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Gridlock over how to end flight gridlock
The airlines balk after the FAA proposes congestion pricing and flight caps for airports in the New York area.
It all sounded so easy.
There is a problem: record delays and congestion at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, which ripple through airports across the country. There was an apparent solution: a big meeting among the airlines, the airport managers, and federal regulators to address it. But there's also a reason for sayings like "The devil's in the details."
Intensive meetings last week did yield some results. JetBlue and Delta agreed to shift their schedules to help alleviate congestion during peak periods, and other airlines are weighing similar steps.
But the message for public consumption was clear: The airlines, the airport managers, and more than a dozen business and cultural institutions enlisted to support them are outraged by what they see as failure by the Federal Aviation Administration to prevent the problem in the first place. On Friday, they blasted the FAA and, in particular, the agency's top two proposed solutions: congestion pricing, which would charge airlines more to land during peak periods, and mandatory caps that would reduce by 20 percent the current 100 departing flights per hour.
"There are so many losers from caps, but there is arguably one winner – the federal government, which gets off the hook easy," says Anthony Shorris, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the region's three major airports. "It's a cheap, fast, easy purported solution that allows the federal government to walk away from its responsibilities to make America's air-traffic system what it should be."
While all say they remain committed to working cooperatively to resolve the problem, the heated reaction seemed to take the FAA by surprise. The agency's first statement touted the cooperative process, but also drew the FAA's own line in the sand.
"Allowing a repeat of last summer's record-setting airline delays … is simply not an option," said Department of Transportation spokesman Brian Turmail.
Later, in a phone interview, Mr. Turmail blasted the airlines and airport authority for complaining without offering good short-term solutions of their own." Instead of the airlines spending all of their time giving reasons why something won't work, I think travelers would be better served if they'd spend their time coming up with suggestions that would reduce delays," he said.
At the center of the dispute is how quickly and safely the federal government can upgrade technology and make changes in air-traffic control to increase capacity at New York's airports. The goal is to allow as many passengers and planes to land there as want to.
The FAA's steps thus far
The FAA has redesigned the airspace so that more planes can land and take off at the same time and is implementing that plan. But there's opposition from some communities that would hear more planes roaring overhead. They've brought lawsuits, and some congressmen are threatening to block the plan.
The FAA is also negotiating with the military to open up some restricted airspace over the Atlantic Ocean to create new departure routes. And the agency has announced plans to introduce satellite-based technology that will allow some planes to take off closer together. But it will take as long as three years to implement those changes – and 10 years before the entire air-traffic control system is shifted to a satellite-based technology that will ease congestion everywhere.
So the second key issue, from the FAA's point of view, is what to do in the short term. It wants the airlines to self-police their schedules – meaning that not every traveler who wants to leave at 6 p.m. on a Friday would be able to do so. Some may have to depart at 4 p.m. or 8 p.m., but at least they won't be sitting on the tarmac for an hour or more waiting for all the other scheduled 6 p.m. flights to leave. The FAA has told the airlines that if they don't resolve the problem themselves, it will put caps on the number of departing flights and may implement congestion pricing.
Airlines seek better air-traffic control
From the view of the airlines and the airport authority, the FAA still isn't moving aggressively enough to improve air-traffic control. Talk of imposing caps, they say, will turn back the clock and undermine New York's economy.
"We are opposed to artificial restraints on travel and taxes on travel," says James May, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association, which represents the major carriers. "The constraints they're attempting to put on JFK are reminiscent of traffic levels that were accomplished in 1969. We don't need to look back; we need to look forward."
The FAA's Turmail says operational improvements are "a must and already under way." But he's just as adamant that the airlines must make some changes. "We have to figure out what changes the airlines can make and what the Port Authority can do to avoid these delays in the future," he says.
Advocates for passengers say both sides can do better. "There's some definite denial ... among airlines about how bad the problem is," says Kevin Mitchell of the Business Travel Coalition, an advocacy group for business travelers. "On the other hand, the FAA just seems like it wants to experiment in New York with this congestion pricing and they're not hearing the objections."
Still, there are some hopeful signs for the weary, oft-delayed traveler, says Mr. Mitchell. At least every body's talking about a finding a solution and, in the end, they just might, he says.


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NASA announces psych testing review
How do you spot an astronut?
NASA says it will re-evaluate the psychological screening it does for its astronauts, after Shuttle pilot Lisa Nowak was arrested this week on charges of attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, and battery.
The space agency told reporters late yesterday that there had not been the slightest hint that anything was up with Nowak. She finished work as usual on the Friday before donning a nappy and embarking on the 1,000 mile drive from Houston to Orlando over the weekend.
Deputy chief administrator Shana Dale said NASA would also go back over Nowak's records to see if there were any "red flags" that were missed. Dale said NASA needed to be sure the screening was adequate, both in terms of frequency and thoroughness.
The psychological screening procedures will be reviewed internally, but NASA says Lisa's arrest, and the events leading up to it, have prompted enough concern within the agency to involve outside experts as well.
Nowak is accused of attempting to kidnap and murder fellow NASA employee Colleen Shipman, who police believe she saw as a rival for the affections of fellow astronaut William Oefelien. Her family say the charges "infer too much" from her actions.
Nowak allegedly lay in wait for Shipman at Orlando International Airport, before trying to talk her way into Shipman's car. When she failed, police say she sprayed Shipman with pepper spray. On searching her car after her arrest, police say they found a variety of weapons, as well as rubber tubing and rubbish sacks.
Shipman is seeking a restraining order, claiming she was stalked for two months before the incident.
Nowak is currently on a 30 day suspension from NASA, and has been relieved of her mission duties while the incident is being investigated. ®

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The first time I saw Eli Wallach was in a movie no one liked and few remember. It was called The Deep, a sexy scuba-diving thriller starring Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset's T-shirt, and Wallach played an ancient sailor named Coffin. I liked it. I was 6 years old, and the best things about it to my eyes were a giant moray eel and this larger-than-life character. And the riveting actor who played him.
That was a minor entry in the long and diverse career of Wallach, who died Tuesday at 98, but it speaks a little to his greatness. Whether the movie was good or bad, he was the guy you remembered — the one who stood out because his performance was so often bigger than everybody else's. That was his great gift, and maybe to some, his great flaw. Sure, there was often a theatricality to his performances, but it was never staginess. Rather, he conveyed a kind of delight in the ability to be larger than life. His great-nephew, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, put it rather well in a touching profile of Wallach in 2010: "With Eli, there is an impish, sly quality, not self-conscious winking, exactly, but a relish at the sheer fun of acting." You loved watching him chew scenery. He made you feel like you were chewing it along with him.
Wallach was often a lead — a legend, actually — on Broadway, but a supporting actor on film. That maybe speaks to the fact that he didn't have movie-star good looks (though he was apparently everybody's first choice for the part that won Frank Sinatra an Oscar in From Here to Eternity). But he had a star's ability to transform the movies he was in. He didn't disappear into a part like a typical character actor, but brought things to his level; he never really stopped being Eli Wallach.
Think about it: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is his movie. It starts and ends on him, and he's the one we're invested in. He's the one forever zig-zagging between nobility and betrayal, between desperation and cockiness — his features and his frame dancing between those two monumental stone faces, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef. Even at their worst, Wallach's characters carry you along with them, almost confiding in and charming you. It's his boisterous, sneering villain in The Magnificent Seven who establishes that film's baseline of cruelty and vengeance, who sells the film's sadism. (I'd say he steals the show there, but that would be unfair to James Coburn and Yul Brynner.) "I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly," the actor once said.
It's interesting to see Wallach's early performances, both in films like his friend Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (his first feature film role) and in TV dramas like Playhouse 90's The Plot to Kill Stalin. So often he had to play the vengeful rival, the bandit, the sneering functionary. But he's riveting in these parts, and you wonder if maybe he'd been a little younger, he might have gotten the big leads when the New American Cinema of the 1970s rolled around, with its carnival of paranoid antiheroes and charming hucksters.
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We're All Wieners: Cross Crusade #5 & #6, Astoria, Oregon
It must be a sign of strong familial love when one's parents drive all the way to Astoria, Oregon to watch their grown child don a hot dog costume and race their bike in the mud. The Cross Crusade made its annual caravan trek to the Clatsop Country Fairgrounds outside of Astoria for two days of racing, costumes, more racing and a lot of beer. Though the official costume day was Sunday – Brad Ross' wishes – the entire weekend was full of grown men dressed as banana hammocks a la Borat, a group of Oompa Loompas, a lot of synchronized swimmers and Brett Michaels strolling around with a guitar looking for love. (Check back soon for photos)
Wicks and Pennington Shed Bridesmaids Costumes
Saturday's course was a tricky twist of muddy chicanes, muddy downhills, muddy uphills and pretty much just mud. If you stayed upright, you may have used up all your good 'cross karma for the year as most put the bike on the ground more than once. The faucet was turned on an hour before the Men's and Women's A races, melting the circuit into a greased slip'n'slide. Kona tall man Barry Wicks was back in town and the rider, who finished second to Ryan Trebon at the Crusade opener at Alpenrose, threw off his bridesmaid dress to take the lead, built a healthy gap and eventually won. Back to back Crusade winner Molly Cameron (Portland Bicycle Studio) put in a good chase but Wicks was all that AND a bag of chips. Sean Babcock made a cameo appearance outside the top five after a couple crashes that put the S&M rider back in ninth. Vanilla's Shannon Skerritt and Kevin Hulick chased the leader for third and fourth while Brett Luelling (Capitol Subaru Cycling) continued a strong showing this year with fifth place.
Like Wicks, Alice Pennington (Veloforma) has been a bridesmaid frequently this year but Saturday was her big day. Despite a couple of gnarly crashes in the mud, Pennington fought back to take the lead which was solidified after series' leader Wendy Williams (Hudz/Subaru) had a mechanical and had to run to the pit. Serena Bishop (Sunnyside Sports) in her first year of racing the As, had another impressive performance as she took second ahead of Megan "I don't need gears" Faris (River City Bicycles). Erin Playman (Gentle Lovers) and Julie Browning (Cyclepath) filled out the top five.
Costume 'Cross, a Day Late
"You must go over all barriers – including the human ones," the race referees announced at the start. Though Saturday was Halloween, Oregon racing has always done its own thing and so Sunday was the official costume day. Most of the elite racers had a sense of humor and wore costumes. Perhaps it was all the French maid uniforms that got Barry Wicks fired up because the Kona "Cougar Bait" rider hit the course flying and put in a repeat performance. Chasing Coug Bait like a bunch of L.A. housewives running after their underage pool boys were Shannon Skerritt (Vanilla – no costume but wearing stripped pink socks), Eric Sheagley (Veloce-Felt – wearing cat ears), Molly Cameron (Portland Bicycle Studio – not sure what the costume was. A robot? Some cheese?), Sean Babcock (Team S&M – a Boy Scout? A sailor?) and Kevin Hulick (Vanilla – wearing some kind of women's top?) More interesting that all this "racing" that was going on at the front were the costumes, and the men took the creative contest with Sloth from the Astoria-filmed movie "The Goonies," Pee-wee Herman, a giant penguin and a group of Oompa Loompas. There were quite a few boob-themed costumes with Hooters girls and some guy riding with implants in a red lace bra.
Sue Butler (Monavie-Cannondale) made appearances in both the men's and women's races, as her doppelganger Brett Nichols (BODE) took on the men's A field for sixth place. The real Butler was dressed a figure skater or some other small feminine petite form, and used the race for a nice warm up on her way to racing over in Europe and at the USGP. As Bulter triple salchowed away from the women's field, Wendy Williams, (dressed as a nun with a Cross Crusade medal around her neck), took over after her. Williams, Rhonda Mazza (Team S&M – no costume), and Alice Pennington (a triathlete) put on a chase but Butler had a decent gap after the first lap which she held to the finish. Pennington got too into her triathlete costume and crashed (sorry, triathletes. Feel free to insert a roadie joke here), and despite her aero gear (a bike covered with gels, melted Clif bars and areo bars and helmet), couldn't make it back to the leading ladies. Williams and Mazza took second and third to Butler, while last weekend's winner Emily Van Meter (River City Bicycles – dressed a doctor) was fourth and the Gentle Lover's – or Hell's Lovers – Alalia Berry took fifth.Next weekend is not only the seventh Crusade, but also the now infamous SSCXWC. No, that's not an unpronounceable Soviet acronym but stands for the Singlespeed Cyclocross "World Championships." If you're looking to win a rainbow jersey, this is not the race. Qualifying doesn't require anything superfluous like having "points" or "being Ryan Trebon." All you have to do is have typing skills and the ability to register online because everyone is getting in this year. The race will happen after the Crusade race at the Portland International Raceway. For complete results from Astoria, see obra.org. For more on the anti-geared shenanigans, see SSCXWC website.
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Yo yo! It's been awhile since I have posted. Sorry about that. But huge news for all you car fanatics that are just like me! This weekend in Grayson County there is a huge car show being put on and sponsored by a Roof Repair Company. I guess the owner loves cars and wanted to give back to the community. Pretty awesome huh?
Well anyways, there are going to be rides of all kinds there. Corvettes, some sweet tricked out lifted trucks, I hear there might be a Ferrari and a rolls royce as well. There will be cars that are brand new and ones that are 40 years old that have been kept in mint condition.
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The Future of Investment Management
Views from the 2004 AIMR Conference
In February some of the most respected academics and practitioners in the investment management business met in New York City to discuss the industry's future. The message of the conference: times have changed.
As an attendee, it felt like an emergency meeting on the deck of a ship that was thrown off course by nasty weather. The storm began to brew last summer when investment consultant and historian Peter Bernstein wrote an article detailing the changes that can be expected in the field of money management 1 . There are few people in the business as respected as Mr. Bernstein, who is the founding editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the author of several books including Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk . His words were a jolt to an industry that had become comfortable with its own dogma.
Things are different this time, says Mr. Bernstein. The mental models and industry standards that were created during the great bull market are outdated and will be ineffective for the type of asset returns of the next decade or so. "What we have been doing has begun to outlive its usefulness; the world in which we invest today bears too little resemblance to the world of yesterday."
In the original article Mr. Bernstein focused on four areas where he expects to see substantial change: indexing, benchmarking, long only equity management, and soft dollar research. At the conference in February he expanded and defended these ideas. He also discussed how the demands of mutual fund shareholders could be creating inefficiencies in the market. Here are some of his thoughts both from the original article and his discussion at the conference.
Indexing will lose its luster, says Mr. Bernstein. The power of equity indexing is broad diversification at a low cost. But the dynamic US economy undermines both attributes.
In 2000 there were 57 additions to the S&P 500 index, the most heavily indexed benchmark. Harley Davidson replaced Fleetwood Enterprises, Starbucks stepped in for Shared Medical Systems, and JDS Uniphase took the place of Rite Aid. Even since the market's peak, 23 changes a year have been made, according to Bloomberg data.
"New companies come along all the time to threaten and then overthrow the dominance of older companies. Creative destruction is our trademark," says Mr. Bernstein. Since the pace of technological advancement continues unabated, he thinks turnover will likely remain high.
He also points out that many of the most popular benchmarks are weighted by market value. This makes them top-heavy and strains the benefits of diversification. For example, the 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 index - only 2 percent of the total number - account for about 20 percent of its market value. The top 25 companies account for 35 percent of its value. This concentration can increase the volatility of the index, as was seen at the peak of the bubble.
Even though the larger indexes, such as the Wilshire 5000 Index and the Russell indexes, are spread out over more stocks, the largest companies affect the behavior of those benchmarks as well. These indexes have their own problems, too. "Strictly speaking, they are not investable pools of securities; they are floating crap games because their membership is much more fluid than even the membership of the S&P 500". So funds that attempt to index these benchmarks are saddled with the costs of frequent rebalancing.
Mr. Bernstein also pointed out that in the world of double-digit returns, beating the market was nice, but not mandatory to meet investment objectives. When investors begin to compare their expected future liabilities with the returns they can realistically earn on their assets, active investing may become "more attractive, even essential."
Benchmarking and Absolute Returns
Few ideas in this business have been so widely accepted as placing managers into size and style boxes. Divvying up professional investors into camps makes life easier for consultants. Choosing a manager for each combination of style and size is a simple way to create a diversified portfolio. Unfortunately, you may also create an underperforming one. When good managers are forced to adhere to only certain categories of stocks, their investors can be deprived of potential returns.
That's why managers with the greatest level of skill should be free of constraints, says Mr. Bernstein. He quotes the work of Richard Grinold and Ron Kahn, authors of the well-respected Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Providing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk 2 . In their book they show that the more highly skilled a money manager is, the more opportunities the manager should be given to provide extra return.
Bernstein argues that one way to measure this skill is to examine risk-adjusted returns: "The critical ingredient of performance measurement, therefore, is a manager's contribution to the fund's required rate of return relative to the risk the manager takes and the allocation assigned to the manager in the fund's risk budget. The results from these sorts of calculations do not attract a crowd around you on the cocktail party circuit, but they do lead to more effective manager selection and to greater efficiency in optimizing the mix of managers for low covariance and higher expected returns."
In addition to giving skillful managers a longer leash, Mr. Bernstein thinks that more attention will be placed on absolute returns, rather then a manager's return relative to a benchmark or a peer group.
Judging performance by peer comparison alone misses the point that assets are managed to meet future liabilities. The true benchmark for any particular investor is the return required in order to meet those expected liabilities at the date they are expected. The herding of investors into popular stocks and industries during the bubble, and their subsequent price volatility, should cause investors to question whether the popular indexes and style groups are the optimal benchmarks.
"In this sense, the notion of uncorrelated returns - especially, absolute returns, has a compelling attraction," says Mr. Bernstein.
Long Only
Letting skilled managers exploit opportunities means not holding them to a long-only constraint, says Mr. Bernstein. Why restrict skilled investors to only stocks that may rise? Skilled money managers should be able to profit from prices moving in either direction.
This will greatly expand the opportunities of a skilled investor. "Given the bias toward buy recommendations in most investment research and given the locked-in positions in which many taxable investors find themselves, should we not expect to find more inefficiency on the short side than on the long side?"
Short selling would likely lower a portfolio's volatility, he adds. "Why should institutions continue to tolerate the kind of volatility that conventional long-only investing inflicts upon their portfolios?"
Soft Dollar Research Deals
A 'soft dollar deal' is when money managers opt to receive research, subscriptions, or data terminals in return for paying higher brokerage fees. Like the stock market, these deals really hit their stride in the 1990's. The deals are convenient for portfolio managers because the fund's investors pay the higher transaction fees, but the expenses are not included in the more visible expense ratio.
The days of soft dollar research deals are numbered though, says Mr. Bernstein. Investors aren't going to pay higher fees for the biased research from investment banks. Money managers will have to seek out new and better opinions. "Objective research means true independence from conflicts of interest," says Mr. Bernstein.
The result will be higher quality research. But it won't come cheaply. Money management shops will need to either build internal research departments or pay third parties, says Mr. Bernstein. "Paying an investment banker for research with a few cents a share is no longer a viable strategy".
Open-Ended Mutual Funds and Investment Returns
It's obvious that investors prefer to have the option to sell their mutual fund shares at any time. Open-ended mutual funds account for 96 percent of fund assets, according to the Investment Company Institute . What investors might not realize is that they're likely paying a large cost when they use that option irresponsibly.
It's well known that on average, mutual fund investors have had surprisingly low returns compared to the performance of the average mutual fund itself. This is because mutual fund inflows are usually heaviest after fund prices have advanced significantly, while mutual fund outflows are heaviest after price declines. It's a classic example of buying high and selling low. Dalbar Inc., a consulting company, found that during the 16-year period through 2000, the average stock fund returned 14 percent. During that same period, the typical mutual fund investor had a 5.3 percent return. Other studies found similar results. Unfortunately, investors move in and out of funds, chasing performance, and end up capturing only a fraction of the available return.
But the open-ended structure of mutual funds is crimping returns in another way, says Mr. Bernstein. Because of the risk of short-term investor withdrawals, managers aren't able to exploit longer-term inefficiencies within the markets.
This discussion relied partly on new research by Jeremy C. Stein, an economics professor at Harvard University. Stein argues that the popularity of open-ended funds curtails managers' abilities to make certain types of arbitrage trades. These longer-term trades - allowing a depressed stock to become fully valued or betting against the Internet bubble - are where the strongest returns are most likely to be earned. This 'alpha' - a fund's return above its proper benchmark - is rarely found in short-term ideas.
But some shareholders sell so quickly, even for temporary underperformance, that managers don't have the capital to allocate to these longer-term ideas. Stein says, "being open-end exposes arbitrageurs to the risk of large withdrawals if they perform poorly in the short run. This risk in turn makes it dangerous for them to put on trades that are attractive in the long-run sense, but where convergence to fundamentals is unlikely to be either smooth or rapid".
This does leave opportunities for other investors. "Given this inefficient form (of open ended investment vehicles), funds will stick primarily to short-horizon strategies, and earn low excess returns. In so doing, they will leave large long-horizon mispricings... mostly untouched," says Stein.
Mr. Bernstein did offer up one idea to confront the problem: investors could agree to "lock" their investment for a certain period of time. Options would also be available to purchase, allowing for the early withdrawal of assets. This would place a value on the option to withdraw money early, a right investors currently think is costless. It would also better allocate expenses, since the cost of the withdrawal will fall predominantly on the investors that choose to exercise this right.
Where Do We Go From Here?
For the reasons outlined above, Mr. Bernstein thinks mutual funds will move toward a hedge fund model. Money managers will have freedom to select securities within an entire asset class; they will have the ability to hedge their portfolio in numerous ways (provided that the manager holds the portfolio's risk level to assigned parameters); they will do most of their own research, or pay for objective opinions; and the performance of money managers will be judged by the return of their portfolio versus its risk.
Mr. Bernstein concluded, "When returns are not as easy to come by as in the past, the constraints on manager activity imposed by benchmarking are archaic. Indexing has become more costly and more risky. And new techniques...that widen a manager's range of choices will always make sense in comparison with the old way of doing things."
1 Bernstein, Peter L. Points of Inflection: Investment Management Tomorrow . Financial Analysts Journal. July/August 2003.
2 Grinold, Richard, and Ron Kahn. 1999. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Providing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk . McGraw Hill.
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Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
Happy Thanksgiving, one and all. This week we are thankful for a brand-new Martin Scorsese movie, The Irishman, which is now available for streaming on Netflix. The film, a kind of career summation for Scorsese, examines decades in the life of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a hitman for the mob who becomes closely affiliated with Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) at the height of his power as the leader of the Teamsters.
The Irishman is three and a half hours of pure Scorsese, full of all of his favorite themes — guilt, sin, faith — filtered through the perspective of a man nearing the end of his career. As part of giving thanks to Marty this year, and because The Irishman really does feel like the conclusion of an epic artistic statement spread across decades of work, today felt like the best time to look back at this great filmmaker's career and rank all of his movies.
Keep in mind the list that follows is just of his fiction features; it seemed weird and hard to compare, say, The Last Waltz to something like The Wolf of Wall Street. And there are enough Scorsese documentaries, particularly when you factor in the shorts and films he's made for television, that they really deserve their own list. We'll get to that another time; for now, here is every Martin Scorsese fiction film, ranked from worst to best:
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An innocent European, who was sold to U.S. military by a citizen spy, spent nearly five years in Guantanamo Bay prison without charges exposes the brutality of torture. With the DHS anti-terror apparatus now turned inward, do American citizens face the same treatment?
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Martin Luther King Jr. wisely proclaimed "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Murat Kurnaz, a German-born Turkish citizen, describes in the video below his chilling story of torture under United States custody. Kurnaz was rounded up in Pakistan at the height of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 when locals sold him to the U.S. military for $3000, the bounty paid to citizen spies for "terror suspects." With the Department of Homeland Security ramping up its own citizen spy program, can we expect the same treatment in America?
Working for a peaceful NGO, Kurnaz was detained on his way to return home to Germany. Over the next five years he was repeatedly tortured by the United States with no charges ever filed. According to Amnesty USA, "his 2006 release was prompted by a personal plea by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to President George W. Bush even though official documents show that U.S. and German authorities had determined in 2002 that he was innocent."
Murat's story echoes that of other released Guantanamo detainees, and verifies that events that took place in Abu Ghraib were definitely not an isolated case. How many more cases of criminal torture must Americans hear before they demand an end to these actions done in their name? If this was done to even one innocent person, like Murat, it is a catastrophe to justice, freedom, and basic moral conscience. These are war crimes by every definition.
When American officials excoriate other nations for being brutal regimes, it rings more hollow than ever after listening to Murat's testimony. America is becoming history's most evil empire by engaging in such wicked brutality. This is the shameful reputation that Americans must now wear when they travel abroad. No longer is America a shining example of liberty and morality. The U.S. government is increasingly a criminal organization, and its citizens in their apathy seem like willing accomplices.
Americans and Brits, with their endless distractions, may not realize it, but this stunningly evil injustice machine is coming home to roost. You see, Murat was turned in by a citizen spy for financial compensation. America is now acting on similar anonymous tips to corral potential dissidents; and the U.K already pays its citizens to monitor CCTV for crimes.
The Department of Homeland Security has proudly unveiled its very own citizen spy program. Although they are not yet paying for tips, the citizen snitch can remain anonymous while having immunity in case of wrongful accusations. The DHS promotional video below, with its hypnotic background music and monotone narrator, comically shows ridiculous scenarios that citizen spies should report on:
The injustices of detainment without charges and vicious torture has been allowed to happen because abductees were suspected of being "enemy combatants" somewhere over there. But now, the DHS has openly announced that the primary target for their anti-terror apparatus is focused inward on American soil. With its citizen spy program in full swing, we can expect many innocent people to be wrongfully snitched on. And if history is any indicator, victims will face Jack Bauer justice with little recourse. Beware: an injustice there is quickly becoming an injustice here.
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Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft's inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best.
(Note: Keyboard shortcuts will work for the 2016 versions of Excel, including Mac; those were the versions tested. And many of the query options in Excel 2016's data tab come from the Power Query add-in for Excel 2010 and 2013. So if you've got Power Query on an earlier version of Excel on Windows, a lot of these tips will work for you as well, although they may not work on Excel for Mac.)
1. Use a shortcut to create a table
Tables are among the most useful features in Excel for data that is in contiguous columns and rows. Tables make it easier to sort, filter and visualize, as well as add new rows that maintain the same formatting as the rows above them. In addition, if you make charts from your data, using a table means the chart will automatically update if you add new rows.
If you've been creating tables from your data by going to the Excel ribbon, clicking Insert and then Table, there's an easy keyboard shortcut: After first selecting all your data with Ctrl-A (command-shift-spacebar for Mac), turn it into a table with Ctrl-T (command-T on Mac).
Bonus tip: Make sure to rename your table to something related to your specific data, instead of leaving the default titles Table1 or Table2. Your future self will thank you if you need to access that information from a new, more complex workbook.
2. Add a summary row to a table
You can add a summary row to a table in the Design ribbon on Windows or the Table ribbon on a Mac by checking "Total Row." Although it's called Total Row, you can select from a variety of summary statistics, not just a total sum: count, standard deviation, average and more.
While you could certainly insert this information into a spreadsheet manually with a formula, putting the info in a Total Row means it's "attached" to your table but will stay in the bottom row regardless of how you then might choose to sort your table data. This can be quite handy if you're doing a lot of data exploration.
Note that you'll need to create a total row for each column individually; creating a sum for one column won't automatically generate sums for the rest of your table (since not all columns may have the same type of data — a sum for a column of dates wouldn't make much sense, for example).
3. Easily select columns and rows
If your data is in a table and you need to refer to an entire column in a new formula, click on the column name. That will give a reference to the full column by name — useful if you later add more rows to the table, because you won't have to readjust a more specific reference such as B2:B194.
Note: It's important to make sure your cursor looks like a down arrow before you click on the column name. If your cursor looks like a cross when you do so, you'll get a reference to just that lone cell, not to the whole column.
Whether or not your data is in a table, there are a couple of handy selection shortcuts you can use: Shift+spacebar selects an entire row and Ctrl+spacebar (or control+spacebar for a Mac) selects an entire column. Note that if your data isn't in a table, these selections go beyond available data and include any empty cells beyond. For table data, the selections stop at the table's borders.
If you want to select an entire column that's not in a table with just the cells that have data in them, put your cursor in a column next to it, hit Ctrl-down arrow, use the right or left arrow key to move to your desired column, and then hit Ctrl-Shift-up (use command instead of Ctrl on a Mac). This can be handy if your data column is quite long.
4. Filter table data with slicers
Excel tables offer drop-down arrows next to each column header for easy sorting, searching and filtering. However, trying to filter data with that small drop-down when you've got a large number of items can be somewhat cumbersome. Several of the presenters at the Data Insights Summit suggest using slicers instead.
"Anybody who sends you a pivot table without slicers, you should teach them slicers in 30 seconds. People love slicers," said Indiana University professor Wayne Winston, who also advises Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on basketball stats.
But while slicers were originally developed for pivot tables, they now work on "regular" tables as well (and have since Excel 2013 on Windows). "This is actually more useful," Winston argued. (Slicers are available for pivot tables but not regular tables in Excel for Mac 2016.)
To add a slicer to a table, with your cursor already somewhere in the table, head to the Design ribbon, select Insert Slicer and then choose which column(s) you'd like to filter.
The slicer will show up on your worksheet, appearing one column wide with just a few items showing. But if you have a long, narrow spreadsheet with lots of space to the right of your data, you can resize a slicer to be considerably wider than the default. You can add columns to the slicer layout within the slicer options on the Ribbon.
If you want to filter by more than one item in a slicer, Ctrl-click. To clear all filters, there's a clear button at the top right of the slicer.
5. Create a summary cell that changes when you filter a table
If you create a cell outside a table that summarizes data within a table — the sum of a column, for example — and you'd like that cell to display an updated sum if you filter the table by something, a basic SUM formula won't work.
Instead of simply using SUM in that cell, use the AGGREGATE function within your cell, and then your cell can be linked to your table filters.
Excel's AGGREGATE function requires three arguments, two of which are numbers. Excel for Windows offers lists of available options
AGGREGATE requires three arguments: A function number, a desired option number and the range of cells you want to operate on. Type
=AGGREGATE( in Excel for Windows and you'll see the available functions and options; in Excel for Mac, you'll have to click on the AGGREGATE help function in order to see available function and option numbers.
SUM is function number 9; ignore hidden rows is option 5. So, a cell with the following code:
gives you the sum of all visible rows only. If a filter changes which rows are visible, your sum will change accordingly.
AGGREGATE offers the option of summarizing only visible rows.
6. Sort data in a pivot table
Sometimes you'd like to sort data by a specific column in a pivot table — just as with a regular table. But unlike regular tables, pivot tables don't have dropdown menus on each column offering the ability to sort. However, if you choose the lone dropdown arrow on the first column, you'll get a menu allowing you to sort by any column.
7. 'Unpivot' data
Some call this reshaping data from "wide" to "long". In the database world, it's known as "fold": Taking data from individual columns and moving them into rows. Basically, it's the opposite of creating a pivot table — in a pivot table, you pull categories within one column up into their own columns.
To unpivot columns, you need to use the Query Editor in Excel 2016. Access the Query Editor via the Data ribbon: In the Get & Transform section, choose From Table.
Once the Query Editor comes up (if your data isn't already in a table, you'll be asked to confirm a data range first), select the columns you want to unpivot, click on the Transform tab and chose Unpivot Columns.
Excel's Query Editor provides users with the option to unpivot columns.
That will create two new columns at the right of your spreadsheet, Attribute and Value, with the columns you unpivoted. You can rename those columns to something that makes more sense, such as "Product" and "Price" or "Quarter" and "Revenue."
To save your work, select File > Close & Load (to the default destination) or File > Close & Load To in order to be asked where you'd like to save your results. If you try to close without saving, you'll be asked whether you want to keep your changes; say Yes and they'll be saved on a new worksheet.
Unpivoting data turns a wide table into a longer one, combining multiple columns into two: attribute (category) and value.
8. Make multiple pivot tables for one column of categories
If you have a pivot table and add a filter for one column that contains categories, you can generate copies of that pivot table, one for each category in your filter, by going to Analyze > Options > Show Report Filter Pages and then selecting the filter you want. This can be handier than having to click through each category in your filter manually.
(On Excel 2016 for Mac, go to the PivotTable Analyze tab on the Ribbon and choose Options > Show Report Filter Pages.)
9. Look up data with INDEX MATCH
While VLOOKUP is a popular way to find data in one Excel table and insert it into another, INDEX combined with MATCH can be more powerful and flexible. Here's how to use them.
Let's say you have a lookup table where column A has computer model names, column B has price information, and column D also the name of a computer model where you want to add price info. Create a formula using this format:
=INDEX(ColumnToSearchForValue, MATCH(CellWithLookupKey, ColumnToSearchForLookupKey, 0)
A sample might look like:
This is how/why INDEX MATCH works (if you don't need to know, skip to the next tip): INDEX selects a specific cell by numerical location. You first give it a range of cells, either within a single column or a single row, and then tell it the specific number of the cell you want.
For example, you could pick the 6th item in column B with:
You'd be using the following format:
=INDEX(ColumnOrRowToSearch, ItemNumberInThatColumnOrRow)
However, using INDEX alone isn't much help if you want to find a value based on some condition in another column. That is, you don't want the 6th item in your Price column B; you want the item in your Price column that matches something in column A, such as a certain computer model.
That's where MATCH comes in. MATCH searches for a value in a range of cells and returns the location of what's matched, using the following format:
(Match type can either be 0 for exactly equal, 1 for largest value less than or equal to what you're searching for or -1 for the smallest value that is greater than or equal to your lookup value.)
So, if you wanted to find the location of a cell in column B that was exactly 999, you could use:
And, so the combination: MATCH, looking for a specific value based on a search term, returns a cell location; and INDEX needs a location as its second formula argument.
10. Watch a formula be evaluated step by step (for Windows only)
Have a complicated formula? If you want to see how it gets evaluated, go to Formulas > Evaluate Formula to see the calculations run step by step.
11. Import and refresh data from the Web into Excel
This works best when you've got well-formatted HTML tables on a Web page; with more free-form text (or even poorly formatted tables), you'll need to do a fair amount of additional editing to get your data into a form you can analyze.
With that warning in mind, if you want to pull an HTML table from the Web into Excel, head to the Data tab on Excel for Windows and select: New Query > From Other Sources > From Web
Enter the URL of the appropriate Web page. Excel will look for and list available HTML tables on that page. Click on a table to see a preview; when you find the one you want, click Load.
Why not just copy and paste a well-formatted HTML table into Excel? If the data updates frequently, you can easily refresh it by right-clicking in the table and selecting Refresh instead of having to copy and paste new data


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This section will provide a look into some of pandas internals. It's primarily intended for developers of pandas itself.
In pandas there are a few objects implemented which can serve as valid containers for the axis labels:
Index: the generic "ordered set" object, an ndarray of object dtype assuming nothing about its contents. The labels must be hashable (and likely immutable) and unique. Populates a dict of label to location in Cython to do
Int64Index: a version of
Indexhighly optimized for 64-bit integer data, such as time stamps
Float64Index: a version of
Indexhighly optimized for 64-bit float data
MultiIndex: the standard hierarchical index object
DatetimeIndex: An Index object with
Timestampboxed elements (impl are the int64 values)
TimedeltaIndex: An Index object with
Timedeltaboxed elements (impl are the in64 values)
PeriodIndex: An Index object with Period elements
There are functions that make the creation of a regular index easy:
date_range: fixed frequency date range generated from a time rule or DateOffset. An ndarray of Python datetime objects
period_range: fixed frequency date range generated from a time rule or DateOffset. An ndarray of
Periodobjects, representing timespans
The motivation for having an
Index class in the first place was to enable
different implementations of indexing. This means that it's possible for you,
the user, to implement a custom
Index subclass that may be better suited to
a particular application than the ones provided in pandas.
From an internal implementation point of view, the relevant methods that an
Index must define are one or more of the following (depending on how
incompatible the new object internals are with the
Index functions):
get_loc: returns an "indexer" (an integer, or in some cases a slice object) for a label
slice_locs: returns the "range" to slice between two labels
get_indexer: Computes the indexing vector for reindexing / data alignment purposes. See the source / docstrings for more on this
get_indexer_non_unique: Computes the indexing vector for reindexing / data alignment purposes when the index is non-unique. See the source / docstrings for more on this
reindex: Does any pre-conversion of the input index then calls
intersection: computes the union or intersection of two Index objects
insert: Inserts a new label into an Index, yielding a new object
delete: Delete a label, yielding a new object
drop: Deletes a set of labels
take: Analogous to ndarray.take
Internally, the
MultiIndex consists of a few things: the levels, the
integer codes (until version 0.24 named labels), and the level names:
In [1]: index = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([range(3), ['one', 'two']],
...: names=['first', 'second'])
In [2]: index
MultiIndex(levels=[[0, 1, 2], ['one', 'two']],
codes=[[0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2], [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1]],
names=['first', 'second'])
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Premiere App – The first listen, powered by SoundCloud.
There's nothing quite as exciting as an album premiere. As a fan, it will be the first time you're able to listen to your favorite band's new record. And as a band, you'll finally be able to hear what your fans think of all those late nights in the studio. But what makes a good album premiere online?
Fans are looking for a very simple, aesthetically pleasing, premiere player that they can listen to from anywhere. Bands need a structure that maximizes both the viral reach and sale of the record. We think we've created a nice mix of both. It's called Premiere, and Queens of the Stone Age (+ their killer new reissue) were rock enough to be our test subject in this demo:
Simple, Intuitive, ROCK… Here's what's going on:
The design and controls of the app are kept very simple to maximize accessibility, and nothing says simple like a big blinking play button smack dab in the middle. Once clicked, the artwork will slide to the left while the tracklist becomes revealed to the right. Sexy? You know it. Fans can click each of the track titles to play/pause specific tracks and click anywhere on the waveform to seek.
In addition to the nicely placed Tweet & Like buttons, Premiere also includes a SoundCloud powered comment bar which will display all timestamped comments as your album plays. Clicking any empty space on the bar will send the fan over to SoundCloud so they can voice their own opinion. A combination of these three will greatly increase viral activity around the record.
Premiere is smart enough to understand your browser/os environment and will serve up Flash or HTML5 powered audio accordingly. What…? That means it works on iPhones, iPads, and on your Google TV!
The footer area contains sections both on the left and right that can be used to include a link to Purchase the record, Enter your website, or Visit your Sound profile. It's up to you!
Grab this zip and follow the 5 steps within the index.html source code. That's it!
Just make sure to host the file on your server and include/link to the provided swf files where stated in index.html.
Clone the project on github and push a new version using Heroku.
The default version of this app is styled like the QOTSA version demo'd above. The change the appearance simply grab a copy of the theme.css file and get creative. You can also overwrite styles directly in the index.html where marked.
For rapid theme deployment, we've created a Sassy CSS sheet on github. Adjusting the variables at the top of this file will quickly style your app.
Premiere is already being used by some great artists like QOTSA and Saliva. If you have have one to add to the list, a suggestion, or a bug, please send me an email or contact me on Twitter @leemartin


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German Chancellor 1862-1890
SSA History Archives.
Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany's Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck's behest, in 1881 by Germany's Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: ". . .those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state."
Bismarck was motivated to introduce social insurance in Germany both in order to promote the well-being of workers in order to keep the German economy operating at maximum efficiency, and to stave-off calls for more radical socialist alternatives. Despite his impeccable right-wing credentials, Bismarck would be called a socialist for introducing these programs, as would President Roosevelt 70 years later. In his own speech to the Reichstag during the 1881 debates, Bismarck would reply: "Call it socialism or whatever you like. It is the same to me."
The German system provided contributory retirement benefits and disability benefits as well. Participation was mandatory and contributions were taken from the employee, the employer and the government. Coupled with the workers' compensation program established in 1884 and the "sickness" insurance enacted the year before, this gave the Germans a comprehensive system of income security based on social insurance principles. (They would add unemployment insurance in 1927, making their system complete.)
One persistent myth about the German program is that it adopted age 65 as the standard retirement age because that was Bismarck's age. This myth is important because Germany was one of the models America looked to in designing its own Social Security plan; and the myth is that America adopted age 65 as the age for retirement benefits because this was the age adopted by Germany when they created their program. In fact, Germany initially set age 70 as the retirement age (and Bismarck himself was 74 at the time) and it was not until 27 years later (in 1916) that the age was lowered to 65. By that time, Bismarck had been dead for 18 years.


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How can people be sure that they are truly marrying people with whom they are truly compatible? One way is
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1. According to the author couples get to a crucial stage in their relationship (a) when they show their assets and liabilities (b) when they display responsibility and positive attitudes (c) when they look for compatible beliefs and attitudes (d) when they show how they react to circumstances
2. From the passage, we learn that compatibility is measured in terms of (a) good and bad qualities (b) adequate knowledge of each other (c) individual responsibility (d) reactions to a variety of situations
3. The primary audience(s) for the above passage are (a) young unmarried adults (b) people seeking compatibility in their partner (c) those who fall in love at first sight (d) the general public and marriage counsellors
4. The best title for the passage is (a) researches on marriage compatibility (b) liabilities and assets in marriage (c) compatibility in marriage (d) responsibility in marriage
5. To be unpleasantly surprised" in the passage means to be (a) physically prepared for any eventuality (b) psychological prepared for my eventuality (c) seriously shocked by the outcome of the union (d) taken unawares when marriage is done
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One day after Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation to abolish capital punishment in Maryland, death penalty supporters said Friday they will launch a petition drive to give voters the opportunity to overturn the new law.
At a news conference, Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said he plans to lead the effort to "repeal the repeal" of the state's death penalty.
"We need to retain the death penalty for those prosecutors who wish to seek it because it is simply the right thing to do for public safety," said Shellenberger, a Democrat. "We want the people of Maryland to decide whether Maryland should have the death penalty."
Del. Neil Parrott, a Western Maryland Republican, said he would mobilize his signature-gathering operation, MDPetitions.com, to try to put a death penalty question on the ballot in November 2014.
The effort raises the prospect of another hard-fought referendum campaign next year after Maryland voters had the final say on several ballot questions in 2012.
If the signature-gathering process is successful — as many expect it will be — voters will decide an emotional issue on which polls show they are closely divided.
Supporters of repealing the death penalty say they are prepared to defend the new law, which was a priority of O'Malley's.
"We are disappointed that the great achievement toward justice we achieved in recent weeks has been challenged, but we are prepared to defeat it," said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. "If this goes to referendum, the NAACP and countless allies throughout Maryland will be there to fight."
The General Assembly voted this year to erase capital punishment from Maryland's law books after more than 300 years. If the referendum challenge fails, Maryland will become the 18th state to repeal its death penalty.
Parrott said the death penalty repeal measure is the only statewide legislation from this year's General Assembly session that his group would attempt to petition to referendum.
He said MDPetitions.com, which uses the Internet to streamline the process of gathering signatures, wants to focus its efforts on a single issue. That means some other legislation that had been under consideration for petition drives, including one allowing people who are in the country illegally to obtain driver's licenses, will go unchallenged unless another group steps up to mount a campaign.
Parrott previously said he would not gather petitions to challenge O'Malley's sweeping gun control bill, though the group Free State Petitions has said it will.
Parrott's reluctance to take on too many causes reflects MDPetition.com's experience in 2012. For that election, the group was successful in helping to petition three laws to referendum — measures legalizing same-sex marriage, setting new congressional redistricting lines and allowing some people in the country illegally to pay in-state tuition at Maryland colleges.
Voters upheld all three laws, prompting complaints in Republican circles that neither the party nor Parrott's group were prepared to mount a campaign once a question was on the ballot.
Shellenberger said the 2012 election showed that opponents of a law can't lose their focus once they collect enough signatures to put a question on the ballot.
The death penalty bill cleared both houses of the General Assembly with votes to spare. But Shellenberger said he expects the emergence of a grass-roots campaign to reinstate it, including efforts by state's attorneys and unions representing police and correctional officers.
To succeed, opponents of repeal will have to gather 55,736 valid signatures by June 30 — the first third of them by May 31.
Maryland's Roman Catholic Church, which supplied much of the lobbying clout behind repeal, said Friday that is urging its members not to sign the petitions.
"For the Catholic Church, repeal of the death penalty is an integral part of our pro-life efforts to uphold the sanctity of all human life," said Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference. "Unfortunately this referendum will only divide the pro-life community and drain scarce time and resources from other more important pro-life goals."
Polling has shown that when Maryland voters are asked whether they favor keeping the death penalty, a narrow majority says yes. However, when asked how they feel about replacing the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole, polls have shown strong support for repeal.
That could make the wording of a ballot question a critical issue. That language is drafted by the secretary of state, an appointee of the governor, but it can be challenged in court.
Shellenberger said any wording that mentions life without parole would likely be litigated.
"That should be challenged because life without parole has been on the books for at least 20 years," he said.
Shellenberger said that without capital punishment, Maryland would not have an appropriate penalty in the case of such incidents as the Boston Marathon bombing and the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting.
Joining Parrott and Shellenberger at the news conference was Sen. Jim Brochin, a Baltimore County Democrat who voted against repeal.
He pointed to a 2009 case in Salisbury in which 11-year-old Sarah Foxwell was abducted from her home, sexually assaulted and murdered. He argued that having the death penalty on the books gave prosecutors the leverage to force the killer to accept a sentence of life without parole.
"Within a week, the defense team knew the death penalty was a possibility, and they took a plea," Brochin said.


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Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).
Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE and a member of the Academia Europaea. His research interests include several aspects of design technologies for integrated circuits and systems, such as synthesis for emerging technologies, networks on chips and 3D integration. He is also interested in heterogeneous platform design including electrical components and biosensors, as well as in data processing of biomedical information. He is author of: Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994, co-author and/or co-editor of eight other books and of over 700 technical articles. His citation h-index is 87 according to Google Scholar. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IMEC (Leuven, B), CfAED (Dresden, D) and STMicroelectronics.
Prof. De Micheli is the recipient of the 2016 EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award, of the 2012 IEEE/CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award for contributions to theory, practice and experimentation in design methods and tools and of the 2003 IEEE Emanuel Piore Award for contributions to computer-aided synthesis of digital systems. He received also the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE CAS Society in 2000, the D. Pederson Award for the best paper on the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS in 1987, and several Best Paper Awards, including DAC (1983 and 1993), DATE (2005) and Nanoarch (2010 and 2012).
He has been serving IEEE in several capacities, namely: Division 1 Director (2008-9), co-founder and President Elect of the IEEE Council on EDA (2005-7), President of the IEEE CAS Society (2003), Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS (1997-2001). He has been Chair of several conferences, including Memocode (2014) DATE (2010), pHealth (2006), VLSI SOC (2006), DAC (2000) and ICCD (1989).
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Alexys Henry was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but has spent significant time, either as a child, or an adult in upstate New York, Berkeley, California and Seattle, Washington. The energy and history of Berkeley are reflected in many of her abstract paintings.
"I'm drawn to every day details such as cracks in walls and layers of peeling paint and poster paper. Nature flourishes alongside urban decay. For me, this is the backdrop of a duplicitous sense of danger as well as home and community." Her time in Seattle and the ability to drive along the Pacific coastline inspired her abstracted water scenes.
Henry is now back in Phoenix where she lives and works. In her own words: "I love to experiment with new materials and combinations. My style carries contemporary as well as organic and urban sensibilities." Her work is collected throughout the United States.
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"In Season"
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"Praise be to God!" I exclaimed when I read the email. My husband, sitting at his desk on the opposite side of our office looked up from his work and said, "What? What happened?"
The kids were wrestling on the floor, their squawks escalating into shrieking laughs.
"I'd rather not talk over the kids," I smiled. "But it's good news."
Yes, my dear readers, I've got GOOD news to share. Alvin Schlangen has been acquitted on all three counts of criminal charges brought against him by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Hennepin County prosecutor's office! Mr. Schlangen is a managing member for the Freedom Farms Coop and was preparing to deliver raw milk to fellow co-op members in March of 2011 when the MDA raided his truck and confiscated his raw milk and food.
Minnesota law allows for raw milk to be sold directly to consumers on the farm in which it's produced. The MDA charged Mr. Schlangen with selling raw milk off the farm, handling the food without first possessing a food handler's permit, and distributing misbranded and/or adulterated dairy products. A fourth charge on a labeling violation was dropped at the beginning of his criminal trial.
Mr. Schlangen, however, argued that he was not selling milk or food to anyone. Rather, the co-op leases the animals from a nearby Amish farmer and pays for their care. Any milk or dairy products coming from the herd is already the property of the co-op, so he was merely delivering their own food to them as a voluntary manager of the private club. The same is true of the other foods the co-op purchases together including bison, salmon, and grapefruit among others.
Schlangen said he knew criminal charges were a possibility but is surprised the government is pursuing the case against a small farmer who isn't producing milk.
"I didn't think this small farmer with an egg-production unit would get in trouble for carrying my neighbor's food on a truck," he said.
Schlangen argues that he's doing nothing wrong because members of his co-op lease the animals that provide the raw milk, so there's no purchase or sale.
He said his club is a new design of a food system that "allows the consumer. . .to be involved in the quality of the food they're getting, and not just settle for what's there on the shelf."
As you know, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is one of my favorite non-profit organizations. It's dedicated to providing farmers and consumers with the legal help they need to consume the foods of their choice. Both The Fund (as we affectionately call it) and the Weston A Price Foundation provided legal assistance to Mr. Schlangen, essentially bankrolling his defense.
"You're talking about someone who's never been accused of making anyone sick," said attorney Peter Kennedy, president of the legal defense fund. The members of Schlangen's club arranged for him to deliver food to them.
"They're happy with what he does for them, and yet the state is trying to get in the way of this private, contractual relationship between Alvin and the members of the food club," Kennedy said. "It doesn't really seem like they're protecting the public health and safety."
Perhaps one of the most deft moves made by Mr. Schangen's legal defense team was requesting a trial by jury. Any clear-thinking citizen who sees the private contract drawn up for co-op membership is unlikely to hold the co-op's delivery guy responsible for criminally re-selling raw dairy and food. Plus, a trial by jury requires a higher burden of proof from the prosecution.
According to Dr. David Gumpert of The Complete Patient:
A jury of six ordinary Americans did something no judge, federal or state, has been willing to do anywhere in the country, whether in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, or Wisconsin — it ruled in favor of a farmer-food club operator providing raw milk and other nutrient-dense foods privately to its members.
And the jurors made their decision to find Alvin Schlangen not guilty of three misdemeanor counts having to do with distributing raw milk and other foods in probably the most food-repressive state in the country: Minnesota.
So, kudos to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund! Kudos to his attorney, Nathan Hansen! And kudos to the fine Minnesotan jury that saw through the anti raw milk hype mounted by the prosecution to the heart of the matter — the state wanted to keep people from drinking milk that came from animals they leased/owned.
Mr. Schlangen faces a second criminal trial in a different jurisdiction, Stearns County, on six misdemeanor counts for alleged violations of the Minnesota food and dairy code. A pre-trial hearing in the case is scheduled for November 2nd.
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The demand for low-priced tablets has gone up in recent months, as witnessed by the mad rush to buy Hewlett-Packard's US$99 TouchPad tablet. Tablets priced at $199 with Google's Android OS are now becoming available from companies like Amazon and Lenovo. The devices have a simple user interface and provide basic multimedia playback, gaming, application execution and e-reading capabilities.
However, at such low prices, these devices lack the speed and graphics found in Apple's iPad or Samsung's Galaxy Tab, which have the latest processors and graphics hardware. But at that price, the tablets are decent entry-level devices for first-time users.
Amazon's Kindle Fire
Amazon's highly anticipated Kindle Fire is available for $199 and will start shipping Nov. 15. The tablet has a 7-inch screen and makes it easy for users to access Amazon's movie, music, e-book and app store. Free cloud storage up to 5GB is available to keep music, videos, photos or documents. Users can also read color books, but the backlit LCD screen may not be as friendly on the eyes as the Kindle e-readers.
The lack of a camera is a disappointment, but the tablet supports Flash and can display images at 1024-by-600 pixel resolution, which is high quality considering the price range. It has a dual-core ARM processor, making it comparably faster than tablets priced in the same range. The tablet also has some new software features such as the Silk browser, which could speed up Web browsing by pre-processing pages in the cloud. Amazon's full suite of hardware, software and services with the tablet could give it an edge over low-priced tablet rivals, which offer the hardware but are not competitive on services. Some iPad owners have already ordered the Kindle Fire as a secondary tablet for home use.
Lenovo's IdeaPad A1
Lenovo's IdeaPad A1 tablet was announced in September at a price of $199.99 to the delight of budget buyers. The tablet has a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, a single-core ARM processor and a customized Android interface that provides one-touch access to the Web, gaming and specific apps. The tablet supports Flash and the screen displays images at a resolution of 1024-by-600 pixels. Earlier this week, Lenovo increased the tablet's base price from $199 to $229, but it is still available for $199 through retailer ExcaliberPC.com. The company did not respond to requests for comment on the price increase.
Velocity Micro's 8-inch tablet
Velocity Micro is offering the Cruz T408 tablet for $199.99, with an 8-inch display. The tablet has Google's Android 2.3 OS, a capacitive touchscreen, Flash support, a front camera and a 1GHz ARM processor, and it offers access to an Android app store via Amazon's marketplace. Some key tablet applications, such as Quick Office, Angry Birds, YouTube and Facebook, come pre-installed. The screen displays images at an 800-by-600 pixel resolution, which does not match up with tablets from Lenovo or Amazon, but it does have a larger display than tablets from those rivals.
Coby's Kyros 7-inch Android 2.3 tablet
Coby, which is primarily known for its e-readers, is selling the Kyros MID7022 for $175 on Amazon. The tablet runs Android 2.3, with a 1GHz processor, a capacitive touchscreen, USB port, camera and full high-definition video capabilities. But many customers on Amazon complained about lack of Flash support and no access to the Android Market to download apps, which could curtail demand for the device. However, applications could possibly be downloaded from stores such as GetJar, and there are possible work-arounds to add Flash support. Some users also complained about poor wireless support, but this tablet could be a decent budget buy for those willing to overlook technical issues.


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LONDON – Jonnie Marbles, the man who attacked Rupert Murdoch, revealed he is an American spy.
Jonnie Marbles was beaten by Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, at the hearing held in front of British MPs.
Marbles was then rolled out of the hearing room and put into a sack after he smashed a marble cheesecake into Rupert Murdoch's face. Wendi Deng rushed out of the hearing room and continued to beat Marbles senseless. Deng also smashed a pumpkin pie into Marbles face.
Marbles was taken to Scotland Yard where he was grilled by detectives for over an hour. He talked about his deep love for Rupert Murdoch and that he merely wanted to give Murdoch some pie. "I slipped and lost my balance. His face was in the wrong place and he got hit with the pie. I never wanted that to happen. I love Rupert. I really love him."
WWN, however, can confirm that Eric Holder had hired Marbles, a popular British comedian (and expert pie thrower), to infiltrate the hearing and attack Murdoch. A CIA insider told WWN, "The pie was a distraction. What Marbles actually did was implant a brain chip into Murdoch's skull. The chip will be controlled by the White House."
When Marbles was taken out of the interrogation room and into a holding cell – Wendi Deng came bursting into the room and pummeled him again. "She was like one of Charlie's Angels. She was kicking and punching like a pro. She's got a bright future in the UFC," said Scotland Yard detective, Ian Frum.
Wendi Deng has challenged Marbles to a cage match next month.
The CIA is unlikely to let Marbles take part in the event, though he will be baking cheesecakes for the agents at next month's CIA picnic.


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Manning to quarterback Broncos barring "unexpected snag"
ESPN's Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen are reporting that free agent quarterback Peyton Manning has told his agent, Tom Condon, to open contract negotiations with the Denver Broncos.
And barring an "unexpected snag" in contract talks, Schefter and Mort are reporting that Manning will become the next quarterback of the Broncos.
The Broncos will try to trade Tim Tebow.
Per Schefter, Manning phoned Broncos V.P. of Football Operations John Elway on Monday morning to inform Elway he is "looking forward" to playing in Denver.
The fallout will be felt across the league. Free agent Alex Smith remains in limbo, and the 49ers may have to do some apologizing to bring him back in the fold. The Dolphins may whiff on yet another quarterback target.
Stay tuned for plenty more.