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Ruderman Fellows coming from Israel to learn about American Jewry
Free transport for students to forum tonight in Newton
Five members of the Israeli Knesset are due to arrive Sunday for the second round of the Ruderman Fellows Program, a partnership between Brandeis and the Ruderman Family Foundation aimed at strengthening relations between Israeli political leaders and the American Jewish community.
The fellows, who are broadly representative of the Israeli political spectrum, will participate in an intensive agenda of classes with leading scholars, meetings with American leaders and public conversations March 25 through March 30 in Greater Boston and New York City.
The group's major public event in this area will be a Town Hall-style meeting at Temple Emanuel in Newton at 8 p.m. Monday, March 26. Free round-trip transportation to this event is being provided to students by the university. Those interested in attending may pick up tickets for the bus at Brandeis Tickets in Shapiro Campus Center.
President Fred Lawrence, Ruderman Family Foundation President Jay Ruderman '88 and Israeli Consul-General to New England Shai Bazak will speak to the Knesset members at an opening lunch Sunday.
Prior to the Temple Emanuel event Monday, they will hear talks by Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis' Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, on "American Jewry: Past, Present, Future," and by Richard Fishman, of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, on "The Politics of the American-Israel Relationship."
The Israelis also will meet with a host of government leaders, including U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Congressman Michael Capuano and Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman.
Tuesday, the Knesset members will immerse in the diverse perspectives of American Jews, engaging communal leaders and organizers, opinion-makers and students in a series of small meetings.
"Nothing is more important to the American-Israeli relationship than exchanging ideas and knowing each other well," Lawrence said. "It is simply essential that we learn from each other and understand the commonalities and differences in our political positions and social outlooks."
Ruderman said the idea for the program arose several years after he moved to Israel six years ago, when he began making personal friends in political life there.
"When I engaged them about the Jewish community of the United States, the relationship of that community with the community in Israel and the influence of this relationship on the security of Israel, I realized they didn't have the same idea of the importance of the relationship that I did," Ruderman said.
He cited a member of last year's inaugural group of Ruderman Fellows who led him to understand that "many Israelis look at American Jews as Jews who happen to live in the United States but whose first allegiance is to Israel and whose eventual desire is to make aliyah or contribute" to the building up of the state.
In contrast, Ruderman said, "I think American Jews look at themselves as Americans who are also Jewish, who are very comfortable as Americans, and who may or may not have a strong relationship to Israel."
He said Israeli political leaders need to understand better that strong support for Israel from the U.S. government and Congress is not merely the result of American security interests or support for democracy. "American Jews work very hard" to keep the support strong, Ruderman said. "Israeli Jews should understand that if the relationships change, that may change."
"The point of this program is to educate them, so that when they become ministers or are voting on issues like 'Who is a Jew?', they are going to have a broader view of what this very important community across the ocean is going to think," he said.
Ruderman said the main change this year from the inaugural year of the program has been expanding the number of political parties represented by the fellowship group and including parties such as Yisrael Beitenu that have influence but do not have huge memberships.
"It will be interesting how their positions are viewed by the American Jewish community," he said. "What may be popular in Israel among a certain part of the population may not be popular in the United States."
The Ruderman Fellows for 2012 and their parties are Ofir Akunis, Likud; Ilan Gilon, Meretz; Fania Kirshenbaum, Yisrael Beitenu; Raleb Majadele, Labor; and Lia Shemtov, Yisrael Beitenu.
The bus to the Town Hall Meeting at Temple Emanuel will depart from Spingold Driveway at 7:15 p.m. March 26. Attendees must have a ticket and a Brandeis ID. Brandeis Tickets is open Monday through Friday, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturday, noon to 4 pm. Ticketing provided by the Department of Student Activities.
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Patricia Marroquin 6/17/2003 8:00:15 AMOh, this is gorgeous Heather! Love the colors and the crisscross patterns. Nice work! #40551
As for post processing here it is -
1) I rotated a little
2) cropped a bit tighter
3) applied tone curve adjustment
4) removed some red color cast from the WB setting I used
5) used fred mirandas PS action - FM intensities to boost the saturation.
6) and last...sharpening
Here is a link to the original so you can see the differences.
Patricia Marroquin 7/7/2003 12:15:58 AMCongratulations, Heather! #134843
Mette Vendelboe Allison 7/7/2003 4:14:19 AMA beauty as always! Congrats and good luck! #135097
Leanne M.E. Boyd 7/7/2003 5:07:35 AMCongrats, Heather - and good luck. #135212
Murry Grigsby 7/7/2003 5:08:06 AMCongrats, Heather! #135215
Debbie S. 7/7/2003 5:51:18 AMCongrats Heather...this is a SURE winner!! #135360
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Conrad L. Conero 7/7/2003 8:08:47 AMCongrats, Heather. Guess I'm a better judge than photographer. :)
Serena Pierce 7/7/2003 8:33:40 AMBeautiful shot Heather, Congratulations!! #135691
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LJ Corliss 7/7/2003 5:33:42 PMCongrats to you :) #136439
Scott Emmons 7/7/2003 7:16:02 PMBeautiful image. Very well done. #136742
June Marie Sobrito 7/9/2003 2:52:34 PMA stunner! Congratulations!! #138542
Debbie S. 7/14/2003 4:34:15 PMYEA!!!!!!!!!! A well deserved 1st place...Congrats Heather!!!! #142184
Serena Pierce 7/14/2003 4:43:25 PMConratulations Heather!! Truly stunning! #142206
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Dolores Neilson 7/14/2003 5:04:52 PMMany congratulations on your well deserved first place win, Heather! #142266
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Patrick Campbell 7/14/2003 6:28:56 PMCongrats on your big win Heather! You have a fine talent for making art out of the ordinary things around us....Pat #142386
Patrick Campbell 7/14/2003 6:29:26 PMCongrats on your big win Heather! You have a fine talent for making art out of the ordinary things around us....Pat #142388
Jean Papo 7/14/2003 6:31:06 PMCongratulations, Heather, on your fantastic photo! #142392
Evy Johansen 7/14/2003 7:25:52 PMCongratulations on your well deserved first place win! Beautiful image! #142436
Connie L. Carpenter 7/14/2003 7:48:05 PMCongratulations, Heather... wonderful image. #142478
Mette Vendelboe Allison 7/15/2003 2:13:09 AMI'm sure you can make anything looks beautiful, Heather! Great work from you as always! BIIIG congrats from me! #142658
Carolyn M. Fletcher 7/15/2003 3:34:14 AMCongrats on this well deserved win, Heather! #142709
Terry Cervi 7/15/2003 5:34:08 AMCongrats on a simply wonderful image, Heather! Very well done! Terry #142820
Bernard B. Travers 7/15/2003 7:21:15 AMMagnificent, Heather. Very well deserved. Congratulations. #142945
Michael McCook 7/15/2003 7:23:59 AMAnother great Heather win. I almost always know one of your beautiful shots before I even see your name. Congrats on the win! #142953
Richard P. Morin 7/15/2003 8:07:43 AMCongratulations, a real beauty!! #143006
Monika Sapek 7/15/2003 7:22:44 PMStunning colors and great patterns! Many congratulations on your another excellent win, Heather!
Patricia Marroquin 7/15/2003 11:06:29 PMCongratulations, Heather! Such a gorgeous shot! #143470
Greg McCroskery 7/16/2003 4:30:18 AMHeather,
Murry Grigsby 7/17/2003 1:05:48 PMWhat can I say, Heather, you have a gift for wonderful images! The design and colors are great. Well done!! #144604
Stephen Zacker 8/12/2003 4:39:18 AMBreathtaking! #163543
Rob Bishop 2/25/2004 1:36:32 PMFirst off, this is just a fantastic photo, and shows how keen your eye is for seeing images that most of us would miss.
Rob #396425
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: During the 18th century candlesticks were essential household items. Most households burned candles at night to provide light for reading, doing handwork, or just getting around the house and yard. These elaborate candlesticks are made of brass and have a very practical design. The knob on the side is set within a long slot. As the candle burned, the knob was moved up to reveal more wax. The flange at the top of the candlesticks caught the wax as it dripped. This excess wax could then be re-melted and formed into new candles. These brass candlesticks were used by Reverend Roger Newton, who was Pastor of the First Church of Greenfield from 1765 to 1816.
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Yesterday we went to a nursery. To buy babies! I made that joke to, oh, eight people yesterday. "Get it? Babies? Nursery? Ho!" No one laughed. I am surrounded by jerks.
Anyway, yeah, we bought plants and stuff. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea how not to kill plants. On the other hand, I am excellent at killing them. Here's my method.
1. Bring a plant into my house.
2. Attempt to care for it. You're supposed to water them, right?
3. As it begins its slow journey to the grave, alternate weeks of avoidance and denial with bursts of panicked and clumsy tending.
4. Throw it out. Vow never to buy a plant again.
I walked up to a gaggle of nursery people and asked for their help. I was looking for some lovely yet not-easily-murdered flowery plantiness I could perch on our front stoop. I was hoping one of them would get up, pick out a plant and place it in my hands.
But they kept providing me with information. I couldn't process it. My mind wheezed.
"You could get a zerbertifora, or a ferfilligan," they mused.
"Well, isn't that the obvious choice?" I said.
"Really, you're safe with any annual," one of them said.
"What's an annual?" I asked. They laughed.
"No, really," I said, and they looked concerned for me.
I ran away from them and continued my disorganized, roundabout search for pretty crap to plant. I grabbed some stuff, but probably it was all the wrong kind. It was hard to concentrate, what with all the yelling at my son I had to do.
These days I like to yell at Henry at least five or twelve times an hour. I feel that this builds character. If I continually address him in a high-pitched shriek, he's sure to be filled with love and respect for me! So: "WOULDYOUSTAYSTILLYOUCAN'TRUNINHERE." Or! "STOP. TWIRLING. RIGHT. NOW." Alternately, "OH MY GOD I NEED TO LOOK AT THIS. THIS PLANT THING. STOP PULLING AT MY ARM. LISTEN. ARE YOU LISTENING. YOU'RE PULLING AT ME SOME MORE. GAAAAAAACK." When I wasn't losing my shit, I was tsk-ing at my husband for the loss of his. "He's just a baby," I would murmur calmly to him. "Please, have some perspective." It's amazing how much more tolerant you can be when you're merely observing the irritating behavior.
Sadly, most of the time I'm more than an observer. It seems these days that anything I want or need to do will be frustrated by Henry's opposing desire. I am either being yanked one way when I'm trying to go another or sat upon when I need to get up or pulled off a chair when I need to sit down. He aims to thwart me. All the time. And I'm not enjoying it.
I find myself employing the horrible Clenched Teeth Hiss and the Strangled Cry of Blinding Rage. I am becoming that horrible mother who holds her kid's hand a leetle too hard and walks a little too fast as he trips behind, yelling "You're hurting my hand!" These episodes are usually followed by the need to weep or throw up. Or, hell, both! Every day, several times a day, I marvel that I'm not locked away somewhere.
It doesn't help that I'm enjoying some rather breathtaking back pain (did you know that your back can hurt so much you can barely breathe, and yet you still remain conscious? I know it now! And yes, I'm getting medical attention, thank you concerned readers). And the constant pain is reducing my tolerance to, oh, about none.
It never fails to amaze me how someone I love so very much can incite in me so much anger. That I can be so angry at someone who is so goddamn adorable. When he goes to bed every night, he announces, "It's time for me to tuck up," and he pulls his blanket up over his head. Tuck up! Every time he says it I want to eat him. And his little candy toes.
I know we're all under a crazy amount of stress, and I'm clinging to the hope that we'll all begin behaving better, and soon. That's what I'm doing right now—I'm clinging. I know this will pass.
At the end of the nursery trip, as we stuffed our car full of assorted plantery (I made a word!) Henry turned to me and said "I always love you, no matter what." And then we sure as hell got some ice cream.


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Entering is easy, leave a comment on a giveaway post for a chance to win that day's prize. I will leave all the giveaways open for the week through Sunday December 7th then I'll draw all the giveaway winners Monday December 8th and will announce all the winners on Tuesday December 9th.
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Today's prizes are perfect for the person on the go--some time management helpers along with a way to unwind at the end of that busy day.
First, there's whoMi (get it? Who Am I?) which produces calendars and agendas for your scheduling pleasure. While I love their colors and patterns and their portable cases the items that I particularly like aren't the nifty agendas that use a color coded system for individual family members but the spiral bound to do lists that help you make out your lists by subject or task.
You see I'm a list maker, each morning I have to get mentally geared up for the day by making out my list of things to do and while I usually have my list on my PDA I can't help but come back to a written list. I love the feeling of a pen in my hands and see my handwriting neatly outlining the things I have to do and then--then--the real thrill is getting to cross something off.
So . . . before you refer me to a therapist I'll just refer you to these super sweet helps. Check out the various pads and today's winner will be able to try out an Everyday Pad and a Shop Call Do Pad all by themself.
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If you enjoy aromatherapy after a busy day then you'll love the Ginger Mentha collection which is fresh for the holidays and the Black Camomile collection which sounds too seductive and luxurious to be fit for print. Then, along with a product from each of these lines today's winner will also receive a product from their new Lambie collection which features these cute little cuddly lamb guys as slippers, blankets, sachets and bath poofs--all sorts of cuteness for keeping you warm and snuggled this holiday season.
Love those slippers--I think Lillian would love a pair of those Lambie kid slippers for her own little feet.
So good luck to you all, leave a comment to enter and I'll announce our two winners next week on Tuesday--one for the whoMi prize package and one for the Bath and Body Works package, if you have a preference let me know in your comments and I'll see what I can do.
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DailyDirt: Educating Adults
from the urls-we-dig-up deptElite schools aren't getting any cheaper, and college tuition seems to be rising faster than a lot of other goods (though the net price may not be). So what are aspiring university students to do? Here are just a few interesting links on the future of education.
- One proposal for college students to try to pay for rising tuition fees is for schools to take a cut of their students' future earnings in lieu of upfront tuition. Indentured servitude 2.0 might kill the classical liberal arts education, but oh well. [url]
- Baby boomers might be able to take college-level classes via iPads and chatrooms, but do they really want to? Mobile classes sound useful for students of any age, so why target just the baby boomers? (This exercise left to the reader.) [url]
- Sal Khan discusses the future of credentialing -- and how schools might be separated from the role of providing proof of proficiency. The future of microcredentials could offer a way for anyone to obtain proof of expertise in a narrowly-defined domain. [url]
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Metallica to Replace Green Day at Voodoo Music + Art Experience
When a superstar band is forced to cancel a festival appearance, they can only be replaced with another major act. That's exactly what Metallica is doing, filling in for Green Day as headliners at the Voodoo Music + Art Experience in New Orleans on Saturday, October 27.
"Our good friends and fellow Bay Area residents Green Day had to unfortunately cancel their plans to be there, so we are more than happy to fill in for them in our own unique way," said drummer Lars Ulrich. "We're hoping we can fill those very large shoes and do them proud."
Green Day had to drop out because singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong's is currently in rehab for substance abuse. His stint follows an onstage meltdown at the IHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas last month. The timing couldn't be worse, considering the band released its new album, '¡Uno!' a few days later.
"Canceling shows is something we rarely do," Green Day drummer Tré Cool said. "We never want to let our fans down, and we are grateful for all of you being understanding during this time." Green Day are hoping to begin their fall tour in Seattle on the expected date of Nov. 26.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse will headline the first night of the Voodoo Music + Art Experience (Oct. 26), with Jack White closing the three-day event on Oct. 28.


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Nov 19, 2012
Muppet Retro Reviews: Sesame Street Episode 0001
I'd like to discuss the Muppet portions first. Big Bird and Oscar both get only one scene each, where they get to meet Sally. These scenes are fun to watch, and interesting because of how different the characters are: Oscar has his grouchy personality but is orange, while Big Bird is extremely dopey. The first insert in this episode features Ernie and Bert. Ernie takes a bath and makes a funny joke about why he calls his bathtub Rosie. After a few inserts about baths, we get part two, in which Ernie leads the audience into a play-along song called "Everybody Wash," which includes cutaways to characters we'd just met playing along as well. Kermit the Frog later shows up for a two-part lecture on the letter W. In part one, we are introduced to Cookie Monster, whose eating turns the letter W into various other letters, while in part two Kermit has to deal with a moving W. In fact, these two segments could have easily been separate stand-alone segments about the letter W.
This episode also has its share of animation and film segments. This being The Muppet Mindset, I'll focus first on Jim Henson's contributions. This first episode includes two of the number films that end with a baker falling down the stairs, for the numbers 2 and 3. I like the number 3 segment, which features Jim as a juggler and Brian Henson counting three peas. Jim also lent his voice to various characters in a claymation segment about the letter S, which is also a good short. As for the non-Henson animation and film inserts, some of my favorites that appear in this episode include Jazz Number 2, Wanda the Witch, a film teaching "Over, Through, and Around," and a series of shorts in which a number of dots appear.
This is a great, fast-paced episode. In fact, when it comes to the episodes on the Old School sets, I watch this one all the way through more than any of the other episodes. But as much as I like this episode, it does have its slow spots. There's an overly-long film about milk, the scene with Gordon putting facial features on the Anything Muppets is slow, and some of the street scenes that don't include Muppets are a bit hard to be interested in. But the rest of the episode is pure gold.
Interestingly, while this episode is sponsored by three letters (W, S, and E) and two numbers (2 and 3), any sponsor that isn't W or 2 is only represented with one segment each, while the others are heavily featured. I guess W and 2 were the highest-paying sponsors for the first episode. These two sponsors seem to get special sections of the episode where they are heavily featured, Susan's rendition of "One of These Things" involves three W's and one 2, and when Ernie sings "Everybody Wash," the word "wash" appears on screen, with the W in a much-different font wiggling around.
The first episode of Sesame Street is a good introduction to one of the greatest and longest-running television shows in history. It may have a shortage of characters, but that's because many of the characters we know and love hadn't been introduced yet. The segments with Ernie, Bert, and Kermit are among their best segments. There may be some slow spots, but otherwise it feels fast-paced. The episode was released on DVD as part of Old School: Volume 1 and is on the bonus DVD included with the book Sesame Street: 40 Years – A Celebration of Life on the Street, but if you don't feel like going out and buying a copy (or ordering and waiting) the episode is also available (uncut, I must add) on iTunes as part of Sesame Street Classics Volume 1.
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I love the first ever episode of sesame street. My mother has it on vhs and I. Bought it with sesame street old school. And I don't mean to spam but todays my birthday! And I'm spending it muppet style! Got my kermit t. A bow-tie like the muppet show gonzo one, a cool hat (floyd pepperness) and bowling! Okay I don't know about that last one but,nevermind that last one... and I'm still trying to get over the fact oscar was orange and big bird was a dope...even though I've known most of my life.ReplyDelete
Hugs and giggles~maria gayle
The episode was sponsored by W and 2... someone must have had income tax on their mind!ReplyDelete
Today is also the day sesame street aired so today has been sponsored by the letter m (for maria) and the number 14 (cause that was when I became a hard core fan of everything muppetness!)ReplyDelete
Hugs and giggles~maria gayle!
A great start to a legandary show.ReplyDelete
I am glad that another Muppet fan says this episode is slow. I thought I wouldn't be a Muppet fan if I found the first episode some what boring though it was mostly that milk filmReplyDelete


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Monday, March 5, 2012
Chic Up the Boho Side Braid
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I love this! Super cute.ReplyDelete
Just found your blog today and am so interested by the whole concept of it! Does it take way less time to do your hair? do you put any product at all in your hair? The closest I came was when I was on my mission in Argentina I just put my hair in a pony tail every day and it was the lognest and healthiest it has ever been! I'm so excited to see how this turns out for you!ReplyDelete
new follower :)
beautiful :)ReplyDelete
So pretty! I need to try this!ReplyDelete
PS- I love your blog header! Especially the pop of yellow!
Hope you have a great week!
And another one goes on my 'to-try' listReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Hey There! What a cute hair-style! :) I just want you to know that I love reading your blogs! Keep up the great writing work!ReplyDelete
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So cute! I've always wanted to learn how to do this. Thanks for sharing. The hair wrapped around the ponytail holder is the perfect touch.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Suspend Stoudemire? Fine. But you have to suspend Duncan too.
By Basketbawful at 12:50 PM
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Well, well, well...Robert Horry's late-game
shoulder block
sure blew the lid off of Pandora's Box, didn't it? So what's going to happen now? Will Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw be suspended for Game 5, effectively handicapping the Suns in a must-win situation? It's been pointed out over at
(among other places) that the NBA rules stipulate that players cannot leave the bench during a fight...but there
wasn't a fight
. Just a hard foul and some harsh words. So the final decision should be a simple one: only Cheap Shot Bob should be suspended.
But nothing's ever simple, and the NBA has another image problem on its hands. Many thanks to reader Arif Rahman for bringing to this little tidbit from
Steve Kerr's Yahoo column
to my attention:
"However, if the league decides to suspend Diaw and Stoudemire, it may have to suspend Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen as well. In a play that went entirely unnoticed until well after the game was over, both Duncan and Bowen actually left San Antonio's bench early in the second quarter after Francisco Elson and James Jones were entangled. Replays clearly show Duncan walking several steps onto the court as Elson and Jones appeared to be ready to get into it. Bowen then followed Duncan onto the floor, grabbed him and led him back to the bench. If the league does indeed follow the letter of the law, both Spurs players would also be suspended for Game 5."
So there you have it. The NBA must choose whether to hand out (or not hand out) suspensions based either on the
of the law or the
of the law. But if Stoudemire and Diaw get the hook for Game 5 and Duncan and Bowen don't...well, then that would be a pretty serious miscarriage of justice.
Random observation from Evil Ted:
"How did the Spurs become the bad guys? Bruce Bowen, that's how. F**king 'foot defense.'"
Here's the video of Duncan and Bowen coming off the bench.
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Mike Herman
Can you find some video evidence about Duncan stepping onto the floor? It would make this more convincing.
The law applies to altercations on the court. There wasn't any altercation there.
You can't say that there wasn't any altercation during the Horry elbow. Bell went at Cheapshot Rob, Nash also tried to have at him cause he got pissed already, being the Spurs' punching bag and all.
Webster defines "altercation" as a noisy heated angry dispute; also : noisy controversy
synonym see QUARREL
It was a nasty technicality that saved TD's whining ass. All that happened when he got on the court was his teammate whining about a non-call.
"Can you find some video evidence about Duncan stepping onto the floor? It would make this more convincing."
You mean evidence other than guys like Steve Kerr and Henry Abbot writing about it, and the TNT guys showing the video clip and discussing it during halftime of the Bulls game last night? No, none.
"You can't say that there wasn't any altercation during the Horry elbow."
Well, there's room for interpretation regarding what constitutes and altercation. And that's part of the problem. The NBA interprets and reinterprets its own rules constantly. There's a zero tolerance policy for complaining about calls and non-calls, but it happens constantly. That tells me that the NBA can pick and choose where and how it enforces its rules.
The thing is that bad calls happen ALL the time in a LOT of games. The Spurs have had their share of BAD calls made against them. (or non calls) Let us not forget what Jason Terry did last year in the playoffs. SO, if you are specifically hating the Spurs right now, it's just jealousy. YOU KNOW they are well on their way to a trophy and your team probably isnt. It's a sport. I wish people would watch and quit whining. (and) PLEASE dont pretend that (insert name of your favorite team here) hasnt ever benefited from a bad call or some slack in the rules. PLEASE.
Ditto on what jdslagle said. All teams have benefited from bad calls or slack rules, so don't get holier-than-thou when your team isn't getting the upper hand.
"Well, there's room for interpretation regarding what constitutes and altercation."
I think there's little room for any other meaning with the definition I just posted:
Webster defines "altercation" as a noisy heated angry dispute; also : noisy controversy
synonym see QUARREL
Was there a noisy, heated, angry dispute between Horry and Bell? Yes.
Nash, in all his classiness, finally got angry and wanted a piece of Horry. Don't say "this is subject to interpretation" because you and I know what he wanted to do at that time. Nash even admitted in an interview that one must stand up for one's self. Bottom line—he had enough of turning the other cheek.
Did this contribute to the altercation? Yes.
Was there a quarrel between Nash, Horry, and Bell? Yes.
Where's the gray area? The only gray area I see are the missed calls that the refs made during the games. The events during the altercation were clear so the rule handed down by the league was followed to the letter.
Listen, I hate the league as well as you do with the way their non-basketball suits rule the roost, but in this case, I would have to agree with the ruling.
Nobody said it was fair because it seems like the Spurs were actually rewarded for Horry's hip-check (because of Amare's suspension), but rules are rules. Amare and Diaw ran into the court during the altercation and this was wrong.
What if Amare and Diaw caused an even bigger scuffle if they caught up with Horry? What if there was (heaven forbid) another brawl? Do you realize what could happen? A lot of people—fans and players alike—could get hurt. These are the what-ifs that the league is trying to avoid, and the zero-tolerance rule is helping them do just that.
I sense that you root for the Suns in this series, and WE all love Steve Nash regardless of what team we favor, but saying things like "subject to interpretation" is just a convenient reason for saying the NBA is wrong in suspending Amare and Diaw. You and I both know that.
You can't take this guy seriously. He's playing Suns-fan-turned-Suns-lawyer.
This is a joke...no man can be this stupid. I mean unless you cry as much as the Entire Kleenex suns team. Starting with the coach.
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When we meditate, our minds often want to do something other than the meditation instructions we've been taught. When that happens repeatedly, we may feel frustrated to the point of abandoning meditation altogether. Jason Siff invites us to approach meditation in a new way, one that honors the part of us that doesn't want to do the instructions. He teaches us how to become more tolerant of intense emotions, sleepiness, compelling thoughts, fantasies—the whole array of inner experiences that are usually considered hindrances to meditation. The meditation practice he presents in Unlearning Meditation is gentle, flexible, permissive, and honest, and it's been wonderfully effective for opening up meditation for people who thought they could never meditate, as well as for injecting a renewed energy for practice into the lives of seasoned practitioners.
"A creative and illuminating approach to meditation practice." —Joseph Goldstein, author of Insight Meditation
"A radically illuminating book for practitioners to newly understand their meditation through loving interest in what is actually going on, beyond any instruction or ideal." —Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart
"A wise, practical, and radical book that sheds new and wondrous light on dharma in the West." —Joan Halifax Roshi, author of Being with Dying
"Jason Siff is one of the most distinctive and engaging voices of the emerging Buddhist culture in the West." —Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
"Siff presents a way to practice meditation that is radical in its gentleness and openness." —Tricycle Magazine
"[Siff] offers a commonsense, slightly but subtly radical, existential attitude. He wraps up this steady, brisk (but never superficial or pandering) guidebook by boosting the confidence of those often kicking themselves for not meeting the exacting standards of master teachers. Siff's 'skillful meditation' empowers the individual. His book may benefit Buddhists most, but its guidance will inform anybody wishing to begin or refresh meditation." —The New York Journal of Books
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If there was an award for misunderstood songs, "Every Breath You Take" would clearly be vying for the prize. Police drummer Stewart Copeland explains, "People often choose this...as their wedding song. They think it's a cheerful song. In fact...it's a very dark song.'" KL
Dark indeed. Sting, the band's primary singer and songwriter, penned his very un-romantic song in the wake of his broken marriage to Frances Tomelty. Sting told Rolling Stone that it is actually "'a fairly nasty song…about surveillance and ownership and jealousy.'" BR1 Ah, nothing expresses wedded bliss like a tale of an obsessive stalker.
Every Breath You Take
Often mocked for pretentiousness, Sting whittled the lyrics for "Breath" down to bare essentials as well. The words are "pulled from the rock & roll cliche handbook" RS500 or "straight out of a rhyming dictionary." TB The song came out of one of those few-minutes-of-writing sessions in the middle of the night and, according to various claims, was influenced by the Gene Pitney song "Every Breath I Take," Leo Sayer's "More Than I Can Say," and the opening lines of Judith Merrill's sci-fi short story "Whoever You Are." WK Structurally, the song thrives on its simplicity. To avoid distracting from the song's "hypnotic bass line," RS500 the Police jettisoned an intricate synthesizer piece.
Regardless of where it came from, "Every Breath You Take" became the biggest pop song of 1983. WHC To continue the grand that-song-came-from-this-one tradition, it was memorably sampled in "I'll Be Missing You," the chart-topping 1997 tribute to slain rapper the Notorious B.I.G. helmed by Puff Daddy.
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- DMDB page for "Every Breath You Take"
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- The Police's DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry
- BR1 Fred Bronson (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th edition). New York, NY: Billboard Books. Page 574.
- KL Jon Kutner/Spencer Leigh (2005). 1000 UK Number One Hits: The Stories Behind Every Number One Single Since 1952. London, Great Britain: Omnibus Press. Page 291.
- RS500 Rolling Stone (12/04). "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
- TB Thunder Bay Press (2006). Singles: Six Decades of Hot Hits & Classic Cuts. Outline Press Ltd.: San Diego, CA. Page 205.
- WHC Joel Whitburn (1999). A Century of Pop Music. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Page 112.
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It seems to me that every 20ms, one could toggle all the servo pins high at once and then turn them off one by one as needed when a particular servo's time is up.
That's how I'd do it.
the reason it is not done this way is that you would need to loop through the servos at every pin change to see who should go next, with 20 servos that would be a lot of 16 bit operations.
alternativley you could try and sort the servos at the start of each frame but again lots of 16 bit operations.
This seems really inefficient to me however.
No, you would not.
just let the ISR CYcle through a pre sorted table.
The next problem is if you have 20 servos at very similar values, Do you stay blocking in the ISR to set all 20 of them ?


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Editor's note: This article is part of a Safe Schools special report by the Daily Bulletin detailing the data received following a request for documents from 19 Inland Valley school districts concerning complaints of teacher misconduct. The special project comes in light of the sexual abuse scandal at Miramonte School in South Los Angeles last year. Find the documents posted on our Safe Schools special section.
UPLAND – They had sex with minors, were charged with lewd acts or exchanged romantic text messages with high school students.
The Upland Unified School District has reported three teachers to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing over the last five school years.
The incidents were reported to the media in response to a Public Records Act request made by the Daily Bulletin.
Sex with a minor
On March 16, 2007, then-Assistant Superintendent of Personnel Services Walter D. Schwartz wrote a letter to the CTC regarding a female teacher. Upland police were investigating an incident of alleged sexual misconduct with a student. The teacher was out on medical leave for the remainder of the 2006-2007 school year, and no charges had been filed at the time.
In Nov. 1, 2007, the teacher received a follow-up letter, informing her that her teaching credentials had been revoked, based on her felony conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor more than three years younger.
Charged with lewd acts
On Dec. 22, 2008, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources (and now interim superintendent) Sherri Black advised the CTC that a warrant had been issued for a male teacher on Dec. 18. The teacher was charged with six violations of Penal Code 288(a): lewd acts with a child under age 14. The teacher submitted his letter of resignation on Dec. 16, which was ratified by the school board that same night. It took another 21 months for the case to work its way through the court system, and the CTC contacted him on Sept. 22, 2010, telling him his credentials had been revoked based on his misdemeanor conviction on four counts of battery.
Sexy text messages
In a letter dated Oct. 29, 2010, lawyers representing a male physics teacher at Upland High School informed the district they intended to appeal their client's imminent firing.
According to the attached documents, the teacher had been accused of immoral conduct, unfitness for service and violation of or refusal to obey school laws of the state.
The district's documentation included samples of 670 text messages between the teacher and a 17-year-old girl between May 25 and June 11, 2010, which included the following exchange:
"I probably don't need to ask this any more, but do you need a ride in the morning?"
"Pwease. I give ya another kiss lol."
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"No, you are not. And you make me happy, too. So great to have such a wonderful daughter."
"Yes, one who can be a naughty at times lol."
Later text message exchanges between the teacher and student reference each of them masturbating.
According to school documentation, the teacher also bought the student a $50 corset halter top from an online store and took her on a hike with his daughter.
The documents made available by the school district do not mention the ultimate outcome of the appeal hearing.
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Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman came full circle as a world agricultural trader when she returned to Sacramento to open the Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology.
It was in Sacramento as secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture that Veneman established herself as a global marketer of California ag products.
She was obviously happy to be back in California as a backdrop for one of the largest conferences of its type that attracted more than 400 delegates from 120 countries called to deal with world hunger and poverty.
She called California a "showcase for the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies." If California were a separate country, it would be the seventh-largest agricultural economy in the world, she proudly pointed out.
While Veneman was pleased to host such a prestigious conference just an hour north of her hometown of Modesto, she opened the conference in a virtual fortress.
The Sacramento Convention Center was surrounded by concrete barriers and hundreds of police, many in riot gear, patrolling the street on foot and horseback, in cars and from helicopters. It is obvious Sacramento does not want to become another Seattle where anti-biotechnology protestors at the World Trade Organization rioted and caused millions of dollars in property damage.
It was an awesome show of force that seemed a bit of overkill Sunday during an afternoon march of mostly young people. There seemed to be twice as many police as protestors. On Monday morning the area around the convention center was remarkably devoid of people other than those attending the conference. There was minor damage to the area Sunday in terms of graffiti and a broken office window. Police were prepared for the worst.
In her opening remarks, Veneman ignored the protestors, several of whom were adorned with paper mache butterfly wings, presumably to resemble Monarch butterfly wings.
Instead, she urged aggressive action against growing world hunger and poverty. A year ago in Rome at the World Food Summit, it became obvious that progress toward the goal of reducing world hunger "was seriously lagging and that more effort, a stronger resolve, more resources and new approaches were needed. There was broad agreement that we must look to scientific and technological innovations for solutions." That was the focus in Sacramento.
More than 800 million of the world's people, nearly one of every seven face chronic hunger.
Among children, one in three is undernourished and every five seconds a child is lost to hunger.
Half the world's people live on less than $2 a day.
Once America thought it could feed the world, but the focus of Veneman's remarks and focal point of the Sacramento conference was not on selling food to impoverished billions, but in providing them with the technology to feed themselves.
In many developing countries, 90 percent of the food consumed is locally grown, Veneman pointed out. "People who are hungry are less able to feed themselves and to be productive members of society," she said.
Technology alone is not a solution, Veneman said. "It is merely a tool and without supportive policies and regulations, its benefits will not be fully realized. Policies that promote free markets and good governance produce economic growth."
Veneman did not miss an opportunity to talk about agricultural trading when she said open trading is vital to feeding the world. "It provides greater market access, attracts investment, stimulates growth and contributes to food security. The growing role of developing countries in the trade policy agenda is a positive sign."
The need for productivity gains is increasingly urgent, she said, explaining that by 2020, the world will have 1.2 billion more mouths to feed or the equivalent of another country the size of China. "Imagine the strain it will place on limited resources unless we have greater productivity advances," she noted.
Nowhere is water availability and quality a more pressing problem than in California. It is becoming a global issue as well. "Improved water management is emerging as one of the great issues the world will confront in the 21st century," said Veneman.
Globally, agriculture accounts for about 70 percent of total water usage and Veneman said science and technology can help increase crop yields with less water and provide early warnings of drought.
While controversial biotechnology became the focal point of the Sacramento conference, Veneman said it is often "conventional technologies already widely used for decades that can be adapted to bring significant productivity gains to the world's poorest countries."
Better nutrient management, contour plowing, improved seed varieties or simple irrigation may offer significant breakthroughs for impoverished nations.
"The goal is not technologies that make developing countries more dependent on the developed world. Rather, it is to make them able to better feed themselves," she said.
Nevertheless, recent breakthroughs in molecular biology and information technology are creating even more opportunities to improve productivity. Emerging fields such as nanotechnology, proteomics and bioinformatics may, in some cases, allow countries left far behind to leapfrog ahead.
Biotechnology is already helping both small and large-scale farmers around the world by boosting yields, lowering costs, reducing pesticide use and making crops more resistant to disease, pests, and drought, she said.
Veneman said increasingly more countries are now growing biotech crops and research promises new ways to improve nutrition, prevent disease, conserve water, and produce crops in harsh climates.
However, biotechnology is locked out of some countries that need it desperately. "Technologies must be objectively assessed for benefits and risks, based on science not fear, rumor, or politics," Veneman said.
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The Hunt for Faster Antidepressants
Researchers and drug makers are testing medications that may be able to effectively treat depression within days, or even a couple of hours. WSJ's Andrea Petersen reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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In 2003 Alex Rodriguez posted high marks on nearly every important test: MVP, American League home run title, and ... anabolic steroids!
According to a Sports Illustrated report, A-Rod joined the ranks of 104 other MLB players that year who also tested positive. But back in '03 there were no penalties for a positive result.
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Where do I enter the license for Avira Exchange Security?
In order to install the license, please copy the HBEDV.KEY license in the main directory of Avira Exchange Security:
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C:\Program Files\AVIRA\AntiVir Exchange\License
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Throughout the installation of Avira Exchange Security the file oem.li will be also installed in the "License" directory. This file has to be preserved there, because it creates the shortcut to the proper license file HBEDV.KEY. A takeover of the oem.li file from a different Exchange version is not possible.
The license should be recognized after a restart of the following services via the Windows Services:
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To verify the takeover of the license go to the Avira Exchange Management Console → AntiVir Monitor → server → right-click on Server Name → Properties.
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The government's antitrust complaint against Apple and six book publishers over e-book pricing is "fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and law," according to a response it's filed with the court overseeing the case.
Ars Technica says that Apple "pulls no punches" in its response, which accuses the government of siding with Amazon, which Apple says is the real monopolist in the market for electronic books. Amazon, Apple points out, sold 9 out of every 10 e-books before Apple introduce its iBookstore.
The company also states repeatedly that Apple "lacks sufficient information and belief" to respond to most of the government's allegations.
Translated from the legalese, that's a fancy lawyer way of saying "We have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."
That's a feisty response, which means this is going to be a fun case to watch.
Historically, books have been sold like most physical goods—purchased at a wholesale price and sold at a retail price. That's how Amazon sold print books, and that's how it started out selling e-books. It took a loss on some e-books in order to keep prices low and spur sales of its Kindle e-reader.
Publishers worried that Amazon's low prices would set consumers' expectations for e-books prices at a permanently lower level than what physical books sold for. (Never mind that those expectations are probably pretty reasonable and something consumers would arrive at on their own.)
Apple, meanwhile, always sold media and apps, including some e-book apps, through an agency model—taking a cut of the transaction rather than profiting from the difference between the wholesale and retail price. Under the agency model, book publishers, just like app makers in the app store, picked a price for the e-books they published.
Apple makes a big deal out of its prior use of the agency model in its response.
Meanwhile, Amazon has argued that publishers have a monopoly on the titles they publish. Which, in a sense, they do: Copyright law doesn't let one publisher go around and sell another publisher's books. If you want a particular title, you have to go to that publisher.
That's the argument Amazon offered when it had a spat with Macmillan and briefly pulled all of the publisher's titles—both print and electronic—from its website, then acceded to Macmillan's demands that it adopt agency pricing.
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Set sail at a special time of day, with a gourmet picnic – and optionally with live music – for a gentle 3 hour evening cruise on St. Peter's Inlet.
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Typing takes its toll on cursive writing
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kids are spending more time on computers, phones and keyboards, and they are losing the ability to do the cursive handwriting that children have done for generations.
"I never really used it," said local high school student Dylan Vazquez, who learned cursive in the third grade. "I always type my essays on my computer."
Vazquez, a senior who said he is in the top ten percent of his class, said he struggled when he had to write in handwriting on his SAT, a college entry test.
"I took a really long time," he said. "I had a lot of difficulty with it."
"A lot of kids couldn't write it," said student Julia Abbene, a local high school sophomore. "A lot of kids were shocked because they didn't expect to have to know it.
Many students post on Twitter about their struggles with the handwriting part of the SAT and the PSAT and the difficulty of cursive.
"Honestly writing that whole statement in cursive is by far the hardest part of the SAT...mine actually looked like a rhino threw up on it:/" tweeted @chipotLEORdie
"We can't do cursive it's actually embarrassing," tweeted @abbyfiner.
Some students said they did learn cursive early on, but have not used it since.
"You can type everything and you can print things," said Abbene. "Nothing really requires a signature, unless you're making a deposit with the bank, or whatever."
Some students said they did not learn cursive in elementary school. The Oregon Department of Education said cursive handwriting skills are no longer required in the state, though keyboarding skills are.
Julia's brother, high school student Ian Abbene, said he is one of the few students he knows who actually uses cursive. He said other students often marvel at his script, and ask him to write their names in cursive, because they do not know how.
"It's so strange to me," said Julia's mother, Clare Abbene. "I'm flabbergasted that there are kids that are like, 'Oh, my, gosh, I can't write this sentence in cursive.'"
Clare Abbene said she sees cursive as an art and a part of history. The Declaration of Independence is written in cursive. And, for some, cursive signatures are personal declarations of who they are.
"It's beautiful," said Clare Abbene. "I love to look at those old documents and then look at the cursive. It's so fancy."
Both she and her daughter said they see the disappearance of cursive as a loss.
"You should know how to do cursive," said Julia Abbene. "I think it's an important skill to know, almost like a dying trade."
"You're at a disadvantage if someone else uses it and you can't read it," said her mother.
Some students echo that sentiment on Twitter.
"Can't do a homework assignment because it involves reading a letter from 1864 and I gave up on cursive in the 3rd grade and now here we are," tweeted @EmilyNoah.
New Cursive?
Local educators Inga Dubay and Barbara Getty say students must write by hand. They say research shows kids use more brainpower when writing a letter by hand than simply pressing a key on a keyboard.
"You touch the keyboard for a 'd,' it's the same as touching a keyboard for an 'a,'" said Dubay.
But they said studies show writing by hand is different.
"This hand-eye motor coordination," said Getty. "It changes your brain."
But Dubay and Getty do not think kids need to use the traditional, "looped" cursive. They have been trying to stop schools from using the traditional cursive since the 1970s.
"It wasn't the right handwriting to teach. It was out of date. It was from the horse and buggy days," said Dubay.
They said they taught their own program to local elementary school students for years, what they call "cursive italic," an efficient cursive without the loops and whorls that they say can often make traditional cursive illegible.
"Sometimes they're intertwined and can distort the word," said Getty of the traditional loops and whorls, "You don't need all that excess."
"It just deteriorates so quickly," said Dubay. "If you go fast, you can have a train wreck with it. It just implodes."
They said schools around the world use the Getty-Dubay program, and they also teach doctors in the United States and in other countries how to write medical notes legibly.
"We figured we've maybe saved a life or two," said Getty.
Dubay and Getty said it is time for traditional cursive to go, as long as students continue to write buy hand, either in print, or in a connected form, like their cursive italic.
"That's what it is all about, is communication," said Dubay.
State Standards
Oregon Department of Education spokeswoman Crystal Greene said there are no current cursive standards in the state's English language arts standards.
Greene said that before 2010, a standard for third grade required students to "write legibly in cursive and manuscript, leaving space between letters in a word, words in a sentence, and between words and the edges of the paper."
She said now, there are standards for typing in the Common Core, Oregon's current English Language Arts and Math standards.
"Typing is explicitly mentioned in the third to sixth grade English Language Arts-literacy writing standards," wrote Greene in an e-mail.
She said the standard says third grade students will produce writing "using keyboarding skills."
In the fourth grade, she said, the standard says students will "demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single setting."
She added, "The same goes for fifth grade (two pages), and sixth grade (three pages)."
Greene explained the standards for older students. "Seventh- to twelfth-grade students will 'use technology, including the internet, to produce and publish writing."
She said the standard gets slightly more complex at each level, until, for eleventh and twelfth grade, it reads, "Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information."
Greene also provided these links:
English Arts Standards - grade 3
English Arts Standards - grade 4
English Arts Standards - grade 5
English Arts Standards - grade 6
English Arts Standards - grade 7


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By MARTIN CRUTSINGERWASHINGTON (AP) â¿¿ Nearly every member of the Federal Reserve thought last month that the central bank should see more evidence that the economy was improving before slowing its bond purchases. But worries about whether a delay would confuse financial markets made the decision a "close call." Minutes of the Fed's Sept. 17-18 meetings released Wednesday show that the Fed wrestled with the decision, even though the panel ended up voting 9-1 to keep the purchases at the current level of $85 billion a month. The bond purchases are intended to keep long-term interest rates low to encourage more borrowing and spending. According to the minutes, all members but one wanted to see more data before reducing the purchases. And several noted potential risks to the economy, including a job market that had weakened over the summer, higher interest rates and a looming budget impasse in Washington. Still, some raised concerns that inaction would undermine the Fed's ability to communicate its next steps. Many economists had predicted some reduction in the purchases. And some Fed members made comments ahead of the meeting that suggested such a move was likely. "For several members, the various considerations made the decision to maintain an unchanged pace of asset purchases at this meeting a relatively close call," the minutes stated. Most members indicated that they could still reduce the purchases later this year and end them next year, based on a summary of their economic projections. But those forecasts were made before the budget impasse led to a partial government shutdown this month. Many economists now believe the Fed will continue the current level of bond purchases into next year. The Fed released the minutes shortly before President Barack Obama was to formally nominate Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve's vice chair, to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman. If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would take over at a critical time for the economy and the Fed's policies.
A prolonged shutdown would likely slow economic growth further. And if Congress fails to raise the $16.7 trillion borrowing limit later this month, the U.S. could default on its debt for the first time. That would push up interest rates, disrupt global financial markets and possibly push the U.S economy back into recession.Analysts predict economic growth slowed in the July-September quarter to an annual rate of 2 percent or less. Many had thought that growth would accelerate in the final three months of the year to a rate above 2.5 percent. But with each day the government stays shuttered, growth is likely to weaken a little more. The shutdown has also delayed key economic reports, including the September employment report that was due last week. Without those reports, the Fed will have trouble getting a read on whether the economy and job market have made progress since it last met. That's another reason economists expect the Fed will wait until next year to slow its stimulus. The Labor Department did report last week that unemployment benefits are still hovering near six-year lows. And average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages have fallen for three straight weeks to their lowest level in three months, in part because the Fed opted to continue buying bonds at its current pace.


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SCons / MFObject
The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/MFObject
Compiling Multiple Source Files with a Single Invocation of the Compiler
Many compilers support the ability to compile (and not necessarily link) multiple source files on a single command line. This may not be a big draw to GCC, but for proprietary compilers it can make a big difference in license checkout time. Compilers with floating network licenses can easily spend more time checking out the license than doing actual work, slowing down your build to a crawl. The best solutions to this problem would be to switch to a free compiler or crack the DRM, but if those aren't options then here is an alternative. Since the license checkout happens once per compiler invocation, then by compiling multiple source files at the same time you can reduce the total number of license checkouts necessary.
This is a challenging recipe, because it violates the fundamental philosophy of build tools: every target is a product of its sources and can be built independently. What we will do is define multi-target nodes that depend on multiple sources. That part is fairly easy. But if the programmer modifies one source file, we don't want SCons to recompile all the sources. Instead, we will use a Generator to produce a custom action at build-time that will only compile the out of date sources. That's the crux of the solution. But as they say, the devil is in the details, and most of the code is devoted to getting dependency scanning working the way we need.
The tool can be found at https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~asomers/sconsaddons/mfobject (for a full list of external SCons Tools check out the ToolsIndex). It covers both C and C++ compilation, but it should be easily extended to other languages as well. My example includes a VariantDir, because getting the include directories to work with VariantDirs was non-trivial. The example works on a tree of three directories: / , /src , and /obj . and the example SConstruct is below.
env = DefaultEnvironment(tools = ['default', 'mfobject']) SConscript('src/SConscript', exports='env', variant_dir='obj', duplicate=0)
Here is the src/SConscript:
Import('env') objects = env.MFObject(['main.cc', 'foovar.cc']) pgm = env.Program(['main.o', 'foovar.o'])
And here are the example source files. The headers can be empty.
#include "main.h" #include "common.h" int main(int argc, char** argv){ return 0; }
#include "common.h" #include "foo.h" int foovar;