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Better Than Freedom
Slatewriters and editors share their favorite books of the year.
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
The Gen-X coming-of-middle-age novel we've all been waiting for, and, fittingly, none of us bought it. C'mon, people, skip an Angry Birds session and flip through this on your iPhone instead. It will leaven your anger, bake it up, and serve it back to you in the form of impolite metaphors, funny observations, and unheralded moments of non "ironic" emotion. You will also never look at a turkey wrap sandwich again without thinking of melancholy office life. Milo Burke, the book's hero, may be an overeducated loser, but he has the unfiltered wisdom of the condemned. Bonus titles: If you have kids, read them Hyewon Yum's There Are No Scary Wolves and Christoph Niemann's Subway.
— Michael Agger, senior editor
C by Tom McCarthy
I liked Tom McCarthy's debut novel, Remainder, so much that I read two-thirds of it without once leaving my seat. (I had the window on a trans-Atlantic flight. But still.) I enjoyed his latest effort, C, a densely allusive yet unpretentious work, even more. The opening section, on Serge Carrefax's turn-of-the-century childhood, is part Victorian pastiche (as Adam Kirsch put it in his review for Slate), part Freudian case study, part Atonement. I felt sorry when McCarthy let Serge grow up, but only momentarily—the character lives up to his promise. I relished his brief stay at a sanatorium on the continent (hat tip The Magic Mountain), his Grand Illusion-ish experiences in World War I, and his Forster-ian trip to Egypt. It is rare to find an unabashedly philosophical book that is also a page-turner, or an avant-garde text that is also accessible to anyone just along for the plot, or a historical novel that also feels completely contemporary. C is all of those things.— Juliet Lapidos, associate editor
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Weisberg's Law states that any Jew more religious than you are is mentally insane, while any Jew less religious is a self-hater. The Finkler Question demonstrates this rule's applicability in Britain, where the striations of Semitism have their own complications and subtleties. It centers on three old friends, one a goy who thinks he might be Jewish, one a Jew ashamed of Israel, and a third who thinks the other two must be nuts. Like Phillip Roth, to whom he is fairly compared, Howard Jacobson is a magnificent prose stylist who is often at his most serious when he is being uproariously funny. This novel, which won the Man Booker Prize this year, is both a send-up of some very silly people, and an examination of Jewish identity in relation to rising tides of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. I don't think you have to be Jewish to find it funny, touching, and troubling. — Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of The Slate Group
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
I read The Imperfectionists: A Novel in one sleepless gulp. It is a novel, as the subtitle informs you, but a multifaceted one: Each chapter stands as its own finely wrought short story about one of the various employees (and in one case a consumer) of a once-revered international newspaper based in Rome. For a group of professional observers, the journalists have whopping blind spots—the fossilizing stringer has never gotten around to purchasing a computer; the lonely business writer decides to date the very thief who robbed her. Rachman's prose is wildly witty but never arch, and even as his characters tangle themselves into absurd predicaments, you can't help but sympathize with them.— Sara Dickerman, contributor
The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason
I'm still a little disappointed that Zachary Mason didn't see fit to send Slate a custom-made Trojan Horse like the ones he sent to the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. The wooden horses contained copies of his debut novel, which Mason, a computer scientist by trade, wrote during weekends and lunch hours. It was a PR stunt worthy of Odysseus, the must cunning of the Achaeans and the star of Mason's book. The Lost Books reimagines Odysseus' life in a series of 44 impressively economical vignettes. Some, like the one in which the Ithacan king is portrayed as a cowardly deserter, challenge the image of the hero from Homer's epics. Others are more playful, like the one that addresses the age-old question: Are we really supposed to believe Odysseus didn't knock boots with Nausicaa? Almost all of them are wildly entertaining.
— John Swansburg, culture editor
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie used to be the most famous young writer of her generation, but today she's largely fallen off the public radar. The New Yorker Stories, a compilation of much of her best work from the '70s until this decade, is a bid to bring her back into the limelight. It's a startling collection. Beattie is perhaps best-known as a stylist (her cool, flat, journalistic prose sometimes gets her grouped—inaptly, I think—with the likes of Raymond Carver and Bobbie Ann Mason) or else as an MFA-program ideal of craftsmanship. But the greatest pleasure in these early stories is in their emotional pull: Beattie's characters of the '70s are young people foundering in nostalgia and quiet loss, trying to figure out how to move forward in a world where every choice is open but no markers of adulthood seem fixed. To a young person in today's recessionary lull, these early pieces are markedly, sometimes unsettlingly, resonant. To a student of a postmodern fiction, meanwhile, Beattie's recent stories are engrossing for their quiet innovation. The collection (which I reviewed at greater length in Slate) is not so much a museum of past work as a dynamic, entertaining, 32-year exploration of the form—a reminder that, in the hands of a career virtuoso, the short story is very much alive.— Nathan Heller, copy editor
Room by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue pulls off two feats in Room that I wouldn't have thought possible: She successfully uses the stuff of tabloid horror and the voice of a 5-year-old. Jack has never known any world but Room, where he lives with Ma. He spends nights in Wardrobe, tucked out of sight—though not out of hearing—when Old Nick unlocks Door and makes Bed, with Ma in it, creak. Jack counts "till he makes that gaspy sound and stops." When morning comes, if Skylight is all blurry, Jack knows it's raining, because that's what Ma has told him. "Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing." In evoking their barricaded life, trapped by a psychopath in his backyard shed, Donoghue explores many things: the mysteries of childhood, motherhood, time, reality, language, evil, hope, hopelessness, resilience. As Ma does for Jack, Donoghue proves a remarkable guide in the face of daunting obstacles.— Ann Hulbert, books editor
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Nearly every time my phone bleeps or I read some inane Web acronym I don't understand (pwow) or I see a Victoria's Secret ad or watch a Judd Apatow movie, some small part of my brain flashes back to Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story. The book has stuck with me much longer than I expected it would (I just had to beg my copy back from the person I lent it to)—and it took me a long time to realize why. Beneath the book's slightly absurd vision of a futuristic, tech-obsessed, police state America, and an even more absurd love pairing (sad sack Russian émigré Lenny Abramov and Korean hottie Eunice Park), there lie some very deep, recognizable, and true emotions: nostalgia for old New York, the pain of immigrant isolation, a love for musty old books and old-fashioned romance. In short, 1984 with a heart.— Hanna Rosin, founding editor of Double X
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
I had barely finished being aggrieved by the smug showiness of Joshua Ferris' first novel, Then We Came to the End, when my mother handed me a copy of his second novel, The Unnamed, and urged me to read it. The Unnamed tells the story of a successful lawyer seized by a compulsion to walk, walk, walk until he collapses. This compulsion—undiagnosable, unstoppable—disrupts and then massacres his life. The Unnamed shook me like nothing I've read since The Road, and in fact the novels are oddly similar. Both gruelingly dissect a human relationship (in each case a relationship central to my own life). I rarely remember my dreams, but The Road gave me nightmares about my two sons for weeks. The Unnamed does for marriage what The Road did for fatherhood. Its depiction of a happy marriage being shattered is almost unbearable. I read The Unnamed at bedtime, and each night when I closed the book, I would look at my dear wife empillowed next to me and think: Tomorrow, I am definitely not going for a walk.— David Plotz, editor
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Like her 2007 novel, The Keep, Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad is intricately crafted, wildly imaginative, and written with verve and grace. Egan's subject here is time, specifically its baffling intrusion on the punk-rock youth culture of the 1970s, which Egan evokes with deft precision through a series of interlocking narratives that jump forward and back in chronology. Her characters accept (indeed, celebrate) suffering and death, but growing old isn't on the playlist. The paradox of becoming middle aged in a culture defined by adolescent rebellion is a theme that also runs through Jonathan Franzen's much-celebrated Freedom, but Egan explores its nuances more successfully, and while I liked Freedom a lot I judge Goon Squad the better book. Give it to the superannuated goth in your life.— Timothy Noah, senior writer
The Backlash by Will Bunch
First, a disclosure: I'm in this book. In February 2010, Bunch and I shared the cost of a hotel room to cover the National Tea Party Convention; he split his time between gathering string for his book and reporting a story for his paper, the Philadelphia Daily News. I bring all of this up to say that The Backlash is not another book about conservatives that psychoanalyzes and dismisses them, or looks for political leaders and grants them soft coverage in the name of access. Bunch hustles, puts himself where the stories are, and lets people talk. He does not mock Tea Party activists. He argues with them, respectfully, and puts the results in his book. He does not treat that Nashville convention like a historical hinge point. He exposes what now seems obvious, that it marked the first surge of profit-seekers into the nascent grass-roots movement. This is the only book, so far, that coherently explains who led the counterrevolution to hope and change, why they did it, and why it worked. And it is the furthest thing from a political science slog.— Dave Weigel, political reporter
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Early in 2008, a college friend who was then a new analyst in Citibank's mortgage department picked me up from work in a company-expensed taxi, toting loads of company-expensed Thai takeout for us to share. She explained her job, which involved bundling auto loans, and it was the first time I'd heard someone use the phrase "repackaging shit."
Over the next couple of years, both before and after the fall of Lehman, I listened to lots of college friends explain where precisely they worked on the shit-repacking assembly line. I thought I had a pretty good picture of how it all worked. But it wasn't until I read Michael Lewis' The Big Short that I understood with clarity just how costly my free Citibank takeout really was. Lewis spins a thrillingly good, novelistic yarn around a handful of interlinked characters who reaped massive profits by betting against the subprime market (hedge-funder Steve Eisman, lone-wolf Michael Burry, and Greg Lipmann, among others), plus explains some of the most complicated financial maneuvering there's ever been. The Big Short wasn't just the book I devoured quickest this year—it was also by far the most important.
—Noreen Malone, contributor
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky
This was a banner year for legal nonfiction and picking just one favorite hurts my head. But I'm going with Erwin Chemerinsky's The Conservative Assault on the Constitution. It's a powerful, readable account of the ways in which recent changes at the Supreme Court have quietly impacted constitutional law in areas ranging from presidential power, civil liberties, church-state separation, and access to courts. Chemerinsky can explain even the most complex constitutional ideas in clear, urgent terms, and his firsthand accounts of participating in high-profile cases provides great background. As public interest in the meaning of the Constitution, the intent of the Framers, the nature of judicial "activism," and the role of judges continues to rise, this book is a crucial response to the question of what the Constitution was intended to preserve and why, as well as a call to action about the need to fight for it.— Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a detective story about a poor black woman and her magical cells. Born on a Southern tobacco farm, Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 after being treated for cancer at Johns Hopkins. Without her knowledge or consent, scientists cut cells from her cervix and cultured them. In the lab, they grew into a cell line, called HeLa, that proved more robust than any before it. Lacks' cells were the ingredients for research into everything from the polio vaccine to chemotherapy and gene mapping. Skloot follows the cells on their scientific journey, using them to teach us about major medical advances. Even better, she takes us deep into the Lacks family, which learns about HeLa almost by accident and then grapples with feeling excluded from its powers. "Them doctors say her cells is so important and did all this and that to help people," Lacks' daughter tells Skloot. "But it didn't do no good for her, and it don't do no good for us." This is a voice not often heard in discussions of science. Skloot gets credit for bringing it to the fore and carefully thinking through the hard questions surrounding informed consent. Best of all, her book sings. She spent 10 years reporting and writing, and the effort pays off—she has turned unlikely material into a pleasure read.— Emily Bazelon, senior editor
Mourning Diary, by Roland Barthes and NOX by Anne Carson
Two books on my best of list this year are about mourning: Roland Barthes'Mourning Diary and Anne Carson's NOX. Barthes' posthumously published Mourning Diary is a beautiful, lapidary portrait of mourning his mother over the course of about two years, before his own untimely death. (Barthes was hit by a laundry van and died some weeks afterward from the injuries he sustained.) Because the volume comprises notes toward a more fleshed-out book on mourning, it is fragmentary and repetitive—and captures the dislocated, searching mind of the mourner as brilliantly and movingly as any book I know. NOX is Anne Carson's elegy for her brother; a book in a box, it incorporates photographs and images as well as text in its drive to find a language for loss. A moving meditation on character and estrangement, it's also an examination of Catullus' poem 101, an elegy for his own brother. — Meghan O'Rourke, culture critic
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Reading is strange, when you think about it. And writing about reading, especially about the delirium of obsessed readers, the madness and melancholy of book lovers and scholars, can be even stranger. Few writers can capture these Chekhovian love affairs with the deadpan humor, charm, affection—and pitch-perfect voice—that Elif Batuman brings to The Possessed.
If you love reading you will love this book, which ranges from Batuman's half-serious (I think) effort to prove to Tolstoy scholars that Tolstoy was murdered, to a summer trip to Samarkand which results in a hilariously Borgesian attempt to explain the impossibly convoluted evolution of the Old Uzbek language. "What did you know about Uzbekistan once you learned that Old Uzbek had a hundred different words for crying?" she asks herself. "I wasn't sure, but it didn't seem to bode well for my summer vacation."
—Ron Rosenbaum, "Spectator" columnist
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
Samuel Steward was a man of obsessions. Born in 1909, his first love was literature, and he struck up lifelong friendships with Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and other prominent authors. Soon, though, his true passion came to dominate. He was preoccupied with sex, and he devoted his talents as a scholar, writer, and artist to the erotic. Steward's mania for self-scrutiny—he kept precise records of his "contacts" and "releases"—and his rejection of the shame that was supposed to accompany homosexual desire, led him to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. His passion for sailors, meanwhile, drove him to abandon his academic career to become a pioneering tattoo artist. Steward was a cranky loner—at the age of 73 he noted that though he had "slept with 807 persons for a total of 4647 times … I never had a 'love affair' with anyone, nor lived with him." Yet biographer Justin Spring has managed to transform such raw data into a loving chronicle of a fascinating life.— June Thomas, foreign editor
They Live by Jonathan Lethem
Novelist, essayist, and avowed sci-fi nerd Jonathan Lethem's They Live—a pocket-size ode to the greatness (and electric incoherence) of John Carpenter's 1988 film—takes as its object of affection a film some might rank in the sci-fi/horror genre maestro's top five, but few (not even Lethem) consider his best. Still, the movie proves ripe for exploration. Its premise: A Reagan-era, working-class vagabond (professional wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) dons special sunglasses, discovers a secret ruling class of yuppie aliens, and then sets about taking them down, one shotgun shell and lug-headed bon mot at a time. Lethem combines sharp-eyed scene-by-scene analysis with freewheeling riffs and tangents. Topics discussed include John Wayne's posture, the Tompkins Square riots, District 9, Jenny Holzer, and Slavoj Zizek's Marxist-Lacanian parsings. All the references keep the book percolating, rather than bogging it down—and it's a testament to the daffy riches of Carpenter's film that it more than sustains them.
—Jonah Weiner, pop critic
And keep in mind books published this year by Slate staffers and regular contributors: Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens; The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean; How To Become a Scandal by Laura Kipnis; All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera; Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski; Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz; The Sabbath World by Judith Shulevitz; Grounded by Seth Stevenson; The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam; Palinisms by Jacob Weisberg; The Master Switch by Tim Wu.


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Using My Planner
My Planner allows you to plan your courses for one semester or for future semesters by searching the course catalog or by using the academic requirements for your degree. To ensure that the courses added to your Planner will satisfy your degree requirements, it is suggested that you use the Plan by Requirements option.
- Sign into MyVWCC by clicking on the Login to MyVWCC link on the left of this screen or the MyVWCC link on the VWCC homepage.
- Click VCCS SIS: Student Information System.
- Click Self Service.
- Click Student Center.
- In the Academics section, click Plan. You may also click on the other academic drop-down menu,
select Academic Planner, and click the blue >> button.
Using the Plan By My Requirements Option
- On the My Planner page click Plan By My Requirements.
- You may also use the Browse Course Catalog option, but the suggested method for using My Planner is the Plan By My Requirements option. Using this option ensures that the planned courses will satisfy your degree requirements.
- The required courses for your degree program will be displayed on the page.
NOTE: When the requirement is satisfied the system default is to collapse the requirement. When the requirement is not satisfied the system default is to expand the requirement.
- The example below is from the General Studies degree requirement for ENG 111/112.
Use this button to collapse all of the sections of a report.
Use this button to expand all of the sections of a report.
Indicates if a class has been completed.
Indicates if a class is currently In Progress and not yet graded.
Indicates if a class is planned.
- The example below is from the General Studies degree requirement for ENG 111/112.
- To add a course to your planner, click on the Description link for the desired course under
The following courses may be used to satisfy this requirement:.
The information about the course, such as the course description, will be displayed on the Course Detail page.
- To add the course to your planner, click Add To Planner, or View Class Sections.
- Using the "View Class Sections" Option:
- When using View Class Sections, click on the drop-down and select the Term.
- Click Show Sections. In some instances, the course you select may not be offered for the term selected.
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- If you select a Term and the Select button for class sections is not available, this means that the enrollment planning period for the term has not yet started or has passed. For some terms, students may plan for their enrollment several days prior to the beginning of the open enrollment period.
- If the enrollment planning period for the class section is open and the Select button is clicked,
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- If the enrollment period for the class is closed, the Select button will not be available.
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- The Plan by Requirements will open and you will see the courses that you have selected. The Status of these
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added to your enrollment shopping cart will not appear in your Planner but will appear on your Plan by My Requirements report.
- This symbol indicates that the course will satisfy a requirement for your degree plan.
Using the Browse Course Catalog Option
- On the My Planner page click Browse Course Catalog.
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- The Browse Course Catalog page will open. From this page, select the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to the subject code of the course you are searching for.
- Scroll through the list of courses until you see the needed subject code.
- Click on the subject code to display the courses.
- From the displayed list of courses, click the box in the Select column to choose the course to add to your planner.
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- Note the message that indicates the course has been added to your planner. To view courses in your planner,
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Steam's holding pen for games in development is a veritable goldmine of imaginative ideas that wouldn't get a look-in at a big-name publisher.
Here are the ones we'd buy without a moment's hesitation...
Among the Sleep
If you've ever worried about monsters lying in wait under your bed, the Oculus Rift-compatible Among the Sleep might not be the game to help you conquer your fears. In it you take control of a two-year-old child investigating strange noises in a darkened house. But how much is real? And do you need your nappy changing?
Papers, Please
Working in passport control might not sound like a laugh a minute but spend 10 of them playing Papers, Please and you'll soon be drunk on the power (and rubber stamp) you wield. The retro graphics suit the 1983 setting perfectly and its fictional draconian world is wonderfully created.
With no health bars, no medi packs and no extra lives, Routine is not for the faint hearted or gung-ho. Explore the abandoned moon base in an attempt to find out what happened to its crew. With Oculus Rift support planned, it might be best not to wear a white spacesuit...
Fed up with controlling gun-toting meatheads with poor social skills? This first-person snuffler puts you in the paws of a female badger. Protect your cubs from the dangers of the big wide world, including birds of prey and – The Daily Mail's public enemy number one – foxes.
Door Kickers
This top-down SWAT shooter combines the meticulously-planned tactics of Rainbow Six and the sweep 'n' clear gameplay of Hotline Miami, allowing you to devise your attack step by step or go in with all guns blazing. Choreographed killing has never been so appealing.


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Red Baron Gold Edition Frozen Pizza
Schwans Red Baron Gold Edition frozen pizza focuses on familiar but premium ingredients, not the crust and succeeds in delivering an upscale experience.
Frozen pizza was introduced by Celentano Brothers in 1957. The next big technological leap did not occur until the 1990s, when new package films and better packaging technology enabled Kraft Foods Inc.'s DiGiorno brand to introduce a rising crust pizza. Finally, frozen pizza could compete with pizzeria or home delivery pizza.
The focus was on the quality of the crust and creating a pizza pie that was comparable to that of a pizzeria but available when and where you wanted it. As this technology transferred beyond DiGiorno in the late 1990s, many brands created pizzas that were "as good as" delivered pizza (which had become less differentiated via the dominance of a few national quick-serve brands).
Next, the pizza race focused on toppings and creating an impression of gourmet with less familiar toppings of meats, vegetables, even fruits. California Pizza Kitchen came to the fore with a variety of nontraditional cheeses, meats (chicken and ham) and pineapple, etc. As pizza innovation continued, Schwan Food Co., Marshall, Minn., created a Red Baron pizza that no longer emphasizes the crust at all, but focuses on the toppings to create a pizza that tastes fresher and more like "Napoleon" pizza than other branded frozen pizzas, or so the company claims. Red Baron does this with a familiar set of toppings but ones that can be perceived as more premium than gourmet.
Understanding the marketplace
Frozen, refrigerated and shelf-stable pizza products had a market size of $2.8 billion in 2004. This market is dominated by frozen pizza, which accounts for 92 percent of sales. The category grew 18 percent from 1999-2004, according to Information Resources Inc. Household penetration is fairly high with two-thirds of consumers reporting use of frozen pizza. At retail, consumers see Kraft brands (DiGiorno, California Pizza Kitchen, Jack's and Tombstone) and Schwan brands (Red Baron, Tony's and Freschetta), as well as house brands where the marketplace is (and always has been) highly price competitive. Growth is believed to be driven by gourmet or restaurant offerings.
Following explosive U.S. growth in the 1950s, pizza has had a fair amount of ubiquity. It has always been popular with kids. Even the pickiest preschoolers love it, and any teen or kid gathering typically revolves around it. Pizza is easy to eat, handheld, easy to clean up. In fact, it is the most commonly portrayed food in cartoons because it is easy to draw over and over.
Red Baron is focused on bringing more "premiumness" to pizza and moving beyond the crust. Can the product deliver a gourmet experience for those who really care, and can it move beyond this niche to mainstream for even higher growth and earnings?
Schwan is trying to meet the needs of the consumer for the 75 percent of meals that are eaten at home. The company is seeking to shift the value paradigm from quick, filling meals to quick, filling, nutritious, premium meals. Red Baron is trying to reframe the image of pizza from an easy, kid-friendly food to a higher-value, gourmet adult food. Can store-bought frozen pizza move to this premium world?
There are a lot of gourmet choices for the pizza consumer. Consumers can take home and bake a pizza from a pizzeria in their neighborhood. They can have it flown in via FedEx from their favorite pizza restaurant in Chicago. They can pick up fresh pizza from the grocery deli and they can consider frozen gourmet pizzas like California Pizza Kitchen and Wolfgang Puck. These pizzas primarily have created a sense of gourmet via unusual toppings. Red Baron is trying for that same sense with familiar toppings that are special in the way they look on the pizza and taste.
Our Crave It! process integrates up to 35 categories of linked conjoint studies to generate a database that can be used to understand the experience of foods. From it, we learn the key attributes for pizza are: taste, aroma, mood and brand. It is consumed most often at lunch and dinner when consumers are looking for a fast, easy, tasty way to fill up. When consumers are asked to trade off ideas about craveable pizza the top ones are about the toppings, the crust, quality and freshness. Branding ideas and ease of eating can only detract from the excitement of pizza, because they are expected attributes of the pizza experience, not delighters for the category.
Key trends that are impacting this category are:
- Family size:
- Households with children are more likely to consume pizza than those without children. As household sizes begin to decrease, the need to move pizza to a new paradigm, such as gourmet or premium, to entice smaller households will become increasingly important.
- Convenience:
- Manufacturers are responding to consumers' hectic lifestyles by creating convenient products. Pizzas can be pulled out of the freezer as needed to feed the family.
- The premium/value dichotomy:
- Frozen, store-bought pizza is thought of as a value food; the whole family is likely to eat it. But the growth area for pizza is in the premium/gourmet area. This creates an issue for whole-family consumption: Will the kids still eat something that's a little more adventurous for the adults?
- Healthfulness:
- Pizza has had its healthy halo damaged in recent years. People are becoming aware that pizza can be a high carbohydrate/high fat food. Consumers need reasons to consider pizza familiar and healthful.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
I currently have COX communications digital cable coming into my house. They give free upgrades to HD cable if you rent their box. Will the standard LinuxMCE need the HD-cable box to get hd programming or is that all handled in the core/md?I am still drawing up the plan for my house and have not decided to "home brew" or go simple with a fire engine.
well I do.. the intensity pro not hardware based though.. it needs a linux driver, but it could be functional if you had a fast enough processor and some storage for it
Whoa - that device has an HDMI-in port, which I've never seen on the market before.
What I wonder is whether that device could be used to wrap regular data inside the HDMI encoding, for a 10.2Gbps output stream between PCs (instead of a 10-Gb ethernet). One-way, and perverse, ...
Quote from: Matthew on January 11, 2008, 04:05:51 pmWhoa - that device has an HDMI-in port, which I've never seen on the market before. there are many HD frame grabbers with HDMI-in ports.
Your problem will be the HDCP. Of course there are devices to strip it but they may be illegal to use.There are also HD-SDI mods for some STB's. You grab the signal before decoding. SDI-HD in cards are available relatively cheap. Better for your cpu, too. You don't have to reencode the signal.
QuoteWhat I wonder is whether that device could be used to wrap regular data inside the HDMI encoding, for a 10.2Gbps output stream between PCs (instead of a 10-Gb ethernet). One-way, and perverse, ...that tdms over rj45 crap is of course two way. Examples of usage are CEC and DDC.You would only have point to point without switching equipment
If the captured (and stored) data is encrypted with HDCP, does it matter if it's just being retrieved later as a blob and sent to the card's HDMI out? The TV will receive the data properly HDCP encoded, right? If the intermediary step that the card introduces is just storage, and no operations on the data within the stream, then wouldn't that suffice?
Well, I'm talking about the inverse:
Quote from: Matthew on January 11, 2008, 04:44:27 pmWell, I'm talking about the inverse:i did get that from your last post. If you take the effort to implement ethernet or ip over tdms you could define proper time slots. But as i said it will not scale without switching equipment so i think it is not worth the effort. And for the ps3: i don't think you will get easy bit level access to the tdms interface over the graphic card.
Hauppauge just announced an HD capture card:
Hauppauge just announced an HD capture card:http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080110006038&newsLang=enPrice is only about $250. The speculation is that they are using HD camcorder chips with the appropriate silicon glue. Earlier cards for professional video editing were all in the $1,000 to $10,000 range and consequently no one developed the appropriate drivers for them.Hauppauge's captures the unencrypted analog HD out available all currently shipping set top boxes, blue-ray players, etc.Supposedly it will be shipped this quarter, a friend of mine at CES said they had a prototype already so a shipment this quarter or the next is not out of the question.
In addition to high definition ISO standard H.264 recordings, the Hauppauge HD PVR can also create AVCHD recordings, which is the format used on Blu-ray high definition players. As part of the software applications which will be shipped with Hauppauge's HD encoder, a DVD burning application will be provided which can take AVCHD formatted recordings and burn them onto a conventional DVD disc. These discs can then be played in Blu-ray DVD players. About 2 hours of Blu-ray HD content can be recorded on a 4.7 GByte DVD disk.


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Monday night at Ronken Field, Roosevelt High School knocked out crosstown rival Washington High School 3-2 in the wild card game to advance to the Class A State Baseball tournament on Saturday.
The Riders' Lucas Wilber was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead Roosevelt past Washington. Wilbur had two hits in the game.
With the Riders win over the Warriors on Monday night, the field is set for the Class A tournament. On Saturday, No. 4 seed Roosevelt will face No. 1 seed Mitchell at 10 a.m., and No. 2 seed Brandon Valley will square off against No. 3 seed O'Gorman at 1 p.m.
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Risk management is a term that conjures up images of dismal back offices where accountants slave away in the blue cast of computer screens. But since the financial crisis, it's a term that has become headline news.
Case in point, this headline from the International Business Times from July 13: "JP Morgan Earnings: London Whale Loss Was Systematic Failure in CIO Risk Management".
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It's no surprise that risk management was a major topic of discussion for Jamie Dimon when he appeared before Congress to explain the Whale debacle. The phrase has been bandied about in the halls of Congress since Wall Street executives began trooping to DC to explain their roles in the 2008 meltdown to the bi-partisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
With risk management climbing into the national consciousness, it's worth asking the question what exactly is it and how does Wall Street do it?
CNBC sat down with Brian Leach, the head of risk management at Citigroup to talk about how he thinks about his job. Leach joined Citigroup as Chief Risk Officer in March 2008, to report directly to CEO Vikram Pandit.
He was one of the Morgan Stanley alums who helped Pandit start the hedge fund Old Lane in 2005. When Citi bought Old Lane in 2007, Leach stayed on as co-COO of the unit.
The word on Wall Street is: Brian Leach knows from risk. Before Citi and Old Lane, he was a career Morgan Stanley man, rising through the fixed income division to become the Risk Manager of the Institutional Securities Business. His time at Morgan Stanley was broken by a fourteen-month hiatus to sort out Long Term Capital Management's liquidation, after the Greenwich-based hedge fund's notorious disintegration. (Read More: Citigroup Buys Old Lane)
Of course, the hundreds of billions of dollars lost in the 2008 financial crisis, dwarfed the $4.5 billion dollar losses at LTCM. What did risk managers miss in the recent crisis? Leverage, according to Leach. There was so much borrowing at every level of the financial system, that it could amplify any wrong way bet into a systemic meltdown. With everyone from individuals to banks to regulators betting that real estate prices would continue to rise, the risk taking was lopsided.
The financial system is much safer today, in part because financial institutions have cut their borrowing and raised so much more capital, said Leach. They've also boosted the assets they can quickly turn into cash, he noted.
This added liquidity and capital are mandated by the Basel III accord that governs international standards for banks. Bolstering Basel III are the parts of the U.S.'s Dodd Frank legislation that make it possible to dismantle a really big financial institution that's going to fail. (Read More: Inside America's Economic Crisis)
"You know I like to think risk managers would have embraced elements of Dodd-Frank on their own," Leach explained. "The parts I am supportive of are the concepts of anything that would help institutions be resolvable."
The job of risk managers is to try to keep the institutions they work for from getting into a situation where they need to be resolved by a government authority. At Citigroup, Leach has spent a lot of time and money on getting the right information systems in place to be able to look at risk from three different angles: product risk — specific to a type of financial instrument; geographic risk — specific to a particular country or region; and credit risk – specific to a company or a government borrower.
Triangulation is Leach's word for it. He said for any given risk situation, he has three calls to make: one to the credit risk expert, one to the product risk expert and one to the regional risk officer.
All of these experts have to be close to the business units, according to Leach. Risk managers shouldn't operate in a vacuum. They need to balance their risk concerns with the potential reward to the company, explained Leach. The reverse is true for the people who are laying on risk.
"The good traders, the best traders absolutely think about risk and reward," said Leach. "They have a lifetime's view of what is going to happen. Traders who are generally learning the craft often times underestimate the downside potential." (Read More: Too Many Harvard MBAs Heading to Wall Street)
Ideally, controlling risk is a dialog between risk managers and traders, said Leach. Citi's risk team has weekly or bi-weekly meetings for its institutional businesses. There are people who assess risk, and others who are controllers assigned to value the positions traders take. Both types of risk professionals have to be empowered to set limits and override traders' on the value of their trades and the amount of capital they commit.
Deciding how to commit capital is the heart of risk management. The appetite for risk is something that every institution defines differently. Often, it gets down to how much money a firm is willing or able to lose on a given trade, business or division. It's something bank boards weigh in on.
Once a bank sets its overall risk appetite, it can use its risk management team and data to assess whether it's meeting its risk goals. Taking no risk makes no money, but excessive risk taking can end in disaster. In general, bankers use several tools to try to figure out how much risk their company is taking at any given time.
Since the financial crisis, there has been a growing emphasis on stress testing. After being forced to undergo regulatory stress tests, executives at the nation's biggest banks began to see the light. At first, the data the Fed requested seemed extreme, but then bankers saw how useful it was to know what would happen to their institution's balance sheet and profits if say, the U.S. unemployment rate soared to 13 percent. Since then, systems are being overhauled to deliver the kind of data the Fed is requesting and more.
"It's absolutely the most important thing that any company can do — and I would say that whether it was financial or industrial — to be able to run through a "what-if" scenario," Leach noted.
But stress testing is an art. The doomsday scenarios risk managers test for have to have some credible basis. An asteroid hitting the earth — "You can't manage to that," said Leach. On the other hand, what about testing the effect of a 50 percent move in the premium to government interest rates paid by corporate borrowers? Sounds improbable, but Leach pointed out it has happened four times in the last decade.
"If your stress scenario is that rates move 50 percent, then you really have not done much," said Leach.
While banks have become more attune to stress testing for events like the disintegration of the euro, or an Israeli attack on Iran, these models are not the only tools they use to assess risk.
The concept of Value at Risk or VaR is one of the most hotly debated in risk management circles. It's a measure of how much a bank could lose on any given day with the investing positions it has taken. Bankers accuse the press of making a simplistic assumption that they rely solely on VaR to determine their risk profiles. Leach says VaR is useful for looking at every day risk – something stress testing is not meant to do.
Wall Street continues to struggle with measuring and managing risk, but since the financial crisis, it has set the bar a lot higher.
"What you want to get across to people in the firm who take risk, is that you want them to take intelligent risk," Leach said.
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Up-front Concurrency Design
Luiz Esmiralha
But, I am somewhat puzzled by your affirmation that "any design for concurrency must be done up-front". Can you ellaborate further on the reasons for that, if possible with a real-world scenario where postponing concurrency design to a later moment proves to be a very expensive decision?
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Adding concurrency in later is definitely possible ... I just think it's trickier. If I write something with concurrency in mind, I tend to *test* it with concurrency in mind. If I add concurrency afterwards, I tend to not test it as thoroughly and/or introduce a bunch of nasty side-effects!
This principle can be applied to data too. If you're building a big distributed system, thinking about concurrent data access (e.g. how data will be locked/synchronized/shared) is easier to do when you have a blank canvas. As another example, think about what you might need to do to add concurrency features to a GUI application - you'd need to figure out your concurrency strategy (e.g. pessimistic locking by the user vs optimistic locking by the application) and then modify code right from the GUI through to the back-end.
At the end of the day, there's no "right answer". I just find that I make a better job of concurrency if I think about it up front.
good article
Surender Kumar
Re: good article
Simon Brown
Unfortunately, the answer to your question is "it depends". ~20 requests/sec doesn't sound much, but you don't say what each of those requests does. If they are very large in nature, then "20" might be an excellent result. Increasing the number of servers will help you scale this number, but it might not provide you with linear scalability. That too depends on things like shared state, contention and so on.
The best advice I can give is this - if your project sponsors are happy with the performance/scalability of your system, then your job is done. If you need additional scale, then you need to get another server and see what sort of numbers you get out. Stats are useful, but not as useful as testing your software yourself. :-)
Good principles
Randy Shoup
Good summary of some critical scaling principles. You will see your points on partitioning echoed in my article on Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay.
I particularly like the point that scaling is about concurrency. Very clearly stated. That is, after all, the fundamental reason why partitioning helps.
Ditto the point that scaling out rarely comes for free. If your only option is to scale up, sooner or later you will run out of runway. eBay has seen this time and again in its history, and the rearchitecture efforts to remove those bottlenecks (first in the database, and then in search) were long and painful. What I would add, though, is that this does not necessarily mean that it is wrong to design such a system -- just that it is important to be aware that such a system will not scale. While it is inarguably cheaper to design in scaling from the beginning, the additional time and effort it requires may not be worth it at that moment. Just make that tradeoff in full recognition of the fact that when the time comes, it will be more expensive than it otherwise would have been.
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keep up.
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Major college football players rarely enjoy a true day off during the season. Sure, there's an NCAA rule mandating at least one off day per week, but pity those who don't "voluntarily" lift weights, study tape and/or have treatment.
That said, Virginia Tech's switch from Sundays to Mondays off represents considerable change for coach Frank Beamer's program. Indeed, this marks the first time in his 27 years that the Hokies will practice the day after games.
At first blush, Sunday appears the most logical off day. Give players 24 hours to decompress and heal after Saturday's mayhem.
But a survey of ACC programs reveals a 7-7 split on the preferred routine.
Sundays off: Boston College, Miami, Wake Forest, Clemson, Florida State, Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech.
Mondays off: Virginia Tech, Virginia, Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse, North Carolina State and Maryland.
Boston College switched this season as Steve Addazio replaced Frank Spaziani as coach. Beamer changed after input from offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler and offensive line coach Jeff Grimes, both new to the staff.
"I've done it both ways," said Grimes, whose previous stops include Auburn, Colorado, Brigham Young, Arizona State and Boise State. "The thing I like about doing it (this) way is it allows you to finish the game on Sunday with your players and you get that knocked out, good, bad or indifferent. And you move forward with the next opponent immediately thereafter.
"So, you're not kind of waiting around for it Monday as a kind of in-between day. where you're finishing up grading of the previous film and reviewing that and making corrections, and you're trying to get them going on the next week as well. The nice thing is you get that previous game put to bed and then you move forward, and then players will come by on their own, even if it's their day off, they'll be coming on their own, watching film and kind of get a jump start on that."
Defensive coordinator Bud Foster, who accompanied Beamer from Murray State to Virginia Tech in 1987, believes the new routine could make the coaches more efficient.
"The thing I like about it, it looks like we're going to have all day (Monday) to game plan," Foster told Comrade Wood. "We always kind of did some goal line, short yardage stuff on Sundays. … Then, Monday evening was your first and second downs.
"We can still get our goal line stuff done on Sunday, but then really spend a lot of time on our game plan all day Monday. I think from a full, total perspective of just focusing on your game plan, that gives us more hours, or at least at one clump (rather) than breaking it up. I kind of like the thought behind it."
Beamer confirmed that Mondays pulled staff members in many directions.
"Sometimes what happens Monday is you game plan in the morning, then all of a sudden 2 o'clock you've got a staff meeting and 3 o'clock a team meeting, then a practice," he said. "So, I think to have the full day where it's not interrupted, I think that's better. I like that part of it. So, we'll see. The (old) Monday practice and the (new) Sunday practice are going to be the same kind of practice."
A few weeks into the season it will be interesting to ask the Hokies' most experienced players — seniors such as quarterback Logan Thomas, guard Andrew Miller, defensive end James Gayle and linebacker Jack Tyler — about practicing the day after games.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Jamie Adams had 23 points, seven steals and five assists as Florida A&M got its first win of the season, defeating Presbyterian 69-55 Saturday at the Las Vegas Invitational.
Jamari Bradshaw added 12 points for the Rattlers (1-5), who used two big scoring runs to pull out the victory. Florida A&M closed the first half on a 13-3 run to pull within 34-33, then scored 17 straight points midway through the second half to take command of the game. Adams had two 3-pointers during the 17-0 surge, including the capper that put the Rattlers ahead 54-40 with 10:05 remaining.
Presbyterian (0-6) got 14 points from Joshua Clyburn, 13 from Khalid Mutakabbir and 10 from Ryan McTavish. The Blue Hose committed 25 turnovers, including nine from Mutakabbir, and missed all five of their 3-point attempts in the second half after making 3 of 4 before the break.