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Imagine if that old games console in the attic could play you a tune. Chiptune music takes its inspiration – and its source material – from the unlikeliest of sources, and is creating its own superstars.
Part of the enduring appeal of music, of all genres, is how it can be a touchstone. A song can evoke specific memories, taking you back to a different part of your life. Even before the first chords have finished playing, you're back in high school, or losing your virginity, or partying at Glastonbury that one time when the heavens opened. But when a piece of music happens to be composed of the sounds associated with youth and growing up, things get a bit more, well, memorable. This is chiptune music.
If you've never heard of chiptune music, then don't be too surprised. For although it's been around for several years, it has only recently started to break into the wider music consciousness. At its most basic, the genre consists of music made from the distinct digital sound tones generated by old school video game systems. Imagine that the bleeping and blooping from a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or Gameboy has been manipulated and programmed to create a full-length, fleshed out piece of pop music. That's chiptune. And while it might sound extremely simplistic and one-dimensional, there is a lot more to the genre of music than first meets the ear.
Just ask Pixelh8. The composer, otherwise known as Matthew Applegate (b. 1977), is regarded as one of the leading chiptune producers in the UK today. Applegate grew up in suburban Britain, initially listening to artists like Prince and REM. However, an early decision to get involved with electronic music led to a unique realisation – if he was going to be successful, he had to take the sounds of his environment. It was a path that would, somewhat incongruously, lead him directly to chiptune.
"I found out about people like [composer] John Cage, and started experimenting more and taking the sounds from my environment," says Applegate, "and my environment was suburbia. I was surrounded by technology, surrounded by video games and I thought, I'm not Mozart or Bach, I don't have tweeting birds at the bottom of my garden. I have things buzzing and alarms going off." Like many growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s, Applegate had access to early gaming systems, and he found himself becoming increasingly inspired by their seemingly straightforward noises.
To create chiptune music (at least, if you're using the actual console hardware as opposed to a software instrument on a PC) you have to be familiar with certain programming languages – including some as esoteric as the 6502 Assembly Language for the NES. Along with Nintendo, Applegate learned to take apart and reprogram machines like the ZX Spectrum and BBC microcomputers. Soon, he was programming the sound chips of these machines, 8-bit processors (the term refers to the amount of data they can handle) with a very limited number of sounds. But despite, or perhaps because of, these limitations, Applegate soon found himself creating swirling soundscapes and leftfield pieces of pop music.
Today, Applegate is a full-time composer, who has not only produced full-length albums of chiptune music, but has also worked to create audio projects with Cambridge University and Bletchley Park. "With all the technology invading our lives and taking away our relationships with other people," he says, "stripping away connections to everyone else, people are taking this technology that often separates us and using it to write something primordial to reconnect people and express themselves. They are taking something very corporate, something designed to be bought and sold, and turning it into something that is their passion and with which they communicate; I think it's fantastic. Music has a very strong mental and physical impact on people. When you play people rhythm, they respond to it emotionally. I like the fact that we are taking something that is very electronic and putting emotions into it."
Chiptune music has come a long way since consoles like the early Nintendos were the norm in many households. For starters, it's as close to mainstream acceptance as it will ever be, and has become an established part of the musical landscape worldwide. It has its own festivals, including Blip Festival in New York City (the city seems to be very much a base for chiptune, housing pioneers like Bitshifter and Nosleep). And like many ascendant genres, it has its own superstars.
Take Anamanaguchi. The New York band – who combine traditional guitar and drum sounds with NES, Gameboy and Commodore 64 sound effects to create a frenetic pop music – are riding the crest of a wave at the moment. This is largely thanks to their involvement in the massively popular Scott Pilgrim comic book series, or rather, the recently released film and accompanying licensed videogame. It was the game that got them noticed; a decidedly retro affair, it was a side scrolling Playstation Network beat-'em-up, reminiscent of classic games like Streets Of Rage, with wonderfully old school graphics. Anamanaguchi was a perfect pick to provide the soundtrack, and it's won them, and chiptune, legions of new fans.
Pete Berkham (b. 1988) plays guitar and NES for the group. "Scott Pilgrim just came to us – it was pretty sweet actually," says the laid-back musician." We put out [our album] Dawn Metropolis in March 2009, and that was the first album we did that wasn't just a recording in my basement. It wasn't so much a departure as an evolution. Four months later, I got a call from [game developer] Ubisoft asking us for some music for a game, but it was a really weird moment when we were asked to do it. We were on tour and at this house party, and I had fallen asleep on the couch. There was a coffee table in front of the couch with a copy of Scott Pilgrim Volume 1. I'd never read it, but I looked at it and thought, this is totally awesome. Four hours later, we woke-up to get some coffee, and that's when I got the phone call."
Anamanaguchi's music typifies much of the genre's output. Much of chiptune is suited to fast, frenetic and hugely upbeat music. Certainly for Berkham's band, it works: they have a dedicated live following, and one of the few acts to successfully translate chiptune into a traditional live environment. You're as likely to see them rocking out at a student pub as you are to see them onstage at Blip Festival – even if sound engineers look at them very strangely when asked to configure a Gameboy.
More importantly, Berkham gets the appeal of chiptune music. He gets the raw excitement that comes from hearing extremely evocative sounds transformed – especially in a live setting. "You're hearing the most primitive of electronic sounds coming out of huge speakers," he says, "and that's just awesome to me. It's almost the same feeling you would have got in the 1970s, when all you had was ABBA and the Bee Gees, and then all of a sudden some dude at CBGB, the New York City underground rock club, was playing this huge, distorted guitar. We're not nerds, we're not cool, we're not electronic, we're not rock, so you just see every kind of person at the show, and they're all having a good time."
Chiptune has been around as a genre long enough (albeit in a slightly low-key way) to have developed its own internal debates and points of view. For starters, there are some who don't even consider it a genre – at least, not in the traditional sense. Applegate, for one, is of the opinion that it is merely a set of tools for creating music, rather than a musical entity in its own right.
"It's the instrumentation," he muses. "You can do quite a lot with it. You can do quite dancey stuff and you can do ballads. You can combine live drumming and singing with chiptune music. So for me, it's not a genre at all – it's just instrumentation that you can do a lot of things with."
And perhaps that's the most surprising thing about chiptune. Whether you gravitate towards the massively fast paced and funky Anamanaguchi or the more considered Pixelh8, any chiptune song has the potential to become a touchstone of its own. Its seemingly basic sound effects can evoke extremely specific memories, taking the listener back to a time when life was simpler and all you needed to keep you occupied on a rainy afternoon was a plastic console and Super Mario Bros.
For more info on Pixelh8, visit www.pixelh8.co.uk, and on Anamanaguchi, visit www.anamanaguchi.com.
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In a medium saucepan whisk together 1/3 cup sugar and 5 TB cornstarch. Pour in one 14 oz. can light coconut milk (I used Trader Joe's brand) and cook, stirring or whisking constantly, over medium-high heat until thick.
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8 Dos and Don'ts of Filling Out Your NCAA Bracket
The NCAA Tournament is upon us, which means it's time to grab a pen and fill out your bracket before you feign sickness and call out of work so you can watch nothing but basketball for days on end.
There's no real science involved, but there are some smart things you can to help increase your chances of winning your pool. Luckily for you, we know them and plan to share them, so sit up straight and pay attention.
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Do Pick a #1 Seed to Go to the Final Four
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Every year that the First Four, or so-called 'play-in games,' has taken place since it began in 2011, at least one team involved advanced past the field of 64. In 2011, VCU's unlikely journey to the Final Four began with an opening round victory over USC as an 11-seed. In 2013, 13th-seeded LaSalle beat Boise State and made it to the Sweet 16 where they were taken down by eventual Final Four participant and fellow Cinderella Wichita State. So, not only can they win, but they may even go far.
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Do Pick a 5-Seed to Beat a 12-Seed
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It's yet to happen since the field grew to 64 teams in 1985 and only once has a 16-seed even taken a 1-seed to overtime (1990, when Murray State pushed Michigan State to the brink). Yes, sometimes the games are close and 15 seeds have taken down 2-seeds seven times, but don't be the yokel that goes against the grain and picks the 16-seed. Until it actually happens, don't bet on it.
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Look, sometimes your gut tells you a top seed will go down to a 9-seed in the third round. This is where pools are won – having the nerve to go against a team everyone has winning it all, but doing it for the right reasons, like the defensive matchups, injury concerns or a coach having a proven track record. Did you have ninth-seeded Wichita State topping top-seeded Gonzaga last year? If you did, you probably did your bracket a world of good. Sometimes, going out a well-educated limb pays off.
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From Lumberjacks and Lobos to Blue Devils and Blue Hens, there are a lot of quirky mascots,but picking them based on names? This is just nonsense. Leave it for the clueless folks who joined your office pool because they thought it'd be neat. If you're picking North Dakota State because the team is the Bison then may we interest you in investing in our 8-track stereo system because that's also just wasting your money.
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Do Know When to Stop Picking Cinderella
We all know the storybook runs Butler, VCU, George Mason and Wichita State enjoyed en route to the Final Four over the years, but here's a startling fact: no team seeded 12thor lower has ever made it that far. Midnight will most likely strike before college basketball's final weekend. And the lowest-seeded national champion is Villanova, who won the whole kit and caboodle as an 8-seed way back in 1985.
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Don't Bet Against Repeats
When picking the Final Four, take a look at who made it last year. Odds are a team playing in the Final Four played in it the previous season: the last time no team made it the year before was 2006.


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When Sergio Aguero crashed home the injury time winner to secure Manchester City's Premier League title, he almost certainly gave little thought to the financial ramifications of his well taken goal, but it could be argued that this sublime moment provided the impetus for last week's record television deal, which has climbed around 70% to £3 billion over the next three-year cycle. As the Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said, "We couldn't have gone to market at a better time."
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
In The Premier League, The Sun Always Shines On TV
When Sergio Aguero crashed home the injury time winner to secure Manchester City's Premier League title, he almost certainly gave little thought to the financial ramifications of his well taken goal, but it could be argued that this sublime moment provided the impetus for last week's record television deal, which has climbed around 70% to £3 billion over the next three-year cycle. As the Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said, "We couldn't have gone to market at a better time."
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In the US, the huge new TV deals for the major sports have been attributed partly to the fact sports is the last "Tivo/DVR/PVR"-proof television product, the last one people need to see live.
Do you think that's part of the factor in the Premier League's vast increase?Replies@Mark Coale,
Yes, I think that's absolutely correct. Very few "products" possess that quality.
One area that I didn't explore in this piece, but did in my last one on UEFA's finances is the huge sums paid for American sport, such as the NFL, which possibly point the way forward for TV rights.
Of course, one big question for the future is how this will be affected by technology. Not sure that anyone knows the answer to that one.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM
MLS might adopt UEFA financial fair play in the near future. It might look like this if it gets the approval of 2/3 majority of owners.
1/3 of revenue = maximum salary budget
$30 mil revenue: $10 mil salary budget (maximum)
$20 mil revenue: $6.67 mil salary budget (maximum)
$15 ml revenue: $5 mil salary budget (maximum)
$10 mil revenue: $3.33 mil salary budget (maximum)
In addition, there will be significant revenue sharing in which high-revenue MLS clubs helping the low-revenue MLS clubs financially. This is an incentive to get more low-revenue clubs on board (need 2/3 majority to pass or 13 out of 19 clubs).
Right now in MLS, a club that generate $50 million in revenue a year are kept back at the same level as a $10 mil revenue club due to the $2.5 million hard salary cap (DPs cost $350,000 toward the cap). - JupiterJune 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Why have you repeated the myth that the SPL TV deal depends on 4 old firm games a season?
Is it really a myth? Not according to the SPL chief executive. Here's just 3 reports on the SPL TV deal:
Fantastic piece! On the technology front, I think this is where US Sports have been ahead of the Premier League and UEFA in utilising New Media, and despite the big increase in the new deal, it actually had potential to grow even more. Online video rights (currently sold as just highlight reels) still make a very small proportion of the rights.
The next round of bidding will be very interesting if rumours hold true, the likes of Google/Apple getting a piece of the pie could blow Sky off the water.- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM
brilliant article - one of the main things I think will come of this is that the amount of debt as a percentage of revenue for each club will most definately decrease dramatically, which can only be a good thing for the majority of clubs. That would be an interesting thing to look at....
For example, at the moment, Everton are paying c£5m per annum in interest payments on their debt. This TV deal will more than cover this, and hopefully make them financially stable again....Heres hoping!! Awesome piece, Swiss!
In addition to the coming Overseas Rights, the most interesting thing to keep an eye on for EPL fans will be what is touched on in the section on Real Madrid and Barcelona. It does sound like the pressure in La Liga is reaching that same threshold that it did in Serie A where the Big Clubs had to knuckle under to the other clubs in terms of revenue split. Recalling your pieces on Juve and Inter, that had a decent impact on their revenues.
Two questions, which may be better for a longer piece down the road:
(a) where do you think La Liga' top-to-bottom ratio will fall relative to the other top leagues:
2.0 Germany
3.5 France
4.2 Italy
(b) applying an estimate to that reduction to RM & Barca's tv revenue, where do you think they would end up relative to the top EPL teams relative to the new tv deal?- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM
A glaring inaccuracy - the caption for the Rooney photo should be "You RAISE me up". Or ideally something more offensive...
Otherwise excellent article. Is there any reason why the League cannot give money to clubs on condition they spend it in a certain way e.g. ticket price initiatives? - AnonymousJune 24, 2012 at 12:01 AM
The collective deal in Serie A didn't really hurt the big clubs, they're pretty much earning the same amount from the league because the deal was so much larger than the total of all previous individual rights. The main problem was a huge dent in commercial revenues due 2006 scandal, and/or falling out of the CLs (esp. the case for Juve, they had a huge commercial deal about 5/6 years ago before relegation).
Collective deals actually bring in more money in total as there is more value in centralising rights. My guess is a much larger total amount for collective rights together with skewing distribution will mean Real and Barca won't lose out too much, plus both have massive commercial revenues and membership fees.RepliesSwiss: Thanks for the response.
I probably wasn't clear. In the past, the growth of the deal would mostly have gone into the pockets of the Serie A Big Clubs. With the newer deal, the growth largely balanced out the give back to the smaller clubs. Long term, there will be normal growth for all if TV money continues to go up.
I was thinking in terms of La Liga in the same way. RM and Barca look at the EPL tv deal and dream of their own tv revenue going up 60% in their next contract. Instead, the growth of Spanish TV money will go largely to balance out the have/have not ratio. In contrast to the EPL where the English Big Clubs will all be getting 60% bumps (assuming overseas deals are similar in boosts). Relative to United, Chelsea and City, Barca's and RM may have flat tv revenue under their new deal while the EPL's skyrockets.
I'm with you that they won't lose much because of their other revenue streams. Just that flat Barca & RM TV revenue in this cycle may see United zoom past them.- DesDizzyJuly 7, 2012 at 7:48 PM
Would seem highly unlikely, with the present state of the Spanish TV market, that RM and Barca wouldn't have to take a revenue cut, absent a new entrant such as Spanish BSkyB or similar foreign domestic entrant.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 6:39 PM
I love how your writing makes the content so entertaining and worth reading. Thanks a lot!
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Great article, just starting to read through all your earlier articles, keep up the good work!
I have just one question: how come Tottenham has more live matches than Arsenal and receives higher facility fees than both Arsenal and Liverpool?
Would say the latter two clubs are clearly more established brands. City also isn't as known and well supported as Arsenal or Liverpool, but I can understand them being shown more often live because of their new fortunes, but Tottenham? - AnonymousJuly 4, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Please contact the folks at Howler and ask to write for them. Your stuff would be perfect for their long-form magazine, and they could make you pretty graphics too!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJuly 4, 2012 at 12:27 AM
Is at some point the way forward for each club to sell their matches via a stream (since that's how we'll be getting all our content in a decade)? Or some kind of a-la-carte match purchase directly from the league or the clubs?


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Pretty blank slate.
My dream bedding went on sale...
And I begged and pleaded with the hubs to let me have a chandelier instead of a ceiling fan. It was days and days of me being annoying until he couldn't take it anymore...
I instantly fell in love with the color of the grellow bedding against the wall color {Behr's Frozen Pond}. It was a match made in bedroom heaven.
But what to do with that giant wall behind the bed? It spoke to me. It told me that I should add some decorative moulding. So I listened.
However, our bedroom is a bit obnoxious {for lack of a better word}. It has a ledge wall on the left side, and a supporting beam to the right. So we couldn't just do even rectangle panels. We had to get a bit fancy. I did a quick mock-up before we got started, so we were both on the same page:
As I have mentioned before, we project a lot at night when the kiddos are in bed. How lucky are we that they can sleep through compressors and air nailers?
We picked up 10 pieces of 8ft x 1 1/8 x 7/16 in polymer cap moulding from Home Depot.
We drew out a plan on a piece of paper and wrote down all of the measurements. We centered the bed. Then measured out from there. One large panel, two smaller on each side to frame the night stands.
Bryan cut down all of the 90 degree corners based on our measurements.
Then, used a level and actually drew pencil lines right on the wall, so he knew right where he would be nailing in the moulding.
He also used the level while nailing the moulding. Just to make sure it was all nice and straight.
Over halfway done! I was loving it!!!
Through the special powers of the internet, we got it all done, just like that! {Oh, my husband wishes that was true!}
Once all of the moulding was in place, we just used some white painters caulk to fill in all of the nail holes, just like we did when we painted the trim in our upper level. Because this trim was a polymer finish, we didn't need to paint a thing. The caulk was the finishing touch.
So we moved back all of our belongings, I stole the sunburst mirror from our living room, we hung it and went to sleep feeling like we were just upgraded at a fancy pants hotel.
Waking up to this...
Because we didn't use one piece of moulding, the total cost for the trim was only $27. Yep, a 27 dollar wall treatment that makes all the difference in the space. Love.
Is this a happy before and after story?
I like shots that show progression. They make me giddy!
It's getting there! Still things to do, like add an area rug, dress up the bedding a bit more, add window treatments and address the completely empty wall on the opposite end of the bed, but this was HUGE progress for the space. Progress that I am loving!
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Living here I don't have the luxury of eating Malaysia Bak Kua. I am able to buy them in New York but they do not taste good at all. They claimed to be made by Malaysian but it just doesn't have the taste of the one from home. I tried making this once but it didn't turn out too well either. It was too oily (because of the fatty ground pork) and the taste was out. I didn't like it at all. So I stay away from making this for a few years.
2 pounds ground pork –with a bit of fat on it
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
3/4 cup sugar
3 tbsp dark brown sugar
Juice of half orange (about 4 tbsp)
Zest of one orange
1. Line 2 baking pan with heavy aluminum foil and set it aside.
2. Put all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Using a big spoon mix it really well. Cover with plastic wrap and let it marinate in the fridge for an hour.
3. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degree F. Spread the marinate meat thinly onto the baking sheets. Use a spatula or the back of the spoon to do this and dipping it in water occasionally. This way it will prevent the meat from sticking to the spoon or spatula.
4. Place the baking pan in the oven and let it bake slowly for 15-20 minutes. At this stage you can see juices appear, the meat will shrink and the edges dry out.
5. Remove from oven and cool it down a bit and cut it into square with pizza cutter or scissors. Turn the oven to broil.
6. Line the cut meat back on the tray. Broil the meat on both side until brown and sizzle . This will only take 5-6 minutes (you have to watch this as it turn dark pretty fast)
7. Let it cool and keep it in an air-tight container.
Note: I put a bit too much of black soy sauce that is why the bak kua look a bit dark. I already adjust the quantity of the black soy sauce in the recipe. If you like to grill this, you can do so. Just cut and grill it after step 5.


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Have you ever heard the word albino? It's a word that's sometimes used to describe a condition called albinism (say: AL-buh-nih-zum). Humans, animals, and even plants can have this condition, which means that the person, animal, or plant doesn't have the usual amount of pigment, or color.
You might know that albinism causes a kind of pale appearance. But what exactly causes albinism?
Understanding Albinism
To understand albinism, you need to first know about melanin (say: MEL-uh-nin). Melanin is a chemical in our bodies that colors our skin, eyes, and hair. It's made by melanocytes (say: muh-LAH-nuh-sytes), which are cells found in the bottom layer of your skin.
Sometimes, a kid or an animal might be born whose body can't make a normal amount of melanin. This is what happens with albinism, which can show up as a lack of pigment (color) in the skin, eyes, hair, fur, or feathers of that kid or animal. There are different kinds of albinism. Some kids with albinism might have pale skin or hair. Other types of albinism might affect only the eyes.
Most kids with albinism have blue eyes, and others have brownish eyes. In some cases of albinism, a kid's eyes might appear pink or reddish. This isn't because the iris (the colored part of the eye) is pink or red. It's because the iris actually has very little color. The eyes appear pink or red because the blood vessels inside of the eye (on the retina) show through the iris.
Stay in the Shade
Besides giving your skin, eyes, and hair its color, melanin helps protect your skin from the sun. You know how a person's skin gets darker after hanging out at the beach? That's your melanin at work, darkening your skin to give it more protection from the sun's rays. So, without enough melanin, your skin won't be able to protect itself. Kids with albinism can get sunburned very easily.
That's why it's a good idea for anyone with albinism to stay covered while in the sun (or even to stay out of the sun completely). Kids with albinism can go to the beach and spend time outdoors, but they have to use lots of sunscreen and watch the amount of time they're soaking up rays. Kids with albinism should talk to their doctors to find out whether it's OK to spend any time in the sun.
Vision Problems
Some kids with albinism wear glasses or contact lenses to help them see better. Others might need eye surgery. An eye doctor can help figure out ways to help a person with albinism see better.
Another problem for kids with albinism is that their eyes can be very sensitive to light. The iris usually helps control the amount of light coming into your eye and hitting your retina, which is located at the back of your eyeball. When a person has albinism, the iris doesn't have enough color and can't properly shield the retina from light. So, kids with albinism often squint in bright light. Wearing sunglasses or tinted contact lenses can help make a kid with albinism more comfortable out in the sun.
What Causes It?
You can't "catch" albinism, like you catch a cold or the flu. It's caused by a person's genes. You might have learned about genes in science class, but what exactly are they?
Everyone's body is made up of billions of cells, which are too small to see without a strong microscope. Inside these cells are things called chromosomes, which contain hundreds, or even thousands, of genes. These genes give us our physical traits — how we look — and lots of other stuff about us, like the instructions our body parts need to work properly.
Genes carry the information that makes you an individual. Genes tell your body whether to give you curly or straight hair, long or short legs, or even brown or blue eyes. You might have heard people say you have eyes like your mom, hair like your dad, a smile like your grandma, or a laugh like your grandpa. Why? Because they passed some of their genes on to you!
Everyone has two sets of genes. Half of your genes are from your dad, and half are from your mom. Sometimes, a mom and a dad might carry an "albinism gene" but not show any signs of albinism themselves. But they might have a kid who has albinism. How can that be?
Well, this happens because each parent has a normal pigment gene and an albinism gene. For a kid to have albinism, the dad's albinism gene and the mom's albinism gene both have to get passed on to the kid.
But if a kid gets an albinism gene from one parent and a normal pigment gene from the other, the kid won't have albinism. Instead, the kid will be a "carrier" of an albinism gene — which means he or she would have one normal pigment gene and one albinism gene. So, if that kid grows up and has a child with someone who is also a carrier of an albinism gene, there would be a chance that their child might have albinism.
So what about kids with light skin and light hair . . . or animals with white fur or feathers? Do they have albinism? Not necessarily. Their genes may tell them to be light-skinned or fair-haired, like their mom or dad. Likewise, not all animals with white fur or feathers have albinism. Polar bears, for instance, have genes that tell them to be white.
What's Life Like for Someone With Albinism?
Kids with albinism are just like other kids — they just need to talk with their doctor about taking care of their eyes and skin, especially if they're going to be in the sun. And albinism doesn't stop kids from reaching their goals. Lots of kids with albinism have grown up to be doctors, lawyers, musicians, and athletes. Most kids with albinism can be anything they want to be, just like any other kid!
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I had a bit of goats cheese to use and I was thinking about just crumbling it over a salad but then I thought, no I can do something more creative with this. While I was looking through my fridge for ideas I noticed some of the red peppers that I had roasted and frozen in the fall and I knew that the sweet and smoky roasted red peppers would go perfectly with the tangy goat cheese. Right beside the red peppers was some bread and I recalled my experiments with pestos in grilled cheese sandwiches and I knew that I would have to try making a grilled goat cheese and roasted red pepper pesto sandwich. Five minutes later I had a batch of roasted red pepper pesto and a few minutes after that I was enjoying a little piece of heaven in my mouth, well, after taking some photographs that is. I made sure to bring the goat cheese up to room temperature before making the sandwich and by the time it came off the grill pan it was just starting to get all melty and good! The creaminess of the goat cheese played really well with the sweet and flavourful pesto and the buttery, crispy fried bread coating finished everything off perfectly.
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Winter officially begins on December 22, but frigid temps have already impacted many parts of the country. Keep your children safe and warm this winter with these tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics:
- Dress infants and children warmly for outdoor activities. Several thin layers will keep them dry and warm. Don't forget warm boots, gloves or mittens, and a hat.
- The rule of thumb for older babies and young children is to dress them in one more layer of clothing than an adult would wear in the same conditions.
- Blankets, quilts, pillows, bumpers, sheepskins and other loose bedding should be kept out of an infant's sleeping environment because they are associated with suffocation deaths. One-piece sleepers or wearable blankets are preferred.
- If a blanket must be used to keep a sleeping infant warm, it should be thin and tucked under the crib mattress, reaching only as far as the baby's chest, so the infant's face is less likely to become covered by bedding materials.
- If your child suffers from winter nosebleeds, try using a cold air humidifier in the child's room at night. Saline nose drops or petrolatum jelly may help keep nasal tissues moist. If bleeding is severe or recurrent, consult your pediatrician.
- Many pediatricians feel that bathing two or three times a week is enough for an infant's first year. More frequent baths may dry out the skin, especially during the winter.
- Cold weather does not cause colds or flu. But the viruses that cause colds and flu tend to be more common in the winter, when children are in school and are in closer contact with each other. Frequent hand washing and teaching your child to sneeze or cough into the bend of her elbow may help reduce the spread of colds and flu.


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Samsung 31-inch OLED screen prototype to be displayed at CES 2008. OLED panels are the next big thing when it comes to TVs and other consumer electronics from cameras to cell phones. The OLED screen promises more compact dimensions, less power consumption and brighter images.
Small OLED screens are currently found on some cell phones and LCD TV makers are looking for larger OLED screens to use in HDTVs. Reuters reports that Samsung recently unveiled a 31-inch active-matrix OLED screen. Samsung says it will have a 31-inch OLED prototype TV on display at CES 2008 in January.
Samsung declined to comment on the commercial availability of TVs using the 31-inch OLED panel stating that the panel being available for retail purchase would depend on TV makers??™ plans. With the very high cost of the Sony XEL-1, the first commercially available OLED TV retailing for over $1,700 USD, the price for a 31-inch Samsung panel equipped OLED TV is a frightening thought for many. Samsung didn??™t comment on potential pricing for TVs using its 31-inch OLED panel.
Samsung says its new 31-inch OLED panel is only 4.3mm thick and uses less than half the power required of a typical 32-inch TV. The panel??™s lifespan is 35,000 hours, which is the best lifespan of existing AM-OLED panels. Exactly how many of the panels Samsung will be able to produce is unknown. Sony is limited to 2,000 of its XEL-1 11-inch OLED TVs per month because of production limits for the OLED panels. Toshiba announced in December of 2007 that it would not be bringing its similarly sized OLED panel to market citing production cost concerns.


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Baku-APA. Saudi Arabia's king granted women seats on the country's top advisory council for the first time on Friday, giving them a long-awaited toehold in the ultraconservative kingdom's male-dominated political system, APA reports quoting Associated Press.
King Abdullah's decrees come against the backdrop of heavy restrictions on women, who are not allowed to travel, work, study abroad, marry, get divorced or gain admittance to a public hospital without permission from a male guardian. Recently, airport authorities were instructed to send text messages to the phones of male guardians — husbands, fathers or brothers — with information about the movements of their wives, daughters or sisters.
"The decision is good but women issues are still hanging," said Wajeha al-Hawidar, a prominent Saudi female activist. "For normal women, there are so many laws and measures that must be suspended or amended for women to be dealt with as grown-ups and adults, without a mandate from guardians."
But she said that having female members of the council could help to change the image of women in society.
"Men can finally respect women when they see them playing a (traditional) male role," she said.
The nation's official news agency said the king issued two royal decrees granting women 30 seats on the Shura Council, which has 150 members plus a president. The council reviews laws and questions ministers, but does not have legislative powers. All members are appointed by the king and serve four-year terms.
Since 2006, women have been appointed only as advisers to the body.
The king has made incremental steps toward reform but appeared to be treading carefully to avoid angering powerful religious clerics, among them the country's grand mufti who most recently spoke out against the mixing of genders last week. In modern Saudi Arabia, which is the birthplace of Islam and the home of its holiest sites, the governing Al Saud family supports the clerics and the clerics support the family's rule.
According to the decrees, the female council members must be "committed to Islamic Shariah disciplines without any violations" and be "restrained by the religious veil." The veil in Saudi Arabia typically refers to a full face covering, also known as a niqab.
The decrees also specified the women will be entering the council building from special gates, will sit in reserved seats and pray in segregated areas.
Earlier, officials said male and female council members would be separated by a screen and would communicate on an internal network.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union, an international organization of parliaments, commended the move as "another step forward" for women's political rights in Saudi Arabia.
"Until the announcement last September by King Abdullah to give women the right to vote, stand for election in municipal elections and be appointed to the Shura Council, the Gulf country remained the only country in the world where women remained excluded from the political process," the IPU said in a statement.
Although the council does not have law-making powers, the IPU said the 20 percent quota given to women in the Shura Council makes Saudi Arabia the fourth highest in the Arab region in terms of women's political participation in parliament.
Rights advocates have demanded the kingdom give women more of a voice as many step up challenges to the country's religious establishment, which adheres to Wahhabism, one of the strictest interpretations of Shariah law in Islam. Several women defied a ban in the kingdom on driving last year.
Wahhabism, well known for its adherence to strict segregation of the sexes, insists on ideological purity and calls for punishments, such as beheadings and hand amputations, for specific crimes. Under the law, clerics sit as judges in courts and religious police prevent single or unrelated men and women from mixing.
In the kingdom, unrelated couples, for example, can be punished for being alone in the same car or having a cup of coffee in public. Many Saudis observe such segregation even at home, where they have separate living rooms for male and female guests.
In 2009, King Abdullah inaugurated the first university where male and female students share classes. He also granted women the right to run for office in the 2015 municipal elections, which is the only open election in the country. Women will not need a male guardian's approval to run or vote.


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North Korea is offering its view of President Obama's trip to Asia and it isn't pretty. The official North Korean news agency used especially harsh language about South Korea's president who hosted Obama last week. By the way, we're about to hear more about that harsh language, so consider this a head's up if any children are listening. Here's NPR's Michele Kelemen.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: The statement is ironically from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea. It blasts South Korean President Park Geun-hye for hosting President Obama at a time when the country's in mourning over the ferry tragedy and for using the meeting to threaten North Korea. It says Park was like a quote "capricious whore" asking her fancy man to do harm to another while providing sex to him.
A South Korean spokesman urged the North to stop the foul language. A senior fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Scott Snyder, says he doesn't expect the U.S. or the Republic of Korea to get into a war of words with the north.
SCOTT SNYDER: There's never any benefit to trying to get into a shouting match with North Korea. They'll always find a way to trump you on the rhetoric.
KELEMEN: Snyder says the committee that put out the statement is known for its propaganda, but this was more, as he puts it, high decibel than usual, so North Korea watchers took note.
SNYDER: You know, one way of measuring the success of U.S.-ROK summits is how the North Koreans respond. By that measure, I would say that President Obama's trip to South Korea was very successful.
KELEMEN: Before this, Snyder says, the North had been sending mixed signals to the South, offering condolences for the victims of the ferry disaster, so he was a bit surprised by the personal attack on President Park. So was former White House advisor on North Korea, Victor Cha, who thinks this tells you something about North Korea's leader, Kim Jung-Un.
VICTOR CHA: This young fellow is willing to go beyond the bounds of what is considered normal. And you use that term in quotation marks, normal North Korean behavior. Again, there has always been bluster against past South Korean leaders, but not to the sort of level that this last set of comments went to.
KELEMEN: And Cha, the director of Georgetown University's Asian Studies program, says the timing of the statement is also concerning. It comes amid indications that the North Koreans may be preparing another nuclear test and the U.S. needs to stay focused on that.
CHA: Unfortunately, the record of a quarter century of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea, one thing we have not been good at is deterring nuclear tests. We can certainly monitor them, try to gain information from them, but we've had a terrible record of deterring nuclear tests or missile tests.
KELEMEN: When it comes to North Korea, he says, U.S. policy tends to just respond to the latest crisis and North Korea watchers here think the Obama administration needs to get ready for another provocation. That's been one topic of President Obama's trip to the region. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I was somewhat surprised yesterday to be asked by an American woman (mid 70s from Montana) what more haste, less speed meant. She had never heard the expression before. I checked with another American friend (woman from Kentucky, in her late 50s) who also didn't really know what it meant but was aware of some younger people occasionally using it.No, you've hit two members of the majority, Robert. More haste, less speed (and less frequent variants, like less haste, more speed and more haste, worse speed) is mainly a BrE expression. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary marks it as UK, and it does not occur at all in the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (but three times in the 100-million-word British National Corpus).
For me (and I would have thought most people in the UK) this is a piece of folk wisdom parents and grandparents use to admonish children. (In case you haven't come across it before either, the idea is that if you do something in too much of a hurry you'll be careless or make mistakes and have to go back and do it again, so it's actually faster to work more slowly and carefully and get it right first time.)
Have I just happened to hit the only two people in America who don't know the expression?
Americans, on the other hand, say haste makes waste, which is not unknown in the UK, but it's not in the British National Corpus and only 9 times on the guardian.co.uk site (versus 140 for more haste, less speed). Many people treat it as if Benjamin Franklin first said it, as it occurs in his Poor Richard's Almanack. But look look up haste in the OED and one finds this (my emphasis added):
That is, by 1546 both of these phrases were familiar enough to be recorded as English proverbs. The source of these is often attributed to a similar Latin phrase, Festina lente ('make haste slowly'). But if he wasn't the originator of Haste makes waste, Franklin was at least a great populi{z/s}er of the phrase.6. In proverbs and phrases: chiefly in sense 2.
a1525 (1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 1682 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 275 Of fule haist cummis no speid.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii, Haste maketh waste.1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiiiv, The more haste the lesse spede.
Looking a bit more at the history, the Corpus of Historical American English has two instances of more haste, less speed (in 1869 and 1920) and 11 of haste makes waste--seven of those before 1860. The early 19th-century boom for haste makes waste might have been a Franklin (orig. AmE in this sense) boom, but what's happening around 1860? Something, for sure:
That's a Google Ngram for more haste less speed and haste makes waste in English books generally. This is American English:
And this is British English:
In each case, more haste, less speed increases in frequency around 1860--where the phrase was used in the name of a story (1856) and in other books.Why the fashion in the UK turned so dramatically in favo(u)r of the longer phrase, I do not know. Perhaps because it's closer to the Latin, perhaps because the rhyming version was perceived as Americanism, perhaps because someone really stylish and influential was using it. I don't know.
What is clear from all of this is that Americans invented neither phrase. What is suggested from it is that the relative lack of more haste, less speed in AmE could be due to its lack of popularity in English when the AmE was getting going, since it seems to have been rather (orig. AmE) under-the-radar in the early 19th century. The missing link here is what was happening in the pre-Richard's Almanack 18th century.


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BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disney Interactive Studios today announced that Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension is currently in development for the Wii™ system, Nintendo DS™ family of handheld systems and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems. "Phineas and Ferb" has been the #1 animated TV series among Tweens 9-14 for the past three years and this lively new video game is inspired by the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie inspired by the series. Fans can play as their favorite characters including Phineas, Ferb and Agent P as they journey through new dimensions filled with action-packed platforming, in a quest to battle the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension the video game is slated for release in Summer 2011.
"We collaborated closely with Disney Interactive Studios' video game development team to ensure that the video game captures the humor and style of our movie," said Dan Povenmire, Emmy Award-winning Creator/Executive Producer, "Phineas and Ferb." "The antics of the characters and the immersive new worlds of the video game extend the experience fans will encounter in Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension."
The PlayStation®3 system and Wii system versions will allow fans to play as up to 10 characters. Players will have the option to work together in two-player cooperative modes while navigating through an old time 1928-style cartoon world, a lawn gnome land and a gelatin world. In a mission to save the world, players will journey through 25 exciting levels while overcoming obstacles. They also can upgrade cool new gadgets including the Carbonator, which fires carbonated orange soda that can melt enemies and Ninja Gloves, which allows players to stick to walls. Along the way, fans will collect cool items and unlock additional playable characters, including a new OWCA special agent created specifically for the video game. The PlayStation® 3 system version will also be the first time a Phineas and Ferb video game features PlayStation®Move motion controller compatible gameplay.
In the DS version of Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension, fans will play as Phineas, Ferb or Agent P. Players will jump, dodge, race and battle through five outrageous worlds featuring more than 30 levels. Players will work to earn gadget upgrades including a baseball launcher and Agent P's favorite gadget – the grapple gun, while solving environmental puzzles in an effort to save Alternate Danville.
In addition to lending their voices to the Disney Channel Original Movie, several of the actors from the popular TV series will voice the Wii and PlayStation®3 system versions of the game including Vincent Martella as Phineas, Thomas Sangster as Ferb, Alyson Stoner as Isabella and show creators/executive producers Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Francis Monogram.
Published by Disney Interactive Studios, Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension will be released in summer 2011 and is expected to be rated E10+ by the ESRB.
About The Disney Channel Original Movie
In Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension, Phineas and Ferb finally discover that their pet platypus, Perry, is a secret agent who battles the forces of evil almost every day. With the help of their friends, the boys team up with Perry on an adventure through a parallel universe where they must ultimately thwart the disastrous plans of an even more evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
About Disney Interactive Studios
Disney Interactive Studios, part of Disney Interactive Media Group, is the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Disney Interactive Studios self publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. The company also licenses properties and works directly with other interactive game publishers to bring products for all ages to market. Disney Interactive Studios is based in Glendale, California, and has internal development studios around the world. For more information, log on to http://www.disneyinteractivestudios.com.
About Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a 24-hour kid-driven, family inclusive television network that taps into the world of kids and families through original series and movies. Currently available on basic cable in over 99 million U.S. homes and to millions of other viewers on Disney Channels around the world, Disney Channel is part of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
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Cool, light and comfortable.
Let's just get one thing straight right off the bat. This is a real product, produced in Australia in the 1980's by a company called Davies, Craig.
And I'm so pleased to know it exists. Chris from the CTC - Cycle Touring Club - which is Great Britain's cyclist advocacy group with 130ish years behind it, has this helmet in their offices and my mate Chris was kind enough to send me photos of it.
I can't describe the calm that has now settled over my soul now that I know true safety exists. The box reads: "You have made a sound decision to purchase your Davies, Craig Motoring Helmet. Wear it and don't feel self-conscious. Driving even for the most proficient is dangerous.Ultimately, motoring helmets will be commonplace, but in the meantime, you will be a leader whilst those who may consider your good sense misplaced, will follow."
Finally, with the quality Motoring Helmet, we can now begin active advocating of helmet use for motorists. Not only do those poor souls suffer higher levels of pollution inside their cars - compared to cycling next to them - but they also have a higher risk of head injury than safer activities like... um... oh i don't know... cycling. Just to pick a safe activity off the top of my head. Completely random. Honest.
Here's Chris trying it out in a car. Not his car, just a car. He doesn't even have a driving licence. From the instruction manual we can learn these important tips: "Davies, Craig recommends you wear your Motoring Helmet at all times when motoring but particularly at the following, documented high-risk times:
- After consuming any alcohol.
- When other drivers are likely to have consumed alcohol especially 4:00PM to 2:00AM Fridays and Saturdays. - After dark and during twilight. - In rain or when the roads are wet. - During long trips when you may become tired. - Within five kilometres of your home or destination. - Christmas, Easter and long weekends. - If you are aged under 25 or over 60."What's even better, you can buy a Motoring Helmet just like this one on Ebay Australia! Hurry, hurry! Be the first!


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Princeton economist Paul Krugman, acclaimed in his field for insights into international trade patterns that overturned longheld theories about the global economy before he rose to popular distinction as a media columnist and commentator, has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics.
Krugman, a professor in the Department of Economics and in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs since 2000, was greeted with a standing ovation in a packed Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall, where Princeton faculty, students and administrators attended an international press conference in Krugman's honor this afternoon.
"It's an incredible honor," said Krugman, who was visibly moved by the welcome from the Princeton community. "It's stunning. It hasn't quite settled in."
Krugman was the only winner of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. "By having shown the effects of economies of scale on trade patterns and on the location of economic activity, his ideas have given rise to an extensive reorientation of the research on these issues," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in announcing the award today.
In addition to teaching and conducting research at Princeton, Krugman is a well-known columnist for The New York Times and one of the country's foremost liberal commentators on economic, political and policy issues, including the current crisis in the world's financial markets.
Krugman was in Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the Group of 30, an international economics organization, when he received the surprise call notifying him of the Nobel award. "My immediate conclusion was that was an obviously fake Swedish accent," he said.
He attended one session of the Group of 30 meeting, then boarded a train to return to Princeton. "One Nobel Prize can discombobulate your whole day," he said.
Krugman thanked his mentors and colleagues who have contributed to his work over the years, saying, "It is a collegial effort. ... On behalf of international trade people everywhere, I'd like to thank the Nobel committee for recognizing this field. It has been transformed in these past 30 years, and it's good to see that recognized."
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, who introduced the press conference, said, "Professor Krugman, I suspect, is less of a stranger to the world than most Nobel laureates in economics because of his role as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He has become very much a public intellectual. I believe this prize will be greeted very enthusiastically by many people who have, as I have, learned economics by reading that column religiously twice a week."
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Wilson School, lauded Krugman for crossing boundaries within his own field and for raising economic awareness in the public sphere. "I know him as someone who has crossed the boundary between Nobel-quality theoretical economics to being a public intellectual who spends a tremendous amount of time educating as wide an audience as he can, bringing all his knowledge to bear -- the knowledge that he helped himself to develop -- to put it in the service of a particular point of view [and] more broadly to put it in the hands of as wide as possible of an audience."
New model of international trade
Krugman's work on international trade and economic geography represents a paradigm shift in research on global economics, noted Christina Paxson, chair of the Department of Economics. "The impact of Paul's research cannot be overstated," she said at the press conference.
"He discarded the notion that firms don't decide where to set up shop, and that people don't make decisions about where to live and work. Instead, he created a unified theory of trade and the location of economic activity, in a world in which firms enjoy economies of scale, consumers demand a richly diverse set of consumer goods and international trade may be limited by transport costs," Paxson explained.
Beginning in 1979, Krugman proposed a new model that provided a theory for the effects of globalization and free trade. It offered a better explanation than the well-established theory of foreign trade that certain countries have a comparative advantage over others in more effectively producing particular goods based on factors such as climate, natural resources, or supplies of labor or capital.
Krugman recognized that the traditional theory did not fully explain modern trends that showed international trade becoming increasingly concentrated among smaller numbers of producers and nations. His work shed light on key economic issues such as why countries import and export the same goods, how companies decide where to locate, how people decide where to live and why dense urban areas become centers of economic activity while existing alongside sparsely populated rural areas.
"When I began working on this, world trade was a lot smaller than it is now, so it certainly is relevant to the changed environment," Krugman said in an interview earlier today. "And I guess you could say I was being global before the world was. I was very concerned in the second part of this work with the location of people and industries within countries, and we certainly are seeing all of these issues about urban growth and regional growth in the U.S. These are issues that don't go away."
Krugman's stature as a rising star in the field was recognized in 1991 when he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, which is given by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most important contributions to economics.
"Paul's contributions on the trade and monetary sides of international economics have revolutionized the way economists think about the global economy," said University of California-Berkeley economist Maurice Obstfeld. "He has a unique ability to convey novel and profound concepts in a deceptively simple way. This simplicity gives him his unmatched ability to describe clearly the essence of very complex economic policy problems.
"The beauty and inspiration of Paul's technical research has always struck me as being quite unique," Obstfeld said. "If there has been a Mozart in my generation of economists, it is Paul Krugman."
"Paul Krugman almost single-handedly changed the course of two centuries of thinking about international trade and economic geography," said Gene Grossman, Princeton's Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics. "Whereas generations of economists thought about differences between countries as the basis for their trade, and about the natural advantages of locations as the basis for agglomeration, Krugman taught us that economies of scale motivates trade between similar countries, and that, in the presence of such economies, accidents of history can explain the growth of cities and regions." For example, Krugman's work has examined how economies of scale helped Rochester, N.Y., home of Eastman Kodak Co., become a hub for the photographic industry.
Addressing his theories on economic geography at the press conference, Krugman said, "What is it about the East Coast of the United States that makes 60 million people want to live in this dense metropolitan strip? The answer is it's not something about the coastline -- each of those 60 million people wants to be here because the other 60 million people are here."
Avinash Dixit, Princeton's John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, said Krugman was honored with the Nobel because he "was the undisputed leader in research that modified and extended the traditional theory of international trade."
"That theory was based on the notion of perfect competition among a large number of small sellers and was increasingly seen to be anachronistic in a world where many industries were oligopolistic, with a small number of large firms. Aircraft and autos were the exemplars of this new reality of trade," Dixit said. "Large-scale firms exist because of economies of scale in production; Paul developed ideas about the implications of this for the location of such firms and revolutionized the field of economic geography from a largely descriptive endeavor into an analytical one. It is for these contributions that he has long been regarded as a shoo-in for the Nobel."
Paxson noted that Krugman's seminal 1991 article, "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography" (.pdf), published in the Journal of Political Economy, "is a classic on the reading lists of graduate courses in international trade. His research is also of practical significance, in that it helps us better understand the drivers behind globalization, urbanization and capital movements across countries."
A public presence
In the 1990s, Krugman began to raise his public profile as a columnist for Slate and Forbes magazines, as he attempted to help inform the popular debate on international trade and economic policy. In 2000, he became a twice-weekly columnist for The New York Times, where he has gained attention for his acerbic criticisms of the Bush administration's economic and political philosophies. In addition to his prolific scholarly works, his books include the bestsellers "The Great Unraveling" (2003) and "The Conscience of a Liberal" (2007).
After taking the Times columnist position, Krugman said in 2001 he was determined to "help people get things right," adding that "I often feel there are glaringly obvious things that just aren't being picked up."
"I started taking on some causes, trying to speak to wider audiences," he said. "For example, I was upset that confused notions about international trade were driving public debate on economic policy -- such as the whole competitiveness issue, the commonly used metaphor of international trade as a war with winners and losers."
At Princeton, Krugman reaches a broad range of students. This semester, he is teaching a graduate seminar on "International Monetary Policy and Theory." He has led a variety of classes over the years, including introductory economics courses and freshman seminars.
Asked at the press conference whether he considers himself more of a columnist and commentator or more of an academic, Krugman said, "I still think the university is home -- that's ultimately who I am."
Yet given his notoriety as a Bush critic, many questions sought Krugman's views on the current global financial crisis, to which he responded with biting commentary similar to that found in his columns.
When one reporter asked how Hong Kong should respond to the crisis, Krugman deferred. "My general response to a lot of the emerging market issues I used to write about a lot is ... 'I'm trying to save my own damn republic,'" he said.
Asked what he would do if he was running the country, Krugman cited the move earlier today by the British government to acquire controlling stakes in two of the country's largest banks in exchange for a $64 billion capital infusion as an example of the bold measures needed to stem the crisis. His priorities would be "capital injection into the financial system, temporary guarantees on interfinancial institution lending to get the crisis under control, a large-scale fiscal stimulus program aiding state and local governments' infrastructure spending to get us out of this recession," Krugman said. "And then, after all that, universal health care."
On whether deregulation is to blame for the crisis and whether individuals would be held legally accountable, he said, "It's a fact that, as the system outgrew the old regulations, the regulations were not expanded to take account of the system. There is a lot of grotesque greed underneath this crisis, but greed isn't illegal, and since there were, for the most part, no regulations I don't think there can be very much [done]. ... We might see some of the bums in jail or at least in stocks in the public square, but I don't think it's going to happen."
Looking back on the meltdown in the housing market that led to the current turmoil, Krugman said even he should have identified more of the warning signs. "I had all the stuff in my intellectual toolkit to have seen this coming. I saw parts of it; I saw the housing bubble, but why didn't I understand that the same kinds of balance sheet constraints, the same kind of vicious circles that took place in Indonesia in 1997 or in Argentina in 2002, could happen here once the housing bubble burst?"
The message to Americans, then, is that "I think everybody needs to understand that the world has dangers in it, that there are monsters that you may have thought were invisible and they turn out to be entirely real," he said.
Krugman's Nobel award came five days after former Princeton researcher Osamu Shimomura was named a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery he made while working at University. It also is the second year in a row that the Nobel economics prize has a Princeton connection. One of the 2007 winners, Eric Maskin, has been a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor in economics at Princeton since 2002 and is a professor at the neighboring Institute for Advanced Study.
This is the second Nobel Prize in economics in the past six years for a Princeton scholar affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson School. Daniel Kahneman, a professor of psychology and public affairs, received the award in 2002.
Overall, Krugman is the eighth Princeton faculty, staff member or alumnus to be awarded a Nobel in economics. He will receive the award, which is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, on Dec. 10 at the Stockholm Concert Hall. On Dec. 8, he will present a lecture at Stockholm University.


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amr(4) [freebsd man page]
AMR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual AMR(4) NAME
amr -- MegaRAID SCSI/ATA/SATA RAID driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device pci device scbus device amr Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): amr_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The amr driver provides support for LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI, ATA and SATA RAID controllers and legacy American Megatrends MegaRAID SCSI RAID controllers, including models relabeled and sold by Dell and Hewlett-Packard. LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers are supported by mfi(4) and will not work with this driver. HARDWARE
Controllers supported by the amr driver include: o MegaRAID SATA 150-4 o MegaRAID SATA 150-6 o MegaRAID SATA 300-4X o MegaRAID SATA 300-8X o MegaRAID SCSI 320-1E o MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E o MegaRAID SCSI 320-4E o MegaRAID SCSI 320-0X o MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X o MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X o MegaRAID SCSI 320-0 o MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 o MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 o MegaRAID SCSI 320-4 o MegaRAID Series 418 o MegaRAID i4 133 RAID o MegaRAID Elite 1500 (Series 467) o MegaRAID Elite 1600 (Series 493) o MegaRAID Elite 1650 (Series 4xx) o MegaRAID Enterprise 1200 (Series 428) o MegaRAID Enterprise 1300 (Series 434) o MegaRAID Enterprise 1400 (Series 438) o MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 (Series 467) o MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 (Series 471) o MegaRAID Express 100 (Series 466WS) o MegaRAID Express 200 (Series 466) o MegaRAID Express 300 (Series 490) o MegaRAID Express 500 (Series 475) o Dell PERC o Dell PERC 2/SC o Dell PERC 2/DC o Dell PERC 3/DCL o Dell PERC 3/QC o Dell PERC 4/DC o Dell PERC 4/IM o Dell PERC 4/SC o Dell PERC 4/Di o Dell PERC 4e/DC o Dell PERC 4e/Di o Dell PERC 4e/Si o Dell PERC 4ei o HP NetRAID-1/Si o HP NetRAID-3/Si (D4943A) o HP Embedded NetRAID o Intel RAID Controller SRCS16 o Intel RAID Controller SRCU42X DIAGNOSTICS
Driver initialisation/shutdown phase amr%d: memory window not available amr%d: I/O window not available The PCI BIOS did not allocate resources necessary for the correct operation of the controller. The driver cannot attach to this controller. amr%d: busmaster bit not set, enabling The PCI BIOS did not enable busmaster DMA, which is required for the correct operation of the controller. The driver has enabled this bit and initialisation will proceed. amr%d: can't allocate register window amr%d: can't allocate interrupt amr%d: can't set up interrupt amr%d: can't allocate parent DMA tag amr%d: can't allocate buffer DMA tag amr%d: can't allocate scatter/gather DMA tag amr%d: can't allocate s/g table amr%d: can't allocate mailbox tag amr%d: can't allocate mailbox memory A resource allocation error occurred while initialising the driver; initialisation has failed and the driver will not attach to this con- troller. amr%d: can't obtain configuration data from controller amr%d: can't obtain product data from controller The driver was unable to obtain vital configuration data from the controller. Initialisation has failed and the driver will not attach to this controller. amr%d: can't establish configuration hook amr%d: can't scan controller for drives The scan for logical drives managed by the controller failed. No drives will be attached. amr%d: device_add_child failed amr%d: bus_generic_attach returned %d Creation of the logical drive instances failed; attachment of one or more logical drives may have been aborted. amr%d: flushing cache... The controller cache is being flushed prior to shutdown or detach. Operational diagnostics amr%d: I/O beyond end of unit (%u,%d > %u) A partitioning error or disk corruption has caused an I/O request beyond the end of the logical drive. This may also occur if FlexRAID Vir- tual Sizing is enabled and an I/O operation is attempted on a portion of the virtual drive beyond the actual capacity available. amr%d: polled command timeout An initialisation command timed out. The initialisation process may fail as a result. amr%d: bad slot %d completed The controller reported completion of a command that the driver did not issue. This may result in data corruption, and suggests a hardware or firmware problem with the system or controller. amr%d: I/O error - %x An I/O error has occurred. SEE ALSO
cd(4), da(4), mfi(4), sa(4), scsi(4) AUTHORS
The amr driver was written by Mike Smith <email@example.com>. This manual page was written by Mike Smith <email@example.com> and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <firstname.lastname@example.com>. BSD
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