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Election day is but two days away, but I feel compelled to write this. Earlier in the week, I posted a statement by Freedom Road calling for a vote for Charles Barron, Black activist and New York City Council member, as governor of NY State, and specifically warning against any vote for Democrat Andrew Cuomo, even on the Working Families Party line.
The day that flier came out, the New York Times confirmed its correctness by publishing an article entitled "Cuomo Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions." Based on an extensive hour and a half interview with the politician, it is a grim harbinger of things to come.
The lede, the first paragraph, tells the story:
Andrew M. Cuomo will mount a presidential-style permanent political campaign to counter the well-financed labor unions he believes have bullied previous governors and lawmakers into making bad decisions. He will seek to transform the state's weak business lobby into a more formidable ally, believing that corporate leaders in New York have virtually surrendered the field to big labor.
Go ahead, read that again and let it sink in.
The next governor of New York has vowed an ongoing frontal attack on one of the few union bulwarks left in the United States. Union membership in the US, after decades of brutal attacks by corporate power and of government hostility or indifference, has declined to 12.3% of the workforce. New York is the only state where over a quarter of all workers (barely, 25.3%) are still union members. Six states have unionization rates below 5%.
This has consequences. One of the ugliest effects of the union busting that shifted into high gear with President Ronald Reagan's breaking of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union in 1981 is that real wages for blue collar workers have remained stagnant or declined since the 1970s. Meanwhile, the incomes and wealth of the top 1% of the population have soared.
Contemplate for a moment the second half of that paragraph, too. He wants to make the state's business community "a stronger ally" of his, does he? On account of Wall Street, the too-big-to-fail banks, corporate executives, developers and landlords don't have enough political clout, I guess. Even the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision to allow unlimited secret spending on political campaigns isn't a big enough thumb on the scales for Cuomo.
A couple of additional thoughts:
First, the main strength unions in New York State have is not, whatever Cuomo claims, their ability to put millions into a bank account and buy television ads, with the result that:
The governor's popularity drops; the governor's knees weaken; the governor falls to one knee, collapses, makes a deal.
New York State unions do buy ads, but their political clout is based much more on their attention to state elections and on their ability to flood Albany with informed and fired-up members when important bills are before the Legislature. Anyone who has watched buses of construction workers, teachers, or purple-clad SEIU members descend on the State Capital to reason with, shall we say, their elected officials will have to wonder--and worry about--what Cuomo's plans to counter that might be.
Second, this has shown up the weakness of the Working Families Party as an electoral third party formed expressly to representative working class interests in New York State. NY is one of eight "fusion states" where parties can cross-endorse the candidates of other parties (usually one of the two major parties). The WFP has mainly endorsed Democrats (and run its own candidates in Democratic primaries), but has also backed Republicans and sometimes run candidates solely on the WFP line--and won.
The catch is that to maintain ballot status, WFP must garner 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial candidate every election cycle. Without this, a party must go through the arduous work of collecting tens of thousands of valid signatures on petitions—which, for instance, the Green Party has done since 2002.
This year, Cuomo--whose Republican challenger Carl Paladino is racist, sexist, reactionary, seriously dim and a sure loser--played cat and mouse with the Working Families Party for months, withholding acceptance of a promised WFP nomination he didn't really need.
At last, with no time at all left before the ballots were to be printed, the Working Families Party was permitted to "crook the pregnant hinges of the knee," as Shakespeare hath it, and kiss Cuomo's ass, accepting his whole platform, full of anti-union and pro-business planks. They, like the progressive unions which bankroll the WFP, are now working to elect a candidate who is a sworn enemy of the union movement and of the working class as a whole.
In closing, I echo the FRSO/OSCL statement. Fellow NYers, this Tuesday, please vote for Charles Barron and the Unity Party! Or, if you are so inclined, vote for Howie Hawkins and the Greens. Or skip the governor's race on the ballot. But don't stab yourself in the back with a vote for Cuomo.


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A classic, old fashioned soda fountain banana split, made with a banana, pineapple, strawberry and chocolate syrup toppings, one scoop each of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream, whipped topping, chopped nuts and a cherry garnish. |
I pondered a bit on what kind of creative and unusual foodie banana split I could come up with, but you know what? To me, there is really only one banana split. A classic, old fashioned, soda fountain banana split. Let's face it, I'm a simple, country cook and no foodie gourmet, so what else would you expect from Deep South Dish?
A fresh banana, split lengthwise, vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice cream nestled between the slices, and finished with pineapple topping, strawberry topping, and chocolate syrup, whipped cream, a sprinkle of chopped nuts and of course, at least one cherry on top. It is, at least in my eyes, the perfect, ultimate banana split.
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Classic Old Fashioned Soda Fountain Banana Split
From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
- 1 banana, split lengthwise
- 1 scoop each of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream
- Pineapple topping
- Chocolate syrup
- Strawberry topping
- Whipped topping, like ReddiWip
- Finely chopped nuts
- Maraschino cherries, with the stem
Cut the banana in half, lengthwise. In an oblong dish or banana split boat, place the banana slices on the outside edges. Place a scoop of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream in between the banana slices. Top the vanilla ice cream with the pineapple topping; the chocolate ice cream with the chocolate syrup, and the strawberry ice cream with the strawberry topping. Squirt a dollop of whipped cream on top of each ice cream scoop, sprinkle nuts on top and place one cherry on the top of the center ice cream, or one cherry on each scoop!
Serve immediately.
Makes 1 serving.
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When looking for a new smartphone, sometimes brand loyalty and habit get in the way of a better, more innovative choice. This often means a "new" phone that's not very different from the old one.
Well, we believe different is better.
On September 12 we met with a few groups of Apple loyalists - not actors - to talk about a recent announcement and their reactions. We showed them some prototypes. But we didn't tell them they were Moto's until later. Check out the results.


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Meet Hawke and Quinlan in SWEET ACHE - the newest Rock Star stand-alone in the Driven Series by K. Bromberg!
The New York Times bestselling author of Slow Burn turns up the heat when a sexy bet turns into so much more....
Hawkin Play, the bad boy rock star with a good guy heart, has lived a lifetime of cleaning up after his twin brother's mistakes. Hunter's most recent screwup could land Hawke in jail and risk the band's future. Hawke agrees to guest lecture at a local college to stay in the judge's good graces—and a bet with his bandmate to seduce his sexy teaching assistant is icing on the cake.
Quinlan Westin is harder to bed than Hawke imagined. She knows his type and is determined to avoid the rocker at all costs—even if their attraction runs deeper than simple lust.
Just as Hawke might finally be winning over the girl, his brother has other plans. When Hunter realizes his twin finally has a weakness, he'll stop at nothing to take advantage....
"Now you guys need to get going so you have time for Quin to give you the complete rundown," Professor Stevens says.
Of course she has no idea the double entendre she's just given Hawkin about me giving him a complete rundown, but I know Hawke catches it. I manage to resist the urge to stomp my feet in frustration and storm out of her office like a toddler. Instead I give her a tight smile before turning and walking out of the office and then the department.
I stand there in the sunshine, waiting for him to get his ass in gear and quit wasting my time. When I finally hear the door open I just start walking and the sound of his boots is the only inclination that he's following.
"I've got longer legs than you Trixie," he chides from a few feet back. "But feel free to keep swinging your hips like that, and I'll stay right here behind you and enjoy the show."
I bristle at the comment. At the moment there's no authority to be respectful of, no damage that can't be undone.
"A show?" The pitch of my voice escalates as I whirl around to face him—sunglasses on, hair disheveled, and I wish I hadn't turned around because damn, he's just that devastatingly fine. I'm quiet for a beat as we both appraise each other from behind darkened lenses. His dark hair, tanned skin, and cocky smirk pulls at those parts of me I don't want to be pulled. "You want to talk about a show." I grit the words out, trying to push my physical attraction to him from my mind. "Let's talk about your little performance for Dr. Stevens."
"I know. I'm good, huh? Sorry but a man's got to do what he's got to do . . . Besides, I wasn't done with you yet."
My mouth falls lax and I'm momentarily flabbergasted. "Done with me yet?" I sputter the words when I've recovered my wits at his arrogance run amuck . . . But I can't deny the little flutter in my belly at his comment. There's just something about him aside from the whole I'm a rock-star thing, that makes me desire him in a way I can't put into words.
"Yep." He says casually as he unwraps a Starburst and pops it into his mouth. And I hate that I'm fascinated with watching his mouth suck on the sweet candy. Luckily he speaks so I can distract myself from the captivating sight. "I'm pretty sure you have a usefulness . . . I'm just trying to figure out what that is." He licks his lips. "Well, besides the obvious, that is . . ." Smirk is handily in place and I hate that ache starting to simmer in my core.
"Why don't you go suck a—"
"Relax," he says, angling his head to the side and emitting a laugh as he steps closer to me. "I'm just teasing you. You're so damn easy to rile up and so hard to resist. Plus you're even hotter when you're pissed. I like it." He shrugs an apology, hands shoved deep in the pockets of his jeans with a sheepish grin that softens all those hard edges and makes me sigh with the contrast of characteristics. He holds a red Starburst out to me as a peace offering. "C'mon, you know you want to be the star to my burst."
We've stopped, my hands are on my hips, and the sun is falls around us as hewaits for me to react to his innocent little comment. Deep down I know I'm screwed. I feel an urge to smile but immediately realign my defenses. The contradiction he presents, the smooth with the rough, is the one thing that I always fall for when it comes to men.
And I'm not going to fall for Hawkin Play.
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author K. Bromberg is that reserved woman sitting in the corner who has you all fooled about the wild child inside of her—the one she lets out every time her fingertips touch the computer keyboard.
K. lives in Southern California with her husband and three children. When she needs a break from the daily chaos of her life, you can most likely find her on the treadmill or with Kindle in hand, devouring the pages of a good, saucy book.
On a whim, K. Bromberg decided to try her hand at this writing thing. Her debut novels, Driven, Fueled, and Crashed of The Driven Trilogy were well received and went on to become multi-platform bestsellers as well as landing on the New York Times and USA Today lists. Her other works include a short story, UnRaveled, and a companion piece to The Driven Trilogy titled Raced. She is currently working on three stand alone Driven novels, Slow Burn, Sweet Ache, and Hard Beat. She also plans to release a novel addressing the 10 year gap at the ending of Crashed in late fall 2015
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This Incubator Activity (XG) has published its final report and is now closed. The work undertaken under the XG provides an important input into the work of the Protocol for Web Description Resources Working Group (POWDER).
The public and member mailing lists are also closed and are archived.
March 2006: The group has begun its work and is focusing on use cases. The charter includes 4 use cases which are being expanded upon. Additional use cases are also being written by the group but we welcome even more. If you have a use case, please let us know through the public mailing list. All use cases will be published in full, following which, detailed requirements will be drawn up.
June 2006. Following a presentation of WCL-XG's work to the Mobile Web Best Practices Group at their face to face meeting on 22 June 2006, it was resolved that the output of WCL-XG would be used as the basis for a straw man for the proposed "mobileOK trustmark."
February 2007: Following publication of this XG's final report, the Protocol for Web Description Resources Working Group has been chartered. This will allow the work done in this activity to transfer to the Recommendations Track.
Meetings are held every other week. The timing alternates between convenience for participants in East Asia and West Coast USA. A single Face to face meeting is planned and will be co-located with the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh.
The inaugural meeting was held on 24th February 2006 during which participants were introduced to each other and the time line for the XG set. In particular, it is noted that the Mobile Web Best Practices Group is due to consider what mechanism should be used for the proposed mobileOK trustmark in mid June 2006. As a consequence, the group decided to work towards a target of completing its work by early June.
10th March 2006: The group reviewed the use cases in the charter. Each will be expanded upon and additional use cases written. These will be published here as soon as possible. Further use cases are being written and non-participants are invited to submit yet more.
23rd March 2006. This was a more difficult meeting as we tackled the question "what is the group for?" in more detail. It was resolved that in order to maintain our focus and avoid setting over-ambitious and ultimately unreachable targets, the use cases in the charter, plus a fifth that can be summarized as being able to say "this resource is a good example of something that is bad," would set the boundaries for the work. In addition to completing work on reviewing the 4 use cases in the charter, group members took actions to begin to derive requirements. An evolving new document setting out the use cases and requirements will be made available on the public website.
7th April 2006: The group was pleased to be joined by Akio Kokubu and Taniguchi Kunikazu, as well as Noboru Shimizu from I A Japan. Their project on content filtering for mobile has now been completed with high political success. However, there remains a great deal of technical work to be done, hence their support for the XG.
As the use cases are now more or less complete, the meeting turned to discussing the requirements. Several requirements have been suggested within the group and some of these were discussed in the meeting, with several formally adopted by resolution. Further requirements will be added following e-mail discussion. See the full list of agreed and draft requirements.
20th April 2006: The meeting began with a welcome for Diana Pentecost from AOL. The participants now include representatives from 16 organizations: AOL, Asemantics, AT&T, Center for Democracy and Technology, Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe, IA Japan, ICRA, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT) at NCSR Demokritos, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, Opera Software, RuleSpace, Segala, T-Online, University of Bristol, Vodafone, Yahoo!
After a discussion about the time and date of the group's face to face meeting (now set for Saturday 20 May in Edinburgh) attention turned to the use cases and requirements. Resolutions on the remaining draft requirements will be taken on the member mailing list so as to avoid taking up more of the very limited time available on the fortnightly teleconferences.
Most of the meeting was spent discussing whether an RDF-based approach is the correct way to proceed. The group is resolved that it is. However, it is also recognized that steps must be taken to show that the underlying system can be used in a non-RDF environment. AT&T has offered to review the use cases and direction of the group from a non-RDF perspective.
5th May 2006: The meeting focused on discussion of the requirements. This resulted in some being formally adopted and others being removed. The major issue though was what data should be included in the labels and what data should be made available about the labels. In other words, the label describes the content but what are the requirements for the group for defining how data such as who issued the label, when it was last reviewed and by whom, should be made available. See the Use Cases and Requirements document.
Work will begin now on creating the framework of the final report as a guide for the face to face meeting in Edinburgh on 20 May.
20th May 2006: The group's face to face meeting was held at the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society in Edinburgh on Saturday 20th May. The meeting used an early draft of the final report as a focus for discussion.
A series of resolutions were taken on the detail of what should and should not be included, how various statements should be worded and what clarification was necessary. These resolutions are included in the substantially updated version of the report.
The key decisions were:
2nd June 2006: The group continued to discuss the report with significant attention being given to the definitions of relevant terms. A new section is to be written that sets out the scope and general semantics of a content label. There was also debate, unresolved, about whether the cLabel system should make speicific provision for making assertions that a particular thing is not true. In some cases this has a practical advantage "these resources are meet all mobileOK criteria except x, y and z." The problem is that it then becomes very easy to write self denying statements such as "these resources met all mobileOK criteria except a…z (i.e. all of them)."
9th June 9th June The group discussed the recently published glossary, in particular the issue of whether we needed to have different constructs for saying that a resource has a property whose value is X and that a resource has a particular property. It was resolved "no" – i.e. to ensure that all assertions can be processed in the same way, we will define content labels in such a way that there will always be a value for a given property even if the value is true|false.
There was then a discussion about how the overall scope of a label. This was couched in policy terms – to what extent can a content provider make statements about content? Ownership of a domain is the logical starting point since ownership is readily identifiable. But should we make it a requirement that the scope of all labels is defined at an outer level in terms of domain names? The resolution was that "The scope of labels must be definable in a flexible way based on string patterns that allows, but does not mandate, detailed lists of domains; and that allows exceptions to be made."
16th June 2006 A short meeting this time to reflect on recent discussions concerning the proposed abstract model and system architecture. The group is preparing for a presentation at a meeting of the Mobile Web Best Practices Group in New York where a primary use case for WCL, mobileOK, will be under discussion.
30 June This majority of this meeting was taken up by a discussion about a model for the grouping of URIs. This is a largely abstract model that maps readily to XML and is also being mapped to the RDF Model for Content Labels.
Also this meeting took a resolution to seek transition to the Recommendations Track.
7 July A relatively brief meeting that discussed how label data should link to a Labeling Authority (and what information an LA should provide); the steps to be taken to move to the Recommendations Track and the current status of the Report.
21st July The group held a further discussion on the report, particularly with respect to the grouping of resources issue and how the core vocabulary fits into the abstract model. It was resolved that the abstract nature of he WCL model would be emphasized by removing the encoding section into a separate document. This will be done by next week when the group hopes to conclude the bulk of its work as an XG before seeking the WG charter.
August 2006 The incubator activity is now actively seeking a charter as a Working Group.
The diversity of material on the Web continues to grow to encompass audio, video, games and all manner of data services alongside traditional documents. The Content Label Incubator Group [WCL-XG] aims to foster ideas for how content providers can inform search engines, aggregators and other data systems, that their content is of a certain type, fulfils certain criteria or meets given requirements.
Labels will need to be applicable to a resource or a group of resources in a way that is convenient for content providers. Importantly, it should be possible to build systems that in some way show the labels to be trustworthy. It is anticipated that the solutions discussed will be centered on Semantic Web technologies.
The charter includes a number of detailed use cases and highlights relevant work already done in this area.
The Label XG discusses its work both through public and member-only mailing lists that are archived.


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Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) is a New Delhi–based autonomous policy research institute that specialises in issues related to international economic development, trade, investment and technology. RIS is envisioned as a forum for fostering effective policy dialogue and capacity-building among developing countries on global and regional economic issues.
The focus of the work programme of RIS is to promote South-South Cooperation and collaborate with developing countries in multilateral negotiations in various forums. RIS is engaged across inter-governmental processes of several regional economic cooperation initiatives. Through its intensive network of think tanks, RIS seeks to strengthen policy coherence on international economic issues and the development partnership canvas.


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Corrections to book:
The book is extremely rigorously researched, heavily annotated with end-notes for the reader to verify individual claims. All sources are publicly available, or are authorised documents, and are reproduced on the website in their original language. However, since the submission of the final draft a number of developments have taken place, and I will attempt to summarise these periodically.
Also, as readers provide feedback, a few errors have also been detected. These will be corrected in the second edition. Alas they were discovered after the book went to press. In the spirit of overall transparency these will be listed here.
House of Representatives
On page 166 I state "These were industry experts speaking under oath....." This is incorrect; they were not formally under oath. This makes little material difference to the testimonies. In the event that a testimony was false, it would be less serious, legally, if such a statement was made when not under oath. However, the truthfulness of the statement remains unchanged regarding whether it was made under oath or not.
Calvert knowledge of interest rates
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NEC PA242W Monitor Review
by Chris Heinonen on September 27, 2013 9:00 AM ESTUpdated 10/2/2013: Review has been updated to correct an issue with the non-SpectraView data. Please review the sRGB and AdobeRGB pages again if you have read this article before as they have been updated. The conclusions have been updated to match these test results as well.
What separates a professional grade monitor, like the NEC PA242W, from a similarly designed consumer display? You can easily go to Dell and find a 24", 1920x1200 resolution display with GB-LED backlighting for a few hundred dollars; why are displays like the NEC PA242W worth almost twice the price? Are they just coasting off the reputation they had from their CRT days, or do they engineer their LCD displays in a way that set them apart from everyone else? I set out to examine the PA242W and find what it offers that sets it apart from the competition.
The NEC PA242W is a 24", GB-LED backlit display with 1920x1200 resolution. I recently saw GB-LED backlighting in the Dell U3014 monitor and it performed well. GB-LED backlighting allows for the full AdobeRGB color gamut while still using LED lighting. Also on the NEC are a full complement of inputs: HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA, as well as a 3-port USB hub. I would like to see USB 3.0 on the hub for the price of the NEC but we only get USB 2.0. What you do get are dual USB upstream ports, letting you connect the NEC to two computers. Video inputs can be assigned to a USB upstream connection, so when you switch the display from one PC to another, your connected peripherals switch to that PC as well.
You realize the NEC PA242W is different as soon as you open the box. There is no attaching a stand with screws or clicking it in. The whole monitor is fully assembled, ready to be lifted out of the box and put to use. The construction is unlike other displays: solid and thick, with a handle at the top to lift it out. The stand is a nice ergonomic model that allows for a wide range of adjustments and is already set up. The bottom of the display houses all of the inputs and USB outputs.
As soon as you use the OSD you'll realize the NEC PA242W is unlike conventional monitors as well. Brightness is measured in cd/m^2 instead of a random slider. It is fully adjustable in 1 cd/m^2 increments up to 240 cd/m^2. You can adjust it beyond this but the control turns red indicating that the display uniformity will suffer. There are five monitor presets that you can control with a variety of settings: Colorspace, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma curve, White Point, and more. Moving between sRGB and AdobeRGB can be done at the touch of a button.
The selections for white point and color space go well beyond the usual options. White Point can be set from 3000K up to 15000K in 100K increments. Colorspace offers AdobeRGB, DCI, sRGB, Native (Full), SMPTE, and more. Any photo or video editing you need to do with the NEC PA242W should be covered by these options. The menu system is also very easy to use, with Up/Down and Left/Right arrows, on-screen labels, and a simple design.
All of these options provide supreme control over the NEC PA242W. There's even a standard 4-year warranty with 48-hour replacement. The real question is if the on-screen performance matches up with the controls.
Video Inputs | DVI-DL, DisplayPort, HDMI, Dsub |
Panel Type | AH-IPS |
Pixel Pitch | 0.27mm |
Colors | 1.07 Billion |
Brightness | 340 mc/m^2 |
Contrast Ratio | 1000:1 |
Response Time | 8ms |
Viewable Size | 24.1" |
Resolution | 1920x1200 |
Viewing Angle (H/V) | 178/178 |
Backlight | GB-R LED (20 kHz PWM) |
Power Consumption (operation) | 56W |
Power Consumption (standby) | 0.2W |
Screen Treatment | Anti-Glare |
Height-Adjustable | Yes (6") |
Tilt | Yes |
Pivot | Yes |
Swivel | Yes |
VESA Wall Mounting | Yes, 100mm x 100mm |
Dimensions w/ Base (WxHxD) | 21.9" x 14.9" x 9" |
Weight | 23.4 lbs. |
Additional Features | USB hubs with KVM switch, 3D LUT, |
Limited Warranty | 4 years with 48-hour replacement |
Accessories | Power Cord, DP Cable, MiniDP Cable, DVI-D Cable, USB Cable |
Price | $1,049 |
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Hulk - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
I trust Anandtech reviews but that contrast ratio would be a huge concern of mine if I were dropping $1000 on a monitor. -
noeldillabough - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
I'm using an older 26" version of this at work and its great...so much so that when I work on a different machine I'm grumbling about the difference! -
coolhardware - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
I could not find a 26" (older) version of this monitor, anybody have a model #??? -
asakharov - Sunday, October 6, 2013 - link
Death666Angel - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
If you drop 1k on this you need it for the uniformity and color/calibration results, not for high contrast for your movies and games. :) -
Hulk - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
Actually when I do post work for video/photo, lattitude (dynamic range), which is ability to see detail in the darkest and brightest areas is a big deal, as important if not more so than color space and uniformity. A low contrast ratio means that highlights turn into bright blotches and dark areas simply appear crushed.
I look for contrast ratio first, then color space, and finally uniformity in a monitor for doing work in post. Uniformity and color space are useless if I can't see any detail in the bright and dark areas. -
Senti - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
You are absolutely wrong about contrast. Contrast is the ratio of pure white to pure black and nothing else. This has nothing to do with ability to display dark and bright shades. Actually, the reverse is true: VA panels have great contrast and awful dark tones reproduction. I can see the difference between all the shades with my NEC PA241W even though its contrast is quite modest.
In general, I have to say that displays are definitely not Anandtech's specialization. Not just mine opinion, as I heard several times how disappointed people I know were at the usefulness of such reviews here. Some important points that AT completely missed: 10-bit mode of operation, overdrive errors, refresh rates, impact of different Uniformity setting values. -
Hulk - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
No. You are wrong.
Contrast ratio should be high for a good display.
Furthermore, dynamic range and contrast are closely related and a good display should have a contrast ratio of at least 1000:1.
Finally, you might want to read up on this subjest.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dynamic... -
Gothmoth - Friday, September 27, 2013 - link
sorry hulk. but you are clueless.
look at eizo coloredge or quato monitors.
and don´t argue about something you obviously know not much about.
enjoy the faked contrast ratio numbers of your gaming monitors and google a few more articles that say nothing about actual display quality . -
Samus - Saturday, September 28, 2013 - link
Ohh Hulk, throwing wiki links to general topics with no direct data about this monitor (or any other comparison) is fail.
No where in Contrast Ratio does it say anything along the lines of quality monitors have high contrast ratio or low-end monitors have weak contrast ratio, etc.


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Playing catch-up
Although there are still a few weeks of summer left, it feels as if it is coming to a close (well, it would if it weren't for the 100+ temps here in Austin).My highly anticipated and amazingly fun summer travel is over, capped off with a visit from my parents and my nephews Andy and Ben who drove from KY to hang with us for a week. Despite it being one of the most exhausting weeks ever (who knew you could cram so much fun stuff into 7 days?) - I was truly sad to see them go. Especially since there are no visitors on the horizon for quite some time (January, Audrey?!?!) I am happy to hear that my parents plan to rent their place in Florida once again this year after Christmas, so it looks like after our visit back home for the holidays we will be joining them at the beach for a while. But still, 6 months is a long ways away... :(
I guess I must now focus on getting back into the swing of things at home - which includes addressing the piles of mail I've hidden in my desk for the past few weeks and the other items I've neglected on my to-do list. The boys start back to school this week which should allow me to regroup and get things in order.
I will be taking Aiden to Dallas on Wednesday for a follow-up visit with Dr. Fearon. His surgery on May 26th went well (to straighten his index finger and deepen the space between his big toe on his left foot), however the healing has been a much longer process than anticipated. After the pins were removed from his finger in Louisville at the end of June, we were concerned with the amount that it "re-turned" to it's curved position. We were told that because the procedure was done at an early age, the tendons and muscles would naturally pull it back into it's original placement. But that the degree to which it was turned (about 90 degrees) warranted going ahead with the operation. While it isn't back to it's 90 degree position, it is probably about half way there. Aggravating to think he went through this surgery without the results we were expecting, but overall I think he has been using his finger a bit more than prior to the procedure, which was the purpose of going through with it now.
His foot is still healing. The skin graft - attached to the inner side of the toe - did not take, which all in all isn't a problem. But it has made for an increased healing time and an increasingly anxious Aiden anticipating each of the 3x/day dressing changes. He wakes up in the morning saying "Don't do my wraps mommy". I put it off as long as I can, but eventually it just has to be done...and it's a 2 person job. One person has to hold my poor guy down (DANG is he strong!) and the other (me) removes the old wraps and replaces them with fresh ones. This whole process includes a SCREAMING, thrashing, sweaty little boy, a nervous and sad mommy and usually some bleeding. It only takes about 5 minutes start to finish, but it completely wears out everyone involved, especially Aiden. It breaks my heart.
So anyway, we are interested to see what Dr. Fearon thinks about how it looks and hope he can give us some insight into how much longer the dressing changes will need to be done or how close we are to it being completely healed. The good news is this hasn't slowed Aiden down one bit this summer. After he gets over the exhausting dressing change process, he bounces back and plays like nothing is wrong.
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SUMMARY: In his response to Roderick Long, Matthew Yglesias argues that although corporations naturally seek to win special privileges from the state, libertarianism is far from the obvious solution to the problem. Instead, he reiterates the charge that libertarians often act as corporate apologists and suggests that the net effect of any "free market" advocacy will tend strongly toward corporate power. Liberals may have much to learn from libertarians on certain issues and in some policy areas, but the laissez-faire solution to corporate political influence is unworkable.
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Randal O'Toole's, Jerry Taylor's, and Timothy Lee's responses to the respondents:
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The central problem of reinforcement learning is to fit the parameters of an agent's policy in order to make the agent chose "good" decisions according to some unknown objective.
Let's consider a very simple case. We have an MDP which is basically stateless. So to say, all the world is doing is to map the actions of an agent directly to a reward. Consider this function to be a mixture of two gaussians, with one mode at -3 and one at 3. Say we pick a single mode gaussian as a model of the world.
After fitting our model to our data, gathered via a rollout, weighting it by the reward - we will get a gaussian that has a mode somewhere around 0.
A better strategy for an agent would be to just stick to one of the modes. Even though this model of the world is not more correct, it does lead to a better policy. Picking 0 as an action will lead to a reward of approximately zero while always picking -3 or always picking 3 will always return 0.5 as a reward.
Under the assumption of a single mode gaussian and via the maximum likelihood approach, a non optimal solution is picked.
Of course, there are superior methods. For example, one could estimate the gradient and just move up to one of the modes. But what happens if the gradient information is incomplete? This can happen if our world has time dependencies which are not modelled (e.g. non markovian environments). It can also happen if our observations are not complete but only partial (as in POMDPs). In that case, direct methods are prone to fail, again.
Imagine our world to be only accessible through a proxy, which happens to turn the complete state information into an observation via a many-to-one mapping. For example, two different states s and s' map to the same observation o. However, the rewards r(s) and r(s') are completely different, say -1 and 1. In that case our sampling will lead to a completely wrong impression.
Stochastic search does not suffer from this problem. A direct method uses an approximation of the world's dynamics consisting of the observations and the rewards as well as the current agent's policy in order to generate a new (hopefully better) policy. A simple hill climber uses only the current policy and its expected reward. Since the non-use of local information does keep it from making wrong decisions due to wrong information, it is in theory more robust if the environment has a lot of wrong local information.


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Using Silverlight Media Framework for simple playback
| CommentsIf you aren't aware of the Silverlight Media Framework, you should take a look. This is a media playback framework for Silverlight that is based off of a lot of best practices from such implementations as the NBC Olympics, Sunday Night Football and others.
It has a lot of features built-in to the framework such as:
- Logging
- DVR-style features
- Fast forward
- Slow motion
- Media Markers
- etc
Basic stuff plus some great included features and extensibility points.
Missing Features – Part 1
What I didn't like in v1 was two things: it was only for Smooth Streaming and it was a framework versus just a XAP I could use in a web application. After some successful complaining :-) and an opportunity to get into a milestone build, the progressive download feature was added which enabled non-Smooth Streaming people to use it.
I'm wanting to standardize on what our teams are providing for best practices, so I've started using this player.
NOTE: Does SL Video Player still live? Yes, and it has VERY basic features. It is super small and simple, but may not be for everyone's liking.
So I started to solve the other problem, primarily for my use, of having essentially a stand-alone player using this framework.
Extending the Silverlight Media Framework
You see, the SMF itself is essentially a set of controls…but not an 'app' itself that you can just consume the binary. What I did was basically create a new Silverlight application myself with one simple element: Player. This way I could implement what I needed for my use. The first thing I wanted was to have a simple XAP that I'd be able to load parameters in…very much like we did for SL Video Player on codeplex. To make essentially the player have a flexible use model. I could host the player anywhere and just feed it media to play.
I used the InitParams feature of the Silverlight plugin model to enable me to pass in parameters to the application. I wanted a simple parameter 'media' that basically was a URI to my media. For most of my needs this would be a progressive download situation. I added the simple feature using InitParams, and passed that URI to the MediaElement of the player framework. All was well.
Missing Features – Part 2
I then realized two features that I love about the Expression Encoder templates: AutoLoad and ThumbnailImage. These two features are pretty much essential for a bandwidth saving playback experience. AutoLoad basically disables the media from starting to be fetched until the user clicks play. The ThumbnailImage enables a static screenshot view to be displayed until a media frame could be captured. These two features work well together.
The AutoLoad (cueing) was critical for me. I didn't want media to start downloading until the user said so. This saves me bandwidth as well as doesn't annoy the user if there is a ton of media on one page (which might not be a good UX to begin with, but I digress).
I saw an event PlayControlClicked in the framework that I felt I could tap into. I figured I'd just wire up to that event and set the MediaElement.Source when the user clicked that. FAIL. The problem was that the play control in the current framework isn't even enabled until the media source is set. This defeated my whole purpose.
After some spelunking in the source – did I mention that SMF is Open Source? – I found the culprit functions. Disabling them made everything work but it just didn't feel right. Luckily one of the developers of the framework, Kevin from Vertigo, and I start chatting (virtually of course, after all nobody 'talks' anymore for real right?). I told him of my findings and hacks and he educated me that I didn't even need to mess with the source, but could accomplish my needs by subclassing the Player. Kevin sent me some sample code for what he called a DeferredSource, which is what I wanted.
After some quick tests, I realized that I should keep all scenarios enabled:
- Deferred loading (AutoLoad=false)
- Normal progressive playback (AutoLoad=true)
- Windows Streaming
- IIS Smooth Streaming
I modified Kevin's source a bit and got everything working. Now I have 3 parameters:
- media – the URI of the stream, IIS Smooth Streaming manifest, or media file for progressive download
- autoload – used really only for progressive download, would enable/disable cueing of the video upon load
- ss – to specify if the URI indicated in 'media' is an IIS Smooth Streaming implementation
With this done I can now do something as simple as:
1: <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="320" height="240">
2: <param name="source" value="/ClientBin/SmfSimplePlayer.xap"/>
3: <param name="background" value="white" />
4: <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40818.0" />
5: <param name="initParams" value="media=URL_TO_YOUR_VIDEO" />
6: <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
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10: </object>
Boom, done. Now I had a player based on SMF that served my needs.
I still didn't implement the ThumbnailImage in my player. This is a wishlist item for me…it isn't critical but nice for when AutoLoad=false so it isn't just a blank screen! Additionally, the one thing I have to admit I'm not wild about is the overall size. The compiled XAP is 230K. In contrast my SL Video Player is 16K. Why the big size? Well, the SMF today is intended for someone who really wants to implement all the features it provides, including Smooth Streaming. If you aren't using Smooth Streaming, then you still have those dependencies with you…not ideal.
In talking with the dev team and framework team, I know their plans for updated milestones of SMF and am pleased with the roadmap. They have taken a lot of feedback of how mainstream uses might be implemented and will make it continue to be awesome with a bit more flexibility of taking what you need!
If you need a solid, basic player take a look at SMF. There are other players out there of course, but this one is based on proven best practices in the toughest situations. And it is only getting better. There is a lot of room for improvement for the 'YouTube' style simplicity of playback for medium-low quality video playback for your personal sites showing home movies, etc. – and I know that scenario will improve, because I'm pushing for it as well.
If you want to use what I've done here, feel free – here are the files:
- Compiled XAP (Updated 29-APR-2010 for SL4 for full-screen pinning)
- Source code for my modified stand-alone player – note that you will need the SMF and the dependencies for that before this will compile. This source contains only my modifications
There are also a bunch of videos for working with the Silverlight Media Framework beyond the basics. Be sure to check them out!
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Hilda Solis on Free TradeDemocratic Representative (CA-32) | |
Proponents support voting YES because:
Rep. RANGEL: It's absolutely ridiculous to believe that we can create jobs without trade. I had the opportunity to travel to Peru recently. I saw firsthand how important this agreement is to Peru and how this agreement will strengthen an important ally of ours in that region. Peru is resisting the efforts of Venezuela's authoritarian President Hugo Chavez to wage a war of words and ideas in Latin America against the US. Congress should acknowledge the support of the people of Peru and pass this legislation by a strong margin.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Rep. WU: I regret that I cannot vote for this bill tonight because it does not put human rights on an equal footing with environmental and labor protections.
Rep. KILDEE: All trade agreements suffer from the same fundamental flaw: They are not self-enforcing. Trade agreements depend upon vigorous enforcement, which requires official complaints be made when violations occur. I have no faith in President Bush to show any enthusiasm to enforce this agreement. Congress should not hand this administration yet another trade agreement because past agreements have been more efficient at exporting jobs than goods and services. I appeal to all Members of Congress to vote NO on this. But I appeal especially to my fellow Democrats not to turn their backs on those American workers who suffer from the export of their jobs. They want a paycheck, not an unemployment check.
Proponents support voting YES because:
Rep. RANGEL: In recent years, trade policy has been a dividing force. This legislation develops a new trade policy that more adequately addresses the growing perception that trade is not working for American workers. The Trade and Globalization Assistance Act would expand training and benefits for workers while also helping to encourage investment in communities that have lost jobs to increased trade--particularly in our manufacturing sector. The bill is a comprehensive policy expanding opportunities for American workers, industries, and communities to prepare for and overcome the challenges created by expanded trade.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Rep. McCRERY: We should be considering trade adjustment assistance in the context of trade opportunities generally for US workers. That is to say, I think we should be considering modifications to our assistance network in the context of the pending free trade agreements that are before the Congress. Unfortunately, we are not doing that. We are considering TAA in isolation. [We should instead] restructure TAA from a predominantly income support program into a job retraining program. Other problems include that H.R. 3920 would:
The mission of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies is to increase public understanding of the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism.
The Cato Trade Center focuses not only on U.S. protectionism, but also on trade barriers around the world. Cato scholars examine how the negotiation of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade agreements can reduce trade barriers and provide institutional support for open markets. Not all trade agreements, however, lead to genuine liberalization. In this regard, Trade Center studies scrutinize whether purportedly market-opening accords actually seek to dictate marketplace results, or increase bureaucratic interference in the economy as a condition of market access.
Studies by Cato Trade Center scholars show that the United States is most effective in encouraging open markets abroad when it leads by example. The relative openness and consequent strength of the U.S. economy already lend powerful support to the worldwide trend toward embracing open markets. Consistent adherence by the United States to free trade principles would give this trend even greater momentum. Thus, Cato scholars have found that unilateral liberalization supports rather than undermines productive trade negotiations.
Scholars at the Cato Trade Center aim at nothing less than changing the terms of the trade policy debate: away from the current mercantilist preoccupation with trade balances, and toward a recognition that open markets are their own reward.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position.
The Progressive Caucus opposes awarding China permanent Most Favored Nation trading status at this time. We believe that it would be a serious setback for the protection and expansion of worker rights, human rights and religious rights. We also believe it will harm the US economy. We favor continuing to review on an annual basis China�s trading status, and we believe it is both legal and consistent with US WTO obligations to do so. The Progressive Caucus believes that trade relations with the US should be conditioned on the protection of worker rights, human rights and religious rights. If Congress gives China permanent MFN status, the US will lose the best leverage we have to influence China to enact those rights and protections. At the current time, the US buys about 40% of China�s exports, making it a consumer with a lot of potential clout. So long as the US annually continues to review China�s trade status, we have the ability to debate achievement of basic worker and human rights and to condition access to the US market on the achievement of gains in worker and human rights, if necessary. But once China is given permanent MFN, it permanently receives unconditional access to the US market and we lose that leverage. China will be free to attract multinational capital on the promise of super low wages, unsafe workplace conditions and prison labor and permanent access to the US market.
Furthermore, giving China permanent MFN will be harmful to the US economy, since the record trade deficit with China (and attendant problems such as loss of US jobs, and lower average wages in the US) will worsen. For 1999, the trade deficit is likely to be nearly $70 billion. Once China is awarded permanent MFN and WTO membership, the trade deficit will worsen.


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Josh Byrnes, General Manager of the San Diego Padres, is trying to outshine Bob Costas when it comes to making stupid comments about firearms. He is now blaming firearms for the cut that one of pitcher Andrew Cashner suffered to his pitching hand while dressing out a deer with a friend. The cut will keep Cashner out of the lineup for up to six months.
"As a GM, I am concerned,'' Byrnes said. "You're dealing with young guys, and obviously, we can control things on the job, but away from it, we hope they make the right decisions.Oh, please!
"I don't know if athletes are predisposed to guns or not, but it's certainly something that concerns you."
Cashner suffered a lacerated tendon in his right thumb in a hunting accident last week, and underwent surgery Tuesday. He won't be able to pitch until May or June, Byrnes said.
Cashner, an avid hunter, was accidentally stabbed in the hand by a friend while the pair were dressing meat, trimming the carcass.
The injury may have been the direct result of a knife wound, but realistically, Byrnes said, it was caused because of a hunting trip with guns.
Has Byrnes never heard of bow hunting?
Or even cutting your hand with a kitchen knife? I doubt that there is anyone of us who hasn't done that one time or another.
Accident happen. To blame firearms for the cut on Cashner's hand is just plain hoplophobic stupidity.


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