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Photo giant Getty Images has announced it will allow 35 million of its images to be embedded on non-commercial sites such as blogs, message boards and social networks.
It's via a new Embed tool, similar to Twitter or YouTube's iframe HTML, which allows the image to be pasted onto a web page, and allows Getty to track usage.
Getty retains the copyright – although most of it is other people's stuff – and host the image, but only at the size and resolution Getty permits. The terms and conditions of use state that the image can't be used for commercial purposes, promotions, or political or defamatory uses.
That doesn't rule out Getty itself commercialising the images, of course, as it will be able to inject advertisements into the player. So one day it might look similar to Facebook today, and use the internet's scale to monetise other people's creativity.
The Getty image embedder
Martin Orpen, co-founder of the UK photographers self-help group Pro Imaging, told us he feared the Getty move may make it harder to sue wilful infringers. Photographers have been successful in bringing cases (and often these are large corporate users such as newspaper groups), while the UK has shaken up its court system to bring in low-cost access to justice.
The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court is what the old Patents Court used to be called, and it can also hear small claims: fast-track copyright infringement cases under £10,000. This latter part isn't very well known - if your snap that you posted to Flickr has been used by somebody without your permission, did you even know you could use the law cheaply?
Orpen says the royalty-free imaging model has a highly politicised history.
"After we formed around 10 years ago, everyone backed down from challenging royalty-free, and simply turned over, including some that shouldn't have. Some photographers were actively dumping their images into Royalty Free simply to make a fast buck, undermining photographers everywhere."
"We look at Getty and the big libraries with huge suspicion."
The two giants, Getty and Corbis, the latter founded by Bill Gates, have increasingly come under pressure from very low cost microstock libraries. Getty acquired a clever image recognition software system called PicScout a few years ago, which can identify a potentially infringing image from just a fragment. ®


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Whether you've made it a holiday tradition or you just enjoy the extra income, part-time employment during the holidays is very common. While hiring for part-time seasonal employment is in full-effect, the unemployed and currently employed alike are applying for seasonal jobs.
This year, the National Retail Federation's annual report projected the hiring of between 585,000 and 625,000 temporary retail workers for the holiday season. The total number of temporary hires will be around 700,000 nationwide for this holiday season. If those numbers sound good to you, it's time to start applying because most companies began their hiring as early as September.
There's also more good news for those who've been hired for part-time seasonal employment: several retailers are planning to hire a portion of their temporary workforce on as permanent employees after the holiday season. But you'll need a plan-of-attack if you're hoping to turn your holiday position into something more permanent.
Turn your temporary job into a full-time opportunity with these approaches:
Express Your Interest
Don't wait until the end of the holiday season to express you desire to be hired as a full-time employee of the company. Be straightforward with your employer from the beginning that you desire a permanent position. This will take more than a single firm statement during your interview. It's your job to show your employer that you're highly motivated to make yourself a valuable, long-term part of the company.
Impress The Right People
It's imperative to immediately identify the co-workers, managers, and other company employees on which you want to leave a positive lasting impression. Seek out the company decision makers and be sure to build a professional relationship with them. Express your enthusiasm for your position and the company by going above and beyond with your day-to-day work. Be sure to let these key people know your future goals and interests align well with the company.
Work Like You've Already Been Hired Full-Time
Treat your part-time position like a full-time job from day one. Express your commitment to the position by being flexible, dependable, and a problem-solver. Your position was created to make sure the company runs like a well-oiled machine through the crazier times of the year, which means your co-workers and managers are relying on you.
The productivity of many seasonal workers tends to fizzle out toward the end of their time with the company. Stand out by remaining positive and optimistic about your future and leaving a lasting impression your managers. When it comes to hiring from temporary to full-time, your managers will recall your attitude and diligence.
Although full-time positions aren't guaranteed to be created from part-time seasonal jobs, job seekers are looking optimistic at this year's predictions. Putting in the extra effort could mean a belated holiday gift for your career.
Have you worked a seasonal job that turned into full-time employment?
Heather R. Huhman is a career expert, experienced hiring manager, and founder & president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. She is also the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships (2011), #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
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There I am in the foyer of one of those beautiful hotels with the piano bars, leafing through a newspaper and leaning against a convenient ledge while waiting for a jam session to start in which the likes of Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Simon Mulligan and friends are to play the night away. And I smell burning. And my back begins to feel hot. For there, behind me, is a candle, and it may be Christmas and it may be pretty, but it's nevertheless a naked flame and it has set light to my inexpensive yet smart and brand-new black lace jacket, and another 30 seconds and JD will be toast. With rapid brain-to-hand connections honed by typing and piano-playing (or in this case schnozz-to-hand connections, perhaps) I manage to whip off the jacket and save myself and the smartest hotel in Lucerne from spontaneous combustion.
All's well that ends well. The jacket is a write-off, but I escaped with only a whisker of a singe, if a bit shaken. Missed the jam session and slunk back to my own hotel for camomile tea and a stiff whisky. It's not a bad place to slink back to.
The jazz element is one of the nicest things about the piano festival. You find scenes like this - Jan Eschke in the KKL foyer entertaining the concert-goers at a scarlet Steinway created specially for the festival...
Or this - Simon Mulligan in residence for Saturday afternoon at the Schweizerhof:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto, partnered by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Bernard Haitink. The maestro gave us some gorgeous Mozart in the second half: the G minor Symphony No.40 with judicious tempi, beautiful long phrases and plenty of heart. Ravel, though, didn't seem quite their thang, emerging a bit ploddy and metronomic, while the inimitable Jean-Yves did his very best to insert some sparkled into the proceedings beyond his trademark diamante belt. I am still cross about missing his jazzathon - he can do a mean Bill Evans turn when he wants to.
Last but by no means least, possibly the most gorgeous piano recital I have heard all year. Andras Schiff is very busy with Beethoven at the moment, and having missed his Wigmore Hall recital last week, it was a treat to hear him in the much larger KKL with its warm and exquisite acoustic. His programme included the sonatas from Opp.14 to 28 - all of them - and involved the special atmosphere that Andras's mega-traversals of repertoire tend to have, plus some.
This total-immersion experience is a little like a meditation. Instead of grabbing us, shocking us and bashing the hell out of the instrument, as some pianists do, Andras leads us into another world through silken beauty of sound, absolute love for every note and a temperate attention to the purity of the music. The hall lights are darkened and he plays under a spotlight - a very good idea, since it stops the audience rustling pages as they try to read the programme mid-flow.
He is currently touring with a Bechstein of 1921 that was used often by Wilhelm Backhaus - implicitly aligning himself not so much with the "HIP" movement as the "Golden Age" of pianism. In my case, of course, he's preaching to the converted by choosing a Bechstein. I grew up with one, then bought a new one about eight years ago. I love the character of the Bechstein sound, the woody plangency of the tone, the distinctive nature of the different registers. Andras himself has perhaps the most recognisable personal sound of any pianist working today - it isn't comparable to any other pianist I've heard, other than recordings of Bartok himself. Over the years it has grown and evolved to suit Beethoven every bit as well as Bach - and it is difficult to imagine a more ideal vehicle for it than this instrument. This playing was not like Beethoven that you'll hear from anyone else - and it is revelatory, allowing those underrated Op.14s, Op.22 and Op.26 to glow as the masterpieces they are by stripping them to their essence and, with total empathy, focusing on nothing but that. I could have listened to him forever.
I urge you to seek out this unique artist and hear him at every possible opportunity. He plays a lot - and here in London, I fear that it has perhaps been too easy to take his presence for granted. Tonight he is playing the same programme as in Lucerne, this time at the Wigmore Hall.
Here's his American website and schedule; and the UK one.
And here he is talking about Op.111. You can hear all his lectures on the Beethoven sonatas via The Guardian, by following these links.


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Risotto-stuffed tomatoes
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal173
- fat5.4g
- saturates1.4g
- carbs26g
- sugars0g
- fibre2.8g
- protein6.4g
- salt0.57g
- 2 beef tomatoes
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- 2 tsp olive oil
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- 50g risotto rice
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- 2 spring onions, chopped
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- 1 small courgette, chopped
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- 50g chestnut mushroom, wiped and sliced
- 250ml vegetable stock (such as Marigold)
- ½ tsp dried mixed Italian herbs
- 6 fresh basil leaves
- 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan (or vegetarian alternative)
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- handful of rocket leaves
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Slice the tops off the tomatoes and set aside. Scoop out the seeds and pulp from the tomatoes with a teaspoon, but be careful not to cut through to the base. Chop the pulp and keep the seeds, but discard the hard, central cores.
Heat the oil in a medium saucepan and tip in the rice. Fry gently over a low heat for 2 minutes, stirring frequently to stop the rice from browning, then add the spring onions, courgette and mushrooms and fry gently for 2 more minutes.
Preheat the oven to fan 170C/conventional 190C/gas 5. Pour in the stock then stir in the dried herbs, tomato pulp and seeds – the seeds will add fibre, and won't be noticeable in the finished dish. Cook gently for about 15-20 minutes, stirring frequently until the rice is tender and the stock has been absorbed – add extra stock or water if necessary. Turn off the heat, tear the basil leaves into the pan and scatter with Parmesan. Season with salt and pepper and stir well.
Put the tomatoes in an ovenproof dish and fill each one generously with the risotto. Replace tomato tops and bake, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes until the tomatoes are tender. Cool for 5 minutes, then serve with a few rocket leaves on top.


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By Laura Cochrane
Instead of cricking your neck to drink from a water fountain, what if the fountain cricked its neck for you? This thought occurred to designers Richard Harvey and Keivor John, after seeing a call to rejuvenate public drinking fountains.
Friends since age 10, Harvey, 27, and John, 28, run Poietic Studio, a London design company. (Poietic: productive, formative. From the Greek poiētēs: maker, poet.) Their combined expertise includes audiology, interaction design, and repairing classic porches.
The pair developed their idea into Tropism Well, an interactive sculpture that senses when someone is near and bows to pour water into a glass. The first prototype employed a linear actuator to bend the neck, but the movement was too robotic. Then they realized the weight of the water could be used to achieve a more natural bowing motion.
The final iteration is almost 10 feet tall, with a base of stacked wooden discs, reminiscent of a spine, and a stainless steel neck with a glass carafe on the end. An Arduino Mega and ultrasonic sensor work to detect the user, triggering water to pump up into the carafe. As the weight at the top increases, the Well gracefully bends its neck, pouring water if the sensor installed on the carafe detects a waiting receptacle.
"We see it like a generous mother goose," Harvey explains. "It's using the weight to power the movement rather than a motor; that gives it the feel of something more natural and something you can have empathy with. We think this is why people say 'thank you' to it."
Above is an excerpt from the pages of MAKE Volume 32: Design for Makers
Forget duct tape and baling wire — now makers can design and manufacture things as beautiful as Apple and as slick as Dyson. We'll show you how to conceive and visualize great-looking projects with our speed course in industrial design.


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Hungry Like the Digitally Domesticated Wolf
I live in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, capital of progression in entertainment. As such, I don't know if I could possibly be more saturated in a trend that future decades may well identify as the zeitgeist of our era. In the way that the 80s are stereotypically characterized by teased hair and overzealous synthesizers and the 20s are remembered for board-thin flappers and sexual revolution, I think our period might be historically defined by the beginnings of the technological takeover George Orwell prophesied. Only rather than relying on technology for every facet of both survival and comfortable living (as science fiction likes to predict) our era seems to utilize the majority of our technological strides for the very concept that makes my current hometown a tourist Mecca: entertainment.
In this day and age, we spend so much time sapping entertainment from our televisions, computers, and cell phones (more aptly known as "cellular devices" due to the increasing antiquity of actual phone calls), that it makes the deeply repressed wild child in me sick beyond Pepto-Bismol relief. So much so that I resorted to college-ruled paper for the crafting of this entry, just to spare my eyes the LED glare of my laptop as long as possible.
When I was a child, long before the invention of Smartphones, Rokus, iPads, and Netflix, I technically had far less access to information. In order to garner new knowledge via the answers to numerous queries, people and books already possessing said wisdom had to be sought out–and this process of learning could take far longer than tapping into your Wi-Fi and posting a thread on Yahoo Answers. But despite the hefty girth of old school dictionaries and the time it took to navigate them, the pre-MP3 world I was brought into was far more wondrous. For entertainment, we looked to nature to provide us with sand to sculpt, rocks to climb, mud to throw, trails to explore, and water to paddle. We looked to our toy box for blueprint-less Lego castles to build, Barbies to direct in plays, and whole worlds to fabricate from disparate pieces. We looked to our friends and relatives for tag between the cherry trees, trampoline acrobatics, and lava monster on the stairwells. And in the pursuit of new knowledge, where wise people and books were scant, personal experimentation in pursuit of an answer thrived. In all, it was a time when imagination and the endless joy you could glean from it ran rampant.
Now I'm not saying the child of my youth doesn't exist anymore. Trying my hand at teaching elementary and middle school art for several years has proven that there exist many amongst the post-millennium babies who still get a kick out of seed-spitting contests, capture the flag, and playing the time-resistant "house." But my observations have also yielded a great number of children taking cues from the modern adult: riveted with their iPhones, Angry Birds, Facebook, PSPs, and cable television. Sedentary hobbies that I fear may continue to escalate in child popularity.
Frankly though, I'm one to talk. My sister and I may as well have ushered in the child cell phone craze when at ages 9 and 11 we were envied by our peers as the only two children in school to possess brick-sized, antennae-toting Nokia 5110s. The year was 2001, Snake was one of the few 8-bit games a cellular device could support, and cell phones were still such an up-and-coming phenomenon that instead of confiscating mine when it went off in class one day, my fifth grade teacher merely laughed. But even as early prototypes of elementary school cellonistas, my sister and I only had them as safety precautions for the long, unsupervised walks home from school, not as idle distractions. And when cell phones began to proliferate throughout school systems by the eighth grade, my dad decided our exponential texting warranted the cancellation of our family plan, an act that may have deemed us social pariahs throughout high school, but ultimately did us and our eyesight a world of good.
Nine years later, sitting in a Hollywood apartment with my laptop blinking at me sleepily from the bed, my Smartphone sedate on the table, and my image reflected back at me on my boyfriend's flatscreen TV, the thought of pre-adolescent children fixating on their digital devices with the same vim the characters of Her demonstrated with their Operating Systems is a frightening notion. I'm 23 years old, living in the age that witnessed the birth and demise of CDs, DVDs, and Blackberries; an age in which the rapidity of technological advancement grants our lifestyles increasing facility on an annual basis. And yet rather than celebrating the ease with which I can archive my music or send my sister messages via satellite, all I really yearn to do right now is ditch the muffled television conversations that eek through every Hollywood wall, throw my phone and its tempting crossword puzzles to the wayside, bid adieu to the computer that served as my life support and safe haven throughout college, and take up residence in a remote, mountain-ringed field somewhere.
For as an active participant in the age of intensifying technological reliance and reproduction, it's nerve-wracking enough pondering ways to go about shielding my future children from the comparably substandard Harry Potter films long enough for them to read the books. With this and similar obstacles amassing by the day, it'll be a wonder if I can convince these pending Moon babies that racing you to the other side, climbing to the highest peak, and letting your imagination run away with you provides entertainment that simply can't be found by poring over an iPhone.


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Let's understand the argument about balancing the budget
When the Bush Administration took us to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, they decided not to pay for those wars with taxes. In fact they insisted on giving people tax breaks, including those for whom war taxes would not have affected their lifestyles. The well-understood consequence was that someone else would pay for the wars. At the time the talk was that the next generation would have to pay. Read the rest of this entry »


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Word: ostensible [o-sten-suh-buhl] adj. 1. outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness 2. apparent, evident or conspicuous: the ostensible truth of their theories
Birthday: Horace Mann (1796), William H. Prescott (1796), Ron Carter (1937), Dick Dale (1937), Mr. Fuji (1937), Paul Gleason (1939), Robin Cook (1940), Roger Rees (1944), Mick Mars (1951), Pia Zadora (1954), Randy Travis (1959), Oleta Adams (1962), Ana Gasteyer (1967), Gregg Alexander (1970), Will Arnett (1970), Lance Bass (1979)
Occurence: 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee officially changes its name to Greenpeace Foundation.
Standpoint: "I'll never date a girl who reads those idiotic celebrity gossip magazines." I made that statement (or something similar) one night over some beers to a buddy of mine. Eventually, I came to realize, if I stuck to my guns and only dated females who didn't read periodicals such as US Magazine and People, I'd be limiting my dating pool to roughly 14 women. As I've done numerous times in my life, I was forced to go back on a statement I completely believed at the time of its utterance.
All women read "idiotic celebrity gossip magazines." Lots of men do, too, though it's not something any of us will admit to each other. Everyone loves exploring the surreal arena that is celebrity gossip. And why? The reason's not exactly forthcoming. How do you explain someone with two master's degrees getting school-girl excited about the arrival of a magazine which contains twice as many pictures as complete sentences? It makes little sense that individuals who can speak on many educated topics will drop whatever they're doing to find out what crazy capers Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie are currently mixed up in. Logic comes up short in providing a definitive answer.
Online, the genre is best described as logjammed. Blogging about the day-to-day (and often minute-to-minute) ongoings of celebrity life is as widespread as it is unchecked. Let's blame it on Perez. While I estimate I'd last about 10 seconds in a conversation with Hilton before the guy uttered something unforgivingly bothersome, his "reporting" is – at the very least – (a) perchance on the level and (b) marginally readable. Sadly, I can't offer the same quasi-praise for his colleagues in the celebrity blogosphere. In their world, the Swine Flu isn't newsworthy until Amy Winehouse contracts it. In the battle of what's really important. Somali pirates finish a distant second to David Hasselhoff's drinking problem.
The "Blogroll" on TMZ.com contains scores of sites dedicated to the pursuit of celebrity exposure. Yesterday, after immersing myself in their vocation, I concluded that, minus those who stalk or pass for celebrities, the population of Los Angeles may very well reside at about 700 people. Here's some of the hard-hitting journalism I encountered along the way.
- "Kelly Osbourne on Cocaine Diet" – AnythingHollywood – At first, I thought the title suggested Kelly Osbourne was actively using blow to shed some unwanted pounds. After further delving into the two-paragraph article, I discovered it contained her poignant inner thoughts on celebs who do employ the use of cocaine for weight loss. Ozzy's daughter is tired of reading about "how fat" she is. "It's not like I'm like all the other celebrities in Hollywood that's going to do a line of cocaine to lose weight." Osbourne makes no mention of the fact that an exercise regimen might be a valid consideration. Nor does she offer a solid explanation as to how exactly she continues to think of herself as a celebrity. AnythingHollywood concludes the article with encouragement for the former reality television star, "Stay happy, Kelly, that's what matters." I'm reasonably sure Osbourne's message is meaningful to someone out there: "Hey, the best way to deflect unwanted discussion on being unhealthy and overweight is highlighting a worse thing you could be doing. Like habit-forming drugs." When you read it about a dozen times in the right kind of light, it's almost inspirational.
- "Alyson Hannigan & Alexis Denisof Take Satyana For A Stroll" – Pink is the New Blog – Let's do a breakdown. "It really looks like the Hannigan-Denisofs are taking things nice and easy these days so that they can enjoy being a new family unit with their just over a month-old baby girl. It's clear that parenthood really suits the couple." I'm not disagreeing with that, but I'm hoping that the author has a little more to go on than the pictures. Not much more than Hannigan pushing a futuristic stroller with Denisof ambling along, hands in pockets. More: "…the serenity and calmness that they show whenever they are out and about belies that notion that new parents are frazzled and nearly driven to insanity." I'm a little skeptical. Perhaps "the serenity and calmness" displayed might be better described as "the bewilderment and stupefaction" of two people faced with the reality of a casual walk turning into a spectator sport. "Frazzled?" "Nearly driven to insanity?" Inevitable, if you ask me…Finally, "…of course, we don't get to see what they look like at 3AM when little Miss Satyana gets hungry/wet and/or poopy." Patience, Pink is the New Blog. I'm sure one day, with the right set of circumstances, you'll get the pictures needed to scoop the exclusive on the "Miss Satyana Was Hungry/Wet and/or Poopy" story that the world is on-the-edge-of-its-seat to read. Personally, I would've rather read a few sentences on how naming your daughter "Satyana" is somehow (a) acceptable or (b) not creating an uphill battle for the child.
- "Get That Money, HoHan!" – Dlisted – So poorly written that I'd wager Lindsay Lohan could've written something a bit more coherent. Annoying in the fact that someone is making money off maintaining and contributing to Dlisted. Encouraging in that, if whomever is at the helm of this nonsense is profiting in any way whatsoever, odds are that you can make money doing nearly anything. Lohan is one of the most inconsequential people that I (unfortunately) know about. Dlisted is her blog equivalent. Unfair? Maybe. But I think I'm standing on pretty solid ground here.
The fun/absurdity doesn't end there. I could go on. But I think I've adequately shown my intent here. If we could bottle the collective energy spent daily on the gathering of celebrity gossip we'd have the means to quickly solve all the world's problems. At the very least, we could figure out some way for Kelly Osbourne to achieve her goal of drug-free weight loss.
Quotation: Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. – Desmond Tutu
Tune: As a rule, I dislike remixes. However, this version of Soul Coughing's "Circles" has been a long-time exception.
Gallimaufry: Congratulations to everyone who ran in the 2009 Blue Cross Broad Street Run yesterday. Special congrats go out to my roomie who ran 10 miles in an hour and a half. Way to go, Kate. All the training paid off…TopCultured.com has published its list of "4 Tell-tale Signs of Douchebaggery." I recently bought a shirt at Express and I wear a wristband so it turns out I'm half a douchebag. I think that's more favorable than some might describe me…The 76ers had a "total collapse." The Flyers got outworked by a lesser team. The Phillies are off to a good, but not spectacular, start. Enter the Eagles minicamp and the silence of Donovan McNabb. Ah. I knew that World Series euphoria would wear off eventually. Welcome back, shaky Philadelphia sports scene.
Incoming: Tomorrow – 7 Best Movie Soundtracks. Wednesday – Working on something. Stay tuned. Later – More of your entries for Annoying Sayings & Misused Words and 3 Things To Do In Philly When You're Dead and much much much more.


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This is another function which doesn't work anymore since I have Windows 7 64 Bit: The option in the account setup which lets you define how often Pocomail checks if there is any mail waiting on the server (which was working perfectly well under Windows XP).
I had hoped that this would work again, as soon as Windows 7 knows about Pocomail - in vain... Or is this also something which could be repaired by editing the registry?
Sincerely, ente


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Bracket Briefing: How far can the Cinderellas go?
- 36 teams are gone and 32 teams remain in the NCAA tournament after two days
- Stephen F. Austin used a stunning 4-point play to clip VCU
- Mercer followed in FGCU%27s footsteps with a huge upset victory against Duke
THE FIRST WORD: After two days of heart-pumping action in the NCAA tournament, 36 teams are gone and 32 teams remain.
Among those 32 are the special ones. You know, the ones that likely busted brackets yet at the same time captured hearts for their unexpected victories.
Enter Stephen F. Austin, the No. 12 seed that used a stunning 4-point play to clip former Cinderella VCU.
Enter Mercer, the No. 14 seed that followed in its Atlantic Sun rival's footsteps in becoming the biggest surprise of the NCAA tournament.
Enter North Dakota State, the trendy No. 12 seed that upset Oklahoma.
Enter Harvard, the No. 12 seed that seemingly didn't seem like the underdog in a second-round victory against Cincinnati.
Enter Dayton, the No. 11 seed that shocked its in-state foe, The Ohio State.
These five teams' bracket-shattering wins officially make March turn into Madness. Suddenly and unsurprisingly, they are now more important than a Kentucky team projected to finish 40-0. They're more important than a Wichita State team that actually could go 40-0. They're more important than a Florida team that's on a 27-game winning streak. They're more important than a Kansas team with the top two NBA draft picks (when healthy).
Now, as we move forward into this weekend and the batch of teams gets chopped in half again — to the Sweet 16 — here's a forecast for which teams will continue to wear the glass slipper.
Mercer: The Bears face a Tennessee team that they know well having faced the Volunteers in the NIT last season and if they can beat a No. 3 seed, beating a No. 11 seed is certainly do-able. Then could come a test against Michigan in the Sweet 16. That game might actually be winnable if Mercer can find ways to limit sharpshooter Nik Stauskas. Ceiling: Elite Eight.
Stephen F. Austin: The Lumberjacks are riding a 29-game winning streak but keeping that going could be tough with an underrated UCLA team playing great ball right now. If SFA won that third-round matchup, next would likely be a difficult test against the heavy favorite in Florida. Ceiling: Sweet 16.
North Dakota State:The Bison have a very winnable game against San Diego State in the third round, as the Aztecs proved to be vulnerable in a close overtime win against New Mexico State. Gonzaga could do the Bison a favor by winning knocking off No. 1 seed Arizona because the Wildcats would be a tough matchup for NDSU. Ceiling: Sweet 16.
Harvard: If the Crimson were on another side of the bracket, perhaps a deeper run might be in store, but facing a hot Michigan State team will be a tall task for this veteran-laden group. The Spartans, however, are still ironing things out chemistry-wise after a season marred by injuries. If Harvard can pull off a real upset against MSU, a beatable Virginia team might await. Ceiling: Round of 32.
Dayton: The Flyers face a vulnerable Syracuse team that's certainly beatable. Coach Archie Miller will have to prep his team for the Orange's 2-3 matchup zone and staying in front of Tyler Ennis will be a top priority. If Dayton reaches the Sweet 16, a clash with Kansas would be enticing based on how healthy the Jayhawks are and if Joel Embiid is back. Ceiling: Sweet 16.
MARCH SADNESS: The flip side of the memorable upsets is the cold agony of defeat.
NEAR UPSETS: Both No. 2 seed Kansas and No. 1 seed Virginia can breathe a breath of fresh air after narrowly escaping their second-round matchups. The Jayhawks pulled away from a scrappy Eastern Kentucky squad, while the Cavaliers were trailing at halftime before putting away Coastal Carolina.
NUMBER OF THE DAY: 30. That's how many points player of the year front-runner Doug McDermott dropped in Creighton's second-round victory against Louisiana-Lafayette. Expect more 30-point games if teams don't effectively double team this guy. The Bluejays lost in the second round the past two seasons so the victory was a nice accomplishment, although this team seems far from satisfied.
COACHING CAROUSAL: Buzz Williams announced he' be leaving Marquette and filling the coaching vacancy at Virginia Tech.
WORDS OF THE DAY: "I'm like, 'I'm just trying to get the game in line, that's a correctable error.' He's like, 'It's too late. You're gone.' " — Nebraska coach Tim Miles on his ejection in the Cornhuskers' second-round loss to Baylor.
ON DECK: A look at Saturday's busy slate of games. Here's a breakdown of every game.
12:15 p.m. | No. 9 Pittsburgh vs. No. 1 Florida(CBS)
2:45 p.m. | No. 5 Saint Louis vs. No. 4 Louisville(CBS)
5:15 p.m. | No. 7 Texas vs. No. 2 Michigan (CBS)
6:10 p.m. | No. 12 North Dakota State vs. No. 4 San Diego State (TNT)
7:10 p.m. | No. 11 Dayton vs. No. 3 Syracuse (TBS)
7:45 p.m. | No. 7 Oregon vs. No. 2 Wisconsin (CBS)
8:40 p.m. | No. 12 Harvard vs. No. 4 Michigan State (TNT)
9:40 p.m. | No. 7 Connecticut vs. No. 2 Villanova (TBS)
Scott Gleeson, a national college basketball writer/digital producer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @ScottMGleeson.


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News from the world of Maths
December 1, 2015
Find out how an annoying parking metre can get your creative juices flowing!
November 24, 2015
Here's a game: pick a positive natural number and if yours is the smallest number no one else has picked, you win. What's the best strategy?
November 20, 2015
A bump in the data from the LHC promises exciting news.
November 17, 2015
A famous question involving networks appears to have come closer to an answer.
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Despite New York City's proposal to crowd Coney Island with high rises, the original Nathan's hot dog stand will remain the venue for this year's hot dog-eating contest on July 4. For the last two years Joey Chestnut has beat six-time champion, and his arch rival, Takeru Kobayashi. But to clarify, last year was especially close. After they tied at 59 frankfurters in 10 minutes, there was a five-dog overtime! Whoever could shove all five in their mouths the fastest, won.
This year, Italy is sending its national champion, Franco Camerini, and Nathan's has been running a qualifying circuit around the United States in 16 cities, including Biloxi, Mississippi; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Norfolk, Virginia. The winner of each round moves onto the battle.
But, let's be honest. It's probably just another match between Chestnut and Kobayashi. If a recent battle in Los Angeles involving P'zones (a cross between a pizza and calzone) was any indication, Chestnut might have to hand over the Mustard Yellow Belt. Who are you rooting for?
And to note, the night before, Coney Island is holding another competitive eating contest, but with two major differences: it's just the hot dog buns, and a team of three humans will take on three elephants from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, reports the Brooklyn Paper. The odds may be in the elephant's favor in terms of stomach space, but they also might not understand the term "Go!"
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NASHVILLE -- Tennessee residents now can visit a doctor by telephone for relief from minor ailments.
A service called Apogee Doctor on Call charges $50 per contact for physician consultations, according to The Tennessean. The Arizona-based Apogee Physicians told the newspaper that Tennessee is the pilot state for its remote program, partly because the company already provides staffing at a dozen hospitals around the state.
The queries are answered around the clock, seven days a week. Doctors cannot prescribe narcotics, but can message pharmacies for routine prescriptions, such as antibiotics. Viagra isn't on the list of available prescriptions.
Dr. Peter Purrington, who is an Apogee physician in Clarksville, sees the access as an important tool, particularly in rural areas of the state, where patients don't have easy access to a doctor. Calls will be routed to Apogee doctors who are not currently on duty.
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Dr. Mohamad Sidani, a professor with Meharry Medical College, said body language is very important in diagnosing an illness and he wants to see patients face to face.
Purrington, however, says the phone access isn't designed to replace the office visit. He says it's a way for someone who is feeling ill to talk to a licensed, board-certified doctor in the middle of the night when an emergency room visit may not be necessary.
The service is not designed to function as primary care, and doctors will advise people who call to check in with their regular physicians.
Services like Apogee Doctor On Call can be used by people who don't have a primary care physician, as can retail pharmacy clinics. While the services are convenient, using them as a replacement for a regular doctor could allow a chronic condition to go undiagnosed.
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Purrington noted that accessing on-call doctors could help a person in medical distress. He said if the symptoms sound like a possible heart attack, the doctor will advise a caller to dial 911.


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Ah, that story, I think the parent is now in jail for doing something crazy......I've heard some interesting stories about certain full time academies.
It is kind of hard to take any complaint seriously from this particular parent. This is a classic case of why one's reputation is important.
The statutory rape component sadly does not surprise me. Having instructors that are only a few years older than the students can invite trouble, but I am not sure you can peg the blame on the academy for the actions of an individual. That guy better stay in Switzerland!
Sounded like that parent was going bonkers. Or overboard with the strikes.
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POLISCI 230A: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 181, CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 330A)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 133/333.) Political philosophy in classical antiquity, focusing on canonical works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Historical background. Topics include: political obligation, citizenship, and leadership; origins and development of democracy; and law, civic strife, and constitutional change.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors: Ober, J. (PI) ; Kim, H. (TA)
2018-2019 Winter
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
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01/07/2019 - 03/15/2019 Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 50-52H with Ober, J. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
Instructors: Ober, J. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
PSYC 82: The Literature of Psychosis (ANTHRO 82P, HUMBIO 162L, PSYC 282)
One of the great gifts of literature is its ability to give us insight into the internal worlds of others. This is particularly true of that state clinicians call "psychosis." But psychosis is a complex concept. It can be terrifying and devastating for patients and families, and yet shares characteristics with other, less pathological states, such as mysticism and creativity. How then can we begin to make sense of it? In this course, we will examine the first-hand experience of psychosis. We will approach it from multiple perspectives, including clinical descriptions, works of art, and texts by writers ranging from Shakespeare, to the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, to patients attempting to describe their experience. This class is not only for students thinking of careers in medicine, psychology or anthropology, but also readers and writers interested exploring extraordinary texts. There are no prerequisites necessary; all that is needed is a love of language and a curiosity about the secrets of other minds.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II | Repeatable for credit
PWR 91CW: Intermediate Writing: Seeing is Believing
In this course, students will study and practice techniques and rhetorics of data visualization based on principles of rhetorical history, visual rhetorics and graphic design as well as cognitive science, design thinking, and other disciplines that inform critical conversations around information display and data visualization. For more information visit https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/additional-elective-courses/seeing-isand-believing-rhetoric-big-data-visualization.
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
PWR 194AJ: Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Contemporary Black Rhetorics: Black Twitter and Black Digital Cultures (AFRICAAM 194)
Does not fulfill NSC requirement. This course will examine Black engagements with digital culture as sites for community building, social action and individual and collective identity formation. By studying phenomena like #BlackTwitter, memes, Vine, selfie culture, blogging, "social watching," and more, we will explore how Black technology use addresses questions like identity performance and expression, hyper visibility and invisibility of Black lives, Black feminisms, misogynoir and Black women/femme leadership in social movements, the roles and influence of Black Queer cultures online, and social activism and movements in online spaces. nnFrom #YouOKSis, #BlackLivesMatter and #AfroLatinidad to the Clapback, roasts and "reads," we will work from the serious to the silly, from individuals to collectives, from activism to everyday life, and from distinct Black cultures to diasporic connections and exchange. Participants in the course will create a social media autobiography, a "read/ing" of a Black cultural practice or phenomenon online, host an online discussion, and prepare a pitch for a longer research project they might pursue as a thesis or an ongoing study. Bring your GIFs, memes, and emoji, and a willingness to be in community both online and off for this new course! Prerequisite: first level of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For topics, see https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/advanced-pwr-courses.
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
PWR 194BR: Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
This course will aim to give students a foundation in the rhetoric of health and medicine across major stakeholders researchers, government, institutions, doctors, patients, journalists, and a general public obsessed with health and wellness. For example, we will analyze key theories about the relation of institutions, doctors, and patients, from Foucault's Birth of the Clinic to Rita Charon's Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness. We will also investigate how patients make sense of their illnesses through art and memoirs, how doctors are trained in an empathetic bedside manner, and the rhetoric of medical breakthroughs. From this foundation, students will choose an issue to tackle in their own research projects, from the politicization of Planned Parenthood and women's healthcare, to the experience of trans patients seeking care, to the rhetoric of access vs. coverage in current debates about health insurance. Prerequisite: completion of WR-1 & WR-2 req or permission of instructor. For full description, see https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/additional-elective-courses/rhetoric-health-and-medicine
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
PWR 194CW: Brave New Worlds: An Introduction to (De)colonial Rhetorics
Since the time of Columbus, colonial agendas and policies have engendered their own rhetorics of justification and explanation. After all, European modernism began with the encounter of the New World, and Europe¿s own identity was forged in the process of ¿Latinization¿ of the Western Hemisphere. In response, decoloniality arose as a rich intellectual critique in the late 1990s in South America and the Caribbean. Decolonial rhetorical traditions stand in a unique position vis-à-vis the development of modernity, colonialism, racialized identities, the crisis of European reason, and the dawn of globalization. In an era of Trumpism, in which European modernity once again justifies restricting the mobility and freedom of Latinx immigrants, among other ethnic groups, perhaps no other form of intellectual critique seems quite so urgent. This course introduces students to primary decolonial rhetorical texts and asks students to apply these insights to pressing contemporary challenges by practicing deep reading of primary and secondary texts, preparing group presentations, and exploring creative acts of composition with an eye toward imagining brave new worlds and the decolonial rhetorical practices valued therein.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
Instructors: Wright, C. (PI)
2018-2019 Winter
4 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED |
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
01/07/2019 - 03/15/2019 Tue, Thu 11:30 AM - 1:20 PM at 160-326 with Wright, C. (PI)
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PWR 194KT: Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: The Last Hopi On Earth: The Rhetoric of Entertainment Inequity (CSRE 194KT)
While #OscarsSoWhite brought attention to the Academy's overwhelmingly White, male membership, the underbelly of the entertainment industry itself is rife with inequitable hiring of not only on-camera and on-stage performers but also directors, writers, and others behind the scenes. While there are several organizations from Racebending.com to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media that seek to usher in more equitable representation, push back against the Industry's disparate employment practices has been documented for more than fifty years with what many argue is not proportionally positive movement. White males still garner almost half of all theatrical and television roles and represent more than 80% of episodic directors while entertainment hubs Los Angeles and New York City are more than 50% people of color and female. What will it take to attain equity in the entertainment industry? Why does it matter? nnIn this course, students will examine rhetorical issues in promoting, defending, and opposing entertainment industry practices - writing and speaking across genres in persuasive response - and ultimately develop a collaborative 5-year strategic plan to usher in equity.n nThis course is part of the PWR advanced elective track in Social and Racial Justice (SRJ). Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For video course description, see https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/advanced-courses/last-hopi-earth-rhetoric-entertainment-inequity.
Last offered: Winter 2017 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
PWR 194SB: Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Science
Understanding rhetoric as readers and interpreters of texts and to develop skills as writers and speakers. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit. For topics, see https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/advanced-pwr-courses.
Last offered: Autumn 2015 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
REES 145D: Jewish American Literature (AMSTUD 145D, ENGLISH 145D, JEWISHST 155D)
From its inception, Jewish-American literature has taken as its subject as well as its context the idea of Jewishness itself. Jewish culture is a diasporic one, and for this reason the concept of Jewishness differs from country to country and across time. What stays remarkably similar, though, is Jewish self-perception and relatedly Jewish literary style. This is as true for the first-generation immigrant writers like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Anzia Yezierska who came to the United States from abroad as it is for their second-generation children born in the United States, and the children of those children. In this course, we will consider the difficulties of displacement for the emigrant generation and their efforts to sustain their cultural integrity in the multicultural American environment. We'll also examine the often comic revolt of their American-born children and grandchildren against their (grand-)parents nostalgia and failure to assimilate. Only by considering these transnational roots can one understand the particularity of the Jewish-American novel in relation to mainstream and minority American literatures. In investigating the link between American Jewish writers and their literary progenitors, we will draw largely but not exclusively from Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
RELIGST 2: Is Stanford a Religion?
This course seeks to introduce students to the study of religion by posing a two-part question: What is a religion, and does Stanford qualify as one? Scientific, pragmatic, seemingly secular, Stanford may not seem at all similar to religions like Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism, but a deeper look reveals that it has many of the qualities of religion--origin stories, rituals and ceremonies, sacred spaces and times, visions of the future, even some spirits. By learning some of the theories and methods of the field of religious studies, students will gain a better understanding not just of Stanford culture but of what motivates people to be religious, the roles religion plays in people's lives, and the similarities and differences between religious and secular culture.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Former Ducks Flock to Stevens for Alumni Weekend 2012
More than 700 people - including 460 alumni - attended at least one of Stevens' Alumni Weekend 2012 events held from June 1-3, a record-breaking attendance.
Building on events from previous years, such as the G.O.L.D. Alumni Weekend Kickoff and class reunion dinners on Friday night, along with new events like Stevens President Nariman Farvardin's well-received President's Address to Alumni and the "Drinking From the Fire Hose" alumni author lecture, Alumni Weekend 2012 has set the bar high for future alumni events.
"The response was excellent," said Michael Smullen, associate executive director of the Stevens Alumni Association. "The reunion classes, and the 50th reunion in particular, have been building up to this weekend all year, and it showed. This is a wonderful turnout."
A number of new events were introduced this year. Starting on Friday night, graduates from every decade gathered at the All-Alumni Cocktail Reception under the Alumni Tent on Palmer Lawn overlooking the beautiful Manhattan skyline. Meanwhile, young alumni continued to kick off the weekend in style at the Turtle Club, an event that continues to impress with a great turnout. A little rain made an appearance as reunion-year alumni gathered to enjoy their class dinners, but despite periodic drizzles, more than 200 alumni and friends celebrated the beginning of the weekend.
The fun continued at the Babbio Center on Saturday morning with a lecture by Chris Frank '89, M.S. '93, and Paul Magnone '88, M.S. '93, who discussed their award-winning book, "Drinking From the Fire Hose." Frank is a vice president of business-to-business and communications research at American Express, where he is responsible for advertising, brand and business-to-business research. Magnone is a vice president of business development and alliances at Openet Telecom, a global telecommunications software and consulting firm, where he is responsible for executive leadership of Openet's global partner initiatives.
They described how to ask the right questions at the right time, unmasking the essential information in a data-heavy world. The two also discussed real-life case studies from their work within start-up firms to Fortune 50 companies, including Microsoft, IBM, and American Express, and showed how to convert the "fire hose" of information into useful business insights.
On completion of the lecture, all alumni were invited to join Farvardin as he presented the first President's Address to Alumni in DeBaun Auditorium.
Farvardin described many of the school's positive developments from the past year, including the opening of the Hanlon Financial Systems Lab, the launch of the New Jersey Apps Challenge, and the rise of Stevens in Bloomberg Businessweek's college return-on-investment ranking.
He continued to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Stevens in the near future, including the need for increased support from alumni, a requested increase in federal grant support, and major development initiatives for the upcoming year, such as the President's Initiative for Excellence, the Chairman's Challenge, and the newly-formed 1870 Society.
He concluded the presentation with a view of the newly-developed strategic plan and a discussion about the future of Stevens with the audience.
With engagement in mind, Farvardin paused several times in his presentation to interact with and answer questions from alumni and guests in the audience. Attendees responded enthusiastically, asking questions ranging from the state of Stevens finances to the quality of the school's education, with each one having a chance to interact directly with the President.
Later, alumni also enjoyed the Alumni Barbecue Lunch on Palmer Lawn. Located inside and outside the Alumni Tent, more than 200 alumni and friends gathered to enjoy the sunshine, chat with old friends, and introduce their families and guests to Stevens.
The afternoon consisted of even more events, such as the annual Cooperative Education Reunion, the STEP reunion, and the musical celebration of 40 Years of Women at Stevens held in the S.C. Williams Library.
Throughout the day, alumni also took part in campus tours highlighting new areas of the campus and old favorites, such as the Davidson Labs. And dozens of parents and children were also on hand as the little ones participated in the traditional "Fun Run," a series of races held for children 12 and under on the athletic field.
In the evening, alumni arrived at the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City, N.J., for an elegant Stevens Alumni Dinner Dance. Beginning with a cocktail reception and followed by the Alumni Dinner Dance, the first ever held off-campus, more than 200 alumni and friends were welcomed by Mark LaRosa '93, president of the Stevens Alumni Association.
Alumni pride was on full display throughout the evening. Alumni Gerald Messina '87, Florence Viau '92, David Tanzi '97, Elizabeth "Biz" Metzger '02, and David Velasco '07, were presented with the Harold R. Fee '20 Alumni Achievement Awards in appreciation of their outstanding effort on behalf of the Stevens Alumni Association and the University.
George Johnston '72 was presented with the Stevens Alumni Award, given in honor of outstanding loyalty and devotion to Stevens, and he also received from Farvardin a special Presidential Pin in recognition of his extraordinary service.
Finally, the class of 1962 was invited by LaRosa and Farvardin to receive their 50th Reunion pins, recognizing their induction into the Stevens Alumni Old Guard. Dozens of members of this group proudly gathered around Farvardin to be recognized.
The traditional Sunday Farewell Breakfast the following morning, also on Palmer Lawn and under the Alumni Tent, featured hot and cold buffet items. More than 100 alumni and friends turned out to enjoy good food, sunny skies and the Manhattan skyline. Later that day, more than a dozen alumni also continued the celebration by boarding a reunion cruise to Bermuda, which sailed out of Bayonne.
Continuing 92 years of excellence and tradition, old friends were greeted, new friends were made, and new records were established during Alumni Weekend 2012.


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DeKALB – In order to meet a looming June 30 deadline, the DeKalb Public Library will borrow $6 million from a private bank as a part of its fundraising strategy for its planned expansion.
Library officials must raise $15.5 million by June 30 so they can take advantage of an $8.5 million library construction grant they were awarded in December by the State of Illinois. The library would repay the loan with private donations made to the expansion within the next three years.
Board President Clark Neher said they are in discussions with Castle Bank, National Bank & Trust, and Resource Bank, but no specific dollar amounts have been agreed on.
"We have gone to the banks to ask them if they will provide us with that much money so we can launch our private donation campaign," Neher said. "It appears they are willing to do that."
Also on Thursday, Library Director Dee Coover said she still was gathering information on the matter.
"I am working on it, but I am not going to comment at this time," Coover said. She added that she is speaking with an "interested party" Monday about the loan.
On Monday, library officials will update the DeKalb City Council, which has the final say in whether the city will borrow $7.5 million to contribute to the effort, which would add 47,000 square feet to the 19,000 square foot library at 309 Oak St.
Assistant City Manager Rudy Espiritu said if the council decides to go forward with the borrowing, a vote could occur in March.
The state's insistence to have the money in by June forced the library to seek a private loan, Neher said.
"We cannot launch a campaign between now and June and have the full $6 million guaranteed," Neher said.
The library has a repayment plan in place for the city bonds. It will add 8 cents per $100 of assessed value to residents' property tax bills for 20 years, which would cost the owner of a house with an assessed value of $200,000 who claims the homestead exemption about $50 more a year in property taxes.
Neher said he didn't know how the library would repay the $6 million loan if it is unable to raise enough donations within the three-year time frame. Neher mentioned the possibility of scaling down the expansion so the library can pay off the loan if it can't raise $6 million.
"I don't want to dwell on that. I am quite confident that we will get the money," Neher said. "We're in the process now where we don't have the money from these lead donors because we're still talking with them."
The library is technically owned by the city, which is why the City Council has the final say on borrowing. When asked if the city could be held financially liable for the library failing to back the loan, Neher said that was a last resort.
"There's no way we would move in that direction," Neher said.
If library officials can accumulate $15.5 million by June 30, they will have to begin construction on the expansion by Nov. 17. Portions of the $8.5 million state grant would be released to the library when the expansion to the 83-year-old library reaches certain stages in the construction.
Aside from the bond sale and the private loan, library leaders also want to use $1 million in library reserves and $1 million in tax increment financing funds. The library building is in a TIF district, and using the funds would require City Council approval.
Earlier this month, library officials unveiled the name of their fundraising campaign: "From Barbed Wire to Fully Wired."


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Sunday, February 23, 2014
GigaBit Networks and Genealogy
Recently I saw a Google blog post about their Googlefiber cities. Apparently, Provo, Utah where one of my daughter lives and now Phoenix, Arizona are both on the list for expansion of the Google Fiber Optic networks. I assume these new Google networks are in direct competition with the present Internet service providers which I think is good. My present service provider is running at about 5 Mbps (5 Megabits per second) for the economy service with the higher rate service at 50 Mbps at almost double the cost. Google's service is free for 5 Mbps and is about the same price for 1 Gigabit (1000 Mbps). In Provo, Utah the higher speed Internet costs $70 per month for Internet only service.
Because of this huge advantage, the old Walking Arizona guy is moving to Provo, Utah. (No, just kidding about the reason, but we are moving) assuming all goes as planned. We should be there completely by sometime this summer.
I am serious about the fact that the current Internet service providers need some competition. OK, so what does this have to do with genealogy. Oh, only if you are reading this online and sitting at a computer linked to the Internet.
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- the way the update of the board has been implemented
EDIT: we have some competitiors for the IPB good guys, the above page (pasteHTML) does not work (whilst it does in "preview")
The attachment system of the board is not working, and I have problems in accessing altervista.[/s] A nice day of ordinary folly.
EDIT 2: Made a workaround to have the little thingy work in pastehtml.
P.S.: By attempting to switch uploaders the post got mangled with "& nbsp "'s and "& quot ;" another nice feature of the new board software apparently.
The link also got corrupted. no prob since it didn't work anyway
expand and run locally untill I find a better way.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and bring out your fatwagon. LET'S GO!
THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW – 4:00PM (Syndicated) For 25 years, Oprah Winfrey has been inspiring millions of gullible Americans by way of talking about herself constantly. It's a neat little trick, one anyone else out there will be hard-pressed to duplicate. So savor the flavor today as Oprah finishes off her dominant run in daytime with a final episode that will likely feature some surprise guests and old friends. But in the end, it will be about Oprah and Oprah alone. That's Oprah's deal. She's amazingly successful, and she has all kinds of famous friends, and you're supposed to sit there and celebrate that fact. Why? Hey, don't ruin the illusion for everyone with your questions, bucko! ANTICIPATION: NO MO OPRAH!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Tonight it comes down to Scotty (Too Hottie!) McCreery vs. Lauren Alaina to decide who gets a record deal and then is forgotten about four weeks later. Both singers are under 18 and both work primarily in the country music genre. So when CMT hosts seventeen award shows in consecutive weeks later this winter, you know where you'll be able to find these two. And let's pause a moment to give props to J-Lo and S-Ty (I came up with that just now!) for keeping Idol atop the ratings when most everyone thought they would fail. Pretty impressive, until Simon and Paula return in the fall and the show gets wiped off the map. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
MODERN FAMILY – 9:00PM (ABC) Ugh, the season finale. Nooooooooo!!!! I need 52 new episodes of this show a year. ANTICIPATION: BITTERSWEET!
MAN VS. FOOD NATION – 9:00PM (Travel Channel) Travel Channel has given "Man vs. Food" its very own spinoff. And here I thought the only thing this show would spin off would be diabetes and coronary heart failure. ANTICIPATION: GORGING!
SOUTH PARK – 10:00PM (Comedy Central) Cartman works with crack babies. Everything about that premise just boils over with promise. ANTICIPATION: CRACKY!
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"The Square," from Australian brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton, is a deceptively smart and tense noir thriller that lulls you to sleep as it prepares to knock you out, like a perfectly executed cinematic rope-a-dope.
The movie is centered on a timeless conceit: Two corners of a love triangle – or in this case a love square – see a chance to steal some money, leave town and start their lives anew. Ray is the foreman at a construction site (with the absolute worst safety record in all of Australia) who's sleeping with the Carla, the pretty younger blonde from across the river, who sees their chance for a new start when she stumbles upon the proceeds of her boyfriend's latest crime.
For the first 45 minutes, "The Square" keeps you just barely invested -- witty sight gag here, a close call there, but nothing truly gripping. Then, just as you've resigned yourself to another cookie-cutter star-crossed getaway, the Edgerton's go for broke.
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Typically in these films, maybe six players jockey for position: the desperate couple, the people they're cheating on, the local cop who's not quite as dumb as he seems and the squirrely dirtbag who somehow stumbles on the couple's plan and tries to blackmail them.
The Edgertons' effort stands out because they get more than a dozen pawns in the mix. More importantly, they don't force their characters to do the stupid things that so many other thrillers need. Instead, every venal, stupid, selfish and/or violent thing each character does is in tune with their arc – except, of course, for the inexplicable refusal to, in the words of Eddie Murphy, GET OUT!
Director Nash and his brother Joel, the film's co-writer and co-star, have drawn comparisons to the Coen Brothers. You may be tempted to dismiss the comparison as lazy: "Oh, they're brothers and they made an adulterous crime drama – they're just like Joel and Ethan!" But the fact is, "The Square" would slide nicely into the Coens' filmography, bearing not just their masterful control of tone and character development, but also their dark visual wit and macabre sensibility.
For just a taste of the Edgertons' talents, check out "Spider" (warning: mildly graphic violence), directed, edited and co-written by Nash Edgerton. It's the grimmest nine-minute joke you'll ever see, a masterfully crafted piece of short fiction that drives home mom's most dire lesson: It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. With any luck it will be included on the DVD.
"The Square" goes into limited release on April 9, adding more cities over the coming weeks


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The past three years of the Obama Administration inevitably have elicited comparisons between the present day and the era of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. While frequently illuminating, such comparisons often overlook an important point that many may have forgotten: compared with the major reform initiatives undertaken during President Obama's tenure, a review of the roll call votes reveals that the measures enacted by the New Deal Congresses enjoyed a remarkable degree of bipartisan support. In addition, the Democrats enjoyed large majorities in the House of Representatives from 1933 forward, and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate after 1934.
These dual luxuries of bipartisan support and electoral dominance had two important implications for the durability of New Deal legislation. First, they guaranteed that in the near term there would be no significant movement within Congress to repeal that legislation. Second, they ensured that if the Supreme Court held such legislation unconstitutional, Congress would get a second bite at the apple. In several instances in which the Hughes Court held that a legislative attempt to address a particular problem did not pass constitutional muster, the New Deal Congresses would have, and would take, the opportunity to reformulate the program to achieve the desired end through means consistent with prevailing constitutional doctrine.
Neither of these conditions obtains today. Congressional Republicans are committed to substantial modification or outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and if the Court were to declare all of portions of that Act unconstitutional, there is virtually no chance that it would be enacted in anything like its current form by the present Congress. Moreover, polling data suggest that popular support for the Act is not nearly as strong as it was for programs challenged before the Court in 1937. Court decisions invalidating either the minimum wage or the Social Security Act would have frustrated both the legislative and the popular will. By contrast, polls show the American people favoring repeal or judicial invalidation of all or part of the Affordable Care Act, and the Act as a whole does not enjoy the support of the present Congress. A Court decision striking down the individual mandate therefore would be flouting neither the current congressional will nor present popular preferences. We should bear such important differences in mind when contemplating the extent to which the 1930s provide an illuminating analogy to our present circumstances.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Cushman on the Limits of the New Deal Analogy
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- Shag from Brookline said...
FDR's 1/11/44 State of the Union speech presented his "Second Bill of Rights" that never came to fruition, perhaps because of his death early in his 4th term. Obama's performance addressed but a small portion of the "Second Bill of Rights." Going back and reading the "Second Bill of Rights, what was so radical?
Keep in mind Jim Crow was still strong during the New Deal. It took Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the 1960s Civil Rights Acts to start to dilute (but not completely) Jim Crow. So, is it unusual that Obama, America's first African-American President, has not had the same bipartisan successes FDR had with the New Deal? Cushman's paper presents the statistics well but avoids reasons beyond them. So we must read between the lines.
- February 10, 2012 at 7:06:00 AM EST
- Dan Ernst said...
See also Tony Badger, "The Lessons of the New Deal: Did Obama Learn the Right Ones?," History (London), 97 (Jan. 2012), 99-114.
- February 19, 2012 at 1:08:00 PM EST


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As I work on the last revisions to my dissertation – by the time this post goes live I will have mailed my dissertation draft to my committee – I often find myself thinking back to the long road that brought me to this moment. Eight years ago, around this time of year, I was accepted at an upstate New York university for my master's degree, and I knew this move would change me forever. In the summer of 2004, I would leave my little island, move to a town a few hours away from New York City, and spend the next five years reading, writing, and thinking deep thoughts in hopes of achieving a PhD in English.
One of the moments that remains vivid to me is one very cold upstate New York day, over three years ago. I was writing my final PhD exam, on cultural studies. In my department we have 72 hours to write between 25 and 35 pages on a topic stemming from a list of readings. I had done all the reading, assembled all of my notes on my desktop, and spent that weekend typing feverishly for hours on end. I woke up early Saturday morning, day two of my exam weekend; it was cold outside and our apartment was poorly heated. The corner where my desk was located was the coldest in the house, so I relocated to the living room couch to be closer to the radiator. My boyfriend was not up yet, so I had the couch all to myself. I propped my feet up on the ottoman, pulled a blanket on to my lap, and turned on my laptop. Still not fully awake, I wrote feverishly, and in between thoughts I stuck my hands under the blanket to warm them up. I wrote page after page after page that weekend. On Sunday evening, I exclaimed to my boyfriend that I had finished my draft (12 hours before it was due).
That weekend stands out as a good example of what my experience as a graduate student had been up until that point. I had been a full-time graduate student with no obligations other than going to class, writing, and teaching one semester each academic year. I had dedicated almost five years of my life to formulating –and complicating – questions. I read, I thought, I talked, I wrote. I had the privilege of devoting my days to nothing but studying literature and culture. Once I received, months later, the official notification that I was All But Dissertation (ABD), I was elated to know I had made it to the last stage of my graduate education.
The three years after I became ABD have not been easy; for one, I no longer have a fellowship that allows me to just read and write every day. I live in a different location from my home campus. I balance a lot more obligations than I did when I was just studying. Distance and time have provided me with some much-needed perspective on my experience as a Latina first-generation graduate student. (I have touched upon this in the cross-blog conversation that U Venus contributor Janni Aragon and I have had at each other's blogs titled "Academics on Academia.") However, I am certain that this is where I wanted to be. Even though it took me a little longer than I wanted to, and even though there were moments I was unsure I would make it to the other side, I am happy that I stayed the course and made it this far.
Even though graduate school may be problematic, graduate school nurtured my intellectual curiosity, and introduced me to great minds. Is it the only place where I could have done this? No, it is not. However, I felt at home in graduate school. Grad school and I were a nice fit. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to read and write at my leisure and share my thoughts with others. My experience as a humanities PhD has affected how I approach and think about the world around me.
Achieving this hard-fought goal means so much on an intellectual and emotional level, and as such moving on will be a tough transition. The well-worn question stands true: where do we go from here? I, for one, am looking forward to it.
Liana is a regular contributor at University of Venus and a PhD candidate in the English department at Binghamton University. Follow her on Twitter @literarychica.
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