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Larry Page says that when you're obsessed with the present you're not looking ahead to the future
"We're still 1 percent to where we should be. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to try to move things along. Not enough people are focused on big change. Part of what I'm trying to do is take Google as a case study and really scale our ambition such that we are able to cause more positive change in the world and more technological change."
"I have a deep feeling that we are not even close to where we should be."
I. Google -- Doing Its Own Thing
Those sound like the words of a CEO of a company struggling technologically. But surprisingly the come from Larry Page, the current CEO of Google Inc. (
) -- the maker of the world's most used search engine, most used online advertising service, and most used smartphone operating system platform.
In a
new interview
Mr. Page emphasizes Google's philosophy on how it differs from competitors. He says that most rivals who have issues with Google are more worried about themselves than their end users, where as at Google it's all about providing the best experience for the end user, which is built on the premise of openness. By providing Google services on as many platforms as possible (even those of arch-nemesis Apple, Inc. (AAPL)), Mr. Page says customers will have access to the best options on the market.
As for Apple
locking out Google Maps and other apps from iOS 6
, he simply comments, "We try pretty hard to make our products be available as widely as we can. That's our philosophy. I think sometimes we're allowed to do that. Sometimes we're not."
Google CEO Larry Page [Image Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek]
The CEO accuses Apple (and its late CEO Steven P. Jobs) as
being overly fixated
on Google. Reiterating his comments from
a previous interview
, he says that Apple's legal campaign against Google is partly to rally the company against its competitor.
But he says that if you're fixated on your competitor, you're not looking forward at your own future. He remarks, "I don't like to rally my company in that way because I think that if you're looking at somebody else, you're looking at what they do now, and that's not how again you stay two or three steps ahead."
To him, Google has no real "competitors". He comments, "I feel my job is mostly getting people not to think about our competition. In general I think there's a tendency for people to think about the things that exist."
II. Risky Efforts are Important to Software Giant
The interviewer asks about Google's so-called "70-20-10 model" in which 70 percent of the company's spending is devoted to search/advertising, 20 percent is devoted to apps (like
Google Docs
), and 10 percent is devoted to experimental efforts (like
self-driving cars
Project Glass
He says that Google still mostly follows that model, but that some projects fall on the border of categories. He comments, "So where would you put Android? It's probably in the 70 in terms of impact -- the monetization is at an early stage."
As for Google Plus
, he says the social network is faring "pretty well" and is "improving". He suggests that with Plus and other services users may not have received quite what they initially expected, but that Google's philosophy is that users must get accustomed to services before making judgements.
Page is optimistic about Google Plus. [Image Source: Google]
As for how long he will remain CEO at Google (Eric Schmidt was
chief for 10 years
), he says, "I don't know. It seems impossible to predict."
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Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, argued that unregulated free markets make the wealthy even wealthier and nearly crashed the economy.
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Stratton's measure would add staffing resources to the existing Privatization Policy Board and changes the name to the Free Market Protection and Privatization Board. Previous versions removed public employee representatives from the board, but their positions were restored.
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Gray-banded kingsnakes belong to the largest snake family, Colubridae. Colubridae is further divided into several subfamilies and over 300 genera; kingsnakes belong to the subfamily Colubrinae. Gray-banded kingsnakes are further classified into the genus Lampropeltis, which features at least eight other species: prairie kingsnake (L. calligaster), common kingsnake (L. getula), Mexican (or Potosi) kingsnake (L. mexicana), Sonoran Mountain kingsnake (L. pyromelana), Ruthven's kingsnake (L. ruthveni), scarlet kingsnake (aka milksnake) (L. triangulum), California Mountain kingsnake (L. zonata) and a recently discovered species, Sinaloan Mountain (aka Webb's) kingsnake (L. webbi).
To further complicate classification of this species, it is not complete and the taxonomic designation of many reptile species is frequently changed as part of a continuous process. Taxonomists often grant full species status to a group of animals, while others consider them a subspecies. As an example, some taxonomists identify two subspecies of gray-banded kingsnakes: L. a. alterna and L. a. blairi. Other taxonomists do not recognize any subspecies of L. alterna. Additionally confusing to taxonomists is the fact that many species and subspecies of the genus Lampropeltis have geographic ranges that overlap; this repeatedly results in hybridization between species.
Gray-banded kingsnakes live in a fairly small section of the southwestern United States and into northern Mexico. Their range includes 13 counties in western Texas and at least two counties in southern New Mexico. They also live in the northern Mexican states of Coahuila, Durango, and Nuevo Leon. It is unknown if they live in the states of Chihuahua or Zacatecas. Depending on their location, they live at elevations as low as 350 feet (107 m), all the way up to 7,546 feet (2,300 m). Even though they are common in some areas, populations are rarely concentrated and their distribution is spotty. This makes it difficult to find individuals and identify territories.
Gray-banded kingsnakes live in a variety of habitats, including rocky desert hills, canyons, arroyos, limestone ridges, piles of boulders and occasionally desert flats
Gray-banded kingsnakes have wide heads, large eyes with round pupils and an even, cylindrical body. Typical adult body length is 24 – 36 inches (61 – 91 cm). Males and females are not easy to distinguish; the only difference is that males have slightly longer tails than females. Gray-banded kingsnakes have highly variable coloration, ranging from bizarre to mundane patterns, with simple to brilliant colors. However, there are two basic pattern types, also called "morphs," that are usually distinguished by the distribution in their range. Each morph has basic gray background coloration. The "Blairi" morph has between 12 – 18 wide orange or red bands. Each orange or red band is flanked with narrow black bands that are then possibly distinguished with white-gray lines.
In contrast, the "Alterna" morph has from 17 – 33 thicker black bands flanked or interspersed with red, orange or white bands. Between the thick black bands, there are a number (10 – 25) of thinner, partial or incomplete black bands. These "broken" bands are usually less uniform in shape and may also be flanked with equally incomplete white bands. On both morphs, the bands of color extend to and taper as they get closer to the belly; the bands do not encircle the body. Additionally, the width of the main bands differs greatly among individuals of both morphs; they may be very thick, thin or nonexistent. Lastly, the gray background on gray-banded kingsnakes can be almost white to almost black. This gray coloration is referred to as "light phase," "medium phase," or "dark phase."
Typical adult body length is 24 – 36 inches (61 – 91 cm).
In the wild, their life expectancy is unknown. They may live 15 years or more in captivity.
In the wild:eats mainly lizards and rodents, though occasionally may also take frogs, birds, bats, and very rarely, other snakes. At the zoo: one small rodent, once per week.
Gray-banded kingsnakes breed in late May to early June, when suitable surface temperatures exist. Before breeding, they emerge from brumation (see explanation below) and spend a 3 – 12 week period gaining weight and finding mates. Ovulation in females usually occurs after shedding and is obvious by their enlarged posterior. Males quickly find and eagerly court ovulating females. Males combat each other for the opportunity to mate with females, with bouts lasting up to five minutes. Dominant males will mate with a female almost immediately following combat. Gray-banded kingsnakes are oviparous, which means they lay eggs rather than bear live young.
After breeding, the female produces three to 15 eggs (average is six) in as short as 30 but as long as 50 days. She lays the eggs in a secluded nest. Eggs are leathery, oval-shaped and measure between 1.2 – 1.6 inches (3 – 4 cm) in length. The young hatch after 55 – 75 days (average is 62) of incubation, at an average temperature of 81°F (27°C). At birth, hatchlings are between 6 – 12 inches (15 – 30 cm) in length. Hatchlings will drink water soon after emerging from the eggs and shed their skin for the first time at 5 to 10 days of age. Gray-banded kingsnakes are sexually mature by 3 years of age, and occasionally at 2 years of age.
During their first year of life, juvenile gray-banded kingsnakes grow rapidly and more than double in size. Gray-banded kingsnakes are solitary and primarily nocturnal. It is very rare to see gray-banded kingsnakes during daylight hours, except preceding thunderstorms and near dawn or dusk. Throughout their range, gray-banded kingsnakes conduct a somewhat secretive life. They survive the extremely hot and dry climate by spending the majority of their lives underground, in the extensive networks of deep cracks and fissures beneath the land's surface.
Gray-banded kingsnakes only emerge when conditions are suitable, occasionally coming to the surface at night to search for prey or to reproduce. In the eastern part of their range, they are active at ground level in early to late May. Following seasonal rain showers, activity peaks in early to late June and declines in late July when temperatures become too hot and dry. Daytime temperatures regularly exceed 99° Fahrenheit (37°C). In the western part of their range, they are active later in the year, during rain showers and peaking in August to early September. In both parts of their range, from early to late October, they become less active as the nights get noticeably cooler with the onset of the fall season.
The chief predators of gray-banded kingsnakes are nocturnal mammals, such as wild cats, skunks, foxes, coyotes, badgers, raccoons, peccaries and possibly weasels. Birds also hunt and kill them. Humans also often inadvertently kill gray-banded kingsnakes at night by driving their car over them. Some people consider gray-banded kingsnakes to be poor constrictors, as they rarely immobilize their prey before swallowing it. Researchers believe that under natural conditions, gray-banded kingsnakes seek out prey items by cornering them in crevices, under rocks, and in rodent burrows with limited means of escape.
Discussions among collectors of gray-banded kingsnakes often involve comparing "typical" eastern range morphs to "typical" western range morphs. Although both morphs can be found throughout their range, an imaginary boundary separates the two morphs. This boundary seems to run from north-south from southeastern Brewster County in Texas towards the northern terminus of their natural range. Eastern morphs most often have very few to no alternating bands and speckling on the body, and usually have a fewer, wider bands.
On the other hand, western morphs usually have several alternating bands with a higher degree of speckling, usually around the head and neck region. Gray-banded kingsnakes in the east are also much more common, while they are much rarer in the western part of their range. Further confusing the distinction between western and eastern morphs is that researchers have found both "Blairi" and "Alterna" morphs in the same litter!
Brumation is not the same as hibernation. When referring to snakes, people often interchangeably use the words. Both brumation and hibernation reduce the level of energy and body functions an animal needs to survive. Therefore, an animal endures the colder months by using stored body fat, instead of having to continuously expend and intake new energy while searching for food. For hibernation, it is characterized by long periods of lowered inactivity with marked changes in body temperature, respiration and heart rate. True hibernating animals do not easily wake up, if at all. If awakened during hibernation, they may use their stored energy to return their body functions to normal. This means they won't have enough remaining energy to survive the rest of the winter, even after returning to a hibernating state. By this definition, very few animals are true hibernators.
However, brumation is the more correct term of how snakes survive rough weather conditions. In contrast to hibernation and when compared to normal levels of activity, an animal in brumation has less severe changes in body temperature, respiration and heart rate. In the wild, snakes brumate when the weather gets too cold to survive. During brumation, the snake's metabolism becomes lower and it remains inactive. If there is a warm day of weather, a snake can "wake up" and become active again. The snake may drink water during brumation, but it does not eat. For gray-banded kingsnakes, brumation usually lasts 10 – 12 weeks and occurs from as early as September to as late as April. During this time, surface temperatures are usually 50 – 55°F (10 – 13°C) and researchers have no records in the wild of activity for these months.
Woodland Park Zoo's gray-banded kingsnakes are currently kept off exhibit. Zoo staff use gray-banded kingsnakes in various educational programs presented on zoo grounds. However, other species of native (U.S.) reptiles can be seen in the Day Exhibit. They include the Louisiana pine snake, rosy boa, corn snake and Gila monster, as well as different kinds of rattlesnakes: the northern blacktail and Washington state's only dangerously venomous snake, the Northern Pacific rattlesnake.
Gray-banded kingsnakes are not an endangered species. Researchers and collectors once believed that they were quite rare, but now they are considered to be one of the most common snakes in their range. Due to their relatively small size, calm dispositions and astounding array of pattern variations, the gray-banded kingsnake is very desirable and singled out for the commercial pet trade. As a result, reptile enthusiasts, private collectors, commercial collectors and breeders rigorously pursue gray-banded kingsnakes in the wild. Generally, gray-banded kingsnakes rarely attack humans and are not venomous. The overcollection of gray-banded kingsnakes may be a significant threat to their continued survival in the wild. The gray-banded kingsnake is under varying degrees of protection in all parts of its range in the United States.
In Texas, collecting has recently been controlled and a special license is now required. In New Mexico, the gray-banded kingsnake is officially listed by the state as an endangered species and the New Mexico Game and Fish Department may develop a recovery plan for it. Additionally, gray-banded kingsnakes are listed as threatened in Republic of Mexico but receive no formal protection. Interestingly, public lands offer more kingsnake collecting opportunities, while protected or private lands tend to reduce collection of these snakes.
The effort to save endangered species requires cooperation and support at the international, national, regional and individual levels. You can help in this cause. Join and become active in Woodland Park Zoo and other conservation organizations of your choice. Please do not buy products made from wild animal parts. Contact your elected representatives and express your views about conservation of endangered species and wild habitats.
To learn other ways you can help, contact Woodland Park Zoo at email@example.com about supporting conservation programs at the zoo. Discover more about Gray-banded kingsnakes by contacting the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles at http://www.ssarherps.org, or the American Federation of Herpetoculture: AFH, PO Box 300067, Escondido, CA 92030-0067. Find other groups and information online at www.parcplace.org, the website of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, or by searching the keyword "herpetology." Learn other ways you can help conserve wildlife and habitats by visiting our How You Can Help page.
We do not recommend reptiles as pets for most people as they require very specialized diets and environments. Woodland Park Zoo also receives hundreds of requests each year to take former pet iguanas, boas and other reptiles but we cannot accept these due to space, health and unknown backgrounds. If you need to find a reptile or amphibian a new home, we suggest you contact a local herpetological group in your area. In the Puget Sound region, it is the Pacific Northwest Herpetological Society. Anyone interested in owning a reptile should learn about its needs and be sure it was captive-bred. Read more about keeping a reptile by visiting: http://www.kingsnake.com/ballpythonguide/pets.htm.
Connant, Roger, and Collins, Joseph T. 1991. (Third Edition). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians. (Eastern and Central North America -- Peterson Field Guide Series). Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA. Degenhardt, William G. Painter, Charles W., and Price, Andrew H. 1996. Amphibians & Reptiles of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
Henderson, Doug and Dennis Paulson. "Snakes of North America." Accessed January 25, 2008 at http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/SoNA.html.
Markel, Donald G. 1990. Kingsnakes and Milksnakes. T.F.H. Publications. Inc., Ltd., Neptune City, N.J. "The Alterna Page." Accessed February 15, 2008 at: http://www.kingsnake.com/alterna/
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Phylum: Chordata Class:Reptilia Order:Squamata Family: Colubridae Genus: Lampropeltis Species: L. alterna
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St. George Police Chief Anthony Britt has resigned his position. This comes as the State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the town police department.
St. George Mayor Anne Johnston says Britt met with her and presented a letter of resignation Friday, "on Friday afternoon, chief came into my office and submitted his resignation, effective immediately."
She said the letter was dated Thursday, but he presented it on Friday. The resignation is effective immediately.
Mayor Johnston said the town council already had a meeting scheduled Friday, "so during that meeting we appointed Lt. (Trumaine) Moorer as temporary acting chief." Moorer was Britt's second in command.
Johnston would not comment on the SLED investigation other than to say she has met with SLED agents twice. She said she was made aware of the investigation during the last week in April. She said SLED has asked her not to comment in order to not compromise an ongoing investigation.
Mayor Johnston confirms that she is the person who initiated the SLED investigation. She says she discovered a check written to the town that had been cashed, however, she could not find any town account in which the check had been deposited. She decided to call SLED to let them investigate after discovering that check.
Johnston says Britt was hired by council as police chief back in 2009. Prior to that, he severed as an officer in the department for several years.
Residents were discussing the resignation at the Mystic Stop and Shop gas station in town. Anthony Clark said, "I thought he was a good chief. I was really surprised that he resigned. If it were me, they would have to fire me. I wouldn't resign. Jobs are too hard to find now."
The mayor says they will be doing a nationwide search for a new police chief soon. Town Council is scheduled to meet Monday evening at 6:30 in executive session to discuss the issue further with legal council.
SLED spokesman Thom Berry will only confirm that there IS a SLED investigation into allegations at the St. George Police Department, but he will not comment further about the case.
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The plantar fascia is the thick tissue on the bottom of the foot. It connects the heel bone to the toes and creates the arch of the foot. When this tissue becomes swollen or inflamed, it is called plantar fasciitis.
Plantar fasciitis occurs when the thick band of tissue on the bottom of the foot is overstretched or overused. This can be painful and make walking more difficult.
You are more likely to get plantar fasciitis if you:
Plantar fasciitis is seen in both men and women. However, it most often affects active men ages 40 - 70. It is one of the most common orthopedic foot complaints.
Plantar fasciitis was commonly thought to be caused by a heel spur. However, research has found that this is not the case. On x-ray, heel spurs are seen in people with and without plantar fasciitis.
The most common symptom is pain and stiffness in the bottom of the heel. The heel pain may be dull or sharp. The bottom of the foot may also ache or burn.
The pain is often worse:
The pain may develop slowly over time, or come on suddenly after intense activity.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam. This may show:
X-rays may be taken to rule out other problems.
Your health care provider will often recommend these steps first:
Other steps to relieve pain include:
If these treatments do not work, your health care provider may recommend:
Sometimes, foot surgery is needed.
Nonsurgical treatments almost always improve the pain. Treatment can last from several months to 2 years before symptoms get better. Most patients feel better in 9 months. Some people need surgery to relieve the pain.
Contact your health care provider if you have symptoms of plantar fasciitis.
Making sure your ankle, Achilles tendon, and calf muscles are flexible can help prevent plantar fasciitis. Stretch your plantar fascia in the morning before you get out of bed. Doing activities in moderation can also help.
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Murphy GA. Disorders of tendons and fascia and adolescent and adult pes planus. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 82.
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Wapner KL, Parekh SG. Heel pain. In: DeLee JC, Drez D Jr, Miller MD, eds. DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2009:section F.
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by David "The Maven" Chicotsky
Many poker players approach tournaments the wrong way—not realizing that they will be essentially forced to "make plays" in order to keep up with the blind increases. Even if you are very successful and get away with murder at the table, you're still going to get naturally shallowed out by the basic structure of the tournament. Tournaments, quite simply, revolve around stealing the blinds and antes. If you're coming from a cash game background where you can sit around all night long peddling the nuts, this hard truth can work against you.
Some of the easiest and most obvious spots to steal from are on or around the button. Make sure you're also going out of your way to re-steal from people raising in stealing position. It's not enough to simply call from the big blind and hope you hit your hand. We're forced to take an active role in defending the blinds by re-raising pre-flop as well as making moves against positional raisers and bettors postflop. The key is applying controlled aggression from many different positions with many types of pre-flop hands. Getting value out of marginal cards is critical—as we are only dealt premium and semi-premium hands very rarely.
Look for reasons to make plays against certain opponents. Sometimes they're playing too loosely and other times they are playing too tight. Generally speaking, we can exploit players playing too loosely to our right and exploit players playing too tight to our left. It's up to us to target players and go after their chips; they're not simply going to hand them over to us. Also, don't fall into the trap of thinking that if you open-raise and a player calls from the blinds—that's a bad thing. It's very hard for our opponents to win, on average, when they're playing passively out of position. If we're the original raiser and we have position, we have a decisive advantage; that's a situation we'd like to get into as often as possible.
Obviously we don't mind if we raise with trash and get folds from the blinds. Showdown free chips are as good as it gets. All of that said, it's also a positive position to be in when we have the initiative (open-raising) and position. With all the small open-raises these days, like open min-raises, it's often unrealistic to expect the blinds to fold too often. When they do call we need to have a plan of attack—in order to take down as many pots as possible. Keep in mind that in tournaments, players are oftentimes too willing to fold marginal hands in position—when an open-raise is clearly a positive expected value situation. It's up to us to push the boundaries of what is possible and because of the nature of progressive payouts, it's better to be too aggressive rather than not aggressive enough.
Just like with martial arts, it's to our advantage to have our opponent leaning in too much or on their heels. If we encounter a player that is getting out of line by raising and re-raising at a higher than average frequency we're able to successfully exploit them by counter-punching (re-raising, 4-betting, check-raising, floating and raising). If we encounter a player that is playing too tight, especially if they are to our left—we should be looking to raise into them at any chance we get. We have to be actively searching for players worth going after—on both ends of the spectrum, while playing them accordingly.
We should also take notice of other players picking on tight players and be sure to intervene in these situations. For example, if a loose opener raises into a very tight player, oftentimes this is a prime spot to "intercept" his raise by re-raising. I call this defending the weak. Look for weakness at the table and try your best to interfere when other players pick on the weak players. The next time you sit down to play poker, don't just sit there and wait for good cards. Go out of your way to seek out situations where you can accumulate chips on your way to the final table.
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It all started with a simple question: "How could we show the growth and change in languages on Twitter?"
Easy, right?
Well, several months later, here we are; finally ready to show off our final product. You can see a static image of the final viz below and check out the full story and interactive version in The Evolution of Languages on Twitter.
Looking back on the process that led us here, I realized that we'd been through an huge range of ideas and wanted to share that experience with others.
Where Did We Get the Data?
As a data scientist, I walk into Gnip's vast data playground excited to analyze, visualize and tell stories. For this project, I had access to the full archive of public Tweets that's part of Gnip's product offering – that's every Tweet since the beginning of Twitter in March of 2006.
The next question is: "With this data set, what's the best way to analyze language?" We had two options here – use Gnip's language detection or use the language field that's in every Twitter user's account settings. Gnip's language detection enrichment looks at the text of every Tweet and classifies the Tweet as one of 24 different languages. It's a great enrichment, but for historical data it's only available back to March 2012.
Since we wanted to tell the story back to the beginning of Twitter, we decided to use the language field that's in every Twitter user's account settings.
This field has been part of the Twitter account setup since the beginning, giving us the coverage we need to tell our story.
The First Cut
Having defined how we would determine language, we created our first visualization.
Interesting, but it doesn't really tell the story we're looking for. This visualization tells the story of the growth of Twitter – it grew a lot. The challenge is that this growth obscures the presence of anything other than English, Japanese and Spanish. The sharp rise in volume also makes languages prior to 2010 impossible to see.
So we experimented with rank, language subsets, and other visualization techniques that could tell a broader story. At times, we dabbled in fugly.
Round Two
Moving through insights and iterations, we started to see each Twitter language become its own story. We chose relative rank as an important element and the streams grew into individual banners waving from year end marker poles like flags in the wind.
With this version, we felt like we were getting somewhere…
The Final Version
To get to the final version, we reintroduced the line width as a meaningful element to indicate the percent of Tweet volume, pared down the number of languages to focus the story, and used D3 to spiff up the presentation layer. The end result is a simple visualization that tells the story of how language has grown and changed on Twitter.
What became clear to me in this process is that visualization is a hugely iterative process and there's not a single thing that leads to a successful end result. It's a combination of the questions you ask, how you structure the data, the choices you make in what to show and what not to show and finally the tools you use to display the result.
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I installed vm tools from vmware, (and ticked enable 3d acceleration of course), but it didn't work, glxgears show it uses mesa drivers.
I heard that some ubuntu lucid users had problems with this, however any solution I tried didn't work, also installing open-vm-tools didn't work, and adding new repositories and upgrading them broke my installation.
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From HaskellWiki
Note: this page is under construction. Feel free to help out!
1 Introduction
As with any tutorial, certain assumptions are inherent in the code and instructions presented below. In this case the primary assumptions are:
- You are reasonably familiar with Haskell and in particular, writing code using the IO Monad.
- You have successfully installed Gtk2Hs.
- You believe using Glade to design your user interface is a good idea.
Bon chance, mes amis!
2 "Hello World" with Gtk2Hs
Start with the most basic working hello world app. Then we compile it...
Here's the most basic Gtk2Hs prog:
import Graphics.UI.Gtk main = do initGUI window <- windowNew widgetShowAll window mainGUI
2.1 Compiling "Hello World"
How to compile it with GHC on linux/mac/win32
> ghc --make Hello.hs -o hello
2.2 Stepping through "Hello World"
(Meanwhile, between the above and below is a customary place to change settings of the window and add stuff to it, although you could also do them later.)
The loop is required to process input, for example mouse movements and clicks, key presses and releases, windows getting moved or resized, losing focus, gaining focus, requests for redraws. The loop receives all this input and takes corresponding default actions; it can also call functions you write (in addition or instead). More on this in the next section.
3 Signals
Here we modify the basic program to allow for quitting: closing the window quits the program.
import Graphics.UI.Gtk import Control.Monad.Trans(liftIO) main = do initGUI window <- windowNew window `on` deleteEvent $ liftIO mainQuit >> return False -- i.e., on window deleteEvent (liftIO mainQuit >> return False) widgetShowAll window mainGUI
And now the detailed theory:
3.1 Event dispatch loop
Input from GUI is asynchronous and more importantly arbitrarily ordered. The console paradigm of "wait for name, then wait for phone number" does not apply; the user may very well type in a bit of name, then a bit of phone number, then a bit of name again. In the early days when concurrent programming was not popular, the forefathers decided to use this event dispatch loop: wait for any input event at all (key press, mouse move), classify its type (is it key press?) and destination (is it for name?), use those to look up handlers to call, call them, loop back. Now a handler just needs to update some buffer and the screen. You, as programmer, may also register your own handlers to be called. Thus you work in the paradigm of event-driven programming and callbacks.
(Nowadays this may be better organized as several loops in several threads so each thread-loop minds one logical aspect. But mutual exclusions concerning input device queries and screen updates justify the perpetuation of a mother loop.)
A twist is added to aid high-level programming. For example you would rather not carefully track the detailed event sequence of "mouse button is down over the OK button", "now mouse button is up over the OK button"; you prefer one single "the OK button is clicked" to register your handler with. (Not to mention that there are also ways to "click" the OK button by a keyboard shortcut and numerous accessibility aids. You can't possibly track them all.) As another example, you also prefer one single "user wants to close" event, which we use above. This is facilitated by default handlers of GTK+ that do the tedious tracking and generate the derived events "the OK button is clicked", "user wants to close". So we usually register with these derived events and not raw input events.The event dispatch loop of Gtk2Hs is started by
3.2 Signals, events, handlersIn GTK+ and Gtk2Hs terminology, events are called signals. Gtk2Hs adds static type safety over GTK+ in that
focus :: WidgetClass self => Signal self (DirectionType -> IO Bool)
window `on` focus $ \dirtype -> putStrLn "focused!" >> return False
Another example:
showSignal :: WidgetClass self => Signal self (IO ())
window `on` showSignal $ putStrLn "shown!"
There is a special but dominating group of signals in Gtk2Hs documentation called "events". This refers to the signal type
Signal self (EventM e Bool)
After expanding a type synonym, it is really
Signal self (ReaderT (Ptr e) IO Bool)
I.e., valid handlers take on a rather special type. That is all. But this special case is pervasive in Gtk2Hs, so we want to see its examples.As an example, the type of
deleteEvent :: WidgetClass self => Signal self (EventM EAny Bool)
window `on` deleteEvent $ do liftIO (putStrLn "closing") liftIO mainQuit -- could merge the above two return False
Here is another example, a signal for resize and/or move:
configureEvent :: WidgetClass self => Signal self (EventM EConfigure Bool)
eventSize :: EventM EConfigure (Int, Int)
This query has the perfect type! So an example of registering a handler to snoop but not interfere goes like:
window `on` configureEvent $ do (width, height) <- eventSize liftIO (putStrLn (show width ++ " x " ++ show height)) return False
4 Widget types
The way that the class heiriaharcy is represented in Haskell using type classes. Breif mention of up casting & downcasting. We'll come back to downcasting in the glade section.
5 Attributes
Show the "set object [ attr := value ]" style syntax. Reccomend it over the more verbose "objectSetAttr object value" style.
6 Using Glade
We want to encourage people to use Glade to do their widget layout rather than doing it all in code. We can explain manual widget layout as a more advanced topic next.
Redo the hello world program using Glade.
7 Widget layout
Doing widget layout in code rather than with Glade.
8 Basic concepts
Brief explanation of basic and general concepts. With references to the API functions whenever possible. (probably in form of examples?).
- signal - event - window - widget - container - box - layout - button - label
The idea is to get the user with as general and useful concepts as possible so it makes it easier for him to surf the API since the beginning and write simple code.


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Outfielder homers twice, doubles twice in 16-3 rout of Drive
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com | July 24, 2012 8:27 PM ET
Jared Simon homered twice, doubled another two times and picked up seven RBIs Tuesday in Class A Asheville's 16-3 rout of Greenville. Colorado's right-field prospect went a perfect 5-for-5 and scored four times as well. The Tourists' 16 runs tied a season high -- they also posted a 16-0 defeat of West Virginia in April -- on 22 hits, the most they've put together this year.
Simon singled in the second inning, knocked a three-run homer in the fourth, doubled in the sixth, hit another three-run shot in the seventh and added one final RBI double in the eighth.
"That was pretty crazy, once in a lifetime," said Simon of his big game. "Everything was pretty much full motion, getting good pitches to hit, seeing the ball well. Everything felt really good off the bat, I wasn't missing pitches."
It could perhaps be better characterized as twice in a lifetime after the 2010 sixth-rounder had a similar outburst last season, going 5-for-6 with a pair of homers and six RBIs last Aug. 10 for Class A Short-Season Tri-City.
The difference seems to be an overall broader power surge by Simon this season. The 23-year-old has 11 homers and 17 doubles in 83 games for Asheville. In 127 games over two seasons for Tri-City between 2010-'11, he hit six home runs and doubled 17 times.
His slugging percentage also stands at .434 after his banner day, 74 points better than the .360 mark he posted for the Dust Devils last year.
Simon attributed his new-found stroke to a leg kick he incorporated into his swing this offseason.
"I've got some more juice in my swing now, and it's just the first season I'm using it," he noted. "I've never had one in my life, so the timing was a lot different. It was hard at first getting used to it. But I feel like it gets my hips more into it, uses my lower body a lot more than before. I used to just step and not get the lower body involved."
The Tampa University product is hitting .263 with a .344 on-base percentage, both career bests despite moving up a level this year to the South Atlantic League.
Simon's double in the eighth bounced off the center-field wall, and with a triple, he would have recorded a cycle. He said he would have tried for third base, except he didn't realize he had history in the making.
"I had no idea I needed a triple," he said. "[My teammates] were pretty mad I didn't go for it when I hit that one off the wall. I still got a few baths from them with Gatorade and ice water."
After the Asheville offense had scored just three runs combined in its past three games -- all losses -- Simon said the most satisfying part Tuesday was seeing the team produce as a whole again.
"The first half of the season we had a lot of days like today," he said. "This feels more like the way we can hit. Hopefully it's pretty much a breakout game for the team, and there's more to come for me and the team."
William Swanner went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and Jordan Ribera and David Kandilas also went yard. Shortstop Trevor Story went 2-for-6 with his 28th double of the season.
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Women's Tennis Wraps Up Play at ITA Atlantic Regional
A winning doubles record, including an appearance in the round of 16 by Valerie Thong and Brittany Yang, highlighted play for the Liberty Lady Flames tennis squad this weekend at the ITA Atlantic Regional tournament at the Snyder Tennis Center.
The Lady Flames' doubles tandems of Thong and Yang, Maria Khval and Belen Rivera and Mariely Hassey and Rebekah Jenkins each won their first round matches in the main doubles draw and posted a combined four victories during the tournament.
Thong and Yang opened doubles play by doubling up Pittsburgh's Amanda and Molly Wickman, 8-4. The Liberty duo then posted an impressive 8-6 win over William & Mary's No. 2 tandem of Nabila Farah and Leeza Nemchinov. Thong and Yang's run was ended in the round of 16 by Virginia's Maci Epstein and Caryssa Peretz, 8-1.
Khval and Rivera notched a tough first-round 8-6 win against Big Ten opponents Marie Bedard and Carmen Sandor of Penn State. After defeating the Nittany Lions' No. 2 pair, Khval and Rivera nearly upset the seeded Marshall duo of Dana Oppinger and Karli Timko. The Herd's No. 1 tandem outlasted Khval and Rivera 8-7 (5).
Liberty's remaining doubles duo of Hassey and Jenkins also grabbed a first-round win, downing Saint Joseph's Kristina Eisenbrand and Aurora Davis, 8-5. Jenkins and Hassey fell, 8-4, in the second round to the seeded pair of Melissa Esnal Olguin and Nikol Hristova of Old Dominion.
In singles play, Liberty had four players, Khval, Rivera, Hassey and Jenkins, compete in the main draw. Hassey tallied a pair of wins in the qualifying rounds, earning her way into the main singles draw. The freshman ousted Taylor Nederlander of George Washington, 6-0, 7-5, before rolling past conference rival Gemma Valls of Radford, 6-3, 6-0. Hassey nearly made it three-for-three, but was edged in three sets by Kelly Williford of Virginia Tech, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (1). Hassey had a pair of match points at 6-5 in the third set, but couldn't finish off the Hokies' No. 3 player.
Jenkins had the Lady Flames' remaining singles win during the tournament. The senior ousted William & Mary's Julia Casselbury in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
"Seven entries in the main draw of singles and doubles is something to be proud of," commented Liberty head coach Jeff Maren. "Winning doubles matches against ranked opponents is also an encouraging sign. We are definitely moving in the right direction and are now knocking on the door of the more established teams. It's an exciting time for Liberty women's tennis."
The Lady Flames will conclude their fall schedule next weekend at the FIU Invite. The tournament will get under way on Nov. 1 and will wrap up on Nov. 3.


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Getting a baby to adapt to the bottle
I have unexpectedly received guardianship for my nephew, who for the first two months of his life has been breastfed. I am having a hard time getting him to eat. Any suggestions on how to get him to adapt to the bottle? He seems to spit up excessively every time I give him cow's milk.
15th August 2013 06:18 AM #2
Thank you for posting about this here. It sounds like it must be a time of big changes and adapting for you and your nephew.
Is your nephew two/ three months old? Babies shouldn't have cows milk until they are 1 year old. For the first six months of life they should have only breastmilk or formula milk. Once a baby is 6 months old and showing certain signs of developmental readiness (e.g. sitting up unaided, reaching for food) you can start to give them solid food alongside the milk. However, the breastmilk or formula should be their main source of nutrients for the first year. I found baby led weaning an excellent way of introducing my babies to solid food.
You can get some bottles designed for breastfed babies such as this. Depending on the age of the baby you could also try a sippy cup or beaker - but I'm not sure how old your nephew is from your post.
This is slightly off-topic, but I know some mums who have adopted babies who have then dry fed them on their own breasts in order to give them the comfort of breastfeeding. I don't know if this is relevant to you or something you want to consider but I thought I would mention it here.
You could also try making sure he is sitting upright when you are feeding him and make sure the milk is warm enough, and you burp him after the feed by rubbing his back and keeping him upright. Did your nephew have any tummy problems previously or problems being sick a lot? Does he seem well and a good weight etc?
Are you getting help from a health visitor or similar? I think this would be really helpful as there is so much to get used to for you and your nephew.
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We are proud to showcase our Camp Sunny Patch Honor Counselors! These bloggers have helped spread the word about Camp Sunny Patch and shared their creative play ideas and arts-and-crafts projects. They are committed to making learning both enjoyable and inspiring.
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Marnie writes Carrots Are Orange, a blog she started in 2010 after the birth of her first son. She hails from Maine, which she calls a "wonderfully down-to-earth place to grow up and learn." Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Seattle with her husband, Tim, and two young boys. She is pursuing Montessori certification. Marnie can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
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Adrienne, aka The Iowa Farmer's Wife, is a mommy blogger and mother of two who enjoys sharing simple ideas about educational activities for kids, frugal living and healthy eating. She lives in the Midwest, where she and her husband own a small farm. In addition to being a stay-at-home-mom, Adrienne teaches a speech course at a local university and serves as a co-coordinator of her local MOPS group. The Iowa Farmer's Wife can be found on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Google+
Joyce is the mom behind Childhood Beckons, where she encourages parents to focus on their families and the childhood that beckons them. Her motto is "Childhood is calling my son to play and explore. And childhood is calling me to help him on his journey." She enjoys discovering creative ways to play and learn and passing along her family's favorites. You can find Joyce on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
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That's why i love the sport so much. When i used to play football i played at a high level but everyone hated each other which is why i picked it in. With MMA it is the opposite.
I've trained with/ fought/ kicked the shit out of/ had the shit kicked out of me but those people are now awesome pals.
That's one of the reasons i have started judging/commentating/writing and hopefully in the future reffing fights.
I've never been in a community ever in my life where what many consider to be horrible can lead to such awesomeness.
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Also if there was/is i wouldn't care too much.
Before i post the next bit i will state i don't know a lot on the situation so don't look too much into it.
Take a look at someone like Jimi Manuwa. He has a criminal record (if think) and to some that is a big no no. Would you refuse to be trained by/with him?
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Houston is practically the capital of soulless strip malls, and if you spend much of your life in the car, crawling along the freeway on your commute, it's easy to think that the commercial landscape is all one giant eyesore. The cure, then, is to get out of the car and see that there are still pretty, funky, quirky neighborhood business districts in the Bayou City. One of the best is 19th Street in the Heights, with vintage clothing shops, antique shops, cafes and other non-chain storefronts that offer a respite from the countless big-box stores that spread like kudzu throughout the city. You don't even have to buy anything; just enjoy a leisurely stroll up and down the sidewalk and take in the view. It's a view you won't get anywhere else, and that's precisely the point.
Here in H-Town's funkier regions, strip malls, those much-maligned supposed harbingers of sterility and bland suburbanism, sure can have a hell of a lot of grit and soul. Take this doozy on the northside, just across the street from the site of the former Northline Mall. The actual strip looks to be about 50 years old, and it's a one-stop for just about all your H-Town needs. There's 'cue and CFS at the arched-roofed Hungry Farmer, ghetto Chinese at the rugged little red-roofed China Inn, and a shop where you can buy or even rent a boomin' system for your ride. Best of all, there's one of the last outposts of the once-mighty Soundwaves music/surf chain, and unlike the Montrose location, the Crosstimbers outlet does not force its primarily blues/soul, hip-hop, zydeco and gospel inventory to contend for shelf space with boogie boards and ding repair kits, so it's that rarest of things: a living, breathing record store. That's one reason that in looking at this delightfully run-down and lovably cheesily constructed strip from across the street, you could convince yourself it's any year between 1975 and 2010. Timelessness like that is often in too short supply in this ever-changing, ephemeral megalopolis.
The gas station at the northeast corner of Montrose and Richmond used to be a full-service garage and repair shop, meaning the retail part of it was as cramped as most Montrose convenience stores. Now it's a big, shining example of how to do gas stations right. There's 14 pumps — in the middle of Montrose! — but inside is where A to Z Food & Deli really comes through. Sparklingly clean, the store not only offers a great selection of convenience-store stuff, it features a not-bad-at-all kitchen and deli, with subs, breakfast tacos, Philly cheese steaks and other items. The staff is friendly and eager, too.
It wasn't long ago that River Oaks was considered the richest ZIP code in the nation. But time can take its toll, and even $15 million mansions need a facelift sometimes. During the last three decades, Houston's Exterior Worlds has helped with that. The company specializes in "high-end landscape design," repairing and building outdoor fountains, luxury swimming pools and even outdoor kitchens. That's along with the normal range of services. Exterior Worlds helps keep River Oaks one area that non-Houstonians can envy.
Smack-dab between the antiquing hotspots of lower Westheimer and West 19th Street there looms this 1895 carriage barn, with more than 5,000 square feet of trash 'n' treasure within. Lots of antique stores tend to cater to women, but Heights Station's multi-dealer layout features a couple of fun testosterone zones with their sports memorabilia and rock and roll collectibles sections. You can get that old chair just about anywhere, but only at Heights Station — the mother of all attics — can you also go home with a signed 8-by-10 glossy of Journey from their "Don't Stop Believin'" heyday and a Charley Kerfeld rookie card.
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Editor's note: This story by Sarah Brubeck was first published in the Valley News.
HANOVER, N.H. — When C. Everett Koop wrapped up his tenure as the surgeon general, he had his pick of academic institutions to settle into. But he chose Dartmouth College, where he once fell in love with the region's mountains, skiing and his first wife, Betty.
Throughout his career as a pediatric surgeon, and later during his service as the U.S. government's top medical officer in the 1980s, Koop always came back to the Upper Valley, where he kept a vacation home in Etna and where two of his sons eventually raised their families.
Koop would later attribute his career path to decisions he first made as a Dartmouth student more than 70 years go.
"I can't imagine that any incoming Dartmouth freshman prepared with greater enthusiasm than I did," he wrote in Koop, his 1991 autobiography. "I knew every Dartmouth song as well as those of the other Ivy League schools."
Koop died in Hanover yesterday at the age of 96. He had been in declining health for several months and suffered kidney failure last week, said Lester Gibbs, Koop's personal aide.
At Dartmouth he earned the nickname "Chick," and played on the football team, where he received a head blow that damaged his vision which required him to wear glasses the rest of his life.
After stepping down as surgeon general, Koop's two sons, Allen and Norman, urged their father to leave Washington and return to the Upper Valley.
Joe O'Donnell, a senior scholar at Dartmouth's C. Everett Koop Institute, had been admiring Koop's career for years, and was encouraging Dartmouth medical students to take his cue and become involved in public service.
"When he came here, it was like I died and went to heaven," O'Donnell said.
Toward the end of his life, Koop lived only a block from Dartmouth's medical school and would still wear his trademark bow ties. (He had more than 100.)
Despite Koop's stern face, Captain Ahab beard, natty bow ties and intimidating accomplishments, he was an approachable man, O'Donnell said, with a surprising sense of humor. O'Donnell related how Koop was once sitting on a plane when another passenger turned to him and remarked, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Dr. Koop?"
"Yeah, all the time," Koop responded with a straight face.
Another time in Hanover, Koop approached the medical school and motioned to a group of students sitting outside. He challenged them to figure out what was wrong with him as he walked to his car with a limp, according to O'Donnell.
The medical students looked frazzled as they tried to solve a problem presented by an authority many called "America's family doctor." But then Koop exclaimed to the puzzled aspiring doctors that he was suffering from only a blister, and laughed.
While at Dartmouth, he taught a number of classes and lectures and always made time for office hours with students.
"He thought young people were the future and making time for them was really important," O'Donnell said. "When you were with him, you felt like he was paying full attention to you."
Koop was always concerned about educating the next generation of health professionals, and the medical school is steadily working to include Koop's lessons into its curriculum, O'Donnell said.
Those lessons, or "Koopisms" as O'Donnell calls them, typically encompass the large public health stances Koop took while surgeon general, such as his campaign against tobacco use and his advocacy on behalf of patients with AIDS.
Koop was also a strong believer in building trust during a physical exam and relying on a "physical diagnosis," meaning that doctors rely on their hands, ears and nose instead of only using the latest high-tech equipment to examine a patient.
"I never could have envisioned restaurants in New York City banning smoking — or a diner in Colebrook, New Hampshire, not having ashtrays on the tables," Koop once told the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
He was also a senior scholar at the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth, a think tank that promotes education and research around the art of medicine. The institute supports an annual anti-tobacco conference and convenes the leading authorities in medicine.
Religious faith also turned out to play an important role for a man who had dedicated his life to science.
After his son, David Koop died in a mountaineering accident in 1968 in New Hampshire while a student at Dartmouth, his entire family turned to faith for consolation and healing, said his son Norman Koop, who is now a minister at the First Congregational Church in Woodstock. Both of Koop's sons are ministers, as well as a grandchild.
In the Upper Valley, he loved the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, where his collection of political cartoons were once on display. The gallery is where he had his 95th birthday.
He grew so close with his personal assistant of 10 years, Mary Beth Albright, that he escorted her down the aisle during her wedding. And when Koop learned that Albright's fiance had never been to New Hampshire, her boss was flabbergasted: Koop scheduled a trip and drove the couple around the White Mountains, where they stopped to sample maple syrup.
"He wanted to make sure Craig understood the beauty of New Hampshire," Albright said.
Koop also became great friends with Woodie Kessel, who was working as an assistant surgeon general when Koop moved to Washington. Kessel was from Philadelphia, where Koop had previously spent much of his career as a pediatric surgeon, and they shared a fondness for the city's famous cheese steaks and hoagies.
When the duo walked down the streets of Philadelphia, Koop was treated like a celebrity — passersby would recognize him, shake his hand and ask for a photo, Kessel recalled. The person shaking his hand would thank the doctor for operating on him and saving his life.
"Sometimes in medicine you lose track of the ultimate outcomes, but he would stop and was always generous with his time," Kessel said.
Toward the end of his life, Koop lived only a block from Dartmouth's medical school and would still wear his trademark bow ties. (He had more than 100 of them, Gibbs said.)
There was always a constant stream of letters from former patients thanking Koop for a surgery he performed in their childhood. A medical student once told him that his grandparents stopped smoking as a result of Koop's constant warnings.
It was the kind of outcome Koop had hoped for, even if he didn't always expect it.
"I never could have envisioned restaurants in New York City banning smoking — or a diner in Colebrook, New Hampshire, not having ashtrays on the tables," Koop once told the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Funeral arrangements are planned for 10:30 a.m. March 9 at the First Congregational Church in Woodstock.
Sarah Brubeck can be reached at [email protected] or 603-727-3223.


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- Ralph Bakshi Animation Productions, Bakshi-Hyde Ventures, Viacom Productions Inc.
- Animation Studio: Cuckoo's Nest Studios, Wang Film Productions Co. Ltd.
- Distributed by: Paramount Television, Viacom International
- Cartoon Characters: Mighty Mouse/Mike Mouse, Pearl Pureheart, Orphan Scrappy, Bat-Bat (Bruce Vein), Sourpuss, The Cow, Fractured Narrator.
- Voice Actors: Patrick Pinney, Maggie Roswell, Dana Hill, Charles Adler, Joe Alaskey, Michael Pataki, Beau Weaver, Rodger Bumpass, Candy Candido; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Ralph Bakshi, Kent Butterworth, Eddie Fitzgerald, Steven E. Gordon, Bob Jaques; more Directors ...
- Produced By Ralph Bakshi, John W. Hyde.
- Written By Eddie Fitzgerald, Nate Kanfer, Tom Minton, Doug Moench, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon, Andrew Stanton, Ralph Bakshi.
- Music: Glen Daum, Bob Freedman, Kent Holaday, Jonathan Segel.
- Editor: Baylis Glascock.
- First Aired on October 22, 1988.
- Originally Aired on CBS-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Episode Number: 18A
- Season: 2
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In a way, it was the vision of a man who spoke about dead people that got Dr. Stephen Nelson interested in the life and times of college presidents.
That man was Dr. Harold T. Shapiro, who spoke of previous college presidents in his inaugural address at Princeton College in the late '80s.
"I was taken by, essentially, Shapiro engaging these dead people," Dr. Nelson said. "They were dead white men. But engaging these dead white men on the grounds of: How did they help shape the Princeton that he was inheriting? Were there insights, messages, ideas that the Princeton of the latter 20th century could benefit from?"
Dr. Nelson read Dr. Shapiro's speech and wrote his dissertation about college presidents while completing his doctoral work at the University of Connecticut. He has since become an authority on the subject and has written five books, including his latest: College Presidents Reflect: Life In and Out of the Ivory Tower.
The college presidency is an elaborate tapestry, full of nuances and complexities that few understand, says Dr. Nelson, now associate professor of educational leadership at Bridgewater State University and a senior scholar in the Leadership Alliance at Brown University.
"Both historically and in a contemporary environment, despite the arguments that some people make to the contrary, these presidents have been and continue to be enormously influential shapers of the college and university," Dr. Nelson said "… Primarily they do that through the way they serve and the way they lead the institutions where they are chosen to be president."
Dr. Nelson is one of the few researchers who has written and studied college presidents. In writing several books, he has interviewed nearly 60 college presidents, 24 for his latest book.
The book, written with his own research and with that of a BSU research assistant, stands as a guide to boards of trustees and for people who might aspire to be college presidents. It reveals how their lives become fully enveloped by the job more so than many other leadership positions, almost as much as the president of the United States.
He notes that some of the most successful college presidents are the ones who ascended the ivory tower but were not looking to do so, and the best ones have understood "who's shoulders you're standing on" by studying their predecessors and the institutions well in advance of taking the helm.
His interest began in the late 70s when he was a student affairs administrator at Dartmouth College. Back then, the college president was Dr. John G. Kemeny, who died in 1992.
Dr. Nelson says he was taken by Dr. Kemeny's role, using the so-called "bully pulpit" to get his message across. He had the vision to introduce the idea of admitting women to Dartmouth College around 1970, despite opposition from some alumni and trustees, at a time when most Ivy League schools were largely male-dominated institutions. By 1972, the first co-educational classes began at Dartmouth.
"Now did he do that single-handedly? No. … It was his really rolling the dice very early in his presidency, in the first year, that indeed Dartmouth needed to admit women," Dr. Nelson said. "And he was willing to put his own presidency on the line to essentially create a 'fish or cut bait moment for the institution."
Another example of a college president standing up to enormous pressure came from Dr. Shapiro himself, Dr. Nelson said, who stood against so-called "political correctness."
"He was actually almost ahead of his time on this for making the argument about civic engagement, civil discourse, scholarly academic discourse and free speech within the university," Dr. Nelson said.
The job of the college president, Dr. Nelson argues, is more rewarding and more demanding than being the CEO of a big corporation, who can take vacations or other time off. "They get out of Dodge," Dr. Nelson says. "How do you, if you're the president of Princeton, you're the president of UConn, how do you get out of Dodge? Because you live in Dodge, you work at Dodge."
Read more about the book here. (Story by Steve Ide, University News)


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Buffalo cop in bribery probe found dead after Pendleton standoff
A Buffalo police officer who was the subject of a federal bribery investigation was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Pendleton home Monday afternoon following a standoff.
A Niagara County SWAT Team had surrounded the Paddock Ridge home of Officer Jeffrey A. Mott of the Central District after receiving reports he was threatening suicide. He was found dead when they entered his house.
Mott, who spent more than 25 years on the force and was the highest-paid employee in the city in 2011, was being investigated by federal authorities for allegedly taking bribes from Buffalo tow truck operators, according to a law enforcement source and other sources with inside knowledge of the case.
"If he was alive, he probably would have been charged," the law enforcement source said.
Mott was one of several Buffalo police officers suspected of taking kickbacks in return for information about accidents in the city, according to a law enforcement source close to the suicide investigation.
The internal investigation was initiated by Buffalo police and led to a federal probe that became public in December when FBI agents and Buffalo police searched Jim Mazz Auto, a towing company at 1255 Bailey Ave.
"That's part of the investigation," Mayor Byron W. Brown said at the time of the raid at Mazz Auto and the allegations of police corruption and bribery.
"Some of the complaints are in that vein."
No arrests have been made in the case, but a source close to the suicide investigation said Mott likely would have been charged with taking kickbacks.
The investigation stems from a practice of the city using private tow truck companies when a police tow truck is unavailable.
One of the consequences of that competition, city officials said, is that tow truck operators often raced to a crash scene, only to find a competing operator already there. The competition for tows became so fierce that fights broke out at crash scenes.
A source with inside knowledge of the federal probe said Mott was accused of being "extremely active" in accepting bribes from towing operators.
"Mott was one of the people who didn't stop doing this," even after the "noose was tightening" around other city officials involved in the scheme, the source said.
An indictment of Mott may have been imminent, according to the source.
Mott also took advantage of his seniority at the Police Department, earning $111,460 – almost double his base salary – just in overtime in 2011 and totaling $183,154 in earnings that year.
His post in the Central District, which includes Canalside, First Niagara Center and the Chippewa Street area, provided many opportunities for collecting overtime.
Niagara County sheriff's deputies said they responded at about 2 p.m. Monday to Mott's residence in Pendleton, which is between North Tonawanda and Lockport.
Deputies warned residents in the area to stay in their homes. Mott had reportedly made threats to kill himself with a gun.
Sheriff's deputies surrounded his house and unsuccessfully tried to contact him, said Niagara County Sheriff James R. Voutour.
When deputies entered, Mott was found dead, with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. It's unclear when the shot was fired. Sheriff's officials later told Pendleton residents that it was safe to leave their homes.
Sources also suggested that when Mott died, he might have been dealing with personal issues in addition to the federal investigation.
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(Washington, DC) -- In a surprise move, the House is rejecting a sweeping farm bill. The vote was 195-234. The roughly half-trillion dollar Republican measure aimed to fund agriculture programs for five years, including crop subsidies. It also made deep cuts in food stamps. The GOP measure failed with more than 55 Republicans joining most Democrats in voting no. Many conservatives voted no due to the cost of the bill. Many Dems objected to the deep cuts in food stamps. The Senate recently passed its own version of an agriculture bill with a sizable bipartisan majority vote.


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Surprising Benefits of Co-sleeping
I just completed an argumentative essay for a final in one of my courses, and we had to make an argument on a topic related to sleep. I choose co-sleeping, as it is something that I have a personal connection with. I did a lot of research prior to finishing my paper, and I was quite happy with how it turned out. I found that most paediatricians and health officials simply tell parents not to co-sleep ever, and never explain any of the benefits or risks. My thesis for the paper was that parents should be educated on both the benefits and the risks, so they can make an informed decision that will help the whole family receive a better night's rest. One of the main points I found that argues against co-sleeping was that it can increase the risk of SIDS. However, the studies I found actually showed a decrease in the SIDS risk. I also read studies that stated that women who co-sleep report that they enjoy the sleep they receive better than those who do not, and they are also more in tune with their babies. It was very fascinating to learn so much about how beneficial co-sleeping truly is. I think this article on getting a good night's sleep is very detailed and explained the benefits wonderfully.
Is there anything you have learned about co-sleeping that surprised you? I was surprised to learn that Co2 levels can become increased to non-lethal levels that actually encourage the baby to breathe better, which can decrease the risk for SIDS.
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The thing that surprises me is the approach of some health professionals who are vehemently opposed to co-sleeping. I am with you Jessica parents should be offered the advantages and disadvantages to baby's sleep place. A one size fits all approach does not work and can be harmful.