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FIAF Congress, Summer School and Digital-Born Film
[Official 72nd FIAF Congress program]
The 2016 Il Cinema Ritrovato festival was not the only filmic event in Bologna where EYE was present. Partially overlapping with the festival, the 7th FIAF Congress was held from June 22 – June 26. A great opportunity for the Cineteca Bologna to showcase its plans and ambitions, as an institution that joined the FIAF in 1989 and since then hosted the Congress in 1994. Moreover, it was host to the most recent FIAF summer school editions.
This might seem like a strain for interested archivists, curators and other parties to divide their time over all these interesting events, but it actually helps to combine important yearly film preservation events like these. They attract more or less the same audience, so when these events coincide, attendees can kill two birds with one stone. Moreover, seeing films, joining tours through the Cineteca's collections and the L'Immagine Ritrovata film lab, and theorizing at the same time can be inspiring. For Bologna and its Cineteca, it solidifies the city even further as an important site for film archiving and restoration.
The congress consists not only of the conference, but also involves a symposium with a specific theme on which case studies are presented. This year, the theme was 'New life for cinema's past'. This is a very broad theme, which makes for a broad set of case studies from the partaking institutions and experts. It not only forms a platform for case studies from archives all over the world, but moreover workshops are held and ideas and projects are being discussed for future cooperation between archives, institutions and independent experts. Not only were there presentations and discussions about the many FIAF members' restorations and changing workflows due to the expanding amount of born-digital films, EYE's director Sandra den Hamer gave a presentation on the newly built Collection Centre. Other presentations concerned for example the rise of historical theaters and of film heritage screenings at a time when general theaters seem to be closing. Another session was that of The Reel Thing, which is a semiannual event curated by founders Grover Crisp (Sony's Film Restoration & Digital Mastering) and Michael Friend (UCLA Film & Television Archive). EYE will be hosting The Reel Thing in the spring of 2017, more specifically from Sunday 28 to Tuesday 30 May. This follows up on the yearly EYE Collection Day on Saturday 27.
Besides the film festival and congress, FIAF's Summer School took place at the same time but went on after the festival, until July 15. This Summer School has been organized yearly by FIAF since 1973 and has been hosted by many FIAF members, from the Reichsarchiv in Berlin to George Eastman House in New York. The course consists of three steps: starting with an online theory course in May, then having hands-on theory lessons at the Cineteca and attending the festival as well as the congress.
[Photo by L'Immagine Ritrovata]
Then, after the festival wraps up, restoration classes took place at L'Immagine Ritrovata. Participants from all over the world are selected, but all have a background in film archiving, be it as working in institutions such as film archives or studying in this specific area. Also, scholarships by FIAF and ACE are granted to eight participants yearly in order to help them with the program's 3000 euro fee. This might be considered a high price, but with the extensive hands-on program and the involvement of many well-known archivists and technicians from the field, the Summer School is a steady vehicle of the training of new film archivists.
EYE's Film Conservation and Digital Access department was represented at this year's Summer School by head of the department Anne Gant. Not only did she give a glimpse into an interesting case study that is the management of born-digital films, but it was also a good opportunity to interest young film archivists in EYE's archive, museum, and the EYE Study for researching its collection. She made sure to not give a glamorous view of the life of an archivist, but rather show that it is often a matter of arranging, rearranging, conserving and maintaining objects: "only a small percentage of the items really get the big treatment of a full restoration" (Anne Gant, Summer School Presentation June 2016).
Moreover, the large EYE vaults in which over 210.000 cans are kept are really breathtaking, but it is the growing digital-born collection that needs our attention just as much. This especially since we are still figuring out what standards to use and how to process everything efficiently. Although born-digital films still make out a small portion of EYE's collection compared to the analog material, they require much work and the numbers are increasing at a fast pace:
1 born-digital film in 2009
88 born-digital films in 2011
125 born-digital films in 2016
This is not unique for EYE, and therefore other institutions and people like Anne Gant had to come up with digital workflows and plans to fit these into the collection more swiftly. Maybe more importantly, since EYE is to collect, protect as well as provide access to Dutch film heritage, criteria for filmmakers, distributors, producers and other people who submit their films to the archive are to be agreed upon so that the depositing runs smoothly. Dilemmas that were never there before, such as questions like: should I backup first, then harmonize/fix the data structure, and then back up again? Also, where before things could physically get lost because parts of a film were not put together on one shelve, now the problem gets more complicated if all metadata is not catalogued properly. This might be something often mistaken by people when thinking about digitization: it is not necessarily less labor-intensive.
In her presentation, Anne Gant stressed that archives, although new to the digital born issue, need to see this issue as an opportunity. The archives should skill their employees so that they can deploy not only a Steenbeck viewing table, but also a digital scanner and know how to cope with difficult file systems. Needless to say, with the collection that EYE has, it will always be important to have specialists in analog film restoration, and no one can be an expert in both that and digital processes. Also, at some point in time it will be hard to find people that still know how to restore analog film, so we have a duty as film archive to maintain and teach this craft.
Last but not least, as department of Film Conservation and Digital Access but also on an institutional level for EYE in general, new policies had to be developed. In this, we are working together with other film institutes since we are dealing with similar issues everywhere and benefit from each other's experiences. If you are interested in how this is voiced by EYE, see the 2014-2017 Collection Policy here.
[Both photos by EYE staff]Tag:FIAF, Bologna, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Cineteca de Bologna, restoration, L'Immagine Ritrovata, FIAF Summer School, born-digital film, collectie, collection, The Reel Thing, metadata, digitized, digitization, digitalisering, film labs, filmfestival


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In a recent interview, Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi said Capcom had to cut a significant amount from the game. When asked how development was going, he replied, "There wasn't especially any big trouble. More than those kind of difficulties, the edited content was way too much and dealing with that was more difficult than anything."The general consensus is that now the missing content will arrive in some form or another as downloadable content after the game has released.
"This time, truly, the content that was cut was significant," Takeuchi added, "and at the end, we had to wrestle with disc space."
We're hoping that this bit made the cut.
Bryn says: Yet another reason for Microsoft to step it up and embrace larger-capacity media for its system. I know it won't happen with the Xbox 360, but surely it'll have to be case for the machine's successor. I guess this is just one of the many hurdles that developers face when making a game for multiple platforms. And even though it's not implicitly stated anywhere in the piece, I have to assume that the PlayStation 3 version of Lost Planet 2 will also be cut down, just to keep things "fair."
Roll on DLC-time, please.

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The US military for the immediate future continues to face daunting arithmetic: continued war, and too few warriors to go around.
Shorter tours in Iraq could help. President Bush's announcement Thursday that he is reducing Army combat deployments from 15 to 12 months for troops sent overseas later this year is aimed at reducing stress on soldiers and their families.
But 140,000 US troops will remain in Iraq at least through September, per the recommendation of top commander Gen. David Petraeus. Many military experts believe that stabilizing the situation there could require a substantial US presence for years to come.
The bottom line: Many ground units have deployed multiple times to Iraq, and "people are tired," according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen. Army leaders say the readiness of their brigades is down, their equipment is worn, and their ability to respond to any new contingency is questionable.
"We face a large and growing gap between our military commitments and our military capabilities. Something has to give," Andrew Bacevich, a West Point graduate and professor of international relations at Boston University, said in a Senate hearing Wednesday.
By most accountings Iraq is now the third-longest conflict in US history, shorter only than Vietnam and the Revolutionary War.
More than 500,000 US troops have served in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Almost 200,000 have been deployed there more than once.
In public appearances this spring, Army leaders have been blunt about the effects of this pace on their soldiers. In a recent speech Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, for instance, said that his service "is not a hollow or broken force" but that there is no question it is "stretched and stressed."
By the Army's count, it has conducted five surges into Iraq, including the most recent addition of extra brigade combat teams to tamp down Baghdad violence.
The current surge "took all the stroke out of the shock absorber for the US Army," Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. He meant that if a conflict breaks out anywhere else in the world, there are no fully ready Army units that could be sent to handle it.
Army leaders are quick to say that morale remains high. But there are multiple signs of the emerging effect of this pace on the nature of the all-volunteer force. Captains – crucial midlevel managers of the Army – are choosing to leave at a substantial rate. The percentage of recruits who enter the Army with waivers because of past misconduct has more than doubled since 2004, to 13 percent so far this year.
In 2001, 91 percent of Army recruits were high school graduates. Last year that figure fell to 79 percent.
With only 12 months at home between tours, active Army units do not have time to do much else but rest and gather themselves for their return to Iraq.
"Our Army is out of balance," said General Cody.
The Army's long-term plan to restore balance includes increasing in size by 74,000 troops. That has been approved by the Bush administration, but construction of new units – not to mention recruiting the extra personnel in a time of war – takes time, and the target date for the expansion is 2011.
Meanwhile, the strategy for Iraq, per General Petraeus, involves no further drawdowns after July. After that, force reductions would await an improvement in conditions – or a different political situation in the United States.
To some experts, Cody's statements about the stresses in the force are a direct comment on Petraeus and the current course in Iraq.
"[The Army's] complaints are significant – they show a rift is developing within the military over the current strategy," says Loren Thompson, a military expert and chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va.
To others, they may represent the expectations of the Army's leadership that it can operate in a time of conflict as it typically has in peacetime.
Today's Army is far smaller than it was in, say, Vietnam. The fighting in Iraq understandably has strained it, says William Martel, author of the recent book "Victory in War" and an associate professor of international security studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.
"But in a war military, you have to cut corners to meet objectives," he says.
Mr. Bush's announcement that he is cutting the length of new tours in Iraq is a minor adjustment, adds Professor Martel, but also a welcome one.
It is intended to signal the military leadership that the Oval Office is at least listening to their deployment concerns, and to show troops that something is being done to ease their burdens.
"Progress comes in small doses," says Martel.


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2012 Jolt Awards: Mobile Tools, October 30, 2012 The best mobile development tools
Finalist: Xamarin Mono for Android
After achieving a great deal of success with its iOS product, MonoTouch, Xamarin turned its language and mobile platform expertise to the other big fish in the mobile platform pond. However, unlike MonoTouch, with its C# versus Objective-C argument, Mono for Android is a harder sell. First, unlike Apple-only iOS development, Android's SDK and tools already run on Windows. Also, there's not as much of a language difference between C# and Android's Java as there is between C# and Objective-C — and they both support garbage collection equally well. Finally, whether statically linking Mono for Android's runtime into the compiled app bundle or dynamically linking to it via a shared, separate library install, the resources needed by a Mono for Android app for something as simple as a 'Hello, World' app far exceed that of a native Java-constructed Android app.
That said, there are reasons why Mono for Android is a keeper in the eyes of .NET developers. First, it's easier to make the leap to Android using Mono for Android than the Eclipse+Android SDK combination. Second, unlike MonoTouch for iOS, which is a standalone IDE, Mono for Android lives as an add-on within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. That means that .NET developers who have built up an arsenal of optimal .NET editing tools and muscle-memory shortcuts don't have to relearn a whole new development environment for creating Android apps. Finally, if C# developers plan in advance and effectively separate their business-logic layers from their presentation layers, they should be able to reuse a great deal of code between Mono for Android and MonoTouch applications (especially because Mono for Android can use many existing .NET libraries without difficulty). Now if Xamarin can figure out a way to take C# code assets from the Windows Phone platform and allow them to be spun into and out of Mono for Android and MonoTouch products, they would be able to cover most of the mobile platforms!
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Guantanamo judge allows testimony about torture
- Dr. Vincent Iacopino will testify at the military tribunal of of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
- 2000 bombing of Navy destroyer in Yemen killed 17 crewmembers
- Al-Nashiri%27s hearing is being held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of orchestrating the deadly attack on the USS Cole will present expert testimony Tuesday at a pretrial hearing on how to conduct a mental examination of a torture victim.
Dr. Vincent Iacopino will testify at the military tribunal at Guantanoma Bay, Cuba, of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, agreed to hear the testimony before he orders an examination to determine whether al-Nashiri is competent to stand trial.
Defense lawyers say it should be done with sensitivity to Al-Nashiri's history of being waterboarded and threatened with weapons while he was being held by the CIA in a series of secret prisons.
The 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer in Yemen killed 17 crewmembers and wounded 37.
Al-Nashiri's hearing is being held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The Associated Press on Monday watched a video feed of the hearing at Fort Meade.


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The northern harrier is a slender, medium-sized hawk, with a long tail, wings and legs, a characteristic white rump, and a distinctive 'facial disc', which gives it an owl-like appearance (3) (5) (6). The male is grey above and white underneath, with obvious black wing-tips and contrasting yellow legs, eyes and facial skin. The female is larger and is quite different in appearance, being dark brown above, paler below, with dark streaks, and with bars on the wings and tail (3) (5) (7) (8). Juvenile northern harriers resemble the female, but are usually darker above and more reddish-brown below, sometimes without streaking (2) (3) (5) (8). The northern harrier uses a variety of calls, including a long, rapid series of kek notes, a piercing, descending scream, given by the female when soliciting food from the male, and a soft, chuckling call at the nest (5) (6).
Typically hunting from a slow, buoyant flight, usually quite low to the ground, the northern harrier takes a variety of prey, ranging from small mammals and birds to reptiles, amphibians, insects, larger mammals and birds, and sometimes carrion (2) (3) (5) (6). Unlike other hawks, it relies heavily on sound as well as vision to detect prey, aided by the facial disc which, as in owls, is thought to help with the location of faint sounds, allowing the harrier to detect prey concealed in vegetation (3) (5) (6) (8).
The northern harrier commonly perches and even roosts on the ground, and outside of the breeding season often gathers in communal roosts, sometimes numbering tens or even, rarely, hundreds of birds. It also often nests in loose colonies, sometimes practicing an unusual degree of polygyny, with males simultaneously raising several broods with as many as seven different females (2) (3) (5) (6). Breeding usually takes place from April to July (2), the male performing a spectacular aerial 'sky-dance' at the start of the season, involving a series of steep climbs and near vertical plunges, with twists, rolls, spirals and loops, accompanied by much calling (3) (6).
The nest is built on the ground, usually in dense clumps of vegetation, and comprises a pile of sticks, grasses, sedges and other materials. Around 3 to 6 eggs are laid, and are incubated by the female for 29 to 31 days. During this time, and until the chicks are about two weeks old, the male brings almost all the food, transferring it to the female in impressive aerial passes, in which the food is dropped by the male and then caught by the female in mid-air (2) (3) (5) (6). The young fledge at 29 to 42 days, and are dependent on the adults for several more weeks. Sexual maturity is reached at around 2 to 3 years, and lifespan may be up to 16 years (2) (3) (5).
The northern harrier is the most northerly breeding and one of the most widespread of all harrier species (9), occurring across much of North America, Europe and Asia. In North America, the subspecies Circus cyaneus hudsonius can be found from Alaska and Canada south to Mexico, wintering as far south as Central or South America and the Caribbean. Circus cyaneus cyaneus occurs throughout Europe and north Asia to Kamchatka, wintering as far south as northern Africa, through southern Asia, to southeast China and Japan (2) (3) (5) (10).
This species inhabits a wide variety of open habitats with low ground cover, including grassland, wetlands and marshland, estuaries, riparian woodland, meadows, moorland, pasture, cropland, scrub, steppe, and semi-desert (2) (3) (5) (8).
The northern harrier still has a large range and a large global population (10), but has been undergoing a decline during the last century, mainly as a result of habitat degradation. In particular, the draining of wetlands, reforestation of farmlands, and intensification of agriculture are thought to have reduced prey availability and nesting sites (2) (5) (6) (11). Illegal persecution is also a problem in some areas, particularly on managed grouse moors, where the northern harrier often predates grouse chicks (2) (5) (11). One study between 1988 and 1995 estimated that, on average, 11 to 15 percent of the breeding female northern harriers in Scotland were killed by humans each year on grouse moors (12). Other threats include organochloride pesticides, thought to reduce eggshell thickness and decrease reproductive success (3) (5).
The northern harrier is listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meaning international trade in the species should be carefully controlled (4). It is also listed on Appendix II of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), which aims to conserve migratory species throughout their range (13), and is protected under a range of legislation in Europe (14) (15). No specific conservation measures are reported to be in place in North America, but protection of undisturbed habitats and further study of the species at its winter roosts have been recommended (5).
The scale of illegal killing of northern harriers in Britain has led to a range of initiatives, such as Natural England's Hen Harrier Recovery Project, which aims to monitor breeding numbers and to address ongoing illegal persecution (11) (16). It is believed that without an end to such persecution, the ability of this unique bird of prey to recover in this and other areas will sadly be severely limited (16).
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Jon Pierpont was appointed executive director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services in December 2012. Pierpont oversees a $1.5 billion budget and a department tasked with administering federal and state programs, including workforce development, eligibility services, public assistance programs and unemployment Insurance.
Pierpont has over twenty years of public service experience with DWS and has served in roles overseeing several agency initiatives. Prior to serving as the executive director at DWS, Pierpont served as the deputy director, eligibility services division director and director of the department's largest service area. In these roles, he has helped DWS lead the state in cost savings and efficiencies through the creation of an agency-wide throughput operating strategy. Under Pierpont's direction, DWS has saved more than $33 million and continues its commitment of efficiency and effectiveness in state government. He has also served in the statewide initiative to end homelessness and has received awards for these efforts. Additionally, Pierpont continues to be integral in serving Utah's refugee community, currently serving as chair of Utah's Refugee Advisory Board.
Pierpont is a graduate of the University of Utah and has received many awards and recognitions from national and international organizations for his work in the public sector. A leader in the community and state, Pierpont is respected for his focus and strategic approach to public service. He has received accolades for implementing change, leading key initiatives, establishing creative strategies for optimizing internal operations and creating positive employee morale.
A lifelong resident of Utah, Pierpont is the son of former Provo Captain of Police George Pierpont. He is an avid participant in many sporting activities and can often be found running with his dog, Brutus, and spending time with his wife and son.


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SOCY.001: Intro to Sociology
Course: Introduction to Sociology
Instructor: Joshua Kim and Susan Simon
Assignment: Sociological Mashup (Team Project) (25 Percent of Final Grade)
Throughout the term your team will be working on a sociological mashup. Your mashup will be a short (5 to 7 minute) video project that utilizes one or more pieces of the rich media (video) from our course curriculum. Your mashup is designed to teach one of the main concepts we cover in our course (from the modules). The goal of the mashup is to make the topic of the module interesting and exciting to a high school or college audience. You will be posting your Mashups on YouTube, and then linking them to the Sociological Mashup Wiki in Blackboard.
Topics that your teams can choose to teach with your mashup include: The Sociological View and Culture and Socialization, Social Interaction, Groups and Social Structure, Deviance and Social Control, Stratification in the United States and Global Inequality, Inequality by Race and Ethnicity and Inequality and by Gender, Family and Religion, Social Institutions – Education, Government and the Economy, Population, Community, Health and the Environment, or Social Movements, Social Change, and Technology
Source materials for your mashups include the videos that we watch in the course, PowerPoints from the curriculum (available for download in Blackboard) as well as other video and image material you fine. Keep in mind that you job is to use the curriculum to teach the core concepts of the module you choose. The idea is that we learn something best if we need to teach it, and your teams will be teaching these concepts using the mashup structure.
Each week we will devote our X-Hour time to your team working on their Mashups. Training on video editing software, as well as the original media to mashup, will be provided. We will also provided training on designing a mashup. The videos you will be using as the main sources for your team Mashups are the ones we will be watching each week for our modules. They include:
The Persuaders
Devil's Playground
Sick Around the World
Declining by Degrees
The Lost Children of Rockdale County
Nova World in the Balance
Teams will be able to pull scenes from these videos, as well as supplement with other materials (such as images or videos you get from the Web) as well as provide a voice-over.
To see all video projects, visit the course YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/introsocdartmouth


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MANAMA, Bahrain - The U.S. Navy says it has suspended the search for two missing airmen after a helicopter crash in the Red Sea. Three other crew members were rescued earlier.
A Navy statement Monday said officials determined the chance of survival was now considered "extremely unlikely" following Sunday's crash.
The MH-60S Knighthawk went down in the central Red Sea while operating with the destroyer USS William P. Lawrence.
The names of the missing airmen were not immediately released.
The Bahrain-based 5th Fleet says aircraft and vessels took part in the search. It said the crash was under investigation, but no hostile action was involved.


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When Wally enrolled at GS, there was no newspaper, and a group of students began a mimeographed paper of such low quality that Wally and his classmates, Thomas Simpson and Michael B. Conant, created a parody issue of it. That got the administration's attention, and somehow Simpson received a budget to begin a real GS newspaper. Simpson was editor and Conant managing editor.
In 1960, Wally was features editor and, under the byline "A. Haggard Rider," he wrote a regular Subway Thoughts column (left).
By 1961, Wally was managing editor while Simpson remained editor. As of the end of May, 1961, the paper was so successful that it had expanded to 8 pages.
Simpson's job took him to Chicago, Wally moved up to become the Columbia Owl's editor for 1962. These were exciting times to be on campus, with all kinds of political issues to cover and other news and commentary.
In fact, in 1963, the Columbia Owl won an award for distinguished campus journalism covering international affairs, which Wally accepted at the National College Editors Conference in New York City.
The b/w photo above shows Wally holding the award and receiving a check for the Columbia Owl from Sterling Fisher, Exec Director of the Reader's Digest Foundation, and Ruth Hagy Brod, the conference chair.
By that time, however, Wally was so wrapped up in the newspaper that his academic standing was in peril. He left Columbia and got a reporting job on McGraw-Hill's Electrical Merchandising Week, and Larry S. Stewart became Owl editor.
As a going away present, the newspaper staff gave Wally this stuffed owl, with two inscriptions:
To Wally from his staff, 1961-62
Presented to Wallis E. Wood in recognition of his contributions to the Columbia Owl 1963


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The fine folks at TMZ, after months of accosting celebrities as they drunkenly walked out of clubs, finally had their breakthrough last week with the Mel Gibson "sugar tits" story, which not only horrified Jews and Gentiles alike, but also ruined a classic pickup line forever. They're all over the place now, and good for TMZ.
Well, now they're setting their scopes on the sports world, and they're reporting today that Saints rookie running back Reggie Bush might have been involved in a beatdown of maybe-current-girlfriend Nia Long's ex. (Whew. Long identifier.) Last month, a man with Long pounded her ex, Massai Z. Dorsey (whoever the hell that is) right in the middle of a Los Angeles mall. And now TMZ is saying it was Reggie Bush.
Though, after the incessant ESPN Mobile commercials of the last month — still an improvement over the "crazed stalker guy" — maybe Dorsey was just going to draft Larry Johnson.


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Thanks to his vaunted grace and tremendous skill, Yankees captain Derek Jeter was able Tuesday night to make a pop-up to shortstop look as routine as it actually was. "Look at him effortlessly settle under that ball and close his glove around it as it falls slowly in," gushed Yankees radio announcer John Sterling, who also had the privilege of broadcasting Jeter's catch of a soft humpback liner in 2002. ... Later in the inning, Jeter made an easy play look difficult with that jump-throw thing he doesn't need to do.
July 16, 2009
"It's Easy To Lose Sight Of The Fact That Everyone Makes That Kind Of Play All The Time..."
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4 comments:
- Rob said...
Sounds like that came from the Onion.
And real life.
- July 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- johngoldfine said...
You can be pretty funny when you get in a mean mood, or have I got that reversed?
- July 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM
- 9casey said...
If anyone gets a chance to check out the Ted Williams documentary on HBO , check it out...I thought it was really good....
- July 17, 2009 at 4:40 AM
- tim said...
As much as I assumed this was the onion, it's sad that I still needed to mouse over the link to confirm.
- July 17, 2009 at 7:48 AM
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GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU
To learn more about this issue, you can also read our GNU/Linux FAQ, our page on Why GNU/Linux? and our page on Linux and the GNU Project.
Most people have never heard of GNU. Even most of the people who use the GNU system have never heard of GNU, thanks to so many people and companies who teach them to call it "Linux". Nonetheless, the name GNU has certain associations, which people will discover once they hear the name. GNU is associated with the ideals of freedom of the free software movement. That association is no accident; the motive for developing GNU was specifically to make it possible to use a computer and have freedom.
The association between the name GNU and our goals of freedom and social solidarity exists in the minds of hundreds of thousands of GNU/Linux users that do know about GNU. It exists in Wikipedia. And it exists around the web; if these users search for GNU, they will find www.gnu.org, which talks about free software and freedom.
A person seeing the name "GNU" for the first time in "GNU/Linux" won't immediately associate it with anything. However, when people know that the system is basically GNU, that brings them a step closer to learning about our ideals. For instance, they might become curious and look for more information about GNU.
If they don't look for it, they may encounter it anyway. The "open source" rhetoric tends to lead people's attention away from issues of users' freedom, but not totally; there is still discussion of GNU and free software, and people have some chance of coming across it. When that happens, the reader is more likely to pay attention to information about GNU (such as that it's the work of a campaign for freedom and community) if he knows he is a user of the GNU system.
Over time, calling the system "GNU/Linux" spreads awareness of the ideals of freedom for which we developed the GNU system. It is also useful as a reminder for people in our community who know about these ideals, in a world where much of discussion of free software takes a totally practical (and thus amoral) approach. When we ask you to call the system "GNU/Linux", we do so because awareness of GNU slowly but surely brings with it awareness of the free software ideals of freedom and community.


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Godetia, farewell-to-spring
Godetia grandiflora, Clarkia grandiflora, Clarkia amoena
Plants of Home and Garden
Easy annual from seed sown directly outside, shallowly, about 2 weeks before last frost; may be fall-sown in zones 9-10 if provided with very well-draining soil. For light, poor to average, well-drained soil in a cool, shaded spot. Genus also known as Clarkia
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Blue Creek: Excavating an Upscale Community
When we think of the ancient Maya civilization, the monumental centers of Tikal, Palenque, Chichen Itza, and Copan usually come to mind. These, however, are only a few of the countless ancient sites, many of which, though known to exist, still lie unexcavated and unexplored. Still others are yet undiscovered, and their number is still a mystery. The jungle shrouds their secrets. The archaeologists who uncover and investigate these sites have many years of work ahead them before a complete picture of the Maya civilization, and how it mysteriously and suddenly declined, emerges.
Blue Creek
A comparatively small site in northwestern Belize promises to add an important chapter to the story. It will help answer questions about how a medium-sized community of approximately 20,000 people managed to support an unusually wealthy class of residents and a large public precinct surrounded by numerous, well-defined residential structures and agricultural components. Known as Blue Creek, scientists at this site have uncovered a large number of exotic goods, unusual for a community of this size. It is thought that its strategic location, in combination with the techniques the ancient inhabitants employed in agricultural production, defined the foundation for its wealth.
The Project
Dr. Thomas Guderjan of the Maya Research Program is leading a team of archaeologists and other professional staff to find answers to the questions surrounding the site. In 2010, the team will be returning to continue excavations in an elite residential area of Blue Creek, and in the agricultural field systems surrounding the site, including other nearby centers. They are calling for students and volunteers to join them for their 2010 season, which begins May 24 and runs through July 25.
The Field School
Participants will receive training in field and laboratory techniques as well as receive a "crash course" on the Maya and archaeological methodology. Accommodation is at the Blue Creek research station, which has 35 small residential cabanas, a 1500 square foot laboratory building, a main building with a dining hall, and men's and women's restrooms and showers. All meals, equipment and supplies are provided. There will be four two-week sessions. Participants are welcome to join any or all of them. A particularly noteworthy aspect of this opportunity involves the offering of 10 Welker Scholarships, funded by income from the Welker Endowment and a generous donation by Mr. Jack Thompson. The intent of the Scholarships is to encourage talented young undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the project and to pursue archaeology or related fields. Moreover, these students will be afforded greater responsibilities than other participants during the fieldwork.
Join the Team
For the student or enthusiast of Maya archaeology, the Blue Creek experience represents one of the best field school opportunities available for this region of the world. If you are interested in becoming a part of it, you can find out more by going to www.mayaresearchprogram.org or by emailing Dr. Guderjan at firstname.lastname@example.com. The project staff has prepared an excellent, detailed Participant Guide that will tell you just about everything you would want to know as a Project student or volunteer. The Guide can be accessed at the website.
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Minister of Transport Ben Martins announced on Thursday that between December 1 2012 and January 8 2013, 1 221 fatal accidents were recorded on South Africa's roads.
After what the minister described as "a year-long programme to promote road safety in our country" it seems only a handful of deaths may potentially have been averted.
"It is estimated that approximately 1 465 people lost their lives," he said.
Not only is the figure – which makes up just part of the over 14 000 deaths seen on South African roads annually – just 10 deaths shy of last year's toll for the same period, it is also a preliminary one.
The figure is likely to rise further if people who are currently being treated for injuries sustained in car crashes over the holiday season fail to recover.
Although the preliminary estimates for festive season road deaths in 2011/2012 stood at 1 475, the final figure rose to 1 771 once all deaths were counted 30 days later, as per international standards for monitoring road deaths.
'Real action' necessary
In response, DA transport spokesperson Greg Krumbock said: "It is clear that the Road Traffic Management Corporation is largely ineffectual in stemming the annual tide of festive season road deaths. A major shift is therefore needed in how we approach road safety."
The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) said the latest numbers show a lack of cohesive direction from the various government transport associations.
"Real action to curb the road carnage is impossible when there is no cohesive strategy," said AA spokesperson Gary Ronald.
The association blamed a lack of organisation and uniform action for the failure by the transport department and the Road Transport Management Corporation to reduce road deaths.
"The continuing division between these bodies is clearly doing more harm than good as the number of deaths on our roads has not decreased over the 2012 period," continues Ronald. "Planning is only as good as its implementation and that we have seen little of."
'The bloodiest festive season ever'
Howard Dembovsky, national chairperson of the Justice Project South Africa, said he believes the final tally, after the 30-day period, will be worse than last year.
"We're heading for the bloodiest festive season ever," he said.
Dembovsky said the reason for the high death tolls was that traffic agencies aren't getting road safety messages out and are not enforcing the law.
"It's as simple as that. If they start enforcing the law, as has been done in the UK, US and Australia, then they'll start seeing results."
"The fact is, employing your people to sit behind speed cameras in bushes or to man roadblocks is not what I would define as enforcing the law. All it is is revenue chasing. Until that changes, nothing is going to improve," Dembovsky added.
Increase in daily death rate
Defensive driving specialist Rob Handfield-Jones said that based on preliminary figures provided by the Road Transport Management Corporation each year, the daily death rate over the holiday season increased from 20 per day in 2008 to 38 per day this year.
This is despite the fact that the holiday season is now shorter than it was five years ago.
Handfield-Jones said he believes licensing is the pivotal reason behind declining road safety in South Africa.
In 1998, the requirements for qualification as a driving instructor were made much less rigorous, he said, and this in turn led to more people failing their driving tests.
"When you have poor quality instructors, people fail. And when people keep failing … [they] say: 'nevermind this, we'll start buying our licence,'" he said.
According to Handfield-Jones, this leads to an increase of corruption in licensing drivers but also to an explosion of poorly trained drivers on the road. Bringing down the road death rate would require the authorities to "start from scratch", he said.
"We need to bring back the old driving instructors test. Apart from that, we need to overhaul the driving licence curriculum [and] overhaul the licensing system itself to prevent corruption process.
"It is possible, it's just going to require a lot of thought and effort from the right people. [Then] we're going to have to get our traffic police to enforce the offences, which have been statistically linked to fatal crashes," he said.


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The country's EU target for renewables' share of overall energy is 16% - up from 6.6% in 2010. The 2020 target breaks down to 42.3% of electricity from renewables, 12% of heating and cooling, and 10% of transport.
Ireland's location in the windy north-west corner of Europe means it comes as no surprise that wind power will account for more than 85% of Ireland's renewable electricity, with 4.09GW onshore - tripling the current installed capacity - and 555MW offshore. Wind energy enabled the country to meet its 13.2% EU target for 2010 a year early and put it on track to exceed the more ambitious 15% domestic target later this year.
But constraining this growth in wind capacity is the grid. Because of the huge demand for grid connection from Ireland's wind developers, a more controlled approach to connecting renewables to the country's relatively weak island system was introduced in 2004. Now applications are dealt with in geographical batches in a series of "gates" rather than sequentially. This allows grid operators to take a more strategic view of reinforcing the network. The government claims that the capacity contracted to connect under the gate system will be enough to meet its 2020 target.
Ireland's main renewables support mechanism for achieving its target is the renewable energy feed-in tariff, a system of fixed-price 15-year power purchase agreements that renewable generators negotiate with suppliers.


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Utrecht University, Netherlands
This program is open to current Temple law students only. Apply directly to Temple and pay Temple tuition. Temple scholarships and financial aid apply. Courses are taught in English. Please visit the exchange partner website for detailed information on the upcoming session.
Application deadline: March 1
One of the Law School's newest exchange programs is offered at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Founded in 1636 and located close to Amsterdam and The Hague, this program allows Temple students to take courses in human rights, business, international and European Law, taxation and international criminal law.


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Cherry Pantone tart / Pink smoke photo / Necklace from my own shop / Cardamom rose cocktail / Silje Aune Eriksen's home / Shoes / Street Fashion / Dining room / Black balloons / Chanel
A small gathering of some of the things I've been looking at lately, mostly pinks and browns and black...sort of the usual colors I'm drawn to!
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- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012
how nice is this collection! love the first and the black balloons most!ReplyDelete
Am loving both of the interiors. I am packing up our flat as we are mmoving so maybe I can use these for inspiration for our new place.ReplyDelete
loved this moodboard! especially the balloons! great idea!ReplyDelete
lovely inspiring post!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, those baby shoes are too much! Love!ReplyDelete
Yeah i love this post !!!ReplyDelete
'specially the 8020 shoes and the beautiful Sandro coat!!!!
(They are in my dressing and i love that)
Excellent color inspiration... and those little shoes are painfully cute. I love the mix of bright pink and pale pink paired with black, it feels really fresh.ReplyDelete
How pretty! I love the gradation from pink to black. :)ReplyDelete
hey girls this shoes are not MINIature!!!!!ReplyDelete
this is 10 cm wedges
real women accessories!!
not for little girls or dolls!!!!
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| Estradiol (E2) is the most potent, naturally secreted estrogen and is the major estrogen produced by the ovary [1]. In the ovary, estradiol is produced from testosterone [1,2], and from estrone, a less potent estrogen derived from androstenedione. Estrone and estradiol are interconverted in many body tissues. In men, small amounts of estradiol are produced in the testes and from peripheral conversion of androgens. The biological actions of estradiol include stimulation of linear bone growth, acceleration of epiphyseal closure, stimulation of mammary development, and maturation of the vaginal mucosa and uterine endometrium. Estradiol may also contribute to the development of the female (gynoid) body habitus, and may have metabolic and behavioral effects [1].
In adult premenopausal women, ovarian estradiol production is stimulated by the interactions of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) throughout the menstrual cycle. The increasing estradiol levels during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle appear to enhance gonadotropin stimulation, leading to a midcycle gonadotropin surge and subsequent ovulation [1]. Increased estradiol (and progesterone) levels during the luteal phase inhibit gonadotropin secretion. In adult women, estradiol levels are measured in the evaluation of fertility and menstrual irregularities, and to monitor ovarian follicular function during induction of ovulation (e.g. as part of an in vitro fertilization procedure) [3].
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At Jaffarian Volvo, You're Certain to Fall for our Inventory of All-New Volvo Models
There are plenty of different vehicles to consider in the local Haverhill area, but none match the sophistication of our new Volvo inventory here at Jaffarian Volvo. As the local solution to Swedish automaker for over fifty years, we know an advanced model lineup when we see one - and our latest models are overwhelmingly equipped to conquer the New England roads. Whether you're in the market for an ambitious, lightweight, luxury crossover SUV such as the 2020 Volvo XC90, or a sleek and semi-autonomous 2020 Volvo S90, we guarantee that you'll easily discover the common denominator between all of our models: excellence.
Explore Some of Our Best-Selling Volvo Models in Haverhill, MA
As you will discover, our Haverhill Volvo dealership is stocked with many new Volvo options. These include but are not limited to our top-selling Volvo sedans and SUVs discussed in greater detail below. For your convenience, you can read up on a few reason why these models appeal to the masses. Otherwise, we encourage those of you who reside nearby in Andover and surrounding areas to stop by to test drive a vehicle firsthand.
Volvo S60 & Volvo S90
The Volvo S60 and Volvo S90 are perhaps the two most popular sedans in the collection. This is because they are fully equipped with cutting-edge technologies and possess an eye-catching design, making them suitable options for distinguished drivers. In particular, the Volvo S60 can be considered an introduction to the brand for its starting price is more affordable than its larger counterpart, the Volvo S90.
No matter, both achieve high marks in regard to firepower and efficiency thanks to available T5 and T6 engines. Needless to say, they boast a higher degree of sophistication too thanks to their luxurious interior with features like the Sensus Connect multimedia system. In other words, your drives through Methuen and beyond will be wholeheartedly enjoyable with this new Volvo car!
Volvo XC60 & Volvo XC90
In turn, the Volvo XC60 and Volvo XC90 are two of the most sought-after SUVs in the collection. While the former variant is compact, the latter is mid-size. As such, the Volvo XC90 - though a little pricier than the smaller Volvo XC60 - accommodates more passengers. However, both are exceptional when put to the test and achieve high marks like the sedans above. This is because they are also integrated with powerful T5 and T6 engines.
Of course, the XC90 goes one step further by offering an additional and more advanced T8 engine. It is even available as a plug-in hybrid for better efficiency. You just have to select whichever one is better suited for your travels around Newburyport and surrounding areas.
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Being the go-to destination for Volvo enthusiasts and new owners for as long as we have, it's incredible to see our growing family of comfortable, luxury drivers. We love being able to help our neighbors in Andover and North Andover, as well as Methuen and Newburyport, and strive to ensure that their drive to our dealership is always worth it. If you're curious to learn more about what makes our staff and selection worth getting excited over, all it takes is a trip into our showroom for a test drive. We're confident that our latest model lineup, including the new Volvo S60 and Volvo XC60, will impress you much like it has us, so make the trip to come see it all at 600 River Street today!


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This is the kind of over-the-top meal guests will talk about for days afterward, and it's actually much easier to prepare than it might seem. Lobster, ground pork, and a host of Asian condiments create a riot of complementary flavors.
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- 4 servings
- Active Time
- 40 min
- Total Time
- 45 min
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 3/4 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1/4 cup Chinese rice wine or dry Sherry
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 (1 1/2-lb) live lobsters
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons Chinese fermented black beans, rinsed and finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped peeled fresh ginger
- 4 scallions, trimmed and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/4 lb ground fatty pork
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 teaspoons Asian sesame oil
- Special Equipment
- kitchen shears; a well-seasoned 14-inch flat-bottomed wok with a lid
- Bring 6 quarts water with 3 tablespoons salt to a boil in an 8- to 10-quart pot over high heat.
- Meanwhile, stir together cornstarch, broth, rice wine, soy sauce, sugar, and pepper in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved.
- Plunge lobsters headfirst into boiling water, then cover tightly and cook for 2 minutes from time lobsters enter water. Transfer lobsters with tongs to a large bowl of ice and cold water to stop cooking (lobsters will not be fully cooked), then drain lobsters in a colander. When cool enough to handle, twist off tail and claws (including joints) of 1 lobster. Cut body in half lengthwise through shell with shears, then remove and discard sand sacs from inside head. Cut body in half again crosswise. Halve tail lengthwise through shell with a cleaver or large heavy knife, then cut each half crosswise into 4 pieces. Working with same lobster, 1 claw at a time, wrap claws with joints in a kitchen towel and twist off claws from joints. Unwrap claws, then crack joints with a mallet or back of a large heavy knife. Chop claws in half lengthwise between pincers with a cleaver or large heavy knife. Transfer lobster pieces to a bowl, keeping meat in shells. Repeat with second lobster, putting pieces of second lobster in another bowl.
- Heat wok over high heat until a drop of water evaporates instantly. Pour 1 tablespoon vegetable oil down side of wok, then tilt wok to swirl oil, coating side. When oil begins to smoke, add pieces of 1 lobster and stir-fry just until meat starts to turn opaque, about 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer cooked lobster with a slotted spoon to a large bowl. Repeat with second lobster, transferring cooked pieces to same bowl.
- Add remaining tablespoon vegetable oil to wok, swirling to coat, then add beans, garlic, ginger, scallions, and pork and stir-fry until pork is no longer pink, about 1 minute.
- Stir cornstarch mixture, then add to pork in wok and bring to a boil. Add lobster and stir to coat, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, 2 minutes. Remove lid and pour eggs over lobster mixture in a thin circular stream. Cover wok and simmer just until eggs begin to set, 1 to 2 minutes. Drizzle with sesame oil, then gently toss. Serve immediately.


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I don't think I have ever really got past a mental age of 11 truth be told.
I still find the 'Ying Tong Song' by the Goons incredibly funny, I like watching cartoons and still read fantasy / sci-fi books.
So it should not come as a surprise that I actually let out a squeal of delight when the postman delivered my first In My Mug coffee this morning. I was even more excited when I opened the postage package to find not your usual white Has Bean pack with a red stripe but..........dan...dan....dahhhhh A COMPLETELY RED PACK!
Is it very immature of me to get so excited over a drink? But then I really do believe that it is appreciating the simple things in life which keep you happy.
Is it just me or does anyone else get overexcited?
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I'm trying to support a swiping gesture in a Windows Store App written in C# and XAML.
I've a bunch of objects on a page and I want to know when the person swipes their finger over the objects or runs the mouse over them.
I can capture the mouse easily enough by checking for the mouse entering the control. What I've not figured out is the event for doing the same with a finger swipe. I was actually surprised that the mouse event wasn't kicked off with a finger swipe.
Does anyone know the proper event handler for a finger swipe over a control such as a set of buttons?


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Dempsey's two goals help send US past Guatemala 3-1
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Clint Dempsey had a pair of goals and assisted on Carlos Bocanegra's equalizer, and the United States rallied to beat Guatemala 3-1 Tuesday night and reached next year's final round of World Cup qualifying.
Facing their first elimination game in qualifying since 2000, the Americans needed merely a draw to advance to the six-team finals in North and Central America and the Caribbean. After Carlos Ruiz put Guatemala ahead in the fifth minute, Dempsey set up Bocanegra's goal in the 10th minute, then scored in the 18th and 36th. With 30 international goals, Dempsey tied Brian McBride for third-most in American history.
The U.S. (4-1-1), seeking its seventh straight World Cup appearance, topped its semifinal group with 13 points.
Guatemala, which has never appeared in a World Cup, was eliminated when Dane Richards scored two goals late in the second half in Jamaica's 4-1 win over Antigua and Barbuda. Guatemala and Jamaica were both 3-2-1 for 10 points apiece, but the Reggae Boyz overtook Guatemala on goal difference, plus-3 to plus-1.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said before the game that "you can only win a game if you attack and go forward, and that's what we're going to do. We're not going to look for a tie."
That certainly held true.
The Americans were the more the aggressive team its German coach has been trying to develop and less like the side that struggled over a muddy cricket pitch to a 2-1 victory over Antigua on Friday – an outcome that took most of the pressure off Tuesday night's game.
Still, Los Chapines caused tension when they scored in the opening minutes.
Jose Contreras took possession in the midfield and sent a looping pass ahead to Ruiz, who managed to beat Bocanegra to the ball as Geoff Cameron was caught upfield. Bocanegra joined Cameron at center back while Michael Parkhurst took over on the left and Clarence Goodson was benched in the only American lineup changes from Friday.
Ruiz rounded goalkeeper Tim Howard and side-footed the ball into the goal. As if a harbinger of things to come, Ruiz appeared to hurt himself seconds after scoring.
He reached out to steady himself on the electronic signage near the field, and may have sliced his hand. He grimaced and immediately began shaking it while a trainer rushed out to tend to him.
The tying goal came just a few minutes later.
Sporting KC midfielder Graham Zusi, playing in his home stadium, sent a corner kick arcing into the penalty area, and Dempsey got just enough of it to redirect to Bocanegra, who was left alone by Manuel Leon near the far post and easily found the back of the net.
It was Bocanegra's 14th goal with the national team, moving him past Marcelo Balboa for the most among American defenders. It also generated a roar from a sellout crowd of 16,947 that would have been much larger if officials could have sold standing-room tickets.
Ruiz nearly had his second goal in the 18th minute when his header went over the crossbar, and the Americans quickly came back on the counter. The ball was pushed ahead to Eddie Johnson on the wing, and he found Dempsey cutting to the net ahead of defender Jonathan Lopez.
Dempsey deftly scored over the outstretched arm of goalkeeper Ricardo Jerez for a 2-1 lead, while Johnson picked up an assist to go with the two goals he scored against Antigua in his first international appearance in two years.
Guatemala had a couple of other good scoring chances later in the half, including a shot by Contreras from a sharp angle that Howard knocked away, and a breakaway on which Ruiz was called for a foul on American defender Steve Cherundolo near the top of the penalty box.
Cherundolo tried to shake hands with Ruiz, who was having none of it.
The U.S. pressure paid off again in the 36th minute, when Michael Bradley popped a pass over the sprawled-out Jerez and Dempsey tapped the ball across. Dempsey nearly had a hat-trick when he just missed on a header early in the second half, and then picked up a yellow card for diving in second-half stoppage time.
The Reggae Boyz needed to make up a three-goal differential on Guatemala in a victory. Richards' goals in the 78th and 88th minutes in Kingston, Jamaica, allowed them to advance.
Also advancing to the six-team finals are Mexico, Honduras and Panama, while Costa Rica and El Salvador played late games for the final spot in the hexagonal.
NOTES: The finals start March 22. … The Americans likely will play an exhibition at Russia on Nov. 14 in their final game this year.
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Menahem Yaari is an emeritus professor of economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and past president of the Israeli Academy of Sciences. He retired from active teaching over a decade ago, but continues to lecture widely and address scholarly conferences around the world. Amongst his many accomplishments and honors, he is a recipient of the Israel Prize in Economics (1987) and the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences (1994). Professor Yaari was educated at Stanford University, started his teaching career at Yale University, but eventually moved back to Israel to help jump-start the economics profession at Hebrew University in the early 1970s, where he was chairman and taught for over 30 years.
I recently had the opportunity, and great pleasure to have lunch with Professor Yaari and his lovely wife Nurit, on a picturesque Friday afternoon at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Although the conversation started with pleasantries, politics, wine and the wonderful view, it eventually turned towards retirement economics. We discussed his varied career, illustrious students and current research interests. Why this great scholar should be the topic of this month's Annuity Analytics, will soon become very clear.
Professor Yaari has collaborated with and supervised many well known Nobel Prize winning economists during the last 45 years of his career. He has written thought-provoking, fundamental research papers in the field of microeconomics and decision-making under uncertainty.
One of the hallmarks of his philosophy – which became evident from his very careful and deliberate replies to my questions – is that the economics profession should not rush to abandon the rationality of humans. According to him, many occurrences that might seem at odds with rational decision-making can be properly explained within a classical perspective. His spirited defense of the rational 'economic man' was quite refreshing, given the now daily bombardments of evidence professing to show how silly we all apparently behave with our money.
Needless to say, his writing has had a profound influence on my own thinking about economics, and more specifically about retirement income planning. Indeed, most practicing financial advisors and planners in North America might not have heard of Professor Yaari's work, <but they should>.
Here is why.
More than 45 years ago, while still a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, he was the first economist to introduce annuities into the canonical life-cycle model. For those who want to look it up, his most famous research work was published under the title: "Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance and the Theory of the Consumer" and appeared in the <Review of Economic Studies>, in 1965. Fast-forward 45 years, and today every graduate student in economics and insurance is forced to read this paper, for very good reason. To put it simply, he introduced and then legitimized life annuities to all economists. He placed them in your portfolio.
You see, back in the 1960s academic economists hadn't really given any thought to how lifetime uncertainty – the randomness of the length of retirement – affects financial planning, savings and investment behavior. I guess you can say that economists didn't like to think about death, or its impact on economic activity. Sure, they had some vague notions that old age might make people cranky and impatient, but nothing concrete or formal.
Around the same time, modern portfolio theory – introduced by Professor Harry Markowitz – was just starting to catch on with academics (it would be decades before this reached Wall Street.) Yet, even Professor Markowitz and his noted contemporary Professor William Sharpe never addressed how the randomness of life might impact economic behavior and portfolio construction. The other giant names at the time, such as Milton Freidman, or Franco Modigliani – who first theorized that consumers like to smooth their standard of living over time, considering their lifetime resources when they do this – hadn't said anything about mortality and longevity. In most of their models and papers, people died at a fixed and known time, denoted by the capital letter T. Now how unrealistic is that?
Enter a young Menahem Yaari writing his Ph.D. at Stanford University in the early 1960s. He started his famous paper with the following words:
<"…One need hardly be reminded that a consumer who makes plans for the future must, in one way or another, take account of the fact that he does not know how long he will live. Yet, few discussions of consumer allocation over time give this problem due consideration. Alfred Marshall and Irving Fisher were both aware of the uncertainty of survival, but for one reason or another they did not expound on how a consumer might be expected to react to this uncertainty if he is to behave rationally…"> (pg. 137)
Then, in a mathematical <tour de force>, he went on to describe how consumers would slowly spend down their wealth, in proportion to their survival probabilities and attitude to longevity risk, and gradually reduce their standard of living – rationally. But then, and here is where the light bulb went on, if you gave this same consumer the ability to purchase any type of annuities, they would not have to reduce their standard of living with age! They would, in fact, be able to hedge or insure against their longevity risk.
His 1965 paper then went one step further and derived the optimal "portfolio mix" between regular market-based instruments (e.g., mutual funds or ETFs) and their actuarial counterparts (life annuities), as a function of one's preference for legacy vs. personal consumption. In modern terms, he introduced what I like to call "product allocation" just a few years after Professor Harry Markowitz introduced "asset allocation."
As you can imagine, this paper has been cited thousands of times by economic scholars, in the 45 years since it was published. This, by the way, is the ultimate compliment in any scholarly field. Quite justifiably, some people refer to him as "the Markowitz" of the annuity world.
One of the most-quoted results attributed to him is that not only are life annuities an important component of a consumer's portfolio, they should actually form the entirety of the portfolio in the absence of a bequest or legacy motive. He pointed out that the mortality credits are simply too valuable to ignore. And yet, as most readers of this column probably know already, very few people actively choose to annuitize any portion of their "nest egg." I asked Professor Yaari why he thought this was the case, and I'll get to his reply in a minute.
In a seminar that he gave at the IFID Centre at the Fields Institute to commemorate his work in the area, he mentioned that his 1965 work was originally intended to help resolve inconsistencies within neoclassical economics and the apparent low spend-down rate of assets around retirement. In that sense his paper was intended as "positive" (to explain observed behavior) as opposed to "normative" (to provide financial advice).
In other words, he never intended to write a manifesto on how people should behave in the face of lifetime uncertainty: namely, that they should hedge longevity risk by purchasing annuities. At the same time, he did acknowledge that this model can easily be inverted and used to offer guidance on how people should allocate their assets around retirement.
As with many great scholars, Professor Yaari laid his golden egg which established the value of annuitization for one's nest egg, but never went back to elaborate or follow-up during the last 45 years of his career. Basically he introduced annuities to economists, and then moved on to other pursuits and problems. He endowed the field with what is now called "The Annuity Puzzle." That is, why aren't they valued and used more by consumers?
Professor Yaari stated to me that perhaps one of the reasons why many people don't appreciate the value of life annuities is that personal tastes and preferences can change over time; and they know it. The current design of annuities might not allow retirees to adapt to changes in their own tastes. These changes might be in legacy preferences, or even for spending more now, versus later. There it was again, the defense of rationality. People know what they are doing. No need to nudge, or even shove them.
In contrast to Professor Yaari's rationality school, the view offered by a growing number of economists in the behavioral school is quite different. Although both sides appreciate the value of annuities, the behaviorists argue that consumers' aversion to annuities is an irrational bias that is due to psychological quirks outside the realm of classical models. In fact, many in this camp point to low voluntary annuitization as a failure of the rational model. This is precisely why some policymakers in the U.S. – citing the Yaari mantra – have gone so far as to suggest that people should be mandated or defaulted into annuitizing a portion of their wealth at retirement. In other words, paternalism defended by rational economic models.
The debate rages on. Are annuities shunned for good reason, or not? What can be done to make them more appealing? How do we reconcile evidence with Professor Yaari's 1965 result?
Alas, for someone at the intellectual core of retirement planning, Professor Yaari is visibly humble and quite modest about the impact of his work on the field. In fact, when I mentioned to him that I had just returned from a research conference in which almost half the papers presented by graduate students were a derivative of his original annuity work, he was rather surprised and mildly amused. This was definitely one author who was not regularly checking the ranking of his book on Amazon.
As we finished desert, overlooking a magnificent Jerusalem city view that has waited centuries for peace, I asked him if he – after nearly 45 years — had any plans at all to revisit the topic and write another likely best-selling tome on annuities. "Might we ever see a sequel, after all these years", I asked him. And, with a twinkle in his eyes, his reply was: "I have to think about it a little bit more…"
Moshe A. Milevsky, Ph.D. is an educator, author, consultant and entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada.


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