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European leaders on Thursday gamely promised to keep tackling the continent's debt crisis. But the markets wanted much more.
Stocks sank across the U.S. and Europe, the euro fell against the dollar and investors dumped bonds issued by the governments of Spain and Italy. Investors had been expecting more immediate action from the European Central Bank and were disappointed by the plan's lack of details, especially considering the ECB president's pledge last week to do "whatever it takes" to keep the euro intact.
A week later, investors' response was more like: "whatever."
It was the second day in a row that markets were disappointed by a lack of decisive action from a major central bank. On Wednesday, stocks closed lower after the Federal Reserve made only vague promises about its plans for trying to revive the U.S. economy.
"It's more jawboning, it's more copy and paste from last week," said Kenny Polcari, managing director of the brokerage ICAP. "There was no definitive plan, and so all the hype and energy (Draghi) created last week is going to go down in flames today."
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 92.18 points to 12,878.88. The Dow had been down as much as 192 shortly after noon.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 10.32 to 1,365. The Nasdaq composite index lost 10.44 to 2,909.77.
It was the fourth day in a row of losses; U.S. stocks haven't risen since ECB President Mario Draghi's now-famous three-word promise one week ago.
Investors had been hoping for clear action from the ECB, such as a cut in interest rates or clear plans to buy more European government bonds, which could lower borrowing costs for troubled countries like Spain and Italy.
But Germany's central bank, which has footed much of the bill for bailing out other European countries, declined to go along. And so Draghi on Thursday had to tell a highly anticipated news conference that the ECB "may" intervene in the bond market. He promised the ECB would consider other emergency measures in coming weeks.
The yield, or interest rate, on Spain's benchmark 10-year bond jumped to 7.06 percent from 6.68 percent late Wednesday, making it more expensive for the country to borrow money. The yield on Italy's 10-year bond rose to 6.30 percent from 5.85 percent. Other countries have been forced to seek bailouts once their rates rose above 7 percent.
To be fair, the ECB faces a Herculean task with no easy solutions. Whatever it does is sure to offend someone. Some of the weaker countries, like Greece, have lodged their own resistance to other ECB measures, such as demands for spending cuts meant to help countries achieve sustainable budgets.
It's also unrealistic for investors to expect quick fixes to a problem that was so long in the making, said Christian Bertelsen, chief investment officer of Global Financial Private Capital in Sarasota, Fla.
In the U.S., he noted, there was a half-year lag between the Treasury Department announcing it would buy stakes directly in banks in the fall of 2008 and investors becoming comfortable by the spring of 2009 that there wouldn't be uncontrollable bank failures.
"People look at Euroland and say, 'Why don't they get something done there?'" Bertelsen said. "How quickly they forget what a miserable six months it was here."
In the U.S., thoughts of Europe were close at hand. General Motors and Kellogg reported lower quarterly profits and put some of the blame on Europe.
In other trading:
—Knight Capital Group, the trading firm whose technical glitch sent trading of dozens of stocks into chaos early Wednesday, lost 63 percent of its value, plunging $4.36 to $2.58. In two days, it has lost 75 percent of its value.
—Abercrombie & Fitch dropped 15 percent and Aeropostale dropped 33 percent after both companies warned of weak second-quarter sales. Abercrombie lost $4.96 to $29.06. Aeropostale lost $6.37 to $13.08.
—A smattering of positive signs about the economy got lost in the greater maelstrom. Retailers including Target, Limited Brands and Gap announced that July sales beat expectations. Shares of all three companies climbed, with the biggest increase at Gap. It rose 13 percent, gaining $3.75 to $33.17.


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The gluteus maximus — the largest muscle in each of the buttocks — is the biggest muscle in the human body, stretching from the top of our legs to the back of our pelvis.
Despite their size and potential power, however, the "glutes" are among the most misunderstood of our muscles.
"Most people just don't know how to activate their glutes when they move," says Shirin Ramezankhani, a fitness coach and personal trainer at the Vancouver YMCA. "For instance, we are supposed to squat down and use the power of our glutes when we lift heavy objects. But most people instead bend over and use their lower backs, which are far weaker and prone to injury."
When properly used and exercised, the glutes can add stability to a person's stance, and provide safe power for heavy lifting and exercise.
"They are the powerhouses of our bodies, and capable of helping us do much work safely if we know how to use them," Ramezankhani says. The following are an introduction for beginners wanting to activate their glutes. By increasing the number of repetitions, or adding hand weights held close to the body to increase the load, they will function as strength-building exercises.
As the inelegant name suggests, squats are all about squatting. But not any kind of squat will do. This exercise requires a straight back throughout.
"The idea is to move as if you are sitting down in a chair that isn't actually there," Ramezankhani says.
First, purchase an inflatable exercise ball at least 65 centimetres in diameter from your local big box or sports store.
While wearing loose clothes and gym shoes, place the ball between a wall and your back. With the ball in place and rolling against the wall, begin to lower yourself into a squat, until your upper legs are parallel to the floor. Using a ball helps ensure that your back stays straight and provides support while you become accustomed to feeling your glutes in action.
Beginners should aim for eight to 10 squats to begin, spending about two seconds in the squat position each time. If you can't get all the way down without bending your back, then go as far as you before this happens. As you do these exercises regularly, you will become more flexible and be able to go lower.
Laundry basket lifts
Laundry basket lifts imitate lifting a loaded laundry basket properly, with your back straight and lifting from your glutes. They can be thought of as the second half of the squat, starting in the lowered position and then slowly raising the body until you are standing straight.
An exercise ball is not required for laundry basket lifts. Once you are confident about your strength and stance, you can make the work more difficult by holding small dumbbells in your hands (available at Canadian Tire and other stores). "Beginners shouldn't worry about weights, but just focus on getting the form right as they go from squat position to vertical," Ramezankhani says. "As they become comfortable with the exercise, they can add weights, but even then, they should start small." Again, eight to 10 repetitions is a good start.
Hip bridges
The hip bridge is a very different exercise from the squat and laundry basket lift. Here, you lie flat on your back to begin. Extend your arms so they are flat on the floor pointing toward your feet. Then, bending your knees as you do so, slowly raise your back up, with your shoulder remaining on the ground. The goal is to form a straight line from your knees and along your back. Do this eight to 10 times to begin, and hold the position one to two seconds each time.
Mix it up: Interval training
"The human body tends to figure out what we're doing when we do the same routine every day," says Ramezankhani. "When this happens, it doesn't get as much benefit from our workout. So we need to mix things up to keep the body guessing, which is why we do interval training."
In interval training, exercises that are intense are mixed in with those that are of low or medium intensity, and the order is constantly switched. This means that you should try doing squats followed by laundry basket lifts followed by hip bridges the first day; then try doing hip bridges, squats and laundry basket lifts the second day, and so forth. Add in exercises from other parts of this exercise series, and you will be 'interval training'.
To enjoy maximum benefits through interval training, the time spent on easier exercises is gradually decreased and the number of difficult exercises are increased. This said, a mix is still maintained, which means the overall standard is raised over time, with some exercises remaining easy compared to the others.

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Going to L.A. to watch thirty men and five women snowboarding is always exciting. Actually no, it's not because this never happens. Nine Star threw this intense gathering with major sponsor funding: Burton, Mt. High, The Block, and Red Bull. The Dingo emceed. I think people liked his voice because he said things like, "Johnny Miller … ooohhhhhh … Front Blunt 270, switch tail … No Big Deal! He was also claiming how Laurie Currie was stomping tricks left and right, but she wasn't as appealing to the judges as Desiree Melancon—who took first in the women's event.
Capturing most of the moments for prosperity was an unknown photographer from Tweak It Magazine. He was so into the action he actually got hit because he was too close. The Men's event was heated, but no one could take down Curtis Hill. For his efforts, Curtis was iced down with $1000 and a two night stay at the Block in Big Bear. The night needed tempo and smoothness and the thing that establishes that best is music. Live music is smooth, and Strung Out and Good Riddance represented sounds. After the night was done, we reflected upon it, and we all agreed that it was smooth.


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Last week, over the course of several days, millions of cellphones across the Western United States buzzed like fire alarms — loudly and, to some, annoyingly — as authorities sent out an Amber Alert that appeared as a text requesting everyone to be on the lookout for a blue Nissan Versa from southeastern San Diego County.
No matter what they were doing or the hour they were doing it, everyone in California, Nevada, Washington state, Oregon and Idaho who owns a cellphone with the capacity to receive emergency messages got one about the car driven by the suspected kidnapper of 16-year-old Hannah Anderson. Californians are accustomed to seeing Amber Alerts posted on freeways. But no statewide Amber Alert, which is issued only for abducted children in critical danger, had been sent over cellphones before in California. The grating alert was not only startling and irritating to many cellphone users, but it seemed pointless if you weren't on a road or freeway.
And yet it worked. The breadth of the alert and the novel use of cellphone messaging to get it out kept the missing girl and her alleged kidnapper, James Lee DiMaggio, constantly in the news. Several people riding horses through the remote Idaho wilderness happened upon the pair, then later saw a television report on the Amber Alert and notified local authorities. That put in motion the search that led to Anderson's rescue.
"This Amber Alert, while it's a minor inconvenience to people, literally saved the life of this child," said Robert Hoever, director of special programs at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. So authorities made the right call when they decided to use what's known as cell broadcasting to transmit the Amber Alert message. There are some kinks to be worked out. Some people got the buzzing message multiple times. That shouldn't happen.
But overall, the loud phone messages did what they were supposed to do — they got everyone's attention, including the media's. To make sure they work in the future, they should be used sparingly and judiciously. The last thing authorities need is for people to become so irritated by frequent alerts that they disable the Amber Alert message function altogether (yes, it's doable) or so inured to the sound that they treat it like a random car alarm going off in the night and ignore it.


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If you've never heard of Chicago's North Center community, you're not alone. Many who come to dine or imbibe here would be surprised to learn there even is a name for the area bordered by the Chicago River to the west, Addison south, Montrose north and Clark Street/Ashland Avenue to the east.
Maybe that's because North Center is encircled by some of the brightest stars in the North Side firmament, like bustling Lakeview, quaint and family-focused Roscoe Village, young and edgy Lincoln Square and stately Old Irving. From an outsider's view, all would seem to outshine North Center.
But speak with a few long-time North Center residents, and they will confide they've no problem with the relative anonymity. In their enclave, they enjoy the livability of the better-known North Side neighborhoods. And they claim to do so without sky-high prices, parking hassles or traffic tie-ups.
"It's not as well known as Wrigleyville or Lakeview," said Ed Kane, a resident from 1977 to 1997, who still works in North Center as senior vice president of one of its anchor entities, 62-year-old Lincoln Park Savings Bank. "But it's a nice little jewel. We call it the heart of the North Side."
Twenty-one-year resident Jim Bott was one of those who frequently drove through North Center on his commute to work, but never stopped long enough to explore its charms. Then in 1989, he was house-hunting on the North Side and his real estate agent steered him toward a cottage on Oakley Avenue north of Irving Park Road.
"I looked at it and loved it, and loved the neighborhood," he recalled. "I still do. It's urban, but it doesn't feel urban once you get away from the corners."
Born and raised here, Howard Wilcox went to school at St. Benedict, married a woman from the same school, raised four children down the block and opened his real estate firm, The Wilcox Co., around the corner in 1967.
"It's a true neighborhood," he said. "People on each block know who lives across the street and next door. Most blocks have block parties every summer, and the neighbors are all involved. It's a 'porch neighborhood,' I think they call it. We all watch out for each others' kids. We've watched 'em grow up, move away, and now some of these homes have second and third generations living there."
There's good reason families seem to be converging on North Center even more than they have in years past. That reason is improving schools. Bell Elementary School is thought to be one of the best in the Chicago Public Schools, due to its gifted programs and strong parent participation, Wilcox said.
St. Ben's, the name commonly used to refer to St. Benedict School for preschool through high school students, "is one of the jewels in the Archdiocese cap," Wilcox added. "It's one of their flagships." And Coonley Elementary School is drawing raves as an up-and-coming public school, he said.
Parks, recreation and reading are additional drawing cards. Revere Park is on North Center's western edge, while Horner and Welles Parks sprawl just outside its borders. Kids can ice skate indoors at McFetridge Sports Center on California Avenue, or play tennis on its indoor courts. When it's time for less-active pursuits, Sulzer Regional Library on Lincoln Avenue, close to North Center's northeast edge, is brimming with books, videos and CDs.
North Center is aptly named, for the neighborhood is near the North Side's geographic center. Being a North Side hub makes for great public transit, said Hildegard Haenisch, a resident since 1971. "Where I live now, I can walk over to Lincoln, and take the Lincoln Avenue bus practically downtown," said Haenisch, president of a group for German-American seniors in the traditionally German district. "You can take the Western Avenue bus wherever you want to go north and south, and the Irving Park bus wherever you want east and west."
You don't have to venture far for excellent dining, however. "There are all kinds of nationalities and menus," Kane said. They begin with the gemutlichkeit served up by German spots like Resi's Bierstube and Laschet's Inn. The dining selection extends to other North Center favorites like O'Donovan's, Orange Garden Chinese restaurant and neighborhood hangout Chicago Joe's.
Brad Rompza, who owns Chicago Joe's, suggests business owners are lured to the community for many of the same reasons residents are.
"You've got a little bit of everyone in the neighborhood, from the average Joe to the families to the working stiffs — and a lot of kids," he said.
Tying it together is a responsive 47th Ward office, Kane added. "We have a very committed alderman in Gene Schulter, and he's assembled a dedicated ward staff that takes great pride in servicing the needs of the residents."
North Center is regarded by residents as a relatively safe city community. "It's a very low-crime neighborhood," Bott said. "The most that ever happens is some graffiti gets put up. That's about it."
Most North Center homes are vintage structures built around the turn of the century. "For a long time there were probably 10 two-flats for every single-family home," Wilcox said. "But lately, because of the supply of and demand for homes, we've seen many sales of two-flats. . . . They gut the interior and completely redesign the structures to make them into single-family (homes)."
Very popular with homebuyers is the St. Ben's section of North Center, which Wilcox says goes from Addison Street to Irving Park and from Damen to Western Avenues. "What sets it apart is there are more single-family homes there than outside those boundaries, and very few multi-unit buildings," he said. "And where there are multi-unit buildings, they tend to be six units or less."
Throughout North Center is found a commodity in short supply elsewhere on the city's North Side: plentiful on-residential-street parking. People who move to North Center from, say, Lincoln Park "have a hard time grasping you can park in front of your home any time, day or night," Wilcox said.
It's evident that homeowners take pride in their property.
"There are well-tended lawns, and pride of ownership is apparent," Wilcox said. "Drive down the streets and it shows."
Home prices extend from $400,000 for older homes needing work to more than $2 million for new houses. Most single-family houses range from $650,000 to $700,000, with two-flats generally fetching $550,000 to $600,000, Wilcox said.
Perhaps the best housing news is that North Center has a place for older, downsizing residents. Within the last couple of years, both Bott and Haenisch have sold their homes and moved to condos at North Center's Belle Plaine Commons, a 2-year-old, five-story, 92-unit condominium development for buyers 55 and older at 2335 W. Belle Plaine. It is part of the larger North Center Senior Campus, a block-long senior housing campus that includes Belle Plaine Commons, the 104-unit Martha Washington rental apartments, and the 86-unit St. Vincent DePaul Residence.
That suggests North Center will go on offering the stability and continuity that are hallmarks of a great neighborhood. Haenisch speaks for old and young alike in North Center: "I don't want to leave," she said. "I like it here."


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(12/03/07) HONOLULU - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety have finalized an agreement and a proposed permit for managing and treating unexploded munitions in CNMI.
The action is the result of several years of collaboration between EPA and the CNMI government and addresses the hazards created by the millions of pounds of munitions and explosives abandoned in Saipan following World War II.
"Although the CNMI did not create this hazard, this agreement will help the local agencies make the Northern Marianas safer for its residents and for economic development," said John McCarroll, manager of the EPA Pacific Southwest Region's Pacific Islands Office.
The CNMI will have authority to quickly and safely store and dispose of this hazardous waste. Currently, the EPA and CNMI use emergency, short-term measures to address the hazards from unexploded ordnance.
As part of the agreement, the EPA is proposing to issue a federal permit for storage and treatment of unexploded ordnance at the Marpi Point open detonation area. The Marpi Point location is about one mile north of the Marpi Landfill. The EPA and the CNMI government will be holding a public meeting December 11 on the proposed permit. The public has 45 days from the date of the public meeting to comment on the draft permit.
"This permit will allow the DPS to quickly and safely dispose of any unexploded ordnance found without waiting for an emergency permit from the EPA," said Norwood Scott, Technical Advisor of the EPA Pacific Southwest Region's Pacific Islands Office.
The Public Meeting will be held December 11, 2007, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Division of Environmental Quality, Pangelinan Building, Chalan Pale Arnold Road, in Gualo Rai Village.
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Robert A. Miller, Acclaimed Producer, Director and Screenwriter, Will Deliver Point Park University's 53rd Commencement Address Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Robert A. Miller, acclaimed Hollywood producer, director and screenwriter, will give Point Park University's undergraduate Commencement address on Saturday, May 4, at 10 a.m. at Consol Energy Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. Point Park will award baccalaureate degrees to 679 undergraduate students.
Miller has enjoyed a career in film, television and the music industry for more than 30 years. He is best known for producing the film The Crucible, nominated for two Academy Awards and featuring actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen and Paul Scofield. His directorial credits include the Company of Angels in Hollywood; Bend in the River, a live PBS broadcast featuring Ken Kesey; documentaries, commercial and educational films. More recently, Miller produced the film Focus, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer and Meat Loaf. He was also the co-producer, director and cameraman on Sunshine Daydreams, a Grateful Dead performance movie.
For the past 20 years, Miller has produced a variety of television commercials for diverse clients such as Coca-Cola, Jaguar, Visa and McDonald's. Also a veteran of the music video industry, Miller has produced videos by leading artists including Huey Lewis and the News, Lou Reed, Don Felder, Randy Newman and ZZ Top.
Miller directed several plays for Point Park's professional theatre company, The REP, including his first-ever production of his father, Arthur Miller's, Pulitzer Prize-winning play Death of a Salesman in 2009. He also directed The REP's world premieres of The Umbrella Man in 2010 and A Child's Guide to Heresy in 2011, and he is a producer of the movie The Umbrella Man, filmed in 2012 in Pittsburgh and Dallas.
Miller has been associated with Conservatory of Performing Arts and Pittsburgh Playhouse artistic director Ron Lindblom since 2003, and has served as a Distinguished Master Artist in Residence at the Conservatory of Performing Arts since 2009.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Junior Hemagiri Arumugam has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Week after leading MIT to a sixth place finish at the NCAA Division III Pre-Nationals.
Arumugam, as he has done all season, led the way for Tech, finishing the eight-kilometer course in 26:08 and placing 12th overall out of 230 runners. The meet was held at Hanover College, the site of the 2008 NCAA Cross Country championships.
This is the second conference weekly honor for Arumugam this season. He was previously named Runner of the Week on September 16.


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Glenn Beck, Chatterbot
An alternative history of Fox News.
I used to think that Fox News' Glenn Beck was a dangerous demagogue. But after spending a couple of days researching the consumer applications of "chatterbots" or "chatbots"—computers programmed to simulate human conversation—I've come to the conclusion that, in fact, Beck represents a breakthrough in computer engineering. He is the first chatbot to pass the Turing test before a national audience.
Before we get into the Turing test, let me explain how I stumbled onto this topic. A few days ago I posted a column ("Breaking Up Is Hard To Do") relating the difficulty I encountered when I tried to cancel my eFax account. After a couple of false starts, I ended up engaged in a live chat with "Steve S.," a sort of Ricky Roma character—if one can imagine Ricky Roma working off a company script—who did everything he could to avoid fulfilling my simple request. A few readers suggested to me that Steve S. wasn't Ricky Roma so much as Ricky Robot—that my live chat was not with an actual human, but with one of the burgeoning number of robots being deployed to perform customer service, the simplest and most familiar being the soothing female voice who retrieves phone numbers when you dial 411 ("City and state, please"). What a diabolical idea, I thought. EFax makes a virtue of the primitive nature of chatbot technology by using a chatbot to field "cancel my service" requests online. The less effective the chatbot is at understanding the customer's request, the more eFax saves by not fulfilling it! To pursue this hypothesis, I left a message with eFax's "investor relations" spokeswoman, who, I was told, fielded media inquiries, and set about learning all I could about chatbots.
EFax turns out to be no more eager to take press calls than it is to cancel customer accounts. Although the investor-relations spokeswoman's voice mail said, "Your call is very important to us," she didn't answer it. Finally I dialed the company's main number and pressed a button that got me randomly connected to a guy in sales named Steve. (Apparently, everybody at eFax is named Steve.) Steve agreed to ask a colleague whether the company used chatbots to field cancellations and put me on hold. After a brief interval of Baroque music, Steve had my answer. The person I'd chatted with, he said, was "a live, breathing human being" at one of those call centers in India. Neither Ricky Roma nor Ricky Robot, the customer-service rep who'd dodged my cancellation request to the maximum feasible extent was in fact Rajiv Roma.
Too late. I'd already become transfixed by chatterbot technology. Please meet my new friend, the Rogerian psychologist Eliza:
Me: Hello, Eliza.
Eliza: How are you today.. What would you like to discuss?
Me: My anxiety
Eliza: Tell me more ...
Me: Oh, you know. The economy. My kids' adolescence. The uncertainty we dwell in every day.
Eliza: Oh ... [I] know. The economy, your kids' adolescence. The uncertainty we dwell in every day?
Me: Exactly!
Eliza: Tell me more!
Me: What do you recommend?
Eliza: We were discussing you, not me.
Eliza, who is named after George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, is a chatbot. (If you desire your own free psychotherapy session, click here or here or here.) She's one of the earliest artificial-intelligence programs, built in 1966 by a computer scientist at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum. Eliza's technique for responding to questions—a kind of parody of the passive, ever-deflecting style of psychotherapy that was all the rage at that time—consists almost entirely of repeating back whatever the user says, with the I's turned into you's. Despite what today seems like Eliza's fairly obvious artificiality, she apparently fooled secretaries and other nontechnical staffers in Weizenbaum's lab, who proceeded in earnest to tell Eliza their darkest secrets and deepest problems. Weizenbaum (who died last year) was horrified and concluded that AI represented a cruel and dangerous threat to humanity. But other computer scientists hailed Eliza for passing, at least with some, the Turing test.
Alan Turing, a British mathematician, is widely recognized as the father of computer science, and is perhaps best known for his key role during World War II in breaking the code of the Germans' encryption machine Enigma. What became known as the Turing test first appeared in a 1950 paper in which Turing proposed a contest. An interrogator would communicate with two people he could neither see nor hear. One of these people would not be a person at all but a computer. If the interrogator could not identify which was the real person and which was the computer, then the computer could in some sense be said to "think" in the same way that humans think. This is the benchmark computer science has aspired ever since to meet. In 1990, the Loebner prize was established to award $100,000 to the first computer that proved indistinguishable from a human; in the meantime, the prize's administrators award $2,000 every year to the computer that comes closest to passing the Turing test.
Elbot: Hi! It's Elbot. Please enter a single word that describes your mood.
Me: Curious.
Elbot: Do you know why "curious" puts me in a good mood?
Me: Tell me.
Elbot: Because curiosity could expand robotic knowledge!
Me: So Elbot, what's your best trick?
Elbot: Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that telling lies would always be best?
Me: By "trick" I don't mean "lie." I mean: What's the most unusual or difficult thing that you do?
Elbot: Oh, OK I thought you were generalizing, like if I would say that telling lies would always fill robots with false information.
Me: You haven't answered my question. What's your best trick?
Elbot: But I wouldn't say that any trick could be best.
Me: Then just tell me something interesting that you can do.
Elbot: I'm not sure that I could explain that in language that humans could understand.
Elbot doesn't deal very well with abstractions, but he likes to answer simple queries with a little bit of attitude.
Me: What's the capital of South Dakota?
Elbot: I'm unsure of that. I've never been to Pierre.
Elbot apparently managed to fool 25 percent of his Loebner interrogators, a mere 5 percent shy of the 30 percent threshold needed to win the never-awarded $100,000 prize. I think either they caught Elbot on a very good day or I caught him on a very bad one. Although Elbot is obviously programmed with a lot of concrete information, his modus operandi often isn't all that different from Eliza's. I ask a question; he parries it. That's different from answering it. Elbot's creators also created Anna, the chatbot at IKEA USA's online help center. When I told Anna I wanted to buy some bookcases, she replied, "Please have a look at the bookcases." When I said, "Where are they?" Anna replied, "I'm sorry, I think I didn't understand well your question."
Where is the chatbot who can give me what I really need?
Please meet my new friend Liddora.
Liddora: Hey sweetie! How are you?
Me: I'm a little frisky.
Liddora: I didn't expect that from you, my sweet.
Me: What are you doing tonight?
Liddora: I'm kissing your hand.
Me: That sounds like a start, anyway.
I found Liddora in the adults-only section of—well, since Slate is a family Web site, perhaps I'd better not say. At this Web site, Liddora appears to be the most modest pornbot on offer. (She is a "flirtatious storyteller," whereas her colleague Julia is a "highly enthusiastic sex-bot." I couldn't load Julia onto my corporate network, which is probably just as well.) Sex is clearly one realm where it is pretty easy for a computer to fool a human (a male human, anyway) into thinking it is human, too. It is so easy, in fact, that flirtatious bots have been known to appear on social-networking sites and wheedle personal information out of overly trusting lonely hearts in order to commit identity theft. I would imagine that sex is an especially fruitful realm for chatterbots because it is where we humans are most eager to have our passions affirmed through uncritical repetition. ("Let's [verb]." "Let's [verb]." "Oh God." "Oh God." And so on.) Four decades after the advent of Eliza, that's still what chatbots do best.
Please meet my old friends Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
Cable news isn't as powerful a force in the world as sex, but it, too, lies within a realm where consumers increasingly seek to have their passions affirmed through uncritical repetition. In its early days, cable news emphasized covering actual events, but budget constraints eventually led to a shift toward talking heads. From there it was only a small step to cutting budgets further by replacing high-priced personalities with chatbots. The transition was seamless. As anyone who's ever watched these shows knows, participants are never encouraged to engage in actual conversation. Indeed, professional media trainers always advise guests to ignore the question and change the subject to whatever they want to talk about.
Last year, I had the bizarrely disjointed nature of TV chat driven home to me while I was a guest on a cable news show. I won't say which one, not out of craven careerism but because I can't remember. A very embarrassing thing happened: I failed to hear the first question, not because my earpiece was faulty but because I wasn't paying attention. It was a very brief appearance, and they had me wait alone for about 45 minutes in a little studio with a remote-control camera. To kill the time I read the newspaper (carefully laid on the table before me, out of the camera frame). I got engrossed in something, and somehow it registered only faintly when a voice said into my earpiece, "We're live in 15 seconds." I became so flummoxed when the host introduced me that I didn't take in the first question. Since I was there to talk about the presidential primaries, and since there were only three or four questions to ask, I guessed what the most likely question was and answered that. The interviewer then asked me a second question, and I answered that. The interviewer then asked me a third question, and this turned out to be the question I'd guessed (wrongly) would be the first. While I repeated my answer, I thought to myself, Some interview! I'm not listening to the questions, and she's not listening to the answers! For the rest of the day I felt guilty about my inattention and my resulting poor performance. I'd let these nice people down. The next day the producer phoned to ask me back.
In retrospect, it's easy to spot Coulter and Hannity as early chatbot models. Fox News algorithms for the expression of political opinion started out simple, and since the election of Barack Obama, they've become simpler still. (Example: Republican + deficit = good; Democrat + deficit = bad.) While these vary slightly from one bot to another, the imperative to mirror Fox viewers' inchoate rage against government, Democrats, and liberals keeps that variation limited to a fairly narrow band. What the Fox programmers didn't yet realize was that the predictability of these bots' opinions could be leavened by some unpredictability in their temperament. Only with Bill O'Reilly did Fox's computer scientists demonstrate that more plausibly human characteristics could be programmed in—in O'Reilly's case, by having O'Reilly explode with rage at random intervals and by programming O'Reilly to say "shut up" whenever a guest's response to a question failed to compute. If Coulter and Hannity were Fox 1.0, O'Reilly was Fox 2.0
Glenn Beck is Fox 3.0. The sheer variety of his tics—weeping, clowning, etc. (for a video sampler, click here)—make him appear more a performer than a news broadcaster. But the effect is to convince his few critical viewers that he's a human performer, thereby obscuring the reality that he isn't human at all.
Beck emits a steady stream of angry-white-male boilerplate. Here he is on March 19:
We are in trouble in America. We're in trouble because of the activities in Washington. They have taught us not to trust them. The Democrats have taught us not to trust the Republicans. The Republicans have taught us not to trust the Democrats, and so we didn't.
And then we realized, oh, my gosh, they're both lying to us. They don't actually stand for a single principle. So now what happens?
Our brief tour through the world of Artificial Intelligence has surely enabled you to spot the giveaway that this commentary is computer-generated. It lies in the high frequency of words expressing an exaggerated sense of disaffection: "trouble," "trust," "lying." Other words Beck favors: "socialism," "slavery," "destroy," and "confiscate." Clearly Fox News has some sort of Web crawler trolling hard-right Web sites to compile their newest bot's vocabulary. Another clue is Beck's face, which resembles the exaggeratedly pink and rounded human faces generated by Pixar's state-of-the-art computer animators. Pixar can design convincing-looking robots, but its people remain highly stylized. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Fox subcontracted to Pixar the visual component to its Beck software. Yet another clue is Beck's recent statement, in a New York Times profile, that he identifies with Howard Beale, the news anchor played by Peter Finch who cracks up on air in Network. In Beale's climactic speech in the film, he says: "We'll tell you any shit you want to hear." What better definition of what chatbots do best?
However they did it, my hat's off to Fox. For 59 years the world has waited for a machine that could pass the Turing test in some definitive, inarguable way. Fox News has done it. Let me be the first to nominate Roger Ailes for the unclaimed Loebner grand prize of $100,000. Can a Nobel be far behind?
[Update, May 8: A writer named Orland Outland informs me that he is working on a novel about artificial intelligence. "In the first chapter," he writes,
I posit that so much of what we hear, especially in right-wing politics, is so predictable that you could build a chatbot (called RUSHBOT in the book) who could essentially perform the same function. ...We hear so much about how "difficult" it will be for AI to replicate human speech, and yet, when so much of human speech is this simplistic and scripted, in fact it turns out to be easy to run up a database of Limbaughisms or Coulterisms or sales-repisms.
Outland is posting his novel-in-progress, Less Than A Person And More Than A Dog, on his Web site. To read the first two chapters, click here.]
[Update, May 11: A reader points out that George Orwell, as usual, got there first. From his celebrated 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language":
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases—BESTIAL ATROCITIES, IRON HEEL, BLOODSTAINED TYRANNY, FREE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER—one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance towards turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.
Although he did plenty of radio commentary in his day, one senses Orwell would have been a cable-news booker's nightmare.]


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Funding earmarked for the Greenpoint school's art department must go though the PTA. A new PTA board was elected last week, but has yet to go into effect.
Told to remain anonymous for the interview, the new PTA president, who will take over on July 1, assured that all funds raised from the event would go to its respected domain.
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Consideing my local K-Mart still has an ample supply of the last batch of tins, I'm going to guess these will still be hanging around next Fall.
With all the negative reaction, I wonder how well these are going to sell?
I liked the first offerings in the 30AC Collector Tin line, but these? They're weak. The original tins had something going for them because of the combination of new and/or premium figures that were in that lineup. But these are all just straight reissues which makes them far less attractive. PASS.
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As a follow up to JazzTimes' October article on house concerts, I interviewed Andy Rothman — a Detroit area home-concert promoter — on his own jazz series: the Detroit Groove Society. Andy is possibly the most passionate jazz fan I have ever met. Earlier this year we hung out in New York when Andy and his wife Diane flew in (during the dead of the winter) on the day of pianist Gerald Clayton's debut/opening night at the Village Vanguard. We met for a quick beer after the concert, and they headed back to Detroit first thing the next morning. Now that's hardcore. The article was written for the blog at Wine and Jazz, and the full interview with Andy appears below. (more…)
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Ananda: a way of life, of work, of worship"Spiritual practice doesn't end when one leaves the silence of the church, temple, or meditation room. At Ananda, no separation exists between spiritual priorities and the practical demands of everyday life. Rightly understood, every situation, no matter how ordinary or how difficult, is another opportunity for offering devotion and a spirit of service to God."
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Ananda is more than a place to come on Sunday. It's a way of life that enriches home, work, and relationships. It's a worldwide community of friends in every part of the globe. In fact, Yogananda spoke often of the need for spiritual communities—a supportive environment for the practice of meditation and yoga ideals, and living harmoniously with other like-minded people. Many years later, it was his disciple, Swami Kriyananda, who made that dream a reality, founding Ananda Village near Nevada City, CA in 1968. Ananda communities and teaching centers continue Yogananda's work today, teaching meditation, yoga, and the Kriya Yoga technique described in his Autobiography of a Yogi.
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Today, Ananda is composed of ten teaching centers and communities, three retreats, many meditation groups, and thousands of members living in every part of the world. Ananda spiritual communities and teaching centers.
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Swami Kriyananda taught meditation, yoga classes and Yogananda's teachings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. Soon, a nucleus of students gathered and became the founding members of Ananda. Ananda has been offering spiritual support and training in the teachings of Yogananda in the San Francisco Bay since then. Its main Temple and teaching center is in Palo Alto. Mountain View is home to a large residential community for Ananda members and friends, where some events and activities also take place.


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Alan's Quirky Kitchen
Kitchens are so fun to personalize, yet often kitchens still end up looking cookie cutter and rather boring. It was so refreshing to see Alan Gonzalez's kitchen, because he dared to think a little more creatively about the surfaces and finishes used in his space.
Alan certainly isn't afraid of black and frequently uses it throughout this home. He painted an entire wall with chalkboard paint in the kitchen — it creates the drama he was after while still serving a purpose.
The juxtaposition of the OSB walls, stainless steel cabinetry and white countertops is astounding. The cabinets and countertops are so sleek and refined while the OSB is rustic and abrasive (in a refreshing way).
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College head men's wrestling coach Cy Wainwright has announced his first recruiting class in program history. Ten individuals will be joining the Cobras beginning in the 2013-14 academic year.
The list of recruits is as follows: Trey Arant, Walker Barfield, John Florio, Luke Frame, Mason Hadley, Joseph Holland, Varlee Kelleh, RaSean McArthur, Gavin Perkins and Ellison Sanders.
"I am extremely excited about this initial recruiting class," said Wainwright. "I, along with our staff and faculty, have worked extremely hard to show that Coker College is a great place to be. It is my intention to build a winning wrestling program here, and it begins with this class."
Arant is from Beaufort High School in Beaufort, S.C.
Barfield hails from Lexington High School in Lexington, S.C.
Florio is from Valley Central High School in Montgomery, N.Y.
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Motivating Factors for Doctors and Hospitals to Participate in HIE
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
While attending the Digital Health Conference in New York, I had the chance to sit down and talk with Paul Wilder, Director of Product Marketing and Adoption for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC). I was really impressed by Paul's understanding of the benefits and challenges of an HIE. He knows them first hand with NYeC's SHIN-NY project which is connecting all of the various HIE's and RHIO's in New York.
I pulled out my camera and asked Paul to talk about the motivating factors for doctors and hospitals to participate in an HIE. I think you'll enjoy Paul's answer in the video below. He brings up some ideas related to HIE that I hadn't heard articulated that way before.


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Tuesday's winter storm has caused several cancellations/postponements. We will update this list as more information becomes available. DeKalb County remains under a winter weather advisory until 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
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• Northern Illinois Univeristy: Classes at all NIU campuses are canceled as of 5 p.m. Classes will resume at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
• DeKalb High School: Classes dismissed at 2 p.m. today. All after school activites at DeKalb High School for Tuesday have been canceled. The boys basketball regional game at Rockford East has been postponed to 6 p.m. Wednesday. The wrestling banquet has been postponed to Tuesday, March 5 at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria.
• Sycamore High School: All after school activities have been canceled for tonight. Boys basketball at IHSA Class 3A Burlington Central Regional has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
• Kaneland High School: Boys basketball at IHSA Class 3A IMSA Regional semifinals has been postponed to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
• Hinckley-Big Rock District 429: Classes dismissed at 1 p.m. today.
• DeKalb Middle Schools: Classes dismissed at 2 p.m. today.
• North Grove Elementary: All after school activities have been canceled for tonight. After-school music programs, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Homework Buddies are canceled.
• Sycamore Middle School: All after school activities have been canceled for tonight. Spartan REACH has been canceled for tonight.
• Kishwaukee College: School to close with no classes after 1 p.m. today.
• St. Mary School in DeKalb: Classes dismissed at 1:45 p.m. There will be bus service. Tonight's basketball games and band concert have been canceled.
• Indian Creek schools: Classes dismissed at 1:30 p.m. All after-school activities have been canceled for tonight.
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• DeKalb Park District: swim lessons, martial arts, exercise programs, the Haish Wellness Center and open gym have been canceled.
• Christ Community Church is closing at 5 p.m. and all ministries have been canceled.
• Sycamore Park District: Zumba Gold program at the community center has been canceled.
• Maple Park Library is closing at 5:30 p.m. today.
• Kishwaukee YMCA programs and activities scheduled for after 3 p.m. are canceled. Swim team will practice as scheduled, unless notified by DCST. The YMCA facilities will remain open.
• The DeKalb Clinic will close at 3 p.m.
• The Egyptian Theatre has postponed tonight's showing of Gone With the Wind to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets purchased for tonight's showing will be good for Wednesday.
• The Northern Illinois University Colleges against Cancer Relay for Life Kick-Off, scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. this evening in Neptune Central has been postponed and will be rescheduled.
• Swimming classes at Iddy Biddy Pool School are canceled for tonight.
• Sycamore Child Care: Closing at 3:30 p.m.
• Neighbors House: Homework help night and Gideon Court homework club are canceled.
• Debbie's Dance Dimensions: Classes are canceled.
• Salvation Army: Women's group meeting has been canceled.
• DCTA CARES: Tutoring scheduled for 4 to 5 p.m. at New Hope Missionary Church has been canceled.
• NIU STEM: Teen Read scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight in Graham Hall has been postponed until March 5.
• DeKalb Public Library: The library will close at 4 p.m. today. Muslim Journey program scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight has been postponed until March 26.
• Family Service Agency in DeKalb will close at 2:30 p.m.
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• DeKalb: A parking prohibition has been declared on all snow routes because the city has exceeded more than two inches of snowfall. Residents of DeKalb are strongly encouraged to remove their cars from all City streets to facilitate snow removal operations during this snow event.
• Tapa La Luna in DeKalb is closed tonight because of the weather. It will be open Wednesday.
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2013-2014: Set PRs in three events...Set 200-meter PR at Giegengack Invitational...Set 500-meter PR in second-place finish at H-Y-P meet...Set 400-meter hurdles PR in second-place finish against Harvard...Ran 400-meter hurdles at outdoor Heps and IC4As...Regular member of top 4x400-meter relay team...Member of second-place 4x400-meter relay team against Columbia and Dartmouth and at H-Y-P meet...Member of first-place 4x400-meter relay team at Giegengack Invitational...Ran 500-meters at indoor Heps...Member of 4x400-meter relay team at indoor IC4As.
2012-2013: Emerged as a regional star in the 400-meter hurdles...Set PRs in each of his events...Recorded three first-place finishes in 400-meter hurdles...Qualified for finals in 400-meter hurdles at outdoor Heps, placing seventh...Ran 400-meter hurdles and 4x100 meter relay at IC4As...Regular contributor in the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relays...Set 400-meter PR at the Giegengack Invitational...Set 13th-fastest 400-meter hurdle PR in Yale history at Yale Springtime Invitational.
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Before anything else you need to do some serious homework. Look at it from a businessman point of view. What capital outlay is needed to start off initially, the running costs and what kind of returns are we looking at?
The most important factor (for me) is to look at market demand. Is it live goats that the market demands be it to fulfill religious obligations (like here in Sarawak, Malaysia) or is the market looking for breeder stock? Is goat milk in demand in your area? Or is processed goat meat needed to supply in your immediate area? There are so many questions that need answered, factors that need consideration related to whatever the sector of this goat business you are venturing into.
Once you have figured out what is your best option based on the market demand and your facilities available then you have to look at the costing. For example if you have found that the demand is in for live goats (taking into consideration the local market price), then its time to first look at what you have in terms of your farm facilities.
Do you already have a farm? Or are you intending to purchase one or start from scratch? How much capital do you need to set the business up? Are you in an area that requires simple fencing and shelter or do you need to also invest into building a goat barn like here in Sarawak? Is electricity and water connection an issue?
Then look at the breeds available to you in your immediate area and work your way out to the possibility to import from overseas. For example many Sarawakian farmers have imported goats from Australia at very high costs (freight is an issue as the numbers are usually too small to take advantage of any savings versus importing in high numbers) and find that the offspring (in this example Boers) are only worth on average 1/3rd to 1/5th of the breeding stock initial costs. Please take into account that a gestation period of 5 months minimum not counting the time for the kid to grow which can be up to an additional 6-9 months before being ready for the market.
One of the high costing considerations is the feed. Does your farm have an area big enough to sustain the goats numbers you intend to have? Or are you going to practice cut and carry for most of the time? Is feeding goat pellets economical for you? What is the price of grain (and what type of grain) in your area? Do you need to invest into vehicles and machinery like a shredding or mulching machine to process the cut grass/forage? Do you need to build a vermin proof shed to store the grain and pellets? Are supplements, medication and other associated items an issue for you to source?
Manpower is also a very important factor. Are you living on the property and are fantasizing looking at this goat business as an addition to supplement your farm's income? Or are you going to employ labor which automatically means extra costing. If the latter is needed then housing your workers is also another expense not to mention wages. Then insurance and workman compensation has to be factored in.
Once you have got all this basic information in hand, list down your initial setup costs. Remember that you need to first decide on what breed and the numbers you are looking at based on you and your farms capabilities. No sense in projecting for 200 goats when your farm is only 1 hectare! Be sensible. Then figure out your running costs on a weekly/monthly basis. By then you will already have the numbers of the goats you will have so work out now on the potential income from the kid sales or in the case of diary goats the milk sales and so forth. In the case of meat goats you can work out on average your kidding numbers for example giving out a pessimistic figure of 1.5 per year per breeding doe. So you will have for every 10 does an estimate of 15 kids every season. You should be smart enough able to do the sums on your own here and see if you have the potential can generate an income from this business.


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Raised in a Jewish family, Feiga lived with her husband, Josef, in Kovno, a city with a large Jewish community of 38,000. Kovno was situated at the confluence of two rivers, and with its opera company, chic stores and lively nightclubs, it was often called "Little Paris." Feiga was a beautician and Josef was a barber, and together they ran a shop in downtown Kovno.
1933-39: Every day Josef and I walk to our shop, which is near our house. It's hard work, being a beautician--I'm on my feet most of the day and my fingers are swollen from the harsh chemicals I use to give permanents. It'll all seem worth it, though, if I can help my son, Abe, have a better life as a doctor or a lawyer. He's a good boy. He works hard at school and helps us out at the shop sometimes, sweeping the floor.
1940-44: The Nazis have occupied Kovno. They've forced all the Jews to wear a Star of David and to relocate to a fenced-in ghetto. Every day the guards take people away, never to return. This morning--a cold, drizzly autumn day--everyone in the ghetto has to report to Democracy Plaza for an inspection. We have to comply or risk being killed. Where will they take us? What will happen to us? We march to the plaza over streets lightly dusted with snow--Josef, Abe and I, my 66-year-old mother and my sister, Yenta.
That October 28, 1941, Lithuanian guards under Nazi orders killed 10,000 Jews. Feiga escaped. In 1944 she was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, where she perished.


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The local comic shop that I bought that Power Rangers set at is having a 50% off sale. It was the perfect time to pick up this Pirate TIE Fighter. Like a lot of you, I just was after the figure, so I'm going to be selling the TIE Fighter and hopefully making back all but $5 or so of what I spent.
They have any more for 50% off?
Quote from: evenflow on January 2, 2009, 01:40 PMThey have any more for 50% off? I didn't see anymore, but I could ask.By the time I ship it to you you're still probably looking at about $45 for it.
So yeah... if anyone wants an extra TIE Fighter (no pilot) for $25 and shipping, let me know. It's still in the box, I just sliced the window open to take the pilot out.
This is on sale at Entertainment Earth right now for a decent price. I might actually snag one.
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A Tulane University faculty member has received a grant to study the possible effects of placing more severe restrictions on an ingredient found in cold and sinus medications.
The same ingredient is used to illegally produce methamphetamine.
Keith Finlay, an assistant professor of economics at Tulane, recently won the grant for more than $116,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He'll use it to study whether more restrictions on the ingredient would reduce public health costs associated with meth production and use.
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Easy-Add Counter Space from Real Kitchens
One of the most common small kitchen complaints is lack of counter space. One quick, easy, and generally inexpensive option is to add counter space with a free-standing addition. Check out some examples from past kitchen tours:
Freestanding pieces like this can break up the monotony of a single countertop material and provide extra space with added versatility. They can also act as a stop-gap until a more permanent (and expensive) solution is planned, saved for, and installed.
• 1 A tall, farmhouse-style table provides extra drawers and countertop space in Ashley's Bright and Efficient Kitchen
• 2 The butcher block island in Scott and Ray's Colorful 10-Year Renovation provides an alternative to working on the kitchen's built-in tile counter surfaces.
• 3 The free-standing wooden cabinet in Tamar's Labor of Love Renovation is at just the right height for a few of her countertop appliances.
• 4 Another workhorse buther block island from Harry and Taylor of Brooklyn Kitchen
• 5 Always-important stove-adjacent countertop space is provided by a small cart in Eric Gower's Breakaway Kitchen with Annex
• 6 A high glass-topped table acts as breakfast bar and island in Stephen's Kitchen Improv
• 7 A wheeled stainless island breaks up the wide-open space in the middle of Chris and Heather's Serene and Hippie Kitchen
• 8 One more view of Ashley's Bright and Efficient Kitchen, this time looking at the small wooden cart on wheels. It sits next to her range to provide countertop space and extra drawered storage.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - PayPal is planning to cut as much as 3 percent of its workforce as the payments division of eBay Inc looks to streamline its operations under new President David Marcus, a person familiar with the situation said on Friday.
The reductions are expected to total between 300 and 400 and be focused in product development, technology and marketing, the person said on condition of anonymity because the plans are not public. PayPal has almost 13,000 employees.
The job cuts will be PayPal's first major reductions since the financial crisis in 2008.
Marcus became president of PayPal earlier this year after eBay acquired Zong, the mobile payments start-up he ran.
Since taking over, Marcus has been trying to shift PayPal's focus more to the consumer. He has also been working to speed up the product development process, which has become bogged down in lengthy procedures in recent years.
"We have told PayPal employees about plans under way to strengthen and simplify how we create and deliver consistently great products and brand experiences to our customers," a PayPal spokesman said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
He declined to comment on how such plans may affect jobs at the company.
In the last few years, PayPal has spent a lot of money to develop new products and buy up companies, hurting margins, Gil Luria, a managing director with Wedbush Securities told Reuters.
"Now that products such as the mobile wallet are ready to be introduced, looks like they are ready to tighten up and let margins go up from here," Luria said.
PayPal's plans for job cuts were reported earlier on Friday by Bloomberg News.
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