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What would be the easiest way to install
gcc 4.7.x/4.8.x on a system with CentOS 6.2+? The default RPM package contains an older version of
What would be the easiest way to install
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Tru Huynh of centos.org has built the redhat developer toolset 1.1, for centos and it contains gcc 4.7.2
So you could simply use his repo and install just gcc, instantly.
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/devtools-1.1.repo
yum --enablerepo=testing-1.1-devtools-6 install devtoolset-1.1-gcc devtoolset-1.1-gcc-c++
This will install it most likely into
Then you can tell your compile process to use the gcc 4.7 instead of 4.4 with the CC variable
export CC=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/gcc
export CPP=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/cpp
export CXX=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/c++
yum --enablerepo=testing-devtools-6 install devtoolset-1.1-gcc devtoolset-1.1-gcc-c++returns a four-o-four, .. : image– user144773Mar 12, 2013 at 7:28
1don't forget to
yum clean allbefore doing the steps again after failure else you will still get 404– user144773Mar 12, 2013 at 11:18
6instead of setting individual variables you can do
scl enable devtoolset-1.1 bash(it starts new shell with all variables set).– marcinMar 28, 2013 at 11:42
13For g++ 4.8.2, change
2everywhere, and change
--enablerepo=testing-devtools-2-centos-6– dwurfApr 15, 2014 at 23:28
3Does this still work ? I get people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/6Workstation/i386/RPMS/…: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404" May 21, 2014 at 9:21
Here is how to get devtoolset-2 (including gcc 4.8.1)
This was taken from http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/readme
wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo
yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc-c++
Known issues:
- unsigned packages
- CentOS-6 devtoolset-2 needs devtoolset-2-ide which contains the whole Eclipse stack, but does not build yet
- CentOS-6 all the maven related file are not built either
Main changes from devtools-1.1:
/opt/centosis no longer used
/opt/rhis now used as upstream (as SL version)
1I had to export these for it to work. Thanks! export CC=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/gcc export CXX=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/c++ export CPP=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/cpp– jemiloiiMar 9, 2016 at 19:49
2@JemiloII - did you do
scl enable devtoolset-2after installing? That should work to get the correct compilers on the path. Mar 9, 2016 at 21:58
that actually works better than the exports!– jemiloiiMar 9, 2016 at 22:22
@MarkLakata - Running
scl enable devtoolset-2throws the following error
Need at least 3 arguments. Run scl --help to get help.– SwanidhiJul 5, 2016 at 15:45
3@Swanidhi The full command is
scl enable devtoolset-2 bashwhere the last field could be different if you are not using bash. Jul 5, 2016 at 17:16
There is new version of devtoolset 2.0. Nice people from Cern working on Scientific Linux created an open version:
If you use CentOS (not Scientific Linux), then you will have to import their GPG key from here using:
rpm --import http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
1the link above is broken now, I found similar key here: [ftp.riken.jp] (ftp.riken.jp/Linux/cern/slc58/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEYs/…) Nov 10, 2017 at 8:36
# 1. Install a package with repository for your system:
# RHEL 6: `yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpmss`
# RHEL 7: `yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms`
$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl # On CentOS 6/7+, install package centos-release-scl available in CentOS repository
# 2. Install the collection:
$ sudo yum install devtoolset-3
# 3. Start using software collections:
$ scl enable devtoolset-3 bash
$ sudo yum list devtoolset-3\*
1what does
hash -rdo? Jan 12, 2016 at 18:34
ln -s /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ broke sudo on my Centos 6.7 system. I think it might alias sudo. Jan 13, 2016 at 9:29
$PATHevery time you type a command by caching the results in memory,
hash -rforce reload $PATH Jan 13, 2016 at 12:04
@Denji - apparently the hop5.in site is no more.– slmFeb 23, 2016 at 20:10
may need add
--nogpgcheckoption :
sudo yum install --nogpgcheck devtoolset-3– FooBeeJul 13, 2017 at 8:17
From what I can see from the gnu gcc, latest stable version is 4.62. The version 4.7 can be downloaded and compiled, more info on the gcc installation.
I asked about 4.7 because it is supposed to have some C++11 features that I need (porting from Clang). Jan 22, 2012 at 19:01
So apart from compiling from source there is no, say, website that would have some rpms I could use? Jan 22, 2012 at 19:02
Not that I'm aware of, but I'm not very knowledgeable on the topic. RPM repository typicly include the RPM only in it's stable form.– bbaja42Jan 22, 2012 at 20:28
neither one of these answers worked for me.
even in the shell of devtoolset is still saw my gcc 4.4.7.
My trick was the following:
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc.bckup
ln -s /opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc
there is a problem with devtool1.1 so I did some changes - finally, this worked for me : first run
yum clean all
than :
wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/devtools-1.1.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-1.1.repo
now open /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-1.1.repo and change from :
(if you are using x86_64)to:
or ((if you are using x86))
and finally run :
yum install devtoolset-1.1
One way of achieving this would be to fetch
src RPMs from the fedora repositories and recompile them for your target system.
Fedora 17 and later provide
gcc 4.7


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i do 5 paaths of japji sahib,1 paath of jaap sahib,tw parsad swaye,chaupai sahib,5 pauris of anand sahib,rehrass sahib and kirtan sohila along with paaths of chandi di vaar and sukhmani sahib on daily basis.i do it for good health of my mother.she is my god.she had her faith in god and did all these banis in days of wisdom.but what god gave her in return-disease of cancer.she hasn't lost her faith in god till now and will never lose.but my father who also had immense faith in waheguru has lost his faith now .he says that if god existed he would never had given her disciple such hurt.we also had succesfully arranged akhand paath sahib at sri harmandir sahib.i totally follow the path of my mother and wholeheartly believe that" ek aas rakhyo man mahe,sagal rog nanak mit jahe".but when he will forgive us.i can 100% tell you that she had not done any ill deed in her life so why god punishes them who kiss his feet.and why keeps evil people happy.i have made my mind that when guruji will make us happy ,we all will turn singhs. hey wheguru,help us. if he existed, he will surely help us and he exists .please cut all her diseases and give her fruit of her unbroken faith.please stop your singhs from going on wrong ways.i'm only 16 yrs old but i want my parents to live with me till my end.i want to serve them all happiness of world.please provide this chance to me my beloved guru.i will give my life on his order but please god listen to your crying children.
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To the mom I used to be:
Two years ago, you were happy and whole. You had a plan for life — start a new business, get involved in the school PTA, teach your sons how to ride bicycles and play sports, spend as much time with your friends and parents as possible, watch your children mature, grow old with your husband. You were optimistic — a "glass half full" person who saw the silver lining in every cloud and often felt so much joy you thought you would burst. You always looked forward — never backwards, no regrets. You smiled and laughed a lot. You danced.
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Two years ago, on December 14, 2012, the world changed and you changed with it. A disturbed young man with access to high-powered firearms went to your sons' school and killed six educators and twenty first-graders. Your eldest son Jake survived, but was changed by the day he discovered some monsters are real. He describes it as the day "when hell came to my school." Your youngest son, Dylan, your beautiful baby boy who you thought of as pure love, with his captivating eyes, infectious giggle and warm deep cuddles, was killed. Shot multiple times, dying instantly in the arms of his special education assistant who also died while trying to protect him.
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You view life through the prism of "before" and "after." Jake's fifth grade photos came recently. They are still sitting on a table because you haven't put them in the frame that sits next to Dylan's last school photo. It's too hard for you — too soon. Jake is getting older. But Dylan is frozen in time forever. Even after two years, there's this denial that is still very present inside you. You have Dylan's baby teeth and a lock of his hair on your bedside cabinet, beside the urn holding his ashes. That's all you have of your little boy now.
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A transportation quiz
We're starting to get a little itchy to travel now that winter is officially over. We thought you might be, too. You've probably ridden on (or in) most of these inventions designed to get us from here to there. We suspect you haven't been on all of them, though. Have you?
Look at the photos and read the clues. Can you guess what they are? (Check your answers below.) 1 Animal-powered versions of this machine were in use in the third century BC. But it wasn't until an important safety device was added in 1853 that people had much confidence to 'go up in one of those things.' Or down.
2 In 1895, three years after it was invented, a version of this 'people mover' was a novelty ride at New York's Coney Island amusement park. The longest distance traveled by a single one of these is 330 feet. The shortest one is 2 ft., 8 in.
3 An engineer named Rudolf was the motive power behind this means of transportation. You know him better by his German-sounding last name.
4 Versions of this kid-size wheeled item appear on ancient Greek vases. The steel type pictured here was a hit at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Extra credit: Why is 'radio' in its trademarked name?
5 They are one of two National Historic Landmarks that move and were invented out West in 1873. Clang!
6 The world's first, in London in 1863, was steam-powered and smoky. A New York inventor constructed a cleaner version in 1870 that ran on vacuum pressure created by a 10-ft.-tall fan. Modern ones are all electric now.
7The development of this invention has made the planet a much smaller place. Today, you may be asked to take off your shoes before you can take a seat.
8 'Dynamic stabilization' and five gyroscopes are key to this device, which was code-named 'Ginger' before it was revealed to the public in December 2001.
9Its name comes from the Old English word 'farian,' which means 'to carry or convey, especially by water.'
10 The first passengers were a sheep, a rooster, and a duck in a 'vehicle' that had no moving parts. The first two humans clambered aboard in Paris 222 years ago this coming Nov. 21.
(1) Buttons in an elevator (the bottom one means 'close doors'; note the Braille markings). American inventor Elisha Otis came up with a safety device to prevent an elevator from plummeting if a cable broke. He first demonstrated it in 1853. (2) Escalator step. Several 330-ft.-long escalators operate in subways in St. Petersburg, Prague, and Kiev (Ukraine). The shortest one is in a shopping mall in Kawasaki-shi, Japan. (3) Diesel locomotive. More accurately, it's a diesel-electric locomotive. The diesel engine generates electricity, and electric motors power the wheels. (4) Coaster wagon. This one is a Radio Flyer. Manufacturer Antonio Pasin was fascinated with radio and flight when he named it in the 1930s. (5) A cable car in San Francisco. Cable cars were invented there by Andrew Hallidie in 1873. The St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans is the other 'mobile' National Historic Landmark. (6) Subway. Alfred Ely Beach's short (it ran only 312 feet) pneumatic subway closed in 1873. Beach died before New York opened a second, successful subway in 1904. Workers digging a tunnel for the new subway came across Beach's sealed-up tunnel in 1912. (7) Jet airliner. Some air passengers are asked to remove their shoes for inspection at airport security checkpoints. (8) Segway Human Transporter, also known as the 'Segway scooter.' (9) Ferryboat. According to the latest US Census figures, 44,106 Americans went to work by ferryboat every day in 2000. (10) Hot air balloon. The first ones were made of silk and paper. Today's versions use reinforced-nylon 'envelopes' to hold the hot air. Passengers often ride in low-tech wicker baskets, though. Wicker is sturdy, fairly lightweight, and flexible, so it helps cushion landings.


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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 42, 2013WONDER-2012 – 3rd International Workshop On Nuclear Data Evaluation for Reactor applications
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Point-by-Point model description of average prompt neutron data as a function of total kinetic energy of fission fragments
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, Russia RO – 77125, Romania
The experimental data of average prompt neutron multiplicity as a function of total kinetic energy of fragments <ν>(TKE) exhibit, especially in the case of 252Cf(SF), different slopes dTKE/dν and different behaviours at low TKE values. The Point-by-Point (PbP) model can describe these different behaviours. The higher slope dTKE/dν and the flattening of <ν> at low TKE exhibited by a part of experimental data sets is very well reproduced when the PbP multi-parametric matrix ν(A,TKE) is averaged over a double distribution Y(A,TKE). The lower slope and the almost linear behaviour over the entire TKE range exhibited by other data sets is well described when the same matrix ν(A,TKE) is averaged over a single distribution Y(A). In the case of average prompt neutron energy in SCM as a function of TKE, different dTKE/dε slopes are also obtained by averaging the same PbP matrix ε(A,TKE) over Y(A,TKE) and over Y(A). The results are exemplified for three fissioning systems benefiting of experimental data as a function of TKE: 252Cf(SF), 235U(nth,f) and 239Pu(nth,f). In the case of 234U(n,f) for the first time it was possible to calculate <ν>(TKE) and <ε>(TKE) at many incident energies by averaging the PbP multi-parametric matrices over the experimental Y(A,TKE) distributions recently measured at IRMM for 14 incident energies in the range 0.3-5 MeV. The results revealed that the slope dTKE/dν does not vary with the incident energy and the flattening of <ν> at low TKE values is more pronounced at low incident energies. The average model parameters dependences on TKE resulted from the PbP treatment allow the use of the most probable fragmentation approach, having the great advantage to provide results at many TKE values in a very short computing time compared to PbP and Monte Carlo treatments.
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Indigenous Conservation Programs
Getting to Know Australia's Indigenous Protected Areas and Indigenous Rangers
The Australian Outback is one of the most unusual places on Earth. Composed of forests, woodlands, and grasslands, this vast area remains wild, abundant, and largely untouched by development. But a number of threats confront the Outback. They range from massively destructive, uncontrolled wildfires and degradation from the large number of feral animals and exotic plant invasions to the severe impacts of climate change and the pressures of rapid, large-scale oil and gas exploration and development. Compared with more densely settled areas of Australia, relatively few people live in the Outback, and, despite these growing threats, much of it remains unmanaged.
The Kimberley. Photo courtesy of Annabelle Sandes.
This is why the Australian government, through the federal environment agency is working with Indigenous people across the Outback to support their efforts in revitalizing on-the-ground management. Two key programs are successfully working to manage the Outback—Indigenous Protected Areas and the Indigenous Ranger program.
Aboriginal people have created 60 Indigenous Protected Areas on their traditional lands, with more expected this year. Similar to national parks, these areas cover 50 million hectares (almost 124 million acres) of the continent. They help to protect unique landscapes, plants, and animals—and are managed by the Indigenous owners with a combination of ancient local cultural knowledge and contemporary scientific methods. In addition to conservation, these areas help to actively maintain traditional culture, support Indigenous owners living and working on their land, and promote skills development and local employment.
"These Indigenous Protected Areas are a win-win for Australia. They not only protect the special places in our Outback but also provide an avenue to support Indigenous peoples to actively express their culture and strong desire to be living on and managing their lands," says Patrick O'Leary, an expert on conservation partnerships for The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Australia's Indigenous Ranger program was pioneered by Aboriginal people as a way to actively manage and protect their traditional land and seas. They are similar to conventional park rangers in some ways—managing areas to control threats such as wildfires, exotic weeds, and feral animals—but unique because they combine their local traditional knowledge and culture with Western science in a "two-toolbox" approach to protecting the environment. This program employs roughly 700 Indigenous Rangers across Australia.
"The Rangers program provides much needed job and training opportunities in remote and often disadvantaged regions," says O'Leary. "By embracing Indigenous conservation lessons and techniques, and partnering with the best contemporary science, we can build a sustainable future that will benefit not only those living in the Outback but all Australians."
Indigenous Ranger Marcus Cameron applies a controlled burn in Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area. Photo courtesy of Peter Eve.
These successful new models of conservation are delivering benefits for all Australians by reducing wildfires, erosion, and the threat of extinctions among native plants and animals while controlling feral animals and noxious weeds. They bring together the living knowledge of Indigenous conservation and the best possible land management science, in order to find ways for pastoral communities, Indigenous peoples, industry, conservationists, and government to work together to protect the heart of Australia.


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This Cycle's Top 8 Most Fascinating Recruits (So Far)
A beekeeper, a Gitmo commander and a Bosnian war refugee all want the same thing. It's not a riddle; it's the 2014 election cycle.
Congressional candidates often boast a résumé that includes time in local office, terms in the legislature or experience running a business. It's a formula that instantly boosts name identification with voters.
But the cast of congressional candidates usually offers some upstarts — people with an unusual background, a unique curriculum vitae or an unconventional motivation that gives them a shot at Congress.
Of course, a special résumé does not translate to victory. Several of last cycle's most-hyped candidates — including Ret. Air Force Col. Martha E. McSally, an Arizona Republican, and former astronaut Jose M. Hernandez, a California Democrat — lost their House races, to Ron Barber and Jeff Denham, respectively. (McSally is running again in 2014).
But an out-of-the-box background can help a candidate break through a tough field. Just ask the former world champion USA Volleyball team member, the double-amputee war hero or the reindeer farmer who won House races last cycle.
In no special order, here are several of this election's most fascinating candidates for Congress:
Erika Harold
The former Miss America is a Republican challenging Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., in the competitive 13th District in the middle of the state.
In 2003, Harold won the country's most famous beauty pageant with an anti-bullying platform, which she says came from personal experience as a target for racism and sexual harassment — her ancestry is black, Native American, Greek, German, Welsh and Russian. She is taking on an incumbent Republican who narrowly won in a district that split evenly in the 2012 presidential race.
After the pageant, Harold graduated from Harvard Law School. In 2012, she jumped into the GOP scramble after Republican incumbent Timothy V. Johnson suddenly retired after he won his primary election. Local party leaders picked Davis for the ballot instead.
Her chances: Not great. Although Republicans are attracted to her candidacy as the party looks to add diversity to its ranks on Capitol Hill, they are puzzled by the timing of her bid. Republican leaders are squarely behind Davis. And Harold posted a lackluster second-quarter fundraising numbers, raising doubts about her viability in a contest against Davis, a financial powerhouse.
Andrew Walter
This former top quarterback, a Republican, aims to unseat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., in the 9th District outside Phoenix.
Walter starred for Arizona State University — located in the neighboring district — before the Oakland Raiders picked him in the third round of the 2005 draft. While in college, he broke several Pacific-10 Conference records, including the most career touchdowns and yards passing in a single game.
Unfortunately for Walter, his short stint with the National Football League disappointed by comparison. He returned to Arizona and started a financial holding company.
Walter is hardly the first former NFL player who has tried to come to Capitol Hill, although Rep. Jon Runyan, R-N.J., is the only one currently in Congress. But he faces a similarly interesting opponent in Sinema, the first openly bisexual member of Congress.
His chances: If Walter makes it through a competitive primary against Wendy Rogers, who ran an unsuccessful race for the nomination in 2012, and other potential candidates who are said to be mulling bids, he has a shot of winning the district. It gave President Barack Obama a 4-percentage-point edge over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Michael Eggman
A farmer whose top livestock is bees, the Democrat is challenging Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., in California's 10th District.
Eggman, the brother of a state lawmaker, owns his family's farm in Turlock, Calif., including about 2,000 hives of "happy bees," according to its website. The self-described member of the "beekeeper mafia" also grows almonds.
The family name is carried not only by Eggman Bee Farm, but also by his sister, Susan Eggman, in the state assembly.
His chances: Not bad. Eggman is a favorite of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, so he'll have help with fundraising and strategy — key for a political newcomer. He's looking to oust Denham, one of 17 House Republicans who represent a district that Obama carried (51-47) in 2012.
Jerry Cannon
A former sheriff and retired major general in the Army National Guard, Cannon would be one of the few members left in Congress who served in Vietnam. First, he must win his bid as a Democrat challenging Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Mich., in the state's northern 1st District.
A decade ago, Cannon was stationed in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as a commander at the controversial detention camp that Obama has vowed to shutter. If Cannon were to win, he would be the first member of Congress to have firsthand experience working at the prison.
Cannon served multiple tours in Iraq, where he helped train Iraqi law enforcement officers before retiring from the military in 2012. He currently teaches criminal justice at Northwestern Michigan College.
His chances: Michigan's Upper Peninsula area is competitive territory, and Cannon has the kind of background that would appeal there. Benishek is considered vulnerable after winning by a 1-percentage-point margin last cycle. Romney carried the district 54-45.
Shane Osborn
While he has political experience in Nebraska, serving state treasurer from 2006 until 2011, this Republican was already famous. Now he's running for the open Senate seat to be vacated by Republican Mike Johanns, who is retiring.
Osborn was the pilot of a spy plane that was hit mid-flight in 2001 by a Chinese fighter. With its nose ripped off, the American aircraft plunged toward the Pacific Ocean.
Osborn helped the plane land safely, but he and his 23-member crew were detained and interrogated by the Chinese for 10 days before they were returned to the United States. In interviews, Osborn described six-hour-long interrogation sessions, sleep depravation and isolation.
Following the crash, Osborn was featured in People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" issue. He was described as a "gentleman" who "holds doors, pays the check and does everything right for women."
His chances: Pretty good. If Osborn makes it to the general election, his chances of victory would be good in a state that gave Romney 60.5 percent in 2012. Two lesser-known Republicans, Midland University President Ben Sasse and attorney Bart McLeay, are also running.
Nancy Mace
The first female graduate of The Citadel, Mace is challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for the GOP nomination. The military college, one of six in the U.S., was forced to go coed in the mid-1990s following a Supreme Court ruling.
Mace was in the first class of women at the college and graduated a year early. She wrote a 2001 book about her experience titled "In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel." She now owns a small public affairs firm in the Palmetto State.
Her chances: Slim. Mace might have a unique background, but she is challenging a incumbent with more than $6.3 million in the bank with the primary still almost a year away. And the Republican field already is crowded. Even if no candidate gets the 50 percent required in the primary to avoid a runoff, the Republican challenger's funds will likely be depleted before an expected one-on-one race against Graham. The seat is considered safe Republican, with Romney finishing 10 points ahead of Obama in 2012.
Anesa Kajtazovic
Kajtazovic is competing in the open-seat race in Iowa's northeast 1st District to succeed Democrat Bruce Braley, who is running for the Senate.
At the age of 10, Kajtazovic and her family escaped a refugee camp in warn-torn Bosnia to immigrate to the United States. Less than 15 years later, at age 24, she was elected to Iowa's state House. She's the only Bosnian-American to serve in elected office in the United States, according to her campaign.
Her chances: Kajtazovic faces a crowded primary with at least four other Democratic candidates. In this case, her compelling life story could help her stand out.
The Democratic nominee should fare well in the general election in this district, which is the bluest of Iowa's four House seats. Obama carried the district by 14 percentage points.
Michelle Nunn
A Democrat with a surname well-known in Georgia politics, Nunn is running for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Republican Saxby Chambliss.
Until announcing her candidacy, Nunn ran a nonpartisan nonprofit inspired by former President George Bush — the Points of Light Foundation, which mobilizes volunteers for service projects.
She is the daughter of former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Democrat who represented Georgia from 1972 until 1997. Typically, political scion status in the South has been reserved for males. But Nunn is one of a few female descendents of famous names running this cycle, including attorney Gwen Graham, daughter of former governor and senator Bob Graham, in Florida's 2nd District.
Her chances: Nunn's outlook is almost entirely dependent on who wins the crowded Republican primary. The varied and unpredictable GOP field includes businessmen, a former statewide officeholder and a few House members. Her best shot may be if a controversial conservative such as Rep. Paul Broun reaches the general election. But even if Nunn faces Broun, she would have to run a near-perfect campaign to win in a state that backed Romney 53-45 percent.


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Brief overview of the life and work of Hakham Ovadia Yosef, prominent Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel. Final installment in the Spring 2018 Lecture Series: The Sephardic Diaspora.
Sponsored by Katie and Vick Crespin of Miami Beach, FL
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Real world metrics for real world impact
Imagine sitting a maths exam where marks were awarded for how neatly you drew your graphs.
As a marking system, it would be useless: Your teachers would be none the wiser about your abilities with numbers and instead gain an unwanted insight into your art skills.
The same applies for campaigns that are measured against any metric except what the marketer is ultimately trying to achieve. If a campaign's aims and the metrics by which it will be measured are not in perfect alignment, then the results will simply tell the wrong story.
Sometimes, the matter of measurement is easy. For a publisher with an email newsletter, the choice might be between open or click-through rates. But for more complex campaigns that harness location data, doubts persist about best practice for measuring success – so below, we've given a rundown.
Connecting the online and offline worlds
Location data brings the real and digital worlds together; at their most basic, location-based campaigns can segment and reach highly specific audiences based on where they go in the world for maximum effect.
In one instance, Jaguar used historic location data combined with the licensing authority's data to map individuals who previously owned a Jaguar and recently visited a Jaguar or a competitor's dealership. The campaign was fuelled by real-world information, but the ultimate goal was re-targeting online to inspire individuals to book test drives.
For a campaign like Jaguar's, which uses location data purely to craft the perfect audience, measurement is unlikely to cause a headache: Metrics should be the same as an online campaign depending on the ultimate goal, whether that is test drive bookings, as with this example, or others such as store visits or video completion.
Real-world metrics for real-world impact
The IAB calls store traffic the "connective tissue between online and offline worlds". Despite the meteoric rise of online shopping, the majority of purchases are still made in-store, meaning store visits and in-store sales are still the goal that marketers strive towards.
Twitter has shown that telco companies that advertise on its platform have increased foot traffic to their stores by 23% and boosted revenue by 7%. There are several ways of measuring foot traffic following an online campaign, using either beacons, sensors, or Wi-Fi; when a device that is linked to online ad exposure interacts with any of these at a brand's physical store, it is a sure sign of the campaign's success.
While beacon and sensor technology is yet to see widespread adoption in South Africa, beacons and sensors will soon allow marketers to see where consumers are to a high level of precision, such as when they enter a certain aisle. If Shoprite supermarkets install beacons or sensors then the food brands that retail there will be able to know when a consumer has just entered a store where their products are sold, and when – more importantly – they have actually gone to the specific place where their products are found.
Online campaigns are not the source of all foot traffic, however: If a gym chain created an OOH campaign with beacon technology on the premises, that brand would be able to use that beacon data to link OOH ad exposure to visits and free trial sign-ups.
Alternatively, if an anonymised device ID gleaned from a mall's Wi-Fi is used for re-targeting in a KFC campaign then later picked up on the fast-food chain's Wi-Fi, it also points to conversion.
A deeper audience understanding
Using the right metric to assess a campaign is all well and good, but the importance of measurement does not end there. Brands can combine historic and real-time location data with campaign results and other data sources to build their ideal audience over time, honing in on their behaviours, preferences, and values in order to reach ever more highly qualified leads.
Future campaigns should be informed not only with basic demographic data or someone's real-time location, as these insights alone are not nuanced enough. With the addition of offline data such as historic location data, in-store shopping patterns, and exposure to OOH ads, marketers can easily identify their perfect customers.
South Africa's mobile advertising revenue is forecast to hit R1.891 million in 2019, at a CAGR of 19.6% since 2014. An increasing portion of that revenue will come from location data, which is becoming an essential building block in the foundation of marketing strategies as brands increasingly realise the importance and value of knowing where their audience goes.
But what makes location campaigns go further is the intelligent use of metrics, ensuring the campaign is measured against its ultimate goal and allowing future campaigns to benefit from the insights of previous ones.
Shaun Rosen is the CEO of Mobiclicks.
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J.D. Vance begins Hillbilly Elegy, his memoir of growing up poor in the American Midwest, with a confession: 'I'll be the first to admit that I've accomplished nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify a complete stranger paying money to read about it … I wrote this book because I've achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn't happen to most kids who grow up like me.' Vance was raised in a 'hillbilly' family. According to Vance, hillbillies have a lot to recommend them – they're patriotic, loyal, family-oriented, 'the toughest goddamned people on this earth' – but they're also pessimistic, isolated, suspicious of outsiders, and, these days, prone to drug abuse and despair. A kid 'with a grim future', Vance could have easily ended up dead of an opioid overdose; instead he graduated from Yale Law School, the 'coolest thing I've done'. He attributes his success to old-fashioned self-discipline, which he learned at the feet of his grandmother, Mamaw, and perfected in the marines. Unlike those in his hometown who had kids young, or who were worn down by menial jobs, he fulfilled what he calls the American Dream. By the end of the book, he has a house, a happy marriage, two dogs, a job at a venture capital firm – and distance from his humble origins.
'Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials,' Vance writes, 'and assume that I'm some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today.' Not so. His self-effacement is largely rhetorical: the book, which at times reads like a lightly edited CV, is designed to show his superiority to his working-class peers, as well as his fitness for public office. He describes scholarships won, interviews aced, clerkships granted, all, he reminds us, in spite of the odds. And yet he also continuously deflects attention from himself, often by including social observations and policy recommendations between episodes in his life story. Working as a cashier, he watches welfare recipients work the system by buying and selling packs of soft drinks. These memories lead to a discussion of welfare reform and to speculations about the reasons the American South went Republican. (Race isn't mentioned in Vance's gloss on Nixon's infamous 'Southern Strategy'.)
These are not well-researched arguments: Vance has 22 footnotes. Hillbilly Elegy was published in the US the summer before Trump was elected. In the aftermath, some liberals, in need of an explanation as to how the impossible came to pass, mistook Vance's recollections for something like sociology. Memoirists don't usually aim at sociological significance. A memoir is meant to particularise, to tell the story of a singular life in a way that is, in the language of book clubs, relatable. Vance has done something quite different: he has written a memoir uneasy with the very idea of singularity. He is aware of the constraints politics and economics place on people but still, nonetheless, tries to tell a story of uncommon success.
The tensions between individuality and typicality, between feeling singular and special and feeling constrained and insignificant, are characteristic of life-writing by the millennial generation, those born between 1980 and 2000. The authors of the books discussed here are all (except Alderton) American, all between 25 and 35, though they come from different backgrounds: they are rich and poor, suburban and rural, raised in religious and secular families. More than half of them are white women, and all are acutely aware of the ways their lives have been shaped by race, gender and class. They are aware, too, of their relative privilege, and reflexively check it throughout their books. 'I am precisely the kind of nice upper-middle-class white girl whose relationship to substances has been treated as benign or pitiable – a cause for concern, or a shrug, rather than a punishment,' writes Leslie Jamison in The Recovering, a memoir of addiction that doubles as a cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous. 'If you are grossed out by "white girl privilege" (who isn't?), you might want to bail now,' warns Cat Marnell, the author of How to Murder Your Life, another addiction memoir, but an altogether more desperate and amusing book than Jamison's. Dolly Alderton, the author of Everything I Know about Love, who has her own problems with binge-drinking and disordered eating habits, seems less aware of her economic privilege, though she's quick to note how a culture that privileges the couple disadvantages single women like herself. In This Will Be My Undoing, an essay collection with an allusion to intersectionality in its subtitle, Morgan Jerkins argues that skin colour and hair type contribute to a hierarchical system within the black community.
Vance is the lone open conservative in this group. US Millennials lean further left than their baby boomer parents: according to one recent survey, half of them reject capitalism and a third support socialism. Nonetheless, Vance's unironic investment in family values and his full-throated endorsement of the American Dream, is, tonally, typical. There is little irony in millennial memoirs and even less nihilism. Their authors tend to be earnest, and post-postmodern in their attachment to 'meaning'. They believe in self-improvement: they preach psychotherapy; they laud temperance; they speak openly about their faith. Most of them go to therapy; Alderton has a chapter called 'My Therapist Says'. Even Marnell, the most cynical among them, ends her book on a gentle note. We leave her exercising regularly, moderating her amphetamine intake and listening to Louise Hay's affirmations: 'I am grateful for my life. Only good lies before me.' (Hay wrote several bestselling self-help books.) Like many of the authors included here, she occasionally falls to her knees and prays.
So what happens when millenials, so much discussed in the media, speak for themselves? You begin by hearing a lot about university. Attending college has become an expected step at the same time as it has become shockingly expensive and increasingly corporatised. Compared to 1979, the cost of tuition in the US is up nearly 200 per cent at state colleges and nearly 300 per cent at private ones. New facilities and sports coaches (not players) eat up much of the money, while, as in the UK, university administrators receive salaries that most lecturers can only dream of.
And yet students in the US continue to go to college in record numbers, taking out loans that they will spend years, even decades, paying off. Realising that the debt he would incur would be enough to buy a house in his Ohio hometown, Vance joined the marines instead. After his tour of duty, he went to college on the G.I. Bill. Like the welfare recipients he disdains, he too relied on the largesse of the state. For many students, loans aren't sufficient to cover the expense of an undergraduate degree. Seventy per cent of US students work throughout college, an almost threefold increase since 1960; a quarter work more than twenty hours a week, while a fifth have full-time jobs. While at Ohio State, Vance took two jobs, one for a state senator, another at a local nonprofit. He slept three or four hours a night. A professor encouraged him to focus on his education; Vance ignored him, and ended up in hospital with a staph infection and glandular fever. Incredibly, the lessons he takes from all this are not that higher education is rigged in favour of the rich, or that state-funded universities suffer under austerity, but that hard work will be rewarded and payday lenders are a necessary lifeline.
Students like Vance invest an astounding amount of time, labour and money in their education. This is all the more striking when you consider the necessity yet declining value of a degree: since 2008, unemployment and underemployment rates for recent US graduates have nearly doubled. Long hailed as the engine of social mobility, college no longer fulfills this promise: 38 per cent of students from low-income families will stay poor, even if they graduate. The majority of graduates begin their post-college lives saddled with debt, in jobs or internships that don't provide enough money to live on. As Malcolm Harris puts it in Kids These Days, 'for anyone who takes out a student loan – and that's two-thirds of students – succeeding at contemporary American childhood now means contracting out hours, days, years of their future work to the government, with no way to escape the consequences of what is barely a decision in the first place.'
Harris's view of the value of higher education is not shared by most of his peers. Alderton might be dismissive of her time at Exeter University – 'from September 2006 to July 2009 – all I did was drink and shag' – but young Americans must justify their investment. Jerkins, a graduate of 'one of the worst high schools in South Jersey', describes her admission to Princeton as nothing less than an act of God: 'Getting off Princeton's waitlist demonstrated more of His glory because it seemed the most impossible outcome,' she writes. 'Fourteen hundred names. Fourteen hundred names. There is no amount of maths or science that can rationalise what had transpired.' She's not wrong: elite universities in the US are largely inaccessible to those from the middle and working classes – scholarships and financial aid notwithstanding. Roughly a third of undergraduates at Harvard get in because a family member attended before them.
And yet sometimes higher education works as intended: it expands a student's mind and allows her to leave a past life behind. Tara Westover's lyrical memoir, Educated, describes the self-estranging process by which she went from being an isolated child of Mormon fundamentalists to a PhD student at Cambridge. Of the books discussed here, hers is the most traditional; it remains tightly focused on an individual life and never takes off into cultural analysis. The reader is left to make her own mind up about the structural forces at play.
It opens with a memory: Westover is standing on an abandoned railway carriage in rural Idaho watching a school bus on the highway below: 'I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we don't go to school.' There are other significant differences: she and most of her siblings don't have birth certificates; her parents refuse conventional medical care for themselves and their children; her father is convinced the world will end on 1 January 2000 and when he is proved wrong, withdraws. Without a formal education, or exposure to the wider world, Westover can't recognise that her family's practices are unusual and dangerous. She has no recourse when an older brother begins terrorising and abusing her.
Education offers Westover first a refuge from family chaos, then a way out. She reads the few (religious) books she finds around the house and develops 'the patience to read things I could not yet understand'. She never goes to school yet earns a scholarship at Brigham Young University. The scholarship does not cover all her costs. 'I had a job at the campus creamery, flipping burgers and scooping ice cream. I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money … I was broke when I turned 19 at the end of September,' a month into the academic year. She neglects a broken tooth, then her studies. 'Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure,' she reflects, 'my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed and how much, and whether there was anything in my room for ten or twenty dollars.' With the help of a bishop and a kind friend, she applies for financial aid, and realises that she is now a 'Commie', the sort of term her father uses for those who accept help from the state. She uses the money to pay her rent, buy textbooks and get a new Sunday dress: 'I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.'
Unlike Vance, who is roughly the same age as Westover and serves as a useful foil, she understands that material conditions limit what one can achieve through hard work. 'My professors came into focus, suddenly and sharply; it was as if before the grant I'd been looking at them through a blurred lens.' She begins to learn about historical injustice – she first hears of the Holocaust at a lecture – and the more she understands about mental health, feminism and the history of separatist movements in America, the less inclined she is to visit her family, particularly her father, who believes that studying is unwomanly. She stops going home for the summer. Later, she spends a transformative semester studying abroad in Cambridge and goes on to win a scholarship that takes her back there. One of the first things she does on arrival is to get the immunisations she never received as a child. But Westover also shows the costs of social mobility. A fragile connection with an older sister collapses; she breaks contact with her father; she becomes depressed and begins having panic attacks. One night, she wakes and realises she had been dreaming of home, that her father had 'built a maze on Buck's Peak and trapped me inside it', that he pursued her while she searched for 'something precious I could never replace'.
Each of these writers links his or her success to some institution. It's at Princeton that Jerkins, having failed twice to get a place on the undergraduate creative writing programme, feels she developed the determination she needed to pursue a career as a freelance writer. At Yale Law School, Vance is mentored by the law professor, original tiger mother and bestselling author Amy Chua. He also learns how to handle a formal table setting, thus setting himself up for success in corporate America. Jamison's major achievement – her sobriety – results from her attending regular Alcholics Anonymous meetings, where she comes to accept that she is 'a woman among women, with nothing extraordinary' about her. There are boyfriends in her book, but her truest romance is with AA. She is seduced by the organisation's tough love, and embraces its language along with its ethic. 'Our stories were valuable because of this redundancy, not despite it,' she reflects. 'Originality wasn't the ideal, and beauty wasn't the point.' She ends up writing a choral, collective memoir that interweaves her own story of addiction and recovery with the stories of others, some famous, some not. Her book works 'like a meeting' of recovering addicts – reproducing the institution it loves.
Marnell too is keen to belong to an institution – Condé Nast. Her headlong, self-ironising style contrasts sharply with the sincerity of other memoirists, but she becomes earnest when it comes to her corporate family. Her own mother was thin and cold (she kept a scale that read 'THINNER'), her father volatile and violent, and she grew up in a grand, much photographed house full of expensive, angular furniture and shattered dinner plates. At boarding school, she started abusing Adderall, a drug used to treat attention-deficit disorder.
While still a student, Marnell interned for beauty editor Charlotte, the stepdaughter of Elia Kazan and 'a mess in the most appealing way possible'. Then she worked for Felicia Milewicz, 'the last of the old school beauty directors' and an 'industry legend' who ran Glamour magazine for decades. And lastly her boss at Lucky magazine, the 'legendary beauty director Jean Godfrey-June', supported her and forgave her, encouraged her to go to rehab, responded to her suffering the way a mother might. Marnell is given to hyperbole – the word 'insane' recurs, often as a term of praise – but her worship of her bosses and colleagues seems genuine. It is to them, specifically to Godfrey-June, that she apologises for her bad behaviour while high.
For a generation castigated for its 'hookup culture' and its reliance on dating apps, millennials seem remarkably optimistic about long-term relationships. They seem to marry later than previous generations, but that's because, according to one survey, they feel they aren't 'financially ready' to settle down. Financial precarity can also explain their enthusiasm for marriage: it makes a lot of sense when you need to get on your spouse's health insurance, or when you need two incomes to buy an apartment in most major cities.
In these memoirs, dating is frequent and frequently disappointing. As we might expect from a former dating columnist, Alderton makes the most out of her misadventures. She includes a series of 'Bad Date Diaries' and makes lists of reasons for and against having a boyfriend. Her bad dates pale in comparison to Marnell's worst encounters, which involve sexual assault and physical abuse ('I let art-world guys choke me out during unprotected sex,' she admits early in her memoir). Both writers depict casual sex as more often upsetting than liberating and when Alderton wants to show she's serious about someone, she waits to have sex. 'I don't want to sleep with him because I want to get to know him better,' she says of a date at university. Later, of her first love, 'I knew it was serious because I didn't go to bed with him for two whole months, wanting desperately to get it right.' Alderton's writing about relationships reminds me of the books that were published around the same time that people her age started having sex. They were books about the 'rules' of courtship and that encouraged women to settle, to marry 'Mr Good Enough'.
Jerkins also waits to have sex until she is in a serious relationship, a choice partly informed by her religion. When the man she plans to lose her virginity to says he can't be exclusive – 'he had to experience some things' – she breaks up with him. 'I yearned for love within a committed relationship.' she says of her younger self. Vance offers his marriage to a fellow law student as the kind of stable relationship his mother never achieved; it is at once an indicator of his social mobility and his psychological health. Jamison and her long-term boyfriend, Dave, fight frequently about his flirtatious behaviour. They live together; they have dinner parties; they share furniture; they go to their friends' weddings, and are asked when their own will be. Dave, then, is not supposed to be smiling at a female caterer or texting a younger poet. 'If you're still getting drunk and flirting with other people in front of your boyfriend, there's something wrong with your relationship. Or more likely, with you,' Alderton admonishes in her book's final pages. Her last chapter includes many of these sorts of edicts: 'No practical matter is important enough to keep you in the wrong relationship'; 'integration into each other's lives should be completely equal'; 'the perfect man is kind, funny and generous'; 'get a Brazilian wax if you want a Brazilian wax. If you don't, don't. And don't ever not get one for "the sisterhood"'. The only rules are the ones you make for yourself.
Although millennials are most often compared to baby boomers, the generation with which they're locked in economic and Oedipal struggle, they might more profitably be compared to the so-called Generation X, those born between 1960 and 1980, more or less. Its members are more likely to display dread, irony and a distrust of institutions. In Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), for example, a woman Eggers is hoping to impress asks how he plans to 'throw off the shackles' and 'inspire millions' – and he responds by saying he will start a magazine. He and a friend found Might Magazine, the slogan of which is 'screw those idiots'. The idiots remain unspecified, but they're probably adults in all the worst ways. For Eggers, the very worst thing you could be is a member of a club you didn't found yourself.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the depression memoir Prozac Nation (1994), went to Harvard and wrote for Seventeen magazine, but emphasises how ill-suited she was for such places, and how unimpressed she was by what she saw there. 'I'd spent all my time in high school getting good grades, editing the newspaper and literary magazine, taking dance class, doing whatever else, all because I wanted to go to a great college like Harvard and be transmogrified,' she writes, sounding like a millennial. 'But once I actually got there, once I discovered that the air in Cambridge didn't tingle, once I found it was a place like any other only more so … I think I decided I might as well drug my way through.' (Marnell, by contrast, gushes over her time at Lucky: 'I loved everything about my new job.') Wurtzel alludes to her accomplishments only in passing: 'Somewhere down the road I managed to pick up the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award for an essay I wrote about Lou Reed for the Harvard Crimson, and now I have a summer job at the Dallas Morning News as an arts reporter.' It's not that Wurtzel doesn't care, exactly; it's that success doesn't make her happier.
Millennial memoirists' self-worth, by contrast, seems to be measured out in acceptance letters. They merge with the institutions that accept them. Marnell brands herself a 'Condé Nast dropout' when her addiction forces her to leave Lucky. At the digital magazine xoJane, she rants about the site's inferiority to print and refuses to endorse features she thinks are subpar. Her problem isn't disaffection. It's that she cares too much about the company that employs her. She's not the only one. The last essay in Jerkins's collection is all about her desire to break into prestigious New York magazines.
This isn't to say that millennials are simply interested in propping up the status quo. On the contrary, they seek to remake these institutions in their own image. Jerkins tells her fellow black women writers that 'we have the responsibility to bring other black women to the forefront of the culture we've helped to create and sustain.' Jamison discusses the failure of the War on Drugs and the ways that racism pervades rehab programmes and the criminal justice system. Vance would like more kids like him to make it to college, though he sees the obstacles as personal, not structural – and so argues that 'there is no government that can fix these problems for us.'
Ten years after the economic crash, the gap between good jobs and bad jobs is still growing, and even supposedly good jobs – such as management consulting – are insecure. From 1973 until 2015, productivity in the US increased by 73.4 per cent, while hourly pay rose by just 11.1 per cent. (Harris rightly calls this disjuncture the defining factor of millennial life.) No wonder, then, that young people seek stable jobs when and where they can, and that they aim to improve the place where they work or study rather than abandon these imperfect institutions entirely.
Millennials came to public notice around the same time Barack Obama did. It's hard to remember the optimism of that historical moment, before the 2013 government shutdown and the fights over Obamacare, before the deportations and drone strikes, before Trump. Many US millennials cast their first vote – for Obama, of course – in the 2008 presidential election, after a campaign which preached hope and promised change. Obama's biography seems to validate what they had been told at school: trust in meritocracy; adapt to new conditions; seek to understand those different from you; remain undaunted in the face of defeat. And yet, as man or as metonym, he is almost entirely absent from the memoirs here. Only Jerkins gives him sustained attention.
Have these writers already put the Obama years behind them? Like the former president, most of them are still playing nice and hoping that will save them, even as they realise, and then repress, the knowledge that it won't. (Marnell might be an exception: she's not especially nice, and she doesn't anticipate saving anyone, least of all herself.) But others of their generation come to realise that they must leave behind the polite ethos of the Obama era and engage in collective, radical, decidedly uncivil action against those in power. That might mean leaving the memoir behind too.
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Photo Plus Expo Gives Photographers & Gear Makers a Chance to Meet
Trade shows and expositions can be fun events for the media and enthusiasts since they give individuals a chance to see the latest products and often get opportunities to put their hands on new pieces of gear or get demonstrations of products. Often manufacturers also provide "swag," freebies handed out to booth visitors or demo software. Photo Plus is one such event and it is a huge annual trade expo that takes place each fall in New York City.
About the Photo Plus Expo
The expo features hundreds of exhibitors showing a huge range of hardware, software and services and draws close to 30,000 visitors during its three-day run. Products ranged from the simple and inexpensive (blower bulbs for camera cleaning) to frightfully expensive (Sigma's 200-500 2.8 zoom lens costing $28,999 with free shipping). Many exhibitors brought in celebrity photographers to give presentations on their areas of expertise.
It's often possible to get free registration to expos by registering early. Photo Plus is one of these events and prospective attendees who registered in advance could get main entry to the event for free ($49 for those who registered after October 8 this year). A "Gold" Pass option cost $59 for early registrants and $79 for registration after this year's October 8 deadline. The Gold Pass allowed for early entry into the expo. Gold Pass holders also had their own lounge at the expo and received a variety of discounts and specials at area restaurants, plus were offered a discount on a Photo District News (PDN) subscription. PDN is the organizer of the event. Two-hour seminars cost from $65 and up.
Many exhibitors aren't just showing off their gear, more than a few were also hawking their wares. In many cases expo attendees can pick up good discounts on popular gear. This is also a nice opportunity for little known companies to find an audience. Booth visitors get a chance to see a product demonstrated, ask questions and play with the product themselves. It's also an opportunity for everyday photographers to offer suggestions for product improvements or new products.
Some things to be aware of if you're planning a trip to a Photo Plus Expo. Parking in NYC is expensive!!! The parking lot across the street from the Javitts Center charges $50 a day during event days (and Photo Plus counts) and cars must be removed by midnight. Hotels are pricey too. Expect to spend around $200 a night for a decent, but not great hotel if you want to stay in the city. Staying across the river in New Jersey can be cheaper and there are a number of Park and Ride locations to provide a public transportation option.


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Young Song and his cousin James caught their limit of Snapper on a nice half-day Reef trip this morning. Half days are a fantastic way to keep your trip cost low and get some tasty fish for lunch. Young and James had plenty of filets to take back to Chicago for some good eating! If you are interested in seeing what fishing in the Florida Keys has to offer, contact me, Captain Jeff Shelar and I will get back to you ASAP.


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Massive thanks to Greg for hosting one of the very best vacations of my entire life. I'll do a write-up as soon as I can, but rest assured the story will include some of the following items: toll roads, Paul F. Tompkins, the amazing Electric Hot Dogger, the blood cot (not to be confused with a blood clot), Giordano's, Liam Neeson, a guy who might have been Seth Rogen, Galactic subs vs. Tuscaninis, my (accidental) kicking of one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen, and Greg's on-foot hot pursuit of a couple of perps who broke into a car outside of his apartment.
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If there were a competition for cluelessness between the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Washington Post, Wapo would win, hands down. Behold their opinions of the filibuster bomb:
The New York Times, in an editorial headlined Democracy Returns to the Senate:
For five years, Senate Republicans have refused to allow confirmation votes on dozens of perfectly qualified candidates nominated by President Obama for government positions. They tried to nullify entire federal agencies by denying them leaders. They abused Senate rules past the point of tolerance or responsibility. And so they were left enraged and threatening revenge on Thursday when a majority did the only logical thing and stripped away their power to block the president's nominees. …
… It would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, when the majority leader, Harry Reid, was still holding out hope for a long-lasting deal with Republicans and insisting that federal judges, because of their lifetime appointments, should still be subject to supermajority thresholds. But Mr. Reid, along with all but three Senate Democrats, was pushed to act by the Republicans' refusal to allow any appointments to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, just because they wanted to keep a conservative majority on that important court.
That move was as outrageous as the tactic they used earlier this year to try to cripple the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (which they despise) by blocking all appointments to those agencies. That obstruction was removed in July when Mr. Reid threatened to end the filibuster and Republicans backed down. The recent blockade of judges to the D.C. appellate court was the last straw. .
…Given the extreme degree of Republican obstruction during the Obama administration, the Democrats had little choice but to change the filibuster rule….Today's vote was an appropriate use of that power, and it was necessary to turn the Senate back into a functioning legislative body.
The Washington Post, After filibuster vote, both parties will face nasty "nuclear" fallout:
THE REWRITING of filibuster rules by Senate Democrats on Thursday changed the legislative body in fundamental ways, and for the worse. Republicans whose unjustified recalcitrance provoked the change should be ashamed. Democrats who are celebrating will soon enough regret their decision. The radical action, a product of poisonous partisanship, will also be an accelerant of poisonous partisanship. …
…The impact of changing the rules in this way may be even more far-reaching. The Democratic action sets a precedent that a future Republican majority will use to change procedures when it gets into a political jam, rather than negotiate with Democrats. The logical outcome is a Senate operating more like the House, with no rights for the minority, no reason for debate and no incentive to cooperate. For those who view that as an improvement, we offer today's House as a counterargument.
Democrats understood all this very well when they were in the minority. "You may own the field right now," then-Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D) said in 2005, when Republicans threatened to invoke the nuclear option. "But you won't own it forever. And I pray to God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing." Republicans resisted pushing the nuclear button then; both parties should have stepped back and hammered out a bipartisan compromise reform now.
This time Republicans proved incapable of exercising their minority rights in a responsible way. Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proved not enough of a leader to resist the "naked power grab." American democracy is that much poorer as a result.
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Let's see … the Democrats and Republicans should have compromised, but Republicans refused to compromised, therefore it was wrong for Democrats to take action.
This is an editorial so stupid it could only have been written by Fred Hiatt.
Seriously. The genteel, bipartisan Senate you are mourning died awhile back, Fred, and its corpse rotted. You didn't smell it?
Charles Pierce wrote, "They may need the Jaws of Life to pry Ruth Marcus off the fainting couch." Yep; Marcus is furious with the Democrats because (as she admits) Republicans forced their hand to end the filibuster, and they actually did it. She is even now swooning on the sofa and calling for smelling salts.


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So Quebec is going to be designated a nation! I decided that I am going to start campaigning for recognition of both the Celtic nation in the maritimes, and the Aboriginal First nation's nation that exists throughout Canada. They are too examples of nations within Canada, with their own languages and culture.
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Clinton emails: Lindsey Graham 'always talks how much he likes you'
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) apparently likes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — he just thinks she'd do a terrible job as commander in chief.
In one of the some-3,000 Clinton emails released by the State Department on Tuesday, business executive Terrence Duffy wrote to Clinton congratulating her on her daughter's engagement and then relayed well wishes from Graham.
"Also I had dinner last night with a mutual friend of ours, Sen Lindsay [sic] Graham. Lindsay always talks how much he likes you and said if I were to be in contact with you to say hi from him," Duffy wrote in the March 11, 2010, email. "Stay well and I look forward to hearing and seeing you soon."
Graham is now running for president, and the Graham campaign said that even though the senator likes Clinton personally, they have serious disagreements.
"Of course Senator Graham likes Secretary Clinton as a person and they worked well together in the Senate," Graham spokeswoman Brittany Bramell told POLITICO. "But, he fundamentally disagrees with her about how to defend and secure our nation. She is the third term of Obama's failed foreign policy. Lindsey Graham represents a complete break with that disappointing legacy."
The warm feelings would seem to go both ways: Clinton has likewise said she "worked well" with the South Carolina senator, though they may be potential campaign rivals now. In an interview with New Hampshire's Concord Monitor in June, Clinton highlighted collaborating with Graham and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
"Now, we'll go through the political season, and they'll be cringing when I say I worked well with them. But my co-sponsor on health care for the National Guard and reserves was Lindsey Graham," Clinton said. "And he may not want to be reminded of it, but we worked really hard to get that done."
Graham, at moments, has also conceded that he doesn't "dislike" Clinton before proceeding to bash er.
"I think she's the architect of failed foreign policy," Graham said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in April. "I think she's the architect of failed foreign policy. Her and Bill did a better job with selling Obamacare than he did."