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Yang Song-Familiar and Unfamiliar Moving Objects With Clockwork Mechanism
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Interview with Yang Song : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Yang Song : Living objects. The relationships and stories between people and their belongings are the main inspiration of this design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Yang Song : I intended to create an imaginative world, in which all the objects could move and react. The difficulty was how to make this real. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Yang Song : I would like to develop this whole concept as a long term programme. I think this design will become a symbol of me as an experimental industrial designer. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Yang Song : It took me around two months to get this concept. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Yang Song : I just want to share the concept of cherishing daily objects with other people within a dramatic design language. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Yang Song : I am also a designer maker. Therefore, I intend to make them by myself and perhaps not for commercial purpose. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Yang Song : The love of objects. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Yang Song : My tutor, Terry Rosenberg helped me a lot on theoretical thinking. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Yang Song : For all. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Yang Song : It is unique because the reactions of the objects are reflected by their users, so anyone could create his/ her own clockwork world. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Yang Song : The little details that we do not realize in our daily lives. So it means the unfamiliar elements within the familiar life. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Yang Song : 2D and 3D software, woodworking tools, metalworking tools, silicon rubber tool, etc. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Yang Song : crazy but sweat. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Yang Song : The technicians at Goldsmiths Design Department. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Yang Song : Technology should always serve humanity. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Yang Song : Memory is the data collection of this project. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Yang Song : The way of expressing the concept. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Yang Song : I am confident with my design and I just intend to participate into this top level design party. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Yang Song : Design should always be honest to the designer himself/herself, and then it might impress the users/audience. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Yang Song : Thanks to my sweat childhood given by my parents. .
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Year after year, a gingerbread kit sat in my parents' garage with all the Christmas ornaments and glittery garlands and other decorations, just waiting to be made. That particular kit was for Santa's sleigh and reindeer, and I was just dying to make it.
Every year, I'd ask my mom if we could make it, hoping she'd say yes, but it seemed there was always a reason not to – it would be too messy, too time-consuming, too… something. I was so disappointed.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure why I would have needed supervision to make it, since by that time I was at least 13 years old, and already able to cook and bake without any help. And the gingerbread pieces in the kit were already baked, only needing to be assembled with the royal icing provided in the kit and then decorated. I really don't remember if we ever made it one year, or if it just got thrown away after collecting dust for so long.
One Christmas when I was in China, the university where I was teaching hosted a party, and my friend Jessica and I decided we would make a gingerbread house. Of course, we had no access to any pre-made kits, and no knowledge or means of making homemade gingerbread, so we made do with what we had. We bought bags of some kind of wafer cookies to use for the frame of the house, held together by peanut butter and frosting, and then decorated with whatever assorted candy we could find. In the end, it was pretty cute, even though it wasn't a true gingerbread house. The night of the party was a freezing cold, terribly windy night – the wind coming off the sea from the harbor was intense and bone-chilling – and we barely managed to carry our cookie and candy creation from the apartment up to the school in one piece.
For our first Christmas together a few years ago, Jamie and I started our own tradition of making a gingerbread house from whatever little kits were available at the grocery store. One of these years, I'm going to have to get creative and make/design my own, but I haven't been brave enough for that yet.
This year, for a different spin on a gingerbread house, I thought I would make a tree instead out of layers of cake. The cake could be any flavor, depending on what color you want it to be, but I used a spice cake mix. It's easily baked in a cookie sheet (one with sides) so that there's more surface and a thinner layer to work with. Using a small star cookie cutter I have for reference, I drew and cut out 6 stars, each one larger than the next. I lay my paper star patterns on the cake, secured them with straight pins, and carefully cut each star with a sharp, non-serrated knife. After removing the excess cake, the stars are simply stacked, to create a tree, secured by a wooden skewer down the center to keep the whole thing from toppling over while you decorate it.
The most fun part, of course, is the decorating. I drizzled the whole thing with a basic royal icing, and before it set, garnished it with green, red and white M&Ms for "lights". Earlier that day I had decorated Christmas cookies to look like presents, and I placed those at the base of the tree, then topped it with two angel cookies, secured with more royal icing. A little coconut sprinkled around the base and a generous dusting of powdered sugar "snow" all over gave it the wintery finish it needed. Isn't it pretty?
Although I didn't go too crazy with the candy decorations, the possibilities for how this tree could be decorated are endless. The tree is pretty dry within about 24 hours, and makes a beautiful and festive centerpiece for the table. Of course it's edible, but after it dries, I don't really think you'd want to eat it anyway.
This is a Christmas tradition that I love, and one I hope to keep every year.
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas!!
"Gingerbread" Cake Christmas Tree Centerpiece
(downloadable star templates for the cake are attached in the printable recipe)
- 1 spice cake mix (plus oil, eggs and water called for on box)
- wooden skewer
- royal icing
- assorted candy and cookies to decorate
- shredded coconut and powdered sugar for snow
Cut out the star templates and lay them out on the cake as demonstrated. Secure with straight pins if needed. Use a sharp, non-serrated knife to carefully cut along the outline of each star.
Starting with Star #1, carefully remove the excess cake from around the star, then use a wide spatula to pick up the star and place it on a cake board or cake pedestal. Repeat with the remaining stars, stacking them largest to smallest (1-6). Place the wooden skewer straight down the center of the cakes (to keep it from toppling while you decorate it) and trim the end of the skewer with wire cutters.
Drizzle the cake with royal icing, and decorate with candy and cookies before the icing sets. The presents around the bottom are cookies that I decorated, as well as the angels at the top, which are held in place with royal icing.
Sprinkle coconut around the base of the cake and then generously dust everything with powdered sugar. Set aside to dry - the icing and cake will become dry and hard within about 24 hours.
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The beloved duo Indigo Girls will perform with the Virginia Symphony at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk on Friday, May 31, as part of the Virginia Arts Festival. Want to go for free? Here's your chance.
Simply head over to the Daily Press Music Facebook page, recommend it to your music-loving Facebook friends and post a comment at our site saying you did so. (We're dealing with the honor system here, folks.) At 5 p.m. today, I'll draw from the names of those who posted and announce the winner of a pair of tickets before 5:30 p.m.
Sound good? If you love the harmonies and songcraft of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray, you could hardly do better.


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Ok. Yes, I don't just play an idiot on TV (ok, I'm not really on TV) I really am one. I was complaining to Hydra that I would do the weekly resource gathering thing in the Barrens except that I hate having to find a way there. It's just too much of a hassle.. "Um, why don't you just take the port from Pandaria?"…. DOH! I had completely forgotten about that port. I used it the first time when I was going through the quest line (I think) but then forgot about it subsequently. So last night, given that I have not yet gotten into the Hearthstone beta (more on that later), I decided to run out there and get 'er done. Which I did.
Of course, Hydra logged in just as I picked up the last resource I needed and asked if I wanted to join them in farming for them. Well, maybe next week if it is still around. It's possible this week will be the last week you can do this quest line and if you haven't done it yet, at least do it for the pet. During the course of my farming, I picked up all the different Latent this and that items. You have to combine those with a Radical Mojo to get an item you can use. The pet requires one Radical Mojo also though and you get one for each week you turn in the quest. As I only have turned in one (last night), I decided to use my mojo to get the pet instead of the items. If I do complete it this week, I'll see if one of the items is an upgrade. If not, I might just get another pet and sell it. I don't think the Level 489 gear would be useful.
Blizzcon is inching closer! Last post I did, I talked about them announcing when tickets were going on sale (wow, it's been that long?). I did get a ticket, so there is that. We WILL be having our party/meetup. Head over to http://twistednether.net/blizzcon2013 for information about that and let me know if you are coming and I can add you to the list! I'm very excited about Blizzcon this year. Given that we have skipped a year, I think it will make it all that much more interesting. Hopefully they will announce the next expansion for WoW, maybe an expansion for Diablo 3 and let us play the Starcraft 2 Protoss build. We'll see.. If you are going to be there and want to meet up, the party is the best, but drop me a line and we can figure something out.
And, last but not least, Hearthstone! Hearthstone (hit the link up above in the post to see what it's all about) looks really cool. I've been watching a bunch of live streams on Twitch.tv and a few pre-recorded matches on youtube. It seems there is always someone streaming now. I didn't get a beta invite yet but I'm hoping to get in at some point. I am, of course, worried that I will lose quite a bit of sleep with this thing, but I suppose that's the price you pay to help out Blizzard in beta testing, right?
Anyway, that's all for now. Sounds like 5.4 and Flex raiding are right around the corner and I may be getting back into a more regular raiding schedule. If so, maybe I'll remember to post here more often or at least have something somewhat interesting to say.


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The rock band 3 Doors Down has called off four U.S. appearances following the arrest of the group's bassist, who was accused of driving intoxicated and causing a fatal interstate crash in a Nashville suburb.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) � The rock band 3 Doors Down has called off four U.S. appearances following the arrest of the group's bassist, who was accused of driving intoxicated and causing a fatal interstate crash in a Nashville suburb.
The band announced Monday that out of respect for the victim, 47-year-old Paul Howard Shoulders Jr., it was canceling four appearances in the U.S. originally set for April and May.
The cancellations include shows scheduled in Bossier City, La., Nashville, and at two music festivals, Rockville in Jacksonville, Fla., and Carolina Rebellion in Charlotte. The tour will resume May 31 in Moscow and return to the U.S. in July.
Bassist Robert Todd Harrell remained jailed Monday in lieu of $100,000 bail. He awaits a scheduled court appearance Thursday, but court records do not indicate that he had retained a lawyer. He is facing multiple charges, including vehicular homicide by intoxication, violation of the implied consent law, contraband, and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.
Police said the 41-year-old musician was driving under the influence and speeding Friday night on an interstate in a when his car clipped a pickup truck. The pickup lost control, smashed into a guardrail and went down an embankment and overturned, the police statement added. The pickup driver, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was ejected.
Shoulders, the other driver, was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.
The band's publicist said in a statement that 3 Doors Down cancelled the four upcoming dates out of respect for Shoulders and his family. The statement didn't give specifics of the dates being canceled.
A neighbor of the victim's family described Shoulders as a good man and a mechanic who helped teach young men in his Nashville neighborhood how to work on cars, adding he tried to steer them from the streets.
"He was always helping these boys in the neighborhood with their cars and different things," Edwin Fulcher said. "He was trying to keep them off drugs, keep them busy."
"It really hurt me to think that such a nice fellow like him got killed because he was such an attribute to the community," Fulcher added.
Police said Harrell showed signs of being impaired during field sobriety tests after the crash. A statement issued by Nashville police said that Harrell acknowledged drinking hard cider and taking the prescription drugs Lortab and Xanax.
The musician is also accused of bringing controlled substances into the jail. Authorities say they discovered a plastic bag concealed in his sock that contained eight Xanax pills, 24 Oxycodone pills and four Oxymorphone pills while they were in the process of booking him in the jail.
After the crash, 3 Doors Down released a statement on its website offering condolences to Shoulders' family.
The band, which formed in the '90s in Mississippi, is known for such hits as "Away from the Sun" and "Kryptonite."


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Investiture: Class of 2005
For the first time, Thayer School's Investiture, held June 11, 2005, took place in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center, a venue large enough to accommodate record numbers of graduates and their well-wishers. With Interim Dean William Lotko presiding, 144 Thayer students received hoods, caps, awards, and an official welcome to Thayer School's alumni/ae body, the Dartmouth Society of Engineers.
Thayer School Overseer Thomas J. O'Neill '73, Th'74, chairman and CEO of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., received the Robert Fletcher Award for distinguished achievement and service. In his Investiture speech he outlined a formula for success, which is excerpted here:
- In the poker game of life, your technical competence is an ante. You need a differentiator.
- One of the biggest differentiators is an ability to communicate.
- You are all broad enough and talented enough that you will lead and manage and direct. That piece of advice was first given to me by Carl Long here at Thayer School. We asked him to teach us about pre-stressed concrete. He told us, "I don't know why you guys want to learn about that — you'll hire people to do that for you." We didn't believe him at the time. Turns out he was right.
- Be on time.
- The three magic words in dealing with clients are scope, schedule, and budget. You have to manage client expectations — not necessarily lower them — and deliver a product that performs the desired functions within the time and budget available.
- Understand the requirements of whoever assigns work to you.
- Assignments often come down to who the client has the best relationship with.
- Personal life matters.
- Power comes from sharing knowledge — not hoarding it.
- Don't be constrained by arbitrary rules or limits.
- Get a passport. China will dominate the world economy.
- Never give up hope.
By the Numbers: Engineering Graduates
- 13 — Doctor of Philosophy
- 29 — Master of Science
- 32 — Master of Engineering Management
- 70 — Bachelor of Engineering
- 59 — Bachelor of Arts, Engineering Sciences Majors
The Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize for outstanding B.E. project: Robert J. Conrado '05, Linden T. Klein '05, Reginald W. Martin '04, and Amol B. Pinge
The Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize for outstanding achievement: Alexander D. Streeter '03, Th'04, '05
The Caroline Henderson Prize for best M.E.M. project: Ryan C. Dunn '03, Th'04, '05
The Thayer School of Engineering Corporate Collaboration Council Engineering Design Prize for best performance in ENGS 190/290: Matthew D. Hodgson, Monica J. Thomas Th'05 and Colin T. Ulen
The Thayer School Faculty Award for Academic Excellence in B.E. coursework: Matthew P. Bell '05 and Thomas A. Zangle '05
The John C. Woodhouse Engineering Design Prize for cost-effective designs of experimental equipment: Heng Xu Th'05
The John C. Woodhouse Environmental Engineering Prize for outstanding work in environmental study or research: Magdalena E. Dale Th'05, Xi Nan Th'05, Ph.D. candidate Jennifer D. Pollock, and Satish Prabhakaran Th'05
The Brieanna S. Weinstein Engineering Design Prize for new technologies, systems, or devices addressing physical or developmental disabilities: Julie A. Matteini '03 and Rena L. Yotsu '03 for their "Switch Adapted Kid Car"
Special Faculty Award for Engineering and Service to Humanity: Dartmouth Engineers Without Borders
The Phillip R. Jackson Engineering Sciences Prize for outstanding performance in an introductory course: Monica Martin de Bustamante '08, Ben Koons '08, Ashley Heist '08, Patrick Biggs '06, and TA Gail Sweeney '03
The George A. Colligan Memorial Prize for outstanding performance in materials science: Johnathan A. Loudis '05
The Richard. W. Olmsted Engineering Sciences Prize for outstanding performance in the major: Julia L. Ott '05 and Thomas A. Zangle '05
Excellence in Teaching Award: Charles Sullivan
Outstanding Service Award for Faculty: Laura Ray
Outstanding Service Award for Staff: Joan Levy, Terry Priestley
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Sunrise at Lipan Point
Grand Canyon sunrise at Lipan Point
Delicate Arch at twilight. Arches National Park, Utah.
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South Rim Sunrise
Sunrise at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon
Desert River
Deep in the Zion Narrows
Looking up in Antelope Canyon
Canyonlands Sunset
Canyonlands Sunset
Desert Peaks
Along the Virgin River in Zion
Winter Night at the Great Salt Lake
Exploring Lower Antelope Canyon
Sunrise at Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park.
Waiting for the Sunrise
Sunrise at Lipan Point
Sunrise on Lake Mead.
Winter at Antelope Island
Winter in the Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island
The waves and colors of Antelope Canyon. Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona
Feeder Stream
A small stream flows into the Great Salt Lake
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Fresh snowfall in Monument Valley.
Dead Horse Point and the Colorado River.


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Trying another recipe today
Last Christmas, one of my Facebook friends from Nebraska posted that someone had brought her a plate of kolaches, and she had already eaten one with blueberry filling, which was so good that she wanted to post about it. I thought I knew that kolaches were round, baked yeast rolls with a fruit filling in the center, but I searched for some recipes to confirm what I thought, and sure enough, I was right.
|Tradiční české koláčky: Kolackys as made
in the Czech Republic. Image from Wikimedia.
About a month ago, I tried a kolache recipe that came from the website of a butter company. It called for 2-1/4 cups of butter in total, so I cut that back quite a bit, but otherwise, I followed the recipe fairly closely. Dennis became a huge fan of kolaches, as soon as he tried one.
Today I'm making kolaches for the second time, and I'm using a recipe for a folded kolache. It has a spicy dough that's made with a more reasonable ratio of shortening (oil) to flour. I have the dough resting in the refrigerator right now, and late tonight or early tomorrow morning, I will assemble and bake the kolaches.
This recipe is from the Smithsonian Folklife Cookbook by Katherine S. Kirlin and Thomas M. Kirlin, published in 1991 by the Smithsonian Institution Press in Washington and London. I got my copy at a local thrift shop. The recipe is credited to Genevieve Trinka of Lidgerwood, North Dakota.
Combine in a small bowl and set aside to soften:
3 tablespoons dry yeast
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon sugar.
Combine in a large mixing bowl:
2 cups warm milk (scalded and slightly cooled if raw)
3/4 cup sugar (I used half Splenda)
2 teaspoons salt (I cut this back to 1 teaspoon)
1/2 cup oil
1/2 teaspoon mace
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (I had no mace so I used 1 teaspoon nutmeg)
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 eggs, well-beaten
2 cups flour
The yeast mixture that you set aside, above
Beat well, and add a little at a time:
5 cups flour (I used white whole wheat flour.)
This makes a very soft dough. Grease a large bowl, scoop the dough into it, cover, and place in the refrigerator overnight. I've had to stir it down twice now because it had risen over the top of the bowl, but surely the yeast process will slow down now that the dough is chilled completely.
Here's what I'll be doing later.
The next day (or after the dough has chilled 8 or more hours,) get your filling and glaze ready. I'm going to use canned blueberry pie filling because I have some on hand, but many recipe websites have directions for making homemade fruit fillings. (For example, here are recipes for nine different kolache fillings.)
According to the Smithsonian cookbook and according to what I've read around the internet, prune, apricot, and poppy seed fillings are traditional. My mother would probably have called these fruit pockets and filled them with spicy applesauce. She loved applesauce as an old-timey fruit filling.
|A folded kolatsche from Austria. Image from Wikimedia.
My kolaches will be folded something like this, but
I don't think the filling will be completely covered.
Here is the recipe for egg glaze that the recipe book gives. I have not decided if I'll use this glaze, or just drizzle a little powdered-sugar glaze on them after they've baked. Or maybe I'll brush the hot kolaches with a little melted butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
2 tablespoons butter, softened.
To assemble the kolaches, place some of the dough on a well-floured surface and pat it out to about 1/2 inch thick. Then cut it into 2 inch squares. Take a square, flatten it a little more, and place 1 teaspoon fruit filling in the center of it. Join diagonal corners of the square and squeeze the dough together a little to fasten at the center of the kolache. (Repeat for the other two corners.)
Brush tops of the kolaches with the egg glaze. Place on a well-greased cookie sheet. Let them rise. Bake at 350° until lightly-browned.
These are kolache recipes I'm going to try in the future:
- http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/texasczech/kolaches/Kolache%20recipe.htm
- http://czechmatediary.com/2007/05/18/kolache-recipe/
- http://www.toledoblade.com/Food/2012/02/05/Dinner-Tonight-Kolaches.html
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If you follow the news at all, you've probably seen Paul Krugman — Princeton professor, New York Times columnist, and Nobel Prize-winning economist — championing the idea that government spending can lift us out of the economic crisis. What you may not know is that Krugman is also a huge science fiction fan.
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"I read [Isaac Asimov's] Foundation back when I was in high school, when I was a teenager," says Krugman in this week's episode of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast, "and thought about the psychohistorians, who save galactic civilization through their understanding of the laws of society, and I said 'I want to be one of those guys.' And economics was as close as I could get."
Krugman isn't the only economist who's into science fiction. He also counts Brad DeLong at Berkeley and many of the contributors to the Crooked Timber blog among fans of the genre.
"I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction," says Krugman. "It's speculative, we're thinking about what society could be like."
Krugman's involvement in the science fiction world peaked in 2009 when he attended the World Science Fiction convention in Montreal and joined author Charles Stross for a free-wheeling, hour-long discussion.
"The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking," he says. "It's great to get to talk to people … I mean, Charlie, of course, more than basically almost anybody on the planet, but people who are really willing to think outside of any box that you can imagine."
Despite growing up as a shy, nerdy kid, Krugman is now one the most prominent figures in the media landscape, aided in no small part by the rise of the internet and blogs, which are enabling interesting people with specialized knowledge to attract a fanbase like never before. A development, Krugman is quick to point out, that was predicted by science fiction.
"If you read Ender's Game, his brother and sister actually end up shaping planetary debate through their online aliases, and the debates they have with each other under assumed names," Krugman says. "So all of this was prefigured, which is why science fiction is good for your ability to think about possibilities."
Read our complete interview with Paul Krugman below, in which he analyzes the cashless future of Star Trek, talks about his economics paper "The Theory of Interstellar Trade," [PDF] and evaluates whether or not it makes good business sense to invest in a Death Star. Or listen to the interview in Episode 61 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast (link above), which also features a discussion between hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Sarah Brand about economics and corporations in fantasy and science fiction.
Wired: You've said that you recently agreed to write a new introduction to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. What will you be talking about in your introduction?
Paul Krugman: The background story is, I read Foundation back when I was in high school, when I was a teenager, and thought about the psychohistorians, who save galactic civilization through their understanding of the laws of society, and said "I want to be one of those guys." And economics was as close as I could get. Those are pretty unique novels — they really are structured nothing like even the great bulk of science fiction, because they are about how social science can be used to save humanity.
Wired: In recent years you seem to have a very good track record of predicting what's going to happen. Do you ever feel like in some way you've achieved your dream of becoming a psychohistorian?
Krugman: Well, no. I mean, a little bit, fine. But two things. One is, it's a pretty limited domain. I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. In economics we do have some … you know, we don't exactly have the laws of psychohistory, but we do have some pretty good guidelines. The other thing, of course, is in Foundation, Hari Seldon is able to put together his long term plan and actually nudge history in the direction he wants it to go, and so far I'm feeling not like Hari Seldon but like Cassandra. I keep on predicting bad things, no one will believe me, and then they happen.
Wired: Is science fiction something that a lot of economists are into?
Krugman: I think it's fairly common. Not everyone, obviously, but social scientists in general … I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. It's speculative, we're thinking about what society could be like. Never mind the gadgets, although they create the alternative worlds, but a lot of it is thinking about society.
Wired: You also mentioned that you recently re-read Frank Herbert's Dune. What was it like going back and re-reading books like Dune and Foundation? Are they any different from what you remember?
Krugman: First of all I think I have more appreciation for the craft of writing. You know, when you're 14 or 15 and you're reading things like this, you're enjoying it, but I think there's an extra depth that comes from having tried to be a writer, even if you're a writer of — at least allegedly — nonfiction. Things were very different. When I first read Dune, I thought it was great fun. When I re-read it recently, it was, "Wow, there's a guy who had a vision. This is not just an interesting novel. This is somebody who created a universe for himself that he really, really cared about," and that shines through in a way that it probably did when I was 14 or 15 when I read it, but I have a deeper appreciation. And re-reading Foundation … again, there's a lot more craftsmanship in those books than you might think. It was a very young Isaac Asimov, and he wasn't Tolstoy, but there's actually a lot more in the way of creating a form of storytelling that now I think I can appreciate in a way I didn't when I first read it.
Wired: Back in 2009 you appeared as a guest at the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal. Was that your first science fiction convention?
Krugman: Yeah, it was. And I really went because I thought it would be fun — as it was — to talk with Charlie Stross. That was a really interesting experience, and I may do it again if schedules mesh. The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking, and my usual world is one where, you know, I like to hope that my friends and the people whose work I admire are adventurous thinkers, but we do tend to stick pretty close to the ground on a restricted set of issues, and it's great to get to talk to people … I mean, Charlie, of course, more than basically almost anybody on the planet, but people who are really willing to think outside of any box that you can imagine.
Wired: How did you end up doing that? Did you see that Charlie Stross was going to be there, and you got in touch with them? Or did they reach out to you?
Krugman: They reached out to me, because I've written about him. I'm actually somewhat involved with the guys at Crooked Timber, which is an interesting blog that's a mixture of economists and political scientists and philosophers, and actually many of them science fiction fans, and they do book symposia, and some of them knew me and knew that I was a Charlie Stross fan, so I went in, they had a symposium on Charlie Stross, and I think things keyed off from there.
Wired: So how did you become a Charles Stross fan?
Krugman: I think I probably was just browsing in a bookstore. As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. I think I stumbled across The Family Trade, but then discovered that there's much more.
Wired: Yeah, I saw you described those books as "economic fiction worth reading." What is it about the economics in those books that you thought was interesting?
Krugman: The Family Trade novels involve some people who, for reasons that are not entirely clear, are able to step between alternative histories and move back and forth, and the world they come from is actually one where basically civilization has not done too well, where North America is a collection of medieval kingdoms and pretty backwards. And they of course have access to 21st-century America, so they can bring back this technology and catapult their society into the modern world.
But they don't. The society is still backwards, with just an elite that has luxuries that they can import from our universe, but they leave both the poverty and the oppressiveness of their society largely unchanged. Which is what really happens, as I said in the stuff I wrote for the Crooked Timber seminar. And Charlie actually makes the analogy. I mean, Saudi royals can go and get their education in the United States or England, and bring their western luxuries, but when all is said and done they're still feudal lords of a feudal society, and it's a lot harder to change a society than you might think. So the stories are very much about how just knowing that there's a technology, knowing that an economy can be run more productively, doesn't necessarily bring you into the modern world.
Wired: Those books actually have more of a fantasy flavor than science fiction. Do you read a lot of fantasy as well?
Krugman: There is a genre of fantasy that I am sometimes a sucker for, which is the "novels of prophecy," where there's a destiny, and little by little it unfolds, and there are revelations and prophecies, and things gradually fall into place, something like the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time novels, which I'm a sucker for mainly because life is not anything like that. Sometimes I need an escape from what life is really like, which is one damn thing after another. And the great thing about the Foundation novels is he manages to have in many ways the structure of a cycle of prophecy novels, except that the prophecies are not mystical, but because Hari Seldon and the laws of psychohistory tell you what's going to happen next.
Wired: I've noticed that in your public statements you often make science fiction references. For example, you've said that an alien attack would end the recession in 18 months, and you recently said that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has been "assimilated by the Borg." What kind of reactions do you get to those sorts of references?
Krugman: Well, it's funny. I mean, we live in a culture where science fiction has gone … when I was a teenager, it was very marginal, and nobody knew about it and serious people didn't refer to it, but it's made a lot of inroads into our culture, and "assimilated by the Borg" means, you know, a lot of us understand, that's a very quick, very powerful metaphor for takeover by a set of institutional norms that you really shouldn't be taken over by.
Now, the problem, as it turns out, is that I think lots and lots of people know what that means, but "lots and lots of people" did not, as it turned out, include all of the editors of The New York Times Magazine, so I had to include some sentences explaining what that was about. That felt a little funny, but I guess not everybody has quite the same cultural tastes I do. The alien attack thing … there have probably been 700 movies like that — half of them starring Will Smith. Just to give you a notion of "get us to spend on something." That's a story people can understand.
Wired: Back in 1978 you wrote an economics paper called "The Theory of Interstellar Trade." Can you tell us what that was about?
Krugman: Yeah, so first you have to understand, I was an assistant professor at that point, which actually in retrospect of course is a wonderful thing. It's a nice job, and the worst that can happen is you end up at the number 20-ranked school by the time you get tenure instead of the number one. But it feels, at the time, you know, you're in your 20s, and it seems like there's a steep climb, and you're having trouble getting anybody to pay attention, and out of frustration I blew off some steam by writing a little piece on interstellar trade.
The joke was, since time of shipment is a big factor — even, actually, in real international trade — and time of shipment would be much longer in interstellar trade, how much time do you spend on shipment, considering we've got the theory of relativity, which says that it depends on the observer? So, you know, playing with that. And because I was blowing off steam, I actually did the economics right, so as I said in the introduction, this was a serious treatment of a ridiculous subject, which is the opposite of what we usually do in economics.
There is a joke page — or there used to be — in the Journal of Political Economy, and I sent it to them, and they didn't get it at all, so I just sat on it. But it circulated in samizdat for several decades, and in 2008 finally some people said, "Hey, can we publish this thing?" So 30 years afterward it actually got into print in the journal Economic Inquiry.
It ended up saying that it actually doesn't matter how much time elapses on the spaceship, it's the time that elapses in the frame of reference of the people doing the investing that matters, which is of course obvious if you think about it for a second, but I was able to have some fun, and among other things put in a diagram of Minkowski spacetime, which has an imaginary time axis … which was a blank page, because, after all, it's just imaginary. So I was having some fun.
Wired: In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, a character asks Captain Picard how much it cost to build the Enterprise, and he replies, "The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity." What do you think about that?
Krugman: I will say, even with all my science fiction-y stuff, that in economics … it's not that things never change, but they change much more slowly — the underlying principles change much more slowly — than most people imagine. You can read John Maynard Keynes or Irving Fischer from the 1930s, and except for a few archaic turns of phrase it looks like they're describing what's happening right now. My friend — and actually fellow science fiction fan — Brad DeLong at Berkeley, actually says that Walter Bagehot's book from the 1870s about financial crises reads better than most of the articles you'll see in the popular press these days.
It's true that the laws of economics are really quite different for the 21st century than they were in the 15th century, because we didn't really have many of the features of a market economy back then. And maybe by the 24th century it'll be different again, but I'm not so sure about that optimistic view of Captain Picard. One thing I think we see is that greed has a way of breaking through, no matter what we do on other fronts.
Wired: Well, I think that's interesting, because I think most people would look at what Captain Picard says there and say that could never happen because of human nature, because people are too greedy, but it makes me wonder, if we were able to genetically engineer people to be more altruistic, would that kind of system work, or are there still benefits to having a currency?
Krugman: A market economy does have some desirable features, even leaving aside the question of greed and all that. In a way it behaves like a computer. If you're going to make a decision between doing this and doing that, and there are resources, and you're wondering "How do I evaluate those trade-offs?" And the answer is that market prices make it easy, it's just one price — how much does this cost versus how much does that cost, and it's not perfect, but much of the time it's not a bad way of assessing what the actual trade-offs for society as a whole are.
So you can represent an idealized market economy as the solution to an optimization problem. And on that optimization problem, the Lagrangians are going to tell you they look an awful lot like market prices. I think we're probably going to have something like a market as far as the eye can see, although actually by the 24th century, since the artificial intelligences will probably be doing everything … I don't know how they'll do it, but we don't need to know because they'll do it.
Wired: You've mentioned that you're a fan of Iain M. Banks. What do you think about the sort of post-scarcity economy depicted in his Culture series?
Krugman: Well, again, that's what you'd love to see, and at some level, maybe eventually we can get there. We actually do know that money, that wealth, ceases mattering very much at the margin as people get sufficiently rich. It really is true that beyond a certain point … it's not that wealth doesn't matter at all, but that wealth doesn't make very much difference to people's welfare, and that other things matter very much more. So you'd like to imagine that we could eventually get to a point where we really are post-scarcity.
But it's a hard road. John Maynard Keynes wrote an optimistic essay called "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" [PDF] in the '30s where he talked about once the world was four times or eight times as rich as it was when he was writing, at that point we would no longer be concerned about material things and we could get past all of this striving and greed. And actually we are about as much richer as we were supposed to be according to his projection, and somehow the striving and greed is still with us. So it's a further away goal than we'd like to imagine.
There was a very early Heinlein novel that I ran across once in the library at Yale University — which was written in the '40s — which was a Keynesian novel. The whole problem was that people wouldn't spend enough, and so everything about society was designed to keep the spending going. I forget the name of it — it was actually a pretty bad novel — but it was interesting to see him playing with that idea.
Wired: There's a company called Planetary Resources that's planning to do real-life asteroid mining. What do you think about that business model?
Krugman: The first thing I thought when I saw that was, "Aha, and so the evil villain hijacks whatever the system is to move the asteroids into mining position and aims one at earth." Haven't we seen that movie many times? It's one of those things where it's just like, surely we've seen enough dystopian movies like that, that I probably wouldn't go there just on that basis.
Wired: Speaking of dystopias, dystopian novels are really popular right now. If you had to imagine a likely scenario for how the US could turn into a completely dystopian society, what would it be?
Krugman: It's not that hard. I mean, in some ways, when I'm having a bad day, I try to think, "What are the possible routes by which we don't turn into a dystopian society?" I mean, we've got the environmental threat, which I try not to think about too often because I don't know what to do given the political environment. But that's huge hanging over us. We are, economically, failing to deal with this crisis we've got, and there's real echoes of the 1930s in a lot of what's going on politically, mostly in Europe, but there's some of it here too. And information technology has been so far by and large a force for liberation, but it's not too hard to see how it could turn into a force for the opposite.
Wired: In your book The Conscience of a Liberal, you make the point that a middle class society was the result of government policy during the New Deal. And that just makes me wonder, was that just a bizarre accident that the biggest war in the history of the world happened to coincide with the most liberal president in the country's history, creating this middle class society, and that that's just going to be a historical accident. And so projecting into the future, things are just going to go back to normal, which is wealthy aristocrats and starving peasants?
Krugman: Well, I don't think it was totally an accident, because the truth is the same developments took place in a number of places. You know, Britain did the same transformation we did — actually more thoroughgoing than ours even over the same period. And a lot of the rest was at least partially because we as the victors of the war helped spur the reforms, but it wasn't just an accident. We were certainly lucky in FDR, but it was a pretty likely outcome. But looking forward, it's quite possible that the long run state, that the natural state, except for special episodes, is one of extreme inequality.
One of the more fun things I wrote was back in 1996, before I was a regular writer for the Times, but I was asked to write something for the Times Magazine. That was the hundredth anniversary of the Times Magazine, and people were supposed to write essays that were written as if looking backwards from the year 2096. It's funny because very few of the writers were actually willing to do it; they were too serious. But I was, and I wrote of a society where basically not just the middle class was gone but education was devalued and wealth came largely just from owning resources — back to the old days of a resource-based aristocracy.
We still think of that "Ozzie and Harriet society," or whatever you want to call it, that pretty decent society — obviously with its problems, but pretty decent in terms of the middle class — that we had for a generation after World War II as being somehow the natural end state of modern technology, modern development, and I guess the balance of the evidence says, no, that's not how it works.
Wired: There's been a lot of discussion lately among economists about whether it makes sense to build a Death Star. This debate picked up this year after some Lehigh University students estimated that just the steel for a Death Star would cost $852 quadrillion, or 13,000 times the current GDP of the Earth. Do you think that a battle station is worth that kind of investment, especially considering that the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force?
Krugman: Yeah, I think that's probably right, and also, in general, you have to think that the basic trend in military technology — as with everything else — has been towards small and deadly. I think more likely we're going to have microscopic drones that can kill everybody. So the Death Star is a very antiquated vision of what evil will look like. Evil will come in stylish, Steve Jobs-inspired designs.
Wired: There was a Newsweek profile of you that quotes your mom as saying, "He was so shy as a child that I'm shocked at the way he turned out." So how'd you go from being a shy, nerdy kid to being the kind of guy who goes around arguing with powerful people on television?
Krugman: Oh, but that's really easy, that's impersonal. It's an odd thing. Put me in a one-on-one with somebody, and I'm just me and probably still the same as I always was. And it's also practice, right. The first time I wrote columns, which was many years ago, I was actually a really stiff writer. I had to learn how to do that better. The first time I was on TV I was awful.
Wired: You had a recent blog post in which you compared your number of Twitter followers to people like Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and Sarah Palin. What effect does that kind of social media have on your role as a newspaper columnist?
Krugman: I actually don't tweet. I have a kind of bot that tweets when I put up a blog post. Blogs turn out to be my sort of thing, but 140 character droplets not. It's only when there's something that's really breaking, when I really want to know what's happening, I'll read some news Twitter feed, but aside from that I don't, so I'm not much into the social media thing.
What it does mean is that I've got an audience. What's happened is that the blogosphere has turned into a really effective means of having rapid fire, real time intellectual discussion, and I guess the social media helps to bring that together, because people are more aware of what's happening in an even shorter period of time. But I don't do social media directly myself because I'd be swamped.
Wired: Does that give you more independence, do you think, because even if The New York Times were to fire you, you would still have this online audience?
Krugman: Well, that's not what I think of much, but I think the Times is aware of the online audience. That's the kind of thing that they want to see happening, and they're even friendlier than they would be otherwise, but … you know, things are happy with me and the Times right now, because I sell papers. And I actually sell digital subscriptions too, and the Times paywall thing is going pretty well, so we're all happy.
Wired: Do you have any ideas about how punditry might develop into the future with all this electronic stuff?
Krugman: It's interesting. It does mean that you don't have to have the imprimatur of a major media organization, and I'm not sure exactly how major media organizations are going to survive in the long run. I think the Times is doing pretty well at this, but it's a long, tough haul. So it does mean that anybody who is smart and writes well and is able to react can get into this.
I think we thought for a while that it was going to be very democratizing, and it turns out not to be. It turns out that because people have limited attention and have to make priorities, you end up with what is a very hierarchical system, in which a few people really do garner the great bulk of the attention in any particular area of discussion. So I'm not sure whether it may not even at some level be even more oligarchic, in a peculiar sort of way, than the old system. But it certainly means that there's more variety of the ways in which somebody can come to have an intellectual role in shaping discussion.
By the way, science fiction prefigured that. If you read Ender's Game, his brother and sister actually end up shaping planetary debate through their online aliases, and the debates they have with each other under assumed names. So all of this was prefigured, which is why science fiction is good for your ability to think about possibilities.
Wired: So your new book is called End This Depression Now! What's that about?
Krugman: Well, look, we're suffering the greatest economic disaster since the 1930s. An enormous human cost, never mind the dollars. We've got 13 million people unemployed, another probably 12 million or so that are involuntarily underemployed, 4 million people who've been out of work for more than a year. This is a huge catastrophe, and it doesn't have to be happening. The basic economics of how to solve this are very clear, and have been confirmed by recent events. There are quite straightforward policies that could bring us out of this very fast, but we're not doing it, and we're not doing it partly because no one is making that case clearly and effectively.
I've been trying, in the column and in the blog, but those short form arguments have their limits. If I make some point in a column or a blog post, people will say, "Well, but what about this?" or "What about that?" And the answer is, "Well, actually I've answered those on a previous occasion." But it's just a series of memos. So the book takes all that and puts it together. The arguments about why this doesn't have to be happening, why the objections to the things that could get us out — which is first and foremost government spending, temporarily, but we need the government spending now, some change in monetary policy, and some work on debt relief. It puts all that together in one place, with some new material also, but presenting that long form argument. There's still a place for books that make a long form argument in an attempt to move the discussion, to get us to actually, finally, after trying all the alternatives, do the right thing.
Wired: If people want to keep up with you and other economists online, which websites and blogs should they be following?
Krugman: I read The New York Times, The Financial Times — the Financial Times has a blog, FT Alphaville, which is just for market stuff, but the next stop is a blog called Economist's View, which is Mark Thoma at the University of Oregon. It's a personal blog, but he actually gathers material and produces what really amounts to a daily economics magazine, with links to much of the stuff that's going on out there in the discussion. Brad DeLong at Berkeley has a more personal blog. He was there first; he was an inspiration to me to start doing it, and he's still a really interesting guy. I read a bunch of others in rotation, but I think basically I start each morning with those, and then I actually usually read a couple of more political blogs: Ezra Klein at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent, also at the Washington Post, on more politics, The Washington Monthly. And at that point it's time to prepare the next class, so I move on from the blogosphere and start putting my lecture notes together.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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WSJ: Apple's Chamber departure not in shareholders' interests
The editorial singled out both Apple and Nike, two companies that recently forfeited their stake in the Chamber over its stance on greenhouse gas emissions. It noted that former Vice President Al Gore, a member of the Apple Board of Directors, stands to profit from potential anticarbon legislation.
"Mr. Gore has also invested in renewable energy technologies that could make him even richer than he already is if new climate rules make renewables more competitive with carbon energy," the Journal asserted.
It also noted that Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, also sits on the board of Nike. The editorial suggested that the timing of both companies' departure was not an "accident."
The Journal suggested that the tax impact for both companies would be relatively small. Under the proposed Boxer-Kerry bill in the Senate, Apple's carbon taxes would reportedly be between $43 million and $108 million a year. And Nike, the report said, has most of its factories overseas.
It concluded that companies should not "dump" the Chamber over one issue. If every company did that, it said, the Chamber wouldn't be able to serve anyone's interests, as it would be too worried about each individual company's specific agenda, rather than the health of business in general.
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But Apple earned accolades as well, from U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who called the move "wonderful." Greenpeace, too, applauded Apple's decision to leave the group.
Recently, the Chamber threatened litigation if the EPA enacts greenhouse gas regulations. The Chamber would rather see Congress set policy through legislation. That caught the ire of Apple and Nike.
While Apple left the Chamber entirely, Nike only withdrew from its board. The shoe-maker has retained its membership. Preceding them in departure were three utility companies, Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM Resources and Exelon.
Last month, Apple began reporting its carbon emissions on its Web site. The company noted that its products produce a great deal more emissions than its operations.


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6-1 Avalanche win tonight. Doesn't get much better.
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I was like a kid, sitting on the bench kind of re-living the Vernon fight and the Osgood fight. It's kind of similar, pretty cool. I'm giddy right now. It's so fun to win like that and such a difference from the last few years. (Roy) is leading the charge here and we're ready for it … Maybe it was a little much at the end there, but that's alright we sent a message.
Bordy threw a head fake on the guy and it kind of went from there and it turned into an old-fashioned donnybrook. It was old-time hockey. Hopefully we're sold out after next game after that. I don't think the fans could ask for anything more than we gave them tonight.Bordeleau:
Patty (Roy) said nothing crazy at the end. They for sure rushed at us. I didn't even hit the guy in front of the bench. They rushed at us, like three guys, so me and McLeod dropped the gloves to get 'er going.Roy:
When it's 6-0 I don't think this game needs this type of cheap shot. But after that obviously there was some talk from coaches, I guess, but at the same time what should I do? He put his fourth line on the ice and I'm not going to go with my first line, and I went with my fourth line and that's it. I've been matching (lines) all night long by the way.The knee-on-knee by Lovejoy:
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Clarksville, Tenn. – The Tennessee State women's golf cut 14 strokes off from the first round performance at the F&M Bank Austin Peay Intercollegiate. The Tigers finished with a 346 over the final round on the Par-72, 5,960 yard Clarksville Country Club.
Kelly Merkel (89-81=170), Natalie Spicer (90-86=176), Amelia Dap (95-86=181) and Laura Bremer (101-93=194) lowered their scores from their day one scores to post the four scoring totals for TSU.
Merkel dropped eight strokes during Tuesday's round by hitting six fairways, nine greens, making 33 putts and converting up-and-downs on 10 and 14. On the par-4, 14th, Merkel hit a drive into the right side tree line off the box and punched out to set up a wedge shot to 10 feet from the hole. The putt helped save par.
Spicer used a 4-over, 40 on the back nine to finish with the Tigers second lowest two-day total. Spicer recorded nine pars on the day as she hit nine of 13 fairways.
Dap opened the day on the par-5, 16th, where she hit one of her nine fairways and found one of the 11 greens on the day as she started with a par. Dap shot a 39 on the back nine and equaled Spicer for the second lowest Tigers score during round two.
The Tigers will compete in the final event of the fall on Oct. 28-29 at the Charles Braun Jr. Intercollegiate. The tournament hosted by the University of Evansville will consist of two 18-hole rounds.


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text: Help a frog to jump along a number line. Estimate the finishing point on a number line, after adding or subtracting multiples of hundredths to a starting number. For example, 1.72 + (11 x 0.07) = 2.49. Explore the patterns made on a counting grid and number line. Identify counting rules that match the pattern of 'landing spots' on a counting grid. This learning object is one in a series of seven objects.


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Skeletal remains buried in a shallow grave were located next to the Eel River near the 83000 block of Highway 271 near Piercy this week. Forensic anthropologists have been called in to help recover and identify the body.
An unidentified Humboldt County family has kayaked on the Eel River in this area for many years, according to media sources. A few years ago they spotted the tip of a white sneaker poking out of the ground a few yards up from the normal river level. They believed it was debris washed up on the river"s shore until Monday. Monday during a kayaking and mushroom hunting excursion they noticed the tip of a second shoe poking up suspiciously next to the other one.
One family member investigated what turned out to be the shallow grave site, tugging at one of the shoes until the foot came away with it. The horrified family called the Mendocino County Sheriff"s Office which investigated Tuesday morning. Deputies at first wondered whether this was some kind of Halloween prank, but an examination of the gravesite changed this to a serious investigation.
Detectives have asked for help from the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Chico to assist with recovering the remains.
Sources say the sneakers appear to be men"s Nike ProWings.
Anyone with information in regards to this case is urged to contact the Sheriff"s Office Tip-Line by calling (707) 234-2100.


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The liberalization of energy markets in Europe is well underway, but just as this significant transformation is taking shape, a new one is already emerging: the energy industry and utilities are experiencing the introduction of smart metering and smart grids. These industry changes are, in unison, strongly influencing the development of the market right across the board, from infrastructure and investment questions to pricing and company structures. Continuous, rapid change is a trend that is gaining pace across all industries, but in particular in the energy industry.


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This month, I'm asking readers "Who are you? What are you looking for here?" Follow the link to share your reasons, questions and speaking challenges. Cate, an intern in a major multinational corporation's intern program, writes that she wants help with:
....Speaking clearly with excitement. I've been told over and over that I need to speak more slowly because I have a British accent. Now, apparently I don't sound enthusiastic enough - even when I think I'm being enthusiastic my Canadian friend tells me that I am all British and dry. I have no idea how to manage this feedback, what is possible to fix, and how I would go about it (I currently live in Canada).Conveying enthusiasm can be an infectious and persuasive tool for presenters, helping to put your point across or win the support you're seeking. While this could be a cultural issue, I'd suggest you try these do's and don'ts for expressing enthusiasm to be sure you're using all the tools in the toolbox first.
- Do consider how your audience feels about your topic. Is it one they can easily become excited about? If so, take advantage of that by asking them to share their thoughts to build a sense of excitement in the room. If not, figure out which aspects they can get behind, and emphasize those.
- Don't forget to share your own enthusiasm. If you're presenting about the most challenging analysis you've done to date, or the most frustrating, or the one that answers a question you've always had, confide that to your audience. Sharing your personal enthusiasm is a great way to connect with your audience.
- Do check your vocal variety and inflections. Be sure you're varying your pitch, tone and pace appropriately. Are you using strategic pauses? Emphasizing important words? Avoiding a sing-song or monotone quality to your voice? Try these vocalizing tips to add variety and a more enthusiastic sound. Don't forget projection, either: If they can't hear you, the audience might well assume you're not excited.
- Don't stand your ground. Standing in one spot is a sure-fire way to drain your energy and that of your audience. The more you move, the more you can use your stance, pace and position to convey your points strongly and with excitement and energy that's visible to all.
- Do check your gestures. No need to leap into the air, but be sure you've thought through places in the presentation where a strategic gesture can add some excitement or drive your point home.
- Don't forget to smile. Most mouths naturally turn downward or are flat-lined when at rest, making you look neutral at best and sad at worst. Smiling not only helps you by creating chemical reactions that make you feel better, it also corrects that natural tendency and helps counteract the impression that you just don't care.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Even before Election Day, everyone from economists to political junkies have been warning America about the potential fiscal cliff come January 1st.
The cliff essentially refers to two things that happen at the end of the year. First, tax cuts expire December 31st. One day later, automatic federal spending cuts are poised to take effect.
That's one reason President Barack Obama is pushing for a tax increase of Americans who make more than $250,000 a year.
Many economists are forecasting another recession if the president and Republicans in the House of Representatives can't agree upon a compromise.
Mr. Obama made his case Friday for the tax hike on the wealthiest Americans.
"If we're serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue," said Obama. "And that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes."
Joe Krier at Krier Wealth Management said people will likely notice the fiscal cliff in their paychecks.
"Instantaneously, one thing you'd notice is your paycheck is going to be smaller and that's probably going to happen unless you get a nice raise at the end of the year," said Krier.
Krier said the tax cuts were put in place by the Obama administration but they were temporary and just happen to be expiring at the same time spending cuts will take effect.
"It was part of the recovery from the banking crisis and real estate bubble," said Krier. "They were put in there in 2008 and 2009 to jump start the economy."


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Altering its forecast on the state of the European economy in 2012, the European Commission said that the euro area would shrink instead of expanding, largely because of Spain and Italy. The two countries are expected to be in for some difficult times as they cope with various economic woes.
Bloomberg reported that the EC changed its November forecast of 0.5% growth for the euro area to one of a contraction of 0.3%, due mainly to new predictions of a 1% contraction in Spain and 1.3% in Italy. European Union Economic and Monetary Commissioner Olli Rehn was quoted saying, "The euro area has entered into a mild recession. Prospects have worsened and risks to the growth outlook do remain, but there are signs of stabilization."
This will be the first time since 2009 that a full-year contraction Europe-wide has occurred. At the time the European economy suffered a 4.3% drop in the wake of the U.S. banking crisis, which revealed shortcomings in banking throughout Europe that launched the sovereign debt crisis.
Inflation was also predicted to rise higher than originally expected, with the November estimate of 1.7% giving way to a new expectation of 2.1%–higher than the European Central Bank's target of 2%.
Major factors in the revised prediction included the high unemployment rate in Spain, currently 22.9%, coupled with a burst housing bubble, substantial corporate debt and burdensome austerity measures. Italy too faces rising unemployment, additional austerity and little available financing for business, all expected to weigh on domestic consumer demand as the year progresses.
Greece and Portugal were also factored in, with November's expectation of a Greek contraction of 2.8% giving way to a new estimate of 4.4% and Portugal's 3% estimate changing to 3.3%.
Ireland is expected to grow for the second year in a row, albeit only at 0.5%, and even economic stalwarts Germany and France came in for lower growth estimates than originally expected. Germany's is down to 0.6% from 0.8%, and France is down to 0.4% from prior expectations of 0.6%. Both are expected to escape entering recession themselves.
Rehn also said that the downturn will be "rather mild and temporary, but the turnaround of the trend needs to be confirmed in coming months."


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What Now for Precious Metals?
Gold still glows, but even after a selloff, silver looks pricey.
Are precious metals losing their appeal or simply staggering after a stunning climb to the top of the investment heap? The surprise answer: It's a mixed bag.
Both gold and silver, derided by many experts as "extremist" investments less than a decade ago, had been on a tear. But when the price of silver briefly approached $50 an ounce in late April, worries about rampant speculation prompted U.S. commodities exchanges to require traders to put up more cash, raising the cost of buying the metal. That triggered a vicious selloff in early May that slashed silver's price by 30% in just one week.
Until the setback, the same factors had been driving up both gold and silver, says Russ Koesterich, chief global strategist at iShares. Precious metals are considered insurance against inflation and a crumbling dollar. With countries around the world running huge budget deficits and printing money like mad -- actions that tend to whittle away the value of a currency -- it's little wonder that both metals have thrived.
Silver has long been considered the poor man's gold because an ounce typically sells for 1.8% of the price of the yellow metal, says Koesterich. But at a May 11 price of $35, silver is selling for about 2.3% of the price of gold, suggesting that silver is overvalued by historical standards.
Admittedly, silver has industrial uses that gold does not. But there's been no rapid surge in industrial demand to account for the mismatch in gold and silver pricing, says Michael Fuljenz, president of Universal Coin & Bullion, in Beaumont, Tex. "I would hesitate to put any money in something that's risen that much without any fundamental reason to drive the price," he says. "The rise went too far, too fast."
Many experts predict that gold, on the other hand, has room to rise. Stephen Freedman, head of investment strategy at UBS Wealth Management, sees gold at $1,650 an ounce within a year, up from $1,502 on May 11.
Precious metals are part of a broad basket of commodities that belong in almost every portfolio to help cope with the ravages of a devalued dollar and inflation, says John Cadigan, managing director of Rydex/SGI Investments. "I call it angry investing," he says. "When you are standing at the gasoline pump cursing the $4 you're paying per gallon, the only way to fight back is to own some of that thing that's risen so much in price."
Cadigan expects commodity prices to continue to rise, largely because of rapid economic growth in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the so-called BRIC nations), where billions of consumers are entering the middle class for the first time and boosting the worldwide demand for products such as meat and wheat.
But he cautions against putting too much of your commodity dollars into precious metals. The reason: Prices of precious metals tend to swing based on emotional issues -- in particular fear and greed -- rather than due to supply and demand factors. That makes metal prices more volatile and less predictable than the price of, say, corn, cotton or pork bellies. "If you are trying to build an inflation hedge, putting 10% in commodities is very prudent," Cadigan says. "But if the commodity part of your portfolio is only in gold or silver, you are changing the risk profile of your portfolio and increasing volatility, rather than reducing it."
Our favorite vehicle for owning a broad basket of commodities is Harbor Commodity Real Return Strategy (symbol HACMX), a member of the Kiplinger 25. If you want to put a small amount of your money into gold, buy iShares Gold Trust (IAU), an exchange-traded fund that tracks the price of the metal and charges only 0.25% a year in fees.


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Athanasia Leivaditou, the architect of the highlighted project Athanasia Leivaditou's UMBRELLA COAT Raincoat explains, This raincoat is a combination of a rain coat, an umbrella and waterproof trousers. Depending on the weather conditions and the amount of rain it can be adjusted to different levels of protection. His unique feature is that it combines raincoat and umbrella in one item. With the "umbrella raincoat" your hands are free. Also, it can be perfect for sport activities like riding a bicycle. In addition in a crowded street you do not bump into other umbrellas as the umbrella-hood extends above your shoulders..
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On Saturday, American actor Sean Penn who starred in the award-winning 'Dead Man Walking' which featured two of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's tracks, came on a visit to Pakistan to meet and help the flood-victims of Badin.
This is not a first for Penn, who had extensively and actively taken part in the relief activities following the devastating earthquake in Haiti and is known for his social activism.
During a time when most people around the world, stay away from Pakistan out of fear, threat and the perception that has been created of it by the international media, Penn's sudden arrival sparked excitement and surprise in most quarters of the Pakistani people – while in the few rest, a typical and common reaction was evoked: of 'Ghairat' and 'Beyghayrat' [Honor and Dishonorable].
The members of this Ghairat Brigade, rued and lamented the existence of such days, when people from other countries come to dish out and toss 'alms' in the 'begging bowls' that have been thrust into the hands of the nation, by the corrupt rulers while they indulged in the orgy of deepening their own pockets [ This is precisely, their perception regarding foreign aid ] . And how 'Beyghairat' could our people get to smile at this and accept its occurrence?
Though, its quite a conundrum to determine how someone's genuine intention to bring succor to the distressed, is an act of foreigners coming to condescendingly chuck a few pennies for poor people, as they have made to look through the expression of their thoughts.
But now that the topic of 'dishonour and being dishonourable' has been approached, let us also be reminded of a bigger example 'Beghairat,' executed in the land of pure.
Beyghairat is that nation, out of which only a handful pay their tax. A nation, which justifies its wrongs as a 'natural' result of having wretched as leaders, which they themselves elect. A nation, that possesses the self-inflicted malady of amnesia; which forgets its forlorn after a customary time period of notice. One, that has selective compassion, tolerance and concern. One that refuses to accepts the best of its own, on the basis of their relationship with Him.
One that shamelessly makes choices when it comes to acknowledging its daughters, rising for Aafia Siddiqui, yet with blithe or no concern for Fakhra Younas, Zareena Marri or Uzma Ayub.
A nation, that spares no moment to spur into action out of indignation, when those outside seem to breach its sovereignity and integrity but has forever closed its eyes towards the trangressors rupturing the country and its very pith, from within. Pointing fingers at devils of foreign origins, intentionally unbeknownst to the sneering Satans inside.
A nation, that fancies drowning in denial, than facing the scorch and sear of the truth. One, that rushes to hold vigils for Steve Jobs, but never for those slayed everyday, from whose blood, this soil has been drenched red. A people, whose sensibilities are more hurt and whose outrage more elicited by a nude body and a distasteful show, instead of the charred body and dreams of a poor man in despair, who died in vain, hankering for a four-square meal for his children.
Beyghairat is a nation, which is fine with the sights of its future withering away begging in the morning, and sleeping the hunger pangs away on cold, stone footpaths at night. A nation, blind to the massacres and deaf to the plight of its own.
Come to think of it, the phenomena of 'Beyghairati' and all that it pertains, isn't really a phenomena – it is actually the nature and state of us, as a people.
So, when a nation that itself is audaciously inglorious, speaks on the tragedy of the lack of 'Ghairat' in Pakistan, it is nothing but a joke cloacked in glaring hypocrisy.
All apart, a hearty thank you to Sean Penn, for trying to aid the flood-hit of Badin, who have long been shoved back into neglect by us all.
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Archive for Monday, October 9, 2006
Economic development group losing executive director
The director of Leavenworth County's economic development group is going private.
Lynn McClure will step down Friday as executive director of Leavenworth County Development Corporation, which markets the county, in hopes of attracting new business and industry.
On Monday, he begins work as vice president for commercial loans at First State Bank and Trust's Basehor bank. There, McClure will take his knowledge about business into the private sector.
McClure has been with LCDC for more than two years.
"Lynn is very bright, and he works with companies to determine their viability," said Kent Needham, president and chief executive officer at First State Bank. "That same basic understanding of a business and viability is utilized in commercial credit decisions. ... I'm excited to have Lynn join our team. We've got a great group, and Lynn's going to fit in."
LCDC, along with its related organization, the Leavenworth County Port Authority, helped establish Tonganoxie's Urban Hess business park, north of Laming Road and U.S. Highway 24-40. LCDC also has been instrumental in attracting businesses to other areas of the county. And McClure has worked on numerous projects, including the proposed Kansas Turnpike interchange south of Tonganoxie.
McClure, 33, said his decision to leave LCDC was based on what's best for his family. He and his wife and two young children live in Basehor.
"Economic development work is great, and I love it," he said. "But your tenure is never very long, and I really don't want that for our kids, to be moving around. ... It was a good long-term decision for us. I really like it here. I like the people here. It's a win for me, and it's a win for my family."
And, he said, First State Bank is a unique operation.
"First State Bank is just something special, when it comes to banking," McClure said. "It's family, and that's not something you run into a lot in the banking world."
He said he plans to continue his work with Leavenworth County Development Corporation, as a volunteer.
Bill Petrie, president of LCDC's board, said the board met last week to form a search committee to find McClure's replacement. Petrie, of Commerce Bank in Leavenworth, said the committee would include a representative from Leavenworth County, the port authority, the cities of Basehor, Tonganoxie, Leavenworth and Lansing, and a member at-large. In addition, the LCDC five-member executive committee will be on the search committee, which will be led by Joe McAfee. LCDC currently has 85 member companies and individuals.
The search committee will begin work immediately, Petrie said.
"Lynn has a lot of balls up in the air, and a lot of good things are going on, and we can't let the momentum slow down," he said. "So we need to find a replacement as quickly as possible."
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If you're an aficionado of Apple products or live in the Bay Area, you may be gearing up to see what comes out of the 2013 Macworld/iWorld expo. True, Apple no longer attends, but the activities (and festivities) have continued on with the help of third-party vendors, developers, and an enthusiastic community.
As usual, Ars will be in attendance in order to sweep the Macworld/iWorld show floor. But that's not the only reason we'll be there: I'll be giving a tech talk on Thursday, January 31 at 3:00pm PST, accessible by those who have purchased the "iFan Pass" level ticket.
The talk is called "Hardening Your iPhone from Stalkers: What EVERYONE Should Know," which is based on a feature I wrote here on Ars last year. The talk combines the information from that feature with another piece I wrote about preserving voicemail evidence from your iPhone, with plenty of other tips and advice on what to pay attention to on your iPhone if you find someone stalking you (or someone you love).
Don't think it could happen to you? The US Department of Justice says 3.4 million people are stalked in the US every year—and those are only the cases people knew enough about to report. That's more than four times the entire population of San Francisco being stalked every single year—think about that while 25 apps on your iPhone automatically poll your location info in the background.
But wait, there's more! On Friday, February 1 at 1:25pm on the Main Stage, I'll be participating in a panel to discuss "The State of Apple 2013." Other speakers on the panel include Macworld Senior Editor Dan Moren, Daring Fireball's John Gruber, gdgt cofounder Ryan Block, and Wired staff writer Christina Bonnington. The five of us will discuss "the state of Apple, the things that are driving the market, and issues of interest to all users of Apple technology. You'll receive interesting insights into the products and people that shape our world and join in the fun of pontificating what might be coming next in the world of Apple products."
You can check out the Macworld/iWorld schedule for further information, descriptions, times, and locations for these talks. If you stop by, feel free to give me a shout on Twitter or actually say hello (yes, in real life)—I would love to see you and say hi!


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Researchers have concluded that children born with HIV lived longer and richer lives if their caregivers were trained to enhance their development. Formerly, African children with HIV infection died in a few years. Advances with antiretroviral therapy allow them to live longer, but with a poor quality of life. Michael Boivin, professor in the departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Michigan State University, and colleagues conducted a one-year study with 120 preschool-aged HIV-infected children living in rural Uganda and their caregivers.
Primary caregivers, many of whom were HIV-infected mothers, were exposed randomly either to a childcare training program called Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC) or an education program for improving children's health and nutrition. MISC used daily interactions at home to improve children's social skills, language, and cognitive ability. After the year, children of MISC-trained caregivers exhibited significantly greater developmental progress than the other children, including better memory and learning skills.
Fewer children of MISC-trained caregivers died of the opportunistic diseases that normally infect persons with a compromised immune system, compared to children in the other group. Boivin suggested that MISC-trained caregivers might have become more aware of the children's health needs and sought medical help in time to fight off illness. As a side effect, MISC-trained caregivers were significantly less depressed than the other group, after six months of the study. This might have been a result of the social support they received during MISC training.
The National Institutes of Health funded the study.
The full report, "A Year-Long Caregiver Training Program Improves Cognition in Preschool Ugandan Children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," was published online in the Journal of Pediatrics (2013; doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.06.055).


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Long Ago
June 27, 2007
Tonight's Lineup
Rollins, ss; Bourn, lf; Utley, 2b; Howard, 1b; Rowand, cf; Victorino, rf; Nunez, 3b; Ruiz, c; Moyer, p.
Notice Abraham Nunez is at third base. With Moyer change-of-speed pitching, right-handed hitters will pull the ball more often. Charlie Manual wants Nunez in their because of his excellent defensive skills. He's made two terrific plays this week.
Long Ago
Jamie Moyer's last start against the Cincinnati Reds came a long time ago—May 14, 1991 which is 16 years and 44 days. That is the third longest gap for a pitcher between starts against one team in Major League history.
The record is 18 years and 24 days held by Red Ruffing against the New York Yankees (1929-47).
Michael Bourn is 11-for-11 in the stolen base department. He leads all NL rookies . . . Last night's victory was the Phillies' 22nd come-from-behind variety, tops in the NL . . . Phillies are hitting .278 as a team at Citizens Bank Park . . . Chase Utley, Michael Bourn, Carlos Ruiz and Aaron Roward are all over .300 at home.
Reverse Omen?
Mike DiMuzio, Director, Ballpark Operations, brought up an interesting note:
Last time a Ruiz stole home in a Phillies game was 1964. For all you youngsters out there who aren't aware, Chico Ruiz stole home in the sixth inning with Frank Robinson at bat. The Reds won, 1-0. It became significant as that loss started a fatal 10-game losing streak that cost the Phillies the pennant.
Last night, Carlos Ruiz stole home as part of a double steal. Perhaps it is a sign of good things to come.
How many other Phillies catchers have stolen home?
That question was posed to a Skip (Memory Lane) Clayton, a Phillies history buff. His response: Bo Dias, June 28, 1982 and Stan Lopata, June 11, 1956. Records beyond the 1950s? "Skimpy," responded Skip.
All-Star voting deadline
Online balloting ends at midnight tomorrow: www.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2007/ballot_reg.jsp.
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The stealing of home is a beautiful thing… Was that the 2nd steal of home this season in baseball? I know Aaron Hill did it against the Yankees earlier in the season.
Did you see the commercial for the all star game? Looks like Howard and Utley are well represented: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoMDKLFKEuk