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The top research stories of the week have been hand-selected from prominent journals and leading conference proceedings. Here's another diverse set of items, including novel methods of data race detection; a comparison of predictive laws; a review of FPGA's promise; GPU virtualization using PCI Direct pass-through; and an analysis of the Amazon Web Services High-IO platform.
Scalable Data Race Detection
A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley are investigating cutting-edge programming languages for HPC. These are languages that promote hybrid parallelism and shared memory abstractions using a global address space. It's a programming style that is especially prone to data races that are difficult to detect, and prior work in the field has demonstrated 10X-100X slowdowns for non-scientific programs.
In a recent paper, the computer scientists present what they say is "the first complete implementation of data race detection at scale for UPC programs." UPC stands for Unified Parallel C, an extension of the C programming language developed by the HPC community for large-scale parallel machines. The implementation used by the Berkeley-based team tracks local and global memory references in the program. It employs two methods for reducing overhead 1) hierarchical function and instruction level sampling; and 2) exploiting the runtime persistence of aliasing and locality specific to Partitioned Global Address Space applications.
Experiments show that the best results are attained when both techniques are used in tandem. "When applying the optimizations in conjunction our tool finds all previously known data races in our benchmark programs with at most 50% overhead," the researchers state. "Furthermore, while previous results illustrate the benefits of function level sampling, our experiences show that this technique does not work for scientific programs: instruction sampling or a hybrid approach is required."
Their work is published in the Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming.
Predicting the Progress of Technology
A fascinating new study applies the scientific method to some of our most popular predictive models. A research team from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute compared several different approaches for predicting technological improvement – including Moore's Law and Wright's Law – to known cases of technological progress using past performance data from different industries.
Moore's Law, theorized by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, predicts that a chip's transistor count will double every 18 months. In more general terms, it suggests that technologies advance exponentially with time. Wright's Law was first formulated by Theodore Wright in 1936. Also called the Rule of Experience, it holds that progress increases with experience. Other alternative models were proposed by Goddard, Sinclair et al., and Nordhaus.
The study, which employed hindcasting, used a statistical model to rank the performance of the postulated laws. The comparison data came from a database on the cost and production of 62 different technologies. The expansive knowledge-base enabled researchers to test six different prediction principles against real-world data.
The results revealed that the law with the greatest accuracy was Wright's Law, but Moore's Law was a very close second. In fact, the laws themselves are more similar than previously realized.
"We discover a previously unobserved regularity that production tends to increase exponentially," write the authors. "A combination of an exponential decrease in cost and an exponential increase in production would make Moore's law and Wright's law indistinguishable…. We show for the first time that these regularities are observed in data to such a degree that the performance of these two laws is nearly the same."
"Our results show that technological progress is forecastable, with the square root of the logarithmic error growing linearly with the forecasting horizon at a typical rate of 2.5% per year," they conclude.
The team includes Bela Nagy of the Santa Fe Institute, J. Doyne Farmer of the University of Oxford and the Santa Fe Institute, Quan Bui of St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, and Jessika E. Trancik of the Santa Fe Institute and MIT. Their findings are published in the online open-access journal PLOS ONE.
FPGA Programming for the Masses
FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) have been around for many years and show real potential for advancing HPC, but their popularity has been restricted because they are difficult to work with. This is the assertion of a group of researchers from the T.J. Watson Research Center. They argue that FPGAs won't become mainstream until their various programmability challenges are addressed.
In a paper published last month in ACM Queue, the research team observes that there exists a spectrum of architectures, with general-purpose processors at one end and ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) on the other. Architectures like PLDs (programmable logic devices), they argue, have that best-of-both-worlds potential in that they are closer to the hardware and can be reprogrammed. The most prominent PLD is in fact an FPGA.
The authors write:
FPGAs were long considered low-volume, low-density ASIC replacements. Following Moore's law, however, FPGAs are getting denser and faster. Modern-day FPGAs can have up to 2 million logic cells, 68 Mbits of BRAM, more than 3,000 DSP slices, and up to 96 transceivers for implementing multigigabit communication channels. The latest FPGA families from Xilinx and Altera are more like an SoC (system-on-chip), mixing dual-core ARM processors with programmable logic on the same fabric. Coupled with higher device density and performance, FPGAs are quickly replacing ASICs and ASSPs (application-specific standard products) for implementing fixed function logic. Analysts expect the programmable IC (integrated circuit) market to reach the $10 billion mark by 2016.
The researchers note that "despite the advantages offered by FPGAs and their rapid growth, use of FPGA technology is restricted to a narrow segment of hardware programmers. The larger community of software programmers has stayed away from this technology, largely because of the challenges experienced by beginners trying to learn and use FPGAs."
The rest of this excellent paper addresses the various challenges in detail and brings attention to the lack of support for device drivers, programming languages, and tools. The authors drive home the point that the community will only be able to leverage the benefits of FPGAs if the programming aspects are improved.
GPU Virtualization using PCI Direct Pass-Through
The technical computing space has seen several trends develop over the past decade, among them are server virtualization, cloud computing and GPU computing. It's clear that GPGPU computing has a role to play in HPC systems. Can these trends be combined? A research team from Chonbuk National University in South Korea has written a paper in the periodical Applied Mechanics and Materials, proposing exactly this. The investigate a method of GPU virtualization that exploits the GPU in a virtualized cloud computing environment.
The researchers claim their approach is different from previous work, which mostly reimplemented GPU programming APIs and virtual device drivers. Past research focused on sharing the GPU among virtual machines, which increased virtualization overhead. The paper describes an alternate method: the use of PCI direct pass-through.
"In our approach, bypassing virtual machine monitor layer with negligible overhead, the mechanism can achieve similar computation performance to bare-metal system and is transparent to the GPU programming APIs," the authors write.
Analysis of I/O Performance on AWS High I/O Platform
The HPC community is still exploring the potential of the cloud paradigm to discern the most suitable use cases. The pay-per-use basis of compute and storage resources is an attractive draw for researchers, but so is the illusion of limitless resources to tackle large-scale scientific workloads.
In the most recent edition of the Journal of Grid Computing, computer scientists from the Department of Electronics and Systems at the University of A Coruña in Spain evaluate the I/O storage subsystem on the Amazon EC2 platform, specifically the High I/O instance type, to determine its suitability for I/O-intensive applications. The High I/O instance type, released in July 2012, is backed by SSD and also provides high levels of CPU, memory and network performance.
The study looked at the low-level cloud storage devices available in Amazon EC2, ephemeral disks and Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, both on local and distributed file systems. It also assessed several I/O interfaces, notably POSIX, MPI-IO and HDF5, that are commonly employed by scientific workloads. The scalability of a representative parallel I/O code was also analyzed based on performance and cost.
As the results show, cloud storage devices have different performance characteristics and usage constraints. "Our comprehensive evaluation can help scientists to increase significantly (up to several times) the performance of I/O-intensive applications in Amazon EC2 cloud," the researchers state. "An example of optimal configuration that can maximize I/O performance in this cloud is the use of a RAID 0 of 2 ephemeral disks, TCP with 9,000 bytes MTU, NFS async and MPI-IO on the High I/O instance type, which provides ephemeral disks backed by Solid State Drive (SSD) technology."

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Elizabeth Blair is a Peabody Award-winning, Senior Producer/Reporter on the Arts Desk of NPR News.
She produces, edits, and reports arts and cultural segments for NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. In this position, Blair has reported on a range of topics from arts education to shifting attitudes towards sexual misconduct. She has profiled renowned artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Mikhail Baryshnikov, explored how old women are represented in fairy tales, and reported the origins of the children's classic Curious George. Among her all-time favorite interviews are actors Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Andy Serkis, comedians Bill Burr and Hari Kondabolu, the rapper K'Naan and Cookie Monster (in character). Her work has received several honors, including two Peabody Awards and a Gracie.
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By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and EVELYN M. RUSLI
Published: August 28, 2012
BETTING BIG It took Hertz Global Holdings two years to reach an agreement to buy the Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group.
But Hertz's chief executive, Mark Frissora, below, appears confident that the $2.3 billion takeover deal will stick, telling analysts on Monday that the ''transformational deal'' would pass muster with the Federal Trade Commission, with the regulator likely to provide approval in the next six weeks. With that in mind, the two companies have drawn up an unusually lenient merger agreement. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
GOING PRIVATE Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm based in Chicago, has agreed to buy Deltek, an enterprise software company, for $1.1 billion in cash.
The deal, valued at $13 a share, is slightly below Friday's closing price of $14.01, but more than 22 percent above Deltek's price in mid-June, when the company first began to market the business to potential buyers. EVELYN M. RUSLI
SHIFTING STRATEGY With the $300 million purchase of the About Group from The New York Times Company, IAC/InterActiveCorp has once again added to its expanding portfolio of Internet and media brands.
The acquisition, in many ways, is a classic move by Barry Diller, left, the chairman of IAC. But it also underscores how Mr. Diller's deal-making has shifted over the years as his ambitions have become more conservative. EVELYN M. RUSLI
FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVE The TPC Group, a specialty chemical maker, will be taken private in a deal valued at $850 million.
The private equity firms First Reserve Corporation and SK Capital Partners have agreed to pay $40 a share in cash for TPC, which has been struggling because of weak demand. The deal, which also includes debt, represents a 20 percent premium to TPC's closing stock price on Friday.


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In the Matter of
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") against Jerry Lynn Ruyle ("Ruyle").
In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Ruyle has submitted an Offer of Settlement ("Offer") to the Commission, which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings contained herein, except with respect to paragraphs II. A and B, below, which are admitted, Ruyle consents to the issuance of this Order Instituting Public Proceedings, Making Findings and Imposing Remedial Sanctions as to Jerry Lynn Ruyle, and to the entry of the findings and the imposition of the remedial sanctions set forth below.
On the basis of this Order and the Offer of Settlement submitted by Ruyle, the Commission finds that:
A. Ruyle is not registered as a broker or dealer with the Commission nor was he registered as a broker or dealer during the years 1999 and 2000.
B. Ruyle was permanently enjoined on January 2, 2002, from violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas [SEC v. Kurtis Keith Lowe, et al., 4:00-CV-0467-A]. Ruyle consented to the entry of the permanent injunction without admitting or denying any violation of the federal securities laws, as alleged in the Commission's Complaint.
C. The Commission's Complaint in SEC v. Kurtis Keith Lowe, et al., alleged that in 1999 and 2000 Ruyle acted as a sales agent for Chemical Trust and Alliance Trust and that he offered for sale and sold, using the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce, unregistered securities offered by Chemical Trust and Alliance Trust. The Commission's Complaint further alleged that Ruyle failed to conduct any meaningful due diligence into the claims made by Chemical Trust and its ability to pay the investment returns Ruyle promised his purchasers. The Commission's Complaint further alleged that Ruyle made untrue statements or made statements with reckless disregard as to the accuracy of the statements in connection with the offer and sale of the Chemical Trust securities. The Commission's Complaint further alleged that the Chemical Trust and Alliance Trust securities were part of a nationwide ponzi-scheme operated by Chemical Trust and that the claims and representations made by Chemical Trust, and communicated by Ruyle in connection with the offer and sale of the securities, were fraudulent and untrue. The Commission's Complaint further alleged that Ruyle used the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce to offer and sell securities without being registered with the Commission as a broker or dealer.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to accept Ruyle's Offer of Settlement.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Ruyle be, and hereby is barred from association with any broker or dealer.
By the Commission.
Jonathan G. Katz
Rule 141 of the Commission's Rules of Practice provides that the Secretary, or another duly authorized officer of the Commission, shall serve a copy of the Order Instituting Public Proceedings, Making Findings and Imposing Remedial Sanctions as to Jerry Lynn Ruyle ("Order") on each person named in the Order and their legal agent.
The attached Order has been sent to the following parties and other persons entitled to notice:
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Chief Administrative Law Judge
Securities and Exchange Commission
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It's all Sen. Dianne Feinstein's fault. That's what I figure.
Well, maybe not all of it.
But if Feinstein had run for governor three years ago in the Gray Davis recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger would not have dared. That's my guess.
We would have been spared that wasteful, costly, divisive special election last year. And Feinstein, 72, would now be a shoo-in for reelection — not for the Senate, as she is, but for the state's highest office.
Actor Schwarzenegger wouldn't be running this time either. He'd assess the situation as analyst Tony Quinn does: "There's no way Arnold Schwarzenegger would have gotten elected governor this year as a non-incumbent Republican in this political climate."
This climate being turbulent for Republicans nationally.
Feinstein didn't run in 2003 because she felt that by offering herself to voters as an alternative to fellow Democrat Davis, she'd be acting like a turncoat and a jerk. Anyway, although she'd long coveted the governorship, she also loved being a senator.
So Democratic voters are stuck with what many view as disappointing choices: One-term Controller Steve Westly, whose primary qualification for governor is that he's so fabulously rich he can pay for his own campaign ($34 million as of last week), and two-term Treasurer Phil Angelides, who's also wealthy, but not quite in Westly's league. Angelides has been kept in the game by a developer pal's $9-million largesse.
You get the idea: In big-time politics these days, it's all about the money and who's got it.
The candidates need the money, they'll tell you, to "get out our message" — shamelessly delivered, too often, in attack ads.
Mark DiCamillio, director of the nonpartisan Field Poll, says the recent deluge of negative ads has kept the number of undecided voters at a historic high this close to a gubernatorial primary: 26% in a survey he completed last Wednesday. He suspects the only decision being made by many people is that they're not going to vote for either candidate.
Westly and Angelides are sloshing through the mud neck and neck: 35% to 34%, respectively.
Vicious ads return us to Feinstein — and why she also didn't run for governor back in 1998, forever altering state history. (She had run in 1990, losing narrowly to Republican Pete Wilson.)
Feinstein had been smacked by a dirty Davis ad while winning a 1992 Senate primary.
Then, in her 1994 Senate reelection, she barely survived a relentless shelling by Republican Michael Huffington — another self-financed rich guy. Her wounds still hadn't healed in 1998 and she flinched.
Too bad for Democrats and California. Lt. Gov. Davis would have bowed out, I'm sure, and she would have won easily. Instead, Davis was elected.
A Gov. Feinstein would have been quicker and firmer in handling the energy crisis, and wouldn't have spent the state into debt. She would have embarked on an infrastructure rebuilding program years ago.
But there's also another reason why Feinstein is at fault, all facetiousness aside.
Leading up to 1998, she vacillated so long that it blocked out another potentially terrific governor: Leon Panetta.
Panetta, like Feinstein, is a California native who admired the visionary governorships of Earl Warren and Pat Brown. Panetta once had the distinction of being fired by President Nixon as U.S. civil rights director because he was viewed as moving too fast toward Southern school desegregation.
He became a Democrat and was elected to Congress for eight terms from Monterey. Then President Clinton tapped him to be his budget director — they ended deficit spending — and later chief of staff.
Panetta returned to California in 1996 eyeing the governor's office. "I talked with Dianne Feinstein," he recalls, "and said, 'If you run, I'll support you.'
"And then she took a long time coming to a decision. By that time, it was too late for me to raise the money. To be competitive, I'd have had to raise anywhere from $20 million to $40 million. I mean, my God!"
He settled in as director of the Panetta Institute, a think tank at Cal State Monterey Bay.
I asked Panetta, 67, why he didn't run this year. He laughed.
"I can't afford to," he answered. "I'm not independently wealthy. I'm not in the ballpark with Angelides and Westly."
Although he does own a 12-acre walnut ranch in pricey Carmel Valley, Panetta is more in the ballpark with Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer. This is another Democrat whose gubernatorial dreams were dashed because he lacked sufficient millions.
Lockyer, an effective attorney general and once a skilled legislative leader, isn't rich and hates to grovel for money. So he's running for the relatively inexpensive job of treasurer.
"This state cannot survive unless we open up the opportunity for more good people to run for office," Panetta says. "You're either independently wealthy or you've got special interests backing you. People are just simply turned off about getting into the process. I honestly believe that some kind of public financing is essential."
And "these damn attack ads," he continues. Potential candidates "are turned off by that. They don't want to see their lives destroyed.
"There are a lot of things that have to change for this state to be governable." For one, he says, there must be more flexibility for elected officials to set spending priorities. Most of the money now is tied up by ballot-box budgeting through initiatives.
"You'd have to go against a lot of special interests and, in many ways, against your party to implement these reforms."
Feinstein has endorsed Angelides.
I may write in Panetta.
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Scholars and Teachers
Editor's Note: Perspectives on History welcomes letters to the editor on issues discussed in its pages or which are relevant to the profession. Letters should ideally be brief and should be sent to Letters to the Editor (or mailed to Letters to the Editor, Perspectives on History, AHA, 400 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003-3889) along with full contact information. Letters selected for publication may be edited for style, length, and content. Publication of letters does not signify endorsement by the AHA of the views expressed by the authors, who alone are responsible for ensuring accuracy of the letters' contents. Institutional affiliations are provided only for identification purposes.
To the Editor:
I want to urge the AHA, especially in its publications, to cease using the terms "scholars and teachers" when referring to college and university professors, on the one hand, and secondary school history teachers, on the other. Are not professors also teachers (even as all may not be scholars)? Of course they are. Can't secondary school teachers also be scholars (as numbers have always been)? Of course they can. That is why I believe such language usage creates an artificial division that is surely insulting to some among both groups. As an alternative, my suggestion is to refer to all of us, especially when the labels are used together, as "historians at all levels of education."
By way of perspective, in my capacity as vice president of the AHA's Teaching Division, in 1992, I worked with and represented the Association's U.S. history and world history task forces during the contentious interaction we had with the National History Standards Project as we reviewed their work in progress. During that time, there were those of us in the AHA, as well as some project people, who argued against the project's separating historians into scholars and teachers.
So, in the spirit of collegiality as well as to be more reflective of reality, I urge the AHA, its editors, and, indeed, all historians, to avoid creating—even unintentionally—divisions between "teachers" and "scholars."
—Robert Blackey
California State University, San Bernardino
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The Smyrna Finance Committee will have their monthly meeting tonight, July 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room at Smyrna Town Hall.
The Smyrna Finance Committee will have their monthly meeting tonight, July 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room at Smyrna Town Hall.
Among the topics on the agenda is the consideration of financing of the proposed police buiding and other projects.
The newest proposed police building expansion was voted down in an referendum during the town's April 30 election. Since the referendum was non-binding, Smyrna Town Council still needs to vote on whether or not to move forward with the project. Even though it's been a few months since the referendum was defeated, council has yet to vote on the proposed $5 million expansion.
Council decided in a June meeting to send the proposal to the Finance Committee so the committee could take into account the existing and future capital projects for the town to see how the projects will impact the town and how the proposed police station figures in to these numbers. Basically, the committee needs to determine if expanding the police station is a possibilty at the present time considering forthcoming projects such as the utility work to Commerce Street and north of Duck Creek.
Other agenda items
Also on the agenda for tonight's meeting is a discussion of the 2013 budget, tax assessment appeal requests, and the town's debt policy, oustanding check policy and fund balance policy. The committee will have an executive session to discuss contract negotiations.


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Watch how to make this recipe.
Special equipment: 2 (8 by 2-inch) round cake pans and an instant-read thermometer
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Liberally butter the bottom and sides of 2 cake pans. Put a round of parchment paper into the bottom of each pan and coat them with butter. Put the pans on a baking sheet.
Melt the 10 tablespoons of butter in a small pot over low heat. Remove the pot from the stove and allow it to cool slightly. Reserve.
In a medium bowl, sift together the baking soda, salt, baking powder and flour.
In a large bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, vanilla, and sour cream together until smooth. Add the flour mixture in small batches to the wet ingredients, whisking as you go to avoid the formation of lumps. Make a well in the center of the batter and pour in the melted butter. Whisk until smooth. Fold in the chopped chocolate
Divide the batter between the cake pans and spread out to level the top. Gently tap the sides of the pan so the batter distributes evenly. Slide the baking sheet into the center of the oven and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Remove the pans from the oven and allow the cakes to cool briefly. Invert the cakes from the pans onto a baking sheet fitted with a wire rack and peel off the parchment paper. Allow them to cool for at least 45 minutes before frosting.
Pour some water, about 2 inches deep, into a saucepan to create a makeshift double boiler. Put the pan on the stove and bring the water to a gentle simmer. Dip the instant-read thermometer into the simmering water to clean any impurities off the end and to test that the thermometer works.
In a clean, large mixing bowl, combine the 5 tablespoons of cool water, cream of tartar, sugar, egg whites and corn syrup. Gently lower the bowl over the simmering water. Turn off the heat under the pot. Use an electric hand beater to whip the whites over the water. Do not leave the egg white mixture unattended or stop beating any time during this process.
After about 3 minutes, remove the bowl from the heat, set the beater down and quickly take the temperature of the egg whites. You want them to reach 140 degrees F. If you measure the temperature before they reach that point, immediately put the bowl of whites back over the water and resume beating until they are finished, an additional 2 to 3 minutes.
Remove the bowl from the water and fold in the vanilla extract. It should look like marshmallow fluffiness. Set the frosting aside to allow the mixture to cool. Frost the cake by, as my father used to say, "glopping" the frosting all over the top and the sides. Serve immediately.


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Seen in Christian County, KY
There's plenty of time to take a picture, when following a buggy uphill. They are extremely slow, but I never pass them on a hill, even if I'm in a terrible hurry. I figure that it's better to be a few minutes late than to risk a collision. However, I often see impatient drivers who pass without a clue of what's coming in the other lane.
Tobacco is curing in the barns of Christian County, KY. This old barn, built right beside a back road, is always closed tight, with a "No Trespassing" sign on the doors. When I drove by last week, I was surprised to see its doors opened wide.
This clump of trees in the middle of a Christian County field probably marks an old family graveyard. It's sad that so many old cemeteries receive no care at all, but when the families are unavailable, unable, or uninterested, the burden of upkeep falls on the landowner. Most farmers adopt an attitude of benign neglect, and nature takes its course.
Autumn color in Hopkinsville (KY). Some people around the county have reported heavy frost, but we haven't had a killing frost at our house yet. I still have impatiens blooming, though their days are surely numbered.
And who's that crowding into the picture with the impatiens? Why, it's Sophie, of course, doing her best to be the center of attention. I'm in the process of building an elaborate doghouse for her. It has two rooms, and it's better insulated than our house is! I am not a very fast carpenter, so it's still going to require a couple more days of work. And it's so heavy that I'm thinking we might put it in the truck and drive it to the carport, instead of trying to carry it.


text: Breadcrumb Home Scott Suttell Blog Editor's Choice May 17, 2013 02:30 AM Cleveland's Surgical Theater in CNN spotlight Scott Suttell Managing Editor Tweet Share Share Email More Print A quick-hit edition for the end of the week: Surgical Theater LLC of Cleveland was featured this week in a nearly 3½-minute segment of "Erin Burnett OutFront" on CNN. Dr. Warren Selman, neurosurgeon-in-chief at University Hospitals and medical director of Surgical Theater, explains how the company's software enables doctors to practice on 3-D images of their patients' brains while supervised remotely by other surgeons. For instance, images of brain aneurisms can be rotated to enable surgeons to determine the best course of action. The CNN piece notes that Surgical Theater's launch stems from a chance encounter Dr. Selman had in a coffee shop with company co-founders Moty Avisar and Alon Geri, two former Israeli Air Force officers. The story likens Surgical Theater's technology to flight simulators that help pilots practice critical missions. Dr. Daniel Barrow, a neurosurgeon at Emory University in Atlanta, is impressed by the Surgical Theater technology. "Every time I've seen it, it gets better and better," he says. Ralph Whitworth's Relational Investors LLC increased its holding in Canton-based Timken Co. in the first quarter as he pressured the company to sell its steel unit, according to this story from Bloomberg. The news service reports that Relational bought 1.12 million shares in the three months ended March 31, increasing its stake to 6.62 million shares valued at $374 million, according to a May 15 filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Relational owns 6.9% of Timken's shares outstanding and is the company's largest single shareholder, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Bloomberg notes that Mr. Whitworth won support in a non-binding vote of Timken shareholders on May 7 urging management to spin off the company's steel unit from its larger ball-bearing business. Timken directors are studying the results and will announce steps soon. The New York Times reports that Cambodian officials are asking art museums — including the Cleveland Museum of Art — to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples. "We are calling on all American museums and collectors, that if they have these statues unlawfully or illegally they should return them to Cambodia," said Ek Tha, spokesman for the Council of Ministers, the nation's governing body. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently returned two statues from a 1,000-year-old temple, called Prasat Chen, that featured narrative groupings of sculptures illustrating tales from Hindu epics. "Cambodia says the Denver Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., each have one statue connected to Prasat Chen," according to The Times. "Two other statues, a pair of kneeling attendants that had flanked a doorway in the Met's Southeast Asian galleries for two decades, are to be returned next month." New-business filings continue to improve in Ohio. Secretary of State Jon Husted's office announced that 8,539 new entities filed to do business in Ohio in April 2013, up nearly 10% from 7,765 such filings in April 2012. For the first four months of 2013, there have been 32,504 new business filings, an increase of 3% from 31,565 in the like period last year. Roxanne Lasker-Hall, a 17-year-old student at Cleveland School of the Arts, is having a big moment. In this Bloomberg video, she talks about the New York premiere last month of a short film she wrote, called "Speechless." Her script was chosen for production by Scenarios USA, a nonprofit that hosts writing and filmmaking programs for high school students. Bloomberg notes that the film, directed by Karyn Kusama, tells the story of a teenage boy who finds the courage to speak about being sexually assaulted and end the cycle of abuse. Ms. Lasker-Hall is incredibly poised in talking about why she wrote the script and her role in the production. You also can follow me on Twitter for more news about business and Northeast Ohio. Recommended for You View the discussion thread.


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Button Christmas Ornaments
Posted by Jules at 12/02/2008
Labels: Crafts-Keepsakes-Do it yourself, Winter Activities and Holidays
4 comments:
- r e b e c k a said...
Those are adorable! Thank's for the tip! :)
- December 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- Holly - tutus & turtles said...
My kiddos would love this! And if they aren't as patient as I may like we will just call them modern art :)
- December 5, 2008 at 1:31 AM
- Kudzu said...
perfect! i was looking for something Christmas-y for my buttons.
- December 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters weighing in on the proposed 2007-2008 ID-4 school budget on Wednesday, April 11, will also be asked if they want to affirm their current practice of electing their moderator, clerk, treasurer and an auditor from the floor, as opposed to by Australian ballot.
The special vote, set for 7 p.m. at Mary Hogan Elementary School, comes in the wake of some recent research by Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Lee Sease into the ID-4 charter. He discovered that the charter — which dates back to 1866 — stipulates that district officers must be elected by Australian ballot. But the district had unwittingly been selecting its officers in the same manner as most other districts — from the floor of the annual meeting, a process endorsed by state law.
Trouble is, school charters are supposed to trump state law when it comes to procedural matters.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
NEW HAVEN — A school with 450 students in grades K-8 may not be that big a school by some standards, but it has been too big for Steve Flint. The former Addison Central School teacher took up the position as assistant principal of Manchester Elementary/Middle School in southern Vermont last fall but he has found that he misses the ability to get to know the students and faculty that comes with a smaller school.
"There's a feel that comes with a small school that's really important to me," Flint said.
So when he heard that Beeman Elementary School in New Haven was looking for a principal, he jumped at the chance. Flint, 33, will take over for Carol Barnes, who in January announced her retirement at the end of the school year. The Beeman Elementary School board chose Flint for the job on March 29.
MIDDLEBURY — Local business leaders were ecstatic with last week's news that a local manufacturing company, Connor Homes, had submitted the winning bid to acquire and occupy the former Standard Register property on Route 7 South.
Connor Homes, known until recently as Connor Building Co., could occupy the 115,000-square-foot Standard Register building as soon as this summer. The company has long-since outgrown its 14,000-square-foot space off Exchange Street. Connor Homes President Michael Connor said he had considered erecting a building of his own in the Exchange Street area. But his focus shifted when people within the local business community suggested that he take a look at the former Standard Register facility.
"At first we thought it was too big," Connor said. "But the more we looked at it, the more it made sense."
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Composer Daniel McCarthy places in The American Prize competition07/15/2013
University of Akron music professor and composer Daniel McCarthy has achieved third place nationally in The American Prize in Orchestral Composition competition, 2013 - professional division for his work titled "Turn the Page" for orchestra and electric guitar solo.
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McCarthy was selected from applications reviewed this spring from across the United States. The American Prize is a series of new, nonprofit competitions unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Complete information is available on The American Prize website, including the complete list of winners for 2013.
McCarthy, who chairs the Composition and Theory Section in the School of Music, formerly held the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Creative/Research Award at The Indiana State University School of Music where he was co-director of the ISU Contemporary Music Festival with The Louisville Orchestra. USA Today describes his music as "intriguing, inviting, shimmering..." while The Cleveland Plain Dealer has written that his music is "colorful, infectious and touching... ."
The prolific composer has more than 30 recordings of his music on Albany, Centaur, d'Note Classics, Gasparo, and Klavier Records, and more than 100 publications of his his titles with C. Alan Publications.
Among judges' comments: "More than a show stopper, "Turn the Page" is a brilliantly orchestrated piece, smart, exciting, intricate, and sophisticated..."
Finalists for The American Prize receive professional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition based on their recorded performances. In addition to written evaluations from judges, winners and runners-up are profiled on The American Prize website, where links will lead to winners' websites.
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The American Prize grew from the belief that a great deal of excellent music being made in this country goes unrecognized and unheralded all across the country: in schools and churches, in colleges and universities, and by community and professional musicians.
With the performing arts in America marginalized like never before, The American Prize seeks to fill the gap that leaves excellent artists and ensembles struggling for visibility and viability. The American Prize recognizes and rewards the best America produces, without bias against small city versus large, or unknown artist versus well-known.
In addition to composition awards, in 2013 The American Prize sponsors competitions for conductors, ensembles, vocalists and pianists.
The American Prize is administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit performing arts organization based in Danbury, Conn.
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From Greg Thompson, producer of "Skintight" and Playboy's "Wet & Wild Live", the new EROCKTICA features sexy, topless cabaret dancers choreographed to classic rock and today's hottest hits.
Gabriella Versace, the star studded lead is as hot as her singing voice performing nightly with southern rocker, Ray-J Raymond Jones.
The beautiful Mistinguett dancers perform several dazzling choreographed numbers wrapped in luxurious silk sheets and the audience can get up close and personal in the red velvet love pit which is located down center stage inches away from the audience. The new costumes are sensual, but revealing.
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Reviewed by Aaron G. (age 10)
My favorite part in this book is when Moon and Krantz get into fights. I think this book is fantastic because it made me feel like it is possible for any young person to accomplish their goals. I liked it a lot because it was really odd for a kid just a year older than me to run for president. This book is very unique because it is very well written. Man - you?ve got to read this book.
I would recommend because it is so fascinating. I think everyone would be surprised to see a 12 year-old running for President of the United States. I would suggest this book to people 10 and over. This book would interest this age of readers because a 12-yr.old boy is running for president.


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I am reposting from Knit A Year's blog. She got up early, travelled for several hours on a train and then a bus to go to Saffron Walden to see the Knitted Maze in person. Check out the details on her blog. I am not sure which bit is her knitting, but I can see in this picture mine, so we have visual proof that the package arrived in time! (Yay UPS).
I also have to send a huge thank you to Sophie, who arranged the whole Knitted Maze… what a lot of work that must have been… and a lot of knitting too!
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Beyonce is taking her new look overseas! The Queen of Pop went a step further than her pixie cut when she showed off her new chin length bob during a V Festival performance in the UK on Saturday, Aug. 17.
The 31-year-old singer stunned on the Virgin Media Stage with her new blonde locks, going through several costume changes throughout the show. The "I Was Here" singer wore a white leotard with fishnet tights and later changed into a studded black leotard with a matching hat and boots ensemble. In addition, she wore a high-cut black and gold outfit and her purple glitter jumpsuit.
During her set, the entertainer performed some of her smash hits, including "Single Ladies," "Halo" and "Run The World."
The "Grown Woman" singer started a frenzy when she revealed a gorgeous pixie cut via her Instagram account on Aug. 7. "I think she was just feeling empowered, like a strong woman, and she said she's been feeling it for a long time," Queen Bey's colorist, Rita Hazan, told Us Weekly at the time. "She didn't want to hide behind her hair in real life."
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Nikki Sixx Says New Sixx: A.M. Album 'Is Coming Together Fast'
Motley Crue recently wrapped up their latest tour but bassist Nikki Sixx isn't wasting any time getting right back to work on one of his many other projects -- Sixx: A.M. While all the members of Sixx: A.M. pull double duty with multiple gigs, the band has managed to get together long enough to start putting the pieces together for their next album, the follow up to 2011's 'This Is Gonna Hurt.'
Sixx posted an update on Facebook, saying, "Writing Sixx: A.M. lyrics today at home. Cutting bass parts tomorrow with James and DJ will be laying down his guitar parts when he returns from Canada." James of course being James Michael, who in addition to singing in Sixx: A.M. has his hands full as a producer, and DJ being guitarist DJ Ashba, who also plays guitar in a little band called Guns N' Roses.
Sixx also said that things are moving along quickly, sharing, "This album is coming together fast...Time to start thinking of an album title."
Back in January, Sixx talked to Loudwire about the writing process for Sixx: A.M., explaining that they've really let the creative juices flow this time around. "This time, we really want to fly on our own. We started out the songwriting process by having conversations about how far we can push ourselves musically," explained Sixx. He continued, "We're just taking a lot of chances musically and at this point nothing sounds at all like Sixx: A.M. that you would know, because we're taking such huge leaps of faith that we're going to land on our feet."
Although no official timeline has been set for the disc's release, Sixx also seemed encouraged about possible tour dates to coincide, saying, "I think I would like to go out in 2013 and do some shows, maybe a month's worth of shows, just to kind of feel what it feels like." Sounds like a perfect plan.


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Thursday, June 10, 2010
JaCoby Jones still planning on going to LSU. Or not.
Bubba Jones, JaCoby's father, who says the Astros called and told him they were ready to take Jones with the 8th pick:
"They made him an offer, a seven-figure offer. JaCoby declined that. We knew then he was going to drop in the draft. We expected that. Right now, we're still planning for him to go to LSU and play college baseball...
...The Astros said they will send somebody here to talk to us in the near future, and we're going to listen. The negotiating could go all the way to the deadline...This is all a lot for us to take in. We just want what is best for JaCoby, and we don't want to sound greedy. I know we're talking about a lot of money, especially in today's economy and I know we are really fortunate."
The Hattiesburg American has more:
In talking to Jones and Rebel coach Brandon Davis last weekend at the High School All-Star Game, one got the distinct impression that Jones really wants to go to LSU, really wants a chance to play in Omaha at the CWS. And, at first glance, it would seem that he wouldn't get the big bonus as a 19th-round pick that he would have if he'd been a higher pick.
But there are persistent reports floating about that the Astros are willing to at least consider a higher offer, that they could go as high as $2 million.
I wonder what the first round picks are thinking, reading this...
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- AstroAndy said...
Really? They were going to take him with the number 8 overall pick? And they only offered him "a little over $1M"? Slot for the #8 pick is something like $2.25M. Slot for #19 and #33 are about $1.5M and $1M, so I could see him going there. But going almost a million under slot for a guy who was well known to be a tough sign doesn't seem like the kind of thing that even the Astros front office would do.
I can maybe see the Astros upping their offer to Jones if they can't get Velasquez to sign.
- June 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM
I was thinking they might take Jones instead of Plutko, but not Velasquez. They wouldn't have picked Velasquez that early if they weren't confident in signing him.
- June 10, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- Joe said...
If they don't sign Velasquez, would we get our third rounder next year in a supposed deeper draft?
- June 10, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Velasquez was a second round pick, but yes. You get the same pick +1 next year if you don't sign a first or second rounder. So we would get the ninth pick in the second round of the 2011 MLB draft.
- June 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Joe said...
Yeah second round. That is right. I'm not sure why that slipped my mind. Well I could live with losing Velasquez, if we sign Jones.
- June 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM


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Dave Grohl flexed some serious directorial chops for his documentary "Sound City," conducting interviews with a bevy of A-list rock stars and somehow making a dusty old recording console seem like an object worth caring about. The Foo Fighters frontman even arranged a jam session with no less than Sir Paul McCartney.
But Grohl may have outdone himself with a new Soundgarden music video he directed in which the perpetually dour grunge-rock veterans appear to be having -- yes, it's true -- a good time.
Posted on YouTube late Monday, the clip depicts singer Chris Cornell and his bandmates as a bunch of black-leather types who get around on Segways instead of motorcycles. They use the two-wheeled personal-transport devices to roll to a gritty nightclub (Paladino's in Tarzana, as it happens), where they kick a hapless DJ offstage and blaze through "By Crooked Steps," a highlight from Soundgarden's 2012 comeback album, "King Animal."
Do they get away with it? Kind of. The fans in the crowd look as happy as the rockers themselves. But when our hapless DJ calls the cops -- including one played by Foo Fighters pal Deadmau5 -- those Segways prove no match for a fleet of Crown Vics.
Watch the video for "By Crooked Steps" below.
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It had to happen sooner or later: Jamie Dimon, the bank CEO who's become the public face for our greedy and corrupt banking system, is openly backing the austerity plan pushed by former Senator Alan Simpson, the arrogant and abusive voice of our country's bought-and-sold elite "bipartisan" consensus. Will the Democratic Party led by Barack Obama stand up to that corporate consensus, or submit to it?
The "Simpson Bowles" plan is designed to force the American people to pay for the wealth, greed, and criminality of the banking class that Jamie Dimon has chosen to represent. The day after Dimon's testimony another institution announced that it was planning to impose the Simpson Bowles austerity plan on us: the Presidential Administration of Barack Obama, as represented by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
What did Jamie know?
The Senators dutifully made a show of their concern about JPMorgan Chase's multibillion dollar losses. They were shocked – shocked! – that gambling was gong on in his establishment.
That hearing should have focused on the need for tougher bank regulations, which Dimon has been vigorously fighting, and on the epidemic of criminal behavior and mismanagement within his own bank. The Senators should have grilled Dimon on the disparity between his public statements about his bank's financial conditions and risk controls and what we now know was really going on behind the scenes.
It's not only wrong to intentionally make misleading statements of that kind – it's also a crime. Yet the Senators never raised the question that should have been at the core of their hearing:
What did Jamie know and when did he know it?
The Committee never asked Dimon about his statement that the unit behind these trades, the "CIO," had been using a "new risk management model" that reduced its daily risk of potential losses by nearly half – from $167 billion under the old model to $67 billion.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon why this change, which was never announced publicly, didn't constitute a material misrepresentation under securities law.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon to elaborate on reports that the CIO unit reported to him directly, bypassing the usual chain of command.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon about reports that he personally approved the trades in question.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon about the many documented crimes committed by the bank under his leadership – crimes that have led to billions of dollars in settlements.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon whether he could reassure them that the crimes have stopped.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon whether he would cooperate with authorities to make sure that the people who committed these crimes within his organization are brought to justice.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon about his own legal obligation under Sarbanes-Oxley to affirm that all risk controls and anti-fraud measures are in place and adequate.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon why he should be considered an expert on effective banking with a track record of this kind.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon for more details on the "clawbacks," or revoking of past bonuses, he said the bank would impose on some executives. And they didn't ask whether his pay would be clawed back too, since the unit reported directly to him and he reportedly approved the trades.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon how that or any other reasonable measure could be taken against a bank CEO who also holds the position of Board Chair, thereby making it impossible for shareholders to rebuke or restrain him, or why regulations should not forbid a dual role which gives a banker such unrestrained power.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon what he meant when he said that "some issues" about the multibillion-dollar loss had already come to light when he told investors and analysts that it was a "tempest in a teapot" on an April 13 phone call, and whether this was a deception that rose to the level of investor fraud.
The Committee didn't ask Dimon why he continues to call the CIO's trades "hedges," which are in effect a form of insurance against adverse changes in the business environment (the classic example of a true "hedge" would be an airline that buys oil derivatives to protect itself against the losses it would experience if fuel prices soared unexpectedly), when the CIO's bets appear to be much more like gambling-style hedge fund behavior. (Sen. Merkley tried to ask him, but was flummoxed by the five-minute rule and his servile colleagues).
The Committee didn't ask Dimon how anybody, much less Jamie Dimon, could argue against stronger regulations after a fiasco like this one.
But then, why would they? As George Zornick reportes, almost all of the Senators on the Banking Committee have received campaign contributions from JPMorgan Chase.
The hearing should have been conducted with closed-captioning for the morally unimpaired, so that the real meaning of the questions and of Mr. Dimon's answers was clear to the audience. Unfortunately that closed captioning would have bordered on the obscene, since 90 percent of Dimon's responses would have led to a caption that read "I own you b*tches, so let's get this over with."
Senaors Jeff Merkley and Bob Menendez tried to challenge Dimon, but were boxed in by the five-minute limit given to each Senator for questions and answers. Merkley asserted that JPMorgan Chase wouldn't have survived without the taxpayers' bailout. He's almost certainly right, but Dimon was allowed to repeat his assertion that JPM didn't need the money and only took it at the government's request "so that the other banks would take the money too."
How did the Republicans do? Sen. Jim DeMint reassured Dimon that his colleagues "can hardly sit in judgment of your losing $2 billion." (The figure is actually $3 billion now, according to Dimon's reckoning, and possibly much more: But then, who's counting?) ""You're not located in my state," said Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska, "and I doubt that you're probably considering locating in my state, although it'd be a great place for you to do business." Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee just wanted to sit at the feet of the master: If you were sitting on this side of the dais, what would you do to make our system safer?"
The role assigned to Republicans is that of openly servile solons who make no secret of their eagerness to serve at Wall Street's beck and call. "Washington exists to serve the banks," said Rep. Spencer Bachus of the House Banking Committee, "not the other way around." How did the Democrats fare?
Merkley and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey struggled against the limitations imposed by the five-minute rule and their colleagues' servility. For the rest of them it was lob balls all the way. Dimon was allowed to strut, preen, and pontificate with an airly of thinly-disguised contempt – an emotion that was well-earned on Wednesday.
Tell you what, Jamie: You can be on our bank's board if we can be on yours.
Not a single Senator asked Dimon about the propriety of his seat on the Board of the New York Gederal Reserve. JPM received $48 billion in secret, direct emergency loans, and it also benefited from the $107.3 billion in loans given to Morgan Stanley.- and that all of that money was given to Dimon's institution while he held a power position on the Board of the New York Federal Reserve, and on the committee that decides the Fed's executives salaries and other compensation.
The Federal Reserve was created by an act of Congress. It is our bank, not theirs. Yet its boards are dominated by the very bankers that benefit from its generosity – which is ultimately our generosity. The Committee didn't ask Dimon about that either.
Not a single Senator raised the obvious question: We bailed out JPMorgan Chase. So why don't we have a seat on your board, instead of the other way around?
What does Jamie know?
"This is not your hearing," Sen. Merkley told Dimon. The good Senator was sadly wrong. It was Dimon's hearing, and never more so than at the end, when he was given the opportunity to pontificate about the US economy. That's a subject he understands even less than legitimate finance. That's when he gave his pitch for Simpson Bowles, as Dana Milbank reported.
"If we had done something remotely like Simpson-Bowles," Dimon said in response to Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., at the end of the hearing, "you would have increased confidence in America. You would have shown a real fix of the long-term fiscal problem. I think you would have had … a more effective tax system that is conducive to economic growth."
This is the common hoax: That more "trickle-down economics" would spur the economy, and that investor confidence would rise under austerity pollcies and bring the entire economy with it. How's that working' out for ya, Europe?
That wasn't Dimon's only pitch, of course. He also repeated his efforts to leave badly-managed and criminally-inclined organizations like his own free to operate without adult supervision – that is to say, unregulated. He complained about the complexity of Dodd-Frank, saying "I would prefer a simple, clean, strong regulatory system with real intelligent design, and that's not what we did. We created a really complex [set of rules]… And it's not clear to me who has the responsibility or the authority."
What Dimon didn't say is that the complexity was only created because Washington chose to allow too-big-to-fail banks like his to keep existing. There's a simple, common-sense solution that doesn't require all the red tape: Break them up. But to accommodate Mr. Dimon and his peers, lawmakers chose instead to create some mild safeguards to reduce the likelihood that we'll have to bail the banks out instead.
But his Simpson Bowles testimony was the centerpiece of his platform this week. That closed-captioning system would have read like this: We can no longer afford to pay your Medicare costs, and we want your Social Security trust fund for other purposes, because guys like me ruined the economy and the only other way to restore our society is by asking us to pay our fair share in taxes. And trust me, as long as I'm writing checks to the guys I'm looking at right now, that ain't gonna happen.
Not a single Senator asked Dimon why anybody would listen to the economic advice of anybody with a track record like his.
Dimon and Simpson
Ashford and Simpson were the songwriting duo that sang "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Dimon and Simpson are the corporate-politics duo that want to give us "Ain't No Austerity Grim Enough."
Alan Simpson is the former Republican Senator, who is now retired and enjoying a fat pension from the American people whose retirement security he has dedicated his remaining years to destroying. He's funded by right-wing billionaire Pete Peterson, who has also co-opted leading Democrats like Bill Clinton into his miserly efforts.
Simpson employs a variety of tools on behalf of the "bipartisan" power elite's agenda, most notably obscenity, dishonesty, and personal abuse. His last venomous outburst was directed against Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson of Social Security Works (with whom I've had a very pleasant working association).
Nancy and Eric are two of the most courteous and thoughtful people I know, and Simpson's snarling personal attack on them stands in stark contrast to their own civility. Simpson, of course, served as the co-chair of President Obama's "Deficit Commission" – which addressed Social Security, too, even though Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. And the President who routinely chastises other for failing to disagree in a civil manner has yet to rebuke Simpson for his discourtesy.
Simpson's (relatively) silent partner is Erskine Bowles, the Clinton Democratic insider turned hedge fund millionaire.
Geithner's Path
And then there's Tim Geithner, who said on Thursday that the right economic path "really began with Bowles-Simpson and that's where it's going to end." Geithner said that the President's Fiscal Year budget "differs in slight–in small respects from that basic framework, [but] is very close to that basic design. That's the neighborhood in which we've planned to govern."
Geithner said that "the only path to resolution politically [and] growing essentially economically, and I think that's where it's going to end up."
Geithner said Simpson Bowles was the perfect recipe: "tax reforms that raise a modest amount of revenue tied to spending savings across the government that's still preserving some room to invest in things that matter to how we grow moving forward." He added, "There's no plausible way to get there economically or politically without that kind of balanced framework again that marries tax reform with broader spending reforms,"
Geithner is joining leading Democrats on the Hill like Sen. Max Baucus and Rep. Nancy Pelosi in backing the plan. And take careful note of the fact that they're all using the phrase "tax reform" instead of "tax increases." They don't just plan to pay for the wealth and misdeeds of the Dimon crowd with your Social Security and Medicare benefits. They also plan to raise your taxes, not theirs. The Simpson Bowles plan would actually lower the top tax rate for people like Jamie Dimon, while "tax reform" would tax away tax deductions for the middle class's health insurance, mortgages, and other expenses.
Welcome to Your Corporatocracy
And that's how things work in our Corporatocracy: They decide, we submit. The Unholy Trio of Dimon, Simpson, and Geithner ride across our national landscape like the Three Horsemen of the Economic, corporate-politics Apocalypse.
This year it's going to be incumbent on the Democratic Party to prove that it's something more than the oligarchy's more genteel rubber stamp. And it's not going to be able to do that unless it rejects the wildly unpopular and unfair Simpson Bowles plan in favor of the only approach that can rescue the middle class and our economy over all.
But that would involve standing up to Jamie Dimon – and his campaign checks.


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A Letter to the Editor in the May 8 Tomahawk Leader:
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On Saturday, May 12 the letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America will deliver much more than mail when they walk and drive along their postal routes. They also will collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers participating in the 15th annual NALC National Food Drive.
Carriers will collect non-perishable food donations left in mailboxes and in post offices and deliver them to local community food pantries in Tomahawk.
All citizens need to do is to place a box or can of non-perishable food next to their mailbox before their letter carrier delivers mail on Saturday, May 12. The carrier will do all the rest. The food is taken back to a Post Office and given to the Tomahawk Food Pantry and the Town of Nokomis Food Pantry.
Non-perishable food can be dropped off at the Tomahawk Post Office the week before the 12th of May.
Thank you for your contributions and support to such a worthy cause.
Postmaster Teri Cernoch
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Tigers' offense shut down by brilliant Cashner
SAN DIEGO -- The way Andrew Cashner was spotting fastballs on the outside corner Friday night, even Miguel Cabrera in midseason form might not have been able to do a whole lot.
"It looks like it's going to be outside, and it comes back to the outside corner," Cabrera said, echoing many of his Tiger teammates after Cashner's one-hit shutout dropped Detroit in a 6-0 loss to the Padres Friday night at Petco Park.View Full Game Coverage
SAN DIEGO -- The way Andrew Cashner was spotting fastballs on the outside corner Friday night, even Miguel Cabrera in midseason form might not have been able to do a whole lot.
"It looks like it's going to be outside, and it comes back to the outside corner," Cabrera said, echoing many of his Tiger teammates after Cashner's one-hit shutout dropped Detroit in a 6-0 loss to the Padres Friday night at Petco Park.View Full Game Coverage
This, however, is not Cabrera in midseason form, and he's the first to admit it. He's also comfortable admitting that he had his pitch Friday.
It was the one real rally the Tigers put together against Cashner, putting runners at the corners with one out after Rajai Davis broke up Cashner's no-hit bid, stole second and third base and distracted Cashner enough for Ian Kinsler to draw a walk. Up came Cabrera in a situation where he normally thrives.
It was a first-pitch fastball from Cashner, but instead of catching the outside corner, it caught the plate. It's the kind of pitch that Cabrera at his best would have lined to right field with authority, testing the new dimensions in the recently reconfigured park.
His swing, however, wanted to pull the ball.
"He threw me a good pitch to hit," he said. "What can I say, man? The way I'm swinging, I can't do too much. I'm not swinging good right now."
Cabrera grounded it to third base, where Chase Headley started an inning-ending double play. Cashner, the Padres' ace acquired from the Cubs a few years ago while manager Brad Ausmus was a special assistant in San Diego's front office, didn't allow another baserunner the rest of the way.
Cashner completed his second career shutout with a strikeout of Cabrera, seemingly caught debating whether to swing or take a pitch. By that point, the outcome was no longer in such dispute.
"He pitched extremely well tonight," Ausmus said. "He's always been a hard thrower. His slider was obviously effective, his changeup. I know he's not a household name, but he's somebody I'm familiar with. I know what he's capable of. He was outstanding."
Ausmus also knows what Cabrera is capable of doing, which is why he's unconcerned.
"I mean, hitters are going to go through periods of time where they hit the ball, they don't hit the ball well, they get hits, they don't get hits," Ausmus said. "I realize it doesn't happen to Miggy as often, but it's still going to happen."
It's a tribute to Cabrera's production, especially over the last few years, that an eight-game stretch looking mortal can cause such surprise. For all the praise he earned during his Triple Crown season of 2012, he endured an 0-for-21 slump in April that had some fans wondering if Cabrera needed to sit for a day or two to regroup.
There are plenty of struggling hitters who would take an 8-for-32 start with three extra-base hits. It's in the look of Cabrera's swing, often with both hands on the bat following through, and the look of his approach. The opposite-field opportunism isn't evident at the moment.
It's not his health, he said. He went through Spring Training feeling fine coming off core muscle surgery, and he had his usual approach at the plate. His movement around third base confirms his health, including a mobile play to his left on a ground ball Friday night.
Sometimes, though, habits can be tough to break. Cabrera isn't sure whether he's stuck in habits from last season, when he played through injuries down the stretch, but he knows he's having a tough time correcting himself.
"I'm feeling good, but my swing is not right," he said. "In BP and when I work in the cage, I feel normal. When I come into the game, I see how I pull a lot of balls to third base and shortstop."
History shows he'll get his approach where he wants, but it's a process. The swing, even for a future Hall of Famer, can sometimes take on a personality of its own.
"My swing, he wants to pull the ball right now," Cabrera said.
His swing wasn't the only one that couldn't do much Friday night.
Not only did Cashner hold the Tigers hitless for the first 5 1/3 innings, a walk and a Chase Headley throwing error comprising the lone baserunners in that stretch, Detroit hitters had few if any quality swings off him. That went especially for Cabrera, who hit three ground balls to the left side against him. Headley's error put Cabrera on base and continued the inning for Victor Martinez, who walked. But Cashner overpowered Austin Jackson for a strikeout to end the threat.
Cashner not only went two trips through the lineup without a hit, but allowed just two balls hit out of the infield. He struck out five of Detroit's first 11 batters, sending the side down in order in the third inning on three fastballs on the outside edge. It was the workhorse pitch for him in a place he could consistently pinpoint, drawing the call from home-plate umpire Andy Fletcher.
It's the location, Davis said, more than the movement.
"I just think he spotted it really well," Davis said. "It was really a tough pitch to hit, and he stuck with it."
The ball that broke up the no-hitter, too, was about location. Davis came up with one out in the sixth and belted a line drive through the middle, just out of second baseman Jedd Gyorko's grasp.
Tigers starter Rick Porcello tried to keep pace, but struggled to keep his pitches down for most of his 6 1/3 innings. Five of the 10 hits off him went for extra bases, all hit in the air. Two of them came from Headley, who doubled in Gyorko in a two-run first before sending a hanging slider out to right for a two-run homer in the sixth.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason.


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Finally managed to get myself the car I could only drive in the arcades. A mk2.5 1600 in BRG Absolute basic spec but a lot more fun than the old taxi Mondeo that She replaces!
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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mariachi, DancingSOCORRO, N.M. April 30, 2012 – Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style, when Mariachi Buenaventura, the state's first all-female mariachi troupe; singer Reynaldo Maestas and the Baila! Baila! folkloríco dancers bring their show to town at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, at New Mexico Tech's Macey Center.
|Mariachi Buenaventura with Reynaldo Maestas
|Mariachi Buenaventura is New Mexico's first all-female act.
On the following day is the City of Socorro's own Cinco de Mayo celebration, starting with a parade at 10 a.m., continuing with a rodeo at the fairgrounds from 1 to 4 p.m., and live music, a spirits tent, arts and crafts and food booths at the Plaza from 3 to 9 p.m.
"Cinco de Mayo has been called the Mexican version of St. Patrick's Day, and others mistakenly believe it coincides with Mexico's Independence Day, which is actually celebrated on Sept. 16," Director Ronna Kalish said.
"After the Battle of Puebla, the French actually prevailed in overtaking Mexico City, but the joy of an unlikely victory against overwhelming odds is remembered every May 5," she said.
"We're hoping to set the record straight with a spring celebration that pays homage to the music and traditions of our neighbor to the South, and to the rich and colorful history it celebrates," Kalish said.
As a complement to the celebration, Tech Club/Club Macey will host a taco bar with a $5 cover charge for non-members, 5:30-7:30pm at Macey Center.
And who better to lead the musical celebration than Maestas and the two groups he has worked with over the years.
"I'm so excited to be coming back to Socorro to perform," Maestas said. "I've done the fiestas and Christmas show there, but it's even more of a thrill to return and headline a show.
"The audience is going to love Mariachi Buenaventura," Maestas continued. "We have been working together for four years now, and not only are the members all great musicians, but they are New Mexico's first all-female mariachi group and beautiful ladies."
Indeed, Mariachi Buenaventura is an aspiring group of talented young women whose popularity continues to grow. Performing since 2005, the mariachi troupe plays for private and public events such as weddings, masses, quinceañeras, concerts and banquets.
The young singers perform a wide variety of traditional, contemporary and original songs, and pride themselves on their arrangements of pop songs and cumbias with a mariachi twist, both covers and original compositions.
Members of Mariachi Buenaventura are from various musical backgrounds which include rock, symphony and jazz. The ladies have attended annual mariachi conferences in Arizona and New Mexico, and have taken lessons with some of New Mexico's finest mariachi groups.
In the summer of 2008, Mariachi Buenaventura accompanied a choir from Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico. To compete in the Choral Olympics of Graz, Australia, they spent a month touring and performing in various European countries.
Baila! Baila! Dance Academy was founded in January of 1990. The dance academy, which initially educated its students solely in traditional Mexican folk dance, now embraces ballet folkloríco (Mexican folk dance), country western, Latin/salsa, hip hop, classical ballet, danza Azteca and voice lessons.
Baila! Baila! often gives benefit performances for fundraisers and community programs, and works closely with the City of Albuquerque's Public Housing and Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP) to offer children an alternative to drugs by teaching them respect for culture through history and dance.
"When I started singing eight years ago and producing shows, I knew I wanted a ballet folkloríco to dance," Maestas said. "Baila Baila has been with me for all of those years, and it's because they're the best at what they do – I'm so excited to be working with them again."
Among their future shows is a scheduled performance in London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
"Our PAS performance in Socorro will include some of the songs we'll be doing in London," Maestas said. "The rest of the show will feature traditional mariachi songs and even a few originals written by members of Buenaventura.
"We'll also take the audience on a tour of Mexico with song selections from different states," he continued. "Our goal is for everyone to enjoy themselves and be part of one of the most beautiful music genres in the world, which we think is mariachi!"
For his part, Maestas is from Rociada, a small ranching community some 30 miles northwest of Las Vegas, N.M.
"The canyon where I live in is called 'Maestas Canyon,' which is named after my great grandfather," the singer said, adding that his family still raises Quarter horses and competes in team roping events. In fact, Maestas attended college on a rodeo scholarship.
He has been singing mariachi for eight years and has two CDs recorded with Mariachi Tenampa, which Maestas calls "New Mexico's premier mariachi ensemble."
Among his musical accolades are seven New Mexico Hispano Music Awards, including duet of the year, which Maestas recorded with Ane Romero, Miss New Mexico 2005; the song is featured on his second CD, copies of which will be available for purchase after the performance.
Maestras has always loved to sing.
"My mom told me that when she was pregnant with me, she would play records of artists such as Jorge Negrete, Miguel Acevez Mejia, and many more greats, and I would kick in her stomach while the music was playing," he said.
At the age of 14 years, the future music producer started the first all-Spanish choir at his hometown church.
"To this day, we still play together every first Sunday of the month," he said. "Mariachi is my passion – I live, breathe, sweat, and will die singing Mariachi. It's who I am, and I hope I can be a representative for future generations of mariachi singers to keep this beautiful music going," said Maestas.
Unlike some performers who get stage fright or become anxious before a live performance, Maestas is just the opposite.
"I'm most comfortable on stage," he said. "What I hate is the wait – all I want to do is get out there and start singing. When I'm on stage, it's unlike any other feeling; the adrenalin that goes through your body is amazing."
Other performers can attest to the feeling of interacting with an audience and getting them into the performance.
"I love to interact with the crowd – in fact, my goal is for fans to sing along if they know the song, clap their hands to the beat, or even cry if the song means something to them," said Maestas.
"If a person can come to one of my concerts and leave feeling happier and content, then I've done my job," he continued. "I don't consider myself as just a singer – I'm an entertainer."
As such, the singer has performed at a number of high-profile entertainment venues, including the Santa Fe Fiestas, N.M. State Fair, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and in cities from Clovis to Farmington and Tucumcari to Las Cruces.
"My greatest memory and venue so far would have to be when I performed at the Santa Fe Opera with Mariachi Azteca del Sol from Tucson and shared the stage with America's first all-female mariachi, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles," said Maestas, adding that his collaboration with Mariachi Reyna included a performance in L.A. itself.
"That opportunity was amazing, and I'll never forget it," he said.
Kalish added that the May 4th PAS show is sure to leave a lasting imprint on the Socorro audience as well.
Sponsors for the performance are First State Bank, Comcast, Sofia's Kitchen and Socorro Econo Lodge.
Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors, $8 for youths 17 and under, and are available at the N.M. Tech Cashier's Office (second floor of Fidel Center), Brownbilt Shoes and Western Wear, Burrito Tyme Drive-up or at the door.
By Valerie Kimble/New Mexico Tech


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Carnegie Hall Choral Institute: Transient Glory in Action
Thursday, February 16 was the first day of a three-day workshop—the Transient Glory® Symposium, a partnership of the Carnegie Hall Choral Institute and Young People's Chorus of New York City™ (YPC). The eight conducting fellows are working with YPC director Francisco Núñez, guest conductors, and composers to prepare for three concerts around the city that are taking place this week. Get a sneak peek of the workshop in action, as the composers collaborate and rehearse in preparation for the evening performances across New York City.
Composer Bright Sheng works with the JACK Quartet, the resident ensemble for the Transient Glory Symposium.
Composer Michael Gordon introduces his piece Exalted.
Recent MacArthur fellow and YPC artistic director and conductor Francisco J. Núñez speaks with the visiting conductors.
Dress rehearsal for Thursday's concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
You can be a part of Transient Glory by attending tonight's performance at the 92nd Street Y or Saturday's grand finale at Carnegie Hall. Each concert is hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer, who leads insightful discussions with the composers. Performances each evening feature the thrillingly brilliant JACK Quartet, as well as conductor Francisco J. Núñez.
Photos by Aaron Siegel.
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