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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Masaccio
Italian painter, born about 1402, at San Giovanni di Valdarno, a stronghold situated between Arezzo and Florence; died, probably at Rome, in 1429. His correct name was Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Simone dei Guidi, which may be translated "Thomas, son of Sir John, grandson of Simon, of the Guidi clan." His family had given many magistrates to the Republic of Florence in earlier days, but when Thomas was born prosperity had forsaken them: his father was a poor notary in a small community. His familiar name of Masaccio is an augmented form of Maso (short for Tommaso) and means "Big Tom", with a shade of depreciation. By this name, if we are to believe Vasari, his Florentine contemporaries indicated after their fashion the oddities of his character-"He was absent-minded, whimsical, as one who, having fastened his whole mind and will upon the things of art, paid little attention to himself and still less to other people."
Masaccio's master was Tommaso di Cristofano di Fino, known as Masolino da Panicale, Masolino meaning "Little Tom" (see MASOLINO). Masaccio was very precocious: we find him at the age of nineteen already enrolled among the Speziali (Grocers, or Spicers), one of the "arts", or guilds. The Speziali included painters among its members. After a few essays which earned him some degree of reputation, he was commissioned to continue the decoration of the Brancacci chapel at Florence, which his master, Masolino, had begun. This was, according to some authorities, in 1424; according to others in 1426; so that he cannot have been more than twenty-four years old. The work did not make him rich. Absorbed in the things that pertain to art, he know nothing about sublunary business matters. The state register of property for the year 1427 shows that Masaccio "possesses nothing of his own, owes one hundred and two lire to one painter, and six florins to another; that nearly all his clothing is in pawn at the Lion and the Cow loan-offices". Suddenly he left Florence, and there is evidence of his presence at Rome in 1428. The cause of this precipitate departure is unknown; in any case, the unhappy man did not succeed in bettering his material condition, for he died of grief and want in 1429 or later.
Many of Masaccio's works are lost. In the Spada chapel, in the Church of Santa Maria Novella at Florence, he painted a "Trinity" between the Virgin and St. John, with kneeling portraits of the two donors at the sides. This grandiose work is, unfortunately, much damaged. In the Academy of Florence is to be seen a "St. Anne with Madonna and Infant Jesus". A.F. Rio discovered in the Naples Museum a small Masaccio which Vasari had heard Michelangelo praise very highly, but of which all trace had been lost. "Here we have Pope Liberius, represented under the lineaments of Martin V, outlining on the snow-covered ground the foundations of the Basilica of Sta. Maria Maggiore, in the midst of an imposing cortège of cardinals and other personages, all painted from life" (Rio, "L'Art chrétien", II, Paris, 1861, p. 13). This picture is known as "The Founding of St. Mary of the Snows at Rome". Some portraits in the Uffizi-notably one of a frail, melancholy youth-which were for a long time attributed to Masaccio, have now, and correctly, been assigned to Filippino Lippi and other later masters. But Masaccio's chief work is the pictorial decoration of the Brancacci chapel, in the south transept of the Church of Sta. Maria del Carmine. In this work, begun by Masolino and finished by Filippino Lippi, the intermediate portion is Masaccio's-"Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise", "Christ ordering St. Peter to pay the Tribute", "St. Peter and St. John healing the Sick", "St. Peter giving Alms", "St. Peter Baptizing", "St. Peter restoring a King's Son to Life". This last fresco was finished by Filippino. While Masaccio worked at the paintings in the Brancacci chapel, the church of which it was a part was consecrated: he "represents this ceremony in chiaroscuro over the door leading from the church to the cloister" (Vasari) and introduces a great many portraits of important persons in the group of citizens who follow the procession. Here, too, he has painted the convent porter, with his bunch of keys. This famous "Procession" perished when the church was reconstructed in 1612, but the old porter has survived, a marvellously executed portrait still to be seen in the Uffizi. It seems that the fashion of painting likenesses of contemporaries was set by Masaccio. He has not forgotten to give his own portrait a good place, in the fresco where St. Peter is paying the tribute.
Moderately esteemed in his own time, Masaccio was accorded enthusiastic admiration only after his death; but-as is only rarely the case-the enthusiasm has not cooled in the duration of five centuries: it has even degenerated into excessive adulation. Masaccio is preached as a "Messias without a Precursor", an "autodidact", a self-teacher, without an ancestor in the past. His insight into nature, his scientific perspective and foreshortening have been loudly acclaimed, and with reason. But Giotto and his faithful disciples, before Masaccio, had given Florentine painting the impulse towards an intelligent representation of nature which necessarily produced great results. His admirers justly vaunt the noble gravity of his figures, the suppleness and simplicity of his draperies, the harmony of his compositions, and his grasp of light and shadow; but the germs of these precious qualities had already existed in the frescoes of Masolino, his master and initiator, and Florentine artists before him had wrought with the double ambition of expressing the real and the ideal-the visible element and the invisible. Between these two opposite aims they were more or less distracted; the difficult thing-and the vital-is to so associate the two that in subordinating the accessory to the principal-the expressive form to the substance it expresses-the union may result in a puissant and well-ordered work of art. It is Masaccio's glory to have succeeded in doing this almost superlatively well; this explains his lasting fame and his unfailing influence. All through the fifteenth century and after it, the Brancacci chapel was the chosen rendezvous of artists: as Ingres said, "It should be regarded and venerated as the paternal mansion of the great schools."
VASARI, Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori, ed. MILANESI, II (Florence, 1878), 287-325; BALDINUCCI, Opere, I (Milan, 1808-12), I, 460 sqq., CROWE AND CAVALCASELLE, A New History of Painting in Italy, I (London, 1864), XXV, 519-50; BLANC, Histoire des peintres des toutes les Ecoles ; Ecole Florentine (Paris, 1865-1877; THAUSING, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst herausgegeben von Dr. Karl von Lutzoro, XI, 225; XII, 175 sqq.; LAYARD, The Brancaccio Chapel (Arundel Society, 1868; DELABORDE, Des Oeuvres et de la manière de de Masaccio in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1876); LÜBKE, Geschichte der italienischen Malerei, I (Stuttgart, 1878), 285 sqq.; MÜNTZ, Histoire de l'art pendant la Renaissance, I, Bk. V, ii, 603-19; SCHMARZOW, Masaccio-Studien (Cassel, 1895-1900); Masaccio. Ricordo delle onoranze rese in San Giovanni di Valdarno in occasione del V centenario della sua nascità (Florence, 1904); JODOCO DELLA BADIA, Masaccio e Giovanni suo fratello in Rassegna Nazionale (Nov., 1904), 143-46; SORTAIS, Etudes philosophiques et sociales: L'esthétique de Masaccio, VIII (Paris, 1907), 371-409; VENTURI, Storia dell' Arte italiana; La pittura del Quattrocento, VII, (Milan, 1910).


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We all know the cliché regarding the robot apocalypse – we've even taken a few stabs at it on the Engineering Newswire. As we broach the crest of technology that operates upon the barrier between autonomous and thinking, it is easy to see the inevitability of crossing over. Immersing ourselves in a world not far off from Futurama, where robots have personalities and rights (sort of). But let's back up, we have far more mountains to climb before we arrive at cybernetics suffrage – I'm trade marking that term, remember, you saw it here first.
Let's start with the present. Recently, there was a drone spotted perusing the skies around New York. As with any incident like this, the media was all over it, but most assumptions have concluded that the aircraft was a modded-out model that happened to fly too high (1,500 feet). Supposing these assumptions are accurate – which after a lengthy FAA investigation, I'm sure they will be – this is just another reminder at how readily available emerging technology is, even when the powers that be try to contain it (this is an arguable point I won't tackle here).
The idea of a civilian-controlled drone is a little unnerving, but looking at drones as a whole, it was inevitable. The tech that our (and various other) governments have their hands on is far more rattling. An article in Time last month said, "In a way, drones represent the much delayed coming of age of a field that has experienced a prolonged adolescence, namely robotics," but, "like Darwin's finches, they're evolving furiously to fill more and more operational niches and creating new ones as they go." This is to say, like so many things in popular culture, until the public takes significant notice, the industry sits in a slow churning of progress – cough3Dprinterscough.
While the idea of drones patrolling our streets is creepy and morally complex issue, the eerily real feeling that I get when I read comments like, "They're machines with ghosts in them, and the ghost is saying, 'I can see you, but you can't see me'" inevitably leads me to an end-of-days Terminator cliché.
Slate recently ran an article from Future Tense that brought a new twist to my thoughts on this topic. Will computers be able to, one day, make scientific discoveries we can't understand?
As quantum technologies become more a feasibly possible, they have potential to quickly solve problems before we know questions. This disconnect from the origin of inquisition is already occurring in mainstream society. As the push for STEM education progresses and companies continue to complain about an under-qualified employment pool, it isn't far off to assume that we will have computers solving most of our questions with complex algorithms and grinding hard drives, while we concern our complex thoughts with the latest version of Angry Birds or Words with Friends.
The Slate article quotes mathematician Steven Strogatz's argument, saying, "these [computer programs like Eureqa] could be harbingers of an 'end of insight.' We had a wonderful several-hundred-year run of explanatory insight, beginning with the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, but maybe that period is drawing to a close." Engineers are sure to stretch out the human reign for some time, but there are areas where laziness or the need for efficiency has edged some critical thinking out of the realm of design, as it has in many other facets of our society.
So, will computers make discoveries and progress the discovery of our world and beyond without our assistance? I certainly hope not, but it is an ominous possibility. As we progress as a species, the quest for insight and further inquisition must remain steadfast if we are to outthink our mechanical counterparts. Judgment Day might look less like a robot apocalypse and more like a collective brain-drain, but, either way; it is always a sobering potentiality. If we allow ourselves to slip into a comfortable satisfaction with our intellect, we'll quickly find ourselves in a Socratic trap; "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
What's your take on the future of technology? Is there an impending robotic doomsday looming just over the horizon or will technology always bow to our will? Email [email protected] or comment below.

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The big Obamacare news on Tuesday involved a pretty big number: 9.3 million. According to the Rand Corporation, that's how many more Americans have health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe.
Like similar studies from Gallup and the Urban Institute, Rand's has a high margin of error and depends heavily on people responding to questions accurately. That doesn't always happen. In addition, the Rand survey suggests that the number of people with employer-sponsored insurance grew by 8 million. That would be a lot higher than what the experts had predicted. And that makes me wonder whether the estimate is right.
None of this is a knock on Rand (which, in its writeup, was quite candid about the study's limitations). It's just a reminder that you shouldn't take the specific figure too seriously. It tells you the number of Americans without insurance is declining. It doesn't reliably tell you by how much.
But it was another finding in the study that caught my attention:
Less than one million [people] who previously had individual market insurance transitioned to being uninsured. While we cannot tell if these people lost their insurance due to cancellation or because they simply felt the cost was too high, the overall number represents less than one percent of people between the ages of 18 and 64.
Republicans and their supporters frequently say that 5 million people "lost" health insurance, because the old policies didn't comply with Obamacare's standards and/or insurers cancelled them pre-emptively. Sometimes Republicans and their supporters imply that these people actually ended up uninsured. But if Rand is right—and, again, there's no way to be sure right now—then it would appear most people who lost their old plans were able to get new ones instead. That's consistent with anecdotal reports from insurers.
To be clear, that doesn't mean people who lost their old insurance policies are happy about the change—or that they don't have a legitimate beef with the president, who famously promised that Americans could "keep their plans." Some of these people are now paying more for their coverage. Some have fewer choices for doctors and hospitals.
But plenty of people who lost coverage were able to replace it with plans that were cheaper, more comprehensive, or both. In short, not all the 4.8 million people who lost their old coverage are worse off. It's not even clear that a majority of them are. That's one more reason the case against Obamacare may be even weaker than you've heard.


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Dale Knuth, now 58, says that in childhood her weight was a source of anguish — largely because of how her family treated her. "I had a brother who tormented me constantly," she says. "If I came home from school and was hungry and ate an apple, I'd be called a cow, or a pig or whatever."
Her parents, she says, did nothing to stop her brother "except to say, 'Yeah, you're getting fat.' " She had no physical outlet for her frustration — she wanted to play softball, but her mother wouldn't allow it.
Decades later, Knuth is much happier. She has an active life that includes riding bikes and playing racquetball. Her husband tells her he loves her at any size and always will. But she still thinks about how her life could have turned out without so much shaming in childhood.
"Had it not been pointed out at every meal, at every point, had I been given more support to play in sports," she says, perhaps she could have formed healthier habits and a more positive relationship with her body.
According to Marlene Schwartz, a psychologist and the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a child's immediate family can be a common source of fat shaming, or commenting negatively on the child's weight.
"I think sometimes parents misguidedly think that if they tease the child, that it will motivate them to try harder to lose weight," she says. "But there's virtually no evidence that that works. And in fact, there's evidence that it causes harm."
For instance, studies have shown that children subjected to weight-based teasing gain more weight than other children. And even less overtly cruel tactics, like advising your child to lose weight or encouraging your child to go on a diet, can often backfire, causing lasting physical and psychological harm. A 2016 report by the American Academy of Pediatrics warned parents and doctors against prescribing or discussing weight loss to kids and teens, because such behavior could increase their risk of weight gain and disordered eating.
Still, parents can help kids with overweight or obesity eat more healthfully, stay active and maintain positive attitudes about their bodies. Here's advice about the best ways to communicate with children about weight and support their health.
Don't tease — and try to put a stop to others' teasing.
It's worth reiterating: Never, ever make fun of your child for their weight.
And parents can go further than that, Schwartz says, by watching what relatives say to their kids. "I think it's perfectly appropriate if a parent feels like someone in the family is likely to say something upsetting, talk to them ahead of time. Say, 'Look, we know our child is overweight. We're working on developing healthy habits. Please don't say anything to him or her about their weight.' "
And if someone does say something, intervene, she suggests. Shift the focus; talk about your kid's role in an upcoming play, for example, or ask the relative a question about themselves. "You want the child to feel safe around their own family," she says.
Promote positive self-image, instead of focusing on weight.
Even practical comments focused on your child's weight can backfire, Schwartz says: "Even 'gentle prodding' about weight isn't a good idea, in my opinion." Research backs this up: In one 2017 study in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders,researchers found that women who remembered their parents commenting about their weight in childhood reported greater dissatisfaction with their bodies well into adulthood — regardless of their actual body mass index.
Instead, help your child feel comfortable in their body, no matter the size. For example: "If you're going clothes shopping with your child, don't make comments [like], 'That makes you look slimmer' or 'That is too tight,' " she says. "Focus on finding clothes that the child feels comfortable with, and be generous with your praise when your child finds an outfit."
Don't put your child on a diet.
Is it OK to put your child on a diet? The recent introduction of , a weight-loss app for children as young as 8 by WW (formerly Weight Watchers), has raised this question among parents and health care professionals.
Denise Wilfley, director of the Center for Healthy Weight and Wellness at Washington University in St. Louis, doesn't recommend Kurbo, writing in an email that "it is not an evidence-based program." In fact, she doesn't recommend diets for kids at all; instead she suggests evidence-based programs that focus on "modifying the entire family environment to support the child."
Schwartz adds that the concept of a diet for kids tends to be counterproductive because it emphasizes a short-term period of deprivation. "The term 'putting a kid on a diet' is problematic, because it implies you are doing something different for a specific period of time, and when you are done the child will go back to his/her regular way of eating," she said via email. "That is not the point."
Instead, choose, as a family, to eat healthfully year-round.
The solution, Wilfley says, is to make your entire household a healthy environment "where the child is exposed to high-quality nutrition and prompts for physical activity."
"It's OK to have sugar-sweetened beverages and snack foods in the home, but that should be a small proportion compared to fruits, vegetables, lean meats," she says. But the whole family has to do it — don't single out one child. She says she has seen cases in which parents will have one lean child whom they allow to have fried foods and sugary drinks and one child with obesity, whom they put on a strict diet — "an all health-oriented plan, lots of fruits and vegetables and water, low-fat milk."
"We recommend strongly against this approach," she says. "You can't have Dad coming in with a burger and fries and expect the child to not feel deprived," she says. "It's that deprivation that fuels binge eating."
Focus on behaviors, not body size.
You may need to check your own biases, says Wilfley. "Most parents have internalized a culture's view and negative attitudes about shape and weight. Either they themselves have been ashamed of their bodies or they're worried about [their kids] getting stigmatized," she says. But reflecting back these negative attitudes will only harm your kid's self-image and may even promote weight gain. Instead, she says, you need to help your child understand that "having [a] wider range of body types is OK."
"Shape and weight is largely under genetic control. There's a lot of genetic variation," Wilfley says. "So, some kids will [naturally] be leaner than other kids."
And once you've shifted focus away from your child's size, reward your child for healthy behavior. Praise your child for playing soccer or for having a nutritious breakfast. Overall, "focus on creating the healthiest environment for the entire family," Schwartz says.
Many kids with overweight or obesity are interested in getting active and eating healthy. It's up to you to help them.
Model healthy behavior of your own.
If you're a parent, you know your kids often do what they see you do. Wilfley often works with entire families to develop healthy eating and exercise habits.
"A parent might eat only one meal a day and model that for their child," Wilfley says. "We know, optimally, kids eat three meals a day with one to two planned snacks." Wilfley advocates that parents establish their own regular eating, sleeping and exercise routines so their child can follow suit.
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Using the Partition platform, researchers discovered investments that would potentially offer the greatest ROI and lowest risk.
Equipping business students with competencies valued by today's organizations
JMP® statistical software helps the University of Connecticut School of Business prepare its students for a business world where a fundamental knowledge of analytics is essential
Challenge | To send graduates into the workplace with the analytic skills and experience that businesses seek in their new hires. |
Solution | The University of Connecticut deploys JMP software and a full suite of SAS® tools in the School of Business GE-sponsored edgelab and in a variety of classes leading to an advanced business certificate in business analytics. JMP will be used extensively in a new Master of Science program in business analytics and project management. |
Results | Students in the School of Business understand the importance of business analytics, use the same tools businesses employ to examine critical data and create immediate value for the businesses who hire them. |
The University of Connecticut School of Business considers a fundamental understanding of business analytics to be critical to success for young professionals entering today's business world.
Businesses today are gathering massive amounts of digital data from customers, business processes and other internal sources, and recognize a compelling need for the skills required to manage and mine that data for actionable business intelligence – a key to business productivity and growth.
Ram Gopal is among those who are preparing business students for this new imperative. Gopal is the GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business and Department Head of Operations and Information Management in the University of Connecticut School of Business, where he specializes in business analytics.
"We've been offering both undergraduate and graduate analytics classes for a number of years," Gopal says. "We used to do fairly straightforward projects like Web site analysis and studies of IT investments and infrastructure.
"But over time, business needs have changed. We realized a few years ago that a lot of business issues are really buried deep in the data, and by harnessing that data we can come up with really innovative solutions to business problems. In addition, with the emergence of e-business and e-supply chains, today's business world has moved into a data rich environment. The goal is to transform data into actionable business intelligence."
Gopal says that through its association with GE, the school has been receiving increasingly more requests for analytics assistance from different GE businesses.
"At the same time," says Gopal, "there's been more and more interest from recruiters who hire our students in having these students graduate with a broad range of business analytics skills. We invite very high-level folks – CIOs, senior VPs, IT directors – to talk to our students about careers in information technology and the skills they need to succeed in those careers.
"We've observed that business analytics is always at the top of the list of skills they want from new hires."
Attacking real-world challenges
In response, the university's School of Business, which takes seriously its mission to deliver a pipeline of talented and energized professionals, developed a structured set of business analytics offerings.
One place they started was at the GE UConn edgelab, first-rate research facilities where UConn business students collaborate with faculty and GE managers to generate team-based, innovative solutions to some of the complex business challenges GE faces. Edgelab strives to "challenge assumptions and infuse fresh ideas."
"The business analytics component really gained a lot of traction in our edgelab," Gopal says. "And then what really helped was our partnership with SAS. Most of the projects in edgelab are executed using SAS tools, now including JMP."
Among projects conducted at edgelab in 2009 were:
- Stroke monitoring. JMP was used to run analyses on results from a concept test survey of neurologists and ICU and emergency room directors.
- Small-form factor x-ray. JMP was used to determine attribute preferences and price sensitivities from a survey of radiologists.
- Backhaul brokering. SAS was used to identify and match shipping lanes from trailer sensor data.
- Risk-based collections. JMP was used to run principal components analysis to determine historical and forecasted macro factors influencing account delinquencies.
- Turbine data insights. SAS was used extensively to run statistical analysis on turbine sensor data.
- Contract risk-adjusted pricing. JMP was used in cluster analysis, and SAS for principal components analysis, of macro-economic variables to forecast shop visits for GE Aviation engines.
Sophisticated tools make the grade
Gopal says that while many business students understand the value of data and the importance of business analytics, they have difficulties in its actual execution.
"Students used to struggle with things like regressions and decision trees because there were no really good, accessible tools available," Gopal says. "They were required to have a fairly sophisticated knowledge of programming – and that's what turned off the students.
"JMP has changed that dramatically. I think JMP is a tool that's really amenable to business students – and I saw that right off the bat."
Gopal has begun to make more extensive use of JMP in his own research. One such project is online peer-to-peer lending.
"Peer-to-peer lending allows people to get loans that they wouldn't typically get from standard financial institutions," Gopal says, "and it's an opportunity to potentially improve your credit rating. But what isn't yet understood very well is the extent of the risks."
In this research, Gopal and his colleagues took the perspective of a lender and examined what types of investments might best suit the peer-to-peer marketplace.
Using JMP, they performed a decision-tree analysis and then backed it up with statistical analysis.
"We uncovered several very interesting phenomena. The metric that traditional lending institutions rely on most is credit rating. If you have an A+, you're considered a very safe investment. But we found this isn't necessarily true in this marketplace."
In fact, what they learned after digging deeper into the data was that the most profitable investments frequently are ones in which the credit rating of the borrower is low. For those, the returns more than make up for the risks.
"What this tells us is that credit rating alone isn't a good metric in understanding good investment options," Gopal says.
"I found JMP's decision trees to be very sophisticated. They worked fabulously and the students really understood what was happening.
"I know some of my colleagues have in the past tried to do this type of analysis, and they had to do an extensive amount of coding. JMP means we don't have to do that anymore.
"I'm amazed at the level of sophistication of different techniques that can be executed with JMP. I think it's superb."
New initiatives
The School of Business now uses JMP and SAS in most courses that involve statistics and business intelligence. Courses making extensive use of the tools include Predictive Modeling (which examines, among other things, clustering analysis, decision trees, Bayesian classification, linear regressions and mining patterns); Data Mining and Business Intelligence; and a PhD course in advanced research methods and data analytics.
"We also have two new initiatives that will significantly enhance the use of JMP and SAS in our curriculum at the graduate level," Gopal says.
The first is an advanced business certificate in business analytics. The program was created for business managers and information professionals who are interested in the role of business analytics in organizations and how data analytics can be applied to help make better business decisions. This certificate program comprises four courses, all of which will use JMP and SAS extensively.
The second is a new Master of Science degree in business analytics and project management. The program will provide an integrated curriculum that blends theory with contemporary practice and a global perspective, using evolving technologies.
"My personal feeling is that JMP is a great jumping-off point for business students to get introduced to the world of business analytics. The tight integration between JMP and SAS will enable students to delve deeper and explore opportunities in text mining and other useful aspects of SAS.
"Another promising area with JMP is in visualization. I think for business students that's a must-have, and I'm really looking forward to incorporating more business visualization with JMP into my courses."
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Another area of expertise for Gopal is the economics of digital music.
"The fundamental issue with digital goods is that after the product is created, there's almost zero cost to reproduce it," Gopal says, "which is different from almost any other type of product. This creates a potential piracy problem.
"One of the challenges in studying piracy issues is that it's very hard to observe what's going on – the illegal activity isn't easily observable – and that creates a whole set of challenges in terms of the right legal and business actions to take."
Gopal and his colleagues began working with a music-exchange site called Kazaa. For three years, they monitored 2,000 users on an hourly basis to determine, among other things, when they were online, how often they shared music and what genres they shared.
"While we were collecting the data," says Gopal, "the Recording Association of America, the legal arm of the music industry, filed a few lawsuits. This gave us a great opportunity to analyze very detailed data about user behaviors and how those behaviors were affected by the threat of lawsuits."
Gopal and his colleagues published a number of research papers on their findings.
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Olivia Rodrigo is fresh off the release of her highly-anticipated sophomore album GUTS and her catchy tales of heartbreak have attracted people of all ages. In a recent interview with People, the 20-year-old Grammy winner reacted to people who are much older than her being fans of her music.
"I actually think that I'm really excited by the way that people are getting behind artists that normally would be deemed for young people," Rodrigo told the outlet. "I love interacting with fans who are my age and people who are going through the struggles that I'm going through in real time, but it's been really fun also to experience those girls' dads be like, 'Wow, I remember when I was going through that heartbreak.'"
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NAME OF APPLICANT: ESP Tunica Opportunities, 550 Reserve St., Southlake, TX 76092, Attn: Charles Klinge.
LOCATION OF WORK: Located in West Feliciana Parish approximately 4 miles north of St. Francisville, Louisiana, (East Tract lat. 30.767109, long. -91.428172; West Tract lat. 30.763282, long. -91.451327), as shown within the attached drawings. (Hydrologic Unit Code 08070201, Mississippi River Basin)
CHARACTER OF WORK: Expand the existing Tunica-Swamp Silos Mitigation Area (TSSMA) via incorporation of approximately 601.4 acres of existing forested areas to the conservation servitude. Approximately 507.9 acres consist primarily of bottomland hardwood, swamp, and batture habitats; the remaining 93.5 acres include artificial berms/spoil banks and open water areas. The TSSMA consists of two (2) disjoint tracts identified as the "East" and "West" tracts. The East tract currently totals 570.8 acres and would be expanded via the addition of 306.9 acres surrounding the tract to total 877.7 acres. The West tract currently totals 801.4 acres and would be expanded via the addition of 294.5 acres to total 1095.9 acres. In total, approximately 507.9 acres of existing forested lands of the total 601.4-acre expansion would be preserved.


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Detroit's professional football and baseball teams, the Lions and the Tigers, are looking to roar into the city's downtown area in the new millennium. The teams' proposed adjacent stadiums will be located near Tigers owner Mike Ilitch's Fox Theatre. Some officials and observers are already touting the economic benefits that the new development will bring to the troubled city, but when Michigan taxpayers are tapped to pay the bills, others say that government is not playing fair.
The new stadium proposal estimates that a total of $505 million will be needed to build the two stadiums and provide parking and other support structures such as practice and food preparation facilities. The state has offered to kick in $55 million for land and infrastructure costs using money from the state "renaissance fund." The renaissance fund consists of money raised from Indian-operated casinos. This allows government officials to circumvent traditional appropriations processes by moving millions of dollars through a nine-member board instead of the full legislature.
Wayne County, for its part, will pony up "surplus" land and institute new taxes on hotel stays and car rentals to pay its contribution of $100 million. Tiger Stadium will become "Comerica Park" thanks to a $66 million deal with Comerica Bank, and Detroit's Downtown Development Authority will pick up an additional $85 million of the tab. That leaves only $215 million for the teams themselves to pay for their new private, profit-making homes.
Contrast the Tigers' new home with the San Francisco Giant's new field of dreams. The Giants are moving into "Pacific Bell Park" the same month that the Tigers begin play in Comerica Park. The difference? Pacific Bell Park is the first 100% privately financed baseball-only stadium since the opening of Dodger Stadium in 1962. It seats 42,000, sits on 13 acres, has 63 luxury suites, 74 rest rooms, retail outlets, and its own center-field brew pub. The most interesting fact about this new stadium is that attempts to fund it with public money via voter referendum were quashed in each of four tries. With their hands tied by voters, the Giants organization looked for and found the $295 million in private investments that is necessary for construction of Pacific Bell Park. Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, constructed for the Washington Redskins in Maryland in 1997 was also funded privately and was dubbed "Stadium Deal of the Year" by Project Finance magazine.
There are other examples of successful, private sports stadiums. Why has Michigan chosen the political route of building them?
Politicians and special interests often sell the idea of taxpayer funding for stadiums to the public by trumpeting economic benefits such as new jobs and greater prestige for the city. When the Lions and Tigers stadium deal was struck, one newspaper headline headline joyfully proclaimed a "Detroit comeback." William Clay Ford, Jr., the Lions' vice chairman, said that being "an integral part of Detroit's renaissance is an absolute honor of the highest degree."
But new government-subsidized stadiums are hardly a sound foundation for rebuilding a city buried under excessive regulation and taxestaxes that are six times higher than the average tax burden in other Michigan cities, according to a 1993 Mackinac Center for Public Policy study.
Other studies have shown that sports stadiums do little or nothing to boost a region's economic growth. One such study showed that, of 27 cities sporting new stadiums, not one had a corresponding positive economic impact. In another study, economist Robert Baade of Lake Forest College in Illinois examined nine new stadiums and found no discernable economic impact in four cases and a significantly negative impact in the other five cases.
In truth, taxpayer funding of stadiums represents a "Wizard of Oz" illusion of economic development. When the curtain is pulled back from the impressive-sounding promises and projections for new prosperity, there is only the ugly reality of politicians pulling levers, pushing buttons, and pitching smoke-and-mirrors economics.
Michigan and Detroit are by no means unique in redistributing wealth from lower and middle income taxpayers to the millionaire owners and players of professional sports. Some states including Ohio actually mandate that taxes be spent on semi-professional and professional sports teams. Nationwide, this pernicious and increasing form of corporate welfare will cost taxpayers roughly $7.2 billion between 1987 and 2000. That represents 60% of the total $12 billion price tag expected for new stadium construction.
The way to rein in this corporate welfare run amok is simple: Outlaw sports subsidies. In 1851, the people of Michigan adopted a state constitution that strictly prohibited the state from subsidizing projects that could and should otherwise be handled by private citizens and businesses. Under the 1851 constitution, Michigan was able to to transform itself from a swampy backwater into an economic powerhouse, bringing to the world a host of indispensable products and services. Why? One reason was that government was required by law to take no interest in business.
The time has come for a new 1851-style amendment for new sports stadiums. A voter referendum in favor of ending state subsidies to private business projects (such as stadium construction) would keep Michigan politicians and favor-seeking businessmen from draining state coffers. The referendum could also stipulate that every dollar spent on "recreational" facilities, such as sports stadiums, by local units of government would result in a corresponding $1 decrease in its state revenue sharing money for that municipality.
Government-subsidized stadiums constitute the socialization of business risks, whereby private owners or enterprises are allowed to foist their losses on a hapless public, but get to keep any profits they earn from their ventures. The result of this process is increased taxes, a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, and the politicization of what should be clear economic decision making. By forcing people to fund stadiums that they might never patronize voluntarily, government condescendingly assumes it knows what is best for all citizens. Michigan should do away with all tax subsidies for professional sports stadiums, and the sooner the better.


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Tyler Clementi, left, is thought to have committed suicide, days after he was secretly filmed and broadcast on the Internet. Mr. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, center, and another classmate, Molly Wei, have been charged in the case.
Super sensitivity or a cruel byproduct of technology and mischievous peers?
"Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump"
Lisa W. Foderaro
September 29th, 2010
The New York Times
Lisa W. Foderaro
September 29th, 2010
The New York Times
It started with a Twitter message on Sept. 19: "Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."
That night, the authorities say, the Rutgers University student who sent the message used a camera in his dormitory room to stream the roommate's intimate encounter live on the Internet.
And three days later, the roommate who had been surreptitiously broadcast — Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman and an accomplished violinist — jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River in an apparent suicide.
The Sept. 22 death, details of which the authorities disclosed on Wednesday, was the latest by a young American that followed the online posting of hurtful material. The news came on the same day that Rutgers kicked off a two-year, campuswide project to teach the importance of civility, with special attention to the use and abuse of new technology.
Those who knew Mr. Clementi — on the Rutgers campus in Piscataway, N.J., at his North Jersey high school and in a community orchestra — were anguished by the circumstances surrounding his death, describing him as an intensely devoted musician who was sweet and shy.
"It's really awful, especially in New York and in the 21st century," said Arkady Leytush, artistic director of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra, where Mr. Clementi played since his freshman year in high school. "It's so painful. He was very friendly and had very good potential."
The Middlesex County prosecutor's office said Mr. Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, N.J., and another classmate, Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton Junction, N.J., had each been charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for using "the camera to view and transmit a live image" of Mr. Clementi. The most serious charges carry a maximum sentence of five years.
Mr. Ravi was charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy for trying a similar live feed on the Internet on Sept. 21, the day before the suicide. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, James O'Neill, said the investigation was continuing, but he declined to "speculate on additional charges."
Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay rights group Garden State Equality, said Wednesday that he considered the death a hate crime. "We are sickened that anyone in our society, such as the students allegedly responsible for making the surreptitious video, might consider destroying others' lives as a sport," he said in a statement.
At the end of the inaugural event for the university's "Project Civility" campaign on Wednesday, nearly 100 demonstrators gathered outside the student center, where the president spoke. They chanted, "Civility without safety — over our queer bodies!"
It is unclear what Mr. Clementi's sexual orientation was; classmates say he mostly kept to himself. Danielle Birnbohm, a freshman who lived across the hall from him in Davidson Hall, said that when a counselor asked how many students had known Mr. Clementi, only 3 students out of 50 raised their hands.
But Mr. Clementi displayed a favorite quotation on his Facebook page, from the song "I'll Never Fall in Love Again": "What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia."
And his roommate's Twitter message makes plain that Mr. Ravi believed that Mr. Clementi was gay.
A later message from Mr. Ravi appeared to make reference to the second attempt to broadcast Mr. Clementi. "Anyone with iChat," he wrote on Sept. 21, "I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes, it's happening again."
Ms. Birnbohm said Mr. Ravi had said the initial broadcast was an accident — that he viewed the encounter after dialing his own computer from another room in the dorm. It was not immediately known how or when Mr. Clementi learned what his roommate had done. But Ms. Birnbohm said the episode quickly became the subject of gossip in the dormitory.
Mr. Clementi's family issued a statement on Wednesday confirming the suicide and pledging cooperation with the criminal investigation. "Tyler was a fine young man, and a distinguished musician," the statement read. "The family is heartbroken beyond words."
The Star-Ledger of Newark reported that Mr. Clementi posted a note on his Facebook page the day of his death: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." Friends and strangers have turned the page into a memorial.
Witnesses told the police they saw a man jump off the bridge just before 9 p.m. on Sept. 22, said Paul J. Browne, the New York Police Department's chief spokesman. Officers discovered a wallet there with Mr. Clementi's identification, Mr. Browne said.
The police said Wednesday night that they had found the body of a young man in the Hudson north of the bridge and were trying to identify it.
Officials at Ridgewood High School, where Mr. Clementi graduated in June, last week alerted parents of current students that his family had reported him missing and encouraged students to take advantage of counseling at the school.
The timing of the news was almost uncanny, coinciding with the start of "Project Civility" at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey. Long in the planning, the campaign will involve panel discussions, lectures, workshops and other events to raise awareness about the importance of respect, compassion and courtesy in everyday interactions.
Events scheduled for this fall include a workshop for students and administrators on residential life on campus and a panel discussion titled "Uncivil Gadgets? Changing Technologies and Civil Behavior."
Rutgers officials would not say whether the two suspects had been suspended. But in a statement late Wednesday, the university's president, Richard L. McCormick, said, "If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity." At the kickoff event for the civility campaign, Mr. McCormick made an oblique reference to the case, saying, "It is more clear than ever that we need strongly to reassert our call for civility and responsibility for each other."
Mr. Ravi was freed on $25,000 bail, and Ms. Wei was released on her own recognizance. The lawyer for Mr. Ravi, Steven D. Altman, declined to comment on the accusations. A phone message left at the offices of Ms. Wei's lawyer was not returned.
Some students on the Busch campus in Piscataway seemed dazed by the turn of events, remembering their last glimpse of Mr. Clementi. Thomas Jung, 19, shared a music stand with Mr. Clementi in the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra.
On Wednesday afternoon, hours before Mr. Clementi's death, the two rehearsed works by Berlioz and Beethoven. "He loved music," Mr. Jung said. "He was very dedicated. I couldn't tell if anything was wrong."


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All microscopes are designed to include a stage where the specimen (usually mounted onto a glass slide) is placed for observation. Stages are often equipped with a mechanical device that holds the specimen slide in place and can smoothly translate the slide back and forth as well as from side to side. A stage can be classified according to design and functionality. In the simplest case, the plain stage (illustrated in Figure 2, on the left) consists of a rectangular or square design containing several clips to hold the specimen slide.
The stage illustrated in Figure 1 is a typical rectangular stage with the added feature of a specimen slide translational control device commonly referred to as a mechanical stage. This mechanical stage contains controls for right-handed microscopists that allow the movement of the specimen slide in both the X (right and left) and Y (back and forth) directions so the microscopist can examine the entire microscope slide (secured to the stage with the slide holder). Similar mechanical stages are available with the translational control knobs situated on the left-hand side of the stage for left-handed microscopists. The stage illustrated in Figure 1 also contains a rather large opening in the center to allow light from the condenser to pass through the specimen (the stage opening). The stage is also equipped with a locking control that allows the stage to be fixed into position with respect to its rotation around the condenser axis. Graduated locator marks positioned on the mechanical portion of the stage allow the microscopist to note the location of important specimen details, allowing easy return to the area for additional observation or photomicrography.
A simple (commonly termed "plain") microscope stage is illustrated on the left in Figure 2. This stage contains an opening to admit light from the condenser, several mounting holes for a mechanical stage, and two clips that secure the specimen slide in place for observation under increasing magnification (changing of objectives) and for photomicrography. The stage is also equipped with a locking control that can fix the position of the stage. This stage is very useful for quick examination of specimens, but is very difficult to use with higher power objectives (above 20X). At high magnification, small translations of the specimen slide will usually throw the features of interest completely out of the viewfield, and attempting to relocate them can lead to frustration. Auxiliary mechanical stages attached to a simple stage can allow for minute translation of the specimen slide, making it easier for the microscopist to find specific areas on the slide. The mechanical stage attachment illustrated on the right in Figure 2 can be easily attached to the simple stage on the left in the same figure. In order to attach this mechanical stage, the specimen clips must first be removed.
Note that the stage opening is much smaller on the stage illustrated in Figure 2 when compared to the mechanical stage shown in Figure 1. This is because the mechanical portion of the stage in Figure 1 encompasses the upper stage plate allowing the gray part of the stage to move with the specimen slide holder in both the X and Y directions. Alternatively, when an auxiliary mechanical stage (similar to the one on the right in Figure 2) is attached to the simple stage shown in Figure 2, it is only the mechanical slide holder that moves, and the stage itself remains stationary. Locator graduations on the attachable mechanical stage (that help identify specific areas of a specimen) operate in a manner similar to the mechanical stage illustrated in Figure 1. Both stages may be rotated with respect to the microscope body to facilitate framing during photomicrography. The stages illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 are not centerable, but many designs (including some discussed below) are capable of being centered with respect to the optical axis of the microscope.
The circular graduated stage, illustrated on the left in Figure 3, is one of the most versatile and useful designs for all types of microscopy and photomicrography. These stages rotate 360°, permitting complete rotation of the samples and great ease in fine-tuning the composition of viewfields for photomicrography. An added feature is the graduations included on the periphery of the stage, which allow for precise alignment when critical analytical measurements must be undertaken. The stage rotates on ball bearings that provide precision rotation without annoying jerks, bumps, and stalls. Two centering knobs (Figure 3) permit the stage to be centered with respect to the optical axis of the microscope. When used with objectives in a centering nosepiece, the microscope can be adjusted to be parcentric, meaning that a specimen centered in the field of view for one objective remains centered when the nosepiece is rotated to bring another objective into use.
An optional mechanical stage attachment (on the right in Figure 3) for the circular stage permits accurate translation of samples similar to the mechanical stages discussed above. Most circular stages have pre-drilled mounting holes that allow positioning and firm attachment of the optional mechanical stage. Circular stages also have a locking mechanism (stage rotation lock) that allow them to be locked into a single position. These stages often are equipped with click stops that alert the microscopist at 45° intervals of rotation.
Modern microscope stages are precisely manufactured and very durable. They are cast from either iron or aluminum and machine-finished to accurate tolerances. Translation mechanisms are usually rack-and-pinion styles, machined from aluminum, brass, or (more recently) synthetic polymers. The synthetic gear mechanisms usually are far less durable than their metal counterparts, especially after years of use. These devices should be thoroughly cleaned, lubricated, and tightened for adjustment every several years. Most stages are protected with a very tough non-glossy ceramic coating that resists marks and scratches. The dull surface ensures that stray light is not reflected from the stage into the objective.
Specialized Microscope Stages - There are a wide variety of microscope stages that are designed for specific purposes. These include stages equipped with auxiliary equipment for manipulating samples during observation, measuring systems that allow precise measurements to be made over very small distances, universal stages that allow measurements over many specimen angles, and other specialized stages that perform a myriad of unique functions. We will discuss some of the more common specialized microscope stages below.
Inverted Microscope Stages - Inverted microscopes are configured differently than the standard upright microscope. These microscopes have the objectives placed below the stage and use several different condenser configurations to illuminate the specimen. Tissue culture microscopes have a condenser that is mounted above the stage, while epi-illumination microscopes (metallographs and their relatives) have a substage condenser that preceeds the objectives. In both cases, the stage is slightly modified from standard stages as illustrated in Figure 4 below.
The inverted microscope stage is similar in its basic overall design to the mechanical stage illustrated in Figure 1. Both stages have translational controls that allow the stage (and specimen) to be moved in both the X and Y directions. The main difference is the large stage opening that accommodates an insert on the inverted microscope stage. The inserts (Figure 4) are usually made of stainless steel and have openings of various sizes to allow for large differences in sample size. For instance, with inverted tissue culture microscopes, researchers often must scan large culture flasks to observe the entire population of cells and this is much easier to accomplish when the stage insert has a large opening. Metallography samples are also often quite large and more of their surface can be observed with the specialized inserts. When small specimens are to be observed, an insert with a very small opening (about the size of the one in Figure 4) is used to support the sample for observation. Inverted microscope stages do not translate up and down. Focusing is accomplished using a translatable nosepiece that, together with the objectives, moves up and down.
High-Magnification Measuring Systems - Quantitative microscopy often demands highly accurate measurements of various specimen dimensions. These include measurement of miniature precision parts and semiconductors as well as high-precision assembly of magnetic heads and other minute electronic components. Specialized microscopes with precision stages are often used for these purposes. The stage illustrated in Figure 5 is an example of a precision microsope stage. It is equipped with a micrometer-style translational apparatus that allows for very accurate and controlled movements of the stage and specimen. The stage is also rotatable over the entire 360° range for total control over the measurements.
Microscopes designed for stages of this type are sometimes equipped with prisms for Erect Image Observation, meaning that the observed image and the specimen both move in the same direction (the opposite is true for most microscopes). The stages are usually accompanied by electronic controllers that give accurate digital readouts of the stage position, and most can be programmed for precise stage movements in a sequence of steps. There are a wide variety of designs for these specialized stages and many aftermarket manufacturers are capable of supplying custom-configured stages built to the customer's specifications.
Micromanipulators - It is often necessary to manipulate the specimen while it is being observed under the microscope. This is the case in many tissue culture and in vitro fertilization experiments as well as genetic implantation procedures that require close observation of the sample during the experiment. The micromanipulator stage illustrated in Figure 6 is an example of the type of equipment necessary to conduct these types of operations.
This specialized stage has two triple-axis hydraulically controlled water micromanipulators that orchestrate specimen handling in a highly accurate manner. In the illustration, a small petri dish containing embryos is being manipulated with the control arms to monitor pH of the solution as well as providing radioactively labeled nutrients to the embryos. These manipulators can be adjusted to perform a wide spectrum of functions ranging from microinjection to electrochemistry experiments. There are a number of manufacturers who supply micromanipulators and accessories that attach to commercial microscopes such as those manufactured by Olympus and Nikon.
Universal Stage - This unwieldly looking microscope stage permits tilting of a thin specimen at any angle for measuring the optical structure of a birefringent crystal. The universal stage illustrated in Figure 7 is an example of this type of stage.
Universal stages are designed to be used with special long working distance (LWD) objectives and very low magnifications usually ranging from 5X to 20X. These stages are graduated on all 4 axes with rotation scales that are distinguished by different color codes. The four rotating centers of the main body all rest on a common point. Two hemispherical lenses are used to sandwich the specimen between their plane surfaces with immersion oil being applied to all contact surfaces.
Universal Stage Objective Specifications
Specifications | U5X | U10X | U20X |
Individual Magnification | 5X | 10X | 20X |
Numerical Aperture | 0.10 | 0.22 | 0.33 |
Working Distance (mm) | 5.3 | 2.9 | 1.1 |
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The universal stage attaches to the circular petrography stage illustrated in Figure 3 using screws permanently fixed onto the universal stage. There is a central ring on the microscope stage that must first be removed before installation and centering of the universal stage. The stage contains locking devices that allow the position of the sample to be fixed for viewing and photomicrography. Universal stages are no longer being manufactured by the major microscope producers, but a limited number are still available through distributors and custom aftermarket manufacturers.
There are a variety of other specialized microscope stages that we have not covered in this discussion. Rapid growth in the semiconductor arena has led to the design and manufacture of a number of stages utilized to examine and manipulate integrated circuit wafers. Similar microscopes have also been adapted in other areas of integrated circuit manufacture. Many scientists design and build their own custom stages for specific experiments including biomedical investigations, cell manipulation, materials research, and geology.


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FEAR AND LONGING by Karen Brennan
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FIVE STORIES by Karen Brennan
A man told me there was nothing he would rather keep noticing—and he pointed to the spaces between palm fronds, chinks of turquoise and a few clouds. Just now, into this recollection, wanders an egg on a green dish.
On library card stock I have written either Distant Noise or Distant Nurse. The former, with its taint of oxymoron, suggests the story of an enchanted chain-saw marooned on a desert island. The latter evokes the severe hair and pointed chin of a person from my past.
Into our lives comes a small cat, scratching at the screen door, its expression weary and disillusioned. Oh come in, we say, and we give it a little saucer of milk, which it laps up. Then it begins to talk to us in our own language. It is full of complaints concerning the economy, the world energy situation and life on this planet, the great mystery being that we weren't consulted, we are helpless pawns of the universe, yadda-yadda. In other words, not only a smart cat, but a phenomenally bitter cat.
1. Today a mouse choir will perform for us Verdi's la donna e mobile, which means woman is fickle.
2. The mice with their weak chins and strong noses have ferreted out our desires which are otherwise secret.
3. Kafka had a habit of incorporating mice into fiction.
4. Our desires are not so extraordinary, claims Rigoletto, a grotesque dwarf.
5. Adorable in bonnets and knee socks, they approach the stage like a band of 3 year olds, uncertain of what is required, bewildered…
6. Kafka had a habit of visiting prostitutes.
7. Verdi began an affair with a soprano "at the twilight of her career."
8. They assemble in a pool of greyness.
9. There was, for example, one called Josephine, a soulful queen.
10. woman is fickle woman is fickle they will soon sing, but they know not what they sing.
11. We, on the other hand, with our hidden desires, our secret yearnings…
12. How we long to be placed in another era, among a new crop of mice!
13. Before singing, it is customary to squeak a little
14. as if pumping the air out of a room.
The coffin is grey with gold curlicues at the corners, at each of the four corners, although we only see two from where we are sitting with our mother. Each curlicue of a golden color has a shiny ring of silver around it and then some dots. The dots are very small.
The oak casket is very big. It is 10 feet. Maybe it is 20 feet. The feet of the corpse jut up from it since it is a shallow casket. Picture a pork chop in a crepe pan and that is how the body looks in the casket: jutting up, the nose pointed and white, the feet in their brown cordovans.
Our mother is crying. She is fishing around in her patent leather purse while crying and her face is very red and ugly. Picture a wadded up piece of cloth soaked in bloody nose damage and you will get the feeling of her face. In her patent leather purse are the following items: sunglasses, a movie ticket stub from The Paradine Case starring
Gregory Peck who falls in love with an imprisoned woman, Kleenex, lifesavers, both of which are in blue and white packages.
For a murderess, the Paradine woman is exceptionally well-dressed.
The purse of our mother has a gold clasp shaped like a fish.
Also there is some change at the bottom and some flakes of tobacco, given that our mother is trying to quit smoking cigarettes.
We are embarrassed at the noises our mother makes when she weeps. Picture a siren interrupted by a braying sheep and also a coughing giant and you will have some idea how she sounds.
I myself am sewing a sleeve on a blouse.
The corpse does nothing. This is its advantage. There is a fly on the casket, resting languidly on one of the blond oak lintels. In a bad mood.
Now, my sister whispers, he will have no more bad moods.
I myself nod wisely, the blouse which is of a silky and thus slippery material slithers around on my little lap.
Yes, I say. I have only 10 stitches to go. Maybe 20. Then I will sew a little something onto my sister's head who has begged me for some time to do this.
The corpse's nose is long and white-tipped. From here we can only imagine the soft flare of the nostrils. Or maybe it is a hard flare. We can vaguely recall the teeth, yellow from the smoking of Pall Malls.
My mother who has given up smoking now removes a black veil from her purse. 10 feet long. Or 20 feet. Very long, it unfolds and unfolds, it seems this unfolding will go on forever, my sister Razor whispers to me, and soon we are covered in it, like insects trapped in a spider's web.
My mother is bald and so is my sister. Once, at her request, I stitched the words WEIRD ZONE onto my mother's scalp.
My father, who is dead, is not a skinhead but a corpse.
My mother covers us with her veil, still weeping, still shuddering under the veil but now we are part of that shuddering since, beneath the spider web veil, my sister, my mother and I make one shape.
We are thus part of the shape of my mother.
My father is crying in his casket but his tears are the tears of corpses which go inward and keep the body from thawing and melting away.
The blouse is made of vinyl (I think) and has little rubber buttons. I am sewing the sleeve, I just realized, in the wrong place.
Inside the coffin my father is sneezing. My mother reaches into her purse. Once more she reaches into it and this time removes a half dozen tacos which she divides among us. Then salsa and little plates of rice. Then spoons.
My father, when alive, was not a stitcher. He was not an eater. He had his moods which hammered themselves into our tumbling home, into our mother's makeshift spirit. He was not a weeper.
No thank you, I tell our mother. Even so, I cannot seem to work up an appetite. The corpse is still sneezing and weeping, more copiously now: picture a jackhammer drilling into a human brain and you will have some idea of the racket which is beginning to assert itself into the air surrounding the coffin.
Perhaps he has allergies, my sister whispers.
All the while I am stitching the sleeve on the blouse—and it is going much, much better now, thanks for asking, creating a neat little seam in the shape of scythe. I am trying to think of a prayer to say for my father's soul and the effort to do so makes me recall several moments: jumping rope, my father at one end, laughing with his mouth full; or driving over the bridge, my father saying he was frightened and so could not look; or singing for him at a large party and his face beaming and beaming. Hard to believe a face so white and frozen could have beamed so warmly or that in the cave of his arm we had felt so protected. Nevertheless.
The Paradine woman, a master of duplicity, manages to destroy Gregory Peck who she hates for luring her lover (Louis Jordan) into suicide. His career over, his love unrequited and disdained, he returns to his nice wife (Ann Todd) who comforts him like a mother.
Not that our own mother is all that comforting. She distributes tacos from her voluminous purse and now she is chewing loudly. So many noises in this room! My mother chewing and swallowing, my father weeping and sneezing, my sister whispering, and I am making the sound of she who stitches a sleeve onto a blouse and who will soon stitch a little something onto the scalp of my sister.
The great moral lesson of The Paradine Case is that we should not trust attractive foreigners, no matter how beautifully dressed. Another way of saying this is that we must stay within our familiar realm and not venture forth. Don't flirt with danger. Be safe. Or for me, a stitch in time saves nine.
Now that the father is dead, our lives will surely change. He who had been our armor, our jailer. He who stabbed us with his words and then caressed us. We who were stabbed, then caressed, defended and incarcerated. We may have murdered him, too.
At some point it occurs to me that we are all everything, that nothing separates us. Picture a parade of ants going toward a picnic arranged on a red-and-white checked tablecloth and then picture a foot coming down. We are all things. The ants, the picnic and the foot.


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Marissa Mayer said that Google changed the policy 10 days after the product's launch, but didn't announce it. "We looked at it and we thought that's really silly because that's not the point of this product. The purpose is to show what the stores look like, what houses look like. If someone says, 'Hey, there's a face here,' ... it doesn't matter whose face it is."
Google Maps help center continous to be vague about this: "Street View contains imagery of public property, which is no different than what you might see driving down the street. Imagery of this kind is available in a wide variety of formats for cities all around the world. That said, we understand that Street View imagery may contain objectionable content. If you've seen content like this, please see our help article on how to report inappropriate images." Basically, you have to click on "Street view help" link next to the image, select "Report inappropriate image" and fill out a form.
The street view images could be even more useful if they didn't contain people, cars or other transient objects. People passing by don't define a place, they just happen to be there. Because Google and Immersive Media take a lot of photos from a single place, it's not very difficult to detect the overlays. There's even a free software that allows you to remove tourists from photos.
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Forbes and other reputable publications have predicted a continued rise in interest rates over 2019. The initial shock of the Fed's action caused a slowdown in real estate markets over the final part of 2018. As the shock wears off, experts are divided as to whether more expensive money will continue to translate into lower housing starts and occupancy rates for primary markets.
Many experts believe that the rising 2018 interest rates have not yet baked themselves into the real estate market. They point to past instances of relatively high real estate hikes and the slower uptake into the property market the following year. Proponents of fast action uptake point to a much closer relationship between federal interest rates and the consumer real estate market.
The Edge Of The Housing Affordability Curve
Most consumers were hanging on the edge of housing affordability during the time of low interest rates, this set of experts argues. The second that the Fed raised interest rates, a portion of Millennials immediately became unable to buy a first house or even retain occupancy in more expensive real estate markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
The Fed's Limited Reach?
The Fed controls short-term rates, but the market controls long-term rates. Over time, these long-term interest rates will be much more influential on how the real estate market will perform over the next five years. Most experts expect commercial banks to try to hold down long-term interest rates to maintain a balance between supply and demand in new housing starts. They stand to lose money over the next few quarters if they cannot accomplish this. However, the banks may struggle to control long term interest rates due to news of the Fed raising interest rates which may scare some people out of the market.
Millennials and Secondary Markets Run The World
For those who want to draw a trend line moving forward, real estate activity in secondary markets may be a good leading indicator of how the rest of the market will behave. Watching cities such as Nashville, San Diego, San Jose and Dallas may provide insights as to just how many displaced Millennials will be able to access the housing market in the United States over the next few years. This is the core group that will control housing prices in America, so they are definitely the ones to watch in terms of movement.
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