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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroads are launching a new campaign to highlight the dangers of being near train tracks after a spike in rail deaths last year.
At this time last year, the railroads were proudly calling 2012 their safest year ever as derailments and crossing accidents kept declining. But last year, the number of trespassing deaths rose by 47, or 11 percent, to 476, and the number of deaths in accidents increased nearly 8 percent to 250.
Although the rates vary from year to year and there are only theories to explain last year's increase, it prompted federal regulators to develop a public campaign aimed at reducing accidents. Ads being released Tuesday are focusing on how people and vehicles stand no chance against a train.
"We need to make sure people understand the danger they're putting themselves in on the rails," said Joyce Rose, CEO of Operation Lifesaver, a nonprofit dedicated to educating people about railroad hazards.
It's difficult to determine what was behind the death increase in 2013, but Rose believes it may be related to smartphones and other electronic devices.
"We're a distracted population," Rose said.
The main television commercial for the new campaign, dubbed "See Tracks? Think Train," shows a young man walking on railroad tracks while wearing headphones and not realizing a train is coming.
Mark Kalina, who lost parts of both legs in a train accident, supports the message.
The 24-year-old said he knew he made a bad decision when he tried to walk around a stopped train to get to his apartment in Columbus, Ohio, after he'd been out with friends in October 2012. The train started moving, and Kalina's shirt got caught. But after climbing aboard the train to free his shirt, Kalina fell under the train.
Kalina, who hopes to return to Ohio State in the fall to compete his degree, wants others to learn from his mistake.
"It just takes one bad time to possibly end your life," Kalina said.
The effort is also backed by the Association of American Railroads trade group, major railroads and the Federal Railroad Administration.
Despite the increase in deaths in 2013, regulators note that railroad safety has significantly improved over the past decade by most measures. Between 2004 and 2013, for example, the number of trespassing deaths went up about 3 percent.
The Federal Railroad Administration said the number of injuries and deaths from trespassing fluctuates from year to year based on factors such as construction near train tracks or increased vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Kansas City Southern railroad engineer Russ W. Fletcher said he hopes this campaign will help people make better decisions at railroad crossings and around train tracks. He noted that railroad employees involved in accidents, especially fatal ones, also are affected.
"The memories never go away," said Fletcher, who lives in Joplin, Mo. "It's horrific for everyone."
The 58-year-old veteran railroad engineer said he has even had near misses with police officers who disobey train crossing signals.
"We have very intelligent people making a bad decision every day," Fletcher said.
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IMPORTANT! Development of AutoForms has stopped. Instead use WxGeneric which is based upon AutoForms. This page may still a good resource for ideas and rationale.
AutoForms is a library to ease the creation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). It does this by using generic programming to construct GUI components.
The AutoForms user creates an ordinary algebraic data type (ADT), which should reflect the data model of an application. From this ADT AutoForms automatically constructs a GUI component, by using the structure and identifiers of the ADT. To facilitate this construction, AutoForms uses the "Scrap your boilerplate" approach to generic programming.
This component can be displayed using WxHaskell or by an AutoForms custom monad called WxM.. The first facilitates that people who already knows WxHaskell quickly will be able to make GUIs. The second is our attempt at a more type-safe and easier to use GUI toolkit.
You need the following prerequisites:
- Install WxHaskell. You properly need to use the version in darcs.
- Install Scrap Your Boilerplate.
Download AutoForms release 0.4.2 and follow the instructions in README.txt.
You can also try the bleeding edge version by doing:
svn export https://autoforms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/autoforms/trunk/AForms
The three best sources of documentation is the
- Haddock generated documentation
- The examples in the src/Examples folder in the AutoForms distribution.
- The two examples below
- The AutoForms tutorial
Using AutoForms in cooperation with WxHaskell
The best way to illustrate AutoForms is with some examples.
First, we create a widget consisting of a Double, an Int, and a String. This widget is displayed in a window and the values can be manipulated.
module AFWxExample where
import Graphics.UI.WX
import Graphics.UI.AF.AFWx
main :: IO ()
main = start $
do w <- frame [text := "AFWx example"]
p <- panel w []
wid <- makeWidget (0.96::Double, 123::Int, "asdf") p []
setWidButton <- button p [ text := "Set widget"
, on command := set wid [ value := (0.32, 456, "New Value") ]
set w [ layout := container p $ fill $ column 10
[ widget wid, widget setWidButton ]
The function makeWidget creates a WxHaskell widget and should be the only thing unrecognisable to an ordinary WxHaskell programmer.
We can also create widgets for custom ADT-s. We will show this be creating a settings dialog for a text editor:
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts, FlexibleInstances
, MultiParamTypeClasses, TemplateHaskell, UndecidableInstances #-}
module SettingsForm where
import Graphics.UI.AF.AFWx
import Graphics.UI.WX
data Settings = Settings { lineWrap :: Bool, splitWords :: Bool
, autoSave :: Bool, tabulatorStops :: [Int]
, spacesInSteadOfTabulators :: Bool } deriving (Show, Eq)
$(derive [''Settings])
defaultValues :: Settings
defaultValues = Settings True False False ([4,8,12] ++ [16,20..120]) False
main = start $
do w <- frame [ text := "Text Editor Settings Forms" ]
p <- panel w []
wid <- makeWidget defaultValues p []
set p [ layout := widget wid ]
Compared to the previous example there is a few new things. First of all we need to set some compiler options, as shown at the top. Secondly, we need to use the template-Haskell function to derive an instance for the Settings-type. Thirdly, we also need to declare that the Settings-type is an instance of ECCreator.
Using the AutoForms monad (WxM)
The best way to get familiar with the AutoForms monad (WxM) interface to AutoForms is via this tutorial.
Current state and plans
To understand the current state it will be advantageous to know the history of AutoForms. In the beginning this library was inspired by functional forms. E.g. it was an solely an attempt to ease the construction of simple forms (like a preference dialog). Shortly after starting the project, the author discovered that a very similar approach to GUI construction had existed for some time. Namely the clean GEC library. The Clean GEC library do not only try to create forms, but tries to be useable for any kind of GUI. This inspired the author to widen AutoForms scope, by creating functionality for buttons, menus, timers, and more. We encapsulated this functionality in our own monad (WxM). The extra functionality unfortunately delayed the core of AutoForms, namely the automatic transformation of an ADT to a GUI. While this transformation is implemented, it is not as 'inteligent' as it could be.
The larger set of functionality initially proven less than perfect, as it is not as flexible as was initially hoped for. Thus, we have made fundamental changes in this version (0.4). These fundamental changes are not completely finished yet and will be the focus of the next version (0.6).
Users of AutoForms
- Kamiariduki - A system to judge your derivative work's purpose and license is valid with Ceative Commons License Works.
- SourceForge site for AutoForms
- The generic library which is used in this library. People from the HappS project maintains the version of SYB that AutoForms uses.
Related work
- Compositional Model-Views with Generic Graphical User Interfaces - Library which, like AutoForms, deduce GUI elements from data types.
- FunctionalForms - An approach to making form creation easy. This library is also using WxHaskell. It was the initial inspiration for starting AutoForms.
- Automatic Graphical User Interface Form Generation Using Template Haskell - a paper about using Template Haskell for the automatic construction of GUI forms.
Author of AutoForms
The author of this library is Mads Lindstrøm. Feel free to contact me with questions, ideas, or comments.

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Te'o mentioned 'girlfriend' twice recently
SOUTH BEND, Ind. » Not once but twice after he supposedly discovered his online girlfriend of three years never even existed, Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o perpetuated the heartbreaking story about her death.
An Associated Press review of news coverage found that the Heisman Trophy runner-up talked about his doomed love in a Web interview on Dec. 8 and again in a newspaper interview published Dec. 11. He and the university said Wednesday that he learned on Dec. 6 that it was all a hoax, that not only wasn't she dead, she wasn't real.
On Thursday, a day after Te'o's inspiring, playing-through-heartache story was exposed as a bizarre lie, Te'o and Notre Dame faced questions from sports writers and fans about whether he really was duped, as he claimed, or whether he and the university were complicit in the hoax and misled the public, perhaps to improve his chances of winning the Heisman.
Yahoo sports columnist Dan Wetzel said the case has "left everyone wondering whether this was really the case of a naive football player done wrong by friends or a fabrication that has yet to play to its conclusion."
Gregg Doyel, national columnist for CBSSports.com, was more direct.
"Nothing about this story has been comprehensible, or logical, and that extends to what happens next," he wrote. "I cannot comprehend Manti Te'o saying anything that could make me believe he was a victim."
On Wednesday, Te'o and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said the player was drawn into a virtual romance with a woman who used the phony name Lennay Kekua, and was fooled into believing she died of leukemia in September. They said his only contact with the woman was via the Internet and telephone.
Te'o also lost his grandmother — for real — the same day his girlfriend supposedly died, and his role in leading Notre Dame to its best season in decades endeared him to fans and put him at the center of college football's biggest feel-good story of the year.
Relying on information provided by Te'o's family members, the South Bend Tribune reported in October that Te'o and Kekua first met, in person, in 2009, and that the two had also gotten together in Hawaii, where Te'o grew up.
Sports Illustrated posted a previously unpublished transcript of a one-on-one interview with Te'o from Sept. 23, during which he went into great detail about his relationship with Kekua and her physical ailments. He also mentioned meeting her for the first time after a game in California.
"We met just, ummmm, just she knew my cousin. And kind of saw me there so. Just kind of regular," he told SI.
Among the outstanding questions Thursday: Why didn't Te'o ever clarify the nature of his relationship as the story took on a life of its own?
Te'o's agent, Tom Condon, said the athlete had no plans to make any public statements Thursday in Bradenton, Fla., where he has been training with other NFL hopefuls at the IMG Academy.
Notre Dame said Te'o found out that Kekua was not a real person through a phone call he received at an awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 6. He told Notre Dame coaches about the situation on Dec. 26.
The AP's media review turned up two instances during that gap when the football star mentioned Kekua in public.
Te'o was in New York for the Heisman presentation on Dec. 8 and, during an interview before the ceremony that ran on the WSBT.com, the website for a South Bend TV station, Te'o said: "I mean, I don't like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer. So I've really tried to go to children's hospitals and see, you know, children."
In a column that first ran in The Los Angeles Times, on Dec. 10, Te'o recounted why he played a few days after he found out Kekua died in September, and the day she was supposedly buried.
"She made me promise, when it happened, that I would stay and play," he said on Dec. 9 while attending a ceremony in Newport Beach, Calif., for the Lott Impact Awards.
On Wednesday, Swarbrick said Notre Dame did not go public with its findings sooner because it expected the Te'o family to come forward first. But Deadspin.com broke the story Wednesday.
Reporters were turned away Thursday at the main gate of IMG's sprawling, secure complex. Te'o remained on the grounds, said a person familiar with situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither Te'o nor IMG authorized the release of the information.
"This whole thing is so nutsy that I believe it only could have happened at Notre Dame, where mythology trumps common sense on a daily basis. … Given the choice between reality and fiction, Notre Dame always will choose fiction," sports writer Rick Telander said in the Chicago Sun-Times.
"Which brings me to what I believe is the real reason Te'o and apparently his father, at least went along with this scheme: the Heisman Trophy.
Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass blasted both Te'o and Notre Dame.
"When your girlfriend dying of leukemia after suffering a car crash tells you she loves you, even if it might help you win the Heisman Trophy, you check it out," he said.
He said the university's failure to call a news conference and go public sooner means "Notre Dame is complicit in the lie."
"The school fell in love with the Te'o girlfriend myth," he wrote.
AP Sports Writers Ralph Russo and Tim Reynolds contributed to this report.


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Notice: This Wiki is now read only and edits are no longer possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
Eclipse DemoCamps November 2011/Raleigh
DemoCamp Pictures
We would like to thank all of the presenters and participants for another successful DemoCamp in RTP! Hope to see you all again next year. Here is a set of photos.
Bocci Trattoria & Pizzeria http://www.bocciitalian.com/
Sutton Station
5850 Fayetteville Road
Durham, NC (I-40, Exit 276)
(919) 206-4067
Date and Time
November 7, 2011
Time 6:00pm - 8:00pm (please arrive at the venue at 5:30pm)
This Eclipse DemoCamp will be sponsored by Eclipse.
Teresa Stephens, IBM
We are happy to announce that Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director Eclipse Foundation, will be joining us at his years DemoCamp!
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name, email address, and topic below. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
Steve Speicher and Michael Fiedler - Enabling OSLC-based integrations using Eclipse Lyo
Mike Milinkovich - Introducing Orion - Web-based development from the people who brought you Eclipse.
John Kellerman - Has it Really Been 10 Years?
Ralph Bosson - Eclipse RCP Development
Xi Ge - BeneFactor: a Flexible Refactoring Tool for Eclipse.
Paul Fullbright - Beyond Code Generation: Mapping Java Objects to XML with Dali
Who Is Attending
If you plan on attending please add your name to the list below or email the organizer. We'd like to see as many people show up as possible!
- Jonathan Rippy
- Chuck Bridgham (IBM)
- Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse Foundation)
- Cam Le (IBM)
- Shaw Terwilliger (Microsoft)
- Pat Huff (IBM)
- Teresa J. Stephens (IBM)
- Brian Vosburgh (Oracle)
- Nick Sandonato (IBM)
- Ian Tewksbury (IBM)
- Neil Hauge (Oracle)
- John Kellerman (IBM)
- Dmitri Droujkov (Phenix Solutions)
- Kit Lo (IBM)
- Klaus Wenger
- Nitin Dahyabhai (IBM)
- David Williams
- Xi Ge (NCSU)
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- Emerson Murphy-Hill (NCSU)
- Scott de Deugd (IBM)
- Andy Smith (IBM)
- Paul Fullbright (Oracle)
- Nan Li (Oracle)
- Karen Butzke (Oracle)
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- JeeHyun Hwang (NCSU)
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I created a flow about 'when send message to a group' for Kaizala. I was texting the same group again according to the message. Because of my fault, it's always been in the infinite loop. I didn't stop it.
I tried to stop it. It didn't stop.
I erased Flow. It didn't stop.
I erased the connections. It didn't stop again.
Now it can't send message to group but every 5 minutes it is giving an error message that "flow failed ..." in Flow website.
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Thanks for help.
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Thanks for responding. I think Looks like no problem right now. However, the problem continued for a long time. I hope that's not always a problem. Thanks for your help 🙂
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We are excited to announce the "The Copilot Cookbook Community Challenge is a great way to showcase your creativity and connect with others. Plus, you could win tickets to the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas in September 2024 as an amazing bonus. Two ways to enter: 1. Copilot Studio Cookbook Gallery: https://aka.ms/CS_Copilot_Cookbook_Challenge 2. Power Apps Copilot Cookbook Gallery: https://aka.ms/PA_Copilot_Cookbook_Challenge There will be 5 chances to qualify for the final drawing: Early Bird Entries: March 1 - June 2Week 1: June 3 - June 9Week 2: June 10 - June 16Week 3: June 17 - June 23Week 4: June 24 - June 30 At the end of each week, we will draw 5 random names from every user who has posted a qualifying Copilot Studio template, sample or demo in the Copilot Studio Cookbook or a qualifying Power Apps Copilot sample or demo in the Power Apps Copilot Cookbook. Users who are not drawn in a given week will be added to the pool for the next week. Users can qualify more than once, but no more than once per week. Four winners will be drawn at random from the total qualifying entrants. If a winner declines, we will draw again at random for the next winner. A user will only be able to win once. If they are drawn multiple times, another user will be drawn at random. Prizes: One Pass to the Power Platform Conference in Las Vegas, Sep. 18-20, 2024 ($1800 value, does not include travel, lodging, or any other expenses) Winners are also eligible to do a 10-minute presentation of their demo or solution in a community solutions showcase at the event. To qualify for the drawing, templates, samples or demos must be related to Copilot Studio or a Copilot feature of Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power Pages, and must demonstrate or solve a complete unique and useful business or technical problem. Power Automate and Power Pagers posts should be added to the Power Apps Cookbook. Final determination of qualifying entries is at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Weekly updates and the Final random winners will be posted in the News & Announcements section in the communities on July 29th, 2024. Did you submit entries early? Early Bird Entries March 1 - June 2: If you posted something in the "early bird" time frame complete this form: https://aka.ms/Copilot_Challenge_EarlyBirds if you would like to be entered in the challenge. Week 1 Results: Congratulations to the Week 1 qualifiers, you are being entered in the random drawing that will take place at the end of the challenge. Copilot Cookbook Gallery:Power Apps Cookbook Gallery:1. @Mathieu_Paris 1. @SpongYe 2. n/a2. @Deenuji 3. n/a3. @Nived_Nambiar 4. n/a4. @ManishSolanki 5. n/a5. n/a Week 2 Results: Congratulations to the Week 2 qualifiers, you are being entered in the random drawing that will take place at the end of the challenge. Copilot Cookbook Gallery:Power Apps Cookbook Gallery:1. Kasun_Pathirana1. ManishSolanki2. cloudatica2. madlad3. n/a3. SpongYe4. n/a4. n/a5. n/a5. n/a Week 3 Results: Congratulations to the Week 3 qualifiers, you are being entered in the random drawing that will take place at the end of the challenge. Copilot Cookbook Gallery:Power Apps Cookbook Gallery:1. Parul_Yadav_Neo1. n/a2. SpongYe2. n/a3. n/a3. n/a4. n/a4. n/a5. n/a5. n/a
We're embarking on a journey to enhance your experience by transitioning to a new community platform. Our team has been diligently working to create a fresh community site, leveraging the very Dynamics 365 and Power Platform tools our community advocates for. We started this journey with transitioning Copilot Studio forums and blogs in June. The move marks the beginning of a new chapter, and we're eager for you to be a part of it. The rest of the Power Platform product sites will be moving over this summer. Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to the launch. We can't wait to welcome you to our new community space, designed with you in mind. Let's connect, learn, and grow together. Here's to new beginnings and endless possibilities! If you have any questions, observations or concerns throughout this process please go to https://aka.ms/PPCommSupport. To stay up to date on the latest details of this migration and other important Community updates subscribe to our News and Announcements forums: Copilot Studio, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages
For the third year, we invite you, our talented community members, to participate in the grand 2024 Power Platform Community Conference's Got Power Awards. This event is your opportunity to showcase solutions that make a significant business impact, highlight extensive use of Power Platform products, demonstrate good governance, or tell an inspirational story. Share your success stories, inspire your peers, and show off some hidden talents. This is your time to shine and bring your creations into the spotlight! Make your mark, inspire others and leave a lasting impression. Sign up today for a chance to showcase your solution and win the coveted 2024 PPCC's Got Power Award. This year we have three categories for you to participate in: Technical Solution Demo, Storytelling, and Hidden Talent. The Technical solution demo category showcases your applications, automated workflows, copilot agentic experiences, web pages, AI capabilities, dashboards, and/or more. We want to see your most impactful Power Platform solutions! The Storytelling category is where you can share your inspiring story, and the Hidden Talent category is where your talents (such as singing, dancing, jump roping, etc.) can shine! Submission Details: Fill out the submission form https://aka.ms/PPCCGotPowerSignup by the end of July with details and a 2–5-minute video showcasing your Solution impact. (Please let us know you're coming to PPCC, too!)After review by a panel of Microsoft judges, the top storytellers will be invited to present a virtual demo presentation to the judges during early August. You'll be notified soon after if you have been selected as a finalist to share your story live at PPCC's Got Power! The live show will feature the solution demos and storytelling talents of the top contestants, winner announcements, and the opportunity to network with your community. It's not just a showcase for technical talent and storytelling showmanship, show it's a golden opportunity to make connections and celebrate our Community together! Let's make this a memorable event! See you there! Mark your calendars! Date and Time: Thursday, Sept 19th Location: PPCC24 at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
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Markus Franz is a phenomenal contributor to the Power Apps Community. Super Users like Markus inspire others through their example, encouragement, and active participation. The Why: "I do this to help others achieve what they are trying to do. As a total beginner back then without IT background I know how overwhelming things can be, so I decided to jump in and help others. I also do this to keep progressing and learning myself." Thank you, Markus Franz, for your outstanding work! Keep inspiring others and making a difference in the community! 🎉 Keep up the fantastic work! 👏👏 Markus Franz | LinkedIn Power Apps: mmbr1606
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The manufacturing processes of Apple and other electronics companies have come into sharp focus of late, with the revelation of more details about what life is like for the Chinese workers who make the world's gadgets.
When one reads about these working conditions — 12-16 hour shifts, pay of ~$1 per hour or less, dormitories with 15 beds in 12x12 rooms — the obvious assumption is that it's all about money:
Greedy manufacturers want to make bigger profits, so they make their products in places with labor practices that would be illegal in America.
And money is certainly part of it.
But an amazing new article by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher of the New York Times reveals that there's a lot more to it than that.
The article illustrates just how big a challenge the U.S. faces in trying stop the "hollowing out" process that has sent middle-class jobs overseas — and, with it, the extreme inequality that has developed in recent years.
The reason Apple makes iPhones and iPads in China, the article shows, is not just about money.
Manufacturing an iPhone in the United States would cost about $65 more than manufacturing it in China, where it costs an estimated $8. This additional $65 would dent the profit Apple makes on each iPhone, but it wouldn't eliminate it. (The iPhone average selling price is about $600, and Apple's average gross margin is about 40%. So Apple's gross profit on each iPhone is probably in the neighborhood of $250.)
The real reasons Apple makes iPhones in China, therefore, are as follows:
- Most of the components of iPhones and iPads — the supply chain — are now manufactured in China, so assembling the phones half-a-world away would create huge logistical challenges. It would also reduce flexibility — the ability to switch easily from one component supplier or manufacturer to another.
- China's factories are now far bigger and more nimble than those in the United States. They can hire (and fire) tens of thousands of workers practically overnight. Because so many of the workers live on-site, they can also press them into service at a moment's notice. And they can change production practices and speeds extremely rapidly.
- China now has a far bigger supply of appropriately-qualified engineers than the U.S. does — folks with the technical skills necessary to build complex gadgets but not so credentialed that they cost too much.
- And, lastly, China's workforce is much hungrier and more frugal than many of their counterparts in the United States.
On this last point, Duhigg and Bradsher tell the story of Eric Saragoza, an engineer who began working in an Apple factory near Sacramento in 1995. The plant made Macs, and for a few years, Saragoza did well, earning $50,000 a year, getting married and having kids, and buying a house with a pool.
Soon, however, Apple started shipping jobs overseas, because the costs of manufacturing in Asia were so much lower. Importantly, these reduced costs weren't just about wages — they were about being closer to the supply chain and the willingness of the workforce to put in over-time.
Saragoza was soon asked to work 12-hour days and come in on Saturdays. But, understandably, he wanted to watch his kids play soccer on the weekends.
Saragoza's salary was too high for him to take an unskilled job. And he didn't have the experience and credentials necessary to move into senior management. In 2002, his job was eliminated. Apple, meanwhile, turned the Elk Grove plant into an AppleCare facility, with call-center employees making $12 an hour.
Recently, desperate for work, Saragoza took a job at an electronics temp firm. Assigned to the AppleCare plant, he was paid $10 an hour to test repaired iPads before they were sent back to customers. That job paid so little (and was presumably so depressing) that the now 48-year-old Saragoza quit and is looking for work again.
Meanwhile, in Shenzhen, a young project manager named Lina Lin coordinates the manufacture of Apple accessories for a company in the Apple ecosystem. She makes a bit less than Saragoza made a decade ago as an Apple engineer. She lives in an 1,100-square foot apartment with her husband, their in-laws, and their son. They save a quarter of their salaries every month.
There are lots of jobs in Shenzhen, Lin says.
So, yes, money is part of why all of our gadgets are built in China. But what started a couple of decades ago as a reach for efficiency has now resulted in the entire electronics-manufacturing ecosystem being lifted up and transferred to China.
Apple doesn't build iPhones in the United States, in other words, because there is no longer an ecosystem here to support that manufacturing. There's no supply chain, there aren't enough super-low-cost workers, and there are not enough mid-level engineers. And many Americans looking for work are still hoping for a return to jobs, salaries, and lifestyles that have simply disappeared.
This is a complex problem, and there's no easy solution. But it's a problem this country is going to have to fix. Or the massive middle class that once drove America's prosperity will just cease to exist.
Now go read Duhigg and Bradsher...


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Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti
Biographie Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti
was one of this century's most brilliant conductors and a leading figure of musical culture in Europe and the US. The great Maestro made his first recordings for Decca in 1947, as a pianist with Kulenkampff (Brahms and Beethoven violin sonatas) and as a conductor with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra (Beethoven Egmont Overture). He continued as an exclusive Decca artist for over half a century and leaves a vast legacy of over 250 great recordings - including 45 complete operas - chiefly with the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and the Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras. He won many international honours for his recordings including 32 Grammy awards - more than any other classical or popular recording artist.
Sir Georg studied piano, composition and conducting with Bartók, Dohnányi, Kodály and Leo Weiner at Budapest's Liszt Academy. Although he made his concert debut as a pianist, he was soon engaged as a conductor by the Budapest Opera. In 1937, Toscanini selected him as his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. Before the outbreak of World War II, Sir Georg went to Switzerland as a refugee, turning again to the piano for his livelihood and in 1942, he was awarded first prize in the Concours International in Geneva.
Following the war in 1946, he was invited by the American military government to conduct a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in Munich. The success of this performance led to his appointment as Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, whose quality and reputation he firmly re-established over the next six years. During his tenure in Munich, the Salzburg Festival was revived and Sir Georg appeared there, as well as in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Florence and Buenos Aires.
In 1952, Maestro Solti accepted the post of Artistic and Music Director at the Frankfurt City Opera, where he remained for nine years. From 1961 until 1971, he was Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in 1992 was named Music Director Laureate. During his tenure there he achieved international fame for his performances of Die Frau ohne Schatten, the British premiere of Moses und Aron and Wagner's Ring. With Decca he made perhaps the most famous single recording of all time - the entire Ring cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic. It took seven years to complete and was the first complete studio recording.
Maestro Solti's remarkable partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra began in 1954, when he first led the Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. He returned to Chicago for guest engagements with the Lyric Opera in 1956, conducting Die Walküre, Salome, and La forza del destino. His Chicago Orchestra Hall debut took place on December 9, 1965, and his first concerts as Music Director were in September 1969. Maestro Solti served as Music Director for 22 years (1969-1991) and is credited with greatly extending and enhancing the Orchestra's worldwide reputation - its first foreign tour, in 1971, was under his direction. As Music Director Laureate he was due to conduct the orchestra's 1000th concert at the beginning of October. Up until his death last year, Sir Georg's performing schedule was as packed as that of a man half his age, and he had engagements booked up to the 21st century.
For his outstanding contribution to music, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain in 1972. From 1979 to 1984, he served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently its Conductor Emeritus. Maestro Solti has received honorary doctor of music degrees from Oxford University, the University of London, and the Universities of Durham, Leeds and Surrey; and in the United States from Roosevelt and De Paul Universities in Chicago, Yale and Harvard Universities, and the Eastman School of Music. He has received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. An honorary degree "in disciplines of art, music, and drama" from the University of Bologna completes the list of honorary degrees.
As well as his record number of Grammys Sir Georg has received many other major awards. In 1989, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society, Great Britain's highest musical honour (previous recipients include Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini and Igor Stravinsky). He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music, London. In September 1985, Sir Georg was given the title of Professor Honoris Causa by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. He also received the Knight Commander's Cross (with badge and star) of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany and the 1987 Loyola-Mellon Humanities Award. That year, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, Maestro Solti received the Medal of Merit, Chicago's highest award, and was honoured with the dedication of a bronze bust of his likeness in Lincoln Park. He also received the Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary and was named "Musician of the Year" by Musical America.
In 1988, he received the Edward Moss Martin Award from the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation in Chicago and, in 1992, the Leonie Sonning Music Prize from Denmark. In 1993, he received the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit with Star from the Republic of Hungary. In that same year to mark his 80th birthday, and a collaboration of over 40 years, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra struck and presented to Sir Georg as its first recipient, the "Hans Richter Medal". In December 1993, he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honour and the Belgian title of "Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold." In 1994, he received the "Ordem Militar De Santiago De Espada" from the President of Portugal, the country's highest civilian honour (the last musician to receive it was Stravinsky in 1954). He holds the French "Légion d'Honneur" and in 1995 received the "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres." In 1996, he was given the honour "Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy" and the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris established the "Solti Prize", to be awarded annually to an outstanding young singer. The first recipient of this prestigious award was American soprano Renée Fleming.
In October 1998, a little over a year after his death, Sir Georg Solti's life and music were celebrated in a special concert recorded for TV and audio at London's Royal Albert Hall. Mstislav Rostropovich, Angela Gheorghiu, Anne Sofie von Otter, Maxim Vengerov and Zubin Mehta joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the occasion, which also raised money for the newly formed Solti Foundation, a fund conceived of by Sir Georg just before he died with the aim of promoting musical education and helping young talent throughout the world. A plaque now adorns the Budapest house where Solti grew up. The conductor's ashes were interred in Budapest next to Bartok's grave.


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Remarks by the President
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody.
I wanted to say a few words about the looming deadlines and decisions that we face on our budget and on our deficit -- and these are decisions that will have real and lasting impacts on the strength and pace of our recovery.
Economists and business leaders from across the spectrum have said that our economy is poised for progress in 2013. And we've seen signs of this progress over the last several weeks. Home prices continue to climb. Car sales are at a five-year high. Manufacturing has been strong. And we've created more than six million jobs in the last 35 months.
But we've also seen the effects that political dysfunction can have on our economic progress. The drawn-out process for resolving the fiscal cliff hurt consumer confidence. The threat of massive automatic cuts have already started to affect business decisions. So we've been reminded that while it's critical for us to cut wasteful spending, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. Deep, indiscriminate cuts to things like education and training, energy and national security will cost us jobs, and it will slow down our recovery. It's not the right thing to do for the economy; it's not the right thing for folks who are out there still looking for work.
And the good news is this doesn't have to happen. For all the drama and disagreements that we've had over the past few years, Democrats and Republicans have still been able to come together and cut the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion through a mix of spending cuts and higher rates on taxes for the wealthy. A balanced approach has achieved more than $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction. That's more than halfway towards the $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists and elected officials from both parties believe is required to stabilize our debt. So we've made progress. And I still believe that we can finish the job with a balanced mix of spending cuts and more tax reform.
The proposals that I put forward during the fiscal cliff negotiations in discussions with Speaker Boehner and others are still very much on the table. I just want to repeat: The deals that I put forward, the balanced approach of spending cuts and entitlement reform and tax reform that I put forward are still on the table.
I've offered sensible reforms to Medicare and other entitlements, and my health care proposals achieve the same amount of savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms that have been proposed by the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission. These reforms would reduce our government's bill -- (laughter.) What's up, cameraman? (Laughter.) Come on, guys. (Laughter.) They're breaking my flow all the time. (Laughter.)
These reforms would reduce our government's bills by reducing the cost of health care, not shifting all those costs on to middle-class seniors, or the working poor, or children with disabilities, but nevertheless, achieving the kinds of savings that we're looking for.
But in order to achieve the full $4 trillion in deficit reductions that is the stated goal of economists and our elected leaders, these modest reforms in our social insurance programs have to go hand-in-hand with a process of tax reform, so that the wealthiest individuals and corporations can't take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren't available to most Americans.
Leaders in both parties have already identified the need to get rid of these loopholes and deductions. There's no reason why we should keep them at a time when we're trying to cut down on our deficit. And if we are going to close these loopholes, then there's no reason we should use the savings that we obtain and turn around and spend that on new tax breaks for the wealthiest or for corporations. If we're serious about paying down the deficit, the savings we achieve from tax reform should be used to pay down the deficit, and potentially to make our businesses more competitive.
Now, I think this balanced mix of spending cuts and tax reform is the best way to finish the job of deficit reduction. The overwhelming majority of the American people -- Democrats and Republicans, as well as independents -- have the same view. And both the House and the Senate are working towards budget proposals that I hope reflect this balanced approach. Having said that, I know that a full budget may not be finished before March 1st, and, unfortunately, that's the date when a series of harmful automatic cuts to job-creating investments and defense spending -- also known as the sequester -- are scheduled to take effect.
So if Congress can't act immediately on a bigger package, if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect, then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until Congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution.
There is no reason that the jobs of thousands of Americans who work in national security or education or clean energy, not to mention the growth of the entire economy should be put in jeopardy just because folks in Washington couldn't come together to eliminate a few special interest tax loopholes or government programs that we agree need some reform.
Congress is already working towards a budget that would permanently replace the sequester. At the very least, we should give them the chance to come up with this budget instead of making indiscriminate cuts now that will cost us jobs and significantly slow down our recovery.
So let me just repeat: Our economy right now is headed in the right direction and it will stay that way as long as there aren't any more self-inflicted wounds coming out of Washington. So let's keep on chipping away at this problem together, as Democrats and Republicans, to give our workers and our businesses the support that they need to thrive in the weeks and months ahead.
Thanks very much. And I know that you're going to have a whole bunch of other questions. And that's why I hired this guy, Jay Carney -- (laughter) -- to take those questions.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 10 Things We Learned From the 2013 Sinquefield Cup
10 Things We Learned From the 2013 Sinquefield Cup |
By GM Ian Rogers | |
September 17, 2013 | |
(1) Chess is a game for two players with 32 pieces, 64 squares and in the end Carlsen wins This paraphrase of Gary Lineker's famous comment about soccer has also been applied to Garry Kasparov but now fits Carlsen perfectly. The Norwegian has won six of his past nine tournaments, and in the remaining three he finished just half a point from first place. (2) Jeanne Sinquefield was wrong At the closing dinner, Jeanne Sinquefeld, the co-patron of the Sinquefield Cup along with her husband Rex, admitted, "I let my husband play chess because I knew it couldn't be expensive!" With tournament prizes of $70,000 for the winner, $20,000 for last place, plus appearance fees, hotel bookings and other costs, the Sinquefield Cup would have cost more than the average golf amateur spends on his or her hobby in a lifetime! (3) It's not about the money Saint Louis 2013 Round 6 White: M.Carlsen Black: L.Aronian Position after Black's 47th move Aronian had been pressing for the entire game and only a few moves earlier (when Black had a rook on d2) Carlsen had been moving his king back and forth. After his last move, 47...Kb7, Aronian offered Carlsen a draw, a result which would have netted Carlsen first place outright and the $70,000 first prize without risk. (A loss would have thrown Carlsen into a three-way tie for first place with Aronian and Nakamura.) Yet Carlsen declined the offer without much thought - a decision which caused Ashley in his internet commentary to suggest that he had never seen a similar act of bravery before. After the game, which Carlsen won 23 moves later, Aronian explained that he never expected his opponent to accept, saying "This is chess, it's not about money, it's about objectivity." If you stand better, you have an obligation to yourself and to the game of chess to make the maximum out of the position. (4) If you invite the right players, even a four player tournament will provide plenty of entertainment Four players tournaments are always a risky proposition; if one or both games are boring and/or short then fans feel ripped off. The Sinquefield Cup had a 30 move rule - no agreed draws before move 30 but that is no insurance against dull games. Fortunately all four players displayed the one characteristic you need to have a successful four-player event - fearlessness. Even the lowest rated player in the field, Gata Kamsky, did not try to shut his opponents down and in a parallel universe at least one of the four attacks he generated might have crashed through and moved Kamsky out of the tournament cellar. Saint Louis 2013 Round 5 White: L.Aronian Black: G.Kamsky Position after Black's 27th move Kamsky's last move, 27...Qf6!, threatens to blow open the position with 28..h4, and it took some brave defence by Aronian to survive. 28.Nxh5! "I thought that 28.Rb3 was a bit passive," said Aronian."I knew that 28.Nxh5 was dangerous but it either works or it doesn't." 28...Qh6 28...Qh8 29.Nf4 Bc3 wins the exchange, but after 30.Qe2! Bxe1 31.Bxf5! Black is the player who must be careful. 29.Nf4 Rd7 30.Nd5 Rh7 31.Kf1 Qh1+ 32.Ke2 Qxg2 33.Rg1! Somehow White can survive Black's attack and the game ended in a draw after 33...Qf3+ 34.Kf1 Kg7 35.Qd1 Bxd5 36.Qxd5 Qxd5 37.cxd5 Kf6 38.Kg2 Rfh8 39.Rh1 Rxh1 40.Rxh1 Rxh1 41.Kxh1 c4 42.Kg2 Bb2 43.Kf1 Ke5 44.Ke2 ½-½ (5) Magnus Carlsen wins tournaments even when not in top form Having not played since the Tal Memorial in Moscow in June, Carlsen was expected to be a little rusty and at the final press conference Carlsen expressed general satisfaction with his form. However even when rusty one does not expect the top rated player in the world to find plans such as.... Saint Louis 2013 Round 1 White: M.Carlsen Black: G.Kamsky Position after Black's 20th move 21.Rc2 Qd8 22.Rcc1 "I drifted horribly around here," admitted Carlsen, "and he got everything he wanted." Kamsky started an attack with 22...h4 and later ...g5 but was out-calculated by Carlsen in the complications. The next day was perhaps even more worrying for Carlsen fans. Given a great opening, Carlsen showed all the decisiveness of a horse equidistant from two rivers... Saint Louis 2013 Round 2 White: L.Aronian Black: M.Carlsen Position after White's 17th move 17...Rae8 Carlsen has outplayed Aronian and after the logical moves 17...Rab8 or 17...Rfe8, Black would have excellent chances. However Carlsen spends six of the next dozen moves trying to decide where to put his rooks... 18.Qd2 a6 19.Rad1 Rb8 20.a4 Qd8! 21.Rb1 Qa5 22.Qd1 Qb4 23.Bf2 Rbe8 24.Be1 Qb3 25.Qxb3 Nxb3 26.Bc2 Na5! 27.Bd3 Re3 28.Rd1 Rb8 "OK, this rook move was nonsense," admitted Carlsen, who should have tried 28...Rfe8 29.Bf2 Rxd3! (29...R3e7 30.Bh4 is nothing.) 30.Rxd3 Nxc4 but could not bring himself to take any risks. 29.Bf2 Ree8 From the first diagram to the second, Carlsen has done little except shuffle his rooks and exchange queens, the game being drawn 10 moves later. ½-½ By then Carlsen was half a point behind home town favourite Nakamura and in round three it was Nakamura who made all the running, with Black, against the world number one In round four, two days later, Carlsen's play was still showing uncharacteristic hesitancy... Saint Louis 2013 Round 4 White: G.Kamsky Black: M.Carlsen Position after White's 36th move 36...Be7 Carlsen is a pawn up for nothing but now starts a series of bishop moves which would be baffling even if Black did not have a forced win with 36...Nxb2 37.Rxb2 Ba3 38.Rc2 Rd2. 37.Nxd3 Rxd3+ 38.Kg2 Bc5 39.Rc1 Rd2 40.Rc2 Rxe2+ 41.Rxe2 Rd3 42.Rc2 Bd6 43.Bc1 Be7 Still searching for the right square... 44.Kf2 a4 And this is hardly perfect timing, since had Kamsky played 45.bxa4 he would have had excellent drawing chances. Instead the US Champion erred with 45.Rd2 and lost the bishop endgame after 45...Rxd2+ 46.Bxd2 axb3 47.axb3 c5 48.g4?! b5 49.gxh5 gxh5 50.Bc3 b4 51.Bb2 Bh4+ 52.Ke2 Bg3 53.f5 h4 54.e5 h3 55.e6+ Ke7 56.Kf3 Bf4 57.Bg7 Bg5 58.Be5 c4 59.bxc4 Bf6 0-1 In all, including the back and forth king moves in his last round win over Aronian, all three of Carlsen's wins came after a period of doing nothing. (6) The US is again hosting elite tournaments 57 years after the second Piatigorsky Cup - an historic tournament well covered in the Jacqueline Piatigorsky tribute at the World Chess Hall of Fame over the road from the Sinquefield Cup venue - the US again held a tournament starring only the cream of the chess world. Rex Sinquefield expressed his hope that one day Saint Louis would be spoken of in similar terms to Linares or Wijk aan Zee, as a traditional chess venue. Given the reactions of the players to their treatment and conditions in Saint Louis, all will be happy to return to Missouri, though exactly how the tournament could improve from its first edition, without hiring Busch Stadium III to better accommodate the spectators, is hard to imagine. (7) Hikaru Nakamura looks like a top 5 player Nakamura led Carlsen for the first half of the tournament and had no trouble in either game against the world number one. One bad game against Aronian apart, Nakamura took controlled risks and stayed calm when matters threatened to get out of hand in both games against Kamsky. (8) US Chess fans will pay to watch chess Charging $15 for a spectator ticket to a chess tournament was risky, and the organizers admitted before the first round that they had no idea how many people would turn up at the Saint Louis Chess Club, rather than watch the games at home on the internet. They need not have worried. The crowds grew day by day until the Nakamura-Carlsen fifth round game on the Saturday saw both commentary rooms overflowing and the excess filling Lester's Restaurant, watching the internet commentary on television screens around the sports bar. 200+ paying customers on a single day is not yet London Classic territory but exceeds the spectator numbers seen in the past at high level tournaments like Linares and, more importantly, created a buzz around the venue which would have positively affected the players' motivation. (9) Anand will be the underdog at the World Championship match in November Carlsen, in modest form at Saint Louis, performed at a 2966 level. Enough said. (10) Saint Louis has one of the best chess clubs in the world A three story chess club in a trendy locale with 900 members, a Grandmaster-in-Residence and a Hall of Fame across the road is hard to beat. Add to that an outreach program which covers more than 100 schools and being the venue for multiple high level events, and even Moscow Chess Club - especially Moscow Chess Club - would be jealous. That such a club has turned up in Saint Louis, rather than one of the big cities on the coast, is thanks to the Sinquefields. The Piatigorsky Cup was held only twice; from Rex Sinquefield's statements after the first Sinquefield Cup, the Saint Louis Chess Club may be hosting many more super-tournaments in coming years. Find more details on the Sinquefield Cup on the official site and look for CLO editor and commentator Jennifer Shahade's top moments from the event. GM Ian Rogers will be filing pieces from the upcoming World Championship match in Chennai in November, as well as an article to the current Women's World Championship match, in which Hou Yifan leads against Ushenina 3.5-1.5. |


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In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel 'Alone Together'
Alone Together
As soon as Sherry Turkle arrived at the studio for her Fresh Air interview, she realized she'd forgotten her phone. "I realized I'd left it behind, and I felt a moment of Oh my god ... and I felt it kind of in the pit of my stomach," she tells Terry Gross. That feeling of emotional dependence on digital devices is the focus of Turkle's research. Her book, Alone Together, explores how new technology is changing the way we communicate with one another.
"The pull of these devices is so strong, that we've become used to them faster than anyone would have suspected," says Turkle, a clinical psychologist and the founder of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Her research investigates how devices are changing the way parents relate to their children, how friends interact, and why many people — both young and old — keep their devices in-hand all the time — even as they sleep.
When Turkle asked teens and adults why they preferred text messaging over face-to-face conversation, they responded that when you're face to face, "you can't control what you are going to say, and you don't know how long it's going to take or where it could go." But Turkle believes that these perceived weaknesses of conversation are actually conversation's strengths. Face-to-face interaction teaches "skills of negotiation, of reading each other's emotion, of having to face the complexity of confrontation, dealing with complex emotion," Turkle says. She thinks people who feel they are too busy to have conversations in person are not making the important emotional connections they otherwise would.
All this leads to Turkle's theory that it is possible to be in constant digital communication and yet still feel very much alone. In Turkle's interviews with adults and teenagers, she found people of all ages are drawn to their devices for a similar reason: "What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you," Turkle says.
Interview Highlights
On young children using digital devices
"Children are getting these phones earlier and earlier. These are years when children need to develop this capacity for solitude, this capacity to feel complete playing alone. If you don't have a capacity for solitude, you will always be lonely, and my concern is that the tethered child never really feels that sense that they are sort of OK unto themselves; and I talk to college students who've grown up with the habit of being in touch with their parents five, 10, 15 times a day. And it's no longer Huckleberry Finn as a model of adolescence, you know, sailing down the Mississippi alone — we've developed a model of adolescence and childhood where we sail down the Mississippi together with our families in tow."
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On the effect of Facebook on teen identity
"[Teens] felt that on Facebook their life story followed them through their lives in a way that their older brothers and sisters were allowed to start fresh when they moved from elementary school to junior high, from junior high to high school, and then crucially from high school to college. And one said to me, 'My god, it used to be you that when you went to college, you got a chance to start fresh, to be a new person. I bet that was great.' And I think that this sense of the Facebook identity as something that follows you all your life is something that many adolescents feel is a burden.
"And I think there's another thing about the Facebook identity and adolescence, which is that many adolescents used to play with identity, play with multiple identities in adolescence, and that used to kind of be their fun, and now there's one identity that counts — it's the Facebook identity. And I think many adolescents are also feeling the pressure of that. So there are many things about the new technology that's changing the nature of adolescence, and I think that the complaints of adolescents about the new technology are — it's a long list, even as they're working with it."
On why we text
"It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call.' Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.' That is, with this immediate ability to connect and almost pressure to ... because you're holding your phone, you're constantly with your phone, it's almost like you don't know your thoughts and feelings until you connect. And that again is something that I really didn't see until texting. You know, kids are sending out texts all the time. First it was every few minutes, now it's many times a minute."
On why cyberbullying can feel easier than face-to-face bullying
"It all stems from the same thing — which is that when we are face to face — and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being."