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March 18
The Valve - Closed For Renovation
It's probably past time I made such an announcement. Not that there's been anything wrong with what Bill B. has been up to on his own lonesome for some time hereabouts. But the Valve was never intended to be Bill Benzon's personal blog. Best he relocate to his own digs if it's to be a solo operation.
I want to keep the site up. I would be sad if the archives disappeared. Lots of good stuff. But keeping the place up? ... well, we'll see. Maybe I'll get around to organizing some of those good old book events again soon. Best of luck to all our past authors, wherever they have wandered to by this point. And thanks to all the readers and commenters who made it such fun while it lasted. But nothing lasts forever.
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Happy Trails to You
I first heard of The Valve back in late Spring or early Summer of 2005 when I caught wind of an up-coming discussion of an anthology entitled Theory's Empire. The idea, it seems, was to look at what had by now become capital "T" Theory and, perhaps, hope! hope! lay it to rest.
So I showed up in early July and joined the commentariat. I soon found myself playing an unaccustomed role, that of the old timer who says, "Now, back in my day . . . " Now, I'm not that old, and it wasn't that long ago in calendar years, but it WAS before the personal computer and internet. I was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins when the French landed in 1966 and I'd lived the ferment in literary studies that had been occasioned by those ideas. I also encountered developmental psychology, through Mary Ainsworth, and psycholinguistics through James Deese. And so I added Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky to my repertoire while studying semiotics and comp lit in English translation under the tutelage of Dick Macksey, one of the organizers of the (in)famous Structuralism conference.
The upshot of all that is that I shuffled off to Buffalo and joined the cognitive revolution under the tutelage of David Hays in the Linguistics Department. But my degree was in English and my dissertation was on cognitive science and literary theory. I'd decided that structuralism led, not to post-structuralism, deconstruction, or postmodernism, but to cognitive science. The profession did not agree with my assessment of the situation; we parted ways several years after I got my degree.
But I kept up my intellectual program anyhow, publishing this and that, here and there. I showed up at the Theory's Empire event to see how things were going in the literary academy and to engage that part of it that might, I thought, just might, be looking for something new. Later in that year I was asked to try out for the masthead and was accepted early in 2006. Since then The Valve has been the closest thing I've had for an institutional home base.
Up into the second half 2010 or so The Valve functioned as a vigorous group blog, more vigorous at some times than others, but strong and interesting. In the Spring of 2010 I set up my own blog, New Savanna, mostly so I could post on a wider range of topics than I felt appropriate to The Valve. By the end of 2010 it was clear, however, that, as a group effort, The Valve was dying. I continued to post here, as well as at New Savanna, because it was easy enough to do and because there seemed to be constant traffic from somewhere out there in the ether.
All things change, however. John Holbo, The Valve's progenitor, informs me that it's time for The Valve to go the way of the Phoenix and be reborn. To do that, however, it must first die. Really and truly. Dead.
And so I will cease posting at The Valve in order that this plot of cyberspace may lay fallow for awhile.
It was a good run.
I'd like to thank John and the other Valvsters for the good intellectual company and you, our readers, for your kind and generous attention.
I will, of course, continue to post at New Savanna, and elsewhere.
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March 15
What's an Encyclopedia These Days?
I remember browsing through the encyclopedia when I was young. We had an Americana, to the Britannica, which just announced that it will cease print publication, and I would spend hours reading from one entry to another. The volumes were heavy and substantial and the set of them gave a visible and tactile sense of complete knowledge. That sense, of course, was an illusion, but it was there.
The Wikipedia affords a different experience. Of course, I come to the Wikipedia as a mature adult with a great deal of intellectual sophistication; how it would appear to a bright 11-year old, I don't know. But there's no way to get a sense of all-knowledge-complete from the Wikipedia; you can't see it on the shelf, you can't handle it volume by volume. It just trails off into the ether, in many many different directions.
There is, of course, the question of accuracy and authority. I know that comparisons have been done between Wikipedia entries and, I believe, Britannica entries. And Wikipedia has come out well in these comparisons. But that's not all there is to IT.
By IT I mean both authority and, well, accuracy, I guess. They're closely related, but not quite the same. In the case of conventional encyclopedias, such as the Britannica, the authority resides in the institution itself. Where the entries themselves came from, who wrote them and what sources they consulted, that's pretty much a mystery.Continue reading "What's an Encyclopedia These Days?"
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March 14
Encyclopedia Britannica to Shut Down Print Operations
From today's New York Times:
In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.
"It's a rite of passage in this new era," Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. "Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it's much more expansive and it has multimedia." ...
Sales of the Britannica peaked in 1990, when 120,000 sets were sold in the United States. But now print encyclopedias account for less than 1 percent of the Britannica's revenue. About 85 percent of revenue comes from selling curriculum products in subjects like math, science and the English language; 15 percent comes from subscriptions to the Web site, the company said.
About half a million households pay a $70 annual fee for the online subscription, which includes access to the full database of articles, videos, original documents and to the company's mobile applications.
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March 12
Intimate Enemies: What's Opera, Doc?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that What's Opera, Doc? is one of the finest cartoons ever made. It satirizes opera, Wagner in particular; it parodies Disney's Fantasia, and, for that matter, it parodies the routines of its stars, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. The production was, by Warner Brother's standards, lavish, and the layouts, by Maurice Noble, are inspired.
All of that's obvious. What's not so obvious is that the film plays on the nature of reality in a way that's reminiscent of Dance of the Hours from Disney's Fantasia. As I've argued in Animal Passion? Hyacinth Hippo and Ben Ali Gator, that episode depicts the inability of animal dancers to stay in role with the result that, when Ben Ali Gator courts Hyacinth Hippo we don't know whether they're acting roles or whether their passion is, well, real. Something like that is going on in What's Opera, Doc? Elmer Fudd is in role as, well, Siegfried I guess, from beginning to end, but Bugs is not.
Note: I'm not going to comment on the design. But you should pay attention to it. Note the colors, the camera angles, and the use of lines. It's really exquisite.
Kill the Wabbit
Let's start at the beginning. As the title card and credits roll we hear an orchestra warming up. We thus know that, yep, as the title says, this is going to be opera. The opening music is wild and stormy and we see a stormy sky, and then a large hulking shadow appears projected against a cliff. More sky and lightening, and then we see that the large shadow is projected by a rather small fellow:
It this point a simple, and rather old, point has been made: things aren't always what they seem to be. The camera zooms in and it's Elmer Fudd, in heroic costume as a Nordic warrior, informing us that he's "hunting wabbits."Continue reading "Intimate Enemies: What's Opera, Doc?"
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March 11
Alphonso Lingis talks of various things, cameras and photos among them
A new journal, Singularum, has an interview with philosopher Alphonse Lingis, who translates Merleau-Ponty, writes, travels, and takes photos.
I had long resisted buying a camera, thinking that there was something false about collecting images of things seen and people encountered and who have passed on, trying to retain the past. I thought that what was real was what from a trip left one changed. I started taking pictures when a friend who was taking me to the airport gave me a camera on the way.
I soon realized that the camera had changed my perception. The light: it was no longer just cleared space in which things took form; it had direction, it led the gaze, its shafts excavated situations isolated in the dark, sometimes it spread in a scintillating, dazzling, blazing medium without boundaries. Shadows took on substance; they stretched, flowed, condensed things in themselves. It occurred to me that I saw them that way when I was a child. Things looked different: the contours of shadows and of things that overlapped other things pushed out the contours that contained things in themselves. Flat surfaces showed corrugations, grain, stubble and texture, and sheets of gleam. And the continuity of the landscape drifting by would be abruptly broken by momentary events—the spiraling neck of a heron probing the space, the poised pause of an antelope, the legs of a child in an arabesque she will never be able to do once grown up, the grin of a passerby at something inward. The landscape is abruptly splintered, a segment isolates, magnetizes and pulls the glance into it.
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March 08
Feynmann, John von Neumann, and Mental Models
Since George Dyson's recent history of modern computing, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, was written in part to restore John von Neumann to prominence, I thought I'd republish a double review, lightly edited, I wrote some years ago: "A Tale of Two Geniuses," Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 17(2): 227-230, 1994. Richard Feynman was one of the geniuses and John von Neumann was the other.
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick, New York: Pantheon Books, 1992, 532 pp.
John von Neumann, by Norman Macrae, New York, Pantheon Books, 1992, 405 pp.
Students of cognitive evolution and of twentieth century thought are fortunate in the simultaneous appearance of these two biographies. No doubt the simultaneity is mostly coincidence. The physicist Richard Feynman is most widely known, alas, for two autobiographical collections of anecdotes which reveal him to be a waggish and riggish anti-establishment sort; he is most deeply known for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics. John von Neumann was a thoroughly establishment sort - soldiers guarded his hospital room as he lay dying of brain cancer just in case he let out defense secrets in his sleep - and is most widely know as the name which appears in phrases like "computers using the von Neumann architecture." The two men crossed paths in Los Alamos, where they worked on the atomic bomb. That crossing is a reasonable place to begin our review.
Los Alamos
Feynman was recruited to Los Alamos while still a graduate student. He was in charge of group T-4, Diffusion Problems. The problem was to figure out how neutrons, which drive the fission reaction, diffuse through the explosive core. Knowing the rate and pattern of diffusion was essential to determining the mass and configuration of fissile material. Since the late 30s von Neumann had been working on similar problems in connection with shock waves and explosions in general and so was able to help the Los Alamos effort between 1943 and 1945.
The difficulty was that the relevant equations could not be solved analytically. Rather, it was necessarily to simulate neutron diffusion numerically by calculating the step-by-step motion of individual neutrons. That requires lots of calculations, which were performed by a group of people operating calculators. The problems would be broken into components; each person would be responsible for one component, with each problem being passed from person to person as individual components where calculated.
Computing and von Neumann
That, of course, is the general way computers solve problems, with the computational plan being an algorithm. But, they did not have computers at Los Alamos. Computers came after the war and von Neumann was central to the effort. He understood that the computer is essentially a logical device and clarified that logic with the concepts of the stored program (Macrae, pp. 282-284), the fetch-execute cycle (pp. 287), and conditional transfer (see Bernstein 1963, 1964, pp. 60 ff.). That is to say, von Neumann clearly differentiated between the physical structures and connections of the devices from which the computer is constructed and the logical requirements which those devices have to fulfill. For that he is the progenitor of the computer.Continue reading "Feynmann, John von Neumann, and Mental Models"
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March 07
Support Michael Sporn's Film about Edgar Allen Poe
Several years ago I spent a delightful evening at New York City's Museum of Modern Art viewing retrospective of Michael Sporn's films. Everyday I check his blog, which is a treasure trove for those interested in animation. Now I'm asking you to support his Kickstarter project, which involves a biography of Edgar Allen Poe that he's been working on for several years.
Here's how Sporn describes the film:
The Animatic, above, is a rough representation of animation in progress. It helps us tell the story. We hope to turn the many segments started into completed animation to be able to thrust the feature film, POE, into complete production. The Kickstarter money will do that for us and help satisfy the needs of the possible distributors and financiers who are already interested.
What's the story?
Edgar Allan Poe was a brilliant writer who lived a very short and eccentric life. He died at the age of 40 and in that time created literary genres including the detective mystery, the sci fi epic, the horror story, and many of the most beautiful love poems imaginable. Within this life there is a very dynamic story to be told.
The film opens with baby Edgar dragged from theater to theater by his ever-squabbling actor parents. They travel to cities up and down the East Coast performing, as their marriage falls apart. Edgar's father disappears, and his mother dies of consumption. The three year old watches the last theater his mother performs in burn to the ground. He's left an orphan, and the film begins.
Poe's life was destroyed not by drugs or alcohol, as is often stated, but by absolute poverty, and this is the crux of our film. Many of the women in his life died of consumption and illness as he was too poor to be able to care for them properly.He, himself, died in a poorhouse hospital.
Our film will show various biographical key points in his life and will use selections from his great fiction to depict this dramatic story.
The film is now completely scripted and story-boarded and 20 minutes of an animatic have been completed. Four Poe stories will be set in counterpoint to the biography: The Premature Burial, Murder in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and Ms. in a Bottle.
Now's you chance to step into film history by supporting this project.
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March 05
Philosophy, Ontics or Toothpaste for the Mind
Writing in, of all places, The New York Times, Colin McGinn, a distinguished philosopher—for only distinguished philosophers get to appear in "the paper of record"—has called for a rebranding of the discipline of philosophy. No, "rebranding" isn't his word, though it was astutely used by one of the commenters. McGinn just called for a name change. "Ontics" is his suggested alternative.
McGinn notes that the name is misleading to non-philosophers, who "immediately assume you are in the business of offering sage advice, usually in the form of unargued aphorisms and proverbs." And when you try to explain, well, they just don't get it. Whatever this discipline is, "lover of wisdom"—the etymological meaning of the name—is too generic.
Well, sure, yeah, it is. But then, is what McGinn does, or what most academic researchers do, is that wisdom in any meaningful sense? Thomas Kuhn famously argued that what most scientists do is rather like puzzle-solving, and he did not mean the term at all pejoratively. The point of the term was to suggest that most scientists—and McGinn thinks of philosophy as science, in a broad sense of the term—work within fairly well-specified conceptual boundaries.
Which they do. And so it is with most academics. That's just the nature of the enterprise.
There is tremendous respect for the mythology of "going boldly where no man has gone before," but little on-the-ground tolerance for that activity in the flesh. I rather suspect that McGinn wouldn't recognize one of the bold ones if she bit him in the ass. Whatever it is that McGinn does, is there any reason whatever to suspect that he gives a fig about wisdom?Continue reading "Philosophy, Ontics or Toothpaste for the Mind"
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March 02
Nazi Rules for Regulating Funk 'n Freedom
J.J. Gould has a short piece in The Atlantic that lists Nazi regulations for dance orchestras on Czeckslovakia:
- Pieces in foxtrot rhythm (so-called swing) are not to exceed 20% of the repertoires of light orchestras and dance bands;
- in this so-called jazz type repertoire, preference is to be given to compositions in a major key and to lyrics expressing joy in life rather than Jewishly gloomy lyrics;
- As to tempo, preference is also to be given to brisk compositions over slow ones so-called blues); however, the pace must not exceed a certain degree of allegro, commensurate with the Aryan sense of discipline and moderation. On no account will Negroid excesses in tempo (so-called hot jazz) or in solo performances (so-called breaks) be tolerated;
- so-called jazz compositions may contain at most 10% syncopation; the remainder must consist of a natural legato movement devoid of the hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the barbarian races and conductive to dark instincts alien to the German people (so-called riffs);
- strictly prohibited is the use of instruments alien to the German spirit (so-called cowbells, flexatone, brushes, etc.) as well as all mutes which turn the noble sound of wind and brass instruments into a Jewish-Freemasonic yowl (so-called wa-wa, hat, etc.);
- also prohibited are so-called drum breaks longer than half a bar in four-quarter beat (except in stylized military marches);
- the double bass must be played solely with the bow in so-called jazz compositions;
- plucking of the strings is prohibited, since it is damaging to the instrument and detrimental to Aryan musicality; if a so-called pizzicato effect is absolutely desirable for the character of the composition, strict care must be taken lest the string be allowed to patter on the sordine, which is henceforth forbidden;
- musicians are likewise forbidden to make vocal improvisations (so-called scat);
- all light orchestras and dance bands are advised to restrict the use of saxophones of all keys and to substitute for them the violin-cello, the viola or possibly a suitable folk instrument.
H/t Graham Harman.
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February 27
The Early History of Modern Computing: A Brief Chronology
This chronology is from a Guardian interview with George Dyson, who's just written Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. One of the central features of the book is to restore prominence to John von Neumann, the great Hungarian polymath.
1936 Alan Turing submits his paper 'On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungs problem' to the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
1941 Konrad Zuse working in isolation in Germany, builds the Z3. He knows nothing about Turing's work.
1944 The first Colossus computer is operational at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, significantly contributing to the allied war effort by doubling the codebreakers' output. It contained 1,500 thermionic valves, was the size of a room and weighed around a ton. In all, 10 Colossus computers were in use by the end of the war.
1945 John von Neumann publishes a paper setting out the architecture of a stored-program computer.
1946 First public showing of the Eniac computer built in the preceding three years at the University of Pennsylvania.
1952 Von Neumann's IAS computer becomes operational and is extensively cloned – there is no patent.
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February 26
Computing Encounters Being, an Addendum
As soon as I finished yesterday's post on Brian Smith's On the Origin of Objects, I had a thought: Ahh...so THAT's why the philosophy of computing leads to metaphysics. If your intuitions about computing are dominated by your practice of arithmetic, well, that's calculation, and calculation is only an aspect of computing has it has evolved since World War II.
Consider the opening paragraph to the Preface of Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans (xiv):
Leading software designers have recognized domain modeling and design as critical topics for at least 20 years, yet surprisingly little has been written about what needs to be done or how to do it. Although it has never been formulated clearly, a philosophy has emerged as an undercurrent in the object community, a philosophy I call domain-driven design.
In that paragraph the object community is not a fellowship of philosophers, it's a bunch of computer programmers using languages such as C++ or Java and working in a style that came to be called object-oriented long before the philosophers re-coined the phrase for their own purposes.
But that's a side-note.Continue reading "Computing Encounters Being, an Addendum"
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February 25
On the Origin of Objects (towards a philosophy of computation)
While crusing the web I came across a 1996 book by Brain Cantwell Smith, On the Origin of Objects. Smith is a computer scientist who was, in fact, in search of a theory of computation but found himself smack in the middle of metaphysics. Interesting, no? Just what computing is, is not exactly clear. And with folks, such a Stephen Wolfram (and he wasn't the first), proposing that the universe is, beneath it all, a giant computer of some sort, well, you can see how chasing down the nature of computation could be interesting.
The publisher's blurb was provocative:
Everything that exists - objects, properties, life, practice - lies Smith claims in the "middle distance," an intermediate realm of partial engagement with and partial separation from, the enveloping world. Patterns of separation and engagement are taken to underlie a single notion unifying representation and ontology: that of subjects' "registration" of the world around them.
That had just a whiff of object-oriented ontology about it, though the book's date puts it before the term was coined.
I found an ontology site that had excerpts from the book, from critics, and from Smith's reply. It had this bit from the book's conclusion:
Continue reading "On the Origin of Objects (towards a philosophy of computation)"
Overall, the project was to develop what I called a successor metaphysics, one that would honor the following pretheoretic requirements (345-246):
1. Do justice to what is right about:
a. Constructivism: a form of humility, or so at least I characterized it, requiring that we acknowledge our presence in, and influence on, the world around us; and
b. Realism: the view that adds to constructivism's claim that "we are here" an equally profound recognition that we are not all that is here, and that as a result not all of our stories are equally good.
2. Make sense of pluralism: the fact that knowledge is partial, perspectival, and never wholly extricable from its (infinite) embedding historical, cultural, social, material, economic and every other kind of context. The account of pluralism must:
a. Avoid devolving into nihilism or other forms of vacuous relativism, and in particular not be purchased at the price of (successors notions of) excellence, standards, virtue, truth, or significance; and
b. Not license radical incommensurability, provide an excuse to build walls, or in any other way stand in the way of interchange, communion, and struggle for common ends.
Two additional criteria were applied to how these intuitions are met:
3. Be irreductionist—ideologically, scientifically, and in every other way. No category, from sociality to electron, from political power to brain, from origin myth to rationality to mathematics, including the category "human," may be given a priori pride of place, and thereby be allowed to elude contingency, struggle, and price.
4. Be nevertheless foundational, in such a way as to satisfy our undiminished yearning for metaphysical grounding. That is, or so at least I put it, the account must show how and what it is to be grounded simpliciter - without being grounded in a, for any category a.
Along the way, the account should:
5. Reclaim tenable, lived, work-a-day successor versions of many mainstay notions of the modernist tradition: object, objective, true, formal, mathematical, logical, physical, etc."
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February 23
Symposium on Graeber's Debt
Crooked Timber is running a symposium on David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years. Contributions so far:
- Seminar on David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years – Introduction, Chris Bertram
- The unmourned death of the double coincidence, John Quiggan
- The World Economy is not a Tribute System, Henry Farrell
- Debt Jubilee or Global Deleveraging, Barry Finger
- The end of debt, John Quiggan
- The Return of Grand Narrative in the Human Sciences, Neville Morley
- The Dangers of Pricing the Infinite, Malcolm P. Harris, on student debt
All are worth reading, as are many of the comments. I'll end with the last paragraph from Bertram's introduction:
Does Graeber find in utopian and democratic resistance to the Axial empires an historic precedent for the Occupy movement to emulate? Perhaps our best possibilities lie not in grand schemes of societal transformation but in developing the "baseline communism" and the democratic instincts that persist even in the heart of modern capitalism. The anarchist writer Colin Ward used a phrase from Ignazio Silone – "the seed beneath the snow" – to make a similar idea vivid. We cannot take the beast on in a direct assault, and nor should we, but we can work together to develop a more human society within the nooks and crannies of the commercial one.
Sounds a bit like a plug for the Transition Movement, which originated in England and has since spread around the world.
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February 21
The Nightmare of Digital Film Preservation
I have distinct memories of the days when the prospect of digital media everywhere led to thoughts of how easy it would be to preserve everything: Digital Will Never Die! The basic idea was that, as digital is All or Nothing, the signal is strong and clear and so resistant to degradation. All we have to do is just keep transferring it from one substrate to another as the substrates wear out.
Piece of cake.
That's not how things have worked out. David Bordwell has written a useful essay on the nasty problems of digital preservation: Pandora's digital box: Pix and pixels. The law of unintended consequences strikes again, and again; as Bordwell observes: "It seems likely that digital projection has, in unintended and unexpected ways, put the history of film in jeopardy." There are many problems, more than I care even to list, much less summarize. Let one little paragraph stand for many:
Storing 4K digital masters costs about 11 times as much as storing a film master. You can store the digital master for about $12,000 per year, while the film master averages about $1,100.
For that's what it all comes down to, cost.
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A few weeks ago I was invited by K M World Magazine to attend a sponsored webcast called "Innovation @ Google". The webcast was earlier today, moderated by Andy More K M World's publisher and featured Naveen Viswanatha, Google's Enterprise Sales Engineer.
Here is my recap of the KMWorld Magazine sponsored "Innovation@Google" webcast followed by the presentation PowerPoint in pdf:
Today Google is the "World's largest search engine" employing more than 16,000 employees in 40 offices worldwide "including Mountain View, New York, Boston, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Paris and Milan" not to mention Atlanta, GA. Sorry I had to throw that in but either way how can you leave out the AtlantaPlex? : ) Either way, Google has interfaces in 109 languages and 113 international domains. Google's market share according to MediaMetrix is more than 62% of worldwide search views.
According to Naveen, the internet's evolution has moved from the early years (pre-1998) of "Information" past the middle years (1998-2006) of "Distribution & Communication" to "Network & Platform" today (2006-). Users seem to have moved from reading, buying, trading and talking online to publishing their own content in the form of social networking sites, video and blogs. In 1998 there were an estimated 77 million users but today Google's estimate is 1 billion and growing. As a result of this growth Google had no choice but to innovate in new areas simply to keep up with the explosive increase in users. One way Google has kept up with this explosive growth rate is by acquiring new and innovative companies. Along the way Google has acquired companies like Keyhole, dMarc, writely, SketchUp, Pyra Labs, Applied Semantics, Urchin, Blogger, Picasa, dodgeball and android just to name a few.
With innovation at the core of Google's competitiveness how does Google foster innovation in house? To solve this critical problem early on, one of Google's founders developed a method for resource allocation rooted in the world of academics and the profession of both founders fathers. Known as "Sergey's Resource Allocation Rule" the 70/20/10 rule finds search (quality, crawl systems, indexing), advertising (AdWords & AdSense) and applications (Google Apps) at the heart of Google's business model as well as where 70 percent of Googler time is spent. After the important stuff gets done, then come projects Google deems as having "Strong Potential" such as Blogger, Google News, Google Pack software and Picasa Google's photo-bloging platform. "Strong potential" projects are given 20 percent time by Googlers. After the most important work and project with "Strong potential" are out of the way Googlers spend the remaining 10 percent of their time on projects of personal interest. Products like Google WiFi, Google Transit and various forms of offline advertising have evolved out of Google personal interest projects. In addition to allocating resources Google keeps ideas fresh in part by sponsoring multiple collegiate competitions designed to target various areas of academia annually.
According to Naveen, Google believes in having a flat management structure. He says it's the key to Google's success. By having a flat management structure, Googlers are free to innovate and share information openly. In fact, Google has created internal systems and process that appear to replace the roll of what some consider traditional management structure. Naveen went on to talk about a few applications Google has created to help foster innovation at Google.
One of Google's processes for internal collaboration is called "Product Snippets". Google Product Snippets are a weekly email sent out on Monday where Googlers are asked to submit their previous weeks projects and activities as well as their forecasted work for the week ahead. All Product Snippets are then compiled into a database and made searchable to other Googlers so everyone knows what is going on at Google. Data collected via Snippets is then published to the "PDB" or Google's project database user interface all in real time making information collected easy for any Googler to access as well as comprehend no matter their area of expertise, language or location.
Google Ideas is another application developed and used internally by Google to "generate, prize & encourage" Googlers to act on new ideas. In "Google Ideas", Googlers can share ideas, keep up to date on new ideas for potential new projects, comment on new ideas and even rate ideas on a scale of 1-5. As you can see, at Google there is a lot of focus on new ideas. New ideas it seems, lead to innovative new solutions according to Naveen.
It's easy to see in these examples that "innovation is a collaborative process" and that "collaboration enables innovation". Another way Google helps collaboration and thus innovation is called "moma". "Moma inside Google" is Google's intranet search engine offering options like Googlers, Rooms, Maps and of course the famous Google "more" option. In addition to these internal Google vertical search options, Googlers can choose between internal secure content and Moma NEXT. Using Moma, Naveen explains how he finds the right expert Googler to collaborate with on an issue impacting his project and explains how Moma makes collaboration easy at Google. In addition, Naveen goes on to demonstrate some of the advanced tools within Moma including definitions, glossary terms, Googler added search results and suggestions all accessible via a drop down in Moma's main GUI. Naveen's screen shot also reveals that Googlers even have access to food, lunch guest, lunch recommendations, tickets, IT support, expense reports, Google HR, gTime (Google Time Cards), performance reviews, vacation requests, the Google employee handbook, benefits at Google, photos and more. Naveen points out that, public applications like, Gmail, Google Talk, Calendar, Docs and more have all been integrated into one seamless streamlined application. Google Moma is an efficient platform for collaboration and therefore innovation at Google.
Naveen's next slide is all red with white text that says "Innovation = Discovery + Collaboration" all over "(+Fun!)". Bottom line, by allowing Googlers creative latitude to solve problems it's easy to see why Googlers enjoy collaborating and why innovation just seems to happen at Google. Please feel free to check out their archived webcast. Again, special thanks to Andy More, K M World, Naveen Viswanatha and Google. Great job guys, gals and Googlers!
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text: Here Adam Scott celebrates his first triumph of the season but can he master another major? [AP]Adam Scott heads into this week's PGA Championship with bitter-sweet memories of his British Open finish last month and a clear-cut aim to "bookend" what has already been a golden season for him in the majors.The Australian made a long-awaited breakthrough in golf's elite championships with a playoff win at the Masters in April, and was in good position to clinch the British Open at Muirfield before letting slip a one-shot lead with seven holes to play.Scott's bid for the coveted Claret Jug unravelled as he recorded four consecutive bogeys from the 13th, a collapse he said was even harder to swallow than his late meltdown in the 2012 British Open at Royal Lytham. And in the space of about 45 minutes, to go from leading to not even having a chance on the 16th tee was more disappointing,probably more so than at Lytham Adam Scott , Masters champion "I was probably more disappointed at the Open this year than last," the world number five told reporters at Oak Hill Country Club on Tuesday while preparing for Thursday's opening round at the season's final major."I worked really hard to get myself in a position with nine holes to go because I got off to a slow start on Sunday. I felt that I had a bit of momentum going my way."And in the space of about 45 minutes, to go from leading to not even having a chance on the 16th tee was more disappointing, probably more so than at Lytham." Scott squandered a four-shot lead with four holes to play in last year's British Open at Lytham, handing the title to South African veteran Ernie Els.The Australian ended in a tie for third in this year's championship at Muirfield, four strokes behind winner Phil Mickelson, but overall Scott concedes he has performed well at the majors this season."It's been a good year," he smiled. "It was really pleasing to play well again at the (British) Open... so I feel like I'm in some kind of form coming into the PGA this week. "I'd really love to get myself in there with a chance to kind of bookend the Masters with a PGA Championship for this year." Nothing fancy Scott was especially pleased he was able to contend at the British Open after expectations had soared in his homeland following his playoff victory over Argentina's Angel Cabrera at the Masters."I thought I was playing good before I won the Masters and really over the last couple of years I built a mind-set that I was good enough to be a major champion and it didn't really matter that I wasn't," he said."Winning (the Masters) obviously was extremely satisfying and confirmed that I can do it. And I've backed it up with some decent play and a good performance in the Open, which is important, because you don't want to win the Masters and expectations go through the roof and you play poorly."You've got to keep pushing and I've been really conscious to do that this year so I can get myself here this week feeling like I have as good a chance to win as anyone and can keep the momentum that I've built the last couple ofyears going."Scott likes the look of Oak Hill's lush East Course, which last staged the PGA Championship in 2003 when he tied for 23rd. "It's presented immaculately," he said. "There's nothing fancy or tricky about it. It's just a good, genuine, fair test. The good shots will be rewarded and the bad shots will be fairly punished, depending on how bad you hit it."But the rough is long and that's the challenge here... to keep it in the short stuff to give yourself a chance to score. There are some severe greens out there where it's important to keep the ball under the hole, on or off the green."Scott will tee off in Thursday's opening round in the company of this season's other major winners - Englishman Justin Rose (U.S. Open) and American Mickelson. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Golf US & Canada Argentina United States


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Likely House infrastructure panel chairman John Mica would tackle alleged wasteful management of federal property.
A House Republican plan to sell off excess federal buildings and emphasize market-based management of the government's real estate assets got a new lease on life with the wave of GOP victories in Tuesday's elections.
The ambitious plan -- it could save the government $250 billion, according to minority members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee -- was laid out in an Oct. 6 report titled, "Sitting on Our Assets: The Federal Government's Misuse of Taxpayer-Owned Assets."
"Congress must become a better steward of the people's money and resources. It's time we stop sitting on our assets," committee Ranking Minority Member John Mica, R-Fla., said in releasing the document. He noted the federal government, as the nation's largest asset holder, manages 896,000 buildings and structures with a total area of 3.29 billion square feet and more than 41 million acres of land.
The report is particularly critical of the General Services Administration, saying the government's landlord owns "large numbers of vacant or underutilized federal buildings" and yet "struggles to dispose of its surplus property in a timely fashion and for reasonable rates of return despite its enhanced property disposal authorities." The report criticizes GSA's real property management for its "apparent inability to maximize market opportunities to house federal employees at the lowest long-term cost to taxpayers."
Beyond GSA, the report cites potential savings by selling off or reconfiguring assets controlled by the Transportation Department, Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Amtrak and the Army Corps of Engineers.
For example, the committee Republicans said, the government would save $2 billion by selling 20 percent of "nonperforming" real estate assets. It would save $1 billion by "reducing or eliminating spending on unneeded courthouses and excessive courthouse space." And it would save as much as $180 billion by "encouraging additional investment in infrastructure from the private sector by providing a better definition of public-private partnerships for undertaking highway, transit, port, rail, airport and other infrastructure projects."
A Mica spokesman on Wednesday confirmed the report is now a high priority and "a source for the initiatives that Mica will put forth if he becomes chairman."
The Obama administration has agreed that the federal government has surplus property. President Obama in a governmentwide memorandum in June said agencies will save taxpayers $3 billion by accelerating disposal of unneeded federal property, ending unnecessary lease agreements and consolidating duplicate assets such as data centers. Agencies are at work identifying even more savings.
Peter R. Orszag, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a June blog post the federal government has 14,000 excess buildings and structures and 55,000 that are under- or unused.
Asked for comment on the GOP plan, Office of Management and Budget spokeswoman Moira Mack told Government Executive in an e-mail: "As part of the president's Accountable Government Initiative, we are taking aggressive steps to save taxpayer dollars while making government work better, harder and more efficiently for the American people and we look forward to continuing to work with Congress on these important issues."
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text: |National Geographic just released a great series of news articles focusing on Moorea (link here), particularly the Biocode Project and the relationship between people and biodiversity. Reporter Tasha Eichenseher spent a great deal of time pursuing these narratives, and when wedded with David Liittschwager's photos, this set of stories helps to convey why we are doing "Biocode". In addition to a story on the inventory itself, there are additional pieces on linking science with tradition, archaeology, another cubic foot by David, and an Infinite Image of Moorea's own cast of critters.


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We can accommodate five visitors, including the registered student, at the selected dining commons if you plan to join us for lunch. All other visitors attending lunch with the registered student will be charged a $10.75 per person cost.
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Review: Hiram Walker Original Cinn
When you hear the words "cinnamon schnapps" I'm guessing your brain goes the same place mine does. Namely, a viscous, fire engine red, sweet liqueur that packs a serious cinnamon punch and burns more than a bit. I would also venture to guess that you'd never combine the words complex and cinnamon schnapps. No, the cinnamon schnapps I'm used to is fiery and single noted. Well, the cinnamon schnapps I was used to, I should say. You see, on Tuesday I received a bottle of Hiram Walker's Original Cinn and that whole mental image changed very much for the better.
As I poured my first glass I noticed that the telltale fire engine red color has been replaced with a warm brown. Next as I took a few tentative sniffs I found the aroma of cinnamon in the nose is subtle and it's accompanied by warm butterscotch and vanilla notes as well. Interesting, very interesting.
My first comment on sipping Original Cinn was simply "Wow!". This is a far more complex cinnamon schnapps than I've ever experienced before. The cinnamon is definitely present, but not overbearing at all, and the butterscotch and vanilla that we found in the aroma come through in the taste as well. In addition, there is much less burn than what you'd expect from it's 90 proof. Also greatly pleasant was the lack of a chemically aftertaste that I've come to expect from some schnapps. Original Cinn truly is a departure from my previous mental image of schnapps and I'm very happy for that.
I think the best testament I can give you for Original Cinn is simply my first sips. You see, I poured myself a couple ounces to taste. Immediately on seeing that I'd poured that much I thought, "Crap, I poured too much. Well, I'll sample it and pour the rest out." But I didn't. I sampled it. I took my tasting notes. Then I went and sat on my couch and slowly sipped the rest, enjoying it greatly. I didn't add anything, no ice, no other spirits, just the liqueur and it was wonderful.
I can definitely see myself repeating that experience as-is many times in the future. Perhaps sitting in front of the fire, watching it snow and reading a good book. Or, despite my dislike of hot drinks, I could even see this going in to a mug of dark chocolate hot cocoa for a nice Mexican chocolate flavor. So, if you have a cinnamon lover in your life or just want something a little different for an after dinner aperitif, keep an eye out for Original Cinn.
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The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Election
I. Overview
Updated November 7, 2008 to reflect updated exit poll results
Hispanics voted for Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden over Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin by a margin of more than two-to-one in the 2008 presidential election, 67% versus 31%, according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of exit polls from Edison Media Research as published by CNN.1 The Center's analysis also finds that 9% of the electorate was Latino, as indicated by the national exit poll. This is higher, by one percentage point, than the share in the 2004 national exit poll.2Nationally, all Latino demographic sub-groups voted for Obama by heavy margins. According to the national exit poll, 64% of Hispanic males and 68% of Hispanic females supported Obama. Latino youth, just as all youth nationwide, supported Obama over McCain by a lopsided margin – 76% versus 19%.Obama carried the Latino vote by sizeable margins in all states with large Latino populations. His biggest breakthrough came in Florida, where he won 57% of the Latino vote in a state where Latinos have historically supported Republican presidential candidates (President Bush carried 56% of the Latino vote in Florida in 2004). Obama's margins were much larger in other states with big Latino populations. He carried 78% of the Latino vote in New Jersey, 76% in Nevada, and 74% in California.
In an election year when voter participation rose across the board, Latinos increased their share of the national vote to 9% from 8% in 2004 according to the national exit poll. In several states, however, Latinos represented a larger share of voters this year than in 2004. The largest increases in the share of voters who are Hispanic occurred in the states of New Mexico (9 percentage points higher), Colorado (5 points higher) and Nevada (5 points higher), all three battleground states in this year's election.
Nationwide, the Latino vote was significantly more Democratic this year than in 2004, when President Bush captured an estimated 40% of the Hispanic vote, a modern high for a Republican presidential candidate.3
But even though McCain's Latino vote fell well below that of President's Bush's in 2004, it was still much higher than the 21% share of the Hispanic vote that Sen. Robert Dole received as the GOP presidential nominee in 1996. McCain's Latino vote this year was similar to the 30% share of the Latino vote that GOP congressional candidates received in 2006.
Meantime, Obama's 67% share of the Latino vote in the 2008 general election represented a major reversal of fortunes for him since the Democratic primaries, when he lost the Latino vote to Sen. Hillary Clinton by a margin of nearly two-to-one (Minushkin and Lopez, 2008). No other major demographic voting group in the country swung so heavily to Obama as Latinos did between the primaries and the general election this year. According to the 2008 National Survey of Latinos, conducted in June and July of this year, 75% of Latino registered voters who said they supported Clinton in the primaries switched their support to Obama (Lopez and Minushkin, 2008).
This report contains an analysis of exit poll results for the Latino vote in 9 states and for the U.S.
About this Report
Exit poll results for this report were obtained from CNN's Election 2008 website and are based on the Edison Media Research's National Election Pool national and state exit poll surveys of voters as reported on November 7, 2008. In addition to an analysis of the national Latino vote, nine states were examined. These states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and Texas.
A Note on Terminology
The terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" are used interchangeably in this report.
The terms "whites," "blacks" and "others" are used to refer to the non-Hispanic components of their population.
Recommended Citation
Mark Hugo Lopez. The Hispanic Vote in 2008. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, November 2008.
- The analysis in this report is limited to nine states with sufficiently large Hispanic samples in state exit polls. These states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and Texas. Voter survey results from the National Exit Poll and State Exit Polls were obtained from CNN's Election 2008 website on Friday, November 7, 2008. ↩
- Utilizing the National Exit Poll to estimate the share of the electorate that is Hispanic generally produces an estimate that is higher than that observed in either aggregated State Exit Polls or from the Census Bureau's November voting supplement of the Current Population Survey. In 2004, according to the National Exit Poll, 8.4% of voters were of Hispanic origin. However, according to the aggregated State Exit Polls, 7.5% were Hispanic, according to the 2004 November CPS, 6% of voters were Hispanic. Estimates of the Hispanic share of the electorate for 2008 from the aggregated State Exit Polls and the 2008 November CPS will not be available until 2009. For more details on the issues associated with using these data sources to estimate the share of the electorate that is Hispanic, see "Hispanics and the 2004 Election: Population, Electorate and Voters" by Roberto Suro, Richard Fry and Jeffrey Passel. ↩
- There is continuing uncertainty over whether President Bush received 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2004, as indicated by exit polls in the 50 states and the District of Columbia conducted on Election Day, or 44%, as indicated by the nationwide National Election Pool exit poll. Reasons for the differing estimates are spelled out in "Hispanics and the 2004 Election: Population, Electorate and Voters," by Roberto Suro, Richard Fry and Jeffrey Passel (2005). ↩


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We rent Canoes ($5.00/hr) as well as Rowboats ($5.00/hr), which can be used on our small lake or can be taken out for a day trip adventure. If Motorboats and Jet skis are more your style, there are many marinas nearby to accommodate your boating pleasure.
If you enjoy golfing we have a Par 3, 9-Hole golf course available right on site. With water and sand traps, our golf course will sure be a hit with the whole family. The holes vary in range from 67 to 142 yards. Golfing is $7.00 for adults and $5.00 for seniors and children.
If bigger more challenging courses are your wish, well you are in luck; we are just 10 minutes away from Mike Weir's Home Golf Course "taboo". There are also 14 other local public golf courses within a 30 minute drive.
If you want to just relax and enjoy a movie at our campground we play free movies on Fridays at 7:30 pm in July and August. We also provide a Movie Rental Service at our store.
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We offer free activities for children aged 5-10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm-4pm. This activity is available in July and August only.
Although we are not open for camping during November 1st to April 30th, we do keep busy: We offer 15kms of groomed and track-set X-country ski trails throughout our 785 acres of wilderness. Available to rent and buy is ski equipment and ski accessories. Snowshoeing is also available with equipment rentals. We are open from 10 am until 5 pm daily.
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In looking back on William H. Cuddeback's life, the Court described him as "wise and impartial in decision," with no shadow of partisanship falling "upon the clear record of his judicial life."1 Although he had been elected to the Court of Appeals in 1912 on the ticket headed by Governor William Sulzer, Judge Cuddeback, shortly after his appointment, nevertheless voted "guilty" on each of three articles of impeachment against the Governor.2
A descendant of Jacques Caudebec, a Huguenot who fled to America from France at the time of the repeal of the Edict of Nantes (in 1685), Cuddeback was born in Cuddebackville,3 Orange County on March 23, 1852, the son of Lewis Cuddeback and Caroline Thompson, daughter of a Presbyterian minister in Rockland County. He became a resident of Goshen when his father was elected Court Clerk in 1867. After graduating from Goshen Academy, Cuddeback entered Cornell University, graduating in 1874. He studied law in the office of Judge Gedney in Goshen, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He practiced in Goshen as a member of the firm Wadsworth, Murray and Cuddeback, and was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1884, Cuddeback successfully represented his father as appellant in a case argued before the Court of Appeals (Cuddeback v. Sherman, 95 NY 661 [1884]).
Relocating to Buffalo in 1885, Cuddeback formed a partnership with Judge Joseph V. Seaver and, later, with Judge Daniel J. Kenefick. He was chairman of the Democratic Committee of Erie County from 1895 to 1897 and Corporation Counsel for the City of Buffalo from 1898-1902. On his watch, negligence damages decided against the City totaled only $7,900. Cuddeback's practical disposition showed itself when, during a dispute over back taxes on land leased for the Pan-American Exposition, he allowed judgment to be taken against the City cancelling the taxes. The effective date of the law providing relief on such taxes was unclear, and the chances of ever collecting the $10,000 owed in taxes were dismal. During his term as Corporation Counsel, Cuddeback drafted what was known as the "Cuddeback charter."4 He was a litigant in a case before the Appellate Division in which he sought, unsuccessfully, to compel the Erie County Clerk to file certain certificates of nomination for ward offices.5
Governor Roswell P. Flower, a Democrat, appointed Cuddeback manager of Craig Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, N.Y. Cuddeback's work was so satisfactory that Governor Levi P. Morton, a Republican, twice reappointed him. Attorney General William S. Jackson designated Cuddeback as special counsel to commence lawsuits against New York City public service corporations for the collection of franchise taxes
In 1912, Cuddeback was elected to the Court of Appeals by the largest plurality ever-up to that time-for a Judge of the Court. While serving, Cuddeback authored a number of noteworthy opinions. In De Carvalho v. Brunner (223 NY 284 [1918]), the Court decided that joint and several liability applied in a situation where a pedestrian was killed by a one-horse truck that was passing a two-horse truck, both of which, witnesses said, were traveling "at about the same rate of speed as an ambulance or fire engine 'responding to an emergency fire call.'" In People v. Frudenberg (209 NY 218 [1913]), the Court upheld a New York City ordinance making it a misdemeanor offense for failing to immediately clean empty milk bottles. Cuddeback's decisions in which constitutional questions were raised were unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Judge Cuddeback left little time for relaxation and recreation, and "he took no rest which was not enforced."6 He was of "frail constitution," and suffered for years from ill-health.7 Even so, his disposition was described as "cheerful and friendly," and those who knew him well "never heard him utter an unkind word nor make a sharp retort."8 The year before his death, Cuddeback suffered a stroke, but without complaint continued with his judicial labor and did not succumb to his poor health until the year's work was completed. During the Court's recess in August 1919, at the age of 67, Judge Cuddeback passed away, during a flu epidemic, while visiting his sister in Goshen. He died on the same date as his father had 30 years earlier.
Judge Cuddeback was a Mason, and the family (collateral descendants) still has his top hat, his Mason's apron, and other memorabilia. Judge Cuddeback's father built the Cuddebackville Reformed Church and the Cuddeback School. Both are on the same parcel behind the house in which the Judge was born. The property is located at the junction of Routes 209 and 211.
His colleagues remembered his opinions well:
"In them direct and simple thought finds plain and calm expression without the use of superfluous words. Free alike from the adornments of rhetoric and the display of research which at times illumine the prosaic pages of judicial decisions, his style indicates the unconvoluted working of his mind. . . . He was not disposed to dogmatize, nor did pride of opinion affect his final judgment."9
Judge William H. Cuddeback never married and had no children.
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication.
Sources Consulted
Chester, Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, American Historical Society of New York and Chicago (1925).
City of Buffalo Records Management Department, Records and Archives.
Cornell University Registrar.
History of the Bench and Bar of Erie County, New York, Buffalo (1909), Genealogical Pub. Co., pp. 217-218.
Goshen Public Library and Historical Society.
http://www.archivaria.com/PanAm/power.html (last visited 3/30/05).
http://www.genealogyimagesofhistory.com (last visited 3/31/05).
http://www.panam1901.bfn.org/thisday/1902newsoctober.htm (last visited 3/30/05).
In Memoriam, 227 NY 675-676 (1919).
Judy Gumaer Testa of Wurtsboro, New York, Gumaer Family Historian/Cuddeback Descendant/Researcher, and Richard Van Duzer Wallace (collateral descendant) of Goshen, New York.
Middletown Times Press obituary, August 19, 1919, and August 20, 1919.
Minisink Valley Historical Society.
19 National Cyclopædia of American Biography 121 (1941).
New York Law Journal obituary, August 19, 1919.
New York Times obituary, August 20, 1919, p. 15.
Orange County Genealogical Society, Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County New York, Chapman Publishing Co. (1895).
Port Jervis Union, August 18, 1919, p. 1.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, New York, New York and Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co., 1895, p. 1421.
William Lewis Cuddeback M.D., Caudebec in America: A Record of the Descendants of Jacques Caudebec, 1700-1920, New York, Tobias A. Wright, 1919.


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Welcome to Winn Ridge - the premier new development offering unbeatable combination of family friendly amenities and affordable high quality homes. Escape the summer heat at the resort style pool, play a match at soccer fields and tennis court, or walk, jog or bike the community trails. Countless shopping, dining and entertainment just a short drive away down Hwy 380, DNT and I-35. You will love to come home to this 2 story, 4 bedroom, 2 and a half bath open floor plan layout! Resort-style pool, soccer fields, open space and a trail system Coming Summer 2019.
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Rotating globes and spheres have become a recurring element in the world of motion graphics, whether we are showing the connectivity of a device, the range of a device or transporting goods across the world. In this tutorial, check out how to create a globe using after effects and a couple effects to add some roundness to your globe and also how to add in some location trackers.
Auto Orientation Character Creation
This is the inspiration for this project.
I was looking around on motion served and came across the project Cinematics, by Pier Paolo. A very unique and simplistic style for iconic movie characters, but what stuck out to me was his flat rotating character with 3D elements. I assumed he the project was created in After Effects so I set out to see if I could break the project down and recreate it.
I needed some expressions for the project, so I jumped over to motion script and everyone dies films to get an expression for orientation for one axis and also some expressions for rigging up a character in After Effects. The character is a bit of a work in progress, but there will be more to come!
iBook Author Orientation
I recently started experimenting and working with iBooks Author, apples free app that allows you to create your own ebooks. In my case, I wanted to lock the ebook in landscape mode, but it would constantly switch to whatever orientation the user was holding their device.
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Text Along Paths and Animation
Type in After Effects has a lot of options even when using masks and paths, not only for static designs but also options for animation. From creating smooth animations to using hold frames and replicating a stop motion effect too.
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There is a big difference between masks and shape layers, each providing their own unique attributes to your projects. Shape Layers have adjustable values and masks don't have any that are visible. However, when making a mask there are keyboard shortcuts to use to adjust variable attributes of your masks.
Extending an Image Sequence in After Effects
Extending an image sequence is something that can be useful when needing to add some time to shots if needed, in this video you can see how to extend image sequences in after effects using time remapping. You can use this technique with render passes from various 3D programs as well.
Keyframing in After Effects
It has been a while, but Reanimated Fallout is back for 2014. In this tutorial we are going to take a quick look at keyframing in After Effects, types of keyframes and look at spatial and temporal interpolation as well.
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In After Effects there are several ways for you to reveal, wipe and animate text, logos and various elements. In this tutorial, I go through some of the ways you animate text and objects on and some of the pros and cons of each way and how they behave if you need to complete revisions.
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Plug ins are part of our everyday tool set. Trapcode has developed a plug in that gives you similar effects as a reflection dome or sky object in 3D programs. In this video we will take a look at this plug in and see how it works and how it can fit into your workflow. You can check out more of Red Giants plug ins at their website redgiant.com
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Coming from a traditional animation background, the appeal of hand drawn animation is something that I will always enjoy watching. There are projects that a stylized hand drawn effect can come in handy on and be fun to work with as well. Watch this to learn how to create hand written type, and some of the effects that can be used when creating hand drawn elements.


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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Queen Complete Studio Album Covers
Like the album contents, the album covers are on occasion magnificent but frustratingly erratic. There are some deviations here that do stray from the bounds of good taste - and yet I should add that 'camp' was an important part of this band as well. It's tough to be sure when the tongue is in the cheek and when it isn't: it's tempting to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that whenever it gets cheesy, it's intentionally so.
Queen: Freddie Mercury, arms aloft, holding a mic stand on a stage somewhere in the universe, under the spotlight: from the very get-go, before even anyone had any idea who they were, how could they have such a fully-developed sense of their own ethos and of how to mythologise themselves? A truly beautiful cover and arresting opening salvo.
Queen II:Odd that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is not on this album, since its cover seems to be a still from that songs' iconic video. Again, then - the mythologising is intact. There's a lot of hair on this cover, and some cheesy paper-and-scissors editing. But it's still impressive.
Sheer Heart Attack:And this... isn't. There's no allure here, nothing to clue you into the fact that they're anything other than a terribly generic hard-rock band.
A Night at the Opera: Here's the great leap forward. The title is from a Marx Brothers movie, but otherwise it's all pomp and circumstance, like they just realised that their band name implies regal underpinnings. So a kind of a coat-of-arms. This is one of those albums that you ponder every time you see it in a second-hand bin. It just forces you to.
A Day at the Races:An obvious sequel - not designed as a two-part 'Use Your Illusion'-style project as I had always assumed, this is merely the follow-up: black to the original's white, even though this is 'day' to its 'night'. Diminished returns, though, which describes the music as well.
News of the World:A big sci-fi move - taken from some sci-fi book or something. A huge robot appears to have speared some people with its finger. It has little to do with the band whose music is inside it, but it's still an intriguing image.
Jazz: Something a bit weirder. Queen are starting to lose the plot a bit, I think - musically as well as visually. This is a geometric Spirograph cover-o-nothing, with the band's name five times and a little bicycle rider 18 times. Yes, I counted.
The Game: The four of them, all badass, tough as leather. In front of a drum riser. They're just as rock as you can get, aren't they? Funny they're about to abandon that genre.
Flash Gordon: This soundtrack cover is very yellow. And that's all I can say about it.
Hot Space:Queen go disco, with a decent cover that evokes the era perfectly. Blur ripped it off. But no-one in Blur had an awesome moustache.
The Works:Embarrassed by their disco deviation, Queen go back to being four regular blokes, sitting on the ground in front of their shadows looking very everyman. Aren't they about to dress in drag for their video?
A Kind of Magic:Pretty horrid, though at least you can make no mistake about what decade this album was released in. Blue superhero cartoon characters? Well, why not?
The Miracle: This rather ugly beast is much maligned. But what is really is is a decent idea that didn't quite come off, presenting the four of them as a single crazy-mutated beast. But the eyes disturb, as for some reason does Brian May's shoulder.
Innuendo: A jester juggles the universe while standing in a pile of earths. It's an interesting enough cover, but it's not clear what, if anything, it has to do with Queen. This was the last Queen album released during Freddie Mercury's life.
Made in Heaven: I didn't like this cover until I saw that it wasn't Mercury himself but a statue of him, in Switzerland. The conceit is pretty tacky as it's misty-eyed, but for some reason I bite my tongue and allow myself to be impressed by it. This posthumous album features Mercury's ghost; so, then, does its cover.
This is not really all there is: there have been any number of compilations since then (including the one that puts Queen hits in alphabetical order) and an unfortunately large number of releases featuring the three living ones that use the name Queen. But that's all just packaging. In reality, when Freddie Mercury died, so did Queen.
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Jazz design was taken from something Roger Taylor had seen on the Berlin Wall. Most of their covers are also 'art deco'.ReplyDelete
News of the world cover was done by Frank Kelly Freas. The idea behind the cover is quite interesting actually. The robot on the cover is a child not an adult. He's holding the band dead in his hand and doesn't realize what he has done. It's like he's looking at you (the adult) and saying:"Please, fix it".ReplyDeleteReplies
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North Carolina has billions of dollars in transportation needs, but not nearly enough money to pay for them all. Last week, Gov. Pat McCrory rolled out a plan that he says will do more with the same amount of money. His �Strategic Mobility� plan deserves a chance, but the public also needs to eye it with skepticism.
North Carolina has billions of dollars in transportation needs, but not nearly enough money to pay for them all. Last week, Gov. Pat McCrory rolled out a plan that he says will do more with the same amount of money. His �Strategic Mobility� plan deserves a chance, but the public also needs to eye it with skepticism.
According to McCrory and his transportation secretary, Tony Tata, the state can do more projects by changing the formula for distributing transportation money among the 14 divisions statewide. Currently, money is allocated equally, with local officials determining priorities for projects.
The new formula would take much of that decision-making away from the locals, and all projects deemed to be of statewide importance would be selected based solely on a set of data that includes the potential for economic development and job creation, as well as population. Regional and local projects would get more local input, but the state Department of Transportation would maintain significant control.
Doing it this way, the DOT says, could mean completing 260 projects over the next 10 years as opposed to 175 under the current plan, creating more jobs in the process. The down side is that some divisions will get more money than others because their projects are deemed more important.
The impact of doing it that way won�t be clear until it�s been tried, but if the state can do more with the same pot of money, the program deserves a fair chance to succeed.
However, neither the governor nor the General Assembly should be content to make do with what the gas tax and other sources of revenue are expected to bring in over the next decade. The DOT has projected that those revenues will actually begin to decline, which means less money for transportation in a state that is expected to add 1.3 million people over the next 10 years.
As of 2012, officials had identified $50 billion in transportation needs through 2024, but only about $12 billion in projected revenue. That�s a huge gap, and it won�t be filled merely by shuffling money around.
The governor is right that transportation is key to economic development and bringing more jobs to North Carolina. We cannot expect companies to set up shop in a state where roads are congested and not properly maintained. And that�s why he and the Honorables need to develop new ways to raise money for transportation.
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Guest column in the 11/1/05 Tomahawk Leader:
By E. Richard Simon
Lincoln County Board Chair
Supervisor District 21
The Lincoln County Board recently put an end to a long-standing dispute by paying a lump-sum settlement to the former Social Services Director, but not because it sought to hide something. In fact, the settlement was far less expensive than putting taxpayers and employees through an endless **** and cost of hearings – an ultimate cost that would likely be three times the dollars paid in the settlement.
The issue of voting and rescinding votes in the Social Service Committee is correct; however, the committee secretary and board vice-chair, Jim Alber (who was the lone dissenting vote on the committee) astutely filed his handwritten minutes with the County Clerk immediately after the meeting in question, so as not to jeopardize the county's interests while the matter was pursued with the attorney general and until the minutes finally were corrected.
While the majority of the Social Services Committee supported the former director in the due process matter, most board supervisors only wanted a fair, legal hearing and a finding on the matter. That is where we ran into state bureaucracy. There was nothing hidden or secretive, unless you are talking about state government, of course.
Hidden in the Wisconsin Statutes and supported by the opinion of former Attorney General Jim Doyle, was a contrived legislative/legal process that gives full power to a small social services committee of the board, or in some cases, to a volunteer citizen's board – and takes away the rights of the Board of Supervisors and the citizens of the county, when it comes to Social Services directors' appointment and approval.
Even county legal advisors disagree about the law and the process. Apparently, Madison believed that an elected board of supervisors would not protect the interests of social needs within the state, particularly in small population counties, so it effectively blocked Lincoln County's right to adjudicate such matters by giving power to a small committee, instead. Of course, that practice doesn't apply in large communities, like Dane or Milwaukee county.
Guest column in the 11/1/05 Tomahawk Leader
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