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Unconscious racial attitudes playing large role in 2012 presidential vote
After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already played a substantial role in 2012, during the Republican primaries. They may play an even larger role in this year's presidential election.
The study, led by psychologists at the University of Washington, shows that between January and April 2012 eligible voters who favored whites over blacks – either consciously or unconsciously – also favored Republican candidates relative to Barack Obama.
"People were saying that with Obama's election race became a dead issue, but that's not at all the case," said lead investigator Anthony Greenwald, a UW psychology professor.
The study's findings mean that many white and non-white voters, even those who don't believe they tend to favor whites over blacks, might vote against Obama because of his race. These voters could cite the economy or other reasons, but a contributing cause could nevertheless be their conscious or unconscious racial attitudes.
"Our findings may indicate that many of those who expressed egalitarian attitudes by voting for Obama in 2008 and credited themselves with having 'done the right thing' then are now letting other considerations prevail," said collaborator Mahzarin Banaji, a psychology professor at Harvard University.
In the study, a majority of white eligible voters showed a pattern labeled "automatic white preference" on a widely used measure of unconscious race bias. Previous studies indicate that close to 75 percent of white Americans show this implicit bias.
In a study done just prior to the 2008 presidential election, Greenwald and colleagues found that race attitudes played a role in predicting votes for the Republican candidate John McCain.
The 2012 data, collected from nearly 15,000 voters, show that race was again a significant factor in candidate preferences.
In an online survey, Greenwald asked survey-takers about their political beliefs, how "warmly" they felt toward black and white people, and which presidential contender they preferred. Because the survey was conducted in the first four months of 2012, it included the five main Republican hopefuls – Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum – as well as Obama.
Greenwald also measured unconscious race attitude using the Implicit Association Test, a tool he developed more than a decade ago to gauge thoughts that people don't realize they have. Different variations of the test measure implicit attitudes about race, gender, sexuality, ethnicities and other topics.
Greenwald found that favoritism for Republican candidates was predicted by respondents' racial attitudes, both their self-reported views and their implicit biases measured by the IAT. Greenwald emphasized that the study's finding that some candidates are more attractive to voters with pro-white racial attitudes does not mean that those candidates are racist.
"The study's findings raise an interesting question: After nearly four years of having an African-American president in the White House, why do race attitudes continue to have a role in electoral politics?" Greenwald said.
He suspects that Obama's power as president in 2012, compared with his lesser status as candidate in 2008, may have "brought out race-based antagonism that had less reason to be activated in 2008."
Another possibility is that Republican candidates' assertions that their most important goal is to remove Obama from the presidency "may have strong appeal to those who have latent racial motivation," Greenwald said.
Greenwald and his research team will continue to collect people's attitudes about the 2012 presidential candidates as part of their Decision 2012 IAT study. Now that Mitt Romney has emerged as the presumptive Republican nominee, the researchers are modifying their survey to focus on voters' comparisons of Romney with Obama.
More information: They plan to post summaries of the data each month until the November election. Anyone can take the test online: implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ … mo/featuredtask.html
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Qt is a cross-platform application development framework widely used for developing software with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and interactive functionality.
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snapd can be installed from Manjaro's Add/Remove Software application (Pamac), found in the launch menu. From the application, search for snapd, select the result, and click Apply.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo pacman -S snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap's paths are updated correctly.
To install kde-qt6-core22-sdk, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install kde-qt6-core22-sdk
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ANTH 360I Anthropology Student Designed Independent Studies
Student-designed independent studies give Metropolitan State students the opportunity to plan their own study. This type of independent learning strategy can be useful because it allows students: to study a subject in more depth, at a more advanced level; to pursue a unique project that requires specialized study; to draw together several knowledge areas or interests into a specialized study; to test independent learning capabilities and skills; or to use special learning resources in the community, taking advantage of community education opportunities which, in themselves, would not yield a full college competence.
Students should contact their academic advisor for more information.
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XZ (LZMA) Payloads in RPM
We intend to switch RPM to use XZ (the new LZMA format) as default payload compression for F12.
- Name: Jindrich Novy, Bill Nottingham
- email: jnovy AT redhat DOT com, notting AT redhat DOT com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 41
- Last updated: 2009-08-19
- Percentage of completion: 100% (see Scope)
Detailed Description
RPM currently uses gzip payloads by default, with an option for bzip2. bzip2 adds greater compression, but with a large memory and cpu time penalty. XZ allows better compression without these penalties.
Benefit to Fedora
- Smaller packages
- Smaller downloads
- More space on ISOs
- Smaller content for mirrors
- The xz package must be reviewed and added to active distributions - DONE
- Rebuild RPM in F-12 to link against it - DONE
- Rebuild RPM in F-11 to link against it (for upgrades) F11 update DONE
- Cherry-pick support from rpm-4.7.0 to rpm-4.6.1 - DONE
- rebuild RPM 4.6.1 in F-10 to link against it (for upgrades)
- rebuild RPM 4.6.1 for Koji to link against it (for the build system) - DONE
- Change the default payload in redhat-rpm-config - DONE
- Rebuild the distribution - DONE (in general)
The final step is not required to support new payloads, but it is what provides the most benefit to Fedora users.
How To Test
Query built rpms, make sure they are using the new payload format. This can be done by checking for the rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) dependency in the package itself.
Check the dependencies of RPM itself, make sure it's linked against the XZ library, and that it provides the 'rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) dependency.
Check successful extraction of RPM payload by installing or extracting contents of XZ compressed RPMs via rpm2cpio utility.
Check that deltarpms can still be successfully created, and that the resulting RPM can be reassembled.
User Experience
Users should see smaller packages and downloads. It should not be user-visible otherwise.
XZ package needs to be added to Fedora, and RPM built against it.
The XZ library is in beta, but the file format has been finalized (it is why we are using XZ instead of the not-finalized LZMA).
Contingency Plan
The contingency plan is to continue using gzipped payloads. If a mass rebuild has been done, another one would need done to rebuild with gzip payloads.
In order to turn on XZ payload compression for binary RPMS one could define following macros in /usr/lib/rpm/macros globally or in ~/.rpmmacros file locally:
%_binary_payload w7.xzdio
This enables XZ payload compression level 7 (suggested default by upstream) for binary RPMs. This macro isn't defined by default and if undefined gzip compression is used.
The %_source_payload
macro can be used to change the payload compression for source RPMs. However, since source RPMs consist almost entirely of precompressed source archives, changing this has little effect, and will not be done for this feature.
Note that currently you can use this configuration only with rpm-4.7.0 or higher which is present in Fedora 11 or rawhide.
Also note that deltarpms between builds with different payload compression formats, while functional, usually save little bandwidth.
Release Notes
RPM in Fedora 12 has switched to using XZ compression (http://tukaani.org/xz/) in its packages to allow for better compression and smaller downloads for users. Users of older Fedora releases who wish to use RPMs built in Fedora 12 will need at least rpm-4.6.x from Fedora 10 or later.
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The Twelve Scouts. 1The LORD said to Moses: 2Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the Israelites. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, every one a leader among them. 3a So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, at the direction of the LORD. All of them were leaders among the Israelites. 4These were their names:
from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, son of Zaccur;
5from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, son of Hori;
6from the tribe of Judah, Caleb, son of Jephunneh;
7from the tribe of Issachar, Igal;
8for the Josephites, from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, son of Nun;
9from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, son of Raphu;
10from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, son of Sodi;
11for the Josephites, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi, son of Susi;
12from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, son of Gemalli;
13from the tribe of Asher, Sethur, son of Michael;
14from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, son of Vophsi;
15from the tribe of Gad, Geuel, son of Machi.
16These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to reconnoiter the land. But Hoshea, son of Nun, Moses called Joshua.*
17In sending them to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, Moses said to them, "Go up there in the Negeb, up into the highlands, 18and see what kind of land it is and whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many. 19Is the country in which they live good or bad? Are the towns in which they dwell open or fortified? 20Is the soil fertile or barren, wooded or clear? And do your best to get some of the fruit of the land." It was then the season for early grapes.
21So they went up and reconnoitered the land from the wilderness of Zin* as far as where Rehob adjoins Lebo-hamath. 22b Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim,* were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23They also reached the Wadi Eshcol,* where they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes on it, which two of them carried on a pole, as well as some pomegranates and figs. 24It was because of the cluster the Israelites cut there that they called the place Wadi Eshcol.c
Their Report. 25They returned from reconnoitering the land forty days later. 26d Proceeding directly to Moses and Aaron and the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh, they made a report to them and to the whole community, showing them the fruit of the land. 27They told Moses: "We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit. 28However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large.e Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there. 29Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the sea and the banks of the Jordan."
30Caleb, however, quieted the people before Moses and said, "We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly prevail over it." 31But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us." 32They spread discouraging reportsf among the Israelites about the land they had reconnoitered, saying, "The land that we went through and reconnoitered is a land that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge. 33g There we saw the Nephilim* (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them."
* [13:16] Joshua: in Hebrew, "Jehoshua," which was later modified to "Jeshua," the Hebrew name for "Jesus." Hoshea and Joshua are variants of one original name meaning "the LORD saves." Cf. Mt 1:21.
* [13:21] The wilderness of Zin: north of Paran and southwest of the Dead Sea. It is quite distinct from "the wilderness of Sin" near the border of Egypt (Ex 16:1; 17:1; Nm 33:11). Lebo-hamath: a town near Riblah (Jer 39:5–6) at the southern border of Hamath, an independent kingdom in southern Syria. David's conquests extended as far as Hamath (2 Sm 8:9–11), and Lebo-hamath thus formed the northern border of the ideal extent of Israel's possessions (Nm 34:7–9; Ez 47:15; 48:1). This may suggest that this verse was inserted precisely to extend the scope of the reconnaissance; cf. Dt 1:24.
* [13:22, 28] Anakim: an aboriginal race in southern Palestine, largely absorbed by the Canaanites. Either because of their tall stature or because of the massive stone structures left by them, the Israelites regarded them as giants.
* [13:23] Eshcol: means "cluster."
* [13:33] Nephilim: i.e., "fallen ones" (in the Septuagint, "giants"), a reference to fallen heroes of old. Cf. Gn 6:4.
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There are two sad anniversaries today. As we said earlier, the nation is pausing to mark the 12 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
It's also been one year since four Americans — Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and CIA security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — were killed in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
This week, The Washington Post reports that:
"U.S. counterterrorism officials have determined that several extremist groups, including Ansar al-Sharia, took part in last year's attack. ... But on the first anniversary of the attack, there is not 'anyone in custody who can tell us' specifics, including when, where and by whom the plot was hatched, and whether the Sept. 11 date was selected in advance or was a last-minute choice of opportunity, a counterterrorism official said. 'That is a huge gap,' said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation. 'What we lack is a source of information that puts us where we need to be.' "
What's more, The New York Times notes that:
"The Justice Department has indicted suspects. Intelligence officials have a general idea of where they are hiding. And the military has a contingency plan to snatch them if that becomes necessary. But the fledgling Libyan government, which has little to no control over significant parts of the country, like Benghazi and eastern Libya, has rebuffed the Obama administration's efforts to arrest the suspects."
Just how dangerous things remain in Benghazi was underscored Wednesday with the news that a car bomb exploded there near a building that "once housed the U.S. consulate," according to The Associated Press. There were no serious injuries.
Watch the Parallels blog later today for a post about "Libya, a year after Benghazi."
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void XtManageChildren(children, num_children)
WidgetList children;
Cardinal num_children;
void XtManageChild(child)
Widget child;
void XtUnmanageChildren(children, num_children)
WidgetList children;
Cardinal num_children;
void XtUnmanageChild(child)
Widget child;
void XtChangeManagedSet(unmanage_children, num_unmanage_children, manage_children,
num_manage_children, post_unmanage_pre_manage_hook, client_data)
WidgetList unmanage_children;
Cardinal num_unmanage_children;
WidgetList manage_children;
Cardinal num_manage_children;
XtCSMProc post_unmanage_pre_manage_hook;
XtPointer client_data;
Boolean XtIsManaged(widget)
Widget widget
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- Calls XtRealizeWidget on each previously unmanaged child that is unrealized.
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- Maps each previously unmanaged child that has map_when_managed True.
Managing children is independent of the ordering of children and independent of creating and deleting children. The layout routine of the parent should consider children whose managed field is True and should ignore all other children. Note that some composite widgets, especially fixed boxes, call XtManageChild from their insert_child procedure.
If the parent widget is realized, its change_managed procedure is called to notify it that its set of managed children has changed. The parent can reposition and resize any of its children. It moves each child as needed by calling XtMoveWidget, which first updates the x and y fields and then calls XMoveWindow if the widget is realized.
The XtManageChild function constructs a WidgetList of length one and calls XtManageChildren.
The XtUnmanageChildren function performs the following:
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- If the child is realized, it makes it nonvisible by unmapping it.
XtUnmanageChildren does not destroy the children widgets. Removing widgets from a parent's managed set is often a temporary banishment, and, some time later, you may manage the children again.
The XtUnmanageChild function constructs a widget list of length one and calls XtUnmanageChildren.
The XtChangeManagedSet function performs the following:
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otherwise it is marked as managed
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15 Super Bowl 48 Facts to Get You Ready for the Big Game
Super Bowl XLVIII is less than a week away. Now that both the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks have arrived in the New York metropolitan area, let's take a look at some fast facts about Sunday's game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (6:30 p.m. ET on Fox):
The Teams
• Super Bowl XLVIII will mark the first time two teams who were members of the same division in the AFC will meet in a Super Bowl. Both the Broncos and the Seahawks played against each other in the AFC West from 1977-2001.
• This is the first time in Super Bowl history that an offense ranked first in points and yards (Broncos) will oppose a defense leading the league in fewest points and yards allowed (Seahawks).
• The Seahawks won their first playoff game in franchise history by beating Denver, 31-7, in 1983. The Broncos' 34-18 record against Seattle represents the most wins by any Seahawks opponent.
The Players & Coaches
• Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, 37, will oppose Seahawks' QB Russell Wilson, 25. The 12-year age gap is the largest between starting Super Bowl quarterbacks, topping the 10-year gap between Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt Warner in Super Bowl XLIII.
• Denver quarterback Peyton Manning will be the only player in this game with a Super Bowl ring; no player on the Seahawks roster has even played in a Super Bowl.
• If Seattle wins, Pete Carroll will join Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer as the only head coaches to win both an NCAA championship and Super Bowl. Carroll led USC to the 2004 national title which was later vacated as a result of NCAA violations.
The Site of the Game
• With the Giants and Jets both watching from home instead of playing at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, Super Bowl XLVIII continues the 48-year streak of no NFL team ever playing in a Super Bowl on its home field.
• The Federal Aviation Administration expects 1,200 additional private jet flights near New York City in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII. Normally, no more than 400 private jet takeoffs and landings are scheduled in a typical day.
• If a winter storm threatens Sunday's game, the NFL needs 24 hours to move the game time, 36 hours to change the day on which the game will be held and 48 hours of notice or prep time to make the changes.
The Weather
• The record for coldest Super Bowl kickoff temperature is 39 degrees, set in New Orleans in 1972. The 1982 Super Bowl, held inside the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., holds the record for the coldest game day temperature, with a high of 16 and a low of 5 outside the dome.
• Seventeen of the 47 Super Bowls played (36%) have had a trace or more of rainfall on the field on the day of the game. The 2007 Super Bowl game in South Florida set the precipitation record when .92 inches of rain fell on the Colts (featuring Peyton Manning) and Bears.
• Snow has fallen on two Super Bowl cities — Pontiac, Mich. in 1982 and Detroit in 2006 — but never on a non-domed venue during the game.
The Phenomenon
• Americans will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday. More than 49.2 million cases of beer are sold in the two-weeks leading up to the game.
• Nearly $99 million was wagered on Super Bowl XLVII in 2013. Super Bowl XLVIII could break $100 million in bets.
• Advertisers will pay Fox up to a record $4.5 million for a 30-second commercial spot on the Super Bowl XLVIII broadcast. More than 105 million viewers have watched each of the last four Super Bowl games.


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git gc [--aggressive] [--auto] [--quiet] [--prune=<date> | --no-prune] [--force]
Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk space and increase performance) and removing unreachable objects which may have been created from prior invocations of git add.
Users are encouraged to run this task on a regular basis within each repository to maintain good disk space utilization and good operating performance.
Some git commands may automatically run git gc; see the --auto flag below for details. If you know what you're doing and all you want is to disable this behavior permanently without further considerations, just do:
$ git config --global gc.auto 0
- Usually git gc runs very quickly while providing good disk space utilization and performance. This option will cause git gc to more aggressively optimize the repository at the expense of taking much more time. The effects of this optimization are persistent, so this option only needs to be used occasionally; every few hundred changesets or so.
With this option,
git gc
checks whether any housekeeping is required; if not, it exits without performing any work. Some git commands run
git gc --auto
after performing operations that could create many loose objects.
Housekeeping is required if there are too many loose objects or too many packs in the repository. If the number of loose objects exceeds the value of the gc.auto configuration variable, then all loose objects are combined into a single pack using git repack -d -l. Setting the value of gc.auto to 0 disables automatic packing of loose objects.
If the number of packs exceeds the value of gc.autoPackLimit, then existing packs (except those marked with a .keep file) are consolidated into a single pack by using the -A option of git repack. Setting gc.autoPackLimit to 0 disables automatic consolidation of packs.
- Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago, overridable by the config variable gc.pruneExpire). --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age (do not use --prune=all unless you know exactly what you are doing. Unless the repository is quiescent, you will lose newly created objects that haven't been anchored with the refs and end up corrupting your repository). --prune is on by default.
- Do not prune any loose objects.
- Suppress all progress reports.
- Force git gc to run even if there may be another git gc instance running on this repository.
The optional configuration variable gc.reflogExpire can be set to indicate how long historical entries within each branch's reflog should remain available in this repository. The setting is expressed as a length of time, for example 90 days or 3 months. It defaults to 90 days.
The optional configuration variable gc.reflogExpireUnreachable can be set to indicate how long historical reflog entries which are not part of the current branch should remain available in this repository. These types of entries are generally created as a result of using git commit --amend or git rebase and are the commits prior to the amend or rebase occurring. Since these changes are not part of the current project most users will want to expire them sooner. This option defaults to 30 days.
The above two configuration variables can be given to a pattern. For example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote-tracking branches:
[gc "refs/remotes/*"] reflogExpire = never reflogExpireUnreachable = 3 days
The optional configuration variable gc.rerereResolved indicates how long records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are kept. This defaults to 60 days.
The optional configuration variable gc.rerereUnresolved indicates how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept. This defaults to 15 days.
The optional configuration variable gc.packRefs determines if git gc runs git pack-refs. This can be set to "notbare" to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. This defaults to true.
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Similarly, the optional configuration variable gc.aggressiveDepth controls --depth option in git-repack(1). This defaults to 250.
The optional configuration variable gc.pruneExpire controls how old the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The default is "2 weeks ago".
git gc tries very hard to be safe about the garbage it collects. In particular, it will keep not only objects referenced by your current set of branches and tags, but also objects referenced by the index, remote-tracking branches, refs saved by git filter-branch in refs/original/, or reflogs (which may reference commits in branches that were later amended or rewound).
If you are expecting some objects to be collected and they aren't, check all of those locations and decide whether it makes sense in your case to remove those references.
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A school building once located at the southwest corner of Duke Street and South Quaker Lane was originally known as Lee-Jackson High School. At the time it was constructed in 1925, the school was located in Fairfax County. When it opened for the 1926-27 school year, it was the only high school in the southeastern part of the county and just one of five high schools in the entire county.
Lee-Jackson offered four grades and was accredited two years after it opened. The school's enrollment and faculty grew from 85 students and four teachers in 1927-28 to 307 students and 10 teachers just eight years later. Students took part in extracurricular activities like boys' and girls' basketball, baseball, student government, school patrol, glee club, drama, and ElJay, the Lee-Jackson yearbook.
This image from May 1938 shows students Margaret Eaton (left) and Bernie Linton at Lee-Jackson about a year-and-a-half before Mount Vernon, a new high school, replaced it. Lee-Jackson then served as an elementary school before being acquired in the early 1950s by the City of Alexandria in the West End annexation.
Avoiding confusion with a new elementary school named for Robert E. Lee, Alexandria renamed the old school Stonewall Jackson. It continued as an elementary school and became so crowded that Quonset huts were erected on the grounds for classroom space.
In 1961, a new Stonewall Jackson school building was constructed along Quaker Lane, behind the old one. Though the original structure served briefly as a school for eighth graders, it closed by the end of the 1960s. After it was demolished, a Wendy's restaurant was built there.
Out of the Attic is provided by the Office of Historic Alexandria.


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In no particular order, I offer some final thoughts on the conference. NCS was quite an event, so please excuse the sheer number of pieces I've composed on the topic.
- I was disappointed in the number of papers that did not seem well rehearsed, a problem evident especially at the panel at which I presented. One scholar was several times surprised by what she beheld on her page. An inauspicious moment came early, when she had trouble getting through a long excerpt from Augustine. She announced that she was going to read the Latin aloud for a while to assist her with the English.
- Nearly every paper in the six paper panels was far too long, a big problem when there are that many presenters. Betsy McCormick's, in the same panel as me, was a model: beautifully performed, lucid, just the right amount of argument for the right amount of time. A graduate student named Brooke Hunter, in a 3 person session on "Haunted Chaucer," also presented a perfect paper: 18 minutes, well articulated points, compelling delivery.
- The typical NCS performance began by announcing a change in title. The speaker would then make reference to the very long version of the paper from which this tiny and insufficient piece was being extracted. He or she would last apologize for not having a sufficient number of handouts.
- I began my own presentation by reassuring the audience that I keep a 500 page version of my paper -- with over a thuosand footnotes! -- in a glass case at home. I also declared that I had changed my paper's title from "Forgotten Realms" to "Similes and Metaphors in Grettir's Saga." Everyone stared at me in speechless fear; I had to add "Kidding!" before some laughter erupted. The joke I didn't use (because I wasn't in Swansea to do stand up, you know) was to say that I had brought only one handout, so I was keeping it for myself.
- Very often during this NCS I found myself thinking back to my first, NCS Dublin in 1994. It was a difficult time in my life, with many big transitions (including, among other things, a relocation to DC). I arrived at the conference out of sorts, and was surprised at the formality of the proceedings. Two acts of kindness stand out for me: (1) Carolyn Dinshaw chatting with me, a person she did not know, as we awaited cabs in a Trinity College courtyard; her interest in my project renewed my flagging confidence. And (2) Glenn Burger inviting me out to dinner at an Indian restaurant and supporting me in the crazy thinking that I wanted to start. More than that, he provided me with a model of how to do challenging, affirmative work.
- So fourteen years have gone by, and that is a long time (exactly two scholarly generations, in fact). I hope that I was able to share some of the good karma that I received in 1994 with some young-in-the-field scholars in Swansea. I feel like if I don't keep giving it back, then I've somehow failed a major obligation.
- The intellectual high of listening to some intriguing work at the conference is taking a while to wear off. Presentations by Valerie Allen, Christopher Baswell, Carolyn Dinshaw, Stephanie Trigg, Patty Ingham, Larry Scanlon, Ruth Evans, and Anthony Bale have really stayed with me.
- Speaking of Anthony Bale, I sought him out, introduced myself, and apologized to him. I still feel badly about the draft review I placed on this blog of The Jew in the Medieval Book, an excellent work of scholarship that I did not treat in a way that satisfies me. The first draft read like it was written by someone else: there were moments when the tone is so condescending that I am perplexed as to what my frame of mind must have been at the time. The same with the comments I made when Karl gave me some very good feedback. The good thing about this blog is that conversations with those whose work we discuss happen: thus Peter Haidu showed up in anger after my words over a book he wrote (those are words I stand behind), and Anthony found the review after someone pointed it out to him (I stand only behind the version that will appear in SAC). The long and short: I'm very happy I blogged the review, because that gave me the chance to rethink what I wanted to appear as the review's final form.
- Every conference needs field trips. The day out to the castles was good beyond words, and allowed all of us some space together when we were not dissecting papers or sitting as audience members. Likewise pub time: those social moments are in some ways more important than the dissemination of scholarship at panels, because that's where the conversations had the leisure they needed to unfold.
- These are some of the people who made the conference truly enjoyable: Betsy McCormick, Myra Seaman, Justin Brent, George Edmondson, Bob Stein, Carolyn Dinshaw, Stephanie Trigg, Tom Prendergast, Debra Strickland, Dan Kline, Gerry Heng, Theresa Coletti, Christine Chism, Ethan Knapp, Patricia DeMarco, John Ganim, Miriamne Krummel, Sylvia Tomasch, Tom Hahn, Christina Fitzgerald, Jonathan Hsy, Glenn Burger, and Steve Kruger. Thanks to all of them ... and to anyone I've unintentionally omitted from the list. The conviviality of the conference will -- like the backache from my dorm's mattress -- stay with me for a long time to come.


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New Orleans Calas
12 Jun 2013
When Slow Food USA asked a New Orleans hotel to make calas – traditional sweet fried rice fritters – for their national conference, the kitchen had to learn the recipe from scratch. Once a popular street food, over the past two generations calas has almost disappeared from the city. "After World War II, for you to know about calas, you would have to have this as a tradition in your family," says Poppy Tooker of Slow Food New Orleans, one of the chef's driving the revival of this dish that grew out of resourcefulness, using leftover rice.
The history of Calas is very similar to many other traditional New Orleans foods, coming from both African and European heritage. The name is said to have come from the African Nupe word "kara", meaning fried cake. For more than a century Creole street vendors sold the fresh hot calas in the city's French Quarter, with the familiar cry, "Calas, bels calas tout chauds!" (Calas, beautiful calas, still hot"). The street vendors were often called "calas women." These women would sell their pastries in covered baskets or bowls during the early morning in the French Quarter.
Serves 12
2 cups cooked rice
6 tablespoons flour
3 heaping tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash of nutmeg
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vegetable oil (for deep-frying)
Confectioners' sugar
In a bowl, combine rice, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg; mix well. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Heat vegetable oil for deep-frying to 360 degrees. Carefully drop spoonfuls of the rice mixture into hot oil and fry until golden brown. Remove from oil with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Serve hot.
Prefer a Savory option? Simply omit the sugar and vanilla and add up to 1/2 cup of whatever savory ingredients you may have on hand, such as thinly sliced green onions and a teaspoon or two of hot sauce or boiled, chopped shrimp or crawfish tails.
Watch a video of Poppy preparing calas here.
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The Alumni Weekly provides these pages to the President.
It is a great pleasure for me to continue Princeton's longstanding tradition of letting the president have the last word at Commencement.
Yours is a generation that has lived through enormous change, and you are entering a world in which the pace of change, if anything, is accelerating. Born, for the most part, in the early to mid-1980s, you have witnessed the end of the Cold War with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a seismic event in world politics that altered the carefully crafted post-World War II balance of power. You have been eyewitnesses to the rise of nonstate terrorism around the world, and you have lived through the horrific 9/11 attacks in this country. During your lives the repressive system of apartheid in South Africa, which lasted almost half a century, was overthrown without violence, and Great Britain returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in a peaceful ceremony. On the technology front, the development and commercialization of the Internet has radically transformed the way you connect to family and friends—you were born into an era when telephones were attached to the wall, and you graduate with hand-held wireless devices in your pockets that you have undoubtedly consulted at least once during this ceremony. The music business has gone through multiple upheavals as well, from analog to digital, from cassettes to the 99-cent download. In 1985 no one was proposing that we could sequence the 3 billion bases of the human genome in 10 years. Today that sequence is freely available at the click of a mouse. And who, in 1985, would have predicted that in 2008 an African American man and a woman would be a major party's candidate for president? In your lives there has been one constant—things will change— and, despite Stephen Colbert's plea at Class Day yesterday, as Princetonians you will be expected not simply to adapt well to change; you will be expected to lead it.
I believe there is no better way to prepare for such a future than a Princeton education. In a world where it is impossible to predict what is to come, the powerful combination of breadth and depth that a Princeton education offers is the best insurance that you will be prepared, come what may. Breadth breeds creativity, which requires the ability to make novel associations among seemingly unconnected thoughts or ideas. But it is equally important to be able to fully master a problem—as you have demonstrated with your senior theses, your master's projects, and your Ph.D. dissertations. This mastery is not simply a matter of acquiring facts and figures about a subject; it is about weaving those facts and figures into a deep understanding of a topic that fascinates you. It is Princeton's emphasis on developing critical thinking rather than accumulating vast stores of knowledge that brings you to this moment, when I believe you are prepared for the unexpected.
This spring Princeton lost one of her greatest sons and leaders—our 16th president, Robert Francis Goheen of the undergraduate class of 1940 and the graduate class of 1948. Bob Goheen is an exemplar of the Princetonian who did not simply adapt well to change, but was able to lead change when it mattered most. And in so doing he transformed this University at a critical time in her history.
I would like to reflect on three occasions when Bob Goheen's openness to other viewpoints and willingness to change his mind were instrumental in his effectiveness as a leader. The first was his championing of coeducation. In his recent eulogy, President Emeritus Bill Bowen of the graduate class of 1958 pointed out that as late as 1965 Bob believed that "Princeton has no problems that coeducation can solve." Yet only four years later he was recommending to the Board of Trustees that Princeton do exactly the opposite and admit women to her undergraduate classes. What accounted for this remarkable transition in his thinking? To be sure, Princeton was not immune to powerful external forces in the country that were calling for equal opportunity for women and rejecting the notion that "separate but equal" would suffice for women's education any more than it did for the education of African Americans. When asked by Scott Gurvey of the class of 1973 in a WPRB interview why he had changed his mind about coeducation, Bob said simply, "Because I was wrong! . . . What you want to do when you have made a mistake is admit it, explain your reasoning, and move on." He provided that reasoning in an Alumni Day address in 1969.
Here's what he said:
While it has proved a most complex matter, the essential question is not hard to identify. It is whether the education we offer—not just the social conveniences—will be better if both men and women take part. It has become increasingly clear to us that it will—that it will make for a richer and more relevant educational experience at Princeton in the years ahead.
Bob Goheen recognized that a 223-year tradition of male-only education had to yield in favor of deepening and enriching the quality of education for all. He also understood that as women began to assume more prominent positions in the nation's life, it was critical that men and women prepare for leadership roles together. This decision was not uniformly welcomed, and Bob had to withstand fierce opposition from many alumni, some of whom banded together to challenge his decision. Yet he remained resolute in his conviction that the University would embrace coeducation gracefully, and be the stronger for it. As we look out on the graduating class today, time has clearly vindicated his decision.
If Bob's leadership on coeducation is an example of changing his mind, his leadership on issues related to race is an example of opening his mind. In an oral history of his tenure as president, conducted in 2004, he confessed that "through most of my life, until the early 1960s, I had been largely oblivious to the issue of race in this country. It just wasn't a thing I'd been exposed to or had to grapple with or thought much about." What powerfully changed his mind were the reports of undergraduate and graduate students who had begun to work to desegregate the South, and his recognition that Princeton's record of admitting students of color was downright dismal. He responded to evidence of discrimination both at home and elsewhere in the country, and by 1962 he was moved to include these words in his Commencement address: The denial of human dignity and equal rights on the blind basis of color or creed is an abomination of our time and cancer in our society. Distinctions which unfairly curb the inherent potentials of individuals or groups are the direct antithesis of the aims of higher education.
He fervently believed that the problems facing the United States would require well-educated leaders drawn from all ethnic backgrounds, as well as a far deeper understanding of the issue of race, which could only be achieved if white and black students were educated together. As he did in the case of coeducation, he believed that by diversifying the student body, a far more intellectually vibrant university, and one with a much more interesting cultural milieu, would arise. He also understood that he needed help in attracting and supporting black students at an institution that had not been welcoming in the past, and he therefore brought Carl A. Fields to Princeton as the first African American dean in the Ivy League. In a few short years, the two men transformed the landscape for students of color at Princeton, created the forerunner of the Carl Fields Center, and changed the University, as we see today, very much for the better. The third example of Bob's leadership came in response to the Vietnam War. In the 2004 oral history he laid out his own journey from supporting President John F. Kennedy's foray into Vietnam—seeing it as he said at the time as an extension of the Korean War to slow the march of communism—to what he eventually described in this way in 1972:
In your time, in your country, no little jingoism and no little arrogance have contributed to our tragic, wasteful, devastating involvement in Indochina, where we are perhaps finally learning the bitter results of collective pride and of actions taken in ignorance of the history, culture, and aspirations of the peoples of a far-off land.
He changed his mind after studying and reading about the events in Vietnam, listening to those who were knowledgeable and weighing the tremendous cost in human lives—both American and Vietnamese.
While his personal views were evolving, Bob faced the enormous challenge of steering Princeton through the rough seas of the late 1960s. Indeed, a number of our peer institutions veered badly off course during this era of student unrest, an era characterized not only by antiwar protest and a continuing battle for civil rights, but by broader societal upheaval and dissent. Princeton weathered the storms with its dignity and its civility intact, largely because of Bob Goheen. I recently compared him to Abraham Lincoln, in the sense that his greatness was partly due to his own inherent qualities of intelligence, open-mindedness, and integrity, and partly due to the turbulent times through which he lived. Like Lincoln, he did not simply endure those times, he provided inspired leadership at a point when it was desperately needed. His calm willingness to listen at large University gatherings where students and faculty vented their fury and frustration at events outside their control; his defense of their right to dissent but his opposition to all forms of coercion defused what could have been incendiary moments. He focused attention on what was in Princeton's control, and he encouraged students and others to channel their passions in constructive ways. Not only did Princeton survive this era, the University was actually strengthened by it. The ferment of those years led to the opening of the FitzRandolph Gates as a symbol that the University was of the world and not apart from it; the creation of a University-wide deliberative body, the CPUC, and the Priorities Committee; and the inclusion of young alumni on our Board of Trustees.
I don't believe that you, the members of the graduating classes of 2008, could find a more compelling model than Bob Goheen for how to live in a world that is changing rapidly and how to change the world into a better place. His strengths as a leader were embedded in the qualities we hope to have instilled in each of you—an open-mindedness to new evidence that allows for the possibility that your original impressions were wrong, coupled with the courage to say so out loud; the habit of listening to and learning from the views of others, particularly those with whom you deeply disagree; the capacity to speak the truth as you understand it; a willingness to hold your ground against fierce opposition; a deep respect for learning as opposed to uninformed opinion; and the strength that grows out of humility and compassion for human shortcomings.


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Internet search giant Google has agreed to make voluntary changes to its search business in order to avoid a major federal antitrust lawsuit after a nearly two-year government investigation. The agreement, which was expected, wraps up the Federal Trade Commission's probe into whether Google has used its search market power to harm rivals unfairly.
"The conclusion is clear," David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post. "Google's services are good for users and good for competition."
A group of Google's competitors, including Microsoft and Yelp, had been lobbying the government for several years in an effort to prod federal officials to go after the search giant on antitrust grounds. Google dominates the Web search space, with about 70% market share.
Google's agreement with the feds, which was announced Thursday, is a significant blow to its rivals, some of which were hoping the federal government would file a high-profile lawsuit against the company, as it did with Microsoft in the 1990s.
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As part of the deal, Google will make a set of voluntary commitments to change certain search practices. The company will also enter into what's known as a consent decree — which is a binding judicial order — over allegations that it misused smartphone patents to thwart rivals.
"The changes Google has agreed to make will ensure that consumers continue to reap the benefits of competition in the online marketplace and in the market for innovative wireless devices they enjoy," FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in a statement. "This was an incredibly thorough and careful investigation by the Commission, and the outcome is a strong and enforceable set of agreements."
The group FairSearch.org, which represents several Google rivals, including Microsoft, warned the FTC against moving too hastily, because the agency's European regulatory counterparts are still crafting their plan to address Google's search market power.
"If the FTC fails to take decisive action to end Google's anti-competitive practices, and locks itself out of any remedies to Google's conduct that are offered in Europe later this month, the FTC will have acted prematurely and failed in its mission of protecting America's consumers," FairSearch.org wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
(MORE: Will Google Escape a Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Over Web Search?)
In response to its critics, Google has maintained that its search engine is simply more useful than rival services, and has repeatedly argued that competition — including Bing — is just "one click away." Google also argues that the fundamental purpose of U.S. antitrust law is to protect consumers, not the competition.
"The evidence the FTC uncovered through this intensive investigation prompted us to require significant changes in Google's business practices," Beth Wilkinson, the FTC's outside counsel, said in a statement. "However, regarding the specific allegations that the company biased its search results to hurt competition, the evidence collected to date did not justify legal action by the Commission."
"Undoubtedly, Google took aggressive actions to gain advantage over rival search providers," Wilkinson added. "However, the FTC's mission is to protect competition, and not individual competitors. The evidence did not demonstrate that Google's actions in this area stifled competition in violation of U.S. law."
In fact, some experts have suggested that the FairSearch.org campaign amounts to sour grapes. "It's an old D.C. adage that if you cannot win in the marketplace, try to win through political influence," Glenn Manishin, a partner at the law firm Troutman Sanders and a leading antitrust expert, wrote in a highly-cited blog series on the topic.
In a blog post Wednesday, Microsoft lashed out against Google for what it called "antitrust offenses" committed by the search giant. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant alleged that Google "continues to block Microsoft from offering its customers proper access to YouTube."
(MORE: Google CEO Meets with Feds as U.S. Senator Blasts FTC Over Antitrust Probe)
"Hopefully, Google will wake up to a New Year with a resolution to change its ways and start to conform with the antitrust laws," Microsoft VP and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner wrote. "If not, then 2013 hopefully will be the year when antitrust enforcers display the resolve that Google continues to lack."
Reached by TIME late Wednesday, a Google spokesperson offered a response to Microsoft's allegation about YouTube access.
"Contrary to Microsoft's claims, it's easy for consumers to view YouTube videos on Windows phones," the Google spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement. "Windows phone users can access all the features of YouTube through our HTML5-based mobile website, including viewing high-quality video streams, finding favorite videos, seeing video ratings, and searching for video categories. In fact, we've worked with Microsoft for several years to help build a great YouTube experience on Windows phones."
Note — Jan. 3 2:30 p.m. EST: This post has been updated to include statements from the FTC and Google.


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Facebook to share data with Instagram, loosen email rules
Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network.
Facebook Inc is proposing to combine user data with that of recently acquired photo-sharing service Instagram, and will loosen restrictions on emails between members of the social network.
Facebook also said on Wednesday it is proposing to scrap a 4-year old process that can allow the social network's roughly 1 billion users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services.
Facebook said it may share information between its own service and other businesses or affiliates that Facebook owns to 'help provide, understand, and improve our services and their own services.'
One of Facebook's most significant affiliate businesses is Instagram, a photo-sharing service for smartphone users that Facebook acquired in October for roughly $715 million.
The change could open the door for Facebook to build unified profiles of its users that include people's personal data from its social network and from Instagram, similar to recent moves by Google Inc. In January, Google said it would combine users' personal information from its various Web services - such as search, email and the Google+ social network - to provide a more customized experience.
Google's unified data policy raised concerns among some privacy advocates and regulators, who said it was an invasion of people's privacy. A group of 36 U.S. state attorney generals also warned in a letter to Google that consolidating so much personal information in one place could put people at greater risk from hackers and identity thieves.
Facebook also wants to loosen the restrictions on how members of the social network can contact other members using the Facebook email system.
Facebook said it wanted to eliminate a setting for users to control who can contact them. The company said it planned to replace the 'Who can send you Facebook messages' setting with new filters for managing incoming messages.
Asked whether such a change could leave Facebook users exposed to a flood of unwanted, spam-like messages, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said that the company carefully monitors user interaction and feedback to find ways to enhance the user experience.
'We are working on updates to Facebook Messages and have made this change in our Data Use Policy in order to allow for improvements to the product,' Noyes said.
Facebook's changes come as the world's largest social networking company with roughly 1 billion users has experienced a sharp slowdown in revenue growth. The company generates the bulk of its revenue from advertising on its website.
The changes are open to public comment for the next seven days. If the proposed changes generate more than 7,000 public comments, Facebook's current terms of service automatically trigger a vote by users to approve the changes. But the vote is only binding if at least 30 percent of users take part, and two prior votes never reached that threshold.
Facebook has said in that past that it was rethinking the voting system and on Wednesday Facebook moved to eliminate the vote entirely, noting that it hasn't functioned as intended and is no longer suited to its current situation as a large publicly traded company subject to oversight by various regulatory agencies.
'We found that the voting mechanism, which is triggered by a specific number of comments, actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality,' Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president of communications, public policy and marketing, said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Instead of the vote, Facebook will look for other forms of user feedback on changes, such as an 'Ask the Chief Privacy Officer' question-and-answer forum on its website as well as live webcasts about privacy, safety and security.
Facebook, Google and other online companies have faced increasing scrutiny and enforcement from privacy regulators as consumers entrust ever-increasing amounts of information about their personal lives to Web services.
In April, Facebook settled privacy charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it had deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended. Under the settlement, Facebook is required to get user consent for certain changes to its privacy settings and is subject to 20 years of independent audits.
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Before I tell you guys about the cookies above, I'd like to answer one question made by a lovely friend of mine (too bad her blog is in Portuguese, she writes beautifully) – she asked me which are my all time favorite songs. I have been thinking of it for almost a week now and came up with the following list - which I think I'll regret the moment I hit the "publish post" button:
- Reel around the fountain - Smiths
- A new flame – Simply Red
- Loving you hating me – Soft Cell
- The 7th stranger – Duran Duran (the Arena live version)
- Walking on broken glass – Annie Lennox
Now, the food: I made these small boxes of cookies for my sister's birthday party – she gave them away as gifts for her guests.
Everything was going well until I had to pipe the cookies onto the baking sheet. I had never seen so many deformed cookies in my entire life. They looked awful!
I baked the first batch anyway, somehow hoping they would morph into something pretty while in the oven – which of course never happened, since I'm not telekinetic.
I shaped the rest of the dough using 2 spoons. Everybody loved their little gifts and kept saying how cute they looked and how delicious they tasted and all I kept thinking was "you should have seen my face by the time I finished these…"
If you want to see some really beautiful melting moments, check the ones the sweet and talented Valentina made the other day.
Melting moments
adapted from Modern Classics Book 2
175g (6oz) butter, softened
¼ cup (32g) confectioner's sugar
grated zest of 1 lime
1 cup (135g) all purpose flour, sifted
¼ cup (25g) cornstarch, sifted
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF. Place the butter, icing sugar and zest in a bowl and beat with electric beaters until light and fluffy. Stir in the flour and cornstarch until combined.
Place the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a fluted nozzle. Pipe 3cm (1in) round onto a baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper, allowing room for spreading.
Bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden. Cool on trays.
Makes 32


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LONDON (AP) — At 17, he's a tech whiz, he's rich — and he can even offer some advice on how to raise your kids.
Teenage programmer Nick D'Aloisio's decision to sell his news application Summly to Yahoo for what's rumored to be a massive payout has turned him into a media sensation. The sale caps a short but successful career at Apple Inc.'s vast app store, where hundreds of thousands of pieces of software compete for the attention of smartphone and tablet users.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, D'Aloisio said his computer skills were self-taught, explaining that he started by mastering movie-making software before tackling programming languages.
He said his parents were "very enthusiastic and supportive." Asked what advice he'd give couples hoping to raise their own wunderkinds, he urged them to let their children explore their own paths — be it computer science or drama.
"If there's a natural curiosity, that'll lead to, eventually, some success," the teenager said.
Summly is one of several apps that D'Aloisio has designed. It uses complex algorithms to automatically condense online news content into attractive little blocks of text that are useful for the small screens of smartphones.
D'Aloisio said he was thrilled to be working for a "classic Internet company" — Yahoo! Inc. is older than he is — and he laughingly dismissed a reporter's suggestion that his friends might be jealous.
"All my friends have been very supportive," he said.
He noted that the publicity over Summly had been building for more than a year, meaning he and those close to him had had time to adjust to the outside attention.
As with its other recent acquisitions, Yahoo didn't disclose how much it is paying for Summly, although British newspapers suggested the deal's value at several million dollars. D'Aloisio had already received investment from several sources, including venture capitalist backer Li Ka-Shing.
Asked what he'll do with the payout, he responded with serious answers unbefitting of an adolescent. He said the money was being kept in a trust until he turns 18, and he didn't seem interested in talking about what he'd buy for himself for his next birthday.
"I'd like to keep it safe. Bank it .... If I was to do anything it'd be angel investing," said D'Aloisio, who is slim with dark brown hair and bears a passing resemblance to Josh Radnor, the actor who plays main character Ted in the TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
The teen app expert said he was interested in automated technologies that could anticipate users' needs before they even reached for their smartphones — such as an app that downloads the day's news stories just before a user steps into a subway.
D'Aloisio said there were no copyright concerns about Summly, which works by running a statistical analysis of the text to guess which bits are the most relevant to cut the content down. Media companies such as New York-based News Corp. have collaborated on making their content more Summly-friendly, he said, arguing that shortening software would ultimately be a win-win for content providers.
"We're introducing their content to a new, younger demographic," he said. "You like the summary, you read the whole story; it increases publisher viewership."
The technology isn't foolproof: He said the app sometimes has trouble shortening long-form or highbrow pieces, but he noted that humans, too, have trouble summarizing sprawling stories.
The deal announced Monday is Yahoo's fifth small acquisition in the past five months. All have been part of CEO Marissa Mayer's effort to attract more engineers with expertise in building services for smartphones and tablet computers, an increasingly important area of technology that she believes the Internet company had been neglecting.
Although the Yahoo acquisition won't close until later this spring, D'Aloisio said the Summly App will no longer be available. Its technology will return in other Yahoo products.
D'Aloisio will work for Yahoo in its London office — in part so that he can complete his high school exams. Two other Summly workers will join Yahoo at its Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. He said he eventually wants to attend university, perhaps to study philosophy.
"I haven't decided yet," he said.


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At this point, we introduce a Spanish-language program. Our daily activities continue to reinforce age-appropriate social development.


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You may have heard that Steve Ballmer Monday blew the doors off Staples Center in Los Angeles with weapons-grade bombast. Many a current and former Microsoft employee smirked and shook their heads as their former boss and new owner of the NBA Clippers set off all the ooga horns at his introduction to fans.
"We're going to be hard core! Hard core! Hard core!" he yelled. "We're going to keep coming and coming and coming and coming and coming!"
"Nothing gets in our way! Nothing gets in our way!"
"Boom! Keep coming! The hard-core Clippers, that's us."
Those fans who didn't dive under the seats at the sight of the one-man rampage delighted at the antics. So did Microsoft shareholders, who are quietly counting their dubloons after the stock price soared 43 percent since the announcement that he was retiring as strongman after 14 years.
They remember similar lava flows surrounding Ballmer's 2007 claim that, "No chance that Apple iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
Beware, Clippers fans, of Ballmer forecasts.
Then again, this is sports, where bombast is coin of the realm. Today's prediction is tomorrow's skit on the "Tonight Show" and the world moves on.
Since almost no one has more coin or more bombast than Ballmer, his stewardship is going to be fun to watch, especially for the most misbegotten franchise in modern American sports. It took former commissioner David Stern manipulating the trade of Chris Paul to pull the Clips from the sub-basement of the outhouse. Then they fell back in, temporarily, thanks to human sludge Donald Sterling.
But Ballmer's petty cash fund of $2 billion rescued the Clips, LA and the NBA from further slime, and raised the equity value of just about every major pro sports franchise a little bit. But in Seattle, the NBA wound opened a little wider.
If there were to be another team in Seattle, Ballmer is the guy the NBA wanted, for all the obvious reasons, some of which were visible in the mist of flying spittle and sweat at Staples Monday. In his brief partnership with Chris Hansen in an attempt to relocate the Kings, Timberwolves and Bucks, Ballmer would have been the face of the franchise that would have replaced the Sonics.
That doesn't mean Hansen can't do it with other partners, but the hard road became harder. Hansen did himself no favors within the NBA when he was caught attempting to manipulate a potential vote in Sacramento by giving funds to an anti-arena enterprise. It wasn't that they were offended by Hansen's ploy — they probably admired the chutzpah — but they were torqued that he was caught publicly, admitted the misdeed and paid a fine.
In the cutthroat world of pro sports ownership, that was pure amateurism.
But when Sterling's racist bleats lowered the bar to a shameful new low for owners, they struck quickly via commissioner Adam Silver, banning Sterling for life. Ballmer, with some experience at the hostile takeover, cut his ties with Hansen and swooped in with predatory swiftness.
The $2 billion move astonished the sports world globally, on multiple levels. But here in Seattle, there was historical irony — the two richest guys in town who like sports can't do anything to bring back the Sonics because they own NBA teams elsewhere.
Another with a basketball jones, Paul Allen, in the 1980s had the same fervor as Ballmer, absent the histronics. But he wasn't wealthy in 1983, when billboard baron Barry Ackerley bought the Sonics from Sam Schulman. Sometime after Microsoft went public in 1986, Allen was plenty wealthy. But his offer to purchase the team was rejected by Ackerley, who took it as an insult and moved Allen's season-ticket seats off the Coliseum's front row.
Allen in 1988 took his millions south and spent 70 of them, then an NBA record, to buy the Portland Trail Blazers from Larry Weinberg. Allen has held them for 25 often-tumultuous years. He came to ultimate success with his 1997 purchase of the Seahawks, but remains unfulfilled in his deepest sports passion.
So next season when the Blazers play the Clippers, there will be more at stake than a win or a loss. It will be a clash of the titans borne of the little software shop in Redmond. Shards of ego will fly so intensely that public safety will be threatened. Allen and Ballmer are reportedly friendly, but this is sports, where both set the standard, a quarter-century apart, for extravagant pursuit of a passion.
Seattle, chin in palm as Hansen tries to get a shovel in SoDo dirt before his children have children, gets to watch. And somewhere, Jay Gatsby is chuckling.


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BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday, just under three weeks after she suffered a seizure at their Nantucket home, a State Department spokesman said.
Heinz Kerry, 74, is expected to make a full recovery from the July 7 seizure following additional outpatient treatment, spokesman Glen Johnson said.
"I'm extremely grateful for the quality of care Teresa received," Kerry said in the statement. "I've always known Massachusetts is blessed to have some of the greatest health care in the world, but we've just lived it, and are grateful to all."
Heinz Kerry thanked her doctors and caregivers. "They are the kindest people, who love what they do and do it superbly well," she said.
Kerry praised the State Department Diplomatic Security Service members who first responded when his wife fell ill. Heinz Kerry was treated at a Nantucket hospital and another in Boston before ultimately being discharged from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
Johnson previously said the cause of the seizure had not been determined but doctors had ruled out a brain tumor, heart attack or stroke. The family does not plan to comment further on Heinz Kerry's health, he said.
Heinz Kerry, who was born in Mozambique, is an heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune and is the widow of former U.S. Sen. John Heinz, who was killed along with six others in 1991 when a helicopter collided with a plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pennsylvania. She married Kerry, a longtime senator from Massachusetts, in 1995.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, resigned from the U.S. Senate on Feb. 1 after being confirmed to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State.


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Now, I don't know about you guys, but mine goes a little something... like this...
(Awww yeeeeah.)
Next, we sink straight into the Fire Swamp.
Next we play BioShock together until 2AM.
Later, after dressing up as Venkman and Staypuft for Halloween (I'm Venkman, of course), and confessing our undying love for one another, there's a painfully romantic proposal:
"Jen," my dashing prince would say, "Will you be my own Princess Peach?"
To which I would respond, "Are you kidding? Do Vulcans need the Pon Farr?
"(But we are going to Disney for the honeymoon, right?)"
And, BAM! I'm a princess! Next thing you know, I'm living in a castle...
"And over here is your TARDIS closet. As you can see, it is much, MUCH bigger on the inside."
...and...and...wait. You know what? Other than the castle and crown stuff, I've already got my fairy tale ending, complete with BioShock playing, Princess Bride quoting, brownie baking prince. (Love you, Sweetie.)
So I guess I'll just end here by wishing all of you:


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This Egg Butter Masala was inspired by an Egg Malai Masala a colleague's wife had cooked. Since I did not have her recipe and based this on my Paneer Butter Masala recipe, I decided to call it Egg Butter Masala. The end product looks and tastes very similar to what my Punju colleague had brought.
Now , honestly, I am not a big fan of butter masala kind of gravies. It is ok. I like them but I don't go ga-ga over them. However I have noticed that a large percentage of Indian population and still larger percent of non-Indian population goes absolutely crazy over this dish. My girls also love it. I guess it satisfies different palates and tastes. And for this reason, I have found that a dish like this helps a lot in a party or a potluck where you are not very sure of the food choices of the other person. This one is sure to please.
As you can well guess, I made this for a potluck at work. The recipe is almost same as my Paneer Butter Masala but this one is easier and more creamier. In the other one, I did not use cream. Instead I added cashew paste and evaporated milk. For this one, I thought, "What the heck ? If those people are going to eat 2 more tsp of butter or cream it is not going to harm anyone. Also my life will become simpler". With that thought I skipped the cashew paste and added about 1/2 pt of light cream. I also had to make it borderline spicy and could not use as much Kashmiri Mirch I wanted to. So to get some color I added tomato ketchup taking cue from Nag's blog.
The end result was very good and definitely easy to make. I cooked the gravy a day ahead. You can do it even a week before and freeze, only in that case, don't add the cream until you are ready to heat and serve it. To make it a malai masala substitute water with milk while making the gravy. I added eggs but really you can add anything to it. Both my girls loved it and you can sneak in veggie puree into it if that is your goal.
And for all those who have been asking about the book, we are now at the stage where my erudite editor is on her final edits and I am making small changes here and there. The book cover has been decided on and we have got some sketches to be included. The book is not a cookbook and intertwining the recipes and narrative has been both fun and hard work.Also with a work outside home, kids and the blog, I have been missing the deadlines set by my editor quiet often which means the book gets delayed just that much. Hope you all appreciate once it is out and anyone with a single negative comment about it will get a time out. Serious.
Ok, just kidding !
First let us make the gravy
Fry one red onion chopped in large chunks till soft. Cook and make a paste. You can also use raw onion paste but it sometimes tends to get bitter and also takes longer to cook so I like it this way.
Heat 1tbsp butter + 1 tbsp oil
Temper the hot oil with 1/4tsp of methi seeds and whole black cardamom lightly bruised
When you get beautiful flavor of methi, which is really really fragrant, add the onions paste. Fry for about 2 minutes
Next add
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp Kashmiri mirch(more to taste)
a sprinkle of turmeric powder
Saute for couple more minutes
Now add about 3/4th cup of pureed tomato. I used canned whole tomatoes to make the puree, good juicy fresh ones will work well. You can also use tomato paste but in that case you will be using only 2 tbsp of it.
Add 2tbsp tomato ketchup
Fry till the raw smell of tomato is gone. This takes about 6-8 minutes, at end of which you will see oil separating from the edges
Now add about 1 tbsp of Kasoori Methi warmed between your palms
Add salt and 1/4th-1/2 tsp of Garam Masala.
Add about 1/2 tsp of sugar
Mix well
Add 1 cup of warm water and let the gravy simmer and come to a boil. For a richer version add milk instead of water. At this point taste and adjust for seasonings. Add more Kashmiri mirch or salt or sugar depending on your taste. Simmer till gravy is the right consistency for you, remember you are going to add cream to this.
When you are happy with the simmering gravy, lower the heat and add 1/2pt of light cream. Yes lot of cream but you alone are not going to eat it. At low heat let the gravy simmer for 4-5 mins.
You have the Butter Masala gravy ready.
Now add the Eggs
While you are making the gravy boil about 6-7 eggs. Cool and peel shells. Now you can fry them with a sprinkle of turmeric to a golden brown or just let them remain the way they are. To serve, halve the eggs, sprinkle with little salt and add to the gravy. Simmer for a few seconds. Serve warm.