text: To promote her upcoming magazine, the CR Fashion Book, and rack up some digital issue pre-sales, Carine Roitfeld posted a pretty amateurish GIF of Dutch model Juliet Ingleby wearing nothing but a sheer fuschia scarf and fire engine red pumps, strutting through a graveyard with a leatherclad entourage. The image was photographed by Sebastian Faena and styled by Roitfeld herself, of course. The fuschia and red trend has been around for long enough that it isn't truly surprising, but it's still for sure striking, probably because Roitfeld's the first person to bring our attention to the color combo's true mourning potential.


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On the Developer Tutorials website, there's a new guide that steps you through the installation of a simple e-commerce platform available for free from Devellion Limited.
In this tutorial, we will get an introduction to CubeCart, created and distributed by Devellion Limited. Their flagship product is one of the easiest low-cost e-commerce solutions available, and is growing in popularity. Note that CubeCart is not technically open source, since the code cannot be freely redistributed. On the other hand, most of the code is not protected using encoding, and can thus be read and understood.
They go through the selection process - picking which version of their software is right for you - and the installation, configuration and how to verify that everything's up and running smoothly. Screenshots are included to help along the way.

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The Times of Trenton recently published an op-ed by Stephen Seufert, president of the Lower Bucks Young Democrats, calling for "Youth Social Security." The social welfare proposal is an interesting one, and as the public debate over rising income inequality lends feasibility to new forms of federal intervention into the economy, it's worth discussing the merits of new ideas as they come along.
"For example, say the United States instituted a minimum income of $2,500 every year from birth to 18 years of age. Much like Social Security, those children wouldn't see the money until their 18th birthday, which, by that point, would amount to $45,000. (It would take approximately $200 billion for one year of funding). This 'trust fund' could then be spent on paying college tuition (student loan debt averaged $29,400 in 2012), buying a car (average cost for a new car was $32,769 in 2013), putting a down payment on a home, or one could defer spending for an unforeseen rainy day. Ultimately, the purchasing power of millennials would increase tenfold, thus bolstering America's consumer-driven economy."
He's certainly got his sights set on a real problem. As the costs of basic necessities and opportunities for educational attainment rise dramatically, while expected income continues to stagnate or decline in a tough job market, it's increasingly strange for us to focus our social safety net so lopsidedly on guaranteeing that the elderly don't retire and die in crushing, pre-New Deal levels of poverty — especially when the viability of such a program depends on adults earning enough to pay into the program in the first place. Some earlier intervention seems warranted, and providing young adults with a lump-sum payout to start them on more stable economic footing would certainly have upsides.
The proposal reflects the broad moral vision of the ascendant populist left. It is fundamental to the progressive vision of society that government ought to correct for suffering brought on by circumstance beyond any citizen's control. "Youth Social Security" (better called "a nest egg for everyone," inasmuch as a lump-sum payment funded by, say, closing tax loopholes has essentially no resemblance to Social Security) seems, on the surface, to be an elegant manifestation of that vision. Giving every young person the opportunity to escape the crushing cycles of poverty has an almost irresistible appeal, and even if they don't all use the money wisely, we could finally say that everyone, at least once, had a fair chance.
Unfortunately, problem sighting and broad moral vision are where the merits of this proposal end. While Seufert is right to point out that the $200 billion price tag is a bargain compared with something like a guaranteed minimum income (and, moreover, that the money could be raised through any number of long-proposed reforms to our tax code), it's still quite a lot of money: more than the combined budgets of HUD, HHS and the Department of Education. Perhaps $200 billion a year is a reasonable price for increased economic justice and its attendant long-term prosperity, but we still ought to ensure such a large investment is being made in the best way possible.
And that's where the "Youth Social Security" plan fails to meet the mark.
It's a common misconception that the principle downside of growing up in poverty is the absence of money itself. If it were, then correcting the disadvantage at any point — be it 18, 21, 25 or 30 years old — would make sense. But not having money per se isn't the issue. The real brutality of growing up poor is the cumulative consequence of not having the things money can buy for the first couple decades of your life. It's growing up without livable shelter, without adequate nutrition or basic healthcare; it's overworked and absent parents; no cash for instruments or books; and being denied access to the educational opportunities that correlate so strongly with later success. By 18 years old, the damage is mostly done. Sure, a sudden $45,000 might help you make a down payment on Harvard — but after nearly two decades of poverty, there isn't much chance you've gotten into Harvard in the first place.
The real beneficiaries of "Youth Social Security" would be the middle and upper classes. Those we really want to help — the poor — would already be too far behind to catch up with their more privileged peers. If we've got $200 billion to meaningfully address the problem Seufert and other progressives are gunning for, we've got to intervene even younger.
So what else could we do with the money?
We could make Social Security-like payouts to young people, but start them much earlier. You can't hand a check to an 8 year old, but you can certainly hand one to his parents. In the United States today, there are 16.7 million children growing up below the poverty line; if we assume the other kids will be fine and focus on this group, our budget buys us $12,000 a year per child in direct aid. By providing this money to families themselves, it could be spent on the idiosyncratic and changing needs of that family, helping them acquire the basic, life-shaping opportunities that their children otherwise would have gone without.
In a generation or two, it might even reduce overall welfare dependency, as the children who benefited from this program raised their own children in homes made possible by better lives — an idea that might even appeal to conservatives, if they weren't fundamentally opposed to the state ever helping poor mothers feed their children with actual money.
Of course, such a plan would also have its complications. With such a large annual benefit, the incentive for parents not to cross the poverty line income threshold by a single dollar would be immense; moreover, ensuring the money was being spent in the broad interests of the child would become a vital new responsibility for protective services. But these concerns are not insurmountable, and no fully fleshed out version of this proposal would operate on such a binary benefit valve. Rather, benefits would have to be tapered progressively, with mechanisms like those in Richard Nixon's Guaranteed Annual Income plan implemented to guarantee that income plus benefit always exceeded the larger benefit that would come with smaller incomes.
But again, these are details. Complex and vital ones no doubt, but before we can reach them, we need to recognize the real problem. Lump sums to teenagers won't do it; nor will an increasingly unsustainable safety net for those permanently crippled by impoverished childhoods. We've got to start young. Once we can agree on that, we can figure out the best way to make it work.
Emmett Rensin is an author, essayist and political activist in Chicago. His previous work has appeared in USA Today, Salon and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Follow him on Twitter @revemmettrensin.


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The German Election's Lone Voice Against the Euro
A new party called the Alternative for Germany is a lone voice in the national election campaign challenging Europe's common currency. Anton Troianovski talks to its founder, Bernd Lucke.
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Read More 24th May ' 16 An Interview with Chris Bourke Nelly Duff presents a solo show of amazing lino-cuts by Chris Bourke. 'It is a Sad and Beautiful World' is ...
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After their plans to take over T-Mobile USA were thwarted in the 11th hour by a $39 Billion bid from AT&T, Sprint was scratching its head as to what to do next. It announced a partnership with Lightsquared, though that deal is now doomed as Lightsquared has failed to gain FCC support of its next-generation mobile LTE network. Further, Sprint's other network partner Clearwire is having financial troubles that put the company's ability to provide the kind of coverage Sprint needs into serious doubt.
When it was announced that AT&T was not going to be allowed to acquire T-Mobile, rumors once again began to swirl about another possible takeover attempt. Yesterday, a takeover announcement came out of left field, with CNBC reporting that Sprint was a mere hours away from announcing an $8 Billion takeover of regional carrier MetroPCS when Sprint's Board of Directors voted to reject the takeover, even after Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse signed off on the arrangement.
Sprint and MetroPCS had apparently been negotiating the deal for quite some time, perhaps dating as far back as when Deutsche Telekom announced it was going with AT&T as T-Mobile's suitor. While the MetroPCS deal would have presented Sprint the same issues it faced with a T-Mobile merger, namely, integration of MetroPCS' AWS spectrum, the Board rejection of the takeover leaves us scratching our heads as to how Sprint will viably build out their LTE network.
Engadget is reporting that the board stated that the timing of the merger just "didn't feel right," which is hardly a sufficient enough explanation for us. Sprint has its work cut out for it as it hopes to build an LTE network to compete with juggernauts Verizon and AT&T, and with Plans A (LightSquared), B (Clearwire), C (T-Mobile), and D (MetroPCS) largely off the table, it appears Sprint is going to need to get creative if it is to remain competitive.
In an interesting piece on PandoDaily, Trevor Gilbert speculates that a board rejection of this magnitude could indicate that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is on the way out. Generally, the Board of Directors appoints a CEO who they trust to make decisions about key business developments, who likely would have kept the Board updated on the status of the potential merger at their quarterly board meetings. Knowing the details as they progressed, you would assume the Board would have spoken up if they weren't on board with the merger. Doing so loudly at the eleventh hour suggests that they either don't like the way the deal ended up (the terms, etc.), or they don't trust Dan Hesse to lead the way.
We'll learn more in coming weeks. In the meantime, what do you guys think of all this? Personally, I love Dan Hesse and think it could be a mistake to let him go, though admittedly I don't know what goes on behind closed doors.


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Corruption detection
From PostgreSQL wiki
If you think you might be suffering database corruption you're in the wrong place. Read and act on the Corruption article.
Detecting storage layer corruption inside PostgreSQL as early as possible is important. If left undetected, it could not only lead to wrong answers, it can also end up being copied during a base backup (affecting backups and replication). That is a major problem because users will get a false sense of confidence relying on their backup schedule.
If you think you might be suffering database corruption you're in the wrong place. Read and act on the Corruption article.
An article about steps to avoid and prevent database corruption can be found here.
Types of Corruption
Theoretically, corruption can happen in many areas of hardware, including the memory or even the CPU. However, for this article we focus on corruption happening between the time a page leaves the address space of the backend process until the time it is read back in.
Minor Challenges
Utilities and Background Checking
Utilities (such as pg_basebackup) should be updated to verify pages while creating the backup. Also, users might want a continuously-running daemon to slowly validate cold data.


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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stopped in at Jill's Place, a Santa Barbara restaurant, for what the campaign called a conversation on woman and families. (June 4, 2016)
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UC Davis Children's Hospital ranks among nation's best in four specialties
Posted June 13, 2012
UC Davis Children's Hospital has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the nation's top hospitals in four pediatric specialties.
Together with Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California, UC Davis ranked 30th in urology and 40th in orthopaedics. UC Davis also ranked 48th in diabetes/endocrinology and 51st in nephrology.
"These rankings are much-deserved recognition of our pediatric specialists, their teams and their collaborators who provide world-class care to children," said Ann Madden Rice, chief executive officer of UC Davis Medical Center and its children's hospital. "Their passion and commitment to solving some of the most difficult issues in children's health — from obesity to rare kidney diseases — in a comforting, expert and family-centered environment is unparalleled."
Rice added that the rankings are just one indicator the hospital uses to determine success in achieving its high standards for patient care.
"Our primary goal is to maintain a strong culture of service and excellence, and the rankings are only one of the many tools we use to determine how well we are achieving that goal," she said.
"To be included in the elite group of outstanding children's hospitals is a reflection of the professionalism of our medical team and their enduring commitment to providing children with the finest care," said Margaret Bryan, administrator and CEO of Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California.
— Ann Madden Rice
"The rankings also are a reflection of the partnerships we have formed with UC Davis Health System. We have worked hard, and successfully, with UC Davis to form relationships that strengthen all our programs and, most important, enhance the quality of care available to children and families in our region," Bryan added.
Posted online, the pediatrics rankings will be published in the Best Hospitals 2013 guidebook, which will be available in August.
United research and clinical resources
The united research and clinical resources of UC Davis and Shriners Hospitals make Sacramento a destination for families seeking comprehensive reconstruction or rehabilitation services for children with musculoskeletal conditions, as well as evaluations and treatment for complex genitourinary disorders.
The pediatric urology program at UC Davis and Shriners is dedicated to the care of infants and children with problems related to the kidneys, ureters, bladder and genitalia of boys and girls. The department is a national leader in research studying human bladder stem cells to improve treatments for children with bladder disorders.
According to data provided by California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), the Northern California Shriners Hospitals for Children is a top provider of pediatric orthopaedic care in California. According to the 2010 OSHPD report (the most recent report available), the Shriners Hospital in Sacramento is the number-one provider of upper extremity care in the state, with a comprehensive program that treats children with hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder malformations, brachial plexus birth palsy and other neuromuscular disorders, including spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. In addition, the Northern California Shriners Hospital ranks number one in scoliosis care in Northern California and number three in the entire state. It is a top-10 provider of cerebral palsy care in California.
The UC Davis pediatric endocrine team cares for children and adolescents with diabetes, thyroid disorders, and diseases affecting pituitary and hypothalamic function. An active research program focuses on diabetes mellitus, childhood obesity in disadvantaged populations, endocrine disrupters in the environment and the use of telehealth in the treatment and prevention of diabetes.
UC Davis Children's Hospital has the only pediatric nephrology program in the Sacramento region with a team that is nationally recognized for advanced care and research to improve outcomes -- including transplant outcomes -- and quality of life for children with serious kidney disease.
For families of sick children, the Best Children's Hospitals provides quality-related information in addition to rankings, including survival rates, adequacy of nurse staffing, procedure volume and much more. Since their 2007 debut, the rankings have put an increasing emphasis on data that directly reflect hospitals' performance over the opinions of physicians.
This year, U.S. News surveyed 178 pediatric centers to obtain hard data such as availability of key resources and ability to prevent complications and infections. The hospital survey made up 75 percent of the rankings. A separate reputational survey in which 1,500 pediatric specialists — 150 in each specialty — were asked where they would send the sickest children in their specialty made up the remaining 25 percent.
The full rankings and methodology are available at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals.
Comprehensive care for children, adolescents and young adults
UC Davis Children's Hospital is the Sacramento region's only comprehensive hospital for children, serving infants, children, adolescents and young adults with primary, subspecialty and critical-care services. It includes the Central Valley's only pediatric emergency department and Level I pediatric trauma center, which offers the highest level of care for critically ill children.
The 110-bed hospital includes a 49-bed, state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit and a 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit. With more than 120 physicians in 33 subspecialties, UC Davis Children's Hospital has more than 74,000 clinic and hospital visits and 13,000 emergency department visits each year. For more information, visit children.ucdavis.edu.
Located across the street from UC Davis Medical Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California is a regional pediatric medical center providing specialized care to children with orthopaedic conditions, spinal cord injuries, cleft lip and palate, burns and scars from any cause. For more information, visit www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org.


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hp-ux 11.31
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vmstat every so often shows the memory page scan rate going through the roof which occasionally brings the box to a standstill.
the problem we are having is marrying up the scan rate usage to a process or indeed a series of processes.
There does not appear to be any unusual activity in the databases. Nor can see how rogue processes or again something unusual.
We have tracked when the issue first started (begining of the month) using grid, and are currently trying to ascertain what has changed on the system. But fundamentally if we can see what process(es) are casuing the scan rate to ramp up we'd have a better idea.
Does anyone know how to do this?


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Jul 2011 20:50 UTC
I've kind of painted myself in a corner with that headline, because I never anticipated I would need another preview article for this project. However, thanks to all your comments on both the site and through email, the scope of this project has grown considerably. As part of this growing scope, I'm acquiring more and more devices, and yesterday, I managed to score a phone which, while almost forgotten by most of the rest of the technology press, contained two very important firsts. Not only was this the first phone with a capacitive touch screen, it was also the first phone with an interface design from the ground-up for finger/touch input. Say hello to the LG KE850, better known as the LG Prada.
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It's always busy for Chicago Police on New Year's Eve but when Austin District Patrol Officer William Riga learned he'd be elbow to elbow with the superintendent himself, another factor was in the mix.
"Initially I felt a little bit more pressure but when we got into the car with him he put it to rest,'' said Riga, 31.
"He said, 'Let's go out and do the job,''' Riga said, quoting police Supt. Garry McCarthy.
Riga said they'd heard rumblings the whole week that McCarthy might show up at their station but it wasn't until about 9 p.m. that he was told he and his partner Christopher Cannata were going to have company.
"He wanted to ride with us,'' said Riga of McCarthy.
Riga said the West Side areas he and Cannata have been focusing on are particularly gang and narcotics infested and said every night is "fast paced,'' but especially on Monday because it was New Year's Eve. They headed out on a "hot call" traveling in a group with McCarthy riding ahead of Riga in an unmarked SUV and Riga trailing him in a marked squad car.
It was about 1:25 a.m. in the 5500 block of West Congress Parkway when they saw a 1978 Oldsmobile making traffic violations. They activated their lights and stopped the car.
"We pulled the vehicle over and I approached on the passenger side and my partner on the driver's side,'' Riga said.
The passenger, Montrez Armstead, 23, began making "furtive movements,'' Riga said. "He was kind of like reaching down, learning forward, almost disappearing out of sight,'' Riga said. "We didn't know what he was doing so we removed them from the vehicle,'' Riga said of Armstead and the driver.
As the car's occupants were detained, McCarthy went to work.
"He walked up to the vehicle and as he was leaning into it, the butt of a Glock 22, a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun was protruding from the floorboards,'' Riga said.
McCarthy removed it, found it was loaded and had its serial number defaced, and Armstead was arrested and charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. The driver was taken to the station also and given traffic citations as the car was impounded, Riga said.
Armstead, 23, of the 1400 block of North Lawndale Avenue, was in bond court Tuesday and ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to Cook County Jail records.
Police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said in an e-mail that McCarthy goes out on patrol frequently, as does every member of the department's command staff, and that this is not his first arrest.
Riga, a five-year veteran of the department, said the night was a memorable one for him, and it felt good to have McCarthy give him and his partner a "pat on the back.''
"He's a police officer just like anyone else and I think that was the biggest thing to take away from it,'' said Riga, who has five years with the department.
"From my view he believes in what he's doing,'' Riga said of McCarthy.
Their night came to an end about 7 a.m. with the completion of paperwork connected to the arrest and congratulation from the superintendent.
"He (McCarthy) congratulated us and said, 'You guys are doing great work.'''
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