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Wednesday, November 21, 2012By Susannah Price
In Somalia, photographer Kate Holt documents the lives of women and girls who have been affected by gender-based violence.
A man broke into the shelter where Mayeda's family was living and raped her young daughter. "It is very easy for these gangs to come to our place and do whatever they want," she says.
Another ordeal
According to UNHCR, there are more than 180,000 internally displaced persons in Benadir region, which includes the capital, Mogadishu. There are makeshift settlements across the area, with most internally displaced persons reporting they have come from outside the city to escape drought or conflict.
Young girls and women forced to leave their homes and villages face another ordeal once they arrive at the camps set up for the displaced.
There, they are vulnerable to attacks and rape, particularly at night, or when they are out collecting firewood or during food distributions.
Amina has come to Mogadishu to escape fighting. She, her unemployed husband and their four children have ended up in Tarabunka camp. Amina says there are cases of violence against girls and women every day.
She has seen a teenager chased by a gang and sexually assaulted. "This happens often here in this camp – and has happened to me," she says.
According to Aisha, 32, who has fled Bossasso for Mogadishu, attacks on children are a common problem.
"Every family that has a 9-year-old girl will hide them at night so that she can be safe," says Aisha, who has nine children. "If women go out to find firewood, they are going to be raped, and they are attacked in the middle of the night by gunmen – and there is nowhere to go."
Treatment, support and relocation
UNICEF has supplied post-rape treatment kits to all districts in Mogadishu through four hospitals and maternal and child health centres. Centre workers have been trained in psycho-social support and clinical management of rape.
UNICEF is also ensuring that survivors of rape who are still at risk are relocated to safer areas and can access income-generating activities to support their families.
In an area that includes Mogadishu, UNICEF is training teachers on basic emotional support to ensure that schools have social workers able to prevent and respond to sexual violence and abuse against children.
In the northern areas of Puntland and Somaliland, UNICEF and partners provide technical support to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. These ministries have introduced training in psycho-social care and support into the training curricula for teachers and health professionals.
UNICEF partners are using the new Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS) to track trends and patterns of different forms of gender-based violence against both children and adults. The GBVIMS informs UNICEF's programmes in order to respond to and prevent gender-based violence better.
UNICEF also supports the distribution of fuel-efficient stoves as a proactive prevention mechanism against gender-based violence. These stoves reduce the need for women and girls to go out and search for firewood.
*Names have been changed to protect identities.


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Now that The X Factor hopefuls have performed at the judges' homes, it's time to take the next step: live shows. But first, each of the mentors will have to eliminate two singers from their respective teams on Wednesday (8/7c, Fox).
Who deserves to ascend The X Factor stage? Who should give their vocal cords a rest? Before Simon & Co. make their crucial decisions and the requisite tears flow, we at TVGuide.com are offering up our predictions on who will make the Top 16:
The X Factor: Who made the Top 24?
The Teens - Mentor Britney Spears
The no-brainers: Whatever unholy pact that Carly Rose Soneclar's and Diamond White's parents made before their daughters' births has paid off. OK, we kid! But still, not only do both 13-year-olds have show-stopping technical vocal ability, but they also project an almost unnatural maturity in their performances. These girls can move us, and Brit would be crazy not to push them through. Less amazing is Arin Ray, but with all the fuss that's been made of his return from last season, his Tiger Beat-worthy looks and sweet voice, the boy is a heartthrob waiting to happen.
The dead weight: Sorry, we already have more than a few cute boys with shaggy Justin Bieber-like hairdos in the competition, and James Tanner's rap skills are tepid at best. How did he get this far again?
The dark horse(s): Unfortunately, Beatrice Miller is one talented 13-year-old girl too many this season, has been inconsistent in the past and just can't eclipse Carly Rose or Diamond vocally. That said, this girl can really sing, has a twinkle in her eye while performing and a lovely, husky voice that sets her apart. The wee WannaBieber Reed Deming is also a very good, if raw, talent. Although he could crack under pressure (he was so nervous in his audition), Spears' maternal instincts hasn't allowed her to resist his eager boyish charms and baby face yet.
The Young Adults - Mentor Demi Lovato
The no-brainers: Sure, Jillian Jensen has that great emotional story — like Lovato, she overcame bullying and lives by the "stay strong" motto — but it's that voice that puts her ahead of the pack. She's felt pain, and dammit, you will too whenever she opens her mouth and lets loose. And although Paige Thomas and CeCe Frey are pretty and can occasionally wow with their vocals, it's their supposed rivalry — they did the same Whitney Houston song during boot camp and fulfill the same pop-diva niche — that makes it imperative that they both go through. Besides, annoying leopard-face CeCe is just good train-wreck television and needs a nemesis on which to focus her evil powers.
The dead weight: Believe it or not, Nick Youngerman is an even worse rapper than James Tanner. Nick aggressively, tunelessly yells songs at his audience, and in his recent version of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok," didn't even sing the melodic portions of the song. As for Willie Jones, Spears was right: He has a very pleasant lower register, but his overall performances have been distinctly underwhelming. It's not enough that he's an unusual-looking country singer; he needs to actually deliver.The dark horse(s): Jennel Garcia completely captivated us in the auditions and first boot camp task with her spicy performance style and fun, Pat Benatar rocker-chick sound. Unfortunately, at the judges' homes round, she totally choked, losing the entertaining light of her youthful convictions. Can she get up to speed in time?
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The Over-25s - Mentor L.A. Reid
The no-brainers: The self-aggrandizing Jason Brock isn't just a star in his own mind; during his audition, he even convinced the judges that they were attending one of his concerts. He has an arresting, effortless voice and a mesmerizing stage quality that can't be denied. David Correy (with the Bruno Mars voice) and Vino Alan (of the Dave Matthews rasp) are both tattooed charmers with hard-luck stories and charisma to spare.
The dead weight: Ugh, Tara Simon just needs to go. Annoying, overblown, unrestrained, and did we mention annoying? Yes, it must be mentioned twice.
The dark horse(s): Both Daryl Black and Tate Stevens deliver solid, albeit rather boring, performances, and are fathers fighting the good fight for their families. In particular, Tate could fulfill that country niche that the show seems to want to fulfill so badly this season, despite a lack of real superstar talent in that genre.
The Groups — Mentor Simon Cowell
The no-brainers: For the longest time, we thought Emblem3 was the only group contender this season (Citizen wasn't ever in the game, right?) because they were given so much screen time. Despite being green and cocky, they write their own songs and present creative arrangements on covers that demonstrate actual musical ability. In contrast, the show may have decided to cobble together Lyric 145, but lead rapper Lyric Da Queen is an undeniable blinged-out-eye-patched star. Not only has she overcome a sight-stealing disease (and a subsequent freak accident after she received cornea transplants), but she blended seamlessly with the duo One4Five to create this rap juggernaut that absolutely killed a cover of Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." We bow down!
The dead weight: We really wanted to like Sister C. Unfortunately, the singing siblings lack spice, expression and a pleasing tone (our dogs never howled so much!) Maybe a few years of experience are needed to temper their timbre. Worse still, we're still trying to remember who Dope Crisis is. Just say no to Dope!
The dark horse(s): The two "leftovers" groups, created because the show couldn't advance enough individual singers, actually surprised us. Only two of the boys in Playback are worth anything in the singing department, but we're talking about boy bands, so that's not a requirement. Besides, Cowell bought into their naïve charm, and the guy knows how to create boy bands! As for Lylas — wow! A lot of these girls were solo singers who deserved more than an elimination, and we're glad that they got a second chance. Most have the singing chops, and as a group, they worked well together. We're overdue for a girl group singing sensation.
Who are your favorites? Who should get cut? Who could win it all? Share your picks in the comments below.
The X Factor airs Wednesday at 8/7 on Fox.


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I wish I had something more fun to talk about but it looks like I'll be blogging about racism for the second post in a row. I feel as if I've been bombarded by it on all fronts lately.
First our youngest son came home from school and asked, "Mommy, is there such a thing as a bad 'N' word?… Someone said it on the bus." I couldn't help the sharp intake of breath that I took. I tried to be calm, since some of the "bad" words he's asked me about before turned out to be funny misunderstandings. Perhaps he hadn't added yet another bad word to his vocabulary so soon.
"Well, what word do you think is a bad 'N' word?" I asked.
"I don't think I should say it," he said, reaching for a pencil and a piece of paper on the desk. "I'll write it."
And so he began… N-I-G … he paused. "I think it has two G's," he said, writing the second one. G-A-R. Well, he misspelled it by one letter, but the word scratched onto the piece of paper in his childish manuscript made me sick. I scribbled over it and erased it then threw it in the trash before answering him.
"Yes. That is a very bad word. That is worse than all the curse words put together."
His eyes widened. "But…what does it mean?"
"It's just a bad word. It's a mean word to call someone. Never ever say it or write it again."
"I won't – but what does it mean," he persisted.
I sighed before launching into a discussion about slavery, Martin Luther King, racism and the power of words to hurt others. I told him that if he ever hears anyone say that word again, no matter how much bigger or older they are, he should tell them to their face that they're racist and ignorant.
He nodded his 8 year old head in understanding and promised he would.
A few days later, my oldest son came home and told me a girl had pushed past him in the hallway at school and said, "Get out of my way, Mexican!"
He doesn't know her name, and he said, even if he did, he doesn't want to report her. This would get him a reputation as a "snitch" and a "cry baby".
I told him to correct her next time. I told him to say, "First of all, that's an ignorant thing to say because I'm not even Mexican, I'm half Salvadoran. Second of all, why do you think it's insulting to call me a Mexican?" I'm sure that such a measured response will be answered by a mouth breather like that girl with silence, as the tiny gears in her undersized brain, come screeching to a halt.
Maybe I shouldn't make fun of the child though. She is probably just a product of her ignorant parents… yet if her parents were raised the same way, how can they know better? … Does being ignorant make someone blameless or do they have a responsibility to challenge the beliefs they were taught? What if they aren't intellectually capable?
Racism directed at the children brings out the mother tiger in me, but the one time I dealt with blatant racism directed at myself, I laughed, and I'm still not entirely sure why. Walking through the shopping mall, holding hands with my husband, a large white male in motorcycle riding attire, passed by on my side. "Race traitor," he whispered viciously.
I stopped in my tracks, my mouth fell open, as his words registered in my brain. Race… traitor… Me? As if I belong to him, to whites? As if I owed him some sort of loyalty?
"Did that guy say something to you?" my husband said.
"Yeah… he called me… a race traitor…" I said, and then I started laughing. My husband looked at me for a split second, quite sure I had lost my mind, but he decided he would worry about my mental state later as he took off in the other direction. He isn't sensitive to racism specifically, but he will defend my honor to the death, (as any decent caballero should.)
"Where are you going?!"
"I'm going to beat the shit out of that guy! Let me go!"
I felt his muscles tense as I held tight to his arms. "No, no. It's not worth it!"
Every time I loosened my grip, my husband started to take off again until I convinced him that he would end up with a police record and jail time, or worse, in the hospital, and we didn't even have health insurance.
That happened last year but just today, my husband tells me the conversation turned to politics with an Anglo co-worker. The guy asked my husband who he voted for. This is something my husband has learned to keep to himself but for whatever reason, he answered truthfully.
"I voted for Obama," he said.
The co-worker groaned. "Why'd you vote for him? You know his middle name is Hussein? That's a Muslim terrorist name right there."
My husband doesn't get riled up by those sort of comments the way I do. He just ignored it and said calmly, "I voted for him because I felt he was the best person for the job."
End of discussion. Hopefully that guy doesn't have a white hood in his trunk.
All of this comes at an interesting time. My husband and I are probably going to the Immigration Reform March in Washington D.C. this next Sunday. Our oldest son wants to go, and although I think it would be a great experience for him, I don't plan on taking him. I'm just nervous about how dangerous it could be. I'm not worried for myself, but as any mother knows, when your kids are with you, that changes everything. Suddenly the crowd looks that much bigger, the counter-protesters that much angrier, and you realize that it wouldn't take much, (a single racial slur yelled out to the wrong person), for things to dissolve into total chaos.
I hope it will be peaceful, but I'm not betting my children's safety on it. There are too many people out there with too much hate in them.


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Crane optimistic Astros will be better in 2014
HOUSTON -- It's been two years since Jim Crane's ownership group was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the Astros, and it's certainly been a roller-coaster ride on and off the field.
The Astros lost a club-record 111 games in their inaugural season in the American League in 2013, and they've dealt with frustrated fans who haven't been able to watch games on television.
HOUSTON -- It's been two years since Jim Crane's ownership group was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the Astros, and it's certainly been a roller-coaster ride on and off the field.
The Astros lost a club-record 111 games in their inaugural season in the American League in 2013, and they've dealt with frustrated fans who haven't been able to watch games on television.
Crane and general manager Jeff Luhnow have remained committed to the rebuilding plan they put in place and have been encouraged at the continued improvement of the team's Minor League system, which is now among the best in baseball.
"Certainly, there's some days that are better than others and it does wear on you, but we're proud to own the team," Crane said. "Our group is resilient. We're in it for the long run, and we want to put a good product on the field year in and year out."
While Crane tries to navigate his way through the stalemate with Comcast, which last week involved a lawsuit filed by Crane and his ownership group against former owner Drayton McLane over the value of the regional sports network, the club is ready to move forward on the field.
With the Minor League pipeline in good shape, Crane has said the club will spend money this winter with the goal of beginning to increase the win total yearly as it climbs toward respectability in the AL West.
"When you keep looking back on the last two years, I think if I had to say the mistake that I made, I underestimated how weak our Minor League system was and how important it was to be competitive year in and year out," Crane said. "Doing a lot of the homework with Jeff's crew helped, looking at some of the organizations that are consistently in the playoffs.
"We knew we had to make wholesale changes at the bottom to get the top focused. We feel we filled in all those holes. We have a good management staff on both sides of the business. But to stick to the plan takes some fortitude, and I told people we're going to stick to the plan. And we're sticking to the plan."
The Astros aren't saying how many wins they're shooting for in 2014, and it's hard to make those predictions now considering they've yet to make any significant player acquisitions. Needless to say, expectations will be higher next year on the field.
"We've done a lot of work to deepen the scouting, to deepen the training of the Minor League system and we think we have the foundation set for the team in the future," Crane said. "Nobody was happy last [season]. It was very difficult with everybody in the organization, and we want to turn that around."
Houston's future will depend upon its homegrown talent as much as anything else. Top prospects George Springer, Jonathan Singleton and Mike Foltynewicz could be in the Majors next year, and the Astros believe they've set themselves up to keep the talent coming in waves.
It can't come soon enough for Astros fans who are thirsty for a winner. The owner is thirsty, too.
"We think we have the Minor League system shored up, but we're playing Major League Baseball, too, and we have to start winning some ballgames," Crane said. "[Next year], to be candid, I would like to see us make a big stride in the win column, and I think with filling in some of the holes we had last year, we could have flipped around a lot of games we lost late. That's what we're focused on."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter.


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[Intro: Busta Rhymes]
Hey yo
Aftermath is my family n*gga!
f*ck you want to know what size shoe I wear for?
When I could put a f*ckin mule's shoe in your chest cavity n*gga!
Yeah, Bishop Lamont, Busta Rhymes, b*tch!
[Verse 1: Bishop Lamont]
f*ck that, bear arms, it's my constitutional right
Wild, wild west, this is how we fight
See death around the corner, every day, every night
Act a fool, I pack a tool, unscrew your bug light
What it do, be cool, or be cool in the morgue tonight
I'm hot new, but not new to the game, alright?
La's move, I ain't got sh*t to prove
Unlike you fag ass rappers that's baggers on youtube
Subliminal disses, yeah I caught you
And you, and you, and you, but where's your album debut?
You see a b*tch when you peer in the mirror, I'm not you
I'm grown, I've been dropped out of f*ckin high school
And my backpack n*gga is where I tuck that tool
I'll be waitin in your kitchen to hop out like Zool
[Hook: Busta Rhymes]
I don't jet, I'll promise that
If you n*ggas really know what's good
You don't really want no problems (OHH! Check)
When the leather strapped with the horse
And we ridin through "Desperado" style knick
Sick, the way a motherf*cker spit 'til I'm hoarse
And you know that's how I do it all the while prick (OH!)
And you don't want no problems b*tch (just get to kissin the curb)
See you don't want me poppin snitch (just get to kissin the curb)
I don't care if you a trick (just get to kissin the curb)
This motherf*cker think he slick (just get to kissin the curb)
I'm sayin
[Verse 2: Bishop Lamont]
Tough guy, every motherf*ckin rhymer
When I catch 'em in the street they delicate as fine china
b*tch ass "na" got sand in they vagina
Get shook they like "wha" like The Spoof was behind 'em
I'm no Spector but the tech bro
Go through all's flow, come get ya
Wet ya, you pearl tongue
Clitoris, I'm serious, equivalent to none
Aftermath, yeah you know I got to say it
Only cause I know you jealous b*tch n*ggas hate it
Probably caught your girl on myspace
When she f*ckin you, she seein my face
That boy shinin, so you know about that REDRUM
But f*ck with me, better duck when them sounds come
[Verse 3: Bishop Lamont]
F-f-fresh I get, f-f-fresh I spit
Hot girls, got even stone dykes on my di*k
It's not a figment, of my imagination
Just a benefit, of Dre affiliation
Pimp genetics, natural charm, good conversation
But f*ck the broads bro, back to my battle station
Who want it? You goin to get it
I FedEx it to your house, same day send it
Entrepreneur homeboy, I'm with the business
Blue collar, bloody your collar
If they said you dead, I ain't got to spend a dollar (nope)
It's free of charge when you know the Don Dada
I know O.O.G.'s probably rob your father's father
If you ain't prepared to die, motherf*cker don't bother


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Asked by Rebecca, Toledo, Ohio
Something is wrong with my left wrist. When I bend it or touch the area or put pressure on it, it hurts really badly. Could this be a ganglion cyst? What should I do about it?
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A ganglion cyst, also known as ganglia, is a fluid-filled mass that can occur at any joint, but it most commonly found on the thumb and palm side of the wrist. Other less common sites for ganglion cysts include the base of the fingers, the top of the foot and, even less, the knee, shoulder and spine.
One can usually feel a ganglion cyst. It is usually palpable and painless but can be very painful when the cystic mass places pressure on nearby tendons or nerves. Occasionally, a ganglion cyst can cause a lot of pain, and the mass is not felt. This is called an occult ganglion cyst.
The cyst is filled with a gelatinous clear fluid. The walls of the cyst are tissue of the joint or tissues of a tendon at the joint.
The exact cause of ganglion cysts is not known. Ganglion cysts seem to travel in families, but some seem to be due to degeneration of tissues after repetitive movement. People who have ganglion cysts also tend to be prone to develop more of them.
A ganglion cyst is a common complaint usually handled by a general internist or family practice physician. Only the most complicated cases need to be referred to an orthopedic surgeon or a rheumatologist.
First, the health care provider will do an assessment. A mass or swelling of the wrist can be due to several things. Painful masses are most commonly caused by injury to the ligaments and soft tissues surrounding the joint or the bones that make up the joint.
If the pain and mass follow a traumatic injury, a physical examination and X-rays are needed to distinguish soft tissue injury from damage to cartilage or bone. If the symptoms develop without a history of trauma, X-rays and blood studies may be warranted to rule out rheumatic diseases of the joint.
A health care provider would typically use the following approach to make the diagnosis of a ganglion cyst.
• Transillumination, in which the light of a simple flashlight shines through the cyst. This can be done in-office and will distinguish the ganglion from a solid tumor.
• In patients with wrist pain, no clear transilluminated mass and normal X-ray studies, an MRI can differentiate most ganglia from other types of masses.
• Ultrasound is also used for detecting ganglion cysts in patients with wrist pain of unclear origin.
Untreated ganglia can spontaneously regress and spontaneously recur. Observation is appropriate for a non-painful ganglia that does not interfere with joint movement. When bothersome or symptomatic, treatments include:
• Inserting a needle on a syringe to aspirate or remove the fluid followed by injection of an anti-inflammatory such as a steroid. This works for about 80 percent of patients getting it.
• Injection of a drug, hyaluronidase, into the cyst followed by suction of the fluid out of the cyst. This is effective for 90 percent of patients getting it.
• Surgical removal of the ganglion is far more involved than aspiration, but it is very effective. Less than 5 percent of these patients have a recurrence.
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Ladies of SEMA 2013Posted in Events on November 20, 2013
Spokes models, Booth Babes, hot chicks you see at SEMA. Call them what you want, but no matter what they are in integral part of any trade show, especially this one. Just ask any first time exhibitor that doesn't think they need them. You may not notice it, but those women in the booth aren't just there to act as eye candy, they're more like magnets. You're drawn to them, and next thing you know, you're standing in a booth learning about the latest wares from Brand X. Do you know what else you did? You created the beginnings of a crowd. And nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd. Just ask anyone who has ever had to photograph the SEMA show! Speaking of which, this year we decided to devote a whole day to the booth babe phenomenon. It was a rough job, but someone had to do it!


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How to Liven Up Mother's Day
You can't blame these decorators, really; flowery cakes for Mother's Day can get a little boring.
I would say this baker got down to the heart of the matter, but that would be hitting above the belt. [smirk]
Oh, dear. You know, I've never watched the movie, but from the tiny bit I saw here I'm starting to wonder if this is really the best choice for a cake, on Mother's Day or ANY day.* Yikes. And why "Mommies"? Do two Moms get to share this psychotic little treat?
Here's a bakery that really knows the best way to honor Mom: by eating her face!
At least they provide lots of options to choose from, though, thereby increasing your odds of finding a Mommy Head that "looks just like her!" Woo woo!
Alison J. and Kelly D., I think for fun I'm going to get a head that looks as UNlike Mom as possible. Then I'll tell her I brought in a picture of her for the bakery to match, and act like I think they did a fab job. :)
*Actually, I looked it up, and this is listed as a "christening cake". Wow. Somehow, I think that makes it worse...


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text: Alec Baldwin didn't start spats with everyone in Cannes. The actor hosted a dinner at restaurant Baoli for the backers of his documentary "Seduced and Abandoned" with James Toback, Michelle and Larry Herbert, Stacey and Neal Schneider and Marla and Alan Helene. Also there were Hilaria Thomas and Michael Mailer. Baldwin still gave the Cannes culinary scene low marks, tweeting, "Some of these restaurants are really just clubs that serve food."


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Thanks Joep, smart answer! All of my confusions are gone. Have a good weekend. regards, Lin On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Joep Rottinghuis <email@example.com>wrote: > You could configure it like that if you wanted. Keep in mind that would > waste some resources. Imagine a 10 minute task that has been running for 9 > minutes. If you have that task killed immediately then it would have to be > the-scheduled and re-do all 10 minutes. > Give it another minute and the task is complete and out if the way. > > So, consider how busy your cluster is overall and how much you are willing > to wait for fairness trading this off against a certain amount of waste. > > Cheers, > > Joep > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 21, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Lin Ma <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > Hi Joep, > > Excellent answer! I think you have answered my confusions. And one > remaining issue after reading this document again, even it is old. :-) > > It is mentioned, "which will allow you to set how long each pool will > wait before preempting other jobs' tasks to reach its guaranteed capacity", > my question is why each pool need wait here? If a pool cannot get its > guaranteed capacity because of jobs in other pools over use the capacity, > we should kill such jobs immediately? Appreciate if you could elaborate a > bit more why we need wait to get even guaranteed capacity. > > regards, > Lin > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Joep Rottinghuis <firstname.lastname@example.com>wrote: > >> Lin, >> >> The article you are reading us old. >> Fair scheduler does have preemption. >> Tasks get killed and rerun later, potentially on a different node. >> >> You can set a minimum / guaranteed capacity. The sum of those across >> pools would typically equal the total capacity of your cluster or less. >> Then you can configure each pool to go beyond that capacity. That would >> happen if the cluster is temporary not used to the full capacity. >> Then when the demand for capacity increases, and jobs are queued in other >> pools that are not running at their minimum guaranteed capacity, some long >> running tasks from jobs in the pool that is using more than its minimum >> capacity get killed (to be run later again). >> >> Does that make sense? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Joep >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 20, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Lin Ma <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I have a quick question regarding to fire scheduler of Hadoop, I am >> reading this article => >> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2008/11/job-scheduling-in-hadoop/, my >> question is from the following statements, "There is currently no >> support for preemption of long tasks, but this is being added in >> HADOOP-4665 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4665>, which >> will allow you to set how long each pool will wait before preempting other >> jobs' tasks to reach its guaranteed capacity.". >> >> My questions are, >> >> 1. What means "preemption of long tasks"? Kill long running tasks, or >> pause long running tasks to give resources to other tasks, or it means >> something else? >> 2. I am also confused about "set how long each pool will wait before >> preempting other jobs' tasks to reach its guaranteed capacity"., what >> means "reach its guaranteed capacity"? I think when using fair >> scheduler, each pool has predefined resources allocation settings (and the >> settings guarantees each pool has resources as configured), is that true? >> In what situations each pool will not have its guaranteed (or configured) >> capacity? >> >> regards, >> Lin >> >> >
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26. Collaboration among filmmakers is recognized as being a necessity among filmmakers. Todd Sklar's tour of films with their filmmakers brought vital work and their creators to places that generally went lacking. The teamwork approach benefited everyone. One can easily imagine that this model, like the collaborative finance model, will extend to production too, and not just in the aforementioned crowdsourced way, but in ways that will make individual personal films stronger too.
27. The Independent community has demonstrated that it is quick to action and embraces both tolerance and strength. Over five years ago, the indie film community joined forces to defeat the Hollywood Studios' and the MPAA's Screen Ban, but despite a lot of activist attitude they have not joined forces in a significant way since then. But it doesn't mean it can't, or won't.
28. The embrace of the "1000 True Fans" model: filmmakers are recognizing that they need to engage in regular communication -- via a regular output of varied material – with their core audience. Not only is necessary because it speaks of a model of how filmmakers can earn a living , but it also offers a manner of working that will allow filmmakers, and artists in general, greater variation in the type and form of work they do. The dialogue with the audience will also keep filmmakers more attuned to what their audience responds to and why, all the while, strengthening the bonds between artists and their community.
29. Rational consolidation and expansion is taking place in the blogosphere. Indiewire, the premiere indie film news site, was acquired Snag Films, the leading documentary film streaming aggregator. GreenCine, one of the leading sites for art film appreciation, had its lead blogger go over to IFC's IndieEye – greatly strengthening that site. Movie City News got another great editor. As these core film appreciation sites improve, we all benefit. Audiences need to know where to go to find the type of films they love and this bit of consolidation could help.


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Last Words: The Dying of Languages
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Marathi. Gujarati. Hindi. English. Kutchi. In Bombay, where I grew up, I used these languages every day. To get by on the streets, to get directions, to interact with people-I had to be able to speak Marathi. To go to a corner store to buy rice or tomatoes for dinner, I had to speak a little Gujarati, the language of many local shopkeepers. Kids in my school came from so many different linguistic backgrounds that we conversed either in English, the language of instruction, or Hindi, India's most widely-spoken tongue. And my grandparents spoke Kutchi, the language of our ancestors, who came from the deserts of western India.
Despite their best efforts, I did anything I could to avoid responding to my grandparents in Kutchi. After all, they could converse fluently in a number of Bombay's working languages. And I sensed from a very early age that Kutchi wasn't useful in any obvious way. It couldn't help me make friends, follow what was on TV, or get me better grades. So by default, I abandoned the language of my ancestors, and chose instead to operate in the linguistic mainstream.
Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, and English are each spoken by at least 40 million Indians. Kutchi, on the other hand, has perhaps 800,000 speakers-and that number is declining as more and more Kutchi-speaking young people switch to Gujarati or English. This decline makes the language increasingly vulnerable to other pressures. Last January, western India suffered a catastrophic earthquake, which had its epicenter in Kutch. Kutchi lost an estimated 30,000 speakers.
India is a densely polyglot country. Estimates of the number of languages spoken there vary widely, depending on where one draws the line between language and dialect. But a conservative reckoning would put the number of native Indian tongues at roughly 400; of these, about 350 are rapidly losing speakers. The same is true for thousands of other languages all over the world. And most of these fading tongues don't come anywhere near Kutchi in terms of the number of speakers: of the world's 6,800 extant languages, nearly half are now spoken by fewer than 2,500 people. At the current rate of decline, experts estimate that by the end of this century, at least half of the world's languages will have disappeared-a linguistic extinction rate that works out to one language death, on average, every two weeks. And that's the low-end estimate; some experts predict that the losses could run as high as 90 percent. Michael Krauss, a linguist at the Alaskan Native Language Center and an authority on global language loss, estimates that just 600 of the world's languages are "safe" from extinction, meaning they are still being learned by children.
It's believed that the human faculty for language arose at some point between 20,000 and 100,000 years ago. Many languages have come and gone since then, of course, but it's unlikely that the global fund of languages has ever before gone into so extensive and chronic a decline. This process seems to have originated in the 15th century, as the age of European expansion dawned. At least 15,000 languages were spoken at the beginning of that century. Since then, some 4,000 to 9,000 tongues have disappeared as a result of wars, genocide, legal bans, and assimilation. Many anthropologists see the decline as analogous to biodiversity loss: in both cases, we are rapidly losing resources that took millennia to develop.
Today, the world's speech is increasingly homogenized. The 15 most common languages are now on the lips of half the world's people; the top 100 languages are used by 90 percent of humanity. European languages have profited disproportionately from this trend. Europe has a relatively low linguistic diversity-just 4 percent of the world's tongues originated there-yet half of the 10 most common languages are European (see figure, page 36). Of course, as a first language, the world's most common tongue is not European but Asian: Mandarin Chinese is now spoken by nearly 900 million people. But English is rapidly gaining ground as the primary international medium of science, commerce, and popular culture. Most of the world's books, newspapers, and e-mail are written in English, which is now spoken by more people as a second language (350 million) than as a native tongue (322 million). According to one estimate, English is used in some form by 1.6 billion people every day.
Most languages, in contrast, have a very limited distribution. Much of the world's linguistic diversity is concentrated in just a few regions-all of which are extremely rich in biodiversity as well (see map, pages 38-39). The Pacific region in particular has produced an amazing diversity of the spoken word. The island of New Guinea, which the nation of Papua New Guinea shares with the Indonesian state of Irian Jaya, has spawned some 1,100 tongues. New Guinea is home to just 0.1 percent of the world's people-yet those people speak perhaps one sixth of the world's languages. Another 172 languages are spoken in the Philippines, and an astounding 110 can be heard on the tiny archipelago of Vanuatu, which is inhabited by fewer than 200,000 people. Over all, more than half of all languages occur in just eight countries: Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have 832 and 731 respectively; Nigeria has 515; India has about 400; Mexico, Cameroon, and Australia have just under 300 each; and Brazil has 234. (These figures come from the Ethnologue, a database published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Austin, Texas; some totals may include languages that have recently gone extinct.)
Some of these linguistic "hot spots" appear to be on the verge of a kind of cultural implosion. Take Australia, for example. About 90 percent of the country's 250 aboriginal languages are near extinction; only seven have more than 1,000 speakers and only two or three are likely to survive the next 50 years or so. It's apparent from the Ethnologue that Australia is hemorrhaging languages. Most of Queensland's 50 or so native tongues are listed as having fewer than 20 speakers, or as already extinct. The future appears equally bleak for the many languages of Western and South Australia; people whose parents spoke Mangala or Tyaraity, for instance, prefer aboriginal English or Kriol, an English-based hybrid tongue. But this type of linguistic hemorrhaging is hardly confined to the hot spot regions. Serious decline can be found virtually everywhere, as a brief survey of the world's continents will show.
In North America, the linguistic richness that still characterizes Mexico was once the norm over much of the continent. In 1492, the year Columbus first crossed the Atlantic, some 300 languages could be heard in the region that is now the United States. Today, only five of them have more than 10,000 speakers. Of the 260 native tongues still spoken in the United States and Canada, 80 percent are no longer being learned by children. Idaho's Coeur D'Alene has just five speakers. Marie Smith (page 35) is the last remaining speaker of Eyak, which is native to the coast of Prince William Sound, Alaska. And when Roscinda Nolasquez of Pala, California died in 1994, Cupeño went extinct. California is considered one of the world's linguistic treasure troves; it has produced perhaps 100 languages, including Esselen from Carmel and Obispeño from Santa Barbara-both now extinct. Only 50 Californian languages remain, and just two or three have as many as 200 speakers.
In South America, hundreds of languages were wiped out following the Spanish conquest, but the continent's remaining 640 tongues are still remarkably diverse. One way to gauge this diversity is to think in terms of stocks, groups of related languages. (Stocks are a more finely tuned and comprehensive set of categories than conventional language families, such as Indo-European or Sino-Tibetan.) Johanna Nichols, the linguist at the University of California, Berkeley who developed this concept, has found that South American native languages derive from 93 stocks, compared with the six stocks native to Europe, or the 20 in Africa. (Nichols has identified 250 different stocks for the world as a whole.) About 80 percent of South America's native languages are spoken by under 10,000 people and 27 percent are approaching extinction. In Brazil, one of the "hot spot" countries, 42 languages are already extinct, and most of the remaining ones are rapidly being replaced by Portuguese. The country has lost a number of "isolates"-languages that have no contemporary relative. In the Amazon region, few native languages have more than 500 speakers any longer and many are down to less than a hundred. Karahawyana, for instance, has 40 remaining speakers; Katawixi has 10; and Arikapu has just six.
In Africa, the birthplace of 30 percent of the world's tongues, 54 languages are believed dead; another 116 are near extinction. Among the languages that have already been lost are Aasáx, which was spoken by a group of hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania until 1976. This culture has now been assimilated into the Masai and other Bantu groups. In Ethiopia, Gafat, a language native to a region near the Blue Nile, has been replaced by the national language Amharic, which is spoken by 17 million people.
In Asia, more than half the native languages have fewer than 10,000 speakers, despite the fact that the continent is home to 3 billion people. The list of endangered Asian languages includes Brokskat, which is limited to 3,000 speakers in the Ladakh region of northern India; Burmeso, an isolate spoken by 250 people in Irian Jaya; and Onge, the tongue of a traditional fishing community of 96 people on the Andaman Islands. In the Philippines, Arta is down to its last three families.
Nor is Europe immune to the decline, despite the dominance of its major languages. Manx, once spoken on the Isle of Man, went extinct in 1974 with the death of its last speaker, Ned Maddrell. And when the Turkish farmer Tefvik Esenc died in 1992, so did Ubykh, a language from the Caucasus region that had the highest number of consonants ever recorded.
It is true that the past couple of centuries have seen the emergence of a number of new languages. But by and large, these developments have done little to mitigate the general linguistic loss. A few of the new languages are wholly artificial. Esperanto, for example, was introduced in 1887; its inventors hoped it would become a universal tongue, even though they derived it entirely from Indo-European languages. There are also some 114 sign languages used around the world; many of them have acquired the innovative, expressive power of spoken natural languages, but they are used almost exclusively by the deaf. Among the new natural languages are 81 creoles, 17 pidgins, and numerous trade languages. All of these are the product of two or more languages, one of them usually a European colonial tongue. Pidgins and trade languages have highly simplified grammars and limited vocabularies; they are always second languages. Creoles are sometimes complex enough to serve as mother tongues.
About 80 percent of the world's languages are spoken only in their country of origin and virtually all endangered languages are endemic to a single area (that is, they are spoken nowhere else). As with living things, endemism increases vulnerability. In Thailand, for instance, dams built on the Kwai River in the late 1970s flooded the villages of the Ugong-speaking people, forcing them to migrate to Thai-speaking areas. Today, perhaps 100 speakers of this isolate remain. And had Kutchi had fewer speakers, the recent earthquake could easily have extinguished it.
Endemic languages are vulnerable to much more than just landscape disturbance. A language can disappear for many reasons, but as the biologist, historian, and linguistic scholar Jared Diamond notes, "the most direct way...is to kill almost all its speakers." This is how all the native languages of Tasmania, for example, were eliminated, as British colonists extended their control over the island during the period 1803-1835. Ubykh's extinction was the delayed result of another act of genocide: most of its 50,000 speakers were killed or forced to flee following Russian conquest of the northern Caucasus in the 1860s.
Elsewhere, governments have banned minority languages in favor of linguistic conformity. Many countries require children to be educated in the dominant language-policies that have the unfortunate (and sometimes intended) effect of discouraging acquisition of the native tongue. Until recently, for instance, the United States required that all classroom instruction on Native American reservations be in English. It was illegal to teach in Hawaiian in the islands' public schools until 1986-even though Hawaiian had been taught in 150 schools until the late 1880s, prior to U.S. annexation. In the former Soviet Union, Russian was enforced as the language of education and government during the entire Soviet era. This effort was extremely successful: in Russia today, 90 percent of the population speaks Russian, while roughly 70 of the country's nearly 100 other native languages are near extinction. Many of these are Siberian tongues. Gilyak, for example, is a Siberian isolate with just 400 speakers. Udihe has only 100 speakers-all of them adults who were resettled into Russian-speaking regions. Yugh is now spoken by just two or three people.
Promoting a single language is often seen as a way to foster national identity, especially in ethnically diverse countries that were not unified until colonial rule. East African governments have favored Swahili, for instance, which has overpowered such local tongues as Alagwa in Kenya and Zalamo in Tanzania. But as the linguists Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine note in their book, Vanishing Voices, a common language hardly guarantees political unity. The troubles in Northern Ireland, for instance, are not alleviated by the fact that both sides speak English. Similarly, Somalia's high degree of linguistic uniformity does not appear to have constrained that country's chronic civil war.
Language loss is obviously a form of cultural impoverishment, but the damage extends far beyond the communities immediately affected. There are several reasons why widespread linguistic decline is a matter of concern for all humanity. In the first place, there is the loss to linguistics itself-and to the other sciences that draw upon it, such as psychology and anthropology. Already, linguists are lamenting the fading opportunity to analyze the extraordinary variety of in grammar and speech that they are finding in the world's languages. As with species extinction, we do not even know what we are losing. Uncertainties over how to analyze India's tongues, for instance, have led to huge disparities in estimating the number of languages native to that country: the count ranges from 400 to 1,600. India may be an extreme case in this regard, but it's hard to say how extreme because most other centers of linguistic diversity have received even less attention. In Papua New Guinea, for example, only about a dozen of the 830 or so languages have been studied in any detail. And despite their proximity to each other, many of these languages are isolates. Diamond writes of his travels through the island: "Every 10 or 20 miles I pass between tribes with languages as different as English is from Chinese."
A second general consequence of the declines involves our ability to understand our past. Languages hold important clues to the history of our species. For example, by analyzing words for various crops and farm implements, the Berkeley linguist Johanna Nichols has traced the modern people of the Caucasus back to the ancient farmers of the Fertile Crescent. Similarly, the distribution of Austronesian languages is being used to map the prehistoric migration out of Taiwan and onto the islands of the open Pacific.
Finally, by relinquishing our linguistic diversity, we are also diminishing our understanding of biological diversity. Native inhabitants of regions with high biodiversity have developed elaborate vocabularies to describe the natural world around them-collective "field guides" that reflect the ecological knowledge of, in some cases, hundreds of generations. Native Hawaiians, for example, named fish species for their breeding seasons, medicinal uses, and methods of capture. When the marine biologist R.E. Johannes interviewed a Palauan fisherman born in 1894, he found that the Pacific islander had names for over 300 different species of fish, and knew the lunar spawning cycles of several times as many species as had then been described in the scientific literature. Many of these treasure houses of local knowledge are being replaced by more simplified forms of speech. For instance, New Guinean pidgin English, which is popular with young people, has just two names to describe birds-pisin bilong de (bird seen by day) and pisin bilong nait (bird seen by night)-whereas native Papua New Guinean languages have an extensive vocabulary for the island's many bird species.
A few languages are slowly making a comeback, with the help of community groups, governments, and linguists. In 1999, four students in Hawaii graduated from high school educated exclusively in Hawaiian-the first to do so in the century since U.S. annexation. Their achievement was made possible largely by Punana Leo, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reviving the language, which now has 1,000 speakers. Cornish, the language of Cornwall (southwestern England), has been revived since its last "natural" speaker died in 1777; it now has 2,000 speakers. Nationalism has been a powerful force for such revivals, as in the case of Gaelic or Hebrew. During the last century, Hebrew has grown from a purely written language to Israel's national tongue, with 5 million speakers. In Mexico, the Zapatistas are urging a revival of Mayan languages as part of their campaign for local autonomy. Efforts are also under way to revive Welsh, Navajo in the United States, New Zealand's Maori, and several native Botswanan languages.
Most languages, of course, aren't going to get that kind of attention. (Fewer than 4 percent of the world's languages have any official status in their country of origin.) Many experts believe that the best way to conserve linguistic wealth is to foster multilingualism. Certainly, different peoples need to understand each other, which is why some languages have always served as linguae francae. But among minority language speakers, multilinguilism has always been the norm-my grandparents in Bombay are a good example. And despite the wide linguistic variations found in Papua New Guinea, it's believed that most of the country's people speak five or more languages.
Even today, it's estimated that two thirds of all children are still growing up in multilingual environments. Removing the fetters that have been placed on minority languages in the last two or three centuries might help revive the linguistic heritage of many countries. Norway's Saami Language Act of 1992, for example, is an effort to preserve the culture of the people most commonly known as "Laplanders" (a term they themselves view as pejorative). Or again, why shouldn't Breton, Caló, and Corsican become officially recognized languages in France, the country where their speakers traditionally reside? The revival of these tongues would hardly threaten the status of French as the national language, but it could be a substantial help in preserving the country's cultural vibrancy.
Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health. No language is an exact map of any other; each is, in a sense, its own world. By allowing so many of these worlds to slip away, we may be forfeiting a lot more than just words.
Payal Sampat is a research associate at the Worldwatch Institute.


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Foresight Archives
10th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
11 to 13 October, 2002
Hyatt Hotel, One Bethesda Metro, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Two instructional tutorials on Molecular Nanotechnology were held on October 10.
This page now serves as an archive for the 2002 conference.
The 10th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology will be held at the Hyatt Hotel, One Bethesda Metro, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. The Conference will begin with a reception the evening of Thursday, October 10, and end Sunday, October 13, 2002. An intensive Tutorial on Foundations of Nanotechnology will be held on October 10.
This 2002 Conference home page will provide the information you will need about the conference and to register for the conference. After the conference is over, this page will provide the permanent archive for the conference.
Rapid advances in our ability to image, manipulate, and probe the properties of matter at the atomic scaletogether with emerging insights into structure, function and self-assembly in biological systemsis bringing to fruition the tremendous promise of nanotechnology first recognized by Richard Feynman over 40 years ago. In the next decade, current research into the science and technology of nanostructures is expected to have a major impact on fields ranging from consumer electronics to space exploration and medicine.
The Foresight Institute's first Conference on Nanotechnology, which pre-dated the National Nanotechnology Initiative by a decade, was the first comprehensive conference on the topic of nanotechology. Foresight sponsored events continue to be the premiere venue for discussing new and innovative multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology. Last year's conference, the 9th in the series, attracted over 500 researchers from academic, government and industrial laboratories world-wide, and included papers from the electronics, medical, computing, and biological communities. Foresight's 10th Conference will continue this level of excellence by providing a forum in which leaders from all disciplines delving into science and technology at the nanoscale can present and discuss their most recent results and ideas.
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The Foresight Conference covers the key topics required for an integrated understanding of molecular nanotechnology:
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Nanostructures underlie all nanotechnologies. Their diverse physical, chemical and electronic properties determine what nanotechnologies can do.
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Sensors at the nanoscale can be used to recognize molecules and to probe the properties of surfaces and objects at the atomic scale.
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Supramolecular chemistry by moving beyond the traditional concern with individual molecules to a focus on building larger structures from assemblages of molecules is a key enabling technology for a wide range of nanosystems.
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There will be oral presentations and a poster session during the conference. The poster session will be held on Friday afternoon. On Saturday there will be additional time for viewing and discussion of the posters. All those who wish either to speak or to present a poster must submit an abstract. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to June 15, 2002. There will be no further extensions after June 15. The abstracts should be no longer than 500 words including references and footnotes. Each submitted abstract may include only one graphic in jpg or gif format. The size should be no larger than 250 x 250 pixels (will be displayed at 72 dpi). Abstracts not in the appropriate format will be returned without being considered.
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So, this Christmas, my husband gave me a portable hard drive with 250 GB (I understand that is a lot!) so that I could move files over and free up space on my lap-top. My plan was to move all of my photos, music files, and school folders to the external drive, virtually "housekeeping" and barely lifting a finger.
It was supposed to be a piece of cake.
The fun started when I tried to liberate the 5" x 3" contraption from its heavy-duty plastic, cutting my hand in the process. Then, as the product indicated it was "plug and play" and no instructions were included, I proceeded to connect the USB to my laptop and started moving photos and then iTunes to the new drive. Pretty easy. Cool.
Then, I went to my iTunes player... and everything was GONE. I went to my new drive, and found the songs in all sorts of folders, and when I tried to play them, they would play in another player, not the iTunes player. Oh no. Then, I went to my documents, and discovered more pandemonium. Things had shifted from here to there, files had replicated themselves. Music and lesson plans and poems and tests and gadgets and journals were all mixed together. Stuff was NOT where it was supposed to be!
And while I was working hard at restoring files and returning things to where they should be, my computer froze up. I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, returned to what I was doing, and then it happened again! I restarted, got back to work, and it happened AGAIN!
I discovered later there were some updates that had to install, and that there was a specific way to move certain types of files over to the external hard drive. I think everything is back in order now. I hope.
OK. So there is plenty more that I have to learn. But these tech-troubles really flustered me today. While technology has made me more productive and efficient, it's also caused me frustration.
Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Monday, December 29, 2008
What I Learned in 2008 Part II - Technology Wreaks Havoc
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- Mr. Magoo... said...
Ya me imagino, y eso que yo trabajo en tecnologia, pero en veces me vuelven loco, y siempre son inevitables los famosos "bugs" de microsoft, no se que tan comun sea esto con Mac.
Has aprendido bastante, y has utilizado bastante la tecnologia. Yo no me esperaba siquiera grabar mi voz y subirla en algun formato, ahora ya llevo 26 podcasts, y asi es este rollo de la tecnologia.
Espero que la tecnologia te siga dando muchas mas satisfacciones que dolores de cabeza para este 2009.
Un abrazo.
- December 30, 2008 at 9:00 PM
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In preparation for the release of Dishonored in just two weeks, Bethesda recently released an iOS game that's basically like Fruit Ninja but with rats. So: more delicious.
While this little kitty might not understand the precise rules of Dishonored: Rat Assassin, her enthusiasm and adorableness more than make up for it.
My 5 weeks old kitten playing Dishonored on iPad [YouTube via Reddit]


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When an invitation from Virtual Campus Coordinator Anthony Sweeney hits your CUNY email inbox, please do yourself a favor:
- Clear your calendar
You will not be disappointed, I promise. Recently a fellow blogger, Yerelyn Nunez, suggested that we take advantage of the opportunities available to us as students: https://cunysps.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/take-advantage-of-being-a-student/.
I couldn't agree more with Yerelyn. Here are a couple of examples illustrating the exciting ways we can celebrate our diverse CUNY SPS community.
Bloomberg International Women's Day Summit
Thanks to one of those fab Anthony invites, I was honored to attend the Bloomberg International Women's Day Summit. The event started early Sunday morning, March 12 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an energetic welcome given by our own CUNY Vice Chancellor Andrea Shapiro-Davis. She was followed by inspiring speakers who are committed to empowering women throughout the world. The participants were exclusively students, some as young as middle school age. The attendees were invited to partner up with Bloomberg mentors. The support and encouragement we were given helped us all envision a brighter future for women.
The photo above is Vice Chancellor Andrea Shapiro-Davis (she's so cool!) with summit attendees from CUNY SPS: Kangela Moore, Yvette Humphries, and yours truly. (Because I'm an older "non-conventional" student, the younger students kept asking me if I was a mentor!)
Creating a Safe Place
CUNY SPS is a diverse school dedicated to inclusion. Have you been worried about how the presidential election could affect some of our students and their families? At a school meeting earlier this semester, there was a conversation about the election and its ramifications. After this student/faculty dialogue, the students were given the green light to form a discussion group addressing the implications of the current political climate for our student body. In just a few short months, the logistics were worked out and the exchange is about to start.
Please join the conversation! All CUNY SPS students are welcomed to the first discussion group meeting to be held on April 5. Participants will identify a topic to have courageous and supportive conversations that will be co-facilitated by Melissa McIntyre (Disability Studies, MA).
The group will work collectively and collaboratively to empower all of our students and their families in the times ahead. Dinner is even provided folks! Clear your calendar and GO!
Let's all give all give a BIG SHOUT OUT to Associate Dean Brian Peterson, Dr. Zeita Lobley, Anthony Sweeney and Melissa McIntyre who made this happen!
Addressing our Legacy
A final little footnote: at CUNY SPS, we are a newish/smallish school within a large and established university system. This gives us the unique ability to profoundly impact our school environment. We have a wonderful group of administrators who are not only open to our ideas about creating student opportunities, but will help facilitate whenever possible. Few colleges have these possibilities, with this kind of support, so we should all consider how we can help make CUNY SPS an even better learning environment for future students.
Designer, single mom, and ongoing student, Lisa Sheridan is busy juggling life, work, and academics as an undergraduate in the Communication and Media department.


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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - The band Dr. Laz and The Cure is on a mission to teaching peace, love, and respect.
"I look upon our job as musicians is really being social activists and sort of lighting everyone's lamp who's out there," said David Lazerson.
Lazerson, also known as Dr. Laz, is an Orthodox Jew who raps.
"It's a stereotype breaker. Maybe at first they're just kind of dumbfounded but then I think they start digging it," said Lazerson.
Lazerson formed the group in the 1990's after the race riots in Brooklyn, New York.
A fatal car crash involving a child led to three nights of terror in the community when racial tension exploded between Orthodox Jews and African Americans. Three people were killed in the violence.
Lazerson decided to take action.
"I felt that if we could play music together then that's a huge visual statement to all the people that said, 'Oh, these guys are enemies. These guys can't get along,'" said Lazerson.
His effort was so successful that Showtime made a movie featuring Howie Mandel as Dr. Laz.
Now, 20 years later, Dr. Laz and The Cure continue their mission of peace while performing in South Florida.
Saxophonist Curt Windom said music is a universal language.
"My culture is a little bit different There are big differences. How I deal with that? Anytime you can learn something. I think that's a step in the right direction" said Windom.
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Lima, May 3 2013.- The educational achievements of Peruvian children is not only dependent on the deficiencies of the school system, but also on the family, according to the international report "World Family Map 2013: Mapping family change and child well-being outcomes", presented today by Universidad de Piura's Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia, University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, and Child Trends.
According to this research, which includes indicators from over 40 countries, the number of parents who live in the household (two, one, or none) is a key determinant for certain educational achievements, such as reading literacy and a normal progression through school, as measured by the 2009 PISA survey.
The influence of family structure on children's educational attainments or achievements is more robust in middle- and high-income countries, whose governments guarantee high-quality educational services; however, the presence of parents isn't as significant in low-income countries, particularly in South America and Africa, where children face tougher learning challenges linked to poverty and the educational system.
The importance of having at least one parent in the household
The 2009 PISA reading literacy scores place our country in penultimate place among Latin American countries. According to the researchers, poor performance by Peruvian students is linked to family indicators such as wealth, parental education, and their native language.
Additional variables that significantly affect reading literacy scores are the type of school (public vs. private), the school's natural region (coast, mountain, or forest), and the school's location (Lima vs. other provinces). This reflects the level of disparity in our country's educational quality.
Thus, a Peruvian child who lives in a household which isn't poor, with educated parents, speaks Spanish as his native language, goes to a private school, in the coast and in Lima, would get better scores in reading literacy than those who don't meet these criteria.
Although 24% of Peruvian children under age 18 grow up in a household with only one parent, they are not at a disadvantage when compared to children from two-parent households with regards to reading literacy since the difference in scores between the two groups is not significant.
Nonetheless, in 24 out of the 37 countries examined, children living in a two-parent family receive better reading literacy scores and have a lower probability of repeating a grade than those living in a single-parent family. The situation is even more detrimental for children living without any parent, which is 10 % of the children in our country.
"The results from the 2009 PISA survey regarding family structure in Peru suggest that a more rigorous study is required. It's not that family structure isn't important. Children who grow up in a single-parent family could receive support from extended family, as is the case in other developing countries, but this needs to be verified", said Marcos Agurto, professor at the UDEP.
"It also may be that-at least when it comes to education-that fathers do not typically play a central role in their children's schooling", said Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia.
The threat of instability
The "World Family Map 2013" report also explores family well-being indicators worldwide. When compared to other countries, the instability that Peruvian families experience as a result of the rise in cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing is evident.
Peru has the second highest rate of cohabitation, given that only 30% of our population is married and 29% cohabit. Furthermore, 73% of Peruvian children are born outside of marriage, a rate that is second only to Colombia's.
According to Bradford Wilcox, coauthor of the report, the rise in this phenomenon significantly reduces several benefits that children and adults receive when they grow up within the context of a stable, conflict-less marriage. "Marriage is not the cure to all social problems, but numerous research reports confirm its irreplaceable contribution to the common well-being. A stable family structure, such as marriage, is an important predictor of children's social and psychological well-being ", said the researcher.
Despite the fragility of the unions, our country exhibits other positive indicators such as a higher total fertility rate (2.5 children per woman) than other countries. Also, a high level of family trust is found among Peruvian adults, as well as a high level of social and political discussions between adolescents and their parents.
The report concludes that by suggesting that family stability, the support of extended family and greater paternal involvement appears to be important it we wish to reduce the marginalization suffered by the most vulnerable members of our society.


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Macomb County serves as one of four areasacross the state that will participate in a pilot program that seeks to reduce costs and increase efficiency for nursing homes with low-income patients who receive Medicare and Medicaid insurance coverage.
Jennifer Morgan, administrator of the county-run Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility, will play a leading role in overseeing the local project, which will involve 170 nursing homes statewide.
The Michigan Department of Community Health is overseeing the effort to improve management and better coordinate medical benefits for 'dual-eligible' patients who receive Medicare/Medicaid assistance.
'We're looking at how we can manage the health care for these clients and how we can be more fiscally responsible,' Morgan said.
Bids for this 'integrated care' project will be awarded soon and the new approach will take hold on Jan. 1. An outgrowth of federal health care reform, the effort includes education and outreach to those eligible when the exchanges – the online insurance marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act – begin their 3-month enrollment period on Oct. 1.
The pilot program, which is expected to last about one year, earned the endorsement of the Board of Commissioners in a resolution adopted on Thursday.
Other participants are Wayne County, southwest Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. About 45 percent of the state's nursing home residents are dual-eligibles.
According to Morgan, the expansion of Medicaid planned under Obamacare will not affect Martha T. Berry's mission as a 'safety net' facility for the indigent.
More like a nursing home than a hospital, the 217-bed facility located on the outskirts of Mount Clements serves as home to some of Macomb County's most chronically ill residents. The patients, ranging from teenagers to senior citizens, require long-term care due to accident, illness or disease that has left them paralyzed, comatose or incacitated.
After undergoing a $22 million complete makeover from 2002-06, Martha T. Berry managed a highly praised budget downsizing, gradually eliminating its $8 million subsidy from the county general fund.
'We want to make sure that we wisely spend health care dollars,' Morgan said, but we also need to keep meeting the needs of the people in our Medical Care Facilities and nursing homes.'


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Remember the Chinese barber who built a front-engined Lamborghini Aventador replica out of a car Americans know as the Infiniti I30? Cops confiscated it. Apparently it didn't look like the "Nissan Cefiero" listed on its papers.
The $14,000 lookalike was recently caught on digicam as it sat in a police impound yard. Before the barber of Saint'Agata gets his car back, he'll have to pay a 500 yuan fine for driving without license plates and additional fines for driving a car that looks unlike the car it actually is. (Defining what is is, is apparently less murky in China than in the US.)
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Forget a weakening economy and the prospect of further monetary easing. Here's what will keep the Aussie dollar robust in the months ahead - a rebound in commodity prices and even lower interest rates among the world's big economies.
"It (the Australian dollar) has been the hardest currency to sell over the last 18 months," Patrick Bennett, foreign exchange strategist at CIBC in Hong Kong told CNBC. "When you've still got policy levers in global central banks accommodative, currencies like the Aussie dollar are going to gain, outperform."
The Australian dollar, trading around $1.057 on Tuesday, has risen about 4 percent since October, taking interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in October and December in its stride to remain comfortably above the $1-mark.
Latest economic data suggest at least one more rate cut is on its way, said analysts. Australian retail sales fell an unexpected 0.1 percent in November from a month earlier, while data on Tuesday from ANZ Bank showed job advertisements fell in December for a 10th straight month, pointing to weakness in the labor market.
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As theory in currency circles goes, this backdrop points to a weaker Aussie dollar. But the practice is this, said forex analysts, as long as interest rates in Australia are above benchmark borrowing rates elsewhere , underlying support for the Aussie dollar will remain in place.
Australia's benchmark interest rate is at 3 percent, matching the record lows hit during the global financial crisis. Still, that's well above interest rates in the U.S. and Japan which are near zero and the euro zone's key rate of 0.75 percent.
Laura Fitzsimmons, vice president for futures and options at JPMorgan Investment Bank, said that a lot of short-term players who want to go short the Aussie dollar, in other words bet that the currency will go down, have been caught out by the currency's resilience.
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Richard Yetsenga, head of global markets research at ANZ in Sydney, expects the Aussie to break through $1.06 to trade higher. The Australian dollar has climbed 10 percent from its low in 2012 of around $0.96.
"There are some things domestically that argue the Aussie could remain under pressure or stay capped and we certainly expect the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates a little bit this year," Yetsenga said.
"I think regardless of what's going on domestically, in terms of interest rate cuts, the weaker U.S. dollar means that money globally will be looking for high-quality homes and the Aussie dollar is still one of those," he added.


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