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Multiple Position-Instructional & Non-Instructional
Each full-time faculty member is obligated to view his/her appointment to a college or university faculty position within The City University as his/her major professional commitment. This commitment obligates the faculty member in two ways: he/she is at once a member of the national and international world of learning and a member of The City University community. Though his/her first responsibility to The City University is that of teaching, he/she recognizes the important and essential obligation to be regularly accessible for conferences with his/her students, to participate in appropriate extracurricular undertakings, and to serve on various college and university committees and as a member of college and university councils and other assemblies.
The City University of New York is a major research university. A full-time faculty member is expected to create new knowledge in his/her discipline through scholarly research, writing, and creative works. He/she constantly makes all efforts to improve his/her professional standing through study and thought, and also through activities such as research, publication, attendance at professional conferences, and the giving of papers and lectures. Such professional involvements also enhance his/her abilities as a teacher and as a member of The City University community; such professional involvements support the value of his/her activities on campus and equip him/her to participate in significant educational innovations as well as furthering his/her professional stature.
a. OUTSIDE THE CITY UNIVERSITY
Full-time appointment to a college or university faculty position is a full-time assignment. Faculty members have a responsibility to observe professional standards of behavior in becoming involved in activities supplemental thereto. No employment, consultative, or other work outside The City University may be engaged in by a faculty member unless he/she receives prior approval from the P & B of his/her department after full disclosure of his/her total academic commitment, the proposed outside employment, consultative, or other work, and other outside work theretofore approved. The P & B committee shall not approve any outside employment, consultative, or other work unless such employment or work relates to the professional interests, strengthens the professional competence, or enriches the professional performance, and does not interfere with the professional standing of the faculty member. No employment, consultative or other work, remunerative or otherwise, shall be approved by the P & B Committee or engaged in if the services of the faculty member to his/her college or the university or his/her ability to meet his/her commitments to his/her college or the University (including teaching, research, and service obligations) will be impaired thereby. If the departmental P & B approves such employment or work, the amount of time that the faculty member may expend thereon shall be determined by the departmental chairperson after consultation with the faculty member, and subject to the review of the college president. In no event shall the total amount of time to be expended on such outside employment or work be or be approved for more than an average of one day a week, or its equivalent over the course of the academic year.
In connection with any outside employment, consulting arrangement or other work, each faculty member shall abide by, make known to the other party and incorporate in any written agreement, the following principles:
- i. The faculty member is serving in an individual capacity, and not as an agent, employee or representative of The City University and that the name of The City University or any of its constituent units may not be used in connection with the faculty member's services, other than to identify his/her employer, without the written permission of The City University.
- ii. The faculty member's primary employment responsibility is to The City University, and he/she is bound by its policies, including those related to consulting and other outside work.
- iii. In rendering services to the outside party, the faculty member may not make substantial use of The City University's resources, including but not limited to its facilities, equipment, employees, proprietary information, or clinical data bases, without written permission of The City University.
- iv. No relationship or agreement between the faculty member and another party may grant rights to intellectual property owned by The City University and/or the Research Foundation without their written authorization.
- v. The outside party may not (i) restrict or hinder the ability of the faculty member to conduct current or foreseeable research assignments as an employee of The City University, (ii) limit his/her ability to publish work generated at or on behalf of The City University or (iii) infringe on his/her academic freedom as a faculty member.
b. WITHIN THE CITY UNIVERSITY – TEACHING
- 1) Where the best interests of the college or the university make it desirable or necessary to draw upon full-time personnel in one unit or branch for service in another, requests for such service should originate with the principal academic or administrative officer of the requesting unit and have the approval of the principal academic or administrative officer of the other unit. It is the policy of the university and its colleges to achieve exchanges of services, wherever possible, by budgetary interchange or by the balancing of interchanged services, with no additional academic load or extra remuneration for the individuals concerned. Variations from this norm will be allowed only with the special permission of the Chancellor, or the appropriate President.
- 2) Within the framework noted in section 1, full-time non-tenure-track and tenured faculty will be eligible for consideration for an overload assignment when such assignment is determined to be in the best interest of the college and to serve a specific academic need. Permission to take on an overload teaching assignment will only be granted up to a maximum of eight classroom contact hours total over the fall and spring semesters.
- 3) In addition to the overload assignment permitted in paragraph 2, a full-time non-tenure-track or tenured faculty member will be eligible for consideration for additional overload assignments of no more than a total of six classroom contact hours during the academic year in courses offered during the Winter Session, in courses offered exclusively on Saturdays or Sundays, or in courses offered as part of on-line degree programs.
- 4) Overload teaching by full-time, non-tenured, tenure-track faculty is not permitted, but if a faculty member is not currently using the contractually-mandated research reassigned time, exceptions can be made on an individual basis with the special permission of the Chancellor, or the appropriate President.
c. WITHIN THE CITY UNIVERSITY – RESEARCH, CONSULTING, EMPLOYMENT
The City University regards scholarly activity and research as part of the normal activity and responsibility of the faculty. In fact such activities are part of the basis on which faculty members are evaluated, reappointed, or promoted. The public looks to the University as a source of new information, reinterpretations, and advancing intellectual activities. Also, the University is looked upon as a community of scholars. This carries the implication of joint scholarly effort and mutual support and availability amongst faculty and students. The faculty is given full-time annual paid employment to cover all the activities of teaching, research, consulting, curriculum development, counseling, committee work, etc.
When special funding in support of research is available, it is presumed to make possible, or easier, the scholarly activity that faculty and students wish to or are willing to pursue. Accordingly, it is the policy of the Board of Trustees that there may not be paid any extra compensation to full-time members of the faculty for work done during the academic work year. This limitation applies to research, consulting, or any other employment with The City University or any of its associated organizations, regardless of the source of funds. For the particular case of extra teaching, the policy is expressed in Section 2b above.
Under the special circumstances of an urgently needed short-term administrative and/or service assignment, a President or Vice Chancellor in the Central Office may authorize specific extra compensation for a faculty member whose services are required as an overload. This authorization must define both time and money limitations, and must state that it was not possible to relieve the faculty member of other duties to an equivalent extent. Such non-teaching overload assignments will be limited to 150 hours per semester at the nonteaching hourly rate, or a total of 300 hours for the entire academic year. Further adjustments may be authorized by the Chancellor or the Chancellor's designee.
d. WITHIN THE CITY UNIVERSITY – SUMMER ACTIVITIES
Compensation for CUNY summer activities from the University and related entities, such as the Research Foundation and the college foundations, shall not exceed a total for all such activities of three-ninths of the faculty members' full-time CUNY salary. This includes, but is not limited to, teaching in a summer session in The City University of New York, performing administrative duties (such as service as a department chairperson), and conducting research paid for using funds originating from the CUNY Research Foundation.
Notwithstanding the limitation in the preceding paragraph, a college foundation may pay faculty for research or additional work during the summer, in an amount that will cause the faculty member's total compensation from the University and related entities to exceed three-ninths of his/her annual salary, under the following conditions: (i) such payment is consistent with the rules and regulations applicable to the college foundation; (ii) the circumstances surrounding such payment have been rigorously documented and justified; and (iii) such payment has been approved by the Chancellor or the appropriate President.
The faculty member shall report to the college at which he/she has a full-time appointment all such summer activities in advance of participating in them to ensure that they do not exceed contractual rules or University practices.
When faculty members are granted leaves of absences, they are expected to devote their time and energy to the purposes for which the leave is granted. As a general rule, employment within or outside of the University during leaves of absence is prohibited, unless such involvement is integral to the purpose for which the leave is granted. Employment either within or outside of the University during a leave of absence requires the approval of the President, pursuant to guidelines to be promulgated by the Chancellor. Notwithstanding the forgoing, faculty on Travia Leave may be employed outside of the University with prior notice to the President, but only if they have given an irrevocable commitment to retire.
For the purposes of this policy, Fellowship Leaves and Scholar Incentive Awards will cover periods within the boundaries of the academic year, and do not include the period of the annual summer leave.
From the beginning of the fall semester until the day after spring commencement, the total extra involvement shall not exceed 300 hours of extra consultation or non-teaching adjunct work (see section 2.c), or 14 classroom contact hours of extra teaching (that is, the combined extra teaching permitted under Paragraphs 2.b.2 and 2.b.3), or a proportional combination of these two types of activities.
During the academic year, all work done for CUNY must conform to the rates of pay indicated in the collective bargaining agreement.
During the summer, faculty are paid at the hourly rate to do teaching or non-teaching CUNY work in conformity with the collective bargaining agreement. Further, the pay given to faculty during the summer for service as a department chair must conform to the contractual formula negotiated for that purpose. In addition, during the summer faculty paid with funds originating from the CUNY Research Foundation must be paid at the CUNY rates of pay.
At the regular June meeting, the Chancellor shall report to the Board the steps taken by the Presidents to implement these regulations and the extent of compliance with the limitations set. The reports shall contain details from the Presidents about all excesses over any of the guidelines herein stated, including the names of all persons involved and the specific reasons for the excesses. The University will continue to monitor overload assignments. Overload assignments shall be reported to the Board of Trustees as part of the annual report.


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What Real Financial Reform Looks Like
Be wary when Washington talks reform. Nearly always it's bogus and ends up making a bad situation worse, the likely outcome this time addressing longstanding Wall Street abuses not easily changed at a time tinkering around the edges or papering them over won't work.
Case in point - the House passed "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009" (HR 4173) and current Senate debate on the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010" (S. 3217). This writer addressed both measures on April 1:
Still a work in progress, the Senate bill will be as bogus as the House one, so whatever reconciliation produces will be another promise made, another broken. Business as usual will persist so don't be fooled - on this measure or any other, including the appalling health care bill that made a dysfunctional system worse, and took a giant step toward ending Medicare, one of the main reasons it was enacted, besides enriching corporate providers.
Instead of restraining financial fraud, House and Senate bills sanctify it. They leave too big to fail banks in place, permit greater consolidation, and let Wall Street casinos game the system with public money, gambling with unregulated exotic and fraudulent derivatives and other securities.
In Washington, the more things change, the more they worsen, and the public always gets scammed - fooled again because power and privilege trump people.
Lobbyists and corporate lawyers write legislation affecting their interests and get precisely what they want, a few public-friendly crumbs added for deception.
Consider a few measures likely to pass or not change:
-- a financial aristocracy will be coronated;
-- Wall Street will keep running the country;
-- fraud and bailouts will be institutionalized;
-- selling toxic junk to unwary buyers won't be touched;
-- excessive executive pay, bonuses and perks won't be curbed;
-- credit agency scams will continue;
-- giant banks, insurers and other financial firms will be green-lighted to get bigger;
-- an Office of National Insurance in the Senate bill will override state laws and regulations not in line with international agreements; further, the US Treasury will be empowered to enter into them without consent of Congress, so the net effect will undermine consumer protections, not enhance them;
-- criminal prosecutions won't happen, except for a few lambs perhaps thrown to the wolves, taking the fall for their bosses, the way it always works, or as someone once said - only little people have to pay with the rarest of rare exceptions to prove the rule; and
-- except for its emergency lending facilities in the Senate bill, the Federal Reserve won't be audited, and what's done will be redacted to keep Congress and the public in the dark; the Fed functions in secrecy; Senate bill provision 714, entitled "Audit of Financial Institutions Examination Council," will keep it that way; remember, the Fed is a Wall Street owned banking cartel serving its member banks in the 12 Fed districts, not the public it's empowered to scam and has with impunity for nearly 100 years.
Solution: shut it down or nationalize it, encourage establishing state and locally-owned banks, take banking out of private hands and make it a highly regulated public utility - topics never considered, discussed, or reported in the mainstream. They are below.
Fundamental change is essential. A systemic makeover is vital. In collusion with Washington, Wall Street predators wrecked the economy, profiting "all the way to the bank," and are now well advanced in their newest schemes, this time with public money, gambling with what's needed to fix America by rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, aiding budget-strapped states and cities, producing jobs, and helping homeowners facing foreclosure or in it.
As long as the privately owned Fed controls the nation's money, reform won't happen. Earlier, this writer explained that since established by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the dollar eroded to 5% of its former worth. We've also had rising consumer debt; record budget and trade deficits; an unsustainable national debt; a high level of personal and business bankruptcies; millions of lost homes; loss of the nation's manufacturing base; soaring poverty levels; an unprecedented wealth transfer to the rich; the gradual destruction of the middle class; sustained massive fraud for private gain; and a hugely unstable economy lurching from one crisis to another, followed by calls for reform that fail.
Is this time different? Analyst Mike Larson writes for Money and Markets, run by investor safety advocate Martin Weiss. His latest commentaries stress:
"The great interest rate explosion of 2010-2011," the result of a massive credit bubble starting to burst, especially because of the doubling of US Treasuries to $7.6 trillion in the past seven years, and, at the present pace, will more than double again in the next decade to over $18 trillion and become toxic junk vulnerable to crashing along the way.
Larson explains that when rates rise sharply, bond prices (valuations) crash, and that's what he sees ahead, the result of profligate Fed/Treasury policies making America like Greece and other troubled EU nations.
"Financial Ebola Sweeps Through Global Bond Markets," he shows in a frightening graph on Greece, its two year note rates exploding from 2.1% in October 2009 to 18.9% in late April. Over the same period, the country's 10 year notes (due July 19, 2019) crashed 39%. "That is bond market Armageddon," he said. It's happening in real time, spreading to all troubled countries, and it augurs the next stage in the financial crisis, worst than the first, because governments let banking fraud persist instead of curbing it to save disaster.
What better reason for change, what's not considered by Congress. With out-of-control public debt, fraud a way of life on Wall Street, and politicians blessing it like always, the eventual lid blowing will reverberate globally, crushing people, not bankers, who'll keep gaming the system to get richer, larger, and more powerful at the public's expense.
The Case for State-Owned Banks
The clear lesson - The private sector failed. A new way is essential. Public utility banking at state and local levels is an attractive alternative based on North Dakota's experience. The time is now, and the name of the game is change, fairness, workability, and freedom from predatory too big to fail banks that are too big to exist, so shouldn't. Shut them down. Break them up. Nationalize them. Replace them with publicly owned ones that work.
North Dakota's experience is instructive. What does it have that others don't? It has the nation's only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota (BND). Established in 1919, it's financed industrial, commercial, and agricultural growth soundly, something no other state can match because they're not run like North Dakota.
BND also provides residential and student loans, and operates as a banker's bank, financing private sector lenders with accounts, backed by the full faith and credit of the state, not the FDIC (now bankrupt), and for over 90 years it's worked.
Well enough to encourage other states to check it out, including Illinois, Massachusetts, Virginia, Washington and others in touch with the bank to learn more at a time they're struggling to balance budgets by cutting expenses, laying off staff, reducing services, and raising taxes - counterproductive measures when stimulus is needed.
During hard times, North Dakota also had the largest $1.3 billion budget surplus in its history, cut income and property taxes as a result, expanded the state's Homestead Property Tax program for seniors and disabled people, and has the nation's lowest unemployment rate at 4%. The model works. It's time all states tried it to fix their financial crisis at a time Washington proposed change promises worse ahead endangering them with insolvency.
Ellen Brown does exceptional financial writing, her book, "Web of Debt" [The Shocking Truth About Our Money System -- The Sleight of Hand That Has Trapped Us in Debt and How We Can Break Free] (now in a new edition), must reading on how the Fed and Wall Street usurped money creation power, and how we can take it back.
She calls the Bank of North Dakota a "credit machine (delivering) sound financial services that promote agriculture, commerce and industry" as follows. It "create(s) 'credit' with accounting entries on (its) books" through fractional reserve banking that multiplies each deposited amount about tenfold in the form of loans or computer-generated funds. As a result, it can re-lend many times over, and the more deposits, the greater amount of it for sustained, productive growth. If other states (and cities) owned public banks, they'd be as prosperous as North Dakota, be able to rebate taxes not raise them, and expand employment and public services, not retrench.
BND "chiefly acts as a central bank, with functions similar to those of a branch of the Federal Reserve." Although 100% state owned, it "avoids rivalry with private banks by partnering with them." They do most lending, "BND then com(ing) in to participate in the loan, share the risk, buy down the interest rate and buy up loans, thereby freeing up banks to lend more. (It also) provide(s) a secondary market for real estate loans, which it buys from local banks."
Its property market function helped it "avoid the credit crisis that afflicted Wall Street when the secondary market for loans collapsed in late 2007 and helped it reduce its foreclosure rate. (Its other services) include guarantees for entrepreneurial startups and student loans, the purchase of municipal bonds from public institutions, and a well-funded disaster loan program." When the state didn't meet its budget "a few years ago, the BND met the shortfall."
In sum, state-owned banks have "enormous advantages over small private institutions....Their asset bases are not marred by oversized salaries and bonuses, they have no shareholders" demanding high returns, and they don't speculate in derivatives or other high-risk investments. As a result, BND is healthy with a 25% return on equity, paying "a hefty dividend to the state" annually, so it begs the question why other states don't operate the same way. As their crises deepen, some are considering becoming credit machines like North Dakota, but why have they waited this long, and will they act now?
Media Coverage
On April 18, McClatchy-Tribune writer Jake Grovum headlined, "State-owned bank in North Dakota an inspiration," saying:
The BND "has come to be seen both in and out of the state as a beacon of economic stability and financial independence." Moreover, since 1997, it provided over $350 million in profits for the state's general fund.
Other states may follow suit, advocates, like Brown, saying "the benefits are obvious." Yet private bankers like Chris Cole have reservations. A senior VP and senior regulatory counsel at Independent Community Bankers of America, he said "lending to small businesses is making a comeback and has been keeping up with demand from qualified applicants."
Others disagree, saying banks are reluctant to lend. On March 12, McClatchy writer Kevin Hall headlined, "Small firms would like to hire you, if only they could get loans," citing the continued credit crunch affecting businesses like Quantum Energy Solutions co-owner Jim Collins saying he was turned down and can't expand.
Small Business Administration head, Karen Mills, said: "There's a big gap in access to credit for small firms now, and it's a huge problem. We have a sense that the banks are not back to lending the way that they need to be, going forward. If we're going to come out of this recession and get people back working, it's going to be because we give small businesses the support that they need."
It's especially serious because small business accounts for around two-thirds of private hiring. Starve them and harm the economy, as they're its growth engine. Yet they're even having trouble tapping existing credit lines, let alone get new ones.
According to Brookings Institution researcher Douglas Elliott, "The anecdotal evidence certainly suggests there's a credit crunch for small business." Even thriving concerns can't get loans. According to another analyst, "The banks don't want to take a chance on anybody that might fail" in a very risky environment, one that has credit contracting at a record pace, at least through Q 1 2010. The evidence shows banks aren't lending and repaid loans aren't being replaced with new ones, no matter how fast the money supply expands.
What better argument for public banks with every incentive to want to stimulate state and local growth, especially when Wall Street prefers to speculate, not lend as banks are supposed to do, and their model hurts everyone except their bottom line.
Hartwick College, New York Research/Scholar Adrian Kuzminski cites 19th century "proto-populist, Edward Kellogg....a kind of godfather" to later monetary populists and a "profound" writer on monetary issues, yet little known.
He "advocated a decentralized but nationally regulated monetary system based on non-usurious, low-interest public loans to individuals. His vision inspired 19th-century mutualists, greenbackers, populists, and others who sought to restructure the monetary system to redistribute wealth."
He proposed a public credit model with local public banks replacing private monopoly control, charging what the market will bear, and profiting hugely at borrowers' expense.
"Once lent out....public credit notes would flow into circulation, providing the basis for a new currency backed by the assets of individual borrowers....A centralized national currency would be replaced....by a locally issued currency....subject to common national standards, ensuring that each local public credit bank reliably issued equivalent units of currency."
For Kellogg, every dollar would have the same value nationally and would be freely interchangeable with all others. His goal was publicly controlled economic decentralization, and to maintain a stable currency, he said rates must be fixed by law, if necessary by a constitutional amendment.
Australian economist Steve Keen believes financial reform is essential, but his "analysis of how credit is created (makes him) skeptical that any new system will 'hold' so long as financiers can make money by financing asset-price speculation. (He thinks history shows) that every system we've tried so far has finally succumbed to a debt-financed asset-price bubble, whose bursting has brought in at best a recession and at worst a Depression."
He worries as well about publicly created credit so long as "money can still be used to speculate on asset prices." He proposes measures to curb it and suggests ideas of his own. For Brown and others, it's to use public credit for productive industrial development, and as long as new money produces goods and services, it'll work inflation-free.
It's why late 17th-early 18th century colonial America thrived inflation-free for over 25 years, beginning after Massachusetts (in 1691) issued its own paper money (called scrip) and other colonies followed.
Lincoln was also successful after he refused to pay bankers up to 36% interest and got Congress to pass the 1862 Legal Tender Act, empowering the Treasury to issue "greenbacks," public money. Without paying interest to bankers, his achievements were remarkable. Besides building the world's largest army and defeating the South, he turned the country into an industrial giant, launched the steel industry, the continental railroad system, and a new era of farm machinery and cheap tools. He also established free higher education and much more.
He did it by nationalizing control of banking so government could create its own interest free money, as required under the Constitution's Article I, Section 8 giving Congress alone the power "To coin Money, (and) regulate the Value thereof." Bankers do it illegally, and that's the problem, so it's crucial to stop them once in for all. No new law is needed to do it.
Enforce the one in place and revoke the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, enacted in the middle of night on December 23 after many in Congress left for Christmas, and others there hadn't read it. It didn't matter as, like today, the language was so vague that only its crafters knew the scheme was to let private bankers usurp money control, in violation of Article I, Section 8. It's time to reverse this ugly chapter once and for all.
In her August 5, 2009 article titled "The Public Option in Banking: How We Can Beat Wall Street at Its Own Game," Brown cites the "litany of abuses (by) profligate banks that nearly destroyed our economic system," and may end up doing it given their reluctance to change and no authority demanding it.
The alternative, she says is "pit(ting) the public banking option against the private (one) and see which works best. My money is on the public option." Why not, it's a sure bet given how badly the private model failed - defrauding the public with the full faith and credit of Washington, its partner in crime.
Stephen Lendman: I was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. Raised in a modest middle class family, attended public schools, received a BA from Harvard University in 1956 and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of PA in 1960 following 2 years of obligatory military service in the US Army. Spent the next 6 years as a marketing research analyst for several large US corporations before becoming part of a new small family business in 1967, remaining there until retiring at the end of 1999. Have since devoted my time and efforts to the progressive causes and organizations I support, all involved in working for a more humane and just world for all people everywhere, but especially for the most needy, disadvantaged and oppressed. My efforts since summer 2005 have included writing on a broad range of vital topics ranging from war and peace; social, economic and political equity for all; and justice for all the oppressed peoples of the world like the long-suffering people of Haiti and the Palestinians. Also co-hosting The Global Research News Hour, occasional public talks, and frequent appearances on radio and at times television.
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Also visit his blog site sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
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The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider Smithson's sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions—a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years.
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- Dia Art Foundation and the University of California Press
- 9780520245549
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- Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Texts by George Baker, Kenneth Baker, Lynne Cooke, Bob Phillips, Catherine Phillips, Ann Reynolds, Lytle Shaw, Robert Smithson, and Diana Thater
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Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1938. He died in Amarillo, Texas, in 1973.


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March 2010
Zurich, Switzerland
The Haskell Hackathon is an international, grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.
ZuriHac will be held in March at the Google office in Zurich. It is open to all -- you do not have to be a Haskell guru to attend. All you need is a basic knowledge of Haskell, a willingness to learn, and a project you're excited to help with (or a project of your own to work on).
There will be lots of hacking, some talks, good food, and, of course, fun!
Right now we're looking at four possible dates (Friday-Sunday):
- March 5-7,
- March 12-14,
- March 19-21, or
- March 26-28.
If you add your name under #Possible Attendees below please note the dates that absolutely don't work for you.
We will be in the TechTalk area of the Google office.
You should bring a laptop with wireless (802.11). The room has whiteboards and a projector for any discussions or should anyone wish to give a talk.
Online timetables for travel within Zurich can be found at ZVV. For trains within Switzerland and to neighboring countries go to SBB.
Getting to Zurich
There are direct flight to Zurich airport (code: ZRH) from most major European cities. Switzerland also has excellent and reasonably priced train connections with the rest of Europe.
Getting to the Google Office
The train and tram stop closest to the Google office is Bahnhof Enge. You can take tram 5, 6, 7, 13, or S-Bahn S2 to get there. It takes about seven minutes by tram from the main train station (Zurich HB) to Bahnhof Enge and another five minutes to walk to the office.
From the Airport
Take S-Bahn S2 directly to Bahnhof Enge and walk from there. Alternatively, take any S-Bahn that goes to the main train station (Zurich HB) and take tram 6, 7, or 13 to Bahnhof Enge.
Possible Attendees
Note: This section is just to gauge the level of interest in having a hackathon. If there are any dates that absolutely don't work for you then please add them after your name.
- Johan Tibell (tibbe)
- Christophe Poucet (poucet)
- Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)
- Ganesh Sittampalam (Heffalump)
- Iustin Pop
- Tom Harper (sioraiocht)
- Simon Meier
- Marc A. Ziegert (coeus)
- Joachim Breitner (nomeata)
- Reinier Lamers (tux_rocker)
- Chris Eidhof (chr1s)
- Ian Lynagh (Igloo)
- Johan Tibell (irc: tibbe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Christophe Poucet (irc: poucet, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Rachael Sage will support Grammy-nominated blues rocker Beth Hart on her upcoming U.S. album release tour during February and March 2017.
An adventurous pairing, both of these strong and passionate artists will perform their own soulful brand of music while remaining true to their roots. NYC-based Sage has released 12 albums of eclectic originals on her own label, MPress Records, and will join Hart for just over a dozen dates beginning in Atlanta, Georgia and ending in Kent, Ohio.
While she is most known for what The Village Voice descibes as "lovely and literate folk-pop-rock", Sage also has a musical and personal connection to the blues, which includes her close friend John Lee Hooker. Read more about it HERE.


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Church Mountain Falls at Midnight
Only in Iceland; what can I say?
From Iceland
Dolphin Ice Sculpture
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock. This one looks like a dolphin to me.
From Maine
The view from the Old Town Hall Tower, built in 1338 and harboring the famous astronomical clock, in Old Town Square. The dual spired Cathedral is Tyn Church. The colorful red tented marketplace below opens for Christmas each year, and is full warm breads, candy and other Christmas treats.
From Prague
From Paris
Prague at Sunset
The Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral looms majestically in the background.
Party On Tokyo Bay
Party skiffs and yachts light up Tokyo Bay under the Rainbow Bridge. The Tokyo skyline shimmers in the distance.
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From Japan
Horse Barn Graffiti
This decrepit, abandoned horse barn has some fabulous graffiti depicting a modernized cartoon of a nordic viking battle painted on it.
The Path
Words can not describe the feeling of this 10 mile hike beneath 300 ft prehistoric redwood trees. I passed not another soul, and heard only the languid drip of slow rain cascading through the never ending branches. This particular trail emerges onto the rolling surf of the California coast.
Japanese Garden in Infrared
A japanese style garden, close to home, as seen by an infrared camera.
Bamboo Forest
Dappled morning sunlight decorates this serene path through a majestic forrest of Bamboo and moss covered rocks.
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Jackson Barn
A secret Texas trail that has a spectacular display of fireflies each May. This is about an hour worth of twinkles.
From Miscellaneous
Lillys in Infrared
Tokyo Tower in Blue
This is a closer shot of Tokyo tower with its blue lights afire. Daikanransha ferris wheel (the worlds second largest after the London Eye) spins away on the horizon to the right. The Rainbow suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay is also visible to the right.
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California Redwoods
Crashing Waves
The Northern California coast.
Sea Lion Silhouette
A dominant male sea lion surveys his harem at sunset.
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Tokyo Skyline In Orange
The electric fires of Tokyo shine in this nocturnal skyline shot. Tokyo tower (which changes color periodically) blazes orange tonight, and sets low hanging clouds ablaze with its orange glow. Taillights of the unending traffic resemble a river of lava in this time lapse shot. Daihatsu ferris wheel, the Rainbow Bridge and Tokyo bay are visible on distant right horizon.
Redwood Sorrel
This beautiful clover is bright green on top, and a beautiful maple red on the underside of the leaf.
Redwood Sunlit Path
Redwoods, Boulder, Curves and Ferns
Japanese Garden Bridge
Tranquility In Infrared
Pond In Infrared
God's Favorite Bench At Sunrise
A 2 am sunrise backlights this beautiful church on a hill. The path and bench seem serene and inviting. Eyjafjörður (fjord) near Akureyri and the surrounding mountains are seen to the left. The fjord is full of whales, and the surrounding land is full of farms, flowers and horse ranches.
The Lonely Black Church
Ice Sculpture 2
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier breaks apart and sends ocean sculpted icebergs washing up on shores of black volcanic sand and rock.
Nordic GPS
Called "steinvarða" in Icelandic, these rock cairns are scattered across iceland. Our guide called them "primitive GPS"; they are frequently placed across the landscape in trails that are visible for miles and mark important pre-road paths through the mountains. Some are very very old. If you look closely there are three cairns seen extending to the horizon in a row pointed toward mid screen across this lava field.
Ice Sculpture 3
Dandelions Before The Sea, Wait For Sunrise
Just before sunrise at 3 am, these closed dandelions wait for the sun to rise over the mountains. In a couple of hours this predominantly green field will explode with vibrant yellow as the dandelions open to greet the sun. Eyjafjörður fjord passes just between the two central snow capped mountains and exits to the sea.
Peaceful Hay Farm
A lush hay farm overlooking Akureyri and the Eyjafjörður fjord. This was shot about 3 am.
Godafoss, Waterfall Of The Gods
The water of the river Skjálfandafljót falls from a height of 12 meters over a width of 30 meters. In the year 999 Christianity usurped the Norse gods in Iceland. Legend has it that Thor, Odin, Loki and kin were drowed in this waterfall at that time.
Dandelions Before The Sea
This glorious field of yellow flowers stretches to Eyjafjörður fjord which passes just between the two central snow capped mountains to the sea.
A River Of Blue Lupines
This sea of blue lupines weaves toward the horizon where it meets a blue river winding back to the mountains.
Ice Sculpture 4
Ice Sculpture 5
Volcanic Steam
Thor's Hammer
Aldeyjarfoss Under Lenticular Clouds
Aldeyjarfoss, a 60 ft drop of snowmelt over volcanic basalt pillars. This photo was taken several minutes before the earlier version and the higher sun provide less color, but the sculpted lenticular troposphere clouds are more prominent. The cutaway volcanic landscape shows the deep basalt pillars which are primarily hexagonal crystal formed by cooling lava.
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My Happy Place
A hay field overlooking Akureyri and the Eyjafjörður fjord. The Inn on the left with red roof was where we stayed, a beautiful corner of the planet. The hay is wrapped in a white cloak and suctioned free of air to help it last the winter without rotting. The white hay bales dot the landscape like giant marshmallows.
Aldeyjarfoss In Midnight Colors 2
Aldeyjarfoss, a 60 ft drop of snowmelt over volcanic basalt pillars. The midnight sky of Icelandic summers creates dramatic "near sunsets" (the sun never actually sets with sculpted clouds and spectacular color. The cutaway volcanic landscape shows the deep basalt pillars which are primarily hexagonal crystal formed by cooling lava.


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Alternate Color On Group Rows (BIRT)
< To: Report Developer Examples (BIRT)
This example is Bugzilla ID 212627. If you would like to contribute an example see the example contribution guidelines.
This illustrates using highlight rules to alternate the backgroundColor of the row that displays header data. In some reports, there is no detail information. All of the information is contained in the group headers. For clarity, it is nice to have the group headers alternate colors. This example shows how to do that.
BIRT Version Compatibility
This example was built and tested with BIRT 126.96.36.199.
Example Files
In order to make this work, you need to alternate the value of a global variable. This is best done in the OnCreate method of the table row that is showing the Group information.
if (reportContext.getGlobalVariable("alt_grp") == false) reportContext.setGlobalVariable("alt_grp", true); else reportContext.setGlobalVariable("alt_grp", false);
Then all you need to do is add a highlight rule on the row. In the If following condition field enter
And in the condition drop-down select "is true". Then just apply the format rules you would like for the alternate groups.
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|Llewellyn's 2019 Daily Planetary Guide
|Yoga for the Creative Soul
|The Pure Heart of Yoga
Learning the meanings of tarot cards is not really very hard. The Major Arcana cards are archetypes to which most of us can easily relate. (That is, after all, the nature of archetypes.) The Minor Arcana—at least in decks with illustrated pip cards—are so simple that even children can do it. In fact, children are often better at it than adults, for what could be simpler than to look at a picture and say what is going on it? Unfortunately, many adults are afraid of getting it wrong or looking silly that they lock up and cannot say anything. But that is another topic entirely.
By and large, reading the cards is not difficult, except—and this is almost universally agreed upon by tarotists—the court cards. As in days of old, the imperious, capricious kings and queens and other nobility continue to plague us plain, everyday folk. They show up, give almost nothing away by look or gesture, hold all the power, and just sit there waiting, as if you should innately know what to do to appease them.
As tarot readers, we've struggled with how to deal with these characters. We ascribed to them physical traits; astrological signs; psychologically quantified personality traits; and long lists of professions, hobbies, addictions, and preferences. We've declared that they represented other people in the situation, other aspects of the querent's personality, or situations or messages. Most recently, the trend is to view the court cards as aspects of the querent. There are many reasons, I believe, for this trend. One is that we now tend to read from the assumption that the querent has almost total control of their lives, so bringing in other people as affecting the situation is counter to that working theory. Another is that, as Rachel Pollack pointed out in Rachel Pollack's Tarot Wisdom, "reading the court cards in this manner [as people other than the querent] requires more of the psychic or intuitive approach than the other cards." Reading psychically or depending overly much on intuition has fallen out of favor in the past few decades (although it seems that in the last few years that trend is reversing).
This series of articles, beginning with this one, works from the assumption that the court cards represent other people involved in the situation. But instead of coming up with exhaustive lists of possible ways to identify a court card, I'm going to focus on the role the court card plays in the situation being investigated by the reading. It seems that it doesn't matter that much if a person is "warm and charismatic" (as the Wands court cards are often described). Did the card show up in the reading simply to say that someone with a magnetic personality and lots of energy is involved? I don't think so. What would be more useful to the querent is how the person will affect the situation. By focusing less on the personality or appearance and more what the person will do gives the querent more information that can be used to understand and even alter the course of events.
Pronoun note: In this series, for ease, querents will be referred to with feminine pronouns; Kings and Knights, masculine; and Queens and Pages, feminine. Of course, querents may be male or female. And the court cards can represent people of either gender. That is, Kings can represent women and Queens can represent men.
The types of role will be examined by rank, with the suits determining more detail about the exact type of role. Rank will also determine the type and the extent of the influence the various court cards have in relation to the situation. The ramifications of the actions of Page will be very different from that of a King or even a Knight. Rank also indicates to what extent or how easily one can enlist the support of or change the actions of a person represented by that court card.
We will not just see what the person represented by the court card will do but we will also see their motivations and priorities, which is determined more by suit. This will allow the querent to determine she can best interact with the person in order to achieve her own goals. For example, a King can represent anyone's boss. If your querent wants to know how best to ask for a raise, there are different approaches that will work with best with each King.
In most of my discussions about the court cards, I do not favor the idea of assigning professions to the court cards, except for the Kings. Kings represent people with authority. When a King appears in a reading, it means that someone with authority over the querent or the situation (or at least some aspect of it) will affect the outcome. Each of the Kings represents different areas of life, determined by their suit. One way to effectively express their realms of influence is by profession. There are some professions that, broadly speaking, can be held by any of the Kings. In these cases, the suit gives more precision to the interpretation. For example, any King can be involved in the church or ministry. The King of Wands would be a charismatic spiritual leader the people follow because of his personality rather than his teachings. The King of Cups is more suited for being a spiritual teacher, advisor, or counselor. The King of Swords is apt to be more of an extremist or fundamentalist, such as a monk, or involved in a very strict or disciplined practice. The King of Pentacles is likely to be found running a more street-level ministry such as running an immediate needs facility, like a soup kitchen or food shelf.
Let's take a look at the four Kings and see what we can learn about their realms of authority and their motivations.
First, let's consider what the Kings have in common. Most importantly, they all have authority. This authority implies other characteristics as well: they all make decisions; they all delegate; they all have responsibility for others and/or company/group/family, etc.; their actions have ramifications and consequences for others. Other aspects of the Kings include mastery, expertise, and accomplishment. In certain ways, they are concerned with maintaining the status quo, at least to some extent. For many people, the Kings are also father figures.
Any King will have a strong influence on the situation at hand. They may very well be making decisions that will affect the querent's life in significant ways. Jobs may be lost or gained. Opportunities may be granted. Laws may be enacted that determine whether or not a querent can live as she pleases. Loans may be approved or denied. An insurance company may approve or deny a medical treatment. Scholarships are given or withheld. Any of these would significantly affect a querent's life.
In some cases, the querent may not even be consulted or, if consulted, will have a small part to play in the final decision. For example, if the querent works for a large company and the executive board decides to downsize or outsource jobs or eliminate the querent's department, the querent may not even know these discussions are going on until the decision has been made. On the other end of the spectrum, a direct manager or supervisor is likely to consult the querent regarding their yearly review and raise. Here, the querent would have more influence, but even so, the boss (represented by the King) will make the final decision.
Kings have authority. The impact of their decisions is significant and their ability to be influenced is limited. The role they play in a situation is that of making decisions that are to some extent outside the querent's influence and will significantly affect the querent's situation. These are the things all Kings have in common. Despite sharing so many traits, they are also as different as the four suits.
The influence of the King of Wands is felt in business, particularly as it pertains to entrepreneurship. He can be found in roles such as advisor, consultant, or politician. The King of Wands responds to passion and ideas. Further, he is motivated by achieving his own goals. If you hope to influence him, seek his support on a project, want to change his mind, point out how your plan or idea will help him achieve his own goals, live his passion, or be an exciting use of his energy and/or resources. He does not respond as well to emotional pleas, excruciatingly reasoned arguments, or bottom lines. Spark his creative and energetic interest, and you will have his attention. However, his attention will be short-lived, so make the most of it.
The King of Cups follows his heart and is moved by the hearts of others. Therefore, you will find him serving in areas such as counseling, health care, human services, the arts, and non-profit organizations. Make no mistake: this person, while sensitive and compassionate, is not a pushover. As any King, he is accomplished and wields authority. He always feels his responsibility keenly. To enlist his support and influence his decisions, appeal to his sense of tolerance and the greater good. Childish, emotional outbursts will not have the desired affect. Temper pure emotion with wisdom and experience to gain his ear.
The King of Swords rules and is ruled by reason and logic. He delights in truth, enjoys communication, and finds comfort in clearly defined rules. The conviction that he is doing what is right drives him more than anything else. Hence, we often find him in the government. He may also practice or enforce the law, be a scientist, do medical research, perform surgery, or work in media. When approaching the King of Swords, check your emotional pleas at the door. Don't expect your excitement or passion to sway him. Focus on reason and logic, having all your points clearly defined and express them as simply and elegantly as possible. If you digress too much, you'll lose his attention.
The King of Pentacles is practical and values results. He likes things to run efficiently and effectively while producing something of quality. He tends to move in financial circles, such as banking, investing, and real estate. Tangible goods also interest him and he is an excellent salesperson. Because he values material goods, he might also work in protection or security. Finally, combining the desire for results and the physical world, coaching is a natural fit for him. Gaining his interest or support is easy if you can show him how your ideas will make his life easier or more productive. Focus on the both the bottom line and good quality, and you'll find him an attentive listener.
In Part 2 of this series, we'll take a look at the Queens of Tarot.
In Part 3 of this series, we'll take a look at the Knights of Tarot.
In Part 4 of this series, we'll take a look at the Pages of Tarot.
Barbara Moore (Saint Paul, MN) has studied and read tarot since the early 1990s. She wrote the bestselling Tarot for Beginners and more than a dozen other books, and she has contributed to many bestselling tarot kits, ...


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As of September 2017, new Sweat Science columns are being published at www.outsideonline.com/sweatscience. Check out my bestselling new book on the science of endurance, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, published in February 2018 with a foreword by Malcolm Gladwell.
- Alex Hutchinson (@sweatscience)
Here's a graph, from a recent paper on nutrition during long (marathon and longer) endurance competitions, that's worth a close look:
What do you see? A bunch of dots scattered randomly? Look a bit more closely. The data shows total carb intake (in grams per hour) by racers in Ironman Hawaii (top) and Ironman Germany (bottom), plotted against finishing time. It comes from a Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise paper by Asker Jeukendrup's group (with several collaborators, including Canadian Sport Centre physiologist Trent Stellingwerff) that looked at "in the field" nutritional intake and gastrointestinal problems in marathons, Ironman and half-Ironman triathlons, and long cycling races. The basic conclusion:
High CHO [carbohydrate] intake during exercise was related to increased scores for nausea and flatulence, but also to better performance during IM races.
So basically, taking lots of carbs may upset your stomach, but helps you perform better. It's important to remember that gastrointestinal tolerance is trainable, so it's worth putting up with some discomfort to gradually raise the threshold of what you're able to tolerate.
Anyway, back to that graph: while it may look pretty random, statistical analysis shows a crystal-clear link between higher carb intake rates and faster race times, albeit with significant individual variation. Obviously there are some important caveats — it may be, for example, that faster athletes tend to be more knowledgeable about the benefits of carbs, and thus take more. Still, it's real world data that tells us the people at the front of the race tend to have a higher carb intake rate.
One other point worth noting. The traditional thinking was that humans generally couldn't process more than 60 grams of carb per hour. Over the last few years, thanks to multiple-carb blends, that threshold has been pushed up to 90 grams of carb per hour. In this data set, about 50% of the triathletes were taking 90 g/hr or more.
[UPDATE 10/26: Given all the comments below about the variability in the data, I think it's worth emphasizing what should be a fairly obvious point. The only way this data would come out as a nice straight line is if Ironman finishing time depended ONLY on carb intake, and was totally independent of training, experience, talent, gender, body size, and innumerable other factors. This is obviously not the case, so we should expect the data to be very broadly scattered. What the statistical analysis shows is that, with p<0.001, faster finishers tended to have consumed carbs at a higher rate. There are many ways to interpret this data; one possibility is that, if your carb consumption is below average, you might wish to try a higher rate of consumption (e.g. 90 g/hr) to see if it helps.]


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31 January 2017
STORE REPORT - oliver bonas
Today we have an overview of what is currently in store at Oliver Bonas. I visited one of their stores recently and took a few snaps of their gorgeous packaging. I also found great prints and patterns on wall art, greetings cards, and accessories. Here we have a mixture of store snapshots and web images and you can find everything online here at Oliver Bonas who will have a new homeware catalogue out next month.
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'Joe of Phoenix' pointed us to the NECA website where the company has announced it will be making merchandise for the Sin City big screen adaptation:
Walk down the right back alley in Sin City and you can find anything…and in the Spring of 2005 you can find a full line of Sin City merchandise including Action Figures, Busts, Statues, Prop Replicas, and much more based on the upcoming Sin City movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. Sin City is based on Frank Miller's series of "Sin City" graphic novels. The plotline will include elements from the stories "Sin City," "The Big Fat Kill," and "That Yellow Bastard" with a cast that includes: Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, and many more.
"It just doesn't get any better. Genius is an overused word, but I wouldn't know how else to describe what we have seen. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have created perfection. An amazing story, incredible execution and an unbelievable cast. It is truly an honor to be working with them and the great folks at Miramax," said NECA President Joel Weinshanker.
Stay tuned for more news on those products as it comes in.
Source: Joe of Phoenix


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By Marilynn Marchione
We're becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders, and it's not just the Medicare set. Baby boomer bones and joints also are taking a pounding, spawning a boom in operations to fix them.
Knee replacement surgeries have doubled over the last decade and more than tripled in the 45-to-64 age group, new research shows. Hips are trending that way, too.
And here's a surprise: It's not all due to obesity. Ironically, trying to stay fit and avoid extra pounds is taking a toll on a generation that expects bad joints can be swapped out like old tires on a car.
"Boomeritis" or "fix-me-itis" is what Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, a suburban Philadelphia surgeon, calls it.
"It's this mindset of 'fix me at any cost, turn back the clock,' " said DiNubile, an adviser to several pro athletic groups and a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. "The boomers are the first generation trying to stay active in droves on an aging frame" and are less willing to use a cane or put up with pain or stiffness as their grandparents did, he said.
A huge industry says they don't have to. TV ads show people water skiing with new hips. Ads tout "the athletic knee," "the custom knee," "the male knee," "the female knee." Tennis great Billie Jean King, 67, is promoting the "30-year" Smith & Nephew knees she got last year.
"I wanted to make sure whatever they put in me was going to last," she said. "I'm not trying to win Wimbledon anymore. I'm trying to get my exercise in," play a little tennis on the clay courts in Central Park, and walk to a movie or a restaurant. "If I'd known what I know now, I would have had it 10 years ago."
Joint replacements have enabled millions of people like King to lead better lives, and surgeons are increasingly comfortable offering them to younger people.
But here's the rub: No one really knows how well these implants will perform in the active baby boomers getting them now. Most studies were done in older folks whose expectations were to be able to go watch a grandchild's soccer game — not play the sport themselves, as one researcher put it.
Even the studies presented at a recent orthopedics conference that found knee replacements are lasting 20 years come with the caveat that this is in older people who were not stressing their new joints by running marathons, skiing or playing tennis.
Besides the usual risks of surgery — infection, blood clots, anesthesia problems — replacing joints in younger people increases the odds they'll need future operations when these wear out, specialists say.
"We think very carefully about patients under 50" and talk many of them out of replacing joints, said Dr. William Robb, orthopedics chief at NorthShore University HealthSystem in suburban Chicago.
Not all are willing to wait, though:
•Karen Guffey, a 55-year-old retired civilian police worker in San Diego, plans to have a hip replaced in September. "I can't exercise the way I want to. I have to go slow, which is really aggravating. I want to go full force," she said. "I'm not worried about how I'm going to feel when I'm 75. I want to feel good now."
•Karen Cornwall, a Havertown, Pa., nurse who played a slew of sports since childhood, had both knees replaced last year when she was 54. "I just felt like I was too young and too active to be in pain all the time," she explained.
•Bill McMullen, a former Marine and construction worker from suburban Philadelphia, had seven knee repair surgeries before finally getting a knee replacement at age 55 a decade ago. He took up weightlifting to spare his knees but damaged a shoulder and had it replaced two years ago. "People ask me if I'm happy and I say, 'If you have pain, go and get it done,' " he said of joint replacement. "It was the best thing for me. I have no pain."
People are urged to exercise because it's so important for health, but there are "too many wannabes" who overdo it by trying to imitate elite athletes, said Dr. Norman Schachar, a surgeon and assistant dean at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
"They think if they've got a sore knee they're entitled to having it replaced," he said. "I think surgeons are overdoing it too, to try to meet that expectation."
Dr. Ronald Hillock, an orthopedic surgeon in a large practice in Las Vegas that does about 4,000 joint replacements a year, sees the demand from patients.
"People come in and say 'this is what I want, this is what I need,' " he said. "They could buy a cane or wear a brace," but most want a surgical fix.
The numbers tell the story. There were 288,471 total hip replacements in 2009, nearly half of them in people under 65, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which tracks hospitalizations.
Knee replacements soared from 264,311 in 1997 to 621,029 in 2009, and more than tripled in the 45-to-64-year-old age group.
"Five or 10 years ago, a very small number of people under 65 were receiving this surgery. Now we see more and more younger people getting it," said Elena Losina, co-director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
She analyzed how much of this rise was due to population growth and obesity, and presented results at an orthopedic meeting in San Diego in February.
From 1997 to 2007, the population of 45- to 64-year-olds grew by 36 percent, but knee replacements in this group more than tripled. Obesity rates didn't rise enough to explain the trend.
"At most, 23 percent of the 10-year growth in total knee replacement can be explained by increasing obesity and population size," Losina said.
"This is a very successful operation. The only caveat is, all the successes have been seen in the older population," who usually put less stress on their new joints than younger folks who want to return to sports. "It's unclear whether the artificial joint is designed to withstand this higher activity," she said.
If you have a good result from a joint replacement, don't spoil it by overdoing the activity afterward, experts warn. Better yet, try to prevent the need for one.
"Being active is the closest thing to the fountain of youth," but most people need to modify their exercise habits because they're overdoing one sport, not stretching, or doing something else that puts their joints at risk, said DiNubile, the "boomeritis" doctor.
Experts recommend:
•Cross training. People tend to find one thing they like and do it a lot, but multiple activities prevent overuse.
•Balance your routines to build strength, flexibility, core muscles and cardiovascular health.
•Lose weight. "Every extra pound you carry registers as five extra pounds on your knees," DiNubile said. "The good news is, you don't need to lose a lot of weight" to ease the burden.
•Spend more time warming up. Break a sweat and get the blood flowing before you go full blast.
•Let muscles and joints recover and rest in between workouts.
•If you've had a joint replacement, do the physical therapy that's recommended.
"I tell patients, 20 percent of the outcome is the technical stuff I do in the surgery, and 80 percent is them," said Hillock, the Las Vegas surgeon. "I can do a perfect surgery, but if they don't do the rehab they're not going to have a good outcome." — AP


text: Compact yet packing plenty of audio punch, the Marshall Stanmore speaker wirelessly powers the music on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Marshall's heritage of big stage performance. Stanmore's classic design is a throwback to the golden days of rock and roll, featuring analog interaction knobs that give you custom control of your music. Its vintage-looking front fret, brass details, and iconic script logo make the Stanmore right at home with the rest of your Marshall collection. Connect it wirelessly via Bluetooth, use the RCA input to plug in your record player, or simply connect your iOS device to the 3.5 mm auxiliary port using the included coil cord. Stanmore is even compatible with Apple TV and other devices that have an


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The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has been voted Time Magazine's Person of the Year. You may be thinking this can't be right, but it's true – and has been confirmed on Time's own website. Of course, there is a catch, as Kim has only won the public vote for Person of the Year, while the actual winner is a decision left down to the magazine's editors and not, as in the case of Kim Jong-un, the Internet.
But still, that's an impressive achievement, and it gets even better too. Kim Jong-un attracted 5.6 million votes, apparently more than twice that of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, who came in second. So how on earth did this happen? It's all down to pranksters from notorious website 4chan, where the plan to propel the dictator to the top spot was hatched.
A forum thread appeared soon after Time opened the voting, asking the community, "can we please make our wonderful leader Kim Jong-un Time's Person of the Year 2012?" The callout spread to other Internet forums and through social media, including Reddit and Twitter, and as the online voting system could be easily manipulated, one person could vote multiple times in succession. It's not even the first time this has happened, as 4chan founder Christopher Poole A.K.A. moot, became Time's Most Influential Person in 2009, after receiving more than 16 million votes.
The real Person of the Year has yet to be revealed
Time Magazine has acknowledged Kim's win on its site, saying, "he is having a good year" after taking control of North Korea at the end of 2011 and winning a "Sexiest Man Alive" competition. Sadly, this honor was bestowed by satirists at The Onion, but was reported as fact by publications in China and India. For its February 2012 edition, Time also put him, in a non-satirical way, on the cover. It's also quick to point out that the public vote is essentially meaningless, and the real Person of the Year will be revealed on December 19.
Is it meaningless though? More than 5 million votes represents a staggering degree of commitment to a joke, but it's not that Kim Jong-un has won the public vote that makes this fascinating. Ultimately, the votes could have been given to the subject of any popular meme – why not Zoidberg, for example – instead it's about how it happened, as it again demonstrates the influence of 4chan and Reddit on Internet culture.
It's the second time North Korea has hit the headlines this week, although the other time is considerably less amusing than this story, as the country successfully launched a three-stage rocket and placed a satellite into orbit, causing international concern.


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Prism Break Barbie is a response and solution for girls who want to protect their data beyond just encryption. In less than 5 minutes, you can create a simple, discrete and TSA approved, non-threatening device to destroy hardware.
Prism Break Barbie is equipped with a 3-inch and .6 ounces concealed spring-loaded spike which can be activated by sitting the doll on any Smart phone, USB or hard drive or by a push/click of the hand. The spikes force when triggered will shatter the hardware.
1. Purchase Barbie or doll of your choice
2. Decide on a spike (I recommend a LifeHammer or ResQME)
3. Ductape or drill the the spike into place and you're ready to engage.
General attempts to preserve privacy among activist and hackers often can feel inaccessible for those with do not have extensive computer literacy or a background in programming. Security, especially at the hardware level is often expensive, complex, and layered in additional standards which can make it feel unapproachable. In the wake of revelations about PRISM, many are left wondering what they can do immediately. Answers are often fogged by politics and complex code based solutions. Although fluency in programming is becoming an important requirement to survive in a read-only society it is also not an immediately attainable standard.
Privacy has become a luxury only for the initiated. More so, education around it is often distributed within networks of programmers. Programmers are more often than not majority male populations. In parallel terms, surveillance indirectly forms part of the larger system of exclusion towards minorities and women. Mainstream political debates on surveillance are fixated on personal liberties of highly literate users rather than quick approachable cheap solutions for many.
Prism Break Barbie is about starting a conversation and awareness around the palpable consequences of surveillance and presents a solution for security based on combative humor, speed projects and attainability. Although encryption is perhaps the most effective means of data protection, Prism Break Barbie hopes to serve as conversation and starting point.
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How will shattered glass prevent access? The act of smashing the glass may get them to get warrant than then they will replace the glass and access your data.
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