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The markets stalled near record highs on Friday as traders parsed through mixed corporate reports and data on wholesale inflation.
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As of 3:15 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38.4 points, or 0.25%, to 15423, the S&P 500 dipped 0.12 point, or 0.01%, to 1675 and the Nasdaq Composite edged up 11.5 points, or 0.32%, to 3590.
The Dow and broader S&P 500 rallied to record closing highs on Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his commitment to keeping the central bank's accommodative monetary policy alive for the "foreseeable future."
J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), the biggest U.S. bank by assets, kicked off earnings season for financial companies by revealing profits and revenues topping analyst expectations. Fellow banking giant Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) also posted better-than-expected results. Shares of both companies climbed on the results.
However, United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) cuts its full-year outlook Friday, sending shares of the package delivery company skidding more than 4%.
Earnings season ramps up next week with a slew of big-name companies across just about every sector posting earnings.
On the economic front, the Labor Department reported producer prices rose 0.8% in June from May, compared to Wall Street's expectations they would rise 0.5%. It was the biggest gain since September. Excluding food and energy components, prices were up 0.2%, also higher than expectations of a gain of 0.1%.Wall Street has been paying especially close attention to inflation data since the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate to keep unemployment and inflation in check. However, some analysts are beginning to worry about excessively low inflation.
Very low inflation "will allow the Fed to be more patient than the market assumes in beginning the rate hike process even in the face of significant labor market improvements," economists at Deutsche Bank wrote in a note to clients on Friday.
A gauge of consumer sentiment from Reuters and the University of Michigan fell to 83.9 in early July from 84.1 in June, missing estimates that it would rise to 85.
Elsewhere, gold prices slumped after posting four-straight days of gains. The precious metal recently fell $9.20, or 0.73%, to $1,271 a troy ounce. U.S. crude oil prices climbed 53 cents, or 0.51%, to $105.45 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline jumped 0.88% to $3.048 a gallon.
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The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.43% to 2693, the English FTSE 100 gained 0.36% to 6567 and the German DAX climbed 0.9% to 8232.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 edged up 0.23% to 14506 and the Chinese Hang Seng dropped 0.75% to 21277.


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On a single day this spring – April 30, though it could be any – readers scanning the news on China had reason to be baffled: They learned that China is poised to vault past the United States on a measure of economic dominance, five years sooner than expected (unless it isn't). They also learned that China is at risk of a grave economic slump, if property prices continue to sink . They learned that world-classgenetic researchers in Shanghai, flush with far-sighted government investment, have collaborated to produce new insight into aging cells. And, lastly, they learned that a Chinese journalist has vanished into detention for daring to acknowledge a date on the calendar that censors consider taboo: the 25th anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square on June 4.
So, which is it: Is China the world's next great power or a political antique or an economic powder keg? The answer: Yes. China is so vast and contradictory – home to one-fifth of humanity, with an income gap wider than that between New York and Ghana — that we are tempted to simplify it by resorting to the archetypes that capture one side or another. Writing in China from 2005 to 2013, I've certainly done it. (Who among us has not regretted a hasty pun on dragons, bamboo or the color "red"?) In my new book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, I set out to produce a portrait of life today that acknowledges the inconsistencies, the contradictions, and the ways that China is changing. Here are five of the hoariest truisms that I found ripe for retirement:
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You offered your business card with one hand? God help you. When friends visited me in Beijing, often the first and most emphatic custom they had acquired in preparation was the solemn two-handed delivery. No surprise; search Amazon today for books on business in China, and the offerings tend to promise to "demystify China," while doing their best to have the opposite effect. Some other oft-repeated advice: Don't give a Chinese friend a clock or a watch as a gift because it signifies death. Avoid wearing the color red, because it is reserved for brides.
It's time to put away the pith helmets. China is more familiar and navigable than ever before. One sign that the old myths are threadbare: The Chinese are giving each other so many gift-watches that it's a leading market for the Swiss, and the industry has suffered during an ongoing crackdown on corruption. (I wouldn't recommend giving a tabletop clock quite yet because some habits endure.) In China today, people know that foreigners will bear some imprint of their habits. Be polite, sincere, keep an eye out for cues and skip the high-brow Orientalism.
China, you see, is a collective culture. What does it mean that Chinese parents put up with the death of more than 5,000 children in poorly constructed schools in an earthquake in 2008? What lessons can we take from the Olympic ceremony, with its flawless choreography and its drummers in perfect unison?
Not much, actually. It is tempting to imagine that Chinese citizens are willing to bear corruption, or heavy-handed stagecraft, because 2,000 years of Confucian influence has seeded a deep reverence for the group—for government, family and country—over the individual .
But Chinese culture is not inert. Today, the inclination toward harmony endures, but it competes against the surging force of individual interests. It is a time when the ties between the world's two most powerful countries, China and the United States, can be tested by the aspirations of a lone peasant lawyer who chose the day and the hour in which to alter his fate. When the Chinese public bears conditions that seem unbearable, it is driven less by culture than by crushing poverty or the threat of force.

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Are you interested in expanding your wardrobe while helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy? Good news! A bevy of stars have donated a closet's worth of one-of-a-kind items to be sold off in fashion auctions for charity.
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The 3D movie fad is nothing new. Yet, after the 2011 re-release of The Lion King in 3D the fad seems to be getting bigger and bigger. With an increased number of 3D movie releases in theaters, I can't help but notice that so many are just old movies that are being re-released. What a genius way to create profit! These movies wrapped production years ago, factored in budgets years ago, and already generated revenue for movie tickets and home sales. Now, to add a twist to them with minor post-production changes, 3D movies are creating a whole new field of easy revenue.
This being said, I'm not completely sold on the 3D idea. I don't like when the movie is so 3D that objects are jumping in front of my face or when I start to feel motion sick. Yet, with the older movies that are now being converted to 3D, I've learned they aren't as "3D" as we know it, but rather a layered look and 3D true to its definition.
Recently I went to a 3D showing of my old favorite, Beauty and the Beast from 1991. After the initial embarrassment of putting on the huge 3D glasses, I got to really enjoy the viewing. I remembered some dialogue by heart and was pleased that the beast wasn't flying out into the theater to greet me. All in all, it was a positive experience where I took time aside to view a classic in its entirety.
Will I go see Titanic 3D this spring? Probably. Yes, I have spent the infamous three hours and 14 minutes watching this film previously (ok, many times previously). However, I just can't resist seeing it on the big screen again. For me, the draw isn't so much for the 3D thrill, but rather for the nostalgia of the movie itself. Why not revisit an old favorite but on the big screen?
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Ever since I appeared at a conference on climate change in the Midwest about four years ago with Professor Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois I've been on the good professor's email distribution list, usually receiving several communications a day. They are usually links to news stories and journal articles about climate alarm, but occasionally copies of his own indignant missives. The good professor is a "goes-to-11" global warming alarmist with a definite Malthusian overlay (he thinks we all have too many children and consume too much). And he thinks very well of himself, as can be seen in the signoff to his personal communications, where he reminds everyone that he is "An IPCC recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize," along with, what, something like 5,000 other people who are part of that circus?
Two years ago I shared an email Schlesinger had sent to Andy Revkin, the New York Times chief climate change reporter, wherein Schlesinger was perhaps a bit too candid about Revkin's deviationism from the Party Line:
The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists. Of course, your blog is your blog. But, I sense that you are about to experience the "Big Cutoff" from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.
Well, the good professor has outdone himself. Here's the copy of the email he sent last night to Chris Matthews (of MSNBC fame). It seems an excellent specimen of the logical reasoning, not to mention grasp of reality, of the leading lights of the climate campaign:
I am shocked to hear you say on tonight's (12/28/11) program that "anybody with a crewcut is no lefty".
This is a bigoted, wrong-headed statement, equivalent to saying that anybody with black skin is not intelligent enough to be allowed to vote.
I thought we were beyond characterizing people by how they look.
Apparently you are not.
I am ashamed of you, and for you.
I wonder what your children think of you for your terrible comment tonight.
I had a young lady in my Climate & Global Change class last term with Cerebral Palsy.
She is confined to a wheelchair which has two headrests for her head and toggle switches for her fingers so she can maneuver her chair across campus and into my classroom.
Using your reasoning, she should not have been allowed in my class because she was different from all the rest — she could not stand up.
Yet therein she got an A — she was one of the best.
I ask that you apologize to America for your bigoted and ignorant comment.
I will now rethink my continuing to watch your programs.
I thought you were a good person.
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Need I mention that Schlesinger has a crew cut? (Sort of; looks like something left over from Happy Days. But them I'm a folical bigot, or a hirsute-hater, I guess. Definitely folically-challenged.)


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I'm sat in my study writing this on my new Raspberry Pi - how cool is that? It arrived yesterday from Farnell from whom I preordered it nearly 6 months ago. Bare with me as I'll get to the Raspberry Pi and Perl but first some observations on what got me into programming.
What got me into programming
So what has all this got to do with the Raspberry Pi?
Some Raspberry Pi observations
Is Perl taking advantage of the Raspberry Pi?
In Conclusion
The Raspberry Pi kind of reminds me of the Sinclair ZX81. Not that it looks anything like it but it is a) cheap b) innovative and c) might get our children programming (apparently). Step back to my childhood and the first computer I saw was a RMZ the physics teacher had although I never got to use it. Then there was a Commodore Pet in one of the science labs and the politics teacher got a ZX81 at some stage. However, in a school of 800 pupils your chance of using any of these was worse than slim. A friend's father had a TRS80 (and later owned a Dragon) but he didn't seem to do much on it other than play some games. Of course, everyone seems to credit the BBC Micro from Acorn and the wonderful BBC series based on it with inspiring a generation of programmers but for me it was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
After glimpsing the possibilities of computers, when Clive Sinclair announced the Spectrum I just had to have one. I think I nagged my dad constantly for weeks or months and eventually we struck a deal (although my memory on this is a little hazy I'm sure my dad will put me right). If I saved up half he'd put the other half in (that was not the first deal of this kind so I could be totally wrong and he paid for all of it). It was around £175 (for the 48K version which was a lot) and after ordering (preordering?) it I had to wait ages for it.
So what did you get with the a Spectrum? You got small Z80 based computer, a power supply, a horrible keyboard where each key had about 3 or 4 different functons, a video cable, Sinclair Basic and a mic/speaker connection to attach to a cassette recorder. There were 16K and 48K versions (I luckily had the latter) and you had to attach it to a television. That's right, 16K or 48K! Sounds ridiculous now.
I used to use it with a small portable black and white television for ages. The screen only displayed 32 characters per line (256 pixels across), I think you could have 2 colours per character and Sinclair Basic was pretty basic (pardon the pun). However, in my opinion it was the fact that it was so basic that made me dig deeper. I learnt Basic from the manual and started writing programs and the more I wrote the more I wanted to write them. But Basic was so limited and the games that started to come out (Manic Miner, Ants etc) seemed to do things that were impossible in Basic and of course they did, because they were written in Z80 machine code.
So I bought an assembler from HiSoft Software and taught myself assembler. I learnt quite a lot (and made quite a few friends) hacking into games. I wanted more characters per line so devised my own characters that fitted into 6 pixels instead of 8 (and later 5) to get 42 and 51 characters per line. Then using the defined functions in Basic I interfaced it to a ton of Z80 which created menus with lines drawn around them and separators which allowed someone to pick an item and return it back to Basic. Later the microdrive came out and I bought a book with a full disassembly of the Interface 1 ROM and worked out who to tweak it to get more space on the microdrive by shortening some of the timings. I even sold this software from a stall at Sinclair shows and used some of the money to buy a Disciple Interface and a real 5.25" disk drive.
Having an interest in electronics I even made an EPROM programmer and rewrote the Sinclair and Interface 1 ROMs with changes I'd made and I still remember the nervous moments attempting to desolder the existing ROM chips and solder in new sockets so I could change the ROMs. I still have all stuff in my loft now!
OK, so your now saying to yourself what has this got to do with the Raspberry Pi. Well quite a lot because the Raspberry Pi has been developed to encourage children to program and as I'm not a teacher I only have my own experiences as a child to look at. The Spectrum made me dig deeper and learn Z80 because I couldn't do the things I wanted to do in Basic. Also, because writing Basic on the Spectrum took a long time (and assembler even longer) it taught me to be a lot more careful. It is like 2 habits I still have today that were learnt from years ago. I repeatedly save anything I'm writing in case I lose it (although the chances these days are slim and I use journaling and multiple versions in my editor anyway); a lesson learnt from the past with systems regularly crashing and hopefully someone shouting "save your edits" before it was too late. I am careful what I write because of my experience early on in a VMS software house where we only had one C compiler license so all compilations had to be submitted to a batch queue and you might have to wait 2 or 3 hours for the job to finish. When you'd waited all that time you tried desparately to get the code right first time (I notice younger programmers repeatedly compiling or running -cw on their code which of course you can do now almost instantly).
The Raspberry Pi has some of the feeling of those days; it is pretty raw, it is fairly slow (compared with my PC that is), its cheap and easily reimaged (in those early computers the OS was in ROM so difficult to permanently break) and even during the writing of this blog entry (which I was doing via a web form initially) it went wrong (and I would have lost my work had I not just copied it to a file previously) but it also has everything else you expect from a Linux desktop these days. It has an office suite and IDEs for development, it can play MP3s and you could watch a movie on it or edit your facebook page, or send/receive emails, watch youtube etc. All of this is a distraction having nothing to do with programming; you get so much why would anyone learn to program?
So, may be that is a little harsh and someone is going to say it won't interest children if they can't do all that stuff but in today's world with high spec and exciting video games, facebook, mobile phones how are we going to drag children away from them and learn programming. In my opinion the trick is letting them see they can control something. Now, this may be where the Raspberry Pi will succeed BUT I don't think it does it out the box. I have an Arduino and have used it for various things like monitoring my electricty and water usage or the temperature in our machine room - all useful but where we'll grab children's attention is writing some code which actually controls things (this is what scratch does), but making something physical happen, move something for instance. A bit like the turtle that used to exist and the Logo language used to control it. I also remember at University using C and AMX? to control a small box of electronics in real time to blink LEDs and turn motors, switch relays etc.
A colleague of mine with 2 children said they are mostly taught how to use existing software and not write any. However, just recently he showed me scratch (and I think Gabor Szabo mentioned it briefly in a talk at YAPC::NA 2012) and it seems an interesting and engaging way of getting children programming. The engaging bit is a child writes code (ok, there is a lot of dragging and dropping in this but its close) which controls a character, its got collision detection and a whole host of other controls. Now, take this and add something physical to it like turn a motor, or control a robot and I think you've got something even more engaging.
So the Raspberry Pi is great on cost and has the potential to add the ability to control physical things but it cannot do it without adding extra kit. If someone can add to the Raspberry Pi a cheap bit of electronics which allows children to see real things happen I think it has got it made. I've read a little about the Gertboard but I don't see it for sale anywhere.
Not having a VGA output is in my opinion also a mistake. That would be like the ZX Spectrum only working on colour televisions in an age where most house holds only had one televison anyway and perhaps a small black and white portable (like we had). Even in my house (and I have loads of electronics) my LCD monitor only has VGA so I was forced to connect the Raspberry Pi to my main television.
Then there is availability. I wonder just how many educational establishments or teachers managed to preorder the Raspberry Pi and have one (or more) now. I saw the Raspberry Pi news last year, thought it was interesting and at £25 preordered one around 6 months ago. I'm willing to bet there are quite a few people like me and so is the Raspberry Pi really getting to the people it was designed for?
Now I know why the Raspberry Pi is as it is - to keep the cost down, but without being boxed it is an accident waiting to happen. By the time I had an HDMI cable (which is thick and not that flexible), an rj45, a power connector, a mouse and a keyboard plugged in I had to put something heavy on top to stop it being dragged off my desk. Would a case have added so much to the cost. I'm fairly sure I bought a case for my Arduino for £3-4 (I see The Pi House but at £13.25 is seems pricey compared with the Raspberry Pi itself and other cases on ebay all seem to be over £10 too, some over £20 although there are plenty for under £10 at the Etsy store). Will children understand that poking the circuit board with their pens is quite possibly going to break it? Then, because of the size (and perhaps cost) the connectors/sockets look easily broken to me.
For some reason, most of the pages I've read with regard to programming and the Raspberry Pi seem to mention Python. I'm unsure why Python is promoted so much on the various Raspberry Pi web sites and why the Python forum has twice as many topics as the other languages put together.
In the "other languages" forum there is only really one thread on Perl.
The debian squeeze distribution I loaded onto the SD card contained Perl 5.10.1 and Python 2.6.2.
UPDATE: I switched to Debian wheezy and got Perl 5.14.2.
Can we use the Raspberry Pi to promote Perl to youngsters; should we? Is it worth writing some easy startup for youngsters embarking on programming Perl on the Raspberry Pi? As a community we seem pretty good at helping each other out but most of us are programming professionally. Wouldn't it be worth getting in at the ground level. What might persuade someone young to try Perl first?
Is Perl even a good choice for learning programming? I don't see why not but then I'm not a teacher. It didn't seem to make much difference to me that I started with Spectrum Basic then learnt Z80 and some 6502. Since then I've used assembler for various chipsets, Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP and even a little Python and Ruby. Getting children started seems more important than which language it is but I think with the CPAN, you can do an aweful lot in a relatively small amount of code in Perl so it is a good a choice as any other.
I did a quick search for Perl and children and found a few links (it's not that easy given the string "children" is often used in reference to forking):
Teaching Perl to Children
Tinkering with Perl
How to teach Perl to children
[Boston.pm] teaching kids Perl
Why SDL Perl Matters
BTW, I tried to install Perl DBI (which does not have many dependencies) with cpanp and after 13 minutes it died with the signal 'Killed' - hmm. I've not investigated further yet - but I had plenty of disk space left on a 4gb card.
UPDATE: It appears I had some problems with my sd card - switched to another one and the machine seems faster but cpanp still bombs out as before - trying cpanminus.
UPDATE2: ilmari suggested cpanp might be a big memory user so I installed cpanm and managed to install DBI - although the test suite took over 60 minutes to run.
So, it might sound like I'm a little negative about the Raspberry Pi. Well may be. On the plus side it is cheap and does a lot for the money and a child can take ownership of it which some say makes all the difference. Will it get into schools and make a difference, I'm not sure but I found Kids and their Raspberry Pis and thought it encouraging. I certainly hope it does and I hope some choose Perl.


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The president of the National Association of Black Journalists is criticizing columnist George Will's claim that President Obama may be re-elected because he is black, calling the assertion "narrow-minded."
NABJ President Greg Lee, who is also executive sports editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, reacted to Will's October 1 column, in which the Washington Post scribe wrote that President Obama's "administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically."
Will suggested that the explanation for this alleged contradiction may be that Americans seem "especially reluctant not to give up on the first African American president."
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"I think it's a slippery slope, you are making a broad sweeping suggestion that the only reason why Obama would be given a second term is because he is black. I think that's very narrow-minded and not looking at the totality of what Obama had to go through his first four years and what Mitt Romney has said during his campaign and also his resume in the past," Lee told Media Matters by phone Tuesday. "To make a broad sweeping generalization, it is a very dangerous thing to do, to just use race an excuse in this election. It's not an overall fair assessment if you are going to use that as a litmus test to decide a president because of their color."
In the column, Will sought to compare Obama's election as the first African-American president to that of Frank Robinson, the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball:
A significant date in the nation's civil rights progress involved an African American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues' first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.
Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson -- who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams -- showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.
After being fired by the Indians, Robinson went on to manage three other teams, and won the American League Manager of the Year Award in 1989. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2005.
Lee contends Will's claim of a racial preference for Obama underestimates the ability of voters to choose a president based on merits and record.
"If you look at the two candidates who are running for office, people still vote for who they want based upon what they see," Lee said. "Race will also play a part in this election, because of the nature of Obama as the first black president. But also at the same time, people, Americans, I think are smart enough and have the perspective of what Obama as president has been able to accomplish or not accomplish in the hand he was dealt.
"We had 42 other presidents who were white, that has never been a factor," he added. "Do you ever say, 'Oh I voted for George Bush because he was white?' That has never come up. You can have your opinion that he may not be qualified for the job, but don't use the race factor in terms of why people keep him in the job because he is black."
As a longtime sports journalist, Lee also contends Will is making a poor comparison of Obama and Robinson.
"I don't understand how you make a leap from someone managing a baseball team, whose record is very objective, if he has a losing record, that is something you can hang your hat on," he said. "It is subjective to say Obama has a losing record. People who evaluated Frank Robinson are paid CEOs and general managers. It is a sad comparison, it is apples and oranges."
Lee also found a contradiction in Will's Robinson comparison, noting that the fact that Robinson was later fired for supposed poor performance means voters would gladly vote Obama out for supposed poor performance.
"He contradicted his own point, the main premise of his column," Lee said. "I don't know where he is going with his column."
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HUGH HEWITT: I don't know enough to answer that question, because 18 USC 798 has a lot of elements to it, Howard. But I know this. Eric's story helped terrorists elude capture. That's what the outrage is about. That's the widely shared opinion among people with intelligence background. It's widely shared by soldiers in the field, as made evident on their blogs.
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It's this story that is told in "Between Shades of Gray," the heart-wrenching debut novel from Ruta Sepetys. Sepetys is the granddaughter of a Lithuanian military officer who himself escaped to a refugee camp during World War II. Other members of her extended family weren't so lucky. They were deported to Siberia, forced into hard labor or imprisoned, much like the fictional characters here.
The book begins not with words but with a map. Titled "The Journey," it shows the thousands of miles traveled by 15-year-old Lina, her 10-year-old brother Jonas and their mother, Elena, in 1941 after they were snatched from their home in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas in the middle of the night, thrown on a truck and transported across Belarus to a labor camp in Siberia and finally to the Arctic Circle.
"They took me in my nightgown" are the book's first words. It's a horrific scene of forced family separation. Lina's father is missing, and the family's terror only intensifies as her mother trades all her money and several items of jewelry to Russian soldiers to keep her two children by her side as they navigate an uncertain future.
They haven't been told where they will be taken or why they were even on the Soviets' list. That story gradually unfolds over the course of this elegantly written yet fast-paced novel in flashbacks triggered by the events of the family's capture.
"Between Shades of Gray" is written retrospectively from Lina's point of view, a subliminal indication to the reader that despite the hardships she endures, she will survive.
Lina is headstrong and an artist. The daughter of a professor, she idolizes the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch for his honesty and had hoped to attend a top-notch art academy before that dream was thwarted. In the labor camps where she was forced to dig potatoes out of the ground with her bare hands but not allowed to eat them, Lina uses drawing to channel "a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket."
In writing "Between Shades of Gray," Sepetys traveled to Lithuania twice to interview survivors of the Soviet genocide. The details of those interviews are folded into the book's larger narrative with a sober clarity that simultaneously horrifies and fascinates, making the tragedy of the characters' situations palpable.
Truth isn't only stranger than fiction. Incorporated into the story line of "Between Shades of Gray," it's more repulsive. The daily lives of Lina and her family are punctuated by cruelty and a starvation so severe they regularly sucked the crumbs out from under their fingernails. A man who was caught eating a stolen beet was punished by having his teeth ripped out with pliers. Lina's reward for drawing a portrait of the labor camp's commander was a loaf of bread thrown in the dirt at her feet and a can of sardines that was pelted at her head and drew blood.
A story of hardship as well as human triumph, "Between Shades of Gray" is an eye-opening reimagination of a very real tragedy written with grace and heart.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - A Michigan native has been tabbed Ferris State University's next Athletics Director as Perk Weisenburger was appointed to lead Bulldog Athletics in an announcement made today (Aug. 25) by FSU Vice President for Administration & Finance Jerry Scoby.
Weisenburger most recently has served on the senior staff as the Associate Athletics Director for External Operations at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2005. He's a 1979 graduate of Central Michigan University and the former Director of Athletics at NCAA Division I Illinois State University for five years.
His appointment comes following a nationwide search and screening process that yielded more than 75 applicants and involved a 10-member search committee. He'll replace former FSU Athletics Director Tom Kirinovic, who retired in June after more than 27 years as a member of the Bulldog Athletics Department. Weisenburger is expected to start his duties at Ferris on Friday, Sept. 10.
"Perk brings an incredible amount of experience in multiple athletic settings that will be extremely helpful as he prepares to lead FSU Athletics," Scoby said. "He was a student-athlete and understands how important this experience is to both the student-athletes and the university.
"Overall, I was impressed with the breadth and depth of our pool of candidates for this position and he emerged at the top of that list in the process," he added.
As the new athletics director, Weisenburger will be responsible for the operations of Ferris State's athletics department, which currently sponsors 15 intercollegiate varsity sports (eight for women and seven for men). Fourteen of the sports participate at the NCAA Division II level in the highly-competitive Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) while men's hockey competes at the NCAA Division I level in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).
"We're very pleased that Perk Weisenburger has accepted our offer to become the Athletics Director at Ferris State University," said FSU President David L. Eisler. "He brings a strong background of experience and is well prepared to help Ferris Athletics continue to grow, help student-athletes get a great education, and to prepare our teams for competition."
In his tenure at Nevada, Las Vegas, Weisenburger has overseen the coordination and operation of many external functions such as athletic marketing and promotions, licensing and athletic ticketing. He has also served as the department's liaison to multi-media rights partner International Sports Properties (ISP).
Prior to arriving at UNLV, Weisenburger spent five years (1999-2004) leading the athletics department at Illinois State and previously worked in athletics administration at other NCAA Division I institutions such as Wake Forest, Central Michigan, Washington and Houston. He was the Associate Director of Athletics for External Operations at CMU from 1989-95.
Weisenburger graduated from CMU with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He also earned a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University (1982). He and his wife, Buffy, who are both Michigan natives, are the parents of two sons, Jack (12) and Joe (7).
"It's an exciting opportunity that presents itself at Ferris State University and our family is thrilled to be returning to Michigan," Weisenburger said. "I'm looking forward to becoming a part of Bulldog Athletics and helping to continue the solid tradition of academic and athletic success while cultivating an atmosphere of enthusiasm and pride that reflects Ferris State's past, present and future."
Weisenburger's career to date is filled with many impressive highlights.
While at UNLV, Weisenburger has secured new multi-year agreements with an institutional licensing company, broadcast entities, website providers and spearheaded the department's graphic refreshing and branding campaign. Licensing royalty revenue went up by more than 87% in his tenure and he was the point person in outsourcing multimedia/sponsorship rights to ISP that brought the school significant revenue over the term. He also led a process that revised, merged and implemented a new corporate relations structure resulting in a 22% revenue increase in 2006-07. Additionally, he provided administrative oversight for the installation of new technology, video boards and signage in 2008 while also serving as the university's liaison with fulfillment oversight of various cash and gift-in-kind partner contracts.
"Perk Weisenburger is a fantastic hire for Ferris State University and is easily one of the finest athletic administrators I have ever worked with," said UNLV Athletics Director Jim Livengood. "He cares deeply about students, faculty and staff, and will have a tremendous commitment. I would consider this one of great hires of the year in intercollegiate athletics and Ferris should be commended for running an excellent search and ending up with a great choice."
Prior to his arrival in Las Vegas, Weisenburger spent a year
(2004-05) as a consultant to Division I institutions and
organizations for research, data collection, analysis and
consultation. His projects included items such as a
feasibility study of a priority men's basketball seating plan
at Ball State University and assisting the Division I-AA Athletic
Director's Association with enhancement initiatives.
While serving as the AD at Illinois State, Weisenburger secured funding and student fee support for new construction and facility enhancements addressing both competitive and welfare needs. He also attained the first seven-figure gift to athletics for the construction of the Kaufman Football Building and a naming gift of $500,000 for the Owen Strength and Conditioning Center. The RedBirds won 23 Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Championships in his tenure as athletics director and finished in the top three of the MVC All-Sports Standings all five years, including one first-place performance and three runner-up efforts.
"With his skill set and experience in external relations, fundraising and marketing, I believe Perk will be a perfect fit for Ferris State University," said GLIAC Commissioner Dell Robinson. "He's an experienced administrator who's seen athletics at different levels and will be a tremendous addition bringing great value to both the institution and the conference."
Weisenburger oversaw the successful completion of Illinois State's NCAA Certification process in 2002 and secured the 2005 State Farm MVC Women's Basketball Tournament through a competitive bid process. Student-Athlete's earned an exhausted eligibility graduation rate of 85%, provided more than 1,200 hours of annual community service and participated in interview and job skills seminars with senior professionals under his watch. He also revitalized the Student-Athlete Academic Excellence Banquet by acquiring State Farm Insurance as the event underwriter, which allowed over 550 student-athletes, faculty/staff, families and donors to gather on-campus annually to support outstanding academic achievement.
Before his first athletics director position at Illinois State, Weisenburger worked from 1995-99 as the Associate Director of Athletics for Internal Operations at Wake Forest University where he was directly responsible for daily and comprehensive oversight of eight sports, sports medicine, strength and conditioning, game operations and facility management. He was president of the National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD) while at Wake Forest in 1995-96 and served on numerous Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) committees. Additionally, he assisted in the construction planning and operation of new and renovated facilities besides coordinating search processes for the hiring of four head coaches and several other key department support personnel.
Weisenburger was the Associate Director of Athletics for External Operations at Central Michigan from 1989-95 and was directly responsible for oversight of six sports as well as other support positions. He supervised the Chippewa Club where annual private contributions increased 66%, major donors increased 41% and total membership went up nearly 22% over a four-year span. He also coordinated the sales efforts that helped CMU lead the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in average football attendance from 1991-94. In his time with the Chippewas, Weisenburger negotiated and coordinated a three-year radio broadcast contract and developed a 14-station statewide network generating a sizeable annual gain for the university.
He began his career as a graduate assistant at Ohio University in 1980-81 where he coordinated ticket promotions and basketball game management. From there, he was the manager of athletic marketing and promotions at the University of Houston from 1982-84 before becoming the director of athletic marketing and promotions at the University of Washington from 1984-89.
Weisenburger's time at Washington was marked by assisting in the writing and selling of radio bid specifications that awarded the then single largest broadcast rights fee ever in college athletics in 1985. He also helped to generate dollars annually as an executive committee member for a grocery promotion and worked on a season ticket sales campaign that filled the new 13,000-seat upper deck in Husky Stadium in 1987.
A Mount Pleasant (Mich.) native, Weisenburger attended Central Michigan on a baseball scholarship and was a three-year letterwinner for the Chippewas. He was the captain of CMU's 1980 MAC Championship team and claimed Academic All-MAC laurels. He later served as a graduate assistant coach in the baseball program at Ohio.
He's been active in community service throughout his administrative career, including serving as the co-chair of the annual Bloomington (Ill.) OSF St. Joseph Hospital Foundation fundraising gala in 2003 and as a youth baseball coach in the Paseo Verde Little League in Henderson, Nev., for the past five years. He's also a current board of directors member for the Josh Stevens Foundation, which helps remind children that there is a whole world in need of more acts of kindness.
"We're pleased to have Perk join us here at Ferris," said Scoby. "His expertise will be invaluable to FSU in the years ahead."
Ferris State University - Announced the appointment of Perk Weisenburger as Athletics Director


text: On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, - ZouL - wrote: > Hello, > > I have for more than a year now an old linux server (133MHZ, 16MB RAM), > which operates as a router and gateway to the internet for 3 Windows > clients. Yes, i agree...this is not a very "good" server - anyway, i haven't > had any problems with it in the past. It worked well (Internet, LAN etc.) Wrong list, but sure, why not. Routing/gateway services are moderately CPU intensive. This system is awfully light on memory and CPU to run 2.4 kernels, which are likely desirable (since 2.2.16 has a security exploit IIRC, not to mention dozens of other lesser problems). RTL 8139 cards really suck. Having it on either end of the connection can explain a lot of your problem. The slow CPU is especially likely to be an additional bottleneck for RTL's for reasons you can find in some of Don Becker's list replies in the list archives (from the last few months, even, although it is a perennial problem). Some cards and switches have a hard time with Nway autonegotiation. You don't say what switch you have, but this is something to check. This really sounds likely to be a problem from your mii-diag stuff below. Finally, if you use a useless card like the RTL and do bandwidth tests on ANY sort of network with problems, they are likely to be greatly amplified. For example, a UDP/NFS transfer of large blocks may have to do a whole block over if a single packet in the block stream is corrupted (TCP is a bit smarter and just asks for a retransmit of the one bad packet). I found that whacking an RTL with a high speed TCP stream of packets could cut throughput down to as little as 3-5 Mbps on a 100 Mbps, presumably because it was dropping most of the incoming packets and constantly thrashing to have them resent. So (in order of things to try): a) Use better network cards, in particular do NOT use RTL's. It might just be the worst NIC in existence and a waste of money at $10 a card. b) Use a decent switch (one that properly supports Nway, ditto the NIC). c) Upgrade your gateway. C'mon, it's time. Put a bullet through its head. Give it to a museum. You can BUY a dedicated NAT gateway/firewall for a small WinXX cluster for order of $100, probably even one with four or five switched ports on it, from several vendors. Use your linux desktop as your gateway if need be. Anything. rgb > > But now, i have a really confusing problem: > I wanted to download some files from it and suddenly i remarked, that there > is only a 10mbps instead of 100mbps connection between the server and all > windows clients (CuteFTP -> ca. 1200KB/s). This made me wonder, because i > had a Davicom 9102 in it, which supported 10/100 mbit/s. I looked at the > 10/100 switch, which paradoxically indicated a 100 MBits connection. I use > Kernel 2.2.16 and so I compiled updated drivers...with no success, the > connection remained 10 mbps. > Okay, so i changed the davicom card with a realtek (rtl8139A) card from one > of the windows clients. But same picture: mii-diag, mii-tool and the switch > "said" there is a negotiated 100baseTx-FDX card with "link ok". Though, the > data transfer was about 1200KB/s only! > I was really confused... > now i used rtl8139-diag and - i don't know why - this prog says, that i have > a "10mbps half duplex card" with auto-negotiation disabled, even though the > other progs like mii-diag say something different... > Then i decided to use TTCP to get clearness. And the result was: Between the > windows clients there is a connection about 11.000KB/s (in other words ca. > 100mbps), between a windows client and the server is something about > 3800KB/s. So more than 10 mbps but not 100 mbps. > > UUh? what's that now? Is the server "too old" for 100 mbps? Is somebody out > there, who has got a solution for this problem? P.S: I even used an > expensive SMC Ethernet II of a friend for testing...the ttcp result remains > 3800 KB/s! > P.P.S: In the system there is a second ethernet interface for the connection > with the DSL modem. its an old ne2000 compatible. Could this be the problem? > There aren't any collisions, says ifconfig.... > > ----- > Outputs: > > ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:39:18:69 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::e0:4c39:1869/10 Scope:Link > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe39:1869/10 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:4 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000 > > ./mii-diag > Using the default interface 'eth0'. > Basic registers of MII PHY #32: 1100 782d 0000 0000 05e1 45e1 0001 0000. > The autonegotiated capability is 01e0. > The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD. > Basic mode control register 0x1100: Auto-negotiation enabled. > You have link beat, and everything is working OK. > Your link partner advertised 45e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx > 10baseT- > FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control. > End of basic transceiver information. > > cat /proc/pci > PCI devices found: > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > Host bridge: Acer Labs M1489 (rev 0). > Slow devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. > Bus 0, device 4, function 0: > VGA compatible device: S3 Inc. Vision 964-P (rev 0). > Medium devsel. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000]. > Bus 0, device 5, function 0: > Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16). > Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. > Late > ncy=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. > I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8800000 [0xf8800000]. > > ./rtl8139-diag -aaeemmf > rtl8139-diag.c:v2.05 1/28/2002 Donald Becker (becker at scyld.com) > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html > Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0x6000. > RealTek chip registers at 0x6000 > 0x000: 394ce000 00006918 88010000 42000000 0010a03c 0010a03c 0010a03c > 0010a03c > 0x020: 006c0000 006c0600 006c0c00 006c1200 00700000 0d0a0000 b298b288 > 0000c07f > 0x040: 73000400 00009c0e 3cf7f940 00000000 006c1400 00000000 0000c180 > 00100000 > 0x060: 1100f00f 05e1782d 000145e1 00000000 00000004 000207c0 78fa8388 > a538de43. > No interrupt sources are pending. > The chip configuration is 0x14 0x6c, MII full-duplex mode. > Decoded EEPROM contents: > PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139. > PCI Subsystem IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139. > PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64. > x020: 006c General purpose pins -- direction 0xe1 value 0x11. > Station Address 00:E0:4C:39:18:69. > Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x4c / 0xc2. > EEPROM active region checksum is 0967. > EEPROM contents (64 words): > 0x00: 8129 10ec 8139 10ec 8139 4020 e111 e000 > 0x08: 394c 6918 4c14 f7c2 0001 8388 78fa 070a > 0x10: de43 a538 0000 0000 de43 0000 de43 0000 > 0x18: de43 a438 0000 0000 de43 0000 de43 0000 > 0x20: 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff > 0x28: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff > 0x30: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff > 0x38: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff > The RTL8139 does not use a MII transceiver. > It does have internal MII-compatible registers: > Basic mode control register 0x1100. > Basic mode status register 0x782d. > Autonegotiation Advertisement 0x05e1. > Link Partner Ability register 0x45e1. > Autonegotiation expansion 0x0001. > Disconnects 0x0000. > False carrier sense counter 0x0000. > NWay test register 0x0004. > Receive frame error count 0x0000. > MII PHY #-1 transceiver registers: > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000. > Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled! > Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex. > Basic mode status register 0x0000 ... 0000. > Link status: not established. > Capable of <Warning! No media capabilities>. > Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete. > This transceiver has no vendor identification. > I'm advertising 0000: > Advertising no additional info pages. > Using an unknown (non 802.3) encapsulation. > Link partner capability is 0000:. > Negotiation did not complete. > > mii-tool > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Die Operation wird nicht unterstützt > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Blue Jackets activate forward Derek MacKenzie off injured reserve
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COLUMBUS, OHIO — The Columbus Blue Jackets have activated forward Derek MacKenzie off Injured Reserve, club General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced today. MacKenzie has missed the past five games with a strained back suffered in a game at Vancouver on November 22.
MacKenzie, 32, has recorded 2-1-3 and nine penalty minutes in 22 games with Columbus this season. He has also dished out 66 hits and gone 89-for-164 in the face-off circle (54.3 pct.), giving him the second-best face-off percentage on the team behind Brandon Dubinsky (55.8 pct.).
Originally selected by Atlanta in the fifth round, 128th overall, of the 1999 NHL Draft, MacKenzie has registered 24-32-56, 137 PIM and a +14 plus/minus rating in 258 career games with the Thrashers and Blue Jackets, including 24-30-54, 117 penalty minutes and +14 in 230 games with Columbus.
The Blue Jackets return to action on Friday when they host the Minnesota Wild at Nationwide Arena. Game time is 7 p.m. ET. Live coverage on FOX Sports Ohio begins with the Blue Jackets Live pre-game show at 6:30 p.m. The game will also be broadcast live on the Blue Jackets Radio Network, including flagship station Sports Radio 97.1 The Fan, and online at BlueJackets.com.


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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Payment Transaction Value to Surpass US$235 Billion in 2013
"We expect global mobile transaction volume and value to average 35 percent annual growth between 2012 and 2017, and we are forecasting a market worth $721 billion with more than 450 million users by 2017," said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner. "Nevertheless, we have lowered the forecast of total transaction value for the forecast period due to lower-than-expected growth in 2012, especially in North America and Africa."
Near Field Communications' (NFC's) transaction value has been reduced by more 40 percent throughout the forecast period due to disappointing adoption of NFC technology in all markets in 2012 and the fact that some high-profile services, such as Google Wallet and Isis, are struggling to gain traction. Gartner forecasts that NFC will account for only about 2 percent of total transaction value in 2013 and 5 percent of the total transaction value in 2017, although growth is expected to increase somewhat from 2016 when the penetration of NFC mobile phones and contactless readers increases.
Money transfers and merchandise purchases will account for about 71 percent and 21 percent of total transaction value in 2013, respectively, making them by far the largest contributors. However, worldwide, people are not purchasing as much because the buying experience on mobile devices has yet to be optimized. People are spending less via mobile devices than via online e-commerce services and at retail outlets. Merchandise purchases account for about 23 percent of the total value forecast for 2017.
Money transfer value continues to increase because users are transacting much more frequently (although at lower values) due to the wider availability of services and to transaction costs that are lower than those of traditional bank services. This makes money transfer a leading use case, one that Gartner forecasts to account for almost 69 percent of the total value in 2017.
Bill payment value is expected to grow 44 percent in 2013 and have consistent growth through the forecast period. This is due to higher value per transaction figures as more consumers in developed markets perform bill payments via mobile banking services along with consumers in emerging markets who are transacting at higher values originally forecast. Bill payments will account for about 5 percent of the total value forecast for 2017.
From a regional perspective, Asia Pacific's transaction value is expected to grow 38 percent in 2013 to reach US$74 billion. Deployments in developed markets such as South Korea and Singapore and in developing markets such as India are expected drive healthy growth in this region. As a result, in 2016, Asia Pacific will overtake Africa to become the largest region by transaction value, reaching US$165 billion. Africa's transaction value is forecast to reach $160 billion in 2016. While Africa will still experience strong growth through the forecast period, companies are still searching for the most suitable business model for mobile money in their local markets.
North America's transaction value is forecast to grow 53 percent in 2013, reaching $37 billion, up from $24 billion in 2012. The region has been impacted by low adoption of NFC payment services and many merchants launching mobile apps in a copycat fashion without a clear winning strategy.
Western Europe's transaction value is expected to reach $29 billion in 2013, up from $19 billion in 2012. The market will experience steady growth through the forecast period, but the forecast growth has been impacted by a reduction in the average number of transactions per user in 2012 as several services struggled and others launched only toward the end of the year. These factors have postponed growth for at least a year.
Additional information is available in the Gartner report "Forecast: Mobile Payment, Worldwide, 2013
Update." The report is available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/resId=2484915.
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