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Reviewed by Kamren C. (age 12)
Once Travis and Mandy find a dead bug, they discover strange lettering inside the bug's wing. After questioning, they find out that thousands of metal insects are about to take over the city, thanks to a mad scientist! This whole incident becomes a race against the bizarre bugs.
I definitely like this book because it's hard to guess what will happen next. Mandy would probably be my favorite character because she is very outgoing and ready for adventure! Since Travis and Mandy were very interested in the bugs, they started to discover the mystery very quickly! Personally, I wouldn't have even bothered to mess with the bugs because the insects are weird and you don't know what they might do!
I also find Mandy and Travis to be brave because they helped Mr. Buggs defeat his brother who was creating the iron insects!
If I could change one thing about this book, it would be that at the end of every chapter the author drags on the story. I think that it's a good way to keep you reading, but the author does it every time.
When it comes to Eddie, the older boy who bullied Mandy and Travis, I can't stand him! I thought he was very immature picking on kids younger than him! When Travis and Mandy threw the water balloons at Eddie, I was proud of them for standing up for themselves.
Since all the books in the American Chillers series are full of adventure, for anyone who wants to read a book with a twist to the ending, Jonathan Rand's books are perfect for them! I recommend the book to students in late elementary or middle school.


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This is video from the Recreativo Estrellas/Deportivo Motokart semifinal match of the Liga Roca de Córdoba club tournament in Argentina a few days back. They're rivals, as you well know. In it, Recreativo goalkeeper Gabriel Orozco punches a relatively harmless shot over the crossbar. In it, Orozco also takes some face flesh from Deportivo Motokart's Nicolas Cardinal.
For some inexplicable reason, Orozco was asked to leave the pitch. Diving's gotten out of control. (H/T Mentality Magazine)
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Bill Belichick is more cold-blooded than a loan shark. When performance and/or the salary cap dictate, players are excused, no matter their credentials.
Wes Welker, Lawyer Milloy, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour and Adam Vinatieri are among the headliners. They helped Belichick's New England Patriots win Super Bowls and build a dynasty, but when the time came, business trumped sentiment.
Jerod Mayo may be the next example.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Not only did the Lipscomb baseball team work hard on the diamond this past fall, the Bison also put their noses to the grindstone in the classroom putting combining for a 3.18 grade point average, the highest mark in school history.
The Bison were led by a pair of 4.0's from junior Tennyson Todd, who achieved the benchmark while taking 21 hours, and freshman Brandon Thomas., who took 17 hours in his first semester.
"We have been striving for a semester GPA of 3.0 for several semesters & finally got it this fall," said Lipscomb head coach Jeff Forehand. "The guys have made a commitment in the classroom and on the field. Dr. (Lin) Garner has been very instrumental in helping us achieve our goal. We hope to follow up with another good semester in the classroom this spring."
The Bison as a team raised their cumulative GPA to a 2.98.
"This says a lot about our team's work ethic by how diligent they are in the classroom," said Forehand. "I look forward to seeing that transfer to the field."
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Isilon has doubled the capacity of its largest clusterable network-attached storage (NAS) system by using 2TB drives.
The new model is called the IQ 72000X and houses 36 2TB Hitachi GST SATA drives in its 4U enclosure. Isilon says it means there is a 10PB single volume capacity in clustered form, with up to 144 nodes.
Compared to the existing IQ 36000 model, with its 1TB drives, the new box has double the density per rack unit while reducing the overall power and cooling costs per TB by half. The new product comes in nearline storage form as the IQ 72NL - that's a 72000X without performance features.
The IQ 72000X delivers, Isilon says, more than 40GB/sec of aggregate bandwidth and Isilon offers an 80 per cent capacity utilisation guarantee.
It's interesting that Isilon is offering this product as Parascale is telling customers to stick their scale-out NAS vault in the cloud using loosely-coupled vanilla Linux X86 servers. Isilon's approach is to have a tighter coupling between high-powered X86 servers in its clusters and sell on both performance and scalability.
We can probably expect a cloud-style product from Isilon soon, say with multi-tenancy and other features to attract cloud file storage providers. That would be relatively easy to add to the OneFS operating system. Adding object storage as a stage 2 on the journey to the cloud might also be in Isilon's road-map.
The IQ 72000X and 72NL are currently available in limited quantities with general availability in January 2010. The 72000X has a list price of $175,000 per node, while the 72NL is listed at $115,000 per node. ®


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You know what I like even more than fast cars? Fast cars that I didn't expect to be fast. I like to be surprised when I see something blow past me, like that Volvo 245 wagon with a Supra engine that did some smoky drifts a while back.
I love it when some insane engine turns a normal car into a monster. Ridiculous engine swaps that turn slow cars into unexpectedly fast ones are essentially the modern version of the hot rod.
So that's our question today: what are the greatest hot rods out there today?
Here's another one: that Saab wagon powered by the V10 from the Viper. Only a crazy person would come up with a concept like that and then carry it to execution — and that's why it's so wonderful.
Your turn. Tell us about the zaniest engine swap projects and 21st century hot rods you've seen. Go nuts. These tuners certainly did.
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We're developing a new project, a weekly newsletter focused on photography + visual culture recommendations carefully curated from across the Web. You know, the good stuff that deserves a closer look. FlakPhoto Digest is currently in closed beta and will be available to the public later this year. You can request an invite by subscribing below.
Broken Hill, New South Wales, 2010
From the Tall Poppy Syndrome series
Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar collaborated on Tall Poppy Syndrome, a series which explores that phenomenon's impact on Australian society. The photographs resulted in the book, Tall Poppy Syndrome, published by Decode Books in 2012. Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, a first generation American, is an artist and lecturer currently residing in Sydney, Australia. Her work predominately explores cultural identity.
Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013.
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My 91-year-old uncle agreed to be tested, so I took advantage of the sale at Family Tree DNA, an established, respected company recommended by genealogists who are experts in this field. Family Tree DNA will match my uncle's test results against their database (the largest of its kind in the world) and let me contact anyone whose results show that they are somehow related to us. The database is growing rapidly as more people are tested, so I log in regularly to check for new matches.
I started by ordering the FamilyFinder test, which uses autosomal DNA inherited from mother, father, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, etc. This has the potential to identify descendants of any ancestral lines within about the last six generations. Those descendants may have vital information, or photographs or letters from my direct ancestors.
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The FamilyFinder autosomal DNA test is available to men and women, so I could have been tested myself. However it made more sense to test my uncle (my late father's only surviving sibling) because I am currently more interested in my father's ancestors than my mother's. The autosomal test may help me to confirm and expand the paper trail for various families including BUTLER, CAMPBELL, GIBLETT, HARLEY, NICHOLSON, PORTER and SHEPPARD (on the WEBSTER side) and AGAR, ASHTON, BARBER, BIRKS, CLARK, HUGILL, MATTHEW and PEACOCK (on the HUDSON side).
Our FamilyFinder test results arrived just before Christmas. My budget for genealogy is limited, so I am hoping that interested relatives will contribute a small sum towards the cost of ordering two additional tests. A mitochondrial DNA test could get us back beyond Mary PEACOCK nee HUGILL (born about 1813); and a Y-DNA test might help to confirm the story that our WEBSTER family in Surrey and Middlesex originally came from Aberdeen in Scotland.
If you want to know more about using DNA for genealogy, I recommend the series of four easy-to-read articles by CeCe Moore. The summary in part 4 explains how to decide which DNA test is right for you.
Postscript no.1: Kerry Farmer has just reminded me of two important points that I forgot (thanks, Kerry!) 'Another good reason for testing your uncle's DNA is that it gets you a generation further back to looking for ancestors in common. And Family Tree DNA will hold DNA samples for 25 years, so your uncle's DNA will still be available for testing should a subsequent test become available in the future.'
Postscript no.2: I have started contacting people who match with autosomal DNA, and I send them a list of all names (except living people), not just a pedigree chart - because the name they will recognise may not be my direct ancestor. As Gedmatch points out, "siblings (and descendants of siblings) of one family often turn up as 'spouses' (with no recorded ancestors) in another family." There is a diagram that illustrates this clearly.
Postscript no.3: For good examples of what DNA tests do (and do not) tell you, see Combining Tools - Autosomal Plus Y-DNA, mtDNA and the X Chromosome.


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Utility to collect ClearCase logs and diagnostic data on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris
Technote (FAQ)
Is there a way to collect IBM Rational ClearCase logs and diagnostic data on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris to assist Technical Support?
See Change History for updates.
This is a new updated version of SCT (version 6).
The System Collection Tool (SCT) is designed to gather customer information on a system in order to start the preliminary troubleshooting process. It gathers system, network, hardware, and ClearCase information, including logs and configuration files. The tool outputs the information into segregated files for easy analysis and review. The SCT tool also is bundled with the System Collection Script (SCS) script used for escalated issues to engineering, performance analysis, and additional system information that the SCT tool may not collect.
The instructions documented in this technote are expected to work on any of the supported platforms that are listed in the ClearCase System Requirements documents. For Ubuntu, the Korn shell will need to be installed before running the tool.
Update: SCT Integration into ISA
The SCT tool (along with SCS) is also included now with the Rational ClearCase 7.0 product plug-in, for IBM Support Assistant (ISA) V3.x and later .
ClearCase 7.0.x and later plug-in for ISA allows you to:
- Quickly access all the information about ClearCase and search through all IBM technical resources
- Collect general system information needed for initial troubleshooting.
- Collect all the initial ClearCase data needed for specific problem diagnostic and analysis. For UNIX
platforms, it leverages the SCT tool to enable the data collection capability.
- Open and manage problem reports using ESR interface.
- ISA V3.1 - Automatically be notified for changes and updates.
For more information about the functionality of ISA, including where to get a copy, visit the IBM Support Assistant page.
The attached shell script will collect some preliminary information about your environment to assist the technical support team in troubleshooting your issue.
Download script file here: ---> SCTv62.tar.gz
The script will collect the following information:
- OS system, version information, I/O data, and software packages installed
- System error messages
Note: Error output is generated from the kernel at boot time; it shows the devices the kernel has found and if it has been able to configure them at all - aside from user configurations, as well as logging any system errors during up-time.
- ClearCase/MultiSite version and environment information
- ClearCase, MultiSite, RWP, Samba logs
- Network information
Note: The SCTv6.tar file includes a readme document (SCTv61_readme.txt). This file details what the tool is collecting (referencing the commands, description, and location) and segregates the data by operating system and product.
Usage Instructions:
1. Make a new directory in /tmp: (/tmp/ibm)
2. Copy the script below to local filesystem (i.e. /tmp/ibm), and login as root
3. Untar the SCTv61.tar.gz file to extract the SCT tool and scs script file
gzip -d < SCTv61.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
4. Add the appropriate permissions to execute, if needed
chmod 755 SCTv6 , chmod 755 scs
5. Execute the script to gather system and ClearCase information to send to support
Note: There are two new options
Disables the -long options to any of the cleartool commands
-t <TEMP Directory>
Specifies a new Temporary Directory for the SCTv6 collection. If this option is used, the tar file will be located within this directory.
6. Send the generated file to Rational support that is located within the /tmp directory.
The filename of the archive that will be generated after executing the SCTv6 script will be in the form of:
Upon completion of the script, the display will show the pathname and output file.
Note: If the -t option was used, the tar.gz will be located within the specified directory.
Review the comments in the SCT script for more details, or reference the SCTv6_readme.txt file.
**MUST BE root TO RUN TOOL
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Manual Data Collection on UNIX and Linux
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Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie (Kyra Sedgwick) are separated and share custody of their daughters, Hannah (Madison Davenport) and Em (Natasha Calis), a teen and tween respectively. Clyde's history of short-changing his family in favor of work has hardened Stephanie against the idea that there will be a reconciliation. Clyde, on the other hand, still wishes there was a way back but nonetheless has bought a new home for his girls. In need of dishes and other home goods, he stops at a yard sale and lets his daughters help him pick stuff out. Em spies a wooden box with cool writing on it and decides to take it home with her. We know from the movie's opening scenes that the box, which has a tendency to whisper at people, is evil. Like, Evil evil. But Em is all, yay, treasure, and takes it home with her to Clyde's new house, spending her night looking it over and cuddling with it when she goes to bed.
I am not one to believe in ghost stories, but I find the possibility of a demon box more believable than a tween girl who treats a weird wooden box the size of small ice cooler like a teddy bear.
While the box whispers and only opens when it wants to and, when open, reveals a cache of strangeness including moths and a ring that turns Em's finger gray, it takes Clyde an exceptionally long time to consider that her sudden moodiness and eventual violence might have something to do with her creepy yard sale find. Sure, children can get upset when their parents divorce, but they don't usually start to look like the female lead in a Japanese horror movie.
A professor — one who is delightfully non-believing in this business — tells Clyde that what he has himself there is a dybbuk box and that he will have to cram the evil spirit back into it in order to make the increasingly bizarre-acting Em normal again. Clyde contacts a rabbi who knows about such things and eventually gets help from Tzadok, who answers the question, "What has Matisyahu been up to lately?"
This, he has been up to this, playing Tzadok, who attempts a sort of exorcism. So, good for him, getting work.
Question for you: If you thought an evil box might be possessing your daughter and you went into her room to look at it, wouldn't you turn on the light? And, if you heard a funny noise in your kitchen and you went to examine it, wouldn't you turn on the light then too? "Turn on the light" was what I was thinking through at least 40 percent of this movie. I realize that things are spookier in the dark and that darkness and shadow can help make your low-budget special effects look a little more convincing. But darkness — right there! the switch on the wall! just flick it! — is particularly contrived in this case. And the normal "a spooky thing is happening but we are going to attribute it to this other thing for the first 50 minutes of the 92-minute movie" seems even more absurd than normal. Really? You think your daughter summoning a room full of moths is just acting out about her parents' divorce?
I can't write off The Possession entirely, though. There is a kind of loopiness to it — in particular to the flakiness of Sedgwick's character and the exaggerated craziness of Calis' Em — that makes it kind of funny at times. I'm not sure that "funny" was where the filmmakers were going, but Morgan's reactions to Clyde's daughter's increasingly strange behavior would suggest that, at least in the beginning, it might have been part of the movie's design.
The Possession is just a notch above the kind of mediocre horror movie you come to expect in late summer but with a few nice moments of (possibly unintentional) goofiness that actually makes it moderately entertaining. C
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving violence and disturbing sequences. Directed by Ole Bornedal and written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, The Possession is an hour and 32 minutes long and distributed by Lionsgate.


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Yue Minjun (B. 1962), Boating, signed in Chinese; signed 'L.Y.' in Pinyin; dated '1994.1' (lower right), oil on canvas, 70 x 80 cm. (27 ½ x 31 1/3 in.) Painted in 1994. Estimate: HK$3,000,000 5,000,000, US$384,600 641,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
Evening and Day sales of Asian Contemporary Art on 27 and 28 November in Hong Kong will bring together the dynamic worlds of contemporary art from China, Japan and Korea. Christies continues to offer a platform showcasing the best in Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th Century art, and this season will present over 450 works with a pre-sale estimate in excess of HK$300 million (US$38 million) across three sales. Diverse in subject matter, styles and techniques, and yet distinctly Asian in artistic temperament, these works present a regional view of contemporary Asia. With the careful and expert selection of Christies global specialists, the works in this sale cater to the broad tastes of collectors from around the world.
Among the leading works offered in this seasons Evening Sale are those from three of todays most dynamic contemporary artists: Cai Guo Qiang, Zeng Fanzhi and Masami Teraoka. Each will be represented by a truly seminal master work that succeeds in uniting their respective contemporary vision and artistic vocabulary with their distinctive cultural background and history.
Cai Guo Qiangs (b. 1957) Search for Extraterrestrials is one of the finest and most compelling of his famed Projects for Extraterrestrials series (estimate on request). A monumental work that measures almost 3 metres high and 32 metres wide, here Cai ingeniously combines Chinese ink-wash techniques, smoke and gunpowder in a fusion of art and technology that transcends the cultural gap between East and West and past and present. The result makes for a striking image, one in which the artist explores the interconnectivity between powerful Mother Nature and mankind.
From Zeng Fanzhi comes Mask Series (estimate: HK$12,000,000-18,000,000 / US$1,538,500-2,307,700), an important work from a private European collection of Chinese contemporary art that stands as a rare early example reflecting vividly the artist's aesthetic pursuits in the 1990s. The multi-figural composition is emotionally charged, intuitive, and physiologically penetrating, much like the multi-figural portraiture of Francis Bacon or Max Beckman. The uncommon arrangement of the composition establishes a complicated spatial relationship that is not often seen in Zeng's paintings. The three flâneurs, with their distinctively oversized raw hands and frozen smiling faces, appear ironically isolated despite their grouping. The unusual ideograms on the vibrant yellow background remind us of the Chinese ancient aesthetics that Zeng inherited and continually transformed in his paintings in the mid 1990s. Eloquently expressing the mental and emotional strain and pressure in a new urban society, Zeng captures an unsettled tone in a work that will be among the seasons most sought-after.
Japanese-American artist Masami Teraokas (b. 1936) works relentlessly point out the fundamental flaws in our handling of taboo subjects and our moralizing views about sexuality. After extensive travel to Europe in the 1990s, Teraokas work transformed from delicate watercolours and creative interpretations of the Japanese woodblock ukiyo-e prints, to large sweeping oil on panel works encased by gold frames of Renaissance flair. In Semana Santa/Venus' Security Check he purposefully exaggerates his subject in a provocative manner to tackle social issues, but with interjected lightheartedness (estimate: HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 / US$153,800-230,800). Within imposing frames that rival architectural church murals and altarpieces, Teraoka adapts aspects of Renaissance painting while nevertheless embracing a vigilant integration of his Japanese heritage. Here, the viewer witnesses the ever pure Venus in a situation of racial profiling at an airport security check point. The exaggerated poses and irrational spacing and stylized aesthetics heighten the visual impact, while also exemplifying Teraokas masterful fusion of artistic and social concerns. A piercing and commanding narrative on the age-old debate on religion and sex, it underscores Teraokas place as one of the principle artists of Japanese contemporary art.
Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde
The distinctive cultural and historical changes of the 1980s flourishing under the ideals of communism significantly effected a burgeoning avant-garde art movement. The movement instigated theoretical and philosophical debates, focusing on all aspects of Chinese ideology, its relevance and its effects in the contemporary context. The 1980s saw Chinese artists developing a keen interest in political subjects, as well as a growing curiosity about, and criticism of, the distinctive saturation of Western thought and culture that flooded in as the country slowly began to open its doors to the world. The progressive 85 New Wave Art Movement worked to fully deconstruct the various types of philosophical, artistic, and cultural thought imported from the West, while at the same time challenging the totalitarianism of the Chinese system and outlook. Its critical influence subsequently exerted profound and far-reaching conceptual shifts in art that swept across every region of China. One of the most-watched groups in the movement was the Southwest Art Research Group, established in October 1986, which included artists such as Zhang Xiaogang, Mao Xuhui and Ye Yongqing.
Among the leading works of Chinese Avant-Garde presented this season is a rare triptych from Mao Xuhui (b. 1956), 92 Paternalism (estimate: HK$3,000,000-5,000,000 / US$384,600-641,000). Offered in the seasons Evening Sale, this work was awarded the honour of Distinctive Merit at the First 1990s Biennial Art Fair in Guangzhou. Particularly noteworthy for its exceptionally grand size and composition, it stands as a leading example of artists celebrated Parent Series. Here, the everyday objects depicted a chair, key and door take on an awe-inspiring tone and are transformed and elevated by the artist into religious icons.
By the mid-1990s just one decade later and one that saw such dramatic change the forms and styles of expression that appeared in Chinas new art remain deeply and intricately bound to the traditions of Chinese life; Western materials and approaches are only a part of the greater body of expression that emphasizes a strong adherence to Chinese tradition and philosophy. Representative of this vision are the Political Pop and Cynical Realism artists, whose distinct and internationally-recognized images demonstrate the disillusionment with reality evident to artists of the post-1989 generation. As one of the leaders of the Chinese Avant-Garde, Yue Minjun is best recognized for the signature motif of his works: his stylized self-portrait, with a gaping grin and eyes closed tight, appearing in contorted and absurdist scenarios. The Evening Sale will present Boating, a seminal example of Yue Minjuns work that points to his satirical and often cynical world-view (estimate: HK$3,000,000-5,000,000 / US$384,600-641,000).
Korean Contemporary Art
Korean contemporary art finds its roots in the aftermath of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War and the social turmoil that followed. Contemporary artists found themselves contemplating identity and searching for lost traditions, while at the same time revelling in the newfound freedom to absorb the cultural influences that were coming in from the West. Owing to the nations receptivity to modernization and globalization, a period of rapid development followed, with artists embracing contemporary trends. This openness to experimentation is evident in the unique aesthetic and innovative materials embraced by Korean contemporary artists today.
Kang Hyung Koo (b. 1954) strikes a rarefied balance between Surrealism and Hyperrealism with works that are equally provocative and mystifying. The majestic scale of his portraits immediately engulfs the audience with meticulous detailing of the subject. This season, Warhol in Astonishment will be offered in the Day Sale (estimate: HK$700,0001,000,000 / US$89,700128,200). Like many of Kangs paintings, the work centres on the eyes of the protagonist, Andy Warhol caught in mid-action. Kang is celebrated for his adroit technical ability, and here the meticulous rendering of the skin, hair and the deep pools of the eyes become the key to understanding the subjects inner psyche.
Korean artists are known not only for their technical proficiency, but also for their unique use of unconventional materials. In Choi So Youngs (b. 1980) After the Snow, a leading highlight in the Day Sale, the artist ingeniously builds up a striking three-dimensional panoramic rendering of the rural and shabby houses of her home city of Busan (estimate: HK$300,000-500,000 / US$38,500-64,100). Through her meticulous and inventive handling of the denim materials and her quiet and romantic composition, Choi skilfully produces a work with deep and powerful cultural commentaries, including the artist's feelings about consumerist culture in the capitalist world.
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- Insurance companies ("the market") are acting while US politicians dither on climate change. Their inaction harms citizens by failing to end bad policies (subsidies for living in flood zones) or enact new ones (cost-benefit analysis shall include CC effects).
- The government should not "invest" taxpayer money because it bets big (and loses big) and bets dumb (other people's money) -- as we just saw with a $500+ million loss on solar. FAIL.
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14 comments:
- Anonymous said...
That is not an honest summary of the "climate denial" paper. I encourage you to read someone less ideological.
I'd start with Judith Curry's blog or Roger Pielke Jr., both well published and respected academics who have provided much more thoughtful commentary on the specific paper and what happened around it.
- 15 Sep 2011, 16:25:00
- David Zetland said...
@anon -- I was more interested in the debate over the process of publishing and retracting the paper, not what the paper said. Climate "science" is already subject to massive personal bias and driven by political needs (of both sides). I'm sick of it.
- 15 Sep 2011, 17:38:00
- Alex Trembath said...
The bankruptcy of Solyndra was unfortunate, but clean tech is a high-risk, high-rewards sector. My colleagues and I recently published a piece in Forbes on why federal investment in clean technology is so essential, and why the government must play venture capitalist in this space where private venture cannot. Without programs like DOE's loan guarantee program, we would not have railroads, the interstate highway system, the cell phone, the personal computer, the internet, the jet engine, the biotech industry, or countless pharmaceutical advances.
Our piece:
Please see also this new report from Bill Gates, John Doerr, Jeff Immelt, and other leading executives and entrepreneurs of the American Energy Innovation Council, which calls for increased federal spending on high-risk, high-reward clean tech innovation (report summary and link to PDF on this page):
- 15 Sep 2011, 20:28:00
- Alex Trembath said...
Hi David,
Please see this report about the huge benefits of public investment in technology innovation, from the American Energy Innovation Council (Bill Gates, John Doerr, Jeff Immelt, others):
If you could, please provide reasoning as to why government should not have "bet other people's money" on railroads, jet engines, DARPA-net, GPS, microchips, cellular technology, etc.
- 16 Sep 2011, 18:31:00
- David Zetland said...
@alex -- it's it's such a sure thing, govt should leave it to private investors.
- 17 Sep 2011, 00:57:00
- Alex Trembath said...
Thanks for the reply.
There are lots of reasons why private investors won't put their money in technology that is nonetheless in the clear interest of the nation, the economy, and humanity--including Technology and Commercialization "Valleys of Death," the spillover effect, etc. This reality is amplified in the energy sector, where there is a clear lack of product differentiation (eg, one kWh of solar electricity provides the same end-use services as one kWh of coal-generated electricity).
You can witness the testimony of the extremely successful private sector investors of the AEIC who agree with me (report linked in previous comment). Also worth reading is Demos' recent pamphlet "The Entrepreneurial State," in which the author demonstrates that the state has historically played a role not just in fixing or regulating markets, but in actively creating them.
As a prolific blogger yourself, I'm sure you appreciate the leading role that the Department of Defense played in the creation of the DARPA-net, the precursor to the Internet. The Internet was not a sure thing when the government began research and investment through DARPA, but I think you'll agree that its presence has changed nearly every facet of commerce, communications, and the social fabric.
The same argument can be made with cellular technology, microchips, and commercial travel, for which there are broad public and private benefits to be had but which the private sector cannot make early action on because it cannot quickly monetize its investment.
Much like with the Internet, what's needed with clean tech is for the government to do the research and commercialization, bringing clean energy to grid-parity with fossil energy generation, so that private enterprise can compete with incumbent oil, coal, and gas.
I know you're not an ideologue David, and am interested in the libertarian philosophy around governments creating markets. Please let me know why you think that technology investment should be left to private investors, even when all evidence points to the federal government as the biggest source of disruptive technological innovation.
- 17 Sep 2011, 21:54:00
- David Zetland said...
@Alex -- for every $ of "good" government investment, I think I can find $10 of "bad" investment -- wasted time and money, misdirection and black holes. This is not just in the categories of Bridges to Nowhere and Foreign Wars, but also in water infrastructure (probably 80% of what was built in the Western US), technology (solar cells are the latest in a long line that include wasted money on autos, silicon chips, telecommunications, etc.)
I agree that the internet is great, but DARPA was trying to build a netowrk resistant to nuclear strikes -- NOT to help us send cheeseburger cats, email or online orders for books. Incidental innovation is just that; industrial policy has a VERY HIGH opportunity cost, e.g., agricultural subsidies that deplete water sources, harm small farmers, distort food choices, etc.
I agree that SOME government "investment" is REALLY useful, but a lot of it (I'd say >50%) is wasteful spending that produces fewer benefits than the costs it increases.
- 18 Sep 2011, 20:29:00
- Alex Trembath said...
Thanks for the reply.
As it turns out, Solyndra represented roughly 1.3% of the DOE loan guarantee program, which has guaranteed over 40 separate projects, of which Solyndra is the only failure. In terms of overal debt financed by the government via this program, for every $1 of "bad" investment, I can demonstrate $50 of "good" investment. Some of these companies are First Solar, Sunpower, and Brightsource, all of which are more than solvent and increasingly competitive. Granted, another company could still go under, but it's noteworthy that ever through recent weeks' increased scrutiny directed towards the DOE, no other companies have been found to be in danger of bankruptcy or like they had benefitted from any political glad-handing.
DARPA's initial R&D in DARPA-net certainly did not envision what the Internet became, but that's not really a justification for why government investment in innovation doesn't work--it's an example of how government investment can and does have remarkable benefits often beyond its original intent, often as a result of bringing a novel technology to the private sector. The Internet would be worthless without the private sector ingenuity of Google, Apple, etc., but these companies and thousands of others would not exist (at least in their current form) without that initial government investment.
Then of course there's government investment that was targeted and direct, a la insuring the clean nuclear power industry, building the interstate highway system (not a Bridge to Nowhere by any stretch), or guaranteeing the microchip industry when no private sector had any use for microchips.
Beyond the historic efficacy of government investment: Clean energy technology will be required if humanity is to avert cataclysmic climate change while expanding energy access to 3 billion people over the next 50 years. It is currently too expensive. The private sector has not innovated; spending by the energy sector on R&D is starkly lower than in defense, health, or IT. This is largely explained by the spillover effect, the capital intensiveness of energy tech, and long-lead times for investments/projects.
Government needs to play VC here, because VCs aren't and can't. To you that's making bad bets with OPM. To me that's following the same investment practices that got us the Internet, the PC, the cell phone, and literally every energy-generating technology deployed today.
- 19 Sep 2011, 18:38:00
- David Zetland said...
"for every $1 of "bad" investment, I can demonstrate $50 of "good" investment."
Go ahead.
"all of which are more than solvent and increasingly competitive."
So why does the government have to invest? Why not private capital? Shouldn't GE? Or is the government crowding out private $$?
"but these companies and thousands of others would not exist (at least in their current form) without that initial government investment."
So how's the government record vs. private money, e.g., AT&T and Ford?
"clean nuclear power industry, building the interstate highway system (not a Bridge to Nowhere by any stretch), or guaranteeing the microchip industry when no private sector had any use for microchips."
Nuclear -- a boondoggle in most places.
Highways -- unexpected consequences AND massive subsidies/transport distortions
microchips -- wat?
"Beyond the historic efficacy of government investment"
Nice try.
"Clean energy technology will be required if humanity is to avert cataclysmic climate change while expanding energy access to 3 billion people over the next 50 years. It is currently too expensive."
Not if CC is going to happen (i.e., no mitigation).
"The private sector has not innovated; spending by the energy sector on R&D is starkly lower than in defense, health, or IT. "
Maybe b/c the government is crowding it out? Or it's a waste of $$? Defense is a WEIRD one to add...
"This is largely explained by the spillover effect, the capital intensiveness of energy tech, and long-lead times for investments/projects."
Disagree, there are PLENTY of projects that were premature and/or wasted $. Government often speeds up development of BAD ideas, e.g., solar in Germany.
"Government needs to play VC here, because VCs aren't and can't. To you that's making bad bets with OPM. To me that's following the same investment practices that got us the Internet, the PC, the cell phone, and literally every energy-generating technology deployed today."
You're making stuff up now...
I'd prefer a "government VC" program where taxpayers could choose to participate or not -- then YOU could put YOUR money where your mouth was, and I could keep my money.
We're VERY far from the realm of government competence, i.e., guaranteeing basic rights and producing public goods...
- 21 Sep 2011, 01:07:00
- David Zetland said...
@Alex -- ps: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2011/09/owning-solyndra.html
Point: Govt shouldn't take my $ to invest. Ever.
- 21 Sep 2011, 01:30:00
- Alex Trembath said...
Thanks for the very thorough reply! I hope I'm not frustrating you :)
Please excuse the length of this comment. I have been respectfully accused of wrongness and making things up, and will now proceed to defend my claims.
- My $1:$50 was in reference to the DOE loan guarantee program, of which $535 of the total loan volume has defaulted but the remaining ~$30 billion in loan volume has not. In ten years we'll have a better idea of the success rate of THIS program, but for now it's got a pretty good (98.3%) success rate. I do not claim to be able to identify $50 of good investment for every $1 of bad investment across all government programs.
- The $535 loan guarantee from DOE enabled capital investment by Solyndra, followed by over $1 billion invested from private venture (such as Richard Branson and the Walmart family, among others). If DOE made a bad bet, so did they.
- Looking at ROI's for the federal government versus AT&T and Ford would be interesting. However, AT&T and Ford would not exist in anything close to their current form without government infrastructure investment and tech R&D (the Defense Department developed the first cellular technology, which I'm sure AT&T is grateful for).
- I'm sure there are inefficiencies and distortions in transportation thanks to federal highway subsidies, but as close to 100% of Americans use federal roads, the impetus is on you to prove that the benefits of these subsidies do not outweigh the direct costs combined with the revealed cost of inefficiency. Be my guest.
- Nuclear energy is expensive (though not really, when amortized), relatively dangerous, and I'm sure cases can be shown where "boondoggle" would be an appropriate descriptor. However, 20% of the electricity produced/consumed in the United States (the two are very nearly the same because power is produced in response to instantaneous demand) is generated via our 103 nuclear reactors. Since Americans pay for that power, the impetus is on you, again, to show why one-fifth of American electricity (or some appreciable portion of that one-fifth) is a wasted investment. Please include the benefits of the energy services derived from nuclear power in your cost-benefit analysis.
- Microchips were developed by the private sector (Texas Instrument and Fairchild Semiconductor developed the first prototypes), but it was several years before the private sector could afford/had any use for them. The first customers of microchips were the US Air Force and NASA, which guaranteed the purchase for every microchip produced by the private sector. This public-private partnership enabled engineering improvements and economies of scale that drove the prive of microchips from $1000 per unit to $20-$30 per unit in the span of a few years. After they reached this price level, they became attractive for private component manufacturers and designers. This EXACT story can play out with clean energy -- the government guarantees the initial production/innovation through targeted programming, enabling an industry that would have been impossible without the solvency and financing capacity of the federal government.
- "Nice try" is not an sufficient rebuttal. At no point so far in your argument have you demonstrated empirically that federal investments in infrastructure or disruptive technology innovations were ineffective or inefficient.
- "Maybe" is not a sufficient rebuttal. Without an adequate and rational counter-argument, there is no reason for me to change my data-supported view that a) the private sector spends a disproportionately small amount on energy R&D, b) the federal government spends a comparably small amount on energy R&D, c) these facts are due to phenomena like the spillover effect, Valleys of Death, and hugh capital requirements, and d) this underinvestment in public/private R&D hurts innovation, thereby hurting economic growth and productivity.
- 21 Sep 2011, 02:46:00
- Alex Trembath said...
- Solar in Germany is a thermodynamically imperfect technology, and VERY expensive feed-in-tariffs in Germany are not the most efficient financing mechanism. However, the expansive German market has contributed to engineering advances and economies of scale (for every doubling of solar power deployment there is a 20% reduction in costs -- this has been observed over more than a decade).
- "You're making stuff up now" is not a sufficient rebuttal. I made a claim, I respectfully request that you refute mine with evidence. My evidence is here, a report called "Where Good Technologies Come From: Case Studies in American Innovation." In 30 pages it explains the government origins of: the Green Revolution, railroads, the aviation industry, jet engines, gas turbines, microchips, personal computing, the Internet, GPS, nuclear power, synthetic fuels, commercial wind power, solar power, and biotech.
- Lastly, we clearly have a philosophical disagreement about the role of government, which I fully respect. To you, that is your money the government is spending. To me, it is the government's money, which I paid to the government in return for services like infrastructure, insurance, market regulation, and innovation investment. These, IMO, are two perfectly and equally valid philosophical beliefs. However, because you are a user of the Internet, cell phones, roads, planes, medicine, and energy-generating technology (please tell me if I'm being presumptuous!), I believe the impetus is on you to explain why a) the government should not have invested in those technologies, b) why the private sector should have, and c) why the private sector didn't.
- 21 Sep 2011, 02:46:00
- Alex Trembath said...
Hi David,
FYI, I blogged about this exchange.
- 23 Sep 2011, 18:20:00
- David Zetland said...
@Alex -- I had to find time to get to your comment. Glad you got blogging material out of this :)
Here's what I wrote on that blog:
1) You seem to think that government deserves credit for any and all innovations that occur due to the existence of government. In that sense, government is responsible for EVERY good idea.
2) You fail to consider opportunity cost, as in the cost of money diverted from other uses to pay for government programs, and the change of incentives when government gets involved in an area (check out the K Street crowd).
I recommend that you read more about the basic function of government, so you understand the dangers of over-reach (GWB and Obama fall into that category), i.e., http://www.aguanomics.com/2010/07/calculus-of-consent-review.html
Now I will reply to your comments. Since they are not numbered, I will just go in order, starting with:
"- My $1:$50" -- that's a very poor method of accounting. Lack of bankruptcy = success? There are opportunity costs and crowding out problems to worry about.
"so did they" with their money. You can too, but don't use my taxes.
"DoD investment" -- DoD invests in killing people, without regard to costs. Not a business plan I support.
"close to 100% of Americans use federal roads" -- those subsidies distort the incentive to use rail, air and sea transit. That's inefficient, per se. (I don't need data when I have theory.)
"Since Americans pay for that power" -- so why, again, does the government have to anything to do with it? It could be supplied -- at much improved efficiency by private markets. Government guarantees not only destroy "appropriate insurance" for nuclear, but also makes operators more reckless (cf., Japan's government monopolies in this week's economist)
"After they reached this price level, they became attractive for private component manufacturers and designers." What's your hurry for low prices? We waited until 2001 for the IPod. What's wrong with a few years more? Esp. since companies took years to change management to match hardware.
That said, this (http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2011/02/grounding_our_innovation_polic.shtml) gives a more nuanced view: the government can help but shouldn't pick winners.
"Nice try" is not an sufficient rebuttal" yes it is. YOU need to show that government involvement is NECESSARY, let alone SUFFICIENT. Read the infant industry literature as well as the lit. on agricultural subsidies, etc.
"underinvestment in public/private R&D" According to who? Is this a problem unique to the US, or world wide? I've seen a LOT of good investment in Holland and a lot of BAD investment in the US, which is more corrupt.
"engineering advances and economies of scale" - I wonder what it would have been in Spain? Without the Spanish getting put out of business by the Germans?
re: Breakthrough Institute (see above link)
"infrastructure, insurance, market regulation, and innovation investment." -- the only one where gov't involvement is necessary (and not necessarily sufficient) is regulation. Let's agree on that.
Oh, and remember that you are FREE to invest where those lobbyists direct. I prefer to keep my money and direct it via competing investment firms run by entrepreneurs with skin in the game.
- 23 Sep 2011, 23:22:00


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Items to be displayed are GeoGraphicsItems, following the GeoGraphicsView framework.
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A "Model" in the Model-view framework in Qt is an interface to facilitate access to lists of data from widgets which need not know what data is inside. The interface may sound nice, but the abstraction is a bit too much when the interaction between data and its representation increases. These "Model" are also not data stores in order to avoid the previous issue.
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Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit with the headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.
Former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimed Winfrey defamed her in remarks made in the wake of the 2007 sex-abuse scandal at the school. The headmistress said she had trouble finding a job afterward, she alleged in the suit.
A trial had been set to start next week, and Winfrey and several schoolgirls were expected to testify in the high-profile suit.
A joint statement released Tuesday by lawyers for both sides said Winfrey and Mzamane met "woman to woman" and resolved their differences.
"The two parties met woman to woman without their lawyers and are happy that they could resolve this dispute peacefully to their mutual satisfaction," read the statement, which didn't disclose details of the settlement.
The genesis of the suit came about in 1997 when Winfrey claimed that she had "lost confidence" in Mzamane after a dorm matron at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy was charged with abusing six students.
Winfrey has called the allegations crushing given her own stated history of childhood sexual abuse.
The dorm matron, Tiny Virginia Makopo, has since pleaded not guilty to 14 charges. Mzamane claimed she didn't know about any sexual abuse.
Mzamane, born in Lesotho, formerly worked at the private Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia and was living in the city when she filed suit two years ago. She earned $150,000 a year as the head of Winfrey's academy.
Winfrey had planned to defend her remarks about Mzamane on free speech and other grounds, arguing she merely voiced her opinions.
Mzamane's lawyers, who noted Winfrey's huge media reach, contended listeners would think the remarks were based on facts she had gleaned from the school's internal investigation.
Winfrey, as the named defendant, would have had to attend the trial each day. She had rearranged the taping of her Chicago-based daily TV talk show, her lawyers said.
Winfrey, in court papers, said she had planned to hire nurses to serve as dorm matrons for the 150 seventh- and eighth-grade girls who were selected from impoverished backgrounds to attend her school. Mzamane instead hired eight young women from a local company called Party Design, she said.
"These young women were later found to be totally unqualified to handle the position, something Ms. Mzamane had been warned about," Winfrey's lawyers wrote.
As the school's inaugural year unfolded, Makopo attacked another dorm parent, injured three people while driving a golf cart after a champagne party at Mzamane's home and retaliated rather than apologize to girls who complained of mistreatment, while Mzamane did little or nothing, Winfrey's lawyers had alleged in their trial memo.
Forbes last year listed Winfrey's net worth at $2.7 billion.
However, for trial purposes, lawyers stipulated the amount at $1.2 billion.
The academy now serves about 330 girls.


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The North Idaho College Employee of the Month Sterling
Silver Award is a wonderful way to identify and recognize NIC staff and faculty who demonstrate exceptional performance and give more to the college community than is normally expected.
The award is given each month with the Sterling Silver Committee making
the final selection. All employees are eligible to receive the award,
regardless of time of service. Students, faculty, and staff may all make
nominations. Employee nominations will stay active for one year from the
time the first nomination was received; or when they are awarded the
Sterling Silver, whichever comes first. Each month, the most outstanding
nomination will be chosen by the Sterling Silver Committee.
The winner of the Sterling Silver Award will be congratulated with a surprise presentation by members of the Sterling Silver Committee, NIC president, fellow employees, students and a representative of Numerica Credit Union.
To encourage participation, everyone who submits a nomination will be entered into a drawing for a $200 prize provided by Numerica. The winner will be announced at the end of the Spring Semester.
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26th July 2018
I recently got into a little Twitter discussion with a follower regarding influencer marketing on social media and whether or not it is important. The follower seemed to hold a strong opinion that influencers were a waste of time and that brands should not use them for any endorsements or campaigns because in part, most influencers lack the kind of loyalty that would be required from any meaningful brand publicity or product marketing.
Having been in the social media marketing and communication's space for a number of years now and having worked with multiple influencers and brands on various campaigns that have achieved real, tangible results, I felt this conclusion was misplaced, I strongly believe that with a proper influencer strategy, positive results can be achieved.
By way of definition, a social media influencer is a social media user who has established credibility in a specific industry. An influencer typically has access to a large audience and can persuade others by virtue of their authenticity and reach. The concept behind influencers is hardly new. It is a tactic that has been used by brands over many decades to reinforce brand values, influence their image and help customers understand and get exciting about their products or brands.
Since social media influencer marketing is relatively new, as by its very nature it has only been around since the advent of social media and its use for marketing and communications, changes in social media trends continue to make it a difficult proposition, almost all the time to brands marketers. Before embarking on a social media influencer campaign, it is important to have a few things at the back of your mind to achieve maximum results. These are:
Influencers are often free agents looking for better deals and can easily be swayed by competitors. It is therefore vital to establish a long-term relationship with them. This will give your brand exclusivity and longevity with your chosen influencers.
While it is often contractual, engagements between brands and influencers should go beyond the contract agreement and spill over into frequent immersions into the brand, constant communication, product updates and trials and briefing sessions on new products and services, or a new company strategy such as a rebrand. This, in the long run, will ensure that the influencers are always in the know on the things that are relevant and matter to the public and have ample content to use.
A social media user does not need to have hundreds of thousands of followers to be influential. Micro-influencers are great for brands with small budgets that are ready to give influencer marketing a go. If your brand has given influencer marketing a try using prominent influencers with large followings on social media but has not achieved the set objectives of the campaign, it might be time to try out micro-influencer marketing.
Several surveys have suggested that people trust advice and recommendations from people personally known to them as they can trust them. Depending on the nature of your campaign and the audience type, you might in the long run reach more people and get more returns on investments from working with micro-influencers than if you worked with one or two big-name influencers while spending less money in the process.
This is often viewed as a daunting task as various aspects are put into consideration when choosing the right crop of influencers varying from budgets to length of the campaign, to target audience, among many other variables. The best way to find your social media influencers is by thinking about whose voice you can trust for your brand communication or marketing objective. Various social media tools such as Buzzsumo can help one easily identify true, authentic influencers in their field. A quick check on the intended social media influencers personal pages will help you decide if they are the right fit for your campaign depending on the kind of content they share, the kind of followers they have and the type of campaigns they have been involved in, in the past.
When engaging with influencers, many brands opt to prepare content and share it with influencers and ask them to post it on their platforms. This, in almost all cases, spectacularly fails. It is therefore important to give your influencers leeway with their engagement approaches in order to ensure their content is as unique as possible whilst still retaining the key campaign messages and objectives. Creating thoughtful and engaging content isn't the easiest job on the planet. However, influencers can help you get your brand across in the right way. It is crucial as well, to agree on the quantity of content and frequency with your influencers. When influencers know their peers that they will be working with on a specific campaign for instance, it will help them create natural and organic conversations.
With various social media platforms such as facebook clamping down on branded communications, there lies a golden opportunity to engage influencers through storytelling and brand endorsements. An infusion of the right tactics can still see brands achieve more on social media as they seek to create brand awareness and their marketing communications goals.
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A Hope College professor and his student research team have received support to study how the distinctly American art form of jazz has thrived in Japan for decades.
Dr. Robert Hodson, associate professor of music, has received a $26,000 ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellowship for his project "Jazz in Japan: Music, Community, Culture." The grant, which funds collaborative student-faculty research in Asia, will provide support as he and four students travel to Japan for three weeks in July to study the Tokyo jazz scene by attending performances and interviewing performers, club owners, students and listeners.
Japan's jazz tradition goes back to the 1920s, according to Hodson. He noted that following its beginnings in New Orleans and spread to the rest of the U.S., jazz was introduced to Japan by American and Filipino jazz bands and quickly developed a fan base, even surviving the war years.
"Jazz was popular in Japan from the very start, and the early Japanese jazz scene was centered in Osaka and Kobe, eventually moving to Tokyo," Hodson said. "During World War II, jazz was banned in Japan, but the popularity of this music made the ban unsuccessful."
"Following World War II, the American occupation forces provided a huge audience for jazz, leading to a surge in the numbers of Japanese jazz musicians," he said. "Through the last half of the 20th century, jazz continued to develop in both the U.S. and in Japan, along sometimes parallel, sometimes divergent lines."
While in Tokyo, Hodson and the students will visit a variety of jazz clubs that feature live performances as well as "Jazzu Kissaten," coffee houses where jazz fans listen to famous and rare recordings on high-end stereo systems. They will attend and participate in jam sessions that feature performers ranging from students to talented amateurs to professionals. Along the way they'll also do some performing themselves, participating in jam sessions and performing concerts at schools and community centers.
The students who will be accompanying Hodson are senior Larry Figueroa of Holland; sophomore Zach Pedigo of Chippewa Falls, Wis.; junior Nate Roberts of Milton, Pa.; and sophomore David Webster of Troy.
After returning to the U.S., Hodson intends to work with the students in developing a Web site about jazz in Japan that will include audio and video recordings. He and the students also plan to make presentations on campus and during external events including the ASIANetwork annual conference.
A member of the Hope faculty since 2002, Hodson serves as coordinator of the music theory and composition area in the department of music, and is also a member of the jazz studies area. His research interests include jazz improvisation, improvisational process, metric and rhythmic complexity, and music theory pedagogy, and his scholarship includes the book "Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz" (Routledge, 2007).
ASIANetwork focuses on promoting Asian studies, and is a consortium of more than 170 North American colleges, including Hope. ASIANetwork encourages the study of Asian languages, societies and cultures on member campuses, and offers resources and programs to experience the cultures firsthand.


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Sustainability has become a hot topic in the current age of conservation and self-sufficient living. For residents of New Orleans, this is no exception, and locals and visitors alike can easily enjoy the scrumptious, fresh delights like local produce, seafood, dairy, farm-raised meat, fresh baked goods, and cut flowers via local farmers markets regularly held around the city.
If you'd like to sample some fresh local produce on your next visit to New Orleans, there are a number of farmers markets to choose from and several different locations. Every day at the edge of the French Quarter on Decatur St, the French Market is an expansive marketplace covering several blocks with tents and tables of goods from 10am till 6pm. The market is filled to the brim with food and merchandise vendors of all stripes, including many local farmers, bakers, fishermen and the like.
Crescent City Farmers Market hosts markets at three different locations three days of the week, so there's a chance you'll be able to see at least one of them on your next visit. The Thursday Market is held Thursday afternoon in Mid-City at Orleans Ave and Bayou St. John, which makes for a beautiful location and a lovely breeze while you browse. On Saturday mornings, the market is held downtown at Magazine St and Girod St, which is also a nice contrasting background to walk through, with fresh produce and other goods peddled against the backdrop of the city's downtown and Warehouse District areas.
Head over to the Tuesday Market at Broadway and the River, just a stone's throw from Audubon Park. Every week they offer a Green Plate Special, where local chefs cook up fresh and affordable lunches that showcase the seasonal ingredients available for sale around the market—a unique taste of all NOLA has to offer.
We pride ourselves in contributing to the sustainability movement by using local dairy and produce, such as our butter, cheeses, and veggies. You can taste the difference in our delicious meals, just as you can taste the difference in locally grown and harvested foods.


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Egypt: System change
Tens of thousands on the streets say down with the regimewww-features 28 Jan 2011 22:02 GMT
hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, Port Said and in many Egyptian towns and cities in one of the biggest protests seen so far in the country and with intense confrontations with state security forces. Major protests started on January 25. Hundreds were wounded during street battles with the police with fifty three confirmed deaths from Friday's protests.
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U.S. Citizens and Canadian Citizens are being flown out, which is a sure sign that Mubarack is planning something that does not bode well for the vast majority. There is a peoples saying about sinking ships here but best not say anything lest they disinform the real meaning and tortue the journalists to death in a stinking C.I.A. dark spot. No, the fact that the U.S. and its flunkey Canadian Conservative-Liberal puppet regime start spying on its citizens who are inquiring why the death of lincoln by the slaveholder class brought to power not the liberation of reconstruction but the slaveholders again. This breath of fresh air from the proletariate, should wake the world to the necessity of change that the world so dearly needs. The red guard will defend the workers and their allies, while reaction headed by Mubarack will be supporting the Imperialist Camp and its reconquest of the working classes. Plus and minus, so which side are you on? Workers of the world, unite!!
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A Tremor in the Blood: Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector
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The author presents case histories of persons whose lives have been blighted by our uniquely American faith in the myth of the lie detector. Dr. Lykken also explains how to "beat" the machine, not only because it is unfair that spies and Mafia soldiers already know these techniques, but also because innocent persons have nearly a 50:50 chance of failing lie detector tests unless they use appropriate countermeasures. Many state courts in the U.S. still admit lie detector tests into evidence under certain conditions - a practice that ensures the conviction of more innocent people every year. Finally, Dr. Lykken reports on the results of recent surveys of informed scientific opinion about lie detection and presents another method of polygraphic interrogation that is designed to detect, not lies, but the presence of guilty knowledge. This method is scientifically credible and holds promise for future use in criminal investigation.
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Round out your quilting repertoire! Let Ann Petersen take the fear out of sewing curved seams and open up a new world of piecing.
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* How to cut arcs using a variety of templates, tools and methods
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