixels Test" << std::endl; std::cout << "-----------------------------\n" << std::endl; //Setup FreeGlut int tmpArg = 0; glutInit(&tmpArg, NULL); // Note: glutSetOption is only available with freeglut glutSetOption(GLUT_ACTION_ON_WINDOW_CLOSE, GLUT_ACTION_GLUTMAINLOOP_RETURNS); glutInitDisplayMode( GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGB); glutInitWindowSize(windowW, windowH); windowId = glutCreateWindow("glReadPixels Test"); glutDisplayFunc(renderScene); glutIdleFunc(renderScene); glutReshapeFunc(changeSize); //setup some opengl states glClearColor (0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0); glPixelStorei(GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT, 1); //adjust window size changeSize(windowW, windowH); //main loop int counter = 200; while(counter--) { glutPostRedisplay(); glutMainLoopEvent(); glutSwapBuffers(); if(50 == counter ) { unsigned char * texture = (unsigned char *)malloc(windowW * windowH * 3); memset(texture, 0x00, windowW * windowH * 3); glPixelStorei(GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT, 1); glReadPixels(0, 0, windowW , windowH, GL_BGR, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, texture); //write pixels to file writeTGA("testout.tga", texture, windowW, windowH, 24); free(texture); } Sleep(25); } return 0; }
This seems like one of those problems, where I stare at my code for too long and just don't see the obvious. At least I hope it's that trivial and some of you can point me to my error. I have looked through forum and internet and this problem seems to be not very common - I found no references describing this behaviour.
Query for the gl version string returns 3.3.0 at my system . I'm using freeglut to setup the opengl window, in case you want to test that code.
I have played around with all kinds of opengl settings but I just don't seem to find the right switch here. GL_PACK_ALIGNMENT seems not the problem here, though I still set it to 1 just to make sure. I also tried to move swapBuffers behind the glReadPixels since I read it somewhere in the forum but it changes nothing.


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Carleas wrote:Something that does not seem adequately appreciated in current discussions about looming superintelligent AI is that consciousness and intelligence are physically instantiated, and therefore constrained. Concerns are voiced about AI becoming superintelligent and very quickly becoming all powerful, but those concerns smuggle in a dualistic metaphysics at odds with what we know from our observations of extant intelligent systems (i.e., humans).
For example, Nick Bostrom presents the thought experiment of the "Paperclip Maximizer", a superintelligent system charged with running a paperclip factory and programmed to maximize paperclip output. Bostrom's worry is that this superintelligence may see humans as potential raw materials, and may end up e.g. extracting the iron in peoples' bones to produce ever more paperclips, and ultimately consuming the solar system and turning it into paperclips. The thought experiment is meant to show that even when given benign instructions, a superintelligence could become a threat to humanity if its intelligence makes it very effective at achieving its goals.
But this ignores the limitations that constrain a physically instantiated superintelligence. Contrary to supposition, a superintelligence can't easily escape its physical confines. We have every reason to expect that an artificial superintelligence will require a specialized physical structure on which to run. For example, Google's AlphaGo, arguably the closest we have to a powerful general artificial intelligence, uses specialized chips optimized for the type of neural network training and search that power it. A general AI running on such chips couldn't escape via a network connection to a consumer PC, even if its components are top of the line, because such hardware is not structured in the ways necessary to undergird a superintelligence.
Similarly, the Paperclip Maximizing AI would not be able to escape the paperclip factory (at least not with significant and long term assistance from others). In a worst case scenario, it could re-route raw materials shipments, place orders for human labor, hack self-driving cars, and otherwise interact with the world just as any smart human can. But it can't 'leave' the factory, it can't export itself, it can only export programs it writes, instructions it gives, commands intended to influence others, etc. Its intelligence isn't a ghost that, once active, can jump from machine to machine. Not all machines are able to instantiate the physical correlates of superintelligence.
This should be obvious. There's was never a concern that Steven Hawking might decide one day that maximizing paperclips (or, if you prefer something more likely, telescopes) was the ultimate goal, and would use his high intelligence to achieve that goal. We see easily that Hawking is stuck in his body, and no matter how sophisticated the interface, his intelligence will be confined to the physical system on which it runs. We should not discount the possibility that another system may be built that could replicate his intelligence, or indeed his consciousness, but we should expect it always to be the case that nearly all systems will simply be incapable of hosting such an intelligence. That's true of every computer on earth at the moment, and nearly all brains on earth.
There's uncertainty as to what superintelligence will resemble, but not as to what is necessary to destroy the world. What prevents a paperclip factory from taking over the world is not just that it isn't smart enough, but also that taking over the world is a hard, time-consuming, and unpopular activity that will meet plenty of resistance on human-scale timelines. AI has the potential to change the game, but not the laws of physics, and not the metaphysics of consciousness.
I agree that AI is not a danger as the science fiction works paint it to be. There are some concerns of course, but mostly on our human end of how we will react to AI, how its existence will affect us psychologically or diminish certain professions thus causing economic harm to workers.
We should welcome the existence of another sentient, conscious, intelligent life amongst us. I would personally love to have long talks with a true AI, it would be quite illuminating. And it would learn from us too... AI would up the stakes, increase the demand that humans intellectually fortify themselves away from insanity and laziness. Plus AI could help us achieve extremely advanced technologies. And act as a check on human corruption in politics.


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Billy Currington Turned Himself Into the Cops [MUGSHOT]
Country singer Billy Currington has turned himself into police today (April 25) after a bench warrant was issued for his arrest for such delightful allegations as elder abuse and terroristic threats.
Currington was indicted by a grand jury on terroristic threats and abuse of an elder following an April 15 incident. Currington wasn't arrested at the time of the initial incident, which was pretty horrifying.
The crooner allegedly threatened a 70-year-old charter boat captain named Charles Harvey Ferrelle. Ferrelle had the nerve to pass by Currington's Tybee Island, Ga. property with two boats. When Ferrelle made his return trip, he claims Currington was waiting in his own boat with a camera and started chasing him.
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This release represents 14 months of development since version 2.2 and introduces major enhancements and new features:
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The Seattle Seahawks have released veteran tight end Kellen Winslow, the team announced Saturday.
NFL Network and NFL.com's Albert Breer first reported the transaction, citing a source with knowledge of the situation.
Danny O'Neil of The Seattle Times reported Winslow might have refused a paycut, but the Seahawks couldn't have been thrilled with his limited production. Winslow's three catches for 34 yards in the preseason were a far cry from the player of years past.
Winslow was part of a wave of veteran pass catchers brought in during the offseason by coach Pete Carroll. The seven-year veteran was listed along with Zach Miller and Anthony McCoy on the team's 53-man roster, but Winslow failed to outshine those two. McCoy, especially, showed chemistry with rookie starting quarterback Russell Wilson late in the preseason.
Seattle shipped a conditional 2013 seventh-round draft pick in May to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the rights to Winslow, who failed to win over new Bucs coach Greg Schiano this offseason after three productive years with the team. Winslow's time with the Buccaneers included 218 receptions for 2,377 yards and 12 touchdowns. Those numbers are close to what Winslow did in four seasons with the Cleveland Browns, where he hauled in 219 passes for 2,459 yards and 11 scores.
There were moments in Cleveland when Winslow's fierce athleticism alone helped the Browns create matchup problems for defenses, but he's not that player today. Multiple operations to Winslow's battle-worn knees raise questions about his future in the NFL. We wouldn't be surprised to see another club -- thin at tight end -- take a chance on Winslow, but Seattle has seen enough.
UPDATE: The Seahawks agreed to terms with former Browns tight end Evan Moore shortly after cutting Winslow, according to The Associated Press. Moore was released by Cleveland on Friday.
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The UK is at the heart of this European Space Agency (ESA) mission to uncover the secrets of our planet's star. Solar Orbiter will provide close-up views of the Sun's polar regions, tracking features such as solar storms and the solar wind which causes Earth's atmosphere to light up as the Aurora or Northern Lights. The north and south poles of the Sun 'flipped' in 2013 and Solar Orbiter will also explore this phenomenon.
ESA selected Airbus Defence and Space in the UK as the prime contractor on the mission in 2012, to lead a team of companies and universities from all over Europe that supply various parts of the spacecraft.
The UK is a world-leader in solar physics research and its scientists are in high demand on solar missions. UK scientists were instrumental in proposing the Solar Orbiter mission to ESA and the UK Space Agency funded teams from University College London, Imperial College London and the RALSpace to design and build three out of the ten state-of-the-art scientific instruments on board the spacecraft, and to contribute to a fourth.
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