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Not that anyone has much faith in the ratings agencies anymore, but Moody's announced Thursday that it may downgrade the debt ratings of Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo due to a reduced appetite in Washington to bail out the banks under Dodd-Frank. Moody's said that debt ratings for J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and State Street Corporation could come under review for the same reason.
Following the market meltdown of 2008-2009, the government poured many hundreds of billions of taxpayer money into bailouts of U.S. financial institutions—the most notorious being the bailout of AIG. To prevent such a thing from happening again Dodd-Frank provided for the creation of a "resolution authority" that would create a system for the orderly unwinding of the country's largest banks in the event of their failure.
But the Moody's downgrade talk is a little funny—and late. For one thing, we are approaching the one-year anniversary of passage of Dodd-Frank, so its contents have been known for some time. Of course, many of the details have still to be ironed out. But why did Moody's wait until now to make this assessment? Further, few think Too Big To Fail has gone away. While one of the aims of Dodd-Frank was certainly to remove that moral hazard—the market perception that some banks enjoy implicit government support—few people think that it actually succeeded at doing that, including Yale economist Robert Shiller. In fact, some think Dodd-Frank made the problem worse, including David Skeel, who we interviewed here.
Could it be that, in the wake of a recent SEC proposal to overhaul the rating agencies' business, Moody's just wants to show it can indeed be tough on the banks? SEC commissioner Mary Schapiro announced in mid May a set of proposals to reform the ratings agencies' business, including better internal controls and more transparency concerning how they determine their ratings. What do you think?
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"Today's rating actions reflect Moody's view that, in light of developments on the Dodd-Frank Act that have occurred to date, the unusual levels of uplift incorporated into the ratings of Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo may no longer be appropriate," Moody's wrote in a note about its plan to review the bank ratings.
"The US government's intent under Dodd-Frank is very clear," says Moody's Senior Vice President Sean Jones, according to the note. "Going forward, it does not want to bail out even large, systemically important banking groups." Mr. Jones notes however that Moody's continues to believe that such a group could not be resolved without risking a disorderly disruption of the marketplace and the broader economy. "Even so, the support assumptions built into these three banks' ratings are unusually high, which may no longer be appropriate in the evolving post-crisis environment," added Jones.
"Moody's also continues to evaluate whether it should reduce to below even pre-crisis levels its support assumptions for the eight US banks that currently benefit from ratings uplift. In this context, the rating outlook on the deposit, senior debt, and senior subordinated debt ratings of Bank of New York Mellon has been changed to negative from stable. This brings its outlook into line with that of the other US banking groups whose debt and deposit ratings benefit from government support assumptions: JPMorgan Chase & Co, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Morgan Stanley, and State Street Corporation.


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Three weeks postpartum and I decide to partake in a 5k Easter run. I'm crazy right.... And why don't I bring my 3 week old baby with me. Now I'm truly insane!
I woke up bright an early and put on my running shoes. Met my friend and ventured off to Lodi Lake where their annual Easter 5k is staged. This was my very first 5k. I had decided to sign up for the 5k as my motivation to get back in shape. When the time came; I was already having separation anxiety and didn't want to leave my breastfed baby at home. So she came along with me. I bundled her up with a beanie and gloves. She was nice and cozy in her Bugaboo carriage.
Again I was only three weeks postpartum and did not receive my OK from the doc to start working out. So I took it slow. The 3.1 mile run became a 3.1 mile stroll. Other women were there with their toddlers in their running strollers. And Solin was sleeping like a baby in her Bugaboo Cameleon.
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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Technology to Help Enable Service Providers to Manage More Than One Million Devices in Their Networks
BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Feb 28, 2017) - MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS - With more than 10 billion devices and connections projected by 2020, according to Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) Mobile Visual Networking Index Forecast (2016-2021), service providers will need the scalability and performance to manage the high growth of devices in their networks.
Cisco announces today, Layered Services Architecture (LSA), an innovation to the Cisco® Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) enabled by Tail-f, will pave the way for service providers to support the next order of magnitude of devices in their networks. The more than 100 existing and new customers that have adopted NSO's technology will benefit from the future horizontal scalability and performance enhancements to the industry's most advanced and flexible service orchestration platform.
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Khuzama, Feb. 18: Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the Centre was trying its best for a workable solution to the Naga political problem.
Addressing an election rally at Khuzama, some 25km from Kohima, Shinde said peace in the state was important for overall development.
He said there has been relative peace in states like Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Mizoram but Nagaland was still confronted with the problem of militancy.
We have been trying to find a solution to the problem and develop Nagaland, Shinde said. I assure you that we will bring peace in the state.
The NSCN (I-M) and the Centre have been engaged in a dialogue for the past 15 years and more. However, it is believed that the talks have now reached a crucial stage and an end was in sight.
Lashing out at the ruling Naga Peoples Front (NPF), the home minister said in 10 years, chief minister Neiphiu Rio has done nothing for the state.
Moreover, the people who were in power pocketed funds from the Centre. What have they done for the state? he asked.
He said the condition of the roads was pathetic, and there was irregular power supply despite several thousand crores of rupees being sanctioned.
He, however, promised rapid changes and development if the Congress was elected to power.
Wonderful days are ahead for the people of Nagaland, Shinde said.
He demanded accountability from the NPF government and said while the country is progressing by leaps and bounds, Nagaland had remained stagnant because of bad governance and rampant corruption.
He said when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance took over from the NDA, the countrys growth rate was only three per cent but now it has reached nine per cent, which indicated that India was progressing.
Shinde also lauded the vision of former state president of the PCC and Congress MLA K.V. Pusa, and appealed to the people to elect him.
The veteran Congress lawmaker is contesting from Southern Angami-II constituency against NPF candidate Kropol Vitsu.
The home minister said Pusa is a capable leader who can bring changes not only in the constituency but in the state.
He appealed to the people to elect all Congress candidates from Kohima district.
Shinde also addressed a public meeting at Peren town and Tuli in Mokokchung district.
At Khuzama, the home minister was impressed with the gathering. Electioneering, which had a slow start in Nagaland, is now picking up momentum with both visiting and state leaders campaigning extensively in all districts for their respective candidates.
Among the star campaigners who have already visited the state are AICC president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
A Congress office-bearer today said the party would leave no stone unturned in its efforts to wrest power after hibernating for 10 years. Look how desperate the NPF has become... the party wants to win the election at any cost, he said, citing the arrest of the home minister under the Arms Act.


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How's this for a Valentine's Day treat – orange juice, pancakes, sausage. fruit cup, coffee and tea for breakfast? Bring your sweetheart to the clubhouse Saturday, Feb. 14, from 8 to 9:15 a.m.
Tickets are sold by Geri in the office or by Christine Archer at Bingo (as Nancy will not be there for a couple weeks). Cost is $3 per person. We do not sell tickets at the door since we need an accurate headcount.
We had a great turnout for the January breakfast and we had three new volunteers. We welcome your help.
Ladies Luncheon
Mark your calendar for the next Ladies Luncheon on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at noon. We would like to see more of our neighbors come out and join us.
Cherrywood Bowling
Cherrywood Bowling league results for Jan. 26.
Men's high games: Dave Bragdon 202, Walter Wise 182, Robert Crowley 182, Bill Zyck 169.
Women's high games: Kathy Underhill 184, Jenny Arturi 161, Fran Hall 154.
Subs high games: Judy Pniewski 182, Norma Alexander 159.
Bowler of the week pins over average: Jim Heape +70, Lois Crowley +64.
Submitted by Fran Hall, secretary/treasurer.
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A sincere thank you to all who contributed to ensure the Christmas 2008 party was our best ever. Volunteers for setup and cleanup enabled us all to enjoy the festivities. Plenty of delicious food, cakes, cookies, and soft drinks. Everyone had a gift from the grab bag.
We were pleased that County Commissioner Barbara Fitos and her father, 200 Coalition President Pat Gabriel, Delphine Herbert of Marions for Peace, activities director Geri Watrouse and Frank, and Nancy Archer our writer for the South Marion Citizen were able to attend and enjoy the festivities.
We will make plans Feb. 20 to determine what we need to do to work with our elected representatives at the local and national levels to assist them where possible in their efforts to solve the enormous mess the country is facing. We shall also be considering the new ownership changes at Cherrywood and how they affect us all.
Our young people serving in Iraq and Afghanistan need our support and thanks year round, so please work with our veterans organizations and our Support Our Soldiers Committee to show our appreciation. In December the veterans organized a collection which resulted in SOS being able to send 29 packages to our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Voter registration cards are available if you want to register or change party affiliation.
The Cherrywood Democratic Club meets monthly on the third Friday at 2 p.m. in the Clubhouse. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call Harriet Scarpino at 873-9955.
Cherrywood Bingo
We have new games and bigger prizes at Cherrywood bingo. Get to know your neighbors and have a Thursday night filled with fun from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Clubhouse.
Get there early. Jackpot goes off every week, no more waiting. Jackpots start at $100. Cost to play is $6 each week.
Travel Club
As promised, here are the newest day trips, and a few overnighters, to choose from. Fliers for all trips are in the Clubhouse. Get your name in the Travel Club book if you want to go.
If you want to book or confirm a trip, call Nancy at 861-1432. Remember, you do not need to live in Cherrywood to go on our trips.
Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Show Palace on Thursday, March 12. Cost, $70, includes bus, musical comedy, buffet lunch, taxes and tips.
The Peking Acrobats perform at UF Performing Arts Center on March 21. Cost, $80, includes bus, lunch at Northwest Grille, 2 p.m. show, taxes and tips. Reservations should have been made by now.
Waist Watchers at Tampa Performing Arts Center on March 25. Cost, $82, includes bus, lunch at Sam Seltzer's, musical comedy at 2 p.m., taxes and tips. Reserve by Jan. 15.
Natalie Needs a Nightie at the Early Bird Dinner Theatre on Thursday, April 2. Cost, $66, includes bus, zany show a 1 p.m., buffet lunch, taxes and tips.
Private Lives at the Early Bird Dinner Theater on Thursday, April 30. Cost, $66, includes bus, romantic comedy a 1 p.m., buffet lunch, taxes and tips.
Monday, Feb. 9 and Wednesday, March 4: A day at Hard Rock Casino, $25. Roundtrip bus, $25 in free play, $5 toward lunch, and driver's tip.
Tuesday, Feb. 24: Hits of the '30s, '40s and '50s – Puttin' on the Ritz at Ruth Eckerd Hall, $68. Bus, lunch at Sam Seltzer's, matinee show, taxes and tips.
May 10 to 22: Cross country bus trip to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon, $2,599 per person double occupancy. Eleven days and 12 nights, upscale hotels, tours, side trips, breakfast and dinner, six lunches, taxes and tips. For more information, call Laura Kane at 840-0333.
Cruise the western Caribbean for 7 nights aboard the Freedom of the Seas, departing Port Canaveral Nov. 29. Going to Labadee, Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman and Cozumel. Cabin rates per person double occupancy: inside $791, promenade $891, balcony $1,071. Deposit required by March 5, fully refundable until Sept. 15.
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Las Vegas trip March 1. Four nights in Vegas, roundtrip from Ocala to Orlando and roundtrip airfare from Orlando including taxes.
Your choice of hotels: Excalibur $579, Circus Circus $509, Monte Carlo $649, or Treasure Island $649, per person double occupancy. For more information, call Natalie Marcucio at 854-4561.
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A Pearl River Resort weekend in Choctaw, Miss. is planned for May 1 to 4. Cost is $179 per person double occupancy. Stay at Silver Star Casino and game at Vegas-style slots or table games. Round trip bus, hotel, 3 meal coupons, and $25 in play credit. Make reservations by April 24. For more information, call Natalie Marcucio at 854-4561.
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Comment Spammers were just too much of a pain in the ass – as were the nutjobs.
I think a solution for the former would be to sue the URL owners of the destination within spam. The latter need medication…
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Comment Spammers were just too much of a pain in the ass – as were the nutjobs.
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I haven't posted anything for the past two weeks because Dean Esmay invited me to post 2 articles a day Mon & Tues over at Dean's World. Check out the following essays:
Raising Boys – Time For A Change?
Internet Haganah
Magnificent Wastes of Time
Children Are NOT Adults
I haven't given up on The Razor; I've just focused more of my energy on the Dean's World essays. Why? Because I get read over there.
Also, the arms race between comment spammers and bloggers has escalated. They've somehow managed to hack my filter, so I need to clean them up.
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I am not a Luddite – quite the opposite really. In my house I have no less than two modern wirelessly networked computers, one of which I built myself. I also have two ancient but working ones, plus an original 1977 Atari 2600 "Heavy Sixer" manufactured in Sunnyvale CA. a couple of PDAs and a PS2. I received my first computer in 1982 – a TI99-4A that taught me Basic, my first computer language. Since then I have taught myself a few more and finally made computers a full-time profession in 1997. I am old school. I have never forgotten DOS and trust it more than Windows, jumping to the command line to do things more often than the younger generation does, if they do such a thing at all (psst! Under XP it's Run->CMD).
Hopefully this will reassure you when I say that I for the most part computers are a wonderful and expensive waste of time. If you want to boost your productivity by purchasing a computer for anything other than using a database (the best reason to use a computer IMO), then you might want to consider doing something else with your money – like buying a good day planner.
I posit this based on the following:
First, I work mostly with Microsoft products. Some will inevitably say that's the problem, but in the private sector one doesn't have much choice. I have used MS Word and Excel for over 12 years and am continually amazed at how much time I have to spend getting my spreadsheets and documents to look right. I spend more time formatting my documents than actually writing them – which defeats the purpose of using these programs. As a result I often find myself composing in Dreamweaver – a web publishing program – because the simple choices afforded by HTML keep me focused on what I'm writing, not how it looks. In fact, that's where this article originated. Formatting does not make better writing or more accurate spreadsheets – so the output remains the same while the time spent on that output increases.
Second, I spend more time maintaining the programs on my PC than ever. Because of the increasing security threats on the web posed by viruses, spyware, DNS poisoning, and other malware I have to keep not only my OS up to date (XP – which updates itself automatically) but also my anti-spyware and anti-virus programs. PC Magazine recently dedicated a cover story to security, and according to that I'm not even doing enough. New Scientist has an article this week that discusses the threat posed by DNS cache poisoning, so even when I'm doing everything to protect my PC at work, I could still be at risk. If I add this time to that spent on my writing, I'm increasingly less productive. That's not including the trouble I have with existing programs failing to work after upgrading another program or adding another piece of hardware. I tried to burn the Kid a CD of his favorite songs last night, and I found that I had to send the disk image across the LAN and burn it on the other PC because Nero couldn't recognize my CD burner anymore. Add yet another thing to my "to-do" list that doesn't produce essays, business process documentation or The Kid's music CDs.
Third, I like to think I know a thing or two about computers, but I often run into problems that simply baffle me and resist all attempts at resolution without burning up serious amounts of time. If I can blow three hours on a problem, just imagine how long it would take the average person who doesn't devote his career to them.
For the past two decades government statisticians have been looking for the productivity boost brought about through technology, but so far they haven' t found it. When you have bosses spending hours deciding between Arial and Verdana in a Powerpoint presentation (as one of my friends recently mentioned to me) it's obvious where that productivity has gone: out the Windows.
Children are not miniature adults.
I begin with this reminder because it is apparent that many in our society have forgotten this fact. Children are incapable of making rational decisions, don't know what is good for them, and have no concept of delayed gratification as they live in the never-ending "now". As a parent I struggle with this fact on a daily basis – from explaining what a word means in terms my child understands to making sure he receives the proper nutrition to stay healthy.
For parents, that's just common sense, right?
In my house, the Cartoon Network vies with Fox News and the Discovery Channel for dominance of the TV. Being a kid at heart, I enjoy cartoons and anime and find that most of the stuff around today is of much higher quality than the Hannah-Barbera stuff I grew up with in the late 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately the commercials are far worse though. During breaks between cartoons you will see ads in which adults – especially fathers – are portrayed as complete morons, with the kids sassing back with a witty – at least to a kid – remark. You'll also see an advertisement for a CD of pop songs sung by children. Most pop songs are about love – and the CD mirrors that subject.
It's just plain creepy to hear adolescents singing love songs originally sung by adults. I mean we are not talking girls in their late teens – but ten and eleven year olds pining away.
Similarly I attended The Kid's school talent contest last week and saw a handful of all-girl acts sing and dance on stage. While the song choices were innocuous for the most part, I raised an eyebrow over way that some of the girls danced and the way they were semi-dressed. In a high school I would have thought that the suggestive dancing and dance costumes would be inappropriate, but we are talking about primary school – girls in the second and third grades.
Have I become a prude – or have some parents completely lost their minds?
It's hard to say "no". I struggle with this word myself – especially when facing an adversary like The Kid who is completely reliant upon me to provide him with everything. He will use any and every tactic to make me fulfill each and every whim that passes through his mind. He is a child and must manipulate; I am a parent and must control. This is a constant battle between two powerful forces yet the stakes are high: the raising of a creative, independent, intelligent human being.
Gil Reavil has written a book called " Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough". It is excerpted here at NRO. He writes:
"But we also have left unfulfilled our function as guardians of their cultural environment. The boundaries of their world have been repeatedly breached, many times by people interested in making money and dismissive of all other considerations. All too often, our children are exposed to the loud, frenzied, garish spectacle of adult sexuality. They get their faces rubbed in it."
Consumption lies at the heart of our society – not sexual liberation. The only reason why sex pervades our culture is because it sells. If prayer moved product you could bet that our TVs would be filled chanting monks and bowed heads, but it doesn't. Britney Spears doesn't bump and grind on stage for fun – she does it for cold hard cash. Take that away and she would disappear.
Instead of falling into the liberal trap of debating morality, let's talk about the underlying reason for our society's obsession with sex: pure commerce. People get rich by appealing to our basest instinct, yet this doesn't bother Leftists at all. It must be the only means of getting rich that the Left supports.
Republicans and the Right aren't blameless either. The Right has played into the hands of liberals by falling for the morality-trap, and the laissez-faire pro-business supporters of Republicans must recognize that their "hands off" idealism supports this unique sales tool. As Dean Esmay has often said, corporations are not "natural" – they are contrivances of the state. Republicans need to recognize that corporations are amoral and need to be controlled to a great degree. We wouldn't allow a company to sell products to Iran, yet we allow thousands of them to pitch products using sex. Both are threats to our national interests.
Raising children has never been easy, but we chose to be parents. We owe it to our children to make sure that we provide for them, protect them and fight for them at all times. While we may tire, we must never, ever surrender.
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When did medicating boys become popular and why aren't more people questioning this practice?
I'm the parent of a boy, and I've noted that several of his friends are on various meds "to help him focus", "it's better for his grades" and "the teacher says he couldn't sit still in class". Meanwhile there is debate about ending recess in schools for various reasons, including improving test scores, saving money (teachers are demanding to be paid to supervise recess) and even protection (it's easier to keep kids away from predators in a building).
I hate to tell those of you who believe in the complete equality of the sexes, but boys are not girls. They are absolute bundles of energy. "Snips, snails and puppy-dog tails" goes the saying and one thing that "puppy-dog tails" never do is sit still. Boys must move. They have evolved for that very purpose, and forcing them to sit in one place for a long period of time isn't just wrong – it's unethical and sexual discrimination of the highest order.
I believe that it is time to consider a whole new way of teaching boys. Boys can focus to a degree that is amazing to adults. Just ask one about his Pokemon or Yu-gi-oh strategy and be prepared for a detailed analysis of the game that would make a Pentagon planner feel like a generalist. However they can do so only between periods of activity. Think of it as teaching science, math and English in a gymnasium with lectures punctuated by games of Dodgeball and Hoops. Instead of relegating PE to 40 mins a week (as is the case at my kid's school) regular classes would be integrated into PE to the point where a separate PE class would be unnecessary.
Medicating boys is the easy solution, but it makes as much sense as pumping girls full of speed and steroids to perform better at sports. No one is calling for that, and if anyone did there would be charges of child abuse levelled – and rightly so. Yet millions of boys are on medication today and people are comfortable with this.
Exhaustion isn't the word for the way I feel now. Death is so complicated that if you're not careful it will kill you.
The memorial service was held yesterday after only 10 days – a whirlwind of grief and remembrance that ends with even more tears and complete exhaustion. Some quick thoughts:
Da was a kind and gentle man – unless you were a squirrel. You see, Da was a gardener and any home gardener knows how destructive squirrels can be. He tried everything to keep the squirrels away from his tomatoes and peppers, but in the end he resigned himself to finding half-eaten green tomatoes strewn around the yard and on the driveway.
Da kept a loaded air pistol at the ready in the garage. I don't know if he ever used it, but I wouldn't hold it against him if he did being a gardener myself.
A squirrel appeared at the door. It stopped and looked inside the funeral home. I watched him and could almost hear it say "He was a worthy opponent". It stood there for a few moments and disappeared. I didn't see another squirrel the rest of the day.
Yes, there is honor among even the most die-hard enemies.
The morning starts out in the kitchen with the Wife making waffles for the Kid as I scramble around her putting his lunch together. I hear Wife stifle a sob, then another, and another – so I come up behind her, wrap my arm around her belly and lay my head on her back.
"It's one beautiful day after another," she sobs. "He would have loved this."
Da was a playboy in the literal sense of the word: he loved to play. On days like this he would be outside tending his garden or in the car driving to one of his favorite restaurants in Lancaster County. Although he was 80, Da moved in a way that you could tell that in his mind he was still in his twenties.
As I get older I realize that some old people aren't really "old": they are a young person trapped in an old person's body – and that's exactly what Da was. Da ignored aging as much as possible; only the failures of his body betrayed his physical age. Had medicine kept his body going, Da would have lived forever as active as any man in his twenties or thirties.
But the body betrayed him one final time, and now he's gone.
The Kid padded into the kitchen, a concerned look on his face. He came up to the Wife.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes, honey, I'm okay. I'm just making your breakfast."
"I thought I heard crying."
"I wasn't crying," she lied – I'm not exactly sure why.
The Kid looked at me and my expression told him exactly what I wanted to: Yes son, she's crying but she will be okay. Don't push her.
He understood with a nod and took the tray with his breakfast out of the room.
Just one more complex interaction as life continues onward.
Forget the makeup and hit the books, jackass…
"High School Boy Suspended for Wearing Makeup"
Herndon, who is repeating his second year at the school, has worn makeup since he enrolled, according to his mother, Valerie Wallace.
This morning I grabbed a copy of the local newspaper while fueling up on coffee at the local Dunkin Donuts. I opened it up to the obituaries and found this:
Age 80, died Thursday, April 7, 2005.
Da was a retired DuPont chemist, a retired commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and a WWII veteran.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mother-In-Law; his children Wife, Sister-in-law and Brother-in-law; and his beloved grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 3 pm on Sunday, April 17, 2005, at the MCCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 3924 Concord Pike (Rt.202 south of Silverside Road), where friends may call after 2 pm.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Cancer Society, 92 Reads Way, New Castle, DE, 19720. To send condolences, visit
Here is a list of links that covers the 7 weeks between the discovery of my father-in-law's (Da's) cancer through his death and its aftermath. Consider it part eulogy and part therapy with a strong dose of wonder over the life of a humble yet brilliant man.
A Doctor's Schedule & Death Sentences
Death Is Busy
Death Misses Yet Again
A Quiet Death for a Humble Man
Things Could Always Be Worse
Death's Aftermath
Visiting the Funeral Home
Da's Obituary
One Beautiful Day After Another
A Quite Death for a Humble Man – One Year On
I haven't been to a funeral home in close to 30 years, and I have never been to one as a customer or client. Yesterday the Wife called and said that she needed me to go along with her and her mother to discuss the arrangements for my father-in-law's memorial service.
The two women we met at the funeral home looked like your average middle-aged suburban housewives who took up a career after the kids went off to college. Neither one of them wore black, and both seemed sincere when they expressed their condolences. The home itself had a single open space divided by a vinyl curtain that partitioned the room into two spaces. My wife commented that there were no windows in either space – something Da wouldn't like – and one of the funeral directors noted "There aren't many funeral homes with windows."
I stood in the open space with rows of chairs neatly placed facing an empty area where the casket would usually rest. An audience facing a casket – as if the stiff were to rise and perform for the crowd, garnering laughs and applause. Da would not have liked that either, so the Wife immediately changed the seating arrangements.
One by one the details of the memorial ceremony were worked out as I stood and imagined the countless corpses that I been laid out in that empty space, the innumerable tears shed on the industrial grade low-pile carpet, boxes of Kleenex neatly placed on the small tables that were spaced along the walls. Da wasn't a funeral home goer, but this ceremony had to conform to certain expectations, and one of those was that dead people are memorialized in funeral homes.
"These ceremonies are for the living," the funeral director said. I commented that her job seemed more like a cruise director or wedding planner. "My job is to…" I almost got her to say it but she didn't. She wanted to say:
Put the "fun" back into "funeral" but she artfully stopped herself from saying that although I knew deep down she wanted to. What followed was a more politically correct explanation of her duties and how much she enjoyed her job.
Well, I suppose it takes all types.
She led us into a room that I can best describe as a gift shop for the dead, a Hallmark Shop for the Goth and the Goth at heart. Laid out below recessed lighting were numerous caskets. Some were open to show their quilted lining. The funeral director explained that Serta – the same maker of beds for the living also made the thin mattresses that cradled the dead for eternity. However I don't suppose that we will be seeing their "spokesheep" mention that in any of their commercials.
There were urns for the cremated, ranging from a grey slate pressboard box to cloisonné and marble vases. There were pieces of jewelry that held small amounts of cremains (an absolute must for Goths if you ask me, vials of blood being so cliche). There were the corners of coffins bolted to the walls to show their quality and workmanship. Prices ranged from the Sauder or O'Sullivan pressboard type for $175 to $6000 for polished steel hermetically sealed coffins that looked like you could launch them from a photon torpedo tube into space without scratching or denting them or damaging their contents. Pictures of families – all white because I suppose minorities don't grieve for their dead or don't die – hung next to the coffins, discussing the qualities of their construction and how they added to the memories of the deceased.
There was also a section of vault models. These models were the perfect size to lay your guinea pig to rest, and as one funeral director showed me, weighed a lot. There was a picture showing the step-by-step process of opening and closing a grave. She pointed out that these heavy concrete vaults were mandated by law to withstand the pressure of the heavy equipment necessary for digging graves today. It seems the heavy backhoes can collapse the coffins under them as they dig a nearby grave. This can cause "insurance problems" for the cemetery, and also cause subsidence and make mowing the grass more difficult.
I never realized that death could be so complicated.
As the Wife continued discussing the details, I examined the coffins, urns and vaults carefully. The expensive coffins were made with high-grade steel and had tough rubber linings around their openings. I noted to one of the funeral directors that if you placed an embalmed body in one of these caskets, sealed it shut, then placed it in one of the heavy concrete vaults and sealed it shut as well, the dead would not decay.
"That's the point," she said. "The loved ones don't want to think of their beloved decaying. They want to think of them laying under ground as they were in life."
So Grandma is pumped full of toxic chemicals, then sealed in a metal coffin which is then sealed in a concrete vault and buried 6 feet below the surface. This is supposed to make people feel better about their loss?
I found this to be plain creepy. I also couldn't stop myself from imagining a zombie scenario. Come on. Am I the only one who imagines a "Dawn of the Dead" scene when visiting a cemetery?
Well let me assure you that given modern burial techniques, there is no way a zombie would make it out of the coffin, out of the vault, and through the dirt to the surface. This means that in such an event we would not have any zombies who died during the past 25 years – when the laws mandating heavy concrete vaults took effect.
I mentioned to one of the directors that thousands of years from now people would dig up our dead and think what we did was absolutely crazy in the same way we view the Egyptians for building elaborate tombs for their dead and placing heavily salted remains deep inside them.
I also realized that we were continuing a tradition that stretched backwards to the dawn of time, when our distant ancestors painted the bodies of the dead and laid mementos to rest with them. I wondered if it was possible that what set us truly apart from the animal kingdom, what made us unique from the other primates, was the way we treated our dead.
We learned that Da had been cremated on Sunday and one of the directors would be bringing his ashes to the funeral home today. It was a relief to learn that the body that had betrayed Da was no more than a coffee-can's worth of grit and ash. Da was now completely free.
There would be no encapsulation of Da's failed body away from the living. Instead his body had been turned into chemicals and gasses that now float in the wind and are now riding the Gulf Stream towards Europe. What had been part of his physical body would now rain upon the land of his ancestors in Ireland, helping keep that country green and beautiful. Eventually some of it would drift across the Mediterranean and hang in the clouds above the islands of the Aegean Sea which he loved. Some of it would be taken in by the breaths of Kurdish children playing in northern Iraq. Other parts would continue drifting in the atmosphere until it rained down upon the southern slopes of the Himalayas in a land he walked in as a young Navy ensign 60 years ago.
Da is a part of life not apart from life.
I think Da would like that very much.
Here's another one who recently shuffled off this mortal coil. You want the definition of guts? I nominate the name "Arthur Bywater". Here is why:
Arthur Bywater, GC
(Filed: 08/04/2005)
Arthur Bywater, who died on Tuesday aged 91, was the only civilian to be awarded the George Cross and the George Medal; he won the GC in 1944 for his outstanding heroism in removing anti-tank mine fuzes from a munitions factory in Lancashire after an explosion.
On February 22 1944, in one of the buildings of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Kirby, in Lancashire, 19 operatives, most of them women, were at work on the last stage of filling anti-tank mine fuzes. Each operative was working on a tray of 25 fuzes, and in the building at the time there were some 12,000 stacked on portable tables, each holding 40 trays, or 1,000 fuzes.
At 8.30 am that morning, one fuze exploded, immediately detonating the whole tray. The girl working on that tray was killed outright and her body disintegrated; two girls standing behind her were partly shielded from the blast by her body, but both were seriously injured, one fatally. The factory was badly damaged: the roof was blown off, electric fittings were dangling precariously; and one of the walls was swaying in the breeze.
The superintendent arrived with Bywater, his factory development officer. It seemed quite likely that the damaged fuzes, and others which could be faulty, might cause an even larger explosion. The high wind at the time, or any vibration, could set off further detonations over an area of half a mile.
Bywater cleared the building so that the maintenance crew could shore up the walls. He then volunteered to take on the dangerous task of removing all the fuzes to a place of safety where they could be dealt with.
Read the entire story. Not only did he do it once, he did it again a few months later. I would have hated to be this guy's insurance man at the time…
Hat-tip: Argghh!
Much happens after a person dies – at least for the loved ones left behind. There are the preparations for his memorial, to be held on his birthday on 4/17. Money is an issue. Bit by bit we are excavating Da's method of filekeeping which, like that of many geniuses, made sense only to him.
Then there's this:
An appearance to one of his grandchildren in a dream. In it he was young, and his grandson didn't recognize him at first. Da told him that he was alright and that he didn't need to worry about him. The grandson hadn't known that Da was close to death, let alone at the time of the dream, actually dead.
Before you start thinking that I've lost my marbles, let me tell you something. 28 years ago there was a string of deaths in my family that ended three years later. In almost every one of those deaths, the dead person appeared to a loved one in a dream and provided some kind of assurance or forgiveness. In some of those cases, the person who had the dream hadn't known the deceased was actually dead.
Da and I probably would argue about this. He would say that these were dreams reflecting wishful thinking and there was no proof that the dead actually communicated with the living.
I would argue that just because we cannot formulate a test methodology at this time should not mean that we ignore the data. After all, anecdotal evidence is often the first type of evidence theories acquire on the long road to validation.
I'm sure I wouldn't change his mind, nor he mine.
One thing you realize about worse case scenarios is that when they happen, there is always something worse.
When "Da" – my father-in-law – was laying on his death bed surrounded by his daughters, his wife cuddled next to him, his grandson filling in the doctor about what she had missed of Lost – which was playing on the TV and the poodle running around under his bed, we realized that we were in the worse case scenario we envisioned at the original diagnosis only 7 weeks earlier.
And you know what? We knew that things could be worse. One of the doctors had told the Wife that he could last in "this condition for days", comatose and struggling to breath in pain.
So whenever you think of the worse case, don't forget that there is always something worse.
For Da there wasn't. At 7:17 AM the following morning he breathed his last and a life that had spanned the 20th Century into the 21st, a mind that had formulated numerous patents, was stilled. Silenced.
It was a good Death for a good man.
It also reminds me of the scene in Young Frankenstein when Frankestein and I-gor are digging up a grave and Frankenstein complains:
Igor (Marty Feldman): "It could be worse"
Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder): "How?"
Igor: "It could be raining."


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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 11.0.0
Component/s: Chef Client
Chef currently loads all libraries, then all providers, then all resources, then all attributes, then all definitions.
This makes it awkward, difficult, and sometimes impossible for code in Cookbook A to depend on Cookbook B. For example, if Cookbook B defines a provider, and Cookbook A wishes to inherit the provider defined in Cookbook B, to make a subclass provider, that cannot be done in general.
The cookbooks should be sorted topologically first. Then the parts of any given cookbook should be loaded only after the entirety of all cookbooks it depends on have already been loaded.
The load order should look like this instead (pseuducode for Chef::RunContext#load):
let sorted-cookbooks = topologically-sort-cookbooks(cookbooks) for each cookbook in sorted-cookbooks: load-libraries-in-cookbook(cookbook) load-lwrp-providers-in-cookbook(cookbook) load-lwrp-resources-in-cookbook(cookbook) load-attributes-in-cookbook(cookbook) load-resource-definitions-in-cookbook(cookbook) for each recipe in run-list-expansion: run-recipe(recipe)
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This was released in Chef 11.
- https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/508
- https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/713e23b85ef27ebb775dfa1386f040b197cbc18e
Above patch addresses the original intent of this ticket, "load cookbooks in dependency order".
The order for cookbook compilation is now:
- Libraries
- Attributes
- LWRPs
- Resource Definitions
- Recipes
(this is the same as before)
For each type of file, the cookbooks are ordered by:
- Iterate over the run list
- Recurse through dependencies, placing them ahead of the cookbook that depends on them
- If a cookbook is already in the cookbook order list, ignore it (removes duplicates and prevents loops from circular deps)
For each cookbook, files are sorted and then loaded in sort order (except attributes files, which load default.rb first).
See also the code and comments in run_context/cookbook_compiler.
Note that the above patch does not provide a means to force one file to load before another (e.g., an equivalent of include_attribute for other types). There will be a follow up ticket for this.
Patch here: https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/508/files
I think the approach I took with
CHEF-2903 works for LWRPs and libraries as well. Basically, you load cookbooks in run_list order, but load dependencies first. By applying dependency loading recursively, you get the feature you want, namely, you can reuse code from a cookbook as long as you specify a dependency in the metadata.
We'll probably need to also add the equivalent of include_attribute for other filetypes just in case.
There is a key distinction to be made between, on the one hand, running recipes and the ordering of resources and, on the other hand, loading cookbooks. The question of ordering, and the question of determinism of the ordering (ie, the question of partial vs total ordering), can have one answer in the one case and another answer in the other case. In the case of recipes, there is a clear total order; in the case of resources in the resources-collection, there is a clear total order. But in the case of cookbooks, there is no clear total order, but we have an extremely clear, indisputable partial order which I think should be enforced. Although some cookbooks may not actually declare all their dependencies, that's a bug and it can be reported and fixed.
Without libraries and lightweight resources and providers, there wouldn't really be an issue.
But these things are not recipe DSL. They are much more like gems than they are like recipes. Either a library needs to be able to Kernel#require another cookbook's library or lightweight resource or povider, or the cookbooks loader needs to load cookbooks in dependency order.
The following is an example of how a library file might require a resource in another cookbook:
require_lwrp_resource "other-cookbook::zany-resource" class MyCoolSubclassResource < Chef::Resource::ZanyResource def initialize(*) super @action ||= [:zaniness] end end
In this example, the dependencies are not declarative, in the metadata, but are computed at runtime by actually running the files and responding to require calls. This will achieve the same purpose, but I do not think it is necessarily as clean. But I think this is also a necessary feature. Indeed, within one cookbook, one library file may actually depend on another library file - see fnichol/chef-rvm. If that library file could write require_library "chef_rvm_shell_helpers" at the top, the silliness would be solved.
I agree we need to work out some issues load order of cookbook segments. Along with related ordering issues, we'll talk more about engineering a solution in the short term at Opscode.
The Chef server does not calculate a DAG. The issue we hold with a DAG is that order is not guaranteed. Unless you have a fixed path between all the cookbooks, as you increase the number of cookbooks the number of possible solutions increases and so does the likelihood that one Chef run will be in a different order than the one preceding it.
Consider an oversimplified example, that we have three cookbooks, A, B, and C. Cookbook B depends on A, while A and C have no dependencies. There are two possible solutions:
Now lets state that cookbook B has a side-affect that causes cookbook C to fail. However, this only happens in one of the solutions, where B is run before C. Sometimes your run will succeed, other times it will fail.
If there were any other orders that cookbooks cared about, then it would be their responsibility to mark it in their metadatas.
Consider another tool where instead of just cookbooks having dependencies, each individual resource has dependencies. The apache2 cookbook has ~57 resources [1] (although you're not going to use all of them). It isn't hard to get into the thousands of resources, as we've done in the past. In this situation, it is likely that the topological sort will produce a solution that will cause a resource to fail because of ordering, and consequently runs will occasionally fail. Additionally, that failure will be difficult to reproduce because you can't reason about the order without a visualization of the DAG, and even then it is hard. It is easy to say, "it is your responsibility to declare all of your dependencies," but this doesn't solve the users problem.
Because many of the cookbooks in an expanded run list won't have dependencies at all, or insufficient dependencies to form a directed path, each run is likely to be different.
We currently handle recipe dependencies by 1) requiring the other cookbook as a dependency in the metadata so we have it and 2) using include_recipe to ensure that the recipe has already been run, and if it hasn't, to run it.
I would expect that we could use the same solution with cookbooks in the cookbook loader. We could consider loading all the segments for a dependent cookbook, but sooner or later you'll find an edge case that any reasonably simple solution fails for.
I'd like to see a set of cookbooks where a library requires an LWRP from another cookbook. I suspect this is possibly an edge case that could be solved by fixing the parameters of the cookbooks to fit the [future] loader, rather than vice versa.
for r in `grep resource_name ~/src/chef/chef/lib/chef/resource/* | awk -F: '{ print $3}'` ; do grep "^$r \"\| $r \"" ~/devel/opscode-cookbooks/apache2/recipes/* ; done | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed -e "s/^\s*//" | sort | uniq | wc
A number of people in IRC have run into just this issue. I opened this ticket in response to someone trying to do the exact scenario illustrated above. They were writing a cookbook, and wanted to write a provider class that would subclass a provider class from another cookbook. But there was no way for them to ensure that the base class provider would be loaded first, even if they marked the second cookbook as a dependency of the first.
The only way to reason about order correctly is by means of declared dependencies. B declares a dependency on A means A gets loaded first and then B gets loaded. These are the orders that cookbooks *care about*. If there were any other orders that cookbooks cared about, then it would be their responsibility to mark it in their metadatas. Dependencies (and topological sort), is the only way for cookbooks to ask for (and receive) any constraints on the load order. Without this, there is no way for cookbooks to ask for or receive any constraints on their own load orders. Without this, there is no way for a cookbook to be guaranteed that it is loaded after another cookbook; therefore there is no way for a cookbook to depend on another cookbook. Thus this violates half of the premise of depends. (The other half is that, by the time recipes are running, the whole DAG is downloaded and loaded.)
The cookbook load order is probably not deterministic right now anyway. Any total order that currently exists is mere happenstance (there are some non-happenstance constraints to that total order, but the total order isn't guaranteed). Nothing in chef-client specifically sorts the cookbooks in any particular way. So far as I can tell, sorting, if any, is done at the server in computing the DAG of cookbooks to deliver to the client based on the run-list and env constraints.
Doing this in foreach_cookbook_load_segment will not work correctly because, for example, libraries in one cookbook may need to reference lightweight providers in another, but the libraries would be loaded before the lightweight providers they depend on, crashing the chef-client run with a NameError: uninitialized constant.
Topological sort is really easy to do: Ruby 1.8 ships with a stdlib tsort. All you need is that first example on the page. Indeed, Librarian-Chef uses that technique almost exactly, with a slight variation so as not to pollute the global class Hash.
Chef holds a philosophy that you should be able to reason about order. Some objects are not being loaded in a consistent order such as attributes in
CHEF-2903, and we should fix that. However, we differed philosophically from other projects that use topological sorts from the start because of order. As an increasing number of cookbooks are added, ensuring there is only one solution to the topographical sort is difficult and expensive for the user. The alternative is that the load order has many solutions and thus is not consistent across sequential runs.
Order matters, but we should not give up order to add order.
Some history exists on the mailing list, such as here.
One option would be loading cookbook segments in the order of the expanded run list first. This would give the user the ability to ensure a definition or LWRP was loaded before using it on another cookbook. However, there could be situations where you're adding a noop recipe to the runlist for this purpose.
I think we could walk cookbook.metadata.dependencies in Chef::RunContext#foreach_cookbook_load_segment. I've thought about this and played around a little and I'm not sure. This doesn't work yet, but I've got to run for the day: https://gist.github.com/5332542a89c6ca14b825


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Following the success of Papergirl Cardiff in June we are very pleased to announce the return of Papergirl in 2012.
At the June event this year more than 300 pieces of artwork were distributed to surprised, bemused and delighted Cardiffians by a cavalcade of cyclists during an hour long cycle through the city.
In anticipation of next year's event we are now asking people to start submitting their original artwork. We hope that by putting the call out early it will give more people the opportunity to submit work, resulting in more people receiving free artwork and a bigger and longer cycling event. All submitted artwork will be exhibited for a week before being packaged up and distributed by a team of volunteers.
If you would like to submit artwork for Papergirl Cardiff 2012, or are interested in getting involved please get in touch!
Artwork can be submitted to the Cycle Training Wales office, 8 Museum Place, Cardiff CF10 3BG, or posted to Papergirl Cardiff, 20 Howard St, Splott, Cardiff, CF24 2AX.
Other drop off points will be added at later dates, so keep checking the blog for updates.
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Saturday, 12 March 2011
Aussie 18 Foot Skiffs: Winning Appliances JJ Giltinan Race 6 Won by Gotta Love It 7
The winning crew on Gotta Love It 7. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
by Frank Quealey
Defending champion Seve Jarvin and his Gotta Love It 7 team of Sam Newton and Scott Babbage have grabbed the lead in the Winning Appliances 18ft Skiff Championship with just one more race to sail (tomorrow) but it will be an anxious wait as there is a protest pending on the result of today's race.
Subject to any decision of the protest (to be heard tomorrow morning), Gotta Love It 7 holds a two points lead over Australian champions Michael Coxon, Aaron Links and Trent Barnabas in Thurlow Fisher Lawyers – the protesting boat.
Spinnakers. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
Gotta Love It 7 took the lead shortly after the start and was not headed over the entire course before going on to a 1m2s win over Matthew Searle, Archie Massey and Mike McKenzie in Red Claw Wines, with Smeg (Nick Press, Dan Phillips and Dave Ewings) another 56s back in third place.
The provisional points are: Gotta Love It 7 on 9 points, Thurlow Fisher Lawyers 11, SLAM (Grant Rollerson, WA-Aust) 21, CST Composites (Howie Hamlin, USA) 23, Red Claw Wines 25, and Smeg on 26.
Red Claw Wines. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
Gotta Love It 7 led narrowly from Smeg up the first beat and went around the Beashel Buoy windward mark with a 12s advantage.
The pair had opened up a good break over the rest of the fleet as Red Claw Wines was 40s from the lead in third place.
SLAM was in fourth place, followed by Panasonic (Jonathan Whitty), Yandoo (John Winning), De'Longhi-Rabbitohs (Simon Nearn), Peters & May (Jarrod Simpson, UK) and Brett Van Munster's The Kitchen Maker.
Bottom mark. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
7's downwind boat handling was superb in the light north-east breeze and her lead had been extended to 30s over Smeg at the bottom mark.
Red Claw Wines trailed Smeg by 25s with SLAM next, Yandoo fifth and Thurlow Fisher Lawyers sixth – 2m from the leader.
There was no change in the order of the three leading teams, however they had opened up a very big break over fourth placed Thurlow Fisher Lawyers, SLAM, Hyde Sails (Andy Budgen, UK) and Yandoo.
Gotta Love It 7. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
With Gotta Love It 7 holding a 40s marging at the bottom mark the second time, the interest settled on the tight race for second placing.
Smeg and Red Claw Wines were separated by just a few secs. As they went around the Clarke Is. Mark and headed off for the final lap of the course.
The north-east breeze freshened a few knots over the final lap of the course and Red Claw Wines overhauled Smeg to take second place.
Appliances Online. Image copyright Frank Quealey.
Thurlow Fisher Lawyers finished fourth, ahead of SLAM, Hyde Sails, Peters & May, Yandoo, The Kitchen Maker, CST Composites, De'Longhi-Rabbitohs, Rag & Famish Hotel (Jack Macartney), appliancesonline.com.au (Jeremy Wilmot), Queenslander 1 (David Witt) and Pure Blonde (James Francis).
The LIVE TRACKING will continue for tomorrow's vital and deciding Race 7, which is due to start at 3pm (Eastern Daylight Saving Time).
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Non-Predator Vertebrate Pest Damage In California Agriculture: An Assessment Of Economic Impacts In Selected Crops
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Proceedings 18th Vertebrate Pest Conference, ed. R.O. Baker & A.C. Crabb. Published at University of California, Davis, 1998.
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State-wide economic impacts of non-predator vertebrate pest damage were estimated for all pests causing damage in 19 California commodities. Average field-level damage estimates and vertebrate control costs were collected for each commodity, and across six production regions. Economic impacts were estimated by comparing simulated market outcomes in the absence of vertebrate pest damage with observed market outcomes. This analysis indicates that, for the 19 commodities considered, the economic cost of vertebrate pest damage ranged between $46.9 to $162.8 million during 1995 with a mean estimated impact of $95.9 million.


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To celebrate his 100th birthday, Elliott Carter's Complete String Quartets have been newly recorded by the Pacifica Quartet, Musical America's Ensemble of the Year for 2009. Volume 1 (8.559362) was critically acclaimed: "a knockout" (Limelight), "Music with heart as well as a brain" (4 STARS, The Times ), "the best possible introduction to Carter's music" (5 STARS, The Guardian ). This disc presents the three remaining string quartets by the composer hailed by Aaron Copland as "one of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field".
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