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The possibility of a full-blown nuclear meltdown of one or more of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors seems to increase by the hour. Millions of weary Japanese citizens are desperately hoping that the worst case scenario does not play out. A major nuclear disaster is the last thing that they need at this point. So could radiation from a meltdown of one or more of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors reach the United States? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Right now authorities in Japan are hoping to avert a full-blown meltdown and keep the radiation that is escaping to minimal levels, but at this point it appears that they are fighting a losing battle. Yesterday, yet another of the reactors exploded. The explosion at Fukushima Dai-ichi unit 2 was the third major explosion in four days. Previously there had also been huge explosions at unit 3 and at unit 1. Japanese authorities are feverishly trying to pump sea water into all of the reactors in the complex in an attempt to cool them down. At this point authorities in Japan have admitted that the levels of radiation in the areas immediately surrounding the reactors "can impact human health", and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is saying that the risk that further radioactive material will be released is "very high". Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has told the media that fuel rods in three of the reactors appear to be melting and that he cannot rule out the possibility of a full-blown meltdown in all three of the problem reactors. Right now, the Japanese government is advising all people living within a 30 kilometer radius of the reactors to stay indoors.
As far as Japan is concerned, the worst case scenario is that multiple reactors could experience a meltdown and they could end up facing a situation of trying to deal with "many Chernobyls".
Tokyo has 13 million residents, and there is a very real possibility that during a full-blown meltdown the winds could shift and carry a massive radioactive cloud in that direction. That would be an unprecedented health disaster.
But could a full-blown meltdown at one or more of the reactors mean a health disaster for the United States as well?
During the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago, radiation was spread literally throughout the entire northern hemisphere. If the worst case scenario happens in Japan, the prevailing easterly winds would likely transport radiation from Japan directly to the west coast of the United States.
Nuclear expert Joseph Cirincione recently told Fox News the following….
"The worst-case scenario is that the fuel rods fuse together – temperatures get so hot that [they] melt together into a radioactive molten mass that busts through the containment mechanisms. So they spew radioactivity into the ground, into the air, into the water. Some of that radioactivity could carry in the atmosphere to the west coast of the United States."
During a full-blown meltdown, radioactive material would be blasted high into our atmosphere. Once the material was high enough in the atmosphere, the jet stream would pick it up and transport it at high speeds across the Pacific Ocean.
The following video shows how the jet stream takes air currents from Japan straight over to the northwest United States. If radiation gets into the jet stream over Japan, the first major land mass that it is going to encounter is North America. Just check out the video below….
So how long would it take radiation from Japan to reach the United States?
Well, according to a report on Infowars.com, it wouldn't take long….
It would take roughly seven days for the radiation to reach Anchorage, eight days until it reached Honolulu, ten days for Seattle and eleven days before it hit Los Angeles, according to figures calculated by Expert Senior Global Meteorologist Jim Andrews.
What could potentially make things even worse is the kind of fuel being used in these reactors. Apparently mox (mixed oxide) fuel is more dangerous than the conventional fuel used is most nuclear reactors. According to the BBC, a Japanese engineer named Masashi Goto told a news conference in Tokyo the following….
Japanese engineer Masashi Goto, who helped design the containment vessel for Fukushima's reactor core, says the design was not enough to withstand earthquakes or tsunamis and the plant's builders, Toshiba, knew this.
Mr Goto says his greatest fear is that blasts at number 3 and number 1 reactors may have damaged the steel casing of the containment vessel designed to stop radioactive material escaping into the atmosphere.
He says that as the reactor uses mox (mixed oxide) fuel, the melting point is lower than that of conventional fuel. Should a meltdown and an explosion occur, he says, plutonium could be spread over an area up to twice as far as estimated for a conventional nuclear fuel explosion. The next 24 hours are critical, he says.
Why in the world did anyone think that it was a good idea to build nuclear reactors in Japan anyway? The truth is that Japan sits on or next to four different tectonic plates. It is one of the most tectonically active regions in the world. Anyone should have been able to foresee that any nuclear facility built near the coast in Japan would eventually be hit by a tsunami.
But unfortunately a whole bunch of nuclear reactors were built along the coast in Japan. And right now problems are starting to develop at facilities other than the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors. Let us just hope that we don't see any more explosions.
This is a problem that is not going away any time soon. According to The New York Times, this is a crisis that could potentially last for months….
As the scale of Japan's nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months.
So what should you do if you live along the west coast of the United States?
Well, you should keep a close eye on the news, that is for sure. Any signs that large amounts of radiation have been released in Japan should be taken very seriously.
Hopefully the folks in Japan know what they are doing and will be able to get this crisis under control.
But there is absolutely no guarantee that is going to happen.
If the worst case scenario comes to fruition, we could end up facing the worst nuclear disaster in history. That is not something to be taken lightly.
Let us just pray that this nightmare does not get any worse.


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Here's a little-known fact about Amazon's Prime membership: The company guarantees your package will be delivered at the promised time. If it's not, Prime members can get a one-month extension of their membership.
As Redditor jeffnnc points out, with the holidays here, chances are greater that the estimated delivery dates will be missed. You have to contact customer support to get the extension, and you can get the extension twelve times in a year.
Those who aren't Prime members can get the shipping costs refunded by contacting Amazon as well.
Coupled with Amazon's refund-if-the-price-drops price-matching policy, Amazon really has stellar customer service. Read the fine print on the Prime extension policy below.
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Searching for the cheapest airfare may be the most popular way of deciding on a flight, but secret extras baked right into the ticket may bring extra value to your booking, no matter how much you paid.
Follow these three lessons to ensure that you're maximizing the value of a travel booking for more than just the flight alone.
1. Know the code
A single letter of the alphabet lets the airline know where in the hierarchy of airfares your ticket ranks.
This is known as the fare basis code, and though passengers typically overlook it, this miniscule mark is the key to unlocking important information regarding your booking, including how easy it is to make a change to the ticket, how eligible you are for an upgrade, and how many frequent flier miles may be earned.
Airlines do not make it easy to research fare codes, as they are often in the fine print, but taking an extra minute to locate and research what it means for your ticket can make all the difference.
Matthew Ma, co-founder of airfare sale website The Flight Deal, is an advocate for understanding fare codes, and makes a point of including the code information with each deal post.
As Ma tells CNN Travel: "Knowing the fare code means knowing whether or not the ticket you just purchased will earn frequent flier miles, which help you to see more of the world for less."
Ma cites a flight he booked to Jordan as an example.
"Most of Royal Jordanian's cheap fares are 'R' or 'N' fare codes, which earn no frequent flier miles in [its alliance partner] American Airlines' program," he says.
"When the airline offered a sale with higher 'L' fares on offer, I booked that, and I'll earn American Airlines miles. This means miles for either future travel and upgrades, and a chance at elite status for further airline perks."
While deciphering a fare code and what it means for your ticket may take a bit of squinting at your computer screen, there's always the option to call the airline and have an agent explain the fare code and fare rules in plain terms.
They'll also be able to advise on higher codes for the same flight, for a little more money, but potentially yielding more frequent flier miles and fewer change restrictions.
2. Schedule a stopover
In the realm of commercial air travel, there are layovers and there are stopovers.
A layover involves the typical rigamarole of getting off one flight, waiting a few hours at an interim airport, and boarding another flight to your destination. You may have time for a meal or to catch up on a good book, but layovers are hardly a vacation.
A stopover, on the other hand, is a full break between flights, where the passenger gets off of a flight at an airport, and has meaningful time, often multiple days, to explore that city before rejoining their itinerary to continue on to the true destination.
Stopovers essentially allow two-for-the-price-of-one trips.
"Paid tickets frequently let you add a stop in an airline's hub either for free or for a modest extra charge," notes Gary Leff, travel points guru and blogger at View From the Wing.
"Stopovers are even more valuable on award bookings as, for instance, you can have a free stop along the way, requiring no additional miles, but maybe modest extra airport taxes.
On my honeymoon, I visited both Tahiti and Australia for the same mileage required for just Australia. En route to Southeast Asia on another trip, I visited Dubai without spending extra miles or money, and had tea at the Burj al Arab."
Some airlines promote their free stopover policies in the name of travel marketing, encouraging visitors to spend time (and money) in their hub.
For passengers flying Hawaiian Airlines from the US to Asia, the airline allows for multi-day stopovers in Honolulu. Similar policies exist for Emirates with Dubai, Icelandair with Reykjavik, Finnair with Helsinki, KLM with Amsterdam and Japan Airlines with Tokyo.
To discover if a free stopover is possible with your ticket, and get two destinations for the price of one, attempt a "multi-city" search on the airline's website or call the airline to inquire about stopover rules on both paid or award tickets.
3. Save that boarding pass
The flight is over and you've claimed your luggage. That's the end of it, right? Wrong, if that boarding pass you stuffed in your wallet is one from an airline offering post-flight discounts at destinations.
For example, fly Turkish Airlines to visit Petra, considered one of "new seven wonders of the world," and show your boarding pass at the entrance gate for 15% off the $70 per person entrance fee.
In South Korea, Korean Air and Asiana compete to offer similarly valuable boarding passes, with discounts on admission to cultural performances and theme parks, gift cards to department stores, half-price rentals of Wi-Fi routers, and even 10% off "medical services" at a plastic surgery and dental center in Seoul.
Saving your boarding pass now means saving on the total of a tooth whitening regimen on the other side of the world.
The king of boarding passes-as-tickets to free experiences is undoubtedly Alaska Airlines, whose current wine tourism and ski vacation promotions give passengers post-flight access to complimentary tastings at wineries in Oregon and Washington state, and free ski passes at 12 West Coast ski resorts.
"We encourage travelers to fly right into the resort town, rather than drive, and then use our boarding passes to jumpstart their ski vacation," says Elliott Pesut, Alaska Airlines' director of product marketing.
"The ski passes and the wine programs are such cool benefits for our guests. We know they're passionate about these leisure activities, and we know that we can give them a great experience beyond the flight."
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IMPORTANT! This model requires non-standard firmware. Do Not Install standard firmware (e.g. v.4.1.xx) on this model. Doing so will permanently damage your system. You must use custom firmware v.4.1.25 from the iDS-9632NXI-I8/16S product page.
View the most updated version of this document here:
The I-series NVR (such as the DS-7716NI-I4) is one of Hikvision's most popular and feature-rich recorders. As such, many firmware revisions have been introduced over the years to continually ensure the product is compatible with the newest technology available. Due to the many revisions, we recommend that the user closely follows the instructions below in order to reduce the amount of time spent as well as the chance of failure.
As more affordable IP cameras are introduced over time with greater video resolution and data sizes, more efficient database management also becomes necessary. The introduction of firmware v4.0 brought about a new database architecture in order to be futureproof.
After upgrading to v4.X, the recorder database will need to be converted and optimized. If you are experiencing issues where playback is expected but not found, make sure "Database Repair" is performed as indicated in the procedures and scenarios below.
Before proceeding with upgrade, it is recommended that NVR configuration file is exported from the NVR over the network or on to a local USB drive.
Downgrading is not recommended. Due to new features and parameters constantly being added, downgrading may cause the NVR to factory default itself or require a manual default to operate properly.
View the most updated version of this document here:K-Series DVR upgrade instructionThe Turbo 4 Hybrid DVR K series has multiple models and across different platform and chipset. It also has similar firmware development of other recording product line; DVR K series has also introduced the GUI4.0 to ensure the series to be compatible to the newest technology available. The new database architecture is also brought into the DVR firmware v4.0 to be future proof and for better recording search experience.
Database Optimization and Repair
As more affordable cameras introduced over time with greater video resolution and data sizes, more efficient database management also becomes necessary. The introduction of firmware v4.0 brought about a new database architecture in order to be futureproof.After upgrading to v4.X, the recorder database will need to be converted and optimize. If you are experiencing issues, where playback is expected but not found, please make sure to perform "Database Rebuild" as indicated in the procedures and scenarios below.
Preparing the Upgrade
Before proceeding with upgrade, it is recommend exporting DVR configuration file from the DVR over the network or on to a local USB drive.
Action after firmware upgraded
1. Upgrade the DVR according to the chart above.
2. Reconfirming Channel's Recording Schedule
- Confirm channel's recording schedule is enable.
- Check if the channel is on correct recording schedule.
3. Double Check Storage Setting
- Make sure all channel are assigned to record on its HDD group when the Storage setting is under Group Mode.
4. Perform Database Rebuild locally.
• Some version above support Database Rebuild via web access - K51 and K72
• Perform Database Rebuild regardless if system is having any database issue symptom.
• Database Rebuild process is average ~30 to 60min per TB. The process may still varies depends recording data.
• After Database Rebuild - Check log to confirm Database Rebuild has went thru properly.
• If Database Rebuild Started and Stopped log has been log only within few minutes. Database rebuild may not has been completed properly. It is strongly recommend performing the Database Rebuild again.
• To check log > System > Log > Information > Database Rebuild Started and Stopped.
• If the log option is not available - access system via SSH can also obtain similar result.
5. Recording Data is still missing after database rebuild process.
If the data has not been recorded or has been overwritten, Database rebuild process is not able retrieve those lost data. Have the system upgraded to the latest available firmware version above to prevent any future data lost is strongly recommended for all application.
In light of the global semiconductor shortage, Hikvision has made some hardware changes to the DS-76xxNI-Q1(2)/P NVRs, also known as "Q series."
These changes do not have any effect on the performance, specifications, or the user interface of the NVRs. For the ease of reference, these modified units are known as "C-Version" units. This is clearly indicated on the NVR label and on the box by the serial number.
The only difference between the "C-Version" and "non-C-Version" is the firmware. The firmware is not interchangeable:
Please do not be alarmed if a "Firmware Mismatch" message pops up on the screen during the firmware upgrade. This simply means that the firmware does not match the NVR's hardware. Simply download the correct firmware and the upgrade will go through without any issue.
In light of the global semiconductor shortage, Hikvision has made some hardware changes to the Value Express Series NVRs
These changes do not have any effect on the performance and specification of the recorders. For ease of reference, these modified units are known as "C-Version" units. This is clearly indicated on the NVR label and on the box by the serial number.
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Fragile States, Fragile Lives
Child Marriage Amid Disaster and Conflict
June 11, 2014
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Existing evidence suggests that the correlation between child marriage prevalence and fragility should be examined more closely, as many of the countries with the highest rates of the practice are found on the top of lists such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) list of fragile states and the Fund for Peace's Failed States Index.
Child marriage does not cause fragile states, but it does reinforce poverty, limit girls' education, stymie economic progress, and contribute to regional instability. Natural disasters and/or armed conflict limit economic opportunities, weaken social institutions, and increase the chance of sexual violence and assault targeting women and girls. In such circumstances, early marriage becomes a more palatable option for parents and families looking to protect their girls.
But there is a wide gap in data that assesses the degree to which fragile contexts perpetuate child marriage, resulting in a gap in informed intervention. Closing this gap will help produce more effective and targeted interventions to assist the youngest and most at-risk members of communities in crisis, and improve the future prospects of all members of the next generation in some of the most challenging corners of the world.
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From | Uwe Berberich <[email protected]> |
To | [email protected] |
Subject | Re: st: Pseudo R2 for XTprobit |
Date | Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:09:22 +0200 |
type -ereturn list- to find out. The likelihood is stored in e(ll),
and then you can do whatever you need to it.
To my opinion, pseudo-R^2 are lousy measures, and more so in the panel
data. Even in the linear model, you would have the within panel and
the between panel and the total sum of squares and hence R^2. That's
something not so well quantifiable even in the linear regression: it
would involve subtracting one sum of squares from another, and you are
not even guaranteed to have your sum of squares positive -- this was
mentioned on the list recently. For probit regressions, you would have
a hard time convincing me any of the pseudo-R^2 gives the same
messages as does R^2 in linear model.
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:27:04 +0200, Uwe Berberich <[email protected]> wrote:
I apologize for bringing up my likely trivial question yet again.
However, I still couldn't find a way to report a goodness of fit measure
for my Probit-regressions. I used random effects *XTPROBIT* on an
unbalanced panel set. I already checked STATAs FAQ and previous list
entries. Unfortunately, most entries either pointed towards the
*"fitstat" *command that doesn't work with XTPROBIT or towards manual
calculations unsing the constant-only model and the full model. I'm used
to this procedure in theory, though I don't know where to find the
corresponding numbers in my STATA output.
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Love and Other Stories
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This collection includes: LOVE, LIGHTS, A STORY WITHOUT AN END, MARI D'ELLE, A LIVING CHATTEL, THE DOCTOR, TOO EARLY!, THE COSSACK, ABORIGINES, AN INQUIRY, MARTYRS, THE LION AND THE SUN, A DAUGHTER OF ALBION, CHORISTERS, NERVES, A WORK OF ART, A JOKE, A COUNTRY COTTAGE, A BLUNDER, FAT AND THIN, THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK, A PINK STOCKING, and AT A SUMMER VILLA. According to Wikipedia: "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text." Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them."


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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and AMHERST, Mass. — A significant in-kind gift from Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) will expand the University of Massachusetts Amherst's leadership in training and research in 3D building design, digital fabrication and the sustainable built environment. Partnering with Trimble allows UMass Amherst to more fully integrate across its curricula the technological tools that are rapidly transforming how building and living environments are designed and constructed.
The gift will establish the 1,300-square-foot Trimble Technology Lab in the new Design Building at UMass Amherst. The lab will include equipment such as Trimble's laser scanners, advanced robotic surveying systems, imaging rovers, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers and many of Trimble's software packages including RealWorks® scanning software, Trimble Business Center, Vico Office Suite, GCEstimator™ Suite, Tekla® Structures, Sefaira Architecture and its popular 3D modeling software SketchUp Pro.
Potential applications of these technologies range from the scanning of historic buildings to ensure their preservation, design and 3D printing of architectural building models, digital fabrication of custom-lab equipment, coastal erosion monitoring, and improvements in construction cost estimating and scheduling to reduce costs.
"This relationship highlights Trimble as a forward-thinking company, and I commend it for its very strong commitment to education, research and public service," said Steve Goodwin, dean, College of Natural Sciences. "The possibilities of the Trimble Technology Lab are limitless. As many more students and faculty across campus have access to these technologies, UMass Amherst will broaden our applications of surveying, 3D building modeling, performance analysis, and digital fabrication in new and exciting ways."
"We are extremely excited by our new relationship with UMass. Trimble's broad portfolio is highly relevant for students at the university," said Roz Buick, Trimble vice president. "The next generation of architecture, engineering, construction and operations professionals will be able to experience the breadth and depth of our construction lifecycle solutions. We also look forward to supporting and learning from these new professionals as they experience and apply our solutions to real-world applications in their curricula."
The gift was made to the University's Building and Construction Technology Program (BCT) in the College of Natural Sciences and is part of the successful $300 million-plus UMass Rising fundraising campaign.
At the onset the Trimble Technology Lab will benefit three colleges and four departments: College of Natural Sciences (the Building and Construction Technology Program, Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Department of Geosciences); College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning); and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (Department of Architecture).
"We are very excited about receiving this state-of-the art technology and to be able to share these new capabilities with our colleagues in the Design Building—the Department of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning," said Alexander Schreyer, senior lecturer and BCT's program director. He is also the author of the popular textbook "Architectural Design with SketchUp."
The Trimble Technology Lab will tie into existing "makerspace" on campus to encourage experimentation, rapid prototyping, entrepreneurship and fabrication spaces.
Schreyer said that Leers-Weinzapfel Associates used Trimble's 3D modeling software as one of their primary tools in designing the new Design Building. As the largest heavy-timber structure in the Northeast, it already sets new standards for digital-based, sustainable construction on campus.
The Trimble Technology Lab will be housed in a temporary location in Holdsworth Hall until the opening of the Design Building in the spring of 2017.
About UMass Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst, founded in 1863, is the flagship of the five-campus UMass system. Home to the Commonwealth Honors College, UMass Amherst incorporates modern teaching methods involving new communication and information technology, yet remains an immersive, residential campus serving more than 22,000 undergraduate and approximately 6,300 graduate students across a comprehensive array of academic programs.
True to its land-grant roots, UMass Amherst is engaged in research and creative work in all fields and is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a doctoral university with the "highest research activity" or R1. Together, students and faculty are deeply engaged in collaboration with communities—both regional and international—to improve their social and economic conditions. For more information, visit: www.umass.edu.
About Trimble
Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics.


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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Justin Rose, a U.S. Open champion and the No. 7 player in the world, shot a 6-under 66 his first time playing Spyglass Hill and spent a gorgeous day listening to the fans call out his name. Except they weren't calling for him, and he knew it.
His partner in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is Justin Timberlake.
"I've never seen a demographic like that on a golf course where you're sort of running the gauntlet from one tee to the other. Everyone was under 21 and 80 percent female," Rose said. "I said, 'OK, that moved the needle a little bit there.'"
Rose did OK himself Thursday.
He got off to a strong start is his debut at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where Chez Reavie had the low score at a tournament that needs three days to sort out because of the variety of courses.
Reavie made an eagle on the 16th hole and shot 8-under 63 at Monterey Peninsula, which played just more than 1 1/2 strokes under par and was the easiest of the three courses. Freddie Jacobson made five birdies in a six-hole stretch and shot 7-under 65 at Pebble Beach, the only course to play over par (72.06) on Thursday.
Cameron Smith of Australia and Bronson Burgoon each had a 7-under 64 at Monterey Peninsula.
Rose is among six players from the top 10 in the world, and the only one of them to break 70. This is his first time playing the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, partly because he chose not to play in the Middle East swing on the European Tour, and partly because of a partner (Timberlake) that he has come to know over the years.
Both did well at their crafts.
Rose strung together seven birdies, holing out from the bunker on No. 10 and ending his round with a 50-foot birdie putt that banged into the back of the cup. He played Pebble Beach and Monterey Peninsula for his practice rounds and realized he should have been at Spyglass "because it's a pretty tough course."
"There's some strong holes on it," Rose said. "And I heard some strange reports about Spyglass, like the first few holes are great, then it disappears into the hills and it's not that good. That's not what I saw. That's a pretty stellar golf course to me and really enjoyed playing it."
Timberlake played, too -- the guitar.
He didn't contribute any shots to their pro-am score, but Rose said the highlight was on the 16th tree when Timberlake grabbed a guitar for an impromptu performance, with Alfonso Ribeiro chipping in.
"That was a cool moment," Rose said. "Not many people saw it, because there was only like 20 people back there. That's obviously when you really appreciate how someone can grab a guitar, go a cappella and sound so awesome. You have a better appreciation. You see him hit not maybe so many great golf shots, but then you realize, 'Ah, that's pretty damn special right there.' So we all have our own skill set."
Reavie enjoyed the pure weather almost as much as he enjoyed watching putts go in. Golf has been a grind for Reavie since he missed nearly all of 2014 because of surgery on his left wrist and had to return to the Web.com Tour Finals last year just to get his PGA Tour card back.
"Even on days I putt well, I still don't make as many putts as I made today," Reavie said.
Some of the biggest stars had to settle for enjoying the weather.
Jordan Spieth, the No. 1 player in the world, chipped poorly by his standards and three times failed to get up-and-down for birdies on the par 5s at Spyglass Hill. He opened with a 71, along with PGA champion Jason Day. Dustin Johnson had a 70 at Spyglass, while Bubba Watson had a 73. Patrick Reed had a 72.
All of them are among the top 10 in the world and were at Spyglass with the celebrity rotation.
"A bit weak," Spieth said about his round. "I played the hardest holes on this golf course 4-under par, and then I played all the easy ones over par. Just kind of a bit odd. I just was not quite dialed in with the wedges or short game. But all in all, to actually shoot 1 under with what I felt like I should have shot today is promising, considering we're going to the two easier courses in my mind."
J.B. Holmes also shot a 66 at Spyglass Hill, while Phil Mickelson had a 68 while playing with a different setup in his driver that he regretted changing.
"Like an idiot, I switched drivers," Mickelson said.
He said his driver has weight ports that can be adjusted to affect the spin rate, and he didn't think he was getting as much as he wanted last week in Phoenix. So he made an adjustment and "hit some shots I didn't care for today."
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For many years I collected Byers' Choice Carolers and the girl with her basket of sea shells is one of my favorites.
She was the inspiration for my breakfast tablescape for Memorial Day.
I set her up as the centerpiece on the coffee table with some shells and a lantern and brought out some red pillows, that I use in the fall, to brighten the deck chairs.
The bistro table is so small so I set up the cups on the coffee table.
Do the napkins look familiar? I folded them in the double sails sailboat shape by using the tutorial that Susan@BetweenNapsOnThePorch shows here.
It was really very easy and lots of fun. Here I tucked the starfish in, but you could use a place card or favor.
God bless all who have served our country and sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
I hope you'll stop by Tablescape Thursday and see all the great ideas from so many wonderful bloggers. See you there.


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I have been working on this for months now and finally have it as done as it will get for now, I will update and change it in the future. I hope this page helps answer some of the FAQ concerning our curriculum. There is a link to this page in my top navigational bar, under the "Homeschool Help" section.
This list was updated April 2012.
As we change and add/delete programs, I will come back and update this page!
Ladybug ~ Tot School, age 3
- Animal ABCs
- All About Reading Pre Level 1
- Tot Books/Packs & Preschool Packs
- Tot Time Notebook {she uses this instead of a calendar notebook}
- Tot Trays
- Learning Toys
- Many, many BOOKS!
- Read my post, "What's Coming for Ladybug" to see more thoughts about her Tot School life
- Read my post, "Following the Lead of the Child" to see more of my heart behind her curriculum choices.
Krash ~ In between K and 1st, age 5 1/2
- Calvert {completed K, not started 1st quite yet}
- Raising Rock Stars Kindergarten {we are only doing the Bible verses now}
- You Can Read {review…he completed all 18 units}
- Kindergarten Printables
- Calendar Notebook
- All About Reading Level 1
PacMan ~ 4th Grade, age 9
- USA Geography
- Mostly for the boys, we use my USA Geography PowerPoint show for review about 2-3 times per week. We cover 1-2 specific states per week, using RoadTrip USA coloring sheets and My States Notebook printables.
- World Geography
- Little Passports
- Wonder Maps
- Continent Boxes {I am developing ours now-see awesome resources for the idea here on Counting Coconuts}
- New Testament Overview, from Grapevine Studies
- This is a once a week thing we are using as our family time, it is targeted towards Krash and PacMan, but Ladybug is included too.
- Calendar Connections
- We are using these mostly for PacMan, but depending on the theme, Krash and Ladybug pick up on the facts too.
- What's in the Bible DVDs
- We are watching the episodes together during school time and discussing them. Ladybug obviously doesn't really "get it", Krash tends to pick up on some of it but needs to watch episodes repeatedly. PacMan LOVES them the most and is really learning a lot. I hope to continue using these on a regular basis in the future too!
- Speekee Spanish & Boca Beth
- Ladybug is the biggest fan of these, but these programs have helped us all pick up on some simple Spanish.
- iPad
- We use our iPad for school a lot. It an exceptional learning tool and we are so thankful to have one. See iPad apps for education here, part 2 is here!
I heard your boys are enrolled in a cyber school, how does this work?
Yes, they are and we have a VERY unique situation. We are enrolled in a cyber school but we traditionally homeschool just like someone using Calvert who bought it from their site. The only difference is that my kids get their supplies, curriculum, computer, printer, and MUCH support for free. We are so incredibly blessed to have this option, it is working for us right now. I teach them every single subject, and we use traditional Calvert texts and books…hardly anything is done online for my boys-except fun games and such we have access to. This is another perk for us we have free access to: First in Math, Study Island, Let's Go Learn, Brain Pop, and more. These sites are amazing.
If you are wondering what state we live in, you can email me privately. I just don't publicly share the name of our specific school and location online. Let me emphasize that all sates are different and ALL cyber schools are different. I personally do not know ANYONE else who has a situation like mine {except those enrolled in my particular cyber school}, most are much more controlled from what I have heard. Here is a place on Calvert's website that allows you to seek out using Calvert with a partner school in your state.
Would you use Calvert even if you didn't get it for free through your state?
I am not sure. I do love it, but I think I would look into something like Sonlight or My Father's World ~ with a more Christian backbone. I have heard great things about those. I also think Mystery of History and many products from Bright Ideas Press look awesome. I would probably piece together subject by subject, although the box curriculum approach is really nice and works for us. So, maybe I would stick with Calvert, maybe not. I honestly don't know! I have NO problems with Calvert, and it has served us well since PacMan's PreK year. I specifically have really enjoyed Calvert from grade 2 on, which is the beginning of where I am not as comfortable teaching! I absolutely love Calvert this year {4th grade} and am really benefitting from the box approach in a grade I am so uncomfortable teaching!
Why are you using All About Reading for Krash if Calvert has a good reading program within it?
Honestly-I got AAR to review and decided to review it fully to help my blog readers. I do not need a program to teach reading, I have done it with hundreds of children and it just comes naturally for me {I am a former Kindergarten teacher for any new readers}. Something I truly love. I followed Calvert's program with Pac, but still basically did my own thing, which is what I have done with Krash too. BUT, I get tons of questions from moms who tell me that teaching reading does not come naturally for them!!! They want me to recommend a program and up until now I couldn't since I had no experience with any homeschool reading program {other than Calvert}. I can't recommend Calvert's reading program separately {it is great, but it only comes with the complete box curriculum}. When given the opportunity to review AAR Level 1, I jumped at the chance, knowing this would give me the experience I needed to give my readers an opinion on this reading program-which so far is amazing and definitely what I recommend! I used All About Spelling Levels 1 & 2 with Pac and loved it. We went to AAS when he began struggling early on. He has now went back to the Calvert spelling program and does fine. Our great experience with All About Spelling led me to want to review All About Reading.
Will you enroll Ladybug in the cyber school when she is in PreK?
Probably not, I am thinking of taking PreK-1st and doing it myself for her. But, that may change and we may enroll her if Calvert is still available. Being a former K teacher, I just really, really enjoy doing my own things for these lower grades!
Will you always homeschool?
We believe in making this decision on a year-by-year, kid-by-kid basis. We had no idea we would ever be homeschoolers, so we realize that we have no clue what God has in store for our family. For now, we cannot imagine not homeschooling, and are very thankful to have been led here.
Are you against public/private school?
Absolutely NOT! I believe that the decision of schooling needs to be made by individual families based on so many different circumstances. I NEVER thought we would homeschool, but now am so glad we do {although it was very rough for me the first year}. Some homeschooling families need to go back to group education for various reasons or during different seasons of life and who knows-that may be us one day. I know the Lord will guide us each year in making this decision and I trust He guides families individually in this area.
Why do you homeschool?
Honestly we started because of the area we live in. We are inner city missionaries living in one of America's toughest neighborhoods and the schools aren't anything to jump for joy about. We looked into private school but it just wasn't in the budget, and it wasn't something we really felt called to. We have fellow missionaries on our team who homeschool and even though at first I thought they were a bit nuts-ha ha, I now adore them and the knowledge they have shared with me. Although the decision to homeschool was made due to circumstances, we now feel we would continue even if we had the opportunity to send our kids to a great public school.
Do you have a daily schedule or routine? How do you "do it all"?
Updated: See our A Day in Our Homeschool Series Here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 {part 4 coming soon}.
Loosely, yes…but we seem to work better being a bit more flexible. We know what we need to accomplish and we usually do that-but we tend to go with the flow more since Ladybug often has sassy attitude problems and throws our mornings off a bit. We school intensely each afternoon while she naps…even if she doesn't sleep she is in her bed from at least 1-3:00. This afternoon quiet time is vital to our day!
We try to keep a basic outline of a routine…Calendar Notebooks first thing, Pac upstairs to accomplish independent work while I play with the little 2 {focusing on Ladybug for at least 30 minutes each morning}. Snack, recess, lunch… Then nap for L-bug and individual school for the boys. We usually finish up all school around 3pm each day. In the middle of it all we fit everything in somehow!
We still use a lesson plan blog for PacMan, and Krash still uses workboxes. I now categorize Pac's blog by colors {green-independent, blue-possibly need help, red-with mom}. It is SO easy and we both love it.
It is hard for me…the whole schedule thing. We have good and bad days. We have on and off-routine days. We get things done most of the time and then there are days when I let the little 2 watch too many "educational" DVDs. There are days I adore being with my kids all day long and days I wish I could bury my head in the pillow and not emerge for hours, or possibly days! If you are struggling with creating a routine/schedule that works…know you are not alone. I have been at this homeschooling things for 5 years now and I still struggle. We get through yes-but it is still a struggle for me. I often get asked how I "do it all" and I wrote a post about that here if you've wondered my thoughts on this topic. The post is older but still applies!
If you have any other general questions about our curriculum, please leave in the comments below and I will do my best to add the answers to this list!


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March 21, 2013
By Nicole Williams
LAWT Contributing Writer
You know her as an Emmy-nominated co-host of the award-winning talk show "The Doctors," but you may not know that Dr. Lisa Masterson among many other things, is a humanitarian and an advocate for women's empowerment.
Masterson is a board certified specialist in obstetrics, gynecology, infertility, adolescent gynecology and family planning and is on staff for Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and UCLA. She also owns a private practice and is the founder and medical director at Ocean Oasis Medical Spa in Santa Monica. The spa offers programs specialized for women in all phases of their lives through exercise, nutrition and spa treatments. Masterson also has a charity called Maternal Fetal Care International (MFCI), which helps pregnant women all around the world sustain healthy lives. She says that being a co-host for "The Doctors" has helped her charity and has been a rewarding experience.
"The show has been monumental for that. I was mostly doing my charity and it was a friend who told me if you get this then you could actually speak to people all over the world. It's very interesting because the countries that I go to, they actually get the show in Africa and they'll hear what I say on the show and they get that even when I'm not there, " she said.
But before becoming such a well-known image in the health world, Masterson has had life experiences that started to pave the way for her career. Growing up, she had the responsibility of taking care of her younger brother. It was the long days of watching over him that stirred something inside of Masterson to find an escape. Even currently, with all of her success, you'd be surprised to know she didn't initially know she wanted to be a doctor.
"I never knew in high school that I wanted to be a doctor, but my mother had my brother and we're 13 years apart and I was stuck babysitting him because she had to go back to work because she was a single parent. So to get out of the house, because I spent one whole summer babysitting, I volunteered at a hospital and as a candy striper that's kind of where I knew I wanted to be a part of medicine and it blossomed from there," she said.
In fact, it's Dr. Lisa's mother who inspires her in everything she does. Her memories of joy and also memories of struggle are captured in her book, "Paper Dollhouse: A Memoir." The book captures the struggle her mother faced being a single parent living in the South during times of racial segregation. An excerpt from her book proclaims the adoration Masterson has for her mother.
"My mom was my best friend and biggest supporter, and as I'll say on the show, I owe everything to her unflagging belief in me. It was the one thing I had in abundance growing up in a crazy childhood that seems almost impossibly far from here (Paper Dollhouse: A Memoir)."
The doctor has spoken on her mother's lost battle to breast cancer both in the book and on "The Doctors." It is one of the main reasons, she said, for her efforts in improving women's healthcare. On an episode of "The Doctors", titled "Dr. Lisa's Life Lesson," she spoke about the pain of losing her mother and the inspiration it brought her.
"I'm so proud of my mom because the thing that my mom left with me was that she was all about surviving, success and serving others. She was a human rights and civil rights champion and people don't know that about her, which is one reason I do what I do (The Doctors: Dr. Lisa's Life Lesson)."
The strong bond between Masterson and her mother is one of the reasons she says her most important duty is being a mother to her son, Daniel. She says balancing all of her responsibilities and being a mother can be a little challenging.
"It's tricky," she laughs.
"My son knows I'm a human being. When he was little, he would come with me to work. I went with my mother work. I think it's a very good thing for your kids to be a part of your life," she said.
Even with the large workload and responsibilities that Masterson has, she says it is all equally rewarding.
"When you do things that you love, then everything is exciting and fun. Just like being up all night and not even realizing it; it's almost invigorating. I think the idea is people have the privilege or can do what they love or find what they love to do," she said.
Through Masterson's love of helping others, she has proven to be a world-class caretaker. She has won awards such as the Red Cross Humanitarian Award and the March of Dimes Golden Rattle Award, which she was awarded for her efforts made to improve healthcare for women and children. She also holds seminars on adolescent sexuality for teens and their parents. She continues to be a part of "America's medical dream team" on "The Doctors" and strives in her continuous effort to improve women and children's health care around the world.


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Restoration of robust growth is the paramount challenge facing the nation, the most significant issue of the 1992 election, and the first task that will face a new administration. Indeed, all other important public questions are being held hostage to a sick economy that depresses aspiration, increases unemployment, de pletes revenue, and makes public remediation seem unaffordable.
Many serious commentators have lately concluded that nothing can be done to cure the depressed economy, save to depress it further via budget balance and wait for private confidence to return. The discussion bears an uncanny similarity to that of the late 1930s, when the economics journals were filled with gloomy assessments of something called "mature capitalism." After a full decade of depression, many economists concluded that 12 percent unemployment, static living standards, and 1 or 2 percent annual growth were the best a mature market economy could do.
An abrupt event on nobody's economic radar screen World War II settled the debate in short order. A market economy, with a strong dose of public investment, could and did grow at better than 10 percent a year. Full employment was indeed attainable. The war was simultaneously a recovery program for the nation, a recapitalization of industry, a technology policy, a retraining program for labor, and a force for social progress. In a more attenuated sense, the Cold War played something of the same role.
It seems a shame, of course, that government should only have this potent effect on the collective organization of idle resources as the incidental byproduct of a war, especially since war blows up most of what is produced. As economic policy, war stimulus burns barns to roast pigs.
Like the false remedies commended to cure it, today's economy also recalls that of the late 1930s. For the first time since the Clutch Plague we are experiencing a deflation, though it is contained somewhat thanks to stabilizers that conservatives have been unable to repeal. The real estate bust is the most dramatic emblem, but wages and consumer buying power are falling, too. In a deflation, the market price of an asset plunges and its earning potential is not sufficient to pay its debt. Banks, in turn, suffer from depressed payments by debtors, and become skittish about extending new credit. Banks were none too healthy even before the deflation began, thanks to unintended consequences of financial deregulation.
Unlike the 1930s, the stock market has not yet suffered a severe deflation (as of this writing), but that uneasy buoyancy is the mechanical result of steady reductions in interest rates by the Federal Reserve. When interest yields are low, investors shift into stocks, which bids up their price. However, the Fed's cheap money policy has just about reached its logical limits, especially given the escalating international pressure against the dollar.
Although public debate has emphasized whether the economy is technically in or out of mild cyclical recession, the deeper problem is long-term stagnation. Whenever the current recession ends, not even the White House economists are forecasting a return to robust growth any time soon.
Miraculously enough, the Democratic nominee, unlike his two immediate predecessors and at least one of his primary opponents, has not succumbed to the calls for a deflation cure. Clinton has called for a moderate program of public investment, though he has not fully parsed out all of its economic implications. As president, he would need the intellectual clarity and political resolve to persuade public opinion to support outlays of a magnitude that could do the job properly.
The 1992 election thus offers an implicit three way debate between supply-siders who want to restore growth via tax breaks, deflationists of both parties who would make budget balance paramount, and advocates of a World War II-style cure.
That debate needs to be put into sharper focus.
This issue of The American Prospect contains a special cluster of articles on the logic of public investment as the necessary cure for a stagnant economy. We who offer public investment need to articulate a compelling logic, for this approach flies in the face of several conventional wisdoms about the disabling constraint of the deficit and the limited competence of public endeavor.
Public investment can cure slow growth in four distinct respects. The first two are macroeconomic; the final two are structural.
First, in a deflated economy public investment bridges over the failure of private firms and individuals to invest, given their accurate perceptions of depressed consumer purchasing power. It thereby raises the investment rate directly, which is the key to growth, and puts idle people back to work. In many center cities, where commercial vacancy rates are 25 and 30 percent, we will wait decades for private developers to pour much concrete. But an accelerated bridge, tunnel, rail, highway, or water and sewer program could get concrete poured within a few months, most of it via private contracts that would generate private sector earnings and private employment.
Second, in a global economy, ordinary macroeconomic stimulus of private consumption via tax cuts and deficits partially "leaks" into purchases of imports that do little to restore domestic growth. Instead, conventional stimulus buys only chronic trade deficits as well as budget deficits. A virtue of public investment is that almost all of it is spent domestically.
The third effect has to do with how public investment facilitates private productivity. Goods need to get to market, and workers need to commute to their jobs. Besides transportation, a modern economy also depends on reliable energy and telecommunications. Research by economists Alicia Munnell, David Ashauer, and others has demonstrated that public infrastructure investment is a necessary complement to private sector productivity growth. But in the 1980s, basic investment in infrastructure declined to less than half its normal postwar rate.
Finally, public investment often leads technological advance, which is the microeconomic source of growth. During the Cold War era, this public outlay energized technical advance, primarily via military spending. That military technology policy now needs to be civilianized or it will be lost.
Thus the convergence of several factors the end of a long era of military stimulus, the trauma to private lending institutions, the depressive effect of price deflation, the high-debt aftermath of Reaganomics, the inability of private investors to commit enough capital all point to public investment as the only alternative to chronic stagnation.
The program is "Keynesian" not via increased demand, but via increased investment, recognizing that over the long term it is investment that drives growth. It will certainly have short-term anti-recession benefits, too however the real point is not merely to accelerate recovery from the current business cycle recession, but to get the economy back on a high growth path of the sort that powered the long postwar boom.
The public investment strategy is all of a piece, and should be understood in its complete logic. In this issue of The American Prospect, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of a forthcoming book on the World War II economy, reflects on the lessons of 1942 for 1992. Michael Borrus reviews the beneficial effects of public investment on technology. Ralph Nader and colleagues point to the innovative potential of government procurement. Jay Stowsky and Burgess Laird consider one key conversion dilemma how to turn the national laboratories from military to commercial ends. Peter Stone examines one leading candidate for public investment: high-speed rail. Steven Kelman rebuts the favorite conservative charge that public investment will necessarily degenerate into pork barrel. Bennett Harrison looks as the various structural reasons why private investment cannot lead a recovery. And David Casagrande reviews the literature of the military conversion debate. In future issues, we will examine the human-capital aspect of public investment.
Besides its economic benefits, this strategy offers one compelling political benefit. It restores the link between liberals and economic growth, without needlessly sacrificing equity. For more than a decade, repentant ex-liberals have chanted a demeaning mantra about giving up their obsession with dividing the economic pie, the better to begin expanding it. Meanwhile, conservatives have etched into the public consciousness the claim that a "growth measure" was necessarily one that cut taxes on the well-off.
The morning after Reaganomics should finally lay the conservative claim to rest. A post-mortem on the 1980s reveals that supply-side tax cuts raised the rates of neither savings nor investment, while it doubled the national debt to no constructive economic purpose. And with that verdict in, and the public debt now in excess of half one year's GNP, a second round of supply-side tax cutting would be a much greater folly than it was in 1981. Conversely, investment-led growth should finally relieve liberals of the neurosis that they favor distribution at the cost of expansion.
What of the chronic deficit and the debt? They are millstones all right, but they must not prove disabling. Today, the debt held by the public is less than half of what it was in 1946. At the end of World War II, the national debt stood at 119 percent of one year's GNP. But that debt had not just bought tanks, planes, and bombs. It had renovated America's physical and human infrastructure. As Robert Reich suggests, investment is not just a euphemism for current spending. Whether public or private, debt directed towards expanded investment increases growth. We can indeed, we must incur expanded public debt if we do so wisely. Once a higher rate of long-term growth is restored, the debt will gradually shrink as a share of GNP, as it did for thirty-five years until Ronald Reagan occupied the White House.
The 1980s badly tarnished the public sector as an engine of public purpose. Even many liberals began to doubt whether public endeavor could be salvaged. But we had better begin refurbishing government's capacity for collective purpose, and fast. For in this economy we are going to need it.
From its founding nearly three years ago, The American Prospect has sought to help reconstruct a plausible and persuasive liberalism. This issue's cluster of articles concerned with a public investment strategy for economic growth exemplifies that purpose: substantive, detailed thinking about how to solve the nation's problems, rather than symbolic gestures. Yet, as this political season has reminded us, there is another aspect to the conflict over public ideas in America that is inevitably and properly symbolic. It is a battle over cultural ideals, ways of life, the meaning of the past. And that conflict is inseparable from the hard choices in economics, social policy, and even foreign affairs.
Clashes over cultural ideals and ways of life are hardly new in the United States. The passions aroused by the temperance movement as this century began were not wholly unlike those aroused by today's conservative crusades for "family values" and against abortion and gay rights. Temperance, in fact, was a "pro-family" issue in its day. Yet the present conflict, whatever its deeper historical continuities, dates fundamentally from the 1960s, and it is striking how much that decade continues to preoccupy, bedevil, and divide us.
The sixties seem to return at nearly every juncture. As the war with Iraq began, the nation argued about whether it would be "another Vietnam" (it wasn't), much as a prior generation had debated matters of war and peace worrying whether some incident would become "another Munich" or "another Sarajevo" (we can now appreciate the latter reference). Press stories about Bill Clinton's draft record and whether or not he inhaled prompted another round of reflection: Could the generation of the sixties ever be free of its past? Could the nation ever trust anyone who was under thirty in 1968?
And when Los Angeles erupted in riots and flames, Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, peered over the city and, astonishingly, saw the words "the sixties" traced by the smoke. Again we were back to the same argument, in a slightly different version: Was the Great Society to be held responsible for urban disintegration and violence today? (According to a Los Angeles Times poll in early May, few thought it should, and roundups of Medicare, Headstart, and other surviving programs from that era turned up no plausible suspects.) Meanwhile, "JFK" was playing at your local theater, forensic cultural historians hovered over Marilyn's deathbed looking for fingerprints, and the music of the 1960s that was once damned as subversive had literally been turned into advertising jingles. The lyrics have been changed, but the melodies and the gunshots linger on.
Yet the memory of the 1960s does not simply linger; it has become a source of power for some, of weakness for others. The rise of conservatives at the national level dates to 1968, the waning of liberal influence to the same period. In the 1992 election, the Democrats are still trying to shake off the taint of the sixties, the Republicans are still trying to run against it. At their convention in New York this year, the Democrats tried to overcome and put behind them the cleavages that opened in their own ranks and the larger society in the sixties. At their convention in Houston, the Republicans proclaimed a "cultural divide" (Dan Quayle), and even a "religious war" (Patrick Buchanan), trying to stoke the embers of old antagonisms into a roaring blaze that would consume the Democrats.
From a social and cultural standpoint, the Democrats have become the party of peace, the Republicans the party of war. If conservatives in the Republican Party cannot summon supporters to fight the archenemy in Moscow, they can at least summon them to fight the Anti-Christ in Hollywood or New York. In short, they can make liberalism the moral equivalent of communism, the "cultural elite" the equivalent of the Politburo, and the battle against them the equivalent of war. Some might have thought that once the Cold War was over, the right's leaders would no longer question their opponents' loyalty. But it seems they have more reason now than ever: Without communism as a unifying force, even moderate Democrats must be made into enemies of the American way of life. This is dangerous to the civility needed for political cooperation, to the tolerance needed in a heterogeneous society, and most of all to the truth.
To be sure, the Democrats have not rejected, nor should they, all the social and cultural changes we associate with the sixties. By and large, the major social programs of the decade still stand, many of them, like Medicare, beyond partisan controversy. But the differences between the parties on the meaning of the sixties are clear enough. Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats not only accept the changed role of women but favor policies, such as family leave, that facilitate and advance that change. And the Democrats have incorporated not just feminism, but even gay rights, which would have been truly inconceivable before the sixties. Even if one had never heard of Ron Brown or Bill Clinton, it would not be difficult to guess which party has a national chairman who is black and a presidential candidate who rock 'n' rolls.
Yet Democratic leaders, and liberals more generally, now recognize that the path they took in the late 1960s or, to be more accurate, some turns on that path led them into the electoral wilderness. In both its public and private expressions, the ethic of expansive entitlements seemed to deny limits, whether in personal conduct or government expenditure. Of course, not all liberals or liberal programs, much less all Democrats, had such an ethic, but enough did to make credible the charge that liberals did not know where to draw the line. So now they must reassert, as an earlier generation of liberals once did, an ethic that emphasizes prudence and responsibility as much as rights. The New Covenant a poor slogan, perhaps, but a good idea is an expression of that renewed emphasis on the norm of reciprocity rather than entitlement.
Similarly, rather than emphasize separate programs for the poor, the Democrats now put priority on growth and full employment, as did liberals from Roosevelt to Kennedy. There is a symbolic as well as substantive change here: The Democrats are making the values as well as the interests of the middle class, not the poor, their point of reference in social and economic policy. Some on the left, whose conception of progressive politics was formed in the 1960s, consider this revival of Rooseveltian liberalism a retreat. But what the poor most want is to join the middle class, not to reject it. Those who care about the poor serve them best by identifying them with the middle-class majority, not by distinguishing them from it. In the 1960s, the movement for racial equality correctly argued that civil rights could not depend on majority vote; blacks were entitled to equality of respect regardless of whether a majority of whites approved. That experience, however, led some liberals to treat other types of minorities, such as the poor, as groups whose interests demanded satisfaction regardless of majority approval. From advocating civil rights, they slid into advocating welfare rights as equally imperative. As a point of democratic theory, this was doubtful; as a matter of democratic politics, it was a disaster. Today's changed views of welfare, child support, and other policies all reflect a chastened respect for the culture and pocketbook interests of the nation's middle-class majority.
This is not an abandonment of liberalism; it is more like a return to what liberalism stood for, at least in the minds of its most persuasive advocates, before the late 1960s. The liberalism of the World War II generation, epitomized by such people as Reinhold Niebuhr, had a much stronger sense of both human limitations and the limits of social reconstruction. In the sixties, we sang, "We shall overcome," but unfortunately, many of us were overcome and now have come back. If the effort currently under way in the Democratic Party succeeds, it will be not simply a matter of a new administration, but the end of an estrangement from a tradition. There is much talk about a sustainable economy and environment; we also need a sustainable politics, grounded in a realistic appraisal of national sentiment as well as the national interest. In a democracy, this is not optional, except for those satisfied to grumble rather than to govern.
In the nation's memory today, the great counterpoint to the 1960s is the 1940s, remembered as a time when America was at once simpler, more serene, more unified, and more powerful. The movies, songs, old magazines, even the social critics of that period have acquired a rosy glow. Harry Truman's prestige is so high that George Bush, who surely voted for Tom Dewey, now says the Missouri New Dealer is his model. Of course, some of the longing for the forties is for a period when America was clearly on the rise, and when the problems of race and poverty did not appear intractable (in part because they were hardly thought about at all). But, as Doris Kearns Goodwin reminds us in this issue, the 1940s were in many ways a more liberal period than today, and they offer us a remarkably bold precedent for liberal remedy. Even as we take caution from the sixties, we could do worse than take courage from the forties.


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Wall of Stone
(Player's Handbook v.3.5, p. 299)Conjuration (Creation) [Earth]
Level: Trapsmith 3, Urban Druid 5, Sha'ir 5, Wu Jen 5 (Earth), Cleric 5, Adept 5, Wizard 5, Sorcerer 5, Death Master 5, Druid 6, Earth 5, Craft 5,
Components: V, S, M, DF,
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: Stone wall whose area is up to one 5-ft. square/level (S)
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: See text
Spell Resistance: No
This spell creates a wall of rock that merges into adjoining rock surfaces.
It is typically employed to close passages, portals, and breaches against opponents.
A wall of stone is 1 inch thick per four caster levels and composed of up to one 5-foot square per level.
You can double the wall's area by halving its thickness.
The wall cannot be conjured so that it occupies the same space as a creature or another object.
Unlike a wall of iron, you can create a wall of stone in almost any shape you desire.
The wall created need not be vertical, nor rest upon any firm foundation; however, it must merge with and be solidly supported by existing stone.
It can be used to bridge a chasm, for instance, or as a ramp.
For this use, if the span is more than 20 feet, the wall must be arched and buttressed.
This requirement reduces the spell's area by half.
Thus, a 20th-level caster can create span with a surface area of ten 5-foot squares.
The wall can be crudely shaped to allow crenellations, battlements, and so forth by likewise reducing the area.
Like any other stone wall, this one can be destroyed by a disintegrate spell or by normal means such as breaking and chipping.
Each 5-foot square of the wall has 15 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 8.
A section of wall whose hit points drop to 0 is breached.
If a creature tries to break through the wall with a single attack, the DC for the Strength check is 20 + 2 per inch of thickness.
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How Pets Help Children with Autism
Autism is a mental condition associated with difficulty socializing and communicating clearly. Studies have shown that for a child with autism, having a pet improves social skills and assertiveness, along with the many other health benefits pets can offer for our health.
1. Social Benefits
- Conversation Starters. For kids with autism, it can be a challenge to find ways to engage in conversation or relate to others in general. Studies have shown, however, that if a child has a pet they are more likely to interact in a social setting than a child without a pet. The topic of pets can be a natural conversation starter at – or away from – home. For instance, if a visitor asks an autistic child about their pet, the child might find it easier to respond because the topic is one that they are comfortable with. On the other hand, simply having a pet present in surroundings improves social skills – whether it is at home, a friend's house, or a classroom.
- Reduces Loneliness. Quite frankly, "a dog is a man's best friend" is pretty spot-on with how most people relate to their pets. In addition to regular relationships with other people, having a loving, furry, and quiet friend to lick or meow when you are down goes a long way for animal-lovers. Autistic kids find pets as a constant friend whom they don't have to struggle to communicate or socialize with.
- Increases Self-Esteem. It's not a myth – research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology shows that, in general, people who own pets have stronger self-esteem than people who do not. Pets give us social support and can enhance our extroversion and social skills.
2. Health Benefits
The other benefits pets provide are to all types of people – not just those with autism. They include:
- An Increase in Activity. Taking your dog to the park or playing "catch the mouse" with your cat –keeps you away from the status of "couch potato."
- Protects You from Allergies. It's a common belief that growing up with a dog or cat would make you more susceptible to animal allergies later in life. Recent studies have shown that those theories are Actually, the new perspective is just the opposite – having a furry animal in your house early in life will protect you from allergies or asthma in the future.
- Lowers Stress and Stabilizes Blood Pressure. You may have heard of some colleges having "dog therapy" during finals week – where students get to interact, cuddle, and play with dogs and puppies for a nice break. The point of this therapy is to reduce stress. Likewise, having a dog, cat, or other furry or loving creature at home will help reduce blood pressure and manage stress.
- Reduces Negativity. Much like talking to a friend or family member after a stressful or unfavorable experience, being comforted by a pet has an overall positive effect on our attitude. Plus, who doesn't like a cute little fuzzball?
3. Choosing a Pet
As we've mentioned, pets are very beneficial – especially for kids with autism. However, if you are thinking about getting a pet to help your autistic child, there are a few important things to consider:
- The Needs of Your Child. Before you buy a pet hoping that it will be helpful to your autistic child, think about the characteristics the pet would need to have to be compatible. Is your child afraid of loud noises or easily agitated? Take these types of things into consideration when looking for a pet.
- The Type of Pet. Studies have shown that all types of pets are beneficial, but the pets with the most impact are dogs – specifically small dogs. Dogs show support and unconditional love for their owners that is unique.
Who knew pets could be so helpful in such interesting ways? The advantages that pets have on people's lives – including people with autism – are incredible when compared to the lives of those without pets. If you are considering adopting a pet, think about our points above. Especially if you or your child have autism, adopting a pet could highly benefit you in the future.
How does your pet help improve your life?
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Hooks - Extending the Framework Core
CodeIgniter's Hooks feature provides a means to tap into and modify the inner workings of the framework without hacking the core files. When CodeIgniter runs it follows a specific execution process, diagramed in the Application Flow page. There may be instances, however, where you'd like to cause some action to take place at a particular stage in the execution process. For example, you might want to run a script right before your controllers get loaded, or right after, or you might want to trigger one of your own scripts in some other location.
Enabling Hooks
The hooks feature can be globally enabled/disabled by setting the following item in the application/config/config.php file:
$config['enable_hooks'] = TRUE;
Defining a Hook
Hooks are defined in application/config/hooks.php file. Each hook is specified as an array with this prototype:
$hook['pre_controller'] = array(
'class' => 'MyClass',
'function' => 'Myfunction',
'filename' => 'Myclass.php',
'filepath' => 'hooks',
'params' => array('beer', 'wine', 'snacks')
The array index correlates to the name of the particular hook point you want to
use. In the above example the hook point is pre_controller. A list of hook points is found below.
The following items should be defined in your associative hook array:
- class The name of the class you wish to invoke. If you prefer to use a procedural function instead of a class, leave this item blank.
- function The function name you wish to call.
- filename The file name containing your class/function.
- filepath The name of the directory containing your script. Note: Your script must be located in a directory INSIDE your application folder, so the file path is relative to that folder. For example, if your script is located in application/hooks, you will simply use hooks as your filepath. If your script is located in application/hooks/utilities you will use hooks/utilities as your filepath. No trailing slash.
- params Any parameters you wish to pass to your script. This item is optional.
Multiple Calls to the Same Hook
If want to use the same hook point with more then one script, simply make your array declaration multi-dimensional, like this:
$hook['pre_controller'][] = array(
'class' => 'MyClass',
'function' => 'Myfunction',
'filename' => 'Myclass.php',
'filepath' => 'hooks',
'params' => array('beer', 'wine', 'snacks')
$hook['pre_controller'][] = array(
'class' => 'MyOtherClass',
'function' => 'MyOtherfunction',
'filename' => 'Myotherclass.php',
'filepath' => 'hooks',
'params' => array('red', 'yellow', 'blue')
Notice the brackets after each array index:
This permits you to have the same hook point with multiple scripts. The order you define your array will be the execution order.
Hook Points
The following is a list of available hook points.
- pre_system
Called very early during system execution. Only the benchmark and hooks class have been loaded at this point. No routing or other processes have happened. - pre_controller
Called immediately prior to any of your controllers being called. All base classes, routing, and security checks have been done. - post_controller_constructor
Called immediately after your controller is instantiated, but prior to any method calls happening. - post_controller
Called immediately after your controller is fully executed. - display_override
Overrides the _display() function, used to send the finalized page to the web browser at the end of system execution. This permits you to use your own display methodology. Note that you will need to reference the CI superobject with $this->CI =& get_instance() and then the finalized data will be available by calling $this->CI->output->get_output() - cache_override
Enables you to call your own function instead of the _display_cache() function in the output class. This permits you to use your own cache display mechanism. - post_system
Called after the final rendered page is sent to the browser, at the end of system execution after the finalized data is sent to the browser.


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Will We See a Surge of Home buyers Moving to the Suburbs?
As remote work continues on for many businesses and Americans weigh the risks of being in densely populated areas, will more people start to move out of bigger cities? Spending extra time at home and dreaming of more indoor and outdoor space is certainly sparking some interest among homebuyers. Early data shows an initial trend in this direction of moving from urban to suburban communities, but the question is: will the trend continue?
According to recent data from Zillow, there is a current surge in urban high-end listings in some larger metro areas. The month-over-month increase in these homes going on the market indicates more urban homeowners may be ready to make a move out of the city, particularly at the upper end of the market (see graph below):
Why are people starting to move out of larger cities?
With the ongoing health crisis, it's no surprise that many people are starting to consider this shift. A July survey from HomeLight notes the top reasons people are actually moving today:
- More interior space
- Desire to own
- Move from city to suburbs
- More outdoor space
More space, proximity to fewer people, and a desire to own at a more affordable price point are highly desirable features in this new era, so the list makes sense.
John Burns Consulting notes:
"The trend is accelerating faster than anyone could have predicted. The need for more space is driving suburban migration."
In addition, Sheryl Palmer, CEO of Taylor Morrison, a home building company, indicates:
"Most recently, we're really seeing a pickup in folks saying they want more rural or suburban locations. Initially, there was a lot of talk about that, but it's really coming through our buyers today."
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) also shares:
"New home demand is improving in lower density markets, including small metro areas, rural markets and large metro exurbs, as people seek out larger homes and anticipate more flexibility for telework in the years ahead. Flight to the suburbs is real."
Will the shift pick up speed and continue on?
The question remains, will this interest in suburban and rural living continue? Some, like Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR) think the possibility is there, but it is still quite early to tell for sure. Yun notes:
"Homebuyers considering a move to the suburbs is a growing possibility after a decade of urban downtown revival…Greater work-from-home options and flexibility will likely remain beyond the virus and any forthcoming vaccine."
While much of the energy behind this trend has largely been accelerated by the current health crisis, monitoring the momentum over time is critically important. Businesses are discovering new and innovative ways to function in remote environments, so the shift has the potential to stick. Much like the economic recovery, however, the long-term impact may hinge largely on the health situation throughout this country.
Bottom Line
Early data is showing a shift from urban to suburban markets, but keeping an eye on this trend will help us understand how it will ultimately play out. It may just be a temporary swing in a new direction until Americans once again feel a sense of comfort in the cities they've grown to love.


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javatuples 1.2 RELEASED! (October 15th, 2011). [DOWNLOAD]
javatuples 1.2 is an evolutive release. Now tuples are comparable --and sortable-- and new static methods have been added for obtaining tuples from iterables, even if these iterables hold more elements than needed by the new tuple.
javatuples is one of the simplest java libraries ever made. Its aim is to provide a set of java classes that allow you to work with tuples.
Tuples? What are tuples?
A tuple is just a sequence of objects that do not necessarily relate to each other in any way. For example: [23, "Saturn", java.sql.Connection@li734s] can be considered a tuple of three elements (a triplet) containing an Integer, a String, and a JDBC Connection object. As simple as that.
Very probably, you've already written tuple classes for some of your projects, like:
public Triplet<Integer,Integer,Integer> getYearMonthDay() { ....
LabelValue<String,Operator> operatorLabelValue = new LabelValue<String,Operator>(">=", Operator.MORE_OR_EQUAL_TO);
private Map<Pair<String,Integer>,Object> objectsByTwoKeys = ...
Triplet<A,B,C>, LabelValue<A,B> and Pair<A,B> are all tuple classes.
javatuples offers you tuple classes from one to ten elements:
Plus a couple of very common 2-element tuple classes equivalent to Pair, just for the sake of code semantics:
All tuple classes are:
So, how do these "tuples" compare with other common structures like lists or arrays?
Let's say we have some objects...
... String str = ...; Integer integ = ...; Double[] doubleArray = ...; ...
...and we want to create a 3-element tuple with them:
Triplet<String,Integer,Double[]> triplet = Triplet.with(str, integ, doubleArray);
Now how do we get our data back? easy:
... String myStr = triplet.getValue0(); Integer myInteg = triplet.getValue1(); Double[] myDoubleArray = triplet.getValue2(); ...
Note there are no cast operations in the code above, because tuples allow get methods to be completely typesafe.
And what if we want to add a Boolean to the tuple? That would turn our triplet into a quartet:
Quartet<String,Integer,Double[],Boolean> quartet = triplet.add(myBoolean);
Many useful methods are also implemented. Some examples:
... int i = quartet.indexOf(someValue); ... Object[] array = quartet.toArray(); ... if (quartet.contains(someOtherValue)) { ...
Tuples are also iterable, like collections and arrays:
for (Object element : quartet) { ... }
Have a look at the Using javatuples page for more features and code examples.


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