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In 1939, Stephen Dunn was born in New York City. He earned a BA in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing.
Dunn's books of poetry include Lines of Defense (W. W. Norton, 2014); Here and Now: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2011); What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 (2009); Everything Else in the World (2006); Local Visitations (2003); Different Hours (2000), winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994); Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984); Work & Love (1981); A Circus of Needs (1978); Full of Lust and Good Usage (1976); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling 1974. He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, 2001), and Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1998).
About Dunn's work, the poet Billy Collins has written: "The art lies in hiding the art, Horace tells us, and Stephen Dunn has proven himself a master of concealment. His honesty would not be so forceful were it not for his discrete formality; his poems would not be so strikingly naked were they not so carefully dressed."
Dunn's other honors include the Academy Award for Literature, the James Wright Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University, and University of Michigan.
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Who cares that the plot of jukebox musical "Million Dollar Quartet," padded as it is with tributes to Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, isn't quite historically accurate? The Tony-winning show, set inside Memphis' Sun Studio in December 1956, follows the proto-rock gods and their producer, Sam Phillips, on the night when Cash reveals he's signed a contract with Columbia Records. Also that night: Phillips ponders leaving Sun to work for RCA, and Perkins can't quite forgive the Pelvis for scoring a bigger hit with "Blue Suede Shoes." The musical opens 8 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., and runs through Nov. 14. $29.50-$69.50, 954-462-0222 or BrowardCenter.org.
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Washington lawmakers have spent trillions of dollars fighting poverty based on a four-decades-old measure that most economists agree is wrong.
Many national efforts to help lower-income Americans rely on the government's official poverty line, developed in 1965. But that dated statistic includes only people who received cash-based assistance from the federal government and doesn't take into account things like food stamps, tax credits and free school lunches.
"The official measure is pretty much worthless," said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former senior adviser on welfare policy for President George W. Bush.
The problematic measure undermines anti-poverty programs by making them look less successful, economists say. It also distorts today's poverty landscape by misconstruing many key statistics. That can lead Congress to spend money on the wrong kinds of programs and advocates to push for inefficient initiatives.
The fact that the official poverty measure has stuck around so long despite its well-known problems shows just how little attention Washington pays to the issue. But that's starting to change.
In 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau issued new poverty estimates based on a model that fixes some of the official measure's basic shortcomings, such as skipping over non-cash assistance. Economists say the supplemental poverty measure paints a more accurate — and bleaker — picture of America's bottom tier.
According to the government's official poverty measure, 15 percent of Americans — or 47 million people — were in poverty in 2012, the most recent data available. That's not much different than the poverty rate when the government started measuring, which has stayed between 12 and 15 percent since the 1970s.
Using the new formula, 49.7 million Americans were in poverty in 2012, a higher number than the official measure. In addition, it showed that 12.9 percent of Americans over 65 are in poverty, compared with just 8.4 percent by the official measure.
Its findings undercut policymakers' major arguments on both sides.
The supplemental measure finds government programs like food stamps have actually cut poverty in half since 1967, waylaying a popular conservative argument that government welfare programs actually keep people in poverty.
"The safety-net programs have been much more successful than people give them credit for," said Isabel Sawhill, a Brookings senior fellow who, with Haskins, co-directs the think tank's Center on Children and Families. "In the war on poverty, we won."
The new measure also indicates that fewer children are in poverty than official stats indicate, an inconvenient statistic for liberal advocates calling for more federal spending to address the problem. "If you want to spend more money, it's good to have the highest poverty rate you can," Haskins said.
But even the new way of gauging poverty isn't perfect. The supplemental measure doesn't take into account benefits from massive government health care programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. And because the supplemental measure is so new, there are no trends to compare it with, which is one reason the official measure is still around.
"If you just knew the poverty rate for this year and last year and you didn't know anything else, what would you be able to say?" Sawhill said.
There is a team of economists trying to rewind the supplemental measure back five decades to more accurately estimate the historical trends of poverty, but that is still in progress.
Still, there are other options economists are considering.
One theory looks at not what people are receiving from the government but what they are buying themselves.
The "microwave theory," as it's colloquially known, tallies up everything Americans buy to raise their standard of living, from appliances to electronics.
This measure is championed by conservative economists such as Aparna Mathur with the American Enterprise Institute, who says consumption is a better indicator of people's standard of living than income. "It really tells you much more about how well off they are today relative to, say, 20 years back," she said.
By the measure of what Americans can afford to buy, inequality has grown by only a small margin over the decades, so fears of inequality disparities are overblown, Mathur said at a Jan. 16 Joint Economic Committee congressional hearing.
"The typical low-income household possesses many more appliances and gadgets that have traditionally been considered the preserve of the rich, than at any time in history," her testimony read.
The consumption measure is a great idea in theory, but the real truth to measuring poverty is that there's no perfect way to do it, Haskins noted. That's because economists say poverty is multifaceted.
David Grusky, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, suggests we start measuring poverty the way we measure unemployment in America — by a whole host of indicators. "The more measures the better," he said. "I don't think we should settle on a few."
Sawhill agrees. There are many different reasons why people are poor and many variations on how long they stay poor, so one measure just won't cover it all. "Policy has to be tailored to the reason why people are poor, not just the fact they are poor."
Grusky argues that even with the new poverty measures, policymakers have continued to focus on the symptoms of poverty instead of its causes.
He draws on what he calls the log-factory metaphor: A town downstream of a pollution-prone log factory can employ social workers, doctors and government officials to treat the illnesses and missed productivity and dozens of other social problems caused by pollution. Or it can bypass all that trouble by going directly to the source and regulating the log factory.
The causes of poverty are like that log factory, he argued. They could be nearly eliminated by going to their source. "There are complicated effects of poverty but not causes."
Solving poverty requires investment in both education and creating more jobs, conservative and liberal economists agree. And Grusky believes this is where policymakers fall short — failing to make that investment.
He theorizes that investment in fighting poverty's causes costs far less than tackling its downstream effects: "It's just a matter of saying, 'Actually, if we thought seriously about it and really fought a second war on poverty as if we meant it, because we know the costs are so dire, we could do it.' "
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These mosaic images from NASA's Dawn mission show how dark, carbon-rich materials tend to speckle the rims of smaller craters or their immediate surroundings on the giant asteroid Vesta. The image on the left is Numisia Crater and the image on the right is a shallow, unnamed crater in the Sextilia quadrangle.The left-hand image was obtained by Dawn's framing camera during its low-altitude mapping orbit phase, about 130 miles (210) kilometers above the surface. The image on the right was obtained during Dawn's high-altitude mapping orbit, about 420 miles (680 kilometers) above the surface. The images have been photometrically corrected. North is up.The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. The Dawn framing cameras were developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, with significant contributions by DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The framing camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR and NASA/JPL.More information about Dawn is online at http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.


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Yin and Yang Since Election Day, stock indices have fallen sharply, reflecting the Washington non-consensus. As we enter another legislative sausage session, investors can't help but recall the 20 percent drawdown that marked the last high-stakes negotiation.
Unlike the European austerity programs targeting the labor class, American austerity ambitions target the investor class, and that class is responding by selling. Frankly, after spending the last three weeks in Asia and being continuously exposed to growth-enhancing policies, I became a little envious.
Flying between Hong Kong and Shanghai, I had a choice of programming funded by area advertisers. Among the advertisers were developing Southeast Asian countries touting their tax advantages.
Singapore has a 17 percent corporate tax rate and no capital gains tax. Hong Kong has a flat tax of 15 percent and actually refunded $769 to each Hong Kong citizen last year. Neither jurisdiction taxes repatriated profits.
Anecdotally, in Hong Kong I visited a 12-story "wine cellar" filled to the brim with vast collections. Hong Kong eliminated wine duties in 2008 and has since become the No. 1 international marketplace for enthusiasts.
The U.S. may have adopted a stance that taxes do not matter, but Asia has not only adopted the opposite stance – it is also advertising it as a competitive advantage to international business travelers.
Last week, China announced a new generation of Party leadership. Unlike the United States, the election process is shrouded in secrecy with 10-year terms.
While the last generation included many engineers, this generation includes more corporate and entrepreneurial characters.
The Party's national ambitions appear in their very specific five-year plan. Principally, the Party acknowledges that China must evolve from being the world's factory by encouraging domestic consumption and service industry development.
The Party must also successfully orchestrate the urbanization of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens.
To accommodate these huge population flows, cities the size of Tokyo must be built annually, connected by miles and miles of high-speed rail.
The current five-year plan dictates that 45 million urban area jobs be created and that unemployment levels not exceed 5 percent.
China will also focus on leapfrog technologies, moving beyond copycat business models by dedicating 2.2 percent of GDP to research and development.
To encourage investment, long-term dividend tax rates were recently cut to 5 percent. China may not have democracy, but it does benefit from government stability and transparent priorities.
So it's East vs. West. While Asia may be labeled "developing," the governance abilities and sovereign fiscal conditions of the West are "deteriorating." I am not advocating that the West adopt authoritarian capitalism to fix this problem, but I am suggesting that leaders consider the global implications of their decisions.
This century will be marked by human and capital mobility. Just as Tennessee and Texas benefit from the tax escalator in California, global governance and tax regimes will also lead to migratory patterns. If you have the occasion this legislative season, please remind your congressman!
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The latest book by Dr. Dianne Portfleet of the Hope College English faculty offers a critical analysis of the writing of contemporary author Walter Wangerin Jr.
Her book "Walter Wangerin, Jr.: Artist, Poet, and Prophet" was published earlier this year by Greenleaf-Wilcop Press.
Wangerin, whose fiction and non-fiction alike focuses on faith and Christianity, is the author of more than 30 books, including novels, collections of short stories and essays, collections of poetry, children's books, volumes focused on practical theology and devotionals. His first novel, "The Book of the Dun Cow" (1978), won both the 1980 National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year award.
Writing for scholar and layperson alike, Portfleet, who is an adjunct associate professor of English at Hope, examines Wangerin's work in light of its exploration of faith and the way that he seeks to guide the Christian community "down faith's thorny path" away from complacency into commitment.
"Wangerin's work - marinated in myth, animals, biblical figures, and Lakota storytellers - is masterful wordsmithery," noted Portfleet's Hope colleague Dr. Stephen Hemenway in reviewing the book. "Wangerin's writing guides his reader on a journey to Grace on the roads of dejection, despair and darkness."
The book is Portfleet's second volume about Wangerin. Her book "Shaping Our Lives with Words of Power: A Study of the Major Works of Walter Wangerin, Jr." was published in 1996, and was the first critical, in-depth study of his work.
Wangerin holds the Jochum Chair at Valparaiso University in Indiana, where he teaches literature and creative writing, and is writer-in-residence. In addition to "The Book of the Dun Cow," his books range from "The Book of God," which sets the biblical story in its own cultural and social settings; to "As for Me and My House," which is about marriage; to "Reliving the Passion," a meditation on the death of Jesus. He has also written children's books including "Water," "Come Down," "Mary's First Christmas," "Thistle" and "Potter." His "The Crying for Vision" is a mystical tale about a Lakota boy's effort to save his people. Wangerin was the opening keynote speaker during a two-day forum at Hope in October 2006 that focused on the art and craft of publishing from a Christian perspective.
Portfleet began teaching at Hope in 1988. Her teaching and research specialties are expository writing, Western world literature and children's literature. Her courses in the college's cultural heritage and Senior Seminar programs are especially popular with students.
In addition to her two books on Wangerin, she is the author of the 2005 book "The History of the Adventure Mining Company from the Ancient Miners to the Present," which she wrote after her son purchased the mine, located in the Upper Peninsula. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles.
Portfleet advises the college's chapter of the Mortar Board honorary society, and this summer received one of only three "Excellence in Advising" awards presented by the national organization. In 2006, the college's graduating seniors presented her with the annual "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award, and she won the "Hope's Outstanding Woman" Award in 2003. She was the college's Commencement speaker in May.
A 1969 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Portfleet did graduate work at the University of Georgia and received her Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University in 1984. She also taught for 12 years at Grand Rapids Baptist College (now Cornerstone University).


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The "2020" (as in "2020 vision") in the company name is intended to reflect the fact that the surveillance systems we sell provide high-definition images which are of substantially higher quality than the normal "grainy" images associated with older systems. For this reason one option for the logo design might be to use a mix of pixellation and non-pixellation to get the point across.
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(AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged Nebraska's denial of driver's licenses to people who were brought into the country illegally as children, but allowed to stay under a new federal program.
U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp said in a ruling Wednesday that the state had not violated the equal-protection rights of the youths. The lawsuit was filed by Mayra Saldana, a student at Peru State College who was granted deferred-action status under an Obama administration program.
Saldana applied for a driver's license three times at the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles in January 2013, and was denied. Saldana came to the United States from Mexico at age 2.


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Rsync Backup ScriptAt last here are the final two parts of this series. Today we learn how to tell rsync which files to include or exclude, set up passwordless login on the backup server, and safely test everything. Tomorrow we put it all together and completely automate wakeup, backup, and shutdown.
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Prequisite: SSH EverywhereYou need SSH already set up, tested and working on all your computers. At a minimum you need the SSH daemon running on the backup server, user accounts on the server, and logins tested from the client PCs.
Rsync Backup ScriptWhile rsync has a huge number of options, there are just a few that I use regularly. This is the script I use the most. It is installed on all the PCs that I want backed up. My backup server is named "backup_server", and why don't we call this backup script "backup_script".
#Simple backup script to backup homedir, with exclude or include options.
#To include files instead of exclude, comment out the exclude line and
#uncomment the include line. And, of course, have an exclude or include file.
#rsync -ave ssh /home/carla/ --include-from=/home/carla/rsync/include.txt --delete --force backup_server:/home/carla/
--delete means delete files from the backup server that have been deleted from the source PC. I'm comfortable doing this because I'm careful, and I don't care to backup every file ever created for eternity. Take into account your users' habits, such as the chronic accidental-deleters. --force means delete directories even if they are not empty.
Mind your trailing slashes on the source directories. This trips up admins all the time. /home/carla/ means copy the contents of carla. /home/carla means copy the carla directory as well, so I would end up with /home/carla/carla/ on the backup server. The file must be made executable, so I like to use chmod 0700 backup_script, which limits read-write-execute permissions only to the file owner.
Exclude/Include FileI use the --exclude-from option because I have way more files to include. Put your excluded or included files in a separate plain text file. Here is a simple example for my personal home directory, named most imaginatively exclude.txt:
Excluding the Desktop means I don't backup the Trash directory. ~./macromedia is where Flash cookies live, and I don't see any reason to backup the squillion browser cache files in ~./mozilla. I could fine-tune the file selection to backup my Firefox bookmarks. If I wanted to.
Now you can test this manually. You might want to include the --dry-run option so it doesn't change anything, like this:
$ rsync --dry-run -ave ssh /home/carla/ --exclude-from=/home/carla/rsync/exclude.txt --delete --force backup_server:/home/carla/ | tee dryrun.txt
Piping the output to the tee command lets you see all the output on screen, and it also goes into a text file for easy review. You can omit | tee dryrun.txt without affecting the backup; all that does is record what it does. Once you're satisfied, remove the --dry-run option and the -v option, since you won't need verbose output for automatic unattended backups.
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Wear this insignia proud on your shirt. Show the everyone across this and all other galaxies your allegiance to the Rebel Alliance. The time to stand up to the corrupt Galactic Empire is here! Will you join in our crusade?
The Alliance Starbird - a proud insignia symbolizing hope, courage, and the ability of overcome massive adversity. Some call it the Phoenix, seeing it as a symbol of a new galactic order of peace arising from the ashes of a galaxy at war. We see it as the sign of the Rebellion, and we stand with them to topple the evil Galactic Empire!
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The latest anomalies
The announcement of new transiting hot-Jupiter type planets, such as WASP 79b or HAT-P-38b, by the ground-based surveys no longer generates press releases, but the march of discovery does give us an ever-clearer view of the planetary census.
Yesterday, Matteo Crismani turned in his UCSC Senior Thesis. In addition to the results that we published in our 2011 paper (described in this post and this post) he also took an updated look at the relationship between the radius anomaly (the fractional discrepancy between the theoretically predicted radius and the actual observed radius) and the insolation-derived effective temperature of the planet. With the large aggregate of hot Jupiter-class planets that now have good measurements for both planetary mass and planetary radius, the dependence of the radius anomaly on the planetary temperature has grown clearer.
The best fit power-law now has the radius anomaly scaling as T^2.9, with an uncertainty on the exponent of ~0.3. This is quite close to the T^2.6 relation that stems from the back-of-the-envelope arguments that invoke the Batygin-Stevenson Ohmic heating mechanism. In effect, these hot Jupiters are like Ball Park Franks…


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New EPA chief steps into Alaska mine controversy
President Barack Obama's top environmental official was visibly moved as people in this fishing town told her the giant Pebble Mine would kill wild salmon and destroy their culture.
"You remind why we're all here, what we work for every day and why I am probably the most blessed person in the world to be at EPA at this time," said Gina McCarthy, who became administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency just last month.
"I intend to make you proud in the position the president has given me," she said to a standing ovation in the packed gymnasium at a Dillingham school.
McCarthy visited the Bristol Bay region this week as a nationwide debate grows over the proposed mine. It could be the largest open-pit mine in North America and is in a region that produces half the world's wild red salmon.
The proposed gold and copper mine pits interests anxious for new jobs against those who say it will destroy streams, wetlands and salmon populations. Mine opponents in the fishing town of Dillingham were exalting at what they saw as McCarthy's sympathetic views.
"It was like a shot to the heart when she said, 'I'm going to make you proud,'" said Robyn Chaney of Dillingham. "It gives you a glimmer of hope."
The EPA is considering using the Clean Water Act to block the Pebble Mine even before it applies for permits.
Chaney's 14-year-old son, Triston, told the EPA leader that streams in the region are clean enough to drink from.
"The first thing I ever drank as a baby was from a stream, and I want future generations to be able to," he said. "Please use your authority to stop the Pebble Mine."
The area of the mine is a massive green expanse bursting with lakes and streams, a sweeping land of moose, caribou and grizzly bears surrounded by mountains.
A tiny camp, just a dot in the huge expanse of Alaskan wilderness, is the only evidence of what could become one of the world's biggest mining operations.
The Pebble Partnership says the region's deposit is one of the largest of its kind on the planet, with potential to produce 80.6 billion pounds of copper and 107.4 million ounces of gold over three decades.
It is near the village of Iliamna, a cluster of about 100 people around a huge and spectacular lake. The community is quiet even in the summer. There's little activity except Pebble Partnership going to work on testing core samples and studying the sensitive area they hope represents a massive financial windfall.
The Pebble workers came to meet McCarthy in Iliamna wearing their safety vests emblazoned with the slogan "zero harm." They said the mine developers are hiring people from Iliamna and the surrounding Alaska Native villages for work ranging from helping out in the kitchen to guarding workers from bears.
"There are no other job opportunities, absolutely none," said Janessa Woods, who has two children. "If Pebble weren't here I'd probably be on welfare, probably be on food stamps, probably be on energy assistance."
Added Mary Jane Nielsen, president and CEO of the Alaska Peninsula Corp.: "We just need to be able to have some sort of economy in the villages because we have all these young men falling through the cracks."
Several people in Iliamna urged the EPA not to shut down the mine before the developers submit their plans. They said environmental politics shouldn't trump science.
But even in Iliamna, are people are sharply divided.
"No amount of money or jobs can replace our way of life," Nondalton Tribal Council President William Evanoff told the EPA leader. "The threats are real."
In the Bristol Bay fishing town of Dillingham, everyone who spoke to McCarthy was against the Pebble mine. The town of about 2,300 lives and breathes salmon, with vivid murals on the weathered buildings celebrating salmon and urging their preservation.
People packed Dillingham's gym to meet the leader of the EPA. They wore "Save Our Wild Salmon" T-shirts and put up a giant sign demanding clean water. An elderly couple waved anti-Pebble pennants.
"We are people of fish, we are people of salmon, that is what we depend on," said Curyung Tribal Chief Tom Tilden.
"We want this renewable resource to come back year after year after year so we can continue to be here," he said. "Your agency can provide us that opportunity."
The EPA leader toured the mine site with Pebble officials after leaving Dillingham. Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively said afterward that he assured McCarthy the developers are "committed to building a mine that would create substantial economic activity while protecting the environment and the fishery."
An EPA study released in April said the mine could wipe out nearly 100 miles of streams and 4,800 acres of wetlands in the Bristol Bay region. The EPA said it is finalizing the study, which is based on preliminary mine plans submitted to government agencies.
McCarthy rushed out of her Iliamna meeting to catch a plane to Anchorage and refused to take questions. She said before leaving she's open-minded about Pebble.
"EPA is going to make our decision based on what our legal authority is – no overstretches – and on what the science says and real data," McCarthy said.
Most of the people McCarthy heard from during her quick visit to Bristol Bay opposed the mine. But McCarthy said that's not going to be a defining factor.
"I am not here to count votes," she said. "I am here to listen."


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In an effort to gain back some momentum, BlackBerry will run a winter sale on BlackBerry 10 apps. BlackBerry will offer a free app per day throughout December. Popular apps like Angry Birds will be offered for free. The apps will run on handsets like the Q5, Q10, Z10 and Z30, which run on its BB10 operating system.
Keep an eye out this month for the BlackBerry specials.
"BlackBerry World has over 1,40,000 apps for BB10 OS. India in particular has been a robust growth market for us from an apps standpoint, so I am confident that we will see tremendous traction with these offers," the spokesperson said.
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My first biggest project.
Thank you to all those on The Hive Workshop for the models for the game pieces. I thank a friend for helping me with a trigger, which I was clueless about, and I thank another friend who tested the map with me.
As many people know, this is the classic board game; Monopoly.
Yes, it says Mnopoly, but the name is changed for legal reasons.
I have added in game modes for a twist:
Free Parking - If someone pays taxes via Income/Luxury tax or Chance/Community Chest, the money will go to the middle and when someone lands on Free Parking, they get all the money.
Double Land - When a player LANDS on GO, they will receive double the money (400 instead of 200).
Custom Starting Money - Choose to start with 1000, 1500 or 2000 dollars.
No Mortgaging - Disallowing mortgaging throughout the game.
For those who haven't played Monopoly before:
Pick a piece then roll the dice to move around the board. Land on a property to be able to buy it, but if owned by another player, pay the rent. Buy properties, get the sets and put houses on them to gain money when people land on your property. Sell the houses and mortgage the properties to be able to pay rent cost of the property owned by the other players. If you go bankrupt, you lose. Last person standing wins!
This is also stated in the Loading Screen.
Many bugs have been stated and fixed, and I hesitated to post my map here because of all the shit that I would get from 3ICE, lol. *Hopefully* this version is the one with no bugs.
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More giant jackpots could entice players as Mega Millions game follows path of Powerball
DES MOINES, Iowa – If it seems that giant lottery jackpots have people lining up at convenience stores more frequently, just wait.
Most of the attention has been on Powerball since its rules were changed a couple years ago to boost payoffs. On Wednesday, Powerball's $400 million jackpot will be the nation's fifth-largest ever.
Organizers of the country's other big lottery, Mega Millions, are now also planning changes to increase jackpots.
Mega Millions, which is sold in 43 states, plans to boost the initial jackpot to $15 million. It also will lessen the odds of winning jackpots and make other changes that will result in faster growing prizes to grab the public's attention.
Iowa Lottery chief executive officer Terry Rich says the purpose is to "turn up the excitement level" and increase sales.


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The world as it should be
For many of us, life in the 21st century is like a nightmare from which we can't wake up.
The world seems to have been turned inside out.
Harmonious music is seldom heard anymore, while dissonant cacophony and primitive jungle beats dominate the airways.
Attractive painting and sculpture is no longer created, while simplistic abstraction and shock-value vulgarity sell for millions of dollars.
Western culture, the light of the world, and history's greatest civilizing force, is denounced by the crassest propaganda, while ideologies of petty resentment are in the ascendancy.
The most attractive women in the world are judged "f**," while grotesquely emaciated models are called "beautiful."
It is like living on another planet with incomprehensible, alien values, and the only thing that preserves one's sanity is the knowledge that this "modern world" is the madness of a single century, while for millennia beforehand the Earth was a much finer place, where beauty and truth held sway.
Nevertheless, from time to time, even in the midst of modern lunacy, one finds traces of a better world--a world that could be, and should be. A healthier, more beautiful world than our own.
Yes, you read that headline correctly. This ad is genuinely exhorting readers, "Don't Be Skinny"--acknowledging that to be "skinny" is something to be avoided.
"Look better by adding desired pounds."
Consider carefully what this promotion is saying:
Even the cut line, "satisfaction guaranteed," has multiple meanings: First, the better-nourished girl enjoys the satisfaction of eating as much as she likes rather than starving herself, and second, her improved appearance yields more satisfaction in life (bestowing upon her the blessings that come with being more desirable).
It even itemizes which physical features will benefit from this weight gain: "Helps fill out cheeks, bust-line, arms, legs, and entire body." We have often noted that plus-size models--especially those who are going up in size--display increased beauty in every aspect of their person. Their faces are rich and full rather than drawn and sunken. Their busts are generous rather than flat. Their limbs are soft and round rather than stick-thin. The modern media never acknowledges these facts. Yet this ad does.
The compliment could have come straight from one of our forum members:
"You sure are popular since you put on those extra pounds."
Imagine: the male suitor in the ad draws attention to the lady's weight gain, indicating that it is noticeable, yet enthusing that she has become more appealing (not just to him, but to all men--as the word "popular" implies) precisely because she has "put on those extra pounds." The lady is twice blessed: she has experienced the pleasure of eating generously, and, as a direct result, has become more attractive.
Not only is emaciation deemed an impediment to attractiveness ("If you want to be popular, you can't afford to be skinny"), but weight gain is seen as highly desirable, as indicated by the line,
"Put pounds and inches of welcome weight on skinny figures."
The extra weight is literally "welcome." The visible results of sweet self-indulgence are presented as a cause for celebration.
Yes, you read that correctly. This ad affirms that being thin in an impediment to enjoying life, and that happiness comes from being full-figured.
"Most people look forward to summer. Lying on the beach, chasing in the sands. But many underweight people hate the summer . . . Build up your weight--fill yourself out."
Could there be a more positive message? The ad reveals an unacknowledged truth--that in fact it is the skeletal models, with their sunken chests, caved-in waists, and hip-deprived stick-figure forms, who should feel embarrassed in swimwear. On the other hand, the more that a goddess "fills herself out," the more alluring her figure will be, and the better she will look in swim fashions.
Another actress of the time--dressed in swimwear--champions the full-figured look in this spot:
The final ad in this series, seen below, comes to us in a larger size; therefore, if you click on the image, you can read all of its promotional copy.
"Competition for choice roles in Hollywood is truly fierce today. Usually the good roles call for an attractive, well-shaped leading lady and in these instances the skinny underweight just don't have a chance."
Note that this ad invokes the Hollywood ideal, just as today's promotions do. However, here it is used as it should be--to demonstrate the superiority of a full-figured look. (Remember, the 1950s was the time of buxom goddesses such as Kim Novak and Anita Ekberg.) If Hollywood still idealized full-figured beauty today, it would be a force for good, not harm, and a source of positive body image--just as the fashion industry would be, if it used plus-size models instead of anorexic waifs.
"If you're thin and skinny because of poor eating habits..."
The logic of this is inescapable. If a girl has "poor eating habits," i.e., if she eats poorly, she is naturally bound to be underweight, whereas is she is well-nourished and full-figured, her eating habits are, by definition, excellent. This the natural order of things, and it is a measure of how insane the modern world has become that the phrase "poor eating habits" has been twisted into a different meaning, due to diet/exercise-industry propaganda.
"As the weight is gained, you will look better without that thin, skinny appearance."
Not only does this indicate that a full-figured look is more attractive than a gaunt appearance, but specifically that weight gain--the pleasurable process by which a woman indulges herself and adds pounds to her figure--is what yields figure improvement.
"Gaining the weight you wanted may be easier than you think."
The final quotation, above, brings us to the crucial point: Although these ads promote a long-forgotten pharmaceutical product, their commercial origin is irrelevant. Their underlying message, on the other hand, is lasting.
These ads show the world as it should be, not the upside-down perversion of existence that modern Hollywood creates, in which voluptuous beauty is maligned, and sickly emaciation is called attractive.
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I LOVED seeing these ads. They're so inspiring.
Close your eyes and imagine, just for a moment, what the world would be like- what a positive, uplifting, happy place it would be- if these were the ads that everybody saw all the time: on billboards, in magazines, on TV, everywhere. If this was what our media envionment looked like, the world really would be a better place.
The only thing that would have made these '50s ads more perfect would have been if they had featured fuller-figured girls, or actresses who were just as curvy as our favourite plus-size models of today. I really wish the girls in the ads were bigger. But regardless, they deliver a terrific message.
I wish all girls struggling with body image would print out these graphics and post them on their lockers, or in their rooms, anywhere where they could see them constantly, in order to counter the brainwashing that they otherwise get from today's media.
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Though I feel good about my body most of the time, it's been hard to hear some of the size-negative and self-hating things women say about being full-figured. I added some of these ads to my work computer's "My Pictures" folder, along with photos of beautiful plus-size models so that I can view them as a screensaver slideshow. My hope is that everyone else will see these images too, and think about whose rules they're following when they think they have to starve themselves to be beautiful.
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Despite my disappointment at how thin the models in these ads are (I wish the pictures featured plus-size models instead!), this is one of my favourite posts from 2008. It really shows what a better world might look like, and how it would think about women and body image (i.e., in a much saner way than we do today).
It doesn't surprise me that the 1950s were the lone decade in the 20th century when curvy figures almost made a comeback. Women were interested in being women again, after the deprivation of the war years. The suffragette movement was over, and feminism hadn't yet reared its ugly head. Society was, for a while, closer to a natural mode than it ever would be again.
Incidentally, although they weren't truly full-figured, the most attractive actresses of the 1950s were quite shapely. Look at this Life magazine photo of the gorgeous Kim Novak. See how beautifully untoned her soft legs are. It's a truly feminine look, which you would never see in the media today (more's the pity).
It really was a better world in the 1950s -- and in every century before the 20th -- aesthetically and culturally.
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Air Bag Warning Light May Come On Due to Corrosion at the Front Crash Sensor
Recall Details
The air bag crash sensors located in the front zone may have corrosion buildup due to a high level of road salt exposure. If this happens, the sensor may become inoperative, and the air bag light will come on. If this happens, the air bags will not deploy in a collision. This recall began on January 26, 2009.
Our Quick Take
The air bag system uses "crash" sensors that monitor the vehicle and detect an impact that requires air bag deployment. Some of these sensors are located in the front of the vehicle. The front crash zone sensor is located in an area that can build up with road salt and debris. This can cause corrosion to build up around the front crash sensors, and cause an interruption of electrical signal. If this happens, your air bag light will come on and the air bag system will not operate in a collision.
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We at RepairPal have designated this a medium priority recall; this would change to high if the air bag light comes on. Please contact your Nissan dealer. They will check to see if your specific vehicle is affected and advise you on what to do next. Always have your vehicle identification number (VIN) handy when you call.


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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Index of articles from Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
Frequently Asked Questions about HUD
What Is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
Created as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was established as a Cabinet Department by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3532-3537), effective November 9, 1965. It consolidated a number of other older federal agencies.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the Federal agency responsible for national policy and programs that address America's housing needs, that improve and develop the Nation's communities, and enforce fair housing laws. HUD's business is helping create a decent home and suitable living environment for all Americans, and it has given America's cities a strong national voice at the Cabinet level.
What Is HUD's Mission?
HUD is the Federal agency that works to help the nation's communities meet their development needs, spur economic growth in distressed neighborhoods, provide housing assistance for the poor, help rehabilitate and develop moderate and low-cost housing, and enforce the nation's fair housing laws.
In an age of shrinking Federal budgets, HUD is focusing its resources on providing housing and economic development opportunities where they are most needed and can be best utilized through local planning.
HUD plays a major role in supporting homeownership by underwriting homeownership for lower- and moderate-income families through its mortgage insurance program.
What Are HUD's Major Programs?
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With hardware 3D acceleration, three-dimensional rendering uses the graphics processor on your video card instead of taking up valuable CPU resources drawing 3D images. It's also referred to as "hardware acceleration" instead of "software acceleration" because without this 3D acceleration your CPU is forced to draw everything itself using the Mesa software rendering libraries, which takes up quite a bit of processing power. While Xorg typically supports 2D hardware acceleration, it often lacks hardware 3D acceleration. Three-dimensional hardware acceleration is valuable in situations requiring rendering of 3D objects such as games, 3D CAD and modeling.
In many cases, both binary and open-source drivers exist. Open-source drivers are preferable since we're using Linux and open source is one of its underlying principles. Sometimes, binary drivers are the only option, like with nVidia's cards. Binary drivers include media-video/nvidia-kernel and media-video/nvidia-glx for nVidia cards, media-video/mgavideo for Matrox cards and media-video/ati-drivers for ATI cards. Other open-source drivers include media-video/kyro-kernel for KyroII cards and media-video/ati-gatos for ATI cards, which aim to support ATI's video capabilities more fully.
X11-DRM is an
This guide is for people who can't get direct rendering working with just Xorg.
X11-DRM works for 3dfx, gamma, i8x0, matrox, rage128, radeon, mach64 and sis300
series drivers. VIA card owners should not use
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Probe for your chipset and enable just that one.
# emerge pciutils; lspci | grep AGP # 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
(Your output may not match the above due to different hardware.)
If your chipset is not supported by the kernel you might have some succes by
Most, if not all, kernels should have these options. This was configured using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5.
# ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 29 18:20 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5
(Make sure /usr/src/linux links to your current kernel.)# cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig
Processor type and features ---> <*> MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support Character devices ---> <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) [M] Intel 440LX/BX/GX and I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support
(Enable your chipset instead of the above.)< > Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
Make sure the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is
(This example is for a 2.4 kernel)# make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install # mount /boot # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
If you want your kernel to be named something other than bzImage, be sure to copy to /boot/yourname instead. Don't forget to set up grub.conf or lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo if you use LILO.
# emerge x11-drm
Some chipsets require you to rebuild
(Add the insecure-drivers USE flag if you use one of the aforementioned chipsets)# echo "x11-base/xorg-x11 insecure-drivers" >> /etc/portage/package.use # emerge xorg-x11
... Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "glx" ... EndSection ... Section "Device" Driver "radeon" ... EndSection ... Section "dri" Mode 0666 EndSection
If you are using a different driver, replace "radeon" with yours.
You will need to add the module name that your card uses to
(Change module name as required.)intel-agp
Reboot your computer to your new kernel and login as a normal user. It's time to see if you have direct rendering and how good it is.
$ startx
(No need to load modules for your driver or agpgart, if you compiled agpgart as a module.) (They will be loaded automatically.)$ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes (If it says "No," you don't have 3D acceleration.)$ glxgears (Test your frames per second (FPS) at the default size. The number should be ) (significantly higher than before installing x11-drm. Do this while the CPU is as idle as possible.)
First you have to check whether the x11-drm package works. If it doesn't and you have checked your logs to verify it's not a configuration error, you might want to consider the CVS sources. There are also daily driver snapshots available if you do not wish to build the full CVS.
Check the DRI
The DRI project has a document about CVS compiling themselves. Please read
Verify that the DRI kernel module(s) for your system were built:
# cd ~/DRI-CVS/build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel; ls
For the 3dfx Voodoo, you should see
Install over your X.org installation. You may wish to back up xorg-x11.
# quickpkg xorg-x11
(This backs up your Xorg-X11 package.)# make install
Follow the "Configure Xorg" section above.
To load the appropriate DRM module in your running kernel, copy the kernel
module to
A few options may increase performance by up to 30 percent (or more) over the
default. Set them in
First, let's see if your video card can support fast writes. We'll do this by
closely inspecting the output from
# lspci -vv 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) . . . Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=48 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
While quite a lot of information is produced, we are looking for FW in the "Status" subsection of the AGP "Capabilities" section. If FW+ is present in the "Status" line, it means the card supports fast writes. We can now check if the motherboard supports fast writes.
Now let's make sure the motherboard supports fast writes as well. This time,
look at the "Host bridge" section of your
# lspci -vv 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02) . . . Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
Again, examine the "Status" subsection of your AGP "Capabilities" section. Look for FW. If you see FW+, your motherboard supports fast writes.
Assuming that all has gone well and both your motherboard and video card
support fast writes, let's enable this option in
Section "Device" Option "AGPMode" "4"
(This increased FPS from 609 to 618.)Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" (This had no measurable effect, but it may increase instability of your computer.) (You may also need to set it in your BIOS.)Option "EnablePageFlip" "True" (This improved FPS from 618 to 702. It also is "risky" but few people have reported problems.)... EndSection
If you want to set even more features, check out the
Whenever you rebuild your kernel or switch to another kernel, you'll have to rebuild the kernel module. Note that you don't need to remerge xorg-x11, but you will need to remerge x11-drm.
That's because you compiled agpgart into the kernel instead of as a module. Ignore it unless you're having problems.
You aren't using the x11-drm driver. Check if you compiled DRM and the driver into the kernel; you shouldn't have.
Check out ati-gatos drivers.
Try out the binary drivers. For ati-drivers, a listing is at
In section "Device" enable ForcePCIMode.
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The trend in downscaling of electronic devices and the need to add functionalities such as sensing and nonvolatile memory to existing circuitry dictate that new approaches be developed for device structures and fabrication technologies. Various device technologies are being investigated, including nanotube/nanowire transistors, molecular electronic components and electrical/mechanical sensor platforms. In all of these approaches, two distinct interface problems must be addressed: i) control of the physical interfaces (surfaces/junctions) within the device, in order to achieve suitable and stable device performance and ii) interfacing to external circuitry, to allow integration into existing architectures. This tutorial will focus on the physical interfaces. The talk will include a brief overview of metal/semiconductor interfaces, and will discuss the challenges and opportunities in controlling the barrier heights for Schottkybarriers and contact structures. The presentation will also consider the electrical properties of metal-molecule-semiconductor device structures, in which the molecular layers can modify the effective barrier heights at the semiconductor interface.
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David B. Janes received the B.A. degree in Physics from AugustanaCollege in 1980 and the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, 1981 and 1989, respectively. From 1981 to 1985, he worked as a research scientist at the Research Division of Raytheon Company, where he worked on microwave devices and integrated circuits. His doctoral research focused on the impact of electron traps on the microwave performance of GaAs based signal processing devices (acoustic charge transport devices). Since 1989, he has been at Purdue University, where he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2001-2003, he was Research Program Coordinator for the Birck Nanotechnology Center. He is currently the Technical Director of the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing, a NASA supported center. Since joining the Purdue University faculty, he has been engaged in experimental studies on mesoscopic devices and compound semiconductor microwave devices and characterization of novel semiconductor heterostructures, including structures incorporating lowtemperature grown GaAs. Current projects include development of molecular electronic components, nanowire/nanotube transistors, and chemical sensors.
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by David B. Magleby, Kristina Gale, Betsey Gimbel Hawkins, and Richard Hawkins
In spite of the BCRA ban on party soft money, soft money managed to find its way back into the political system, mainly through "527" organizations. During the 2004 presidential and congressional campaigns we saw tremendous growth in the number of these groups, their fundraising and their electioneering activities. Shortly after the 2004 elections, bipartisan legislation to bring "527" organizations within campaign finance laws was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate.
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