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Footlighters presenting 'You Can't Take it With You' this weekend
The Elk County Footlighters will return to the stage this weekend with a dinner theatre production of "You Can't Take it With You." The group will be performing at Aiello's Café on North Broad Street in Ridgway on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 15 through March 17. A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Footlighter member and play director Mike Ames said the comedic antics in the play will appeal to a broad audience. "I enjoy the older comedies like that, ones from the 1930s," Ames said. "A movie was based on it and we thought people would be familiar with the title." The 1938 movie, based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, was adapted into a screenplay by Robert Riskin. It tells a story about a man from a wealthy, snobbish family and his engagement to a girl with a rather eccentric family. Alice Sycamore is a stenographer in love with her boss, Tony Kirby. He is the vice president of a company owned by his father, and his father, the patriarch of greed, is in the middle of negotiations to buy up land in a 12-block area to cement his monopoly on an area business. He bought up all the houses except for one - and the lone holdout is Alice's grandfather, who refuses to sell. Tony and Alice become engaged and determine that their families, who are very different from each other, should meet. Unfortunately, Tony shows up with his parents a day earlier than expected, and naturally, all kinds of interesting situations occur with this dynamic, including fireworks going off in the basement. The play won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937 and director Frank Capra took home an Academy Award for Best Director for the movie. In addition to Capra, the cast was not full of slouches, either - Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Ann Miller, Edward Arnold and the great Lionel Barrymore also starred in the film. Ames said the members of Footlighters are enjoying the fact that there are so many available roles in "You Can't Take it With You." "It has a lot of characters in it. It has a lot of opportunities for people to be involved," Ames said. Tickets for the dinner and show are available at Aiello's, The Village Peddler, Elk County Council on the Arts, and Cliffe's and the Prescription Center. Reservations can be made by calling 772-6767.The performance is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York.Pick up a copy of the Tuesday, March 13, 2012 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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Annie Bell (King) Ashby
Annie Bell (King) Ashby, 91, of Octavia died Friday, Nov. 9, 2012, in Fort Smith, Ark.Annie was born June 1, 1921, to Albert and Sarah (Newman) King in Waldron, Ark.She married Neal Ashby on March 20, 1949. Annie and Neal lived in several different places, from Oklahoma to Alaska to Montana.Annie was a wonderful mother and grandmother who enjoyed gardening and fishing. She was a member of the Smithville Assembly of God.She is survived by her sons, David Ashby of Spiro, John Ashby of Memphis, Tenn., Ben Ashby and wife, Teresa, of Wilburton, and Toby Ashby and wife, Daccari, of Panola; daughter, Susan Parker of the home; sister, Flora Scruggs of Mannford; grandchildren, Nick Ashby and wife, Aimee, of Red Oak, Peter Ashby and wife, Cindy, of Buffalo Valley, Katherine Ashby of Panola and Deyton Ashby of Panola; great-grandchildren, Allie, Raylee, Raygan, Brooklyn and Brodie and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other family and friends.Annie was preceded in death by her husband, Neal in 2000; parents, Albert and Sarah King; grandson, Bryan Parker; five brothers, Paul, Rubin, Cebert, Marlin and Charlie King; three sisters, Stella Hasel, Etna Eacret and Effie Gordon.Graveside service were held Monday, Nov. 12, at Octavia Cemetery with the Rev. Greg Hurd officiating.Pallbearers were David Ashby, John Ashby, Ben Ashby, Toby Ashby, Nick Ashby, Peter Ashby and Deyton Ashby.Jones Harkins Funeral Home, Wilburton, handled arrangements.

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Sporting Kansas City's emergence as an elite MLS organization was fueled by bold moves, both on the field and off.
While the once-beleaguered club became a hot ticket on either side of the state line thanks to a risky rebrand and an innovative approach to fan relations and stadium design, coach Peter Vermes' club evolved into a championship contender thanks to a vigorous, aggressive style of soccer whose beauty was evident only to the most partisan beholder.
"I think that it's an overly physical style," Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis told ESPN Radio last year. "I think that it relies on being a very disruptive game. There's not much rhythm to any game that you watch that they play in. I don't feel like they create a ton of their own chances. I feel like they are picking up a lot of chances off of winning the ball in the opponents' half of the field."
Kreis certainly wasn't alone in that opinion, but Vermes couldn't concern himself with aesthetics. Sporting's sparkling new stadium wouldn't remain full unless the team won a few games. So Vermes worked with what he had — an airtight defense, a physically imposing front six and the spot-on service of Graham Zusi, who led MLS in assists last season.
Sporting finished atop the Eastern Conference for the second consecutive season, won the U.S. Open Cup and had the third-best goals-against average in MLS history. Along the way, KC committed the third-highest number of fouls (more than any other playoff team) and had fewer goals than 11 other clubs. They would harass the opposition, wear them down and then feast off the turnovers. It was exhausting yet efficient.
"I will say this — it's proving to be extremely effective right now," Kreis said.
But SKC's style wasn't necessarily the only way Vermes liked to play. It was expedient.
"Before, we were going to press you and … boom! We were going to go," he told Sporting News at PPL Park, moments after SKC defeated the Philadelphia Union 3-1 in Saturday's season opener. "But you can't do that playing in (CONCACAF) Champions League. You can't do that all the time in MLS when it's the summer months. You've got to be able to keep the ball at times."
More: Abby Wambach nears Mia Hamm's goals record in U.S. victory
The departure of midfielders Roger Espinoza (to Wigan Athletic) and Júlio César (to Toronto FC), and forward Kei Kamara (to Norwich City), who Zusi called "physical specimens," set the stage for an evolution.
"Every team has to start over," Zusi said. "Every season is a different story line."
Vermes went out and traded for U.S. World Cup veteran Benny Feilhaber, a more classic playmaker who failed to shine with the New England Revolution.
A week later, Vermes acquired designated player Claudio Bieler, an Argentine striker whose skillful touch was lacking in the SKC attack. Then Vermes handed the keys to SKC's midfield to Spaniard Oriol Rosell, a 20-year-old product of Barcelona's famed pass-and-move system. Rosell hardly is the heir to the tireless destroyer that was Espinoza. But that's OK, according to the manager.
"It's all about us constantly trying to evolve that aspect of the game," Vermes said. "When you lose a player who has certain attributes, how do you replace that? Sometimes you have to evolve the way you play."
With a commitment to build more patiently from the back, move the ball through midfield and use the technique and vision and composure that Feilhaber, Rosell and Bieler bring to the table, SKC intends to diversify — and raise — its game in 2013. The aggression and pressure of seasons past remains in Vermes' arsenal, but he believes that more comfort with the ball and an ability to adapt to a variety of tempos and conditions will prove the difference in 2013.
Feilhaber, who was so effective in a reserve role at the World Cup, brings a "pause in the game" that SKC didn't have in the past. "He sets the rhythm, the tempo. And he has solutions in the final third," Vermes told Sporting News.
As for Rosell, Vermes lauded his "great soccer brain." The second-year player could become a two-way threat and perhaps even a deep-lying distributor while working with fellow midfielder Paulo Nagamura and SKC's experienced defense to stifle opposition forays.
Rosell played as a central defender and defensive midfielder at Barcelona, but his attacking instincts were evident in the second half on Saturday, when he made a brave near-post run through the heart of the Union penalty area to head home Zusi's free kick. Bieler took awhile to get going but helped set up Zusi's equalizer and then scored the 83rd-minute insurance goal that finally broke Philadelphia.
This Sporting team, beyond goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen and the back four, will look different. There might be some growing pains—the first half hour at PPL Park was ugly and Kansas City trailed early—but the commitment won't waver.
"You can start to doubt certain aspects of your game, especially when you're playing on their field and you're thinking 'Ah, it's not working. Let's do something else,' " Vermes said afterward. "But we talked and we have to be consistent about what we're trying to do. Because as we're consistent, hopefully the other team isn't. And we'll find the openings and the opportunities with our consistency and I think that's what happened."
Sporting committed six fewer fouls than the Union and was second best on 50/50 balls. But the visitors' commitment to keeping possession, or at least trying, was evident in the 475 passes attempted on Saturday—a nearly 10 percent increase over last season's average. The completion percentage of 80, higher than any MLS team's 2012 average, hardly is a scientific sample size but does suggest SKC was willing to play the sort of short, easy balls that can help establish the "pause" Vermes is searching.
"We just need the consistency," Feilhaber said. "It's going to get better and better as the season progresses."
Said Vermes, "I think there are similarities in our team. We play the same formation and I think you'll see some other pieces come as we get more games. But I think the group we have on the field right now, they can play soccer. They can keep the ball for longer stretches at a time then we ever could before … They're going to get some rhythm. Some of these new guys are really going to help."
The lack of versatility was telling during last year's playoffs, when they struggled against a Houston Dynamo side that played the ball long and forced SKC to build from the back against the sort of high pressure it was used to dishing out. They couldn't do it. The physical and tactical challenge presented by Champions League competition also will demand depth and an ability to adapt.
It may take some time to perfect, but Sporting is focused on its own evolution.
"We're certainly building off of last year and as far as I'm concerned, I see a group that has a little bit more in its bag than last year," Zusi said. "That's a very encouraging thing."


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January/February 2012
Table of Contents
In Print
Point to Point
Calls for Participation
Goings On
Deadline Reminders
January/February 2012
Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report, CLIR Pub 152, compiled by Michael A. Keller, Jerry Persons, Hugh Glaser, and Mimi Calter, and published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), October 2011.
From the Abstract: "In June 2011, Stanford University hosted a group of librarians and technologists to examine issues and challenges surrounding the use of linked data for library applications. This report summarizes the activities and discussions that took place during the workshop, describes what came out of the workshop, outlines next steps identified by the participants, and provides contextual and background information, including preliminary reports and biographies of workshop participants. The workshop report was produced and edited by the participants and staff at Stanford University Libraries."
Supporting Humanities Doctoral Student Success: A Collaborative Project between Cornell University Library and Columbia University Libraries, by Gabriela Castro Gessner, Damon E. Jaggars, Jennifer Rutner, and Kornelia Tancheva, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), October 2011.
"To investigate the needs of their institution's doctoral students in the humanities and determine whether the library can influence student success, the Cornell University Library and Columbia University Libraries conducted a collaborative ethnographic user needs study. The study was supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and funding from the two universities' graduate schools."
Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success. Research Report, Version 1.0, James L. Mullins, Catherine Murray-Rust, et al., Libraries Research Publications. Paper 136, November 1, 2011 (Draft Version - For comment).
From the Forward to the report: "The results of this study will inform the larger academic library community, especially the members of
the Association of Research Libraries, the Oberlin Group, and the University Libraries Group. It has
sparked dialogue in multiple forums, within the workshops and in the larger community through the
publication of this report. We hope that the recommendations will also catalyze the further development
and professionalization of library publishing services, and will advance the community's further
articulation of the important role in the scholarly communication ecosystem that these operations hold."
Legal Issues in Mass Digitization: A Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document, Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, October 2011.
From the Executive Summary: "This Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document (the 'Analysis') addresses the
issues raised by the intersection between copyright law and the mass digitization of books. The
Copyright Office (the 'Office') has prepared this Analysis for the purpose of facilitating further
discussion among the affected parties and the public discussions that may encompass a number
of possible approaches, including voluntary initiatives, legislative options, or both."
Culture on the Go, CIBER Research Limited, 30 September 2011.
"This report explores how Europeana is actually used by millions of online visitors, with particular reference to the thousands of people that access it via mobile devices, like smart phones and iPads. The data upon which the report is based comes from the digital 'footprints' that people routinely leave behind them when they use the website, whatever platform they use to access Europeana."
Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services, University Leadership Council, © 2011 The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC.
From 'Top Lessons from the Study': "While predictions of radical change in library and information services are by no means new, a confluence of shifts in
technology, changing user demands, and increasing budget pressures are now forcing academic libraries to either adapt
or risk obsolescence. The library's traditional role as a repository for physical books and periodicals is quickly fading,
with important implications for space utilization, resource acquisition, and staffing."
Digital Humanities, SPEC Kit 326: Executive Summary, by Tim Bryson, Miriam Posner, Alain St. Pierre, and Stewart Varner, published by the Association of Research Libraries, November 2011.
"The ARL escience survey in 2009 confirmed how profoundly and quickly technology has transformed research in the sciences. Research in the humanities is being transformed as well. Digital humanities is an emerging field which employs computer-based technologies with the aim of exploring new areas of inquiry in the humanities."
Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research, by Laura Schmidt, published by the Society of American Archivists, 2011.
"This guide outlines the functions and procedures of archives, and is designed both for first-time archives users and scholars who have already conducted research in archives. The content covers how archives function, how to identify appropriate archives for your research, and how to access historical materials and research at an archives. Repositories and their collecting scopes and practices may differ, but the principles in this guide should assist you in accomplishing your research goals at any archival institution."
Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies, by Amber Cushing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the Society of American Archivists, 2011.
From the Introduction: "The current guidelines recognize the growth and maturation of archival studies programs and serve as a benchmark against which graduate programs in archival studies may be measured. These guidelines establish minimum standards for archival education programs in terms of mission, curriculum, faculty, and infrastructure."
Living the Future: Organizational Performance Assessment (Preprint Version), by Raynna Bowlby, Library Management Consulting
Storrs, CT, USA and Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract: "Organizational performance assessment is a practice-based framework that builds on the synergy between planning and assessment, and results in the discernment of impact and value. It promotes a set of practices that enable the library to effectively integrate planning, strategy, performance, assessment, and organizational development in order to advance the parent institution's mission. This paper discusses some foundations of organizational performance assessment, useful practices, and examples from libraries that are 'living the future.'" The final version of this paper will appear in the Journal of Library Administration, vol. 51, no. 7/8, and will be available by subscription or purchase only.
Reconfiguring Service Delivery, SPEC Kit 327, Executive Summary, by Kay Vyhnanek and Christy Zlatos, published by the Association of Research Libraries, December 2011.
"This SPEC Kit investigates whether and how ARL member libraries have reconfigured staffed service delivery points in the main library and in any branches that report to the main library. It explores whether service points and/or branches have been added, closed, or consolidated; the drivers for those decisions; the impacts on staff; the changes in delivery methods; and whether there have been any collaborations with other institutions or consortia, or outsourcing of service delivery. It also explores user involvement in the planning for service changes and whether the effectiveness of new service configurations has been assessed." Purchasing information for the full publication may be found here.
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Fall 2011.
This 20th anniversary issue also marks the 15th anniversary of the journal's publication on the Web. "Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship publishes substantive content of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians to share successful initiatives and innovative ideas, and to publish peer-reviewed or board-accepted papers, including case studies, practical applications, theoretical essays, web/bibliographies, and research papers relevant to the functions and operations of science and technology libraries in all settings."
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (December), Library of Congress, December 2011.
"In this issue:
Information Standards Quarterly, Fall 2011, published by NISO.
"This issue provides several specific examples of the benefits of implementing standards, ranging from savings in staff time to improved customer service
and a way to attract new customers. Specific case studies are included for
the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), the Standardized Usage
Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), and the Shared Electronic Resource
Understanding (SERU)."
ERCIM News, Special theme: Evolving Software, January 2012.
"ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly."
Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP), Volume 14, No. 2.
"The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users. Contributors and readers are publishers, scholars, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, attorneys, and others with an interest in the methods and means of contemporary publishing."
LIBER Quarterly, Vol. 21 No. 1.
"LIBER Quarterly covers all aspects of research librarianship: preservation, bibliographic control, document supply, library management, data processing, networking, digitisation, library architecture, etc. Special attention is given to library cooperation in Europe and to the comparative approach to librarianship."
What's New, Digital Preservation Coalition, Issue 40, December 2011.
Open Access Africa 2011, presentation slides from the conference.
"The conference, now in its second year, discussed open access publishing
in an African context and the diverse programme offered insights from
library, funding and technology perspectives as part of Open Access
Africa, a collection of initiatives designed to increase the output and
visibility of scientific research published by African learning
San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science Fall Semester 2011 Colloquia Series, San José State University.
"Each semester, the San Jose State University School of Library and Information
Science invites professionals to share their knowledge and insights with the
library and information science community as part of its colloquia series. In
support of the Master of Archives and Records Management (MARA) degree program, the School offers a
series of online seminars dedicated to the rapidly expanding fields of
information governance and corporate archives."
Materials from CNI Fall 2011, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), 2011.
"Presentation materials & handouts for many of the Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting breakout sessions are now available from the project briefing (presentation) pages at http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2011/project-briefings/."
Calls for Participation
World Library and Information Congress : 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly: Session on the Future of Health Information, 10 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 17 February 2012.
"This session will teach us about scientific approaches to assessing the delivery of health information and how the findings of this assessment support planning and demonstrate how essential our work is to the goal of better health outcomes for all."
7th International Conference on Open Repositories, 9 - 13 July 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 20 February 2012.
"The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible
for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories
together with stakeholders to address theoretical, practical, and strategic
issues: across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and
management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection
of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving."
Distance Education of New Zealand (DEANZ) 2012: Shift Happens: Resilience, Relevance & Reform, 11 - 13 April 2012, Wellington, New Zealand. Call for papers. The submission deadline for non-refereed abstracts, workshops and posters is 20 February 2012.
"The conference will be relevant to any individual or institution (private or public) with an interest in the most up to date research and practice for distance and open learning. This is an opportunity to meet with local and international thought leaders, learn new ideas and improve your own practice."
Eighth Spring Researchers Colloquium on Database and Information Systems (SYRCoDIS 2012), 31 May - 1 June 2012, Moscow, Russia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 2 March 2012.
"SYRCoDIS is an annual colloquium directed to researchers specializing in the area of databases and information systems. The goal of the colloquium is to help young researchers to be acquainted with the work of their colleagues, to exchange experiences and to practice in delivering reports at international conferences."
International Conference on Security and Cryptography
(SECRYPT), 24 - 27 July 2012, Rome, Italy. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 5 March 2012.
"The purpose of SECRYPT 2012, the International Conference on Security and
Cryptography, is to bring together researchers, mathematicians, engineers
and practitioners interested in security aspects related to information and
13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 8 - 12 October 2012, Porto, Portugal. Call for tutorial proposals. The submission deadline is 12 March 2012.
"The annual Conference of the International Society for Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on processing,
searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The revolution in
music distribution and storage brought about by digital technology has
fueled tremendous research activities and interests in academia as well as
in industry."
15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue TSD 2012, 3 - 7 September 2012, Brno, Czech Republic. Call for papers. The submission deadline for abstracts is 15 March 2012.
"The TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series."
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications:
'Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges', 3 - 7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 23 March 2012.
"DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in
addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and
sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in
information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and
governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human
rights and justice to education and peace."
Chip-to-Cloud Security Forum, 19 - 20 September 2012, Nice, France. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 23 March 2012.
"The Forum offers a high level international conference for researchers from Academia, Industry experts and engineers, Industry decision-makers, practitioners from standardization bodies and government professionals to share their vision, to figure out strategies for the future, to point out business opportunities and seek collaboration prospects, to present state-of-the-art research and discuss the most recent advances in embedded, mobile and cloud security at both hardware and software levels with regards to the dynamics of these technologies towards the Internet of Things challenges."
The International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2012), 26 - 28 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 March 2012.
"Areas of interest for this conference fall under the following headings:
International Conference on Informatics & Applications (ICIA2012), 3 - 5 June 2012, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 1 April 2012.
"The proposed conference...aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. A list of suggested topics may be found at the conference web site."
NFAIS Annual Conference, 26 - 28 February 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
"NFAIS is a global, non-profit membership organization serving all those who create, aggregate, organize, and otherwise provide ease of access to and effective navigation and use of authoritative, credible information. To improve member capabilities and contribute to their ongoing success, NFAIS provides opportunities for education, advocacy, and a forum in which to address common interests."
4th International Conference Wireless Information Networks & Business
Information System (WINBIS 2012), 27 - 28 February 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal.
"This conference will cover research on all theoretical and practical aspects related to wireless Information networks and business information systems. The aim of the conference is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with wireless networks and business systems, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments."
The International Conference on Digital Information and Wireless Communications (ICDIWC2012), 8 - 10 March 2012, Coimbatore, India.
"Papers were invited on the following topic areas:
IADIS International Conference on Information Systems 2012, 10 - 12 March 2012, Berlin, Germany.
"[This conference] aims to provide a forum for the discussion of Information Systems (IS) taking a
socio-technological perspective. It aims to address the issues related to design, development and use of IS
in organisations from a socio-technological perspective, as well as to discuss IS professional practice,
research and teaching."
IADIS International Conference on e-Society 2012, 10 - 13 March 2012, Berlin, Germany.
"[This conference] aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in ESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management."
SPARC Open Access Meeting 2012, 11 - 13 March 2012, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
"The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced it will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting."
IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning, 11 - 13 March 2012, Berlin, Germany.
"[This conference] seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile
learning research which illustrate developments in the field."
International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2012, 14 - 16 March 2012, Hong Kong.
"The IMECS 2012 is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists. The conference has the focus on the frontier topics in the theoretical and applied engineering and computer science subjects. The IMECS conferences serve as good platforms for our members and the entire engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas."
Library and Information Professionals Summit (LIPS 2012), 16 - 17 March 2012, Delhi, India.
"The principal objective of this event is to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and skills relevant to Information professionals. This conference will offer an opportunity to put forward innovative plans, debate classic ideas, and promote closer cooperation among colleagues."
AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) Conference 2012: Managing Information in the Social, Local, and Mobile Era, 20 - 22 March 2012, San Francisco, California, USA.
"When it comes to content management and social technologies, one size doesn't fit all.
The AIIM Conference 2012 features three distinct conference tracks, each tailored to a set of similar usage scenarios.
Social Media and Web Science: The Web as a living space, 22 - 23 March 2012, Dusseldorf, Germany.
"While the presentations of the main conference will be held in German, it is planned to also organize a special research track in English language. This 'European Afternoon' will take place on March 22nd. Welcomed are researchers and practitioners interested in the social dimensions of Web developments and information technologies, e.g. from the fields of information science, library and documentation science, computer science, digital humanities, linguistics, psychology, political science, law and economics."
7th International Conference on Information Warfare and Security ICIW-2012, 22 - 23 March 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA.
"The conference will address elements of both theory and practice of all aspects of Information Warfare and Security, and offers an opportunity for academics, practitioners and consultants involved in the domain to come together and exchange ideas."
3rd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2012, 25 - 28 March 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA.
"The purpose of the Organizing Committee of the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2012 is to bring together scholars and professionals from the three fields, Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, in order to promote and foster inter-disciplinary communication and interactions among them; in order to make possible the intellectual humus required for inter-disciplinary synergies, inter-domain cross-fertilization and the production of creative analogies. Consequently, formal disciplinary oriented breakout sessions will be complemented with interdisciplinary presentations and informal conversational sessions."
27th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing, 25 - 29 March 2012, Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy.
"The mission of the SIG on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is to further the interests of the computing professional engaged in the development of new computing applications and application areas and the transfer of computing technology to new problem domains."
Future Perfect Conference 2012: Digital Preservation by Design, 26 - 27 March 2012, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand.
"[This] conference seeks to stimulate discussion about how, when and why influencing the design of systems can support digital preservation and ultimately ensure that today's information is available tomorrow."
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In aayah 44 of Surah Ma'ida, according to what you said, the Hamzah al-Wasl herein should read as a dhammah , but when I listen ...
Salaam Alaikum,teachers of abouttajweed.com!
During studying the lesson of Hamzah al-Wasl, I met a confusion. In this link:
Let's look at the first Example cited from the Holy Qur'aan. In aayah 44 of Surah Ma'ida, according to what u said, the Hamzah al-Wasl herein should read as a dhammah coz the 3rd letter of this word brings a dhammah. But when I listen to some mp3 recitations, I don't find a Qari recites in such way, instead, they often skip the Hamzah al-Wasl, just as "bimaa stuhafithu min..." Then u said "we only use the hamzah al-wasl when starting the word. If we are reading in continuum with the words before this verb, we would drop the hamzah al-wasl and join directly the vowel on the last letter". So according to my understanding, it means that if the reciter chooses to stop at the letter before a Hamzah al-Wasl (if he or she doesn't break the rule of al-Waqf), then he or she starts at the hamzah al-Wasl, under this condition, the reciter should use this rule and changes the Hamzah al-Wasl into a kasrah or dhammah. If the reciter chooses to read the word with Hamzah al-Wasl after reading the word before it, without a stop, it's unnecessary for him or her to pronounce the hamzah al-wasl according to this rule. So in aayah 44 of Surah Ma'ida, one can read as "wa al-ahbaaru bimaa" then take a stop, and then read "ustuhafithu min..." or read "wa al-ahbaaru bimaa stuhafithu min..." directly. Is it right? Forgive me speaking so much and making this problem complicated. If u can offer the mp3 of this aayah, under this rule, it will be clearly for me. Thx. Jazak Allahu Khairun!
Wa Alaikum Assalam Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,
The general rule for Hamzah Al-Wasl is that it is only used when starting the word. In case of joining the word containing Hamzah Al-Wasl with the previous word, the Hamzah Al-Wasl is always dropped. The aayah that is in question from Surah al-Maa'idah, if the words are read together without stopping, then in this case we will drop the Hamzah Al-Wasl. Also the Alif after the meem in the word will be dropped according to the rule of the meeting of two Saakin letters. In the case of continuing, the words will be pronounced as .
If we are starting on the word , then only in this case the Hamzah Al-Wasl will be read with a Dhammah, but not while continuing with what precedes it.
We apologize, we cannot make an MP3 because we know of no recording in which the reciter stops before, then starts up on , as this is not a proper stop and start. One would start on this word under test circumstances, not in normal recitation.
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Injured American Bald Eagle recovering at SPCA; Will Never Fly Again
He perched on a log Monday afternoon, looking as regal as ever, while staring toward the window of his outdoor, slatted wooden enclosure.
The male American bald eagle – with the trademark white head, yellow beak and feet, and black-brown breast and back – is recuperating at the SPCA Serving Erie County's Tonawanda shelter after he was found injured in a ditch along Route 394, south of Westfield, a little more than two weeks ago.
Not much is known about how the iconic bird ended up in its sad state, but vets are nearly certain he will likely never return to the wild.
"Unfortunately, whatever injured the eagle happened about two to three weeks before he was found, so his fractured wing was already healed," said Beverly Jones, assistant director of wildlife services at the SPCA. "The integrity of the wing was completely disrupted, so the bird will not fly again."
But the so-far nameless eagle may have a different kind of future ahead.
The bird has a calm demeanor and has not exhibited aggressive behavior, which may make him an ideal candidate for public education purposes.
The SPCA has never had a bald eagle as a permanent resident – it's only seen three at its facilities over the last 15 years or so – but it's open to keeping the bird at the Tonawanda shelter if the federal U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service determines it is a suitable permanent home for him.
"Whenever you choose to keep a bird in captivity, you don't want them to be stressed," Jones said. "You're asking a lot of a wild spirit to be in captivity, to no longer be free."
The eagle first has a lot of healing to do. The bird, which vets know is six years old because he was banded as a chick in New York State, was badly injured.
No one is certain how, but SPCA workers speculated he may have been hit by a car while swooping down for some carrion on the ground.
The eagle suffered from a fractured left wing at his elbow, as well as an injured second toe on his left foot that has been almost completely amputated.
Blood tests showed a high white blood cell count, indicating he may be fighting an infection.
He tested positive for lead poisoning, though those levels have dropped. He also tested positive for Aspergillosis, a fungal infection that could affect his respiratory tract and cause pneumonia.
SPCA veterinarian Dr. Karen Moran, who specializes in wildlife animals, has been treating the bird and monitoring his progress, along with veterinarian Dr. Laura Wade, who specializes in the care of avian and exotic pets.
"He won't be able to fly, which is really, really sad," Moran said Monday after examining the bird while wearing leather gloves and goggles and using a towel to handle him. "He was really, really skinny when he came in, and was really weak."
But the eagle seems to be turning a corner in his health, perking up and now weighing 8½ pounds, close to the average 9-pound average for a male eagle.
The eagle also has been on medicine to help ward off infection and presently is not showing signs of the fungal infection, Moran said.
He also seems to sense he no longer can fly. "I think he knows it. He doesn't even try," Moran said.
Normally, the wing span for the eagle would be about six feet, but his compromised left wing only can open up about two-thirds of what it should.
However, the eagle is getting an A-plus for behavior. Moran described him as very quiet and "exceptionally good," saying he shows no signs of overtly aggressive behavior so far.
His daily menu typically consists of 300 grams of rat or 400 grams of white fish.
SPCA Executive Director Barbara Carr said, "If we can find the resources, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service would approve his staying within our educational program, we'd certainly consider it and may apply for a formal permit."
Special handlers would have to train the eagle for on-the-road educational visits and a special outdoor enclosure would have to be built for him.
"It's a lot of if's at this point, but what we're going to do is what's best for the animal, with the blessing of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. He's a gorgeous bird," Carr said.
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The Kyoto Protocols aren't being lived up to by their signatories. I've seen several stories reporting that only two or three of the 166 nations that have ratified their commitments to reduce greenhouse emissions are actually on pace to do so. The US, although a signatory, hasn't ratified the agreement and consequently isn't binded by the Protocols. Portrayed as pigs, it should be pointed out that committing to reducing emissions and actually doing so are two very different things:
"The rising trend is the worrisome part of it," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since 2000, as their economies revived, countries in Eastern Europe also increased their emissions, rising by 4.1% according to the agency.That the EU is increasing the rate of emissions faster than the US inspite of its members pledge to reduce them illustrates how difficult it is to curtail emissions through restriction. Stateside, we're doing a better job of curtailing emissions growth without hampering economic growth. Oil prices probably have something to do with that, as US consumers switch from SUVs and other gas-guzzlers to more fuel efficient vehicles. Nonetheless, last year, the US economy grew 3.5%, while the European Union limped along at 1.7%. So the EU is growing its emissions faster but its economy slower than the US! No wonder the WSJ-types ridicule the Kyoto Protocols so relentlessly.
From 2000 to 2004, according to the U.N. data, the U.S., which isn't a party to Kyoto, had a slower increase in emissions (1.3%) than members of the European Union (2.4%). EU members have committed to drop their emissions by 8%, compared with 1990 levels, by 2012.
Even if anthopogenic warming is occuring, I'm not convinced it'll be bad, especially for those in cooler climates (largely the developed world). It'll boost agricultural yields, increase economic activity (mild winters are good for retail and entertainment), decrease natural gas prices, make more accessible fish and oil in the Arctic (estimated to contain about a quarter of the world's supply), and hopefully make mostly uninhabited freezers like northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia more inhabitable, so that surrounding high IQ populations can 'settle' them and procreate.
But if it is catastrophic, the environmental movement needs to find a better way to get nations to respond to the threat. This seems to illustrate how mandating emission-reductions stifles economic growth. If you agree to take part, you're going to be shooting yourself in the foot now for some perceived benefit in the future that will be shared by all. Those refusing to reduce emissions putatively still benefit from your reductions without having to sacrifice economic growth. It's a win-win for those not actively trying to reduce emissions, and a rough situation for those who do. It seems to me the way forward has to be through innovation. Make greener technologies that are economically viable (photovoltaics, fuel cells, etc) and the problem fixes itself. Green crusaders need to invest in companies conducting this sort of research. SRI is preferrable to governmental regulation (especially on an international scale).
Global cooling (August 26, 2006)
Would be a lot more devastating than global warming. The indefatigable Al Fin, who has multiple blogs and apparently has overcome the soporific mortal's daily need for sleep, points to a report out of the Russian Academy of Sciences astronomical observatory that predicts global cooling by mid-century:
Global cooling could develop on Earth in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is replaced by a period of warming in the early 22nd century, a Russian Academy of Sciences' astronomical observatory's report says, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday. Environmentalists and scientists warn not about the dangers of global warming provoked by man's detrimental effect on the planet's climate, but global cooling. Though never widely supported, it is a theory postulating an overwhelming cooling of the Earth which could involve glaciation.The most recent ice age came near the end of the Pleistocene around 11,000 years ago. The last Wurm glaciation was the grand finale in a turbulent period of harsh cold spells that covered most of Europe and Asia in glaciers, pushing homo sapiens along with several other large mammalian species into southern of Europe and back toward the Meditteranean area. It is possible, however, that our current interglacial period could come to an end, or that we might enter a relatively short period of cooling, as the Russian Academy predicts.
There's a lot of smoke being blown up around climatic change, and I'm certainly not erudite enough to cut through it. Interglacial periods historically have lasted longer than 10,000 years. Nonetheless, global cooling appears exponentially more threatening to humanity than global warming does.
I see plenty of potential upsides to warming. One-fourth of the world's oil reserves are believed to be in the Arctic, and the melting of the Arctic ice sheets will make them (and largescale commercial fishing) more accessible. Northern Canada and the enormous land expanse east of the Ural mountains in Russia that is home to somewhere around 8 million people (an area roughly twice the size of the continental US, if memory serves) is brimming with stuff like timber, oil, natural gas, ore, and other natural resources. Further, much of it isn't far above sea level, so it's potentially inhabitable. The moderation of extreme climates in areas like the upper midwest would plausibly lead to more family formation in these areas, and, coupled with the corresponding harshening of conditions in places nearer the equator, might have a globalized eugenic effect. Some places would become less suitable for agriculture while others would become more so (with temperate areas benefitting and tropical areas suffering), but the time between sowing and harvesting would decrease worldwide, and increased carbon dioxide would stimulate faster crop growth. Moreover, moderate winters lead to more economic activity.
Cooling, on the other hand, would be certifiably disastrous, especially for the developed world (as more advanced societies tend to be further from the equator, in cooler regions). Imagine the chaos if the upper half of the US was covered in a perennial snow sheet. What of Scandanavia, Britain, Japan? Natural gas prices would skyrocket. Good for Russia (frozen though its inhabitants might be), not so good for Ukraine, or Europe for that matter. Food production would suffer. Natural resources would become harder to come by in temperate regions. Where's the upside? Lower sea levels perhaps would open up more land for settlement in coastal regions.
The head of the observatory's space research sector feels that the Kyoto protocols, will be especially damaging to northern countries:
Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century — when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland — could start in 2012-2015 and reach its peak in 2055-2060. He said he believed the future climate change would have very serious consequences and that authorities should start preparing for them today because "climate cooling is connected with changing temperatures, especially for northern countries."I don't profess to know enough to speculate one way or another on what will happen with regard to global climatic shifts in the future, but the putatively 'consensus' view that anthropogenic global warming is occuring and that humanity must do whatever it takes to stop it from occuring is anything but.
"The Kyoto initiatives to save the planet from the greenhouse effect should be put off until better times," he said, referring to an international treaty on climate change targeting greenhouse gas emissions.
Gene variation testing getting cheaper, easier (April 14, 2006)
We are approaching a new paradigm in the way human nature is understood (subscription required):
In Switzerland, a group of college students and local laborers sat down for a brief memory test a couple of years ago. They were given 30 words and then asked, five minutes later, to repeat them. On average, they recalled eight.
Last summer, American scientists equipped with a powerful new gene-testing technology gave this simple test an extra twist. DNA samples of the best and worst word-recallers were flown to Phoenix, where their DNA was checked with machines that can scour it for 500,000 genetic variations at lightning speed...
TGen got the DNA samples and used the new chips to scan all of the samples in less than a month. Dr. Stephan says the work turned up more than 100 gene variants that seemed to show up more frequently in people with good episodic memories. The researchers then repeated the experiments in two other groups, including 256 elderly people from the retirement community of Sun City, Ariz.
TGen researchers say they've narrowed their findings to what they believe to be five memory-related genes.
The opportunity to correlate different genetic variations with countless social, physiological, and psychological outcomes is going reveal the etiology of so much of the human diversity generally assumed to be caused by differences in environment.
The price of chips that detect over 300,000 genetic markers is falling rapidly:
While the technology is still expensive, in the past nine months the price of some chips has fallen rapidly to around $750 each, from $1,200, according to Dr. Stephan.That's roughly in line with Moore's Law. As the chips become less cost prohibitive, sociologists and other researchers will be able to start exploring the relationship between genes and virtually every human trait or behavior imanginable. Amateur enthusiasts will also be able to get into the game.
The memory test on Swiss kids is a short step away from being an IQ test. Predictably there is unease:
If the studies of gene variants do prove as powerful as adherents believe, they are likely to raise thorny societal issues. That's because the same tools that can find variants that raise disease risk might identify genes that influence any measurable human trait, including height, weight or even intelligence.Why be afraid of the truth? Celebrate diversity. Isn't that the mantra? Many putative diversity boosters want to break the perceived monopoly of the WASP burgher's value system, but they dogmatically maintain that the human mind is a tabula rasa. They do not want to discover the real causes of diversity, nor do they want to entertain diversity of thought.
Putting the controversy aside, the benefits of cheap and quick gene testing will be enormous. If your child has a gene variation that puts him at high risk for obesity, you will be able to form good eating habits early, like starting him on skim milk instead of whole milk. The military will be able to determine branch assignments based on risk tolerance. Those with the genes to thrive in high pressure situations can be put into infantry or artillery while the fainter of heart are assigned to support branches. Research will help the medical community better understand a host of diseases and how to combat them. Parents will be able to guide their kids into athletics or music or chess club based on inherent strengths. The list goes on forever.
Society as a whole will lose a lot of deadweight loss as people align their lives in ways that utilize personal strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and fulfill desires.
With senescence comes budget growth (February 3 2006)
In the 2006 State of the Union speech, President Bush lauded budget cuts and reductions in funding for porcine programs:
My budget substantially reduces or eliminates more than 150 government programs that are not getting results, or duplicate current efforts, or do not fulfill essential priorities. The principle here is clear: Taxpayer dollars must be spent wisely, or not at all.A cynic might snipe at the $500 billion that will have been spent on Iraq by the end of 2007. And certainly the budget cuts are diminutive in comparison to, well, much of anything. The $14 billion Bush has cut from the 2006 budget amounts to .005% (.00005 of the total budget mind you!).
Fundamental change has to occur for the lilliputian cuts to do anything more than score hollow ideological points. A staggering 47% ($1.32 trillion) of the 2006 federal budget will go to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Formulas for use of these programs are set by law--Bush cannot arbitrarily make cuts to them--the law must be changed. Demographic shifts make that increasingly unlikely, however, as some eighty million or so baby boomers will begin to become eligible for Social Security early retirement benefits. By early next decade, the diluge will be upon us. By 2040 it's estimated that every two workers will be funding the Social Security and Medicare costs of one retiree. With healthcare costs growing at three times the rate of inflation, that's going to be beyond untenable without huge cuts in benefits or devastating tax increases.
Medicare and Medicaid currently cost slightly more than Social Security, but they will extend their lead considerably in the coming years. By 2026 M&M will represent 22% of the US GDP (currently it's only 4.5%). Social Security's growth is flatter (4.2% of GDP today, projected to be 6.4% by 2050). The ominous portent referenced above is put into sharp contrast by these figures. Currently, the federal government's entire revenues amount to only 18% of GDP. In other words, if we were to be taxed at the same rates as we are today in 2050, we wouldn't even give up enough to pay for Medicare and Medicaid, let alone Social Security, interest on the public debt ($217 billion a year and growing), defense and education spending, and so forth.
Cutting benefits drastically, while infinitely appealing to my young mind, is becoming progressively less realistic as America ages. The political clout of groups like the AARP are going to increase, not decrease. The median age is already over 36, and it's becoming more grey by the day. Support for the Administration's Social Security partial privatization was strong among youths and eroded steadily as age increased (an aside: The puerile standing ovation the Democrats gave themselves when Bush mentioned his failed attempt at reform in the State of the Union address reminded me why, as disenfranchised as I feel by the Republican Party, my decision at the polls is always between Republican and third party).
Raising tax rates would obviously cause economic stagnation or even recession (estimates show that rates would have to rise above 50%). And increased tax rates are by no means directly equatable with higher government revenues. Slowed growth leads to less economic expansion, lower incomes, higher unemployment, and ultimately less money to tax.
Does a third option exist? SENS research theoretically could be an azoth, but beyond basic conceptuality it's too far over my head to comment on (if you're looking for a new destination for your charity dollars, this might be a cause to consider).
Another potentiality that is possible with current technology is the utilization of euthanasia for humans. The healthcare cost across the life an individual is a crescendo, increasing substantally as one enters the last years of life. The top 1% of people to whom health care expenditures are directed make up 12.8% of the total cost. The top 10% comprise over half. As people's bodies break down, they have to spend evermore on medicines and doctor's visits. The last few days can cost in the tens of thousands in some cases. Letting people go out on their own accord would lessen not only the financial burden of fighting a losing battle against undefeated death but also save the suffering of friends and family members who must witness the sad deterioration of one with Alzheimer's or terminal cancer. Further, it would alleviate pain by allowing one to drift comfortably to sleep instead of agonizing terribly and then dropping off.
Currently Oregon is the only state in the US with restricted voluntary euthanasia. There needs to be restrictions. For example, adolescents should be barred from it unless terminally ill and with the consent of parents. People deemed mentally unstable should similarly be restrained. But for those faced with a preciptous decline in health and quality of life should have the option to go out with dignity for the betterment of those they are leaving behind.
Japan today, Europe tomorrow, the US next week (January 5 2005)
The West (plus Japan) is moribund. It's dying faster than expected:
For the first time on record, Japan's population has started to decline -- a troubling demographic low point long expected but reached two years earlier than predicted. Figures released by the government, based on preliminary data up to October, show that the number of deaths exceeded births in 2005 for the first time since officials started keeping records in 1899.This problems this trend is likely to create beggars the imagination:
"If the number of children keeps decreasing, economic problems will result, such as a reduction in the labor force and a slowdown in spending," the Yomiuri Shimbun daily commented on Friday. "The sustainability of the social security system will be at risk, too."Shrinking numbers of younger workers will increasingly be employed in industries that provide services to the elderly instead of engaging in innovative and entrepreneurial activities that create wealth. Tax rates will be raised to cover the healthcare and social security costs for an expanding number of people who will require such services. This will further slow economic growth and human progression. Enormous amounts of human capital will leave the marketplace via retirement without being fully replaced. The economic pressure this will put on the shoulders of the younger may lead them to have even fewer children than their parents, further accentuating the problem. Hopefully SENS research will make a breakthrough that finally defeats aging and renders the problem of less fertility a thing of the past, but I'm not content to count on it.
As fewer children have been born, the ideal family size has also shrunk:
When preferred family size was first measured by Gallup in the U.S. in 1936, two thirds of Americans thought that three or more children were ideal, and the meanI am not aware of the trends in Japan, but here at home this is yet another badge of honor the sixties' cultural revolution can wear with pride. The revolution can put that ornament next to its accomplishments in plateauing the high school graduation rate, seeing that the poverty rate bottomed out, and pushing both the divorce and out-of-wedlock birth rates through the roof. The baby boomer generation came to an end in 1964, and the bra-burning, abortion-loving, pill-popping began.
number of children preferred was 3.6. Those preferences held steady for the next
three decades, through 1967. A poll conducted in 1973 recorded a substantial change -- with preference for three or more children declining to 51% and the mean number preferred dropping to 2.8. By 1980 the figures had dropped to 40% favoring three or more children, with an average number of 2.5. U.S. opinion on this issue has remained stable at this level since then.
Declining fecundity in the developed world is the most potent problem first world nations face. Yet it gets almost no attention. Bring it up and you're apt to get a baffled look followed by a response about how there are too many poor children in the world. Indeed there are. And there's not enough rich ones. Check out the CIA Factbook's fertility ranking by country. The top three baby bastions (average births per woman), and their PPP:
1) Niger, 7.55, $900
2) Mali, 7.47, $900
3) Somalia, 6.84, $600
And the most barren, followed by PPP:
1) Hong Kong, .93, $34200
2) Macau, 1.00, $19400
3) Singapore, 1.05, $27800
This obvious but often overlooked inverse relationship between wealth and procreation augments the gap between the haves and have-nots. It also has a dysgenic effect. If Bill and Melinda Gates have one child, at their passing the child stands to inherit $60 billion (for argument's sake--I realize the Gates have three children and do not plan on giving them much at this point). If Joe and Mary Janitor have five kids and a net worth of $50,000, each kid will get $10,000. This looks too much like Latin America. We have a prince with $60 billion and five paupers with a measly $10 grand.
If we swap fecundity, we start to look more like middle America. The Gates have five kids and the Janitors only have one. Thus, the five mini-Gates inherit $12 billion apiece, and the Janitor gets $50,000. From a prince and five paupers we go to five members of the aristocracy and one worker with enough to buy a modest house.
These are extremes, but they illustrate conceptually how the affluent having many kids and the impoverished having fewer children closes the wealth gap. In addition, IQ is largely heriditary (between 40% and 90% on the fringes, with 75% being a common assumption) and IQ and income have a moderate, (IQ explaining around 15%) statistically significant correlation. In the second scenario with five Gates and one Janitor, we close the wealth disparity and raise the population's average intelligence.
The child tax credit gives US taxpayers $1,000 (not a deduction from income, but an actual credit, which is essentially as good as cash) for each urchin, but it begins phasing out at an adjusted gross income of $110,000 for married couples and $75,000 for singles (it's completely gone at $129,001 and $94,001, respectively). The credit should instead increase as AGI increases to encourage those most able to have children to produce the little scamps, and conversely discourage those who cannot afford children from bringing them into life with the card's stacked against them. This proposal may sound callous, but if knee-jerk emotive reactions are discarded in favor of rationality, it really makes sense.
The West is dying. By 2050, the West (Western Europe, the US, Canada, Austalia, and New Zealand) will represent less than 10% of the world's population. Fifty years ago, it represented about 25%. The US is in better shape than Europe, with births per woman just a hair below replenishment at 2.08. But this is misleading, as it is immigrants from another culture who are pushing that number upwards (estimated at around 3.25 births for first generation Latinos). For non-Hispanic whites it is only 1.85.
We need policies that raise the number of immigrants of merit who come to the US and financial incentives that encourage natives, especially the middle and upper classes, to have more children. We can reverse this dwindling trend in births, but if we don't, dire consequences await.
Kyoto and energy (December 15 2005)
The Kyoto Treaty is dead in the water:
Even those who support radical cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions are realizing that the Kyoto Protocol is a failed instrument for achieving their goals. "The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge," says British Prime minister Tony Blair.And Britain has been an aberration among signatories--only five of the 156 countries who jumped on board the Kyoto have decreased emissions. Of these, only Great Britain and Germany have done so impressively:
Of the industrialised nations, only Britain seems to be having little trouble meeting its commitments, having even surpassed its target of 12.5 pct by cutting emissions 13 pct. Germany also reduced its emissions impressively, by 18.2 pct, but was short of its target of 21 pct, while France (1.9 pct), Luxembourg (16 pct) and Sweden (2.3 pct) also cut emissions.One step forward doesn't neutralize two steps backwards, unfortunately:
Eleven have reported increases since 1990, with huge rises seen in Spain (41.7 pct), Portugal (36.7 pct), Greece (25.8 pct), Ireland (25.6 pct), Finland (21.5 pct) and Austria (16.5 pct).The countries that have cut emissions, not surprisingly, are stuck in the doldrums of economic malaise. Britain has recently slashed its GDP growth rate to a paltry 1.75% while Germany turns in a similarly unstellar performance of 1.7%. France suffers from double-digit unemployment, among other things.
This marginally effective push to reduce emissions by many moral posturing industrialized nations (US and Australia are notably absent) reminds me of a sequence in Joseph Heller's Cath-22. Yossarian is tending to another soldier's arm wound taken from enemy fire, feverishly wrapping it up to stop the bleeding. In his momentary relief from getting the relatively minor injury to the arm taken care of, Yossarian realizes the guy's abdomen has been obliterated and his guts are literally spilling out onto the floor. China and India are collectively that abdomen:
By 2012, the plants in three key countries - China [1.926 billion], India [486 million], and the United States [275 million] - are expected to emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a Monitor analysis of power-plant construction data. In contrast, Kyoto countries by that year are supposed to have cut their CO2 emissions by some 483 million tons.In the ideal world where the Kyoto nations met their obligations, we could expect to see six times that amount added from just three other countries. The entire Kyoto protocols, if they were carried out to term would not even offset the growth of India. Of course, almost all the countries that are a party to Kyoto are failing dismally at even halting emissions growth, let alone decreasing them. And the explosion in China is the real story. Because oil is expensive and unstable, the PRC is turning to other methods of feeding its insatiable need for energy, namely coal:
"Environmental optimists were assuming the world was going to switch to gas, but when you're short of gas you use your own coal," says Philip Andrews-Speed, a China energy expert at the University of Dundee, in Scotland. "What you're seeing with China and the others is the cheapness and security of coal just overwhelming the desire to be clean."It's unfair to expect China to halt emissions growth, given that the country's PPP of $5,600 is among the world's lowest outside of Africa, northern South and Central America, and the crapistans. Being told to put the brakes on economic efficiency by countries with a standard of living ten times higher than their own is understandably scoffed at by the Chinese, who are building a new power plant every ten days or so.
Trying to regulate away greenhouse emissions is a pipe dream. Until alternative energy sources (check out Randall Parker's Futurepundit for insightful news about and analysis of them) become economically viable, they are going to be resisted because of their obvious deleterious effect on growth. Governments should be focusing on developing, directly and through tax incentives, these alternative sources so that industry will be encouraged rather than coerced into using them.
Tony Blair is right in pointing out that so long as lower emissions are cost-ineffective, mandating them will remain an exercise in futility. Companies will simply move to nations with more lax enforcement, further injuring the highly regulated nations and rewarding those with liberal allowances for emissions. By pouring money into research, perhaps something similar to the Manhattan Project but this time for energy production, governments and environmental groups can work to obsolesce fossil fuels like oil and coal.
Projects like FutureGen can help make fossil production much cleaner. This is the only way that emissions are going to be substantively cut. In addition, it would enhance US national security and be economically beneficial. Thumping morally superior chests and clamoring for draconian government anti-business mandates will solve nothing and only hurt those nations that buy into it.
Nuclear is currently the most feasible--it's cheap, removes dependency on foreign countries, and doesn't spit out any emissions. Although it is far off, nuclear fusion could plausibly provide an almost infinite amount of energy from a single source. Congress, with Bush's backing, has thankfully made some push to build more nuclear power plants in the US. Photovoltaics (solar), batteries, biodiesel, wind, and hydro are in play as well, although none of them are very competitive against fossil fuels at this juncture.
The numbers game is life or death (October 24 2005)
France recently instituted a eugenics program financed by the government. Well, sort of:
Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to €1,000 (£675) a month - almost the minimum wage - to stop work for a year and have a third child under a government scheme to boost the birthrate, already among the highest in Europe.
France is in trouble.
In a Europe facing serious demographic decline, France's buoyant birthrate of 1.9 children a woman is well above the average of 1.4 and surpassed only by Ireland. France can also boast one of the EU's highest rates of female employment: 81% of women between 25 and 49 are in work, including 75% of those with two children (and 51% of those with more than two).Indeed, all of the West is in trouble. The population replenishment rate is 2.1 children per woman. Who in the West (I am using the term broadly to encompass not only Western Europe, the US, and Canada, but also Australia, New Zealand, and Japan) is fecund enough to stop from shrinking? Using the list I just gave, the answer is no one. Here are the births-per-woman for some countries of interest:
Great Britain--1.66
New Zealand--1.79
The Netherlands--1.66
The only country above replenishment that can legitimately be considered 'Western' is Israel, at 2.44 births per woman. But certainly that boon is coming from the less endowed Sephardic (Middle Eastern Jews) community and from miasmic Palestinians living in Israel rather than from the incredibly industrious Ashkenazi (European) Jews.
The notoriously proud French want more Frenchies. They could open up the floodgates to more Islamic immigration, but Europe is collectively shifting away from it's belief that all people are essentially the same. The brutal murder of Theo Van Gogh following a film critical of Islam, the London and Madrid terrorist bombings, the Turkish-German underclass, just to name a few, are hardening the Old Continent against its destructive post-modern liberalism. Turkey, which would open up a conduit for Middle Easterners to flood into Europe, is likely not going to be admitted to the EU.
The problem with falling birth rates in developed countries is accentuated by the fact that, like cancer, it will not be obvious until it's much too late. Population decrease trails birth rate drops by generations. Consequently, we'll have an absurdly high ratio of old-to-young before any actually numerical shrinkage occurs. And unless births per women get back up to replenishment in those listed countries, it will perpetually be that way.
Say there are 50 men and 50 women that dropped out of the sky as infants (total 100). Each live to 95 and give birth to one child (the women does) at age 30. Thus, after 30 years we have 150 people. Of those 50 newborns, 25 are men and 25 are women who will follow the same pattern. Thirty years later, we have 175 people total: 100 at age sixty, 50 at thirty, and 25 infants (population still growing).
Another 30 years, with the same birth cycles for our third generation (say 13 are women, 12 are men) and we now have 188 people total. But the age distribution is economically disastrous: 100 people are ninety, 50 are sixty, 25 are thirty, and 13 are infants. Supporting the people on top is smothering the younger generations, especially the 25 who are currnetly thirty years old.
The economic burden of supporting the senescent people makes it likely that they will have even fewer children than they did (relative to their parents). It's a vicious circle. This is where the West is today. Thirty years later the proportions are the same, but the population has finally started shrinking (because the largest first generation finally kicked the bucket): 50 people at ninety, 25 at sixty, 13 at thirty, and six infants (94 total people).
Now we are in free-fall. Thirty years later at the same births per woman, and we have only 47 people (25 at ninety, 13 at sixty, 6 at thirty, and 3 infants). If we do finally get our act (er, bodies) together, it takes generations for the momentum to actually shift. Let's say instead of plummeting, that last generation actually became thrice as fertile and had three kids per woman: 25 at ninety, 13 at sixty, 6 at thirty, and 9 infants (total 53). The next generation similarly has three children per woman: 13 at ninety, 6 at sixty, 9 at thirty, and 13 infants (total 41). Three generations into three-children women: 6 at ninety, 9 at sixty, 13 at thirty, and 20 infants (total 48). Four generations of birthing well above the replenishment rate, and we still have less people than we did at the height of the single-child generation.
This is where the West is headed. For the US, we are lucky that our brethren across the Atlantic are going off the precipice first. Bringing the third-world into the US may fix the problem but will breed one that is much worse--we will become a mosaic of low-IQed, culturally-backward special-interests groups fighting in a democratic spoils system for a short-lived bounty. Here's a better solution: Be a patriot. Marry a beautiful, intelligent woman (or man as it were), make lots of money, and churn out lots of kids.
Instead of spurriosly arguing that religiosity leads to pathology, intellectuals should be looking at how religiosity might actually be helping keep the US birthrate from plunging as far as others in Europe. Something has to be done now, before it's too late.
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Deputies arrested a Lancaster woman Jan. 16 after an investigation into almost $8,000 in defrauded food stamps.
Janet Renee Helms, 33, 998 Hampton Grace Ave., was arrested on a charge of fraudulent acquisition or use of food stamps, valued at $5,000 or more, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
Firefighters with six different departments responded to a brush fire on Ponderosa Road outside Lancaster on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 30.
Whipped by winds in advance of a large thunderstorm system that crossed the region Wednesday evening, the fire spread rapidly, scorching five to six acres of property on both sides of the road.
All three Indian Land schools were locked down Tuesday, Jan. 29, after a man was seen near campus carrying what was thought to be a gun, but turned out to be a popular recreational replica.
Lancaster County School District Safety Director Bryan Vaughn said the incident happened about 2:20 p.m. just as students at Indian Land Elementary School were being dismissed for the day.
More church congregations than ever before are opening up their sanctuaries and hearts to help homeless families in Lancaster County.
To date, 20 local churches work with Family Promise, an interfaith network that provides housing and other life-enhancing resources for homeless families in the county.
An update on that list of churches, along with a financial overview and plans for generating money, was discussed during Family Promise of Lancaster County's annual meeting Tuesday, Jan. 29, at First Baptist Church.
Police arrested a Lancaster man last month in connection with entering a woman's home and punching a hole in a closet door.
Matthew Quantel Caldwell, 25, was charged Jan. 11 with first-degree burglary, according to Lancaster Municipal Court records.
Officers spoke with Caldwell and the female victim in the 2700 block of Pardue Street just before 10 p.m. that day, after responding to a possible burglary, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
Two people were arrested last month after the car they were riding in hit and damaged a telephone pole.
Lancaster Police Capt. Scott Grant said Angela Steele Starnes, 35, 4591 Foster Blackmon Drive, Heath Springs, and William Lee Pate, 24, 1004 Bubba Lane, Lancaster, were both arrested Jan. 3. Starnes was charged with driving under the influence, while Pate was charged with public drunk, Grant said.
A Kershaw man died late Monday night, Jan. 28, after he was shot in a Lancaster neighborhood on Saturday, in what police are calling the first murder of 2013.
Kevisis Anthony, 32, died from his injuries Monday at Carolinas Medical Center – Main in Charlotte, said Lancaster Police Capt. Scott Grant early Tuesday.
"This has turned into a murder investigation," Grant said.
"We are developing a suspect in the case and we have an intense investigation."
A Jan. 19 gun battle in Pageland left a Lancaster man critically wounded and two men in jail.
Thyze LaShown Hough, 18, of 5908 Henderson Road, Lancaster, was wounded in the shootout and, as of Tuesday, Jan. 29, remains hospitalized at Carolinas Medical Center Main in Charlotte.
According to a Pageland Police Department report, Michael Joseph Locklear, 31, of Pageland, has admitted to shooting Hough.
KERSHAW – Though interest was minimal to none at first, there have since been some residents to file for the three Kershaw Town Council seats up for election this year.
Three of the seven council seats are up for re-election in March – District 3, District 4 and one of the two at-large seats.
"Filing is picking up in District 3 but the other districts still only have one person," said Town Administrator Bryan Pettit.
Representatives of the Centralina and Catawba Regional councils of governments met with Indian Land residents to introduce Connect our Future, a three-year project that will help guide future growth in the 14-county region surrounding Charlotte.
The session, during a joint Indian Land Action Council/Indian Land Voices meeting at the Del Webb Library on Jan. 16, was the first of three scheduled meetings in Lancaster County.
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In September of 2007, the Mets (62-75) lost 12 of their last 17 games to blow a seven-game lead to Philadelphia. Several Jose Reyes brain cramps highlighted the collapse, but the game most people will remember is Tom Glavine not getting out of the first inning in the season finale, which turned out to be his last game as a Met. Glavine further alienated Mets' fans when he said he wasn't "devastated," by the loss. Glavine was speaking in the literal sense of the word, but emotionally charged Mets' fans wanted no part of it.
Last season, the final at Shea Stadium, the Marlins took it to the Mets in the season finale again as they dropped 10 of their final 17 games to kick away a 3 1/2-game advantage over the Phillies. Not only did the Phillies win the NL East, but went on to win the World Series.
The Marlins (72-65) have won seven of 12 games this season against the Mets (including splitting six games at Citi Field) and including tonight, have six games remaining against New York.


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A mighty river
Isaac and I enjoyed seeing the Ohio River at Henderson, KY, and again at Evansville, Indiana. We saw this beautiful sunset from a nice park on the riverfront in Henderson. It has many inviting benches, where you can rest and enjoy the view.
Several of the benches were occupied by groups of men who were chatting and watching the river. A few other people sat alone in the park.
A few blocks east of here, a wide, long, steep street leads right down into the water. It's a public access area to the river where anyone can put a boat into the water. It has parking spaces on both sides of it, so we drove about halfway down to the water and parked. It felt strange; we discussed whether cars ever tipped over sideways and rolled into the river. (Probably not.)
We got out and walked around briefly, but didn't loiter. We felt much safer on the high bank, above the river where the buildings sit, than on a steep downhill slope ending in water. Landlubbers like us have great respect for big rivers like this.


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GCHQ Used Fake Slashdot Page To Install Malware To Hack Internet Exchange
from the is-nothing-sacred? dept
According to the slides in the GCHQ presentation, the attack was directed at several Belgacom employees and involved the planting of a highly developed attack technology referred to as a "Quantum Insert" ("QI"). It appears to be a method with which the person being targeted, without their knowledge, is redirected to websites that then plant malware on their computers that can then manipulate them. Some of the employees whose computers were infiltrated had "good access" to important parts of Belgacom's infrastructure, and this seemed to please the British spies, according to the slides.Over the weekend it appears that Der Spiegel published a further report by Laura Poitras on this hacking, which revealed that the spoofed websites used to install this malware were none other than Slashdot and Linkedin. Interesting choices.
Update: Nicholas Weaver explains what happened in much more detail. It's not a fake page, but a packet injection attack.


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Dear Brandon,Sorry that you felt the need to change the opinion America has of the Hantz family. In that way you have succeeded. Now they don't just think we're a bunch of slimey lowlifes, they think we're crazy whiners as well. Thanks for blowing our chance at a million...againLove,Uncle Russell(obviously a joke and not any way shape or form a real letter from Russell Hantz to his nephew) I think Brandon shold have brought a brain for his luxury item even though they stopped bringing those.. If they had known CBS would have made an exception
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