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Rethinking Africa's Growth Strategy: From 5-7 May, Tanzania Will Host the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa. It Is the First Time That This Important Event in the Global Economic Calendar Is Taking Place in East Africa. but as Muzondwasi Jere Reports, the Time Could Not Be More Opportune
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OP THE THREE day World Economic Forum on Africa cannot be overstated. Year after year, for the past two decades, the forum has brought together the most influential leaders in business, government, civil society and academia, to discuss the way forward and how to make positive change happen in Africa.
"The World Economic Forum on Africa is an important opportunity to take the pulse each year of the most influential of Africa's stakeholders. We look forward to holding the meeting in Tanzania at a time when the whole East Africa region is expected to experience stronger growth," says Andre Schneider, managing director of the World Economic Forum.
Host president Jakaya Kikwete is also enthusiastic about the forum: "It is an honour for Tanzania to host the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa. We are looking forward to welcoming the community, which I am confident will continue to make important contributions in our collective quest for a better world."
The economic crisis, according to the WEF, has led to a reassessment of the systems governing global cooperation, financial architecture, and policies linked to trade and climate change, and it is "a wake-up call to speed up implementation of long-discussed reforms".
The organisers believe that the complex and evolving economic landscape and emerging markets (including those from Africa) are among the first to show signs of a recovery and are forecast to contribute to global growth in the next decade.
How leaders are rising to the challenge and using the crisis, as an opportunity to redesign a sustainable roadmap for Africa's future within the new global economy, is one of the major questions that the forum--under the theme, "Rethinking Africa's Growth Strategy"--will be addressing.
Other discussions will be on how African countries are managing relations with key economic partners, with an increasing trend towards greater South-South cooperation; identifying the opportunities that can unlock Africa's growth potential; and looking at barriers to social and economic progress in the coming year.
The forum will also look at "Africa's destabilising factors" in view of the unfortunate fact that some parts of the continent continue to be affected by conflict. As such, participants will be looking at what global and African institutions can do to mitigate both social and economic costs, born of these elements. …


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Advertiser: Six Flags:
Agency: Grey Advertising, New York
Ad Review rating: Three stars
Loud rock music can cause hearing loss. Tennis playing can cause debilitating tendinitis in the elbow. Roller coasters can cause motion sickness and vomiting.
These are all common, if not intended, consequences of otherwise enjoyable activities. And so, if you were marketing rock music, tennis rackets or amusement parks, you could certainly consider them all brand attributes.
Attributes. Not benefits, because puking is not a brand benefit.
Oh, wait a second. Yes it is.
In a new spot from Grey Advertising, New York, we see a teen-ager running in super slow motion, directly toward the camera, to the famous "Chariots of Fire" theme. When he reaches his destination, we see a menacing roller coaster in the distance behind him as he throws his arms out in triumph--or something. What he has reached, it turns out, is an outdoor trash can, into which he promptly hurls.
Young, nauseated and ready for more. Talk about a completely unexpected gag.
Yes, in a bold stroke of classic advertising pre-emption Six Flags has become the first amusement-park marketer to take a categorical pro-barf positioning. This leaves Disney, Busch Gardens and the rest to carve out their own unique niches--strolling cute gigantic vermin, storybook adventures made real, vertigo-induced seizures, what have you--or throw up their hands in defeat.
Well, maybe not defeat, but you have to hand it to Grey and Six Flags. Not only is this commercial far less nauseating than you'd expect in a spot about nausea (no stomach contents are visible), it rather nicely gets into the dizzy head of its core market. The psychology of teen-age boys, after all, is to look fear and reverse peristalsis right in the face. This spot perfectly captures that perverse teen macho, laughing at the phenomenon and validating it at the same time.
It is adolescent in a market heavily dependent on adolescents, daring in a category built on the dare.
A second spot is also daring--in a most politically incorrect way. It shows a dwarf in a shoe store, trying on one pair of shoes after another. He asks for one with a heel, then for one with a higher heel. He finally ends up in a pair of red women's pumps. "I'll take 'em," he says. Then we cut to the entrance of a Six Flags ride, where the heels get the guy past the minimum-height yardstick.
Wow. Congenital-defect jokes on TV.
But, damn it, it's cute. Though no doubt the National Council of Little People or some such organization will emerge to decry the insensitive treatment blah blah blah blah, the fact is the spot doesn't ridicule people of differing height. It simply takes an odd, funny path to notice another slightly annoying aspect of amusement-park culture that most everyone can relate to.
It doesn't have quite the enticing come-on value of Puke Cam, but it does get us in an amusement-park frame of mind. And it makes us want to see even more candor from Six Flags.
That lunch the kid blew ... how about a spot on how much it cost?
Copyright May 1998, Crain Communications Inc.

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Sara's students love The Simpsons
I've found a great source of video materials for High-intermediate and Advanced students: The Simpsons!
I've used nearly a dozen episodes for listening and conversation practice. They're full of slapstick humor
which everyone understands, as well as more subtle social commentary (which at least you, the teacher,
can chuckle at!). There are lots of episodes dealing with social issues which are great for a theme you may
be covering in class, i.e., the elderly (Grandpa Simpson), environmentalism, sibling rivalry, the military, etc,
It doesn't take too long to prepare a Simpsons lesson. Just tape an episode that you'd like to use (thanks to
syndication, they're on every night), watch it and pause to write down general
comprehension questions, direct quotations that students must try to catch, and vocabulary (the more slang, the
better -- students really get a kick out of learning "Bart's English"). I usually prepare a handout with 10-12
You can make this kind of lesson as deep as you want, and it can inspire all kinds of discussion! I hope you try
this activity, and if you do, let me know how it works!! Also, if you've got any questions,
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"SP3 is a well-tested collection of updates that focuses on a variety of customer-reported concerns with the Windows 2000 family of operating systems," a Microsoft spokesperson told me. "In many ways, SP3 is a traditional service pack in that it includes enhancements to improve upon Windows 2000's reliability, compatibility, and security. In addition, Microsoft is fulfilling its commitment to implement the changes required by the consent decree signed with the \[US Department of Justice\] and nine settling states."
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Microsoft and communications giant AT&T announced early this morning a strategic alliance that aims to simplify the way corporations provide integrated wireless data services to their customers. Under terms of the agreement, the companies have been codeveloping end-to-end solutions for Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and laptops, giving customers wireless access to email, information, and applications from behind corporate firewalls. These solutions have been in the works for months and are almost complete. AT&T also has agreed to carry new Microsoft .NET location-based mobile services on its wireless network, using Microsoft MapPoint .NET mapping and location services and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.
"Today's workers often do business far from the office, which is why they need access to information any time, any place, and on any device," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an early Wednesday conference call. "Not only will mobile workers and their companies benefit from this alliance, but developers will quickly discover that smart devices, high-speed wireless networks and .NET technologies are powerful building blocks for future innovation. Working with AT&T Wireless, I'm confident that we will create the best wireless data solutions for today's corporations."
The announcement puts the spotlight on Microsoft's resurgent Windows Powered devices, such as the Pocket PC and Smartphone 2002, which are based on Windows CE technologies. To bolster the product line, AT&T will ship a voice-enabled Windows Powered PDA that uses Microsoft's new Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition software. The device, which will ship later this year, will include integrated support for the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) voice and data calling capabilities. The device also will include Pocket PC-like features such as a color screen; access to contacts, calendar, and email inbox; a Web browser; and support for digital media content. AT&T will also sell cellular phones running Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software. Microsoft and AT&T will launch these products and services in fourth quarter 2002.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — China raises rates, and sends out other alarming signs. A top letter is indeed alarmed, but defensive rather than despairing.
Yesterday, MarketWatch published an important article, "China's market-oriented reforms in retreat; Market forces in China have regressed, says economist Wu Jinglian", By Yu Hairong.
It read in part: "China's 'market forces have regressed' as government agencies have started to play a more obstructive role in resource allocation, Wu Jinglian, one of China's foremost economists, said on July 4."
"China still lacks a legal foundation that is indispensable for a modern market economy. Government officials intervene in the market at their will through administrative means, said Wu."
Playing the debt crisis — make that 'crises'
With Greece's fate still uncertain and the U.S. struggling to raise its debt ceiling, investors have lots to worry about, and lots to profit from in July.
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I naturally think this is important because I've been muttering for years that I don't think anyone really knows what's going on in China. (See "Chinese cookie crumbling?", which reported a British money manager's supercynical, and now apparently prescient, analysis).
But — and there is definitely a moral here — that hasn't stopped people making money in the interim. And none more than the subscribers to Cabot's China and Emerging Market Report (CCEMR), which racked up one of the most remarkable performances ever recorded by the Hulbert Financial Digest.
CCEMR converted to following China (it had previously been an Internet stock letter and a multi-sector stock picker) in March of 2004. Since then through June 2011, a model portfolio based on its recommendations has appreciated 10.3% annualized by Hulbert Financial Digest count, vs. just 1.07% annualized for the dividend-reinvested Wilshire 5000. I named it Letter of the Year in 2007. (See "Cabot's formidable performance best in 2007")
But more recently, CCEMR's performance has been faltering — finally — causing me to speculate that it was being affected (at last!) by problems developing in China's record-breaking boom, although the letter professed to be still optimistic (while quietly reducing its exposure — See "China canary still chirping"). Over the year to date through June, CCEMR is down 0.37%, vs. a 6.09% gain for the total-return Wilshire 5000.
I don't think CCEMR really knows what's going on in China either. Some of its comments have struck me as startlingly superficial. (See "Is China the key?")
But that doesn't matter — because the letter has a very disciplined system, committing to stocks only if its "China-Timer" moving average timing system based on the Halter USX China Index (HXC) is positive, and selecting stocks only if it likes both the fundamentals and the chart action. CCEMR has also made sensible efforts to diversify out of China, but it ruefully admits that its system keeps drawing it back.
Currently, CCEMR's system is bearish, so it is only 55% invested. Its most recent issue broods over revelations of accounting apparent fraud at Sino-Forest Corp. (TRE) SNOFF (See! See!)
I don't know how reassuring its conclusions are: "Since we don't recommend OTC stocks, our danger was non-existent. But the anxiety, resentment and suspicion surrounding all Chinese stocks have certainly tended to push Chinese ADRs, as a group, toward the deep end of the pool."
"The experience of [hedge fund owner] Paulson & Co. [a major holder of Sino-Forest] is also interesting because many investors (including us) rely on the sponsorship of deep-pocketed hedge and mutual funds as a certification of good accounting and reporting. Big investors have the resources (and the statutory responsibility) to do the kind of due diligence that can often uncover irregularities in bookkeeping, reporting and guidance. Apparently that didn't happen here."
Apparently not!
In its most recent update, on June 30, CCEMR said: "If the Halter manages to hold above 6,000, it will be a good sign. … It's likely that the market will need to retest its recent lows, although predictions like this are generally given free and are worth exactly what they cost. It's best to stay defensive until we get an unequivocal buy signal from the Cabot China-Timer."
The only stock CCEMR has bought recently is Chilean: Sociedad Quimica y Minera De Chile S.A. American Depositary Shares SQM, +0.80%
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An extremal property of Jacobi polynomials in two-sided Chernoff-type inequalities for higher order derivatives
Author: Vladimir D. Stepanov
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 1589-1597
MSC (2000): Primary 26D10; Secondary 33C45, 60E15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09218-6
Published electronically: January 4, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2373588
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Abstract | References | Similar Articles | Additional Information
Abstract: For a weight function generating the classical Jacobi polynomials, the sharp double estimate of the distance from the subspace of all polynomials of an arbitrary fixed order is established.
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- 3. W. Bischoff and M. Fichter, Optimal lower and upper bounds for the 𝐿_{𝑝}-mean deviation of functions of a random variable, Math. Methods Statist. 9 (2000), no. 3, 237–269. MR 1807094
- 4. V. D. Stepanov, An extremal property of Chebyshev polynomials, Tr. Mat. Inst. Steklova 248 (2005), no. Issled. po Teor. Funkts. i Differ. Uravn., 237–249 (Russian, with Russian summary); English transl., Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 1(248) (2005), 230–242. MR 2165931
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Vladimir D. Stepanov
Affiliation: People Friendship University, Miklukho-Maklai 6, Moscow, 117198, Russia
Email: email@example.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09218-6
Keywords: Jacobi polynomials, Chernoff inequality
Received by editor(s): March 4, 2006
Published electronically: January 4, 2008
Additional Notes: The work of the author was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (Projects 05–01–00422, 06–01–00341, 06–01–04006 and 07–01–00054) and by the INTAS grant 05-1000008-8157.
Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
Article copyright: © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
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Shunning, A Study In Punishment.
Source - http://web.archive.org/web/20060821084019/users.uniserve.com/~renford/shun.htm
The punishment levied against Jehovah's Witnesses who by the judgment of men are unrepentant sinners. Sinners deserving of a social and spiritual death. It is said that such punishment is a loving gesture to teach the sinner that they are wrong and that shunning will bring them back to God. Is such a teaching or practice truly a loving gesture, what purpose does it really serve? Is this the way Jesus would have treated fellow humans? A person must ask oneself, if indeed a person is so wicked and evil, why would it be necessary for a ruling of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses to cut such people off. Surely, if a person did not want to be a part of the religion they would cease associating with the Jehovah's Witnesses. And on the other hand if one is a true Christian and lives by the principles of the Bible, would not their own conscience tell them not seek out and associate with such evil and wicked people?
Furthermore one must accept the premise that because of the imperfection of men, and the misuse of power, many mistakes in judgment are bound to take place. Meaning that many who are truly repentant are disfellowshipped needlessly, causing tremendous emotional upheaval and mental trauma. Moreover as history and documentation can testify this has happened thousands of times, and in many cases has contributed to the emotional breakdown of such individuals, leading some to suicide, it has also contributed to the breakup of many families. Why is this hard and fast regulation enforced upon people who claim to have the truth of Christianity, when there is so much room for abuse and misjudgment.
The following is an examination into this practice and why it is used, and the effects it can have on human lives. This is a story of some one who was disfellowshipped because they refused to treat their mother in such a manner. They could not bring themselves to shun the person who brought them into the world.
shun - to keep away from; avoid scrupulously or consistently. (Webster's New World Dictionary) - to keep clear of; avoid. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary)
Why It Works
Why would I be afraid of someone who threatened not to talk to me unless I behaved a certain way? Why would I punish someone by not talking to them? Why would people try and try to gain the acceptance of a group who would look right through them without speaking or even acknowledge them when they chance met? What are the rewards for the shunners? What are the rewards for the shunned?
As one who once was associated with Jehovah's Witnesses, I have shunned and been shunned. I believe many, maybe most, people when exposed to shunning are not attracted to or by it. When the disfellowshipping doctrine is explained to people who are not familiar with Jehovah's Witnesses practice of shunning they can not believe that such a thing is practiced, they stand there in disbelieve. When I was associated with Jehovah's Witnesses I remember once a disfellowshipped woman with small children had attended a Thursday night Kingdom Hall meeting that ended about 9:45 PM. She was required to sit in the back and she could not speak to or be spoken to by anyone there. When we left the meeting this disfellowshipped woman was still there after 10:00 PM deep in a residential neighborhood with small children and a broken down car. We all did our duty to the Watchtower and shunned her. We did not offer to help her. I never saw her again.
Why the threat of shunning helped to keep me in line is clearer to me today.
I believe that very night we "freed" the woman with the broken car, but we further enslaved ourselves to the teachings and doctrines of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society :
For two reasons:
(1) We reinforced each other by participating in a crime. In order for me to accept my own (truly un-Christian) behavior I had to approve, reinforce, accept, and condone the behavior of all the other members of the group. Shunning gave me the illusion of power. The illusion of power to a powerless person is a drug.
(2) The group members modeled for me what they were willing to do in keeping the commands of the Society. For a moment I put myself in that woman's place, and I knew I didn't want to be there. Raised by Witness parents and taught by the Society since age seven, all my real security was tied up with a Watchtower ribbon. The thought of leaving the group was unthinkable. Regularly scheduled portions of Kingdom Hall meetings were discussions on disfellowshipping, shunning, and the consequences of leaving "Jehovah's Organization."
Shunning means those whom we used to call brothers and sisters we would now pass in the market or street without acknowledging. When I practiced shunning while in the company of another Witness the act of shunning would, in my own eyes, be a witnessed proof of my loyalty to Jehovah. I was on spiritual high ground (a sort of religious "high"). While alone I was less bold when a shunning opportunity would arise, but if I thought that there may be even a chance that another Jehovah's Witness might be watching I would "play the part" all the way. If it was a private situation, however, I might feel somewhat uncomfortable and maybe even make eye contact and nod.
Why it is Done
As mentioned earlier the reason that this is practiced is to bring people back to their senses as it were. To bring them back to God. However a close study of the practice suggests another reason why this is practiced. It appears that the reason is, control. Anytime you want to control a person or a group of people, the most effective method, is the use of fear. In the case of shunning, because of the fear of the effects shunning can have on people, the individual or group of individuals will submit to the controlling parties, in this case the Governing Body. Absolute control can then be exercised over the people involved. Thus, would this not indicate that this practice is unchristian? For the Bible says that the truth will set you free. How can a person be truly free and exercise ones own conscience if one is made to live in fear of being shunned. Would not our reason to avoid wrong doing be the fear of displeasing God. In all the cases I have observed in 30 years of association, the individuals that were disfellowshipped, were not wicked people, they were imperfect people who had weaknesses.
Shunning as Spiritual Abuse
Recently, during a conversation with another former Jehovah's Witness, the subject of abuse came up. The question was asked, "Is there any context of involvement with Jehovah's Witnesses that is not direct abuse, indirect abuse, or a set up for abuse? We batted this around for a couple of hours and concluded that in every situation we could come up with involving Jehovah's Witnesses there is a real or potential victim. Real or threatened, physical, mental, emotional, and verbal abuse is their power over members and often former members. Fear, guilt, shame, hatred, and later resentment and anger kept me with them selling Watchtowers on street corners, and from house to house.
Shunning is probably the ultimate rejection of anyone as a person and maybe the cruelest mental, emotional, and psychological form of abuse. The results of the shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses done to people was substantial pain and suffering but only as long as it is allowed to continue.
Shunning is a Drug... ..and drug users need enablers. I've noticed a few things about abusers of people and things. A person who abuses other humans does it for a reason. It is the same as any addiction to a substance or behavior. The addict gets something out of it, a "reward." I have done research on the subject of addiction and have reached some interesting conclusions.
Addicts need a drug , abusers need a victim. Shunners are playing a mind game and they need a playmate who will follow the rules. Shunning is their drug. Abusers need help to carry out their abuse. They need enablers (victims). Without their victims they can not continue to abuse. Watchtower rules for shunning must be followed by both shunner and VICTIM or shunning doesn't work! Shunning is a show. To best work it needs an arena to be played in, and an audience. Emotional abuse hurts just as bad as physical abuse even though the scars are not on the outside.
It is true that many who have had just thoughts different from the Society have been expelled. Many tried to quietly slip away from the organization, only to be pursued and expelled because their views differed from that of the organization. There are literally thousands of such experiences worldwide. The emotional and mental anguish brought about by such actions have had a tremendous human toll. A toll of helpless anxiety, and emotional stress to the point where many have taken there own lives. Many have been victims of injustice, and are told to wait on Jehovah, and they wait and wait and wait. Many keep asking themselves, if the very ones that God has presumably put there to shepard and protect, do nothing to correct the injustice, how possible can God bless or even support such an arrangement? Many more go onto to ask, are these the actions of true Christians, and is true love evident? The love that identifies true Christians.


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About 12,000 of the invitees live in rural parts of the district such as Dixon, Bethel Island and Walnut Grove, Garamendi spokesman Donald Lathbury said. The other 18,000 are spread throughout the district.
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Every season, women's basketball commentators start playing fast and loose with the word "parity." The idea — which really caught hold in 1997, when Old Dominion made it to the National Championship game — is that mid-major schools are now able to recruit with the Pat Summitts and and Geno Auriemmas of the world, which means that they should be able to actually compete with the Lady Vols and the Huskies.
It's all been a bit of a pipe dream, really. In the years since ODU made it to the title game, Connecticut or Tennessee won eight of the eleven National Championship games. In three of those 11 games, they faced each other.
This year, though, it actually seems like "parity" might be more than a buzz word.
We're only two weeks into the season and there is upset noise all around.
Michigan lost to Akron and then rolled over No. 13 Vanderbilt. Detroit dropped two games and then beat No. 23 SEC-powerhouse Georgia. Florida lost to Florida Gulf Coast (yes, a real school), and then beat No. 21 Florida State in Tallahassee. After committing a sickening 25 turnovers and shooting 27 percent from the field, Hartford (yes, another real school) rolled over No. 5 Duke. Duke!
Tennessee almost lost to Chattanooga, a defeat that, in Knoxville, would have been akin to a couple of kids with sling shots defeating the entire armed forces of the United States of America.
On Nov. 16, the Women's Hoops Blog quipped, "Just so I can be the first to say it this season — has parity come to the women's game?"
On Nov. 17, after UConn played an unexpectedly tough game against Georgia Tech, and Baylor upset Stanford, Women's Hoops asked again, "No really, has parity come to the women's game?"
On Nov. 21, after all the madness mentioned above, Women's Hoops said one last time, "No, REALLY, has parity come to the women's game????"
It's a fair question, and unlike years past, it actually deserves to be asked.
Pat Summitt is famous for saying, "Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships." There's truth to that, of course. I mean, Pat Summitt knows what she's talking about: she's Pat Summitt — but there are other things that go into winning championships: seasoned coaches, tough schedules, player experience and, quite frankly, legacies.
If Florida Gulf Coast doesn't make it to the Elite 8, no one notices. If Tennessee doesn't make it, it's the biggest story in women's basketball in over a decade. There's a lot to be said for the motivation of a program that demands national championships.
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Pat O'Neill (filmmaker)
Patrick O'Neill (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is an American independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through a mastery of the optical printer. His films and other artworks often reveal a complex and mysterious interest in the connections and clashes between the natural world and human civilization. O'Neill has also produced a prodigious body of work in drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, and many other media.
His early 16mm films include Runs Good (1970), Easyout (1971), and Down Wind (1973). His later 35mm films include Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996), and The Decay of Fiction (2002). On December 30, 2008, Water and Power was added to the National Film Registry.[1] Prints of O'Neill's films are held in numerous archives and museums around the world, and his complete collection resides at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, where several of his short works have been preserved.[2] In 2009, Water and Power was preserved by the Academy in collaboration with O'Neill.
He has also taught at the California Institute of the Arts. He influenced a generation of CalArts students, who include Adam Beckett, Robert Blalack, Chris Casady, and Larry Cuba, who all later went on to work on the special effects of the original Star Wars.
- By the Sea (with Robert Abel) (1963)
- Bump City (1964)
- 7362 (1965–67)
- Coming Down (aka Heresy) (1968) (promo film for The United States of America)
- Screen (1969)
- Runs Good (1970)
- Easyout (1972)
- The Last of the Persimmons (1972)
- Down Wind (1973)
- Saugus Series (1974)
- Sidewinder's Delta (1976)
- Foregrounds (1978)
- Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie) (1978)
- Two Sweeps (1979)
- Let's Make a Sandwich (1978–82)
- Water and Power (1989)
- Trouble in the Image (1996)
- Coreopsis (1998)
- Squirtgun Step Print (1998)
- The Decay of Fiction (2002)
- Horizontal Boundaries (2008)
- I Put Out my Hands (2009)
- I Open the Window (2009)
- Starting to go Bad (2009)
- Painter & Ball 4-14 (2010)
- Ojo Caliente (2012)
- Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015)[3]
- ^ "New titles in U.S. National Film Registry". The Globe and Mail. Associated Press. December 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- ^ "Pat O'Neill Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- ^ https://www.redcat.org/event/pat-o-neill-where-chocolate-mountains
- Pat O'Neill: Views From Lookout Mountain by Paul Arthur, Howard Singerman, Erika Suderburg, and Julie Lazar ed.Steidl/Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2004
- Pat O'Neill: Another Kind of Record. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2008
- "An Interview with Pat O'Neill" David James. 'Millennium Film Journal No 30/31 Fall 1997.
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- Official website
- Pat O'Neill on IMDb
- http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=231
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091130011904/http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/oneill/index.php
- Review of Decay of Fiction
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Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
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|Former names
Sandstone Center for the Performing Arts (1983–93)
Sandstone Amphitheater (1993–2002, 2008)
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (2002–07)
Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone (2008-12)
Cricket Wireless Amphitheater(2012-15)
633 North 130th Street
Bonner Springs, Kansas 66012
|39°06′50″N 94°52′36″W / 39.113796°N 94.876717°WCoordinates: 39°06′50″N 94°52′36″W / 39.113796°N 94.876717°W
|The Unified Government
|New West Presentations
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|Broke ground
|2008, 2016
Providence Medical Center Amphitheater is an open-air amphitheater located in Bonner Springs, Kansas. It has undergone numerous name changes, opening in 1984 as the Sandstone Center for the Performing Arts, followed by Sandstone Amphitheater, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, and most recently, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater.
It is owned by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, shares its grounds with the Kansas City Renaissance Festival and National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame and is located adjacent to the Wyandotte County Park.
Designed by Bird Engineering, it originally opened in 1984, as the 'Sandstone Center for the Performing Arts'. It was renamed 'Verizon Wireless Amphitheater', in June 2002, after Verizon Wireless bought the naming rights, for seven years, from Houston-based Clear Channel Entertainment, for an undisclosed amount. Clear Channel Communications spun off its live events management division, in 2005, to form Los Angeles-based Live Nation, which continued to manage the venue through the 2007 concert season. Locals simply refer to the venue as "Sandstone".
In September 2007, Live Nation announced that it would let its managing contract expire, on December 31, 2007. In January 2008, the Unified Government Commission ratified a pact with local promoter Chris Fritz's New West Presentations, Inc., to operate the venue through the end of 2009, with a two-year option to extend the contract. Under the new deal with New West, the name would revert to Sandstone.
Through 2007, the venue featured 6,700 reserved seats and general admission lawn seating. Beginning in 2008, plans are underway to remove the majority of the reserved seats closest to the stage, in order to make that area a general admission section. The change in the seating configuration is designed to let more fans get closer to the performers and eliminate costs of the extra security normally required. Additional structural changes include an upgraded VIP club and new sound and video systems.
Through the years the stage has fought several limitations. For instance, a 37-foot roof is well below the norm, which often proves challenging to book shows.
Green initiatives[edit]
A primary component of the changes, in 2008, involve the venue's efforts to "go green" and become more environmentally friendly. These initiatives are evidenced in the venue's new logo. Free parking will be offered to those who carpool with, at least, 4 people in a vehicle or those who arrive in alternative fuel vehicles. LEED certification will also be a goal the venue hopes to achieve, by the use of solar panels and wind turbines for energy, setting up a compost site and allowing bio-fueled vehicle owners to collect used cooking oil.
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Vulnerability Details : CVE-2014-6272
Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 2.0.x before 2.0.22, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5-beta allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impact via "insanely large inputs" to the (1) evbuffer_add, (2) evbuffer_expand, or (3) bufferevent_write function, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow or an infinite loop. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions. See CVE-2015-6525 for the functions that are only affected in 2.0 and later.
Publish Date : 2015-08-24 Last Update Date : 2015-08-24
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Arias is interested in a number of Marine Corps programs, and particularly in their martial arts program.
The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) is essential part of a Marine curriculum, in which every Marine partakes. The Marine Corps created the martial art program in 2006 to aid Marines in hand-to-hand combat. Since Arias craves all things Marine, he yearned for the opportunity to work his way up to black belt in MCMAP.
"With the Marines I was doing great things," said Arias. "A year ago I was a Corporals' Course instructor. I was a black belt. I got a Navy Commendation Medal. I was personally selected for bodyguard duties for Colonels going to dangerous places."
Arias misses his adventures with the Marine Corps, but he has a plan to share his green side skills with Sailors aboard New Orleans.
Arias has roots that connect him to the Marine Corps.
Nearly every person in Aria's family was a Marine, including every one of his cousins and brothers-in-law. Even his wife was a Marine, stationed at Miramar Marine Corps Base in San Diego. For Arias, joining the military was something of a family tradition, so it was an easy decision.
"My wife was going to get out and finish her degree, and I was going to enlist and change my life, " said Arias. "The Navy gave my everything, including $10,000 to be a Religious Programs Specialist for five years."
After boot camp, Arias went to Religious Programs Specialist A-school for training in his rate. His instructors informed him of his orders to the 1st Marine Logistics Group in Camp Pendleton, Calif. But first he needed to attend the field medical training school at Camp Johnson, N.C.
Part of the curriculum at Camp Johnson focused on MCMAP. The program uses a belt rank structure with a colored hierarchy. The belts begin with tan, move up to green, brown, then to black. Once students are able to instruct at a particular level, they wear a tab on their belts of the color they are permitted to instruct.
"Part of the greenside training required us to earn our tan belts," said Arias.
Thus, Arias went on to earn his belt.
It was October of 2009, Arias, the novice tan belt, was fresh out of A-school and ready for the field. His first deployment was to a small, remote forward operating base in a dangerous area of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
"I needed to get out of San Diego and go on deployment," said Arias. "I had to start from scratch. I had to buy a house, buy a car, all that stuff. So, deployment was good to me, and it gave me a little experience."
Conditions were rough during his first deployment to Afghanistan and there wasn't a single MCMAP instructor on base. After a year deployed, he returned to San Diego, where he lived the following year. Arias was then deployed again to Afghanistan. This time he was stationed at a much larger base, Camp Leatherneck, with many more amenities, including MCMAP instructors.
When I got to Afghanistan, I replaced a chief RPC [Chief Religious Programs Specialist]," said Arias. "Everything was going well and I realized I had a brown belt; I needed to get that black belt."
The first sergeant hand-selected Arias to be a Corporal's Course instructor. Luckily, one of the other instructors was a MCMAP instructor. So, Arias would physically train and teach courses in the morning and train in MCMAP in the afternoons. Every day, two hours a day, he would train until he finished. He earned his black belt in April.
One goal remained unachieved for Arias. He needed to complete a 15-day course to become a MCMAP instructor. When he returned to Camp Pendleton, he enrolled in the instructor's course, along with 22 other Marine students. He was the only Sailor.
The students, in their tan camouflage uniform and no boots, were split into two squads. Arias' squad sat together on the red and black gym mats inside the huge gym in Camp Pendleton. Sgt. Hancock, a bald ten-year Marine veteran with half of his arm tattooed, led the exam.
Sgt. Hancock called Arias for his turn to take the test. He stood before Sgt. Hancock, who paced around him with a binder in his hands. He begins by asking Arias to execute a leg sweep. Arias executes a leg sweep on his opponent. Sgt. Hancock writes some notes in his binder. The instructor orders him to execute a counter to a bear hug. Arias executes. The instructor again marks the binder. Arias performs five more random moves from each of the four belt levels.
"I tried to test out one day early and failed," said Arias. "They stopped me at green belt. I went home and I began to worry. I've been doing this for two weeks straight now. What if I don't pass tomorrow? What if I don't have a good day? I was already in a lot of pain and taking Motrin."
On the final day Arias was again ready to be tested. The instructors stood before him with their binders and pens. Arias executed one move after another, each move getting more complicated. He finished all the moves, and, after a moment, the instructor finished writing in his binder. They left the room, and when they returned they congratulated him. Arias graduated along with only 17 other students.
My forearms were killing me," said Arias. "I was in so much pain, but I was so excited."
After his achievement, Arias looked for advice on what do next.
Arias hesitated to tell his instructors that he received orders to USS New Orleans (LPD 18) – to the blue side of ship operations at sea. He knew they put a lot of work and time into training him, and he didn't want to squander his opportunity that could have been used for another potential Marine instructor.
"When you go and do these trainings, you're taking up a space that another Marine could fill," said Arias. "They need those positions to make themselves promotable. A Marine could be in that class training, but the Marine Corps will take you if you have what it take to be an instructor."
Arias waited in the schoolhouse thinking about how to break the news. He walked up to his red tab instructors and cautiously posed the question: "Gentlemen, I got orders to USS New Orleans," said Arias. "You've been instructing instructors for a while. Let me ask you this: what's your opinion about implementing MCMAP on the ship for Sailors?"
It took the instructors two seconds for the response: "Do it! That'd be awesome!" The Marine Corp has been trying to popularize MCMAP throughout the military since its inception in 2001. This was a great opportunity to spread the program.
Now when Arias isn't chasing down signatures for qualifications, he's training New Orleans Sailors in Marine martial arts. The command has supported him with mats and other resources, and the crew is excited to have the opportunity to be a part of MCMAP. By running the program for Sailors, Arias is able to preserve his hard-earned instructor tab and share his enthusiasm for what he loves.
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|Re: joining accumulo tables with mapreduce
|Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:39:15 GMT
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Aji Janis <email@example.com> wrote: > Keith, > > You hit the problem that I purposely didn't ask. > -Accumulo inputformat doesn't support multiple tables at this point and > -I can't run three mappers in parallel on different tables and combine/send > their output to a reducer (that I know of). > > If all three tables had the same rowid (eg: rowA exists in table 1, 2 and 3) > then we can write the row from each table w/a different > family/qualifier/value to a new table. So it will be three mappers run > sequentially and end result is a join... this is the best I came up with so > far. If rowids are different accross three tables then I would have to > reformat my rowid from all three tables (normalize) prior to writing the > fourth/final table. This is a good option. Also, you could run the three map reduce jobs in parallel. > > Is calling a scanner on the other two tables from within a mapper (that > takes the first table as the input) bad? Any clues on how that could be done > in mapreduce? It depends, it may not be bad. The best strategy depends on the relative sizes of the tables and the relative size of the intersection. For example if you are mapping of a small table with 1000 rows and for each row you do a lookup into a much bigger table with 10^9 rows then this is a good strategy. If the tables have a lot in common, you may be able to create a scanner in the mapper. On the first row create the scanner and position at the row passed to the mapper. Do not reset the scanner for each row, just consume its input if its less than the row passed to the mapper. This may be faster than reseting the scanner for each row. But it depends on the intersection size. If you had two large tables, with very few rows in common, then maybe you could use bloom filters. Make a pass over each table generating a bloom filter of all of the rows. Make another pass using the bloom filters from the first pass to filter out rows and write the rows that pass to a third table. This way you avoid sorting a large amount of data when there is only a small intersection between the tables. > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Keith Turner <email@example.com> wrote: >> >> If I am understaning you correctly, you are proposing for each row a >> mapper gets to look that row up in two other tables? This would >> result in a lot of little round trip RPC calls and random disk >> accesses. >> >> I think a better solution would be to read all three tables into your >> mappers, and do the join in the reduce. This solution will avoid all >> of the little RPC calls and do lots of sequential I/O instead of >> random accesses. Between the map and reduce, you could track which >> table each row came from. Any filtering could be done in the mapper >> or by iterators. Unfortunately Accumulo does not have the needed >> input format for this out of the box. There is a ticket, >> ACCUMULO-391. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Aji Janis <email@example.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am interested in learning what the best solution/practices might be >> > to >> > join 3 accumulo tables by running a map reduce job. Interested in >> > getting >> > feedback on best practices and such. Heres a pseudo code of what I want >> > to >> > accomplish: >> > >> > >> > AccumuloInputFormat accepts tableA >> > Global variable <table_list> has table names: tableB, tableC >> > >> > In a mapper, for example, you would do something like this: >> > >> > for each row in TableA >> > if (row.family == "abc" && row.qualifier == "xyz") value = getValue() >> > if (foundvalue) { >> > >> > for each table in table_list >> > scan table with (this rowid && family = "def") >> > for each entry found in scan >> > write to final_table (rowid, value_as_family, >> > tablename_as_qualifier, >> > entry_as_value_string) >> > >> > }//end if foundvalue >> > >> > }//end for loop >> > >> > >> > This is a simple version of what I want to do. In my non mapreduce java >> > code >> > I would do this by calling a using different scanners per table in the >> > list. >> > Couple questions: >> > >> > >> > - how bad/good is performance when using scanners withing mappers? >> > - if I get one mapper per range in tableA, do I reset scanners? how? or >> > would I set up a scanner in the setup() of mapper ? --> i have no clue >> > how >> > this will play out so thinking out loud here. >> > - any optimization suggestions? or examples of creating >> > join_tables/indexes >> > out there that I can refer to? >> > >> > >> > Thank you for all suggestions. > >
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ChinaFAQs: China's Measurement & Compliance Initiatives
Key Points
- China is implementing measurement and compliance requirements for its energy industry. These measurement/compliance policies vary in scope and maturity, but provide a foundation for future systems for sharing credible climate-related information.
- A key element of any international climate regime will be the ability to measure compliance with policies designed to slow climate change. To build global trust, statistics and statements will need to be reliable and credible.
- China already participates in global regimes, such as the World Trade Organization and the Montreal Protocol, that have extensive data measurement and compliance requirements. It is building on that experience in developing systems for collecting energy and emissions data.
Measurement and Compliance Policies in China
In China, officials are ramping up efforts to ensure that they have the accurate numbers they need to implement effective climate and energy policies – and earn international credibility. It's a road they've traveled before, as China is already a member of a global pact to regulate ozone-depleting chemicals (Montreal Protocol) and, more recently, the body that mediates trade disputes (World Trade Organization). Both have extensive data reporting requirements.
Now, as part of a push to improve energy efficiency and curb greenhouse gas emissions, China's leaders are seeking to beef up systems for collecting statistics. In part, the push is designed to close statistical gaps that have complicated past efforts to make sure local governments and industries comply with new rules.i But China also has its eye on emerging global efforts to combat climate change, which are likely to increase the demand for timely measurement of its energy use and emissions.
To signal just how seriously Beijing views the need for good numbers, China's top decision-making body, the State Council, has been put in charge of tracking compliance with rules aimed at improving the nation's "energy intensity" by 20% by 2010. And regional and municipal leaders have been told that they will be accountable for delivering progress reports every six months.
To verify the reports, Beijing periodically dispatches teams to inspect major energy-using facilities. It also cross-checks the numbers reported by governments with those reported by industry, looking for consistency. And to improve transparency, the government releases the statistics at monthly press conferences where journalists can ask questions. There are also "sticks and carrots" to encourage compliance: officials who deliver accurate reports and can show they are improving efficiency, for instance, can get salary raises and promotions. Those found to have misrepresented the numbers, however, can face punishment under Chinese law.ii
Collecting Data on Energy Efficiency and Emissions
China's 2007 Climate Change Action Program calls for collecting a range of data used for assessing compliance. Some of these "metrics" are focused on outputs or results – such as the total acres reforested, the amount of energy saved, or the quantity of biofuel produced. Others focus on "inputs," such as the amount of money spent on efficiency projects or R&D.iii
In general, the task of collecting and analyzing the data is given to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and its National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). And in some areas, these and other agencies are getting technical help from U.S. and European experts. These collaborations have helped China expand its real-time monitoring of smokestack emissions from coal-fired plants, and to develop systems for measuring the operating efficiency of new wind turbines.iv
Eventually, these rich and diverse streams of data should help China – and the rest of the world – decide which climate policies are working, and which need to be revised.
This ChinaFAQs brief was largely adapted from: "Mitigation Actions in China: Measurement, Reporting and Verification." (June 2009 working paper) Fei Teng, Yu Wang, Alun Gu, Ruina Xu, Hilary McMahon and Deborah Seligsohn. Tsinghua University and World Resources Institute.
Also see: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in China: Measurement and Compliance of Policies.
|Notes and References
|i See ChinaFAQs: Energy and Emissions Data
|ii Andrew Batson, (August 10, 2009), "China's Stats Bureau Boosts Transparency," http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2009/08/10/chinas-stats-bureauboosts-transparency/.
|iii Seligsohn, Heilmayr, Tan, and Weischer. "China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge." October 2009. WRI Policy Brief.
|ivFor more information on U.S. Programs, visit http://www.epa.gov/oia/air/chinaair.html; also see: ChinaFAQs: US-China Collaboration
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